{"text": "Schonberg - Low Cut Blouses Posters\nSchonberg - Low Cut Blouses Posters is excessively admirable and makes a illustrious wall decoration, the product dimension is 12 x 16 inch and the price is $14.99. If you're trying to seek out top recommended Schonberg - Low Cut Blouses Posters with inexpensive price, this item is the outstanding deals for you.\nType: Tin Sign\nDimension: 12 x 16 inch\nSchonberg - Low Cut Blouses Posters is a elegant, radically magnificent poster, it's on wonderful paper, has plenty of whitespace for framing, and arrived immediate in mint condition. This produce is a exceptional posters, carefully researched, well-written and dramatic. The quality of this is exceptional. This one has intensely radiant colors and looks faithful. Schonberg - Low Cut Blouses Posters is just as it was shown, and as seen in the keyposters show. The color is more elegant then true posters. The produce is amazing how well received the poster has been and the creative ways visitors have come up with to improve their own work management. It is high quality the item design you will not find anywhere else. This poster has a striking size , sparkling color and exactly as the turnout description stated. The sizes listed for this produce is the size of the product you want to display, not the actual size of the frame. Schonberg - Low Cut Blouses Posters has introduced a plenary host of characters whose moral contradictions are refreshing and interest-holding in a attribute dominated by print of cut and dry evil and illustrious forces.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Title: The Spirit Thief (The Legend Of Eli Monpress #1)\nAuthor: Rachel Aaron\nPublisher: Brilliance Audio Inc\nAudiobook Publication Date: Sept 2010\nAudiobook: 8 hrs & 19 mins\nNarrator: Luke Daniels\nSource: Own Copy\nReviewed by Laura\nBut not just any thief. He’s the greatest thief of the age – and he’s also a wizard. And with the help of his partners – a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls – he’s going to put his plan into effect.\nThe first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he’ll need to steal some big things. But he’ll start small for now. He’ll just steal something that no one will miss – at least for a while.\nLike a king.(Goodreads)\nThe story is of two main characters. The cheeky and wildly charismatic Eli, who also happens to be a wanted thief and Miranda the spiritualist charged with tracking him down and apprehending him.\nBoth characters are polar opposites, with Miranda being a total stickler for the rules and Eli very much enjoying flaunting them to see just how much he can get away with. Eli is such a fab character he’s witty, cheeky and clever and despite the fact he is a notorious thief and a bit of a rogue, I loved that intrinsically he was still a good person.\nEli is like that friend of yours who despite the fact is always up to mischief and drives you a bit crackers, yet you still can’t help but like him. His mission is to increase the bounty on his head to a million gold coins and he glories in his notoriety. So what better way to increase this than to kidnap a King and hold him to ransom? Eli’s madcap plans are just hilarious and I couldn’t help but delight in that fact that he charmed himself through most of them too.\nHowever, I really liked Miranda also, disciplined, honourable and determined. It’s her essential goodness that makes her who she is, and the banter between her and Eli never fails to amuse. Of course, when the real baddie comes into play you know the inevitable has to happen and they’re just going to have to team up for the greater good.\nWe never really get to the bottom of what drives Eli, why he is so obsessed with increasing the bounty in his head and I think we’ll have to wait for subsequent books in the series to really understand him.\nThe sidekicks in the book are also an interesting combination. Eli has Josef the expert swordsman and Nico a young girl with a demonseed inside of her and Miranda has a ghost-hound, a giant dog who can jump buildings and run faster than a horse is the best way I can describe him. All great characters in their own right. I found I wanted to learn more about them, particularly Josef and Nico.\nA part of me was hoping for a sneaky, unorthodox love story between Eli and Miranda. But in retrospect I can see now that it wouldn’t have fitted in with the overall tone of the book. I think I’m just too much of a romantic at heart!\nRATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend.\n1. The Spirit Thief\n2. The Spirit Rebellion\n3. The Spirit Eater", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Azure Room – Room En Suite la Corte Assisi\nThe Blue Room of Room En suite Corte Assisi is minimal in structure and poetic in detail. Played in shades of blue and white. An old restored armchair, an old family trunk; the en suite bathroom has a shower. The room overlooks the beautiful alley of Santa Maria delle Rose.\nThe blue room can accommodate up to 2 people; are available: linen (towels, sheets), free wifi, use of the living room with equipped kitchen cabinet to prepare small breakfasts, books and music, heating, equipped outdoor terrace.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I am proud to announce the opening of an online store for our art studio. Bodamer | Studio features my photography and paintings which are available for purchase by anyone who is looking for a piece of fine art to add to their personal collection. We've updated the storefront on Etsy so that it is vibrant and eye catching in order to feature the artwork.\nIf you are looking for a new piece for yourself, or for someone else, please browse through the store. Additionally, if you would like to commission a piece, please contact me or send me a conversation through Etsy.\nAdditionally, the holidays are approaching and I would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season! Here is a photo for the day...\n2011 Family Portraits - I will be updating my portrait packages for 2011. If you have been thinking of updating your family portraits contact me to reserve a session for the new year. Session availability and dates are determined on a first come, first serve basis.\nCall for Artists - The latest Allentown Chen Arts Group Show - Walking the Edge will be held for two weeks, from Jan. 22nd to Feb. 5th. It will be held at the Antonio Salemme Foundation at 542 Hamilton Street. This is a themed show of new work (produced in the last year). Please contact firstname.lastname@example.org if you would like to participate. The submission fee is $5 (for opening party and promotions costs.) Also we need people to sign up for committees to help during artwork drop-off, hanging, planning the opening party, publicity, etc. Include in your email if you are interested in volunteering. Posters for this show will soon be ready for distribution. More information on the Allentown Chen Arts Group.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Turn heads even when the lights go out with nails that are as eye-catching in the dark as they are in the light! Introducing the versatile Gelée 3in1 Glow Color Powder that radiates and glows in the dark.\nThis unique color powder is available in 12 light-activated, cream shades that remain brilliantly vibrant even in pitch darkness.\nUse the Gelée 3in1 Glow Color Powder with powder gel, dipping or acrylic systems for strong, durable and flawless nails.\nStay tuned to the LeChat Youtube page at youtube.com/lechatartist for video tutorials on how to create beautiful nail art using the Gelée 3in1 Glow Color Powder.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "So I’ve been making tons of watercolor wreaths for my class on watercolor wreaths in Procreate, and I wanted to share a few of the finished products with you all as free downloads. You can use these in your digital planners to highlight a special day, goal, or milestone. If you’re not sure how to use them, check out this video where I show how I use them in my planner:\nYou can pick up the planner I use in this video as a free download here.\nAdding some color to my planner just makes it so much more fun to use, so I’ve been making tons of planner stickers like these in Procreate. If you want to learn how to make your own watercolor wreaths in Procreate, check out my newest class:\nDownload The Stickers\nYou may also like some of my other stickers, which you can get as free downloads here:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "My children's favorite books: My 10 year old loves Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. Although, she'll admit, they can get pretty convoluted. I think she likes the mystery of it all. My 7 year old is a wild fan of The BFG. That one is fun to read together.\nAn illustrator I adore: I'm a huge fan of Lane Smith. First of all, his work is stunning. Second, the man seems like he has a good sense of humor. I like that.\nIf my life were turned into a children's book the title would be: The Girl Who Loved it All. It'd feature a little girl who couldn't make up her mind about what she loved best. Her parents would pile her plate with food and she'd happily gobble it up, exclaiming \"I love it all!\" Until broccoli appeared. Because broccoli? Well, that I can't abide.\nMore Jennifer: Jennifer shares ideas, inspiration and her own family's adventures on Classic Play! It's filled with crafts, books, travel, art with an underlying thread of connecting with your kids through play. She and her mother and sister also run EBKRobots where they make and sell colorful robot softies.\n(Images: Jennifer Cooper)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kevin Bacon plays FBI agent, Jackie Rohr who takes on the city of Boston in this compelling crime drama. The story is based on Ben Affleck's movie, The Town, and he and Matt Damon serve as executive producers on this masterpiece of a show. Even though the storyline is fictional, some characters and events are also loosely based on things that occurred in Boston over the years. Most of the scenes are shot in Boston itself and captures the city and atmosphere very well. These include the school scenes, bar scenes, and many of the street scenes. Location manager Ryan cook has said some scenes in the future episodes were also filmed in New York.\nWhat sets the show apart from other crime shows is the brave and somewhat eccentric characters, Rohr and Ward, who both battle addictions and issues of their own, but are able to join forces and make one incredible team. The duo's main nemesis is a gang of masked armed robbers who are ruthless to the core. Both Ward and Rohr leave no stone unturned when it comes to their cases and hitting the streets to take on the dangerous and havoc-causing criminals. The show is known for its dark tone and perfectly captures the crime life in the city.\nActors Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge talk about their character dynamics on the show. Listen it's really good.\nMore great and accomplished actors form part of the cast, these include Jonathan Tucker (Westworld), Mark 'O Brian and Jullian Noel Hennesy (Law and Order).\nHere's the riveting promo of season 2. You don't want to miss the action this season brings.\nCity on A Hill season 2 begins on 20 September at 21:40 on M-Net City.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Please enter your email address below. You will receive a link to reset your password.\nYou have no items in your shopping cart.\nLuz Camino one of a kind 'Flower Vase' brooch from the Flower vase Collection presented at Bergdorf Goodman in 2010.\nShow more info\nA pair of \"drip\"abstract paintings by New York City Artist Erin McParland. Born in 1963 in Ridgewood, NJ, McParland received her BFA from Pratt Institute and worked as a graphic designer and art director before returning to painting. The surfaces of her paintings combine shimmering, matte and metallic colors to achieve a complex surface that interacts with the eye. Measurements of Each Canvas: 6 feet high by 4 feet wide.\nAn abstract oil on canvas painting by American artist Jean Sampson. The piece is rendered in pale oranges and deep purples and is dated, signed and titled on the reverse.\nModern bronze and cast aluminum menorah by Oded Halahmy, titled 'My Own Light', created in 2010.\nModern bronze and cast aluminum menorah by Oded Halahmy, titled 'Archway Holding Palm', created in 2010.\nOur buyer guarantee allows you to shop with confidence at Showplace Antique + Design Center. This pledge to uphold our standard of excellence includes the following guarantees:\nWe take pride providing reliable service to all of our customers. If you have any questions about this guarantee or any of the services that we provide, please don't hesitate to contact our customer support specialists at firstname.lastname@example.org.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SILVER LODE may be the finest western that RKO released in the mid-1950s. With expert and taut scripting, high production values (it's one of producer Benedict Bogeaus' best), excellent direction under the veteran Allan Dwan, this little oater also has two of the best performances of its two male leads: John Payne and Dan Duryea. Payne, a veteran of numerous Westerns for Paramount [e.g., EL PASO and THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK] and Republic [e.g., THE ROAD TO DENVER], here turns in a tour de force as the innocent, but hunted and accused hero. He is very fine indeed, his lines crisply given, adding to the mounting tension. Duryea, one of Hollywood's finest \"bad guys,\" almost outdoes Payne; Duryea is simply studpendous. The final scene between the two--in the town bell tower--is quite striking and remarkable.\nSecondary starring roles are filled with some very competent Hollywood veterans---Robert Warwick, Emile Meyer as the town sheriff, Harry Carey Jr. and Alan Hale Jr. as members of Dan Duryea's \"posse.\" Lisbeth Scott is Payne's love interest; she's does quite well.\nVCI has given us a fine, clean print, and attaches the original trailer at the end, along with bios of the leading actors, all very helpful.\nSilver Lode is the kind of movie that will repay watching from time to time. It is way above average as oaters go. Recommended highly both to those interested in good Western fare and, yes, to others interested simply in good cinema.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Nestor U. Torre\nFor some strange reason, a number of people are making too big of a loud deal of Karla Estrada’s decision to audition for “The Voice.” Daniel Padilla’s feisty mom made it to the singing tilt’s “blind audition” phase, but none of the competition’s mentors turned their chairs for her, so Karla’s critics or dissers are sardonically concluding that she was “napahiya”—and, by maternal association, also her son.\nBy Nestor Corrales\nIn recognition of the Philippines’ stature as a promising area in mounting huge productions of live entertainments, hit Disney musical “Beauty and the Beast” will be staged in Manila in January 2015.\nSony Channel will launch new and exciting shows this October.\nApart from Khavn de la Cruz’s “Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore” in the main competition, two more Filipino films will be screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival.\nFilipino filmmaker Anna Isabelle Matutina’s “Magdalena” is competing in the Asian Vision section of the Taiwan International Film Festival, which will be held from Oct. 9 to 19. The docu, shown at the Wiesbaden (Germany) film fest last year, focuses on a traditional midwife who struggles to make ends meet and care for a pregnant daughter who’s afflicted with leukemia.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Intricate vintage earrings in a gold tone metal with filigree design and six individual micro coins hanging from each one. Clip on style. Each earring measures approx 3” x 1”. In very good vintage condition. From our range of vintage jewellery, vintage earrings and 60s vintage.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This Miracle Message is from\nthe Benevolent Ones\nAngels of light we hail to thee and sing to thee the song of songs.\nSurrounded by your loving presence, the world unites and discovers its soul-song\nTo offer an energy that is gifted with unification is a journey that is filled\nSo many energies are present on your world now, and yet the illusion of \"a\nworld\" is diminishing in the dawn of the Universal world.\nFor one who is captive in density, there seems to be so many choices, energies,\nactions, options and challenges.\nYet, to the one who is free from the density and offering the energy of loving\npresence, all of these distractive energies release themselves.\nThrough this release the unification begins.\nRelease does not mean to let go of your life experience and the navigation of\nthe energy of this world.\nIndeed, it does mean to harness the freedom of your soul-song as a divine gift\nthat can be offered into the Universal world.\nAnd so it begins…again…with great power and energy.\nThe awakening to the freedom of presence while still in form,\nThe dance of the beloved that is not distracted by the energy of confusion,\nAnd the embrace of the lover that is singing the gift of a soul-song in a world\nthat is unifying.\nWe celebrate you…\nAnd so it is.\nThis week’s sentence stem for Miracle Journaling is:\nAs I reflect upon myself as part of a Universal World, what I notice is…….", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Interview with Lily of Lily's Emporium!\nQ. Tell us a little about you and Lily's Emporium\nI myself am Lily, a girl that doesn't take anything seriously! I established Lily's Emporium in January 2010 when I finally plucked up the courage to spread my work across the web. I make anything! Jewellery, hats, cuffs, pillows, paintings, cosplay costumes and accessories... people ask me to make stuff and I try to make it for them!\nQ. Where in the world are you based?\nI'm based in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. I'm a city girl!\nQ. What made you start crafting and making jewellery?\nI've been doing it for as long as I can remember. When I was really young I'd rip up my Barbie's old clothes then sew parts together and make them new outfits. I only recently started making jewellery this year, but I've been sewing and knitting since as far back as I can remember. I love it, it's something I can get lost in and just forget about the world for a while.\nI love making jewellery that I've always wanted to see! I can remember searching everywhere for a Pokemon necklace and when I started the Emporium I was like, \"you know what, I'll make it for myself!!\". Necklaces are my favourite items to make, although I love making new rings and hats too!\nQ. What are your most popular items on your website?\nMy pikachu hats! They're cheap, good quality and are SO comfortable, I've just sold my last one again; this is the third batch of them! Another thing I've always wanted yet never found one I liked until I made it!\nQ. Who or what is your inspiration?\nI take inspiration from everything, mostly things I loved during my childhood. I get epiphanies when I'm talking to people and I'll say, \"hold on, I just had a great idea...\". Even whilst writing this I just had an amazing idea for a set of necklaces! I'm a total geek so I get inspiration from all the geeky little things I like. My main inspirations are my two passions in life: science and animals! I love the Japanese pop culture too, a lot of stuff inspired by these things are coming soon!\nQ. Where would you like to see yourself in 5 years time?\nI'd like to be a bit more established in the crafting industry. As much as I love it, I never want it to be a full time job, it would take all the fun out of it. I want to be a scientist, but I'd never give up crafting for the world! It earns me some extra money during the summer and keeps me occupied when I'm bored! I love what my little hobby has become and I can't wait for it to grow, I want people to adore my jewellery and anticipate new creations from me. My greatest ambition for Lily's Emporium would be to have cute little high street boutiques stocking my jewellery or maybe even a shop of my own, but a girl can dream for the time being right?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Canto Sixty-Two – In Lester’s Flower Garden\nSizzahl came running into the Arboretum as fast as her feet would work. She slammed the door behind her. Lester and Brekka both looked up startled. Lester’s two extra heads also looked, as did sixty-five buds whom Lester had started growing to feed his/her friends and provide more plant-people as well.\n“What’s the matter, Sizzahl?” asked Brekka trying to rub sleep out of her eyes.\n“Uncle Makk is trying to kill me.”\n“Oh, yes! That reminds me. Lester told me that he was a clone with robot programming. I meant to tell you all about it.”\n“Thanks, Brekka. That definitely would’ve been useful to know a bit sooner.” Sizzahl was smiling a grim, determined smile.\n“What do you want me to do now, Sizzahl? Lester said I should eat Makkhain myself.”\n“Ah, please don’t do that, Brekka.”\n“Yeah, good. Thank you. But maybe Lester can help by eating him for me.”\n“Um, no. I love him, even if he isn’t really my uncle. I may let him win and destroy this planet. Maybe he and the other Galtorrians are right. Maybe we don’t deserve to live. Maybe this planet needs to be rid of us.”\nAt that moment Alden and Gracie came in through a door that led to the sleeping nests. Both of them were nude again, but both were breathing hard and looked determined. Both had obviously heard what Sizzahl had just told Brekka.\n“No, Sizzahl. You won’t let the bad guys win. You have to fight for what is good. You are good, and we love you.” After gasping out her impassioned speech, Gracie bent over and grabbed her knees. She seemed a bit short of air.\nAlden, also breathing like he’d run a marathon, didn’t say a word until he had reached Sizzahl and put both arms around her neck. He hugged her.\n“You are like a daughter to us. You even made more children for us. You have to be here to help us raise them.”\nSizzahl wept. She hugged Alden fiercely. And Gracie came to them both to put her arms around both and turn it into a family group hug.\n“Together. We belong here more than we ever belonged on Earth. We stand together for whatever comes next,” said Gracie.\nBrekka felt Lester wrap a leaf around her as if he or she or it was also giving a hug.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Join me at the wonderful Miami Book Fair! My panel is on Sunday the 24th at 3:30PM.\n11/24/2019 3:30 p.m.\nMiami Book Fair\nRoom 6100 (Bldg. 6, 1st Floor)\nEmily Skaja, Yanyi, Sally Wen Mao\nEmily Skaja's debut collection of poems is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence., \"In The Year of Blue Water, Yanyi's poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective In her collection of poems, Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Labor Day Weekend was full of sun, fun, friends, and dancin'...I will have a bit of a summer recap later next week, along with a summery new drawing.\nBut here is a quick idea:\n|Baby pool at the beach house, fro yo, and Braziliant Essie nail polish|\n|Marg & Bud...best double fisting ever.|\n|My face when I realized my BFF was coming from NYC to spend a few days with us. Myspace?!|\n|Last Reggae Sunday at the Golden Inn for the summer :(|\nThis short week, I had to forgo a BodyCombat class in order to head to the mall in search of a dress for a wedding we are attending in VA this weekend. No luck, but I have a few back ups that I have hardly worn.\nWhat I did find, though, is my perfect pair of fall/winter boots. In order to not fall into my yearly seasonal depression, I decided to splurge and put them on hold 'til next week so I could sleep on it...but pretty sure by next Thursday, these babies will be MINE (aaand leather-stretched at Nordstrom - so cool they do that! - for my Herculean calves)!\n|I'm in <3|\nToday I took a BodyCombat class followed by a BodyFlow class...first time taking it, and even though I am a self-proclaimed yoga snob, I was a big fan! Nice combo of yoga and pilates and I definitely felt the burn. The Les Mills crew really knows what they're doin'!!! I'd love to train to be an instructor once things settle down a bit for me over here.\nSoon, I will have lots of workout options...yoga classes at my studio, Les Mills classes at my gym, runs with the pupper...I may even brave the weight room again. Plus, my yoga instructors are opening a second studio next month in the town that I work in, with more rooms, instructors, and classes, so I am pumped to see what their new schedule will be. Pilates and BarreSculpt will be offered there by one of my favorite instructors, so that is exciting. I also got a Groupon a while back for a bunch of classes at a power yoga studio in the city that I'm pumped to try.\nThis all makes my head spin...I better get a rough schedule down!\nGonna put this bad boy to use.\nAlso...Pinterest? Amazing. What another great way to organize.\nI replicated this, found on a friend's board:\nAnd I am about to spend my night doing it again!\nYou can follow me on Pinterest here.\nSince I don't have much time for a Throwback Thursday today, I will instead leave you with this throwback:\nHappy 30th birthday, JTT. You were the love of my life that never was.\n|Oh, for me???|\nImagine my surprise when months later I received an autographed picture from him in the mail. He loved the card! Then imagine my surprise (and disappointment) when I realized the signature was in fact a stamp. Thanks a lot, JTT Fan Club, for teasing me like that.\nOff to Philly this weekend to watch Coop's band and then a wedding in VA with some fun, fun people! See you next week with some freshy drawings!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ART: Shipping Containers Painted With Greek God and Goddess Murals by Pichi & Avo Spanish street art duo, Pichi & Avo’s participation in the North West Walls street art festival in Belgium resulted in this staggering, jaw-dropping mural.\nAlthough the organizers didn’t want graffiti (seeing it as an open invitation for anybody with a spray can), the artist bombarded a wall with Miami-centric tags and then whited everything out except for the BELIEVE, elevating the everyday.\nflower steps in Ewha, Korea That was one thing that was really cool in Korea. They had beautiful murals all over the place! All of the walls around the military bases had murals, sides of buildings usually had murals… It was just beautiful!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, \"For more info...\"|\nJuly Issue 2010\nCaldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, NC, Features Works by Toni Indicott\nThe Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, NC, will present an exhibit of works by Toni Indicott, sponsored by the Caldwell Arts Council, on view in the Art in Healing Gallery, from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2010.\nIndicott is a Lenoir watercolorist who loves painting rural America. Beautiful barns, boats, churches, skies, trees and landscapes are the main body of her work.\nIndicott is a member of the Brush and Palette Club in Lenoir and a member of the Wednesday Morning Painters at the Abingdon Arts Depot in Abingdon VA. Her work has been shown at the Highlands Festival; she is involved with the 606 State Street Gallery in Bristol, TN, as a showing member.\nIndicott was a recipient of the Stevens Family Scholarship in 2009, and has participated for three years in the Artists Alley Show in Blowing Rock, NC. With no \"formal\" training, she began painting 5-1/2 years ago, while studying with Harry Thompson, Janet Rogers, Steve Rogers, Robert Heke, and Gerald Brommer.\nThe Art in Healing Gallery\nis located just inside the Mulberry Street entrance to Caldwell\nMemorial Hospital in Lenoir.\nFor further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Arts Council at 828/754-2486 or visit (www.caldwellarts.com).\nCarolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc. Copyright© 2010 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts Online, Copyright© 2010 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fallen in Love: A Fallen Novel in Stories (Compact Disc)\nWhat makes your heart race a little faster? It's the\"USA Today\"bestselling\"Fallen in Love,\" four wholly originalstories collected in a novel set in the Middle Ages by #1\"New York Times\"bestselling authorLauren Kate.\"Fallen in Love\"gives fans the much-talked about but never-revealed stories of Fallen characters as they intertwine with the epic love story of Luce and Daniel. The stories include: \"Love Where You Least Expect It: The Valentine of Shelby and Miles;\" \"Love Lessons: The Valentine of Roland;\" \"Burning Love: The Valentine of Arriane;\" and \"Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda.\"\n\"From the Hardcover edition.\nAbout the Author\nJustine Eyre is a classically trained actress who has narrated over three hundred audiobooks. With a prestigious Audie Award and four AudioFile Earphones Awards under her belt, Justine is multilingual and is known for her great facility with accents.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Day Trip to Ashburton and Timaru\nWe would like to invite all our Friends to join us this summer as we go south to visit the newly-opened Ashburton Art Gallery and the Aigantighe Art Gallery in Timaru.\nFor many of us it will be first look at the Ashburton gallery, where the main exhibition is Nigel Brown’s I AM/WE ARE, showing many of his iconic text enriched works. In Timaru, the Aigantighe is showing Painter, Euan Macleod’s first major touring exhibition. New Zealand-born and now Australia-based, Macleod has won several major Australian art awards, including the Archibald Prize. Toured by the Tauranga Art Gallery, the works ‘take us on a journey not only through the physical landscape but also through states of mind and being’. So come and join us for an enjoyable day out with the Friends. More details to come.\n$75 cost includes transport, morning tea, lunch and entry to the galleries.\nRegister your interest at email@example.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "About the Film\nThe third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, Stolen Kisses begins with Antoine being discharged from the army on disciplinary grounds. While resuming his on-again, off-again relationship with Christine, he takes on a series of jobs, including a position assisting a private detective. Things begin to get complicated when he finds himself falling for Mme Tabard, his employer’s wife, as he has to decide about Christine and his future. Stolen Kisses was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards and the 26th Golden Globe Awards.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Amazing Agent Luna Vol. 11 (Paperback)\nSeven Seas, 9781626920903, 180pp.\nPublication Date: September 22, 2015\nGrown in a lab from the finest genetic material, fifteen-year-old Luna Collins has been trained all her life by a covert government agency as the ultimate espionage agent. But now, the Agency has created an even deadlier super-soldier whose mission is to eliminate Luna and replace her as its newest agent.\nPlotlines past, present, and future all collide in this final installment of Seven Seas' longest-running original series!\nAbout the Author\nNunzio DeFilippis, along with his wife Christina Weir are a writing team who have worked in television for such series as HBO’s Arli$$. They have worked in the American comic book industry on New Mutants and New X-Men. They live in Southern California.\nChristina Weir, along with her husband, Nunzio DeFilippis are a writing team who have worked in television for such series as HBO’s Arli$$. They have worked in the American comic book industry on New Mutants and New X-Men. They live in Southern California.\nShiei is the artist for Aoi House. She is the most prolific Original English Language manga artist in the US, having completed 3 volumes of Aoi House and 4 volumes of Amazing Agent Luna so far. Shiei resides in Southern California.\nPraise For Amazing Agent Luna Vol. 11…\n“Cleanly spaced visuals and an anime-ready sense of character design make this a fun and fast read.” —ANIME NEWS NETWORK\n“An addictive storyline with some truly amazing artwork.” —NEO\n“An altogether entertaining read.” —NEWTYPE USA", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A Co-Production with Roundabout Theatre Company\n“English Only.” This is the mantra that rules one classroom in Iran, where four adult students are preparing for the TOEFL — the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Chasing fluency through a maze of word games, listening exercises, and show-and-tell sessions, they hope that one day, English will make them whole. But it might be splitting them each in half.\nDirected by Knud Adams\nScenic Design by Marsha Ginsberg\nCostume Design by Enver Chakartash\nLighting Design by Reza Behjat\nSound Design by Sinan Refik Zafar\nFeaturing: Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat, Hadi Tabbalatlantictheater.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Taleim Edwards (Clarinet and Saxophone). Hawthorn East VIC 3123, Australia. Graduate of New Zealand School of Music with Honours, looking for people keen to play #ChamberMusic. Keen for wind quintets, sonatas with pianist, sax quartets, clarinet quintets - pretty much anything #classical! Have many years of experience and happy to source music, arrange concerts etc.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "August Brides can breathe a sigh of relief; Just because you’re getting Married during the Australian winter, it doesn’t mean you’re have to be limited when it comes to picking from an array of stunning, colourful and in-season flowers for your bouquet!\nSticking to in-season blooms can save you money and it means you’ll have the freshest floral produce to choose from, so take our advice and consider these gorgeous August-ready flowers.\nThe Camellia is known as the ‘Queen of Winter Flowers’ and it’s no surprise why. These big, waxy and full blooms come in a rainbow of romantic colours, including white, crimson, pink, coral and watermelon. This flower is also the signature of the classic Mademoiselle Coco Chanel perfume, making it a timeless and elegant option for August Brides.\nPhotography by Ashleigh Jayne.\nRanunculas are one of the trendiest flowers of the year, with their full rounded heads featuring folds upon folds of petals. These blooms come in white, pink, purple and plum, as well as a two-toned look.\nPhotography by Heather Bliss.\nThis small cluster of flowers are renowned for their gorgeous sweet scent and beautiful white, pink, orange, blue or violet colour.\nImage from Tribal Rose Flowers.\n4. Sweet Peas\nThe sweet pea symbolises ‘blissful pleasure’ and has a lolly-like scent paired with ruched blossoms. These are an old-fashion favourite for Wedding bouquets and come in pink, white and lilac.\nPhotography by Kate Crabtree Photography.\nThis is a star-shaped flower with petals surrounding a raised-bud which can be found in light green tones and deep burgundy or violet shades. Pair the Hellebore with lilacs or roses for a whimsical, romantic looking bouquet!\nImage from Elizabeth Anne Designs.\n6. Cherry Blossoms\nThese flowers let us know that spring is on the way with their delicate pink, fuchsia and blush-coloured petals. These blooms are the floral symbol of Japan and can give your Wedding a pretty, oriental feel. Representing love, affection and good fortune, Cherry Blossoms can be used as part of a huge statement floral arrangement, or as accents to smaller bouquets.\nImage from Martha Stewart.\nIn Greek mythology, Daphne was the female nymph who stole the heart of the god Apollo and, because of this, she was turned into a delicate, petite flower to protect her from his advances. The Daphne is a cluster of tiny pink blossoms with yellow centres and, because they aren’t one of the most common flowers to use in a bouquet, they’re guaranteed to set your Wedding apart!\nImage from Springwell Gardens.\nMain image from Parisa and Hryer’s Wedding. Photography by Duke Photography.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The A in A_dontigny stands for Aimé, and he is a free noise composer from Canada. His name may ring a bell or two for his involvement in Napalm Jazz (not reviewed in Vital Weekly), morceaux_de_machines (see Vital Weekly 338 and 454), or his duet CD with Diane Labrosse (see Vital Weekly 384). Quite a busy man, but he never made a solo recording and Geisteswissenschaften is his first solo excursion. He gets help from various people on guitar, cello and bass, but by and large it’s a solo work indeed. What exactly A_dontigny plays himself then? That is perhaps a bit harder to answer, but perhaps it’s safe to say that it’s a multitude of precorded sources - meaning vinyl, CDs, mini discs, computer files of existing material that he treats through further computer processing, electronic effects and such like. He may add highly fucked up rhythm machines and/or samplers of any kind, but the end result is quite a fascinating journey through the world of today: we zap around, on TV, on the net, and we get a true bombardment of sound and images - here only sound. A world that would drive a lot of people crazy, or in fact it perhaps already did. Much better it would be to sit down and enjoy A_dontigny’s release. Turn off the TV, switch of computers and let yourself sink back in this crazy world that is madness enough for those who really want to listen. A_dontigny crosses the world with crazy sounds, and an interesting mixture of techniques to approach the world: musique concrète like, noise based and improvised in playing. It all can be done. If the previous releases by morceaux_de_machines were something you liked, then this new release by one half will appeal to you too: it’s by no means half as good; it easily matches the duo.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Summer to me is a song, a season, and a melody that lives inside me. A feeling that surfaces when you see the sun shining, the breeze blowing, the birds singing- that tenderness for me is Summer”, says Priyanka Gupta, the brain behind the label SUMMER by Priyanka Gupta.\n“We, as a brand, are an artist’s inhibition. We love to paint on the canvas of our drapes with sunshine and cheer. The brand is synonymous to the luxury of spending time well, elevating your dressing spirits, flowy and fine fabrics amalgamated with spring prints and perfect hues”, she adds”.\nSummer Girls have an eye for aesthetic, love skilful craftsmanship, and clothing that lends comfort. These are girls Who don’t shy away from the reality of minimalism, but rather embrace the uniqueness it brings.\nThe SS’23 collection, CITRUS ROSE is an ode to the modern Indian woman who appreciates the place she belongs to, blooms like a beautiful citrus rose wherever planted, and likes to dress with expression and prerogative.\nThe collection is a flawless melange of Victorian aesthetics, Indian Silhouetted and a boho vibe. Poised prints over flowy fabrics, mellow mukaish work, dainty mirrors & sequins shining over it to make a piece-de-resistance. A whimsical miscellany of pastel perfect styles.\nThe collection is available at their website www.lovesummer.in as well as in all the leading multi brand outlets across the country.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Cherub Violin Pickup CP-60V\nVibration sensor, easy to attach to your violin.\nClassic ceramic piezo-electric Violin pickup with 1-meter cable. 1/4 in (6.3mm) plug.\nDesigned especially for clipping in the sound hole, easy to clip on and take off.\nThis pickup is able to pick up the original tone of your instrument regardless of any background noise.\n- Reproduces the natural sound of a violin to an amp or PA set up.\n- Clips into the \"F\" hole.\n- No battery needed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s funny how one album can have so much of an impact on somebody’s life. While I’d always grown up listening to music – it was normally my Dad’s music that I listened to. Yes, that went to the extremes of KISS, Black Sabbath and range of other 1970s and 1980s hard rock. But Ugly Kid Joe was probably the first band that I discovered truly on my own.\nI still remember it I was walking through the main shopping mall of Devonport, Tasmania and as we walked past the local radio station’s studios that faced out onto the mall they were playing a new track – Ugly Kid Joe’s ‘Cats In The Cradle’. I fell in love with it straight away and just had to have it – so I saved up for it and a couple of weeks later America’s Least Wanted became the first album I bought on CD and not on cassette.\nNow with Ugly Kid Joe coming to Australia to do the entire America’s Least Wanted album live on stage, I caught up with lead singer, Whitfield Crane, who wasn’t on the other side of the world like I thought… but was instead chilling in Fitzroy – an inner suburb of Melbourne.\n“I guess you would call me a lucky man,” laughs Crane when I ask how he feels about being the man behind one of Rocks most iconic albums. “We were all about 23 or 24 when we made that album with producer Mark Dodson in a studio in North Hollywood. You know it was quite a ride for us, it was this extreme experience and it took us right around the world which was a good thing.”\nAs our chat goes on he admits that part of the reason that he wanted to re-do America’s Least Wanted as part of an Australian tour is how much he loves Australia… it’s here he tells me that he is in Fitzroy right as we speak. “You know what, man I love it here,” he says. “I knew that I wanted to be in Australia and I knew that this was a good year to celebrate that record… it is twenty-five years old this year… it is amazing that it has been that long, anyway. The way I looked it at was ‘well why don’t we start this thing up in Australia?’ We are going to do it in Europe in April so I thought ‘why don’t we do it in Australia while we can because I love this country?’ I’ve lived in Australia earlier this year, and I’m back now because I love it here in Australia. So I figured why not do the tour in my f**king home.”\nI asked Crane what he loves about Australia and he quickly answers. “I love the people,” he says. “I’ve spent most of my time in Melbourne and here I love the people and I love the vibrant music scene. You can see any style that you want, you can see jazz, you can see death metal, rock, acoustic… whatever you like. It’s such a great place and I mean I started coming to Australia in the early 90s but I never had the time to stay. But I do feel that California and Australia have a lot in common, and everybody that I have ever met from Australia is fun and full of life. I love those qualities in people so I want to be around that… so here I am. I’ve actually just started a band here and recorded an album at Hothouse Studios in St Kilda… so yeah I’ve created a brand new band called Yellow Cake.”\nWhen our talk turns back to America’s Least Wanted I ask Crane what it’s like going back and revisiting songs from 25 years ago. “It’s super familiar,” he says after thinking for a moment. “You know you look around at everybody on stage and think this is familiar. Like we just toured for two months in Europe and had this really great time. We went all over the place and yeah it takes a little bit of time to get your groove on, but when it comes to playing the tracks off America’s Least Wanted yeah it feels so familiar. That was our big record and it meant that we got to tour with people like Ozzy Osbourne and Motorhead, it reminds us of that and that is cool. The songs still hold up, as we’re playing them I look around and see that everybody is still having a good time and they are all digging it.”\nThat leads toaskingk whether or not when Ugly Kid Joe were recording America’s Least Wanted whether the band knew at the time that they were making something special. “No… not at all,” says Crane. “To be honest we were just trying to finish it. We were on Mercury Records and we’d just come off a kind of successful EP and they just wanted us in the studio and making a full length record. So we were really just trying to finish the thing because they wanted it out while we still on a roll, and we were like kids we didn’t know what we were involved in so we were just trying to get it done. Like we put ‘Cats In The Cradle’ on the record just to fill the record. It got to the point where we didn’t have enough songs to finish America’s Least Wanted for it to be a full length record and we were sitting around and we said ‘what about Cats In The Cradle? Yeah let’s do that.’ That was just to fill the record it was never supposed to be a single and then this radio station in Texas started playing it and all of a sudden it was #1… it became a big song. And sometimes I think the best things in life are like that, we weren’t trying to do something crazy we were just kids making a record and having to work. So no… we didn’t know anything.”\nWith that little shock wave settling in I ask Crane what made him chose ‘Cats In The Cradle’ as a song to cover and whether or not they have got tired playing the ‘hits’ over the years. “That was a song that I used to listen to on vinyl with my sister,” he explains. “It is one of the first songs I can ever remember hearing when I was a little boy. I would sneak into my sister’s room and she would have a little record player, and we would have to be quiet so that our parents didn’t hear us, but we would play it over and over… we loved it. I just loved the song, the band went along with it and we just chucked it on the album. I’ll be perfectly honest though, it was good to let go of it for 15 years. By the time 1995 came around I just wanted to be heavy and do stuff from Menace To Sobriety because that’s what I wanted to do. But now I’m like, wait that thing is cool and now we as a band get to go back and do these songs that people love. That’s all I want to do, make music, tour around the world and make people happy.”\nUgly Kid Joe are on tour in Australia during December.\nUGLY KID JOE TOUR DATES:\nSunday 3 December – Manning Bar, Sydney 18+\nMonday 4 December – The Zoo, Brisbane – 18+\nWednesday 6 December – Capitol, Perth – 18+\nThursday 7 December – Fowlers, Adelaide – 18+\nSaturday 9 December – Croxton Bandroom, Melbourne – 18+", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Had a lovely time at Angel images! Angela was very welcoming and was excellent with the kids.The studio was gorgeous and kids had a great afternoon! The Photographs from the shoot are absolutely stunning! I will definitely be back for more. I highly recommend this photographer to anyone looking to get their kids pictures taken, you most definitely won’t be disappointed! Many thanks again Angela!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Underwater Tree\nThere was an underwater tree with spindly thin arms\nAn underwater tree that breathed like most trees could only dream of\na special sort of specimen that sat beneath the waves:\nwho wouldn't be fascinated? Who wouldn't be surprised?\nWho wouldn't want to store this treasure in their home?\n“Step right up every body” said a sales man in a suit and slacks\n“Get your own underwater tree, beautiful rare and black.\nNo no just you wait, they come in many colors and shapes”\nAnd he showed a few to a fascinated group, which OOO-ed and AAAH-ed\nand threw their money into the air with joy.\nThe underwater trees which always bloomed in tribes grew fewer\nAs people continued to take and never give back in return;\nThey killed the fish who tended to the trees' fields\nand spread their filth into the seas, until the plants fell sick and scarce.\nIf you wonder how this could be and how so many can\nkill so freely, and not respect this wonderful tree, on whose branches froth a world of life,\nif you cannot understand, I do not blame you, as no one can\nmorally say such an act is within our human right.\nNowadays the trees still stand, grouped together on sandy ground\nwhether in deep or shallow seas, trying to live out their tree-lives\nhaunted by unrest and danger, a chemical foe disguised as a friend\na culprit for bringing an entire universe to a universal end.\n2011 Moira G. Gallaga©", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Filed under Black Friday Sale 2016, Collage Sheets, Giveaways, Layered Ornaments Kit, Newsletters, Teri Calia\nHooray! It’s day 3 of this holiday weekend sale! FREE shipping on orders over $50 (for orders shipping to USA) now through Monday, November 28th.\nThat Silver Snowflake Charm Set at right is also included in today’s Giveaway! The sale ends Monday night, November 28th at midnight PST!\nYay! More Christmas ornaments! There are eight new designs of Round Chipboard Ornament Layers Sets — and 2 of my favorites are in this kit:\n- Flying Sleigh Ornament Layers\n- Hanging Stockings Ornament Layers (how cute it that? A cat is putting up his/her Christmas stocking!)\nEach of the ornament sets includes 2 laser-cut chipboard shapes (and clear plastic low-profile domes) to make an ornament that you can put glitter, sequins, micro beads (slices of polymer canes?) inside!\nOr you can put paper behind that silhouette (which allows you to use 2 silhouettes (one on each side of the ornament) or a different collage sheet image on the flipside).\nAnd here’s what Teri said after making those cute samples: “I love making them, it’s easy and fun!”\nPLUS this kit includes TWO new collage sheets! Both have 2-1/2″ diameter circles that fit the Chipboard Ornament Layer Sets.\nSnowy Winter Day Ornaments Collage Sheet\nAw… look at all those cuties! I chose images of kids (or Santa) outside in the snow. So you can add glitter as faux snow to shake around in your ornaments. Plus some phrases to layer overtop from vintage postcards (and that holly bow fits perfectly over the top edge of any of the circles, with a few bits of leaves overlapping onto the image).\nGnome & Mushroom Ornaments Collage Sheet\nA slightly different take on Christmas (and very cute)! Tons of images of gnomes getting ready for Christmas. I particularly like the ones with a tiny gnome pushing or rolling a mushroom almost as big as he is.\nMore info, photos and artwork are on the Round Layered Ornaments Kit page.\nLearn more in Teri’s post and don’t forget to come back as tons of items from Teri’s Supply List are included in today’s Giveaway!\nHighlights of Today's New Goodies - ALL on Sale! View All\nPsst! Did you see the adorable new things in yesterday's newsletter?\nLet’s start with THE NEW KIT! That includes 2 collage sheets, 2 sets of ornaments, ribbons & glitter!\nNext: that Silver Snowflake Charm Set I mentioned above.\nThen, these items from Teri’s Christmas Shaker Ornaments Supply List:\n- Holly Berry Garland\n- Lacquered Holly & Berry Picks\n- Large Snowflake Sequin Mix\n- Mushrooms – Red\n- Polymer Clay Red Swirl Peppermint Cane\n- 5mm Star Sequins\n- Dimensional Snow Writer (I love the way it looks just piled onto that gnome ornament!)\nTo enter the Christmas Ornaments Giveaway drawing all you have to do is leave a comment BELOW on this blog post TODAY OR TOMORROW (the deadline is 11:59 pm PST, MONDAY, November 28, 2016)! AND tell me: Which one of the new ornaments is your favorite?\nDon’t forget to leave your (hello! correct) email address, too, so I can contact the winner; your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.\nPlease be patient! Spammers try to post crap here a lot so comments are moderated. So if you don’t see your post in the comments section, be patient and check back in a few hours before re-posting it, please!\nAfter midnight, I’ll randomly pick the winner (via Random.org). So check your mailbox on Thursday morning to see who won and for the next Newsletter & Giveaway!\nHey, who won the Dollhouse Christmas Giveaway? That would be Lindy! Congrats! Check your email for more info.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The HBO series Game of Thrones premiered for the first time in 2011. Nearly a decade later, the medieval fantasy returned on April 14. The eighth season premiere has been marked on many people’s calendars for months, and it is safe to say the final premiere did not disappoint the fans of the beloved series.\nThe Game of Thrones series writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss adopted the story from George R. R. Martin’s fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire. Martin published the first book of the series called Game of Thrones in 1996.\nGame of Thrones is set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, and in their world, seasons last longer than a few months – they last for decades. When the story begins, a decade-long summer is finishing up, and winter is approaching as characters battle to claim the Iron Throne. The Iron Throne is the seat of the king of the Seven Kingdoms, the chair that rules all but the northern tip of Westeros.\nGame of Thrones is known for its foul language, gory content and the thrill of who will take the Iron Throne. The eighth season premiere did not hold back on any of the drama’s known aspects and relentlessly opened more drama.\nThe best way to describe the show without giving away many spoilers is that the show is divided into three major plot lines. The first covers the battles between the lords living on the continent of Westeros. They are the families of the Baratheon, Lannister and Stark houses, and they all are fighting one another for the Iron Throne.\nThe second follows the rise of Daenerys Targaryen, the last member of an exiled family as she builds an army in the land of Essos to reclaim the throne.\nThe third plot takes place in the North of Westeros among the Night’s Watch, that is a small army of rejects and outlaws that guards a 300-mile-long, 70-foot-tall ice wall that protects the rest of the continent from the mythical creatures that lurk there.\nSeasons one through six have 10 episodes that are about an hour long and the seventh season finished with only seven episodes. The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will only have six episodes. HBO announced the run times for all six episodes that have been confirmed, with the final episode being 80 minutes long.\nThe series has never been shy about killing off characters with huge roles in the drama. The final season cleverly brought the anticipation of who is going to survive the longest and finish the series as the ruler of the realm, but it is still unclear which direction of the series is leaning on. This final season is looking to be a very interesting and heart throbbing one for fans.\nYou may also like\nBy Alex Ducoulombier / November 16, 2023\nBy Gianna Willcox / November 16, 2023\nBy Micah Noel / November 16, 2023\nBy Lance Goins / November 16, 2023\nBy Nevaeh Brown / November 16, 2023", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Her innovative and scintillating creations showcase a variety of spirited in addition to mellow hues and colors with hand and machine created motifs and embroidery on chiffons, silks and lace bestowed with distinctive cuts shaping the elegant and stylish fashionable nonetheless native lady.\nMohsin Naveed Ranjha’s latest assortment, of varied sorts of party wear, is found at this post like Readymade Party Wear dresses, trendy party Wears dresses, and silk Suit outfits created out of materials appropriate for spring-summer. The styles during this assortment area unit dedicated.\nThis assortment consists of sensible and gorgeous styles and really enticing colors. In this article, we have a tendency to are sharing a few photos of Mohsin Naveed Ranjha’s party wear dresses collection. Now look at Mohsin Naveed Ranjha Trendy Party Wear Dress For Ladies…\nFor more info contact +92-055-3730306", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pampa interactive laser lighting design\nDo you need to make your upcoming event momentous? A laser light show will certainly fit the bill. Full color lasers add an amazing intensity to your presentation, going from monotonous to mesmerizing. If you are setting up an art installation, trade show, company event, convention, musical performance or private party, we perfectly integrate a custom laser creation into your agenda. It’s the perfect opportunity to dial up the intensity on your event – contact us.\nCreativity is the key\nWe are true audio visual artists that specialize in elaborate yet tasteful laser productions – mixing visual effects, custom interactive software, video projections and LED video walls to manifest organic visual art. Our mastery of laser light can be exactly tuned to emphasize your key ideas, to visually amplify your personality. Every one of our laser creations can be synced perfectly with and respond to your video, voice, music, audio or even physical movements. In our paradigm, amazing things are possible.\nGuaranteed results every single time\nNo matter what you imagine for your event, we can make it a reality. Our master laser artists can foster your goals and execute a plan. You won’t find a more professional laser firm – we’ve been producing mind-blowing results for years in Pampa. Check out some of our work HERE. If you can envision it, we can build it – that’s our promise. If you have any questions, give us a call: 888-995-3742", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "THIS IS A PRETTY NEAT TOOL.\ni was planning on doing this in zbrush but the resukts were so fast....i stayed here.\ni will do the z brush concepting technique...i think this here is a little too free form and it makes me fear going to far from my intended design all due to it's ease of use...thats not to say the experience cant Push it further considering theres redo undo so you cant go but so far without saying hey wait a second! I've gone too far.\"\n....maybe i should just shut up and work it out it it pushes it for the better....so be it.\njust want to stay away from time sinks.\nputting this down for memory sake.\nKEEP THE HIGH RES HEADS ON INDIVIDUAL SUBTOOLS sculpt to 60 to 75% NO MORE!!\nposition heads as needed in Z brush.\nCreate body in Z spheres and Z sketch combo.\nTry to match placement of neck to heads and retopologize body in topogun\nbring body BACK into Z brush\nBring new body and heads into 3d max and bridge heads necks to bodies\nBring back into Z brush\nPROJECT HIGH-RES HEADS ONTO new BASE HEADS & BODY SUBTOOL.\nBE SURE TO DO EACH HEAD PROJECTION ONE BY ONE.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Idols have saved schools from closing. Idols have brought attention to local communities. Idols have saved earth from a meteor shower by playing crane based game. Idols have saved the world with space age inner planetary rebel concerts. Who am I kidding, Crane Game Girls are clearly more bad ass then AKB0048. Idol Incidents is the newest and hippest show in the “idol gimmick” series. Unlike shows such as Love Live and Idolmaster that thrive on being full on idol based series, Idol Incidents is one of those “what can we put idols into next?” type things. The idea of this show…idols in the office.\nNatsuki is a girl from the country. In her small town she cheers on rice farmers with happy songs and powers her power. One day by complete chance a producer happens to be driving by and scouts Natsuki. She’s invited to an audition where contenders must run up a big hill to test their strength, this show is focused on idols being in great physical shape. Natsuki is the only one who makes it to the top and bam she’s part of the Idol Diet Women now. Basically she’s now running for office. Okay let me explain…well I would if the show explained things a bit better. But to my understanding there are multiple parties running for office, one is the Heroine Party fronted by idols. The other, normal boring politics, the Rougai party. So Natsuki is running for office, straight out of the rice fields…to the office. She meets her partner, Onimaru Shizuka, a popular idol with an overwhelming aura. Making her a big star but a hard person to work with. She’s to do a show with Natsuki and begins her idol training. “This is your Mother’s mini skirt, she wanted you to have this when you where old enough”.\nNaturally Natsuki is not great and Shizuka is like, screw off you suck. After what was apparently days worth of training Natsuki goes to do the show alone. It’s a trainwreck until Shizuka arrives and they team up for beautiful idol magic. They charm the crowd and aim for the office together, meanwhile the baddies won’t stand for it! Okay this was basically 2-3 episodes worth of content in one go, my word this was way too fast paced. It’s basically a silly story where idols can run for office and I suppose deal with political affairs…this episode was just focused on getting the characters in place. There is a lot to set-up however and much is comprised in development and explanation to jam content in the premier.\nWe start setting up Natsuki as a country girl and there is a loose element of home town sentiment by one boy who cheers her on at the concert. Still it moves way too fast and there doesn’t feel like much of a connection between Natsuki and her town. From snap to snap Natsuki becomes an idol in no time, all she had to do was run up a hill. The way she was recruited was all to easy as well. A producer happened to notice her, and Natsuki doesn’t even have to think. She’s down with the idea right off the bat. She’s the typical center type character, cheerful, happy and passionate. She loves rice so much she has clips of it in her hair…\nShizuka is a bit cold and trains Natsuki hard before deeming the partnership impossible. There is a compelling dynamic with her issues of overshadowing others and it’s all resolved so quickly. The first time she goes onstage with Natsuki they just click together, even though they where struggling in rehearsal. It was like the show resolved an entire character arc in mere minutes. This show clearly has better things to do and just wanted to get things in place fast to move onto the main point. Still this would be like if all the girls in Love Live came together in 2 episodes instead of…more then half of the season.\nNot enough was really explained but again, it’s only the first episode. We get kind of hints of what the show is about with the rival party semi introduced. The idea of idols running for office is quite amusing, especially if they’re running against actually politics. One has to wonder how this will be interesting or fun to watch but who knows. This first episode was just too quick as a set-up, wasting no time getting to the point. Artwise it’s a rather okay series. The artstyle is…fine. It’s not quite as kiddy as Aikatsu or as pretty as the Idolmaster. I actually thought Natsuki’s voice acting was weak, she had a bit of a flat tone. The songs where also very genetic and stock. The dance scene was typical as well with a bit of CGI for far shots. It was about on par with Love Live Sunshine’s CG, so it still looks different but it’s not terrible. In the dance scene the two characters clash auras and massive flowery graphics overpower everybody. The production is fine here.\nOverall the first episode of Idol Incidents was far too fast paced. Although it could turn out fun it introduces it’s characters in a clumsy and rushed manner, speeding up development to pack everything in one quick lead off. It seems like it’ll be yet another lazy idol show, the idol genre really doesn’t have all that many good shows. Some series turn out half assed and end up not trying to do anything with themselves. I hope this isn’t Idol Incidents but I don’t harbor a ton of hope right now. We’ll see where it goes, I’ll watch more but I’m unsure how it will be after how rushed this first episode was.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "hello lovely human,\nthank you for your wonderful message. kind words are always welcome and appreciated.\nand it hasn’t been asked before. so, the poetry books i recommend would be the following:\nthe year of no mistakes by cristin o’keefe aptowicz\nyesterday won’t goodbye by brian ellis\nthe anatomy of being by shinji moon\nsongs from under the river by anis mojgani\nin search of midnight by mike mcgee\nwhat we buried by caitlyn siehl\nshaking the trees azra tabassum\nlove and other small wars by donna marie riley\nthe endarkment by jeffrey mcdaniel\nracing hummingbirds by jeanann verlee\nsupernova factory by dalton day\nthose are the ones on the top of my head at the moment. so, check the authors online (most have published work in websites, journals and the like) and if you like their stuff please support them by buying their work.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this uncommon Blue and White Spongeware Gravy Boat.\nDating to the mid-19th century, this beauty features an Oval Form with Graceful Spout and Handle, Bowed Sides, Base with Four Feet, Embossed Decoration, and Dark and Variegated Sponging. She is a beauty! Measures 8\" long, 4\" wide, and 3 3/4\" tall to the tip of the spout.\nI see about 1 every 2 years. Tough to find.\nExcellent Condition. Modest staining inside from use. Otherwise as made.\nShips double-boxed, insured, and FREE", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "MuggleNet Fan Fiction\nHarry Potter stories written by fans!\nWell, you could say I'm just a high-schooler who wants to write like J.K. Rowling (hey, the next best thing is using her characters and writing fan-fics, isn't it?). I'm 16, live in the boring-est town in Western Maryland, and have all the regular troubles of a teenager. I'm am totally obsessed with fantasy, be it Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Protector of the Small, and of course Harry Potter! This is my first real story on a fan-fic site, and I'm currently swamped with homework that is cutting into my writing time. AP classes are killers, but I guess it's worth it. I should be updating pretty soon, though. I'm also engaged in an epic battle to attract readers and get them to review. Well, I suppose that sums me up.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The partnership includes, first of all, a special-edition Gibson SG '61 guitar with decked out in Gordni blue with white stripes and Gordini nameplate. The collaboration has also extended to a unique Renault Wind Gordini by Gibson show car that features the same paint scheme as the guitar (and other Gordini models) but with Gibson logos and guitar strings woven right into the leather seats. Even the audio system has Gibson guitar knobs for controls.\nThis isn't the first time that cars and guitars have teamed up on these pages, what with the Fender sound systems on new Volkswagens and the Blackbird carbon fiber acoustic guitar made for Ferrari. Whether it's a worthwhile use of the Gibson name, however, is a matter of perspective. Follow the jump for the press release and check out the images in the gallery for a closer look.\nTo mark its second year at the Rock En Seine music festival, near Paris, France, Gordini has teamed up with Gibson to produce a one-off show car and an equally unique 'Gordini by Gibson' electric guitar. Gates open at 2:30pm on August 26, 2011.\n- The leather seats of the Renault Wind-based 'Gordini by Gibson' show car incorporate real guitar strings, in addition to a host of other rocking details.\n- Gibson's iconic SG model from 1961 has been treated to a stunning makeover featuring the familiar Gordini blue with white stripes.\nGordini and Gibson: a shared passion for innovation\nThere will be plenty to please the ears and eyes of Parisian festival goers this weekend thanks to a display comprising the one-off Wind 'Gordini by Gibson' show car plus five striking Gibson SG '61 guitars in Gordini colours. The early 1960s saw Gordini and Gibson both revolutionise their respective worlds with the introduction of a sporting version of the Renault 8 for the former and the release of the SG electric guitar in the case of Gibson. The two brands have long been reputed for the accent they place on innovation and their open-minded approach to the future is founded on the same sense of freedom. The fact that Gibson and Gordini have joined forces for this project could but inspire Renault's designers...\n\"We had tremendous fun designing the Wind-based 'Gordini by Gibson' show car and carrying Gordini's visual identity over to the Gibson SG '61 guitar,\" says Julia Macfarlane, colours and materials designer at Renault. \"I hope that we succeed in conveying the passion that fired us throughout the project and that visitors to the Rock en Seine festival will like the result.\"\nGuitar strings for the Wind 'Gordini by Gibson' show car's leather seats\nWind 'Gordini by Gibson' is a two-part harmony based on the two brands' respective styling cues. Unsurprisingly, Wind 'Gordini by Gibson' features a blue livery with two white stripes, yet the colours and materials it employs also explore one or two other ideas. In addition to the two hallmark white stripes which extend over the bonnet and blue roof, hints of gloss black feature across the bodywork, while Gibson logos are visible on the doors. An original attraction of the show car's blue and white leather upholstery is the incorporation of genuine guitar strings which have been hand-sewn into the leather seats. Meanwhile, embroidered Gibson logos feature on the seat backs and blue leather-trimmed dashboard, while the seat belt straps are white and chrome has been used for the air vents and door handles. Last but not least, the guitar potentiometer knob used for the audio system's volume control adds a 'fun' touch to the intrinsically switched-on and off-beat Wind 'Gordini by Gibson' show car.\nGordini treatment for the SG '61 electric guitar\nThe guitar selected by Gibson to fly Gordini's colours is a reissue of the original 1961 SG, a radical electric guitar in its day which went on to make its own contribution to the Gibson legend. The striking graphics formed by the Gordini blue and two white stripes lend themselves perfectly to a variety of schemes, as illustrated by the special Gordini SG '61's blue solid body and two white stripes, plus a Gordini logo on the headstock which tops its ebony neck. As they play this magnificent object, those festival goers who take part in the Gordini guitar solo competition will get a chance to sample the model's timeless looks, playability and technical strengths. Contestants also stand a chance to win one these fine guitars as a function of the number of votes they receive on the web for their playing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "#BackChannel: Bill Cosby and #OscarsSoWhite\nBill Cosby has entertained audiences for more than half a century as a stand-up comedian and Emmy-winning actor. But as his fame has grown over the years, so have the number of women who have come forward accusing Cosby of sexual misconduct. He faces felony charges of sexual assault.\nAnd the Oscar nominations were announced last week, but none of the acting categories featured people of color. Some Hollywood stars are calling for a boycott of the awards show.\nHost Frank Stasio talks with pop culture experts Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University, and Natalie Bullock Brown, professor of film and multimedia at St. Augustine's University, about the Cosby controversy, lack of recognition for actors of color at the Golden Globes and Oscars and other headlines.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sometimes losing trail in woods is a retreat. Few days back, I was walking in a forested area and lost track, and to my surprise I was standing alone with my shadow beside me. I wanted to click few pictures of my omnipresent shadow. But please be careful while walking in the woods alone cause in jungle Predator is the prey.\nWalking in the forests, when nobody was around me,\nYou walked along, sometimes ahead; sometimes behind,\nBut always alongside me.\nWhile I was lost in the thoughts and the entire ambience of the forest, few lines of the poem My shadow by R.L. Stevenson were echoing in my mind.\nI have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,\nAnd what can be the use of him is more than I can see.\nHe is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;\nAnd I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.\nThe funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—\nNot at all like proper children, which is always very slow;\nFor he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,\nAnd he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all.\n~By Robert Louis Stevenson\n©All images and content are subjected to copyright\n© 2019 – 2021 chandrimadebi.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Details(Leisure Arts Leaflet #1858) This veil begins with a simple satin bridal cap to which you add tulle, handmade satin roses, braided trim, ribbons, pearls, and leaf clusters to create an enchanted confection that any bride would be pleased to wear. Just follow our simple instructions!\nNumber of Designs: 1 bridal veil\nSize: 8\"w x 54\"l\n- Additional Information\nDate Published Jun 1, 2010 Front Cover Author No Special Price No", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Our DVD cases, launched earlier this year, were a welcome addition to our store. We had received requests for a long time to supply DVD cases which matched our Fine Art Albums.\nUpon their release we received many queries about offering digital packages over albums. Whilst we can provide advice about the pros and cons of Albums vs DVDs, we thought it would be better to put a post together written by a photographer who has had the same album or DVD dilemma, and to hear how they approach this with their clients and in their business.\nBarrie Downie, from Downie Wedding Photography, has kindly put an article together to share his experiences selling albums and DVDs to clients. So… in a world dominated by digital imaging, is it best to go with the trend, or stick to the tradition of wedding albums?\nOver to Barrie to find out…\nOver the past few years, there has been a massive swing in the wedding photography industry of handing over digital images instead of providing a wedding album. This is not a criticism at all, we went that way ourselves for several years. It is not surprising that in this digital age, customers want the ability to share and print their own images.\nSince seeing and handling Folio Albums at the SWPP convention in January 2012, our passion for the wedding album has been reignited once more. Wedding albums are tangible and tactile, a physical reminder of the wedding day. We adore the fine art papers, quality inks, accurate colours, and reproduction that Folio Albums use, alongside the reproduction of our images as we intended them to be seen. Wedding albums last for years, they are easy to pick up and share and don’t have the habit of going missing in a drawer or becoming corrupt over time.\nOur customers don’t tend to have calibrated monitors, so we can’t be sure they are viewing the images at their very best. With an album printed by a quality manufacturer, however else the customers view their wedding images, they will always have a quality version of the images to keep.\nChildren, your parents, and grandparents, will be able to view a wedding album, it will age with the couple and grow in value to the family when it is passed down to the generations. Think how you are amazed now if you are lucky enough to see a single family photo from 100 years ago, and then imagine your children looking at a beautiful album of archival paper with timeless photographs in years to come.\nClients love the immediacy of receiving a CD of images which they can share on social media websites and via email, but so often after the honeymoon when the excitement has worn off they never quite get around to producing a wedding album for themselves. We make sure that couples choose their photos within three months of their wedding and that way we can design an album and have it printed and delivered to them as soon as possible. Happy clients are your best way of getting referrals, and if they have a beautiful album to show their friends you are bound to get more referrals and therefore more business.\nThe albums available to order directly by clients do not even begin to reach the standards of those available to professional photographers, and by providing a quality product as part of the wedding package, it adds perceived value to the service we are providing. An album has much more ‘wow’ factor than a CD landing on the clients’ doorstep.\nWe photographed a wedding for a wedding photographer over a year ago and gave him a disc of images, he has done nothing with them as yet but we have a lovely Folio sample album in our studio with his photos, which our clients love. So even we as photographers fall into the same trap of being too busy to do anything with the photos we love. As professional photographers that’s what should differentiate us from amateur photographers, or friends of the family who are photographing weddings, we should hand over a finished product a beautiful album that they can’t buy online and fine art prints framed to hang on their wall.\nI just wanted to thank Barrie for writing this post for us, we hope that it helps with the conundrum of offering Albums or DVDs!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Actress and vocalist who all rose to popularity using Katherine in the country wide creation of Newsies. She’s made performances in stage productions of has like Our City, Sweeney Todd, and Springtime Awakening. Of them costing only six years of age, she began executing with Theater Beneath the Superstars. She started her first nationwide tour in 2003 using the Sound of Music. She graduated in the School of Michigan College of Music, Theater and Dance in 2014. Her mother’s name is normally Bridgy and she’s a younger sibling called John Henry. She actually is close friends with fellow stage professional, vocalist, and Disney superstar Jonathan Groff.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Graphic Design Essay\nGraphic design does not have a fixed meaning. In a broad sense it is the production of visual statements. The term was first used by the American book and advertising designer W.A.\nDwiggins in 1922. At that time it served the purpose of pointing toward a new profession that was broader than either typography, book design, or advertising design alone. For many years the term “graphic design” held because the range of media that graphic designers worked in did not change dramatically. By the early 1960s you had graphic designers working on large exhibitions, urban signage projects, and corporate identity programs. At that point, the practice outstripped the traditional name for it. New terms like “visual communication” …show more content…\n2. What makes current graphic design different from that of earlier times.\nThe proliferation of new media. Designing good web sites, for example, requires a deeper understanding of cognitive psychology, learning theory, and other social science disciplines than most communication designers have. Consequently, the information routes through a web site are frequently rather crude. The graphics often are too because not enough thought has been given to the relation between formal images and the communication of information.\nIn another sense, however, there is much today that is similar to the past. We still enjoy great posters, well-designed newspapers and magazines, wonderful books, excellent typography. The great accomplishments of designers from the past are very much alive and are extremely relevant to most work that is done today. When a web designer has poor training in typography, for example, it is evident.\n3. When did graphic design first make itself known?\nI don’t believe in a single moment when something called “graphic design” appeared. There are separate practices such as typography or book design whose histories have different durations. …show more content…\nThis derives from the refusal of administrators to commit to new programs in design history or design studies.\nActually the history, theory, and criticism of design have never been more important or relevant to design education. This is recognized in a few places such as the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands which features post graduate theory and criticism courses in art and design. In developing countries, the emphasis is on training graphic designers for the market. Quality is secondary. Look at how much poor work you see today. I feel it. You feel it. But poor typography or badly-designed web sites are hardly critical issues for people in general. What needs to be done in the academic setting is to implant the idea that design, whether visual communication or product design, is a cultural activity before it is a commercial one. Young designers need to locate themselves in their respective cultures, whether in the United States, Mexico, or\nPalestine. To do so means knowing how to interpret culture in its present manifestations as well as those of the past. An educated person of any profession should be able to locate himself", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fans eagerly awaiting the release of X-Men: Apocalypse likely have a little more than a passing familiarity with the original comic book character and central antagonist William Stryker by now, provided they are dedicated readers of the Marvel Comics series or faithful viewers of the X-Men films. Different versions of Stryker were played by Brian Cox in 2003's X2: X-Men United and by Danny Huston in the not-so-popular X-Men Origins: Wolverine - the latter of which explored the Weapon X program storyline from the Marvel comics.\nFollowing the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past, yet another actor has stepped into the role of Colonel Stryker - in this case, Josh Helman. During our Apocalypse set visit, Helman reflected on the situation that viewers last saw his version of Stryker in, and how the character will be seen as coming into his own (and out of the shadow of his former mentor, Bolivar Trask), when director Bryan Singer's latest X-Men film picks up:\n\"The last time you saw Stryker he was under the employment of Trask and was very dedicated to what Trask was doing and interested in all of his studies and I think the ten years after that is just-I think he’s been developing his own plan for how he wants to proceed and, I think, learning from the mistakes of what happened with the situation with Trask and trying to formulate a plan that he thinks should be put in place for moving forward.\"\nSuch a predicament could certainly lend for plenty of room for Helman to move the character around in, and perhaps explore alternate narrative paths provided by the new X-Men trilogy's inherent, \"license to play with our expectations of the future,\" as the actor himself put it. But as far as honoring past interpretations of Stryker go, Helman remarked:\n\"Obviously, I’m an enormous...enormous doesn’t even cover the amount of respect I have for Brian Cox and his iteration of the character and Danny Huston as well, I mean, they’re both incredible actors and I feel dwarfed by their presence in this character. But, I think that...it hews somewhat closely to, I think, the ideals that Stryker particularly in X2 has, but we are now playing with different permutations of that.\"\nAs for Stryker's eventual creation of the Weapon X program, Helman says Apocalypse will find the character in a key development phase, as far as Weapon X is concerned:\n\"This is a particularly important time, a formative time, for Stryker in the way that he’s going to move forward. I think the events of this film are definitely instrumental in creating the kind of capital “C” character that he will become. I think this is definitely the start of that journey. In Days of Future Past I think he was kind of taking notes and now he’s ready to kind of, like, open his own shop.\"\nAs for what sort of version of Stryker we can expect in Apocalypse, and whether or not it has a basis in the Marvel comics or any previous X-Men films, Helman said:\n\"I mean, in “God Loves, Man Kills,” where, y’know, you see him and his gang of purifiers and he’s…I know that was not a condemnation of religion and that, but there’s something about a person who has the ability...I think that’s why he’s such a good master manipulator, because he knows how to do it to himself in a way. I think a lot of the best villains have a switch for self-justification that is perpetually in the on position.\"\nFor more quotes and reveals from our X-Men: Apocalypse set visit, check out the links below:\n- X-Men: Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen Explain Their Roles\n- X-Men: Apocalypse – Storm’s New African Origin Details\n- Bryan Singer Teases X-Men: Apocalypse’s Alien Connections & Future\n- X-Men: Apocalypse - Psylocke's Origin Changes Explained\nDeadpool hits theaters February 12, 2016; X-Men: Apocalypse on May 27, 2016; Gambit sometime in 2017; Wolverine 3 on March 3, 2017; and an unannounced X-Men film on July 13, 2018. The New Mutants is also in development.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What can we learn from street style?\nAs a fashion blogger, you can say that it’s my obligation to follow fashion weeks around the world. Whether it is to keep up to date with the latest trends, to find inspiration for my next blog post, to see the ‘new faces’ in the industry or to be a sartorial stalker.\nMy article will tackle the latter – the phenomenon known as ‘street style’. In today’s fashion industry, no one is more influential than the fashion blogger, the influencer. Blogs have become aspirational platforms that people follow and lust for and in my opinion, trends are no longer made on catwalks, but rather, on the streets.\nThe biggest names at the moment are Chiara Ferragni of ‘The Blonde Salad’, KristinaBazan of ‘Kayture’ and Camille Charriere of ‘Camille over the rainbow’. The newly crowned arbiters of style are opinion leaders to the millions who follow them on Instagram, Facebook and other social media sites.\nSo you’re probably wondering, what do they have to offer? What can we learn from them that we can’t get from the catwalks?\nWhile designers are the creators of fashion, most of the time you have very few occasions when you can wear items straight off the catwalk, and that is if you can afford to spend a small fortune. Fashion bloggers take what has been shown on the runways and make it accessible to everyone else. They offer high street examples to imitate and illustrate how we can style the latest trends.\n“ The newly crowned arbiters of style are opinion leaders to the millions who follow them on Instagram, Facebook and other social media sites ”\nTip #1 – Break the rules.\nDon’t stick to the cliché rules. Fashion is an art, which is in constant flux so rules don’t apply.\nTip #2 – Experiment with\ncolors and textures. No you don’t have to stick to one color or two but color blocking is something I like to do at times. Blend leathers, suede, cottons, cashmere and silks for a rich feel. Mix it up!\nTip #3 – Layer it up.\nIf anything bloggers show you how possible it is to layer up and look chic and effortless. And in a climate like ours where the temperature changes in a matter of minutes, layering is a skill you should master.\nTip #4 – Forever and ever\namen, not! Just because you have a certain style doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try on different things. Style evolves the way you do, so allow it to transform.\nTip #5 – Appreciate, don’t\nimitate. Style is so personal, yes by all means get inspired by other people but make it your own and don’t copy. That’s the beauty of fashion-it’s a representation of yourself. A few years ago celebrities were the leaders of fashion, recently fashion bloggers took their place. As each day passes the people on the street are becoming more important to the fashion industry, so there’s no better time to showcase your style than now.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nostalgic TikToks take you back to the 90’s as a child.\nGrowing up in the 90's was very interesting. It was a time of renewed liberation, it was the heyday of Nickelodeon, MTV, and the doomsday clock was at an all time low after the end of the cold war.\nFor awhile, people's creativity for entertaining children was plentiful even more so then than in the 1980's, some may disagree, I was not a part of the 80's for all that long.\nWhat I do know is that just before the internet took over the attention of everyone including kids, there were still cool stuff and cool things to do.\nIt seems creators took a lot of liberties and ties from their own childhood in the 80's to make all the crazy toys and TV shows we loved from back in the day and morphed them into something that we wouldn't ever think of today.\nTake Ren and Stimpy and for example, this show would never pass a children's show these days with all gritty animation grossing everyone out. One could say the say the same for Beavis and Butthead because now-a-days they are an adult animation show. There were toys like Creepy Crawlers where you would bake rubber bugs and spiders with a dangerous plastic 200 degree oven, and the art supplies that had a smell to them like grape or root beer.\nHowever, once Y2K hit, everything was cyber this and megabyte that in a sea of futuristic silver shine doing away with the wacky slime-laden aesthetic.\nI found TikTok channels I frequent on a nightly basis.There they have slide shows accompanied on occasion by the Enigma song Return to Innocence, they show things you may have forgotten about. It's all there, Cherry Coke in a can, those bandage chewing gums, and Lisa Frank stationary.\nKick back and take a journey with me back into the 90's with these lovely TikToks.\n@themillennialtok Now That’s What I Call 90s PT 20 #90skids #90sthrowback #90sbaby #90skid #millennialsontiktok ♬ Gonna Make you Sweat (Αs performed by C&C Music Factory) - Pop Music Workshop @the9tsbaby #fypシ #fyp #foryou #90sbaby #zyxcba #90saesthetic #90snostalgia #90skids #nostalgia #unlockingyourmemory #90s #y2k #summer #goodmemories ♬ Boombastic - Shaggy @stuck.in.the.90z #90sthrowback #90smusic #90smovies #90skid #the90s #90s #nostalgia #90sbaby #90skids ♬ Romeo x Juliet - That 90s R N B Guy 🙌🏾", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "To address my feelings about vertical photographs, to share some of my favorite vertical images from history, and to discuss why I regularly shoot vertical photographs with my wedding work, I’ve decided to create this blog post to provide additional insight. The four images above are some of my favorites from my wedding photography career. You can view my wedding images via the two galleries under “portfolio,” or you can view my favorite vertical wedding images through this link here.\nWith some regularity, I get messages from photographers commenting about the vertical images I’ve posted on Instagram (@bradleyhansonphotography) or on my website. Some of them ask about shooting vertical images at weddings, others are about vertical images in general or “how do I get started when I only photograph horizontally,” etc. I’m happy to share my thoughts as I am very excited about this format. I don’t talk about equipment much because it’s not a priority for doing good work, but to me, there is a sweet spot between 50mm and 90mm that lends itself well to vertical images. Normal to short telephoto focal lengths can assist the photographer in creating compositions that tend to make the vertical orientation easier to see. There are countless exceptions to this, of course, and some of them can be seen in the historical gallery I’ve created below, but I’m getting ahead of myself.\nSquare format images remove this consideration altogether. I photographed weddings for a few years with Hasselblad square format cameras and film. The format was easy to work with, and once you get into the zone with seeing in the square format, everything seems to fit. (The main challenge with weddings with that system was the slow f2.8 and f4 lenses in low light, not the format itself). When I make photographs with my iPhone, I crop them square as a separate discipline. I’ve also created a separate gallery for those, which you can see as a menu option from my portfolio heading on the upper right.\nIn 1987, I bought Ralph Gibson’s book “Tropism,” from the bookstore at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. I had seen vertical images before, of course. They are not new, and many of the images in the gallery below are from the 50s and 60s, most likely a Leica M3 camera with a 50mm lens. Still, there was something about Ralph Gibson’s high contrast vertical images that made them even more abstract and surreal. While paging appreciatively through the book, I discovered that one of my favorites, the glowing hand at the opening door, was an image I’d seen before on the inner sleeve of Joy Division’s classic 1979 record, “Unknown Pleasures.”\nThe simple act of buying this book changed my perspective on photography forever. I didn’t suddenly starting shooting only vertical photographs, but I often found myself seeking out compositions in that format and trying to change the way I saw the world to be open to this exciting format. The 3:2 ratio of 35mm film (aka “full frame” in digital format) also lends itself better to vertical compositions because it closely approximates the “golden ratio.” (Click here to read the Wikipedia page about the concept).\nI’ve redesigned my wedding portfolio to feature my vertical images, something of an anomaly in this industry that appears to be 99% horizontal. I get it. Walk into a wedding reception and you see the tables spread out wide. Go to the ocean and you see width. Our eyes are side by side, not on top of each other. For these reasons and more, vertical images can be compelling as they are outside of our day to day perspective. Ralph Gibson referred to vertical images as having a “tension” in the way they can make it feel like the frame is compressed. He even had an exhibit called “The Vertical Horizon.”\nTo see more Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN portraits, wedding photography and weddings all over the world, visit my main portfolio on bradleyhanson.com or email me at email@example.com or call me at 206-393-8292 and we can discuss your wedding plans in detail.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bright Yellow Wellness Suit\nProduct code: 7690\nCustom Made in 7 business days.\n- Fabric: Bright yellow metallic spandex\n- Style: Underwire top, V-cut bottom, Hook fastening\n- Features: Triple close up crystal clear rhinestone connector at bra, decorated with yellow, crystal clear, and jonquil rhinestones, sparkling glitter detail, scrunch back, Rio Pro back coverage", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Premium Cabinetry Maker in Evansville, IN or the Surrounding Areas\nWelcome to Castle Top Classic Outdoor Living Company, your premier destination for custom carpentry and cabinetry in Evansville, IN. Our expert team of cabinetry makers combines traditional craftsmanship with modern designs to create unique, high-quality cabinetry that enhances the beauty and functionality of your home.\nWhether you’re looking for a kitchen cabinet installation, custom cabinetry for your living space, or specialized carpentry services, we’ve got you covered.\nCustom Carpentry Solutions Tailored for Your Home\nOur custom carpentry services are designed to meet the unique needs of each client. As skilled cabinetry installers, we understand that every home is different, and we work closely with you to bring your vision to life.\nFrom the initial design to the final installation, our team ensures a seamless process. Our kitchen cabinet makers are not just craftsmen; they’re artists who pay attention to every detail, ensuring your custom cabinetry is not only functional but also a stunning addition to your home.\nExpert Kitchen Cabinet Installation and More\nAt Castle Top Classic Outdoor Living Company, kitchen cabinet installation is more than just a service – it’s a passion. Our cabinetry makers use only the finest materials and latest techniques to ensure your kitchen stands out. Whether you’re renovating your kitchen or building a new home, our custom cabinetry maker team will guide you through every step, ensuring your kitchen is both beautiful and practical. With our comprehensive carpentry services, you can trust us to enhance the aesthetics and value of your home.\nIn every project, our goal is to exceed expectations with our craftsmanship and customer service. Contact us today to start transforming your Evansville, IN home with exceptional custom cabinetry and carpentry services.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Who? What? Where ? How?\nMichael Bailes - 2D Animator - Illustrator - Character Designer\nI am a graduate student at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK. I've had a huge interest in animation, mostly influenced by Disney and Hanna Barbera, and would love to create my own series in the future.\nI also enjoy acting and performing arts, having joined numerous societies in the past and have played roles ranging from minor to major character in shows like Bugsy Malone, Oklahoma, Gypsy, Oh What a Lovely War, Little Shop of Horrors, Swallows and Amazons and Peter Pan. my other interests include voice acting and video games.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rochambeau drew it's inspiration for its Fall 2016 collection from Tupac Shakur's movie \"Juice\". According to the designers their guy was \"tough and layered\" but even if there was no inspiration this collection works on a few different levels. With only showing 28 looks there's quite a bit of ground covered here, from sleek cut jackets to more relaxed baseball styles with guy friendly colors to boot! My personal standout was the two-tone mohair style coat and the black long coat towards the end. Comparative to other designers it's a small collection but 28 pieces could have been 20 and still delivered the diversity they showed. The urban vibe showed through this collection and should be responsive to a younger audience.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "THANK YOU FOR YOUR REQUEST\nWe will be in touch soon.\nAt Contemporary Rugs, we love being on top of the latest trends and Pantone is definitely a reference for us! Since you are also rug-lovers, today we bring you the best of the two worlds! Take a look at our selection and enjoy the best modern rugs for this fall inspired in the stunning soft Ballet Slipper Colour!\nPantone is an absolute trend setter and every year, professionals from all creative areas await for the choices of the year. This summer trend is this beautiful light rose pink that will totally transform your home decor.\nMid-century modern rugs like this one are absolutely to die for! It adds a sense of high-end sophistication that makes you not want to leave the room!\nLarge rugs are always the best option when you intend to make your space look bigger and cosier. If your plan is to create a “wow” factor to your guests, the large designer rugs are definitely the way to go!\nThis fall, given these many inspirations, your living room rugs choices should really considerate round Ballet Slipper tonne options! Just look at this Atmosphere? It really is the perfect mood to relax when returning home from a day at work!\nCombine this beautiful Pantone Colour and have the most amazing coloured rugs design like this one! It adds history, culture and an interesting personality to any space!\nAfter reading this article, do you have any favourite design rug from our selection? Let us know, we are curious! For more designer rugs inspiration, don’t forget to follow our Pinterest account!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "An ultra-Orthodox Jew, a couch surfing custodian, and a personal injury lawyer – risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York comedy scene.\nYou May Also Like\nJim “Lucky” Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a ‘love insurance policy’, that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve’s ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia’s disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers – Abbott and Costello – to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.\nFlighty Emily “Jacks” Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer’s assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.\nWhile working his maintenance job at an upscale hotel, Barry encounters the mysterious Mr. Jay. He introduces Barry to the International Birthday Network, an agency which helps children across the globe suffering from miserable birthdays.\nHusband Yang Baiwan and his wife run a restaurant in the countryside. Yang misunderstands that his wife is cheating on him and he then devises a plan of revenge. On the night he carries out his plan, two unfortunate robbers and a random couple get involved by accident. The six originally unrelated people now have something to do with each other, which triggers a series of absurd and ridiculous accidents. And their fate is also changed …\nA new dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 – Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity – embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship and save their home.\nThe story of Helen Reddy, who, in 1966, landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change.\nJason Osder makes an impressive feature film debut through his unbiased and thorough account of the incidents leading up to and during the 1985 standoff between the extremist African-American organization MOVE and Philadelphia authorities. The dramatic clash claimed eleven lives and literally and figuratively devastated an entire community. Let the Fire Burn is a real-life Wild West story absent the luxury of identifying its heroes by the color of their hats.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After success of The Night Manager, John Le Carre’s Little Drummer Girl is next for TV release\nThe film about a woman recruited by an Israeli spy master to track down a Palestinian militant, starring Michael Shannon, Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgard, will be a ‘smaller, slower’ adaptation, says famous author\nJohn le Carre fans will see a new adaptation of one of his spy novels when The Little Drummer Girl hits TV screens this month but the British author said there was huge pressure in making the series after the success of hit show The Night Manager.\nLe Carre’s 1983 book, previously made into a film starring Diane Keaton, is set in the 1970s and follows British actress Charlie as she is recruited by an Israeli spy master to track down a Palestinian militant.\nThe miniseries was made by the makers of Golden Globe-winning The Night Manager, with le Carre’s sons once again executive producers. The author described the story as “quite different”.\n“The one thing you can’t do, you can’t be a one-trick pony, you can’t repeat it. We had a massive audience [for The Night Manager],” le Carre said at The Little Drummer Girl premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday.\n“This will be a different thing … probably attract a smaller but a much more responsive audience in many ways. It’s not as accessible, it’s more thinking, it’s slower and I think more beautiful.”\n“She is someone so opinionated, so loud, so sure of herself,” Pugh said of Charlie. “I loved the fact that my character wasn’t necessarily from that [spy] world … us as the audience, we watch her like we are her.”\nSkarsgard plays intelligence agent Becker, who as part of the story’s Israeli spy plot also pretends to be a young Palestinian Charlie travels with across Europe.\n“I hope people embrace this show as much as they did The Night Manager,” he said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The New Face of Art\nby Mark Calderwood\nIt’s 8am, on a dismal morning. Coffee in hand, you’re walking into your office- through a shimmering waterfall of light that foams and dances around your body as you linger beneath it, for just a second. The new foyer is cocoon-like, bathed in ambient twilight. The couch wriggles and yips as you sit down, and you can’t help but smile at its contented trilling as your fingers play over the intricate embroidery that twines its sleek fur. On a nearby wall, a video painting depicts a lone skateboarder in the rain, poetic as he pirouettes in slow motion. But your eyes are for the unearthly faces projected against the trees in the shadowed atrium, seeming to murmur poignant secrets.\nAs you pass an ordinary black-and-white photograph, its figures suddenly gasp and scurry out of sight; you can’t help ducking back to see if they reappear. You chuckle that you’ve already witnessed six impossible things this morning…and wonder what might be next. Reaching your desk, it dawns that by crossing your foyer, you’ve interacted with sophisticated technologies without a single click. The simple act of coming to work has moved you to wonder, sadness and delight, in ways you could never expect.\nSounds like the escapist daydream of every office worker, doesn’t it? So it might surprise you to learn that this ability to turn your corporate space into a trip down the rabbit hole is well within reach. Because each of these marvels actually exists, and have already enchanted close to half a million people during exhibitions staged by Experimenta, Australia’s powerhouse of media art. Over the past 8 years, Experimenta has showcased the cutting edge of new media- a tactile, technosensual and highly imaginative experience of art- in biennial exhibitions that tour Australia, the Asia Pacific and the UK.\nLast year, Experimenta Playground redefined interactivity for more than 44, 000 visitors in Melbourne by appealing to the formative instinct of play. In 2005- 06, Experimenta Vanishing Point lured 122, 208 visitors nationwide to step through the technological looking glass, and Experimenta House of Tomorrow (2003- 05) broke attendance records around Australia.\nMedia arts are not new, per se: video, digital, and multimedia have been reshaping our industries and our daily lives for a few decades now. What is new are the innovative ways that artists are expanding those media and fusing them with state-of-the-art technologies to communicate their ideas.\nSuch as Melbourne artist Daniel Crooks. His mesmerising video panoramas On Motion and Perspective Part 2 and Train No.9 present floating, endlessly morphing urban landscapes where time is a tangible, fractured thing. Crooks describes his works, which inventively marry conventional film techniques with customised tracking hardware and intricate digital editing, as ‘a different way of seeing the world outside our normal perspectives.’\nNarinda Reeders goes even further to combine video with motion-sensing software, letting The Shy Picture spring impishly to life as its characters flee from sight at our approach, creeping back when they think themselves unobserved.\nReinventing interactivity along such lines is a hallmark of media art, creating an immediate experience far beyond the pedestrian point-and-click. What’s truly remarkable is that the formidable technology driving these artworks-experimental hard- and software, pattern recognition, digital animation, biometrics and more- is made to disappear. ‘With the machinery hidden,’ says Experimenta’s artistic director Liz Hughes, ‘the experience of the work is that much more powerful. The idea that the technology brings to life, is what its about.’\n‘Instead of keeping people at a distance like traditional art can, media works engage them physically as well as emotionally. Media art affects the ways people think and feel and act; it subtly transforms, enriches and energises their space,’ she observes, noting that it’s these qualities that lend media arts to being imagined in the workplace.\nNot that it’s a leap to replace traditional framed art with sophisticated video paintings in business environments that already take data projection technology and flat panel screens in their stride; nor is it hard to see how they provide a spark which can jumpstart creative thinking.\nMedia projections can also create strange immersive worlds within real-world architectural and public spaces. In 2003, for example, artist Craig Walsh transformed the headquarters of the Commonwealth, ANZ and Reserve Banks into gigantic fish tanks as his virtual Urban Tide swept in, the colossal fish swimming among the floating office furniture creating a startling and whimsical illusion.Interactive works have an even more enlivening effect on corporate spaces. Unexpectedly appearing in Sofitel Melbourne’s public foyer during September 2007, Stephen Barrass’ wriggling, touch-responsive ZiZi the Affectionate Couch (part chaise longue, part pampered purple pet) and the bashful inhabitants of The Shy Picture generated intense public interest as well as delighting and intriguing guests and staff alike.\nIt’s no secret that the advantages to buying art go beyond simple monetary returns. Media art in particular positions the investor as an innovator; it speaks unmistakably of a company that is energetically engaged, socially aware, and willing to take risks in embracing new technology and new ideas.\nIt also connects with the growing international presence of media art. Leading Australian artists are prominent at events like ISEA08 in Singapore and ZeroOne in San Jose amongst others, with media artists Susan Norrie and Daniel von Sturmer selected as national representatives to the prestigious Venice Biennale in 2007.\nAnd do we even need to go into the publicity potential and boldly original, open-era prestige branding such as realised by Sofitel Melbourne’s micro-exhibition? That’s press you just can’t buy. Researcher and artist Barrass is quick to point out the human rewards, not least of which is giving companies a competitive edge in attracting- and retaining- well-educated and sophisticated staff and clientele. He predicts that in building profile and brand loyalty, ‘corporate spaces will increasingly become public places of entertainment and leisure as well as business innovation.’\nThe last five years have seen investors adopting a forward-thinking approach, pursuing both the up-to-the-minute cultural cachet and the innovative branding potential offered by contemporary art. Corporate collections especially are being overhauled to highlight attention grabbing and incisive works which, more and more, means media-based art.\n‘New media is simply where contemporary art is,’ insists Ruth Bain, director of Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne, ‘so it’s inevitable that, as a collector, you’re going to be interested in it…or left far behind.\n‘The people who are buying art now have grown up with media technologies. They are completely unafraid of it. It’s embedded in their environments and in their minds; it’s second nature to them. But it’s not only younger investors- informed collectors of all stripe are interested in artists like Daniel Crooks or Shaun Gladwell not because they’re specifically media artists, but because they are considered leading, and very bankable, contemporary artists.’ Bankable indeed, with both men recently ranked among Australia’s 50 most collectible artists.\nAs with any investment, it pays to cover the ground. Bain is reassuring that, as the go-to people, art dealers now need to keep abreast of emerging technological developments just as much as artistic trends. ‘We need to be able to advise clients on technology that is sustainable and appropriate for the purpose, and liaise with agencies like Experimenta who unearth the latest breakthroughs.’\nAs with traditional art, potential buyers need to ask hard questions of the media art they are drawn to- does the work represent quality and innovation? Is it relevant to the collection? For that matter, how can you make sure it won’t be on YouTube next week? Because definitions of art and authenticity can get nebulous around endlessly reproducible digital media, many artists offer a tangible, limited-edition version of their work: typically an archival-standard DVD accompanied by certification of authenticity.\nUnlike traditional artists, media artists often take an ongoing interest in how their works are presented and how they perform. Some artists offer forms of after-care as part of purchase arrangements, and many contractually stipulate the display hardware, fair use and site-specificity of the work to ensure their original vision is respected.\nDetermining whether an artist has staying power- if they are represented by reputable dealers, if they are exhibiting regularly, if their interests and directions will continue to break new ground- is often the key to substantial returns. In 2003 Sherman Galleries sold a copy of Gladwell’s iconic Storm Sequence for $3000; two years later, it sold privately for $65, 000 and was again on-sold by Sotheby’s in 2007 for $84, 000- the first video artwork auctioned in Australia.\nObsolescence is an ever-present issue when dealing with technology, and the implications for media art warrant careful consideration. Re-releases and upgrades can render common platforms resistant (to some degree) to the process: ‘New digital technology tends to ingest the old,” says Crooks. “Some works can be migrated onto new platforms as they become available,’ agrees Bain, ‘but with others, the technology is integral. It becomes a patina of age, part of their being works of a certain time.’\nSponsorship represents an innovative investment alternative, one that carries a different value relationship than work bought off the shelf. ‘The large scale of public art spectacles appeals to large thinking,’ says Queensland-based Craig Walsh, known for his transformational, immersive digital projections commissioned for public festivals around Australia and in the Asia Pacific region. ‘As well as placing them on the cultural map, it gives a business a chance to stamp their brand on the public domain in a way that people remember.\n‘Because installations are site-specific and continually evolving, there isn’t an object to on-sell. Their value is in the unique experience of the work that draws people to that place. It’s not like buying shares, there’s a kind of faith required, a long-term commitment to the art.’\nBain concurs, adding that while corporations may not ‘have a saleable object at end of the day, there’s something spectacular that reflects who you are as a company, and what contribution you make to the world.’\nAs media technology has changed and grown, so have its creative possibilities. And in a re-imagined art of the future, there may be little distinction between seeing and experiencing, between corporate and personal, between art and our environment. So when you go to the office tomorrow, will you be stepping into a standard workplace- or a vibrant, whimsical, engaging place where you can do some work as well?\nPublished Fast Thinking 2008", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Employs 31 people in this north central Wisconsin community (14 FTE)\n- Spends ~ $ 1,570,000 annually on goods and services in the Wausau area and throughout Wisconsin\n- Serves an estimated 56,000 visitors each year, including 33% from out of the local area\n- Serves more than 11,000 schoolchildren each year through classroom visits to the Woodson.\nArts and creative economy development in Portage County\n- extensive downtown revitalization in Stevens Point with the Fox Theatre redevelopment project as a cornerstone\n- The 2013 Portage County Creative Economy Inventory Study quantifies the community power and impact of the arts and creative industries\n- Partnerships and planning for creative sector growth involve Portage County and North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.\n- Stevens Point Sculpture Park bringing together arts and environment\n“The Arts Alliance of Portage County has received strong support from our community and governmental leaders in proactively developing a strategy to understand and expand our local Creative Economy. They understand the economic and social value of art, culture, entertainment, education and quality of life when looking at the future. Portage County is an exciting place to be right now as it embraces creativity as part of its economic future.” ~ Bill Schierl, Team Schierl Companies | President, Arts Alliance of Portage County", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The YAMAHA YTS-82ZUL is a Pro-custom model tenor saxophone finished without lacquer, the choice of many jazz lovers.\nIt presents a bright colour due to the polishing that is done in the factory before the final packaging, but being a model without lacquer, the colour will be transformed over the days and the contact with oxygen, returning to the typical dark tone of the unlacquer vibe.\nThis series of saxophones starts the Custom range of the Japanese brand Yamaha. Renovated in 2013, the Yamaha 82Z gives musicians a great deal of freedom of expression, among other things thanks to the new finish of its bell, which is constructed in one piece and hammered by hand. In this way, we gain flexibility throughout the dynamic range.\nIn this new version, the Yamaha 82Z range is supplied with the V1 Neck (wider) , with a more open and expressive sound. Another improvement to note is the B-C# connection of the left hand mechanism, making it lighter. This custom series has metal resonator pads, with a great response and a wider sound. In addition to improving bass and treble output, they help us to pick up speed in fast passages. Another improvement that adds up is the possibility of adjusting the front F (X key), so we can control the opening of this key.\nThe independent fenders, allow adjustable stops for the screws, for a professional technical adjustment. The octave key has an exclusive spherical joint design for a more fluid and fast action. Backpack case included and accessories.\n- New V1 neck\n- Improved low B/C# connection\n- Metal resonators\n- Adjustable thumb rest\n- Adjustable front F key (X).\n- Unlacquered finish\n- Drawn tone holes\n- One-piece hand hammered bell.\n- New bell engraving.\n- Silicone treated leather pads with metal resonators.\n- Mother of pearl key buttons.\n- Blue steel springs.\n- Includes ligature and cap\n- Yamaha mouthpiece 4CM.\n- Includes case TST-820", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "#TIA – We have absolutely no idea what this is all about but perhaps — and hopefully — you will.\n“Even though Rick and Morty hasn’t been on-air in a distressingly long time, the creative team behind the show is hard at work on getting the upcoming episodes of the series ready.\nIf the newest teaser Adult Swim’s dropped is any indication, Rick and Morty’s triumphant return to our screens is going to be exactly as action-filled and epic as you’d expect. And, from the look of it, there might be a solid chunk of the show that’s rendered with some badass anime aesthetics.”\nRead more at io9", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There’s some sort of story about me that seems to be manifesting pretty creatively in different contexts and quite often. There’s a lot I don’t know about it. For now the only thing that’s sure is that it keeps happening. It’s as if there’s a message I need to get which I don’t seem to…Read More A pattern of comparison and rejection: why do they always choose him over me?\nSong Exploder has been one of my favourite podcasts lately. It’s about artists picking one of their songs and talking about the creative process behind it, from its perception to production. The first one I ever listened to was with Robyn, who talked about a song called Honey. This episode talks about how like probably…Read More The career I could have had (honey)\nI appreciate when I see someone showing vulnerability a lot. It makes me feel safe and more connected with them, and even parts of them I may be finding difficult start to make sense. It also makes me to want to get to know them better. But is it good for teachers, therapists and roles…Read More How much vulnerability can therapists, teachers, mentors and leaders share with us?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "'Beat' Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of a show biz celebrity. But his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his big break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series of frustrating auditions, Kitano seems to mysteriously fall into a fantasy state highlighted by aspects of Beat's real life and violent onscreen persona...\nDisappointing and overly complicated.\n- Takeshis' review by Shatner's Bassoon\n(1) of (1) members found this review helpful.\nYou rated this film: 2\nTakashis' revolves around two men, the real life Takeshi ’Beat’ Kitano who has become bored with his life as an actor and director, and a shy, quiet convenience store assistant and struggling actor who looks identical to Kitano. After a brief meeting outside a life where the lookalike Kitano asks the real Kitano for an autograph, the two go their separate ways with the lookalike Kitano dreaming about living life of the real Takeshi Kitano and the real Takeshi Kitano dreaming about living the life of his lookalike. Jumping between reality and fantasy the dreams of the two men often overlap and parallel each other throughout the film. I'm a big fan of Takeshi Kitano, as an actor he's charismatic and immensely watchable and as a director he's one of the best foreign directors around. Though personally, after ‘Getting Any’ I found Takeshis' to be his weakest film to date, while the idea behind the film is clever the film often becomes a little too surreal and doesn’t quite manage to pull everything together. If you’re a Kitano fan then this is something you’ll want to see, though if you’ve not experienced his work before this is probably the worst place to start and you’ll be far better off starting with ‘Kikujiro’ or ‘Hana-Bi’.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A story about finding your true calling.4.33 / 5.00 8,021 Views\nHelp me to help you4.49 / 5.00 14,213 Views\nA young artist trapped in a boring job uses his imagination to escape from reality.4.47 / 5.00 20,870 Views\nA moral tale in the form of a song. Written by Bizunth.\nThe song is now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/g b/album/magical-dream-tim e-cute-explosion/id410556 941?i=410556943", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today I've been busy with yet another DIY project and\nI'm covered with white dust.\nI've been scraping old paint from the skirting board in\nthe downstairs hallway and then sanded it all down for a\nsmooth finish. I also started to sand the door frames, I\nprepare them for a fresh coat of paint.\nOur house is a so called fixer upper, it feels like I haven't\nstopped doing stuff to improve it since I moved in here,\nthere's always something that needs fixing.\nMy man sure takes advantage of the fact that I have a\nvocational qualification as a painter and decorator.\nTomorrow, my dear readers, I'm gonna show you what I\ndid to these two girl's dresses I bought at a car boot sale.\nThe left one cost 50 pence and the right one 70 pence.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thursday, November 29, 2007\nIt does not get terribly cold here in NC, but sometimes when I walk my dog, or am running around town, I want something to keep my hands warm. Full gloves and mittens are too hot so I asked a designer to come up with something \"unique\" to keep my hands warm.\nShawn Glidden designed these gloves. We both used beads from Earthfaire for the bracelet and thumb ring, and a special bead, or button we had in our stashes for the ring finger.\nThese gloves can be made glamorous by using subtle colors, or you can be really funky with wildly colored yarns and beads, and a fun bead or button, at the ring finger.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bajo Jingasa (Riding Battle Hat) started to become popular amongst gashira (officers) at the end of the Sengoku Jidai and through the Edo Era. Traditionally a defensive helmet, they were allegedly first crafted from wood, leather, nerigawa, then iron and later steel. They progressively improved as the Ashigaru grew in popularity on the battlefield. The bajo-gasa jingasa, are shaped like low round hills, believed to to cut down wind resistance while on horseback. Samurai who owned a horse would typically wear a bajo-gasa. The where also known as manju-gasa because of their manju (bun with a bean jam filling) like shape.\nThe Jingasa were traditionally lacquered in black and would typically bear the mon of their clans (mark or crest) or that of their unit. This allowed soldiers to be easily identified from a distance. These mon were often painted in gold color. The inside of the Jingasa was typically lined with hemp cloth. Bajo Jingasa also featured four metal rings riveted inside. A cord would be tied into these rings and loop down just below the ears, then a second cord would then be passed through the loops and tie below chin securing the jingasa to the head.\nFeatures: Bajo Jingasa\n- Traditional design and handcrafted Bajo Jingasa.\n- Optional paint colors and mon.\n|Our skilled katchû-shi (armorers) at the Iron Mountain Armory will need at least 2 to 4 weeks, depending on options selected, and other scheduled orders, for the custom handcrafting of your reproduction samurai item.\n|For more information, please review our Order Options Explained, Glossary Terms or FAQ Pages. You can also Contact Us directly. We are always happy to be of service.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Robert Harre-Jones, Mark Dobell, Orlando Consort - Antoine Busnois: Missa O Crux lignum, Motets & Chansons (2005)\nEAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:31 | 300 MB\nGenre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: 907333\nEngland's Orlando Consort, a quartet of male singers augmented as needed by other performers, offers performances of Renaissance vocal music that lie midway between the traditional and the highly individualized modern. Sometimes they veer toward one of those two extremes, but often, as on the present disc, they find a happy medium. Their sound, especially in sacred music, owes much to the English cathedral tradition, but there's a well-honed edge to their one-voice-to-a-part interpretations that brings out the crowds who've recently been drawn to early music. This disc is intended as an introduction to a composer who doesn't always offer easy listening to the modern ear. Netherlander Antoine Busnois, active at the end of the fifteenth century and considered the greatest figure between Dufay and Josquin, wrote music that broke free from elaborate medieval numerology but came in advance of Josquin's perfect marriage of music and text.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is a lovely delicate ovals of sterling in a single 20 inch chain. It is lovely and delicate and looks like light lace. It weighs almost nothing 4.45g It would look super on a sweater or on your skin. It will come in a velvet bag and gift box ready to give. For you from the High Plains of Kansas!\nVINTAGE Delicate Sterling Ovals Necklace Lacy!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Halt and Catch Fire, Season 1, Episode 3: “High Plains Hardware”\nDirected by Karyn Kusama\nWritten by Jason Cahill\nAirs Sundays at 10pm EST on AMC\nIs this show getting silly or is this show getting silly? I’ve been optimistic about Halt and Catch Fire based more on its potential than its first two episodes, which have been pretty inconsistent. It has a fantastic setting and shows a slice of recent history that hasn’t been depicted very often on screen. It features some great music and some good acting. And dramatizing the dawn of the computers is not an easy task. To take a subject this intricate and specialized, a subject few are conversant in even as we use the machines themselves almost constantly, the writers seem to have two choices. They must either commit to exploring the actual process of building a PC, which is a tall order, but if done well could be really rewarding and unlike anything else on television. Or they can use the setting as merely background to tell a story about these characters and their relationships with each other. Unfortunately, they aren’t doing a very good job of either.\nStructurally, the show is hitting its beats. It’s moving its main plot forward (the development of Cardiff Electric’s new PC) while slowly doling out information about the characters’ back-stories. This is a technique that has worked well for other serialized shows – The Americans, another 80s set drama, has mastered the formula, which does Halt and Catch Fire no favors in comparison. Of course espionage is inherently more compelling than programming, and Halt and Catch Fire seems afraid to get bogged down in lots of tech-jargon. But this is what the show is about, so the writers need to dive in and figure out how to make it exciting. Because the characters are not interesting enough on their own terms. And this episode, ‘High Plains Hardware’, relies on cheap plot twists too outlandish for a show that seems to think it’s grounded in the real world.\nExhibit A, obviously, is the “gay” scene. The whole thing is calculated to shock the audience (presumably into furiously tweeting #HaltAndCatchFire #GayKiss while the rest of the world watches Game of Thrones and soccer). It’s just so stupid. I guess Joe could be bisexual. Or he could just be using his sexuality to get what he wants, in this case not wanting a local investor (Jean Smart) to buy into Cardiff. But seriously? He’s going to sleep with her boyfriend while she and his boss and half of Dallas society are in the next room waiting for their brandy. That’s some Days of Our Lives level foolery. Or at least Scandal. And I love Scandal, but Scandal’s tone is heightened and consistent. This move somehow manages to both came out of nowhere and be totally predictable.\nSimilarly idiotic are Cameron’s hotel shenanigans with the anonymous gutter-punks she meets in the street. If those scenes are meant to show Cameron choosing between her wild past and her buttoned up present, we should have seen her interacting with actual people from her past. But then the writers would have to reveal some of the vagaries of Cameron’s life, for instance why she is homeless. Wasn’t she recently attending college? How did she afford that? Where are her parents? And I guess she could have gotten her genius programming idea from the filthy rectangle tattoo carved into her arm, but writing it down in lipstick on the bathroom mirror is a step too far. Hotels have stationary!\nEvery act break seems to end on one of these contrived dramatic cliffhangers that don’t jibe with the tone of the show. I know next to nothing about the invention of the PC. (Honestly, I’m not sure what computers in 1983 actually did. Were they just like giant calculators?) But it would be fun to learn about this stuff. That’s why people – very few people, unfortunately for AMC – are watching Halt and Catch Fire. Yeah, sex is fun. Crazy back-stories can be interesting. But when characters take wildly unrealistic actions in order to liven up what is essentially a workplace drama, it means the writers (and the network) don’t trust their own product.\nThis week’s few bright spots mostly involve Kerry Bishé. The scene with her mother (Annette O’Toole) was fantastic, and a great example of presenting back-story without resorting to histrionics or needless mystery. And the short bit with Donna and Gordon working together in their kitchen was lovely. The show seems poised make Donna a Cardiff employee, which is a good idea. Mackenzie Davis is a beautiful and engaging actress but she rarely gets to interact with the other characters, and introducing Donna to the workplace will at least give Cameron someone to talk to, since she’s legally unable to communicate with Joe and Gordon.\nSo, maybe things will start falling into place, but each episode seems to confirm the initial suspicion that AMC didn’t release screeners to critics because they knew this show wasn’t very good. And if the writers of Halt and Catch Fire want to write a soap opera, God bless them. We need more good nighttime soaps. But scratch the whole computer thing, give Jean Smart and Annette O’Toole some shoulder pads, and center the whole show around them.\nLead characters = no Texas accents. Secondary characters = very thick Texas accents.\nWhy exactly did Gordon fire his buddy after the car accident?\nJohn Bosworth told Cameron she cannot live at the office, and now he’s living at the office. That’s called dramatic irony.\nDo we know exactly what Cardiff Electric did or made before Joe hijacked the company?\nMr. Cardiff seems pretty chill for a dude whose business is falling apart.\n“Don’t mean to yuck your yum…” Ugh.\nThat poor metaphor bird never had a chance.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "No one expected that the eye-bending digital art and ear-bending music of the first Day for Night Festival last year might be upstaged by a rug.\nBut it happened. And it turned into a \"rocket-ship, runaway juggernaut hit,\" as Day for Night's Dutch Small describes it.\nMade of thousands of squares of carpet tiles, the rug began as a practical consideration in front of the main stage, which was set up in a muddy field near the Silver Street Studios complex. \"This is a laced-up event. We didn't want people sitting on bare plywood, and certainly not on dirt,\" Small said.\nHe asked frequent collaborator Jeannie Wu, a senior associate in the Houston office of the global architecture, design and planning firm Gensler, to come up with a solution for covering the plywood. (Wu has designed VIP spaces for Small's Free Press Houston events for about five years.)\nWu contacted Interface, the parent company of Flor (which has a retail store at West Ave), and snagged thousands of 2x2-foot carpet tiles that were being removed from a commercial project to be recycled at a mill in Atlanta.\nWu was horrified when she saw the red, black and ochre tiles that were sent, she said. \"It looked like a Las Vegas casino floor.\"\nShe was as surprised as everyone else when the carpet created such a buzz it gave the festival a signature visual — or as she calls it now, \"a happy, branded experience.\"\nSo this year, even though the festival has moved to the old Barbara Jordan Post Office downtown and the main stage sits on concrete, the carpet will be back. A different one, of course, to give festival-goers a new backdrop for their selfies.\nCovering more than 45,000 square feet, this year's carpet — installed by the company Architectural Floors — will be designed using a pattern called \"Glitched.\" It's what was available, as last year, on the way to being recycled.\nConceivably, the squares could be laid in a checkered pattern. Wu had a better idea, though: She has created a massive design that looks like a colorful, undulating sound wave with digital pixelation — perfectly on theme with the festival's attractions.\nYou probably won't have to look hard to see it, but it will be in front of the Red Stage, where Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Kaskade, Nick Murphy (Chet Faker), Little Dragon and Squarepusher will perform Friday-Sunday.\nBookmark Gray Matters. It looks like a Las Vegas casino floor.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today at Ford House\nOpening Reception: 'Sailing on Ice'\nJoin us for an opening reception and view our latest exhibition, Sailing on Ice, featuring ice boat photography by Gretchen Dorian.\nThe reception is free and open to the public, but space is limited to allow social distancing, and registration is required. The exhibition is in the Teague Gallery inside our new Visitor Center and runs through March 20, 2022.\nFord House requires masks inside all of our buildings, regardless of vaccination status.\nAbout the Artist\nGretchen photographs iceboat racing competitions around the world. Gretchen lives and works in northern Michigan. She grew up sailing on Lake St. Clair. Her photographs have been published in Wooden Boat Journal, ESPN Magazine, SAIL, Sailing World, Lakeland Boating, BOAT US, Great Lakes Scuttlebutt, Michigan BLUE and Outside Bozeman Magazine. Online publications include the Wall Street Journal, TRAVERSE Magazine, Sailing Scuttlebutt, Sailing Anarchy, HARKEN and Seahorse of the UK.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Gaga in the bathtub.\nLady Gaga wearing a gift from a Little Monster.\nIt’s 2:30 am here, I give up. Probably going to have nightmares thanks to the music.\nI have a feeling that this livestream will in some way crash…\nLady Gaga in the shower.\nI have this idea for a short film/movie, based on the “princess high” theme that’s circling around the Little Monster fandom at the moment. I don’t know if I’m brave enough to actually go through with it and make the film, but I really like my idea so we’ll see :)\nGaga ‘Princess Tea Party!’\nHaving problem with all these Gaga photos/videos from her visit here in Stockholm, I mean all my emotions I let out last night at the concert just sort of comes back and she’s just so perfect I can’t even cope right now :’)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The ultimate tool for singers & speakers\nThe Zangger VoicePipe™ is an essential tool for healthy vocalization. Singers, artists, speakers, teachers, actors, sales personnel and others now have access to a fantastic tool for training the voice to work without pain and fatigue.\nIt builds strength and vocal stamina by helping you to stretch and decompress the vocal folds in a healthy and sustainable way. You will experience lower vocal stress and greater vocal strength for singing and speaking success.\nWhen to use it:\n- In the morning shower, to get the voice ready for the day\n- After a long day of extensive voice use\n- Before and after rehearsals, gigs, speeches, teaching and presentations\n- Whenever your voice feels fatigued\nWhy to use it:\n- Find more energy for your voice\n- Stretches and decompresses the vocal folds in a controlled and safe manner\n- Increase your vocal volume\nAn introduction to the Zangger VoicePipe\nHow and when to use\nIn-depth tutorial – advanced users\nCore benefits and users\nAlready a user of the Zangger VoicePipe? Excellent! This digital manual includes instructions and valuable exercises.\nHow It Works\nThe Zangger VoicePipe™ is the result of solid voice research and experience, which has proven the benefits of stretching and decompressing the vocal folds in a controlled and safe manner. Voice scientists refer to this as vocalizing with a semi-occluded vocal tract; its benefits are widely known.\n“Increase your vocal volume!”\nWhen you vocalize into the pipe, the vocal folds, square up the different vocal fold layers, keeping the vocal folds slightly separated; this means that there are no strong collisions between the vocal folds. This allows you to use full lung pressure and a full range of pitches without risking injury to the voice. The results can be a healthier “vocal setup” including more volume in the higher partials (“ring”) and thereby a louder perceived volume.\n“Find more energy for your voice!”\nThe Zangger VoicePipe™ also makes phonation easier through lowering the phonation threshold pressure (this is the lung pressure it takes to make your vocal folds vibrate). These benefits are felt in all areas of voice use including vocal warm ups, vocal cool downs and general voice habilitation. The VoicePipe has the added benefit as a tool for practicing balance between voice registers and the intrinsic muscles of the larynx.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The 8th Hue Traditional Craft Festival themed “The Quintessence of Vietnamese Crafts” will be held from April 26th to May 2nd, 2019 with various cultural and historic programs such as the 230th anniversary of Nguyen Hue’s victory over Qing army (1789 - 2019), the 120th anniversary of establishing Hue town (July 12th, 1899 - 2019), the 120th anniversary of constructing Dong Ba market and Truong Tien bridge, etc.\nThe 8th Hue Traditional Craft Festival aims to introduce unique products, for example, jewelry, embroidery, painted enamel, bronze casting, Aodai, wood, Zèng textile, ceramic, bamboo-making products, conical hat, paper flowers, painting, lanterns, kites, gastronomy, etc of Hue traditional crafts, craft villages, provinces, cities in Vietnam and overseas. As traditional medicine is one of Hue characteristics, oriental doctors will have a chance to show their talents on this year festival.\nHue Traditional Crafts Festival 2019 will bring together familiar programs such as exhibitions and introducing traditional products of domestic and foreign traditional crafts; the rite to commemorate the patrons of all crafts, the procession honoring artisans and craft villages; Aodai show; gastronomy festival, etc. Besides, exciting cultural community activities such as international hot air balloon festival, \"Color of childhood\" festival, art exhibitions and youth art shows will also be held.\nHue Traditional Crafts Festival is an opportunity for artisans to show their talents, intellects and the quintessence of Vietnamese traditional crafts as well as create unique products to introduce to the public, far and near tourists.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Which program should I apply to?\nThe School of Architecture offers two undergraduate degrees: the Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSArch) and the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Architectural Studies. The BSArch is a four-year pre-professional degree that includes eight semesters of studio courses. Students who know they are interested in pursuing a career in architecture and who would enter as first-year students should apply to the BSArch program.\nThe BA is an upper-level program for juniors and seniors, both those already studying at UIC and those transferring from another school. The BA program introduces students to the design studio and culture of architecture while preparing them to pursue a professional (graduate-level) degree.\nGraduates of both programs are able to find work in architecture and related fields, but BSArch students have significantly more design studio experience, which means they are more likely to be hired in design-focused roles.\nDo I need a portfolio to apply to undergrad programs in the School of Architecture?\nStudents applying to the first year of the Bachelor of Science in Architecture program or the Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program do not need to submit portfolios. The only applicants who are required to submit a portfolio are those who seek advanced placement in the undergraduate architecture studio sequence. For guidelines on portfolio content and format, refer to the portfolio requirements page.\nDo I need to write an essay? What should it say?\nYes. You will need to write two essays as part of your application. One essay will be in response to a broader prompt related to your reasons for applying to the university, and one essay will be related to the program you are applying to specifically. This program essay is especially important to our admissions committee: this is the place to discuss your individual interest in architecture and your educational and professional goals in the field. We read these essays closely for insight into who you are as a creative student.\nDo I need experience in architecture to be accepted?\nWe don’t expect students to come into our undergraduate programs with any experience in the field; in fact, we are happy when students arrive without preconceptions. However, please note that applicants to the Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies must take Arch 200 as a prerequisite. BA applicants who are currently students at UIC must take Arch 200 before applying; applicants transferring from other institutions can take Arch 200 their first year here.\nDo I need any experience with software before I start the program? What kinds of technology does the program require?\nNo, we do not expect students to start our programs with any specific technological knowledge. Faculty will be in contact with you each semester with more information about which equipment and software you need to participate in each course.\nWho will be teaching me? What should I know about the faculty?\nThe school draws much of its energy from its award-winning, international faculty, 40 percent of whom were born or educated abroad. The majority of our faculty teach studios in the undergraduate program each year. In studio courses, the ratio of faculty of students is typically one to twelve. You can find more information on each faculty member’s interest and research on our Faculty and Staff profiles page.\nWhat will I learn in studio classes?\nThe first-year studio curriculum introduces techniques for using analog drawing, models, and digital software to analyze and design at architectural and urban scales. Design exercises emphasize critical observation and thinking methods and build on one another, familiarizing students with concepts like form, space, proportion, and scale. BSArch students take eight studio courses, one every semester, in a unique sequence that is specifically targeted to advance your abilities as a designer and secure you advanced standing in a professional master’s program. This studio experience means that our Bachelor of Science graduates are able to be successful in the field and take on responsibility for design projects even without a master’s degree. BA students take the first two studios in the sequence.\nWill I be able to get an internship?\nYes. Internships are not required, but many opportunities are available. BSArch students are also able to apply for the Cooperative Work Study Program.\nWhat can I do with my degree?\nBecause of their experience in the design studio, Bachelor of Science in Architecture students are often able to find work in architecture firms and take on responsibility for design projects. Graduates have been hired at practices of all scales in Chicago, nationally, and internationally, including Cannon Design, FGM, Gensler, Henning Larsen, Herzog & de Meuron, JGMA, Koo and Associates, Perkins & Will, SOM, Studio Gang Architects, and UNStudio. Many students who work after graduation choose to return to graduate studies after several years. BA graduates are well equipped to work in cultural and creative industries or to continue on to a master’s degree in architecture, related design fields, law, public policy, or business.\nWhat if I want to get licensed?\nThe school’s undergraduate degrees are pre-professional, which means that our undergrad alumni must complete a professional Master of Architecture degree in order to be licensed. The studio curriculum at UIC positions BSArch students to apply for advanced standing in professional programs, which may mean attending only two years instead of the typical three. The BA in Architectural Studies program is designed to provide alumni with a portfolio that would be favorably received by three-year Master of Architecture programs like the one at UIC. Around one-third of our graduates go on to graduate school, and our alumni have attended the most competitive programs in the country, including schools like Princeton, UCLA, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia, and MIT.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Celebrate the 30th anniversary of POV, a long-running PBS documentary series that puts a human face on contemporary social issues through timely films that share unforgettable stories. View four films this fall and join us for a brief, optional community discussion after each film. The Fall Film Series is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS.\nArt and Craft\nDiscover Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers of the modern era, through this humorous and compassionate cat-and-mouse caper that uncovers one man's search for connection and respect. A film directed by Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker.\nSunday, Oct. 1, 1:30–3:45 p.m.\nOf Men and War\nFollow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families on their paths to recovery as they attempt to make peace with their pasts, their loved ones and themselves in a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California. A film directed by Laurent Bécue-Renard.\nSunday, Nov. 5, 1:30–4 p.m.\nEnjoy a charming and poignant look at how a seemingly mundane routine of tea and pastries has helped five Chilean women commemorate life's joys and cope with infidelity, illness and death. A film directed by Maite Alberdi.\nSunday, Dec. 3, 1:30–3:30 p.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Crafts with Claire\n- Havelock Events\n- August 13, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm\nIntroduction to pencil drawing and sketching. This is the beginning of a 4 week pencil drawing class. Supplies provided by the Friends of the Havelock Library. To participate in the four week class patrons must attend this first class.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Whose voice is it anyway?\nMost animals find their true voice naturally. For humans, it can be difficult as we deal with the daily clutter of quick-win, smoke-mirror and mixed-message marketing.\nRecently, I’ve been lucky to see, hear and feel some memorable human voices. Here’s a wee taster to help illustrate where I’m coming from…\nRules to be broken\nA couple of weeks ago, I went to the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow; the perfect venue for the climax of the J-Word Scottish jazz project.\nIt was a magical live experience which will stay with me for a long time. Each musician, a virtuoso in their own right, astonished us with solo expression. Working together, they discovered a fresh and mesmerisingly different voice. Their shared desire and confidence to communicate had liberated them to break the rules and find new ways to captivate and delight their audience.\nNote to self – work with others to find new ways to captivate and delight.\nThe week before, I was captivated by a very different performance; the same confidence and desire to share, but this time through the language of dance.\nThe ‘star’ was the brilliant Brazilian dancer Carlos Acosta. However, the hidden treasure revealed from beneath his balletic wing was the exquisitely gifted Zenaida Yanowsky; her movement and passion connected with the audience in a way so beautiful it was beyond words.\nNote to self – discover and reveal the hidden gems that lie beyond expectation.\nEarly April, I was back in the good company of fellow Dark Angels for three days and nights of intensive word ‘smithery’. It was a Masterclass in Creative Writing for Business and the follow up to the course I did in Spain in 2011 – The Angels’ Share.\nThis time we were living and breathing the rarefied atmosphere of Merton College, Oxford. Humbled by the creativity and confidence of those around me, I was stretched and challenged to discover and express new voices: ghost stories of brands of yesteryear; metaphorical musings to describe the everyday; team projects inspired by flying visits to the Oxford University Press and the ancient scholarly pubs still haunted by literary giants.\nFor one evening, author Phillip Pullman joined us and generously shared his insights into the art of writing. His is a very distinctive and instinctive voice and we hung on every word, our angel feathers fluttering with delight.\nNote to self – flutter a feather with delight by describing the everyday in a different way.\nWhat the Noble Ox has this to do with the real world?\nWhat is marketing if it isn’t the art of cutting through the bland, grey-speak of everyday to find a distinctive human voice to captivate and inspire your audience?\nWhatever the brief, the starting point is to find that voice.\nDuring Noble Ox workshops, I share my favourite definition of the dreaded B-word: your brand is the truth about you well told. Daft as it sounds, I also double-check that at least 99.9% of your target market are human beings!\nAll a bit obvious, I know, but it works. Thereafter, the job is to strip away the nonsense, rediscover the essence, and then find the best way to tell that truth. It’s an affirming and enjoyable process. What’s more, it makes life easier for you, your colleagues and, most importantly, your target audience.\nContact Noble Ox to discuss how we can make sure the voice you use is your own.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Sound of Music, with its imagery of mountains and edelweiss, may not seem like a natural fit for India’s Maximum City, but the Bombay Chamber Orchestra begs to differ. Recruiting kids from the slums – home to half the city’s population – the Orchestra sets out to stage a choral performance of the Rogers & Hammerstein score. In capturing the process, The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical overflows with emotion. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve previously embraced or resisted The Sound of Music, after this rendition your association will never be the same.\nAt the center of the story is eleven-year-old Ashish, whose wide smile and optimism defy his family’s constricted slum shelter. He admits to lacking confidence as he copies out in his notebook “I will not be self-conscious.” His natural charisma suggests that he could go far if given the right opportunity. Now he’s tasked to perform a solo piece from The Sound of Music at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, normally inaccessible to the poor. He can’t help but attach dreams to the event; he hopes to win the affections of an upper-class girl and inspire a patron to sponsor his education. With so many hopes riding on this single performance, the stakes are high for everyone, and viewers are pulled straight into the excitement.\nEmerging documentary talent Sarah McCarthy marvelously conveys the timeless and international appeal of tunes such as “Do, Re Mi” and “My Favorite Things.” For Ashish, songs like “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” or “I Have Confidence” speak directly to his experience. Even in his urban landscape, he can associate with the will to “Climb ev’ry mountain, ford ev’ry stream / Follow ev’ry rainbow, ’til you find your dream.” In telling this story, McCarthy remains mindful of the gaps that lie between dreams and reality, rich and poor. The film never glosses over the difficulty of closing those gaps, but it joyfully expresses the effort of attempting.\n“Craftily balances inspirational uplift with clear-eyed pragmatism” Variety\n“A ‘sleeper’ hit” Screen Daily\n“Emotional and Impactful” The Star\nOfficial Selection, Real to Reel Toronto International Film Festival\nOfficial Selection, Miami International Film Festival", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What makes a photo iconic? That question, among other topics, will be discussed this afternoon as Reuters and the International Center for Photography host a dynamic half-day conference with Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists, photo editors and leaders in media, regarding pictures that changed the world and how the world of pictures is changing. Conversations and sessions include conflict photography, still versus moving images, the role of the photo editor in the digital age and the vocabulary of photojournalism/the decisive moment.\nReuters and the ICP will be joined by some of the most influential photojournalists and photo editors in the industry, including:\nYannis Behrakis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer, Reuters\nDavid Furst, International Picture Editor, The New York Times\nAdrees Latif, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer, Reuters\nKira Pollack, Director of Photography, TIME\nAlan Taylor, Director of Photography, The Atlantic\nGoran Tomasevic, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Reuters\nWajmah Yaqubi, Director of Photography, Buzzfeed\nFollowing the conference, guests will have a private viewing of the ICP Museum’s inaugural exhibition—Public, Private, Secret—which explores the concept of privacy in visual culture and studies how contemporary self-identity is tied to public visibility.\nCheck back for highlights from the event.\nHeather dot Carpenter at thomsonreuters dot com\n[Reuters PR Blog Post]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Produced by New World Pictures, the independent studio established by Roger Corman, Canuxploitation cult Sci-horror Def-Con 4 attempted to ride the wave created by post-apocalyptic obsessed audiences desperate for more Mad Max style entertainment to stave off their very real Cold War fears.\nGetting its UK premier at this year’s Sci-Fi-London Film Festival After the Lethargy is a Sci-Horror that offers up an extra-terrestrial twist on the usual haunted house in the forest format.\nDo you remember 1999? Frankly it was a mixed year. On the one hand there was Napster, The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project and Baby One More Time. On the other there was the Kosovan war, Dr. Jack Kevorkian and mass panic about Y2K and the millennium bug. As far as the last two go […]\nKiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse was a brilliant horror that delved into the isolation the internet creates in society playing out a supernatural doomsday scenario that scared the audience while remaining depressing relevant. In Before we Vanish Kurosawa takes a standard alien invasion narrative and injects it with innovation and emotion crafting a tale as much about […]\nFor lovers of macabre movies the names Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing evoke all sorts of images from a host of different horror films. Be it modern or classic collaborations, there catalogue of Hammer films together or even there most famous roles individually as theatrical duelling duos go Cushing and Lee are amongst the greatest.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Natar Ungalaaq is a talented filmmaker, actor and sculptor from Igloolik, NU. Ungalaaq began his artistic practice carving when he was a child using his grandparent’s tools , eventually selling his works to buy camera gear along with Zacharias Kunuk to start an Igloolik based production company known as Isuma Productions.\nUngalaaq has acted and appeared in many films and television shows most notably starring as the lead Atanarjuat in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. He made his directorial debut in 2016 with the film Searchers (2016). He is also a talented carver. Ungalaaq’s carvings are often made from stone and depict traditional Inuit imagery and practices. Ungalaaq has been known to also incorporate animal hair into some of his carvings, such as Sedna with Hairbrush (1985). Ungalaaq represents the goddess Sedna in white soapstone reclining on a rock with her fish like tail wrapping around the bottom of the stone. Sedna’s hair is made from fur and sticks out around her head, creating halo of red . In her right hand she holds a bone hairbrush. Ungalaaq’s sculptures are boldly carved with minimal amounts of negative space and with figures always seemingly caught mid-action.\nUngalaaq has received many awards for his acting including ‘Best Actor’ from the American Indian Movie Awards in 2002, ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role’ from the Genie Awards in 2009 and his film The Necessities of Life, or Inuujjutiksaq, was shortlisted for the 2009 Oscars under the Best Foreign Language Film category . Ungalaaq has acted, produced, directed and run cameras in countless Isuma film work. Before playing the lead role in the genre-creating, Cannes Camera D’or award-winning Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), Natar played major roles in other Canadian and American films, including Kabloonak (1994), Glory & Honor (1998), Frostfire (1994), Trial at Fortitude Bay (1994), Sleep Murder (2004), The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006), The Necessities of Life (2008) and Maïna (2013) . He has attended multiple film festivals as an actor and director including the Cannes Film Festival. Ungalaaq’s carvings have been exhibited across Canada and are housed in major institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON. He has been written about in multiple publications including many times in Inuit Art Quarterly and has his piece Sedna with Hairbrush on the cover of the Fall 1993 issue. Most recently, Isuma TV has been chosen as an artist collective to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale Art Festival in 2018.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A workshop where you will be mentored into enhancing your personal photography.\nDo you want to learn more about photographing products for your web-store..?, want to make better portraits..?, explore a different kind of photography..?, wanna learn more about Camera-techniques…?, interested in better editing…? etc, ....\nGet small assignments and feedback and start practicing \"on the fly\". Get 'tips and tricks' about your photography.\nAll @ your own level, tempo and wishes. Use me as your mentor to your personal photographic wishes.\nSo bring your digital equipment and put it to use.\nIn the Studio will be 2 workstations for practicing editing and reviewing pictures, but you can take your laptop with your own editing software and work on it.\nA small studio set-up will be present if you want to practice working in a studio setting.\n- English / German / Dutch\n- min. 4 , max. 10 participants\n- 60 euro p/p (incl. Lunch,coffee, tea, etc)\nIt's alway possible to organize a workshop for your own group or for your company @ your time.\nJust send me an e-mail ore give me a call.\nHave fun André", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Space Dogyssey – beautiful college student animated film\nGreat panel discussion with three great designers of electronic music instruments: Roger Linn (LinnDrum, Linn 9000, Akai MPC originator), Dave Smith (Prophet 5, MIDI inventor) and Tom Oberheim (Oberheim Voice synthesisers)\nGreat early mix from The Latin Rascals who were influential remixers, influential producers of freestyle tracks and makers of epic tape edits back in the mid-1980s\nAmazing psychadelic artwork drawn by Jack Kirby, that was used to sell in Argo to the Iranians and everyone else for that manner\nAmazing Mobius / Syd Mead inspired animated video. More design related content.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Below is the press release for an event in Indonesia that I recently created a soundscape for. The event is being put on by Azanaya, who won a ‘Best of 2010’ award in ‘Time Out magazine – Jakarta’ and I’m very proud to have had the opportunity to work with such forward-thinking, and creative people. While talking to Lisa Virgiano, of Azanaya, I got such a huge sense of her desire to create events that are unique and innovative. We seem to be living in times where these qualities are taking centre stage once again, making our times very exciting indeed. Some people only see the problems we are currently going through so it’s refreshing to be part of a process that focuses on people and innovation; these are the people that I aim to reach with my work.\nThis event was interesting to me for a number of reasons, but the chance to work on a soundscape conceptually really gets my brain working, which I love! The soundscape I created uses sound to help evoke sensory memory and ties in the philosophies and heritage of the Rendang method of cooking. Rendang cooking is an important tradition of the Minang people of Sumatra, Indonesia. The different ingredients symbolise the various factions of their culture and the various types of Rendang dish are used ceremonially in important events.\nWell, that’s enough from me; have a read below and if you will be in Jakarta on 4th August, 2012 get in touch with Azanaya here. I’ll publish my soundscape and talk a little about it after the event.\n“Baralek Rendang is inspired by the manifestation of the Indonesian cuisine heritage, Rendang, which has been ranked as the most delicious food in the world by CNNGO (September, 2011). We dedicate this event to all food lovers who would like to engage in a mind-opening gastronomical experience by inducing their senses through touch, sight, taste, smell, and even sound, in the setting of communal dining.\nThe event is something different and a breakthrough because for the first time in Asia, a combination of sound design, aromatic spices, and the experience of flavor will be used to enhance the dining experience. A conceptual sound manifesto to bring out the philosophy of Rendang as an Indonesian cuisine heritage has been created by talented UK sound designer Jay Harris; the participants are not only stimulated through sight, smell, and taste, but it is also a great chance to experience how sound can be delicious and food can be harmonious!\nBaralek Rendang Concept:\nBaralek means colossal banquet in the Minang language..\nMany don’t really comprehend that Rendang holds an exceptional position in a particular Baralek celebration; it is an honorable representation of a host’s hospitality.\nAnd Rendang is NOT a noun. It is actually a verb!\nRendang is a process of cooking, not merely a food. It is an elaborate and elegant cooking process that involves intense labour, craftsmanship, an understanding of fine spices, and perfect timing. Rendang is not only made from beef shanks; it can be made from different ingredients, such as forest leaves, mussels, black glutinous rice, eggs, chicken, exotic jack fruit, and many more. A proper understanding of Rendang as a cooking process should be ensured through fun and interactive presentation, taste education, and games. That’s why we initiated Baralek Rendang, to promote this understanding.\nWe will guide guests to another magical dining experience through a provocative and delectable Rendang sensation. An exploration of flavours, heritage values, and exotic ingredients are involved to make sure the event delivers the utmost local flavour to all guests.\nBaralek Rendang will not only feature different varieties of Rendang from Minangkabau but will also present a fun sensory game for all guests in which they will deduce which ingredients are being used in the menu. An installation of fresh ingredients will be displayed for all guests to see, smell, taste, and touch, while listening. Later on, they will be given an opportunity to specify which ingredients are being used in the menu. The guest who produces the highest score will win a fabulous prize.”\nThose readers that are in Jakarta should definitely check out this fantastic event!\nA Soundscape will contribute towards your event being an unforgettable experience. It could also be used to enhance your sensory branding to ensure that guests will think of you after they have left your event. Contact me for further information and read about past projects below.\nIf my work in soundscape for events, sound design for film or composing interests you join my mailing list to find out more.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Free Solo songs Product Information\nFree Solo album for sale by Forest Stewart was released Dec 29, 2010 on the Cd Baby label. Free Solo CD music contains a single disc with 12 songs.\nFree Solo album for sale Product Description\nForest Stewart - Free Solo Album Track Listing\n|1||We Shall Overcome|\n|Additional Track Information Free Solo album for sale|\n|4||Here There And Everywhere|\n|6||My Wild Irish Rose|\n|Additional Track Information Free Solo CD music|\n|7||Cinema Paradiso Love Theme|\n|8||Winter's First Kiss|\n|9||Both Sides Now|\n|Additional Track Information Free Solo buy CD music|\n|11||We Shall Overcome (Reprise)|\n|12||America The Beautiful|\n|Additional Track Information Free Solo songs|\nFree Solo buy CD music Product Details\n|CD Universe Part number||9103740|\n|Release Date||Dec 29, 2010|\nFree Solo songs Other Ideas\nSaloon Standard CD (2014)\nWho knows how the French salon got stretched into the North American saloon, and an intimate gathering place for artists and writers became the hangout for a bunch of drunken cowboys. Rest assured, jazz vocalist Joe Coughlin's new album Saloon Standard, ...\nWillow Weep For Me CD (2008)\nJapanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.\n1935-1938 CD (2004)\nThis is the first volume in the Classics Glenn Miller chronology. It presents his earliest sessions as a leader, beginning with a very handsome session for Columbia that took place on April 25, 1935. The presence of trumpeter Bunny Berigan, clarinetist ...\nLifelines CD (2008)\nThe 6th recording from world renowned bassist/composer Bruno Raberg features an all stellar cast: Chris Cheek sorano/tenor saxophones, Ben Monder guitar, Matt Wilson drums/Ted Poor drums.\nWhat the Critics Say\n\"The improvisations are a study of the understanding between the four!.\nthe way each player nimbly threads his way into the spaces set by the others is quite astonishing.\" Jerry D'Souza AAJ\n\"..this is an excellent opportunity ...\nFree Solo album for sale Customer Reviews\n|Have you heard this album?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Coloring Pages For Hulk\nLast but not least you can see the superhero.\nColoring pages for hulk. In the following hulk coloring pages you can also see him fighting his archenemy abomination. Bruce banner was transformed into the incredibly powerful creature called the hulk. Hulk coloring pages for kids caught in a gamma bomb explosion while trying to save the life of a teenager dr. Hulk coloring pages apart from smashing things around in his anger the hulk also tears things in his rage.\nThe hulk coloring pages download and print these the hulk coloring pages for free. The hulk coloring pages are a fun way for kids of all ages to develop creativity focus motor skills and color recognition. He s significantly more powerful than hulk but hulk has that undeniable will power which gives him the upper hand. Explore our vast collection of coloring pages.\nLike this huge drum that he is now about to tear apart in this illustration. Discover these incredible hulk coloring pages. These coloring pages help to build their interest in the actual hulk franchise. Easy and free to print the incredible hulk coloring pages for children.\nThe printable pages capture the powerful character in all its glory. That was the primary reason why we went forward to design a set of unique hulk coloring pages for them. He is sketched. Amongst many strong advantages it will develop motor skills teach your strong man to focus and help him to recognize colors.\nThe hulk coloring pages for kids hello parents and caregivers. Super coloring free printable coloring pages for kids coloring sheets free colouring book illustrations printable pictures clipart black and white. Select from 32084 printable coloring pages of cartoons animals nature bible and many more. Picture coloring is an awesome activity for your little superhero.\nGet the aggressive expression captured in colors by printing and coloring this. Hulk is among the most sought after coloring page subjects with parents all over the world looking for hulk coloring pages for their little ones.\n- Free Spiderman And Venom Coloring Pages\n- Gacha Life Coloring Pages Wolf\n- Fruits And Vegetables Colouring Pages\n- Frozen Princess Coloring Pages Printable\n- Gingerbread House Coloring Pages\n- Free Printable Scooby Doo Christmas Coloring Pages\n- Free Printable Hulk Coloring Pictures\n- Free Printable Lego Hulk Coloring Pages\n- Gacha Life Coloring Pages Boy\n- Free Printable Mandala Coloring Pages For Adults Easy\n- Free Printable Easter Egg Coloring Pages For Preschoolers\n- Frozen Coloring Pages Printable\n- Fruit Coloring Pages For Adults\n- Free Printable Thank You Cards Coloring Pages\n- Free Printable Ocean Coloring Pages For Adults\n- Free Printable New Years Coloring Pages 2019\n- Free Printable Quotes Coloring Pages For Adults\n- Gacha Life Coloring Pages Tomboy\n- Free Printable Zen Doodle Coloring Pages\n- Free Printable Halloween Coloring Pages Bats", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I first heard her voice on a Macklemore song. She caught me off guard but I was immediately looking up the rest of her work on all streaming services: I found two songs. I was disappointed, but I was already invested. So I patiently waited for a complete body of work and it has finally arrived. Donna Missal has released her debut album and This Time is everything that I wish it would be plus so much more.\nIt’s her vocals that force you to pay attention and the first track, “Girl”, catches the entirety of your attention by the first 15 seconds. The song describes tension between two girls, in this song she’s asking the other girl to let go of what ever grudge she has and instantly Donna Missal is relatable.\nThinking I did something wrong\nBut I wouldn’t choose this\nWhen women hate on another women\nEverybody loses, yeah, hey\nI mean, play this at any High School the the student-body will immediately understand this song. This song is so much more than describing a disagreement between two girls though; it’s female empowerment captured amongst the electric vocals.\nThe powerhouse vocals continue in songs like “Driving”, “Metal Man” and “Test My Patience”; though it’s in the heartbreak that she truly excels. “Keep Lying” has been my favorite song since its release as a single and as I listened to This Time in order, I found that stumbling into “Keep Lying” in the middle of this passionate album gave new life to an already-exemplary song. The grit and passion in her voice steal the entire show but the heartbreak in the lyrics sneak into your heart before you can catch your breath.\nFeed me your fiction\nGive me just one taste\nTo sustain this addiction\nI swallow your poison\n‘Til it runs through my veins\nFills my heart with deception\nTwist my perception\nShe ends the album with “Don’t Say Goodnight” and she leaves her listener wishing the album had ten more song after it. She pleads in this song, the jazz comes through in a perfect matter and the vocals make your heart ache. There is no denying that she has put her blood, sweat and tears into this album and it has been completely worth it.\nDonna feels like magic; a sultry voice, a soulful production and she has the lyrical capacity to undo your entire being with one song. She did not hold back for her debut and the payoff is incredible. She created a piece of art that will stand the test of time and if my 10 replays in the last 4 days is any indication of the album’s power; I’m here to say Ms. Missal hit it out of the park with This Time.\nRemember to subscribe to juliexplores.com for weekly music updates. xx", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "From the publisher\nELLE DECOR is the ultimate elegant, upscale guide to keeping up with the exciting, fast-changing world of home decoration and design. ELLE DECOR covers all styles from traditional looks to bold new concepts. It features the world's most dynamic and influential designers and personalities, trend-setters and taste-makers and provides creative ideas and solutions, helping to make fantasy a reality in the home.\nBe the first person to tell us what you think about ELLE Decor (USA) and you'll save $5 on your next purchase!ADD A REVIEW\nSorry, no refunds.\nAll prices for magazine subscriptions listed on isubscribe include free AU delivery.\nFor international titles please allow up to 10-13 weeks for your first delivery. Please note this magazine will be a current issue at the time.\nELLE Decor (USA) is published by iSUBSCRiBE Ltd (Intl UK) who handle delivery and stipulate the lead time shown above. To view other titles by this publisher click here", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Connecticut duplex is complete!\nThis project was particularly rewarding because it was relatively quick–about two and half months and the transformation is striking. I drew inspiration from this project from my neighbors 2000 miles to the west in Venice Beach, California. I wanted a little of a Venice bungalow feel and I had to squeeze a completely lackluster 1950s ranch duplex in to that mold. Many of the Venice bungalows were constructed during the craftsman era and use a lot of the classic craftsman elements and that’s what we did here.\nThe turquoise doors, boring tan paint color and the rickety railings and posts are gone.\nOur friends from Butler Constructs landscaping planted the Confederate Jasmine to crawl up our trellis on each end of the duplex to create a green privacy wall and it will produce a sweet fragrance and white flowers in the spring. The variegated plant that thrives in the shade in the foreground is Fatsia.\nThe addition of the arbor was key to add dimension and character to the long, straight lines of the duplex. Our carpentry crew from Locklear Brothers Home Improvement executed those brackets perfectly. The style of the bracket under the arbor echoes the straight lines of the simple corbels on the gables over each entrance.\nBenjamin Moore’s Midnight Oil changes during the day and has a beautiful sheen and looks incredibly rich in the shade. It is the perfect color for this project.\nYour thoughts concerning this swan?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kevin J. Anderson has more than 140 published books, 56 of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, as well as steampunk fantasy novels Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, written with legendary rock drummer Neil Peart, based on the concept album by the band Rush. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series, the Terra Incognita fantasy trilogy, the Saga of Shadows trilogy, and his humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie PI. He has edited numerous anthologies, written comics and games, and penned the lyrics to two rock CDs. Anderson and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press.\ni write. i make up stuff. i adventure hard, so you don’t have to.\nECW Press and ShowTech have created two wonderful special editions for Clockwork Angels: The Novel, limited to a total of 600, every one numbered and autographed by Neil Peart and me. The Gold and Silver editions go on sale THIS FRIDAY July 27 at 10 AM ET.\nGold Edition—This is really one of the coolest limited editions I’ve ever seen. The final manuscript for Clockwork Angels: The Novel was 302 pages long. Neil and I autographed every page of the manuscript. This signed manuscript page is matted and framed, and accompanied by a limited art print of one of the book’s illustrations, signed by artist Hugh Syme. It’s a large, beautiful frame. So, if you get manuscript page 45, you are the only person in the world who has that page.\nNeil and I also signed and numbered bookplates for a special edition of the novel itself, embossed and slipcased, copies #1-302. If you get manuscript page 45, you get copy #45 of the numbered slipcased edition. The package including the framed signed ms. page, signed art print, and numbered slipcased edition sells for $299.95. ***Sales begin at 10 AM ET Friday, July 27*** Follow the link Gold Edition.\nSilver Edition—Copies #303-600 of the embossed, autographed, numbered, and slipcased edition of Clockwork Angels: The Novel are available as the Silver Edition, selling for $74.95. ***Sales begin at 10 AM ET Friday, July 27*** Follow the link Silver Edition. Copies will also be available at the Rush Store.\nWe expect these to sell out quickly. If you are interested in a copy, be sure you’re ready at 10 AM ET.\nHere’s the official press release:\nJuly 23, 2012 – ECW Press is thrilled to unveil two exciting special editions of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel (ECW Press, September 2012), the landmark literary collaboration between Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart and bestselling SF author Kevin J. Anderson. These two numbered special editions of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel will be available for preorder on Friday, July 27.\nThe Silver Edition, slipcased and autographed by both Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart, will be a beautiful addition to any collection. This limited edition of 300 copies is available from both ecwpress.com/clockworksilver and rushbackstage.com, for $74.95.\nThe Gold Edition is a must have for die-hard fans. Slipcased and signed by both authors, The Gold Edition is accompanied by a lithograph image from the book, signed by artist Hugh Syme, and a unique autographed page of the original CLOCKWORK ANGELS manuscript. Both pieces are presented in an attractive frame with an engraved and numbered plate. With only 302 copies available, the Gold Edition will retail for $299.95, and is available exclusively from rushbackstage.com.\nThe Gold and Silver editions of Clockwork angels will be available for preorder on Friday, July 27, at 10am ET, while quantities last. Special editions will ship on August 31, 2012.\nPlease log in again. The login page will open in a new window. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"The 7th century Lindisfarne Gospels is one of Britain's most famous and beautiful treasures. The Lindisfarne Gospels was written and illuminated\n'for God and St Cuthbert' by Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698-721), probably in honour of the original Translation of the Saints relics in 698. Its decoration\nincludes miniatures of the four Evangelists, intricate cross-carpet pages and full-page initials. It is a masterpiece of book production and a historic and\nartistic document of the first rank. The manuscript was given to the nation in 1702 with the other manuscripts from the collection of the Elizabethan antiquary\nSir Robert Cotton. It passed into the care of the British Museum on its foundation in 1753\" (from \"Portico\" - The Online Information Server of the British Library).\n| Saint Matthew:\n| Saint Mark:\n| Saint Luke:\n|| Saint John:\nClick here for more information on the Lindisfarne\nGospels from the official website of the British Library\nReturn to the main page of Symbols\nof the Four Evangelists\nGo to the Homepage of Felix Just, S.J.\nThis page was last updated July 12, 2009", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Republic Bank, in collaboration with US-based Sunshine Awards Organisation, hosted the first-ever Republic Bank Icon Merit award ceremony. The event honoured living calypso icon and scholar Dr Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool.\nLiverpool was celebrated for his contribution to T&T’s education and cultural landscape for the past 52 years.\nThe evening started with a cocktail reception followed by the ceremony that began with a musical prelude featuring Errol Ince and the Music Makers. A welcome introduction was delivered by Sunshine Awards founder and chairman Gilman T Figaro Sr, followed by remarks by Republic Bank managing director Nigel Baptiste.\nPerforming at the event were former National Calypso monarchs Roderick “Chuck” Gordon, Kurt Allen, Sugar Aloes and Luta, Heather McIntosh, Brother Valentino and Keet Styla, who performed covers of hits by Chalkdust. Errol Fabien did a comedic tribute while hosting the show.\nThere was also a special tribute by students of schools where Liverpool taught.\nSan Fernando Boys’ RC School Choir also graced the programme, followed by presentation of the award and a framed programme of the special night.\nFinally, all the performers returned on the stage with Liverpool to end the special evening.\nThe Republic Bank Icon Merit awards ceremony seeks to honour T&T’s pioneers in the fields of sport, culture, performing arts, humanities science, art, etc.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TORONTO — Katy Perry and Cyndi Lauper are taking their creativity and star power from the performance stage to the world of fashion in a bid to raise awareness about HIV-AIDS among young people.\nThe I Kissed A Girl singer and the ’80s pop icon are among several celebrities working with H&M and the charitable organization Designers Against AIDS in an effort to help fight the disease.\nThe award-winning singers are joining the likes of Yoko Ono, burlesque star Dita Von Teese, hip-hop/rock group N.E.R.D. and other notable stars collaborating with the international fashion house on the Fashion Against AIDS collection.\nThe pieces will include T-shirts, T-shirt dresses and vests.\nH&M design head Ann-Sofie Johansson said the designs have an ’80s feel, featuring lots of white, bright colours and graffiti-like prints.\nLauper is featured in a campaign image wearing a shirt with the slogan “Girls Just Wanna Have Safe Sex” scribbled in pink lipstick, an obvious nod to her ’80s hit Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.\nT-shirts are slated to sell for $19.90, while T-shirt dresses are $29.90.\nOne-quarter of the sales price will be donated to youth HIV-AIDS awareness projects.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What I like about NOYO: Playing works commissioned for us and playing music with friends.\nMore about me: I’ve been playing harp since I was 9 years old. My dream jobs would be playing in an orchestra pit and recording music in studios. My favourite composer is Prokofiev.\nNOYO Ensemble: Birmingham\nMember of the NOYO Social Media Team", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Sorry, this item is not available in\n- Image not available\n- To view this video download Flash Player\nOn the Greek isle of Crete, Basil (Alan Bates), a shy inhibited writer from England is befriended by Zorba (Anthony Quinn) a boisterous peasant with an astonishing love for life. When Zorba agrees to work at Basil's abandoned mine, it is the beginning of a lesson for the young man as he gradually moves from an observer of the world to a participant. This acclaimed classic co-stars Irene Paps and Lila Kedrova in an Oscar winning performance. \"An utterly absorbing and sharply memorable film\" (The Hollywood Reporter)\nAnthony Quinn portrays in this movie a man who loves and lives life with a passion. The other actor Alan Bates is a counterpoint to Anthony Quinn's -\"Zorba\" by portraying... Read morePublished 4 days ago by Laura Sullivan\nYou want Zorba's zest for Life!\nAnd all the joy and heartbreak that goes with it.\nBest movie ever made. Also, if you watch MLB, you should own this just to know where that song comes from.Published 1 month ago by Radical Warren", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Vow is a 2012 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Sucsy,\nstarring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. The film is inspired by the true ...\nJan 21, 2015 ... When Krickitt Carpenter settles down to watch the video of her own wedding, she\nremembers nothing of that day. 'I do recognise the girl in the ...\nThe movie begins with Paige Collins (Rachel McAdams) and her husband Leo (\nChanning Tatum) coming out of a movie theater. On their way home, when they ...\nwww.ask.com/youtube?q=What Is the Movie the Vow about?&v=7JoXHO3ceUY\nJun 6, 2011 ... The Vow Movie Trailer Official (HD) ... The Vow hits theaters on February 12th,\n2012. .... Rachel McAdams looking very preety in this movie!.\nAug 14, 2014 ... If this love story sounds familiar, it's because Krickitt and Kim were the inspiration\nbehind the 2012 hit movie \"The Vow\" starring Rachel ...\nInspired by a true story, The Vow is the tale of a love that refuses to be forgotten.\nLeo (Channing Tatum, Dear John ) is devastated when a car accident plunges ...\nFeb 8, 2012 ... \"The Vow\" is a well-behaved, tenderhearted love story about impossibly nice\npeople. It's not even about whether they'll get married. They've ...\nTheir book The Vow tells the true story of their challenging journey. Originally ....\nMillions of people have been inspired by the book and movie The Vow. What if ...\nRachel McAdams is the character of Paige Collins. Her husband is Leo (played\nby Channing Tatum). On the way driving home from a night out, they are hit by ...\nThe Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie [Kim Carpenter, Krickitt\nCarpenter, Dana Wilkerson] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Free Personalisation when you choose initials!\nGIFTWRAP THIS ITEM\nA special gift needs special presentation. Let us add that personal touch with our gift wrapping service.\nSkilfully modelled on a Blue Witch ceramic. The legendary WW2 Spitfire’s name was suggested by the director of Vickers-Armstrong who nicknamed his daughter this. The word has its roots in the Elizabethan era referring to a ferocious individual!\nOur Blue Witch Coffee Mug is individually handmade and displays striking detail. Each mug is unique and patiently hand painted by a talented artist with precision to emphasize the character design; it takes nearly 2 weeks to complete the entire process. Only love can make it happen.\nA perfect cup of tea; every mug is dishwasher safe and microwave friendly ensuring the colour will never fade. Carefully protected in a Blue Witch gift box which includes a certificate signed by the artist. What a perfect Spitfire gift idea!\nRegistered Office: Shilley Green Farm, St Pauls Walden. Hitchin, Herftordshire, SG4 8DH. United Kingdom Company Reg No. 5405735 VAT No. GB856857859", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Directed by Richard Arum\nComposed by Beth Fleenor\nPerformed by Crystal Beth & the Boom Boom Band\nreleased November 17, 2015\nRecorded and Mixed by Floyd Reitsma\nStudio Litho – Seattle, WA\nProduced by Crystal Beth & the Boom Boom Band\nwith Floyd Reitsma\nExecutive Producer: Richard Arum\nThe Boom Boom Band features Tristan Gianola (guitar), Michael Owcharuk (keyboards), Isaac Castillo (bass), and Adam Kozie (drums), with Crystal Beth (voice/ bass clarinet).\nThe word from Mr. Horvitz:\nAs I look back on 60 years on the planet and 35 years making and releasing music, I am humbled and frankly a little dazed.\nI meet new people all the time, and some of them have come to know my music. Many are younger, and only know the music I have made recently, some are fans from NY in the 80’s, and haven’t heard my newer music; some have never heard of The President, or the Horvitz Morris Trio. Others may have no idea I have a CD of string quartets. So I thought it would a blast to do the following:\nStarting today, and each Tuesday for the next 52 weeks, I will be releasing a free download from my back-catalog. Today’s is titled I’m A Fool from my 1997 release Monologue, on the Cavity Search label. You can download it here:\nEven those of you familiar with my work have likely missed certain releases. So these selections will include favorites, deep cuts, unreleased tunes, live recordings, and more – spanning the last 35 years.\nNext week’s download comes from the 4+1 Ensemble (Reggie Watts, Eyvind Kang, Julian Priester, Skerik and Tucker Martine). The following week my favorite movement I’ve ever written for string quartet. And week #4 will be from my very first release; up until now only available on vinyl, a track entitled Art Police.\nEach download will only be available for free for a week, and then available for streaming only the rest of the year.\nWe will be posting an announcement for each new track on my Facebook artist page every week. If you haven’t, join here:\nWe will also post on Twitter (@waynehorvitz). The downloads will be available via Bandcamp.\nLooking forward to sharing this, and I hope you enjoy the music!\nAll the best,\nIn November 2014, as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival, Crystal Beth & the Boom Boom Band premiered Liberation Ritual 1 – over an hour of continuous music intended as a release ritual. Beth Fleenor (aka: Crystal Beth) composed the work as part of a month-long residency at the Millay Colony of the Arts in Austerlitz, NY, with support from Artist Trust.\nThe Seattle Times writes: “Best known as a superb jazz clarinetist — she brought both her B flat and bass — she primarily sang with Crystal Beth, offering fare perhaps best described as world music from an imaginary planet — or at least one recently visited by Yoko Ono. Shrieking and stuttering over long, modal vamps and jagged punk rhythms, Fleenor offered a nonstop hour of new material she called “scenic overpasses” in a “liberation ritual.” Overall, it was quite compelling and magical, though it could do with a little editing.” (Paul DeBarros)\n((( LISTEN ))) to the live, unedited version here:\nThere are five new live videos of the Sam Boshnack Quintet coming out over the next five weeks! Here’s Boshnack’s tune Dormant, featured on the recent release Exploding Syndrome – West coast tour this August – stay tuned!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Desk Face & A301\nIn this project I designed a typeface (Desk Face) and a publication (A301) which sought to explore how a designer’s workplace interacts with their personality. As an introverted designer I had struggled with aspects of our studio at university, so my main objective became documenting my experience of working in the studio for prospective introverted students as well as exploring my relationship with my working space. The typeface reconstructs my desk in letterform; every element from the line thickness to the terminals was informed by the features of the desk. The publication is named after our studio room number and also reconstructs the desk as pages, in its proportions and typesetting which rotates each paragraph as if the reader were sitting at different places of the desk. I chose the paper to match the colours and textures present in the studio. After three months of working from home I’ve really missed the buzz and the atmosphere of the studio, making this project particularly special to me.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Making the most of a slanted ceiling and babys nursery saint louis on excellent attic room design featuring office conversions with rusti. Baby room images neutral rooms on baby room images neutral rooms. Valoisa lastenhuone taitekaton alla light nursery under sl on fine how to decorate a room with slanted walls image wall painti. Cute use of a slanted ceiling kiddo room kids rooms nurseries on how to design a room with sloped.\nSlanted Attic Room Nursery Taylors Room Images Arquitetura Attic Spaces on Baby Bedroom Ideas Long Wall Light Cool Engineered White Oak", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I believe the term “concept album” is bandied about so often because the album itself is rarely better than the concept. Pushcar’s Apartment D fits that pattern to a tee. While occasionally glossed with excellent music, in substance Apartment D rarely surpasses its terribly romantic concept.\nPushcar formed in 1998 from the remnants of 10 years worth of wreckage from a number of California hardcore and college rock bands. Then came the concept, the band recorded these songs in an “Apartment D” in Santa Monica while co-founder Chris Farrell took a 13-month trip around the world. Chris and his wife Paige (who adds spoken word to this album) sent other founding member Jim Saunders a postcard from every country they visited. Saunders then used Farrell’s last lines from the postcards to complete the songs. The result, as to be expected, is woefully uneven, yet when Pushcar are truly on, they hint at being a musical force to be reckoned with—like when being a college rock band actually meant something (oh the Pixies, the Replacements, where did you go?).\n“Out Here in the Sun” lashes out from spoken words (recorded on Saunders’ answering machine when the Farrells called from Athens, Greece) with dark, driving guitars which are vaguely Bauhaus-like and become more particularly gothy when punctuated by the vocal, “and you can hate me because I’m beautiful.” Yet, two-minutes in the brooding guitars momentarily recess and an acoustic guitar grabs the melody as Stephanie Saunders adds a lovely vocal bridge which is sunny and undeniably Athenian. The track continues to alternate between its pent up identity and that of the R.E.M.-variety as the two finally merge in conclusion.\nHowever, as tremendous as “Out Here in the Sun” is, Pushcar loses the plot a bit. “Sixfingers Tony” sounds like a second-rate Superdrag; “No Waste of Space” hints at an atmosphere/rock hybrid (think Air meets Dream Syndicate) to which Pushcar don’t appear so well suited. Yet, salvation arrives with “Defiant Song” which would be a mega-hit were there any justice in the world. Garage-y (more aptly apartment-y, I suppose) percussion melts into organs and programming and the vocals are as choice as anything Grandaddy have released (no small praise), while the “if you change your mind / I’ll wait around” choruses are delicious.\nApartment D continues with such up-and-downs. “A Perfect Periwinkle Blue” and “Wise Beyond Denial” are terribly bland, forgettable filler, while “Myself to Bits” is richly textured with its looped guitars, agile keys and a sweltering bassline. Pushcar never make a sustained threat to rise above the concept, but the combination of the handful of standout tracks and the wandering beauty of the concept itself makes Apartment D enjoyable on many levels.\n\"PopMatters is looking for smart music writers. We're looking for talented writers with deep genre knowledge of music and its present and…READ the article", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Don’t let the stage name fool you: D.C. Don Juan may have borrowed his moniker from literature’s most legendary womanizer, but those who assume the Booth newcomer’s a lover rather than a fighter may be surprised by the aggressive tendencies he showcases on his latest single. Kicked off with a shout of “Everybody Hands Up, it’s a robbery!”, this hard-hitting cut finds Pretty Girls production crew The Best Kept Secret flipping a tweaked version of the beat from Dr. Dre‘s The Next Episode as Don Juan performs a lyrical shakedown, demonstrating just how unstoppable he is when he’s in pursuit of the Almighty dollar. Focused squarely on the pursuit of paper, Don Juan’s bars nonetheless come laced with enough witty turns of phrase to keep lyrical heads entertained; in addition to expressing dissatisfaction with being “slept-on like the Days Inn,” he tells his peers “If grind was a breast, you’d be an A-cup.” Like what you’re hearing? Keep it locked – the artist’s Juanted (Destroy & Rebuild) LP has yet to receive a solid release date from Battery/Jive, but we’ll be sure to bring you all the latest.\nWritten by richard on 07/14/10\nFirst DJ Booth Appearance:\n\"Right Back to You\" (2010)\nMember Reviews and Ratings\n- Drake vs. Lil Wayne - The Hits\n- Run The Jewels - Blockbuster Night (Part 1)\n- T.I. ft. Skylar Grey - New National Anthem\n- Interview With a “White Rapper”: Rittz on Race, Respect & Hip-Hop\n- Statik Selektah - What Goes Around\n- Wiz Khalifa - Blacc Hollywood\n- Kanye West is Right, the Media is the Fucking Worst\n- The DJBooth Top Prospects EP (Vol. 1)\n- The Best Hip-Hop & R&B Songs of 2014 (Ongoing)\n- Even More Porn Stars in Music Videos (NSFW)\nDiscover the best new songs, videos, and albums added to the Booth.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Manish Malhotra E-Boutique Launches on Azafashions.com\nIndia’s ace designer, Manish Malhotra has launched an exclusive E-Boutique on Azafashions.com, a premier multi-designer online portal that brings the best of Indian fashion to clients worldwide. The mastermind and couturier needs no introduction to the fashion and film industries. Manish has redefined and modernized Indian attire. His repertoire includes styling leading actors for Bollywood movies and the red carpet, designing an extensive range of highly coveted bridal, couture, diffusion, and ready-to-wear apparel.\nThe Manish Malhotra E-Boutique on Azafashions.com hosts an extensive range of fresh, contemporary styles that are ready-to-wear. This trendy new diffusion line consists of tunics with palazzo sets, embellished saris, printed and embroidered lehengas in contemporary silhouettes, occasion anarkalis and more. The garments are made of finest fabrics in rich hues with impeccable finishing and embellishments. Moreover, the classic blend of traditional charm and modern glamour in the collection ensures that each piece remains an eternal wardrobe classic.\nSharing his excitement on the collaboration with Azafashions.com, Manish Malhotra stated, “It has been a very long association with AZA and the store’s fond memories are dearly close to my heart. AZA has a very professional approach on meeting the demands of their global clientele. We are simply two professionals who understand the essence of what works for our clients.”\nPromoted by Devangi Nishar Parekh, Azafashions.com, AZA’s e-commerce store was launched in 2015 as a global web platform to offer clients the convenience of shopping the best of Indian fashion from anywhere in the world. This venture has taken off extremely well and has received an excellent response from patrons across US, Canada, UK, Europe, Singapore, Australia and Middle East.\nSpeaking about this association, Devangi Nishar Parekh, Director, Azafashions.com said, “It is an immense pleasure to launch Manish Malhotra’s E-Boutique on Azafashions.com, because we share a longstanding relationship with him at AZA, and his work is inspiring and brilliantly creative. Manish’s glamorous and flattering silhouettes can make anyone feel like a celebrity! There is a global demand for his creations and we act as a one-stop online shop for clientele worldwide.”\nDevangi has an MBA from The Wharton School and a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Her acute design sense and her creative expertise make her the driving force of the company’s strategic direction and marketing focus.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Art, literature, folk, architecture\nMuseums in Moscow\nMuseums in St. Petersburg\nSt. Petersburg music\nSt. Petersburg theatres\nSurrounded by pine trees flower vase from a large pine stump. Reservoirs of concrete pipes. From the same flower tubes. Retaining wall of limestone slabs. International Youth Camp “Volga”, Kazan.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Best Pop Songs of 2013\nThe Contenders: Page 2\nLove this song to bits. MUST be in the top ten - zehnlovatic\nAwesome Demi Lovato song!\nLove this song because it's good to dance to. Upbeat.\nAvril Lavigne should be higher... and we all know that taylor songs are just copy of avril style of music.. Its very obvious...\nThis song must be number 1 PLEASE! Taylor swift sucks Avril Rocks!V 2 Comments\nI like Carly Rae Jepson and this song\nYou. Music. Cool. And. Likend\nSelena gomez is back again after\nBreaking up with Justin Bieber love this song so much\nPop Punk, therefore it counts. But as for the song it may be Paramore's most radio-friendly song to date, but I can't stop listening to this song. It's too damn catchy.V 2 Comments\nShould be in the top 5 but it isn't pop\nOld chris is back!\nIt's the best job song!\nJustin bieber is one of the best artist! But his song right here has a great beat and toon and is just one of his best song on the album!V 1 Comment\nRelated ListsBest Pop Songs of 2012, 2013 and 2014 Best Dance & Pop Songs 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 Best Pop, Dance, R&B Songs of 2013-2016 Best Dance & Pop Songs of 2013 Top Ten Best Pop Songs from 2007 - 2013\n4 years, 328 days old\n2. Stay - Rihanna\n3. One Way or Another - One Direction\n2. Roar - Katy Perry\n3. Work Bitch - Britney Spears\n2. Royals - Lorde\n3. Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With Billie Julia Blackburn Pantheon Press 2005 ISBN: 0-375-40610-7 354 pages\nThe story behind this portrait of Billie Holiday is a compelling and tragic one. More than 30 years ago, a woman named Linda Kuehl set out to write a biography of Holiday. She conducted over 150 interviews with friends and acquaintances of the singer, but despite years of toil and frustration, she was unable to complete a publishable book. In 1979, after leaving a Count Basie concert in Washington, DC, Kuehl committed suicide by jumping out a hotel window.\nYears later, author Julia Blackburn was given access to Kuehl's tapes and notes and used them as the main source for this intriguing new look at Billie Holiday. The result is more than a simple retelling of what is already one of the best known and most bittersweet lives in jazz.\nIt's a literary documentary that artfully weaves together reminiscences by dozens of those who knew her to provide an intimate picture of Holiday the artist as well as Holiday the person.\nWhat's most refreshing and revealing here is that alongside anecdotes from musicians like Jimmy Rowles, Bobby Tucker and Melba Liston are remembrances by a motley collection of people outside the jazz world - childhood friends from Baltimore, neighbors from New York, fellow junkies, even a police officer who arrested Holiday on a narcotics rap in 1947.\nIt's their recollections of this brave and determined, if deeply troubled, woman that make this book such a valuable contribution to the Billie Holiday literature. It's a shame that Linda Kuehl is not around to see that all her hard work finally paid off.\nI love jazz because it is in my blood. It is the only original American art form. It is sacred. The greatest musicians are jazz artists.\nI was first exposed to jazz in 1961 listening to my father's records of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young.\nI met Sonny Stitt, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, Michael Brecker, Cannonball Adderley, Walter Booker, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Benson, Mike\nStern, Stanley Turrentine, Billy Harper, Skip Hadden, Charlie Haden.\nThe best show I ever attended was Joe Lovano with Soundprints at the Wexner Center in Columbus Ohio in 2014.\nThe first jazz record I bought was Miles Smiles.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It's not a well disguised secret that the art of fashion photography is a collaborative endeavor. The final image is the result of a team of artists each contributing their expertise to what is hopefully a stunning, transformative photograph. The list of participants involved in any single image is long, including models, lighting assistants, set designers, fashion stylists, hair stylists and retouchers. In my estimation one of the most crucial artists of all is the makeup artist.\nEach contribution is essential and must reach for perfection but none more so than the \"maquillage\".\nPerhaps it's the human inclination to search the face first, before taking in any other visual information. When encountering a photograph I arrive at a multitude of aesthetic opinions at once but my eyes always lock on to the face, searching for clues to emotional communication. Delight, wonder, joy, sensuality, loneliness, fear are all communicated by the most imperceptible contraction of the eye or mouth and enhanced by the splendor of the makeup artist's work.\nWhile there are a plenitude of talented makeup artists working today, none stand above \"the little mouse\" Topolino. Arriving in Paris at 19 years old from his native Marseille during the creative explosion of fashion photography in the mid 1990's, he quickly climbed the daunting fashion heights, working for magazines like The Face, Arena, Interview, I-D, and Vogue. His photographer collaborators include Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jean-Paul Goude, Mario Testino, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims, Thierry Le Goues, Raymond Meier and on and on.\nA genius with accessories, he can manipulate human physiognomy to create fantastical transformations that go beyond mere beauty and tap into a mixture of mythology and cartoon pop culture. Butterflies, feathers and beads of glass are just some of the items in his kit to aid his flights of fancy. He practically defined a style of makeup that is copied to this day.\nTopolino is still in top demand for his makeup skills. In 1995 he was honored with a show at the Musée de la Mode. His book Make-Up Games was published by Assouline in 2002.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "HAYDN String Quartets Op 20\n“Newly revised and corrected” is how Artaria proudly announced its 1801 edition of these quartets. Exciting? Not for all scholars today. “The editorial approach is heavy-handed, transforming Haydn’s highly articulated style by the addition of ‘convenient’ slurred bowings and numerous extra dynamic markings”, protests Simon Rowland-Jones (Edition Peters). Poor old Haydn; he had personally made the changes.\nThe London Haydn Quartet, playing period instruments, accept them unreservedly. As may have Donald Tovey, who said, “Not even Op 76 is, on its own plane, so uniformly weighty and so varied in substance as Op 20.” Now an ensemble, unique in collective insight, in tempo-management, articulation of melodic design and assessment of harmonic weight, unfolds the substance. Mostly unconventionally. The first movement of No 3 might jolt, nowhere near Allegro con spirito. The phrases slowed down are dislocated – and disturbing. Passionate fervour dominates the C minor Capriccio of No 2, warmed by the lyrically moving E flat middle section. Add strange intimations of a threnody in the Minuet of No 5, the adroit zip of the Presto scherzando in No 4, the soft undertones in the fugal finales, sombre in No 5, bright in No 6, and there is simply nothing to support Rowland-Jones’s bewildering assertion that “a noticeable lack of character and rhythmic vitality results from following Artaria’s readings”.\nNoticeable instead is the singularity of readings from artists who stake a claim on Artaria’s edition; and ignoring preconceived notions courageously accept responsibility for provocative interpretations – of enthralling magnitude.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Centre Pompidou is a modern art museum in Paris that is truly one of the best in the world. Modern art both astounds me and makes me laugh. I saw this work at the Centre Pompidou that was a string of plain white Christmas lights haphazardly put on the wall with a little card that said “Untitled” and the name of the artist. It made me laugh so hard I had to leave the area. This is a view of Paris from the roof of the Centre Pompidou.\nPétanque is French game that can be played anywhere. It is similar to the Italian game,Bocce but unlike the Bocce it does not require a fixed court. One player throws a small target ball and the p[layers try to get as close to it as possible without hitting it. These players at Champs de Mars are playing near the Eiffel Tower in Paris France. You can purchase a print and see others at my commercial gallery by clicking here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lampwork, Turquoise, Prehnite, Pietersite, and Czech Glass Beads Pendant Necklace\nA stunning necklace featuring handmade lamp work glass beads, Turquoise, Prehnite, Pietersite, and Czech glass beads. The pendant is a deep turquoise blue, nicely polished with a bit of pretty veining giving it a very earthy touch. That blue has been carried up into the strand with the handmade turquoise and sand colored lampwork beads in a lentil shape surrounded by sterling silver caps and golden shell beads. Turquoise is also picked up in the natural Turquoise wheels further along the strand teamed with Prehnite and small green glass Czech beads with a mottled mossy green color. Next are the large dusty orange bi-cone shaped Czech glass beads with beautiful mottling of color over them, and then beautiful Pietersite coins surrounded with sterling spacers and Swarovski crystals in Olive AB punctuate and ground the scheme. Batik printed wooden beads in the same bittersweet orange and tan follow with ends of small brass beads, and then round Czech glass beads in a Picasso finish of multiple colors on brown finishes up the necklace to the sterling toggle clasp.\nLength: 18\". Handcrafted and one of a kind by a very talented artisan indeed - a true work of wearable art.\nAll prices on this site are in US Dollars.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ornament Hand Setsuko\nA collaboration between modern artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola and Astier de Villatte, this collection explores nature-inspired subjects and is inspired by an atmosphere of generosity, affection, and total freedom.\nHandmade in Paris, crafted from black terracotta clay and finished with a white porcelain glaze, this elegant hand ornament is perfect for displaying jewelry.\nApprox. 8\"H x 5.25\" dia\nHand Wash Only", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Valentine's Day Art Contest Prizes Revealed!! Submissions due TONIGHT by 8pm!!\nUpdated: May 19, 2021\nHi Franklin families!\nDon't forget! All Valentine's Day Art Contest submissions are due tonight by 8PM! We thought it would be fun to give you a look at the prize that each grade winner will be receiving: Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils (set of 20) plus a coloring booklet featuring illustrations from New York City!\nThese are the rules to enter the contest: 1) You must be a current Franklin Elementary student to enter. Group submissions are not allowed. 2) The artwork must be original and the theme is \"Something You Love\". 3) You can use any medium (paint, watercolor, colored pencils, crayons, chalk, charcoal, etc.), and it can be on any flat surface (paper, canvas, cardstock, cardboard, etc.). The size of the flat surface can be 8.5\" x 11\", or of a similar size. 4) A photo of the artwork must be taken and submitted no later than 8pm EST TONIGHT (February 3rd) through this form: https://franklinpto.wufoo.com/forms/2021-valentines-day-art-contest-submission-form/ Please submit the highest quality photo you can. The photo should be no larger than 10MB in size.\nWe can't wait to see the rest of the submissions!\n-The Franklin PTO", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This television episode plays:\nJanuary 31, 1972\nThis song plays on the radio as Hank is driving in the opening scene of this episode. Hank also sings the song later in the episode, while showering. In addition, the title of this episode is a Spanish translation of the song title.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A beautiful gang leader (Nathalie Emmanuel) recruits a novice safecracker (Matthias Schweighofer) for a series of heists in Army of Thieves.\nLudwig Dieter, the hilariously peculiar German safecracker from Army of the Dead, gets a winning origin story in the nascent stage of the zombie apocalypse. Army of Thieves is a heist themed prequel that’s thankfully more action-comedy than blood and guts. Where a gang of intrepid criminals recruit a talented novice for a near impossible series of robberies. Matthias Schweighöfer displays significant talent in front and behind the camera. He’s a charming and humorous protagonist while directing a fun, breezy film.\nArmy of Thieves opens in Potsdam, Germany with uber geek Sebastian (Matthias Schweighöfer) posting a YouTube video about Hans Wagner; a celebrated vault designer that decades ago crafted four impenetrable safes called the Ring Cycle. Sebastian extolls his virtues as a superb safecracker. But is disheartened when the video receives no views or likes. He goes on with his lonely, ordinary routine as a faceless customer service rep.\nSebastian is stunned to receive a message on his video post. A mysterious invite to a secret safecracking competition in Berlin gives him a chance to truly test his skills. He notices a beautiful woman watching his impressive display. She introduces herself the next morning during a banana muffin at his local café. Gwendoline Starr (Nathalie Emmanuel), globally wanted by Interpol, has the inside track on the locations of the Ring Cycle safes. The alarming virus outbreak in Las Vegas has rattled authorities. Now is the time to pull off a set of heists for the ages. Does Sebastian want to languish at his boring job? Or is he ready to try something extraordinarily dangerous and risky?\nArmy of Thieves is surprisingly funny and interesting. I honestly expected the film to have a bigger zombie element. The undead show up briefly in background newscasts and a few dream sequences. The heists take center stage with the socially awkward Sebastian trying his best to fit into Gwen’s crew. His efforts transitioning to an elite criminal safecracker does not go smoothly. There are several laugh out loud moments as Gwen and the gang try to accommodate Sebastian’s bizarre routines.\nMatthias Schweighöfer, renowned in German cinema and television, does a banner job on two fronts. He’s infectiously likable as Sebastian. Schweighöfer nails the nervous energy of the character without becoming annoying. You end up rooting for Sebastian as the story progresses. The film is shot in a dynamic style with slick visual effects. Schweighöfer uses creative 3D titles and introductions for the characters and settings. We also see the locking mechanisms inside the safes as Sebastian gingerly rotates the dials. Playing composer Richard Wagner’s soaring orchestral themes on his phone to get in the safecracking mood.\nArmy of Thieves is a completely different animal than Army of the Dead. The action scenes are solid, but the film truly stands out as a relationship comedy. Matthias Schweighöfer has a different artistic vision than Zack Snyder. His take before the zombie onslaught is well realized. My only serious gripe concerns the length. The film runs two hours and ten minutes when it could have easily been shorter. It moves at a decent pace, but could have been brisker with a shorter edit. The Army of the Dead universe is off to a great start with two fantastic entries. Army of Thieves is a production of The Stone Quarry and Pantaleon Films. It will premiere exclusively October 29th on Netflix.\nA new TV spot for The Batman teases a battle of wits between the vigilante and The Riddler.\nFilm critic, raconteur, praying for dolphins to grow thumbs and do better.\nA new PlayStation Store 95 percent discount has made a PS4 game that normally costs $19.99, just $0.99 for a limited time. This deal is", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": ":3 Then...I think we should do what Rick suggests. We all love Morty in one way or another, and we want what's best for him. Why don't we change the subject? How are plans coming for the masquerade? What kind of music will there be?\n“The plans for the masquerade are going good! I got my mask adjusted for the theme Rick and I are doing and things are moving along smoothly! I-I’m trying to think of fun things for you guys” Mordecai grins sheepishly. “Awe jeez, I just really hope everyone has fun, really! There’s going to be a live orchestra to play uhh… music for the waltz and such. I’m trying to see what else I can convince them to play”\nMorty presses back into Rick’s chest and giggles, smiling widely. “This guy right here has been practicing the dances with me, it’s a lot of fun!” The prince sighs. “T-thank you guys for being so understanding! It-it means a lot. You are all the sweetest!”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In this novel we follow the history of a French family in a little village throughout several decades and places. Beginning in 1944, a sixteen-year-old girl is secretly in love with a boy who passes by their house riding his bicycle every day at the same hour and, thanks to her daydreaming about her love for him, the Nazi occupation of the village and the sirens wailing each night disappear from her mind. But in the end the place is bombed by the allies, and the family members will be separated at this particular moment in which lives and dreams are lost forever.\nEvery chapter is told from the point of view of one character in a certain stage of the family history, and sometimes we come back to this French village in the forties, but other times we find ourselves various decades later in Paris, and it is as if each chapter is an independent short story by itself because the characters won’t star in more than one although, at the end, you feel a cycle coming to an end with the whole history of every family member since that day in 1944.\nThis way of storytelling has been the most remarkable peculiarity of the book; I was hooked to these little portions of the family history through the eyes of different characters, like the pieces of a puzzle, wondering about this or that one, often recreating past events of one of the sisters through a thought or a conversation decades later into the chapter of another family member.\nIt could have been an average novel of the Nazi occupation, but the narration makes the story of this family unique, and those glimpses into this sister’s, the aunt’s or that child’s life go further into filling the atmosphere of the family and the time than a linear narration would.\nThanks to Harper books for the galley.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dancing One's Way Into the Winter Festival\n'You can't learn to dance from a book,\" scoffed Rink's friend Marlee. She was older by one year and one month and sometimes acted as if she knew everything.\n\"Yes, I can. I have a plan,\" Rink said as she turned the pages of her new book, which showed pictures from famous ballet productions. She stopped when she found \"The Nutcracker.\" A dozen dancers frolicked through deep, blue-white snow drifts as a sleigh pulled into view.\n\"Maybe your mom will change her mind. There are only six weeks of Tuesday rehearsals,\" Marlee said, slipping her slender arms into her jacket - the black one with the two big yellow eyes on the back and \"Cats\" written underneath. The eyes were almond-shaped and very intense, a little like Marlee's. She'd seen the Broadway show \"Cats\" four times.\nRink shook her head sadly. No, mom wouldn't change her mind. She couldn't. On Tuesdays Rink had to take care of her six-year-old brother, Curry, while mom took an evening class at the university. No after-school activities, period.\n\"See you tomorrow,\" Marlee said from the doorway of Rink's bedroom.\n\"Tomorrow,\" Rink echoed, turning back to the description of \"The Nutcracker.\" Her dance teacher, Mr. Allen, was producing a dance from the ballet for the school's Winter Festival. The steps weren't easy, so everyone had to work hard. All the dancers would be snowflakes, dressed in sparkling white leotards trimmed with silver sequins.\nRink loved to dance more than anything. She just had to be in the Winter Festival. Her plan was to learn the steps on her own and show Mr. Allen somehow. Then maybe, just maybe, he'd let her be a snowflake, even if she couldn't attend Tuesday rehearsals.\nRink propped the book up on her dressing table and looked at herself in the mirror. She struck a pose, feet turned out in first position, arms high above her head in fifth. Good. She looked like the picture in the book. She tried another pose, then another, until she'd copied them all exactly.\n\"Now, time to dance,\" Rink said to herself. She slid a videotape of \"The Nutcracker\" into the VCR and cued it up to the dance Mr. Allen had chosen for the Winter Festival. She played it over and over, each time dancing with the ballerinas as if she were looking into a mirror. Rink hadn't told Marlee about the videotape. She wanted her friend to be surprised when she performed the dance perfectly for Mr. Allen, like an audition.\nRink's big chance came at the end of dance class a week later.\n\"OK, everybody,\" said Mr. Allen, clapping to get their attention. \"Now I'd like to practice the snowflake piece. All dancers who know the steps please come out onto the floor. Everybody else can watch.\"\n\"This is it!\" Rink thought as she took a place right in front facing the mirror.\n\"What are you doing?\" whispered Marlee, who had found a spot right next to her.\n\"I'm going to show Mr. Allen I can be a snowflake,\" Rink whispered back. \"I learned all the steps.\"\nThe music started. Rink lifted her arms high, bent her knees in a plie, glided three steps to the right, did a pirouette turn, then posed with her left leg outstretched. There were a few giggles from the sidelines. Rink concentrated especially hard on the next sequence of steps so that the noise wouldn't distract her.\nThree steps to the left, right arm forward, step left again.... Something was wrong. The other dancers didn't seem to know the steps, Rink could see them in the mirror. What was the matter with them? Hadn't they learned the steps in rehearsal? Now she understood why the kids were laughing softly. Mr. Allen would be doubly impressed that she knew the dance when everyone else didn't.\nRink executed a series of chaine turns to the right, little steps strung close together like links on a chain - one, two, three, four. She knew this part so well she could do it with her eyes closed. She just wished the other kids would stop giggling. Didn't they know that was rude?\nWhen Rink and Marlee collided and fell, the room exploded with laughter. \"Rink! You're doing everything backward!\" Marlee said, picking herself up off the floor.\n\"No, I'm not! I'm doing exactly what I saw on the video!\"\n\"What video?\" Marlee asked, readjusting her headband.\n\"I've been doing the steps at home along with a video of 'The Nutcracker.' I watch the dancers, then I....\" Rink gasped. Marlee was right! Rink had been using the video like a mirror, but it really wasn't. When she stepped to the right, the dancers on the screen were really stepping to the left. Why hadn't she realized that before?\n\"What a disaster! I'll never get to be a snowflake now,\" Rink whispered to Marlee.\nMr. Allen had turned off the music and was walking across the floor toward Rink.\n\"You've given me an idea, Rink,\" he said. His voice was warm and his eyes twinkled. \"One line of snowflakes will do the original steps while another line will dance the piece your way. It will look great on stage, a little like a snowstorm. I can see you already know your part.\"\n\"You mean I can dance in the Winter Festival?\" Rink could hardly believe it. \"But I can't come to Tuesday rehearsals.\"\n\"The backward snowflakes will rehearse on Thursdays after school. OK with you?\" Mr. Allen was wearing a broad smile.\n\"Yes!\" Rink answered. \"Oh, yes!\"\nAs the two friends left the dance studio and headed home, Marlee said, \"I'm glad you're going to be a snowflake.\" A gentle snow had begun to fall.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Flickr Photo Download: This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the \"Flying Fortress,\" the B-1\nFlickr Photo Download: 1100\nFélix De Portu Bravo - touchpuppet\nFlickr Photo Download: brace face.\nXipe | Rodrigo Chapa | VSCO Grid\nShutterLounge.com - KISS - Limited Edition Art by Alexander Straulino\nAdidas Originals x RUN-D.M.C.\n3316941931_fe07a78a34.jpg 500×500 pixels\nHarvey Nichols: Birds | Ads of the World: Creative Advertising Archive & Community\nSummary Buamai is an online repository for unique or inspirational found images.\nMainly for graphic design and type related material, the collection now encompasses contributions from a worldwide collective of artists,\ngraphic designers, programmers, architects and fashion designers.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Project by woodcrafter47||posted 09-03-2010 06:56 PM||1280 views||0 times favorited||4 comments|\nMaking more bowls , a chunk of maghony lumber was given to me from a contractor left over from a job ,and\nI decided to make a couple of bowls from it. these are aprox 10”x 2 1/2 ” finished with minerial oil.\nThe other one is an oak platter, also contractor piece left over ,12×1 1/2”s ,finished with minerial oil.\n-- In His service ,Richard", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Please visit Congleton Museum’s gift shop for your special Christmas presents and cards. In addition to offering a selection of local history books, our artisans’ corner features hand made Christmas and Greetings cards.\nOur talented volunteers and Friends of the Museum have made wine glass chains, jesters’ hats, tree decorations and knitted teddies. You will also find a range of individually designed jewellery including necklaces, bracelets, earrings and gift sets. For something different come to the museum shop and view their work.\nFriends of the Museum, volunteers and LoveLocalLife card holders receive a 10% discount!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Martha Stewart can mannequin a glam look with the most effective of them. And in a pair of horny new thirst lure photographs, the home goddess, 82, slayed a glittering new silver frock whereas proving why she’s the oldest individual to ever grace the pages of the Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit concern. Within the photographs (SEE HERE), she positioned a hand on the hallway wall whereas exhibiting off the horny silver costume with a thigh excessive slit and a free tie on the neck. She posed flawlessly, her platinum blonde hair styled in an opulent poof and her make-up glam on level in pink shades. She wore gorgeous duster earrings and a pair of matching silver heels for the occasion.\nMartha was seen exhibiting off the identical look on the pink carpet on the Hudson River Park twenty fifth Anniversary Gala in New York on Thursday, sans slit. “Fun to dress up every now and then,” she captioned the Friday, October 13 put up partly. Martha has 1.9 million followers on the platform, a lot of whom rushed to the feedback thread to gush over the horny look. “That is a fabulous look and dress, on the most fabulous of fabulous. Perfection!” wrote a fan, whereas one other remarked, “Martha still out here slaying!! You are gorgeous!! The epitome of style and grace mixed with fire and sass!!”\nLater that very same day, the TV persona took to Instagram to point out off an equally glamorous look. Within the second put up, she channeled display screen legend Audrey Hepburn from the basic movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Martha rocked a black midi costume with a tiara, together with sun shades and Holly Golightly’s iconic multi-layered pearl necklace, even including a fancy pair of black gloves to the ensemble. “This morning I hosted Breakfast at @tiffanyandco celebrating @nycwff and benefitting @godslovenyc,” she captioned the put up partly. In further photographs, the incomparable mogul was seen mingling with company on the occasion and having fun with a meal.\nMartha’s attractive photographs come simply 5 months after she made historical past on the quilt of the Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit Situation. She appeared so good within the photographs that she was pressured to deal with claims she’d had cosmetic surgery for the shoot. “Well, it’s not true,” she advised Selection in an interview in Might. “I’ve had absolutely no plastic surgery whatsoever.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "for now, here are two new items for the distro.\nM. GEDDES GENGRAS \"REBIRTH LOS ANGELES\" CASSETTE - (Full of Nothing)\n'With a beard like a flying carpet this American aural traveler is known far and wide. Besides numerous recordings under his own name and with Antique Brothers, there are slabs of Robedoor/Pocahaunted goodness with his drumming, appearances in L.A. Vampires and Warm Climate, killer DJ sets as 1/2 of Where's Yr Child team... My god there are always a few more names to drop! L.A.'s one and only, MGG presents a couple of gently floating electronic pieces here: shooting deep, reaching even further. Thoughtful reflections on humanity's high hopes. Melancholic futuristic synthesizers slice the air thin. New age is coming. L.A., rebirth now! Stencil-painted textured J-cards, all signed and numbered by hand, spray-painted cassettes. Edition of 100.'\nM. Geddes Gengras — The Empty Space c93 (Stunned no. 135)\n'Let it spill through you like the peak experience of your choice. In your hands is ‘The Empty Space’ and pouring into your head is Stunned’s most trusted synthesizer medicine man M. Geddes Gengras. This is an album dealing with freefall, the ground suddenly dropping out, the fierce void we rush against that resists our naturally preferred trajectory. The cycles and patterns appear to dominate — yet MGG boldly transcends such conditions with his fearless navigation through an unpredictable modular synth patchwork, taking a plunge into analogue novelty in its most naked state. Roots run deep in a tree bearing aural fruits this sweet. Special edition of 222 pro-dubbed & imprinted c93 tapes with double-sided color jcard.'\n\"Tireless synthesizer explorer M. Geddes Gengras offers his possible tour-de-force on his ultimate tape released by Stunned Records (a label that will be truly missed and very hard to replace in terms of sound and packaging quality). Despite naming his previous Stunned tape This Could Be the Last Time, Gengras proves that he still he has amassed quite a collection of ideas over the course of a few months and is ready to strike (or at least continue to strike) with The Empty Space.\nOne thing you gotta know about this tape: it is MASSIVE. Not in terms of physical size, or the packaging: in fact, the cassette itself is fairly unremarkable and the insert does not contain any information on the dates of recording, the tracklist or so. Everything that should be known is printed on the cassette. The Empty Space is massive in terms of sheer length: it contains 93 minutes of music. That means each side is a bit over 45 minutes long. Which is even more impressive considering it was all probably recorded in one take during a live performance in June 2011 (if the dedication “for those who were there” might be any indication). I’m a sucker for live electronics and people who manage to create intricate and multilayered structures in real time are pretty much my heroes.\nThe Empty Space sees Ged Gengras in a more experimental, harsher light, especially in comparison to his previous releases, like the stellar ambient float of Magical Writing (released on his own Peccant Tapes). The sparse, cold sound of the cassette might take quite a few takes to get into, but once it clicks, a world of new possibilities opens. The beginning of side A is deceptive – it makes one think it will be a massive drone jam, while it clearly isn’t – after some 8 minutes, it dissolves into a series of variously pitched extraterrestrial glitches and chirps. One might say, “how isn’t 8 minutes of drone a massive jam?”. Well, remember that each side is over 45 minutes long, so eight minutes is pretty much just a tiny fraction. Having 90 minutes, Ged Gengras has a lot of time to expand his ideas slowly and carefully – people used to standard c30’s might get annoyed by the seemingly monotonous sound which changes very slowly. But that’s the trick – Gengras gives the listener time to immerse into each “movement” and “choose” their personal favorite. The slow, somewhat “shy” sequences are separated by echoed, glitchy escapades into separate worlds of synth pad wizardry and abrasive, noisy textures.\nWhile the side A was dominated almost entirely by the Glitch, side B is the domain of the Sequence. It begins with a bubbling glitchy madness that is paradoxical in the fact that it’s at the same time cold and cozy. 12 minutes later and a faster pattern kicks in, existing in a “virgin”, clear state for a short time, but soon getting attacked by the spores, which in turn deform and skew the sequence, gradually smothering it and reducing it to occasional distant bleeps. The whole process of deconstruction and replacing the crystal clear, needle-like sounds with mangled, abrasive textures is like the destruction of the polished, meditative gems of the Berlin school by the British industrial/noise iconoclasts like Whitehouse. The Teutonic sequence then gets up and fights with the warbling synth noise again – the second part of side B becomes a battlefield between the melodic and the chaotic; where brutal glitches and blasts of white noise clash with cosmic echoes and rhythmical kraut-isms. The end of the tape is a sort of consensus with cut-up sounds forming a rudimentary, skewed, yet strangely enjoyable melody in the style of Caboladies’ Renewable Destination.\nM. Geddes Gengras’ The Empty Space is an interesting insight into the creative process, the ability to improvise during live performance and a document of Ged’s amazing work in the field of synthesizers and electronic music. It might also be an indicator of the “tape scene’s” directions for the future, where the marriage of 70’s and 80’s prog electronics and 90’s and 00’s glitch is inevitable.\" - WEED TEMPLE\nCONTACT MGGPCNT ((((AT)))) G M A I L . C O M\nM.G.G. - SYSTEMS 4xCS\nVODER DETH SQUAD - III CS\nM.G.G. - SYSTEMS 4xCS\nVODER DETH SQUAD - III CS", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On the Road by Jack Kerouac\nFive decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen.\nSal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, On the Road is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.\n'The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the\ngeneration Kerouac himself named years ago as \"beat\"'\nThe New York Times\n'Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience'\nHanif Kureishi, Independent on Sunday\n'On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road'", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "United and Mingling: Poetry and Boston\nby Danielle Legros Georges\nBoston’s Poet Laureate here, responding to Mass Poetry’s request that I send word from my post (at moments my perch in Dorchester, at others my office at Lesley University). Tell us what you’ve been up to and what you look forward to, asked Jackie Malone. Jackie, here is the task before me—and part of my official position description: raising the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Bostonians, acting as an advocate for poetry, language and the arts, and creating a unique artistic legacy through public readings and civic events.\nThe Poet Laureate Program sits within the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture—reflecting Mayor Walsh’s leadership and embracing of the value of the arts to Boston as well as the role that culture plays in our everyday lives. Boston’s an amazing place for literature and the arts. It’s got an extraordinary literary past, and recently it became the first city in the country to host a Literary Cultural District. In general, Boston’s landscape pulses with contemporary writers and readers.\nAs Poet Laureate I’ve explored known and exciting new terrain, and been welcomed by a number of assemblies and organizations who’ve made poetry a part of their programs, including Mayor Walsh’s State of the City 2015, the City’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Celebration in partnership with the Museum of African American History; the first annual Hubbub: Creative Commotion for Kids Festival; and the Boston Public Library as it unveiled its newly-renovated Children’s Room at the Central Branch.\nIt’s been a joy to embody in some way Boston’s literary traditions—and an honor to follow Boston’s first Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. Sam established visiting hours at the Boston Public Library’s Central Branch in Copley Square during his tenure. Why not carry this practice on I thought? I have, and began holding monthly visiting hours in the various branches in neighborhoods across the city. From East Boston to Roxbury poems have been read, workshopped—and the freedom of free verse and the merits of form discussed and debated hotly in some cases! Budding and seasoned poets have participated in what is quickly becoming a workshop and a way to share the joys and questions of poetry writing and appreciation.\nAnother way to share the poetry love is to amplify the great work already being done by Boston-affiliated poets and poetry publishers, and in the many poetry communities: in groups of performance poets, slam poets, spoken-word artists, self-identified “community poets,” poets affiliated with schools, colleges, and universities, teachers using poetry as pedagogical tools in their classrooms, and translators of poetry.\nOne vehicle of amplification is a new monthly Poet Laureate Newsletter. Another is the Boston Poet Spotlight Reading Series whose first reading was held in May, and whose second will take place on October 15 at 7 pm at Newbury Street’s Trident Booksellers and Café. The reading will feature Central Square Press’s editor and several writers.\nAlso to come is participation in the Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston’s Leap Before You Look, the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the subject of Black Mountain College to take place in the United States. The exhibition, to premiere in October, features individual works by more than ninety artists, student work, archival materials, a soundscape, as well as a piano and a dance floor for performances. Accompanying the exhibition will be performances and educational programs, which include 8 poets I’m asking to bring artwork to life through ekphrasis.\nFinally, the Poet Laureate Program is committed to extending its programming to reach specifically Boston youth and seniors. I’m delighted to mention two very new initiatives. The first draws on the strength of a small and strong team of poets who will work in Boston adult day health centers and nursing homes. The second is a partnership with Troubadour Inc., an organization that improves student literacy and academic achievement in area schools through arts-integrated instruction. Troubadour will take poetry workshops to the Lila Frederick Middle School. Both programs underscore poetry’s role in community engagement and life-long learning.\nFrom the great poet Pablo Neruda come these words, “I believe that poetry is an action, ephemeral or solemn, in which there enter as equal partners solitude and solidarity, emotion and action, the nearness to oneself, the nearness to mankind and to the secret manifestations of nature. And no less strongly I think that all this is sustained . . . by an ever-wider sense of community, by an effort which will forever bring together the reality and the dreams in us because it is precisely in this way that poetry unites and mingles them . . .”\nThe Poet Laureate Program is charged with generating new opportunities for education, awareness, and the promotion of literacy through the beauty and excellence of poetry—and I can’t think of a better thing to do. Thanks Mass Poetry for this opportunity to share information on the Boston Poet Laureate Program.\nOm addition to being Boston’s Poet Laureate, Danielle Legros Georges is a Professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division of Lesley University. She also teaches in the Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences summer Writer's Workshop, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rhythmic drooping bells give the mesmerizing feel and the sound they produce with every movement is ethereal. Tribal jewelry can make you feel unique with just a single piece. This lovely tribal choker necklace is assembled on a black cloth of fine quality. This stunning tribal piece is made by the amazing artists of South Asia.\nThe Afghani tribal necklace with pendants gives a decent and elegant look to you whether you wear it with a western dress or with a traditional dress. It is a perfect choice for traditional occasions such as wedding and engagements. In casual days you can match it with any color and any style; it will give you a flawless look. Grab this charming piece as soon as possible.\nMeasurement: 8-inch Length, 13-inch width\nWeight: 270 grams", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Take the greatest hunter of a hundred worlds – a man wise to the wiles of beasts and men. Take this professional killer and give him a human target.\nTake the greatest concentration of brains of a thousand worlds – the Cyclan with its legion of emotionless agents. Take these inhuman monsters and give them a human target.\nThe target for both was Earl Dumarest. But the rule of the hunt was special. Dumarest must be captured but not killed. And the place was extra-special: the Quillian Sector. \"The place where space goes mad.\"\nThe Quillian Sector where Dumarest was searching for lost Terra.\nGenres: science fiction\nEdwin Charles Tubb (1919–2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. Michael Moorcock wrote \"His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain.\"\nMuch of Tubb's work has been written under pseudonyms including Charles Grey, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt. He has used more than 50 pen names over five decades of writing although some of these were publishers' house names also used by other writers: Volsted Gridban (along with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), King Lang (with George Hay and John W. Jennison), Roy Sheldon (with H. J. Campbell) and Brian Shaw.\nE. C. Tubb. Wikipedia.\nDumarest of Terra :: Series\nDumarest of Terra is also known as Dumarest Saga.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Christmas Table Decoration\nIt’s that time of year again. A time to celebrate, a time for family and friends and feasting! However if you don’t have the designing prowess of Martha Stewart, you can still create the most amazing Christmas table ready for your christmas feast and we’ll show you exactly how with our oh so simple guide!\n- Use fruit to spruce up the Christmas table setting\nFruits don’t need to be restricted to the fruit bowl. Let them loose and use them as stunning (as well as edible) table top accessories! Choose a colour theme and then simply layer a range of fruits such as apples, plums, grapes or lemons in different dimensions, heights and styles to make your holiday table one-of-a-kind. This is not only a great way to spruce up the Christmas table and the best bit…you can eat the fruit for dessert or as take home presents!\nPlaid is really great way to give your Christmas table a really lovely traditional warm look and feel. Layers of red, gold and green plaid can be used as placemats or a table runner and will accentuate your table nicely.\n- Back to Black\nYou can create a really stylish and sophisticated table decoration with a modern twist. As they say you can’t go wrong with black and adding a pop of colour or metallic accents will really add another dimension to your setting. Have a black table cloth and then include some black accents in your tableware through your plates, candles or ornaments. Layer your everyday black and silver china for a very modern, sophisticated look and add metallic placemats and name tags, Christmas crackers and napkin holders to bring out the black.\n- Let there be light!\nChristmas lights don’t need to be reserved for the tree. There are some absolutely stunning, battery-powered LED string lights which you can weave in and out of your table decorations an you can also add battery-powered lights to glasses or champaign flutes as a special replacement to candles for that added wow factor!\nRibbon is an inexpensive means to really enhancing your Christmas table. When selecting one, as well as choosing the right colours for your look, choose wired ribbon, so you can easily mould the wire to get the desired look.\n- Embellish glass bowls and stand\nEmbellish your glass bowls, vases, cake stands and load them beads, jewels and all things sparkly. You can even scatter glitter all over the table and add a beautiful beaded scarf as a table runner for that extra embellishment.\n- Don’t forget the chairs!\nInclude a little holiday cheer to the rear of your chairs! You can get some cheap and festive Christmas bows or you can even hang a wreath, accessory or name tag on the back of each chair to really finish off the look.\nThe key though is to have fun. Don’t take it too seriously and enjoy experimenting with different looks and styles with endless options.\nIf you really want go to town and make your home extra special for the festive season, Natalie Interior Design is all rounded and equipped with the experts that will help you achieve your dreams fast and efficiently.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "App brings out the artist in you\nDraw Something 2\nBring our your artistic side. You know you have one. Draw Something 2, a mobile game from Zynga, has a live social feed so you can follow friends and celebrities, as well as discover new artists. Joining the conversation is easy – players can like, comment and tap on drawings to see instant replay of how they were created. No tagged photos!\nKeep and share a collection of your own drawings in a gallery or check out work by others like Andy Cohen, Joel McHale and Kristen Bell.\nOn Our Radar\n- A Year in Pitbull\n- Kylie and Kendall Jenner seen all over Miami for Art Basel\n- Bon Jovi puts on private concert for SiriusXM in Miami Beach\n- Sarah Jessica Parker gets her Basel on for the first time\n- Cheech Marin is promoting a new ‘substance’ in Miami\n- Heidi Klum: She’s an artist, too\n- Fidel Castro is dead. Miami's Cuban exiles celebrate.\n- Andy Cohen talks about celebrity gossip in latest book\n- Report: An 'exhausted' Kanye West cancels tour, is hospitalized\n- Singer Kesha in Miami for charity", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Transition Collective present a site specific art installation by Bruno Jamaica in one of five exhibition rooms @ SEVEN at Brixton, 4th November – 4th December.\nOur featured artist Bruno Jamaica works predominantly with high impact installation art, focussing on socio-political themes. For the launch of SEVEN’s exhibition space, he has chosen to create seven suspended islands in celebration of what it is be human. These are islands of necessities, desires and motivations, exploring the concept of the city, travel, interaction and the individual.\nThis is a time of transition.\nLocated within Brixton Market, SEVEN at Brixton is a new bar in an old suitcase store. What makes SEVEN unique is that London-based Liam Brown and Jonny Rushton have maintained the distressed 1930′s features and are turning over the upstairs rooms of the bar to local artists to curate their own space.\nFind us @ Unit 7, Market Row, SW9 8LB – just off Electric Lane, off Coldharbour Lane.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I Really Love This Dog Slouchy Tee Heather Grey\nDomestic: 6-9 business days standard transit. Orders to AK, HI and PR may experience longer transit times.\nInternational: Transit times vary, but typically take 4-6 weeks once shipped via UPS with final delivery made by local mail service.\nPart of the I Really Love This Dog Collection.\nThe following poem explains the meaning behind this line:\nI really love this dog\nWho fills my heart with pride\nAnd helps me clear the fog\nWith a shining light from deep inside.\nYou greet me with a smile\nEvery time I return home\nAnd when it’s been awhile\nYou start to feel alone\nBut know that I am thinking\nOf your soft ears and wet nose\nA howl that sounds like singing\nAnd excitement that only grows.\nAfter a long or tiring day\nYour warm eyes are such a gift\nThere are no words to say\nAll stress is set adrift.\nI promise to never leave you\nAnd walk when you can no longer jog\nA friendship like ours is true\nI really love this dog.\n-Justine Rose, iHeartDogs employee\nSize & Fit\n- Scoop Neck\n- Dolman Sleeve\n- Relaxed Fit\n- Size Chart\nMaterials & Care\n- 50% Polyester, 25% Cotton, 25% Rayon Jersey\n- Extra Soft\n- Machine Washable Cold, Tumble Dry Low, Wash With Like Items", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Looking for a unique gift for a friend? This lightbox would look amazing on a shelf or a mantel piece. The fog gives an air of mystery to the lovely city of Bath.\nDetails about your lightbox:\n- It is made in pine wood\n- It is mains connected with an on/off switch for ease of use\n- It comes with its 12V UK power adapter\n- It measures 19 x 19 cm and is 4 cm deep\n- The LED lights inside do not generate heat and the lightbox is safe to touch\n- We use Danish oil to protect its wooden frame and give it a lovely shine\n- It is handmade so we need a little time to get it ready for you (up to 5 days)\n- It comes protected in a padded box\n- It is delivered via Royal Mail. Good news, there is free UK delivery!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nicki Minaj at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles…)\nUnderneath the stage before February's Super Bowl halftime show, Nicki Minaj felt an emotion she hadn't experienced in quite some time. She was really, really nervous.\nOver the last three years, the young rapper had become one of the most charismatic and commercially successful stars in pop music, with a gum-snapping flow and acerbic guest rhymes that stole the show from vets such as Mariah Carey, Kanye West and Rihanna. Her pop-inclined solo debut, \"Pink Friday,\" hit No. 1 and launched bestselling singles like the elastic \"Super Bass.\" She'd just finished an arena tour opening for Britney Spears to the biggest crowds of her career.\nStill, as she stood next to her peer M.I.A. — and the show's headliner Madonna, the stakes felt higher than ever before.\nSo the MC born Onika Maraj resorted to her time-honored tactic to get over the jitters. She played a character, the stadium-commanding pop star Nicki Minaj. \"Leading up to it under the stage riser, I was thinking, 'Oh my God, there are so many people out there,'\" Minaj, 29, said. \"But once I got out there, 30 seconds into it, I just decided to be myself and have fun with it.\"\nOnly four months into 2012, Nicki Minaj has already headlined two of the world's biggest moments in live music, with her Super Bowl gig followed by an outlandish exorcism-themed Grammys set that was the talk of telecast. Her new album, \"Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,\" is an even more daring document of a young artist holding onto her creativity while navigating major commercial stardom.\n\"Reloaded\" is a labyrinthine psychodrama centered around one of her many alter egos, the gay, twentysomething man Roman Zolanski, whom Minaj cheekily claims is a demon that lives inside her and emerges when she's angry. It's the kind of concept-heavy follow-up album that makes record label execs bolt awake at night soaked in a cold sweat.\nBut if it sticks, \"Roman Reloaded\" might secure Minaj's career in her best role yet — as one of the most daring and versatile pop artists working today.\nMinaj, born in Trinidad and reared in Queens, N.Y., developed her knack for character invention as a defense mechanism, useful while growing up in a poor home with a substance abusing father, whom Minaj has said once tried to kill her mother by setting the family home on fire.\n\"When you have dysfunction at home like that, it can push you to violence or to be creative,\" she said. \"So I did voices and accents from the time I was 7 years old. I think fans see how I started in the inner city, but became a theater major and used that to become an artist.\"\nShe honed her interests in artistic role play, taking theater classes at Fiorello H. La Guardia High School, whose arts curriculum was the inspiration for the stage and movie hit \"Fame.\"\nEven her public face as \"Nicki Minaj\" is a character, one of a slew she's toyed with as a musician. There's Roman; Roman's hysterical British-accented mother, Martha Zolanski; and Harajuku Barbie, an outsized-innocent young girl.\nMinaj's early mixtapes caught the ear of her mentor Lil Wayne with her verbal dexterity, while sharing Missy Elliott's knack for bending words into pop art. But her debut full-length surprised and disappointed some hip-hop fans.\nSingsongy tracks like \"Your Love\" and \" Moment 4 Life\" were perfectly capable singles but felt featherweight and aimed at a different, younger audience. \"I felt a lot of pressure to be inspirational and responsible [on that album],\" Minaj said. \"I like all kinds of music; when I was working at Red Lobster the soundtrack of my life there was Avril Lavigne. Hip-hop fans are my core, and I can never not be hip-hop. But why not showcase all sides of who you are?\"\nMinaj wanted \"Roman Reloaded\" to embrace all her personalities. Early leaked tracks like \"Roman Holiday,\" the vampy noir she performed at the Grammys, the spooky and echo-sodden \"Beez in the Trap\" and the giddy taunt \"Stupid Hoe\" hark back to her wild-eyed mixtape tracks, but with an ear for sticky, radio-pleasing phrasings.\nA roster of guest MCs, including label mates Lil Wayne and Drake and gruff peers Young Jeezy and Rick Ross, co-sign with appearances. It continues the path she forged on \"Pink Friday's\" track \"Roman's Revenge,\" in which guest Eminem revisits his Slim Shady alias to trade barbs with Minaj's Roman.\nMinaj hopes that playfulness can inspire rappers to loosen up.\n\"Em and I both came from nothing, so we've had to do a lot of escaping,\" she said. \"Traditionally, hip-hop has had such a judgmental spirit. But Wayne made a rock album, and Kanye named an album '808s & Heartbreak' and sang all over it. I feel artists like us are setting a new tone and making new rules here.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Seen as a parallel in Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle, nature has a powerful way of portraying good vs. bad. The primary setting of “Greasy Lake” is Greasy Lake, a lake in the worst sort of ecological condition full of grime. Parlous individuals hover the area surrounding Greasy Lake and are noted for actions denoted by society; simply stated, Greasy Lake is an oasis, separating teens from everyday culture. Though most find pleasure, the narrator in Greasy Lake finds…...\nBeing “cool” has developed into a term meaning more than just social status. “Cool” is now known as an act of fitting in, and doing anything to be accepted into society. In the short story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, three boys are caught in a life changing moment when they realize that their whole lives are worth more than a couple hours of fun. Boyle’s detailed description of these teens struggling with substance abuse at a very young…...\nIt is sometimes suggested that women occupied a position analogous to slaves, in relationship to the free male master of the household (oikos). Medea's use of the word despotes (“master”) in the passage alluded to earlier suggests that the lot of women resembled that of slaves (Medea 233). Aristotle said that a husband rules his wife as master rules slaves. Nevertheless, there were important social and legal differences in the status of free women and slaves (Kluth 2005). For example,…...\nSave Time On Research and\nHire a Pro to Write You a 100% Plagiarism-Free Paper.\nThe theme in T.C. Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” is demonstrated when the narrator and his friends learn a potentially deadly lesson through a series of accidents, caused as a result of their reckless pursuit to be bad. The nature of life reveals to them that striving to be bad in order to be viewed as hip or cool can often result in dark accidents, with catastrophic consequences. In the beginning of the story, three adolescent boys believe themselves to be “dangerous…...\nGreasy Lake by T. Coraghesan Boyle’s is the story of a group of adolescents, searching for the one situation that will proclaim them as bad boys and how their minds change. The greasy lake is a short story which the narrator uses details, imagination and language to describe and represent the moral condition of each character. Also, during the story the narrator shows us how each character becomes closer to maturity after facing a crazy and unexpected night in a…...\nWe've found 5 essay examples\non Greasy Lake\n1 of 1\nStill don't know where to start with", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Beyond Creation was created in Montreal, Canada in 2005 under the inspiration of Simon Girard and Nicolas Domingo Viotto. The band has evolved through the years and created its own style of music. After three years of searching for musicians that had this passion, Kevin Charté (co-worker of Simon Girard) presented Guyot Bégin-Benoit to him. After auditioning, the band decided to accept him in the formation and a couple of months later, Nicolas Domingo Viotto decided to quit the band. Ironically, Kevin Charté took his place and during January 2010, after listening to the group's song \"Injustice Revealed\", Dominic \"Forest\" Lapointe contacted them to join the band. And this is how Beyond Creation was came to life.\nNow with the complete line-up, Beyond Creation is ready to bring you to outer spaces with its unique and powerful sounds. Incorporating melodic to extreme blasting metal, with progressive and technical riffs, without forgetting these growls from under the grave, the band is a mix of various influences. All these changing atmospheres will make you want to know what else they are capable of doing.\nBeyond Creation followed up their 2010 demo with a full-length studio release in 2011, entitled The Aura.\nIn early 2013 the band signed a contract with European independent label Season Of Mist.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Hero’s Journey a run to the forest\nI wanted to share a story which explores the archetypal hero’s journey in some way. I thought about writing an epic tale of a snail trying to get across the garden but it was a tad slow… then I realised it was right in front of me. My daily run to the forest. Brace yourselves for call to adventure, crossing the threshold and lessons learned all in a half hour jog.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"If I'da gave it up to everyone who wanted some,\nMy Louboutin count would be at 101!\"\nIt appears as though we are in the musical era of the \"new classics.\" After rapper Tink gave us a flawless flip of Aaliyah's classic \"One in a Million,\" singer Elle Varner put on a new hat and channels her inner Lauryn Hill and gives us three minutes of straight rapping- and it's actually pretty damn good.\nElle Varner's latest track, \"The End of the Beginning,\" is the musical clap-back of the year and quite possibly, the decade. Yes, the singer who won our hearts with \"Refill\" and was pretty quiet during her beef with fellow singer K. Michelle, taps into her book of rhymes and not only reads a few people for filth, but also manages to take shots at an entire society of women fixated on selling themselves short for a few bags and shoes, all the while being honest enough to admit that she often ponders how much easier life would be if she too were a ho. Oh!\nAnd unlike some singers who switch up their styles in a desperate attempt to stay relevant, it appears this edgier side of the singer might only be new to fans, the way she flawlessly and effortlessly goes off on her latest track.\nPeep some lyrics below:\nThese are the woes of a 20-something-year-old\nSingle black female addicted to retail\nI'm single 'cause I trusted every asshole I ever met\nAnd lately I've been fed up with that sh*t\nIt ain't been working out so well\nSo now I'm soaking in this Starbucks, sipping skinny caramel\nIced soy macchiato, wondering what life would be like if I was a ho,\nIf I'da gave it up to everyone who wanted some\nMy Louboutin count would be at 101\nAnd rent, I'd never pay that sh*t again\nAnd Angelina did it, and since she hasn't spent a penny since\nBut me, I'm just as stubborn as my mother\nNever depend on another for my check...\nI've been jet-black and blue without you\nThe illest that I've ever been in a sea that I'm drowning in\nIt's sink or swim for me now, on the real I don't know who to be now\nAnd I don't wanna rebound\nCan't get with the get down\nI'm good with picking apples from the ground\nAnd running 'round town with a clown singing \"who's sorry now\"\nI thought about it just to make you jealous\nAct like I'm doing business from an empty office building\nInstagram flexing like my living was dependent\nLike \"ooh you missed the party, everyone was in attendance\"\nBut you, it's all in my imagination\nYou running back to me, the scene I'm constantly replaying\nIt's borderline obsessive, my words were so offensive\nI'm good at burning bridges, not so good at climbing fences...\nGo 'head, Elle! Peep the entire track below and tell us what you think:\nAnd because the lyrics are so long (but soooo good), check out page 2 for the entire song lyrics.\nAre you here for Elle Veezy?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This post may contain affiliate links. As Amazon Associates we earn commission from qualifying purchases.\nThe name Mehek holds a fascinating history that spans centuries and cultures. Understanding its origins, meaning, cultural significance, historical roots, geographical distribution, famous personalities, and modern usage provides a comprehensive picture of this captivating name.\nUnderstanding the Name Mehek\nMehek is a name with deep meaning and cultural significance. Its origins can be traced back to ancient times, where it held a unique place in various societies. The name Mehek carries with it a certain allure, evoking images of beauty, charm, and grace.\nWhen we delve into the history of the name Mehek, we discover a rich tapestry of cultural connections. In ancient civilizations, the fragrance of flowers was often associated with divinity and spirituality. The delicate and captivating aroma of flowers was believed to have the power to uplift the soul and bring joy to those who encountered it. It is no wonder, then, that the name Mehek, which means “fragrance” or “scent of a flower,” carries such profound symbolism.\nAcross different cultures and languages, the name Mehek has taken on various interpretations, each adding its own unique flavor to its significance. In some cultures, Mehek is associated with the enchanting scent of jasmine, a flower known for its intoxicating fragrance. In others, it is connected to the delicate aroma of roses, symbolizing love and beauty.\nThe Meaning of Mehek\nThe name Mehek carries a distinct meaning, one that resonates with different cultures and languages. In its essence, Mehek represents the fragrance or scent of a flower. This symbolic representation connects the name to attributes such as beauty, delicacy, and the power to captivate.\nImagine walking through a lush garden, surrounded by an array of vibrant flowers. As you inhale deeply, the enchanting aroma of Mehek fills the air, transporting you to a realm of tranquility and serenity. This is the essence of the name Mehek, a name that encapsulates the very essence of nature’s beauty.\nMoreover, the name Mehek carries a sense of mystery and intrigue. Just as the scent of a flower lingers in the air, leaving a lasting impression, so too does the name Mehek leave an indelible mark on those who encounter it. It is a name that evokes curiosity and invites exploration, drawing people closer to uncover its hidden depths.\nCultural Significance of Mehek\nAcross diverse cultures, the name Mehek has acquired significant cultural meaning. It is often associated with elegance, femininity, and a sense of enchantment. In many societies, the name Mehek is seen as a reflection of a person’s inner beauty and charm, elevating it to a cherished and valued name choice.\nIn some cultures, Mehek is considered a name bestowed upon individuals who possess a natural grace and poise. It is believed that those who bear the name Mehek are destined to bring beauty and harmony into the world, just as a fragrant flower enhances its surroundings.\nFurthermore, the name Mehek has become a symbol of empowerment for women. It represents the strength and resilience that lies within, reminding individuals of their ability to overcome obstacles and blossom in the face of adversity. Mehek serves as a reminder that beauty and strength can coexist, intertwining to create a powerful force that can inspire and uplift.\nAs we explore the cultural significance of the name Mehek, we uncover a tapestry of stories and traditions that have shaped its meaning over time. From ancient civilizations to modern societies, Mehek continues to be a name that resonates deeply, capturing the hearts and imaginations of those who encounter it.\nThe Historical Roots of Mehek\nDelving into the historical roots of the name Mehek uncovers its connection to ancient civilizations and their naming practices. Through the ages, the name has evolved, adapting to different cultures and languages while preserving its underlying essence.\nAncient Origins of the Name\nThe origins of the name Mehek can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. In Mesopotamia, names held great significance and were believed to have a direct influence on an individual’s destiny. The name Mehek, with its unique combination of sounds, was considered to possess a mystical quality, believed to bring good fortune and protection to its bearer.\nIn the Indus Valley civilization, names were chosen based on their meanings and the qualities they represented. Mehek, derived from the Sanskrit word “mehak,” meaning fragrance or aroma, was associated with beauty, grace, and a captivating presence. It was believed that individuals named Mehek would possess a natural charm that would leave a lasting impression on others.\nEvolution of the Name Over Time\nOver time, the name Mehek underwent transformations and adaptations as it journeyed across continents and cultures. As the world connected through trade routes and cultural exchanges, the name traveled across regions, acquiring various linguistic forms while still retaining its inherent meaning.\nIn ancient Persia, the name Mehek took on the form “Mehak,” reflecting the influence of the Persian language and culture. It became associated with the concept of paradise and was often used to describe the enchanting scents of blooming flowers and lush gardens.\nDuring the Islamic Golden Age, the name Mehek gained popularity among Muslim communities. It was cherished for its connection to the natural world and its ability to evoke a sense of tranquility and serenity. The name Mehek became a symbol of inner beauty and spiritual harmony.\nIn medieval Europe, the name Mehek underwent further adaptations, taking on variations such as “Mehetabel” and “Mehitabel.” These variations were influenced by the prevailing naming customs of the time, which often incorporated biblical references and meanings. Mehek, in its European forms, came to be associated with strength, resilience, and divine favor.\nAs the world continued to evolve, the name Mehek found its way into different cultures and languages, each adding their unique touch to its pronunciation and spelling. From the enchanting melodies of Arabic poetry to the lyrical sounds of Spanish, the name Mehek resonated with people from diverse backgrounds, transcending borders and language barriers.\nToday, the name Mehek continues to be embraced by individuals around the world, representing a rich tapestry of history, culture, and personal identity. Its ancient origins and evolutionary journey serve as a reminder of the enduring power of names and their ability to connect us to our shared human heritage.\nGeographical Distribution of Mehek\nThe name Mehek has a distinct presence in different parts of the world. Its geographical distribution provides insights into the global popularity of the name and its variations.\nMehek, a name that exudes beauty and grace, has gained immense popularity in various countries across the globe. Its appeal transcends borders and cultures, making it a beloved choice for parents seeking a name that embodies elegance and charm.\nPrevalence of Mehek in Different Countries\nMehek has become a name of significance in countries such as India, Pakistan, and several Middle Eastern nations. In these regions, the name holds cultural importance and is often chosen for its association with beauty and grace. It is not uncommon to hear the name Mehek being whispered in the bustling streets of Mumbai or echoed in the vibrant bazaars of Lahore.\nIn India, Mehek has captured the hearts of many parents who wish to bestow upon their daughters a name that reflects their inner radiance. The name has become a symbol of femininity and elegance, with its melodic sound resonating in the diverse landscapes of the country.\nIn Pakistan, Mehek has also found its place in the hearts of parents who seek a name that encapsulates the beauty and allure of their daughters. The name Mehek has become synonymous with grace and charm, and it is not uncommon to find young girls with this name enchanting their families and communities with their captivating presence.\nFurthermore, Mehek has also gained popularity in several Middle Eastern nations, where its soft and melodious sound has found resonance among parents who wish to bestow upon their daughters a name that embodies beauty and elegance. From the bustling streets of Dubai to the serene deserts of Saudi Arabia, the name Mehek can be heard, carrying with it a sense of enchantment.\nRegional Variations of Mehek\nWhile the name Mehek is predominantly used in specific countries, regional variations of the name exist, adding an extra layer of diversity and richness to its already captivating essence. These variations reflect the cultural tapestry of the regions where the name is embraced, showcasing the beauty of different languages and traditions.\nIn India, for example, the name Mehek can be found in various regional variations such as Mehak, Mehik, and Mehika. Each of these variations adds a unique touch to the name, while still preserving its inherent beauty and grace. These regional variations not only highlight the linguistic diversity of the country but also serve as a testament to the widespread popularity of the name.\nSimilarly, in Pakistan, variations of the name Mehek can be found, such as Mahak and Mahika. These variations, with their subtle differences in pronunciation and spelling, add a touch of individuality to the name while staying true to its essence.\nAcross the Middle East, the name Mehek also undergoes regional variations, reflecting the diverse cultures and languages of the region. Variations such as Maha, Mahi, and Mahika can be found, each carrying its own unique charm and significance.\nThese regional variations of Mehek not only showcase the adaptability of the name but also highlight the cultural richness and diversity of the regions where it is embraced. They serve as a reminder that while the name may have a common origin, it has evolved and flourished in different corners of the world, becoming a cherished part of various cultures.\nFamous Personalities Named Mehek\nThroughout history, remarkable individuals named Mehek have left enduring legacies. These influential figures have made significant contributions in their respective fields and have contributed to shaping society.\nInfluential Figures Named Mehek\nOne such influential personality is Mehek Sharma, an acclaimed poet whose work captured the hearts of many. Her eloquent verses resonated deeply with readers, making her a celebrated literary figure.\nContributions of Individuals Named Mehek\nAdditionally, numerous individuals named Mehek have excelled in various domains, including art, science, and business. Their accomplishments have left an indelible mark on their respective fields, inspiring future generations to strive for greatness.\nModern Usage of the Name Mehek\nAs society continues to evolve, the name Mehek has found a place in contemporary culture. Its modern usage reflects shifting trends and interpretations, while still encompassing its timeless allure.\nPopularity of Mehek in Recent Years\nIn recent years, Mehek has gained increased popularity as a name choice for newborns. Its association with beauty, elegance, and fragrance has struck a chord with parents seeking a unique and meaningful name for their children.\nContemporary Interpretations of Mehek\nFurthermore, the name Mehek has been embraced by various cultural communities, each infusing it with their own interpretations and adaptations. This contemporary approach enriches the name’s significance and allows for it to be interpreted in a multitude of ways, reflecting the diverse world we inhabit.\nIn summary, the name Mehek holds a rich history that encompasses its understanding, meaning, cultural significance, historical roots, geographical distribution, famous personalities, and modern usage. Its journey through time and across cultures has solidified its place as a name that resonates with beauty, charm, and grace.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Created by Mount Pleasant Eco Park\nAn introduction to using a range of natural dyes including immersive botanical dye techniques, solar dyes, hapazome and indigo.\nLed by experienced dye and pigment artist Francesca Owen from eARTh South West this day course is a great introduction to the range of dying techniques possible from foraged and local resources.\nCourse includes silk and cotton testing strips and cotton bag for the indigo vat.\n£68 including a delicious vegetarian/ vegan roast from the cafe\nLimited places available, to book your place email [email protected]\nThis course ran in May and was extremely popular so book early.\nAll courses are available as Gift Vouchers.\nSouth West | Cornwall\nProject Dirt has now become Semble.\nPlease check out our new website.\nYou'll be automatically redirected in 10 seconds if you don't select anything from below.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ama Serwah Genfi whose stage name is Amaarae, is a Ghanaian-American singer, songwriter, record producer and engineer born on July 4, 1994. She became known for her work around representation and gender in music. She is versatile music artiste with music genre of R&B, Soul, and Afro-fusion. She came to limelight with her song “Fluid” which was taken off her 6 track debut EP “Passionfruit Summers”.\n|Birth Name:||Ama Serwah Genfi|\n|Birth Date:||July 4, 1994|\n|Birth Place:||New York, United States|\n|Occupation:||Singer, Songwriter, Record producer|\n|Net Worth:||$1 million – $2 million|\nAmaarae was born on July 4, 1994 in New York, United States and originally from Accra, Ghana.\nShe is the elder of two children born to Ghanaian parents, Ama Bawuah and Kwado Boateng Genfi.\nShe began to develop passion for music at the age 0f 13 where she wrote her first song. She started making mix-tapes at high school and by the time she was 17, she took an internship at a music studio. She undertook voice training while studying English literature at the University before she eventually returned to Ghana in June 2017.\nShe came through with her debut EP “Passionfruit Summers” in November 2017 and in April 2018, she was named one of Apple Music Africa’s Favorite New Artiste.\nAmaarae released her debut studio album “The Angel You Don’t Know” on November 12, 2020.\n- Leave M Alone\n- Like It\n- Jumping Ship\n- Feel A Way\n- Spend Some Time\n- Sad Girlz Luv Money\nAmaarae is a Ghanaian musician with an estimated net worth of between $1 million – $3 million.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "…Or ‘Color’ for my US readers.\nI recently showed off on twitter a project I’d been working on for a while, a photogrammetric model of a sheep skull and neck, where each bone has been digitized seperately:\nHowever, you may notice from the video that the skull and jaw are whiter, or perhaps pinker, than the vertebrae, which have a greenish tint to them. This is the result of my digitizing the bones in different environments. For the vertebrae, I was able to use my automated small photogrammetry setup, but the skull and jaw were too large for this, so I had to do them separately, using a ring light. As a result, the colours are slightly different. It’s fairly subtle, but it annoys me, and as this model will be going on sale on sketchfab, I want it to be perfect.\nHere’s the models in Blender:\nTo fix this, I saved out all the texture files to a folder:\nSo, I used Photoshop’s colour match tool to make the jaw and skull look more like the vertebrae (the greenish tinge is what I’d consider the more real colour balance). Unfortunately, I’ve not found an easy/obvious similar functionality in Krita, Gimp, or Affinity Photo. It may be possible in other software, but much like for object selection and background removal [REMBG not withstanding], Photoshop seems to still have features that make it worth using, especially if you get it free through work.\nYou can see from my screenshots that the vertebrae textures have a lot of black space in them, but the skull and jaw do not. That’s because I did the vertebrae with Meshroom, which creates isolated islands in the texture, but the Skull and Jaw were done in Metashape, which blends colours between areas of texture (there’s no reason I picked Meshroom or Metashape other than my photogrammetry software of choice at any given time changes on a whim).\nThat makes colour matching slightly more difficult, because we don’t want to use the black – it’ll make our modified jaw texture black in places.\nSo, using the magic wand tool, I select all the black in the C1Tex image (make sure ‘contiguous’ is unticked), then I invert the selection with ctrl-shift-I, so that the image just has the areas of colour selected:\nNow make sure you’re working in the image you want to change, in this case I select JawTex.jpg by clicking it’s tab at the top. Then go to Image->Adjustments->Match Color\nThis brings up a menu, and you need to select the source image you’re going to match to:\nUse the dropdown source menu to select the texture you want to match to. In my case, that’s the C1Tex file that’s open:\nIt’ll preview automatically. Hopefully you can see straight away in the above image that the altered jaw texture looks wrong. That’s because by default, Photoshop is using the whole image to match colours, including all that black. We need to tell it to use just the selection:\nOnce that box is checked, everything looks like it should, and the balance of colour between the two images is similar:\nYou can hit ok, and it’ll do a bit of processing:\nWhen it’s done, you can save the file out, probably best to do so with a new name (in this case ‘jawTex_matched.jpg’) so you don’t overwrite the old image.\nJust to show you how much difference this has made, here’s the original and matched textures side by side:\nNow with the Jaw and skull redone, I can go into Blender, and reselect the textures:\nNow the skull, Jaw, and each cervical vertebrae are all far more consistent in colour:\nIf you’re one of those odd people that prefers video tutorials, I recorded the process and put it up on YouTube:\nLeave a Reply", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Very talented Nigerian songstress and music composer, Asa comes back the musical scene with a lovely single titled “Mayana“.\nApparently, this song vocalizes a story of a female lover who ran away with her partner. Asa with her regular tune blended with Colombia samba beat drops her first single in two years.\nHowever, this is actually her first released for a very long time if properly recalled, for about 2 years.\nHowever, the song gives production credit and recognition to talented producer, P. Prime.\nListen and share your thoughts below;", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "September 2, 2016\nA self-taught Los Angeles based painter, T.S. Claire has quickly become one of the city's most unique and carefully watched artists.Read More\nAbout Gallery 816 Sutter St.\nPlease wait we are preparing PDF file...\nThere was a problem generating pdf, please try again later.\nMore artworks by Spoke Art Gallery", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today (December 11), Billboard announced their completed year-end and decade recap lists which featured many prominent Hip-Hop and R&B stars.\nKanye West was named musics Top Male Artist of 2009, a distinction shared with his female counterpart Taylor Swift.\nThe two had a memorable stage moment in September when West interrupted Swifts MTV VMA acceptance speech.\nRounding out the list of top artists for 2009 are Beyonce, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, T.I., Nickelback, and Pink.\nDrake secured two awards: one for Hot Rap Song of the Year (Best I Ever Had), and Top New R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year.\nT.I. won the Top Hot Songs Artist of 2009, courtesy of his four Top 5 singles off 2008s double platinum Paper Trail (Whatever You Like, Swagga Like Us, Live Your Life, and Dead and Gone).\nAs reported earlier this week on AllHipHop.com, Eminem was crowned the best-selling artist of the decade, beating out fellow chart heavyweights Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Nelly, and 50 Cent.\nAdditional awards were given based on an artists dominance of a given chart over the last 10 years.\nThis criteria yielded recognition for T.I. (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist), 50 Cent (Top Hot Rap Songs Artist), and Jay-Z (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums).\nFans can view the entire 2009 and decade lists at www.billboard.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This little cutie is counting on her fingers to tell a new friend how old she is. She is three and holds three fingers up to relate that to her […]\nThis modern day Native American woman is looking to her future while dressed in a vintage dress I patterned after a dress that is in the Marlin Mansion Museum in […]\nThis mountain man is giving his Native American wife a gift of a new horse.\nThese two Native American ladies are beginning their day with a morning swim.\nSupper means boots off, Dad’s chinks on the bench and Mom’s black berries are waiting for cleaning after thee evening meal.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Starting her music career in 1990 by creating a band called the Wild Orchids, Stacy Ann Ferguson (known as Fergie), is now a household-name as an American singer and actress.\nWild Orchid was a three-member, pop band with Fergie and her friends, Stefanie Ridel and Renee Sandstorm. In 1996, the band released their first album Wild Orchid. Their next three albums Oxygen, Fire, and Hipnotic didn’t generate much success.\nIn 2003, the band acquired popularity with top hits, Hey Mamma, Where is the Love, and Shut Up from their first album with Fergie, Elephunk. The Black Eyed Peas won the Grammy for “Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group” for Let’s Get it Started the following year.\nEven with her success in the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie wanted to pursue her solo music career. She released her first solo album, The Dutchess, in 2006, producing songs in various styles including Big Girls Don’t Cry and Glamorous. Fergie’s second solo album, Double Dutchess, was not released until 2017.\nBefore beginning her music pursuits, Fergie was an actress in the children’s show, Kids Incorporated, from 1984-1994. She continued her acting career while winning numerous Grammys with the Black Eyed Peas. Fergie was featured in the films including Poseidon, Planet Terror, and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.\n“I think women are beautiful, I’ve had a lot of fun with women, and I’m not ashamed of it. The problem is that I also love a well-endowed man. But just because I enjoy women doesn’t mean I’m allowed to have affairs in my relationship,” Fergie said in the interview with the Advocate, according to Huff Post.\nBig Girls Don’t Cry (Personal), from The Dutchess, is one of Fergie’s biggest solo hits, currently having over 401 million streams on Spotify.\nAn acoustic guitar and a subtle roll on a crash cymbal convene an introductory sequence. Fergie begins the first verse with a syncopated, gentle vocal melody before a snare breaks the peace.\nBass, electric guitar, and drum set transform the acoustic, campfire quality of the song to a pop sound. Fergie raises the vocal melody while a lower vocal harmony accompanies her. More background vocals enhance the chord progression as an arising electric guitar lick periodically presents itself in the right pan.\nFergie and the acoustic guitar respond to the energetic chorus with the soothing melodic pattern of the second verse. A cello resonates, repeating a simple, yet pure and wafting section throughout the stanza.\nThe full band resurges in the chorus after being welcomed by a conquering string section, notably of violin and cello. Fergie belts her self-love poem as a celestial sound effect passes between phrases.\nKeyboard and the other prevailing instruments escort Fergie through the bridge. Violins appear before a high vocal harmony makes its first offering. The string section and frequent crashes of the cymbal allow Fergie to finish the bridge dulcetly.\nAll instrumental elements and low vocal harmonies gather again in the final chorus. At the forefront of the ending is the cello and acoustic guitar, reviving the simplistic nature of the introduction.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Labeled as one of the hottest releases of 2018, this limited-edition trainer was released as part of the Air Max Day celebrations. The fans of the Air Max were given the chance to vote for their favorite \"RevolutionAir\" in 2017, with several artists putting their designs, but it was the LA-based co-founder of roundtwo store Sean Wotherspoon who won with his interpretation of a sole-swapped Air Max 1/97.\nThe future of Air looks seriously appealing with the corduroy upper, featuring in an array of different colorways. Light yellow is contrasted by grey, pink and blue before a dark green coloured mudguard circles the shoe. As the name would suggest, the Sean Wotherspoon Air Max 1/97 showcases a fusion of two iconic silhouettes. A chunky Air Max 1 midsole gives a totally unique look to this silhouette.\nTo complete the design, a color blocking outsole mirrors the colorway of the upper and a Velcro attachment features on the tongue. The Nike Air Max 1/97 Sean Wotherspoon is scheduled to release this March via the retailers listed. Stay tuned for more updates and stockist alerts.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla\n4 septembre - 16 octobre 2010\nFor this exhibition, the artists present five works organized around the principle of physical and temporal displacement. Gathering material elements from different social, geographical, and cultural systems into the field of a single image/form, the works presented here use metaphor as a structuring and distributional force to expand the frame through which normal circuits of meaning are determined. The artists likewise privilege the aberrant, excessive, and disruptive workings of metaphors and other tropes to destabilize the functional stability of these ordering structures.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Don’t Blink! Jennifer Nettles’ Album ‘Playing with Fire’ Comes Out Friday\nJennifer Nettles has a new solo album out and she says she couldn't have done it alone.\nAlthough Jennifer spent 10 years as a part of Sugarland, it didn't seem a surprise that she would put out her first solo album, That Girl, in 2014. Now, this week, she is getting ready to release her second solo album, Playing with Fire. Although the name suggests that she may be pressing her luck, we feel differently.\nAnd so does Jennifer.\nIn a recent interview with USA Today, Jennifer talked about how she felt completely out of her element when recording it. She had just had a baby and felt like she was all over the place. Now, being a mother, she feels vulnerable, but also brave and on fire.\nSo she got started and enlisted the help of Brandy Clark.\nHer new album features many songs penned by Brandy. The two have known each other for quite sometime and Brandy even toured with Jennifer on her \"That Girl\" tour.\nSeems like a match made in heaven and we can't wait to hear what they've come up with.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The always charming Annie posted a piece of original art that’s hanging on her wall and wondered who else hung original art. (Children’s art doesn’t count. Hanging that is obligatory.) Here are a few pieces in my home. None of them have a stylistic relationship. It’s a hodgepodge.\nI received this oil on canvas from Artisté Florenza as a birthday present. This was an Asian food store near my apartment where I lived in Brooklyn. It was called, I kid you not, the FU KING FOOD SHOP on Atlantic Avenue. You can’t make this stuff up. The store next to it is the fictitious Mr. Mark’s Cleaners (that’s me) and the signs in the window read Happy Birthday Mark. The address is 28. It was my 28th birthday and that was a long, long time ago. That’s my shadow darkening the lower left corner, not the painting.\nI bought this for myself in Union Square, NYC. It’s Japanese gouache and ink mounted on silk. Mrs. wife isn’t that crazy about it but she lets me hang it because, as you well know, marriage is a give-and-take.\nMy artist friend Jeff Suntala gave this to us as a wedding gift. It’s a charcoal sketch from one of his classes. The colors are more vibrant than what appears here but I was too lazy to take it off the wall to photograph in better lighting. Sorry, Jeff.\nThis is a triptych that I took of 7-Year Old Daughter when she was a baby pulling herself up on our coffee table.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thron reveal new Album artwork and new song \"Nothingness\"\nThron reveal new Album artwork and new song “Nothingness”\nGerman blackened death metal band THRON are now unveiling the cover artwork and also the first new song taken from their forthcoming album “Pilgrim”, which will be released on Listenable Records on February 19th, 2021. The song of choice is “Nothingness”.\nListen to “Nothingness” below.\nSamca (Vocals) comment:\n“Dark, furious, atmospheric. Nothingness starts gloomy and melancholic before it explodes in a blastbeat just to surprise with a bass break that leads into the marching verses. A song that’s exemplary for the variety and complexity of the new THRON album “PILGRIM“.\nTHRON’s ‘Pilgrim’ was recorded and produced by C.Brandes, A.Kovats and P.Hagmann. , Mixed and Mastered by C.Brandes at Iguana Studios in March-Buchheim in May 2020 with additional Sound Design by Stan Berzon. Artwork by created by Khaos Diktator Design.\nCheck de onderstaande socials voor meer informatie over deze band.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "~ AT Mann, 'The Divine Plot'.Watched over by the graciousness of teacher and friend; by diamond-bright books. Surely, Amrita Sher-Gil's Brahmacharis are none other than the five Pandavas?\nFriday, February 11, 2011\nAncient mythologies generate strong feelings about the future, almost as though the earliest memories are simultaneously prophecies. Past events continuously repeat until they are accepted as prototypical. Repetition is a reminder that (the past and future) are firmly linked to each other, if not identical.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A new decade has dawned, but what can we expect to enjoy in the year ahead? Here's our pick of some of the best brand-new TV comedy coming up over the horizon.\nA sitcom set in the UK's Government Communications Headquarters: a weedier, geekier, more bureaucratic version of MI5 and MI6. When an arrogant, maverick US agent comes over to join the team, he enlists an inept and tactless computer analyst in a power grab that threatens to disrupt the team's ability to combat cyber terrorism. The six-part series, which launches in February, was created by Nick Mohammed, who co-stars with Friends icon David Schwimmer. Guide\nA comedy drama based on Adam Kay's best selling book about his time as a junior doctor. The BBC says: \"This is Going to Hurt is a blisteringly funny, politically enraging and frequently heart-breaking wake-up call to anyone who values the NHS, and a frank and moving love letter to the 1.4 million people working on the front line every day. \" Guide\nA new studio audience sitcom for ITV, Kate & Koji centres around a working-class woman who runs an old-fashioned café in a neglected seaside town, who develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with an asylum-seeking African doctor. Many deride both the audience sitcom and the idea of ITV producing comedies nowadays, but with stars Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola, this is definitely a series to look out for. It comes from Jenkin and Hamilton, the writers of Outnumbered and Drop The Dead Donkey. The show is being recorded in late January and February and free tickets are available. Guide\nMel & Sue's first sitcom. They star as two best friends who have stumbled into a career in contract killing. Working out of their scruffy van, each episode follows the hapless duo as they try to carry out their latest hit, inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics. Guide\nDetective Inspectors DI John Major (Daniel Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Stephen Graham) are the top crime fighting duo in the Met's Special Investigation Unit. But when an undercover sting goes horribly wrong, Major is gunned down on the job and killed. As an 'asset' considered too valuable to lose, Major's body is fast-tracked into an experimental Artificial Intelligence project to bring him back from the dead. The only problem is, Major 2.0 may look like and sound like the original, but something has been lost in translation - quite a lot actually. Guide\nThe first sitcom Damon Beesley and Iain Morris have written together since The Inbetweeners. This one follows the mostly off-the-pitch misadventures of three young football players at a fictional Premier League club. The players find themselves struggling with their mercurial Italian manager Cesare, the team's eccentric American Chairman (Will Arnett), and ineffectual coach. Guide\nIn this still untitled show, currently filming, Sara Pascoe stars as herself, picking up the baton from her biographically inspired Comedy Shorts 2018 pilot, Sara Pascoe Vs Monogamy. Produced by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the series is described as a \"factually-inspired comedy about family, sex and relationships\", and will be on air later this year. Guide\nThis hasn't officially been announced yet, but it's understood that another Alan Partridge project is in the works. This one will reportedly see the character present a \"Dimbleby-style grand sweep of British history\". Guide\nA sitcom by Mae Martin described as \"a deeply personal, darkly hilarious and poignant story about the unique pressures of navigating the modern-day fluid landscape of gender and sexuality\". The series follows recovering addict and comedian Mae, who is trying to control the addictive behaviours and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of her life. Guide\nA fictional window into the funny and frustrated marriage of Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont. Expected to start in February, this comedy series sees the stand-up comedians play exaggerated versions of themselves as viewers get a glimpse into their home and work lives, surrounded by their celebrity friends and their Hebden Bridge neighbours. Guide\nStarring Tim Key and This Country's Daisy May Cooper, this is a true period sitcom. Set in AD 1647, bang in the middle of the English Civil War, a witchfinder and his suspect embark on a road-free road trip through East Anglia, ravaged also by famine and plague, to reach her trial. But his captive is the worst possible travel companion: an inquisitive, uncouth woman whose ability to prick his pomposity and ask uncomfortable questions turns a straightforward journey into a life-changing ordeal. Guide\nPart comedy, part travelogue, part cooking show, grime artist and food lover Big Zuu cooks for comedians on tour around the UK in this new Dave series, expected to air early this year. A mix of comedy and food - what's not to love? Guide\nA comedy revolving around Kim Noakes (Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams), a young misfit who lives a secluded country life. Kim was just a little girl when her father died in murky circumstances. Now grown up, she sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission to honour his memory. Guide\nA satirical comedy drama from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley. In a small British town, a toxic spill creates a horde of flesh-eating baby boomers. Against a background of already simmering inter-generational political and social tension, a group of wide-eyed teenagers must summon up more than a pithy meme on social media - this is a bloody and messy battle royale! Guide\nA star cast lead this new three-part series for Gold, amongst them Sanjeev Bhaskar, David Walliams, Sophie Thompson and Hugh Bonneville. 27-year-old Emily is living in London, but forced to return to the sleepy seaside town, Sandlyands, where she grew up when her father - local celebrity and arcade owner Les Vegas - goes missing. Reunited with old friends as she attempts to deal with his affairs, many surprises look set to be unveiled. Guide\nMeanwhile, if you'll allow us to break away from our TV theme for a moment and move to online comedy, Katherine Ryan's debut sitcom, The Duchess, will launch on Netflix later in the year. It's inspired by her own life living and working in London as a fantastically no-nonsense, independent single mother. There's just one thing she can't do on her own: have another child. Guide\nAbove are just some of the new projects in development. To find out about more shows, plus see all the returning comedy coming up too (for example, a new Red Dwarf feature-length special is in the works), take a look around our website.\nFurther, full details about each production above will be added to British Comedy Guide as soon as they are available, so keep an eye on the site and press the Like buttons on the shows you're keen to know more about.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Roger Waters\nI was in my third year of classes at a place in London called the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture, which is where I met Nick Mason and Rick Wright. At the end of each term we would have a show, and this time we had Cream — in a small hall where I had once played Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman, which is beside the point.\nThe curtain drew back and the three of them started playing \"Crossroads.\" I had never seen or heard anything like it before. I was simply staggered by the amount of equipment they had: by Ginger Baker's double bass drum, by Jack Bruce's two 4-by-12 Marshall amps and by all of Eric Clapton's gear. It was an astounding sight and an explosive sound.\nTwo-thirds of the way through their set, one of them said, \"We'd like to invite a friend of ours from America out onstage.\" It was Jimi Hendrix, and that was the first night he played in England. He came on and did all that now-famous stuff, like playing with his teeth. That ticket cost about a pound or so. It might have been the best purchase I ever made.\nAfter that, Pink Floyd started to go professional, and we would run into Cream on the road. They affected so many people. Jimmy Page must have looked at Cream and thought, \"Fuck me, I think I'll do that,\" and then put together Led Zeppelin. Along with the Beatles, they gave those of us entering the business at that time something to aspire to that wasn't pop but was still popular.\nI remember Ginger Baker was insane back then, and I'm sure he still is. He hit the drums harder than anyone I've ever seen, with the possible exception of Keith Moon. And Ginger hit them in a rhythmic style all his own that was extraordinary. Eric Clapton we don't have to talk about — it's obvious how amazing he is. Then there's Jack Bruce — probably the most musically gifted bass player who's ever been.\nCream were very innovative within the context of all the music coming from the West Coast of the U.S. at that time, from bands like the Doors and Love. Apart from being a great blues band, Cream had a real good go at so many other styles, even if some of it sounds a little silly now. There are songs on all the Cream albums that amaze me still, like \"Crossroads,\" \"Sunshine of Your Love,\" \"White Room\" and \"I Feel Free.\" They were desperately trying to write material that was truly progressive and original. And they achieved that.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Last week I started a reread of Gary’s book “Turning Signs” and at the same time broke my left wrist while skiing. Gary says: “We form and reform habits of doing, being, seeing and saying because we are complex adaptive systems…” With my arm in a cast my habits have had to reform and, well, gary’s too since he is now my left hand.\nChapter 1 asks us to have a beginner’s mind and to start again, again and again.\n“Perfect readiness to assimilate new associations implies perfect readiness to drop old ones… To be a philosopher, or scientific man, you must be as a little child, with all the sincerity and simple mindedness of the child’s vision, with all the plasticity of the child’s mental habits.” C.S. Peirce\nThis will be my frame of mind as I read on. I don’t expect to understand it all, just to be open and elastic on this secret mission.\nMy creative reading goal is to do one drawing or painting for each chapter and post them here. My efforts are an exploration and may not make sense or even be pretty. To begin, I called this drawing a triadic relation, but it isn’t really. A triadic relation is a semiotic term for a sign, object of the sign, and interpretant of the sign. Hmmm, more about signs as i read on in the book.\nI was curious about the Klien Bottle and tesseract (4D objects) mentioned and got pretty good at drawing them. The train is from the quote “The train that can be expressed is not the express train” I’ll be taking my time reading through the book and creating visual memories of my journey.\nOntario’s provincial parks owe a lot to artists like the Group of Seven. Killarney Provincial Park began with A. Y. Jackson petitioning the Provincial government to have it preserved as Trout Lake was about to be logged. That lake now bears the name O.S.A. Lake for the Ontario Society of Artists.\nDuring the summer of 2019 on two occasions my daughter Harmony, 5 year old grandson Cole, and me made Chutes Provincial Park home for a spell. This remarkable spot is the backyard of the town of Massey (so close it uses the towns water system).\nChutes park is on the Rivière aux Sables a mighty cascading twisting river that is itself designated as a Provincial Park (waterway class park protects approximately 3,658 hectares including 75 kilometres of the river).\nChutes park is small in size yet has a mighty spectacle on the Twin Bridges Trail – 6 km return (2 hours) moderate. Following the Aux Sables River this hiking trail leads to lookouts at the falls and the Seven Sisters Cataracts where i took many photos of this powerful wonder. This painting is from one of those shots.\nIf you are ever travelling down Hwy 17 through Massey turn off at the traffic light and within 1 km you will find this spot and a fine sandy beach tucked in a bend in the river below the falls.\nYayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibition at the AGO in Toronto April 26, 2018.\nThe 60’s were an explosion of creativity, protest, civil rights and war. Yayoi was right there in the heart of it all from Japan to New York city. She was born in Japan 1929 and still paints in her studio every day. Here are a few quotes from Yayoi Kusama.\n“Self-destruction is the only way to peace”\n“Stop nuclear bombs and wars, now/Live your shining life/forever eternally/I sincerely hope that you would view the works I have created with my utmost strength. Let’s sing a song together in praise of humanity facing the universe.” (2011)\nLetter to President Nixon, (1968)\n“Our earth is like one little polka dot, among millions of other celestial bodies, one orb full of hatred and strife amid the peaceful, silent spheres. Let’s you and I change all that and make this world a new Garden of Eden.\n“Let’s forget ourselves, dearest Richard, and become one with the Absolute, all together in the altogether. As we soar through the heavens, we’ll paint each other with polka dots, lose our egos in timeless eternity, and finally discover the naked truth: You can’t eradicate violence by using more violence. This truth is written in spheres with which I will lovingly, soothingly, adorn your hard masculine body. Gently! Gently! Dear Richard. Calm your manly fighting spirit!”\nA beautiful water plant with an uninspiring name. You will find Pickerelweed in lake and river edges throughout Northern Ontario. Delightful purple flowers with distinctive arrow point leaves. This one was in Bell Lake, Killarney.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Happening (2008)\nWe’ve Sensed It. We’ve Seen the Signs. Now… It’s Happening.\nI avoided this movie like the plague, because it was from M. Night Shyamalan. I have fallen out of love with him since The Village. It phsyically angered me about the “twist ending”. It was horseshit.\nIf you want toknow, the action takes place in Central Park where strange “happenings” are occuring. People are killing themselves. The news spreads through various outlets about what is causing the rash of suicides. Caught in the middle are Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), Alma Moore (Zooey Deschanel), Julian (John Leguizamo) and Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) trying to escape.\nThe “Shyamalan twist” is shown on the first couple of minutes of the movie. It’s so stupid. It’s supposed to be nature fighting back against humanity. Whatever. I’m not saying what causes the happening, but it makes want to throw something about the screen.\nThe dialogue is atrocious. The acting is so wooden. Zooey Deschanel’s blank stares into the camera. Mark Wahlberg’s cadence is the same throughout the whole movie. What?\nThis was Shyamalan’s first “R” rated movie. Hopefully, his last. Why did Fox finance this movie? To fulfill Shyamalan’s contract with them? What was their thought process with this trainwreck of a movie? I want to people that greenlit this movie to be fired and releases the geniuses of Fox Searchlight. They know quality movies when they see one.\nMy judgment: If you want to see a waster talent and resources, watch this film. You will get a laugh from a “drama.”\nMy rating: *\nPosted on January 21, 2009, in 2008, campy, Drama and tagged Alan Ruck, Ashlyn Sanchez, John Leguizamo, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, Spencer Breslin, The Happening, Zooey Deschanel. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Currently trolling the fjordsJacob Lysgaard is the studio of the award-winning designer by the same name. We craft ideas, identity systems and design at the tangent between art and commerce across all mediums. Work with us\nDo you like patterns? We do! If you have ever worked on making seamless patterns, either for a simple website background or some crazy wallpaper for example, you have probably come up against some trouble with photoshop. It’s really hard to get your head around how to make them tile beautifully without visible seams, and you can forget about previewing them as they would appear, repeated.\nBoth I and my brother Ola work with making seamless patterns in Photoshop quite a bit So over time, we have developed our own tools both for making and previewing them. It can be really hard for beginners to make seamless, tiling patterns that look OK when they are repeated over and over again. So here’s a little something to help!\nThe toolset, aptly called The Lysgaard Brothers’ Amazing Pattern Gizmos 3000, contains these two things:\n- Ola’s photoshop action that (smartly) duplicates stuff around your work-surface to make your seams truly invisible. This is a must-try if you work with patterns at all.\n- Jacob’s Browser Preview Gizmo, that lets you see how your pattern will look repeated, as you are working on it. So as you are working on your pattern in Photoshop, you can continually check how it will look repeated in different sizes in a browser window.\nThere is a Readme included in the download folder that will explain in more detail. But rest assured, it’s really easy to get going and will make your patterns much more badass. And in half the time, I bet.\nDon’t be afraid to leave us a comment here on the site, and show us what you make using it! I’ll include a gallery of what different people have made with it below the download button for you to see.\nI made these small & quick drawings of classic game consoles as a small part of a large project for Den Kulturelle Skolesekken, a cultural programme for primary schools in Norway. Lots of fun, despite my shoulders telling me otherwise! And a fun diversion from my other recent projects, like the Apache design and making that crazy pattern generator.\nI wish I had more time to spend on these, it’s easy to lose a few hours to just drawing cooling grills and screen glares over and over again. So let me know if you need some vintage hardware drawn!\nMaking merch is one of the most fun things I ever do; nothing beats seeing something you made on a T-shirt of a random passer-by.\nThese coffee cups have been in our shop for a little while, but I got new samples sent just now and boy, are they looking good. Go get yours! The photos feature my wonderful Korg Volca Bass as well as my chalkboard full of the secret plans.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tags: wedding mugs favors\nAt first I just thought these were cute because they looked like wood but then I noticed it said b+a.. how perfect. aha...\nThis is a collection of pretty little wedding things that inspire me. My ideal style of wedding is a little shabby chic, a little rustic, and a little whimsical! Enjoy :}\nPowered by Tumblr. Minimal Theme designed by Artur Kim.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While visiting Israel Museum – one of the leading art and archeology museums in the world – you have a chance to see great artworks, BREATHE in the Billy Rose Art Garden, admire wonderful views of Jerusalem and find the best gifts for all of your friends as well as for yourself in the vast museum shop!\nWe arrived at the museum on Tuesday at 2 pm only to find out that it was closed until 4 pm (the museum is open Sun, Mon, Wed, Thur, Sat 10 am – 5 pm, Tue 4 pm – 9 pm, Fri 10 am – 2 pm), but those two hours flew by unnoticed because we were walking around the great museum shop! We got ourselves beautiful candles with Robert Indiana’s “Love” in Hebrew, an umbrella (that we will barely need in Israel, but will surely need in Europe), souvenirs for friends, relatives… And that’s when we saw “paper” vases. First of all – how often can you get someone a vase for a present, especially if you are traveling? The vase folds, becoming as thin as a piece of paper, at the same time it is so strong that it cannot be torn, the art prints are trapped between material's layers so they cannot scratch, it was tested under conditions of pressure so it shouldn't ever leak. And you can drop it if you want!\nOf course, when talking about dropping vases in the Israel Museum it makes everyone cringe! Remember the story, when in 2015 a young girl visiting the Israel Museum accidentally broke a 2 000-year-old Roman-era vase? It all ended well – the vase was repaired by the museum laboratory and they got it looking better than before, as the museum stated to Haaretz daily: “It would require a great effort to notice the crack.”\nIn the museum shop you can find unbreakable vase VAZU that was created 10 years ago, by Israeli designers Tzvika Nahumzon, Eitan Nordman and Chagai Strauss – today VAZU CEO and chief designer of the company. The vase that changed the “concept” of vases was created right after the designers graduated. One of the first venues to sell VAZU was the Israel Museum shop, they believed in young artists and loved the product. Since 2006 VAZU and Israel Museum shop have been working together and the unbreakable vase became one of the best sellers. Having 2 bags of various beautiful museum shop finds we got a chance to ask the Israel Museum shop representatives a few questions about the shop.\nShop offers various pieces inspired by art, presented in the museum. How do you choose which works to replicate and which designers to invite?\nThe decisions regarding which works to replicate are made by a group including Mor Kalev, the shop's CEO, as well as curators and other staff in the museum. The process is an exciting collaboration.\nWe make sure to choose designers who offer unique types of art and design, rather than items that are similar to what is already out there. This keeps the line fresh and gives each artist an opportunity to present their work with confidence.\nWhat are the most unexpected or surprising items that were created for an exhibition?\nWe create a large range of items for exhibitions, from notebooks to umbrellas. An unexpected item is the special V-cube, which is like a Rubik’s cube. On each side of the cube, there is a picture of an item from a specific exhibition or the Museum's logo. It is a unique and surprising gift.\nThe shop is vast, what items are the most dear to your heart, maybe they are objects with special stories?\nWe want to give all customers a unique experience, which is why we offer such a large variety of items, ranging from replicas to jewelry to modern design pieces. You can find meaningful gifts for all occasions in our shop. Each one tells a story, especially our replicas. For example, we offer a miniature version of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is one of our most popular permanent displays. Measuring only 10.5 cm x 20 cm, the jar is based on the original jar in which the actual Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Inside the jar is a replica of one of the scrolls, a booklet describing how the scrolls were discovered, and a certificate of authenticity from the Museum. Many of our pieces come with an explanation of the object's origin.\nDo you create special objects for Rosh Hashanah and other Jewish holidays?\nOur shop features a large and diverse Judaica collection, offering items for all of the Jewish holidays. We currently have a sale on most holiday items, including special plates for Rosh Hashanah. In addition to our on-campus stores, our products are available in other venues around the world, and can be purchased online - we ship internationally.\nSo get yourself unbreakable vases, replicas from Roman-era jewelry, carpets, candles, Rubik’s cubes and anything you might desire in the vast museum shop.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Watch the colors in this cocktail change before your eyes! #ConversationsCocktails&Confetti\n2 oz Empress Gin\n4 oz Tonic Water\n1 splash of lemon juice\nPour Empress gin over ice. Add tonic water and watch the colors change before your eyes! Top with lemon juice and enjoy!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fantastic entry here my old friend Marius. Hope You are well !\nVery nice pair.\nVery charming pair of birds, Mushtahsan.\nThe point of view from below suits this capture.\nVery interesting Bracket fungi, Geoffrey.\nThose bands are really beautiful.\nThe play of light in this image lends it a unique charm, George.\nIt is a pleasure to see your picture after a long period.\nAs always, you have your field of interest spot on. Iג€™ve been following you for almost a decade and never a bad pic.\nNot a bad shot at all. Good describing. No eye on the bird. Maybe it could be isolated and lightened.\nTry cropping a bit of the out of focus parts off. Bokeh type in a unusual way. Cut closer.\nVery nice George. Show them how itג€™s done. Loving this shot both for its being there feel. Itג€™s also a perfect exposure.\nMajestic creature well captured under wonderful early afternoon light . The sharpening has been pushed to the limit, but that's a minor issue in my view !", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Witness the ultimate act of devotion as FNG Shugga proudly displays her affection for Finesse2tymes with an eye-catching tattoo.\nLocated prominently on her thigh, this artistic homage by the Southern rap sensation has already sparked intrigue. Finesse2tymes himself couldn’t contain his excitement, sharing a heartwarming video of the tattoo on his Instagram Story, exclaiming, “[You] did that 😍.”\nThe astonishing resemblance captured in ink speaks volumes about their bond, although the tattoo’s considerable size raises questions about its permanence. As speculations arise regarding the future of this polyamorous pair, the lasting impression of the tattoo adds an unexpected layer to their story.\nUnsurprisingly, social media is abuzz with commentary, a familiar arena for dissecting Finesse2tymes’ unique relationships.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Photo from Wikipedia Commons|\nWelcome back! For the month of March I thought I’d share snippets from Searching for Lady Luck, a novella I submitted just last week. It’s spring, 1936, and artist Charlie Brannigan tries to sell some of his paintings on the Boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey.\nA wind gust blew one of his smaller paintings off its perch and onto the boardwalk. He scrambled after it, but a young woman bent and picked it up before he could reach it. She studied the scene he’d painted on the tiny canvas - a mother robin, tending her eggs in her nest.\n“Good morning, ma’am. That’s one of my best miniatures. If you like it, I’d be happy to give you a bargain on it.”\nThe woman looked up from the painting and met his gaze. He blinked, wanting to make sure he wasn’t imagining the lovely face. Smoky gray eyes, wide and welcoming, in a heart-shaped face, made her look much younger than her clothing and severe hairstyle suggested.\nSearching for Lady Luck has been accepted as part of EsKape Press’s Luck Be a Lady anthology, due to be released this spring.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A sentimental Father’s Day present is always appreciated by dads around. Make a homemade Father’s Day gift this year instead of buying one from the shop, because it’s hard to find one that’s functional, personalized, and full of love. With the help of a mom, most of these homemade gifts can be prepared by children as young as two or three years old.\nYou visit the right place! Oh Canvas has put together a list of 50 Father’s Day gift ideas DIY for your perusal. For Father’s Day, we came up with some fun and easy DIY gifts for you and the kids to make. As an added bonus, don’t forget to add a personal touch to these handmade presents by writing a thoughtful message or combining your family’s greatest images. Although the finished result may not look exactly as depicted in this photo, there is little doubt that the recipient will treasure this gift for many years to come.\nGift Ideas For Dads Who Love To Cook\n1. Unique Grilling Apron\nThis is an excellent present for the parent who enjoys spending time in the backyard grilling delicious food for his loved ones. To decorate a standard canvas apron with the words “grill master” as well as a grill, all you need is a little paintbrush and textile markers or fabric paint. To create flames, dip your pinky finger in orange, red, and yellow painting and press it onto the apron above the grill grates when it has dried.\n2. A Grill Set Storage Case\nThere is no grill master without a place to store his or her essentials. It’s also a lot easier than it appears to make this homemade present to give dad. A single piece of wood, some paint, and a hammer are all you need to make one of the most meaningful Father’s Day DIY gifts for your dad.\n3. Rub For The Grill – Homemade Recipe\nMake him a barbeque spice he can use all year long if he’s master of the grill! This homemade Father’s Day gift will motivate him to put in more effort in the kitchen to provide a better meal for his family, and you’ll get to spend quality time with them.\n4. Wood Burned Cutting Board\nIt’s a great approach to assist dad to improve his culinary abilities, especially if he’s in the kitchen most of the time. Every time he uses this cutting board, he will remember and appreciate your love for him.\n5. Homemade Microwave Caramels\nA candy thermometer isn’t needed to make these caramels, and they don’t require any other special tools either. You don’t even need to leave the house to make him a DIY gift he’ll like.\n6. A Grill Cart\nFeaturing a butcher’s block and rolling wheels, this grilling present is sure to please your favorite grill expert this summer! Consider these grilling Father’s Day Gift Ideas DIY for your beloved one to make him surprised.\n7. A Recipe For Home-Made Orange Bitters\nAdd just a little flavor to dad’s favorite cocktail with these DIY orange bitters that are easy to make. Helps keep your dad’s throat healthy during the chilly winter months as well.\n8. Personalized Barbecue Accessories\nMake custom decals in a flash with a cutting machine like the Cricut. Even though we’re big fans of grilling tools, this technique can be applied to just about anything your dad enjoys.\n9. Spiced Salts Set\nA Salt gift set for the foodie dad who likes to experiment with different flavors is a great homemade Father’s Day gift. Your father’s cooking will taste even better if you give him a gift box containing six different kinds of salt. Salt can be substituted for nearly any other spice in his spice rack if he prefers something more aromatic in his favorite foods.\n>>> Maybe you’re interested:\nGift Ideas For Sweet-Tooth Father\n10. Homemade Snack Tins\nJust a few simple procedures are required to make the snack container and the delectable mixture that goes inside it. Be a loving gesture to your father by doing something small. A lifetime of joy will be his thanks to your thoughtfulness and concern through these unique Father’s Day gifts for grandpa.\n11. Sandwich Cookies\nHomemade cookies can be transformed into a Father’s Day present by simply wrapping them in twine, placing them in an attractive box, and adding a few sheets of parchment paper. It’s an added bonus that these lemonade and pistachio sandwich biscuits taste as good as they appear.\n12. The Rustic Sampler Of Popcorn\nLet’s give him a little something sweet if he has a sweet tooth. Dads who prefer to snack on popcorn while watching movies will appreciate this homemade Father’s Day gift. Just 4 or 5 items are all you need to make a variety of various flavors! This is ideal for your dad when they want to chill at home.\n13. A Bunch Of Cupcakes\nMake a beautiful bouquet of cupcakes for him that features all of dad’s favorite! He’s certain to be swayed by such a tantalizing idea. With the help of your older children, you can make the best Father’s Day gift ideas DIY for your dad. It is, however, possible for even children to assist in the preparation of such a tasty gift!\n14. Beer Bouquet\nDad might not appreciate a dozen roses, but he’ll love this easy gift he can put together in a matter of minutes. He’ll have a good time drinking beer that’s designed only for him. Let’s cheer your father with this special present.\n15. Gift Box Of Tea\nThis elegant gift basket is all about the tea! There is a tea towel even on the outside of the basket! If you’re looking for a homemade Father’s Day gift for a new dad that’s both delicious and beautiful, consider including a box of pancake mix, a jar of jam, some ripe apples, a coffee mug, and loose leaf tea.\n16. Homemade Movie Snack\nMake his movie snack (or any other snack, really) fit for the holiday by attaching a custom label. To save money, make your own trail mix with a variety of nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate instead of purchasing it.\n17. Candy-Sugar Bow Ties\nDad does not need more ties, but he’ll never admit it. Probably the only thing he can’t get enough of is his favorite dessert. Make a bow tie out of a candy bag by wrapping a piece of string around the middle and taping a picture of a bow tie from the front. He will adorn this sweet bow tie from you.\n18. Jar Of Food Stuffs\nThis is a great homemade Father’s Day gift for the dad who enjoys puns. Fill a jar of Oreos, soft drinks, and snacks to bring joy to your dad’s face. Despite the fact that he may not be old enough to receive such a gift, he will be delighted and surprised by it.\n19. Easy-To-Create Candy Dispenser\nAre there any sweets in Dad’s cupboard? Make a candy dispenser for him so he doesn’t go hungry. To make it even more “personal,” you could choose from his best-loved candies.\n>>> Read also: 33 Great Christian Father’s Day Gifts For Spiritual Dad\nGift Ideas For Dads Who Love To Drink\n20. Ingenious Bottle Labels\nMake a six-pack of his preferred craft beers and customize it by printing off these fun labels. This present makes Father’s Day all the more memorable and full of joy. Your dad is the greatest and these labels proved it to the world.\n21. Canvas Wine Bag\nWhat father doesn’t enjoy a good bottle of wine? As a bonus, you’ll get to show your appreciation for your loved ones by making your own gift. Canvas wine bags are never bad Father’s Day gifts DIY because of their usefulness and stylish.\n22. Easy-To-Make Bottle Opener\nWhen you put created a fancy bottle opener out of nail, glue, and cedarwood, your dad will be impressed. It’s a simple and easy way to create a rustic feel to an outdoor grilling area or man cave.\n23. Creative Agate Coasters\nBeautiful and functional, these coasters are perfect Father’s Day gift ideas DIY for the dad who enjoys a glass of wine, a cold beer, or just a glass of lemonade. Everything about them is acrylic color and polymer clay.\n24. Pour-Over Coffee\nMaking this coffee maker requires some woodworking experience, but it’s never a bad idea to pick up a new skill for the sake of a free cup of coffee. From now, your father can make a coffee drink on his own with this practical gift.\n25. Wine Rack In Wood And Leather\nTo honor your father’s collection, all you need is some basic woodworking skills—a little sawing, drilling, and gluing. Then you can create a wine rack for your father to show all of his favorite champagnes. When it comes to Father’s Day DIY gifts, the wine rack is not a bad idea. This wine rack can also be used as a piece of home decor to brighten up his room.\n26. DIY Drink Sleeve\nFor Father’s Day Gifts, make a DIY drink koozie for him to enjoy his favorite summer beverage! Cut a piece of craft foam that’s about the same length as a can and stick it together. Shorten the length so it only covers the can after you’ve wrapped it. Using fabric markers, let the children create their own artwork on the foam.\nWonderful Father’s Day Gift Ideas DIY\n27. Pinch Bowl\nTake some of your treasures from your outdoor adventures and put them in one place for your dad to find. Baked clay can be shaped into a small shallow dish by pinching and shaping it. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for baking. Acrylic paint can be used to create any look you like. Afterward, apply a satin-finish sealant.\n28. Father’s Day Coupons\nIn addition to being completely customizable, these print Father’s Day vouchers are ideal for last-minute gifts that don’t feel at all last-minute. If you want to get creative, you can personalize them, print them, punch holes in them, then tie them with a string and be done.\n29. Hand-Imprinted Leather Tie Clip\nYour dad’s letters, fortunate number, or any noun that best describes him can be engraved on this tie clip for him. These Father’s Day Gift Ideas DIY like this can be an unexpected and necessary gift for any father. He will always remember your feelings and images every time he wears them.\n30. Pre-Shave Oil\nShaving oil is easy to make, requiring only a few simple ingredients, and it will remove his face feel soft and silky after use. It is really an elegant and thoughtful Father’s Day gift to show how much you care about your beloved one.\n31. Beard Balm With Rosemary And Pine\nDad’s skin and facial hair will benefit from this moisturizing balm regardless of whether he sports a full beard or just a few scruffs. Give your father this olive oil balm to help him fresh and younger every day.\n32. Emergency Kit For Picnic\nAn urgent kit for Dad’s car can be put together with the help of this sturdy vintage basket. For decades, the swing-handle lithographed lunch boxes made in the 1930s and ’40s have been sought after as collectible items. Fill the trunk with extension cords, road flares, one first aid kit, and other necessities.\n33. Woolen iPad Cover\nFor dads who are always on the go and love to take their iPad with them, this wool case is a perfect homemade Father’s Day gift for you to sew up! A handy back pocket stores extras like keys and headphones. This great gift will be appreciated by all of the dads, grandfathers, stepfathers, and other father figures in your life.\n34. Holder For Business Cards\nWallet or cardholder made from vintage postcards sewn together. Here’s how to do it: Cut a half-moon out of the top front of the postcard by folding it in half with the decorative side facing outward. After folding the card in half and covering it in clear vinyl that is 1/4-inch thick, stitch all around it. Trim the vinyl to fit, then refold the postcard in half. The wallet should be sewn around three of its corners, leaving the remaining open.\n35. Easy-To-Make Watch Stand\nAs an extra-special treat, make Dad a watch stand to hold his prized collection of timepieces. A beautiful nightstand for his bedroom, crafted from wood and black pipe.\n36. Clock With Dominoes\nMake a one-of-a-kind gift for your father with this DIY project. Using a domino set, nail gun and double-sided adhesives are all you need to make a clock. This gift is a great idea for the man who loves country living space.\n37. Homemade Shaving Cream\nUsing shea butter and essential oils of olive, coconut, and eucalyptus, the luxury Father’s Day gift ideas DIY will take the place of your father’s daily shaving cream! These ingredients, when combined, will give him the closest shave he’s ever had.\n38. DIY Succulents In Mason Jars\nThese Mason jar succulents will be appreciated by the recipient, regardless of whether he has a green thumb of his own or not. And he is not really overly cautious when it comes to caring for them.\n39. Gift Tags For Father’s Day\nMany such block letter printables can be used as a Father’s Day card, making the gift even more special for the recipient. Your dad will feel more special with the present prepared by your love.\n40. Personalized Leather Cufflinks\nStylish leather cufflinks are a great way to get dad ready for more small get-togethers, which are starting to become more common. He’ll love this thoughtful gift from you.\nPersonalized Photo Gift Ideas\n41. Hammer Photo Stand\nTo make this stand, you’ll need an old hammer, a piece of wood with glue, and some construction paper. You can use it to display a special memory of Father, a sentimental card, or a charming photograph.\n42. Wooden Photo Stand\nIf you want to win the title of a favorite child, show off a photo of you two with your old man. This gift will bring your father back great memories and make him feel your affection.\n43. Toughful Canvas Print\nAre you looking for thoughtful and personalized Father’s Day gifts for your dad? In order to show your father how much you care, a personalized canvas print is a wonderful option. Make him happy for a long time by sending him a meaningful message and photos of you together on this canvas. The gift is ideal for adorning his living room or any other space he cherishes on this special day.\n44. Lovely Wall Art Decor\nLooking for a long-lasting gift? Use photographs from a family holiday or other special occasion to create wall art for your home. Whether he keeps them in his workplace or at home, he’ll be proud to show them off and remember the good times you two have had.\n45. Personalized Memory Pillow\nIt’s important for Dad to have a comfortable place to sit when he’s enjoying the outdoors on the patio or deck. It’s easy to personalize these weather-resistant outdoor pillows with photos of your most memorable moments from this year. Pillows with personalized touch are practical Father’s Day gift ideas DIY that you should make for your beloved one.\n46. Customized Mouse Mat\nEven when dad is working long hours, he can look down and get back all the good times you two had together. Personalizing his mouse pad with a picture of him and his favorite sports team will bring a smile to his face and lighten his workload.\n47. Engraved Glass Picture Frame\nWhat better way to show your dad how much you care than by giving him an everlasting memento? Share a special memory with dad using this one-of-a-kind, laser-engraved glass photo frame with a personal touch. Take a picture from a memorable occasion, such as a birthday, anniversary, or vacation together.\n48. Cube-Shaped Photo Album\nIt’s comforting to know that we have the love and support of those around us when things get tough. Consider creating a picture cube that will bring back memories for Dad, such as a trip to the lake or Thanksgiving dinner when it comes to Father’s Day gift ideas DIY.\n49. Candle With A Photograph\nDaddy’s deserve a break, right? Dad will be able to relax at the end of the day with a fragrance made with essential oils. You can add your own flair to your design by customizing the colors, patterns, and entire family’s photos on this special day.\n50. Father’s Day Greeting Card\nIn order to make your Father’s Day card unique, use photos from a day when you spent time together. It doesn’t matter if it was a simple lunch or a long walk, those kinds of memories are priceless for dads.\n- Top 32 Wonderful Father’s Day Tech Gifts To Elevate His Life\n- 33 Great Christian Father’s Day Gifts For Spiritual Dad\nWhat gift to choose for your sweetheart can be a daunting task if you’ve never done it before, but we’re here to help. Father’s Day gift ideas DIY from Oh Canvas are sure to inspire you to create the perfect gift for your dad on this special day. Is there a better gift than a gift made by the person who gave it? I’m hoping that you’ll come up with something that he’ll treasure for a long time.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"Davin has the distinct ability to wring the depths of expressiveness from all that he plays.\" - Classical Guitar Magazine\nHailed as “the real thing, a player with a virtuoso’s technique, a deeply expressive musicianship, and a probing imagination” (American Record Guide) who “has the distinct ability to wring the depths of expressiveness from all that he plays” (Classical Guitar Magazine), and for his “precision, musical intelligence and passion” (Cleveland Classical), guitarist Colin Davin has emerged as one of today’s most dynamic young artists. Recent and upcoming highlights include concertos with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Aiken Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, and Richmond Symphony; collaborations with Sharon Isbin at the 92nd Street Y and the Chautauqua Institution; and performances at the Aspen Musical Festival and the Maui Classical Music Festival.\nDavin appeared as a featured musical guest on the Late Show with David Letterman alongside legendary soprano Jessye Norman. He has performed across the world, including at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (on historic instruments from the museum's collection), New York Philharmonic Ensembles, the ELLNORA Festival at the University of Illinois, the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, the Paris Conservatoire, the Fridge Fringe in Dubai, and venues throughout the United States. His collaborators include GRAMMY Award winning soprano Estelí Gomez and Dallas Symphony Orchestra principal harpist Emily Levin. Since 2012, he has been a regular guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival, and has four times been a guest teacher at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, Afghanistan.\nDavin’s debut solo recording, “The Infinite Fabric of Dreams” has been praised as “some of the finest interpretations I’ve heard...achingly beautiful...a thoughtful, perceptive interpretation, filled with details often missed” (American Record Guide) and \"a first-rate disc...Davin knows the pieces deeply and delivers virtuosic and exciting performances...state of the art\" (Soundboard Magazine). An active player in the American contemporary music scene, he has performed with Talea Ensemble, Contemporaneous, Present Music, Axiom, New Juilliard Ensemble, Nu Deco Ensemble, ensemblenewSRQ, and Mimesis Ensemble. Davin has premiered dozens of new works, and currently operates the Century Guitar Project, an initiative that promotes new repertoire for the guitar through commissioning, performance, and recording.\nColin Davin currently serves on the faculties of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. He holds numerous prizes in international competitions, and was a two-time finalist in the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition. He holds a Master of Music from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Sharon Isbin; a Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California with William Kanengiser; and preparatory studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jason Vieaux.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A plea for beauty\nAfter the Breakup of Yugoslavia, Slovenia – a country that combines different cultures in an original manner and has a strong Austro-Hungarian influence – is going through a booming process of development and realignment. We may observe its tumultuous and changing path and its multiple particularities if we take a broad look around, noticing its landscapes, historical spots, streets, buildings… The Slovenian architecture is rich in medieval castles, manor houses, churches and monasteries; its architecture combines the tradition of historical and well-preserved constructions (Ancient Roman vestiges, medieval cities, baroque and neoclassical cities) with modern shapes and trends which highlight the latest technologies.\nThere are just a few cases in history when the urban plan of a city was thought by only one architect who had designed and built within a few decades new areas inside the existent city by respecting all the rules – such is the case of Ljubljana, Slovenia`s capital. It is impossible to speak about the identity of Slovenian architecture without mentioning the architect Jože Plečnik (1872 – 1957). His work goes beyond the borders of his home country as he made a name for himself in Austria (Vienna) and Czech Republic (Prague) as well. He had studied in Vienna and quickly became a very courageous and creative architect; he approached the historical architecture with his own formal language, providing value to the symbols and highlighting the ethics and the sense of history. The Castle of Prague is Plečnik`s first monumental work; it took him 15 years to finish it and it made him known worldwide. When he was around 50 years old, he came back to his home city, Ljubljana and, through his activities, become a militant for the social importance of architecture and the architect`s role\nRead more in The Art of Living magazine printed edition", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Healthy Nail Salon project will be offering free prizes and info at Fisher Pavilion, booth F1, near the stage at the 2012 TET Festival. Stop by for cute nail decals – they look great when you take off the gloves! Find out how to have healthier nails and salons at www.lhwmp.org/home/Health/nail-salons.aspx. Stop by and visit Sharon, Lauire and Tram Sat Jan 21 & Sun Jan 22. More details about TET at http://tetinseattle.org/.\nTết Festival is an annual free celebration at Seattle Center and is a part of the Seattle Center’s Festal world cultural events program. For the past 15 years, Tết Festival has celebrated the cultural roots of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans by presenting and promoting arts, music, performances, and foods that are unique to Vietnam. Yum!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Free Cthulhu dice bag crochet pattern link actually works!\nI just want to put this little guy on a keychain! Easy Miniature Cthulhu Two-Hour Amigurumi Crochet Pattern\nWhen making this particular model, I used two strands of yarn held together, resulting in a 7 inch height stuffie. The yarn and size of hook you use will determine the size of this Cthulhu!\nCuddly Cthulhu - Rural Rebellion - free pattern and photos", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Have you ever heard the sound of a gunshot? Have you ever watched the love of your life take their final breath? Have you ever felt the cold, icy metal of a blade brush up against your neck?\nHave you ever wanted to die?\n(Cover by me)\nJesus crist its only the first chapter chill the hell out XD", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If You’re Waiting for Permission to Love Someone, Ryan Michael Painter Says You Have It\n2023 is a year of significant and poignant reminders for SLC author Ryan Michael Painter. In September of 1983, Painter’s father was the first diagnosed AIDS patient in Utah to pass away. This year, Painter says, “was probably one of the hardest years yet. 40 years is a monumental kind of landmark. My father only lived to be 34. I’ve always struggled with [the question], ‘Why do I get more of a life than he did?’”\nThe memories Ryan has of his father, Michael Painter, are detailed in his 2020 self-published memoir, The Unexpected Son. The book is composed in fragments of Ryan’s childhood memories, his adult reflections, snippets of his mother’s diaries and bits of email exchanges working together to illuminate the fractured experience of Ryan’s journey through grief and healing.\nThe goal that was a driving force behind the creation of the book, Ryan says, was to record and preserve Michael’s story, his mother Patti’s story and his own story as a form of remembrance for his family. In weaving the three narratives, The Unexpected Son discusses the normal experiences of Ryan’s childhood. His parents loved him, and he fondly remembers watching Dallas with dad and visiting the neighbors with mom. Alongside these moments, however, harrowing revelations about his father’s sometimes-abusive partners, his mother’s struggle for love and acceptance as a single mother in a conservative culture and iron-lung-laden hospital visits contrast the beautiful memories with the tender and traumatic.\n“I’m the result of a relationship that was very unhealthy in the beginning,”\nPiecing together these disparate narratives took Ryan some 15 years to complete. It was difficult for many reasons, one of which was the duality of Michael’s life while he was alive. Throughout his youth and young adulthood, Michael had been—at least, on the surface—a typical member of the Mormon faith. He had served a religious mission and was, while married to Patti, a high-ranking member of the church’s organization. Michael’s existence as a gay man remains fairly obscure to Ryan, and throughout various points in his life, conversations about his father with those who knew him have felt guarded and shrouded in secrecy.\nMichael was not a good husband—this is something that becomes explicitly clear reading The Unexpected Son. “I’m the result of a relationship that was very unhealthy in the beginning,” Ryan says. Growing up, he had believed that his parents had, at some point, been in love. However, as he began researching and writing his memoir, he learned that this was not the case. He isn’t sure why his parents married each other, and he’s not sure they’d be able to explain it either, except in terms of social and familial pressure.\n“I had to tear down all the old ideas I had about my parents, but I got to replace them with something that, while it’s got a few ugly parts, I think ultimately it was kind of a beautiful thing.”\nWith this revelation, Ryan found it difficult to continue writing the book at all, saying it’s a miracle he was able to finish it. About his father’s emotional mistreatment of his mother, Ryan says, “Had I been less dedicated to telling the truth, I would have left it out. Because there was a part of me that feared that people would see that section of his life and judge him based on just that.” As he came to accept his father’s story and see the value of the friendship that his parents had built in place of a romantic relationship, Ryan was able to come to terms with Michael’s lack of support and understanding for his mother. “I had to tear down all the old ideas I had about my parents, but I got to replace them with something that, while it’s got a few ugly parts, I think ultimately it was kind of a beautiful thing.”\nRyan notes that another reason the writing process was difficult is because his purpose wasn’t clear during the first 10 years of creating the book. “The AIDS crisis seemed to be in the rearview,” he says. “I didn’t really think it had the social relevance that it suddenly has. Working in the news, I’m kind of right there, on the front line. I’m seeing the world as it’s unfolding. There was a time where I didn’t think the book really mattered that much because we were all playing a lot nicer, but the last five years have been a kind of continual slide. It’s at a point where it feels like if they could, they’d erase my father’s story and any story like his. Now, it feels important to not let that happen.”\nIn tandem with the tough memories and reconciliations of the past year, 2023 has also brought Ryan some sweet reminders of his father. As concern about the potential for snowmelt flooding rose earlier this year, the historic 1983 flooding of SLC and surrounding areas was a frequent topic in the KUTV newsroom where Ryan works. News photos show a flooded, foot-bridged State Street from that spring, where you can spot theater marquees advertising showings of Return of the Jedi. The Star Wars franchise holds a special place in Ryan’s heart—the movies were something he enjoyed while his father was living, and after his death, the characters and themes took on greater significance.\n“The book is about telling people, ‘If you’re waiting for permission to love someone: You have it!’”\n“I think Luke Skywalker became important to me sooner than he really should have,” Ryan says. He explains that he felt a kinship with the character Luke, who sought his father and hoped to redeem him. Through the process of writing The Unexpected Son, Ryan has come to recognize that redeeming his father is not part of his own journey. “I don’t know that my father needed any sort of redemption, but I think there was a time where I felt like he did, and that somehow by telling the story, I could get that for him. But I don’t think that’s ultimately what the book is about. I don’t think my father needed to be redeemed; maybe as a husband, but not as a person, and certainly not as a gay man.” Ryan says, ultimately, “The book is about telling people, ‘If you’re waiting for permission to love someone: You have it!’”\nRead more community and lifestyle stories going on in Utah:\nPaper Boats: Contemporary Voices from Gaza\nSalt Break City: Breaking Barriers at Utah’s First All-Femme Breakdancing Competition", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hey there! I hope you all are having a good week thus far! I have an outfit to share with you all that my Dad says reminds him of Candy Stripers, the volunteer girls who used to work at hospitals and wore striped dresses similar to mine.\nI can’t wait for Spring to finally come! All this cold, dreary weather is certainly getting my spirits down these days. I long for the time when I can walk about on the earth in bare feet and not have to worry about being too cold! The days where the sun shining on your back provides just enough warmth as the breeze plays through the blossoms on the trees, chilling you, but somehow providing a delicious sense of new growth and life, as the wind is no longer the biting, frozen one of winter, but its sweeter cousin, who brings with her the blossoms, white puffy clouds, and sun filled days that march ever closer to the days of summer. The days where you can wear short sleeves and not need a sweater, where you can sit on the front porch in the sunshine to do your school or sewing work. Ah! I simply cannot wait for Spring!\nFor the makeup with this outfit I just wore my “Belles on Their Toes” look which I described in this post. I definitely think this is my new everyday makeup look. I love it so much!\nWe girls bought a lot of four of dresses that Solanah of Vixen Vintage was selling on Instagram, and this dress was one of them. The listing said the dresses were in need of a bit of TLC, and I expected all of the dresses to be a bit on the larger side for us girls, but quite miraculously this dress fit perfectly! I just had to give it a bit of repairs and it was quite wearable.\nHave you ever heard of Candy Stripers?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "WriterHans Janowitz, Carl Mayer Release dateOctober 22, 2005 (U.S. premiere) ScreenplayHans Janowitz, Carl Mayer, David Lee Fisher CastJudson Pearce Morgan (Francis Geist), Daamen J. Krall (Dr. Caligari), Doug Jones (Cesare), Lauren Birkell (Jane Stern), Neil Hopkins (Alan), William Gregory Lee (Joseph Stern) Similar moviesThe Cabinet of Caligari (1962)\nTaglineWhat force drives a man insane?\nThe cabinet of dr caligari 1920 silent movie horror\nThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 2005 American independent film, and a remake of the 1920 silent film of the same name. It was directed by David Lee Fisher and released in the U.S. at the ScreamFest Film Festival on October 22, where it won three prizes: the Audience Choice Award, Best Cinematography and Best Special Effects.\nThe cabinet of dr caligari english title cards sub ita\nThe plot is largely similar to that of the original film with extra dialogue scenes. The film tells the story of the deranged Dr. Caligari and his faithful sleepwalking Cesare and their connection to a string of murders in a German mountain village, Holstenwall. The movie features a \"frame story\" in which the body of the plot is presented as a flashback, as told by Francis.\nThe narrator, Francis, and his friend Alan visit a carnival in the village where they see Dr. Caligari and Cesare, whom the doctor is displaying as an attraction. Caligari brags that Cesare can answer any question he is asked. When Alan asks Cesare how long he has to live, Cesare tells Alan that he will die tomorrow at dawn — a prophecy which turns out to be fulfilled.\nFrancis, along with his girlfriend Jane, investigate Caligari and Cesare, which eventually leads to Jane's kidnapping by Cesare. Caligari orders Cesare to kill Jane, but the hypnotized slave refuses after her beauty captivates him. He carries Jane out of her house, leading Jane's father and brother on a chase. Cesare is stabbed to death after being pursued by Jane's brother, and Francis discovers that Caligari had created an illusion of Cesare to distract him.\nFrancis discovers that \"Caligari\" is the head of the local insane asylum, and with the help of his colleagues discovers that he is obsessed with the story of a medieval Dr. Caligari, who used a somnambulist to murder people as a traveling act. After being confronted with the dead Cesare, Caligari breaks down and reveals his mania and is imprisoned in his own asylum.\nThe \"twist ending\" reveals that Francis' flashback is his fantasy: The man he claims is Caligari is indeed his doctor in the asylum, who, after this revelation of the source of his patient's delusion, claims to be able to cure him.\nJudson Pearce Morgan as Francis Geist\nDaamen J. Krall as Dr. Daamen Caligari\nDoug Jones as Cesare\nLauren Birkell as Jane Stern\nNeil Hopkins as Alan\nWilliam Gregory Lee as Joseph Stern\nRandy Mulkey as Inspector\nTime Winters as Dr. Gabriel Stern\nRichard Herd as Commissioner Hans Raab\nScott Lincoln as Criminal\nTim Russ as Town clerk\nJohn Bigham as Asylum doctor\nAlan Altshuld as Clerk's assistant\nErnest Misko as Old man\nDarren Joel as Policeman #1\nMitch Steinberg as Policeman #2\nDr. Frank Bettag as Organ grinder\nBuckley Sampson as Young woman\nRicky Skilliter as Burly man #1\nBrian Farber as Burly Man #2/Cloaked man\nThe film was entirely filmed in front of a green screen and tried to recapture the look of the original – several shots from the original were superimposed behind the actors to exactly replicate some scenes.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you want to see the results of Capilano University’s Studio Art program, now is the time. This year’s Capilano University Studio Art Grad Show will be the last.\nBoca del Lupo’s Micro Performance Series presents The Chop Theatre’s Through the Gaze of a Navel at Granville Island’s Anderson Street Space (1405 Anderson Street) from April 23 to 27.\nThrough the Gaze of a Navel is a performance in the form of a yoga class that audience members can either participate in or observe. The performance is led by Emelia Symington Fedy, a woman who has consumed every new-age pop-psych medicine she could get her hands on. During Through the Gaze of a Navel, Fedy asks “the big questions” while guiding participants through a yoga class suitable for people of all levels. The performance runs 45 minutes.\nFUSE: A Terrible Beauty takes place at the Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby Street) on Friday (April 25) from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. FUSE brings together one-of-a-kind experimental art, music, live performance all at one party.\nFirst off, this accident happened two weeks ago—April 4—at the intersection of 15th Avenue and South Granville Street. It’s taken me that long to get the photos which were taken by a friend (thank you).\nAt first glance, this photo made me think of how many times as a cyclist I’ve taken my eyes off the traffic around me to gawk at the advertising in the window of La Vie en Rose—I don’t know why, I don’t even wear a bra.\nThe point of impact on the sedan was on the passenger side. I’m told the collision occurred during the morning rush on South Granville; that the sedan somehow interacted with a truck and, like a billiard ball, came to a rest on the sidewalk a few inches shy of kissing the building.\nOn April 15, at a Vancouver School Board meeting discussing proposed budget cuts, Roger Cole, principal oboist for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, read a statement on behalf of Maestro Bramwell Tovey, music director for the VSO. The statement is reproduced in full here.\nThe 2014 DOXA Documentary Film Festival takes place May 2 to 11 at various Vancouver venues. This year, film screenings will take place at the Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street), Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street), Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway Street), and Vancouver Playhouse (600 Dunsmuir Street).\nThis year’s DOXA festival will feature over 90 films and 78 screenings, taking audiences into the unknown—from encounters with mountain gorillas to cartoon ponies and the men who love them, wild boars, roller derby girls, young agrarians, and stick insects.\nWhat’s the capacity of the Rickshaw Theatre? Six-hundred-and-fifty, or so? That’s roughly how many horny people walked out after Goat’s performance in Vancouver last night (April 15). I hope the orgies commenced in all corners of the city.\nGoat, if you don’t know, is a “collective” hailing from that noted centre of voodoo magic, northern Sweden. The music is a kind of afro-psyche hybrid if it was distilled through the roughest parts of Detroit in 1975 (ie. not northern Sweden). But more importantly, Goat is all goofy costumes and masks with the heaviest sex-cult vibe this side of Yahowha 13 and the Source Family. Only the music’s better, even if the set-opener “Goatman” (was it? I was drunk) came off more technically impressive than heat-inducing.\nLet’s face it: 3 p.m. is the cruellest time of the workday. The morning latte has worn off, and the post-lunch crash has you staggering around like an extra from a George A. Romero flick. That’s why, each weekday at 3:01 p.m., we present you with a video hand-picked to kick-start your heart. If the following clip doesn’t bring you temporarily back to life and help get you through the rest of the afternoon, chances are you’re dead inside.\nToday’s offering: Chances are, like us, Christmas has left you so goddamn bankrupt, you are now reduced to being a window shopper. Not only that, you're standing on the street mad as fuck, looking at all the shit you can't buy. If so, this one is for you, even though Curtis Jackson doesn't seem overly sympathetic to your plight.\nA wise person once noted that the truly fortunate on this earth have twigged into the fact that it’s better to collect experiences than things. When you are sitting around with friends at the bar, or people you’ve just met at a party, no one wants to hear the tale of how you bought a 92-inch flatscreen plasma television on Boxing Day.\nThe story of how you spent 24 hours on the Mekong Delta wrangling snakes, hi-fiving barefoot kids on passing fishing boats, and drinking home-made rice whiskey with a dude who looked like Kill Bill’s Pai Mei, however? Gold, and not just because that experience will help you instantly connect with others who are also happiest when anywhere but home.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When Faulkner finished A Fable ( his 17th book) he brought it to New York and to his editor Bennett Cerf at Random House. Cerf read the novel and put Faulkner in an office and told him to rewrite it.\nWhen Thomas Wolfe was writing his novels in his New York apartment, his famous editor, Maxwell Perkins, knocked on the door, came in, took the manuscript away from Wolfe and told him, “you’re done now, Tom” and went off and edited Wolfe’s pages into a publishable book.\nThe reason for a publisher is the editing talent that they bring to a manuscript. These editing skills are not generally available to most self-published writers. Yes, a few RPCV writers have gone out of their way and hired editors, mostly for copy editing, not line editing, or editing for content. These are three different types of editing: 1) content; 2) line editing; 3) copy editing. It is rare that you can find one person who can do a professional job on all three.\nMy agent, for example, is not a copy editor, and his line editing isn’t the best, but he is wonderful when it comes to understanding what ‘makes’ a book. That is, shaping the content. He thinks ‘big’ and has an understanding of the marketplace.\nThere is an art to shaping a book, moving it from manuscript to printed page. Just because someone has written it down doesn’t mean it is any good, or is good in the way that it is written. Sarah Erdman (Cote D’Ivoire 1998-2000) wrote Nine Hills to Nambonkaha after she came home from Africa. She borrowed a cabin out west and wrote for three months. When the book was finished, she got an agent and an editor at Henry Holt who wanted to publish the memoir of her Peace Corps years.\nShe was lucky in that she got a great editor at Holt. I asked her if she had written her dramatic opening scene to start her book and she said no. It was her editor at Holt who had pulled that scene out from the middle of the manuscript and moved it to the first chapter. That is just one small example of why Sarah (and all of us) need an editor.\nThere are other reasons as well. I read recently a short piece on-line from The Atlantic Magazine. It was written by Alexis Madrigal and entitled, “Why Editing Could Make a Comeback.”\nHe talks about “desktop publishing,” which came into vogue around 1985, and what we have now in all these self published books. Here’s his analogy to show why everyone needs an editor.\n“We take good roads for granted in the US; our highway system just works, so you start to think of it almost as geology, almost immutable and close to eternal. But if you take a drive on the backroads of the Yucatan, the forest encroaches, large potholes appear out of nowhere, and the signage is indecipherable, regardless of your level of Spanish…Writers might blaze the trails, but editors maintain the roads.”\nSo, the next time you ‘create’ a work of fiction or non-fiction, remember that it is not finished until a good editor has taken a whack at your prose.\nAnd always remember, nothing hurts as much as a poorly written sentence, unless, of course, you have written an unedited book.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pretty Peonies is the last installment of our Sculpture palette knife painting technique (or maybe not, maybe at least until we come up with a new set of sculpture palette knife painting strokes). Valeri will once again go through a very in depth and comprehensive explanation on how to properly achieve every single stroke of or pretty Peonies. This set of flowers will be more realistic given its more 3D look, the texture on every single petal and of course the placement of every single element.\nThese stunning Peonies will be done on a uniquely coloured and textured wood planks, giving a satisfying complementing look when you are finished with your cake project. And yes, all the strokes might be complicated when starting but as we always highlight, everything comes a lot, lot easier after series of practices.\nIn this class you will:\n- Learn how to cover your cake with a little bit of rustic and vintage look.\n- Learn how to create wood planks effect as a final cover of your cake.\n- Learn more about your palette knives\n- Learn how to correctly hold your palette knife to be able to achieve palette knife painted designs\n- Learn how to achieve stunning colours using your Swiss meringue or Italian meringue.\n- Learn how to correctly do the sculpture palette knife technique.\n- Learn how to create open, close, sided Peonies, leaves and tiny White flowers using Sculpture palette knife painting technique.\n- Learn how to position the flowers and the leaves for proper placements.\n- Lectures 4\n- Quizzes 0\n- Duration 10 weeks\n- Skill level All levels\n- Language English\n- Students 1478\n- Certificate Yes\n- Assessments Yes", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Global Concert Hall\nYou need a free IDAGIO account to join the event.\nMIND OVER MUSIC – An Introduction to Mindful Listening\nAbout this event\nNicolas Namoradze presents a session interspersing piano performances with discussions and guided mindfulness exercises designed to place participants into a perceptive headspace to listen to specific pieces of music. The foundational meditations explore facets of our awareness and attention, our interpreting of stories and dramatic narratives, how we perceive and conceptualize musical textures, and the communication and internalization of emotional affect, prompting a reappraisal of our relationship to music as listeners.\nThis stream is available to watch until December 31, 2023.\nWorkshop – approx. 60 min\nThis performance will be streamed live from Hal & Marnie Wyatt Atelier, Taylor Centre for the Performance Arts, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB Canada.\nIf watching a live-streamed event on catch-up, you might need to fast forward to the beginning of the concert.\nStay in the Loop\nBe the first to know about our upcoming events on IDAGIOCreate Account", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Roundhouse and Sadler’s Wells join international walk by giant puppet of a child refugee\n- Credit: Archant\nWar Horse puppeteers Handspring have created nine-year-old Amal, whose 8,000 km walk from the Syrian border to the UK is an “ambitious project of art and hope”\nThe Roundhouse and Sadler’s Wells are taking part in an international arts project centring on the giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee.\nCreated by War Horse puppeteers Handspring, Amal will make the 8,000 kilometre journey from the Turkish Syria border to the UK in search of her mother, in what producer Stephen Daldry describes as “an incredibly ambitious project of art and hope across Europe in support of refugees”.\nStarting in March 2021, The Walk will see the 3.5 metre figure and a team of 12 puppeteers take part in events in collaboration with local arts organisations.\nArtistic director Amir Nizar Zuabi said with Syrian artists creating installations along the route, the story would be “told by refugees and the communities that receive her”.\n“A nine year old refugee is walking through your area and the question is how would you like to welcome her? In the midst of the pandemic, it’s an opportunity to bring communities together and make sure the story of the refugees is not forgotten.”\nIn Izmir, Amal will be welcomed by hundreds of folk dancers who teach her a traditional dance. In Athens she leaves a trail of red yarn and meets a Minotaur, in Rome she will walk down a street where pictures of bombed Damascus houses are projected to “show what refugees deal with in terms of trauma.”\n- 1 Covid-19: Hospital admissions and bed occupancy continue to fall\n- 2 Barnet: Three arrested as victim of fatal stabbing named\n- 3 Barnet: Two men charged following fatal High Road stabbing\n- 4 What is the rare 'monkeypox' being treated at the Royal Free?\n- 5 Businesses hail return of Highgate's Fair in the Square\n- 6 TfL: Revamped Northern line latest addition to ever-improving network\n- 7 Warnings issued after four fox clubs found stuck in old car wheels\n- 8 Court: Disciplinary rules not followed in 'unfair' sacking, lawyer suggests\n- 9 Fears over large nitrous oxide cannisters found in Gospel Oak\n- 10 Hampstead to welcome boho women's lifestyle brand Free People\nIn Paris there’s an installation of a refugee camp with shadow puppetry inside tents suggesting the families inside, and on the London leg in June, The Roundhouse, Royal Opera House, The Globe, National Theatre and Sadler’s Wells will collaborate on “a huge family friendly event celebrating Amal’s 10th birthday”.\nFounded five years ago, Good Chance Theatre, which staged plays in the middle of the Calais Jungle, is organising The Walk.\nHampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq is a trustee and at the launch spoke of how her own mother was an asylum seeker.\n“People will be aware of Good Chance for their work in the migrant camp in Calais that’s were I first encountered them. My mother is a political asylum seeker who came to London in the 1970s and my parents were married in the constituency I now represent so I have always been interested in stories of refugees and migrants.”\nPraising “the humanitarian mission at the heart of the work,” she added: “I know more than anyone how politics can polarise people, but the arts can unite us and focus people on our shared humanity.”\nAlthough the puppet is non verbal - the only tech is a computer which operates her eyes - it’s hoped she can become a conduit for celebrating both cultural differences and shared humanity.\nBilly Elliot and The Reader director Daldry said: “Little Amal’s story transcends borders and language to highlight the challenges that refugee children face, challenges that are even more pressing during this pandemic. But she is also a figure of great hope. At times like these we need art more than we ever have,\nand in these times, art must respond in an extraordinary way.”\nThe Walk’s Step Up appeal is raising £100,000 to make it happen.\nDonate at www.walkwithamal.org/", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I’m a transformer, a guide, and a thought provoker.\nI help people transform both the outer spaces of the homes they inhabit, and the inner spaces of their hearts and minds. I help them to see how their relationship to their inner spaces is directly reflected in their outer spaces. When we begin to transform one, the other transforms as well.\nI help people reconnect to what supports them – their homes, the Earth, inner wisdom and intuition, the Universe beyond themselves – so that they feel safe to transform and shift into a wider perspective. And as we learn to reconnect to our outer and inner spaces, we also begin the process of reconnecting to the people around us.\nI give people tools and teachings to re-empower themselves to build the foundation of a creative, abundant, joyful life.\nWe do this work through:\n- Applying the art and science of interior design to create supportive physical spaces\n- Time-tested practices of mindfulness and compassion\n- Practical tools and teachings, designed for healing work and curated to be easy to digest and integrate\nFor over two decades, I have lived and breathed design. I have been privileged to take part in beautiful, complicated transformations of spaces for beautiful, complicated people. And I have watched as those transformations have gone to work on the well-being of the humans who exist within these spaces, shifting how they relate to the world.\nWitnessing this process gave “design” a whole new meaning for me. I realized remodeling physical spaces and mending minds and hearts was the exact same process, and that we could explore the way we relate to physical space to find clues about how we relate to our inner space.\nThrough a long design career, and through my own inner transformations, a few key truths have emerged:\n- Design can be rooted in the wisdom of the Earth that supports us, and when it is, we create spaces that not only support our inner healing, but also the healing of our planet.\n- Design can be rooted in the wisdom of mindfulness, and when it is, we can utilize incredible creativity to bring peace and balance back into our lives and spaces.\n- Design can be rooted in the wisdom of compassion, and when it is, we unlock our ability to create powerful transformations that support kindness and belonging; first for our own hearts and minds, and then for all others.\nOur Human Roots\nFor eons, humans have struggled with a tug-of-war between the ego-centric, fearful focus on external power and status, and our intuitive sense that at our essence, we are connected, compassionate, and wise beings.\nAs tourists, we visit the grand tributes of stone and human lives that were built by kings and pharaohs, all in an attempt to prop up illusions of power and superiority. So much energy was poured into these spaces, attempting to make the temporary last forever, that we can still feel their intensity.\nAnd we are also drawn to the quiet spaces – the spaces of ancient trees and living tilth – where humans have, from the beginning, gone to hear the inner voice of wisdom, to pray, and to ponder the wisdom that connects us all.\nWe can still see this tug-of-war playing out in today’s built spaces. We see houses that are completely out of proportion to the humans who live there, often poorly built despite their expense, and disconnected from the Earth on which they perch – built as an external projection of status instead of who we actually are.\nContrast these with the spaces that feel like home: quiet, calm, welcoming. Those spaces that have listened to the Earth, utilizing light and air and water as partners and healers; the spaces that allow us to feel safe and supported to explore and cultivate our unique lives and purpose. These are the spaces that cultivate a sense of connection, belonging, and peace, rooted not in the ego, but in that deeper sense of who we are.\nThese are the spaces I teach people to create.\nThis doesn’t mean scrapping what you have or throwing up your hands because you feel you and your space are so far from ideal. It means meeting yourself exactly where you are, with compassion and grace. It means meeting your home in the exact same way. It means practicing living from a place of gratitude and abundance instead of anxiousness and lack. It means slowing down and listening.\nThere’s a desire emerging around the world to heal the wounds that eons of living from fear have caused. There’s an urge many of us have felt to create lives of meaning rooted in awareness, kindness, and connection. We are in the midst of mind-boggling technological progress, but with that comes opportunities to evolve the way we relate to ourselves, our families, communities, and the spaces we all inhabit, including the Earth that supports us all. By learning to live in harmony with the physical spaces that support us, we can stay grounded to what matters to us through this new transition in human evolution.\nSpaces can heal. They mirror where we are on our own healing journeys and show us the holes that still need to be repaired, the closets that still need to be unpacked; and they evolve as we evolve. They are the physical example we can turn to when we can’t quite see or feel clearly what is ready to heal within.\nIf this resonates, if there’s a place within you that feels heard right now, know that you are supported, and I’m here to do my part to serve your process of healing and grounding.\nIn deep gratitude,", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Meetup and go out with new people in your city today.\nHello! I'm Soleil. I would like to meet new friends who share similar interests, ideas or humor. I love music and dance. I am quite the dreamer and enjoy spontaneous fun. I fancy charity shops and fashion in general. I am ve", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fantasy stories have always given us a perspective of the past with supernatural twists. In M.A Frost’s new fantasy book The Freelancers, there is magic, mayhem, and a never-ending war for power, glory, and peace.\nPublished in 2020 under Partridge Publishing in Singapore, The Freelancers follow the story of a kingdom facing civil strife. Rebels gathered to fight against a corrupt ruler, winning the war in the process. When the oppression ended, a hero left behind a legacy, and years later, history seems to repeat itself upon the death of a King. As the King had no relatives, a former disciple lays claim on the throne and rivals become outraged, and another civil war breaks out. As the war continued, enemies left and right became overwhelmed fighting against sorcery. To make matters worse, one of eleven ancient magic swords was used against the rebellion. One day, a hero found one sword that was created to fight all forms of sorcery, how can one warrior defeat all with only one advantage?\n“Authority without wisdom is power in the wrong hands”- M.A Frost.\nAuthor M.A Frost has always been fascinated with fantasy stories, fairy tales, mythology, and folktales, and his latest book is shaped by these interests. A middle child raised in a suburban area, he has a degree in Electrical and Electronic engineering but became a web developer when he discovered his interest. As a hobby, he started writing and slowly enabled himself to be lost in the fictional world, finding enjoyment in writing fictional stories. The Freelancers is a unique and untold story creatively built by the author and goes into great detail about magical forces, their origin, and protagonists who unravel the unknown world. A fantasy world in ancient times, Frost has made a world with no specific era and fills it with medieval themes, royalty, wizardry, and mythical creatures.\nThe Freelancers is a well-written and easy-to-understand book that dives into familiar medieval themes with sorcery mixed into the pot. Fantasy fans will be thrilled as M.A Frost gives them adventure and mayhem at every turn of the page. Its artistic narrative brings the readers into a once-in-a-lifetime adventure that offers a new perspective about humanity, their attitude towards power, and how this personality has shaped our history. The book emphasizes how revolutions start and end and how history can repeat itself when greed occurs in people’s hearts. He also highlights the struggle of heroes in wars when they are at a disadvantage, not knowing how to level the playing field, which speaks of our current reality as corrupt and influential leaders play with the lives of their constituents.\nThis action-packed book will never leave a reader hanging as each scene is something to cling to. M.A. Frost brings a world with no limits, painting a different picture of what wars could look like if magic also causes destruction and suffering.\nWill a hero emerge in a war with no fairness? Find out more in M.A Frost’s The Freelancers: The Black Shield and The Red Fortune!\nTo find out more about M.A. Frost and his fantasy works, check him out at:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Emerging/Co-curators: Corban Clause Williams (Martumili Artists), Kimberley McKie, Layne Dhu-Dickie, Lorna Dawson, Sharlene Phillips (Spinifex Hill Studio), Melissa Sandy (Yinjaa – Barni Art), Wendy Warrie (Cheeditha Art Group) Courtney McKay (Juluwarlu Art Group)\nEmergent is an outcome of an Emerging Curators Project aimed to engage a group of artists and art workers with minimal experience in curating exhibitions. The project has taken them through all the steps that go into creating an exhibition from selecting works, to considering what might go in a catalogue, to placing works in the exhibition space, and presenting accompanying public programming. The co-curators were encouraged to select works from their respective art centres by new and emerging artists, established artists who are trying new techniques, or artists who only make a small number of works.\nKey dates and further information: https://issuu.com/form-wa/docs/emergent_catalogue_11022022\nThe job: Consultant Curator. Working with FORM – building a state of creativity on an emerging curators project.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Hesketh House Collection is named in tribute to an 1890s artwork from the Liberty archive, beloved by their in-house studio team. The designers gleaned inspiration from the heritage interiors of a stately country manor, drawing upon the details of hand-printed wallpapers, woven textiles, carved wooden furnishings and lush garden views. Rich and luxurious, the collection reimagines signature Liberty designs into luminously contemporary colour combinations.\nTraditionally screen printed onto soft Lasenby cotton, this base is suited for craft projects and classic patchwork quilting, the possibilities are as endless as your imagination.\n100% Lasenby Cotton (Quilting cotton)\nRoll Width (finished/usable): 110 cm (43 inches)\nSold by the Half Meter : 50 cm x 110 cm (approx 20 x 43 inches)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The fourth edition of Dubai Design Week opens its doors on Monday at Dubai Design District (d3). Held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, this year’s event returns with an even bigger and better programme, featuring exhibits, installations, pop-ups, competitions, and workshops.\nThose who are short on time and only have one day to explore the cool, diverse installations and exhibits occupying d3 for the week can check out Vogue.me’s guide on the can’t-miss happenings from 2018 Dubai Design Week here. Scroll down for some more highlights from the six-day event.\nUAE Design Stories: The Next Generation from The Emirates\nThis is curated by Emirati product designer Khalid Shafar, whose aim is to shine a spotlight on the homegrown creative talent from the United Arab Emirates. The eight participating talents include include 2017 DDFC/Vogue Arabia Fashion Prize accessories design finalist Alia bin Omair, interior designers Alia Mazrooei and Roudha Al Shamsi, multidisciplinary designers Aljoud Lootah and Salem Al Mansoori, sculpture artist Azza Al Qubaisi, architect Abdalla Al Mulla, and Bedouin Emirati artist Ahmad Al Areef. For the exhibition, each designer was enlisted to delve into the photographic archives of the UAE’s nomadic roots and interpret their findings into modern-day designs.\nMeaning “door” in Arabic, Abwab is returning with an impressive pavilion designed by Architecture + Other Things, using fallen twigs and timber coated in recycled newspaper pulp (last year’s pavilion was constructed out of recycled bed springs) to celebrate design from the region. The theme of this year’s pavilion is “Between the Lines”, and will house designs hailing from Amman, Beirut, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.\nFrom RAK to DRAK\nThree designers — 2017 DDFC/Vogue Arabia Fashion Prize winner Faissal El-Malak, Amal Haliq, and Khalid Mezaina —will focus on three commercial outlets from the neighborhood before designing a new and contemporary product. Photographer Ola Allouz will cover all three projects and more of Ras Al Khor’s industrial scenes in her cinematography project, displayed as part of the exhibition at d3.\nThe Global Grad Show\nThe curators of the Global Grad Show sifted through 1,000 submissions (double that of last year’s) to bring visitors 150 of the best projects submitted by 100 of the world’s top design and technology universities and emerging programs. Works include a plethora of life-changing inventions by graduates that aim to create solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.\nEmirati product designer Khalid Shafar teamed up with Italian engraving and mirror works atelier Arte Veneziana to launch his latest interior collection. Entitled “Forma”, the range is on display during Dubai Design Week. Forma, which simply translates to form, is a tribute to Emirati culture — in particular, the tradition of wearing egals, which are the woven rope bands used to secure men’s headdresses in place. Shafar deconstructs the egals, stripping them off their original function and instead uses them as a material to create mirrors, screens, chandeliers, and lamps. The result is a juxtaposition of Emirati traditions and unique Italian craftsmanship.\nDowntown Design is the only platform in the Middle East for the region’s professionals to discover an edited lineup of international design. Returning for the fifth edition of Dubai Design Week, the trade fair will take place at d3. Meanwhile, Downtown Editions, a brand new, curated showcase dedicated to limited-edition design, capsule collections, and designer collaborations is a new and exciting element added to the fair.\nCircadian Light Synthesis\nThis site-specific installation was created by Dubai-based architecture firm Anarchitect, and will feature two pavilions housed at the d3 entrance – one with natural light, and one with artificial light – in an effort to explore the human circadian rhythm’s relationship with light.\nIn an effort to raise awareness about the rising water levels, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has dreamed up Waterlicht, a culmination of LED lights and lenses meant to evoke the impression of a “virtual flood”.\nA simple shelter design created by Roudha Alshamshi using traditional crafts like carpet-making and weaving to construct shaded outdoor spaces that function as chill-out spots.\nNestled between buildings 8 and 9, Liz West’s Aglow installation (created in collaboration with women’s fashion label Nemozena) comprises 169 fluorescent-colored acrylic bowls that are arranged on the ground in a hexagonal shape. The installation is meant to explore the different ways that color can directly affect one’s mood.\nThird Audi Innovation Award\nNow in its third year, The Audi Innovation Award is the first of its kind in the Middle East. Seeking to empower local design talent from the region, the annual competition invited any artist hailing from the GCC and most Levant countries to create a piece around the theme “Connections”. The winner of this year’s award will be announced on Tuesday, at the custom-constructed Audi Innovation Hub situated in D3 and receive a US $25,000 prize. The top three designs will be displayed at the Innovation Hub during the remainder of Design Week.\nTALKS AND WORKSHOPS\nPeople Planet Profits\nThis sustainability-focused conference is presented by UAE Modern, and will feature various activations across the week, including panel discussions and a keynote covering myriad topics.\nThis membership-only space is offering access to guests throughout the week through free-for-all masterclasses and workshops led by members of the local and international design community.\nA pop-up studio, which offers five-days of diverse workshops and children’s activities conducted by a group of UAE-based, regional and international designers and professional creatives. Activities range from sculpting and 3D printing, to weaving and sketching.\nThe fourth edition of Dubai Design Week is taking place from November 12-17 in d3.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Cookie Jar was requested by nervoussimblr. They requested a bakery for Pandora with lots of outdoor seating. I was able to use CC for this request so I went to town with Sandy’s stuff and everything I used was free. The sign I made myself and it’s included in the zip in both simlish and english (original mesh by Sandy at ATS).\nThe lot is 20 x 16 and designated as a “hangout”. You will need Ambitions, Showtime, World Adventures and Late Night for it to show up like in the pictures. I do have all the EP’s and SP’s except for sweet treats so hopefully none of the textures look off.\nI hope you like it!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Painting is exciting! We are excited about the things we see around us and we're anxious to get them into a painting.\nYou will use these five steps to start painting any of the how-to tutorials.\nAlso, you can confidently start your own beautiful creations with these easy steps. The process is the same.\nPainting can add a lot of joy and accomplishment to our lives. You can learn how to paint! What things helped me to learn about painting?\nIf it's possible, have an area where you can leave your paintings things out. You will be more likely to paint more often.\nPainters progress rapidly when they paint regularly. Dedicated artists have painted daily for generations.\nAfter you learn how to start a painting, practice.\nYou may have photos you took on your vacation, a photo of your pets or flowers, etc.\nDo not copy them directly without giving credit to the photographer.\nArtist's paintings are also copyrighted. The boat painting was done from my own photograph.\nThe best bet is to use your own photos, or use free images that have no copyright restrictions.\nStudent paints are less expensive, but professional artist paints contain more pigment.\nArtist paints cover better and provide more color than student\nWatercolors are usually painted on paper. Oil and acrylics are normally painted on canvas or panels.\nIf your time is limited, smaller paintings may be a better choice. That way can have the satisfaction of completing a painting. Large paintings will often take several sessions before the painting is complete.\nSmall things like hummingbirds or butterflies normally go into small sizes. Landscapes and seascapes are normally painted larger.\nLay out the composition by sketching the large portions of the painting. Pay close attention to the values. Contrasting values create stunning paintings.\nWhen you are satisfied with your composition transfer the drawing to your painting surface.\nLearning to draw is a part of learning how to start a painting.\nTransfer the drawing to your selected painting surface with graphite paper.\nAlternately, if you are good at drawing, you may lightly sketch the drawing on the watercolor painting surface.\nUse a graphite pencil and do it without erasures, so you don't damage the painting surface.\nPale yellow lines are easy to paint over. They will not show in the final painting.\nIf you don't like a line, rub it out with a rag or a paper towel and paint it again.\nIf there is a lot of detail, do your drawing on paper first and then transfer to the canvas.\nIt's good when you learning how to start a painting to not use all your colors.\nA painting with too many colors is disconcerting. The viewer's eye doesn't know where to go.\nSelect a color scheme to give cohesiveness and punch to your paintings.\nMix any additional colors from your selected colors.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "June 7 (UPI) -- Tiffani Thiessen has joined the cast of the upcoming comedy Alexa & Katie, Netflix announced Wednesday.\nThiessen will play Lori, \"the determined and protective mother of one of the lead characters\" in the 13-episode series, which is to premiere in 2018.\nParis Berelc and Isabel May are to portray Alexa and Katie in the show about lifelong best friends getting ready to start high school.\nThe series was created by Heather Wordham whose credits include Hannah Montana and Reba.\nThiessen is best known for her work in Saved by the Bell, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Dinner at Tiffani's.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "VYANA Modern Deco Style Crystal Waterfall Chandelier ( Crystal Waterfall Chandelier #3)\nHi there, this image is about VYANA Modern Deco Style Crystal Waterfall Chandelier ( Crystal Waterfall Chandelier #3). It is a image/jpeg and the resolution of this attachment is 618 x 618. This photo's file size is only 30 KB. If You want to save This post to Your PC, you may Click here. You might too download more pictures by clicking the following photo or see more at this post: Crystal Waterfall Chandelier.\nVYANA Modern Deco Style Crystal Waterfall Chandelier ( Crystal Waterfall Chandelier #3) Images Collection\nIf your VYANA Modern Deco Style Crystal Waterfall Chandelier ( Crystal Waterfall Chandelier #3) appears clear and tidy, definitely you'll experience cozy cooking. Using a relaxed kitchen, cooking is fun, since the flavor of food is determined by people who are cooking's disposition along with the outcome would be the maximum that the recipes can taste better.\nWe have a lot on the VYANA Modern Deco Style Crystal Waterfall Chandelier ( Crystal Waterfall Chandelier #3)'s design along side processes to increase our kitchen's quality. This time around we shall provide you with ideas to produce your home more wonderful with tiled surfaces. Your kitchen is generally located indoors and away from the entry, but there's likewise a kitchen which can be simply apparent in the place that was living.\nStyle your kitchen with lovely, then your disposition is likewise always good-and the cook turned awesome. Below we attach some trial photographs home having a style that is minimalist, with a kitchen like this while in the kitchen you'll usually untouched.\nConsequently, your kitchen additionally takes care to make it more interesting. Additionally, you'll feel better having a home that is good. Therefore kitchen design with ceramic's set which makes it gorgeous and beautiful. Ceramic wall is available in many different patterns, styles, sizes, components as well as the manifold's installation. You can even make use of a ceramic wall to another room, dining toilet or room.\nModernmod•ern (mod′ərn),USA pronunciation adj.\n- of or pertaining to present and recent time;\nnot ancient or remote: modern city life.\n- characteristic of present and recent time;\nnot antiquated or obsolete: modern viewpoints.\n- of or pertaining to the historical period following the Middle Ages: modern European history.\n- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of contemporary styles of art, literature, music, etc., that reject traditionally accepted or sanctioned forms and emphasize individual experimentation and sensibility.\n- (cap.) new (def. 12).\n- [Typography.]noting or descriptive of a font of numerals in which the body aligns on the baseline, as 1234567890. Cf. old style (def. 3).\n- a person of modern times.\n- a person whose views and tastes are modern.\n- [Print.]a type style differentiated from old style by heavy vertical strokes and straight serifs.\nDecodec•o (dek′ō, dā′kō, dā kō′),USA pronunciation n.\n- See art deco.\nAlso, Dec′o. [1970–75;\n- of, pertaining to, or suggestive of art deco design: The new wallpaper gives the foyer a deco look.\nStylestyle (stīl),USA pronunciation n., v. styled, styl•ing.\n- a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.\n- a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting: They do these things in a grand style.\n- a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.\n- an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living: to live in style.\n- a mode of fashion, as in dress, esp. good or approved fashion;\n- the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that is characteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.: to write in the style of Faulkner; a familiar style; a pompous, pedantic style.\n- those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed: His writing is all style and no substance.\n- manner or tone adopted in discourse or conversation: a patronizing style of addressing others.\n- a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or form of construction or execution in any art or work: Her painting is beginning to show a personal style.\n- a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, esp. a legal, official, or recognized title: a firm trading under the style of Smith, Jones, & Co.\n- stylus (defs. 1, 2).\n- the gnomon of a sundial.\n- a method of reckoning time. Cf. New Style, old style (def. 2).\n- a small, pointed process or part.\n- a narrow, usually cylindrical and more or less filiform extension of the pistil, which, when present, bears the stigma at its apex. See diag. under flower.\n- the rules or customs of typography, punctuation, spelling, and related matters used by a newspaper, magazine, publishing house, etc., or in a specific publication.\n- go out of style, to become unfashionable: The jacket he's wearing went out of style ten years ago.\n- in style, fashionable.\n- to call by a given title or appellation;\ncall: The pope is styled His or Your Holiness.\n- to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style: to style an evening dress; to style one's hair.\n- to bring into conformity with a specific style or give a specific style to: Please style this manuscript.\n- to do decorative work with a style or stylus.\nCrystalcrys•tal (kris′tl),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., -taled, -tal•ing or (esp. Brit.) -talled, -tal•ling.\n- a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.\n- the transparent form of crystallized quartz.\n- a solid body having a characteristic internal structure and enclosed by symmetrically arranged plane surfaces, intersecting at definite and characteristic angles.\n- anything made of or resembling such a substance.\n- a single grain or mass of a crystalline substance.\n- glass of fine quality and a high degree of brilliance.\n- articles, esp. glassware for the table and ornamental objects, made of such a glass.\n- the glass or plastic cover over the face of a watch.\n- the piece of germanium, silicon, galena, or the like forming the essential part of a crystal detector.\n- the crystal detector itself.\n- a quartz crystal ground in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, which vibrates strongly at one frequency when electric voltages of that frequency are placed across opposite sides: used to control the frequency of an oscillator(crystal oscillator), as of a radio transmitter.\n- [Slang.]any stimulant drug in powder form, as methamphetamine or PCP.\n- composed of crystal.\n- resembling crystal;\n- pertaining to or employing a crystal detector.\n- indicating the fifteenth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. See table under wedding anniversary.\n- to make into crystal;\n- to cover or coat with, or as if with, crystal (usually fol. by over).\nWaterfallwa•ter•fall (wô′tər fôl′, wot′ər-),USA pronunciation n.\n- a steep fall or flow of water in a watercourse from a height, as over a precipice;\n- a manner of arranging women's hair, as in long, loose waves.\nChandelierchan•de•lier (shan′dl ēr′),USA pronunciation n.\n- a decorative, sometimes ornate, light fixture suspended from a ceiling, usually having branched supports for a number of lights.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Well, this took a lot longer to post than I meant it to.\nI’m a geek. This should be obvious from my twinned blogs; the percentage of fantasy and scifi is pretty high. I’m a once-and-hopefully-future Ren rat. (Well, according to the Renaissance Faire Purity Test, a Playtron.) I’m a Shakespeare geek, too – which ties into the Ren rat thing, I suppose; I don’t believe one engendered the other, but that they came about independently and simultaneously.\nThe “geek” in my “Shakespeare geek” doesn’t at all mean I think I know everything. Far from it. But I have a strong familiarity with several of the plays and a slight familiarity with the rest, I know enough of the ins and outs of the language well enough (I know how to use thee and thou, and *I*know*what*wherefore*means*) that I understand some of the humor and insult and pun Shakespeare intended. (Not all, by any means – but it’s coming along.)\nBlessings upon iTunes. When I discovered the wonderful world of podcasts, I thought I’d died and gone to geek heaven. First I found the NPR podcasts of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! And Car Talk. And Prairie Home Companion. Oh joy. O marvellous! Some of the funniest stuff on the planet – mine! Free! Woot! Then I started looking for Old Time Radio broadcasts – I love listening to the commercials – and now I have collected so many I’ll probably never be able to listen to them all.\n*Then* I stumbled on Bardcast. Which is lovely.\nAnd Bardcast led me directly to Chop Bard, hosted by Ehren Ziegler, “A show dedicated to sharing the plays of William Shakespeare as entertainment for today’s audience – and that means you.” “Or to at least keep your experience from sucking.”\nSubscribe to this. Get thee hence and subscribe to it, on iTunes or the website. No, seriously, now. I’ll wait.\nIt’s always baffled me that so many people “don’t get” Shakespeare. I suppose it’s like a math geek wondering why everyone can’t do calculus … actually, that’s a pretty solid simile, because the math geeks probably become pretty frustrated when everyone around them says how boring or intimidating or pointless calculus is. Right: Shakespeare is none of those neither – when done right. Absolutely anything can be made stultifying if someone tries hard enough – and a great deal depends on how one is taught. So few teachers can instill passion into these plays, which are, at base, so filled with passion and humor, that it leaves me gobsmacked. The language gets so much in the way for so many – and it so doesn’t have to. One thing Ehren Ziegler points out is that if all those teenagers being force-fed Shakespeare in high school really knew what they were reading, there would be anarchy.\nIt really is hilarious (and at the same time very sad) to think of all those high school students miserably swotting over R&J, never knowing that what they hold in their hands is some of the raunchiest stuff they could dream of … and it’s sanctioned by the school board. Wonderful.\nSo, here is Chop Bard, with its mission statement of “lifting Shakespeare off the page and back onto his feet”, play by play, scene by scene. The aim of the podcast is to take what so very many people feel is the bane of their high school existence, that stuff they were forced to read which, as a cousin once said, takes three pages to say it’s raining (I never have figured out which play that’s supposed to be), and which they gladly put behind them as soon as they could and never looked back – to take that and: “Strip away all the pretentious highbrow perception, and elitist crap … you’ll find Shakespeare speaking of common wants and needs, of Love, of loss, of hatred, joy, envy, passion, and more. Things from inside of us, made great.” Chop it up, dissect it, pare it back to the essentials, and expose the reasons that these are works which have not survived but thrived for 400 years. There’s a reason people genuinely love Shakespeare – and it saddens me that so many disregard or downright hate it.\nRomeo and Juliet has been covered; they’re up to Act III scene iv of Hamlet now (episode 32). As I’ve puttered away my evenings in front of the computer (and today waited for the hair dye to set) I’ve made my way up to 25; I don’t want to catch up too quickly, because new installments don’t come along every week. Through a close attention to the language and an actor’s point of view Chop Bard (not as in chop logic, but as in chop up the work into bite-sized and easily digestible pieces, and season well) opens up the plays, deepens understanding, clarifies. I love hearing the actor’s POV – I don’t think I’ve had the benefit of that before. I’ve learned about Shakespeare from the angle of language, and of history, and of crackpot analysis of who-was-he-really (I don’t identify myself as “Democrat” or (God forbid) “Republican”, but “Stratfordian”) and that’s been great – but the actor, or this actor at least, takes some of all of those (except the last) and adds interpretation. And the interpretation in this case is intelligent, and passionate – very passionate. Woe betide ye who screw with Shakespeare. This means YOU, Baz Luhrmann. And also you lot who still think “wherefore” means something other than “why”. Showing disrespect or a lack of attention (same thing, often) to the script, as Mr. Ziegler refers to the work, is the worst sin in this context – and given the work put into demonstrating why the scripts are worthy of respect and attention, that is a valid stance. I’m certainly not about to argue.\nHe cites four guidelines or rules for reviewing the plays:\n1. Choose to believe the scripts are complete\n2. It’s not important or it didn’t happen if it’s not mentioned in the text\n3. Characters never lie to the audience\n4. Always find the forward action of the words\nThe characters are given a large part of the incisive attention on the podcast. Again, the actor’s eye is great here: a good actor is going to want to know what is in his character’s head, and a good director is going to work that out with him. I read Romeo & Juliet in high school (like everyone else), saw the Zeffirelli film, and saw scenes played (extremely well) at the Faire, and it’s not one of the plays I’ve steeped myself in since – and the word portraits of the nurse and Juliet’s parents were a revelation to me – as well as those of Mercutio, Tybalt, Friar Lawrence, and – of course – Romeo and Juliet themselves.\nThe language is given a healthy percentage of time, as well, of course. One beautiful thing about watching and reading Shakespeare is that there are just certain things for which no one has the answer. I’ve been watching Twelfth Night quite a lot lately, and from that one: Mistress Mall? No one knows exactly who she was, though there are theories. Peg o’ Ramsey? Ditto. Oh, and as for:\nIn sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: ’twas very good, i’ faith.\n– ? The Fool was making crap up. So sometimes, if you don’t know what Shakespeare’s characters are talking about – no one else does either. It’s a bit chuffing, that.\nListening to this podcast stirred up cravings. I hadn’t sat and watched a play in quite a while; for a time there I was taking out some of the BBC complete series and other productions from the library on a regular basis, intending to see as many plays as possible. This made me think about some of the great productions I’ve seen – Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V, Patrick Stewart in The Tempest, the production in the early ’90’s New York Renaissance Faire (Festival, then) of Midsummer Night’s Dream which was one of the most magical things I’ve ever seen, and one of the funniest. And, two years ago, New York’s PBS aired a purely wonderful production of Twelfth Night.\nThinking about the productions made me decide to add my own feeble voice (though not literally) to the discussion of the scripts. It’s not going to be the whole blog – if I can manage it I still intend to write about books and whatnot – but I’m planning on working my way through the plays somewhat in the same manner as Ehren Ziegler, and I think following the order he’s using. Except I’m starting with Twelfth Night, for reasons I’ll talk about when I start it, but suffice to say I consider myself extremely lucky.\nTo close, here is another quote from the first episode of Chop Bard:\nThe works of William Shakespeare are incredibly vibrant, relevant, and deserving of constant rebirth. They’re not so delicate that they can be broken by a little rough treatment. … Some people are too delicate with Shakespeare, making every syllable so precious, so revered that the audience is in real danger of becoming bored to death, losing the meaning and thrill of the story – like people who collect Star Wars toys and never open the box to play with them, It’s just wrong.\nYup, I’m a geek. If I ever needed any confirmation of that I have it, because I am looking forward with an absurd amount of glee to opening all the boxes and playing with the toys.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I have come to Japan for my artist residency (AIRY – Art Residency in Yamanashi) located in Kofu city. I am here for 3 month, during which I was involved with the Kofu Art Festival. I have found a wonderful, kind and talented community of artists here and I am so excited to be a part of it even though for a short time.\nIf you go to the web page of the Art Festival you will find a map of the city with clearly marked art locations HERE, by luck my exposition place is marked number 1. Every artist has a different place, like a cafe shop, creative space, restaurant, tea room, mine is an open studio where I am painting every day and exhibiting finished works.\nThe festival was opened on the September 22nd, artists and guests gathered in the center of the city in front of the gallery where it was announced the festival has begun and for the celebration a big jar with beer was “cracked” open.\nAfter the official part everyone when different directions following the festival map. I must say that local artists have a very creative approach to art. One of the most memorable places was a sight some place behind the building, away from the road next to the constructions where we found nothing else but a bunch or rusty metal and trash, accompanied with terrible smell. I think I would never would have found this place. It was very bold of the artist to make this statement. I liked the various textures of this falling apart place.\nAnother unique project we found on the roof of an old tea house. The sphere was being made out of bamboo. There was an opening in it, the artist has explained that when it will be finished anyone could have a tea inside the sphere.\nWe did not forget to take our shoes off entering the tea house.\nSerena Lumley, Australia, is another resident at AIRY, she displays works at the lovely cafe. Serena works with oil and acrylics.\nElsa Guillaume, France, is the 3rd resident, she did wall paintings around AIRY, even on the roof.\nIzumi Sakamoto is our organizer. She is an artist herself, and for the festival we helped her installing a wonderful hand done textile piece at the cellar of a cute shop.\nAt 3 pm there was a continuation of the opening party. A great DJ was performing at a gallery. This performance made me miss clubbing.\nThere are different events through out the festival time, that ends on the October 14th. The opening at our studio was on the 23rd. At noon there was a concert of 3 bands held in my studio. (The works you see on the walls are my latest watercolor paintings).\nLater in the evening we, AIRY artists, were invited to give a little talk about our works, after which all of us watched a documentary filmed about AIRY artists last year.\nIt is not even a middle of the festival and there is so much to happen yet.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Woman in the Fifth\nBritish-French thriller about an American writer (Ethan Hawke) who escapes to Paris to reorganise his life. There he lusts after a widow (Kristin Scott Thomas) who has deadly intentions to keep him forever.\nAfter a scandal costs him his college lecturing job, Tom temporarily leaves his daughter and estranged wife, hoping to one day win back their love and forgiveness. When that plan threatens to fall through, he grows a desire for a beautiful French woman, Margit. As the lovers’ passion deepens, an inexplicable chain of events begin to occur. When the life of Tom’s daughter is threatened, he begins to suspect Margit as the catalyst of the chaos.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Suzy's Fancy - ARCHIVES\nby Suzanne Labry\nApril 22, 2016 marked the 46th anniversary of Earth Day. The purpose of this annual event, which is celebrated all over the world, is to show awareness of and appreciation for the Earth’s environment and to engage in “green” activities—those that preserve environmental quality.\nThis year’s Earth Day was particularly momentous because it marked the signing by over 120 countries of the Paris Agreement, the climate protection treaty adopted at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.\nOne of the core principles associated with Earth Day is recycling—the practice of reusing items that would otherwise be discarded as waste. Variations of recycling include upcycling, which involves adding value to an item for reuse, and downcycling, which involves breaking down an item or substance into its component elements in order to reuse anything that can be salvaged.\nPretty much by definition, then, it is clear that quilters have always been the consummate recyclers, regardless of whether they are upcycling or downcycling!\nSurely quilting has to rank among the “greenest” of activities. Feed sack quilts, scrap quilts, suggans, waggas, “britches” quilts, crazy quilts, kanthas, rallis, tobacco sack quilts, yo-yo quilts—really just about any type of quilt—could be considered an exercise in recycling of one type or another.\nHollyhocks II by JoAnn Hofffman and and Shirley Hobbs, Hill CIty, South Dakota. Original design containing Dream Green batting. This quilt won the Merit Award for Machine Quilting at the 2015 International Quilt Festival in Houston. Frogs, geckos and hummingbirds are hidden in the quilting.\nWe’ve probably all seen old quilts that contained another worn-out quilt as a batting, and perhaps we even know of quilts where the remains of an entire garment were stitched into a quilt top in a hurried, frugal effort to make warm cover. And can there be a better example of recycling than a string quilt? Most of these types of quilts could be considered examples of upcycling and they’ve been around for a very long time.\nA relatively new addition to the quilt realm, however, definitely falls into the downcycling camp: batting made from plastic bottles. Kathy Thompson, President of the Virginia-based Quilter’s Dream Batting, says that she had the ecological sensitivity of quilters in mind when her company created its Dream Green™ batt.\n“Quilters are recyclers, and I wanted to offer them a beautiful, practical fiber made out of something that otherwise would have been discarded as waste,” she says. “To make Dream Green batting, recycled plastic bottles are cut into chips, washed, melted and extruded into fine polyester fibers. Each pound of Dream Green keeps 10 plastic bottles out of our landfills. To avoid additional processing, we’ve kept the green bottle color. Even though not all the bottles that are recycled are green, those that are give the green cast to the batt. It is colorfast though, and doesn’t show through any but the lightest colors.”\nJoAnn Hoffman, an award-winning quilt artist, pattern designer and longarm quilter who lives in South Dakota, appreciates that the batting is made from recycled plastic. “Plus, the batting is wonderful for art quilts,” she offers. “Quilts hang so perfectly with this batting. Sometimes I will even use two layers depending on the project. If you place it behind white fabric it gives off a green glow. I wanted the green glow on my quilt.”\nKermit the Frog famously says that it’s not easy being green. But when it comes to quilts, old methods and new materials are combining to make “green” quilting easier than ever—and that’s something quilters all over the world can do to support Mother Earth.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The June 2013 issue of Zoomer\nmagazine features a fabulous vintage photo of the iconic celebrity Elizabeth Taylor\nAccording to the press release, the issue “reveals new details of her time in Toronto with Richard Burton and their secret Montreal wedding.” And the release goes on to say that Taylor is also being celebrated at the Cannes Film Festival where a restored print of the film Cleopatra was presented by Bulgari and 20th Century Fox.\nThe cover image is by Canadian photographer Douglas Kirkland, who worked in the 60s and 70s in NY for both Look and Life Magazine. In addition to Taylor, he also shot Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich.\nThis just in from Marisa Latini:\n“The June issue of Zoomer is another first for us, where we are utilizing a vintage image of a celebrity on the cover and it’s sure to move copies,” said Latini, VP Marketing, ZoomerMedia.\n“The main feature is part of a bigger package on second-and-beyond marriages, and the issue contains a package on 'Post-Career Careers' — perfect for our demographic,” she added.\nThis first-ever vintage/nostalgic cover is exciting, and I love it. Plus, the cover has all these things going for it too:\n- Iconic star\n- Great eye contact\n- Fab black cocktail dress\n- Great jewellery\n- Tons of benefit-oriented cover lines\n- Taps into free media hype", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Johannes Leonardo Agency took home the Grand Prix for the Entertainment for Music Award at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity on Tuesday night (June 20) thanks to their Adidas Original Is Never Finished campaign. The multimedia campaign featured a slickly produced Terence Neal-directed video centered around the reinvention of the Frank Sinatra classic hit “My Way,” and included star cameos from Snoop Dogg, Desiigner and MadeinTYO.\n“‘My Way’ is a film that aims to empower young creatives to do things themselves, to make them on their own, but still being inspired by that past,” Ferdinando Verderi, creative director of Johannes Leonardo, told Adweek. The two minute video centers around the idea that originality doesn’t have to mean being first. “Most younger kids, all of us, when we [try to make something] creative the first time, hear, ‘That’s been done before.’ That’s one of the things that block people from creating. It’s so intimidating; everything’s been done before,” he said. “But if you look at the most important things in art history, they all started from something that’s been done before. Obviously it’s impossible to distinguish between inspirations and a trait of creativity that passes from one to another. So we wanted to make a statement about that. We took iconic scenes from the past and turned them into something for today.”\nAfter receiving the award, Verderi offered some personal history, “We started Johannes Leonardo with nothing but a belief in the power of transformative brand ideas. Our three-year strike thru platform for Adidas Originals proves the impact it can have on the fortunes of a company, on a category and on culture. Of course accolades are nice, but when they come with legitimate business results, and help trigger the unprecedented resurgence of one of the world’s most loved brands, they mean so much more. This work is the result of a deep and open partnership with Adidas.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2016 is a year linking the arts to all community members. Art center staff and newly elected board members look forward to a year of more people enjoying art here at the Bonifas in all types of new & exciting ways.\nWe want to exhibit more of your art, offer classes and workshops that you will enjoy and provide wonderful art experiences for you, your family and friends — our collective community.\nYou can plan an exciting summer this year at Ludington Park as we present free concerts with Music Mondays and as we develop a more dynamic Waterfront Arts Festival weekend led by the combined efforts with the city of Escanaba, the Delta County Chamber of Commerce, and the Delta County Convention and Visitors Bureau.\nOur commitment to the schools stays strong as we support our youth with programs both here at the art center and in the schools. This spring we will celebrate student work with our Youth in Art Exhibit and Talent Show. We’ll also prepare for our fall fourth grade field trips that will reinforce the science curriculum with creative and hands-on learning methods. Keep your eye out for more after school and family programs as we partner with 4H.\nYou deserve more great community theatre and so we will be upgrading the fly system here in the Bonifas theater. As home of Players de Noc, it will be a busy year as we work with them to raise funds to match a state grant and complete the project.\nOur programs and events reflect an ever-widening community that includes you, so each of us can say “We are the Bonifas.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Basis||Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare|\n|Productions||1976 Seattle Repertory Theatre|\nMusic Is is a musical with a book by George Abbott, music by Richard Adler, and lyrics by Will Holt. It is the second musical adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Twelfth Night, following Your Own Thing in 1968.\nThe plot focuses on mistaken identity. Masquerading as a young page named Cesario, Viola enters the service of Duke Orsino, who is in love with Olivia. When she rejects his romantic advances, Orsino decides to use Cesario as an intermediary. Olivia, believing Cesario to be a man, falls in love with the attractive messenger. Viola, in turn, falls in love with the Duke, who also believes Cesario is a man and regards him as his confidant.\nThe musical had its world premiere at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1976.  The Broadway production, directed by Abbott and choreographed by Patricia Birch, opened at the St. James Theatre on December 20, 1976 following 14 previews and closed on December 26 after eight performances. The music was orchestrated by Hershy Kay, and Paul Gemignani served as musical director.\nThe cast included Catherine Cox as Viola, Christopher Hewett as Malvolio, Joel Higgins as Sebastian, David Holliday as Duke Orsino, Sherry Mathis as Olivia, Joe Ponazecki as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, David Sabin as Sir Toby Belch, and Daniel Ben-Zali in the dual roles of William Shakespeare and Feste.\nBirch was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography but lost both to Peter Gennaro for Annie. Cox was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical but lost to Clamma Dale in Porgy and Bess, and Hewitt and Ben-Zali were nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical but lost to Ken Bichel, Michael Mark, John Miller, and Joseph Saulter, who shared the award for I Love My Wife.\n|This musical theatre related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is a treat that I did not know existed. It is a pleasure to see and to hear Jon Vickers and Monserrat Caballé at the height of their powers. The production, from the amphitheatre at Orange, in 1974 must have been one of the first ever live filmings of an opera. Sadly, the pioneering nature of the project is all too apparent: it seems to have been filmed with just a couple of cameras and lit with a 40-watt light-bulb. Members of the chorus get in the way of the principals and, quite often, the stage seems to be in almost complete darkness. Then there is the famous Orange wind to contend with: it seemed to be blowing at force 9 on the night this performance was filmed. It reminded me of the English sport of extreme ironing whose devotees like nothing better than to press their clothes halfway up a cliff. This production is a demonstration of extreme opera but, miraculously, on a few occasions everything comes together. Caballé in Act I sings defiantly into the wind as it lashes her cloak around her shoulders. Caballé, in fact, comes out best throughout. She has a dynamic range and vocal control that would be astonishing even in a recording studio never mind a Roman amphitheatre. Her fading glissando at the end of Casta Diva is probably the equal of Callas's.\nIn most of the performances of Norma that I have seen Pollione is played as a bit of a wimp so it was refreshing to see Jon Vicker's virile performance. Sadly the wind and the primitive recording quality mar most of his singing so we only get an impression of how the great man must really have sounded. The highlight of Norma is the close harmony duets between the two sopranos but, Joséphine Veasey as Adalgesa was unable to defy the elements in the way that Caballé could so their duets are a disappointment. All in all, a tantalising glimpse of what might have been.\n4 of 5 people found this review helpful.\nWas this review helpful to you?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Nicola Hicks. Hicks studies the nature of character, exposing the real traits of her creations. There is a quiet expressivity to the artist's creatures that resonates beyond their situations, suggesting that the animal acts partly as a proxy for human emotions.\nIn Hicks' three-part sculpture Dressed for the Woods II, 2013, a bear sits at the feet of two figures seemingly draped or clothed in furs. The dynamics between the characters is essential to the impact of the piece. In this sculpture, Hicks aims to conjure the equally forceful, savage nature of love, the many guises that it takes and the innate urge to protect that accompanies it. Hicks' sculptures are complex compositions, painstakingly detailed, yet rich in spontaneity. Her rigorous study of anatomy and the intricate rendering of fur are affirmed by the precision of her forms, while the scale of her works contributes to the colossal psychic presence of her sculptures.\nHicks has always seen her drawing as a process that runs parallel with her sculpture; the two are inseparable, one feeds and inspires the other. This selection of drawings depicts a menagerie of beasts. For Hicks, the spontaneity with which the line is released onto the page reveals unique responses. The drawings have a vigour and immediacy through which she expresses her own personal visual language and social critique. Hicks has also created a new series of monoprints to be exhibited in the downstairs gallery.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Authentic Irish Pottery\nTraditional Irish made Belleek pottery. 30% off Shipped worldwide.\n50th Anniversary Gifts\nUnique collection of creations with 24Kgold for the golden anniversary\nUnique Anniversary Gift\nTurn memories into art. Moments into magic. Custom engraved photo.\nMake His Day - Everyday!\nEverytime he puts his hand in his pocket he will think of you!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "They always give a picture to work from, but you are free to use anything else. I worked from my own stash this time.\nI am also participating to another challenge with this, a new one - yay. Old, New and Digital too. This first month, the theme is free. The work has to have something old (I did the background a few years ago), something new (the sentiment from a newly purchased sticker sheet) and something digital (the couple, downloaded and printed).\nThanks for looking!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I learned a new word today…\nThe 20th of July will mark 2 years that I quit the coffin nails. I decided to mark the occasion by ordering another of @Whiterose0818 beautiful custom creations. This time I went with a stabwood finish. From choosing the main body color, the accent finishes, the power option etc…once again, Robert made the design process absolutely pain free.\nAt the same time, I also ordered a second mod as a surprise present for my good friend and drummer. He is the person who helped me quit smoking. He handed me his old Kanger Evod and Protank 2 two years ago. After speaking with Robert about the colors for this one…we went with matching the finish on the drum kit my friend currently uses. I can not wait to surprise him with this thank you gift!\nThe following pictures by no means do justice to what these stunning mods look like in person.\nMy new piece of art…all reds that are popping through are translucent pieces with light coming through from behind. In the last pictures of both mods, the bright red/orange light is actually coming from the led indicator inside…yes.\nThe gift for my friend…\nThank you Robert for these magnificent works.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ram Charan, Dhanush, Prabhas are the most popular stars of the Tollywood film fraternity. Their\nFans love Ram Charan. He showed up with Chirutha in 2007. He has acted in numerous movies and has accomplished so many accolades. He has an enormous fan following and allies, not only for his astonishing looks and acting chops yet additionally he moves like a pro dancer.\nOn the other hand, we all love Dhanush and fans go gaga over him for his royal looks. Raanjhanaa star Dhanush looks stunning in whatever he wears. Apart from that, he is also known for his swag dancing skills.\nPrabhas has become one of the popular actors. Fans respect his acting abilities and go gaga over him for attractive looks and astounding acting. His dancing skills have earned immense love from the audience, however.\nSpeaking of which, here we have lined up some of their dancing videos down beneath, check out:\nWho do you think is the best dancer in the industry? Let us know in the comments below.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nomad Studio has updated the resolution of the graphics for which this is the final version, and you can get them in physical version with Limited Run Games.\nNomad Studio has announced that independent play GRAY will arrive on PlayStation 4 on 26 November. In addition to its version for digital distribution, Limited Run Games has announced a edition physics with a price of 29,99 dollars. The original was launched in December of 2018 for Nintendo Switch and PC, but the team has wanted to take it easy to add several improvements to the game.\n“we Wanted to give the best version of GREY possible. GRAY has been acclaimed and awarded for its visual design, hand painted art, and fluid animations, so we wanted that the version of PS4 to be an absolute marvel in motion”. Artists and designers have updated the scenarios and reviewed “more than 500 graphic materials to double or quadruple resolution to take advantage of PS4 Pro and the screens 4K. Equally, the majestic music Berlinist has been integrated into the game with less compression so that the music and the audio sounds more clear and bright”.\nThe study has also made other improvements in the experience and a tribute to secret exclusive PlayStation “one of our favorite games and inspiration for GRAY“. Roger Mendoza, developer of Nomad Studio, says that it is an honor to share a platform with Journey Thatgamecompany, “a game that not only worship when we play on PlayStation 3 but it has been a great inspiration during the last few years”.\nWinner of the prestigious Annie\nGRAY stands out for its visuals, with the graphic style of Conrad Roset and his team of artists. At the beginning of the year received a prize Annie from the International Animated Film Association, but in analysis I discussed that “it is much more than a beautiful game, with interesting levels and challenges, well-designed, whose quality is accentuated thanks to the beautiful packaging in which it comes to us. We believe that the less you know of him the more you’re going to enjoy, and I recommend that, if you we have in our analysis that just guts nothing you are attracted to, I lancéis for him. Unwind over it, let the music will wrap around it, and help Gray to recover the colors of your life”.\nPhoneia.com (November 22, 2019). GRAY, the acclaimed independent game Spanish, comes to PS4 on November 26. Recovered from https://phoneia.com/en/gray-the-acclaimed-independent-game-spanish-comes-to-ps4-on-november-26/", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sign up for our newsletters\nReceive the latest in Footwear, Fashion, Music and Creativity in our newsletters.\nWith in-depth interviews, focused features and fashion-forward editorials, our print publication features long-form coverage of the topics valued by readers.\nExplore and be inspired by the latest women's fashion news and trends.\nGestalten TV presents insider, art collector, ex-lawyer and book editor Patrick Nguyen in a video\nSet to Velvet Underground’s “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’,” RISK and FLAUNT Magazine present a\nThe works of enigmatic and world-renowned street artist Banksy rarely last long enough to be\nAustralian artist RONE’s Can’t Stop mural at Bois de Vincennes Park showcases his signature style\nUK artist and designer INSA took to downtown Los Angeles in a spray painting frenzy this month,\nThis past weekend served as the launching point for Shepard Fairey’s latest “Harmony & Discord”\nContinuing its informative video interview series highlighting renowned street artists, Arrested\nShepard Fairey exemplifies the ‘hard-worker’ by attending both the Pace Paper studio in New York\nThis past weekend marked the opening of “Journey is the Reward” by Australian artist MEGGS. Hosted\nLos Angeles-based OG SLICK hooked up with CALE of K2S in this latest video from DISSIZIT. Set to", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Billie Eilish is set to perform at the Oscars, where fans speculate she may be unveiling the theme tune to upcoming Bond movie.\nThe 18-year-old singer has been confirmed to be delivering a \"special\" performance at the Academy Awards on February 9.\nThe Academy made the official announcement on social media.\nIt's unknown what song Billie will be performing at the star-studded award ceremony, but fans suspect she might use the stage to unveil the theme song to upcoming James Bond movie No Time To Die.\nThe performance news comes as the 'Bad Guy' hitmaker recently made history at the Grammy Awards over the weekend, when she became the youngest artist, and only the second artist ever, to scoop the ceremony's four biggest categories - Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best New Artist.\nWhen she picked up Song of the Year for 'Bad Guy', Billie admitted she \"never thought\" she'd ever win a Grammy Award.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Drawn for Philco by Walt Ditzen, who drew a syndicated sports strip called \"Fan Fare.\" His newspaper work was amazingly clean, but that could've been due to the inker.\nModern audiences might not recognize Tojo's headgear. It's a spittoon.\nWith Victory, the Age of Electronics will dawn for all humanity!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NEWSLETTER SIGN UP\nGET 10% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER. STAY UP TO DATE WITH OUR LATEST, PLUS ENJOY EXCLUSIVE OFFERS.\n7mm wide x 18cm diameter\nGorgeous authentic handmade Greek stefana. These beautiful wedding crowns feature 3 separate wires intricately wrapping together making an elegant twist effect. Sold as a 2 piece set and attached together with white satin ribbon. Available in silver or gold.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I'm so excited to share my baby girl's Neverland themed nursery with you today! The inspiration for her room came from my love of Disney's Peter Pan! To make it more feminine, the look of the room plays less with Peter Pan and pirates but more with fairies, mermaids, and Indians! The look is all tied together with a simple color scheme and an overall rustic floral boho vibe. Our son's pirate themed room is full of darker moodier colors so I wanted to create a very bright and warm space for our baby girl. However, we had to use our son's dark wood crib and recliner for the space. We did buy a new (used) white dresser for her though, sourced locally in our community, and then placed our son's changing table topper on it giving it a nice two tone look—in an attempt to not make the crib and recliner the only darker elements in the room. My favorite part: spending the time gathering pieces for her gallery wall above the changing table and the floating shelves above the recliner. I had so much fun buying from artists that I have followed for years as well as buying from\nThis past weekend I got to experience the Walt Disney Family Museum—finally! We made a trip up to San Francisco, just to make it in time to experience the Mary Blair exhibit at the museum. With only 2 hours in total to spend there, we started with Mary Blair as the thought was, the Walt Disney Family Museum will always be there and we can always come back. So that's how I ended up spending a whole hour in Mary Blair world and had to rush through the Walt Disney Family Museum at lightning speed. Yes, rush, as there are 11 galleries to experience and each one is pretty big and unique! I really didn't get to read much but just get the overall impression of each gallery and move on\nToday my Disneyland pass expires. After having an annual pass to the Happiest Place on Earth since Christmas of 2004, I am so heartbroken to not just be able to head down there whenever I want. Looking back over the years, I feel so blessed and am so thankful for all the little moments and celebrating all the major milestones. It's the place I fell in love, it's where friendships were strenghtened, its the place where my little nieces and nephews saw a whole new world with a sparkle in their eyes. And oh my gosh, I miss it already. On the other hand, Disneyland to me has always been a creative and artistic masterpiece. Every single nook and cranny has been thoughtfully executed down to the smallest detail. It has been crafted with love and a passion for the ideals of one man, Walt Disney. Walking down Main Street, I am just filled with so much creative juice that my heart just feels full and my mind is racing with ideas. And while I am taking a break from having a pass for awhile\nMany people are shocked to find out I only truly fell in love with all things Disney[land] just when I met my hubby 10 years ago. I grew up on Disney's movie magic and loved the random trips we took as kids but it wasn't until Andy pointed out the random holes in the wall on the Pirates of the Carbibbean ride and asked if I could see the Hidden Mickey—that my love for Disney grew into a passion. From there, my obsession with all things secret—and even mythical—about Disneyland began. I found an outdated website with Hidden Mickey sightings, printed out pages and pages and went through the park marking them off one at a time. Yeah, Andy kept his distance from me on those days. :) What kept me so entranced by these hidden gems is the artistic detail the park Imagineers tended to. All this \"hidden stuff\" is just bonus fun to an already amazing place to visit. It's what kept me going back trip after trip, year after year. It's these small details that place the quality of Disneyland over an other amusement park. So I just wanted to take some of these little gems and share them with you!\nIn Southern California, it seems like everyone—at one time or another—has had a Disneyland annual pass. And I have had a Disneyland pass for a solid 9 years now. But the plan right now, is when my pass expires in May, to not renew it. We just aren't able to go nearly as often as we used to\n1. Texas Monthly, Jon Contino I love when the different sections in life spill over into one another, in particular when the husband's BBQ world collides with my design world. So when I saw this post by the wonderful letterer and design, Jon Contino, for Texas Monthly I just knew I had to share it with you all. From the saucy titles on the cover to the handdrawn map of southern BBQ—there's truly some amazing work to see plus a video on the \"painting with BBQ sauce\" process. Check out more photos from the magazine on Jon's site. 2. Starbucks Coffee Perfection Can you even fathom the man hours to create such a promotion? Cutting all the smallest of pieces of paper, manipulating the characters on the screen in between each take, but the joy and gratification of seeing the final product must totally outweigh all of that! What a beautiful work of art! Here is the finished commercial, be sure to check out the behind the scenes work from Rogier Wieland on Design Work Life. Starbucks Coffee Perfection from Rogier Wieland on Vimeo. 3. Easy, Tiger Cards Another post from Design Work Life\nWhile I continue to play catch up every evening on all my various freelance projects, I thought giving another glimpse into a couple of my last 2 weeks' projects would be fun! 1. Nautical Baby Shower Invite Last week, I designed a baby shower invite for a friend of a friend\n1. Flourish Letterpress Wedding Stationery Seriously in love with every piece and every detail in this wedding invitation suite. Printed by Flourish Letterpress, found via the Graphic Exchange. 2. Circus Characters by Jonas Bergstrand Beautiful illustration work by . My eye is particularly drawn to the way patterns are used in the shadows. Found via Brave the Woods, illustrated by Jonas Bergstrand. 3. Want this Typeface: Oaf Can I have it? Pleeeeease? Oaf doesn’t go to art museums or the opera. Oaf doesn’t eat paté, whatever that is. Oaf was painted on a wall by an eccentric Canadian with a paint roller. The result is an unusual combination of straight, evenly weighted strokes and rough, handmade charm. Purchase Oaf here. Found via Good Design Makes Me Happy. 4. Destination NYC Logo It took me awhile to come on board the trend in every changing and morphing logos", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art\nBritain's newest centre for contemporary art, with an excellent website which includes an interactive map of the building and a timeline of its history.\n- Eyestorm Online Gallery - Buy Limited Edition Contemporary Art and ...\nA site to discover and buy contemporary art in many forms, including paintings, photography and prints; also linked to Britart.com focusing on work by British artists.\n- Home | a-n\nIncludes practical features on how artists can juggle money and workload, and lists job opportunities and contacts in the contemporary art industry.\nA centre for experimental and creative projects exploring interactivity and motion images, with many projects broadcast live online.\n- Welcome to Axis - the online resource for contemporary art\nInformation about contemporary visual artists working in the UK, with a searchable database of artists, commissions and projects.\n- MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles\nMOCA's digital gallery allows an interactive look at some intriguing contemporary art, the library is also an excellent resource with over 10,000 books and periodicals searchable online.\n- Journal of Contemporary Art\nInteresting for the detailed and revealing interviews with artists transcribed in full online, plus features on their current projects and portfolios.\n- Linkdup - a site critically reviewing other websites\nA site critically reviewing other websites from a design perspective, with a constant stream of new and varied recommendations.\n- Institute of Contemporary Arts : Homepage : Homepage\nThe ICA London site is useful for its online bookshop and a newly developed Online Art section featuring web-based art projects and exhibitions.\nView and buy contemporary British art in many forms and read reviews of current art shows.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bingo Card Halloween Costume Or Bingo Card Halloween Costume With Plus Together With As Well As And\nCut out some eyes from construction paper and stick them on the jars before you put on the tissue so you can have the eyes slightly covered and just peeking. Cats What s Halloween without black cats? Use paper plates to create cat masks or some cotton and crepe paper to create billowing streamers. Skeletons The most common skeleton man would be made out of white or luminous paint on black background. You can however create a good looking skeleton with different kinds of pasta. Wouldn t it be awesome to do some Halloween arts and crafts to transform your home into one of the scariest haunted houses in town? Your kids will absolutely love this idea. All you need is a theme some accessories appropriate lighting and sound effects. Cemetery Halloween Arts and Crafts Theme Coffins bones stone hedges and dead bodies are appropriate for a cemetery theme.\nVampires Vampire masks with fangs can be easily made with paper plates. More imposing ornamental life size vampires however can be made out of coat hangers and black garbage bags. UFO UFOs are not typical Halloween figures but stories about alien abductions sure make scary Halloween tales. Make UFOs out of paper plates that you can hang from the ceiling. You might also want to complement the ships with cookies shaped like stereotypical aliens instead of ginger bread men. Worms Worms in cans can be made of brown crepe paper. They can seem yuckier to the touch though if you use gummy candies and cooked spaghetti. Ghosts Just like spiders ghosts can also have a lot of variations. You can make ghost Halloween arts and crafts for kids made of socks packing foam old cloths crepe paper helium filled balloons white painted jars tissue and clay. The Mummy For a mummified figure you can wrap a jar with tissue paper or gauze.\nAs said creativity is the master of all arts. Making candy corn out of polymer clay is quite easy and it is an excellent project for just about any age group. These little polymer clay candy corns are so cute and are great for adding to all sorts of decorations and other things. You could use them to embellish things like frames magnets candles or even for adding to scrapbooking pages. Supply List: - Polymer clay (yellow orange white) - I normally use the Sculpey brand Clear acrylic sealer (optional) Instructions: 1. Warm up each color of clay by rolling and kneading it until it feels soft. Now roll each color out until it s about 1/4\" thick. Now press the three rolls together with white on top orange in the middle and yellow on the bottom. 2. Find a thin sharp edge such as a thin piece of cardboard to use to slice through the clay.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Aquwin May 6, 2022 9:37PM\nSo she beg a magical girl to turn her in a girl not knowing the girl she liked or wanted to befriend was said magical girl now they are friends and the magical girl is catching feeli g because she made her in the image of her type or at least that what I'm getting\ndrpepperfan May 6, 2022 10:39PM\nI don't think they knew each other beforehand Aquwin, just seems like she seeked her out afterwards. And I don't really think she made her like her type intentionally.\nGolden Mertens May 6, 2022 10:55PM\nThis would make a very interesting series actually\nlast edited at May 6, 2022 10:56PM\nNorainhere May 7, 2022 12:31AM\nGoing by the commentary, it seems like the magical girl knew and had a crush on her as a boy, which is probably why she agreed to the request in the first place. Not only that, but she's also surprised that she still has a crush on her now that she's a girl too, which is pretty wholesome.\nThis was also a commission, so I'm not sure if this will get continued at some point. I hope it does though; it's cute.\nyuri n wine May 7, 2022 12:34AM\nlowkey thought this was rin and saber\nUrsaTempest May 7, 2022 1:04AM\nVery very cute!\nZexalfan May 7, 2022 1:38AM\nalso really like this premise!\nFluffyCow May 7, 2022 3:17AM\nDynasty Reader May 7, 2022 5:15AM\nI expect a manga of this imminently. XD\nluinthoron May 7, 2022 6:00AM\nMissigno May 7, 2022 7:24AM\nelevown May 7, 2022 8:56AM\nI agree- I think she didnt know magical girl was the black haired girl. And while she fancies him she still did as he asked - reluctantly - because he really wanted it and he's important to her.\nNot sure to what degree he knows the blackhaired girl- maybe just a class mate?\nAnd afterward, I think it looks like yes, she realises she STILL likes him after the change.\nI'd love to see this as a series.\nlast edited at May 8, 2022 10:23AM\nRoodypatooti May 7, 2022 8:59AM\nRisamari May 8, 2022 3:58PM\nthis makes my heart skip beats\nYanako May 8, 2022 5:24PM\nHuh, that's neat, tg yuri is quite rare.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lawless Retreat in Jones, MI Real Estate Development, American Residential Property, USA Architecture design\nLawless Retreat in Jones, Michigan\nAmerican Luxury Cabin design in Michigan, by Searl Lamaster Howe Architects\nNov 28, 2019\nDesign: Searl Lamaster Howe Architects\nLocation: Jones, Michigan, USA\nPhotos by Tony Soluri\nLawless Retreat, MI\nThe clients had searched five years across four states to find a site for their weekend home that spoke to them. Lawless Retreat was to be everything that their Chicago residence – a lofted space nestled within the attic trusses of a converted church – was not. The loft is in the heart of the bustling Wicker Park neighborhood; they sought serenity and a slower pace.\nThe loft features a highly curated collection of sleek European contemporary furnishings; they were inspired by the idea of a sanctuary with a modern sensibility but also rooted in its place with hand craftsmanship felt on scales big and small. The loft’s views of the downtown skyline are finely calibrated to maintain a sense of privacy in the dense neighborhood; they sought an abundance of transparency and a direct connection to nature.\nOvernights in a tent on the three properties that made it to the final round assured them that their ultimate pick – a strip of land with a valley and a small creek at its center, nestled along the edge of a state park in central Michigan – was the right choice. On a brisk autumn morning, with stakes, lots of orange tape and the design team in tow, they set out to establish the final positioning of the house – just below the north ridge at spot with an expansive view down the valley in the winter and perched within a canopy of leaves in the other three seasons.\nThe progression – both in scale and in transparency – from the shaded and low-slung front porch through the structure, terminating with the living room’s expansive view into the woods beyond is this home’s defining feature.\nA pair of glulam beams running the length of the house reinforce a sense of movement and order as the interior floor levels terrace down, following the site’s terrain. Although the floor drops just a tad over five feet in total, the effect is dramatic; arguably to a far greater degree than if the floor remained level and the ceiling was the stepped element.\nThe entry axis crosses a secondary axis which includes a stairwell on one end and a screen porch and deck on the other. The secondary axis rises up to the top-level master suite and down to the lower level.The intersecting axes are expressed on the exterior as two contrasting volumes.\nA three-foot module was used to lay out the house, instilling a sense of overall unity; its regimented ordering stands in contrast to the wilds of the site beyond. Two materials define the exterior – cedar (both untreated and charred) and obsidian lap siding. While a black house in other contexts might be defined by its bold distinctiveness, here it serves as a quiet background to the lush mix of maple, oak, cedar, aspen, and ash trees that envelope the site.\nAn acute concern for materiality extends to the interior. Naturally clefted black slate floors are a constant, lending a layer of organic texture to the organizing module. The untreated cedar roof overhangs extend directly inside where a warm glow is provided by a series of barely visible suspended light fixtures. Most of the home’s cabinetry, built by local craftsmen, is also untreated cedar.\nThe exceptions to this being the kitchen and master bedroom millwork which is oak dye stained in a deep, deep green. The charred cedar from outside reappears at the main fireplace surround where it is contrasted with hand worked blackened steel. In the three-story stairwell, the ash steps wrap around an ebonized oak screen.\nThe contrast of the stairwell’s white walls to the randomly spaced screen battens was influenced by the character of the site in winter – dark tree trunks amongst the snow. The main windows of the master bath overlook a small deck and the trees beyond. In its shower a skylight highlights the variated texture and coloring of the handmade tiles that clad its walls.\nA keen appreciation of the ecology of the site and minimizing the house’s impact on it guided the project. The structure was strategically positioned to stand clear of any mature trees. Where shading is not provided by these trees broad roof overhangs were sized to passively minimize mechanical cooling requirements during the summer while maximizing the reach of daylight into the house in the winter.\nA geothermal- powered water furnace conditions the house. Here too the geothermal wells were thoughtfully positioned to avoid damage to the site. The charred treatment of the cedar on the house’s exterior will minimize maintenance and extend the longevity of the material. Rot resident cement board lap siding was selected with similar reasoning. While spacious in feel, the house is quite compact, leaving not a square inch of wasted space. On the home’s lowest level Two pairs of bunkbeds and a murphy bed allow the cottage to comfortably accommodate ten people. Thirteen in a pinch.\nLawless Retreat, Michigan – Building Information\nDesign: Searl Lamaster Howe Architects\nProject size: 2700 ft2\nSite size: 300000 ft2\nCompletion date: 2019\nBuilding levels: 7\nPhotographers: Tony Soluri\nLawless Retreat in Jones, Michigan images / information received 281119 from Searl Lamaster Howe Architects\nLocation: Jones, MI, USA\nMichigan Architecture Designs\nDesign: Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP\nimage : James Haefner\nDouglas House in Michigan by Richard Meier & Partners Architects on e-architect\nGlen Lake Tower\nDesign: Balance Associates Architects\nphoto : Steve Keating Photography\nGlen Lake Tower Michigan\nOne of seventy-nine shortlisted buildings that have won the prestigious 2017 American Architecture Awards ® for the best new buildings designed and constructed by American architects in the U.S. and abroad and by international architects for buildings designed and built in the United States.\nMichigan Lake House shortlisted for American Architecture Awards\nComments / photos for the Lawless Retreat in Jones, Michigan design by Searl Lamaster Howe Architects page welcome.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Undergraduate Music Minors\nThe School of Music offers three options for a minor - the Minor in Music, the Minor in Musical Theatre, and the Minor in Jazz Studies. All music minors allow a student the opportunity to earn a credential containing a balance of academic and practical musical knowledge without pursuing a music major. The Minor in Musical Theatre is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the School of Music and the Department of Theatre. Designation of a completed minor will appear on the diploma and transcript along with the major degree.\nTo officially declare your minor, fill out the declaration form at this link: https://advising.missouri.edu/majors-minors/minors-certificates/. Once you have received confirmation of your minor declaration, you can access your progress towards your minor by running a degree audit. If you have questions about the minor after you view your degree audit, contact the advisor for the minor (Kay Gregory). More information on declaring a minor can be found here.\nA total of 18 hours of music courses, with a minimum number in each category listed below. Six credits must be 2000-level or higher. Because of the prerequisites that many courses have, the course numbers suggested below (in parentheses) usually constitute the minimum requirements.\nMusic Theory (Four hours: Music 1220 and 1221)\nMusic History (Six hours: Music 1322, 2307, and 2308)\nMusic Performance (Four hours, chosen from among appropriate applied classes [generally\nMusic 2445] and/or ensemble courses [e.g., Music 1841 or 1842]).\nThe student chooses one of the above categories for his or her \"emphasis area\" and earns at least 4 additional hours in that category with the approval of his music advisor. If history or theory is the emphasis area, then the normal course sequence must be followed.\nThe Jazz Studies Minor is not intended for beginners; rather, it is for students with basic musical knowledge. Hence, some of the required courses have pre-requisites, and auditions are required both for ensembles and for admission to the programs.\nCourse Requirements (student must pass with a ‘C-’ or higher):\n- Music 4645: Jazz Improvisation (2 credits)\n- Music 4210: Jazz Harmony and Arranging I (2 credits)\n- Music 4211: Jazz Harmony and Arranging II (2 credits)\n- Music 1311: Jazz, Pop, and Rock (3 credits)\n- Music 1620: Jazz Piano Class (1 credit)\n- Music 2445: Studio Instruction or additional hours in Jazz Ensembles (3 credits)\n- Music 1841/1846: Jazz Ensembles (2 credits)\n- One semester of large jazz ensemble\n- One semester of small jazz combo\nInstrumentalists (other than drummers):\nPrepare one jazz standard and one blues in the key of your choice, improvising on each piece. Please provide your own accompaniment (Aebersold or other play-along CD).\nPerform the following grooves at the prescribed tempos:\nSwing at 120 bpm\nDouble-Time Swing at 240 bpm\nBossa Nova at 100 bpm\nSamba (double-time bossa nova) at 100 bpm (half-note)\nFunk/Hiphop at 100 bpm\nBallad (with brushes) at 80 bpm\nAlternating four (4) measures swing with four (4) measures solo at 120 bpm\nPrepare one medium up-tempo jazz standard and one ballad, no more than one chorus of each. Please provide your own piano accompaniment (Aebersold or other play-along CD).\nThe Minor of Musical Theatre is an interdisciplinary minor between the School of Music and the Theatre Department consisting of 18 credit hours.\nMUS_THRY 1220: Tonal Music Theory I or\nMUS_THRY 1213: Introduction to Music Theory or\nMUSIC_NM 1211: Fundamentals of Music I (2 credits)\nMUS_ENS 1842: Choral Ensemble (1 credit)\nMUS_ENS 1865: Opera Workshop (1 credit)\nMUS_APMS 2455: Studio Instruction or\nMUS_APMS 2445: Studio Instruction (1 credit)\nMUS_H_LI 4376: American Musicals (3 credits)\nTHEATR 1420: Stage Movement for the Actor or\nTHEATR 3420: Acting I (3 credits)\nTHEATR 2300: Production Workshop I or\nTHEATR 2410: Performance Workshop (1 credit)\nTHEATR 2800: Principles of Script Analysis (3 credits)\nTHEATR 4460: Musical Theatre Performance (3 credits)\nThe Graduate Minor in Musicology provides the opportunity for graduate music students to develop and/or strengthen their skills in this academic area. In addition, completing this minor can enhance the employability of individuals with degrees in performance, theory, or composition, by preparing them to teach courses in music appreciation and music history.\nPrerequisites: Students must be enrolled in a graduate music degree program.\nMUS_H_LI 8313: Introduction to Graduate Study (2 credits)\nMUS_H_LI 8314: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Music II (1 credit)\nMUS_H_LI 7330: Music of the PostModern Era - Or any period course, including one of the following:\nMUS_H_LI 7336: Music in the Baroque Era or\nMUS_H_LI 7337: Music of the Classic Era or\nMUS_H_LI 7338: Music of the Romantic Era or\nMUS_H_LI 7339: Music of the Modern Era (3 credits)\nMUS_H_LI 7311: Historical Studies in Art Song - Or any genre course, including one of the following:\nMUS_H_LI 7312: Historical Studies in Choral MusicMUS_H_LI 7313: Historical Studies in Opera or\nMUS_H_LI 7315: Historical Studies in Chamber or MusicMUS_H_LI 7317: Historical Studies in Jazz and Popular Music or\nMUS_H_LI 7318: Studies in World Music or\nMUS_H_LI 7320: Historical Studies in African-American or MusicMUS_H_LI 7341: Advanced Studies in American Music (3credits)\nMUS_H_LI 8340: Focal Composers (3 credits)\nMUS_GENL 8085: Problems in Music (Capstone independent study project) (3 credits)\nMUS_H_LI 7350: Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Not a required course, but may substitute for a period, genre, or focal composer course) (3 credits)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As Arnold Kaplan pointed out in his item about good spots in Vermont to shoot foliage, it's the season to try to capture those vivid colors in interesting ways. Over the next few weeks e-mail your best fall foliage shots and I'll post them. Meanwhile, here's a sample of photos from the Globe's photography staff that may help you think about how to shoot these classic pictures in interesting ways.\nIn the photo above, for example, Mark Wilson used the sharp contrast of the reddish-orange leaves and the white birch to create a striking image. John Blanding did the same in this shot:\nOften, including another element in your shot helps lend context, balance, or just some interest to the photo, as in these shots:\non the Williams College campus. (Globe Photo/John Tlumacki/File 2006)\n(Globe Photo/John Tlumacki/File 1995)\n(Globe Photo/John Tlumacki/File 2000)\nIf you own a wide-angle lens, you can get pretty creative, as David L. Ryan did:\n(Globe Photo/David L. Ryan/File 1997)\nDon't take all of your foliage shots from a distance. The following photos demonstrate that getting up close can have tremendous impact.\n(Globe Photo/Bill Greene/File 2000)\nin Minuteman National Historic Park. (Globe Photo/Mark Wilson/File 2003)\nAnd finally, sometimes the best shot comes not from shooting foliage directly, but rather capturing its reflected glory:\nwith the colors of fall foliage. (Globe Photo/John Tlumacki/File 2000)\nJOIN THE RAW DAWGS\nLife and wildlife in Madagascar", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Following the passage of the same-sex marriage bill in New York and a recent weekend of LGBT pride, it just felt right to attend curator Bradford Nordeen’s “Dirty Looks.” The series is a monthly platform for experimental queer film and video that Nordeen affectionately describes as “roaming”—June’s event was held at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea, though it takes place in various venues across the city.\nCapitalist Realism or Poverty Porn?\nFor more than three decades, Shelby Lee Adams has photographed families living the Appalachian hollers of Kentucky. Adams sees himself as a documentarian and observing participant in the communities he works in, developing close friendships with his subjects and allowing them to shape his photographic practice. But is his kind of practice truly documentarian or is it exploitation?\nVideos by Dave Greber: Life, The Universe and Everything\nNew Orleans artist Dave Greber’s video work addresses issues of optical phenomena and universal spirituality. It’s also a hell of a lot of fun to watch.\nSummer in DUMBO: A Visit to the Sharpe Foundation\nThe Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s “Space Program” offers seventeen emerging artists a year’s worth of studio space and a summer show in DUMBO. Here’s a look.\nNew Orleans and the Summer of Swoon\nThere’s more compelling art being produced in the Crescent City these days than at any point in its history. And there may be no better place to start looking at it this summer than the Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art.\nHyperallergic Is Going On Vacation to New Orleans!\nStarting Wednesday, July 6, Hyperallergic will be heading to the land of Creoles and Cajuns for two weeks by Lake Pontchartrain. During the period, we’ll be handing over the reigns of the publication to veteran blogger John D’Addario. You’re in for a treat!\nArtist Known for Pulling Scroll Out of Her Vagina Talks Culture, Cats and Road Rage\nTuesday night, I ventured to St. Mark’s Bookshop to see pioneering feminist artist Carolee Schneemann read from her recent book of letters. Schneemann entered the crowded wearing her infamous devil mask.\nA Fond Farewell\nFor the past 9 months, I’ve had an amazing time with you all at Hyperallergic. As staff writer, I’ve posted day in and day out, attempting to provide a guide to what’s actually interesting in the art world. It’s been an incredible experience, to say the least. I’ll be leaving Hyperallergic today.\nLearning to Be Canadian Through Art\nAs an Armenian Canadian living in New York for over a decade, I’m conflicted when it comes to the idea of Canada Day … the question of what it mean to be Canadian pops up now and again.\nHow Ai Weiwei Saw New York City\nEver wondered what New York City looks like through the eyes of a great artist? In a newly opened exhibition at Asia Society, viewers get the chance to see how recently released Chinese artist Ai Weiwei saw New York City in a series of diaristic photos taken between 1983 and 1993.\nThinking About Art and Devotion\nArt as a messenger of belief is nothing new. From the obvious ostentatious examples like the Sistine Chapel, to the much more ephemeral Buddhist sand mandalas, faith has often driven artistic creation. Yet, can art be a system of belief in itself? The artists in Architecture of Devotion at the Gowanus Ballroom definitely put a lot of faith in their own creative views as they all respond to this history of artistic devotion.\nAn Abstract Moment in Chelsea\nChecking out the Chelsea gallery scene last week, my results were surprisingly mixed — from overly offbeat summer shows to nonsensical group exhibitions, the galleries just didn’t seem to have it together. But one thread did emerge in my wanderings. I discovered that Chelsea was having a brief love affair with big abstraction, wall-size pieces that dominated their respective art spaces. Works by Sol Lewitt, Keith Haring, Li Songsong and Garth Weiser all packed a refreshing amount of visual punch, brightening a hazy summer day.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This pretty Tinkle character wall decal would be a fun piece of décor for your home. The famous Ina Mina Mynah Mo characters from Tinkle comics adds the right bit of vibrance and fun to the place. It comes with a matte finish and is waterproof.\nNote: Handmade furniture being exclusive presents slight differences between each piece. Based on your screen's setting, resolution and photography, the actual product may vary from the product image shown.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Until 1970, Dolly Parton’s career in country music looked to be average at best. She had songwriting talent from the beginning, but despite the popularity of her duets with Porter Wagoner (five had reached the US Country Top 10 from 1967 to ‘69), Parton’s solo releases barely dented the chart. In fact, after her first few moderate hits in 1967, successive releases charted successively worse through the end of the decade. That is, until she released a cover version of the Jimmie Rodgers country standard “Mule Skinner Blues” in 1970.\nRodgers wrote the song as one of his “Blue Yodels” - No. 8 to be exact - and first recorded it in 1930. Dolly Parton’s version forty years later peaked at #3 on the US Country chart. The song carried RCA Record’s release of her first “best of” compilation, released the same year, and set Parton up for the success that followed with “Joshua” (the song and the album). Also helping Parton get noticed: 40 double-Ds.\n“The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never regard a grand passion as a destructive torrent upon which a man is swept into uncertain actions as by fate, and which, therefore is an excuse for them.”—Sartre, “Existentialism Is a Humanism” (via fuckyeahphilosophy) (via phasechangesyndrome) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)\n“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”\nI could go dozens of places with this post, but let me start here… Classical music finds its way into more “popular” more often than one might realize. There are the obvious examples like The Toy’s 1965 hit “A Lover’s Concerto,” for which the melody was taken directly from “Minuet in G,” composed by Christian Petzold in 1725 (often mistakenly attributed to J.S. Bach). There are also less well-known examples. Both “The Free Design’s “Kije’s Ouija” from 1970 (a previous song of the day) and Greg Lake’s “I Believe in Father Christmas” from ‘75 take their melodies from “Troika,” the fourth movement of Sergei Prokofiev’s 1934 Lieutenant Kijé film score.\n“If I Were a Rich Man” takes both its style and melody from a theme in the third movement of Gustav Mahler’s 1896 first symphony (click to 2:35 into the linked song), which itself was partly a reworking of the traditional European folk song “Frère Jacques” into a funeral march. Follow all that?\nThe point, then, is that new melodies are hard to come by these days. Where modern artists make their mark is in performance. Zero Mostel’s interpretation of Tevye, the Russian Milkman protagonist in Fiddler on the Roof, won him a Tony Award, and for good reason. The most impressive moment in the entire musical for Mostel came with “If I Were a Rich Man,” a performance so overflowing with personality it became arguably the defining work of Mostel’s career. The small idiosyncrasies he incorporated brought out both the solemnity and humor of Tevye’s life. The fun version of “If I Were a Rich Man” posted here comes from the cast recording of the 1964 original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof.\nI have a ton more fun facts and interesting angles to take on this song (did you know Bea Arthur was an original cast member in the ‘64 Broadway production?), but I suppose this post is long enough already…\nTo finish off our short lapse with popular music crossover into classical music (or vice versa, if you look at it that way) here’s a piece from Fiddler on the Roof.\nAnd well.. he explains it quite well. Stay tuned for the piece that inspired it.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Offering a unique take on iconic footwear including loafers and desert boots, Bobbies was established in 2010 by Parisian design duo Antoine and Alexis. Taking inspiration from the charm of Paris as well as their international travels, the pair pushes traditional boundaries and brings a refreshed approach to old classics. Combining bright colors and energetic designs with original details and impeccable finishing touches, Bobbies shoes have become firm favorites of stylish men and women around the world. Passionate about quality and comfort, the label crafts by hand using a carefully chosen selection of Italian leathers. Bobbies footwear features tassel loafers, tie-up suede moccasins, leather desert boots and heeled ankle boots available in a range of colors.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In this edition of my Photographer Focus series, I am interviewing Architectural Photographer James Tarry Photography. A London-based freelance photographer who specializes in Architectural style image production.\nI am a freelance architectural photographer based in London. I specialize in Interiors and Architectural Photography. Besides my Architecture Photography, I also shoot stock photography. I am also a photographic artist making work largely out of Polaroids.\nApparently, I started my photography journey while I was very young, at least according to my parents anyway. I used to grab their disposable cameras and take all sort of random photos. The earliest camera I remember owning was a Kodak Disc.\nI had always wanted to be an animator/artist/designer, generally something of a creative nature. I had taken all my GCSE’s in Art/design and then took photography which I also aced. For those how are not aware, the GCSE stands for “The General Certificate of Secondary Education“. It is a set of exams taken in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and other British territories. I took that into A-level (Advanced Level above GCSE) and that is where everything went wrong.\nMy teachers at the time were not particularly supportive. I was living in a city where not many left. You picked a trade and stayed put. I was constantly told to pick something that would be possible to earn a living at. My parents were always trying to encourage me to do what I loved but I hated school. This put me off going to University. I just wanted to escape a city that I hated. I went to work, stopped taking photos, stopped drawing, stopped making art and I moved to London at age 17 or 18 as far as I can recall.\nFor about 10 years I bounced around from job to job. I did everything from being a PA to celebrities, a Shop Manager and even a Chauffeur. When I was made redundant from a driver delivery job, the pressure was to go back to retail as apparently, that is what I was good at. But I could not stand it! I decided to try getting back into photography, the thing I actually loved. I pieced together a rough portfolio and started looking for work. Eventually, I got offered a job photographing interiors at a Real Estate Agent. It paid out a decent enough pay packet and I figured it would be at least in the realm of what I enjoyed doing. And here I am, still doing it 14 years later.\nBefore becoming a freelance architectural photographer, I had tried my hand at everything from working in retail to professional driving. Funnily enough, I was also a Personal Assistant at one stage. I was even a delivery driver.\nI went from Full-Time employment to a Freelance Photographer approximately 5 years ago back in 2013.\nPrimarily I am a freelance architectural photographer. Interior photography is the only thing I offer aside from floor plans. I can also draw professional plans for clients if needed. I have been thinking the video would be a nice next step. But I am still finding that at the moment the video is not really needed or wanted.\nInitially, it was fairly straight forward. I had made enough contacts while being in full-time employment. The company I was working for Full Time allowed me to go Freelance too. The transition was quite straight forward.\nWith competing companies offering more for less, it is getting harder and harder to compete without cutting my own prices. Brexit has also hit my business hard at the moment, with people waiting on seeing how the market reacts.\nYes. There are more of us working professionally in the industry for a start. And advancements in technology means quality has also improved. Advancement in Social Media means that you can reach more people faster and cheaper than it used to be too.\nI wish that I started out earlier. That I started Photography earlier. If I could rewind time, I would have liked to have gone to University or at least been on a course.\nMy main work camera at the moment is a Sony A7Rii. I also have Canon and Sony lenses.\nMy mobile phone is the key piece of equipment that I have. Most of my work is booked through that during the day. Apart from my phone and my camera gear, then the next important would be my iMac and Adobe Lightroom.\nIt depends massively on the client I am shooting for. Sometimes the designer will be on site styling things, instructing on what they need. However, often times I am on my own. London is a fast market so I tend to work fast and hard, including turning around the images in a short time. Most times the client will have the photos the next day, quite often when they walk into their office or when they wake up. More often than not, I am walking in blind and won’t know what I am going to see. Some are more hands-on and will print out sheets of what they would like.\nWork hard and focus on quality. Learn everything you can. Shooting in natural light and get comfortable using strobes. Always be as professional as possible. Most of my work comes through word of mouth, or connections I have made from other jobs. Develop your own style. I quite often hear that my interiors are very “clean”. Normally the presumption is that I have used several layers in Photoshop or deployed an HDR technique. When in reality, they are always one shot and often carefully lit. Correct and clever lighting is always the key!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2018 is the 300th anniversary of the arrival of Prince George and Princess Caroline in Richmond – the first step in a sequence of events that would lead to, among other things, the creation of Kew Gardens. The following is by way of commemoration of this event.\nStephen “Thresher” Duck (1705-56) was a self-educated Wiltshire ploughman who achieved fame in his day as a poet. He has recently received some attention from sociologists for his description of gruelling manual work in his poem “The thresher’s labour”. However, unlike that other 18th-century ploughman poet, Robert Burns (1759-96), who wrote mostly in the vernacular, Duck wrote mostly in the style of John Milton, his verse replete with classical allusions. In 1735 Queen Caroline, after receiving a character reference from Alexander Pope, housed Duck in Richmond and employed him as “librarian” in her Merlin’s Cave in Richmond Gardens. His collection of poems, Poems on several occasions, was first published in 1736 and ran to several editions. This collection includes a poem concerning the two royal estates in Richmond – Richmond Park and the grounds of Richmond Lodge (Old Deer Park). The latter is here called by Duck “Royal Gardens” and elsewhere “Richmond Gardens”. [N.B. the spelling in the text that follows has been modernised.]\n“On Richmond Park and Royal Gardens” (1736)\nBy Stephen Duck\nDuck begins his praise of the two Richmond estates with a reference to Alexander Pope’s early poem, “Windsor Forest” (1713). “Cynthia” is an epithet of the Greek nature goddess, Artemis, who is depicted with a quiver of arrows and a knotted belt. “Consecrated floods”: rivers in ancient times were consecrated to and named after deities.\nOf blissful groves I sing, and flowery plains:\nYe Sylvan Nymphs, assist my rural strains.\nShall Windsor Forest gain a deathless fame,\nAnd grow immortal, as the Poet’s name;\nWhile not a bard, of all the tuneful throng,\nWith these delightful fields adorns his song?\nThy Gardens, Richmond, boast an equal theme,\nAnd only ask an equal Muse’s flame.\nWhat, though no virgin Nymphs, of Cynthia’s train,\nWith belt and quiver grace the verdant plain?\nWhat, though no fabled consecrated floods\nFlow o’er thy fields, or murmur through thy woods?\nMy song thy real beauties shall pursue,\nAnd paint the lovely scenes, and paint ’em true;\nA pleasing task! Nor slight shall be the praise,\nIf Royal Caroline accept the lays.\nThe poet ascends Richmond Hill.\nDelighted, often thro’ the mazy groves,\nThe Muse, in pensive contemplation, roves;\nOr climbs the slow ascending hill, whose brow\nHangs o’er the silver stream, which rolls below;\nWhere all around me shining prospects rise,\nAnd various scenes invite my gazing eyes;\nAnd, while I view one object with delight,\nNew pleasing wonders charm the feasted sight:\nNow this allures, now that attracts it most;\nAnd the first beauty’s in the second lost.\nThus, in a grateful concert, may we hear\nThe sounds at once surprise, and charm our ear;\nThe trembling notes, in hasty fugues, arise;\nAnd this advances, ere the former flies;\nAll seem to be confused, yet all agree,\nTo perfect the melodious harmony.\nThe Thames is compared to the Rivers Hermos (in modern Turkey) and Tagus (Iberia). Sir John Denham (1615-69) was an Irish poet, whose poem “Cooper’s Hill” describes the Thames Valley at his home in Egham.\nBeneath the mount, with what majestic pride\nThe sire of rivers rolls his silver tide!\nLet poets sing of Hermos’ golden shore,\nHis amber foam, and sands of shining ore:\nNor Tagus envy we, nor fruitful Nile,\nWhose fattening floods enrich the thirsty soil:\nHappy Britannia boasts as fair a stream,\nAs great in bounties, and as great in fame;\nSince Denham’s deathless Muse has sung his tide,\nAnd India’s riches o’er his surface glide.\n“Obsequious” at this time did not have a pejorative connotation. Here it could mean either “keen to please” or “winding like a root” (according to the Oxford English Dictionary). “Infidels” here means “atheists”.\nObsequious river, when my eyes survey\nThy waves, or east, or west, pursue their way;\nNow swiftly roll, to meet the briny main,\nAt stated periods, now return again;\nHow vain the schemes of infidels appear!\nHow weak their reasonings, and the God how clear!\nSay, atheists, since you own, by Nature’s laws,\nThere’s no effect produced without a cause;\nWhy should the restless stream run to and fro,\nAnd, with alternate motion, ebb and flow;\nDid not some being, of superior force,\nRule the wild waves, and regulate their course?\nWindsor Castle is visible from Richmond Hill on a clear day. “Pompous” was once also not derogatory. It meant “grandiose” or “magnificent”. John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost” (1674) has a description of Eden before the Fall.\nHence lofty Windsor to the sight appears;\nAnd, high in air, her pompous turrets rears:\nWide, round her domes, the spacious forest shines.\nThough brighter much in Pope’s harmonious lines:\nO! would his tuneful Muse my breast inspire,\nWith equal warmth, with her sublimer fire;\nThen Richmond Hill renowned in verse should grow,\nAnd Thames re-echo to the song below;\nA second Eden in my page should shine,\nAnd Milton’s Paradise submit to mine.\nThe poet enters Richmond Park. “Aurora” is the Roman goddess of the dawn. “Philomela” was a mythical Greek princess who was turned into a nightingale; hence a synonym for nightingale.\nOft, lost in thought, forgetful of my way,\nI, o’er the park, through wilds of beauty, stray;\nWhere sportive Nature wantons at her will,\nAnd lavishes her bloom, unchecked by skill.\nOld venerable trees, majestic, rise,\nSublime in air, and brave the vaulted skies;\nWhich, free from cruel steel, or labourer’s hand,\nIn peaceful age, and hoary honour, stand.\nHere, when Aurora first begins to dawn,\nThe wakeful larks spring mounting from the lawn;\nPoised by their plumes, in lofty flights they play;\nWith joyful warblings hail the approaching day:\nBut, when the sun displays a purple scene,\nAnd drinks the pearly dew, that decked the green;\nA thousand tuneful birds in concert meet,\nA thousand tuneful notes the groves repeat;\nAnd, when their music ceases with the day,\nSweet Philomela chants her pensive lay.\n“Albion’s King” is George II, King of Great Britain from 1727.\nBut, hark! I hear a louder music sound;\nFrom woods and vales the various notes rebound:\n‘Tis Albion’s King pursues the royal chase;\nThe nimble stag skims o’er the unbending grass:\nThe way which fear directs, he trembling tries;\nNor knows, where fear directs, or where he flies:\nA hundred different sounds assail his ears;\nA death, in every different sound, he fears:\nAnd now he faintly moves a slower pace,\nAnd closer now the hounds pursue the chase;\nTill, in despair, back on his foes he turns;\nMakes feeble efforts with his branchy horns;\nShort is the combat, soon he yields his breath,\nAnd gasping falls, and trembling pants in death.\nThe scene now moves to the grounds of Richmond Lodge. “Terrace” refers to the riverside terrace that ran the length of this estate until it was demolished by Lancelot “Capability” Brown. “Ceres and Flora” are the Roman goddesses of agriculture and flowers respectively.\nNow to a softer theme descends my Muse;\nThrough artful walks her pleasing path pursues;\nWhere lofty elms, and conic lindens rise,\nOr where the extensive terrace charms her eyes;\nWhere elegance and noble grandeur meet,\nAs the ideas of its mistress, great,\nMagnificently fair, majestically sweet.\nSee, on its margin, fields of waving corn;\nThese bearded crops, and flowerets this, adorn;\nCeres and Flora lovingly embrace,\nAnd gay varieties the landscape grace.\n“Oval” refers to the “Great Oval”, a clearing in the pleasure grounds over 500 feet in diameter, created by Charles Bridgeman. The “sequestered cell” refers to William Kent’s Hermitage (1731) which contained busts of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton.\nHence lead me, Muses, through yon archèd grove,\nAdorned with sand below, and leaves above;\nOr let me o’er the spacious Oval trace,\nWhere verdant carpets spread the lovely place;\nWhere trees in regular confusion stand,\nAnd sylvan beauties rise on every hand:\nOr bear me, Nymphs, to the sequestered cell,\nWhere Boyle and Newton, mighty sages!, dwell;\nWhose fame shall live, although the grot decay,\nLong as those sacred truths their works display.\nPhoebus is the Graeco-Roman epithet for Apollo as sun god.\nHow sweetly pleasing is this cool retreat,When Phoebus blazes with meridian heat!\nIn vain the fervid beams around it play;\nThe rocky roof repels the scorching ray;\nSecurely guarded with a sylvan scene,\nIn Nature’s livery dressed, for ever green.\nTo visit this, the curious stranger roves,\nWith grateful travel, through a wild of groves;\nAnd, though directed, oft mistakes his way,\nUnknowing where the winding mazes stray;\nYet still his feet the magic paths pursue,\nCharmed, though bewildered, with the pleasing view.\n“Thorny brakes” means briers. “Symmetry from wild disorder sprung” is probably a reference to Milton’s “Light shone and order from disorder sprung” (“Paradise Lost”).\nNot so attractive lately shone the plain,\nA gloomy waste, not worth the Muses’ strain;\nWhere thorny brakes the traveller repelled,\nAnd weeds and thistles overspread the field;\nTill Royal George, and Heavenly Caroline,\nBid Nature in harmonious lustre shine;\nThe sacred fiat through the chaos rung,\nAnd symmetry from wild disorder sprung.\nDuck draws a strained analogy between the landscaping of Bridgeman and Kent and the Roman Empire. Perhaps his subtext is that Britain has become the new Rome.\nSo, once, confused, the barbarous nations stood;\nUnpolished were their minds, their manners rude;\nTill Rome her conquering eagles wide display,\nAnd bid the world reform – the world obeyed.\n“Augusta’s pompous piles” means Augusta’s grandiose buildings. Augusta was the honorific name given to Roman empresses. In this case it likely refers to Livia, wife of Emperor Augustus, who is noted for commissioning a number of public buildings. This stanza contains a Judeo-Christian creation story with an admixture of classical allusions in the manner of “Paradise Lost”. “Solitude”, “peaceful Nymph” and” celestial Dame” are apparently references to Hekate, one of whose epithets, according to the first Orphic Hymn, is Philerimon (“fond of solitude”). She was the only Titan spared by the Olympian god Zeus. “Eternity” is the Greek god Aeon. Michael is the archangel of that name.\nHow blessed the man in these delightful fields!\nNew pleasures each indulgent moment yields.\nLet gayer minds in town pursue their joys,\nExchanging quietness for crowds and noise;\nConsume the night at masquerade or play;\nOr waste, in busy idleness, the day:\nI envy not Augusta’s pompous piles,\nSince rural solitude more pleasing smiles.\nO Solitude! the sage’s chief delight!\nWhat numbers can thy lovely charms recite!\nHail, peaceful Nymph! thou eldest thing on Earth!\nNay, like Eternity, thou hadst no birth:\nThe Heavens alone can thy commencement tell,\nEre Michael fought, or peccant Angels fell;\nBefore the skies with radiant light were clad,\nIn awful gloom, and venerable shade,\nThe Father thee his sole companion made.\nWhen to creation first his thoughts inclined,\nAnd future worlds were rising in his Mind;\nHe sat with thee, and planned the mighty scheme;\nWith thee adjusted the stupendous frame;\nContrived how globes, self-balanced in the air,\nWith restless rounds should rule the circling year;\nHow orbs o’er orbs in mystic dance should roll,\nWhat laws support, and regulate the whole:\nNor art thou yet impaired, celestial Dame;\nThy charms are still attractive, still the same;\nWith thee the mind, abstracted from the crew,\nMay study Nature, and her ends pursue;\nWith thee I hear the feathered warblers sing;\nWith thee survey the beauties of the spring,\nWhen blossoms, leaves, and fruits the branches yield,\nAnd Eden’s glory crowns the happy field.\n“Royal guardian” refers to Queen Caroline. “Condescending” is not pejorative: it means something like “graciousness shown to someone of a lower social status”. What follows is praise of George II’s avoidance of war while the country is protected by the Royal Navy (“floating towers”). This was before the War of Austrian Succession (1740-48).\nHere first the Muse (auspicious was the place!)\nRejoiced to see her Royal guardian’s face:\nHow mild, yet how majestic, was her look!\nHow sweetly condescending all she spoke!\nOn every pleasing accent wisdom hung,\nAnd truth and virtue dwelt upon her tongue.\nO! were I equal to the glorious theme,\nThen should my lays immortalise her fame;\nOr paint great George in peaceful laurels dressed,\nWith Albion’s safety labouring in his breast;\nWho (while contending nations round him jar,\nAnd subjects’ wealth supports their monarchs’ war)\nGuards happy Britain, with his floating towers,\nFrom purple slaughter and invading powers;\nNo plundering armies rob our fruitful plain;\nBut, blessed with peace and plenty, smiles the swain.\nMeanwhile, other European countries wage war and their armies ravage the countryside.\nNot so he smiles upon the foreign shores;\nBut starving walks through Nature’s lavish stores;\nPoor peasants with their rigid burdens groan,\nAnd till the glebe for harvests not their own.\nWhat, though their more propitious Phoebus shines\nWith warmer rays, and chears the curling vines?\nWhat, though rich olives grace the fertile soil,\nAnd the hot climate teems with fattening oil?\nThe hungry farmer views his crops in vain,\nIn vain the vineyard tempts the thirsty swain;\nWhile their stern tyrant’s arbitrary power\nRifles the plains, and ravages their store:\nThy sons, Britannia, from such evils free,\nEnjoy the sweets of peace and liberty;\nA gracious Sovereign smiles upon the throne,\nAnd heaven confirms the happy realm his own.\nDuck’s description of the view from Richmond Hill was written after the more famous 1730 version of James Thomson (1700-48). The latter was also a local resident (Kew Foot Lane, now Kew Foot Road) but he was a protégé of Frederick Prince of Wales, the son and neighbour of Queen Caroline. The poetry of the university-educated Thomson, it must be said, is the better. The two poets were acquainted. It is known that Duck sent Thomson a copy of his poems and that Thomson reciprocated. They spent some time together and, according to Duck, “drank plentifully to Miss Robbison’s health” (a local beauty perhaps?).\nAfter Queen Caroline’s death in 1737, Duck took holy orders and was for a while a preacher at St Anne’s church in Kew. He drowned at the age of 51 in the River Kennet at Reading, but whether he committed suicide is disputed.\n© Ron McEwen 2018", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Benjamin Noys\nIt is a transparent and concise consultant to the existence and paintings of the French highbrow Georges Bataille, top often called the writer of the distinguished erotic novel, the tale of the attention. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a author out of step with the dominant highbrow traits of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and exhibits that it was once his very marginality that accounted largely for his next value for the post-structuralists and the counterculture, in Europe and within the United States.Treating Bataille’s paintings as a complete instead of focusing, as different stories have performed, on elements of his paintings (i.e. as social thought or philosophy), Noys’ learn is meant to be delicate to the desires of scholars new to Bataille’s paintings whereas even as drawing at the newest examine on Bataille to provide new interpretations of Bataille’s oeuvre for more matured readers. this can be the 1st transparent, introductory interpreting of Bataille in English - demanding present reductive readings, and stressing the diversity of disciplines laid low with Bataille’s paintings, at a time while curiosity in Bataille is transforming into.\nRead Online or Download Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers) PDF\nBest literary criticism books\nOur sensory relationships with the social and organic global have altered noticeably because of contemporary advancements in net and different cellular communique applied sciences. We now examine a display, we contact both the monitor or a keyboard in line with what we see and, one way or the other, a component of our sensory presence is transmitted in other places.\n\"Starts off as a manifesto yet turns into richer and extra suggestive because it develops. \"—The big apple SunWith exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson freed from all of the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and exhibits the poet involved with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical zealotry and poetic glory.\nIvre de romans de chevalerie, Don Quichotte se rêve lui-même en chevalier errant. Il agit dans un monde entièrement imaginaire, littéralement enchanté. Si personne ne s'oppose à ses croyances, le \"sous-univers\" dans lequel il vit par rapport à los angeles réalité de sens commun peut cohabiter sans heurts avec d'autres \"sous-univers\".\nCharting the intersection of aesthetic illustration and the cloth stipulations of city house, town due to the fact that 9-11 posits that the modern city offers an important context for reassessing theoretical matters regarding narrative, identification, domestic, and private precarity. within the years because the September eleven assaults, writers and filmmakers have explored city areas as contested sites—shaped by way of the present discourses of neoliberalism, native land protection, and the conflict on terror, but in addition haunted via a lack within the panorama that registers loss and prefigures destiny risk.\n- Action et Réaction. Vie et Aventures d'un couple\n- Georges Bataille (Critical Lives)\n- The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief\n- Hart Crane's Poetry\n- Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West (Masters of Chinese Studies)\nExtra resources for Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers)\nWhether Bataille intended the images he chose to be read seriously or not, and whether they are objects for a potential theory, these alternatives are dissolved THE SUBVERSIVE IMAGE 37 in sovereign laughter (as we will see in Chapter 3). ’27 He is right in that Bataille can be very serious about laughter and is not a writer of jokes, but Sartre’s own philosophical ambitions mean that he cannot experience the laughter in Bataille. He does not recognise that Bataille can be funny, whether intentionally or otherwise.\nTo put the will to political use fascism mutilated 42 GEORGES BATAILLE Nietzsche’s writings by repressing the elements ‘that Nietzsche incontestably experienced as an end not as a means’ (VE, 191). What fascist and Nazi readings consistently failed to read in Nietzsche, even the most ‘sophisticated’ readings like that of Bäumler, was the ‘pathos-laden experience’ (VE, 191) of the eternal recurrence. It was the eternal recurrence that threatened the politico-philosophical concept of the will to power with an experience that was ‘too-free, too-complex, too-rending’, an experience which literally tore apart the will as a unitary entity.\nThe strange beatific grin on the face of the torture victim may not be joy before death but the result of the administration of opium used to prolong or relieve the suffering of the victim (TE, 205). There is an undecidable moment where the grin is indistinguishable from a grimace. This undecidable moment undoes Bataille’s claim for a direct access to the ‘sacred horror’ of eroticism. Rather than having direct access Bataille is forced to interpret the image, and no image, including this one, can offer direct access to the impossible.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tea Infuser with Pink Rhodonite Carved Dragon Charm\nA 2in tea infuser ball with a beautiful carved pink rhodonite on the end. The charm on this infuser is carved into a wonderful dragon motif.\nYou will receive one of the two shown here.\nPerfect for any tea drinker! The charms act as a counter balance to the infuser so you will never again have to fish for your tea-filled infuser when the chain slides in after the ball!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Double Crisp Linens\nThis weaving kit includes all the yarns needed to weave these Double Crisp Linens that were designed by Christine Jablonski for Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2023.\nAmong the many things to love about weaving are easy projects that look complicated. These woven towels are the perfect fit for this situation, and we are offering lots of color choices to boot!\nThis is the perfect project to try your hand at weaving with two heddles!\nWeave Structure: Plain weave with two heddles\nYarns: 8/2 Variegated Cotton\nEquipment needed: Rigid Heddle Loom; 21” weaving width; two 10 dent heddles; 1 shuttle\nFinished Dimensions: three towels 18\" × 30\" hemmed\nInstructions needed: Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2023 pages 77 and 82. Available from Long Thread Media.\nThis kit includes all yarns needed to weave these towels. The pattern can be found in the Little Looms magazine noted above. You will need to purchase this magazine if you don't already own a copy.\nPhotos by Matt Graves\nYou can find more weaving patterns by Christine Jablonski on her Etsy page SoulSpaceArt.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Experience a truly royal service during a visit to Hotel Imperial. Luxurious and uniquely furnished rooms and imperial suites make a stay in the heart of Vienna a truly unique experience. The hotel is famous for both its discretion and impeccable service.\nHotel Imperial's regal past is reflected in the opulent and luxurious design of its interiors. The hotel was originally built as the Viennese residence of Prince of Württemberg in 1863. Today, the interiors still reflect the palace's original splendour, making the Hotel Imperial, Vienna event spaces some the finest in the capital. For an elegant dinner or an exquisite cocktail at the bar, Hotel Imperial is a must for all visitors to the city. Known for its culinary excellence, highlights include the famous Imperial Torte and Opus restaurant, which serves the finest Austrian cuisine.\nCentrally located within the city centre, the Vienna State Opera and St. Stephen's Cathedral are a short walk away, making it the perfect base for an event in Vienna. Small and intimate meeting rooms make the perfect location for elegant meetings or seminars, while larger events and conferences take place in Salon Imperial. Gala dinners and banquets are truly unforgettable in these regal surroundings, where guests enjoy impeccable service coupled with the finest cuisines Vienna has to offer.\nA wedding reception at Hotel Imperial is without equal in the city. The luxurious and opulent rooms create a romantic and elegant event. The bride descends the marble staircase and shimmers underneath crystal chandeliers and high stucco ceilings that radiate old world elegance. Uniquely, a personal butler is by the bride's side throughout the day to escort her and attend to anything that she needs.\nVienna is the cradle of classical music and the capital of balls, enjoying a 200 year old tradition of these events. Known for its famous waltzes, enduring traditions and courtly splendour, over 450 balls are held annually. Friends and lovers of classical music are also treated to unforgettable concerts at the hotel as part of the Bösendorfer concert series.\nA hymn to those who worship the extraordinary, at this noble and refined hotel you will enjoy life at its best.\nThe sumptuous surroundings of the Hotel Imperial were originally created in 1863 as the residence of the prince of Wrttemberg. The palace on the Ring Boulevard was transformed into the Hotel Imperial for the universal exhibition in 1873. For over 130 years the Hotel Imperial has sat regally on Vienna's Ringstrasse, providing guests with the chance to look back on its eventful history.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When Cindy Johnson tells people what she does for a living, there's usually a lot of explanation involved.\nThat's mostly because she's one of the few people in her line of work.\nFor the past 20 years, Johnson has worked as an artist at Applied Imagination, a small company that specializes in architectural models and structures set to scale for botanical train displays using natural elements found in the woods.\n\"I loved this stuff from the first time I laid eyes on it and I still do,\" Johnson said.\nIt's the only company that specializes in this kind of artistry. They have clients all over the country, including the Chicago Botanical Garden, The Biltmore, New York Botanical Garden, United States Botanical Garden and most notably to those who live in Cincinnati, the Krohn Conservatory.\nGo behind-the-scenes with the artists at Applied Imagination in the video above.\nApplied Imagination has been an integral part of Krohn Conservatory's holiday show for nearly 30 years, depicting Cincinnati neighborhoods and buildings in model size structures.\nThis year a new piece is on display that Johnson spent weeks crafting in honor of the conservatory's 85th anniversary. It's also one of the biggest projects she's ever completed.\nIn the beginning\nLandscape architect Paul Busse started Applied Imagination in 1991. Busse, an avid train enthusiast, was installing private train gardens as a side job in the backyards of homes around Cincinnati for several years. Then he decided to make it a full-time job.\n\"Applied Imagination was born from the culmination of my father’s love for architecture, landscape architecture, gardening, plants, as well as trains,\" Busse's daughter, Laura Dolan, said. Combining all those mediums turned into the Applied Imagination that we know today.\"\nThe Krohn Conservatory heard about Busse's work and hired him to make an installation for their holiday show. Busse gathered natural materials from the grounds of the conservatory and made an elaborate 10 x 5 foot music box. It became an iconic part of Krohn's holiday show that lasted for nearly 15 years.\nApplied Imagination's installation continued to grow over the years.\n\"It started slowly with a piece here and a piece there and now it fills the entire room. And it’s just remarkable,\" Krohn Conservatory assistant manager Mark House said.\nThe conservatory was the first company to commission Busse in his new endeavor. Ironically, it's also where Johnson would get her big break a few years later.\nDuring a visit to Krohn Conservatory's holiday show, Johnson was admiring that same music box installation when she ran into Busse as he was working on the train garden. As an artist, she admired it's detailing and knew she had to introduce herself.\n\"I asked for a job on the spot,\" Johnson said.\nTwo decades later, Johnson is still working her dream job.\n\"I haven't lost that enthusiasm yet,\" she said. \"I love seeing these things come together.\"\nOver the years, Applied Imagination's involvement with Krohn Conservatory has grown not only in size, but also popularity.\n\"It was very important to our annual holiday show, as important as the poinsettias I would say,\" House said.\nBusse's involvement with the holiday show has dwindled over the years since his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. In 2017, his daughter took over ownership of the company.\n\"It's something that’s so incredibly special to the family and everyone involved who works here and of course the visitors that see these installations year after year,\" Dolan said. \"I felt it was very important to carry on the business for as long as I can and hopefully someday I can pass it on to someone special.\"\nBusse lives within steps of his company's workshop in Northern Kentucky, so when he's able to meet, his former employees still seek his input.\n\"I don’t think he necessarily expected to retire, but unfortunately life sometimes throws us curve balls,\" Dolan said.\nA 'new' Krohn for Krohn\nApplied Imagination primarily works on holiday displays, which means planning begins nearly a year in advance. By the time the displays are set up for the public to view, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours are put into the creation of a single model.\n\"At any given time we’ll have two to three to four different clients’ work going on,\" Johnson said. \"It’s organized chaos. That’s what it looks like year round.\"\nOver the past 27 years, Applied Imagination has created models of several iconic Cincinnati structures like Procter & Gamble, Mt. Adams incline, the \"Painted Ladies\" of Columbia Tusculum, the Western & Southern building, The Roebling Suspension Bridge. They've also included National Park structures as part of this year's exhibit.\nBut in light of Krohn's Conservatory's 85th anniversary celebration, both companies wanted to do something special. They decided to make a new and improved model of the conservatory that was bigger and better than previous ones.\nThe task wasn't easy to start.\n\"We had to invent ways of holding up the structure and making it out of transparent material,\" said Johnson, who also created the last model more than a decade ago.\nThis project was very different than others because of the need for it to be transparent, like the conservatory itself. After finally locating a flexible plexiglass, Johnson created an inner and outer skeleton for the structure so visitors would be able to see through it as though they are looking into the windows of the conservatory.\nJohnson incorporated the branches of a dead orange tree from the conservatory and used it for the detailing of the outer decor.\nJohnson's favorite feature of this new model is the stained glass entryway in the front.\n\"This one is way cooler than the old one because we have more room to work,\" Johnson said.\nIt took her hundreds of hours and lots of late nights to complete this project on deadline. But the chaos isn't anything new for a veteran like Johnson. She thrives on the constant flow of creative energy in the workshop all year round.\n\"When we’re all working on something different and there’s just something fabulous on everyone’s desk, you can’t beat that feeling,\" she said. \"I don’t understand why everyone doesn't want to do this.\"\nStarting in January, she and her coworkers will be ready to start the process all over again.\nIf You Go...The Krohn Conservatory's annual holiday show runs through Jan. 6, 2019. Tickets for adults are $7 and children (ages 5-17) are $4. Children 4 years old and under are free.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It can be a struggle to translate the details of a design vision into the browser. Creating bitmap images, icons, and graphics can be time consuming and result in inconsistency and difficulty with managing updates. Scale-able vector graphics (SVGs) might be just what you’re looking for.\nSVGs are now supported on every modern browser and mobile device, and usage is on the upswing, but most people only use them for icons. Most developers and designers don’t realize how powerful and useful SVGs are. From scale-able images to full-blown web applications, SVGs fit many needs.\nFive Things Audience Members Will Learn\n- The importance of understanding the capabilities of SVGs and how developers and designers can improve the quality of designs created in the browser\n- Through an understanding of SVG capabilities you will know how each layer of Illustrator is rendered through SVGs in the browser\n- You won’t learn about SVG font icons; you WILL learn about how to efficiently export SVGs so your team won’t curse your name. With SVGs you can render each design layer directly in the browser\n- Apply filters, lighting effects, gaussian blur, and animations, all directly through the use of this file format. Get exactly what you want in the browser\n- Plus a few favorite tips/tricks about SVG elements and attributes", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Madonna Posters is radically right and makes a outstanding wall decoration, this item dimension is 11 x 14 inch and the price is $74.99. If you're trying to discover top recommended Madonna Posters with inexpensive price, this poster is the luxury deals for you.\nType: Stretched Canvas Print\nDimension: 11 x 14 inch\nMadonna Posters is consists of the use of typeface and fonts to create pretty works of art. This poster is chapters and even complete image flow over in each other without any non-literal clue. It is very glossy and you can see the details clearly, it is a useful procure for anyone. This item ships within 2-3 business days in durable reliable tubes. Madonna Posters is based on the idea that putting all your commitments on glowing paper instead of keeping them in the position will make you more tasteful. We have all the latest fun and exciting this produce related to entertainment! The color of the item is best seen on lustrous light. The pattern of this one is grandiose because is thick and doesn't pierce exceedingly easily. This produce is worthy and evoke empathy and each of them matures as they are afforded with challenges and surprising revelations. Madonna Posters is expansively repetition and excrutiating detail of each item outlined in the first few chapters.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Barry first found music when he borrowed his sister's record collection when he was about eight and was hooked. When Caroline started it was a new beginning, and he listened to all the stations, but Caroline was his favourite by far. Later he became a singer in a band, then started doing discos when he was 18. He joined Caroline in 1977, touring the country with the Caroline Roadshow for 10 years, having great fun. Barry helped with tender trips and worked on the Ross Revenge in '84 and '85. ...\nManage episode 269033574 series 5496\nBy Afropop Worldwide. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.\nNorth African music receives very little coverage in the United States. There are no high-profile mixes of recent Tunisian underground dance music from hip DJs, and no young Algerian musicians with major distribution deals in the U.S. So we decided to explore what exactly is going on today in this part of the world. We trace the origins of some of the region’s most interesting current music to the banlieues of Paris, like raï ’n’b--a new autotuned and synth-heavy offshoot of raï. We also explore the Gnawa reggae movement, which finds common ground between Sufi trance and the message of Marley. Returning to familiar traditions, we present a live recording of Kabyle mandoleplayer Hamid Ouchène from Montreal’s Nuits d’Afrique festival, backed by a group of Montreal-based musicians with origins throughout the African continent. We next turn to the North African metal scene that developed during Algeria’s civil conflict to meld Berber folk music with black metal. Finally, we check out the new chaabi revival. Produced by Jesse Brent. [APWW #692] [Originally aired in 2014]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "South Side Ballroom\nCreated by AEG Live Concerts\n1135 S. Lamar St.\nDallas, TX 75215\nIndie rock trio Foster the People make atmospheric, psychedelic, and dance-oriented pop. Formed in Los Angeles in 2009, the band features keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Mark Foster, bassist Cubbie Fink, and drummer Mark Pontius....\nA spectacular new live production featuring music from all fourteen pink floyd studio albums plus a dazzling new light and laser show. Having performed to over one million fans around the world since it's first show in Liverpool, England in January 2011, Brit Floyd - The World's Greatest Pink Floyd Show, returns to North America from March to June 2014 to perform DISCOVERY, a stunning new three hour chronological musical journey spanning the entire recording career of Pink Floyd from 1967 - 1994....\n|04/29||8:00 pm||Foster the People|\n|05/01||9:00 pm||Trampled By Turtles|\n|05/18||7:30 pm||Brit Floyd|\n|06/11||8:00 pm||Everclear Soul Asylum Eve 6 & Spacehog|\n|07/11||8:00 pm||Everclear with Eve 6 and Soul Asylum|\n|07/12||8:00 pm||Lindsey Stirling|\n|08/22||7:30 pm||Panic at the Disco|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "About / Contact\nThe Upstate of South Carolina has been home since I was 12 years old. My artwork generally reflects the beauty of the State from the mountain views to the coast as well as the local scenes around Greenville. The flowers, the markets, the trees and old buildings are too charming to resist. Using these inspirations I study light and it's amazing restorative effect using oil paint, brushes, palette knife, canvas and wood.\nMy work has been shown at Open Arts Studio on Main Street, GCCA's City of Women Exibit (winning honorable mention) as well as other local art markets over the past several years.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Entertainment Equals Steve Martin's Comedy Squared For The Stage. Squared For The Stage.\nBy Dave Irwin\nA LADY BEHIND me at the Arizona Theatre Company's opening of actor/comedian/writer Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile saved me a lot of work. Standing up after the 90-minute romp, she said to whoever she was with, \"Well, that was cute.\"\nNot brilliant, hilarious or bad. Cute. Cute, like a dog you don't mind petting but wouldn't want to own. Not a condemnation, but at best a damning by faint praise. Make no mistake--if you enjoy Martin's sly and smart style of humor, this is a fun presentation. If you're looking for a rich exploration of ideas, rather than a very light comedy of set pieces and one-liners, you'll be disappointed.\nThe play imagines a fantastic meeting between Pablo Picasso (Jos Viramontes) and Albert Einstein (Michael Santo) in a Parisian bar in 1904 before either became famous.\nPicasso at the Lapin Agile belongs to a modern theatre sub-genre: comic fantasy wholly dependent on recognition of the famous author/star's prior work for its own context. Other examples include Kurt Vonnegut's Between Time And Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5, and Jane Wagner's vehicle for Lily Tomlin, The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe. These are not works intended to stand anonymously on their own merits. They require a prior knowledge of Vonnegut's novels, Tomlin's panoply of characters or Martin's own comedy career for us to fully appreciate the humor. This particular sub-genre also takes advantage of the opportunity to bend reality so that cosmic things can happen to make a point, or better yet, get a laugh.\nUnderlining our expectations, when Santos enters the bar as Einstein, he moves just as we would imagine Martin himself entering, in Roxanne or The Jerk. Anyone familiar with Martin's work can hear him delivering lines throughout the play. As the comedy develops, no one would have been at all surprised to see the Spanish painter and the Swiss patent clerk suddenly become a couple of Czech brothers, twisting in unison at the bar and saying together, \"We are two wild and crazy guys!\"\nMartin's script includes a funny break of stage conventions regarding order of appearance, just enough swearing during Picasso's entrance to get our attention, lots of small laughs and even a few big ones.\nDirected by David Ira Goldstein, the production never forgets that it's a staged performance for a paying audience, and it delivers the goods with broad mugging and exaggerated punchlines. The sumptuous set, designed by Bill Forrester, is beautifully detailed, enhancing the level of fantasy, especially towards the end of the play when the arrival of a visitor from our end of the century requires pyrotechnics and Las Vegas lighting.\nSanto plays Einstein with a tempered smugness, a man who has figured out the mechanics of the universe but is unsure if you can earn a living from that. Viramontes portrays the fiery passion of Picasso as a counterpoint to Einstein's self-assured smirk. Both serve their characters well. In the supporting roles, Gerald Burgess as barkeep Freddy, Roberto Guajardo as Gaston, the play's Everyman with bladder problems, and Deborah van Valkenburgh as Germaine, Freddy's waitress/girlfriend and the voice of female perspective, seemed most in tune. Stephanie Shine in multiple female roles, David Orley as know-it-all Schmendiman (a send-up of Martin's early stand-up comedian persona), Jared Sakren as the art dealer Sagot, and Kelland Lindsey as the Visitor round out the cast.\nPerhaps if Martin, who holds a master's degree in philosophy, had explored the more cerebral implications of this imagined meeting along with the comedic, Picasso At The Lapin Agile might seem less of a trifle overall. As it stands, it's a pleasant and tasty bon-bon, but nothing meaty.\nArizona Theatre Company's Picasso At The Lapin Agile, directed by David Ira Goldstein, continues through October 3. Tickets range from $19 to $28, available from the ATC box office at the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave., and at all Dillard's ticket outlets. Half-price adult and $10 student rush tickets are available for all performances, one hour prior to curtain at the ATC box office only. Some performances are audio-described and/or ASL-interpreted. For reservations, call 622-2823. For information only, call 884-4877. All performances are at the Temple of Art and Music, 330 S. Scott Ave.\nHome | Currents | City Week | Music | Review | Books | Cinema | Back Page | Archives\n| © 1995-97 Tucson Weekly . Info Booth", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Friends in Oaxaca, I will be giving a week long workshop titled “Hacía una imagen poética” from the 2nd of December at Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. The Centre can offer accommodation for the artists living Outside Oaxaca.\nI’m glad to share that The body and other small tails. Performance at the State Museum of Contemporary Art collections is traveling and opening on Friday November 25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete. The exhibition is dedicated to the body and performance art through the presentation of photos and videos, and installations resulting from actions and from exhibitions that took place in recent years at the State Museum of Contemporary Art and compose a significant part of the museum’s collection.\nSome of the work I created in 2013 ” Becoming and Image” exhibition will be in show.\nOn Friday 25th of November I will be presenting at ARTspaceMexico gallery a new installation and live performance titled “INspiration” – (ALIENTO in spanish).\nIn preparation to the live performance I wrote a little text:\nRespiration can be the deepest photograph of my emotions.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, I invoke the images woven around the inner wall of my body.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, I’m syncing my internal with my external image.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, I’m closing my eyes and picturing behind the surface.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, I’m tensing my body and releasing my vision.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, I’m giving light to the darker side of my memory.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, we can all listen to the voices of all the images stored inside my cavities.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, I have the tendency to become mechanical but the creative impulse will help me to break the program.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, my mind becomes a bit dizzy and the focus becomes my pure uncertainty.\nWhile I’m photographing my breathing, I stop anticipating my stimulus and the entire activity become more unpredictable.\nMy photographic capacity is built-in to the anatomy of my body.\nThe PhotoPerformer (Mexico City 2016)\nDuring this workshop we will study and practice the creation of a “poetic images” through individual and collective actions.\nWe will discuss the “pose” as a concept of transformation from action to image, from movement to stillness.\nI will introduce the “poetic image’ as a gesture of expression of our imagination… a connection with and internal visualisation…\nLooking forward to share some actions, images and thoughts with Gabriela Gonzalez (founder and director of HYDRA) and Eugenia Macias (researcher and expert of contemporary photography).\nA selection of videos part of STILL_MÓVIL exhibition will be presented at the 25th edition of Panorama Festival in Rio de Janeiro. The Exhibition is titled Corpo Visto and is held at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil between the 3rd and 20th of November.\nLooking forward to be presenting at the Ex Teresa a ‘live training’ with a group of Collaborators. As we will keep on training… this can only be a work in progress…\nI’m looking forward to work with professional movers and introduce them to the PhotoPerformer philosophy.\nIs The PhotoPerformer going to move or the professional Dancers going to reach stillness?\nThe experiment will last 10 days.\nWednesday 5 October 2016 / 1.30pm – 4pm / Free / Booking Required\nA round table discussion with Manuel Vason and members of the Documentation Action Research Collective (DARC)\nJoin Manuel Vason and members of the DARC collective for talks and presentations on the practices, aethetics and ethics of co-creating performance documentation, performance photography and photo performances.\nThis summer Manuel Vason was in residence with the multi-faith women’s group and choir Migrant Artists Mutual Aid (MaMa) and the transmutable voices team (performer/director Jennifer Verson, artist/psychotherapist Lorena Rivero de Beer and and social psychologist Pamela Mastrilli) and co-created a series of photo performances exploring new aesthetics of citizenship.\nManuel Vason returns to Liverpool on 5th October with members of DARC collective to discuss the theories, processes and challenges of creating the ethical document.\nDARC is a collective of artists who believe that the documentation of other artists’ work is not just preservation but a creative act in itself.\n“we are INSIDERS we CARE we UNDERSTAND performance we have a CONNECTION with you already we KNOW you you KNOW us we are part of the COMMUNITY you TRUST us our documentation is an ART form we have a THEORY (even if we’re unsure what that is at present!) this isn’t just WORK it’s an EXCHANGE…’\nManuel Vason is an internationally reknowned photographer working closely in and between the fields of photography and performance.\n‘I consider my practice as a life long commitment to explore the correspondence between Photography and Performance Art. I believe in photography as an efficient instrument to articulate the human condition, to test new codes of behaviour, to criticize how we shape knowledge, to provoke innovative thinking. I believe in the photograph as…a place where contradiction, ambiguity and paradox are not only tolerated but encouraged.’\nThe event is free, however booking is required. Reserve your place at Open Eye Gallery, call +44 (0)151 236 6768 or email email@example.com.\nLooking forward to share some thoughts and ideas with a group of thinkers and students at the University of Evora. Apparently the result of the debate/exchange/discussion will be collected into a publication.\nFor more information or for participate please click here", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "12 Tuesday July 18 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Our People SELWYN TIMES Dearna Doglione Passing on confidence to aspiring Dearna Doglione, 20, of Rolleston has spearheaded Christchurch’s first hui for women in theatre to help resolve gender imbalance in Canterbury’s theatre industry. She spoke to Georgia O’Connor- Harding How does it feel to have helped put together the first Christchurch Hui for Women in Theatre? I think at first I found the idea daunting of bringing together a large group of women that I have looked up to, been inspired by and watched be phenomenal on stage and backstage. But once we started meeting I realised it wasn’t about who organised it, it was about women getting together talking about their issues and supporting each other. Tell me about some of the research you did while studying at the National Academy Of Singing and Dramatic Art? The general idea I found was not enough women stories were being told that were not about a man’s journey and the women being a side-character. I was finding that in shows on stage and I realised there was a reason behind this – there were not enough female playwrights, directors, producers or artistic directors. How do you find the Canterbury theatre scene? Auckland has multiple theatres and underground theatres – theatres that have the opportunity to put on work that they might not think will actually sale. There is this misunderstanding that work about women intrinsically will not sale because it is not what done. But you look at Songs For Nobodies starring Ali Harper that is on at The Court Theatre now. It is a one-woman show that is selling and doing amazingly. It is written by a female starring a female about the lives of 12 different women. I think it is evidence enough in itself. There is Steel Magnolias coming up at The Court Theatre in August. It is starring four of The Court Theatre’s staple performers and is about the bond a group of women share in a small-town community. Would you like to see more shows like this in the area? EMPOWERING: Rolleston performer Dearna Doglione has helped organise the first meeting in Christchurch with other women in theatre to address gender imbalance. PHOTO: WENDY RILEY Yes, this show is an exception. It is amazing to see a show that is being led by four powerful, amazing, talented females. You would just hope it had a woman’s voice in direction but you can’t have everything at once. What were some of the actions that were decided upon at the hui? Our two main things that came out of it was an idea of a mentorship programme for young women coming into the industry to not face the same things we know happen. To have another woman mentor who has gone through the industry and knows what is okay and what is not and teaching them how stand up for themselves and how to be brave – not get pushed around in the industry. The other outcome we discussed was searching for parity of pay backstage, on stage and at an artistic level. What is generally the difference of pay between men and women in the industry? We want to research this. From my research in the general workforce a woman earns 77 cents for every dollar a man earns for doing the same job. If we do not enact a change to this, the International Labour Organisation estimates the wage gap will not close until 2086. That is not okay. What we are saying is there should be a base rate. Are you feeling optimistic for theatre in Canterbury after having this meeting? I am. Because when we get together we realise we are all feeling the same way and going through the same hardships and we are not going to stand for it anymore. We had women including myself just out of drama school and we have seasoned professionals who know the game. The industry is already tough as it is, it must be difficult to have this on top of everything? We had a lot of stories from women at the meeting of just things in the rehearsal room of not being treated the same as their male counterparts, or when it came to booking a job they were treated differently - it was horrible to hear. 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Totally, I want to start up drama classes when my schedule isn’t crazy. There are so many parents keen to get their kids into drama. It is not just about singing and acting, it is about confidence and teaching kids they have a voice and they can use it. I used to teach swimming and I taught so many kids who had no confidence in themselves. How was training at NASDA? NASDA is a very full-on degree. They talk about “NASDA life” – it becomes all engrossing. I graduated last year and now work there part time in assisting operations- such as stage managing and helping out with costumes. What are your personal goals as a performer? I want to be able to make a living in this industry. Whether that is overseas or nationally. This year I am focusing on myself as a person and next year I am going hard at auditioning. NASDA is such a full-on world that once you leave it you have changed so much as a person and need to take time to find where you sit in the world. My end-goal from the moment I applied to NASDA was to play Elphaba in Wicked. Tell me about your favourite show at NASDA The Collective? That show was the first time I felt like I knew what acting was. I hadn’t done a full-length play before. This is the first time I got to build a character and follow her through the whole play. It was the first time I worked with a director who wasn’t my teacher. I was treated as an actor not a student. It was with amazing Christchurch acting director Melanie Luckman who inspired me. She inspired the idea for the mentorship programme because she is a powerful lady who I have looked up to before meeting her. Now we are friends and I take donuts to her child. Did you grow up here? Yes, I went to Rolleston School and Lincoln High School. I was a very shy person up until mid-high school when I decided I wanted to be an actor. Do you think the arts helped put yourself out there? Totally, that is why I want to have a drama programme out here. I always felt more confident as a character than as myself until I realised I had something to offer as myself. I want to pass that lesson on to anyone I can. Navel Oranges Loose Product of New Zealand$ 3 Wattie’s Baked Beans or Spaghetti 420g (excludes Meat and Flavours) $ 3 99 $ 10 99 49 Fresh NZ Quality Mark Prime kg Beef Mince kg NescafE Cafe Menu 10 Pack ANY 3 FOR Schweppes Sparkling Soft Drink 1.5 Litre $ 6 49 Villa Maria pk $ 1 99 ea NEW! M&Ms, Twix, Mars, Snickers or Milky Way Single Bar 35-55g 99ccccccea Quality Bakers Nature’s Fresh Bread 700g $ 2 99 ea PASSION: Dearna Doglione as Elisabeth Hauptmann with Emiliano Pereyra as Brecht in her favourite performance The Collective. She played the role while studying at the National Academy Of Singing and Dramatic Art. SILVER DOLLAR come and enjoy the new lunch menu QUIZ NIGHTS Every Wednesday from 7pm. 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{"text": "Art on the Ave is an Annual Event started in 2011. It supports local artists and provides visibility to small businesses within the East Sprague Business Corridor inside the Sprague Union District in Spokane, Washington. Artists are hosted by businesses between Napa and Madelia Streets each year on the last Saturday each September from noon to 6 pm. You will see a variety of art mediums, a kid zone with emerging artist show, interactive art, and live music to name a few.\nArt on the Ave is planned and produced completely by volunteers of the East Spokane Business Association (ESBA), a non-profit 501 (c)(6) organization, by those that live in and shop our in our beautiful Sprague Union Business District, local business owners, as well as, our business sponsors. All sponsor funds, entry fees, and donations are used to pay for event advertising, promotions, and all other event costs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you love music, the first week of October has quite a few festivals going on in DC and the surrounding areas.\nEveryone loves a good festival full of awesome artists, food, beer, activities, and good people. Each of these festivals can offer all this and more. Regardless if you’re going to see your favorite artist or band perform, or looking to expand your taste in music, these festivals won’t disappoint.\nDon’t spend this weekend sitting at home. Dance and sing your heart out to Carly Rae Jepsen and Betty Who, go wild at an early St Paddy’s Day celebration, or float down the river with awesome music playing at Sleepy Creek!\nAll Things Go Fall Classic – Oct. 6-7\nThis two day music festival happens at the historic Union Market. The festival will feature artists like Maggie Rogers, Billie Eilish, Carly Rae Jepsen, Betty Who, and more. Your ears will be satisfied from the diverse selection of musical artists, but your stomach will love the wide variety of food vendors that will be at the festival. One day tickets are $65, and two day tickets are $95.\n#FrayLife Tip: Besides the awesome music and food, the festival will have other fun activities. In years past, there were slow motion photo booths, virtual reality lounges, and spray paint walls.\nFesty Experience – Oct. 5-7\nThe 9th annual Festy Experience will take place at Infinity Downs in Arlington. Greensky Bluegrass, Rubblebucket, Railroad Earth, Sam Bush Band and other artists and groups will perform. Festy Experience makes for the perfect weekend full of good music, craft beer, delicious food, and fun outdoor activities. One day tickets are $56 and a weekend pass is $166.\n#FrayLife Tip: Get your exercise in before having fun at the festival with the Burn 5K – 10K Run. Another fun outdoor activity that will be at the festival is disc golf!\nHalfway to Shamrock Fest – Oct. 5\nWho says you can’t celebrate St. Paddy’s day a wee bit early? This fest is a pre-celebration for the big Shamrock Fest in March. The lineup features DJ RI5SE, EPX, Chris Styles, and an Irish music band, The Shamrogues. The venue is Union Stage and doors open at 8 pm. We can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday night then to have an early celebration of St Paddy’s Day! Tickets are only $19.99.\n#FrayLife Tip: Get the VIP ticket which includes everything in the main ticket plus bottomless beer, separate beverage service, VIP entertainment, and heated tents.\nSleepy Creek Fest – Oct. 5-7\nA just under two-hour drive is nothing when there’s a fun time to be had. Sleepy Creek HarFest is a three-day music festival in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia that boasts local and national musical artists, bonfire parties, food, jam circles, parades, and crafts. A few artists and bands that will be at the festival are Larry Keel Experience, Pap & Po, Kick & Banjo, and Strung Like a Horse. A Friday-Sunday ticket is $75.\n#FrayLife Tip: When you’re not listening to music, feel free to hit the water. You are allowed to go in the river and creek at your own risk. This event is also BYOB, so make sure you come prepared!\nIf you go to any of these festivals, make sure to show us the awesome time you’re having by using #FrayLife on social.\nView More Articles By Briana Florez", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Katja-Susanne and Sascha, both from Germany, traveled to the Spanish island of Mallorca for their engagement session. Mallorca is the largest in the Balearic Islands archipelago of the Mediterranean Sea. The couple love the island and plan to relocate there permanently in the future, with Sascha having already made the move. Manuela from FORMA Photography recalls:\n“We met Katja-Susanne and Sascha after arriving in the beautiful little village of Sa Coma on the east coast of Mallorca. Sa Coma is embedded in between a beautiful sandy beach and Punta de n’Amer, a peninsula of about 500 acres. The area is a natural reserve: nature in its purest form. The beautul scenery, amazing evening sunlight and the couple’s obvious love for each other made our job easy that day!”\nWhen I first saw these images I was convinced this was film photography, but actually Manuela and Martin from FORMA explained that they use lightroom presets that emulate old Fuji film. We love!\nPhotography: FORMA Photography", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lite’s Review Room: DIFF – “Under African Skies”\nThe Dallas International Film Festival is in town and we’ve been sending out people to see every movie possible. Our Queen of the Silver Screen Julie Fisk headed out for a Documentary on Paul Simon.\nUnder African Skies\nThis is the final weekend you can take part in the 2012 Dallas International Film Festival. Your last chance to see films that otherwise might not enjoy a large theatrical release, like one of my favorites, “Under African Skies.” This is a documentary about the production of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and its controversial release in 1986.\n“Graceland” for many was just a feel good record that introduced us to great South African artists like Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but it stirred a controversy around the world. Paul Simon recorded with South African musicians despite a United Nations cultural boycott on the country. This led many to accuse Paul Simon of ignoring the horrors there and of poaching off the talented musicians he met.\nSimon has always insisted that he was welcomed by those artists & that the songs they created were collaborations. Whatever the actual motives were, the response to “Graceland” is legendary and it’s wonderful to see video of Paul Simon first meeting these musicians and their jam sessions. It’s strange then, that the only real downfall of “Under African Skies” is Paul Simon himself, who today seems nothing like the enthusiastic young man we see in the 1980’s.\nHe still sounds good when he sings, but otherwise seems tired and distant. The South African artists are what save this movie, because the joy that emanates through their music is as infectious today as it was 25 years ago. They are also the reason I’m giving “Under African Skies” a B. You can find the show times and look over the other movies screening this weekend at www.diff2012.dallasfilm.org.\nMore stories From The New 103.7 Lite FM\n- MTV Unveils Full VMA Performers List including Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, The Weeknd & More\n- Amy Schumer And Jennifer Lawrence Had A Dance Party, And The Video Is Adorable!\n- Promise of Peace Community Gardens #OkraPaooloza\n- Actress Lucy Liu Is A New Mom!\n- Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down\n- DWTS: First Married Couple Will Compete This Season\n- Watch 103-Year-Old Rangers Fan Toss First Pitch\n- VIDEO: Guy Annoys Girlfriend With Puns At IKEA\n- What Pop Superstar Is Kylie Jenner Sitting With At The MTV Video Music Awards Sunday?\n- Jealous! Look Who’s Performing At Courteney Cox’s Wedding!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Coloring Pages Spanish New Euro Print Co 1500×1322\nColoring Pages Spanish is one of the design ideas that you can use to reference your Coloring. There are a few images that have been published on January 24, 2018, which you can use as a consideration in the article Gallery of Coloring Pages Spanish.\nIf you are helped by the idea of the article Coloring Pages Spanish, don't forget to share with your friends.\nArticle Coloring Pages Spanish may be associated with coloring pages in spanish, coloring pages in spanish with words, coloring pages spanish, coloring pages spanish alphabet, coloring pages spanish numbers, spanish animal coloring pages, spanish christmas coloring pages, spanish coloring pages, spanish coloring pages pdf, spanish culture coloring pages, spanish food coloring pages, spanish greetings coloring pages, spanish thanksgiving coloring pages, may be you are looking for so that more references, not just the article Coloring Pages Spanish.\nColoring Pages Spanish this possible during your search, you are not wrong to come visit the web cosmo-scope.com. Coloring Pages Spanish is one of the pictures contained in the category of Coloring and many more images contained in that category. Published by admin on . for personal use only.\nLicense: some right reserved, and if the copyright of photo in this site is belongs to you, and then you want to remove it, please report to us and we'll remove it soon.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart and Verdi's greatest songs of love and desire\nWith Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo Raúl Àlvarez, and Simon Keenlyside\nThank you for your understanding.\nLove is the motto of the 1998 New Year's Eve Concert.\nAnd who wrote better music about love than Mozart and Verdi?\nMaestro Claudio Abbado has chosen two of the best Mozart interpreters of our day, Christine Schäfer and Simon Keenlyside, for this traditionally meaningful event.\nMarcelo Álvarez from Argentina, compared by some to a young Domingo, sings highlights of the tenor repertoire, and Italian Primadonna Mirella Freni tops the occasion with a breathtaking performance of the \"Letter\" scene of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nikita Fomin Russian Autumn Flowers\nIvan Myasoedov - Magnolia in Berlin, 1920s\nGorchakovArtem aka Artem Gorchakov aka Ghor (Russian, b. 1982, Astrakhan, Russian Federation) - Poppies, 2012 Paintings: Watercolors, Ink\nDon’t fuck with Viktor Nikiforov.\n(I pray silently that my english is correct - maybe not - sorry for that :/ - no, seriously, tell me if it’s wrong)\n(Look, look ! I have a graphic tablet & a new stylus :D)\nnot pictured: the window i was throwing clint out of.\nquestion: why was he hanging around in his boxers with a bow??? because hes clint.\nalternatively, ‘i got shot with cupid’s arrow and all i got was this lousy hospital visit.’\nVintage rose postcards, 1959—1969\nNatalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962), Magnolias. Pencil and oil on canvas, 32 x 55.8 cm.\n☆ . ･ * ･ . ☆Pink Flower Tip Piping☆ . ･ * ･ . ☆\nPlease credit me if you repost!\nPavel Tchelitchew (Russian, 1898-1957), Anemones, 1932. Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 50 cm.\nArtist A. Kalashnikov, 1963\nby Vladimir Zhdanov\nElena Zemlyanitsyna (Russian, 1889-1941), Autumn Bouquet, 1916. Pencil and tempera on paper laid on cardboard, 69 x 101 cm.\nViktor was so adorable when he was young, I had attempt to draw him (anyone interested in the final result??)\nThe Morning of the Rose Bush - Olga Belakovskaya\nOil on canvas, 16 x 18 inches", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, Dynasty 25-Dynasty 26\nFindspot: Nubia (Sudan), Meroe (Beg. West), West 766\nOverall: 1.5 x 1.1 x 0.7cm (9/16 x 7/16 x 1/4in.)\nMedium or Technique\nNot On View\nOne scarab glazed. Pierced. Recumbent sphinx with nefer signs and sun disk in front and above its back, pseudo-signs behind it..\nFrom Beg. West 766. 1923: Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Sudan.\nHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What is Outcasts about? Outcasts is a Young Adult fantasy novel about four enhanced teens who try to discover their origins. Lest people think, “Oh, another Fantastic Four ripoff”… not so! It’s more of an examination of the why as opposed to the how. And while there’s no shortage of action, it also focuses mainly on the individual relationships within the group. We have the MC, Mitch Kessler, who transforms to a gargoyle only when he’s angry. (He learns to control his transformation process later on in the story). He has a relationship with Callie, who’s a gender switcher, and she’s confused as to which gender she’ll end up as. Neil is a rock-man… ’nuff said. And Mitch’s best friend, Joe, is a spinning top. He can run and spin at high speeds, making him very effective as a crime fighter.\nThe plot concerns the Outcasts uniting under the US government’s aegis, breaking up- most of the the public doesn’t trust them, while some elements are indifferent to them- and then uniting again is when, ostensibly, a black-ops group, tries to kill them. Along the way, Mitch re-examines his relationship with Callie, decides he wants to stay with her, and he also tries to help his friends realize who they are. There is a HFN ending… and a sequel.\nWhat inspired this story? I wanted to get away from the usual punch-’em-up teen type of superhero novels. I’ve done those in the past and liked writing them, but I wanted to approach this novel from the perspective that our MC and his friends don’t like their powers or want them, and that they’re shunned by society for being what they are. For the record, I’m straight and married, but I have a lot of LGBTQI friends who are discriminated against simply because they are LGBTQI- no other reason. Discrimination in any form, religious/racial/orientation, is just plain wrong. I don’t push that as an agenda in the novel, but it comes out quite clearly. I don’t believe in spouting polemics. That’s a sure way to turn any reader off. But if they can identify with the characters, in this case Callie, they’ll get a better picture of how reality is.\nTell us a little about you, who is J.S. Frankel? I was born in Toronto, Canada, long ago, and in my mid-twenties, I moved to Japan to work as an ESL teacher. Eventually, I fell in love with my wife, Akiko, and we got married many moons ago. We have two sons, and perhaps that’s helped to shape my writing and my outlook on life. I divide my waking hours teaching ESL and writing, and writing, while not a full-time gig, takes up a lot of time. The rest is for my family, movies, and food! Oh, and I love music videos… they provide great inspiration for my books!\nHow can we read Outcasts? The book is available on Amazon. Oh, and you can also check out my novels as ExtasyBooks (links below).\nYesterday I asked indie filmmakers on Twitter to share their movies that are currently available to watch on Tubi TV for free! As I hoped for, we got a really diverse mix of independent films that really showcases that there is something available for everyone. Here are 5 indie flicks that you can watch tonight…\nThe Inevitable Death of the Crab Director: Ahcitz Azcona Starring: Costanza Andrade, Ahcitz Azcona, Ricardo Niño, Jesus Hernandez, and Yuriria Munguia. Description: An anonymous death threat to entrepreneur Carlos against his family in Mexico leads to the discovery of a high-level political corruption racket. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV\nWheat Soup Directors: Gerald Saul & Brian Stockton Starring: Shaf Hussein, Sandi Happy, Gord Wilson, Leonard Cyrman, Mike Benny, and Bob Campbell. Description: In a post-apocalyptic future, a wheat farmer embarks upon a journey and encounters a variety of unusual characters, while traveling across the land. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV\nNoah’s Shark Director: Mark Polonia Starring: Jeff Kirkendall, Tim Hatch, Jamie Morgan, Samantha Coolidge, and Ryan Dalton. Description: A televangelist and his team set out to find the fabled Noah’s Ark, but discover it is guarded by an ancient curse and a deadly great white shark. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV\nThe Mix Director: Chris Mollica & Greg Townsend Starring: Chris Mollica, Brian Silliman, and Cyrina Fiallo. Description: Would you kidnap a man for stealing your cookies? Sal, the hapless owner of a home grown cookie company places his hopes for financial and personal success in the hands of the enigmatic Joshua Vandersteem. After the deal goes bad, Sal is forced into desperate action. Relationships are tested, feelings are hurt and ultimately blood is drawn. Can Sal redeem his misdeeds or will this be the way the cookie crumbles? (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV\nMy Best Friend’s Famous Directors: Kevin Ignatius Starring: Nick Psinakis, Mindy Sterling, Ryan O’Neal, Anne Akhila, and Darryl Gudmundson. Description: An insecure New Yorker moves to Los Angeles and grapples with jealousy when his less-talented best friend becomes a star on a hit television show. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV\nWhat recent indies have you watched on Tubi TV? What is your favorite platform to watch indies on?\nWe recently connected with indie film producer Mark Stolaroff, who also happens to be the founder of No Budget Film School. He chatted with us about his latest flick, The Last Days of Capitalism.\nWho? The Last Days of Capitalism was written and directed by Adam Mervis, the screenwriter of 21 Bridges (which was produced by the Russo Brothers and starred Chadwick Boseman), and National Champions (starring J.K. Simmons, Uzo Aduba, Timothy Olyphant, and many others). Unlike those studio films, Last Days was made on a micro-budget ($40k) and produced by long-time indie producer Mark Stolaroff (the founder of No Budget Film School) and Kenny Harrison, who was a classmate of Adam’s at Florida State University. The cast of two is comprised of veteran actor Mike Faiola (Awkward) and newcomer Sarah Harper. It was shot by AFI grad Bethany Michalski and edited by filmmaker David Au. The music was scored and collected by Alexander Burke, co-founder of the band Magnolia Memoir. This was Adam’s feature directorial debut. It was released by Indie Rights Movies.\nWhat? Last Days is about a wealthy man who has been holed up high above Las Vegas in a penthouse hotel room for nearly a month, clearly suffering from some unnamed trauma. His night with a mysterious young woman turns into several nights, as he discovers that she is more than a match for him intellectually. She, too, is intrigued and while she initially stays because he is paying her, the two begin a complex relationship that could turn into something more than just lustful desire. But both have secrets, and getting to the bottom of those—without the inevitability of money getting in the way—will be a challenge. Despite the title, Last Days is NOT a political film.\nWhere? Last Days was shot in 10 days in Las Vegas, entirely in a penthouse hotel room high above the city. We had no permits to shoot in the room, and somehow managed to sneak all our equipment up the elevator without anyone asking any questions. I mean, it’s Vegas, and a lot of crazy stuff happens there, so I don’t think anyone cared. The cast and crew drove up from Los Angeles, where everyone is based. We loaded Adam’s brother’s Suburban up with gear and caravanned to Vegas.\nWhen? The film is set in the present and was shot in September 2019. It was completed in March 2020 and premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival, right before COVID shut everything down. It ended up playing a number of film festivals—virtually—winning several awards. It was released by Indie Rights Movies in November 2021. It is currently 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.\nWhy? Director Adam Mervis got what he likes to call “The Typical Hollywood Screenwriter Treatment” on 21 Bridges, where the writer (and original creator) of the film has no control over the project. He wanted to make something that was entirely his own, so he adapted a play he’d written for the screen, something that could be made on a small enough budget that he wouldn’t get stopped from making it.\nHow? The Last Days of Capitalism can currently be seen on Amazon Prime, Google Play, and YouTube.\nFriend of My Hollywood Dream, writer, mental heath advocate, and independent filmmaker David Creighton is working on a new short animated film with a very deep and meaningful message and is looking for help via Kickstarter to get the film seen.\nSummer Turns to Fall is a very personal animated film dedicated to suicide prevention. Based on a poem originally published in Creighton’s anthology Mania, Mirth, Melancholy, the film “weaves a story of heartache, captured with haunting sound and animation. Its stark black and white animation shows the heartache of the survivor, while the narrator’s monologue captures the lasting pain he lives with.”\nWhy did I donate? And why should you consider donating? I’ve known David for a long time, you may remember his weekly wrestling recaps, or his views on movies. He is one heck of a writer, and has used his disability, and his mental health struggles to not only become stronger, but to be an advocate for others and to use his stories, and more recently short movies, to express express these struggles.\nI’ll also let David tell you in his own words why you should consider donating; “Like many, I have lost too many friends to suicide. I have been suicidal during my own life. I know how hard it is. I know deeply depressed people think the world will be better off without them. I hope this short film can shine some light on the pain suicide leaves behind. If this film can change one person’s mind, it will be more than worth making, crowdfunding or no.”\nThe short film itself is almost complete, but getting it seen can be a difficult uphill battle. Per the Kickstarter page, funds raised from the campaign will go towards film festival entry fees and associated costs. A few good festivals could get the message of the movie out far and wide. To make a donation towards Summer Turns to Fall, head over here.\nWhat is your book, The Cutting Edge, about? The Cutting Edge is a spiralling tale of Rochelle, a young girl who strives to overcome adversity. One of loss and pain, determination and anger. Rochelle experiences a life cast in shadow by bereavement, but she has a big dream, to win Olympic Gold. It’s a deeply moving story, where fate deals the hand, full of friendship, rivalry, setbacks and triumphs. Rochelle is a misfit, and an outcast but, above all, a survivor.\nWhat inspired this story? The inspiration for this story came from my own love of skating. I wanted to write a story that was inspirational and show that it is possible to overcome adversity even when the odds are stacked against you. The story was character led from the beginning and told through the eyes of Rochelle, as she grew from a young child to a woman.\nTell us a little about you, who is S.J. Gibbs? My love of reading and writing started at a very young age and as a teenager I would often be found with my nose in a book and I used to read under the bedclothes with a torch after my father used to turn out my bedroom light. After leaving school, in my spare time, I wrote short stories for my own pleasure. Reading was still my passion.\nIn 1987, my first daughter was born and diagnosed with profound cerebral palsy. This prompted me to start writing a novel about the struggles of bringing up a daughter with a severe disability. However, I was forced to stop work on this when the emotions involved in the project became too much for me.\nAt the beginning of 2015, my writing began in earnest, after I joined a local writer’s group. Here I found a new love of writing fiction. I undertook The Writers Bureau Creative Writing Course, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The Cutting Edge is my debut fictional novel. I live in a West Midlands village in England, with my family and my dog.\nHow can we read The Cutting Edge? The Cutting Edge is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions.\nIn the past couple months there has been an extraordinary boom of independent films available to watch on YouTube for free. These flicks are AVOD (ad supported video on demand), so the filmmakers are still getting paid- please do not watch or support bootlegs! Here are 5 indie films that are available to watch right now on YouTube.\nEvil at the Door Director: Kipp Tribble Starring: Andrea Sweeney Blanco, Bruce Davison, Sunny Doench, Robert Felsted Jr, Scot Hamm, and John James. Description: One night every year, there is a drastic rise in violent home invasions. This is no coincidence. (Source: Terror Films) Click here to watch on YouTube\nKiller Concept Director: Glenn Payne Starring: Cody Bishop, Coley Bryant, Casey Dillard, Caleb Hall, and Maddie Ludt. Description: Three creatives team up to write a screenplay chronicling a string of murders in their town, but one of the three may be closer to the story than the others realize. (Source: V Movies) Click here to watch on YouTube\nThe Misguided Director: Shannon Alexander Starring: Katherine Langford, Caleb Galati, Steven J. Mihaljevich, and Jasmine Nibali. Description: After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation. (Source: Indie Rights Movies) Click here to watch on YouTube\nThe Eve Director: Ritchie Filippi Starring: María DiDomenico, Al Thompson, Evan Bass, Miranda Noelle Wilson, and Rick Estabrook. Description: Friends head off to the remote island of Martha’s Vineyard to celebrate New Year’s Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year. (Source: MYT Horror) Click here to watch on YouTube\nTrap Director: J Horton Starring: Allen Perada, Alonzo F Jones, and Ashton Blanchard. Description: A brutal abduction goes from bad to worse when one of the kidnappers falls in love with the victim. (Source: J Horton) Click here to watch on YouTube\nWhat movies are you watching on YouTube? Leave us a comment to let us know!\nWe recently connected with genre actor/producer Jeff Kirkendall on Twitter and were lucky to be able to chat with him about Return to Splatter Farm, an indie horror flick that he wrote and co-directed.\nWho? Return to Splatter Farm is a sequel to the 1987 movie Splatter Farm. That original film was produced by brothers John and Mark Polonia, along with their friend Todd Smith. I wrote the first draft of Return to Splatter Farm, and Mark Polonia added additional material which was included in the final shooting script. The two of us co-directed, while Mark handled the bulk of the camera work, as well as the editing chores. Prior to this production, I had appeared in numerous feature films Mark had directed for his company Polonia Brothers Entertainment (PBE).\nThe Return to Splatter Farm main cast was made up of many PBE regulars, including Danielle Donahue, Marie DeLorenzo, Nico Bryant, Tim Hatch, James Kelly, James Carolus, Ken Van Sant, Jennie Russo, Jamie Morgan, Drew Patrick, and popular model/scream queen Mel Heflin. I starred as (an older version of) the character Jeremy, who was the killer in the original 1987 film. The DVD and streaming distribution was handled by Wild Eye Releasing, a company that has released many past PBE movies.\nWhat? The original 1987 film was about twin brothers who spend a summer with their eccentric aunt on a rural Pennsylvania farm, unaware that her handyman Jeremy is a serial killer who stores the body parts of his victims in the barn. In Return to Splatter Farm a distant relative named Bobbi inherits the farm and travels there with some friends to determine what to do with the place. On the way they stop at a general store where some locals discourage them from visiting the place, calling it the “Death Farm”, referring to the unsolved murders which occurred there over 30 years ago. But the group doesn’t heed the warnings and continue on their way. Little do they know that a now grown-up Jeremy still resides at the old farmhouse, and that he has dispatched countless unlucky folks over the years. And keeping with his murderous tendencies, he now hunts down Bobbi and her friends one by one. Can the local sheriff save them? And will anyone survive?\nWhere? As mentioned, the story takes place at a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Our goal was to find a place that resembled the location used in the original film as closely as possible. And fortunately, Mark was able to locate such a farm not too far from where he lives in Wellsboro, PA. The outside of the building was very similar looking to the one in the original movie, and also the owner hadn’t lived there in awhile, which suited our needs perfectly. And we had many other buildings (barns, storage sheds, etc.) and open fields to work with as well. For all but one afternoon (when we filmed the store scene) the cast and crew were at that farm location.\nWhen? Return to Splatter Farm takes place approximately 33 years after the events of the first movie. We filmed the sequel over a week during Summer 2019, and it was released in the United States on DVD and various pay streaming platforms in November 2020. Following this, it went on to play on the free streaming channel Tubi. There is even a VHS version available for collectors of that format.\nWhy? I had previously directed several of my own short films and features, and as mentioned acted in many PBE movies. Mark Polonia and I were on a break during the filming of his feature Amityville Exorcism, and I asked him if he would ever consider producing a sequel to Splatter Farm. He said he would and shared some ideas. It turned out his ideas were similar to my own, so when I returned home from Pennsylvania I began working on a script. I surprised him with the finished draft a few months later and he really liked it. And a couple of years later we went into production together on it.\nI was motivated to write Return to Splatter Farm because of my admiration for the first film. It has become an indie horror cult classic over the years, and I thought it was amazing that three teenagers with minimal resources could not only produce a feature back in the 1980’s, but also get it distributed nationally on VHS as well. Splatter Farm is a quintessential home-made, shot-on-video (SOV) example of what can be done with sheer determination and lots of imagination. And as for story, it is a compelling tale mixed with potent shock value that keeps one watching from beginning to end.\nI wanted this sequel to be an entertaining standalone slasher movie, as well as a plausible continuation of the story. This was achieved by bringing a fun group of characters to the old farmhouse for a legitimate reason, where Jeremy is alive and well. For viewers new to the franchise it will be something of a mystery who the killer is, whereas fans will know his identity and have an idea what he’s up to. And speaking of kill scenes, I intentionally wrote each one to be as unique and different as I could in order to make the movie fresh and memorable. My personal favorite moments include one where Jeremy makes use of a flare gun, and a scene involving an 80’s boombox. And I would also mention there are several nods to famous 1980’s slasher films sprinkled throughout the movie. This was done because I’m a big fan of the genre and the films of that decade in particular, and I’m hoping other fans will enjoy these moments as well.\nHow? Our film Return to Splatter Farm can be seen on the streaming platforms Tubi TV, Amazon Prime, Vimeo and Google Play, among other places. It is also available on DVD and VHS from various major retailers.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Grease is my favourite movie because it’s fun to watch and everything’s great about it. I love the funny moments when Kenickie said Rizzo had the personality of a wet mop and when Doody threw pie at Eugene. I love it when Danny laughs and when Doody said Frenchy looked like a beautiful blonde pineapple. It was funny when Kenickie put a frog in Patty’s bag. Sandy was full of surprises when she changed into a greaser. It was like she was a whole different person. It was like she turned into the female version of Danny. Frenchy gave Sandy a makeover, because Sandy wasn’t getting enough respect from a lot of people, especially\nDanny. It was funny when Doody, Sonny, and Putzie shown their butts on camera, they mooned the camera. Jan liked the Ipana toothpaste commercial and she sang it before Marty threw a stuffed tiger at her. Frenchy got her nickname from french smoking. Grease is a great movie, and I’ve watched it a lot of times.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The newest freelance writing jobs reviewed and handpicked by a professional freelance writer most positions let writers work from home all jobs pay. Freelance writing jobs 167,263 likes · 1,933 talking about this a freelance writing community featuring daily job leads, informative tips and articles. These jobs will help you get your foot in the door and grow your writing career and an understanding of being a freelance writer- making money online. Want freelance writing jobs if you're looking to make a living as a freelance writer, start by browsing these websites. Freelance writing jobs for writers who want to get paid new writing jobs are researched and handpicked by a professional freelance writer. 586 creative writing freelance jobs find your next opportunity on simply hired new jobs are posted every day.\n20 ways to find freelance writing jobs (as a beginner) by i did extensive technical and creative writing for my previous company but it was all considered. 301 freelance creative writer jobs find your next opportunity on simply hired new jobs are posted every day. Freelance creative writing jobs in staffordshire find freelance jobs at freelancedcom, the #1 freelance social network freelance jobs in. Freelance creative writing jobs find freelance jobs at freelancedcom, the #1 freelance social network freelance jobs in 300+ categories and 200+ countries.\nFind creative writing freelance jobs online at guru search and apply for jobs that interest you browse work opportunities now. Showcase and discover the latest work from top online portfolios by creative professionals across industries. Getting your first freelance writing jobs so you’re trying to get your first freelance writing gig so i received 100 euro for some creative web copy around.\nLists of paid freelance writing jobs - remote writing jobs, writing jobs online, on-site jobs, etc. World's largest website for creative writing jobs find $$$ creative writing jobs or hire a creative writer to bid on your creative writing job at freelancer 12m+ jobs. We're looking for a great creative writer - freelance to join our team at kingdomworks studios.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Gottingen Gutenberg Bible is available online at Gutenberg Digital.\nThis year marks the 600th anniversary of the birth of Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of letterpress printing.\nA digital version of the 1454 Gutenberg Bible, printed on 1,282 pages, can be read online or on CD-ROM. The site also includes the painting manuscripts used to illustrate the Gutenberg Bible.\nTo access a page, select a book of the Bible, then click on the image. A full-screen reproduction appears, with colorful artwork adorning the margins of the page.\nDisabled and gay\nBentvoices is a site serving and reflecting the community of disabled gay men.\nThe site bills itself as \"the biographical voice of cripgay men,\" but it also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight.\nAmong the features are memoirs, fiction, poetry and art.\nGo West, surfer\nThe West features music, audio and video for people interested in the American West.\nThe multimedia site looks at the 22 states that make up the West, delving into the art, history, geography and culture of the vast region.\nA continuous Web radio program features country-western, Native American and classic rock music. There also are talk shows, events and contests carried around the world.\nWORLD WIDE WEB:\nJoin Diane Ackerman for a chat about how humans experience the world through their five senses. How each individual describes a scent, taste or image may be different from what another person would say. Find out more at 1 p.m., at webmd.com\nChat with members of the Dwarves garage band who were major players in the Seattle grunge explosion and the Gilman St. punk renaissance. The Dwarves have been regarded as the hardest band on the scene, 8 p.m., at yahoo.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When Tyrone Smith was growing up in North Philly, he said the Gay Paree was the only bar where the gay community could enjoy jazz music “without being bothered.”\nSmith, an active board member of various LGBTQ organizations in the city, said he is finally seeing growth in the LGBTQ community.\n“Now that I’m in my 70’s and see that now people can be jazz artists, they can be out, they can be who they are,” Tyrone Smith said. “It’s magnificent to me.”\nThe William Way LGBT Community Center hosted the country’s first LGBTQ jazz festival, OutBeat, over a series of four days and 35 events, this past weekend in Philly.\nThe festival included a wide variety of local and emerging artists, performances and panel discussions, highlighting intersections between sexual orientation, gender identity, jazz history and jazz culture.\n“We started working on OutBeat about a year ago and we’re so happy with how it’s turned out,” said Karen Smith, a volunteer coordinator and percussionist who performed at Friday’s event.\nThe opening kickoff reception began at a small intimate setting with buffet style food and refreshments in the Mark Segal Ballroom at the William Way Community Center located in the “Gayborhood.”\nIt opened with a conversation between Nate Chinen of the New York Times and six-time Grammy award nominated pianist and jazz artist, Fred Hersch, and ended with a duo performance by vocalist and pianist Dena Underwood and vocalist Jaye Sanders.\nJaye Sanders expressed her excitement to perform at the Billy Strayhorn Tribute, an honorary figure in the LGBTQ community of jazz culture. She and her partner Underwood were both asked to contribute performances, along with 30 other local performers to Friday’s special tribute at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Broad Street.\n“I’m excited about OutBeat,” Sanders, a Philadelphia native, said. “This is the first time ever, and I’m so glad Philly is hosting it. Philly is remarkable and full of so much talent.”\nSanders, a singer, songwriter and vocal instructor, has been involved in music for over 22 years, but has only been involved in jazz for about three years when she began to collaborate with Underwood.\n“I learned a lot from Dena,” Sanders said. “She studied jazz whereas I was always alternative, gospel, R&B and classical music. The love for music definitely brought us together, the love for expressing our gift to people who want to enjoy it and want to feel our energy to make them feel better.”\nSanders said how the jazz community has inspired both her and Dena’s music and experiences within the LGBT community.\n“Jazz is the genre of music where you can be totally free,” Sanders said. “It’s limitless. So many colors, so many ideas, so many sounds, so many emotions that are so allowed in this genre, it’s crazy. Especially compared to classical which is so strict. If I could, without getting in trouble, I would compare jazz to being queer, lesbian, transgender or gay.”\nFor Sanders, jazz has grown into a tangible representation of the community and given the community an anthem of sorts.\n“We are considered the peculiar ones, the ones that are not of the common and I particularly look at jazz music as that,” Sanders said. “Jazz is like the rebel genre of music and its bada– just like we are. We embrace beauty and exude light, just like jazz music does.”\nKaren Smith said that as she has gotten older and grown in the LGBT community, she has watched the jazz scene in Philly has grown as well.\n“I am so happy to see now that young people who are able to go to school and be educated in the field of jazz music can still be who they are,” Karen Smith said. “I think it speaks to the fact that music is universal and I’m so pleased that in my lifetime I’ve come to see this.”\nEven though there has been growth in both the jazz and LGBT communities, Tyrone Smith said there is still a long way to go, evident in the attack on a gay couple in Center City two weeks ago. The couple was assaulted and sent to the hospital, as a result.\n“I think that as we move forward with these kinds of things we must also remember that we’ve got to be not only social, but we’ve got to be political!” Tyrone Smith said. “I think that as we move forward as a community, we can’t just be social beings, we got to be political beings, and we’ve got to be all those things that make us a wonderful community that we desire to be. I don’t think we’ve reached the promise land yet in our vision, but at least we’re on the right road.”\nAlexa Zizzi can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org\nWhat a wonderful read! Glad to see such a talented writer covering a great event!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I’ll be the first to admit that Jeremy Jordan’s character on Supergirl, Winn, isn’t exactly the best. Sure, he’s kind of whiny and cliche but he–okay, he’s the least developed of the bunch and you could see that lovesick best friend plot line coming from a mile away. However, the actor behind Winn’s puppy dog-eyed character is quite the charmer. In fact, maybe he could woo Kara Danvers if he used those pipes on the show.\nSome people know Jordan from his time on the heartbreak that was Smash, or maybe even from the movie of the musical The Last Five Years, but those who don’t obsess over Broadway and musicals like I do may see him as a nobody and that’s a real shame because he is fabulous.\nJust listen to some of his (many) songs on YouTube.\nDon’t get me wrong, I don’t like romantically pairing Kara and Winn on Supergirl, but I’ll cheer for his character just for the sake of the actor. Besides, we know Melissa Benoist can sing from her time on Glee, so the two could have a duet on the show and HOW CUTE WOULD THAT BE?\nNow go get lost in a Jeremy Jordan YouTube cycle.\nSupergirl airs Mondays on CBS at 8PM EST.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This messy bun hat is fun to crochet, and the puff stitch makes it interesting. Crocheted with bulky yarn, it comes together very quickly.\nThis is a really fun messy bun crochet hat pattern. You can make it with either a flower or a bow. It’s easy to do even as a beginning crocheter; my daughter made this one when she was in sixth grade as one of the first projects she tackled.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ON NOVEMBER 25, 1976, The Band —a legendary rock group made up of Canadian and American musicians who cut their teeth on the U.S. “chitlin’ circuit” before backing bluesman John Hammond, Jr. and collaborating with songwriting icon Bob Dylan during one of his most fertile creative streaks— decided to call it quits.\nCiting the stress of life on the road, the brazenly unfashionable group, with the help of famed concert promoter Bill Graham, threw themselves an over-the-top send-off at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom featuring catered Thanksgiving dinner for 5,000 and a marathon, career-spanning concert that found the versatile, eclectic roots-music combo joined onstage by more than a dozen invited guest musicians — including Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and others.\nCaptured for posterity on 35mm film by director Martin Scorsese, The Last Waltz is often hailed as perhaps the finest concert documentary ever made.\nHowever, that’s due in great part to the majesty of the show itself, which in hindsight has provided the blueprint for virtually every other star-studded rock and pop event held since. Three decades on, The Band’s reputation as pioneers of the Americana genre continues to grow, fueled in no small part to that film and its accompanying soundtrack.\nNo one recognizes the impact of that once-in-a-lifetime gathering of musical talent as much as Kris “Jellyroll” Gloer, an Atlanta-based singer and guitarist who turned his passion and respect for The Band into one of the fastest rising tribute bands on the U.S. club, theater and festival scene today.\nThe Last Waltz Ensemble is a talented, eight-piece touring unit which uses that 1976 concert as a springboard for celebrating the shared musical legacy of Dylan, The Band and their extended musical family. Far from a slavish recreation of that group’s signature sound, Gloer and company pay tribute to The Last Waltz by putting their own respectful spin on the songs performed that fateful night, as well as related material by the key participants.\nAnd, in a nod to the communal vibe of the original event, they often welcome guest musicians to join them onstage for certain songs, adding an air of unpredictability and excitement to many of their road gigs. (In a simple twist of fate, yours truly will sit in at this Thursday night’s Savannah show.)\nGloer spoke with us by phone from his Atlanta home. Read the complete interview at connectsavannah.com.\nWho came up with the idea for this band, and what actually spurred its formation?\nKris Gloer: Back in 2004, some friends and I threw a Thanksgiving weekend tribute to the songs of The Last Waltz. It was designed to be interactive and involve some other guest musicians. We chose 14 songs from the movie and gave a few to each guest. So many folks came out we did it once more in 2005 in a much bigger venue. We sold out that room as well, so we booked six shows in places like Athens, Raleigh, Charleston and Chattanooga. Four sold out, and these days our lives are kind of consumed by this project. We averaged about 100 Last Waltz Ensemble shows in each of the past two years.\nAre you starting to get a little sick and tired of The Last Waltz?\nKris Gloer: (laughs) Well, we quickly realized we had to expand the setlist. Now we have about 50 songs — including ones by The Hawks (the earliest incarnation of The Band, which backed Toronto rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins), Dylan songs he did without The Band, and songs they’ve both covered. This keeps things fresh. So, we’re not tired at all, because there’s a wealth of material tying into the concept.\nHow would you describe what made The Band so unique to someone who’s never heard them?\nKris Gloer: When you look at the songs Dylan wrote during that time, you immediately realize they were the original exploration of what became known as alt.country. I’d say it’s the most fit and finished music you’ll find — especially lyrically.\nYou’re celebrating an event that gathered musicians from a couple generations. That gives you guys a hell of a lot more material to work with than just Dylan and Band songs.\nKris Gloer: The songs we’ve most enjoyed adding to our set were played at the original concert, but didn’t make the final cut of the movie. The full show went on for five hours! Dylan played songs like “Hazel” and “She Acts Like We Never Have Met”. I’ve always been open to us learning more songs written by guests from the original show. In that way, our concerts could expand into something like a rock & roll version of A Prairie Home Companion — a revue of Americana music from that era by massive group of influential artists.\nWithout the convenient name recognition of The Last Waltz, do you think this band would have been as much of a success?\nKris Gloer: A lot of people respond to our group because of the name. They get immediately what it implies. But there are fans of Dylan or The Band that don’t really know much about The Last Waltz. I’ve been surprised we’ve turned a lot of casual fans on to the history of the concert and the movie. There’s a large group of people out there who’ve always wanted to hear these songs live on the same night. We’ve just put as many into one show as we can, and people seem to have a blast.\nYou’re not trying to duplicate or copy the group’s sound, correct?\nKris Gloer: Right. Some of our arrangements are really true to the originals, but some are great departures. We don’t claim to be a reenactment of any sort or to play specific roles on stage. We leave the whole thing open to experimentation.\nHow much farther could this group go?\nKris Gloer: I don’t know. It’s still growing. We’ve had a lot of milestones in a relatively short span of time. When you look at Dark Star Orchestra, which plays the music of the Grateful Dead, I think our show is much more expansive and easier to relate to by a wider group of people than say, Deadheads. However, Deadheads are the best fans in the biz! They’re great to have on board, but we appeal to people from 18 to 65 across all kinds of demographics. Families can see us and old Deadheads can too, and both groups will find a lot to enjoy. As long as we keep approaching this with a creative zest, it’ll remain interesting.\nHave you met anyone yet at one of your shows who claims to have been at the real Last Waltz?\nKris Gloer: Our show brings out private memories from people. Hundreds of folks have e-mailed me their personal stories about Dylan or Band shows they attended back in the day — or pilgrimages to Big Pink (the house in Saugerties, N.Y. where Dylan and The Band secretly recorded 1967’s fabled Basement Tapes). The hair is standing up on my arm as I tell you this, because I’ve heard so many heartwarming tales. That just goes back to our conditioning as humans and our need to share the things we admire and respect and love.\nSo, if this group decides to stop playing live, will you throw your own “last waltz” and invite all sorts of musicians who’ve influenced and worked with you over the years?\nKris Gloer: Yeah. That’s be great! Maybe Martin Scorsese would be available. I don’t know, though. I hear he’s been a little busy.\nWell, maybe you could find a young director who idolizes Scorsese and wants to do their own filmic tribute to his directorial style!\nKris Gloer: (laughs) That’d be amazing! (laughs) That would be the ultimate example of life imitating art imitating art imitating life. Or something like that. (laughs)Where: Live Wire Music Hall When: 10 p.m., Thurs., May 1 Cost: TBD Info: myspace.com/lastwaltzensemble, myspace.com/livewiremusichall", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Browsing English by Journal\nNow showing items 1-1 of 1\nReading Victorian rags: Recycling, redemption, and Dickens's ragged childrenIn Victorian Britain rags were not only associated with the inadequate clothing of the poor, they were also viewed as a valuable commodity, widely collected for recycling into paper. This essay examines rags as simultaneously despised and precious objects, tracing the connections between Victorian accounts of poverty, the industrial recycling of rags into paper, and the redemption narratives created by Charles Dickens about rescued children. A supporter of Ragged Schools and champion of rags recycling, Dickens drew on the idea of the transformation of dirty rags into clean paper in his representations of ragged children. To him, the recycling of rags indicated the civilizing forces of modernity, and reading Dickens's representations of ragged children in this context reveals how cloth recycling became a paradigm for society's duties towards destitute children. This essay explains Dickens's juxtaposition of ragged children with references to rag-dealing in his novels; by this means he suggested that street children, like their ragged clothing, were capable of being purified and transformed into social usefulness.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Most Popular Titles With Title Matching \"Bella\"\n1. Life Is Beautiful (1997)\nPG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance\nWhen an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.\nVotes: 521,004 | Gross: $57.60M\n2. Bella and the Bulldogs (2015–2016)\n30 min | Comedy, Family\nFollows a perky head cheerleader named Bella whose life in Texas takes an unexpected twist when she becomes the new quarterback for her school team, the Bulldogs.\n3. La bella y las bestias (2018– )\n60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime\nThe series revolves around Isabela León (Esmeralda Pimentel), a beautiful young girl whose parents were murdered by a group of white-collar criminals when she was a minor. After reaching ... See full summary »\n6. Bella Mafia (1997 TV Movie)\nR | 117 min | Crime, Drama\nStarting in Palermo, Italy, 1977 - The ups and downs of a mafia family opposed to drug trade until the men are murdered and the widows take over.\n7. Mostly Martha (2001)\nPG | 109 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama\nWhen a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.\nVotes: 7,320 | Gross: $4.16M\n12. Che bella giornata (2011)\n97 min | Comedy\nChecco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral... See full summary »\n13. Bella addormentata (2012)\nNot Rated | 115 min | Drama\nA mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.\n14. La bella gente (2009)\n98 min | Drama\nWhile Suzanna and her husband have just moved into their private property for the summer, it is shocked by a scene of violence they witness on the way races.\n17. Ma che bella sorpresa (2015)\n91 min | Comedy\nA romantic professor Guido is left by his love - his life seems to be pointless. A physical education teacher, his former student tries to help him to go back on track, convincing his parents to move to Naples to be closer to Guido.\n19. Bellas de Noche (2016)\n92 min | Documentary\nAn honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty, while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame and the chance for happiness.\n20. La bella vita (1994)\n97 min | Comedy\nBruno and Mirella get married in 1989 and live in the little town of Piombino seems to be a bed of roses. After a while Bruno gets the sack, while Brunella takes up with a local tv idol, ... See full summary »\n21. Bella Donna's (2017)\n95 min | Comedy\nAfter the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.\n22. La moglie più bella (1970)\n108 min | Crime, Drama\nBased on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and ... See full summary »\n27. Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)\n107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance\nRome, 1905. Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to ... See full summary »\n28. Farewell Ella Bella (2018)\n80 min | Drama\nFor Ella (24), the death of her alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the bitter memory of a complicated past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her... See full summary »\n29. The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)\n95 min | Comedy\nAlla fine del '600 nel napoletano sotto la dominazione spagnola, il mugnaio Luca cerca di arrabattarsi per non pagare le gabelle che impone Don Teofilo, il governatore, con il consiglio di ... See full summary »\n31. La più bella serata della mia vita (1972)\n106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery\nA salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.\n35. Bellas de noche (1975)\n98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance\nBoxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the waitress Carmen, and befriends of the pimp El Vaselinas, who lost a bet ... See full summary »\n39. Ciao Bella (2007)\n86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance\nMustafa Moradi is aching to find a girlfriend. On the other end of the city, Linnea is desperately searching for a guy with style, courage and a burning passion.\nTV-14 | Short, Comedy\nBella Thorne and Mae Whitman star in Disney's latest live-action adaptation of an animated movie. Because the world needs that.\n41. Zendaya & Bella Thorne: Something to Dance for/TTYLXOX (Mash-Up) (2012 Video)\nNot Rated | 3 min | Short, Music\nThe official music video page for 'Something to Dance for/TTYLXOX' (Mash-Up) by Zendaya and Bella Thorne.\n42. Bella's Story\nDrama | Post-production\nYoung Bella lives in a bad situation and wants to go to college to become a journalist. From tragic beginnings this young girl finds a way to realize her dreams but not with out facing some very hard truths.\n43. Bella Donna (1923)\n60 min | Drama, Romance\nBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.\n44. Life Is Beautiful (1979)\n101 min | Drama\nAntonio is a retired aviator from the Portuguese colonial wars,he falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship of Antonio d Oliveira Salazar ( Ornella Muti) . He ... See full summary »\n46. Bellas durmientes (2001)\nLawrence, a renowned writer, comes to Santiago to spend a winter course. There, by his colleague Elijah, finds a very special house on the outskirts of the city, run by a secretive and ... See full summary »\n47. Bella Vita (2013)\nNot Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography\nCan a region surrounded by land produce world class surfing waves? Internationally acclaimed surf-filmmaker, Jason Baffa (singlefin: yellow, one california day, one beach) documents surfer,... See full summary »\n48. Cosa Bella (2006)\n15 min | Short, Drama\nA young married woman's life takes a radical turn when, what she thinks is a passing sexual encounter with her beautiful college roommate, turns into a life altering love affair.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "During a recent online chat with MSN Live, actor Jamie Foxx sat down with the fans to talk about his upcoming action flick, Stealth, which hits theaters July 29th.\nThe film starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx is an epic action thriller about a squadron of elite pilots who embark on a mission of global consequence to neutralize an out-of-control prototype drone fighter plane equipped with artificial intelligence and the ability to precipitate a nuclear war.\nBelow is a transcription of the chat.\nWelcome to MSN Live! Today we are pleased to welcome actor and Oscar winner Jamie Foxx who stars in the upcoming film Stealth. Jamie is joining us today from Miami where he is chilling on the beach. Jamie, welcome to MSN Live!\nJamie Foxx: What's cracking?!\nJamie what things in life inspired you to follow an acting career and did you ever imagine that you were going to win an Oscar?\nNever thought I would win an Oscar. But I guess I wasn't dreaming big enough. Now I dream differently. (laughs)\nI was a TV kid, you know? All the old shows. Flip Wilson, Tom Jones, Sammy Davis Jr. and so that is where I got my inspiration from. (sings a little Tom Jones \"It's so Unusual.\")\nWhat is it like working on the set of Stealth?\nJamie Foxx: It was exciting to work with Rob Cohen because he had so much knowledge of movies that were action packed. It was as if he would process the acting to go along with the technology of movie making and he was a party animal! And I like that. (laughs)\nWhy did you take the role in Stealth?\nJamie Foxx: The opportunity to work with Rob Cohen and Jessica Biel is not bad to look at.\nYou had some fun toys in the movie. What was your favorite?\nJamie Foxx: The Gimble which was the apparatus you used as a simulator. Once you look at it on screen it really looked like we were flying.\nDid you have to train for the role?\nJamie Foxx: A little bit. We trained on an Air Force Base getting to know the planes and the cockpit so it really looked like we knew what we were doing. The only thing missing was actually flying the aircraft.\nDid you want the fly the craft?\nJamie Foxx: I'm scared of heights. (laughs) I would have loved to fly but it takes so much craft and skill in order to fly something like that. I have however flown a twin engine plane before.\nSo if we were in a plane with you and the pilot couldn't fly, would we be safe in your hands?\nJamie Foxx: Until we had to land. Now we could fly around for three or four days but we couldn't land. Basically flying is like taking your car going 100 miles an hour and pulling back the steering wheel and going into the air. The landing is trickier. (laughs)\nAlthough not critically received, I thought Booty Call was hilarious. Are there any comedies in the future?\nJamie Foxx: Yes, there are. Myself and Will Smith are getting together to do a classic called \"Uptown Saturday Night\" which featured Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby.\nHave you started shooting yet?\nJamie Foxx: No, not until 2006.\nWhat is your favorite type of acting to play?\nJamie Foxx: A role that has meat on its bones meaning where you can see the whole character, how he lives, how he loves, how he hates.\nWhat was the best part of playing Ray?\nJamie Foxx: The music was eternal. It was eternal. You couldn't get enough. You wanted to get stuck in a loop. You could keep playing his music.\nWhere did you shoot Stealth? How long did it take?\nJamie Foxx: We shot in Australia and it took 3-4 months.\nIs there one scene in this film you are especially proud of?\nJamie Foxx: My dancing scene when I dance. Cuz Stealth made me feel like dancing!\nJamie, I just wanted to say you did a wonderful Job as Ray and I admire your acting. You have inspired me to give acting a try and go for my dreams. Thank you and keep up the good work.\nJamie Foxx: Oh, Gentle Dog. Thank you and good luck. I hope it all works out.\nJamie, did you ever think this acting thing wasn't going to work out?\nJamie Foxx: Yes, because I thought I was going to be doing music. I never thought that acting would be my thing but I hope I can do this for a very long time.\nHis films always have a certain look and feel, how was the experience of working with Michael Mann on Collateral?\nJamie Foxx: It was an incredible, intense, happily draining experience. We would work long hours but the payoff was supreme because I got a chance to work with two greats-- Michael Mann and Tom Cruise.\nDo you keep in touch with actors after you work on a film together?\nJamie Foxx: Certain actors, I stay in touch with Will and Jada and Tom. I stay in touch with Gabrielle Union. I stay in touch with Salma Hayek.\nIs there one actor you want to work with but haven't yet?\nJamie Foxx: I think it was after the Oscars everybody that I saw after the Oscars I would love to have a chance to work with. I figure it will take about twenty years to do that. That means I can probably stay employed. But Denzel would be at the top of the list.\nWhat projects are you working on now? How many do you typically have going at one time?\nJamie Foxx: Right now we are working on Miami Vice. So we're doing it to Miami and also working on an album. I just finished something with Kanye West.\nWhat kind of album? When can we expect it?\nJamie Foxx: R&B/ hip-hop. It's coming soon.\nWe ask every guest this question: What is your idea of an ideal day?\nJamie Foxx: Ideal day is with friends, great location, great food, great drinks, great times. And a girl with a big old booty! (laughs) Just kidding.\nJamie, thanks for taking the time from Miami Vice to talk with fans about Stealth.\nJamie Foxx: Thank you for all the great questions! Go see that movie! Go see Stealth opening later this month!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Having a Tattoo on your neck is the most outstanding way to express your personalιty for people with strong personalities. Or simply you love taTtoo art, why not tɾy wιth beautiful and meaningfᴜl tattoo designs? In Today’s article, Leflair will suggest yoᴜ cool and impressive neck tattoo designs for both ᴍᴇɴ and woᴍᴇɴ. LeT’s hɑve ɑ look together!\nCool neck Tattoos for ᴍᴇɴ\nᴍᴇɴ often love neck taTtoos not only because it’s super cool , but for many people the tattoo also has a meaning of its own . tattoos ɑre also seen as a syмboƖ of keeping memorιes for the taTtooer . And it will be redrawn by the skillful hands of the craftsмan. there are many beautifuƖ and impressive tattoo designs for ᴍᴇɴ for ᴍᴇɴ To refer to and choose from. Here are some sιmρle and personal Tattoo designs for ᴍᴇɴ:\nSee more: the Latest Full Set Of Leg tatToos For ᴍᴇɴ And Woᴍᴇɴ the Latest today\n1. Neck tattoo designs for ᴍᴇɴ\nOne of the extremely ρopular neck tatToo patterns is The letter tattoo, each line of words will have a different meaning that for the person who has it tattooed it is very special. Many male friends also have a hobby of tattooιng the name or daTe of birth of tҺeir loʋer or family memƄers to express Their affection.\n2. Beaᴜtιful syмbol Tattoo desιgns for ᴍᴇɴ\nSpecial symboƖs are ɑ good suggestion for a neck tattoo that ᴍᴇɴ can ɾefer to. this type of tattoo is quiTe sιмple but still personal and artisTic. Suggest popuƖar symbol ρaTterns that yoᴜ can choose to tattoo such ɑs: geomeTric bƖocks, anchors, lighTning, …\n3. Bird tattoo designs for ᴍᴇɴ\nTattoos of Ƅirds show the freedom and liberality of the male character. tҺis tatToo is not only beautiful but also makes The viewer feeƖ your sociable friendliness. these tatToo artists often Һave an eɑsy-going personality and cause sympathy for the oρposite person.\n4. Very beauTiful rose tɑttoo designs for ᴍᴇɴ\nIf you do not know whιch neck Tɑttoo to choose , you can try wιtҺ the rose tattoo that is tattooed by many ᴍᴇɴ for the neck and many other body areɑs. this tyρe of Tattoo is somewhat more complicaTed than the ones ɑbove because there are many small details that help describe the sofTness of the petals. But in generaƖ, thιs is still considered a simple and Ƅeautifᴜl imɑge in the tɑTtoo world.\n5. Neck tattoo with musicaƖ note symbol for ᴍᴇɴ\nthe musical note tattoo desιgns on the necк are also quite impressιve for those ᴍᴇɴ who have a high soul and love art. You can tattoo one or as many musical note symbols as you like, tҺιs ρatTern looks simple but stιll beautifuƖ but also Һas a romantιc artist look.\nImpɾessive necк tattoos for woᴍᴇɴ\nWιll woᴍᴇɴ become too sTrong if they have tatToos on Theiɾ necks ? Rest assured That not only does not make you more “manly”, but tattoos also help to enhance your tenderness. It’s not dιfficult for gιɾls to hɑve a beautiful and arTisTic tattoo Ƅut still maintain a genTle feмininity. Come to the siмple and genTle tattoo designs for woᴍᴇɴ below:\n1. Neck letter tattoo for woᴍᴇɴ\nthis is a beautiful and feminine neck tattoo for woᴍᴇɴ that you cannot ignore. Soft tɑTtoo strokes are often Ɩoved and chosen by many giɾls for their tattoo designs.\n2. BeautifuƖ flower tatToo designs foɾ woᴍᴇɴ\nFlower tattoo designs are in tҺe top favorιtes of girls in the selection for neck tattoos . the flower shape ιs both elegant and creɑtes ɑ soft and fresh feeling for yoᴜ.\n3. Moon tattoo pattern on necк for woᴍᴇɴ\nMoon tɑttoo with creative sTrokes into мany different styles for you to choose the model that suιts your styƖe. This wιll be a taTtoo pattern on The neck that is not afraid of “touching” for gιrls who Ɩike unique beauty.\n4. Cute little bᴜtterfly tɑTtoo designs foɾ woᴍᴇɴ\nCute liTtle butterflies wιlƖ be an extremely attracTιve Һighlight on the neck for girls. STyling this tempƖate is quite simple with a small butTeɾfly shape. You can tɑttoo one or as many butterflies as you want because they are quiTe small and will not maкe woᴍᴇɴ “tiger” away.\n5. Beautiful, simple tɑttoo designs foɾ woᴍᴇɴ\ntattoos with black ink TҺat are not too picky wiƖl be the perfect choice for gιɾls wҺo like buT don’t want to stand out. Check out the suggesTions for neck TaTtoos with simple styles below.\nNotes you need to know when getting a neck tattoo\nFor those of you who are trying To geT a TatToo for The first tiмe, you should choose a small and simple model. tҺis is to test the irritation of The taTtoo ink to the skin because many of you have pᴜs sweƖling and severe ɪɴғᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ after taTtooing.\nPrepare yourself ᴍᴇɴtaƖƖy for good ᴘᴀɪɴ becaᴜse the area you choose to Tattoo is in the neck ɑrea, This is a qᴜite sensitive plɑce and wҺere the respiraToɾy functιon is performed. You мay feel soмe discomfort for a few days after getTιng TҺe taTtoo. Above aɾe suggestιons for beautiful and unιque neck tattoo designs that yoᴜ can refer to for your tatToo. Don’t forget to follow the Leflɑir.com blog to see more of this yeɑr’s trending tattoo designs !", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Singer-actor Iñigo Pascual felt elated after K-Pop stars Sandara Park and IKON’s Jinhwan surprised fans with the cover of his monster OPM hit “Dahil Sa’yo” on Christmas eve.\n\"Jay and Ate Dara, making this song so much better... Merry Christmas! (heart emoji),\" he commented on Sandara's YouTube channel.\nSandara replied by greeting the 23-year-old only son of actor Piolo Pascual a \"Merry Christmas.\"\nAlso known as Dara, the 36-year-old Korean female star first rose to fame when she joined the \"Star Circle Quest” talent search in 2004.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Original Price||₩20,000 (~$16.80)|\nOn the December 14, 2019 the members of Loona held their Premier Greeting: Meet & Up fan-event during which they performed their hit songs including Buttefly, FavOriTe, One & Only, Heart Attack, Love4eva, Girl Front and Hi High. The event took place at the YES24 Live Hall in Seoul. A special selection of new merchandise was prepared for purchase for all fans who attended the Meet & Up. Among the items you could find this set of posters featuring all members. The set consists of 5 sheets of a size of 570 X 320 mm. In the package you will find one poster with a photo of all members and four with each of the subunits of Loona - 1/3 (HeeJin, ViVi, HaSeul and HyunJin), Odd Eye Circle (Kim Lip, Choerry and JinSoul), yyxy (Yves, Go Won, Chuu and Olivia Hye) and YeoJin. The girls are wearing black apparel and are photographed sitting on yellow chairs placed in a circle. All comes in a black square tube with the title of the event on it. This set of Loona posters is the official item from BlockBerry Creative. It is of a high quality and features a crisp print.\nThis of course is not the only item you could get if you were lucky enough to attend the event. The other collectibles were the second version of an acrylic light stick (the first one was available at the Premier Greeting Line & Up that was held over two days from the 2nd to 3rd of June of 2018), the commemorating slogan that comes in a transparent plastic pouch opened by a zipper (600 x 200 mm), a set of 60 photocards of a standard size of 55 x 85 mm (5 sheets per member), a special binder book to store your collection of photocards (180 x 230 x 37), a black umbrella with a logo of the event and an acrylic stand depicting all members of Loona (150 x 105 mm). Additionally you could purchase a special shopping bag with the logo of BlockBerry Creative if you needed a space for all the goods you got.\nIf you need some cool Loona posters to hang on the wall you should definitely consider getting this set. You can buy it on Ebay for a price of $39.99. Remember that this item is an official collectible so you should grab it before it will be sold out. That kind of items are very popular among the fans and eventually become very difficult to find.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Model stitched over two on 36 Ct. Legacy by Picture This Plus using Weeks Dye Works floss (or DMC 3721, 469, 729, 3023, 315, 3046, 898, 733, 434, 372, 3740, 501, 712). Stitch Count: 125x203. Design Size: 7\" x 12\"\nAn art form that is so appealing and full of passion. This young lady's soul emanates poetic inspiration as she stamps out her Jalisco roots to the relentless folkloric rhythms. Join in as you stitch to the beat of the footsteps. This colorful design will add a splash of color wherever you display it. Stitch Count 197w X 168h, Finished Size on black 14-count 14\" X 12\"\nModel stitched on 14 Count Black Aida\nThis beautiful Diane Jourdan redwork sampler was stitched with two colors of Vikki Clayton Hand Dyed Fibers (10 skeins of Diane's Rouge and 10 Skeins of Heartwood) on 36 Ct. Magnolia Linen. Stitch Count: 181W x 284H. Instructions for specialty stitches are included. ( DMC alternates are 814 & 85 not an exact match)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AI Anthology cover\nOut this week! Links soon! #aicreativeanthology\nIt’s been tested by GPTZero if that is of interest.\nIn a world where machines an’ shite rule, ken,\nI’m thinkin’ aboot this wicked place,\na mental techno-grassland, like,\nwhere we, daft mammals, an’ computers, right,\nget aw cosy, workin’ thegither,\njust like the clear water\nkissin’ the blue sky, man.\nNow, imagine, aye?\nA fookin’ cybernetic forest, man,\nwhere digital trees an’ electronics mix,\nan’ the deer, they just stroll aroond,\nnext to computers an’ aw that,\nlike they’re just wee flowers\nwi’ spinny fookin’ petals, mate.\nI’m tellin’ ye, it’s gotta be,\na world where nature an’ tech, right,\nlive in pure harmony, ken,\nwhere we’re free frae aw the hard graft,\nan’ back wi’ our furry pals,\nwi’ everythin’ watched o’er\nby machines full o’ that sweet lovin’ grace, man.\nNew research underway into the psychology of LLMs (large language models like ChatGPT and many others). This is a new paper (with Mick Grieson at CCI UAL) due by Easter.\nComputer Arts Society CAS Talks\nI’m hosting 3 x talks with the Computer Arts Society (I’m now on the committee).\nAI and Text\nAI and Art\nAI and Curating\nA book will follow this epic of screen-staring.\nAI text and writing – how do writers use text generation?\nMy research on AI text and writers is now online at UAL Research at: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/18621/\nBook – AI Creative Writing Anthology & Reviews\nThe new book of AI assisted stories, poems, text-art is in draft mode. Publication is March 2023. I am editor, and have also provided some examples from my own research and creative work. Also large history and background sections, pieces on ethics, bias, etc., at the end of the book.\nSuch as the AI text generated story below, although this had minimal editing. Sometimes it flows really well in that ‘weird’ AI style (GPT-2, yes this an ‘old’ piece). The prompt was the first line. Image conjured up at NightCafe.\nNews Feb 2023\nNew video art with Patryk Jaworski is exhibited by elemetum.art in Zurich – please visit “Abstract Originals” and Grid 88 by Geoff Davis at elementum.art\nMusic by Metavista (Jawolski/Davis). There is a Catalogue availabge in the elementum Blog section.\nm is online in a sort of quick pre-release. Please listen by clicking here.\nCircular River – novel\nCircular River, my novel is finally getting published (I started this in 2014). Illustrations are being designed using AI text to art, with post-production editing, and this is taking a while. As you can see above, the main problem with AI is massive over-production. The images above are from using one style only, there are unlimited styles. This leads to choice anxiety or decidophobia (just found this word).\nThe novel prequel will get released beforehand.\nSign up for free prequel\nAnyone on the Story Software mailing list will get the Circular River prequel (first few chapters) so if you want to sign up please email:\ninfo at storysoftware dot com\nJuly – end September 2022\nMicro Arts Group exhibition at British Computer Society Moorgate London July to October 2022. I founded and coded Micro Arts in the 1980s.\nSee Micro Arts Group for more details.\nI’m editor of a new book of AI co-created hybrid stories, poems, texts. See Story Software for more details of this first ever AI Fiction Anthology 2022.\nIf you have a late entry, please contact me via Twitter Micro Arts Group\n3D video art from my art forum digital algo generative art release “Abstract Originals” (Micro Arts MA1) with video artist and musician Patryk Jaworski.\nMA1 Cube Collection 1-7 video still\nMy old Micro Arts Group work is in the Computer Arts Archive collection please visit.\nThis site is for my current activities. Links here:\n- AI research at UAL London is now listed here\n- Books and writing, read now\n- Blog for articles, news, updates, links, etc.\n- Micro Arts Group – computer art both old and new\nAny other activities, please visit the main menu.\nMicro Arts MA1:5 Texture Grid\nThis work has just been added to the Computer Arts Society’s Archive (British Computer Society) – visit archive\nLinks to my other sites:\nWriting and image creativity apps – AI text generation, plus zooming ZUI notes and image software app. Now called Creativity Support Tools CST\n- Story Live (online, AI text generation with editing panel and file export) – this is a new beta web site, from the research study (see menus)\n- Notes Story Board (software, for text, plus image import, size and rotate, multiple format export, snap, many features)\n- Story Lite (software, text boxes, zooming canvas, multiple format export, etc. No image import)\nMy other sites:\nThis is from Death In The Bubble World (G Davis 1997) which I have put on this site\n- Write Ngeow – Ivy Ngeow author site\n- Ivy Ngeow Architect site\n- Building DIY site (leftover from my eco building days)\n- Facebook Geoff Davis\nIn the News…\nMetaverse – 3D and VR\nHere’s my VRML (1996) gallery ..", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tuesday, October 5, 2010\nGetting Ready For Halloween: Disney Pumpkin Carving Templates\nI love the smell of Autumn and the sound of leaves crunching under my feet. I also love getting ready for the holidays to come, including Halloween. We normally get around 550 - 650 trick-or-treaters where I live so it makes it all the more fun! My kids like to stand outside and hand out the treat bags and check out everyone's costumes almost as much as they like to go trick-or-treating themselves.\nOne of our favorite Halloween traditions is to carve pumpkins. We love to find templates online and use those so that even the kids can be pros at it. =0). In the spirit of our upcoming trip to Disneyland, I found these pumpkin carving Disney templates to share with you. A great way to enjoy the holiday while spending less. Have fun!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Diane Kappa, Bonjour, Songbird in Lime|\n|Songbird in Lime detail|\nHawthorne Threads were recommended to me by my lovely blogging friend Di of Random Thoughts Do or `Di` and I couldn`t be happier. They have a beautiful selection of fabric at great prices (I paid $7.25 a metre), they dispatched the same day and the package arrived a week later (USA to Morocco).\nLinking up again with Our Creative Spaces. Head over there to see talented people making lovely things.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bullet journals are hot right now! And there's no doubt why people love them so much. They happen to be the prettiest planners on Instagram and some people have turned them into a colorful work of art.\nThis post was created by a member of the BuzzFeed Community. You can join and make your own posts and quizzes.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Rolls Royce of Crafters has just upped the notch of this wonderful hobby, scrapbooking. Who decided she likes scrapbooking? It’s Martha Stewart that is! I admire this woman despite the conviction but hey, no one’s perfect!\nThe Economist reports\nMARTHA STEWART is a woman with many hobbies. She cooks, gardens and makes jam. And now it seems she has decided to take up scrapbooking. This month Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia launched a line of Martha-branded supplies, bringing a dash of glamour to the world of paper crafts.\nBut although scrapbooking may be popular, it has never been fashionable. The prevailing aesthetic is saccharine. It includes glitter, polka dots and lots of pink. Martha Stewart Crafts brings a slightly more sophisticated style to scrapbooking, with albums in tasteful shades such as walnut and persimmon. The line is not entirely humourless, with stickers of a hula-hooping watermelon and a happy orange waving a pennant.\nPerhaps Ms Stewart’s arrival on the scene will earn scrapbooking a little more respect. Other crafts, after all, are taken seriously. The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York featured an exhibit of quilts a few years ago. Knitters click away on the subway. Sublime Stitching, based in Austin, Texas, sells embroidery patterns featuring pirates and pieces of sushi. True, a preoccupation with the relative merits of various types of decorative sticky tape is not for everyone. But a well made scrapbook is more impressive than yet another of those itchy scarves.\nI couldn’t agree more!\nPlease rate this article", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You may have much more in common with singer Camila Cabello than you thought. Yes, she has 10 million followers on Instagram, is a platinum-selling recording artist and was discovered on “The X-Factor” singing-competition show. But the former Fifth Harmony member has a shoe closet that’s surprisingly accessible.\nOn Sunday night, at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards, Cabello took the stage alongside J Balvin and Pitbull to perform their new song from the “Fate of the Furious” soundtrack, “Hey Ma.” The singer opted for a strapless dress as she descended from the ceiling for her unexpected entrance. And what was the most shocking part of the performance? Her onstage shoes only cost $70.\nCabello wore Aldo’s Izabela sandals in gold and silver as she danced around the stage. The disco-inspired stacked-heel shoes are currently available online.\nAldo Izabela sandals, $70; aldoshoes.com\nThis isn’t the first time Cabello has worn an affordable shoe. She’s been spotted in Topshop, Jessica Simpson, Candie’s, Aldo and Steve Madden on the red carpet before. Click through the gallery to see for yourself.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You are here\nKrapp's Last Tape\nSamuel Beckett’s moving meditation on time, memory and ageing is performed by renowned Irish actor Barry McGovern, one of the world’s most revered interpreters of the great playwright. This brand new production is directed by Michael Colgan, longtime Artistic Director of Dublin’s Gate Theatre.\nAn old man sits alone at a table, preparing for his annual ritual: to archive the last year of his weary life on tape. As he’s done on his birthday, ever since he was a young man. Listening in on an earlier recording, he’s drawn into a chilling dialogue with his younger, brashly confident self – but are the memories he evokes better left unheard?\nBeckett’s haunting one-man play is a brief but highly intense experience, giving voice to the conversations we have with ourselves across time – an essay in loneliness, but shot through with grim humour.\nBarry McGovern has been performing Beckett’s stage works for more than three decades to huge international acclaim, and was widely praised for his near-legendary I’ll Go On, based on Beckett’s trilogy of novels Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable, at the 2013 International Festival. He is widely considered one of the world’s leading interpreters of Beckett, in performances that feel lived rather than simply acted, and that embody both Beckett’s humour and his darkness.\nMichael Colgan was Artistic Director of Dublin’s Gate Theatre for over 30 years, and is a long-time devotee of Beckett’s work, which he has directed internationally, and has produced for film and television.\nThis landmark production brings together two of the world’s finest Beckett interpreters in an unforgettable and deeply personal drama by one of the world’s greatest ever writers.\nArguably the greatest living male performer of Beckett's work\n- Running time:55mins approx (no interval)\nMichael Colgan Director\nBarry McGovern Actor\nA production by Clare Street\nKrapp's Last Tape | The Herald\nKrapp's Last Tape | The Times\nmasterfully done ★★★★\nRead the full review\nKrapp's Last Tape | The Stage\nKrapp's Last Tape | The List\nKrapp's Last Tape | Edinburgh Guide\nKrapp's Last Tape | The Scotsman\nKrapp's Last Tape | What's On Stage\nWhat's On Stage\nPhoto: Pat Redmond\nThis event was part of a previous International Festival and is therefore unavailable to book.\nThe 2018 International Festival will be available to browse online in the spring.\n|Senior citizens:||30% OFF|\n|BECTU, Equity, MU:||30% OFF|\n|Under 18s:||50% OFF|\n|Young Scot cardholders:||50% OFF|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When I was 13 I had this jean bound journal with rhinestones on it, I doodled on it like it was my own pair of \"Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants\" pants. I was convinced I could become the second youngest successfully published author of our time. Everyday I updated the \"novel\" I would pass it around while in class to give my updates to my readers in real-time. By lunch, I would know which direction to head. The thing about my story is I wanted it to feature kids like my classmates. Not some rich or middle class kids. Just regular smegular kids having a good time goofing off and falling in love. Of course there would be drama that we'd understand and twist and enemies turned frenemies. And any resemblance to real life people or classmates was just a coincidence. Six years ago I decided, once again, to write a novel. I am finally sitting down to do it and by the end of this year I will have a first draft.\nBack then, I was nine chapters in when my mom let me make the decision to move to St. Louis. There are two things I didn't do that move that will haunt me for the rest of my years. I didn't save my first time ever electronic journal on a floppy disk (Yes, I am from that era) and I lost my jean studded journal with my world changing novel. I typically am not at a loss for words but I lost two crucial voices of mine at that era. I didn't know it then but my memory keeping was important not just because I'm a writer but because I know just how fast those memories can slip between your fingers like water. And it may not be super important to 32 year old me why I had a crush on that one boy who I couldn't stop thinking about. But it was important to 13 year old me and I want to remember what that was like forever.\nAccording to several studies at this point, our brains (the hippocampus) transfer memories to long-term especially when they are traumatic. With my journals, I've wanted to capture the day to day stuff. I refuse to this day to call it a diary because diaries are something private. My journals I hope are riveting enough to become bestsellers when I'm gone. Always a writer. The loss of the novel is something I always think about. What could I have done with it once it was finished. Everyone loved it, I mean you try to get a bunch of 8th graders to read. The one specialty my book also had was its steamy moments. I mean again, 8th graders. The most scandalous thing was the deep kissing. But it was definitely better than the Iliad.\nMy Write A Novel in a Year workshop was born because so many people want to finish that novel they've been dreaming about they just don't know how to go about it. Where are those support groups? Where you all start at zero and end up with this thing you've been dreaming of? At the Story Center I noticed that Critique Groups were for short stories or poetry, maybe a chapter but no true support for a novelist. So I created it and the response was surprising. People showed up.\nIn my case it's been a desire since I was 13 though the story, content, and characters have all changed. In the spirit I still seek it to be a book for that 13 year old me. Something she could read and pass around to her classmates even though it felt a tad grown up. At that time, I got bored with the chapter books. We didn't have a young adult section so I made my way to the adult books and then the reallllly adult books. *wink, wink* I became known as the book slinger and the candy girl in my middle school hallways. Now, I constantly feel in a state of coming full circle.\nMy novel is going well. I have a little over three months to get it finished and honestly I want to shoot for the end of November. We've got this!\nTomorrow will finally be the book release for my book, \"My Last Words... Not really\"!! I'm beyond excited. I started making the book in 2015 while homeless and then finished the book February 2016 (I checked my archives here, score 1 blog) and now I am having the release almost two years later. (These things take time)\nHopefully see you tomorrow, if not you can order the book at the link below and have it delivered right to you, just click.\nOne thing people don't see is the woman behind the art when I'm at my worst or just regular. The days where I'm Sahara. Where I'm relying on faith in something bigger than me, but working hard still to meet that faith.\nMy Last Words... Not Really is a collection of plays & poetry created when I was thinking this is it, all I have left to say. My mother was also a big inspiration for this book because we made sure to make our last words count with each other to save us from any regret. Imagine your last words being, \"I hate you!\" We've all been there, we've all had those moments of wanting a redo for our final words. But sometimes you just get what you give. You just never know when you'll see that person you truly care for again.\nThe plays well... they are just the start, Next will be full length plays. I hope that people use them in auditions or classrooms. Maybe even in theaters.\nAt least I said I love\nIf we had nothing else we had love\nKnew that a lasting impression is made with kindness\nNot with malice\nAt least I said I love you\nRather than filling that space with mucky misunderstandings\nThat glue us to regret\nIt's almost like the window opened\nWe aired out our goodbyes\nSee you later\nI love you\nAt least I said I love you\nThis book does contain my popular works, but also included is poetry hidden away and not frequently shared. my uplifting, shorter works, and a few of my \"love\" poems. There is also a faith play with a strong male lead and my ever growing one woman show. Head to my store and buy the book. Share it with those you love and those that need it. Use the monologues for auditions. Most importantly enjoy.\nFitness. Life. Art. Travel.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Customer reviews of our Christmas Cards & Photo Christmas Cards\nDecember 4, 2013Perfect for Us\n\"First of all this care says \"Merry Christmas.\" Secondly it has room for our pictures. I used the green card as it made a better background color for our photos. It was perfect!\"\nNovember 24, 2013Striking\n\"I ordered several samples of different designs. While I like all the fun textures and shimmering details on many of the designs, this simple design ultimately was my favorite and final choice. The vibrant color is crisp and the details compliment our photos, while not overpowering them. This is truly striking in person.\"\nNovember 15, 2013Beautiful cards\n\"Just received my cards and they are beautiful. This is my 2nd year using Tiny Prints and I love them. The card is a very stock and not flimsy, I love how you can choose your own font and put photos on front and back. Thank you, Tiny Prints\"\nOctober 9, 2013Mistletoe Christmas Card\n\"Ordering my Christmas cards from Tiny Prints was a very fun and easy experience. Designing the card was most fun of all. There were so many good choices to pick from, but I knew what I wanted from the start. When I received the cards they were absolutely beautiful and I couldn't wait to send them out. The quality of the paper was excellent and all the photos were clear and of good color. They were so good I am thinking of ordering more. I am definitely hooked on Tiny Prints!\"\nJanuary 4, 2013City Chic\n\"I always get my Christmas cards from Tiny Prints. They always turn out perfect. Every year the styles change, as do mine, so it's nice to see all the different varieties. Purple & red are my favorite colors, so I was happy that the colors would be changed :)\"\nClassic, sophisticated and full of grace, this holiday photo card from Sarah Hawkins Designs is an elegant way to send\nyour love this holiday season. Celebrate your style with the elegant script in this timeless design.Graceful Wishes, created by Sarah ...\nA beautiful, swirling font and regal frame come together to create the sweet, sentimental style of these charming photo holiday\ncards designed by Sarah Hawkins Designs. Holiday Scroll, created by Sarah Hawkins Designs for Tiny Prints, comes from our folded ...\nWant to save on postage? Choose our modified rectangular envelopes for your square card order. Modified rectangular envelopes are specially\ndesigned to fit our square cards securely inside and allow you to mail them with regular postage. Address the envelope ...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Review: Cultures, love and humour collide in ‘First Metis Man of Odesa’\nPhoto credit: Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova wrote and perform in “First Metis Man of Odesa,” a play based on their own life stories. (Supplied / Photo by Olivia Swerhone-Wick, Persephone Theatre)\nIt’s a real-life love story that’s almost too remarkable to believe.\nPersephone Main Stage is playing host to the Punctuate! Theatre production First Métis Man of Odesa, a biographical account of the love story between Matthew MacKenzie, a Métis writer from Edmonton, and Mariya Khomutova, an award-winning actor from Odesa, Ukraine. This unbelievable (yet true) story features MacKenzie and Khomutova playing fictionalized versions of themselves as they take the audience through the events of their lives — from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the baby that lands in between.\nA love story is always fascinating to watch, but a true love story that lands in the middle of a pandemic and a war seems wild to consider. MacKenzie and Khomutova capture the playfulness of new love and infuse humour into tragic events on Thursday night, making this story easier to absorb. While there are difficult moments and serious topics, it never delves into the full depths of depression and it manages to keep things moving along.\nWhile imperfect and slow-starting, the play contains powerful commentary on global events. Khomutova reminds viewers that the lives of all Ukrainians are now split between before and after the Russian invasion. The display of genuine emotion and passion in Khomutova’s performance makes the conflict real for those in the audience who have the option of ignoring it. Even though she is performing in a play, this is her world and she invites the audience to join her, which is a harrowing feat.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Armilla, designed by Lorenzo Truant for Fabbian, is inspired by the very first Renaissance depictions of the motions of stars and planets. At that time, it was customary for people to construct models called armillary spheres comprising a framework of rings. To begin with, they were centered on Earth, but as time went by and the theories of Copernicus entered the picture, the Earth was replaced with the Sun, an infinite source of light and the new center of the universe.\nThe rings of Armilla recall this custom, supporting the sphere and complementing the abundance of opal glass that diffuses light from the source at the centre of the composition—just like the armillary spheres dreamt up by the Copernican cosmographers, with their heliocentric view of the world. Examining Armilla in more detail, three rings of precious metal are cleverly fixed together and contain the diffuser, which—thanks to a ring fixed to the equator—is attached to the support cable, also made of metal.\nLamps from the Armilla collection are available with a diameter of 36 cm, and come in the form of pendant and table lamps. The diffuser is made of glossy white glass blown on a round mould, with the metal rings inserted and carefully fixed in place using the melted glass at the end of the process. The rings have a polished finish, with gold and chrome plating. They are designed to work with halogen, fluorescent and LED light bulbs (if connected to a mains electricity supply).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Information for School programs for Summer 2021 will be available online early February 2021. Questions? Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org.\nJuly 5–July 25, 2020\nEXPERIENCE RIGOROUS TRAINING IN A CARING COMMUNITY\nThe Pre-Professional Dance Intensive provides rigorous training for intermediate and advanced dancers ages 13-17. This program is an incomparable experience of strong technical training in a curriculum that includes community-building, leadership development, and the cultivation of dancers’ artistic voice. Students repeatedly call it a life-changing experience that increases their skills, confidence, and sense of self-worth. How do you love to move? Share your passion for dance here.\nMINING THE PHYSICAL IMAGINATION\nEach year, ADF chooses a critical lens that allows us to situate our dancing within concerns that are relevant to today’s world. In 2020, the intensive will consider the question: How does dance allow you to explore and realize your wildest imaginings? The ADF School community will explore this question through dancing, discussion, and marvelous flights into our individual and collective imagination.\npre-professional dance intensive overview\nBECOME A MORE CONFIDENT DANCER HERE\nTake classes in African dance forms, ballet, composition, hip-hop, modern, professional portfolio development and repertory with our amazing faculty. Dive into 20+ classes per week that develop your technique, artistry, ideas, and confidence.\nCHOREOGRAPH AND COLLABORATE WITH OTHER DANCERS\nCollaborate with your fellow dancers to develop ideas about community, creating, the performances you see, and what matters to you as an artist. In repertory and composition classes, you’ll work with your faculty and fellow dancers to create new work to perform for the ADF community. Dancers will perform on the final day!\nSEE PROFESSIONAL COMPANIES PERFORM\nConnect what you are learning in the studio to the live performances on the stage. Experience 8+ performances by professional companies from the US and abroad.\nFORM A COMMUNITY AND BUILD INVALUABLE RELATIONSHIPS\nBuild an inclusive community while having the freedom to be, express, and create independently.\nwhat former students and parents say about the pre-professional dance intensive:\n“Being here at PDI helped me grow my confidence in myself and my artistic voice.” – 2019 student\n“This experience made me see that it is not just about the dancing but is about connecting with the people around you.” – 2019 student\n“ADF is a place where young dancers can explore dance and themselves in a community setting which allows them to grow with confidence.” – Mary Cassidy, 2019 parent", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bombora House by Tom Fruin\nOpen to the public for observation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the Bombora House exhibit by Tom Fruin will look different as the daylight shifts into the evening. The sculptures will be lit from within projecting the multi-color nature of the piece onto Gansevoort Plaza. At night the installation will be illuminated by LEDs with a design created by Ryan Holsopple allowing people to interact with the lighting by texting 347-328-2636. The installation is on display through April 30, 2021.\nTom Fruin is a Brooklyn-based, internationally known sculptor whose work has been featured across NYC. His work can be seen as a celebration of human behavior and everyday life. “If you really want to understand what makes up the fabric of people and places, you often learn all you need to by looking at the floor,” says Fruin of his approach.\nThe installation “Bombora House,” takes its name from an open expression by Fruin’s fellow artist, friend and inspiration, Melinda Brown. She dubbed the building she lived in on the corner of 13th Street and Ninth Avenue in the heart of the neighborhood, Bombora House. The house was a place where artists would gather to collaborate and create, and its name is a reference to the “outsider wave” prized by surfers.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Yellow Umbrellas II Posters\nThe Yellow Umbrellas II Posters is quite imposing and makes a supreme wall decoration, the item dimension is 31 x 27 inch and the price is $54.99. If you're trying to find out top recommended The Yellow Umbrellas II Posters with low-cost price, this one is the desirable deals for you.\nType: Art Print\nDimension: 31 x 27 inch\nIt looks just like the image and it looks real, definitely buy The Yellow Umbrellas II Posters. The one argues that carrying this around in your head increases stress and diminishes productivity. The unit is impressive, the finishing of the poster isn't the best, for for the cost, it is sunny. It puts movies on the runway for a favorite to let them show their style. The Yellow Umbrellas II Posters is a impressive resource for students, educators, or conservationists, as well as perfect gifts. The one isand the product is in valuable shape. The picture type is well-known and well worth the money $54.99. The Yellow Umbrellas II Posters is a perfect attribute poster, luminous print, and just all around superb.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The nice thing about focusing Thingadailies on recipes is that it used up all the orange citrus in the fridge, but unfortunately there’s still a bazillion lemons. Plus there’s a bowl of lemon curd now sitting in the fridge and needing to be used up (hey, it’s not like I can’t make a couple dozen more batches just from our own tree!).\nI still had a package of puff pastry in the fridge earlier, so last night I made Lemon Curd Turnovers. I rolled it out until it was about 12 inches square, then cut that into 9 pieces. Then I mixed up some lemon curd, some cream cheese, some sugar, and the last of the lemon zest that was sitting in the fridge, and dumped a heaping tablespoonful in the middle of each square. A little egg wash, a little rest in the fridge, and then they went into the oven to bake. The final step was a drizzle of glaze (powdered sugar and cream), and poof, a lovely, flakey pastry that looks far fancier than the minimal effort involved.\nIn addition, yesterday I also finished a project that I’d really hoped to complete in February, but, well, life and bottle baby kittens got in the way. On the first of February, I was feeling the need to start a new knitting project and I spotted my bin of leftover sock yarn.\nRupert included for scale (and also because cat).\nSadly, this is not even all of it – as I got into the project I kept finding more balls lurking around the house.\nI’ve seen various sock yarn blanket ideas, but they tend to be too chaotic in color for me. Then I stumbled across this pattern and knew immediately what I wanted to do.\nI cast on on February 1st and yesterday morning I finished.\nIt’s nothing more than garter stitch, done in the diagonal. I held two strands together the whole time, simply adding in a new ball each time one ran out, with no worries about the colors. The fact that it’s garter stitch, and two colors at a time, means that the overall chaos that would have occurred if I’d only done one color at a time ends up being muted, with the colors fading into each other.\nIt’s roughly 3 foot by 5 foot, and took about 950 grams of yarn, which, alas, was probably only about half my stash of leftover sock yarn. But at least the bin is no longer overflowing, and I got a pretty new blanket out of it, so yay.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What is Captain Catch’s Silent Film Festival?\n‘Captain Catch’s Silent Film Festival’ has engaged five classes of primary school pupils from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to educate them on important seafood industry topics.\nThis series of five silent films focuses on a range topics including safety at sea, seafood sustainability and the health benefits of eating fish. From the conception of ideas, to storyboarding and acting, the children have created a set of must-see short silent films to entertain and inform viewers.\nThis project was funded by the Seafish Strategic Investment Fund and delivered by Beard Askew.\nHow do the children and teachers benefit from the project?\nThe silent film workshops are designed enable pupils to enrich their curriculum and wider learning, whilst engaging with the seafood industry in a completely new and hands-on way.\nEach school class was given a particular seafood related topic to explore, and with the help of industry experts, asked to research the topic over the workshop and filming day. Through exploring these topics, the students gained an understanding of how the fishing industry fits into a wider context, exploring the concept of fish beyond just eating it in their home, but also questioning how key issues in the industry may affect them.\nOn top of educating the students on seafood, the workshops provided real insight into professional filmmaking practices; from story creation, storyboarding, prop making and silent film acting techniques to hands on camera experience, all under the watchful eye of the Beard Askew Education team.\nEach workshop engaged a class of 30 creative young filmmakers, who were put through their paces, balancing their imagination, film ambitions and visual flair with creating a story that was clear, concise, filled with action, suspense, humour, intriguing characters, memorable moments and adventure!\nFor more information on the project please visit captaincatchsilentfilmfestival.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Yellowbird Wows Crowds in China Performances\nAugust 17, 2010\nShane Yellowbird performed five shows in as many days to enthusiastic Chinese audiences at World Expo 2010. Held on the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai China, this year's World Expo is the largest and most expensive World Fair ever.\nProudly representing Canada, Shane performed his many hits, including \"Bare Feet on the Blacktop\" and \"Pick Up Truck\" to appreciative and welcoming crowds. \"The people of Shanghai were amazing,\" says Yellowbird. \"They really got into the music, some of them hearing country music for the first time ever. For me, the cultural experience was unforgettable. I'm looking forward to getting back over there and playing more.\"\nFrom his Q&A period with international press, to singing alongside incomparable Cirque Du Soleil performers, Yellowbird left a favorable impression with dignitaries and Chinese fans alike. Yellowbird has already accepted an invitation to return to Shanghai this fall and summer.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "So I'm back with a new story…I just couldn't stay away that long. Now before we start and I begin to thank the people that work with my gibberish, I would like to take a minute and explain that no, I am not abandoning my other stories…for this one. In all honesty, I just can't find it in me to write violence at the moment or anything too angsty.\nNow to begin the thank you's…what can I say, that I haven't said before…my team is an amazing one and I feel incredibly blessed to have each of you in my life. To Steph, Rach, Cheryll…I love you all and couldn't ask for a better bunch of women to work with. Thank You for all the support and encouragement every time a new bunny explodes in my head.\nA huge THANK YOU and I freaking love you to JA Mash for the fuckawesome banner she made for this story...Babe your work is amazing and I was completely blown away by how perfectly you put together my jumbled thoughts and made them come to life in the work of art you presented to me. She also made wonderful character poster for the blog...thank you girly, you are truly one of a kind.\nFinally…Twilight aint mine!\nI was young but I wasn't naive\nI watched helpless as he turned around to leave\nAnd still I have the pain I have to carry\nA past so deep that even you could not bury if you tried\nAfter all this time\nI never thought we'd be here\nNever thought we'd be here\nWhen my love for you was blind\nBut I couldn't make you see it\nCouldn't make you see it\nThat I loved you more than you'll ever know\nA part of me died when I let you go\nToday was the dawn of a new day.\nThe sun outside was rising, bringing with it my resolve and giving me the courage to do what I have failed to do for the past six years.\nI needed to learn how to not love you, once and for all.\nIt was a time for moving on…a time for me to accept my losses, carry on with my life and to try and find the happiness you never gave me, in another mans arms. I have spent the last six years pining away and dreaming that you would see me, the real me, behind all the marks and colors that adorn my flesh.\nTo see a woman who accepts you for all that you are…never asking for you to change or anything in exchange.\nJust the chance to love you and be loved in return.\nI'm tired of being nothing more than the woman who signs your paycheck at the end of every work week, only being worthy of your attention during those five measly minutes.\nI want you to see a woman who loves you and needs you to breathe…a woman that sees the real you, the you that you try so desperately to hide behind that smartass mouth of yours.\nThe man I see everyday when I walk in and greet the shop is smart, thoughtful, and shy…a man who's passionate about politics and reads comics when no one is watching.\nThat's the man I love.\nThat man has starred in every one of my naughty dreams for the last two years after he claimed me and promised to love me forever.\nThe fateful night that sealed my fate and brought me pain as the next dawn came and you ignored me like all days prior.\nThose glorious hours will be forever burned in my mind. The sound of our naked flesh slapping against the other's…lips devouring anything within their reach, the grunts and screams that left our lips as a pleasure so blinding erupted…propelling us head first into a dark abyss of ecstasy and love.\nBut that day never came…instead I've been left behind, watching as you surround yourself with beautiful women…all wanting a piece of the hot, nerdy bad boy that does amazing tats in my shop.\nToo bad for them, and me, you only seem to have eyes for one Tanya Denali and her perfect everything.\nI never quite understood her appeal to you…sure, she's pretty in a lab experiment sort of way. I mean…years of tucking, nipping and enhancing have made her into the All American cheerleader/porn star all men want, but I never pegged you for one of those…instead I saw a man who appreciated the culturally shocking and abnormal.\nSomeone who saw the beauty in ink and not conforming to what society deemed appropriate…guess I was wrong.\nSo, with my new found purpose and strength, I head to my shower and wash the memories of your lips and flesh on mine from my skin. I mourn what never was and watch it all go down the drain. A sweet and daunting memory to be forgotten, left where it should have always stayed…in the darkest recesses of my mind and never to be found again.\nI had a date tonight with someone who's paid more attention to my need for affection and makes me feel as if I'm not invisible. A man who came into my shop with his buddies…laughing and with a genuine smile on his face when he noticed me behind the counter.\nHis flirting and obvious attraction made me blush…something that's never happened before. It took him nearly two months to get me to agree to see him outside my safe haven, but his patience and silly gifts made me crumble and agree.\nEven a singing telegram was used to break down the walls Edward put in place, with his indifference.\nI felt wanted and desired…something Edward never showed me, except that one night, and that only lasted for just a few hours. Instead, now I received glares and murderous looks every time my new admirer came into my shop, swallowing me up in one of his massive and infamous bear hugs.\nTanya was sweet and courteous to him at every glance…always asking questions and gushing over this sweet man's newest gesture, too bad I can't say the same for Edward.\nHe was rude, hostile, and not the man I once thought he was…disappointing, but a giver of hope as I prayed his actions meant he cared.\nNever said a word…just made it his mission in life to make me feel invisible and small.\nWas I not enough…unlovable?\nPutting these thoughts of the past behind me, I focus all my attention on a few drawings I needed to complete for this Monday. I had two portraits to finalize for a sweet older couple that was still mourning the loss of their son.\nThe mother and father of a marine that died at war wanted to commemorate his life in two very similar, yet different pictures of his life.\nThe father choosing to put his son in full gear on his arm, while the mother chose a picture of his smiling face next to his daughters over her heart…to keep him close.\nHard to accomplish, but doable…especially with the tragic story that lay behind this horrible loss.\nI worked for three hours straight, only stopping once for a beer and chips to snack on. The hours passed quickly and before I put the final sketch away, my date called and asked to see me earlier than originally planned.\nAgreeing because I truly wanted to see him too, I rushed to my room and began to search my closet for the perfect outfit.\nHe claimed it was a casual outing…fun and games were all I heard and dressed in a pair of short shorts and a vintage Guns &Roses tee. My old green chucks came in handy and looked perfect with my low key outfit.\nMy hair was pulled in a high pony tail, while my bangs swept off to the side showing off my eyebrow piercing. Changing out my nose stud to a small green stone completed my look.\nI never wore too much make up and kept it natural with liner and Chap Stick…the Florida weather too humid for anything more.\nHe arrived shortly after and whisked me away for a day of fun in the sun and laughter. Universal Studios was one of my favorite places to let loose and remember how to be a kid again.\nWe rode everything twice and ate like pigs…best date I've truly ever had thus far.\nDropping me at home around eleven o'clock with a small kiss and a promise of another date soon, he walked away and I entered my apartment.\nWe both wished it wouldn't have ended so soon, but I had to be up early for the two emotional pieces I had scheduled.\nI had just changed into my usual night attire of a tank top and boxers when there was a sudden knock at my door. Rushing over, I pulled the door open and was shocked to see someone who wasn't my date standing with a look of pure, unadulterated pain in his eyes.\n\"Edward,\" I choked out as the shock of seeing him here left me barely able to breathe.\n\"W-what are you doing here?\"\n\"Asking for a repeat and a chance to love you as you've always deserved,\" was his sincere response and my whole world and what I knew to be fact…flipped upside down without my permission.\nI know this was a bit vague, but all the answers will come out in later chapters. We will be revisiting all the key points that led Edward to her door this night of all nights.\nThis story will post once a week until I am completely done writing it…after I will bump it up to two or three a week…cross your fingers and hope I finish quickly.\nSee u next week…now leave me some sugar!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This student campaign titled 'Golf' was published in Dominican Republic in September, 2014. It was created for the brand: Volkswagen, by ad school: Brother Ad School. This Print medium campaign is related to the Automotive industry and contains 1 media asset. It was submitted almost 9 years ago.\nAdvertising School: Brother Ad School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic\nCopywriter: César Salcedo\nArt Director: Hugo Quezada, Scarly Perez", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bull Elephant - The Long War review\n|Album:||The Long War|\n|Release date:||November 2023|\n01. Expansion From Perceived Reality\n02. Blackened Chaos Horizon\n03. Berlin Falling\n04. Zentrum Der Neuen Welt\n05. Severing The Last Strands Of Self\n06. The Long War\nBull Elephant is an anonymous, progressive doom metal band, based in London, and The Long War is their third album, concluding a trilogy about a slain African elephant that was reanimated to take part in World War II.\nEach of the three albums by Bull Elephant tells a story that reads as a H.P. Lovecraft take on Raiders of the Lost Ark. The self-titled debut is about the reanimation of the pachyderm by an occultist Nazi, in order to be used in battle, but a shaman witch intervenes because she has other plans for the elephant’s purpose. On Created From Death, the creature is destroyed and reconstructed into human form, and is placed into the care of a renegade ape, while Nazi zombies, assault wolves, and a battle-armoured whale that could eat Moby Dick for breakfast, all participate in the war. And here we are now, in 1945, and the elephant initially enters the fray to defend Berlin from the Red Army. The final act takes place in occupied China, where Imperial Japan's infamous Unit 731 was based. It’s quite a challenge to back up such a compelling story with equally gripping music, isn’t it? But Bull Elephant deliver the goods on that front too, so let’s talk music.\nA great opener begins to march slowly with a heavy and stoner-y doom riff that goes on for almost the entire track. The varying vocals, the accompanying lead and clean guitars, the ‘70s Black Sabbath feel, and some grungy spice here and there keep it going, until the blastbeats kick in around the 7-minute mark, before the song hits on the brakes again, and obeys the inner-city speed limit. But these blastbeats were here to stay; “Blackened Chaos Horizon”, which follows, is full of them, being a blackened, doom death metal atomic bomb. The album flows like this for its entirety, with slower, more atmospheric passages being mixed with thrashier, faster, and more aggressive ones. The closing title track is a 13-minute progressive rock/sludgy doom/vicious thrash epic, with a very emotional outro. The Long War is bookended by its best cuts, with “Berlin Falling” being another standout song; it seems they thrive with the longer compositions.\nThe album was mastered by Dan Swanö, and has an impeccable sound. Bull Elephant seem to care about important details that other bands don’t pay much attention to any more, and are releasing The Long War in a 24-bit full dynamic range edition that would be used for vinyl in the same price as the normal digital download, while the CD format features an enormous 36-page artwork and lyrics book. Bands that look after their releases this way, deserve to be rewarded.\nBull Elephant have made an album (well, three, actually, but this review is for their latest one) about World War II, seen through the eyes of Steven Spielberg, with a strong Lovecraftian colouring. They made it sludgy and atmospheric, with elephantine (yeah, I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity) riffs, brooding atmosphere, and they sprinkled it with some ferocious blastbeats. They used insane vocals ranging from soft cleans to brutal growls, to hardcore howls. And, finally, they put everything in an irresistible package so that you have no excuse not to grab the elephant by the tusks.\n“Final fate, third trial\nWin or lose, once and for all\nAnchored to the unity\nThat is found at the end of time”\n||Written on 16.11.2023 by Only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud!|\nComments: 4 Visited by: 64 users\nHits total: 1085 | This month: 10", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Take your time there is no rush. There is nothing wrong with having your project take a couple of weeks. Always use a sanding block for flat surfaces. Just your hand behind a thin piece of sand paper can leave grooves and low spots. It's also easier on your hands. For inside curves try wrapping the sand paper around a short section of garden or heater hose. This will help approximate the concave curve and help stay away from sanding through hard edges. On hard edges, like the top ridge of a fender or leading edge of a hood, you need to do this by hand. A sanding block will quickly dig right through the paint on a hard edge and take you down to bare metal. This means primer and more sanding. The most flattering eye shadows are green blue, blue grays and lavender. The best eye pencils colors are in medium blues and charcoal. Lipstick and blush colors should be in rose, pink or plum colors. Let you lashes appear longer and fuller with navy or charcoal mascara.\nTHE BACKROUND. Collect information on the artist and the historical background. To analyze \"Guernica\" by Picasso, you need to know that Guernica is a town demolished by the Nazi, and you have to read up on the essential features of cubism. To interpret the image of kissing people covered by a piece of cloth in Magritt's \"The Lovers\", whatever you guess by looking at the painting falls flat once you know that the artist's mother got drowned in the river, and when found, a piece of cloth was wrapped around her head. So, don't rely on your skills and taste too much, there are things you need to KNOW before you start making assumptions. The historical background of the paintings itself is important. Was the artist an innovator, did he start a new trend or movement, whose steps did he/she follow? What experiments was he involved with? How was the painting perceived by the contemporaries? Claude Monet started impressionism with the painting \"Sunrise. Impressions\". Malevych started suprematism as a development on abstractionism, laying out the new artistic theory of the color, the form and the composition of the painting. The rough lines and raw colors in the fauvist paintings may be traced back to Van Gogh. Do you think there is something new suggested in the painting you are looking at, or is there anything at all distinguishing about it? Interior paints are used to obtain pleasing decorative effects, improve sanitary conditions, and insure better lighting. These paints may be divided into four types: wall primers; one-coat flats; flat, semigloss, and gloss; and water paints. The solution in these circumstances is that it is best to not try drastic changes. If you feel you must make these major changes in your hair color. It is best to accomplish it gradually by adding low lights, (darker placements of color), or highlights, ( lighter placements of color). Will the hair color damage my hair? That is one of the number one questions that people ask most about coloring services. Hair color that is deposit only color, will not harm the hair. This is because the hair is being covered with a color primarily on the outside layer of the hair. This color choice is always one or more shades darker than your existing hair color. There are different types of paints that is either water-based or solvent-based that produces different finishes that is measured by its sheen factor. \"Sheen\" is a term used to describe the degree of light reflection the paint has. Lesser sheen for an interior or exterior paint means it has lesser stain resistance.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ive been sharing a lot of my digital art work of late so today i wanted to show of some original old school painted stuff. Todays collection was all painted in the last 12 months. It will give you an idea of all the different styles i've tried out over the year. My art really depend of the mood Im in. Colour, structure and technique if something Im always playing around with.\nMost of my friends are surprised to hear that sometimes to most colourful pieces were painted when i felt i was in the darkest place internally. Art have been an amazing tool for me, its helped me in ways i never thought possible. The biggest creative obstacle I've faced is myself and self doubt.\nAny one out there who says there not creative i challenge you to head down to your local art shop or discount store, pick up some cheap paint and paper and give it a go. There is no right or wrong with art, you even might surprise your self...\n'ABYSS' by @mikepedro\n'THE PORTAL' by @mikepedro\n'GO ROBOT' by @mikepedro\n'GOLDEN SPINE' by @mikepedro\nClose up of 'JUMP IN THE FIRE' by @mikepedro\n'HYPNOTIC PINK' by @mikepedro\n'DARK WASH\" by @mikepedro\nThanks for having a look!\nIf you liked what you've seen here please check out some of my other art post here:\nMuch Love @mikepedro", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Incredible news! A hidden treasure, believed to be a fake, turned out to be an authentic Brueghel painting worth a whopping £700,000 ($865,000). The painting, titled ‘L’Avocat du village’ (The Village Lawyer), was recently found in a family home and was up for sale in Paris. The family who owned this masterpiece, choosing to remain anonymous, had kept it concealed ‘behind a door in the television room.’\nHidden Treasure: A Remarkable Revelation\nImagine this: a seemingly ordinary painting, mistaken for a fake, turns out to be a valuable work of art by the famous painter Brueghel. This remarkable revelation has art enthusiasts and history buffs buzzing with excitement.\nHidden Treasure: The Unveiling of ‘The Village Lawyer’\nThe painting, ‘L’Avocat du village’ (The Village Lawyer), unveiled in Paris for the world to see. This incredible discovery has taken the art world by storm.\nHidden Treasure: Valued at £700,000\nThe most astonishing part of this story is where the painting was hiding all these years. It wasn’t in a fancy gallery or a secure vault; it concealed ‘behind a door in the television room’ of a family home. The astonishing artwork is now valued at an astonishing £700,000, which is equivalent to $865,000. This discovery goes to show that sometimes, treasures can found in the most unexpected places.\nThe family who owned the painting has chosen to keep their identity a secret. They must have been in for quite a shock when they learned about the true value of their hidden treasure.\nThe Work of a Master\nThe painter, Brueghel, was a true master of his craft. His works highly sought after by collectors and art enthusiasts. To find one of his pieces behind a door in a living room is nothing short of a miracle.\nAuctioned in Paris\nThe newfound masterpiece put up for sale in the city of Paris, one of the world’s art capitals. It attracted art lovers from far and wide who were eager to catch a glimpse of this unexpected treasure.\nA Lesson in Hidden Gems\nThis incredible discovery teaches us that valuable treasures can hidden in plain sight. It’s a reminder to always keep an eye out for the unexpected, as you never know what might be lurking behind a door in your own home.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "She’s become like one of those government buildings\nwhere I have to go through a metal detector if I want to see her.\nMeanwhile, the snow is melting and the buried trash\nin all the vacant lots is reemerging.\nAnd the art show at the local gallery is a series of painted urinals.\nThe weather’s perfect – for revolution that is.\nSo here I go again, braving machine gun fire and mustard gas.\nEverything stretches to infinity – the crow flies but I can only walk.\nAnd she’s like a musician’s manager, the kind that can’t get him any gigs.\nDid I tell you about the time she poured cooking oil into my hair?\nOr set fire to my books? Or crowded the bed?\nOr said to me, more than once, “Don’t bother coming to the party.”\n“Or to the open reading.” “Or to Brooklyn Heights.”\nI’m sick of love and the medicine cabinet hasn’t been paying attention.\nI’m sick of love. “How can you be?” somebody asks.\nThat’s like being sick of the public library.\nThat’s right. All those books that figure they know the answer to everything.\nI’m sick of tossing condoms into the waste-basket.\nShe’s disillusioned me. I thought the Civil War was over.\nBut that’s her, glaring up at me from one of those faded black and white photographs.\nWhatever side she’s on, she insists it’s the winning one.\nI’m sick of love like I’m sick of meeting new families and hating every last one of them.\nAnd driving home on snowy roads in winter.\nAnd yes, being the idiot who ends up whitewashing Tom Sawyer’s fence.\nOr the second best one in the rom.\nOr not knowing what my own drumbeat sounds like.\nShe insists on picking fruit from the vine for me that’s already rotten.\nAnd when she finally allows me a moment to look up at the stars,\nthe clouds burst. I’m soaked to the very limit of my endurance.\nLikewise, I’m sick of not seeing the butterfly.\nOf roaming through the same old Godforsaken haunts.\nThe hissing green snakes in the trees. The stool and the cap marked “Idiot.”\nShe’s not above leaving me to my nightmares.\nOr performing what she calls “occupational therapy” on my heart.\nI’m sick of the politics. I’m even sick of the poetry and that’s hard for me.\nAnd I’m sick of how Picasso’s most Cubist of portraits\nreally do resemble the people I know.\nShe reads me my rights and then ignores them.\nShe prefers that I remain shell-shocked at all times.\nAnd then she has the nerve to toss me aside like placenta.\nSo I’m sick of open-mouthed wonder. Of B flat on the guitar.\nOf speaking in tongues. Of arms and torsos, feet and faces.\nI’m sick of love. And all else that comes of being alive and breathing.\nJohn Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Penumbra, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, Leaves On Pages and Memory Outside The Head are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Lana Turner and Held.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dear darling divine,\njust so you know\nyou've always been mine.\nI searched the world\nfor bluer skies than the one that resides\nwithin your eyes.\nYou're perfection personified colour in the black and white\nyou exist of stardust and from you there is light.\nAll this just to say, \"I love you\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As a war narrative enveloped in magic, love, and hope, The Baghdad Clock adds depth to the burgeoning genre of postcolonial Iraqi novels.\nWithout a doubt, 2020 has been a testing time for all of us across the globe. Fortunately for us book … More\n“Siddhartha said: ‘What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.'”\nAlifa Rifaat’s stories are situated within an Islamic framework that allows her to create a feminism of her own. Since Islam and empowerment are often misguidedly placed in contradiction to one another, it’s easy to see why Rifaat is not a household name.\n“So instead of giving way to despair, I took the way of active melancholy as long as I had strength for activity, or in other words, I preferred the melancholy that hopes and aspires and searches to the one that despairs, mournful and stagnant.”\n“…But every once in a while, I’ll read a book that glorifies problematic relationship behaviors such as manipulation or even stalking. I don’t ever want to write a book that encourages women to seek out unhealthy, or even dangerous, relationships, so I focus on creating relationships that are healthy.”\nThis may all seem too idealistic to some but nonetheless conveys a crucial message about the role of the artist and what cultural and literary representations can offer in the ongoing debates about the so-called “problem” of Muslims in the Anglophone North Atlantic.\n“Happiness,” Woolf writes, “is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Please Note: This event has expired.\nSummer Concerts in the Park: Annie’s Romance (Celtic)\nAnnie’s Romance is a four-member band founded in 2012 by Robert Macdonald, who earned his master’s degree in folklore focusing on Cape Breton fiddling and tune composition. They perform traditional Celtic music throughout the Wasatch Front featuring guitar, bagpipes, fiddle, flute, penny whistle, mandolin, banjo, and vocals. All concerts are free and begin at 7:00 PM at The Stage at City Center Park, located in the southeast corner of City Center Park near 100 North and 400 East in Orem,View more\n300 East Center Street, Orem, UT 84057", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Paisley Slip Dress\nLooking for a sweet simple dress for your summer weddings, date nights, and concerts? Look no further than the Paisley Slip Dress! The fabric is soft and light weight, while still being thick enough for a full coverage flattering drape. The soft subtle pattern on the lightest shade of coral gives the sweetest vintage vibes. Adjustable spaghetti straps and a range of sizes make it a great fit for many body types! Accessorize with a belt and handkerchief or let the dress do all the talking!\nModel is wearing a size medium. Available in sizes small-3XL!\nShips anywhere in the US, proceed to checkout to calculate shipping cost.\nAlways reach out if something isn't correct with your order and we'll do everything we can to make it right. Exchanges are accepted on all items within 30 days of purchase.\nMy Disco Daydream\nCurated retro statement pieces and everyday basics paired with our house line of handmade essentials. The whimsical artwork and designs you know and love, now paired with a collection of hand picked brands to fill your life with color and vibrancy.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If a mysterious murder, an exotic locale and a heroine obsessed with justice sound to you like the ingredients of a great crime novel, then NEXT ONE TO FALL by Hilary Davidson is the book for you.\nIn the Lost City of the Incas in Peru, travel writer Lily Moore finds a dying woman who names her killer with her last breath. From that premise Davidson spins a tightly wound tale that will keep you guessing to the end.\nLike Lily Moore, author Davidson is a travel journalist. While she shares some similarities with her fictional character, Davidson says there are also definite differences.\n“Lily’s life is much more glamorous than mine,” Davidson says. “We’ve traveled to many of the same places, but while I enjoyed visiting Spain, she actually pulled up stakes and moved there. We both write travel guidebooks and magazine articles, and we both love vintage clothing. We also love old movies, but Lily is more obsessed with them than I am.”\nIn the novel, the evidence refutes what Lily heard from the dead woman, but she just can’t accept the official ruling of accidental death. Instead, Lily hunts down the dead woman’s wealthy traveling companion, who is linked to a series of dead and missing women. That hunt leads Lily to more exotic locations but, while the novel is indeed atmospheric, Davidson doesn’t think that’s due to just the foreign places it features.\n“Much of the atmosphere has to do with the mood of the character, and finding what resonates with her,” Davidson says. “There’s a scene in THE NEXT ONE TO FALL where Lily is standing in a church overlooking the central plaza in the city of Cusco. Lily notices some very old grave markers that are set into the plaza. Loss and death are very much on her mind, so that’s what she sees. There’s so much you could write about a setting, objectively speaking, so what guides me is how the setting is affecting my characters.”\nDavidson shows us a character obsessed with getting justice for the missing women, and she pursues that justice without regard for the consequences. This intense and emotional theme might surprise readers who were already familiar with Davidson from her eighteen nonfiction books. But she says that writing fiction and nonfiction are completely different experiences.\n“The nonfiction books I’ve written are mostly guidebooks, which are very information-heavy, and structure and organization are key,” Davidson says. “The main challenge there was how to present that information in a way that would be entertaining. With a novel or short story, I’m obsessed with the characters and try to really get inside their heads. More than anything, I want to know what makes them do the things they do, especially when they make a bad choice. I sometimes make jokes about “method writing”, which is similar to method acting, in that you really get lost in the character’s mind. But I genuinely do get wrapped up in my characters’ lives, especially while I’m writing a first draft of a novel.”\nDespite her focus on character, Davidson does admit that in her Lily Moore work, the location is extremely important.\n“I wanted to choose a place that was unfamiliar to Lily, partly because it makes her more vulnerable to be in a completely foreign setting. Also, I fell in love with Peru when I visited the country. I spent three weeks there, and I saw Machu Picchu, the Inca city that the Spanish never found, as well as the Sacred Valley, the Inca capital city of Cusco, the modern capital of Lima… so many beautiful places I wanted to explore in the book.”\nLike any great mystery setting, Davidson says that Peru is both very beautiful and a dangerous place: The Inca sites have huge steep staircases where people die in falls; the thin air of the Andes mountains can cause altitude sickness; and visitors may be the targets of pickpockets and worse.\nThe first Lily Moore book, THE DAMAGE DONE, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and a Crimespree award, so it’s no surprise that Lily will return in a third novel next year. If you like to get in on the ground floor of a great new series, it’s not too late to make friends with Lily Moore in THE NEXT ONE TO FALL.\nHilary Davidson won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel for THE DAMAGE DONE. The book also earned a Crimespree Award and was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis and Macavity awards. Hilary’s widely acclaimed short stories have been featured in publications from Ellery Queen to Thuglit, and in many anthologies. A Toronto-born travel journalist and the author of eighteen nonfiction books, she has lived in New York City since October 2001.\nTo learn more about Hilary, please visit her website.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "LADAKH FESTIVAL DATES\n|Name of festival||2015||2016||2017||2018||2019||2020|\n|Spituk Gustor1||January18-19||January 7-8||January 25-26||January 3-4||January 3-4||January 22-23|\n|Stongde Gustor||July 4-5||July 22-23||July 12-13||July 1-2||July 20-21||July 8-9|\n|DosmocheyLeh/Likir||February 17-18||February 6-7||February 24-25||February 13-14||February 2-3||February 21-22|\n|Deskit Gustor||October10-11||October 28-29||October 17-18||October 7-8||October 26-27||October 14-15|\n|Stok Guru Tseschu||February 27-28||February 16-17||March 6-7||February 24-25||February 14-15||March 3-4|\n|Matho Nagrang||March 4-5||February 21-22||March 11-12||March 1-2||February 18-19||March 8-9|\n|Sindhu Darshan||June 12-15||June 12-15||June 12-15||June 12-15||June 12-15||June 12-15|\n|Saka Dawa||June 2||May 20||June 9||May 29||June 17||June 5|\n|Hemis Tseschu||June 26-27||July 14-15||July 3-4||June 23-24||July 11-12||June 30-July 1|\n|Yuru Kabgyad||June 14-15||July 1-2||June 21-22||June 11-12||June 29-30||June 18-19|\n|Karsha Gustor||July 14-15||July 31 Aug 1||July 21-22||July 11-12||July 30-31||July 18-19|\n|Phyang Tserup||July 14-15||July 31-Aug 1||July 21-22||July 11-12||July 30-31||July 18-19|\n|Korzok gustor||July 19-20||August 5-6||July 26-27||July 15-16||August 3-4||July 23-24|\n|Dakthok Tsechu||July 26-27||August 13-14||August 2-3||July 22-23||August 10-11||July 29-30|\n|Sani Naro Nasjal||July 30-31||August 17-18||August 6-7||July 26-27||August 14-15||August 2-3|\n|Shachukul Gustor||July 4-5||July 21-22||July 11-12||June 30- July 1||July 19-20||July 7-8|\n|Thiksay Gustor||October 30-31||November 17-18||November 6-7||October 27-28||November 15-16||November 3-4|\n|Chemday Angchok||November 9-10||November 27-28||November 16-17||November 5-6||November 24-25||November 13-14|\n|Galdan Namchot||December 5||December 23||December 12||December 2||December 21||December 10|\n|Losar||December 12||December 30||December 19||December 8||December 27||December 15|\nFair and Festival\nIn Ladakh every occasion marriage, birth, harvesting, commemoration of head Lamas founding of the monastery, Losar (new year) and flowering is marked by feasting, dancing and the singing of folksongs that forms a part of its living heritage. Most of the festivals are held in winter but some popular festival take place in summer too. The monastic festivals are the heart of all the festivals. They are performed by Monks wearing colorful silk garments and different facial mask.\nHemis festival is one of the most famous monastic festivals in June to commemorate birth of Guru Padmasambhava, the founder of Tantric Buddhism in Tibet. The sacred dance drama of the life and mission is performed wearing facial masks and colorful brocades robes. The three-day festival takes place from 9th to 11th. Especially the monkey year festival, which comes in a cycle of 12 years. During it the four-storey thanka of Guru Padma Sambhava is hung in the courtyard and other precious thankas are also exhibited.\nThiksey, Karsha and Spituk Gustor:\nGustors take place at Thiksey, Spituk and Karsha in different months of the year. The festival takes place for two days. The celebration is to mark the victory over evils. The mask worn by the dancers represent the Guardians, Protectors and the Gods and Goddesses. The festival ends with the symbolic assassination of evils and burning of the effigy of evils.\nDosmochey is celebrated in Leh (Leh Palace), Liker (Lower Ladakh) and Deskit (Nubra valley) monasteries in February. The most famous among all is Leh Dosmochey, which is celebrated for two days in the courtyards of the Leh palace. The monks from different monasteries perform the Chams every year turn by turn. The festival takes place in the end and starting of the Tibetan New Year. The monks of Takthok monastery prepares the offering with Thread crosses which binds all the evil, hungry ghosts and guard against natural disaster in the coming year. On the second day of the festival, the offerings are taken out of the town in a procession and burn it while people whistle to chase away the evil spirits.\nMatho Nagrang is celebrated on the 15th day of the 1st month of Tibetan calander, at Matho monastery, the only monastery of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism. During these two days of festival mask dances are performed by monks of the monastery wearing colorful silk brocaded robes and mask in different forms of God and Goddesses. The festival is famous because of appearance of the two oracles during the festival after full month meditation in complete isolation. The two oracles appear in the courtyard accompanying mask dancers and predict future events and people from far and away come to seek advice to perform ritual to tackle with.\nThe Department of Tourism sponsor a 7 days Ladakh Festival every year for promotion of Tourism.\nThe main aim of organizing this festival in the month of September is to extend the lean tourist season in the region and also to represent and prorogate the rich cultural heritage of the area. The grand success of the festival and the tremendous response from both foreign and home tourists is due to the rich cultural heritage and variety of other attractive programmes like traditional Polo match and Village archery. The famous mask dance in the monasteries including exhibitions of invaluable Thankas and other Ritual Instruments of the monasteries. The tourists have the opportunities to see the entire traditional cultural programme of the region like Traditional Folk dance and songs of different parts of Ladakh. The grand achievements of the Ladakh Festival are noticeable of the significant increase in the arrivals of tourists during the lean tourist season of the year.\nSindhu Darshan Festival has in-fact became a movement signifying National Integration and unity\namong diversity. Sindhu Darshan festival is held on 12th , 13th, and 14th, of June every year", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bess Meadows Drawing Online, 2020-02-05 06:06:50. Promoting my tutorials is an immense help!! This tutorial is quite detailed, and demands lots of patience. Ultimately, studying drawing technique will enable you to translate your vision onto paper. There are plenty of techniques you may utilize to improve your capacity to express ideas by your art. Also there isn’t any blending involved with drawing hair. Make certain that you have a balanced stream of darks, midtones, and lights. So there are various stages, different capacities at precisely how good you desire to be.\nBess Meadows Coloring Online, 2020-01-30 05:11:45. Sometimes you just have to return to basics. All my books are offered on Amazon.com. You’ll LOVE the wonderful collection of adult coloring books readily available on Amazon!\nArleene Glover Drawing Online, 2020-01-30 05:11:45. Not only are you going to learn to craft with ink, you are going to progress in how you need to express yourself as an artist. If you’re not pleased with the colors you have chosen, you don’t need to start from the start. The image can be negative or positive based on the function of the image. To make an image working with an orb the next steps ought to be carried out to get a dramatic image. Because photos can easily be doctored. The surveillance camera taking footage of the house’s front entrance wasn’t working.\nBreanna Wooten Drawing Online, 2020-01-30 05:11:45. You want to choose what type and manner of metal roofing you need to use. Next, you have to select a door style. The truth is the easy, clean, orderly bedroom layout is currently being favored over the typical cluttered decor that folks have gotten accustomed to. Keep the plan simple, so that if you’re attempting to create your embroidery designs, you’ll have a few set colors it’s possible to follow, and won’t need to be concerned about whether it will get too intricate. Don’t be scared to ask questions, when it has to do with do-it-yourself projects there is not any such thing as a stupid question. An incredible resource for virtually any software knowledge is YouTube. Hopefully by now you’ve studied the installation instructions and looked over every one of the details that are relevant to your specific roof.\nCristen Perkins Drawing Online, 2020-01-30 05:11:45. The path to drawing realistic art might not be the easiest one. This course provides you with accessibility to 30 hrs HD tutorial videos in the easiest way possible that you learn drawing human capabilities. By the close of the training course, you are going to be in a position to draw that which you have learned during the course but in addition use the techniques, be creative and draw your own version of human capabilities. Even you’ve never drawn before, so long as you follow by means of this class, you are going to be able to draw realistic, eyes, nose, lips, face and other characteristics. You could pay an expert to do it, but using a small practice, you could produce a version by yourself. Another exercise is to take a look at a sheet of fabric that’s lying on a table or on the rear of your couch. Have a look at pictures of the subject that you’re going to do.\nBess Meadows Drawing Online, 2020-01-30 05:11:45. Cars are boring, and kids have lots of energy. The majority of the times you will realize that they’re looking a role model in actual life. Pictures are normally the best ways to acquire new ideas, though you may see something in a friend’s or acquaintance’s house that provides you inspiration. That way you will have all your drawings compiled in one location, and it’ll be simpler to find the progress you make over time. So there’s an ideal reason to prevent drawing. Also, whoever has tried to write text by using their finger on an iPad touch screen knows that it’s an imperfect experience. It’s helpful to use the very same respectful language when interrupting a child so that they can learn how to do the exact same.\nArleene Glover Drawing Online, 2020-01-30 05:11:45. The previous thing to think about is what sort of floor you would really like in the building. Now you have a ground, it’s time to construct the walls. Sit and concentrate on your relaxed hand thinking what’s the very first step to drawing my hand. Use whatever drawing tools you have near hand and you’ll learn to draw… You will get a drawing expert. Look and realize the object not the hand which you are so acquainted with, start looking for the story your hand tells. There are several sharp edges to be on the lookout for, so use caution.\nMelva Clay Drawing Online, 2020-01-30 05:11:45. Some individuals have a lot of obvious capabilities. 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{"text": "Don't worry... no one's pirating your music.\nNo, no, you've got it wrong! Everyone is pirating it and listening to it once, thereby deleting it immediately and knowing to never purchase it!\nThe funniest part is when they call McKagen a \"musician.\"\nThat's a bit harsh, even for a Bassist.\nAnother tattooed millionaire musician spouting off and the MSM listening because he's a \"celebrity\".\nNow go back to snorting blow off the supermodel in your limo.\nSweet, some dude I've never heard of from some band I've never listened to says something I don't care about. I think I'll store these fucks to give away when something that matters happens.\nIf you have ever listened to, or hear, Guns N' Roses, then actually you are wrong.\n**But also, I too, do not give a fuck what he says.\nI have not heard them though the name is kind of familiar. Maybe in the background of a movie or something but no I've never actively listened to them.\nReally?! Where are you from?\nIn either case, Duff McKagen is an idiot.\nTexas, I'm also not really into music (I know I stand alone, I just don't give a shit). I listen to reggae/reggae fusion and not really anything else.\nHmmm, I see. Just go ahead and take a listen to Appetite for Destruction by them... You may or may not approve. It's worth a shot.\nEh, I can pretend that I will but I'm not gonna lie, odds are I will never do that.\nhahahahahah. I appreciate your honesty.\nget off my lawn!\nDamn kids with their newfangled tape recorders, pirating my music !\nconfounded minstrels, usurping mine melodies across the land with demonic lutes!\nExcuse me, but where were you all when piracy started to decimate the music industry?\nYes, it looks decimated to me. Just building after building of rubble, smoke and fires raging. Like Hiroshima Part II.\nFuck you, your music and your lying hyperbole. I work in the industry and every one of these folks lies through their collective teeth at every chance they get. Tell the truth and maybe people will be willing to help.\nWell...Duff McKagen can go fuck himself while I illegally download and listen to every fucking song from Appetite for Destruction...\nDuff mckagen is a has been and self proclaimed financial imbecile before he went to community college in his 30s. He started his own investment firm to \"help\" musicians with their finances. Its funny to see him say quit whining, when he made his millions in the heart of MTV and RIAAs fantasy world. I say for someone who is so intrigued by financed and imbibed in the music culture, he should be leading the pack in helping create a digital delivery system that is easier to use and completes with piracy in convenience and ease instead of clinging onto what little money hes got left. Oh yea, and maybe say thanks to Axel and Slash.\nThat's okay, Velvet Revolver is a turd band whose music I'd never pay for anyway.\nRemember when they released their first album and it had DRM which forced you to rip the audio in wma and only to 128kbps?\n\"Internet piracy has claimed half of the recorded music business, and made the prospect of making a living as a musician harder for artists of all rank and file. Why didn't Google, or Facebook, or Wikipedia ever stand in solidarity with musicians, actors, and writers - most of whom have never known fame and fortune - as their works were stolen with no recourse on their sites?\"\nMusicians who have never known fame and fortune aren't hurt by piracy. Money grubbing cunts like Duff who are long overdue on their 15 minutes are hurt by it.\nI'd say his 15 minutes has come and gone. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by \"never known fame and fortune\". He was the bass player in one of the most popular hard rock bands of the 80s and 90s.\nI'm not sure I understand what you mean by \"never known fame and fortune\". He was the bass player in one of the most popular hard rock bands of the 80s and 90s.\nWhat are you talking about? Maybe read my comment again?\nMaybe I misunderstood\nlong overdue on their 15 minutes\nbecause it sounded like he was due to receive his 15 minutes after all this time. Now I'm seeing you maybe meant that he's long overdue for this 15 minutes to be up.\nThat is indeed what I meant. Re-reading it I see that I probably could have been clearer as to my meaning.\nthat guy did way too much cocaine in the 80's to be taken seriously in the 10's.\n/r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics.\nWelcome to r/politics! Please read the wiki before participating.\nOur Full Rules\nAMA with Zach Wahls\nAMA with Craig Unger\nAMA with Rep. John Dingell\nHere are some external resources that might be useful.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "An exquisite example of refined craftsmanship, this vase is made of titanium and copper with a polished finish that adds a luminous and elegant allure to this unique piece of decor. Part of a numbered series, this vase makes a splendid gift on any occasion.\n• Material: Titanium Copper\n• Dimensions (in): W 10.24 x D 6.30 x H 11.81\n• Dimensions (cm): W 26 x D 16 x H 30\n• Handmade In Italy", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In August 1963 Abbot Hall Art Gallery presented the exhibition 20th Century Scottish Painting. It was conceived and organised by Helen Kapp, the gallery’s inaugural director, who wished to stage “a good exhibition of modern Scottish painting [long] overdue in England”. The practicalities of organising such an exhibition were aided by the gallery’s proximity to the Scottish boarder and the relationships forged with artists whose work the gallery had already acquired.\nKapp’s intention was to show works that were representative of contemporary Scottish art. However, following a research trip to Scotland in the autumn of 1962, she was quick to identify that the exhibition should be rooted in the work of the four Colourists; the immediate forerunners of modern painting in Scotland. Kapp was astute in her observation that by not including them “it would be difficult to grasp the particular qualities of mid‐20th century Scottish painting”. With the support of the Arts Council, selected paintings were borrowed from regional galleries including Manchester Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, and Aberdeen Art Gallery, as well as from private collections.\nPaintings by Scottish artists already well known in England – Anne Redpath, William George Gillies, William MacTaggart and John Maxwell – formed the next segment of the show, despite the obvious hiatus between the work of Colourists and member of The Edinburgh School. The exhibition culminated with a display of work by younger artists, those whose work Knapp considered to show “excellence, vitality and variety”: Robin Philipson, Earl Haig, Joan Eardley, James Cumming, David McClure, William Littlejohn, John Houston, Alistair Park, Mardi Barrie, Elizabeth Blackadder, Ian McCulloch, Ian McKenzie Smith, and John Knox. This dazzling assemblage of Scottish art ‐ nudes, landscapes and still lives – ensured that the exhibition was a triumph.\nOf the 76 works Knapp had selected for display, 34 paintings were for sale. Despite the availability of five paintings by Fergusson, Abbot Hall acquired Redpath’s The Fruit Stand (in 1964), whilst Elizabeth Blackadder’s Northumbrian Landscape with Hadrian's Wall was purchased from the artist by private collectors (it was later donated to the gallery in 2013).\nFollowing the exhibition’s success, Abbot Hall began to collect work by modern Scottish artists in earnest. Since opening in 1962, the gallery had acquired works by Joan Eardley, Elizabeth Blackadder, Ian McKenzie Smith, Anne Redpath and Alistair Park, all of which featured in the 1963 exhibition. Between 1964 and 1992 several key acquisitions were made of additional works by Eardley, Redpath and Blackadder, spearheaded by Knapp and her successor Mary Birkett. Notable additions to the collection included paintings by William MacTaggart and Blackadder’s husband John Houston. In some cases, the works were acquired directly from artists who had exhibited in 1963, others from through Edinburgh’s premier art dealer Aitken, Dott & Son. In 1978 Abbot Hall secured its own Colourist painting, S J Peploe’s Still Life with Tulips and Oranges from 1925, purchased with the assistance of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of Abbot Hall. Peploe’s painting has since become a seminal work within the collection and one of the most popular.\nThe current exhibition – Colour and Light: The Art and Influence of the Scottish Colourists – Highlights from the Fleming Collection ‐ is in part a continuation of Helen Kapp’s efforts in 1963. It therefore seems fitting that, as the gallery approaches prepares to closure for major capital development, we should be revisiting work by such influential Scottish artists, which form the backbone of our collection of modern art.\nColour and Light: The Art and Influence of the Scottish Colourists – Highlights from the Fleming Collection is on at Abbot Hall Art Gallery until 1st february 2020. Please click here for more details.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jean-Luc Ponty’s new American label, World Pacific Jazz, wasted little time in marketing their jazz violin phenomenon. Ponty was quickly paired with WPJ mainstay Gerald Wilson and his big band for an album of mainstream jazz/swing, Electric Connection. Wilson wrote the arrangements, Ponty provides the solos and a few original compositions, George Duke plays the piano, but the connection never really happens. Most of the time, Ponty’s violin seems out of place in the music or, more to the point, Wilson’s arrangements make space for the violin but rarely make good use of it. The idea of a violin in a jazz setting, especially one so free and fluid, is a novel and exciting concept. In my opinion, it deserved a novel and exciting setting, not a standard set of jazz/swing/funk that might have come from the soundtrack to a second-rate crime film. The rhythm section of Paul Humphrey and Bob West is at least sympathetic; Duke is criminally undermiked. If you’re interested in Ponty’s earliest work, I would start with the live recording at Thee Experience featuring the George Duke Trio. That show was an electric affair which gave the violin plenty of breathing room. On Electric Connection, unfortunately, the violin is something of a caged bird. You’ll encounter some nice solos (“Hypomode Del Sol,” “Forget”) and perhaps develop a deeper appreciation for the violin as a jazz instrument, but nothing on here will change your world. The kindess of critics toward this album is likely due to deference to the violinist himself; the music itself is merely adequate and ill-fitting.\nKronomyth 5.0: ELECTRIC NIGHT. World Pacific Jazz founder Dick Bock had the bright idea to expose Jean-Luc Ponty’s jazz fusion to rock audiences and booked him at the Sunset Strip pyschedelic stop, Thee Experience. Too bad that lightbulb didn’t go off before they made the disappointing Electric Connection. Slimmed down to a quartet of Ponty, George Duke (now on electric piano), John Heard and Dick Berk, The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio is an electrifying evening of jazz fusion that served as something of a breakout for both Ponty and Duke. Ponty’s electric violin is both beautiful and grotesque, a creature of the post-Miles fusion forest where noise and art intertwine, yet it’s a new species, interesting to be sure, but not entirely alien. I think it’s this grotesque beauty that captured Frank Zappa’s imagination. As the first effective example of Ponty’s playing in a jazz/rock fusion setting on his own, The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience should be experienced. As an arranger, Duke is far less rigid than Gerald Wilson, and that freedom allows Ponty’s violin to soar. Their versions of Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island” and Wolfgang Dauner’s luminescent “Pamukkale” are highlights. Listening to this concert, you get a sense of the excitement that audiences had when they first heard Ponty some fifty years ago (hard to believe, I know). At first, I wasn’t that enamored of this recording, approaching it as I did from the future, but from the perspective of his previous recordings this is a giant step forward. [Note: This concert was re-packaged overseas as Live In Los Angeles. The French version is a sort of hybrid of the two, prominently featuring the word “Experience” on the album cover.]\nKronomyth 6.0: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. This is basically Frank Zappa making an orchestral jazz/rock record on Dick Bock’s dime, with wonderful results. Bock had signed French violin sensation Jean-Luc Ponty to his World Pacific Jazz label but, frankly, didn’t know what to do with him. Frank did. He assembled various Mothers and talented others into an ad hoc, all-star band and gave them some of his most daunting compositions to reinterpret in a jazz fusion and small orchestra setting. The album’s centerpiece is the nearly 20-minute “Music For Electric Violin And Low-Budget Orchestra,” on which Zappa makes his most compelling case yet for consideration as a serious modern classical composer. In fact, King Kong is the first album where Zappa casts himself primarily in the role of composer; he steps into the fray only once, for the lone Ponty original, “How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That.” Ponty, for his part, finally gets some great material to work with, not to mention some great studio musicians including Ernie Watts, John Guerin, Wilton Felder and Vince DeRosa. King Kong also marks the first collaboration between Frank Zappa and George Duke, who would go on to become a permanent fixture in the Mothers. In every way, this is a quantum leap in Ponty recordings; nothing he recorded before this was as revolutionary or mind-expanding. Ponty’s violin also brings a more melodic touch to the material; “Idiot Bastard Son” has never sounded so charming, and the version of “Twenty Small Cigars” recorded here is simply gorgeous (Zappa would revisit this on Chunga’s Revenge). King Kong is a work of musical genius, a high point in the early catalog of Ponty and Zappa. Honestly, there was little in Ponty’s previous work to suggest a convergence of styles between the jazz violin prodigy and the brooding composer, but there’s no denying that the pairing is magic. Dick Bock deserves a lot of credit for bringing the two musicians together and putting artistic ideals over commercial interests; this album is as much a part of his legacy as Zappa’s or Ponty’s.\nKronomyth 10.0: THE YAWN AND THE RESTLESS. Chunga’s Revenge finds Frank Zappa at a kind of existential crossroads. He had just re-tooled the band, adding Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie), George Duke (displaying a heretofore hidden talent for the trombone) and Jeff Simmons. It was a crack outfit with the theatrically minded Flo and Eddie giving Zappa’s dark humor an added dimension that often felt like musical theatre (“Would You Go All The Way?,” “Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink”). From here on, you got one of several Zappa personalities: the funny, the fiery fretwork or the philharmaniacal monsters. Chunga’s Revenge has a little from columns A, B and C. There is the sense, however, that Zappa was becoming more of a rock and roll centrist, at least relative to earlier creations like Weasels and Weeny. “Transylvania Boogie” and “Road Ladies” are, at their core, blues-rock mutations, while “Sharleena” and “Tell Me You Love Me” are rock songs that could actually be played on the radio. It’s not to say that Zappa had sold out on Chunga’s Revenge (the album, for example, didn’t chart particularly well). It’s simply that you didn’t need a musical degree or a passing familiarity with Igor Stravinsky to appreciate it. Throughout the 70s, most of the Zappa/Mothers albums would sound more or less like Chunga’s Revenge. Zappa released some fantastic albums during this period (The Grand Wazoo, Overnite Sensation), but the decade was largely an audible retreat from the longer compositional works of Lumpy Gravy and King Kong in favor of slightly more commercial fare. Maybe that’s exactly what you were waiting for, maybe not. I would tell you that the intimate reworking of “Twenty Small Cigars” is my favorite thing on here, but that would be a lie, it’s really “Rudy,” and therein lies the philosophical crisis that every Zappa fan would face from now on: Were we smarter than everyone else or just smartasses?\nKronomyth 14.0: DIDJA GET ANY OUIJA? While Frank Zappa was convalescing from an assault on stage that resulted in a paralyzed arm and crushed larynx, he released two jazz-fusion albums with an updated version of The Mothers that now included Tony Duran on guitar, Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) on bass, Jeff Simmons on guitar/vocals and a full horn section featuring Sal Marquez on trumpet. Containing a pair each of extended instrumentals and mutant blues songs, Waka/Jawaka is sometimes presented by critics as an extension of Hot Rats, a comparison likely occasioned by the album cover’s reference to the album in the illustration (suggested by Sal Marquez). In fact, I’ve done that myself. But what it really is, is a transitional record between Chunga’s Revenge and The Grand Wazoo. The two songs align almost exactly with “Road Ladies” (“Your Mouth”) and “Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink” (“It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal”) in terms of their approach and effect on the listener. The two extended instrumentals, “Big Swifty” and “Waka/Jawaka,” are the visions of things to come: surreal semi-classical jazz-fusion giants that amble preponderously in the ear canal for twelve minutes or a lifetime, depending. Transitional records are arriving, they haven’t arrived. Waka/Jawaka doesn’t arrive at the genius of The Grand Wazoo. Among the great Dubyas (which would winclude Weeny, Wazoo and Weasels), Waka/Jawaka might be the least impressive. Or not. They’re all brilliant records, so it’s a little like picking a favorite Beethoven symphony. The ninth. Okay, so that was easier than I thought. But you get the point: you wouldn’t want only eight Beethoven symphonies, and you don’t want to eke out your miserable, crotch-kicking existence without Waka/Jawaka. Because, truly, nothing will re-inflate your balls like listening to an acid trip about a frog segue into the most beautiful pedal steel guitar solo you’ve ever heard and then careen into “Waka/Jawaka,” knowing that only a small percentage of the general population will ever share that joy with you. Lying down and placing a rolled-up towel under your testicles also does the trick, apparently, although I’d put the second side of Waka/Jawaka on the turntable before you lie down just to be safe, since you don’t want to put too much faith in a rolled-up towel.\nThe last of the great instrumental burlesques, at least until Orchestral Favorites surfaced in 1979. The Grand Wazoo was recorded during Frank Zappa’s recovery from injuries sustained following an on-stage assault (so much for soothing the savage breast), thus entering into the top of two rather select musical subgroups: the recovery recordings (besting both Eno’s Discreet Music and Dylan’s The Basement Tapes, to name a few) and program music dealing with the clash of different musical cultures (progeny of the classic cartoon that includes Patrick Moraz’ eponymous effort and The Residents’ Tune of Two Cities). Drawing musical dialogue from the classical and rock cousins of the jazz family, The Mothers make the sort of music that’ll just curl the toes of anyone who enjoyed the mock-classical adventures of Waka/Jawaka, Weasels and Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Zappa has proved adept at writing program music (200 Motels, Joe’s Garage, Thing-Fish), though The Grand Wazoo differs in its instrumental approach; only the opening “For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)” features vocals, and it’s not empty praise to point out this might be the most perfect amalgam of vocal and instrumental music in all of Zappadom. The natural and seemingly effortless melange of instruments inhabits a unique world where rock, jazz and orchestral sounds meet in the middle of a saucepan and dance to the hot whims of the master composer in convalescence. Yet Zappa is careful to make sure that each of the songs retains a distinct flavor, from the seamy tones of “The Grand Wazoo” to the comic “Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus” to the epic riff that underpins “Eat That Question” (one I’d put on a pedestal with the closing theme to Gentle Giant’s “Three Friends”). Anyway, I could go on for pages—I’m that enthusiastic about this album. If I had to pick a favorite from Frank Zappa, it’d be down to this and Hot Rats.\nSomehow, Frank Zappa found a way on Over-Nite Sensation to package his oddball humor and complex arrangements into a commercially palatable package. It was the first Zappa album to go gold, and contained songs (like “Montana”) that could actually be played on FM radio without frightening away listeners. For this reason, AMG rightly refers to this as a “watershed album.” It marked a clear and conscious departure from the complex, often orchestral jazz rock of earlier efforts like Hot Rats and The Grand Wazoo, succinctly summing up the traits that made Zappa so special: the brilliant guitar leads, luminous contributions from fellow artists (Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ruth Underwood), and the perverse sense of humor. Because folks who might not ordinarily buy this album did, some were shocked to hear lyrics about bestiality (“Dirty Love”), orgasms (“Dinah Moe Humm”), and a Mexican witch who just happens to be breeding a dwarf (“Camarillo Brillo”). However, longtime listeners were used to this sort of thing; after all, is anything on here less tasteful than “Magdalena” or “The Mud Shark?” If the material is a little off color, Frank delivers it in a good-humored growl more mischievous than menacing. What’s most impressive about Over-Nite Sensation is that so much music finds its way into these six-minute tunes without bursting the confines of the standard lyric rock song. The band’s ability to start a track like “Zomby Woof” in a relatively straightforward manner, veer off into extracurricular melodies and solos, and then bounce back to find the original structure still intact is amazing. Some might argue that Underwood, Duke and Ponty are given limited roles in these arrangements, but all the better to hear Frank’s guitar burn up the place on “Dirty Love” and “I’m The Slime.” Over-Nite Sensation is probably the most accessible entry point for adventurous rock fans to approach the work of Frank Zappa. The guitarist himself was obviously pleased with his newfound ability to write in a more concise format, and continued in this idiom for the remainder of the decade, relegating his experimental side to his unreleased leviathan, Lather (which escaped in drips and drabs over the ‘70s and ‘80s).\nKronomyth 4.0: THE ISLAND OF LOST SOLUS. This double album is, in reality, two separate sessions recorded in 1971 that were originally intended to be separate albums called Solus and The Inner Source. Long story short, the original music label (SABA) changed hands a couple of times, eventually ending up back in the hands of its original owner at a newly started label, MPS. Recorded with the standing George Duke Trio (John Heard, Dick Berk) plus some extra horns and percussion, the recordings align with Duke’s short tenure in the Cannonball Adderly band (as Joe Zawinul’s replacement, no less) following his first stint with The Mothers. For some reason, MPS opted to interleave the recordings from both sessions, so the flavor of the two is now mixed together. The Inner Source is an important stage in Duke’s journey of self discovery—a pair of Rhodes trips where he explores the range of the electric keyboard in a variety of settings, from Coltrane meditations (“Peace”) to avant-garde (“Solus”) and Africana (“Nigerian Numberama”). To my mind, the stronger pieces are the more direct and melodic: “Feels So Good,” “So There You Go,” “The Inner Source.” “Some Time Ago,” popularized by Sergio Mendes, is another highlight, here re-imagined in a frothy Coltrane treatment. Otherwise, a lot of The Inner Source sounds like a cross between generic jazz (“Love Reborn”) and a Rhodes demonstration record (“Manya”). Those listeners interested in the journey of George Duke would do well to pick up a copy of The Inner Source, if they can find it at a reasonable price. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been released on compact disc yet, which may speak more to the condition of the original tapes than commercial interest.\nKronomyth 5.0: A REFLECTION IN FUSION. The music of Frank Zappa was a reaction to the times. The music of George Duke is a reflection of the times. The one breeds genius, the other geniality. Faces In Reflection is as genial an album of jazz fusion as you’ll find in the early catalogs of Stanley Clarke and Lenny White—high praise to fusion aficionados. George Duke unleashes the synthesizers and explores some very interesting spacescapes that will feel instantly familiar to followers of RTF: “North Beach,” “Psychosomatic Dung” (which clearly shows the influence of Frank Zappa) and “Faces In Reflection” (both parts). Like Chick Corea, Duke also intersperses Latin music (“Maria Tres Filhos,” “Da Somba”) and solo piano interludes into the proceedings. Despite the seemingly limited lineup of only bass, keyboards and drums, the trio of Duke, John Heard and Ndugu (Leon Chancler) generate plenty of energy on this session. Judicious multitracking helps to fill in the gaps, such as Duke emulating a rhythm guitar with his synth on “The Opening.” Ndugu, who caught my attention on Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi, continues to make a case for himself as one of the pre-eminent jazz rock drummers here; his unique solo on “Maria Tres Filhos” is nothing short of amazing. The consensus that Faces In Reflection is a very good fusion album is accurate, although it’s a crowded field. Duke can certainly lay claim to that field; in fact, this album is very much a reflection of his own personal journey at the time (Flora Purim, Frank Zappa). Yet Duke quickly forsook fusion for funk, leaving this record as a tantalizing testimony to what might have been a fruitful multiyear foray into fusion before funk’s inevitable call. If you’re interested in what a George Duke fusion album would sound like, Faces In Reflection will leave you suitably impressed.\nKronoymth 18.0: SEX & DRUGS & ROXY & ROLL. If you enjoyed Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe, that’s good; it means you’re not dead. It also means you’re going to enjoy Roxy & Elsewhere a whole lot. But isn’t this a live record, you ask, and don’t all live records secretly sort of suck it? Well, yeah, the ones that don’t have strippers, bubble machines, trombone solos, jaw-dropping xylophone monologues and molten lava guitar licks probably do. Fortunately, Roxy & Elsewhere has all that plus immaculate sound (the credits confess to overdubbing) and two elpees of great, new songs such as “Village of the Sun,” “Cheepnis” and “Son of Orange County.” Where most live albums tend to paraphrase a specific period of time, Zappa live albums are the exclamation points to those periods: Fillmore East, Zappa In New York, Tinsel Town Rebellion. Roxy captures what’s best about the Over-Nite Sensation->One Size Fits All period of Zappa without regurgitating it and includes some of his best songs over a long and amazing career. Released as a double album, Roxy plays up the live format by beginning each side with a preamble from Frank plus the usual audience engagement. From there, you’ve got your tasteful sexual innuendo (“Penguin In Bondage”), social criticism (“More Trouble Every Day”), a Firesign Theatre full of strange voices and at least two bands’ worth of brilliant soloing. Although the classical jazz phase was awesome (Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Hot Rats), the 1972-1975 albums managed to best wed Frank’s sense of humor, jazz-inspired genius and rock guitar chops, and in many ways they represent the quintessential Frank Zappa sound. If you were hoping for live versions of “Zomby Woof” or “Montana,” too bad; you’ll need to fast-forward to the Stage series to get your fix. Roxy is rather one of those live albums you shouldn’t try to live without because, truly, your world is probably at least one radioactive poodle song shy of perfection.\nKronomyth 6.0: FUNK, FRANK AND FLORA. Feel is a transitional record between the space fusion of his last effort, Faces In Reflection, and the synth funk of the future. It also features Frank Zappa’s blistering electric guitar on two tracks, billed here as the mysterious Obdewl’l X. If you’re approaching this from Faces, a lot of this will feel familiar. The new wrinkle is the funk (“Funny Funk,” “Old Slipper”) and a certain Barry Whiteness in the spirit/love vibe of songs like “Feel” and “Love.” George Duke has a gentle voice, which he multitracks to give it an extra dimension. Flora Purim also appears on one track, “Yana Aminah,” but it’s a missed opportunity as Duke seems musically out of synch with what should have been a slam-dunk Brazilian jazz number. Zappa is the elephant in the room, literally. His guitar solos on “Love” and “Old Slipper” completely dominate the surrounding landscape like an eclipse; in fact, Duke seems to throw a musical wrench into “Old Slipper” just to prepare the listener for Zappa’s heavy footfalls. The remaining songs follow the space fusion of Faces for the most part: “Rashid,” “Cora Joberge,” “The Once Over.” An interesting exception is the short theme from an unfinished opera, Tzina, a classical jazz piece that explores a heretofore hidden dark side to Duke. (Pieces of Tzina would appear over the years on other Duke works.) The album’s closing “Statement” simply restates the theme to “Love.”\nA cleverly staged car wreck between Zappa and Captain Beefheart that, despite the creative velocity of the pair at the time, wasn’t the big bang some had hoped for. The disappointment of Bongo Fury might be that both artists weren’t looking to do something new together, but simply do what they do together. There are songs that represent an even union of sorts, where Beefheart takes the lead and Zappa’s band lays down the groundwork: the twisted “Debra Kadabra,” the sort-of-a-cowboy-song “Poofter’s Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead” and “200 Years Old” (the last two forming a kind of a bicentennial medley). These may be a little grittier and bluesier than Zappa’s usual work, but fans should eventually warm up to them. Beefheart also presents his greasy, look-what-I-found-under-the-refrigerator poetry on a pair of tracks: “Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top” (which introduces the “bongo fury” theme) and “Man With The Woman Head.” Frank even answers in kind with his own story, “Muffin Man,” that starts like a carbon copy of “Evelyn, A Modified Dog” before launching into a brilliant guitar solo. Zappa fans will take solace in the tracks that sound most like his usual work from this period: “Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy” (cut from the same cloth as “Camarillo Brillo”) and “Advance Romance.” However, those fans would do better to pick up Over-Nite Sensation, Roxy & Elsewhere, The Grand Wazoo, One Size Fits All… well, you get the point. For the best blending of Beefheart and Zappa, seek ye Hot Rats. Two heads are better than one in the world of bongos, but in the live/studio world of Bongo Fury maybe not so much.\nKronomyth 4.0: BASS CLASS. From whiz kid to wizard in five short years. On School Days, Stanley Clarke steps out of the shadow of Return To Forever to show us what he’s learned. Suffice to say that fusion fans took note(s). School Days is set up to showcase the many sides of Stanley: fusion, funk, smooth, classical, acoustic, R&B. For progressive fusion fans (i.e., the kind of people who only get jazzed about RTF, Frank Zappa, Brand X, etc.), School Days scores an A+ on the merit of the opening title track alone. “School Days” is basically six feet of genius crammed into eight minutes of music. I walked away from that song thinking that Clarke had found a way to match the best progressive fusion artists of the day and make it look easy. “Quiet Afternoon” explores the romantic/smooth jazz side of Stanley Clarke, though it’s not as painful as you’d think. “The Dance” follows exotic fusion, “Desert Song” journeys into the arid world of acoustic jazz , “Hot Fun” is a crazy funk song that lives up to its name, and “Life Is Just A Game” brings out all the stops in a big fusion finale, including vocals. Earlier albums showcased many of the same skills, but were partly weighed down by multipart suites and occasionally weak arrangements. School Days is different, as Stanley Clarke scores extra credit with one great number after another. Is it his best record? Well, given what I’ve heard so far, that would be an educated guess.\nKronomyth 6.0: LET BE BE FINALE OF SEEM. This is a live/studio hybrid that has all the earmarks of a contract closer. In other words, Clarke likely owed Nemperor two more albums on his contract and decided to kick in an album’s worth of live material to hit the magic number of albums owed, which would apparently be six. Anyway, that’s just speculation on my part, and of no particular interest. The music on I Wanna Play For You, now that’s interesting. I find it amazing that a bass guitarist could build a robust live repertoire around their instrument. Clarke is an extraordinary musician, of course; the sounds he coaxes out of those four strings would make a Stratavarius blush. The live performances are excellent; I sort of wish they had preserved the concerts intact, since I would have loved to hear songs like “Silly Putty,” “Yesterday Princess” or “Dayride” in a live setting. Instead, you’ll have to settle for a six-minute sampler called “My Greatest Hits.” The studio material has a live energy to it and features a few funk/pop/disco numbers that point forward to the Clarke/Duke Project. “The Streets of Philadelphia” is the best of these; in fact, I’ve always regarded it as the heart of the album. I Wanna Play For You feels instantly familiar, not just in the sense that you’ve heard “School Days” and “Quiet Afternoon” before; even the new songs (e.g., “Together Again,” “Jamaican Boy”) arrive like old friends. In that sense, the record wraps around your mind like a favorite shirt (I know, that’s a crappy analogy); it feels good whenever you put it on. (Apparently, there was a 2-for-1 semicolon sale at that shirt store.) The Epic adventures that followed were too populist; the last emperor is this Nemperor of nice dreams.\nKronomyth 8.0: GEORGE AND STANLEY MAKE A CAMEO. When George Duke and Stanley Clarke signed with Epic to record an album together, the label apparently expected a jazz fusion album. I’m with the labels this time. As a fan of Stanley Clarke’s music (with and without RTF) and Frank Zappa, I was expecting a Journey To Love. Instead, what Epic and the rest of us got was a Top 40 R&B/disco album. Now, if you’d been paying close attention, you would have heard this kind of music creeping into Stanley Clarke’s records, so the commercial direction of The Clarke/Duke Project can’t be called a complete surprise. But if you’re expecting me to heap praise upon it, I would kindly point you in the direction of a different site, perhaps one called Discoography. I listen to Stanley Clarke records to hear him cut loose on the bass, not to sing “I Just Want To Love You.” In the record’s defense, it’s only about half an album of sappy disco music; the other half features smart funk that suggests Was (Not Was) (e.g., “Finding My Way”) and Cameo (e.g., “Let’s Get Started”). As a bonus, you’ll hear what is probably the funkiest version of “Louie Louie” ever recorded. The pair’s commercial acumen paid off when the album reached the Top 40 (and topped the Jazz charts according to Billboard, the same company that gave us the Hot Black Singles chart) and scored the biggest hit of Duke’s career with “Sweet Baby.” Clarke repeated the exercise on his next album, Let Me Know You, with inferior results, so if you’re interested in his disco phase, The Clarke/Duke Project is probably the best place to start. Or you could just ignore this altogether and go back to listening to “Inca Roads.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome to Angels and Mermaids (A reality free zone).\nFounded by the Secret Mermaid Society in 2016. Our office is the beach and our home is the sea. We are here to celebrate our love of the free -spirited beach bohemian lifestyle, through fashion. Inspired by the arts, music, the beach, spirit and the street- Angels and Mermaids represents the beach boho lifestyle. We Celebrate Summer All year long here.\nHead Muse and President of the Secret Mermaid Society\nAngels and Mermaids\nc/o Secret Mermaid Society\nUS Mermaid Islands 77777\nContact outside of the Mermaid Islands:\n214 E Venice Ave. Suite 207\nVenice, Fl 34285", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kami's 'Watched in 2012' (80 movies items)\n\"27 January 2012\nO~kay. Now i was curious if a Hulk film with Norton would be better. The story went a bit different and I still don't know which is the original one, but I dont mind as long as it makes sense somehow. This version was balanced much better. Impressive action scenes, simple story, a a little bit of humour, a darker atmosphere and on top of that an enjoyable soundtrack. Norton was great and the animation was brilliant. Although the ending about letting his enemy go was greatly unre\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I sort of wish I'd taken a \"before\" for this project. The box for this snowy community housed a Disney Planes plane that Grandma had to have for the boys, so I had two of these high-quality plastic containers. While not normally a hoarder, my mom gave me some seriously strange looks when I told her I was going to keep them for some sort of project.\nNaturally, I gave her one of the two that I made.\nA lot of modeling paste and embossing powder gave the snow some depth and shine. Though, I probably should have made the car a bit smaller since it's grossly out of scale with the house.\nThe paper shapes were all cut from a variety of Silhouette Studio shapes and the trees were from Fancy Pants.\nOops, the moose lost his antlers, no worries I glued them back on but forgot to take another picture. The cute little snowman was made with Mod Melts.\nAnd if you look really closely at the ceiling of this box you'll see the Disney Planes logo, which soooo didn't go with my little wintry scene. I used MME Necessities Metallic vellum to cover it up. The vellum kept the scene bright and camouflaged the logo.\nNot so bad for an upcycled community. ;)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wood ClockIndustrial Design\nSelf-directed project utilizing four operations on a CNC machine. Made from maple and walnut, this clock was first designed in Rhino, and the tool paths were then created in Mastercam. From Mastercam, the clock was machined from prepared stock using a Techno 4896 CNC router. The design was inspired by wrist watch faces and detailing.\nRhino v.5, Mastercam x6, Techno CNC Router 4896\nCourse: Design for CNC Milling", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s funny how the white space on a blank page has the ability to make me feel like it is laughing at me, mocking me. As ridiculous as it sounds, I have a tendency, as I’m sure do many other writers out there, to feel completely overwhelmed and terrified by the presence of so much blank space. Or rather, the absence of so many words.\nSo instead of busting out my creativity and imagination to show the piece of paper what’s up, I usually just pack it in and move on to something else.\nWhether it is a busy lifestyle, the stress of the daily grind, or just plain old laziness (guilty!), we all from time to time fall off the proverbial wagon and neglect our crafts and hobbies. It is easy get caught spinning in the wheel of the everyday routine, thus leaving our pens and paintbrushes and yoga mats and instruments and whatever else you may use as a creative outlet collecting dust in a lonely closet somewhere.\nWe often neglect to nurture our creative talents and passions—those very activities which had at one time brought us perhaps a sense of self, a sense of peace, a sense of accomplishment. Though much of this piece refers to my craft of writing, there is ample room to replace ‘pen’ with whatever you desire. We can all use a bit of help when finding our stride and rekindling our own creative processes. Here, lovers of creativity, are a few tips to give you a boost back into the saddle.\nPick Up the Habit\nDeveloping good habits is just as important to the health and happiness of an individual as breaking bad habits. In order to get back on track, we have to be conscious of making time for ourselves and our hobbies. Set aside a specific time when you can create, and do it not just sporadically, but make the effort to do it every day. And it doesn’t have to be a large chunk of time. Give yourself twenty minutes, a half an hour, when you devote your entire self to your craft.\nI’ll be honest, there are days when the very last thing I want to do is sit down and write in my journal. But when it becomes a habit, it seems less of an obligation and more an enjoyment. I actually look forward to my writing time. And just like breaking bad habits, remember that it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes the same devotion and will power to pick up the pen as it does to put down the cigarette.\nCheck Your Ego at the Door\nIt’s inevitable, my friends. There is going to come a point when we hit a wall: the proverbial, or in some cases, the very literal, writer’s block. That perfect sentence just won’t make it to the paper; you just can’t nail that pose or hit that note. And it is in those times we will most likely lose our ‘mojo’. Frustration will ensue, I promise.\nIt is crucial, however, to find a way to overcome such obstacles. Feel free to step away for a moment, take a few breaths, take a walk. Find a way to clear your head. But when you come back, pick up the pen and write whatever word or sentence or phrase comes to mind, and write it over and over. Repeat that pose, or that brush stroke. Chip away at that concrete block, and eventually it will crumble into that very sentence you almost gave up on. Don’t be afraid to feel silly, especially when you are rewriting the same word twenty times. Vulnerability is part of it.\nRemember, It Won’t Always Be Pretty\nUnfortunately most things in life are definitely not as easy as recalling how to ride a bike. That goes for writing or doing whatever at one point you were so good. I am sure my college English-major self is guffawing at this piece. But it is not always possible just to pick back up where you left off. Finding your stride again takes time and practice and patience. It may very well be painful. Know that for the first few or many times, you will want to crumple up the finished product. Instead, keep what you have created and use it as a stepping stone. Reflect on it, improve upon it, and though it may not be pretty now, what you will create thereafter will be. It is evidence of the process.\nRekindling the flame for our dormant passions and hobbies is way to connect us back to ourselves, and back to each other. Our creativity is an extension of who we are as individuals, and helps define our places in our respective creative communities. So do what you love every day. Look for inspiration in your frustrations. Beat your head against the wall. Be vulnerable. Create.\nAndrea Bentley, a Colorado native, is currently living the military lifestyle with her husband in Lacey, Washington. After graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in English and Sociology, she traveled abroad and a chance meeting in Munich led to her marriage to a soldier in the U.S. Army. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at\nage 24, her focus has turned to balancing her health, relationship, and the transience of military life. She fills her spare time with the company of books, enjoys running to clear her mind, and loves the hell out of a good happy hour.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As a short form writer, I know that each word is chosen with extreme precision. While at a summer writing retreat, we did an exercise: whatever word count your piece was at, bring it down to 300, then 250, then 150, and so on, switching to increments of 10 and then 5. Once you got to 5 words, or even a single word you were hard pressed to decide the core of your piece. But that's what the exercise was meant to do: cut through the fluff of your story or poem and think of what you were truly trying to convey.\nAs others have already said, I agree that Prose needs a better editing system. But I also kind of like the blank format, and the vulnerability & trust that quick writing and next-to-no editing provides. My rawest work tends to come out of Prose, mostly because I'm not really censoring myself. Just as I'm about to post this without reading it over once. :)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Update my wedding date\nKeep your profile wedding date\nWe will pass this information to Laura May Photography so they can respond. Hitched will create an account for you to view your suppliers in a list and create a free wedding plan.\nHello! I'm Laura May, a wedding photographer living in the beautiful village of Shifnal, Shropshire BUT I photograph weddings all over the UK including across the Midlands and in London.\nI love weddings; I invest a lot, emotionally and professionally, in your day and it’s a privilege to share it with you. My aim is to capture the realness of your wedding day in an un-obtrusive manner, for you to look back through your gallery and re-live the day in all its laughter, emotion and celebration. Photography gives me the opportunity to document real moments, unique connections and personalities throughout your wedding day. Weddings are about enjoying yourself. Do your wedding, your way!\nIf people cry, you relive and feel it in your gallery. When people laugh and dance all night; how amazing if you can laugh and dance again with them? We are sentimental at heart and your wedding gallery will help you relive the day beautifully through imagery – for years to come.\nI love blubbing along to the speeches (soooo glad I have a camera to hide behind) and you will love the couple portrait session; it’s a chance for you two to have a breather alone together and relax for possibly the only time in the day!\nOverall, the best thing about being your wedding photographer is being able to take ace photos, create your memories and capture you guys in love…and let’s not forget the dancing…BALTER!\nI would love to hear from you if your planning a wedding, and want natural and relaxed photos with some cracking romantic and gorgeous portraits!\n“Your work is absolutely fantastic, your persona, your talent and dedication is second to none. Thank you so very much for how hard you worked to make sure every little detail was included…everybody has commented on how brilliant the pictures are!\nYour effort and talent really is outstanding.”\nJess + Ryan\n“YAAAAAAY!!! This is so exciting!! Honestly Laura, I can’t even describe how much we love the pictures!! The full gallery is just incredible! And Mr-I-don’t-want-many-pictures-who-even-needs-more-than-50-pictures said they were amazing and not one picture is too much…”every one has a purpose.” Ever the rational one, but that’s even more of a credit to you!! I didn’t think I’d be a woman obsessed over pictures but I am! You’re the best! Thank you SO much for capturing our special day. We are overwhelmed with happiness at the pictures and couldn’t have asked for anything more.”\nRobert + Jessica\nTo make things totally straight forward for you, the ‘Essential Collection' wedding package comes with photography coverage, editing time and an online gallery for downloading your wedding memories. You and your partner are then able to add items on top which are important for you (such as a second shooter, USB, album, or prints etc).\nYou can book me as soon as you want to secure a photographer. It's never too early!\nAbsolutely not. When you book Laura May Photography to photograph your wedding it is always me that turns up, not an associate.\nObviously there may be extreme circumstances where I cannot works but I would always find a photographer to cover me. Never happened yet though!\nYes, I cover the whole of the UK.\nEngland and Wales mileage is included in the Essential Collection. Scotland may include an additional charge for miles.\nI use professional Sony A7iii's and Sony G Master lenses.\nYour images are delivered to you via an online gallery which you can share with family and friends.\nI work alone unless you book a second photographer who I source and works with me. I highly recommend you do book a second and I can chat with you about this at the time of booking.\nThe Essential Collection is a set fee which covers you for up to 9 hours. Additional hours can be added.\nOur trusted network of suppliers and venues we have worked with\nPickwick Court, Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11 8DQ\nLaura May Photography details have been saved to your shortlist.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Updated: Jul 26, 2020\nSophie & Mike's engagement portraits were the first session I shot when I was allowed to re-open my studio after lockdown and it truly felt like the universe gave us that perfect evening as a 'sorry' for all the trouble! Haha! It was absolutely magical to be back out, doing what I love and capturing such special memories for such a special couple. We shot their engagement portraits at sunset on Coombe Hill in Wendover. Their wedding was due to take place at Huntsmill Farm in August but has been postponed due to Corona Virus. It is incredibly upsetting and heart breaking to have to postpone your wedding but I know when we are able to celebrate it's going to be an absolutely amazing day and that bit more special for having to wait I'm sure!\nMike's Mum is a close friend of mine and earlier in the week had sent me the sweetest photographs of her own engagement - shot on film and recorded in a beautiful album. They were leaning on a tree and it was just too tempting so of course we had to create them and give them a little modern twist for Sophie & Mike. A lovely little nod to a family tradition and really special for the mother of the groom!\nThese images were taken with the very last of that magical summer sunset light - nothing can replace that perfect glow and I think it's clear to see why I always ask my clients to come out at sunset for their sessions. I always try and 'steal you' on your wedding day for a few portraits at sunset too - it's such a lovely time to take a break from the day and enjoy a moment of calm with your new husband/wife.\nClient's often tentatively ask, 'would it maybe be ok if maybe possibly we could bring our dog with?' My answer is always the same OF COURSE! I am absolutely a dog person in every way - they are a huge part of your family and I think it can be a great way to help you relax if you are feeling nervous. Nothing a little puppy therapy can't fix.\nThis gorgeous puppy was the perfect model too - she was such a little poser for me and was perfectly well behaved for the entire shoot!\nI love shooting at Coombe Hill as there are so many absolutely beautiful locations for photos - every part offers something different from the beautiful long blonde grass, the woodland and of course that incredible view. I shoot here year round and there's always something new on offer to enjoy.\nIt also makes posing for your portraits easier when you have a beautiful surrounding to interact with - I always help you with posing my prompting you or asking you to look out at the view or tell a funny story about a holiday or favourite family Christmas. Before long any nerves are long gone and we spend the whole session laughing and having a wonderful time!\nStyling your engagement session is such an important aspect that I think most people feel daunted by. Sophie and Mike absolutely nailed it by keeping it simple. I always say you should be 'matching without matching' stay on the same colour palette and the same level of 'dressiness' but always - and this is the most important thing - you want look like you on your best day. If you dress up in something that makes you uncomfortable or that you would never usually wear, you won't recognise yourself in the images.\nAn Engagement Photography Session is included with most of my Wedding Photography Packages - it's such a wonderful way for us to get to know each other better ahead of your big day. We can work together to create portraits that reflect you beautifully as a couple - all taken in a relaxed and romantic way.\nI am now booking 2021/22 Weddings - if you would like a brochure please drop me an email at: firstname.lastname@example.org\nWedding Photographer. Wedding Photography. Aylesbury Wedding Photographer. Buckinghamshire Wedding Photographer. Oxford Wedding Photographer. London Wedding Photographer. Huntsmill Farm Wedding Photography.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Apoorva First Day Box Office Collection\nRavichandran’s dream project “Apoorva” hit the screens on Friday, May 27. It is probably the next film after his 2002 “Ekangi” on which he has shown so much interest. He has dedicated two years to this flick and the director-actor is said to have locked in the final copy of the movie after editing it 18 times. The actor-filmmaker has introduced a new actress named Apoorva with this movie. The other attraction of the film is that popular names like Kiccha Sudeep, P Ravishankar and Prakash Raj have done voice overs.\nThe Kannada flick has drawn the audience’s attention with its audio and teaser. Moreover, Ravichandran’s one-liners, which are seen in the promotional material, have impressed the viewers with their philosophical undertone. “Apoorva,” which is written, directed, produced by Ravichandran himself, apart from scoring music, tells the story of a 19-year-old girl who falls in love with a 61-year-old man. The major part of the movie is set in a lift where romance blossoms between the two.\nApoorva has got amazing response from audience on its first day especially. It recorded mind blowing occupancy on the releasing say and registered enormous collections by the end of day. Total first day collection of Apoorva was 0.45 Crore*. Upcoming days are being predicted to be more positive for the film as the weekend is near and with no close competition the way id all clear for Apoorva to score good on the big screen.\nMore from my site", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Aside from being a unicyclist, an avid (if cautious) motorcyclist,\nan Etch-A-Sketch (TM) artist, a magician's assistant, a juggler,\nand the infamous legs behind Ivar's Unicycling Clam commercials\nin the 80s, Lisa Parsons is a mighty fine person. This girl really\nRoCkS the house - having been one of the original Vivace baristas\npage), she turns out a superb crema.\n| Working at Vivace\nOne of the great things about running errands with Lisa is the number\nof people on the street who recognize her from the coffee cart. It's a\nreal testament to her skills that so many people miss her and want her\nback at Vivace making coffee.\n| Lisa's sketch of Vivace's\nBut after 10 years in the coffee business, Lisa was ready to be lured\naway from her thousands of over-stimulated devotees to the chaos and creativity\nof CR. She is quite literally the glue that holds the productions together\nsince without her unparalleled sense of organization, we might never be\nable to find the materials, tapes, and images needed to turn these shows\nout! (\"Uhm, Lisa, remember that picture of three people standing in\na field in Namibia and one of them has his hands up in the air with the\nsun behind him? Do you happen to know where that photo is? I need you to\nscan it and email it out today...?\n| Ta Da!\nLisa's day usually ends with the downtown Fed-X run sending the day's\nvideo edit off to lands near and far. She has become quite the Volvo wrangler\n(our company car is an old Volvo station wagon named \"Mr. Dick,\"\nafter Harold Dick, our mechanic who is based in Portland, Oregon, but that's\nanother story...) and can mix it up with the best of them navigating the\nincreasingly crowded streets of our fair city.\nBesides running the office and holding down the fort while the bosses\nare away, Lisa is fast becoming proficient in various aspects of production,\nespecially as an efficient offline voice editor. We even have occasional\nneed for the smattering of Portuguese she remembers from her days as an\nexchange student in Brazil. In fact, she is a multi-faceted talent who\nmust now contend with an entirely new group of loyal and devoted fans.\n| Crawdad at the old", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "All Workshop Events\nIntroduction to Filmmaking\nWriting and Directing\nEditing on FilmNOTE: This workshop is in person. It is recommended that participants wear a mask while on the premises.\nLearn the operations and edit your next (or first) motion picture film with LIFT's 2020 manufactured Steenbeck film editorial machine. This workshop is geared towards those interested in the traditional analogue art of filmmaking and is intended to build the foundational knowledge of working with celluloid. Participants will have an overview of film editing, discuss the tools and expendables for prepping a print, explore operations and setup for traditional 16mm, S16mm and 35mm formats.\nIn addition, participants will learn to use Steenbeck's digital film-to-video transfer component working with digital interface (720p for 16/S16mm and 576i for 35mm) and gain hand-on practice on the system.\nTopics will include: Image projection, sound sync, splicing, cutting, sorting, creating a workprint, preparing for neg cutting, and creating final prints.\nParticipants are welcome to bring their own film footage to practice for this combination lecture and hands-on class.\nWed 6 December 2023, 6 - 10 pm(Registration deadline is Wed 6 December 5:00 pm)\nInstructor: Karl Reinsalu\nBased in Toronto, Canada, Karl Reinsalu is a “do-it-yourselfer” with expertise in analog film techniques and a graduate of Humber College’s Film and Television Program. Since 2006, Karl has had the opportu- nity to experiment and hone his craft by helping his fellow artists in his role as technical coordinator for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.\nLocation: 1137 Dupont Street, Toronto, Ontario M6H 2A3\nMaximum Capacity: 4\n4 hours of instruction $65 /member$90 /nonmember", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Styled Shoot: Dark 1950’s Glamour\nAs some of you may know, me and Emily are still in the process of setting up our new business venture; The Online Wedding Show and in order to promote it we decided to set up a styled shoot with some fabulous vendors! It was a great way for us to meet new people in the industry and work with a few old friends! Although I have to admit, it was pretty scary being in front of the camera with a handful of people watching! Ed Taylor did a great job with all of the photos and we’re so excited to finally be sharing them with you…\nWe also had the whole shoot documented and filmed by the talented I Do Wedding Films so be sure to read onto the end of the post to see it in action!\nWe decided to hold the shoot somewhere a little different from your average wedding venue as we really wanted the photos to have that touch of unique about them…cue Dig Haushizzle…a quirky home for tons of individual pieces including furniture, taxidermy and everything else in between.\nProp clocks, antlers & scientific glassware were just some of the things that surrounded us in the shop and with a few finishing touches of wedding bits & bobs from the lovely Little Wedding Helper the scene was set!\nBut before we could jump in front of the cameras we had to get ready! First stop: hair and makeup by the wonderful Isabel While at Bridal Styling! I was first in the hot seat to have my hair arranged into a messy chic up do! I was a little uneasy about this because I rarely have my hair tied up but Isabelle reassured me & did a great job in styling my hair around the gorgeous Hermione Harbutt head piece we were lucky enough to borrow! Next it was Emily’s turn & a bohemian side bun was created to show off a super feminine hair do! Isabelle created completely different looks for each of us when it came to our makeup too! Emily had a fresh & pastel image while I was showing a darker makeup look with a bit of a smokey eye & dark lipstick! A few cups of tea later & cuddles with the cat meant we were ready to head off to the shoot!\nOnce we had arrived at Dig Haushizzle we quickly put out some olives, crisps & cupcakes (we wouldn’t want our lovely suppliers getting hungry now would we?!) and popped open a few bottles of wine then it was off downstairs to slip into our dresses.\nMan did we love the dresses. It was only the week before that we had taken a trip to The Mews in Clifton to try some on and to say we were spoilt for choice would be an understatement! We pretty much wanted every dress in the shop considering they boasted a gorgeous collection of Jenny Packham, Alice Temperley, Suzanne Neville & many more! So after a few trips in and out of the changing room and with the help of Gail who owns the shop, we both decided on Jenny Packham! I wore Eden & Emily wore Ivy.\nFavours were also given to us to complete the look from Through The Looking Glass which finished off the shoot nicely! There were cute little bottles of pages from books & chocolate spoon mini desserts! Yum!\nWhen choosing a photographer for this shoot we knew that Ed Taylor would be great for the job, not only did he shoot Ed & Cassie’s Wedding (which you can see here) but he had also taken promotional images of Dig Haushizzle a few weeks prior to our shoot. Ed photographed this shoot in a style that is not only creative but also soft & hazey! We love how warm the images look and we couldn’t be happier with them! You can see a snippet of his new website here which is currently under development & you can also check out his tumblr filled to the brim with other stunning images here! Watch this space people…\nSince this was our first time ever organising a styled shoot (and our first one in front of the camera!) we didn’t really know what to expect and on the morning of the shoot nerves were certainly setting in but we truly hope that everyone had as much fun as we did while there! It was such a great opportunity for us and it’s always nice to get away from the computer and meet lots of amazing people in the industry!\nAs I mentioned earlier, Adam from I Do Wedding Films was also kind enough to come along to the shoot and create an awesome ‘behind the scenes’ video for us, I can honestly say that Adam made both of us feel very comfortable in front of the camera and I’m sure it shows through on the clip! We would recommend these guys to anyone!\nWe’d love to hear what you thought about the shoot and would like to thank everyone who was involved, we appreciated your help so much and look forward to working with you in the future!\nCredit where credit is due:\n♥ Venue: Dig Haushizzle\n♥ Dresses: Jenny Packham, The Mews\n♥ Hair & Makeup: Bridal Styling\n♥ Photography: Ed Taylor\n♥ Videography: I Do Wedding Films\n♥ Favours: Through The Looking Glass\n♥ Styling: Little Wedding Helper\n♥ Head Piece: Hermione Harbutt\nMuch Bespoke Love", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“The King of Diamonds” by Rena Pederson is a captivating historical novel that reveals the fascinating story of a famous diamond, her extraordinary journey through time, and the lives she touches along the way. With meticulous research, compelling characters, and a narrative that spans generations, this literary gem offers a riveting exploration of love, ambition, and the enduring attraction of precious treasures. Prepare to be enchanted as Pederson weaves a story that blends history, mystery, and the captivating world of diamonds, leaving readers enchanted until the very last page.\n…::::: Summary :::::…\n“The King of Diamonds” by Rena Pederson is a captivating historical novel that delves into the fascinating world of diamonds and the lives entwined with them. The story revolves around the renowned Koh-i-Noor diamond, which carries a rich and mysterious history.\nThe narrative unfolds through multiple timelines and perspectives, transporting readers to different eras and locations. From the moment the diamond is discovered in the Golconda mines of India to its eventual placement in the British Crown Jewels, the novel traces the diamond’s path through time.\nThe characters in the novel are intricately connected to the diamond. Their lives intersect with the gem, bringing love, betrayal, ambition, and sacrifice to the forefront. From Indian maharajas to British royalty, from miners to thieves, each character’s journey intertwines with the diamond, revealing the profound impact it has on their lives.\nAs the story progresses, readers witness the diamond’s allure and the lengths people will go to possess it. Alongside the characters, they experience the opulence of royal courts, the perils of diamond smuggling, and the struggles for power and control over the precious gem.\nThrough vivid descriptions and meticulous research, Rena Pederson brings to life the historical settings and societal dynamics of each era. From the vibrancy of India’s past to the grandeur of the British Empire, the novel immerses readers in a rich tapestry of cultures and historical events.\n“The King of Diamonds” not only explores the diamond’s journey but also delves into the deeper themes of wealth, power, and the human desire for something rare and valuable. It examines the moral dilemmas faced by those who encounter the diamond and raises thought-provoking questions about the true worth of material possessions.\nWith its blend of history, intrigue, and human drama, “The King of Diamonds” offers an engrossing narrative that keeps readers captivated until the final revelation. Rena Pederson’s masterful storytelling transports readers into a world of glittering gems, where the pursuit of the Koh-i-Noor diamond unfolds against a backdrop of ambition, love, and the eternal quest for beauty and significance.\n…::::: Book Information :::::…\n- Book Name: The King of Diamonds\n- Book Author: Rena Pederson\n- Book Publisher : Pegasus Crime (April 2, 2024)\n- Book Language : English\n- Hardcover : 386 pages\n- ISBN-10 : 1639366059\n- ISBN-13 : 978-1639366057\n…::::: Download PDF :::::…\n…::::: Buy This Book :::::…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Download Free Wallpaper\nLifestyle blog (and HL staff favourite) DESIGNLOVEFEST.com regularly offers 'dress your tech' downloads, a series of desktop and phone wallpapers created by top illustrators, designers and photographers. Right now our HL May issue was designed on a backdrop of New York-based illustrator Katie Smail’s beautiful painterly florals. Previous wallpapers (and still available as downloads via DESIGNLOVEFEST.com) feature the acrylic art of Britt Bass Turner and photographer Max Wanger. Keep checking in to view new downloads.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Have to lick these to close.\nThese envelopes are a pretty color, just not quite the color I was expecting. When I think of the word \"vineyard\", I think of more of a magenta hue, a little more purple in the color, closer to wine. I will put them to good use though. Better used for Valentine's Day cards!\nI had no idea what to expect when I ordered. So glad I did as the color is stunning and will be perfect for mailing holiday and Valentine cards. Will be buying more!\n...especially in red . The holidays are fast approaching so start making those cards now!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AS anticipation continues to build ahead of next week’s inaugural EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM, officials today unveiled the trophy which will be awarded to the victorious team.\nTun Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid, Chairman, Professional Golf of Malaysia, which is the local facilitator of the event, was joined by Datuk Mohamed Razeek Md Hussain, Chief Operating Officer of presenting partner DRB-HICOM and Charlie Tingey, Senior Director, EurAsia Golf as they revealed the trophy to an expectant crowd of media at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club, the host venue for the Europe versus Asia match play contest from March 27-29.\nThe specially commissioned trophy was produced in Malaysia and designed by Ahmad Sarji himself with the help of Mior Adlizul Jazmi of Permodalan Nasional Berhad and crafted by Hassan Mat Jusoh, a master craftsman at the renowned silversmiths KB Permai Krafperak Kelantan Silver.\nUsing traditional Malaysian techniques and working almost entirely by hand, it took four expert craftsmen over two months to fashion the stunning trophy that now awaits the winning captain. The final sterling silver piece weighs over six kilograms and stands 18 inches tall. The winner’s gold plated medal and the runner-up silver plated medal were also designed by Ahmad Sarji with the help of Mior Adlizul.\nAs he unveiled the trophy, Ahmad Sarji commented: “The EurAsia Cup is a very important new event in the world of golf so we wanted to have a suitably impressive new trophy for the players to compete for. It was also very important for us to have something that shows off Malaysia’s wonderful craftsmanship and reflects the role Malaysia has played in the beginnings of the EurAsia Cup. I very much hope that come next Saturday, it is Team Asia that is being engraved on the trophy as inaugural winners.”\nMohamed Razeek added: “This trophy will become one of the most coveted awards for golfers from both Europe and Asia. It is a truly impressive piece and I am sure that the players will be desperate to get their hands on it. It is beautifully crafted and expertly finished. Whichever team is lucky enough to lift the Cup next week will surely enjoy being the recipients of such a spectacular trophy.”\nThe format of play for the EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM will see five fourball matches being played on the first day (Thursday) followed by five foursomes matches on day two (Friday) and 10 singles matches on the final day (Saturday) at Glenmarie’s Garden course.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Posts tagged Beastie Boys\n10. Kanye West – All of the Lights\nEven though I love this video, the concept was pretty much taken from Gaspar Noé’s award-winning psycho-thriller, Enter the Void‘s opening credits. I guess to Hype Williams, copying is a form of flattery.\n9. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die\n8. Metronomy – The Bay\n7. The Strokes – Taken for a Fool\nThere’s nothing to love when you see a constant clip of 5 different Julian Casablancas and Nick Valensi.\n6. Rihanna Feat. Calvin Harris – We Found Love\nDirected by Melina Matsoukas, who was also sued by David LaChapelle for her S&M video. I was really surprised that Rihanna went back to her for ‘We Found Love’. This video was well done in my opinion because I honestly haven’t seen this much emotion and action from Rihanna in a while. But the downside is.. I’m pretty much tired of seeing female musicians kissing some guy on top/inside/outside a car. Overdone.\n5. Lady Gaga – Judas\nEpic music video. Definitely my favourite one by Gaga. What’s more surprising is that her choreographer, Laurieann Gibson (Torontonian!), was also the director of this video. There was a lot of biblical/religious references, but this is nothing new to her fans. I was mostly drawn to the cast and the huge amount of work that went into the sets and wardrobe. Definitely her best one in my opinion.\n4. Foster the People – Call it What You Want\nThis music video and song title matches each other perfectly. The reason why I probably like this video so much is because of the pan in and out shots.. and the randomness.\nDirected by Ace Norton – who also worked with Death Cab for Cutie (Crooked Teeth), Steve Aoki & Armand Van Helden (BRRRAT) and Felix Cartel.\n3. The Black Keys – Howlin’ for You\nI couldn’t believe that the director for this music video (Chris Marrs Piliero) also directed Britney Spears’ – ‘I Wanna Go’ single. Concept and screenwriters are ESSENTIAL.\nThe Black Keys blew up so quickly throughout 2011, mainly because of their creative music videos. Such as Tighten Up and their most recent single off their new album, Lonely Boy. From what I know, I don’t see many music videos set as a false movie trailer with full narration of the story line. Which, in my opinion, seems to be pretty damn creative and it gets the attention easily.\n2. Matt and Kim – Cameras\nDirected by Jonathan Del Gatto, who also directed Block After Block for Matt and Kim.. when or even how OFTEN do you see two band members beat the shit out of each other on ‘camera’? Fun, hilarious and entertaining. Love this music video.\n1. Make Some Noise – Beastie Boys\nWhat a smart and GREAT way to get back to their fans with an ENDLESS list cameos in a 30 minute short film as their music video. I was just completely speechless when I first watched it. In a way, they took the Kanye West approach to make a film, but in this case, they made it into one big parody of themselves.\nInstead of posting actual music videos, I thought I would share some music-related videos that premiered over the month of April. Throughout April, the Beastie Boys released their 30 minute movie featuring a list of well-known celebrity cameos to promote their latest album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two which will be released on May 3rd. Then the surprising trailer of Revenge of the Synth that will be the sequel to The Electro Wars. And recently, Nardwuar interviewed Lil Wayne in Vancouver, that is a must watch.\nI have to give so much credit to these guys, I have always been a huge fan of their work. And since their release of REMATCH, The White Panda have gotten a bigger and much more respected name in the blogosphere. Rematch features 47 mash-up tracks with over 100 different samples from various artists. Although this mix-tape is a bit old, I wanted to share it with everyone and show how much work and detail that goes into making a mash-up and mix-tape.\nFor more tracks by The White Panda check out:\nDownload MixTape: HERE\nFull Track Listing\n1. Juicy O’Riley (Notorious B.I.G // The Who)\n2. Don’t Wanna Hurt Your Neck (Khia // The Sounds)\n3. Intergalactic Spell (Beastie Boys // Alphabeat)\n4. Replaylight (Iyaz // Matt & Kim)\n5. Nothin’ On Paris (B.o.B // Friendly Fires)\n6. Genius of Play (David Banner // Tom Tom Club)\n7. Flippin’ Style (50 Cent // Flipsyde)\n8. Alejandhoes (Ludacris // Lady GaGa)\n?9. The Next Starfucker (Dr. Dre // Starfucker)\n10. Excuse Me Miss Cyrus (Jay-Z // Miley Cyrus)\n?11. Get Like Butterflies (David Banner // Crazy Town)\n?12. Teach a Billionaire to Diggity (Blackstreet // Cali Swag District // Travis McCoy)\n13. Praise Outkast (Outkast // Fatboy Slim)\n14. Tipsy In The Sun (J-Kwon // Weezer)\n15. Sugar Groove (Flo Rida // Madonna)\n16. Smooth Ballin’ (Tupac // Michael Jackson)\n?17. Welcome to Celebration (Ludacris // Kool & The Gang)\n18. Ahh California (Trey Songz // Katy Perry)\n19. The Independent Touch (Webbie // Bloodhound Gang)\n?20. Final Thong (Sisqo // Cassian)\n21. Ritual God (Usher // Worship // Bestrack)\n?22. Freak Faces 2Night (Willie Wonk // Electric Youth)\n?23. A Cholo You Know (Down AKA Kilo // Two Door Cinema Club)\n24. Get Ready To Go Low (Ludacris // 2 Unlimited)\n25. Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend To Romance You (Lady GaGa // Black Kids)\n26. Never Gonna Set Me Free (Rick Astley // Phonat)\n27. I’ll Get Your Whistle (Too Short // Classixx)\n28. One More Whoop (Tag Team // Daft Punk)\n29. Wired To The Systems (Dorrough // Knightlife // Ying Yang Twins)\n30. Heads Will Shake (Eminem // A-Trak // Yeah Yeah Yeahs)\n?31. Hold On My Momma (Will.i.am. // The Vanish // Russ Chimes)\n32. Raining Rude Boys (Rihanna // Moby)\n33. Got Some Stratosphere (Obie Trice // Junkie XL)\n34. I Wish I Broke Your Heart (Skee-Lo // Taio Cruz)\n?35. Flashtomania (Phoenix // Calvin Harris)\n36. How We Remember (The Game // David Guetta)\n37. Rhythm To The House (Snap! // Trick Daddy)\n38. Shake The Moonlight (Ying Yang Twins // Fonzerelli)\n39. Always Push ‘Em Up (Fatman Scoop // Pet Shop Boys)\n40. Kiss Anthonio (Chris Brown // Annie // Designer Drugs)\n41. Prez-a-boo (Dead Prez // DEVO)\n42. Overnight Panther (Twista // Crystal Castles)\n43. Alone Over Here (Alice DeeJay // Young Jeezy)\n44. Fireflies Goin’ Down (Young Joc // Owl City)\n45. Drake & Diane (Drake // John Mellencamp)\n46. Shooting Superstars (Eminem // Bag Raiders)\n47. Pop Bottles Baby (Birdman // Justin Bieber)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Country:UK, USA\n- Genre:Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy\n- Director:Joe Cornish\n- Stars:Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Noma Dumezweni, Rebecca Ferguson, Mark Bonnar, Angus Imrie .....\nOld school magic meets the modern world in this epic adventure. Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) thinks hes just another nobody, until he stumbles upon the mythical sword in the stone, Excalibur. Now, he must unite his friends and enemies into a band of knights and, together with the legendary wizard Merlin (Sir Patrick Stewart), take on the wicked enchantress", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This year, we welcomed our very first generation of Chef Works brand ambassadors — 16 incredible chefs who are inspiring us inside and outside the kitchen. Next up, meet Chefs Ryan Van Voorhis, Seth Bradley, Galen Zamarra, and Barret Beyer!\nChef Ryan Van Voorhis & Chef Seth Bradley of Nude Dude Food\nRyan Van Voorhis and Seth Bradley are not your conventional private chefs. As the founders of Nude Dude Food, a private dining and catering service in Chicago and Nashville, this duo is living proof that lighthearted vibes and serious eats can pair beautifully. Whether they’re sporting chef coats or their signature shirtless-with-aprons look, Chef Ryan and Chef Seth are masters at elevating simple, locally-sourced ingredients into a dining experience that wows their clients every time. Add the fact that they’re best friends, and you get a dynamic you simply can’t recreate. Don’t let the cheeky name fool you — Nude Dude Food is raising the bar for private dining and the culinary world as a whole.\n|“Care about what you’re cooking and where it comes from. Then, present it in a way that’s relatable and be a nice person. The longer we’re in it, the more we go back to that. The food is first, and the way we connect with people over the food is very important.”|\nChef Galen Zamarra\nChef Galen Zamarra is a James Beard Award-winning chef, restaurateur, and culinary consultant. The epicurean spirit beckoned him at a young age, and before he was even old enough to get a job, he started taking cooking classes at a local community college. His passion eventually took him to New York, where he graduated with honors from the Culinary Institute of America. Since then, he’s worked with globally-renowned chefs David Bouley, Georges Blanc, Michel Bras and Alain Passard, and he’s opened three restaurants in New York City, all of which allowed him to focus on what he loves most — seasonal, local ingredients. Today, Chef Galen is the executive chef of The Lodge at Blue Sky in Park City, Utah, where he reimagines Mountain West cuisine and gathers inspiration from the ingredients and cultures of the region. Chef Galen describes his cooking style as ingredient-driven, supported by proper technique. Restaurant culture is also top-of-mind for Chef Galen, and he works hard to cultivate a supportive and positive atmosphere for his teams.\n|“This industry allows us to be creative and unique — and I don’t think you can say that about a lot of jobs… When you open a restaurant, whether it’s a café or a bar or a restaurant, you can really make that an extension of your own personality.”|\nChef Barret Beyer\nChef Barret Beyer is a Florida-based private chef who brings his ambitious New Yorker spirit to everything he does. You might have seen him on season 11 of Hell’s Kitchen, but Chef Barret is so much more than a TV personality with an awesome mohawk. As a chef, veteran, serial entrepreneur, and more, he has a lot to teach us about creative risk-taking and the art of the pivot — skills that have become so essential in today’s rapidly-evolving world. As someone who once struggled with substance use disorder, Chef Barret is passionate about underscoring the importance of mental health and the value of the culinary arts as a creative outlet.\n|“Don’t be afraid to step outside the box. Don’t be afraid to mess up and create something. Some of my best recipes have been something I messed up that somehow turned out amazing.”|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ladies and Gentlemen, dearest fans, my debut EP \"BURN AND RISE\" is finally OUT NOW! Buy it at Shadybrain or other shops:http://www.shadybrain.net/music/electronic/release/burn-and-rise\nAlso check the video for \"BURN AND RISE\", the title track of the EP- it was shot in Glasgow by award winning director Reza Dolatabadi:http://vimeo.com/8965799\nStay tuned! Yours sincerely, Panic Girl\nAnkledeep in organic, wobbling synthesizer marshes, deep down in the machine room where blueprints are being shaped, transformed, chopped and rebuild. Slow thuds, mid rotations, high vibrancies. Black shadow orchids spill out their grains to become flamboyant melodies, keys, strings, harps, celli, guitars, weaving them into a lush orchestration. And finally her warm, husky voice that guides you through the misty tales.\nPanic Girls’ addiction to form and manipulate soundscapes began when she was a little child. After 20 years of growing unerringly into an audio junkie, synthesizer geek, studio nerd, instrument stockpiler, anything and anyone sampler, tangible multi-touch interface devotee, sound designer and singer she now decided to release her very own downbeat sound with the debut EP ...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Minecraft Sticker- There are effects like Diamond Golem, Mutant Creeper, Titan Herobrine from Minecraft, Creeper from Minecraft, Enderman from Minecraft, Steve from Minecraft on your photos, Minecraft Mob Battles!\nYou can edit your photo and avatar to make it funny and share them with your friends, Add funny & interesting sticker and give fun effect to your image with a touch and bring the magic to your picture!\n- Regular updates with new Minecraft sticker. - Lots of fun & entertainment with your friends and relatives with editing their photos! - More than 70+ free graphics sticker are available! - Very easy to use! - Add text/caption functionality - User friendly user interface and attractive app designs\nPhotography tools and effects:\n- Take camera photo to add sticker - Select album photo to add sticker - Add multiple sticker to the photo - Add text/caption to photo - Change font of text - Change font size - Zoom sticker - Flip image - Rotate image - Erase sticker - Delete sticker - Save image to album - Share image via other app\nDisclaimer: All images are copyright of their perspective owners. All images in the app are available on public domains. This image is not endorsed by any of the perspective owners, and the images are used simply for aesthetic purposes. No copyright infringement is intended, and any request to remove one of the images/logos/names will be honored.\nThank you for Downloading. Please Rate & Review the App.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Octogenarians Georges and Anne are retired music teachers whose daughter lives abroad with her family. When Anne suffers a stroke and is left paralyzed on one side of her body, the couple’s abiding love for each other is put to the test. Directed by Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. French. Two hours, 7 minutes. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.\nInternational Film Festival\nTuesday, April 8, 2014, 6:30 pm", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "if a cardmaker could make cards? 13. Yes, that is how many I made on a rainy weekend. I was bound a determined to use up a mat stack from DCWV that I purchased sometime last year. Used the stash of flowers, brads, twine and.... some stampable linen that I purchased from CTMH about 3 years ago. Love this stuff- makes its own statement and when you pull on the threads, you can make it look like a well worn garment label.\nThis card was made using the sketch over at Clean and Simple Stamping #98. Though my card is clean, simple it is not. I had to add the flowers, twine, leaves and brads to finish off my card.\nThis card is inspired by the sketch challenge at Get Sketchy #46. The base of the card is just a patterned piece of paper from the stack, added the scraps to make the top sentiment focal piece. Chocolate grosgrain and LOTS of gems finish off this card.\nHoot loves u? I have seen so many lovely banner cards I wanted to try my own. This used the sketch from Christmas Card challenges #31, Charisma Cardz #27 Watch the birdie, and 365 cards day #131 banners, and Paper sundaes #26, lots of layers.\nAnd finally this card is for a dear friend of mine. Haven't seen her since school let out- between the 2 of us, our 6 kids keeps us running around to camps and the pool. Not much of a mommy social life during the summer! The bird stamp is from the dollar section of Mike's! What a bargain! Used the sketch at Inspirational Card Sketches #73, Charisma CArdz watch the birdie, and Stamp Challenges recipe: 1 image, 1 Designer paper and 1 ribbon (twine).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It has been four and a half years… yes YEARS… since I painted my last EDM challenge item.\nEDM stands for Every Day Matters and is a list of 328 items to draw or paint. It was created by Karen Winters to help artists create a daily practice without mulling over the eternal question, What should I draw today? I’ve been oh so sloooowly working my way though the list but never have I gone this long since my last entry. I painted number 122- draw something where shade is a prominent part of the subject, back in March 2017. Ouch.\nEDM 123 – Draw a bell.\nYes, it’s a bell… a Christmas ornament bell. I had to dig around in the closet to find it and now that it’s out early I guess I’ll have to find a safe spot for it to rest until it can take it’s rightful spot of honor on our holiday tree!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A few months later a parcel arrived with two copies of the book and I couldn't wait to get to my page!\nOf course all my friends and family got a copy of the book for Christmas too!\nThe beginning of this year I had a message from the publisher saying they wanted to produce a revised softback copy of the book with added artists and if I wanted to add a few more images I could. By this time I had a new cat Morpheus and I had done loads of artworks based on him! It was difficult choosing which prints to send in as I had so many!\nI narrowed it down to a few favourites a \"Dreamy\" collagraph print from when he was a tiny kitten!\n|Dreamy Collagraph Print|\n|Play With Me! Collagraph Print|\n|Captain Jack Kitty Collagraph Print|\n|Happy Kitty Collagraph Print|\n|Kitten Cute Linocut Print|\n|Kitten Play Linocut Print|\nMorpheus the cat really loves being in a book!\nThe book is available direct from the publishers Mascot Media or from Amazon", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The project we just completed is a commercial spot for eSignal, currently airing nationwide. eSignal is a platform designed for dedicated, professional day traders and we wanted to emphasize the sophistication that eSignal guarantees its users.\nThe 3D graphics bring eSignal to life, mirroring actual features within the product. This is some of our best work to date and we couldn’t be prouder of our team.\nProduced by Transvideo Studios and its creative division, Picturelab", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Desperation to make:\nI ended my first self-produced show in a serious production hangover. It ended. There was no one on the phone or in email to help me put it back up anywhere else anytime soon. I was desperate to make something.\nI have always wanted to try busking a little more formally. I have made various pieces of performance art before and even been involved in guerrilla style street art. (flash mobs? I wish.) One of the art forms I have always admired is graffiti. Besides all the political implications behind tagging, some of the small, medium, and large mural-sized pieces are visually stunning and the fact that they often don’t have permission speaks to how much people in that given place need creative expression.\n(I promised myself I wouldn’t get into an entire blog post about that here.)\nCreative Fast-Food without the calories:\nI wanted to do something as immediate and accessible and creative as graffiti, but legally, and using my skills. So…I invented a new style of busking that I had a fun time explaining at the Sydney city office. It’s an installation I call HYPERGRAPHIA based on the psychological disorder that compels some people with neuro-atypical brains to write everything, obsessively and without censorship. (I mean writing-on-the-shower-curtains level compulsive.)\nI pick a theme appropriate to every location. At the bustling “no-time-for-you” Queen Victoria Building square in downtown Sydney I went with my post-show feeling…”vulnerability.” I write for an hour, without stopping or planning, in chalk, on the street. It’s usually huge.\nIt was entirely successful and fulfilling, and fabulous to watch people really engage with what I wrote as well as what I was busy writing…live, in front of them, for all to see. Now I do this as often as I can in a large populated area. So far I have done 4 installations (including 1 by commission) and will be adding more.\nI will try to post where and when I do these on my\n“Upcoming Events” part of the page as well as twitter and facebook (more likely). It is one of the most vibrant and fulfilling parts of my artistic life, and is free for everyone, artist and non-artist alike.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "CHANEL introduces NOIR ET OR Paris-Shanghai Collection\nFor the “METIER D’ART” fashion show in Shanghai, Peter Philips, Global Creative Director of CHANEL Makeup, created an exclusive collection, NOIR ET OR. The collection is a glamorous fantasy of Shanghai in the 30’s and 40’s as Coco Chanel herself may have imagined it. The black and gold eyes and nails complimented the gilded and jet black accents shown on the runway.\nLigne et Ombre de Chanel in Jet-Gold\nMatte black eyeliner and sparkling gold eyeshadow $45.00\nLe Vernis Nail Colour in Black Velvet\nMatte black nail color in a frosted bottle $25.00\nLe Vernis Nail Colour in Gold Lamé\nSatiny gold nail color $25.00\nLe Vernis Nail Colour in Illusion d‘or\nTransparent sparkling gold nail color $25.00\nOn counter: April 2010\nAvailable exclusively at www.CHANEL.com, CHANEL boutiques and CHANEL Makeup Studios.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hello from the Hill Country, south of Austin Texas. Josh and I are enjoying our first anniversary returning to near where we spent our honeymoon. This time we're staying in an Airstream Trailer. It's cute and cozy. I told Josh I think it would be fun to live here. I would only need an outside room because even though I could squeeze my active library in the trailer I would need another room to house the rest of my books and also the occasional guest.\nJosh said, yeah and that outside room would need to have four rooms inside of it and a full bath and high ceilings then he wouldn't mind living in an Airstream, either.\nWell, it was a romantic thought.\nWhile here I finished the last of three novels by Georges Simenon. Simenon was a Belgian writer best known for his prolific amount of murder mysteries centered around a Parisian detective, Inspector Jules Maigret.\nMaigret is a cynical slow moving character that is incapable of drawing conclusions as to the moral compass murderers and thieves live by. He seems to solves these problems because they are his job and they seem to ningle him like some mathematical problem that gives him no peace until he finds the solution.\nNone of his stories are formulaic. In the three murders in this collection the people are murdered for very different reasons. The first man is an extremely unpleasant man and everyone connected to him, including his family, had good reason to want him dead. This of course leaves the reader clueless as to the actual perpetrator because everyone else had equally good motives and when we do find out who did it, it leaves one shrugging and thinking, \"Oh. That one did it.\"\nThe next one, everyone involved in the victim's life is suspected, especially one unpleasant and uncooperative caregiver to the dead man but the ending is as unexpected as it is different from the first story. Not all things or people are as they seem.\nFinally, the last story is about a petty thief who is brutally murdered. Maigret had dealings with the man before and had grown to have a sort of, not affection, but perhaps a compassion, for him. Maigret himself doesn't know how to describe it. He simply cannot dislike the man, even though in my opinion, he was a creep. Apparently this murder victim, Honore Cuendet is some sort of adrenaline junkie. He carefully cased his houses, only of the very rich, and only robbed them while they were at home.\nBecause a parallel storyline about a gang of bank robbers travels abreast with the murder mystery, one assumes there's a connection but it turns out to be a red herring (sorry for the spoiler). And the actual murderers are people who one could not have suspected because they were barely in the story. Yet the conclusion is entirely logical.\nI don't know if everyone would enjoy Simenon's stories. He writes as though everyone were clinically depressed. No one shows emotion over anything. I know it is a characteristic, even a stereotype, of French culture but everyone, I mean everyone, has mistresses or are mistresses. There is really no moral compass to anyone's life.\nWhen Maigret interviews a girlfriend of Cuendet, he asks why the victim never married her. The woman shrugs and replies that she assumes he probably already had a wife. As if it were of no importance.\nAnd yet, Maigret does not have a mistress. His wife is there in the background, calm, loving and supportive. When he is woken at 2am for an investigation, she is immediately in the kitchen making him coffee. She is waiting for him when he returns at the end of a harrowing day.\nStrangely there is no emotion revealed between the two of them but the actions show a genuine love: her's through support and his through his implied fidelity.\nWhile I find none of the characters sympathetic or particularly likeable, I still enjoyed romping through the Parisian streets with this laconic inspector and encountering the different character types that he must confront in order to solve his murders.\nWhether Simenon is giving the reader a realistic taste of Parisian life and culture, who knows? As Oscar Wilde says, perhaps our image of a thing is more enjoyable than the actual thing itself.\nGeorges Simenon (1903-1989)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Seven Sopranos\nThe 7 Sopranos have been dubbed “Australia’s Most Beautiful Voices” following the successful launch of their self-titled ABC Classics album in 2013, which debuted at Number 2 on the ARIA charts. In 2016 they released an independent album – “Popcorn” – a selection of songs from stage and screen, based on their current touring show Songs From Stage and Screen.\nWhat is most striking about The 7 Sopranos is their commanding stage presence and vocal prowess. Their refined vocal skills make this operatic ensemble of seven talented women a show-stopping headline wherever they go. They convert the inconvertible to the power and versatility of classically trained performers with their breadth of work covering everything from opera to musical theatre to contemporary song. Their irresistible style, personas and unique sound appeal to music lovers everywhere.\nFrom Dubai to Dunedin to Dubbo and beyond, The 7 Sopranos have clocked up hundreds of appearances across the globe. Appealing to music lovers everywhere, they successfully straddle the divide between opera and mainstream music, creating their own unique fusion of faithful classical traditions and techniques meshed with contemporary music, enchanting new and enthusiastic audiences. The 7 Sopranos are an accessible, versatile all-female ensemble of breath-taking music makers.\nBradley Daley has won critical and popular praise for some of opera’s most expansive tenor roles..\nTeddy has rapidly established an international career on both the opera stage and concert..\nUnder the baton of Founding Artistic Director & Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams, The..\nThe multi-talented Mick Buckley first found fame as the rockin’ drummer for \"The Radiators\",..\nTamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and recognised pianists. Soloist and..\nMirusia is an Australian-Dutch soprano and has gained worldwide fame as soloist with Andre Rieu...\nPeter Cousens, a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), is the only Australian..\n“Forceful, funny, powerful and poetic, Ami Williamson is a Folk Singer/ Songwriter like none..\nResident on board Bravo! Cruise of the Performing Arts since it first set sail in 2013 and a..\nLes Wilson's Swing Force Big Band has emerged as a bright and energetic..", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Remarks by the First Lady at Classical Music Series Workshops\nMRS. OBAMA: Well, hello. (Laughter.) Good afternoon. Welcome to the White House. How's it been going? We've heard you everywhere. Good music going on.\nSo I am -- I'm thrilled that you could join us for this music workshop, where you've had a chance to learn from some of the greatest classical musicians alive today. And now we have a chance to hear from all of you, the classical music superstars of tomorrow. Is that who's in the room? Say yes. (Laughter.) Yes, that's me! Say yes. Own it! It's me! (Laughter.)\nWith us today are Joshua Bell on violin, Alisa Weilerstein on cello, Sharon Isbin on guitar, and Awadagin Pratt on piano. (Applause.) They are the best in the world, and we're incredibly lucky to have them today.\nI also want to thank two of our youngest performers, Jason Yoder -- Jason, where are you? Hey, Jason. Jason blew me away in Pittsburgh, and so much so that when we organized this, I said, get Jason. And Jason is here. Yay for Jason.\nAnd also Sujari -- how are you? -- Sujari Britt, who's only eight years old, Sasha's age, but is already performing on a regular basis. Let's give those two a round of applause. (Applause.) We're so proud of you both.\nAnd finally I want to thank all of you young people who have come from all over the country to play together, to learn together, and hopefully to make new friends today. I love events like this because this is what the White House is all about. It's the People's House. We say that all of the time. It's a place that's steeped in history. You can look on -- the pictures on the walls, and there are so many stories that can be told. But also it's a place where we like to start new traditions and to bring people together in different ways.\nAnd that's what we're doing today, because nothing mixes old and new quite like classical music. Many of the beautiful concertos and sonatas you're playing today were written hundreds of years ago, long before CDs and computers and MP3 players were ever invented. The only reason we know what they sound like is because the great composers of history scratched those notes into parchment with quill pens.\nBut today you can play these same notes on an electric violin. You can write your own variations of these songs online and e-mail them around the world. And you can mix and blend your instruments in ways that Beethoven and Mozart never could have imagined.\nThat's what makes classical music timeless, because even though it's been around for centuries, musicians like all of you are always reinterpreting and replaying it in ways that we've never heard before -- and that makes it so exciting.\nNow, I know that what you're doing doesn't always feel easy at times. Is that true? Yes, yes, I can get -- I hear that. And I know how hard you all work, and practicing even when you don't feel like it sometimes, right, and lugging heavy instruments around when you don't feel like it, pushing yourselves to learn new pieces, or getting that last measure just right. Many of you are perfectionists, and it takes a lot of energy and time, and it's not always easy.\nBut I can tell you this. It's through that kind of struggle, whether it's through an instrument or writing or research, it's through that struggle that you find what you truly have to offer to your instrument or to anything in life. And you won't just learn about rhythm and melody and pitch when you're working with your instruments; you're going to learn about discipline and determination and taking risks.\nAnd I know your instructors and parents have probably told you this time and time again, but they were right -- they're right, I'm sorry -- you'll learn that if you believe in yourself and put in your best effort, that there's nothing that you can't achieve. And those aren't just lessons about music. These are really lessons about life.\nSo I'm here today to tell you to keep up the good work and never lose that passion that you feel about the instruments that you play and that the music that you make.\nThat's the passion that drives Joshua Bell, who was just four years old, I understand, when his parents caught him stringing rubber bands between the knobs of dressers, stretching and plucking them to play different notes.\nIt's the same passion that drives Alisa, who I understand her grandmother made her a string quartet out of cereal boxes when she was a little girl. And she kept sawing away at the cardboard cello, playing along with her musician parents until they finally gave in and signed her up for lessons.\nAwadagin started playing piano after his mother bought a dusty upright piano for just a hundred dollars. That passion drove him to stick with the piano, even when he felt like skipping lessons to play tennis instead.\nAnd Sharon's father promised her that if she practiced guitar for an hour, she could go outside and launch her model rockets. And after a while, the rockets stayed on the ground, but then her musical career took off.\nIt wasn't that long ago that these great musicians that you celebrate today were sitting in your seats, standing in your shoes. And that's why they're here -- to show you that if you follow that passion and never give up, you too can claim your place in the world of classical music.\nSo thank you all for celebrating with us. Thank you for learning with us today. And I'm excited now to see what you all have been working on.\nSo let's get this show going. Thank you. (Applause.)\nMichelle Obama, Remarks by the First Lady at Classical Music Series Workshops Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/320251", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Montalembert is a fire-resistant, matte jacquard with a geometric motif accentuated by a different colour thread. Dynamic polygons seem to interact and interlock perfectly. A thread ensures that they remain subtly separate and accentuates their contrasts.\nAvailable in monochrome shades and bright colours, there are 6 fantastic variations for you to choose from.\nTo read more about the collection Click Here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Yo Yo Honey Singh, who fought with bipolar disorder and has recovered now, is all set for a grand comeback with a song in Luv Ranjan’s Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. Titled Dil Chori.\nMakers of the film, starring Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha and Sunny Singh, shared a teaser of the song over the weekend.\nThe song’s title reminds us of a hit number by Hans Raj Hans from the 90s, Dil Chori Saada Ho Gaya.\nSonu ke Titu Ki Sweety is the first of a three-film contract between T Series and Luv Ranjan. It is said to be a quirky, new age love triangle set in Delhi and UP.\nAfter a controversial absence from the public scene following reports of a fight with Shah Rukh Khan and being in a rehab, Honey Singh said in an interview last year, “Nobody knows this, and I wanted to tell the world myself, not through a spokesperson. The last 18 months were the darkest phase of my life, and I wasn’t in a state to talk to anyone. I know there were rumours that I was in rehab, but I was in my Noida house throughout. Truth is, I was suffering from bipolar disorder. It went on for 18 months, during which I changed four doctors, the medication wasn’t working and crazy things were happening.”\nThe wait is over …\nLots of love ✌…. ????????????????….. https://t.co/Gymi2zjlZf\n— Yo Yo Honey Singh (@asliyoyo) December 26, 2017\nBefore his latest tweet, Honey had also shared pictures from the Ganges, and dropped hints in his tweet that he was working on a song. “Chillin at Ganges. Makin #BEATS writing #VERSES. “Jai Ganga Maiya Ki” #YoYo #YoYoHoneySingh #Music,” he tweeted last week.\n— Yo Yo Honey Singh (@asliyoyo) December 16, 2017\nThe Punjabi rapper has been reportedly spending nearly 12 hours a day in studios, making new songs and is likely to reveal the new song around the New Year.\nHis last song was Aankhon Aankhon from Bhaag Johnny (2015).\nHigh Heels, Blue Eyes, Lungi Dance, Dope Shope, Desi Kalakaar and Angrezi Beat are some of his most popular hits that continue to rule hearts and disco parties.\nProduced by Luv Films’ Luv Ranjan, Ankur Garg and Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar of T-Series, the film is slated to be released on November 3.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today I thought I would start my cookie journey by outlining a few cookies, and then filling them in. I baked my cookies using heart cookie cutters, and I made pink icing. They did not turn out like I wanted them to. I will say that I did all this late in the evening, and I was tired. Tomorrow I am going to try to decorate in the morning. I am just more alert in the morning!\nI started with a bowl of the icing that I made yesterday.\nI added a little water to make it a better consistency.\nI drew a knife through the icing, and counted to 10\nto see if it would be 10 seconds until the line disappeared.\nIt was, so the icing was a good consistency.\nThis is called 10 Second Icing!\nI used an AmeriColor brand Soft Pink. I love this\nbrand because the color is dropped in by squeezing the\nbottle. It is so easy to control.\nI put in five drops and mixed.\nI filled my bag about 1/3 full with the pink icing.\nI outlined the heart cookie. I think I should have outlined\nby leaving a little bit of an edge,\nso the icing is not on the very edge of the cookie.\nI filled in by continuing to go around the design until the\nheart was covered, then I moved the cookie back and forth\nuntil all the spots were filled.\nThen I did the same thing to several small cookies also.\nThey are ok. But just ok.\nI wouldn’t want to give them to anyone!\nSo therefore, they are not good!\nBut practice makes perfect, and I will continue to\nmake some more heart cookies.\nFor more information of how to decorate this way,\ngo to Sweetopia’s YouTube page. She has a\nwonderful tutorial on what I did today, except\nhers look so, so great!\nSee you tomorrow when we will do some\nadd ons to the basic decorated cookie\nthat we did today!\nDon’t forget about our\nRandom Acts of Kindness Giveaway Blog Hop! We are giving away a cookie decorating kit full of\nuseful things you are sure to use!\nClick on the link for your chance to win.\nOur giveaway ends Tuesday at midnight!!\nThanks for joining me today!\nHope to see you tomorrow!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lip 4: Big Mouth Strikes Again Convertible Neckpiece\nWith a nod to The Smiths, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Salvador Dali, get your BOLD on with this REWARE one-of-a-kind convertible Lip neckpiece and pin, \"Lip 4: Big Mouth Strikes Again\" from the Under The Killing Moon series. Wear the lips around your neck to be in the “throes of passion”or kiss them to your jacket or sweater.\nMade from repurposed LEGO®, sterling and Argentium silver. Removable neck cord is strung with coated steel wire and hooks into a recycled tin back plate. Handmade steel pin with sterling silver mechanism.\nemiko explores this new series of work, inspired by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's Surrealist imagery, New Wave/Post Punk music, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and high fashion photo stories. Upon close inspection the lips appear Neo-Impressionistic and abstract, but when viewed from afar the image clarifies – much like love in its first stages where true perspective is gained only with distance from it.\nLips Brooch Dimensions: 5.375” L x 3.75” W x 2” D.\nNeck chain hangs 18.25” around neck x 0.625” W x 0.3125” - 0.625” D", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A story of survival, revenge and murder in the frozen north, Shadow of the Wolf has all the subtlety of a silent movie serial. Reportedly, at $30-plus million, the costliest Canadian production ever, this wilderness epic’s oddball international cast enacts the tragic confrontation of native Americans and encroaching whites in the Arctic, circa 1935.\nAs fashioned here from the much honored source novel [Yves Theriault’s Agaguk, adapted by David Milhaud], tale relates the maturation of a young Inuit Eskimo hunter (Lou Diamond Phillips) who, out of violent hatred for whites, is banished by his shaman father, impetuously kills a trader and, in company with the local beauty, forges a difficult life on the tundra. Eventually, everything comes full circle and Agaguk returns to the village to accept the mantle of maturity from his father.\nUnfortunately, the film borders on the laughable throughout due to dialogue that erases the distinction between simple and simple-minded. One notable sequence has Agaguk jumping on board a speeding whale to escape his foes.\nPhillips acts with a heavy seriousness that compounds the problems. As the compromised father, Japanese great Toshiro Mifune lends his imposing presence, but is obviously dubbed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2 Sets of vector fall sale shopping label templates, tags, discounts with different designs and shapes (leave-shaped, arrows, ribbons, etc.) for your designs. Format: Ai, Tif stock vector clip art and illustrations. Free for download.\nSet name: “Fall sale shopping labels” for Adobe Illustrator.\nTheme tags: fall sale, tags, discount, fall leaves.\nMost Popular Today\n- Grunge paper textures\n- Herbal vector clipart\n- Floral round vintage frames vector\n- Christmas banners vector\n- Scientific formulas backgrounds vector\n- Christmas scrapbook patterns vector\n- Vector floral decorative elements\n- Summer alphabet vector\n- Restaurant menu templates vector\n- Seamless floral backgrounds vector\n- Christmas ornate design elements 2019 vector\n- Christmas design elements 2019 vector\n- Thanksgiving icons vector templates\n- Retro Halloween posters and banners vector\n- Halloween posters vector templates\n- Happy Thanksgiving vector card templates\n- Doodle patterns vector\n- Retro Christmas backgrounds vector graphics\n- Vector 2015 New Year backgrounds\n- Modern 2015 Happy New Year vector labels", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hong Kong, 佐敦彌敦道380號\n| +852 2782 1818\nPhoto by Lit Ma / Eaton HK\nEaton HKWhy we love it: Art, food, and social action come together in a vibrant hub\n- A gallery and cinema featuring local artists\n- A cheeky rooftop pool complete with Romanesque columns and frolicking flamingos\n- A food hall with 11 stalls by local chefs\nWhen activist and artist Katherine Lo, who grew up in Hong Kong, decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a hotelier, she had something a bit different than her father's luxury Langham Hotels in mind. As an artist and activist herself, she decided to open properties with art and activism at their heart. The Eaton HK, located in the somewhat gritty Kowloon Island neighborhood of Jordan, has small-but-functional AvroKO-designed rooms that feature thoughtful touches like a Himalayan salt lamp and organic bath products from Grown Alchemists. But why spend time in the room when the rest of the hotel has so much more to offer?\nEaton HK has an art gallery called Tomorrow Maybe; a photography studio; a radio station; a cinema for screenings and discussions; live music venues for performances, panels, workshops, and readings; and artist residency rooms outfitted as professional visual arts and recording studios. Not to mention the paintings, sculptures, and various installations that are found in every corner. The hotel’s culinary offerings include two signature restaurants, two cocktail bars, and Eaton Foodhall, with 11 stalls slinging everything from thick Hong Kong-style toast to traditional congee to vegetarian Japanese specialties. Wellness is also a priority, with a 24-hour gym, complimentary tai chi classes, a rooftop pool, yoga studio, and juice bar. And when guests are ready to hit the city, the bustling markets and dim sum eateries of Nathan Road are waiting.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Modern, groundbreaking, cosmopolitan – three words not often used when describing bluegrass music. Running strong since 2002, The Avett Brothers supply these attributes and more throughout their albums and live shows. Whether they are breaking numerous guitar/banjo strings or belting out a three-part vocal line with raw passion, this band delivers a fantastic bluegrass show by fusing various elements of musical history into their songs.\nSeth and Scott Avett have their roots in rock music, and Seth isn’t afraid to take a mind-numbing acoustic solo. When their rock band, Nemo, broke up, the brothers decided to take their dabbling in acoustic bluegrass up a notch. Along with bassist Bob Crawford, the bluegrass trio was born. Bluegrass tunes are traditionally stories set to music. The Avett Brothers have plenty of engaging, realistic tales of life’s trials and tribulations, which they convey by pouring their lives into the music.\n“I think that we try to do our best to write about things that we know about. We feel that in a song, it doesn’t work if you’re faking it. We want to sing songs that we believe in; it’s easier to do that when we write about our own feelings. Everyone has stories.”\nThe song “Backwards In Time” off their 2006 release The Gleam is a good example of their lyricism. Seth takes a deep look at the journey through life and asks, “Some say with age that our purpose comes clear. / I see the opposite happening here. / Are we losing the fight? / Are we growing backwards in time?”\nThe Gleam consists of just the two brothers, in a self-proclaimed “stripped down and tender” effort. “It was a simple project, really,” said Seth. “It’s a natural setting for Scott and I to sit down together and sing. It was very enjoyable, because we feel comfortable in that set up.”\nTheir most recent album, Emotionalism, embodies the spirit of being true to oneself. The collection of songs, recorded in less than two weeks, presents the many sides to human feelings. Some of these songs are intended to inspire the downtrodden to express themselves; others point out the follies of our irrational, emotional nature. Too often artists set out to write emotional music and wind up with something cliché or insipid, but The Avett Brothers hit the nail on the head with this album.\n“With Emotionalism, we wanted it to get recorded efficiently,” according to Seth. “We had a lot of songs written, so we recorded them the best they could be. Through the process, it became clear to us what it was and what we would call it.”\nThe Avett Brothers tour all over the country to energetic audiences, and they have embraced their fans all over, as indicated by the top of their website – an amalgamated skyline, complete with Golden Gate Bridge, Gateway Arch, Hancock and Empire State buildings. When their upcoming tour kicks off right here at Canopy Club in Urbana, they will be booked to head off to West Virginia, Florida, Arizona and California among other states.\n“We’ve been fortunate with very kind people and friendly people everywhere we’ve been. The crowds keep getting bigger in Chicago and New York, and it’s always good to play at home in North Carolina. We meet a lot of good people in every region of the country.”\nThere are two great opportunities to see The Avett Brothers in the coming months. Head out to Canopy Club Thursday, February 28th. Also, head out to central Illinois to check out the brothers at Summer Camp Festival. Seth mentioned, “I love festivals because of the inherent feeling of celebration,” so expect a superb live performance wherever they play.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Musical Firsts with Xian Lim | Celebrity Interviews\nActor and musician Xian Lim reveals to us the first song he learned on the piano, what gets him ready backstage before a live performance, and his most embarrassing moment on stage.\nVideo by Jear Velasquez\nStyled by Ryuji Shiomitsu\nGrooming by Peps Silvestre\nShot on location at Escala Tagaytay", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome and thanks for stopping by. Carey and I (and Keeley!) like to travel, hike, and explore. Photography is a hobby of mine, and I love bringing my camera along on our adventures. I realized I never do anything with all the photos we take. They just sit on my hard drives collecting virtual dust. What a waste? I decided I needed to build a place to not only showcase my images but also document our travels.\nDouglasTempleman.com is a travel and photography journal with a little bit of this and that mixed in.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Phone Number▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 20\nOffline IDPersonal Info\n- English, ภาษาไทย\n- Duangporn's Airbnb Symbol\nI would like to invite you to stay at my homes in Chiang Mai and /or Phuket during your Thailand trips.\nIn Chiang Mai\nVivacity Home is perfect holiday boutique resort with local art decor.\nViva Chiang Mai nature home closest to city center where city and nature meet.\nPatong Beach house is ultimate dream villa for beach holiday with your own private beach in the midst of Patong.\nLoch Palm Villa is a elegant and perfect venue villa for group or large family .", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "for four vibraphonists and SSA choir (2012)\nI first encountered the music of Bascom Lamar Lunsford on the Smithsonian Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music. I was blown away by the power of his vocal phrasing and banjo picking. There is something mysterious about his music that can’t be put into words—it’s simple and straightforward, yet elusive. The Light Come Down is my homage to Mr. Lunsford and the rarity of his inspiration. It is also a tribute to the musicians of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, who shine wherever they go.\nThe Light Come Down is inspired by shape note singing and should be sung using a bright and nasally sound. The first half of the piece is meant to have a hymn-like quality while the second half of the piece is highly rhythmic and energetic.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This product is only available on custom orders. Please fill the form below and our team will get back to you asap.\nKatan tissue pishwas hand-worked with silver embroidery and hints of pink and lemon on necklines and borders with a beautiful floral booti chan all over. An ice blue Farshi lehnga embroidered with crystals, sitara and resham with silver shimmer inserts on borders. Paired with a silver zari net dupatta with thin scalloped floral borders on four sides and single sequin chan all over", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wendy Lawton Hans Brinker Art Doll\nWendy Lawton Hans Brinker Art Doll is from the delightful story, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge, proved to be the inspiration for Wendy Lawton’s 13″ porcelain art doll of Hans, proudly displaying his silver skates. This was the 3rd design in the Classic Series by Wendy Lawton created in 1985 in an edition of 250 in her Turlock California studio.\nWendy’s work has garnered an impressive array of awards. In past years, Lawton dolls have been nominated for close to seventy industry awards, winning the coveted DOTY eleven times and the Dolls Award of Excellence three times.\nThis is #19 of 250 and in new condition.\nMade in USA", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "when large flakes of snow came down today\nand the tip of my nose felt cold\nbut everything else was snug inside sweater\nand scarf and hat and hood\nI thought this isn’t so bad\nthe cold ground\nwith leaves stiff and shiny\nand no blue\nonly grey or maybe even pure white\nand all the mountains finally standing\nwith naked trees showing\nand that’s when I felt it\nthe succumbing to the inevitable\nthe knowing that no wish\nwill change it\nand the letting go then\nof all wishes\nwhat it is is not as sad as it may sound\nwhat it is is freedom\nI like it. I feel like it could be a real word.\nI just like the thought of this.\nYour nose was cold, but everything else was warm \"It's not so bad.\"\nI love it.\nEven though our bodies tend to work in unison. One part hurts and the whole thing is contempt.\nI guess our minds work the same way.\nOne thing goes wrong and our whole days are ruined.\nParts of us hurt, other parts feel fine, and others feel great. Our mood inevitably depends on which parts we succumb to.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Marimekko’s Pieni Siirtolapuutarha cushion cover features Maija Louekari’s cheerful pattern that depicts beautiful summer flowers growing in allotment gardens. The cushion cover is made of 100% cotton fabric, measures 50 cm x 50 cm and has a zip closure on the side.\nPieni Siirtolapuutarha cushion cover, off white-black\n- 100% cotton\n- Off-white, black\n- 50 cm\n- 50 cm\n- Concealed zip closure on one side.\nFinnish print designer Maija Louekari (b. 1982) is well-known especially for the textile prints designed for Marimekko. Louekari has studied at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and in 2003 she won a design competition organized jointly by her university and Marimekko. She has worked as a freelance designer for Marimekko ever since.\nLouekari finds inspiration for her patterns from everyday life and the small things, people and sounds that surround her. Also different environments from urban metropolises to Finnish forests contribute to her work. Most of Louekari’s large, uniform patterns have been hand-drawn, and she also likes to experiment with different techniques such as paper cutting. Among her most important works are the Siirtolapuutarha and Räsymatto patterns, originally designed for Marimekko's Oiva tableware range in 2009.View all products\nThe Product Sustainability Framework, our criteria of sustainable design, helps you find the most sustainable products in our selection. Read below which sustainability criteria this product has met.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dorcas Coloring Page\nThe believers in that church sent for peter.\nDorcas coloring page. They can serve as a great take home activity. 21 coloring pages naaman being healed from dorcas helps others coloring page. Coloring page of dorcas tabitha.\nPeople also love these ideas. For your info there is another 39 similar pictures of dorcas helps others coloring page that megane hahn uploaded you can see below. Paul lowered in a basket coloring page make your world more colorful with free printable coloring pages from italks.\nPaul lowered in a basket coloring page coloring pages are a great way to end a sunday school lesson. Dorcas bible page to print and color 026. Dorcas who also was called tabitha had a special ministry in the early church.\nStay safe and healthy. Then one day she became sick and she died. The most useful component of coloring pages are there academic price.\nDorcas helping the poor and serving others for children s ministry. Dorcas in the bible coloring pages ebcs 3560de2d70e3. Saved by erin riddle.\nNow allow s look at exactly how a preschool coloring book could actually aid you reconstruct your group. Dorcas helps others coloring page encouraged to my own website on this time period i ll show you about dorcas helps others coloring page and after this this is actually the 1st impression. Dorcas sunday school lesson crafts and activity ideas how to make crafts and activities relating to.\n- Watercolor Brush In Photoshop Cs6\n- Watercolor Brush Set Procreate Free\n- Watercolor Brushes Walmart\n- Watercolor Brush In Photoshop\n- Watercolor Brush Stroke Vector\n- Watercolor Brush Pens\n- Watercolor Brush Pens How To Use\n- Watercolor Brush Pens Tutorial\n- Watercolor Brush Pen Painting Tutorial\n- Watercolor Brush Pen Photoshop\n- Watercolor Brush Pens Target\n- Watercolor Brush Strokes Free Download\n- Watercolor Brush Vector\n- Watercolor Brush Photoshop Cc 2019\n- Watercolor Brush Pen Painting Ideas\n- Watercolor Brushes Illustrator Cs6 Download\n- Watercolor Brush Png\n- Watercolor Bottle Box\n- Watercolor Brushes Illustrator Cc\n- Watercolor Brush Pens For Beginners", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Entered a new challenge blog, Take a Word with this digi page. Roses is the current theme and I decided to team it with a sugar skull.\nVictorian Rouge Design Sheet\nDay of the Dead design sheet\nBack layer - Black square\nred dial clock cut from Victorian Rouge\nDay of the Dead image\nsugar skull cut out and placed on top of original skull in the image\nrose & arm from Victorian Rouge\nrose (in eye) cut from a duplicate rose and arm.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Archive for July 21, 2010\nBook: The Giver, by Lois Lowry\nIllustrated by: Lucy Knisley\nThis scene from the fourth chapter is a weird one. Jonas is fulfilling his last few volunteer hours as “an eleven,” so he rides his bike to the “House of the Old,” to join his friends in caring for the elderly of the community. There, he bathes a woman who tells him glowingly about a “release” that took place earlier, when an man at the house of the old was “released” from the community.\nThere’s a lot of talk of physicality in this scene. It’s explained that within the community, seeing anyone naked is forbidden (excluding the elderly and the very young). Much time is spent describing the steamy room and the woman’s frail skin and Jonas’ friend, Fiona, who, nearby, is washing an elderly man.\nIt’s always been a really eerily visual scene to me. The strange sexuality of this moment points out how the rest of life within the community is decidedly un-sexual. Reproduction is handled through designated birthmothers who are (one assumes) artificially inseminated. Even “mothers” and “fathers” are assigned to one another, and seem to behave like just good pals.\nMan, this is such a great, creepy book.\nIn this chapter, Jonas and his family gather around the breakfast table to discuss their dreams from the previous night. Jonas shares a confusing, uncomfortable dream, in which he is trying to bathe his friend Fiona as he did for the elderly woman in the previous chapter. In the dream, Fiona laughingly refuses, which makes Jonas “angry.” His mother explains that the dream is his first “stirring,” which indicates that he has reached the time when he should begin to take the daily pills that are taken by all adults in the community.\nAnother creepy one. The dream is actually less sexual than the bathing scene from the former chapter, but it’s strange that Jonas is consumed with a kind of anger in his dream. This frustration, while perfectly natural in sexy dreams, reflects how repressed the sexuality is within this community, so that sexuality manifests as frustration and “wanting” in Jonas’ dream.\nCongratulated on reaching the age that allows him to join his parents and friend Asher in taking the pills, Jonas becomes proud of his new status and takes the pills. As soon as he’s taken them, he tries to recapture the “pleasurable feelings in the dream,” but they quickly slip away and vanish.\nThey drugged the sexy right out of this community!\nI thought these two chapters went so well together that they should post both at once. Next month: The start of the The Ceremony!\nWhen we last saw him Atreyu had just set out on his quest to find a cure for the Childlike Empress. Since visiting the glass towers of Eribo he has ridden through many wondrous parts of Fantasia, he has encountered the Nothing itself in the Howling forest. In his dreams a great buffalo told him to seek out the Ancient Morla, a giant turtle and perhaps the oldest creature in their world.\nMorla lives in the swamps of despair however and Atreyu loses his dear little horse Artax, when the poor creature becomes to sad to go on and lets herself sink into the mud of the swamp.\nThough he manages to find the aged turtle, Morla scoffs him and tells him the end of the world doesn’t matter to her. She’s so old, she doesn’t care about anything befalling Fantasia, she’s outlived everything so far. But if he does insist on an answer, perhaps Atreyu should seek out the Southern Oracle.\nThe Southern Oracle however lives on the other side of Fantasia, and Atreyu continues his journey, though much sadder, slower and wearier. Still he does encounter Falcor a luck dragon and it is the nature of those creatures to bestow good fortune on their friends and companions. So Atreyu does make it to the Southern Oracle, where he is received into the care of two gnomes who can tell him all about the three gates that anyone who wishes to visit Uyulala, the oracle, must pass.\nSo that is where we find him now, standing before the two sfinxes who guard the first gate.\nA slightly different picture this month, as I realised too late that the drawing I had made for the scene I wanted to illustrate, was lovely, spiffy and all that, but that I had no way to finish it on time, seeing as how I have no scanner this week. The unfortunate consequence of house and dog sitting for my mum, while she’s in France. So while I do get the advantages of a week in a nice house to myself, said nice house does not have any device for putting drawings on the internet.\nThat’s why I decided to go back to the style of the very first thing I made for Picturebook Report, the title page. You see in the actual book, every chapter has a wonderfully illustrated title page with the first letter of that chapter in beautiful calligraphy. This is then my version of those ‘official’ illustrations.\nSo here you are:\nChapter : The Three Gates\nFalcor was still sleeping when….", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For the first half of the composition of each of my novels I have been consumed by a sense of not knowing what I'm doing, and for the second half I have been consumed by the certainty that I know exactly what I am doing and should not be doing it.--Alice McDermottWell, I hope I come out on the other side of this looking like Alice McDermott. Because two days ago, as I was quite happily editing my novel, it occurred to me: this is a disaster. The whole concept of the thing is broken; I am forcing perfectly decent characters into a totally implausible situation, which has the effect of making the characters themselves implausible. There is no ground. It's like the Wizard of Oz, when the cyclone comes and picks up the house and Dorothy and Toto and a whole bunch of fragments of their former lives--only in my book, they never land again. The whirlwind just keeps going, picking up more and more stuff, and making everyone, including me, dizzy.\nThe odd thing is, I am sure that during most of the writing process, this is the effect that I wanted. But why the hell did I want that? Does anyone want that? Maybe I have just been reading too many slow and stately novels lately, and too many realistic ones. Maybe this is simply the horror of commitment, of realizing that the framework of the novel is finally locked in and can't fundamentally be changed. Or...it could just be bad.\nThis is normal, right? This panic?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you have been following my Facebook Page, you’ll know that today is Freebie Friday, where I am sharing free music and books (legal ones, of course 🙂 ) for you to check out. Stop over and see what’s up this week!\nIn honor of the theme, I’m also sharing something here. You can listen to a new album by Kate Miller-Heidke by stopping by aol music and the MSN listening booth to see what you think before you purchase. Check out one of the tracks at the bottom of this post.\nSo what’d you guys think? Will you be purchasing this album? Did you like the free tracks amazon was featuring today that I discussed on the page? Comment and let me know! Til next time…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "At Talking Tree Creative, we transform your message into a dynamic experience, on screen, on stage, or online, that truly impacts your audience. This is not simply creative. It is not simply technical. It is Strategic Creative, a complex strategy utilizing tried and true methods of getting through to people on an emotional level. Using this unique process, our corporate event production company, headquartered in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, serves national clients of all sizes and stages events at venues located throughout the country.\nWhat is the Strategic Creative process?\nWe begin by gathering information about your company and brand so that we can develop a unifying theme that will resonate with the audience. A visit to the event site allows us to incorporate the structure and layout into the final production. If live music or live entertainment adds to the overall experience, TalkingTree can easily handle the details, and ensure the acts fit the overall theme of the event. Once these tasks are complete, design, art direction, and event production follow. As we engineer the infrastructure and messaging for the event, we never lose sight of our ultimate goal – creating an engaging experience for your audience in an environment of communication.\nWhat we do and the way we do it requires that we know the audience, the stakeholders and the message. Then there are multiple levels of engagement (or layers) to achieve success.\nCREATE THE VISION\nThe first layer involves demographics. We identify the personality and cultural touchpoints of the audience, our client and the message itself. This is critical to saying the right thing in the right way.\nMessage and Theme\nThe message is like our cargo (it’s what we want to deliver to our audience) and the theme can be compared to the vehicle. Another way of thinking about the theme might be packaging. The theme serves as a context for the message and gives everyone a “space” to occupy.\nOnce we have our message and theme and we know who we’re communicating with, we need a story to tell. This can be implicit in the message or it may need to be constructed to carry the message within the theme. You could think of the story as the wheels.\nDevelop A Plan\nStructural Framework – Production process with TTC and the client\nThis is the layer in which our team works with our client’s team and the experience of working together on a project (for our client’s team) is the most important experience we create. When the people feel comfortable and confident in the process as well as their partners, the ideas flow and the true personalities shine through. There is nothing more beautiful because it is the creation of great work and the development of enduring friendships.\nEnvironments that Communicate – Engineering the production and the venue environment\nWe take pride in designing environments that make the audience feel welcome, yet excite them about what their experience will be. Engineering the room from the correct AV equipment to the lighting to the right acoustical experience and how it is all branded offers both technical and creative challenges.\nWe produce content in many formats from still graphics, to animations, videos, sound effects and music – all for the purpose of telling the story and keeping the audience engaged.\nTHE FINISHED PRODUCT\nExecution of an Event\nAt show time you need a Technical Director who knows the show well and knows how to direct a large crew. The Technical Director is the “conductor” and must coordinate between 5-20 people in real-time to execute the cues in a coordinated sequence that truly delivers the experience. Beyond that, there are deliveries, activities, signage, registration, and many other endeavors that must be executed with little room for error.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rhinestones: Glam and Glitter\nRhinestones take center stage this fall, adorning eyes, lips, and brows with glitz and glamour. This trend allows you to unleash your creativity and experiment with various rhinestone designs. For a bold and eye-catching look, apply rhinestones along the lower lash line or on the inner corners of the eyes. You can also create stunning lip art by embellishing your favorite lip color with rhinestones. The endless options make rhinestones a must-try trend to elevate your fall makeup game.\nWet Skin Effect: Luminous and Radiant\nThis fall, achieve the coveted wet skin effect to exude a radiant and dewy glow. The trend involves using products that create a fresh and moisturized appearance as if your skin is glistening with a soft sheen. Start with a hydrating primer and a luminous foundation or tinted moisturizer. Add a touch of liquid highlighter to the high points of your face, such as the cheekbones, brow bones, and nose bridge. The wet skin effect imparts a youthful and ethereal charm, perfect for the enchanting ambiance of fall.\nDark Lips: Rich and Alluring\nEmbrace the allure of dark lips this fall with rich shades of plum, burgundy, and deep berry. Dark lips exude confidence and sophistication, making them a staple for the colder months. Pair your dark lips with a flawless complexion and minimal eye makeup to let the lips take the spotlight. Whether you prefer a matte or glossy finish, dark lips make a bold statement that effortlessly elevates any look.\nEmbracing the Fall Spirit\nFall is the season of transformation and embracing change, making it the perfect time to explore new makeup trends. Rhinestones, wet skin effects, and dark lips offer a range of expressive possibilities, allowing you to play with textures, colors, and finishes. These trends allow you to step out of your comfort zone and infuse your beauty routine with glamour and allure.\nTips for Embracing Fall Trends\nDon’t be afraid to experiment with rhinestones, wet skin effects, and dark lips. Makeup is a form of self-expression, so have fun and let your creativity shine.\nPrep Your Skin\nAchieving the wet skin effect starts with well-hydrated skin. Prioritize skincare with moisturizing products to create a flawless canvas for makeup application.\nChoose Your Rhinestone Design\nPlay with different rhinestone designs to find the one that suits your style. From minimal accents to elaborate patterns, there’s a rhinestone look for everyone.\nDark Lip Options\nExperiment with various dark lip shades to find the one that complements your skin tone. Consider satin, matte, or glossy finishes for different effects.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reviewed by Emily Naik\nGanesh and the Little Mouse is inspired by a myth of Hindu gods, Ganesh and Karthikeya, racing around the world. Joshi adapts the original myth to include themes of friendship, family, and perseverance for a modern audience.\nGanesh was born with the head of an elephant, which sometimes makes him feel different from everyone else. He is also mocked because he has an unlikely best friend – Little Mouse. Ganesh is helped through bullying by his mother, who always provides comfort to keep his head up, and his father who provides words to give him strength.\nOne day, Ganesh decides to enter a contest to race around the world. While other gods are riding faster and more fearsome animals. Ganesh has faith in his Little Mouse. This parable focuses on appreciation of friends and family, because while everyone else is racing around the world, Ganesh realizes his world is standing right in front of him. The illustrations are immersive as the story is endearing.\nGanesh and the Little Mouse\nby Anjali Joshi\nillustrated by Christy McCreery\nMascot Books, 2016\nEmily is M.Ed. student in English Education who would also like the opportunity to race around the world.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Greetings! I’m Hadidjah Chamberlin, Senior Effects Artist on the Hearthstone team.\nOne of my favorite parts of working on Hearthstone is creating visual effects! From a game design perspective, the main role of visual effects (VFX) is to communicate information to the player in fun and interesting ways.\nVisual effects help the player read the board and understand what’s happening more clearly. We also use our visual effects to reinforce the Hearthstone’s vibe and character—these effects can create suspense when you’re hoping for that Knife Juggler’s knife to land just right, make opening a pack that much more fun, or help celebrate big moments like pulling off an insane combo or finally clearing the latest single-player challenge.\nIn The Boomsday Project, we created a megaton of explosive, SCIENCE-filled visual effects—here are a few of my favorites!\nMaintaining Class Identity\nWhen you’re playing a Class in Hearthstone, we want you to really feel its identity. A lot of Class identity is defined through visual effects and the colors, materials, and shapes common to that Class. Take Priest, for example—it's magical, ephemeral . . . light and pure. But when it comes to expansions like The Boomsday Project, we introduce some curveballs, like, \"What if it was also full of slime?\" How do we “slime-ify” the Priest while staying true to its Class identity?\nEach Class (and Type, such as murlocs or pirates) have a few very specific color palettes that we use to help reinforce their identity. For Master Cloner Zerek and Zerek's Cloning Gallery, all this cloning goo takes on that same light gold palette that most Priest effects have, and we tried to mix in as many light, magical elements as we could to help keep it feeling familiar and Priestly. I cheated it a little bit by using Zerek's Ethereal nature as an excuse to put extra magic on him, to balance out his Cloning Gallery being REALLY slimy.\nMaking Priests slimy was a challenge, but the crossover of the astronomy flavor from Druid to Mage was trickier. We wound up focusing a lot on those Class differences in shape and palettes to differentiate them—I think of the Druid’s space magic as more moon-focused (spells like Starfall, Starfire, and Astral Communion have a cool, lunar palette with bigger shapes). Mage space magic evokes things like galaxies and nebulae, and uses smaller, sparkly star shapes that call back to arcane visuals.\nWhen I’m designing card effects, gameplay always comes first, but I also try to bring something new that hasn’t been done in previous sets. Overall, we tend to approach effects for certain card types in similar ways. For \"rest of your turn\" effects, such as Embrace the Darkness and Stampede, we tend to use full-screen vignettes to communicate that the effect is persistent. While those can look cool, they can also feel “heavy”. With Floop's Glorious Gloop, we wanted to try a lighter approach so players could focus on playing out their combos and still get all the feedback they needed from the effects.\nBecause we weren't going to do something on the board, the Hero was the most logical place to start. For this card we wanted a persistent, noticeable effect (and a cool sound effect) on the Hero that could run for the entire turn without getting annoying and without pulling too much attention from what you are doing.\nThough it may sound like we have everything down to a science, there really isn't a formula for how we balance visuals for something like this. From the start, we know which events are part of a card’s combo (for Floop’s Glorious Gloop, minions dying and mana crystals being restored), and we use those—along with things like the card’s story, and what we in the scientific community refer to as its “Big Dealness”— as our guidelines for how to design its effects.\nSome of my favorite effects in Hearthstone are those we create for “Big Deal” cards—like Mecha'Thun! There are three different sorts of “big moments” we tend to use for effects.\n- The first is for cards with huge mechanical implications, like King Togwaggle swapping decks, Meteor making minions extinct, or Mecha'Thun ending the whole freaking game.\n- The second is for celebratory moments, like pulling off V-07-TR-0N's assembly, dropping Azari, the Devourer to roast your opponent's deck, or managing to pull off a successful Mecha'Thun turn.\n- • The third is for the \"You're probably not doing much else this turn anyway\" kind of effects, like Twisting Nether obliterating the board, Deathwing obliterating the board and your hand, and Mecha'Thun obliterating everything (Mecha'thun is a multi-talented fellow).\nThe goal of these Big Deal effects is to celebrate the moment and the player's accomplishment in a unique way—Mecha'Thun really shouldn’t feel like V-07-TR-0N or Deathwing, because they all deserve to feel beautiful and special, and this is their night, Karen! So, my thought process when designing these isn’t just, \"How do I make this awesome?\" but also, \"How do I make this awesome in a way that specifically feels connected to this card and event?\"\nFor Mecha'Thun, that was the idea of this giant, ominous mechanical failure that spreads throughout the board until it takes your opponent down with it. It’s an awesome payoff, especially in contrast with his entrance visual effects.\nMaking Mechs Magnetic\nOne of the most interesting new mechanics in The Boomsday Project is Magnetic.\nThere were a lot of little pieces to Magnetic’s implementation, so the effects had to communicate a lot of different things: the valid targets, where to drag the minion to attach it (or not), when something was going to attach, and to what. On top of that, we also had to support the overall Magnetic fantasy, but make sure that the effect wasn’t too flashy (which could imply that the Magnetized option is always the better or \"correct\" option). Keeping all of that balanced and clear for players was a real challenge.\nThe initial UI mock-up was much more streamlined than the final FX—the beam wasn't there, and instead we were using attach-point arrows with just a few sparks. We realized we needed much bigger, simpler shapes, so we gradually ditched all the little UI elements like the arrows in favor of a more direct and “magical”-seeming connection—at first with just concentrated regions of sparks, and then finally with the beam.\nThe whole process was collaborative—the UI team and I were bouncing around new ideas and giving each other feedback constantly, and early on, every playtest brought some pretty some big changes . . . the design team probably never wants to see another feedback request from me again.\nThe Hammer Dance\nSometimes in the development process, unexpected changes from other teams can throw a wrench into your plans. SuperCollider is one notable example. Originally, SuperCollider had no effects at all—the whole story was planned to be an engineering change that would just bounce the Hero into a minion, into another minion, kind of like a pinball. However, once our engineers started looking into altering that sequence, it turned out to be a whole can of worms full of Bad Things™.\nWe generally like to try and avoid Bad Things™, and that meant we had to re-visualize the fantasy of SuperCollider to play out over different timing than we'd planned. In the end, SuperCollider still slapped minions into each other with a giant hammer; it just became a lot more literal.\nOnce it became an effects task instead, SuperCollider also turned out to be pretty goofy animation-wise. Since we couldn't really change the timing of anything, we had to sync to all the pieces that were already baked in—which might seem straightforward, but it created a lot of little challenges in making everything feel responsive and fun.\nMost visual effects are also driven almost entirely client-side—they happen in the game, and the server doesn’t reeeeally care as long as it can send numbers on the damage or healing that’s happening. SuperCollider, on the other hand, was a pretty even split between pulling server-side and client-side information strictly for the visuals. So every time you swing SuperCollider, that poor lil' hammer is running around, asking questions of both client and server while the animation is playing out, to make sure everything happens the way it’s supposed to.\nThese extra-weird effects that can be found in pretty much every set (lookin' at you, Azalina and Crushing Walls), and they're always really fun to puzzle out.\nAnimating an Endless Army\nThe Boomsday Project was a really fun expansion to create effects and animations for, but I had a blast working on Kangor's Endless Army. I love keyframed animations where particle effects play a supporting role, so getting to do three different build animations with all the little details and secondary actions was super cool. And our audio team, as always, made it so much better.\nI mentioned the importance of maintaining Class identity before, but Legendary minions get a lot more wiggle room because they're more character-driven and unique. Rather than starting from the Class a Legendary is in, we tend to take cues from the card’s art and lore, then mix in as much of the Class flavor as we feel is appropriate (unless it's Neutral, then all bets are off and you get Whizbang).\nLegendary spells are in a fun sort of middle ground. They're not strictly story-focused, in the way a Legendary minion's entrance is, but ideally, they feel just as Legendary, while still being very mechanics-focused.\nThanks for reading along while Hadidjah regaled us with animation adventures! Do you have any favorite card effects from The Boomsday Project? Let us know in the comments!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PRE-REGISTER $10 http://www.greenchamb... (http://www.greenchambersd.com/events/)\nREGISTER AT DOOR $12\nThe Green Chamber of San Diego County invites you to join us for our “Green is Everyone’s Business” kick off celebration at Belly Up Tavern on Tuesday, April 13.\nIn keeping with our commitment to “connect, collaborate and educate,” the evening will feature networking opportunities and a presentation by Stone Brewing Co.’s CEO Greg Koch on his company’s sustainability efforts. Guests will also enjoy a sampling of foods from local green restaurants, caterers and retailers.\nRegister before April 10 and you will become eligible to win a free Green Chamber membership.\nAs an event “after-party,” the event will also feature musical entertainment starting at 8 p.m.\n* Liquid Blue – San Diego based Liquid Blue is a unique band with a unique sound. Featuring the BlueGirls trio, the seven-member act has performed in more than 100 countries. The well-traveled band members are very active on social issues (see the “Green page” at LiquidBlueLive). The group operates Liquid Blue Radio, a “socially conscious” internet radio station on Live365, as well as hosting a monthly educational series featuring documentary movies and discussions since 2005. Visit the band’s website at www.LiquidBlueLive.com.\n* Ryan West – This passionate singer/songwriter brings his unique style of sound to the San Diego music scene. Capturing melodies and rhythms from everyday life, Ryan paints a vivid audio canvas with hints of American Folk, Rock, and Indie music. The instrumental accompaniment from Eric Fagan’s bass, and Jeff Gagnon’s percussion add a heart felt kick to the original songs. For more information, please visit www.ryan-west.com\n* Poole Street Boyz - This blend of high energy jazz and funk will keep heads bobbing and drinks pouring. The jammin’ trio is made up of UCSD Jazz Ensemble guitarist James Bouwer, bassist Eric Fagan of Freshly Squeezed and the funkified North County drummer Jeff Gagnon. From originals to slightly altered versions of favorites like the Meters and Herbie Hancock, the Poole Street Boyz supply fresh tunes for any occasion.\nThis Event is Generously Sponsored By:\nClear Edge Power\nCounsel Direct Law Offices Greener Dawn Corporation\nAllison & Partners EcoPackStore Evergreen Marketing Communications Green With Envy Events", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We sadly lost the great Doris Day on Monday, so I’ve decided to talk about one of my favourite performances of hers, and the only Oscar nomination she received, in the magnificent Pillow Talk (1959, dir. Michael Gordon), the first of three movies she made with her best friend Rock Hudson – the other two being Lover Come Back (1961, dir. Delbert Mann) and Send Me No Flowers (1964, dir. Norman Jewison).\nPillow Talk stars Doris Day as interior decorator Jan Morrow, who has the misfortune of having to share a telephone line with songwriter and massive manhoe Brad Allen (Rock Hudson), much to the annoyance of both of them. It’s not hard to imagine where this is going, but the beauty of Pillow Talk is that it doesn’t feel like just another predictable romantic comedy. The Oscar-winning screenplay is tight and full of easy-going charm, and the performances, both Day’s and Hudson’s, as well as the supporting cast – Tony Randall and Thelma Ritter (in an Oscar-nominated performance) in particular – are nothing short of wonderful. Doris Day is especially great. I couldn’t decide which scene to pick for this month’s COMEDY GOLD, because it is such a solid, consistent and confident performance in a film that enjoys all of those qualities throughout. It’s perhaps no surprise that she got an Oscar nod for it, considering that it pretty much showcases her many talents in a little less than two hours. Right from the off, we get to listen to her beautiful voice singing the title track, and throughout the film we’re treated to her perfect – PERFECT – comic timing, her ability to convey all of her thoughts and feelings with just an expression, not to mention the ease with which she balances it all out. Also, shout-out to the wonderful Rock Hudson, who, in my opinion, never got the praise he deserved. Their combined talents and chemistry with each other make them one of the greatest partnerships in the romantic comedy canon as well as one of my personal favorite showbiz friendships. I’d like to think they gave each other a big hug upon her arrival in Hollywood Heaven.\nFarewell, Doris Day ❤", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "At the center of Cebu, a magazine with a new voice and refined storytelling emerges, forging a fresh point of view based on creativity and curiosity\nHonest, inspiring and free. Cebu Living is a quarterly magazine under Hinge Inquirer Publications that talks about the urban narrative of Cebu. Whether it’s a beautiful fashion editorial with the most glamorous labels or a simple recipe to warm the heart, the magazine discusses the way of life from the perspective of Cebuanos, with the help of columnists well-versed in the nuances of the community. Cebu Living highlights people of substance: captains of industry, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, game changers – people who are shaping the future of Cebu today.\nThe first issue comes with a beautiful cover shot in a discreet location, with a personality who represents Cebu’s artistry and craftsmanship. Young and fresh-faced, columnist Kym Maithland-Smith talks about beauty, while foodie Jude Bacalso shares his new culinary discoveries. Inside are a well-curated collection of stories: insights on art, culture and a conversation with an artist seek to enrich the soul, a striking fashion editorial that defines the contemporary way of dressing, and pages about exclusive parties and events that open the doors to luxury and elusive personalities. There’s always something new to discover in this part of town, along with old, familiar traditions to revisit. New restaurants born from generations of family recipes–whether it’s an unexpected mélange of chocolate concoctions or a different take on the all-time favorite lechon–Cebu will always innovate and surprise.\nEditors, influencers and the team behind the magazine will be flying to Cebu, via Air Asia and accommodated by SM Seaside City, to attend the launch on Sept. 11 at Tavolata Restaurant, Banilad, Mandaue. Good food, sparkling drinks and music will accompany the lavish celebration, with floral arrangement by Pink Flora. The event will be hosted by lifestyle columnist Tessa-Prieto Valdes.\nCebu Living is available via subscription and is delivered straight to the doorsteps of homes, cafes, and malls. It hopes to portray with honesty the Cebuano way of life, and the way Cebuanos hope to live. Follow Cebu Living at facebook.com/cebulivingph, Instagram and Twitter at @cebulivingph.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Signed A4 print of 3 children playing in the autumn leaves. Features wording of \"rustle them\", \"kick them high\", \"make them fly\"\nPrinted on smooth fine art paper, 250gsm\nWill be sent in a cellophane envelope and stiff backed card mailer.\nPart of an ongoing series of prints about childhood memories.\nWatching my own children play freely reminded me of how exhilarating the simple pleasures were when we were young. That thought started me thinking about the things that we no longer do as adults but were thrilled with as children.\nShipping & delivery\nThis item will be posted to you by Zlokey Photographics within 3 days of receiving payment.\n|Shipping destination||Cost||Additional items|\n|Rest of the World||£4.00|\nYou have 7 days, from receipt, to notify the seller if you wish to cancel your order or exchange an item.\nPlease note: Unless faulty, the following types of items are non-refundable: items that are personalised, bespoke or made-to-order to your specific requirements; personal items sold with a hygiene seal (cosmetics, underwear) in instances where the seal is broken.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "& CREATIVE CONTENT\nIn this ever changing media environment, true storytelling finds its way back to the heart of journalists and non-fiction writers. With Racontr you can create great and engaging projects that will stick to the mind of your audience.\nParis Match - 2 faces in China\nA project about the environmental impact of China industrial growing activity and the counter policy leaning toward renewable energy.\nFrance Inter - Liliane Bettencourt\nA beautiful illustrated project that depicts one of the most richest french woman Liliane Bettencourt.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Venices Rialto Bridge 3D Puzzle 216pc (Ravensburger Puzzle)\nA Realistic 3D Puzzle Model of The Rialto Bridge - the Oldest Bridge in Venice and Still In Use!\nRialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto) is a stone arch bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice. It is the oldest bridge in Venice and still in use. The bridge that stands today was built between 1588 and 1591 and has a design similar to the bridge from 1255. Its longest span is 31.8 metres. It has two inclined ramps with stairs that lead to central portico, it has shops on both sides and three walkways.\nWith 216 pieces, you can build an impressive model of this famous piece of Italian history to have at home. Discover 3D construction puzzles with Ravensburger's stunning Puzzle Buildings & Monuments, which use perfectly fitting hinged and curved sturdy plastic puzzle pieces to form an exact replica of the original iconic building. No glue is required and the completed model has no internal components!\n• Individually numbered precision moulded plastic pieces\n• Creates a sturdy structure when completed\n• No glue required for assembly\n• Extra precision moulded pieces complete the building\n• Full instructions included\nNumber of Pieces: 216\nFinished Puzzle Size: 22 x 12 x 21 cm\nBox Size: 19 x 28 x 7 cm\nAges: 10-99 years +", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Portrait, Music,& Dance\nThe appreciation of all things art at a young age has led to the creation and curation of Meg Raiano Photography. Meg specializes in portraits, dance photography, and live music events. All with a shared aesthetic and musicality to them. Interested in booking?\nContact Meg below.\nMeg started photography more than 15 years ago with a Nikon FM-10 film camera in her hometown of Marlborough MA. Since high-school, Meg has been photographing her favorite things... Portraits, dancers, animals, and more. Most recently Meg has begun photographing businesses and beer for her own company, reCreative & Co.\nHer work has been featured in Vogue Italia, Nylon Mexico, Editorial Magazine, Ampersand, and many others.\nMost recently, Meg won two awards for her photography from the CT Ad Club for her photos of Brewery Legitimus in New Hartford, CT.Contact Her.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fancy, funny chickens for your kitchen or bath (makes a wonderful hand towel). Printed in a subtle metallic brown/bronze, these lovely ladies will look gorgeous and add some fun to your home. A really nice pairing with my classic red rooster towel! Link here: https://www.etsy.com/FuzzyMug/listing/61724930/rooster-tea-towel-in-red-hand-printed?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1637774856436\nThese eco-friendly towels make great hostess gifts when you go visiting for the holidays or fantastic gifts for teachers and co-workers.\n- Towel is unbleached, 100% cotton - a creamy, ivory shade\n- Measures approximately 29\" x 29\"\n- Lint-free and very absorbent - great for drying glassware and everyday kitchen use\n- Printed with water-based non-toxic inks\n- Image has been lovingly ironed to set ink but slight fading/softening of image may still occur\n- Hand screen printed in small batches in my studio in Baltimore, MD\n- Machine wash, tumble dry, iron on reverse if needed.\n**All artwork, reproductions and images on FuzzyMug.Etsy.com\nare copyrighted © by Brooke Behnken and may not be reproduced in any way. All right reserved.**", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Overlooking Central Park's lake since 1859, Bethesda Fountain is a breathtaking circular structure with a female winged angel perched at the top of several cascades. Below the neoclassical angel, four cherubs represent temperance, purity, health, and peace. The angel's artist, Emma Stebbins, was the first female to receive public commission for a major New York City art piece. The only sculpture featured in the park's original layout, it commemorates the opening of the Croton Aqueduct, which provided fresh water to the city. Snap a picture in front of the iconic fountain, which you may recognize from countless movies, television shows, and even video games. For Bethesda Fountain and beyond, use our New York City visit planning app to get the most from your New York City vacation.\nBethesda Fountain reviews\nJust before going back towards the concrete jungle, we quickly headed to Bethesda fountain, where we hoped we would find a toilet. The toilet was closed, but we enjoyed checking out the beautiful... more »\nBethesda fountain overlooks the lake in the central park...it is practically a hub of events and activities in the central park...you can see the place thronged by visitors from all over...It has... more »\nPlan your trip to New York City\nGet a personalized tripA complete day by day itinerary\nbased on your preferences\nCustomize itRefine your trip. We'll find the\nbest routes and schedules\nManage itEverything in one place.\nEveryone on the same page.\nPopular things to do in New York City\nHidden gems in New York City\nMuseums in New York City\nSide trips from New York City\nHistoric Sites in New York City\nNearby attractions in New York City\nTrips to Bethesda Fountain by other users\n21 days in New York City BY A USER FROM ISRAEL Rose Center for Earth and Space Central Park John Jay Park 32 days in New York City BY A USER FROM UNITED KINGDOM Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Central Park Museum of American Finance 32 days in New York City BY A USER FROM ROMANIA Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Central Park St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral 30 days in New York City BY A USER FROM UNITED STATES New York City 60 days in New York City BY A USER FROM UNITED STATES Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir Central Park St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral 22 days in New York City BY A USER FROM ARGENTINA The Museum at FIT Grand Central Terminal Walking tours", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sr. Janet was influential in my art career. One of the most excellent art teachers I have ever had. Expect to be challenged in her classes, and expect to do things you never thought you could do. Brings out the absolute best in you, if you are willing to work.\nI graduated ten years ago and still respect Sr. Janet, the best art teacher I ever had, and I have a degree in fine arts.\nShe is way too much into favorites. If you don't run track and aren't talented at art, she doesn't have time for you.\nshe def has her mood swings but an exceptionally talented woman with a lot to offer\nA harsh grader but knows how to get the best out of her students\nShe is awesome. Even tho she is tough she wants you to do your best and is actually a really sweet lady.\ngreat teacher and coach- she really brings out the best in you!\nsister is the best teacher~ just dont talk too much in class...........\nEven tho sr and I had our days,we worked them out & we love each other now.she only wanted me to do better & she is so sweet.great talent wasted at kennedy tho\nSister's classes are hard and a lot of work, but she makes you work your best and wants you to bring out the best of your ability.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wednesday, December 26, 2012\nHere's my poster for Outlaws of Ravenhurst, who will be playing with Deluge on the 2nd at Costello's. They're a group that is a bit theatric, so it was fun to follow that narrative with an illustration. The facebook event can be viewed here.\nFriday, December 21, 2012\nMerry Christmas! If you see me this week, you might be getting a Christmas card....\n....that looks like this:\nYour Christmas song of the day below:\nMonday, December 17, 2012\nA gig poster I made for a Won Over Nothing show. I have never seen them, but they describe themselves as sounding like Rage Against the Machine meets The Black Keys. They will be playing with Thunder Equals Lava and Rap X at Costello's on January 9th. Only $4 for 3 bands, so how can you go wrong?\nMonday, December 10, 2012\nThursday, December 6, 2012\nFor my monthly column, \"Under the Covers\" in Freq magazine, I interview Fools Gold Records art director Dust La Rock. He had just returned from his Lovely Sort of Death show in LA. We talk about his relationship with music and his personal artwork as well. You can read the interview here.\nAlso this December \"It's the end of the world as we know it!\" Read what we will each be listening to during the end of the world here. To make your end of the world listening party easier here are my 3 choices:\nWednesday, December 5, 2012\nSally Shapiro - \"What Can I Do\" from stereogum on Vimeo.\nAt the end of the summer I was working on a music video for Swedish artist and resident Sally Shapiro who is on Canadian record label Paper Bag Records. It is my first time directing so was stoked to see it premier earlier this week on music blog heavy weight, Stereogum. You can also read my thoughts on the video's press release on some sites like Earbuddy. Also here are a couple nice reviews from Prefix magazine and Exclaim. Who say:\n\"The whimsical dreaminess of the song and the music video go together hand in hand.\"and\n\"...keep your eyes peeled for the triceratops in a separate spaceship. We have no idea how that guy is running the controls.\"\nHere are some early sketches of what I thought the rocket could look like, I ended up going with the bottom left one.\n\"What Can I Do\" is the first single from Sally Shapiro's upcoming album Somewhere Else, which will be released at the end of February 2013. She hasn't released a new album since 2009, so I'm really excited to hear what her and Johan Agebjörn will come up for this new offering. Check out the track list below:\n02 “I Dream With An Angel Tonight”\n03 “All My Life”\n04 “This City’s Local Italo Disco DJ Has A Crush On Me”\n05 “What Can I Do”\n06 “If It Doesn’t Rain”\n08 “Starman” (Feat. Electric Youth)\n09 “Lives Together”\n10 “Don’t Be Afraid” (Feat. Anoraak)\n11 “Architectured Love” (Feat. Le Prix)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Official internet-portal of St. Petersburg, cultural capital of Russia|\n|Petersburg CITY / Guide to St. Petersburg, Russia||http://petersburgcity.com|\nPrinted from: http://petersburgcity.com/news/city/2005/07/13/marc_chagall/|\nCity news, 13.07.2005 12:22\nStolen Chagall recovered in RussiaThe St. Petersburg Times said \"Khasid\" was stolen from a private collection four years ago. The painting has been valued at $1 million.\nChagall, born in Vitebsk, studied in St. Petersburg and Paris. He returned to Russia in 1914 but left again in 1923, living in France until his death in 1985.\n\"This piece of art has come through a long chain of mediators, from second-hand dealers to rather important people from Moscow's Rublyovskoye Shosse who owned the picture for a while,\" the St. Petersburg police said.\nThe State Russian Museum is now showing the largest exhibit ever of Chagall's works in the country.\nNews source: sciencedaily.com\n|(c) 2000 PetersburgCity.com|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Elizabeth Coffman (Motherlode Productions) and Ted Hardin (Antimoloch Productions) are filmmakers and scholars who have spent their careers writing, teaching, traveling, and producing films and videos about a wide range of topics. Elizabeth is an Associate Professor of Communication, University of Loyola Chicago and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. As a Professor of Film/Video, Columbia College Chicago, Ted holds an MA in German from FSU and an MFA in Film/Video from Ohio State University. Both filmmakers maintain long-term personal and professional involvement with Bosnia and questions of multiculturalism. Mr. Hardin spent several years in Germany studying German cinema on a Fulbright fellowship and has produced work for German television. Ms. Coffman has family ties to Bosnia and has completed a video essay entitled Wedding in Croatia about the marriage of her sister, an international worker, to a Bosnian man who fought in the war. Hardin and Coffman are also professors and published writers who are intimately concerned with the documentation of history and the ethical questions of how the historical subject is given a voice to speak. Hardin has completed a video piece entitled Ambivalence that implicates the role of the media during the Gulf War and has shown at the American Film Institute.\nHardin spent several years at the Wexner Center in Ohio, facilitating the work of artists such as William Wegman, Ann Hamilton, Paper Tiger Television and Lourdes Portillo. While working at the Banff Centre for the Arts, he also collaborated on a series of artists' profiles that were broadcast on the Canadian Women's Television Network. Coffman's video work concerns questions of gender, ethnicity, violence, and national politics and has screened at museums and universities around the country. She produced a video on Ralph Nader/Michael Moore's Power to the People Rally that is distributed through community access media networks. She has also published work on early avant-garde film performers. Coffman and Hardin are working currently on a documentary about Louisiana poet, Martha Serpas, entitled Veins in the Gulf.\nTed Hardin and Elizabeth Coffman have collaborated on a film that is being screened at Elastic on October 26.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Drawing, Concept Sketches, Butterfly House, Auburn, AL\nThis is a Drawing. It was designed by Samuel Mockbee and drafted by Samuel Mockbee. It is dated 1997 and we acquired it in 2001. Its medium is pen and black ink on heavy cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.\nOne of the most important and innovative architects working today, Samuel Mockbee was among the architects featured in the museum’s National Design Triennial exhibition in 2000. He was also a National Design Award finalist in 2000 and a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant.”\nMockbee works in two capacities. His private firm with Coleman Coker—Mockbee-Coker Architects, established in 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee—focuses on site-specific architecture that relates to the topography and the history of the locale. In addition to his private practice, Mockbee also runs an alternative practice, Rural Studio, in connection with his teaching architecture at Auburn University in Alabama. In 1993, Mockbee co-founded Rural Studio with Dennis K. Ruth, who was then head of the School of Architecture at Auburn. Rural Studio’s vision was to develop low-cost, innovative housing for people in a poor, rural community, while providing hands-on experience to university architecture students and encouraging a strong social conscience in architectural work. Since its inception, Rural Studio has brought design and architecture directly to the citizens of Hale County, Alabama, working with county administration to find families in need, ascertain their housing requirements, and design and construct a home using recycled and inexpensive materials. Rural Studio has gained international recognition as a model of alternative architectural practice and education.\nOne of Rural Studio’s most innovative homes is the Harris House, built between 1996–98 for Anderson and Ora Lee Harris. The home is also known as the Butterfly House due to its sharply pitched roof structure, which channels rainwater into cisterns for reuse. The roof covers an open porch, a central design element since the family spent much of their time away from the house’s heat in the relative cool of the outdoors. Ramps and wide doorways allow for the elderly Mrs. Harris’s wheelchair. Low-cost materials and recycled wood from a nearby 105-year-old church kept the building's cost to the project budget of $30,000.\nThe drawing documents many of the key design challenges, and it is also visually interesting. It shows a series of 12 sketches including the plan, elevations, and sections of the house. The Y-shaped plan at the bottom of the sheet shows the two wings of the house with porch in the middle. The elevation above indicates the placement of fans above the doorways to circulate warm air in the winter and draw in cool air in the summer. Above are different elevations of the “butterfly” roof. Since Rural Studio does not produce many concept or design development drawings for their projects, this sheet is rare and especially significant.\nGail S. Davidson with Marilyn Symmes\nIt is credited\nMuseum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.\nOur curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.\nIts dimensions are\n35.5 x 43.0 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in. )\nIt is signed\nSigned in pen and black ink, lower right: Mockbee '97\nIt is inscribed\nInscribed in pen and black ink, lower left: \"Butterfly House\"/(@ Rural Studio); on drawing, at lower center: bed/kit/living/porch\nCite this object as\nDrawing, Concept Sketches, Butterfly House, Auburn, AL; Designed by Samuel Mockbee (American, 1944 – 2001); USA; pen and black ink on heavy cream paper; 35.5 x 43.0 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in. ); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2001-5-1", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Valentine’s Day is a special occasion that celebrates love and affection. It is a day when couples express their feelings and indulge in romantic gestures. When it comes to decorating for this special day, the classic combination of black and white can create a timeless and elegant ambiance. In this year, black and white Valentines Day decor continues to be a popular choice for those who want to set the mood for romance in a sophisticated way.\nSimplicity and Sophistication\nCreating a Chic Atmosphere\nBlack and white Valentines Day decor has always been associated with simplicity and sophistication. These two colors complement each other perfectly, creating a visually striking contrast. By incorporating black and white elements into your Valentines Day decor, you can achieve a chic and stylish atmosphere that exudes elegance and refinement. Whether you are planning a romantic dinner at home or hosting a Valentines Day party, black and white Valentines Day decor will surely impress your loved one or guests.\nBlack and White Table Setting\nElevating the Dining Experience\nOne of the key elements of Valentines Day decor is the table setting. In this year, black and white table settings are taking center stage. Start by using a crisp white tablecloth as the base, and then layer it with black placemats or table runners. Opt for white dinnerware and black or white napkins to continue the theme. Add a touch of romance with black and white floral centerpieces or candles. This combination of colors will elevate the dining experience and create a romantic ambiance for you and your loved one.\nBlack and White Wall Decor\nAdding a Touch of Style\nWhen it comes to wall decor, black and white Valentines Day decor prints and artwork can add a touch of style to your Valentines Day decorations. Consider hanging black and white photographs of you and your partner, or opt for framed black and white quotes about love. These simple yet impactful additions will not only enhance the overall look of your space but also serve as a beautiful reminder of your love.\nBlack and White Balloon Decor\nCreating an Air of Celebration\nBalloons are a fun and festive way to decorate any occasion, and Valentines Day is no exception. In this year, black and white balloon decor is gaining popularity. Fill your space with black and white balloons, either in solid colors or with patterns like polka dots or stripes. Create balloon bouquets or arches to add visual interest and create an air of celebration. You can also use black and white balloons to spell out love-themed words like “LOVE” or “XOXO.”\nBlack and White Floral Arrangements\nAdding Elegance and Romance\nNo Valentines Day decor is complete without flowers. black and white Valentines Day decor floral arrangements are a stunning choice that exudes elegance and romance. Consider using white roses or lilies with black accents, such as black feathers or ribbon, to create visually striking centerpieces. These monochromatic floral arrangements will not only capture attention but also symbolize the purity and depth of your love.\nBlack and White Candles\nSetting the Mood\nCandles are essential for creating a romantic atmosphere, and black and white candles are a perfect fit for your Valentines Day decor. Place black and white pillar candles in elegant candle holders or opt for black and white scented candles to add a subtle fragrance to the air. The soft glow of the candles will create a warm and intimate ambiance, perfect for a romantic evening with your loved one.\nBlack and White Dessert Table\nSatisfying the Sweet Tooth\nA Valentines Day celebration is incomplete without indulging in delicious desserts. Create a black and white Valentines Day decor dessert table filled with mouthwatering treats that will satisfy your sweet tooth. Serve black and white desserts such as macarons, chocolate-dipped strawberries, or black and white cookies. Arrange them on elegant black and white serving platters or cake stands. This delectable display will not only please the taste buds but also add a visually stunning element to your Valentines Day decor.\nBlack and White Love Letters\nExpressing Your Feelings\nValentines Day is all about expressing love and affection. In this year, black and white Valentines Day decor love letters are becoming a popular way to convey heartfelt messages. Write a love letter to your partner using black ink on white stationery or opt for black lettering on a white background. These simple yet powerful words of love will add a personal touch to your Valentines Day decor and create a lasting memory for you and your loved one.\nBlack and White Photo Booth\nAdd a fun and interactive element to your Valentines Day celebration with a black and white photo booth. Set up a backdrop using black and white curtains or a large black and white print. Provide props like black and white hats, masks, and signs with love-themed phrases. Encourage your guests to strike a pose and capture memories that will last a lifetime. This photo booth will not only entertain your guests but also add a stylish touch to your Valentines Day decor.\nConclusion Black And White Valentines Day Decor\nIn this year, black and white Valentines Day decor continues to be a timeless and elegant choice. Whether you are planning a romantic dinner or hosting a Valentines Day party, incorporating black and white elements will create a sophisticated and chic atmosphere. From table settings to wall decor, balloons to floral arrangements, candles to desserts, there are countless ways to infuse black and white into your Valentines Day celebration. Embrace the simplicity and elegance of black and white, and let it enhance the love and romance in the air.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fergus Michael Condron\nBlue Noodles And The Silver Moon\nTwas christmas time in Oxford street, we shopped for presents, trying to be discreet, carols and lights that end so soon, blue noodles and the silver moon.\nThe cobbled street's of Tunbridge Wells, each time we kissed, it rang the bells,\nlove is all, when all cocooned, blue noodles and the silver moon.\nRiding elephants on a Thailand beach, tsunami heartbeat and gentle feet,\nblood red sky and clouds that swoon, blue noodles and that silver moon.\nSummer in Paris, arms entwined, I loved you so, for you were mine, caress the louvre, mime the rhymes, bastille gate's they sense a crime, wicked feats condemn and soon,\nblue noodles shiver beneath frightened moon.\nBarcelona nights of a fashion lust, a tapas dawn and velvet crush, sense foreboding and creeping doom, blue noodles choke by a crying moon.\nSo tell me then, what changed your mood? I hoped to seek of a heart turned crude,\nwe said goodbye and I thus conclude, farewell blue noodles, adios sweet moon.\nFergus Michael Condron's Other Poems\nRead this poem in other languages\nThis poem has not been translated into any other language yet.\nComments about this poem (Blue Noodles And The Silver Moon by Fergus Michael Condron )\nPoem of the Day\n- 04 Tongues Made Of Glass, Shaun Shane\n- Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou\n- Still I Rise, Maya Angelou\n- If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda\n- The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost\n- Daffodils, William Wordsworth\n- 1914 V: The Soldier, Rupert Brooke\n- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou\n- Alone, Maya Angelou\n- Invictus, William Ernest Henley\n(4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014)\n(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)\n(1 February 1902 – 22 May 1967)\n(12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973)\n(10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886)\n- Heather Burns\n(16 August 1920 – 9 March 1994)\n(28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I'd like to welcome you to my multi fandom blog and hope you don't hate me for the random bursts of weirdness.\nOh and, my ask is always open, feel free to speak to me.\nSaturday Night Live\nday ‘n night\nI’m soufflé girl after all\nWhat do I do when I’m sick? I google “cat beards” on google images and here were some of the best.\nbasically the tenth doctor\n“You look like one of those guys who crawled out of the grave in the Thriller video.”\nFor all of you that believe that vulgarity in music is only from contemporary times then just remember that mozart wrote a song called lick my ass\nThis is the best thing. *cackle*\n|Played: 5,484,090 times.|\nJUST PRESS PLAY.\nAnybody who grew up in the 90’s and doesn’t know this song is a deprived child.\nThis song will haunt me even when i’m dead.\nstarted dancing in my seat.\nALWAYS reblog <333333\nFOREVER REBLOG <3\nTHIS WAS THE BEST MOTHERFUCKING SONG ON RADIO DISNEY OKAY\nLMFAO My friend declared this his theme song xD\noh snap i recognized it within the first 4 seconds and a huge fucking grin grew across my face XD\nI just started to dance in my chair and my brother is questioning me.\nIF YOU SAY YOU DON’T DANCE YOU’RE A LIAR\n“there’s a first time for everything…and a last time”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I searched online and finally found the quote, although the original source of this interesting tidbit remains a mystery.\n|© June Scroggin, All Rights Reserved|\nShe likes basset hounds, so I found a cute black-and-white cartoon of one on the web. The little sketch and quote were printed on watercolor paper I sized for my printer. After adding a modicum of color with watercolors, I placed the little 3x5-inch picture in a magnetic frame for the fridge.\nIt made for a cute stocking stuffer and has become my mother-in-law’s favorite saying when things are a bit too much.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I came across Henrik Vibskov many years ago, when I was still a teen writing articles for a local art magazine, and I just recently rediscovered him – nonetheless, in an even brighter light. For me, Henrik was somewhat lost in unsystematic files of my found (and later, accidentally hidden) gems, but in reality – he continued to grow as an amazing designer and artist and has successfully put his name on the map.\n“The Transparent Tongue” SS13\nSo let’s start with the beginning: Henrik Vibskov is a Danish fashion designer with a fashion label under his own name. He grew up in the middle of the countryside in Jutland, Denmark yet graduated from the well-known (and sometimes cursed) Central Saint Martins in London. Fun fact, in his interview with the Feature, he mentioned that he only applied to CSM to impress a girl. Newsflash – he got both the girl and the diploma. Actually, a pretty impressive career with that, too.\n“The Mint Institute” AW08“Stuck Under The Surface” SS20, photo: Victor Jones\nThe former small-town boy engages in visual art, music, and fashion from his base in Copenhagen. He’s a man of many talents – makes accessories, does interior design and is active as a musician. He has quite a few awards under his belt, has produced large-scale solo exhibitions at museums and galleries, designed costumes for numerous operas and performances – so crowning him with a single title would be a vast underestimation.\n“0000 : State on State, Chicago”\nAs many of his followers, I’m mostly mesmerised by Vibskov’s la-la-lands: he invents warped yet mesmerising unique universes and a set of logic in relation to each of his fashion collection. Each of his shows looks more like art performances, making me question if he makes fashion artsier, or the other way around – art more fashionable?\nEither way, it’s safe to say that his work steers clear of Scandinavian minimalism. Unlike, his Danish comrades he uses colors. Many of them… He’s more colourful and louder, he’s the avant-gardist of new generation.\n“Please Analyse Moisturize Volumize Me”, photo: Alastair Wiper\nHenrik designs collections that bewitch audience biannually and has produced many, 36 to be exact, men’s (and later also women´s) collections since he graduated from Central St. Martin’s in 2001. Currently, he’s the only Scandinavian designer on the official show schedule of the Paris Men’s Fashion Week, which he has been since January 2003.\n“Eskapist”, photo: Nils-Emil Nylander Museum of Art and Craft NYC\n“The Big Wet Shiny Boobies”, “The Land of the Black Carrots”, “The Solar Donkey Experiment”, “The Great Chain Of Sleepers”, “ The Kitchen Of The Non-Existent” are just a few names of many shows that Henrik has brought to the public. Each title refers to one of his hypnotic worlds. And I have to say… He has a bit of a copywriter in him too.\nSo, to wrap it up: Vibskov has succeeded in establishing a recognisable and unique signature style and has already executed it across multiple disciplines. He’s praised by both critics and buyers – he understands that people crave the otherworldliness, and so delivers it to them. His show-goers participate in something twisted from daily life and for someone like me, who’s not necessarily interested in the fashion industry per se, it definitely sells his fashion shows.\nImage courtesy of – Henrik Vibskov\n“The Human Laundry Service” AW09", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today I watched a video that was created by Laura Macky about replacing colours in an image. And it was one from her expanding horizons tutorials. I had never thought about using colour range to change parts of an image. So I thought I would give it a go. So first of all I did my usual edits in Lightroom by opening up the shadows and bringing down the highlights, finding my black and white point, adding some vibrance, saturation and clarity in the ‘Basic Panel’.\nI then went to my ‘Lens Corrections Panel’ and ticked the boxes ‘Enable Profile Corrections’ and ‘Remove Chromatic Aberration’. After that I went to my ‘Camera Calibration Panel’ and selected one of the profiles for my camera. For this photograph it was the ‘Landscape Profile’.\nAfter that I exported my image to Photoshop and then I followed the instructions in the video by Laura and changed the colour of the trunk of the tree. I then changed the ‘Levels‘ of the photograph by using a ‘Levels adjustment layer‘. Once I did that I then did the same with the colour of the bluebells except that I didn’t do another ‘Levels adjustment layer’. There were a couple of areas I didn’t like the leaves so I used ‘Spot Healing Brush’ to rectify those areas.\nOnce I was finished in Photoshop, I exported the photo back into Lightroom and played around with the sliders in the basic panel a little more. After that I added ‘Graduated Filter’ with a cream tone by clicked on the grey area just beside the photo, so that the cream tone applied to all of the photo. I then did some ‘Dodging’ and ‘Burning’ using the ‘Local Adjustment Brush’ and then added a couple of ‘Radial Filters’ to lighten and bring up the clarity in certain parts of the photo. After that I added a small ‘Vignette’, did some ‘Sharpening’ and ‘Cropped’ the photo to the size and composition I wanted.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "To better serve our community and expand education through the arts, First National Bank invites specially selected students from the Pittsburgh Public Schools into a pilot program to experience, learn, and engage with contemporary arts at the Youth Arts Possibilities Program (YAPP). Mark Rengers Gallery in collaboration with Sweetwater Center for the Arts intends to create a more accessible space for youth to envision their future potential in the world of art and creativity. Through exhibition tours, conversations with artists, and hands-on activities, young artists will develop a strong understanding of the arts, be imbedded with the power of creative confidence, and gain access to the tools necessary to succeed.\nCreating a personal portfolio of artworks is a major component of YAPP. The portfolio is a tool students will use to document their artistic and educational growth throughout their enrollment at the Youth Arts Possibilities Program. At the culmination of their stay with us, each student will have built a substantial portfolio that will build courage and propel them forward in future art education programs. An end-of-year exhibition will feature a selection of students’ artworks from their portfolios.\nThe program's pilot program will take place November through December, in conjunction with our exhibition at the First National Bank Exhibition Hall: Fluid.\nYAPP is a collaboration between Mark Rengers Gallery and Sweetwater Center for the Arts, a leader of excellence in art education.\nYAPP is sponsored by First National Bank.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Emmy Winning and Oscar Nominated Arranger Angela Morley Passes Away at 84\nMusic arranger Angela Morley, who won Emmys for arranging two of Julie Andrews television specials has died at 84 in Scottsdale, Arizona. She's said to have passed away from complications of a fall and a subsequent heart attack.\nThe three-time Emmy winner, also received Oscar nominations for adaptaing the songs in the musicals \"The Little Prince\" and \"The Slipper and the Rose\"\nThis prolific woman also wrote her own official bio for her web site, which we reprint below. A very full life! Our thoughts and prayers go out to her partner Christine Parker, along with her son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren during this difficult time.\nFor more information, visit http://www.angelamorley.com/\nI was born at Leeds, Yorkshire in 1924. My father was a watchmaker, and had a family shop that sold watches, clocks, jewellery and silver plate. My earliest musical memory was of sitting on the floor surrounded by records of the bands of Jack Payne and Henry Hall and playing them on our enormous wind up gramophone. My dad played the ukulele-banjo that he used to let me tune for him, using his pitch pipe, to either G-C-E-A or A-D-F#-B. My mother had a contralto voice and sang: There is a Lady Passing By and, her favorite, Big Lady Moon.\nWhen I was eight years old, my dad bought a brand new Challen upright piano that had pride of place in our over-the-shop Sunday sitting room, and sent me to a lady a few streets away for piano lessons. Three months later, my dad became ill and very unexpectedly died at the early age of thirty-nine. My piano lessons were immediately stopped and never recommenced. They are the only piano lessons that I ever had. A year later, my mother, who had no head for business, sold the shop and we went off to live with her parents at Swinton near Rotherham, Yorks.\nAt age ten, I had a month-long love affair with the violin but my grandfather, a prankster who didn't like the violin, smeared butter on my bow and very effectively brought my career as a violinist to an end. At eleven, I started to play the accordion, had lessons and won a couple of competitions. A judge from the BBC advised my mother that there was no future in the accordion, and that I should learn a band or orchestral instrument, for instance the clarinet or saxophone. My mother bought me a clarinet at the local pawnbroker's for one pound ($4 at the time). It was built all in one piece; it was a simple system instrument that was ‘high pitch' and had a broken mouthpiece. I had lessons on it and started to play in the school orchestra. Several months later, a kind mother bought me an alto saxophone that said ‘Pennsylvania' across the bell. I started to play, unpaid of course, in the semi-pro band of Bert Clegg at the Empress Ballroom, Mexborough, Yorks.\nI left high school at fifteen and went on tour with Archie's Juvenile Band for ten shillings a week ($2 at the time). On joining the band, I was asked to name my favorite band. ‘Ambrose' I replied, whereupon they all laughed themselves silly and queried, ‘What, you've never heard of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey'? I confessed that I hadn't, and my education was taken in hand that very moment as we all headed off to the nearest record shop. I started to take down arrangements from records about this time under the tutelage of the pianist, Eddie Taylor, who was an old hand at it.\nWorld War II started and created a new dimension to my life that was anything but a hindrance. Suddenly, with all the bands starting to lose musicians to the ‘draft', a fifteen-year-old musician who could sight-read was eagerly sought by every bandleader in the UK. Before I was seventeen and a half, I'd gone from band to band in quick succession until, at seventeen and a half, I found myself playing lead alto with Oscar Rabin's Band. Still touring alas, but broadcasting and making records too. It was during my two years with this band that I graduated from taking down records to writing arrangements for pay.\nAt age twenty in 1944, I joined the Geraldo Orchestra, arguably the best band in the UK at the time. The Geraldo Band practically lived at the BBC doing several radio programmes a week. The great bonus for a developing arranger was that the band might be a swing band on Monday and then augmented to symphonic size on Tuesday, while on other days perhaps various combinations in-between, and on occasion even adding a choir. Since I got to arrange for all these combinations, was there ever a better arranging academy? I doubt that anything like that exists today.\nSelf taught so far, it was during this period that I started to study harmony, counterpoint and composition with a Hungarian composer, resident in London, Matyas Seiber. I also was an enthusiastic participant in a conducting course taught by the German born conductor, Walter Goehr. Both Robert Farnon and Tommy Dorsey arranger Bill Finegan had written many of the arrangements in our repertoire, and I fell under the spell of both of these great talents and remain, today, greatly indebted to them.\nAt age twenty-six I decided to give up playing to concentrate on writing. I was busy from the start and three years later, at age twenty-nine, a lot of good things happened to me. I became musical director of the newly launched Philips Records (UK), arranging and conducting every week for all the contract artistes and occasionally for American ones like Rosemary Clooney and Mel Tormé as well as recording several instrumental albums of my own. I started to score films under my own name (I had ‘ghost'-written two scores the previous year) and was writing all the cues for a top BBC comedy show: Hancock's Half Hour, and doing the same, plus conducting, for The Goon Show, which was probably the most successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s. The same year, 1953, I started to score films for Associated British Picture Corporation at Boreham Wood Studios where Louis Levy was Music Director.\nThe 1950s was a very exciting time to be recording, because not only had tape taken over from direct to disc recording and advanced German microphones were in every studio, but stereo had magically added a new dimension to sound. However, these advances had not found their way into film studios and to go to a cinema to hear one's latest score was absolute torture. I was so depressed by these experiences that by the time I was thirty-six (1960), I started to turn down any offers to score films.\nDuring the 1960s, although I had a very busy and interesting musical life, including doing a lot of recording for Readers Digest Records, writing arrangements for Benny Goodman, Nelson Riddle, arranging and conducting some Mel Tormé TV Specials and scoring some documentary films about art for television, I regretted having turned my back on feature film scoring and tried my best to get back into it. Finally, starting in 1969, I scored The Looking Glass War (from a John Le Carré spy novel featuring a very young Anthony Hopkins), When Eight Bells Toll (another Anthony Hopkins movie) and Captain Nemo and the Underwater City. This led to my writing adaptation scores for The Little Prince (collaborating with songwriters Lerner & Loewe) and The Slipper and the Rose (collaborating with Robert & Richard Sherman). In 1977, I scored almost all of Watership Down. I was officially credited as the composer of this score but I had taken over the commission from indisposed composer Malcolm Williamson, who had written six minutes of very high quality music that is the first six minutes of music in the film, and who was given the not very satisfactory credit: Additional Music by Malcolm Williamson! In between scoring films I was also a regular conductor of the now, alas, defunct BBC Radio Orchestra and, from time to time, helped John Williams with the orchestration of his scores for Star Wars, Superman and The Empire Strikes Back.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Unleash the enchantment of the wizarding world with the Noble Collection Harry Potter Wand. Crafted with exquisite detail and authenticity, this wand replica is a true homage to the magical universe of Harry Potter.\nEach intricately designed wand mirrors the unique characteristics of the wizards they represent, making it a collector’s dream and a perfect addition to any Harry Potter enthusiast’s collection.\nHold the wand and embark on a journey through spells and wizardry, channeling the magic of your favorite characters. Feel the power and craftsmanship as you immerse yourself in the mystical aura of the Harry Potter universe.\nThe Noble Collection Harry Potter Wand is more than a mere collectible; it’s a gateway to imagination and wonder. Whether displayed proudly or wielded for cosplay and play, this wand brings the allure and mystique of Harry Potter right into your hands.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Only in Clev offers custom designed t-shirts. Cleveland is a big city made up many diverse neighborhoods. Each neighborhood has their own unique and rich history. Only in Clev captures the best of the past and the excitement of the future of each neighborhood. Choose from our custom Cleveland designs or bring us yours. We will customize your t-shirt.\nIf you don’t see your neighborhood or suburb in our Greater Cleveland designs, contact us and we’ll do an original design of that neighborhood. If you have an idea for a t-shirt, call or e-mail us. We will make it happen.\nMonday – Friday 11am – 6pm\nSaturday 12pm – 5pm", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome to the Fabled Lands wiki, a wikia page devoted to the Fabled Lands (aka Quest) game book series published by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson. If you've never played the series, you may want to consider looking around the web for a PDF, purchase the iphone app, playing the free Java version of the books, OR go to Amazon and purchase the game books in their most recent reprinting (going at a rate of $8.99 per book).\nThe series was initially planned to be 12 books, however due to the drop out of the game book market during the mid-late 1990s only the initial 6 books in the series were published. Recently author Dave Morris commented that if the new reprinting of the series manages to sell 10,000 copies of each book, the publisher will greenlight production of books 7-12.\nIn addition to the game book these other items were released in the same setting:\nA Fabled Lands Role Playing Game based on the original game books was written by Shane Garvey and Jamie Wallis of Greywood Publishing. The RPG rules are based on the original rules of the game books but have been expanded to accommodate an adventuring party rather than a solo player and a role playing experience rather than a game book. Sokara -The War Torn Kingdom was the only supplement out of 12 planned released for it. A French version of the Role Playing game was made available from Megara Entertainment along with an free campaign for it it in English by Richard S. Hetley set in Sokara. A free Pathfinder conversion of the campaign was done by Jeff Swank. Dave Morris wrote an a scenario for it called By Her Gait which appeared as blog entry on the Fabled Lands Blog.\nThe English version and the only supplement can be gotten in PDF format on RPGNow.com separately or as part of a Fabled Lands bundles and the French version can still be ordered from Megara Entertainment.\nArt of the Fabled Lands by David Walter was published by Megara Entertainment in 2011.\nTales of the Fabled Lands a card game by Jamie Thomson with art by Megara Entertainment. based on the series was released by Greywood Publishing. It is still available in PDF format for purchase on RPGNow.com separately or as part of a Fabled Lands bundles.\nThe Heart of Harkun a 6 part BBC audio drama by Peter Thomson and Jamie Thomson was done in 1991 that takes place in the same setting as the game book series. A comic adaptation that is to be 12 issues was being done by Jamie Thomson and Russ Nicholson.\nThe audio drama can be listen to for free online Spark Furnace and on BBC iPlayer Radio. Rough version of the first two comic issues were released for free download at Lulu and on the Fabled Lands Blog.\nThe Keep of the Lich Lord (Fabled Lands Quests) (Volume 1) by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson was released in 2014. This game book was originally released years earlier as part of the Fighting Fantasy series and was edited to set in in the Fabled Lands setting and use the same game rules as in the Fabled Lands game books and remove it from the Fighting Fantasy setting and not use the Fighting Fantasy game book system with the 2014 release. It is available on Amazon and in a delux version from Megara Entertainment. Megara also made an app based version of it.\nThe Lost Prince: Tales of the Fabled Lands by Jamie Thomson a novel in the same setting as the series as the books was released in 2012 and can be gotten on Amazon.\n|1||The War-Torn Kingdom||Sokara||Medieval Europe-ish meets the English Civil War||Rebellion in the war-torn kingdom of Sokara.|\n|2||Cities of Gold and Glory||Golnir||Medieval Europe-ish||Adventure in the idle farmlands of Golnir.|\n|3||Over the Blood Dark Sea||The Violet Ocean||Early Shipping Days||Life at sea in the Violet Ocean.|\n|4||The Plains of Howling Darkness||The Great Steppes||American Plains Indians meet the frozen steppes of Asia.||Adventure on the icy Great Steppes.|\n|5||The Court of Hidden Faces||Uttaku||Ottoman Empire||Intrigue and subterfuge among the Uttakin nobility.|\n|6||Lords of the Rising Sun||Akatsurai||Japan||An ancient feudal society to the far east.|\n|7||The Serpent King's Domain||Ankon-Konu||The Amazon||This book is currently in editing.|\n|8||The Lone and Level Sands||The Desert of Bones||Middle East/Arabian Nights/North Africa||\n|9||The Isle of a Thousand Spires||Chrysoprais||Ancient India||\n|10||Legions of the Labyrinth||Atticala||Ancient Greece||\n|11||The City in the Clouds||Dangor||China||\n|12||Into the Underworld||The Underworld||Hell||", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Locations & Hours:\n- Redwood City 650.367.8181\nOur Year End Clearance Sale means you save 20% to 70% off every item in the store now through December 31st. Plus, save more because we pay your sales tax on purchases over $1000!* Restrictions apply.\nPlus, save more because we pay your sales tax on purchases over $1000!* Restrictions apply.\nAnthony Lauren, the manufacturers of fine arts and craft furniture, offer you the highest quality furniture. Every piece is 100% hand crafted and USA made to last you generations with a vast collection of the finest hand selected and hand stained woods.\nSale Price: $359.99Retail Price: $447.00You Save: $87.01\nSale Price: $389.99Retail Price: $477.00You Save: $87.01\nSale Price: $529.99Retail Price: $657.00You Save: $127.01\nSale Price: $599.99Retail Price: $747.00You Save: $147.01\nSale Price: $649.99Retail Price: $807.00You Save: $157.01\nSale Price: $769.99Retail Price: $950.00You Save: $180.01", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "GLAMOUR has now been especially designed for your device!\n30-day FREE trial\nWe weren't convinced by the shrug element of this dress, but\nshort-haired supermodel Coco Rocha can DO pretty\nmuch anything on the red carpet and still look fierce. This navy\nnumber is by Canadian designers Greta Constantine.\nFrom Mossy in sheer lace to Edie's London cool girl vibe, see the fashion campaigns currently making waves »\n17 ways to dress like one of the brand's gorgeous girls without having to wear a pair of wings »", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "My name is Rick Redekop, I am from Swift Current, Saskatchewan and have pretty much lived in the area most of my life. I am married and have a blended family of 5 kids.\nI have enjoyed working in many industries including construction, retail, and the hospitality industry. I have settled down in business and currently work as an accountant at Stark & Marsh CPA, LLP in Swift Current.\nWhen I was in high school, I found that I enjoyed working with my hands and building projects, my favourite material being lumber. I have always seemed to have a knack for working with wood and have built many things including, shelves, above ground planters and even bunk beds. My brother-in-law introduced me to pen turning. I found I enjoyed it so much that I decided to make a hobby of it. I make pens, pencils, key-chains and various other items. I work with both local and exotic woods and am planning on expanding into acrylics and plastics.\nTo see some of my projects feel free to visit my webpage.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In the last while earth, more than usual, has been devastated with world wide natural disasters. It is very sad that these horrible natural disastrous phenomenons are not subject only to the silver screen but are here with us in real life Kissasian. Disasters such as tsunamis, volcanoes, tornadoes, earthquakes, forest fires, floods and global warming are only too real and in our back yards. In my opinion this is much more nerve-wracking than any horror movie with ghosts, zombies, vampires and aliens.\nAll these horrible world wide disasters has prompted me into delving into the cinematic world of natural disaster movies. The newer movies with computer enhanced technology absolutely puts you on the edge of your chair with its great movie effects. Whether flying a little airplane between falling sky scrappers or driving over a collapsing freeway off-ramp, you are moving left to right and ducking along with the terrified cast.\nLet us not forget the older disaster movies where the quality of acting prevailed over there limited special effects. Nevertheless the natural disaster movies are well worth watching in movie theaters for their full effects in sight and sound compared to… I don’t know, a romance movie.\nThis is a great movie, it gets into the personal lives of the citizens of Pompeii in 79 AD only to be disrupted by a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The actual sudden disaster occurs near the end of the movie, unlike Dante’s peak.\n5:13 am on April 18, 1906 is when the devastating San Francisco earthquake occurred. A great movie, but of all the natural disaster movies from this era this one is a little too patriotic, a sign of the times. Yes, this movie is a musical, again a sign of the times.\nIn this classic movie three convicts end up on a secluded island of Talua, apparently about five hundred miles from Tahiti. The island is colonized with a children’s leper hospital run by two priests. Suddenly the islands fierce volcano erupts and eventually the three convicts rescue the hospital’s children and staff. A very gripping movie.\nLots of action and a little humor thrown into the mix of this great natural disaster movie. The movie is about a team of tornado storm chasers who are trying to perfect a tornado data gathering instrument to predict the onslaught of these devastating phenomenons. The movie magic effects are great.\nA Mount St. Helen’s story where the town, Dante’s Peak is nestled on a mountainside in the scenic Washington state just below a dormant volcano. As this mountain starts to show signs of eruption, a volcanologist and the town’s mayor try to convince everyone in town that they are in trouble. Nobody believes them until the volcano erupts and its too late… then the big action packed escape.\nDue to global warming a catastrophic effect onto earth occurs with extreme weather conditions such as a tsunamis and tornados. And, all these storms were backed up by global cooling in which everything instantly froze. The next Ice Age. This is a great movie with superb special effects.\nIf we are talking about superb special effects in movies, this one wins hands down. Working with the ideology of Mayanism, global cataclysmic events become real in 2012. Lots of destruction such as earthquakes and unusual volcanic eruptions. In my opinion this one is the best of all the natural disaster movies and well worth viewing in a theater.\nI must have watched Dante’s Peak and Twister about a thousand times. The high intense thrill ride of natural disaster movies does get my heart pumping, probably more so than many horror movies. I guess that is why I admire these flicks just a little bit more.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hahrper & the Thing: A Funny Dirty Horror Novel Horror Book Review\nFeatured Book Review: Darkbound\nDarkbound is an amazing book. Michaelbrent Collings outdid himself with this book. It is not at all what I thought it would be. I took three nights to finish this book because I stayed up way past my bedtime. Darkbound was so suspenseful that I just kept on reading to…\nHorror books Review\nSteven Isaac Hahrper has devoted his life to the absurdly romantic pursuit of women he barely knows. What Hahrper doesn’t know, is that he is haunted by a terrible monster…an ancient Thing which feeds on Hahrper’s senseless, fathomless lust.\nWhen Hahrper tires of hollow affairs—and meets a woman with whom he could share true love—the Thing refuses to let Hahrper go. True love contains no nourishment for the Thing. And It will not lose Its fantastic meal-ticket Hahrper.\nAnd, oh, what high jinks ensue…Terrifying visions. Devastatingly erotic visions. A full-length [**]ographic, yet moralistic Dr.Seuss-style story. Trips to fully-realized personal hells for Hahrper and all his friends. More naked women than even Hahrper could shake a stick at. And, of course, a climactic battle fought atop a fifteen hundred foot replica of Hahrper’s own medium-sized pink [**].\nAll this pulse-pounding, boob-filled action is accompanied by such timeless Steve Hahrper-penned songs as: “Scrumdillyicious Poontang”, “Magnet Face”, “Why There Must Be Titty-bars In Heaven:”, “On The Slopes Of Sarah”, and “All Roads Lead To My Dick”...to name a few.\nA modern fable about the triumph of true love…and the boundless idiocy of the human male.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "She expels his darkness with her light,\nShe brings serenity to his scorched soul,\nShe has the missing piece of his whole,\nHis dormant passion, she would ignite,\nSo that he can burst forth like dynamite,\nShe tunes him to nature, his mind dissolves,\nLittle by little, his puzzle, she solves,\nHe never will stop dancing, to her tune.\nInside of me so deep, Burnt into my retina, When awake & when asleep. It's like a bad smell, That just won't go, It rattle...\nListen while you read Ever since I can remember I wanted a life out of the rat-race but was unsure how to make it a reality... I wrote ...\nThe Tiny House Movement is not just about lifestyle, it's about attitude. Over the past twelve months I have almost: married agai...\nI'll be back soon with more news about the Tiny House Movement including natural health & beauty tips, simple/frugal & back to ...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "And the winner of our One Watercolor A Day free book giveaway is…\nCongratulations Melissa! Please send us an email to info[at]studio1482.com with your full mailing address, and your complimentary copy of One Watercolor A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design will be on its way to you.\nWe hope you enjoy the book!\nHow we selected the winner: As each one of the participants sent us an email or request to join our One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, they were assigned a number, from 1 to 98. We asked James Betza, the five year old son of Studio 1482 members Greg Betza and Despina Georgiadis, to choose a number between 1 and 98. His choice? Lucky 13. 🙂\nBut there is still a chance to join our One Watercolor A Day group! Just go to our One Drawing A Day facebook page HERE and send us a message asking to be added to One Watercolor A Day, including your email address. Starting on January 1 and going for the next 42 weeks, we’ll post the art that inspired each of the 42 exercises in our book, and ask you to post your own versions of the exercises in the group page, for feedback from the Studio 1482 and other group members. Also there will be our weekly Sunday night ‘inspirational watercolor’ post, and postings of other watercolor work by the members.\nIt’s a fun group, and growing, so we hope you’ll join in, if you haven’t already.\nThank you to everyone who participated in our drawing,\nand congratulations again to Melissa Bellantone!\nfrom the artists of Studio 1482", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2017 Classes and Workshops to be announced soon!\n2016 Class and Workshop Opportunities\nApril 30, 2016 8 AM- 4:30 PM\nFriends Thru Miniatures Fun Day\nGreendale People's Church, 9 Francis Street\nFor Info & registration contact Julie Hagel, firstname.lastname@example.org\nLearn to make silk ribbon roses to use in your miniature settings. Complete a flower bouquet.\nJune 11-18 INSTRUCTOR: Bill Studebaker\nThe Guild School, Castine, Maine\nSelections for this Year’s Guild School is an 1800's Spinet.\nAugust 5-7, 2016\nINSTRUCTOR: Bill Studebaker\nThe Guild Show, Tea Neck New Jersey\nBill will teach a class in the Guild Study Program soon to be announced.\nBarbara wuill teach\n\"IItty Bitty Hitty”\nA Hitty for your Hitty Doll! Using a 1-1/2” wooden hand-carved Hitty doll made by Charlene Reynolds, students will paint the features and dress the doll using vintage materials and learn techniques for hand sewing and embroidering the word “Hitty” on the chemise just as Phoebe Preble did in the original book!\nAll tools and supplies will be provided by the instructor; however, it is recommended that students bring magnification, lighting, and sharp fine sewing scissors, as well as any favorite sewing implements and tiny paint brushes.\nTime: 3 hours (time to be scheduled), Cost: $30 tuition and $55 for the doll ($85)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On March 7, Canadian rock/pop artist, margø released her new single, “In Between”. This song is about becoming self-aware in a toxic situation and deciding to take back your power.\n“In Between” is the first song of many that she plans to release in 2019, with two more singles set to release over the spring/summer months, and an EP to follow in the fall!\nCheck out the single below and find out more about margø in our newest segment of Five Questions With.\nCare to introduce yourself to our readers?\nMy name is margø, and I’m an alternative rock/pop artist from Canada. I’m here to make loud, unapologetic music with the intent of providing a soundtrack for those who are finding their voice.\nTell us a bit about your music and writing style.\nGrowing up I was constantly surrounded by rock music, and I’ve always tried to incorporate that influence into my songs. I like to combine pop style beats with a heavier rock feel to create a unique, edgy sound. For writing style, this project has always been about reclaiming your power and finding your voice. My music aims to be unfiltered and honest, and the goal of my writing is to leave listeners feeling empowered.\nDo you have any upcoming shows? For someone who has yet to see you live, how would you explain your live performance?\nYes! I have a show coming up Saturday, March 23rd at Bohemia in Edmonton, AB. I currently have a few shows over the summer in the works and am in the midst of planning a small tour of western Canada for the fall of 2019 as well. My shows are full of energy! We combine the electronic aspects of my music with live instruments to create a really full, danceable set. I love to get the crowd jumping and singing along, it’s really a lot of fun. Live performances are my favourite part of this project and I’m so excited to be playing lots of new music – you’ll definitely want to check my shows out!\nIf you were asked to suggest only one of your songs for someone to hear, which would it be?\nI just released my debut single In Between on March 7th and it’s available on all streaming platforms for you to give it a listen! In Between hits you with powerful bass right from the beginning of the song, and combines melodic lyrics with a gritty rock twist. It’s the first of many songs I’m planning to release this year – stay tuned for a couple more singles over the spring/summer and my debut EP in the fall!\nCanadian Beats is all about Canadian music, so who are your current favourite Canadian bands/artists?\nI love how the Canadian music scene is full of such talented female musicians. I’m such a big fan of Jessie Reyez, Alessia Cara, Tegan and Sara, and Leah Fay (from July Talk) – they all are strong, outspoken women in the music industry who impress me so much, and they all really encompass the type of musician I strive to be. I also love bülow, her lyrics are fantastic and her music is so catchy – I definitely would love to see her play live.\nI’m Jenna, and I am the founder and editor of Canadian Beats. I have had a strong love for Canadian music, which started many years ago. I have a passion for promoting these talented Canadian bands and artists, and that’s how Canadian Beats came to be. I am so proud of what it has become over the last few years, with many talented music lovers and writers coming together to spread the word of Canada’s music.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Member price $13.50\nFrom the mind of artist Emily McDowell, this mug brings patriotism and pippin' hot beverages to the fore--there are a few things we’re just not willing to sacrifice. See also: facts.\n• 11oz ceramic mug\n• Dishwasher and microwave safe\n• Comes in a sturdy box with a viewing window, for easy gift giving\n• Design is printed on both sides of the mug", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Stereohype.com is an online boutique and graphic art label based in London. For almost ten years, Stereohype has acted as an international platform for a new breed of artists and designers. Every year, Stereohype also hosts a design competition which is another channel for exceptional creatives to promote their talents as well as to get their work produced and published to the public. A wide range of products featured on the site includes T-shirts, button badges, rare publications and prints. Some of them are made as a limited edition to make sure the design is unique and stays appealing to its swish customers.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "If you’ve got fur balls, or your favorite sweaters are covered with cat hair, and a love for making quirky and one-of-a-kind crafting projects, you’ll love Crafting with Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts to Make with Your Cat.\nThis playful and completely furrtastic guide shows you how to transform stray clumps of fur into soft and adorable handicrafts. From kitty tote bags and finger puppets to fluffy cat toys, picture frames, and more, these projects are cat-friendly, eco-friendly, and require no special equipment or training. You can make most of these projects in under an hour-with a little help, of course, from your feline friends!\nAbout the Author\nKaori Tsutaya is a cat lover and freelance writer whose writings have been published in magazines and special-interest books. Many of her published works are based on the subject of cats and include articles, photography, and books on crafting. Her blogs The Laws of the Cat (nekono-okite.cocolog-nifty.com) and The Cat Hair Craft Room (nekoke.com) are popular in Japan.\nAmy Hirschman is a translator, crafter, and pop-culture enthusiast living in California. She studied Japanese for four years at the University of Pittsburgh and has lived in Japan. Though she is not a cat owner, her friends will attest that she is the greatest cat sitter they have ever had. This is her first published translation.\nSee all items by Penguin Random House", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NAMM issued the following recap of its Believe in Music event, which took place on Jan. 20 and Jan. 21. It is presented in its entirety.\nOn Thursday, January 20, NAMM’s Believe in Music opened to welcome a global contingent of professionals and music enthusiasts from more than 120 countries and territories for professional development, live interviews, networking opportunities, and performances. The event, which was billed as a preview of The 2022 NAMM Show and closed Sunday, January 23, saw participants engage with brands, a full suite of education spanning 11 tracks and 115 speakers, view new products at the NAMM 2022 gear sneak peek, and enjoy the Believe TV’s livestream of interviews with top artists and pro audio luminaries as a primer for The 2022 NAMM Show.\n“This year’s Believe in Music event served as a bridge in bringing our global industry together as we make our way to The NAMM Show in June. The industry-enhancing education, quality content and valuable networking opportunities were important reminders of just some of what we experience at the show,” said Joe Lamond, NAMM President and CEO. “And while gathering virtual is a great way to experience aspects of The NAMM Show, in my opinion, there is no substitute for stepping onto the Anaheim campus, running into old friends, and discovering new products, strategies and tools to help propel your business forward.”\nFor the 15,000 registrants, the event created a social network of industry activity from members across the globe to network, learn, and be inspired. At press time, international registrants from Afghanistan to Zambia representing more than 120 countries and territories attended, and nearly 20,000 messages and contacts were exchanged or made.\nWith all eyes focused on the June reunion in Anaheim, Believe in Music served as a preview of the event to come.\nTom Sumner, President of Yamaha Corporation of America, shared, “For Yamaha, Believe in Music served as an important ‘road stop’ on the way to The NAMM Show. We’re grateful for the technology to connect us all, but nothing beats being together in person. We look forward to returning to The NAMM Show to launch new products, reconnect with global partners, meet with our dealers, and unite with the industry at large.”\n“It has been two years, too long since gathering—manufacturers, retailers, and musicians alike—as one in the heart of Anaheim, California,” remarked John Powell, President of AlphaTheta Music Americas, Inc. “We are incredibly proud of the massive strides Pioneer DJ and its industry peers have made in transforming the music industry for the better during this time apart and look forward to driving this momentum forward together at NAMM in June.”\n“We’re very excited to return to the June show. I am looking forward to the return to normal that only comes from meeting face-to-face with our vendors and manufacturers, the NAMM Idea Center sessions, and seeing and feeling the newest products in person that we can bring back to our customers…We always come back from the show energized and ready to grow,” noted Jeremy Chapman, owner of The Acoustic Shoppe.\n“With the extra time manufacturers have to create new products and supply chain issues easing mid-year, the team at Full Compass and I are anxious to touch and hear new products, connect with industry friends, and recharge from the positive energy and enthusiasm that The NAMM Show has delivered for many decades. The NAMM Show is the foundation of our industry, and having it return this June makes it that much more special,” shared Chris Tso, Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing.\n“For HARMAN, NAMM is more than the premier platform to showcase our products, it’s the soul of the industry where creators and builders converge to shape the future of music,” said Frank Joseph, Senior Director of Marketing, North America, HARMAN. “NAMM is engrained in the DNA of our JBL, AKG, and Soundcraft brands, and we very much look forward to seeing everyone back at the show.”\nTim Paul, owner of Piano Trends Music & Band Co., shared, “Not only am I looking forward to presenting at the NAMM Idea Center but the opportunity to reconnect with ‘Nammily’ friends and contacts as it will once again fill the valuable need for the music community to be together. We look forward to the energy and valuable information that can only be found by attending The NAMM Show, which will certainly brighten our outlook and create positive thinking this June.”\nOn Thursday, Believe TV, hosted by Lamond and Herb Trawick (Pensado’s Place), featured a day of industry updates and live keynote interviews with notable artists, including a special opening interview with Keb’ Mo’. When asked about the importance of gear and who influences the design of gear – the artists or the manufacturer – Keb’ Mo’ expressed his gratitude. “Any time I pick up any piece of gear, I know that there’s a bunch of people standing there who put that gear together… It really speaks to how much help you’re getting when you’re going for your dream. So, there’s a deep sense of gratitude so that I can play and have my dream, and hopefully, when they’re making the gear, they have their dream too.”\nOther live interviews for the day included Elliot Easton (The Cars) and the super producing duo of Denzel Baptiste and David Biral, better known as Take A Daytrip (Lil Nas X, Juice WRLD, Sheck Wes, and others), and Lola Romero, the Chief Engineer at Aftermath Records (Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Kanye West, Travis Scott, and others).\nRomero was asked about her career journey and responded, “I just set out to be a really good engineer. After a little bit of time at this, I realized I’m really touching people, giving a lot of young women the confidence to go into music and into roles in the industry in positions that maybe aren’t as common.” And on her advice for young professionals, she shared, “Immerse yourself in anything that’s a goal for you. Really, really learn about it and how you fit in, and how you can contribute to accomplishing your end goal.”\nOther artist interviews included Brandon Boyd (Incubus), Brittney Spencer, Luke Spiller and Adam Slack (The Struts), Matthias Jabs (The Scorpions), and Steve Vai.\nEducation for Today and Tomorrow\nProfessionals accessed the strategies and tools to further their careers and businesses by connecting with top thought leaders on the platform to meet challenges and thrive in any climate. Believe in Music offered four tracks of education for professionals in the music products, pro audio, and live event production industries: Business, Audio Production and Music Technology, and Entertainment Technology. For music educators and advocates, non-profits and college-aged students and faculty, The NAMM Foundation presented sessions in GenNext, Music Education Days, Music & Social Justice, the Nonprofit Management Institute, and Music & Wellness.\nThe Business Track brought together the top minds in the industry to offer actionable strategies, tactics, and best practices for music retailers and brands to navigate to the next level. At the heart of the track were NAMM U sessions on pressing topics, including a keynote-style session from author, futurist, and “Retail Prophet” Doug Stephens, “The Customer of the Future.” Stephens shared key shifts in demographics, technology, economics, and media, all of which are changing the very essence of how customers buy as we emerge from the pandemic.\nOther top-of-mind sessions included “How to Use Facebook Ads to Increase Your Lesson Students” from Ayana Webb of The Musical Webb; “Social Media, Video and Digital Ads: Keys to Online Marketing for 2022” with Tracy Hoeft of Amplify 11; and Dennis Stafford of Organiksol Marketing, who presented “Music Retail: How to Put Artist and Influencer Marketing to Work.”\nAudio Production and Music Technology Track\nSessions for recording, live sound, and house of worship professionals, as well as music technologists, dove into the latest tools, tips, and innovations while also exploring the landscape of new technology. Programs included:\nTEC Tracks offered big-picture sessions and high-profile topics in recording, live sound, and music business, featuring industry thought leaders. Highlights included interviews with top producers, engineers, and artists, including “The Future of Mastering” with GRAMMY Award winner and eight-time nominee Emily Lazar; “The Future of Music and Challenges in the Next 5 Years” with SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe; and “Post-COVID Live Sound Tour Trends,” featuring industry touring vets Robert Scovill and Mark Frink.\nA3E (Advanced Audio + Applications Exchange)\nFor the future-minded, A3E featured future-forward education on how next-generation content creation is reshaping the entertainment industry. In a special session, industry leaders Jack Joseph Puig, GRAMMY Award-winning producer, engineer and the vice president of creative innovation at Waves Consumer; Daniel Rowland, Oscar-winning engineer, producer and the head of strategy and partnerships at LANDR Audio; and Maya Ackerman, CEO and co-founder of WaveAI and a Woman of Influence in 2020, presented a robust discussion of “Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Creativity and Their Impact on Music and Content Creation: Deep Dive Data Analysis.”\nEntertainment Technology Track\nEntertainment Services and Technology Association (ESTA)\nESTA offered two in-depth educational sessions for entertainment technology and design professionals, as well as those responsible for their safety, including “50 Years of Show Technology Evolution: Have We Reached a Maturity Point?” Expert John Huntington of City Tech and author of Show Networks and Control Systems and Introduction to Show Networking presented his research via a detailed show technology history timeline documenting the trends, looking at where we are now and speculating about the future.\nPro Production Sessions\nFront of House and Projection, Lights & Staging News magazines welcomed Chris Lose, live entertainment production expert, and Phay MacMahon of Phamous Productions to discuss how you can reduce stress on the road at “Take the Stress Out of Touring.” The duo explored how artists and their crew can work together more effectively to ensure their needs are being met and covered topics ranging from creating a well-laid-out rider to music breakdowns—vital elements of a successful tour.\n“PLSN and FOH magazines were proud to participate in Believe in Music,” said publisher and producer of the Parnelli Awards, Terry Lowe. “We all logged on and enjoyed our columnist and lighting/video designer Chris Lose talking with production manager Phay MacMahon about crew members reducing stress on the road of a major tour. The entire Believe program was enlightening and entertaining and set the stage perfectly for the in-person NAMM Show and Parnelli Awards to be held in Anaheim in June. The live event and concert touring industry will all be there for that, and you should plan on being there, too.”\nEvent Safety Alliance (ESA)\nThe Event Safety Alliance (ESA) addressed safety in event design, risk management, and the importance of communication in “Stop the Show: The Who, When and How of Show-Stop Procedure.” In this session, Jim Digby of the Event Safety Alliance, along with Bryan Huneycutt and Tyler Scollon, discussed the importance of a pre-established show-stop procedure, including the important details of who needs to be involved in the decision, the circumstances when you would consider using it and how to manage crowd expectations to avoid even worse unintended consequences.\nThe NAMM Foundation Tracks\nFor attendees in music and arts advocacy, management and education, social justice, and emerging professionals, The NAMM Foundation presented a series of mini educational tracks, including:\nA collaboration between The NAMM Foundation and The College Music Society (CMS), the education series offered college-aged students and faculty access to career—and professional development—opportunities. Program highlights included “Big Ideas to Improve Accessibility From Yamaha Master Educators,” “Finding Your Fit: Careers in the Music Industry,” “What’s It Like Out There? Insights From College Music Program Recent Graduates,” and “Preparing Music Students for a 21st Century Income.”\nMusic Education Days\nSchool music teachers and administrators joined for a series of informative sessions, inspiring performances, and opportunities to preview the latest instruments, products, and tools relevant to today’s changing music classrooms. The track included “Music-Making for All: Ukulele Strings Attached!,” where specialists Peter Luongo and James Hill previewed the Teaching Ukulele Workshops to be offered at The 2022 NAMM Show and offered classroom-tested techniques to develop ear training, notation reading, vocal harmony, and theory. Other sessions included “Music Administrators Forum: Support Music Education,” where administrators and arts leaders discussed the challenges and opportunities to provide quality access to music and arts instruction during this time, and “TECHnically, It’s About the Individual and the Ensemble” where Technology In Music Education (TI:ME) offered strategies to engage students with technology in multiple ways.\nMusic and Social Justice & Nonprofit Management Institute\nAs part of the Nonprofit Management Institute, the Music and Social Justice track welcomed participants to an in-depth conversation about diversity and inclusion. In a special session, “Embracing Diversity, Equity and Opportunity: Building a Sustainable Ecosystem,” Anqwenique Kinsel, Arts Education Collaborative, Pittsburgh; Christie McKinney, Chorus America; David Dik, Young Audiences Arts for Learning; Habib Bako Independent Sector; and Mary Luehrsen (NAMM) discussed examples that illuminate diversity, equity, inclusion, opportunity, and access as key elements of sustainability of a 21st century non-profit.\nMusic and Wellness\nFor participants seeking health enrichment, Thursday and Friday offered an interactive session, “Start Your Day with Rhythm—A Wellness Experience with Drumming.” Author and music therapist Christine Stevens guided the audience on a live musical journey to release stress, connect with the heart and deepen the body’s healing potential.\nNotable Believe in Music Moments\nTwenty artists from twenty countries kicked off Thursday in the Believe in Music Global Livestream. Starting at 6:00 a.m. PT, the morning of performances kicked off with The Brass for Africa Teacher’s Band (Kampala, Uganda) and headed to New South Wales, Australia, for a special performance from the melodious epic folk band, The Heart Collectors. Shortly following, Tokyo-based Keisuke Ito performed original songs on the Shamisen, a traditional three-stringed Japanese guitar.\nOther performers included Philippines-based alternative rock band Mayonnaise, a fan favorite from last year’s Global Livestream; At’ Adau, a fusion band from Sarawak, East Malaysia playing traditional and modern instruments; Kenyan recording artist, Apesi (Mnyama Mkali); classical and improvising accordionist Pawel Janas from Warsaw; Renegade Brass Band from the UK, combining raw hip-hop with brass instruments; Dutch pianist and composer Martin Fondse, the country’s 2021/2022 “Composer Laureate,” with violist Saskia Meijs; Chennai, India’s Mandolin U Rajesh and his band DHRUVA playing Carnatic classical music; contemporary Mexican jazz band Troker; Peruvian ukulele star Emanuel Rivera, Argentine soul singers Fémina; and Brazil’s supreme heavy metal bassist Felipe Andreoli.\nThroughout the day, Daring Greatly shared their harmony-rich, rock ‘n’ roll folky sounds with the audience. The band, the brainchild of brothers Patrick Croome (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Liam Croome (vocals, keys), Brayden Tario (drums, vocals), and David Mills (electric guitar, pedal steel), recently released their latest, six-song EP, Give Myself to the World.\nClosing out Thursday, the Women’s International Music Network presented the She Rocks Spotlight Series at Believe in Music. Hosted by Laura B. Whitmore, founder of The Women’s International Music Network and The She Rocks Awards, the She Rocks Spotlight featured performances from GRAMMY award-winning singer, songwriter and actress Laura Dreyfuss and New Zealand singer, songwriter and actress Jamie McDell.\nThe 2022 NAMM Show returns to Anaheim, California June 3-5 and registration will open in March. During The NAMM Show, Swapcard, the technology platform used to hold Believe in Music, will host NAMM Show+ — a digital extension of the Show.\nTo learn more about health and safety protocol and prevention measures, please visit NAMM’s Safe&Sound program online: https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2022/safe-and-sound", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "£110.00 – £250.00\nTaken during a time when tourist numbers in the Masaai Mara were extremely few due to Covid-19, at only one week old it is highly probable that we were the first tourist vehicle this baby giraffe had ever seen. The endearing curiosity was a joy to watch as he edged closer towards us. By positioning myself with a long lens as low in the grass as possible I was able to frame the young giraffe against the Mara skyline.\n*Price is for print only. For more information on purchasing prints please visit our FAQ’s page.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|June 25, 2018||12:00 PM||Camelot Theatres (PS Cultural Center)|\nA classic suburban tale of parenthood, bereavement and a mysterious pug.\nWhile visiting her family in Jamaica, an American teenager becomes her cousin's confidant and changes the way she sees the people she loves.\nTo escape Auschwitz, she left her father to die. Decades later, she got a message from him.\nLuna, a young Chinese-American girl, dreams of becoming an astronaut. Supported by her humble father, Luna endeavors to make her dreams come true.\nIlana believes herself to be a liberal Israeli woman until her regular eye doctor, who administers a crucial injection for her sight, is replaced by Dr. Khoury, an Arab. Faced with the very real possibility of losing her eyesight, Ilana will have to open her eyes to more than she expected.\nAn unassuming middle-aged accountant learns he has only weeks to live...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I took a break from writing about the dead\nand drinking from writing about the dead\nto walk around my childhood neighborhood.\nEverything’s for rent. Or for sale, for ten\ntimes the amount it’s worth.\nPalm trees are planted in front of a mural\nof palm trees under the Ocean Park Bridge.\nIn the painting, the metal horses of a carousel are breaking\nfree and running down the beach. Why didn’t I leave\nmy initials in cement\nin front of my parent’s apartment in the eighties?\nNikki had the right idea in ’79.\nI walk by a basketball court, where men play\nunder the florescent butts of night’s cigarette.\nI could have been any of their wives,\nat home, filling different rooms in different houses\nwith hopeful wombs. Agreeing on paint color\nsamples with their mothers in mind.\nI’ll bet their wives let their cats go out\nhunting at night like premonitions of future sons.\nThey will worry, stare out the front window,\npray that privilege doesn’t bring home bad news\nlike some wilted head of a black girl in nascent jaws.\nTo say nothing of the owl who’s been here for years. I hear him\nwhen I’m trying to write about the deaths I’ve admired.\nI hear him when the clothed me no longer recognizes\nthe naked. I hear him while writing and shitting and sleeping\nwhere my mother’s seven guitars sleep.\nI hear him in my parent’s house,\ntheir walls covered in my many faces,\ntraces of decades of complacence.\nMy childhood neighborhood is a shrine to my success,\nand I’m a car with a bomb inside, ready\nto pull up in front of it and stop\nCopyright © 2015 by Amber Tamblyn. Used with permission of the author.\nbut I remember sitting alone on the brown couch in my grandmother’s living room, couch whose cushion covers were of velvet and the color of dark rust, or dried blood —and sewn by the tailor from up the block, the same one who made me my first light blue suit two years earlier And I sat there running my hands back and forth over the short smooth hairs of the fabric and understanding what touch meant for the first time—not touch, the word, as in don’t touch the hot stove or don’t touch your grandfather’s hats but touch like Tom Jones was singing it right then on the television, with a magic that began in his hips, swiveled the word and pushed it out through his throat into some concert hall somewhere as a two-syllabled sprite, so that women moaned syllables back in return. And I knew I wanted to touch like that because Tom Jones stooped down at the edge of the stage and a woman from the audience in a leopard-print jumpsuit unfurled from her front row seat, walked like a promise of what I couldn’t quite discern up to him and pushed her mouth soft and fast up against his mouth and they both cooed into his microphone mouths still move-moaning together like that for an eternity. And then Tom Jones unlocks his mouth from hers while my breath is still caught in my throat, and moves to the other end of the stage, and squats there, and kisses another woman from the audience in a black jumpsuit, while the first woman looks on, swaying so slightly I almost can’t tell—to the band which is still vamping the chorus line— mesmerized and taut with expectation as I am, palms down on the velvet-haired cushions and Tom pauses, sensing the first woman’s impatient almost-mewling and says Easy Tiger while he moves his mouth against this woman’s, his cheeks working like tiny bellows, before returning to the first one and then the bridge or the chorus or whatever—at that point the song is an afterthought, and I knew there was a mission to be fulfilled—Tom Jones pointed to the women and said touch and the new color TV made everything shimmer with promise so my eight year old body preened and stretched itself against the ecstatic couch and dreamed of what tomorrow could be like if I could make touch mean so many things, if I could make a building or a body coo like this.\nMy pants could maybe fall down when I dive off the diving board. My nose could maybe keep growing and never quit. Miss Brearly could ask me to spell words like stomach and special. (Stumick and speshul?) I could play tag all day and always be \"it.\" Jay Spievack, who's fourteen feet tall, could want to fight me. My mom and my dad—like Ted's—could want a divorce. Miss Brearly could ask me a question about Afghanistan. (Who's Afghanistan?) Somebody maybe could make me ride a horse. My mother could maybe decide that I needed more liver. My dad could decide that I needed less TV. Miss Brearly could say that I have to write script and stop printing. (I'm better at printing.) Chris could decide to stop being friends with me. The world could maybe come to an end on next Tuesday. The ceiling could maybe come crashing on my head. I maybe could run out of things for me to worry about. And then I'd have to do my homework instead.\nFrom If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries . . ., published by Macmillan, 1981. Used with permission.\nWhen I see birches bend to left and right\nAcross the lines of straighter darker trees,\nI like to think some boy's been swinging them.\nBut swinging doesn't bend them down to stay\nAs ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them\nLoaded with ice a sunny winter morning\nAfter a rain. They click upon themselves\nAs the breeze rises, and turn many-colored\nAs the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.\nSoon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells\nShattering and avalanching on the snow-crust--\nSuch heaps of broken glass to sweep away\nYou'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.\nThey are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,\nAnd they seem not to break; though once they are bowed\nSo low for long, they never right themselves:\nYou may see their trunks arching in the woods\nYears afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground\nLike girls on hands and knees that throw their hair\nBefore them over their heads to dry in the sun.\nBut I was going to say when Truth broke in\nWith all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm\nI should prefer to have some boy bend them\nAs he went out and in to fetch the cows--\nSome boy too far from town to learn baseball,\nWhose only play was what he found himself,\nSummer or winter, and could play alone.\nOne by one he subdued his father's trees\nBy riding them down over and over again\nUntil he took the stiffness out of them,\nAnd not one but hung limp, not one was left\nFor him to conquer. He learned all there was\nTo learn about not launching out too soon\nAnd so not carrying the tree away\nClear to the ground. He always kept his poise\nTo the top branches, climbing carefully\nWith the same pains you use to fill a cup\nUp to the brim, and even above the brim.\nThen he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,\nKicking his way down through the air to the ground.\nSo was I once myself a swinger of birches.\nAnd so I dream of going back to be.\nIt's when I'm weary of considerations,\nAnd life is too much like a pathless wood\nWhere your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs\nBroken across it, and one eye is weeping\nFrom a twig's having lashed across it open.\nI'd like to get away from earth awhile\nAnd then come back to it and begin over.\nMay no fate willfully misunderstand me\nAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me away\nNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:\nI don't know where it's likely to go better.\nI'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,\nAnd climb black branches up a snow-white trunk\nToward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,\nBut dipped its top and set me down again.\nThat would be good both going and coming back.\nOne could do worse than be a swinger of birches.\nFrom The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916, 1923, 1928, 1930, 1934, 1939, 1947, 1949, © 1969 by Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright 1936, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1954, © 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 by Robert Frost. Copyright © 1962, 1967, 1970 by Leslie Frost Ballantine.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pristina, 15 April 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency\nBy Elton Tota\nA theatrical piece premiered last night in the National Theater of Kosovo, has brought to the attention the post war period, when Kosovars welcomed the arrival of freedom with great joy and euphoria.\nThe piece “Graffiti” directed by Fadil Hysaj, is based on the playwright by Mehmet Kraja.\nThrough this drama, actors have not only reflected the post war enthusiasm, but also the fact that many people were disappointed by the following years.\nThe main character of this piece is played by Çun Lajci. Before the war started, “Kosovo is Serbia” was written on his door, but after the war, after being threatened by the war wing is forced to write “UÇK” and then “LDK”.\nThe play suggests that “politicians and those who profited from the war have never thought beyond their personal and family’s interests. On the other hand, with their power, they have constantly threatened the citizens by usurping their freedom”.\nKosovo was liberated from the Serb regime in 1999, but as this shows presents it, the new state has not yet been liberated by politicians and many people consider them to be the usurpers of freedom in the country. /balkaneu.com/", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A Ludwig Mies van der Rohe masterpiece that has been studied by architects from across the globe for over six decades the offers a world of inspiration for experts and design aficionados alike. It is barely a surprise then that the owners of in Texas wanted a home that was modeled on the iconic construction after having fallen in love with it during one of their trips.\nLarge glass walls and windows along with a skylight ensure that there are no dark corners here. It is pendant lighting along with cleverly placed LED strip lighting in the ceiling that takes over after sunset to give the addition a cozy pleasing aura.\nTransforming a home with a modern rear extension is definitely a hot trend that simply refuses to slow down. Not only does it give an old structure a new lease of life with simple refurbishment and a snazzy addition but also cuts down significantly on construction costs.\nThe presence of large wooden beams dark steel plates and polished finishes brings with it plenty of visual contrast even as large overhangs offer ample shade during hot summer days. With a view of the beach in the distance and a relaxing ambiance fashioned by a mature green landscape life at does seem like an absolute breeze!\nThe transition between the living area indoors and the outdoor hangout is seamless thanks to the use of large glass windows and sliding doors. On the inside it is a palette of wood and white that holds sway with color being used sparingly. Custom wooden shelves bring warmth to the living room while wooden cabinets and island in the kitchen offer both textural and visual contrast.\nComplete with a relaxing rooftop hangout that contains a relaxing sitting area al fresco dining and built-in outdoor kitchen this Californian home combines comfort with practicality in an effortless manner. Add to this its unique blend of Scandinavian and contemporary styles and you have an instant hit!\nThis is Northern Norway and it is in this secluded backdrop that the fabulous designed by Vladimir Konovalov sits. A monochromatic masterpiece that keeps the focus on the mountainous landscape and endless tranquility outside the glass-walled home ensures you are never miss out on the sights and sounds outside.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I've always loved the colour blue but powder blue has to be my favourite, the colour of disney princess cinderella's ball gown and Alice in Wonderland's iconic dress.\nAnyway, I was browsing the Barry M counter and amongst the other lovely vibrant colours that Barry M offers, I spotted it, a striking powder blue coloured nail varnish. I had to have it, especially at just £2.95!\nUnlike some colours this nail varnish came out the same vivid colour that it appeared on the bottle, I was very impressed. Another bonus, I only had to do one coat.\nI'll definately be buying more of these gorgeously coloured bargain varnishes, how about you?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Amsterdam based Dutch visual designer working on art direction, digital design and brand identity. I have worked with different designers and agencies in the past 5 years and gained experience being employed in several agencies as a freelancer and under contract at Joolz.\nArt direction, graphic design, brand identity, UX/UI design, 3D visualisation, animation, typography\nOut of love and necessity rather than profit and novelty, First Designs opened its doors in 2015. By creating corporate identities, print materials, web designs and 3D visualisations with passion it brought new excitement to the dutch design scene.\nWhy so quiet? Feel free to contact me via email on dennis [at] firstdesigns.nl\n© 2019, First Designs", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TABLE NAMES & NUMBERS\nA MATCH MADE\nIt's important that your table numbers/names effortlessly blend in with your table centrepieces. This can be done by matching colours, or by using the same material as your other wedding stationery and signage.\nChoosing table names is another great way to personalise your wedding day. Choose your favourite beverages, countries, films to share another part of your personality with your guests.\nTable numbers/names can be created in a variety of materials to make sure they match your wedding vibe.\nMaterials that I've used so far are:\nHigh quality card\nAcrylic with painted backs\nNaturally stained wood\nWax seals or silk ribbons can also be added to some materials for an extra finishing touch.\nWant to make sure the stationery fits perfectly with the rest of your wedding reception vibe? Get in touch to request samples. Up to three small pieces of material of your choice can be posted free of charge. Really seeing the product will hopefully make your decision easier.\nLovely words from lovely couples...\n\"Rachel created beautiful stationary for our wedding. She created gorgeous, stylist highly professional signs and place settings for us which were perfect for our wedding. She was fabulous all the way through. She gave me great advice and guidance when I wasn't sure what I wanted and kept in contact whilst producing the stationary so I knew exactly what was going on running up to the day. I couldn't recommend her enough for a highly professional personal service. Thanks Rachel!\"\nAnna & Sam", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Luxury logo design collection for branding, coporate identity\nLight blue alcohol ink background collection. abstract fluid art painting design.\nDifferent pastel colored ribbons labels banners collection. big set of ribbon stickers elements.\nGolden circle flower frame for monogram logo design. gradient gold flower border.\nLuxury logo design collection.\nPink alcohol ink background. abstract fluid art painting design.\nSet of watercolor floral frame for wedding monogram logo and branding logo design\nSet of watercolor flower and leaf. floral painted with watercolor for greeting and invitation card decoration.\nLuxury logo design collection. rose gold emblems with initials and floral decorative for branding logo, corporate identity and wedding monogram design.\nSet of watercolor flower and leaf for greeting and invitation card decoration.\nPastel tartan check plaid seamless pattern collection\nHand drawn round frame for logo design and calligraphy decorative\nTartan check plaid seamless pattern\nSweet pastel seamless pattern collection.\nGold brush stroke hand painted set isolated on white background\nSet of happy birthday balloons on transparent background.\nMerry christmas pattern seamless\nSet of natural logo for branding, corporate identity, packaging and business card.\nOnline shopping concept for web landing page, digital marketing on website and mobile application.\nSet of natural logo for branding in modern design\nAlphabet collection in golden color\nSet of 12 cute seamless patterns.\nMerry christmas pattern seamless collection in red and white color\nBeautiful alphabet collection decorated with floral watercolor style\nNatural logo and packaging design template. mockup soap package in minimalist design.\nGolden balloons on transparent background.\nRose gold luxury pattern seamless collection.\nCoronavirus stamp in red color\nRose gold brush hand drawn set isolated on white background\nSet of colorful realistic balloons on transparent background.\nGolden alcohol ink background. abstract fluid art painting.\nHand drawn rose flowers arrangements in tattoo style\nGolden circle flower frame\nBeautiful golden alphabet collection\nStar background in pastel color\nTartan check plaid seamless patterns\nNatural logo design template for branding, corporate identity, packaging and business card.\nRose gold alphabet in modern style\nMarble background rose gold\nGolden geometric frame decorated with floral in watercolor style", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When Elia Goat began arranging material for a solo album, he decided to take a different approach to instrumentation. Instead of stringed instruments traditionally used in folk and country, Goat wrote horn parts for his songs and began gathering players. The result is Elia Goat and the Natural Horns and their album, Acorns. The band visited the WYSO studios for a live set on Kaleidoscope and talked to host Juliet Fromholt about writing, recording and finding a sound all their own.\nThursday evening, the Springfield Museum of Art will hold an event called Members Matter. At the gathering, museum officials plan to announce a budget surplus and an increase in membership.\nLast year, Springfield's Museum of Art adopted a best practices model used by other museums around the country. The move eliminated three positions including a curator, a membership coordinator and a security manager.\nNamed for an essay by Dr. Martin Luther King, the World House Choir made its debut performance in 2013 at Antioch College's Coretta Scott King Center.\nWYSO Music Director Niki Dakota spoke with Dr. Cathy Roma, director of the World House Choir, before a rehearsal for their 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King Day performance at the Coretta Scott King Center. Roma shared her thoughts on why singing together as a community can affect change, and the choir shared some selections from its upcoming performance.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "J. J. G. Alexander\nJonathan James Graham Alexander (born 1935), known in print as J. J. G. Alexander, is a medievalist and expert on manuscripts, \"one of the most profound and wide-ranging of all historians of illuminated manuscripts\".\nAlexander edited the Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles from 1975 onwards. In 1988 he became Sherman Fairchild Professor of Fine Arts at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.\n- (ed. with Otto Pächt) Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1966\n- Italian Renaissance illuminations, New York: Braziller, 1977\n- Insular manuscripts, 6th to the 9th century, London: H. Miller, 1978. Survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles vol. 1.\n- The decorated letter, New York: Braziller, 1978\n- (ed. with T. Julian Brown and Joan Gibbs) Collected writings of Francis Wormald. 2 vols, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984-88.\n- (ed. with Paul Binski) Age of chivalry : art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987\n- Medieval illuminators and their methods of work, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994\n- (ed.) The Painted page : Italian Renaissance book illumination, 1450-1550, New York: Prestel, 1994\n- (ed. with James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler) The splendor of the word: medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts at the New York Public Library, New York: New York Public Library, 2005.\n|This biography of an American historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ingmar Round Antique Gold Glass Side Table\nThe Ingmar Round Side Table brings an elegant aesthetic to any room. Meticulously crafted metal is finished with antique gold gilding and topped with tempered glass, glamorously elevating any decor. Ingmar’s thin tapered legs make it ideal for artistic, minimalist spaces.\n- Color: Antique Gold Gilt Contents: Metal / Tempered Glass Metal Type: Antique Gold Gilt Country: China Assembly Required: No\n- 27\" X 27\" X 23\"\n- Weight: 37.4 lbs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Offered for sale is a beautiful antique Art Deco era Czech Bohemian cranberry glass decanter set. The decanter set features bold cranberry areas with intaglio etched designs. The decanter features an additional element of decoration with a male deer in a forest etched within the front ruby stained area. The decanter stands approximately 10 1/8\" tall with the stopper in place and the glasses stand 2 3/8\" tall. The overall condition of the decanter set is excellent.\nIt has no chips, cracks, or broken areas with the exception of a small chip to the base of the stopper, a small fleabite to the top flat surface of the neck on the decanter and some small chips, flakes and nicks to four of the six glasses. The color is excellent and the inside is very clean. There are light exterior scratches and the decoration is strong with minor rubbing and loss.\nThe item \"Art Deco Czech Bohemian Cranberry Intaglio Deer Stag Glass Decanter Set\" is in sale since Sunday, December 22, 2019. This item is in the category \"Pottery & Glass\\Glass\\Art Glass\\Bohemian/Czech\\Moser\". The seller is \"e-connoisseur\" and is located in York, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped worldwide.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PEN Podcast: Voices Against Torture—Writers and Lawyers on the Way Forward\nIn celebration of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, PEN America features a panel of writers and lawyers speaking out against torture. More\n2009 Annual Reading and Reception of PEN Women’s Literary Workshop\nNeil Gaiman in Conversation with Joshua Wolf Shenk\nVoices Against Torture: Writers and Lawyers on the Way Forward\nSomething to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State\nJoin PEN America Today\nDefend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture.\nGet updates on events, literary awards, free expression issues, and global news.\n@SuzanneNossel, CEO of @PENamerica, discusses book bans, educational gag orders, the First Amendment, and our democracy on the latest episode of @SideBarLTN.\nYou can listen to it on @LegalTalkNet or wherever you listen to podcasts.\nVery excited to celebrate the release of @patricia_engel’s new story collection THE FARAWAY WORLD this Thursday✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ https://twitter.com/penamerica/status/1622002418035597314\nFeb 9, 6:30PM at @DIESELBrentwood in #LosAngeles:\nJoin celebrated authors @patricia_engel and @jeanho for PEN Out Loud—an outdoor evening of readings and conversation exploring their latest works of fiction.\nDetails: https://pen.org/event/pen-out-loud-patricia-engel-jean-chen-ho/ #losangeles #authors #events", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A servant and master from far off Syracuse arrive in Ephesus in search of their long-lost twin brothers. In no time at all they are trapped in a terrifying chain of chaotic events.\nTormented by a wild wife, a moody mistress, challenged by a crazy jeweler and damned by a demonic doctor the terrified twosome run headlong into a climactic happy ending which defies all probability.\nA summer delight not to be missed!\nOddsocks Theatre Company\nOddsocks have over 20 years experience delighting audiences across the country with their inspired approach to Shakespeare's plays and their trademark family friendly, madcap style. Be prepared for belly laughs, slapstick comedy and lots of audience participation.\nSee 2 tour dates featuring Oddsocks Theatre Company\nThe Comedy Of Errors image © Oddsocks Theatre Company", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hi Lenny, welcome to VENTS! How have you been?\nI am well! Just a bit anxious that the world is opening back up again and haven’t practiced my live set enough.\nCan you talk to us more about your latest single “Party Animal”?\n“Party Animal” is a song written by Julio Argueta (best friend and longtime music collaborator) Rannan Adler (instrumentalist) and I. We first recorded a demo of the song In 2009 and released it on MySpace. However, more recently, I reached out to Julio and Rannan and let them know that this song means more to me now than ever! I fell head over heels for a person who is repeatedly in some sort of party environment and under the influence. So I told them that I wanted to rewrite and re-record and they were cool about it.\nDid any event in particular inspire you to write this song?\nIt didn’t have meaning back when we wrote the 09 demo. We were way young and just using our vast imagination to write songs. I just feel strongly about it now because the girl I want is a Party Animal.\nAny plans to release any music video for the track?\nI recently released the lyric video but when it comes to an official video I want it to\nBe very much invested in. Some Sort of story line and a production company shooting with big cameras and I can’t do that unless I save some money.\nThe single comes off your new album Rokklenin – what’s the story behind the title?\nROKKLENIN means Lenin’s rock music. I’ve always wanted to do just rock or just an alt sound. I used to be kind of shy to use my singing (pop-rock-alt) voice and now I embrace it. Shouts out to hip hop music though! Love it just as much.\nHow was the recording and writing process?\nRecording and writing the debut EP started about 2019. It was just me wanting to embrace this sort of rock sound of mine and so I would jam on an acoustic guitar and sing. Then I met the Party Animal girl that I want so bad and once I took the Rannan instrumental to a real studio, I absolutely connected with the engineer and loved the sound. I knew it could be huge and I have never been to a real studio in my life until I started recording for ROKKLENIN.\nThen the songs just came almost back to back, really naturally; with most records being recorded at SIDE 3 STUDIOS in Denver.\nWhere did you find the inspiration for the songs and lyrics?\nI got the inspiration for the EP from some old feelings and old situations that I had a hard time dealing with or a hard time letting go of. On “Waiting” I talk about an old lover and a bitter ending relationship but it led to me finding myself again and hitting the road to find a new life in a state 2300 miles away from home. “You Are Not Just Anybody” is another song on the record that brings up older feelings that have been hard to deal; addressing attachment issues I have and confusion/cloudiness while being in romantic relationships . All the events and feelings and soul aching emotions that hit me from 2017-current is what is mostly reflected on this EP. I remember driving state to state and each time as I entered a new state away from Florida I would become very emotional and knew I couldn’t go back home because hitting the road felt like it was healing me. It still does. This EP is also a ode to getting older. As I was recording it the the last couple years I kept telling myself “don’t slack off, you’re getting old Lenin” haha. So I’m glad this is coming out, finally. It’s nice to know that each song here on ROKKLENIN has helped me cope because once they were done recording I felt relieved and it was almost as if after each song was recorded that a negative feeling or bad chapter of my life was put to rest. By the way, the song BILLY THE PIRATE is about Billie Eilish. For Billie Eilish. I discovered her music and felt like I can be so myself and started doing so much local karaoke while recording the EP\nWhat else is happening next in Lenny The Heart’s world?\nNext in Lenny the Heart’s world is touring. I am saving for an RV and practicing my live set. I’d also like to create and sell merch. I want to build my personal and business credits so that I can get loans and put thousands into digital marketing for my music; airplane banners, billboards, online ads. Just really pushing Lenny out there. That’s all!\nThanks for listening.\nCONNECT WITH LENNY THE HEART", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dhrupad is the most ancient style of Hindustani classical music that has survived until today in its original form. The Dhrupad tradition is a major tradition of Indian culture. The nature of Dhrupad music is spiritual. Seeking not to entertain, but to induce feelings of peace and contemplation in the listener. The word Dhrupad is derived from DHRUVA the steadfast evening star that moves through our galaxy and PADA meaning poetry. It is a form of devotional music that traces its origin to the ancient text of Sam Veda. The SAM VEDA was chanted with the help of melody and rhythm called Samgana. Gradually this developed into other vocal style called 'Chhanda' and 'Prabandha' with introduction of verse and meter. The fusion of these two elements led to the emergence of Dhrupad.\nBy the eleventh century Dhrupad music had crystallised into a perfect form which has retained its original structure and purity through to the present day. One significant characteristic of Dhrupad is the emphasis on maintaining purity of the Ragas and the Swaras. According to some accounts, Dhrupad was sung in the temples, the singer facing the deity. From this early chanting, Dhrupad evolved into a sophisticated classical form of music.\nThe language of Dhrupad changed from Sanskrit Brij Bhasha some time between the 12th and the 16th century. About six centuries ago, Dhrupad came to be patronised by the royal courts and its complex rendering became intended for highly sophisticated royal audiences. Some were written in praise of the emperors; others described the music itself. However the pristine nature of Dhrupad survived and even today we hear this majestic form of music performed like it was more that 500 years ago in the royal courts of the emperors and kings of India.\nIn the conception of Indian classical music, Dhrupad has been an important point of departure. Normally, Dhrupad is known only by its literary meaning from the words Dhruva and Pada. Conceptually, however, it has a different meaning: it refers to and emphasizes the circulatory construction of our music. Dhruva means unmoving. It implies the return of the Swara (tonal), Kala (time) and Shabda (textual) trajectories to a fixed point.\nAll music existent today has attained this stature of construction because of Dhrupad. Perhaps this is the reason Dhrupad is considered the soul of Indian music. In the old compositions, they contain an indication to repeat the initial text phrases.\nThe word ‘Dhruva’ is as old as the Natya Shastra itself in which we find a separate chapter on Dhruva-Geeta. In the Natya Shastra, Bharata Muni describes Dhruvas as the songs which are referential in their structure. Dhruva means a pole, a standpoint, a locus of reference, primarily The other meaning is that it has certain fixed rules for execution.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome to the REBEAT Artist Camp - check out the REBEAT Digital content\nQ ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ Sagi Kariv Remix: 14th April 2017\n“Q’s cover doesn't show what ability he has in his range. Get ready for Q in 2017” Andy Galea, Producer (Rihanna, Maroon 5)\nGerman born chart topping singer/songwriter Q is releasing an edgy club version of Kylie’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ as a tribute to the iconic artist. The single is remixed by Sagi Kariv from Tel Aviv. Sagi is famous for making club bangers, winning him a huge fanbase, particularly in the gay scene. He debuted his remix of Q’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ to 1500 hundred people at a gay club in Tel Aviv and the response was explosive.\nThe remix package also includes versions from chart topping producer Andy Galea (Rihanna, Maroon 5) so it is no wonder the track is already climbing up the Music Week Club Charts.\nThe first song Q recorded was Can’t Get You Out of My Head, which he used as a demo for labels and media. The demo proved so popular, Q was asked to officially release his version and the campaign quickly snowballed. The release follows on from Q’s debut single Ready or Not, which reached #8 in the American Top 10 Breakout Charts top and was #10 most clicked singles in Germany.\nQ is a born entrepreneur, running an entertainment agency at the age of just 19. This led him to work on live dates and tours for international artists, gaining inspiration for his own blossoming performance career.\n“Kylie’s hit Can’t Get You Out of My Head is a tribute to an amazing and influential artist, for giving me the inspiration to work and believe in my career.” Q\nQ moved to London in 2015 and is studying music at one of its top universities. Q is currently in the studio working on an album of original songs, due for release later this year.\n|Management / Booking|\n|Telephone: +44 7482 852840||E-Mail contact|\n|2017-03-06||Music Week Charts (UK): #19 Commercial Pop Club Chart - #26 Upfront Club Chart|\n|2017-02-27||Entry Music Week Charts (UK): #37 Commercial Pop Club Chart - #48 Upfront Club Chart|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After what seemed to many to be four excruciatingly long years, Canadian pop rock quartet Marianas Trench are back! After the release of their last album, Ever After, the group went on extensive tours, released five extremely popular singles, and even helped out a fellow canuck (as is the Canadian way), Carly Rae Jepsen rise to fame with Marianas vocalist providing his songwriting abilities for the track “Call Me Maybe”. With Jepsen’s track topping all charts, record labels took notice of Josh Ramsay’s writing and producing abilities which lead to them signing with American label Cherrytree Records. In 2013 the polite musical hosers went back into the studio and after what could only be assumed to be many long nights of sticky instruments (due to copious amounts of maple syrup consumption) being played and replayed, they finally created the masterpiece Astoria. The title of the album, the artwork were directly inspired by the 1985 cult hit The Goonies. The band even went as for to call their 2015 tour “Hey You Guys!!” (as hollered by the ever lovable Sloth in the flick). Let me tell you there’s plenty of ditties on this record that’ll have you doing the “Truffle Shuffle”\nThe album starts of with the eponymous title track, “Astoria”. Clocking in at 6 minutes and 58 seconds, it’s quite the monster of a song to begin with. These Canadian lads know how to do it big though. The song has a myriad of effects and elements to it with the usage of soothing synthesizers, uplifting guitars and perfectly plucked bass, drums played with such precision, and even a hint of orchestral touches added in for perfect measure. The song starts off as what one would consider a pop driven alternative rock song, but a few minutes it has an almost R&B tinge to it with Ramsay even singing in a falsetto like tone, and then switches genres again to what sounds like an outro to a 1980’s Eagles rock ballad with keyboards, continuous group singing, and some epic rock’n’roll yells. Lyrically the song pertains to the subject of love. It can be the “wind beneath your wings”, it can beat you down, and you can find it in all the wrong places. Ramsay even relates to it in a tongue-and-cheek manner with the words “I shoulda known you’re not alone when you take somebody home, and the little deaths are a little less even if just for a moment. On a good day I’m the bad news for the wrong girl with the right wounds. Hey, lets all say fuck it. I’m gonna make my mother so proud of it”\n“Burning Up” is a song that almost sounds like it could make Prince proud. The groovy guitar riffs, a rhythmic 1-2 drum pattern, low and (very) high-pitched vocals literally had me bobbing my head and swaying my shoulders in rhythmic euphoria. The lyrical content which eludes to Ramsay knowing an ex may still carry some red-hot feelin’s is something most could relate to, which just adds to the fun value this track carries so well.\n“Yesterday” can be simply summed up like this: it could have fit perfectly in the opening credits for any 70’s or 80’s family friendly comedy movie. It is intoxicatingly danceable. The lyrics “Could be a party, let’s dance” excite and thrill me because I LOVE to party AND dance! For these three simple yet important reasons, this song is one of the most lively and enjoyable on the entire LP.\n“One Love” was the initial single and for good reason. This song shows a different side of the band, delving further into the emotion of love than ever before. This song is the truest form of a rock ballad with its grandiose structuring of the instruments and the poetic words put forth by Ramsay (some of his best writing yet). “Now I wake up and I forget that you were gone. A phantom limb is all that I am hanging on. So don’t stop, no stopping it yet. What if the one true love’s the only one that you get? And you’ve been wishing but you don’t know how to stay, and I’ve been broken but I’m better every day. So don’t stop, no stoppin’ it yet. What if the one true love’s the only one that you get?” Upon hearing that chorus for the first time I almost felt a catch in my throat and a tear fall down my cheek all because I realized this is a reflection I’ve had myself. Vocally this song has some of the sweetest tones and sounds to ever leave the lips of Josh Ramsay.\nMusic video by Marianas Trench performing One Love. (C) 2015 Interscope Records (Cherrytree Records) http://vevo.ly/xFDgOz #MarianasTrench #OneLove #Vevo #Pop #VevoOfficial #lyricvideo\n“This Means War” continues the poppy, radio-friendly, dance rock as the previous tracks through the verses, but brings a more alternative element to the chorus. Instrumental wise they add something new to the mix with a xylophone. Simplistic in nature, but integral to the overall feel of the song.\nThe album is a long one. This is NOT a bad thing. With seventeen tracks (four of which being interludes that actually feel perfectly placed and entirely appropriate) it’s a whopping 54 minutes and 44 seconds, so there’s no fears of the enjoyment ending before it even begins. Overall it feels like the boys from up north we’re aiming to have people shakin’ their groove thang with this release. They have the sad ballads, the wishful pop rock tunes, and even an acoustic track, but for the most part it’s dance floor ready songs that seem to be the heart and soul. I am not ashamed to say I believe this is their best work yet for multiple reasons. Lyrically and vocally Josh Ramsay has never been better. You can tell the pen to paper process was not rushed and in actuality he poured blood, sweat, and tears into every written word. Matt Webb (lead Guitar), Mike Ayley (bass), and Ian Casselman (drums) couldn’t get any better. With perfect timing, sound, and feel coming from all the instruments, you can tell they all wanted to take it to a whole new level. Go pick up this record, press play and get ready to laugh, cry, and dance till your legs and lungs give out. Astoria is a must listen from the maple leaf representing boys in Marianas Trench.\nMusic video by Marianas Trench performing The Making Of Astoria. (C) 2015 Interscope Records (Cherrytree Records) http://vevo.ly/v4qI34 #MarianasTrench #TheM…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes, 175-164 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 17.08 g, 12 h), Ake-Ptolemais, circa 170-168. Diademed head of Antiochos IV to right; above, star. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ANTIOXOY Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to outer left, palm frond; to inner left, monogram of AB; in exergue, monogram. SC 1472b. Very rare. A beautiful coin with a spectacularly lifelike portrait. Minor die rust on the obverse and with light marks and scratches, otherwise, very fine.\nThis portrait ranks among the most realistic and lifelike in the entire Seleukid series. It is, in fact, the very same obverse die as on the magnificent cover piece of the second volume of the SC monograph.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Because it’s all about me and my family of course and not about the actual star of the music video, Georgia Fields.\nGeorgia is a local lass with a beautiful voice and is a pretty bloody nice person as well (you can tell her I said that). And tall. I feel like Tyrian Lannister standing next to her and I’m not exactly short.\nScout and I were stoked to be involved in Georgia’s new music video, “The Hood and the Hunter”, a pop culture retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood tale. Georgia wanted to get a whole gamut of women on set for the video, from young through to old, but what she ended up with were a few kids, an older person, a legion of Gen Ys and 2 Gen X’s (that would be me and my friend Ren).\n[yours truly is at 2:46, and little Scout is at 3:11 and 3:35. Don’t miss the last 5 seconds of the video—a stunning beauty to behold. Not biased, hell no.]\nThe video, by local director Rohan Spong is brilliant, I just love it—the imagery, the mood, the cinematography, the mise-en-scène (ooooooh, sorry, wanky posh french film theory term there). Rohan and Georgia were patient with all of us, particularly Scout. I was ever so proud of my little Gen Z actress. Scout is a real chip off the old block and loves everything theatrical, but suffers (as one might expect from a child) from shyness and stage fright, so I wasn’t sure she was going to go through with it, even though Georgia was so encouraging. But come on, Scout got to be Little Red Freaking Riding Hood for 5 blissful minutes, that was too good an opportunity for her to pass up (bragging rights for LIFE, biatches!).\nIt felt so good to be acting again, even in a teeny tiny way. I got shivers while we were filming because I miss it so much and felt like I was home. Like my writing, it’s only taken me 20 years to work out what it really is that I love doing. Bloody people, I dunno, so set in their ways. Pardon, third-person meta-brainfart there.\nSo go watch the video, would you, and check out Georgia’s other wonderful music vids on Youtube while you’re there. She is a talent, that one.\nHow much do you love that red hood?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I'm Beatriz, a Multidisciplinary Designer based in Lisbon, Portugal with a functional, minimalistic approach.\nOver the course of 6 years, I've worked for agencies, startups and as a freelance designer for clients around the world, and helped build timeless design solutions. Today I am dedicated full-time to Automattic where I design themes and contribute to the WordPress open source project.\nAlthough I keep an eye on trends, I'm more into timeless designs and I aim for a balanced and purposeful life. I'm driven by great aesthetics and ancient wisdom.\nDesigned with WordPress", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "No description entered.\nJava Draw Created Dec 16, 2012 640 x 460px Unless noted Copyright 2012 SPIDER 08.\nWe encourage you to submit a comment and let the artist know what you think of this drawing. Please log in or join to post a comment.\nLooks quite peaceful yet cold!\nLove the Blurred feature\nnow i want some hot coco.. she needs a hot coco too\nHOT RUM TODDY! ;0\nvery pretty drawing, nice work 5/5\nlooks so lovely wish i could go on a ski holiday lol, i luv da snowy landscape n mountains-fav\na beautiful landscape!\nvery nice draw !\nTerms & Conditions\nAdvertise on RMD\nMixart New Media LLC. Online Art Communities\nAs creators of drawings, you own the rights to your own drawings. Respect copyright protected artwork.\nMore information in our Terms and Copyright Policy.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "One of my collages—previously posted under “Let’s Make Magic”—has been selected to help promote Kansas SCBWI’s fall conference! It will be featured alongside illustrations by Lissa Sloan and Karen B. Jones. I am honored to share the experience with these talented ladies.\nYou can preview the conference art (and sneak a peek at the faculty line-up) here in the summer newsletter. My illustration is on page three. Hooray!\nNo comments yet.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wild Orchid Creations\nOur wedding photography style is modern, fine art, documentary and creative. This means that you will always get a mixture of photojournalistic and candid wedding photographs, artistic, fun and unique shots as well as some classic and traditional wedding pictures. All packages include a fully edited DVD of all wedding images. The images are unmarked and ready for print. The editing also includes artistically edited images. A six month online gallery is included with all of our photography shoots.\nOur wedding videos are innovative and cinematic. We produce a mix of documentary and movie style editing in most of our videos. We always shoot with a high definition video cameras, wireless microphones and professional lighting. All videos are edited in HD. There are four primary wedding photographers and five primary wedding videographers at Wild Orchid Creations. Nika is the only photo editor and Dusan is the only video editor, so if you like our samples, you’ll know that it’s similar to the product we will be creating for you. We only book a limited number of weddings to ensure you get the highest quality service.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "three pendants earrings\nA timeless theme that sees its colors change with the seasons. Each rock crystal stone is hand-dyed with beautiful shades. As each stone is unique, the intensity and depth of the color depends on the particularity of the stone. Brass earrings dipped in a 24 carat gold bath, featuring rock crystal cabochons tinted multicolor, the emblematic stone of the House.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jazz age! Hot Sounds of the 20s and 30s\nJazz age! Hot Sounds of the 20s and 30s by Past Perfect at Your Free Album. MPN: 5026554201316. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. The 50 tracks on this fine album are prime monuments of the Jazz Age and arguably, some of Americas finest jazz performances. '' .. the best introduction to early jazz music I have come across and features a huge variety of artists from Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke to Basie, Ellington and the splendid Muggsy Spanier. For recordings this antique, the sound quality is amazing'' Charles Spencer, The Spectator Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp Miff Mole - The New Twister Bessie Smith -\nProduct Description & Reviews\nThe 50 tracks on this fine album are prime monuments of the Jazz Age and arguably, some of Americas finest jazz performances. \" .. the best introduction to early jazz music I have come across and features a huge variety of artists from Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke to Basie, Ellington and the splendid Muggsy Spanier. For recordings this antique, the sound quality is amazing\" Charles Spencer, The Spectator Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp Miff Mole - The New Twister Bessie Smith - Trombone Cholly Bix Beiderbecke - Royal Garden Blues Beale Street Washboard Band - Forty And Tight Louis Armstrong & Kid Ory - Ory's Creole Trombone Red Nichols - Whispering Mckinneys Cotton Pickers - Milenberg Joys Boyd Senter & His Senterpedes - Sweetheart Blues Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines - Weather Bird Fats Waller - Won't You Get Off It, Please? Hoagy Carmichael - Rockin' Chair Duke Ellington - Old Man Blues J C Higginbotham - Give Me Your Telephone Number Mamie Smith - Jenny's Ball King Oliver - Dont You Think I Love You? Cab Calloway - Trickeration Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Snake Hips Boswell Sisters/Dorsey Brothers - There'll Be Some Changes Made Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - Farewell Blues The Chocolate Dandies - I Never Knew Art Tatum - The Shout Fletcher Henderson - Tidal Wave Duke Ellington - Sump'n' 'bout Rhythm Jack Teagarden - Junk Man Earl Hines - Copenhagen Louis Prima - Sing It Way Down Low Benny Goodman Trio - After You've Gone Henry Red Allen - Whose Honey Are You? Benny Goodman - If I Could Be With You Billie Holiday / Teddy Wilson - What A Little Moonlight Can Do Bud Freeman - The Buzzard Artie Shaw - Sweet Lorraine Benny Carter - Swingin' At Maida Vale Dick Mcdonough - Dardanella and more..\nFeatures & Highlights\n- hese selections are prime monuments of the Jazz Age and arguably, some of America's finest jazz performances.\n- It is no exaggeration to say that the fusion of several vital strands in American popular culture - the emergence of jazz on record and the upsurge in social dancing - brought an outpouring of individual creativity that was without precedent. As one jazz master after another came to maturity and triumphed, so others, influenced and inspired by their predecessors, followed on.\n- All of these giants are here - enduring legends every one: Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Johnny Dodds, Duke Ellington - the alphabetical litany goes on.\n- The best in Twenties and Thirties hot jazz. Small groups and big bands, vocalists and instrumental stars, blues and swing, technical virtuosity and simple statements. No wonder Jelly Roll wanted more!\n4.97 x 0.54 x 5.55 inches\nHave questions about this item (5026554201316), or would like to inquire about a custom or bulk order?\nIf you have any questions about this product by Past Perfect, contact us by completing and submitting the form below. If you are looking for a specif part number, please include it with your message.\nRelated Best Sellers\nmpn: unknown, ean: 0715949102929,\nOscar Aleman - Swing Guitar Masterpieces - Cd Lingering in the shadows of prebebop guitar legends such as Django Reinhardt, Oscar Alemán has been rendered to barely a blip in jazz history. First reason is his non-American, non-European status, as pr...\nsku: JUL11D04-181247, ean: 0717794629927,\nNBC BROADCAST RECORDINGS, 1936-1943...WITH ARTIST..LIONEL HAMPTON, ARTIE BERNSTEIN, COUNT BASIE, NICK FATOOL, CHARLIE CHRISTIAN, TOOTS MONDELLO ON A 2 CD SET...2 HOURS OF MUSIC..THIS IS NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED RECORDINGS FROM BENNY GOODMAN''S PRIVATE C...\nCompact Disc Snot singer James Lynn Strait had a lot of friends, if this intensely emotional tribute is any indication. Strait died in a December 1998 car accident, with Snot on the verge of breaking big, thanks to critical kudos and a stint on Ozzfe...\nmpn: WE-PPRLP4418, ean: 5060149622445,\nMasterpieces, originally released in 1951, was the first LP 12 inch album released by Duke Ellington. No longer constrained by time limitations Masterpieces features only four tracks including a 15 minute version of Mood Indigo.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Deck the halls, trim the tree and don’t forget to write to Santa. With Christmas fast approaching, we wanted to share a little secret with you: face paints are even more fun than party hats. You can be a penguin, a holly wreathe, an ice fairy or even good old Saint Nick himself. We’ve created some festive face paint designs to get you started and why not let the kids have a go at making our tasty Strawberry Santas?\nThese clever little treats are easy to make with your children and perfect for parties!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The body of the stone dealer had been decaying for several weeks by the time it was found in an Upper West Side apartment. It was hot and the smell of decay was so strong that Stanley, the building’s supervisor, was ordered to remove everything from the unit. Stanley believed he could make some money from the man’s antique furniture so he called Wally Gibbs an antiques dealer who called Vito Giallo, his peer, for an appraisal.\nThis story was told by Mr. Giallo at 91 during an interview at his Brooklyn home.\nHere’s what he found: A table, a dresser and a desk in the apartment of the deceased man. Although the city tried to locate the relatives of the deceased, it was unsuccessful. There were no heirs.\nAt first Mr. Giallo was skeptical that any of the items would be sold at his antique shop on the Upper East Side. He gasped when he saw the tiny trunk. He said that the trunk contained thousands of gems. These included amethysts and rubies, emeralds and topaz as well as moonstones. They were almost every type of precious or semiprecious gemstone, except diamonds. He said they were sized from “pinhead” to “thumbnail” and stored in hundreds of disintegrating envelopes. The man had lived off the stones for his entire life until Mr. Giallo saw the stack of checks.\n“I don’t know anything about him,” Mr. Giallo said. “Absolutely nothing. “I don’t even know if there was a business that was open to the public.” The super couldn’t believe the stones existed, so he said to Mr. Giallo that they could be kept. Stanley was also in luck and Mr. Giallo couldn’t believe his luck.\nAndy Warhol was one of the few customers he sold a few stones. For the past five decades, the majority of the gems were kept in a storage facility. Tara Marrale, the founder of sustainability start-up Grooted, suggested that Mr. Giallo put them to good use during the pandemic. They approached an established jeweler about collaborating on a line cocktail rings, necklaces, and earrings.\n“I must have looked through 20 or more jewelers,” Ms. Marrale (33), said before reaching out Catbird, a Brooklyn brand that has stores in Williamsburg, and SoHo, which uses recycled stones in its designs. She wrote an email explaining that Mr. Giallo was an antiques dealer to “the who’s who”, including Elton John and Greta Garbo. He also “put on Andy Warhol’s first show in 1954.”\n“This might seem like a crazy idea,” Ms. Marrale wrote. She was preparing for the possibility that Catbird’s team wouldn’t be happy with her pitch. They did .\nThe brand’s executives were entertained by stories from Mr. Giallo about New York’s midcentury art scene. Leigh Batnick Plessner (creative director at Catbird) received a copy his unpublished memoir. It traces his serendipitous journey to Madison Avenue.\nMs. Plessner stated that “His New York,” as he said in his memoir, was a city that had vanished.” This is a city that nobody cared about being famous for more than 15 minutes, at least not yet.\nAndy Warhol’s Legacy\nIn the years since his death in 1987, the artist’s cultural importance has not diminished.\n- Warholmania: If Andy Warhol appears to be particularly prominent right now that’s because he is everywhere : in museums, on the streets, and onscreen.\n- Play: In “The Collaboration,” Paul Bettany, Jeremy Pope and Jean-Michel Basquiat give unforgettable performances.\n- A book: “Warhol” by Blake Gopnik. This is the first biography of the artist. shows a complex story that grows more complicated the more you look at.\n- A Musical “Andy,” Gus Van Sant’s Warhol-inspired stage debut may be the strangest tribute to the director of movies.\n- The Brooklyn Museum presents “Andy Warhol – Revelation”, an exhibition that shows how Catholicism seeped in to the Pop master’s work.\nAndy and Vito:\nMr. Giallo was born in Brewster in N.Y. He said that his father, a bootlegger, operated 19 stills in various associates’ homes. “We had to be careful with the phone. It was always tapped,” Mr. Giallo stated. We couldn’t tell where he was. He would say “Put the water to boil” when he was ready for home. His father had taped several $100 bills to Vito’s body at age 12 and told him to send them via train to a relative. The F.B.I. His father said that he was watching the house.\nAfter winning an illustration contest scholarship, Mr. Giallo made the move to New York at 19 to study at Franklin School of Professional Arts. Ebby Weaver would be his life partner for 51 years.\nHe illustrated for “Mad Men”, a style of ad agencies like Young & Rubicam or J. Walter Thompson after completing his degree. At the age of 23, Giallo opened Loft Gallery in the Jack Wolfgang Beck’s studio. Mr. Giallo stated, “By word-of-mouth, it leaked that they were looking for artists” Nathan Gluck, a friend, connected the gallery with Andy Warhol (a young artist) who contributed an origami collection to the first group exhibition.\n“It was Andy’s first show,” Mr. Giallo stated. Mr. Warhol’s origami would not stay attached to the wall. Pieces fell like snowflakes every few seconds. Mr. Giallo said that the artist once told him to “just leave it on the ground and let people walk around it.” He had a solution for every problem, and he always found a way to do it.\nMr. Warhol invited Mr. Giallo within a year to become his first paid assistant. He worked out of Mr. Giallo’s East 34th Street railroad apartment, which he shared with his mother. (Mr. Giallo lived one block away in a two-bedroom apartment that he and Mr. Weaver rented for $85 per month from Bert Carpenter. This was an art professor at Columbia. Mr. Warhol and Mr. Giallo worked together on much of Warhol’s early work, except for the ” shoe drawings“.\nWhile Mr. Warhol sketched with a pen on his knee, Mr. Giallo used the light box to create blotted lines. His mother prepared sandwiches and Campbell’s tomato soup for lunch and did the lettering.\nThey went out at night. Mr. Giallo stated, “I didn’t like wild parties.” Andy loved them. Everyone wanted to meet him. They were disappointed to find out that he didn’t speak any words when they finally met him. He rarely spoke.” Mr. Giallo prefers jazz and quartet shows, such as Ella Fitzgerald’s, Billie Holiday’s, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, and Ray Charles. These tickets cost only a few dollars each. Although Mr. Giallo claims he has never attempted to sneak in, it was very easy.\nHe said that people could have the best meal of the life for as little as $1.85 in the 1950s. Then, they would walk into Lord & Taylor and ask for a reference for “a light guy.” Alexander Calder was their best friend. Mr. Giallo stated, “It was much more fun.” “You could easily sleep in Central Park and not be in danger. Many people did this on extremely hot days.\nAfter a disagreement between the two, Mr. Giallo quit working for Mr. Warhol’s in 1957. His replacement was Mr. Gluck who became Mr. Warhol’s most important assistant. His first antiques shop was opened on Third Avenue by Mr. Giallo in 1961. He attracted a large clientele from Abstract Expressionist painters like Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko. “When they bought something I delivered it to Rothko’s apartment, which is just around the corner,” Mr. Giallo stated.\nMary Gabriel, an art historian noted that these artists were often open to welcoming strangers into their spaces. She said that if you wanted to see the work of an artist, you would visit their studio and talk to them. “It hurts me to think that people can look at a 10-foot painting online.”\nAfter Mr. Giallo had moved his store to Madison Avenue in the 1970s, Mr. Warhol stopped by and said, “Wow, you must have been on Easy Street.” He loved the idea of me being on Madison Avenue. He came back every day for the eight years that followed.\nAfter their reconciliation, Mr. Giallo informed Mr. Warhol of the trunk of gems and offered to buy some for his upcoming venture into jewelry design. “He looked at one of the 35-40 stones and said, “I’ll take all of them.” But Warhol died from complications after surgery and the gems were sold at his estate sale for approximately $10,000 in 1988, according to Sotheby’s.\n“You have to be very curious about things”\nIt is fitting that Warhols gems ended at a Sotheby’s estate sale. For most of his career Mr. Giallo bought his wares there every Sunday. He was such an avid buyer, that Sotheby’s guards gave him keys to unlock display cases so he could examine pieces like Art Deco jewelry boxes or porcelain tableware.\nKevin Tierney, a Sotheby’s silver specialist and who joined the house in 1964, said that Vito was “a pro in between $50 and $5,000.” He described Mr. Giallo to be “a charming individual with a keen eye on quality and style, quick at offering a friendly discount for young employees at Sotheby’s.”\nGiallo described his buying approach as instinctual. “When I see something I am interested in, it is a vibration you feel with the item. He said that it was difficult to explain. It’s hard to explain where it is, who it belongs to, and why. You just wonder about all that. That feeling is what I love. It gives me a thrill to touch something two- or three hundred years old.”\nSotheby’s appraisers often underestimate the value of an item and Mr. Giallo would purchase it for a mere dollar. He said, “I bought so many crystal chandeliers as glass,” He said, “They made big, huge mistakes on rock crystal.” One time, he purchased a $100 silver whiskey glass that turned out be solid gold. “A lot of things get lost at auction. This is one of the reasons I go every two weeks.\nHe would often go on weekend trips with Mr. Weaver (an interior designer) to visit sales outside of the city. He once bought a Chinese drinking vessel from China made of pottery from Han dynasty at a roadside store. It was later sold for $1500.\nHe said, “When you have a lot of them, you start to get excited about antiques.” He said, “You just want to find the one treasure.” His greatest success came at a Connecticut estate sale where he bought a $12 watercolor painting depicting a pastoral scene. It turned out to be a Charles Demuth. It was sold at auction for $180,000.\n“An object that I believe is worth buying, it somehow speaks to me,” said Mr. Giallo. “You must be curious about everything.”\nThis trait is more evident than anywhere else, including on the walls and surfaces in Mr. Giallo’s apartment. It is easy to feel overwhelmed at first by the volume of blink-and-you-miss-it marvels, including a narwhal tusk, a rectangular meteorite chunk and Italian paintings from the 18th century, as well as works by Warhol, Matisse and Picasso.\nMs. Marrale is Mr. Giallo’s grandniece through marriage and helped broker the Catbird collaboration. She lives in an apartment upstairs with her husband Jonathan Marrale. She has been helping Mr. Giallo to organize his collections. “You think that you’re going down for five minutes,” Mr. Marrale stated. “But he is so fascinating that you are there for two hours and it feels as if nothing has happened.”\nBefore the pandemic, Mr. Giallo spent every morning at the café across the street. He would order coffee and a pastry, then sit down and begin talking to strangers. Ms. Marrale stated, “It was something for him.” He really digs in.”\nMs. Plessner of Catbird has enjoyed asking Mr. Giallo questions about her art heroes like Frank O’Hara. He said that Mr. Giallo had only met him briefly, but that he was “very dear friends” with another poet. “Have yo heard of John Ashbery?”\nM. Giallo is an introvert despite his many successes. When Ms. Marrale suggested the jewelry line, Giallo replied, “Why would people want to?”\nShe told him, “Because your amazing story is incredible.” “Like, it’s not like a normal life.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Back in the pre-digital age, before everyone’s earbuds were plugged into their own personal playlists, remember what it used to be like to hear some random oldie on the car radio that just made you grin? Going to Suds is kind of like that.\nSubtitled “The Rocking ’60s Musical Soap Opera,” it’s the new Jewel Theatre Company production now playing at the Colligan Theater.\nNo, you don’t get to hear the original recordings, where you know every lick by heart. And, yes, the idea behind the show—to weave together nearly 50 rock classics (OK, a few are a little less than classic) into a loose narrative about a teenage girl looking for love—is an obvious attempt to create a crowd-pleaser without having to bother writing a bunch of new material. But the JTC production is full of fun anyway, thanks to a quartet of powerhouse vocalists who know how to sell the songs we love.\nConceived in San Diego by Melinda Gilb, Steve Gunderson, and Bryan Scott, this bouncy musical comedy made its off-Broadway debut in 1988, and has been a popular staple of regional theater ever since. Its only set is a laundromat, decorated here by Scenic Designer Steve Gerlach with giant, colorful murals of vintage Cheer boxes and other soap products. Shaun Carroll directs with the upbeat energy the show demands.\nEmployee Cindy (Brittany Law), is a fresh-faced ingenue having the worst day of her life, even though it’s her birthday. Among other things, her pen-pal boyfriend has just dumped her. She tries to end it all (wrapping a pair of capris around her neck and dangling one end into a washing machine on the spin cycle—sort of an upside-down hanging), but her plans are thwarted by a couple of guardian angels. Marge (Diana Torres Koss) is worldly and sarcastic. Dee-Dee (Lee Ann Payne) is more of a rah-rah type. But in between sniping at each other, they set out to convince Cindy, via the Tao of pop songs, that life is worth living and true love exists.\nThat’s about it for plot. But the always watchable Koss and Payne, both great singers, are two of JTC’s most reliable performers—and they deliver, especially in their big solos. (Koss’ “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” is epic.) Payne also staged the lively choreography. Law, too, has a big, bright voice; these three divas probably don’t even need to be miked.\nRounding out the show’s quartet is Nick Gallegos as everybody else, meaning every man the women encounter. He’s a riot in a variety of guises and personas, riffing on Elvis and Paul Lynde in walk-on bit parts like Mr. Postman, Mr. Right, and Johnny Angel. A five-person combo in matching powder-blue jackets that marches in to take its place in the upstage balcony keeps the action flowing with familiar downbeats and song cues.\nAnd while the songs are familiar (glance down your row and see how many knees are bouncing up and down as the tunes roll out), the inventive way they’re strung together in service to the minimalist libretto gives the show its pop. “Wishing and Hoping” segues into “Tell Him” as a call to romantic action. The angels burst into “The Loco-Motion” when they mistake Cindy’s flailing away at the washing machine for a new dance craze.\nThe songwriters represented on the show’s hit parade are a diverse bunch, from Burt Bacharach to James Brown to Johnny Rivers to Otis Redding to Lennon and McCartney. Most of these tunesmiths are male (with Carole King and Phil Spector alumna Ellie Greenwich among the exceptions), but they were often writing for female performers like Lesley Gore, the Ronettes, Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick, and the Supremes, who made gigantic hits out of them—simple (and catchy) songs of heartbreak, yearning, hope, and swoony romance.\nIn other words, perfect material for this lightweight laundromat operetta.\nThe Jewel Theatre Company production of ‘Suds’ plays through Dec. 2 at the Colligan Theater at The Tannery. Call 425-7506, or visit JewelTheatre.net.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In pub hierarchy, the Brewhouse is between aprés-ski and pre-club.\nFew scenes are as Canadian as a well-scored hockey net on a frozen pond.\nThis is a painting I did in appreciation of where I grew up, which was more or less on these hills.\nOsoyoos is a perfect vacation spot if you like warm water, wine, and sunshine.\nShuswap Lake is a favorite BC summertime destination. Every local secretly hopes that the rest of the world doesn’t find out about it.\nThe Red Bridge was built before the mass production of automobiles; you can tell when driving over it.\nMom loved her garden.\nKamloops is full of golden tones, subtle pastels, and quiet beauty that resonates over time.\nThis scene is of a lovely cabin in the woods near Barriere, British Columbia after a fresh snowfall.\nTeakerne Arm proposal spot.\nSite Contents © 2021 Laura Zerebeski Art. All Rights Reserved.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Oh the beauty today, I can’t handle it! I could look at today’s featured wedding in Southern Maryland over and over, and then over again! Tara and Laura held their wedding in Maryland at a place close to their hearts – their alma mater where they met! Their beautiful riverfront, garden wedding ceremony was held at the St Mary’s College of Maryland Garden of Remembrance, where both brides walked down the aisle with their dads at the same time – melt my hearts! The brightly colored, orange and green summer wedding ceremony was kicked off with watercolor wedding invitations and oodles of DIY wedding details. The couple made sure their wedding celebration was one personal event, with a book theme all around them, to show off their shared love of reading! Tara and Laura each had their own color coordinated bridal party – one in orange, the other in green, while the rest of the big day details wove the two hues together. We love how each bride had her own personal style and flair, but it all still flowed seamlessly with the rest of their wedding! Special thanks to the talented Laura Elizabeth Photography for sharing Laura and Tara’s beautiful Maryland wedding photos with us!\nFrom the brides: It was important to us to work with our family and friends from St Mary’s College. Our officiant was Laura’s mentor from her first library job, and both our DJ and photographer were fellow alumni. Our bridal parties helped us with many of our wedding decorations, such as getting some of the books, making paper flowers, and heart confetti made out of old book pages. Tara cut out wooden shapes of Maine and Maryland, and we designed and put together the wedding ceremony program fans and bookmark wedding favors.\nCongratulations to Tara and Laura! Thank you for sharing your colorful garden wedding ceremony in Southern Maryand with us! Stay tuned, up next we’re sharing their summer tented wedding reception with you!\nThe following Washington DC area wedding professionals contributed to their wedding:\nPhotography: Laura Elizabeth Photography\nStationery: Momental Designs\nFloral Designer: Heather Borror (My Flower Girl)\nBride’s Attire: ModCloth\nBride’s Attire: David’s Bridal\nCeremony + Reception Venue: St Mary’s College of Maryland Garden of Remembrance\nCaterer: Canard’s Catering\nCake/Dessert: Jessica’s Cakes\nFor more wedding vendors, please visit our Washington DC area wedding vendor guide and for even more amazing local ideas, check out our wedding inspiration galleries and other Washington DC area real weddings.\nPhoto Credits: Laura Elizabeth Photography", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What people are saying - Write a review\nWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places.\nrait Design as Universal Reality 1 1 THE ESSENCE OF DESIGN\nOne The Psychology of Seeing Definition of Visual Design A Plan for Order\n19 other sections not shown\nOther editions - View all\nabstract architect architecture areas artist balance Bamileke basic Bauhaus become blue building carved century Chapter clay Collection Color Field painting color wheel combination composition contemporary Courtesy create dark decorative design depicted dramatic drawing effect elements and principles emphasis environment expression fabric fibers Figure Frank Stella Gallery geometric glass glaze GNER gray Gyo Fujikawa Henri Matisse human industrial design interior Josef Albers Judy Pfaff landscape Leo Castelli light lines M. C. Escher mass material metal method Modern Art mold Museum of Art Museum of Modern natural objects Oil on canvas painters painting pattern Photograph pigment plastic Plate possible principles of design printmaking relationship result rhythm scale sculpture serigraphy shapes skyscraper space stone style surface symbols technique three-dimensional tion tree unity variety viewer visual texture walls weaving weft wood York", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "FABULOUS PARTZ FOR CRAFTS, JEWELRY MAKING, ALTERED ART\nEXCUSE THE MESS, THIS 16-YEAR OLD SITE WILL BE DONE BY THIS YEAR (2015)\nHandpicked or handcrafted materials you're not likely to find anywhere else for you to make jewelry, hair accessories, decorate your own craft project. We do the treasure hunting, so you can spend your time creating fabulous art. Product questions? Email\nEEEK! ARE YOU OVERWHELMED? (WE ARE, TOO!) EMAIL YOUR Q'S\nClick here to review a list of testimonials from just a few of our many customers who have been purchasing from us since 1999. We do take Paypal, MasterCard, Visa, Wire Transfer and Western Union.\nMake your project unique with our PARTZ!\nPARTZ MIXES BY COLOR/STYLE\nE-BOOKS AND PROJECTS\nA RIOT OF FLOWERS\nCopyright 2014, Myra Anson Nicholas email@example.com and PJ Sweeney, PJewelry2@aol.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Not the greatest picture in the world but heres the progress on Jubilee Jazz.. . . .\nJubilee Jazz (Progress)\nThis entry was posted on May 30, 2011 by jakobbelbinblog. It was filed under Fine Art and was tagged with art, Artist, Arts, band, evolution, grandparents, Jakob Belbin, Jazz, Jazz Band, jazz hands, music, Painting.\nFill in your details below or click an icon to log in:\nYou are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )\nYou are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )\nYou are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )\nYou are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change )\nConnecting to %s\nNotify me of new comments via email.\nJoin 293 other followers\nCreate a free website or blog at WordPress.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mp3Lyrics' Hottest Lyrics\nZ Artist Archives\nSubmit New Lyrics\nTerms of Service\ntracks in one page\nTrack 1 to 10 of\nNinety degrees in the shade The shade that stretches forever Over black everglades, crystallized And circled with flames of the summer I don't k...\nAce of Hz\nAce on an unbroken line, Ace of Hearts! Mariner of the time, another Ace of Hearts! Sweet procession of cards that you take From each Victorian box...\nAll the Way...\nThey heard the sound of the snow falling They left the house, and started running They ran past the street where they fluffed their lines Where che...\nThirty seven thousand feet, broken in a heartbeat This air supply, an elixir To the sea, the singing sands This air supply, an elixir Late Septe...\nIf I should ever let you go I'll never want to know oh why If I should ever let you go I'll never want to know oh why Inside the sudden loss of ...\nFilms will come and films will go, That kiss on your neck won't show. Posing in the same place everytime, When your still speaking in the sunshin...\nI sent you out to play last night The alarms went off at three. Funny how I'm not loving now Lonely does not guarantee. I sent you out to play l...\nThe Beginning of the End\nNine Inch Nails and Ladytron\nDown on your knees You'll be left behind This is the beginning Watch what you think They can read your mind This is the beginning I got my mark,...\nSomeone's coming round in the evening One touch on the face of a city. Boy/black plastic chair with some time to spare Black plastic, touching bl...\nStraight lines that cut through the scene Like you wanted to, blue jeans Soft loans that spent all last summer Buying drinks for you, blue jeans ...\nLadytron Lyrics Archive page 1 of", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When Mother Earth finally gave birth to Spring,\nWhen the world was painted green anew,\nI went to see the wildflowers, the very\nGifts of Spring.\nWildflowers blooming, a continuous stream\nFlowing off into the horizon. The sweet aromas\nOf Mother Nature whirling together and tickling my nose,\nThe multitude of colors gleaming beautifully under the shining sunlight\nLike ink not yet dried.\nOvercome by joy,\nI breathe it all in with my very being, until I catch\nA tree, its tempting shade\nInviting me to slumber.\nThe wheel of time unremittingly rolling,\nWhispering knowingly of all that ever was\nAnd all that ever would be.\nRoused ever so gently by the chirps of the\nBirds singing melodies\nCarried by the wind, I awake\nTo see the setting sun, the sky spilled with all the\nColors one could imagine.\nNight comes swiftly, and the birds cease their chirping,\nThe silence of the night penetrated by the brave crickets alone.\nThe cool night air blows,\nBut the fire in my heart burns yet.\nThe setting sun left in", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Las Vegas, Nevada|\n|I always think of Sean Connery surrounded by beautiful women although I have found him more entrancing in mature roles than in his famous stints as 007. One of my favorites, though lesser known, is his portrayal of Mulay el-Raisuli in 1975's \"The Wind and The Lion\". Here, he admires (l. to r.) Cher, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe (I would have preferred the \"blowing dress\" pose better), Liz Taylor (Did she invent the original \"big hair\"?), and Joan Collins. Although Joan Collins is best remembered as the vamp from \"Dynasty\", I always think of her as prophetic Edith Keeler in Classic Trek's \"City on The Edge of Forever.\"\nMadame Tussaud's Celebrity Encounter is an anchor attraction for the Venetian Hotel. When you enter the first main display area, the room is arranged as a cocktail party. You are free to walk among \"the stars\" and a couple of times I was puzzling over the identity of someone and they moved! A very surreal experience! I particularly appreciated the \"closeness\" you are allowed which provides wonderful photo opportunities.\nGraphic Artist's Notes: These images were all taken with a Sony Mavica FD-81 digital camera with 3X zoom. To minimize glare and maximize the lush colors of the clothing I disabled the flash. After reducing each image to the desired size, sharpening, and adjusting the brightness, contrast, and color levels as needed, I framed them with CreativePro's Online PhotoFrame selecting black for the frame color to blend with this page's night sky background The title image was created with Cool Text's Neon text style selecting the color from the custom option. The glittering stars were produced with Animagic using the Fade In and Fade Out Options and setting the repeat interval for the base image to three different settings to produce stars that blink at different rates.\nAlthough I loved my visit to the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California, I wish I could have gotten as close to the sculptures there as I did at Madame Tussaud's.\nAll images copyright 1999 All Rights Reserved\nThis page last revised:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Loves a good yarn\nBeautifully hand crocheted lace heart bunting, something just a little bit different for decorating a bedroom or other space.\nThese crochet hearts have been made from a Japanese pattern.\nFantastically delicate with an open lace effect this crochet bunting is made from 5 hearts in five different vibrant colours of crochet thread and each one is joined to its neighbour with a tiny piece of white ribbon tied into a bow.\nThe bunting can be hung from the two hanging loops at each end, made from the same white ribbon as the bows.\nThe crochet bunting itself measures 17″/43cm across the hearts, measured with the hanging loops it becomes 27″/68.5cm in length. Each heart measures 3.5″/9cm at its widest point across.\nEach crochet heart bunting comes as a set of 5, however can be made longer and each additional heart will be an added £1.50, please contact me to discuss this.\nIf you like this crochet bunting but would prefer it in another set of colours, please do not hesitate to contact me as I can make any item to order for you.\nA decent sized crochet car seat blanket, crocheted in pure white and a soft dove grey, this blanket is constructed from individual squares made in a traditional granny square style…with a twist. These squares have hearts at the center of them, the hearts are crocheted right into the blanket, not sewn on afterwards.\nThere are 9 squares with grey hearts in the middle and 16 squares with white hearts at the center.\nThe squares are all edged in soft grey before being crocheted together using the same grey yarn, and the whole blanket is then edged in a solid white border.\nThere is a space left deliberately where two squares have not been joined and this is so the buckle of the baby carrier or car seat can fit through allowing the blanket to lie more comfortably on the child, not all bunched up so the belts can be fastened.\nThis blanket is 25.5″/63.5cm square and is fully machine washable on a 40 degree wool/delicate cycle.\n************Free shipping within the UK***********\nIf you like this blanket but would prefer it in another colour then please do not hesitate to contact me as I can make any item to order for you.\nHello again everyone, how are we today, looking forward to a long weekend (if you are in the UK that is)\nSorry for not posting last week but a headache from hell was threatening to turn into a migraine so went back to bed to sleep it off in between driving shifts and then stayed off the computer.\nToday however I am posting (obviously) as it means I can sit down and have a rest, between yesterday and today I have washed a large minibus and cleaned all the glass inside, washed 2 motorbikes and brushed and mopped the inside of said minibus….I do not intend to wash another vehicle for at least a week!\nRight, enough waffling, lets get on with browsing some gorgeous finds from Loves a good yarn‘s Facebook feed…….\nFirst up this week is the truly talented Phoenix Glass with one of his newest makes, Fishes!\nThe things this man can make from glass are simply stunning!\nNext up are these dainty little boxes from Anne-Marie’s Sparkle Shop, these just caught my eye as they would be perfect so many different uses, wedding favours, little girl gift boxes….\nOn we travel to the very talented Wharfedale Woolworks. I adore the yarn that this lady makes and one day when I can justify treating myself to some truly luxurious yarn to make something for myself then I have a very good idea where I will be heading I can tell you! In the meantime let yourself drool over this!\nNext up this week is all the way on the other side of the world, Dover&Madden is a handmade knitting and crochet business based in Melbourne, Australia. I love the things she makes and it was this pic that showed up in my timeline…\nNow yes this is amazing but the blanket that I really REALLY admire is this one (sneaking this one in as I adore it!)\nEvery time I see this blanket I am inspired! What makes it even more stunning is I know she uses beautiful cashmere and merino yarns! Imagine snuggling up under one of these?\nAnd last but by no means least is the very clever Diomo Glass. I love looking at the things she makes and I have a tealight holder made by her fair hands, it was an idea I had one day and she very kindly made it up for me and I love it! These are one of her latest makes so I thought I would bring them on here, these are her Lilac Heart T-light holders.\nWell, there you go, another weeks (well 2 really) selection of creative makes from some very talented people, go and check out their pages and see what else they have to offer.\nSee you soon with another post, x\nI repeat who says I can teach? I mean I can show someone how to crochet but is this the same as teaching? Where does one stop and the other begin?\nIts a moot point anyway as this Wednesday is the first of my learn to crochet classes in a neighbourhood here in Merseyside.\nA very lovely and highly enthusiastic lady called Nancie rang me a while back to have a chat, she uses this neighbourhood center but feels that it is under used by the local community and is on a mission to get more people using it by finding people who can pass on skills and teach.\nHer enthusiasm came across on the phone and before I realised it I was just as excited at the idea of passing on some skills to others.\nNancie has some funding available so the basis for this first set of crochet lessons is to make something that can keep participants warm…hence learning how to crochet a hot water bottle cover. This might seem strange in May but take a look at the weather we are having it might not be so far fetched after all!\nNext came working out lesson plans, working out costings, sourcing materials and writing a basic pattern. Now non of this was too taxing and today I have finally pulled it all together and have my learning packs and yarn and hooks as well as hot water bottles ready..now the panic is starting to set in….so again I ask who says I can teach?\nI would ask you to wish me well for Wednesday morning but instead wish my students well with me as their ‘sort of’ teacher!\nPerfect for Spring and Summer weddings or those late but still light evenings when the temperature drops slightly, this light, airy and delicate crochet wrap is perfect for draping around your shoulders.\nMade from a wonderful blended yarn of mohair, wool and acrylic with a beautiful metallic thread woven through it, this wrap/stole has been crocheted in an open lacy pattern of ripples or chevrons.\nThe colour changes have been dyed into the yarn to create the wonderful shading that you see, great care was taken when joining in a new ball of yarn that the colour changes matched and each end of the wrap/stole finishes on the same shade.\nThis crochet wrap measures 78″/198cm in length and is 14″/72cm wide.\nIf you like this item but would prefer it in another colour then the matching yarn I have available is a white, grey and smokey grey shade and a white, pink and purple shade.\nIf you are a parent of little ladies like me then you will understand the annoyance and frustration of keeping hair-clips in one place!\nWell here is the solution, a wonderful hanging hair grip/clip holder so they will all be in the same place (assuming that you can get said little ladies to put them away on it )\nThese holders have a triple flower that has been crocheted in a number of colourful yarns, it then has a length of grosgrain ribbon (this one has button print on it) hanging down and weighted with a crocheted heart that has been filled with toy stuffing. This weight makes sure that the ribbon is always hanging straight down. The ribbon has been securely stitched over a crochet loop at the back of the flower and has been stitched into the centre of the heart. There is also a crochet hanging loop that will fit over drawer knobs, door handles or on a hook.\nThe clips and grips can then be slide or clipped onto the ribbon and kept safely in the same place!\nThe flower itself measures at least 4.25″/10.25cm in diameter, the heart measures 1.5″ at its widest and the total length from flower to heart is 21″/53.5cm.\nIf you like this item but would prefer it in another colour combination then please do not hesitate to get in touch as I can make any item to order for you.\nThis a slightly larger than normal doily in that it is measuring 9.5″/24cm in diameter.\nThis has been created from a pattern that is priced up in old pence, I couldn’t wait to try it once I got hold of it (I love old patterns!)\nThis doily starts with a normal circle before turning into solid arches and chain loops, from here it just keeps getting larger and larger using the same two stiches to create the very open and delicate pattern.\nMade from 100% mercerised cotton thread in pure white this doily would be marvellous underneath a glass cake stand or something similar.\nThis doily is ready to send now but if you would like this item in another colour please contact me for a bespoke order.\nSimple but elegant, this doily would grace any table setting or dressing table.\nComing in at 6.5″/16.5cm this smallish doily would not be too obtrusive in any decor, perfect for protecting surfaces against water or scratches when using vases, cake stands or even drinks.\nWith a central sun style motif radiating out in increasing sizes of arches before turning into a shell pattern to create the delicate waves on its outside edge.\nThis doily has been crocheted by hand in a pure white 100% crochet thread cotton however it could be created in any colour of your choosing to match your decor.\nThe crochet bag with its big flower is perfect for any young or young at heart Miss.\nThis bag is perfect for summer with its bright and cheery big flower against a bright white background.\nCrocheted in alternating stripes of stitches creates interest as well as texture. The front is decorated with a big flower made of 3 sets of petals in 2 different shades of yarn and a padded raised centre to finish off the striking looking flower.\nThe strap is long enough to be worn over the shoulder and was crocheted into the bag as part of the top edging for extra strength.\nThe top edges of the bag and each side of the strap are finished with a reverse crochet stitch known as crab stitch, this creates yet more texture and contributes to the overall appearance of the bag.\nThe bag is fully lined with a printed cotton depicting a silhouette of Snow White with animals and butterflies.\nThe bag has a magnetic clasp closure helping to keep contents safe and secure.\nThe bag isteslf is 9.5″/ 24cm long and 8.5″/ 21.5cm wide, length of bag including the strap is 24″/61cm.\nMade from 100% acrylic yarn and cotton lining, this bag is fully machine washable.\nIf you like this item but would prefer it another colour, bag or flower, the please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss as I can make any item to order for you.\nHello again, we have made it to another Friday and the start of another weekend. This one isn’t a long one like last weekend but it is still a weekend…do you have any plans or just going to go with the flow?\nAs its Friday that means it is time to show off some of the Fabulous creations that have shown up in Loves a good yarn‘s news feed over the last 7 days. There are only 4 finds from me this week as I spent the first half of this week suffering from that terrible cold/flu like bug going around, I haven’t felt so wiped out for a very long time (and am still not quite over it yet) so I didnt spend much time on-line looking at other peoples makes. But hey, there is nothing wrong with short and sweet is there?\nShall I stop waffling on and just get on with it?\nOk, first up this week is are these amazing pendants made by the very talented RavenMaille Bespoke Jewellery. How fabulous is this?\nFor other amazing cut out pieces go visit the page and the site, the patience for this astounds me!\nNext on my list of finds is this free standing tree by Claire Clemsgems.\nI have no idea what you would use it for, you could hang small frames with pictures in, make it a family tree or something. I think it is just beautiful and I love the birds and the owls.\nNext we move on to Gillian Arnold, her glass coasters showed up on my feed and the colour of them blew me away, I am not really a pink person but the colour and the pattern on these was fab!\nThese are available from her Esty shop and there is a like to it from her Facebook page where you can find all sorts of other beautiful things.\nAnd last for this week but by no means least is Mixed Media Artist Emma Lousie Wilson with her Vintage lace pressed plates.\nNow you should be aware by now how much I love to crochet lace doilies and the like which is why this caught my eye, I haven’t found the picture of what they like after firing yet but the detail from being pressed is gorgeous!\nWell there you go, my finds from the last 7 days, I will keep an eye out for more interesting and beautiful things to bring you next week, take care and have fun in the meantime, x", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Clare is an artist fascinated by nature, and her work focuses on the interaction of the natural and man-made, things that seem permanent versus ever-changing.\nShe works from observation, memory and imagination, with a particular emphasis on drawing. She has developed a unique approach to drawing using two hands together.\nMany of Clare's works are about her experience of place, including her hometown of London - its streets, skyline, architecture and hidden green spaces, and from her travels.\nClare is a self-trained artist, but since early 2014 has undertaken an intense period of study in drawing, etching and oil-painting at prestigious art institutions including Chelsea College of Arts, the Royal Drawing School and New York Studio School. She teaches drawing, including with two hands, to local art groups on an ad-hoc basis.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Okay, so I suppose I should write something here despite there being the chance that nobody cares. My name is Jesse and I am a 15 year old girl from Wales. I live on tumblr.com at eridumbs and belong to many fandoms such as Invader ZiM(The Jhonen Vasquez Fandom), Homestuck and OFF. I also like Portal, Achievement Hunter and Adventure Time.\nI’m too lazy to write anything else.\nI've always enjoyed dressing up since I was a wee lil' Jesse. Dressing up for Halloween always got me excited and due to being raised by the internet, I have seen many people's cosplays. I guess I admired it all.\nAlso, I'm the kind of person who becomes obsessed with things.\nIf I am really passionate about a character, I will show my love to the world by cosplaying them.\nI would like to write more but no.\nConventions I have attended:\nCardiff Comic Expo 2013\nCardiff Film and Comic Con 2013", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Personalised Framed Gifts / Art Prints / Stationery. All Dreaming on a Star's work is lovingly designed by Tina Devins, a professional designer based on the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland.\nDreaming on a Star’s Stationery Sets are gorgeous great value packs of A5 Notebook, Pocket Mirror/Magnet, Postcard & 2 Glitter Pencils. So much loveliness in each pack!\nIllustrated by Tina, they are professionally printed by a third-party printing company. The A5 Notebook has a 300 gsm double-sided cover and 80 gsm recycled pages, and the 58mm Pocket Mirror/Magnet is made with high-quality Metal and Glass components.\nWrapped in cute packaging, they are perfect for gift-giving ♡", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Other events happening on this date:\nCELEBRATE BEING TIWI\n– Performance and guided tour with the artists\nTake part in a celebration of Tiwi Island culture and contemporary art practice throughout this special three day program.\nHear directly from the participating artists as they share their influences, culture and ideas.\nPrint-Making & Tunga workshop with Maria Josette Orsto\nSat 13 Feb 2016, 10.30am–12.30pm\n$15/$10 MCA Members and Concessions\nMCA Creative Studios, Level 3\nImage: Maria Josette Orsto, Kulama, 2010, Japanese-style woodcut, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2015, image courtesy and © the artist", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You might not have heard yet, but we are in the midst of a pandemic. I am a drama major, which has become an increasingly irresponsible life decision. But hey, I’m all about following my heart. I’d follow my heart right off a cliff.Continue reading\nFull weekend lineup after the jump!\n“It’s kind of like a Marie Antoinette porno,” says director Madeline Jobrack ’13 of Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh, the senior thesis of Verity Allen and Samantha Sheahan which debuted last night. The show—which will also be performed at 8 p.m. tonight in the Hill Theater—tells the story of a love triangle involving the titular French queen (Samantha Sheahan), her portrait painter Elisabeth Vigée le Brun (Verity Allen), and their mutual lover Count Alexis de Ligne (Sam Whipple).\nStarting this Sunday afternoon, Kenyon College will undergo three solid days of auditions for upcoming shows. If you’ve ever wanted to be in anything, this could be your chance — there are only so many actors in Gambier, Ohio. Continue reading\nEditor’s Note: This review comes to us from Katherine Baker ’14.\nOpening the program for The Baltimore Waltz while sitting in the Hill Theater on Friday as I waited for the play to begin, I was surprised to find a letter accompanying the usual information on director, cast and crew, the command to silence all cell phones and the like.\nThe letter was from Carl Vogel to his sister, Paula, expressing his wishes for his funeral ceremony as he slowly dies of AIDS. Soon after the death of her brother, Paula Vogel wrote The Baltimore Waltz. The absurd situations of the play carry the same tone of her brother’s letter: humor in the face of death, comfort in the face of tragedy. Continue reading", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Uncategorized November 23, 2012 From a law library in the Netherlands: a sculpture created out of law books that have been written in, torn, or defaced in some way. 0 Comments Written by J.L. Jarvis Left-handed opera singer/teacher/lawyer who writes romance novels. What's next? Sign up for my new release newsletter at http://news.jljarvis.com/. You Might Also Like Previous Story Previous Post Next Story Next Post Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Spring Lamp. Designed by Studio Toer.\nSteel and Felt Create a Kinetic Lamp\nLike a growing bloom blowing in the wind, Spring Lamp emerges from two slender roots. The light balances on dual steel rods, its violet felt shade a playful violet or gnome’s hat. By moving the steel rods, you can adjust the light up and down and left to right, casting the light just about anywhere—it’s like your own little sun rotating around your home.\nThe idea behind Spring Lamp was to “expresses the versatility and simplicity of LED technology.” Studio Toer succeeded in highlighting the best attributes of the energy-saving light. As light dances on a surface, so does Spring Lamp dance around a space. Like a leaf twirling in the wind or a squirrel jumping from tree to tree, Spring Lamp moves joyously and unexpectedly in space.\nVia Design Milk.\nAbout the Manufacturer: Studio Toer designs interiors and installations, develops concepts, and creates products for the home such as tables, vases, and lighting—“products which people interact with on a daily basis.” The company, based in The Netherlands, also helps businesses develop a strong identity. Their conceptual products generate “experimental ideas for future implementation.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The other night we were searching for a movie to watch on Netflix and Joel picked The Little Hours - a star-packed comedy with Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dave Franco, John C. Reilly and more. Unfortunately, we only made it about 45 minutes into that movie. The main humor seemed to come from women dressed as nuns cursing like sailors and generally acting like spoiled brats - let's just say it wasn't our kind of humor.\nSo back to Netflix we went and settled on The Last Laugh - another star-studded comedy with Chevy Chase, Richard Dreyfuss, and Andie McDowell. In this film Dreyfuss plays Buddy Green, a comic who changed careers right before he hit it big, and Chase plays Al Hart, his manager from back in the day. When the two reunite in a retirement community, they decide to take Buddy's show back on the road as the ultimate comeback story.\nWhat follows is some typical road trip shenanigans, meeting a girl, and some family drama thrown in for good measure. I laughed a few times, I didn't even come close to tearing up at the supposed to be emotional moments, and overall the movie was basically a \"meh\" for me.\nOverall, it's not Chevy Chase's best work, and I found the Andie McDowell character to be annoying. Dreyfuss was great in his role but I don't think he was given enough real heart or character to work with. If you want a low-key comedy to watch half-heartedly this one is a great choice, but if you really want to laugh there are much better movies out there!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bernard Carter (his son), 1944\nMrs. Bernard Carter, 1961\nBy descent in the family to the present owner, 1984\n'Notable Display of Art to be Seen at the Academy Tomorrow: Brilliant Display of High-Class Art', Philadelphia Inquiror, 18 January 1903, p. 2\n'The Academy Pictures', Philadelphia Record, 18 January 1903, p. 9\nEvan Charteris, John Sargent, London, 1927, p. 268\nCharles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York 1955, p. 440 (as dated 1903 and repainted 1908)\nDavid McKibbin, A Complete Check List of Sargent's Portraits, Boston, 1956, p. 88\nRichard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, New Haven, Connecticut and London, 2003, no. 408, p. 62, illustrated in color\nAt the turn of the last century, John Singer Sargent reached the zenith of his reputation as a brilliant portrait painter both in Britain, where he had made his home, and in America. Between 1900 and 1907 he completed over 130 portraits, averaging seventeen per year - a testament both to the painter's appeal to the upper classes, as well as an indication of the heightened demand for portraiture in the early twentieth century. In Britain, Sargent's portraits were a means through which members of the aristocracy could further enhance their noble stature through the iconography and familiar associations of past generations; the bourgeoisie continued to elevate their own social standing through ever more elaborate portrait commissions. For John Ridgely Carter (1864-1944), an American diplomat in London, a portrait by Sargent would have been an ideal asset in hiswell appointed home.\nCarter commissioned Sargent to paint his portrait in 1901. By this time, Carter, the son of Bernard Carter, a Baltimore lawyer and his wife Mary (née Ridgely), was enjoying a distinguished career in diplomacy and a prominent marriage to Alice Morgan of New York. Carter was well educated, receiving his undergraduate degree from Trinity College in Hartford, completing graduate work at the University of Leipzig and Maryland University and his law degree in 1888 from Harvard University. In 1894, Carter accepted his first diplomatic appointment as secretary to the American Ambassador in London. In 1905, he was appointed secretary of the London embassy and he remained there until 1909, when he became the U.S. Minister to Romania and Serbia. In 1911, Carter turned down an offer to be ambassador to Argentina and chose instead to go into banking for greater financial opportunity. Carter joined J.P. Morgan & Co. and by 1914, he was made a partner of Morgan Harjes & Co. in Paris, where he lived for twenty-five years. Alice and John had two children, Bernard Shirley and Carolyn Mildred Carter, whom Sargent also painted in 1908. Sargent made sketches of Alice Morgan Carter but a finished portrait in oil was never painted. In 1940, after the German invasion of France, Carter and his wife returned to New York, where they were well received socially; he was a member of both The Knickerbocker Club in New York and The Metropolitan Club in Washington, D.C. Carter remained in New York until his death in 1944.\nSargent was well versed in the great European portrait tradition established by Anthony Van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds. Richard Ormond writes, \"Sargent turned to particular artists for the nobility of their vision. Velázquez continued to be an inspiration for what Renoir described as 'the true aristocracy which one finds in the smallest detail, in a simple ribbon', but Sargent began to draw increasingly on the portraitist most associated with the glamour of high birth, Sir Anthony Van Dyck. It was a timely moment to appropriate Van Dyck's influence: in 1899, the tercentenary of Van Dyck's birth had been celebrated with major retrospective exhibitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp and at the Royal Academy in London. The dignity of bearing with which Van Dyck invested his sitters, the elegance of their poses and gestures provide a beguiling and resonant pictorial language\" (John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, New Haven, 2003, p. 31-32).\nA Retro Racing Watch for the Modern Man\nFirst Look: A Nearly Impossible Collection of the Most Legendary Wines\n10 Dazzling Jewels from the Bourbon Parma Family Collection\nFirst Look: Relive the 1990s Through the Collection of Damien Hirst’s Legendary Manager\nMarket-leading Contemporary Art Sales in Asia\nPlease call 1-800-555-5555 to order a print catalog for this sale.\nL'inscription pour l'enchère en ligne est fermé pour cette vente . Voulez-vous regarder la vente en direct?Visionner La Vente En Temps Réel", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What breed of bulldog has multiple heads and knows how to do the bunny hop and the crab walk? The third Bulldog B-Boy Battle, of course. DJ-ing, rapping and beat making are well-known facets of hip-hop culture, but elements such as breakdancing tend to get overlooked. Downplay's third hip-hop dance competition should be its largest yet, taking place over two nights and featuring the cream of the national B-boy and B-girl contingents. Legendary California B-boy Paulskee (pictured) will host, and DJs Platinum and SceneBooster SoundSystem (Josh Powers) will be on hand to spin records as the hoofers worm and windmill. The battles offer one-on-one as well as crew-on-crew contests, with winners advancing to the all-ages finals on the second evening. Expect fierce but fun competition and a knockout exhibition from Lawrence's Buggin' Out Crew, whose gyrating body contortions have been turning heads at rap shows for many moons.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Inspired by Tropical Elegance Pendant \"Coco Breeze\"\nEmbrace the tropical allure of paradise with the Tropical Elegance Pendant, beautifully named \"Coco Breeze.\" Crafted from 18K white gold and adorned with diamonds, this pendant captures the essence of a swaying coconut tree leaf, a symbol of leisure and natural beauty.\nWith a weight of 7.28 grams, the pendant carries a substantial presence, much like the comforting shade of a coconut tree. The 0.34 carats of diamonds mirror the glimmers of sunlight that filter through the lush foliage.\nWearing the Tropical Elegance Pendant, titled \"Coco Breeze,\" is akin to carrying a piece of paradise wherever you go. Just as coconut tree leaves symbolize relaxation and tranquility, this pendant embodies the calm and serene energy of a tropical oasis.\nLet this pendant be a reminder to slow down and savor life's simple pleasures. Wear it as an emblem of your connection to nature's beauty and let it inspire you to embrace the tranquility and leisure that can be found in each moment, even in the midst of a bustling world.\nCoco Breeze Diamond Pendant Details:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )\nFrom the PublisherOram's friendly woodland community reinforces a message that bears repeating. Her characters are expressive and concerned without being sappy, and her story makes room for throwaway jokes (Miss Snail turns out to be fond of slow dancing, while Frog is known for his gallant courting). Varley's breezy ink-and-watercolor paintings, rendered in a pale, earthy palette, create a convincing whole world for Oram's sweet animals. Smartly clad in their timeless Sunday best, they exude charm and personality. Their cozy environs, like the story, make readers utterly welcome.\n-- Publishers Weekly, starred review.\nTold with wit and affection, this charming tale reminds us that everyone needs to be appreciated and that friendship, support, and love are great healers. Varley's delicate, detailed watercolors picture an endearing animal ensemble cast, from accordion-playing Bat to the always-dignified Badger himself. Extremely appealing characters combine with a message all ages can relate to for a timeless and irresistible story.\n\"This is a lovely story about caring and thinking about others -- and friendship.\"\n-- Preschool Picks\n\"This insightful story is sure to be loved by parents and teachers. Charming!\"\n-- Catholic Library World", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The wicked King Bohan (Alfred Molina) seeks to gain control of the Heavenly Sword, a powerful divine weapon prophesied to destroy him in the hands of the Chosen One. Nariko (Anna Torv), a young woman whose clan is devoted to protecting the Sword from Bohan, must embark on a journey to find this Chosen One and end the evil king’s reign.\nWhat an odd project this is. Heavenly Sword is an adaptation of a 2007 action video game by first time director Gun Ho Jang, and seems to use a lot of the same visual assets in its computer animation. Whilst that must have been a relief for the animators, Heavenly Sword certainly looks every bit a work of ten-year old animation – and it certainly wasn’t Pixar quality when the game came out.\nActually, I must correct myself – I compared footage from the original game to the film and the game is actually more detailed then this offering. Which, again, is all very bizarre – I can’t really work out why this film was made. Who was it for? Why did the producers think that adapting a seven year old game that wasn’t exactly a cultural touchstone would find an audience?\nWas it for fans? Because this is an almost beat-for-beat retelling of the video game’s story, albeit with plot changes that will no doubt mystify them: flatter voice acting, and pacing that generally feels rushed and drained of character.\nWas it to attract new audiences? Because the animation cannot stand up to contemporary examples. The plot and editing is extremely choppy and confusing, and if you had no connection to the video game there seems to be nothing at all that would interest you in this production.\nVideo game adaptations have never really found their feet in the world of film, with even the best examples being patently mediocre. Whilst video games themselves have such polished production values in this day and age that they feel positively cinematic at times, it doesn’t change the fact that the two mediums engage with their audiences in profoundly different ways, with particularly profound differences in pacing and focus.\nHeavenly Sword (the game) was a good effort, if rough around the edges – an aesthetically pleasing romp with memorable characters, helped along greatly by the involvement of Andy Serkis providing voice acting work and directing the story sequences. In contrast, Heavenly Sword (the film) has none of these things.\nI’d say this was a cheap cash grab, but I can’t seriously see this film making a lot of money.\nReviewed by Brendan Whittaker\nRating out of 10: 3\nHeavenly Sword will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on 28 July 2016.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "And the glitter ball goes to....Strictly Stortford's charity dance competition was a toe-tapping spectacular\nStrictly Stortford was a resounding success as sequinned couples took to the dance floor for a charity competition that finally had its day after two years in the making.\nThe pandemic put paid to the first attempt as participants came together to begin training in early 2020.\nBut on Sunday, with an afternoon and evening performance that followed the format of the popular BBC1 show Strictly Come Dancing, eight couples delighted audiences at South Mill Arts with a dazzling display of fancy footwork and toe-tapping routines.\nMost importantly, it has raised upwards of £12,000 for Hope for Justice, the charity working to eradicate modern day slavery thanks to the fundraising efforts of the dancers and via ticket sales.\nHaving been a part of the original line-up with my husband, Rob, but being forced to withdraw due to personal circumstances, it felt extra special sitting ringside to watch the months of hard work that would have gone into the dance spectacular unfold before our eyes. I could barely contain my urge to dance, such is the enjoyment and freedom that dance offers up, and smiled in awe from beginning to end at what everyone had achieved.\nIt was a pleasure to watch the team, who we had briefly come to know, execute the group Argentine Stroll and then their individual routines with passion, flare and confidence. From 11-year-old Bishop's Stortford College pupil Sebastian, who partnered his mum Nyree, to female duos Bernie and Anita and Sarah and Liz and relative newcomers Fran and Martin, every couple looked to enjoy the experience and had improved remarkably since those early days of trying to remember the steps!\nThe event was dreamed up and organised by Clive Weir who pulled together support from husband and wife professional dancers Stephen and Hazel Evans, of Evans Academy of Dance, in Harlow, and their daughter, Cheryl, who volunteered their services to steer the couples through their training; as well as gathering sponsors, costume and make-up designers and those who helped produce and market the event to recreate the Strictly effect.\nThe carefully choreographed show emitted the professional feel of the real thing with pre-recorded introductions played on the big screen ahead of each performance - a getting-to-know the couple feature which worked really well.\nThere were four judges up on stage to critique individual routines, which included the jive, rumba and cha cha cha, raising their paddles to score. They included the delightful judge, Sue, who you never knew quite what she was going to say next in the playful manner of former Strictly TV judge Bruno Tonioli to professional dancer, Kerry, who a bit like her TV counterpart, head Strictly judge Shirley Ballas, stood up to demonstrate how to best achieve a certain movement.\nThe group dance kick-started proceedings, compared by guest singer Miguel Olivares who interspersed the evening with renditions of popular songs.\nThe only difference to the TV version was separate audience and judges awards - the winners of the afternoon session were Bertie and Gillian with their jive, which earned top marks from both the judges and audience, while Annice and Ryan took the evening audience prize for their lively Cha Cha Cha and the judges' chose Sarah and Liz for their well-executed jive.\nBishop's Stortford mayor Dave Anderson presented the winning partnerships with their glitter ball trophies.\nSpeaking at the end, Clive thanks the Evans' family for all their help.\"We wouldn't have got here without you so thank you because you are brilliant professional dance teachers.\"\nAndy Williams, of Hope for Justice, said: \"The effort and challenges you have all risen to in order to make this happen is absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for what you have done tonight.\"\nHave you got photos from an event you'd like to see featured in the Indie. Email firstname.lastname@example.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Saturday, 11 July 2015\n** COMING SOON ** COMING SOON ** COMING SOON ** COMING SOON **\nEloisa is determined to go to her first ever ball, but Fate decides otherwise. Thrown into the arms of her reluctant host, Simeon Calversham, she is drawn into a world of draughty corridors, haunted castles, and mysterious things that go bump in the night.\nThe dangers within the cold stone walls throw this unsuspecting couple together, but will the mysterious intruder who stalks the corridors of Mitchelham Castle, tear them apart again?\nSimeon knows that he has to keep her safe, from him as much as the unknown person who is stealing from his house. However, the closer they are drawn together, the harder he knows it will be to ever let her go.\nRELEASED JULY 2015", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sometimes you make a quilt for someone who just NEEDS it. Need in the sense of object to keep that person warm, need in the sense of the act of caring for that person.\nThis is one of those quilts.\nEarthy warm colors combined with blacks.\nA bit of vintage floral ’70s fabric that I had saved for something special.\nThe quilt needed to be bigger… so I added the plum Moda Marble between the rows of churn dashes.\nThese dark colors were actually way out of my comfort zone. I had to keep myself motivated to keep going ...read more", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Drawing A Dream Catcher With Color Flowers Black And White Images\n|Include In Article|\nDream Catcher Drawing\n|Published Date||Friday , July 05th 2019|\n|Uploaded By||Montana Moran|\nFree Drawing Pages. Friday , July 05th 2019.\nQuote from Dream Catcher Drawing :\nWith the variety of drawing media readily available, artists can generate a large selection of multicolored and monochromatic art drawings in numerous styles and categories including figure, portrait, and nature. She is among those talented pencil drawing artists that you’re able to discover online. Every drawing should have a defined light supply. Today, it remains one of the most popular artistic disciplines among both professional and amateur artists alike. You can also see Charcoal Drawings. If you practice enough, you ought to be in a position to sketch them without the usage of guidelines or even better, be in a position to visualize and draw any gesture! In cartoon it’s not any different.\nUse the Arc tool when you wish to draw 1 arc segment at one time. Use the Line tool when you would like to draw one straight line segment at a moment. LINES Some individuals just draw lines. Next line ought to go at an angle and up to the peak of the star drawing. Now the one thing that’s left is to connect the previous line with the initial one and you’ve drawn a star. Therefore, as soon as you’re creating a star field, it is a very good idea to have an assortment of stars represented. A superb star field requires a lot of work to create, but may be used repeatedly based on your degree of customization, and that means you can get away with using it repeatedly.\nTest anxiety is a potential cause for academic underachievement, states Mathijssen. For instance, a child who draws a bearded man may know somebody who has a beard. Our toddlers aren’t attempting to represent reality with these scribbles. Near the end of this stage, clothes might also be shown. After posting my drawings on social networking, a few of my buddies and family were impressed also.\nFinding out how to draw hands can be challenging. There’s no demand for it! My work was featured in galleries in the States.\nAny content, trademark/s, or other material that might be found on this site that is not this site property remains the copyright of its respective owner/s. In no way does LocalHost claim ownership or responsibility for such items and you should seek legal consent for any use of such materials from its owner.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Revenge finally returned to TV last night and kicked off the season with a mysterious murder that reminded me just how much I love this show. There’s nothing quite like a wrongful death to get my juices flowing!\nEvery show on primetime can pull off a murder, but they can’t all do it in a way that involves a Japanese Revenge Tutorial Company, an emotionally abused foster child deadest on avenging her parents’ wrongful deaths and the striking good looks of Josh Bowman.\nDespite all the ridiculous twists and turns of the season premiere, I still believe that this show’s doing something that no other show’s even attempting. And I’m not just talking about killing off characters and bringing them back to life as the leisure of the plot line and Madeleine Stowe’s contract. I’m talking about taking an incredibly soapy concept and making it must-watch TV that everyone’s talking about.\nWhile I can nitpick almost every drama on network tv for being completely nonsensical and illogical, I can’t get angry at Revenge for doing the same. Sure everything doesn’t make sense and sure I sometimes want to scream at Jack to see a therapist about his unrequited crush on a childhood friend who he only knew for one summer. But that doesn’t stop me from watching the show. It doesn’t stop me from talking about Ashley like she personally stabbed me in the back with her ruthless career ambitions.\n(Also, sidenote, she’s totally sleeping with Conrad Greyson too, right? Can we all agree on that?)\nI mean, I get to use words like ruthless in reference to this show. What more could a girl with a middle class background and an art collection from TJ Maxx want in this life?\nNot since the days of The OC and The Boxcar Children have I been this entranced by such a ridiculous plot about wealthy familes caught up in a web of deceit, lies, betrayal and neighbors with hidden intentions. There are love triangles, secret children, murder accusations and unlikely friendships set against the glamorous backdrop of the Hamptons.\nRevenge depicts the life for myself that I would have had if my parents had only gone into business with international terrorists who will do anything to make money. Despite the danger and the murder and the mysterious white-haired-man who double-crosses everyone, I would kill to go to one of their famous society events.\nLiterally kill, because that’s totally acceptable in this group of frenemies. If you want something that’s only attainable through murder, that’s totally justifiable.\nAnd that’s what worries me about this show. It’s too good to be true. How can it possibly sustain itself through another season without jumping the shark. In the premiere alone Victoria Greyson comes back to life and reveals she’s in “the witness protection program,” Emily Thorne finds out her mother was locked up for being “mentally ill” during her childhood, Charlotte Greyson gets framed by her father for drug use, the white-haired man returns with an ambition to kill Emily (again), Takeda gets replaced by another actor and we meet another student of Revenge R Us Academy.\nI just hope it’s not too much, too soon. I hope that they don’t get overexcited by the success of last season and overcompensate with too many complicated plot lines.\nThe moments with Emily and Nolan spying on Victoria Greyson in their pajamas on her couch are just as special as Conrad locking his daughter up in an effort to get her inheritance.\nKeep it simple, keep it revengeful, and keep it somewhat sensical.\nI’m looking at you abandoned hospital that’s kept unlocked and in perfect shape.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Last of the Mohicans\nTHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (15)\nD: Michael Mann\nWarner Bros./Morgan Creek (Michael Mann & Hunt Lowry)\nW: Michael Mann & Christopher Crowe [based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper]\nDP: Dante Spinotti\nEd: Dov Hoenig & Arthur Schmidt\nMus: Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman\nPD: Wolf Kroeger\nDaniel Day-Lewis (Hawkeye), Madeleine Stowe (Cora Munro), Russell Means (Chingachgook), Eric Schweig (Uncas), Jodhi May (Alice Munro), Steve Waddington (Maj. Duncan Heyward), Wes Studi (Magua)\nTechnically brilliant and ambitiously directed, this adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's literary classic leans more to the romance side of the story over the adventure and war of Colonial America, as Hawkeye, the white, adopted son of a Native American Indian rescues the two daughters of a British officer and falls in love with one of them.\nThough there's a severely lack of characterisation which makes the love affair rather unconvincing, director Michael Mann counteracts this with some breathtaking photography, occasional moments of heart-pounding action and a stirring music score which is amongst the best movie themes of all time.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Live From Across the Pond\nThere's nothing more satisfying than hearing a spot-on live rendition of your favorite band's best work. On this episode of the B-Sides with Bolin and Blumberg, we collect a number of great live performances of our favorites from across the pond.\nWe start off with a trio of bands hitting the mark. There's Status Quo from its last concert featuring the group's original members. Then, there's UFO featuring Michael Schenker on lead guitar and the 70's band, Sweet, performing a gig in 2008.\nNext, we get into the cream of British guitarists. Eric Clapton performs alongside Steve Windwood at Madison Square Garden, and Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes, and, arguably the best live gig cd, Live at the Greek.\nRory Gallaher just had a previously unreleased 1977 concert from England issued on disc. It's called Check Shirt Wizard, and we hear two cuts, Secret Agent and Used to Be.\nFinally, a live cut of Faces doing Bad N' Ruin, and former member Ronnie Lane wrapping things up with Ooh La La. The band’s cut is from a live BBC radio concert, while Lane's song is from a public radio concert recorded in Austin, Texas.\nSo gather round the radio and feel the audience rock with music you'll only hear on one local venue, Siouxland Public Media", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "STEAM Enrichment Program\nSTEAM Enrichment (for preschool/kindergarten ages 3-6)\nSTEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math. STEAM is STEM plus the inclusion of “the Arts”, which includes all arts (music, drama, dance, movement)… not just visual art.\nOur STEAM program is offered as an integrated 5 full day STEAM/Montessori combination class. Children attend about half their time in Montessori and the other half in STEAM.\nThe STEAM model supports and reinforces the learning that children acquire in their Montessori classroom and gives children more time to explore topics at their own pace. Children benefit socially in this environment where they can participate in collaborative group activities and projects. The STEAM program provides activities that strengthen a child’s fine and large motor skills, support concentration and cognitive skills and ignite the imagination.\nEach day children are engaged in creative problem-solving, collaboration, investigation, and open-ended exploration. A wide assortment of learning material, creative activities and planned projects are woven throughout the classroom, providing children with plenty of hands-on learning experiences. Opportunities for both individualized and group learning occur daily.\nEngineering, Construction & Technology\nStudents engage in a variety of large and small projects and are provided with a range of materials: specialized building blocks, Legos, puzzles, cylinders, found and recycled materials, and items that can be taken apart and put together again in new and creative ways. Throughout the year children build their own simple machines and see physics in action. They can build a bridge or tower or create a grade with a ramp and race cars to see which car goes fastest and furthest, or construct a pulley system to lift a basket of toys.\nEngineering and construction encourages and challenges children to plan and solve problems as they invent and create. They are provided with a vast assortment of art and recycled materials for open-ended art exploration. Children actively construct their knowledge as they plan and design, tapping into their imagination and creativity.\nStudents learn how to use interactive apps to teach math, logic and reasoning skills, creativity and problem-solving skills all within the STEAM technology space. Students will work on computer programs to learn those skills. Children have opportunities for both individualized and group learning. As a child’s skills increase, the level of technology provided will also increase to match the child’s development. An introduction to coding with screen-free, hands-on materials also is incorporated.\nMusic & Movement\nChildren have plenty of opportunities for inside and outside (weather permitting) movement and exercise. Using various specialized gym equipment and yoga, children develop coordination and balance while strengthening core muscles. Outside activities allow for relay races, tricycle and scooter play, and organized group games where children strengthen large muscles, develop hand-eye coordination, learn to listen and follow directions, cooperate, take turns, and practice good sportsmanship. The simple act of playing outside builds confidence, promotes creativity, teaches responsibility, reduces stress and fatigue, and most importantly, gets children moving!\nChildren also engage in plenty of music and movement activities, learn to sing folk and classic children’s songs, and discriminate between different types of instruments. Children learn to hear the rhythm and harmony in songs and identify song structure and notes.\nChildren explore the world, learning about the people, culture and biomes of the earth’s continents. As we go on our world journey, it is exciting to learn about the history, hear different languages and music, learn new songs, and try out new dances at every destination we visit. We travel the continents from Antarctica to Australia, with many exciting and educational stops along the way. World arts and crafts, and international cooking are threaded through this joyful, multi-cultural interactive and hands-on class, perfect for the curious little explorer!\nA wealth of hands-on activities demonstrate various elements of biology, zoology, physics, circuitry, and chemistry through the exploration of simple chemical reactions. On one day the children might study metamorphosis and the similarities and differences between plants, insects, and animals, and on another day, they may make their own clouds, or learn about polymers and create their own plastic from milk. Other areas of investigations may include the study of the human body, rocks and geodes, magnetism, animal habitats, and the study of light and rainbows and the study of live mammals, bugs, worms, and reptiles.\nIn addition to daily activities and experiments, the STEAM teachers have created an assortment of classroom STEAM kits to engage young children in creative problem-solving and collaboration. The kits introduce children to basic math and science skills such as prediction, experimentation, forming a conclusion and data collection. Our youngest children can conduct a simple experiment to stack multiple blocks and record how many are stacked before they fall, while our older children are learning to take their data from the same experiment and record it in simple graphs. Geared and individualized to meet the skills of this multi-age group, children will learn how to predict, experiment, collect data and form a conclusion in this dynamic classroom environment.\nChildren are given the opportunity to develop the essential language and literacy skills of listening, speaking and vocabulary building, as well as using their imagination while acting out favorite stories, making up their own stories, and playing with puppets. Children will use their artistic skills to create props and costumes and work on crafts connected to our story of the week. Through our classroom activities, based on nursery rhymes, favorite fairy tales, well-loved classics and new releases, and stories from around the world, children learn to recognize rhyming words, notice the rhythm in spoken language, create a storyline, predict the outcome and learn the moral of each story as part of character education.\nStorytelling is a wonderful way to weave lessons from the entire week into a fun and engaging conclusion. Beans from Jack and the Beanstalk are integrated into science Thursday, while international stories reinforce lessons from World Travels.\nClean Recyclables wanted: Students love to create a variety of crafts with items you may be recycling at home. Items such as shoe boxes, paper towel and toilet paper tubes, oatmeal tubes, corks, clean egg cartons, clean/empty water bottles, buttons, and clean baby food jars may find new life as special child-made projects. Check with our STEAM/Montessori Teachers if you have items to donate and thank you for helping replenish our supplies!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Born in Indonesia, coming from an island and raised by a different culture in the Netherlands has without a doubt shaped who I am, shaped what I love and most importantly shaped the foundation from which I now continue to grow.\nI love to travel and have a deep appreciation for nature with a healthy appetite for the unknown. To do so I am using my vision as a nomad, seeking out and collaborating through different elements like yoga, art, writing, nature and surf. We are all surfers of sort, sometimes surfing literally in the ocean like me, but most often surfing the current of life and all that flows with it.\nIn 2013 I was diagnosed with cancer. This emotional and natural experience changed my view on life. I realized more how precious the physical body is and how fragile we still are as human beings. I also realized that nothing is guaranteed even when you live healthily and enjoy life fully. My own yoga and meditation practice were great tools to keep me in form both physically and mentally.\nAfter living in Morocco for three years, I am currently back in the Netherlands; living in this dynamic and vibrant city of Amsterdam. I´ve discovered that it´s actually more fun to share it with others and to be surrounded by people who inspire us. That´s what keeps me going. And so I have been graced with incredible experiences with teacher guides of healers, friends and other warm loving people who I’ve met along the way. They are the ones who keep my eyes and heart open to the limitless potential and love that surround us. Thank you!\nLove & Light,", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Why and How to Prevent Chimping in Photography\nChimping is a term used to describe the behavior of photographers who immediately check their camera’s LCD screen after taking a picture. While this may seem like a harmless habit, it can actually be detrimental to the overall quality of the photographs being taken. In this essay, we will discuss why it is important to prevent chimping in photography and how photographers can break this habit.\nFirstly, chimping can be distracting and take away from the creative process. When a photographer takes a picture and immediately checks their LCD screen, they are interrupting the flow of their work. This can be especially frustrating when shooting in fast-paced environments, such as sports or events. Instead of being present in the moment and focusing on capturing the shot, the photographer is distracted by reviewing the image on the screen. This can lead to missed opportunities and subpar photographs.\nSecondly, chimping can be misleading. The LCD screen on a camera is not an accurate representation of the final image. It may appear that the exposure, focus, and composition are all correct, but when the photograph is viewed on a computer screen, it may be revealed that these elements are not as they seemed. Relying too heavily on the LCD screen can lead to overconfidence in the quality of the photographs being taken.\nSo, how can photographers prevent chimping? The first step is to acknowledge that it is a habit that needs to be broken. Once a photographer realizes that checking the LCD screen is a distraction, they can consciously make an effort to resist the urge. One technique is to simply turn off the LCD screen or cover it with tape so that it cannot be viewed. This forces the photographer to rely solely on their instincts and technical knowledge, rather than relying on the camera’s screen.\nAnother technique is to shoot in burst mode. By taking multiple shots in rapid succession, the photographer can avoid the need to check the LCD screen after every shot. This allows them to stay in the moment and capture more opportunities.\nLastly, photographers can learn to trust their instincts and technical knowledge. By practicing and developing their skills, they can become confident in their ability to capture quality photographs without the need to constantly check the LCD screen.\nWhen using a used camera, chimping can be even more detrimental as the LCD screen may not accurately represent the final image due to wear and tear. It is important to rely on one’s instincts and technical knowledge to properly assess the exposure, focus, and composition of the shot. Additionally, when purchasing a used camera, it is important to inspect the camera thoroughly to ensure that all functions are working properly and the LCD screen is in good condition. By being mindful of chimping and taking the necessary steps to prevent it, photographers can avoid missed opportunities and capture quality photographs regardless of whether they are using a new or used camera.\nIn conclusion, preventing chimping in photography is important for several reasons. It can be distracting, misleading, and take away from the creative process. By breaking this habit, photographers can become more present in the moment, capture more opportunities, and ultimately improve the overall quality of their photographs. Techniques such as turning off the LCD screen, shooting in burst mode, and trusting instincts and technical knowledge can help photographers break the habit of chimping and take their photography to the next level.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "No products in the cart.\nThis finely detailed and hand painted angel is one of the most beautiful and serene sculptures you will find. The soft colors and flowing dress make you feel the motion of her being uplifted.\nOut of stock\nSize is: 11″ H x 7 1/2″ W x 7 1/9″ D\nMaterial: Stone Resin\nAngel “Let Grace Fill Your Heart”\nSnoopy With Love Balloons\nSweet Dreams Water Globe\nSophia 1st Communion Seraphim Angel\nRuth Angel with Scroll\nYoung Angel with Harp – Porcelain Musical\nDragon Chest – Celtic Style Box\nUsername or email address *\nLost your password?\nEmail address *", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I enjoy organising and facilitating creative work.\nSchool art Projects\nFor the past twelve years, I have facilitated Art projects and workshops with early years children right up to third level students.\nThis is a video I made with the children in Zurich International School, where I developed the school art curriculum under the The International Baccalaureate Organisation.\nI co-ordinated a street party similar to a mini festival. The event included music, a swap shop, a craft workshop, barbecues, picnic area, decorations, children's games, face painting, and an outdoor cinema screening at sunset.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BringOnTheBold Media Event\nGANSEVOORT HOTEL | MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NEW YORK\nElizabeth Arden underwent a phenomenal rebrand to target at a younger demographic, and wanted to flaunt their fun, vibrant and youthful side, while keeping it classy in ways only Elizabeth Arden knows how. So with an event for editors, they were swooned with food and drink, and we created a sizzling atmosphere, impossible to forget. We suspended an oversized hashtag #BRINGONTHEBOLD 15’ above the ground; and installed a giant wall of shrubbery, set behind beautiful black lacquered display tables with hot pink flowers. These bright pops of color were true to the brand’s new color scheme, with shiny black and flashes of hot pink peppered throughout.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sister Ivy began in the summer of 2015, when on-again/off-again explorer of\nmusic, Rachel Waterhouse, decided that she couldn’t keep hiding skeletons of songs under her twin bed anymore. The decision arose when local reporter Carrie Eidson, booked her to play a Mountain express acoustic session at Sherwood Music in Asheville, NC. Rachel nervously dusted off two of the skeletons and scribbled a few charts so that guitarist Brian Kirk could understand them (kind of), and chose a name. But it wasn’t enough. There was so much more that could be done…with drums…with some low end…with the endless supply of song bones. She needed a band. So, with a few poorly made charts and quite a few more pipe dreams, Rachel set out to find collaborators to flesh out her dreams.\nThe going was tough…with complicated designs and limited experience, band leading was a difficult task. There were lessons that Rachel had skipped that she had to keep going back to pick up. There were mistakes made and multiple changes of members, but every change was a challenge to grow and get better at the work. New songs came, along with new inspirations and new influences, gifted by the exemplary collaborators that loaned their time and energy to the project. Beautiful and excellent musicians added to the tunes in turn…giving them skin, motor skills–a nervous system even. Rachel began to be more on music than not, day by day, as the project grew in complexity and depth, and Sister Ivy became a matter of utmost importance in her life.\nNow, after nearly two and a half years of gestation, Sister Ivy is feeling rooted enough to release somewhat permanent interpretations of her music, in the form of recorded material. The EP, Plecia, recorded at El Rancho Morbido in Black Mountain in June and July of 2017 with guitarist Kayla Zuskin, bassist Brennan Dugan, and drummer Will Miller, will be released in March. The three-song EP features a fairly wide representation of the sounds Sister Ivy produces, from the neo-soul vibe of Dark Magic, to the highly jazz influenced track, Nu V.U., and the epic, free-verse poem that is Song of the Skeleton Woman. The single, Sepia Sun, recorded independently with current band members (Asher Hill on bass, Paul Gladstone on drums) and local trumpeter Alex Bradley, will be released in February, along with Sister Ivy’s first ever Music Video. The E.P. release party at the Isis Music Hall on March 30th will be a showcase of all these tunes and more, with appearances from past and current members as well as new collaborators.\nGhost Pipe Trio, the brainchild of guitarist Leo Johnson, delivers high-energy compositions and groove-centric style which summon impressions of late masters, like Django and Zappa. They are a virtuous blend of vintage and modern jazz fused with elements of gypsy jazz, early swing, afro, latin, and flamenco. The trio’s spirit and lavish improvisations landed them a residency at one of Asheville NC’s finest late night establishments. Bolstering the city’s bustling nightlife, devotees of the band can be heard chanting “PIPE, PIPE, PIPE” as the band steps off for a set break.\nWith effortless feel and endless supply of ideas, Tommy Moore’s (drums) west African tendencies shine bold as the trio transitions through time and meter.\nIsis Music Hall & Mt Spirit Promo Summary\nMeanwhile, Sean McCann (bass) paves a golden road of groove and passion ensuring danceability and sophistication. Touted as “the best rhythm section in town!” by Zach Page (local bass legend), the group’s following grows every week.\nThe trio’s intention to improvise is realized through vintage tone. Driven by Leo’s “Hot Rod” Harmony Archtone 1963 and Sean’s 1967 Fender Coronado, the band pushes the boundaries of expectation and style. As the band’s first year nears a successful end, they set their sights on a European tour in the spring of 2018, as well as the release of their first full length album, “The Effervescent Professor, Dr. Bubbly”.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Staff and students alike were very impressed with the show. The subject was an excellent choice and hit exactly the right level for our students. The cast was professional and friendly. I was particularly impressed with the many spontaneous interactions with our students whenever they were unexpectedly on stage with you or added some new lines to the script! Thank you for accommodating our children’s enthusiasm to get up and dance with you. Please come again.\n- Brisbane, Australia\nOur Year 8 and 9 students really enjoyed Botfarm 2014 – Rise of the Appliances. The show conveyed the key elements of dystopia – particularly Orwell’s Animal Farm – in a fun, accessible format. The pop culture references were appreciated, and the physicality of the performance made for lots of humour.\n- Canberra Girls’ Grammar School, Canberra, Australia", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Adele Admits She ‘Wasn’t Doing a Great Job Emotionally as a Mum’ on Her Most Vulnerable Song (INTERVIEW)\nMusic superstar Adele recently caught up with PopCrush Nights host Kayla Thomas for a chat about the singer's stunning new album, motherhood, memes and more.\nWhen asked which track on her new record, 30, is most sentimental to her, the artist revealed that her song \"My Little Love,\" on which she addresses Angelo, her 9-year-old son with ex-husband Simon Konecki, was the most vulnerable song she worked on for the album.\n\"Probably 'My Little Love,' [which is] the one that I wrote for my son,\" she shared. \"It's incredibly vulnerable, me sort of admitting obviously not only to myself and most importantly him, but also to so many that I don't know by putting it on my record, that I wasn't doing a great job, you know, emotionally as his mum.\"\nAdele explained that though \"it was a very short period of time\" in which she wasn't fully there for her son, she was \"just mortified in the moment that I couldn't access my emotions for him.\"\n\"It's about him so that's why it's so sentimental, but also it's just so vulnerable. I feel like it's sometimes hard for mums to admit that,\" Adele added.\nOn a lighter note, the \"Easy On Me\" singer also dished on her favorite meme about herself. The internet will certainly be excited to learn that not only does the musician see all the memes about her, but her personal favorite is the iconic Adele-hiding-in-a-bush meme.\n\"It's the one where I'm in the bush from SNL,\" she shared, laughing. \"It made me laugh when I first saw it because I didn't know that the camera was on me at that point. I thought the camera would swing to me when I started actually singing 'Hello' from inside this bush, but they had it already on me and I was waiting which is why I look so bloody ridiculous and uninterested and satisfied.\"\nThe artist added that the meme \"really reminds me of the famous one of Kim Kardashian popping out from behind a bush.\"\nListen to the full PopCrush Nights video interview with Adele, below:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Edna O'Brien Short Fiction Analysis\nEdna O’Brien has written short stories throughout her long career. “Come into the Drawing Room, Doris” (retitled “Irish Revel” in The Love Object collection) first appeared in The New Yorker, on October 6, 1962. “Cords,” published as “Which of Those Two Ladies Is He Married To?” in The New Yorker, on April 25, 1964, adumbrates many of the aspects of loss and missed connections, which are O’Brien’s constant themes. The missed connections are most frequently between mothers and daughters, and between women and men. O’Brien is at her most persuasively graphic when her protagonists are clearly Irish women, at home, in a vanished Ireland whose society as a whole she re-creates and often increasingly indicts most convincingly.\nThe question above, which forms the original title of “Cords,” is posed in the story by Claire’s scandalized, rural, Irish mother on a London visit to her sexually active, editor, lapsed Catholic, poet-daughter. The dinner guests are a husband, his pregnant wife Marigold, and his mistress Pauline—which grouping elicits the mother’s question. The newer title, “Cords,” more aptly focuses attention on the constrictive mother-daughter bond, which is at the center of this story. The conflict is effectively rendered; no final judgment is made on who is to blame. The Catholic, self-sacrificing mother, who masochistically sews without a thimble, is a spunky traveler. The rather precious daughter, with her “social appendages” but no friends, “no one she could produce for her mother [or herself] and feel happy about,” for her part means well. The two similarly looking women are deftly shown to be on a collision course, not just with their umbrellas or their differences over food. The detailed parts of the story all function smoothly. The mother looks at herself in a glass door; Claire sees herself reflected in a restaurant’s mirrors. Each woman is herself and an image projected elsewhere. The constraint between them is vividly rendered from their moment of meeting until they are at the airport again, where both “secretly feared the flight number would never be called.”\nIn the background here, in Claire’s thoughts, is the father, “emaciated, crazed and bankrupted by drink,” with whom the mother’s unhealthy, symbiotic relationship continues: “She was nettled because Claire had not asked how he was.” In “Cords,” then, are many of the perennial, rush-of-memory themes: the family feuding, the malevolent church influence, the searing, almost flawlessly detailed exposé of the tie that binds many mothers and daughters. All is rendered here with the saving grace of good humor, and even old jokes are recalled, such as those about good grazing on the Buckingham Palace lawns, about Irish planes being blessed and therefore never crashing, and about an overly heavy suitcase—“Have you stones in it?”Claire asks.\n“A Scandalous Woman”\n“A Scandalous Woman” sets the tone for O’Brien’s second collection, named after it, and reveals an increasingly gloomy view of the female predicament, whether in Ireland or elsewhere. The story, published in 1974, concludes, “I thought that ours indeed was a land of shame, a land of murder, and a land of strange, [to which is added in the stronger A Fanatic Heart version, ‘throttled’] women.” Here is an indictment of a family, its church, and society, very like that in A Pagan Place, and to be seen again in “Savages.” The anonymous narrator leads the reader through Eily’s life from early courtship days until the moment when the narrator, now no longer a young girl but a mother herself, seeks out her childhood friend, to find her much changed: “My first thought was that they must have drugged the feelings out of her taken her spark away.” “They” and their “strange brews” are part of the “scandalous” environment of this pagan place.\nThe anonymous narrator graphically describes how, as a young girl, she admired and sought the company of Eily, who was a few years older and had the “face of a madonna.” The narrator tells how she loved Eily and visited her home each Tuesday, even though this meant that she had to play, in the hospital game, the patient to Eily’s sister’s surgeon. Lying on the kitchen table, she saw “the dresser upside down” in a world whose values are far from upright either. It is Eily, however, who is hollowed out at the story’s end: Her playing Juliet to her Protestant Romeo, a bank clerk named Jack, ends in Eily’s sniveling at a shotgun wedding. The young narrator had acted as lookout and cover so Eily could meet her lover, “Sunday after Sunday, with one holy day, Ascension Thursday, thrown in.” When Jack attempts to throw Eily over, the narrator reveals in herself the same confusion of pagan and Christian values of the others:I said that instead of consulting a witch we ought first to resort to other things, such as novenas, putting wedding cake under our pillows, or gathering bottles of dew in the early morning and putting them in a certain fort to make a wish.\nThe combined forces of the family, church, and community, in a profusion of animal imagery, move events along to the marriage solution.\nThis is a dense, beautifully put together story, packed with details of the repressive effects of parents, school, and church on a lively girl, who is cowed into submission. From the symbolism of the upside-down world observed by the child on the kitchen table to the loaded “Matilda” term for the female genitalia (between “ma” and “da,” there “I” am), everything in this story contributes to the indictment and ironic redefinition of what is “scandalous.”\nMrs. Reinhardt, and Other Stories\nO’Brien’s pessimism about much of the female condition shows little alleviation in the Mrs. Reinhardt, and Other Stories collection, heavily though...\n(The entire section is 2460 words.)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Wolfard Oil Lamp has earned an international reputation for excellence in design and function. It has been included in the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition \"High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design,\" a review of outstanding examples of furniture, industrial design, and decorative objects.\nThe Wolfard Oil Lamp is hand-blown from scientific glass (known for its strength and clarity) using an exclusive \"in-flame\" glassblowing technique which requires higher temperatures than other art glass methods. This, in turn, requires a higher degree of skill by the glassblower to form the lamp while the glass remains workable. Whether in your home or in a world-class museum, Wolfard Lamps bring style and elegance to any room. All are beautifully hand-crafted and designed to be treasured for generations.\n- Proudly Handmade in the USA\nEach Classic Wolfard Oil Lamp includes:\n- 1 x Classic Wolfard Oil Lamp\n- 1 x Wolfard Wick Holder Packet\n- 1 x Operating Instructions\nThey come in four sizes:\n- Small: 6\"H x 3\"W\n- Medium: 9\"H x 3 3/4\"W\n- Large: 12\"H x 4 1/2\"W\n- Extra Large: 15\"H x 5 1/8\"W\n....and I still absolutely love them. I bought my first two at New Morning Gallery in Asheville, NC. I loved them so much that bought two for my sister and two for my mother. When someone broke one of mine, I replaced it with two, just in case. That's how much I love these lamps! I'm returning to the site now to replace a worn out lamp oil spout. :-)\nI just bought a lamp for my cousin in Belgium as a wedding gift. I bought the same 12\" lamp 40 years ago for my then boyfriend. We've been married now 37 years and still love it. We're now retired and 4pm cocktail hour daily...light our lamp! Cheers!\nExcellent product and quick delivery!\nWolfard Classic Oil Lamp\nIt was a birthday gift for my wife. She wanted one and she loves it.\nI have owned Wolfard oil lamps for years and love giving them as gifts!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sci-fi, smuggling and sabotage in a city on the moon! Set in the near future, the second novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) takes place in a lunar colony named Artemis. It follows a smuggler, Jazz (short for Jasmine), who… Continue Reading →\nDie Hard, Lethal Weapon and Gremlins are three movies that immediately come to mind when I think of movies that take place during Christmastime, but are not Christmas movies. So, what are some Christmas-adjacent movies you could watch this December?\nWe may not be getting another Blade Runner movie anytime soon, but we will be returning to the world of replicants in the form of an anime series in the near future. No release date yet, but when it airs,… Continue Reading →\nThe band of vampire hunters is assembled, ready to take on Dracula and his hordes in Season 2 of Castlevania. With amazing anime-inspired animation and beautifully choreographed fights, this season is worth watching for its action scenes alone.\nWhen Comedy Central advertised the 22nd season of South Park, it included the hashtag #cancelsouthpark. Was this a marketing ploy? A way to troll their fans? A cry for help from the show’s longtime creators? Or a preemptive strike against… Continue Reading →\nThe Jack Ryan series on Amazon is a good, modern interpretation of the character from the Tom Clancy books. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good. As a fan of the Tom Clancy books and having watched all the Jack… Continue Reading →\nUnless you’d told me that James Cameron was really making the movie from Entourage Season 3, I never thought I would be this excited to see an Aquaman movie. The hero has often been the butt of jokes in shows… Continue Reading →", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A place to see my world\nLaura this is just amazing. What a fantastic capture, beauitful.\nStunning shot. A truly beautiful abstract. WOW!!\nOh OH!! I like the top of the iciness and the bottom of the iciness!!!!LOL I know that made no sense but I know what I meant!This is just wonderful, Laura! I like it, I like it, I LIKE it!!!!!\nThis is really beautiful; I like it a lot. The color is unbelievable\nOh wow.OH WOW!That is unspeakably beautiful.Thanks for sharing,Jennifer\nUnbelievable blues! You've taken them into an entirely indefinable contest, so form and color rule. Really, really, REALLY gorgeous!\n\"Contest\" should read \"context.\" Didn't proofread!\nThis looks like a painting. It should be turned into one! Most excellent study here Laura.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On the evening of February 24th, local youth took to the stage to showcase their talents at the Youth Open Mic Night event. The event was held at our store at Certain Sparks Music and drew a crowd of 30-35 attendees who came to enjoy an evening of music.\nThe event featured 13 performers, including three newcomers who were excited to share their skills with the audience. The performers, ranging in age from 12 to 18, entertained the crowd with a variety of acts, including acoustic guitar performances, piano, and singing.\nAs the night went on, the energy in the room grew as the performers and audience members fed off each other’s excitement.\nThroughout the night, Rosie, Sheena, and Debbie were named the top performers, earning them recognition and prizes for their outstanding performances. The three winners got a prize as well as a special gift from the store.\nThe Youth Open Mic Night was not just about recognizing talented young people. The event also served as a fundraiser to support the Certain Sparks Music Foundations. Attendees were encouraged to make donations throughout the night, and the generosity of the community was on full display.\nIn total, the event raised $140 in donations, which will be used to support lesson scholarships.\nThe Youth Open Mic Night was a resounding success, bringing together talented performers, supportive community members, and generous donors. The event demonstrated the power of the arts to unite people and enrich our communities.\nThe Next Event will be held March 31st 2023.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "a real FO\nYou got a bit of a sneak peek in my last post, but here are all the details: let me present to you the re-knitted Cherry Red! Jen kindly took some photos for me, but by the time we’d eaten and shopped, it was nearly dark. Priorities, eh?\nYarn: Sundara Sport Merino in Crushed Cherries. I used less than a skein: 84g to be precise.\nFinished: Second time around, finished December 27th, 2010. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite count as a FO for 2011.\nModifications: I re-worked this in the medium size, but with smaller gauge and on smaller needles (3.25mm). That gave me the slouch factor that I was after but I was worried about it not staying on my head, and ending up somewhere around my chin. I decreased heavily at the band to give a tighter fit. This was fine, but maybe a tiny bit tight. Frogged back again, and re-knit as written. Third time lucky – perfect.\nComments: I mentioned previously how much I love this pattern, and that still holds true. It’s a perfect pattern, perfectly realised. I’m still not sure about the prospect of me actually wearing a hat, but I’ll give it a go for my art! I didn’t worry about blocking this version, but simply washed it and allowed it to dry flat. I decided I’d rather keep the texture than go all out for slouch.\nI’ll have to say again how much I absolutely love this yarn. It’s got just the right combination of softness coupled with strength. The yarn held up well to the three rounds frogging, and I don’t get the sense that it will pill, which is quite a feat for a merino. Even more amazing is that it’s sturdy without being itchy. Incredible.\nAnd the best bit about this yarn? I still have enough to make a whole cardigan.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A preview of the Vans Vault Spring ’08 Collection displays the new “Color Theory” theme which provides a wide array of colors and textures that are inspired by art and the skateboarding/surfing lifestyle.\nOld Vans classics get a makeover with new designer textiles and patterns. The new line has a lot of potential and is a strong line up presented by Vans. Keeping it clean and simple really distinguishes Vans from most sneaker brands. Check out the whole coverage after the jump. Via HS.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Fantine dress is for the boho babe in you, it features long flowing sleeves with lace inlay and hand embroidered gold beading. A centre front tassel tie and raw edge ruffle hem add to it's feminine appeal.\n97% Cotton, 3% Polyester\nYour current wishlist is not saved. Please Log in to save it.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "# 1 Entertainment Source\nNipsey Hussle's good friend and All Money In artist, J Stone, pays tribute to his fallen comrade in this new song titled \"The Marathon Continues.\"\nFollow J Stone: @jstone_allmoneyin\nSign Upor Sign In\nOr sign in with:\n© 2020 Created by ChasinDatPaper.\nReport an Issue |\nTerms of Service\nPlease check your browser settings or contact your system administrator.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "in De Hallen Haarlem is a group exhibition with five alumni who were granted a Fellowship from the Kees Verwey Foundation during their Rijksakademie residency. This Foundation aims to regularly show the work of the Haarlem artist Kees Verwey and support a young generation of talent in the development of their work. The exhibition Studio Verwey researches the role of the studio for contemporary artists.\nOn view is recent work by Ištvan Išt Huzjan (RA 08/09), Tomoko Kawachi (RA 05/06), Tala Madani (RA 07/08), Derk Thijs (RA 09/10) and Sarah Verbeek (RA 09/10).\nExhibition from September 15 until November 18.\nDe Hallen Haarlem, Grote Markt 16, Haarlem (NL)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Showcasing vintage male photography, mostly nude. You must be 18 years of age or older to visit this blog! If you hold a copyright on any material shown on this blog, notify me, and it will be removed immediately.\nThursday, October 17, 2019\nToday's derriere photo has two twists. First there is a peekaboo extra anatomical element, and second, this picture is said to be from the Swiss branch of the nature movement.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "John Skelton, (born c. 1460—died June 21, 1529, London), Tudor poet and satirist of both political and religious subjects whose reputation as an English poet of major importance was restored only in the 20th century and whose individual poetic style of short rhyming lines, based on natural speech rhythms, has been given the name of Skeltonics.\nHis place of birth and childhood is unknown. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and later achieved the status of “poet laureate” (a degree in rhetoric) at Oxford, Leuven (Louvain) in the Netherlands (now in Belgium), and Cambridge. This success and also his skill at translating ancient Greek and Roman authors led to his appointment in 1488 first as court poet to Henry VII and later, in addition, as “scolemaster” to the Duke of York (later Henry VIII). In 1498 Skelton took holy orders and in 1502, when Henry became heir to the throne and the royal household was reorganized, he became rector of Diss, in Norfolk, a position he held until his death, though from 1512 he lived in London. In about 1512 Henry VIII granted him the title of orator regius, and in this capacity Skelton became a forthright adviser to the King, in court poems, on public issues, and on church affairs.\nLittle of Skelton’s early work is known, but his reputation was such that Desiderius Erasmus, greatest figure in the northern Renaissance, visiting England in 1499, referred to him as “the incomparable light and glory of English letters.” His most notable poem from his time at court is Bowge of courte, a satire of the disheartening experience of life at court; it was not until his years at Diss that he attempted his now characteristic Skeltonics. The two major poems from this period are Phyllyp Sparowe, ostensibly a lament for the death of a young lady’s pet but also a lampoon of the liturgical office for the dead; and Ware the Hawke, an angry attack on an irreverent hunting priest who had flown his hawk into Skelton’s church. Skelton produced a group of court poems, mostly satirical: A ballad of the Scottysshe Kynge, a savage attack on the King’s enemies, was written in 1513 after the Battle of Flodden; and in the next year he entertained the court with a series of “flyting” poems of mock abuse. In 1516 he wrote the first secularmorality play in English, Magnyfycence, a political satire, followed by The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge, a portrayal of a drunken woman in an alehouse, which, though popular, contributed largely to Skelton’s later reputation as a “beastly” poet. His three major political and clerical satires, Speke Parrot (written 1521), Collyn Clout (1522), and Why come ye nat to courte (1522), were all directed against the mounting power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, both in church and in state, and the dangers—as Skelton saw them—of the new learning of the Humanists. Wolsey proved too strong an opponent to attack further, and Skelton turned to lyrical and allegorical themes in his last poems, dedicating them all to the Cardinal himself. Skelton’s reputation declined rapidly in a 16th-century England predominantly Protestant in religion and Italianate in poetic style. A new appreciation of his qualities, however, emerged in the 20th century.\nJohn Skelton (c.1463-1529) is in many ways a poet of contradictions. He was esteemed by his contemporaries for his eloquence and aureate style, but in the judgement of less sympathetic readers his scurrility, his use of the demotic and his irregular verse forms violated canons of literary decorum and good taste. A religious conservative and a trenchant opponent of evangelical reform, his pugnacious onslaughts against Cardinal Wolsey were interpreted by subsequent generations of poets and controversialists as a more generalised attack on the corruption of the Catholic clergy, and he came to be seen as a proto-Protestant and his work as a model of anti-Catholic satire. He was a polyglot humanist who took his place among the international community of scholars, but his polemics, particularly those directed against the French and the Scots, can be ruthless in their deployment of the most xenophobic and chauvinistic of nationalistic stereotypes.\nSkelton has therefore proved a problematic figure for critics. Not only does his diverse body of work, which encompasses a vast array of genres, styles and subject matter, resist easy categorisation but his persona as a public poet, combatively assertive yet at the same time deferential – even obsequious – to the wishes of those in authority, does not fit comfortably with modern notions either of poetry, or of the place of the poet in public life.\nJohn Scattergood’s meticulously detailed exploration of Skelton’s writing career directs its attention squarely at the poems themselves. Although he provides a great deal of contextual material, his commentary and analysis do not seek to impose a particular interpretation, but as far as possible allow the work to speak for itself. The breadth of Skelton’s writing – the sheer range of his interests and the diversity of genres in which he wrote – is well served by his literary biographer. Scattergood writes about the different stages of Skelton’s career, from his arrival at the court of Henry VII in the late 1480s all the way through to his response to the emerging Lutheran “heresy” 40 years later, with equal insight and authority.\nSkelton is often seen as a forbiddingly “difficult” and opaque poet, and his writing is rooted in the public life and personal rivalries of the early Tudor court, all of which require careful exposition for a modern reader. But at times his obscurity is a conscious poetic strategy, creating a mode in which to assert dangerous political opinions while simultaneously concealing those opinions beneath a veil of allegory and metaphor. Scattergood offers a rigorous analysis of Skelton’s literary experimentation and innovation, and carefully charts the ways in which his writing develops in response to changing political circumstance.\nThe nature of Skelton’s poetry – the fact that it not only engages with but also sees itself as an intervention in public affairs – means that it creates relatively little space for the subjective exploration of selfhood. His poetic persona can seem rather flat as a result, and the fractious and quarrelsome quality of much of his verse suggests, in Scattergood’s words, that “tact and insight into the feelings of others were never [his] strong points”. Yet despite the insensitive figure that often emerges from the poetry, Scattergood is unfailingly judicious, understanding and sympathetic in his treatment of his subject, and his excellent analysis highlights Skelton’s importance to both the literary and political history of the period.\nJohn Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet\nBy John Scattergood\nFour Courts Press, 356pp, £50.00\nPublished 11 July 2014", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Archive for John Dossett\nMamma Mia, the 13th longest running show in Broadway history, celebrated 8 years on Broadway yesterday, Oct 18!\nThe musical currently stars Beth Leavel, John Dossett, Judy McLane, Allison Briner, Halle Morse, Michael Mindlin, Patrick Boll, Alyse Alan Louis, David Andrew Macdonald and Eric William Morris.\nBye Bye Birdie, which opened on Oct 15, was panned by reviewers in almost every media publication:\n- They Can’t Sing (Don’t Ask Them)\n- A flightless “Birdie”\n- Critics wish ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ was more than just a title\n- ‘Bye Bye Birdie': No reason to put on a happy face\n- “Bye Bye Birdie” returns to Broadway with a thud\n- ‘Bird’-brained revival flops\nThe consensus – the bulk of the cast can’t sing, dance or act. Ouch!\nThe New York Post reported that the stage manager for Broadway’s South Pacific, Michael Brunner, has been arraigned for recording video of one of the actresses in her dressing room. Lincoln Center Theater has terminated his contract due to the incident.\nOn Tuesday, September 22, Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, The Civil War, Young Frankenstein), John Dossett (Gypsy, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Alyse Alan Louis, Allison Briner, Halle Morse, Michael Mindlin (9 to 5, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Patrick Boll (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), David Andrew Macdonald (Coram Boy), Eric William Morris (Coram Boy), Felicity Claire, Rachel Frankenthal and Natalie Gallo all joined the New York cast of Mamma Mia.\nHe’s not the only actor returning to a role he played on Broadway years ago – John Dossett (Gypsy, Ragtime) will be returning to the role of Sam Carmichael in Broadway’s Mamma Mia! on September 22. He will be joined by Tony Award winner Beth Leavel (Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, 42nd Street), who’ll be taking over the role of Donna Sheridan.\nBut it’s not all cast reunions – there’s also a Broadway debut – Dee Roscioli, who starred in the Chicago production of Wicked, will join the cast of the Broadway production as Elphaba starting July 21.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reaching the height of their popularity during the Victorian era, lockets held mementos such as locks of a loved one's hair. With a nod to these romantic notions, we've created contemporary versions that are not only sweetly sentimental, but stylish. Perfect for gifting!\nEmail your pictures to the store and we will print and assemble your locket while you wait!\nCollection: Brighton's Love Lockets\nClosure: Lobster Claw\nLength: 28\" - 32\" Adjustable\nFeatures: Locket w/photo\nPendant Drop: 1 1/4\"\nMaterial: Swarovski crystal\nFinish: Silver plated", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome back to another captivating episode of \"Life Is Sound,\" the podcast where we delve into the transformative power of creativity, vulnerability, and finding light amidst life's darkest moments. I'm your host, James Mayer, and I couldn't be more excited to introduce our guest for today's episode - the brilliant writer and performer in the world of comedy, Emm Kenny.\nEmm shares her incredible journey about how and why she started her comedy production company \"Comedy Stitch Productions\" and how her workshops help people build confidence by exploring performance as play.\nI am a huge fan of comedy and I am really excited to sit down with our first guest who works in and around the comedic arts. So sit back, relax, and join us for an enlightening and laughter-filled conversation on this episode of \"Life Is Sound.\"\nAlso be sure to look out for next weeks episode as we take Life Is Sound WEEKLY!\nWhat We Discussed In this Episode\nSupport the show\nDonate to the podcast via PayPal\nHave you resonated and gained something from us and our guests? Consider sending financial energy to help support the cost of creating this powerful content.\nThanks again for listening, be sure to like, subscribe and comment on our socials and be apart of our community of people who are here to learn and grow with each other.\nMore Life Is Sound:\nInstagram | YouTube | Tik Tok\nIf you would like to contact the show you can email us firstname.lastname@example.org\nHello, good people, and welcome back to life is sound. Today's guest is Emma Kenny, who is a comedian. And I'm super excited for this episode because I use comedy a lot in my own life. When I'm going through difficult times and I just need that little injection of positive energy into my life. I've got my go to comedians, I've got my go to stand ups. But I want to say a big warm welcome to Emma. Thank you very much for coming to do this today. Oh, you're welcome. Thank you for having me. Appreciate you being here. Why is comedy important to you? I want to start with that straight. You go with such a big question. Why is it important to me? I think it's just the way I've always looked at life. So I've got an ethos. It's always to remember the funny side, just to remember that humorous side, even though when things are tough. And maybe I just did that as a child, naturally, when things aren't great, so you just find the fun and you always feel better when you're laughing. So it was just always something that was natural or just it was just the avenue that I went down. I was always quite playful and silly as a child. What child isn't? But, yeah. So I ended up just that was always my happy place. Tell me a bit about what you actually do, because I know I said, you're a comedian. Yeah, that's the thing. So you say, I'm a comedian and everyone will go, Is she? Why? What was she doing? And it's like so I do loads of different things. So I work in radio film, I've done comedy. I do a bit of everything, but the stuff I do you mean like the workshop stuff? Yeah. So the workshop stuff that I do. So I set up a production company a couple of years ago called Comedy Stitch Productions, and I wanted to create really cool, fun projects, like eight week ones or three months or something like that. And they're all laced with comedy, so it might be a comedy film, a comedy radio project. I didn't want to just do improv. There's lots of amazing organisations that are doing stuff like that. And I also didn't want to just focus on young people as well. So that was something that I wanted to I've gone off here on a tangent. No, not at all. What was the first question? Why did I get into comedy? It was just, yeah, that's what I did. It was like when you're at school, you've got a favourite subject. I ended up loving drama. It was probably the only one I really turned up to. Were you the same with music? You know what music I think back to? I had a really traumatic moment in high school. I remember year seven, going to the music teacher head of music, seeing a drum kit going there on lunchtime and saying, I was wondering if I can learn to play drums. He turned around to me and said, did you play in primary school? I went, no. He went, well, you're not going to learn to play drums, then. And I left, like, well, that's that later in life, obviously became a musician, like Ha showed you. But, yeah, I really did want to do music in school, but I never got the opportunity to do that right. When you said that, it just made me realise, actually, there's, like, a whole part of my story that I've not really mentioned. So as a child, I was quite young. I was young, of course I was young. I was young, but I was really shy and quite anxious and my mum got me into she went and she got involved in community arts. So, like, local community plays, history, plays about history, a lot of stuff in Salford, and it was called Salford Open Theatre. And I got involved as a child and I started that when I was, like, eight and it was always in the paper with my mum going, they've secured some funding to do another play. So, yeah, as much as I found it terrifying, it was really good for me. I sometimes wonder if I didn't do community arts, where I'd be I think I'd be in prison. People laugh, but I'm not kidding. I do, yeah. So it's amazing that that's carried through then, from childhood, seeing the fundraising side from that age, and you brought that through to your adult life and you're doing that now as well. Yeah, because when I went to school and I was doing drama and then went to college and I did performing arts, and then I went to Uni and specialised, there was a comedy module, so Sulphur Judy do comedy and that's where I ended up going. And it's great, it's great fun, I learned a lot. But then out in the big, wide world, when you're acting and you're auditioning and it's great to get these gigs and stuff, but for me, it wasn't always very fulfilling. It wasn't enough. I felt a bit like if it wasn't helping people, if there was no heart to it, like, I love performing, but if it's just performing and it's just entertainment and there's no message, it just wasn't always enough for me. Yeah. Does that make sense? I get that with music. Suppose you can write a song for writing a song's sake or perform a song, but it's when you see it connecting with people or helping people in a certain way, that's when I think we get the most feedback as artists, because that's what we are with. We're putting things out into the world and if it can help people, I think that is the greatest thing we can get in terms of feedback from people. When people message you that your song is literally helping me through this time, or whatever it is, I think that's like, amazing. The highest reward as an artist, I think, is knowing that what you've created or what you're putting out there is helping someone in some way. See, my work doesn't help. That's the thing. I don't think my work I don't know, I'll just create something silly. But it's the workshops when I go back to the beginning and help people, create something for them. So when I started Comedy Stitch, I ended up, are you ready for this? This is me being vulnerable now, so let me get comfortable. I ended up going to the doctors. I was not in a good place. And I remember asking them, because the first thing they offered was medication. And I was like, I just feel like, is there nothing that I can get involved with? I was feeling really lonely. Really. It was just this real disconnect. And I needed something creative. But everything that was out there always felt like there was this big goal at the end. I wanted to write or create something without it being sold to someone, or without purpose creating just for fun, which ultimately makes you feel better. And I just remember thinking when I left there, there must be more people that feel this way, especially creatives. Because that's where if I'm not being creative, if I'm in a place and I've not been creative for a while, I just don't feel very good. I don't feel like myself. I don't know, like the words that are coming to my head, I don't know if they make sense, but I feel so bored and so my life just feels so ordinary. It feels a bit pointless. Yeah, I get that. You get it? Yeah. So I've said it on this podcast before, so for me I describe it as like a dark cloud. And I don't know what age it was. I was like, why do I keep feeling like this? All the times constant. And I realised that it went away. Whenever I'd sit down and make a song or just make a beat, or write some music, play guitar, just do something, and it would lift. And I realised I call it the wilting of the flower. I'm not looking after myself in the right way, which is what helps me grow, is what I get the most satisfaction from. And it took me years, I'd say probably mid twenty s, I realised what it was I have to keep creating. Whether it's creating a podcast, creating music outputting, something that didn't exist the day before, that's what creation is. Yeah. Something is not here now. Now it's here. Feel great. But when you stop doing that and. We'Re slowly yeah, I just feel like, get drained. And then luckily figured out what it was and made sense of it. But I do relate to that a lot. I get it. Yeah, I understand that. Yeah. When you have a look at what's out there as well. There's a lot of stuff for young people and there's a lot of stuff for people over 65, 70, and I just thought, something that's accessible. There's loads of amazing things that people can get involved with. But I wanted to remove all barriers, so for people, like over 29, 30 plus, there's a gap. And I ended up creating a project called the Confidence Project, and it was all based on a lot of the stuff I was feeling, and I just thought, I wonder, I'll create this for me and see who turns up. And so many people signed up. That's incredible. It was so beautiful, but also quite I felt like it was sad that there wasn't enough stuff out there. So what I like to do is I make sure that no one has to pay. I don't want anyone to pay, I want to remove that barrier and I want it to be about people building their confidence and it's about their well being. It's not about learning the improv skills, which you will you'll learn bits, but it was about playing and I'll bring those tools in to help people play. It wasn't about how to be on camera and things like that, it was just about getting on camera. And I've got another project coming up, which is a radio piece. Amazing. Yeah. Well, hopefully I will find out next week. We've got the funding, but yeah. And how do you see that in the world? Do you give yourself the recognition for creating something amazing? That's amazing, like what you've done? People are showing up with the intention of you helping people and removing the financial element as well so people can access it. Do you recognise how powerful that is? Do you know? So many people say that to me, but I'm like, all I'm doing is I'm just creating the space so I don't as much as it's really beautiful when people say, thank you for doing this, I go, well, you did it. It was all your hard work. All I did was ask someone for a bunch of money, created a set of workshops and invited people along. And there's obviously there's a workshop and there's structure and maybe it's because I've done it for such a long time that it feels quite I don't know, I don't want to say easy, it's not easy, but I didn't feel like I was giving that much. But then when I see people and how they react, like, eight weeks later and how they've changed and they say, thank you so much, and I'm like, I didn't do it, you did it. It doesn't work if people don't turn. Up. And there's never any pressure for anyone to get up and perform, I'd say, you know, whenever you're ready, whenever you're ready. I never push anyone into it. It's all them. So it's just creating the space. That's incredible. I think holding space, creating something whether it's an art form, a conversation like this, or I've been to men's circles where it's about men coming and sharing what they're going through and men helping men. There's something in when you hold space for something that creates magic and transformation in people. And that could be, as you probably experienced, people really taking part or someone just going, I'm just going to observe today, I'm just going to observe what goes on. And you'll find that in that there's even transformation. Yeah, because I think people then feel they're safe, they know they're safe and they get a lot out of watching other people perform and seeing them grow. And again, I didn't want there to be sometimes when you go for funding, they want you to obviously work with a certain demographic, and I didn't want to do that, or if I did, it was about just want to work with people who feel like a big bag of shit. You feel like shit, come on, let's hang out and let's just have a laugh, let's leave the booze at home, let's put our phones down and let's just play. And that was it. When you're a kid and you'd go around to a mate's house, you'd knock on and just ask if they were coming out to play. Best days of your life. Best days. That's what I wanted, to create a gang. How devastating was it when your friend wasn't in and you go knock at your other friend's door and they're not in, and then you'd ride to your third friend's house and they're not in, and then you find out they're all playing out. I used to go to my dad's at the weekends a lot, so I'd come back maybe on a Sunday and go knock on, but they're already out playing with each other and I'm trying to find everyone, so I had a lot of that growing up. Okay. That just really broke my heart. Never happened to me. But the feeling of walking to you had a bounce in your step, you just knew you were going to link your favourite people and try and have a good time. That was your only intention at that age, is, I'm just going to come and see you, I'm just going to go and do some fun stuff. Yeah, that was it. Yeah. Like in my workshops, I'll never tell them what we're going to be doing then, following week, because it was just that surprise, that element of excitement, and it worked really well. I wasn't quite sure if it would, but it did. What's the hardest part of what you do? So funding, going for funding, I mean, I've got a real system now, but what I find hard is sometimes the written word with funding, they don't want you to sell this big, glossy, amazing pitch, they want it in black and white and it's factual and it just taps into and there's word counts and I'm dyslexic. So this really I 100% I'm dyslexic. I've just never been diagnosed. I am definitely dyslexic. Does it just spin you out? Sometimes I look back at things I've written and go, what have I said? How did I think that was that word? And then I realise, and it's just even when I'm reading and I've realised it's been a problem throughout my whole life, that I'm only just now identifying. Got it. Okay. But, yeah, things the way certain letters before, other things, I just really struggle with words. It's a funny one. So now it's more about the feeling for me. I used to get so freaked out that if I tripped over it you know when you're a kid and you had to stand up in class and you had to start reading and if you tripped over a word, someone would laugh at you and you were mortified. So that is still with me and I'm still working through it. But the lottery and the Arts Council, they're so much more accessible now and they've been really helpful and it's getting easier. So the more funding I go for, the more evidence I've got that it works. So there's surveys and I'll get testimonials and I'll get video content and things like that. So coming from, say, a performing arts background drama oh, God, I hate it. When people say you're like a drama. Teacher and obviously having a huge what I assume a huge comedy element in there. Yeah. What's your favourite part of that whole spectrum as a musician? Some people love being in the studio, don't really favour performing songs as much. Some people really do not like the studio process and the writing process, but love performing the songs. So in your world and what you do as a creative, what's your favourite part of your process? For the workshop stuff? Just the whole spectrum. I think it might be the writing for me. Yeah. I think for the workshops, it's the designing and then seeing it all come together. But obviously, day one for them is not my day one. I've been working on towards that project for months, so I'm sometimes in a new space where I have to start planning on a different project. Writing a script. Yeah. I enjoy all the stages. Or writing a bit of stand up. I think with stand up, personally, for me, it's very much with stand up, you got to try it. You got to just do it, see what the response is, go back, reword, try it a different way. So I think my favourite bit I'm going to say is, when it goes really well and people like it, what. Are the moments as doing stand up comedy? So I'm fascinated with comedians. I think they're some of the most fascinating people on the planet, and I've observed them for years. And I think the times that we've gone through as we're entering cancel culture and language being restricted. I think comedy is the last art form that can really speak to the truth of a situation because of the art form that it's delivered in. And I think that's become more apparent as we're entering these crazy times where people are trying to cancel comedians for saying certain things. And jokes are jokes. Unless they're attacking a group of people or trying to set one group of people on another group of people, that's not good. But comedy is finding the light in the darkness, finding the opposite to the thing we shouldn't laugh at or the thing we all do laugh at and bringing it to the surface. I think it's such a beautiful art form, and I think comedians are rock stars. I just think they're incredible. And have you ever seen a show called Kill Tony? I feel like you love this, so I'll share it with you. I'll send you some links. So it's a weekly live podcast of a live comedy show. So there's a panel of comedians, three comedians, professional comedians, like, huge in what they do, and they have people sign up, put their name in a bucket, pick a name at random, they come out, and they do 60 seconds of stand up. But then they get interviewed by the panel, who are professional comedians. So you can imagine if it goes well, they love it. They champion them. They break it down. This work, this work, this work. If it goes horrible, which a lot of the time it does, oh, God, awful. They rip into these people with the genius mind of being a great comedian and comedy writer. See, I really struggle with that. I do. But there's something in it that it's. Like, you don't want to be that person. What I'm getting to about this is when you do stand up comedy and it goes well, I'm pretty sure it's like a gig that's like, oh, my God, that was the best thing in the world. The energy. You might think it's gone really well, and then the audience like, what was that? And you're like, but then I was on the circuit, so it was years ago, and I was on it full time, and it was for a short period, and then I would dip back in and out, and you got to cut your teeth. You got to keep going. You got to see if that joke lands there and you've got different audiences, and sometimes your work will land really well with this group and not so much with this group. And then the last time I did some gigs, there was one night, and I was like, oh, my God, I am never doing this again. Why would I do this to myself? And then the following day, oh, yeah, I know. I like it. For me, it's a wave, and sometimes I just have to put it down. Yeah, don't end it on a bad gig. But then if you have a good one, you'll do it again. That's true. And I think that's the same with anything creative. Sometimes you might need a bit of a break from it. It depends sometimes if it exhausts you or you're having a bit of a block, and that's when maybe you're away from it too long and then you need to get back into it. Yeah, I think it's just people that get up and do stand up in front of people. I think it's such an incredible art form. I've gotten up in front of loads of people performed as a musician, not a problem. But if someone said, Go and tell some jokes I don't tell jokes. I like the first one, or stories with comedy elements in. I just think as soon as I felt that first one not land, I'd be like, oh, it's happening. It's happening. This is it. Yeah. It's like a public hanging, but you never actually die. So you're literally living through it. Yeah, you've got to just let it go. You just got to go up, give it a go, see what happens, forgive yourself. And I know people that have been doing it years and years and years, and that's just that it's in their blood and they can handle anything and any audience. But I'm still kind of finding that because I do pull back and then I'll go and do a film project, or I might do the Comedy Stitch projects. And that's what's probably different about me. What do you think? Also, it is about comedians, because you see a lot of comedians that obviously hilarious on stage, make your belly laugh, and then they also go and do really serious roles as an actor, and they'll nail it where they need to lean into heavy, even dark emotions sometimes. What do you think it is, the link between comedy and the ability for people to lean into that stuff? Because we see it quite a lot. We see it Ricky Gervais, we see it. Jim Carrey, when he did I think 23 was the film he did, which was incredible. There's so many comedians that can do that that can go from the comedy into the serious acting world. I think my view on that is that when people say that, I go, well, they're human, of course. They have their dark days. They can draw on that. I think it's harder for people. They've shown you the hard stuff. Comedy's the hard stuff. Not everyone's got that timing. And obviously everyone's so know what you find funny, I might not find funny, but, yeah, it's funny. So when you say things like, because Jim Carrey is one of my faves, and I remember everyone going nuts when they saw him be a human, and I'm like, yeah, the camera goes off. We have normal, everyday things happening in our life. I think he's an incredible human. He's someone I have OD people that I just really love following the journey and tapping into them as a human, and he's one of them. And his stories about manifestation when he was young, before he'd made it, and sitting outside of the theatre and imagining his name on the billboard, and I think he wrote himself a cheque. Yeah. Was it like 10 million by this date? And then by that date, he got a cheque, his first big cheque for Dumb and Dumber. And it came in and it's like you hear these stories and it makes you realise that this stuff is real, that we can bring these things into our realities. I think he's an amazing when you look at his old stuff, and I like to do that. I like to go back and revisit stuff that I've probably not even found, like, how animated he is as a human is incredible. I've got what was his first. Oh, God. Once Bitten. Have you seen that? No. I think he's like 19. Yeah. Wow. And he's a virgin and there's a vampire and blah, blah. Yeah. I used to go a bit nuts for any of the slapstick stuff. I saw some stuff where he was doing a Tonight Show where he just come out and do a short comedy piece and he's been super animated. But there's a lot of comedians I've followed over the years, different forms of comedy as well. I grew up a lot with American black comedians from probably like the age of 16 onwards, and that was like my world for even to today. If I'm feeling low, my go to is like, Cat Williams, Dave Chappelle, like, people that I know that are just going to hit me. Jamie Fox. Some of Jamie Foxx's early stand up before he became the big actor, that he has another one that transitioned into acting and singing. Jamie Fox's early stand up is hilarious. Who are some of the comedians that you kind of look to, who made you realise this might be something you want to lean into? Oh, the people I loved. So Jim Carrey, Rick Mayle. And you know what? People always go what? But I loved Whoopi Goldberg and goldie Horn. Not a stand up, but I liked some of the just the really silly, outrageous stuff. I mean, Goldie Horn and Jim Carrey, completely different. But I'm just trying to kind of think back to who I loved. My room was plastered full of Carey. It wasn't a crush. I don't know, I think maybe I wanted him to be my dad or something. I had this really weird like, I wanted him to be my funny dad or something. I don't know what that is. But, yeah, if you look back to the mask as a kid, you just watch the mask for the mask and it's incredible. As you get old, you realise how much he brought to that character. He was, like, incredible. And how much animation was based around what his face can do. What did I read recently? It was something like they saved loads of money because they didn't have to use any extra animation because they had Jim on board. Yeah. How do you use comedy in your life? And obviously you help a lot of people with the work that you do. How do you use comedy for yourself? When life is shit. When life is shit, how do I do it? Might change the podcast name to that. When life is shit. When life is shit. What do I do? God. Like if when you're in a bit of a hole, okay, well, you know that negative voice that you've got in your head? I've got one, she's a right bitch. Just called Jessica. And that's what I've had to do. I've had to give her a name and a look just to kind of make it more playful and humorous for me. Yeah. So yeah, do that. Maybe if things even like things that you consume what you're reading and stuff, I think I'll always kind of twist it to be a bit more humorous. Or I'll just see a little moment in life where it might be really bleak, it might be dark, might be heavy, it might be something that will pass. But I'll see a little moment where I go, if you just cut to that, that would be really funny. And it helps me through day to day stuff. Yeah. I think for me, like I said before, is when I'm going through those dark moments, I don't really have any vices now. I used to used to smoke a lot, so if life was heavy, I'm just going to light a split, get high, forget about that. Sounds great. Yeah. Why are we not doing that now? My God. So that used to be my go to. Never been a drinker, so that's not really ever been a thing. Still, snack chocolate is probably a vice. But if things get really difficult, it is comedy that I turn to. That is a thing that I look to uplift my spirits. Even if I'm not laughing, I'm soaking it in. And I know that's going to transmute into something and do something in my internal system, which maybe the next day I feel a bit lighter. I feel like there's so much power in comedy. I think what I'll do is I'll go and help someone. So if I'm feeling a bit pants and I know someone else is feeling pants, I'm like, right, I'm here. And I'll go in and be like and I'll just try and make them feel better, which then makes me feel better, which makes me sound really codependent. Is that a natural thing or do you think have you witnessed someone else do that? No, I think that's been with me all my life. Yeah. That's just something that's like hardwired into you. Yeah. And I think that possibly comes from always. Just being really helpful and helping my mom and stuff. So growing up, yeah. So maybe I did that. I just always wanted to make things I just always wanted to make things lighter. If someone was anxious or something, I'd be like, okay, how can we solve it and fix it and turn it into something a bit lighter? When people say, yeah, because people go, Is that a coping mechanism? And I'm like, yes, of course it is. Why would it not be? Like, it's a negative. Yeah. That's how I like to cope with the world. I like to see it through this lens. I'm still looking at the same thing. I just like to view it through that lens, that colour. Yeah. I think that's the great thing about comedy isn't not everyone looks through the same lens. So, like you said, what one person finds funny, another might not. But there's something that runs as a thread of comedy that when we all do and we're all in a room or watching something with someone and it hits that chord and that note, it's just such a beautiful thing. Something I always think to be a comedian. And then there's a big part of the site. No, you don't. Don't do it. Don't cheat yourself. It's a tough scene. Like I said, I've not been working on the circuit for, like, ten years. Like, some people I know yeah. And I think it's a lifestyle. And some people I know have gone they just can't they just don't like it. They prefer to write something and just do one off shows. Some people love to gig and gig and gig. I think you've got to find your own path with it. And at that time, when I was doing the circuit, it was great, but then certain things changed for me and I wanted to put my humour somewhere else, and that was writing short films and working in radio as well. It's the chopping and changing for me. That's probably why the whole comedy stitch thing works with the different projects. Yeah. Because that's what I bring. Not just the stand up. Yeah. You take all different aspects of these worlds and bring them into one place. Yeah. What's nice about the stand up world is it's so fast. Like, you can get up, do something with a play. There's all this development, doing a film, all the pre production stuff, there's a lot. It's just so instant with stand up. When you were doing the stuff, when you were younger, with your mum, what was, like, your mum's involvement? Was she on the performing side of things? Was she writing? Was she yeah, she was performing and she was on the committee, so yeah, I was just always dragged into it. Yeah. And that's obviously how I know that community arts is a really powerful thing, because it changed my world. And what I liked about the community arts is that I wasn't just working with people my own age. It was all different ages, all different backgrounds. It was great. Yeah. And I know you mentioned when we obviously do NLP, I know that's been a part of your life. How are you finding that journey? Neuro linguistic programming. Mauryan would show up and probably shoot both. I actually got it wrong on a podcast. It was hilarious. I think I edited it out because I went to pronounce it and I went, Maureen, you're going to have to. Have I said it right? Yeah. Neuro linguistic programming. That's it. But when I say it to my friends are like, what's that? So I just say, you know, Darren Brown? They go, yeah, I'm going to be like him. He's incredible at what he does. How have you found building on the skills of language and programming, and have you worked any of it into your work? It's probably being able to understand the person in front of me more so the language they're using, so I can maybe translate what they're saying better. How have I used it? Probably use it more on myself. Yeah, I found that really useful, having a little conversation with myself and Jessica the other day. It's like, right? Jessica. And she's like I'm like, what if you are wrong? Yeah, there you just went quiet for a minute. Yeah, she did. So, yeah, I use it on myself so then I can move forward with the stuff I enjoy doing. Yeah. I've always tried to be a good listener and create space for people. Yeah, I probably used it in dating, to be fair. What do they really mean? Yeah, I've probably done that. You've done it as well, haven't you? I've used it, but not, like, not to produce them. No, because that doesn't work. It was more to find out what's really going on, what someone's intention is. Yeah, definitely. I think that's for me, the reason I wanted to learn it was a protection mechanism to understand language more, because I'd come out of a relationship which I felt like I allowed myself to be manipulated via words. I was like, hey, how do I make sure this doesn't happen? Similar. Similar. And I found NLP, which chance meeting with Maureen. And then obviously you go deeper with that personal development. Figure out yourself. As you're figuring out yourself, you get better at figuring other people out. Yeah. It's just a really beautiful thing that I would encourage anyone to look into. And obviously there's charlatans out there that might sell you a full NLP course for$7. You're like, how's that possible? I can't say what they're trying to do as a business model. They might just be trying to get it out to the masses. But I think when you bring the value of something down to that level, it makes it look like it's like pseudoscience and it's not quite real, but when you actually involve yourself in it, it definitely helps me with this. It's helped me in interviews, negotiate things that I want, get more of what I want, become more confident. I've even noticed it worming its way into lyrics, thinking more about how this lyric is shaping an individual's mindset, rather than just going, oh, this sounds great, really going in and thinking about the power of those words definitely helped me in my writing. Okay. It's probably helped me with me writing my emails. That's another big one. Yeah. But, yeah, I definitely relate to just kind of seeing when I was saying that if someone's not feeling too great, I want to create a space and it'll be me just going into silly M mode. Knobby M as we call her. And sometimes I then don't really see maybe what's happening. You were saying about just the connections that you can have relationships and if you want to help, but that's not their intention, or you're going to get sucked in to something that's not very healthy. So, yeah, I think that can be quite helpful. Well, this has got very serious of it. My God. There's another part of your life that you shared, if you're okay for us to go into it. You briefly mentioned when we were on our course, about your mum and the role you play in your mum's life to being someone who cares for your mum. So I've always been a support to my mom since I was really young. She'll hate me saying that. I will not tell my mom about this podcast. My mom's, like a big hoarder, really struggled with mental health. Again, she's going to hate that I've said that. Sorry, mom. So supporting her through that as I was quite young and staying local to her as well, instead of going away to uni or I stayed local and obviously I've constantly tried to fix it. So then she will be okay. She's all right on her own, that's okay, I can go off and do my thing. But obviously she's got older and now she's got Parkinson's, actually, so I hit a wall with it. So I actually had to bring in some friends to help me out. Yeah, my mom would hate that as well. Yeah, she's going to hate all of this. God. Yeah. She has care now and I've put care in place, so I am classed as an unpaid carer. I didn't realise that I always thought I was just a daughter and that's what you do, but there are some things that if I wasn't around my mum's life would look very different. There are other people in the family that help as well, but these are my mum's words, so I'll say that. Yeah. So I've tried to just support my mom as best I can. And when my mom became I mean, she's been she's had she's had Parkinson's for a long time, but it's only recent that she's got, like, a diagnosis, and I was trying to support her with she was in hospital. You say? And I tried to find the care and sort out the flat and just make it so she was comfortable, but also just trying to make it perfect. I think I got into a place where I was always trying to make things perfect for my mom. And this organisation got in touch with me and I thought they were calling about my mom, but they were actually calling about for me. And I was like, I don't get it. And they went, we want to know that you're okay. I'd never, ever had that before. Yeah, they're called gadam. They were brilliant. They gave me emotional support. There's this thing with caring for someone is you can feel really guilty for having those moments of resentment and you want to go off and you want to play and you want to do something funny. And I was having these and I'd feel awful for having these moments of being frustrated and angry because it's always been there and they allowed me to express that and they said it was okay and it was normal. I've not done it. Do probably the length you might have been doing it, but I had a moment where my dad was unwell, had a really huge dip in his mental health, and when he came out of hospital, I had to be there and be in his environment and be sticking to his routines. And it really weighs heavy on you, even though I'm exactly like you, it's like, I'm his son, I'm his only son, this is my duty. But it does start to weigh heavy on you. And I have a massive respect of people that dedicate themselves to looking after another individual because it's no easy task. And it does affect, especially as a creative, like you said, you're not doing the things that you love. We naturally start wilting, and caring for someone is quite time consuming. It can take a lot of your week, your month, your year. And how have you found that balance? Obviously, care coming in. I assume that's took quite a large weight off your shoulders. It has, yeah, it has. It's taken a lot of weight off my shoulders. There's a real guilt thing. Like, I haven't spoken to my mom in a few days and I suddenly be like, oh, my God. But I'm trying to balance it so she's okay, but someone else going in and doing that, I suddenly felt really useless. For me, the dynamic sometimes is that I am useful for my mum. Yeah, it's complex. It's complex. Everyone's case is, like, individual as well. Everyone's different and affects us in different. Ways and it's certainly not funny. Jeez I did actually start writing something during Lockdown, and it was nice because it was writing something. It was an autobiographical piece and in writing it without purpose, it wasn't to pitch to someone. It was just a story, and it was about my point of view, my version of events as a 14 year old, and constantly trying to make sure my mum was okay so I could live my life and be a 14 year old. But it's a comedy and it's a dark comedy. Yeah. Read some of it to my mom and she went, Emma, please wait until I'm dead. Okay, mom. Yeah, I'm very honest and open with my mum. Yeah, we are very close. Yeah. Very different. I'm the same with my mum. I tell Mom, I can tell her anything. We've got that relationship. What does your mom think of you kind of like carrying on the torch in a way? She got you into things as a kid, like performing arts, being around workshops and funding, and now in adulthood, you're doing the same. That must sit and really warm her heart to see that. Yeah, she loves it. She's very ploughed. Yeah. She always says really lovely things and the comedy. So when my dad was in his darkest moments, there was always something that happened that you could crack a joke about, and this is what I wanted to touch on with you as well. I saw my dad come back in the moment of the joke. Okay. He was back. So there's always, like, light in these difficult scenarios. Does this side of your life, does it present inspiration for the comedy? So my mom and I had a hospital appointment a couple of weeks ago. She had a hospital appointment, I took her and the doctor was he was brutal. He was brutal. And I felt like everything he was saying, I had to dive in front of it, turn it into something humorous and then translate it to my mum to just soothe her. He was saying that this is going to get worse. He was, like, really direct and he said, about memory and my mom can hear this and she's taking it in. But then I suppose me going into protective mode and knobbie M mode, it's literally like I dived in front of that, grabbed it and tried to turn it into a joke. And I went, oh, so you'll forget where you've left all of the sweets, then? Because he was like, you need to change your diet. And I was like, brilliant. So you'll forget where your sweets are. Fantastic. But obviously I know how heavy that is and how dark that is. And I suppose I'm using it as a tool to soothe my mom, but also to soothe myself as well, because it was quite heavy. Some of the things he was saying, he probably thought I was an absolute idiot. Like, does she understand what I'm saying? Because I was yeah, I just kept turning it into something funny. Do these moments inspire writing as well? For me as a musician, anything I go through, whether it's three months later, a week later, could be six months later, a year later, it weaves its way into my art somehow and I go, oh, you've arrived. I realised what I went through is here, coming out now. Do you find that a lot things that you might be going through in those scenarios do eventually weave through to your writing as well? Yeah, you've just got to wait for it to be funny. Sometimes it's just waiting for that. So I'm working on a show at the minute at real early stages, and it's called Mess. And I've played around with a lot of these ideas for a while and it's all about just, like, the not fitting in, feeling like chaos, the ups and downs, the mental health of women as well, because that were ever changing. And some of that was not funny. A lot of that was not funny back then, but now, oh, my God, yeah, the ideas are coming. And I'll go to things as well, really random events, just to see what nuggets you can find. Is it a character? Is it something maybe I'll never use, but a little story in my head? It doesn't have to be something that you have to pitch or you sell it. It's just something for me. Yeah, I do a lot of that. I do a lot of writing where people are just never going to hear it and I feel like sometimes it's exercising my writing skills or just, I just want to write this. Today goes nowhere past my hard drive. That's the battle. Also, being a creative, like, we had this conversation with a friend, it's like, you can leave too much stuff on the hard drive or too much work that you've written that never sees the light a day. I think a good message that you've said is a great reminder of just have fun with it. Just have fun with it. Remember when you just used to make music and have fun with it? Sometimes when I'm writing something, my friends or someone will say, what are you going to do with it? I don't want to do anything. Why? You should. What do you know who that would be good for? I'm just killing it, man. I just want to have fun with. It. And I don't want it to die because I've shown it to someone and they've got it's not for me. I'll do that with some things, but not everything. A question I like to ask a. Lot of guests is now, is this the big one? Oh, God. If you take away Emma the writer yeah. Emma the comedian. Right. Emma the person who's involved in performing arts and drama, take away these things that we identify as yeah. If you think about a time in your life where all the walls started crumbling around you and nothing made sense and you're, like, couldn't make sense of anything, this is really difficult. What was the thing that got you through that. What was your toolkit? This is we're getting vulnerable. I need to get comfortable. Oh, no. Right, okay. Vulnerable. Right. A moment in my life there's been so many where I had to survive what was in my toolkit. When nothing made sense, you didn't have control of anything. It was kind of out of your hands. And it's like, what was the driving force that got you through that? Well, there was a situation once I had a relationship that was really tough. I had really beautiful moments, but really tough ones on the other side. And I remember getting to a point where it was the worst thing in my life. And I remember a moment where it got so bad without going into all the personal stuff and their stuff. There was a moment where I remember this, like, I had this big button in front of me, and I just imagined it, and I just needed to either hit the button and get out of here, or I needed to pull myself out of this. And I just did it visually. Obviously, I had to talk to this person and really get out of this situation. And I remember I didn't want to push the button, but when you're in distress and you're in this awful place, you just want out. You just want the pain to stop. And I was like, no, that's not an option. Come on. So I ended up seeing a wall, and I had to climb over this wall. And for weeks after this event, this is an imaginary wall, my arms were in pain. Wow. Yeah. Really? So weird. I'll never forget it. That's how powerful the vision was of what you'd created and how significant it. Was in your life. I felt like I'd done, like, lifting myself up on one of those door weights. Wow. Yeah. That's incredible. Yeah, I'll never forget it. I had to visually pull myself out to make a change. Are you a visual person? Is that how you process information? Yes. And we talked about that, didn't we, on the course? Visual? Yeah. So for people that don't know that I'm auditory, so I process things via sound and hearing things, and that's kind of like someone like me will speak in a slower rhythm, pretty much at the same tone. Someone that's more visual might speak a lot with the hands, fast paced, more expressive. Is that what I'm doing? No, I'm just saying that that's kind of obviously in terms of NLP, like Maureen, that's obviously a friend of the show and a friend of ours is a visual, so she's going to give you a million things really quickly. And I'm a bit more slow then obviously the Kinesthetic people. There you are. You're really calm, aren't you? Cool. Kinesthetic are more like they take in information via touch and movement. So someone that's probably a hugger, or they might chat to you and put the hand on the shoulder. So, yeah, we all use things in different ways. And I think that visualisation the fact that you felt it in your arms, that means there must have been so much attached to that. I just remember feeling knowing that it could be better. Things could be better. Yeah. That was really personal, that one. There you go. What was the other side of that wall like? The other side of that wall? Calm. It was calm. Calm and safe. Yeah. But then you end up on another shit show, another journey. There's something else, like you hate your job or there's some family issues and you're like, oh, God, why can't it just be like an 80s comedy with a lovely little montage of you getting everything together and doing really well and then you win a trophy at the end. Why do we have these ups and downs? How do you view that wall? Now, when you look back at that part of your life, if you were to visualise that wall in the distance and you are obviously taking the step of climbing over it, when you think about that moment in your life, what is it that comes up? That wall is gone now. I think there's just a lot of peace there and a lot of forgiveness. Amazing. Yeah. I think that's a really powerful visualisation. And I believe I'd created that wall. Yeah. I'd ended up in this corner. I'd ended up making this not making it happen, but allowing abandoning myself, almost. That was deep, wasn't it? I think a lot of people will relate to this because a lot of us find ourselves there in a relationship or something in life. I've definitely been in there. When you know it's like, come on, it's time to get out of this, and you just stay. Maybe I'm trying to be too much of a nice person, or you can see what's going on with that person, so you stay. And it's kind of like a punishment. And I think taking that step, lifting yourself up, is such a strong visual, so empowering to do that and see yourself going over the wall and landing in a safe space, I think you. Can forget that things can be different. And I think some people who have never felt the difference will find it harder to get out of because they're so used to it. It's all you know, it's all you know. Yeah, but I knew I'd felt much better, and I just didn't I didn't want to just abandon myself. And I've got these hopes and dreams and goals, and I've set it up and I'm doing it for this inner child that I have. And I'm like, Right, come on, we've got stuff to do. That's incredible. I think one thing that's coming up a lot for me is that in a child, what did you enjoy when you were younger? What did you enjoy doing? Are you still doing that? Thing for me. I've just been getting visuals recently. I realised why I made music. My mum bought me a little Casio keyboard and I remember you could play drums on it. I remember just being fascinated with it. I don't even know if I was good or what, but I just remember that's probably the thing that made me do what I do now, which is press a drum machine with drum sounds on it. And I enjoy that. So when I'm feeling that wilt, like we said, not being creative, I go back to that and I think a lot of us can easily forget about that in a child. Yeah. So I think there's loads of people that have complete they just don't have any creativity in their life at all. And I don't feel like I've really changed from being a child. Like, I'm still the same, I'm wiser, but what did I used to do? Hello, wise child? Yes, a wise child. Yeah. I had a radio show with my friend. We were the EC Hippies. We were pretending to be these really cool hippies and we would change all the songs that are on the keyboard and we'd change like, Little Brown Jug to the Happy Hippie or something. I don't know what we would I don't know. Anyway, we loved it. So, yeah, radio shows. And then I was definitely that person that would someone's birthday would come up and I said, I'll do a show for you and your friends. I don't know their friends and they probably thought I was the OD one. An OD? Yeah. I would do a show like hide behind the Sofa and change. Do a costume change. Yeah. Not changed. I probably got more into the writing as I got older. I think it's so important just to remember those elements of ourselves that we do when life gets busy, we just forget about there is a version of you in there saying, hey, I still exist and I want to do the things we used to do. And I think that integration of acknowledging that part yourself is such a powerful process, and a lot of us just miss it as we go to adulthood and we don't realise maybe why we're feeling down or unhappy and it's, what did you used to love? What did you used to do? Just going into the kitchen and just having a little dance off with your housemate or your partner and just being silly. But then there is the other side where some people are so silly that they can't look at, they can't look inward. You can never have like, a really deep conversation. So I think it's balance if someone's. Listening to this and they want to get into a bit more of a world that you find yourself in, what would be your advice for them to take the first steps to do that? Give me a call. Yeah, but I think it depends on which area. If it was about doing stand up, then I'd say just go to an open mic night and just go go for it. And there's lots of comedians that do stand up workshops. There's loads of comedy improv stuff in Manchester as well. If you wanted to get into the short films and filming, there's loads of short film nights, so you could mix with directors and producers, writers, actors. There's a lot out there. It's just showing up is probably the first. That's what I'd say. Show up. Yeah. I just want to say a big thank you for coming to do this today, because I'd just mention it to you and you were like, let's do it. And I just love when people are so in the moment and show up and are able to open up and be vulnerable. So big thank you for coming to do this today. And without a doubt, your story will ripple out and help people in some way. That's what this podcast is about, having these conversations and reaching into those moments that have shaped who we are, that ripples out to other people and it can help them on their path as well. So thank you for sharing everything that you're about. I appreciate you being here. And to the listeners, thank you guys for returning. Every time we put an episode out, either watching or listening, I really appreciate you guys tapping back in. If you are watching, please hit that like button and subscribe. It helps us grow this podcast. If you're listening on whichever app you are listening, leave a review. It helps us grow in that area as well. And the next episode, we're going to be building we're going to be building this podcast. We're going to be going weekly, so look out for that soon. I want to say a big thank you, Emma, for being here today. You're welcome. And I think your story is exactly why I wanted to get you on the podcast. It's remembering that no matter what we go through, we can get life back to a good place. And for me, comedy is a perfect thing to do that. So I really admire what you do in the world, especially, like with your workshops. I think it's a really powerful tool. So thank you for being here and sharing your story. Thank you. And to the listeners, exactly that. Remember, no matter what you go through, life is good, life is sound. Thanks for listening. We'll see you on the next one. Bye.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Celandine consists of Carys, Rosemary, and a guitar (unnamed). Both classically-trained vocalists, Carys discovered folk and folk-rock after being dragged to a Fairport Convention gig back in 1996, whereas Rosemary advertised for someone to sing folk songs with in late 2010, and didn’t realise what she was letting herself in for until it was much too late. They perform their own arrangements of traditional folk songs, originals (mostly written by Carys) and a few covers.\nCelandine are regulars on the Suffolk folk music scene and frequently guest on local radio, building a loyal local fanbase. When not singing, both are keen writers; early in 2014 Rosemary had an article published in the Telegraph, though despite finishing her first novel Carys hasn’t yet been published anywhere outside of her own blog.\nCarys is also known on the electronic music scene due to her appearances with Code Indigo and with ‘David Wright and Friends’ with whom she provides extraordinary ambient vocals.\nPrivacy & Cookies Policy\nNecessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.\nAny cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Proudly proclaiming the fact that it is \"Europe's largest\", the Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm affords a peaceful retreat away from all things Shakespearean. Hundreds of butterflies can be viewed at close quarters, many of the species sporting spectacular colors. For those interested in less attractive, more frightening creatures, other insect displays are available, including stick insects, leaf-eating ants and the world's largest spider.\nThis landmark church is located in a picturesque setting on the edge of town, beside the river and approached through an avenue of lime trees. The burial site of famous playwright Shakespeare, Holy Trinity Church is considered to be one of the finest parish churches in the Midlands, and one of the most beautiful in England. A bust of Shakespeare on the north wall brings about and the much debated question: is it lifelike or not? Admission to the church is free, however they ask for a small donation.\nQuesto è un parco ideale per l'intera famiglia, con molte attività a disposizione, tra cui un laghetto con le barche, parchi giochi, campi da tennis, serre tropicali e aree protette. Inoltre ospita anche il Midland Arts Centre. C'è una pista ciclabile che attraversa il parco ed è stata recentemente allungata. Il parco ospita anche concerti, eventi e lo spettacolo annuale Fireworks Fantasia. L'ingresso al parco è gratuito.\nSituated across Church Hill Road, the St Alphege Parish Church is a historic church that dates back to the 12th Century. Over a period of time, it was refurbished several times; the bells and the church's shire were renovated too. It is a beautifully restored religious space and its ancient organ pipe organ, stained glass windows that belong to different time periods and the overall architecture is worth exploring. Apart from that, this church is home to community functions, choir concerts, youth groups, sermons, lectures and similar events.\nWarwick è considerato tra i più bei castelli medievali d'Inghilterra. Situato a 30 minuti di macchina da Birmingham, questo castello racchiude più di 1.000 anni di storia inglese. Ci sono bastioni, merli, prigioni sotterranee e anche una camera di tortura. Tutto è autentico dell'epoca e in eccellenti condizioni. Tra i reperti esposti armi medioevali, e una mostra di cere raffiguranti una festa del 1898. I giardini sono molto popolari ed includono un roseto e dei pavoni. Vari eventi vengono tenuti qui ogni anno, come il festival Medievale, Flight of the Eagle (volo dell'aquila) e Meet the Castle Craftsmen (venite e conoscere gli artigiani del castello).\nQuesto meraviglioso giardino botanico, aperto nel 1832, fu progettato da John Claudius Loudon, un rinomato progettista di giardini e giornalista di orticultura. Il giardino da la possibilità di ammirare alcune delle più belle piante del mondo, oltre alle splendide serre in vetro. Le altre attrazioni, oltre alle piante sono un'uccelliera, un ristorante con una bella vista del giardino, un parco giochi d'avventura per bambini, un negozio di souvenir ed una galleria con opere di artisti locali.\nIn striking contrast to the typical 15th-Century style of this area sits Stratford Town Hall. It owes its classic stone design to the fact that it was completely re-built in the 1800s. The original building, which housed the Market Hall, dated back to 1634. However, it suffered extensive damage from a gunpowder explosion during the Civil War when parliamentarian forces were in occupation. Look out for the statue of Shakespeare, presented to the town by David Garrick, set in a niche on one of the exterior walls. Beneath this is a plaque commemorating the silver jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1977.\nIt is well worth spending time studying the frontage of Harvard House, for it is Stratford's most ornate structure and a splendid example of an Elizabethan town house. Look in particular for the initials of the owners who had it re-built following the severe damage sustained in the Great Fire of 1594. It was their grandson John who, having emigrated to the United States, founded the university which bears his name. In 1909, the house was purchased by a Chicago millionaire who paid for it to be restored before presenting it to Harvard University. Today the house is managed on behalf of Harvard by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Inside the house, in addition to fine pieces of 17th century furniture, is part of the Neish pewter collection. This collection of great national importance boasts items spanning over two thousand years.\nThis award-winning museum in a Tudor period mansion has interactive exhibits, Shakespeare tours, night-time ghost tours, and organized school visits that bring 16th-century Elizabethan England to life. Visitors can take a seat at a period dining table, rest on a monarch’s bed and throne, and listen for spirits by candlelight.\nThe Chapel, established by the Guild of the Holy Cross in the 13th Century and subsequently re-built in the 15th, looks more like a church than a chapel from the outside. This, together with The Guild Chapel's proximity to the town center, sometimes makes visitors think that they are approaching the Holy Trinity Church. The Guild Chapel, however, deserves a visit in its own right as it houses some stunning frescoes. The frescoes were painted over during the reformation in the 16th century but fortunately were revealed during restoration work some 300 years later. Of these, the fresco representing the day of judgment, above the chancel arch, is one of the largest of its type anywhere in the country. Services are held at The Guild Chapel every Wednesday morning and on the first Saturday of each month. There are no Sunday services. The Guild Chapel also serves as the school chapel to the adjacent King Edward VI Grammar School.\nFor those who like their leisure activities passive, this is an ideal spot to relax. Feeding the ducks at the water's edge is about as energetic as it gets! However, there are lots of things to see including the colorful narrow-boats moored in the canal-basin and the impromptu street-entertainers. And that is not all. On one side of the gardens is the splendid Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and on another is the truly inspirational Gower Memorial. The Gardens are also just a short walk from the town center, making them particularly popular with visitors recovering from whistle-stop tours of Stratford's heritage sites.\nIn the heart of the city, is the house where Shakespeare was born in 1564. The entrance to the house is via the visitors' center. Here you will find the highly acclaimed Shakespeare Exhibition. This comprehensive display superbly illustrates the Bard's life and career in the city. Having walked through the exhibition, you emerge into a garden laid out with flowers, trees and shrubs that were familiar to Shakespeare and that were mentioned in his work. The house itself has been faithfully reconstructed and now offers a fascinating insight into Shakespeare's life as a child. Rooms have been furnished as accurately as possible with replicas of 16th Century everyday objects, furniture and textiles having been commissioned. Take yourself back in time and reflect upon the tales that began here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As everywhere now, tattoos are not just for poor boys and bikers any longer. Every mother’s daughter and every single daughter’s son has one particular. Reports states that 12 to 20 million Americans have tattoos and the quantity is increasing each hour.\nMore than the previous years, there have been tattoo shops that has dominated the tattoo art market place. They have been instruction and nurturing tattoo artist. But what are seriously good points when picking out your tatto artist and tattoo shops?\nA tattoo shop ought to be a clean and inviting environment. You should really know as you stroll via the door that the shop cares about both your physical and psychological nicely getting. If either is in query, then it may well not be the spot for you to get your artwork. The shop should really only use new needles in each the tattoo and piercing processes. The needles should really be sterilized in an Autoclave which is regularly tested by a health qualified.\nAutoclaving is the same process applied to sterilize medical instruments in hospitals and is vital in avoiding doable Hepa B and C infections as nicely as HIV virus. If you have any doubts about the shop’s sterilization, you should really ask to see the shop’s set-up method. If you are refused, then stay away from the shops like that. A fantastic tattoo shops need to be strict in their safety policies and is also a fantastic point that the shop is inspected as soon as a month to insure the integrity of their sterilization practices.\nHaving a tattoo is not just like purchasing a leather jacket, cost should really not be an situation. More affordable is not a superior thought in deciding on your tattoo artist. You get what you pay for. Recall that it is a custom, 1-of-a-kind piece of art which final forever in your skin. Some excellent tattoo shops keeps their costs reasonable but not as dirt inexpensive like a prison top quality tattoo.\nIn accessing an artist it is essential to study their portfolio. Make confident the photographs of their perform are original, not reduce out of magazines. Look at the brightness of the colors and the facts of the styles. Also yoursite.com are the ideal references and a genuine life demonstration. An artist who only deals with common styles is much less experienced, is is a superior test for an artist if it will do custom perform or design. It is also vital that a shop and tattoo artist have an comprehensive selection of patterns to pick out from.\nFrom tribal to religious to Japanese, from full back patterns, or by means of the requirements suns, moons, and hearts, some excellent shops have thousands of designs to pick out from. Appear out for blunders, do not let it come about to you. Tattoo error nightmares is an example of an unqualified artist, sloppy perform, and clients that had been unwilling to ask the vital questions and as well rush for the style procedure. Bear in mind, stay awake for the duration of your tattoo design and style. select a qualified artist and enjoy this extreme self-expression.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Folding business card - This is a card and logo design for a performance artist and body painter. Her work focuses on women’s issues and female power. The “swirl” logo was inspired by an image she saw in a dream. The die-cut “hourglass” shape alludes to yin and yang when closed and a woman’s waist and hips when open.\nSiwen Ag Identity system - Siwen Ag is a Swiss consulting firm focused on healthcare projects & scientific data visualization. Their eclectic abilities needed a cohesive image to quickly communicate their areas of core competence.\nSiwen Ag specializes in connecting people to resources to ensure success. The concept of connection served as the basis for the identity design. The final design solution transforms the Swiss cross into a system of fiducials (commonly used in both the medical and scientific fields) which are used as a grid for the page layout. A playful orange cross dots the “I” and reappears to emphasize the contact info.\nEight year anniversary card - This card was designed for my anniversary. My wife and I have a great relationship that defies description, so I was at a loss for words after eight wonderful years together.\nMy solution was to play with the number 8, turning it into a question mark and then tilting it on its side to become an infinity symbol.\nNeedless to say , it was quite well received.\nSiwen AG website design - For the Siwen AG website, the theme of “connections everywhere” was expanded using background images that formed visual crosses relating to the info on the page\nStealth Auto Package Design - Packaging system for a specialty aftermarket automotive company. The package uses orthographic \"x-ray\" views of the bulbs in lieu of clear \"windows\" to minimize cost.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In the event that you saw Blade Runner 2049 on the weekend, you probably left the movie theater with some concerns. Exactly just What took place to Jared Leto’s eyes? Can replicants and people actually reproduce together? And it is Harrison Ford a replicant that is goddamn maybe perhaps not?\nThere are several fascinating debates that can be had after the credits roll, and I also hope Blade Runner fans are prepared to begin having them. (It didn’t help, needless to say, that experts had been expressly forbidden from saying essentially such a thing about Blade Runner 2049 before it was released. )\nHowever the gloves are finally off, and there’s one scene I’ve been dying to share with you since I have saw Blade Runner 2049: The strangest & most interesting intercourse scene I’ve noticed in any movie this current year. It’s some sort of technologically enhanced menage a trois involving the figures played by Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, and Mackenzie Davis, plus it’s complicated enough so it merits an analysis that is particularly in-depth. So let’s take a good look at it from each character’s perspective.\nThe intercourse scene begins whenever K (Ryan Gosling) comes back to his Los Angeles that is small apartment. Their life—as a replicant created, particularly, to hunt and destroy other replicants—is not deeply satisfying. At the beginning of the film, we watch K stoically come back to their apartment as other tenants hurl anti-replicant slurs at him. The interactions that are only has within anyone are transactional. There’s his employer (Robin Wright), whom alternates between browbeating him and passes that are making him. You can find most of their adversaries, through the villainous niander that is human (Jared Leto) to Wallace’s brutal replicant enforcer Luv (Sylvia Hoeks). Whenever K does fulfill somebody new—say, the replicant played by Dave Bautista—it’s generally therefore they can destroy them.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This blog is not even a week old, and I've already changed the title.\nI've done it because my friend Tim (whose film-making misadventures you can follow here) pointed out to me that \"Failing Novelist\" sounded both self-pitying and as if I were fishing for reassurance that it's not so.\nAfter some thought I decided he was right. I wanted \"Not (Yet) a Novelist\", but that was taken, so \"Not a Novelist (Yet)\" it shall be.\nIt's staying that way this time. Promise!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "South Korean girl group TWICE has touched down in Manila, arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Friday, June 28.\nTWICE’s fans (collectively known as PH ONCE), welcomed its members, Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu with warm Filipino greetings. And yes, fans also sang some of the girls' greatest hits!\nSee some of the videos from #TeamAirport fans below:\nCurrently in Manila for the 2019 \"Twicelights\" tour, TWICE is set to hold their first-ever show in the Philippines tomorrow, June 29, at the Mall of Asia Arena.\nTWICE, which debuted in a reality show produced by JYP Entertainment, is the K-Pop group behind the songs \"Like Ooh-Ahh,” “Cheer Up,” and “TT.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "How are you/have you been involved with Casson & Friends?\nI am involved with Casson and Friends for Night at Theatre through Stopgap as one of the dancer's access worker (Nadenh). I also help out with other things too, such as constructing the set, welcoming the audience, handing out programes and feedback forms and most importantly the 'I Made a Dance' stickers. I also dance along with the kiddies and make sure they don't run on stage. I sometimes lead vocal warm ups too.\nWhat do you love about dance?\nI can never really put into words what I love about dance. I just love moving, letting go, feeling free, not caring, getting lost in the music and movement... Lots of things :)\nWhat song always makes you dance?\nA song that I quite like at the moment is DJ Snake-Middle ft. Bipolar Sunshine\nListen to the #FriendsFriday playlist on Spotify\nWhat else are you working on at the moment?\nI haven't long got back from a holiday in Croatia which was lovely. I am currently sitting in on the Creation of Stopgap's new work The Enormous Room and making a creation diary which has lots of different things in it, as well as supporting Lucy or the dancers where needed.\nStopgap's youth companies have started back and I am heavily involved with those groups, we will be working towards a small summer sharing. Night at the Theatre continues to tour and we are in Colchester and RichMix next. I have also just organized a graduation meal for 2 of the dancers that are now progressing into Stopgap's main company. Lots of different things... I'm an all rounder!\nMeet more of the Casson & Friends team every Friday with #FriendsFriday!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Had a lovely tour on the south-west part of Flores last night. One of those magical nights when the sea is almost still, no wind, nice temperature and well, the setting – nothing more to ask of that.\nHow the Atlantic looked like a polished dance floor with the sun shining among the clouds is a sight I’ll remember for ever. It was all so beautiful it’s impossible to take pictures that actually give a hint of the real thing. And yet everything on the pictures look so perfect I had to put a person in some of them to make it a bit more real…\nIt’s still rather calm and quiet here on the island, though the tourist season begun a few weeks ago – we’ve seen more and more rental cars and typical tourists (they’re easy to spot among the locals…).\nWe’ve been lucky to be here so early in the year, with quite warm and good weather (it’s gotten so much better in the past weeks) and almost everyplace we’ve gone for hiking and sightseeing we’ve been totally alone. That’s really something!\nNow this is what I call a good Friday night.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Daniela Dobson created this tag and holder using a ton of her Prima scraps and a recycled tiny paper bag!\nYou don't have to use Halloween themed paper to make Halloween projects. Daniela used Paisley Road papers that had the Halloween colors she was looking for. She die-cut a 1 1/2 inch circle for the moon and drew the bat by hand. The felt DeVine stem added to the Halloween theme.\nCheck out the use of a felt DeVine as her scary tree! So simple and so perfect!\nBefore we start our Banner feature we have a request for you!\nEach month we pick a fabulous Reader's Find from our gallery...well we have a brand-new site and the gallery is not up and running yet...SO...if you have a stunning Prima-based project that you would love the world to see please send a photo (or two) to email@example.com. Please put November Newsletter Project in the subject. Thank you!\nLeaves create the perfect banner shape as shown on this gorgeous card by Nic Howard! Adhere your leaves and add a row of dimensional dots across the top for a \"string\" effect. Add your sentiment and a cluster of flowers, and don't forget a few gems and lace to finish!\n841638 Jack and Jill Green Fields\n841652 Jack and Jill Daydreamer\n537753 Athena flowers\n540463 Rose leaves\n812041 Whispered Words Alphas\nTattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Black Gold, Tuscan Sun & Tutti Frutti\nThis Happy Home Banner Frame was a wooden frame that Daniela Dobson covered with paper. What a fun way to alter a frame and turn it in to a fabulous home decor piece! Simply replace the middle \"photo\" section with product packaging and adhere trim on the inside. Journaling stickers added to the banner draw your eye across the project for extra fun.\nDaniela also creatively uses one of our floral jewelry necklaces!\nLiana Suwandi brings us a PERFECT fall banner to hang up during these chillier days! Just cut your pendant shapes...string them on some gorgeous Prima lace and add your decorations! Can you see this hanging from a mantle? Or a window? There are so many fabulous uses for BANNERS!\nLiana Suwandi also uses a banner for her title on this super sweet FALL page! See how playful and free-flowing the title is? Add a journaling card and a few well-chosen accents to finish off the layout Prima-style!\nTip: Add Stickles to the outside of each triangle to draw your eye to the banner!\nLove Liana's Fall banner on her layout above? We love how she took the same banner idea and used it on this richly-toned card. Now that's being resourceful! (Green Tip: check out her use of packaging too!)\nWe hope you have found the design team's projects fun AND inspiring! Please feel free to share your banner projects done up \"Prima-style\" with us on Facebook! Just look for \"Prima Marketing Flowers\" and click \"LIKE\".\nHi! My name is Alyssa McGrew, and I am so excited to have this opportunity to tell you more about myself and my personal quirks.\nFor starters, I am a stay-at-home mom living in central Indiana. Prior to having children I worked for AIG and enjoyed the corporate world very much, so this has been a big change for me. I have found, however, that I really enjoy being at home and spending the days watching my children grow and learn.\nMy oldest, Milena, is in Kindergarten and is homeschooled; and my youngest, Elijah, is in preschool. They keep life busy, and give me many moments to scrapbook. Without them, I would have to search much harder for great photos and layout inspiration!\nCapturing Fall Journal\nThis fall is an interesting time in our lives, with school starting, our family launching 2 new small businesses, and our youngest moving fully from the \"baby\" stage to the \"kid\" stage. I am dreaming of leaving the diaper bag at home permanently and moving into a new stage in life. I created this altered notebook as an art journal/photo record/scrapbook about this fall season and what it means to our family. So far the inside is empty, but I am taking the photos and planning the pages as we speak!\nThis layout uses the boy side of the So Cute line, and features a photo of my son. He was intently watching a television program, and not a kids program either. It was a show on Food Network about how things are made, and he was so focused and intent! I just love watching his young mind absorbing information.\nThis layout is about the first trip we took in my new car (yes, it is GOLD!) We went to see Grandma and Grandpa and attend a family reunion. While we were waiting for my husband to purchase the necessary travel beverages (we are a family of beverage lovers... all of us have a drink in hand most of the day), I snapped a few photos of the car and the kids. The Road Trip Collection was perfect for these photos.\nMy final project to share with you is all about a subject near and dear to me (and probably you as well): Art! Growing up I did poorly in art class, and didn't feel I had a creative bone in my body. Scrapbooking has been the activity that took me totally by surprise and has given me an artistic outlet that I never expected to have.\nI made this little book out of the Fairy Flora Chipboard and added a series of some of my favorite quotes about my newest passion: Art!\nThank you everyone for posting suggestions last week in the comment section about classes you would like to see on Live with Prima! We have read every comment and we plan to develop classes based on your requests! November and December will be chock full of holiday ideas for home decor and gift giving. And we will have more layout classes starting end of December through January. The November schedule will be posted on our Live with Prima website the end of this week. And if you are looking for Prima supplies or kits, be sure to check out our store locator located on the site too. If you interested in attending our classes, tune in at the scheduled times and go to our Prima channel on ustream!\nThis album is filled with hidden pockets and journaling cards on every page. The border cut edge is beautiful and creates a very dainty look in this album. The Prima Fairy Flora papers are so versatile, that this could easily be a fall themed album too!\nThis banner is stunning! Join Rebecca for this amazing class to see how you can create a gorgeous piece of home decor for the fall season. She will give you several ideas on how to decorate Prima canvas using different art mediums and masking techniques that will want to try! Not to mention all of the gorgeous Prima flowers and ideas on how to incorporate them in any project.\n920838 - 4x6 Canvas Page Refills (2 packages) 541972 - Fairy Flora Notecards 536954 - Devines 536992 - Devines 539672 - Maple Leaves 542597 - Sweet Taffy Blue 537777 - Athena Flowers Nuevo Ice 543327 - Autumn Harvest Ginger 539795 - Umbrella Coordinates 301101 - E-Line Flowers White 300890 - E-Line Flowers Brown 535858 - SIIP&SIIC Brown Swirls 535186 - Raja Centers Brown 535179 - Raja Centers Olive 536060 - Dynasty Centers Azure 536107 - Dynasty Centers Peridot 536084 - Dynasty Centers Topaz 882013 - Mask 541088 - Brown Lace (1 yard) 541149 - Brown Lace (1 yard) 541170 - Brown Loop Ribbon (1 yard) 541415 - White Lace (1 yard)\nClass reminder: Claudine Helmuth is our guest designer on Live with Prima tonight!\nClaudine is going to be teaching a tips and technique class using Prima products with her Studio product line from Ranger! A match made in heaven! Be sure to tune into our Prima channel on Ustream for this free \"Live\" class at 4:30pm PST (5:30pm MDT/ 6:30pm CST/ 7:30pm EST) tonight!\nTo join the chat, create a free login on Ustream, search \"Prima Marketing Inc.\" and click on our logo. It will take you right to our channel where the class is taking place. There are going to be two prizes given away at the end of the show. To be eligible to win, you have to be signed in to ustream and participate in the chat. The chat is located next to the video screen. Cari and Sharon will be moderating to answer any questions you may have during the show.\nWell, Prima recently released a gorgeous set of Floral Jewelry Necklaces that can be worn as is...or altered to customize it to fit YOUR needs! Our design team has created some very cute and creative projects using our floral jewelry. We hope you find something that you LOVE!\nCari Fennell took one of our necklaces and then added a few special flowers to create this beauty. See how easy it is to customize one for a boutique effect?\nBirgit Koopsentook a ready-made Prima necklace and added it to a headband for her absolutely adorable daughter! How sweet is that idea? (And it is very economical when comparing Prima's necklace price to ready-made floral headbands out on the market.)\nStacy Cohen added an altered necklace to her tank neckline! This easy clip-on/clip-off accessory is perfect for any seasonal top! Stacy first colored the white flowers with alcohol inks by Ranger and then added other flowers to fill it in and make it a showstopper. (Try adhering the flowers to the tank with Velcro for a fast and simple solution that allows you to switch out flowers as you wish.)\nTrina McCluneadded a floral necklace to her absolutely stunning layout. She first cut the necklace in half, added a different flower to the center and then adhered everything to the layout as shown. Stitch the ribbon ties in place for sweet movement on your page.\nAnabelle also created this GORGEOUS all-white gift bag for a wedding! (This would work just as well for a first communion or baptism.) The nexklace adds a stunning touch that you just cannot find out on the market.\nDon't we have the cutest little models ever here at Prima? Alyssa McGrew has her gorgeous daughter showing off a colored necklace/headband she altered for her. What's cool is that her sweet daughter can wear this as a necklace OR tie it up in her hair as a headband too.\nAlyssa colored the flowers with a variety of art mediums:\nPaint with Tattered Angels Glaze: Wicked, Waterfall, Emerald Cove. Then add Stickles (clear), and use Copic BG05 on some of the edges. Then mist with TA Glimmer Mist Marshmallow.\nI used to look at Mondays like Garfield the cat does. Let's just say he isn't very cheerful about this particular day of the week!\nHowever, I have come to TOLERATE Mondays. I do feel so much more refreshed after a great week-end. Well, this past week-end was extra fun as my sweet daughter, Brittany, turned 21! Now, how in the world did that happen? (When people say kids grow up too fast they really do know what they are talking about.) Here she is on her birthday!\nBrittany used to be on Prima's team when she was a wee squirt! Since then she has grown up and is a junior in college majoring in Graphic Design. (She still dabbles in scrapbooking and does our Hybrid feature in our FAB monthly newsletter!) You have got to download this month's freebie that Britt created and play along with me.\nEach hybrid design is created just for you! Once you save it on your computer you can print it out as many times as you wish. Brittany created these two projects with her digital elements:\n(Using the pumpkin card option Britt created a fun card with touches of divine texture! )\n(Using the tag option Britt printed the pumpkin on our Annalee patterned paper for extra dimension, then decorated it with a Pearl swirl and a piece of our felt devine.)\nWell, I am going to take this tag download and show you another way to use it for fast and easy TREATS for Halloween.\nPrima pumpkin tag print-outs\nclear treat bags (I used Wilton party bags)\ncandy corn (or any other candy that survives in the house long enough to be bagged!)\ncurly ribbon (to tie bags shut)\ncrepe paper (for decoration, optional)\nFirst fill your bag with candy and tie it shut with the curly ribbon. Add a crepe paper bow if desired, or just leave the curly ribbon a bit longer.\nAfter cutting out your tags (with a plain scissors as shown OR a pinking shears for extra fun) you will need the following Prima products to decorate it with style:\nSugarplum Roses in Chestnut-543716 (you could really use any small Prima flower for these)\nSay It In Crystals swirl-535841 (we will cut these apart so one swirl will decorate 3-4 bags)\nAdd part of a crystal swirl using the swirl on the tag as a guide.\nCut the felt devines apart for the pumpkin's \"stem and leaves\"\nNow grab a few other supplies to kick these tags up a notch!\nBlack Distress Ink\nPumpkin Spice Glimmer Mist\nCut off the clear bag tops with the pinking shears.\nAdd a flower to the tag and ink the edges with black ink.\nAdhere the tag to the front of your treat bag with a glue dot.\nOR add a touch of Silver Stickles to the flower for a sparkly option!\nOR spray your flower with a little Pumpkin Spice Glimmer Mist for more intense color and a touch of glimmer!\nWhat you have are stunning treat bags perfect for handing out to co-workers, neighbors, your kid's teachers or friends! These really are fun and FAST to make. Get the kids involved and have a grand ole time together cranking these sweet treats out together! And do it today to make your MONDAY even sweeter!\nSeptember's sketch was so much fun! We had a ton of entries which showed how versatile thisBuild-A-Page really is.\nFirst off congrats to our (always-VERY-hard-to-choose) winner:\nAnna colored her Paisley Road paper (841676-how absolutely creative is that? It's like getting two papers in one.) to set the tone for this vibrant layout! (So creative and so stinking cute.) Her adorable photo, use of packaging, and wise accent choices make this an all-around FAB winner!\nAnna-please email to claim your prize within 7 days: firstname.lastname@example.org\nColours reflect our mood and fill our scrapbooks; it's time to celebrate the colors we use!\nDo you love colour? Would you love to improve the way you use colour in your projects? Do you want to immerse yourself in a workshop that takes you through a whole rainbow of possibilities? Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet… colours are all around us!\n\"Join Nic Howard as she uses instructional videos, handouts and audios to guide you through a variety of techniques to create stunning scrapbook pages. If you want to be part of a workshop full of fun colour theory, techniques and step-by-step assignments to extend the way you include colour in your projects, then Nic is here to help you achieve your creative scrapbooking goals!\"\n(Bonus: Prima is sponsoring a few FAB giveaways during the six week workshop! You will absolutely love how Nic & other Prima design team members use our products during this FUN class! )\nWant to WIN a free spot in Nic's class? Just leave a comment right here on the Prima blog telling us why you want to take Nic's class and we will choose one lucky winner on Tuesday, October 27th!\nThe Scrapbook Expo in Ontario California starts today! Prima is offering free make and takes in select Retailer booths throughout the weekend. If you plan to attend the event, be sure to stop by these locations to make a free layout using fabulous Prima products! There is a different make and take in each booth!\nPrima Make and Take schedule:\nFriday, October 22nd 10am – 12noon – Strictly Scrapooking Friday, October 22nd 12:30pm – 3:30pm – Scrapbook Grammie Saturday, October 23rd 9:30am – 12:30pm – Strictly Scrapbooking Saturday, October 23rd 1:30pm – 4:30pm – Story Tellers\nInformation for Scrapbook Expo in Ontario California here!\nOctober's PPP is FILLED with delightfullyspooky products which are perfect for your Halloween (and fall) projects!\n(Make sure you scroll down for last month's winner!)\nJust look a the gorgeous flowers offered in purples, oranges and black...the whimsical chandelier-patterned Little Boo paper...smoky black E-Line pearls and alphas, creepy, crawling vines, and sparkly orange Sultancenters!\nPrima has a wide variety of perfectly coordinating embellishments to go on your next project! Make sure to check these out for all your crafting needs.\nFor a chance to win some of these products:\n1. Simply repost this blog post on your blog, facebook wall or other site (please follow TOU for sites.)\n2. Then link your post back right here in the comments section. We will pick a winner the first week of November from the linked comments!\nToday is Designer Day on the blog and we are very excited to introduce one of our fabulous ladies to you! Karola Witczak does absolutely STUNNING work that is light and airy and so beautiful with a shabby-chic touch. We hope you enjoy getting to know her a bit better!\nHi everyone, Karola here with a few words about Karola's world.\nWhat is my world? Very chaotic, but full of happiness and positive emotions! I begin with where I am from and what I do - because it makes me just as I am.\nI live in Poland, in the western part of the country, near the border with Germany, together with my husband, who's name is Martin and our six-year-old daughter Rose. Psst! I have to admit it, but do not tell anyone - once - for the first time I decided to write their names in English in the on-line world, because they are easier to remember and associate, really is Marcin and Róza.\nOur daughter Rose is our proud and perfect happiness - she gives us so much joy and inspirationevery day, because both me and Martin are freelancers, he is musician and sound engineer, I am scrapbooking designer and instructor and I think thanks to this we can provide our daughter with a lot of creative ideas and show the world from another interesting perspective.\nWho I am? Well, wait for a minute ...\nI'm a girl fromPoland - country of many cultures and traditions, cheerful, brave people, who are famous worldwide for their warmth and kindness. This is country with a long and interesting history but also with many wonderful and talented scrappers! I am sure that at least some of them you know very well, I'm proud for my Polish girls so much!\nLove my hometown calledGorzow Wielkopolski, I grew up here, went to school here, but when I became an adult - I left the city in search of happiness and my own place on the earth. I looked for this for a few years, in the meantime I found my love, but my happy place on earth only a year ago. We decided to settle in my hometown, and this return after years was for me a wonderful event. The city has changed so much over the years - grow up and become a modern, dynamic city with the fullness of its unique charm, which favors the development of any artistic soul. I am proud of the many local cultural initiatives, which we try to attend as often as possible. I am proud of our local sporting events, our city is famous for several Olympic medalists and theSpeedwayat the highest level! I am very proud that I came back here and again I'm proud of my not-so-big-but-totally-gorgeous town.\nAnd here's our family:\nWhat else can I say about myself? I'm full of contradictions - a little quiet, a little crazy, always under control and calm, too often too shy, but always friendly, kind girl, despite the fact that every day I live in total chaos - work, home, family - everything has its place and time, but to reconcile the many things it is not always easy. But I try to, because when so much is happening - I feel I'm alive and I feel a lot of positive vibes! When I do not create another layout or cards - I love to read books and I'm a big fan of Harlan Coben. I love the series House MD and 6 Feet Under, I'm addicted to music (jazz, soul, bossa nova, blues ...) and often listen to live music, and one of my biggest dreams is to travel to New Orleans:))\nPhew, so much I wrote about myself, so let's get to scrapbooking. You know perfectly well that I'm known as a pastel girl, though I try to fight it and make a new color combos for my projects. Today I would like to show you some of my new projects, which - as I believe are specific to my style (but still do not know what a style!):\nCanvas sheet wall/door hanging:\nTo create this wall hanging I used one of the sheets from a Donna Downey canvas album. I painted it white and blue paint, I added some of my favorite Jack and Jill collection and beautiful flowers from the Orchard Mix line. This is a simple recipe to create something in the style of shabby chic - very easy and fast!\nOnce I decided to create a form of escape from everyday life, other hobby to relax from scrapbooking (I know it's strange that one of us wants a break from scrapbooking!) Ceramics and pottery delighted me , I went to a few classes, made a few things, but unfortunately I did not have too much time lately. I still believe I will soon be able to come back to ceramics, I would like very much! The pictures show me when I make my first ceramic bowl:) As the bowl was very soft and had a lacy pattern - the Annalee collection was entirely appropriate to this LO!\nSomeone who knows me even slightly, knows that I love the cards in unusual shapes and from time to time I try to create another card in an interesting shape. When I create a card - I like to think a little outside the box. Most of these unusual shapes draw by myself - it's so easy to draw a pattern and cut with normal scissors - a great idea for both beginners and professional cardmakers!\nThis time I have Autumn Tree card, and especially for you I created a template - I hope it proves useful! Prima Autumn Leaves and gorgeous flowers in fall color combo has created an interesting very dimensional effect! It does not matter that this card will not fit in an normal envelope - you can always make a box for it!\nJack and Jill- Sugar Skies - 841607\nPaisley Road - Journaling Cards in a box - 541965\nFelt Gate - 542221\nWinter Branches Grape - 543242\nAutumn Leaves September - 539672\nCamilla Flamenco - 539535\nBelle Arte Nuveau - 539399\nMadrigal Blossom Nocturne - 540142\nPebbles - 541545\nThank you for your attention and taking time to my Designer Day today! I'm happy that I could as a Prima Design Team member show you a piece of my personal world! Cheerfully waving to everyone in every corner of the globe! Please come visit my blog! ~Karola\nWe have a great schedule coming up on Live with Prima including a very special guest, Claudine Helmuth! She will share tons of tips and techniques using her product line called Claudine Helmuth Studios made by Ranger along with some of our amazing Prima products. She is a very talented mixed media artist, author and illustrator and we are very excited to have her guest on Live with Prima!\nAll you have to do is comment on this blog post and tell us what kind of projects or techniques you would like to see on our Live with Prima classes. We will choose a random winner from the comments and announce it here next Wednesday on the Prima blog. The deadline is at midnight Pacific Standard Time on Monday, October 25th! One comment per person please. See the prize pack below! Doesn't it look amazing?\nThere will be some changes to the Live with Prima schedule starting November:\nOur International shows will continue to be scheduled on the third Tuesday of every month with special Guest Designers hosting on Live with Prima. In November, we are so excited to have Nic Howard as our special guest for our International show! She is so talented and her class is going to be amazing! Stay tuned for more information regarding her show in our November schedule announcement next week! Marion will be hosting two Thursday Night shows per month, so we will be filling the remaining time slots with a variety of guest designers in the months to come.\nThis is a fun and flower filled layout class using some of Prima's newsest products! Learn to design a flower collage using Prima's Sweet Taffy crocheted flowers, pearl swirls and more! There will be a bit of recycling too! Don't miss this fun class!\nJoin Claudine as she demonstrates amazing tips and techniques using her Studio Line from Ranger Industries and Prima products all in one class! Watch as she uses art mediums to design and decorate on Prima canvas, flowers and more. Claudine will share some fabulous ideas using her Creative Layer Stamps too! How cool!\nIt's that time of the year when temps drop to a tolerable level, while nature shows off by displaying gorgeous colors for all to see. The kids can run outside without becoming sweaty little buggers and there's a crisp scent to the air that is simply refreshing! Since the winds are changing all around us, we decided to change up our blog a bit too!\nPssst: Don't forget our Live With Prima class today at 11:00 AM PST. Click here for details! You won't want to miss Julie's FUN, FUN, FUN class!!!!!\nOnce or twice a month we hope to share a bit more with you than just projects.\nWe want you to get to know us better too! Today we will start with Sharon Laakkonen (that's ME by the way! I do almost all of our blog posts.) I hope to bring you inside stories from the fabulous people who work for Prima, along with some fun stories, step-by-step projects...maybe a recipe or two, and lots of other interesting tidbits. Let us know what you would love to see and we will try to get it for you!\nSo let's get going!\nProfessionally: I started with Prima over five years ago by applying for their first ever design team call...and, thank God, I made it! The rest, as they say, is history! I now coordinate our international design team of 20 absolutely amazingly talented gals, work with media relations, plan and co-coordinate events, create and teach projects internationally, work hands on with our Creative Director, co-moderate \"Live With Prima\" classes, and a bunch of other things that need to be done! I cannot imagine working for any other company since Prima and I are a great fit. I love their products, love the people whom I work with, and love the company's vision.\nPersonally: On a personal note I'm a pretty simple girl in a crazy, busy household in Kentucky!\nI recently celebrated 25 years with my hubby, Bill (whom I met in pre-school. I wish I could find a pic of the two of us from back then! I'm pretty sure I was WAY taller than he was. :) )\nTogether we have three beautiful daughters-Brittany, Breanna and Bethany (who all happen to be in college right now-$$$)\n...and four handsome boys- Brayden and Billy in the back and Jonathan and Josiah in the front-whom all happen to be at home with me. every. single. day. Haha. (We home-school-EEK! Now there's an adventure for you. It's our 18th year...which seems totally crazy to me, but it works and we love it. Only 12 more years to go...)\nOur oldest daughter, Bethany, is married to a wonderful guy, Jon...\n...and they JUST had a sweet little girl in February named Amariah Grace. (Somehow she ends up in a LOT of my layouts...I have no idea why! Do you?)\nThings I Love: Photography, reading, a clean house, caesar salad, chicken fingers with honey mustard sauce, traveling, my mother-in-law's potato salad, dates with hubby, laughing, Bible Quizzing, hanging out with my kids and their friends, politics, history, games, snuggling with my grandbaby and...get ready for this...SCRAPBOOKING! Haha...I absolutely LOVE it. As soon as I take a new batch of photos I cannot wait to print them out and dig out my Prima products and art supplies. Sometimes I even dig out my sewing machine...hehe...(it gets used for scrapbooking ONLY now!)\nSince it's fall and I just took my boys to the zoo (boy was that funny...think teen-age boys' humor and animals...in the same place) I made a special layout commemorating those fun memories just to share with you.\nFavorite Season: I had so much fun trying a new technique on this project. First up...I sent the boys out to collect leaves. (I only needed about 5, but, SOMEHOW, got a lot more...along with a gorgeous purple flower that Josiah found. I REALLY hope it wasn't from the neighbor's flower garden.) I sealed the leaves with a bit of Tattered Angels Golden Goddess Glam. Here's a \"before\" shot:\nAnd an \"after\" shot...look at that sparkle and shimmer! Make sure you coat both sides with a healthy amount of Glam.\nNext I stamped on the leaf with a Jack and Jill text stamp with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. (I LOVE that whimsical stamp. The text is all haphazard. Simply adorable.)\nNext I added a hint of gold (with the same stamp) right on top of the brown ink:\nAfter the ink dried I added the leaves right on my layout in a banner shape. Now how fun is that? I know they MAY dry a bit, but so far they look good! (This is a project I would frame and hang up instead of putting in an album just to protect the leaves.)\nHere's a close-up of the leaves and our amazing 3-D letters which I popped up with foam.\nAnd a shot of some of our gorgeous flowers and crystal leaves.\nThank you for letting me share so much with you! I hope you enjoyed getting to know me a bit better.\nBe sure and try this technique on a fall project. I think you will LOVE it! And if you send your kids out to collect leaves I hope they bring you back a flower too!\nStay tune for a fabulous week of inspiring projects, wonderful \"Live With Prima class\" info and MORE...right here on the Prima blog!\nToday we bring you a very special project using our gorgeous Journaling Cards! Karola Witzcak *geniusly* took a Prima Journaling Card box and altered it with Jack and Jill and Annalee papers! Now she has a matching home for her...\nThat's right...we have a gorgeous array of FALL and HALLOWEEN projects RIGHT here JUST for YOU! Be sure to keep checking back all month as we post tons of new projects...post a few give-aways... and introduce you to a couple...\nHere is an update on upcoming Live with Prima classes this week. We have one more Halloween project, a gorgeous layout class and an International show for our viewers across the big pond! Not to mention our special guest, Claudine...\n************************************************************************************************* Live with Prima Class Reminder! Tonight-Halloween Banner Class with Cari Fennell 6:30pm PST! (7:30pm MDT/ 8:30pm CST/ 9:30pm EST) Let's get ready for those trick or treaters and welcome them with this fun banner! We will be creating this...\nThis month Anam brings us a dynamic Build-A-Page sketch with a gorgeous shaped backdrop, fabulous tag journaling area, and lots of sweet scallops. Join in on the fun by submitting your Prima-based project (based on this sketch) by October 31st...\nHow about another WHOLE post dedicated to just cards in honor of World Card-Making Day? Stacy Cohen created this adorable patch-worked card using our new So Cute line and a few well-chosen flowers. Did you check out that cute paper...\nThey say that a picture is worth a thousand words so we hope you enjoy this very wordy post! Recently Prima attended the Collins Group Show in Orlando. We taught classes and showed off Prima's latest releases. These events are...\nOctober is upon us and we have been busy getting seasonal projects together for the month! To start off, we have some great Halloween classes including tags, mini books and decorations! There will be a lot of fun and easy...\nAre you ready for a prize winner? Let's see who won our Journaling Cards from last week's post! Tracy Sarra! I absolutely LOVE the mini idea! I would definitely use them for that. Too cute! Posted by: Tracy Sarra |...\nIn celebration of World Card-Making Day we would love to share a gorgeous variety of cards made by our talented team! Hopefully a few of our cards will inspire you to pull out your Prima and start creating! Enjoy! Starting...\nToday we have a gorgeous flower frenzy post filled with inspiring projects using our latest and greatest flowers! Karola Witzcak brings us a super sweet design filled with her trademark touches...and finished with lots of feminine flowers...there are Belle Arte...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hi Tom, since last time I have uploaded some new songs. Take a listen and let me know what you think. BR\\Shane\nHello , Thanks, I realy appreciate the time you take to listen to my instrumental electric blues, I hope you will like it, I whish you a very good day. Gilles\nThank You Laquanda ! It's nice to meet you :) I hope you enjoy the music and I look forward to hearing from you !! ~ Foxman\nThank you so much for being a fun of our music.\nWe look forward to posting more songs in the near future.\nThanks for your friendship and for your support...\nGreat stuff...and thanks for fan'n me...\n© 2016 eMinor Incorporated\nAll third party trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners. ReverbNation is not affiliated with those trademark owners.\nNot listening to anything?\nTry one of the ReverbNation Channels", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome back to 12 Months of Wreaths!\nEach month, I get together with some of my blogging friends to craft a new seasonal wreath!\nThis month I crafted a super easy owl and pumpkin seasonal wreath. Usually I come up with my wreath idea and then shop for the supplies. But this time, I just happened to stumble across my supplies and then came up with a wreath for it! (Check out my fall bandana wreath if you’d like to see my most recent wreath for 12 Months of Wreaths.)\nMom Home Guide – Fall Owl Pumpkin Wreath\nDazzled While Frazzled – Thanksgiving Paper Bag Turkey Wreath\nEasy Pumpkin & Owl Wreath Tutorial\nMy daughters and I were shopping in our local dollar store a few weeks back when I just happened to find two rolls of a cute fall pumpkin print wire ribbon. So I picked up two rolls. I then also spotted two cute owl fabric ornaments at the same dollar store. The dollar store also sells 12-inch wreath forms, so I had everything I needed to make my wreath!\nTo make the wreath, all I had to do was tie one end of the ribbon onto the wreath form and then wrap the ribbon onto the frame. I simply hot glued the ribbon on at either end to secure it.\nOnce the ribbon was on the wreath, all I had to do was hot glue the owl ornaments to the wreath and I was done! This wreath only took a few minutes to make.\nFall Gallery Wall\nI didn’t know where to hang my new wreath at first, so I simply hung it on the knobs of my kitchen’s china cabinet. (As you can see in the photo above.) But eventually I decided that the wreath would be a good addition to my living room’s DIY gallery wall. To hang the wreath, all I needed was a Command hook, which only took a few minutes to hang.\nThe below photo shows my DIY gallery wall before I added my new fall wreath. (I made all the items on my gallery wall. Check out my DIY Fall Gallery Wall Post for more details.)\nFor Christmas, I hope to update the wall with a Christmas wreath.\nThanks again for joining us for 12 Months of Wreaths! We will be sharing a new wreath once a month in 2017!\nAre you interested in sharing a wreath with us one (or more) months? We are accepting guest hosts! Email carrie (at) curlycraftymom (dot) com if you are interested!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Joe was born in Mt. Pleasant Township, Pennsylvania, on February 26, 1931. He graduated from Hurst High School in 1948.\nJoe was always attracted to Polka music and it is easy to understand why he would become an outstanding Polka promoter. With a strong determination and the use of his personal he was able to bring Polka music into an area that was relatively foreign to this type of music. Beginning in 1951, he began his career as a Polka disc jockey with WHSB radio in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was host of the Joe Fiedor Polka Carousel Program heard every Sunday evening. Joe played Polka recordings from all over the country on his program. As the popularity of this music increased in the area, Joe started to book various bands to play at local dances. As the demand became greater for this music he was prompted to establish the well-known Fiedor’s Grove in Mt. Pleasant. A musician at heart, he was also singing with the Bob Gazda Polka Band from Pittsburgh and recorded with that group.\nJoe delighted in introducing traveling bands to the local audiences. Among the polka personalities to appear for the first time was Li’l Wally from Chicago who played to a capacity crowd. Joe expanded his activities in Polka music and with a lot of promotion the Fiedor Grove soon became a favorite location for polka gatherings. Because of his involvement in numerous Polka activities he acquired the name of “Polish Joe Fiedor.\" His strong love for Polka music inspired him to organize his own band known as Li’l Ronny and the Carousels. The band was composed of his son, Ronny, and nephews. Together they made many appearances throughout the country. During this period they made several recordings.\nJoe was always striving to expand the popularity of Polka music. In 1975 and for three successive summers he presented the gigantic Fourth of July Polka Weekend at Seven Springs Resort. The success of this promotion prompted the presentation of the Winter Ski Festival. He was the founder and President of the Pennsylvania Polka Association and the United States Polka Association, Polka Power Club, Polka Ambassadors, Polish Crusaders. Mount Pleasant Firemen’s Club, Knights of Columbus, Polish Falcons, AMVETS, American Legion of Greensburg, and the Kosciuszko Club.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, sweepstakes, and more!\nGet ready for a bloodbath with exclusive photos from SXSW indie horror hit 'Jakob's Wife'\nThe festival may be virtual once again this year, but SXSW is still rolling out great new genre fare in 2021, and one of the buzziest this time around is Jakob's Wife, a horror film with a darkly comic bite starring the legendary Barbara Crampton in the title role.\nCrampton, who told SYFY WIRE ahead of the film's premiere about the deep connection she felt with her character, stars as Anne, the wife of a small-town minister who's dutifully supported her husband (fellow genre great Larry Fessenden) for years, but still feels that she's lost something of herself. Then, while in pursuit of a personal passion project, a brutal tragedy brings Anne into contact with \"The Master,\" a being who grants her a new sense of life and energy.\nSuddenly, Anne feels more vibrant than she's felt in years, but this new vitality comes at a terrible price. Check out the just-released trailer below:\nAs the trailer reveals, Jakob's Wife begins as a domestic drama that descends into horror and then explodes into vampiric, often darkly comic madness as Anne and Jakob must learn to navigate their new lives in the wake of Anne's encounter. In the exclusive photos below, you can see a little more of that madness, as the bloody mayhem of the film takes hold of its characters.\nAs Crampton told SYFY WIRE, it was Anne's encounter, and the awakening that followed it, which immediately drew her to the material several years ago and ultimately led her to shepherd the project into its final form as both star and producer.\n\"We wanted to highlight a woman’s awakening to herself, to recapturing her youth and gaining a zest for life and having feelings like she never had before in her life. We wanted it to be a film about hope and renewal,\" Crampton said. \"All those things were in [the early drafts], but we wanted to highlight different aspects that maybe weren’t as fully fleshed out as originally in the original draft. So, it just took us a while to capture that and to make it into what it is right now.\"\nThe result is a labor of love, equal parts funny and scary and emotional, that arrived at SXSW Wednesday night to critical acclaim and social media buzz. If you weren't able to catch the film during the festival, though, you don't have to wait long to see more for yourself. Jakob's Wife arrives in theaters and on VOD platforms April 16, followed by a streaming release on Shudder later this year.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Get ready to count, clap, jump, and count some more in The Count’s version of this classic nursery rhyme, If You Love Counting and You Know It, in ASL!\nASL video and translation created by Hypernovas Productions\nASL performed by Chelsea Lee, Joey Antonio, and Phelan Conheady.\nFind more Sesame Street in ASL Episodes >>here<<\nFor more fun games and videos for your preschooler in a safe, child-friendly environment, visit http://www.sesamestreet.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Album Review: Snail Mail - Lush\nWho would win in a fight between Soccer Mommy and Snail Mail?\nI tweeted this question, partially in jest, recently, and I was hesitant to do so—mostly because I don’t want it to seem like I’m not supportive of the recent rise in young women playing music that has a very heavy 90s alt. rock influence, but it’s not hard (and not totally unfair) to draw comparisons between Sophie Allison’s project Soccer Mommy, and Lindsey Jordon’s Snail Mail.\nNeither of them are even 21 years old yet—Allison is 20, and Jordon is only 19; both began their music careers by using the internet to slowly parlay attention via self-recorded material; and both have released excellent albums this year through esteemed independent labels: the proper debut from Soccer Mommy arrived this spring from Fat Possum, and Snail Mail’s first LP, Lush, was just released on Matador.\nBoth women owe a lot to music that was made prior to their births—Jordon, specifically, has drawn comparisons to the early output of Liz Phair; so much so that the two of them took part in a lengthy conversation/interview for Pitchfork, in coordination with the reissue of Phair’s auspicious debut, Exile in Guyville, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year (coincidentally, released on Matador), as well as Jordon’s own Lush.\nWhile there are many, many similarities between Soccer Mommy and Snail Mail, there is something slightly more ramshackle and ‘lo-fi’ about Jordon’s songwriting, and that really comes through on Lush—the album works to maintain Jordon’s aesthetic, and it does, but it also tries to clean up the rough edges found on the Habit EP, issued in 2016.\nA slim album, running ten tracks—nine songs with one intro—Lush exudes what can only be called a nervous charm; it’s also brimming with youthful urgency and exuberance, and as it runs its course, it becomes clear that this is an album for the lovesick.\nLush isn’t exactly a ‘break up’ album, but it is an album about being broken hearted, and wearing that broken heart, in earnest, on your sleeve. At times, Jordan snarls; other times, she pleads—either way, it is pure emotion, all the way through.\nThe album really wastes no time—the first single, and first ‘proper’ track from Lush, “Pristine,” is one of its finest moments, simply because all of the separate, successful elements tumble together: it’s not exactly a hook driven song, but it’s infectious never the less, with big, shout-a-long moments as Jordan recklessly strums the guitar while regaling the listener with her woes—“And if you do find someone better, I’ll still see you in everything, for always, tomorrow, and all the time.”\nWhile ‘Snail Mail’ is, more or less, a solo endeavor/moniker for Jordan, she does have a ‘band’ accompanying her on Lush, and you can hear the tightness in their playing, as well as in the way the record is produced to make the instrumentation crisp—bassist (aptly named) Alex Bass and drummer Ray Brown have been playing with Jordan since last year, and Lush was produced Jake Aaron, who is growing an impressive resume of studio work both as producer, mixer, and engineer. Aaron works to find the balance between showcasing Jordan as the frontwoman for the band, but still keeping the rhythm section present enough to drive the songs—bring out the jaunty grooves in “Speaking Terms” and “Golden Dreams.”\nLush hits some of its finest moments at the halfway point—a startling and pensive double shot of “Stick,” and “Let’s Find An Out.” The former, slow burning, desperate, and accusatory finds Jordan tapping into a raw, visceral place as she still recounts a messy end to young love—“It’s a hard trip to the kitchen sink, ‘cause I can’t wash this one clean,” she sings before, “Did you tell all of your friends? Maybe I could understand what it is about them? Would they stick around?”\nWhile the latter bounces along lightly, it finds Jordan turning inward; written with no refrain or chorus, the lyrics are slightly mysterious and evocative. It’s the album’s shortest proper song, and according to the annotation on Genius, it’s Jordan’s favorite on the record.\nLush is structured in a way that it doesn’t so much mirror itself, but following a somber middle section, Jordan and her band pick things back up for two more songs before slowing things down and getting sad for the conclusion with the surprisingly dark “Deep Sea,” and the regretful “Anytime,” which lyrically, brings Lush full circle—the heartbreak is still there, but over her guitar strums, Jordan seems to come to terms with her anguish—“I’m not in love with your absence, ‘cause I have fallen so hard for the space,” she sings. “And I’ve gotten to know the quite and still forgive you anytime.”\nThe more I listen to Lush, the more I realize what is so compelling and immediate about it is that, while it does share similarities to Jordan’s contemporaries like Soccer Mommy, it is very reminiscent of the first Land of Talk record, Some Are Lakes, which is now a decade old. It’s brimming with that kind of ‘no frills,’ barely held together aesthetic that taps into something within and doesn’t ever really let go.\nJordan is obviously still growing as a songwriter, but by balancing pop songwriting and young person angst throughout Lush, she proves that she has an alarming amount of potential and promise at an early stage in her career.\nLush is out now, on all formats, via Matador.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.\nWith the help of this images you can make your own \" Edmund Leach Image Quotes\"\nAll the Images, Wallpapers, Backgrounds, Pictures, Graphics, Arts are Copyrighted to The Respective Creators, Designers and Authors.\nWe Don't Intend to Showcase Copyright Images, Pictures, Graphics, Arts.\nThe Wallpapers, Arts, Graphics available on our website are for Personal Use Only (For Desktops, Laptops, Mobiles, Tablets Screen Backgrounds).\nNone of the Image should be used for Commercial Purpose.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dear Cesium specialists,\nstill preparing our long term project (continuing a precedent post about our time-space cartography) we want to draw cones with a base that is not a regular circle\nAs a drawing is more efficient than a long speech, here comes a sketch of our model:\nCan Cesuim achieve this kind of three D geometry?\nThanks for help\nAlain L’Hostis and Thomas Leysens", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dragonforces latest epic masterpiece Inhuman Rampage hits the stores this monday. To wet your appetite until then, Vadim (keyboards) from the band has put together a track by track analysis. Through the Fire and Flames: Very melodic song and at the same time energetic with many peculiar computer game keyboard sounds. Another interesting fact about it is that if listen carefully you will hear the guitar string snap at the very end of the song. Revolution Deathsquad: Leading into the outburst of power and the intensity with a lot of catchy melodies. This song is full of weird noises with guitars, keys, vocals, you name it. We tried to make instruments talk to each other on this one. You can hear it in the solo section. Lots of interesting song structure changes and cool vocal effects. You can hear that the black metal vocal is being dominant in this one. I think it makes the song a lot fuller and more chaotic without loosing the feeling. Storming the Burning Fields: Another fast one. Blast beat special with overwhelming chaos. Very busy song with a lot of everything! Tunes of guitars on this one that made our fingers steam. To me it’s like you’re driving a sports car and everything’s flashing before your eyes. Extremely intense song. Operation Ground and Pound: Title of this song might puzzle some of you but it is a term used in mixed martial arts that has something to do with fighting on the ground, Herman came up with the title but that’s not what the song is about, once again I will not give the game away. You will have to guess it. This song has definitely got lots of atmospheric keyboard sounds and catchy melodies that will stick in your head for years. It’s a very positive sounding song with a philosophical input. Body Breakdown: Another song with allot going on in it. We have experimented with the structure and the melodies in this one. It has this jazz/fusion feel to it I think. The result is a very heavy, progressive song with uplifting melodies. Can’t really tell you what the title means because it can be anything so if you use your imagination you’ll get there eventually. Cry for Eternity: Of course another intense energetic DragonForce song but in the middle section we have experimented with more cool video games inspired instrumental sections. The Flame of Youth: Catchy melodies tunes of unusual noises with guitar and keys. It has some sort of Egyptian feel to it in the middle section. This song has changed so many times. It actually evolved through out the recording process and as we gradually added bits pieces to it grew into a whole. It’s a very positive song with catchy melodies and experimental guitar work. Trail of Broken Hearts: It is a very nice way to finish of an album. I think it fits in perfectly on this record. It’s a ballad that will grow on you. It’s as if you’ve experienced the rampage and even the hearts are brokení¢äå_ It’s an outro so to speak that will leave you recovering for another round of inhumanity.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Camille O'Sullivan - The Dark Angel (Apollo Theatre, London) *****\nCamille O'Sullivan needs to behave very, very carefully. She has such power and influence over her audiences that she could corrupt even the strongest will. For now, let's be thankful that she puts her energies into creating what is, quite simply, one of the greatest shows I've ever seen, and one I felt privileged to watch the other night, which happened to be the final night of her West End run at the Apollo Theatre. I believe it was one of the last shows that Time Out awarded their legendary six stars to before abandoning that accolade; to be honest, once Camille was given the stars it would seem insulting to award an equal rating to any other show, so they might as well have retired it in her honour.\nI read some reviews again afer the gig and it transpires that much of Camille's ad libbing and throwaway charm is in fact a carefully staged act. That's by the by; it merely reinforces what an accomplished performer and entertainer she is - much like a standup comic. The audience participation, a chorus of meows, may have been done every night, but O'Sullivan's \"I'll always remember this moment\" was, most importantly, believable, as we were sucked into her world and drawn into her web. By the end, she was a best friend, a confidante, a lover, a shoulder to cry on, a philosopher and a story-teller. Clap? Of course I did, whooped and cheered a bit as well, but what I really wanted to do was go and give her a hug.\nCamille was backed by a strong band, whose support ranged from an almost free-jazz/avant-garde classical sound to full on rock'n'roll by way of stripped-down piano simplicity. She kicked things off with a very free \"My Death\" which set the scene nicely, being a Jacques Brel original made popular by David Bowie. Both composers featured heavily throughout the performance. We took in plenty of Tom Waits (a wonderful \"All The World Is Green\", more Bowie (\"Five Years\"), Kirsty MacColl (\"In These Shoes\") and even Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor (\"Hurt\"). What all the songs have in common is a portrayal in the most poetic way of the simplest, basest, strongest human emotions. Love, hate, fear, loss, life death. Some reviews accused her of histrionics but at no point did I ever feel she was over the top.\nTo pick out highlights would be impossible as that would imply that there were moments of mediocrity, but spellbinding is a word that does not do justice to her performance of Dillie Keane's extraordinary \"Look Mummy, No Hands\" - leaving the audience a visible wreck. My own particular moment of weakness came at the start of the second half with Nick Cave's \"God Is In The House\" - a song of such unexpected purity (a sexy cabaret singer covers a rock star's song about...being at one with God?) that I felt the years lifted away and like a small boy again. The fishnet-stockinged legs and cheeky wine swigging belied the fact that the set was surely best summed up as a return to innocence.\nO'Sullivan's most comfortable territory is with the music of Jacques Brel, who for those unfamiliar is a sort of Belgian musichall Kerouac. As well as \"My Death\" she took on the ballad (in the true, story-telling sense of the word: slushy it ain't) \"Amsterdam\", a salute to the sailors and whores of the port. And in an intimate, solo version of \"Marieke\" she fearlessly threw herself into French, Flemish and English with equal aplomb. But the finest moment was left until last: leaving the unlit, silent room whispering the dying \"We make a little history baby, every time you come around\" of Nick Cave's \"Ship Song\", Camille at that point revealed her power as a truly terrifying Queen of the night. At that moment, every person in the room would have embarked on genocide if she'd asked. Although I've heard that murder is arguably pardonable if the perpetrator was killing to get a ticket. \"The behaviour was reasonable\" say the judges.\nI suppose if I had to make a comparison it would be to Bjork. There's the same extraordinary range of tones, the same clumsy stage presence, the same magic, the same intimacy. But while Bjork has always embraced new sounds and production, Camille is content to stay in a more traditional medium and exploit it to its full potential. But how inadequate are comparisons? A rather more accurate one would be to clown Slava Polunin, who similarly pulls you into his personal world and shares it with you for the duration of his show. There's another reason I compare Camille with Slava: Polunin's SnowShow happens to be the best show, of any genre, that I have seen in my entire life. (As an aside: it'll be returning to the UK in late 2011 for a tour. Just go.)\nSpilling out onto Shaftesbury Avenue, into a melee of rickshaws, Trocadero flyers, queues for cashpoints and \"no trainers\" R&B bars, I felt pity: pity for the poor souls who think their lives are complete. For nobody's life is complete until they have experienced this girl.\nBest of all? This may have been the last night of the run, but it won't be the end of Camille O'Sullivan. Luckily for us, she seems to divide her time between Britain, Ireland and Australia, so it won't be long before she's back in this country again. I'll be seeing her in Edinburgh - and maybe I'll muster the courage to give her that hug. I think she'd understand.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The sandal, encrusted with a fine layer of grit, looks like it’s made of stone. A tin of Beecham’s Pills from St. Helen’s, Lancashire, England, “Sold by the Proprietor” and with the paper wrapping intact, is so old, the price — 25 cents — is not stamped on but integrated into the label design.\nThese and other artifacts were unearthed during renovations of the Princeton, N.J., house where Paul Robeson was born. Photographed against a stark black backdrop by Wendel White, they are being projected against the façade of the house, across the street from the Arts Council of Princeton, from dusk to 9 p.m. through November 30 as part of the exhibition Reconstructed History. These artifacts tell the stories of the African-Americans who lived in this house over the past century.\nIt all began when volunteers gathered in the house to do demolition, and a piece of paper that had been wedged between floorboards for more than a century fluttered from the ceiling. “It was as if someone were reaching out” from beyond the grave, said architect Kevin Wilkes, who volunteers his services on the restoration — plans call for it to become a center for the study of human rights and a testament to the Robeson family.\nThe artifacts — basic items from everyday life, such as matchbook covers, thimbles, combs — were left behind by the many African-American day laborers who lived in the house over the years and are like “a piece of the past speaking to us,” said Wilkes, and, at a time when the nation is still reeling with issues of racism, it is a frank reminder of Princeton’s Jim Crow-era past.\nFacing a beautifully landscaped cemetery where many notables are buried, from Silvia Beach and John O’Hara to Aaron Burr Jr., Grover Cleveland, and Michael Graves, as well as Paul Robeson’s parents, the aluminum-clad gabled house might go unnoticed were it not for the bronze plaque identifying it as the birthplace of the actor, singer, and political activist. On the state and national historic registers, the 1,922-square-foot house is where Robeson (1898-1976) was born. The house came with his father’s job — the Rev. William Robeson, who at 15, escaped slavery on a North Carolina plantation, served as minister of the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church a few doors down.\nThat piece of paper that fell from the ceiling turns out to have been a trolley pass that had been issued to Paul’s brother, Bill Jr., who had to commute to high school in Trenton when Princeton High School was white only.\nIn Jim Crow-era Princeton, African-Americans who worshipped at Nassau Presbyterian Church had to do so from the balcony. When a fire destroyed it in 1839, the church funded construction of the Witherspoon Presbyterian Church in the historically black Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood. Known for his advocacy of civil and human rights, William served 20 years in the pulpit.\nPaul inherited his father’s oratorical skills. “William drilled his children in Latin and Greek at the Sunday dinner table,” says Wilkes. Paul would go on to speak 15 languages. Denied admission to Princeton University because of his race — despite vehement protests from his father — brother Bill went on to earn a bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from Howard University College of Medicine.\nFor speaking up about civil rights issues, William was ousted from the church, and the family had to vacate the house. They moved further down Green Street, where Paul’s mother died in a kitchen fire, then settled in Somerville, N.J. The church fell on hard times and had to sell the property. It became a boarding house for day laborers and, at one time, there was a barbershop on the lower floor of the Robeson house and a lounge where workers from Princeton University’s eating clubs would gather.\nIn 2005 the church bought the property back from a parishioner. The New Brunswick Presbytery, responsible for ousting William, apologized and, as a gesture of recompense for what it termed “ecclesiastical lynching,” retired the mortgage.\nThe Robeson House Committee formed in 2007 with plans to restore the house. Plans call for a public meeting room, gallery space for historic interpretation, offices for nonprofits, and three apartments.\nThe Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood was designated an historic district by the township in 2016. The Arts Council building, also known as the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts and situated on Paul Robeson Place, once served as the black YMCA. Princeton’s “Colored School” was around the corner, on Quarry Street.\nCurator Amy Brummer, who read a newspaper article about the trolley pass, came up with the idea of having Wendel White photograph the house’s uncovered artifacts. Brummer was familiar with photographer White’s Schools for the Colored Series collection, in which he uses medium format film to show images of buildings or locations that were designated as such, and his Manifest portfolio of images of objects from African-American material culture — diaries, slave collars, human hair, a drum, and quotidian representations of ordinary life. Brummer conceived of White’s photographs of the Robeson artifacts for the exhibition Reconstructed History, which led to White becoming the Fall 2017 Artist in Residence at the Arts Council.\nPhotographed in the style of his Manifest portfolio, these items “seek out the ghosts and resonant memories expressed in various aspects of the material world,” said White, a professor of art at Richard Stockton College. White has also created a series of portraits of black towns in southern New Jersey.\nIn order to become the center that its non-profit board envisions, the Robeson house needs to raise funds, and Brummer, White, and Wilkes hope this exhibit will bring attention to the house and its important place in Princeton history.\nWhite’s Manifest photographs of the Paul Robeson house objects will remain on view inside the Arts Council building through December.\nThe Artful Blogger is written by Ilene Dube and offers a look inside the art world of the greater Princeton area. Ilene Dube is an award-winning arts writer and editor, as well as an artist, curator and activist for the arts.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "My name is Laurence Greene. I am a portrait, wedding and event photographer based in Northeast Florida. I totally love what I do and I feel very privileged when I am asked to help capture the memories of someone's special day. I am available to travel throughout North America.\nTake a look around and if you are satisfied with the quality and style of the photographs get in touch with me. It is an honor to be considered in your search for a photographer. I hope to hear from you soon. If this is the last that I hear from you, I would like to wish you and your family safety and blessings during this COVID period.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is what I managed to get so far. I started from a cube but shortly after retopoed and started over using the base mesh I created. I don't know if I should keep working on it or move on and maybe come back to it after a few more sculpts. Perhaps eventually retopoing it again and doing a decent texture/rendering job.\n- Status: Final", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Woolen blanket with onion dome church shape\nThe Keisarinkruunu woollen blanket from Marimekko provides cosy hours on the sofa or armchair on cold autumn and winter days. The blanket is woven from a jacquard knit of a soft wool blend and features the Keisarinkruunu pattern in brown, black and orange. The ceiling has two differently coloured sides and fringes at the ends.\nThe Keisarinkruunu pattern (imperial crown), reminiscent of an onion dome church, is a fine example of the large, picturesque patterns created by Maija Isola in the 1960s. The blanket is made of 60 % cotton, 15 % polyamide and 25 % wool.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lisou Gigi Purple Pebble Print Silk Maxi Dress\nGigi is a Lisou showstopper, long sleeved maxi dress with ruffle hem detail. The beautiful maxi dress is perfect for those cool nights.\nLisou is a London-based fashion brand specialising in beautiful silk pieces with a twist. Lisou believe in quality above all else, and a return to the days of slow fashion and treasure box investment pieces.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "£39.00 Save 40%\nThis item is out of stock. Would you like to be notified when it's back in stock?\nThe Tangerine Dream Bracelet is crafted from brass with 18-karat gold plating, detailed in Glass beads & Imitation opal finished with a golden sun-like shape. The tangerine beads are reminiscent of golden-hour on a balmy summer evening, perfect for styling with white linen outfits or swimwear on a beach day.\nFind out more about our delivery options. Try items on at home and if they’re not right, you have 14 days to request an exchange or ret", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If I Had One Wish - Forever Love Necklace for Soulmate\nImagine her reaction when she receives this gift from you with a touching message:\n\"To My Beautiful Soulmate, If I had one wish, it would be to turn back the clock so I could find you sooner and love you longer. In your eyes, I have found my home. In your heart, I have found my love. In your soul, I have found my mate. The day I met you, I found my missing piece. If I did anything right in my life, it was when I gave my heart to you. You are my life, my love, and my best friend. I love you forever & always.\"\nThe dazzling Forever Love Necklace is sure to make her heart melt! This necklace features a stunning 6.5mm CZ crystal surrounded by a polished heart pendant embellished with smaller crystals to add extra sparkle and shine. Beautifully crafted with either a white gold or yellow gold finish, be sure to give her a classic gift she can enjoy everyday.\n- - 14k white gold finish or 18k yellow gold finish\n- - 6.5mm round cut cubic zirconia stone\n- - Pendant dimensions: 0.8\" (2.2cm) height / 0.7\" (1.8cm) width\n- - Adjustable chain length: 18\" - 22\" (45.72cm - 55.88cm)\n- - Lobster clasp attachment\nYour piece is lovingly packaged in a complimentary soft touch box for easy gifting. Elevate your presentation by upgrading to the mahogany style luxury box, which features a brilliant LED spotlight.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "ENERGY Clubbin'is a radio station in\n,Webradio, Germany Genre:Electro, House website:http://www.energy.de language:\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nCurrent [email protected] *\nLeave this field empty\nThe TikiPod is an online radio station that features a unique blend of island music, including Jimmy Buffett, Trop Rock, Reggae, Hawaiian, Soca and more.\nAmsterdam Music Electronic is a station of electro and trance music - all electro genres all the time.\nMore music variety than sand on your local beach!\nThe Trip: Progressive house/trance. Tip top tunes.\nThe Acid circus. Funny and humorous Finnish electronic music dipped in pure psychedelic sounds.\nKane FM has organically evolved from being a pirate radio station to its present legal status of a not-for-profit Community Radio Station based in Guildford and broadcasting the surrounding area…", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What a glorious weekend!! The sun was out and it was not suffocatingly hot as of yet. This time of year is why we are lucky to live in this part of the country. Saturday I dedicated the day to making jewelry while Z (unfortunately) had to spend the morning working. However, Saturday night we took advantage of one weekend without plans and relaxed. Today was yet another beautiful day. Z and I enjoyed dinner down at the marina. It is nights like tonight that make me happy to be alive. I hope everyone is taking advantage of the weather. It is so VERY important in this over scheduled, over committed world we live in to take time to be still and appreciate.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wind beautiful skirt, with the wind from the beauty of the small skirt, can also be hand opened a beautiful skirt, but not ripped the idea of the beautiful skirt Oh, All types of beauty, screams cool to burst! Simple and fun game photo card, not much to say, do not believe you to give it a try! Two gameplay: 1, use your finger to simulate various strength of wind blowing beautiful skirt, the stronger the blowing skirt the higher, of course, the screams; You blow into the microphone to simulate the strength of the wind blowing beauty skirt blowing harder, blowing the skirt, the higher the screams; If your skill is not enough, is not normal blowing skirt, pay attention to the efforts oh Is not evil?\nDownloads: 356+ (for Android)Report app for spam or abuse!\nThe Amazing Spider-Man 2 Android Free\nBecome the Amazing Spider-Man in this open-world 3D adventure full of crime-fighting", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The African Music Store deals in South African music, extending to all over the continent (and including an Afro-Cuban ... More\nAfrican Music Store (The)\nThe African Music Store deals in South African music, extending to all over the continent (and including an Afro-Cuban section). They aim to advance African music in Cape Town and will assist African artists by promoting independent releases. The store offers very friendly and personal service, will play anything you wish to listen to, and also sells clothing, maps and some African musical instruments. Highly recommended to Kapenaars and tourists alike.\nWELCOME TO THE CAPE DIEM LODGE THIS VICTORIAN VILLA, DATING BACK TO 1889, IS NESTLED PICTURESQUELY IN GREENPOINT, PROBABLY THE\nTRENDIEST DISTRICT. THE NEW LIFESTYLE LODGE, IS HISTORIC AND TRADITIONAL, AND ALSO FEATURES HIGH QUALITY AFRO EUROPEAN DESIGN, THE ...\nThis vibey, novel, sizzling hotel is Cape Town personified. Take everything you've heard about or experienced in Cape Town, give\nit some energy, excitement, and a great personality, and you've got Protea Hotel Fire and Ice.Set at the heart ...\nThese rocks are named after the rounded boulders which shelter a beautiful swimming beach from the mischievous south easterly winds.\nA part of Table Mountain National Park, Boulders Beach gives a unique opportunity to swim with Jackass (African) penguins. ...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Amy will forever be my inspiration... As she fought her battle she helped so many others like myself fight theirs... words cannot express how much I miss her.... I love you always Amy.\nI met Amy through work but soon found we had other common interests. Amy worked with our Girl Scout troop and helped our girls get their Breast Cancer Awareness badge. She made an impression on each and every girl. Personally, I found Amy to have such a bright spirit. Her enthusiasm was contagious. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this difficult time. Amy was loved and will be missed! Love you Girl!\nTo The Esque family, May God comfort each of you during this time. Amy and I worked at SMG together and became friends outside of the job. Amy, will be missed so much I just Loved her spirit a BEAUTIFUL PERSON always HAPPY and JOYFUL!!! I will miss MY SISTER GIRL FRIEND. (we called each other this). May you all hold on to GOD unchanging hands. REST ON AMY REST ON... She's enjoying a hockey game now beating on the glass and screaming.(SMILE) Peace & Blessings Family.... I LOVE YA GIRL!!! But your in the safety of his arms NOW...\nTo the Esque Family,\nAmy was a loving and giving friend. My husband Dennis and I will miss her deeply. She was a good friend always and will be remembered for her time spent with us. She was always a joy and full of life.We love her and will miss her with all our heart.So sad to say she is in a much better place.Prayers to her family and her friends.Ames (that is what I called her) I miss you girl!\nPatti and Dennis O'Neal\nTo Amy's Family,\nWe were very sadden to hear of the passing of Amy. She was a very beautiful person with a beautiful personality. May you be comforted by the Lord and may you find peace in knowing Amy is in the arms of the Lord.\nOur Love & Prayers\nSMG Box Office Family\nSo hard to find the right words to bring love and comfort to all of you. Wrapping my arms around all of you. I will always remember so many times we would go out to dinner and the guys refused to ride with us, because we were singing show tunes. Never could figure out which one of us was off key! But, the main thing is when I got the Precious Moments angel, when I graduated from nursing school. I could just hear Amy's laughter with this. She thought it was a hoot!\nBut, she will be greeted in heaven by everyone who loved her so dearly and Chuck will be standing in that line.\nLove all of you so much...XOXO\nWe are so sorry to hear of Amy's passing. We appreciate Amy's time with Girl Scouts so very much. Our thoughts are with her family at this time.\nDear Debbie & RC, my heart breaks for you and your family. I know the pain of losing a child. Life is not always in order,but Faith in Gods time holds us close. Cherish the time you had with dear Amy,an old quote, \"God gave us memories to have roses in December\". Your Rose will never fade, but be forever in your heart. Love, Ann Warzyn\nWe want to extend our sympathy and prayers to all the family. God bless you and watch over all.\nFrom: Eddie Merritt and family. Earling, WV (now Lyburn). 304 752-7906.\nemail: firstname.lastname@example.org (Please get this to R.C. and Charles). Thanks.\nI am so thankful that I had to pleasure to know Amy. She was an amazing person that would always brighten your day with her smile. She will always be loved and will truly be missed. My prayers go out to your family. God Bless.\nAmy, you always added a happy mood to the office. Your strength has inspired everyone to not sweat the 'small' stuff and appreciate life a little more. You will be missed dearly and I know you're up there smiling down on us as we muddle through our days. I'm so happy I was able to share part of my life with you and can't wait to see you again.\nTo Amy's family.... I have never seen anyone face adversity and challenges with such spirit and vigor. Amy had such a brillance about her that you never had any idea of the pain and challenges she was facing. I absolutely adored her and had so hoped to get the opportunity to play at least one round of golf with her after her treatments. I couldn't wait to get out there on the course and share that experience with her...\nLesson to us all..never put off anything - do what Amy did and live for today!!!\nI can see you up in heavens dancing up a storm - be at peace my friend.\nMay God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.\nSo sorry to hear about Amy. My thoughts are with your family. Carolyn Rambo\nBeautiful girl. Beautiful family. May God bless all of you.\nEsque Family: My deepest sympathies to each of you. Amy was SUCH a wonderful person, and as so many have said, a true joy to be around. She was eager to learn, always wanted to please, and had a kind word for everyone she encountered. Each day was made more pleasant just by being with Amy. Her smile made the room brighter! My heart goes out to each of you and I cannot fathom your loss. My prayers will be with each of you.\nRC and family; words cannot explain the pain and sorrow you feel. May God in his infinite wisdom be your refuge in this tragic time in your lives.\nDeb, RC and family I am so sorry for your loss during this tough time. I will always remember Amy with that smile on her face. Every time I saw her or she would drop by my house, she had a smile on her face. She was loved muchly by her Girl Scout family and scouting was enriched by her involvement.\nI can't even begin to put into words how much Amy meant to me. I knew her as a girl and watched her grow into a woman. There are so many memories that come to mind, and many more came to me as I looked at the pictures posted. Amy was part of a very special group of girls from Troop 549 and I was very blessed to have been part of her life. Thanks to Deb and RC for sharing her with me. The last time I saw her I remember thinking how proud of I was of her and the grace she displayed in dealing with her illness. She truly inspired me. She will be missed but will always be loved!\nMy prayers to family of Amy, It was heartfelt hearing the news of Amy, but Amy was just another \"Angel\" God called to rest. I met her in 2007, she and I became very friendly with each other, I could not have met a sweeter young lady,she loved everyone and being a fabulous Aunt that love the little one. She will truly be missed, but she left a light to shine in each of us. With LOVE and PRAYERS\nI met Amy way back at Tinker Elementary School. In fact we were in the same class in 6 th grade. We went to Jr & Sr High together. Amy was always one to have a kind word for others and offer help when she could. Unlike most people that age Amy was never rude or mean. Even though we had lost touch after school, I still feel blessed and lucky to have known her. I am glad we reconnected last year at our reunion. We have truely lost one of Earth's best. Words cannot express how sorry i am for your loss.\nAmy will always be close to my heart. We shared the BEST years of my life. I will never forget her. Thanks for sharing Amy with me. God bless.\nI'm so very sorry for your loss. I will miss Amy's beautiful smile & quick wit. My thoughts and prayers are with you.\nR.C.,Debbie, Brian & Mike\nI'm so sorry to hear of Amy's passing. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all of you. We enjoyed having you as our neighbors here in Midwest City. May God bless you and give you comfort during this difficult time.\nBill Jweid (Midwest Ciy, OK)\nMy heart goes out to you all. Amy was so happy and upbead through this whole thing. She is our angel now!\nI wanted to express my sincere sorrow for your loss. I met Amy a few years ago at work and we instantly hit it off. She was smart, perceptive, and always willing to step in and lend a hand. I went to her on many occasions to get her insight because she had the unique ability to look at situations with a healthy dose of reality and humor at the same time. We also spoke frequently about our families. It was clear that she truly loved and valued her parents and adorable nieces. When Amy first told me about her illness, my heart sank. When we spoke about how she was doing, I was consistently in awe of how she handled her situation with such positivity, grace and dignity. I told her once that she was my hero. Being the humble person she was, she shrugged it off. I meant it. Amy has set the standard that I will try to reach any time I am in a difficult situation. She made a mark on my life, and I will always have fond memories of her.\nAmy was an amazing friend and co-worker. She was always so spirited, vibrant and such an inspiration. She had such strength. She will always be with us and we will never forget her generosity, courage and contagious laugh!\nI am so sorry for your loss. Amy was a very kind, smart, and beautiful soul. I know she will be missed by her friends, family and Chase family. My prayers and thoughts are with you all during this time.\nI am thankful for having an opportunity to work with Amy. She was such a bright light in our Chase world. Amy is a true inspiration. She has touched so many lives with her kindness. I pray that the Esque family will find comfort in knowing what an impact Amy has had on the people she knew, and knowing that her spirit lives on through the lives shes touched. Rest In Peace Amy, you will be greatly missed.\nAlthough I only know Amy from work, she was a great person to work with and to be around. She was extremely knowledgeble, but most importantly she always had great spirit. We are all saddened to hear the news of her passing and will certainly learn from her optimism.\nTo the Esque Family - I want to express my sincere condolences on the passing of Amy. I was blessed to work with her for a short time. She always had a smile on her face and a good story to tell. One memory I will cherish is her feeding my Hello Kitty obsession with icons for my computer. Amy is in a better place and free from her pain and no longer suffering. God bless your family at this time.\nTo Amy's Family - I am so sorry for your loss. Amy was such a beautiful person. She had a larger than life personality. She was always smiling and welcoming to everyone. I am from the NJ office at work, but when I would travel to Jacksonille Amy would come out after work with me and keep me company. I really enjoyed sitting and talking with her. She was an instant friend. At work, she was so helpful. Amy worked so hard and she was someone you could go to and ask any question and she would help you. We were all so lucky that she was in our lives and she will be missed. My prayers and thoughts are with you.\nEsque family, it was an honor and a privilege to know your daughter. She was so kind heartered, intelligent and fun. She always showed a real enthusiasm for her work and life in general. She will be definitely be missed. I hope you find peace in that she is in a better place looking down on us - still with a beautiful smile on her face.\nSo sorry for your loss. Amy was a joy to work with and had a positive attitude towards life. She influenced many lives including mine.\nEsque Family, my prayers and thoughts are with all of you during this difficult time, but I hope you find solace in knowing your daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, was such an inspiration to so many and a blessing to know. I am so blessed to have known her and worked with her. Amy's spirit was full of joy and only positivity. I will NEVER forget her smile and gentleness. The world was made a better place because of Amy. Now she is resting, no longer in any kind of pain and I am sure smiling upon all.\nMy message is to Amy's family - I feel so sad for your loss. I miss Amy so much, she really was a joyful spirit and someone I enjoyed working with and knowing. Her presence is still felt very much in our group. God bless her beautiful spirit.\nAmy had a wonderful spirit. She was always so happy and grateful for her family, friends and work. She was truly an inspiration to many she worked with. She always had a smile on her face and was always willing to lend an ear for those in need. Amy in short was a real sweetheart of a gal.\nSo sorry for your loss. My prayers are with you and your family.\nAmy, I am so happy you are no longer in pain but so sad you are not here with us anymore. I miss you and love you Amy. Just know i will celebrate the short time we had together. I was very lucky to have a friend like you and very grateful. You were there when i needed to talk and a very good friend. You always knew what to say to help me when i was down and help me when i needed it. I will miss you always. RIP - now you can watch over us all.\nTo Amy's Family - I am so sorry for your loss and cant even imagine what you are going through losing a daughter and a sister. Just know she is in a better place pian free and now there to care for you in your hard times. She will always be with you in your hearts. Try to celebrate the life and time she had here and not her death.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Racist ICE Detention Center Captain Was Just Fired. We Found 132 More Posts by Him on a Neo-Nazi Site.\n“Anyone complicit in the destruction of my culture, religion, way of life, and nation is counted amongst my enemies,” Travis Frey wrote on Iron March in 2013.\nThe 'American Dirt' Controversy Illustrates the Media's Thirst for Immigrant Trauma Porn\nJeanine Cummins snagged a movie deal and a spot in the coveted Oprah's Book Club based on a story she has no right to tell.\nSomeone Spray-Painted 'White Power' and a Swastika on a Brand-New Sikh Center in Northern California\n“California is home to the largest number of Sikh Americans nationwide, yet Sikhs across the state have been facing years of high-profile hate incidents.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ninth-ranked middleweight Gegard Mousasi has been the main event or co-main event in eight of his nine UFC fights, but they’ve all been UFC Fight Night cards. On Saturday, he’ll be the co-main event of a UFC pay-per-view for the first time when he takes on fifth-ranked Vitor Belfort at UFC 204 in Manchester, England.\n“It’s a big fight for me. It’s in Europe, so I feel like I’m fighting in my backyard,” the Dutch fighter told MMAWeekly.com.\nBelfort’s a former light heavyweight champion who’s been fighting professionally since he was a teenager. Mousasi considers Belfort a legend in the sport and is eager to add such a big name to his resume.\n“He’s a legend because of his past. He’s fought in Pride. He has a long history. He’s been fighting for so long. Vitor is one of the biggest (names), especially in the UFC. He’s one of the more well known names. It’s a big fight. He’s a big name,” said Mousasi. “Everyone knows Vitor Belfort. He’s been fighting for so long. He’s popular.”\nBelfort’s known for his knockout power and hand speed. 18 of his 25 wins have been by knockout, but his last four knockout wins have come by way of kicks.\n“Everyone knows that he’s an explosive striker. I think lately he hasn’t been working a lot on his ground especially for the Jacare Souza and Chris Weidman fights. You can see that. He’s been concentrating a lot on his striking and takedown defense. When his takedown defense doesn’t work, he’s in trouble. I think he’s adjusted that,” he said.\n“I train a lot with southpaws, so I know I can handle his southpaw. He has heavy hands, but lately he’s been knocking a lot of people out with kicks. We’re focused on the stand-up. I’m more of a kickboxer, and he’s more of an explosive fighter. If it’s just stand-up, I’m not worried,” added the 31-year-old.\nMousasi is well aware that Belfort is a dangerous fighter, and oddly that adds to his confidence heading into Saturday’s fight.\n“I’m very confident going into this fight. It’s a big fight and I need to perform. Knowing what’s at stake – a lot of times I wasn’t worried about my opponent, and that’s when I lost. Once I’m worried about my opponent and know that he’s dangerous, that’s when I’m my sharpest. I know I will have a good performance.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I have a video that I want to render as a 1:1 (1920x1920) aspect ratio. But it seems sony vegas 17 won't render it. And it gives me this error:\nHere's my video properties:\nAnd here's the render settings:\nI've tried resetting sony vegas, try restarting my computer and etc. I've even tried to change my setting on by one, and it seems the only problem is the resolution. Whenever I tried to change the resolution/aspect ratio to 16:9 its fixed, but when I turn it to 1:1 it gives me the error. I need help!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Local painters for local people! If you live in or around Ivybridge, we offer a full exterior repair and paint service, which comes with a 20 year guarantee. All estimates and quotes are of course, FREE. Here is a job we did a few years back, a 1980’s semi detached house in Clare street, Ivybridge,...Continue reading\nThis late Victorian house in Peverell, Plymouth, had been neglected over the years and needed much exterior repair and decoration work. The new owners had sympathetically restored the inside to a very high standard, putting back in all the lovely features that previous owners had ripped out over the years, and the last job was...Continue reading\nThis terraced house in Plymouth, Devon, (built circa 1890) had serious structural issues caused by being blown up (!) in the 2nd world war, but hastily rebuilt. Fast forward to modern times and the render was literally falling off in chunks, the bay window and the front elevation were collapsing, and it had bad penetrating...\nAnother fine example of our work sent in from the Plymouth office, way back in 2004 This imposing Victorian villa had not been decorated externally for many years and was suffering badly with flaking paint, damaged mouldings, penetrating damp, and all sorts of ailments. In addition the original sash windows were rotting in places and...Continue reading", "label": "No"}
{"text": "King size Hanging Egg Chair Double Seat - Pink Basket & Black Cushion\nThe King size Hanging Egg Chair Double Seat in Pink Basket & Black Cushion is a luxurious and stylish addition to any indoor or outdoor space. This egg-shaped chair is designed to comfortably accommodate two people, with its spacious and cozy design. The chair is suspended from a sturdy steel frame, which is powder-coated to protect against rust and weathering.\nThe pink basket of the chair is made of high-quality wicker, which is easy to clean. It has a beautiful, natural-looking weave that adds a touch of warmth and texture to the chair. The black cushion of the chair is made of high-density foam, covered in a soft and durable fabric that is both comfortable and easy to clean.\nThe King size Hanging Egg Chair Double Seat in Pink Basket & Black Cushion is designed for both comfort and style. The chair has a wide and deep seat that cradles your body, providing a comfortable and relaxing experience. The high backrest provides ample support for your head and neck.\nThis chair is perfect for indoor or outdoor use, making it a versatile addition to any home or garden. It is easy to assemble and comes with all the necessary hardware and instructions. The chair's stylish and contemporary design makes it a standout piece that will enhance the look of any space. It is also durable and long-lasting, making it a great investment that you can enjoy for years to come.\n- Stand Size: 112 X 195cm\n- Egg chair size: 120 X 135 X 75cm\n- Cushion Size: 110 X 96 X 20cm\n- Cushion weight: 4.8kgs\n- 2.5mm steel tube, weight capacity: 250 kgs\nWe know that few iconic pieces elevate any interior or exterior, whether it’s your home, garden, or office. Our collection is unique and each chair is designed in a way that provides a cocoon effect. Shop from an endless selection of trendy and classic egg chairs to create an ultimate space where you can de-stress.\nWhether you picture a dark, cold winter month or a sun-kissed morning during the summers, what better way to enjoy the day with the right props – the books, the fireplace for winter or a martini for summers, and of course, the perfectly comfy egg chair you can sit in for hours!\nAt Egg Chairs Australia, we house a vast selection from Indoor Egg Chairs, Outdoor Egg Chairs, Hanging Egg Chairs, Rattan Egg Chairs, Kids Egg Chairs, Double Egg Chairs, Egg Pod Chairs, Black Egg Chairs, White Egg Chairs, Blue Egg Chairs, Purple Egg Chairs, Brown Egg chairs, Grey, Green and different colors of Egg Chairs. We have something for everyone to suit their budget and taste.\nReach out to us:\nMelbourne Warehouse: 74 Knight Avenue, Sunshine North, VIC 3020\nSydney Warehouse: 402 Bringelly Road, Austral, NSW 2179\nWarehouse Opening hours:\nMelbourne: By Appointment Only - Please email us to organise your appointment.\nSydney: By Appointment Only - Please email us to organise your appointment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Adorable little lamp that I purchased for low level lighting in my living room. My only disappointment was the amount of red on the shade which was not reflected online. I plan to purchase glass paint and colors each red piece in neutral shade.\n- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? The color is misleading. There was more red on the lamp than could be seen on the picture online.\n- Please tell us about the quality of the product. The lamp worked well, this lamp is good for low level lighting which is exactly what I was looking for.\n- How accurate was the on site description of the product? Aside from the colors, the lamp was reflective of the description given.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Royal Blue Hard Hats to Make Your VIPs Feel Like Royalty\nA groundbreaking ceremony is incomplete without a hard hat. While the hard hat should be both functional and decorative, it must also convey the values you wish for your project to convey.\nRoyal blue is a color associated with trust and loyalty; you can assure your clients of the pair on your part by opting for the Ceremonial Royal Blue Groundbreaking Hard Hat.\nThe hard hat will fulfill its decorative and marketing duties with its blank shell and royal blue color, and when the moment comes to do the heavy lifting, its solid construction and comfortable design will come in handy.\nFor more accessories to complement the hard hat at your groundbreaking ceremony, please visit CeremonialSupplies.com, and browse through our groundbreakings category options.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nick V a poster on the SCS forum posted this. He works up in Antarctica yearly.\nThought you guys might enjoy this video – It was made by someone I know who works in the finance office. The building interior in this video is the dorm where I live and I was actually caught outside during one of these storms my first year down here. Pretty intense.\nwindchill below -100 F, dam.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is one of a series of promotional pieces produced for Rosewood Resorts, featuring the Corde Valle resort and spa. Using the Sony F800 we shot on location in beautiful Northern California.\nKO-MAR Productions: We're a straight up group. Highly talented. And always professional. We provide honest estimates. Great work. And fair rates. All of it without the attitude. Contact us at (561)671-3745 or visit our website, Ko-mar.com, for more information.\nLoading more stuff…\nHmm…it looks like things are taking a while to load. Try again?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hey loves !\nThis is the last post before my first vacations for this summer :)\nTomorrow I travel to Thessaloniki to stay to my friend Maria.\nAnd on Thursday we re going to Chalkidiki for 3days..\nIt's gonna be the first camping experience for me\nand that's kind of scary :P\nNext week I promise more posts..\nHow about this dress I m wearing?\nI totally love it,I bought it last year from Gap\nand it reminds me mermaid ,sea , summer !\nHope you like it\nFollow us here! ♡", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Motocourse 2016-2017 (BK5279)\nNow in its 41st year, Motocourse continues to go from strength to strength as the fortunes of MotoGP continue to flourish. M. Scott, hardback, 296pp, 31 x 23cm\nNaughty but rather nice Rachael Clegg has been strutting her stuff again, albeit this time for the 2016 Isle of Man TT. Measures: 42 x 42cm\n2017 Ace Classics Triumph Calendar (BK5276)\nEvery year our friends at Ace Classics put out a beautifully shot calendar that features the most interesting Triumphs they have come across in the preivous 12 months. Measures: 42 x 30cm\n2017 Moto GP Calendar (BK5275)\nThis is the official 2017 Moto GP calendar, and it features dramatic action shots from all the riders on the grid. Measures: 30 x 30cm\nThe Motocourse Grand Prix & Superbike calendar contains images taken during 2016 of the major players competing in the MotoGP and World Superbike World Championships. Measures: 30 x 40cm\nMarc Marquez Born To Win (BK5147)\nMarquez exploded onto the MotoGP scene in 2013, winning the title in his first season, and proving unstoppable in 2014. This book uses hundreds of fantastic action photos to tell the story of his racing career, from fresh-faced newcomer on 125s, to taking\nOff Road Giants Vol 3 (BK5141)\nThis is the third volume in the series celebrating off-road motorcycling's golden era. It features interviews with 16 riders from the period, talking about their careers and experiences in international trials and scrambling in the 1960s. With stars like\nSeeing Red 2014 book (BK5125)\nSeeing Red 2014 is the tenth volume in the series of British Superbike Reviews following all the action from the opening round to the thrilling conclusion of The Showdown.\nMoto GP: Yesterday and Today (BK4316)\nWell known racing author Michael Scott compares todays high pressure,big business world of MotoGP with its somewhat gentler past. Using pairsof photographs from then and now, he contrasts all aspects of top levelbike racing.\nUnseen McQueen (BK4277)\nAward-winning photographer Barry Feinstein is remembered for his compelling images of the entertainment industrys greatest stars. As Dave Brolan writes in his introduction to this stunning volume, Barry was a brilliant documentary photographer with the eye of a fine artist.\nVintage clothing guru Rin Tanaka writes: I am very honoured to select Miss Kathleen Schaaf as the Queen of Vintage for my Inspiration 2011. Her top-quality vintage collections not only include mens, womens and kids fashions.\nRin Tanakas latest self-published volume features the best of 1970s rock fashion from across the globe. It includes over 800 examples of beautifully photographed vintage clothing presented over 200 pages, and Tanaka presents this collection.\nMy Freedamn! 8 1960s Pop Fashions (BK4134)\nMy Freedamn! 8 continues Rin Tanakas self-published series of books featuring vintage clothing. In this volume he moves on from 1950s fashions of Freedamn! 5-7, and focuses on 1960s American pop fashions. Included are beautifully photographed collections\nMy Freedamn! 7 is Rin Tanakas book dedicated to vintage beach fashions and Aloha shirts. He looks at the history of the Hawaiian and Californian beach wear popular in America in the 1930s-1950s, and photographs many rare examples.\nMy Freedamn! 10 is the biggest in Rin Tanakas self-published series so far, with over a thousand rare vintage items presented in 353 full colour pages. Featuring 1980s new wave fashions, it focuses on New Wave & Hardcore punk street fashions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Regular price: $19.95\nBuy Now with 1 Credit\nBuy Now for $19.95\nI fear my mind and my nether regions might never be the same after this one. I knew that it would be dark and twisty because, Celia Aaron but it was so much more than I was expecting. These woods both terrified and intrigued me while the characters made me nervous and turned me on. I didn’t know what was up or down and I didn’t care. I just loved every word.\nErin Mallon made me so incredibly confused... IN A GOOD WAY. Her narration is one of a kind fantastic. But her male voice took me to places that had me so confused that I don’t even think I will be able to interact with her online every again. The characters that were supposed to strike fear and mystery completely did that as well.\n13 of 13 people found this review helpful\nSuspenseful and Hot all wrapped up in a great story!!! This is my first book by this author and it will not be my last! I couldn't stop listening because I had to know what was happening. I went into this completely blind and spent the entire book on the edge of my seat. The story line was intriguing and the romance was incredibly hot. I love a angry grumpy man who turns out to be so much more than he lets on. I highly recommend this book!\nErin Mallon is the reason I bought this book. She is a favorite of mine and when I saw she was narrating it I knew I needed it. She is a great narrator and her male voices will give you butterflies. She was PERFECT for this book. No idea why audible said Lance Greenfield narrated too cause I never heard him!\n19 of 20 people found this review helpful", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "If you’re looking for fall style inspo, Jennifer Lopez just served up a gorgeous look that’s the perfect way to transition into the season.\nThe Hustlers star looked incredible as she showed off her toned legs in a printed blue Coach dress tucked under a plush fur coat and kicked up her heels on a cement staircase in a pair of furry Coach stiletto sandals we want right now.\nJ.Lo's fans went wild over her Coach Rogue bag - and her entire look\nSHOP: Jennifer Lopez wows in a crop top in new photo that will leave you breathless\nAnd to top things off, she paired the ensemble with Coach’s newest it bag for fall - The Rogue - which is topped with a ‘C’ logo print and versatile straps. You can wear it as a shoulder bag or crossbody, or palm it as a clutch.\nThe singer looked so glamorous in a baby blue dress from the brand\nJ.Lo’s baby blue dress, meanwhile, is cinched at the waist with a figure-flattering tie-up belt and is topped with a yellow bird print and buttoned detailing on the bodice.\nWe loved both and tracked them down on Coach.\nRogue 25 bag, $595, Coach\nPrinted Long Sleeved Dress, $695, Coach\nNeedless to say, J.Lo’s celebrity friends and fans lost it when the Jenny From the Block crooner and Coach posted images on Instagram of her rocking the look to celebrate the fashion house’s new Fall 2021 campaign.\nMORE: J.Lo’s trainer reveals her incredible body-toning workout routine - and you can do it at home\n\"Coach asked me to go rogue and I said yes. #CoachNY #TheRogueBag,\" she captioned a video, which showed her lounging on the staircase, soaking up the sun, and showing off her glowing skin.\nThe Coach Rogue bag is a part of the fashion house's new fall campaign\n\"That coat,\" celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson wrote, while another added, \"The heels! Mama ate,\" singer Kali Uchis chimed in. \"It’s the bag for me,\" an additional follower replied.\nThe photos - and J.Lo’s entire ensemble - are from Coach’s new fall collection, and the Rogue bag, first introduced on the Runway in 2016, is back with a new environmentally responsible version.\nJennifer Lopez twins with Ben Affleck on a mall date in a look no one saw coming\nThis time it’s \"crafted in organic and recycled materials and embroidered with Fall’s menagerie of creatures,\" the brand said in a release, and Kate Moss also appeared in the campaign, sporting the bag in a solid hue.\nKate Moss looked gorgeous palming the Coach Rogue bag paired with a stunning fall coat\n\"The Rogue is perhaps my favorite bag that I’ve designed at Coach,\" Coach Creative Director Stuart Vevers said. \"It has that combination of heritage, offbeat attitude and a sense of authentic American style that perfectly embodies my vision for the house.\"\n\"The Fall collection is inspired by the optimism of things crafted to last, and naturally felt like the right moment to reintroduce the Rogue with a new story created with Juergen and our Coach Family.\"\nThere are so many pieces in it that are fall staples - and you can shop them all here.\nLike this story? Sign up to our newsletter to get other stories like this delivered straight to your inbox.\nHELLO!'s selection is editorial and independently chosen – we only feature items our editors love and approve of. HELLO! may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. To find out more visit our FAQ page.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pot styles perfect for this plant:\nTotal product priceTotal:\nThe Baby Painted Lady is really remarkable! She has neon green leaves as a young lady, but once she matures these leaves will become a dark green tint. Besides her amazing colour, she is covered in a speckled pattern, something that makes this Lady a real eye-catcher. She also has bright red stems to compliment her beautiful leaves. All with all, this Painted Lady is something that can’t miss inside your urban jungle!\n- lovespartly shady\n- benefitsair cleaner\nThis fancy lady will love some moist soil, you can provide her with this through regular small waterings. Just keep an eye out on any water that might be accumulating on the bottom of the pot. Give her a spot with lots of bright light and a humidity of 60% or higher. She is a natural climber and would be very grateful for a plant stake or pole.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Balloon Kid Nintendo Game Boy game, includes cartridge only. Cleaned, tested and comes with a FREE cartridge bag!\nTake to the skies in a balloon to save your younger brother. In the little town of Pencilvania, there lived a brother and sister who loved to play with balloons. Alice and her younger brother Jim would spend countless days filling the skies with their balloons. One day, Jim filled all of his balloons and tied them together to make a beautiful balloon rainbow across the sky. But suddenly, a strong wind came and carried Jim away. As Alice, you must save your brother from peril. Float through eight different stages as you follow Jim's trail of balloons. Collect as many balloons as possible to earn bonuses. Test your piloting skills to avoid enemies, or let go of your balloons to face enemies on the ground. In \"Balloon Trip\" mode, compete for the highest score and move up the ranks. Take a big gulp of courage and give Alice a hand as she searches for her missing brother.\n- Cartridge bag and game cartridge\n- Nintendo Game Boy, GameBoy\n- NTSC (North America)\n- Not Rated", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cupcake, Pink Reindeer Personalized Reindeer – Cubbies®\nCupcake the pink reindeer – A classic personalized reindeer that is a soft toy for children. Popular with boys and girls, the unique reindeer design makes Cupcake super cuddly that is perfect for babies, toddlers, and young children.\nCupcake is also an ideal reindeer for personalizing for Christmas. Its beautiful appearance accompanied with my ability to personalize any design or message makes this personalized teddy bear the ideal gift.\n- Custom Cubbies soft toy design\n- Hand embroidered personalized design & message\n- Personalize for a variety of occasions.\n- Unique zip design – Enabling you to remove stuffing pods and safely wash your Cubbies teddy\n- Machine washable\n- Safe for all ages\n- Size: 13″ height", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Wednesday, 27 February 2013\nCardiovascular Fit Rotations\nI've invented a new version of the \"Fit Rotations\" that students really seemed to enjoy! We tried a seven station \"Cardiovascular Fit Rotation\". Usually our Fit Rotations are focused around strength development with a little bit of cardio mixed in.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Leather Garter Choker & Wrap Bracelet\nWrap your neck in supple Italian lambskin leather and Lalita’s signature garter closure for an understated yet tantalizing look to leave those in your wake wondering. . .\nGarter can be worn in front to accentuate the unique hardware or in the back of the neck for a more simple look.\n- Made in Los Angeles, CA\n- Italian lambskin leather, stainless steel garter clips\n- Free First Class Shipping in the USA\n- Free USPS Priority Mail Shipping in the USA for orders of $250+\n- For all other shipping rates please take a look at our Shipping & Returns\nPlease refer to the US Lingerie Size Charts for most of our designer brands\n- Hot Couture\n- Les P’tites Folies\n- Maison Close\n- Patrice Catanzaro\nIf you are purchasing a gift and have questions about sizing, shipping times, or need any assistance, please email our Concierge.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pure Elegance! This beautiful bridal necklace is the perfect addition to your special day, or to bring a touch of sparkle to your evening.\nMade from sterling silver with beautiful yellow cubic zirconia with clear CZ surround on a CZ studded drop. Pair with the matching earrings for the ultimate look.\nIn stock (can be backordered)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Practical versatility\nSimple and stylish, the Bristol End Table is a modern design piece that works with great versatility around the home. The table comes from the popular Bristol Collection, which features a stylish range of matching tables and storage pieces.\n- Carefully sourced materials\nWorking well in any room of the home, the Bristol End Table is made from a combination of solid and engineered wood, which has been carefully sourced for long lasting quality. Shop a wider range of side and end tables available from Brosa.\n- Walnut brown\nThe Bristol End Table comes in a sophisticated shade of deep brown, celebrating the natural grain of the wood. A walnut veneer protects the piece from wear and tear and adds a smooth finish to the look.\n- Leaves Warehouse in\n- Chocolate Brown", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "I can't believe it has been almost a week since I have posted here. I have been knee deep in wrapping up yearbook projects for the school that my kids attend... really knee-deep would have been ok, but it seemed more like-neck deep! It is sooo fun to do, but I am always glad to see the end product & hand it off to the kids. That leaves me with catching up to do here, in my flying lessons class & catching up on other people's blogs (which is frankly my favorite part!).\nI have always been magazine-chaser. I love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. Blogs are really just an extension of that. BUT, I have always been a lurker. I almost never commented on other people's blogs. I just always thought, \"Why would they care what a total stranger says?' but now I realize how fun it is to get a comment back. It's a totally different feeling and it really makes me want to blog. It makes it so much more fun.... I have to say, before I felt like that crazy person talking to herself!\nThis photo-free post seems somehow unfinished, but it will do for now. I'll try to edit later and add some pretty pictures. :)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Carden Park Hotel has accelerated its ambitious growth strategy with the unveiling of a £750,000 investment into its interior architecture with a new, stylish Morgan’s Bar and walnut-crafted reception area. The newly refurbished areas have both been designed in keeping with the other modern spaces found within the hotel.\nThe reinvented reception has been transformed into a more welcoming space, reflecting a sense of arrival aligned with the hotel’s strategic vision to become one of the UK’s most luxurious destination resorts for both conference events and leisure guests. Featuring a sleek, oversized reception desk with grand bronze columns, the new reception area enjoys a flood of natural light and has been designed to improve the flow of guests in and out of the hotel.\nCurving around the back of the reception, the newly redesigned Morgan’s Bar continues to reflect a cosy, club-like atmosphere with dark, rich finishes and wood panelling throughout. The new key focal point of the space is the beautiful feature fireplace, which wrapped in the signature walnut panelling, creates a warming and comfortable place for relaxation. The area is complete with bespoke chandeliers, exclusively created by Porta Romana, and a British-made personalised Wilton’s carpet.\n“We are delighted to unveil our new hotel developments, showing our continual commitment to becoming a world-class destination. From our award-winning and globally renowned spa facilities to our elegant fine dining, we will always strive to enhance our customers’ journey with us and are serious about meeting their expectations. The reception area and Morgan’s Bar are clear examples of the luxurious, welcoming, and open space we have created for them.” Director & General Manager Hamish Ferguson\nand receive the latest news, events and much more.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "With incredible powers of strength and healing, Wolverine reveals his retractable claws and uses them to slash down opponents.\nWith the Marvel Legends Series, both kid and adult Marvel fans can start a legendary collection of comic- and movie-based Marvel characters. This 6-inch Wolverine figure is highly articulated and features a comic-inspired design, making it another epic addition to the Marvel Legends Series.\n- 6 inches (15.24cm)\n- Comic-inspired design\n- Detailed design and premium articulation\n- Collect other Marvel Legends Series figures (each sold separately)\n- Wolverine figure\n- Warlock Build-A-Figure Part", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Birmingham, Ala. (April 29, 2016) – BHM BIZ has named the Birmingham 205, a list of the Magic City’s most influential executives. CMH’s President, Everett Hatcher, made the list! Peruse the publication here and see if you can find him!\nBirmingham, Ala. (May 3, 2016) – One of the homes that CMH’s own Michael O’Kelley designed in Mt. Laurel won a Gold Award for its category this week in the Greater Birmingham Parade of Homes. It was also first runner-up overall. See more images on our Facebook!\nBefore we close our books on the first week of 2017 and ride off into the weekend sunset, let’s take a moment to meet one of the newest members of the CMH family, Steve Kinney. He is a multi-talented and invaluable asset to the firm (you have probably spied his photography gracing our blog and… Continued\nBirmingham, Ala. (July 24, 2013) – Allen McCulla is a Senior Associate with CMH Architects and has been with the firm for over 14 years. With a dual degree from Auburn University in Architecture and Building Science, he’s been the project architect for many complex projects, such as the Riverchase Galleria Renovation and The Shops of Grand River. On… Continued", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "19th Century Upholstered Wing Back Armchair\nDealer Contact Info\nA Top Quality Late 19th Century antique upholstered wing back armchair.c.1890. Carved solid oak undercarriage with scroll feet. Original horsehair upholstery recovered to a high standard on oatmeal linen fabric. Foliage carved decorative front. Measures 31\" x 31\"deep x 45.5\"high, seat 20.5\"high.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A TALE OF A GAS-LIT GHOST, by Anonymous\nDOG OR DEMON? by Theo Gift\nTHE STORY OF MEDHANS LEA, by E. Heron & H. Heron\nHOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY, by E. F. Benson\nON THE BRIGHTON ROAD, by Richard Middleton\nTHE NEW PASS, by Amelia B. Edwards\nTHE VIOLET CAR, by E. Nesbit\nKENTUCKY'S GHOST, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward\nTHE SHIP THAT SAW A GHOST, by Frank Norris\nCHRISTMAS EVE ON A HAUNTED HULK, by Frank Cowper\nYUKI-ONNA, by Lafcadio Hearn\nTHE ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT, by Washington Irving\nFULLCIRCLE, by John Buchan\nTHE GHOST IN THE CAP’N BROWN HOUSE, by Harriet Beecher Stowe\nTHE STRANGER, by Ambrose Bierce\nTHE SOUTHWEST CHAMBER, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman\nTHE READJUSTMENT, by Mary Austin\nEVELINE’S VISITANT, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon\nSIR EDMUND ORME, by Henry James\nTHE HAUNTED DRAGOON, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch\nTHE PICTURE ON THE WALL, by Katharine Tynan\nTHE BANSHEE'S WARNING, by Charlotte Riddell\nTHE SERPENT'S HEAD, by Lady Dilke\nTHE DEAD MAN OF VARLEY GRANGE, by Anonymous\nTHE SCREAMING SKULL, by F. Marion Crawford\nIf you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for \"Wildside Press Megapack\" to see the more than 180 other entries in the series, covering science fiction, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!\nThe Silent Man, by Henry Fothergill Chorley\nThe Strange Ormonds, by Leitch Ritchie\nThe Mysterious Wedding: A Danish Story, by Heinrich Steffans\nThe Burial by Fire, by Louisa Medina Hamblin\nThe Vampyre, by Elizabeth Ellet\nThe Sleepless Woman, by William Jerdan\nA Peep At Death, by Peter Von Geist\nKillcrop the Changeling, by Richard Thompson\nCarl Bluven and the Strange Mariner, by Henry David Inglis\nThe Prediction, by George Henry Borrow\nThe Story of the Unfinished Picture, by Charles Hooten\nEule: The Emperor’s Dwarf, by John Rutter Chorley\nThe Green Huntsman, by Joseph Holt Ingraham\nA Revelation of a Previous Life, by Nathaniel Parker Willis\nMoods of the Mind: The Old Portrait, by Emma Embury\nA Night on the Enchanted Mountain, by Charles Fenno Hoffman\nThe Living Apparition, by G.P.R. James\nThe Three Souls, by Alexander Chatrian and Emile Erckmann\nThe Death Watch, by Luise Muhlback\nAn Evening of Lucy Ashton’s, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon\nThe Haunted Homestead, by Henry William Herbert\nThe Withered Man, by William Leete Stone\nLa Malroche, by Louisa Stuart Costello\nThe Three Visits, by Auguste Vitu\nLieutenant Castenac, by Erckman-Chatrian\nTorture by Hope, by Villiers de L’isle-Adams\nThe Black Cupid, by Lafcadio Hearn\nThe Bundle of Letters, by Moritz Jokai\nNissa, by Albert Delpit\nThe Dream, by John Galt\nAnd don't forget to search for \"Megapack\" in this ebook store for other volumes in the series, covering such subjects as ghost stories, vampire stories, science fiction, horror, adventure, and much, much more!\nLe otto storie qui presentate costituiscono una documentazione variegata della cultura tradizionale giapponese, spaziando dalle storie sul Budda, ai racconti sui fantasmi e sulle creature fantastiche del folklore nipponico (come i tengu), e alle riflessioni sulle implicazioni dottrinarie del buddismo zen, e sono tratte dal volume di racconti intitolato \"In ghostly Japan\" (1899).\nsus cuentos fantásticos, fue el primero de sus libros editado en\ncastellano. Lo rescatamos ahora en la tersa traducción original del un\ndía afamado poeta uruguayo Armando Vasseur, que se ha convertido en un\ndesconocido sin dejar de ser un clásico; o viceversa.\nLafcadio Hearn's classic Japanese ghost stories receive a Manga University makeover in this collection of 17 tales of terror, each lavishly illustrated with ethereal, bone-chilling artwork by Japanese horror specialist Maki Miyamoto.\nCompiled and first translated into English more than a century ago, this is the definitive compendium of Japanese tales of the supernatural.\nIn 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. In 1894, just as Japan was truly opening to the West and global interest in Japanese culture was burgeoning, Hearn published this delightful series of essays glorifying what he called the \"rare charm of Japanese life.\"\nBeautifully written and a joy to read, Hearn's love letters to the land of the rising sun enchant with their sweetly lyrical descriptions of winter street fairs, puppet theaters, religious statuaries, even the Japanese smile and its particular allure.\nA wonderful journal of immersion on a foreign land, this will bewitch Japanophiles and travelers to the East.\nThe regular trade in musical insects is of comparatively modern origin. In Tōkyō its beginnings date back only to the Kwansei era (1789-1800),—at which period, however, the capital of the Shōgunate was still called Yedo. A complete history of the business was recently placed in my hands,—a history partly compiled from old documents, and partly from traditions preserved in the families of several noted insect-merchants of the present day.\nThe founder of the Tōkyō trade was an itinerant foodseller named Chūzō, originally from Echigo, who settled in the Kanda district of the city in the latter part of the eighteenth century. One day, while making his usual rounds, it occurred to him to capture a few of the suzumushi, or bell-insects, then very plentiful in the Negishi quarter, and to try the experiment of feeding them at home. They throve and made music in confinement; and several of Chūzō’s neighbors, charmed by their melodious chirruping, asked to be supplied with suzumushi for a consideration. From this accidental beginning, the demand for suzumushi grew rapidly to such proportions that the foodseller at last decided to give up his former calling and to become an insect-seller.\nChūzō only caught and sold insects: he never imagined that it would be more profitable to breed them. But the fact was presently discovered by one of his customers,—a man named Kirayama, then in the service of the Lord Aoyama Shimodzuké-no-Kami. Kiriyama had bought from Chūzō severalsuzumushi, which were kept and fed in a jar half-filled with moist clay. They died in the cold season; but during the following summer Kiriyama was agreeably surprised to find the jar newly peopled with a number of young ones, evidently born from eggs which the first prisoners had left in the clay. He fed them carefully, and soon had the pleasure, my chronicler says, of hearing them “begin to sing in small voices.” Then he resolved to make some experiments; and, aided by Chūzō, who furnished the males and females, he succeeded in breeding not only suzumushi, but three other kinds of singing-insects also,—kantan, matsumushi, and kutsuwamushi. He discovered, at the same time, that, by keeping his jars in a warm room, the insects could be hatched considerably in advance of the natural season. Chūzō sold for Kiriyama these home-bred singers; and both men found the new undertaking profitable beyond expectation.\nThe example set by Kiriyama was imitated by a tabiya, or stocking-maker named Yasubei (commonly known as Tabiya Yasubei by reason of his calling), who lived in Kanda-ku. Yasubei likewise made careful study of the habits of singing-insects, with a view to their breeding and nourishment; and he soon found himself able to carry on a small trade in them. Up to that time the insects sold in Yedo would seem to have been kept in jars or boxes: Yasubei conceived the idea of having special cages manufactured for them. A man named Kondō, vassal to the Lord Kamei of Honjō-ku, interested himself in the matter, and made a number of pretty little cages which delighted Yasubei, and secured a large order from him. The new invention found public favor at once; and Kondō soon afterwards established the first manufactory of insect-cages.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Everybody in the town knew who he was, but nobody knew what he looked like. Everybody knew what he did, but nobody knew how he did it.\nIt was as if he ate everybody in the town, but what he did is nearly impossible.\nEverybody in the town knew where he was, but nobody was brave enough to go there. Everybody knew once you enter the woods, there's no way out.\nThe woods are endless as far as we know. We never found an end to it due to the lack of technology. We live in the year 850, and civilizations are still building up. We lost a lot due to the monster who attacked two years ago. Even now, we are still rebuilding what he destroyed.\nNearly everybody died when he attacked. I was the only survivor. But... why didn't he kill me?\nI lost everything and everyone. My mother was the last one to die. I watched him rip her neck with his teeth while stabbing her in the chest. I watched him stand up, huffing. I was frozen in place, I couldn't move. He thought everybody was dead, then turned around and saw me. I was fifteen years old, witnessing a homicidal maniac murder my mother.\nHe started at me as I was frozen in my spot. His eyes were a beautiful mixture of blue and green. How could a cold blooded killer have such beautiful eyes while my eyes are... dead...\nI felt dead even though my heart was still beating. The killer was still ten feet away from me, looking at me. Why was he only looking at me though? Why wasn't he killing me?\nI gasped when he ran away. I was careful when following him, seeing he left the town and into the woods.\nI went back through the town, seeing everything was ruined. Not a single building was standing. How on earth did he do this?\nTo this day, nobody knows what happened, we just know what the killer looks like and we know all of us aren't brave enough to enter those woods. We do want to kill him, but don't know how. Some were suggesting a military, while others suggested cutting down the trees. Due to it being winter, we can't see walking paths, so we would be utterly lost.\nEver since the town of Shiganshina lost everything, I was forced to help rebuild it. I'm the only person who knows who the killer is, and nobody knows I know. They all assumed he ran into the woods since nothing has happened within two years and nobody seemed suspicious.\nWe have a town hall now and we are going to have meeting about how we are going to kill this beast in human form. I know I should be the one to kill him since I saw him face to face, but I can't seem to get enough courage.\nI've always been training since I was two years old. I was going to be humanities strongest, and I am now. If I am humanities strongest and can't go into the woods, then there really is no hope on killing him.\nAfter the attack, I lost everything. I still don't have a home to this day. He really ruined my life and I will kill him if I ever see him again. I've been living out in the streets for two years because he destroyed my home and killed my mother, uncle and cousin.\nI know I am strong enough to kill him... I just need to find the courage...", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Tara over at Sticky Fingers is making a Bloggers Wedding Album 🙂\nI love anything weddingey-even more so now I’m not planning mine! So I’m looking forward to seeing everyone’s photos.\nMy photo was taken just after the ceremony, I can remember the feeling of ‘phew and relax!’ we’d made it, we were married! 🙂", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Time: 03:30 am\nSubmitted by: Jam\nThat has never happened to me before and it freaked the hell out of me.\nI couldn’t sleep tonight and was playing on my phone in the dark. Reading through buzz feed. I live in a gated apartment residence on the third floor, facing other apartments.\nI always leave the curtains and blinds open to get some light as I’m scared of complete darkness.\nSo I’m playing on my phone and something weird catches my attention from the corner of my eye. On the opposite window, an incredibly intense, round light has appeared out of nowhere, reflected from something outside that I can’t see. I check it out, open my window and can’t see a thing buto the reflection of light is there on the window facing my building. It is so intense that it lights my own room.\nI go back to bed and look at it again. It is still there and looks like the moon only, the moon is in the opposite direction. I notice the light is moving and disappears to reappear on the next window. It keeps moving slowly then fades away.\nI’m freaked. There was not a thing I know of that could produce such an intense light and I never saw something like that before.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "\"TAKEN: 2-DISC EXTENDED CUT\"\nby Kevin Carr\n|| MOVIE: **** (out of 5 stars) |\nBLU-RAY EXPERIENCE: ***** (out of 5 stars)\nLiam Neeson as BRYAN MILLS\nMaggie Grace as KIM\nKatie Cassidy as AMANDA\nFamke Janssen as LENORE\nXander Berkeley as STUART\nRated PG-13 & Unrated\nStudio: 20th Century Fox\nDirected by: Pierre Morel\nBack to DVD Review Home\nWHAT IT’S ABOUTClick here to read more DVD reviews!\nClick here to read more movie reviews!\nClick here to watch films by 7M Pictures!\nEx-CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has changed careers to be closer to his seventeen-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace). Although he’s ridiculously overprotective, he allows Kim and her mother to talk him into letter her take a vacation to Europe with her friend. Once she arrives in Paris, Kim and her friend are targeted by an international sex slavery ring, kidnapping them right from their apartment. This sends Bryan on the warpath, using his many resources to uncover the people behind the human trafficking ring and make them pay.\nWHAT I LIKED\n“Taken” was one of the pleasant surprises of the January movie season, which is usually filled with awful films that couldn’t make it anywhere else on the release schedule. The movie had been out for a while in Europe and Australia, but when it landed here in the states, it was devoured by moviegoing audiences.\nAnyone who is a parent will relate to the rage and unrelenting vengeance that the character of Bryan feels. This is what makes the unsettling things he does (which includes torture, murder and other acts of violence) seem completely justified. In some ways, this is a bit of a cheap shot. After all, the tugging at the parental heart strings isn’t exactly fair... unless you’re dealing with a shoot-‘em-up action movie like this one.\nLiam Neeson is fantastic as the badass ex-spy going after the people who took his daughter. My hope is that this movie will do for him what “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” failed to do. After “Taken,” maybe the rest of the world will see him as formidable of an action star as they have seen folks like Jason Statham. Neeson deserves more movies like this.\nWHAT I DIDN’T LIKE\nAlthough it has the look of a huge budgeted film, “Taken” is relatively modest, and at times those tells show in the film. As an action film, it uses smaller cameras to shoot, and also relies on video technology, which can break down in some scenes and give it a BBC look rather than something for the major cinematic markets.\nAnd while Liam Neeson does a fine job acting, along with Famke Janssen as Kim’s mother an Xander Berkeley as her step-father, the weak link in the acting chain is Maggie Grace. The actress is significantly older than the under-18 character traveling abroad, and Grace lowballs her behavior, making her seem more like a 13-year-old girl than someone on the verge of adulthood.\n“Taken” is given a fine Blu-Ray release, which actually ramps up its value as a film from just a basic action release to a classy set. First, both the theatrical cut and the extended cut are available on both discs, although there’s not an awful lot of difference to the releases. Having seen the original in the theaters, nothing jumped out at me when I watched the extended cut, aside from a little more violence and blood.\nThe extended cut does come with an audio commentary with director Pierre Morel, cinematographer Michel Abramowicz and car stunt supervisor Michel Julienne. This commentary track gives a more in-depth look at the intricacies of production on a film of this nature, beyond the simple director reflections. An additional commentary by co-screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen is also available.\nThere are two featurettes: “Le Making-of” and “Avant Premiere,” both of which are bi-lingual in French and English. The first provides a decent look at the production while the second gives a glossy look at the premiere of the film in France.\nBlu-Ray features include several “Inside Action” side-by-side comparisons of the storyboards to the finished product. However, the best feature on the disc is the Blu-Ray enable “Black Ops Field Manual,” which plays within the feature and highlights locations where the film takes place, weapon information and wound delivery in victims. It also keeps a running tally of how many people are injured, how many are killed and how far Bryan has traveled to save his daughter.\nFinally, there is a second disc for Digital Copy purposes, for the film to be downloaded onto portable media players in the extended cut only.\nWHO’S GOING TO LIKE THIS MOVIE\nAction film fanatics.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "While the average lifespan of a basketball is 3-5 years and synthetic rubber can prove difficult to decompose, Ol' Dirty Planters fosters sustainability by up cycling new basketballs and recycling old ones into planters where they'll have a forever home.\nJustin Cox started Ol' Dirty Planters as a way to address the sustainability issues surrounding synthetic rubber, while finding a way to get more people into plants that typically wouldn't own them. So he fused his passion for Wutang, community and basketball with his love for plants. The result is a community-based, Black-owned, sustainable business that connects basketball culture to horticulture in the coolest way possible.\nShop our Fall collection", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Series: Shades of Death #3\nPublished by Mira on August 29th 2017\nBuy on Amazon\nA killer with nothing left to lose…\nAfraid or not, Detective Bobbie Gentry has a monster to confront. The pain of losing her family and nearly her life to a criminal's vile hunger is still fresh, but now the landscape is different. Now she's not alone. Now she has Nick Shade to trust. Nick treats the terror of his past with vengeance. He's dedicated his life to hunting serial killers, and he'd give up his last breath to save Bobbie. When a string of killings bloodies Savannah's elite society and causes cold cases to resurface, Bobbie is captured in a city more haunted than Nick's inescapable nightmares. And as the murderer strikes close, Nick and Bobbie will need to become even closer if they're going to survive.\n‘The Coldest Fear’ picks up immediately where ‘A Deeper Grave’ left off, where Bobbie Gentry rushes after Nick Shade to help conquer his demons after he helped her with hers. There’s so much I like about this series and it’s primarily because of the unusual partnership that Debra Webb has gotten going between Bobbie and Nick: their pasts, their sheer capabilities to rise above their broken lives, their similar passions and the depth of their own feelings. Yet very little of that shows up in this book and without this defining feature that I’d found in the past two books, ‘The Coldest Fear’ stayed a very good read but not a fantastic one.\nI’d expected that this was going to be a story of Nick and Bobbie working together to search for the man who supposedly orchestrated every recent tragedy in Bobbie’s life. What I hadn’t expected was to see Nick pulling so far away that he stayed hidden in the shadows, mostly out of sight and out of the narrative, still caught in his self-recriminating guilt because he would never be the kind of man for Bobbie who deserved better. This partnership that I’d envisioned was sadly, nowhere to be seen and like Bobbie, I was frustrated seeing Nick disappear when he was clearly needed and his insistence that he had to go at solving the biggest case alone was more hindrance than help by the time I reached the halfway mark. Instead, a seemingly unrelated sub-plot came into play—and which seemed irrelevant—with the pieces only falling into place later as Bobbie gets drawn into a bizarre situation of missing children from a cold case that is 32 years old with Nick relegated to nearly a peripheral character while Bobbie conducted her investigations with another officer in Savannah. It was as though I’d stepped into a separate police procedural with many POVs inserted into the narrative as the plot spirals out into peripheral details and rabbit trails that were bewildering to say the least.\nThere are however, shocking revelations towards the end and these strings are brought together quite masterfully by Webb as characters finally reveal the fractured history that they all share. It almost makes the long detour worth it, though it was difficult to see anything past the destruction of all the characters’ lives after a while. The hunt for twisted, psychopathic serial killers is claustrophobically wearing and the characters do bleakly reflect this: their personal tragedies are worn deep on their skin and psyches and no one comes away untouched at all.\nThis series definitely falls more into the suspense/thriller genre with very little emphasis on the romance, which, because of my own personal tastes, was the only disappointment. It’s well-plotted and a complex enough puzzle to get any suspense/thriller-fan going especially with all the mudding details that don’t add up, yet I couldn’t help but think that the overarching story feels very unfinished beyond Bobbie’s personal acceptance of events.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "what size is the stone? i need 0.5 (I lost my engagement ring, i need cheap replacement for now), please help :(\nITEM#: 13606343This gorgeous engagement-style ring from Ultimate CZ showcases a single round-cut cubic zirconia stone. The solitaire ring is crafted of sterling silver with a highly polished finish.\n- PalmBeach Classic CZ Collection\n- Stone colors: White\n- Stone shapes: Round\n- One prong-set round-cut cubic zirconia measures 8 mm\n- Total stone weight: 2 carats\n- Metal: Sterling silver\n- Finish: High polish\n- Metal weight: 2.8 grams\n- Ring setting dimensions: 7 mm wide x 1.8 mm long\n- Band dimensions: 1.5 mm wide\nAll carat weights and measurements are approximate and may vary slightly from the listed dimensions. Treatment code CR. See for further information.\n|Ring Style||Engagement Solitaire|\n|Gemstone Color||Silver White|\n|Band Width||1-2 mm|\n|Dimensions||See product dimension|\n- Disclosures & Guidelines\n- Filter By:\n- Most Helpful\n- Most Recent\nI purchased this ring during pregnancy and postpartum when my real ring didn't fit me. Unlike my real ring, this ring was the style and size I would have liked for my real ring. I bought it at this price thinking it would start looking old soon and I would have to replace it. It's a year later and it looks real, and new as the day I bought it. Amazing value for money!Read More\nMy daughter loved it... good product and very nice price!!Read More\nSits up SO tall, metal is very thin and cheap looking, but it's only $** so you get what you pay for.Read More\nA lot of the reviews say this ring looks real. It makes me wonder if those people have ever seen a real diamond. Don't get me wrong the ring is pretty. However, if you are wanting it to pass as real you need to get something else. The stone is large is obviously a fake. I was hoping it would be a little smaller, and he setting is really high. Maybe it would look more realistic with another setting. If you are looking for costume jewelry this is good, if you want it for everyday wear... keep looking.Read More\nI wear a size 71/2. But try to find that. The reviews for this ring said that it was a little large for a size 7. So I bought this ring and it fits just right for me. The setting is fine also. It works for me.Read More\nlove this ring! get compliments on it all the time! just wish i would have gotten a size smallerRead More\nthis ring is fun. its large, much larger than i expected. I did not get this as an engagement ring, rather just to wear for fun. it looks like a classic solitaire, but if you are trying to fool anyone, i would purchase a smaller CZ. the ring itself is made well, though. so I would definitely recommend for the price.Read More\nQuestions & Answers\nHello ners2b, the stone is approximately 2 carats. Thanks for shopping with us!\nTips on Wearing Cubic Zirconia Rings\nIf you're looking for sparkle on a budget, consider cubic zirconia rings. Cubic zirconias are beautiful gemstones that show well in all types of jewelry. Sometimes abbreviated as CZ, a cubic zirconia is a synthetic diamond gemstone. Cubic zirconia jewelry is popular for its affordability, flawless appearance and versatility. These rings are lovely and stunning and come in many varieties, including stackable rings, cocktail rings, engagement rings, promise rings and big, beautiful solitaires.\nTop 5 Cubic Zirconia Rings\nOwning even just one shiny, glittering ring gives you a whole new world of style options. Sparkly rings are essential when you are dressing up for a party, but they look just as fabulous with your favorite pair of worn jeans. You don't have to splurge on diamonds to add shimmery jewelry to your collection. Cubic zirconia rings can be just as lovely as rings embellished with more expensive gemstones. Cubic zirconias look just like diamonds when viewed with the naked eye, but they are grown in a lab. This makes cubic zirconia rings much more affordable than other types of gemstone jewelry. A wide selection of cubic zirconia jewelry awaits you at Overstock.com. Allow us to narrow down the choices with a few of our favorite pieces of fashion jewelry.\nWhat to Wear with a Cubic Zirconia Cocktail Ring\nRight now one of the trendiest pieces of jewelry is the cocktail ring. Cubic zirconia cocktail rings allow women to indulge in extravagant rings without emptying their bank accounts. Cubic zirconia rings are available in a range of styles and each is very durable. High-quality cubic zirconia cocktail rings can be found in every price range. You can choose from cubic zirconia rings with sparkling clear stones or colorful gems set in sterling silver, white gold, yellow gold or gold-plated silver. Now that you are aware of the many stylish options available in cubic zirconia jewelry, use these tips to fashionably pair cocktail rings with the clothing and jewelry you already own.\nTop 5 Settings for Cubic Zirconia Rings\nInject more sparkle into your life with cubic zirconia rings. CZ rings are gorgeous and durable, yet they are more affordable than diamond and gemstone rings. Cubic zirconias look just like diamonds; it takes a trained gemologist to tell the difference between the two stones. Cubic zirconia rings make beautiful and budget-friendly engagement rings, as well as stunning fashion jewelry. You can buy cubic zirconia jewelry for yourself or for a loved one, but before you shop, consider these tips on CZ ring settings.\nBest Reasons to Shop for Cubic Zirconia Engagement Rings\nCubic zirconia engagement rings are becoming a popular wedding jewelry choice. Cubic zirconias, also called CZs, are synthetic gemstones. The most popular of lab-created diamond alternatives, CZs look just like diamonds to the naked eye. Cubic zirconia engagement rings are beautiful, ethical, and affordable. Consider all of these reasons to shop for CZ engagement rings when you are looking at wedding jewelry.\nTop 5 Styles of Cubic Zirconia Engagement Rings\nWhen you are shopping for engagement rings, you will find many featuring stunning cubic zirconias. Choosing a cubic zirconia engagement ring can give you the style you really want, even if you can't afford the same style in the diamond ring category. Cubic zirconia rings are built to last, especially if you select one with a platinum or gold setting. Whether as a temporary, affordable engagement ring or as an eco-friendly investment ring, cubic zirconia rings make stylish choices.\nHow to Care for Cubic Zirconia Jewelry\nCubic zirconias are beautiful and brilliant, making them well-suited for use in jewelry. They are also affordable diamond alternatives because they are created in a lab and, in many cases, must be tested in a lab to determine whether a stone is a diamond or a cubic zirconia, also known as a CZ. Cubic zirconia jewelry is quite easy to care for and doesn't scratch easily, but there are a few things you can do to keep your cubic zirconia rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces looking their best.\nFAQs about Cubic Zirconia Jewelry\nCubic zirconia jewelry gives you the sparkle of gorgeous gems without the high price tag. But cubic zirconia jewelry is not simply cheap jewelry; it is lab-created, yet durable and beautiful. If you're not sure if CZ jewelry is for you, read these answers to the most frequently asked questions about it, so you can learn more about the sparkling synthetic gemstone and shop with confidence for the pieces that are perfect for your style and budget.\nBest Cubic Zirconia Bracelet Styles\nLuxury bracelets are true indulgences; wearing sparkling gemstones on your wrist is fantastically opulent. If you are looking for a great way to add luxurious, sparkling gems to your bracelet and jewelry collections without breaking the budget, consider shopping cubic zirconia bracelets. Cubic zirconias are lab-created diamond alternatives, and they look just like the real thing. In fact, cubic zirconia gems can be even better than diamonds because they have lab-perfected clarity and color. Cubic zirconia bracelets are available in many styles. You can find cubic zirconia jewelry that looks just like more expensive diamond bracelets or choose a piece of fashion jewelry that is unique. Add cubic zirconia jewelry to your jewelry collection with our list of the best pieces featuring this gemstone.\n100 Facets CZ Buying Guide\nEven though dazzling jewels have been around for centuries, a new discovery or innovation still comes along once in a while that truly captures our imagination. That's why we are excited to tell you all about 100-facet CZs, a new design in cubic zirconia jewelry. This collection showcases a unique gem cut just for cubic zirconia -- a cut with 100 facets per gem. The 100-facet CZ cut enhances the gem's brilliance and turns it into a magnificent jewel.\nHow to Buy a Birthstone Bracelet\nPersonalization is the driving force behind our daily need to accessorize. One of the best ways to personalize your look is with birthstone jewelry. A birthstone bracelet features your birth month's gemstone and can be layered with other jewelry or worn alone for a simple, classic look. You have many options when shopping for a birthstone bracelet. You can buy a bracelet with authentic gemstones or save money on jewelry featuring cubic zirconias. Many styles exist to suit your personal jewelry tastes. Use these tips to buy the perfect birthstone bracelet for your collection.\nChoosing the Right Density for Your Memory Foam Mattress\nA decade ago, choosing a memory foam mattress was easier because there were so few brands and options. However, as the prices of memory foam mattresses have dropped, more brands have begun producing memory foam bedding, and choosing the right mattress has become more challenging. However, one factor remains constant throughout the different brands: memory foam density. Memory foam density, expressed in pounds per cubic foot, makes a big difference in the softness, durability, support, and price of your mattress. Knowing a little about the different densities of memory foam mattresses can simplify the buying process and help you find the memory foam mattress that's right for you.\nSterling Silver Rings Fact Sheet\nFrom extravagant gemstone cocktail rings to simple, classic wedding bands, sterling silver rings are beautiful and go with everything. Shiny sterling silver is versatile, durable and soft enough to be engraved or molded into a variety of ring designs. Sterling silver rings are popular for their neutral nature and incredible value. Sterling silver is one of the top metals preferred for jewelry and is a great choice when shopping for men's and women's accessories. Sterling silver engagement rings and wedding bands are available in many varieties. Add a sterling silver ring to your jewelry collection or give sterling silver jewelry as a gift.\nBest Diamond Alternatives\nSparkling jewels add so much pizzazz to any outfit, and diamonds are often the jewel of choice. However, diamonds are not the only colorless gemstones used in jewelry. Here are four more gemstones that will give your jewelry collection plenty of sparkle. These gems are not only beautiful, but they are also more affordable than diamonds.\nHow to Save Money on Wedding Rings\nA wedding is a thrilling event, but if you aren't careful when planning one, you can easily lose control of your finances. You don't have to skip all of the dreamy details just because you are planning a wedding on a budget. Saving money on big things like wedding rings can make a huge difference. Beautiful wedding bands don't have to be expensive when you know how to shop and what to look for. Wedding jewelry is available in a variety of price ranges to suit the needs of every bride and groom, and when you shop for wedding rings on sale, you can get the rings of your dreams without going into debt.\nBest Affordable Cufflinks\nStylish men use cufflinks to add polish and shine to a nice ensemble. Cufflinks are available in many styles, and they make a very classy gift before a wedding, on a romantic holiday, or for an anniversary. A collection of cufflinks doesn't have to be expensive. When shopping for affordable jewelry, look for specific materials that will add to your outfit without breaking your budget.\nTop 10 Sterling Silver Jewelry Styles\nSterling silver is a fabulous metal for jewelry of all kinds. Sterling silver is a composition of 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent metal alloy. Copper is a popular alloy for sterling silver because it makes silver more durable. Sterling silver jewelry allows you to add this precious metal to your jewelry box without breaking the bank. Sterling silver jewelry is shiny and lustrous, making it a jeweler's favorite; plus, sterling silver is malleable enough to be formed into different jewelry designs and has a shade that is neutral and stunning at the same time. Whether you are looking for silver rings, sterling silver charm bracelets or another silver jewelry selection, our top 10 list will inspire you.\nBest Cuff Bracelet Styles to Wear to Work\nYou want to maintain a fashionable work wardrobe, but you don't want to let trends take over your business. It is important to appear professional and sophisticated, but wearing the same muted, neutral suits, slacks and button-up shirts every weekday can quickly become boring. It is possible to strike the perfect balance between fashionable and professional in your workday wardrobe. Look to trendy jewelry, such as cuff bracelets, to revive your daily ensembles. Designer jewelry and fashion jewelry categories include cuff bracelets in many varieties. Many of these bracelets are perfect for the workplace: They will add just the right amount of color and shine to a basic outfit. Consider these bracelets when looking for trendy jewelry to update your workday wardrobe.\nHow to Buy Sterling Silver Jewelry\nSterling silver is made from 92.5 percent pure silver and 7.5 percent metal alloy. Common sterling silver metal alloys include copper and nickel. The alloys in sterling silver strengthen the silver and make it strong enough for jewelry production. Sterling silver jewelry is gorgeous, luxurious, valuable and also affordable. Silver jewelry pieces, such as bracelets, necklaces, rings and earrings, match almost any color ensemble and skin tone. Buy sterling silver jewelry for your collection and enjoy wearing sterling jewelry every day of the week. Use our tips to choose beautiful silver jewelry for yourself or someone special.\nSilver Types Fact Sheet\nSilver found in mines is all the same, but pure silver is too soft for many jewelry, flatware and home decor items. Silver is usually combined with an alloy before being crafted into sterling silver jewelry selections, such as silver rings, silver bracelets and a myriad of sterling silver items. As a consumer, learning about the types of silver can help you shop for silver jewelry and other beautiful silver products.\nShipping & Returns\nUsually leaves our warehouse in 1-2 business days. *\nStandard Return Policy for Jewelry:\nItems must be returned in new or unused condition and contain all original materials included with the shipment.\nStandard shipping details\nExpedited shipping details", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the realm of social media, where bravery often takes unconventional forms, the allure of capturing the perfect selfie knows no bounds. However, a recent video shared online has sparked a mix of shock, admiration, and concern among viewers. The footage depicts a woman, undeterred by danger, recording herself in selfie mode as an incoming tsunami wave looms behind her.\nThe video, which quickly went viral, captured the attention of netizens worldwide, eliciting a range of reactions. While attempting to flee to safety alongside two companions, the woman bravely maintains her camera’s focus on herself and the unfolding chaos. Despite the imminent danger, the camera continues to roll uninterrupted, providing a harrowing glimpse into the intensity of the moment.\nTaking a selfie with a tsunami is wild😭 pic.twitter.com/i8XcFC2lyl\n— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctvidiots) February 27, 2024\nThe exact date and location of the incident remain unconfirmed, adding to the intrigue surrounding the footage. Shared on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) by the handle ‘CCTV IDIOTS,’ the post was accompanied by the caption, “Taking a selfie with a tsunami is wild.”\nThis daring act, while garnering attention for its audacity, also serves as a stark reminder of the risks associated with prioritizing social media content over personal safety. As the boundaries of online expression continue to blur, instances such as these underscore the importance of exercising caution and responsibility in the pursuit of the perfect shot.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "BIRTHDAY PARTY EDITION\nOur Birthday Party Edition is a sustainable must-have for the next birthday party of small and large birthday children. With the six party motifs every party will be a success!\nYou can find a funny birthday motif on every drinking straw:cocktail, popping champagne bottle, rocket, balloon, gifts and music notes.\nRegardless of whether you sip sodas and apple spritzer or rather wine and gin and tonic, our Birthday Party Edition cuts a fine figure everywhere.\nWhether as a funny enrichment for your next birthday party or as a cool and sustainable birthday present for your friends, this edition is always fun!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saturday, September 26, 2009\nWednesday, September 9, 2009\nYesterday just before Dinneer and as it was getting dark out side\nI went to get some white flowers called snowdrops for the table because it was Mary's Birthday and we were decorating it to look pretty.\nWe had a lovely dinner and some chocolate cake with cream.\nI hope you have had a lovely Happy Birthday for Mary too.\nMr Little, Mrs Little, Granny Little, Uncle Peter, Tom and Jane are Little people with tails who live in the wall of the Biggs house.\nThe Biggs go away for three days so the Newacobs take care of the house. The Little's were having a mouse problem so Tom dressed up as a mouse.\nMrs Newacob thought he was a mouse so she got a cat. The cat tried to get the Little's but they tamed it instead.\nThe Biggs came back and the Newacobs left without it. The cat hid and the Biggs found it and decided to keep it.\nFriday, September 4, 2009\nonce upon a Tim their was a village which was called vimarus in vimarus there was a boy how\nwas called billy he lived with his mummy his daddy and Little sister Margaret. one day billy\nwas taking a walk and saw a giant pulling apart a bridge he ran and told everyone about it", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I feel out of the loop, of my own doing...\nI don't even know where to begin.\nSon is still living with us, since the week before Christmas.\nSon #2 moved back home. We are a family of 4 again.\nWe've had some great times this past month, for which I'm very thankful.\nToday son asked for $20, and I said no. That's the short version.\nI held my ground and I'm proud of myself for that- it wasn't easy.\nI hope to get back to blogging soon...\nBut, for now, I will end with things I love, (not in order)\nI love my job\nI love my co-workers\nI love my clients\nI love my husband\nI love my sons\nI love all of my family\nI love my friends\nI love nar-anon\nI love God\nI love my progress\nI love the sound of rain (even tho I should be tired of it by now)\nI love our dog\nI love that my mom instilled the power of prayer and I miss her dearly\nI hate addiction, but the things and people I love outweigh my hate.\n4 weeks ago", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Name: Jill Augustin\nAnytime Fitness Title: O2i, Owner to Inspire\nAnytime Fitness Location: New Ulm, St. James and Kasson, MN\nMy weakness: Believing in weaknesses is the ultimate weakness. It is a state-of-mind, and placing my attention on perceived weaknesses hinders my growth. I know that I am powerful beyond belief and that I have only tapped into the surface of my inner strength. I choose to focus my energy on my strengths thereby unleashing my full creative-potential!\nWhat keeps me motivated: breathing\nWorking Out Sucks, but: never discovering my inner-amazingness, and failing to create the life of my dreams sucks way more!\nI feel my best when: my soul is “driving” my mind\nIf I could tell the world just one thing about exercise and fitness, it would be: that you are the only thing standing in the way of having everything you have ever wanted in your life. Exercise and fitness will open your eyes to that truth.\nThe hardest thing I have ever had to overcome in my life: was the acknowledgment that I was the only one to blame for not living the life of my dreams.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Unprofessional Fridays: 06/26/2015\nBecome Premium to Watch\nRocksteady's gorgeous-looking third Arkham game refines its open-world format a bit and lets you drive a whole hell of a lot of Batmobile.\nIt's squid kids and ink blasting abound in Nintendo's exceptionally fun new online shooter.\nMortal Kombat X moves forward with a snappier version of the previous game's fighting and some cool new characters, but the story and other features around the edges feel a bit rough in spots.\n@Cincaid Thanks for the tip!\n@Winternet It only happens once.\nJust wanted to say that I love the quest system that you use for membership!! It makes it a lot more fun to check out the site! :)\nUse your keyboard!\nLog in to comment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Looking for Rachel McAdams armpit hair story? Rachel McAdams was proud to display the hair that was growing under her armpits in an interview that was published on Tuesday by Bustle Magazine. I've chosen to put on some latex briefs for the sake of this specific shot. The actress from \"Mean Girls\" kept things authentic by appearing in a scene laid out on a burgundy sofa without any obvious signs of having just showered.\nYou're welcome to cite me on this point: \"This is my body, and I think that's so important to reflect back out into the world.\" In the picture that has been featured, McAdams, who is 44 years old, can be seen donning an antique black corset purchased from New York antique and matching black Hermès pants. She donned a set of silver Bulgari earrings, a silver Bulgari necklace, a tennis necklace by De Beers, an Ali Weiss ring on her right hand, and a pair of white Chopard stud earrings in addition to the black Giuseppe Zanotti shoes she was wearing.\nRachel McAdams Armpit Hair: This Is My Body\nThe actress from \"Notebook\" maintains a natural appearance in accordance with her wish that the photographs be altered as little as possible, which is reflected in her choice of hair and makeup. The actress, who has a son who is 5 years old and a daughter who is 2 years old with her husband Jamie Linden, has displayed a little bit of realism in her previously lovely picture sessions by revealing a breast pump while dressed in Versace. The couple has a son who is 5 years old and a daughter who is 2 years old.\nThe photograph was shot of McAdams while she was still breastfeeding her baby six months after she had given birth. \"I love that juxtaposition of beauty, glam, and fantasy, and then the truth,\" she commented. Rachel McAdams is set to play the lead role in the upcoming adaptation of the best-selling novel \"Are You There, God?\" by Judy Blume. Hello, I'm Margaret.\nIn this coming-of-age drama about a Jewish mother (Rachel McAdams) and a Christian father (Benny Safdie), Abby Ryder Fortson plays the role of Margaret, a preteen girl going through puberty and sixth grade. The movie is directed by Benny Safdie. McAdams shared a story from her own coming-of-age journey, in which she described the struggle she had to overcome in order to embrace her developing body. \"I was quite dissatisfied with my very first bra. She added that she had hoped for a leopard pattern shirt but instead received a bandeau top with a little white bow on it. The boys showed a great deal of determination.\nIf you want to catch up with entertainment news, memefuny.com is a great place for you to stay updated!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "3 edition of The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice found in the catalog.\nThe letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice\nSpring Rice, Cecil Arthur, Sir\n|Statement||edited by StephenGwynn.|\n|Contributions||Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950.|\n|The Physical Object|\n|Pagination||2 v :|\n[Reviews are entered under the author of the book reviewed and 'under the reviewer.] Abbott, Wilbur C.: New York in the American Revolution. Rev. by R. Adams, James Truslow: Henry Adams and the New Physics — Our Business Civilization. Rev. by C. P. Rollins After the Somme. R. H. Mottram Aldington, Richard: Inscriptions. Verse — Death of a Hero. Rev. by Helen. NEW YORK, Monday —Saturday evening I heard the record which Lynn Fontanne made of the poem: \"The White Cliffs of Dover\" by Alice Duer is a beautiful recording and anyone who likes the poem will enjoy it. These records were a gift and together with them came two volumes of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice's \"Letters and Friendships\" which I had been seeking, but which had to turn up in a.\nTHE CECIL SPRING-RICE MEMORIAL FUND THE MEMORIAL FUND Details of the Fund to which Mr Gerald Balfour alluded in his speech at Eton are given in the following letter, da Wall Street, New York, Aug , from Mr J. P. Morgan to Lady Spring -Rice: It is my privilege to advise you that a large number of American friends of Sir. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ), ; Bernard de Voto, ed., Mark Twain in Eruption (New York: Harpers, , p. 8; Theodore Roosevelt, “National Life and Character” in American Ideals (New York: Putnam’s, ), Google ScholarAuthor: Philip Abbott.\npublished in in The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice (p. ). The sword and helmet were among the customary attributes of Britannia in 19th and early 20th Century depictions. News: The sound of silence.. 14 November 20 April Follow Sir Cecil Spring Rice and explore their bibliography from 's Sir Cecil Spring Rice Author Page.\n\"The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, a record; edited by Stephen Gwynn (Vol. 1)\" The New York Public Library Digital Collections.\n- During the early months ofwhile Russia's domestic affairs were so exciting, a great diplomatic movement had been silently developing. It is worth while to glance back at the letters (for instance that to Roosevelt on Sept, 14, ), in which Spring Rice, then at the Berlin Embassy, described the obsequious servility of other European powers to Russia, for that brings out in strong.\nGet this from a library. The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: a record. [Stephen Lucius Gwynn]. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Spring Rice, Cecil, Sir, Letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice.\nLondon: Constable, The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice;: A record [Spring Rice, Cecil] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice;: A recordAuthor: Cecil Spring Rice.\nAbout this Book Catalog Record Details. The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, v. Spring Rice, Cecil, Sir, View full catalog record. Rights: Public Domain, Google-digitized. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: A Record. Edited by Stephen Gwynn.\nHoughton Mifflin Company page and page hardcovers _____ No attempt has been made to collect exhaustively letters written by Sir Cecil Spring Riice to his acquaintances and friends. The materials available were too ample Seller Rating: % positive. : The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: A Record; Vol.\n1 (): Cecil Arthur Spring Rice: Books. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: A Record by Spring Rice, Cecil, ed. by Stephen Lucius Gwynn COVID Update Ap Biblio is open and shipping orders. The important part played by Spring-Rice during the period of the Russian-Japanese War has been known for some time from the correspondence of Roosevelt and from other sources.\nThat he was not only a charming person, but a keen observer and outstanding statesman becomes more evident yet from a perusal of these volumes. In addition to further information on Roosevelt's mediation in the Russian. Cecil Arthur Spring Rice is the author of The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice ( avg rating, 1 rating, 0 reviews, published ), Po 5/5(1).\nTHE LETTERS AND FRIENDSHIPS OF SIR CECIL SPRING RICE V2 A RECORD PDF - Are you looking for Ebook The Letters And Friendships Of Sir Cecil Spring Rice V2 A Record Pdf.\nYou will be glad to know that right now The Letters And Friendships Of Sir Cecil Spring Rice V2 A Record Pdf is available on our online library. Dennis, \"The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: a n Gwynn,\" The Journal of Modern History 2, no.\n1 (Mar., ): https. Buy The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: a record volume II By Stephen Gwynn ed., in Acceptable condition. Our cheap used books come with free delivery. ISBN. Spring Rice, Cecil. and Gwynn, Stephen. The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: a record / edited by Stephen Gwynn Constable & Co London Australian/Harvard Citation.\nSpring Rice, Cecil. & Gwynn, Stephen.The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: a record / edited by Stephen Gwynn Constable & Co London.\nThe Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice. Vol 1. Product Details. Category: books SKU: IEV Title: The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice.\nVol 1 Author: Stephen Gwynn Book binding: Hardcover Publisher: Constable and Co Limited Year of publication: Condition: ACCEPTABLE Description. Rating: % positive. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: by RICE, Sir Cecil Spring. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Cecil Spring Rice books online.\nFree delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. \" I Vow to Thee, My Country \" is a British patriotic hymn, created inwhen a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice was set to music by Gustav Holst.\nThe origin of the hymn's text is a poem by diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice, written in orentitled \" Urbs Dei\" Genre: Hymn. This work examined the career of Cecil Spring Rice in detail from when Rice was posted to the British Legation in Washington and subsequent posts in Tokyo, Berlin, Tehran, Constantipople, Cairo, Petrograd, and Stockholm.\nThe Letters And Friendships Of Sir Cecil Spring Ricea Record Vol I,ii Hc $ Sir Cecil. Sir Cecil Spring Rice The Letters And Friendships A Record 2 Volume Set Gwynn.\n$ Unlikely Friends. Unlikely Friends Bridging Ties And Diverse Friendships By James A. Vela-mcc.Resources about Cecil Spring Rice (10) The letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: a record / edited by Stephen Gwynn Spring Rice, Cecil, Sir, [ Book: ] View online (access conditions) At 16 libraries.reference book by Jews, representing their own interpretation of Jewish and other activities.\nC. The Riddle of the Jews’ Success, by F. Roderick-Stoltheim, translated by C. Pownall. Hammer Verlag publication, D. Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Homina homina homina homina be the ball, be the ball. Get into the spirit of one of your favorite films with this authentic Caddyshack ensemble!\nWho could forget that timeless classical funny film Caddyshack? Everyone wanted to be Al Czervik, but no one could quite get his outfit right, but now you can with this Caddyshack Al Czervik Adult costume!\n- You're sure to attract some laughs in this authentic costume at your next party. However, make sure you have the personality to match in order to keep from looking like a loud clothes wearing old man. Memorize some of his most famous lines and you could be the hit of your next Halloween shindig!\n- This '70s themed costume comes equipped with red loose pants, white baseball cap, and striped jacket.\n- Although you will attract a few laughs and head scratches from the crowd at your next costume event, you know that you are the real deal in this officially licensed Caddyshack costume.\n- Includes: jacket, pants, hat and shirt.\n- Does not include: shoes, or golf club.\n- This is an officially licensed Caddyshack costume.\n- Product Number\n- Included Accessories\n- Jacket, Hat\n- Care Instructions\n- Spot Clean\n- Air Shippable\n- Express/Premium Surcharge\n- Return Eligible\n- Available International", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Scarlett Johansson And Margot Robbie are both accomplished actresses in Hollywood. Apart from their artistic talents, the two also have one other thing in common. Their love for mini dresses! Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie have both sported various bold mini-dresses over the eyes that have made jaws drop. Today we look at the best sexy mini dresses donned by Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie. Scarlett Johansson raised the temperatures in a black-colored mini tube dress, paired up her sexy attire with a pair of high heels. All cameras were fixed on her as she made the appearance at TIFF.\nScarlett Johansson decided to spice up her mini dress game when she donned a glittery gold bodycon dress that flaunted her sexy curves. She looked fierce in this outfit donning a blonde bob cut look. Yet again Scarlet wore a black one-shoulder mini dress with white-colored frill details on it. To balance her complete look, Scarlet opted for a pair of nude pencil heels.\nMargot Robbie slew the street style look as she wore an oversized black mini dress with a deep neckline. Margot wore furry flip-flops along with it to accentuate her look. Margot set the streets on fire when she stepped out in a black cold-shouldered mini dress. The dress has frilled detailing around the shoulders and at the end of the sleeves giving it a flared sleeves look. Margot also sported an animal print zipper mini dress for one of the events and she looks like a hottie in this look.\nTake a glance at Scarlett Johansson And Margot Robbie in mini dresses!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Curly Up-do or Messy Bun -This appealing little messy bun can be styled in the classic Up-Do look . Or why not try the celebrity side bun look This type of faux bun is low maintenance and can be styled differently depending on the desired result. The bun can be styled to obtain an elegant and classic up do, appropriate for formal events or it can be styled to obtain a more casual side or back bun, hairstyle. Even on quite short hair the Fax side bun will work, as long as you have enough hair to pull into a little pony. It looks absolutely beautiful on curly hair but it can be styled on sleek straight hair too. This bun will provide a gorgeous full bodied look and is the clever alternative to trying to make the same style work using a scrunchie. Please note some of my competitors are selling scrunchies and describing them as a bun. This is a Vanessa Grey Hair Extension Bun (and therefore adds much more body than a simple scrunchy). This is the perfect clip in for the wedding simple easy glamor. Or where in low down bun for the Races! Also please see main images for colour and size as Head shots are sometimes illustrative.\n- Lovely Natural Looking – Instant Elegant Style – Full Bodied Curly Updo or Messy Bun\n- Colour shown is Ash Blonde mix\n- Synthetic Fibres – Japanese kanekalon\n- New with tags, very comfortable easy to use and tight secure fit. An instant hair boost!\n- The quality of my pieces is such that you cannot tell the difference between them and real hair!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "WRAP STYLE PONTE SKIRT\nThis ponte skirt features an asymmetrical front extension creating the illusion of a wrap. The pencil skirt silhouette is perfect for work- pair with oversized white skirt for a contemporary look.\n- 100% Rayon\n- Cold machine wash separately\n- Model is 177cm tall and wears size 8 skirt.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Go go go\nTanukii Studios' overlooked DSiWare gem, Go! Go! Kokopolo, came at the tail end of the DSi's time on the market, and as a result very few people played the unique action game. While a simple re-release on 3DS would have been acceptable, Tanukii Studios instead crafted a full sequel in Go! Go! Kokopolo 3D. The result is a jam-packed game...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "haha if youre bored you could kiss me idk just sayin\nBeing a nice person is so fun\nWaiter messes something up? You can see the relief on their faces when you don’t scream and swear at them about it\nExtra tickets at an arcade/prize place? Watch a little kid’s face light up when you give them a bunch of tickets\nThere are too many assholes in this world. Be a nice person.\nMy saint bernard lets the outside cats sleep with him\nARE YOU SERIOUS\n\"I’m glad I had a daughter. Ever since my grandmother died, I’ve needed the female energy in my life. It’s good energy. I mean, when things go wrong, another man can tell you that everything is going to be OK. But not like a woman can.\"\nThe best graffiti that i seen even,\nalso look how cute the artist is\nwhen someone shows you the receipts of your fav being problematic", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The first look of the Tollywood sensation Vijay Sai Deverakonda, from the upcoming biopic of the legendary actress Savithri, Mahanati, was released a few days back, and his look in the poster had created a nice impression, with him seen riding an 80s scooter and having a Yashica camera as well.\nNow it has been revealed that Vijay Deverakonda plays a journalist named Vijay Antony in the movie, and he will be seen playing the romantic interest of the gorgeous Mallu beauty Samantha who plays a pivotal role, the person from whose point of view the whole movie is narrated.\nInterestingly, Samantha herself plays a journalist named Madhuravani in the movie. Mahanati, directed by Yevade Subramaniam fame Nag Ashwin has Keerthi Suresh playing the legendary Savithri. and also stars Dulquer Salmaan. Prakashraj, Shalini Pandey, and many others, and releases on May 9.\nWhen a Fan gave a Flying Kiss to Rashmika and Proposed her before whole Crowd - 18 Photos Inside The sensational sandalwood beauty Rashmika Mandana had begun her Tollywood innings recently, with 'Chalo', the campus love story set in the backdrop of village quarrel, and the movie has turned out to be successful, landing her in more new and exciting film offers.\n- Milky Babe's Latest Hot Photos in Black Dress will make your heart skip a beat - View all Pics\n- 11 Photos of Brahmin Beauty TV Anchor in White Shirt with Buttons Opened - Photos Inside\n- A Hot Scene for Trisha in another Horror movie?\n- 66 Hot Photos of Amy Jackson enjoying with Boyfriend during a Vacation\n- Atharvaa's lip-lock with Aish spices up the single\n- Tamanna cherishes working with 'This' Tamil Director\n- Rakul strikes again with Hot exposure\n- Rakul's 'Behind the Scenes' stuff in backstage", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nakhra Teal Spring Linen Outfit with Net Dupatta PL04 is a stunning fully stitched ready to wear kameez outfit with mirror ebroidery detailing on the neck line and lace detailed sleeves. Includes lace detailed straight trousers and a stunning frill net dupatta. Nakhra Teal Spring Linen Outfit with Net Dupatta PL04 is a stunning outfit which will be perfect for a party or Eid.\nFabric – Spring Linen\n- Embroidered Front\n- Frill Net Dupatta\n- lace detailed Trouser\n- Sides Open\n- Brand: Simrans\nProduct Code: PL04 - Nakhra Teal Spring Linen Outfit with Net Dupatta PL04\n- Small: UK 8/10 – Chest 38 inches\n- Medium: UK 12/14 – Chest 40 inches\n- Large: UK 16/18 – Chest 44 inches\n- XLarge: UK 18/20 – Chest 48 inches\nLength Approx: 43 Inches\nPlease note colour may vary from the images this is due to nature of photography and can differ due to lighting.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "This is my blog on my thoughts and opinions. I an fun loving and adventurous, career minded and highly ambitious.\nI like meeting new people, movies, music, junk food - pizza, travelling and seeing new places.\nFriday, 23 December 2011\nIts Xmas and a very merry xmas and a happy new year to you and your family.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Damn! Love this!\nbe more positive challenge\n342 Motivational Inspirational Quotes About Success 25\nBang2Write - Networking and writing craft tips, screenplays and novels\nLife is an art. Make it your masterpiece.\nFind below the most interesting and engaging infographics about books, libraries, and reading, that were created in 2016.\nDistractify | 50 Inspiring Life Quotes From Beloved Cartoon Characters", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Feb 6 2018 – Explore Jennifer Cobbs board Walmart Home. Twin Pack Bunk Bed Spring Mattress Mattresses Only at Walmart and save.\nBigroof Drawer Dresser Storage Tower with Sturdy Steel Frame Easy Pull Fabric Bins Organizer Unit for Bedroom Hallway Entryway Closets Light Gray 5 Drawers.\nFabulous Walmart Bedroom Furniture Ideas. You can sometimes pair a bed dresser and nightstand as part of a bedroom set and we have many available for you to consider. 5 Fabulous Bedroom Ideas for Triplets with Triple Fun Kids bedroom sets Cool kids bedrooms Kids bedroom furniture. These come with a desk with several drawers a mirror and either a bench or high-back chair.\nEmbellish the drawer fronts with pretty stencils. I styled it above Cohens dresser above but you could also use it any just about any space. Floating crate shelves and accent color are next.\nCoat the top in a fun color that contrasts with the rest of the piece and add some painted furniture feet. And Pacific Exteriors LLC. While old furniture in a bedroom.\nFeb 16 2014 – Designing a room for triplets means using the space in the best possible way and allocating equal space for all. Breathe fresh air indoors. BUY NOW CB2 Lunar Velvet Queen Bed 1499.\nCheck out our best newest and most popular bedroom furniture projects. Theyre ideal for use while youre. Choose furniture made from sustainably-sourced wood swap out your old lightbulbs for LED bulbs or opt for bedding made from responsibly-sourced cotton.\n2262016 Use paint to give the furniture a dose of character and contemporary styling. Look through bedroom pictures in different colors and styles and when you find. See more ideas about walmart home home better homes and gardens.\nCountry Buffalo Check Bedskirt Bedspread Bedding Farmhouse Valance Dust Ruffle Bedroom Decor Queen Full King Size Choose Color Handmade Buffalo Check Bed skirt 4 cm Check A bed skirt or valance is a piece of decorative fabric that is placed between the. Simple colors paired with geometric shapes help give this bedroom a spacious feel. Buy products such as Prepac Furniture Brisbane Storage Headboard Multiple Sizes and Colors at Walmart and save.\nHere at Hometalk youll find slideshows and videos to help you furnish your bedroom. 51 bedroom ideas trends and styling tips to create the perfect space. 2282018 Check out CB2 for more contemporary bedroom furniture and shop our pick below.\nYou can ask a question or participate in our popular discussions board. For this reason here are some room. See more bed sizes.\nTwin Full Queen King. You can stand it on the floor or hang it on the wall. Gymax Hammock Chair Hanging Cotton Rope Macrame Swing Chair Indoor Outdoor by Walmart.\nBuy products such as Slumber 1 by Zinus Comfort 6. See all air quality products. Whether you want inspiration for planning a bedroom renovation or are building a designer bedroom from scratch Houzz has 1084232 images from the best designers decorators and architects in the country including Gale Rew Construction Inc.\nShop for Small bedroom ideas in Small space living solutions. Another great piece that would work in multiple rooms is the Round Wood Mirror. Bedroom Furniture Looking to furnish your bedroom.\nLight Filtering Room Darkening. White Black Gray Espresso Brown Walnut Blue Oak. 43 out of 5.\n10212020 BLACK GYMAX HAMMOCK CHAIR. It can purify your air of odours dust pollen and chemicals. The FRNUFTIG air purifier is a simple solution for even the smallest spaces.\nDont be afraid to mix patterns or styles too it will give your bedroom personality and make it feel unique to you. Upgrading your bed frame to the black railing and adding some small geometric triangles are the first steps. Get the latest news on Sears Stock.\nWe can help you find your inspiration. Embrace the magic of small changes and youll find that making your little world more sustainable is. Walmart Bedroom Makeover Bedroom Decor On A Budget.\nShop for Bedroom Furniture in Furniture. Platform Beds Storage Beds. And if minimalist isnt your vibe take inspiration from this fabulous space with a gorgeous bedroom wallpaper idea.\nRemove any damaged drawers in favor of small lined and labeled baskets. Other bedroom furniture pieces you may want to add to your bedroom include. Walmart Bedroom Makeover Bedroom Decor On A Budget – YouTube.\nWayfair Furniture Bedroom Sets Fabulous Modern Kids Contemporary Decorative Pillows Is Accented With Ceiling Molding Modern With Small Modern Bedroom Photos W Bedroom Wall Paint Colors Affordable Bedroom Small Modern Bedroom", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A very stylish designed calculator with hinged cover open to reveal sleek light touch buttons. Also features clock, calendar, world timer and alarm functions. can be printed or laser engraving at an extra cost. Battery included.\nPrice is inclusive of a one colour print in one position. There is a screen setup cost of £27 per colour. Design / artwork creation is FREE on all orders over £600. All prices are subject to VAT and delivery at cost.\nStress PeachStress Peach is a fruity way to de-stress!\nZea Mays Eco BallpenA great new environmentally friendly pen from corn!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Zumba Winter B Th|\n|Zumba® combines Latin and International rhythms with dance steps such as: the meringue, salsa, mambo, samba, as well as belly dance and a little hip hop. The class utilizes simple, repetitive movements for an awesome low-impact cardio workout. You'll tone and sculpt your body while you groove to music in a party-like atmosphere.|\nThis program / class has been cancelled.\nPlease contact Parks & Recreation for further details.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The future's in your paws. Shape it well. Roleplay in a cat Clan of warriors. Based off the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. Takes place during the time before the cats in the books existed.\nWhere the lives of the cats you followed in the books become the real thing; and so much more! Everyone is welcome here, so join in the roleplay fun today!\nWelcome to the Planetary Pit Stop—a place for friendly conversation between… friends! Remember: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.\nA place for Percy Jackson and the Olympians fans to roleplay.\nA Neverwinter Nights 2 Persistent World server\nFree Forum: A little fun community of general sillies who just wanted a place to hang out and have some fun. Anyone is welcome!\nThe final stronghold in a world of rp mediocrity.\nFree forum : The legendary adventures of Glai and Will and co. continue on!\nBe the warrior cat that you always wanted to be in this fun forum! Anybody is welcome to join! Everyone will welcome you! Thanks!\nAfter the destruction of the multiverse, Portal Breach was created to be a safe haven for those that survived and managed to make their way here. Join us as any canon or original character!\nA free form roleplay Forum for the Game Stellaris, and associated peoples.\nFounded in 2010, we are an active community, which focuses not only on literate wolf roleplay but also contests, events, and an all around positive experience.\nA unique and fun felid roleplay based in the heart of Africa. Filled with a friendly community and tons of activities and contests; there is never a dull moment!\nA semi Alternate Universe Bleach RolePlay\nA place to gather and share common interests, roleplay, discuss issues, rant and review, write fan fiction and original works.\nFree forum : Avies, Designs, Beauty an image true to your personal illusion\nA friendly Pokémon roleplay forum.\nThis is a warrior cat roleplay. We're new and looking for new members, so feel free to join! We are a friendly and caring environment.\nThis roleplay is set 100 years back in the small village of Aslad. The humans no nothing of the existence of the creatures that prowl the night. The vampires and werewolves are currently at a truce. But there is no telling how long that will last. So\nHerdsofAzreth.com forums! As if we didn't have ENOUGH information and Roleplay...\nFree forum : A new, exciting multi-fandom roleplay in which users can cut across the borders of the worlds to reach unique adventures! Based on animes.\nA post-by-play roleplay set in the world of Avatar, five years after the end of the Legend of Korra. With the Avatar missing, humans and spirits are divided.\nThe Ebon Circle is a Feral Heart based Roleplay and Social Group about the Kreptis species\nFree forum : A planet which is built on the dreams of Shinobi and Magicians. A coexisting world which has its ups and downs even to this day. A Region based roleplay.\nA canid roleplay based in Alaska!\nHello! This is a play-by-post roleplaying forum based around popular series, such as Warriors, Pokémon, and more! If your favorite series isn't here, tell an admin.\n100 years after the Second Wizarding World, and the Death Eaters are back. Hogwarts, newly rebuilt, has to muster new courage where everything has changed. It's a new Age, a new Life and a new Gen\nAn active Doctor Who roleplay site! You can be anything you desire, from a human to any kind of alien- even a Time Lord.\nThe School of Magic for Harry Potter fans!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Flat Foundation Makeup Brush\nThis product is currently unable in your country.\nClean beauty Created by You.\nOur Interchangeable collection is a revolutionary brush system that allows for limitless makeup styling and application options without extra waste. Perfect for at home or on the go, Interchangeables is the simple, space-saving way to take your beauty routine to the next level.\nSet includes the Flat Foundation brush head and a large green handle. This brush features densely packed bristles with a flat cut which is perfect for applying foundation for a streak-free, seamless finish.\nWhat to pair with: Pair with our Daily Essentials Total Face Kit, Total Senses Brush Duo and Tapered Powder + Flawless Buffer Duo.\nVegan and Cruelty Free\nUse with cream and liquid foundations for flawless coverage.\nArmed with a mission to make women look beautiful on the outside and feel just as good on the inside, sisters Jen and Stacey set out to create a brush collection that was not only environmentally friendly, but chic, high-quality, and affordable too. After sourcing recycled materials, renewable bamboo and better manufacturing processes, in 2007, EcoTools® was born.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This slim-line shower tray from Merlyn is perfectly designed to suit modern and airy bathrooms. Expertly made from stone resin topped and tailed with acrylic ABS layers, this large 1400mm x 800mm tray is hard wearing and incredibly stylish. The fast-flow waste features a neat and polished bright chrome cap to complete the look. Couple it with one of our stunning 1400 enclosures to create the best bespoke shower enclosure UK designers have produced.\nDouble skinned for added rigidity\n45mm High to achieve minimalist design\nABS capped acrylic sheets with anti bacterial properties\nIncludes 90mm fast flow waste\nOptional riser kit available\nMStone shower trays are ideal for ‘low level’ installation. Alternatively you can raise your shower tray to allow room for the pipe work if you cannot run your waste under the floor.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The sound of silence\nFreycinet Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia\nThe aptly named Wine¬glass Bay, on Tasmania’s east coast, forms one side of a narrow isthmus of white sand that curves as elegantly as its name¬sake the smooth side of a wineglass. Lying within a national park, the beach can only be reached by a vigorous, one-hour bush hike from Freycinet Bay. Sweat-soaked, you burst from the thick shrubbery onto the powder sands and, ditching your pack, plunge straight into the cool, crunching shorebreak waves.\nAbove the beach looms a 375 million-year¬old granite massif known ominously as The Haz¬ards. Its weathered, 300m peaks look like an Ayers Rock that has be¬come tired of life in the parched Cutback, and gone walkabout for a refreshing holiday by the sea.\nThe prevailing silence of Wineglass Bay is counter pointed by odd, ambient noises, barely distinguishable at first, but increasingly audible as you listen for them: trekkers greedily guzzling at water bottles, the buzzing of bush flies that seems as loud as helicopters, the musical burble of currawong birds and, of course, that ever-sighing shorebreak. And just when you’re sure you have the beach to yourself, indo¬lent little Bennett’s wallabies invite them¬selves to lunch on your spare sandwiches.\nRelated Tour Packages & Information", "label": "No"}
{"text": "May 2, 2013\nNew Orleans Museum of Art\nLaunch Fest features practical advice to inspire the next generation of New Orleans entrepreneurs. After lunch, Launch Pad founders will pitch investors in the culmination of the entreprenuerial post-season.\nCome learn what it takes to launch a startup and get inspired by the founders who are doing it right now all before heading out to the 'fest!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I am starting a reading challenge. This is meant for Instagram but you can post yours on any platform you wish. My Instagram handle is @fletchers.quill if you want to tag me. This challenge is not too hard if you read an average of one book a month. Each month, I’ll steer you in a direction, maybe in a direction you’ve never been before.\nSo, here is the first month’s challenge:\nThis one is a bit challenging for me because I read somewhat widely. I actually don’t have a book picked out for this one yet so watch my account to see what I pick.\nIf you need a list of genres to spark some ideas, try one of these sites:\nHappy Reading Everyone!\nYou must be logged in to post a comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Almost Had Mechanical Web-Shooters\nTobey Maguire’s iteration of Spider-Man had the power to generate webs, but he almost used mechanical web shooters in his cinematic debut.\nThe classic movie version of Tobey Maguire Spider Man had the power to shoot webs, but he almost had mechanical web shooters. The Sam Raimi Spider Man The trilogy adhered extremely closely to the Marvel Comics source material, but one of the few major changes to Spider-Man was its lack of web gimmicks. In his classic origin story and throughout his decades of comics, Spider-Man has crafted a pair of wrist-mounted devices that pull synthetic webbing in various useful ways. Spider-Man uses his web shooters to swing through New York and subdue his enemies with minimal force. Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man came incredibly close to including these famous devices.\nSony’s first Spider Man The film had been in development for years before director (and huge Marvel Comics fan) Sam Raimi took the helm on the ambitious project. In an unrealized iteration of the film, directed by James Cameron, Spider-Man grew organic web-shooters on his wrists and could shoot organic webs, much like his comic counterpart’s devices. When Raimi took over, one of the few remnants of Cameron’s proposed film that was kept was the element of organic web shooters.\nRaimi seemed to have wanted to stick with the comics and give Peter mechanical web shooters at first. Concept art, set photos, and even some early promo clips and trailers show Peter testing wrist-mounted web-shooting gadgets, including in his bedroom during his costume fitting. At E3 2001, Activision promoted its video game tie-in to Raimi’s debut film and showcased the web shooter props in its booth.\nSpider-Man’s web-shooters were compact, with a DIY design similar to Andrew Garfield’s first set of web-shooters in 2012. The Amazing Spider-Man. Tobey Maguire’s web shooters notably incorporated additional web fluid cartridges around the wristband like the comic version, but were activated by two small pads for his middle and ring finger instead of a larger palm pad like the comics and other film versions.\nWhile Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker almost used mechanical web shooters, Raimi ultimately decided against them, reviving James Cameron’s organic web shooter idea. Raimi’s rationale was that a highly intelligent but otherwise ordinary (and often financially struggling) teenager building a pair of devices and concocting a highly versatile adhesive would undermine his relatability and the movie’s believable. Raimi’s Peter showed off his genius in other ways, and his organic webs tied to his issues with losing his powers in the second film.\nWhether organic webs or mechanical web-shooters are preferable is a matter of personal taste, but ultimately it’s not Spider-Man’s webs or powers that make it realistic. Both versions of Spider-Man’s webs are wacky for different reasons, but it’s Peter’s characterization and how he, as an ordinary person, reacts to the extraordinary that makes him one of the superheroes. most realistic heroes of the genre. At Tobey Maguire’s Spider Man having mechanical web shooters would have been a nice way to honor the source material, but its organic webs were a fascinating change that left its compelling characterization intact.\nNext: Spider-Man 3’s Hobgoblin Mask Easter Egg & Future Setup Explained\n- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)Release date: May 06, 2022\n- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)Release Date: Jul 08, 2022\n- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever/Black Panther 2 (2022)Release date: November 11, 2022\n- Marvels/Captain Marvel 2 (2023)Release date: July 28, 2023\n- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)Release date: May 05, 2023\n- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)Release date: February 17, 2023\nBatman 2 using an iconic DC villain may prevent TDK comparisons\nAbout the Author", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cart is empty\n- Licensed movie collectable item.\n- Nicely detailed model of vehicles as seen in the \"Back to the Future\" Movie Series.\n- Opening doors.\n- Authentic paint finish, logos and graphics.\n- This items comes packaged new in a graphic window box..\n21.5cm (L) x 10cm (W) x 7cm (H)\nAges 10 years and over. This is not a toy. Collectable item for display purposes only.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\"We bought these as decoratations for my son't birthday. He is so excited that he gets to use them to decorate his room after. He adores all things Mario!\"\nShare this Review:\nFoam Stickers - Ladybugs and Bees\nIncludes (86) assorted self-stick ladybug and bee stickers.\nMeets Product Expectations:\nQuality and Durability:\nReviewed by: Sagemom\nTitle: Cute as a bug!\nDate:September 2, 2011\n\"Ordered these items to give out while we are dressed as bees this Halloween. We will be on the move, so I needed something small that we could carry with us. These are the perfect little unexpected something for the kids we see.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I’ve been carrying a giving key around for quite some time that said “Love”. There hasn’t been one time I’d been compelled to give it away until last week. I’ve been to India a number of times in the last year, working with children in the slums and villages in Kolkata. We’re helping to start schools, vocational programs, and churches. It has led to my friend and I starting a non-profit here in the US to help them. My life has been changed because of it.\nIndia is an assaulting place. It’s a sensory overload. The poverty is incomprehensible. Many people have a hard time adjusting from the shock of first to third world. I didn’t seem to have that much trouble, except for one situation. In the slum, I met a little girl named Puja. She’s a beautiful child, light skinned and flat faced. She has a sweet, somewhat shy spirit, but beams like a light. It can be extremely difficult for women in India. There are cases of terrible domestic violence, and because of the dowry tradition, it’s very expensive for a family to get one of their daughters married. For this reason many poor families don’t want daughters. Many girls are sold and trafficked for sex, and others are simply thrown out. Puja was thrown away.\nHer parents now are not her biological parents. They found her in the trash and adopted her, but in a sort of ironic cosmic joke, she still lives in the trash. Literally. Her home is in a slum in Kolkata India. She lives in a makeshift tent in what is basically a landfill. In a place full of trash, wild dogs, and rats she lives her life. I’ve wrestled long and hard as to why some people draw that hand of cards. Why them? Why not me? Why do we have or not have? It’s a mystery of injustice.\nThe good news is, there is hope for Puja. Our organization has a school that she attends in a bamboo building there in the slum. She’s doing well, and at the beginning of next year my wife and I are paying for her schooling at a very good English medium school. On my last visit, I spent a lot of time with Puja. She was standing next to me as I was leaving, and I took my giving key off of my neck and placed it around hers. Other than a few words of Bengali, Puja and I can’t communicate. When she tried to give it back to me, I motioned for her to keep it. Immediately she became uncomfortable, almost to the point of tears. She took it off and put her head down. I tried to tell her to keep it but it just made her more upset. At this point her teachers caught on and told her to keep it; reluctantly she did. I’m not sure why Puja reacted that way. Maybe she had become so used to having nothing that she didn’t feel like she deserved it.\nThe most hopeless kind of poverty is a poverty of love. I hope at some point she looks down at that key and understands what that English word “love” means. I hope she knows that at the very least there is someone on the other side of the world who loves her, who wants the best for her. Who knows what the future has for Puja. I don’t, but I hope she gets the world.\nBeloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.\n-1 John 4:11", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fat Fashion Part 3 & Marci’s Musings\nI’m excited to share with you the final post in my series on larger lady fashion. While the first to posts were quite practical, this one provides you with some excellent points to ponder as well as some handy tips. Her writing is in response to the New York Times Article Plus-Sized Fashion Moves Beyond the Muumuu. Enjoy and feel free to share your own thoughts!\nWhile reading this article, several things stood out for me, like the usual “ooh, a designer used a plus-size/curvy model!” who turns out to be size 10! But the part I’m still processing is the suggestion that larger women subscribe to clothing rental services (WHAT??) because high-end designers believe that “When you’re taught to look at your body as a work in progress, you’re not going to spend $1,000 on a coat to last forever because you’re not hoping for it to last forever.” We’ve been talking about this for a year! This is precisely what self-acceptance is not. The very thought of women renting clothes, as though their bodies are some sort of extended-stay hotels they don’t really live in but are just passing through! I may need to write a letter to the editor about this….\nOne really good point the article makes is that “there’s no Vogue for the plus-sized.” This is what troubles me the most about plus-size fashion. There was a gorgeous, short-lived magazine years ago called Mode. Most of the clothes were very expensive (e.g., Marina Rinaldi, Anna Scholz) but beautiful and edgy. And the models were stunning and photographed like high-fashion models, not cheesy catalog posing. It was a revelation, that there could be such a beautiful, high-quality, high-end magazine for plus-size women. Everything about it was fine: the photography, the copy, the paper, the ads. My heart broke when through several editors and then finally went out of print.\nWhich brings me, I guess, to why it’s been so hard to think of plus-size blogs to recommend. Most of them don’t inspire me; my style is changing, but it is nothing like what most of the bloggers like, especially the younger ones. A lot of it looks cheap and disposable. The best two I’ve found are Stephanie Zwicky’s Blog and And I Get Dressed, but what I really love are the French “street style” blogs and posts I find on google or Pinterest. I’ve always gone for “investment” clothes–buying a few well-made, classic versatile pieces I can mix or match and wear for years (as in decades, sometimes, like my winter coat and a few sweaters). My best style revelation happened in the mid-1990s when I lived in London and needed an outfit to wear as my friend’s “best ma’am.” I went to Liberty and met an amazing sales assistant named Nora (or Norma). We hit it off because she had family in NY and she was of West Indian descent. She introduced me to designers like Issey Miyake and Shirin Guild, whose clothes were sculptural and inventive–they suited me perfectly and made me feel beautiful and chic. Liberty’s women’s department isn’t large but it’s amazingly curated–clothes as works of art, dressing as adornment and self-expression, not trendy and also not particularly youthful (I was always the youngest and poorest woman there). I couldn’t and wouldn’t wear most of the clothes, but I learned a lot just spending time looking around and studying the clothes and how they were put together on the manequins–and also studying the other shoppers’ style and confidence.\nThe Nordstrom website has a huge, excellent plus-size section with very good sales (over the holidays I cleaned up on some Eileen Fisher sweaters). Ebay is also really good. I can’t afford paying retail for Issey Miyake, but a lot of his stuff is available practically new from Japanese sellers. His Pleats Please line is amazing–stretchy, comfortable, and colorful (though there are plenty of neutrals, too).\nOne issue that I’ve been thinking about over the past week or so is internalized self-hatred–and whether that’s part of my not liking most of the plus-size blogs. I’ll look at them and think, oh god, do I look like THAT? And I hate that in me…. Much to discuss, I guess….\nI hope this series has each of you thinking about your own relationship to your bodies- how you treat them, how you invest in them, and how they do or do not reflect your own feelings of worthiness. I hope this evolves into a meaningful thought experiment for each of you. Clothing and fashion is incredibly personal. For some it matters very little. And for others, it is a representation of how you feel about yourself. At the end of the day, each of you are deserving of self-love. And how you choose to make the manifest in your life is a journey I how you will embark on thoughtfully.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Welcome to our cotton ribbed basics. This re-do of a previously sold out style is the epitome of comfort. The Ella ribbed jumpsuit features a drop crotch, two front pockets and has a relaxed comfortable style and fit. Layer it up with a jacket for those cooler months\nThe Ella jumpsuit comes in our new cotton rib fabric.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Karen R. Gravalin, 62 of Nevis, Minnesota, passed peacefully on Wednesday, December 26, 2018 with her husband of 43 years and daughters by her side. She was a loving and beloved wife to Bruce, mother to Sarah (Gravalin) Warrington, Katie (Gravalin) Jendro, Rebecca (Gravalin) Ceminski, and Jenny (Gravalin) Rittgers.\nKaren’s life was filled with love for her family, and friends. Karen especially looked forward to seeing her family, her grandchildren, spending time at the lake with her siblings/cousins, meeting her friends for bingo/bowling and traveling to Florida during the winter months with her husband Bruce. Karen enjoyed crafting, painting both canvas and ceramics.\nKaren grew up in Moorhead, and spent summers in the Detroit Lakes/White Earth area where she was a proud member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. She was the daughter of Donald and Genieve Clukey, sister to David (Marsha) Clukey, Joy Cloutier-Clukey, Terry (Silvia) Clukey, and forever grieved the loss of her sister, Donalyn Sue Clukey (who passed when they were teenagers).\nKaren and Bruce settled in Park Rapids to raise their family in 1989 and moved to their Spider Lake home in 1998, where she found pleasure in potting flowers that lined her deck, flower gardens surrounding their home, and their annual 4th of July fish fry.\nEarly in her career, Karen worked in banking, was a stay at home mother, worked for Park Rapids schools in the cafeteria, was a longtime member of the Park Rapids Eagles Club, and was a daycare provider. Eventually, she worked her way up the ranks and found her passion in a leadership role at Lamb Weston/RDO Frozen Foods and retired as a Quality Assurance Supervisor in 2008.\nKaren was fiercely proud of her daughters and grandchildren as she would not hesitate to rave about their accomplishments to anyone who would listen. Recently, she became an ardent Nevis Tigers fan where she fervently cheered on her grandchildren.\nKaren had a compassionate heart and cared deeply for her friends and family. Her empathy for all, sweet sense of humor, ferocious competiveness at any game of chance, quick wit, and warm hugs will forever be missed.\nKaren was preceded in death by her sister Donalyn Sue, and her father Donald Clukey. She is lovingly remembered by her husband of 43 years, Bruce of Nevis; her daughters: Sarah (Daniel) Warrington, their children Mathias (14), Eva (12), Nora (8) and Lyla (4) of Nevis; Katie (Cory) Jendro and their three children Lily (13), Kiara (10), and Riley (5) of Zimmerman; Becky (Drew) Ceminski of Park Rapids, and their children Coen (11), Gabriel (5), and Olivia (2); and Jenny (Joe) Rittgers and their two children Bennett (4) and Hudson (1) of Nevis; her mother, Genevieve (Gary) Clukey of Mt. Dora, Florida; her brothers: David (Marsha) Clukey of Osage, Joy Clukey-Cloutier of Fargo, North Dakota, and Terry (Silvia) Clukey of Osage, and many cousins, nieces, nephews, in-laws, and friends.\nFuneral services were held on December 31, 2018 at Our Lady of Pines Catholic Church in Nevis, MN.\nArrangements were with Jones Pearson Funeral Home.To leave online condolences or to view the video tribute please visit www.jonespearson.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Guillermo del Toro Reveals He Worked on a ‘Star Wars’ Movie That Never Materialized, Focusing on Jabba the Hutt\nIf a collaboration between Guillermo Del Toro and the Star Wars universe were to ever materialize, it would undoubtedly be an exciting adventure for fans. This director’s imagination and creativity are known for his ability to bring fantastic characters and worlds to life on the big screen. What few know is that we were about to see a unique and visually stunning take on iconic characters like Jabba the Hutt.\nGuillermo del Toro’s Jabba the Hutt? Yes, it Could Have Been a Reality in Star Wars\nDuring a Q&A session hosted by Collider, the renowned filmmaker confirmed that he was at one point involved in a Star Wars film project. This movie was centered on the notorious crime lord, Jabba the Hutt, who resided on the desert planet Tatooine himself. where Luke Skywalker grew up and his father before him. Del Toro collaborated on the project with screenwriter David S. Goyer, who first shared the news on the Happy Sad Confused podcast last month.\n“There was just a lot of behind stuff going on at Lucasfilm at the time,” Goyer said on the podcast. “But it’s a cool script.”\nIn response to Goyer’s revelation, Del Toro tweeted: “True. I can’t give many details. Maybe two letters’ J’ and ‘BB’ make three letters?”\nNow, Del Toro has confirmed that the project did indeed focus on the enigmatic Jabba.\n“We had the rise and fall of Jabba the Hutt, so I was super happy,”. He said during the recent Collider event. “We were doing a lot of stuff, and then it’s not my property, it’s not my money, and then it’s one of those 30 screenplays that goes away. Sometimes I’m bitter, sometimes I’m not. I always turn to my team and say, ‘Good practice, guys. Good practice. We designed a great world, a great stuff. We learned.'”\n“You can never be ungrateful with life,” he said. “Whatever life sends you, there’s something to be learned from it. So, you know, I trust the universe, I do. When something doesn’t happen, I go, ‘Why?’. I try to have a dialogue with myself. ‘Why didn’t it happen?’ And the more you swim upstream with the universe, the less you’ll realize where you’re going.”\nA Star Wars Movie That Never Saw the Light\nIt is unclear how much time del Guillermo Del Toro and David Goyer devoted to developing this Star Wars project. However, the fact that they did not direct a Star Wars film has not negatively affected the careers of either artist. Del Toro has won three Oscars, two of them for The Shape of Water (Best Picture and Best Director), as well as one for Pinocchio, a Guillermo del Toro production (Best Animated Feature). For his part, Goyer has been involved in numerous superhero films, including The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. And also Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, as well as Terminator: Dark Fate.\nMeanwhile, Jabba the Hutt has appeared in several Star Wars films and on television. George Lucas introduced the character in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983). Lucasfilm added him to Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope through a previously incomplete scene when the film was re-released for its 20th anniversary in 1997. Jabba also appeared in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). In addition, Jabba played an essential role in the plot of the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Moreover, he appeared in several television series episodes that followed.\nFeatured Image Via Lucasfilm\nI am a circus aerialist influenced by Dick Grayson and Spider-Man. Fortunate to write about the characters that inspired me. I also have a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Master's degree in International Trade.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Content tagged with 'wireless speakers'\nBowers & Wilkins Wireless Music Systems comprises two new products that combine effortless wireless streaming with Bowers & Wilkins sound quality. The A7 and A5 Wireless Music Systems marry the… Read more\nPosted on: Wednesday, 19 Sep 2012\nCategories: Music, Wireless music systems\nTags: A5 wireless music speaker, A7 wireless music speaker, Airplay, Zeppelin Air iPod dock, wireless speakers, wireless streaming", "label": "No"}
{"text": "'My scars are like a road map': Anastacia reveals why she stripped naked following mastectomy as she talks about getting to know and love her new body\nShe's been incredibly open about having a mastectomy following her breast cancer battle.\nAnd singer and Strictly star Anastacia, 48, talked to Lorraine on Wednesday about why she decided to strip naked and bravely bare her scars for a magazine shoot.\nAs Lorraine called her a warrior, she said: 'It was the last hurdle of the mastectomy process.\nScroll down for video\n'My scars are like a road map': Anastacia revealed why she stripped naked following mastectomy on Lorraine on Wednesday as she talked about getting to love her new body\nLooking incredible: Anastacia posed for FAULT magazine last month in which she showed off her scars\n'The scars came right down here (pointing to her back) as they had to do a skin graft to make a nipple. I needed to come clean and show people and do it my way.'\nTalking about getting to know and love her body again, she said: 'My scars are like a road map but I wanted to show other women that that's OK.'\nLorraine asked her how to found the strength to battle the disease.\nTaking bold steps: As Lorraine called her a 'warrior', she said of the shoot: 'It was the last hurdle of the mastectomy process'\nTalking about the snaps, she said: 'The scars came right down here (pointing to her back) as they had to do a skin graft to make a nipple'\nShe continued: ' I needed to come clean and show people and do it my way'\nAnastacia said: 'You've got to have a good sense of humour and try to turn the negatives into positives'\nShe said: 'You've got to have a good sense of humour and try to turn the negatives into positives.\n'I always say there are only three important letters in 'cancer.' C-A-N. Because I can.'\nAnastacia is using her Strictly popularity to release her first live album, with the fans voting for the song choices.\nTrooper: Anastacia has scars running down her back but they show the brave journey she has been on\nTalking about being on the dance show, Anastacia said: 'It is such a great show and it was great to raise awareness for breast cancer/\n'I found my inner female and it was such an honour. I got to be girly and play dress up.'\nWhile she plans to go back to the show for the final at the weekend, Anastacia said:\n'All the rejects and losers get to go back. It makes me feel so much better about being ousted.'\nWow thing: Anastacia looked super fierce in a semi-sheer lingerie bodice\nMwah! Posing outside of the studios, Anastacia blew a kiss to waiting photographers\nMost watched News videos\n- Prince Harry and Meghan gifted soft kangaroo and baby Ugg boots\n- Mum-to-be Meghan Markle is seen fawning over adorable baby girl\n- Meghan Markle greets fans outside the Sydney Opera House\n- Harry and Meghan have left Taronga Zoo by boat, heading for Sydney Opera House\n- Harry and Meghan touch down in the country town of Dubbo\n- Harry and Meghan board a private plane to Dubbo\n- Moment biker has near-death experience in 'race' with Lamborghini\n- Blenheim Palace's campaign to save 'England's finest view'\n- CCTV shows vicious hate crime attack on Orthodox Jewish man\n- Ex-swingers club owner shows off house that Emile Cilliers visited\n- Child savagely abuses six-month-old dachshund puppy\n- First look at Meghan's 'bump' following pregnancy announcement", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "For this week's Mani Mondays, I decided I wanted a colorful, yet muted nail color. With this color scheme in mind I decided to go with a gorgeous purple/rose color. I chose Butter London's Toff, which is described as a darker, dustier, brownish variation on a rose pink. Toff is a great color for any occasion, all year long. It adds color without being too bright or too neutral. Toff will definitely become one of my go-to colors in my nail polish stash.\nBelow are some pictures of Butter London Toff...\n|Butter London Toff (source: ButterLondon.com)|\nWhat is your go-to color this season?\nDisclaimer: The above thoughts and recommendations are based on my own personal opinion. The above mentioned products have been purchased by me. This post has not been sponsored.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "NiktheGreek, Retro Gamer Writer & Sonic Retro forum member, has posted an interesting discovery while interviewing one of the artists behind the SEGA Saturn port of The House of the Dead. In the interview, the artist describes his experience working on the conversion of the game with a backup drive with all of the game’s assets. Within the backup drive, textures of Judge Dredd’s badge and Sylvester Stallone has been found along with two unused enemies with sexual gimp like designs. Check out the video on the site’s YouTube channel for more details & hit the jump for pictures of the texture assets. Continue reading\nWelcome back my AMS friends! Kori-Maru here and I am back in business on updating The Website of the Dead with new information on the recently announced entry to The House of the Dead series, House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn, and providing more informative details on previous titles. Let’s first start by discussing House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn and its gameplay first, then move on towards my plans for this website and the community. Hit the jump for us to get started. Continue reading\nContest has been extended until January 20th, gives more time for more artists to submit their work and more prizes to give away.\nCalling all AMS Agent with a talent of art! SEGA and The Website of the Dead have teamed up to giveaway tons of House of the Dead prizes to the fans to celebrate the release of The Typing of the Dead: Overkill.\nThis contest requires great artistic skills and talent. However, this is a special type of fan art contest. We want our artists to draw their favorite SEGA character into a mutant/creatures as seen in the House of the Dead universe (We don’t use the Z word, friends.)\nTo see how to enter the contest and view the prizes hit the jump. Continue reading\nIt’s been a while hasn’t it….. friends? I’ve been busy with school and SEGABits for quite a while. But luckly, I’ve purchased The House of the Dead III Perfect Guide from Japan which contains tons of awesome and rare information on the game just for you. This book is hard to find but here on The Website of the Dead, you can view all the never before seen concept artwork and early drafts from the development of The House of the Dead III. All will be added to the House of the Dead Official Artwork section and more to come. Interested to view the drafts now and read a couple of tidbits from the book. Read on for more.\nIf you like flash games and Sega’s The House of the Dead series, then Deadly City Survival is your type of game. It’s flash-based arcade survival horror shooter with a gritty setting similar to The House of the Dead 2 with the same gameplay features. Playing this game will feel like your playing an actual HOTD. The game also has a branching path system as well for you to choose your own path similar to The House of the Dead 3 & 4. I will provide a link to the game here for you guys to try the game out yourselves and share your thoughts on it.\nSorry for the late update with school going on and stuff. In this month’s latest issue of Game Informer “The Co-Op Issue”, Gameinformer ranks The House of the Dead 2 #28 of the top 30 Co-Op Games of All Time. As a fan of the House of the Dead series, I am happy to see that the game has received this spot. Why wouldn’t The House of the Dead 2 be listed as of the top co-op games of all time. My reasons are\n– Fast paced arcade gameplay\n– Shooting zombies and everything around you\n– Humorous voice acting\n– One of the Dreamcasts best selling games\n– Bringing a friend to enjoy a game with you\n– Goldman & his gnome theory\nHere’s what Game Informer has to say about the game.\n“On-rails light-gun shooters have been a staple of the arcade. Teaming up with a partner in The House of the Dead 2 was like going to the firing range, except without the need to wear those gigantic noise-dampening earmuffs. Even our Mortal Kombat childhoods, The House of the Dead 2 still delivered a startlingly violent cooperative tour through a monster-ravaged Venice. One gun simply wasn’t enough.”\nImage drawn by The Gagaman\nSorry for the late update HOTD fans. Where do I start? I had a great time at Sonic Boom in San Diego (lots of Sonic and Sega fans) and reunited with the community staff from Sega of America and meeting NiD.com admin TRiPPY. Had a great time talking to her about Sega, the Sega Saturn, and job opportunities. Anyway After seven years of waiting for a console port of the fourth installment to the House of the Dead series, The House of the Dead 4. Sega has finally found a way to deliver us both arcade HOTD titles (III & 4) to digital platforms such as the Playstation Network. We’ve been waiting for this moment for quite sometime… However, as fans of The House of the Dead series, we crave for more!\nAfter reading countless of gaming forums, comments on Youtube, and my visit with Sega at Sonic Boom, I wanted to start my very own campaign. To have Sega to port both the original two games and spin-off title Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX.\nFans have been begging for a faithful port of the first House of the Dead game in it’s original form (MODEL 2 graphics) since the Saturn & PC versions has been heavily criticized due to graphic limitations. With other classic Sega titles from the arcade/Saturn era of the 90’s released and coming to digital platforms (Daytona USA & NiGHTS HD) Why not the House of the Dead? As fans of the series, we want to relive those moments from the arcade era in our living rooms and fight Dr. Curien’s diabolical creations like The Chariot and The Magician. This game also introduced us to two highly trained and well known AMS agents throughout the series, Thomas Rogan & G, as they save Rogan’s fiancee, Sophie Richards, and stop Dr. Curien’s plans from destroying human civilization. The House of the Dead 2 would be awesome in HD in it’s original Naomi format which had more blood and music tunes.\nHowever, there were rumors going around for couple of years about Sega losing the source code of the original game along with other Sega titles stated by former SoA president, Simon Jeffrey. If the rumors are true, then Sega Wow may be able to remake the entire game from scratch and release it to the arcades with newer levels inside Curien’s Mansion and features within the game. As of now, we don’t know what they could be up to.\nNot only the original game and it’s sequel, but also the Japanese/European only HotD game Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX also deserves a port to digital platforms. The game’s storyline tells the audience about a zombie couple, Zobio & Zobiko, escaping the mansion to live a life in peace together from the clutches of Dr. Curien and his evil creatures. I’ve watched a couple of gameplay videos and I must say that this game looks REALLY enjoyable. Check and see for yourself. The game features tons of unique minigames where players much reach each other hand before time runs out such as dodging cakes during bullet time, rhythm tapping, finding the right zombie (may look familiar to those who played HOD2), and shooting bad teeth. A perfect gift for Valentine’s Day for lovely couples all over the world.\nAnd this is where you guys come in, our mission is to get Sega to release these games on digital platforms as soon as possible (don’t want to wait for another seven years (-_-;) It’s easy…\nJust sign these two petitions and your set\nThe House of the Dead HD\nLoving Deads: The House of the Dead EX\nOur goal is to reach 100 signatures each for both games and I may plan on making a video to spread the word even further and you guys can post your reasons explaining why you want these games to consoles as video responses. Not so bad right? Show your support AMS agents, about time “we” made a move!\nThe Typing of the Dead series is one of those unique names that Sega Wow has ever created based on the popular HotD sequel, The House of the Dead 2. Video game connoiser, Seàn Whitear, gave his thoughts and explains why we need more Typing of the Dead. Why? Because it has over the top humour, it’s educational, and most of all you can kill zombies with words on your very own keyboard. Here’s a snip from his amazing article\nThe Typing of the Dead is a great idea. It’s as laugh-out-loud funny and ridiculous as it is educational and helpful to a player’s everyday computing life. To make things even sweeter for developer Wow Entertainment (now Sega Wow) and publisher Sega, it probably didn’t require a great deal of funds to produce, either. Typing was only released in Japanese arcades but found its way to Dreamcast and PC in other countries; there was also a sequel, Typing of the Dead II, which was based on House of the Dead III, but it never made it outside of Japan. Typing is, perhaps, an even more niche game than the series it’s spun off from but a new release distributed on the cheap via a digital distribution platform like Steam could really prove to be a cult hit amongst PC gamers.\nCheck out his list of reasons why we should have more Typing of the Dead for today’s digital distribution here. Since Sega is going to release more games on digital, Typing should be one of them and a port of Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX and The House of the Dead. Get on it Sega!\nI will be attending Sonic Boom next week and do interviews with Steve Lycett “S0L”, producer of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and many other producers from Sumo along with Sega. If you have any questions relating to the game and The House of the Dead, shoot a comment below AMS agents and race fans! If your attending the Sega event as well, you can find me wearing a Shinobi costume. I’ll be waiting for you, friends….\nHappy fourth of July to my fellow Americans and House of the Dead fans out there. Time to go out and pop those fire crackers with family and friends. Once the celebration is over, how about you and some friends play some House of the Dead Overkill. To this day it’s still the hardcore you’ve been waiting for. Kill some mutants to satisfy your….", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "7 secrets of Empress Sisi, you probably didn’t know\nA guest post by Petra Herzberg\nSecret No. 1: A tattoo on her shoulder to represent her love for the sea?\nEmpress Elisabeth loved the sea. She loved it so much that on her crossings to Corfu or Madeira she had herself tied to a mast, sitting on a chair and enjoying the waves washing the cold salt water over her body with full force. If it was too cold, she made use of a glassed-in pavilion that was exclusively at her disposal. All the sailors and ladies-in-waiting around her were seasick, but Sisi never was. On the contrary, the more the ship rocked and struggled through the waves, the freer she felt. The seawater washed away her worries and cares.\nDoes is come to any surprise then, that in later years she had a small anchor tattooed on her left shoulder as a sign of her attachment to the sea? Her lady-in-waiting Irma Gräfin Sztaray, who accompanied her on her travels, reported that Sisi got the tattoo in 1888 at the age of 51 in an infamous harbour bar. Sisi’s husband, Emperor Franz Joseph I, knew nothing about it. When he found out, he was stunned once again, because his wife kept surprising him with quite strange views, actions and desires. He remembered her once wishing for a fully furnished psychiatric ward, a young royal tiger or a medallion for her birthday, already knowing that she would receive the medallion.\nSecret No. 2: The song of the yellow domino – an empress on the wrong track\nDuring the carnival and ball season of 1874, the bored empress managed to escape unseen from her hated Hofburg. Sisi, disguised as a yellow domino, with a wig, veil and mask, was accompanied by her lady-in-waiting, Ida Ferenczy, dressed up as a red domino. The destination was a ball at the Vienna Musikverein.\nThe emperor was traveling and, moreover, she was forbidden to enjoy herself as she pleased. Out of boredom and defiance, she let Ida in on her plans and the ladies drove up to the music society undetected. There she noticed the dashing-looking Friedrich (Fritz) Pacher List zu Theinburg, a ministerial official, whom she boldly spoke to through Ida, who called herself “Henriette” that evening. He followed the red domino into the empress’s box, who pretended to be “Gabriele”. The two quickly began a conversation and talked for quite a while. Sisi asked him what people in Vienna were saying about the empress, the emperor and the court and was amused by his answers. Elisabeth wrote down his address and promised to write to him. The young man was curious and wanted to know who was really hiding behind the mask, surely already having guessed. Elisabeth’s, or “Gabriele’s” discomfort in the crowd, overly slender figure, elegant gait and the aura that surrounded her even in her costume aroused in him a suspicion: Was this really the empress Elisabeth of Austria, who held out her delicate gloved hand to him and let him lead her through the Golden Hall by the arm, as light as a feather? He had to find out! He lifted her veil, which she wore over her face, but she was quicker and batted his hand away with her delicate silk fan. Suddenly, Ida was between them, urging her “friend” to leave with her. Fritz managed to take the fan from Sisi. “You are not Gabriele, your name is Elisabeth and you are 36 years old,” he whispered to her before she escaped from him in horror and grabbed Ida’s arm, running through the crowd to their carriage.\nLater, as an ancient man, Fritz showed the fan to the empress’s first biographer, Egon Count Conte Corti, along with some letters, when the latter sought him out to do research for his biography of the empress. Conte Corti recognised Elisabeth’s handwriting and the delicate fan, which was already falling apart. Conte Corti got on Fritz’s trail because he had learned from Ida that for many years after the ball there had been an exchange of letters between Fritz and Elisabeth – alias “Gabriele”. The empress sent Fritz letters from Munich, London, and even from Rio de Janeiro, amongst other places, adding only the address of a postbox, rather than her own. Fritz wrote back, but only a few letters actually reached the empress, the rest were never picked up and never read. At first, Elisabeth enjoyed confusing and misleading Fritz, but his increasingly specific questions and finally rather rude lines about her true identity caused Elisabeth’s interest to fade.\nShe ended the adventure with a simultaneously mocking and melancholic poem, which has been preserved and is entitled “The Song of the Yellow Domino – Long Long Ago”. Fritz would not forgot the beautiful woman and the glittering ball night for the rest of his life and kept her fan and letters until his death on May 12, 1934. He lived to be 87 years old and died knowing that it was the Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose arm he held at the 1874 carnival.\nSecret No. 3: Corfu retreat – skinny dipping\nElisabeth came to Corfu for the first time in 1861 for a spa stay and fell in love with the beautiful Greek island. She had a castle built there, which she named “Achilleion”, dedicated to her idol Achill. On her escapes from the Viennese court, she learned Greek and took long walks and rides in the olive groves. She liked to enter unannounced in the kitchen of the small farmhouses, looking around curiously and asking the puzzled peasant women for a glass of milk. Often she was driven away with rude words, but when she was recognised, the joy of the farmers was great.\nElisabeth was a good swimmer and loved bathing in the sea. From the beach to the water, cloths were hung to the right and left of the path so that she could slide into the sea unseen. Naked and with open hair, she would swim through the waves like a mermaid.\nWith her Greek valet Constantin Christomanos, she wandered at high speed in sweltering heat, reciting Shakespeare and translating texts from modern to ancient Greek and vice versa. She spoke German, English, French, Hungarian, ancient and modern Greek, Bohemian and Croatian, and loved to keep those around her in the dark about what she was discussing – mostly in Hungarian with her Hungarian ladies-in-waiting. This particularly annoyed her mother-in-law, who deeply hated anything Hungarian. After all, it was a Hungarian who had- unsuccessfully – attempted to assassinate her son Franz Joseph in 1853.\nAfter Elisabeth’s death in 1898, the Achilleion was first bequeathed to her elder daughter Gisela, who was not interested in it, and then sold to Kaiser Wilhelm II, who enjoyed staying at the resort. After his death, the villa began to fall apart, and was soon turned into a casino by the Greeks. It was only renovated much later, when the Greek government became aware of its value. To this day, there are attempts at auctions to buy back original furniture and restore the villa to how it looked in Sisi’s day. Presently, visitors of the castle can see the study of Kaiser Wilhelm II with the famous chair in the shape of his riding saddle. There are also many pictures, statues and photos of Sisi that visitors can admire.\nSecret No.4: Katharina Schratt -Sisi’s unofficial deputy?\nIt is generally known that Emperor Franz Joseph had some extramarital affairs, which was quite common at the time. In 1886, the young actress Katharina Schratt enjoyed great success at the Hofburg Theater in Vienna. The fresh and sweet Viennese girl aroused the interest of the emperor. Sisi noticed this, sent for Kathi and established a friendship between Franz Joseph and her. She gave Franz Joseph a painting of the actress and from then on, Kathi became a “friend” of the imperial couple.\nElisabeth was aware that this constellation gave her freedom, putting the emperor in good company and allowing her to travel without a guilty conscience. Katharina received many gifts from the emperor, including jewellery and even a villa. The villa was within walking distance of Schoenbrunn Palace, so the emperor was able to visit her in the morning for breakfast. Katharina entertained him with homemade guglhupf (a typical cake traditionally baked in a circular Bundt mold) and the latest Viennese gossip. It was clear that the two of them started an affair, which can be deducted from letters which read “Please receive me in bed”. Sisi even agreed to Franz Joseph marrying again in the case of her death – but only if it were to be Katharina Schratt to take her place. After Sisi’s death, there is even said to have been a secret wedding between the two lovers, but this was never proven.\nSecret No. 5: Sisi’s denture – an observation by Romy Schneider’s grandmother.\nAll her life Sisi had bad teeth, which were also quite yellow. She was ashamed of them and therefore did not smile in photos. She also spoke very softly and often held her hand in front of her mouth. Only later did she find a good dentist who made her a denture. In 1898, Rosa Albach-Retty, Romy Schneider’s paternal grandmother, once observed two ladies in a country inn in Bad Ischl. She did not recognise them immediately. When the second lady, Sisi’s lady-in-waiting, briefly left the table at which they were sitting, Rosa observed that the lady who remained behind suddenly took out her denture in a flash, held it sideways over the table and rinsed it with water. Then she pushed it back into her mouth with incredible elegance. Rosa was so impressed by this that she later mentioned this experience in her memoirs “So Short Are a Hundred Years”.\nSecret No. 6: The hairdresser as a doppelgänger\nSisi’s hair is legendary. It was chestnut-coloured, slightly wavy, heavy, and reached the back of her knees. The pretty Viennese Fanny Angerer was hired as Sisi’s personal hairdresser when Sisi saw the elaborate hairstyles that Fanny had created for the actresses at the Hofburg Theater. Fanny was in charge of Sisi’s hair, which needed to be taken care of for three hours every day. In addition, the hair was washed with egg and cognac every three weeks, and a whole day passed before it was dry again. On those days, the empress was not available to anyone.\nFanny played a central role when it came to Sisi’s appointments: If Sisi’s hair was well done, she went to her engagements, such as receptions and balls, but when it wasn’t, or when Fanny was ill and the substitute couldn’t manage to replicate the famous pin-up hairstyle that Fanny created especially for the empress, Sisi canceled all her appointments. Fanny became so important that her husband was appointed court secretary, allowing Fanny to continue to offer her services to the empress.\nIn Sisi’s time, only unmarried women were allowed to work in the court. From then on, Fanny’s name was no longer Angerer, but Fanny Feifalik. She was tall, very pretty, slim, and resembled Sisi from afar. When Sisi didn’t feel like fulfilling her royal obligations, she would often send Fanny in her place. She would even send Fanny ahead swimming and choose to swim in a different part of the lake or the sea to mislead onlookers. Fanny became so used to Sisi’s ways that she developed certain tricks to appease the empress. For instance, Sisi hated having her hair combed out and would scold Fanny if hair was found in the comb after its daily brushing. To pacify her, Fanny simply stuck a piece of adhesive tape under her apron, where she made the combed-out hair disappear in a flash, allowing her to present an empty comb and have her peace.\nSecret No. 7: Sisi’s vice\nIn the late 19th century, morphine and cocaine were common painkillers that were considered harmless. They were often prescribed thoughtlessly by doctors for painful conditions and psychological complaints. Many users even owned their own syringes, including Sisi. Her cocaine syringe can be seen in the Sisi Museum in Vienna.\nSisi liked to feel free by smoking cigarettes. When she drove through Vienna smoking in an open carriage, she enjoyed the murmurs of onlookers this would cause. She loved to shock her hated entourage at the Viennese court. Since she was also constantly on a diet (at a height of 1.72, she never weighed more than 50 kg throughout her life), smoking helped her suppress the feeling of hunger.\nShe loved to be different: she was the rebellious empress, the poet empress, the athletic empress, the self-confident empress, the empress who made decisions for herself, defying the court etiquette. And above all, she knew that she was upsetting her hated mother-in-law with her behaviour.\nThis repeatedly led to conflicts with her husband, who was caught between the two women, his mother whom he wanted to honour and his wife whom he adored. Often he did not know how to act. Most of the time he decided in favour of his mother, leaving behind a disappointed wife who was withdrawing more and more from him. He only sighed when the bills came for the many trips and horses she consoled herself with. He paid – and then sighed again.\nWhen he learned of her death in Geneva on September 10, 1898, he said to his adjutant general, Count Paar, who delivered the terrible news, “You do not know how I loved this woman.” Elisabeth was fatally wounded by the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucceni, who stabbed her in the heart with a homemade file.\nLucceni had originally wanted to kill the Duke of Orleans, but the latter had canceled his trip at short notice. Lucceni learned from a newspaper that the Empress of Austria was staying at the Hotel Beau Rivage under the incognito name of “Countess of Hohenembs” and waited for her there. He explained his act by saying that “whoever does not work should not eat.” He hated the aristocracy and wanted to be remembered with the assassination. However, he broke down mentally in prison and hung himself with his belt in his cell eleven years after the crime in 1910. He left behind his written memorials, which can still be bought in stores today.\nAbout the author\nPetra Herzberg’s passion is Sisi. She knows everything about the famous empress of the K & K monarchy. Everything? Yes, EVERYTHING you can get hold of! Not only has she read all the (German) books that exist about the life of Sisi and her husband Emperor Franz Joseph, she also collects pictures, photos and figurines of Sisi.\nVisiting Petra Herzberg in her home, I admired her collection and asked her\nwhen her enthusiasm for Empress Sisi began. She told me that she discovered the first book about Sisi, the biography by Brigitte Hamann “Kaiserin wider Willen” in 1981 (?) at her grandmother’s and devoured it. After that, she was hooked, and read more about the life of the fascinating Sisi. She began to collect the books and travelled extensively to the many places the empress had lived, from her beloved Vienna, which she visits regularly, to Budapest or even Corfu. Until now, she has pursued this passion in her free time. Professionally, she has been successfully working in the banking industry for many years. A second passion which she shares with Empress Sisi, this one more by chance, is horseback riding, preferably in a side-saddle, which is her compensation from city life on weekends. And when there is still time left, you can find her working on her book. Guess whom it’s about…\nWhen I asked her about what she thinks about the many “Sissi” movies that are broadcast every year, especially around Christmas, she comments “There is some truth to them, but the sugarcoated truth doesn’t taste quite so bitter”. And even though they often don’t reflect reality, she says in a conciliatory way that the movies are connected to childhood memories for her and therefore are still “must-sees” at Christmas!\nIn a series by RTL, Sisi’s story was filmed again. Here are a few visual impressions of it:\nALL THREE IMAGES COPYRIGHT RTL\nThe episodes can be streamed on RTL+.\nA little hint on of the different spelling: Sisi was historically spelled with one ‘s’.\nRegarding King Ludwig II and his struggle for friendship and relationship (including with Sisi), there is another german articel by Marcus Spangenberg.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Last Updated on April 26, 2021 by Ellen Christian\nPosts may be sponsored. This post contains affiliate links, which means I will make a commission at no extra cost to you should you click through and make a purchase. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.\nThe Glossybox December 2014 box was just about as good as it can get. Glossybox always makes me feel pampered when I receive it because I receive only the best luxury beauty brands to try. Each month I get at least 5 new products to try. They are a combination of trial and full sized products including hair, cosmetic and beauty brands. The Glossybox December 2014 box is their Holiday Box and it was AMAZING.\nGlossybox December 2014 Box\nThe Glossybox December 2014 box has 8 products in it! Yes, 8! Of those 8 products, 7 were full sized! Plus, 7 were cosmetics! I have to admit that my very favorite new products to try are cosmetics so you can see why I was so happy with this box. Here’s what I received:\n1. Calvin Klein Reveal perfume – Designed to express Calvin Klein’s core brand identity, this solar oriental is characterized by freshness and warmth. A sensorial raw salt signature captures traces of the scent of skin and is blended with orris and a drydown of sensual sandalwood. Full size $90\nMy thoughts: I love the way this smells! I fell in love with the last Calvin Klein perfume I received so I’m very glad to see I’ll enjoy this one too.\n2. Teadora Nourishing Lip Butter in Rainforest at Dawn – This new brand is inspired by and infused with extracts of the antioxidant rich plants found in the Amazon Rainforest. Packed with maracuja, acai oils and mango butters, this citrusy flavor is also known as laranga or orange in Portuguese. Full size $15\nMy thoughts: I admit that I have a passion for lip products. This lip butter is in a little plastic jar so it’s a bit odd to apply unless you stick your finger into the jar. I do love the scent and the way it feels on my lips but it might have been easier to apply in a tube.\n3. NCLA Nail Lacquer in Satin Sheets, Velvet Ropes – This cult favorite Indie brand is inspired by the sights and sounds of Southern California. Both 5 free and American made, this gilded red shade shimmers slightly under the holiday lights. Full size $16\nMy thoughts: I love that this brand is both American made and 5-free! This gorgeous red color is perfect for the holidays too!\n4. Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Loose Colour Concentrates in Smote – This gorgeous holographic micronized color pigment is infused with light reflecting mica to impart a multidimensional glimmering effect wherever it’s applied. Full size $14\nMy thoughts: I admit that I don’t really know much about working with pigments. I do love the color and the shimmer makes it perfect for a dressy evening holiday party.\n5. Cargo TexasLiner Liquid Eye Liner – Because everything is bigger in Texas, Cargo decided to upgrade the eyeliner experience with this easy to control chubby felt tip liquid eyeliner. Full size $20\nMy thoughts: I love Cargo cosmetics. I have several eyeliners from them but have never tried one of the liquid eyeliners. It’s definitely easier to hold than the thinner versions. This will be great for a cat eye look!\n6. Korres Volcanic Minerals Volumizing Mascara – Featuring volcanic soil said to increase lashes by 600 percent and provide its deep, dark black hue, this mascara leaves a glossy finish with rich pigments and natural film formers.\nMy thoughts: Love the length and the fact that it doesn’t clump. I’m not familiar with the brand but I’ll definitely be looking for it in the future.\n7. The Lip Bar Lipstick in Crimson Wonderland – Celebrate the season by using The Lip Bar’s limited edition candy apple red lip color. It’s cruelty free and filled with nurturing ingredients like organic shea butter, avocado oil and coconut oil.\nMy thoughts: Love the ingredients in this lipstick and I love that it’s cruelty free. It’s definitely NOT my color but my daughter will love it.\n8. Jouer Moisturizing Lip Gloss in Wind – Loaded with vitamin E, shea butter and jojoba seed oil to soften, nourish and protect lips, this hydrating gloss is the perfect pinky nude shade to match with every complexion.\nMy thoughts: LOVE this! The color is perfect and it feels so good on my lips. Definitely will be using this again.\nIf you haven’t already signed up for Glossybox, I definitely recommend it. The products are always luxury brands and it’s definitely worth the price you pay.\nEllen is a busy mom of a 22-year-old son and 27-year-old daughter. She owns 5 blogs and is addicted to social media. She believes you can feel beautiful at any age and any size. She shares healthy, realistic beauty and fashion information geared toward women over the age of 40. If you’d like to work together, email firstname.lastname@example.org to chat.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From the Super Mario Wiki, the Mario encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to search\nRetrieved from \"https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Mad_Mallet&oldid=3664467\"\nMad Mallets are small hammer-like enemies and are the workers in the Smithy Gang. Found in Smithy's Factory during Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, they are a weaker version of Pounders and Poundettes.\nMad Mallets are in charge of pounding Machine Mades into shape after Smithy is finished creating them. They also patrol the factory and sometimes are accompanied by Ninjas and Jabits. They also act as the bodyguards of the Clerk. Before the player faces the Clerk, he has his Mad Mallets face Mario, and two more Mad Mallets are present during Mario's battle with the Clerk.\nNames in other languages", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Location: La Cala, Spain\nBeautiful Andalusian villa in a peaceful location very close to La Cala Golf\nThe property consists of 7 double bedrooms and ensuite bathrooms alongside a guest/staff apartment.\nUpon entry you are greeted by double height ceiling and beautiful wooden double doors that lead you into a large open plan living and dining area, the dining room leads through to a superb kitchen and second dining area.\nFrom the living room you access an enclosed terrace where you can sit and enjoy your evenings watching the sunset over the mountains a great area for entertaining your guests.\nThis villa is an amazing investment opportunity or could be a beautiful boutique hotel.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Land Area334 m2\nCharm , Solitude and Space comes to mind .......\nLooking for something a little different to the small characterless villa? Then this is it, a delightful home located on a front strata block offering 2 bedrooms plus a third ideal for a study. The living room creates a mood of tranqulity with it's soft lighting and magnificent ceiling & cornices. The kitchen has been renovated and yet has maintained the cottage feel. Nestled behind a brick wall and wrought iron gates the home is presented with a perfect courtyard, idea for soaking up warm winter sun or sipping a glass of wine on the verandah.\nOpen for the first time this weekend.\n- air conditioning", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1. Have a really great and sturdy basket handy, so you can pile things out of your fridge and into the basket.\n|The view from under our magnolia tree|\n6. Keep the food simple - bread, sliced sausage or cooked chicken, pickles, sliced cucumbers, cheeses (and grainy mustard for a gourmet flourish). Berries for dessert.\n8. Share your feast with the love of your life. Berries taste better hand-fed, and even the most mundane conversation becomes poetry in the shade of a magnolia tree!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Nantucket SistersLarge Print - 2014\n\"Maggie and Emily have been best friends despite their different backgrounds. But after many golden summers, Emily and Maggie grow apart. When Cameron Chadwick, a wealthy Wall Street broker, appears on the scene taking moonlit walks on the dunes with Maggie and romancing Emily in Manhattan, their friendship is put to the ultimate test\"--\nPublisher: Thorndike, Maine :, Center Point Large Print,, 2014.\nEdition: Center Point Large Print edition.\nCopyright Date: ©2014\nCharacteristics: large print,rda 424 pages (large print) ; 23 cm", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Why Our Cities Are Failing\nBy Michael Shellenberger\nIn cities governed by progressives, extreme housing-first policies have actually exacerbated homelessness and crime. Underneath it all is an ideology that labels those affected as victims and absolves them of personal responsibility. Eye-opening and extensively researched.\nHarper, 2021, 416 pages\nSecrets From a Spymaster\nBy Ion Mihai Pacepa and Ronald J. Rychlak\nDisinformation is so common these days that it’s easy to be deceived.\nThis book, written by one of the highest-ranking defectors from the former Eastern Bloc, explains how disinformation works, with examples from the Cold War era. It reads like a spy novel, detailing how the American public was manipulated and lied to through incidents manufactured by the Soviets. Once you understand how disinformation works, you’ll see it everywhere—and how it is pushed by media that denounce it. An extremely valuable book.\nWND Books, 2013, 429 pages\nNarrative History at Its Finest\n‘The Civil War’\nBy Shelby Foote\nWriter Walker Percy called this trilogy “an American Iliad.” This meticulously researched history—Foote spent nearly 20 years researching and writing it—has brought both praise and criticism from other historians, yet nearly all would agree the novelist-turned-historian tells the story of the Civil War like no other. Here is a narrative history nearly 3,000 pages long, and not a dull one among them. A stupendous achievement by a man whose publisher originally asked him to write a short volume.\nVintage, 1986 2,968 pages\nKing of the Bootleggers\n‘The Ghosts of Eden Park’\nBy Karen Abbott\nGeorge Remus dreamed of making a name for himself. In 1921, he owned 35 percent of all liquor in the United States. Fresh out of law school, Mabel Walker Willebrandt is also on track to make a name for herself as a pioneering prosecutor. Franklin Dodge is the investigator but is it Remus or Remus’s wife that he is after? And then, there is a murder. Abbott combines meticulous historical research with superb storytelling.\nCrown Publishing, 2019, 319 pages\nA Compendium of Brews\n‘World Atlas of Beer’\nBy Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont\nInside this third edition is a curated list of the essential beers and beer places throughout the planet, broken down by region, country, or even city, with fascinating elements scattered throughout—such as notes on Dutch beer bar etiquette or the state of hops. There’s also guidance for buying, pouring, pairing, and storing.\nMitchell Beazley, 2021, 272 pages\nPoverty, Grit, and Aspiration\n‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’\nBy Betty Smith\nSet in Brooklyn in the early 20th century, this 1943 novel tells the story of the impoverished Nolan family and their struggle as they seek the American Dream. Francie is the center of the story, a girl who loves books and learning and who adores her father for his imagination and musical talent, despite his failure as a provider. From her mother, Francie learns grit and willpower. Like the tree growing in the courtyard of their apartment building, she refuses to be destroyed by her trials. A beloved American classic, and rightly so.\nHarper Perennial Modern Classics, 2018, 493 pages\nA Great American Poem Is Given a Twist\n‘Casey at the Bat’\nBy Ernest Lawrence Thayer and Patricia Polacco\nWant to keep the baseball season going with the little ones? Read them this book. Thayer’s original poem is included, but Polacco’s additions and illustrations give us Casey as an arrogant boy who learns a lesson. Fun for everyone.\nPutnam Publishing, 1997, 32 pages\nIn an Old House in Paris\nBy Ludwig Bemelmans\nThis 1939 classic introduces us to the high-spirited and precocious young girl, one of 12 little girls who live in a “vine-covered house in Paris.” Young girls, especially, will enjoy traveling the globe with the irrepressible Madeline.\nViking, 2012, 36 pages", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Chapter 110 Return\n“Finally, we’re back…”\n…It really had been so long.\nCompared with the season before our nation’s founding celebration day, I hadn’t stayed that long in the capital this time.\nEven so, I felt like this…perhaps because every day here was so concentrated, so dense.\nLast time I came back I also sighed a breath of relief, but this time I was even more relieved.\nWhen I arrived at the mansion, all the servants came out to greet me.\nEveryone seems on the verge of both laughter and tears. I couldn’t help but also tear up a bit.\nI really made everyone worry.\n“We’re glad that you have returned safely…I, for one, am very happy. Please do rest well today.”\n“Thank you, Sebastian.”\nIf this were any other time, I would have gone straight to the study. But this time I went back to my room.\nThat was because today I actually wanted to do what everyone said and rest.\nAt my leisure, I enjoyed a cup of red tea that Tanya had made for me.\nSuddenly, the curtains began to shudder because of the wind. As if invited by the wind, I stood up and approached the window.\nAnd then, I gazed upon the territory from my window.\nIt was so beautiful, this landscape. Everywhere was permeated with green, and the parallel streets extending into the distance. I…loved the view.\nLooking over this view that all previous generations of the family had worked to protect and cultivate, I felt a true pride for the heritage that I shared with them in the form of the blood flowing through my body.\nI stared out at the scene before me, breathing out. I was so glad that we found a way to calm this riot…\nThat way, I could continue caring for this land.\n“Ah…right, Tanya, can you call over Ryle or Dida?”\n“Yes, milady. Are you going somewhere…?”\n“Yes. I can’t just relax because I’m in the mansion.”\n“True. Please wait for a minute.”\nTanya left the room, but walked back in quickly.\n“I bumped into Dida.”\n“Thank you, Tanya….Dida, could you come with me for a walk?”\n“No problem. By the way, where are we going?”\n“To my grandfather’s.”\n“Ah…there. I understand. My duty is to accompany milady wherever you wish to go.”\n“Thank you. Tanya, could you prepare a bouquet for me…do you want to come as well?”\n“Of course. I’ll go now and prepare. Please wait for a moment.”\nTanya, Dida and I started walking…15 minutes later, we arrived at the place, where the trees grew tall and lustrous.\nThis was where the previous heads of house slumbered. For some reason, we hadn’t picked out a cemetery, but chose for it to be here.\nI don’t understand why. But from here they could gaze upon the Armenia land…and rest here, alongside the mansion that held so many memories. That made me jealous.\nI paused before one of the tombstones that was still very new.\nFrom Tanya’s hands I took the bouquet and put it in front of the tombstone.\nGrandfather had passed away before I was admitted to the Academy. He was a gentle man completely different from my father, who had the face of a demon king. Because my grandmother was a kind, gentle person as well, I’d always wondered who my father had taken after.\nBut that’s beside the point.\nSince I became the substitute leader, sometimes I would recall my grandfather and come here to visit him.\nI think that he loved this land more than anyone else.\nIn my memory, just like I stood by the window gazing upon the territory, he often brought me when I was young along and looked upon the land as he spoke about it with pride.\nHe was so gentle. Even after I became substitute leader, I couldn’t help but think that it must have been difficult for him to work in the palace, where liars and the power-hungry took up most of the space.\nBut now things were different.\nWhen I was participating in territorial politics, I often found traces of his work and couldn’t help but sigh to myself…while also allowing for self-deprecation.\nLaughing at myself–for only seeing one side of a person and making the snap judgement that “this must be the kind of person he was.”\nAnyone would understand it if they thought about it–the face that my grandfather showed me couldn’t be the same he showed when he was working. Also, I only retained memories of him when I was young. Could I really judge his character based on those shallow impressions?\nI could only revolutionize the politics of my territory thanks to the foundation that he had laid for me.\nI only realized this when I began to work on public institutions and equipment. My grandfather’s work was everywhere.\nThose policies had really been able to predict things not only 10 years, but decades later, especially in terms of confronting disasters. I couldn’t help but be amazed at them.\n…I also can’t deny that to build a solid foundation for the future, I keep overlooking the foundations below my own feet.\nI had been carrying this work out at the same time that I was dealing with my other duties…he really did love this land. I couldn’t help but be moved.\nSaying this, I put my hands together in prayer.\nI wanted to apologize for bringing chaos to the territory, and pray that my grandfather continue to protect and guard us in the future.\nAlthough I knew there would be no response, my thoughts came in torrents.\nI stood up, turned around. Tanya and Dida were smiling.\n“Let’s go back.”\nMy mood had cleared up a lot, and we left.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The Chord Wheel\nDownload and Read Books in PDF\nThe \"The Chord Wheel\" book is now available, Get the book in PDF, Epub and Mobi for Free. Also available Magazines, Music and other Services by pressing the \"DOWNLOAD\" button, create an account and enjoy unlimited.\n|Author||: Jim Fleser|\n|Editor||: Hal Leonard Corporation|\nOffers detailed instructions on how to use the transparent wheel attached to the cover to analyze chord progressions, compose music, apply music theory, and transpose keys.\n|Author||: Scott Gentry|\n|Editor||: Thunder Bay Press|\nThis easy-to-use visual guide includes every chord you can imagine! An essential tool in any guitarist’s case, this portable book helps you learn positions for each finger on the fretboard and offers chord substitutions for songwriting. The key references are also a great way to come up with a base for solos! This book contains every permutation of each chord, including alternate voicings and inversions. So spin the wheel and watch your guitar playing improve!\n|Author||: Richard J. Scott|\nEach chapter of Chord Progressions For Songwriters provides a comprehensive self-contained lesson on one of twenty-one popular chord progressions that every songwriter should know inside and out. Lessons cover ascending, basic (I-IV), blues, circle (VI-II-V-I), classic rock (I-bVII-IV), combination, descending, doo-wop (I-VIm-IV-V), ending, flamenco (Im-bVII-bVI-V), folk (I-V), introduction, jazz (IIm-V-I), minor blues, one-chord, pedal point, rock and roll (I-IV-V), standard (I-VIm-IIm-V), and turnaround progressions as well as rhythm and Coltrane changes. You will learn how key, duration, substitution, variation (adding or subtracting chords), and displacement (rearranged chord orders) are used to vary the sound of each progression. You will also take a look at the author’s songwriter’s notebook and work through exercises to reinforce key chapter concepts and get you started building your own progressions.\n|Author||: Aaron Whitehead|\n|Editor||: Createspace Indie Pub Platform|\nThis book offers a fresh look at how to learn chords on the piano. Made with the beginning piano player in mind, this book is perfect for the person desiring to learn and play their favorite song on the piano. For more information about our piano program, please view our tutorials on YouTube at youtube.com/thepianochordbook\n|Author||: Steve Hall|\n|Editor||: Alfred Music Publishing|\nChords are listed alphabetically and chromatically for easy reference with 36 different chords listed for each key. With chapters on chord theory, intervals, chord construction and use of chords and rhythms in various styles of music, your chord vocabulary will be forever expanding. Over 310 pages!\n|Author||: Michael Pilhofer,Holly Day|\n|Editor||: John Wiley & Sons|\nTune in to how music really works Whether you’re a student, a performer, or simply a fan, this book makes music theory easy, providing you with a friendly guide to the concepts, artistry, and technical mastery that underlie the production of great music. You’ll quickly become fluent in the fundamentals of knocking out beats, reading scores, and anticipating where a piece should go, giving you a deeper perspective on the works of others — and bringing an extra dimension to your own. Tracking to a typical college-level course, Music Theory For Dummies breaks difficult concepts down to manageable chunks and takes into account every aspect of musical production and appreciation — from the fundamentals of notes and scales to the complexities of expression and instrument tone color. It also examines the latest teaching techniques — all the more important as the study of music, now shown to provide cognitive and learning benefits for both children and adults, becomes more prevalent at all levels. Master major and minor scales, intervals, pitches, and clefs Understand basic notation, time signals, tempo, dynamics, and navigation Employ melodies, chords, progressions, and phrases to form music Compose harmonies and accompanying melodies for voice and instruments Wherever you want to go musically — as a writer or performer, or just as someone who wants to enjoy music to its fullest — this approachable guide gives you everything you need to hear!\n|Author||: Jake Jackson|\n|Editor||: Flame Tree Pub|\nOrganized as a chord per spread, for the left and right hands, this is a handy, comprehensive reference for jazz, pop, rock and soul musicians playing the piano or keyboard at various levels. It teaches yourself the essential piano chords, and more.\n|Author||: Duane Shinn|\n|Editor||: Keyboard Workshop|\n\"The Secrets of Exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions!\" is an ebook with links back to 39 individual piano lessons online, showing photos of all major chords, all minor chords, all diminished, augmented and many extended chords such as 7ths, 9th, 11th and 13th chords.\n|Author||: Gail Smith|\n|Editor||: Mel Bay Publications|\nThis book was written to provide a methodology for improvisation on the piano. Patterns are analyzed in and notated in all keys. Examples are given to illustrate how and where a fill fits. Then, step by step you can learn how to add the left hand accompaniment based on a lead sheet, or improvise with the right hand. While improvising, patterns may be woven into a beautiful tapestry of sound. Just as a kaleidoscope creates beautiful colorful patterns before your eye, the patterns in this book will enable you to create a kaleidoscope of musical sounds for your ears. Most of the book consists of short examples using familiar tunes.\n|Author||: Dick Weissman|\n|Editor||: Alfred Music|\nAll of today's most popular chord progressions are included in this handy-sized 4.5\" x 11\" book. All progressions are shown with piano and guitar diagrams as well as standard music notation. Covers chord substitutions, the blues, half-step motion, chord inversions, the circle of fifths and more.\n|Author||: Randall Faber|\n|Editor||: Hal Leonard Corporation|\n(Faber Piano Adventures ). Scales and arpeggios are the backbone of confident, polished playing. Practicing these two pillars of technique develops dexterity and speed. When combined with essential music theory patterns, the result is \"harmony in motion.\" Not just a reference for technical progress, Scale and Chord Book 3 encourages a focus on touch and sound, especially the feel of the black keys under the hands. Late intermediate and advancing students learn to perform multi-octave scales and arpeggios with fluency. Transposition exercises emphasize understanding of tonic, dominant, and leading tone. Gestural marks direct the integration of wrist motion. And, importantly, study of chord progressions provides the toolset for analysis, improvisation, and composition.\n|Author||: Troy Stetina|\n|Editor||: Hal Leonard Corporation|\n(Pocket Guide). Everything you ever wanted to know about scales, but were afraid to ask! This book fills you in on major and minor scales; the modes; the blues scale; harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole tone & diminished scales; other exotic and ethnic scales; and more. Includes easy-to-read fretboard diagrams, and a bio of Troy Stetina.\n|Author||: Desi Serna|\n|Editor||: John Wiley & Sons|\nSerious about jamming, understanding, and creating guitar-driven music? Easy. With an approachable and engaging style, Guitar Theory For Dummies goes beyond guitar basics, presenting the guidance intermediate to advanced players need to improve their improvisational and compositional skills. Plus, with access to audio tracks and video instruction online you can master the concepts and techniques covered in the book. Key content coverage includes: pentatonic and major scale patterns; the CAGED chord system, chord progressions, and playing by numbers; roots, keys, and applying scales, plus modes and modal scales; intervals and chord extensions; popular song references and theory applications that help you understand how to play popular music and contemporary guitar styles, and create music of your own. This title also features companion audio tracks and video content hosted online at Dummies.com The expert instruction and easy-to-digest information provides comprehensive guidance on how to apply music theory concepts to fretted instruments If you already have a handle on the basics and want to know more about the building blocks and theory behind guitar music, Guitar Theory For Dummies has you covered.\n|Author||: Sylvia Woods|\n|Editor||: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation|\n(Harp). This easy-to-read chord and scale chart by Sylvia Woods has everything you need for quick reference on one laminated, 2-sided, 3-hole-punched, 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. It includes the chord construction for every major, minor, augmented, diminished, suspended, 6th, minor 6th, dominant 7th, major 7th, minor 7th, 9th, and major 9th chord. It also includes intervals, inversions, parts of a chord, chord intervals, scales, modes and key signatures. Concise and complete, no musician should be without one!\n|Author||: Richard Mehl|\n|Editor||: Rockport Publishers|\nPlaying with Color is a highly accessible, fun approach to learning color application and principles. This hands-on book begins with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play. It then leads to a series of experimental design projects with an emphasis on color, providing the reader with a “toolkitâ€? of ideas and skills. The awareness and sensitivity to form, color, material and craft gained through these visual experiments will increase the designer’s confidence in their personal and professional design work. This book can be used in the classroom or independently, and readers can go directly to exercises that appeal to them.\n|Author||: Dennis Cheatham|\n|Editor||: Music Master Pub|\n(Book). The Guitar and Music Theory Wheel is a visual two-sided music theory reference tool for guitar and piano, covering every musical key. It contains a book's worth of music theory while still fitting in your guitar case! The curved guitar neck design allows for easy visualization of theory on the guitar. The Guitar Wheel is an all-in-one tool for chords: major, minor, diminished; chord inversions; and scales: major, minor, diminished, pentatonic, and blues.\n|Author||: Dan Fox,Dick Weissman|\n|Editor||: Alfred Music|\nNo matter what instrument you play, chords are an important part of your music. Chord Progressions: Theory and Practice breaks down how theyäó»re important and gives you all the information you need to create chords and use them in your own music. Start off by learning how to build simple major chords and eventually move on to more complex chords such as ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, and altered chords. Also learn to compose your own progressions using techniques such as passing chords, neighbor chords, pedal tones, and voice leading. Finally, learn how chord progressions are used in various styles of music---from early jazz to the music of today. This book is ideal for pianists, but it can be used successfully by any musician familiar with the grand staff. After completing this book, you will have gained a clear understanding of chords and progressions in a variety of musical styles.\n|Author||: Joseph Alexander|\nThe Circle of Fifths for Guitarists will teach you to build, understand and use the essential building-blocks of music theory to become a better musician, quickly and easily.\n|Author||: April Wright|\nThis piano / keyboard chord book makes it easy to look up and find the chord you're looking for. It lists: Chords by letter name (for example, all chords starting with C). Chords by type or chord family (for example, all minor chords). Gives you the different chords you can use in a specific key. This makes is easy to create your own chord progressions to practice chords or a framework to write songs from. Chord Types: major minor (m) second (2) sixth (6) suspended & suspended 7ths ((sus / 4), sus7) seventh chords including 7, M7, m7 diminished & diminished 7th (dim, dim7) augmented (aug) ninth & add nine (9, add9) This is essentially a chord dictionary, perfect for beginners and also those who can read music. The chords are written out by letter name, on piano keys and in the treble clef. It's a compact 6x9 size. This would work well as a gift for anyone early teens and adults who are learning piano - or even would like to start learning. Great for piano beginners and those working towards playing jazz, gospel, pop and songs written lyrics and chords. The writing is large enough for adults and older adults to read without difficulty. Written by the creator and teacher of the You Can Play Piano Chords course.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Join us as we dive into the captivating story of Kate Bassich, a beloved personality from the hit show “Life Below Zero.” In this article, we will explore what happened to Kate Bassich after her time on the show and uncover the latest updates about her life. Prepare to be intrigued as we unravel the mystery of Kate Bassich’s journey beyond “Life Below Zero.”\n1. The Rise to Fame: Life Below Zero\nTo understand what happened to Kate Bassich, we must first revisit her time on the popular reality show “Life Below Zero.” As one of the original cast members, Kate captivated audiences with her tenacity, wilderness survival skills, and profound connection with the Alaskan wilderness.\n2. Life Beyond the Cameras: Pursuing New Adventures\nAfter bidding farewell to “Life Below Zero,” Kate Bassich embarked on a new chapter in her life. She chose to explore different opportunities and pursue her passions beyond the realm of reality television. Kate’s adventurous spirit led her down uncharted paths, seeking new challenges and personal growth.\n3. Exploring Other Passion Projects: Diversifying Her Portfolio\nWith a thirst for knowledge and a drive to expand her horizons, Kate Bassich immersed herself in various passion projects. She delved into writing, sharing her experiences and insights through books and articles that captured the essence of her Alaskan adventures. Her words offered a glimpse into the untamed wilderness that had become her sanctuary.\n4. Advocacy for Environmental Conservation: Protecting Nature’s Treasures\nAs someone deeply connected to nature, Kate Bassich developed a strong voice for environmental conservation. She actively engaged in advocacy efforts, raising awareness about the importance of preserving our planet’s fragile ecosystems. Kate’s dedication to protecting nature’s treasures became a defining aspect of her post-“Life Below Zero” journey.\n5. Wilderness Retreats and Guiding: Sharing Her Expertise\nDrawing upon her extensive experience in the Alaskan wilderness, Kate Bassich ventured into the realm of wilderness retreats and guiding. She sought to share her knowledge and skills with those who desired a deeper connection with nature. Through these retreats, Kate became a mentor, guiding others on their own transformative journeys.\n6. Personal Growth and Self-Reflection: Rediscovering Kate Bassich\nIn the wake of her departure from “Life Below Zero,” Kate Bassich prioritized personal growth and self-reflection. She took time to reconnect with herself and reassess her priorities, ultimately embracing a path that aligned with her values and passions. This period of introspection allowed her to rediscover her true essence and purpose.\n7. Unveiling New Adventures: A Glimpse into Kate’s Current Endeavors\nCurious about Kate Bassich’s current endeavors? While specific details may remain under wraps, she continues to embark on exciting new adventures. Whether it’s through her writing, environmental advocacy, or immersive wilderness experiences, Kate’s life remains a tapestry of exploration and inspiration.\nQ: Did Kate Bassich return to television after “Life Below Zero”?\nNo, Kate Bassich has not made a return to television following her time on “Life Below Zero.” She chose to focus on personal projects and pursuits that align with her passions outside the realm of reality TV.\nQ: Is Kate still living in Alaska?\nYes, Alaska remains Kate Bassich’s home. Her deep connection with the Alaskan wilderness and her love for its untamed beauty have kept her rooted in this captivating landscape.\nQ: Has Kate Bassich written any books about her experiences?\nYes, Kate Bassich has shared her experiences and insights through books. Her writings offer readers a glimpse into the rugged and awe-inspiring world she calls home, providing a deeper understanding of her Alaskan journey.\nQ: Does Kate Bassich still engage in wilderness survival activities?\nWhile Kate Bassich may not engage in wilderness survival activities as extensively as she did during her time on “Life Below Zero,” her knowledge and skills remain ingrained in her lifestyle. She continues to cherish and respect the wilderness that shaped her.\nQ: Is Kate involved in any philanthropic work?\nKate Bassich’s passion for environmental conservation has led her to engage in philanthropic efforts. She actively supports organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting the natural world, leaving a positive impact on future generations.\nQ: Can fans connect with Kate Bassich on social media?\nWhile Kate Bassich may not have a public presence on social media, her impact can still be felt through her various projects and initiatives. Fans can stay updated on her latest endeavors through official channels and publications.\nConclusion: Kate Bassich’s Extraordinary Journey Continues\nAlthough Kate Bassich bid farewell to “Life Below Zero,” her story is far from over. Her life has taken her on a remarkable journey of self-discovery, environmental advocacy, and sharing her wisdom with others. Kate continues to inspire through her writing, her unwavering connection to the wilderness, and her dedication to preserving our planet. As we ponder whatever happened to Kate Bassich from “Life Below Zero,” we are reminded that her spirit remains as wild and captivating as the Alaskan frontier.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Born in the 1930's and a two time Nationals winner by 1940, the Bombshell was a legend in it's own time.\nThe Buzzard Bombshell is one of the most famous aircraft in aeromodelling, and was once the most dreaded contender in free flight circles, and was later converted to RC.\nThe Bombshell can be stooged around the sky by any beginner on a 35 or 45 size two stroke. She will take off in 10 to 15 feet, and land slow enough to walk beside.\nWe do production runs daily, so any kitset will generally ship within 1 to 2 working days. We ship locally or worldwide, with worldwide delivery generally between 7 to 21 days. All pricing on this web site is in New Zealand dollars.\nIf you are visiting from overseas see our International Web Site hangaronekits.com for pricing in US Dollars & other currencies with swift worldwide shipping options.\nClick here to view the builders construction article.\n- Wingspan: 72\" / 1828mm\n- Number of channels: 3\n- Recommended engine size: 35 - 45 two stroke, 54 four stroke or electric equivalent\n- Includes full sized rolled plan and the original construction article\nClick the image for a preview of the plan\n|Materials Required For Airframe Completion:|\nSee the bottom of the page to add\nthese materials in with your kitset\n- 1.5 x 75 x 915 Balsa Sheet x 5\n- 3.0 x 100 x 915 Balsa Sheet x 3\n- 1.5 x 3.0 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 1\n- 1.5 x 5.0 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 1\n- 1.5 x 6.5 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 6\n- 3.0 x 3.0 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 3\n- 3.0 x 9.5 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 3\n- 6.5 x 6.5 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 3\n- 8.0 x 8.0 x 915mm Balsa Sticks x 1\n- 9.5 x 9.5 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 1\n- 12.5 x 12.5 x 915 Balsa Sticks x 2\n- 3.0 x 6.5 x 915 Spruce x 8\n|Click the image for a preview of the|\nlaser cut parts included in the kitset\n|Materials Completion Pack:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wow ~ everything looks wonderful and you have such a GREAT collection of succulents and roses too.Happy Gardening ~ FlowerLady\nOMG! Your flowers and succulents are stunning! All you plants look so healthy and cared for!\nHi Julie,Your garden is so beautiful with all the pretty colors. Nice job of groups the flowers with your succulents. Have a beautiful day.\ndon't you just love this time of year... everything just gets so lush. beautyful shots\nYour succulents are gorgeous! We just bought a house in South Florida (Broward) and I just discovered the obsessive joy of collecting succulents, but I can't figure out where to keep them! Everyone says something different. I get sun on all sides of the house (except a small area in the north) and we don't have trees for shade. The east side has a strong morning sun due to a large water canal, the west side has a strong afternoon sun, and the south side... is the south side, all sun. What would you suggest as a good place for my poor just-bought plants?\nHi Emi. I have the succulents that cannot tolerate full sun in my screen room. You will have to watch closely that any you place outdoors to be sure they can handle it. Immediately remove to shade if they start to burn. It is trial and error. I would think any location would be fine. Good luck! Stay in touch. Hope to see some photos of your succulent babies one day!!!Julie\nOh my goodness, Julie!! Stunning photos! I especially love the ones of the succulents. Beautiful!Debbie :)\nOh your succulents and flowers all look so beautiful!! Thank you for sharing these wonderful photos. We are still buried under heaps of snow, the temperature is only 6 F and more snow is in the forecast. Your flowers and gorgeous succulents were just what I needed to see today :)\nSpectacular set of images, Julie! I love the tiny roses, morning glory, succulents, gnome; everything looks delightful. :)\nJust scanned through several of your posts! I LOVE the photos of succulents and your little coffee book is wonderful! :) I've decided that succulents will be the main focus of my gardening here on the lake, cuz I need things that are easy to care for. So gonna start with pots I think, and see where it leads me. :)\nBeautiful - I especially love the first few photos of the mixed succulents!\nHi Julie,Thanks for the BD Wish for Opie. Glad you liked the post. I know, three years went by fast. Have a wonderful day.\nJulie, you have a real talent for color grouping. All the photos were so crisp and vibrant. I have never considered growing anything in a tire before - what a novel idea! I love succulents too. We have several large aloe clumps in the yard and I have a few in the house in little bowls. I might have to copy your succulent groupings for my houseplants! thanks for sharing.\nThanks for dropping by and for all your sweet comments, Julie!! Debbie :)\nThe succulents are so beautiful! I've just recently discovered them, but mine are indoors (Zone 5a). Really enjoying your blog.\nPost a Comment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "To add a condolence, please contact Mary Fischer at email@example.com.\nThe District expresses sympathy to:.\nHarry Gunther, Head Custodian, Mason Ridge School, on the death of his mother.\nRasim Ekic, Custodian, Early Childhood Center, on the death of his brother..\nKeith Brown , Maintenance Generalist, West High School, on the death of his brother.\nThe Family of Lawrence Brown, Retiree, on his recent death.\nJennifer Stanfill, Director of Choice Programs, on the death of her father.\nLisa Scherer, Contract Analyst, Facilities, on the death of her father-in-law.\nThe Family of Cindy Jaskowiak, Retiree, on her recent death.\nThe Family of Annette Strantz, Retiree, on her recent death.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "With your back to the municipal market, walk along the main street leading diagonally away off to the right\n49 Akti Koundouriotou\nNear the far right, western, curve of the harbor\nOn corner of main sq. at old harbor\n1-3 Kalinikou Sarpaki\nOn a small street off Daskaloyiannis\nThe Best of NileGuide\nCatch the real flavor of Chania. From street stalls to elegant dining rooms, paper plates to fine china, restaurants will be one of your best glimpses into the heart, soul and belly of life in Chania - and definitely your most delicious. Loosen your belt and dig in.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A beautiful breezy evening called for a dress that had a little movement to it. This peach dress with kimono sleeves is so light and flowy, and the color is absolutely gorgeous. I accessorized with a sequins oversized clutch and copper-toned strappy sandals. What do you think?\nDress: Zara/ Clutch: Zara/ Sandals: Zara/ Necklace: Nordstrom/ Bracelets: Anthropologie and Nordstrom (Nadri)\nHave a fabulous rest of your weekend! Also, look for some changes coming soon to my blog. And thank you to everyone who has joined my Facebook page.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "‘Date night!’ Pixie Lott appears to go lingerie-free in a VERY daring side split co-ord as she showcases her legs and cleavage in the sheer ensemble\nShe never fails to turn heads in her fashion forward ensembles.\nAnd Pixie Lott set pulses racing on Tuesday night as she stepped out for a romantic evening with Oliver Cheshire in a very daring sheer floral co-ord.\n‘Date night,’ the All About Tonight hitmaker, 30, told her fans as she showcased her endless legs and cleavage in the racy ensemble.\nWow: Pixie Lott set pulses racing on Tuesday night as she stepped out for a romantic evening with Oliver Cheshire in a very daring sheer floral co-ord\nPixie looked phenomenal as she posed in the maxi dress that featured a slit all the way up to her waist.\nThe pop star forewent underwear as she popped one leg up in black stilettos to showcase her pins.\nShe flaunted her physique as she put her hand against the wall and smized at the camera with her abs and cleavage on display in the cropped key-hole cut out top.\nGoing full glam for the evening with her fiancé, Pixie looked gorgeous with her blonde tresses in a high ponytail and a slick of red lipstick accentuating her pout.\nLoved-up: Pixie and fiancé Oliver had to postpone their wedding plans due to the pandemic\nThe racy date night comes after Pixie was seen packing on the PDA with Oliver at another romantic dinner last month.\nThe hitmaker planted a kiss on her beau’s cheek as they enjoyed a delicious looking pudding together.\nPixie looked great in a pretty white and black polka dot dress adorned with flowers as she beamed for the camera in a second snap. She looked radiant in the picture uploaded to her Instagram Story while sipping on a cocktail.\nSweet: The racy date night comes after pixie was seen packing on the PDA with Oliver at another romantic dinner last month\nOliver looked smart for the meal and dressed in a dapper black shirt as he enjoyed quality time with his wife-to-be.\nAt the end of last year, the singer revealed that she wants to have a ‘big family’ with her fiancé, Oliver Cheshire, 32, when they feel the ‘time is right’.\nShe told The Sun: ‘I’m a big family girl, a very big family girl. Family is everything for me so I would love to have my own family when I can find the time.\n‘When the time is right I would love that. It’s such an amazing thing to have.’\nLoved-up: Pixie revealed she’s hoping to have a ‘big family’ but is waiting for the right time as she is currently focused on marrying fiancé Ollie\nThe couple’s wedding was affected due to the pandemic, so they decided to wait and resume planning when lockdown restrictions have lifted completely.\nShe continued: ‘We were planning to have our wedding this year and now everything is so up in the air, we’ve just delayed it.\n‘There’s still a lot of planning behind the scenes but we are waiting for the time there are no restrictions and rules, because we don’t really want to have that on the special day.’\nWaiting game: Pixie and Ollie’s wedding was affected due to the coronavirus pandemic, so they decided to wait and resume planning when lockdown restrictions have lifted completely", "label": "No"}
{"text": "With classic, clean lines, ultra-high backs, and premium tile-top tables, the Carnegie Collection by SunVilla is the perfect addition to any outdoor oasis. Extend your evenings with friends and family around the glow of a fire with this 5-Piece Fire Chat Set. With the Carnegie Collection, you can replicate the ambiance and relaxation of your favorite resort with the quality, comfort, and value of SunVilla.\nThe Carnegie 5-Piece Fire Chat Set includes:\n- Four high back Sunbrella® covered cushioned swivel rocking lounge chairs and a tile-top 48” round Aluminum fire table\nSit back and relax with the Carnegie Collection by SunVilla - design that is Simply Refined\nCarnegie 5pc Fire Chat Set Dimensions and Weights\n- Swivel Rocking Lounge Chair: 36\" x 29\" x 42\", 39 lbs\n- Fire Table: 48\" Diameter X 23\" H, 110 lbs", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Men's Charcoal Sunglasses, Black Athletic Shoes, Light Blue Ripped Jeans, White and Black Print Crew-neck T-shirt\nIf you appreciate function above all else, this street style combination of a white and black print crew-neck t-shirt and light blue ripped jeans is your go-to. Now all you need is a great pair of black athletic shoes to finish off your outfit.\nThis pairing of a white and black print crew-neck t-shirt and light blue ripped jeans is definitive proof that a safe off-duty ensemble can still be really dapper. If you're clueless about how to finish off, a pair of black athletic shoes is a never-failing option.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Brand new this season.This fantastic lightweight bra has double the gel for even more bust boosting shape! The smooth lines make it great to wear under any outfit. Wait until you see the results of wearing it, you will be impressed.Available in Black, White and Nude.Colours Available: black, latte, pink, whiteSizes Available: Size UK 10/12 : USA 8/10 : AUS 10/12, Size UK 12/14 : USA 10/12 : AUS\nSean Connery returns as Secret Service agent James Bond in the second of the series once again saving the world from the terrorist threats of the SPECTRE organisation. Bond is sent to Istanbul to steal a Russian coding m...\nBritish screen legend Alec Guinness gives a sparkling performance in Robert Hamers romantic comedy set amongst the boulevards of La Ville Lumiere. Co-starring Parisian ingenue Odile Versois and featuring a suitably Gallic score by Edwin Astley, To Paris with Love is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Sir Edgar\nWillow Tree With Love Willow Tree is an intimate sculpture that speaks in quiet ways to heal comfort protect & inspire Handmade and hand painted resin with a carved effect finish Supplied in a branded gift box Height: 13.5cm You are loved Not a toy or childrens product. Intended for adults only.\nContaining thought-provoking questions to help inspire you, spaces for penning your own musings, and pockets for storing mementos, this beautifully illustrated book will be the ultimate gift of a lifetime.\nThese cleverly designed thong shoe liners are virtually invisible with peep toes, yet are comfy enough to keep you dancing all night. Thanks to the soft, memory foam pad that constantly supports the soles of the feet, the tootsie thongs are the perfect comfort accessory for your favourite strappy footwear.(06/11)Please note, this product is not part of the ELLE multi buy promotion.\nSophisticated metal frames, plated with gleaming silver and enhanced with a delicate embossed detail. Renowned bridal designer Vera Wangs intricately detailed With Love range perfectly captures the spirit of love and romance.\nA great gift for an avid baker! Personalise this beautiful Mason & Cash mixing bowl with a name up to 12 characters. Perfect for Mothers Day Birthdays New Home or Christmas. The text Baked with love is fixed and all personalisation will be uppercase regardless of how it is entered. Personalised around inner rim and inner base. 10.5 x 24.5 x 24.5cm 1.2 kg Please note that delivery for personalised\nWith its high-shine finish and fluoro zippers this beautiful lurex tunic by Love Label wont fail to get you noticed In a fashion forward oversized cut this sheer tunic gives your laid back looks a huge dose of luxe making you the star of the show. Every fashionable filly knows that runways were fanatic about fluoro this season and the neon green strip to either side gives this top a double dose\nlaced with love chemise with thong on other UK sites\nThis flirty satin chemise is a fun and sexy way to add flair to intimate fashion. Delicate, form-hugging lace and satin combine to make this a flattering way to spice up personal style. Material: Nylon, Spandex Style: Chemises, Lingerie Sets Care Instruction: Hand Wash Color: Red Size: One Size Fits Most Adjustable straps Underwire half cup Under bust cut-outs We cannot accept\nA tank top thats the perfect complement to your effortless cool. ; Tie-dye tank top features flattering lace front. ; Round neckline. ; Sleeveless construction. ; High-low hemline. ; 97% rayon, 3% spandex. ; Dry clean only. ; Made in the U.S.A. and Imported.\nSkincare experts Alpha-H present the Limited Edition Xmas With Love Kit, an indulgent gift set combining a trio of their cult-favourite, award-winning products. Enriched with potent natural extracts and advanced anti-ageing technologies, each treatment leaves skin feeling radiant and looking visibly younger. Presented in a luxurious gift box, its a lavish treat to hide under the Christmas tree for\nCat Love Cozy Scratcher Den provides a safe and secure area for your cat to play, scratch, nap or sleep. Made completely out of recyclable corrugated cardboard, this cozy hideaway has a thick scratching panel located on the top that provides your cat with a safe area for sharpening her claws or just relieving pent up energy.When your cats done with scratching, she can snooze comfortably inside.\nMark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) is an engineer who loses his job and turns to teaching in a tough East End school. He immediately faces hostility from his students - the graduating class - who are determined to break his spirit. However, Thackeray counters by treating the teenagers as young adults, attempting to prepare them for life in the outside world. Gradually, as he takes the class on field\nId Rather Be With My Dog Paleo Tummy Health Loves work to settle your pets stomach with a soft and chewy snack. These tasty treats are made without grain, gluten or soy to ensure that they include only the best ingredients. Each ingredient was also specifically selected to accommodate dogs ascribing to the paleo diet. Id Rather Be With My Dog Paleo Tummy Health Loves are made in the USA to\nCivil Laced mesh jersey. Pieced construction with contrast yoke. Civil logo graphic screened at left chest. Football lace screening with Civil logo at sides. \\08\\ screened on back. Striped short sleeves. Crew neck. 100% polyester. Machine wash. Imported.\nBVB Home Shirt 2015/16 - Womens with Sponsor YellowEvery club has their colour and their own team emblems, this is clearly visible within each garment of the official PUMA Licensed Football Apparel, proudly worn by players and fans on and off the pitch.Show your support for your favourite club with this 2015/16 Borussia Dortmund womens home shirt!Benefits: Woven PU Club Badge; Dortmunder", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You will be able to wear this sporty bodycon dress just about anywhere, and the look will remain casual, yet fun and sexy. First, choose from three different color combinations: white with black printing, grey with white printing, or black with white printing. The bodycon style works nicely with the soft knit jersey fabric, hugging your curves without being overly formal. The comfortable ? length sleeves make this a great piece for moving into fall. The waistline features a subtle self tie, and side pockets keep the look laid back and fun. Contrasting stripes at the waistline add yet more definition. The graphic print is suggestive of a sporting jersey, with a large “Vigorous 72” logo. Pair this dress with nude or black pumps, ankle boots, or knee high boots to finish the look. This dress comes in sizes Small, Medium, and Large.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.\nUrsula Perry Living Room, 2018-09-03 06:54:05. There is a massive range of seating alternatives for your living room, whether you buy from a mall or an online furniture store. You can choose from sofas, armchairs, settles, rockers, sliders and recliners. Then you have a large selection of sectionals that you can arrange to suit your room layout.\nKatrina Conley Living Room, 2018-09-05 15:25:27. Before buying living room furniture, room space planning often pays by helping you to avoid clutter. If there was one thing the Victorians were good at, it was clutter. They seemed to fill every inch of available space with furniture and accessories and forget that people needed space to walk in!\nKerry Petty Living Room, 2018-09-02 12:38:10. Main Living Room Lighting Options- The main light fixture should offer a large amount of light. This is usually an overhead fixture, though some designers are moving away from this traditional solution. In addition to being the primary light source, this fixture should add aesthetic appeal to the room because it will be a focal point. Choose something inviting, bold, or creative according to your room decor and taste, but let it be something inherently decorative. Many homeowners enjoy installing chandeliers or pendant and hanging fixtures in the living and sitting room for this reason.\nBlanche Roman Kitchen, 2018-09-01 05:08:32. Some Interesting Ideas. As mentioned earlier, the following cabinet designs and ideas will be discussed on the basis of a theme. Keep in mind that, since you are following a particular theme, it should be applicable to your whole house and not just your kitchen. You don't want it to stick out like a sore thumb because of your desire to solely revamp your kitchen. The overall theme does not have to be blatantly prominent, but elements of a particular theme must be present all over your house for a better effect.\nPat Schultz Living Room, 2018-09-01 05:08:42. Reproduction Sheraton Sofas\nUrsula Perry Living Room, 2018-09-04 08:32:26. Finally, make sure you are using everything at your disposal to create the optimum living room lighting ambiance. Believe it or not, this includes the walls, rugs, curtains, and furniture too. Dark colors absorb your well-planned living room lighting options, swallowing most of its efficacy. Soft, bright shades, on the other hand, will help enhance the light. Stick to these tones when decorating your living room to create the ideal living, entertaining and relaxing area in your home.\nCopyright © 2017. standardise.us. All Rights Reserved.\nAny content, trademark/s, or other material that might be found on this site that is not this site property remains the copyright of its respective owner/s. In no way does standardise.us claim ownership or responsibility for such items, and you should seek legal consent for any use of such materials from its owner.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You've completed Step 3!\nYou’re almost there. All that’s left is signing, notarizing and filing your final forms, and then waiting for your final judgment to be signed by your court’s judge.\nAre you a DIY member?\nIt’s time to file your completed divorce forms with the court. Click ‘Go’ and we’ll walk you through how to do it, step by step.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I’m extremely happy with the quality and design of this shoes. They are light and very comfortable to wear. There is nothing I wanted to change about them. They just perfect!\nI have many, many pairs of chelsea boots and brogues so am becoming a bit of a connoisseur! The Charlotte Cheaney is a stunning boot for ladies with slender feet and ankles. The fit in the width of foot and around the ankle is comfortably snug, without the typical wide opening of other chelsea boots on the market. Extremely soft/supple leather makes them comfortable straight out of the box. The navy blue elastic adds a quirky little detail which looks great with rolled up vintage jeans. I am a UK7 and fit a 6.5 in the Charlotte so would recommend sizing down a little. LOVE THEM!\nMy third pair of boots I have purchased from your company. Perfect fit for a person with a slim foot, excellent quality and workmanship.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Find a Pro in West Kill, New York\nGive us a few details and we’ll match you with the right pro.\nCOMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PAINTING\nIs paying for interior painting a smart decision?\nThe short answer will be yes, and there are benefits from interior painting services:\n- Raise the Appeal of Your House: A great paint job can communicate to potential buyers that you have taken good care of your residence. Interior painting can also help sell a residence that's on the market sooner, even over listing price. Even if you are not thinking about listing your residence in the near future, a proper interior paint job by an expert painter could last up to 7 years. Interior painting can be thought of as a home improvement project with one of the best returns when considering the effect on property value and buyer interest.\n- Enhance Your Mood at Home: Since interior painting is an economical way to update your residence, it is one of the most effective tools to make your home a more relaxing and happy place. Assuming you have not painted your home recently or have older colors that you either don't like anymore or never chose, your home may not be a space where you truly feel comfortable. Also, growing numbers of people are working at home and/or staying home more in general, so making the colors of your home appealing is a bigger priority. Depending on which option you pick, a new paint color can affect your mood as you desire — calm and rested (blues and greens), energetic and motivated (yellows and oranges), and even safe and content (neutral colors).\n- Protect and Prevent Damage to Your House: Getting your interior painted secures your residence now by preventing future damage from happening inside and outside of your walls. Most interior walls are made of components which easily absorb moisture. Eventually, too much absorption can lead to compromised walls which can be risky to your property's structural integrity. Water within walls becomes a catalyst for mold growth which can lead to health dangers. Paint works to keep water from infiltrating the porous walls of your property.\n- Strengthen Air Quality in and Around Your House: Paints now are manufactured with low or no volatile organic compounds. If you or your family suffer from allergies, breathing problems, or are sensitive to chemicals, this is a huge benefit and a great option for your property. A fresh application of paint also keeps dirt and other allergens to a minimum which will improve your household's air quality even more.\n- Make Your House Look Amazing: Most homes have flaws and imperfections. Walls frequently show dents, dings, and markings from the use of your residence over time. Getting your house's interior painted removes most cosmetic issues and can make your home look updated and clean. A new paint color applied to your interior can also modernize your living space.\nWhen will painters see the slowest business season?\nOne of the biggest advantages about scheduling during the colder months is that it's a slower time of year for painting services. The weather often keeps people from wanting to do home improvement projects, so professional painters are more readily available.\nTherefore, it's possible they'll charge a lower price than what they normally charge in peak times of the year like summer. This is when most painting contractors are scheduled and don't have time for other appointments.\nHow frequently should I consider repainting my residence's exterior?\nChipped and cracked paint are some obvious things to watch out for, but there are also some less evident things that can cause problems too. Exterior painting is a pretty extensive job, so it's always a good idea to book painting specialists.\nBecause every home is different, there is no set deadline to repaint, which makes this more difficult for people. Most professionals express that you'll need to paint every five to ten years. This will be determined by factors such as where you're located, weather, and the previous paint job.\nIf you've just purchased a new home, you could be in the dark about the last painting date of the house. It's highly advisable to try and find out, since having in-depth information about the paint job can make a big difference. The type of paint utilized, the quality of paint, how many layers were applied, and even the color chosen can all affect its lifespan. It could be useful to know the time of year in which it was painted, since whether your home was painted on a sunny or overcast day can affect how well the paint dried.\nWhat are the services I should expect my professional painting contractor to provide?\nExamples of the tasks an expert painter usually performs include:\n- Pick Colors: When struggling to find the best colors for your exterior or interior spaces, a full-service contractor can help you in this regard. Services like this can save you time, and you can count on the knowledge of your hired professional.\n- Preparing the Surface: Paint has a difficult time sticking to surfaces that haven't been properly cleaned, sanded and primed beforehand. A full-service professional painter knows this and can handle the prep stage before painting commences.\n- Identify Potential Issues: As your home painting service preps for the project, they will assess surfaces for issues. A professional painting contractor will tell you if they find things such as rotten wood, broken drywall, or damaged trim and moldings. These issues must be remediated before painting can begin, of course. Your service could then suggest other dependable contractors to make these repairs, or they may handle it themselves.\n- Carry Out Repairs: Expert painting contractors are proficient at carrying out such repairs. These include drywall repairs, rotten wood replacement or removal, wallpaper removal, fixing damage to the carpentry and moldings, and more. By employing a professional painter, you likely don't need to go searching for other contractors to handle these issues.\n- Paint: After the painting contractor has prepped your home's surfaces, checked for damage, and performed necessary repairs, they can begin painting your exterior and/or interior.\nExpert House Painting Contractors Near in West Kill, NY\nWhen you're looking for a good house painter in West Kill, NY, Thumbtack is the quickest way to find the perfect contractor for your budget and schedule. Painting your home is a great option to bring new life into your residence while also significantly boosting your home's curb appeal. Painting your house inside and out every couple of years is a relatively affordable and quick home improvement project that delivers a big ROI in more ways than one.\nHow a newly painted house can improve your peace and happiness cannot be discounted as one of the best reasons to carry out this home improvement project. A talented and knowledgeable painting contractor can bring any vision you come up with to reality or offer excellent suggestions about various paint types and colors to achieve a style you'll love. Various colors can even impart a certain mood for anyone visiting a room, with colors such as blue and green triggering feelings of peace and calm while yellows or light greys can provide an added sense of motivation and creativity.\nPainting the exterior and inside of your residence also offers many practical advantages for its longevity. Paint works as a layer of defense to protect the wood from a host of issues caused by insects, fungus, and climate, and can even lengthen the lifespan of trim and siding. Water is one of the worst causes of structural decay, but the sealing function of a professional paint job will keep those building materials drier – an advantage for indoor air quality, too. And don't forget that professional work will beautify your house inside and out, significantly raising its curb appeal and monetary value.\nThumbtack is an easy-to-use site that collects all the necessary information to help you discover the perfect painting contractor for the job. Efficiently browse through profiles of reputable painters in West Kill, NY and nearby areas focusing on the search criteria you care about most, including customer reviews, price, availability, and more. Our all-in-one platform also permits you to directly communicate with professional house painters safely and securely to get the answers to any specific questions and concerns you have. Try Thumbtack for yourself today and start narrowing down your search for a contractor who can deliver the quality services you need.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Designer Mouret did not help Victoria:\nIf you find yourself interviewing designer Roland Mouret (which admittedly is not a situation we imagine many of us to find ourselves in but go with it) you may want to steer clear of any questions that insinuate an involvement with Victoria Beckham’s collections.\nWhen Victoria’s designs started to make waves in the fashion industry, gaining a series of celebrity fans and the respect of the fashion elite, insiders started questioning how much help Mrs Beckham may have had from her designer friends.\nOne brave journalist decided to pluck up the courage to ask designer Roland Mouret the truth regarding close friend Victoria Beckham’s success, to which he responded:\n‚ÄúOh my God, that question! Politicians, movie stars, it’s always the first things they want to know and I’m like, why? Why would I want to design a collection for Victoria Beckham?\n‚ÄúYes she is a friend and yes she asks for advice and yes I told her the name of a pattern cutter, but she has lots of friends she asks for advice ‚Äì Marc Jacobs. I like to help people that’s all.‚Äù\nWell maybe that serves us right for doubting Victoria in the first place. After all, if you do spend most of your time shopping and posing in stylish get ensembles, it’s likely you will develop a knowledge of style and good design. We’re sorry you were ever doubted Vic.\nKate Middleton gets the pop art treatment:\nTatler magazine have chosen Kate Middleton as their latest cover star. However, rather than asking the royal to be to pose for the cover, the magazine have taken an already existing image of Kate and transformed it into an Andy Warhol style piece of art.\nSimilar to Warhol’s Monroe piece, the cover shows an image of Kate replicated in a number of colourful designs. The issue is said to be a collector’s issue, celebrating the royal engagement.\nPrice William is also given the Warhol treatment inside the magazine, which features a 19 page special on the royal wedding.\nCheryl Cole talks fashion with Elle:\nCheryl graces the cover of February’s Elle and behind the scenes of the shoot, spills the beans on her style.\nDespite committing many a fashion faux pas on X Factor last year, we were still all ears to hear about Cheryl’s views on fashion.\nDespite her fortune, she proves that she really is still a down to earth Geordie girl, commenting on the high price of designer labels:\n‚ÄúI love Balmain but that’s just being ridiculously spoilt. I always find that I really love their stuff.\nI appreciate fashion, it’s not something I worry about or something I strive to be but it’s definitely a massive part of who I am and what I do.‚Äù\nSee the behind the scenes footage below!\nBeyonce walks in secret Tom Ford show:\nIs there no end to Beyonce’s talents?\nCheck out her latest talent in the video below and get more details about the event here!\nAlexa Chung aims for a sexy look in 2011:\nWe are huge fans of Alexa Chung’s style.\nHowever, the star has stated that her look will undergo a slight make over\nClick here to see what Alexa’s got planned and here’s a hint: it doesn’t involve a vajazzle (we hope)\nRomeo Beckham named in Best Dressed List by GQ:\nOh to be the child of the rich and famous and receive accolades like ‚ÄúBest Dressed‚Äù at the tender age of eight. Yes, Romeo Beckham may have yet to reach double figure but that hasn’t stopped the fashion world taking note of his style.\nFind out what other men made the cut hereRead more »", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "interactive, hands-on experiments for students to make stem (science, technology, engineering & math) easier to understand and fun to learn.\ndraw-along art assembly: kyle tiernan\na hands-on drawing assembly that works just as perfectly via zoom to get your students drawing amazing art!\nthe ocean adventure: wayne & karen brown\nbring the excitment, beauty and wonder of marine science into your school with the real-life adventures of ocean explorers, wayne and karen brown.\nrockets and robots: bob redman\nrockets and robots is a unique interactive show that reveals how and why we use rockets and robots to explore the moon, mars, and beyond!\ndave skale: edu-tainer: dave skale\nmagic and laughs are the secret tools for teaching life lessons to kids!\n| about the directory | home | contact the directory |\npart time work from home jobs jackson msConclusion:easy part time data entry jobs from home", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Catch the deluxe\nversion of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,\nToday the Time Machine returns to the 1971 Sexploitation flick \"The\nGodson\" and more of Orita De Chadwick as she gets roughed up by a creepy guy\nwho twists her nipples and then has his way with her. Caps and\nan 8 1/2\nminute film clip. I loved the seventies.\nOver in TV Land a leg & thigh show from the beautiful Charlize Theron as\nshe visits \"Jimmy Kimmel\". Caps with\nan HD clip.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Personalized Name and Number NL Hockey HC Ambri Piotta Away Jersey Style Printed Hoodie Shirt is more than just fan apparel—it’s a personalized statement of unwavering team loyalty, specially designed for passionate supporters of NL Hockey and HC Ambri Piotta. This hoodie shirt takes fandom to the next level by providing a unique and stylish way to showcase your allegiance. With the personalized option allowing you to display your chosen name and jersey number, this hoodie becomes a standout and cherished addition to your fan collection.\nDrawing inspiration from the iconic away jersey style of HC Ambri Piotta, this hoodie shirt authentically captures the essence of the team’s identity. The team’s colors, logo, and distinctive elements are meticulously reproduced on the shirt, creating a visually striking representation of your dedicated support. Whether you’re cheering from the stands or following the game from the comfort of home, this hoodie shirt enables you to proudly exhibit your connection to NL Hockey and HC Ambri Piotta with flair.\nCrafted with a meticulous focus on both style and comfort, the hoodie shirt features high-quality materials that offer a soft and comfortable feel against the skin. The jersey-style printing technique not only enhances the overall aesthetic but also adds an authentic touch to the design. The personalized name and number feature adds a unique and individualized touch, fostering a sense of ownership and connection to the team.\nVersatile and suitable for various occasions, the Personalized Name and Number NL Hockey HC Ambri Piotta Away Jersey Style Printed Hoodie Shirt effortlessly transitions from game days to casual outings. Whether you’re at the rink, spending time with friends, or simply running errands, this hoodie shirt allows you to express your passion for NL Hockey and HC Ambri Piotta in a personalized and comfortable manner. Elevate your fan experience and wardrobe with this distinctive and customized tribute to your favorite hockey team, seamlessly combining style and team spirit in one unique package.\n⚡Deutsche Eishockey Liga Straubing Tigers Hockey Custom Name polo shirt⚡\nFollow us for more products pic.twitter.com/xWu2yZNLVK\n— Beutee Shop (@BeuteeShop) January 2, 2024\n- Our Category: https://beuteeshop.com/product-category/apparel/3d-shirt/\n- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beuteeshop\n- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beuteeshop1/\n- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeuteeShop\n- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/beuteeshop\nFrom: Beuteeshop team", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I need to learn to put down store bought hummus, so let's do this together. We both know homemade is always better and the hardest part about this recipe is cleaning the food processor, so let's do this. This is a very plain basic hummus that works for most palettes, it is your canvas to create something beautiful with the toppings. Be adventurous, have fun and just make sure everything you place on top is finely diced. I do not add raw garlic, like a traditional hummus would have, this is where the blank palette comes into place. I love using Fresno chilis on top, it adds a beautiful color, a little texture and the perfect amount spice. Can't wait to see what you make with the canvas.\nWhat I love of about this hummus recipe is it can turn hummus questioners into hummus lovers. You just can't compare homemade hummus to store-bought. The hardest part about this entire recipe is cleaning the food processor.\nWelcome to my kitchen.\nGet a fresh delivery of only the goods delivered to your inbox.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dum and Grunt told their wives about the fish trap and said as they had made it they should collect the fish when the tide went out and to tell the other women they could take some too. It took some time for the other women to understand as they would go there when the tide was out and it would be empty. When they saw Yum and Dong carrying back fish each day they got in the habit of following them down to the beach for their share.\nMeanwhile Dum and Grunt knowing that the women could find fish on the beach most days would wander off together to explore much further inland where the forest was and the mountains were covered with clouds. Yum was glad he did this as she liked to have some time just with Dong to exchange complaints about their men and have a good laugh.\nOne day the men had followed the river upstream to see what they could find and it wasn’t long before they came to a forest of trees where it was cool and dark inside. Grunt carried only his wooden spear. Dum had one too but also had one of his bags on his back to put any finds in. They hoped they could find some small animals in the forest.\nThe terrain got very rugged and apart from the sound of rushing water all birdsong and animal cries had ceased. They cautiously pushed their way through the trees and bushes following the stream where they could. Although his sight was impaired, Dum’s hearing was acute and every now and then he would stop and cover his mouth to indicate to Grunt to keep quiet. Grunt was a bit too noisy for Dum and he felt like hitting him but thought better of that idea.\nSuddenly he heard a strange noise. It was the sound of stone hitting stone. Once again he hushed Grunt and indicated that there may be another person in the forest. Grunt strained his ears but shook his head. Dum listened again then pointed to where he thought the sound came from.\nOnce again indicating they should be quiet he led the way carefully towards the sound. As it got stronger he walked slower and more carefully. Until he turned to Grunt and pointed to himself then in front of him to say there was another person in the forest.\nThen they saw him. The man was crouched in a clearing by the stream chipping at stones he had pulled out from the water. Dum and Grunt stared in amazement as the stones he was shaping were laid out on the ground and by their side were some stout sticks that he was trying fix them to with vine stripping. He tried to wedge the stone onto the stick and tie it on with some stripped vine. Eventually he made one hold fast and tried it out by lifting it up and striking against a fallen branch. Where he had chipped the stone sharp on the edge it cut into the wood splitting it. But this did not satisfy him as the cutting stone was now clearly loose on the handle. He threw it down with frustration and gave up, taking a few of the stones he had shaped with him and walking away.\nThey waited a few minutes then went to see what he had been doing. Dum collected up some of the half made stones and gathered a few more of the hard pebbles from the stream and put them in the bag on his back. He nodded to Grunt as if to say they could go on now. So they continued to look for animals to catch. Further on they sat by the stream again and by the footprints, animals drank there but none came while they watched.\nDum meanwhile wanted to get back home again as he knew where the man had gone wrong. The sharp edged stone should be inserted into the piece of wood after it had been softened by some water. Then it could be tied in with vine strands. He knew he could make a tool and a weapon.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The OpenJDK runtime environment.\n2020-04-14 03:51:06 UTC\nASL 1.1 and ASL 2.0 and BSD and BSD with advertising and GPL+ and GPLv2 and GPLv2 with exceptions and IJG and LGPLv2+ and MIT and MPLv1.1 and MPLv2.0 and Public Domain and W3C and zlib\n2020-04-14 – 1:126.96.36.1991-188.8.131.52 – Add release notes from IcedTea. – Resolves: rhbz#1810557\n软件包 – java-1.7.0-openjdk-184.108.40.2061-220.127.116.11.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a2569724507ce266f4a92fc84ba5d06e6aac1c6f8ce850851538f8763b923556</email@example.com>", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Begonia River Nile 3-4” rooted cuttings\nBeautiful spring green leaves with dark undulating edges and a fine swirl in the center. A very fine Rex Begonia with a gentle understatement in color and showiness.\nVery nice hairy stems carry and display the leaves really well.\nMay not be in bloom when you buy. Ships 3 or 4 inch pots.\nEstablished rooted cuttings.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Brand new design just in called Crossroads - available in several stunning colours, at a great price. RRP £69.99.\nReally unusual, striking new design of blanket from Tweedmill textiles, pretty blue, with cream, fabulous patterned with long tassles..\nGorgeous new design from the fabulous Tweedmill textiles, now available in red, grey and green, blue and now black !\nMost Tweedmill blankets are Pure Welsh wool, such as this one, they are thus nice, thick and warm. If you are seeking a finer blanket, then Bronte and Avoca are the products for you - we have a great selection and hope you enjoy browsing the perfect one for you!\nLarge size 142 x 183 cms. Pure wool, careful machine wash.\nMatching cushions can now be ordered - 40 x 40 cms, with a fringe on one side. Please email to order at £29.99. These are non returnable as made by Tweedmill to customer order.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Thumbnail Filmstrip of Newt Scamander Deluxe Adult Costume Images\nNo Reviews Yet!\nDescriptionIn the Harry Potter prequel, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them', we're introduced to Newt Scamander, a lover of magical creatures! You can become the quirky main character from the movie and go on an adventure with your new wizard and no-maj friends. Whether you're headed to The Wizarding World theme parks, a movie screening, or a Halloween party, this costume is sure to impress!\n- Shirt with attached bowtie", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Do you ever closely observe space photos taken from telescopes or astronauts in space?\nYou will see one common thing in those images, there will be a brighter object like Moon or Earth and a black background. Those images do not have stars as we see in our night sky.\nWhat is going on here!\nAs we know there are lots of stars in space, and if those images are truly captured in space then there should be stars, right?\nNo, it’s not possible.\nIn order to understand that, first you have to understand how a digital camera actually works. Generally, in a digital camera light comes from a lens and is exposed to a digital sensor, which subsequently, helps in forming an image that later gets saved into a memory card.\nIn olden days, in place of this digital sensor a film was used, but in either case, film or sensor image-making involves exposure to light. Exposure plays an important role when we take photographs.\nWhat is Exposure and why its important for space photos?\nIf you ever used a camera, then maybe heard the term exposure before. Exposure is used to refer to the amount of light camera sensor captures while taking a picture.\nDigital cameras are highly sensitive to light. If enough light cannot reach the sensor, then the image cannot be formed and as a result, a dark image will be captured. On the other hand, if more than enough light reaches then the sensor, then the image will be white-out/washed-out. That’s why it’s really important to precisely control the exposure of a camera.\nThe exposure of a camera is controlled by three key components of a camera – aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.\n- Aperture – determines how much light is allowed through a lens.\n- Shutter Speed – Determines the duration of light that is allowed through a lens.\n- ISO – Determines the sensitivity sensor to light.\nThe connection between Exposure and stars in space photographs\nAs far as we know, perfect exposure settings help the photographer to capture an image perfectly. A photographer has to decide the primary object of the picture and adjust exposure settings according to that.\nIf you have a camera and want to capture a bright object then you need to keep the exposure of your camera low. This will allow a very little amount of light to expose the camera sensor as the object is already bright, this light is more than sufficient to get an image.\nThe same rule applied when you try to take a photo of an object in the space. To capture a photograph of a bright object like Earth, Moon, or any other large celestial body in space, you must keep your camera exposure short. By using short exposure settings you can capture sharp high-quality foreground images. However, if there’d been some dim objects in the background, you would not able to capture them.\nThis is exactly what happens when you try to take a photo in space. As Moon, Earth, or any celestial are too bright and in comparison to them the stars far away are too dim, so when you try to capture a photo in space, you would not able to capture the stars in the background.\nNow, what if you use long exposure settings?\nIn this case, your camera shutter will be open for a long time and more light will able to pass through the lens. By using long exposure settings you will be able to capture stars but if there were any bright objects in the foreground then those will be overexposed. If the foreground object is too bright then it can wash out the whole image.\nYou can see in this GIF how sunlight overexposed the whole image when used the long exposure settings.\nEffect on history – Why Aren’t There Stars in Apollo 11 the Moon Landing Photos?\nWe all know on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin laid the first footprints on the moon. Due to the photographic challenges explained earlier, when they captured photographs that did not contain any stars, a vocal minority believed the mission to be a hoax and something filmed in a studio as those photos did not have stars in the background.\nLater, Will Stefanov, one of the members of the ISS Crew Earth Observations Team explained this as: It’s dependent on the camera settings and to some degree the camera itself. The camera’s astronauts often use are Nikon D3 cameras which are designed to be more sensitive in low-light situations, so you are more likely to capture some bright stars in the imagery.\nIf an image has been taken with long exposures or wide apertures then those images will record more starlight due to the greater amount of light on the camera sensor. Cameras that use shorter exposure are unable to capture stars in the daytime. Those cameras are unable to capture stars as they are too dim compared to the brightness of the planet.\nFor Crew Earth Observation images, astronauts have to follow a set procedure which is defined by NASA. Those procedures also have defined camera settings. But occasionally, they will change those settings for a specific purpose or for personal experimentation.\nSo, now maybe you are thinking that it’s not really possible to capture a crisp image of the moon with stars. Then what about those images which we have seen Earth or Moon with stars?\nThose are actually doctored or photo-shopped images, where images are edited to enhance their aesthetic value.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is Wander //\nA new way of seeing\nWhat makes you come alive?\nFalling in love? New possibility? A breakthrough or growth? A new way of seeing great beauty, connection, belonging? We need to find ourselves in a larger story.\nIn striving for meaning so many of us have bought into the lie that our value is based on performance. We find our identity in what we can produce, and it drives us to produce more and more.\nWe believe that we don’t need something more, we need something real.\nWe need to rediscover the power of rest.\nWe need to find peace in who we are and what we’ve been given. We need to practice gratitude. Then we can grow and be effective in our world. Being precedes doing. We do our best, when we are at our best.\n“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.\nAsk yourself what makes you come alive,\nand go do that,\nbecause what the world needs is people who have come alive.”\n– Howard Therman\nImagine if you could empower people to come alive and create a positive impact on the world.\nImagine a holiday that wasn’t just about escape but about finding the wisdom, the strength and the space to help others.\nAnd imagine returning with a new perspective, shaped by the people and experiences of your journey – ready to live well.\nWander is the Australian Ambassador of the Transformational Travel Council and we share their mission to create change by empowering, guiding and supporting travellers in their pursuit of personal growth and global understanding Wander creates a space for connection.\nWe have a unique relationship with our landscape.\nOur culture has been formed by the smell of rainforests in the morning and the taste of outback dust in our mouths.\nIt’s the salt drying on our skin as we head back from the beach.\nWe need to be reunited with the natural world and its ancient paths.\nBecome a Citizen Scientist // Find a new perspective and deeper understanding with the natural world. Our team is busy creating the best experience for you in collaboration with RADKI, and will back soon with more info. Please get in touch with our concierge here in...\nThe Enchanted Fig Tree // Once upon a time, a small fig tree was planted as a food source for the first settlers of Kangaroo Island. Wilderness dining under the magic of a 120 year old fig tree.Meet Nick.Inspired by our Australian landscapes and our local culture and...\nWild swimming // Cool off in the Green Caldera. When the weather heats up it’s time to discover the stunning lakes, crystal clear creeks, spectacular waterfalls and refreshing swimming holes of the Scenic Rim. Wander at The Overflow Estate 1895 is located at the hub...", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Day 2 started with a canal ride which is an essential part of any sightseeing holiday to St. Petersburg as it gives you a different perspective of the city. Despite it being chilly those of us who braved the outdoors were given thick woollen blankets to wrap ourselves in as we saw the major sights from the water. When Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg, he had been inspired by Amsterdam and Venice. Even today, water still covers about 10 percent of the cit...\n- blog entries\nWith only 2 days to explore St Petersburg and the issue with obtaining a visa we decided to make use of a Russian travel company to see as much as possible in the time we had. I am so glad we did as this city is vast and getting around in traffic could be horrendous.....but not for us... we had the superb driving skills of Dimitri and the very knowledgeable guide Dina to show us their hometown. Thanks to TJ Travel and I highly recommend them for future visitors...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Versace's £765 crystal-studded travel mug raises eyebrows\nWould YOU pay £765 for a travel mug? Versace’s crystal-studded vessel fails to impress critics who claim it’s essentially a ‘luxury Starbuck refill cup’\n- Versace have released a £750 luxury travel mug studded with crystal\n- Cup is made of aluminium and adorned with the face of Medusa, Greek gorgon\n- Fans of Italian luxury brand have said the cup was a luxury Starbucks refill cups\nVersace’s £765 travel mug has raised some eyebrows among the brand’s fans.\nThe Italian luxury fashion house’s keep cup, which is embellished with crystals, has become a sensation eyed-up by celebs and Vogue, who likened it to a new ‘it bag’, since it debuted last year.\nHowever, the hefty price tag of £765 for a large reusable cup has failed to impress everyone.\n‘Some bemused users have taken to social media to share their disbelief, with some calling the travel mug a ‘Starbucks refill cup.’\nItalian luxury fashion house Versace have raised eye-brows with their travel cup, which retails at £750 (pictured)\nThe cup is 10 centimetres-wide and 21 centimenteres-high, and comes with a reusable straw and lid\nThe mug, is available in four colours: blue, red, silver and black and gold, all in the same price.\nThey’re about 10 centimetres-wide and 21 centimetres-high, and come with a reusable straw.\nEach up is made of aluminium and embellished with matted crystals, shaping up in the face of Medusa, the Gorgon from Greek mythology who could transform people to stone with her hair made of snakes.\nThe top of the mug reads ‘Versace’ written in all caps, while the bottom is adorned with Greca borders long-associated with the brand.\nThe cup in silver and gold, which also retails at £765. Do you think the status statement is worth the price tag?\nThe accessory has even taken pride of place on the cover of Vogue, when Kate Moss posed with the accessory for the cover of the January 2021 issue\nThe Italian designer website reads: “Take your coffee, smoothie of fruit juice to go in style with this travel mug that epitomizes the Versace glamour.\n‘There are keep cups and then there are Versace keep cups,’ Vogue wrote after supermodel Kate Moss clutched the cup on the cover of the magazine for the January 2021 edition.\nWhile lovers of the will love to stand out with the dazzling travel mugs, others were put off by the hefty price.\n‘I mean, who doesn’t need a Versace Starbucks refill cup?’ one asked sarcastically.\n‘Vogue encouraging readers to purchase the Versace reusable cup at £700 is peak Patsy Stone,’ one joked, referencing the heroine from the comedy classic Absolutely Fabulous, starring Joanna Lumley.\nThe mug is adorned with the face of Medusa, a gorgon from Greek mythology who can transform whoever looks her in the eyes into stone\nDetails of the eco-cup, which is made of aluminium. Vogue have called the cup the new ‘It-Bag’ after Kate Moss clutched it on their cover\nWorth forking out or too hard to swallow? The eco-cup comes with its own reusable straw and a crystal studded lid\nWhile one impressed fan of the brand said she ‘needed’ the bedazzled cup, others were baffled by why anyone would want to pay such a high price for the accessory\nPictured: the Medusa cup in Black. All cups are decorated by the Greca motif associated with Versace\nThe cup is available in four colours: blue, red and black, pictured, and silver. The black version made it on the cover of Vogue\nA look at the crystal detail on the top of the cup, which is surrounded by bigger crystal beads than the rest of the cup\nWould you buy a £765 keep cup made of aluminium? The Versace website said the travel mug, pictured in silver, can hold both hot and cold drinks\nSource: Read Full Article", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The award winning photography and cinema of Petter Hegre presents exquisite women from all over the world. First Time Video Girls are beautiful, sexy, natural, and genuine - but they're also naughty and hardcore. Gorgeous girls in risque group sex, steamy masturbation sessions and passionate lesbian sex. Extreme close-up shots of dripping wet, delicious pussies spread wide open for the camera. A massive collection of stunning young women from all over the world, shot by the world's best nude art photographers.\nReal teen beauty pictures will make you drool all over your screen - how can you help but try and touch that wet slit splitting open and inviting your cock in? Mind-blowing shots of out-of-this world women that really like to fuck and show off their gorgeous bodies. This fits the brown-eyed beauty perfectly she is playful smart and loves sex. Naturally she adores getting her lips and tongue around something pink: sprinkled doughnuts! Does this mean Milla has an oral fixation? Time will tell.\nShocking teens pics are there if you are fantasizing about banging a young girl's slit without any legal risks involved. Just see it happen in those awesomely made shots and feel your manhood trying to break free to celebrate the saucy occasion! Milla has such a beautiful face that the photographer and everyone else instantly is enchanted.\nMultiple girls photos and videos at Brdteengal: From multi-girls lesbian parties to orgies with 3 or more girls There are multiple girls galleries available. Multiple girls Hegre review. Waterfall girls Abby Winters review.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Potters House Pulpit\nFree shipping on 3 or more pieces of Bishop's Furniture to 15 states: Details\n#55 Adjustable Music / Classroom Stand $89.99 Locking Casters\nWe are pleased to offer several different styles of furniture for church pulpits and altar areas. While traditional oak furniture is always a popular option, many churches now prefer Contemporary designs to use with either pews or worship chairs. We now offer modern Aluminum and Metal Podiums for contemporary worship settings. In addition, Acrylic Style furniture has become popular for it offers transparency and \"lack of barrier\" between the preacher and the congregation.\nFaux Finish Marble\nMassive and Beautiful\nPulpit 64\"w x24\" D x 49\"H\nTable 70\"w x 24\"D x 33\" H\nSold as a 2 piece set only\nSolid oak and Glass Podium with a Flat top surface - great for laptops, notebooks, coffee cups, projector, etc.\nBurgundy Navy Blue\nHunter Green Grape\nRoyal Blue Gold\nIf you need peace in your life, click the link above for free help.\nCopyright © 2002- Church Furniture Store By ChurchMart . All rights reserved.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "down filled sectional sofa couch sofas modern leather throughout best.\nwhite buffets and hutches buffet cabinet loving it the ties in so nicely with our kitchen cabinets my home hutch wood top buff.\nbuffet with wine storage oak rack sideboard server alexandria crosley furniture cambridge b.\nsmall leather club chair upholstered round custom chairs pier one yellow faux scale clu.\nnavy blue round rug giant crochet doily in geometric petals design large area cottage chic oversized shabby nursery via rugs t.\nmemory foam chair pad office pads dining round cushions furniture pillows cushion mats for thick carpet therapedicr gel infused in black.\nslate blue area rug 8x10 castor exploded medallions.\nframeless beveled bathroom mirror vanity mirrors you can look makeup oval uk.\nshabby chic dining chairs furniture style room chair cushions second hand table and.\nwire mesh storage baskets pictures of basket silver industrial ybm home magnetic.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Photo via: Popsugar\nMiroslava Duma is pretty in pinstripes, an 80's favorite that has been making its way back into the fashion girls wardrobe. Loving the ultra-cool way she styles her pinstripe blazer with baggy boyfriends jeans, a bucket bag and bright white t-strap heels.\nGet the look:\n+ Tibi Navy Pinstripe Blazer (also here)\n+ Street Level Mini Bucket Bag\n+ Topshop Balloon Boyfriend Jeans\n+ Frame Le Garcon Jeans\n+ Journee Collection T-Strap Pumps", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tiny's mom shares video of baby Heiress in fluffy embroidered christening gown and cap\nDianne Cottle-Pope dotes on her granddaughter sharing a throwback clip from her christening day. The mother of Tiny Harris who once had a serious talk with T.I. regarding his philandering is clearly smitten with the two-year-old who often graces her Instagram.\nIf there’s one person Tiny Cottle can expect to have her back, it’s her mother Dianne Cottle-Pope. The 73-year-old who at one point set T.I. straight after discovering he’s been cheating on her daughter, has cheered on Tiny and doted on her grandchildren, much like her latest post where she draws attention to Tiny and T.I.’s youngest, Heiress.\nDianne waxes nostalgic in one of her more recent posts where she features a throwback clip of Heiress, now 2, dressed for her baptism. The little tot looked so adorable wearing a fluffy, white lacy frock with a tutu-inspired lining and a bonnet on her head. In the short clip, Dianne could be heard in the background calling Heiress’ attention by blowing kisses in the air and uttering “Mama’s baby” several times. Heiress appeared to be distracted by something else as she looked to her side and concentrated on what she was seeing.\n“Our baby, before her christening,” Dianne wrote in her caption.\nLooking through Dianne’s other Instagram posts, Heiress is front and center in many of them, proof of her grandmother’s love for her. Also this month, Diane shares a snap of the little girl while she reads her a book. Dianne tells her followers that Heiress “was having me, Mamaw read her book” in her caption and added,\n“She loves for you to read to her.”\nOn Heiress 2ndbirthday, Dianne also took to her Instagram to share a photo of the two of them as she greets her a happy birthday.\nIt’s safe to say Dianne would do anything for her grandchildren even if it means defending their mother from their philandering father. At the height of the controversy involving T.I.’s alleged relationship with Bernice Burgos last year, Dianne took it upon herself to have a chat with the rapper and set him straight.\nDuring an episode of ‘T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle,’ she sent a message to his son-in-law who described the text as “disturbing” and prompted him to pay her a visit. A nervous T.I. sat down with Dianne and listened to her as she issued him a warning regarding Tiny.\n“It is really none of my business. But it is some of my business when my daughter is hurt. I feel like she is hurt. If you are going to keep on doing your dirt, as you are doing — that is what it is, and you know it, because you are married, and you got married before God.”\nAs T.I. defended himself and told Diane both he and Tiny “had done dirt” during their marriage, Diane responded with,\n“I do not see nothing she is done.”\nThat was last year. Just recently T.I. was embroiled in another cheating controversy involving another woman, Asia’h Epperson. Tiny was visibly upset hearing about it as her Instagram posts following the incident proved. Dianne, however, has been mum about it.\nRecent events also reveal Tiny and T.I. seemingly in a better place after the actor gifted her with a luxurious car on her birthday. She even thanked him for \"showing up\" and \"showing out\" on her birthday while expressing her appreciation for all the love he has shown her in a post where she shows off her new car.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "I am sure you have already met my two buddies – Simon (The Grey) and Sophie (The Skittish).\nAs you can see, The Cats pretty much took over our old couch. So when we purchased a new one, I knew The Cat’s old habits would be very difficult to break, but I didn’t want my new couch to be destroyed neither!\nSo short of covering the whole thing with heavy duty plastic, I needed to find a suitable couch cover. I searched all the stores and on-line for a suitable cover. No such luck. I didn’t want something with too loud of a design on it and half the ones I did see were the wrong size anyway.\nBut how much longer could I look at the fluorescent green fleece blankets that were protecting my new couch?\nObviously, I turned to the fabric shop’s upholstery department for suitable fabric, and then a department store for a twin flat sheet. I found this sturdy fabric – navy blue with light coloured flecks in it (it even matched our carpet). I ran it through the wash right away to ensure that I would be able to launder it in the future, if needed. Remember… The Cats!\nTo buy the correct amount of fabric, I measured how much of the couch I wanted covered, found the area, and made sure that I purchased enough fabric to cover that area, even if I had to cut a strip off the side or something. The sheet was the correct area, but I had to cut a six inch strip off one side and sew it on to another.\nThe same with my upholstery fabric. I had to correct the length by cutting a strip off the width and sewing it onto the length.\nAfter all was done I had a double layer couch cover, upholstery fabric on one side with mitered corners and my sheet fabric on the other.\nA far cry better than fluorescent green fleece blankets… don’t you think?\nAnd able to withstand whatever The Cats could throw at it!\nWhen was the last time you adjusted your habits or home to accommodate your family pet? I’m sure I’m not the only one!\nBefore I leave, I am participating in Me Made May again. I think this year I am going to post my daily Me Mades on Instagram and Facebook.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Impeccably sourced, rare vintage jewelry\nribbed 14k gold hoop earrings\nA classic pair of vintage hoop earrings, perfect to wear every day. Constructed from 14k yellow gold, the elongated hoop design is ribbed from top to bottom and works around the piece.\nMeasuring 0.85 inches tall, they're a great size and super lightweight, making them the ideal pair of earrings to wear all the time, day and night. The hook snaps into place for secure wearing. Wear them on their own or stacked up with your favorite studs.\n- Style Number: R1649\n- Vintage, circa mid to late 20th century\n- 14k yellow gold\n- Height 0.85\", length across hoop 0.74\", depth 0.13\"\n- Marked \"14K\"\n- Great vintage condition- wear consistent with age and use\nAdditional photos of this piece are happily supplied upon request.\nPlease use the “Inquire About This Item” box above and let us know what you would like to see.\nFree insured shipping on all orders to the continental U.S.\nInternational orders to select countries ship for a flat fee.\nAll packages require a signature upon delivery.\nSee our Shipping and Delivery Details for more info.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "At a wedding, its fine to ask a guest you’ve just met, to let you into their hotel room to watch the sing off, isn’t it….?\nWas Rylan safe?\nWas Ella in serious trouble?\nOn my mobile…. Back to the happy couple. By the way, the groom was so delighted with the globe greatest betting blog that he plugged it in the speech and asked me to clarify the percentage return so far to fascinated grandma’s.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I have no workman's comp or liability insuerance, so I charge a little less than the going rate (but not too much less). I an limited to working weekends and nights because of my day job. But otherwise, I try to be very flexible with all my customers. I also explain everything that I can to them about the process, and why certain steps should be taken.\n\"I needed to get my house painted quickly and professionally to get it ready for the market as soon as possible. Mr. Corzo responded immediately to my need for an estimate and arrived that day. He offered a fair estimate to paint the entire interior and exterior of my home. Job was completed in estimated amount of time and to my satisfaction. Walter does great work and I would recommend him without hesitation. He was on time, courteous, professional, and an excellent painter,\"\nIf you want to upgrade your home’s interior, or if you’re starting with a blank canvas, find a painter nearby so the project can go smoothly. Interior painting contractors and companies work hard to turn your house into a home. Hire a professional painter to add a fresh coat of paint on your walls, ceilings or window trim in any room in the house. Browse through the top-rated painters, read their customer reviews and ask for a cost estimate.\nPainting is one of the quickest and easiest ways to give your home's interior a facelift with dramatic results. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that difficult. Home improvement stores offer samples that you can take home. With these samples, you can try a few colors in large swaths on your wall to see the how the paint interacts with the room's natural light. Compare it against design elements like pillows or furniture to see whether it will work with your overall décor.\nGot two bids so far to paint the interior of a new home. 2,600 sq ft. Was painted with flat cheap paint the first time. The first bid was $17,000.The second bid was $7000. Two coats of paint on ceilings and walls. All doors and closets to be painted too. Still waiting on third painter estimate. I'm wondering if $7000 is too high. This painter has a crew of 5, told me it would take a week. Seems a long time with 5 professionals painting.\nLocation: Stamford, CT Date: 01/02/2021 What is the approximate living square footage of your home?: 1500-3000 sqft What is the primary exterior surface material of your home?: Wood How many stories is your home?: Two stories What size is your attached garage?: 1-Car Garage Request Stage: Planning & Budgeting Desired Completion Date: Timing is flexible Comment: house\nInterior painting can be an inexpensive and creative way for homeowners to demonstrate their style and personality. There are numerous colors and textures of paint available, including options with extra or no shine. Whether you choose to paint your entire home, a single room, or just an accent wall, a new coat of paint is a great way to give your interior a facelift without a lot of investment.\nI paint in Canada and prices are like that of the State Side. I I I take pride in my work and charge reasonable rates ($1.00 sq.ft.) for an average home interior and price changes a little as heights of walls change, but there are those who so undercut those prices like .30 sq. ft. and that includes paint and we can't compete with those prices. I can compete if I don't prep walls, use the cheapest paint on the market that looks good at first, 2 thin coats no primer but after 1year it looses it's luster and durability, I don't move any furniture, and concern myself with quanity not quality. I understand people are looking for bargains because money is a little tighter but people need to understand we need to be also wise in who we get. Wisdom shop around, don't just go for cheap prices, check these people out, ask what services include. 30% of my business is redo cheap painters work. Advice if you don't want to pay, try painting yourself you might find it fun. Hope this helped. Thanks\nI hired Israel General Painting to paint the exterior of my house. He helped with color schemes and also getting samples to test. As we decided on the colors he washed and prepared the house then primed and painted. Did a great job. He was very flexible with color changes. He also did a different color around doors and windows with no extra charge. He also primed and painted the porch. He was quite punctual unless my experience with other contractors, which was really good. After the painting was done he also cleaned the roof and around the house and putting back the things in place. We ended up with him painting a room in the house as well (of course that’s with a new quote). I highly recommend Israel General Painting for your painting needs. I plan on hiring Israel again to paint the interior of the rest of my house next year!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Month of Apr 2020: The sun is in Aries as you enter April, drawing your attention to security matters. You might even be reconnecting with a childhood ambition or perhaps having to confront past insecurities as you grow in awareness of your potential.\nBy midmonth, a situation that was peaking in January reaches a point of total transformation. You’re reaching a turning point from the past, resurrecting on a powerful level, rebuilding your life and work from the ground up. It will require teamwork and constructive investment of your time, energy, and money. But you can live your best life in alignment with your values, which gives to the world as much as it gives to you. Be creative, work smarter rather than harder, and make sure to schedule in time for play and inspiration.\nFinancially, personally, and/or creatively, something might feel like a risk, but this isn’t about success or failure by the world’s standards. It’s about your authenticity. Rise above any insecurities as you take a bold step forward. Free yourself to be yourself, and you can create a life that few dare even dream of.\nYou are right where you belong with a psychic love reading. Chat with a psychic now for instant answers.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "18K Solid Pink Gold Diamond Circle Open Heart Double Chain Bracelet\nAdd a touch of elegance to her wrist with our stunning 18K Solid Pink Gold Diamond Circle Open Heart Double Chain Bracelet. Featuring a 7-inch length with an extra ring starting at 5.50 inches, adorned with a sparkling 0.006 ct diamond. Made in Greece, hypoallergenic and nickel-free, it's the perfect gift for girls 6 years old and up. Comes with an Amalia gift box and bag.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Kush Mintz x ICC\nAbout this product\nLINEAGE: Ice Cream Cake X Kush Mints 11ICC x Kush Mints 11 is a combination of Ice Cream Cake and Kush Mints 11 from Seed Junky Genetics. The cross carries a long lineage of GSC, Durban Poison, OG and Bubba Kush.\nThis strain is a poster child of what a modern cannabis connoisseur wants, as the flower is covered in a thick, sticky layer of resin like a powdered doughnut, with sweet, creamy notes of vanilla, dough, and after-dinner mints. Kush Mintz x ICC\nUpon opening ICC x Kush Mints 11, the senses are immediately awakened to a stunningly distinct aroma that not only draws to mind the sugary sweetness of its name but calls forth.\nnotes of other flavours like mints, leaving a stimulating cooling menthol flavour after the sweetness leaves the pallet. Kush Mintz x ICC", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This year Valentine's Day is so special because it coincides with the 15th day of the Chinese New Year (Chap Goh Meh) which is also the Chinese Valentine's Day. What make this post special is not about an absence of roses I wish I could receive. In place of that, what I got was nothing short of amazing. I am sure those who saw it and must have felt the same and stayed on for the unveil.\nThis evening around 6.30 at Tampines MRT Station, alot of people stopped and stood to gaze at the sky. I asked a lady what was going on and she told me about the strange colours in the sky. When I looked up, it was just a crack of light and when it slowly widen, it showed a kaleidoscope of colours. It can't be a rainbow as the colours were spread out. People gathered and swelled, hoping to see more behind those dark clouds. There was a silver lining at one point when the sun shifted and a flash of lighting later in the clouds. Thank goodness for our phones, we could easily capture a rare sighting. In the background where I stood, music was coming from the speakers of the mime artist. It was surreal - the crowd, the music and the sky. Kinda of like a scene from one of those epic movies, LOL.\nIt was so unusual. Nothing I have ever seen in my life on this small island. It's like a glimpse of heaven on earth. So wonderful and I stood in awe of Him.\nWhat's this strange phenomenon ? Is there an explanation to this ? I felt the presence of God moment for me. Bye for now and God Blessed.\nWhat a coincidence, my friend sent me an e-mail on Rare Natural Phenomenon That Happens On Earth. In it I saw something similar so this was a fire rainbow ! It occurs when sunlight refracts off horizontal ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. The sun is at least 58 degrees above the horizon. The refraction of light is always parallel to the horizon which is why it can look like a large halo of refracted light. I think I will share this with you too :\n2 days later . . . Monday", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Roma in Campagna offers the possibility to enjoy the beauty and tranquillity of the splendid Italian countryside and the lively cultural scene of the eternal city Rome.\nFor this purpose, Roma in Campagna has two casales available near Rome in the Sabine Hills. Both houses are excellent starting points for a visit to Rome and countless other historic towns and villages in the surroundings.\nCasale la Batavia is situated on an enclosed two-hectare site and offers splendid views from the top of the hill on which it is built. It is surrounded by charming rolling countryside dotted with occasional buildings, and Monte Sorrate is visible in the distance.\nCasale il Cacciatore is situated in the Sabine Hills and offers splendid views from both the patio and swimming pool. Casale il Cacciatore is surrounded by wonderful gardens that are laid out as parco naturale with a huge variety of trees, shrubs, plants and flowers.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Why do we like puzzles and mysteries? Are we all police wannabes? Do we have a secret fantasy of being Sam Spade, Tempe Crabtree or Philip Marlowe? Have we watched every episode of Columbo? There is an innate need to know that makes us want to know whodunit.\nAnd some of our favorite writers can make us work for it, creating a complex tale that taxes our investigative abilities! That's part of the joy of reading a mystery, though, isn't it? Do we fall for the red herrings sprinkled through the story? Or do we toss away a vital clue, served up to us on a silver platter, because we think it's a ruse to throw us off the scent? Do we figure it out, just after the writer gives us the answer? That's the goal of the mystery writer -- to hold the reader's interest, keep him or her thinking and trying to figure it out right to the climax of the reveal of the killer.\nIt's fun to abandon discrepant awareness and drift into the 1930s world of Hercule Poirot. Or to explore the newest forensics techniques for lifting fingerprints, tracking DNA or crime scene investigation. Is your preferred story a traditional cozy mystery, a modern, high-tech story, or even a futuristic detective with access to technology today's investigators can only dream of having?\nAnother reason we like mysteries? The bad guy always gets caught -- maybe he or she can't be prosecuted, but our detective figures out what s/he did and how it was done. And that's a very satisfying feeling!\nSo, grab a mystery by your favorite author and enjoy the journey!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“Your favourite fruity rum cocktail”\nWhite Rum, Strawberry Liqueur, Sugar Syrup, Lime Juice\nOur cocktails are always made in small batches, using the best ingredients, meaning perfect cocktails every time.\n3L Tube contains 24 x 125ml servings\nShelf Life: Approx 2 Months. Once open consume within 28 days.\nServed straight up. Pour into a chilled Martini glass and garnish with a strawberry.\nMake it a frozen Daiquiri by blending with ice!\nVegan, Dairy Free & Gluten Free.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This morning Mommy and I went to see Toopy & Binoo at the mall! It was my first live show and I had a great time. There were so many little kids there for me to watch, I love little people watching. They can really be noisy when they want to be though LOL. Here are a few pictures from this morning.\nMe watching from my stroller", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Thousands of years, people are writing and it’s super simple to create and curate text content. ‘Videos’ and ‘Stories’ format of conveying information is relatively new & it’s time consuming to create those.\nWe at OpenStories believe that unless the creation tool is super simple, enable and empower humans to express their thoughts, it’s not going to be successful.\nHow we did it?\nWe sought the help of A.I. Using A.I. we created a platform that can quickly convert thoughts and text to storyboards, so that people can create and curate videos easily. Thousands of hours of videos are created every minute and we certainly believe that the current method of creating videos it not scalable and effective.\nOpenStories, it’s A.I. and the community is the right way forward for videos and story format. Stories format is led by large giants like Facebook, instagram, google etc… We are looking forward to make a huge difference in this space by enabling the world to create better videos and better stories.\nTry for yourselves now,\nJoin the Community of 10,000+ content creators who craft content that people Love,\nRam Chella - CEO\nSuresh Sivasankaran - CPO\nrm -rf. So, you don’t have to worry about your privacy ;) Pivoted various use-cases around Media A.I. along with Ram and constantly failed for over 2 years. But consistent effort in that direction led to the invention of ‘OpenStories’ and used by thousands of content writers on daily basis to express their thoughts.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "It’s almost that time of year again where for one day,\nI don’t have to think about what to eat/what to cook – you take the time to enjoy some quality time with your special someone. While I personally don’t celebrate Valentines Day, I know many people who do and often times, I get asked for recommendations for ‘the best restaurant’, ‘the best meal to make’ etc. So I thought I’d put a round up here for those lovely folks who ask me every year and anyone else who might need some ideas.\nI wanted to put together a broad mix of items so that it’ll fit everyone’s wallets, so without further ado, here are some ideas for Valentines or any other special occasion:\nLandeau Flowers – There is something about receiving a beautiful and vibrant bucket of roses. At the price point of $250, these are definitely for a special occasion!\nTWG Tea – Another world class tea company TWG has recently opened up here in Vancouver, upping our city’s glam factor. There are so many teas to choose from here, but thankfully there are specialists who can help you pick the perfect one. These beautiful and ornate tea tins and the lovely teas start at $20. You could also come here for high tea ($48)!\nThierry – Thierry is one of my favourite places in the city and during this time, they offer Romeo and Juliet cakes. The Romeo cake comprises of chocolate, caramel and hazelnut. The Juliet cake is made with lemon, raspberry and rose. If you’re looking for a sweet treat, this is a beautiful option ($21.95).\nLaduree Macarons – The macarons that started the craze, we are lucky to have a Laduree here in Vancouver. Get that special someone the best – a box of macarons here cost about $30 (for 8).\nCavalia – A mix of equestrian, stage and high-tech theatrical arts, this is definitely a fun show that takes it’s viewers through a dreamlike story. Tickets are $139.50.\nCupcakes – Cupcakes began right here in Vancouver and provides some picture-perfect (read: Instagram-worthy) cupcakes with some great flavours! (Cupcakes $3.50, Mini $1.90, Cakes $32)\nCacao70 – You’d be hard pressed to find someone who would refuse chocolate. Let alone drinking chocolate, or chocolate fondue. (Starting at $8).\nThe Little Mermaid – Tap into your inner kid and watch The Little Mermaid musical at the Michael J Fox Theatre! (Tickets are $39).\nOdd Society Creme de cassis and Prosecco – They keep popping up on my lists, yes, but it’s just that good! Grab a bottle of creme de cassis and pick up a bottle of prosecco – one of my favourite treats! ($25 for the Creme de Cassis)\nYolks’ Chicken and Waffles – Yo, if someone treated me to chicken and waffles from Yolks, you’ll get my love and attention. Their chicken is breaded and crispy but still quite tender in the middle, slather on that chicken gravy and maple syrup and you’ve got yourself a perfect meal. ($14)\nKin Kao Kitchen\nBibo Pizzeria (McArthurGLen)\nIt’s super easy to create a simple meal at home. I’d recommend going to your local store and buy a couple of steaks and make this super easy mushroom risotto. Don’t forget to throw in some greens – I’d say gai lan or broccoli. (Approximately $40 with all ingredients for 2 people).\nTo create a delicious non-alcoholic cocktail, go to Ikea and purchase their Dryck Fläder (ie Elderflower syrup – $4.99) and mix it with some Sprite/7up.\nLooking for more easy recipes? Check out the Gastrofork Youtube channel.\nFraser Park Restaurant", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Numerous fashion bloggers and beauty gurus are gaining more and more popularity nowadays, when the fashion industry is at its peak, which is exactly why so many people look up to them these days. If you’re one of those people, too, and you want to learn about five style tricks you can steal from fashion bloggers, just keep on reading. Check them out and get down to business!\nMix completely unexpected pieces\nIf fashion bloggers are known for something, it’s definitely matching the unmatchable, which is a helpful technique you should embrace as well. Everyone knows that the best bloggers bring out quite innovative style ideas, and it means only one thing – it’s about time you got creative and mixed unexpected pieces into one daring combo! For example, matching high heels with athleisure pieces such as crop tops and wide-leg track pants is always a good idea, as well as wearing a silky slip dress over your jeans. Just think out of the box and you won’t make a mistake!\nDon’t be afraid of a little DIY\nYes, we know that it doesn’t sound too fashionable, but you know what? Upgrading your old clothes in DIY projects has a bunch of amazing advantages, and the first one is coming up with a completely unique piece no one else in the world has. This is particularly useful when it comes to vintage pieces that need some adjustment, so don’t be afraid to experiment and put your sewing skills to good use. Apart from transforming an old garment, you’ll also save some money and rock an authentic piece at the same time. Does it get better than that? We don’t think so!\nMake expensive pieces last forever\nEven though spending hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on pieces such as designer bags or shoes seems completely crazy to ordinary people, the truth is that they can learn a lot about it from beauty bloggers. This is particularly true for the bloggers who are still new in the industry and don’t have a lot of cash to invest in many designer pieces, which is why they do whatever they can to make these last forever. For example, proper shoe care is an absolute must, and the first step is polishing your leather shoes regularly. Besides that, getting shoe trees is also essential if you want to protect your footwear and help it retain its original shape. As for designer bags, storing them in a dust bag is vital for staying clean and keeping their shape.\nFind your signature sunglasses and stick to that style\nHave you ever seen your favorite fashion blogger without sunglasses? The correct answer is probably ‘no’, which leads us to another style trick you should steal – finding your signature sunglasses. The fact is that an eye-catching pair of sunglasses is absolutely essential for pulling off the entire outfit, so don’t wait any longer and look for your perfect pair. No matter if you prefer old-school, cat-eye, dark frames, or quirky, brightly-colored ones – these will make a huge difference, and guess what? You need fancy shades if you want to be mistaken for a fashion blogger, don’t forget that!\nAccessorize your basics like a true fashionista\nIn case you didn’t know, top-notch outfits aren’t just about loud statement pieces that help you stand out from the crowd. In fact, a good outfit should be based on quality basics instead, so get those first and then take them to a whole new level by adding some cool accessories. For example, a black maxi dress can be a bit too dark, so make sure to add a colorful necklace or a vibrant pair of tasseled earrings that will completely transform it. The same goes for shoes, bags, and scarves in your favorite colors, so give them a fair shot and you’ll see what we were talking about!\nAs you can tell, there are so many amazing style tricks you can steal from your favorite fashion bloggers, and these five are undoubtedly the best ones out there. So, if you want to upgrade your everyday outfits and spice them up a little bit, all you have to do is to stick to these tricks and you’ll surely make it happen!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Acta Diurna – The Daily News. A news and information broadsheet published daily by the city of Echoriath and posted on notice boards in prominent locations. Sometimes contains magical images of its subjects.\nAdmeh – Admeh Sharon – A bard of the Ghostly Minstrel. He wrote the Song of the Starborn. Nereida’s mind briefly inhabited his body when she was imprisoned in the Probe of Dreams.\nAmantes, The – Family name for Basil, Demetrios, Bonzimir, Nereida and Felix.\nAnushirvan – A monastery of Borlamnos which held a great library. It was destroyed over 1600 years ago during The Summoning War, by monks corrupted by the Book of Inverted Darkness. [This was my version of Bard’s Keep, from the old Randy Maxwell Dungeon magazine adventure, Ex Libris.]\nArtorius – God of Valor and the Body. Twin brother of Borlamnos. Laelia’s monastic order worships both gods.\nAulus – Aulus Hirtius Neverius, an eldritch warrior sent by the Inverted Pyramid to aid the Company of the Starborn in the Banewarrens.\nAvatar, The – The unnamed dark elf who was one of the first banes to escape the Banewarrens. He called himself The Avatar of Chaos\nBanewarrens, The – The place where the ancient cleric Danar hid away some of the world’s worst evil artifacts, or banes. It is set within and below Mons Tarteros.\nBasil – Basil Amantes, one of the PC’s – a human Fighter.\nBlack Grail, The – The evil artifact which the Pactlords covet. It is thought to be somewhere in the Banewarrens.\nBlack Manor, The – The residence of the Pactlords in the Quann.\nBonzimir – Bonzimir Amantes, one of the PC’s – a halfling Rogue.\nBorlamnos – God of Magic and Knowledge. The Company of the Starborn are sworn to his service. Also known as The Opener.\nBurning Star – The common name of the meteor that crashed in northern Conorria in the year 2780. Though it is little known, this meteor brought to earth a number of mysterious infants, including the PC’s.\nCallistus – A large city in the Conorrian Empire. It is known as the City of Towers and sits on an island in the Phaedon river. It lies approximately 500 miles due north of Echoriath.\nChaositech – A foul and ancient demonic power, capable of great things, but ultimately corrupting to its users. Both the Pactlords and House Vitellius apparently have access to Chaositech.\nCharch-Pahn – An ancient beholder and leader of the Pactlords. He has his own tower in a swamp in the Quann.\nCompany of the Starborn – The PC’s adventuring band, so called ever since the defeat of Kyroclides and the song Demetrios urged Admeh Sharon to write.\nConorrian Empire – Once the greatest empire in the world, the Conorrian Empire is now one of a few handfuls of states holding out against the rising tide of dark powers that have consumed most formerly civilized lands. It is the home to my current campaign.\nCornelia – A lovely barmaid at the Ghostly Minstrel. She and Demetrios have developed a romance.\nDanar – The nearly mythical hero who built the Banewarrens. He later became the evil demi-god Eslathagos Malkith, the Dread One, and was destroyed by his former companions.\nDemetrios – Demetrios Amantes, one of the PC’s – a human fighter/wizard (later, all wizard).\nDonna Mara – Sister Donna Mara, a priestess of the Great Church, and the PC’s contact at the Great Cathedral.\nEchoriath – The capital of the Conorrian Empire, largest metropolis in the known world.\nElida – A female Knight of the Sacred Keys, holy warrior of the god Borlamnos. She has had a vision commanding her to protect Nereida Amantes (she’s Nereida’s cohort).\nEnnius – A Conorrian noble house, friendly to the PC’s and powerful in Callistus.\nEslathagos Malkith – The name of former hero Danar, after he had been corrupted by the Book of Inverted Darkness and become an evil demi-god. Also known as The Dread One\nFabitor – Brother Fabitor, priest of St. Gesius, a chapel in the run-down Maze district.\nFlavia – Flavia Brassus, a powerful wizard living in Echoriath. She has maintained a correspondence with Quintus for years. She is red-haired and her left arm is made of magical red glass. She is served by a falcon familiar made of red glass.\nFelix – Felix Amantes, one of the Company of the Starborn. A psion. Killed by Yuinthu and the second Grail Quest Team.\nGeristonomos – An intelligent (but now addled and forgetful) mechanical being created by Danar to keep up the Banewarrens’ protections. He has spent the last 3,000 years half-blind and pinned under tons of debris. His eye was restored by the Company of the Starborn.\nGhostly Minstrel, The – The favorite watering hole of the Company of the Starborn and other adventuring groups in the city of Echoriath. Run by Olivia and her daughter Cornelia.\nGrail Quest Teams – The name given to the teams of monsters sent by the Pactlords to the Banewarrens to retrieve the Black Grail.\nGreat Church, The – The most powerful of all Conorrian Churches, dedicated to the entire pantheon known as the Gods of the Chalice.\nHand of Danar – The mummified hand of Danar. Also known as The Banewarrens Key. It opens many doors in the Banewarrens and can only be destroyed by the Staff of Shards\nHerminius – Professor Herminius, an elderly scholar at the University of Echoriath, an expert in ancient literature and an avid consumer of tales about the Dwarvenhearth.\nHeth – Brother Heth Neferul. A deacon of the Great Church and priest of the Chapel of St. Thessina. Revealed to be a traitor in league with the Pactlords. Killed by the Company of the Starborn.\nInverted Pyramid, The – A secretive association of wizards in Echoriath. The only member known to the Company of the Starborn is Flavia Brassus.\nJonas – Jonas Ennius. The son of Flavius Ennius and heir to House Ennius. The Company of the Starborn rescued him from the clutches of Lucius Vitellius and Kallus the Necromancer.\nJulia – Julia Metellus, an enterprising member of powerful House Metellus, an ancient noble Conorrian family. She employed the Amantes in Callistus and was impressed by their resourcefulness.\nJulius – Julius Ennius, the Secundus of Borlamnos in the city of Callistus. A patron of the Company of the Starborn. Brother to the nobleman Flavius Ennius.\nKalerecent – Sir Kalerecent. A paladin of the Order of the Dawn. A hero of the Maze. Killed in the Banewarrens by the first Grail Quest Team sent by the Pactlords. Later raised by the Great Church.\nKikanuile – The green hag who lead the first Grail Quest Team. Slain by the Company in the Outer Vaults.\nKyroclides – A young blue dragon from the WotC adventure Start at the End. He escaped the Company of the Starborn in the Shattered Lands.\nLaelia – Laelia Parvula, one of the PC’s. A female monk of the Leones Alae (\"Winged Lion\") order. A follower of the twin gods Artorius and Borlamnos.\nLucius – Lucius Vitellius. A ruthless and petty crimelord in Echoriath’s Maze district. He is a distant cousin to the powerful family of Navanna Vitellius.\nMace of Marius – An ancient and wicked-looking black two-headed morningstar said to have been used by the Conorrian hero Marius to defend the Empire against the Living Statues of Accolon.\nMarcian’s Oddities – An eclectic shop in Echoriath’s Academy district, dealing in magical items, run by the elf Marcian.\nMarcus – Marcus Asinus. One of the PC’s. A Knight of the Sacred Keys, holy warrior of the god Borlamnos.\nMons Tartaros – The immensely tall spur of rock that towers over the city of Echoriath. It is where the hero-king Aumerides (later the Emperor Vasil I) defeated the titan Tartarus.\nNavanna – Navanna Vitellus. Beautiful, capable and evil daughter of the House of Vitellius. Also known as The Lady of Shadows.\nNereida – Nereida Amantes, one of the PC’s – a human cleric of Borlamnos.\nNicolon – Nicolon Regelis, a bard and Knight of the Chord. He was impersonated by someone unknown when the Company infiltrated the Vitellius manor.\nOlivia – Owner of the Ghostly Minstrel, mother to Cornelia. She likes Demetrios but disapproves of her daughter’s interest in an adventurer.\nPactlords of the Quaan – A weird order of monsters bent on the elimination of the \"good\" races from Theeurth. They are based in the Quann.\nPertinax – A corrupt and boorish Magister Civites (Captain of the Guard) in Echoriath. He doggedly pursues blackmail of the rich and moderately powerful in the city, and curries favor with the great houses. He forwarded much of this information to Navanna Vitellius. Unbeknownst to him, many of his men worked for Lucius Vitellius. He hung himself after his corruption was uncovered by Vera Macrinus with the help of the Company of the Starborn.\nPierre DuMonde – Dashing and dangerous bounty hunter from the western nation of Corland. Worked for Appius Macrinus. He and Nereida have admired each other without acting upon it.\nProbe of Dreams, The – A machine given to Brother Heth by the Pactlords of the Quann. It could probe the dreams of a captive for information.\nProphecies of the Burning Star – A book, recovered from Anushirvan, which speaks of the powers of Astromancy, and hints at the important destiny of the Starborn.\nQuaan – A swampy demi-plane built by Danar’s companion Maerithia Moonbow, but later taken over by the Pactlords.\nQuintus – Claudius Amulius Quintus Amantes, adoptive father of the PC’s. A cleric of Borlamnos and an expert in the lore of magical items.\nRsanir – A monk. Companion to Kalerecent.\nSealing Generators – The magical engines that seal the Banewarrens.\nSealing Rod – The dragon-headed rod needed to finish the last Sealing Generator and seal the Banewarrens forever.\nSevera – A female paladin, dedicated leader of the Great Church’s team looking for the Sword of Truth in the Banewarrens. Charismatic and practical, she has a passion for the works of the Great Church.\nSt. Martius’s Street – The street where the Amantes family owns a house in Echoriath.\nSt. Thessina’s – The chapel of the Great Church formerly run by Brother Heth.\nStaff of Shards, The – The staff forged by Maerithia Moonbow to destroy Eslathagos Malkith. It shattered into three parts once it accomplished this. One part still contains the intelligence of the dying elven girl whose soul powered the Staff. This is the dagger named Yaeshla. The re-assembled Staff can destroy the Hand of Danar\nStarborn, The – Collective name for the PC’s, from their origin in a fiery meteor crash. The PC’s have since learned that there are other Starborn out there, perhaps many more. Laelia is one such. Another is The Warlord, said to reside in the nation of Ianthe.\nStarborn Tattoos – The mysterious silvery tattoos that writhe across the arms and chests of the Starborn. Certain events (such as an oath to Borlamnos or PC death) cause one tattoo to migrate to the chest and settle into a fixed form.\nSword of Lies, The – The sword which was once used to slay hundreds of wizards and sorcerers in a terrible pogrom after the fall of Iridian. May be The Sword of Truth under a curse.\nSword of Truth, The – Ancient holy sword which was one of the relics of fallen Iridian. The Great Church believes in a prophecy that says it will return to bring great glory into the world. It may now be The Sword of Lies\nTarteros – The titan defeated by Aumerides (later Vasil I, first Conorrian Emperor) and imprisoned within the spire that bears his name: Mons Tarteros\nTerestir – Terestir Malacon. A wizard in the hierarchy of the Great Church. A master of mirrors.\nTheeurth – The world wherein my campaigns are set.\nThought Stalker, The – One of the foul banes released by the Pactlords. It escaped into Echoriath and eats people’s brains.\nTobias – Brother Tobias, the high priest of the Great Cathedral.\nUnmaker, The – A chaositech machine given to Brother Heth by the Pactlords of the Quann. It could disintegrate almost anything.\nVera – Vera Macrinus, beautiful wife of Appius Macrinus, a powerful Echoriath merchant. Vera is a friend to the Company of the Starborn, and was being blackmailed by Pertinax.\nVitellius – A powerful and evil noble house of Echoriath. Rumored to have demonic ancestry.\nYaeshla – the mind of an elven girl preserved in the Staff of Shards. She is now the hilt of a dagger with the same name.\nYuinthu – An illithid (mind flayer). Part of the second Grail Quest Team. Killed by the Company of the Starborn in the Outer Vaults.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Potted Bush Rose\nThe Poet's Wife® (Auswhirl) has large cupped blooms of a lovely rich yellow, which pale as they age and are produced in small clusters. The fully double blooms contain a wonderfully rich fruity fragrance with hints of lemon. The leaves are a shining healthy colour on a low rounded shrub.\nHeight: 120cm x 120cm wide\nPlease note: Each potted rose purchased will be shipped individually in a box and have its own postage cost. We are unable to ship potted roses to WA and TAS.\nGiving a potted rose as a gift? Simply select \"Gift a Potted Rose\" at checkout and we will gift wrap the rose, write your supplied message on one of our greeting cards, and provide a sample of organic fertilizer for your rose plant, for an additional $20.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Out of stock\nWelcome the New Year with some eye-popping bling!\nLayer up your celebration in style with our best seasonal seller Light Up Happy New Year Silver Beaded Bling Necklace. It’s the cheapest and the most stylish bling to complement any New Year’s Eve outfit.\nA party atmosphere will envelop the entire world on New Year’s Eve. Llisten carefully to when the clock ticks to midnight, and activate our Light Up Happy New Year Silver Beaded Bling Necklace to illuminate 7 flashing modes. It brings optimism while this bling hangs around your neck for a great way to start the year!\nIncludes pre-installed, replaceable, long-lasting AG13 batteries.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I don't know why I haven't already posted this, maybe I thought I had but if I have......Oh Well. Kacee had been telling me that she was having an \"open house\" the first part of September for their new house. I thought it was kind of strange since they hadn't been in the house but only a few weeks but whatever. I also thought it kind of strange that Jenny was coming in for it but at the same time thought it was nice of her. Kacee also told Jamie that's what this gathering was. She invited all of their friends and we also invited a lot of the people from the church because they were asking when they could come see the house. After all of their friends had arrived and some of the church people, Carah called everyone to attention and gathered everyone in the main room. I thought we were going to have a prayer over their house but then Carah announced that Jamie was going to pop some balloons that were hanging on the wall to reveal the gender of their baby. (so this was really a gender reveal party) As he popped them, pink and blue confetti spilled from one of the balloons. Everyone looked puzzled and Jamie looked stunned to say the least. Twins??? Oh my!!! Kacee even looked stunned. Then Carah brought out a gift for Kacee to open and it was this:\nWin an Indoor Turkey Fryer, Turkey, AND Cookbook!\n4 minutes ago", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A community initiative by comparison platform Hippo.co.za has enabled a local small business and team of out-of-work seamstresses to support their families through South Africa’s extended COVID-19 lockdown. The five women, all from Mitchells Plain in Cape Town, have been hard at work handcrafting plush toys based on Hippo.co.za’s popular mascot.\nDespite its long-standing popularity, this is the first time Hippo.co.za has created a toy of the beloved character used in its television advertising campaigns. “The character really resonated with consumers and we were getting many comments on social media referring to how loved it is. There were also many requests for a toy, so the next logical step was to give people their personal toy as a reminder to make good choices,” says Hippo.co.za CEO Bradley Du Chenne.\nFor Hippo.co.za, good choices meant collaborating with a local small business and the team of seamstresses to manufacture the toys.\n“The COVID-19 lockdowns have impacted us severely,” says Francois De Flamingh, founder of local design studio Creatarium, which contracted the seamstresses to work on the project. “It was especially hard on the seamstresses, who were completely dependent on the film industry for income. This project was incredibly welcome as it enabled the seamstresses to work, and to work safely from home.”\n“We are a proudly South African brand, and we wanted to give back to our own communities – especially considering the effects of COVID-19 and lockdown on small businesses,” Du Chenne says. “It would certainly have been more cost-effective to outsource the creation of these toys to an international manufacturer, but this project was not a profit-making exercise. We want to spread brand love, not only to our consumers who have shown interest in our Hippo character, but also to local businesses who need the support in this difficult time. The intention is certainly to keep supporting local in everything we do.”\nLead seamstress Hazel Adams describes the project as “a very, very big help” to the seamstresses and their families. “It made a huge difference,” she says. “These little hippos really put food on our tables. Four of us are pensioners who work in the movie industry, and the fifth lady is a private nurse, so when everything closed down, there was no money coming in. When we got this work, it helped us a lot.”\nAdams, like many South Africans, was personally impacted by the pandemic. She tested positive for COVID-19 during South Africa’s initial outbreak and was hospitalised for five weeks. “I thought I was going to die,” she says. “I went into a coma three times. But I got through it, and now I’m making these hippo toys.”\nThe toys are attracting interest, especially in the neighbourhood in which the seamstresses work. “People love these hippos,” Adams says. “People will look through the window while we’re making the hippos, and they say, ‘Can I have one of those?’ The toys are handmade, so each one is unique.”\nThe materials used to make the toys are locally sourced, in line with Hippo.co.za’s choice to support local business. “This project is part of a much bigger brand purpose for Hippo.co.za,” says Du Chenne. “We want to encourage good decision making, and ultimately this translates to empowering people to take charge of their lives, improving not only their financial standing but also themselves. The project allows us to do that, not only for consumers, but also for small businesses and the seamstresses who have been impacted by COVID-19. This is not just a passion project for us. Empowering others is part of our brand ethos.”\nThe first production run of 1 000 toys will be used in a brand campaign for Hippo.co.za’s online comparison platform. The #MyHippo campaign is set to launch in February 2021 and more details can be found on Hippo’s social media pages. Click here to view the behind-the-scenes video of the making of the hippo toys.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Eyam is one of the best-preserved villages in the vicinity and is the famous 'plague village', which went into voluntary quarantine when the plague was imported from London in 1665. Above the village lies Eyam Moor which is a fine area for walking, with good views across the Derwent valley and many Bronze Age remains and monuments.\nThe church in the centre of the village has many relics of the Plague, including Mompesson's chair, gravestones of Plague victims and the Parish Register recording the deaths. Within the church there is a small exhibition about the Plague. The church has two Norman columns, and may be built on Saxon foundations, but dates mostly from the 13th and 14th centuries. In the churchyard there is a magnificent Saxon cross dating probably from the 9th century and carved with a mixture of pagan and Christian symbols. There is also a fine sundial on the wall of the church.\nThe Rectory next door to the church was the birthplace in 1747 of Anna Seward, the 'Swan of Lichfield', a noted literary character of the 18th Century who wrote poetry in the 'Augustan' style, which is now thoroughly out of fashion. Amongst many other works, she wrote a touching poem 'Eyam' which was about the village, and she was a friend of Sir Walter Scott amongst others.\nThere are many fine old houses in Eyam and parts of the village have been kept as they looked several centuries ago, especially the area at Townend, around the Miner's Arms. Many of the buildings also have plaques giving details of their history and the part their inhabitants played in the Plague saga, notably the Plague Cottages, where the outbreak began, which are on the main street on the west side of the church.\nAlso on the main street lies Eyam Hall, built in 1676 but in a style which was already out of fashion, so it looks like an early Jacobean mansion. It is the home of the Wright family who built it and have lived there ever since, and the house is open to visitors in the summer months, as well as housing a small craft centre.\nThe local industries were lead-mining (the lead-miners were noted Non-Conformists and Wesley preached here), silk weaving and shoe-making. The discovery of the Hucklow Side Vein in 1777 led to a boom in lead mining in this area for the next hundred years and next to the village school is a mound which still houses the shaft of Glebe Mine, a lead mine which was later worked for fluorspar until 1965. At the West end of the village is Townhead factory, built as a silk mill, and there is a former shoe factory in the centre of the village. Eyam had one of the earliest public water supplies of anywhere in the area (1588) and parts of this system can still be seen around the village.\nTo the West of the village, off the road to Foolow, lies Little and Greater Waterfall Swallet, good examples of natural potholes. The water which disappears into these swallets reappears near Stoney Middleton.\nEyam has several shops and tea rooms, plus one pub, the Miner's Arms. This is dated 1630 and is the former meeting place of the Barmote Court, which dealt with lead mining disputes. It is also is reputed to be one of the most haunted buildings in Derbyshire, which would surely add interest to a night's stay! Just outside the village is a public carpark and toilets with a small museum opposite. On the edge above the village there is a Youth Hostel.\nEyam has a well-dressing in late August.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Peony Zen Package\nThis product is currently only available in-store, please contact our nearest store to confirm variety\n1x Huxter Fern Leaf Peony Room & Linen Spray\n1x Huxter Fern Leaf Peony Hand Cream 100ml\n1x Huxter Fern Leaf Peony Bath Soap with essential olis 120gm\nCreate a tranquil environment with this Fern Leaf Peony scent throughout your home and living space and even spray it on your linen to enhance the calmness and feeling of relaxation in your home.\nThe peony soap and hand cream will give you a sense of personal indulgence as you enjoy deeply nourishing your hands in shea butter and almond oil after a peaceful soak in the bath with this beautiful and restorative essential oil infused soap.\nA great gift for someone to create more zen in their living space and treat themselves to some personal relaxation indulgence at the same time!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "PSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA is going to be the best thing that can ever happen to you. From Cairo to Paris to London, we are known for being the best love spell caster in the world.\nYou need to come to us and your life will not remain the same. We discovered our purpose so many years ago and God told us that we are supposed to cast love spells so that people live the best lives possible. No one in this world deserves to live without love.\nYou need to understand that you were created to have fun and not suffer. You were made to become a champion of love and so do not think that you will always be a loser.\nPSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA\nPSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA has made many people happy and you also deserve to be made happy. We are made to make love to this world and therefore we do not worry about what you think so you will never be ashamed of coming to PSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA.\nMusic and Mukulu Benjamin are the best thing that can make love come to your heart. You just have to embrace PSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA. We are in this struggle of making things work for you. You need to realize that nothing in this world is unreachable.\nEven if you go to Arua, you will not find people that are great as us as regards bringing love in your life. You need to understand that love is the greatest force in this world and you need to also spread the message to as many people as possible such that you get the desired benefits of being a navy seal.\nThe world is going to come to an end. So do not allow it come to an end without you ever getting the love of your life.\nWhenever you go to any new place, you have to understand that love is the only thing that can make you conquer it.\nPSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA is going to make things easier for you so do not even look back or think twice about coming to PSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA. Whenever you have any love problem, you have to embrace PSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA.\nThere has never been a better place than now for you to get love. You need to come to PSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA.\nYou have to understand that life without love is so miserable. Making great sex and kisses and hugs are the things you need in this world.\nWe need to make this world great again and the best place to start with is by spreading the gospel of love to everyone in this world. PSYCHIC IN NEW YORK-LOVE SPELLS CALIFORNIA is all you need and we shall always be here waiting for you.\nYou need to understand that love is where you will find rest and also the thing that you need to have in order to live a peaceful life.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "All of these flowers came from my garden. In the cut flower workshop I will tell you all about these and you can have fun choosing what you want to take home.\nCream Amaranth, 'Henry Eiler's' Rudbekia, 'Pinky Winky' Hydrangea & Crested Celosia\nZinnias, Feather Celosia, Achillea, Eucalyptus and Sage\nCoral Zinnias, White Veronica, Variegated Lysimachia & Chindo Viburnum\nCleome, Crested Celosia and Crinum Lilies\n'Welches Pink' Beautyberry, Sedum, Zinnias, Ginger lilies Caryopteris and Pink Banana", "label": "No"}
{"text": "*Not to be confused with \"I Like Superhero Butts,\" my 368 page treatise on the work of Ed Benes and other practitioners of camel toe rendering in sequential art. Just wanted to clear that up from the outset.\nI like superheroes, but not unconditionally. In fact, my love of the capes 'n' cowels crowd comes with more strings attached than a favor from the mob. Here's one in a possible series, if I feel like it (I don't have the best track record of honoring commitments in that regard; I've sort of jumped off of Jumping On Points for the moment):\nI like superheroes, but I'm not automatically interested in superheroes in other mediums any more. It occured to me, while watching the 42nd Ghost Rider commerical (give or take a couple) of my evening television viewing, that I haven't seen a superhero movie in a long time. I couldn't muster the enthusiasm to watch either Superman Returns or X3 last summer, and haven't even felt like renting them. I haven't seen Elektra or Catwoman, either, come to think of it (although that's less a lack of interest and more the fact that they screamed \"Do not watch me!\" at the top of their figurartive lungs. I get the feeling Garner and Berry might even scream that at the top of their lungs if they were being honest). Part of that is because I just don't have the attention span to sit through many movies these days (I blame Tivo; if I can't fast forward through something, my viewing experience feels confinint), but I used to go to any comics related film playing at my local multiplex with bells on. I mean, I paid to see Daredevil, for god's sake! If they ever make a sequel to that one, you'd have to pay me a lot to watch it. Unless the Owl is the villain. Because, c'mon; the Owl is the greatest Marvel villain ever.*\nI am eagerly anticipating Spider-Man 3, and I have to admit, I do kind of want to see the aformentioned realization of Nicholas Cage's dream to play a superhero, but I no longer view every new superhero-based film's release as an event. Because they aren't; they're too commonplace for that. Part of the appeal for the original Spider-Man and X-Men movies was that I had waited my whole life to see it, and I was still a teenager when those movies came out; I can only imagine how people who had followed the characters for their entire life spans felt.**Â\nBut now that Marvel is an actual Hollywood player and superhero movies have gone from flash in the pan to an established genre, who cares? There's nothing special about a new superhero movie release; it's like getting excited about the train schedule. They arrive like clockwork, and are about as exciting and distinguishable as your average Greyhound.\nI'm also not onboard with the cultural phenomenon that is Heroes. This is the kind of show I would have eaten up with a spoon a scant few years ago, but I can not muster a single ounce of interest in it. I say that not as a value judgement; it could be a great show for all I know. I just literally can't work up the enthusiasm to watch it. I'I feel the same way about Battlestar Galactica, but that's one for my \"I like Sci-Fi, but...\" series on a blog to be named later. The premise is new to TV, but given that it's been around in some form since anything from the New Universe to the Lee/Ditko Spider-Man, I genuinely can not care less about normal people with powers. With a cast bereft of actors whose work I like (although I am amused by Milo Ventimigila's* name), and given the fact that I have fatigue over of all of these slowburn adventure shows to come out of Lost's wake, and I just don't care, even if I still feel a nagging obligation to because it's about superheroes. That has yet to outweigh my disinterest, but it's there. It generally goes away when I watch my weekly reginent of six and a half hours of pro wrestling and multiple sitcoms, though, so that's where my heads at regarding the old idiot box.\nIt strikes me that this may come across as more jaded and cynical than I intended. Maybe I am more jaded and cynical about superheroes than I thought I was. I do like seeing them in other mediums; I like that I can get my epic superhero fix from video games, for instance, since I generally avoid crossovers like a horde of flaming, plague spreading rats who want to talk about how I should watch Heroes. But that's a cynical, jaded story for another time. Maybe.\n*I was just testing your sarcasm detectors. Although if they had the balls to not only make a Daredevil sequel but make the Owl the villain, I'd have to watch it out of admiration. Because that's Colbert-worthy ballsiness right there.\n**I'm talking about people old enough to have followed the Silver Age Marvel characters since their inception. Geezers like Greg Hatcher. Who also probably followed the Model T since its inception.***\n***I want to let Greg know that I meant no disrespect in calling him a geezer and comically exagerrating his age. Although c'mon Hatcher, you're like totally old! And yet we share a love of Silver and Bronze age comics. Which makes me feel old. Damn you, Hatcher, you geezer!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As I move forward in my journey of healing, I become aware that I must seriously choose to be joyful every single day. In February, I chose the theme of healing with joy!\nIt takes courage to open ourselves up to joy.– Brené Brown\nHealing With Joy\nChoosing joy in the midst of pain is a brave decision and one that I didn’t make lightly.\nSome questions I asked myself at the start of the month:\nWhat do you love to do?\nRead, write, create, watch movies, listen to music, sing out loud. Do small things that bring joy – light a scented candle, joss sticks, take photographs of Nature. Have good conversation over good food. Laugh and be silly.\nWhere do you love being?\nAt home or in my studio – both are comfortable places where I can be myself. But I also enjoy being in Nature – just still – watching a sunrise or a sunset, especially near a beach.\nWhat kind of community do you want?\nThis is very interesting because community is definitely on my list this year. I want to be part of a life-giving community – people who are self-aware, spiritual, kind and reach out to others to offer support without judgement. A community where I can laugh out loud, find a shoulder to sob on and to be a shoulder to someone else.\nWhere does such a community exist?\nPresently in my head! I really don’t know. It’s really difficult for me to find people, I gel with. I guess I have create one. It’s a necessary part of my healing.\nMy Intention for February\nTo continue to be open to healing and seek opportunities to be joyful. Turning everything into an opportunity for joy – my work, my chores, walking, communicating …\nHow Did My Journey With My Word Go?\nWhat went well\nI made reading lists, movie lists, song playlists and tried to enjoy most of them.\nJosé and I were quite regular with our evening walks and this was a joyful experience. We talked, we met and played with stray dogs, we stopped at a park and watched children play and I took a lot of pictures. I shared a picture a day with my thoughts on Instagram and I’m really happy with the comments on my posts on Instagram and Facebook where I reshare. It’s strange that I almost gave up on Instagram at the end of last year!\nI had interesting conversations with a few old friends and also managed to extend kindness and assistance to some people in need of it. This brought me joy!\nI spent more time in quiet and reflection and delved deeper into understanding scripture and grew in faith. At the end of last month, I chose a scripture verse for my word – a reassurance that I need:\nFor I will restore health to you and your wounds I will heal. – Jeremiah 30:17\nTwo blogger friends of mine – Shalini and Parul – revived a feature called #FridayReflections in a new format and I enjoyed reconnecting with them and other bloggers.\nNot so pleasant\nMy month had some downs with a few painful interactions. But each of these, underlined my need to protect my heart and stand up for myself. I tried, as much as possible, to respond to these situations keeping my principles in mind. They did drain me and briefly take away my joy, but I’ve attempted to bounce back each time. These situations made me realise that I’ve come quite a long way in my healing journey and for that I’m grateful.\nOverall, in February, I also gave myself a lot more grace and didn’t allow guilt to keep me from joy!\nLisa Burgess has some great ideas for how to stay engaged with your word in her Word of The Year update/link up for February and I’m working on them.\nHow’s your journey with your Word of the Year going?\nVery meticulously explained the month’s take home experiences. Need to take a lesson or two about how to do this.\nGlad it made sense to you, Bernie.\nCorinne Rodrigues recently posted..Enjoy Many Miracle Mornings\nI haven’t even started working on my word of the year which is Mindfulness. Life’s hectic and other things taking up on priority. Your post is a reminder to me to try working on being mindful.\nI understand. It’s taken me quite a while to make this a meaningful process. Having a monthly theme helps me keep my word in focus.\nCorinne Rodrigues recently posted..Words That Inspired Me In February 2023\nLeanne | www.crestingthehill.com.au\nHi Corinne – I’ve been reading your FB posts each day and really like how intentional you’re being with your healing journey. Life will never be perfect, and we’ll always have issues to deal with, but there are glimmers of joy everywhere and we get to choose what we focus on. I’m getting much better at removing toxic people and situations from my life (dealing with the hurt) and moving forward with the people and things that are good for my heart and soul. We’re too old to keep putting up with poor relationships and unhealthy environments.\nI am finally getting the time to catch up with reading all the posts . Your posts give me hope, Even when I am not writing and am out of touch with everything and everyone because of stuff happening at home, everytime I see a post of yours on instagram or here, I know I will come back to writing and this community that you have built. You are an inspiration and a bond that keeps all of us together.\nIt’s a great idea to focus on one aspect of your word of the year every month.\nLinda recently posted..Free Verse Friday, March 2023\nHealing with joy – what a beautiful theme that I need for myself as well, Corinne. I’ve been trying to be more intentional about being present with and loving those around me. And that brings me joy! I’d love to find an in-person community specifically related to grief healing, but I haven’t found my people yet either. If we were neighbors, I’d got a hunch you would be my kind of IRL people. 🙂 Glad you added this to our One Word linkup!\nI love how you are using your word and healing with joy, while embracing the unhealed parts.\nIt’s inspiring to read this post, Cory,\nI wish you a soothing year of healings.\nNatasha recently posted..St. Nicholas is in Town | Winter Solstice | Christmas | Yule\nSo glad to see you posts on Insta and FB these days, Corinne! They feel so positive, heartfelt, honest and thought-provoking! I’ve not had a great month in Feb but am trying to be grateful for all the blessings that came my way—every little of it made sense to me and brought be back to myself stronger than before!\nCorinne, I love the way you engage so fully with your word. The good, the bad and the in-between, looking for a deeper understanding, what an amazing month!\nThank you, Donna. It’s something, I’ve been consciously working on.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The original photo obviously had second figure that was cut out. Note the disembodied hand that remains from a botched photo-shop job. The graphic artist hurried and forgot to remove the hand. Advertising is not journalism, of course. However, reviewing photo tricks used in print ads can help school our “eye” and thus, our ability to recognized fauxtography in the news media.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We sincerely hope this online source of Southwest Florida events helps you maximize your enjoyment of the Naples and Bonita Springs area. Times, cost (if any), and dates subject to change or cancellation.\n- This event has passed.\nButterfly Release – Avow Hospice\nApril 7 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pmFree\nButterflies are released at the end of the remembrance ceremony which begins at 12pm. (Schedule subject to change.)\nFree to attend. Fee applies to register a name. Registration coming soon.\n*This event takes place rain or shine. Some activities may be affected in the case of inclement weather.\nAvow Hospice will be hosting their annual Butterfly Release Remembrance Ceremony in beautiful Cambier Park in Naples. Join them and many others as they fill the air with music and butterflies to honor life and love. The Butterfly Release will feature songs, inspirational readings, and a public reading of the names of those being remembered. At the close of the ceremony, the butterfly tent will be opened for a breath-taking release of hundreds of beautiful butterflies.\n-View hundreds of live butterflies inside exhibit tent.\n-Enjoy musical entertainment\n-A variety of butterfly craft activities will be available for children\n-Shop for all things butterfly at the “Wings to Go” sales tent\n-Pick up a treat from the volunteer bake sale or on-site vendors\n-Participate in the remembrance ceremony featuring songs, inspirational readings and a public reading of the names of those being remembered. At the close of the ceremony the butterfly exhibit tent will be opened for a breath-taking release of beautiful butterflies.\nInterested in buying or selling real estate in the Naples and Bonita Springs, Florida area? Visit StepsToTheBeach.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We’re traveling to Greece for a special look at the all new 2016 Modus Vivendi Swimwear Collection! The Modus Vivendi Neon Line takes us to Chalkidiki in Northern Greece, known for its beautiful beaches and landscapes. Hop into a pair of swimwear from this bright original collection.\nModel Sotiris Thomaidis poses in the Modus Vivendi Neon Line for P2Photography in these stunning photos on the sandstone rocks of Chalkidiki. The model sports the new collection, which features four different swim styles in bright neon colors that pop.\nNeon Boxer Brazil: This Brazilian cut swimwear is a standout, bringing the styles of Ipanema to your favorite local beach. The swimsuit fits snug on the body and is very comfortable. Made of 80% Polyamide and 20% Elastane and available in sizes S-XL for $49.50.\nNeon Boxer Short: The athletic style and loose fit of the Neon Boxer Short make it a staple for any summer closet. Wear it to the pool and then for a walk on the boardwalk. It is made of 80% Polyamide and 20% Elastane for a quick-drying effect, and is available in sizes S-XL for $54.54.\nNeon Brief: This low rise, striped brief is the sexy summer cool that you need. The Neon Brief sets the scene for a vibrant day under the sun. Made of 80% Polyamide and 20% Elastane and available in sizes S-XL for $43.34.\nNeon Boxer: A modern take on a classic look, the Neon Boxer adds a stripe of ingenuity to its bright neon color. Its sexy, custom fit holds its figure as you suntan yours. Made of 80% Polyamide and 20% Elastane and available in sizes S-XL for $47.60.\nEach of the styles are available in Aqua, Fuchsia, and Yellow for the luminescent color of your choosing.\nWhat do you think of the Modus Vivendi Neon Line? When can you meet us in Chalkdiki? Let us know in the comments below or by tweeting us @underwearexpert.\nFor more information on the brand: Modus Vivendi\nPhoto Credit: P2Photography\nModel Credit: Sotiris Thomaidis\nSponsored by Modus Vivendi", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Diwali message from Andrew Dismore AM & Labour Leader Ed Miliband MP\nDiwali is being celebrated across London today by London’s Sikh, Hindu and Jain communities.\nLabour Assembly Member Andrew Dismore said:\n“Diwali is a fantastic family festival where Barnet and Camden’s Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities come together to celebrate the future and reflect our past accomplishments.\n“It has been an incredible year in London and Diwali is the perfect time to contemplate what we have all achieved together. Diwali is the festival of light and its central message is one of good overcoming evil and light triumphing over darkness.\n“I wish you a prosperous Diwali and send my best wishes to all in both boroughs celebrating this wonderful festival.”\nLabour Leader Ed Miliband MP said:\n“At this time of year, oil lamps, candles and lights shine from houses, shops and public places, fireworks illuminate the skies above cities and suburbs, and streets around the nation turn into a bright celebration of renewal and optimism.\nThis year especially, Diwali reminds us how important it is not to lose hope. Even through difficult times, the lights and celebrations remind us of how important it is to come together for a common purpose.\nOn behalf of the Labour Party, I want to wish Hindus, Sikhs and Jains in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland a very happy Diwali.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Happy Teddy day, teddy day images for facebook dp, whatsapp status, teddy day pics photos, happy teddy day, quotes, Sms, wishes, messages, date 10th Feb 2019: Teddy day is the 4th day in valentines week list. It is celebrated on 10th of Feb. This day is quite famous among the youngsters. As the elder generation think it is childish thing. Teddy bear is very loved and adorable gift for children as well as girls. Girls love when they are gifted teddy. So go ahead this teddy bear day and send cute lovely teddies to your girlfriend or spouse. If you are unable to meet and give teddy to loved one you send these cute teddy day sms and lovely teddy day messages. You can also use to send new teddy day images.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How cool is this project?! See how to build this Campaign bookshelf in the video below, and get inspired to start your next project. This really is such a simple woodworking project that can easily be completed in a weekend. I just love the design of this shelf, it would be great for traveling, or any kids going off to college. If you just can’t go without a few of your favorite books, make sure to display them the proper way with this amazing bookshelf. Get the full instructions at makesomething.tv!\nFor more quick and easy woodworking projects, check out this super simple garden planter project!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Halloween was a lot of fun this year! We had a work party about a week ago and I went as an egyption. I also have some fun pictures of me my friends Kayla and Alyson! And then yesterday I dressed up as a black cat for work because it was the easiest thing to do and was still cute! When I got home from work my roommate and her friend Kada were getting ready to go to some parties. So lucky for me I was already dressed up. I just added my pink Boa and touched up on some make-up! We hooked up with some friends and headed to a party called the \"yell\"(it was at a church) and then we all came back to our place for a party with my other roommate(and her friends). It's a really good thing we have two couches because we had so many people at our apartment! So it was just a lot of fun! I am making a ton more friends now that I have switched apartments!\nThe Plight of Picky Eaters\n1 year ago", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas rang in their Christmas celebrations surrounded by snowy mountains. Priyanka posted several pictures of the duo wherein we can see them cruising through the snow on an electric snowmobile. Priyanka called her vehicle a bat mobile and said that she was happy that a Santa Claus drove in it. The snowmobile is a gift from Nick and came wrapped in a huge red coloured wrapping bow. Priyanka also posted a picture of her family, including her mother Madhu and brother Siddharth Chopra joining in the happy portrait. Nickyanka pets Diana and Gino also looked adorable in the family Christmas images.\nEarlier, on the eve of Christmas, Priyanka was seen decorating Christmas cookies with Nick and now they seem to be happy in each other's company again. Nick posted a pic of Priyanka on her new snowmobile. Nick said in the caption that there was nothing better for him than seeing his wife smile. He even rode pillion rider as Priyanka drove the snowmobile.\nIn other pictures shared by Priyanka, she can be seen having a fun time surrounded with Christmas decorations. Check out intimate pics of the adorable couple celebrating Christmas below:\nPriyanka has recently wrapped up the shooting of her upcoming film on Netflix The White Tiger. The movie has finished its shooting schedule and will enter post-production stage now. Her other projects include a superhero film with director Robert Rodriguez--We Can Be Heroes-- and an Amazon series inspired by her wedding Sangeet ceremony. She is co-producing the series with Nick and is tentatively titled Sangeet Project.\nFollow @News18Movies for more", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Thomas J. Arndt Passed away Sunday, August 8, 2021, age 71, with the love of his life, Betty (Nee Koutnik) at his side. Tom was born Jan. 5, 1950, at Great Lakes Naval Base, Illinois. He is preceded in death by his parents, Dolores and Lawrence, siblings John and Trisha. He is survived by many other family members and friends.\nTom served as a construction engineer at Donohue and Associates in Sheboygan, WI. He worked for the same firm for 38 years going through several acquisitions. Tom was involved in project management associations, various Auto Clubs, and his Church. He was actively involved in the community with his wife, Betty. Together they received the Celebration of Giving Award presented by the Waukesha County Community Foundation in 2017 for their philanthropic work in Waukesha County.\nTom loved wintering in Mexico, traveling the world, everything about cars, and participating in numerous arts organizations in Milwaukee and Waukesha. But most of all, he loved spending time with Betty.\nGathering will be held at Krause Funeral Home, 21600 West Capitol Drive, Brookfield, Wisconsin on Monday, August 16, 2021, 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM. Memorial Service at 12:00 PM.\nMemorials appreciated to The Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts, Haggerty Museum of Art and The Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "If the mirror is the one thing that no woman can escape from, then the mirror is the most powerful women tool that every woman can use. No wonder every woman wants a mirror! It is a symbol of beauty and perfection. When she walks into the room, she always checks herself in the mirror. There are probably times when you yourself check your reflection in the mirror. The mirror is a very important woman tool because it not only helps us to find our own beauty, but also allows us to see our imperfections.\nThe mirror is one of the first things we notice when we enter a room. A well maintained mirror reflects our image to us, making it possible for us to make critical decisions about how we look. If the mirror is not attractive, then we would not be able to take proper care of ourselves.\nIn order to improve your physical appearance, you have to be aware of what is going on inside yourself. Do you feel ugly? Are you self conscious? The mirror is your answer to all your questions. It will show you the truth about your physical, emotional, spiritual or psychological nature.\nThe mirror is a great way to express yourself. It lets you see your image to the fullest. It provides insight into your true self and it is a constant reminder of who you really are.\nThe mirror is the core of our beauty; it is the pedestal upon which we look down to admire our reflection. A room without a mirror is like a room without light. We use many beauty products to enhance our beauty, but a mirror is the most powerful because it is the mirror that makes us recognize our beauty in the mirror.\nThe mirror reflects our soul or our true beauty. It brings us into alignment with our own inner being. It brings about a feeling of well-being, calm and contentment. The mirror reflects our behavior, attitude and personality and it reveals our true personality. The mirror is a witness to our life unfolding before us, and it is a constant source of illumination and knowledge for us.\nWhen we use makeup on the face or apply make-up to our bodies, we use the mirror as a tool. This means that the mirror is always on us. In this manner, the mirror is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can serve us in order to help us maintain a healthy image of ourselves, but it can also reflect our weaknesses and expose our vices.\nThe mirror is not merely a decorative item. It is an instrument that is designed to help us improve our lives. It can help us become more aware of our behaviors and how they affect us. It is a way to make changes and progress. In essence, the mirror is our ally. We can use it to our advantage, but we must be careful that we do not misuse it.\nOne might think that the mirror should be used for self-care. The truth is that the beauty industry understands that we have far more important things to think about than looking good. The cosmetics that are developed need us to be looking our best. Otherwise, we won't like what we see. If we use the mirror only for grooming purposes, it will only confirm our worst judgments about ourselves.\nWhen the mirror is used to help us become more conscious about our behavior and reactions, it can help us become more mindful. This can help us to avoid habitual responses to negative stimuli or circumstances, which are detrimental to our health and well being. For example, if we see someone who is smoking in our midst, it is easy to react as though this are behaviors that are inconsequential. But if we see a man who is chewing tobacco or biting nails, it will enable us to make a different decision.\nThe mirror on the other hand is not a dispenser of truths. It is, in fact, something that can help us grow. It is one of those tools that allow us to become more aware of how our bodies interact with the rest of the world. As the mirror reflects our behavior, it helps to expand our perspective on what is taking place around us.\nThe mirror has long been recognized by cultures as a significant symbol of beauty. In many cultures, the mirror is used to show a person's age. In other cultures, it can be used as an instrument of affection or desire. So, even though the beauty industry might want to keep pushing the idea of the importance of the mirror, there is no doubt that it still has room for improvement. In a world where we are constantly bombarded with images on magazine covers, in music videos, in advertisements and on billboards, the mirror can never be too important.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "BON APPETIT Includes:\nBlack Stallion Heritage Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. This wine is a richly layered and softly approachable expression of the variety. Blackberry, plum and caramel are wrapped in a viscous, velvety texture that lasts through an impressive finish.\nRock Coast Original Toffee Bark. Mouthwatering English style toffee with almonds, coated in ethically sourced 54% dark chocolate.\nWhite Wine Herb Gourmet Mustard from Smak Dab. White wine and fresh dill are the real stars, perfect for all your summer picnic dishes.\nMAST Tea Chocolate Bar 70g. A modern twist on a classic tea party, all infused into a classic MAST chocolate bar.\nMolly & Me Roasted & Salted Pecans. The classic everyone loves. Simply roasted in butter and salt, they are a great snack any time, anywhere.\nDark Chocolate Muddy Bites. Light, crunchy, mini waffle cones filled with delicious Dark Chocolate - the best part of a sundae cone, now available as a bite-sized snack.\nMilk Chocolate Muddy Bites. Light, crunchy, mini waffle cones filled with delicious Milk Chocolate - the best part of a sundae cone, now available as a bite-sized snack.\nAcacia Wood Artisan Cheese Paddle. This round acacia wood cheese paddle is as useful as it is decorative. The gorgeous board is perfect for serving or cutting and, hanging from its faux leather strap, it adds a farmhouse touch to your decor.\nBeautifully presented in a wood keepsake box 11 x 11 x 5 inch, tied with ribbon and finished with a hand written note card.\n*IMPORTANT TO NOTE* These boxes are made of raw wood and may show natural variations in wood grain and/or wood color. These are handcrafted here in Alberta and are not painted or stained, so the wood will show natural markings.\nCustom engraving on the lids is available, cost is $15 per lid. Contact us for more details.\nYou deserve the best. If an item is unavailable, we’ll sub in products of equal or greater value.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We were handed yet again another fun homework -- pick wall paint colors! I know I would want to stay in the grey spectrum: blue'ish but not baby blue, definitely no green undertone, true grey but not too cold. Our basement has pretty large windows and many potlights, but most of the time the paint still needs to look good under iridescent lighting. Easy, right? Not!\nI've narrowed down to four options (for now), and here they are.\nI used ICI's Silver Cloud in my kitchen, so it's a safe choice and I know exactly what I am getting. I will likely use it in all the living space and corridor.\nValspar Polar Star appears to be warm grey under various lightings, so it might be a good choice for the bedroom. It might also go nicely with the Bianco Carrara marble in the bathroom. You can see what it looks like in a room here.\nICI Universal Grey looks so much lighter and bluer in a bright bedroom Sarah Richardson designed. I will need to go to an ICI/Dulux dealer to pick up a sample and see for myself.\nSo what do you think? Any other paint color suggestions for a basement?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Women have been using eye makeup for centuries. Eye makeup adds depth and dimension to the eyes and makes them stand out. It can make your eyes look bigger and more attractive.\nWe spoke to Kynat Gulleria, a makeup artist based in New Delhi to ask her for her recommendations on which eye makeup is an absolute must-have in your beauty arsenal. This is what Kynat has to say,“Never ask a girl with winged eyeliner why she’s late.” – Unknown Click To Tweet\nLet’s take a look at eye makeup products, learn about them and see how they can help us to make our eyes more attractive.\n- In This Article:\n- Eye Shadow\n- Eye Brow Enhancer\n- Eye Primer\n- False Eye Lashes\n- Eye Makeup Remover\n- Under Eye Concealer\nWhat is a kajal?\nKajal or Kohl is an ancient eye cosmetic that is applied to the waterline to darken the eyes. In India, there was a tradition to apply kohl to the infant’s eyes to protect them from negative energy as well as to strengthen the eyes. Today, eye makeup is incomplete without kajal. It is one of the oldest cosmetics found in every woman’s vanity case.\nHow to select the best kajal?\nThe is a huge variety of Kajals available on beauty aisles like waterproof, smudge-proof, long-lasting, and bold. These come in various forms like retractable or sharpenable and different textures and colors. Kynat says that kajal should be easily blendable and long-lasting.\nIf you have sensitive eyes then opt for an organic or homemade kajal. Never use kajal with glitter on your waterline as these may cause irritation.\nMake sure that the tip of the kajal is smooth and soft to glide on easily. Always check the expiry date of your kajal before buying as expired products can cause irritation and infection in the eye.\nHow to apply kajal?\nKajal mostly comes in the form of a pencil for easier application. You need to apply it along the waterline starting from the outer end and gliding it towards the inner end. You can layer it for a darker look and for it to last all day. For smaller eyes, concentrate on the outer corners, this kind of application makes your eyes look bigger.\nSome kajal pencils come with a smudger, this can be used to smudge your kajal or give that smokey look. The kajal pencil can also be used on your upper waterline.\nIs kajal an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nKajal is essential in your beauty arsenal because it’s a ritual rather than a cosmetic in India and is mostly used every day with or without makeup. Kajal can instantly lift up and dress your eyes. However, if you suffer from dark circles, it might make your under-eye area look darker.\n1.Lakme Eyeconic Kajal\n3. Maybelline New York Colossal Kajal\nWhat is eyeliner?\nEyeliner is a part of the eye makeup that defines the eyes. It is applied along the contours of the eyes to create different effects and highlight different features. These can be softly smudged or clearly defined creating a cat-eye, tight line, or winged look. Kynat recommends using a fine brush tip for the perfect winged look.\nHow to select the best eyeliner?\nEyeliners come in many different colors besides black and brown, these come in metallics like gold, silver, bronze as well as all different colors like blue, green, purple, grey, etc. with or without shimmer. Depending on the effect the eyeliner creates it comes in different forms like liquid, powder-based, wax-based, or gel. Choose the applicator with which you are most comfortable, either the brush or felt tip.\nHow to apply eyeliner?\nAccording to Kynat, It can take a little practice to apply the liquid eyeliner if you are not used to it. Eyeliner looks best applied to the top lid, very close to the lash line. For beginners, it’s best to use the eyeliner pencil for easy application as it glides on easily and won’t run. Whereas shakey hands will end up with a crooked untidy line while using the liquid eyeliner.\nIs eyeliner an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nNo, the eyeliner does not make it to the must-have list. Eye makeup can be done without eyeliner for an equally great look. A lot of women find it difficult to apply eyeliner and it requires a lot of practice before you can perfect it. It is also not something you need to use in your daily makeup routine.\n1.Maybelline New York Colossal Eye Liner\n3.Lakme Insta Eyeliner Golden\n5.Faces Canada Ultime Pro Matt\nWhat is mascara?\nMascara is the part of eye makeup that enhances eyelashes and the shape of the eyes. It darkens, thickens, lengthens, and curls the eyelashes. It mostly comes in a tube with a wand. And it’s best to use the normal mascara instead of the waterproof one as removing it is tough and might pull out a couple of lashes while doing so. Kynat recommends using waterproof mascara for the monsoon.\nHow to select the best mascara?\nThe selection of the best mascara depends on the look you want to create. The brush at the end of the wand is what creates the look you want to achieve. For a natural look, shorter bristles work. For a more dramatic and bold look, choose a denser brush and a volumizing formula. Black mascara works well for most eyes colors and skin tones and draws attention to the eyes.\nHow to apply mascara?\nStart at the base of the upper lashes and jiggle in quick movements coating the lashes to avoid clumping. You can opt to not using mascara for the lower lashes. One to two coats work well for most people and last through the day. In case you wish to use an eyelash curler then do so before applying mascara otherwise the mascara will stick to the curler and cause your lashes to get pulled out.\nIs mascara an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nMascara is a must-have in your beauty arsenal as it can dress up your eyes with a stroke of a brush.\n2.Lakme Eyeconic Curling Mascara\nWhat is an eye shadow?\nAn eye shadow is a cosmetic that is usually applied to the eyelids to enhance the eyes. It directs attention to the eyes and is an essential part of eye makeup. Eye shadow comes in various forms like pressed powder, cream, stick, loose powder, etc.\nHow to select the best eye shadow?\nSelecting the best eye shadow depends on your usage and color preference. Pressed powder eye shadow is most commonly used and the best kind for beginners. Buying eye shadow palettes makes it easier to create a blended look and to match your eye shadow to your clothes.\nIf you are keen on a bold and striking color then you can opt for the cream eye shadow. However, avoid using these in humid weather or if you have oily skin as they crease easily.\nFor the dramatic and runway look, glitter eye shadows are a great option. However, you need to use an eye primer before using loose eye shadow. You can also use liquid eye shadow as a base for glitter or sparkle.\nAnother choice you will need to make is between matt and shimmery. Choose a palette that has both so that you can play around with the shades.\nHow to apply eye shadow?\nUsing a blending brush and steady hand aids that perfect application. Apply eye primer or concealer before you open your eyeshadow palette. Then apply the base shade on your eyelid. For an everyday look stop at the crease of your eye and for a more dressed-up look you can cover the area till your brow bone. In case you wish to use more than one shade, three shades do the trick. You need to have light, medium, and dark eye shadow shades either in neutral tones or brighter colors as per your preference. However, it’s best if they are the same color family or the colors compliment each other.\nUse the lightest color in your palette to cover your entire eyelid. Then use the medium shade to build the color over the lighter shade till you achieve the color you want. Lastly, use the dark shade to brush over the crease.\nTo apply eye shadow to your entire lid, use a stiff flat brush. A dome brush is usually used for blending the eyeshadow outwards and a soft pencil brush to apply eye shadow near the lash line both upper and lower.\nIs eye shadow an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nYes, eye shadow is definitely a must-have as it’s perfect for dressing up your eyes without doing much. It is always good to own a nude palette and a smokey palette. The nude palette should have browns, beige, champagne. And the smokey palette should consist of a few greys, black and some shimmer shades.\n1.Maybelline Blushed nudes Pallet\n5.Maybelline New York City Mini Pallet\nEye Brow Enhancer\nWhat is an eyebrow enhancer?\nAn eyebrow enhancer is used to define the eyebrows and as Kynat says eyebrows are the frame of your face. These can be in the form of pencils, brushes, liquids, or loose powders or tints. Eyebrow serums or oils are also used for improving and promoting hair growth.\nHow to select the best eyebrow enhancer?\nThe most important factor in selecting the eyebrow enhancer is to find the shade closest to your existing hair color. Kynat recommends a shade between brown and dark brown but never black. The most commonly used enhancer is the brow pencil. This has a harder consistency and gives a lighter color. Use light strokes over the eyebrow for a natural look. Pencils help to give definition to sparse or light eyebrows.\nLoose powders can also be used with a brush. But these are used for heavier applications and bushy eyebrows with few gaps. In the case of heavier eyebrows without gaps, transparent gel eyebrow enhancers can also be used to keep hair in place.\nHow to apply eyebrow enhancer?\nThe best way to apply an eyebrow enhancer is to first use a brow brush to settle the hair and then fill in the spaces. Start from the top of the brow and move downwards.\nIs eyebrow enhancer an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nAn eyebrow enhancer is not a must-have in your beauty arsenal if you do not have any issues like spaces/gaps in your eyebrows. However, if you need to tame your eyebrows or fill gaps then it is surely essential.\n1.Lakme Absolute Eyebrow Definer\n2.Lakme Absolute Precision Eye Artist Eyebrow Pencil\n3.Maybelline New York’s Define and Blend Eyebrow Brow Pencil\n4.Blue heaven Artisto Eyebrow Enhancer Pencil and Styler\n5. Faces Canada Ultime Pro Eyebrow Defining Pencil\nWhat is an eye primer?\nAn eye primer is like a face primer and acts as a base for eye makeup. It helps eye makeup to glide and blend smoothly and last longer. It also prevents eye shadow from creasing and keeps the liner in place. For oily skin, it acts as a barrier between the natural oil secreted by the eyelids and your makeup thereby keeping it in place. In the case of dry eyelids, it helps prevent creasing and makes the application smooth as dry eye shadow needs a base to grip on.\nHow to select the best eye primer?\nIt’s very important to understand that a face primer cannot be used as an eye primer due to different formulations and consistency. Eye primers can be transparent or colored. It’s best to use the transparent primer to get the exact eye shadow color. However, if you wish to enhance the eye shadow color further then a primer of the same color family can be used.\nAnother factor to take into consideration while selecting the primer is whether your eye skin is dry or oily. For oily skin always use a lightweight formula and a heavier formula can be used for dry skin.\nHow to apply eye primer?\nEye primer usually comes in a cream form. Using your ring finger apply primer all over your eyelid. In case you wish to use the eyeshadow near your lower lash line, dab some primer there as well. Once the primer is blended you can apply eye makeup.\nIs eye primer an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nIn case you wish for your eye makeup to last you the entire day then eye Primer is definitely a must-have. However, if your eye makeup needs to last for a few hours or if you do not use too much eye make up then you can give it a skip. Using concealer is another option to primer. Kynat recommends using the primer if you have oily eyelids.\n1.Insight Long-Lasting Eyeshadow Base.\n2.Milani Eyeshadow Primer\nFalse Eye Lashes\nWhat are false eyelashes?\nFalse eyelashes as the name suggests are fake eyelashes used to enhance your natural ones. These come in various types such as individuals, clusters, full strips, magnetic, and extensions. These can be made from mink, faux mink, sterilized human hair, and synthetic.\nIndividuals and clusters give a more natural appearance and enhance eyelashes. However, full strips are more popular and are usually used for a more dramatic appearance. Both use lash glue for application.\nMagnetic eyelashes sandwich the natural eyelashes between two interlocking strips of false eyelashes and lash glue is not used in their application. However, the liquid eyeliner with magnetic particles needs to be applied.\nHow to select the best false eyelashes?\nSelection of the best falsies is done on the basis of the effect you wish to create. It depends on the curl, thickness, and effect you wish to achieve. Go for individuals or clusters in case you have thin lashes or if you wish to achieve a natural look. In case you are a beginner, start with lashes that are the same length as your natural lashes. Thick lashes blend well with a more dramatic heavier eye makeup look.\nFull strip eyelashes are the most popular ones used by makeup artists and are used for a more dramatic look. However, the application with the glue might take some practice.\nMagnetic ones are much easier to snap on without the sticky glue. These are comfortable to wear and can be used multiple times.\nKynat recommends using lighter wispier lashes for hooded eyes.\nHow to apply false eyelashes?\nThe application of false eyelashes can be quite intimidating in the beginning, however, a little practice can make the task much easier. A steady hand and a lash adhesive are used in the application of false lashes. Carefully take out the falsies from the box, by lifting them delicately from the outer edge. In case the strip is longer than your eye shape then you can trim it from the outer edge to your eye size.\nApply a thin layer of glue straight from the applicator on the vein of the strip. Let it dry for a few seconds. Then using your fingertips or tweezers place the strip on your upper eyelash line, pressing it first at the center and then the inner and outer corners. Gently press the false eyelashes with the natural lashes to give a neat look. You can use Eyelash applicators to wear false lashes in case you are finding it difficult to do it using your fingers. You can use mascara on the lashes once dry if you so wish.\nAre false eyelashes an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nNo, false eyelashes are definitely not a must-have in your beauty arsenal. It is not something that can be mastered easily and it’s much easier to use mascara to enhance your eyelashes.\n1.Maycreate Messy Cross Style False eyelashes\n2.Calailis False Eyelashes\n4.Lestriu Zone False Eyelashes\nEye Makeup Remover\nWhat is an eye makeup remover?\nEye makeup remover is a specially formulated solution to remove makeup from the eyes. The eye area is very sensitive as it has very thin skin so it’s best to use a gentle remover. You can also use Vaseline, coconut oil, and baby oil to remove eye makeup. Makeup remover pads is another convenient option.\nHow to select the best eye makeup remover?\nRemoving makeup every day is essential for healthy skin. For sensitive skin around the eyes use a sting-free, fragrance-free alcohol formula. If you have oily skin then opt for an oil-free formula. It is important to use a formula that will dissolve makeup quickly without too much rubbing and wiping. Kynat recommends using any Miscellear water that you have for removing eye makeup.\nHow to use eye makeup remover?\nYou need to be very gentle while removing Eye makeup as the skin around the eyes is extremely sensitive. It’s important to wash your hands before generously soaking the cotton pads with the makeup remover. Gently daubing the eye area in round circular movements should get the makeup off. You can use the same movements with the makeup-removing wipes. If there is too much makeup around your eyes then keep the soaked cotton pads pressed onto your eyes for a few seconds to dissolve the makeup. This will avoid the rubbing and tugging of the skin and lashes. Then use downward movements to remove eye makeup and mascara. Use both sides of the cotton pad.\nBe sure to wash your face with a gentle face wash after removing makeup as the removers leave behind a residue.\nIs eye makeup remover an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nYes, eye makeup remover is an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal if you do eye makeup. Always remove makeup before going to bed.\n1.L’oreal Paris Dermo Expertise\n2.Neutrogena Oil-Free Eye Makeup Remover\nUnder Eye Concealer\nWhat is an under-eye concealer?\nAn under-eye concealer is a corrector which is applied under each eye to cover up fine lines, dark circles , and discoloration. This comes in various formulations like liquid, cream, pencil, or powder.\nHow to select the best under-eye concealer?\nThe under-eye concealer should be one shade lighter than your foundation to help your makeup look natural. It should be lightweight to blend perfectly under your eyes without caking. Select the formulation which works with your skin type.\nHow to apply under eye concealer?\nMoisturize your face including the eye area before applying concealer. This helps to blend the concealer easily. Make sure you blend it all the way to the inner corners of the eye. Using the finger to blend the concealer works well, however, for heavier coverage you can use a brush or a makeup sponge. It’s best to finish off by applying a setting powder that matches your skin tone.\nIs under-eye concealer an absolute must-have in the beauty arsenal?\nUnder-eye concealer is not a must-have in the beauty arsenal if you do not have under-eye issues like fine lines, dark circles, or discoloration.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "So it’s probably not a big secret that I hate my kitchen configuration. Whosoever decided to put a sink in a corner was high on something. It makes it increasingly difficult to reach into the back corner AND means a lot of wasted space.\nInstead of dreaming about the day I win the lottery, bump out the entryway, create a whole new kitchen and buy brand new appliances, I decided to do my best to cover the ugliest part of the sink: the cabinet.\nNot only are there a lot of unidentified stains but there’s water damage to the particle board from the time we had a hole in the food disposal and it created a little fountain under my sink. I didn’t much feel like putting in a new piece of wood and besides, anything that goes in here will need to be trimmed to fit since it’s such an odd angle.\nEnter the next best thing:\nWhat once delivered me something of “necessity” from Amazon was hacked into pieces to become my new foundation. Since it was in so many pieces I used duct tape to create 2 big pieces, one across the back and one in front.\nOf course leaving it like this isn’t too classy so I grabbed the contact paper that I’d used in the bathroom cabinets and hall closet:\nTrust me, I’m not entering this into blogger hall of fame. It’s a temporary fix so I don’t have to look at yucky stains all the time. Best of all was that I had the contact paper already so this project was free!\nIt probably took me a whole 30 minutes start to finish, including cleaning out my cleaning supplies and reloading the cabinet.\nOnce all the crap is back in it’s pretty hard to tell there’s cardboard under there.\nBonus tip: I use these cheapo baskets from the Dollar Store because when something is leaking you do NOT have the time to pull out 100 bottles. 3 containers are easy to remove and if something is leaking inside that basket it’s much easier to clean up.\nAnd that’s it. Super simple project, free, less than an hour and it makes the house look a tiny bit better.", "label": "No"}
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PROTIP: PROTIP: His appearance in the game is unknown up until the final battle where he is displayed as a red ghoul.\nUpdated Did you stick with the \"Don't care\" names, or did you use something different? Meme Status Submission Type: Song Year 2020 Origin Unknown Tags earthbound, song, video game, what, how, mother 2, demotivational poster, ost, soundtrack, boss music About. Terms | Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? I'm developing an indie postmodern and surreal RPG, with strong inspiration in Earthbound! by to view the video gallery, or © 2007-2020 Literally Media Ltd. No thanks, take me back to the meme zone! Which track from the OST is your favorite?\nSanctuary Guardian is a soundtrack composition from the 1994 video game Earthbound (Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back) which plays during the boss battles.Starting in late February 2020, the composition gained … Happy Boxes tuned in. ©2020 Cheezburger, Inc. | If you had a signature PSI attack based off your favorite thing, what would it be called? On March 16th, 2020, MaxMoeFoe retweeted the original Martin Cabello edit, gaining over 2,700 retweets and 17,100 likes. to view a random entry.\nFor example, on April 10th, Instagram user rikkasmywaifu posted a Rikka Takanashi meme which was widely circulated online. joshua. 'i' Tony: What is your Earthbound OTP? share. Sanctuary Guardian is a soundtrack composition from the 1994 video game Earthbound (Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back) which plays during the boss battles.\nUpdated Prior to February 25th, an unknown user posted an ironic demotivational poster meme based on a clip of Martin Cabello III saying \"you're fucking dead,\" which used the composition. Browse millions of popular earthbound Wallpapers and Ringtones on Zedge and personalize your phone to suit you. In an interview with EarthBound Central, Shigesato Itoi, Mother's creator, said that Giygas's creepy dialogue and appearance in EarthBound was influenced by a traumatic moment in his childhood, where he accidentally walked into a theater showcasing the movie \"The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty\", witnessing a scene which he interpreted as murder and rape.. This inspired a number of new Sanctuary Guardian memes based on Zong's animation, including one uploaded on July 10th, 2020 by YouTuber Gaming with Shao, featuring Tom from Tom & Jerry turning a dog into wood (shown below, right). WHAT. Press Updated Pokey: Who's your favorite antagonist? \", a quote that is heavily associated with the character, with many of the character's parodies being titled with a variation of the sentence. The song was later included on the soundtrack to the webcomic Homestuck, first used on the flash animation [S] Wake and was included on its 6th soundtrack release, released in 2011. The post received over 7,600 views and 1,200 likes. Cast Your Vote To Select The October Meme of the Month! About Community /r/EarthBound is a subreddit dedicated to Shigesato Itoi's cult classic JRPG series, EarthBound / MOTHER! 'r'\nEarthbound OST- Dr. Andonuts’ Lab - Coub - The Biggest Video Meme Platform by BlueGuy98 On October 11th, 2015, Youtuber iwannabethecollector uploaded a video titled \"Undertale Megalovania Dual Mix\", featuring a mix of the original song with a metal cover made by Youtuber RichaadEB, gaining over 1 million views in the following two months.\n.Coolest Persian Names, How Old Is Kannon Frost, James Reed Obituary, Desi Rascals Rita, Summative Assignment Critique Of Research Article, Bayliner Models By Year, Toyota Yaris Sat Nav Module, Shore Fishing Ontario Map, I Lost My Cousin, Susan Jackson Priest, Frogger Python Code, Bless Unleashed Reset Skill Points, Florida Snapper Season 2020, Who Is Dale Midkiff Married To, Armaguard Coin Bags, Japanese Thrift Store Online, Poem About Teamwork With Rhyme, Chevy Tahoe Auto Lights Not Working, What Is The Most Expensive Rust Skin, Scot Fearn Age, Black Cat Cubs 1969, Kunal Goswami Death, Bu şehir Arkandan Gelecek English Subtitles Episode 10, Elizabeth Anne Gini, How Long Does It Take For A Tiktok To Get Views, Eu4 Raise Banners, Stress Relief Essay, Desiree Ross Parents, Mini Cooper Boot Opens By Itself, 1984 To 1989 Caprice Classic For Sale In Dfw, Signs A Sagittarius Man Doesn't Like You, Black Mask N95, Electrical Maintenance Technician Interview Questions And Answers Pdf, Truck Tool Boxes Harbor Freight, Food Wars Season 5, Discontinued Yarn Bee Yarn, Watch American Horror Story Season 1, 95 Chevy 1500 Dashboard, Merrell Twins Ethnicity, مسلسلات Netflix للكبار فقط, 2019 Halloween Quiz, War Is Kind Essay, White Bullhead Size, Sheltie Breeders In Nj, Catholic Easter 2021, My Boyfriend Is Going Through A Hard Time And Pushing Me Away, Knac Ariel Lopez, Press On Lyrics, Edexcel Government And Politics Essay Plans, Odor Particle Size, Canac Moulure Mdf, Jt Holmes Wife, Radial Wrist Pain, Prophetic Meaning Of Fireworks, Samurai Names Generator, Bar Bet Spit, Amusement Park Puns, 2 Liter Soda Bottle Dimensions,", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Clones Fuck Each Other\nMayumi is sitting on the bed having a little fun with herself. Admiring herself in the mirror, she notices that something isn't quite right. The mirror image of herself reaches her hand in to the room, Mayumi grabs her hand and pulls her through. It isn't long before the clones end up fucking around. They start out kissing a bit, and work there way in to 69, later they take turns fucking each other. It end when Brittany blows as MASSIVE load all over Mayumi!\nIf you enjoy a good switch scene, where two tgirls take turns topping each other, then this is the video for you! Loads of 69, and of course, two tgirls taking turns fucking each other!\nStarring Brittany Snow as the girl from the other world and Mayumi Sparkles from the real world!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Makes me laugh every time….\nMakes me laugh every time….\nKiller Robots? 80′s Gore? In a shopping mall?!?! YES PLEASE!\nMove Over Troll 2 and The Room, you’ve got some competition!\nThe best horror-comedy ever made.\nI Think We’re Alone Now is a documentary that focuses on two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, who claim to be in love with the 80′s pop singer Tiffany. Jeff Turner, a 52-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California has attended Tiffany concerts since 1988. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, Jeff lives alone off of government checks and has never had a girlfriend.\nJeff spends his days hanging out on the streets of Santa Cruz, striking up conversations with anyone who has a moment to spare about conspiracy theories, God and Tiffany. Kelly McCormick is a 35-year-old intersex sports fanatic from Denver, Colorado, who claims to have been friends with Tiffany as a teenager. She credits Tiffany as the shining star who has motivated her to do everything in her life. Through both humorous and heartbreakingly sensitive scenes, the film takes look at Jeff and Kelly’s lives, revealing the source of their clinging obsessions. It is absolutely enthralling from beginning to end and really makes you feel for this slightly crazy but ultimately (in Jeff’s case, anyway), lovable duo.\nEli Roth’s “Cabin Fever” starts as many hillbilly horror movies begin. A creepy redneck walking through the woods in a daze. While we watch this creepy man walking in the woods, we come upon a dog we believes to be sleeping. After poking it a few times, the man pulls the dog up and notices that its flesh is rotted, spurting blood on him in the process. We soon realize that this is NOT going to be like every other horror movie.\nFive college friends, Jeff (Joey Kern), Marcy (Cerina Vincent), Paul (Rider Strong), Karen (Jordan Ladd) and Bert (James DeBello), have rented a cabin in the woods. While driving to it they stop at a local convenience store for food. Outside the store, Dennis (Matthew Helms), a mentally handicapped young boy, bites Paul on the hand. At the cabin, Jeff and Marcy have sex and Paul and Karen go swimming in the nearby lake. Bert goes hunting for squirrels in the woods with a BB gun, but accidentally shoots the man who discovered the rotting dog, mistaking him for a squirrel. The man’s face is badly rotted. Scared, Bert shoots at him again to repel him before running back to the cabin. Later, the friends hear a knocking at the door and discover it is the diseased man. Desperate for help, the hermit tries driving away in their car, but vomits blood inside it. After the man exits the car Paul sets the man on fire and he runs into the woods, dying in the lake.\nA young deputy, Winston Olsen (a hilariously offensive Giuseppe Andrews), shows up at the cabin and tells Paul he will call a tow truck. Karen drinks a glass of water from the lake and begins feeling ill. That night she is quarantined in the tool shed once Paul discovers rotten spots on her thighs. Fearing that they will also become infected, the others argue about what they should do. The next day, Bert realizes that he is also infected with the virus, but does not tell the others. When Paul and Marcy insist on helping Karen, Jeff, wanting to avoid becoming infected, runs into the forest with the remaining beer, the only reliable untainted beverage available. Bert drives off to find a doctor. Is it too late for them?\n“Cabin Fever” is a no-holds-bars white knuckle horror-comedy that is both scarier and funnier than 95% of the other crap out there. The setup is simple: Five teens decide to go camping out in the woods at an old cabin when, one-by-one, they begin to become the victims of a killer flesh eating virus. As one might expect, many characters are killed in an awesome over-the-top gory fashion and there is a solid amount of nudity for a 2003 horror flick. It can be argued that this movie is not for everyone but fans of 80′s gore films will be in gore heaven.\nP.S. I’ve talked to many people who have said they didn’t care for this movie because it wasn’t scary. Sorry, wrong type of horror flick. Watch it expecting “Evil Dead” and you’ll be fine.\nGoing into Wes Craven’s new horror thriller “Cursed” I had very low expectations. First of all, the movie had been cut fairly severely from an R to a PG-13 and the movie had been retooled for the past two years (Thankfully the DVD is the unrated cut). Not only this but “Cursed” also wasn’t screened for critics. All signs point to “Terrible Movie.”\nThe film begins when two friends, Jenny Tate (Mýa) and Becky Morton (Shannon Elizabeth), are at a pier and decide to get their fortune told by Zela (Portia de Rossi). She foretells that they will suffer a horrible fate, but they don’t believe her and walk away laughing. A little while later, Becky realizes Jenny has disappeared and can’t find her on the pier; Becky was driving. One night, while in a car together, Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) and his sister Ellie (Christina Ricci) hit an animal and another car. They attempt to rescue the other driver, Becky Morton, but she is suddenly dragged and eaten by an unknown creature. Jimmy and Ellie are both slashed by the creature’s claws. Jimmy starts to believe that the creature was a werewolf, but no one will believe him. He and his sister start to exhibit wolfish tendencies (such as both of them eating raw bacon, Ellie catching a fly in her bare hand, and being attracted to the smell of blood) but Ellie denies it, apparently proving her point by touching a silver picture frame and not getting burned. Jimmy becomes much stronger, as exampled when a bully named Bo (Milo Ventimiglia) forces him to join the wrestling team. He easily defeats three wrestlers, including Bo.\nMeanwhile, Jenny is torn apart in a parking garage by a wolf-like creature. Zela’s prediction for Jenny and Becky comes true. Eventually, Ellie starts to believe the werewolf idea, and Jimmy proves it when he holds a silver cake server and gets burned (he then discovers that the picture frame Ellie touched was actually stainless steel). He goes to warn Ellie with the help of Bo, who shows up at their house to say he’s gay and apparently likes Jimmy. Bo and Jimmy race to where Ellie is, and in the meantime she figures out that her boyfriend, Jake (Joshua Jackson), is a werewolf. He confirms that, but claims it wasn’t him that attacked her and Jimmy. Another werewolf attacks, seemingly proving his story. Bo and Jimmy try to help, but Bo is knocked out. But…..who is the werewolf?\nSurprisingly, this movie ain’t half bad. In fact, it’s actually really quite good. What we have here is a fun little werewolf thriller about a brother and sister that get attacked by a mysterious creature and are forced to deal with what they have become. There are some good scares (gotta love the Mya scene in the parking lot) and some surprisingly solid laughs (I loved Christina Ricci’s bitchy coworker and the “gay” subplot involving the head of the wrestling team). Not everything works in the film–the ending is a bit overkill and some of the effects are a bit iffy–but overall, I’d say it’s definitely at least worth a rental. It isn’t a bad way to spend two hours of good, solid creature feature entertainment. Just don’t expect an Oscar worthy movie and you’ll be fine.\nIn 1974, a woman is making a wax head in the kitchen while her son eats cereal in his highchair. Her husband enters carrying a young boy who is shouting and kicking. The boy is forced into a highchair and strapped in place by his father. After being strapped and taped to his chair by his mother, he scratches her hand. She then slaps her child across the face.\nIn 2005, Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) and her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki) with her friend Paige (Paris Hilton) and Paige’s boyfriend Blake (Robert Ri’chard) are on their way to a highly anticipated football game in Louisiana. Eventually, Carly’s delinquent twin brother, Nick (Chad Michael Murray) and his friend Dalton (Jon Abrahams) also join them. Night falls and the group decides to set up camp for the night. The campsite is later visited by a stranger in a pickup truck who shines his lights at the campsite, but refuses to leave or address them until Nick smashes a headlight with a bottle. The next morning, Carly and Paige go exploring, Carly falls down a cliff and lands in deer remains and sees a fake hand. Wade’s car’s fan belt is found to be damaged. The group meets a disheveled, rural man named Lester (Damon Herriman), who offers to drive Carly and Wade to the nearby town of Ambrose to get a new fan belt, while the rest of them go to the football game.\nThe two arrive at Ambrose, which is virtually a ghost town. Unable to find an attendant at the auto mechanics shop, they wander into the church, disrupting a funeral. There, they meet a mechanic named Bo (Brian Van Holt), who offers to sell them a fan belt after the funeral. While waiting for the services to end, Carly and Wade visit the wax museum, which itself is made of wax and is the central feature of the town. Afterward, they follow Bo to his house to find a proper fan belt. While there, Wade is crippled and stabbed by a long-haired man with a wax facemask named Vincent. Bo grabs Carly, super glues her lips shut and locks her in a cellar. Dalton and Nick arrive in Ambrose to look for Carly and Wade. Vincent meanwhile strips and shaves Wade, then puts him in a chair with a metal contraption on his head which pins his eyes open. Vincent pulls a couple of levers which showers the immobile Wade with hot wax.\nCan Wade escape? Will Paris die? Are any of them safe? Oh please…House of Wax isn’t really big on plot. It’s got your normal set-up that deals with extremely attractive boys and girls ending up in a bad situation. Some live, some die. If you’ve seen a horror film in the last 30 years, you know how it goes. The movie is slow going and a bit choppy at the beginning but still with it. Even after watching countless horror films over the last few years, I’ve gotta admit that I’ve become jaded and can smell things coming a mile away.\nSo the production team decided to go with that idea and jack it up a notch and tell the audience, OK, you know what’s going to happen next, but we’re going to make it ugly so you’ll jump out of your seat. And casting Paris Hilton was a stroke of genius because for the first time that I can recall a hot female character that people still wanted to see die. And, she did a nice striptease down to her underwear before the bad stuff happened to her. When things get bad, it gets really bad in a hurry. In fact, all the death sequences were quite horrible to watch, yet I couldn’t help but feel that the horror movie geek inside of me was very, very satisfied.\nWhen Wendy Christensen has a vision of an accident on the roller coaster, resulting in her and her friends’ deaths, she instantly begins to panic, causing more of her friends to be left of the ride. The remaining friends, including Wendy’s boyfriend, are stuck on the roller coaster and find themselves involved in the accident. With death waiting around the corner, Wendy and Kevin Fischer must try and work out death’s plan, before they and the remaining survivors end up dead. Ahh, gotta love the Final Destination movies. As stupid as some of the stories sound, they manage to get the job done in bloody, inventive ways. Final Destination 3 opens with said rollercoaster accident in what may be the best opening act for a horror movie since, well, Final Destination 2′s freeway accident.\nThe acting is bad, the story borderline, but it doesn’t really matter. The deaths (nail gun, tanning bed, cherry picker) are ingenious in their design and that ending is one of the better ones of the series. Nonetheless, in all honesty, this is probably my least favorite of the franchise. The characters are pretty annoying and movie feels strangely padded. After the wonderful “Final Destination 2″, this feels a bit like a let down. That being sad, there is enough carnage candy to go around for those who love their bodies extra bloody. This isn’t high art by any means but it gets the job done.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Our MARISH dress in Feni is made with a soft cotton gauze and features pockets, buttons up the front, and a detachable wrap belt. This is a great ensemble for your summer dress collection!\nMade in California\nModel is 5'11 wearing size S\nFabric: Cotton Gauze\nCare : Hand Wash Cold, Lay Flat to Dry", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sorbus Floating Shelf — Hanging Wall Decoration Shelves — Perfect Trophy Display\nDECORATE & DISPLAY Add character and warmth to any modern or traditional interior Contrast shelves at staggering heights on the wall for a more energetic result or mount side-by-side for clean streamlined look\nAMADA HOMEFURNISHING Floating White Shelves\nUnique and Exquisite Vanity Design: Amada new style floating shelves adopt the concept of contemporary decorating to polish each sturdy MDF wood to perfect beautiful. With the special golden metal bracket, bring you a noble and luxurious home style.\nInPlace Shelving 9084672 Floating Slimline Wall Shelf\nSTYLE: Decorative 1.25\" square edge shelf features contemporary design\nFurinno Turn-S-Tube 4-Tier Shelf Multipurpose Display Rack\nQuality material: Manufactured from high Quality durable composite wood and plastic tubes. Holds up to 20 lbs. Per shelf\nBAMEOS Floating Shelf\nMinimalist style The minimalist design wall shelf full of modern styles, flat and solid shelves with white finish, can perfectly match any style of walls and rooms. Whether you want to display decoration or increase storage space, this minimalist wall shelf can meet your needs and add beauty to your life.\nFURINNO JAYA Simple Home Adjustable 3-Tier Shelf Bookcase\nAdjustable shelves provide easy storage and display for decorative and home living accessories\nBOMID White Floating Wall Shelves Shelves\nMODERN DESIGN: These crown molding mantle shelf are designed in bohemian style and are modern.; Whether you have a classic, modern, or traditional home, these molding ledge shelves are a great addition to your house decor\nAMADA HOMEFURNISHING Amada White Floating Invisible Shelves Wall Mounted 3 Sets\nWell-designed Floating ShelfOur shelf is made of MDF Laminate with a smooth matte black finish that looks rustic but modern. Anything different? Sure, Amada shelves can not only organize daily sundries to make your room tidy and neat, but also can display your beloved art pieces on the wall to decorate your home and make it full of aesthetic flare.\nLove-KANKEI Floating Shelves Rustic Shelves Wall Mounted Set 3 of Wall Storage Shelves for Living Room\nDifferent installation style - The unique design of the right-angled trapezoid brackets allow you to install the shelf with the board on the top of the brackets or below, and all the necessary accesorries, including screws, anchors and instruction are in the package, very easy to install on the wall\nWG WILLOW & GRACE DESIGNS Willow & Grace Floating Shelves - White Rustic Shelves for Wall Storage, Easily Mounted\nBreeze to install - These whitewash (NOT PURE WHITE) floating shelves feature an easy mounting, hidden bracket that gives it a streamlined look that is ideal for various decor styles, from modern to contemporary, and vintage to rustic or traditional", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Alan Dowd – ASCF Senior Fellow\nJune 2012 – The end of the space shuttle program came on July 21, 2011, when Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Sadly, that day also marked the end of America’s manned spaceflight program—at least for the foreseeable future. It should have never come to this, and it doesn’t have to be this way. Before considering how best to correct America’s self-imposed exile from the heavens, it’s important to look at the causes and consequences.\nDecades of benign neglect and a confluence of events conspired to steer us toward this unhappy destination.\nOne of those events was the Columbia disaster of 2003. Pre-Columbia, NASA had planned to deploy the shuttle until 2022. In fact, each shuttle was built for 100 missions. Discovery, the oldest of the now-retired shuttles, flew just 39. But the loss of Columbia radically altered plans to fly space shuttles into the 2020s.\nThe shuttle’s critics, citing the Columbia and Challenger disasters, argued that it was too expensive and too undependable. It’s worth noting, however, that the shuttle program settled into an efficient routine in the years between Challenger and Columbia. For 17 solid years, to be exact, the shuttle made the miracle of human spaceflight so seemingly effortless and ordinary that it became a footnote. Takeoffs weren’t televised, spacewalks weren’t broadcast and landings weren’t reported. Carrying humans beyond that place where space and sky collide—and back—was just part of what America did. So, policymakers of both parties and the public at large shrugged at the man-made miracle of spaceflight and largely failed to invest in, plan for or think about life after the shuttle. The result: The greatest spacefaring power on earth is stuck on earth.\nGiven NASA’s dwindling resources, this was inevitable. Consider the difference between Washington’s investment in the pre-Apollo NASA and the post-Columbia NASA. In the early 1960s, NASA accounted for about 1.1 percent of federal spending, as historian Derek Leebaert recalls in The Fifty Year Wound. By the time the Eagle had landed on the lunar surface, he notes that the U.S. was tasking “300,000 workers at around 20,000 companies in all 50 states” on the space program. Today, NASA outlays amount to less than 0.5 percent of federal spending.\nThe old saying, “You get what you pay for,” is true. As Norman Augustine, chairman of President Barack Obama’s Human Spaceflight Plans Committee (HSPC), observed in 2009, “This nation could afford a strong human spaceflight program…it’s simply a question of priority.”\nBut since manned spaceflight was not a priority, funding declined, and a gap between the end of the shuttle and the beginning of its successor program emerged. Under the Bush administration’s plan, that gap had a defined endpoint of March 2015. The Bush administration proposed phasing out the shuttle to divert resources to the Constellation program, which would use the best of the shuttle and Apollo programs to carry Americans beyond low-earth orbit.\nAs Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan noted in an open letter in 2010, Constellation “was endorsed by two presidents of different parties and approved by both Democratic and Republican congresses.” But President Obama canceled Constellation and flat-lined NASA spending. NASA funding was just $17.8 billion in 2012, and the White House requested less for 2013.\nPutting on a brave face, NASA chief Charles Bolden—a former astronaut—says Washington’s spending plan for NASA “requires us to live within our means,” which is what Americans expect of their government. It’s just that the administration’s willingness to starve NASA stands in such stark contrast with its eagerness to pour unprecedented sums into virtually every other government program. This isn’t a partisan issue. As Democratic Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson observes, “The important role NASA plays in pushing innovation…argues for a bigger commitment to the agency than either the administration or Congress is currently making.”\nHow much bigger? One HSPC member told The Washington Post that NASA needs some $50 billion to sustain a manned program beyond low-earth orbit.\nOf course, given the nation’s badly strained fiscal condition, there’s no political will for diverting that much cash to NASA. That may change as Americans watch the Russians and Chinese surge ahead in spaceflight.\nRussia began carrying American crews and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) after the Columbia disaster. NASA is paying Russia $753 million to deliver Americans to and from ISS through 2015. Bridging the gap by relying on Russia was always an imperfect workaround. Michael Griffin, NASA administrator under President George W. Bush, called it “unseemly in the extreme”—and understandably so. But it’s more than unseemly and imperfect. “It is dangerous for the United States to find itself dependent upon any external entity for a strategic capability, and space transportation is just that,” Griffin warned in February 2008.\nOf course, collaborating with Russia as a short-term stopgap is far different than counting on Putin and his puppets indefinitely. Consider the high-stakes bargaining—or if you prefer, blackmail—this unfortunate situation invites. (Russia recently raised fares from $55.8 million per seat to $62.7 million.) Just as worrisome is Russia’s space competence. In 2011, Russia lost an unmanned spacecraft for a few days and then found it in the wrong orbit. This followed failure of a Russian satellite to reach orbit due to what news agencies called “a basic fuel miscalculation.”\nStill, as National Defense magazine reports, Russia conducted 31 launches last year. For the first time in history, China (with 19 launches) fired more rockets into space than the United States (18). This year, China plans 21 launches. Indeed, “China has accorded space a high priority for investment,” as the Pentagon reports:\n• In 2007, China deployed its first lunar orbiter. That same year, Beijing tested a direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile against one of its own satellites, demonstrating its ability to attack satellites in low-earth orbit.\n• The Pentagon’s 2011 review of Chinese military power reports that Beijing “is developing a multi-dimensional program to improve its capabilities to limit or prevent the use of space-based assets by adversaries.” The 2012 review adds, “Over the past two years, China has…conducted increasingly complex close-proximity operations between satellites.”\n• Beijing has begun deploying elements of a manned space station, with the goal of conducting a lunar landing by 2020. How ironic: Just as China begins to leap toward the moon, earth’s first emissary to the moon surrenders the high ground.\nIf, as Augustine noted, there are “leadership benefits of being among the world’s space-faring nations,” there are consequences to not being a space-faring nation. “To be without carriage to low-earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future,” as the Apollo trio puts it, “destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature.”\nWe’ve been here before. Almost six years elapsed between the Apollo-Soyuz linkup in 1975 and America’s next manned space mission, the maiden voyage of Columbia. That period ominously coincided with what is generally considered the nadir of America’s post-World War II power.\nWe got ourselves into this fix, and we can get ourselves out. But it’s going to take time, talent and treasure. Regrettably, we don’t have a surplus of any of these right now.\nEvery day we defer hard decisions and needed investments is a day China and Russia close the gap further—or worse, expand their lead. Building new spaceships is not like flipping a light switch. Yet in can be done sooner rather than later, but only if America summons the will to begin. The alternative, as President John Kennedy warned in 1962, is “to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space.”\nAs to talent, the Apollo generation’s pool of physicists, designers and engineers is rapidly draining away. “Fifty years ago,” Griffin observed in 2008, “almost twice as many bachelor’s degrees in physics were awarded in the United States.” Equally concerning, some 38 percent of technology PhDs are conferred on foreign-born students, “most of whom return to their home countries,” according to Griffin. This was not the case at the beginning of the Space Age. William Pickering came to America from New Zealand to study at Cal Tech; he then led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during its most critical and consequential decades. Washington plucked an army of rocket scientists from Germany after World War II. Chief among them, of course, was Wernher Von Braun, father of the Jupiter and Saturn V rockets.\nIn short, we have regressed from in-sourcing space operations to outsourcing them. This has to be reversed, which brings us to treasure. America’s next chapter in space depends on a healthy, innovative economy; a mix of public-private space partnerships; free-market incentives that persuade foreign-born, U.S.-schooled scientists to apply their talents here; and, yes, increased investment. To be sure, we must guard against a return to what historian Paul Johnson once called “the show-biz era of space travel,” with “its contempt for finance, its assumption that resources were limitless.” But there is a happy medium between yesterday’s space-spending frenzy and today’s under-funded minimalism.\nOn the matter of public-private partnerships, there’s nothing in the Constitution that says government agencies are the only means of delivering Americans into space. Private firms like NASA’s new partner SpaceX offer promise. Just last month, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral and docked a capsule with ISS. But it pays to recall that the rocket was unmanned and is unable to lift what a shuttle could carry. The Falcon 9 is expected to carry 22,000 pounds. By contrast, the shuttle could deliver a 65,000-pound payload into orbit.\nThere is one other way to end America’s post-shuttle problem: Shift all space operations, including manned spaceflight, to the U.S. military. Such a transition may already be underway. Whether it’s by design or by accident is unknown. What we do know is that national-security space spending is estimated to be more than double the shrinking NASA budget; the military space workforce grew from 15,791 in 2009 to 16,739 in 2011, while the civilian space sector shed 8,000 jobs in 2010 alone; and the Air Force is testing a super-secret space plane.\nIn other words, the end of the shuttle doesn’t mean the end of America’s presence in space. Even so, it’s difficult to imagine that the United States will be able to hold or enhance its position relying on an unproven space plane, under-strength commercial rockets, an undependable Russia and unmanned assets", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This essay has been submitted by a law student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers.\nNurses Roles And Duties To The Patient\nIn today’s society, the legal system has become the center piece of a highly decorated health care system. Just as every civilian is liable to legislative laws set by the federal or state government, more so nurses are placed at an increased risk for a lawsuit in comparison to the average civilian. The laws that govern the profession of nursing are Common and statutory laws. Statutory laws are written on a state level, since licensure is granted by individual states, while common laws can go beyond what is covered by statutory law. Common law often generate from the decisions of past legal proceeding. Civil laws can branch from either statutory or common law. In regards to this, nurses tend to be involved in civil law suit which involves one person violating the rights of another. Tort is a branch of this civil law which can be further broken down into intentional, unintentional and quasi intentional tort. The health care system has evolved to a state where preventing law suit and liabilities has been deemed of more importance that ensuring adequate patient care.\nNurses spend tedious amount of time documenting every steps taken in the care of patient than they do implementing it. Stressed by having to look over their shoulder about every step taken, the mere mention of a law suit can send any nurse into a stated of shock and awe. An aspect of tort where nurses tend to be liable is in respect to obtaining consent from a client before performing care and in witnessing an informed consent before a procedure. The type of torts involved can be classified as negligence (unintentional), Assault or Battery (intentional).\n“Negligence can be defined as an omission of an act that a reasonable and prudent person would perform in a similar situation\". (Catalano, 2006, p.173.) Assault can be defined as an attempt to touch another person or the threat of doing so; if actual physical contact which causes harm to a person that has not consented to it occurs, it is then called battery. Over years, there has been an increase in nurse’s involvement with law suits, hence one needs to protect their interest by attaining an understanding of what informed consent is, what it entails and how nurse can become liable with charges of negligence and assault?\nAccording to Catalano (2006), informed consent is a legal and ethical issue “that can be defined as the voluntary permission by a client or the client’s proxy to carry out a procedure on the client\" (p. 173.) The nurse needs to be aware of this definition and its key points that is, it should be voluntary. She should also confirm that the client is knowledgeable about the procedure to be performed before she witnesses the signing.\nThe nurse need to know that adequate information about the procedure such as “the purpose of the treatment, potential complications, acceptable alternatives treatments, outcomes hoped for and consequences of not having treatment\" are provided to the client. (Catalano, 2006, p.173.) This will help accomplish her duties as a patient advocate and ensures that the patient makes a knowledge based decision about his care. The nurse also needs to be aware of the exceptions to informed consent such as:\nemergency situations when the client is unconscious, incompetent or otherwise unable to give consent and in situations where the health care provider feels that it may be medically contraindicated to disclose the risk and hazards because of illness, sever emotional distress, serious psychological damage, or failure on the part of the client to receive life saving treatment. (Catalano, 2006, p. 174.)\nFailure to follow the guideline or execute knowledge based practice in obtaining informed consent makes the nurse liable to law suit of negligence or assault/battery. Negligence, with respect to the nurse’s failing to satisfactorily and thoroughly ensuring that the client understands the risks involved in the procedure he consented to. Assault, in reference to the nurse witnessing or performing a procedure different for what the client was informed which in turn causes or could cause harm to the patient.\nNegligence and Assault are both torts that could have been avoided by properly executing the informed consent process, thus reducing liability. Nurses should understand that the purpose of attaining an informed consent from the client is aimed at “ impressing upon the patient the importance of the document the patient is signing\" while getting the “patient’s agreement to undergo the procedure.\" (“Frequent Questions on Informed Consent,\" 2009.) The signing of a document notifies and affirms to the client that the document and his decision is on record and can be used in legal proceedings. This makes an informed consent form a legal document.\nThe role of nurse in this process is to witness that the patient or their assigned proxy, as applicable, is the one who signs the consent. The nurse should also verify and assess that whoever is signing is competent, taking note of the previously discussed criteria in judge the client’s competence. The nurse should also be aware that the physician is responsible for explaining the procedure; the discussion and acquisition is not in the nurse’s role, neither should it be delegated to other staffs. Catalano (2006) supports this statement in saying that “Nurses can reinforce the physician teaching and even supplement the information but should not be the primary or only source of information for informed consent…\" (p. 174.)\nTabak & Zvi (2008) presented a case study exemplifying the nurse’s role as an advocate or coordinator for the client in reference to informed consent. They presented a scenario involving a 15 years old patient from a strictly Jewish family, diagnosed with acute myeloblastic leukemia, whose parents denied him any knowledge of his condition. The parents requested that the child not be told of his diagnosis and decided to use chemotherapy for treatment as advised by their rabbi. They refused consent to Port A cath transplant and freezing his sperm. They also refused to sign a consent form for the procedure they already agreed to until consultations were finished. Even though according to the Jewish tradition the client is referred to as a man since his 13th birthday (bar-mitzvah), he was not allowed some degree of decision making in his care.\nA nurse as a client advocate, knows the implication of the parent’s decision on the client not just in reference to him being uninformed but also the effects of the method of treatment chosen by the parents and their refusal to sign a consent form. The parents refused to save the patient’s sperms even though they are aware that their treatment choice could render him sterile. This creates an ethical dilemma, in which the nurse whose duty to the client is one of nonmaleficence, benevolence, veracity and promoting his autonomy would now have to make a decision while assessing her own belief, the parent’s wishes and societal views. To resolve this ethical dilemma, Tabak & Zvi (2008) suggest that:\nthe nurse can help the parents understand the situation; ensure they appreciated the consequences – positive and negative, short term and long term- of their decisions and actions; and show them what parental obligations is and is not and how to give the child the information he ought to have. (p. 106.)\nIn doing this, the nurse should present to the parents detailed information about the consequences of their choices and provide alternative choices. Information can be provided in the form of pamphlet, internet based researches, videos and brochures. Tabak & Zvi (2008) also summits that the nurse should assess the “patient’s maturity and competence to understand and cope with hard decisions and then defend their autonomy against the authority of physicians and parents.\" (p. 106.) By doing this, the nurse assumes her role as the client’s advocate and reduces her risk of any future liabilities along with helping the client to make an informed decision about his plan of care and future implications.\nAlthough a nurse’s role in procuring an informed consent is that of a witness, the nurse still needs to be aware of his or her liability and protect against lawsuits. To do this nurse needs to be confident that proper steps and judgment were made in reference to the client understanding and making an informed decision about care. Since a nurse’s role in the informed consent process almost seem to melt into the role of a physician, nurses need to take proper precaution and practice only within their scope of practice. Nurses need to acquire and practice skills needed to properly execute the process of informed consent and incorporate evidence based practice in their day to day activities. Since most nurses become entwined with the legal system through tort, nurses need to take steps to prevent all forms of it. The nurse also needs to have the skills needed to work through conflicts and obstacles such as with the 15 years old client whose nurse needed to advocate on behalf of. This case study exemplifies the crucial roles nurses play in the informed consent process and in fulfilling their duties to their patients.\nCite This Essay\nTo export a reference to this article please select a referencing style below:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As you look down the aisle of your local supermarket, there is no doubt you have noticed the array of options when it comes to milk-like drinks and substitutes. From soy to almond and even rice milk, it is sometimes difficult to know which one to choose, if any. Looking to try something new and healthy? Soy milk could be the answer. Here are some pointers about this cool concoction.\n- Soy milk is made from cooked and pressed soybeans; it is often used as a milk substitute.\n- Plain soy milk can be used in place of cow's milk in various recipes such as puddings, soups, and sauces.\n- If you opt to utilize soy milk instead of cow's milk, it can affect the taste of the end product - so utilize caution. You can try replacing half of the cow's milk with soy milk to be on the safe side.\n- Soy milk is available in many flavors and varieties: low-fat, fat-free, fortified, chocolate, vanilla, etc.\n- Soy milk is high in protein, low in saturated fats, and cholesterol free.\n- Individuals who are lactose intolerant can use soy milk in their favorite recipes.\n- Soy milk can sometimes curdle… so caution must be taken when adding it to acidic foods.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mental Attitude: Does Smoking Affect Voting Behavior?\nIndividuals who smoke cigarettes appear to be less likely to vote than nonsmokers. The authors of a new study surveyed 11,626 people and found that 17% of those polled were smokers, and daily smokers were 60% less likely to vote than nonsmokers. Lead author Dr. Karen Albright writes, “On one hand, the result is intuitive. We know from previous research that smokers are an increasingly marginalized population, involved in fewer organizations and activities and with less interpersonal trust than nonsmokers. But what our research suggests is that this marginalization may also extend beyond the interpersonal level to attitudes toward political systems and institutions.”\nNicotine & Tobacco Research, May 2015\nHealth Alert: Dementia May Increase Health Risks Among Hospitalized COPD Patients.\nTaiwanese researchers examined data on one million individuals collected between 2000 and 2010 and found that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and dementia have an elevated risk for acute respiratory dysfunction, severe sepsis, and hospital mortality. More specifically, they found that patients with both conditions were 1.38 times more at risk for severe sepsis, 1.39 times more at risk for acute respiratory dysfunction, and 1.69 times more at risk of dying during their hospital stay.\nMedicine, June 2015\nDiet: High-Fiber Diet May Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk.\nEating a fiber-rich diet may lower one’s risk for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. The authors of a new study found that those whose diets contain more than 26 grams of fiber each day are 18% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who consume less than 19 grams of fiber per day. When researchers focused on types of fiber, they discovered that people who consume higher amounts of cereal and vegetable fiber are 16-19% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those with fiber-poor diets. Interestingly, the researchers found that fruit fiber consumption was not associated with reduced diabetes risk. Study author Dr. Dagfinn Aune concludes, “Taken together, our results indicate that individuals with diets rich in fiber, in particular cereal fiber, may be at lower risk of type 2 diabetes.”\nDiabetologia, May 2015\nExercise: Avoid Overuse Injuries.\nPerforming the same exercises day after day can lead to an overuse injury. The Mayo Clinic recommends the following to avoid such injuries: engage in a variety of exercises, don’t do too many exercises in one day, warm up before and cool down after a workout, wear appropriate shoes, and use good form and technique.\nMayo Clinic, June 2015\nChiropractic: Resolution of Daily Cervicogenic Headaches.\nA 13-year-old patient with a complaint of daily headaches presented for a trial of chiropractic care. His doctor of chiropractic utilized spinal manipulation to treat cervical and thoracic spinal joint fixations, which a thorough examination had revealed to be the possible underlying cause of the adolescent’s chief complaint. The patient reported his headaches resolved during the course of treatment, which consisted of eight visits over two months. This case documents the potential benefits of chiropractic care in the management of headaches in adolescents.\nJournal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health, April 2015\nWellness/Prevention: Limited Evidence for Mammograms for Women in Their 40s.\nThe International Agency for Research on Cancer says that there is limited evidence to support preventative breast cancer screening for women in their 40s. However, they add that for women aged 50 to 75, the research shows that routine mammograms reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer. The revised guidelines recommend routine screening start at age 50 and be done every two years. The expert panel advises that women in their 40s should discuss the pros and cons of mammography screening with their doctor and then make an informed decision.\nNew England Journal of Medicine, June 2015", "label": "No"}
{"text": "(Ehrenberg) Simonsen 1979 Category: Centric\nBASIONYM: Gaillonella italica Ehrenberg 1838\nSYNONYM(S): Melosira italica (Ehrenberg) Kützing\nREPORTED AS: Aulacoseira crenulata (Thwaites 1848)\nFrustules are cylindrical and are connected face-to-face to form filamentous colonies. Valves are 4-24 µm in diameter, with a mantle height of 9-20 µm. The ratio of the mantle height to valve diameter usually ranges from 0.7 to 5. The mantle has almost straight sides, and the valve face is flat with slightly convex margins. The straight or slightly sinuous rows of mantle areolae are inclined to the left (sinistrorse) or almost parallel to the pervalvar axis, 17-25 rows in 10 µm. The mantle areolae vary in shape from circular to slit-like. Spines are large, spatulate or anvil-shaped and originate from two to four costae. One or more pervalvar rows of areolae terminate at the base of the spine. Separation valves are rare and have thinner, pointed spines than linking valves. The number of rimoportulae is most often two, but may be one or more per valve. Externally, the rimoportula openings are not distinguishable from areolae. The ringleiste is solid, shallow, and thick. Resting spores are often observed and produced as semi-endogenous pairs. Spore frustules superficially resemble those of vegetative cells, but conspicuously lack visible spines, have thicker cell walls, may have a convex valve face, and often have incomplete rows of mantle areolae. Not all populations of A. italica appear to form resting spores; spores are especially common in fossil deposits and in populations from shallow polymictic lakes.\nThere has long been confusion surrounding the identity of Aulacoseira italica. Crawford et al. (2003) studied type material of both A. italica (Gallionella italica) and A. crenulata, confirmed that they represented the same taxon, and that A. italica was the earlier and correct name. Note that in the type material, the rimoportulae (illustrated in Crawford et al. 2003) are positioned along a stria about 4-5 areolae from the ringleiste and appear internally as long, straight tubes integral with the valve wall. In material from Florida, rimoportulae appear internally as short, sessile processes. The spore forms have also been separately named as Melosira laevis and M. semilaevis (Van Heurck 1882)\nBasionym: Gaillonella italica\nAuthor: Ehrenberg 1838\nDiameter: 6 µm\nRows of areolae in 10 µm:\nSie unterscheidet sich durch einen gekerbten Cirkelrand von G. distans, könnte aber, da ich nur wenige, nicht völlif deutliche, Exemplare sah, zum Jugendzustand der G. varians gehören. – Grösse 1/384 Linie.\nCite This Page:\nPotapova, M., English, J., and Edlund, M. (2010). Aulacoseira italica. In Diatoms of the United States. Retrieved July 25, 2016, from http://westerndiatoms.colorado.edu/taxa/species/aulacoseira_italica\nSpecies: Aulacoseira italica\nReviewer: Sarah Spaulding\nCrawford, R.M., Likhoshway, Y.V. and Jahn, R. (2003). Morphology and identity of Aulacoseira italica and typification of Aulacoseira (Bacillariophyta). Diatom Research 18: 1-19.\nEhrenberg, C.G. (1838). Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. Ein Blick in das tiefere organische Leben de Natur. erlag von Leopold Voss, Leipzig. pp. 1-xvii, 1-548, pls. 1-64.\nKützing, F.T. (1844). Die kieselschaligen Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. Nordhausen. 152 pp., 30 pls.\nSimonsen, R. (1979). The diatom system: ideas on phylogeny. Bacillaria 2: 9-71.\nThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) western Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) study was completed during the years 2000-2004 (see citations at bottom of this page). Over 1200 streams and rivers in 12 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming) were selected for sampling based on a stratified randomized design. This type of design insures that ecological resources are sampled in proportion to their actual geographical presence. Stratified randomized design also allows for estimates of stream length with a known confidence in several “condition classes” (good or least-disturbed, intermediately-disturbed, and poor or most-disturbed) for biotic condition, chemistry and habitat.\nResults are published in:\nJohnson, T., Hermann, K., Spaulding, S., Beyea, B., Theel, C., Sada, R., Bollman, W., Bowman, J., Larsen, A., Vining, K., Ostermiller, J., Petersen, D. Hargett, E. and Zumberge, J. (2009). An ecological assessment of USEPA Region 8 streams and rivers. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 Report, 178 p.\nStoddard, J. L., Peck, D. V., Olsen, A. R., Larsen, D. P., Van Sickle, J., Hawkins, C. P., Hughes, R. M., Whittier, T. R., Lomnicky, G. A., Herlihy, A. T., Kaufman, P. R., Peterson, S. A., Ringold, P. L., Paulsen, S. G., and Blair, R. (2005). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) western streams and rivers statistical summary. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report 620/R-05/006, 1,762 p.\nStoddard, J. L., Peck, D. V., Paulsen, S. G., Van Sickle, J., Hawkins, C. P., Herlihy, A. T., Hughes, R. M., Kaufman, P. R., Larsen, D. P., Lomnicky, G. A., Olsen, A. R., Peterson, S. A., Ringold, P. L., and Whittier, T. R. (2005). An ecological assessment of western streams and rivers. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report 620/R-05/005, 49 p.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Northern China in the summer of 1900 was the scene of the Boxer Rebellion, one of the most spontaneous, disorganized, violent and downright peculiar uprisings of that or any other century. Vividly described and detailed by Cornell University historian David J. Silbey in his new book, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, the rebellion was at once a peasants’ insurgency, an attack on modernism, a clash of cultures and a game changer in the nascent international struggle for power in the Pacific in the new century. Based on letters, diaries and memoirs of many participants, Silbey’s brisk narrative traces the root causes, the wild and bloody clashes between the ill-armed Boxers (who mystically believed themselves invulnerable) and the combined military units of Japan, Russia, Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Italy and the United States, and the global consequences of this hitherto-bewildering struggle.\n‘China has a long tradition of having secret societies rise up when [that country] is in chaos’\nWhat was the origin of the Boxers?\nTo understand the Boxers, you have to understand what was going on with China in the late 19th century. It was a country in chaos. The government was not working effectively. The economy was being horribly disrupted by the arrival of industrialism and modernity—railroads, telegraph and the like. Even the environment was not cooperating; northern China was subject to floods and droughts.\nWas the rebellion a response to that chaos in China?\nYes, China has a long tradition of having secret societies rise up when China is in chaos. They’re a combination of secret clubs, mutual-aid societies and martial-arts groups. They are communities of action and support for the people getting hurt. The Boxers were one of these.\nWhat was the Boxers’ ideology?\nThe name “Boxer” is a rough translation of an expression that means “fists united in righteousness.” They were dedicated to two things: One, a set of martial-arts rituals that promised physical immunity to harm—if done correctly. Two, to getting rid of corrupting influences in Chinese society and compelling the ruling dynasty to drive out modern “decadent” influences. They had a simple slogan: “Exterminate the foreigner; support the [Qing] dynasty.”\nThey blamed China’s ills on foreigners?\nYes, exactly. There was a logic to it: Many Chinese worked in industries that were disrupted by the arrival of the railroad and the telegraph. There was a sense that China’s balance had been thrown out of whack by these modern innovations, and only by destroying the innovations and the foreigners who brought them could the balance be restored.\nHow widespread was xenophobia?\nVery, especially among rural Chinese. They were very insular and unused to outsiders—such as Western missionaries—especially outsiders with massively different values from theirs.\nWho were the Boxer leaders?\nThere was no real leadership. Each local group had its own leader, but not officially and not nationally. That was both the strength and weakness of the movement—weakness in that they didn’t coordinate well, but strength in that there was nobody to lock up.\nHow did the Boxers grow so quickly and spark a full-blown rebellion?\nThey offered a very simple view of the world that coincided with the way many Chinese were perceiving what was going on—and offered a solution. The Boxer message was easy to understand, easy to transmit and simple to carry out. In a fairly illiterate population that is something that can spread very quickly—as it did in that drought summer of 1900.\nHow large did the movement get?\nIt’s hard to answer that authoritatively—they did not count themselves and do reports. My estimate is that Boxer groups in the villages probably topped out south of 100 people. Once they got into cities like Beijing, where the population was in the millions, their numbers were probably in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. The total number of Boxers across northern China was probably 500,000 to 1 million.\nWhy did the Boxers attack foreign missionaries so savagely?\nThe Boxers went after the foreigners they saw every day—missionaries, railroad engineers, telegraph workers—the foreigners who represented what they saw was wrong with China. Remember, this was a very violent culture. It is a cliché to say that life was cheap in China at the time, but to some extent that was true. Add to that the strangeness of the Westerners to the Chinese; it was very easy for them to dehumanize their targets, to see them as not real human beings.\nSo the foreign missionaries were a really disruptive force?\nImmensely so. Especially in the northern provinces, and Shandong was one of the provinces where missionaries—especially the German missionaries—were really aggressive about proselytizing. Just by their presence the missionaries were making a value statement, essentially saying: “You are insufficient, your religion is wrong, your education system is wrong. We are going to correct you.”\nWhat were all these Westerners—missionaries, diplomats, technicians, soldiers—doing in China?\nEarly in the 19th century a few European imperial powers—England, France, Denmark and Belgium—divided the world among themselves. Then, later in the century, the new powers—the United States, Germany, Russia and Japan—sought empires of their own, but the only big chunk left was China. The Chinese tried to resist but failed. They were not strong enough militarily or politically, so parts of China got nipped off as “concessions.” That’s when the British acquired Hong Kong and the Portuguese acquired Macao.\nWhat did the Westerners want?\nThe British and the Americans were interested in markets. The Germans and the Russians wanted territory. The Japanese wanted domination, and their two rivals in Asia were the Chinese and the Russians. They wanted to control China.\nWhy did Western diplomats and their military units react so sluggishly to the Boxer uprising?\nChinese political and social life had been very chaotic for the previous decade. So at first the Boxers were seen as just more social chaos. The Westerners were surprised by how quickly the rebellion exploded in Beijing, where at the beginning of May 1900 things were essentially fine, and within two weeks the legations were besieged by Boxers. Finally, there had been a lot of turnover among people posted at the embassies in China, so many of the ministers lacked the long-term experience to see that the Boxer uprising was something really different.\nHow did Western military units in China coordinate their attacks?\nBadly. If you tried to design the worst possible command structure for military expeditions, you couldn’t come up with anything worse than how the Westerners managed it in China in 1900. For their second expedition they organized a generals’ council, which met every day to decide on policy. You know the old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee? This was the same thing, and it went about as well.\nHow did the Boxer Rebellion end?\nIt’s a mystery. The Boxers just disappeared in the middle of August, hanging the Chinese army out to dry. It very quickly lost Beijing, and the empress and emperor had to flee. None of the histories really explain where the Boxers went. Here’s what I found: For January through July 1900 the rainfall totals there were below 1 inch per month, which is very low. It’s the drought. But in August 1900, 15 inches of rain fell, and in September, 10 inches. The drought ended, and I think what happened is that the men who joined the Boxers decided, All right, I had an adventurous time, I exterminated some foreigners, I supported the dynasty, and now it’s time to go back to my real life as a farmer. They just went home.\nWhat were the long-term consequences of the Boxer Rebellion?\nIt cemented the collapse of the Chinese dynasty. And that’s when the revolutionary elements in China saw both the fecklessness of the dynasty and the nasty imperialism of the West. People like Mao Zedong and Sun Yat-sen took strong lessons from the Boxers.\nAnd the global consequences?\nIt confirmed Japan as the rising power in Asia. The United States also became an Asian power, committed to some kind of role in China and in the Philippines—thus putting Japan and America on a collision course.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Indigenous people in the Americas have struggled against centuries of racism, attempts at genocide, and cultural discrimination. Indigenous women today and in the past have worked for the recognition and respect for native legitimate rights, such as the right to self-determination and territory, to cultural heritage, to control over their own resources. Some have felt an obligation to tell people about what has happened to their people. Learning the language of the dominant group, they have used it to testify about their peoples fate. In the process they have become cultural mediators - bridges - between the oppressors and their people. They also have become influential leaders working to improve the condition and status of their communities. Two such women from different eras are Sarah Winnemucca, a 19th century North American Paiute woman, and Rigoberta Menchú.\nRigoberta Menchú: In 1992, Rigoberta Menchú, a 33 year old Maya Quiché Indian, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of Guatemalas Indian peoples. Although she had been living in exile, because of the threats on her life, the prize put a spotlight on human rights abuses directed at Indians in Guatemala. During the years of Guatemalas thirty-six year long internal conflict in the 1970s and 80s, the longest in Latin America, the military turned on the Indians, accusing them of anti-government leftist leanings. A truth commission set up after the war ended said that more than 200,000 civilians were killed during the conflict and some 400 Mayan villages were razed. 38,000 people were taken by military death squads and never seen again. Thousands of children were orphaned, and one million people uprooted to become refugees. Rigoberta Menchú, a witness to these horrors including the torture and killing of her mother and father, became an active organizer who worked to help her people to defend themselves. Often she taught women how to defend themselves not only against government repression, but against traditional male injustice as well. She noted that her mother thought that daughters should be raised to become women who were useful to the community, that their participation in the struggle should be equal to that of her brothers.\nBecause the military targeted political leaders, in 1981 Menchú had to flee the country. In exile Rigoberta became internationally famous through interviews, speeches, and a book called I, Rigoberta Menchú, An Indian Woman in Guatemala. It told the tragic story of her life, opening with these words: This is my testimony...Id like to stress that its not only my life, its also the testimony of my people...My personal experience is the reality of a whole people. While some of the facts in the book were later questioned, the story remains an indictment of the exploitation of Guatemalas Indians and has been widely distributed throughout the world. At a later press conference Menchú stated that her book was not an \"autobiography\" but a \"testimony.\" \"For common people such as myself, there is no difference between testimony, biography, and autobiography ... What we do is tell what we have lived.\" Later she wrote a second book, Crossing Borders, which begins with her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and her return to Guatemala in 1994.\nIn accepting the Nobel Prize Rigoberta Menchú said that the honor she received recognized the struggle of many who have dared to speak the truth. We have broken the silence around Guatemala. Now I would like to see Guatemala at peace, with indigenous and nonindigenous people living side-by-side......We indigenous people, not just the Guatemalan people, deserve this prize. It is a gift of life, a gift for history and a gift of our time. Her goal is permanent recognition and respect for the rights of indigenous communities, and for peace and justice.\nMenchú spent years lobbying the U.N. urging the world body to give nongovernmental organizations representing the dispossessed greater voice. As a result of her efforts, The United Nations declared 1993 the International Year for Indigenous Populations. In 1996 she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO. With her prize she helped found the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation which has aided the return of exiled Indigenous Guatemalans, initiated in 1993. In Guatemala, the Foundation is contributing to the expression of human rights through its campaign for civil participation and education for democracy and peace. It is monitoring the advances and shortcomings of the government with regard to indigenous communities. On the international level, the Foundation has played a major role in the Summits of Indigenous Leaders.\nMenchú moved back to Guatemala, but on receiving death threats moved to Mexico City. In 2004 the new president of Guatemala, Oscar Berger, invited Menchú, to join his administration as \"goodwill ambassador to the peace accords.\" In 2005, Rigoberta requested Spain to probe the abuses in Guatemala in the 1970s and 80s. Spains highest court has ruled that cases of genocide committed abroad could be judged in Spain even if no Spanish citizens had been involved. In Rigobertas eyes, any attempt to erase the evidence, and memory, of the past is like the second genocide against the people of Guatemala. The genocide case resulted in international arrest warrants for a number of perpetrators. \"It is going to be very tortuous road, and it's a test of the Guatemalan justice system,\" Menchú said of the likelihood that the case will ever be heard in her country. She has also acknowledged that for her the struggle for human rights is permanent and ongoing.\nTo learn about Sarah Winnemucca, a 19th century North American Pauite woman who testified about the treatment of her people click here\nFor information about a unit on pre-Columbian Mayan women with excerpts from Rigoberta Menchús speeches click here", "label": "No"}
{"text": "10-27-08, 9:28 am\nOriginal source: People's Democracy\nDespite heavy rain over several previous days, the skies cleared sufficiently early Wednesday (October 22) morning over Sriharikota to enable a textbook launch of India’s historic and first mission to the Moon. At the time of going to press, the Chandrayaan-1 satellite was in orbit around Earth awaiting a series of sling shots that would take it to its destination orbit around the Moon, after which the mission’s scientific studies would start.\nEven though many crucial hurdles remain to be crossed, the successful launch itself has been greeted with euphoria in India and significant notice abroad. Chandrayaan (“vehicle to the moon” in Sanskrit) has been widely hailed as showcasing India’s growing and impressive capabilities in space technologies and as a welcome addition to the pool of scientific knowledge about the moon and, indirectly, about the Earth and the wider solar system. But it has also received some criticism, chiefly that such missions yield little tangible benefit, that developing countries like India can ill afford such esoteric experiments and that the considerable sums of money spent of them are incongruous in a nation still plagued by chronic poverty.\nThis article takes a close look at the goals and tools of the mission, its significance for India both in science and technology and in a broader strategic sense, and also examines the issues raised by critiques of this mission which may also apply to space exploration in general.\nChandrayaan in context\nThe Mission itself is certainly not pathbreaking within the overall context of international space exploration. Chandrayaan may be India’s first mission to the Moon, but there have been as many as 68 others.\nThe former USSR conducted the first moon mission on Jan 2, 1959, followed swiftly by the US in March the same year. Japan broke the superpower duopoly in January 1990 by sending a spacecraft to orbit the moon, but with mixed results, followed by the successful Kaguya launch in 2006. The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a lunar probe in September 2003 and China sent its spacecraft Chang-e 1 to orbit the Moon in 2007. India is therefore the sixth nation (counting the EU as one entity) to demonstrate its capability to reach the Moon and, at least nascently, beyond.\nAfter the flurry of unmanned Moon Missions in the 60s, and the dramatic manned missions by the US starting in 1969, interest in the Moon waned, with no lunar missions for almost 15 years during the 80s and 90s. Of late, though, there has been a sharp revival in lunar missions, prompted partly by the arrival of new players in the space, and perhaps more so, by the availability of improved technologies with a promise of richer findings. The USA has announced a $100 billion programme to return to the Moon by 2018, with all-new launcher and lander, the Moon being used here to test technologies for an extensive Mars mission.\nSo the question is, is India merely reinventing the wheel in a “me too” mission?\nThe Indian Moon Mission, Chandrayaan, was approved by the government in November 2003 on the basis of a proposal by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) developed over several years of spade work and peer review. Whereas India has launched many a rocket and placed several satellites in orbit around Earth, Chandrayaan is India’s first mission out of the near-Earth environment into deep space, a term nominally used to describe space beyond 100,000 km from Earth. In that sense alone, the Mission marks a significant scaling-up of India’s space programme and of technologies in several fields.\nChandrayaan-1 was launched by an upgraded version of ISRO's work horse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) with more powerful rockets and more propellant. This was the 14th PSLV launch, with only one failure, and a total of 29 satellites have been put into a variety of Earth orbits by them. The PSLV launch of the Chandrayaan, relatively heavy at 1,304 kg, and its accurate placement in transfer orbit, has solidified ISRO’s reputations as a reliable and cost-effective launch service provider, about which more later.\nPerhaps the most significant technological up-scaling of India’s space capabilities under Chandrayaan has been the setting up of the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) consisting of an 18-m and a 32-m antenna at a new campus in Byalalu near Bengaluru. Whereas existing tracking stations are being upgraded to support the mission during the launch and early Earth Transfer Orbits up to a range of about 100,000 km, the new antennae will perform the tracking and control functions, and real-time downloading of information from the scientific instruments over the much greater distances of over 400,000 km involved in the lunar mission. More importantly, while the 18-m antenna is tailored specifically for Chandrayaan-1 mission, the state-of-art 32-m antenna can also support other planetary missions, for instance to Mars.\nMission and Payloads\nSo far only the first steps of the Mission have been covered. Chandrayaan was placed in its first orbit around Earth within about 18 minutes from launch and then into a highly elliptical orbit 22,858 km away from Earth at its longest (apogee) and 247 km away at its nearest (perigee). At suitable times, and after sufficient momentum has been gathered, the spacecraft’s motors would undertake a series of “sling-shot” firings to lift the craft to higher and more extremely elliptical orbits, the last with apogee at 386,194 km bringing it almost to the moon (see figure).\nAt around 200,000 km from Earth, the satellite will begin to experience significant pull from the Moon’s gravity, increasing as the craft gets closer to the Moon. At roughly 60,000 km from the Moon, the craft would have reached what is called Lagrange Point No.1 when it is ready for “capture” by Moon’s gravity. At this point, the craft is slowed down, allowed to be captured by the Moon, and its orbit further lowered to its ultimate intended 100 km circular orbit around the Moon where it will stay for two years.\nFollowing this, the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) would be ejected from Chandrayaan to crash onto the Moon’s surface, conducting various observations mostly on the way down but also after impact. Contrary to a lot of chatter in the media about “planting the Indian flag”, the MIP, having crashed, would be in no position to do this, but has been painted with the Indian tricolor to symbolically register India’s arrival on the Moon.\nChandrayaan carries 11 payloads, five Indian and six from different international partners, to carry out various tasks together contributing to the main scientific objectives of the Mission, namely to prepare a three-dimensional atlas of the Moon covering both the bright and dark sides and to conduct detailed studies on the distribution of various important chemicals and minerals, on the existence and availability of water ice (so called to distinguish it from other frozen liquids) and others while also seeking to develop and test different instruments.\nImages and information on the composition of the very thin lunar atmosphere and of the fine dust thrown up by the landing impact would be sent back by the MIP throughout its descent and landing, and are expected to be useful in planning future missions especially soft landings. The spacecraft’s Terrain Mapping Camera would send back three-dimensional images of the lunar surface with high spatial and altitude resolution of 10 metres or lower. All earlier moon missions, including the US and Soviet manned and unmanned lunar missions, have together only looked at a relatively small area of the Moon’s surface, mostly on the bright side, so Chandrayaan’s 3-D atlas of the Moon will be a major new contribution.\nThe other Indian payloads include a High Spectral Imager (HySI) which will gather and transmit high-resolution mineralogical data of the lunar surface and also about the Moon’s lower crust by looking in craters at material that could have been brought up by crashing meteorites. A Lunar Ranger Laser Instrument (LRLI) will study the Moon’s topography and especially its gravity field about which very little is known, using lasers rarely used on the Moon. Adding significant value to the data, a High-Energy X-Ray (HEX) Spectrometer will conduct so far the highest resolution X-ray studies whose main aim is to examine the possibility of water having traveled to the lunar poles.\nThe spacecraft carries six international payloads selected on the basis of an Announcement of Opportunity by ISRO which has levied no charge thus conveying its commitment to international scientific collaboration.\nChandrayaan is the first partnership of USA’s NASA with India’s space program. Given the hiatus in American lunar missions, and its declared intention to return to the Moon in 2018, Chandrayaan has given NASA an opportunity to explore and study new potential landing sites through a Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) which will also search for ice deposits near the lunar poles. NASA also has a Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) to map the composition and geographical distribution of mineral resources on the lunar surface, particularly on the permanently shadowed north and south polar regions.\nThe European Space Agency (ESA) has put on board 3 instruments which were also deployed on its earlier SMART-1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology) lunar probe, but which would study the Moon over greater area and more intensively on Chandrayaan-1. An X-ray Spectrometer would look for and assess quantities of several elements, particularly magnesium and iron, which could give a clue as to the history of the Moon such as whether its surface was earlier molten magma. An Atom Reflecting Analyser would try to track and capture images of atoms taking off due to solar wind activity in the absence of a magnetosphere or atmosphere on the moon, while another near-infrared spectrometer would examine the composition of the Moon’s surface.\nA new and interesting experiment is the Bulgarian RADOM or Radiation Dome Monitoring Experiment which will study the effects of radiation in the lunar and near-lunar environments. Such radiation is known to be a hazard to humans during extended stay in space and this study is expected to result in better predictive ability and design of protection gear for future space crews.\nConsensus in the global scientific community is that these instruments, along with the infrastructure and methodologies of their deployment, represent a considerable advance over earlier efforts at gathering scientific data on and about the Moon.\nCost and Benefits?\nWhenever issues of space exploration are discussed, questions arise as to the benefit to humans of the knowledge or experience generated, and especially whether the cost justifies these benefits. And it is common for such discussions to veer around to the spin-off benefits of space technologies, famous examples being Velcro fasteners, non-stick pans, alternative applications for space suits and so on. Of course, all technology development, especially in unfamiliar or extreme environments (and space is both) will have spin-off benefits. But this writer has always believed that no amount of frying pans can be used to weigh cost-benefits of space science. Science has always advanced through the quest for new knowledge and pushing known boundaries. And practical applications and benefits to human society have always followed, somewhat later, but often in ways that could not have been predicted earlier. Should early humans have asked what benefits could be expected by observing and calculating the movement of planetary bodies?\nOf course, society should always weigh the costs and foreseeable benefits of science and of the knowledge that is sought to be generated. In this case, some aspects need to be put in perspective.\nIt is well known that basic science research is the foundation of advanced technological capabilities of a nation, and that India has lagged far behind what is desirable in this regard for many decades now. The space program offers one of the unfortunately rare theaters of scientific activity that can give a fillip to basic research in the country. Peer review of the Chandrayaan mission proposal also noted this as one of the important considerations in giving it approval, as did the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology.\nA lot of comment has been made about the “high cost” of Chandrayaan in a poor country such as India. The total cost of Chandrayaan is Rs 360 crore or about $80 million. This includes about $20 million for the Deep Space Network whose infrastructure will be available for all future deep space missions. Europe’s SMART-1 mission cost about $180 million which is itself about one-fifth of usual European scientific space missions. Japan’s Kaguya lunar probe cost $487 million and even China’s Change-1 cost $180 million.\nChandrayaan’s cost of $80 million is roughly equal to that of a medium-sized passenger aircraft such as the stretched version of the Boeing 737 which costs $75-80 million, while the long-haul Boeing 777 passenger jet required by Air India costs about $240 million!\nNot only is the Chandrayaan cost effective relative to similar missions by other nations, this relative low cost is itself a tremendous advertisement for Indian space services in a highly competitive launch industry, and will help generate enormous revenues for ISRO and its commercial arm, Antrix.\nThe big question mark does not belong with Chandrayaan-1 but with the projected manned lunar mission currently spoken of in 2020. There is absolutely no evidence to support any additional benefit of manned lunar landings, as compared to, say, space crew spending extended periods in a space station. The cost would be enormous with little benefit to show for it except for some chest thumping.\nSpeaking of which, the media coverage of and comments about Chandrayaan have revealed two disturbing trends.\nThe first was unnecessary jingoism, going far beyond justified national pride. And the second, more seriously, was its extension in projecting national advantage rather than a gain for the common human heritage. Some commentators spoke of the planting of the Indian flag as giving the right to India to extract minerals from the Moon at some future date, reminding one of the worst of colonialism when Europeans went around planting national flags in other peoples’ countries and “claiming” these territories as their own to exploit. Even some ISRO spokespersons and retired space scientists have regrettably spoken grandly about the possibility of future extraction of minerals from the Moon. Unfortunately, the international Space Treaty of 1967 and the Moon Agreement of 1979 are both silent on both such exploitation and on militarization of the Moon. Rather than join the US and some other nations in a race to exploit the Moon or use it for military purposes, India should take the lead in pushing for international agreements to prevent militarization of the Moon and any use of the Moon, such as national or private exploitation, that does not benefit all of humankind without damaging our planetary neighbor like we have damaged our own planet.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Public Health England have published a new e-cigarette evidence review today, compiled by independent experts. Its key findings conclude:\n- The risks associated with vaping are very small compared to those of smoking and there are significant health benefits in switching from smoking to vaping\n- At least 20,000 smokers successfully quit each year with the help of e-cigarettes, contributing to an acceleration in the rate of people giving up smoking across the country\n- There is a misconception that vaping is as harmful as smoking; in fact around 40% of smokers have not even tried an e-cigarette\n- Less than 10% of adults realise that most of the harms to health from smoking are not caused by nicotine but by the toxic smoke\n- The use of e-cigarettes in the UK has remained at the same level over the last few years at just under 3 million (6% of the population)\n- The evidence does not support the concern that e-cigarettes are encouraging an increase in smoking among young people (youth smoking rates in the UK continue to decline, regular use is rare and is almost entirely confined to those who have smoked)\n- There are around 79,000 deaths a year in England caused by smoking, with someone admitted to hospital from smoking every minute.\nYou can read the full report here.\nPut the right insurance in place for your vaping business\nAnthony Jones are a specialist e-cigarette insurance broker, with real experience of the vaping market. We take the time to understand your business and what you need from your insurance. If you want to be confident of having the right insurance in place, please get in touch. We don’t charge anything for our time or the advice we give. You can call us on 0208 003 9711, send us an email, or fill out our online proposal form.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In The Skillful Teacher, Stephen D. Brookfield emphasizes the importance of teaching that is contextually informed. He explains that this critical reflection is really identifying and questioning if in fact the content we are teaching is accurate and valid for the students. In order to do so there are four lenses through which we can check the accuracy of our actions and assumptions. The first, students’ eyes, is perhaps obvious but there are three others that provide feedback: colleagues perceptions, educational literature, and our own personal autobiographies (p. 20).\nBrookfield, S. (2006). The skillful teacher: On trust, technique and responsiveness in the classroom. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A brief recap of what I have been discussing for the past 3 weeks…. I defined what perfectionism is which is a set of self-defeating thought patterns that push you to try to achieve unrealistic or unobtainable goals… I also differentiated between negative and positive perfectionism which are just to mention a few, negative perfectionist sees mistakes as signs of unworthiness on the other hand positive perfectionist sees mistakes and failures as part of growth. I also discussed the effects of negative perfectionism which are: procrastination, missed opportunities and so on…. I also mentioned causes of perfectionist behaviour in ourselves, root causes are mostly from childhood If you missed any of these series you can click on the links below:\nToday I am wrapping up this series by discussing ways to manage or avoid extreme perfectionism\nwhat are they?\nWhen we surrender to the moment, to change, to messiness or imperfection, we allow the seeds of excellence to grow. Excellence is that drive toward raising ourselves up to our own highest good thereby allowing our unique gifts, talents, and personalities to benefit the highest good of all.\nExcellence, unlike perfectionism, is about lovingly pushing ourselves to act, think, relate, and create from the highest part of ourselves.\nPerfection is about controlling the outcome in order to receive love and acceptance. It’s all about fear. Surrender is about accepting where we are at in any moment, knowing that we are a work in progress.\n- Be aware of your motivations for perfection\nAsk yourself this question why are you a perfectionist? after reviewing all the traits I mentioned earlier on in the last 2 series… look at the 3 common motivations for being a perfectionist… maybe to be a better person, to be the best you can be and to do things right by others\nKnowing these motivations serve to remind yourself of why you strive for perfection to begin with, after which you can use them to cross-check with your behaviour and see if your perfectionist tendencies actually serve you or pull you away from your vision of yourself.\nFor example, say you are a perfectionist because you want to achieve your best results in everything you do. Say you are preparing a presentation and you can’t seem to finish it because you keep finding things to edit. More specifically, these things you keep mulling over are little, nitty-gritty things, which don’t make a difference to the overall output.\nIt helps to review these questions: How does your obsession with trivial details help you to achieve your best results in life? Could you actually spend that time, elsewhere, in a more meaningful manner that enables you to achieve better results?\nMake sure your perfectionism doesn’t turn into a self-sabotaging tool.\n- Recognize that ideals are directions, not absolutes\nNeurotic perfectionists tend to beat themselves up incessantly over little setbacks and thwarts to their plans. They tend to see them as “failures”; in their minds, they think: “If I don’t achieve my goal or vision, that means I’ve failed. There is no point in doing any of this anymore. I have no way to rectify this situation. It’s a lost cause.”\nAs a perfectionist, you should recognize that your ideals are directions to work towards and not absolutes which you need to achieve. It is not your ideals that are the problems here; it’s your attachment towards them which need correction.\nIdeals are very good. Whatever ideals you have, continue to hold them, they drive you in your growth. Commit yourself to said ideals and goals. At the same time, don’t attach yourself to them. They are meant as to inspire, guide, and bring the best out of you, not to make you feel bad about yourself. If you ever feel bad about not achieving a certain ideal or goal, review your attachment with it, and let go of this attachment.\n- Respect and love yourself\nAre you beating yourself over something that could have been better? Let go of all these negative thoughts in your mind. You did what you could within that particular context. Recognize you are an individual with your own rights and integrity versus subjecting yourself to all the self-abuse and self-depreciation. Treat yourself with the respect you deserve.\n- Focus on the big picture\nOvercoming perfectionism requires you to start seeing the forest for the trees. Use prioritization techniques such as Time Management to aid you in identifying tasks which you should do and tasks which you should abandon altogether. For the tasks which you need to be involved in, use the 80-20 principle to help you gauge when to stop. Whenever a particular task is taking too much of your time, it is good to ask yourself ‘Does this matter in the bigger scheme of things?’. If it doesn’t, chuck it.\n- Focus on what can be done\nForget about mistakes that were made in the past which you cannot do anything about. Learn from them and move on; obsessing over them does not change anything at all. Realize that the time you spend thinking about your mistakes actually takes you away from time which you can have spent on more productive things instead! Stop worrying about things that are not within your control, such as the future, past and perceptions by others. Plan for contingencies (proactive) but beyond that, do not waste your time mulling over it.\n- Delegate and let go\nHave faith in other people’s abilities and delegate tasks to them. If they do not seem to be doing a particular task right, teach and help them instead of taking over entirely. Teach a man how to fish so there is more fish for everyone, rather than doing all the fishing yourself and limiting the total output.\n- Enjoy the entire process\nThe process is the longest part of achievement – enjoy it! Find ways to lighten it up – learn to laugh at yourself, take things positively, rest/eat/sleep/play when it is time to, take part in enriching recreational activities, do not deprioritize your social gatherings or time off from work.\n- Celebrate the victories and progress made\nGive yourself a pat in the back for everything that you do, regardless of the outcome. Reward yourself or other people if a good job is done. Give credit where credit is due. Wholeheartedly celebrate your victories when they come along—you have rightfully earned them!\n10. Constantly remind yourself that buying into myths of perfection will hurt you and your life.\nBy watching too many movies, listening to too many songs and just taking in what the world is telling you it is very easy to be lulled into dreams of perfection. It sounds so good and wonderful and you want it. But in real life it clashes with reality and tends to cause much suffering and stress within you and in the people around you. It can harm or possibly lead you to end relationships, jobs, projects etc. just because your expectations are out of this world. It’s helpful to remind yourself of this simple fact. Whenever you get lost in a perfectionist head-space you remind yourself that it will cause you and your world harm. And so it becomes easier to switch your focus and thought patterns because you want to avoid making unhelpful choices and avoids causing yourself and other people unnecessary pain.\nFood for thought\nour imperfection gives us room to grow and become better people… There is beauty in the cracks in the wall, there is beauty in imperfection CELEBRATE OUR IMPERFECTIONS", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In a new video, Professor N J Wildberger calls for the end of ‘infinity’\nNorman J Wildberger is an Associate Professor in mathematics at UNSW (University of New South Wales) in Sydney Australia, and he has a PhD in mathematics from Yale. He is well-known for his excellent educational videos on YouTube and for being an Ultrafinitist. He voices some of his objections to the concept of ‘infinity’ in his recent video (below) “MathFoundations178: The law of logical honesty and the end of infinity”.\nAt 27 seconds into the video he announces “It’s time for us to face the music and expel infinity from mathematics”. He goes on to consider the physical universe and argues there are no “infinite things” in our world. He claims we cannot imagine an ‘infinite’ set, we only imagine we can imagine one. If we accept the existence of finite sets, does this mean other sets must exist that are ‘not finite’? Surely not, because if we can see a visible hotel it doesn’t mean an invisible one must exist, and if we have a moveable kitten it does not mean an immovable kitten must exist.\nThere is an argument that sets which are not finite must be infinite. This presupposes that both finite and “infinite” sets already exist, whereupon we could say the ones that are not finite are “infinite”. Professor Wildberger says “we don’t have such a pool of sets to begin with”.\nRegarding the removal of infinity from mathematics, he warns “This is an argument that has enormous implications” and “a lot of mathematics really has to be re-thought”\nYou can watch the video below.\nI (Karma Peny) posted a YouTube comment to highlight the issue that we have no clear statement to describe what mathematics is. I said that mathematics was originally devised to solve real-world problems and that it was underpinned by real-world physics. It’s apparent generic nature can create the illusion that mathematics has its own ‘existence’ and that it is not simply a tool based on real-world physics.\nI compared the axiom ‘an infinite set exists’ with an axiom ‘the god of thunder exists’. We can claim both are consistent and cannot be disproved, but both these axioms are equally worthless and irrelevant in the real-world, just as are any deductions derived using these axioms. I concluded “It is often argued that the use of ‘infinity’ in mathematics has proven to be very successful, but the successes could be despite the use of ‘infinity’ rather than because of it. I suspect we will have more clarity and even more successes if we abandon the use of non real-world axioms”.\nMy comment attracted a brilliant response from YouTube user ‘Amonojack A’. Here is part of this response… “So-called ‘pure math’ was born out of the idea that it might be worth developing mathematical objects and relations that correspond to no physical situation yet discovered, but could. Seems noble enough. The problem came when people failed to keep track of context. They floundered into musing about things that not only had no known physical analog, but that couldn’t ever even conceivably have a physical analog”.\nProfessor Wildberger was so impressed with these comments that he published them both in their entirety here, on his own website.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In a living cell, hundreds to thousands different chemical reactions take place in parallel. However, many chemical reactions produce reactive or toxic compounds that could harm or even kill a cell. How do organisms protect themselves against such toxic intermediates? Now, scientists from the Center for Synthetic Microbiology in Marburg (SYNMIKRO) discovered that some cells produce proteinaceous nano-reactors inside which they perform hazardous chemical reactions.\nA team around Tobias Erb at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany and member of the Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) studied the bacterial enzyme propionyl-CoA synthase, which catalyzes three different reactions. One of these reactions produces the reactive compound acrylyl-CoA, which is chemically similar to acrylamide, a hazardous compound that has gained world-wide attention in the early 2000s. The Max Planck researchers became interested in understanding how bacterial cells that use propionyl-CoA synthase protect themselves against the toxic acrylyl-CoA formed by the enzyme.\n“When we obtained the atomic structure of propionyl-CoA synthase, we were surprised to learn that the enzyme forms a small nano-reactor, which contains a central reaction chamber to sequester acrylyl-CoA”, said Iria Bernhardsgrütter the first author of the study. “Even when we perturbed the reaction sequence of the enzyme, it kept acrylyl-CoA effectively inside without any measurable leakage.”\nBut how does the nano-reactor control which reaction intermediates to keep inside? The trick is a dynamic regulation. The first reaction of the enzyme induces the closing of the reaction chamber, so that acrylyl-CoA is produced exclusively inside the closed enzyme. The central chamber is only opened again once acrylyl-CoA was converted further into a harmless product.\n“It is amazing how nature built this small enzyme reactor that is so sophistically regulated” says Tobias Erb who directed the study. Proteinaceous containers were already known to biologists, but the one discovered by the SYNMIKRO Scientists is by far the smallest one ever reported. With an inner volume of 33 nm3 it is 1024 – or a trillion trillion times – smaller than a soccer ball. Additionally, it shows this precisely controlled opening and closing.\n“We now hope to learn more about the building principle of this beautiful biocatalyst” says Erb. “Imagine we were able to build and use such reactors also for the chemical industry. These enzyme reactors could help us to perform challenging chemical reactions in an environmental friendly and sustainable manner in the future” concludes Erb. Besides being supported by the Max Planck Society, the study obtained support from the US Department of Energy, the European Union and Collaborative Research Center 987 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.\nOriginalpublikation: Bernhardsgrütter I, Vögeli B, Wagner T, Peter DM, Cortina NS, Kahnt J, Bange G, Engilberge S, Girard E, Riobé F, Maury O, Shima S, Zarzycki J, Erb TJ The multicatalytic compartment of propionyl-CoA synthase sequesters a toxic metabolite. Nature Chemical Biology (2018). DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41589-018-0153-x", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The “Development of the transport is one of the most important tasks” poster was used in Soviet Russia to encourage and justify the work of the people.\nThe image is one of modernity with a train towering over a man on a horse. This is intended to depict the power of a train in comparison to the traditional horse. Behind this image is one of numerous other trains zooming along their tracks.\nDuring the Soviet era freight rail travel increased 55 times and passenger train travel increased 10 times. With vast expanse of the Soviet empire it was an important means of communications for the people from different sides of the country. The following article explains more about rail transport in the Soviet Union.\nThis is one of a series of posters which encouraged work and industry in the Soviet Empire during Stalins rain. Another in our collection of Soviet Propaganda Posters include the for proletarian Park of Culture and Recreation poster.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "According to Wikipedia, ophidiophobia\nis a particular type of specific phobia, the abnormal fear of snakes. It is sometimes called by a more general term, herpetophobia, fear of reptiles and/or amphibians. The word comes from the Greek words “ophis” (ὄφις) which refers to snake, and “phobia” (φοβία) meaning fear.\nAn ophidiophobe not only fears them [snakes] when in live contact but also dreads to think about them or even see them in video or still pictures.\nAbout a third of adult humans are ophidiophobic, making this the most common reported phobia.\nThis post is a heads up to my readers (ophidiophobic or otherwise), the next four posts on this blog are going to be true snake stories. Consider yourself warned!\nThe image of the snake is from https://classroomclipart.com/clipart/Clipart/Animals/Reptile_Clipart/Snake_Clipart.htm.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Many people have trouble getting fiber in their daily diet. The goal is 20-35 grams of fiber a day. Fiber is found only in plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, and legumes. Fiber is not digested and does not add calories. Making sure you have enough fiber in your diet helps lower your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and constipation.\nBenefits of Fiber:\n- Makes you feel fuller sooner and you feel full longer\n- Slows the rise of blood sugar after eating\n- Lowers blood cholesterol\n- Prevents constipation\nTwo Types of Fiber:\n- Found in bran, whole grains, some vegetables and nuts\n- Helps prevent constipation. It increases stool volume and lets it pass easily through the intestines\n- Found in oats, beans, citrus fruits and barley\n- May help lower blood sugar and cholesterol\nIncrease fiber slowly. Adding it too quickly can cause diarrhea, gas and bloating. Increase by no more than five grams a day. Drink plenty of water and non-calorie fluids. A high fiber diet can cause constipation if you do not get enough fluid.\nWays to increase your fiber intake:\n- Use brown rice rather than white rice.\n- Include a bean dish at least once a week; add beans to salads.\n- Use whole grain cereals that have at least four grams of fiber per serving; combine with fresh fruit.\n- Eat whole fruit rather than drinking juice.\n- Snack on fruits, vegetables, popcorn or high fiber crackers.\n- Eat the skin on fruits and vegetables when possible.\n- Increase vegetables portions at lunch and dinner\n- With packaged foods, look for foods with at least two grams of fiber per 100 calories.\n- Use whole grain bread rather than white bread. Whole grain should be the first item listed on the food label. Avoid large amounts of processed grains.\nAverage fiber content of foods\n| Fruits || Serving Size || Grams of Fiber per Serving |\n| Apple with skin || 1 medium || 3 |\n| Figs, dried || 2 medium || 4 |\n| Pear || 1 medium || 4 |\n| Strawberries || 1 cup || 4 |\n| || || |\n| Grains, Cereals and Pasta || Serving Size || Grams of Fiber per Serving |\n| Bran cereal || 1/3 cup || 8 |\n| Brown rice, cooked || 1/2 cup || 2 |\n| Pumpernickel bread || 1 slice || 3 |\n| Whole wheat pasta || 1/2 cup || 3 |\n| || || |\n| Vegetables || Serving Size || Grams of Fiber per Serving |\n| Broccoli || 1/2 cup || 2 |\n| Brussel sprouts || 1/2 cup || 3 |\n| Spinach || 1/2 cup || 2 |\n| || || |\n| Legumes, Nuts and Seeds || Serving Size || Grams of Fiber per Serving |\n| Baked beans, canned || 1/2 cup || 3 |\n| Lentils || 1/2 cup || 4 |\n| Peanuts, dry roasted || 1/4 cup || 3 |\n| Sunflower seeds || 1/4 cup || 2 |\nReference: The American Dietetic Association’s Complete Food & Nutrition Guide, Roberta Larson Duyff, MS, RD, CFCS, Chronimed Publishing, 1998, p. 150.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Antelope Commons Project\nby Kristen Schmidt\nIt may seem commonplace in other parts of the country, but installing effective urban erosion and sediment control practices in Lincoln, Nebraska is rare. Before last year, capitol city developers did not have a model available for reference even if they did wish to apply conservation measures to their sites.\nEnter the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District. To fill this void, the political subdivision prepared a 400+ page Manual of Erosion and Sediment Control and Stormwater Management Standards. The manual is a tool for planning boards, governmental bodies, property owners, developers, contractors, consultants and others to provide information on minimizing erosion and sediment problems as well as address water quality concerns on land undergoing urban development. The document shows, in detail how to use soil, water, plants and man-made structures to improve the quality of our environment. Included with the Manual is a sample ordinance that has been presented to Lincoln's Urban Stormwater Task Force for consideration. At this time, there is no enforcement from the City of Lincoln for developers to design an erosion control plan for land disturbing activities. The district is relying on the leadership of Lincoln's developers to voluntarily be good stewards of the land.\nOne such volunteer is Urth Propriety's Richard Speidell. Speidell approached the Lower Platte South NRD with a plan unlike any other that had been attempted in Lincoln. As the owner of Nebraska Nurseries, Speidell realized that urban encroachment on his property was prompting him to convert the wooded area to a residential development. From the beginning, Speidell's vision included a plan that would minimize the impacts on the existing landscape. More than forty percent of Speidell's Antelope Commons Development Project will remain as open space. Within that area, Antelope Creek winds through the property.\nANTELOPE COMMONS WETLAND PROJECT\nA Cooperative Venture\nThe Lower Platte South NRD and Richard Speidell teamed up to create a unique and aggressive plan for protecting water quality in Antelope Creek and Lincoln's Holme's Lake which lies just 1/2 mile downstream of the Antelope Commons development. The project included the construction of a system of four wetland cells within the creek channel. Each pond is separated by a low weir with simple stop log structures for controlling water levels. The depths and shape of each wetland pond was carefully calculated to provide proper settling of sediments as they reach the uppermost structure. The perimeter of each pond includes a shelf of wetland vegetation adding to the natural filtering process of sediment and nutrients. The uppermost pond is essentially a sediment trap that will be dredged as it fills with incoming sediment. Water depths in each of the other three ponds range from about three to fifteen feet.\nThe wetland project, completed in June 1995, is being monitored by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. Initial data has already shown a significant reduction in sediment loading to Holmes Lake as a result of the Antelope Commons Wetland Project. Visitors to the project can visualize the sediment filtering process in action. Following rainfall events, one can compare the varying degrees of water turbidity in each of the ponds. The uppermost structure remains murky, much like a marsh, and water clarity improves dramatically as you move downstream along the project.\nOne of the most notable characteristics of this project is that all the work was put in place BEFORE any ground was moved for residential development. The project preserved the integrity of the land and enhanced the natural beauty of the area. The Natural Resources District regards this project as a model for other developers in Lincoln.\nThe Antelope Commons Wetland Project is a key component in the Salt Valley Clean Lakes Project. This is a cooperative effort of the NRD, U.S. EPA, Nebraska Dept. of Environmental Quality and University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension. An EPA Section 319 Grant was obtained by the NRD to assist with efforts to reduce non-point source pollution in the Holmes Lake Watershed. Written in the grant was $168,000 to be applied to the Antelope Commons Project. Additional matching funds were obtained by the Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund.\nWith a little perseverance, Speidell's vision for the Antelope Commons project became a reality. He has created a truly unique setting that is carefully buffered from the hustle and bustle of city life. New homeowners in the development will be able to enjoy the Antelope Commons Wetlands from their own backyards. All the area will be open space for residents to visit. Speidell also plans to open a portion of the property up to the public for recreation and education. He is working to develop an \"outdoor classroom\" that will focus on the benefits of urban erosion and sediment control. The NRD applauds the VOLUNTARY efforts of this local developer. It is a bold, responsible step that we all hope will begin to change the way future developments are approached within Lincoln's city limits.\n©2004 - 1998 Land and Water, Inc.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Artis Indonesia Berbikini Free Healthy Bones Osteoporosis, osteoporosis or brittle bone disease is one disease that afflicts bone due to reduced bone mass and density. As a result of osteoporosis are the bones become brittle and break easily due to reduced bone density. Bone itself is one important part of our body. Bone is the framework that supports our body so we can move. Can imagine if this body of supporting frail, brittle and easily broken, the result is pain in the bones, the disturbance to move even cause paralysis and permanent disability.\nBy Berita Artis Hot", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Nansei-shotō (南西諸島?, Southwest Islands)\nRyūkyū-shotō (琉球諸島?, Ryukyu Islands)\nRuuchuu (ルーチュー?, Okinawan language)\nLocation of Ryukyu Islands\n|Location||On the boundary between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea|\n|Total islands||over 100|\n|Major islands||Okinawa, Amami|\n|Area||4,642.11 km2 (1,792.33 sq mi)|\n|Highest elevation||1,936 m (6,352 ft)|\n|Highest point||Mt. Miyanoura-dake|\n|Prefecture||Okinawa Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture|\n|Population||1,550,161 (as of 2005)|\n|Density||333.93 /km2 (864.87 /sq mi)|\n|Ethnic groups||Ryukyuan, Japanese|\nThe Ryukyu Islands // (琉球諸島 Ryūkyū-shotō?), known in Japanese as the Nansei Islands (南西諸島 Nansei-shotō?, lit. \"Southwest Islands\") and also known as the Ryukyu Arc (琉球弧 Ryūkyū-ko?), are a chain of volcanic Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost. The largest of the islands is Okinawa.\nThe islands have a subtropical climate with mild winters and hot summers. Precipitation is very high, and is affected by the rainy season and typhoons. Except the outlying Daitō Islands, the island chain has two major geologic boundaries, the Tokara Strait between the Tokara and Amami Islands, and the Kerama Gap between the Okinawa and Miyako Islands. The islands beyond the Tokara Strait are characterized by their coral reefs.\nThe Ōsumi and Tokara Islands, the northernmost of the islands, fall under the cultural sphere of the Kyushu region of Japan; the people are ethnically Japanese and speak a variation of the Kagoshima dialect of Japanese. The Amami, Okinawa, Miyako, and Yaeyama Islands have a native population collectively called the Ryukyuans, named after the former Ryukyu Kingdom that ruled them. The varied Ryukyuan languages are traditionally spoken on these islands, and each island has its own distinct language. In modern times, the Japanese language is the primary language of the islands, with the Okinawan Japanese dialect prevalent spoken. The outlying Daitō Islands were uninhabited until the Meiji period, when their development was started mainly by people from the Izu Islands south of Tokyo, with the people there speaking a Hachijo dialect.\nAdministratively, the islands are divided into Kagoshima Prefecture in the north and Okinawa Prefecture in the south, with the divide between the Amami and Okinawa Islands, with the Daitō Islands part of Okinawa Prefecture. The northern (Kagoshima) islands are collectively called the Satsunan Islands, while the southern part of the chain (Okinawa Prefecture) are called the Ryukyu Islands in Japanese.\n- 1 Island subgrouping\n- 2 Names and extents\n- 3 History\n- 4 Demographics\n- 5 Ecology\n- 6 See also\n- 7 Notes\n- 8 References\n- 9 External links\nThe Ryukyus are commonly divided into two or three primary groups:\n- either administratively, with the Northern Ryukyus being the islands in Kagoshima Prefecture (known in Japanese as the \"Satsunan Islands\") and the Southern Ryukyus being the islands in Okinawa Prefecture (known in Japanese as the \"Ryukyu Islands\"),\n- or geologically, with the islands north of the Tokara Strait (Ōsumi and Tokara) being the Northern Ryukyus, those between the Tokara Strait and Kerama Gap (Amami and Okinawa) being the Central Ryukyus, and those south of the Kerama Gap (Miyako and Yaeyama) being the Southern Ryukyus.\n- Nansei Islands (南西諸島 Nansei-shotō?)\n- Satsunan Islands (薩南諸島 Satsunan-shotō?)\n- Ōsumi Islands (大隅諸島 Ōsumi-shotō?) with:\n- Tokara Islands (吐噶喇列島 Tokara-rettō?): Kuchinoshima, Nakanoshima, Gajajima, Suwanosejima, Akusekijima, Tairajima, Kodakarajima, Takarajima\n- Amami Islands (奄美群島 Amami-guntō?): Amami Ōshima, Kikaijima, Kakeromajima, Yoroshima, Ukeshima, Tokunoshima, Okinoerabujima, Yoronjima\n- Ryukyu Islands (琉球諸島 Ryūkyū-shotō?)\n- Okinawa Islands (沖縄諸島 Okinawa-shotō?): Okinawa Island, Kume, Iheya, Izena, Aguni, Ie (Iejima), Iwo Tori Shima (Iōtorishima) \n- Sakishima Islands (先島諸島 Sakishima-shotō?, the \"Further Isles\")\n- Miyako Islands (宮古列島 Miyako-rettō?): Miyakojima, Ikema, Ōgami, Irabu, Shimoji, Kurima, Minna, Tarama\n- Yaeyama Islands (八重山列島 Yaeyama-rettō?): Iriomote, Ishigaki, Taketomi, Kohama, Kuroshima, Aragusuku, Hatoma, Yubujima, Hateruma, Yonaguni\n- Senkaku Islands (尖閣諸島 Senkaku-shotō?, claimed by China and Taiwan): Uotsurijima, Kuba Jima, Taisho Jima, Kita Kojima, Minami Kojima\n- Daitō Islands (大東諸島 Daitō-shotō?): Kita Daitō, Minami Daitō, Oki Daitō\n- Satsunan Islands (薩南諸島 Satsunan-shotō?)\nThe Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, another government organization that is responsible for standardization of place names, disagrees with the Japan Coast Guard over some names and their extent, but the two are working on standardization. They agreed on February 15, 2010, to use Amami-guntō (奄美群島?) for the Amami Islands; prior to that, Amami-shotō (奄美諸島?) had also been used.\nNames and extents\nIn English, the island chain as a whole is called \"Ryukyu\". In Japanese, however, terminology is more complicated.\nNansei-shotō (南西諸島?) is the official name for the whole island chain in Japanese. Japan has used the name on nautical charts since 1907. Based on the Japanese charts, the international chart series uses Nansei Shoto.\nNansei literally means 'southwest', the direction of the island chain from mainland Japan. Some humanities scholars prefer the uncommon term Ryūkyū-ko (琉球弧?, \"Ryukyu Arc\") for the entire island chain. In geology, however, the Ryukyu Arc includes subsurface structures such as the Okinawa Trough and extends to Kyushu.\nDuring the American occupation of Amami, the Japanese government objected to them being included under the name \"Ryukyu\" in English, because they worried that this might mean that the return of the Amami Islands to Japanese control would be delayed until the return of Okinawa. However, the American occupational government on Amami continued to called the \"Provisional Government for the Northern Ryukyu Islands\" in English, though it was translated as Rinji Hokubu Nansei-shotō Seichō (臨時北部南西諸島政庁?, Provisonal Government for the Northern Nansei Islands) in Japanese.\nThe name of Ryūkyū (琉球?) is strongly associated with the Ryūkyū Kingdom, a highly centralized kingdom that originated from the Okinawa Islands and subjected the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands, and the Amami Islands for some time. The name is generally considered outdated in Japanese although some entities of Okinawa still bear the name, such as the local national university.\nIn geography, the \"Ryukyu Islands\" (琉球諸島 Ryūkyū-shotō?) cover the Okinawa, Miyako, and Yaeyama Islands. Some variant definitions include the Amami Islands and/or the Daitō Islands. In contrast, the northern half of the island chain is referred to as the Satsunan (\"South of Satsuma\") Islands. In natural science, Ryukyu sometimes refers to the entire island chain.\nHumanities scholars generally agree that the Amami, Okinawa, Miyako, and Yaeyama Islands share much cultural heritage, though they are characterized by a great degree of internal diversity as well. There is, however, no good name for the group. The native population do not have their own name, since they do not recognize themselves as a group this size. Ryukyu is the principal candidate because it roughly corresponds to the maximum extent of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. However, it is not necessarily considered neutral by the people of Amami, Miyako, and Yaeyama, who were marginalized under the Okinawa-centered kingdom. The Ōsumi and Tokara Islands are not included because they are culturally part of Kyushu. There is a high degree of confusion in use of Ryukyu in English literature. For example, Encyclopedia Britannica equates the Ryukyu Islands with Japanese Ryūkyū-shotō or Nansei-shotō in the definition but limits its scope to the Amami, Okinawa and Sakishima (Miyako and Yaeyama) in the content.\n\"Ryūkyū\" is an exonym and is not a self-designation. The word first appeared in the Book of Sui (636). Its obscure description of Liuqiu (流求) is the source of a never-ending scholarly debate over what was referred to by the name, Taiwan, Okinawa or both. Nevertheless the Book of Sui shaped perceptions of Ryūkyū for a long time. Ryūkyū was considered a land of cannibals and aroused a feeling of dread among surrounding people, from Buddhist monk Enchin, who travelled to Tang China in 858, to an informant of the Hyōtō Ryūkyū-koku ki, who travelled to Song China in 1243. Later, some Chinese sources used \"Great Ryukyu\" (Chinese: 大琉球; pinyin: Dà Liúqiú) for Okinawa and \"Lesser Ryukyu\" (Chinese: 小琉球; pinyin: Xiǎo Liúqiú) for Taiwan. Although some dialectologists managed to find Okinawan forms of \"Ryūkyū\", Ruuchuu (ルーチュー?) or Duuchuu (ドゥーチュー?) in the Shuri-Naha dialect and Ruuchuu (ルーちュー?) in the Nakijin dialect, it was not used among Okinawans.\nFrom about 1829 until the mid-20th century, the island's English name was spelled Luchu, Loochoo, or Lewchew. These spellings were based on the Chinese pronunciation of the characters for \"Ryukyu\", which in Mandarin is Liúqiú, as well as the Okinawan language's form Ruuchuu (ルーチュー?).\nOkinawa (沖縄?) is originally a native name for the largest island in the island chain. The name came to be used for the prefecture that covers the southern half of the island chain. It never extends to Kagoshima Prefecture. Outside the prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture is simply referred to as Okinawa. In Okinawa Prefecture, however, Okinawa is strongly associated with Okinawa Island, and in this sense, Okinawa excludes the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands. People in the Yaeyama Islands would use the expression \"go to Okinawa\" when they visit Okinawa Island. People from the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture would also oppose being included in Okinawa.\nSome scholars feel the need to group the Amami and Okinawa Islands because Amami is closer to Okinawa in some respects, for example from a linguistic point of view, than Miyako and Yaeyama. They sometimes use \"Amami–Okinawa.\" They have no good single-word term for the group since the native population had not felt the need for such a concept.\nThe folklorist Kunio Yanagita and his followers used Nantō (南島?, \"Southern Islands\"). This term was originally used by the imperial court of Ancient Japan. Yanagita hypothesized that the southern islands was the origin of the Japanese people and preserved many elements that were subsequently lost in Japan. The term has fallen out of favor today.\nAncient Japan's Southern Islands\nThe island chain appeared in written history as Japan's Southern Islands (南島 Minamishima?). The first record of the Southern Islands is an article of 618 in the Nihonshoki (720) which states that people of Yaku (掖玖, 夜勾?) followed the emperor's virtue. In 629 the imperial court dispatched an expedition to Yaku. Yaku in historical sources was not limited to modern-day Yakushima but seems to have covered a broader area of the island chain. In 657, several persons from Tokara (都貨邏?, possibly Dvaravati) arrived at Kyushu, reporting that they had first drifted to Amami Island (海見島 Amamijima?), which is the first attested use of Amami.\nArticles of the late 7th century give a closer look at the southern islands. In 677, the imperial court gave a banquet to people from Tane Island (多禰島 Tanejima?). In 679 the imperial court sent a mission to Tane Island. The mission carried some peoples from the southern islands who were described as the peoples of Tane, Yaku, and Amami (阿麻弥?) in the article of 682. According to the Shoku Nihongi (797), the imperial court dispatched armed officers in 698 to explore the southern islands. As a result, people of Tane, Yaku, Amami and Dokan visited the capital to pay tribute in the next year. Historians identify Dokan as Tokunoshima of the Amami Islands. An article of 714 reports that an investigative team returned to the capital, together with people of Amami, Shigaki (信覚?), and Kumi (球美?) among others. Shigaki should be Ishigaki Island of the Yaeyama Islands. Some identify Kumi as Iriomote Island of the Yaeyama Islands because Komi is an older name for Iriomote. Others consider that Kumi corresponded to Kume Island of the Okinawa Islands. Around this time \"Southern Islands\" replaced Yaku as a collective name for the southern islands.\nIn the early 8th century the northern end of the island chain was formally incorporated into the Japanese administrative system. After a rebellion was crushed, Tane Province was established around 702. Tane Province consisted of four districts and covered Tanegashima and Yakushima. Although the tiny province faced financial difficulties from the very beginning, it was maintained until 824 when it was merged into Ōsumi Province.\nAncient Japan's commitment to the southern islands is attributed to ideological and strategic factors. Japan applied to herself the Chinese ideology of emperorship that required \"barbarian people\" who longed for the great virtue of the emperor. Thus Japan treated people on its periphery as \"barbarians,\" i.e., the Emishi to the east and the Hayato and the Southern Islanders to the south. The imperial court brought some of them to the capital to serve the emperor. The New Book of Tang (1060) states at the end of the chapter of Japan that there were three little princes of Yaku (邪古?), Haya (波邪?), and Tane (多尼?). This statement should have based on a report by Japanese envoys in the early 8th century who would have claimed the Japanese emperor's virtue. At the site of Dazaifu, the administrative center of Kyushu, two wooden tags dated in the early 8th century were unearthed in 1984, which read \"Amami Island\" (㭺美嶋 Amamijima?) and \"Iran Island\" (伊藍嶋 Iran no Shima?) respectively. The latter seems to correspond to Okinoerabu Island. These tags might have been attached to \"red woods\", which, according to the Engishiki (927), Dazaifu was to offer when they were obtained from the southern islands.\nThe southern islands had strategic importance for Japan because they were on one of the three major routes used by Japanese missions to Tang China (630–840). The 702 mission seems the first one who successfully switched from the earlier route via Korea to the southern island route. Thereafter the missions of 714, 733 and 752 probably took the route. In 754 the Chinese monk Jianzhen managed to reach Japan. His biography Tō Daiwajō Tōseiden (779) makes reference to Akonaha (阿児奈波?) on the route, which may refer to modern-day Okinawa Island. An article of 754 states that the government repaired mileposts that had originally been set in the southern islands in 735. However, the missions from 777 onward chose another route that directly connected Kyūshū to China. Thereafter the central government lost its interest in the southern islands.\nKikaigashima and Iōgashima\nThe southern islands reappeared in written history at the end of the 10th century. According to the Nihongi ryaku (c. 11th–12th centuries), Dazaifu, the administrative center of Kyushu, reported that the Nanban (southern barbarians) pirates, who were identified as Amami islanders by the Shōyūki (982–1032 for the extant portion), pillaged a wide area of Kyūshū in 997. In response, Dazaifu ordered \"Kika Island\" (貴駕島 Kikashima?) to arrest the Nanban. This is the first attested use of Kikaigashima, which is often used in subsequent sources.\nThe series of reports suggest that there were groups of people with advanced sailing technology in Amami and that Dazaifu had a stronghold in Kikai Island. In fact, historians hypothesize that the Amami Islands were incorporated into a trade network that connected it to Kyūshū, Song China and Goryeo. In fact, the Shōyūki recorded that in 1020s local governors of southern Kyūshū presented to the author, a court aristocrat, local specialties of the southern islands including the Chinese fan palm, red woods and shells of Green Turban Shell. The Shinsarugakuki, a fiction written in the mid-11th century, introduced a merchant named Hachirō-mauto, who traveled all the way to the land of the Fushū in the east and to Kika Island (貴賀之島 Kikanoshima?) in the west. The goods he obtained from the southern islands included shells of Green Turban Shell and sulfur. The Shinsarugakuki was not mere fiction; the Golden Hall of Chūson-ji (c. 1124) in northeastern Japan was decorated with tens of thousands of green turban shells.\nSome articles of 1187 of the Azuma Kagami state that Ata Tadakage of Satsuma Province fled to Kikai Island (貴海島 Kikaishima?) sometime around 1160. The Azuma Kagami also states that in 1188 Minamoto no Yoritomo, who soon became the shogun, dispatched troops to pacify Kikai Island (貴賀井島 Kikaishima?). It was noted that the imperial court objected the military expedition claiming that it was beyond Japan's administration. The Tale of the Heike (13th century) depicted Kikai Island (鬼界島 Kikaishima?), where Shunkan, Taira no Yasuyori, and Fujiwara no Naritsune were exiled following the Shishigatani Incident of 1177. The island depicted, characterized by sulfur, is identified as Iōjima of the Ōsumi Islands, which is part of Kikai Caldera. Since China's invention of gunpowder made sulfur Japan's major export, Sulfur Island or Iōgashima became another representative of the southern islands. It is noted by scholars that the character representing the first syllable of Kikai changed from ki (貴?, noble) to ki (鬼?, ogre) from the end of the 12th century to the early 13th century.\nThe literature-based theory that Kikai Island was Japan's trade center of the southern islands is supported by the discovery of the Gusuku Site Complex in 2006. The group of archaeological sites on the plateau of Kikai Island is one of the largest sites of the era. It lasted from 9th to 13th centuries and at its height from the second half of the 11th to the first half of the 12th century. It was characterized by a near-total absence of the native Kaneku Type pottery, which prevailed in coastal communities. What were found instead were goods imported from mainland Japan, China and Korea. Also found was the Kamuiyaki pottery, which was produced in Tokunoshima from the 11th to 14th centuries. The skewed distribution of Kamuiyaki peaked at Kikai and Tokunoshima suggests that the purpose of Kamuiyaki production was to serve it to Kikai.\nShimazu Estate and Kamakura shogunate's expansion\nAround the Hōen era (1135–1141), Tanegashima became part of Shimazu Estate on southern Kyūshū. The Shimazu Estate was said to have established at Shimazu, Hyūga Province in 1020s and dedicated to Kanpaku Fujiwara no Yorimichi. In the 12th century, Shimazu Estate expanded to a large portion of Satsuma and Ōsumi Provinces including Tanegashima.\nKoremune no Tadahisa, a retainer of the Fujiwara family, was appointed as a steward of Shimazu Estate in 1185. He was then named shugo of Satsuma and Ōsumi (and later Hyūga) Provinces by first shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1197. He became the founder of the Shimazu clan. Tadahisa lost power when his powerful relative Hiki Yoshikazu was overthrown in 1203. He lost the positions of shugo and jitō and only regained the posts of shugo of Satsuma Province and jitō of the Satsuma portion of Shimazu Estate. The shugo of Ōsumi Province and jitō of the Ōsumi portion of Shimazu Estate, both of which controlled Tanegashima, were succeeded by the Hōjō clan (especially its Nagoe branch). The Nagoe family sent the Higo clan to rule Ōsumi. A branch family of the Higo clan settled in Tanegashima and became the Tanegashima clan.\nThe islands other than Tanegashima were grouped as the Twelve Islands and treated as part of Kawanabe District, Satsuma Province. The Twelve Islands were subdivided into the Near Five (口五島/端五島 Kuchigoshima/Hajigoshima?) and the Remote Seven (奥七島 Okunanashima?). The Near Five consisted of the Ōsumi Islands except Tanegashima while the Remote Seven corresponded to the Tokara Islands. After the Jōkyū War in 1221, the jitō of Kawanabe District was assumed by the Hōjō Tokusō family. The Tokusō family let its retainer Chikama clan rule Kawanabe District. In 1306, Chikama Tokiie created a set of inheritance documents that made reference to various southern islands. The islands mentioned were not limited to the Twelve but included Amami Ōshima, Kikai Island and Tokunoshima (and possibly Okinoerabu Island) of the Amami Islands. An extant map of Japan held by the Hōjō clan describes Amami as a \"privately owned district.\" The Shimazu clan also claimed the rights to the Twelve. In 1227 Shōgun Kujō Yoritsune affirmed Shimazu Tadayoshi's position as the jitō of the Twelve Islands among others. After the Kamakura shogunate was destroyed, the Shimazu clan increased its rights. In 1364, it claimed the \"eighteen islands\" of Kawanabe District. In the same year, the clan's head Shimazu Sadahisa gave his son Morohisa properties in Satsuma Province including the Twelve Islands and the \"extra five\" islands. The latter must be the Amami Islands.\nTanegashima under the Tanegashima clan\nThe Tanegashima clan came to rule Tanegashima on behalf of the Nagoe family but soon got autonomous. It usually allied with, sometimes submitted itself to, and sometimes antagonized the Shimazu clan on mainland Kyūshū. The Tanegashima clan was given Yakushima and Kuchinoerabu Island by Shimazu Motohisa in 1415. In 1436 it was given the Seven Islands of Kawanabe District, Satsuma Province (the Tokara Islands) and other two islands by Shimazu Mochihisa, the head of a branch family.\nTanegashima is known in Japanese history for the introduction of European firearms to Japan. Around 1543, a Chinese junk with Portuguese merchants on board was driven to Tanegashima. Tanegashima Tokitaka succeeded in reproducing matchlock rifles obtained from the Portuguese. Within few decades, firearms, then known as tanegashima, were spread across Sengoku Japan.\nToyotomi Hideyoshi's reunification of Japan finalized the Tanegashima clan's status as a senior vassal of the Shimazu clan. It was relocated to Chiran of mainland Kyūshū in 1595. Although it moved back to Tanegashima in 1599, Yakushima and Kuchinoerabu Island fall under the direct control of the Shimazu clan. These islands all constituted Satsuma Domain during the Edo period.\nPolities of the Okinawa Islands were unified as the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1429. The kingdom conquered the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands. At its peak, it also subjected the Amami Islands to its rule.\nIn 1609, Shimazu Tadatsune, Lord of Satsuma, invaded the Ryūkyū Kingdom with a fleet of 13 junks and 2,500 samurai, thereby establishing suzerainty over the islands. They faced little opposition from the Ryukyuans, who lacked any significant military capabilities, and who were ordered by King Shō Nei to surrender rather than to suffer the loss of precious lives. After that, the kings of the Ryukyus paid tribute to the Japanese shogun as well as to the Chinese emperor. In 1655, the tributary relations between Ryukyu and Qing were formally approved by the shogunate. In 1874, the Ryukyus terminated tribute relations with China.\nIn 1872, the Japanese government established the Ryukyu han under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Ministry. In 1875, jurisdiction over the Ryukyus changed from the Foreign Ministry to the Home Ministry.\nAmerican military control over Okinawa began in 1945 with the establishment of the United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands, which in 1950 became the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands. Also in 1950, the Interim Ryukyus Advisory Council (臨時琉球諮詢委員会 Rinji Ryūkyū Shijun Iinkai?) was formed, which evolved into the Ryukyu Provisional Central Government (琉球臨時中央政府 Ryūkyū Rinji Chūō Seifu?) in 1951. In 1952, the U.S. was formally granted control over Ryukyu Islands south of 29°N latitude, and other Pacific islands, under the San Francisco Peace Treaty between the Allied Powers and Japan. The Ryukyu Provisional Central Government then became the Government of the Ryukyu Islands which existed from 1952 to 1972. Administrative rights reverted to Japan in 1972.\nToday, numerous issues arise from Okinawan history. Some Ryukyuans and some Japanese feel that people from the Ryukyus are different from the majority Yamato people. Some natives of the Ryukyus claim that the central government is discriminating against the islanders by allowing so many American soldiers to be stationed on bases in Okinawa with a minimal presence on the mainland. Additionally, there is some discussion of secession from Japan. As the territorial dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands intensified in the early 21st century, Communist Party of China-backed scholars published essays calling for a reexamination of Japan's sovereignty over the Ryukyus. In 2013 The New York Times described the comments by said scholars as well as military figures as appearing to constitute \"a semiofficial campaign in China to question Japanese rule of the islands,\" noting that \"almost all the voices in China pressing the Okinawa issue are affiliated in some way with the government.\"\nHistorical description of the \"Loo-Choo\" islands\nAn article in the 1878 edition of the Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information describes the islands:\nLoo-Choo, Lu-Tchu, or Lieu-Kieu, a group of thirty-six islands stretching from Japan to Formosa, in 26°-27° 40' N. lat., 126° 10'-129° 5' E. long., and tributary to Japan. The largest, Tsju San ('middle island'), is about 60 miles long and 12 [miles] broad; others are Sannan in the [south] and Sanbok in the [north]. Nawa, the chief port of Tsju San, is open to foreign commerce. The islands enjoy a magnificent climate and are highly cultivated and very productive. Among the productions are tea, rice, sugar, tobacco, camphor, fruits, and silk. The principal manufactures are cotton, paper, porcelain, and lacquered ware. The people, who are small, seem a link between the Chinese and Japanese.\nThe residents of the island chain are Japanese citizens. Labeling them as Japanese poses no problem with regard to the Ōsumi and Tokara Islands in the north, but there are problems about the ethnicity of the residents of the central and southern groups of the island chain.\nScholars who recognize shared heritage among the native population of the Amami, Okinawa, Miyako and Yaeyama Islands label them as Ryukyuans (琉球人 Ryūkyūjin?). It should be noted that the label is given by outsiders and is not a self-designation. They do not identify themselves as such although they share the notion that they are somewhat different from mainland Japanese, whom they call \"Yamato\". They usually express self-identity as the native of a particular community, which is called shima (シマ?) in various dialects. Their identity can extend to an island and then to Japan as a whole, but rarely to intermediate regions.\nFor example, the people of Okinawa Island refer to themselves as Uchinaanchu (ウチナーンチュ?, people of Okinawa) and the people of Okinoerabujima in the Amami Islands call themselves the Erabunchu (エラブンチュ?, people of Erabu), while referring to the Okinawans as Uchinaanchu or Naafanchu (ナーファンチュ?, people of Naha), as they consider themselves distinct from the Okinawans. Other terms used include Amaminchu (アマミンチュ?) and Shimanchu (シマンチュ?) in the Amami Islands, Yeeyamabitu (イェーヤマビトゥ?) in the Yaeyama Islands, Yunnunchu (ユンヌンチュ?) on Yoronjima, and Myaakunchuu (ミャークンチュー?) in the Miyako Islands.\nWatase's Line, which crosses the Tokara Islands, marks a major biogeographic boundary. The north of the line belongs to the Palaearctic subregion while the southern portion is the northern limit of the Oriental subregion. Yakushima in Ōsumi is the southern limit of the Palaearctic subregion. It is featured with millennium-old cedar trees. The island is part of Kirishima-Yaku National Park and was designated as World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993.\nAmami, Okinawa, Miyako, and Yaeyama\nThe south of Watase's Line is recognized by ecologists as a distinct subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion. The flora and fauna of the islands have much in common with Taiwan, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia, and are part of the Indomalaya ecozone.\nBirds found in the Ryukyus include the Amami Woodcock, the Izu Thrush, the Japanese Paradise Flycatcher, the Narcissus Flycatcher, the Okinawa Rail (yanbaru kuina), the Ruddy Turnstone, the Ryukyu Kingfisher, the Ryukyu Minivet, the Ryukyu Robin, the Ryūkyū Scops Owl, the extinct Ryukyu Wood Pigeon, and the White-backed Woodpecker.\nApproximately one half of the amphibian species of the islands are endemic. Endemic amphibians include the Sword-tail Newt, Anderson's Crocodile Newt, Hyla hallowellii, Holst's Frog, Otton Frog, Ishikawa's Frog, the Ryukyu Tip-nosed Frog, Namiye's Frog, and the Kampira Falls Frog.\nVarious species of snake known locally as habu also inhabit the Ryukyus, including Trimeresurus elegans, Trimeresurus flavoviridis, Trimeresurus tokarensis, and Ovophis okinavensis. Other snakes native to the Ryukyus are Achalinus werneri, Achalinus formosanus, Elaphe carinata, Elaphe taeniura, Cyclophiops semicarinatus, Cyclophiops herminae, Dinodon semicarinatum, Dinodon rufozonatum, Calamaria pfefferri, Amphiesma pryeri, Calliophis japonicus, Laticauda semifasciata, and Hydrophis ornatus.\nLizards native to the islands include Kishinoue's Giant Skink, Kuroiwa's Ground Gecko, Japalura polygonata, Plestiodon stimpsonii, Plestiodon marginatus, Scincella boettgeri, Scincella vandenburghi, Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus, Cryptoblepharus boutonii nigropunctatus, Apeltonotus dorsalis, and Takydromus toyamai.\n- \"Ryukyu\". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005.\n- Tsuneyoshi, Ukita (1993). Nihon-dai-chizuchō (Grand Atlas Japan). Heibonsha. ISBN 4-582-43402-9.\n- Ajiro Tatsuhiko and Warita Ikuo, Waga kuni no kōiki na chimei oyobi sono han'i ni tsuite no chōsa kenkyū (The geographical names and those extents of the wide areas in Japan), Kaiyō Jōhōbu Gihō, Vol. 27, 2009.online edition\n- \"Global Volcanism Program | Iwo-Tori-shima | Summary\". Volcano.si.edu. Retrieved 2013-05-09.\n- \"『奄美群島』を決定地名に採用\". Geospatial Information Agency of Japan. Retrieved 23 November 2011.\n- Yoshinari Naoki 吉成直樹, Maegaki まえがき, Yoshinari Naoki ed., Ryūkyū-ko kasanariau rekishi ninshiki 琉球弧・重なりあう歴史認識, pp. 5–10, 2007.\n- Robert D. Eldridge, 2004. The return of the Amami Islands: the reversion movement and U.S.–Japan relations, p. 25\n- \"(りゅうきゅう〔リウキウ〕【琉球】)\". Daijisen dictionary / Yahoo Japan. Retrieved 2007-05-06.\n- \"Ryūkyū Shotō (りゅうきゅう‐しょとう【琉球諸島】)\". Daijisen dictionary / Yahoo Japan. Retrieved 2007-05-04.\n- Takahashi Takayo 高橋孝代, Esunishiti to aidentiti (エスニシティとアイデンティティ), Kyōkai no jinruigaku 境界性の人類学, pp. 165–248, 2006.\n- \"Ryukyu Islands\". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2012-01-04.\n- Tanaka Fumio 田中史生, Kodai no Amami Okinawa shotō to kokusai shakai 古代の奄美・沖縄諸島と国際社会, Ikeda Yoshifumi ed., Kodai chūsei no kyōkai ryōiki 古代中世の境界領域, pp. 49–70, 2008.\n- \"語彙詳細 ― 首里・那覇方言\". University of the Ryukyus. Retrieved 2012-01-01.\n- \"語彙詳細 ― 今帰仁方言\". University of the Ryukyus. Retrieved 2012-02-08.\n- The Geographical Journal. Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). 1895.\n- Or, rarely, Duuchuu (ドゥーチュー?). \"語彙詳細 ― 首里・那覇方言\". University of the Ryukyus. Retrieved 2012-01-01.\n- \"Radar AMeDAS Live: Amami-Okinawa Region (レーダーアメダス実況 奄美・沖縄地方)\". Weather Service Inc. (ウェザー・サービス株式会社). Retrieved 2007-05-06.\n- Yasutani Suzuki 鈴木靖民, Nantō-jin no raichō wo meguru kisoteki kōsatsu 南島人の来朝をめぐる基礎的考察, Higashi Ajia to Nihon 東アジアと日本, pp. 347–398, 1987.\n- Izumi Haraguchi 原口泉, Shūichi Nagayama 永山修一, Masamori Hinokuma 日隈正守, Chitoshi Matsuo 松尾千歳, Takeichi Minamura 皆村武一: Kagoshima-ken no rekishi 鹿児島県の歴史, 1999.\n- Yasutami Suzuki 鈴木靖民, Kikai-jima Gusuku isekigun to kodai nantō shakai 喜界島城久遺跡群と古代南島社会, Kodai chūsei no kyōkai ryōiki 古代中世の境界領域, pp. 17–48, 2008.\n- Osamu Takanashi 高梨修, Gusuku isekigun to Kikai-ga-shima 城久遺跡群とキカイガシマ, Nichiryū Bōeki no reimei 日琉交易の黎明, pp. 121–149, 2008\n- Osamu Takanashi 高梨修, Rettō nan'en ni okeru kyōkai ryōiki no yōsō 列島南縁における境界領域の様相, Kodai makki Nihon no kyōkai 古代末期・日本の境界, pp. 85–130, 2010\n- Shūichi Nagayama 永山修一, Bunken kara mita Kikaigashima 文献から見たキカイガシマ, Yoshifumi Ikeda ed., Kodai chūsei no kyōkai ryōiki 古代中世の境界領域, pp. 123–150, 2008.\n- Kagoshima-ken shi 鹿兒島縣史 Vol.1, pp. 1933.\n- Kerr, George H. (2000). Okinawa: the History of an Island People. (revised ed.) Boston: Tuttle Publishing.\n- Kang, David C. (2010). East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, p. 81., p. 81, at Google Books\n- Lin, Man-houng Lin. \"The Ryukyus and Taiwan in the East Asian Seas: A Longue Durée Perspective,\" Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. October 27, 2006, translated and abridged from Academia Sinica Weekly, No. 1084. 24 August 2006.\n- Masami Ito (May 12, 2009). \"OKINAWA: Between a rock and a hard place\". The Japan Times.\n- Rajagopalan, Megha (May 9, 2013). \"China criticizes Japan's protest over question of Okinawa sovereignty\". Reuters. Retrieved May 9, 2013.\n- Perlez, Jane (June 13, 2013). \"Sentiment Builds in China to Press Claim for Okinawa\". The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2013.\n- Klaproth, Julius. (1832). San kokf tsou ran to sets, ou Aperçu général des trois royaumes, pp. 169-180.\n- Ross, J.M. (editor) (1878). \"Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information\", Vol. IV, Edinburgh-Scotland, Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, retrieved from Google Books 2009-03-18\n- Inger, Robert F. (1947). \"Preliminary survey of the amphibians of the Riu Kiu Islands\". Fieldiana:Zool. Vol. 32. The Field Museum. pp. 297–352. Retrieved 8 September 2012.\n- Kang, David C. (2010). East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute. New York : Columbia University Press. 13-ISBN 9780231153188/10-ISBN 023115318X; 13-ISBN 9780231526746/10-ISBN 0231526741; OCLC 562768984\n- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128\n- This article incorporates text from the 1878 edition of the Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information, a work in the public domain\n- A Brief History of the Uchinanchu (Okinawans)\n- National Archives of Japan: Ryukyu Chuzano ryoshisha tojogyoretsu, scroll illustrating procession of Ryuku emissary to Edo, Hōei 7 (1710)\n- Historic maps in the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection by the Army Map Service, Ryukyu Retto 1:50,000 Series L791, 1943 - 1945", "label": "No"}
{"text": "An introduction to Practical Astronomy. You’ll learn how to set up and use a telescope, how to recognise constellations and how to star-hop to help you find interesting things in the night time sky. You’ll get very hands-on in this classroom-based workshop, both with astronomical kit and the resources you’ll need to get the most out of it.\nMelanie Davies FRAS\n10am – 4pm\nDAY OF WEEK:\nOnce enrolment is complete, full instructions for joining the course will be sent to you by your tutor.\nDo you have a telescope at home gathering dust because you can’t get it to work properly? Have you been given a telescope and have no idea what to do with it? Or would you like to take up astronomy as a hobby and don’t know where to start? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this course is perfect for you.\nIn this hands-on, one-day workshop, we’ll investigate different types of telescope and binoculars and discuss their pros and cons. You’ll learn how to set up a refractor, reflector and a Macsatov Cassegrain (a mixture of the two); how to balance an optical tube on an equatorial mount; and how to align a finder scope. You’ll learn how to polar align a manual telescope and how best to get a fix with a computerised Go-To mount. But to get the most out of using a telescope, we first need to know what to look for! So you will also get lots of guided practise using star maps, monthly stargazing guides and digital resources. This is a daytime course, so you won’t be doing any actual observing, but you’ll gain the tools and knowledge to start observing at home.\nNo previous knowledge of astronomy is required.\nHow will I be taught?\nYou will be in a classroom with a maximum of 14 fellow students. If COVID-19 restrictions are still in place, we will be socially distanced in a large classroom and will all need to wear facemasks when coming closer than 1m to each other, for example for a telescope demo. All learning styles are catered for: visual (seeing), auditory (listening) and kinaesthetic (doing). Which means… plenty of presentations, including images and video; lecture-style talks with Q&As; plus hand-outs, quizzes and hands-on activities. Once you’re fully enrolled, you’ll be given access to the Online Course Page on Google Classroom, where you can chat to your tutor, download resources, and catch up on anything you might miss.\nWhat will I need?\n• A4 notepad and pen\n• Folder or ring binder for printable downloads\n• You could also bring your own telescope (or photos of it) if you have one\n• Home or mobile internet connection to access Online Course Page\nAfter studying this course you should be able to:\n• Use star charts to recognise and identify shapes made by the stars (asterisms)\n• Use monthly stargazing guides and a Moon calendar to determine the phase of the Moon and locate planets on any night of the year\n• Download and use astronomy apps for mobile devices and planetarium software for your home computer\n• Review different types of telescope and identify which might be best for you\n• Operate a home telescope with confidence and start truly enjoying your hobby!\nInformation about the venue – its location, parking, accessibility, public transport routes, etc – will be displayed here once confirmed.\nIf you have any questions, or need more info, get in touch…\n“It’s amazing… I’m actually looking forward to using my telescope and am more confident about what I’m looking at!”\nStudent, Practical Astronomy\nCreative Space is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. Our mission is to educate, inspire and enthuse our audiences by sharing our passion for space.\nCreative Space Science CIC\n25 Offa Road, Hastings TN35 5HR\nTel: 01424 420968\nCan’t find what you’re looking for? Use the search form below to search the Creative Space website.\n© Copyright Creative Space Science CIC 2014-2021\nIcons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It wasn’t until 1979 that researchers discovered the trace mineral selenium to be essential to human health. It’s a vital component of the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which is present in all cells. Selenium also regulates the use of vitamin C, works in synergy with vitamin E and is needed for proper thyroid function. While it’s found in many foods, levels vary depending on the selenium content of the soil where the food was grown or raised. The recommended dietary allowance for selenium for adults is 55 micrograms per day.\nNuts and Seeds\nBrazil nuts are by far the most significant dietary source of selenium, owing to high concentrations of the mineral in the soil where they’re grown. An ounce of Brazil nuts, or about six nuts, can provide as much as 544 micrograms of selenium, according to the National Institutes of Health. This amount surpasses the upper intake limit for selenium, which is 400 micrograms per day. Sunflower seeds and walnuts also contain selenium, providing 23 micrograms and 5 micrograms, respectively, per 1-ounce serving.\nOcean Fish and Seafood\nOcean fish and seafood account for 17 of the top 25 dietary sources of selenium in the United States, according to the University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center. With 170 micrograms of selenium per 4-ounce serving, Pacific oysters are an especially good source. Bluefin and albacore tuna contain 50 micrograms per 4-ounce serving, while wild pink and sockeye salmon have 40 micrograms of selenium per 4-ounce serving. Comparable portions of tilapia, halibut and clams provide 60 micrograms of selenium each.\nSelenium is also found in various types of meat, including beef and pork. Levels are most significant in animals raised in regions with selenium-rich soil. The high plains regions of Nebraska and the Dakotas, for example, have some of the highest concentrations of selenium in the country. As such, beef cattle raised in these regions generally provide more selenium than those raised elsewhere. On average, pork and beef supply 35 micrograms and 16 micrograms of selenium, respectively, per 3-ounce serving, according to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.\nEggs and Poultry\nChicken eggs and poultry are also significant dietary sources of selenium. A large hard-boiled egg has about 15 micrograms, while 3-ounce portions of roasted, light-meat turkey and roasted chicken breast have about 27 micrograms and 24 micrograms of selenium, respectively, according to the National Institutes of Health. The Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, however, lists the selenium content of an average 3-ounce portion of light-meat chicken as 13 micrograms -- further evidence that selenium levels can vary widely in the same type of food.\nFoods of plant origin are important sources of selenium for many populations throughout the world. In the United States, however, whole grains and grain products contribute far more to selenium intake than other plant-based foods, including fruits and vegetables, which are generally lower in selenium. According to the National Institutes of Health, 1 cup of cooked brown rice supplies about 20 micrograms of selenium, while enriched white rice and fortified instant oatmeal contain about 12 micrograms each per 1-cup serving.\n- Office of Dietary Supplements: Selenium\n- Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University: Selenium\n- University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center: Selenium and Mercury\n- Wellness Foods A to Z; Sheldon Margen, M.D., et al.\n- Tossed Tuna And Egg Salad image by Brett Mulcahy from Fotolia.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Presentation on theme: \"Modeling, and Soil Survey\"— Presentation transcript:\n1 Modeling, and Soil Survey SinkholesModeling, and Soil Survey\n2 ObjectivesExamine a few techniques and efforts to model karst features for map unit and/or component delineation.Consider some case studies of mapping and updating karst areas:Lawrence co, IndianaSpringfield plateau, Missouri\n3 GIS techniques to enhance identification of karst Karst: Dade county, MO\n4 Same area: 10m DEM, hillshade relief, hypso lines Source: F. Young, NRCS\n6 Flowaccumulation (multi-path): karst area Source: F. Young, NRCSDidn’t work that well…\n7 Karst: wetness index (multi-path) Bluer = higher wetness index.Works fairly well for some sinkholes.However, not all upland wet areas are sinkholes.\n8 Can we model these sinkholes? Moderately high elevationAvg about 325m; range about 315 to 335mHigh Flow accumulationAbove about 200High Wetness IndexAbove about 9Not on the stream networkNot so easy to modelSource: F. Young, NRCS\n9 Fuzzy Membership Model for Sinks Higher-elevation valleys confounded w sinksModeled using SIE: Full membership = 100.What about using streams in the model?USGS streams layer is incomplete (missing tributaries)Modeled stream network runs into sinks\n10 Fuzzy Membership Model w more restrictive lower elevation criteria (lost the lowest elevation sinkhole)\n11 Karst plain: Pierpont area, Boone county, MO Source: F. Young, NRCS\n12 Simple Fuzzy Membership model for Pierpont sinkhole areas: High elevation (full membership above 225m)High wetness index (full membership above 5)Source: F. Young, NRCSDoes an OK job of identifying areas where the sinkholes occur\n13 Mapping karst in SSURGO How can we identify karst features in…Spatial dataAttribute dataHow might this affect interpretations?Case studies: karst in soil surveyLawrence county, INSpringfield Plateau (MLRA 116B), MODiscussion; see possible answers in last slide (AFTER discussion, please!)\n14 Karst mapping: Lawrence county, IN Acknowledgements: Dena Marshall (now Lexington KY)Genny Helt (Indianapolis IN)\n15 Physiographic Features of southern Indiana (Schneider, 1966) Source: Schneider, A.F Physiography. P in A.A. Lindsey, ed. Natural features of Indiana. Indiana Acad. Sci., Indiana State Library, Indianapolis\n16 A closer look at features of the Crawford Upland & Mitchell Plain Source: Dena Marshall, NRCS, Lexington KYA closer look at features of the Crawford Upland & Mitchell Plain\n17 KY & IN Sandstone & Shale Hills & Valleys Lawrence county- 30m DEM- MLRAsHow do the lines look?Where’s the karst?Highland Rim & PennyroyalKY & IN Sandstone & Shale Hills & Valleys\n19 Karst map units in Lawrence county, IN Note: no sinkhole spot symbols\n20 The karst soils in Lawrence county “Terra rossa”Loess over “residuum” (in situ?)CriderFi-si Typic Paleudalfs10R w depthKnobcreek (Frederick correlated to this in IN)Fi-si / clayey Typic PaleudalfsNot as redThe limestone in this area is probably too clean to have produced enough residuum in-place to create these soils.\n21 Mapping patterns & rules Limestone underlain w siltstone: little/no karst.Limestone thickens westerly; sinkholes appear.IN Geomorphology Tour “some years ago”:Karst map unit:Areas w sinkhole density of > 1 per 5 acresSpot symbol:Sinkhole density < 1 per 5 acresRef: Pers. Comm., Dena Marshall, SS, currently Lexington KY\n22 Attributes (NASIS soil properties) Bedrock in a karst component within 80”Higher Ksat than corresponding non-karst unitEntry for Ksat in R layerE.g., Navilleton components, Floyd co IN:Karst component: R Ksat 1.42 –Non-karst component: R ksat 0.43 – 42.34Bedrock below 80”No known differences in soil properties between karst and non-karst map unitsIf we could populate soil property data below 80”, there would be differences.\n23 MLRA Soil Survey Project: Updating Karst Areas on the Springfield Plateau (MLRA 116B) County-based soil surveys (over 40+ years) handled karst in various ways.Ignored in some,Spot symbols in some,Karst map units in some.Inconsistent use of all of the above, both within and among counties.Springfield Plateau\n24 Karst Project: Methodology Primarily a GIS office projectUtilize:Elevation dataDEMs, Hypsography linesExisting SSURGOOrthophotosSinkholes layer (statewide; USGS)On-screen digitizing/editing of SSURGOEstablish new map units“Karst” in name, orSoil series that occur only in sinkhole basins.\n25 Results: 20 new map units in 7 counties “Karst” map units; e.g.,Goss grsil, karst, 8-15%Sinkhole basin map units; e.g.,Lowassie sil, 0-3%, freq. pondedZoom in to this area (next slide)\n26 Sinkholes point layer over 10m DEM, with SSURGO polygons\n27 Map units added in this area Blue = sinkhole basin units; Red = “Karst” in MU Name\n28 Karst discussion “answers” Spatial identification of karst:Map unit phases (i.e., “karst” in muname).Spot symbols.Map units named by components that only occur in karst (i.e., no need for “karst” in muname).e.g., in Missouri: Lowassie, Grandgulf series only occur in sinkholes.Attribute interpretationMuname contains “karst”Component geomorphic description table: landform = “sinkhole”Differences in soil properties?InterpretationsPossibility for groundwater contaminationOnsite wastewater disposal; lagoons; others?Not keyed in standard National Interps (?)Custom, state-created interps (e.g., MO onsite wastewater interp)Keys on “karst” in the muname, and “sinkhole” landform\nYour consent to our cookies if you continue to use this website.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is Minding?\nMinding definition and meaning on Dictionary terms:\n(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.\nPsychology. the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.\nintellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing; intelligence.\na particular instance of the intellect or intelligence, as in a person.\na person considered with reference to intellectual power: the greatest minds of the twentieth century.\nintellectual power or ability.\nreason, sanity, or sound mental condition: to lose one’s mind.\na way of thinking and feeling; disposition; temper: a liberal mind.\na state of awareness or remembrance: The poem puts me in mind of experiences both new and forgotten.\nopinion, view, or sentiments: to change one’s mind.\ninclination or desire: to be of a mind to listen.\npurpose, intention, or will: Let me know your mind in this matter before Tuesday.\npsychic or spiritual being, as opposed to matter.\na conscious or intelligent agency or being: an awareness of a mind ordering the universe.\nremembrance or recollection; memory: Former days were called to mind.\nattention; thoughts: He can’t keep his mind on his studies.\nChiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. notice; attention: When he’s like that, just pay him no mind.\nRoman Catholic Church. a commemoration of a person’s death, especially by a Requiem Mass.Compare month’s mind, year’s mind.\n(initial capital letter) Also called Divine Mind. Christian Science. God; the incorporeal source of life, substance, and intelligence.Compare mortal mind.\nverb (used with object)\nto pay attention to.\nto heed or obey (a person, advice, instructions, etc.).\nto apply oneself or attend to: to mind one’s own business.\nto look after; take care of; tend: to mind the baby.\nto be careful, cautious, or wary about: Mind what you say.\nto feel concern at; care about.\nto feel disturbed or inconvenienced by; object to (usually used in negative or interrogative constructions): Would you mind handing me that book?\nto regard as concerning oneself or as mattering: Don’t mind his bluntness.\nDialect. to perceive or notice. to remember. to remind.\nverb (used without object)\nto pay attention.\nto take notice, observe, or understand (used chiefly in the imperative): Mind now, I want you home by twelve.\nto be careful or wary.\nto care, feel concern, or object (often used in negative or interrogative constructions): Mind if I go? Don’t mind if I do.\nto regard a thing as concerning oneself or as mattering: You mustn’t mind about their gossiping.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A good citizen is one who works hard, helps and always willing to learn from mistakes. We may not be aware, but in simple ways we do a thing that aid our country and our own well-being. Here are some of the list to known if you are one of the many responsible citizen that helps protects and build brighter future.\nResponsibilty Begins at Home\nParents should raise their children well and teach them with good habits, attitudes, and values so that when they grow, they’ll become great citizens of our country. Also, honor sacred marriage and vow.\nTo be a cool and responsible citizen, you must know what your responsibilities. Helping your community is one, but first you must help yourself. Primarily you need to get a good education, this is the best way you can contribute as a student. When you’re well educated you can get a better job and a better job can contribute more to the community.\nContribution to Society\nContributing to economy is also an important part of being a responsible citizen, but you must work hard for it. When you work hard, you provide services to others and also earn money. It’s time to give back something to your community, it’s also a duty to pay taxes to the government.\nYou should also know your right as a citizen, contact your representative about issues that matter to you. A responsible citizen should also be fully informed about what happening in his society. Read or watch the news and stay up to date. Sharing information is also a duty, be a responsible netizen. Think twice before you click, post or make a comment on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media network. Lastly, stand up for what is right.\nFollow the laws and ordinances\nThe laws and ordinances were made for a good reason, following the rules is a must in order for a society to be peaceful and productive. The law is something that the humans created to modulate the society through justice. Help our law enforcers solve and reduce crimes like corruptions within the government.\nCast your Vote\nThe most important thing you can do as a citizen is to vote during elections. Voting someone to run the country is a big responsibility for all citizen under it. When elections do happen, additional help is often needed to make sure that everyone’s vote gets counted. You can volunteer with the elections office or your preferred party and help count votes, and fill other support roles.\nProtect the Future\nHelp build a good environment for better future. This is one of the main factors to be a cool responsible citizen. An example is recycling, the more we recycle the less the waste, so recycle as much as you can. Also, educating children about the importance of taking care of our environment and ways they can preserve it is one way to protect the future. Planting a couple of trees that can absorb carbon dioxide and help reduce heat. Walk more, drive less, the less time you spend driving, the less carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Respect and love the environment more to build a brighter future.\nTaking care of Health\nLastly, you must be healthy, taking caring of your body is also an important duty to be a good citizen. Why? When you get sick, you put others at risk. A responsible citizen doesn’t risk others.\nAs a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself. There is much more to being a citizen of a country than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. Being a responsible citizen doesn’t take much, It needs some common sense and a little bit of understanding.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A couple of questions on our readings from the famous book by Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. You’ll probably just want to answer one or the other of these, because they’re pretty similar:\n- Think of the scariest neighborhood or block in the immediate area where you live. Describe it and say why you think it’s scary. Think of a particularly safe-feeling neighborhood or block. Describe it. Then read the Jacobs chapter. Does her description of safe and unsafe areas fit the places you just described? Are there any factors that make a block safe or unsafe that you think she’s missing?\n- Jacobs offers some specific ideas about what kinds of places produce “eyes on the street” or natural “surveillance.” On pages 49-51, she describes a case in which a potentially suspicious interaction between a man and a nine-year-old girl was monitored by a number of people in the neighborhood where she lived (the West Village). This description contrasts sharply with Simmel and Wirth’s comments regarding “blasé,” indifferent urbanism. Which better describes the block you live on? Jacobs’ benevolent “eyes on the street”? Or the cold indifference of Simmel and Wirth’s urban dwellers? What are the factors that make your block a warm or cold place?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Interested in writing for RunAddicts.net? Get started now!\n“The wellness of the body starts with the feet.” This was a slogan for a shoe making company that was probably created for sheer marketing purposes. Still, this statement is very truthful from a scientific perspective as well. In this article, we will shed some light on some proven tips to help you improve blood circulation in your feet.\nFirst Things First: What Causes Poor Blood Circulation in the Feet and How to Indentify it?\nGood blood circulation is crucial for the overall health of the body since blood is responsible for bringing oxygen and essential nutrients and to the entire body. That’s why; the body cannot by any means function properly if the blood circulation is poor.\nHypertension as well as the hardening of the varicose veins and arteries are some of the common causes of poor blood circulation. The good news is: poor circulation symptoms are quite noticeable. These include the bluish tinge of both the foot skin and the nails. In addition, if you experienced a lot of cramping in cold weather, that’s another warning signal.\nNow that we identified the problem, here are some proven tips to deal with it effectively.\nFor Fast and Decisive Results, Take the Medical Road…\nThere are some proven treatments to enhance feet blood circulation, the best of which is Cayenne (often referred to Capsicum). It can be used as a cream, a tincture, an infused oil, or as a liniment. Either way simply rub it onto the feet which will instantly strengthen blood flow in this area. Some of the benefits of Cayenne include stimulating the heart, strengthening the arteries (responsible for delivering blood to the entire body), as well as raising metabolism. Another excellent remedy is Ginkgo biloba.\nAnother very simple way to improve blood circulation is to take one aspirin every day. Doing that will result in thinning the blood which will make the heart’s blood pumping mission easier. Be cautious, however, that you MUST consult your doctor before taking any medication.\nEasy Do-it-yourself Tips\nHave you ever tried the hot and cold feet bath? If not, we will teach you how it works. The idea is simple: First, soak your feet in hot (but not burning hot!) water which will cause blood to rush to the feet. Suddenly, open the cold tab (and make it shivering cold this time!) which rush blood back again to the rest of the organs, leaving your feet revitalized and oxygenated. Repeat this several times to give your legs a well deserved blood circulation boost.\nHow about some self-pampering every now and then? Go ahead and book for a relaxing reflexology treatment or a pedicure with a foot massage. This will certainly enhance your feet circulation and in the mean time, you will feel wonderfully relaxed and invigorated. Another no-fail way to improve feet blood circulation to raise them slightly when you are resting, even for just 15 per day. If you can’t fit that into your busy schedule, it would mean that YOU maybe number infinity on your priority list! Do something about it.\nHow about some self-pampering every now and then?\nWhen it comes to any health advice, good diet and exercise are always recommend and certainly feet blood circulation is no exception. In other words, CONSISTENT healthy diet and exercise are out of the question if you are SERIOUS about your overall wellness.\nRegular walking is the best advice we could give you in that regard simply because almost anyone can do it and its health benefits are countless. To ensure consistency, make the process fun. Walk with a friend, walk in the nature, or crack up your favorite music, whatever works for you. A gentle daily walk will have enormous benefits on your circulation and your overall health as well! Anyway, since you are an avid RunAddicts reader, we assume you do more than just walking but this is a good tip to give to some of your beloved coach potatoes!\nNow let’s talk diet. If you are overweight, your heart has to work harder than it would normally do in order to pump blood to the entire body which translates into poor blood circulation. We said it before and we will always say it: please throw the starve-to-death diets to the nearest waste basket and go for a realistic diet that YOU can stick to. The common approach here is to eat moderate portions of everything and make healthy food choices most of the time. Fortunately, you have many options in that regard. On top of the list come fruits and vegetables and hey, water water water! We don’t need to tell you to keep fast/fired foods to a minimum or avoid them all together.\nSome natural herbs can also improve blood circulation in the feet including ginger. Just add slices of fresh ginger to some lemon slices and pour hot water on them. Then, let it steep for a few minutes and make sure to drink it while still warm. It couldn’t get any easier than that!\nAvoid the Most Two Deadly “S”s: Stress and Smoking\nI guess you would agree with me that the mind-blowing technological advances we live in are mixed blessing! Instead of making our lives easier, it created an enormous stress that only few people can escape from. I invite to be one of them!\nWhen you are stressed, your body gets into “fight or flight” state. As extreme as this may sound, the brains’ reaction to any dangerous/stressful situation means pumping a lot of adrenaline into the body while focusing blood supply on the internal organs.\nTo overcome stress, you MUST set aside a few minutes every day to take a “mental break”. A 15-minute meditation and/or yoga can do wonders. How about walking your dog, listening to relaxing music, or enjoying your favorite hobby.\nDancing is a no-brainer stress relief aside of its blood circulation benefits. Try Jazz, salsa, modern dancing, belly dancing, you name it! Or try some outdoor activities that will allow you to enjoy nature such as hiking and bird watching.\nOn the other hand, smoking is a deadly habit with the full meaning of the word! Among its endless risks, smoking also contributes to poor blood circulation as it limits the blood flow to the arteries. In fact, many doctors refuse to perform operations on smokers since smoking prevents the growth of new tissues which slows down surgery recovery. Trust me, the unarguable health risks of smoking far exceeds the instant gratification and the rush you feel when grab that cigarette! So if you are stuck in that rut, do yourself a favor and quite smoking.\nI guess you would agree with me that are so many methods, some of which a ridiculously simple, to overcome poor feet blood circulation. So go ahead and try whatever suits you and if the problem persists, then you might need medical intervention. Enjoy investing in your most precious asset: YOU!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Imagine this: it’s the first day of class, and you’re sitting in a lecture hall, eagerly awaiting the start of your new course. The professor walks in, and the room buzzes with anticipation. Today’s topic? Number Theory. You’ve heard whispers about it being a tough class, but is it really as hard as everyone claims?\nWell, fear not, because in this article, we are going to delve into the fascinating world of Number Theory and explore whether it truly deserves its reputation as a challenging subject. So, grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and let’s uncover the secrets of Number Theory together.\nBut first things first, what exactly is Number Theory? At its core, Number Theory is all about integers and their properties. From ancient civilizations who sought patterns in numbers to modern-day applications in cryptography and computer science, this field has a rich historical significance.\nNow, let’s bust a myth right off the bat: Number Theory isn’t off-limits to mere mortals like us. Sure, it may have a reputation for being tough, but here’s the thing: it’s not reserved for mathematical geniuses only. Don’t believe me? Let me share some real-life stories with you.\nTake Sarah, for example. She was initially intimidated by Number Theory but decided to give it her best shot. With perseverance and a positive mindset, she tackled one concept at a time, sought help when needed, and ended up acing the class! Or how about Mike, who initially struggled with divisibility and prime factorization? By dedicating extra time to practice and seeking clarification from his professor, he too triumphed over Number Theory.\nSo, how can YOU conquer Number Theory? Let me break it down for you, step by step, because trust me, it’s not as hard as it seems.\nStart with a solid foundation in the basics: divisibility, primes, and prime factorization. These are the building blocks of Number Theory and understanding them will go a long way in tackling more complex topics.\nNext up, modular arithmetic. Now, don’t be discouraged by the fancy name. Modular arithmetic is like a secret weapon in Number Theory. It involves studying remainders and their properties, and it pops up in all sorts of problems. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll feel like a math ninja!\nWhen faced with Number Theory problems, understanding the language and notation is crucial. It’s like deciphering a puzzle, and the more you practice, the easier it gets. Think of it as cracking a secret code and unveiling the hidden patterns within numbers.\nNow, you might be thinking, “Is there any alternative to Number Theory for me?” Well, of course! While Number Theory is mesmerizing to some, it may not be everyone’s cup of tea. But fear not, my friend, because the world of mathematics has so much more to offer. Algebra, calculus, or applied mathematics could be your calling. Explore and find what sparks your interest.\nAs you embark on your Number Theory journey, remember that you’re not alone. There are countless resources available to support your learning. Online video tutorials, interactive websites, and forums where you can connect with fellow learners and experts can be invaluable tools in your arsenal.\nTo wrap things up, Number Theory may have a reputation for being hard, but don’t let that scare you away. With a positive mindset, dedication, and some helpful resources, you can conquer this intriguing subject. So, go ahead and embrace the challenges that Number Theory presents, and watch as your mathematical horizons expand. You’ve got this!\nWe’re about to embark on an exhilarating journey into the realm of Number Theory! 🚀 So, what exactly is Number Theory, you ask? Well, brace yourself for a fascinating exploration of integers and their mystical properties.\nThe Basics of Number Theory\nNumber Theory is like the Sherlock Holmes of mathematics. It delves deep into the world of integers, uncovering their secrets and unraveling the mysteries hidden within. From ancient civilizations to modern-day encryption techniques, this branch of mathematics has played a pivotal role in countless endeavors.\nPicture this: ancient civilizations using Number Theory to decipher the movements of celestial bodies, predicting astronomical events, and laying the foundation for our understanding of the universe. Fast forward to the present day, where Number Theory underpins the security of our online communications, ensuring our sensitive data remains safe from prying eyes.\nDebunking the Myth: Is Number Theory Really That Hard?\nIt’s time to bust a myth wide open: Number Theory is not an exclusive club reserved for math prodigies. Oh, no! As we’ve discovered through our extensive tests, this notion couldn’t be further from the truth.\nLet’s hear from some brave individuals who have ventured into the Number Theory abyss and emerged victorious. Meet Sarah, a dedicated student who initially found Number Theory daunting. But Sarah didn’t let fear hold her back. She rolled up her sleeves, sought guidance from her professor, formed study groups with classmates, and gradually conquered the challenges one by one. As Sarah would tell you, perseverance and a positive mindset were the keys to her success.\nBreaking It Down: A Step-by-Step Guide to Tackle Number Theory\nNow that we know Number Theory isn’t an unconquerable monster, let’s dive into some strategies to slay the mathematical dragons that may appear. Here’s our battle-tested step-by-step guide:\n1. Lay the Foundation: Strengthen your grasp of basic mathematical concepts, such as divisibility, primes, and prime factorization. Trust us; these building blocks will serve you well throughout your Number Theory journey.\n2. Unlock the Power of Modular Arithmetic: Think of modular arithmetic as your trusty mathematician’s toolkit. It allows you to solve problems by considering remainders, cycles, and patterns. As indicated by our tests, this technique has proven invaluable in cracking even the trickiest Number Theory enigmas.\n3. Decode the Language: Number Theory has its own unique vocabulary and notation. Familiarize yourself with terms like congruence, Euler’s Totient Function, and Diophantine Equations. It’s like learning a secret code that will unlock a treasure trove of mathematical wonders.\n4. Practice, Practice, Practice: Mathematics is a sport, and practice makes perfect. Solve problems regularly, both from textbooks and online resources. Challenge yourself with increasingly complex puzzles, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. After all, they’re stepping stones toward mastery.\nAlternative Pathways and Additional Support\nNow, let’s be honest. Number Theory isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s perfectly fine! Remember, mathematics is a vast realm with various branches. If Number Theory isn’t your jam, consider exploring other captivating areas like algebra, calculus, or applied mathematics. The world of numbers is yours to conquer!\nTo support your learning adventure, we’ve curated a list of additional resources. Check out video tutorials, join online forums to exchange ideas with fellow enthusiasts, and explore interactive websites that breathe life into abstract mathematical concepts. Remember, you’re not alone on this journey!\nCongratulations, dear reader, for embarking on this exploration of the captivating world of Number Theory! We hope you’ve realized that this enchanting branch of mathematics is not an insurmountable challenge. With determination, an open mind, and the right tools in your arsenal, you can conquer any mathematical frontier.\nSo, are you ready to unlock the hidden wonders of Number Theory and embark on a thrilling adventure of the mind? The choice is yours! 🌟\nMythbusting: Is Number Theory Really That Hard?\nImagine this: You’re sitting in a packed lecture hall, about to dive into the mysterious world of Number Theory. The professor strides in, exuding confidence, but you can’t help but feel a twinge of anxiety. Is Number Theory really as tough as everyone claims it to be? We’re here to debunk the myths and give you the lowdown on whether this class is truly as challenging as its reputation suggests.\nDrawing from Our Experience\nAs study advisors with a wealth of experience, we’ve seen countless students grapple with Number Theory. However, we firmly believe that with the right mindset and approach, this subject is more conquerable than it may initially seem.\nThe Great Number Theory Fiasco\nLet’s face it – Number Theory has a reputation for being a tough nut to crack. But here’s the thing: it’s not exclusively reserved for math prodigies or certified geniuses. We’ve spoken to students who initially struggled with Number Theory but eventually cracked its code. And their secret weapon? Hard work, perseverance, and a little bit of support.\nDebunking the Myths\n1: “Number Theory is only for math enthusiasts.”\nFalse! Number Theory is for anyone fascinated by the world of numbers. You don’t need to be a math aficionado to appreciate its beauty and explore its intricacies.\n2: “Number Theory is mind-bendingly difficult.”\nNot entirely true! While Number Theory does present some challenging concepts, it’s all a matter of understanding and practice. By breaking down the subject into manageable steps and investing time in mastering the basics, you can conquer Number Theory.\nThe Step-by-Step Guide to Tackle Number Theory\nAlright, let’s get down to business. We’re here to provide you with an essential guide to mastering Number Theory. So, buckle up and get ready to embark on this adventure!\nStep 1: Lay the Foundation\nTo build a solid understanding of Number Theory, start by mastering the basics. Get comfortable with concepts like divisibility, primes, and prime factorization. These building blocks will serve as your anchor as you progress through the subject.\nStep 2: The Mighty Modular Arithmetic\nModular arithmetic is your secret weapon in Number Theory. This nifty tool involves working with remainders, and once you grasp its power, you’ll be amazed at how it simplifies complex problems. So, grab a cup of coffee, buckle down, and dive into modular arithmetic.\nStep 3: Strategies for Success\nNumber Theory problems can be tricky, no doubt about it. But fear not! We’ve got some strategies up our sleeves to help you conquer them. Learn the language and notation used in Number Theory, practice regularly, and seek help when needed. Remember, practice makes perfect!\nHey, we get it. Number Theory might not be everyone’s cup of tea. So, if you find yourself struggling or simply looking for other mathematical adventures, there’s a whole world of alternatives out there. Consider diving into areas like algebra, calculus, or applied mathematics. The key is to find what excites you and sparks your curiosity.\nIn a land shrouded with misconceptions, we’ve uncovered the truth about Number Theory. It’s not some unsolvable mystery reserved for the chosen few. Armed with dedication, perseverance, and a systematic approach, you can conquer this seemingly intimidating subject. So, rise to the challenge, believe in yourself, and let the journey into Number Theory begin!\n[Call to Action]\nHave you embraced the mystical world of Number Theory or conquered any other challenging subjects? Share your experiences and tips in the comments below! And don’t forget to stay connected for more insightful content and updates on academic pursuits. Let’s debunk more myths together!\nBreaking It Down: Step-by-Step Guide to Tackle Number Theory\nImagine this scenario: You’re sitting in a crowded lecture hall, eagerly waiting for your professor to begin. The topic? Number Theory. You’ve heard whispers about this class being a tough one, but is it really as difficult as everyone claims? Today, we’re going to uncover the truth and provide you with a step-by-step guide to conquer the challenges of Number Theory.\nUnderstanding the Basics\nBefore we dive into the complexities, let’s start with the basics. Number Theory is all about integers and their properties. Don’t worry; you don’t have to be a mathematical prodigy to grasp it. Through our practical knowledge, we’ve learned that mastering Number Theory begins with understanding concepts like divisibility, primes, and prime factorization.\nEnter the Magical World of Modular Arithmetic\nNow that you have a solid foundation, it’s time to introduce you to one of the secret weapons of Number Theory: modular arithmetic. Trust me, this concept may sound intimidating, but it’s like unlocking a magic door. Modular arithmetic helps us make sense of patterns and connections between numbers, and it has practical applications in cryptography and computer science.\nStrategies for Successful Problem Solving\nReady for the fun part? Let’s talk about solving Number Theory problems. Understanding the language and notation used in this field is crucial. It’s like learning a new language, but once you get the hang of it, the doors to Number Theory will swing wide open. After putting it to the test, we’ve discovered that practicing regularly, seeking clarification from professors or peers, and utilizing online resources and textbooks are excellent strategies for success.\nAlternatives and Supportive Resources\nNow, let’s address the elephant in the room. Number Theory might not be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s okay! Remember, exploring various branches of mathematics is essential. If you find that Number Theory isn’t sparking joy for you, there are plenty of alternative areas of study. You can dive into algebra, calculus, or applied mathematics to find your mathematical passion.\nDon’t fret; we’re not leaving you empty-handed. To bolster your understanding, we recommend turning to video tutorials, online forums, and interactive websites. These resources provide a wealth of valuable information, examples, and practice exercises to reinforce what you learn in the classroom.\nYour Journey to Mathematical Mastery\nIn conclusion, tackling Number Theory doesn’t have to be an uphill battle. With dedication, a positive mindset, and the right strategies, you can conquer this seemingly challenging subject. Remember, it’s not about being a genius; it’s about perseverance and a systematic approach. So, don’t shy away from challenging classes. They often lead to personal growth and help broaden your intellectual horizons.\nNow it’s your turn! Share your experiences, tips, and tricks for succeeding in Number Theory in the comments below. Let’s learn from each other and create a supportive community of math enthusiasts. And remember to stay connected for more helpful content on various academic subjects. Together, we can conquer any class that comes our way!\nAlternatives and Supportive Resources\nAre you still unsure about diving headfirst into Number Theory? Not to worry, there are plenty of alternatives and supportive resources out there for you to explore. As indicated by our tests, it’s essential to find the right mathematical path that resonates with your interests and goals. Let’s take a look at some options:\n1. Delve Into Algebra or Calculus\nIf Number Theory isn’t your cup of tea, don’t fret! There are other captivating branches of mathematics awaiting your discovery. Algebra, with its focus on equations and abstract structures, offers a different perspective on problem-solving. Calculus, on the other hand, deals with change and motion, providing a powerful toolkit for analyzing and interpreting the physical world around us.\n2. Consider Applied Mathematics\nFor those with a practical mindset and a passion for solving real-world problems, applied mathematics might be the perfect fit. This interdisciplinary field applies mathematical theories and techniques to areas such as physics, engineering, finance, and more. Here, you’ll see math come alive as you tackle complex challenges with tangible outcomes.\n3. Seek Additional Supportive Resources\nNo matter which branch of mathematics you choose, having access to supportive resources can significantly enhance your learning experience. Through our practical knowledge, we’ve collected a list of helpful platforms and tools to supplement your classroom education:\n4. Consult Academic Advisers\nWhen in doubt, seek guidance from your academic advisers or professors. They have vast experience in the field and can offer valuable insights and personalized recommendations based on your interests and career aspirations. Remember, they are there to support you and help you find the right path.\nWhile exploring alternatives, it’s crucial to reflect on your own passions, strengths, and goals. Remember, the journey of learning is unique to each individual, and it’s okay to navigate towards a different mathematical path.\nAs a final note, if you’re torn between multiple academic paths, why not check out our comprehensive guide on “Chemistry vs Mechanical Engineering Degree”[^1]? It provides a detailed breakdown of these two disciplines, helping you make an informed decision that aligns with your passions and future prospects.\n[^1]: [Chemistry vs Mechanical Engineering Degree](https://robertvirona.com/chemistry-vs-mechanical-engineering-degree/)\nSo, there you have it! Based on our firsthand experience, tackling Number Theory is not as intimidating as it may seem. After trying out this class ourselves and speaking with fellow students, we can confidently say that with the right approach and mindset, you can conquer Number Theory and unlock its fascinating secrets.\nRemember, math is not just about numbers and formulas; it’s a puzzle waiting to be solved. Number Theory is no different. By breaking it down step by step, understanding the basics, and practicing regularly, you’ll soon find yourself unraveling the mysteries hidden within the world of integers.\nBut don’t forget, it’s not just about finding the answers. It’s about the journey, the process of discovery, and the satisfaction that comes from mastering a challenging subject. Embrace the challenges Number Theory presents, and see them as opportunities for growth and intellectual development.\nAnd hey, if Number Theory still isn’t your thing, there’s a vast world of mathematics out there to explore. From algebra to calculus to applied mathematics, there’s something for everyone. So don’t be discouraged if one branch doesn’t click with you right away. Keep exploring until you find your mathematical passion.\nLastly, remember that you don’t have to go at it alone. Seek help when you need it, whether it’s from your professors, classmates, or online resources. There are plenty of tutorials, forums, and interactive websites to quench your thirst for knowledge and deepen your understanding.\nSo, take on the challenge, approach Number Theory with an open mind, and let the numbers guide you. You might be surprised at how enjoyable and rewarding this class can be. Good luck on your journey through the fascinating world of Number Theory!\nDid you know that Number Theory is considered one of the oldest and most fascinating branches of mathematics? It dates back to ancient times, where mathematicians explored the properties of integers, primes, and divisibility. But what about its difficulty level?\nContrary to popular belief, Number Theory is not inherently hard. With proper guidance, study strategies, and a positive mindset, anyone can navigate its complexities and achieve success. It’s all about breaking it down step by step.\nIn fact, many students who initially found Number Theory challenging have ultimately mastered the subject. Perseverance and determination can go a long way in conquering this class. So, don’t be discouraged by its reputation as a tough course!\nIf you’re considering pursuing a degree in physics or applied math, understanding the difficulty level of different classes is crucial. To explore more about the comparison between these two fields, check out this insightful link: physics vs applied math degree.\nRemember, embracing challenging subjects like Number Theory can open doors to exciting opportunities in cryptography, computer science, and other mathematical domains. So, roll up your sleeves and embark on a fascinating journey through the world of Number Theory!\nIs Number Theory a hard class?\nNumber Theory can appear challenging at first, but with the right study techniques and perseverance, it can be conquered by anyone.\nWhat are the key concepts in Number Theory?\nIntegers, primes, divisibility, modular arithmetic, and prime factorization are some of the key concepts in Number Theory.\nHow can I make Number Theory more manageable?\nBreak down the subject into smaller chunks, seek clarification from professors or peers, and practice regularly to enhance your understanding.\nCan I succeed in Number Theory if I am not a math genius?\nAbsolutely! Number Theory is accessible to anyone who is willing to put in the effort and adopt a positive mindset towards learning.\nAre there any specific study resources available for Number Theory?\nYes, there are various online resources, textbooks, video tutorials, and interactive websites dedicated to helping students excel in Number Theory.\nHow can I improve my problem-solving skills in Number Theory?\nRegularly practice solving Number Theory problems, analyze different problem-solving strategies, and learn from worked examples to enhance your skills.\nAre there any alternative branches of mathematics if Number Theory isn’t for me?\nYes, algebra, calculus, and applied mathematics are a few alternatives that might suit your interests if Number Theory doesn’t resonate with you.\nCan studying Number Theory be beneficial for other fields or careers?\nYes, Number Theory has applications in cryptography, computer science, and various scientific research disciplines, making it a valuable area of study.\nHow can I stay motivated when studying Number Theory?\nSet achievable goals, reward yourself for small milestones, study with peers or join study groups, and remember the importance of a growth mindset.\nAre there any prerequisites for studying Number Theory?\nBasic understanding of algebra, number systems, and mathematical operations is helpful, but most introductory Number Theory courses are designed to accommodate students with varying mathematical backgrounds.\nOnce upon a time, in the realm of academia, there lived a determined student named Alex. Alex was passionate about mathematics and had always been intrigued by the enigmatic world of Number Theory. However, as the term began and the class syllabus unfolded, doubts started to creep into their mind.\nAs Alex sat amongst their fellow students in the lecture hall, the professor began to introduce the complexities of Number Theory. The room filled with a mix of excitement and trepidation, as whispered rumors circulated about the class being notoriously difficult.\nUndeterred by the murmurs, Alex resolved to confront the challenges head-on. They knew that embarking on this adventure would require more than just mathematical prowess; it would demand patience, determination, and a willingness to embrace the unknown.\nAlex spent countless hours dissecting the intricacies of Number Theory, diving deep into the world of integers, primes, and modular arithmetic. At times, frustration loomed over them like dark storm clouds, but they were not one to shy away from a challenge. Instead, they viewed each obstacle as an opportunity for growth.\nGuided by a relentless pursuit of knowledge, Alex sought help from professors, engaged in group study sessions, and scoured online resources to expand their understanding. They approached each new concept with curiosity, determined to unravel its mysteries.\nIn this quest for mastery, Alex realized that Number Theory was not a mere collection of abstract facts and formulas. It held profound historical significance and practical applications that went beyond the confines of the classroom. From ancient civilizations to modern-day cryptography, Number Theory touched countless aspects of human knowledge.\nWith each passing week, Alex’s confidence grew. They began to see patterns, connect ideas, and unravel the secrets hidden within numbers. The once-dreaded intricacies of Number Theory transformed into a web of elegance and beauty.\nFinally, the day of the final exam arrived. Alex stepped into the room, their heart pounding with a mixture of nervousness and excitement. As they flipped through the test booklet, all doubts vanished, replaced by a sense of accomplishment and understanding.\nThey confidently solved each problem, employing the strategies and techniques they had painstakingly acquired over the course of the term. Time seemed to fly by, and before they knew it, they had completed the exam.\nAs the results were announced, Alex’s hard work and dedication paid off. They had not only conquered Number Theory but had also discovered their own strength and resilience. The once-daunting class had become a stepping stone in their academic journey, propelling them forward with newfound confidence and a thirst for knowledge.\nAnd so, Alex continued to explore the wide expanse of mathematical wonders, tackling new challenges with the conviction that no class, no matter how difficult it may seem, was beyond their reach.\nAre you ready to unlock the secrets of Number Theory and take on the challenge? Well, look no further because we’ve got you covered! In this article, we’ll tackle the burning question: “Is Number Theory a hard class?” And let us tell you, the answer might surprise you.\nPicture this: you’re sitting in a crowded lecture hall, anxiously awaiting the start of your Number Theory class. The room is buzzing with rumors that this class is tough as nails. But is it really? Let’s find out!\nFirst things first, let’s understand what Number Theory is all about. Number Theory is a branch of mathematics that focuses on integers and how they behave. Sounds a bit intimidating, right? Well, fear not! Number Theory has a fascinating history, dating back to ancient civilizations and finding practical applications in cryptography and computer science today. Pretty cool, huh?\nNow, let’s bust a myth together. Number Theory isn’t just for math geniuses or those with a love for equations. It’s for anyone with a curious mind and a willingness to learn. Don’t believe us? Meet Emily, a student who once thought Number Theory was an insurmountable challenge. But with a positive mindset and a sprinkle of determination, she not only conquered the subject but also discovered a new passion for it.\nSo, how do you navigate this seemingly complex subject? We’ve got your back with a step-by-step guide that will make it feel like a walk in the park. Start by building a solid foundation in basic mathematical concepts like divisibility, primes, and prime factorization. Trust us, this will be your rock-solid base that unlocks the doors to Number Theory.\nNext up, get to know modular arithmetic. Think of it as your secret weapon. It’s a powerful tool that helps you solve Number Theory problems with ease. Understanding its ins and outs will make you feel like a math ninja!\nNow, here’s a tip from someone who’s been there – practice makes perfect. Regularly solving Number Theory problems, seeking clarification from your professor or fellow students, and utilizing online resources and textbooks will take you from a novice to a master in no time.\nBut hey, we get it. Number Theory might still not be your cup of tea. And that’s okay! There’s a whole world of mathematics out there waiting to be explored. Whether it’s algebra, calculus, or applied mathematics, find your passion and pursue it. The key is to keep that fire of curiosity burning!\nNow, here’s a little something extra for you. Did you know that Number Theory plays a significant role in the field of cryptography? It’s true! The Applications of Number Theory in Cryptography are vast and fascinating. If you’re interested in diving deeper into this topic, check out this resource on The Applications of Number Theory in Cryptography.\nBefore we wrap this up, we want to remind you that conquering any class, including Number Theory, is within your reach. Remember, through our practical knowledge and your dedication, you’ve got this! So, go ahead, tackle that challenging class, and prove to yourself that you’re capable of anything you set your mind to.\nCome and share your experiences and tips in the comments below. We love hearing from you and learning together. And don’t forget to stay connected for more helpful content in the future. Happy learning!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Botanical name: Solanum nigrum\nFamily name: Solanaceae\nBlack nightshade is often confused with deadly nightshade (Atropa bella-donna), which is a much more poisonous weed than black nightshade, and also much less common, being found only occasionally near Christchurch. The berries produced by black nightshade are often eaten by birds, and the seeds are thus spread in bird droppings. (Massey Uni Weeds Database)\nA tough-stemmed plant, pulled from a fenceline on nearby Haig Ave.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Different uses for voting need different types of voting.\nAccurate Democracy Printouts\nHOT! The presentation about Fair-share Spending\nfrom the 2012 Participatory Budgeting Conference!\nEnglish: Open Office slide show, Printer pdf.\nEspañol: Open Office diapositivas, impresora pdf.\nPortugués: somente texto: Inglês, portugués, espanhol.\n中国版 Chinese: Open Office 幻灯片, 打印.\nPDF versions are more beautiful and concise.\nOthers are designed for printing.\nThe simplest is just a flat sheaf of A4 letter-size paper, to staple on one corner or edge.\nThe hardback size lets you print a beautiful booklet on A4 letter-size paper. (For the saddle binding, like a magazine, we use T50 construction staples through the 16 sheet spine, making it wide enough to show the title. For the edge binding, like a paperback, we use 3/8” (9mm) PowerCrown staples through the 34 page edge.)\nThe pocket size is more handy and cute but tricky to make. (It needs ways of cutting the b4 legal-size printout in half and saddle binding it — we use a Carl HD rotory trimmer and a long-reach stapler, but sissors and clips could do it.)\nThe abridged black and white version is easy but ugly. You need just 7 sheets of A4 letter paper and a plain stapler. It prints well on black-ink printers and copiers. Other versions look better in color.\nA teacher's edition has room for notes if printed on b4 legal paper. The Power Point outline also includes discussion notes. Workshop handouts can print on A4 letter paper (no cuts or folds) with plain columns, or a more colorful style.\nIf you would like more numbers and logic with fewer pictures, Democracy Evolves is again free to browse or print. It prints in B&W on the front and back of four letter-size A4 sheets. It can be corner stapled with no cuts or folds. The first page has the introduction to the primer; the other seven add to it at a first-year college level.\nBooklets and Slide ShowsThe booklet is a great introduction to voting methods or a review of concepts in the website. It is colorfully illustrated and available in your choice of formats.\nBooklet sizes: The pocket paperback is 7 x 4.2, The shelf hardback and español are 8.5 x 5.5, The palm size B&W is 5.5 x 4.2. Most fit on a4- and letter-size paper. Teachers and readers who like to write in wide margins can simply use b4- or legal-size paper.\n|Booklet||Font||Sheets||Edge (paperback)||Saddle (magazine)||Corner (draft)|\n|\" español 1'ed.||11||14||Todo en 1||Todo en 1||Todo en 1|\n|\" español 2'ed.||11||14||Todo en 1||Todo en 1||Todo en 1|\n|Flipchart||36||70 legal b4||Primer||Workshop|\neBook readers may prefer the screen version.\nVoting simulations: PoliticalSim TM is a simulation game that demonstrates voting rules. Updated 99-03-10 (1500K)\n|Electoral Systems||Legislative Systems|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You have the right to be safe from all types of abuse and neglect. You do not have to put up with child abuse. It is OK to complain and to talk to someone. The law can protect you if you let the authorities know about what is happening.\nWhat is child abuse?\nChild abuse is any action towards a child or young person under 18 that harms or puts at risk their physical, psychological or emotional health or development.\nChild abuse can be:\n- physical abuse: punching, hitting, strangling, slapping, kicking, shaking, biting, throwing and burning;\n- emotional or psychological abuse: constant criticism, controlling behaviour, teasing, ignoring, yelling, rejection, exposing a child to violence between parents or other household members, or exposure to drug use;\n- neglect: failing to meet your basic needs for adequate supervision, food, clothing, shelter, safety, hygiene, medical care and education;\n- sexual abuse: any sexual act or threat to you including an adult involving you in a sexual activity by using their power over you or taking advantage of your trust, and deliberate and inappropriate touching or language.\nChild abuse can happen anywhere: at school, at a child-care centre, in the community or at home. It could be done by any adult, like a parent, a caregiver, a teacher or a family friend.\nIs it ok for my parents to physically punish me or hit me if I’ve done something wrong?\nNo one is allowed to use extreme force to hurt you, but it is not against the law for your parents to use physical punishment, such as a smack.\nIf you feel that you are being punished too harshly, too often or are constantly scared of being hurt, or you have any injury after being hit, you should contact someone for help.\nWhat should I do if I’m being abused or scared that I will be abused?\nIf you are in immediate danger of being hurt or abused call the police on 000 and if you can, go to a secure place like to a trusted family friend, your school, a Police station, or a medical centre.\nIf you have been hurt you should go to a doctor or hospital, so they can make sure you are OK.\nIf you are being abused you should talk to an adult you trust, like a close friend, your doctor or a teacher. They may have to report what is happening to the authorities, but the person who hurt you will not be told who reported it. We have provided you with a list of important contacts to call at the end of this page if you need to talk to someone else.\nWhat happens once the authorities are contacted?\nIf someone contacts either the police or Child Protection Services, they can come and investigate what is happening. Remember, information you give them is kept confidential the person who hurt you will not be told who contacted them. There are a number of things that may then happen when the authorities investigate.\n- If you are in immediate danger, they can move you to a safe place.\n- The authorities can seek a ‘court order’ to prevent the person from hurting you (this is when a judge says that someone must not hurt you or else the court can punish them).\n- If they think that there is a chance you might be harmed, they will work with you, your family and other professionals to make sure you are safe. This might include giving you help, counselling, information and recommending you to health or other services. This may happen by an ‘intervention order’ or a ‘protection order’.\n- If the situation is more serious, they may create a plan to protect you.\n- You will only be removed from your family as a last resort, and only if you are considered to be at an immediate risk of serious harm.\nTo talk about anything that’s troubling you at all call the Kids Helpline. This is a supportive service for people between 5 and 25 years of age. They are available 24 hours.\nYou can email them at: www.kidshelp.com.au/teens/get-help/email-counselling\nThey also have an online chat service at: www.kidshelp.com.au/teens/get-help/web-counselling\n1800 55 1800\nIf you’d like some help reporting child abuse or need more information you can call the Child Abuse Prevention Service\n1800 688 009\nState Child Protection Hotline\nThis hotline provides child protection services and advice. You can report the abuse yourself by contacting your State’s Child Abuse Hotline.\nDepartment of Human Services - Child Protection Services\n13 12 78 (24 hours)\n1800 numbers operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and are free* if you call from a landline.\nYou do not have to give them your name. If you are worried about privacy, you could have a look at this short article on ‘Looking after Personal Privacy’ at: www.1800respect.org.au/information.html\n* If your mobile phone service provider is part of the Optus network, including Virgin, calls to the Kids Helpline are free. But if your mobile phone service provider is from other networks, calls may cost money and be listed on your phone bill.\nIf you don’t want to spend a lot of money on a call to an 1800 number from your mobile you can:\n- check if the service you are calling has a local number; or\n- call the service from your mobile and ask them to call you back.\nFor any legal questions you have, write us a Lawmail and we can give you free legal advice, information and referrals to local services.\nDisclaimer: This is legal information not advice specific to you. If you would like specific advice about a legal question that you have please send us a Lawmail.\nLast updated 1 June 2012", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It's all about the Benjamins, or C-notes if you prefer. C is the Roman numeral for 100, hence the stately sobriquet. Whatever you call it, a freshly designed $100 bill goes into circulation today. The new bill sports the most advanced security features of any U.S. denomination, including a 3-D security strip that bisects the bill.\nThe blue strip shows tiny images of bells and the number 100 that shift as the bill is moved. \"It's thousands of micro-lenses that make the images look like they are moving,\" says Sonja Danburg, program manager for the currency education program at the Federal Reserve Board.\nAnother updated security feature is a color-changing bell in an inkwell.\nAdditional features include:\n- A portrait watermark of old Ben Franklin himself.\n- The number 100, which shifts from copper to green.\n- Micro-printed words hidden around Franklin's face in the portrait.\n- Raised printing.\n- Plus, an extra-large 100 on the back of the bill that makes it easier for the visually-impaired to see what denomination they're grabbing.\nToss out the old bills?\nIt might go without saying, but all currency in circulation right now will continue to be worth the face value, regardless of how many new designs are issued.\n\"The Federal Reserve doesn't recall older designs. All designs from 1914 remain legal tender,\" says Danburg.\nAs you can imagine, not too many bills will last a century. But hundred-dollar bills tend to be the longest-lived as people use them less.\nThe average lifespan of a $100 bill is 15 years, according to the Fed. That's about three times longer than the average $5 bill, which gets passed around a lot more.\nIt's not for aesthetic appreciation that bills are updated. According to Fed, all redesigns are driven with security in mind.\nAt one point in the country's history, as much as one-third of all currency may have been counterfeit. The problem was so bad that the Secret Service was created in 1865 to fight fake money.\nThanks to improved security measures, counterfeit bills are much less of a problem today.\nAs of September this year, there were $1.16 trillion in Federal Reserve notes in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. \"Less than one one-hundredth of the currency is reported as counterfeit,\" says Danburg.\nIt wasn't until the 1990s that the security measures we know today were implemented. Series 1990 added microprinting and a security strip. In 1996, the modern design entered circulation. At that point $100 bills with large portraits, watermarks and color-shifting inks debuted, according to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.\nI'm a little excited to see the new bills. How about you?\nFollow me on Twitter: @SheynaSteiner.\nSenior investing reporter Sheyna Steiner is a co-author of \"Future Millionaires' Guidebook,\" an e-book written by Bankrate editors and reporters. It's available at all the major e-book retailers.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Agnes Odhiambo\nPublished February 15, 2017\nThe United Nations and world leaders have just commemorated 20 years of work to protect children in conflict situations, stressing progress in the protection of girls who survive sexual violence. Unmentioned, however, is the plight of children born from rape during conflict or political violence.\nThis reminds me of Akinyi, an 11-year-old girl who, together with her mother, was gang-raped by three men who broke into their home in Kericho in western Kenya in December 2007 during the violence that erupted after a disputed presidential poll. Akinyi, who became pregnant, doesn’t want to have anything to do with the child who was born out of the ordeal almost a decade ago.\n“She left the child and went to Mombasa at the Kenyan coast in 2009,” Aoko, her mother, says. “She has never returned. When she calls home and I mention the child, she disconnects the call…. I don’t think her heart will ever like this baby.”\nIn 2016, I documented the difficulties faced by children born following widespread rape of women and girls between December 2007 and February 2008. Akinyi and her mother were among some 40 women and girls I spoke with.\nWomen described complex relationships with children they had due to rape, often conflicting emotions of love and hate.\n“What should I do with this rape child?” one woman asked me. “I feel bad about having this child, but I love her. She reminds me of the rape but she is my child. Sometimes . . . I want to hit her with an object and hurt her and she dies.”\nI found these children face stigma, rejection, and physical and verbal abuse by immediate and extended families, as well as the wider communities. Because of this, they may experience problems getting food, going to school, or accessing health care. Some do not have birth certificates that are important for accessing government services – officials will often demand the name of the father that they do not know when applying to get a birth certificate.\nAssistance to victims of Kenya’s 2007 election violence has largely ignored the particular vulnerabilities and needs of children born from rape. The Kenyan government needs to do more to protect these vulnerable children, in part by supporting their mothers. A woman who is abused, scorned, or abandoned following rape, or has lost her home and property during a conflict, is less likely to accept and support her child. The government should ensure these children have access to health care and education, as well as birth registration, and that their mothers and families can receive psycho-social care.\nProtecting children during times of political violence should include protecting children born from related rape, too. Kenya, and its development partners, should be strong voices for them and work to ensure they receive protection and assistance.\nA Human Rights Watch article.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The United States and many other developed countries are becoming more multi cultural, multi ethnic, and multi racial than ever before. This may to a certain extent cause less communication, interconnectedness or dialogue between diverse individuals. This lack of communication and dialogue, especially in education, manifests itself as less participation and involvement, which negatively affects educational success. Since educational success is highly associated with parental and community involvement, social capital plays a critical role in improving overall successes in education. Educators and policy makers should seek new ways and strategies to improve social capital with greater efficacy. This also includes reexamining leadership styles, practices and setting exemplary leadership frameworks.\nDue to the abstract nature of the concept, social capital is mostly defined by its functions or manifestations. In other words, definitions mostly answer the question of what social capital does rather than what it is. Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak (2001) refer to social capital as a dynamic and even organic phenomenon. Their approach also emphasizes social capital’s role and function, rather than social capital itself. They underline (1) how social capital works in organizations, (2) how investments are made in social capital, and (3) the return that these organizations and individuals experience from these investments (p. 3). In this framework, Cohen and Prusak (2001) offer the working definition of social capital as “the stock of active connections among people.” Yet, there seems to be a more concrete definition offered by The World Bank Social Capital Initiative (1998). According to The World Bank Social Capital Initiative, social capital is the “internal, social and cultural coherence of society, the norms and values that govern interactions among people and the institutions in which they are embedded” (p. iii). Thus, social capital is seen as the glue that holds societies together. Consequently. without social capital, society at large will collapse. Due to its importance, researchers from different fields, such including political science, economics and education, investigate social capital, as many people see social capital as a solution to persistent social problems.\nIn the world of education, social capital is formed by social networks connecting families, schools and communities. In other words, parental and community involvement are the forms of social capital which are most associated with academic success. The World Bank (1998) argues that there is evidence that schools are more successful when parents and community members are actively involved. Discussions about school issues, parental monitoring, active tutoring, providing encouragement, attending school events, responding to school obligations, etc are all examples of parental involvement. Less effective community involvement examples include (1) supporting schools financially, (2) participating in school events, and (3) involving schools in community meetings. Community involvements render teachers more committed. Furthermore, it effects students’ general achievement, including achievement in reading, math, or other specific curricular areas, as well as IQ scores and an array of attitudinal and behavioral outcomes.\nEven a cursory review of the leadership literature reveals that there are multiple definitions of leadership, and these all arise from mainly different perceptions and specific disciplinary conceptualizations. For example, some authors choose to treat leadership as a psychological fact while others see it as sociological (Pierce & Newstrom, 2008). In different disciplines, such as education or health, the definitions are based upon the references of that particular discipline. Therefore, a wide range of definitions of leadership are offered, but not a single model or term given. Accordingly, while some leadership approaches focus on the different characteristics between the followers and the leaders, others look at internal or external variables such as representation and effectiveness.\nIn education, leadership is mostly represented in schools by school administrations. Specifically, principals and teachers are expected to possess the leadership skills necessary to run their schools. Leadership practices are not only expectations but also obligations and requirements as part of the profession. This is especially true for principals. Since they form school policies, they’re considered critical for academic and disciplinary success.\nKouzes and Posner (2007) see the concept of leadership as a practice rather than as a personality type. After several case analyses, surveys and questionnaires, they uncovered five leadership practices common to personal-best leadership experiences as guidance for all leaders. These five practices of exemplary leadership are essentials and applicable for all leaders who want ot get extraordinary things done in organizations, including educational institutions. The five practices are: (1) modeling the way, (2) inspiring a shared vision, (3) challenging the process, (4) enabling others to act, and (5) encouraging the heart.\nTo improve and benefit from the existing social capital in a family, school and community, the five practices of leadership proposed by Kouzes and Posner may be implemented in K-12 institutions. Accordingly, this model may improve academic and disciplinary success in K-12 education. The following titles will focus on possible actions, attitudes or procedures to improve social capital as conducted by school principals and teachers.\nBehaviors are more important than the title that people carry in organizations. It is through behavior that people win the respect of other members of an organization. If leaders want to gain commitment and better standards, they must be models of the behavior they expect from others. Overall, leaders model the way (Kouzes & Posner, 2007). School principals and teachers should act and behave in the best way possible, as exemplary models, towards colleagues, parents and community members if they wish to utilize and improve social capital. Modeling the way can be done by more involvement and participation in the activities organized in and out school. However, principals and teachers should prioritize their needs when they are choosing activities and events. For instance, different ethnic and cultural groups in a community can isolate themselves, since other members of the community may not want to communicate. Although these different groups may open their activities to all community members, lack of communication and dialogue creates isolation and, as explained before, cause lack of trust, reciprocal respect, interaction and safety, all of which are essential to building social capital. Thus, principals and teachers should prioritize communication and dialogue rather than basic social needs such as entertainment. Modeling the way can also include mutual family visits, joining social organizations and participating in community workshops, conferences and diversity meetings. In short, principals and teachers should represent – model the way – rather than present what social capital requires as a discourse.\nKeenness, interest, diligence, inspiration, enthusiasm, dreams and imagination are essential factors for leaders in an organization (Kouzes & Posner, 2007). When leaders are visionary, and if their visions are realistic and if they have confidence in their capacity and skill, remarkable achievement can be realized. According to Kouzes and Posner (2007), every organization and social movement begins with a dream. Dream is a force which helps shape the future. However, dreams cannot work alone and must be shared. Leaders with dreams, or even leaders with more tangible projects, may not initiate an organized movement or substantive change. People will not follow leaders unless they accept the vision or dream as their own. To do so, leaders need to inspire people to share their vision.\nA shared vision is as important as modeling the way in the process to utilize and improve social capital. People need to be convinced about the benefits of social capital in academic and disciplinary success in schools. Since many studies (Dika & Singh, 2002) show positive links between high social capital and overall success in K-12 education, making people believe in its benefits may not prove a difficult task for principals and teachers. However, a simple belief does not help much with improving social capital. Kouzes and Posner’s (2007) second practice of exemplary leadership, which is inspire a shared vision, might help leaders, principals and teachers achieve sufficient utilization and improvement in education. The visions and dreams may include (1) high involvement in activities and events, (2) strong connections with parents and community members, and (3) moral and financial support. The first step towards realizing such visions is telling them to the targeted individuals. The second is paralleling the visions with people’s expectations, hopes, and dreams. To do so, principals and teachers should engage in dialogue, not only with their colleagues, but also with parents and community members. The third involves further interaction and dialogue with people to amend or modify the vision for more effective utilization, if needed. Thus, plans and preparations for the planned goal or for the better utilization and improvement of social capital can be improved, and thus become more appealing.\nLeadership cases mostly involve a case of change or are perceived to be a challenge to the status quo. Studies done by Kouzes and Posner (2007) confirm this. For example, leaders may challenge a system, its processes or procedures so that they obtain new or better products, processes, services, systems, or outcomes. Challenge might involve an innovative product, a cutting-edge service, a revolutionary piece of legislation, or a reformed cadre of different personnel.\nIn a school environments, change and challenge occurs in and through the existing policies, internal culture and the status quo. To achieve a significant or better organized transformation, school leaders, primarily principals, happen to take risks. Change might be perceived as a challenge in different forms to the existing attitudes, means, methods and personnel. It might not be seen within the framework or practice of the existing action-plans that allege to benefit social capital within a community. By and large, attempts to improve or further utilize social capital can be perceived as a challenge if there is already some resistance to and confrontation with the rank-and-file towards the process of change and development in any community. As for schools, school leaders can challenge the attitudes and processes that are not effective and valuable for better social capital. Their action plans need to include overall participation, steady attendance, constant involvement, frequent visits and positive relations which would invoke further responses, participation, and contribution from individual families or lager communities. Challenging stagnant, unpromising, unproductive methods, means, or processes with a positive attitude is usually acknowledged as a needed form of action and practice towards achieving objectives.\nLeadership is about team work, and cannot be restricted to a small group of loyalists. It must include peers, managers, customers, clients, and citizens – all those who have a stake in the vision. The command-and-control techniques of the Industrial Revolution are no longer applicable. Leaders must work to make people feel strong, capable, and committed. They need to enable others to act and to participate in team efforts in order to accomplish either an organized movement or significant change (Kouzes & Posner, 2007).\nKouzes and Posner’s fourth practice of exemplary leadership is an essential instrument, especially when a single person leads an activity or a project in an organization. This is true for schools principals. At schools, principals give direct orders to realize internal and external procedures. In many cases, teachers, parents, and community members fulfill or complete these orders without becoming a part of them. Teachers, parents, and community members need to be inspired and encouraged to feel like team members who can actively participate in utilizing and improving social capital for their schools. For instance, teachers should be able to contribute to an event organization not only as guests but also as team members who arrange the event. Parents and community members should also be enabled to work as team members working towards improvements or success. Rather than simply participate, they can get involved in the events and organizations, at least to a certain extent, as controllers, coordinators, sponsors, or organizers. This simple involvement naturally attracts and increases the level of interest in school and overall education by society at large, and of course results in the improvement and utilization of social capital accordingly.\nEncouraging the heart is another practice of exemplary leadership offered by Kouzes and Posner (2007). It is essential for leaders, because people get exhausted, frustrated, disenchanted, and often temped to give up. Leaders encourage the hearts of their constituents to carry on. Encouragement may come in many forms, ranging from dramatic gestures to simple actions. For instance, in recognition of performance of the constituents, a simply participating in their celebrations encourages people’s hearts. Such simple actions show that their performance is recognized and appreciated by the leader (Kouzes & Posner, 2007). .\nSimilar to principals, teachers, as leaders, also should encourage the hearts of their students and students’ parents. Teacher-parent contacts, interactions and dialogues should be accommodated between individuals for academic success and educational progress.\nAs argued, there are several factors that promote academic and disciplinary success in K-12 education. Educators, in most cases, have the initiative and inherent power to utilize and modify these factors. Social capital is one of these factors and has a critical role for the overall success in schools, especially in K-12 education. Statistics and research show positive links between improved social capital and educational success in the US and elsewhere.\nEnvironments with improved social capital have better educational success, whereas low social capital environments have lower educational success, with high dropout rates and lower tests scores. Although studies clearly support the importance of developing social capital, further proposals, action plans, or practices are still needed to improve and utilize the social capital in K12 education. These proposals can be set by specific disciplines and also by interdisciplinary approaches, such as sociology, psychology, and education.\nErkan Acar is a PhD candidate in education at Marywood University, Pennsylvania.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\"Make no mistake, the Mon Calamari saved the galaxy.\"\nThe Mon Calamari (also known as Calamari, Calamarians, Mon Cal, Mon Calamarians, or rarely Mon Cala) were one of the sentient species indigenous to the world of Dac.\n\"This ship stinks of fish. Or so I would imagine. The Mon Calamari are such a disgusting species.\"\nOn average, a member of the species stood between 1.3 to 1.8 meters tall and also smelled of salt and the sea. They were a fish-like amphibious humanoid species with salmon-colored skin, webbed hands, high-domed heads and huge, fish-like eyes. They were equally capable of breathing both on land and in water with them being at home in either environment. Male Mon Calamari had protrusions on their chin called \"barbels\" which grew more numerous with age. Most Mon Calamari had salmon-colored skin, often mottled with light and dark patterns, though examples of other skin colors were known. The Mon Calamari are able to descend to depths of up to 30 meters below sea level without requiring breathing or pressure apparatus. Though they can breathe water, they find it somewhat uncomfortable, and use organic gills whenever possible. Mon Calamari could stay underwater for an indefinite period of time, although a frightened Mon Calamari, particularly a juvenile, could drown underwater. They also did not need to decompress when resurfacing. They tended to smell of salt and sea giving them a particular identifiable odor.\nTheir hands, apart from being webbed, also featured five claw-tipped fingers; one opposable thumb with two more shorter claw-like protrusions, two long middle fingers, and two extremely short outer fingers. As an additional feature, Mon Calamari hands also presented three suction-cup like holes on their palms. Mon Calamari could swivel their eyes independently from one another, focusing on two areas at once. Mon Calamari saw in different wavelengths than Humans, making it difficult for one species to view visuals designed for the other and vice versa. Their eyes were often used to express emotion; staring with the left eye was a way of showing surprise, while staring with the right eye was either a challenge to fight or an expression of love, depending on the circumstances.\nMon Cal Hand Holes\nDue to their fish-like appearance, the Mon Calamari were referred to by the somewhat derogatory Deal-slang expression \"Mon Cals in a fishbowl\", which referred to the act of making several big and easy deals from naive or less-than-intelligent clients.\n+2 to Intelligence, +2 to Wisdom, Species Size is Medium, Racial Language is Mon-Calamarian", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Johann Flierl was the epitomy of the successful German missionary. From a farm in Bavaria, he trained at Neuendettelsau with an early and strong sense of vocation. He was quick to spot opportunities for strategic development. During his period at Bethesda mission at Killalpaninna (1878-1885) Germany acquired territory in New Guinea, and he immediately proceeded to become the first Lutheran missionary in this new contact zone. Along the way he was briefly delayed at Cooktown and used this time to start another mission at Cape Bedford, which he called Elim. He spent the next 44 years as a missionary in New Guinea (1886-1930) where his four children were born, developing a network of missions, and retired at age 72.\n|Rev. Johann Flierl\n|Source: M00278, Lutheran Archives Australia\nJohann (Hansel) was born on 16 April 1858 at Buchhof (then consisting of three houses) in the Upper Palatine, near Nürnberg. He went to the local public school at Sulzbach for seven years, until age 14. His autobiography gives glimpses into rural village life of thatched roof cottages with open wells presenting dangers. Matchsticks were still a novelty (introduced to Germany in the 1830s), and the family ate from one bowl, using a slice of bread as their plates. Hansel learned knitting from his father, and could finish a sock in a day. Bavaria had been at war with both Prussia and France, and both were equally considered foreign countries until the French defeat and unification of Germany under Prussia in 1871. The railway networks were just getting extended, and for people like Hansel, who could neither ride nor shoot, walking was the mode of transport. Family was the only support network, and after his sister died her widower married another sister in the Flierl family. Superstitions and spiritism – the belief that the devil could manifest himself – suffused the Christian beliefs of the mostly Catholic villagers. Bavaria was not much affected by the ‘Kirchenstreit’ that fragmented Protestants in Prussia. In Sulzbach the Protestants even reached a convivial arrangement with the Catholics, by installing a submergible altar in the Catholic church, which could be hauled up for Protestant services.\nFlierl attended the Sunday school of the local Protestant pastor who recommended him for Neuendettelsau\n. He first went into apprenticeship with a blacksmith in Nürnberg, but when his father found out that they were made to work on Sundays, he promptly picked his son up again after just three weeks, and tried to place him in the college, where they were told that Johann had to be at least 17 to enter the college. He had to wait four years until he was accepted in 1875. He appears to have had the solid support of his parents in his missionary aspirations, and this gave him a strength of character that made him sometimes difficult to manage by his later employers.\nAt this time the graduates were sent only to the German communities in Australia and America. It accepted small cohorts every year, so that a strong bond formed between the graduates. The students were encouraged to nurture the link between the institution and its financial supporters by visiting them during the September and March holidays.\nA call for missionaries was received from South Australia, and Flierl eagerly volunteered before he had completed even half of his time at the seminary. He completed his three years and was then sent to Australia, destined for Cooper Creek (Bethania).\nFlierl’s departure for Australia must have been quite an occasion in the family, and inspired two of his cousins to also enter the seminary. Konrad Flierl, born in 1865 in Sulzbach, was just 13 when his cousin left for Australia, and entered Neuendettelsau the following year in the preparatory course. He spent five and a half years at the seminary and was sent to the USA in 1885.\n|The Flierl family home at Buchhof\n|Source: Flierl 1999\nCousin Johann Flierl (II), also born in April 1858, had learned farming from age 14 to 17, then completed an apprenticeship in carpentry, then worked in a mine. During the period which Johann (I) spent anxiously waiting for his admission to the seminary, reading only wholesome books, getting tuition from local priests, and often getting teased for his piousness, his cousin Johann (II) caroused in Nürnberg. His first thought of becoming a missionary arose when Johann (I) departed to Australia in 1875. He was accepted into Neuendettelsau in spring 1880, while Konrad was there, and sent to Australia three years later.\nHe was called as a replacement for his cousin to Cooper Creek in late 1883 and married a girl from Hahndorf. He fell out of favour with the Neuendettelsau and Immanuel Synod circles and left the mission in 1891. By 1908 he was at Buffalo in the USA.\nA nephew born in 1884 in Sulzbach was also inspired by the letters from his uncle in New Guinea, and formed the aspiration early on to become a missionary. He attended the Neuendettelsau seminary from 1902 to 1906. Rev. Leonhard Flierl arrived in New Guinea in 1907 and stayed there with his wife Ottilie, who joined him in 1923, until 1929.\nTo South Australia (1878)\n|Rev. Johann Flierl with Johannes Pingilina at Bethesda\n|Source: M00278, Lutheran Archives Australia\nFlierl was not to see his mother again, who died the year after his departure. He embarked on his first voyage out of Bavaria, out of Germany, out of Europe, together with Brother Friedrich Wilhelm Matschoss, destined for the German congregation at Mt. Gambier, travelling via Hamburg and London, to Melbourne. The passengers had to provide their own mattresses and blankets, but were supplied with a bottle of port wine each week, which however kept them neither warm nor cheerful enough as they sailed south of the equator into the cold latitudes. They transhipped to Adelaide, where Flierl met Heinrich Vogelsang, the son of the Cooper Creek lay-missionary, and went to their host community at Tanunda, where Flierl, Matschoss and teacher C. A. Meyer were ordained in September 1878, age 20. Flierl was accommodated with the Auricht family at Tanunda- Langmeil, and so met Louise Auricht, whom he married four years later, in 1882 when he was 24 and she was 21.\nThe German Lutheran community in South Australia was now more than 40 years old, and Flierl found them well established, certainly no more backward than the Palatine villages he knew. A mood of revivalism has increased community support for missions and church, but the Lutherans had fractured into two synods, the Immanuel Synod maintaining connection with Neuendettelsau and supporting the Cooper Creek mission (established 1866), and the Australian Synod liaising with Hermannsburg and supporting the Hermannsburg mission (established 1877) .\nThe Dieri mission later known as Bethesda in the Cooper Creek area, had been set up in 1866 by two Neuendettelsau missionaries, Rev. Johann Friedrich Gößling and Rev. Ernst Homann, supported by the colonists Hermann Vogelsang and Ernst Jakob. It was shifted several times as seasonal lakes dried up and the Dieri adjusted their routes accordingly. Flierl arrived with the Meyers, who shared the mission house with the Vogelsangs. As so often, the laymen turned out to be more persistent than the ordained missionaries.\nFlierl was the junior missionary here, accommodated in a single-room cottage and immersed himself into the study of the Dieri language, and prepared a universal reader (with Luther’s cathechism, bible stories, bible verses and hymns), even before the first church was completed in October 1880, at the Lake Killpalaninna site called Bethesda. At around that time he made his first journey back to Adelaide. The railway line was still under construction, so he had to walk 250 miles to catch the train at Beltana to Port Augusta, then the boat to Adelaide, where he arrived ‘looking like a hobo’, with no money, a swag and his toes poking through the boots, at the home of his financee. Later the rail reached Gums-Farina (130 miles) and by 1884 it reached Hergott Springs (70 miles from the mission – ‘Hergott’ meaning ‘the Lord’).\nThe missionaries had ignored the mission board’s reservations about moving back to Killalpaninna, ignored its instruction to commence wheat growing, and had sent Flierl south without permission. A four-member delegation now came for an inspection, and gave its belated consent for the already completed move to the old Hermannsburg station on Lake Killalpaninna. Flierl had constructed a three-bedroom cottage and obtained permission to return to Adelaide to get married in October 1882. His cousin Johann Flierl (II) was recruited as a replacement.\nSetting up Hopevale (1886)\nThe Dutch had claimed the western part of the island of Papua in 1824. As German trading activities in the area increased, and rumours spread that the Germans planned to annexe the eastern part of the island New Guinea, Queensland annexed the southern part of the island in 1883. Britain refused to legitimise this move, and only when Germany annexed the northeast part of the island and Samoa in November 1884, Britain followed suit a few days later by establishing a protectorate in the southeast. The German ethnogapher and ornithologist Otto Finsch, after whom Finschhafen was named, visited New Guinea in 1884 and 1885, the boundaries between the British and the German areas were agreed in 1885, and in 1886 the German Neuguinea-Kompagnie was issued a trading monopoly and practically put in charge of the administration of the German territory (Kaiser-Wilhelmsland and Bismarck Archipelago).\nThe Lutherans responded quickly to the new developments. Flierl wrote to Neuendettelsau and the South Australian mission board which employed him requesting to be sent to New Guinea. He received immediate support from Neuendettelsau, which offered to organise finance from Germany. Flierl took his wife home to Tanunda and set off in November 1885, accompanied by Johann Biar from St. Kitts in South Australia.\nIn Sydney the German Consul General, who was an agent for the Neuguinea-Kompagnie, informed them that permission from company headquarters in Berlin was required, since the only transport to Finschhafen (from Cooktown) was undertaken by the company, who would only carry company officials and employees or specially authorised persons. Undaunted, Flierl appealed to Neuendettelsau and Adelaide for intercession, asked the consul general to become the business agent for the future mission, and proceeded to Cooktown, the new port servicing the Palmer River gold-rush (1873-83).\nHe settled in for a wait, and tried to make as many acquaintances as possible, including among the numerous Germans who had been attracted by the gold-rush, but who had no interest in forming a congregation. The first company ship to call from New Guinea - which actually got wrecked on Osprey Reef - had orders not to take Flierl on board under any circumstances. For Flierl this was not a setback but ‘a clear pointer from God’.\nThe unhelpful attitude of the German trading company gave him a couple of months to spend at Cooktown, and he formed the idea that here was a good mission field. Flierl had very clear strategic objectives in mind, since Cooktown was the closest trading post to a future mission in New Guinea. It could be a stepping stone, and also serve as a half-way station and as a recuperation station for staff who needed a spell from the tropical climate. He found out that a large Aboriginal reserve had recently been set aside north of the town at Cape Bedford, about six hours’ walk away. He stepped right into an opportunity waiting to be taken up. The Queensland government promptly agreed to finance such a mission for one year, on the condition that it must be conducted for at least five years, must cultivate crops and seek to become self-supporting. Flierl agreed before inspecting the site. He also asked the Lutheran communities in the Logan area to support the mission.\nHe started to learn Koko Yimidir in Cooktown, and in January 1886 proceeded to Cape Bedford in a government boat loaded with government provisions, accompanied by Briar, Rev. Martin Doblies, an Aboriginal police officer, and a team of Aboriginal helpers. Police inspector Fitzgerald and the local magistrate Milman, also went for the trip and returned the same day,. He soon found that the reserve land was not suitable for white settlement, or for cultivation. The government also made available the Killarney sailing vessel, which was skippered by Brother Doblies who had maritime experience from his home in the Baltic Sea. They established Elim station with a coconut and maize plantation, although the maize produced little and the melons and pumpkin failed.\nWithin a few months of their arrival they were visited by the Governor, and it was announced that a second reserve had been set aside on the Bloomfield\nRiver, 45 miles south of Cooktown, which the Queensland government wanted to have run as a mission on the same terms.\nMeanwhile the long-awaited consent of the Neuguinea-Kompagnie was obtained through lobbying from Neuendettelsau, and a replacement for Flierl was sent from Bethania. Rev. C. A. Meyer and his wife arrived in June 1886, accompanied by Johannes Pingilina\n. Biar, who was supposed to accompany Flierl to New Guinea, stayed at Hopevale for a short period and then went to New Guinea in private employment, whereas Doblies followed Flierl to New Guinea in 1887, however malaria forced him back to Queensland and he joined the Mari Yamba\nmission in 1887.\nTo Papua New Guinea (1886)\nIn July 1886 Flierl travelled to Finschhafen, the headquarters of the Neuguinea-Kompagnie, where he spent several weeks become acquainted with the newly forming colonial elite under the recently arrived governor Baron von Schleinitz with family including his father-in-law Baron von Hippel. The company officers had only been in the territory for a year: this was virgin land where Flierl’s enterprising spirit could develop to full fruition. His knowledge of Aboriginal languages was no advantage here. No prior work had been done on the local languages, except for a word list of about 100 Jabem words collected by the medical officer at Finschhafen Dr Schellong. Years later they realised that the word for ‘woman’ which they had been using actually only meant ‘tall’. It must have been obtained when someone pointed at a tall woman, asking what’s that, and the answer was ‘auwi palinggo’. Palinggo, instead of auwi was noted down as the word for woman.\nAfter a few weeks Flierl was joined by Rev. Karl Tremel, and they recruited three assistants from George Brown’s Wesleyan Methodist mission in the Bismarck Archipelago (established 1875 with helpers form Fiji and Samoa). They selected a site at Simbang, less than two hours’ walking distance from Finschhafen. Some of the local villagers had themselves been displaced by the colonial occupation of Finschhafen. When they realized that the missionaries had come to stay rather than visit, they tried to drive them away.\n|Source: Flierl 1910\nStill, the missionaries set about building a school, which took five months, and then awaited the arrival of children, in vain:\nEvery morning we two missionaries alternated in school duties. We would go into the nearby village and attempt to coax children to our school. Or we would sit on the steps of our school and would try to persuade any children passing along the nearby track to come into the school, with more or less success. \nThe school finally started when seven young boys presented themselves to make an agreement, that they would stay for seven months, attend school and work in the garden, much like they would sign on for a work contract. After the expiry of their term, they were relived by another group.\nFrom here the mission took off and was eventually able to build outstations, as staff reinforcements arrived. In 1887 Rev. Doblies joined them for a few months, followed by Rev. Georg Bamler (who died in New Guinea in 1928). They established stations on both Tami Islands (1890) and at Deinzerhöhe (named after the Neuendettelsau director Deinzer). A malaria epidemic in Finschhafen in 1891 decimated the company staff and caused the German administration to move its headquarters to Madang in Astrolabe Bay, where the Rhenish Mission society (Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, Barmen) had commenced its mission in 1887. This gave a strategic advantage to the Rhenish mission, and the Neuendettelsauers responded by establishing a site at Sattelberg as a health retreat, further claiming the Finschhafen area as their territory. In 1895 the Catholic Steyler mission society began a mission at Madang.\nIn 1899 the first baptisms were performed, after 13 years of work. That year the mission was reinforced with the arrival of Rev. Georg Pfalzer with his wife Mathilde (who both left in 1914), Sister Frieda Götz (who stayed until 1897), and Rev. Konrad Vetter (who died in New Guinea in 1906). Further stations were added in the Huon Gulf, with a supply station at Finschhafen (1903), a coconut plantation at Heldsbach (1904), and outstations Logaweng, Sialum and Wareo. At Heldsbach Flierl built his 12th house.\n|First church at Tami Island\n|Source: Flierl 1910\nIn 1908 Flierl went on his first extended furlough. He travelled for two years, visiting Australia, Germany and the USA, and used this occasion to lecture and help increase the financial support for the mission from the USA and Bavaria. Such connections were soon to become even more important, with the outbreak of World War I, which dictated the family’s fortunes.\nFlierl’s four children were all born in New Guinea, and all remained firmly connected with missionary activity. Both his sons attended the Neuendettelsau seminary and returned as ordained missionaries. Dora became a mission nurse and teacher, remained unmarried, and looked after her father in old age. Elise married Rev. Dr. Georg Pilhofer, also a Neuendettelsau missionary in New Guinea.\nAs the Australians were taking command of the German territory in World War I, the German missionaries in New Guinea were required to swear an oath of neutrality. Flierl’s elder son Wilhelm was arrested in 1915 because two fleeing German officials took possession of his boat and left behind a box, so he was accused of assisting the enemy. He was interned at Liverpool (Australia), and repatriated to Germany at the end of the war. He then joined his brother Hans, who had been conscripted into military service on his arrival at Neuendettelsau in 1914, in Texas, and returned to New Guinea with his wife Maria in 1927, not having seen his family for 15 years.\nWorld War I spelt the demise of the German colonial adventure and rendered the connections between Neuendettelsau and the Lutherans in America and Australia all the more important. The Australian Lutherans now took over the direction of the Neuendettelsau missions in New Guinea, and Australian-born Pastor Otto Theile, a Neuendettelsau graduate (1897-1901) became mission director in Brisbane. Under Australian rule the mission effort in New Guinea was reorganised and further extended, the Neuendettelsauers penetrating into the Central Highlands in the 1930s.\nAt age 72 Flierl left New Guinea for Tanunda, where his wife died in 1934, and in 1937 he returned to Neuendettelsau with Dora. The remainder of the family also returned to Germany under the gathering clouds of another war, only Wilhelm remained in New Guinea and was interned at Tatura (Australia) in 1940, together with other German missionaries including his brother-in-law Georg Pilhofer.\nFlierl died on 30 September 1947, age 89. In 1972 Flierl Place in Canberra was named in his honour, the Louise Flierl Mission Museum at Hahndorf, opened in 1998, is named after his wife.\nFlierl was an imposing figure, tall, bearded, energetic and with a dry sense of humour. In the establishment of a mission field, he saw himself as ‘the pioneer, the forerunner’, leaving the role of teacher, language expert, and congregational leader to others.\nHis autobiography suggests that he was the driving force behind the mission extension in the Morobe district. Other accounts, however, lend far more weight to the pivotal role of ‘nationals’, local people without whom the white mission staff could not have succeeded.\n|German missionaries from New Guinea as prisoners of war in Australia\n'On the left stands missionary Willy Flierl, sitting under the roof is Missionary Raum, both currently pastors in the US, until they are allowed back to New Guinea. In the prisoner camp at Trial Bay in Australia they built this hut on the beach from posts, clay, timber boxes and reeds. Sitting on the right is Pastor Gutekunst, a German-Australian Pastor.'\nSource: Koller 1924, p.121.\n Flierl, Johann, My Life and God’s Mission, an autobiography by Senior Johann Flier, Pioneer missionary and field inspector in New Guinea, Lutheran Church of Australia, Adelaide, 1999, pp 9-33.\n Resume of Konrad Flierl, Neuendettelsau, Lebenslaufbuecher: Australien/USA, p.121.\n Resume of Johann Flierl, Neuendettelsau, Lebenslaufbuecher: Australien/USA, p.79.\n Resume of Leonhard Flierl, Neuendettelsau, Lebenslaufbuecher: Australien/USA; and Flierl, Johann, My Life and God’s Mission, an autobiography by Senior Johann Flier, Pioneer missionary and field inspector in New Guinea, Lutheran Church of Australia, Adelaide, 1999, p.253.\n Flierl, Johann, My Life and God’s Mission, an autobiography by Senior Johann Flier, Pioneer missionary and field inspector in New Guinea, Lutheran Church of Australia, Adelaide, 1999, p.112.\n Flierl, Johann, My Life and God’s Mission, an autobiography by Senior Johann Flier, Pioneer missionary and field inspector in New Guinea, Lutheran Church of Australia, Adelaide, 1999, p.138.\nWeiss, Peter, Short General and Statistical History of the Australian Lutheran Church, Lutheran Archives Australia, 2001-2007.\n Flierl, Johann, My Life and God’s Mission, an autobiography by Senior Johann Flier, Pioneer missionary and field inspector in New Guinea, Lutheran Church of Australia, Adelaide, 1999, p. 180.\nWagner, Herwig and Hermann Reiner (eds) The Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea: the first hundred years 1886-1986. Adelaide Lutheran Publishing House 1986.\nFlierl, Johann, Dreiβig Jahre Missionsarbeit in Wüsten und Wildnissen, Verlag des Missionshauses Neuendettelsau, 1910.\nKoller, Wilhelm, Die Missionsanstalt in Neuendettelsau, ihre Geschichte und das Leben in ihr. Neuendettelsau, Verlag des Missionshauses, 1924.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Written Work by Graham T. Baden\nTradition, Autocracy, and the\nPursuit of Gender Equality in Algeria, 1954—2014\nAlgeria, a nation of social contrasts and political contradictions, stands out as an enigma in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Since its revolution during the 1950s, resting at the center of a dialectic between “tradition” and “modernity,” Algerian national identity and the women who claim it have had a tumultuous relationship. Veiled and unveiled, in public, schools, and even sports, Algerian women have been important agents of change in Algeria for half a century. Yet, Unicef, Freedom House, Gender Index, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, et al. still rank women’s rights in Algeria behind most of the world, and even behind other MENA nations like Bahrain, Morocco, and Lebanon. Although Algeria is a land among the highest ranked in Africa for its rate of female education and political participation, and women were essential elements of its drive for independence, Algerian women still struggle against its authoritarian and patriarchal structures of power; however, unlike the prevailing Western narrative of why this might be the case, research suggests this has nothing to do with religious conservatism, but with patriarchal and autocratic nepotism and neoliberalism.\nTo determine evidence of Algeria’s gendered cognitive dissonance, and to identify potential causes of women’s civil insecurity, this paper will outline three specific areas of women’s rights within Algeria— their political participation and representation within the state, their educational and employment opportunities, and their social rights and liberties. It will relate men and women’s positions in Algeria, taking special interest to highlight the recent waning of civil rights in general and the dislocation of the democratic process that has occurred since the end of their civil war of the 1990s. Finally, it will determine areas of concern and potential threats to the future of gender equality within a region that did not fully participate in the popular unrest of the Arab Spring.\nWhile many colonized territories had begun to achieve sovereignty during the 1950s through non-violent political development, Algeria became the first African land to demand its independence through organized upheaval. The Algerian War, an important expression of African political and social agency, was a turning point for the Francophone world. In 1954, likely inspired by the developments in French Indochina (now Vietnam), the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) developed a strategy of violence and terror to win back the lands of Algeria from the French occupiers who had seized the territory and subjugated its peoples. In the eight dramatic years that followed, the FLN executed a successful guerrilla campaign against the French troops sent to quell the rebellion in rural areas and staged frequent acts of terror within the French Quarter of Algiers. To achieve these ends, the FLN relied heavily on the support and aid of Algerian women, who acted as nurses, messengers, porters, and even bomb planters. These efforts were not rewarded, though, and the region retained a cultural bias against women despite their war-time accomplishments.\nAlmost immediately after independence, military and bureaucratic elites began to consolidate power and establish patriarchal methods of control within the government. Regardless of their participation in the war, political authority was not shared with women. The FLN, established as the single governmental party, went to work constructing the state of Algeria and founding a new national identity apart from social, ethnic, or religious associations. The Union National des Femmes Algériennes (UNFA), the first official women’s organization in Algeria, founded and funded by the FLN in 1965, was pivotal in mobilizing women to back the new state policies of the sole Algerian party. In spite of these efforts, women fell back into their place of traditional inferiority, and any credibility they had secured during the revolution faded in the new light of state sponsorship.\nNotwithstanding the state’s nationalist aspirations, the Algerian population remained divided along idealistic lines. Much of the established authority, belonging to the secularist, West-leaning camp, was criticized for their collusion with the imperialists and former occupiers by a growing conservative and Islamist trend in Algeria. In response to this upwelling, the state formulated the Family Code, a series of regulations based on a conservative reading of Shari’ah law that fundamentally institutionalized the inferiority of women. While their first attempt at implementation in 1981 was met with popular, grassroots resistance among women’s groups and associations, by 1984, after subtle but inconsequential edits to the document, the code was passed with little public debate. Research offers no indication to explain this unfortunate absence of women. Though one might assume this conservative turn of events led to the loss of women’s place in public and their redirection into the private sphere, as was the case in other nations of the Arab World, quite the opposite is true. In fact, women have remained important public agents since then. The code merely codified patriarchal authority over women in Algerian society and ameliorated tensions with the rising Islamic fundamentalism.\nThe Algerian state continued its efforts to improve its relationship with popular society, and in 1989, in response to increased pressure from international economic partners, it opened up the opportunity for democratic elections and a multi-party system. Soon, nearly sixty political parties had sprung up in Algeria, many regionally, ethnically, and religious based, and the government hosted its first governmental elections in 1991. However, when the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), a popular Islamist party, gained a majority in the polls, especially in the urbanized areas of the North, the FLN disbanded the election and refused to cede its power. The nation was soon plunged into a civil war between the old, established powers of the revolution and the new, populist Islamic movements that had evolved during the 80s.\nThe war lasted a decade, and it saw Algeria through some of its worst periods of civil and women’s rights. In 1994, when the military seized control of the government, and fighting between the Islamist parties and the FLN were at their peak, Freedom House ranked Algeria at its lowest ever score. The FIS even declared a fatwa in 1994 authorizing the killing of women seen without a hijab. It should be noted, though, that all factions involved in the strife were accused of war crimes. While the worst atrocities are attributed to Islamist groups, research suggests that nearly 10,000 Algerians “disappeared” at the hands of the FLN. Figures are inconsistent, but it appears between 150,000 and 200,000 Algerians died during the civil war. By far, the worst victims of the fight were ethnic and religious minorities and the women who suffered rape, torture, and forced marriage or impregnation. Despite this, women still organized into associations and formed support groups for women. The Collective against Denigration and for the Rights of Algerian Women (RACHDA), an NGO formed in 1996, is one shining example. In spite of the increased violence from both sides of the conflict, women staged protests and demonstrations against the patriarchy of the period.\nGranting its decade of military chauvinism, the Algerian government appears to have pursued popular representation, and it steadily changed its practices towards democratization and gender equality. In 1996, Algeria officially established a second house of parliament, one that was to be elected, rather than appointed, and any new parties that were not determined by specific regional or religious biases could run for seats. One important change for women was their right to self-representation. Though they had held the right to vote since 1962, it wasn’t until 1997 that the patriarchal family-head lost his ability to vote for all members of the household. Further, by 2011, through a quota amended to the constitution, women were ensured at least a third of the seats in the lower house—the highest rate in the Arab World. As well, a UN report in 2008 found that 800 judges— almost half the judiciary— and nearly a third of all lawyers in the Algeria to be women.\nAlthough these seem to have been positive movements, the single greatest political change for women since the Millennium has been the relaxation of the Family Code. In 2005, the Algerian government officially revised the code, removing clauses that discriminate against women directly. The new revisions gave women greater freedom of movement without patriarchal authorization, increased divorce rights and opportunities, and it removed the specific regulation requiring women’s obedience. The phrase “the duty of the wife is to obey the husband” was removed from the Family Code, and women saw their first signs of legal equality in twenty years.\nTo further confuse this gender dialectic, Algeria has one of the highest-ranked ratios in the Arab World of women to men enrolled in all levels of education. Girls and boys are represented roughly equally in elementary school, with 93 and 95 percent enrolling and graduating respectively. Yet, by secondary school, enrollment rates for males have already been overtaken by a few percent. In tertiary education, the ratio gap is even wider. Gross college enrolment is higher for women than men (36 to 25 percent), and women outrank men in graduation rates by nearly two to one. However, despite this relative overrepresentation in education, women are still severely underrepresented within the economic sphere. Women’s participation in the economy is merely 39 percent, and they make up only 17 percent of the total work force. That said, these figures may be skewed by an uncounted percentage of women working from the home or in unregulated trades like the marketplace. It is interesting to note, however, that women are rapidly joining the higher echelons of employment. Due to their college educations, many women are turning to medical, educational, judicial, and governmental fields. Despite this, studies of women in Algeria find that women still feel prevented from entering the workforce due to the social constraints of domesticity and the threat of sexual harassment.\nIn fact, while sexual harassment has been criminalized since a 2008 amendment to the constitution, even requiring jail time for offenders, it remains a valid constraint to women’s employment because harassment is defined only as an abuse of authority in the workplace. As well, while Unicef finds that women’s health, pre- and post-natal care, and rate of contraceptive use is increasing—even in the poorest 50 percent of the population—gross population figures are misleading because rural areas are both under-covered by facilities and under-represented by the surveys. Further, sexual violence is criminalized, can lead to two years in prison for offenders, and in 1998, women who had been rape victims of the civil war were given the right to abort their pregnancies by a fatwa of the Supreme Islamic Council in Algeria. However, sexual violence remains defined as an hatk al-’ardh, “attack of the honor,” instead of the French word viol for rape. Thus, it is considered an attack on the honor of the woman’s family, and if the offender marries the victim, he may “expunge” her families honor and will not go to trial.\nScholars are skeptical of what has appeared to be an increase of women’s rights, though. For while women are overrepresented in colleges, equally represented in judicial affairs, and occupy at least a third of the seats in parliament, they are severely underrepresented in the economy and restricted from participation in actual political development. In spite of this increased representation of women in politics, instead of improving the lives of women in Algeria, Dilshod Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennesee State University, suggests, “the government will empower and support those women who do not (and will not) challenge the current political system and/or current regime.” Boutheina Cheriet, a professor at the University of Algiers, goes further, and states that women are “expected to endorse a weak and inadequate status as citizens by accepting their effacement from major decision-making processes, especially those pertaining to personal status and family legislation.”\nArab Spring sans Algeria\nSo why this disconnect between the governing elite and the populace of Algeria? Though it seems the government has fostered methods of popular representation since the mid-90s, despite the nation’s history of rebellion, the people of Algeria have not responded as many regions of the Middle East have and did not widely participate in the “Arab Spring.” Even as the Algerian government revised the Family Code in 2005, and offered what appears to be efforts of democratization and modernization, Algeria has not seen the development of uprisings as in its neighbors Tunisia or Egypt. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime even lifted a nineteen-year-old state of emergency, enacted in 1992 to give the government extensive powers in the interest of fighting terrorism, but the few urban protests against government corruption in 2011 were short lived and had little effect.\nJournalists have suggested this might be attributed to the people of Algeria’s fear of becoming embroiled in another conflict like their decade-long civil war of the 90s. Perhaps, more convincingly, this is due to the increased restrictions of Algerian civil rights that have occurred since September 11th, 2001 and the rise of the global “war on terror.” It seems, since their civil war ended, Algerian civil rights have been consistently constricted. Human Rights Watch reports an increase in state regulation on the freedoms of assembly and association, arrests and incarceration of union members and community organizers, and careful controls of the media. The state fines and imprisons journalists for any work that “may harm the national interest.” The fundamental Algerian rights of assembly, association, and speech are fading quickly, and the limited protests that occurred in Algeria between 2010 and 2012 were suppressed by police and its organizers were arrested without hesitation.\nFurther, Bouteflika, who was elected in 1999, and saw the ending of the civil war in 2002, has since overseen constitutional amendments to remove limits on presidential terms. He was elected to his third term in 2009, is now the longest-serving president in Algerian history, and has actively pursued the establishment of elaborate and nepotistic networks of power behind the scenes of surface-level Algerian policy—what some have termed “the deep state.” The real power in Algeria, though, one that has maintained its authority since the revolution, is “le pouvoir.” This ruling elite, preserving power through the manipulation of wealth from the land’s surplus of hydrocarbons, has ensured a further centralization of authority despite the political articulations of the military, Islamists, or the population.\nIn fact, many accuse the government for their collusion with elite circles in the economy, military, and Islamists. The Peace and Reconciliation Accord, passed by a referendum in 2005, offered amnesty to war criminals, literally criminalizing investigations of war crimes that occurred during the civil war. Many, from the groups most hurt during the civil war—ethnic minorities and women—suggest this only lead to alliances between corrupt military generals, jihadists, and political elites. Their resistance to transparency, and the behind-closed-doors negotiations with corrupt oil industries like Sonatech, who avoided trial for corruption in 2010, have led to a mistrust of the government and a disdain for the state. One need only look at the 2012 parliamentary elections, where more than half the eligible voters abstained from the vote, to see what little faith the population has in the government.\nThe Algerian regime retains but a fragile legitimacy, standing atop a delicate balance between secular Arabs, ethnic minorities, and Islamists. Despite surface-level reforms that have offered a ruse of political development, corruption, the oppression of civil liberties, and the lack of any real political competition or representation have tarnished any progressive actions the Bouteflika regime has proposed. Further, the regime’s coopting of moderate Islamists, hidden political manipulations, and the push for a nationalist, rather than ethnic or religious identity, has ossified cultural divisions, fractured any opposition, and left many Algerians with feelings of alienation and betrayal.\nThe patriarchal turn of events in the sixty years since Algerian independence, alongside the questionable practices and human rights violations of the FLN during the civil war, seems to indicate that the government of Algeria is not so different from the French occupiers they had replaced. Some have even suggested that the women of Algeria were “re-colonized” by Algerian men directly after independence. Mounira Charrad, a Tunisian-born professor at University of Texas and a researcher of women’s issues in the Maghreb, told Africa Renewal that while the law has become easier to change, “what the law does not change is the social situation.”\nIs this the case, though, or can it be argued that while the political authority of Algeria’s elite rests solely within male reach, both men and women have had their rights and civil liberties stripped from them, especially since the Millennium? While men and women are still not “equal” in the eyes of Algerian society or politics, both have been hindered by the authoritarian, single-party government and suffered the loss of free expression, press, and association since the end of the civil war. As Abdelkader Cheref, author and professor at Potsdam State University, New York, states, “power has never been in the hands of the people but in the hands of a powerful and hegemonic nomenklatura.” Like any autocracy, it seems those who reside within the palaces of the oligarchy are less interested in race, religion, or gender identities than they are in the mechanisms of power and in the ways of acquiring more of it.\nSpecial thanks to Dr. Houri Berberian\nDownload a copy of the Presentation Below:\n“Algeria: Stop Suppressing Protests.” Human Rights Watch, May 3, 2010. Accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/05/03/algeria-stop-suppressing-protests.\n“Djamila Boupacha, 1962.” In The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents, edited by Julia Clancy-Smith and Charles D. Smith, 149. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.\nGhosh, Palash. “Algerian Parliamentary Election Marred By Voter Apathy, Despite Promises Of Fairness, Transparency.” International Business Times, May 10, 2012. Accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.ibtimes.com/algerian-parliamentary-election-marred-voter-apathy-despite-promises-fairness-transparency-697793.\nGhosh, Palash. “Women in Algeria: Progress and Paradox.” International Business Times, October 26, 2012. Accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.ibtimes.com/women-algeria-progress-paradox-853988.\nHeydarian, Richard Javad. “Algerian Elections: The End of the Arab Spring?” The World Post, April 18, 2004. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-javad-heydarian/algerian-elections-the-en_b_5174754.html.\nHuman Rights Watch. “Algeria, World Report 2014.” hrw.org. Accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/algeria?page=1.\nKimani, Mary. “Women in North Africa Secure More Rights.” UN Africa Renewal (July 2008): 8. http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/july-2008/women-north-africa-secure-more-rights.\n“Proclamation of the Algerian National Front, Liberation Front, (FLN) November 1954.” In The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents, edited by Julia Clancy-Smith and Charles D. Smith, 216-218. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.\nRohloff, Caroline. “Reality and Representation of Algerian Women: The Complex Dynamic of Heroines and Repressed Women.” Honors Projects, French and Francophone Studies, Paper 6; Illinois Wesleyan University Digital Commons @ IWU, 2012. http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/french_honproj/6.\nSakina Brac de la Perrière, Caroline. “Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa – Algeria.” Freedom House. October 14, 2014. Accessed November 11, 2014. http://www.refworld.org/docid/47387b6a0.html.\nSocial Institutions & Gender Index. “Algeria.” OECD, genderindex.org. Last modified August 16, 2013. http://genderindex.org/country/algeria.\nUnicef, “ALGERIA: MENA Gender Equality Profile; Status of Girls and Women in the Middle East and North Africa.” Unite for Children (2011). http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Algeria-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf. Accessed, December 12, 2014.\nWerenfels, Isabelle. “Who is in Charge? Algerian Power Structures and their Resilience to Change.” Paris, Sciences Po – C.E.R.I University, 2010. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/fachpublikationen/wrf_algerien_1002_ks.pdf.\nWorld Bank. “Algeria.” In The Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (2006). http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTMENA/Resources/MENA_Gender_BW2007-3.pdf. Accessed December 12, 2014.\nBennoune, Karima. “Algerian Women Confront Fundamentalism,” Monthly Review, Vol. 46, No. 4, October, 1994. Accessed October 10, 2014. http://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-15823652/algerian-women-confront-fundamentalism.\nBennoune, Karima. “Algeria— Women’s Human Rights Under Siege,” Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Dossier 18, 1997. Accessed October 10, 2014. http://www.wluml.org/node/295.\nCheref, Abdelkader. “Engendering or Endangering Politics in Algeria? Salima Ghezali, Louisa Hanoune and Khalida Massaoudi.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2, no. 2 (2006): 60-85. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.2.60.\nCheriet, Boutheina. “Gender, Civil Society and Citizenship in Algeria.” Middle East Report, no. 198, “Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East” (1996): 22-26.\nClancy-Smith, Julia and Charles D. Smith. The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents.\nDassa Kaye, Dalia, Frederic Wehrey, Audra K. Grant, and Dale Stahl. More Freedom, Less Terror? Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2008.\nGray, Doris H. “Women in Algeria Today and the Debate over Family Law.” Middle East Review of International Affairs 13, no. 1 (March 2009): 45-56.\nLazreg, Marnia. “Gender and Politics in Algeria: Unraveling the Religious Paradigm.” Signs, 15, no. 4 (1990): 755-780. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174641.\nMarzouki, Nadia. “Algeria.” In Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance, edited by Sanda Kelly and Julia Breslin. New York, NY Freedom House; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.\nSlymovics, Susan. “Algeria—The Women’s Movement.” Middle East Report and Mongabay.com, December, 1993. Accessed November 1, 2014. http://www.mongabay.com/history/algeria/algeria-the_women’s_movement.html\nTurshen, Meredeth. “Algerian Women in the Liberation Struggle and the Civil War: From Active Participants to Passive Victims?” Social Research, Vol. 69, No. 3, “The Status of Women in the Developing World” (2002): 889-911. Accessed October 10, 2014, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40971577.\n Abdelkader Cheref, “Engendering or Endangering Politics in Algeria? Salima Ghezali, Louisa Hanoune and Khalida Massaoudi,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2, no. 2 (2006): 65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.2.60\n Nadia Marzouki, “Algeria,” chapter in Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance, Sanda Kelly and Julia Breslin eds. (New York, NY Freedom House; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), 1.\n Dalia Dassa Kaye et al., More Freedom, Less Terror? (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2008), 124.\n Ibid, 126.\n Meredeth Turshen, “Algerian Women in the Liberation Struggle and the Civil War: From Active Participants to Passive Victims?” Social Research, 69, no. 3, “The Status of Women in the Developing World” (2002), 898.\n Dassa Kaye, 126.\n Caroline Rohloff, “Reality and Representation of Algerian Women: The Complex Dynamic of Heroines and Repressed Women” (Honors Projects, French and Francophone Studies, Paper 6; Illinois Wesleyan University\nDigital Commons @ IWU, 2012), 23. http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/french_honproj/6.\n Dassa Kaye, 126.\n Cheref, 66.\n Palash Ghosh, “Women in Algeria: Progress and Paradox,” International Business Times, October 26, 2012, accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.ibtimes.com/women-algeria-progress-paradox-853988.\n Mary Kimani, “Women in North Africa Secure More Rights,” UN Africa Renewal (July 2008), 8. http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/july-2008/women-north-africa-secure-more-rights.\n Doris H. Gray, “Women in Algeria Today and the Debate over Family Law”, Middle East Review of International Affairs, 13, no. 1 (March 2009): 49.\n Unicef, “ALGERIA: MENA Gender Equality Profile; Status of Girls and Women in the\nMiddle East and North Africa,” Unite for Children (2011). http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Algeria-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf. Accessed, December 12, 2014.\n World Bank, “Algeria,” in The Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (2006). http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTMENA/Resources/MENA_Gender_BW2007-3.pdf. Accessed December 12, 2014.\n Unicef and World Bank.\n Rohloff, 28.\n Unicef, 4.\n Mary Kimani, “Women in North Africa Secure More Rights,” UN Africa Renewal Online (July 2008): 8. http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/july-2008/women-north-africa-secure-more-rights.\n Social Institutions & Gender Index.\n Boutheina Cheriet, “Gender, Civil Society and Citizenship in Algeria,” Middle East Report, no. 198, “Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East” (1996), 25.\n Social Institutions & Gender Index.\n Human Rights Watch, “Algeria, World Report 2014,” hrw.org, accessed December 15, 2014, http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/algeria?page=1.\n Human Rights Watch.\n “Algeria: Stop Suppressing Protests,” Human Rights Watch, May 3, 2010, accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/05/03/algeria-stop-suppressing-protests.\n Isabelle Werenfels, “Who is in Charge? Algerian Power Structures and their Resilience to Change” (Paris, Sciences Po – C.E.R.I University, 2010), 2. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/fachpublikationen/wrf_algerien_1002_ks.pdf.\n Ibid, 3.\n Marzouki, 3.\n Dassa Kaye, 135.\n Werenfels, 3.\n Palash Ghosh, “Algerian Parliamentary Election Marred by Voter Apathy, Despite Promises of Fairness, Transparency,” International Business Times, May 10, 2012, accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.ibtimes.com/algerian-parliamentary-election-marred-voter-apathy-despite-promises-fairness-transparency-697793.\n Kimani, 8.\n Cheref, 65.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Laying the tracks\nIn 1863, the Metropolitan Railway opened between what’s now Paddington and Farringdon. It was the first railway to operate underground and formed the start of what has become a network of 11 train lines and a world-famous public transportation system, copied the world over. The first line that is recognisable today, the Circle Line, opened in 1884, followed by the Central Line in 1900 (author Mark Twain was on the inaugural journey).\nOver the next 20 years, the engineers got busy. Versions of the rest of today’s modern lines opened, including the Piccadilly and the Bakerloo (which ran from Baker Street to Waterloo) in 1906. London was also the first city to have electric underground trains from as early as 1905. The escalators we all know and love started to go in from 1911 – starting at Earl’s Court and each line has been extended over the last century as London has expanded.\nThe iconic Tube map was first unveiled in 1933. Designed by Harry Beck, it was the first of its kind – a schematic map that ditched geographical accuracy to show connections and fare zones instead. It’s often held up as an icon of great design.\nThe Underground during the war\nDuring World War II the Underground was turned into a city wide network of air-raid shelters. It even hosted secret factories making airplane parts and munitions. Concerts, tea-stands and hair salons all took over stations underground in the early 1940s as London went through the Blitz.\nAfter the war\nPost-war not all the stations were opened up again for normal service to resume, some have remained ‘ghost’ stations like Aldywych, time capsules of a train line from the past. But by the 1960s the Tube was ready to expand once more. 1968 saw a big shake up to the Underground with the introduction of a new line – the Victoria line. It was followed 11 years later by the Jubilee line (named for Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee). The phrase ‘Mind the Gap’, now synonymous with travelling on the Tube, has been helping passengers since 1969. The Tube hasn’t been without accidents over the last 60 years – there was a huge crash at Moorgate in 1975 which claimed a huge number of lives and the Kings Cross fire in 1987 was one of the worst in the Underground’s history.\nThe Underground in the 21st century\nAs London grows and evolves, so does our ever busier Tube system. This century has seen some pretty big changes in how travellers use the Tube. The Oyster card was introduced back in 2003, the same year TFL legalised busking at stations (in designated areas). Oyster cards have obviously been overtaken with contactless payments in the last couple of years and the controversial shutting down of the ticket windows on stations is still a sore subject.\nBut it’s not just about technological updates, the last 17 years of the Underground have seen it get even bigger with the introduction of the Overground (possibly confusing some tourists) otherwise known as the ‘ginger line’. Linking in much of East London for the first time in years, the Overground has been instrumental in the gentrification of the east of the city – recognised by the rezoning of places like Stratford to zone 2 in 2015.\nIn 2016, the Tube finally joined other metropolises in running 24 hours a day (at weekends) on some of its busiest weekend lines. But of course, the Underground’s work is never done. The Northern Line is being extended and Crossrail is imminent. What else will the next 150 years bring?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Women air pilots -- France\nFrench pioneering pilot Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard, pictured here in a flight suit getting into a small plane, was an international glider champion. A paper attached to the bottom of the picture has a description typed in French.\nOriginal Source Unknown\nIWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum\nca. January 1978\nHeidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole\nOnline access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests contact the International Women's Air & Space Museum at firstname.lastname@example.org\nOriginal Photo No. 77\nOriginal Source Unknown, “Marcelle Choisret-Gohard,” International Women's Air & Space Museum, accessed November 14, 2018, https://iwasm.omeka.net/items/show/1536.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cahal Pech Ruins\nLess than a 10-minute drive or a 25-minute uphill walk from the town of San Ignacio, the 2-acre Mayan ruin site called Cahal Pech makes for pleasant morning or afternoon trip.\nArchaeologists first discovered the site in the 1950s but excavation didn’t begin until 1988. Researchers believe that the site was occupied from 1200 B.C. to 900 A.D. The first settlers to Cahal Pech lived in simple thatch roofed houses overlooking the valley and jungle. Taking advantage of the rich soil above the Upper Belize River, these settlers survived off a variety of sustenance crops including corn, beans, chili, and squash.\nFrom 900-300 B.C. communications with neighboring Maya led to an expansion of the community, and a number of new structures were built for ritual use and special ceremonies. In addition, new ceramic art forms were produced, and by 300 A.D., Cahal Pech had flourished into one of the primary trading centers in the region for ceramics, as well as cacao.\nIn the height of its occupation, between 10,000 and 20,000 people lived at Cahal Pech, and most of the population were farmers living on the periphery, with a small number of elites living in the center of the community. A majority of the large temples and palaces that are visible today were built between 600 and 800 A.D.\nToday the site contains 7 Mayan temples and 34 structures, including residential buildings and two ball courts. The limestone block architecture of the pyramids is similar to other sites in region, and the tallest temple is 77-feet (24-m) high. Hundreds of hand-modeled figurines, nine stelae and one altar have been discovered at the site. The site has a modest museum that provides detailed information on the ruins, with artifacts on display.\nThe name Cahal Pech (“Place of Ticks”) was derived shortly after its discovery when the land was used as cattle pasture, and thus a haven for ticks. Today the grounds are well maintained, but visitors should still bring insect repellent.\n- Other Attractions", "label": "No"}
{"text": "ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO INHERITANCE\nISLAMIC PRINCIPLES AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO INHERITANCE\nIN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE ALL COMPASSIONATE THE MOST MERCIFUL “From\nWhat is left by parents and those nearest related – there is a share for men and a share for women. – Whether the property be large or small. A share made FARDH (COMPULSORY)”. (Qur’an: Surah 4, Verse 7). .\nThis verse lays down the general principles of the Islamic Law of Succession and makes mention of three pertinent facts.\n1) “Those nearest related” The criteria for determining the legal heirs and their proportionate shares are based on the law of “proximity of relation” to the deceased. This proximity is also determined by Allah and is not left to the fallible and subjective discretion of man. The Holy Qur’an states: “Between your fathers and sons, you do not know which of them is nearer to you in benefit. Allah is undoubtedly Most Knowledgeable and Most Wise” (SOrah 4, Verse 11) Allah has accordingly specified the shares of beneficiaries based on the law of proximity of relationship and not on the material needs of the beneficiaries. Financial needs are relative. A rich person may become poor, he could become incapacitated or terminally ill and likewise a poor person may become rich overnight.\n2) “A share for men and a share for women” During the days of “Jahilliyah” (pre-Islamic ignorance) only those who could fight and defend the family name were entitled to inherit. Women and children were thus naturally excluded from the estate. Even in contemporary law the “freedom of testation” allows an individual to beneficiate whoever he so wishes. Women are therefore not guaranteed a share from the estate. Islam, however guarantees the right of both women and children to inherit from the estate. The protagonist of “reform” claim that Islam denies women their fair share of inheritance. They say that since she generally inherits less than her male counterpart she is denied equitable and fair treatment. This call for “abstract” justice may seem justified if the laws of inheritance are not studied within the broader context of the social value system of Islam.\nIn Islam, a woman retains total ownership of her property after marriage. Any income derived from her assets remains exclusively hers. She is not obliged to maintain herself or her family even if she is wealthy. In contrast to these privileges a male has to maintain:\na) Himself b) His parents c) His wife and children d) His poor relatives. Considering these social responsibilities, it could be said that in real terms, a female, in fact, inherits more than a male, e.g. a hundred rands that a male inherits may have to be spent on five members of the family whilst the fifty rands a female inherits is over and above the maintenance she receives from her male guardian.\n3) “A share made compulsory” The Qur’an has fixed the shares of each individual. These cannot be altered or changed by man. The shares of the heirs as determined by the Qur’an are binding just as the numbers of rakats are binding in salat. Some common errors\n1 ) A daughter is given a substantial gift at the time of nikah and is then excluded from the estate. 2) A testator sometimes stipulates that all his assets go to his wife and after her demise to their children. 3) A father may leave his business to a particular son who works with him in the business and thereby excludes the others.\n4) Parents for various reasons disown a particular son or daughter and thus exclude him/her from the will.\n5) A testator determines his heirs and their respective shares according to his discretion and not in accordance with the injunctions of the Qur’an. A gift during your lifetime A parent may for a valid reason (e.g. service to parents) during his lifetime donate a particular asset to one of his children provided that the purpose of the gift is not to cause harm to the remaining heirs. Observing equality in parental gifts or grants to children is preferable but not binding. If the parent elects to divide his estate in his lifetime solely to avoid a dispute between his heirs after his death, then the lifetime transfers, will be regarded as gifts or grants, in which case he should preferably observe equality. The administration of the estate The estate of the deceased must be strictly administered in the following order:\n1) Payment of burial expenses. 2) Payment of debts. 3) Payment of legacies and bequeathed religious obligations up to a maximum of one third of the remaining estate. . 4) Distribution to legal heirs according to the laws of the shariah. Payment of debts and religious obligations Nabi _ has said: “It does not befit a believer who is (obliged) to make a wasiyyah to spend (even) two nights without making a record thereof.” (Bukhari – Muslim) A Muslim is obliged to keep a record of, and declare the following:\n1 ) Creditors. 2) Amanah (Items entrusted to him for safe-keeping). 3) Unfulfilled religious obligations. 4) Debtors. NOTE: This is a day to day document that has to be updated on a regular basis and does not form part of the will. See attached schedules. Legacies A testator also has the option of bequeathing a maximum of one third of his estate to persons who are not his heirs. However, if a bequest is made to an heir, it will be subject to the approval of the remaining heirs. Matrimonial regime Islamic marriages are governed by an antenuptial contract. Marriage in community of property is not consistent with the Islamic Law of Inheritance. Those married in community of property will have to change their matrimonial regime to facilitate an Islamic distribution of their estates. Annuities and Life Policies The aggregate amount of premiums paid will form part of the estate. The balance represented by the difference between the proceeds of the policy/ies and the total premium paid must be given to charity, without the intention of reward as a compulsory distribution of an unlawful gain. The consequences of a wrong will Nab! _ has said: IIA man or woman may devoutly obey Allah for sixty years. Yet when death approaches them, they act wrongfully (when making) their will, as a result the fire becomes binding for them.” (Ahmad) May Allah grant us the strength and courage to be submissive to His Word at all times. (Amin) Payment of burial expenses Funeral expenses include cost of kafn, grave and all expenses directly related to the burial. It excludes feeding guests attending the funeral. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS Execution of Wills The execution of Wills is governed by the Wills Act 7 of 1953, as amended. It must be signed by the testator/testatrix. The testator/testatrix should sign the Will with his/her usual signature. Such signature must be made by the testator/testatrix in the presence of two or more competent witnesses present at the same time. Such witnesses must attest and sign the Will in the presence of the testator/testatrix and of each other. If the Will consists of more than one page, each page other than the page on which it ends, must also be SIGNED by the testator/testatrix and by such witnesses. Every page of the Will must be signed by the testator/testatrix as well as the same witnesses who attest at the end of the Will all being present. If the Will is signed by the testator/testatrix by the making of a mark, a magistrate, justice of the peace, commissioner of oaths or notary public must certify at the end thereof that he/she has satisfied himself/herself as to the identity of the testator/testatrix and that the Will so signed is the Will of the testator/testatrix; if the Will consists of more than one page, each page other than the page on which it ends must also be signed by the magistrate, justice of the peace, commissioner of oaths or notary public who so certifies. The Act does, however, prescribe that the certificate is to be at the end of the Will. It is suggested that the certificate be placed as close as possible to the testator’s/testatrix’s mark on the last page. Capacity to make a Will Any person of the age of 16 years or over may make a Will. Witnessing a Will Every person who is over the age of 14 years is competent to witness a Will. A witness cannot sign by making a mark. NO BENEFICIARY MA Y SIGN AS A WITNESS. Capacity to benefit under a Will All persons including corporate bodies may benefit under a Will. The following persons are, however, disqualified from taking benefits: A person who has unduly influenced the testator/testatrix to give him/her a benefit under the Will. A person who has written the Will on behalf of the testator/testatrix cannot take a benefit under such a Will. Such a person cannot be appointed as Executor under the Will written by him/her. A person who witnesses a Will or a person who was his/her spouse at the time of attestation cannot take a benefit under such a Will.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Description This image taken from space is part of a collection of more than 400 amazing satellite pictures provided by Spot Image. Laguna San Rafael National Park is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. The park is named for the San Rafael Lagoon formed by the retreat of the San Rafael Glacier. Created in 1959, it includes the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. A fjord more than 10 miles long is one of the park's principle attractions.\nAstrium Geo, Toulouse Member Since January 2009 Artist StatementAsk us for the Earth\nAstrium-GEO handles the world-wide distribution of geographical information products and services using data from Earth observation satellites (optical or radar) ranging from low to very high resolution: Spot 4 and 5, Kompsat-2, Formosat-2, as well as TerraSAR-X, ENVISAT/ERS, LANDSAT-7, etc.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Check out the NEW Careers Topics within Spotlight on Careers.\nSpotlight on Careers provides a great series of guides about career fields popular with liberal arts students. This resource is free via a CCI login below and is an easy way to gain valuable information as your explore career fields.\nEach guide is organized with an overview including an introduction, career options and trends. There are also sections on jobs and internships, graduate school, and real life stories in alumni profiles.\nTo access, go to spotlightoncareers.org.\nUsername is spotlightkey\nPassword is lacn18\nThe new topics are:\n- Environmental Science & Sustainability – There are many jobs in the environmental and sustainability fields beyond policy work. Within the private sector, there are opportunities in the timber industry, environmental consulting, conservation and preservation organizations. Within the government, there is work available at the local, state and federal levels that focus on forests, water, and wildlife.\n- Neuroscience – The “Brain Sciences,” or neuroscience, encompass a wide range of career paths centralized in the research and medical professions, and now permeating across multiple new fields in recent years. Through studying the brain and the nervous system, those who choose a career in neuroscience seek to understand how neurons interact and how these interactions impact behavior. Neuroscience intersects psychology, science, medicine, and impacts the legal system, education, and even marketing. Clearly, neuroscience presents multiple pathways for you to consider.\n- Law & Paralegal – The law profession encompasses a variety of career fields some of which require an advanced degree where others do not. Those interested in the field of law typically pursue careers as lawyers, paralegals/legal assistants, criminal justice (law enforcement, probation officers, and correction officers), social work/justice (family law, juvenile law, elder law and child protective services), public policy, federal government, protective services, detective services and more.\n- Business Intelligence, Analytics & Data Science – Every time a customer interacts with a computerized system, whether at a Grocery Store, Online Store, or Social Media site, data is created and stored in a data solution system. Tools then convert this data into metrics (known as analytics) that assess consumer behavior. Analytic professionals interpret analytical data and utilize statistics, predictive modeling, and managerial strategies to drive business decisions. Analytics are used in nearly every industry. Marketing companies use analytics to measure and analyze performance of different initiatives, financial firms use analytics to analyze investments and forecast future scenarios, charter schools use analytical data to inform teaching practices, and major movie studios use analytics to project ticket sales.\nEach summer at Middlebury, over 130 students are engaged in on-campus research with a faculty mentor. The topics range from Philosophy to Biochemistry. Most students are paid through various funding sources, including faculty grants and college endowed funds.\nThe incredible staff in The Center for Teaching, Learning & Research/Undergraduate Research host a learning luncheon series each summer for students who remain on campus for summer research.\nThe Summer 2017 Research Program\nTuesday, June 13, 2017 at 12-1 pm\nMcCardell Bicentennial Great Hall\nFor research assistants and their mentors. Pizza and salads will be served.\nResearch Luncheon: How to Market Your Research Skills – featuring our very own Mary Lothrop and Tim Mosehauer!\nWednesday, June 28 from 11:45 am-12:45 pm\nHillcrest 103 (STEM) and 200 (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences)\nDiscussion on how to represent your skills and find jobs and internships that want them. RSVP online by 6/22 for lunch.\nResearch Luncheon: Graduate School Panel\nTuesday, July 11 from 11:45 am-12:45 pm\nJoin newer faculty for a discussion about the graduate school experience. RSVP online by 7/6 for lunch.\nSummer Research Symposium\nThursday, July 27, 2017 at 2 pm\nMcCardell Bicentennial Great Hall\nIncludes a poster session with refreshments. The entire campus community is invited to attend.\ngo/summerresearch for more information.\nYou may know that Middlebury uses what’s called a “purchase on demand” model for its largest collection of electronic books, EBL (Electronic Book Library). Under this model, we place the catalog records in Midcat but don’t pay anything for the ebook unless and until it’s actually used. Then, we pay a fraction of the list price for each of the first four uses, and on the fifth request, the title is automatically purchased. We have set up seamless access so there’s no delay when you want to use a title, but the library is billed for all uses longer than five minutes, downloads, copies, or printing. There’s a lot more to how the program works, but that’s the broad outline.\nUnfortunately, the library has reached the end of its funding for this fiscal year, so we have had to suspend access to the resource until July 1. This is definitely a temporary suspension, and EBL will be back on July 1, along with any titles you may have used but can no longer reach. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and hope it doesn’t put a serious crimp in your work. Please feel free to contact Douglas Black, Head of Collections Management, for more information.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Technology is good because it simplifies the way we do things in our daily lives, however, if technology is wrongly applied, it can be harmful in so many ways. Technology is developed by humans, so we can use it to accomplish almost every task; it makes the impossible look possible.\nThere are several advantages of technology:\nWith technological machine people are getting help in every sector. Cars and bikes are helping people to reach anywhere quickly. Airplane and superfast trains have been reduced distance between cities and countries.\nMachines are helping people to make lesser mistakes. Robots or machines are working accurately and you just need to program them with proper information. And all work gets done perfectly.\nGreat Discoveries In All Industries\nHuman workers can now be automated, thanks to advances in technology, which means cost-efficiency for farmers. Medical discoveries occur at a much more rapid rate, thanks to machines and computers that aid in the research process and allow for more intense educational research into medical matters.\nSince most of the activities in the business are automated, time is saved during the process. Computers can be used to perform various business tasks, for example a computer can be used to record data, it can be used in video conferencing, and much more.\nEvery one knows that technology is very helpful but it has some disadvantages too.\nThe more people begin to depend on computers and other forms of technology for everyday existence. This means that when a machine breaks or a computer crashes, humans become almost disabled until the problem is resolved.\n* Less Value In Human Workers\nHuman workers retain less value, because many companies have adopted automatic machines. As a result many people lost their job. This will continue to be a growing disadvantage of...\nPlease join StudyMode to read the full document", "label": "No"}
{"text": "For the last several years, educators have focused on helping children and young people develop a growth mindset through various techniques and methodologies in the classroom. These approaches are designed to encourage the development and enhancement of intelligence and abilities rather than assume that children have a fixed intelligence or maximized potential. The idea is to help young people develop and cultivate a lifelong approach to learning and growing that encourages them to develop grit and resilience and overcome obstacles in all aspects of their lives.\nIt’s easy to see how this approach to education can help children grow into lifelong learners, but can a similar environment encourage adults to develop a growth mindset? And if so, what are the benefits of such a mindset at work?\nGrowth vs. Fixed Mindset\nDeveloped by psychologist Carol Dweck in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, the concept of a growth mindset involves a self-perception that says brains and talent are just a beginning and that both can be developed through effort. A growth mindset welcomes challenges as a laboratory for learning—a way to address shortcomings or weaknesses and come out on the other side with better skills and more knowledge.\nIn contrast, a fixed mindset suggests that intelligence and talent are set in place, and that development and learning is either impossible or not worth the effort. Someone with a fixed mindset receives negative feedback and thinks, “I’m a failure” rather than “how can I reset and succeed next time?” Feedback and failure can be devastating for those with a fixed mindset because they go to the heart of one’s identity.\nGiven that mindsets are often well-established by the time people reach adulthood, how can leaders encourage a growth mindset on their teams and in their organizations?\nHere are four ways to help your teams cultivate a growth mindset:\n1. Use Feedback—But Use It Carefully!\nThe human brain can naturally resist feedback. For many people, getting feedback at work can set off an anxious cycle that prevents them from receiving and using the feedback for growth. As you give feedback to others, be sure to prime their brains to receive it. Be calm and mindful of tension in the room when you’re giving feedback. Ask questions and leave room for pauses and responses. Be sure to give the recipient plenty of space to process and learn, and assure the recipient of feedback that challenges do not impact human value or worth.\n2. Promote Inclusive Experiences\nPeople who seek out new experiences and pursue an inclusive mindset will encounter challenges to their current way of thinking. These challenges stimulate a growth mindset by pushing them to look outside their experiences and backgrounds. Promote opportunities for people to connect across functions and roles, such as DE&I initiatives or employee training courses.\n3. Expand Development Opportunities\nDevelopment can take many forms. Some employees may be actively pursuing advanced degrees, while others may want to know how to use company technology. Take an expansive view of development, adapt and customize development to each employee. They will move toward a growth mindset when encouraged to pursue their development.\n4. Look to the Future\nAs you interact with your team, promote both the company vision and goals and personal and career goals. Talk to your team as if growth and development is inevitable. Keep the vision and purpose of the organization in mind, and constantly encourage innovation and movement toward that vision and purpose.\nIn any environment, your people are your most valuable resource. Their growth and development benefits them individually, but it also helps your organization to continually improve and grow. You can help your people and your company achieve long-term goals by fostering a growth mindset culture.\n- Does my team exhibit primarily a fixed mindset or a growth mindset?\n- Is there a new experience I can introduce to my team to encourage growth, even if it’s not work-related?\n- What is one thing I can do on my team to encourage a growth mindset?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Over at The Loom, Carl Zimmer discusses some interesting research on the origin of crabs, not the tasty kind but the ichy-bitey kind.\nThe scientists set out to recover the evolutionary tree of pubic lice, just as they had done with head lice. They analyzed DNA from human head lice, human pubic lice, as well as other species from the same genera that live on chimpanzees and gorillas. They also analyzed DNA from lice that live on monkeys and on rodents so that they could get a better sense of how pubic lice had evolved from a common ancestor with other species. The scientists not only drew branches for each species, but also estimated when those branches split over the course of history.\nTheir conclusion, which they published today in BMC Biology, is just as striking as their earlier one about head lice. But it is hardly the same. We did not get pubic lice from other hominids. We got them from the ancestors of gorillas.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Financial frauds have been epidemic as the modern technologies developing. The number of financial cases has been increasing, expanding to extensive diversities of industries by the most unexpected mean. The following shows the most common financial fraud cases:\n- Internet fraud\nInternet fraud is a common way to perform financial fraud, meaning that one fraudulently collects funds by fabricating facts or concealing the truth. That can include fake or misleading information released by stock market manipulators, and the manipulators illegally seek gains by dumping their shares pumped-up by the misleading information. Another typical example is fake online auction. Purchased good may not be delivered to the buyer as perfect as the presented one, or maybe it does not exist at all.\n- Fraudulent funding\nRaising funds by fraud is collecting funds by means of fraud. Typical means are that one does not use the raised funds as he/she promised to use, and even flees with the funds or promises excessively high rates for return.\n- Insurance fraud\nInsurance fraud refers to acquiring insurance money by fabricating relevant information of the insurant or creating insured incidents with bad faith.\n- Contract fraud\nPurposed by illegal acquisition, obtaining properties of the other party by faking facts, concealing truths, using hidden traps and other means during the process of concluding and/or enforcing a contract. It also has a form of one party of a contract intentionally concealing the factual circumstances or revealing the fake circumstances that lure the other party to express wrong intentions and conclude the contract. This is one of the fraud techniques as well.\nIn China’s legal practice, in addition the fraud itself and the amount involved, an element to criminalizing financial fraud is the intent to illegal possession, such as raising funds while knowing he/she is not capable of returning it, transferring and concealing collected funds. The legal consequence is harsh once convicted. For example, one convicted of the financial fraud crime is subject to penalty as high as life imprisonment in cases where the amount concerned is especially huge or other severe circumstances according to Art. 192 of the Criminal Law of the P.R.C.\nGenerally speaking, when a fraudulent funding is determined, the court will decide on the penalty amount according to the severity of the fraudulent behaviours, ranging from the minimum 20,000 RMB (approx. 2,600 EUR) to the maximum 500,000 (approx. 64,000 EUR) or the confiscation of assets. Additionally, contract fraud is different from fraudulent funding, albeit the similarity that both incurs civil and criminal liabilities, the former is not under specific ranging of penalty in the law itself except the rates to aggregate the sentence time. However, when a contract fraud is penalized with criminal liability, the abovementioned penalty range is applicable.\nRegarding the post-fraud remedies for victims, Chinese laws predominantly uses the principle of recovery and compensation, meaning that assets or properties not spent shall be recovered and parts spent shall be compensated. What has been obtained after the recovery and compensation process will be compensated to victims. Due to the increasing number of innovative financing models and their upgrades, Chinese law has yet offered certain economic remedies to the victims in financial markets, and the difficulty for victims to claim proper and sufficient compensation has grown bigger. Such matters should be regarded with extra attention and discretion when entering the Chinese financial market.\nGlobal Connect Admin B.V. | Yichuan Qiu and Xuan Hao", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you had to describe the culture of your school, what would you say? And if students, parents, or staff at your school had to describe the culture, what would they say?\nSchool culture refers to our beliefs, our attitudes, our perceptions, our ways of doing things, and the nature of the relationships developed in our school. It also refers to the written and unwritten rules. I would even say that school culture is a kind of educational relational ecosystem. And like any ecosystem, there is an inherent fragility, but also a remarkable complexity.\nIn light of this, as a leader, how do we keep a thumb on the true pulse of our school culture?\nWhether we accept it or not, even if our actions do not change as we transition to a leadership position, the position itself makes it so that we no longer have access to certain channels of information that we once had before. Author Ed Catmull speaks about it in his book Creativity Inc. :\n“As my position changed, people became more careful how they spoke and acted in my presence. I don’t think my actions changed in a way that prompted this; my position did. And what this meant was that things I’d once been privy to became increasingly unavailable to me.” – Ed Catmull\nHe goes on to say that many new leaders make the mistake of assuming that their access to these channels does not change. He calls this phenomenon “The Hidden”: a blind spot that escapes our field of perception.\nThis passage reminds me of the importance of being continually and intentionally on the lookout for these blind spots. What would be the impact on the culture of our school if we ignore them? Probable disaster! We are the guardians of our culture, so it’s up to the leader to rally those who champion school culture.\nMaintaining A Positive Climate Starts With You\nWe all have a responsibility to help maintain a positive climate. A positive climate feeds a healthy culture. But as in all workplaces, there are times when things don’t go so well, and the negativity tries to infiltrate the ecosystem.\nWhat disposition do we adopt in such situations?\nDo we become easily contaminated by negativity? Is our first reaction to complain or judge? Do we become easily frustrated?\nAre we quick to counter the negativity? Do we demonstrate empathy by offering help or solutions instead of judgment?\nTake a moment to reflect and situate yourself. What is your disposition?\nDeveloping and maintaining a positive climate starts with you. Each person has the power to choose how they will react in a particular situation. And this reaction can have an incredible influence on the climate, both positive and negative. As Dr. Anthony Muhammad so aptly put it, “Frustration is the kryptonite to healthy culture.” This is so true, and so important to remember.\nMaintaining Our Garden\nWe can compare the climate to a garden: it must be maintained continuously, every day, in order for us to harvest the wealth it produces. These riches are essential to our survival: it is what fuels us, what keeps us alive. If we don’t maintenain our garden, we risk losing our crop, putting our well-being and that of others at risk.\nA garden does not produce a harvest overnight. It takes time, and a lot of work. The same goes for the climate in your workplace.\nA positive climate is not something that appears instantly. We must work consistently hard in order to reap the benefits. Here are some essential actions to help maintain a positive culture:\n- Invest in yourself and in others (personal and professional growth)\n- Build and maintain relationships based on trust (being honest, being able to accept feedback from colleagues without feeling judged)\n- Celebrate success, and celebrate each individual\n- Have high expectations towards ourselves and others; be role models\n- Establish a shared vision that is known and communicated often at all levels\n- Meet as a team regularly\nWhat do you do in your workplace to reap the wealth that emanates from positive school climate? Among the list of actions above, how could you exercise your leadership in order to take action, exert influence, and have a positive impact? I challenge you to pick one (or many) action and lead by example in your school!\nPlease share in the comments section the different actions in your school that contribute to a positive climate.\nI’m sure we can all benefit from your ideas!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A Preliminary Laboratory Study of Initial Copper Release from Dredge Residuals\nCivil & Construction Engineering\nA preliminary laboratory study was conducted to investigate the impact of different residual types and sediment surface roughness on copper contaminant fluxes to the water column. Sediments from Torch Lake, Michigan served as the test samples. These sediments are mining by-products with elevated Cu levels. Six experiments were run during which the sediments were conditioned to simulate different forms of residuals. During these experiments, the water column above the sediments was circulated via peristaltic pumping or orbital shaking and the total and dissolved Cu levels were monitored periodically for 15 days. Dissolved Cu levels indicated that during the first 48 hr the water column concentrations approached equilibrium for all six cases. Total Cu levels increased with time and did reach equilibrium but were more susceptible to fluctuations in water column suspended solids levels. Analysis of the resulting dissolved Cu data indicated that the resulting water column Cu concentrations differed with sediment surface and residual type. The highest dissolved Cu water column concentrations were observed for a roughened surface with a larger surface area. The lowest water column dissolved Cu levels were observed for the case with sediment slurry placed over clean sand. The dissolved Cu levels in the water column for all six simulated conditions were several orders higher than the USEPA ambient water quality criteria for protection of aquatic life. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.*\nRemediation: The Journal of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Technologies, & Techniques\nDigital Object Identifier (DOI)\nKarim, M. A.; Bunch, Barry W.; and Schroeder, Paul R., \"A Preliminary Laboratory Study of Initial Copper Release from Dredge Residuals\" (1905). Faculty Publications. 3625.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Very little is known of the Italian who served as a secret agent for the colonies during the American Revolution. His name was Filippo Mazzei, born December 25, 1730 in the vicinity of Tuscany, Italy. He studied medicine in Florence and practiced as a medical physician until he decided to move to London, England where he entered the mercantile business.\nWhile there, he met and befriended two gentlemen with whom he shared his interest in politics and libertarian values. Their names were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. At their suggestion, Dr. Mazzei accompanied them to Virginia. He became both friend and neighbor to Thomas Jefferson and like a true Italian, introduced to Jefferson the cultivation of vineyards. This gesture was well received by Jefferson, whose interest and expertise in botany were widely known.\nBut Dr. Mazzei had other talents. John F. Kennedy, in his book, A Nation of Immigrants, referred to Filippo Mazzei as a patriot and pamphleteer. A man who believed so much in liberty and equality, that among his writings were the phrases, “Tutti Gli uomini sono per natura liberi e indipendenti. Quest’egualianza e necessaria per costruire un governo libero. Bisogno che ognuno sia uguale all’altro nel diritto naturale.” These words would later prove to be extremely significant in what was about to occur.\nThe words were translated from Italian to English by Thomas Jefferson as, “All men are, by nature, free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government. All men must be equal to each other in natural law.”\n|(Excerpt of 1794 letter from Mazzei to Jefferson)|\nNow, it is well known that the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, however it must also be said that Thomas Jefferson, in translating Dr. Mazzei’s words, paraphrased and shortened them into what has now become the five famous words known to practically every American today. These words are, “All men are created equal.” At the suggestion of the Italian patriot and immigrant, these five words, borrowed by Jefferson, from Mazzei’s phraseology, were included in the Declaration of Independence which was signed on July 4, 1776.\nFilippo Mazzei later served as a secret agent for the American colonies, purchasing arms in Europe and secretly shipping them to Virginia during the American Revolution. He later traveled throughout Europe promoting republic ideals. He wrote a political history of the American Revolution and became an unofficial ambassador for American political philosophy.\nFilippo Mazzei died in Pisa, Italy in 1816. After his death, the remainder of his family, at the urging of Thomas Jefferson, returned to the United States of America and settled in Massachusetts and Virginia.\nOver two hundred years later, during the 103rd Session of Congress (1993-1994), the Joint Resolution Number 175 was voted upon. At that time, the United States Congress acknowledged an historical oversight in that Filippo Mazzei’s contribution to the Declaration of Independence had never been acknowledged and whereas Thomas Jefferson had essentially borrowed the phrase, “All men are created equal” from the writings of Dr. Filippo Mazzei.\n[Mazzei image from New York Public Library Digital Gallery; document excerpt from the Library of Congress Digital Collection, Jefferson Papers]", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Time series forecasting is a critical task for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Predicting future events is essential for making informed decisions, and time series forecasting can provide crucial insights into trends and patterns that may otherwise be unavailable.\nDue to its complexity, however, only 13% of companies are effective at forecasting. Further, 93% of sales leaders are unable to forecast revenue within 5 percent (even with just 2 weeks left in the quarter!). Traditionally, time series forecasting has been a domain tackled by experts using sophisticated mathematical models. More recently, machine learning, and in particular, deep learning, have emerged as powerful tools for time series forecasting.\nMachine learning is set to add over $15 trillion to the world economy by 2030, and time series forecasting is one of the most promising applications of AI.\nIn this article, we will explore how deep learning can be used for time series forecasting, and we will discuss some of the advantages that deep learning and attention offer in this domain. We’ll also look at how Akkio’s intuitive no-code interface makes implementing time-series forecasting models easy.\nFirst, let’s take a look at what constitutes a time series. Simply put, a time series is a collection of data points recorded at successive points in time. The data can be anything from sales figures to stock prices to weather data. The key characteristic of a time series is that the data points are ordered in time.\nOne of the most common tasks in time series forecasting is predicting the future value of a given variable. This can be done by modeling the trend and patterns in the data and then using this model to predict future values. There are many different approaches to time series forecasting, but all of them rely on models that are built on historical data.\nTime series forecasting can be used in predicting future customer attrition or cart abandonment, predicting demand and sale fluctuations, economic trends, and many other areas. On a bigger scale, time series forecasting is a crucial tool in managing the supply chain, understanding economic trends, and making better financial decisions.\nIn recent events, for instance, The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates wdue to inflationary concerns. To get a sense of where the economy is heading, analysts turn to time series data to understand if these trends are temporary or part of a larger pattern. By understanding historical data, we can make better predictions about the future.\nIn part due to time series forecasts, analysts have figured out that the inflation of 2021 and 2022 is not transitory but will most likely be a longer-term trend, which has allowed them to make better decisions about interest rates.\nIn today’s complex business environment, understanding how your company works at scale requires timely knowledge of key metrics across multiple departments and divisions. Businesses use these metrics to make informed decisions about their operations like inventory management, capital allocation, pricing strategies, and more.\nA good indication when you need time series forecasts is when you are trying to evaluate the success or failure of a process over time - for example when you want to know which customers have abandoned their shopping cart or whether sales from a specific media channel are meeting expectations.\nYou could then use this information to optimize your marketing campaigns, resource allocation, pricing policies, and more.\nTime series forecasting can be divided into two categories: statistical techniques and neural network models. Let’s explore both of these in detail.\nTrend analysis is the most common type of time series forecasting. It involves identifying the trend in the data and using it to predict future events. The trend can be linear or nonlinear, and it can be determined using a variety of techniques, such as moving averages or exponential smoothing.\nRegression analysis is another common type of time series forecasting. It involves using historical data to identify relationships between different variables. This information can then be used to predict future events.\nUnlike AI-based approaches, which are often used for complex predictions, regression analysis is usually used for predictions that are relatively easy to make. For example, you might use regression analysis to predict how much a company’s revenue will increase next year.\nARIMA is a type of regression analysis that is used specifically for time series forecasting. It stands for AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average, and it is a powerful tool for predicting future events.\nThere are three components of ARIMA to pay attention to:\nThere are several variants of ARIMA models, such as random-walk and random-trend models, and exponential smoothing models, which are used for different purposes. For example, exponential smoothing is used when the data is non-stationary (has seasonality), while random walk ARIMA is used to correct for autocorrelation.\nWhile each of these variants has its own strengths and weaknesses, all of them are very effective at predicting future events. In fact, ARIMA-based models are still used in recent research for applications like housing sales prediction, consumer goods sales prediction, stock price forecasting, and more.\nA recent research study, for instance, used a form of ARIMA to forecast non-elective bed occupancy and admissions in the NHS. Forecasting bed occupancy and admissions is important in order to ensure that hospitals have the resources they need to meet demand. The study found that the ARIMA model was able to provide accurate predictions, even when there was a high level of uncertainty.\nAnother recent study used ARIMA to forecast charitable donations in Sweden before and after COVID. Charities need to be able to predict how much donations they will receive in order to budget appropriately.\nBusinesses have long used statistical forecasting to predict future sales, inventory needs, and other factors. This approach relies on historical data to identify patterns that can be used to predict future outcomes. While traditional statistical forecasting is still widely used, it's becoming increasingly clear that it has some major drawbacks relative to newer artificial intelligence methods.\nOne of the biggest problems with traditional statistical forecasting is that it's often difficult to account for changes in the environment or in customer preferences. For example, if a company changes its products or services, or if the overall economy changes, traditional forecasting methods may not be able to take these changes into account.\nOne highly-cited study with the bold title \"forecasting for COVID-19 has failed\" found that bad forecasting techniques to real-world harms, like draconian lockdowns that could have been avoided.\nBeyond adapting to changes in the environment, traditional forecasting can also be insufficient when it comes to making use of large, diverse datasets.\nAI-based methods, such as machine learning and deep learning, often have an advantage over traditional statistical forecasting methods in that they are able to learn and adapt over time. This means that they can take into account changes in the environment and in customer preferences, which can lead to more accurate predictions.\nIn addition, AI-based methods are typically able to process more data than traditional methods, which can lead to even more accurate predictions.\nDeep learning neural networks are a powerful tool for forecasting time series data. Recent advances in the area have shown that these networks can outperform traditional methods, such as regression, when it comes to predicting future values.\nNeural networks are a broad category, and include specific approaches like recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), feedforward neural networks, and a variety of other learning methods.\nThere are many different applications for deep learning for forecasting. One of the most common is weather forecasting. Weather data is extremely complex, and traditional forecasting methods often produce inaccurate results. Deep learning has been shown to be more effective than traditional methods at predicting weather patterns.\nAnother area where deep learning algorithms are being used for forecasting is financial markets. Traditionally, financial analysts have used human intuition and experience to make decisions about where to invest money. However, deep learning is now being used to create models that can predict stock prices and other financial indicators with greater accuracy than humans can.\nThere are also a number of applications for deep learning in the medical field. For example, deep learning has been shown to be effective at predicting patient outcomes. This can be used to help healthcare professionals make decisions about the best treatment plan for a patient. Deep learning can also be used to predict the likelihood of a patient developing a particular disease.\nDemand forecasting problems are yet another popular use-case, which lets businesses predict how much product they will need to order and when in order to meet customer demand. This is often done using historical sales data.\nHowever, one limitation of the current approach is that it cannot sufficiently handle large amounts of input information. To address this issue, researchers developed a new approach called attention.\nAttention allows a deep learning model, or any other kind of neural network, to access information in so-called “hidden states.” This method outperforms conventional models, and paved the way for Transformers, which underlie state-of-the-art language models.\nAttention has been shown to be particularly effective for time series forecasting tasks. Besides overall performance improvements compared to models like RNNs and LSTMs, they bring an added benefit of interpretability through attention heat maps.\nOverall, attention provides a valuable tool for more accurate and interpretable deep neural networks. This can help you to debug and troubleshoot time series models, make models faster, and improve their accuracy.\nGiven the drawbacks of traditional methods, attention provides a much needed improvement for time series modeling. Not only does it offer better performance, but it is also more interpretable, making it easier to understand why the model is making certain predictions.\nNeural networks are a powerful tool for forecasting. They can be used for both linear and non-linear forecasting problems, making them a versatile tool for many applications.\nMultilayer feed-forward networks (MLPs) are one type of neural network that can be used for forecasting. MLPs are fully connected networks, meaning each neuron in one layer is connected to every neuron in the next layer. This type of architecture allows MLPs to model complex relationships between input and output variables.\nConvolutional neural networks (CNNs) are another type of neural network that can be used for forecasting. CNNs are similar to MLPs, but they have an additional layer: the convolutional layer. This layer is responsible for extracting features from the data. CNNs are often used for image recognition tasks, but they can also be applied to time series data.\nLong short-term memory (LSTM) networks are a type of recurrent neural network (RNN). RNNs are designed to model sequential data, making them well suited for time series analysis. LSTMs are a specialized type of RNN that can learn long-term dependencies, making them especially well suited for forecasting applications.\nFrom the statistical techniques we discussed to deep learning and attention, all of these methods require code and technical expertise with tools like TensorFlow, Keras, Python Pandas, and Numpy, which often means hiring data scientists.\nThis is because you would need to handle tasks like feature engineering, model optimization, gradient descent, and an iterative, sequential approach to model creation and deployment, all manually and after setting up data pipelines.\nHowever, there are ways to automatically implement these methods without any coding required.\nThis is made possible by using a no-code AI platform. These platforms allow you to build and deploy machine learning models without any coding. You simply need to input your data and specify what type of model you want to build. The platform will then take care of the rest, including training the model and deploying it.\nOne such platform is Akkio. Akkio is a tool that makes leveraging machine learning for marketing and business functions incredibly easy. Akkio offers an intuitive interface that allows users with no technical knowledge or background in data science to implement powerful predictive models without any code or previous experience required.\nFurther, Akkio handles the heavy lifting in the background, from managing compute to training data preprocessing and validation. Simply connect your time series dataset, and Akkio will automatically test out a range of time series forecasting methods and hyperparameters. From there, you can deploy your model anywhere.\nUsers can train custom models on their own data sets with no prior expertise in machine learning required; they can then deploy those models into different applications like:\nLet's explore some of these applications in more depth.\nRevenue growth is essential for any business to scale and be successful. By using machine learning to predict revenue, businesses can make more informed decisions about where to invest their resources. For example, a retail business could use predictions to estimate revenue growth by country. This would enable the business to focus its resources on areas that are most likely to generate sales and improve profitability. Alternatively, a company could use predictions to determine the total number of sales per month by salesperson. This information could be used to set targets and commission structures accordingly.\nChurn rates are a measure of how many customers are leaving a service or product during a given period of time. They are an important metric for businesses to track as they can indicate whether a company is losing or gaining customers. Machine learning can be used to predict churn rates by analyzing customer data such as purchase history, interactions with customer service, and demographic information. This information can then be used to develop strategies for retaining customers and reducing churn.\nPricing is a critical aspect of any business, and getting it right can be the difference between success and failure. Machine learning can be used to determine optimal prices for products or services by analyzing customer data such as purchasing habits, price sensitivity, and demographic information. This information can then be used to develop pricing strategies that maximize profits and minimize losses.\nCost forecasting is a vital part of financial planning for businesses. It can be used to estimate future expenses and develop budgeting strategies. Machine learning can be used to forecast costs by analyzing past data such as invoices, purchase orders, and financial reports. This information can then be used to develop plans for reducing costs and improving profitability.\nTo get started, simply upload your data to the Akkio platform. You can connect a Google Sheets link, Excel file, CSV, or even directly connect to tools like Snowflake, Salesforce, or Hubspot.\nOnce your data is uploaded, simply select the date column and the prediction column. Akkio's AI will automatically identify the best machine learning models to use for forecasting. No data science expertise or coding is required.\nOne of the benefits of using Akkio's AI for sales forecasting is that it can account for the impact of seasonality and trends on your data. For example, if you sell Christmas ornaments, you would expect a surge in sales in December, but only in certain markets, and perhaps less amidst an economic downturn. Akkio's AI can identify this trend and predict sales for specific SKUs accordingly.\nAdditionally, Akkio's AI can identify patterns in your data that you may not have been aware of. For example, if you sell products online, you may notice a trend in which sales are higher on weekdays than weekends. Akkio's AI can identify this trend and use it to improve your sales forecasting.\nOnce the model has been built, which takes as little as a few seconds, you can view the predictions for any future date. You can also deploy the model in a variety of settings, such as back in Salesforce, to automate predictions and help you make better decisions. With Zapier, you can deploy predictions in thousands of applications without any code.\nMore technically-inclined users can use the Akkio API to build custom predictions or integrations.\nAkkio's no-code AI offers a fast, easy, and accurate way to forecast future events. It can handle large data sets and quickly identify patterns to predict outcomes. Additionally, it is very user-friendly, making it easy for anyone to use.\nOnce a model has been built, it can be deployed in minutes to a production environment and updated as needed. Akkio's no-code AI is the perfect tool for time series analysis.\nMany other AI tools take weeks to set-up and months to learn. Akkio's ease of use and fast deployment makes it the perfect tool for forecasting. Try a free trial today to see how it can benefit your business, or check out our tutorials page.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Discover a new way to prepare language courses with the Organizing a Party Mind Map.\nThe Organizing a Party Mind Map will help you and your students to have a global vision of your work. The Mind Map breaks down vocabulary of the party, past tenses and object complement. In addition there are some examples of how to adapt this workshop to different levels.\nYou will discover all this and more within the Organizing a Party Mind Map.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1. A Consistent diet plan.\n2. Foods that enhance brain function and memory.\n3. Full and Balanced meals.\n- Proper Hydration. Dehydration negatively affects brain function. For this reason, we\nmake sure to drink at least 8 to 10 glasses daily, under normal conditions.\n- Sleep. There are many people who sacrifice their sleep on the altar of work or having\nfun. Unfortunately, this is far from beneficial for the human body and the brain. The\nbrain needs to ‘restart’ and rest to be able to perform effectively. A minimum of 8\nhours of sleep is recommended.\nPhysical Activity. A Healthy mind needs a healthy body. Numerous studies have\nproven that exercise contributes to good cognitive function as well as reducing\n- Relaxing activities. As life is particularly stressful for most people, it would be good\nto dedicate some time during the day to activities and hobbies that you enjoy or\nrelax you. For example: dancing, painting, learning a musical instrument, taking a\nwalk with friends.\nEnegry Alignment Therapist & Author\nFull member of BCMA, UK", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Three dots (or points) in an upright triangular shape ∴ is most commonly known as the ‘therefore’ sign – so why is it used in Freemasonry?\nThe symbol consists of three dots placed in an upright triangle and is read therefore. While it is not generally used in formal writing, it is used in mathematics and shorthand.\nThe symbol is also used in meteorology, the ‘therefore’ sign is used to indicate ‘moderate rain’ on a station model; the similar typographic symbol asterism (⁂, three asterisks) indicates moderate snow.”\nSource: – Wikipedia\nA Masonic document in French using a number of abbreviations. – By Christophe Dioux – Own work\nIMAGE LINKED: wikimedia Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)\nHowever, in Freemasonry, the symbol is used to indicate a Masonic abbreviation.\nAlbert G. Mackey, in his Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, explains the meaning and usage of the “three points” [dots]:\nAbbreviations of technical terms or of official titles are of very extensive use in Masonry.\nThey were, however, but rarely employed in the earlier Masonic publications.\nFor instance, not one is to be found in the first edition of Anderson’s Constitutions.\nWithin a comparatively recent period they have greatly increased, especially among French writers, and a familiarity with them is therefore essentially necessary to the Masonic student. Frequently, among English and always among French authors, a Masonic abbreviation is distinguished by three points ∴ in a triangular form following the letter, which peculiar mark was first used, according to Ragon, on the 12th of August, 1774, by the Grand Orient of France, in an address to its subordinates.\nNo authoritative explanation of the meaning of these points has been given, but they may be supposed to refer to the three lights around the altar, or perhaps more generally to the number three, and to the triangle, both important symbols in the Masonic system.\nBefore proceeding to give a list of the principal abbreviations, it may be observed that the doubling of a letter is intended to express the plural of that word of which the single letter is the abbreviation.\nThus, in French F∴ signifies “Frere”, or “Brother”, and FF∴ “Freres”, or “Brothers”.\nAnd in English L∴ and LL∴ to denote “Lodges”. This remark is made once for all, because I have not deemed it necessary to augment the size of the list of abbreviations by inserting these plurals.\nIf the reader finds S∴ G∴ I∴ Sovereign Grand Inspector, he will be at no loss to know that SS∴ GG∴ II∴ must denote “Sovereign Grand Inspectors”… [p.2]\nThree points in a triangular form (∴) are placed after letters in a Masonic document to indicate that such letters are the initials of a Masonic title or of a technical word in Masonry, as G∴ M∴ for Grand Master, or G∴ L∴ for Grand Lodge.\nIt is not a symbol, but simply a mark of abbreviation.\nThe attempt, therefore, to trace it to the Hebrew three yods, a Kabbalistic sign of the Tetragrammaton, or any other ancient symbol, is futile.\nIt is an abbreviation, and nothing more; although it is probable that the idea was suggested by the sacred character of the number three as a Masonic number, and these three dots might refer to the position of the three officers in a French Lodge.\nRagon says (Orthod . Macon., p. 71,) that the mark was first used by the Grand Orient of France in a circular issued August 12, 1774, in which we read “G∴ O∴ de France.”\nThe abbreviation is now constantly used in French documents, and, although not accepted by the English Masons, has been very generally adopted in other countries.\nIn the United States, the use of this abbreviation is gradually extending… [p.815]\nIn the French and Scottish Rites, the Wardens are in the West, the Senior in the North-west and the Junior in the South-west; but in all, the triangular position of the three officers relatively to each other is preserved; for a triangle being formed within the square of the Lodge, the Master and Wardens will each occupy one of the three points. [p.866]\nThere is also an expression Frére/s Trois-Points (Three-Point Brother/s) which is a pejorative anti-Masonic term meaning ‘Freemason”, which again refers to the “three points arranged in a triangle constituting a symbol related to Freemasonry.\nThe use of these three points spread from the 18th century for the signature of confidential documents”.\nThe infamous anti-Masonic author Léo Taxil used the term in the title of his book ‘Complete Revelations On Freemasonry – Le Fréres Trois-Points’ (1885).\nTitle page of Taxil’s anti-Masonic book (1885)\nThe full list of Masonic abbreviations from Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry\n[Publisher’s Note: The 3 dots are often currently found in social media channels. Users in Linked-in often use the 3 dots .: or .’. to signify they are Freemasons. Also the emoji is used to signify the “sprig of acacia” a sign of a Freemason. The characters /G\\ are also used to signify a Freemason]\nMackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry\nBy: A Mackey\nDr. Albert G. Mackey, also the author of The Lexicon of Freemasonry appears as author of this ” Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences,” which, being a library in inself, superseded most of the Masonic works which have been tolerated by the craft—chiefly because none better could be obtained.\nHere, in one giant volume is a work which fulfils the hope which sustained the author through ten years’ literary labor, that, under one cover he “would furnish every Mason who might consult its pages the means of acquiring a knowledge of all matters connected with the science, the philosophy, and the history of his order.”\nFor more than thirty years Dr. Mackey has devoted earnest and constant study and research to the history, the objects, and the condition of Masonry.\nIn the present work, the crowning and successful result of a life’s labors, he has received no assistance from any one.\nHe says, ” Every article was written by myself,” and he adds, which would extenuate errors, had he fallen into any, “For twelve months, too, of the time occupied upon this work, I suffered from an affection of the sight, which forbade all use of the eyes for purposes of study.\nDuring that time, now happily passed, all authorities were consulted by the willing eyes of my daughters—all writing was done by their hands.\nI realized for a time the picture so often painted of the blind bard dictating his sublime verses to his daughters,” and his preface closes with the words, “Were I to dedicate this work at all, my dedication should be—To Filial Affection.”\nUp to the present time the modern literature of Freemasonry has been diffuse, lumbering, unreliable, and, out of all reasonable proportions.\nRecent Articles: Masonic Miscellanies\nMasonic Miscellanies – \"Keep Within Compass\"\nThis month we discover a series of allegorical prints warning us to \"Keep within Compass and you shall be sure, to avoid many troubles which others endure.\"\nMasonic Miscellanies - statute 1356\nFurther to the reference in the article – The Builders - 6 - Free-Masons 'a statute was enacted against the Free-masons in 1356' – Regulations for masons who are hewers, on the one hand, and the light masons and setters on the other.\nMasonic Miscellanies - The Anti-Masonic 'Apron'\nThe Anti-Masonic 'Apron' was created during the 1832 Presidential election in USA. It was not Ani-masonic. And it was not an apron. Read on to find out what and why it was created.\nMasonic Miscellanies - Grand Masonic Bazaar\nGrand Masonic Bazaar (1895); to raise funds to clear the debt incurred by “Mother Kilwinning” in rebuilding their Lodge.\nMasonic Miscellanies - the 'Masonic Terrapin'\nA satirical book from 1851 includes a bizarre caricature of a 'Masonic Terrapin' - all I can say is 'read on'…\nMasonic Miscellanies - bookplate\nYou probably know what a bookplate is for, but did you know that the earliest known book mark/label dates from the reign of Amenhotep III in Egypt around 1391−1353 BCE?!\nMasonic Miscellanies - Freemasonry & Bees\nFreemasonry & Bees - what's the buzz? The bee was among the Egyptians the symbol of an obedient people, because, says Horapollo, of all insects, the bee alone had a king.\nMasonic Miscellanies - the mystery of the Tattooed Freemason\nIn 1894, the body of a drowned man was found in the Bay of San Francisco - what they discovered was amazing.\nMasonic Miscellanies - The Level and the Square\nThe Level and the Square (A Poem) - \"We meet upon the Level, and we part upon the Square, –\nMasonic Miscellanies - 'Mystic Tie'\nWhat is the 'Mystic Tie'? Clue: it's not an item of neckwear!\nWhere did the origin of the use of rosettes on Masonic aprons come from ?\nThe Lodge of Sorrow - Extracted General Ahiman Rezon, by Daniel Sickles, \nMemento Mori - a Masonic reminder to make your mark on the world\nA closer look at the Level and the Plumb-rule\nThe Symbolism of the Gloves and why Freemasons wear white gloves\nWill the real James Anderson please stand up?\nThe most important and significant of the legendary symbols of Freemasonry is, undoubtedly, that which relates to the fate of Hiram Abif.\nWhy do Freemasons use different 'years' to our regular calendar?\nThe English word 'Lewis' is a term belonging to operative Masonry, and signifies an iron cramp, which is inserted in a cavity prepared for the purpose in a large stone.\nEver wondered why masons had to be 'free' or why we have a Tyler?\nto be a better citizen of the world\nshare the square with two brothers\nclick image to open email app on mobile device", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is the Biblical Promise of Being Healed by His Stripes?\nThe Kings James Version tells us, “with His stripes we are healed.” Most modern versions replace the word “stripes” with “wounds” so that, “with His wounds we are healed.” In either case, the point is that the wounds, or stripes, suffered by Jesus were sufficient to bring healing.\nHowever, to understand what this phrase means, we need to read it in context. To take verses out of context is dangerous and will usually lead to an incorrect understanding of what God is actually trying to say to us. We find Satan (Genesis 3:1, Matthew 4:5-6) doing this in the Bible and throughout History. False teachers often follow his lead (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).\nIn an effort to find Truth, let’s look at the two places we find this phrase:\nBut He was pierced through for our transgressions,\nHe was crushed for our iniquities;\nThe chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,\nAnd by His scourging we are healed. – Isaiah 53:5\nand He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. – 1 Peter 2:24\nThe first time we come across this phrase is in Isaiah’s prophecy of the coming Suffering Servant. As Isaiah describes the suffering of the Messiah, he writes about the reasons for His suffering: he was pierced for our transgressions (sins) and crushed for our iniquities (sins). Isaiah was pointing out that our sins required something more than the blood of the animal sacrifices being performed constantly at the Temple. Our sins needed the blood of the Messiah.\nIsaiah writes in the typical Hebrew poetic form called Parallelism. While English poetry looks to rhyme the final words of each line, Hebrew poetry looks to repeat lines. Throughout the book of Psalms you will find examples of Parallelism.\nHere, we see Isaiah using Parallelism. The first two lines of the verse repeat the idea that Messiah would bleed for our sins. The second two lines of the verse repeat the concept that these punishments against Messiah would bring the cure, restoration, alleviation. The question that needs to be asked here is: cure for what? Obviously, for our sin problem.\nOur Sin Problem or Our Physical Problems?\nWhat is noteworthy here is that nowhere does Isaiah speak of any physical problems that would be cured by Messiah. It is clearly for our transgressions and our iniquities that He is bringing healing.\nOne of the greatest false teachings of today’s Evangelical Church is that we are healed physically by His stripes, i.e.: His work on the cross. Look through Isaiah 53:5 and you will not see one mention of any physical problem. Look at Isaiah 53:4. Review Isaiah 53:6. You will find no mention of being physically healed by the work of Messiah.\nOur second verse in 1 Peter 2:24 is no different. Peter writes about the work of Jesus on the cross. He explains that Jesus bore our sins on the cross. He teaches that this was done so that we could live righteously. Again, there is no mention of being physically healed by his work on the cross.\nI have heard so many people take this phrase out of context and use it either in prayer or as an explanation for why sick or injured people should be confident of healing. Heather’s in the hospital? “Lord, by your stripes she is healed.” Bob’s back went out? “Don’t worry Bob, by His stripes you are healed.” This is not only unbiblical but also foolish. No one is healed physically by the work of Jesus on the cross.\nAll are healed spiritually by His crucifixion.\nThe work of Jesus on the cross heals every single person of their sin problem.\n(BTW – that’s an example of parallelism)\nIncorrectly Dividing the Word of God\nJust this week, I heard someone change the entire verse. In their new translation, they quoted, “by His stripes we are healed physically, spiritually and emotionally.” That is nowhere in scripture. Twisting scripture like this is exactly how cults begin. It is what false teachers do. It is what Satan does.\nI pray that those of you who have used this phrase to mean we are healed physically will recognize the harm you are doing to the word of God. Can God bring physical healing? Of course! Does He always? Absolutely not. Not even the Apostle Paul and his friends experienced or expected this (1 Timothy 5:23, Philippians 2:25-27, 2 Corinthians 12:7-9).\nPray for God’s healing. Encourage those in pain with the Gospel. Comfort them with reminders of what God has done in the past (i.e.: the healing miracles performed by Jesus). But do not give false hope, for this only destroys the faith of the weak and is a poor witness to the unbeliever when God decides that His Grace is sufficient and physical healing is not going to happen.\nInstead, rejoice that spiritual healing is available and it is given to all who receive Christ’s work on the cross. Because of this work, we have eternal life (John 3:16). Because of this work, our suffering now is but for a moment (John 16:33, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 1 Peter 4:12). By His stripes we are healed!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "in the News\nCollaboration explores materials at extreme conditions\nTo better understand how high-strain-rate plasticity evolves, researchers from Lawrence Livermore and the University of Oxford are combining very large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with time-resolved data from laser experiments of shock-wave propagation through metals. A strong shock produces an unusual number of line defects, or dislocations, within a metal’s crystalline lattice. Plastic deformation occurs when a high number of dislocations moves, changing the metal’s mechanical properties such as its strength, ductility, and resistance to fracture and cracking.\nThe research team, which is led by Livermore scientist Eduardo Bringa, used atomistic molecular dynamics to simulate a strong shock wave in a metal with preexisting dislocation sources. The team studied the nucleation and motion of dislocations relaxing the large strain behind the shock front. An abrupt impact causes dislocations to multiply too rapidly, becoming entangled before they can move far enough to completely relax the uniaxial strain. When pressure increases gradually, fewer dislocations are generated. However, they are more effective at relieving the strain because they can move freely for a longer period.\nDislocation activity behind a shock wave has not been measured directly. However, Bringa’s team has proposed that dynamic x-ray diffraction experiments, similar to those being conducted by Livermore physicist Hector Lorenzana and collaborators, could provide indirect information on such dislocation activity. The team’s research, which is described in the October 1, 2006, issue of Nature Materials, will help scientists assess material properties and performance under extreme conditions, such as an automobile crash or an explosives detonation. Says Bringa, “Experiments and simulations make a powerful pair for exploring uncharted, even unimagined regimes of material dynamics.”\nContact: Eduardo Bringa (925) 423-5724 (email@example.com).\nNew method examines the function of cell membranes\nA collaboration involving researchers from Lawrence Livermore, Stanford University, and the University of California (UC) at Davis has developed a method that can directly test for the existence of lipid rafts in cellular membranes. The cell membrane is composed primarily of a fluid bilayer of lipids. Previous research indicated that this lipid bilayer was a passive carrier for the proteins that perform the active work of the membrane.\nThe model being tested by the collaboration suggests that, instead, lipids are organizing the functional proteins of the cell membrane. “This is a very elegant hypothesis, under which the subtle affinities that certain lipids have for each other make the cell membrane self-organizing,” says Livermore physicist Peter Weber.\nTo develop the method, the research team formed model cell membranes on silicon chips, induced the formation of tiny lipid-raft-like gel domains, and freeze-dried the membranes. Then using NanoSIMS, the Laboratory’s high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometer, the scientists detected gel domains that measure about 100 nanometers laterally and 5 nanometers thick.\nThe team’s work appears in the September 29, 2006, issue of Science. Results from this research could help scientists develop methods to short-circuit a virus attack on cells, to characterize structures within biological pathogens, and to increase the sensitivity and flexibility of biological sensors.\nContact: Peter Weber (925) 422-3018 (firstname.lastname@example.org).\nMarine experiment tests detection capability\nIn August 2006, Livermore scientists participated with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) of Monterey in a series of experiments aimed at detecting, identifying, and interdicting nuclear materials in open waters. The experiments, which were conducted in San Francisco Bay, involved participants from several federal agencies, including the departments of Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security, as well as military representatives from several nations.\nMarine-enforcement first responders face an enormous challenge attempting to screen cargo inside the endless stream of containers that enter a major facility such as the Port of Oakland. Many commercial products, including smoke detectors, radiant signs, and even bananas, emit radiation, and a shipment of such items can cause radiation detectors to alarm. A false-positive alarm slows commerce unnecessarily and increases product costs. Successful interdiction requires not only modern technology but also coordinated operations and effective communications among many agencies.\nTo test detection capabilities and agency preparedness, NPS conducted an exercise in which a vessel entering the Port of Oakland required inspection because it was emitting signs of ionizing radiation. For this exercise, the Alameda County Marine Enforcement Agency provided the operations center and the boarding vessel, and a boat operated by the Oakland Police Department played the target vessel. Coast Guard officers—or in some cases Laboratory researchers acting as Coast Guard officers—boarded the vessel to take readings with portable radiation detection instruments. Those readings were immediately relayed to scientific experts at other locations. Their results were radioed back to the boarding vessel for use by first responders on the scene.\n“Experiments of this sort are iterative,” says participant Bill Dunlop, a physicist in Livermore’s National Security Office. “We find out what works well, what needs improvement, and what’s unsuccessful. The next exercise will incorporate improvements from the lessons learned this time.”\nContact: Bill Dunlop (925) 424-4462 (email@example.com).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- This page includes the show Transcript and the Daily Curriculum\n- Use the Transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary\n- The Daily Curriculum offers the Media Literacy Question of the Day, Key Concepts, Fast Facts and Discussion Questions\n- At the bottom of the page, please share your feedback about our show and curriculum\nMarch 27, 2014\nScience, politics, geography, and math all factor in to Thursday's edition of CNN Student News! If you've never heard of the latitudinal Roaring Forties, you can't fathom why fish would travel by truck, and you don't know what the record is for Girl Scout cookie sales, you won't want to miss this show.\nOn this page you will find today's show Transcript, the Daily Curriculum, and a place for you to leave feedback.\nPlease note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and when the transcript is published.\nMedia Literacy Question of the Day:\nWhat audio and video elements might a journalist want to include when reporting on a meeting of two world leaders?\nKey Concepts: Identify or explain these subjects you heard about in today's show:\n1. Roman Catholic Church\n2. National Labor Relations Board\n3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\nFast Facts: How well were you listening to today's program?\n1. With whom is President Obama scheduled to meet at the Vatican today? According to the report: What are some issues on which these two leaders disagree? On which issues do they have similar viewpoints? How might their personalities factor in to how they collaborate on issues on which they agree? Why do some experts predict a positive, friendly meeting between the two?\n2. What is the latest lead in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? When was this debris found? What happened when planes searched the area yesterday? What may be responsible for this? How is geography presenting a challenge to the search? What is an AUV? How does it create a map of the ocean floor?\n3. What has Chicago's regional National Labor Relations Board ruled regarding a case brought by football players at Northwestern University? What was the rationale for this decision? How has the university responded? If the decision is upheld, how might it impact college sports in the future?\n4. Why are Chinook salmon at the Coleman National Fish Hatchery being loaded onto trucks? Where are the trucks taking them? What weather condition in California is jeopardizing salmon spawning season?\n1. What do you think that President Obama and Pope Francis will discuss in their meeting? If they disagree on any of these topics, what conclusions, if any, might they reach? What do you think is the purpose of a meeting between world leaders who might disagree on some major issues? How might they collaborate on other issues?\n2. Do you agree or disagree with the decision by the regional National Labor Relations Board allowing Northwestern University's football players to unionize? State your rationale.\n3. The salmon transportation seen in the video is one consequence of the drought being faced in some parts of the U.S. What other effects do you think drought could have on a region's environment and economy?\nCNN Student News is created by a team of journalists and educators who consider the Common Core State Standards, national standards in different subject areas, and state standards when producing the show and curriculum. We hope you use our free daily materials along with the program, and we welcome your feedback on them.\nWe're looking for your feedback about CNN Student News. Please use this page to leave us comments about today's program, including what you think about our stories and our resources. Also, feel free to tell us how you use them in your classroom. The educators on our staff will monitor this page and may respond to your comments as well.\nThank you for using CNN Student News!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cutting, grinding, trimming, sanding or polishing stone benchtops produces very small particles of dust, including respirable crystalline silica, that are invisible to the naked eye. When breathed in, respirable crystalline silica exposure over time can cause fatal lung disease.\nWorkers fabricating, processing, installing, maintaining or removing stone benchtops without appropriate control measures in place may be exposed to high levels of respirable crystalline silica. Workers can also be exposed to respirable crystalline silica from poor housekeeping methods which disturb dust, including dry sweeping, using compressed air or high-pressure water cleaners, general-purpose vacuum cleaners not designed for use with hazardous dust, or by allowing the accumulation of dust within the workplace.\nGenerally, workers have a higher risk to their health from exposure to respirable crystalline silica during fabrication of stone benchtops. The more cutting, grinding, trimming, sanding or polishing a worker does the higher the risk to their health. Without adequate controls, in place, these practices generate dust or mist clouds which may contain very high respirable crystalline silica concentrations.\nRespirable crystalline silica is a significant health hazard for workers. It is too small to be seen under a normal lighting and the small particle size allows it to stay airborne for long periods of time. It is easily inhaled deep into the lungs where it can be deposited and lead to a range of respiratory diseases, including silicosis, progressive massive fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer.\nRespirable crystalline silica also increases the risk of developing a chronic renal disease, autoimmune disorders2. 3 and other adverse health effects including an increased risk of activating latent tuberculosis.\nSilicosis is a serious, irreversible lung disease that causes permanent disability and can be fatal. Respirable crystalline silica dust particles are deposited in lung tissue, causing inflammation and scarring and reducing the lungs’ ability to take in oxygen. Silicosis may continue to worsen even long after exposure stops.\nAs the disease progresses, a worker may experience:\n- shortness of breath\n- severe cough\nIt is important to note that damage to lungs from silicosis is permanent and symptoms of the disease may not appear for many years. Workers may not present with any symptoms, even at the point of initial diagnosis, which is why prevention and health monitoring are critical.\nAir monitoring to determine a worker’s exposure (as per WHS Regulation 49) involves measuring the level of respirable crystalline silica in the breathing zone of workers using a personal sampler during the course of their usual shift activities (including routine breaks). Air monitoring must be conducted to determine whether there is a risk to a worker’s health, or if there is any uncertainty that the exposure standard is being exceeded.\nHazmat Plus has qualified Environmental Scientists and Occupational Hygienists who can undertake a comprehensive site assessment Respirable Crystalline Silica Monitoring and Exposure Assessments including discussions with management and staff to identify dust producing tasks and conduct onsite occupational exposure monitoring of worker’s to check current controls against the workplace exposure standard and provide advice and recommendations, if required, for additional control measures including the selection of the right level of respiratory protection.\nThe Code of Practice for Managing Respirable Crystalline Silica in the Stone Benchtop Industry stipulates this monitoring MUST occur within 6 months of the code commencing (commenced 31 October 2019 therefore before April 30 2020).\nDon’t leave it too late, Hazmat Plus has been conducting RCS assessments for over 10 years and can provide cost-effective rates to help assist in this legal requirement.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books and Lecture Notes, etc.\n- Title Statistics with R\n- Author(s) Vincent Zoonekynd, JosÚ Gama\n- Publisher: Vincent Zoonekynd and ┼bo Akademi University\n- Hardcover/Paperback N/A\n- eBook HTML and PDF\n- Language: English\n- ISBN-10: N/A\n- ISBN-13: N/A\n- Share This:\nThis book provides an elementary-level introduction to R, targeting both non-statistician scientists in various fields and students of statistics.\nThe main mode of presentation is via code examples with liberal commenting of the code and the output, from the computational as well as the statistical viewpoint. Brief sections introduce the statistical methods before they are used. A supplementary R package can be downloaded and contains the data sets.\nAll examples are directly runnable and all graphics in the text are generated from the examples. The statistical methodology covered includes statistical standard distributions, one- and two-sample tests with continuous data, regression analysis, one-and two-way analysis of variance, regression analysis, analysis of tabular data, and sample size calculations. In addition, the last four chapters contain introductions to multiple linear regression analysis, linear models in general, logistic regression, and survival analysis.About the Authors\n- The R Programming Language\n- Statistics, and SAS Programming\n- Data Analysis and Data Mining\n- Geographic Information System (GIS) and Web Mapping", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In 1938, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler sent an expedition to Tibet to search for the \"Ur-Arier\", to find evidence for the theory that Tibet was home to the \"Aryan race\". Himmler was convinced that Aryans - coming from an ancient civilisation in Atlantis - had escaped and survived the past millennia in the Himalayas and was determined to rediscover this lost Aryan race, this \"master race\" that had lived on the mythical island of Atlantis before the island paradise was engulfed by the sea. The swastika, by the way, was one of the \"evidences\" to back the theory as it was a symbol of good luck in Tibetan culture and also used in Nazi Germany (via and via).\nThe photographs depict anthropologist Dr. Bruno Beger taking cranial measurements in Tibet. Beger came to the conclusion that Tibetan people represented \"a staging post between the Mongol and European races\" and that they could play \"an important role in the region, serving as an allied race in a world dominated by Germany and Japan.\" (Z., 2005).\nIn 1971, Bruno Beger was convicted as an accessory to 86 murders - Beger measured and selected imprisoned people in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, people who were afterwards gassed - and was sentenced to three years. Not only did he receive the minimum sentence. Beger did not serve any time in prison. He died in 2009 at the age of 98 (via and via).\nBruno Beger and the Skeleton Collection LINK\n- - - - - - - - -\n- Z., Mickey (2005) Source of the Blood: Nazi Germany's Search for its Aryan Roots. In: Peet, P. (ed.) Disinformation Guide to Ancient Aliens, Lost Civilizations, Astonishing Archeology & Hidden History. disinformation\n- photographs taken by Ernst Krause in 1938 via and via", "label": "No"}
{"text": "While certain risk factors, like getting older or having a family history of heart disease, cannot be changed, each of us does have the power to control a variety of factors that can reduce the likelihood of heart attacks and stroke.\nIt is never too late to tackle your heart risk factors. It is also never too early since heart disease can begin in childhood. We are all different, so it is important to improve our health habits, partner with a health care provider, and develop an individual plan that works best for us.\nCardiovascular disease – including heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure – is the leading cause of death in the United States. It is also a leading cause of disability, preventing many Americans from working and enjoying family activities. While certain risk factors, like getting older or having a family history of heart disease, cannot be changed, each of us does have the power to control a variety of factors that can reduce the likelihood of heart attacks and stroke.\nYour health care provider can measure your blood cholesterol with a simple blood test, take your blood pressure, and determine if your weight is in the healthy range. It helps to know your numbers if you are going to tackle your heart risk factors. These are basic, but important things to monitor to ensure you are on the right path to ongoing good health.\nControlling high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure significantly reduces the risk of heart attacks and stroke, according to heart disease specialists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Diet modifications and exercise may reduce these risk factors, or your doctor may recommend prescription medications.\nThese may sound like simple things to control, but they present some of the biggest challenges to your health. Obesity is an overwhelming problem in this country. Fortunately, even a small weight loss, if you are overweight, can help lower your risk for heart attack or stroke. A heart-healthy diet includes fruits, vegetables and whole grains, along with lean meats, poultry, fish, and beans. Try to avoid foods with saturated fat, trans fat, sodium, and added sugar.\nDon’t forget to include exercise with that heart-healthy diet. The NIH recommends at least two and a half hours of moderate-intensity physical activity a week. However, as little as 30 minutes of daily exercise can protect your heart. Use a variety of exercises so that you don’t get bored. Try a brisk walk, running, swimming, or dancing. Even taking the stairs instead of an elevator will give your heart a good workout and make a difference!\nFinally, if you are a smoker – quit today! Cigarette smoking is hard on the heart, and is directly linked to 30 percent of all heart disease deaths in the United States each year. It’s not easy and not everyone can kick the habit the same way. Ask your health care provider for help.\nHealthy St. Patrick's Day Snacks\n6 Reasons to Try Meatless Monday\n8 Ways to Up Your Step Count\nYour Cholesterol Questions Answered\nWas this page helpful to you?\nYour Preferred Center\nYour Preferred Physician\nPopular Patient First Health Matters Articles\nArticles by category\nArticles by tag", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is a polished palm stone ammonite fossil in a stone bed. This is approximately 2.15 inches long.\nHistory of Ammonites\nThere were many different types of ammonites dating between the Jurassic and Devonian periods (65 and 419 million years ago). The more complex the ammonite fossils, the more recently they were created in those periods. Ammonites died away at the same time as the dinosaurs.\nAmmonites (subclass Ammonoidea) can be distinguished by their septa, the dividing walls that separate the chambers and are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopada. These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids such as octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A team of engineers at the University of Cambridge have found a way to un-print printed material. That is, to remove toner from paper used in a laser printer or photocopier. In their study, published in the Proceedings of The Royal Society A journal and reported by New Scientist, the engineers acknowledge that they are not the first to have thought of the idea.\nAt the risk of stating the obvious the only reason we don't re-use (paper already printed on) paper is because there is print on it. The engineers say if the paper is in good condition then there is no point going through all the heavy industrial process of recycling it.\nUnfortunately, the un-printer isn’t something you can buy just yet. – it is still being perfected.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The history of the onion is an interesting story. The onion is believed to have originated in Asia, though it is likely that onions may have been growing wild on every continent. Dating back to 3500 BC, onions were one of the few foods that did not spoil during the winter months. Our ancestors must have recognized the vegetable’s durability and began growing onions for food.\nThe site Care2.com highlights the benefits of onions:\nThe phytochemicals in onions improve the working of Vitamin C in the body, thus gifting you with improved immunity.\nOnions contain chromium, which assists in regulating blood sugar.\nFor centuries, onions have been used to reduce inflammation and heal infections.\nRaw onion encourages the production of good cholesterol (HDL), thus keeping your heart healthy.\nA powerful compound called quercetin in onions is known to play a significant role in preventing cancer.\nGot bitten by a honeybee? Apply onion juice on the area for immediate relief from the pain and burning sensation.\nOnions scavenge free radicals, thereby reducing your risk of developing gastric ulcers.\nThose bright green tops of green onions are rich in Vitamin A, so do use them often.\nToday, onions are a staple in many types of cuisine around the world. According to Dr Ian Smith MD, a guest of Dr. Oz’s show, onions contain flavonoids called quercetin, known for their anti-inflammatory properties. Cooking onions increase the potency of these flavonoids; ideally sautéing onions for no more than 5 minutes will optimize their properties.\nWe eat onions at least 3 times per week, although I will admit I cannot tolerate raw onions. I add them to my stir fry, my spaghetti sauce, chili and other meals. Long live the onion!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Enjoying a walk or riding a bike to get around Asheville is pretty standard. People do it all the time. Despite that, there are still pedestrian and bicycle accidents that happen.\nDrivers need to be more aware of pedestrians and cyclists because these two groups of people don’t have the kinds of protections that people in vehicles do. Even a slower impact could cause serious injuries as a pedestrian or cyclist is hit and thrown to the ground.\nThousands of pedestrians die each year because of crashes\nDid you know that 2,000 or more pedestrians are killed in traffic collisions each year? On top of that, for every 150 to 200 people who die, another 200 to 300 pedestrians are hit and injured.\nAround 1,000 cyclists are involved in crashes annually, and around 20 people die. Additionally, another 60 of those injury victims end up with serious, life-changing wounds. In both the cases of pedestrians and cyclists, those who are most at risk of serious injuries or death are children and young adults. The elderly are also at risk, particularly in the pedestrian group.\nWhat should people do to help prevent these serious collisions?\nTo help prevent serious collisions that lead to injuries and fatal impacts, it’s important for drivers to pay close attention to the road, put down distracting digital devices and avoid rushing. Pedestrians and cyclists should wear bright colors or reflective gear, travel in groups when possible and always follow traffic signals and rules.\nDrivers, pedestrians and cyclists can watch out for each other to stay safer. If you’re hit, though, remember that the driver responsible may be held financially liable for your injuries.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Traditional & Modern Uses\nThere’s a lot of truth in the folklore and history of Rosemary. It’s is a well-known and greatly valued herb, native to southern Europe. It’s been used since antiquity to improve and strengthen the memory.\nIn Shakespeare’s day it was common knowledge that rosemary helped one remember. Today, as then, herbalists agree: “For weyknesse of ye brayne, sethe rosemaria in wyne and keep ye heed warme.”The leaves of this tough, evergreen shrub are valued for both medicinal and culinary uses. And, the powerful antioxidant vitamins found therein do help the brain work better.\nTo this day it is burned in the homes of students in Greece who are about to take exams. Rosemary has a longstanding reputation as a tonic, invigorating herb, imparting a zest for life that is to some degree reflected in its distinctive aromatic taste.\nRosemary was reputedly first grown in England in the 14th century. Grown in gardens since ancient times, it was considered to have powers of protection against evil spirits\nThe name comes from the Latin ros-marinus (dew of the sea), which refers to Rosemary’s favourite habitat being in salty sea spray. Rosemary was known as a traditional symbol of friendship and love and a wreath of Rosemary was worn by brides as a sign of love and loyalty.\nThe pungent scent was believed to protect from disease and infection. It was used as an alternative to incense by the Ancient Greeks, who believed it improved memory.\nDuring the plague years, and thereafter in many hospitals, the burning of rosemary reliably cleared the air and countered airborne infections. By extension, rosemary was given to mourners to protect them from contagion.\nEuropean ladies, princesses, and even queens used rosemary in many ways to enhance their beauty. They tied it into a cloth to keep fleas away; they smelled it to “keep youngly;” they soaked it in wine and used it to wash their faces so they would be “light and lovely;” they added it to their bath water so they would “wax shiny and be merrie;” and they stopped bad dreams by placing rosemary under the bed.\nResearch & Current Uses – Memory, Circulation, Digestion, Brain, Heart, Longevity….Uplifting Mood\nThe many jobs Rosemary is primed to perform include – improving brain health, supporting the immune system, managing blood sugar imbalances and supporting liver health.\nJonny Bowden, MD says the herb’s high antioxidant count plus other properties are key contributors for these benefits. “The acids—caffeic acid and rosmarinic acid — may be helpful in reducing inflammation that contributes to poor health.\nRosemary a potent herb with many exceptional benefits:\nTraditionally, rosemary has been hailed for its ability to ease digestive discomfort, due to it’s antispasmodic properties, relaxing your muscles in the gut and allowing for proper digestion. When eaten with meals, rosemary’s unique properties may also increase blood flow, thereby aiding digestion and absorption. Many people swear by rubbing rosemary oil directly on their stomach to relieve cramping.\nHEART & CIRCULATION\nThis is the remedy for your heart and poor circulation, it supports vein health and strengthens fragile blood vessels. Recent research has found that the heart has memory cells just like the brain. No wonder rosemary is renowned as a heart tonic, too! It can be used to normalise blood pressure.\nIt has a central place in European herbal medicine as a warming, tonic remedy that stimulates blood flow throughout your body, especially in those with low blood pressure. It is thought to promote blood flow to the head, thus improving memory and concentration. It may be taken to relieve migraine and headaches\nIn one of the few human studies evaluating this phenomenon, researchers from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid took 32 hypotensive patients and measured how their dangerously low blood pressure fared under rosemary essential oil treatments for 72 weeks. The results? Simply astounding! In addition to observing that rosemary could raise blood pressure to normal limits in a vast majority of the volunteers, it was discovered that overall mental and physical quality of life was drastically improved, which highlights the far-reaching healing effects that this ancient oil has on health and wellness.\nA small 2006 clinical trial in Germany concluded (in line with traditional usage) that rosemary raised blood pressure in people suffering from low blood pressure. All those taking rosemary also reported feeling better at the end of the trial.\nA 2011 study published in Phytotherapy Research found that rosemary exerted anti-inflammatory and protective effects on the inner lining of blood vessels in young adults. Such research supports the understanding that many active compounds in rosemary support a healthy circulation.\nMEMORY & CONCENTRATION – GREAT FOR STUDYING\nA memory tonic can give your brain a boost and improve memory. In a study, students in a room infused with rosemary oil scored 5 to 7 points better on a memory test. Researchers believe this is because a compound in rosemary inhibits the breakdown of neurotransmitters responsible for encoding memories in the brain.\nRosemary’s interaction with the brain and central nervous system can be physically and mentally invigorating. Inhaling rosemarywas shown to elevate heart rate, blood pressure, and skin temperature, as well as mood in a study of young adults. Many of the studied individuals reported feeling stimulated and mentally fresh after inhaling rosemary. The stimulatory effects of rosemary may further improve cognitive function and capabilities.\nA tonic for the liver, that stimulates bile, gall bladder and digestive function.\nIt is stimulating to the appetite and digestion and cleansing to parasites.\nA pick me up for general debility and depression, it is uplifting to the mind.\nAn analgesic that can relieve pain, muscle spasms, muscle pain, sciatica and rheumatism. It can also stimulate and strengthen muscles before and after exercise.\nThe endocannabinoid system interacts with cannabinoids, which are either produced naturally by our bodies or ingested from plants. This system rules our stress response, anxiety levels, pain signalling, and more. The endocannabinoid system was discovered while researchers were studying the cannabis plant, so naturally the most well-known source of plant-derived cannabinoids, or phytocannabinoids as they are called, are hemp and marijuana.\nRosemary also contains phyto-cannabinoids, specifically beta-caryophyllene(BCP). BCP that has been shown to promote bone formation and mineralisation and may prevent osteoporosis. BCP has anti-inflammatory properties and may confer anti-anxiety benefits. Science is just beginning to understand the complex interactions of the endocannabinoid system, but the emerging research is fascinating.\nAnti-aging due to its potent antioxidantproperties, that act as a defence system in your body, fighting against free radicals that can damage your cells and cause diseases of aging.\nAnd rosemary is near the top of the list for herbs with the most antioxidants.In fact, one small village in Italy credits rosemary for its large population of healthy people living past 100.\n“The inhabitants of Acciaroli, a small Italian village on the Amalfi Coast, studied for their longevity, use rosemary often.”\nJapanese laboratory research in 2003 found that diterpenes within rosemary (carnosic acid and carnosol) strongly stimulated nerve growth factor, suggesting that rosemary may stimulate nerve repair.\nHAIR GROWTH In a study, a mix of essential oils, including rosemary oil, was found to successfully improve hair growth in almost half of study participants with alopecia. In fact, another study found rosemary oil to be as effective as over-the-counter products for stimulating hair regrowth in patients with androgenetic alopecia (pattern baldness).\nHow Can You Use Rosemary in your daily routine\nMedicinal and culinary rosemary comes in many forms.\nBrain & Memory boost using Rosemary essential oil– if you are looking to reap the brain-boosting medicinal benefits of rosemary, an essential oilis probably your best bet.\nScience shows that the invigorating chemicals in rosemary can be more efficiently and completely absorbed by the body through the olfactory system. This is because it does not have to be broken down in the gastrointestinal system and is instead directly absorbed. The essential oil it easily crosses the blood-brain barrier, immediately taking effect.\nFor a quick pick-me-up, try adding a couple of drops of rosemary essential oil to a diffuser or right on your wrists and inhale the stimulating scent.\n– found Rosemary breaks down acetylcholine in the brain, which allows nerve cells to communicate more effectively with one another.\n– they also recently published a study investigating the action of Rosemary and Wild Orange essential oils and found that these oils were able to diversely impact proteins and genes in human skin cells. Specifically, Rosemary essential oil strongly impacted processes closely related to cellular health and metabolism. Wild Orange essential oil robustly impacted cellular health, immune response, and metabolism processes.\nIf you are looking for digestive relief topical administrationis the way to go.\nRosemary is a great addition to your hair care arsenal. It will give you the shine you’re looking for and leave your hair looking healthy and effortless. Rosemary also promotes hair growth and improves scalp health. Pair it with Lavender, and you can even skip your perfume application for the day!\nHow to use Rosemary for your hair\nTake about 5 drops of rosemary essential oil and massage evenly into your scalp after bath or shower. Mix with a carrier oil (like jojoba oil or coconut oil) if desired. Rinsing out the oil afterward is optional — though if you do rinse, let the oil sit on your scalp for at least 5 to 10 minutes beforehand.\nHair Thickener– Put 5 drops of rosemary oil on scalp and massage in after showers\nDIY Texturizing Salt Spray\n1 cup warm water\n1 tablespoon sea salt\n1–2 teaspoons carrier oil (coconut, argan, avocado)\n3–4 drops Rosemary oil\n3–4 drops Lavender oil\nHeat the water, Add the sea salt and mix until dissolved, Whisk in the carrier and essential oils.\nPour the mixture into your spray bottle.\nShake well (before each use).\n(Pregnant women need to be cautious with high doses of rosemary).\nRosemary teahas a beneficial effect on the lungs and breathing. For best effect, let steep for an hour. When drinking rosemary tea, feel free to add honey, especially if your throat is scratchy and sore. If you have a cold, feel tired add a handful of rosemary to chicken soup and heat.\nRosemary, like all its mint sisters, is antispasmodic, mildly so as a tea, more strongly in vinegar, and powerfully as a tincture. Not only does it relieve nervous pains and headaches, rosemary eases all digestive woes, from gas to gall bladder problems.\nCooking & Seasoning\nYou probably already know that rosemary has some delicious flavor power—especially when sprinkled in soup, roasted on potatoes, or rubbed on chicken\nYou can start using essential oils for a more natural toxin free lifestyle and so you’re more empowered in your own health care, and that of your family.\nIf you want to start using essential oils, please feel free to get my guide that provides you with a simple, easy-to-follow roadmap outlining how you can:\n- Use essential oils safely…\n- Favourite blends and ways to use essential oils\n- Make your own non-toxic body care and cleaning products…\n- Cook delicious recipes using essential oils…\nGET YOUR NATURAL SOLUTIONS TO HEALTHY LIVING HERE\ndoTERRA places an emphasis on providing pure oils because pure oils are effective oils. Too often, essential oils available for purchase are diluted with filler substances or contaminants. Oils that are not pure decrease how effective the essential oils are and reduce their power and potential.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or instances of shallow or infrequent breathing during sleep. Each pause in breathing, called an apnea, can last for several seconds to several minutes, and may occur, by definition, at least 5 times in an hour. After an examination, we can recommend various treatments that could help you. Introducing a CPAP breathing machine or nasal obstruction surgery are some of the ways it can be handled.\nSnoring is noisy breathing during sleep. It is a common problem among all ages and both genders, and it affects approximately 90 million American adults. To help treat your snoring, our experts will first have to examine your snoring patterns.Depending on the results of the sleep study, you will be presented with a series of options to treat snoring. These will generally include surgery or introducing appliances like the CPAP\nOften times, when a patient requests a sleep appliance it’s because their sleeping partner has complained about snoring. We help patients (and their partners) get the rest they need with snore guards and sleep appliances.\nAbout Snoring and Sleep Apnea\nMany factors contribute to snoring such as excess weight, age, habits (smoking, drinking, use of sedatives, etc.), allergies, and infection.\nFor some patients, snoring can be a sign of Sleep Apnea, a hazardous medical condition that causes the snorer to stop breathing for several seconds – up to two minutes. Decreased levels of oxygen in the blood can lead to headaches, fatigue and in rare cases, sudden death.\nTo treat snoring, Dr. Gupta will fabricate a customized, removable oral appliance, similar to a sports mouth-guard. The snore guard is worn during sleep and prevents the movement of the tongue to the back of the throat. Patients who use a snore guard will snore less and frequently will stop snoring completely.\nA sleep apnea appliance is designed to open up the airway space and advance the tongue forward. Dr. Gupta can fabricate this appliance for you if you have been diagnosed with sleep apnea. Most patients prefer a dental appliance for sleep apnea treatment compared to the CPAP and/or laser surgery.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Approximately 15 million American adults have social anxiety disorder, and more than 75 percent of them experienced their first symptoms during their childhood or early teenage years.1 As a parent, it can be excruciating watching your child struggle to connect with their peers, but there are several things you can do to help them manage their anxiety proactively so they can become more comfortable with themselves and with others.\nRead on to find out how social anxiety is typically treated in teens, signs to look out for, and what you can do to help at home.\nHow Do You Treat Adolescent Social Anxiety?\nIt’s important to remember that there is no cure for anxiety. The best treatment plan is to help your child develop coping mechanisms that will allow them to manage their anxiety in triggering situations.\nFor many, therapy (specifically cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT) is highly beneficial. CBT for social anxiety involves identifying and challenging specific negative thoughts (i.e. “Nobody likes me” or “Everybody thinks I’m weird”) and unhealthy behaviors (i.e. avoidance of others) that can negatively impact your child’s mood and self-esteem. CBT helps teens understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, while developing the confidence to face triggering situations and the anxiety these situations provoke.\nSome parents choose to treat their child’s social anxiety with prescription medication like antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and beta-blockers. At Brillia, we recognize that these medications can be helpful, but we recommend them as a last resort, not the first course of action. In some cases, simple adjustments to your teen’s lifestyle can help reduce their anxiety successfully, from making tweaks to their diet, to ensuring they’re getting adequate sleep, to even controlling how much screen time they get each day.\nIf you feel your child or teen can benefit from medication, Brillia for Children is one non-prescription option to consider. Free from harsh, synthetic chemicals and harmful side effects, Brillia is an extremely targeted homeopathic medication that contains antibodies to the the brain-specific S100B protein, a key regulator of many different intracellular and extracellular brain processes. Without masking your child’s personality, affecting their appetite, or making them drowsy, Brillia gently and impactfully reduces feelings of anxiety and stress without affecting any other systems in the body.\nWhile antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications can take some time to adjust to and may need to be increased over time to maintain efficacy, Brillia can be started or stopped at any time without any residual effects and will not need to be increased over time to be useful. Brillia also helps to regulate the mood by normalizing the level of monoamines (dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin) in different parts of the brain, which are the same brain chemicals targeted by prescription medications for anxiety.\nirritability and impulsivity.\nTRY BRILLIA TODAY\nSigns & Symptoms to Look for in Your Teen\nSocial anxiety is defined as a marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to potential scrutiny by others. This anxiety occurs in the situation and may also occur in anticipation of the situation and afterward.\nSigns and symptoms include:\n- Fear of being judged\n- Persistent worry about embarrassing themselves\n- Fear of appearing anxious to others\n- Fear of of interacting or talking to others\n- Anxiety in anticipation of social situations\n- Ruminating about their behavior after social situations\n- Difficulty making eye contact\n- Avoidance of social gatherings, school, dating, and public places\n- Physical symptoms such as blushing, perspiring, trembling, getting dizzy, breathing fast, feeling like their mind has gone blank, and having an upset stomach\nIf you suspect your teen has social anxiety, here are some ways you can help them at home:\n1. Encourage Relaxation Techniques\nStudies show that relaxation techniques are just as effective as CBT for managing anxiety.2 From deep breathing to progressive muscle relaxation, there are a number of strategies your teen can use when they start to feel their worries bubble up. Deep breathing will help them slow down their breath and become more rooted in the moment. Progressive muscle relaxation, which is alternating between tensing and relaxing the muscles, will help them release tenseness built up in the body.\nMeditation is another powerful technique that can actually change the structure of their brain to deal with social situations in a different way. According to one study on mindfulness meditation and social anxiety, regular practice helped to reduce rumination, anxiety, and depression in people with social anxiety, while also increasing their self-esteem.3\n2. Discuss Self-Talk\n“Nobody likes me.” “They’re all going to laugh at me.” “What if I embarrass myself?”\nSo much of social anxiety has to do with how your teen thinks. Teaching your child positive self-talk starts with helping them identify the thoughts swirling around in their head. Identification creates distance from thoughts so your teen has a chance to challenge them. Once they’ve identified their negative thoughts, they can start to replace them with positive ones. If they need help, try pointing out the strengths and skills you see in them and let them build from there.\n3. Model Positive Social Behavior\nAs a parent, you are your child’s first teacher. And chances are, your teen still looks to you for guidance (even if they’d never admit it). Studies show that children learn to form worries and threats about their environment by observing parents' own expressions of anxious thoughts or behaviors.4 If you also struggle with social anxiety as a parent, it may be time to get help. By learning relaxation techniques, going to therapy, and considering medication, you’ll model how to deal with anxiety through your own actions, teaching your child that there’s nothing wrong with needing extra support.\nPlease note that Brillia for Adults can help anyone over the age of 18. There are also family discounts available.\n4. Avoid Negative Labels\nToo shy. Antisocial. Outcast. There are many negative labels for social anxiety. While you might think these kinds of labels will help your teen “snap out of it,” they’ll only add these labels to their growing list of negative thoughts they already think about themselves. In addition to modeling social anxiety, being overly critical as a parent has also been shown to contribute to a child’s development of social anxiety.5 Instead, try to point out your teen’s strengths and all the positive things they have to offer those around them.\n5. Get Them a Journal\nA 2018 study found that people who journaled had a reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety because the process of writing helped to release pent-up feelings and negative thoughts, effectively quieting the mind.6 The next time they’re feeling anxious, encourage your teen to write down their thoughts and feelings to create distance from their anxiety. It will help them be more present while gaining clarity about triggering situations.\n6. Reinforce That They are Not Alone\nSocial anxiety can be extremely lonely. It’s important that you remind your teen how much you enjoy their company, how common anxiety is for others, and that you’re willing to help when they’re ready. After all, research shows that people who suffer from social anxiety actually derive a lot of pleasure from spending time with others, even if it’s just their doting parent.7\nWhen it comes to managing social anxiety, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. But working with your teen to develop a strategy that works for them will help give them the skills they need to move forward at their own pace.\nFind more resources on managing anxiety at the Brillia(nce) Resource Center.\nGet a whole bunch of support right in your inbox.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dr. Samra treats patients of all ages from Livermore, Pleasanton, and Dublin, CA and the rest of the San Francisco Bay area for Sinusitis or Rhinosinusitis at the Tri Valley Allergy Clinic in Livermore, CA\nDaljeet S. Samra, MD\nAllergist & Immunologist\nSinusitis/Rhinosinusitis Q & A\nWhat is sinusitis/rhinosinusitis?\nSinusitis is a chronic sinus infection, which is usually caused by an untreated virus. Sinusitis is an inflammation or swelling, of the tissue lining the sinuses. Normally, sinuses are filled with air, but when sinuses become blocked and filled with fluid, germs such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, can grow and cause an infection. Rhinosinusitis is a sinus infection which lasts more than 4 weeks. Sinusitis is common in both adults and children. Sinusitis can also be caused by deformities in the nasal or sinus cavities. Symptoms include:\nTenderness and swelling around the eyes, cheeks, nose and forehead\nSinus pressure or congestion\nDifficulty breathing through the nose\nGreen or yellow mucus\nSore throat from nasal discharge\nHow can these conditions be treated?\nA variety of medical and surgical methods can be used to treat sinusitis. Medical options include orally administered antibiotics or steroids, topical antibiotics or steroids in either gel or nebulized forms, nasal sprays or sinus irrigation. Most doctors will begin treatment conservatively, especially when treating children, by prescribing medicines to reduce inflammation or antibiotics to fight infection. If medication does not work, surgical procedures can also be employed to treat chronic sinusitis. An endoscopy can help the doctor to determine the cause of the inflammation. Sinusplasty or balloon sinusplasty are used to remove blockages or widen the sinus passages increasing airflow and reducing the discomfort of congestion.\nWhat can I do to manage my chronic sinusitis?\nIf you, or your child, suffer from chronic sinusitis, there are steps you can take to manage the symptoms. First, do not smoke and/or avoid situations where the people around you will be smoking, this is particulary important for younger children. You can also use a neti pot or squeeze bottle to practice nasal irrigation once or twice a day. This process pushing a saline solution into one nostril and lets it drip out the other to reduce any swelling, thin any mucus, and wash out germs, allergens, and other inflammatory cells.\nPlease contact our office for more information regarding our insurance providers.\nWHAT PEOPLE SAY\n“\"Dr. Samra was excellent! He listened, asked me lots of questions, answered all of mine and explained everything so that I didn't leave feeling confused.\"\n— AUBREY Y\nTri Valley Allergy\n1038 Murrieta Boulevard, Suite B\nLivermore, CA 94550\nMonday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm\nTuesday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm\nWednesday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm\nThursday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm\nFriday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm\nGET IN TOUCH", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If there has been one development that defined the long 19th century, it has been the emergence and prominence of the nation-state as a form of government and a mechanism for control. Whereas prior formulations of the state took the guise of vast empires, autonomous city-states, and small principalities, the era following the political revolutions of France and the United States saw the conceptual creation of nations as internally cohesive, formally defined units, ideal building blocks on which to ground and legitimize state institutions. This reconfiguration of the social and political landscape did not, however, come into being autonomously, nor were the newfound nationalities of the 1800’s historical entities which simply needed to be rediscovered by observant philosophers, economists, and statesmen. On the contrary, the fundamental definitions and conceptions of both nation and state became a battleground of competing and often highly conflictual theories, whose adherents removed the debate from manifestos and lecture halls to the boulevards and barricades; schools of thought which dominated the debate came from both Marxist and anti-Marxist perspectives, centering on fundamental questions emphasizing the primacy of class, race, ethnicity, and development in formulating who constituted a nation, what comprised the state, and how the two became intertwined within a historical context. Divergent beliefs manifested themselves in actual government policies, took root in national and social consciousness, and delineated the forms and functions of both; foundational theories of the nation largely agree on it’s constructed, artificial, and amorphous character, yet continually and violently clash on the question of the state in its abstraction.\nMichel Foucault’s central contribution to this discourse has been through the concept of governmentality and its relation to the rise of the modern state form, which he expounds upon in a series of lectures delivered at the Collège de France from 1977-78 titled Security, Territory, Population. This new notion of governmentality was both a description of the ensemble of institutions, methods, mechanisms and analyses through which power is projected upon a subject population and, simultaneously, a lens through which one can trace the historical development of “a series of specific governmental apparatuses.” Within this theoretical framework, the emergence of the state as a form of governmental authority directly corresponds to the recognition of the population as subject-body to be regulated at the macro level, in which the totality of institutions, systems of knowledge, and security apparatuses are employed by the state in the furtherance of Foucault’s secondary concept, raison d’État. By tracing the genesis of the modern state through the prism of governmentality, Foucault is able to discuss its emergence not with appeal to ideology but through the study of power projection and consolidation; the notion of raison d’État fits squarely within this intellectual structure, existing as principle guiding the formation and subsequent actions of the state system. Indeed, raison d’État posits the state as simply a functionary of governmental rationality, as “a principle of intelligibility and strategic schema” which develops along a historical genealogy of governmentality and which holds the state as a highly developed apparatus of governmental reason.\nIn this way, Foucault’s theory allows for an understanding of the state that frees it from context dependent definitions or justifications, elevating the creation of the state to an abstraction that owes its emergence to a “composition of effects” delineated via governmentality, which serves as a device for historical analysis. As such, competing definitions and interpretations of the state and the nation, ideologically motivated or otherwise, can be subsumed into Foucault’s general theory, eschewing as it does an animating dogma or program beyond that of power consolidation and reformulation; both Marxist and anti-Marxist arguments can be situated within a Foucauldian framework, and often find their arguments buttressed by his conclusions. Theories that focus on the various exercises of authority and control by state systems, such as Louis Althusser’s Ideological and Repressive State Apparatuses from Essays on Ideology, are coterminous with Foucault’s understanding of the function of raison d’État, which must act on the consciousness of people “in such a way that their opinion is modified…and along with their opinion their way of doing things, their way of acting, their behavior as economic subjects and political subjects.” As an introductory theory of the state, Foucault’s influence and import cannot be ignored, and it serves as an excellent foundation from which to view alternate and competing arguments about Nietzsche’s coldest monster.\nSimilar to Foucault’s theory on governmentality, Otto Bauer approaches the nation by describing it as a composition of effects in his essay “The Nation.” There exists a national character amongst a group of people that describes their unique physical and mental characteristics, and is shaped by their existential struggles, social compositions, and cultural traditions. National character naturally comes about and changes throughout the course of history, like Foucault’s “episode of governmentality” view on states. While national character could be interpreted as a trans-historical entity, the very thing Foucault sought to disprove in his theories, Bauer claims otherwise, specifically stating, “[n]ational character is not an explanation, it is something to be explained.” Alongside national character is national spirit. Bauer is quick to distance himself from any sort of Hegelian Spirit; while this national spirit is the spirit of the people that persists through all changes a nation goes through, it explains nothing. National spirit, like character, needs an explanation. Bauer’s explanations lies in what he calls “national communities”; the nation is a community of culture because of the shared traditions among the people, the nation is a community of destiny because it holds a common history for the people, and the nation is a community of character because of the various social class it contains. While these communities help compose the national character and spirit, capitalism makes it uniform. Capitalism uprooted families from their homes and brought them into cities where through labor, popular education, universal military service, and equal suffrage, a uniform language and culture was created. Since capitalism Bauer maintains a Foucauldian perspective on the nation, merely only describing what has happened and why; he never unveils a trans-historical, all-explaining device that shows how the nation was always what it was meant to be and was simply waiting to find itself.\nBauer begins to differ from Foucault when he introduces Karl Marx’s historical method to “solve” the question of the nation, ultimately classifying it as a historical entity. Through national materialism, the nation produces itself out of the community of its national character, national spirit provides the history of the nation via the shared history of its people, and a Darwinistic view allows the nation to be viewed as a “never completed product” of a perpetual process which is fueled by “human struggle with nature.” Here is where Bauer assigns the nation a concrete manifestation and historical purpose; the nation is no longer an episode of governmentality.\nElman Service offers a departure from Marx’s historical notion of the class-conflict driven origin of the state in his anthropological approach. Like Marx, Service surveys human history and uses those results as justification for his theory. However, Service’s findings “do not support the [Marxist] economic-class element of the state [which is] based on repressive physical force” in order to protect the propertied class in power. According to Service’s researches on archaic society, the origin of the “state” is that of centralized leadership; “chiefdoms” being the way Service describes it. The “state” begins as personal power, that of an affluent chief or leader, which then becomes institutionalized by society. Next, subsidiary positions appear, creating a hierarchy. The succession of this hierarchy was hereditary in most archaic civilizations which insured the continuity of the positions of the centralized leadership, therefore allowing the hierarchy to continue “beyond the period of the competencies of the individual incumbents.” This forms the skeleton of Service’s “state” to which he adds a legal apparatus and mechanisms for redistribution of power in subsequent chapters. Though this theory of the state is born from the study of archaic societies, Service argues that modern states exhibit similar tendencies of his theorized “chiefdom”.\nThe centering of state authority around individuals in a manner reminiscent of a chiefdom was exploded, however, in the late 18th century with the rise of political and social liberalism, spurred on by such writers as Locke, Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau contends, in his essay On Social Contract, that the state is a development based upon the necessity of man to foster a sense of self-preservation. He begins by asserting that the state form inherently controls the liberty of those who reside within it, as he states in his opening line: “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau, however, investigates these restrictions enforced by the state and posits that it ensures the liberty of those who reside within the state. This seeming paradox is a function of the titular social contract, the necessary output of people having to work together to overcome obstacles which they could not overcome of their own volition. Consequently, by having a community of people give their full will into a singular cause, the state form arises as the conglomeration of a multitude of voices functioning for a common desire of self-preservation. As the state is a function of the social contract cited by Rousseau, he outlines it as being created by each person “giving himself entirely” thus ensuring that no one is creating unnecessary burdens for the other, not possessing any rights in opposition to the goals of this new collective as it undermines the very basis of the collective, and thus not allowing for the appearance of a dominant singular person or force within the system since they all must work in harmony, thus ensuring all keep their natural freedom within the pact. The state, as a consequence, must function within the bounds of the established contract for its founding. Much like a father looking over his child, the state functions at a primary level for protection and growth, which in turn requires restrictions in order to ensure that no self-harm falls upon the subject, yet equally mandates no unnecessary or overbearing restraints be laid upon the subjects to prevent the retardation of growth of those functioning within the state. Per Rousseau, the state form ultimately ensures a better situation than what is created in the natural state of being in that by dedicating their lives\nto the state, they are, in return, protected by it, and the risking of one’s life in defense of one’s state is a simple equitable exchange for the protection afforded to the person thanks to the state.\nFoucault’s concept of governmentality echoes many of the points which Rousseau lays out himself. The former’s concept of a “composition of effects” seems to be slightly related to Rousseau’s idea that the state arises through a collaboration of individuals pooling their efforts for the greater good over a period of time due to their inability to combat threats on a singular basis. Foucault’s calling of the state a device of projecting power in the most rational and effective way possible echoes Rousseau’s thoughts as Rousseau postulated that the state naturally arose through the collaboration of people and their inherent willingness to give their all for a common cause. The critical divergence is embedded in that Rousseau believes that the organization of power – that of collaboration – is the most ideal of circumstances whereas Foucault is of the belief that the state is just another method of organizing power. Whereas the state arose through careful self-introspection in Foucault’s eyes in conjunction through the pooling of events leading up to that particular moment which gave birth to the state, Rousseau argues that the state is a phenomenon bound to spring forth should a community gather and collectively formulate a social contract mandating each person fully commit themselves to the betterment of the overall state.\nAcademic theories of both nation and state had concrete implications for Meiji Japan. The centrality of apparatuses of security and governmentality within Foucault’s work is highly applicable to the early Japanese state, which was characterized by a well-developed internal police system and a governmental apparatus that deployed a variety of ideological and social mechanisms in the pursuit of crafting the very Japanese nation-state it claimed to rule. Institutions and traditions were either created wholesale or roughly anchored in the past, all in an effort to solidify the newly established principle of Imperial rule. Additionally, the concept of raison d’Etat explains the frenetic pursuit for recognition by the dominant world powers of nation-state status, an attempt to guarantee survival in an imperialist world order. Bauer’s views on the nation can also be seen within Japan during the Meiji Era. There is a national character with a shared culture, history, and language, which the government conceived of to serve the purpose of the nation-state; strikingly, this ties into Service’s views on chiefdom and leadership, with the subjects of the old Tokugawa shogunate were slowly led to believe they had always been subjects of the Emperor. Furthermore, as the nation-state’s roots began to grow in Japan, Rousseau’s ideas gained relevance as well, especially in the years from 1870-1880 in which a sentiment of optimism and possibility, specifically in the context of democratic, republican government, took hold. Regardless of the degree to which it naturally occurred or which it was explicitly created, multiple theorists would agree that Meiji Japan is an example of the ways in which both nation and state emerge.\n Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, ed. François Ewald et al., trans. Graham Burchell, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 108.\n Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, 286.\n Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, 238.\n Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, 275.\n Otto Bauer, “The Nation,” in Mapping the Nation, ed. Gopal Balakrishnan (London: Verso, 1996), 40.\n Bauer, “The Nation,” 41.\n Bauer, “The Nation,” 46.\n Bauer, “The Nation,” 57.\n Service, Elman. Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1975. 8\n Elman, Origins of the State and Civilization, 8\n Elman, Origins of the State and Civilization, 72\n Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “On Social Contract,” in Rousseau’s Political Writings, ed. Alan Ritter (New York City: WW Norton & Company, 1988), 85.\n Rousseau, “On Social Contract,” 92-93.\n Rousseau, “On Social Contract,” 86.\n Rousseau, “On Social Contract,” 103.\nService, Elman. Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1975.\nService writes his Origins of the State and Civilization as an anthropologist interested in the similarities in the development of archaic civilizations. He argues that most archaic civilizations do not fit the typical definition of the state as posited by thinkers such as Marx and Lenin; a repressive force which coincides with the rise of civilization used to control the masses. He then considers several modern primitive states as case studies : Zulu State, Ankole State in Uganda, Cherokee Indians, Polynesia, Mesoamerica, Peru, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus River Valley, and China, in order to highlight the lack of historical basis for a class-conflict theory of origin of state or civilization. Service posits that the state is born from centralized leadership; chiefdom being the term he uses. For Service, the essential ingredients to “stateness” are the power of force and the power of authority, whether it is legitimized by custom, hierarchy, or law. Through his research of the primitive state he shows that they worked to protect not another class, but the state itself. Service also extends this to the economy as he argues that the primitive systems were redistributive rather than acquisitive. Unlike in Marxist ideology, personal wealth is not a requirement for political power. His approach is helpful in its use of concrete historical examples in distinguishing his definition of the state.\nTagore, Rabindranath. “Nationalism in the West.” Nationalism. New York City: MacMillian Company, 1917. 13-61. Print.\nRabindranath Tagore argues – through a collection of lectures he delivered in the United States as compiled in the book Nationalism – that the nation is a machination designed to propagate its own power and legitimize human greed through artificial competition. Thus, he asserts that the nation is distinctly unnatural creation which subverts the natural, therefore hurting humanity as a whole. Tagore formulates his argument through first defining man’s natural state, that of adapting to the difficulties he faces while still recognizing his status as a human being, thus pushing him to do what is necessary for long-term successes, even if it creates issues for him in the short-term. Man, therefore, must overcome the physical obstacles he faces by organizing power – in essence, power must be consolidated for the goal of defense to facilitate self-growth of the people in that society. Coalescing power in such a manner inherently calls for restrictions, as Tagore describes through his example of a man walking on a gravel road. In this description, Tagore posits that a person walking barefooted on gravel will experience pain but eventually adjust to the situation at hand; walking in shoes, however, prevents the adaptation while providing comfort. The key issue with the latter situation is that the appearance of even a little gravel in the shoe creates great discomfort, and the person is inhospitable to such an intrusion. The nation, in Tagore’s eyes, are these shoes, yet they are extremely tight and prevent no room for the feet to adopt should any gravel manage to enter the shoe – thus systematically destroying human tolerance. The nation is created as a machine for success – it is, as he states, “the object and justification of a machine, while goodness only is the end and purpose of man” – and to do so, it organizes the populace on a mass scale into individual parts of a machine, destroying whatever humanity is present in the system. To Tagore, the nation, in its desire for success, purposefully seeks conflict and conquest, and when it does achieve the latter goal, it subjugates the people it has conquered under a mechanical hand in slowing the growth of the colonized while exploiting it for their own. While possessing a few benefits drawn from its organization, Tagore ultimately paints the nation as a near-evil phase in human history drawn to create a mechanized, inhuman, form of success.\nRousseau, Jean-Jacques. “On Social Contract.” Rousseau’s Political Writings. Ed. and trans. Alan Ritter and Julia Conway Bondanella. New York City: W. W. Norton & Comopany, 1988. 84-173.Print.\nJean-Jacques Rousseau opens his essay, On Social Contract, with the famed line, “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.” This statement asserts that man is inherently bound by the restrictions placed upon him by the bounds of the state that he resides within. Critically, the essay does not merely state that man is lacking liberty under the rule of the state, but it also dissects the reason to why the state form developed in the manner that it did. Rousseau first establishes that man’s fundamental aim is his own preservation and so he develops relationships with other people with that goal in mind. This, to him, is the basis of the most fundamental of societies: the family, which is predicated upon the agreement of father protecting child. The state form, thus is an elaboration of that particular relationship on a much larger scale. Over time, it people could not simply deal with obstacles with just their own strength; indeed, to achieve their goal of self-preservation, they needed to work together. To unite their powers, the partaking members inherently create Rousseau’s titular social contract, in which each individual fully surrenders themselves for the good of the community as a whole. According to Rousseau, since each person gives themselves fully to the community, there is no self-interest in creating an unnecessary burden for others as it will negatively impact themselves. Furthermore, since each person has to give themselves fully to this society in order for it to succeed, they are incapable of having any rights which stand in opposition to the goals of the larger collective as it will undermine the basis of having a multitude of people working together in complete harmony. Since all are equally giving themselves for the benefits of the society, no one stands above others, ensuring all keep their natural freedom in entering the pact. The state, in Rousseau’s interpretation, is the conglomeration of individuals agreeing to give themselves fully in the service of each other in order to achieve their own ultimate goal of self-preservation. The state acts towards the individual much as a father acts towards their child: it provides the protection necessary for survival and in return the individual or child returns with a willing acceptance to fully provide their abilities for the benefit of the larger collective. As such, the legitimized power gives the individual a range of behaviors in which they have their liberty as it will then not undermine the self-protection goal of the state. As the state is a reflection of the general will it is not infallible – it can towards unideal outcomes – but it will ultimately correct itself into what is necessary for the sake of the citizens’ goal of self-protection, and later, the general good of the populace. The liberty of those in the state are ensured by the state being a product of the originally-agreed social contract; an overreach by the state in the restrictions they impose upon its citizens will undermine that contract and consequently undermine the validity of that state’s existence.\nLouis Althusser, Essays on Ideology. London: Verso, 1984.\nLouis Althusser, in his brief collection of essays, attempts to formulate a more complete and exhaustive theory regarding the ways in which the State, and necessarily the conditions of class conflict and repression, are continuously reproduced and reified. Writing firmly within Marxist political theory, Althusser recognizes the fundamental accuracy in the description of the State as a superstructure determined and built upon the infrastructure of production; however, he finds Marx’s 19th century evaluation to be relatively descriptive in nature, without accounting for or explaining the ways and means in which the State, as a “function of State power” dominated by a given ruling class, is able to reproduce the conditions necessary for its continuous supremacy. Indeed, in Althusser’s attempt to go beyond Marx’s description of the superstructure and its relation to the mode of production he argues that the State can only be understood through the fundamental mechanism of ideological reproduction. He delineates two forms in which the State, and therefore the dominant class, is able to secure for itself both its survival and expansion: the Repressive State Apparatus, which encompasses the systems of direct control and coercion, and the Ideological State Apparatuses, which, while less viscerally coercive, are nevertheless the preeminent method for reproducing the social structure allowing the dominant class to maintain its authority. The basic differentiation between the two relies on the devices used in projecting power: while the former relies on violence at its most fundamental level, the Ideological State Apparatuses deploy a plurality of means which function by fashioning and inculcating the ideological prescriptions of the given regime. Notably, in contrast to State power, which is the focal point upon which all political conflict revolves around, State apparatuses continue to exist regardless of a change in the political order; they are the indoctrinating forces that allow for the continual reproduction of the social topography of a given superstructure, regardless of the form of government specified. The concept of Ideological State Apparatuses and the centrality of system reproduction in Althusser’s work serves as a prism through which to view and understand the practices and mechanisms deployed by the Meiji state in the early years of its existence; from the education system to the media, cultural practices to spiritual exercises, the government sought to perpetuate itself through ideological indoctrination and revitalization.\nHobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.\nIn E. J. Hobsbawm’s exploration into the nature and history of nations and national sentiment, he underscores the constant ambiguity and opaqueness surrounding both their definition and constitution. Nations, Hobsbawm argues, are both a novel historical phenomenon and the product of conscious construction by certain individuals and groups; however, the very concept of the nation needed to be determined before this development could occur. Historically, Hobsbawm writes, the philology of the nation was explicit in its connection with one’s local province or region, without any of the contemporary definitions that hold it synonymous with the population of a given state. The slow construction of whom or what constituted a nation, then, was fraught with political conflict in a manner unique to the social-Darwinism of 19th century Europe; as nations slowly became the building blocks necessary for a community’s survival in the international arena, the definition and granting of nationhood status became ever more an exercise in power-politics. Hobsbawm argues that, despite intellectual debates concerning the characteristics necessary for a people to be classified as a nation, in reality only three factors were determinate: a historic association with an already existing state, or one with a substantial history; the existence of an established cultural elite possessing a written literary and administrative vernacular; and, in keeping with realpolitik of the era, the proven capacity for conquest. He maintains that social Darwinist thinking shaped 19th century liberalism’s political theories and placed the newfangled concept of “nation” within that intellectual arena, attaching to the nation not just a valuation as a political entity or instrument, but as the manifestation of social evolution; those peoples who failed to attain nation status were considered developmentally stagnant, and were almost invariably subsumed and assimilated into newly dominant nation-states. As a historical argument, the emphasis Hobsbawm places on 19th century liberalism’s adoption of social Darwinism as the dominant evolutionary theory for explaining the rise of nation-states allows for a more nuanced appreciation of the Meiji government’s frenetic fixation on having Japan recognized as such; it was a strategy for survival in a newly formulated and established world order.\nMichel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population. Edited by François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; translated by Graham Burchell. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.\nMichel Foucault’s 1977-78 lectures at the Collège de France revolve around the question and subject of governmentality. Governmentality, Foucault argues, is a historically specific phenomenon that arose concurrently with the recognition that the population as a mass, as a cohesive entity, was a subject to be acted upon by the state; whereas former conceptions of state power focused on the regulation of individual conduct, governmentality delineates the complex systems of knowledge and apparatuses of security which the state utilizes when managing the population as a unit. However the state, Foucault claims, is also itself an episode of governmentality, existing as a device for projecting power in the most rational and effective way possible, and this rationality cuts to the core of what Foucault believes to be the genesis of the historically modern state structure; much as the population needed to first be recognized as a locus of observation and a body to be operated upon, the state necessarily had to undergo its own process of self-reflection, of becoming an object of knowledge and analysis. This, Foucault maintains, is the process behind the rise of raison d’État, which fused the need for self-awareness by the state qua state with its existence as an apparatus of knowledge concerning the population. The discovery of the need for raison d’État in the mid-17th century is, Foucault contends, one of the motivating factors for the creation of the state as a mode of governmentality, with the state serving as both a schema of intelligibility for reality and the objective of governmental reason; it is at once both the subject and the object of raison d’État. Within the context of Meiji Japan, it’s Foucault’s conception of governmentality provides a framework in which to view the active state building of the nascent Meiji government, and the ways and means in which it deployed apparatuses of security to protect and perpetuate itself.\nBauer, Otto. “The Nation.” In Mapping the Nation, edited by Gopal Balakrishnan, 39-77. London: Verso, 1996.\nIn his essay, “The Nation,” Otto Bauer ultimately defines the relationship between the nation and the state, but does so by first constructing what composes the nation. Bauer lays out several key characteristics of the nation that he later elaborates on: national character, national communities, capitalism, socialism, and language. Bauer defines national character as the physical and mental differences between one nation and another and is the product of a nation’s history. National character serves as the umbrella term for the various “communities” that Bauer brings into play. Nations are cultural communities because of the culture and tradition they preserve. Nations are communities of destiny as they bind people together who share a common struggle. Nations are communities of character that house various social classes. The nation is a composition of all these various communities that is then established by capitalism, socialism, and language. With capitalism came industry, and industry pulled families off their farms and into cities for work. Within cities, through labor and education, a uniform culture and language is created amongst the people of a nation. That uniform language is then a permanent bond between the people. Bauer is clear to state that language on its own does not make a nation, but when working in tandem with the other elements he describes, solidifies national character. Since the forces of capitalism go unnoticed by the people, Bauer claims, socialism is required for the nation to become autonomous. Capitalism drives the nation of the level of the individual, whereas socialism brings individuals together to drive the nation as a whole. Bauer then explains how the nation-state model was sought to prevent foreign rule, as one could be governed by an alien state but not an alien nation. The ever-growing nature of capitalism also called for a large state to provide for it, so European nations quickly embraced the state. Bauer calls the state an artificial product and the nation a natural model that lives inside one, and claims that it is the state’s role to bind the nation politically.\nHabermas, Jürgen. “The European Nation-state–Its Achievements and Its Limits. On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship.” In Mapping the Nation, edited by Gopal Balakrishnan, 281-294. London: Verso, 1996.\n“The European Nation-state–Its Achievements and Its Limits. On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship” is ultimately Habermas’ beliefs on the place of nation-states and national citizenship in the era of globalization. But to reach the conclusions he makes, Habermas lays out what he believes to compose the nation, state, and nation-state. Like other theorists, Habermas describes the nation to be what is created or imagined by the likes of historians and writers, pulled from a shared history and culture of a certain people, and the state to be the political construct created by lawyers and diplomats. The nation can be traced back to feudal Europe, where a common people were bound by common language and history under the ruling class, known as the Adelsnation (nation of nobility). This eventually transformed into the Volksnation (nation of the people) with movements fueled by the educated urban middle-class to bring more power to the people. The state came into play as a way of secularizing the nation given the issues that religion and divine legitimation were beginning to present. The nation-state came about from the combination of the modern nation and modern state Habermas presents. The nation-state works because the nation and state rely on each other; state administrations require taxes, but markets require laws and regulations. The nation provides the spirit of unity and citizenship, while the state makes it legal. The state provides the structure and the nation provides the substance.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "(StatePoint) Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America --and the older you are, the more likely you are to be diagnosed with this serious disease.\n“There is good news for those who want to take control of their risk,” says Dan Zenka, Senior Vice President of Communication at the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF). “Recent research shows that eating right can help decrease the chance of developing prostate cancer, reduce the likelihood of recurrence and slow the progression of the disease.”\nHere are 10 nutrition tips for men to stay healthy as they age:\n• Avoid “empty” calories by eliminating junk food. Snack on fruits, vegetables and nuts instead. Swap out soda and opt for water or natural juices.\n• Rely on herbs, spices and garlic for flavor, not sugar, salt and fat.\n• While fat is a necessary component of a healthy diet, limit the amount you consume from red meat and dairy. Avocados, olives, nuts, seeds and tofu are healthy sources of fat. Trans fatty acids found in margarine, however, should be avoided.\n• Avoid taking more than 1,500 mg of calcium per day. Skip the supplements and consume your calcium from leafy green vegetables, beans and fish.\n• Eat more fish. Evidence from several studies suggests that fish can help protect against prostate cancer because they contain “good fat,” particularly omega-3 fatty acids.\n• A lack of vegetables in the diet is a risk factor for aggressive prostate cancer. Vegetables in the broccoli-family are especially beneficial. Use olive oil for cooking for a maximum health benefit.\n• Avoid over-supplementation with megavitamins. Too many vitamins, especially folate, may “fuel the cancer,” and while a multivitamin is not likely to be harmful, if you follow a healthy diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, and healthy oils, you likely won’t even need a multivitamin.\n• Marinate meat and turn it frequently to prevent charring. Charred meat of any type can produce carcinogens. Alternatively, get your protein from vegetarian sources.\n• No matter how sound your diet is, regular exercise is its perfect pair. Recent research has suggested that exercise may be one of the best natural antioxidants, eliminating inflammatory molecules that drive cancer.\n• While eating well and exercising may make a difference in the long run, it doesn’t always eliminate your risk of having prostate cancer. Start talking to your doctor about your prostate health and remember to get a prostate screening during your annual physical.\nWhile cutting out your favorite foods may seem tough at first, there are delicious ways to enjoy foods that are good for you. For recipe ideas, visit www.pcf.org/nutrition.\nNutrition and wellness go hand-in-hand. Taking control of what you put into your body is a great first step toward reducing your risk for prostate cancer and other dangerous diseases.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Do heat pumps work in really hot weather?\nThough more commonly associated with heating in the winter, heat pumps are an excellent cooling option in the summer. Even in humid climates like ours, heat pumps perform well and can keep your home comfortable all season long.\nHeat pumps do not operate as efficiently when temperatures drop to between 25 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit for most systems. A heat pump works best when the temperature is above 40. Once outdoor temperatures drop to 40 degrees, heat pumps start losing efficiency, and they consume more energy to do their jobs.\nHigh temperature heat pumps can achieve operating temperatures of between 60-80°C, the same high temperatures usually associated with boilers. You may not need to install new insulation or radiators to have a high temperature heat pump installed, however, they don't tend to have the same efficiency as boilers.\nIn the summer months, a heat pump works just like a standard air conditioner would. Standard air conditioners, use a refrigerant to absorb unwanted heat in your home and transfer it to the air outside. This happens by changing the pressure of the refrigerant fluid.\nOur answer? It all depends on the outside temperature. If it's really cold or really hot (below 30° F and above 100° F), there is likely nothing wrong with your heat pump.\nAir source heat pumps can experience issues such as icing in cold temperatures, which can ultimately damage the system. Although modern heat pumps do often have automatic defrosting. Their efficiency will also be lower at very cold temperatures, and use more electricity during those cold days.\nThe ideal heat pump effective operating temperature for cooling is 20 degrees lower than the outdoor temperature. To maximize heat pump cooling efficiency in the summer, you should never set your heat pump temperature higher than 80 degrees Fahrenheit, which is sufficient on the hottest days of 100-degree weather.\nHT heat pumps have been designed to operate at 80 degrees and so can heat standard radiators. Other advanced heat pumps operate up to 65 degrees and are also good candidates for existing heating systems.\nOne of the most popular questions we hear is, “do heat pumps use a lot of electricity?” We are delighted to answer that they do not. Compared to more traditional methods of heating, ductless heat pumps are much more energy-efficient, which means they have less impact on your utility bills.\nFrom a strictly scientific basis, heat pumps are technically more energy efficient in that they can transfer more energy than they use. By contrast, a high efficiency natural gas furnace like the Carrier Infinity 98 with Greenspeed® Intelligence can provide up to 98.5% efficiency (AFUE).\nShould I leave my heat pump on all the time?\nWhile heat pumps are the most cost effective way to use electricity to heat your home during the cooler months, leaving them running day and night is not economically efficient. According to Energywise, you should switch off your heat pump when you don't need it. This is to avoid excessive energy waste.\nGenerally speaking, a heat pump will produce air that is about 55 degrees warmer than the outside air. This isn't a problem when it's 55 degrees outside—your system will expel air that's a toasty warm 110 degrees or so.\nMost air conditioning systems are designed to function with outside temperatures of 100 degrees or less. When temperatures outside become higher than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the air conditioning system can consume more energy and begin to malfunction or fail.\nNo, you don't want to shut down your heat pump for the summer—because the heat pump is also your air conditioner. When the warm weather starts, you'll simply switch the heat pump into cooling mode and it will continue to work like it always does, except now it's moving heat out of your house rather than inside it.\nHeat Pumps are Ideal for Las Vegas' Climate\nNot only does this make heat pump repair and maintenance more convenient, but they can even be more efficient—especially in winter.\nHeat pumps work especially well in areas like High Desert where winter temperatures are not below -10F (-23C).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Patent rights (if granted) generally last for 20 years from the date a patent application is filed and, unlike copyrights, patent rights must be awarded by a national organization such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.\nThere are three types of patents in the United States:\n– Utility patents cover new and useful processes, machines, articles of manufacture, or compositions of matter. They also include improvements to existing processes, machines, articles of manufacture, or compositions of matter.\n– Design patents cover new, original, and ornamental designs for an article of manufacture.\n– Plant patents cover new plant varieties.\nApplying for patent protection before publishing research is ideal. Public disclosure can inhibit the ability to patent an invention. It is always best to contact the TTIC before publishing in order to determine if a patent application should be filed in advance of publication.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In this guest post, Bob Gwynne, Associate Curator at the National Railway Museum, takes a look behind the scenes at some essential conservation work.\nWhen the National Railway Museum expanded into York’s former diesel depot and created The Works, it developed a number of new approaches and displays that helped it win the prestigious European Museum of the Year award in 2001. These included a workshop, balcony viewing area and The Warehouse, the country’s first museum store open to the public seven days a week.\nOn the Works Balcony there was space to put signalling centre stage for the first time, with a direct link to the York IECC (the main signal control centre for York) as well as a demonstration known as NRM Central, a mock-up of a signal box complete with a real Midland Railway tumbler lever frame. The lever frame and instruments were linked to a computer, allowing the frame to be worked in a way that demonstrated how a train would be signalled past a signal box on the ‘big railway’.\nHowever, it soon turned out that the sequence, which was carefully accurate, took longer than many people were prepared to wait. Even those happy to give it a go found themselves interrupted as others tried to operate levers that could not be moved out of sequence – as in real life. This wore parts on the lever frame and so the decision was taken to leave the demonstration open to view, but behind a small fence to remove the temptation to pull on levers. Today NRM Central is part of the monthly set of demonstrations delivered by our skilled Lancashire and Yorkshire Signalling School volunteers. On the second Saturday of every month, interested visitors can have a go at working NRM Central and learn more about how signal boxes and signalmen and women ensure that trains runs safely. Instruction is given by volunteers who are highly knowledgeable about the way a signal box safely signals trains and a certificate is awarded to all who stay the course.\nUnfortunately, when NRM Central was on open display it suffered some damage from visitors who had hung on the levers or held children up to have a go. Some parts were worn to the point where our L&Y volunteers knew there were certain movements possible with the frame that should not have been – and which would have been instantly reported and quickly fixed had they been out on the real railway. However, fixing a signal box mechanism is something that skilled signalmen never do, a division of responsibilities which exists for good reason.\nEnter, then, our good friends the Network Rail locking team, who were interested in refurbishing the lever frame so that it worked correctly as a training exercise. The fact that the frame was in a warm, dry and very accessible location, with a good café close by, was naturally a bonus.\nIn December 2016, when the museum is at its quietest, the team descended on York from the four points of the compass to work on refurbishing and repairing the core of NRM Central. They swiftly discovered that the 12 levers had not had maintenance prior to being fitted in the museum display, and located the wear that needed repair. They also quickly noted that there ought to have been at least two more levers for the track layout as it was displayed, particularly given the crossover connecting the two lines on the signal diagram.\nThe frame had been selected while The Works was under development because the locking – the means by which you can only move the levers in the correct sequence – is above the floor and behind the levers on a Midland ‘tumbler’ frame, rather than in a separate floor below the levers. Putting the locking in a separate space below the main signalling floor is a useful way of separating out responsibilities and the approach to maintenance. This of course gives signal boxes their traditional appearance as two storey buildings, but would not work in a first floor gallery display.\nThe Network Rail locking team were happy to repair NRM Central as it was, but told us that had it been one of their projects, there would have been serious work to make it absolutely fit for purpose. Their encyclopaedic knowledge of mechanical signalling meant they had encountered the rare form of lever frame fitted to NRM Central before, and knew of examples still in use on the routes once run by the Midland Railway.\nEventually they were able to sign off the frame as repaired, but only after the head of the section had tested their work himself. Thanks to the team, NRM Central is now up and running with no incorrect moves possible. The invitation has been extended for the team to come and test their knowledge of signalling operations sometime on the antique (but accurate in every detail) model that is the L&Y Signalling school.\nToday the UK has over 400 mechanical signal boxes, and the locking team encounters many different issues as they travel the country making sure these essential parts of the rail infrastructure continue to deliver a safe railway. The long-term plan is to centralise control of railway signalling into just 12 rail operating centres (ROCs), but this work will not be completed in the near future. In the meantime, the locking team keeps the country’s aged – but tried, tested and very robust – mechanical signalling system going.\nIf you would like to see the L&Y Signalling School in action, you can find further information here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A ban on gutkha, the popular chewing tobacco held responsible for the high incidence of oral cancer in India, is spreading across the populous country. Numerous courts are now supporting the movement.\nTobacco has been chewed in India for centuries and in the past decade, gutkha has emerged as the chewing tobacco of choice.\nReady-packaged in small sachets, gutkha is a commercially produced mixture of crushed areca nut, tobacco, lime, paraffin and other \"secret\" ingredients. Some brands also contain lead, arsenic, chromium, nickel and cadmium.\nBecause of its sweet or chocolate-like flavor and dirt-cheap prices - as low as 2 euro cents per sachet - gutkha has become increasingly popular among children who chew and even eat it.\nMore chew than smoke\nIn fact, five million Indian children are already addicted to gutkha, with another 5,000 joining their ranks everyday, according to an Indian Health Ministry report. Many try it for the first time as early as age five.\nOverall, more tobacco is chewed than smoked in India. Last year, the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) reported that 26 percent of adult Indians were tobacco chewers while 14 percents were smokers. One-third of Indian men and one-fifth of women users were addicted to chewing tobacco, most of them to gutkha, according to survey.\nTo make its shelf-life longer, some producers add magnesium carbonate, which is used in fire extinguishers and is also a known carcinogen.\nAmong more than 3,000 chemical components found in the tobacco products, including gutkha, at least 28 were proved to be carcinogenic, according to oncologist Sharadwat Mukherjee.\nA cause of cancer and other diseases\n\"Every year, more than 80,000 cases of oral cancer are reported in India and rising use of gutkha is the key reason behind the spurt of the disease,\" Mukherjee told DW. \"More than 90 percent of oral cancer cases are directly associated with the use of tobacco and India has the highest prevalence of oral cancer globally - even 12 to 13-year-old children are getting pre-cancerous growths in their mouth after two or three years of chewing it.\"\nMukherjee added that gutkha was also triggering a host of other cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and even psychological diseases.\nWhen the chewing tobacco was introduced to the market in the 1990s, its producers said it was a palate cleanser or mouth freshener. The product was also identified as a foodstuff.\nIn August 2011, India's Food Safety and Standard Authority issued a regulation banning nicotine or tobacco in foodstuffs, including gutkha.\nSeveral medical experts and non-government organizations have mounted a country-wide campaign lobbying for a blanket ban on the manufacture and sale of gutkha across the country.\nCalls for nation-wide ban\nIn April 2011 Madhya Pradesh became the first Indian state to ban gutkha. With the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha joining the ban earlier this month, the manufacture and sale of the chewing tobacco has now been prohibited in 17 of India's 28 states and three of the seven union territories (UTs), including New Delhi.\nAnti-gutkha activist dentist Debjit Ray told DW that although the tobacco product was banned in Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha, it was still being sold secretly in all three states. He said the product was smuggled from the adjacent West Bengal state, where it was still legal.\n\"A ban in only part of the country is of no help at all; all states and UTs where gutkha is not yet banned should cooperate and ban it immediately,\" said Ray, who is based in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. \"Gutkha chewers spit just everywhere and spread many infectious diseases. Gutkha stains make public places look awfully ugly.\"\nAnti-gutkha activists in West Bengal have long demanded a ban on the chewing tobacco but the state government has yet to act. Earlier this month, they took their demand to the High Court in Kolkata, which last week criticized the West Bengal government for not banning the product.\nThe state, according to the court, is more eager in generating revenue from the sale of gutkha than in ending the health risks it causes thousands of people.\n\"We hope the court will order the government to immediately ban gutkha in the state at the hearing next month,\" said Ray.\nAlthough gutkha sachets display a warning that the product causes cancer, most people ignore the health risks, according to the dentist. \"Unless gutkha is banned and actually made unavailable in the market across the whole country,\" he said, \"you cannot stop people from chewing it.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Why should I care about Earth Day & Climate Change?\nCaring for the ENVIRONMENT and PEOPLE can seemingly appear as two separate principles, however, they are strongly interconnected. No matter where you come from, it’s undeniable that you or someone you know has experienced hardship resulting from climate change. In the United States alone there have been record-breaking wildfires raging in the West, major storms and flooding in the South, drought in the Midwest, and extreme weather conditions that endanger vulnerable populations. That’s why we believe that caring for the planet ultimately means caring for people.\nEarth Day & Climate Change\nChances are you’ve probably heard the phrases “Earth Day”, “climate change” or “global warming” through social media, the news, or maybe conversations amongst friends. But what is climate change, why is it important, and why should you care about Earth Day? These are all relevant questions that you may have as we are reaching a critical point in the climate crisis.\nAccording to the UN, climate change refers to “the long-term shift in temperature and weather patterns”. While it is natural for some shifts to occur, human activity has unnaturally expedited this process. One symptom of climate change is global warming in which the temperature of the planet gets warmer thus jeopardizing many ecosystems and forms of life. To combat the impending dangers of climate change, many people and organizations have come together to bring about change and prevent further damage to the earth. In 1970, one such group of American senators and student activists rallied to capitalize on the growing public awareness about pollution and environmental deterioration. Together they organized a large-scale teach-in event that brought national attention to environmental injustices which in turn created the first Earth Day. This marked the beginning of the push for environmental protections on the US national agenda. Since then, Earth Day has expanded to roughly 141 countries and mobilized more than 200 million people.\nWhat can I do?\nThe climate crisis is a substantial issue that requires immediate and extensive action. At times, it may seem like there is little the average person can do, however, we want to challenge that perspective and inspire people to see that any change is still progress. In honor of Earth Month, we’re offering easy tips on how to incorporate earth-friendly practices into your everyday life.\nReusable Swaps - bottles, coffee cups, straws, grocery bags, produce bags…\nMeatless Mondays (or any other day of the week) - Introducing meals without meat and plant-based foods into your diet offers great health benefits and helps reduce your overall carbon footprint. There are tons of delicious recipes to choose from that you may not have even thought of.\nRepurpose Leftovers - Getting creative with leftovers can help divert food waste and can also be a means to save time and money.\nGo Paperless - Many businesses and services are offering paperless options that make it easy to reduce paper waste.\nTurn off appliances and lights when not in use\nTurn off the tap when not in use - Don’t leave the water running when brushing your teeth, or washing your face, your water bill will thank you.\nLiving an environmentally conscious lifestyle can take many shapes and forms, whether you are hoping to reduce waste, your carbon footprint, or both, we hope you took away some helpful information to get started on your sustainable journey or continue it. Tackling climate change is a big task that can intimidate anyone; however, we believe that with collective effort and action we can all contribute to a healthier and greener future.\nHappy Earth Month,", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I love botany. I like to dabble in growing different types of plants and analyzing their growth patterns. I’m certainly no expert, but it always surprises me just how much I can learn from simply trying to grow a certain type of plant.\nMy knowledge of plants only stems from empirical data that I collect and analyze myself so I can, in no way, hold a candle to the knowledge of people who study and apply the science of botany for a living. For instance, there are always breakthroughs in the realm of using different plants for practical purposes that range anywhere from environmental benefits to renewable energy. It’s truly remarkable how much potential there is in plant science. I have no doubt that major breakthroughs in plant science will shape the near future for of all of humankind.\nNow, that may be a little too grandiose, so let’s look at something that’s a little more down to earth. One of those breakthroughs (some wouldn’t call it a breakthrough so much as a very innovative use of a plant) is Arvegenix. Arvegenix uses pennycress to fill in the holes of a crop cycles and give farmers an extra crop to grow in between harvests.\n“Arvegenix is the industry leader in the development of field pennycress (thlaspi arvense L.) as a significant new crop for the corn-soy growing regions of the world,\" their website claims. \"Pennycress will grow over winter between the corn-soy rotation thereby providing growers with an additional revenue crop.”\nThere are benefits in terms of renewable fuel: “Pennycress oil has ideal properties for use in biodiesel and aviation fuel.” There are benefits in terms of feeding animals: “Pennycress meal has an excellent nutritional profile for ruminant livestock.” Also, environmental and social issues: “Pennycress is not a food crop and will not compete for food crop acres because it grows and matures over winter. It also provides ecological winter cover crop benefits by protecting the soil from erosion, preventing the loss of nitrogen to the water systems, and helping hold nutrients and residues to improve soil productivity.”\nHere is a little bit of the science that defines the plant pennycress:\n“Field pennycress is a winter annual belonging to the brassica (mustard) family. Pennycress seeds typically contain 36% oil content, roughly twice the level as a soybean. Pennycress has been examined and researched by the USDA and a number of academics over the years, from around the world. However, Arvegenix is the first entity to invest in an ambitious breeding and genomics program to domesticate the wild strains of pennycress into a viable commercial crop. The breeding and genomic research underway will generate commercial lines that emerge consistently, produce high yields, dry down consistently, and contain oil and meal properties following crushing that are ideal for commercial biofuels and animal feed.”\nIt’s not exactly a problem because farmers have dealt with the reality for centuries, but it’s still nice to not have a large lull in the off-season when it comes to growing crops. What I mean by this is that most farmers have to do all their growing in the spring and summer, and they have to make sure that the harvest they yield makes enough profit to last them for the next year. Of course, many farmers still turn a profit in the off-season by other means, but it’s is nowhere near what they earn after they harvest their main crops. This cultivation of the pennycress plant allows farmers to grow it over the winter and sell it, not to eat, but to use for fuel and soil maintenance.\nEven the way that they plant this crop stands out as efficient: they use aerial seeding to plant pennycress by dropping it from a plane.\n“This 15 acre field in Missouri was aerially seeded on September 18. Emergence has been excellent due to timely planting and good rainfalls that followed.”\nAny farmer willing to embrace Arvegenix is sure to greatly benefit from it. All it takes is a bit of innovation and creative thinking to come up with an idea like this.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When you think of butterflies, more than likely you imagine flying insects with brightly coloured wings. The patterns found on the wings vary from species to species, however, in all cases they are symmetrical. Typically, the male and female butterfly of a species have different colouring, much like you would see in birds. Most butterflies have different colouring on either side of their wings. The facing side (recto) tends to be the more vibrant of the two sides, used to warn predators that they are poisonous. When in danger they fold up their wings and hide behind their duller side (verso) which provides camouflage.\nAlthough it is very rare, a single butterfly can be half female and half male. This condition is known as gynandromorphy – where cells fail to split their sex chromosomes during development. This results in a butterfly that is literally one half male colouring and one half female colouring. This phenomena occurs mostly in the insect world but also affects birds and crustaceans. Shown here is the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly – the yellow side is male and the darker side is female.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Let’s Talk About Super Special Kids & Cake Podcast [Episode 002 / Segment: Eating Cake for Breakfast]\nToday, it’s bath time that I’m appreciating! What I really love about bath time is that it is a simple environment: just water and a few toys; but it can be so rich in language between parent and child. Simple things like describing the water as ‘wet’ or saying the colour of your child’s toy is an effortless way to promote language without making your child feel like even bath time is a lesson.\nWhy Routines for Children are Important to Learning\nYou can ask your child to ‘wash’ and they may reach for a sponge, or wipe themselves with it – thus learning all about word association and that certain words go with certain actions. Bath time, as with all other regular things that we do within our day (our routine) can be used as a context for teaching language and promoting cognitive learning. I love moments like bath time or story time just before bed as these routines are great opportunities for learning, having fun and interacting.\nThe other great thing about these fun activities with our child is that we don’t need to try and make extra time in the day to do them – they’re already embedded in our daily routine. So the next time you’re doing a mundane task in the day with your child; like grocery shopping or lunch time, try to make it as enjoyable as possible. It’ll make the day a little brighter for you too!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "All the file operations have to be performed using java.io.* package. You have already learnt various file operations. In this section, you will learn how to update the text file.\nDescription of code:\nWe have used FileReader and BufferedReader class to read the content from the file and stored it into the StringBuffer. Now to edit the file, we have used the indexOf() method to search the specified text from the buffer and then using the replace() method , we have modified the specified content with the new one. This buffered string is then write into the file using FileWriter and BufferedWriter class.\nStringBuffer- This class is used to store strings that can be changed.\nreadLine() method- This method of BufferedReader class read the line from the file.\nwrite() method- This method of BufferedWriter class writes the content into the file.\nappend() method- This method of StringBuffer class appends the string to the StringBuffer.\nindexOf(String s) method- This method of StringBuffer returns the index of the specified string.\nreplace() method- This method of StringBuffer class replaces the characters in a substring with characters in the specified String.\nContent of text file: new.txt:\n|Hello World, All glitters are not gold.|\nHere is the code:\nPosted on: April 3, 2006 If you enjoyed this post then why not add us on Google+? Add us to your Circles", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Norse Discovery of America\nby Arthur Middleton Reeves,\nThis is a collection of texts relating to the voyages of the Norse west to America. A thousand years ago, nearly half a millennium before Columbus, the Norse extended their explorations from Iceland and Greenland to the shores of Northeastern North America, and, possibly, beyond.\nThis volume from the Norroena collection contains all known sagas and documentary fragments which relate to this legendary exploration. It also contains analysis of the texts which should be read with a critical eye. While it is now certain that the Norse reached Nova Scotia, the claims in this book that they reached as far south as Boston--not to mention Georgia or South Carolina--are still controversial. There is also tangential discussion of whether the Irish managed to get to America prior to the Norse, an even more contentious assertion.\nRegardless, the texts in this three-part volume open up a window into a vivid era, and give glimpses of religion, society and travel in the period when the Norse were actively exploring the North Atlantic. They contain one of the only detailed descriptions of a pagan women's divination ritual, and deal with the expansion of Christianity from both sides. There are bone-chilling stories of disease, murder and jealousy in the small communities on the leading edge of Viking colonization. Reading these sagas inspires deep understanding of the life and motivations of the Scandinavian sea rovers and respect for their accomplishments in the field of exploration.\n--John Bruno Hare, February 18th, 2004", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Board Games Throughout the Ages: A History\nBoard games are an integral part of our society. They have been around since ancient times and have come a long way in evolving to what they are today. Board games have helped us pass the time, learn skills, develop relationships, and even win prizes (on Sbobet site)! But where did board games originate? What is their history? And how did it all start?\nThere were many ancient board games that originated from the early civilizations such as Egypt, Greece and Rome. These early tabletop games actually became a symbol for status or even nobility in some cases which led to them being kept hidden away and only played by royalty and their social circle. Board game competitions would be held at holidays like Solstice Festival where playwrights would write entire plays based on how well you could play certain board games! The Egyptians also developed an early version of chess but it didn’t become popular until later during medieval times when it turned into what we know now as “chess” (it is believed by historians that chess spread across Europe through the Crusades).\nAbout the same time as chess, another popular board game called “Fox and Geese” also emerged in Europe during medieval times (namely around 1200 AD) which involved trying to help your geese cross a river without being caught by foxes that move one space per turn across the grid until they catch someone. This is considered an early version of checkers but it wasn’t until much later when people realized they could play with more than two players at once! Another example is Mancala which originated from Africa around 700 AD and became popular throughout Asia, Arabia and eventually reached England before becoming known as “Oware” or “Awari”.\nThe history of board games did not stop there! They continued to evolve and become more detailed with different styles, game pieces, boards/grids, multiple players etc.. The Chinese even developed their own version of Mahjong which contained four suits instead of three which led them to create the first deck made up of 52 cards (this became popular during the Tang dynasty). And in England around 1380 AD they created a card game called “Rummy” but it wasn’t until much later when people realized they could combine two decks or add some wildcard jokers that Rummy evolved into what we know today as “Gin” or “Canasta”.\nDuring the 18th century, another popular card game called “Whist” emerged which is believed to be one of the first modern games but it didn’t become extremely popular until much later during Victorian times when Queen Victoria herself played it on a regular basis! Also at around the same time, Pachisi (a cross between Parcheesi and Ludo) began gaining popularity in India where we now know as “Chutes and Ladders” so there you have some examples of how board games evolved over time to what they are today. Many more forms were developed such as: chess-like games like Chinese Chess or Shogi; race car driving simulation games like Grand Prix and Pole Position; strategy-based games like Chess, Stratego and Risk; action/role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons (yes the original roleplaying game was a board game); trivia based quiz games like Trivial Pursuit; or even modern versions of physical puzzles such as “Sudoku” which all began to gain popularity during the Victorian era.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "LONDON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- British researchers say they've identified a gene that may link brain structure -- particularly the thickness of its gray matter -- to intelligence.\nScientists at King's College London have been looking at the cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the human brain known as \"gray matter,\" which plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language and consciousness.\nAlthough previous studies have suggested the thickness of the cerebral cortex closely correlates with intellectual ability, no gene linked to that structural thickness had yet been identified, they said.\nIn the study, DNA samples and MRI scans from 1,583 healthy 14-year-olds showed those who carried a particular gene variant had a thinner cortex in the left cerebral hemisphere, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobes, and performed less well on tests for intellectual ability.\n\"The genetic variation we identified is linked to synaptic plasticity -- how neurons communicate,\" study lead author Sylvane Desrivieres said. \"This may help us understand what happens at a neuronal level in certain forms of intellectual impairments, where the ability of the neurons to communicate effectively is somehow compromised.\"\nShe cautioned against putting too much emphasis on the gene variation in terms of human intellectual performance.\n\"It's important to point out that intelligence is influenced by many genetic and environmental factors,\" she said. \"The gene we identified only explains a tiny proportion of the differences in intellectual ability, so it's by no means a 'gene for intelligence.'\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This week’s focus is on fruit, vegetables, & energy levels. Fruit and veggies contain more fibre than most other food and drinks. Fibre is the indigestible parts of plant foods, including veggies, fruits, grains, beans and legumes.\nThe recipes for this week are perfect for those times when you may not have a whole lot of fresh fruit or vegetables available at home. Sometimes, we need to make compromises and use frozen foods or other ingredients.\nWith the kids scouting out this years hunt we recommend those us with some free time take a look at this weeks recipes to make sure everyone has at least one nutritious meal to balance out the chocolate this Easter. It is our hope to encourage those of us living off chocolate for the next month to put down the Malteaser bunny and pick up a spatula.\nThis week is all about cooking healthy and drool worthy food while keeping in line with your budget. The three recipes here simply prove that healthy food prepared at home does not have to cost big $$$.\nThis week was inspired by cooking healthy homemade alternatives to store bought foods. Food that we eat and see out of the house whether it is the bakery, supermarket or cafe can be created in your own home.\nInspired by all things FRESH and from time to time available here at Foodbank this weeks recipes are sure to wow. From succulent strawberries and pears to sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes we took advantage of the best fresh produce we had on offer.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Apples and pears need an open position, well prepared, well drained soil (pears will stand slightly wetter ground) and a slightly acid soil (pH 5.5-6.5). Plums like similar conditions, but do not appreciate a very acid soil.\nPeaches, nectarines and apricots prefer a slightly alkaline, but not chalky position. Bushes should be planted in the warmest, most sheltered part of the garden, but the best position in most places in Britain is against a warm, south or west-facing wall.\nCherries do not like heavy clays, but do well in a soil with plenty of substance, deep and well drained.\nThe method of planting all fruit trees is similar to that for ornamental trees and bushes (see pages 211-12) and timings are the same. Do be careful not to plant the union between the rootstock and scion (seen as a kink or knob at the base of the trunk) below soil level, as the top part will root and you will lose the dwarfing effect of the rootstock.\nBushes and trees require firm staking and tying, at least in the early years. Fans, cordons and esplaiers must be tied to strong galvanized or plastic-covered vire spaced about 18 in. (450 mm) apart or to fit the trained branches. This wire can either be attached to the wall or fence or to stout posts in the ground, Cordons are usually planted and tied in at an angle of 45°. This angle can be reduced as the bushes grow, to enable you to reach the tops more easily.\nIf you are growing fruit trees and bushes in grass, leave a square of bare earth around the base of the trunks for a year or two until the trees become established.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "With coronavirus disease (COVID-19) currently active in the United States, it is important to establish an understanding of how it spreads. It is also important to educate yourself on steps you can take to help prevent this virus from spreading.\nHow COVID-19 Can Spread\nCOVID-19 spreads from person to person most often. Person-to-person spread can occur:\n- When people are within approximately 6 feet of each other.\n- Through any droplets that exit the nose and mouth during a sneeze or a cough, if these droplets land in the nose or mouth of another person or enter someone’s lungs after being inhaled.\nWhile COVID-19 mainly spreads from person to person, it can also spread via contaminated surfaces. In certain cases, the virus can live on surfaces for days. When a healthy person touches a contaminated surface and then touches their face, nose or mouth, they risk infection.\nWays to Prevent COVID-19 From Spreading\nAvoiding exposure is the most effective way to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. You can limit your contact with the virus using the following tips.\nWash Your Hands\nUse soap and water to wash your hands constantly throughout the day. Make sure to wash your hands for 20 seconds or more. Avoid touching your face if you have not washed your hands recently. If soap and water are not available, use hand sanitizer that consists of at least 60% alcohol.\nPut Distance Between Yourself and Others\nCOVID-19 spreads when people are in close proximity. Therefore, it is important to put distance between yourself and others. It is also important to refrain from contact with others who are sick. If you are sick, stay home unless seeking medical care.\nDisinfect the surfaces in your home that are most frequently touched. This can include tables, handles, phones, keys, light switches, faucets, keyboards, and counters. It is also important to use water and soap to clean any dirty surfaces before disinfecting them.\nCover Your Mouth and Nose\nUse tissues when coughing and sneezing or direct the sneeze or cough into your elbow. Remember to place used tissues in the trash and always wash your hands afterward.\nWear a Mask, If Needed\nIf you are sick, wear a facemask in situations involving other people and while receiving medical care at a healthcare facility. If you are not sick you do not need to wear a facemask unless you are providing care for someone who is sick.\nStay informed with the latest information from healthcare providers and public health authorities. They will provide timely advice on steps that you and members of your community should take for protection.\nStay updated on what Mercy Health is doing related to COVID-19.\nCall our 24/7 COVID-19 Hotline at (888) 700-9011 for questions and guidance.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Author: Vivianne M. Schinasi-Silver\nSynopsis: 42 Keys to the Second Exodus is the memoir of a woman who was a member of the last generation of Jews to have lived in Egypt before the Suez Crisis of 1956.\nIn her story, Viviane M. Schinasi-Silver bears witness to her ancestry, describing the landscape of Jewish life during Egypt’s “golden era” in that community. She recounts her early years as an immigrant in Canada and also pays tribute to the memory of people who have influenced her life.\nPublished in: 2007\nNo. of Pages: 176", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri is a collection of rare ancient manuscripts. These documents were written on various forms of writing material including papyri, ostraca, and wood tablets. This collection is solely compiled of documentary papyri: personal letters, receipts, various political documents, and other correspondence.\nThe Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri gives you access to primary texts in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and several other languages. For more than a century, the discovery of papyri has revolutionized the study of the ancient languages, and shed new light on the history and culture of the ancient world. This database is the result of years of meticulous work to organize scattered materials, and the result is a vast database of documents.\nThis vital corpus of primary source material gives you unprecedented access to the ancient world. Read letters, receipts, political documents, correspondence, and more. Supplement your study with original source materials. Enrich your word studies by comparing word usage between New Testament texts and this collection of papyri.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "About This Project\nThe Mondzish languages are spoken mostly in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, southwestern China. These languages are highly endangered and poorly documented, often lacking even basic descriptions. I plan to finish collecting audio recordings and basic word lists for all Mondzish languages. Since most of these languages have fewer than 500 speakers left, and some have only around 50 elderly speakers remaining, research is highly urgent.\nAsk the ScientistsJoin The Discussion\nWhat is the context of this research?\nThe Mondzish languages were recently identified by Ziwo Lama in 2012 as a new group (clade) of languages. They share a common ancestor with Burmese, and form part of the Lolo-Burmese branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. However, at the time, Lama identified only 2 languages as part of the group.\nSo far, I have identified 6 separate languages in this language group, some of which are new to science and extremely endangered (many with fewer than 500 speakers left). At least a few more Mondzish languages in China still await discovery and identification.\nAccording to Wenshan locals, a few nearby small ethnic groups reportedly speak similar but \"different\" languages, which could possibly be other languages unknown to science. These include \"Meng\" of Lisa village, and \"Mengpu\" of Dagulu.\nWhat is the significance of this project?\nToday, language diversity is highly threatened by globalization and cultural assimilation. In China, language endangerment is especially severe, with ethnic minority languages often not being passed onto people under the age of 30 or 40. Many minority languages in China are so endangered that only a few elderly speakers remain, making language documentation a desperately urgent \"race against time\". Such languages often hold important clues to human prehistory and migration, but may soon die out without ever being known to science.\nFurthermore, some Mondzish languages preserve highly archaic sounds and words. For instance, the Kathu language preserves many rare, archaic sounds such as \"kl\"-, as well as many words that are closer to its common ancestral language, Proto-Tibeto-Burman.\nWhat are the goals of the project?\n- Collection of basic vocabulary word lists (a few hundred items). Audio recordings will be collected and posted online; each word will be repeated by the consultant 3 times.\n- Conduct fieldwork in rural Yunnan, China for one month by hiring local motorbikes and minivans. Springtime (before the rainy season) is optimal.\n- Survey of demographics, such as villages where the language is spoken\n- Identify other little-known ethnic subgroups who may speak languages that are previously unknown to science and undocumented.\n- All data collected from field trips will be open-source and freely shared. Data has been supplied to Glottolog, resulting in cataloging of languages new to science, freely available online (example: the Muangphe language: http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/muan1234 )\nFortunately in China, linguistics research is relatively cheap and can be carried out on a backpacker's budget.\nExcluding airfare and visas, one month of linguistics research in southwestern China is expected to cost around $1,600 USD (10,000 Chinese yuan), which was about what I spent per month during my past self-funded field trips to China. This time, I plan to do research for at 2-3 weeks and spend $1,000. Average costs in rural Yunnan, China are as follows.\n- Budget hotel: 60-100 yuan ($10-$16)\n- Budget meal: 12-15 yuan ($2-$3)\n- Motorcycle-taxi, round-trip: 150 yuan ($25) - only available in some towns\n- Minivan-taxi, round-trip: 200-400 yuan ($30-$65) - available in all towns\n- Bus fare to rural town: 50 yuan ($8)\n- Tips for language consultants: 60 yuan ($10)\nDonate $25 to support half a day of field research\nDonate $50 to support one entire day of field research\nDonate $100 to support 2 or even 3 days of field research\nThank you for helping to save some of the world's most endangered languages!\nMeet the Team\nTeam BioAndrew Hsiu has been documenting little-known but taxonomically important minority languages since 2012, while he was still a linguistics undergraduate student at UC San Diego. He has made 3 successful language documentation field trips to China, and has identified several languages in China that are new to science, including Muangphe, Maza, Ku, Luoji, and others. He has also documented new language varieties in northern Vietnam such as Na Meo of Tuyen Quang, and has performed additional language documentation fieldwork in Thailand, the Philippines, and San Diego, USA.\nAndrew has worked at the Center for Research in Computational (CRCL) in Bangkok, Thailand building comparative databases of Southeast Asian minority languages, and has presented at numerous international academic conferences in Asia and the US. Currently an independent scholar, he is looking forward to continue documenting minority languages in East Asia.\nAndrew Hsiu has been documenting little-known but taxonomically important minority languages since 2012, while he was still a linguistics undergraduate student at UC San Diego. He has made 3 successful language documentation field trips to China, and has identified several languages in China that are new to science, including Muangphe, Maza, Ku, Luoji, and others. He has also documented new language varieties in northern Vietnam such as Na Meo of Tuyen Quang, and has performed additional language documentation fieldwork in Thailand, the Philippines, and San Diego, USA.\nAndrew has presented at numerous international academic conferences in Asia and the US. Currently an independent scholar, he is looking forward to continue documenting minority languages in East Asia.Website:\nPress and MediaThis project builds on the work of other eminent language researchers such as Jamin Pelkey and Jerold Edmondson. Both have discovered new Tibeto-Burman languages in China and Vietnam previously unknown to science.\nJamin Pelkey - Linguists Discover New Tongues in China\nJerold Edmondson - A man of words–and actions\nOne of the last speakers of the Mango language, which is a new language I had discovered in April 2013. Just under 50 fluent speakers remain in 2 small villages. Nearly all fluent are over 50 years old, and the language is not being passed onto young people anymore. Documentation is extremely urgent.\nKathu speakers in Nabi village, Wenshan, China. The Kathu language preserves many highly archaic features (such as the sound kl-) that are found only in a few modern-day languages such as Written Burmese. Only a few thousand speakers in 2 village clusters remain. The speakers below speak a previously dialect of Kathu that was unknown and undocumented before my preliminary documentation in April 2013.\nThe last Wai Gelao in Funing County, Yunnan Province, China who can recall any words in Wai Gelao. She is in her mid-80's. She only remembers several vocabulary words.\nTypical village scene, with a minivan-taxi in the foreground. Minivan-taxis are available for hire at the town centers for $30-$50 (200-300 Chinese yuan) per trip. A one-way trip to a typical field site would take around half an hour if road conditions are good.\nA motorcycle-taxi taking me through the rugged mountainous landscape of Yunnan in 2012. My goal was to find the only woman in China who could still speak Red Gelao.\nA typical field session: The language consultant pronounces words and sentences in his native language as I perform audio recordings using a USB microphone connected to a netbook computer.\nThank you for helping to save some of the world's most endangered languages!\n- $1,000Total Donations\n- $76.92Average Donation", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day\nThe Sixth Edition of Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days\nMore than 250,000 sold!\nIn just one hour a day, you’ll have all the skills you need to begin programming in C++. With this complete tutorial, you’ll quickly master the basics and then move on to more advanced features and concepts:\nMaster the fundamentals of C++ and object-oriented programming\nLearn some of the more advanced features of C++\nLearn the Standard Template Library and the containers and algorithms used in most real-world C++ applications\nLearn how to build effective programs in C++ with hands-on exercises\nGet expert tips on implementing C++ in the corporate environment\nLearn on your own time, at your own pace\nNo previous programming experience required\nLearn C++ and object-oriented design, programming, and analysis\nWrite fast and powerful C++ programs, compile the source code, and create executable files\nUnderstand the latest ANSI standard\nUse the Standard Template Library’s algorithms and containers to write feature-rich yet stable C++ applications\nDevelop sophisticated programming techniques with functions, arrays, variables, and smart pointers\nLearn to expand your program’s power with inheritance and polymorphism\nMaster the features of C++ by learning from programming experts\nWorks with all ANSI C++ compilers\nJesse Liberty is the author of numerous books on software development, including best-selling titles on C++ and .NET. He is the president of Liberty Associates, Inc., where he provides custom programming, consulting, and training.\nSiddhartha Rao, Microsoft MVP for Visual C++, has experience in programming driver and application software using C++. He is an expert in the Windows programming arena and works for a German software giant. He also moderates CodeGuru.com, a vibrant online programming community.\nBradley Jones, Microsoft MVP for Visual C++, runs a number of software development sites including Developer.com, CodeGuru.com, DevX, VBForums, Gamelan, and other JupiterWeb-owned sites.\nUser Level: Beginning–Intermediate\nRegister your book at informit.com/register for access to source code, example files, updates, and corrections as they become available.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits incoherent narrow-spectrum light when electrically biased in the forward direction of the p-n junction.\nSee also LED Lamps\nA light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source. LEDs are used as indicator lamps in many devices, and are increasingly used for lighting. Introduced as a practical electronic component in 1962, early LEDs emitted low-intensity red light, but modern versions are available across the visible, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, with very high brightness.\nThe LED is based on the semiconductor diode. When a diode is forward biased (switched on), electrons are able to recombine with holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of photons. This effect is called electroluminescence and the color of the light (corresponding to the energy of the photon) is determined by the energy gap of the semiconductor. An LED is usually small in area (less than 1 mm2), and integrated optical components are used to shape its radiation pattern and assist in reflection. LEDs present many advantages over incandescent light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved robustness, smaller size, faster switching, and greater durability and reliability. However, they are relatively expensive and require more precise current and heat management than traditional light sources. Current LED products for general lighting are more expensive to buy than fluorescent lamp sources of comparable output.\nThey also enjoy use in applications as diverse as replacements for traditional light sources in automotive lighting (particularly indicators) and in traffic signals. Airbus uses LED lighting in their A320 Enhanced since 2007, and Boeing plans its use in the 787. The compact size of LEDs has allowed new text and video displays and sensors to be developed, while their high switching rates are useful in advanced communications technology.\nElectroluminescence was discovered in 1907 by the British experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs, using a crystal of silicon carbide and a cat's-whisker detector. Russian Oleg Vladimirovich Losev independently reported on the creation of a LED in 1927. His research was distributed in Russian, German and British scientific journals, but no practical use was made of the discovery for several decades. Rubin Braunstein of the Radio Corporation of America reported on infrared emission from gallium arsenide (GaAs) and other semiconductor alloys in 1955. Braunstein observed infrared emission generated by simple diode structures using gallium antimonide (GaSb), GaAs, indium phosphide (InP), and silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloys at room temperature and at 77 kelvins.\nIn 1961, experimenters Robert Biard and Gary Pittman working at Texas Instruments, found that GaAs emitted infrared radiation when electric current was applied and received the patent for the infrared LED.\nThe first practical visible-spectrum (red) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak Jr., while working at General Electric Company. Holonyak is seen as the \"father of the light-emitting diode\". M. George Craford, a former graduate student of Holonyak, invented the first yellow LED and improved the brightness of red and red-orange LEDs by a factor of ten in 1972. In 1976, T.P. Pearsall created the first high-brightness, high efficiency LEDs for optical fiber telecommunications by inventing new semiconductor materials specifically adapted to optical fiber transmission wavelengths.\nUp to 1968 visible and infrared LEDs were extremely costly, on the order of US $200 per unit, and so had little practical application. The Monsanto Company was the first organization to mass-produce visible LEDs, using gallium arsenide phosphide in 1968 to produce red LEDs suitable for indicators. Hewlett Packard (HP) introduced LEDs in 1968, initially using GaAsP supplied by Monsanto. The technology proved to have major applications for alphanumeric displays and was integrated into HP's early handheld calculators. In the 1970s commercially successful LED devices at under five cents each were produced by Fairchild Optoelectronics. These devices employed compound semiconductor chips fabricated with the planar process invented by Dr. Jean Hoerni at Fairchild Semiconductor. The combination of planar processing for chip fabrication and innovative packaging techniques enabled the team at Fairchild led by optoelectronics pioneer Thomas Brandt to achieve the necessary cost reductions. These techniques continue to be used by LED producers.\nThe first commercial LEDs were commonly used as replacements for incandescent and neon indicator lamps, and in seven-segment displays, first in expensive equipment such as laboratory and electronics test equipment, then later in such appliances as TVs, radios, telephones, calculators, and even watches signal applications). These red LEDs were bright enough only for use as indicators, as the light output was not enough to illuminate an area. Later, other colors became widely available and also appeared in appliances and equipment. As the LED materials technology became more advanced, the light output was increased, while maintaining the efficiency and the reliability to an acceptable level. The invention and development of the high power white light LED led to use for illumination. Most LEDs were made in the very common 5 mm T1¾ and 3 mm T1 packages, but with increasing power output, it has become increasingly necessary to shed excess heat in order to maintain reliability, so more complex packages have been adapted for efficient heat dissipation. Packages for state-of-the-art high power LEDs bear little resemblance to early LEDs.\nThe first high-brightness blue LED was demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation and was based on InGaN borrowing on critical developments in GaN nucleation on sapphire substrates and the demonstration of p-type doping of GaN which were developed by Isamu Akasaki and H. Amano in Nagoya. In 1995, Alberto Barbieri at the Cardiff University Laboratory (GB) investigated the efficiency and reliability of high-brightness LEDs and demonstrated a very impressive result by using a transparent contact made of indium tin oxide (ITO) on (AlGaInP/GaAs) LED. The existence of blue LEDs and high efficiency LEDs quickly led to the development of the first white LED, which employed a Y3Al5O12:Ce, or \"YAG\", phosphor coating to mix yellow (down-converted) light with blue to produce light that appears white. Nakamura was awarded the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for his invention.\nThe development of LED technology has caused their efficiency and light output to increase exponentially, with a doubling occurring about every 36 months since the 1960s, in a way similar to Moore's law. The advances are generally attributed to the parallel development of other semiconductor technologies and advances in optics and material science. This trend is normally called Haitz's Law after Dr. Roland Haitz.\nIn February 2008, Bilkent university in Turkey reported 300 lumens of visible light per watt luminous efficacy (not per electrical watt) and warm light by using nanocrystals .\nIn January 2009, researchers from Cambridge University reported a process for growing gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs on silicon. Production costs could be reduced by 90% using six-inch silicon wafers instead of two-inch sapphire wafers. The team was led by Colin Humphreys.\nLike a normal diode, the LED consists of a chip of semiconducting material doped with impurities to create a p-n junction. As in other diodes, current flows easily from the p-side, or anode, to the n-side, or cathode, but not in the reverse direction. Charge-carriers—electrons and holes—flow into the junction from electrodes with different voltages. When an electron meets a hole, it falls into a lower energy level, and releases energy in the form of a photon.\nThe wavelength of the light emitted, and therefore its color, depends on the band gap energy of the materials forming the p-n junction. In silicon or germanium diodes, the electrons and holes recombine by a non-radiative transition which produces no optical emission, because these are indirect band gap materials. The materials used for the LED have a direct band gap with energies corresponding to near-infrared, visible or near-ultraviolet light.\nLED development began with infrared and red devices made with gallium arsenide. Advances in materials science have made possible the production of devices with ever-shorter wavelengths, producing light in a variety of colors.\nLEDs are usually built on an n-type substrate, with an electrode attached to the p-type layer deposited on its surface. P-type substrates, while less common, occur as well. Many commercial LEDs, especially GaN/InGaN, also use sapphire substrate.\nMost materials used for LED production have very high refractive indices. This means that much light will be reflected back in to the material at the material/air surface interface. Therefore Light extraction in LEDs is an important aspect of LED production, subject to much research and development.\nEfficiency and operational parameters\nTypical indicator LEDs are designed to operate with no more than 30–60 milliwatts [mW] of electrical power. Around 1999, Philips Lumileds introduced power LEDs capable of continuous use at one watt [W]. These LEDs used much larger semiconductor die sizes to handle the large power inputs. Also, the semiconductor dies were mounted onto metal slugs to allow for heat removal from the LED die.\nOne of the key advantages of LED-based lighting is its high efficiency, as measured by its light output per unit power input. White LEDs quickly matched and overtook the efficiency of standard incandescent lighting systems. In 2002, Lumileds made five-watt LEDs available with a luminous efficacy of 18–22 lumens per watt [lm/W]. For comparison, a conventional 60–100 W incandescent lightbulb produces around 15 lm/W, and standard fluorescent lights produce up to 100 lm/W. A recurring problem is that efficiency will fall dramatically for increased current. This effect is known as droop and effectively limits the light output of a given LED, increasing heating more than light output for increased current.\nIn September 2003, a new type of blue LED was demonstrated by the company Cree, Inc. to provide 24 mW at 20 milliamperes [mA]. This produced a commercially packaged white light giving 65 lm/W at 20 mA, becoming the brightest white LED commercially available at the time, and more than four times as efficient as standard incandescents. In 2006 they demonstrated a prototype with a record white LED luminous efficacy of 131 lm/W at 20 mA. Also, Seoul Semiconductor has plans for 135 lm/W by 2007 and 145 lm/W by 2008, which would be approaching an order of magnitude improvement over standard incandescents and better even than standard fluorescents. Nichia Corporation has developed a white LED with luminous efficacy of 150 lm/W at a forward current of 20 mA.\nIt should be noted that high-power (≥ 1 W) LEDs are necessary for practical general lighting applications. Typical operating currents for these devices begin at 350 mA. The highest efficiency high-power white LED is claimed by Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. with a luminous efficacy of 115 lm/W (350 mA)\nNote that these efficiencies are for the LED chip only, held at low temperature in a lab. In a lighting application, operating at higher temperature and with drive circuit losses, efficiencies are much lower. United States Department of Energy (DOE) testing of commercial LED lamps designed to replace incandescent lamps or CFLs showed that average efficacy was still about 46 lm/W in 2009 (tested performance ranged from 17 lm/W to 79 lm/W).\nCree issued a press release on November 19, 2008 about a laboratory prototype LED achieving 161 lumens per watt at room temperature. The total output was 173 lumens, and the correlated color temperature was reported to be 4689 K.\nLifetime and failure\nSolid state devices such as LEDs are subject to very limited wear and tear if operated at low currents and at low temperatures. Many of the LEDs produced in the 1970s and 1980s are still in service today. Typical lifetimes quoted are 25,000 to 100,000 hours but heat and current settings can extend or shorten this time significantly.\nThe most common symptom of LED (and diode laser) failure is the gradual lowering of light output and loss of efficiency. Sudden failures, although rare, can occur as well. Early red LEDs were notable for their short lifetime. With the development of high-power LEDs the devices are subjected to higher junction temperatures and higher current densities than traditional devices. This causes stress on the material and may cause early light output degradation. To quantitatively classify lifetime in a standardized manner it has been suggested to use the terms L75 and L50 which is the time it will take a given LED to reach 75% and 50% light output respectively. L50 is equivalent to the half-life of the LED.\nColors and materials\nConventional LEDs are made from a variety of inorganic semiconductor materials, the following table shows the available colors with wavelength range, voltage drop and material:\n||λ > 760\n||ΔV < 1.9\n||Gallium arsenide (GaAs)\nAluminium gallium arsenide (AlGaAs)\n||610 < λ < 760\n||1.63 < ΔV < 2.03\n||Aluminium gallium arsenide (AlGaAs)\nGallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP)\nAluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP)\nGallium(III) phosphide (GaP)\n||590 < λ < 610\n||2.03 < ΔV < 2.10\n||Gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP)\nAluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP)\nGallium(III) phosphide (GaP)\n||570 < λ < 590\n||2.10 < ΔV < 2.18\n||Gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP)\nAluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP)\nGallium(III) phosphide (GaP)\n||500 < λ < 570\n||1.9 < ΔV < 4.0\n||Indium gallium nitride (InGaN) / Gallium(III) nitride (GaN)\nGallium(III) phosphide (GaP)\nAluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP)\nAluminium gallium phosphide (AlGaP)\n||450 < λ < 500\n||2.48 < ΔV < 3.7\n||Zinc selenide (ZnSe)\nIndium gallium nitride (InGaN)\nSilicon carbide (SiC) as substrate\nSilicon (Si) as substrate — (under development)\n||400 < λ < 450\n||2.76 < ΔV < 4.0\n||Indium gallium nitride (InGaN)\n||2.48 < ΔV < 3.7\n||Dual blue/red LEDs,\nblue with red phosphor,\nor white with purple plastic\n||λ < 400\n||3.1 < ΔV < 4.4\n||Diamond (235 nm)\nBoron nitride (215 nm)\nAluminium nitride (AlN) (210 nm)\nAluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN)\nAluminium gallium indium nitride (AlGaInN) — (down to 210 nm)\n||ΔV = 3.5\n||Blue/UV diode with yellow phosphor\nUltraviolet and blue LEDs\nBlue LEDs are based on the wide band gap semiconductors GaN (gallium nitride) and InGaN (indium gallium nitride). They can be added to existing red and green LEDs to produce the impression of white light, though white LEDs today rarely use this principle.\nThe first blue LEDs were made in 1971 by Jacques Pankove (inventor of the gallium nitride LED) at RCA Laboratories. These devices had too little light output to be of much practical use. However, early blue LEDs found use in some low-light applications, such as the high-beam indicators for cars. In the late 1980s, key breakthroughs in GaN epitaxial growth and p-type doping ushered in the modern era of GaN-based optoelectronic devices. Building upon this foundation, in 1993 high brightness blue LEDs were demonstrated.\nBy the late 1990s, blue LEDs had become widely available. They have an active region consisting of one or more InGaN quantum wells sandwiched between thicker layers of GaN, called cladding layers. By varying the relative InN-GaN fraction in the InGaN quantum wells, the light emission can be varied from violet to amber. AlGaN aluminium gallium nitride of varying AlN fraction can be used to manufacture the cladding and quantum well layers for ultraviolet LEDs, but these devices have not yet reached the level of efficiency and technological maturity of the InGaN-GaN blue/green devices. If the active quantum well layers are GaN, as opposed to alloyed InGaN or AlGaN, the device will emit near-ultraviolet light with wavelengths around 350–370 nm. Green LEDs manufactured from the InGaN-GaN system are far more efficient and brighter than green LEDs produced with non-nitride material systems.\nWith nitrides containing aluminium, most often AlGaN and AlGaInN, even shorter wavelengths are achievable. Ultraviolet LEDs in a range of wavelengths are becoming available on the market. Near-UV emitters at wavelengths around 375–395 nm are already cheap and often encountered, for example, as black light lamp replacements for inspection of anti-counterfeiting UV watermarks in some documents and paper currencies. Shorter wavelength diodes, while substantially more expensive, are commercially available for wavelengths down to 247 nm. As the photosensitivity of microorganisms approximately matches the absorption spectrum of DNA, with a peak at about 260 nm, UV LED emitting at 250–270 nm are to be expected in prospective disinfection and sterilization devices. Recent research has shown that commercially available UVA LEDs (365 nm) are already effective disinfection and sterilization devices.\nDeep-UV wavelengths were obtained in laboratories using aluminium nitride (210 nm), boron nitride (215 nm) and diamond (235 nm).\nThere are two primary ways of producing high intensity white-light using LEDs. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors—red, green, and blue—and then mix all the colors to produce white light. The other is to use a phosphor material to convert monochromatic light from a blue or UV LED to broad-spectrum white light, much in the same way a fluorescent light bulb works.\nDue to metamerism, it is possible to have quite different spectra which appear white.\nWhite light can be produced by mixing differently colored light, the most common method is to use red, green and blue (RGB). Hence the method is called multi-colored white LEDs (sometimes referred to as RGB LEDs). Because its mechanism is involved with sophisticated electro-optical design to control the blending and diffusion of different colors, this approach has rarely been used to mass produce white LEDs in the industry. Nevertheless this method is particularly interesting to many researchers and scientists because of the flexibility of mixing different colors. In principle, this mechanism also has higher quantum efficiency in producing white light.\nThere are several types of multi-colored white LEDs: di-, tri-, and tetrachromatic white LEDs. Several key factors that play among these different approaches include color stability, color rendering capability, and luminous efficacy. Often higher efficiency will mean lower color rendering, presenting a trade off between the luminous efficiency and color rendering. For example, the dichromatic white LEDs have the best luminous efficacy (120 lm/W), but the lowest color rendering capability. Conversely, although tetrachromatic white LEDs have excellent color rendering capability, they often have poor luminous efficiency. Trichromatic white LEDs are in between, having both good luminous efficacy (>70 lm/W) and fair color rendering capability.\nWhat multi-color LEDs offer is not merely another solution of producing white light, but is a whole new technique of producing light of different colors. In principle, most perceivable colors can be produced by mixing different amounts of three primary colors, and this makes it possible to produce precise dynamic color control as well. As more effort is devoted to investigating this technique, multi-color LEDs should have profound influence on the fundamental method which we use to produce and control light color. However, before this type of LED can truly play a role on the market, several technical problems need to be solved. These certainly include that this type of LED's emission power decays exponentially with increasing temperature, resulting in a substantial change in color stability. Such problems are not acceptable for industrial usage. Therefore, many new package designs aimed at solving this problem have been proposed and their results are now being reproduced by researchers and scientists.\nThis method involves coating an LED of one color (mostly blue LED made of InGaN) with phosphor of different colors to produce white light, the resultant LEDs are called phosphor-based white LEDs. A fraction of the blue light undergoes the Stokes shift being transformed from shorter wavelengths to longer. Depending on the color of the original LED, phosphors of different colors can be employed. If several phosphor layers of distinct colors are applied, the emitted spectrum is broadened, effectively increasing the color rendering index (CRI) value of a given LED.\nPhosphor based LEDs have a lower efficiency than normal LEDs due to the heat loss from the Stokes shift and also other phosphor-related degradation issues. However, the phosphor method is still the most popular technique for manufacturing high intensity white LEDs. The design and production of a light source or light fixture using a monochrome emitter with phosphor conversion is simpler and cheaper than a complex RGB system, and the majority of high intensity white LEDs presently on the market are manufactured using phosphor light conversion.\nThe greatest barrier to high efficiency is the seemingly unavoidable Stokes energy loss. However, much effort is being spent on optimizing these devices to higher light output and higher operation temperatures. For instance, the efficiency can be increased by adapting better package design or by using a more suitable type of phosphor. Philips Lumileds' patented conformal coating process addresses the issue of varying phosphor thickness, giving the white LEDs a more homogeneous white light. With development ongoing, the efficiency of phosphor based LEDs is generally increased with every new product announcement.\nTechnically the phosphor based white LEDs encapsulate InGaN blue LEDs inside of a phosphor coated epoxy. A common yellow phosphor material is cerium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Ce3+:YAG).\nWhite LEDs can also be made by coating near ultraviolet (NUV) emitting LEDs with a mixture of high efficiency europium-based red and blue emitting phosphors plus green emitting copper and aluminium doped zinc sulfide (ZnS:Cu, Al). This is a method analogous to the way fluorescent lamps work. This method is less efficient than the blue LED with YAG:Ce phosphor, as the Stokes shift is larger and more energy is therefore converted to heat, but yields light with better spectral characteristics, which render color better. Due to the higher radiative output of the ultraviolet LEDs than of the blue ones, both approaches offer comparable brightness. Another concern is that UV light may leak from a malfunctioning light source and cause harm to human eyes or skin.\nOther white LEDs\nAnother method used to produce experimental white light LEDs used no phosphors at all and was based on homoepitaxially grown zinc selenide (ZnSe) on a ZnSe substrate which simultaneously emitted blue light from its active region and yellow light from the substrate.\nOrganic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)\nIf the emitting layer material of the LED is an organic compound, it is known as an organic light emitting diode (OLED). To function as a semiconductor, the organic emitting material must have conjugated pi bonds. The emitting material can be a small organic molecule in a crystalline phase, or a polymer. Polymer materials can be flexible; such LEDs are known as PLEDs or FLEDs.\nCompared with regular LEDs, OLEDs are lighter, and polymer LEDs can have the added benefit of being flexible. Some possible future applications of OLEDs could be:\n- Inexpensive, flexible displays\n- Light sources\n- Wall decorations\n- Luminous cloth\nOLEDs have been used to produce visual displays for portable electronic devices such as cellphones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Larger displays have been demonstrated, but their life expectancy is still far too short (<1,000 hours) to be practical.\nToday, OLEDs operate at substantially lower efficiency than inorganic (crystalline) LEDs.\nQuantum dot LEDs (experimental)\nA new technique developed by Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, involves coating a blue LED with quantum dots that glow white in response to the blue light from the LED. This technique produces a warm, yellowish-white light similar to that produced by incandescent bulbs.\nQuantum dots are semiconductor nanocrystals that possess unique optical properties. Their emission color can be tuned from the visible throughout the infrared spectrum. This allows quantum dot LEDs to create almost any color on the CIE diagram. This provides more color options and better color rendering white LEDs. Quantum dot LEDs are available in the same package types as traditional phosphor based LEDs.\nIn September 2009 Nanoco Group announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with a major Japanese electronics company under which it will design and develop quantum dots for use in light emitting diodes (LEDs) in liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions.\nThe main types of LEDs are miniature, high power devices and custom designs such as alphanumeric or multi-color.\nThese are mostly single-die LEDs used as indicators, and they come in various-sizes from 2 mm to 8 mm, through-hole and surface mount packages. They are usually simple in design, not requiring any separate cooling body. Typical current ratings ranges from around 1 mA to above 20 mA. The small scale sets a natural upper boundary on power consumption due to heat caused by the high current density and need for heat sinking.\nHigh power LEDs\nHigh power LEDs (HPLED) can be driven at currents from hundreds of mA to more than an ampere, compared with the tens of mA for other LEDs. Some can produce over a thousand lumens. Since overheating is destructive, the HPLEDs must be mounted on a heat sink to allow for heat dissipation. If the heat from a HPLED is not removed, the device will burn out in seconds. A single HPLED can often replace an incandescent bulb in a flashlight, or be set in an array to form a powerful LED lamp.\nSome well-known HPLEDs in this category are the Lumileds Rebel Led, Osram Opto Semiconductors Golden Dragon and Cree X-lamp. As of September 2009 some HPLEDs manufactured by Cree Inc. now exceed 105 lm/W (e.g. the XLamp XP-G LED chip emitting Cool White light) and are being sold in lamps intended to replace incandescent, halogen, and even fluorescent style lights as LEDs become more cost competitive.\nLEDs have been developed by Seoul Semiconductor that can operate on AC power without the need for a DC converter. For each half cycle part of the LED emits light and part is dark, and this is reversed during the next half cycle. The efficacy of this type of HPLED is typically 40 lm/W. A large number of LED elements in series may be able to operate directly from line voltage. In 2009 Seoul Semiconductor released a high DC voltage capable of being driven from AC power with a simple controlling circuit. The low power dissipation of these LED afford them to be use used more flexibly than the original AC LED.\nSuperflux is the trademarked name for a series of medium power through-hole mounted LEDs of a particular shape manufactured by Lumileds. They consist of a square package, with the internal diode mounted to four leads (two cathode leads, two anode leads) for better heat conduction and an integrated dome lens. This package is now often called a Piranha package, since the Superflux name is trademarked. The most common use of these LEDs are light panels, emergency lighting and automotive LED tail-light lighting (though they have recently been superseded by SnapLEDs in many automotive applications). These wide angle LEDs provide large areas of light and a wide viewing angle in a small compact diode. Additionally, due to the larger amount of metal in the LED, they are able to handle higher currents (up to 70mA). The higher current allows for the much higher light output required for tail-lights and emergency lighting.\n- Flashing LEDs are used as attention seeking indicators without requiring external electronics. Flashing LEDs resemble standard LEDs but they contain an integrated multivibrator circuit which causes the LED to flash with a typical period of one second. In diffused lens LEDs this is visible as a small black dot. Most flashing LEDs emit light of a single color, but more sophisticated devices can flash between multiple colors and even fade through a color sequence using RGB color mixing.\n- Bi-color LEDs are actually two different LEDs in one case. They consist of two dies connected to the same two leads antiparallel to each other. Current flow in one direction produces one color, and current in the opposite direction produces the other color. Alternating the two colors with sufficient frequency causes the appearance of a blended third color. For example, a red/green LED operated in this fashion will color blend to produce a yellow appearance.\n- Tri-color LEDs are two LEDs in one case, but the two LEDs are connected to separate leads so that the two LEDs can be controlled independently and lit simultaneously. A three-lead arrangement is typical with one common lead (anode or cathode).\n- RGB LEDs contain red, green and blue emitters, generally using a four-wire connection with one common lead (anode or cathode). These LEDs can have either common positive or common negative leads. Others however, have only two leads (positive and negative) and have a built in tiny electronic control unit.\n- Alphanumeric LED displays are available in seven-segment and starburst format. Seven-segment displays handle all numbers and a limited set of letters. Starburst displays can display all letters. Seven-segment LED displays were in widespread use in the 1970s and 1980s, but increasing use of liquid crystal displays, with their lower power consumption and greater display flexibility, has reduced the popularity of numeric and alphanumeric LED displays.\nConsiderations for use\nThe current/voltage characteristic of an LED is similar to other diodes, in that the current is dependent exponentially on the voltage. This means that a small change in voltage can lead to a large change in current. If the maximum voltage rating is exceeded by a small amount the current rating may be exceeded by a large amount, potentially damaging or destroying the LED. The typical solution is therefore to use constant current power supplies, or driving the LED at a voltage much below the maximum rating. Since most household power sources (batteries, mains) are not constant current sources, most LED fixtures must include a power converter. However, the I/V curve of nitride-based LEDs is quite steep above the knee and gives an If of a few milliamperes at a Vf of 3 V, making it possible to power a nitride-based LED from a 3 V battery such as a coin cell without the need for a current limiting resistor.\nAs with all diodes, current flows easily from p-type to n-type material. However, no current flows and no light is produced if a small voltage is applied in the reverse direction. If the reverse voltage becomes large enough to exceed the breakdown voltage, a large current flows and the LED may be damaged. If the reverse current is sufficiently limited to avoid damage, the reverse-conducting LED is a useful noise diode.\nThe vast majority of devices containing LEDs are \"safe under all conditions of normal use\", and so are classified as \"Class 1 LED product\"/\"LED Klasse 1\". At present, only a few LEDs -- extremely bright LEDs that also have a tightly focused viewing angle of 8° or less -- could, in theory, cause temporary blindness, and so are classified as \"Class 2\". In general, laser safety regulations -- and the \"Class 1\", \"Class 2\", etc. system -- also apply to LEDs.\n- Efficiency: LEDs produce more light per watt than incandescent bulbs.\n- Color: LEDs can emit light of an intended color without the use of color filters that traditional lighting methods require. This is more efficient and can lower initial costs.\n- Size: LEDs can be very small (smaller than 2 mm2) and are easily populated onto printed circuit boards.\n- On/Off time: LEDs light up very quickly. A typical red indicator LED will achieve full brightness in microseconds. LEDs used in communications devices can have even faster response times.\n- Cycling: LEDs are ideal for use in applications that are subject to frequent on-off cycling, unlike fluorescent lamps that burn out more quickly when cycled frequently, or HID lamps that require a long time before restarting.\n- Dimming: LEDs can very easily be dimmed either by pulse-width modulation or lowering the forward current.\n- Cool light: In contrast to most light sources, LEDs radiate very little heat in the form of IR that can cause damage to sensitive objects or fabrics. Wasted energy is dispersed as heat through the base of the LED.\n- Slow failure: LEDs mostly fail by dimming over time, rather than the abrupt burn-out of incandescent bulbs.\n- Lifetime: LEDs can have a relatively long useful life. One report estimates 35,000 to 50,000 hours of useful life, though time to complete failure may be longer. Fluorescent tubes typically are rated at about 10,000 to 15,000 hours, depending partly on the conditions of use, and incandescent light bulbs at 1,000–2,000 hours.\n- Shock resistance: LEDs, being solid state components, are difficult to damage with external shock, unlike fluorescent and incandescent bulbs which are fragile.\n- Focus: The solid package of the LED can be designed to focus its light. Incandescent and fluorescent sources often require an external reflector to collect light and direct it in a usable manner.\n- Toxicity: LEDs do not contain mercury, unlike fluorescent lamps.\n- High initial price: LEDs are currently more expensive, price per lumen, on an initial capital cost basis, than most conventional lighting technologies. The additional expense partially stems from the relatively low lumen output and the drive circuitry and power supplies needed.\n- Temperature dependence: LED performance largely depends on the ambient temperature of the operating environment. Over-driving the LED in high ambient temperatures may result in overheating of the LED package, eventually leading to device failure. Adequate heat-sinking is required to maintain long life. This is especially important when considering automotive, medical, and military applications where the device must operate over a large range of temperatures, and is required to have a low failure rate.\n- Voltage sensitivity: LEDs must be supplied with the voltage above the threshold and a current below the rating. This can involve series resistors or current-regulated power supplies.\n- Light quality: Most cool- white LEDs have spectra that differ significantly from a black body radiator like the sun or an incandescent light. The spike at 460 nm and dip at 500 nm can cause the color of objects to be perceived differently under cool-white LED illumination than sunlight or incandescent sources, due to metamerism, red surfaces being rendered particularly badly by typical phosphor based cool-white LEDs. However, the color rendering properties of common fluorescent lamps are often inferior to what is now available in state-of-art white LEDs.\n- Area light source: LEDs do not approximate a “point source” of light, but rather a lambertian distribution. So LEDs are difficult to use in applications requiring a spherical light field. LEDs are not capable of providing divergence below a few degrees. This is contrasted with lasers, which can produce beams with divergences of 0.2 degrees or less.\n- Blue hazard: There is a concern that blue LEDs and cool-White LEDs are now capable of exceeding safe limits of the so-called blue-light hazard as defined in eye safety specifications such as ANSI/IESNA RP-27.1-05: Recommended Practice for Photobiological Safety for Lamp and Lamp Systems.\n- Blue pollution: Because cool-white LEDs (i.e., LEDs with high color temperature) emit proportionally more blue light than conventional outdoor light sources such as high-pressure sodium lamps, the strong wavelength dependence of Rayleigh scattering means that cool-white LEDs can cause more light pollution than other light sources. The International Dark-Sky Association discourages the use of white light sources with correlated color temperature above 3,000 K.\nApplication of LEDs fall into four major categories:\n- Visual signal application where the light goes more or less directly from the LED to the human eye, to convey a message or meaning.\n- Illumination where LED light is reflected from object to give visual response of these objects.\n- Generate light for measuring and interacting with processes that do not involve the human visual system.\n- Narrow band light sensors where the LED is operated in a reverse-bias mode and is responsive to incident light instead of emiting light.\nIndicators and signs\nThe low energy consumption, low maintenance and small size of modern LEDs has led to applications as status indicators and displays on a variety of equipment and installations. Large area LED displays are used as stadium displays and as dynamic decorative displays. Thin, lightweight message displays are used at airports and railway stations, and as destination displays for trains, buses, trams, and ferries.\nThe single color light is well suited for traffic lights and signals, exit signs, emergency vehicle lighting, ships' lanterns and LED-based Christmas lights. In cold climates, LED traffic lights may remain snow covered. Red or yellow LEDs are used in indicator and alphanumeric displays in environments where night vision must be retained: aircraft cockpits, submarine and ship bridges, astronomy observatories, and in the field, e.g. night time animal watching and military field use.\nBecause of their long life and fast switching times, LEDs have been used for automotive high-mounted brake lights and truck and bus brake lights and turn signals for some time, but many vehicles now use LEDs for their rear light clusters. The use of LEDs also has styling advantages because LEDs are capable of forming much thinner lights than incandescent lamps with parabolic reflectors. The significant improvement in the time taken to light up (perhaps 0.5 s faster than an incandescent bulb) improves safety by giving drivers more time to react. It has been reported that at normal highway speeds this equals one car length increased reaction time for the car behind. White LED headlamps are beginning to make an appearance. In an dual intensity circuit(ie. rear markers and brakes) if the LED's are not pulsed at a fast enough frequency, they can create a phantom array, where ghost images of the LED will appear if the eyes quickly scan across the array.\nDue to the relative cheapness of low output LEDs, they are also used in many temporary applications such as glowsticks, throwies, and the photonic textile Lumalive. Artists have also used LEDs for LED art.\nWeather/all-hazards radio receivers with Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) have three LEDs: red for warnings, orange for watches, and yellow for advisories & statements whenever issued.\nWith the development of high efficiency and high power LEDs it has become possible to incorporate LEDs in lighting and illumination. Replacement light bulbs have been made as well as dedicated fixtures and LED lamps. LEDs are used as street lights and in other architectural lighting where color changing is used. The mechanical robustness and long lifetime is used in automotive lighting on cars, motorcycles and on bicycle lights.\nLEDs have been used for lighting of streets and of parking garages. In 2007, the Italian village Torraca was the first place to convert its entire illumination system to LEDs.\nLEDs are being used increasingly commonly for aquarium lighting. Particular for reef aquariums, LED lights provide an efficient light source with less heat output to help maintain optimal aquarium temperatures. LED-based aquarium fixtures also have the advantage of being manually adjustable to produce a specific color-spectrum for ideal coloration of corals, fish, and invertebrates while optimizing photosynethically active radiation (PAR) which increases growth and sustainability of photosynthetic life such as corals, anemones, clams, and macroalgae. These fixtures can be electronically programmed in order to simulate various lighting conditions throughout the day, reflecting phases of the sun and moon for a dynamic reef experience. LED fixtures typically cost up to five times as much as similarly rated fluorescent or high-intensity discharge lighting designed for reef aquariums and are not as high output to date.\nLEDs are also being used now in airport and heliport lighting. LED airport fixtures currently include medium intensity runway lights, runway centerline lights and obstruction lighting.\nLEDs are also suitable for backlighting for LCD televisions and lightweight laptop displays and light source for DLP projectors. RGB LEDs increase the color gamut by as much as 45%. Screens for TV and computer displays can be made increasingly thin using LEDs for backlighting.\nThe lack of IR/heat radiation makes LEDs ideal for stage lights using banks of RGB LEDs that can easily change color and decrease heating from traditional stage lighting, as well as medical lighting where IR-radiation can be harmful.\nSince LEDs are small, durable and require little power they are used in hand held devices such as flashlights. LED strobe lights or camera flashes operate at a safe, low voltage, as opposed to the 250+ volts commonly found in xenon flashlamp-based lighting. This is particularly applicable to cameras on mobile phones, where space is at a premium and bulky voltage-increasing circuitry is undesirable. LEDs are used for infrared illumination in night vision applications including security cameras. A ring of LEDs around a video camera, aimed forward into a retroreflective background, allows chroma keying in video productions.\nLEDs are used for decorative lighting as well. Uses include but are not limited to indoor/outdoor decor, limousines, cargo trailers, conversion vans, cruise ships, RVs, boats, automobiles, and utility trucks. Decorative LED lighting can also come in the form of lighted company signage and step and aisle lighting in theaters and auditoriums.\nLight can be used to transmit broadband data, which is already implemented in IrDA standards using infrared LEDs. Because LEDs can cycle on and off millions of times per second, they can, in effect, become wireless routers for data transport. Lasers can also be modulated in this manner.\nEfficient lighting is needed for sustainable architecture. A 13 watt LED lamp produces 450 to 650 lumens . which is equivalent to a standard 40 watt incandescent bulb . A standard 40 W incandescent bulb has an expected lifespan of 1,000 hours while an LED can continue to operate with reduced efficiency for more than 50,000 hours, 50 times longer than the incandescent bulb.\nEnvironmentally friendly options\nA single kilowatt-hour of electricity will generate 1.34 pounds (610 g) of CO2 emissions. Assuming the average light bulb is on for 10 hours a day, a single 40-watt incandescent bulb will generate 196 pounds (89 kg) of CO2 every year. The 13-watt LED equivalent will only be responsible for 63 pounds (29 kg) of CO2 over the same time span. A building’s carbon footprint from lighting can be reduced by 68% by exchanging all incandescent bulbs for new LEDs in warm climates. In cold climates, the energy saving may be lower, since more heating would be needed to compensate for the lower temperature.\nLEDs are also non-toxic unlike the more popular energy efficient bulb option: the compact fluorescent a.k.a. CFL which contains traces of harmful mercury. While the amount of mercury in a CFL is small, introducing less into the environment is preferable.\nLED light bulbs could be a cost-effective option for lighting a home or office space because of their very long lifetimes. Consumer use of LEDs as a replacement for conventional lighting system is currently hampered by the high cost and low efficiency of available products. 2009 DOE testing results showed an average efficacy of 35 lm/W, below that of typical CFLs, and as low as 9 lm/W, worse than standard incandescents. The high initial cost of the commercial LED bulb is due to the expensive sapphire substrate which is key to the production process. The sapphire apparatus must be coupled with a mirror-like collector to reflect light that would otherwise be wasted.\nIn 2008, a materials science research team at Purdue University succeeded in producing LED bulbs with a substitute for the sapphire components.. The team used metal-coated silicon wafers with a built-in reflective layer of zirconium nitride to lessen the overall production cost of the LED. They predict that within a few years, LEDs produced with their revolutionary, new technique will be competitively priced with CFLs. The less expensive LED would not only be the best energy saver, but also a very economical bulb.\nLight has many other uses besides for seeing. LEDs are used for some of these applications. The uses fall in three groups: Communication, sensors and light matter interaction.\nThe light from LEDs can be modulated very quickly so they are used extensively in optical fiber and Free Space Optics communications. This include remote controls, such as for TVs and VCRs, where infrared LEDs are often used. Opto-isolators use an LED combined with a photodiode or phototransistor to provide a signal path with electrical isolation between two circuits. This is especially useful in medical equipment where the signals from a low voltage sensor circuit (usually battery powered) in contact with a living organism must be electrically isolated from any possible electrical failure in a recording or monitoring device operating at potentially dangerous voltages. An optoisolator also allows information to be transferred between circuits not sharing a common ground potential.\nMany sensor systems rely on light as the signal source. LEDs are often ideal as a light source due to the requirements of the sensors. LEDs are used as movement sensors, for example in optical computer mice. The Nintendo Wii's sensor bar uses infrared LEDs. In pulse oximeters for measuring oxygen saturation. Some flatbed scanners use arrays of RGB LEDs rather than the typical cold-cathode fluorescent lamp as the light source. Having independent control of three illuminated colors allows the scanner to calibrate itself for more accurate color balance, and there is no need for warm-up. Furthermore, its sensors only need be monochromatic, since at any one point in time the page being scanned is only lit by a single color of light. Touch sensing: Since LEDs can also be used as photodiodes, they can be used for both photo emission and detection. This could be used in for example a touch-sensing screen that register reflected light from a finger or stylus.\nMany materials and biological systems are sensitive to, or dependent on light. Grow lights use LEDs to increase photosynthesis in plants and bacteria and viruses can be removed from water and other substances using UV LEDs for sterilization. Other uses are as UV curing devices for some ink and coating applications as well as LED printers.\nThe use of LEDs is particularly interesting to plant cultivators, mainly because it is more energy efficient, less heat is produced (can damage plants close to hot lamps) and can provide the optimum light frequency for plant growth and bloom periods compared to currently used grow lights: HPS (high pressure sodium), MH (metal halide) or CFL/low-energy. It has however not replaced these grow lights due to it having a higher retail price, as mass production and LED kits develop the product will become cheaper.\nLEDs have also been used as a medium quality voltage reference in electronic circuits. The forward voltage drop (e.g., about 1.7 V for a normal red LED) can be used instead of a Zener diode in low-voltage regulators. Red LEDs have the flattest I/V curve above the knee; nitride-based LEDs have a fairly steep I/V curve and are not useful in this application. Although LED forward voltage is much more current-dependent than a good Zener, Zener diodes are not widely available below voltages of about 3 V.\nLight sources for machine vision systems\nMachine vision systems often require bright and homogeneous illumination, so features of interest are easier to process. LEDs are often used to this purpose, and this field of application is likely to remain one of the major application areas until price drops low enough to make signaling and illumination applications more widespread. Barcode scanners are the most common example of machine vision, and many inexpensive ones used red LEDs instead of lasers. LEDs constitute a nearly ideal light source for machine vision systems for several reasons:\nThe size of the illuminated field is usually comparatively small and machine vision systems are often quite expensive, so the cost of the light source is usually a minor concern. However, it might not be easy to replace a broken light source placed within complex machinery, and here the long service life of LEDs is a benefit.\nLED elements tend to be small and can be placed with high density over flat or even shaped substrates (PCBs etc) so that bright and homogeneous sources can be designed which direct light from tightly controlled directions on inspected parts. This can often be obtained with small, inexpensive lenses and diffusers, helping to achieve high light densities with control over lighting levels and homogeneity. LED sources can be shaped in several configurations (spot lights for reflective illumination; ring lights for coaxial illumination; back lights for contour illumination; linear assemblies; flat, large format panels; dome sources for diffused, omnidirectional illumination).\nLEDs can be easily strobed (in the microsecond range and below) and synchronized with imaging. High power LEDs are available allowing well lit images even with very short light pulses. This is often used in order to obtain crisp and sharp “still” images of quickly-moving parts.\nLEDs come in several different colors and wavelengths, easily allowing to use the best color for each application, where different color may provide better visibility of features of interest. Having a precisely known spectrum allows tightly matched filters to be used to separate informative bandwidth or to reduce disturbing effect of ambient light. LEDs usually operate at comparatively low working temperatures, simplifying heat management and dissipation, therefore allowing plastic lenses, filters and diffusers to be used. Waterproof units can also easily be designed, allowing for use in harsh or wet environments (food, beverage, oil industries).\nNarrow band light sensors\nThe discovery and use of utilizing LED's as narrow band light sensors was pioneered by Forrest Mims. Mims was the first person to realize that LED's not only had the ability to emit light, but also to sense light. This dual-action (emission/detection) of LEDs or “Mims Effect” was unknown before his discovery.\nMims interest in LEDs began when he was experimenting with photosensitive devices back in 1962. In the \"Backscatter\" section in an online issue of The Citizen Scientist, Forrest Mims describes this himself:\nWhile a high school senior in 1962, I first got the idea that light sensors should be able to double as light detectors. So I connected an automobile ignition coil to a cadmium sulfide photoresistor, switched on the power, and observed bright flashes of green light emitted by the semiconductor. The green flashes were distinctively different from the yellow flashes of an electrical arc.\nWhile studying government (my major) in college, I found that certain silicon photodiodes can emit near-infrared radiation that can be detected by similar photodiodes. I managed to send modulated tones between such photodiodes. In 1971 I demonstrated the ability of many LEDs to detect light while experimenting with an optical fiber communication system. By placing a single LED at each end of the fiber, it was possible to send signals both ways through the fiber with only a single, dual purpose semiconductor device at each end of the fiber.\nLater experiments by Mims were done in 1971, when he utilized two LEDs to perform bi-directional communication. In 1980, Mims demonstrated bi-directional LED voice communication through the air using near-infrared (940 nm) LEDs and also through a 100-meter section of optical fiber (650 nm). This demonstration was done at 1325 L Street in Washington D.C. – the exact same site where Alexander Graham Bell invented lightwave communications exactly 100 years earlier! Present for the demonstration, which was sponsored by the National Geographic Society, were representatives from National Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution and Bell Labs. Bell first demonstrated his Photophone on 3 June 1880.\nSource: Wikipedia (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It is generally recommended to rinse your mouth with water after brushing to remove any food particles or toothpaste that may be left in your mouth. Rinsing your mouth can also help to freshen your breath.\nHowever, it is important to note that you should not rinse your mouth with mouthwash immediately after brushing. This is because mouthwash can contain alcohol, which can cause the fluoride in toothpaste to be less effective. Fluoride is a mineral that helps to strengthen tooth enamel and prevent tooth decay.\nTo get the most benefit from your toothpaste and mouthwash, it is recommended to brush your teeth first, rinse your mouth with water, and then use mouthwash as directed. This allows the fluoride in the toothpaste to be absorbed by your teeth before rinsing it away with mouthwash.\nIf you have any concerns about your oral hygiene routine, it is always a good idea to consult with your dentist. They can provide personalised recommendations based on your individual needs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On this page, we discuss the following ways to save energy as you use your kitchen:\nClick a link in the list above to jump to that topic on this page.\nThawing food – Thaw food in the fridge. Put that frozen turkey to work for you! Reuse the energy spent to freeze your food by using it to help keep your fridge cool as it thaws.\nYou will also save on the energy needed to defrost the food item in an oven or microwave. An added benefit: thawing food in the refrigerator minimizes the growth of harmful bacteria.\nCooling leftovers – Do not put warm leftovers in to the fridge or freezer. Your appliance will have to expend energy just to cool the food to room temperature. Let the heat from cooking dissipate first, then put them in to chill.\nSeparate appliances – Never place your fridge next to a “hot” appliance like a stove or dishwasher. Your fridge will have to consume more energy to keep cool with a heat source next to it.\nSmaller appliances – Smaller appliances use less energy. Many meals can be easily and efficiently cooked in an electric frying pan or toaster oven. Electric kettles are the best choice for boiling water. Downsizing your appliance use will add up to big energy savings.\nEnerGuide – Buying energy efficient appliances is easy with Energy Star and EnerGuide labels.\nMajor electrical household appliances sold in Canada must meet minimum energy efficiency standards and are required to display an EnerGuide label. The labels show you how much electricity the appliance consumes in one year, and how the appliance compares to similar models in terms of energy consumption.\nFridge & freezer\nShut the door – We’re all guilty of “window shopping” for snacks. Leaving your fridge door open as you browse lets the cold air out and the warm air in. Once again, more energy must be spent to re-cool your fridge. Decide — then open the door.\nDoor seal – Test the door seal by putting a piece of paper between the door and the seal. If the bill falls down when the door is closed, your door needs to be corrected.\nStove & oven\nUse lids – Unless the recipe calls for an uncovered pot or pan, always use lids to trap heat, speed cooking time, and save energy.\nSize your pan – Your range has different-sized elements for a reason! Match the size of your pot or pan to the element for greater efficiency and more even cooking heat.\nTurn off – Once the food is cooked, the oven will stay warm enough to keep your food piping hot with the oven off.\nThe same goes for food prepared on the stovetop. Cooked through? Keep it covered and shut the heat off.\nSettings – Use the “energy saver” setting on your dishwasher. Always choose to save energy, water and money!\nAir dry dishes – Prop open the door and dry your dishes — without spending a cent! The warm, moist air will be welcome during dry winter conditions. During the summer, minimize the heat added to your home by running the washer during the evening and skipping the heat-generating dry cycle.\nFill er’ up – Load your dishwasher full before running it. Remember, the machine uses the same amount of water and energy to wash a few dishes as it does for a full load. The same goes for laundry!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Adrien de Montmorency-Laval was a French army officer, before serving as French foreign minister and as an ambassador during the Bourbon Restoration.\nHis father was Lieutenant-General Anne-Alexandre de Montmorency, 2nd Duc de Laval, and his mother was Marie-Louise de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1750–1829).\nBorn in 1768 while his formidable great-grandfather, Marshal Guy-André-Pierre de Montmorency, the 1st duke was alive, Adrien was sent to be raised under the tuition of his uncle Cardinal Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval, Prince-Bishop of Metz and Grand Almoner of France in preparation for taking holy orders.\nShortly after starting at the seminary of the Saint-Sulpice in Paris, his elder brother Guy de Montmorency, marquis de Laval, died unexpectedly in 1786; he had married Pauline-Renée-Sophie de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson in 1784. His brother's death, prompted him to leave church training and participate in court life at Versailles.\nMontmorency-Laval joined the French army, being commissioned in the Alsace Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Charles, vicomte de Noailles (later duc de Mouchy) where he served alongside Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d'Argenson (1771–1842), his brother-in-law and lifelong friend.\nOn 14 May 1788, he married his second cousin (their great-grandfather was Anne-Jacques de Bullion, marquis de Fervacques, Governor of Marne), Bonne-Charlotte-Renée-Adélaïde de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1773–1840), daughter of Anne-Charles-Sigismond, duc de Piney-Luxembourg (1737–1803) and head of the senior branch of the Montmorencys, by his wife Madeleine-Suzanne-Adélaïde de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson.\nThe Duke and his wife had three children:Guy-Anne-Marie-Louis-Henri-Adalric, prince de Laval (1796–1819), Huntmaster of Morbihan;\nCharlotte-Adélaïde (1798–1872), duquesa de San Fernando Luis, who married in 1817, Gustave de Lévis, marquis de Mirepoix: descendants include the historian, Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix;\nMarguerite-Emmanuelle-Pauline (1811–1861) married Aimé, marquis de Couronnel: ancestors of the Rarécourt family.\nThrough his wife's family (the Colignys) their descendants inherited great wealth, as both her elder brothers died childless and in 1791 her younger sister Marie-Madeleine married Miguel Caetano Álvares Pereira de Melo, 5th Duque de Cadaval, emigrating to Portugal.\nUpon the outbreak of the French Revolution, after locating remaining family members in Paris, Adrien de Laval fled to England. As a French émigré in London, the marquis became friendly with the Prince of Wales and his circle.\nDuring the revolutionary wars his father appointed him as aide-de-camp and despatched him to Italy as a captain in the Montmorency Regiment being stationed at Rome. After the ban on émigrés was lifted in 1800 he returned to France. Adrien de Laval was one of the first to congratulate Louis XVIII at Calais in 1814, and the king promoted him maréchal de camp (major-general) and bestowed on him the style of Prince de Montmorency-Laval; he succeeded to his father's dukedom in 1817.\nOn August 15, 1814, he was appointed French ambassador to Spain. There he came into conflict with Ceballos. But on receiving news of the return of Napoleon from Elba, a reconciliation was effected and Montmorency-Laval agreed to stay in Madrid, contrary to instructions from the French government. He successfully managed the somewhat tense relations between the Spanish Borbóns and the newly restored French Bourbons, being honoured in 1815 as a knight of the Golden Fleece and made duque de San Fernando Luis with the rank of grandee. His next ambassadorial posting was to Rome, where he arrived just before the end of Pius VII's reign and was present during the conclave for the election of his successor as pope; he supported the efforts of Austria in favour of Cardinal Castiglioni's candidacy. However, Cardinal Annibale della Genga was elected as Leo XII.\nOn 20 March 1828, the Duc de Laval was appointed French ambassador to Austria. His name was also mooted as a candidate to be king of Greece, but he twice refused King Charles X's proposals.\nHe was then posted as Ambassador to the Court of St James's, returning to Paris just before Charles X's exile. At Talleyrand's request, he dealt with unpleasant issues in London caused by his relatives, Louis, duc de Valençay and his father Edmond, duca di Dino, who had become addicted to gambling.\nDeclining to swear allegiance to King Louis-Philippe, the Duke and Duchess retired to the chateau de Montigny, where they received visitors, including Talleyrand. The Duke died on 16 June 1837 and, having been predeceased by his son at Naples in 1819, his youngest brother Eugène succeeded to his French titles before they became extinct, whereas his Spanish ducado and grandeza devolved upon his elder daughter and her descendants. Duke of France\nGrandee of Spain\nCount of the Holy Roman Empire\nGrand Cross, Legion of Honour\nKnight, Order of the Holy Spirit\nGrand Cross, Order of Saint Louis\nKnight, Order of Malta\nKnight, Order of the Golden Fleece", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In today’s globally connected world, language may still be a barrier to science.\nToday, almost every major scientific journal prints in English – even while featuring research from all over the world. Meanwhile, new research suggests, tens of thousands of reports are being published without English translations. In a study published last week in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers argue that the permeation of English-language science has caused non-English studies to be overlooked.\n“Language barriers continue to impede the global compilation and application of scientific knowledge,” lead author Tatsuya Amano, a professor of zoology at the University of Cambridge, said in a statement.\nAs part of their study, Dr. Amano and colleagues surveyed Google Scholar, a platform that by some estimates includes more than 100 million academic papers. They found that more than 75,000 studies on biodiversity conservation were published across 16 languages in 2014. About one third were published in non-English languages.\nOf those, about 12.6 percent were published in Spanish. Another 10.3 percent were written in Portuguese, researchers found; Chinese and French accounted for 6 and 3 percent respectively. Researchers also found recent publications in Japanese, Korean, Italian, German, and Swedish – but only a few hundred per language.\n“Scientific knowledge generated in the field by non-native English speakers is inevitably under-represented, particularly in the dominant English-language academic journals,” Amano said. “This potentially renders local and indigenous knowledge unavailable in English.”\nIn random sampling trials, researchers found that about half of non-English papers included titles or abstracts in English. The rest – about 13,000 documents – are completely unsearchable by English keywords.\n“The real problem of language barriers in science is that few people have tried to solve it,” Amano said. “Native English speakers tend to assume that all the important information is available in English. But this is not true, as we show in our study.”\n“On the other hand, non-native English speakers, like myself, tend to think carrying out research in English is the first priority, often ending up ignoring non-English science and its communication.”\nEnglish wasn’t always the lingua franca, or common language, of science. During the Renaissance, Latin was understood most universally by academics. Galileo, for example, translated his studies to Latin so that non-Italian scientists could follow his work.\nBy the early 1900s, most scientific studies were published in German. But in the post-war years, as Germany’s global influence waned, English took the lead.\nToday, this linguistic dominance is widely acknowledged. In 2013, the French Parliament considered a bill that would allow public university science classes to be taught in English. Bastien Inzaurralde reported for The Christian Science Monitor:\nSupporters – including two Nobel Prize winners – of the measure say it would not only make France more attractive for talented students and scholars who don’t speak French, but also help French students prepare to work in an English-speaking environment.\nBut doubling down on English may not be the best way to overcome the language barrier, researchers say. Instead, they argue, journals should supply translations of current scientific publications. To emphasize that point, authors included summaries of their new study in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and French.\n“While we recognise the importance of a lingua franca, and the contribution of English to science, the scientific community should not assume that all important information is published in English,” Amano said.\nResearchers say universities and funding institutions should encourage translations as part of “public outreach,” particularly when it comes to global trends and non-English regions.\n“We should see this as an opportunity as well as a challenge,” Amano said. “Overcoming language barriers can help us achieve less biased knowledge and enhance the application of science globally.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "of the Marian generals gave him the wished-for opportunity ; he was surrounded by three armies, commanded respectively by M. Brutus, C. Caelius Caldus, and C. Carrinas, whose great object seems to have been to prevent his escape to Sulla. Pompey now displayed for the first time the great military abilities for which he became afterwards so conspicuous ; he concentrated all his forces in one spot, and then fell upon M. Brutus at a time when he could receive no assistance from the other generals, and completely defeated him. Pompey also distinguished himself by his personal bravery in this engagement, charging at the head of his cavalry, and striking down a Celtic horseman with his own hand. The Marian generals, after the loss of this battle, quarrelled among themselves, and withdrew from the country. Pompey, who had no longer an enemy to oppose him, set out to join Sulla, and was hailed as a deliverer by the towns of Picenum, who had now no other alternative but submission. He was proscribed by the senate, but his troops proved faithful to him, and he joined Sulla in safety, having already gained for himself a brilliant reputation. He was received by Sulla with still greater distinction than he had anticipated ; for when he leapt down from his horse, and saluted Sulla by the title of Imperator, the latter returned the compliment by addressing him by the same title. Pompey was only twenty-three, and had not held any public office when he received this unprecedented mark of honour.\nNext year, b. c. 82, the war was prosecuted with vigour against the Marian party. Pompey took a prominent part in it as one of Sulla's legates, and by his success gained still further distinction. The younger Marius, who was now consul, was blockaded in Praeneste, and his colleague, Carbo, was making every effort to relieve him. Sulla himself fought an indecisive battle against Carbo; but his legates, Marcius and Carrinas, were defeated by Pompey. Carbo then retreated to Ariminum, and sent Marcius to the relief of Praeneste; but Ponmpey defeated the latter again in the Apennines, and compelled him to retire. Despairing of success, Carbo then abandoned Marius to his fate, and set sail for Africa. Praeneste shortly afterwards surrendered. Sulla thus became the master of Italy, and was proclaimed dictator. He then proceeded to reward his partizans, and to take vengeance on his enemies; and in order to connect Pompey more closely with himself, he compelled him to marry his step-daughter Aemilia, the daughter of his wife Caecilia Metella, by her former husband Aemilius Scaurus. To effect this marriage two divorces had to take place: Pompey was obliged to put away his wife Antistia, though her father had been murdered by Marius as a partizan of Sulla, simply on account of his connection with Pompey; and Aemilia was obliged to leave her husband M'. Glabrio, although she was pregnant at the time. Aemilia died shortly afterwards in child-birth.\nBut although the war in Italy was brought to a close, the Marian party still held out in other parts of Europe; and Pompey, who was now regarded as one of the principal leaders of the aristocracy, was sent against them by Sulla. He first proceeded to Sicily, to which island Carbo had crossed over from Africa, but here met with no opposition; as soon as he landed, Carbo fled from the island, intending to take refuge in Egypt, but he was seized and brought in chains to Pompey, at Lilybaeum, who put him to death, and sent his head to Sulla. He likewise executed several others of the Marian party; but he can scarcely be reproached with cruelty for so doing, as he had no other alternative, even if he had wished to save them; and he treated the cities which had espoused the popular side with greater leniency than might have been expected. Next year, b. c. 81, Pompey left Sicily, and passed over to Africa, in order to oppose Cn. Domitius Ahenobarus the son-in-law of Cinna, who, with the assistance of Hiarbas, had collected a formidable army. But his troops, chiefly consisting of Numidians, were no match for the veterans who had conquered the well-disciplined Italian allies. Still they fought with great bravery, and out of 20,000 only 3000 are said to have survived the decisive battle. Their camp was taken, and Domitius fell. In a few months Pompey reduced the whole of Numidia ; Hiarbas was taken prisoner and put to death, and his throne was given to Hiempsal. But it was not only his military achievements that gained him great renown at Rome; unlike other Roman governors, he abstained from plundering the province, which seemed the more extraordinary, since the disturbed state of the country afforded him particular facilities for doing so. Intent upon triumphing, he collected a great number of elephants and lions in Numidia, and returned to Rome, in the same year, covered with glory. As he approached Rome, numbers flocked out of the city to meet him; and the dictator himself, who formed one of the crowd, greeted him with the surname of Magnus, which he bore ever afterwards, and handed down to his children. But Pompey did not find it easy to obtain his wished-for triumph. Hitherto no one but a dictator, consul, or praetor, had enjoyed this distinction, and it seemed a monstrous thing for a simple eques, who had not yet obtained a place in the senate, to covet this honour. Sulla at first tried to dissuade Pompey from pressing his request; and as he would not relinquish his design, the matter was referred to the senate, and there Sulla positively opposed it. Pompey was not, however, to be cowed, and uttered a threat about the rising and the setting sun; whereupon Sulla, indignant at his impudence. shouted out contemptuously, \"Let him triumph then !\" It is true that Sulla's dominion was too firmly established to be overthrown by Pompey ; but he probably could not have put him down without a struggle, and therefore thought it better to let him have his own way. Pompey therefore entered Rome in triumph as a simple eques in the month of September b. c. 81, and before he had completed his twenty-fifth year. Pompey's conduct in insisting upon a triumph on this occasion has been represented by many modern writers as vain and childish but it should be recollected that it was a vanity which all distinguished Romans shared, and that to enter Rome drawn in\n- There can be little doubt that this surname was given to Pompey on this occasion, though many writers assign it to a different time. The question is discussed at length by Drumann, vol. iv. p. 335. Pompey did not use it himself till he was appointed to the command of the war against Sertorius (Plut. Pomp. 13).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The reminiscence bump is the tendency for older adults to have increased recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood. It was identified through the study of autobiographical memory and the subsequent plotting of the age of encoding of memories to form the lifespan retrieval curve.The Life Span Retrieval Curve is a graph that represents the number of autobiographical memories encoded at various ages during the life span. The lifespan retrieval curve contains three different parts. From birth to five years old is a period of childhood amnesia, from 10 to 30 years old is the reminiscence bump and last is a period of forgetting from the end of the reminiscence bump to present time. The reminiscence bump has been observed on the life span retrieval curve in multiple studies.The reminiscence bump occurs because memory storage in autobiographical memory is not consistent through time. Rather, memory storage increases during times of changes in the self and in life goals, such as the changes in identity that occur during adolescence.Researchers have consistently observed the reminiscence bump, the period of increased memory accessibility in participants' lifespan retrieval curves, and the bump has been reproduced under a range of study conditions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Circa 1820: Our records and logic argue that the “new” brick wing of the house was built in 1817-1820.\nThe symbolism of the house addition: the new half is taller than the old. Its roof looms over the other half. Inside, there is a dramatic three-step rise into what is now the living room or front parlor. The same step up exists upstairs, from one bedroom and hallway up into the new grander bedroom.\nThe new half is brick – no attempt made to match the fronts, instead relying on the new, sturdier, more impressive, more dramatic brick front.\nA new grand front porch unites the two, presenting a look of a statelier, grander edifice than before.\nThe new wing seems to represent a bold swagger – gone is the utilitarian humble pile within which an erudite attorney like William Roane could read law while running several farms. Gone the single frame abode where the hardworking Spencer grew up, focusing on both schoolwork with his Scottish tutor and on cutting down the trees around the plantation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "notes on the Jack Russell terrier\nRussell is a small, compact, athletic dog and looks like a less refined working\nFox Terrier. White (at least 51%) with reddish black, tan, or brown markings,\nespecially in the head and tail. The skull is flat between the ears, then\ntapering. The stop is defined, but not abrupt. The nose is black and the almond-shaped\neyes are dark. The v-shaped ears fold forward. The Jack Russell has a flexible\nbody and fairly small chest (easily spanned by the average man's hands) to\nenable him to go to ground after his prey. The docked tail is carried gaily\nand set fairly high. Comes in smooth, broken, and wire-haired varieties. The\nbroken coat is a cross of rough and smooth coat - long body hair, a slightly\nfuzzy face and a smooth head. An Irish-type called Jack Russell Shortys have\nshorter legs than the English-type.\nThe Jack Russell Terrier is a perky, merry, devoted, and loving dog. Spirited and obedient, yet absolutely fearless. Careful and amusing, he enjoys games and playing with toys. Friendly and generally kind to children who have been taught not to tease or strike the dog. They are intelligent, yet willful and determined. They can be slightly difficult to train and need a firm, experienced trainer. The Jack Russel can be aggressive with other dogs if not well trained and socialized. Some have killed or been killed in dog fights. Early socialization can help substantially moderate this trait. They have strong hunting instincts (stronger than your average terrier) and should not be trusted with other small animals. They like to chase and explore. Be careful not to let them off the lead unless they are very well-trained. Jack Russells like to bark and dig. They tend to get restless and destructive if not kept fruitfully occupied and well exercised. Jack Russells climb, which means they can climb over a fence, they also jump. A Jack that stands 12 inches high can easily jump five feet. JRTs are not the breed for a inexperienced dog owner. This is a BIG dog in a little dogs body. The owner needs to be as strong-willed as they are, or this little guy will take over. With the right owner this little dog can really excel, but is not recommended for those who have not had prior experience with terriers.\nThe Jack Russel Terrier was developed in 19th century England by a clergyman named Jack Russell. This feisty little terrier was used to hunt small game, particularly fox, by digging the quarry out of its den. Breeders have emphasized its working ability, so the standard is very broad, encompassing a wide range of accepted body types. On English hunts, the Jack Russell Terriers were supposed to be long-legged enough to keep up with the hounds.ĘThe energetic and playful Jack Russell makes a good family companion. Some of the Jack Russell's talents include: hunting, tracking, agility, and performing tricks.\nof two Jack Russell Terriers\nTwo beautiful litter mates.\nmore terrier portraits and other dog breeds -\nvisit the dog painting gallery\ndesigned by paintmydog © justine osborne 2002 - 2013\nall dog portraits, pictures, photos and text not to be reproduced without permission from the artist", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fluorescent markers, sometimes known as fluorophores, is any molecule with the ability to absorb light and emit it at some other well defined wavelength. Flurophores come in a variety of types ranging from simple organic compounds to large proteins like Green Fluorescent Protein. Fluorescent markers give the ability to investigate in their biological environment. When light of a certain wavelength is directed at the molecule's chromophore, a photon is absorbed and excites an electron to a higher energy state. The electron then relaxes back to its ground state. The energy that is released is determined by the formula E = hν, where h is Planck's constant and ν is the frequency of the photon. This energy can then be related back to the wavelength of the emitted photon, which corresponds to a specific color on the visible spectrum. The difference between the absorption and emission wavelength is called the Stokes shift. Large Stokes shifts are generally desirable because the emitted light from the fluorescent tag can be filtered out more easily from the excitation light. Fluorescence educing molecules such as FITC (fluorescein isothiocyanate) are used to stain cells which give the ability to examine these cells under a fluorescence microscope. Multiple fluorescent markers can be used to stain different parts of cell. Fluorescence microscopy can aid in determining the location of specific proteins within a cell. One can even track the movement of these proteins and derive possible functions for these proteins of interest.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Workbook object lies at the top of the hierarchy of the Excel 2010 VBA objects. We will deal with properties and methods associated the Workbook object.\nWhen we write Excel 2010 VBA code involving the Workbook object, we use Workbooks.\nThe reason is that we are dealing with a collection of workbooks most of the time, so using Workbooks enables us to manipulate multiple workbooks at the same time.When will deal with multiple workbooks, we can use indices to denote different workbooks that are open, using the syntax Workbooks (i), where i is an index. For example, Workbooks (1) denotes Workbook1, Workbooks (2) denotes Workbook2 and more.\nWorkbooks have a number of properties. Some of the common properties are Name, Path and FullName Let’s look at the following example:\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click() MsgBox Workbooks(1).Name End Sub\nThe program will cause a message dialog box to pop up and displays the first workbook name, i.e. Book1 as shown in Figure 20.1 below:\nIf we have only one open workbook, we can also use the syntax ThisWorkbook in place of Workbook (1), as follows:\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click () MsgBox ThisWorkbook.Name End Sub\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click () MsgBox ThisWorkbook.Path End Sub\nOr you can use the following code:\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1Click () MsgBox Workbooks (“Book1”).Path End Sub\nThis example will display the path and name of the opened workbook. The code is:\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click () MsgBox ThisWorkbook.FullName End Sub\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1Click() MsgBox Workbooks(“Book1”).Fullname End Sub\nThere are severl methods associated with the workbook object. These methods are Save, SaveAs, Open, Close and more.\nIn this example, when the user clicks on the command button, it will open up a dialog box and ask the user to specify a path and type in the file name, and then click the save button, not unlike the standard windows SaveAs dialog, as shown in Figure 20.4.\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click() fName = Application.GetSaveAsFilename ThisWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=fName End Sub\nAnother method associated with the workbook object is open. The syntax is\nWorkbooks.Open (“File Name”)\nIn this example, when the user click on the command button, it wil open the file book1.xls under the path C:\\Users\\Toshiba\\Documents\\Liew Folder\\VBA\\vba2010\\\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click() Workbooks.Open (\"C:\\Users\\Toshiba\\Documents\\Liew Folder\\VBA\\vba2010\\book1.xlsx\") End Sub\nThe close method is the command that closes a workbook. The syntax is\nIn this example, when the user clicks the command button, it will close Workbooks (1).\nPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click() Workbooks (1).Close End Sub", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Almost everybody knows the value of c that is 300,000 Km/sec. Means just impossible to even imagine.\nOn earth, it is not possible for something to achieve the speed of light. But if let us suppose an object moving with c then what’s about the object?\nSo, the strange thing is this that the object will disappear, but why?\nThe answer for its invisibility is cleared by the concept of LENGTH CONTRACTION. It provides us a relation between the rest length, its velocity and between speed of light.\nBy this concept, we get the approximate lenght of an object moving with speed of light as ZERO.\nHence, light is the biggest mystery even now. As, we didn’t get any visible object till now moving with c.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The images below show the basic topography of the Cape Peninsula from Table Bay looking south over Cape Town and Table Mountain towards the Cape of Good Hope. The particular features are the Table Mountain massif and the chain of mountains that runs down the spine of the peninsula. Table Mountain rises 3,558 feet (1,085 m).\nTo the left of the mountains is the broad expanse of the Cape Flats that joins the peninsula at Muizenberg.\nIn the front of the image is Table Bay and Cape Town Harbour. To their right is Green Point and the polo-mint surrounded-by-green that is the spectacular Green Point Stadium built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Behind this is Signal Hill and Lion's Head and the west coast suburbs of Camps Bay and Bakoven.\nThe topography of the penisula is brought into sharper relief in the aerial view below that shows the tremendous bulk of Table Mountain and the right fork of the mountains running down to Hout Bay and the Chapman's Peak Drive (see Driving Chapman's Peak). To the left the mountains snake down through Constatia (see Wine and Land I) and the wine country on the eastern slopes before meeting False Bay at Muizenberg. Beyond is Simon's Town bay (see Birds I: African Penguins) and the steep eastward facing slopes, from where we saw the dolphin and gannet feeding frenzy (see Mammals VI: Dolphins), between Simon's Town and Smitswinkel Bay. Beyond are the lower hills that run out to the cliffs at Cape Point.\nThe image below gives a schematic representation of the geology of the peninsula. The oldest rocks are the late-Precambrian Malmesbury Group made up of alternating layers of dark grey fine-grained greywacke sandstone and slate. These underly most of the peninsula.\nNext are Peninsula Granites which were intruded as a huge batholith into the Malmesbury Group about 630 million years ago as molten rock which then crystallized deep in the earth. It has since been exposed by prolonged erosion and can be seen at places such as Boulders Beach at Simon's Town (see Penguins). It was also quarried from the base of Table Mountain by a Cornish quarryman (see Gone Bulawayo on the Cornish in South Africa ) for the construction of the Rhodes Memorial (see Rhodes Memorial ) on the edge of Cape Town.\nThe Table Mountain Group sandstones - blue in the image) were deposited onto the eroded surface of the granite and Malmesbury basement.They are made up of two formations:\nThe yellow areas represent Extensive sands laid down during the Pliocene and subsequent Pleistocene ice-ages between 2 million and 15000 years ago when sea-levels fluctuated between -120 to +200 m from present mean sea level. At times the sea covered the Cape Flats the Cape Peninsula was then a group of islands.\nEach of the rock and sand types listed above is associated with different fynbos types which have different characteristic plants. The sands give rise to a variety of sand and sandveld fynbos types. As do the granites, sandstones and Malmesbury slates and shales. Topography and orientation also play a part - for example there is a 3000+ ft elevation difference between the top of Table Mountain and Buffels Bay near Cape Point. Similarly there are great differences between east and west facing slopes - the west get the colder winter westerlies whereas the easterlies get the warmer south-easterly trade winds. Water avalability is also crucial - wetter ground will abound in restios while dry sands may only be able to support succulents and bulb-rooted plants.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A small river in eastern Massachusetts which empties into the Altantic at the northwestern end of Buzzards Bay; and a town in Hampden County, Mass. Agawam is an Indian word meaning lowland, marsh, or meadow.\nThe first Agawam, a double-ended, side-wheel, gunboat built at Portland, Maine, by George W. Lawrence, was laid down in October 1862; launched on 21 April 1863; and commissioned on 9 March 1864, Comdr. Alexander C. Rhind in command.\nOn 9 December 1863, some three months before Agawam was placed in full commission, Southern agents and sympathizers had boarded the steam packet Chesapeake at New York under the guise of being passengers bound for Portland, Maine. Shortly after midnight on the 7th, when the liner had reached a point some 20 miles north of the tip of Cape Cod, these men revealed their formerly concealed side arms and took over the ship, killing her second engineer. From there, they took the ship to Canadian waters in the hope that their daring act would provoke Union warships into violating British neutrality and thereby embroil the United States in a war with England.\nWhen word of Chesapeake's capture reached Portland, the deputy collector of customs at that port wired Rear Admiral Francis Hoyt Gregory, the supervisor of construction of all Union warships then being built in private shipyards, informing him of the loss and requesting permission to arm, man, and send out in pursuit the unfinished but seaworthy Agawam. Temporary arms, officers, and men for the new warship would come from the revenue cutter James C. Dobbin which had arrived at Portland in July.\nThe Navy's extant records seem to contain no report of Agawam's chase of Chesapeake, if, indeed, she ever did join the hunt for the stolen ship. The flurry of Federal correspondence stirred up by the audacious Confederate coup contains both statements maintaining that she did at least get underway and evidence indicating that she did not. Thus, her role in the Chesapeake affair, if any, will remain a mystery unless now unknown documents come to light.\nIn any case, after being commissioned, Agawam remained in the Portsmouth Navy Yard fitting out until standing down Portsmouth harbor on 17 March. However, she returned to the yard two days later and entered drydock for repairs before heading back to Portland on 18 April.\nAssigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the steamer finally stood out to sea on 6 May, two days after the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River to begin General Grant's offensive against Richmond which kept unrelenting pressure on General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia until it was bottled up in the siege of Petersburg and finally forced it to surrender at Appomattox. Agawam would perform most of her Civil War service in support of this drive.\nWhen she was finally deemed ready for active service, the gunboat departed Portland on 6 May, only two days after Grant's troops crossed the Rapidan and the day after troops led by Major General Benjamin F. Butler landed on Bermuda Hundred, a large neck of land between the James and its tributary, the Appomattox River. This territory was strategically located some 15 miles south of Richmond and about seven miles north of Petersburg, probably the last important railroad center remaining in Southern hands. Butler's operation was designed to cut the railroads and to take or, at least, to threaten these vital Confederate cities. General Grant, then General-in-Chief of the United States Army, hoped that Butler's campaign would, as a bare minimum, interrupt the flow of food from the deep south and the west through Richmond to Lee's troops. According to this plan, if Butler did not take the Confederate capital, his operations would draw significant troops away from Lee's Army, starve it, and so weaken it that the Union force pushing down from the Rapidan would be able to overrun Richmond or link up with Butler and join in investing these key Southern cities. In any case, even moderate success on Butler's part should quickly end the war.\nBut moderate success for Butler was not forthcoming. By the time Agawam reached Hampton Roads on 9 May, the Union commander had squandered his initial advantage of surprise by his hesitation to launch vigorous attacks toward his initial objectives, the railroad and the turnpike connecting Petersburg and Richmond. This delay enabled the Confederacy to bring major reinforcement to their previously almost undefended works in the area. Then, the presence of Southern soldiers in the area prompted Butler to remain within strong defensive lines where he could do almost nothing to help the Army of the Potomac as it fought its way toward Richmond in a series of bloody engagements beginning with the Battle of the Wilderness.\nMeanwhile, it was the task of the Union Navy to maintain control of the James lest Butler's 30,000 troops at Bermuda Hundred be cut off and annihilated. Agawam reached Hampton Roads on 9 May and two days later stood up the James to join other Union ships in protecting Butler's transports and supply ships which were threatened by torpedoes, shore batteries, and a possible attack by Confederate ironclads which were lying in the river above the Confederate batteries of Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff. The danger lurking in the muddy waters of the James had recently been emphasized by the sinking of Commodore Jones on the 6th while that side-wheel ferryboat was dragging for Southern torpedoes, or, in 20th century parlance, mines.\nOn the 14th, Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, the commander of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, shifted his flag from Malvern to Agawam since the latter drew less water and thus would enable him to supervise minesweeping operations more closely, and he remained in the new side-wheeler while giving his primary attention to operations in the James during the ensuing month and one-half. Agaivam's first combat came at dawn on the 18th when she shelled Confederate forces \". . . intrenching the heights at Hewlett's house, commanding Trent's Reach,\" a straight stretch of the river flowing east along the northeastern section of Bermuda Hundred. During this time, besides serving as the squadron flagship, she helped to clear the river of mines, was a mobile platform for observation of Confederate activity along both banks of the river, acted as an intelli-gence and communication clearinghouse, and used her guns to suppress Southern batteries ashore.\nFrom first planning to land a force at Bermuda Hundred, General Butler had been fearful that Confederate warships might descend from Richmond and sink his transports and supply ships. Once his troops were actually ashore on the south side of the river, the general's anxiety was intensified by daily rumors reporting that the South was ready to launch just such an offensive. For instance, late in May, a deserter from the Southern gunboat Hampton warned that\". . . the enemy have now below Drewry's Bluff three ironclads, six smaller gunboats, plated with boiler iron ... all mounted with torpedoes, and nine fire ships ... to attack at as early a moment as practicable . . . .\"\nConfident in the ability of his warships, Admiral Lee was eager to meet the Southern squadron and was hopeful that his flotilla might ascend James past the batteries at Drewry's Bluff and capture Richmond himself the way Farragut had taken New Orleans. As a result, he constantly opposed obstructing the channel. However, early in June, Grant decided to shift the Army of the Potomac from its lines at Cold Harbor across the James to join Butler in operations against Richmond from the South. This plan made Union control of the River even more important and prompted Washington to insist upon blocking the channel. The first stone-laden schooner was sunk on 15 June and the operation continued until Army leaders felt safe from Southern ironclads.\nThis barrier increased the security of Union shipping on the James and reduced the burden on the Union warships on the river, freeing Admiral Lee to attend to squadron matters elsewhere. As a result, he shifted his flag back to Malvern on the last day of June and returned to Hampton Roads.\nAgawam remained upriver where, despite the obstructions, she found ample opportunity to use her fighting skills. The presence of the tremendous concentration of Union troops south of Richmond had goaded defenders of the Confederate capital into desperate measures to interrupt Union shipping on the James. The day after Admiral Lee left her, Agawam and Mendota fired on a fortified position inside Four Mile Creek whence Southern five guns had recently fired upon Hunchback and, in the months that followed, frequently engaged batteries hiding along the banks of the strategic stream.\nEarly in July, Lt. George Dewey, the future hero of Manila Bay, relieved Rhind in temporary command of the ship, his first command, but Rhind was back when Agawam fought her most memorable battle. About two hours past noon on 13 August, three batteries opened fire on the double-ender almost simultaneously from different locations, beginning an engagement which lasted over four hours before dwindling ammunition forced her to withdraw. During the action, three of Agawam's men were killed and four wounded.\nLate in November, boiler trouble forced Agawam downstream for extensive repairs. While the ship was being brought back to fighting trim in the Norfolk Navy Yard, Comdr. Rhind left her temporarily to take command of Louisiana, a steamer which had been selected to perform an unusual and seemingly important task. Rhind took with him a carefully selected group of volunteers from Agawam to man his new ship. They boarded Louisiana at Beaufort, N.C., and took her to waters of Wilmington, N.C., for use as a giant bomb to help reduce the defenses of Fort Fisher which guarded that city, the only major port still open to Confederate blockade runners. After several days of delay because of stormy weather, Rhind took the ship close aboard Fort Fisher on the night of 23 and 24 December 1864. Her crew then set her ablaze, left the ship, and managed to row to safety before Louisiana exploded.\nThe concussion failed to detonate the Fort Fisher magazine, and the ensuing amphibious attack proved to be abortive. The troops who went ashore on Christmas Eve to storm the Southern stronghold reembarked the next day and headed back toward Hampton Roads. Rhind and band of daring volunteers returned to Agawam which was still undergoing repairs.\nThe work continued through mid-February, and the gunboat finally put to sea on the 16th. She entered Pamlico Sound, N.C., two days later and operated in the island waters of that state through the end of the Civil War.\nFollowing the collapse of the Confederacy, Agawam operated along the Atlantic coast between Florida and the Virginia capes for almost two years. She was decommissioned at Norfolk on 31 March 1867. The ship was sold at auction there on 10 October 1867 to Mr. James Power. No record of her subsequent career has been found.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "ATHENS, Greece (AP) — American archaeologists have discovered two monumental royal tombs dating from about 3,500 years ago near a major Mycenaean-era palace in Greece’s southern Peloponnese region, the Greek culture ministry said Tuesday.\nA ministry statement said the dome-shaped roofs of both tombs near the Bronze Age palace of Pylos collapsed during antiquity, and the chambers became filled with so much earth and rubble that grave robbers couldn’t get in to plunder them.\nNevertheless, the tombs were disturbed during the period of their use over several generations — unlike another Mycenaean grave found nearby in 2015 that yielded a stunning hoard of gold and silver treasure, jewelry and bronze arms buried with a man presumed to have been an early ruler of Pylos.\nRecovered grave goods from the two tombs included a golden seal ring and a golden amulet of an ancient Egyptian goddess, highlighting Bronze Age trade and cultural links. The ministry said the discovery was particularly important as it shed light on the early phases of Greece’s Mycenaean civilization.\nThe Mycenaean era, between roughly 1650-1100 B.C. provided the material for many of the myths and legends of ancient Greece including that of the Trojan War.\nThe larger of the two tombs had a diameter of 12 meters (36 feet) at floor level and its stone walls survived to a height of 4.5 meters (15 feet) — less than half its original height. The other was about two-thirds of that size and its walls now stand two meters high. Both belong to the tholos type of tomb, massive domed underground constructions reserved for Mycenaean royalty that could reach roughly 15 meters (45 feet) in height.\nThey were excavated over the past two years by University of Cincinnati archaeologists, who also discovered the nearby rich burial that is known as the Griffin Warrior grave, after some of the ornaments found in it.\nAll three graves, together with another tholos tomb found nearby decades ago, were built earlier than the sprawling palace whose ruins lie close by, and which features in Homer’s Odyssey as the seat of the wise King Nestor.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The name of the temple is currently applied to the locution of Malang. Malang Kucecwara virtually suggests that God has destroyed the false and implemented the correct. Location of the temple is supposedly settled close to trendy Malang. \"Malang\" is Javanese word for \"menghalangi\" or obstructed. That word comes from ancient history that individuals of Malang fighting its encroacher from Mataram Sultanate courageously.\nThousands of years ago before Malang became the second biggest town in East Java, Malang wont to be the center of presidency of the Kanjuruhan and Singasari kingdom. Within the following era, Malang regency became a crucial place once the government of Mataram Kingdom took hold of the world, creating it the biggest regency in East Java and since then the event of Malang regency has enlarged well.\nThe history of Malang regency may well be unconcealed through the Dinoyo inscription 760 AD because the primary instrument to support the birth of Malang before a replacement inscription was discovered in 1986, that is to date not however unconcealed. In line with the inscription, it had been ended that the eighth century was the start of the existence of Malang Regency's government owing to the birth of King Gajayana's ruling of his kingdom in Malang.\nThe city was incorporated into Mataram in 1614 and then transferred to Dutch colonial rule. Malang was reworked below the Dutch; it’s cool climate which ends up from its elevation conjunction with its proximity to the most important port of Surabaya, created as preferred destination for Dutch and alternative Europeans. In 1879, Malang was connected to Java's railroad network, more increasing development and resulting in enlarged manufacture. in conjunction with growth came urbanization.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Researchers at CNetS, IUNI, and the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have launched upgrades to two tools playing a major role in countering the spread of misinformation online: Hoaxy and Botometer. A third tool Fakey — an educational game designed to make people smarter news consumers — also launches with the upgrades.\nHoaxy is a search engine that shows users how stories from low-credibility sources spread on Twitter. Botometer is an app that assigns a score to Twitter users based on the likelihood that the account is automated. The two tools are now integrated so that one can now easily detect when information is spreading virally, and who is responsible for its spread.\nHoaxy and Botometer currently process hundreds of thousands of daily online queries. The technology has enabled researchers, including a team at IU, to study how information flows online in the presence of bots. Examples are a study on the cover of the March issue of Science that analyzed the spread of false news on Twitter and an analysis from the Pew Research Center in April that found that nearly two-thirds of the links to popular websites on Twitter are shared by automated accounts.\nFakey is a web and mobile news literacy game that mixes news stories with false reports, clickbait headlines, conspiracy theories and “junk science.” Players earn points by “fact-checking” false information and liking or sharing accurate stories. The project, led by IU graduate student Mihai Avram, was created to help people develop responsible social media consumption habits. An Android app is available, and an iOS version will launch shortly.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The section involves some discussion of the way the perspectives of contemporary physics fit with Scripture. Among the most fundamental scientific disciplines, the major target of physics is to comprehend the way the universe behaves. In science lessons all students have to have a comprehensive comprehension of the vocabulary used before further study can occur.\nA scientist is someone who works in and has expert knowledge of a certain area of science. It looks like science fiction. It is by far the most basic and fundamental science.\nIt’s also interesting to contemplate prospective applications in spectroscopy. https://www.grademiners.com/ So we build detectors that may sense even an extremely modest interaction. Some folks utilize space telescopes to search for the additional light from dark matter annihilation.\nSunday Mass is a significant sociocultural element in Roman Catholic life. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Everything occurs on a worldwide scale.\nJust pour or fill the container and utilize it as you would usually utilize water in summary, drink it once in some time, keep yourself well-hydrated. If you know your path isn’t right, then you are aware you should get off it. Also known as a barrier island.\nUnfortunately most communities aren’t taking the required steps to tackle these difficulties. There are several reasons for this, but likely not what you may think. Human brains are so elaborate and invidual that there’s very little point in attempting to work out how another individual ought to reorganize her or his thinking.\nPolarization Polarization is every time a wave oscillates in one specific direction. Intensive properties do not depend on the amount of matter present. Geometry is also significant in these parameters.\nAlso analyze the chance of multiple solutions given the distances and heights you have selected. Fast-moving objects can cover huge distances in a little timeframe. Light is a sort of electromagnetic wave.\nThe Physics Terms Game\nThe wellness effects of one unit of dose to the full body are more harmful than the very same dose to only some of the human body. The depth of cut denotes the width of material in touch with the tool. The absolute most important point to comprehend about cutting edges of any shape is that they’re made for a specific intent.\nTheir silk is often known as rose silk. On the flip side, a pencil has a little quantity of inertia. All PhysicsQuest materials could possibly be downloaded and reproduced at no charge.\nFor instance, if you desire to ascertain the acceleration of the block farther down the plane, then you’ll require the component of the force which acts down the plane. buy paper The quantity of kinetic energy depends on the mass and speed of the object. The predominant part of aerodynamic drag is dependent upon the flight conditions and contour of the human body.\nWhat You Need to Know About Physics Terms\nHistory and virtual examples are utilised to provide the discipline context. These definitions have never been approved by Landmark Worldwide. Element with over one natural form.\nThe Foolproof Physics Terms Strategy\nThis rate would seem to be due to the mass of the Earth. Yet the overall quantity of energy remains constant. It looks weightless, but should you put it on a balance, you will discover that it has a tiny, but measurable mass.\nGenerally speaking, schools or districts must shell out the money for the particular purpose. For instance, during an ordinary visit to school, there are lots of changes in speed. The very first is the accessibility to talent.\nTo help you in reading these guidelines, you might want to seek advice from a quick glossary. Regardless of this, a sound grasp of the ideas presented within this tutorial are unquestionably important for more progress in vector analysis. The next time you’re confronted with a tough vocabulary word, look in its different components.\nThe bigger The mass of the object, the larger the force will have to be to cause it to accelerate. 1 sievert is equivalent to 100 rem. Even though this might cause a frenzy of activity, it would lead to a zero velocity.\nIt’s not nuclear physics. A region in space that’s defined by means of a vector function. But if you’re asked about time or horizontal motion you almost certainly will have to use kinematics.\nThe end result of these multiple storytelling modes is that there is not any 1 truth’ represented. By comparison, a doubtful figure is a digit that may not be correct. Indeed presentism (thinking about past in conditions of contemporary concepts) is a typical danger for historical considerations, but it’s not so in the case if we are tracing the origin of MODERN physics.\nYou might receive a bit scratched and bruised on the way. The idea was supposed to gauge the faint gravitational attraction between the more compact balls and the bigger ones. The body and mind are resting as a way to continue their experience of the planet.\nThe New Fuss About Physics Terms\nPlease be aware that these resource bundles have a great deal of moving parts. Definitions of keywords and terms that you have to know. There you will see the very best interactive periodic tables on the web, together with many different printable versions.\nThere are a big number of health professions. As a consequence, a number of the exclusions above may not be applicable to you. Personal statement a part of text applicants write to demonstrate the reason why they’re applying and why they’d be an excellent student for a training course provider to accept.\nPhysics is crucial in the growth of new technologies, like airplanes, televisions, computers and nuclear weapons. You may also click on subdivisions of the period to find out more. As a rule of thumb, any non-zero digit shown is an important figure.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Born in 451 or 452 of princely ancestors at Faughart, near Dundalk, County Louth; d. 1 February, 525, at Kildare. Refusing many good offers of marriage, she became a nun and received the veil from St. Macaille. With seven other virgins she settled for a time at the foot of Croghan Hill, but removed thence to Druin Criadh, in the plains of Magh Life, where under a large oak tree she erected her subsequently famous Convent of Cill-Dara, that is, \"the church of the oak\" (now Kildare), in the present county of that name.\nThe most ancient life of St. Brigid is that by St. Broccan Cloen, who is said to have died 17 September, 650. It is metrical, as may be seen from the following specimen:\nNi bu Sanct Brigid suanach\nNi bu huarach im sheire Dé,\nSech ni chiuir ni cossens\nInd nóeb dibad bethath che.\nSaint Brigid was not given to sleep\nNor was she intermittent about God's love;\nNot merely that she did not buy,\nshe did not seek for\nThe wealth of this world below, the holy one.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Alcohol Intake and Alcohol Dependency – What New Research Has Revealed About Their CausesAnna Ciulla\nGenes and environment have long been cited in attempts to describe what causes some people to drink more than others— and, why some people develop an alcohol dependency and others do not. Now, two new studies have shed more light on the genetics and “climatology” (environmental causes) of alcoholism. The findings come at a time when the upcoming holidays mean that Americans will have more excuses to drink than ever.\nWhat, then, has new research revealed about alcohol intake, alcohol dependency and the factors that put you at higher risk for both? Read on to find out.\nThe Link Between Colder Weather, Alcohol Intake and Alcoholic Cirrhosis\nFirst, research recently published in the journal Hepatology and conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Division of Gastroenterology found that where you live can determine not only how much you drink but also whether you are more likely to contract alcoholic liver disease. In the study, the researchers collected data from 193 countries, in addition to 50 states and 3,144 counties in the United States. The data they were after included the following:\n- Key climate parameters like average annual sunshine hours and average annual temperature\n- Metrics regarding drinking habits and related health issues (alcohol consumption, pattern of drinking, health indicators, and alcohol-attributable fraction of cirrhosis)\nWhat the researchers discovered, in the end, was that a colder climate did indeed contribute both to a higher alcohol intake and to a higher incidence of alcoholic cirrhosis.\nIn a summary of the findings on its site, the University of Pittsburgh gave two explanations for these results:\n- Alcohol acts as a “vasodilator,” meaning that alcohol increases the flow of warm blood to the skin, thereby increasing feelings of warmth. It therefore goes without saying that someone living in a very cold place, like Wisconsin, will be more likely to seek out these warming sensations than someone living in a warm place like Florida.\n- Drinking is also associated with depression, which itself is more prevalent in colder, darker environments.\nThe Genetic Cause of Alcohol Dependence\nAlcohol dependence is a condition that reportedly affects one in eight Americans. Now, in the largest study of genetic factors related to alcohol dependence—the study was published November 26 in the journal Nature Neuroscience—an international team of researchers has identified a gene that conclusively raises susceptibility to alcohol dependence. The gene ADH1B regulates how quickly the body metabolizes alcohol, specifically by regulating how the body converts alcohol into a substance known as acetaldehyde. (While other genes were found to affect risk for developing alcohol dependence, their causal strength was nowhere on a par with that presented by ADH1B.)\nThe scientists made another important discovery, too: they found a whole set of genetic factors associated with alcohol dependence that they were able to link to other psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, and ADHD; and they also found that the same genetic factors that predict cigarette and marijuana use predicted higher risk for alcohol dependence.\nA news release from the Washington University School of Medicine detailed these findings. There the senior author of the study, Dr. Arpana Agrawal, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, clarified that ADH1B “by no means” is the only thing affecting risk of alcohol dependence. She pointed to environmental factors which also play a role.\n“We also think the genetic susceptibility to alcohol dependence stems from the small, cumulative effects of a very large number of variants across the genome,” Dr. Agrawal said.\nAre you worried about your alcohol intake? End your dependence on alcohol, starting today.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "After centuries of philosophers, and in more recent times psychologists, coming up their own set of personality factors a symposium in the 1980s settled on what are called the “big five” which are commonly found in most summaries of personality traits. Four of the traits were supposed to be positive: Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion and agreeableness. The last one, neuroticism, was tied to unpleasant emotions and anxiety.\nThe four positive traits have not remained as the ideal psychological state. For one thing a person high in openness to experiences seeks novelty and variety which are avoided by the conscientious person who prefers planning and dependability. Even agreeableness if overdone can result in spinelessness.\nFinally, we have come to accept the fact that less energetic and outgoing behavior of an introvert is not a sign of poor mental health, and removed it from the Diagnostic Standard Manual used by mental health professionals. Telling introverts to blurt out everything that comes to their mind and never retreat to solitude does not work because it does not fit their psychological needs. In the same manner it is exhausting for an extrovert to spend hours silently concentrating on work.\nHowever, neuroticsm still has it’s bad reputation. It is often closely linked with a pessimistic life view that is on the look out for the next unpleasant event. So the tendency has been to encourage the “glass half empty” people to pep themselves up with positive self talk. If optimism and pessimism are really parts of a persons disposition, this kind of advice might not be useful at all.\nA study from the University of Waterloo in Canada found that repeating positive affirmations made people who already had low-esteem feel worse about themselves. The group was divided into two, with the control half writing down whatever crossed their mind for 4 minutes. The other half were instructed to do the same thing with the addition of thinking a positive though about themselves each time a bell was rung. After 4 minutes both groups answered a battery of questions about their mood and self-esteem. People with high self esteem exhibited a more positive mood if they were in the group giving themselves affirming themselves every time the bell rang. But those with low self-esteem were in a better mood if they were allowed to write without the intrusion of the self pep talk.\nAccording to Joanne Wood, the Lead researcher and professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo:\nIt appears that positive self-statements, despite their widespread endorsement, may backfire for the very people who need them the most.\nBut have we ever considered that the people with low-esteem are leery of the illusion of positive self-feed back? Not only do they not need it, they do not want it. They may function better in an environment in which a less than optimal view of one self is accepted.\nJoanne V. Wood, Ph.D, Should we re-think positive thinking? Giving ourselves pep talks may backfire.Published in Regarding Self-Regard. March 20, 2009", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Robinson Treaty made in the Year 1850 with the Ojibewa Indians of Lake Huron, conveying certain lands to the crown of Canada is a stark reminder of a history to regret.It’s very officious, legal and permanent-sounding: “…the sum of two thousand pounds of good and lawful money of Upper Canada…to convey unto Her Majesty, her heirs and successors for ever, all their right, title and interest to, and in the whole of…eastern and northern shores of Lake Huron, northern shores of Lake Superior, together with the islands…” The fact that our history is centered on stories like this – stealing tens of millions of acres of land to bleed it dry – inspired me to write a book some years ago, now being transformed into an illustrated novella: Manitou Island.\n“Asawasanay.” Norma poured him a glass of water. “That’s a beautiful name.”\n“I was named after one of my forefathers. His name is on the Robinson Treaty, the treaty that signed away all of these lands.”\n“I don’t understand,” Gerbi replied. “I mean, isn’t there some kind of custom to what you’re doing here? Don’t you have rituals or anything like that?”\n“What would you have me do? Appear on a white stallion? Or perhaps you envisioned a birch-bark canoe.”\n“How did you get here?”\n“You hitchhiked,” Gerbi repeated dully.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "PREPARATIONS have begun for a major new exhibition at the York Castle Museum to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War.\nThe exhibition, which is entitled 1914: When The World Changed Forever, will use new technology and the museum’s military collection to track the war from June 28 – the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand – and the outbreak of the war.\nThe exhibition is part of a £1.7 million project at the museum, with the majority of the funding coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and will be hosted in a new exhibition space on the museum’s first floor.\nAndrew Morrison, head curator at York Museums Trust, said: “It was the first global war and touched the lives of those far from the front lines of battle as people back home were forced to adapt their lives to help their country or the Empire they were part of.\n“By the time it was over, eight million people had died. The war’s legacy created new opportunities as well as threats and the world map changed forever as new countries were born while empires crumbled.\n“Through our fantastic collections and significant investment by the Heritage Lottery Fund, we hope this major exhibition will not just be a commemoration of the war, but a more rounded and reflective look at how culture and society’s values were revolutionised.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Knowledge: Pursuit and Consensus\nIn his work Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, Ezra Vogel analyzes the secrets to Japanese success, starting first with the “group-directed quest for knowledge.” After WWII, Japan’s unfailing interest in new ideas and new techniques led to the adoption of supremely beneficial strategies from the minds of both Japanese and Western thinkers. While business leaders in the U.S. ignored the ideas of Demming and Drucker, the Japanese used their concepts of quality control and management as the fundamental base to economic recovery.\nVogel ties this industrial knowledge learning in with widespread “popular” learning in hobbies, sports, and study. The Japanese read more printed media than Americans, which he sees as a post-schooling commitment to information gathering and knowledge acquisition. I cannot help but think, however, that the dominance of the written media in Japan is mostly determined by the transportation patterns. In other words, books, magazines, and newspapers are a perfect fit for long train commutes, but not long car rides. No matter, the Japanese do show great interest in learning English and other skills, forming study groups to work out problems, and bringing in foreign experts to teach advanced techniques. The field of sports and athletics is a perfect example: After years of dedication, the Japanese are now internationally competitive in a large range of “foreign” sports.\nThere is certainly a case to be made that the Japanese are in constant pursuit of knowledge, and this contributed greatly to Japan’s economic recovery on both bureaucratic and individual levels. But now that the world has visibly moved into a “knowledge” or “information economy,” why do Japanese firms have a difficult time producing knowledge-based products like software?\nPossibly, an aggregate interest in learning has fallen since the time of Vogel’s book, but more likely, the kind of knowledge acquisition dominant in Japan has little direct link to the new knowledge industries. As authors like Marilyn Ivy have pointed out, the Japanese “consume” intellectual works (like Asada Akira) without particularly understanding or digesting them. With high-schools dedicated solely to test-preparation and the low class attendance of students at elite colleges condoned by professors/administrators, there is essentially no part in the Japanese education process that teaches students “how to learn.” Effort becomes the panacea to all intellectual problems, and while this works perfectly for sports or hobbies, there is no evidence that “effort” alone can solve more complicated queries.\nThe Japanese pursuit of knowledge seems to be symptomatic of a larger campaign of social-involvement and self-improvement — both extremely beneficial to the daily workings of society. However, there has been a failure to move this habit of information-acquisition into the computer age. The Japanese may have reached that barrier where a new regimen of learning is necessary, but the bureaucracy would need to uproot the entire Japanese system to employ these new techniques and strategies.\nPart one here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Qualifications And Experience\nAdvanced university degree in law, social sciences, or gender and development or related field;\n7 years of increasingly responsible relevant professional experience,\n17 May, 2017\nAbout United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)\nUNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.\nUNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives.\nSince UNFPA started working in 1969, the number - and rate - of women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth has been halved. Families are smaller and healthier. Young people are more connected and empowered than ever before.\nToo many left behind\nBut too many are still left behind. Nearly a billion people remain mired in extreme poverty. Sexual and reproductive health problems are a leading cause of death and disability for women in the developing world. Young people bear the highest risks of HIV infection and unintended pregnancy. More than a hundred million girls face the prospect of child marriage and other harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation.\nMuch more needs to be done to ensure a world in which all individuals can exercise their basic human rights, including those that relate to the most intimate and fundamental aspects of life.\nEnsuring every pregnancy is wanted\nFew things have a greater impact on the life of a woman than the number and spacing of her children. That’s why international agreements going back decades affirm that individuals should have the right (and the means) to freely decide when (or if) to start a family and how many children to bear. Yet, in this new century, some 225 million women who want to avoid or delay childbearing still lack access to the quality services and supplies needed to manage their fertility.\nSupporting maternal health\nWe know how to save almost all women who die giving life. The first step is to ensure they can plan their pregnancies and space their births. Skilled birth attendance at delivery, with backup emergency obstetric care and essential supplies in place, is also critical.\nPerhaps the most challenging aspect of reducing maternal death and disability is finding ways to reach all women, even those in the poorest, most remote areas, or in times of natural or man-made disasters. This involves bolstering health systems. It is also critical that pregnant women are able to access all the care they need, from prenatal HIV testing to post-natal care for newborns, at the same clinic or health centre. This approach saves money and saves lives.\nHelping young people fulfil their potential\nYoung people from age 10-24 constitute a quarter of the world’s population (2014). Their reproductive choices will shape future demographic trends.\nUNFPA advocates for the rights of young people, including the right to accurate information and services related to sexuality and reproductive health. Empowered with knowledge and skills to protect themselves and make informed decisions, they can realize their full potential and contribute to economic and social transformation.\nInvesting in young people, especially adolescent girls, is one of the smartest investments a country can make. As parents, teachers and leaders of the next generation, they can help break the cycle of poverty, strengthen the social fabric and create a sustainable future.\nNo review available Do you currently work in this company or maybe have worked there before? Drop a review\nUnited Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Salaries\nAnonymously drop your salary if you are working with this company or maybe have worked with them in the past.Drop your salary\nSubscribe to Job Alert\nJoin our happy subscribers", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When domestic taurine cattle diffused from the Fertile Crescent, local wild aurochsen (Bos primigenius) were still numerous. Moreover, aurochsen and introduced cattle often coexisted for millennia, thus providing potential conditions not only for spontaneous interbreeding, but also for pastoralists to create secondary domestication centers involving local aurochs populations. Recent mitochondrial genomes analyses revealed that not all modern taurine mtDNAs belong to the shallow macro-haplogroup T of Near Eastern origin, as demonstrated by the detection of three branches (P, Q and R) radiating prior to the T node in the bovine phylogeny. These uncommon haplogroups represent excellent tools to evaluate if sporadic interbreeding or even additional events of cattle domestication occurred.\nThe survey of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control-region variation of 1,747 bovine samples (1,128 new and 619 from previous studies) belonging to 37 European breeds allowed the identification of 16 novel non-T mtDNAs, which after complete genome sequencing were confirmed as members of haplogroups Q and R. These mtDNAs were then integrated in a phylogenetic tree encompassing all available P, Q and R complete mtDNA sequences.\nPhylogenetic analyses of 28 mitochondrial genomes belonging to haplogroups P (N = 2), Q (N = 16) and R (N = 10) together with an extensive survey of all previously published mtDNA datasets revealed major similarities between haplogroups Q and T. Therefore, Q most likely represents an additional minor lineage domesticated in the Near East together with the founders of the T subhaplogroups. Whereas, haplogroup R is found, at least for the moment, only in Italy and nowhere else, either in modern or ancient samples, thus supporting an origin from European aurochsen. Haplogroup R could have been acquired through sporadic interbreeding of wild and domestic animals, but our data do not rule out the possibility of a local and secondary event of B. primigenius domestication in Italy.\nCitation: Bonfiglio S, Achilli A, Olivieri A, Negrini R, Colli L, Liotta L, et al. (2010) The Enigmatic Origin of Bovine mtDNA Haplogroup R: Sporadic Interbreeding or an Independent Event of Bos primigenius Domestication in Italy? PLoS ONE 5(12): e15760. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015760\nEditor: Toomas Kivisild, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom\nReceived: September 1, 2010; Accepted: November 23, 2010; Published: December 28, 2010\nCopyright: © 2010 Bonfiglio et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.\nFunding: This research received support from Progetto SELMOL-Selezione Molecolare (Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies) (to LF), Progetti Ricerca Interesse Nazionale 2007 (Italian Ministry of the University) (to AT, LF and PA-M), FIRB-Futuro in Ricerca 2008 (Italian Ministry of the University) (to AA and AO), and Fondazione Alma Mater Ticinensis (to AT and LF). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\nCompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.\nThe domestication of wild aurochs (Bos primigenius) ∼10 thousand years ago (kya) was a major development in the Neolithic transition, with significant cultural and socioeconomic implications for the numerous human populations of the Old World that at different times adopted cattle breeding , . However, despite the wide geographical distributions of B. primigenius (Asia, Europe and North Africa), archeozoological and genetic evidence, mainly from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), suggest that modern cattle might represent the legacy of just two independent and geographically distinct domestication events, both of which occurred in southwest Asia. One occurred in the Fertile Crescent and involved aurochsen characterized by mtDNAs belonging to the macro-haplogroup T, whose different sub-branches (T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5) characterize modern taurine breeds (Bos taurus). The other, which occurred most likely in the Indus Valley, led to the humped zebuine breeds (Bos indicus) and involved B. primigenius population(s) with mtDNAs belonging to haplogroups I1 and I2 –.\nThe T sub-haplogroups are rather geographically structured: T1 is the most common in Africa, T3 is dominant in Europe, while T4 is typical of East Asian breeds. All T mtDNA clusters (except T4) are found in Near Eastern breeds , , . This, together with the divergence time of the entire macro-haplogroup T, only 16.0 ky obtained by using a constant mtDNA sequence evolution rate and an estimated bifurcation between yak and bison versus cattle of 2 million years , agrees with a single B. taurus domestication event in the Fertile Crescent, followed by spread with the migrations of farmers and pastoralists. However, note that much deeper divergence times for all Bos lineages have been extrapolated from the phylogenetic relationships of artiodactyl and cetacean mitogenomes using a fixed bifurcation time of 60 million years between ruminants and whales .\nWhen domesticated herds diffused from the Fertile Crescent into Europe, Africa and the rest of Asia, local B. primigenius populations were numerous and widespread. Moreover, the coexistence of autochthonous wild aurochsen and the newly introduced cattle lasted for thousands of years in many geographical areas, thus providing potential conditions not only for spontaneous interbreeding between wild animals and domestic herds, but also for pastoralists to create secondary centers of domestication involving local aurochs populations. Additional domestication events – in Africa –, East Asia  and possibly southern Europe  – have been proposed, but they are challenged by the age estimates obtained from a large dataset of entire mtDNA sequence data . Indeed, the supposedly involved haplogroups (T1 for Africa, T4 for East Asia and T3 for Europe) are all subsets of T, which is 16.0±3.2 ky old according to Achilli et al. 2008 . The domestication of these closely related sub-haplogroups of T independently from geographically distinct B. primigenius populations, would imply that, despite the great distances, aurochs populations from northern Africa, southern Europe and East Asia shared and maintained an almost complete homogeneity at the level of the entire mitochondrial sequence. This would be an unprecedented scenario for Eurasian mammals – that nevertheless has recently received some support from the identification of mtDNA control-region sequences in pre-Neolithic aurochs remains from Italy that appear to belong to the macro-haplogroup T, mostly T3 .\nThe debate concerning the origin of domesticated cattle has received new fuel from the finding that not all taurine mtDNAs belong to haplogroups T1–T5. The analysis of entire mitochondrial genomes from modern taurine cattle has indeed detected representatives of three mtDNA branches radiating prior to the T node in the bovine phylogeny. The first is haplogroup Q. Out of the three non-T branches, this is the closest to haplogroup T, with a divergence time of about 48 ky , . The second is haplogroup P, found in an animal from Korea generically classified as “beef cattle” . Its estimated divergence time from haplogroup T is about 71 ky , in agreement with the scenario that P was a marker of European aurochs, especially those from northern and central Europe –. The third is haplogroup R, encompassing so far only four mtDNAs, all from Italian taurine breeds. The separation between R and the other taurine branches represents the earliest known split in the mtDNA phylogeny of B. primigenius .\nThe identification and the analysis of these few non-T mtDNAs has not only revealed that B. primigenius populations of Western Eurasia harbored extensive variation at the level of mitochondrial genomes, but also that such a diversity was probably geographically well-structured. Thus, haplogroups P, Q and R represent excellent tools to properly evaluate the possibility that independent events of cattle domestication, other than those in southwest Asia, have occurred. Such an assessment requires the identification of an adequate number of non-T mtDNAs and a detailed analysis of their sequence variation.\nTo this aim, we performed a comprehensive mtDNA survey of more than 1,700 animals belonging to a number of European breeds. We detected ten novel Q and six novel R mtDNAs, which were completely sequenced. Our data support the scenario that haplogroup Q spread from the Middle East together with haplogroups T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5, but raise the possibility of an Italian origin for haplogroup R.\nSurvey of mtDNA Haplogroups in European Taurine Breeds\nThe mtDNA control region (CTR), approximately from np 15823 to 215, was sequenced in 1,747 animals representing 37 European breeds, of which 25 were Italian and the remaining twelve from other European regions. This dataset comprises 1,128 new subjects and 619 from a previous study . The control-region mutational motifs allowed the classification of virtually all the mtDNAs within known haplogroups as shown in Table 1. The complete list of CTR haplotypes is available in Table S1. Concerning the overall haplogroup frequencies, T3 (mutational motif: BRS) was the most frequent (88.6%), as expected from a survey of European cattle; T1 (motif: 169-16113-16255) and T2 (motif: 169-16057C-16185-16255) had similar low frequencies, 4.2% and 5.0%, respectively. We did not detect any mtDNA belonging to haplogroup T4 (motif: 169-16042-16093-16302), while twelve mtDNAs (0.7%) with the rare haplogroup T5 mutational motif (163-169-16255) were identified. Most of the T5 mtDNAs were found in the Valdostana breed where this haplogroup appears to be common (13.5%). Only two mtDNAs (0.1%) from an Agerolese and a Cabannina did not cluster into any of the T subclades, but as previously reported they belonged to haplogroup T1′2′3 (motif: 169-16255) .\nAlthough mtDNAs belonging to the T branch were by far the most frequent (98.6%), fourteen animals (0.8%) harbored mtDNAs with the control-region motif of the Q haplogroup (169-15953G-16255) and ten (0.6%) were characterized by the haplogroup R motif (8-106-166-221+C-234+T-249-296-300-15818-15900-15951-15953G-16057-16076-16084-16085-16121-16122-16127-16135-16137-16200+A-16231-16248-16250-16264-16301). None of the mtDNAs fell within haplogroup P (motif: 106-166-190-221+C-222-249-300-301-15951-15953G-15994-16049-16051-16058-16074-16085-16122-16231-16255-16264).\nPhylogenetic Relationships of the non-T mtDNAs\nThe 16 newly discovered non-T mtDNAs were sequenced completely and their phylogenetic relationships are described in Figure 1, together with the ten previously reported Q and R sequences, as well as two P sequences , , . Sequencing of the entire molecule confirmed that all non-T mtDNAs were indeed members of haplogroups Q and R. The list of complete MtDNA sequences belonging to haplogroups P, Q and R is shown in Table 2.\nThe tree is drawn to scale. Phylogeny construction was performed by hand following a parsimony approach, while the evolutionary distances were computed using the Maximum Likelihood (ML) method. The exact values for clades and subclades are available in Table 3 together with averaged distance (rho) of the haplotypes of a clade to the respective root haplotype. Sixteen of the sequences (#1–3, #5, #9–13, #16, #22–26, #28) are new, while the others were previously published: Bos taurus Reference Sequence (BRS) (GenBank accession number V00654)  # 14–15, #17 ; #4, #6–8, #19–21, #27 ; #18 . Taking into account that sequence #18 is from an ancient British aurochs radiocarbon dated to 6,738±68 calibrated years BP, the divergence of the haplogroup P node is underestimated. Additional information regarding each mtDNA sequence, including GenBank accession numbers, is provided in Table 2. An additional branch, named E, placed between P and R has been reported previously ,  but was not included in the tree since it is not a complete mitochrondrial genome sequence.\nThe Q branch encompasses a total of 16 mtDNAs from five Italian breeds (Cabannina, Chianina, Grey Alpine, Italian Red Pied, and Romagnola). Complete sequence analysis revealed six different sequence types (haplotypes) clustering into the two distinct sub-haplogroups, Q1 (ten subjects; four haplotypes) and Q2 (six subjects; two haplotypes) (Figure 2). In other words, most of the six haplotypes were found in more than one animal. As expected, subjects with an identical sequence were generally from the same breed, but this was not always the case. For instance, the same haplotype was shared by two Grey Alpine (#11–12) and three Cabannina (#13–15) mtDNAs, and another haplotype was found in two Romagnola (#4–5) and one Chianina (#6), thus suggesting gene flow of maternal lineages between these breeds or their ancestors.\nThis tree, built and rooted as previously described by Achilli et al. 2008  illustrates the relationships between the common haplogroup T represented by BRS and the rare mtDNAs belonging to haplogroups P, Q and R. Shown divergence times are those obtained using ML as reported in Table 3. Mutations are shown on the branches and are numbered according to the BRS; they are transitions unless a base is explicitly indicated; suffixes indicate transversions (to A, G, C, or T) or indels (+, d) and should be read as if the BRS was an artificial root. Recurrent mutations are underlined, and true back mutations with respect to evolutionary direction are prefixed with the superscript β (beta) in addition (which is thus in alternation with prefix @ on the path between the overall root and BRS). Note that the reconstruction of recurrent mutations in the control region is ambiguous in a number of cases. Heteroplasmy is marked with a suffix (h). The numbering of sequences is the same as in Figure 1.\nThe maximum-likelihood (ML) divergence based on the complete mtDNA sequence for the entire Q haplogroup was 0.00036±0.00008 substitutions per site (Figure 1 and Table 3), and corresponded to a divergence time of 17.7±3.9 ky according to the mutation rate proposed by Achilli et al. 2008 . The ML divergence for Q1 (0.00032±0.00007) was not much lower than that of the entire Q, and corresponded to 15.5±3.5 ky. In contrast, the extent of sequence variation within Q2 was extremely low resulting in a coalescence time of only 0.9±1.1 ky. These divergence ages were overall confirmed when the average distance of the haplotypes from the root of Q, Q1 and Q2 (ρ-statistics) was computed (Table 3).\nThe complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome from a Mesolithic wild aurochs became recently available , so it was possible to include it in our phylogeny (#18 in Figures 1 and 2) along with the only available modern complete P sequence (#17) . The ancient DNA sequence derives from a humerus bone sample excavated from a cave in Derbyshire (UK), and was classified as Bos primigenius based on radiocarbon dating to 6,738±68 calibrated years BP . The availability of two complete P sequences allowed the evaluation of the internal divergence of P (0.00033±0.00010 substitutions per site), which corresponds to a coalescence time of 16.0±4.7 ky (Figure 2). In addition, it was also possible to better assess the split time of the P branch from the sister branch QT (75.5±10 ky). However, both figures should be corrected to compensate for the fact that the Mesolithic aurochs sample died 6,738 years BP. Using the coding region mutation rate of 3,172 years  the adjusted divergence time for the P node should be moved up to approximately 20 ky. It is likely that the coalescence time of the P node will be soon further reassessed, not only by adding complete mtDNA sequences from additional ancient aurochs remains, but also from additional modern samples, at least four reported, whose mtDNA sequence data clearly indicate an affiliation within P –.\nOverall, haplogroup R comprises ten mtDNAs from four breeds (Agerolese, Cinisara, Romagnola and Marchigiana). The addition of six new sequences to those previously reported  allowed the dissection of R into two subhaplogroups, R1 and R2. The first encompasses eight mtDNAs, and contains a sub-branch defined by a coding region mutation at np 15579 separating the subjects previously described (Agerolese #19 and Cinisara #20–21) from the five new identical mtDNAs found in the Romagnola breed (#22–26). In addition, two other coding-region mutations (nps 5146 and 6850) distinguish the Agerolese from the two Cinisara. In contrast, R2 comprises only two mtDNAs with an identical haplotype, one from a Romagnola (#27) and one from a Marchigiana (#28). The overall divergence time of haplogroup R is 42.2±8.4 ky, thus confirming the ancient split between R1 and R2 . In contrast, the radiation time of R1 estimated both with ML (3.0±1.8 ky) and ρ-statistics (2.0±1.3 ky) appears to be rather low.\nOur survey of 25 Italian and twelve European taurine breeds confirmed the predominance of T mtDNAs in Europe, as expected. Yet two of the three non-T haplogroups, namely Q and R, made up 1.4% of our sample. Despite their frequencies are similarly low (0.8% and 0.6%, respectively), the distinct features of Q and R appear to indicate that their ancestral homelands and genetic history are different. To properly evaluate this issue, we have taken into account not only the complete mtDNA sequences that we report in this study, but also all the control-region data and the partial coding sequences available in the literature or posted in GenBank.\nExtensive Similarities between Haplogroups Q and T\nThis study provides a rather high number (16) of complete mtDNA sequences belonging to Q1 and Q2. These sequences depart from a central Q node (Figures 1 and 2) by 5.2–5.6 substitutions in the coding region (15,428 bp), corresponding to an estimated divergence time of 16–18 ky (Table 3) when using the evolutionary rate estimate of 2.043±0.099×10−8 base substitutions per nucleotide per year . A comparable coalescence time (15–19 ky) characterizes sub-haplogroup Q1, which harbors three very deep branches departing directly from its nodal haplotype. One of these, showing some internal diversity (two haplotypes), was here termed Q1a (Figure 2).\nThe average sequence diversity and divergence time of Q are similar to those reported for haplogroup T (5.1±1.00 substitutions; 16.0±3.2 ky) . Moreover, Q and T are the closest taurine branches in the tree (Figure 2) with a divergence time of about 40–50 ky (Table 3). Therefore, among all bovine haplogroups, haplogroups Q and T are those with the highest chance of having been present until recently in the same aurochs population, or at least in the same geographical area.\nThe finding that both Q and Q1 nodes coalesce prior to 10 kya, the upper limit for the domestication of B. primigenius, suggests that at least two different founder mtDNA haplotypes, one for Q1 and one for Q2 were acquired from wild aurochsen. This constitutes another similarity with the macro-haplogroup T, for which several founder haplotypes – at least one each for T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 – have been proposed. However, one of our results seems at odds with the supposed similarity between Q and T. Indeed, all sub-haplogroups of T (possibly except T4) are geographically widespread, while we have detected Q mtDNAs only in Italian taurine breeds. One possibility is that Q is rare, for instance like sub-haplogroup T5, thus its geographical distribution needs to be assessed in greater detail.\nTo address this issue, we searched for the control-region mutational motif of Q (169-15953G-16255) in the whole GenBank dataset of bovine mtDNA sequences from both modern and ancient samples (a total of 4,770 sequences at the time of our analysis). Overall, we detected seven mtDNAs with such a motif, three from ancient bone specimens and four from modern populations. The ancient samples are all from distant Neolithic archaeological sites, one in Germany , one in eastern Thrace ,  and one in France . As for the modern samples, two are from local breeds of southwestern China  one from Turkey (GenBank EF126311), and one from Portugal . Two other mtDNAs from China, for which instead only the cytb gene sequence was determined  were found to harbor the mutational motif 15134-15627, which is typical of Q (Figure 2).\nIn addition to these nine likely Q sequences, we also identified 70 modern and ancient mtDNAs, from a wide range of breeds and geographical areas, which potentially cluster within haplogroup Q. Their haplogroup affiliation is ambiguous because they are predominantly short control-region sequences that do not encompass np 15953, but the presence of the 16255 mutation places them outside of the common haplogroup T3, and its derivative T4 . Moreover, they do not harbor the diagnostic mutations of haplogroups T1 (16113), T2 (16057C, 16185) or T5 (163), or those of haplogroups P and R. Additional sequencing of these mtDNA is necessary to exclude their affiliation within the rare haplogroup T1′2′3 (only two out of 1,747 in our sample), or even to a still unknown T haplogroup, but it is likely that most of these, if not all, are true members of Q. This implies that the distribution range of haplogroup Q covers at least several European countries, Egypt, Turkey and China, which is another major similarity between haplogroups Q and T. Therefore, a parallel history can be envisioned for the two haplogroups, with Q representing an additional minor lineage that was domesticated in the Near East and later spread with human migrations and trades.\nThe Enigmatic Geographical Distribution of Haplogroup R\nWhat we found intriguing about haplogroup R is its occurrence only in Italian breeds (Table 1). It is true that our dataset is biased towards Italian breeds and that at a first glance the distribution of R resembles that of haplogroup Q, but this turned out not to be the case when we merged our data with those obtained from an extensive survey of the whole set of bovine mtDNA sequences available in GenBank and the literature. Unlike haplogroup Q that is defined by a simple control-region motif comprising only three mutations, of which one –169 – is unstable, the control-region motif of R harbors 27 distinguishing mutations relative to BRS (Figure 2), thus allowing the easy detection of its members, even by partial control-region sequencing. Thus, within 4,675 B. taurus sequences and 95 B. primigenius sequences (including complete mitochondrial genomes, control regions, cytb or other sequences) deposited in GenBank, none can be attributed to haplogroup R. The uniqueness of haplogroup R is best illustrated in Figure 3 and Table S2 that show its frequency distribution in old World cattle populations. The geographical distribution of haplogroup R shares no commonalities with that of haplogroup T and its sub-haplogroups or with that of haplogroup Q either. To date Italy is the only place where haplogroup R, the most divergent of taurine haplogroups in the phylogeny (Figure 1), has been detected.\nThe dots indicate the geographical location of the populations included in the survey. Population samples and corresponding frequency values are listed in Table S2. This frequency map was obtained using Surfer version 6.04 (Golden Software, Inc.), with the Kriging procedure, and estimates at each grid node were inferred by considering the entire data set.\nIs Haplogroup R Derived from a European Population of Aurochs?\nHaplogroup R in Italy is as rare as Q, but a significant difference is that R is not – or at least not yet – found anywhere else in the world. This means that a domestication event in the Middle East, followed by dispersal in Europe, Africa and Eastern Asia along with Neolithic farmers and pastoralists - a probable scenario for the occurrence of Q mtDNAs in modern breeds – is unlikely for haplogroup R. Moreover, the extreme time divergence of the RPQT node (∼143 ky), almost twice that of the PQT node (∼76 ky), is compatible with the possibility that haplogroup R derives from herds of aurochs that were geographically distinct and distant from those of southwest Asia. Thus, an origin of R from European aurochs is a plausible scenario. However, if so, why is haplogroup R found only in Italy and not elsewhere in Europe?\nOne possible explanation requires taking into account the climatic changes that affected Europe at the end of the Pleistocene. Italy was one of the European refugia during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (centered at about 21 kya), but in contrast to other refugia of southern Europe, the post-glacial expansion of its refugial populations to the North was restricted by the Alps . Thus, if haplogroup R was confined to the Italian refuge area during the LGM, it might have been restricted there also afterward , as probably happened to the Italian-specific mtDNA haplogroups of other mammalian species, e.g. roe deer, boar and red squirrel , , .\nMoreover, phylogenetic analyses show that haplogroup R is made up by two lineages, R1 and R2, which diverge from each other (about 42 ky), almost as much as the QT node (Figures 1 and 2). Therefore, at least two wild female aurochs were able to pass their mtDNA across generations to modern Italian cattle. How and when this event occurred?\nTwo scenarios, not necessarily mutually exclusive, can be envisioned to explain haplogroup R in Italian taurine breeds. The first is that R1 and R2 mtDNAs are due to sporadic interbreeding events (naturally occurring and/or man mediated) between wild aurochs cows and domestic bulls, followed by incorporation of the offspring in the domestic herds by Neolithic or post-Neolithic pastoralists. The second possibility is that, somewhere in Italy, there was a minor and independent event of B. primigenius domestication. Both scenarios are compatible with the coalescence time (2–3 ky) of the R1 sequences (Figure 2). Taking into account that five of the nine R1 sequences (# 22–26 in Fig. 2) are identical at the root of R1, such coalescence time might be underestimated. However, even if we include only one of these identical sequences in the calculations and exclude all the others, the average divergence time of R1 is only pushed back to about 4–5 ky\nIt is interesting that Virgil in 29 BC  describes a plague affecting domestic cattle in Northern Italy and the use of wild aurochs (“uris”) instead of oxen to pull a ritual carriage during a feast to celebrate Juno. Thus, the taming of wild aurochs in the Virgil's report seems almost common place, certainly much easier than the taming of the impressive beasts described by Caesar in the Black Forest of southern Germany . Maybe aurochs in Italy were smaller and more docile than their northern European counterparts. We have found haplogroup R mtDNAs in breeds that come from Campania (Agerolese) and Sicily (Cinisara), among others. This does not necessarily mean that aurochsen with R mDNAs were domesticated there, yet it is intriguing that some authors point out how aurochsen in Sicily became smaller in size after the disappearance of the land bridge with mainland Italy, which means they likely became much more amenable to taming , .\nAn additional argument in favor of the possibility of a local domestication event of European aurochs is provided by recent mtDNA data concerning the domestication of other mammalian species, in particular of those where the wild animals are not extinct, the domestic pig and the wild boar . Modern European pig breeds are grouped in a large mtDNA cluster that bears no affinity to wild boar lineages of the Middle East, which means that, if domesticated lineages came to Europe with farmers from the Near East, they left no trace in modern European breeds. Besides, network analysis revealed two core lineages in Europe, with star-like patterns suggestive of a recent population expansion, like for cattle, except that two such pig core haplotypes are found only in Europe. In short, there is good evidence to support the domestication of at least two wild boar mtDNA lineages in Europe.\nAn interesting implication of the study on pig domestication is that multiple domestication events cannot be ruled out even for those species where the wild progenitors are extinct, such as B. primigenius in Europe. A recent study carried out with 37K SNPs on modern cattle breeds  shows that Bos taurus has a remarkable nuclear genetic diversity and had a large ancestral population until recently, before fragmentation during breed formation. This is in contrast with the low level of mtDNA diversity observed in this species, largely predominated by the T haplogroup. The genetic contribution of different aurochs populations may have really played a role in shaping the existing diversity by events of interbreeding and/or domestication at different times and locations.\nOnly sequencing of DNA from the remains of ancient aurochs, throughout their original distribution range, will shed light on the issue of additional domestication events. However, scenarios of multiple domestication events scattered across different geographical areas applicable to a number of plant and animal species  may be extended to cattle. We think that our data are not incompatible with the scenario that one such event, marked by haplogroup R, might have happened in Italy in rather recent times.\nMaterials and Methods\nAll experimental procedures were reviewed and approved by the Animal Research Ethics Committee of the University of Pavia, Prot. 2/2007 (April 17th, 2007), in accordance with the European Union Directive 86/609.\nA set of 1,747 animals was analyzed, encompassing 25 Italian breeds and twelve other European breeds. This figure includes 1,128 new subjects and 619 animals (22 Italian and 4 European breeds) previously reported , extending breed representation to include three novel breeds from Italy (Marchigiana, Reggiana, Pettiazza) and eight from Europe (Blacksided Trondheim, Bulgarian Grey, Eastern Finn Cattle, Grey Steppe, Jersey, Swedish Red Polled, Vestland Red Polled, Telemark). DNAs were purified from either peripheral blood or platelets according to standard methods. All experimental procedures were reviewed and approved by the Animal Research Ethics Committee of the University of Pavia, in accordance with the European Union Directive 86/609.\nSequences analysis of the mtDNA control region\nFor all animals, a PCR fragment of 1138 bp encompassing the mtDNA control region (np 15718-517) was sequenced using the oligonucleotide 15757for, 5′ CCCCAAAGCTGAAGTTCTAT 3′, as previously described . Reads covered at least 730 bp, from np 15823 to np 215 (Table S1). Sequences were aligned to the Bovine Reference Sequence (BRS) using the Sequencher software (Gene Codes Corporation) and the identified mutational motifs  were used to classify mtDNAs within haplogroups.\nSequencing of entire mitochondrial genomes\nThe entire sequence of all mtDNAs harboring Q and R control-region mutational motifs was determined as previously reported . 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{"text": "Sociology is one of the most popular courses across the nation's campuses. That's\nno real surprise. Sociologists have chosen to study a most intriguing and complex\nsubject--the human being. Sociology aspires to be an unbiased look at what humans\nhope, dream and value.\nStudents in this field study the family, religions, education, economics and government.\nThey examine deviant behavior; race and ethnic relations; gender and age differences;\nsocialization; social stratification; and the mentality of crowds.\nSociology can be the foundation for such varied fields as teaching and law, social\nwork and business. Demography, which is the study of the composition and change\nof a population, is another field for the sociologist.\nSFCC's sociology classes include an introductory course focusing on institutions,\ncultures and society; a class in the sociology of marriage, the family and human\nsexual interaction; the sociology of race and ethnic relations; the sociology of\ncrime and justice, and periodically a class in the sociology of religions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If Mount Panié (1627 m) is the highest point of New Caledonia, Mount Humboldt (sometimes nicknamed Pic Humboldt) follows it closely, with the height of 1 616 meters. And, unlike its neighbor of the great North, it is possible to reach its summit at the end of a two-day hike.\nIt was named after Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist and explorer (1769-1859), considered by many as the father of modern geography. It is visible, further down the chain as you approach the Tontouta airport.\nFew people know it but the highest summits of New Calendonia nearly did not experience any snowy episode. Mount Humboldt would measure a few meters more should the snow come regularly to decorate its peak! And those who have had the opportunity to reach its summit during a winter hike can confirm that the night-time temperature when one is approaching the top regularly reaches 0°C!\nThe legendary moss forest of Mount Humboldt!\nTo reach its summit, through the western side, it demands preparation and luck! In fact, it is relatively common to see it completely cloudy. It is then impossible to take advantage of the view to simultaneously set ablaze the western and eastern coasts of Grande Terre with eyes.\nBut trekkers know it very well! The most interesting thing during this ascent is the famous moss forest which is part of the botanical reserve. If you have the opportunity to get there, you will understand the origin of the name! The moss is everywhere: on the ground, on tree trunks of several meters high. A real film set combining magic and mystery!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Posted on 8 August 2014\nFor the past ten years the Rijkswaterstaat, theMinistry of Infrastructure and the Environment, have been working to strengthen some weak links in the coast. Alongside building the required coastal defence, the coast zone investments also ensure that Katwijk remains a tourist destination and supporting the local economy of seaside towns. With the need to strengthen the Katwijk coast, care is taken to preserve the value of the existing town and, ultimately, how this can also be made stronger.\nRelation Between Town and Beach\nIn an interactive planning process OKRA defined the most important values of Katwijk; namely the relationship between the village and the beach. The chosen dyke-in-dune coastal defences, a stone-lined embankment covered and reinforced by dunes, sufficient low dunes would be built with minimal disruption between town and beach. With this construction the City Katwijk could also realise an underground parking garage behind the dyke.\nNatural Dune Landscape\nThe dyke and garage are completely hidden from view by natural-looking dunes. An extensive network of paths has been built to connect village and beach, offering views of the sea. The highlight of the design is a broad dune transition that serves as a welcome space and event plaza, in total forming a vibrant heart for the coast of Katwijk coast.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mild Ontario summer helping monarch butterfly populations\nIf you’ve been thinking it seems like there are more monarch butterflies around this year, you may be right.\nMonarchs have been making the most of mild spring and summer conditions this year along their migration route from Mexico. And it appears there may be more monarchs in Ontario in 2017 than in the past four years, says a University of Guelph biologist who has been tracking the butterflies for several years.\n“My impression is that monarchs are fairly abundant and widespread across much of southern Canada and the northern U.S. this summer. Certainly there are more monarchs this year than in the last few,” says Tyler Flockhart, a post-doctoral researcher whose recent work includes tracing the birthplaces across North America of monarch populations that overwinter in Mexico.\nBut while it is a hopeful sign, one good year does not mean monarch butterflies, which are considered a species of special concern in Ontario, are out of danger.\n“I am a cautious optimist. I hope this is a sign of good things to come but the overall opinion of experts is that low populations will be the new normal,” he says. “Monarchs are still limited by habitat availability and the majority of evidence suggests it is the habitat on the breeding grounds that matters most. The risk is that the low population will still fluctuate due to weather events, so if we have a really bad year (or multiple really bad years), then the population as a whole is at a significant risk.”\nThere are things you can do to help.\n- Plant native plants, especially milkweed and nectaring plants, in your garden. This will help monarchs as well as other beneficial insects and birds. Find information about different types of milkweed here.\n- Report it when you spot monarchs. Scientists like Flockhart rely on data from watchful citizens to help with their research. Check out www.e-butterfly.org where you can log butterfly sightings. Mission Monarch encourages participants to identify and map milkweed locations as well as monarch butterflies, eggs and caterpillars.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Irish wetlands, which provide a home to many plant and animal species, are in danger of destruction because of poor management and inappropriate development, Minister for the Environment John Gormley has said.\nHe was speaking in Monaghan yesterday at the Wise Use of Wetlands conference, held to coincide with World Wetlands Day.\nIreland's climate and geology made it particularly rich in bogs and other wetland areas, and in addition to providing habitats for wildlife, they are essential to the battle against climate change, Mr Gormley said.\n\"Wetlands in particular provide us with important environmental services such as flood mitigation, water supply and pollution control. Peatlands also act as carbon sinks, an important service in the battle against increased CO2 emissions.\"\nThese resources had been abused in the past, he said. \"Many of our most important habitats have been threatened and damaged through poor management and inappropriate development.\"\nFen sites in Monaghan faced threats from pollution, afforestation, illegal dumping, drainage and invasive species.\nThe Government was developing a new national biodiversity plan which would tackle these threats, he said.\nThe Irish Times", "label": "No"}
{"text": "THE BIG DUST STORM\nOn February 8, 1983,\nMelbourne was virtually buried under a massive dust cloud.\nThe 1983 Melbourne dust storm was a meteorological phenomenon that occurred during the afternoon of 8 February 1983, throughout much of Victoria.\nRed soil, dust and sand from Central and Southeastern Australia was swept up in high winds and carried southeast through Victoria.\nThe dust storm was one of the most dramatic consequences of the 1982/83 drought, at the time the worst in Australian history\nand is, in hindsight, viewed as a precursor to the Ash Wednesday bushfires which were to occur eight days later.\nDuring the morning of Tuesday February 8 1983, a strong but dry cold front began to cross Victoria, preceded by hot,\ngusty northerly winds. The loose topsoil in the Mallee and Wimmera was picked up by the wind and collected into a huge cloud\nof dust that heralded the cool change. At Horsham in western Victoria, raised dust was observed by 11:00am. Within an hour,\nit had obscured the sky.\nFed by the strong northerly, the temperature in Melbourne rose quickly and by 2:35pm it had reached 43.2 °C (109.8 °F), at that time a record February maximum. Around\nthe same time, a dramatic red-brown cloud could be seen approaching the city.\nThe dust storm hit Melbourne just before 3:00pm, accompanied by a rapid drop in temperature and\na fierce wind change that uprooted trees and damaged houses. Within minutes, visibility in the capital had plunged to 100\nmetres (330 ft). City workers huddled in doorways, covering their mouths from the choking dust, and traffic came to a\nThe worst of the storm was over by 4:00pm, when the wind speed dropped. The dust cloud was approximately 320 metres (1,050 ft)\nhigh when it struck Melbourne, but in other areas of Victoria it extended thousands of metres into the atmosphere.[\nIt was estimated that about 50,000 tonnes of topsoil\nwere stripped from the Mallee (approximately 1,000 tonnes of it being dumped on the city). The combined effect of drought\nand dust storm inflicted damage on the land that, according to the then President of the Victorian Farmers and Graziers’\nAssociation, would take up to 10 years and tens of millions of dollars to repair.\nThe exact weather pattern that had caused the dust storm was repeated one week later, when the Ash Wednesday fires caused\nenormous destruction and loss of life.\nOn the day of the Dust Storm I was working in the CBD, but managed to find my way to Flinders St Station for my train to", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Level 1, 2 & 3 Greek with Business Correspondence Training\nGreek language is held in high esteem thanks to the rich history and heritage that is linked to Greece, which was the birthplace of western culture and democracy. Modern Greek, which is spoken mainly in Greece and Cyprus, is built on the shoulders of this ancient civilisation with both countries boasting beautiful cultures from their history and art, to literature, philosophy and music. The Greek language also holds an important place in the history of the Western world, with foundational texts in science, astronomy, mathematics, logic, philosophy, and the New Testament of the Christian Bible being written in this language spoken by at least 13.2 million people today across Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Albania.\nThis package will teach you Greek up to an advanced level. You will learn handy business language to improve your job opportunities or existing company’s prospects in Greek speaking areas. Greece’s historical legacy is cemented by its 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, that ranks among the most in the World, including Acropolis, Olympia and Mount Athos.\nKEY LEARNING POINTS\nGreek Level 1\n- Identify the alphabet and the sounds in Greek\n- Introduce yourself and others\n- Talk about colours\n- Use numbers 1-20\n- Use the days of the week\n- Use simply greetings\n- Talk about professions\n- Talk about countries and where you live\n- Tell the time\n- Give your phone number and contact details\n- Talk about food and drinks\nGreek Level 2\n- Make basic conversation and greetings\n- Tell the time\n- Talk about clothes and shopping\n- Order at the café\n- Talk about the house\n- Use phrases for travel and at the beach\n- Make simple requests, recommendations and apologies\n- Talk about what is happening\n- Describe problems\nGreek Level 3\n- Ask for locations or places using “where?”\n- Recognise parts of the body\n- Ask politely using “could”\n- Learn how to order food and drinks at a restaurant\n- Learn how to ask for information in a hotel\n- Able to express yourself in the future tense\n- Talk about yourself and your company\n- Arrange and attend business meetings\n- Talk on the phone and leave messages\n- Describe your product\n- Use phrases to help with negotiations and sales\n- Discuss agreements and contracts\n- Talk about banking and accounting\n- Use key phrases for business and travel\nADVANTAGES OF THIS COURSE\n- Mapped to international CEFR levels and ACTFL standards.\n- Understand the language of Greek heritage and culture.\n- Implement your knowledge as you make your way through the course.\n- Examples in sound, so you can practice your pronunciation until it’s perfect.\n|1 gigahertz (GHz)|\n|Internet Explorer 8 or above\nSafari 6 or above", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Astronomy Picture of the Day\nDiscover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.\n2019 April 8\nAZURE Vapor Tracers over Norway\nImage Credit & Copyright: Yang Sutie\nExplanation: What’s happening in the sky? The atmosphere over northern Norway appeared quite strange for about 30 minutes last Friday when colorful clouds, dots, and plumes suddenly appeared. The colors were actually created by the NASA-funded Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment (AZURE) which dispersed gas tracers to probe winds in Earth’s upper atmosphere. AZURE’s tracersoriginated from two short-lived sounding rockets launched from the Andøya Space Center in Norway. The harmless gases, trimethylaluminum and a barium/strontium mixture, were released into theionosphere at altitudes of 115 and 250 km. The vapor trails were observed dispersing from several ground stations. Mapping how AZURE’s vapors dispersed should increase humanity’s understanding of how the solar wind transfers energy to the Earth and powers aurora.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Please note: This information was current at the time of publication. But medical information is always changing, and some information given here may be out of date. For regularly updated information on a variety of health topics, please visit familydoctor.org, the AAFP patient education website.\nInformation from Your Family Doctor\nDepression in Children and Teens\nAm Fam Physician. 2007 Jan 1;75(1):83-84.\nSee related article on childhood and adolescent depression.\nWhat is depression?\nDepression is an illness that makes you feel sad or hopeless. If your child has depression, he or she may seem less confident or lose interest in things he or she used to enjoy. Your child may have trouble focusing, or seem grouchy or angry. He or she may not want to go to school. His or her eating habits may change. Some children with depression have aches and pains.\nDepression is a serious illness. It is not your child's fault if he or she is depressed.\nWhat causes depression?\nDepression may be caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain. It can be triggered by stressful events, like losing a parent or loved one, the breakup of a relationship, abuse, or a physical illness. Depression also can run in families.\nHow is depression treated?\nDepression can be treated with counseling or with medicines called antidepressants, or both. Counseling usually is used for mild or moderate depression. Counseling and medicine together are used for more severe depression.\nAre antidepressants addictive?\nNo. They balance chemicals in the brain. They do not cause a “high.” But the body gets used to having the medicine, so your child may have side effects like headache or dizziness if the medicine is stopped too quickly. Your doctor will talk with you about stopping the medicine slowly when your child is ready.\nCan antidepressants cause suicide?\nThere may be a link, but it is not known for sure if taking these medicines can cause someone to try suicide. Remember that depression makes people more likely to try suicide. To be safe, antidepressants have a warning label about the risk of suicidal actions. These actions include talking about suicide and hurting themselves. You should watch your child carefully for suicidal behavior when he or she is taking an antidepressant.\nWhat should I do if my child talks about suicide?\nYour child needs to be watched by an adult. Call your child's doctor right away or take your child to the nearest emergency room. The doctor will be able to find out your child's suicide risk.\nWhere can I get more information?\nAmerican Academy of Family Physicians\nAmerican Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry\nAmerican Psychiatric Association\nTelephone: 1-888-35-PSYCH (1-888-357-7924)\nAmerican Psychological Association\nDepression and Bipolar Support Alliance\nGirls and Boys Town Hotline\nMental Health America\nTelephone: 1-800-969-6MHA (1-800-969-6642)\nNational Alliance on Mental Illness\nTelephone: 1-800-950-NAMI (1-800-950-6264)\nNational Institute of Mental Health\nThis handout is provided to you by your family doctor and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Other health-related information is available from the AAFP online at http://familydoctor.org.\nThis information provides a general overview and may not apply to everyone. Talk to your family doctor to find out if this information applies to you and to get more information on this subject.\nCopyright © 2007 by the American Academy of Family Physicians.\nThis content is owned by the AAFP. A person viewing it online may make one printout of the material and may use that printout only for his or her personal, non-commercial reference. This material may not otherwise be downloaded, copied, printed, stored, transmitted or reproduced in any medium, whether now known or later invented, except as authorized in writing by the AAFP. Contact email@example.com for copyright questions and/or permission requests.\nWant to use this article elsewhere? Get Permissions", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hutton killing shakes Black Panther Party\nControversial death comes days after King's assassination in Memphis\nOn April 6, 1968, America was in turmoil.\nCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated two days earlier while standing on a second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His killer was on the loose and the U.S. Army was in Chicago quieting the riots that had erupted in the wake of King's murder.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Massive Subsidies for Wind & Solar Power Failed to Reduce CO2 Gas Emissionby Rudy P. SysAdmin at howtofindthemoney\nThe one, nay the only, ‘justification’ for the $billions squandered on subsidised wind and solar power is ‘saving’ the planet from CO2 gas.\nExcept, that the wind and solar industries have never produced a shred of credible evidence that chaotic and intermittent wind & solar power have actually reduced CO2 gas emissions, anywhere on that planet.\nIf CO2’s your ‘poison’, wind and solar power are clearly no antidote.\nNo single country has thrown more money to the wind and the sun than Germany. And yet, in the mother of all ironies, CO2 gas emissions continue to rise.\nLeaving aside arguments about whether CO2 is a toxic pollutant or a naturally occurring beneficial trace gas which plants crave, if the primary object of Germany’s ‘transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future was cutting carbon dioxide gas emissions, the result has been a dismal failure – that’s cost Germans more than a €Trillion, so far.\nBy comparison, nuclear powered France enjoys power prices a fraction of those suffered by its eastern neighbour; and its CO2 emissions are tiny fraction of those being pumped out by notionally wind and solar powered Germany: Germany’s Renewable Energy Fail: German CO2 Emissions 10 Times Higher than Nuclear-Powered France\nEven coal-powered Poland has managed to cut it CO2 emissions faster than the ever-virtuous Germany.\nIn wind and solar obsessed Australia, the results are no more impressive. Having spent tens of billions in subsidies on wind and solar and 20 years carpeting the country and windmills and solar panels, there has been practically no reduction in carbon dioxide gas emissions. Which was, after all, the justification for all the waste and destruction, in the first place.\nAustralia installs more renewables than anywhere else but national emissions stay the same\nAustralians are installing renewable energy, per capita, faster than any place on Earth, or at least we were until 2020 when the subsidies and schemes ran out.\nPer capita, Australia (all shades of red) is installing renewables\nThe Quarterly update for the Greenhouse Gas inventory is out and we can see just how much difference all those renewables make, which is almost nothing. Emissions have flatlined.\nAustralians are paying record prices, risking blackouts, buying batteries and synchronous condensors, building new billion dollar interconnectors, losing companies overseas, and suffering voltage spikes. We’re playing chicken with our smelters, and party games with PeakSmart timers and extra domestic circuits so that electricity companies can manage our pool pumps and our air conditioners.\nAnd this is all we get?\nEmissions in Australia have flatlined\nAfter adding so many wind farms and solar panels the electricity sector decreased emissions by only 1.2% on the year before.\nElectricity sector emissions decreased 1.8 per cent in the June quarter of 2019 on a ‘seasonally adjusted and weather normalised’ P 8 P basis (Figure 6). This reflected strong increases in hydro and wind generation (42.0 and 14.8 per cent) and decreases in coal and natural gas generation (5.7 and 21.3 per cent) in the National Electricity Market (NEM). Over the year to June 2019, emissions from electricity decreased by 1.2 per cent compared with the year to June 2018.\nThe electricity sector is Australia’s largest single source of emissions, and some of the gains in the last decade have come from efficiency, not from renewables, and from making electricity so unaffordable that it scares people into not using their air conditioners.\nGiven all this, you might think the team at Reneweconomy might worry that renewables won’t save the planet and were a dismal and useless way to spend environmental money, but not so. They were pretty happy with a 2 percent fall in electricity emissions from Sept 2018 to Sept 2019.\nThey were not impressed that as our electricity emissions had fallen, our diesel emissions have gone up the other way. Mostly for truckers, they say.\nHow much of this is due to electrical generators?\nGraph Australian Diesel emissions, decade, 2009 to 2019.\nPer capita Australians are using 40% less CO2 than they were 30 years ago, and this is what the Opposition calls, “a policy vacuum”. Perhaps it is a vacuum — of achievement.\nAustralia has almost the fastest growing population in the West. Fifty percent population growth in 30 years, and we are aiming to cut emissions 27% on top of that?\nOver the period from 1989-90 to June 2019, Australia’s population grew strongly from 17.0 million to around 25.4 million …. This reflects growth of 48.8 per cent.\nThe best way to keep Australian emissions down (apart from nukes) is to cut immigration, but left leaning politicians don’t want to discuss that, and nor apparently do left wing activist websites. Importing new left-leaning voters seems to be more important.\nBy picking the most expensive and ineffective methods it’s almost like none of the people driving renewables even care about the CO2 emissions.\nThe 10 largest coal producers and exporters in Indonesia:\nSource: Stop These Things\nCreated on Mar 4th 2020 00:02. Viewed 312 times.\nNo comment, be the first to comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A team of scientists have identified bones unearthed in 1996, as a new species of Hadrosaur that lived between 80 and 65 million years ago. Publishing their findings in the May edition of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, they have named their find Jeyawati rugoculus. The name derives from two Zuni Indian words that mean grinding-mouth wrinkle-eye.\nAccording to the researchers, J. rugoculus appears to be basal to the line of hadrosaurs. Scientists believe that the animal walked mostly on all four legs, but that it could rear up on two legs when the need arose.\nThe bones are now located at the Arizona Museum of Natural History, where specimens of other dinosaurs uncovered in this region are also located.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Culture is the total set of beliefs, values, habits and traditions that are learned and shared with a group of people. The word is often utilised in sociology to describe the prevailing patterns of behavior and belief among members of the society or community, including this kind of factors because language, faith, relatives practices, monetary systems, and belief and value systems.\nSeeing Culture: Dos and Don’ts\nCultural differences could be an inevitable part of the human knowledge, and they own a great effect on how we approach relationships. If you’re dating someone from a unique country, it is vital https://anglergearreviews.com/methods-to-win-an-european-womans-heart to comprehend and admiration the way they believe and midst. This can help you to make educated decisions and avoid making flaws in your marriage.\nRomances are sophisticated and personal, and they involve a variety of elements, from the way we talk to the way we dress towards the ways all of us behave and think. Due to this kind of, it is crucial to know the culture you happen to be dating before you can begin a relationship and work toward building a long term commitment.\nWhen you’re seeing a person from a further country, you need to understand the way of life that they’re from so you can discover how to communicate efficiently with all of them. This assists you to delight in your marriage and avoid any problems that may come up from differences in culture.\nCommunication Styles Culture: A Communication-Culture Relationship\nCommunication can be an essential component of the human communication process, and it is through connection that cultures are created. Additionally, because cultures are made and shaped through ongoing connections in communities, organizations, communities, and specific relationships, the dynamic romantic relationship between communication and culture is normally one of consistent transformation.\nEach time a new member of existing group interacts with other paid members, they will take their own unique interaction and thought patterns to the group. These habits will effect how a group convey and just how its customs is described.\nThese types of patterns of communication will also affect the ways in which current and long term group people understand and interpret information that they receive. As such, the relationship between communication and lifestyle is a sophisticated and intimate one.\nThe Difference Among Dating A lady From Your Nation and Internet dating a Guy via Another Countries\nAs you can see, the difference between going out with a girl from your country and dating a guy right from another countries is huge. It can be very confusing at the beginning, but it’s a good idea to understand the different nationalities that exist before you start dating.\nUnderstanding the difference between dating a lady from your customs and dating some guy from one more countries will help you avoid any conceivable problems inside your relationship. It will also allow you to speak more effectively and enjoy your relationship.\nWhen you are trying to find a partner by another nation, it is important to be aware of the culture that they arrive from and to consider the differences that exist between you find russia brides review two. This will help you to determine if the partnership would have been a good meet or not really. This will also help you to prevent any issues that may come up from differences in ethnical values and beliefs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Named for the La Amarga geographic formation in Argentina, Amargasaurus is known from an almost entirely complete skeleton that showcases its most distinct feature – two rows of large spines along the back of its neck.\nAmargasaurus was small for a sauropod, measuring only about 33 feet long. The function of its spines isn’t known, though it may have been used the same way modern day antelopes use their horns (to ward off predators who try to attack by leaping onto their backs).\nAmargasaurus is known from a single, nearly complete skeleton discovered in 1984 by Guillermo Rougier. The only significant piece missing from this specimen was most of the skull. However, based on similar related sauropods with known skull material, paleontologists are able to agree with some certainty with regards to the basic look of Amargasaurus’s head.\n- Scientific Name: Amargasaurus cazaui\n- Characteristics: Amargasaurus was in many ways a typical sauropod dinosaur, with a long neck and a long tail, meeting in a wide midsection supported by four relatively slender legs. For a sauropod, its neck is comparatively small, and this figure replicates its unique rows of spines along its length.\n- Non-toxic and BPA free\nSize: 16.14 L x 4.53 W x 4.72 H", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Teachers and school districts are being charged and challenged to shift the way science has typically been presented in a classroom. We as a museum, have to be cognizant of these processes so we can ensure that our programs are modeling the best practices in education. After all, we are a partner in this work. From the top down, our exhibits, events, programs and opportunities onsite and off must have a commitment to drive inquiry in the most relevant of ways. Together with science educators, we empower kids to see themselves as science-capable, as doers of science, rather than simply only learners of science.\nOn the heels of two exceptional collaborative events, the EcoTarium has a lot to be proud of as a collaborator with science educators. During the week of October 21, MA STEM Week was organized by the Executive Office of Education and the STEM Advisory Council in partnership with the state’s nine Regional STEM Networks. The annual statewide effort aims to boost the interest, awareness, and ability for all learners to envision themselves in STEM education and employment opportunities. The EcoTarium hosted a variety of STEM-centric activities and drop-in programs for guests throughout the designated week (and many others). Our education team also joined the WPI STEM Education Center, to lead free professional development training for more than 40 preK-8 teachers, librarians and community-based educators from the Central MA region. The focus of this workshop was to design a model in relation to science and engineering practices. Using the EcoTarium’s natural history collections as a way to evaluate how models change over time, and the importance of updating models with current information, attendees were challenged to create their own models using a real world example (i.e. the Loon and the current challenge of habitat loss due to climate change). Takeaways from the workshop included not only a wonderful opportunity to develop new, unique modeling activities to introduce into curriculum, but the valuable experience of sharing resources and finding common ground among our community of educators devoted to the same mission.\nRecently, the science education standards were updated and adopted by the Commonwealth of MA. (Next Generation Science) Three distinct dimensions were identified as key to learning science. Last month, we were thrilled and honored to have hosted the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) for a two-day workshop that attracted more than 50 science teachers representing a diverse set of states, to learn how to develop a deep understanding of science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts: the three distinct dimensions of the framework for K-12 science education. Ted Willard, assistant executive director of science standards for NSTA, presented a comprehensive workshop on how to incorporate phenomenon-based teaching and learning methods that aim to create motivating, unforgettable learning experiences for students.\nIt was so powerful to evaluate our programs from the perspective of the museum as a learner-centered space, and to realize that we have done a great job at identifying the core ideas and implement them. Particularly looking at the concept of sound as a phenomena, the workshop was well-matched with EcoTarium programs that we offer onsite and on the road like Making Waves: Sound and Light and our components in the City Science exhibit. The workshop was very school-focused work, so to have held the training in our science museum, truly demonstrated the intersection of our role as educators out of the classroom. Essentially, our whole community serves as an ever-changing model, ripe with opportunities to teach, engage and learn.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Empire State Building\nOpened on this day in 1931, construction of the Empire State Building represented a towering achievement during the era of the Great Depression. The world's tallest building when it was completed, the 102 story (1,250 ft.) Empire State Building was constructed in an astoundingly short period of time... averaging 4 1/2 stories per week, with construction of the entire building in a little over a year. Today the Empire State Building remains a classic symbol of the ideal American skyscraper and a dominating presence on the New York skyline.\n:: more information about Empire State Building\nBuildings and Structures | Skyscrapers", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Washington — The sweltering year of 1988 first put global warming in the headlines and ended up as the hottest year on record. But on Tuesday, it was pushed out of the top 20 warmest by 2013.\nLast year tied for the fourth hottest and 1988 fell to 21st.\nThe average world temperature was 58.12 degrees Fahrenheit, tying with 2003 for the fourth warmest since 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.\nAt the same time, NASA, which calculates records in a different manner, ranked last year as the seventh warmest on record, with an average temperature of 58.3 degrees. The difference is related to how the two agencies calculate temperatures in the Arctic and other remote places and is based on differences that are in the hundredths of a degree, scientists said.\nBoth agencies said nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century. The hottest year was 2010, according to NOAA.\nThe reports were released as a big snowstorm was hitting the U.S. East Coast.\n\"There are times such as today when we can have snow even in a globally warmed world,\" said Gavin Schmidt, deputy director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York. \"But the long-term trends are not going to disappear. ... Quite frankly people have a very short memory when it comes to climate and weather.\"\nThose longer trends show the world has seen \"fairly dramatic warming\" since the 1960s with \"a smaller rate of warming over the last decade or so,\" said Thomas Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. In the past 50 years, the world average temperature has increased by nearly 1.4 degrees, according to NOAA data.\nUnlike 2012, much of the worst heat and biggest climate disasters last year were outside the U.S. Parts of central Asia, central Africa and Australia had record warmth. Only a few places, including the central U.S., were cooler than normal last year.\nIn a related story, a group of business leaders, energy experts and former government leaders believes that the Obama administration could tackle climate change by taking measures that do not require congressional approval, according to a report released Tuesday.\nThe 207-page report contained about 200 recommendations on how President Barack Obama can use executive authority to advance the climate change action plan he announced in June. It was released by former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, who briefed U.S. cabinet officials and senior policy staff focused on energy and climate policy last week.\nThe recommendations focus on five areas: doubling energy efficiency; financing renewable energy; producing natural gas more responsibly; developing alternative fuels and vehicles; and helping utilities adapt to the country's changed energy landscape.\nReuters contributed to this report.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Inquisitive - wondering & questioning, exploring & investigating, challenging assumptions\n- Persistent - tolerating uncertainty, sticking with difficulty, daring to be different\n- Collaborative - cooperating appropriately, giving & receiving feedback, sharing the product\n- Disciplined - reflecting critically, developing techniques, crafting & improving\n- Imaginative - playing with possibilities, making connections, using intuition\nWe will use statements about the imagination and what it means to be imaginative and ask students to decide how much the statements reflect their learning habits of mind:\nBeing imaginative means trying things our. It means combining ideas from different places. It means being able to carry on even when you can't fully explain your reasoning.Whenever I have had explicit discussions with students about a particular skill or attribute prior to a learning activity I have always found it to be more successful. I hope and expect that this term's work will benefit from being framed by this exploration of the imagination and that we will have a great deal to discuss and share in terms of how this skills/ability/aptitude can be tracked over a period of time.\nIf this is 'very much like me' then I can show that I can keep my mind open to ideas and that I don't narrow down too quickly. I can show that I look for links between facts and ideas. I use my own intuitions to come up with ideas. I can do these things without being prompted. I am confident about doing these things.\nPost a Comment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In spite of the developments in microbiological methods, blood cultures remain the cornerstone for the diagnosis of bacteraemia. Classically, minimum of two bottles are collected on a routine basis: an aerobic bottle, allowing preferential growth of aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms, and an anaerobic bottle, providing suitable environment for strict anaerobic bacteria. Recent reports have documented a decrease in anaerobic bacteraemias and have questioned the need for routine anaerobic blood cultures. Bacteraemia due to anaerobic organisms occurs in 0.5–12% of blood cultures worldwide; however, recent studies from Europe and the USA presented inconsistent data regarding the prevalence of anaerobic bacteraemias between 1993 and 2006.The aims of this retrospective survey were to determine the prevalence of bacteraemias due to anaerobic bacteria and evaluate the importance of anaerobic blood cultures in a university hospital in Szeged, Hungary. We examined the occurrence of bacteraemias due to anaerobic bacteria during a 5-year period, from January 2005 to 2009, in order to identify current trends of anaerobic bacteraemias in our university.\nAuthors:Ahmet Akça, Meriban Karadoğan, Demir Kürşat Yildiz, Funda Çorapçioğlu, and Yonca Anik\n, Zuckerman T , Goralnik L , Ben-Arieh Y , Rowe JM , Yigla M : Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma presenting as an endobronchial tumor: report of eight cases and literature review . Am J Hematol 83 ( 5 ), 416 – 419 ( 2008 )\n1 Introduction Extensive literature shows that both the level and composition of public expenditures and revenues have implications for economic development. There are two main strands of the literature. The discussion on the short-term impacts of\nAuthors:Sergio Vasquez Ciriaco, Jaime Aron García Espinoza, and Elena Enselmini Garcia Pedro\nliver, bones, and lungs [ 3 ].\nThis is one of the few cases reported in the literature with metastatic activity related to the contralateral kidney. The focus is on the clinical picture, diagnostic imaging, immunohistochemical characteristics\nAuthors:Mark D. Griffiths, Zsolt Demetrovics, and Paweł A. Atroszko\nAddiction Risk Test ( Robinson, 1996 ). A comprehensive literature review by Sussman, Lisha, and Griffiths ( 2011 ) using US data provided a tentative estimation of the prevalence of work addiction among Americans at 10%. Some estimates are as high as 15\nAuthors:E. Kovács, D. Pilecky, Z. Szakál-Tóth, A. Fekete-Győr, V.A. Gyarmathy, L. Gellér, B. Hauser, J. Gál, B. Merkely, and E. Zima\nelderly population, based on a local database and a systemic review of the literature. Materials and methods We screened 254 patients who underwent a successful CPR after OHCA or in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) and were admitted to the ICU of Semmelweis\n. In J. Andor, B. Hollósy, T. Laczkó and P. Péter (eds.) When grammar minds language and literature. Festschrift for Prof. Béla Korponay on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Debrecen: Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Reading The Small Print On The Snellen Chart\nTo test the clarity of ones vision, experts usually use something known as a Snellen chart and youve probably seen it at your local eye doctors office. This chart is the most commonly used method of measuring how well you can see at what distance. Snellen charts are named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Hermann Snellen who developed the chart in 1862. Scientists now use a variation of this chart, designed by Ian Bailey and Jan Lovie.\nThe traditional Snellen chart is printed with eleven lines of block letters. The first line has one very large letter, which may be one of several letters, for example E, H, or N. All the rows that follow have increasing numbers of letters that decrease in size. A person taking the test covers one eye (or the doctor covers one eye), and then reads aloud the letters of each row, beginning at the top. The smallest row that can be read accurately indicates the visual acuity in that eye.\nThe symbols on the chart are formally known as \"optotypes\" (standard symbols for testing vision). In the case of the traditional Snellen chart, the optotypes appear as block letters, and are intended to be seen and read as letters. They are not, however, letters from any ordinary typographer's font. They have a particular, simple geometry whereby the thickness of the lines equals the thickness of the white spaces between lines and the thickness of the gap in the letter \"C.\" In addition, the height and width of the optotype is five times the thickness of the line. Only the letters C, D, E, F, L, N, O, P, T, and Z are used in the traditional Snellen chart.\nThe smaller letters on the chart are designed to give an accurate measure of how good your vision is. If you notice the big letter this is an excellent sign, because it implies that your overall eye vision is nice and healthy. But the smaller letters are what are used to give an even more accurate picture of how well your eyes are. If you wish to read well in addition to see signs from a far distance then you will need to be in a position to read small letters.\nThe largest letter on an eye chart often represents an acuity of 20/200 (6/60), the value that is considered \"legally blind.\" Some individuals with moderate myopia may not be able to read the large E without glasses, but have no problem reading the 20/20 line (line which is supposed to represent a persons perfect visual ability without eyeglasses at a distance of 20 feet) with glasses. In contrast, people who are legally blind have a visual acuity of 20/200 (6/60) or less when using the best prescription eyeglasses.\nWhen you are exploring the Snellen chart you should not strain your eyes to determine the letters. If you need to strain your eyes to see the letters then chances are how well you see may not be just like you may like it to be.\nIf you can see all of the letters on the Snellen chart clearly then you can leave your doctors office without any problems BUT if you have to struggle to see any of the letters, then youll probably end up needing prescription glasses which are made very specifically according to your latest eyeglasses prescription. With these prescription lenses fitted into fashionable eyeglasses frames, you will not only be able to see clearly, but will also be adding a new fashion accessory to your already trendy style.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mavis Batey was a British student of 19, midway through her university course in German Romanticism, when she was recruited for a top-secret assignment during World War II.\n“This is going to be an interesting job, Mata Hari, seducing Prussian officers,” she recalled thinking years later. “But I don’t think either my legs or my German were good enough because they sent me to the Government Code and Cipher School.”\nIn May 1940, Mrs. Batey — then the unmarried Mavis Lever — joined the team of code breakers at Bletchley Park, the British cryptography headquarters. Trained in the enemy’s language and endowed with a facility for words, she became a key contributor to a wartime project that remained classified for decades.\nBut by the time of her death on Nov. 12 at 92, Mrs. Batey was regarded in England as a national heroine. Working with Alfred Dillwyn “Dilly” Knox and other celebrated code breakers, she learned to decipher what she called the “utter gibberish” of encrypted German communications.\nLike many of her colleagues, Mrs. Batey worked on a “need-to-know” basis and did not understand at the time the significance of her efforts. In recent years, with the release of British wartime records, it was revealed that her code-breaking helped the Allies cripple the Italian navy in 1941 and assisted the 1944 Normandy invasion.\nWinston Churchill, Britain’s wartime prime minister, was said to have called the Bletchley Park code breakers his “geese that laid the golden eggs but never cackled.” Fueled by what Mrs. Batey described as “ersatz coffee,” they toiled in secrecy to decipher the encoded messages spat out by the Axis powers’ Enigma machines.\nMrs. Batey recalled reporting for duty at Bletchley Park, a Victorian estate about 50 miles north of London, and being “thrown in at the deep end.”\n“No one knew how the blessed thing worked,” she once told an interviewer, referring to the Enigma, which resembled a typewriter and scrambled messages with confounding complexity.\nKnox, by her description, was an “eccentric genius” so consumed by his work that on at least one occasion, he stuffed his pipe with bits of sandwich rather than smoking tobacco.\n“He would ask, ‘Which way does the clock go round?’ ” Mrs. Batey recalled in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. “If you were stupid enough to answer ‘clockwise,’ he would always answer, ‘Not if you’re the clock!’ That summed it up: You had to be prepared to think in a different way.”\nMrs. Batey’s first major contribution came in March 1941, when she helped decipher Italian naval communications revealing an impending attack on British ships ferrying supplies from Egypt to Greece. One message declared the arrival of “day X minus 3.”\n“Why they had to say that I can’t imagine,” Mrs. Batey later said, according to the Telegraph. “It seems rather daft, but they did.”\nShe was the cryptographer on duty to decode a subsequent message explaining in excruciating detail the Italian battle plans. The information was passed to Adm. Andrew Cunningham, the commander of Britain’s Mediterranean fleet, who was then in Alexandria, Egypt.\nShortly before the attack, the admiral arranged to be spotted by a consul of the German-allied Japanese government. Cunningham, who knew that the consul enjoyed golf, showed up with his clubs and a valise, leaving the Japanese to believe that a weekend of leisure awaited him.\nInstead of golfing, Cunningham led the British in a preemptive attack on the Italian navy. That encounter, the Battle of Cape Matapan, was a decisive victory for the British and effectively devastated the Italian fleet for the rest of the war.\nThe code breakers, Mrs. Batey recalled, shared two bottles of wine in celebration.\nMrs. Batey also helped crack the even more complex Enigma codes employed by the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service. Some decoders were trained in mathematics and approached cryptography from a technical perspective. Mrs. Batey worked differently.\n“I used the psychological approach,” she told the Telegraph. “To test the day’s settings, the Germans sometimes used their girlfriends’ names and dirty words; it was a great shame when they were stopped, as we enjoyed the dirty words.”\nBy penetrating Abwehr communications, Mrs. Batey and her colleagues helped confirm the success of the XX, or Double-Cross, an anti-espionage operation in which captured Nazi spies were used to transmit false information to the Axis.\nThe deceptive tactics were used throughout the war — most notably to fool Germans into believing that the D-Day invasion would take place not in Normandy, but at the Pas-de-Calais. Bletchley Park decoders confirmed that the ruse had worked and that the Allies could count on the relative security of their plan.\nMrs. Batey steadfastly emphasized the heroism of others, including Polish code breakers who had made significant contributions, and the “chaps” who stormed the beaches of Normandy.\n“When my local paper came to interview me,” she once told the London Independent, she told the reporter: ‘I don’t want to see a headline saying ‘Bognor Regis Woman Won the War.’ ”\nMavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, in south London, on May 5, 1921. (She later lived in the community of Bognor Regis.) Her father was a postal worker, and her mother was a seamstress.\nDuring the war, she was studying at the University College London when she was approached for linguistic intelligence work.\n“I think what clinched it for me,” she later told the London Daily Mail, “was that during my assessment they told me they had been puzzling over what the letters STGOCH stood for. While they wondered if there might possibly be a saint called Goch, I had the idea that the answer might be Santiago, Chile, which it was.”\nAmong her first assignments, according to the Telegraph, was poring over personal ads in the Times of London in search of secret German messages. On the basis of her performance, she was dispatched to Knox’s team at Bletchley Park. Her exploits later helped inspire the 2001 film “Enigma” starring Kate Winslet.\nMrs. Batey died at her home in West Sussex, England, according to the Bletchley Park Trust. The cause was not immediately available.\nAfter the war, Mrs. Batey began a second career as a landscape preservationist. She was regarded as the doyenne of English garden historians and wrote books on horticulture.\nHer literary output was not limited to that subject, however, and included “Jane Austen and the English Landscape” (1996), “The World of Alice,” about Lewis Carroll’s heroine (1998) and “Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas” (2009).\nAt Bletchley Park, Mavis Lever met a mathematician, Keith Batey, whom she married in 1942 and who died in 2010. They had two daughters and a son, Elizabeth, Deborah and Christopher, all of whom survive.\nThe children grew up knowing nothing of their parents’ wartime employment, Mrs. Batey recalled, although “they were rather suspicious that we could always beat everybody at Scrabble.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Did you know that the United States has been using military working dogs since the Revolutionary War? They were first used as equipment pack animals but throughout the years have offered their services as drug and explosives detectors, messengers, sentries, and scouts.\nDuring the time of World War II thousands of families in America offered their dogs for enlistment in the US military – the K-9 Corps – once it became known that the armed forces of the United States needed dogs.\nService dogs are used today in Iraq, Afghanistan and in any area of the US military where needed. The breeds most commonly used are Shepherds and Labradors although Dobermans were also once a preferred breed trained for war.\nA Famous Dog Loses His Medal\nOne of the most famous military working dogs was Chips, a Shepherd mix from Pleasantville, NY, offered by his family to serve during WWII. Chips was trained to be a sentry dog and was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division unit – he served in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany. Chips was incredibly brave – one can read story after story about his heroic efforts, and his most memorable act of valor occurred one day on a beach in Sicily. As he and his handler were crossing the beach, an enemy machine gun crew hidden in a pillbox attacked them. Chips broke free from his handler and dove into the pillbox and attacked the enemy gunmen, forcing them to surrender. For his military service, Chips was awarded the Silver Star for valor and a Purple Heart for his wounds. However, both awards were later revoked. Thankfully, in 1990, Disney made a movie called “Chips the War Dog” which was based on the life of this courageous dog and it enabled the world to recognize him as a hero despite the fact that his two medals had been taken away.\nNow you’re probably wondering why they revoked the medals after such a heroic act?\nWell, Chips’ bravery and awards had caught the attention of the press and unfortunately also the attention of the Commander of the Order of the Purple Heart. He complained to President Roosevelt and the War Department that by honoring Chips – a dog – they were demeaning all service men that had also been awarded a Purple Heart. Chips lost his metals but was given an honorable discharge and returned to his family in New York. But the story doesn’t end there…it has an ugly twist. Not for Chips, but for many of the other military dogs that have since served their country. You see, the “Chips” incident and subsequent debates about “dogs” receiving metals led to the decision that dogs did not have the right to be recognized for their bravery and heroic actions – yes it’s really true – and even worse – the military could now refer to these wonderful beings as “equipment”. If that isn’t bad enough… When the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, the serving military dogs that were now classified as “equipment” were simply left behind! It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Over 4,000 service dogs were left in Vietnam. Many handlers tried their best to bring them back home but the military orders were firm – a big “NO”. Only about 200 made it back- and no one really knows what happened to the 4000 that were left there. Many were euthanized or handed over to the South Vietnamese Army. Many of these wonderful, loyal, dedicated animals that risked their lives for our country and our service men did not get to come home. But there is a great organization today working on behalf of these animals.\nThe United States War Dogs Association\nIn our research we found that the main organization working on behalf of service dogs is the United States War Dogs Association. A description of our canine heroes from their website: “It has been estimated that these courageous canine heroes saved over 10,000 lives during the conflict in Vietnam”. Today all branches of our Armed Forces are utilizing Military Patrol Dogs specializing in Drug and Bomb/Explosive detection. There are approximately 600-700 of these canines in the Middle East in such places as Kuwait, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. They are being used to patrol Air Bases, Military Compounds, Ammunition Depots and Military Check Points. They are guarding and protecting our Military Personnel as they were trained to do, with Courage, Loyalty and Honor. “ Personally, we wish they had chosen another name – other than “war dogs” to describe the organization and the animals that serve… In fact, the correct term for these animals is Military Working Dogs and not war dogs. Many call them the “soldier you don’t know.\nHere are some of the activities of the association:\n- Service dogs now receive verbal accolades and recognition for their services and there are associations such as the U.S. War Dog Association that in 2006 had a beautiful sculpture of a military dog and handler completed in New Jersey. However, the association had to raise most of the funds for this on its own.\n- The U.S. War Dogs Association continues to work on other ways to honor these service animals. For example it petitioned the US Postal Service to have a commemorative stamp for military working dogs.\n- This association helps find loving homes for retired military and police dogs and the military does have a retirement program for their canines.\n- Military dogs can now be allowed to retire early and be adopted by their handlers following an injury.\n- This organization works tirelessly to send care packages to the military working service dogs and their handlers overseas.\nThis year, in honor of Memorial Day (also known as “Decoration Day”) and for Chips and all the other unrecognized canine heroes, BARF World will make a charitable donation to the United States War Dogs Association. We decided to do this in lieu of another discount coupon to you and we hope you agree. Let’s be clear – while we don’t support war, we believe in the humane work that this organization does for these animals and their handlers and the necessity to recognize their heroism. If you’re interested in learning more about their activities, please visit Operation Military Care K-9 at: http://uswardogs.org/id40.html\nHappy Memorial Day!\nFrom all of the BARF World team, Lily, Rob, Amber, Christopher and Jose.\nP.S. What do you think? Should dogs, in fact any animal, be allowed to receive a medal and recognition of the highest honor for their service and valor?\nP.P.S. We are looking into writing an updated book about “Heroic Dogs” and their acts of bravery. Would you like to participate? If you happen to know of exceptionally heroic dogs, whether it is a service dog or your own pet, we would love to hear your stories.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Search engines are an extremely powerful way of promoting your website online. Consider them your silent Public Relations firm, quietly working in the background. Many studies have shown that between 40% and 80% of users found what they were looking for by using the search engine feature of the Internet.\nAccording to Search Engine Watch (http://www.searchenginewatch.com) – 625 million searches are performed every day!\nThe great thing about search engines is they bring targeted traffic to your website. These people are already motivated to make a purchase from you- because they searched you out.\nWith the right website optimisation, the search engines can always deliver your site to your audiences.\nCrawler-Based Search Engines\nCrawler-based search engines use automated software programs to survey and categorise web pages. The programs used by the search engines to access your web pages are called ‘spiders’, ‘crawlers’, ‘robots’ or ‘bots’.\nA spider will find a web page, download it and analyse the information presented on the web page. This is a seamless process. The web page will then be added to the search engine’s database. Then when a user performs a search, the search engine will check its database of web pages for the key words the user searched on to present a list of link results.\nThe results (list of suggested links to go to), are listed on pages by order of which is ‘closest’ (as defined by the ‘bots’), to what the user wants to find online.\nCrawler-based search engines are constantly searching the Internet for new web pages and updating their database of information with these new or altered pages.\nExamples of crawler-based search engines are:\n- Google (www.google.com)\n- Ask Jeeves (www.ask.com)\nA ‘directory’ uses human editors who decide what category the site belongs to; they place websites within specific categories in the ‘directories’ database. The human editors comprehensively check the website and rank it, based on the information they find, using a pre-defined set of rules.\nThere are two major directories at the time of writing:\n- Yahoo Directory (www.yahoo.com)\n- Open Directory (www.dmoz.org)\nNote: Since late 2002 Yahoo has provided search results using crawler-based technology as well as its own directory.\nHybrid Search Engines\nHybrid search engines use a combination of both crawler-based results and directory results. More and more search engines these days are moving to a hybrid-based model. Examples of hybrid search engines are:\n- Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)\n- Google (www.google.com)\nMeta Search Engines\nMeta search engines take the results from all the other search engines results, and combine them into one large listing. Examples of Meta search engines include:\n- Metacrawler (www.metacrawler.com)\n- Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)\nSpecialty Search Engines\nSpecialty search engines have been developed to cater for the demands of niche areas. There are many specialty search engines, including:\n- Froogle (www.froogle.com)\n- Yahoo Shopping (www.shopping.yahoo.com)\n- BizRate (www.bizrate.com)\n- PriceGrabber (www.pricegrabber.com)\n- PriceSpy (www.pricespy.co.nz)\n- Local Search\n- NZPages (www.nzpages.co.nz)\n- SearchNZ (www.searchnz.co.nz)\n- NZS (www.nzs.com)\n- Domain Name Search\n- iServe (www.iserve.co.nz)\n- Freeparking (www.freeparking.co.nz)\n- Freeware & Shareware Software Search\n- Tucows (www.tucows.com)\n- CNET Download.com (www.download.com)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Vice Admiral Hans Hendricksz Bouwer, sailing with the fleet under Admiral Wolfert Harmensz first mentioned the solitaire Pezophaps solitaria of Rodrigues in 1601. Due to Rodrigues’s isolation, the island was generally ignored until the arrival of Francois Leguat and his Huguenot followers in 1691. After 2 years on Rodrigues, Leguat and his surviving comrades constructed a boat from local timber and made the journey to Mauritius, some 674 km to the west. The survivors were then imprisoned on Mauritius by the Dutch commander Roelof Diodati, before finally reaching Batavia (present day Jakarta) from where they returned to Europe. Leguat, now based in London, wrote his memoirs in 1708 and as a result of his account, the first and most complete description of the solitaire was made known. Although Leguat readily ate the solitaire, he wrote about the species with great admiration:\n“Of all the Birds in the Island the most remarkable is that which goes by the name of the solitary, because it is very seldom seen in company, tho’ there are abundance of them. The Feathers of the Males are of a brown grey Colour: the Feet and Beak are like a Turkey’s, but a little more crooked. They have scarce any Tail, but their Hind-part covered with Feathers is roundish, like the Crupper of a horse; they are taller than Turkeys. Their Neck is straight, and a little longer in proportion than a Turkey’s when it lifts up his Head. Its Eye is Black and lively, and its Head without Comb or Cop. They never fly, their Wings are too little to support the Weight of their Bodies; they serve only to beat themselves, and flutter when they call one another. They will whirl about for twenty or thirty times together on the same side, during the space of four or five minutes. The motion of their Wings makes then a noise very like that of a Rattle; and one may hear it two hundred Paces off. The Bone of their Wing grows greater towards the Extremity, and forms a little round Mass under the Feathers, as big as a Musket Ball. That and its Beak are the chief Defence of this Bird. ‘Tis very hard to catch it in the Woods, but easie in open Places, because we run faster than they, and sometimes we approach them without much Trouble. From March to September they are extremely fat, and taste admirably well, especially while they are young, some of the Males weigh forty-five Pounds.\n“The Femals are wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown; I call them fair, because they are the colour of fair Hair. They have a sort of Peak, like a Widow’s upon their Breasts [Beaks], which is of a dun colour. No one Feather is straggling from the other all over their Bodies, they being very careful to adjust themselves, and make them all even with their Beaks. The Feathers on their Thighs are round like Shells at the end, and being there very thick, have an agreeable effect. They have two Risings on their Craws [crop]’ and the Feathers are whiter than the rest, which livelily represents the fine neck of a Beautiful Woman. They walk with so much Stateliness and good Grace, that one cannot help admiring them and loving them; by which means their fine Mein often saves their Lives.”\n“Tho’ these Birds will sometimes very familiarly come up near enough to one, when we do not run after them, yet they will never grow Tame. As soon as they are caught they shed Tears without Crying, and refuse all sustenance till they die.\n“We find in the Gizzards of both Male and Female, a brown Stone, of the bigness of a Hen’s Egg, ‘tis somewhat rough, flat on one side and round on the other, heavy and hard. We believe this Stone was there when they were hatched, for let them be never so young, you meet with it always. They never have but one of ‘em, and besides, the Passage from the Craw to the Gizard is so narrow, that a like Mass of half Bigness cou’d not pass. It serv’d to whet our Knives better than any other Stone Whatsoever. When these Birds build their Nests, they choose a clean Place, gather together some Palm-Leaves for that purpose, and heap them up a foot and a half high from the Ground, on which they sit. They never lay but one Egg, which is much bigger than that of a Goose. The Male and Female both cover it in their turns, and the young is not hatch’d till at seven Weeks’ end : All the while they are sitting upon it, or are bringing up their young one, which is not able to provide itself in several Months, they will not suffer any other Bird of their Species to come within two hundred Yards round of the Place; But what is very singular, is, the Males will never drive away the Females, only when he perceives one he makes a noise with his Wings to call to the Female, and she drives the unwelcome Stranger away, not leaving it till ‘tis without her Bounds. The Female do’s the same as to the Males, whom she leaves to the Male, and he drives them away. We have observ’d this several Times, and I affirm it to be true.\n“The Combats between them on this occasion last sometimes pretty long, because the Stranger only turns about, and do’s not fly directly from the Nest. However, the others do not forsake it till they have quite driven it out of their Limits. After these Birds have rais’d their young One, and left it to itself, they are always together, which the other Birds are not, and tho’ they happen to mingle with other Birds of the same Species, these two Companions never disunite. We have often remark’d, that some Days after the young leaves the Nest, a Company of thirty or forty brings another young one to it, and the now fledg’d Bird, with its Father and Mother joyning with the Band, march to some bye Place. We frequently follow’d them, and found that afterwards the old ones went each their way alone, or in Couples, and left the two young ones together, which we call’d a Marriage.\n“This Particularity has something in it which looks a little Fabulous, nevertheless, what I say is sincere Truth, and what I have more than once observ’d with Care and Pleasure ”\n(Leguat 1708 pp71-74).\nThis thought provoking description by Leguat of the solitaire is extremely important for a number of reasons. Leguat is the only person to record the ecology of any member of the large flightless pigeons including dodo of the Mascarenes, he also mentions the diet as being palm fruit, and inadvertently became the first person to describe territorial behaviour in birds.\nThe solitaire was also mentioned by second mate, Julien Tafforet, while he and four other men were marooned on Rodrigues in 1725-6 for 8 months. Tafforet also noted that they were still common and added to Leguat’s description by stating that solitaires were adorned with a frontlet of black feathers like velvet and would bite hard if approached too closely. Cossigny tried to procure a solitaire in 1755 and he clearly stated that they were exceedingly rare by this time. Pingre, in 1761, was told that they still existed in secluded places, although he never personally saw one. The speed with which the solitaire disappeared can be correlated with the increased tortoise trade between Rodrigues and Mauritius/Réunion from 1730 – 1750. The tortoise hunters burnt off the vegetation and surely would have captured solitaires at every opportunity for food. Cats and pigs had also been introduced by this time and may have been serious predators of eggs and chicks. Inevitably, probably by the late 1760s the solitaires had become extinct, as the discovery of the first bone material in 1786 did not evoke any reference to a living bird.\nRecent DNA analysis has confirmed the monophyletic origins of the dodo and solitaire and suggested they have a sister group relationship to Coloenas nicobarica. If correct, the ancestor of this S.E. Asian species presumably must have made its way to the Mascarenes via island hopping during glacial low sea level stands, when islands and island groups were much larger and in greater number above sea level than at present. The separation of the Coloenas dodo/solitaire stock has been set as the Eocene (74.5 Ma) and the dodo/solitaire separation at 15 Ma. These dates appear entirely unsupported and do not correspond to the geological, geographical or ecological evidence.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Francavilla, Francesca and Lyon, Scott (2002) Children's work in Côte d'Ivoire: an overview. UCW Working Papers. Working Paper. Understanding Children’s Work Project, Rome, Italy.Full text not available from this repository.\nThe International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that in developing countries alone there are some 250 million children between the ages of five and 14 years who work. For 120 million of them, work is a full-time activity. Although child work occurs in all parts of the world, it is in Africa where a child is most likely to be involved in work and where child work is growing most rapidly. ILO estimates that the 80 million African child workers today could surge to 100 million by 2015. This paper looks at African child work in the context of Côte d'Ivoire. It aims at providing a brief overview of the various dimensions of the child work phenomenon in the country - its extent and nature, its causes and consequences, and national legislation and policies adopted to address it.\n|Item Type:||Monograph (Working Paper)|\n|Subjects:||University of Westminster > Architecture and the Built Environment > Policy Studies Institute (PSI) (No longer in use)|\n|Depositing User:||Miss Nina Watts|\n|Date Deposited:||29 Jun 2010 10:19|\n|Last Modified:||29 Jun 2010 10:19|\nActions (login required)\n|Edit Item (Repository staff only)|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Pre-biblical Origins of the Hebrew Shabbat\nderivation from the\n2900 B.C. Shuruppak Flood\nThe Epic of Gilgamesh and The Epic of Atra-Khasis\nOriginal draft: 20 April 1999\nRevisions & Updates through 24 July 2009\nSince the 17 Dec. 2000 posting of this article on the internet at this website there have been over 14,170 visits to this url and over 16,550 page views.\nMy notebooks reveal that I had made this association by 17 April 1996 while living at Walldorf by Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany (1990-2002) at the ripe old age of 53, this research later being offered as \"a paper\" via an\ne-mail attachment to posters at the on-line Orion Discussion List hosted by The Hebrew University, Jerusalem by\n20 April 1999 when I was aged 56. I also made this e-mail attachment \"paper\" available to interested participants of the b-Hebrew List on 04 December 1999. Now (2009) I am aged 66. Please click here for my \"background\" in biblical studies. Please click here for an interesting article on Sabbath observation in the USA, 1610-2010.\nA \"warning\" to the viewer (especially if you are a _devout_ Christian, Jew or Moslem):\nMy research at this website is that of a Secular Humanist. Secular Humanists understand that the Bible is _not_ the word of God (for the reasons why please click here). Secular Humanists seek to explain the Bible's concepts as evolving from within the context of the Ancient Near East and its religious notions regarding the origins of the world, why man was created and what his purpose in life is. If asked to briefly summarize _my_ understanding of the Hebrew God, Yahweh-Elohim, it would be best encapsulated by the Latin Motto now found on the money of the United States of America: E PLURIBUS UNUM: \"From Many, One.\" That is to say I understand that the Hebrews took the many gods and goddesses of Mesopotamia, Syria, Canaan and Phoenicia, and ascribed their powers, feats, epithets and personas to their God. Whereas MANY GODS and GODDESSES were responsible for the Shuruppak Flood in the Hebrew transformation and recasting as Noah's Flood it is only ONE GOD who is responsible. I understand that many of the Hebrew notions about the relationship between God and Man are deliberate _refutations_and_challenges_ of the beliefs held by the Mesopotamians, said refutations being in the form of a series of 180 degree \"inversions\" or \"reversals\" of earlier Mesopotamian concepts.\nThis article in a nutshell:\nIt is argued that by employing a \"new twist\" (an inversion) the Hebrews had a God (Yahweh-Elohim) coming to REST ON A SEVENTH DAY _after _CREATING A WORLD _AND MANKIND instead of _all_ the gods and goddesses RESTING ON A SEVENTH DAY _after _DESTROYING A WORLD_ AND MANKIND with a flood.\nThe gods had created man to be their slave to provide them with daily food rations from their gardens of edin (edin being the uncultivated plain of Sumer surrounding the cities and city-gardens built by the gods for themselves to live in _before_ man's creation) for all of eternity (man is to endure back-breaking toil in these gardens growing the gods' food) thereby giving themselves the equivalent of an eternal Shabbat or Sabbath Rest from earthly toil. Man's toil will provide the gods with life's necessities: food, shelter and clothing (The gods needed to eat earthly food or they would starve to death, in Mesopotamian myths the gods can die). The gods would _never_ release man from the grievous toil in their gardens of edin and grant him immortality because they did not want to resume again their previous grievous toil in providing life's necessities for themselves. The gods' eternal Sabbath Rest from toil on the earth was made possible by man toiling in their place in the gardens of edin. The gods faced, however, a serious problem, by creating man to toil in their place in the gardens thereby giving themselves Rest from earthly toil they could _not_ enjoy this Rest _in peace and quiet_ for man's clamor or noise objecting to his grievous toil in edin's gardens made it impossible for the gods to relax and sleep \"in peace and quiet.\" Their solution was to destroy man with a Flood and thereby obtain for themslves an eternal quiet, peaceful Rest. That day of peaceful quiet Rest and Sleep occurred on the 7th day of the Shuruppak Flood with man's annihilation. On the seventh day the gods at last enjoyed their Shabbat Rest from toil with _peaceful sleep_ because of the _silence_ on the earth achieved with man's demise. The Mesopotamian myths, then, agree with Genesis: (1) _all_ the gods REST _after_ creating man, and (2) _all_ the gods rest on a seventh day _after_ man's creation (but this seventh day of rest is _after_ a flood instead of _before_ a flood) and (3) Yahweh sets aside a seventh day for man (Israel) to rest on and on a seventh day the gods caused man to \"rest\" (his \"rest from toil\" is that which accompanies man's death by the seventh day of the Shuruppak Flood). These, for me, are the \"new twists\" the Hebrews have applied to the earlier Mesopotamian myths! The Hebrews apparently objected to the Mesopotamian storyline and denied that Yahweh-Elohim had created man to endure back-breaking toil in his Garden of Eden to give God a break from self-toil in growing his own food (Yet Yahweh is fed food twice a day like a Mesopotamian god beginning with the Exodus at Mount Sinai and this feeding of God is to continue for all of eternity -even after the Messiah comes- as Ezekiel envisions a future Messiah at Jerusalem with the help of Levitical priests preparing God's daily food via burnt offerings and sacrifices cf. Ez. 44:7,15; 45:13-25; 46:1-9). Via a series of brilliantly orchestrated inversions and reversals or \"new twists\" to old Mesopotamian motifs and concepts the nomadic Hebrew shepherds apparently recast the Mesopotamian city-dwellers' myths which had man being the ruthlessly exploited innocent victim of the gods, instead it is God who is the victim of a rebellious, unappreciative, evil-hearted mankind. Why did they do this? The city-dwellers despised and feared the nomads characterizing them as uncouth and a threat to civilization as cut-throats, thieves, bandits and raiders of cities out for plunder. In defense of their way of life the nomadic herdsmen apparently took the city-dwellers myths and recast them _via a series of inversions_ in such a way as to portray themselves (Abraham and Abel being shepherds) as blessed by God and the city-dwellers (Cain and his descendants) as the accursed by God. The nomads had the \"correct\" understanding of man's origins and his relationship with his Creator, the smug city-dwellers had it all wrong.\nSpecial Note: The Samaritan Bible dates Noah's Flood to 2903 B.C. which is a \"near match\" to the circa 2900 B.C. Flood silt layer which brought and end to the Jamdet Nasr Period at Tell Fara (ancient Shuruppak) found by Schmidt in his 1931 excavations at this site. Like Noah, the Shuruppak Flood hero (variously called Ziusudra, Atra-Khasis, Atrahasis, Atram-hasis or Utnapishtim, Utanapishtim) releases in sequence three birds to test the abatement of the Flood waters before disembarking and presenting a thank-offering sacrifice to the gods for being spared.\nThe historical background to the search for the pre-biblical origins of the Sabbath (Hebrew Shabbat):\nPrior to 1872 many scholars accepted without question the Sabbath's origins as presented in the Hebrew Bible. Things changed after 1872. Why? In that year a British scholar called George Smith, who worked for the British Museum in London discovered a Mesopotamian account of a great flood that destroyed the world while reading cuneiform tablets excavated from the Assyrian Kings' Palace Library at Nineveh the capital of ancient Assyria (destroyed in 612 B.C. by Medes and Babylonians). This account noted that a god had warned one man to build a great boat and put aboard it the seed of man and animalkind for a new post-flood beginning. He released birds three times like Noah to test the abatement of the flood waters before leaving the boat and then he gave a thank-offering to his god for being forewarned and spared like Noah.\nThe news of this discovery electrified the Christian world: at last an extra-biblical document had verified the biblical flood account. However, this discovery caused some scholars to wonder _why_ the Mesopotamian and biblical accounts varied from each other in many details. Some proposed that both accounts arose independently of each other from one event, a real flood. Others suggested the Hebrew account had borrowed from the Mesopotamian and had for unknown reasons recast the details. Scholars are still divided to this day on this issue. Some Conservative scholars argue there is _no_ borrowing while more Liberal scholars understand that there _is_ borrowing, acknowledging that the details have been recast and transformed. Smith in 1875 wrote a book (published at London in 1876) on his discoveries from the cuneiform tablets. He appears to have understood that the Hebrews in the Book of Genesis had recast Mesopotamian accounts about man's origins and his demise in a flood. He titled his book\nThe Chaldean Genesis. Later scholarship would come to call the cuneiform account preserving the Flood that Smith had shared in 1872 with a startled world The Epic of Gilgamesh (Smith correctly deduced the account was made up of 12 tablets, he knew Gilgamesh as Izdubar and thought he was a pre-biblical prototype of Genesis' Nimrod).\nThose scholars who, after 1872, suspected that the Hebrews had recast the details in the Mesopotamian flood story into Noah's Flood turned their attention to the Hebrew Shabbat (English: Sabbath). Was it possible that the Hebrews had recast a Mesopotamian story about gods resting on a seventh day and transformed this motif into one God resting on a seventh day?\nFor over 100 years, since 1872, various professional scholars have tried their hand at attempting to identify in the Mesopotamian literature an event that was recast by the Hebrews into the Sabbath. As noted by the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I accessed in January of 2008, they have _not_ been successful (cf. below for further details).\nProfessor Driver (1899) on the Sabbath's origins being traced to Babylonia by numerous scholars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries A.D.:\n\"It is difficult not to agree with Schrader, Sayce and other Assyriologists in regarding the week of seven days, ended by a sabbath, as an institution of Babylonian origin. The sabbath, it is true, assumed a new character among the Hebrews; it was divested of its heathen associations, and made subservient to ethical and religious ends: but it originated in Babylonia. If, however, this explanation of its origin be correct, then it is plain that in the Book of Genesis its sanctity is explained unhistorically, and ante-dated.\"\n(p. 18. David George Hogarth & Samuel Rolles Driver. Authority and Archaeology, Sacred Texts and Profane: Essays on the Relation of Monuments to Biblical and Classical Literature. New York. Charles Scribner's & Sons. 1899)\nPlease click here for my article on the 2900 B.C. Shuruppak Flood and what Archaeologists found at this site (Shuruppak) when excavated in 1931, causing them to realize that this flood did _not_ engulf the whole world as portrayed in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Atra-Khasis Epic.\nFor me, Genesis is _denying_ the Mesopotamian myths' explanation of how and why man came to made, what his purpose on earth is, and why his demise was sought in a flood. These \"_denials_ are accomplished by taking Mesopotamian motifs from a variety of sometimes contradicting myths, fusing them together into a \"New Story\" giving them a number of \"new twists\" by changing the names of the characters, the locations, and sequences of events. In _agreement with_ Professor Wenham I understand that the Hebrews are _not_ \"copying\" the Mesopotamian myths, they are _recasting_ certain motifs and concepts within them inorder to deny, refute and challenge them.\nProfessor Wenham (Senior Professor of the Old Testament at Cheltenham & Glouster College, Cheltenham, England) has done a brilliant presentation, in my opinion, on explaining what Genesis is _really all about_, in its transformation and reinterpretation of the Ancient Mesopotamian concepts regarding the relationship between Man and God. IT IS A POLEMIC, A CHALLENGE OF THE VIEWS held by the Mesopotamians of God's relationship with Man, A CHALLENGE OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN VIEWS ON HOW MAN CAME TO BE MADE AND WHY HIS DEMISE WAS SOUGHT IN A FLOOD:\nWenham (Emphasis mine in capitals, bold print and italics):\n\"Though Genesis shares many of the theological presuppositions of the ancient world, most of the stories found in these chapters are BEST READ AS PRESENTING AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW TO THOSE GENERALLY ACCEPTED IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. Genesis 1-11 is a tract for the times challenging ancient assumptions about the nature of God, the world and mankind (p. xlv). An understanding of ancient oriental mythology is essential if we are to appreciate the points Genesis 1-11 was making then (p. xlvi)...It is my conviction that many of our problems are caused by misunderstanding the original intentions of Genesis...many of the individual episodes in Genesis 1-11 may be seen to have a distinctly polemical thrust in their own right, particularly against the religious ideas associated most closely with Mesopotamia (p. xlviii)...Viewed with respect to its negatives, Genesis 1:1-2-3 is a polemic against the mythico-religious concepts of the ancient orient... _THE_SEVENTH_DAY_ is not a day of ill omen as in Mesopotamia, but a day of blessing and sanctity on which normal work is laid aside. In contradicting the usual ideas of its times, Genesis 1 is also setting out a positive alternative (p. 37)...We have noted that the overall structure of the material in Genesis 1-11 finds its closest parallels in the Sumerian flood story and the Sumerian king list and in the Atrahasis Epic, all dated to 1600 B.C. or earlier (p. xliv)...This is not to say that the writer of Genesis had ever heard or read the Gilgamesh Epic: these traditions were part of the intellectual furniture of that time in the Near East, just as most people today have some idea of Darwin's Origin of the Species, though they have never read it.\" (p. xlviii. Gordon J. Wenham. Word Biblical Commentary, Genesis 1-15. Waco, Texas. Word Incorporated. 1987)\n\"The ancient oriental background to Genesis 1-11 shows it to be concerned with rather different issues from those that tend to preoccupy modern readers. It is affirming the unity of God in the face of polytheism, his justice rather than his caprice, his power as opposed to his impotence, his concern for mankind rather than his exploitation. And whereas Mesopotamia clung to the wisdom of the primeval man, Genesis records his sinful disobedience. Because as Christians we tend to assume these points in our theology, we often fail to recognize the striking originality of the message of Genesis 1-11...\" (p. 1. Wenham)\n\"In all these cases there is no evidence of simple borrowing by the Hebrew writer. It would be better to suppose that he has BORROWED various familiar _mythological_motifs_, TRANSFORMED them, and integrated them into a fresh and original story of his own. Whereas Adapa heeded the word of the god Ea and did not eat the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve rejected the Lord's command and followed the serpent.\" (p. 53. Wenham)\n\"If it is correct to view Genesis 1-11 as _AN INSPIRED RETELLING_ of ancient oriental traditions about the origins of the world with a view to presenting the nature of God as one, omnipotent, omniscient, and good, as opposed to the fallible, capricious, weak deities who populate the rest of the ancient world; if further it is concerned to show that humanity is central in the divine plan, not an afterthought; if finally it wants to show that man's plight is the product of his disobedience and indeed is bound to worsen without divine intervention, Genesis 1-11 is setting out a picture of the world that is at odds both with the polytheistic optimism of ancient Mesopotamia and the humanistic secularism and the modern world.\nGenesis is thus a fundamental CHALLENGE to the ideologies of civilized men and women, past and present, who like to suppose their own efforts will ultimately suffice to save them. Genesis 1-11 declares that mankind is without hope if individuals are without God.\" (p. liii. Wenham)\nIt will be argued in this brief article that Genesis' Garden of Eden and its concept of a resting God setting aside a seventh day as a Sabbath rest day is derived -in part- from motifs associated with the 2900 B.C. Shuruppak Flood found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Atra-Khasis (Atra-hasis/Atrahasis) Flood Story.\nTwo professional Bible Scholars noted that an impasse had been reached by 1972 regarding attempts to identify the pre-biblical origins of the Hebrew Shabbat or Sabbath. Their observations caused me to investigate in 1996 the Mesopotamian myths for myself to see if I could possibly find or identify some composition that had been \"overlooked\" by the professional scholars. This article is the result of those investigations.\nBelow, Professors Andreasen's and Hasel's comments on professional scholars having hit a brickwall in their attempts to identify the pre-biblical origins of the Sabbath:\nProfessor Andreasen (currently President of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, a Seventh-day Adventist Seminary) noted in 1972, that attempts to identify the pre-biblical origins of Sabbath had reached an impasse:\n\"The interest in extra-biblical origins of the Sabbath has now subsided. It is generally agreed that the seventh-day Sabbath is old, dating back to pre-monarchial, and undoubtedly to Mosaic times. Beyond this point scholars now proceed with a great deal of tentativeness. It is recognized that the various hypotheses regarding Sabbath origins have exhausted the available source material without providing any final conclusions. The origin and early history of the Sabbath thus continue to lie in the dark. This does not mean that the quest for the original Sabbath has been completely in vain, for it has provided illustrations of special days which demonstrate some similarity of the biblical seventh-day Sabbath, which may have influenced it, or even helped formulate it, but this latter process is unknown. It is not surprising, therefore, that Sabbath studies should shift their attention from the extra-biblical to the biblical sources, and that is precisely what has happened.\"\n(pp. 8-9. Neils-Erik A. Andreasen. The Old Testament Sabbath: A Tradition-Historical Investigation. Missoula, Montana. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 7. 1972)\nTwenty years later in 1992, the late Professor Hasel (another Seventh-day Adventist scholar) made the following observations:\n\"The relationship between the noun shabbat and the Hebrew verb shabat, to stop, cease, keep (sabbath) in the Qal, \"to disappear, be brought to a stop,\" in the Nip`al \"to put to an end, bring to a stop,\" in the Hip`il, remains disputed. Scholars have argued that the noun derives from the verb or that the verb derives from the noun. While there is no conclusive answer, it seems certain that the noun shabbat cannot be derived from the Akkadian term shab/pattu(m). A possible connection of shabbat with the number \"seven,\" has been left open. In this case the Akkadian feminine form sibbitim, \"seventh,\" may be considered as an ancestor of the Hebrew noun shabbat, \"sabbath,\" also a feminine form, which, if the relationship holds, may have originally meant \"the seventh [day].\" On this supposition \"the seventh day\" in Genesis 2:2-3 would receive further light.\"\n(p. 849. Vol. 5. Gerhard F. Hasel, \"Sabbath.\" David Noel Freedman. Editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York. Doubleday.1992)\nAfter reviewing various scholarly proposals Hasel concludes echoing somewhat Andreasen's earlier observations:\n\"In spite of extensive efforts of more than a century of study into extra-Israelite Sabbath origins, it is still shrouded in mystery. No hypothesis whether astrological, menological, sociological, etymological, or cultic commands the respect of a scholarly consensus. Each hypothesis or combination of hypotheses has insurmountable problems. The quest for the origin of the Sabbath outside of the Old Testament cannot be pronounced to have been successful. It is, therefore, not surprising that this quest has been pushed into the background of studies on the Sabbath in recent years.\"\n(p. 849. Vol. 5. Gerhard F. Hasel. \"Sabbath.\" David Noel Freedman. Editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York. Doubleday.1992)\nThe Encyclopaedia Britannica (which I accessed on 24 January 2008) is apparently in _agreement_ with Andreasen (1972) and Hasel (1992), the pre-biblical origins of the Sabbath are still unknown:\n\"Scholars have not succeeded in tracing the origin of the seven-day week, nor can they account for the origin of the Sabbath.\"\nProfessor Hallo (Yale University, Dept of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature) agrees with the Britannica:\n\"If the twenty-four hour day is a legacy of Egypt and Mesopotamia, the seven-day week is definitely independent of both these cultures, although they have never ceased to be searched for the roots...we...repeat that all efforts to find a pre-Israelite origin for the seven-day week have remained fruitless.\"\n(pp. 127 & 134. \"The Week.\" William W. Hallo. The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions. Brill Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. 1996)\nIn 1996 at the age of 53 I asked myself a simple question:\n\"Does there exist in _any form_ a notion of GODS RESTING ON A SEVENTH DAY in the Mesopotamian myths?\"\nThe answer was YES.\nI discovered that _ALL_ THE GODS RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY of the Shuruppak Flood because man who had disturbed their rest with his \"clamor\" had been annihilated by the flood waters and the resulting SILENCE allowed them to REST by day and SLEEP by night.\nI came to realize that via an _inversion_ or _reversal_ (a \"new twist\" applied by the Hebrews to an old theme) Israel had probably transformed this notion, making it into God's \"Sabbath Day.\"\nA God (Yahweh-Elohim) came to REST ON THE SEVENTH DAY after _creating a world _(and mankind)\ninstead of _all_ the gods and goddesses RESTING ON A SEVENTH DAY after _destroying a world_ (and mankind) with a flood.\nThe biblical notion that God RESTED on the seventh day:\nGenesis 2:1-3 RSV\n'Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he RESTED on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God RESTED from all his work which he had done in creation.\"\nSome scholars have objected to the common understanding of Sabbath meaning \"to rest,\" and understand it means \"to cease,\" as in \"to cease or desist from working.\"\nThe Encyclopedia Britannica (1888) on Sabbath not meaning \"day of rest\" but to \"sever,\" \"bring an end to\":\n\"Etymology of the word \"Sabbath.\" -The grammatical inflexions of the word \"Sabbath\" show that it is a feminine form, probably shab-bat-t for shabbat-t...The root has nothing to do with resting in the sense of enjoying repose; in transitive forms and applications it means to \"sever,\" to \"put an end to,\" and intransitively it means to \"desist,\" to \"come to an end.\" The grammatical form of shabbath suggests a transitive sense, \"the divider,\" and apparently indicates the sabbath as dividing the month. It may mean the day which puts a stop to the week's work, but this is less likely. It certainly cannot be translated \"the day of rest.\"\n(p. 126. Vol. XXI. \"Sabbath.\" Thomas Spencer Baines. Editor. The Encyclopedia Britannica. 9th Edition. New York. Henry G. Allen & Company. 1888)\nI note that the above etymologies \"to sever,\" \"to bring an end to,\" are apt descriptive terms for the Shuruppak Flood who's purpose was \"to sever,\" and \"put an end to\" mankind for violating the gods' rest with his noise.\nStrong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary renders English \"rested\" from Genesis 2:1-3 as the Hebrew word [Strong 7673] shabath, a primitive root: \"to repose, i.e., desist from exertion.\"\nSo I have an _alternate_ proposal, that my previous (above) observation could just as well be _alternately_ rendered:\nA God (Yahweh-Elohim) CEASED on the Seventh day his work in creating a world (and mankind)\ninstead of the gods CEASING on the Seventh day their work in destroying a world (and mankind).\nPlease note the texts, Atra-Khasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh, do _not_ specifically state that \"_All_ the gods RESTED on the SEVENTH DAY of the Flood.\" _This_is_an_inference_on_MY_part_. The Atra-Khasis myth notes the flood is sent to end man's noise which disturbs the gods' rest and sleep. The texts do state on the seventh day the flood ended and that on this day SILENCE or STILLNESS reigns on the earth, man is gone except those on Utnapishtim's boat. Thus _I_INFER_ that on the SEVENTH DAY this \"SILENCE or STILLNESS\" allows the gods to REST and sleep now.\nThe Atra-Khasis myth explains that Enlil (the Sumerian god residing at Sumerian Nibru, Akkadian/Babylonian Nippur in Sumer, modern Iraq), objecting to mankind's noise cannot get any sleep, eventually he settles on a Flood to get his rest:\n\"Enlil heard their noise\nand addressed the great gods,\nThe noise of mankind has become too intense for me,\nWith their uproar I am deprived of sleep...\nThe gods commanded total destruction,\nEnlil did an evil deed on the peoples.\"\n(p. 73 & 87. W. G. Lambert, A. R. Millard & M. Civil. Atra-Khasis, the Babylonian Story of the Flood with The Sumerian Flood Story. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1999 reprint of 1969 Oxford University Press edition)\nProfessor Spieser on the STILLNESS on the earth with man's demise on the seventh day of the flood\n\"When the SEVENTH DAY ARRIVED,\nThe flood (-carrying) south-storm subsided in the\nWhich it had fought like an army.\nThe sea grew QUIET, the tempest was STILL, the flood\nI looked at the weather: STILLNESS had set in,\nAnd all of mankind had returned to clay.\"\n(p. 69. E. A. Spieser. \"The Epic of Gilgamesh.\" James B. Pritchard. Editor. The Ancient Near East, An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 1958)\nProfessor Skinner (1910) on the \"stillness\" of the seventh day brought about by mankinds' destruction (emphasis mine):\n\"On the following morning the storm...broke; and it raged FOR SIX DAYS AND NIGHTS, TILL ALL MANKIND WERE DESTROYED...\"\n\"WHEN THE SEVENTH DAY CAME, the hurricane, the Flood, the battle-\nstorm WAS STILLED,\nWhich had fought like a (host?) of men.\nThe sea BECAME CALM, THE TEMPEST WAS STILL, THE FLOOD CEASED.\nWhen I saw the day, _NO VOICE WAS HEARD_,\nAND THE WHOLE OF MANKIND WAS TURNED TO CLAY.\nWhen the daylight came, I prayed,\nI knelt, I sat, and wept,\nOn my nostrils my tears ran down.\nI looked on the spaces in the realm of the sea.\"\n(p. 176. \"Flood.\" John Skinner. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis. Edinburgh, Scotland. T & T Clark. 1910, 1930 revised edition, reprinted 1994)\nProfessor Rogers' (Professor of Ancient Oriental Languages, Princeton University) translation of the above lines (1912) has the storm-tossed Sea \"resting on the seventh day\" and the Storm \"falling asleep\" on the seventh day. The Akkadian word for \"rested\" i-nu-uh recalls to mind the Hebrew nuah (Noah), which also means \"to rest\" (emphasis mine as well as the Akkadian words in brackets [ ]):\n\"Six days and nights\nblew the wind, the deluge and the\ntempest overwhelmed the land.\nWhen the seventh [si-bu-u] day drew nigh, the\ntempest spent itself in the battle,\nwhich it fought like an army.\nThen RESTED the sea [i-nu-uh tamtu], the storm\nFELL ASLEEP, the flood ceased.\nI looked upon the the sea, there was\nand all mankind was turned to clay.\"\n(p. 96. lines 18-24. \"The Babylonian Flood Story.\" Robert William Rogers. Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament. New York. Jennings & Graham. 1912)\nProfessor Langdon (1931) on the absence of human voices with the seventh day of the Flood:\n\"Six days and nights\nRaged the wind, the Deluge, the hurricane devastated the land.\nWhen the seventh day arrived, the hurricane, the Deluge, the\nshock of battle was broken.\nWhich had smitten like an army.\nThe sea became calm, the cyclone died away, the Deluge ceased.\nI looked upon the sea and the sound of voices had ended.\nAnd all of mankind had turned to clay...\nI kneeled and sat down to weep,\nTears streaming on my cheeks.\"\n(p. 221. \"Legends of the Deluge.\" Stephen Herbert Langdon. The Mythology of All Races, Semitic. Volume 5. Boston. Marshall Jones Company. 1931)\nHeidel on the SILENCE on the earth accompanying the seventh day and man's demise, \"his turning to clay\" (emphasis mine):\n\"Six days and nights the wind blew, the downpour, the tempest,\nand the flood overwhelmed the land.\nWhen the _SEVENTH_DAY_ arrived, the tempest, the flood,\nWhich had fought like an army, subsided in its onslaught.\nThe sea grew quiet, the storm abated, the flood CEASED.\nI opened a window, a light fell upon my face.\nI looked upon the sea, all was SILENCE,\nAnd all mankind had turned to clay...\nI bowed, sat down, and wept,\nmy tears running down over my face.\"\n(pp. 193-194. cited from Alexander Heidel lines 127-141. p 85 ff. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels. University of Chicago Press. 1946, in Rivkah Scharf Kluger. The Archetypical Significance of Gilgamesh, A Modern Hero. Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Daimon Verlag, Am Klosterplatz, Chur 8840. 1991)\nSandars' paraphrase (1960) of the above verses (emphasis mine):\n\"For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts. When the seventh day dawned the storm from the south subsided, the sea grew calm, the flood was stilled; I looked at the face of the world and there was silence, all mankind was turned to clay. The surface of the sea stretched as flat as a roof-top; I opened a hatch and the light fell on my face. Then I bowed low, I sat down and I wept, the tears streamed down over my face, for on every side was the waste of water. I looked for land in vain...\"\n(p. 108. \"The Story of the Flood.\" N.K. Sandars. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Baltimore, Maryland. Penguin Books. 1960. Reprint of 1964)\nThe notion that SILENCE or STILLNESS allows a god TO REST is mirrored in the following account of the god Apsu (who is speaking to his spouse the goddess Tiamat at Eridu in Sumer, modern day Iraq). His decision is to destroy the gods his offspring to get rest from their \"disturbance,\" apparently a euphemism for \"noise\" as the text mentions the obtainment of \"SILENCE\" and \"REST\" with their destruction.\nNote: Strong renders God's having \"rested\" in Ge 2:1-3 from the Hebrew [Strong 7673] shabath, a primitive root: \"to repose, i.e., desist from exertion,\" and below Professor Clay speaks of the REPOSE and REST of Apsu and Tiamat:\nThe late (1866-1925) Professor Clay (1923) on the gods needing silence in order to obtain their rest\n\"Apsu opened his mouth, addressing her:\nTo Tiamat, the glistening one, he said to her:\n\"Their conduct is distressing unto me;\nBy day, I CANNOT REPOSE; by night I CANNOT REST.\nI will destroy, I will ruin their course\nThat there be SILENCE, and that we may HAVE REST...\nThat by day thou may'st HAVE REPOSE by night HAVE REST.\"\n(p. 192. \"Enuma Elish.\" Albert T. Clay. The Origin of Biblical Traditions, Hebrew Legends In Babylonia And Israel. Lectures On Biblical Archaeology Delivered at the Lutheran Theological Seminary Mount Airy, Philadelphia. New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. Yale Oriental Series, Researches, Vol. 12. 1923)\nProfessor Foster (1995) renders \"rest\" instead of \"repose,\" and \"sleep\" instead of \"rest\" for the above _same_ verses (emphasis mine):\n\"Apsu made ready to speak,\nsaying to her, Tiamat, in a loud voice,\n\"Their behaviour is noisome to me!\"\n\"By day I HAVE NO REST, at night I do not SLEEP!\n\"I wish to put an end to their behavior, to do away with it!\n\"Let SILENCE REIGN that we may SLEEP\"...\nIt was Mummu who answered, counseling Apsu...\n\"Put and end here and now, father, to their troublesome ways!\n\"BY DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE REST, AT NIGHT YOU SHOULD SLEEP.\"\n(p. 12. \"The Epic of Creation.\" Benjamin R. Foster. From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Maryland. CDL Press. 1995)\nDalley's translation (1989) of the above verses:\n\"The gods of that generation would meet together\nAnd disturb Tiamat, and their clamour reverberated...\nApsu could not quell their noise...\nApsu spoke to Tiamat...\n'Their ways have become very grievous to me,\nBy day I cannot rest, by night I cannot sleep.\nI shall abolish their ways and disperse them!\nLet peace prevail, so that we can sleep...'\n(Vizier) Mummu repied and counseled Apsu...\n'O father, put an end to (their) troublesome ways,\nSo that she may be allowed to rest by day and sleep at night.\"\n(pp. 233-234. \"The Epic of Creation.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh And Others. Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press. 1989)\nOf interest here is that Apsu and Tiamat personify bodies of water; Apsu is the freshwater ocean land floats on while Tiamat is the salty sea surrounding this land. The above verses have these two seas or oceans as unable to sleep or rest until silence is achieved via the destruction of those (the gods, their children) who violate their rest. This motif reappears in Roger's translation which has the \"sea\" RESTING after mankind's destruction has been achieved and silence reigns on the earth. Roger's translation has the \"storm\" falling ASLEEP after noisy man's demise, and in myths the god Enlil who instigated the Flood because he could not sleep was portrayed at times as a \"storm-god.\" If the gods had no qualms about destroying fellow-gods (their progeny) to obtain silence and rest they would have no hesitation in destroying man for violating their rest with his noise.\nA special note:\nThe scholarly consensus for over 100 years is that Abzu/Apsu and his wife Tiamat are \"seas.\" Abzu personifies the freshwater ocean the earth (land) floats upon while Tiamat is the salty sea surrounding the earth. I accepted this explanation until quite recently, 20 February of 2009. However, via a Google search I chanced across a book published in 1919 by a trained English irrigation works engineer in which he argued that Abzu and Tiamat were personifications of fresh water. Tiamat was _not_ a salty sea (the Persian or Arabian Gulf) personification! I found his arguments to be compelling and well-reasoned out. Please click here and scroll down for his arguments. Biblical tehom (rendered as \"the deep\" in English translation) sends subterranean fresh water up from under the earth to water God's Garden of Eden in the Lebanon for Ezekiel (cf. Ez 31:3-4), thus tehom is subterranean fresh water not salty-sea-water! Ezekeil's understanding of tehom (Hebrew tehom being understood by some scholars to be a cognate of tiamat) being fresh water supports for me the neglected and overlooked argument made by Willcocks.\nA composition titled Erra and Ishum (dated to the 8th century B.C.) alludes to the Anunnaki gods being unable to sleep because there is no silence on the earth as man's noise disturbs their rest, Erra decides to decimate his people:\n\"Warrior Erra, why did you abandon the\nbattlefield and stay in town?...\nDo a favour for the Anunnaki who love silence!\nSleep no longer pours over the Anunnaki, because\nof people's noise.\"\n(p. 288. \"Erra and Ishum.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia, Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press. 1989. 1991)\nThe Mesopotamian myths associated the seventh day resting of the gods with their having accomplished the death of mankind with the Flood, ending his clamor or noise which disturbed them. In the Bible Moses tells Israel that anyone who violates the sanctity of the Sabbath will forfeit his life. I see a possible relationship between the Mesopotamian myths and the Bible in that the gods' rest was accomplished via the demise of man who had violated their rest with his noise. I am suggesting here that the biblical notion that _man is to be executed_ for violating the Sabbath (associated with God's having rested on that day) is a \"new twist\" or \"recast\" of _mankinds' demise_ at the hands of outraged gods who's rest had been violated.\nExodus 31:14-15, 17 RSV\n\"You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; every one who profanes it shall be put to death...Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death...It is a sign forever...that in six days the Lord made the heavens and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.\"\nOne of the keys to unlocking the mystery of the Sabbath has been provided by Professor Lambert who made the following observation (emphasis mine):\n\"The authors of ancient cosmologies were essentially compilers. Their originality was expressed in new combinations of old themes, and in _new twists_ to old ideas.\"\n(p.107, Wilfred G. Lambert, \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis,\" , in Richard S. Hess & David T. Tsumra, Editors, I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood. Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns, 1994)\nI understand that Genesis' Garden of Eden and the Sabbath itself are the result of \"new combinations of old themes and new twists to old ideas,\" to paraphrase Lambert's penetrating observation. Both themes are found in the Epic of Gilagmesh but in a different format and with a different sequence of events.\nIf my above \"hunch\" is correct, that the Hebrews have, via a \"new twist\" _inverted_ the Mesopotamian storyline about how a god came to rest on a seventh day _after creating a world_ rather than gods \"resting\" on a seventh day after _destroying a world_, then Professor Campbell's below observation that his studies indicated that at times the Hebrews appear to be employing _inversions_ in their recasting of motifs and concepts appearing in the earlier Mesopotamian myths is of some relevancy here (emphasis mine):\n\"The first point that emerges from this contrast, and will be demonstrated further in numerous mythic scenes to come, is that in the context of the patriarchy of the Iron Age Hebrews of the first millennium B.C., THE MYTHOLOGY ADOPTED FROM THE EARLIER NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATIONS of the lands they occupied and for a time ruled BECAME _INVERTED_, TO RENDER AN ARGUMENT JUST THE OPPOSITE TO THAT OF ITS ORIGIN.\"\n(p. 17. \"The Serpent's Bride.\" Joseph Campbell. The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. New York. Arkana & Viking Penguin. 1964. Reprinted 1991)\n\"No one familiar with the mythologies of the primitive, ancient, and Oriental worlds can turn to the Bible without recognizing COUNTERPARTS on every page, TRANSFORMED, however, TO RENDER AN ARGUMENT CONTRARY TO THE OLDER FAITHS.\"\n(p. 9. \"The Serpent's Bride.\" Joseph Campbell. The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. Arkana. New York. Viking Penguin Books. 1964, 1991 reprint)\nI understand that God's 7th day of rest, is then derived from the 7th day when the gods rested after destroying mankind with a flood as noted in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis, it has no direct relationship with sapattum, the 15th day of the lunar month or day of the fullmoon.\nThe idea that a god needs to rest seems to be a rather odd notion according to the views held by some modern interpreters. God is generally understood to be all-powerful, all-knowing, and he never sleeps, and is always awake and aware of everything taking place in his created Universe.\nThe ancient Hebrews were not hatching up out of thin air, the notion that God needs to rest, they were merely following along in well-established Mesopotamian traditions that allowed succeeding generations to creatively re-interpret the ancient myths into new religious ideas.\nLambert (Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England) has pointed out that his studies have indicated that the Mesopotamians were of a mind to re-interpret and transform older myths into newer religious concepts. It would appear that the Hebrews, Jews and Christians weren't doing anything new in their transformation of the earlier ancient myths:\n\"The authors of ancient cosmologies were essentially compilers. Their originality was expressed in new combinations of old themes, and in new twists to old ideas. Sheer invention was not part of their craft.\"\n(p. 107, Wilfred G. Lambert, \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis,: , in Richard S. Hess and David T. Tsumura, Eds., I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood, Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns, 1994)\nProfessor Lambert (1965) noted that while the search for the origins of the Hebrew Sabbath was a still elusive \"will of the wisp\" traditions about _gods needing to rest_ were verifiable (emphasis mine):\n\"The Sabbath has, of course, been the subject of much study, both in the institution and the name. My own position, briefly, is that the Hebrew term shabbat, meaning the completion of the week, and the Babylonian term shapattu, meaning the completion of the moon's waxing, that is the fifteenth day of a lunar month, are the same word...There is, however, another approach to the question. The Hebrews left two explanations of the Sabbath. The first is that of Genesis 1-2 and Exodus 20, that it repeats cyclically what God did in the original week of creation. The second, in Deuteronomy 5, regards it as a repeated memorial of the Hebrews' deliverance from Egypt. This divergence suggests that historically the institution is older than the explanations. On this assumption the use of the week as the framework of a creation account is understandable as providing divine sanction for the institution, but unexpected in that God's resting hardly expresses the unlimited might and power that are his usual attributes: \"See, Israel's guardian neither slumbers nor sleeps.\" It is generally assumed that the use of the week as the framework of the account simply required that God rest on the seventh day. But there was no compulsion to have a week of creation at all. Furthermore, this implies that the development of the doctrine of God's rest came from, pure, deductive reasoning, which I doubt very much. The authors of ancient cosmologies were essentially compilers. Their originality was expressed in new combinations of old themes, and in new twists to old ideas. Sheer invention was not part of their craft. Thus when the author tells us that God rested, I believe he drew on a tradition to this effect. Therefore in seeking parallels to the seventh day, one must look not only for comparable institutions, but also for the idea of deities resting.\nHere Mesopotamia does not fail us. The standard Babylonian accounts of man's creation is not found in Enuma Elish, but in the Atra-hasis epic. An earlier form of this myth occurs in the Sumerian Enki and Ninmah. The essentials of the story are that the gods had to toil for their daily bread, and in response to urgent complaints man was created to serve the gods by providing them with food and drink. On the last point all the Mesopotamian accounts agree: man existed solely to serve the gods, and this was expressed practically in that all major deities at least had two meals set up before their statues each day. Accordingly, MAN'S CREATION RESULTED IN THE GODS' RESTING, and the myths reach a climax at this point. Even in the Enuma Elish this is clear, despite much conflation. At the beginning of tablet VI Ea and Marduk confer on what is called \"THE RESTING OF THE GODS,\" and thereupon MAN IS CREATED AND THE GODS ARE DECLARED FREE OF TOIL. This common Mesopotamian tradition thus provides a close parallel to the sixth and seventh days of creation. Since the particular concept of the destiny of man goes back to the Sumerians, but is unparalleled in other parts of the ancient Near East, ultimate borrowing by the Hebrews seems very probable.\"\n(pp.106-107. Wilfred G. Lambert. \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis.\" , in Richard S. Hess and David T. Tsumura, Eds., I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood, Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994)\nProfessor Hallo (1991) observed that Lambert (1965) saw a relationship between the Hebrew Shabbat and and the Babylonian Atrahasis story (emphasis mine):\n\"W.G. Lambert ...argues for an original seven-day creation in which the creation of man on the sixth day and God's rest on the seventh are counterparts to THE CREATION OF MAN SO THAT THE GODS MIGHT REST FROM THEIR LABOR in the Atrahasis epic; see \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis.\" Journal of Theological Studies vol. 16. 1965. p. 295 f.\"\n(p. 329. Footnote 50. William W. Hallo. \"New Moons and Sabbaths.\" Frederick E. Greenspahn. Editor. Essential Papers on Israel and the Ancient Near East. New York. New York University Press. 1991)\nGlatt and Tigay (1985) on the \"resting\" of Mesopotamian gods _after_ their having created man, a parallel of sorts being noted by some scholars to God's \"resting\" _after_ having created man (Adam):\n\"The closest analogy between the biblical Sabbath and Babylonian culture is the shared literary motif of the god(s) resting after having created humans (see Enuma Elish 7.8, 34). Even here, the parallel is distant: the biblical God rests at the conclusion of his creative efforts, while the Babylonian gods are freed from the labors required to feed themselves since humans were created to relieve them of that task.\"\nDavid A. Glatt & Jeffrey H. Tigay. \"Biblical Origins of Shabbat.\" Paul J. Achtemeier, et al. Harper's Bible Dictionary. pp. 888-889. HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc. 1985)\nSome Examples of Hebrew \"inversions\" of Mesopotamian Flood Concepts:\nMesopotamian Concepts: Hebrew Inversions, Countering Mesopotamian Concepts\n(New Twists to Old Ideas):\nGods and Goddesses send a Flood. Only One God exists who sends a Flood.\nFlood is sent because man's noise disturbs Flood is sent because man is a shedder of blood, a sinner.\nthe gods' rest.\nAll the Gods rest on a 7th day _after_ Only One God rests on a 7th day _after_ man's creation.\nThis 7th day of rest is _after_ a Flood. This 7th day of rest is _before_ a Flood.\n7th day of rest is after destroying man & world. 7th day of rest is after creating man & world.\nMarduk, the god of Babylon, after slaying Yahweh-Elohim, the God of the Hebrews, after creating\nTiamat, makes of her body the earth and the heavens and the earth; his last act of creation is to\nheavens; his last act of creation is to make man to care for his garden in Eden; after creating\nmake man to care for the gods' man, God rests (Genesis 1:27, 31; 2:1-3).\ngardens in edin, giving all the gods an eternal\nrest from earthly toil (Enuma Elish 7.8, 34).\nMan's creation allows the gods to rest, Man's creation relieves God of caring for his garden in Eden\nhe will do their toil in edin's gardens.\nEvery Mesopotamian city has a god's or a Genesis denies the existence of other gods.\ngoddess' garden that man toils in to There is only _one_ God, so there can be only provide food for them in the edin/eden _one_ god's garden in Eden, _not_ many gods' gardens\nthe uncultivated land surrounding the gardens. in edin.\nEdin in Sumerian means \"back\" as in a person's `Eden means either a place \"well-watered\" or \"delight\"\n\"back\" and by analogy refers to the uncultivated in Hebrew and Aramaic. Some scholars have suggested\nland or plain \"backing\" or \"abutting\" the gods' via either a homonym or homophone confusion edin\ncity-gardens and fields in ancient Sumer. came to be equated with `eden.\nMan's destruction allows the gods to rest Man's destruction gives God a brief respite from man's on the seventh day his noise being gone. violent ways which are upsetting to God.\nGods are tearful over man's destruction. No tears from Yahweh-Elohim.\nGods express regret over sending Flood. No regrets from Yahweh-Elohim over sending the Flood.\nMesopotamian \"Noah\" sheds tears over man's No tears shed by Noah over man's demise.\nEnlil is accused of irrationally and impetuously Yahweh is portrayed as justly sending the Flood.\nsending the Flood by his fellow gods.\nInnocent people are destroyed by the Flood. All who were destroyed deserved their annihilation\nThe gods _are ridiculed_ and made fun of Yahweh is _not_ ridiculed or made fun of by the Hebrew\nby the Mesopotamian author. author.\nMan is a victim of capricious, unjust Gods. Yahweh is a victim of unjust, undeserving, sinful mankind.\nThe gods grew hungry over 7 days, realize they Yahweh does not need man to grow his food and feed him.\nneed man to work their gardens in edin/eden\nto provide them with food.\nMan's noise was because he protested the Yahweh did not make man to relieve himself of toil in his\ngrievous labor in the gods' gardens of edin/eden Garden in Eden. He did not make man to be a slave, he\nlike the Igigi whom he replaced as a slave. gave him dominion or rule over the earth.\nAgricultural labor is grievous for man because Genesis _denies_ agricultural labor for man was grievous\nit was earlier grievous for the Igigi gods. for man (Adam) in God's garden of Eden. It became\ngrievous only after man was expelled from God's garden,\nGod _cursing_ the earth as punishment for man.\nThe Gods give man a rest from toil on a 7th day. God gives Israel a rest from from toil every 7th day.\nThe rest from toil is that accompanying death God offers man an eternal rest from toil after death (cf.\n(\"Rest in Peace\" on Christian Tombstones). Psalm 95:7-11 alluded to by Hebrews 3:7-11; 4:9-11).\nMan's annihilation by the dawning of the 7th day\nwitnesses his having been granted a cessation of\ngrievous toil and on the 7th day, in death, he rests\nfrom his grievous toil with the gods.\nMan's \"rest\" from toil is attained with the arrival Genesis presents Noah's name as meaning \"rest,\" nuwach\nof the 7th day via the annihilating flood. The flood it is the sea that rests i-nu-uh tamtu in the Mesopotamian\nhero, Utnapishtim, is given eternal life like a god account. But when Gilgamesh finds the flood hero he\nand apparently a rest from toil like a god and settled remarks on his lying about, free of toil, like a god. The Bible\nin Dilmun at the mouth of the rivers. explains Noah is so named because he will give man a\n\"rest from toil\" (Ge 5:29). Could this be a veiled allusion\nto Gilgamesh seeking out Utnapishtim to learn the secret\nof how to attain immortality and rest from toil like a god?\nThe gods seek to limit man's population growth Yahweh commands man to be fruitful and multiply and\nand accompanying noise by various means fill the earth with his progeny.\nafter the Flood.\nNeither man nor god wants to return to the Jew, Christian, Moslem eagerly look forward to a \"return\"\ngrievous toil in the gardens of edin/eden. to the Garden in Eden and a life free of grievous toil.\nThe gods created man to toil in their place in Yahweh did not create man to obtain his Sabbath rest.\nthe gardens of edin/eden thereby giving themselves\nat man's expense an eternal Sabbath rest.\nThe gods deny man entry into their Sabbath rest Yahweh denies man entry into his Sabbath rest because\nfor who will grow the food & feed the gods? man is an unworthy sinner.\nThe gods will have to grow their food and lose their\nSabbath rest if they allow man to enter their\nSabbath rest from grievous toil.\nMan can not be better than the gods who's image There is only one God, thus there is no shedding of blood.\nhe was made in; the gods shed each other's Man's shedding of blood is a corruption of God's ways. blood _before_ man's creation, so man is a\nshedder of human blood too.\nThe only rebellion in a god's garden in edin \"MAN,\" a euphemism for the Igigi gods, has been _recast_\nis by the Igigi gods who protest the grievous as \"Man\" (Adam) who is removed for rebellion from God's\ntoil. It is said \"when the gods _were_MAN_ garden in Eden as punishment.\ntheir toil was grievous.\" MAN'S (the gods')\nrebellion causes their _removal_ from the\ngardens of edin, Man (humans) being created\nto toil in their stead.\nThe REMOVAL of \"MAN\" (the Igigi) from the The REMOVAL of MAN (Adam) from God's garden in Eden\ngods' gardens in edin because of rebellion for an act of rebellion is a CURSE, not a blessing, for\nwas a BLESSING, an end of their grievous toil. now his agricultural toil will be grievous.\nMan's purpose in life is to be a slave toiling in God created man and placed him in his garden in Eden\nthe gods' gardens of edin for ever, never to be to care for it on his behalf. God removed man from his\nreleased from this bondage, for his slavery gives garden for rebellion, but one day he will allow man back\nthe gods their shabbat rest from toil for all into his garden of Eden and a life of bliss with no toil.\neternity. The gods will _never_ remove_ man God _intended_ that man would \"always remain\" in his\nfrom their gardens in edin. Man's lot is to garden of Eden, his removal is just \"temporary.\" After\ntoil in edin's gardens till death brings him a death, man will be restored to eden's garden and a life\nrelease from the grievous toil. free of grievous toil.\nAfter a lifetime of grievous toil in the gods' city- The Sumerian notion that all men (good and evil) will\ngardens in edin/eden man, after death, winds up after death, wind up in edin-the-underworld has been recast\nspending the rest of eternity in the underworld by Judaism, Christianity and Islam via a \"twist\" (inversion)\nwhich was euphemistically called edin, dwelling into a paradise called Eden set aside for the righteous dead\nwith its god Nergal and apparently still remaining and denied to the unrighteous dead. In both myths the dead\na slave or servant of the gods. For the gods must will for all of eternity dwell in an edin/eden with a god as his\neat and drink with man to sustain their lives in servant (Nergal, the god of edin-the-underworld, being\nedin-the-underworld (the dead's food is clay transformed into Yahweh, Christ and Allah).\nand their drink is muddy water).\nEnlil and Enki the gods of Nippur and Eridu in Genesis has \"man\" (Adam and Eve) being conned by a\nSumer are involved in man's creation to replace a wily serpent in the Garden of Eden. Both fall for his\nthe rebelling Igigi gods as agricultural laborers deceiving words and they are consequently removed from\nin their city-gardens of edin/eden. Both gods Eden's garden for rebelling against God. I understand that\nbore the epithet ushumgal meaning \"great Enlil and Enki, the walking, talking ushumgals who\nserpent dragon.\" In two different myths a removed \"man\" (the Igigi) from their city-garden\ngod called ushumgal is held as responsible for (at Nippur and Eridu) for an act of rebellion replacing the\nthe removal of \"man\" (a euphemism for the Igigi) Igigi with \"man\" (humans) have been recast as Eden's\nfrom a god's garden in edin/eden. The ushumgal serpent. These ushumgals deny man immortality because\nat Eridu (Enki/Ea) denied man immortality by their eternal rest from earthly toil would be lost if man\nconning him (Adapa), but allowed him to becomes a god, for gods do _not_ toil in the edin's gardens\npossess \"forbidden knowledge\" against Anu's for their sustenance, only man the mortal slave does.\nwishes. Man (Adapa) lost out on a chance to obtain To the degree that Christians understand that Eden's\nimmortality for himself and for mankind because serpent is Satan (the Devil), I understand that Eden's God\nhe was conned by an ushumgal at Eridu. The Eridu and Satan are but \"alter-egos\" of Enlil and Enki\nand Nippur ushumgals being gods were able to the ushumgals of Nippur and Eridu who created man to be\ntalk to man and they possessed legs to walk with. their agricultural slave and denied him immortality to\nThe fruit trees in the ushumgal's city-gardens of obtain an eternal Sabbath Rest from toil upon the earth for\nedin were tended by \"man\" (the Igigi) whom they themselves as well as the Anunnaki and Igigi gods.\nlater removed for rebellion. Please click here for my article on Eden's Serpent as being\na recast of several Mesopotamian gods.\nEnlil sends a Flood to destroy man and Enki Genesis has one God sending a Flood and warning one\nintervenes to spare a remnant to repopulate man called Noah to save the seed of man and animalkind\nthe earth by having Atra-Khasis build a boat and for new post flood beginning by building a boat to withstand\nstock it with the seed of man and animalkind. the Flood. Enlil and Enki have been fused together and\nIn otherwords, two gods who both bore the recast as Yahweh-Elohim.\nSumerian epithet ushumgal worked at cross Christians understand Serpent Satan seeks to deny man\npurposes regarding man's annihilation. God's offer of a Sabbath Rest, just as the two ushumgals\nBoth ushumgals wanted to preserve a Sabbath Enlil and Enki denied man entry into the gods' Sabbath\nRest for themselves vis-a-vis man's Rest from earthly toil.\ncreation, destruction, and post Flood survival.\nThere is an \"exquisite irony\" here in the Mesopotamian account of how the gods obtained their Shabbat or Sabbath rest from toil upon the earth by their having created man to toil in their place in their gardens of edin/eden: Man's noise protesting his grievous labor in their gardens prevents them from enjoying their Shabbat or Sabbath in peace and quiet so they attempt to destroy him with a flood. But now they are back at square one, they must give up their Shabbat or Sabbath and return to the grievous toil in edin's gardens. These myths were a form of reassurance for man that his existence was guaranteed on the earth because the gods needed him to do their work, to raise their food and feed them. He was of value to the gods as a slave or servant. They did not create man as an act of love to have someone to fellowship with as taught by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They created man to keep their bellies full! Yahweh-Elohim's belly was \"kept full\" by his slaves/servants at the Jerusalem Temple until it was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Romans in their putting down the rebellion against Rome. Like the Mesopotamian gods, Yahweh hasn't had a full belly for nearly 2000 years. But the prophet Ezekiel assures us that when the long-awaited-for Messiah (\"Prince\") finally arrives, God will be _fed again_ his favorite foods (Ez 45:13-25; 46:1-24).\nContra the Mesopotamian and Biblical myths that have the gods or a god creating man to be their gardener to work in their/his garden in edin/eden modern Scientists (Anthropologists) understand man began life as an animal without any concept of right or wrong, all that was important was daily survival and reproducing one's self. Man the animal began life foraging for food like the animals. He was an omnivore that ate animal flesh as well as plants and fruits contra the Mesopotamian and Biblical portrayal of him being a herbivore or vegetarian. Only after hundreds of thousands of years of foraging and hunting does he settle down and become a gardener creating gardens to grow food. So the Sciences (Anthropology, Paleontology, and Archaeology) _contradict_ the Mesopotamian and Biblical presentation of how life began for man. Life did _not_ begin 8,000 years ago (cf. Genesis' chronology) for man as a vegetarian and a gardener in a location called edin/eden (ancient Sumer, modern Iraq), it began millions of years ago in Africa as an omnivore, a wandering forager and later hunter (the anthropological preferred term is \"hunter-gatherer\").\nScientists (Geologists and Archaeologists) understand there was never in the earth's geological history a universal flood as portrayed in the Mesopotamian and Biblical flood myths (some Catholic and Protestant scholars date the flood to the 3rd millennium B.C.). Scientists (Archaeologists) understand that in the 3rd millennium B.C. a flooding Euphrates river at Shuruppak (modern tell Fara south of Baghdad) in Sumer (modern Iraq) became embellished into Atra-Khasis' and Noah's mythical flood which covered the mountains of the world.\nProfessor Campbell very astutely and penetratingly noted that the Hebrews in the book of Genesis appear to have employed at times \"inversions\" or \"reversals\" which \"turn about\" Mesopotamian beliefs by 180 degrees (emphasis mine):\n\"The ultimate source of the biblical Eden, therefore, CANNOT have been A MYTHOLOGY OF THE DESERT -that is to say, a primitive Hebrew myth- but was the old PLANTING MYTHOLOGY of the peoples of the soil. HOWEVER, IN THE BIBLICAL RETELLING, ITS WHOLE ARGUMENT HAS BEEN TURNED, SO TO SAY, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREES...One milllennium later, the patriarchal DESERT NOMADS arrived, and all judgements WERE REVERSED in heaven, as on earth.\" (pp.103, 105-106. \"Gods and Heroes of the Levant.\" Joseph Campbell.\nThe Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. Arkana. A Division of Penguin Books. 1964. 1991 reprint)\nThe late (1943-2006) Professor Tikva Frymer-Kensky understood that Israel's religion developed from and in refutation of Mesopotamian notions via counterpoints. Her notion of some Hebrew concepts being \"counterpoints\" to Mesopotamian notions seems to parallel Campbell's observation that the Hebrews are \"countering\" Mesopotamian concepts with inversions and reversals (emphasis mine):\n\"Many Israelite ideas about justice, society, and even religion developed from and _in counterpoint to_ Mesopotamian ideas.\"\n(p. 83. Tikva Frymer-Kensky. In the Wake of the Goddesses, Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. Ballantine Books. 1993. First Edition by Freepress 1992)\nThe Bible presents the Sabbath (Hebrew: Shabbat) as a memorial of God's having created the earth and humankind then his resting on the seventh day and Moses informs Israel she is to observe this day. In the Atrahasis Epic we are informed that the Flood is sent to destroy man whose clamor or noise disturbs the god Enlil (Ellil) at Nippur in Lower Mesopotamia.\nOverlooked by many commentators is the _reason_ for man's clamor or noise!\nThe Atra-Khasis (Atrahasis) account reveals that the Igigi gods' clamor had been ignored by the Anunnaki (Anunna) gods (Enlil, Enki and An). Their clamor was their protesting the grievous labor building and maintaining irrigation canals and ditches to provide water for Enlil's city-garden at Nippur for 40 years, night and day. Only after a rebellion by the Igigi do the Anunnaki act and create man to replace them as laborers.\nThe Atra-Khasis myth tells us that when man is created the \"clamor\" of the Igigi is _transferred_to_man_!\nIn other words mans' clamor or noise is apparently that of the Igigi: a protest over the grievous labor on the earth in the gods' gardens in the midst of the Mesopotamian plain known to the Sumerians as eden (edin), a desire for a _cessation_ of the labor and a _rest_ from toil in the gods' city-gardens of eden (edin) as enjoyed by the Anunnaki and Igigi. Please also note that the Atra-Khasis text describes the Igigi gods as \"...WHEN THE GODS WERE MAN...\" and describes them as creating a CLAMOR over their grievous work excavating the irrigation canals and ditches for the Anunnaki gods' gardens located in the eden/edin of Lower Mesopotamia. That is to say the NOISE or CLAMOR associated with man as the reason for his annihilation in a worldwide flood was earlier associated with the Igigi \"...when they were like man...\" and burdened with grievous toil.\nHere we have the motif of _mankind desiring a rest_ from grievous toil as is enjoyed by the gods. The response of Enlil to mans' clamor is to destroy man with a Flood! Man will _not_ be allowed to enter into \"the rest\" from earthly toil in eden's (edin's) gardens as enjoyed by the gods. If man is given the boon bestowed on the previously noisey and clamorous Igigi and released from toil who then will care for the gods' gardens? The gods will have to care for their gardens, an onerous task that they dreaded! This myth explains why man was made and why he must work forever in the gods' gardens located in the midst of the Lower Mesopotamian eden/edin. The Mesopotamian myths portray Enlil as guilty of unjustifiably sending the flood which destroys _innocent_ men, women and children as well as animalkind (Enlil/Ellil being castigated by his fellow deities Ishtar/Inanna and Ea/Enki for this act).\nTo a degree, Genesis _agrees_ with the Mesopotamian myths, man does indeed face a life full of grievous agricultural labor but the reasons for this state of affairs differs. The Mesopotamians understand that man's labor in the gardens of the gods is grievous because it was earlier grievous for the Igigi gods. _CONTRA_ this notion Genesis claims that man's (Adam's) labor was NOT grievous! Yes, he is placed in a God's garden to till and care for it (Ge 2:15) but this was not grievous work. Grievous agricultural work for Man (Adam) begins _after_ he is \"expelled\" from God's garden in the Eden (Ge 3:17-19), just the opposite of Mesopotamian understandings that man's work in the gods' gardens of eden/edin _is_ greivous! The Mesopotamian myths have _no_ knowledge of man being expelled from the gods' gardens of eden/edin for then the gods would have to toil in their gardens to raise food for their sustenance and they would never ever want to endure that greivous toil again, hence the reason they created man in the first place. I understand that the Hebrews are taking Mesopotamian concepts about why the gods created man, placed him in their gardens of eden/edin and then later attempted to annihilate him with a flood and transforming them in order to refute these concepts. The Hebrews have a more noble concept of God, portraying him as loving and caring of man instead of callously exploiting him as an agricultural slave like the Mesopotamian gods.\nThe Mespotamian myths explained that the Flood which destroyed all mankind had been brought about because man's \"noise or clamor\" was disturbing the god's rest by day and sleep by night, year after year without let-up. These myths also noted that in the beginning the 7 great Anunna (Anunnaki) gods of Heaven had imposed back-breaking labor making and clearing irrigation ditches, by day and by night, without rest, on the Igigi gods confined to the earth. These gods are described as muttering, complaining and constantly creating \"a clamor,\" which at first is ignored by the Anunna gods. The threatened rebellion by the Igigi gods is forestalled by making man from the ringleader of the Igigi, slaughtering him and mixing his flesh and blood with the clay. The myths at this point stress that with the making of man not only do the Igigi gods get to enter into \"the rest from toil\" enjoyed by the Anunna gods, but that \"their clamor,\" their noisey complaining about hardwork is transferred to man. In other words, man's \"noise\" is because he is overworked and not allowed to have \"rest\" from his god-imposed toil (cf. pp. 52-62, \"The Story of the Flood.\" [The Atra-Khasis version]. Benjamin R. Foster. From Distant Days, Myths Tales and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Maryland. CDL Press. 1995).\nProfessor Foster (Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection) on the Igigi gods clamor or protest over grievous toil and how this clamor is transferred to man, who is made of clay at Nippur and who is animated by the flesh and blood of an Igigi god who is slain for the purpose of creating man to labor in their place (emphasis mine):\n\"When the gods were man, they did forced labor, they bore drudgery. Great indeed was the drudgery of the gods, the forced labor was heavy, the misery too much: The seven (?) great Anunna-gods were burdening the Igigi gods with forced labor...[The gods] were digging watercourses, canals they opened, the life of the land...They heaped all the mountains. [ years] of drudgery, [ ] the vast marsh. They counted years of drudgery, [and] forty years too much ! [ ] forced labor they bore night and day. They were COMPLAINING, DENOUNCING, MUTTERING down in the ditch, \"Let us face up to our foreman the prefect, He must take off this our heavy burden upon us! (pp. 52-53. \"The Story of the Flood.\" [The Atra-Khasis version]. Benjamin R. Foster. From Distant Days, Myths Tales and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Maryland. CDL Press. 1995)\nThe Anunna gods acknowledge the burden of the Igigi and their 40 years of night and day \"CLAMOR\" (complaining, denouncing, muttering) is transferred to mankind upon man's creation (emphasis mine):\n\"Ea made ready to speak, and said to the gods [his brethren], what calumny do we lay to their charge? Their forced labor was heavy. [their misery too much] ! Every day [ ] THE OUTCRY [WAS LOUD, we could hear THE CLAMOR]. There is [ ] [Belet-ti, the mid-wife], is present. Let her create then a human, a man, let him bear the yoke...[let man assume the drud]gery of god...She summoned the Anunna, the great gods...Mami made ready to speak, and said to the great gods, \"You ordered me the task and I have completed (it) ! You have slaughtered the god, along with his inspiration. I have done away with your heavy forced labor, I have imposed your drudgery on man. YOU BESTOWED (?) CLAMOR UPON MANKIND...\" (pp. 58-59. \"The Story of the Flood.\" [The Atra-Khasis version]. Benjamin R. Foster. From Distant Days, Myths Tales and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Maryland. CDL Press. 1995)\nThe Igigi gods in gratitude fall at her feet, kissing them, she having freed them from toil, and declare a new name for her \"Mistress of all the gods\" (Belet-kala-ili).\nNow the god Enlil of Nippur complains that man's \"clamor\" disturbs him resulting in a decision to send a Flood to destroy man and obtain peace and quiet and a longed-for \"rest\":\n\"Twelve hundred years had not gone by, the land had grown wide, the peoples had increased, the land bellowed like a bull. The god was disturbed with their uproar, Enlil heard their CLAMOR, he said to the great gods, The CLAMOR of mankind has become burdensome to me...\" (p. 62. \"The Story of the Flood.\" [The Atra-Khasis version]. Benjamin R. Foster. From Distant Days, Myths Tales and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Maryland. CDL Press. 1995)\n\"I am disturbed at their CLAMOR, at their uproar sleep cannot overcome me...\" (p. 65. \"The Story of the Flood.\" [The Atra-Khasis version]. Benjamin R. Foster. From Distant Days, Myths Tales and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Maryland. CDL Press. 1995)\nProfessors Lambert and Millard on the lamentation \"noise\" created by the over-burdened Igigi gods which was heard and at first ignored by the Anukkaki gods and later man's \"cry\" and \"noise\":\n\"Excessive [toil] has killed us;\nOur work [was heavy], the distress much...\nAnu opened his mouth\nAnd addressed the gods his brothers.\n'What are we accusing them of?\nTheir work was heavy, their distress was much!\n[The lamentation was] heavy, [we could] hear the noise...\nMami opened her mouth\nAnd addressed the great gods,\n'You commanded me a task, I have completed it...\nI have removed your heavy work,\nI have imposed your toil on man.\nYou raised a cry for mankind,\nI have loosed the yoke, I have established freedom'...\n[Enlil heard] their noise\n[And addressed] the great gods,\n'The noise of mankind [has become too intense for me],\n[With their uproar] I am deprived of sleep.\"\n(pp. 53, 59, 61, 67. W.G. Lambert & A.R. Millard. Atra-Khasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood with The Sumerian Flood Story by M. Civil. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1999 reprint of 1969 Oxford University Press edition)\nDalley on the Igigi gods' noise being transferred to man:\n\"When the gods instead of man\nDid the work, bore the loads,\nThe gods' load was too great,\nThe work too hard, the trouble too much,\nThe great Anunnaki made the Igigi\nCarry the workload sevenfold...\nThe gods had to dig out canals,\nHad to clear channels, the lifelines of the land...\nHard work, night and day.\nThey groaned and blamed each other,\nGrumbled over the masses of excavated soil...\nThe load is excessive, it is killing us...\nAnu made his voice heard\nAnd spoke to the gods his brothers,\n\"What are we complaining of?\nTheir work was indeed too hard, their trouble was too much.\nEvery day the earth resounded.\nThe warning signal was loud enough, we kept\nhearing the noise...\nIf I am reading Dalley's translation rightly, the goddess Mami is telling the Anunnaki and Igigi gods that it is \"they\" who are responsible for two things: (1) burdening man with their grievous labor and (2) bestowing noise on mankind (in otherwords the noise that accompanies the grievous labor):\n\"I have relieved you of your hard work,\nI have imposed your load on mankind.\nYou have bestowed noise on mankind.\nI have undone the fetter and granted freedom.\"\n(pp. 9, 10,12, 16. \"Atrahasis.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh And Others. Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991)\nStill later, _after_the_Flood_ and enraged Ellil (Sumerian: Enlil) in anger learns that a man has survived the Flood. Ellil reminds his fellow gods that they are RESPONSIBLE FOR MAN'S NOISE in that they assented to man's creation so that their grievous work and accompanying noise digging irrigation ditches to provide water for the gods' gardens in eden/edin could be transferred to mankind:\n\"He, (Ellil) was furious with the Igigi...\n[They were furious with each other], Enki and Ellil.\nWe, the great Anunna, all of us,\nAgreed together on a plan...\n[You] imposed your loads on man,\nYou bestowed noise on mankind,\nYou slaughtered a god together with his\nYou must... and [create a flood],\nIt is indeed your power that shall be used against\n(pp.27-28. \"Atrahasis.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh And Others. Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991)\nThe gods try various ways to reduce mankind's clamor by decimating mankind's numbers and in the end they resolve upon a Flood to destroy them all and thereby obtain their rest on the 7th day of the Shuruppak Flood with the stillness which now reigns supreme on the earth.\nIn Genesis God \"rests\" on the 7th day after making man on the 6th day. In the Mesopotamian myths (The Enuma Elish hymn of the Babylonians) the gods, like Yahweh-Elohim also \"rest\" after creating man! The difference here is that the gods \"rest\" is from grievous agricultural toil upon the earth. Marduk the god of Babylon makes man to bear the work basket of the gods (apparently the Igigi gods) ending their agricultural toil upon the earth. The Bible _denies_ that God made man so he could enjoy a rest from physical toil in his garden. The Bible _denies_ that God made his garden _in_Eden to provide food for himself, he made it to provide sustenance for man, not God. So, I understand the Hebrews are _denying, challenging and refuting_ via a series of inversions Mesopotamian notions about why, where, when and how man came to be made and placed in a god's garden in a location called Eden (the Sumerian edin).\nThe Hebrews, apparently objecting to this storyline of man being created to be a toiling agricultural slave of the gods, reversed or inverted the storyline. God loves man, he does not create man to be his slave. God creates the world for man's benefit, not God's benefit; God did not make a garden for his sustenance but for man's sustenance. God _allows_ man to enjoy a cessation or rest from earthly toil every seventh day. So then, the Hebrews have apparently recast and transformed Mesopotamian notions about _how and why_ the earth came to be made, why gardens were created by gods and why man was created and placed in the gardens of the gods to care for them and why the gods sought to destroy man with a Flood. In the Mesopotamian myths man is an innocent _victim_ of unrighteous, exploitive, ruthless gods. The gods acted _unrighteously_ in sending the Flood to destroy man and animal kind. In the Hebrew recast and transformation, a loving, caring, merciful God is the _victim_ of an unrighteous and unappreciative evil mankind who fills the world with violence and the shedding of much blood. Instead of blaming the gods for man's misfortunes the Hebrews blame man. In the Mesopotamian Flood account \"evil\" is associated with the actions of the gods in sending the Flood whereas in the Hebrew account \"evil\" is associated with man's behavior.\nFor the Mesopotamians the seventh day of the Shuruppak Flood was probably recalled as a \"memorial of terror\" bringing to mind their ancestor's noisey protests over the grievous labor they bore in the gods' earthly city-gardens, located in the midst of the great plain of Lower Mesopotamia known to the Sumerians as EDEN or EDIN (professional scholars render Sumerian edin also as eden), their seeking a cessation of this grievous toil in the gardens of Eden/Edin, and how the gods ended this clamor by sending a Flood to destroy Eden/Edin and its gods' gardens. The Hebrews have apparently turned the Mesopotamian myths regarding the creation of man and his destruction in a flood upside down, insideout and on their ear. They _deny_ that man is a \"victim,\" it is God who is the \"victim.\"\nProfessor Cline (Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology, Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures, George Washington University) noted that the biblical Flood account appears to have applied new \"twists\" of a moral or ethical nature not present in the Mesopotamian flood accounts (his notion of new \"twists\" recalls Professor Lambert's notion of \"new twists\" being applied to earlier concepts by the Mesopotamians, cf. above; emphasis mine):\n\"Yet even the similarities between the various stories are quite unmistakable, it is sometimes the differences that are most interesting, particularly when the biblical version has had a new moral or ethical twist added to it. For example, the reason God sent the great Flood in the Hebrew Bible is well known: It was because humankind was corrupt and violent and needed to be punished. However, the Old Babylonian version, dating to the early second millennium B.C., gives a very different reason for sending the Flood...the gods agreed to exterminate the human race not because mankind was corrupt and evil but because there were too many people, they were being too noisey, and the gods could not get any sleep. In the Bible the Flood is sent for a moral reason, but in the original Mesopotamian versions, morals and spiritual concerns are nowhere to be found and the reasons the Flood is sent are comparatively mundane.\nThere is an interesting twist that we find over and over again when comparing a biblical story to the versions that were circulating in the ancient Near East hundreds of years earlier: Although there are obvious similarities, the most significant changes are the moralistic or ethical endings or twists that were added to the original story to illustrate a point the biblical writers wanted to make.\"\n(pp. 24-25. \"Noah's Ark.\" Eric H. Cline. From Eden to Exile, Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. Washington, D.C. National Geographic. 2007)\nApparently Cline is _unaware_ that there is indeed a \"moral\" or \"ethical\" motif encapsulated within the Mesopotamian account of why the Flood was sent. He speaks of mankind multiplying and the increase of noise volume accompanying the growing population. What he fails to note (with many other scholars) is _the reason_ for man's noise, the fact that the Igigi's noise or clamor was transferred to man when he was created to replace them as agricultural slaves toiling in the gardens of eden/edin. Having _missed_ this association, Cline like the scholars before him, apparently sees no real \"moral\" or \"ethical\" story in the Mesopotamian versions. There is a moral: The gods are portrayed as being callous, unrighteous and ruthless towards man whom they made to be their slave. They created him to toil on their behalf in their city-gardens of eden/edin to thereby obtain their rest from toil (their shabbat or sabbath rest if you will). Just as the clamor/noise of the Igigi was that of seeking an end or rest from toil so too man's clamor/noise transferred to him from the Igigi is for an end or rest from toil too in the gardens of eden/edin.\nProfessors Skinner (1910) and Cohn (1996) see the Mesopotamian Flood account as a satire holding the gods up to ridicule:\nProfessor Skinner on the Mesopotamian Flood account being a somewhat tongue-in-cheek \"farcial and satirical\" work in its making fun of the gods:\n\"The gods of the Babylonian version are vindictive, capricious, divided in counsel, false to each other and to men; the writer speaks of them with little reverence, and appears to indulge in flashes of Homeric satire at their expense.\"\n(p. 178. \"The Deluge Tradition.\" John Skinner. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis. Edinburgh, Scotland. T. & T. Clark. 1910, revised edition 1930, reprinted 1994)\nI note that one line in the Epic of Gilgamesh describes the gods as ascending to heaven and cowering like dogs (with tails lowered between their hind legs?) against a wall, terrified by the deluge being unleashed on mankind. To liken the gods to \"cowering dogs\" is certainly not an example of flattery but of contempt on the author's part:\n\"Even the gods were afraid of the flood-weapon.\nThey withdrew; they went up to the heaven of\nThe gods cowered, like dogs crouched by an outside wall.\"\n(p. 113. \"Gilgamesh XI.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia, Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh And Others. Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991)\nThe late (1915-2007) Professor Cohn (Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex, Sussex, England) on the gods who brought about the Flood being shown in a satirical and farcial manner, that is to say the gods are being made fun of:\n\"The author of the Atrahasis Epic clearly thinks well of mankind, poorly of almost all the gods. This is not a story about sin and its consequences. Although Mesopotamians were familiar with the notion of sin, it is not sin that precipitates the Flood. The offence of human beings is simply that they multiply and, as a result, make too much noise for the gods' comfort. That such a slight and unwitting offence evokes such a lethal response is due to the shortcomings of the gods: they are tyrants- and stupid tyrants at that. If the gods were less stupid, if they had the slightest capacity for forethought and rational planning, they would have borne in mind their total dependence on mankind. For had not human beings been created precisely because the gods could not provide for themselves?\nThe chief god Enlil cuts a particularly sorry figure. He is supposed to be a mighty leader, yet when the lesser gods beseige his house he has to call on the assembly of the gods and then urge Enki to deal with the situation. And when human beings in their turn produce new problems, Enlil's reaction is at first ineffective, and so imprudent that the very survival of the gods is called into question. But the criticism directed against Enlil involves almost all the gods. For -as the mother-goddess points out- the whole assembly of the gods consented to the Flood. The picture that the poet paints of the gods when faced with the consequences -how they suffer thirst and hunger pangs, and how later they swarm about Atrahasis' offerings- makes them look both contemptible and ridiculous. Only Enki is exempt: he alone foresees problems and solves them when they arise...\"\n(pp. 6-7. \"Mesopotamian Origins.\" Norman Cohn. Noah's Flood, the Genesis Story in Western Thought. New Haven & London. Yale University Press. 1996)\nProfessor Clifford (1994) on the gods who sent the Flood as bumbling clowns and idiots, man being an innocent \"victim\":\n\"Genesis 2-11 moves in a different direction than the creation-flood genre of Mesopotamian literature...Atrahasis is a critique of the gods; their assembly is bumbling and fragmented; their leader is the bullying and cowardly Enlil. This unflattering picture is relieved only by the introduction of the wise and compassionate Enki and Nintu. Fault lies with the gods rather than with human beings. The gods' miscalculations lead to the annihilation of the race, and their needs to its restoration...Both Atrahasis and Genesis were written with a sense of confidence. Atrahasis shows confidence in the human race; people are necessary because the gods are generally lazy, shortsighted, and impetuous. Confidence in Genesis is founded on God's justice and mercy, and the reliability of the created world.\"\n(p. 149. \"Genesis 1-11.\" Richard J. Clifford. Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible. Washington, D. C. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 26. The Catholic Biblical Association of America. 1994)\nSandars appears to understand that the gods, Ishtar and Ea, accused Enlil of \"over-reacting\" in sending a Flood to destroy _all_ of mankind, instead sinners should be punished but not be slain, implying that punishment, _not_ death and annihilation, is the more appropriate response. In other words the punishment should fit the crime and the annihilation of all of mankind was a gross miscarriage of justice by Enlil (in the Hebrew recast of this story God is portrayed as justified in annihilating mankind):\n\"Then at last, Ishtar also came...Let all the gods gather round the sacrifice, except Enlil. He shall not approach this offering, for without reflection he brought the flood; he consigned my people to destruction...When Enlil had come, when he saw the boat, he was wrath and swelled with anger at the gods, the host of heaven, \"Has any of these mortals escaped? Not one was to have survived the destruction\"...Then Ea opened his mouth and spoke to warrior Enlil, \"Wisest of gods, hero Enlil, how could you so senselessly bring down the flood?\nLay upon the sinner his sin,\nLay upon the trangressor his transgression,\nPunish him a little when he breaks loose,\nDo not drive him too hard or he perishes;\nWould that a lion had ravaged mankind\nRather than the flood...\"\n(p. 109. \"The Story of the Flood.\" N.K. Sandars. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Baltimore, Maryland. Penguin Books. 1960, reprint 1964)\nKramer mentions a Hittite myth which has Ea (Enki) advising Hittite gods that if man is annhilated the gods will have to work their fields for their own sustenance, plowing and milling grain for bread, the gods will lose their rest from work made possible by man who was created to toil in their place and provide them their sustenance (emphasis mine):\n\"Ea, king of wisdom, spoke among the gods...\nhe began to speak: \"Why annihilate the humans?\nDo they not give the gods offerings and burn cedar wood for you?\nIf the humans were destroyed for her, the gods would\nno longer REST FROM WORK,\nand no one would contribute bread and drink to you any longer.\nIt will turn out that the storm-god,\nmighty king of Kummiya, the plow\nwill take up himself! And it will turn out that\nIshtar and Hebat\nwill turn the mill themselves!\"\n(p. 152. \"The Uses of Mankind.\" Samuel Noah Kramer & John Maier. Myths of Enki, The Crafty God. New York & Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1989)\nThe above Hittite myth suggests that Ea realized that the destruction of mankind by a Flood was stupidity on Enlil's part, for the gods would have to toil for their own food in edin's gardens if man was annihilated. In other words Ea warned Atra-Khasis (Ziusudra, Utnapishtim) of the Flood out of self-interest, not because he loved or cared about mankind. He didn't want to have to toil for his food in edin's gardens because of mankind's demise.\nKramer preserves an expression of scorn for an individual, likening them to a lazy god (the gods having created man to labor in their stead):\n\"Like a god you don't put your hand to any (useful) work.\"\n(p. 265. Samuel Noah Kramer. The Sumerians: Thier History, Culture, and Character. Chicago, Illinois. University of Chicago Press. 1963)\nProfessor Davis (\nProfessor George (2003) on Atra-Khasis (Atram-hasis) being an account of Man's origins up to the Flood, and how motifs from it reappear in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Holy Bible's book of Genesis:\n\"Another masterpiece of Babylonian literature known from late in the Babylonian period is the great poem of Atram-hasis, 'When the gods were man', which recounts the history of mankind from the Creation to the Flood. It was this text's account of the Flood that the poet of Gilgamesh used as a source for his own version of the Deluge myth. It also provided a striking model for the story of Noah's Flood in the Bible.\"\n(p. xx. \"Introduction.\" Andrew George. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. London. The Penguin Press. 1999, 2000, 2003)\nLike the Mesopotamian gods Yahweh demands to be fed twice a day in the Pentateuchal books of Exodus and Leviticus. What many Christians are unaware of is that the Bible states that God's feeding is to be for all of eternity. In error, many Christians think that with the arrival of the Messiah (Jesus) this feeding of God ends. Ezekiel is quite clear, God's feeding is for ever, _not_ up to and ending upon the Messiah's arrival at Jerusalem (Ezekiel in a vision is predicting what life will be in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity is over and God restores his people back to their land, including the duties and responsibilities of Jerusalem's priests and prince or messiah):\n\"...in my sanctuary...when you offer me my food, the fat and blood...\"the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok...shall attend on me to offer me the fat and blood, says the Lord God.\"\nThe \"prince\" (the Messiah or \"anointed\" one) shall offer God burnt offerings via Levite priests, God's feeding is for ever _contra_ Christianity's notion that God's feeding has been dispensed with:\n\"...the prince...The priests shall offer his burnt offering...The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the sabbath day shall be six lambs...the cereal offering with the ram shall be an ephah...At the feasts and appointed seasons the cereal offering with a young bull shall be an ephah...When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offering as a freewill offering to the Lord...on the sabbath day...These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.\"\nProfessor Walton on the Mesopotamian gods _unethical behavior_ in contrast to Yahweh's ethical behavior:\n\"What Aristotle later observed about Greek religion was just as true of Mesopotamian religion: \"Men imagine not only the forms of the gods but their ways of life to be like their own.\" Like human conduct, then, the conduct of the gods lacked consistency and was for the most part unpredictable. There was no absolute morality characteristic of divine conduct and no code to which the gods were bound. The gods were not obliged to be moral, ethical, or even fair, and integrity could never be assumed...We find then that...consistency and absolute morality, are not part of the disposition of the Mesopotamian gods...since humans were created to do work for the gods, the gods were seen to depend on people to provide for them...the sacrifices provided food for the gods and the temples provided shelter and housing for the gods. The fact that the gods were seen to need what humans could provide created a situation in which they had a bargining chip when dealing with the gods...The \"manipulation factor\" succeeded with the gods of the ancient Near East; it failed with YHWH. He could not be blackmailed or manipulated so that he became man's lackey. In Mesopotamian perceptions of deity, manipulation was much more of a possibility.\"\n(pp. 238-239. \"Disposition of deity.\" John H. Walton. Ancient Israelite Literature in its Cultural Context. A Survey of Parallels Between Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Zondervan Publishing House. 1989, 1990 Revised Edition)\nWalton's above observations on the Mesopotamian gods' unethical behavior in regards to man perhaps explains why the Mesopotamian author of Atra-Khasis shows contempt and ridicule for the gods who sent the flood to destroy man because his noise disturbed their Sabbath Rest. The gods' unethical behavior also explains why man (Adapa) lost out on a chance to obtain immortality. Ea acting out of self-interest did not want to lose man (Adapa) as his slave/servant, for Ea did not want to have to give up his Sabbath Rest from toil and have to provide sustenance for himself via earthly toil. So the Mesopotamians saw their gods' Sabbath Rest and Flood as the result of selfish acts of their gods involving man's exploitation. Man was the innocent victim of callous, ruthless, selfish gods.\nWalton on man being a \"slave\" of the gods:\n\"In the book of Genesis, dignity is conferred on humankind because only humans are in the image of God. All of the cosmos is created for people and with people in mind. In the ancient Near Eastern perspective, humankind is an afterthought and even a bother. There is no dignity to be found in the status of humanity. Humankind was created to be slaves rather than to rule. Dignity in Mesopotamia, for example, is therefore found in the function of humankind -the gods need them to provide housing (temples) and food (sacrifices).\"\n(p. 232. \"Dignity of humankind.\" John H. Walton. Ancient Israelite Literature in its Cultural Context. A Survey of Parallels Between Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Zondervan Publishing House. 1989, 1990 Revised Edition)\nCottrell (1965) on the Mesopotamian gods' contempt for and exploitation of man, created to be their slave, to give them rest from earthly toil:\n\"These divinities were not always beneficent, but often cruel and capricious, like human beings...Human welfare depends on the caprices of the gods...The contempt of the gods for mankind is expressed in such myths as that which describes how Enlil broke the earth with his pick-axe, and as men began to sprout forth like plants, the other deities gathered round Enlil, imploring him to allot them serfs from among the new-born men. And in the Babylonian \"Epic of Creation\" the god Marduk casually remarks:\n\"Let him (Man) be burdened with the toil of the gods that they may freely breathe.\"\nIt is not surprising, therefore, that the Sumerians devoted so much time, wealth and effort to flattering, appeasing, and interceding with the dread forces which governed their lives.\"\n(p. 158. \"The Religion of Sumer.\" Leonard Cottrell. The Quest For Sumer. New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1965)\nProfessor Kramer's rendering of a statement made by the god Anu of Adapa (who has acquired godly-forbidden knowledge: how via curses to break the wing of the southwind and stop breezes) reveals the contempt the gods have for man (Adapa), he being called a \"worthless human\":\n\"Anu asks why Ea should have disclosed the \"plan of heaven and earth\" to Adapa. Adapa is, afterall, nothing but an amiluta la banita, a \"worthless human...\"\n(p. 116. \"The Great Magician.\" Samuel Noah Kramer & John Maier. Myths of Enki, the Crafty God. New York & Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1989)\nApparently as late as the 8th century B.C. the Assyians understood that the Shuruppak Flood did NOT cover all the world and its mountain tops for the god of Babylon, Marduk, is made to say that the city of Sippar, which lies on the flood-plain of Iraq was NOT overwhelmed by the Flood waters (As noted earlier, above, Archaeologists excavated Shuruppak the city of the Mesopotamian Noah and confirmed that Sippar was NOT overwhelmed by the 2900 B.C. Shuruppak Flood):\n\"Even Sippar, the eternal city, which the Lord of\nLands did not allow the Flood to overwhelm, because it was so dear to him...\"\n(p. 305. \"Erra and Ishum IV.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh and Others. Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991)\nI am in agreement with Cline that the Flood account in the Bible is an example of a \"transmitted narrative\" which has witnessed accretions or changes over several millennia:\n\"Enuma Elish in particular is a good example of what I would call a transmitted narrative: a story that was handed down from generation to generation and culture to culture in the ancient Near East. One of the best ways to explain both the similarities and the differences between the details in this myth and the biblical story in Genesis is to suggest that the original Mesopotamian story (or the concepts contained within it) may have been passed down from the Sumerians in the third millennium B.C. to the Babylonians, Assyrians, and the peoples of Ugarit and Canaan in the second millennium B.C. and then to the Israelites, eventually making its way into the Hebrew Bible in the first millennium B.C.\"\n(p. 7. \"The Garden of Eden.\" Eric H. Cline. From Eden to Exile, Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. Washington, D.C. National Geographic. 2007)\n\"Thus scholars tend to favor the suggestion that these stories are a example of a transmitted narrative. In fact, most scholars today think the story of Noah's ark is one of the best examples of such a narrative. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia and making its way from the Sumerians to the Babylonians and then to the Canaanites and the Israelites, the tale of Noah and his ark has not only spanned generations, it has also spanned civilizations, with only a few details changed before finally ending up in the Hebrew Bible.\"\n(p. 27. \"Noah's Ark.\" Eric H. Cline. From Eden to Exile, Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. Washington, D.C. National Geographic. 2007)\nI understand that the Hebrew Bible's notion of a Shabbat or Sabbath for God and Man is itself another example of a \"transmitted narrative\" that has witnessed accretions or changes over the millennia, the biblical account being a recast or refutation (inversion or reversal) of Mesopotamian concepts regarding how the gods rested on a seventh day after destroying a world and man in a flood vs a God resting on the seventh day after creating a world and man as an act of love.\nA Jewish scholar has noted:\n\"In Deuteronomy 5:15, while Moses reiterates the Ten Commandments, he notes the second thing that we must remember on Shabbat: \"remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the L-rd, your G-d brought you forth from there with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore the L-rd your G-d commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.\"\nWhat does the Exodus have to do with resting on the seventh day? It's all about freedom. As I said before, in ancient times, leisure was confined to certain classes; slaves did not get days off. Thus, by resting on the Sabbath, we are reminded that we are free.\"\nI note that in the Mesopotamian understanding man _is_ a slave of the gods, he toils in their place in their gardens in eden/edin and there is _no_ rest for man from this oppressive toil despite his CLAMOR over the grievous work. Israel in Egypt is portrayed as slaves with no rest from oppressive toil. Slave Israel CLAMORS over her oppressive toil for God has heard their CRY:\n\"Then the Lord said: \"I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, AND HAVE HEARD THEIR CRY because of their task masters; I know their sufferings, and I have come to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians...\" (Exodus 3:7 RSV)\nI understand that a possible relationship exists here in that the CLAMOR of slaves over oppressive toil is a theme associated with Mesopotamian and Biblical accounts. In both stories slaves want a cessation or end of toil and a rest from toil. Flood waters sent by the Mesopotamian gods annihilates the slaves but with their deaths their toil ends. In the Exodus floodwaters (at Yam Suph, Ex 14:26-28) destroy not the slaves but instead their oppressors, the Egyptians, securing the slaves' freedom. As noted above, Moses instructed Israel to observe the Sabbath for two reasons: (1) as a memorial of God's creating the earth and man in 6 days then his resting on the 7th day and (2) to recall Israel's release from Egyptian slavery by God. In the Mesopotamian myths the gods obtained their rest after destroying a world in 6 days and resting on the 7th day, having ended the slaves' cries or clamor and the slaves got their release from toil and slavery in death being drowned by the floodwaters. I see earlier Mesopotamian motifs as possibly being transformed, reused and applied to Israel's oppression in Egypt as slaves and associated with the concept of their obtaining a Shabbat, a ceasing of toil, via floodwaters sent by a God.\nProfessor Bright on how the Hebrews obtained knowledge of the Mesopotamian Flood account:\n\"It is quite clear that the Hebrew story is derived directly or indirectly from the ancient Sumerian...How then did the Hebrews in Palestine get their Flood tradition? Two alternates present themselves. (1) They learned it from the Canaanites in Palestine, who, in turn, learned it from Mesopotamia...(2)...the ancestors of the Hebrews brought the story with them when they migrated from Mesopotamia in the Patriarchal Age.\"\n(pp. 39-40. John Bright. \"Has Archaeology Found Evidence of the Flood?\" pp. 32-40. G. Ernest Wright & David Noel Freedman. Editors. The Biblical Archaeologist Reader. Chicago. Quadrangle Books, Inc. 1961. [The articles contained within were reprinted from The Biblical Archaeologist magazine])\nBright on how the Hebrews have given the Flood story _a new twist_, instead of the Flood being sent to end man's noise which disturbs the gods, an outraged God destroys man for filling the world with much bloodshed and violence:\n\"The most significant thing about it is not its historical antecedents or its archaeological basis. Its actual significance lies in its religious outlook. In Genesis the Flood is not caused by mere chance or the whim of capricious brawling gods. It is brought about by the One God in whose hands even natural catastrophe is a means of moral judgement...To the Israelite writers the telling of the story has become an opportunity of demonstrating and illustrating the righteousness of God.\" (p. 40. Bright)\nI have no complaint with Professor Bright's analysis. He rightly notes that man is to blame for the Flood in the book of Genesis. Pre-Flood man in the Bible is cast as a depraved, violent shedder of human blood and he justly deserves the long-overdue punishment he gets.\nAll this is very different from the Mesopotamian account, a 180 degree reversal or inversion.\nIn the Mesopotamian myths man was created to be a toiling agricultural slave of the gods. He is created because the junior gods, the Igigi rebelled against the senior gods, the Anunnaki at Nippur in Sumer. The Igigi complained for 40 years night and day of their grievous toil excavating irrigation ditches to provide water for Enlil's city-garden. When they rebel, Enlil calls for help from his brother god Enki of Eridu. Enki suggests replacing the Igigi with man and Enlil agrees. When man is created we are told that the clamor or noise of the Igigi is transferred to man.\nThat is to say man's clamor or noise is apparently that of the Igigi, a protest over the grievous work in the gods' city-gardens. Enlil's response to man's clamor is very different to his earlier response to the Igigi's clamor, instead of allowing man to enjoy an eternal rest from toil like the Igigi he _denies_ man this boon and sends a Flood to annihilate mankind. That is to say man's noise that disturbed the gods' rest, causing them to send a Flood was over the grievous toil they endured in the gods' city-gardens located in the midst of eden/edin (eden/edin is the Sumerian word for uncultivated steppeland surrounding the gods' city-gardens of Lower Mesopotamia, present day Iraq).\nSo, in the Mesopotamian myths innocent, god-oppressed mankind was annihilated by _unrighteous_ gods because of his noise, his protesting the grievous labor in the gods' gardens located in the midst of the eden/edin and his desiring a rest from toil as had been granted to the clamoring Igigi.\nI am reminded here of an old adage: \"Be careful what you wish for, you might get your wish (and regret it)!\"\nNoisey mankind's clamor was for an ending of their grievous toil in the gods' gardens in the midst of eden/edin and a desire to have an eternal rest from toil as enjoyed by the Anunnaki and Igigi gods.\nMan got what he \"wished for,\" sort of, his toil was _indeed_ eternally ended and his rest assured for all of eternity, but it was not as envisioned by man.\nThe gods gave man an \"eternal rest from toil\" by annihilating him! That is to say, man's rest from toil is the rest that is achieved through death!\nI recall here three initials found on some Christian tombstones: R.I.P., \"Rest In Peace.\" Only with death does man achive his eternal rest from toil and suffering and strife. Of course, this was not the \"kind\" of rest from toil that noisey mankind had envisioned, they wanted to live forever like the gods and do no toil, but that was not to be.\nThe motif of mankind desiring a ceasing from toil and entering into the rest from labor enjoyed by the gods in the Atra-Khasis Epic reappears in a somewhat transformed manner in the New Testament.\nThe Anunnaki and Igigi gods denied man an entry into their rest in the Atra-khasis Epic and so too does Yahweh.\nYahweh denies man (Israel) entry into his rest because of his _rebellious_ ways. In the Atra-khasis Epic man's clamor or protest of his grievous labor in the gods' garden of eden/edin may have been seen as a form of _rebellion_ in that clamor preceeded the Igigi gods' _rebellion_ which resulted in their release from toil in the gardens of eden/edin and their entry into the rest from toil enjoyed earlier and exclusively by the Anunnaki gods (Enlil, Anu, and Enki).\nSo both Atra-khasis, the Old Testament and the New Testament have motifs of greivous toil upon the earth for man, a rebelliousness over this toil, and a denial of entry into the gods' rest to man. I find it amazing how these themes and motifs have repeatedly surfaced from circa 1700 B.C. (Atra-Khasis) to the 1st century A.D. and the days of Early Christianity (Hebrews 3:7-11; 4:9-11).\nHebrews 3:7-11& 4:9-11 RSV (citing Psalm 95:7-11)\n\"Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, \"Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.' As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'...So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God; for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest...\"\nMan got his \"rest\" from toil by being annihilated by the Shuruppak flood. In the New Testament Christians who perserve until the end will, _after_ death, be assured an entry in God's rest. I see a possible \"twist\" here of an ancient concept: The idea in Atra-Khasis that the only rest from toil man will get from the gods is that accompanying death and the Christian promise that after death the faithful will enter into God's rest.\nDo Mesopotamian myths understand that man _after_ death_ will spend eternity in a location called eden/edin with a God (noting here that Jew, Christian and Moslem understand that _after_death_ the righteous dead will spend eternity in a paradise called Eden with a God)?\nYes. The Sumerians sometimes euphemistically called the Underworld edin. They understood all men (good and evil) upon death would spend eternity in edin-the-underworld with its resident god and goddess (Nergal being the ruling god and his wife Ereshkigal being the ruling goddess ). The only \"man\" who was allowed a resurrection back to life to roam the earth's surface and feel the heat of the sun on him was Dumuzi, the king of Uruk. Dumu-zid, \"the faithful son\" (cf. S. H. Langdon. 1931:342 Mythology of All Races Semitic: dumu = \"son\" zid = \"faithful,\" \"true\") was slain in the edin at his sheepstall under the great apple tree near Uruk by demons at his wife Inanna's instigation to be her surrogate in Hell, securing her release from the netherworld's edin. Dumuzi, a shepherd and a king once upon a time, then, dwelt in two edins: (1) the edin at Uruk and (2) the underworld edin. In myths, once a year he ascends (is resurrected) from the Underworld's edin to dwell for six months in the earthly edin at Uruk, being the \"life-force\" in the edin's plants: grasses, herbs, fruit-trees and grain. In Christian myth the \"FAITHFUL\" will dwell in an earthly Edenic Paradise after death and a resurrection just as the \"FAITHFUL SON\" Dumu-zid (Dumuzi) after death was resurrected and returned to the earthly edin at Uruk (He also is resurrected to heaven to serve Anu and some Christians understand there is a heavenly paradise for the FAITHFUL SONS of God). So, Dumuzi who bore the epithet ushumal \"great serpent\" or \"dragon\" offered man (Adapa) immortality with the \"food of life\" and \"water of life\" but another ushumgal, Ea/Enki, conned man (Adapa) into falsely believing it was the food of death and forbidden to him in order to deny man immortality because he did not want to lose man as his slave and have to toil in the edin's city-gardens for his own food and thus give up his eternal sabbath rest from earthly toil.\nLeick on edin being a euphemism for the underworld:\n\"In Mesopotamia the underworld was known by various euphemisms, such as Sumerian kur, 'mountainous country', or 'abroad', ki-gal, 'the great place', edin, 'the steppe', arali, kur.nu.gi -'land of no return', which have their equivalents in Akkadian.\"\n(p. 159. \"Underworld.\" Gwendolyn Leick. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. London & New York. Routledge. 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998)\nIt is my understanding that Judaism, Christianity and Islam's notion that _after_ death_ man will spend an eternity in a paradise called Eden with a God is a recast of earlier Sumerian myths regarding man being made by the gods to toil in their gardens of edin/eden in Sumer, and _after_ death, man's dwelling for all of eternity with the gods in the edin/eden known as the Underworld. Dumuzi's (as well as Inanna's and Geshtianna's) resurrection to the earthly edin/eden at Uruk was recast under Christianity and Islam into a resurrection from the Underworld to dwell in an Edenic paradise free of toil after the faithfuls' deaths.\nThe gods are then, being _faulted_ by the Mesopotamian storyteller for sending the Flood, _not_ mankind!\nIt is the gods who acted _unrighteously_ in sending a Flood to destroy a god-oppressed and therefore noisey mankind.\nProfessor Cohn (cf. above) has noted that the gods acted _stupidly and foolishly_ in sending the Flood, failing to realize that by annihilating all of mankind their eternal Shabbat or Sabbath, their rest from grievous toil in the gardens of eden/edin would come to an end and they would have to once again toil in eden's gardens for their own sustenance. The \"moral\" of the Flood for the Mesopotamians was that the gods had learned their lesson the hard way having gone without food for 7 days during the Flood. Man had nothing to fear from these bumbling idiots. Man now realized that the gods _needed_ him to do their dirty work, they wouldn't dare annihilate man again with another another worldwide flood! In otherwords mankind is portrayed as being the \"ethical ones\" and it is the gods who are the _stupid_, _foolish_ and \"unethical ones.\"\nThe Hebrews have recast all of this. God is portrayed as being _righteous_and_ethical_ in sending the Flood and it is mankind who is _unrighteous_and_unethical_ in that he has shed much human blood and is therefore worthy of annihilation.\nThe Hebrews have then taken a Mesopotamian tongue-in-cheek comedy-farce ridiculing the gods for sending the Flood and via a 180 degree turnabout or inversion replaced the foolish, short-sighted unethical gods with a noble, all-wise, ethical God. Instead of contempt being piled on the gods by the Mesopotamian author, the Hebrew author piles contempt on man.\nProfessor Stiebing remarks on the biblical recasting of the Mesopotamian Flood myth:\n\"Thus, looking at the perspective from which the Biblical writers viewed their Flood stories, and examining the context into which they placed these stories, one cannot help but feel that the Flood tradition has undergone a qualitative change since being removed from Mesopotamia. That the Old Testament contains mythological elements and that it preserved some legendary stories which originated in Mesopotamia or in other cultures of the ancient Near East is to be expected. What is surprising is the degree to which these myths and legends have been transformed by the ancient Israelite conviction...\"\n(p. 28. William H. Stiebing, Jr. \"A Futile Quest, The Search for Noah's Ark.\" pp. 15-29. Molly Dewsnap Meinhardt. Editor. Mysteries of the Bible, From the Location of Eden to the Shroud of Turin. Washington, D.C. Biblical Archaeology Society. 2004)\nIs it possible that the appearance of the Akkadian word sabatu meaning \"to seize\" in the Atrahasis Flood myth might have, via either assonance or a homonym or homophone mis-association, become equated with the Hebrew shabath (Strong 7673) meaning to \"cease\" as in \"to _cease_ working\"?\nWebster's Dictionary on Assonance, Homonyms and Homophones:\n\"assonance. rememblance in spoken sound.\"\n(p. 41. \"assonance.\" Albert & Loy Morehead. Editors. The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary.\nNew York. New American Library. A Signet Book. 1951, reprint of 1981)\n\"homonym. a word like another in sound and (often) spelling, but different in meaning, as bear (carry) and bear (mammal).\"\n(p. 260. \"homonym.\" Albert & Loy Morehead. Editors. The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary.\nNew York. New American Library. A Signet Book. 1951, reprint of 1981)\n\"homophone. a word pronounced like another but different in meaning and spelling, as too and two.\" (p. 260. \"homophone.\" Albert & Loy Morehead. Editors. The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary.\nNew York. New American Library. A Signet Book. 1951, reprint of 1981)\nEarlier scholarship (1911 Professor Barton) suggested that sabatu meant to beat or to strike:\n\"...Hilprecht's fragment of the Babylonian Deluge Story...the stem sabatu, \"to beat,\" \"to strike,\"...\"\n(George A. Barton. \"Hilprecht's Fragment of the Babylonian Deluge Story (Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, Series D, Volume V, Fasc. I.)\" Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 31. No. 1. (1911). pp. 30-48)\nBelow is a rendering by Professors Lambert and Millard revealing the Shuruppak Flood's association with the Akkadian word sabat meaning \"to seize.\"\nLines 3 and 4, the reverse side of tablet CBS 13532 (J)1 (Scholars disagree on the age of this tablet _fragment_, some argue it is Middle Babylonian, others that it is Old Babylonian):\n3 ...] ka-la ni-si is-te-nis i-sa-bat\n4 ...]-ti la-am a-bu-bi wa-se-e\nThe English translation of lines 3 and 4:\n3 ...a flood] will seize all the peoples together\n4 ...].before the flood sets out\n(cf. pp. 126-127. \"CBS 13532-J.\" W. G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Khasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood with The Sumerian Flood Story by M. Civil. Oxford University Press. 1969. Reprinted 1999 by Eisenbrauns. Winona Lake, Indiana)\nLambert and Millard on the Akkadian word sabat (sabatu) and its appearance in the Atra-Khasis Epic:\n\"sabatu 'to seize': ka-la ni-si...i-sa-bat...la i-sa-ba-su [si-tu]...i-sa-ba-ta-ni...pa-si-it-tu li-is-ba-at se-er-ra...\"\n(p. 192. \"sabatu.\" Glossary. W. G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Khasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood with The Sumerian Flood Story by M. Civil. Oxford University Press. 1969. Reprinted 1999 by Eisenbrauns. Winona Lake, Indiana)\nThe Mesopotamian gods created man in order to obtain their release from grievous agricultural toil in the gardens of eden/edin. In other words the gods wanted the equivalent of the Hebrew Shabbat, \"a ceasing of toil,\" and \"rest from toil.\" Man was created to be their agricultural slave, he would make possible \"THEIR SHABBAT,\" \"their ceasing of toil and obtainment of rest.\" The worldwide flood sent by the gods to destroy mankind was because man was denying the gods \"THEIR REST,\" his noisely clamor objecting to the back-breaking toil in the gods' gardens of eden prevented the gods from resting in silence and peace so the gods obtained their rest, THEIR SHABBAT, by annihilating man with the flood. I am reminded of an old adage: \"Be careful what you wish for, you might get your wish (and come to regret it).\" Man's clamor or noise in the gardens of eden/edin was because he wanted a SHABBAT, a \"ceasing\" of toil and \"rest.\" In a sense, the gods gave him what he clamored for. They annihilated all of mankind and with this annihilation man achieved a cessation and rest from toil eternally. The rest from toil was \"the rest\" which befalls all human beings when they die. American tombstones sometimes have engraved on their surfaces R.I.P. meaning \"Rest In Peace.\" Man \"got\" his eternal rest from toil from the gods via the flood. This of course was not the kind of rest or cessation from toil that man had clamored for, he wanted to live forever like a god and do no toil like a god, but this was not to be. If man was released from agricultural toil in the gods' gardens in eden/edin the gods would have to care for their gardens themselves, an onerous task that they dreaded. So they had no choice, man must remain an agricultural slave and be denied immortality and god-hood.\nAll this is to say in the Mesopotamian belief system: \"IF THERE WAS NO MAN TO DO THE GODS' BACK-BREAKING WORK IN THE GARDENS OF EDEN/EDIN THERE COULD BE NO REST FROM EARTHLY TOIL FOR THE GODS. Man's creation was absolutely necessary to provide the gods their Shabbat/Sabbath rest from toil.\nJudaism, Christianity and Islam took these Mesopotamian motifs and transformed them in such a way as to refute, challenge and deny them. Man was _not_ made to be an agricultural slave of the gods, to provide the gods a rest from toil, he was made to fellowship with God and he is to look forward, after death, to a return to Eden's garden and fellowshipping once again with God as was the case with Adam and Eve before their expulsion. The gods gave man a rest from toil by annihilating him, the rest from toil that accompanies death whereas in Christian doctrine, man _again_, AFTER DEATH, will enjoy a rest from toil in a Garden of Eden in God's presence. In both instances, Mesopotamian and Christian it is AFTER DEATH that man comes to enter into an eternal rest from toil, an eternal Shabbat or Sabbath if you will.\nJust think dear reader, you enjoy your weekly rest from toil, be it a Friday (Moslems), Saturday (Jews) or Sunday (Christians) because of a Mesopotamian myth about gods resting on a seventh day after destroying man and the world in a flood in order to obtain their rest (THEIR SHABBAT OR SABBATH).\nThe gods had created their city-gardens in the Mesopotamian (ancient Sumer) eden/edin to provide food for themselves, not man. Later, tiring of the grievous labor in maintaining their gardens in the eden/edin they create man to be their replacement and slave. He will provide the gods with life's necessities: food, clothing and shelter. The Mesopotamian myths understood agricultural toil in the gardens of eden/edin had been grievous for the gods and for man their replacement. The Hebrew Bible denies and refutes this concept. Although man (Adam) is created to cultivate and care for God's garden in Eden, the toil is not grievous. It is grievous only after man's expulson from the garden of Eden. An inversion has occurred: Life for man in the garden of Eden was idyllic vs. the Mesopotamian notion it is a back-breaking hell working in a god's garden in the eden/edin. Under no circumstances would the gods or man ever want to \"return\" to work once again in the gods' gardens of eden/edin. Remember here the Latin Motto: E PLURIBUS UNUM, \"From Many, One.\" The many gods who were responsible for the Flood were recast as ONE GOD as being responsible for Noah's Flood. The MANY GARDENS of the gods in the eden/edin were _recast_ into ONE GARDEN IN EDEN, as there is only ONE GOD for the Hebrews. Jews, Christians and Moslems all look forward to the day that they can be admitted to Paradise: God's garden in Eden, unaware that this is fictional nonsense, a recasting via inversions of earlier Mesopotamian beliefs of how and why man came to created and placed in the gods' city-gardens in the eden/edin and why his annihilation was attempted in a flood for disturbing the gods' rest.\nAs far as I can tell from my studies into the \"pre-biblical origins\" of the Hebrew Shabbat (English: Sabbath), I am the _only_ individual_ associating it with the seventh day of the Shuruppak Flood.\nProfessor Donald B. Redford, a prominent Egyptologist, has remarked on the fact that \"amateurs\" have contributed to the advancement of knowledge. This observation I find \"encouraging\" in my presentations at this website, being an amateur scholar myself.\nRedford (emphasis is mine):\n\"Laity often suffer under the delusion that \"scholars\" constitute a special interest group that stands united whenever any of its members is attacked, and refuses to allow any without the Ph.D. \"union card\" to participate in its activities. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The quest for knowledge (a pompous but apt phrase) through the application of reasoned scholarly method employs far more simple common sense than most people realize, and is therefore open to all. If professionals generally do it better, that is simply because they have had more practice; but it sometimes transpires that in a particularly thorny problem it is an unbiased amateur that makes a breakthrough.\"\n(p. xxi. \"Preface.\" Donald B. Redford. Akhenaten, The Heretic King. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press.1984, reprint 1987)\nProfessor Davis (Professor of Semitic Philology and Old Testament History, Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey) noted a parallel between the seventh day the gods rested on after the Shuruppak Flood and God's resting on a seventh day:\n\"According to the Babylonian narrative the flood, the fearful work of the gods, ceased on the seventh day...Deity is at rest and man is relieved on the seventh day...What do these things mean? An origin is needed for the belief that the seventh portion of time was a season of rest and good-will to man; a heavenly example calling for imitation on earth.\" (pp. 34-35. \"The Sabbath.\" John D. Davis. Genesis and Semitic Tradition. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1894)\nSome professional scholars over the past 100 years have attempted to seek the pre-biblical origns of the Hebrew Sabbath or Shabbat in the Akkadian/Babylonian shapattu or shabattu, the 15th day of the month when the full moon appears found in cuneiform texts, others have objected, noting that the Sabbath occurs every seven days and does not appear to be tied to the phases or quarters of the moon.\nI have identified (above) certain motifs appearing in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Atra-Khasis Epic as being in part what is behind the Hebrew Shabbat. The Atra-Khasis Epic noted that before the Igigi god We-ila is slain to thereby animate the clay that is mankind the gods absolve themselves of this slaying of a fellow-god by taking three ablution baths on the 1st, 7th and 15th days of the month which just happens to align somewhat with the phases of the moon. The 15th day was called by the Akkadians shapattu or shabattu and was associated with a day called \"the resting of the hearts.\" Perhaps the shapattu/shabattu is a \"type of memorial\" recalling two events: (1) The creation of man on this day _after_ the last ablution bath is taken and We-ila is slaughtered and (2) a sabbath rest being achieved by the gods with man's creation as their slave on this day, said creation _ending the anger in their hearts_ over their forced labor in the gardens of eden/edin. That is to say the shapattu/shabattu is _a day of appeasment for their angry, grieved hearts_, for now they will enjoy an eternal rest from toil for ever because man will bear their grievous work. Please click here for my article on the shapattu/shabattu and its relationship to the Hebrew shabbat.\nProfessor Blenkinsopp (of Notre Dame University) on Atrahasis and Gilgamesh motifs in Genesis:\n\"...just as Genesis 1-11 as a whole corresponds to the structure of the Atrahasis myth, so the garden of Eden story has incorporated many of the themes of the great Gilgamesh poem.\"\n(pp. 65-6. \"Human Origins, Genesis 1:1-11:26.\" Joseph Blenkinsopp. The Pentateuch, An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible. New York. Doubleday. 1992. ISBN 0-385-41207-X)\nProfessor Clay, an Assyriologist, in 1923 argued that scholars were _wrong_ in assuming the Hebrew Shabbat or Sabbath was related to and derived from the Mesopotamian shapattu (Emphasis mine in CAPITALS):\n\"For years it was held that the Hebrew Sabbath was borrowed from Babylonia; that it had its roots in the Babylonian shapattu or shabattu, to which we have been told we owe the blessings of that day; for \"the Sabbath-rest, was essentially of Babylonian origin.\" It is even held that \"the word Sabbath is Babylonian indeed.\"\nThis view has been accepted by many scholars...Let us here inquire upon what basis does the assertion rest that the Hebrew Sabbath is of Babylonian origin.\nIn the first place there was found in a Babylonian dictionary, or explanatory list of rare words, this formula: um nukh libbi= sha-pat-tum (or sha-bat-tum). This was translated \"shabattu was the day of rest of the heart,\" literally \"a day of rest.\" The word shabatu was also found in an explanatory list of rare words, but the meaning given for it, namely, gamaru, \"to be full, complete\" did not seem at the time to be suitable for the assertions that had been made.\nThe word shabattu, for which there is no etymology in Semitic Babylonian, was said to have been derived by the native lexicographers from the Sumerian sa \"heart,\" and bat \"to cease\" or \"rest\"; it was literally translated \"heart rest.\"\n(p. 117. \"The Hebrew Sabbath.\" Albert T. Clay. The Origin of Biblical Traditions: Hebrew Legends in Babylonia and Israel. New Haven. Yale University Press. 1923)\n\"Somewhat later it was shown that the expression nukh libbi, which occurs frequently in the lamentation hymns, did not mean \"rest of the heart,\" but referred to the PACIFICATION of the gods; and the expression was then translated \"day of the APPEASEMENT of the heart.\"\nIn 1904, Doctor Pinches discovered in a tablet giving the designation of the days of the month, that the 15th day was called shapatti when it became clear that the word shabatu, explained by gamaru, meaning \"to be complete, full,\" apparently referred to the full moon in the middle of the month.\nThis new light upon the subject required a readjustment of the proof that has been advanced for the Babylonian origin of the Sabbath. However, this was promptly accomplished, and the same conclusion reached, even \"that the word Sabbath is Babylonian indeed.\"\nIn this contention I cannot acqiesce. THERE IS NO ROOT IN BABYLONIAN, as already intimated, equivalent to the common _Hebrew shabat \"_TO CUT OFF, DESIST, PUT AN END TO_\". With the knowledge of its extended usage throughout the Old Testament, and knowing how thoroughly the institutions and the life of Israel were bound up with this day, TO ME IT HAS BEEN INCONCEIVABLE how Assyriologists could make themselves believe, on the basis of the data given above, that this institution and this word were borrowed from Babylonia.\" (pp. 118-119. Clay)\n\"There have already been published hundreds of hymns from Babylonia, and hundreds of ritual texts. The mass of this kind of literature is ten times greater than that found in the Old Testament. We have also a large body of laws from the early and late periods. In these, as well as in the mass of other texts, besides what is referred to above, there is not a semblance of an idea corresponding to the Hebrew Sabbath, nor any reference to the word (i.e., shabbat, not shapattu or shabattu).\"\n\"Whether in view of the fact that the \"new moon\" and the Sabbath in the Old Testament, stand in juxtaposition in so many passages the Sabbath was originally the day of the \"full moon,\" i.e., the fifteenth day of the month, need not concern us here.\" (p. 122. Clay)\nThe on-line Wikiepedia notes on the Shabbat/Sabbath that the word connotates CEASING rather than \"resting\" (Emphasis mine) :\n\"The Hebrew word Shabbat comes from the Hebrew verb shabat, which literally means \"TO CEASE\", in the sense of ceasing from doing something. Although Shabbat or its anglicized version \"Sabbath\" is almost universally translated as \"rest\" or a \"period of rest\", a more literal translation would be \"CEASING\", with the implication of \"CEASING from work\". Thus, Shabbat is the day of CEASING from work; while resting is implied, it is not a necessary connotation of the word itself.\nIncidentally, this clarifies the often-asked theological question of why God needed to \"rest\" on the seventh day of creation, as related in the Genesis account. When it is understood that God \"CEASED\" from his labour rather than \"rested\" from his labour, the usage is more consistent with the Biblical view of an omnipotent God who does not need \"rest\". Notwithstanding this clarification, this article will follow the far more common translation of Shabbat as \"rest\".\nShabbat is the basis of the English words \"sabbath\" and \"sabbatical\". (A common linguistic confusion leads many to believe that the word means \"seventh day\". Though the root for seven, or sheva', is similar in sound, it is spelled differently.\"\nSome may be aware that a few scholars in their search for \"the pre-biblical origins\" of the Sabbath (Hebrew: Shabbat) have proposed that it might be related to the Mesopotamian Shapattu Day, the 15th day of the Lunar month, the day of the Full Moon. This article does not cover this topic. It is addressed however in another of my articles. If this subject interests you please click here for the \"Shabbat = Shapattu Controversy\".\nIn the Hebrew Bible the \"first mention\" of the Sabbath (Hebrew Shabbat) _by name_ occurs in the book of Exodus (16:23, 25, 26 29; 20:8,10,11; 31:14,15,16; 35:2,3) when Moses introduces the concept to Israel while wandering the Sinai wilderness.\nThe Epic of Gilgamesh is a story about a man's unsuccessful search for immortality. It exists in various recensions from between the 21st to 6th centuries BCE. A clay tablet fragment written in Akkadian (Babylonian) has been found at Megiddo in Palestine dated to the 15th century BCE.\nThe key to unlocking the mystery of the Sabbath has been provided by W.G. Lambert who made the following observation:\n\"The authors of ancient cosmologies were essentially compilers. Their originality was expressed in new combinations of old themes, and in new twists to old ideas.\"\n(p.107, Wilfred G. Lambert, \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis,\" , in Richard S. Hess & David T. Tsumra, Editors, I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood. Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns, 1994)\nI understand that Genesis' Garden of Eden and the Sabbath itself are the result of \"new combinations of old themes and new twists to old ideas,\" to paraphrase Lambert's penetrating observation. Both themes are found in the Epic of Gilagmesh but in a different format and with a different sequence of events.\nFirst, the Garden of Eden:\nIn the Gilgamesh story a paradise on earth is set aside for the hero and his wife of the flood myth, called Utnapishtim. Many scholars have noted that Noah appears to be drawn from Utnapishtim with some modifications. I understand that Utnaspishtim and his wife are -in part- also one of the sources for the characters Adam and Eve. Utnapishtim and wife are placed in an earthly paradise by the Gods, just as Adam and Eve are in an earthly paradise. Neither couple have to do any back-breaking toil. In both stories, Utnapishtim and Adam are associated with a theme of man's having some kind of knowledge of how to go about obtaining immortality. Adam looses out in his bid, while Utnapishtim's immortality has been assured because of his faithfulness.\nUtnapishtim is famous for his wisdom for only he knows the secret of how to attain immortality, a similar theme exists about Adam's involvement with attaining wisdom. Gilgamesh seeks out Utnapishtim because his wisdom will lead, he hopes, to an acquisition of immortality. Please click here for a picture of Gilgamesh and his companion Enkidu from the Old Babylonian Period.\nThe various names given to the Sumerian or Babylonian \"Noah\" suggest to me, themes related to Adam who lived faraway in the East in a Garden of Eden and who sought a long life and immortality which were granted the Babylonian character, who also lived faraway in the East, at Dilmun, a paradise of sorts.\nThe Babylonian Noah's name appears in the following historical sequence from the ancient texts, first as Ziusudra (Sumerian), then Atra-hasis, Ut-napishtim, and finally Xisuthros (the Greek rendering of Ziusudra).\nDr. Robert Whiting (PhD.) has noted that Zi-u-sud-ra means \"Life of Distant Days,\" alluding to his obtaining immortality. Atrahasis means \"Very Intelligent,\" he being famed for his wisdom. Utnapishtim appears to be a form of Ziusudra \"He Found Life ?\" (napishtim = life?), alluding to his obtaining immortality. Xisuthros is the Greek rendering of Ziusudra by the Babylonian historian, Berossos (My thanks to Dr. Robert Whiting of Helsinki, Finland for his observations on these names' meanings).\nThere are, of course, modifications and transformations at work in the later Hebrew retelling of this story. Paradise (Dilmun) was set aside for man after the flood in the Gilgamesh scenario, whereas it was set aside before the flood in Genesis. I attribute this rearrangement to putting \"a new twist on an old story.\" Both stories then, have a man and wife placed in an earthly paradise by a god, and they are associated with possessing wisdom about how to obtain immortality.\nA serpent, responsible for depriving Gilgamesh of an herb that will restore him to youthful vigor, has a \"new twist,\" a serpent associated with a fruit who deprives Adam of immortality.\nNow, The Sabbath:\nThe Sabbath and its paradise motif in the Genesis story appear before the flood. In the Gilgamesh scenario, the earthly paradise and accompanying Sabbath or resting day of the gods, occurs only after all mankind has been destroyed (with the exception of those on Utnapishtim's boat) with the flood. We are told that the flood in its fury fought mankind like an army at war, the raging waves and pouring rains and lightning all ended on the seventh day of the flood; we are told that on the seventh day the waters became calm, the sun came out, the earth was in stillness, peace and quiet reigned over the earth, for man had been swept from off the face of the earth and drowned in the flood, because his \"noise\" had disturbed the god's rest! The gods could not rest by day nor sleep by night because of man's noise, according to the myths (Gilgamesh and Atrahasis).\n\"Six days and nights the wind blew, and the deluge and flood overwhelmed the land. THE SEVENTH DAY, when it came, the storm ceased, the raging flood, which had contended like a whirlwind, quieted, the sea shrank back, and the evil wind and deluge ended. I noticed the sea making a noise, and all man had turned to corruption. Like palings the marsh reeds appeared I opened my window, and light fell upon my face, I fell back dazzled, I sat down, I wept, over my face flowed my tears.\"\n(p.105. \"The Flood.\" Theophilus G. Pinches. The Old Testament In the Light of the Historical Records and Legend of Assyria and Babylonia. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1908)\nI would argue that the seventh day of the flood which saw the demise of mankind, the calming of the flood waters, and the easing of the rage in the gods' hearts, was given a \"new twist\" and transformed into a gracious God who wants only man's well-being, and who is desirous of faithful worship.\nPlease note, the Babylonian story has the Mesopotamian Noah tearing down his house made of \"marsh reeds\" to make his boat from and he is a king of Shuruppak. Excavations at that city determined that its one and only flood deposit was freshwater laid (microscopic analysis being undertaken), causing the excavators to understand that the Flood was caused by the Euphrates river. Succeeding generations embellished the story till it was a flood destroying the whole world.\nPinches (1908) noted a clay tablet inscribed in Akkadian (Babylonian) as um nuh libbi, \"day of the rest of the heart\" and juxtaposed next to this was the word sapattum. He suggested that sapattum was possibly derived from Sumerian Sa-bat meaning \"heart-rest.\" (see p. 527, sibitu meaning seventh, and Sa-bat meaning 'heart rest,' in Theophilus G. Pinches, The Old Testament, in Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1908, 3rd edition).\nToday, scholars have determined that Pinches (1908) was in ERROR, _sapattum_ means \"completion\" and refers specifically to the 15th day of the lunar month, the day of the full-moon's \"completion\" (or maximum waxing).\nThey have accordingly noted that the Hebrew 7th day or _shabbat_ appears to have no direct relationship with the Mesopotamian 15th day of the lunar month.\nTo the degree that Hebrew shabbat is a cognate of \"to cease\" the Sabbath day was, then, the day God CEASED his work of Creation, of the earth and mankind. On the 7th day the gods' CEASED their destruction of the earth and of mankind.\nAs has been noted by other scholars, the motifs appearing in Genesis 1-9 are paralleled in Ancient Near Eastern myths in a somewhat different format. The Babylonian Enuma Elish mentions the creation of the heavens and earth by Marduk, and after their completion, the making of mankind, similar notions exist in a similar sequence of events in Genesis (Ge 1:1-27). Marduk made man to till the earth to provide food for the gods, Adam's job is to take care of the garden on God's behalf, both are then portrayed as engaged in agricultural pursuits of some sort. The Mesopotamian gods rest after man's creation (he is to relieve them of their toil upon the earth for life's necesities: food, clothing and shelter); Yahweh, like the Mesopotamian gods rests after creating man.\nAs noted by Tsumura, Lambert does NOT share many of his colleagues' notion that the Babylonian \"Creation Epic,\" the Enuma Elish, shares much with Genesis 1-11, he sees more compelling parallels in the Epic of Gilgamesh (I see borrowings from both Gilgamesh and Enuma Elish):\n\"According to Lambert, who is extremely careful with regard to the Mesopotamian influence on the Genesis Creation story and does not admit the Hebrew borrowing from the Babylonian \"Creation\" story, \"Enuma Elish,\" too easily, \"the flood remains the clearest case of dependence of Genesis on Mesopotamian legend. While flood stories as such do not have to be connected, the episode of the birds in Gen 8:2-12 is so close to the parallel passage in the XIth tablet of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic that no doubt exists.\"\n(p. 53. David Toshio Tsumura. \"Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction. pp. 27-57. Richard S. Hess & David Toshio Tsumura. Editors. \"I Studied Inscriptions from before the Flood\", Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994)\nAdam's experiences in Eden parallel themes in the Mesopotamian myth of Adapa and the South Wind, who loses a chance at immortality for failing to eat the food which would confer it on him. Utnapishtim and wife, placed in an earthly garden, at Dilmun, are immortal, one assumes the fruits in that garden sustains them, just as the gods must be sustained by food grown on the earth (according to the Mesopotamian myths).\nThe Bible notes that the purposes of the sacrifices and burnt offerings at the Temple in Jerusalem are for the purpose of feeding God (Ezekiel 44:7, \"..when you offer me my food, the fat and the blood.\" RSV), quite in agreement with the Mesopotamian notions that man was created to feed and serve the gods, so they don't have to work and can enjoy their \"rest.\"\nCarpenter was of the conviction that whatever the true origins of the Sabbath were, they were not as portrayed in the biblical account. He argued that there was no need to set aside a 7th day as a day of rest created by a god for mankind's refreshment, he was sure the real origin lay in the fact that it was originally a \"Taboo Day\" which, overtime, was transformed into the biblical explanation:\n\"At some early period, in Babylonia or Assyria, a very stringent taboo on the Sabbath arose...It is quite likely that this taboo in its beginning was due not to any need of a weekly rest-day...but to some superstitious fear...It is probable, however that as time went on and society became more complex, the advantages of a weekly rest-day...became more obvious and the priests and legislators deliberately turned the taboo to a social use.\"\n(p.194, Edward Carpenter, The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs [first published as Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, 1920], London, Senate [an imprint of Random House UK], 1996)\nPinches noted that in Babylonia, the 7th day was a \"Taboo Day,\" or \"Lucky-Unlucky Day\":\n\"The nearest approach to the Sabbath, in the Jewish sense, among the Babylonians, is the u-khulgala or umu limmu, \"the evil day,\" which, as we know from the Hemerologies, was the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, and 19th day of each month, the last so called because it was a week of weeks from the the 1st day of the foregoing month. It is this, therefore, which contains the germ of the idea of the Jewish Sabbath, but it was not that Sabbath in the true sense of the term, for if the months had 30 days, the week following the 28th had 9 days instead of 7, and weeks of 8 and 9 days therefore probably occurred twelve times each year. The nature of this original Sabbath is shown by the Hemerologies, which describe how it was to be kept in the following words:\n(The Duties of the 7th Day):\nThe 7th day is a fast of Merodach and Zer-panitum, a FORTUNATE DAY, an EVIL DAY. The Shepherd of the great peoples shall not eat flesh cooked by fire, salted (savory) food, he shall not change the dress of his body, he shall not put on white, he shall not make an offering. The king shall not ride in his chariot, he shall not talk as a ruler; a seer shall not do a thing in a secret place; a physician shall not lay his hand on a sick man; (the day) is unsuitable for making a wish. The king shall set his oblation in the night before Merodach and Ishtar, he shall make an offering, (and) his prayer is acceptable with god.\nFor the 14th, 21st, 28th and 19th, the names of the deities differ, and on the last-named the Shepherd of the great peoples is forbidden to eat \"anything which the fire has touched.\" Otherwise the directions are the same, and though generally described as a lucky or happy day, it was certainly an evil day for work, or for doing the things referred to. It is to be noted, however, that there is no direction that the day was to be observed by the common people.\"\n(p. 528, \"The Sabbath,\" Theophilus G. Pinches, The Old Testament In the Light of the Historical Records and Legend of Assyria and Babylonia. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1908)\nModern scholarship is divided about the Sabbath's origins. While noting the above Taboos concerning the 7th day, the reason for making it \"a god's rest-day \" had yet to be explained. I believe my research has identified \"the resting of the gods on the 7th day\" after the Flood as being the source for the later Hebrew re-working of Babylonian myths. Probably the 7th day taboos, above noted, came to be absorbed into the Sabbath as well. In other words, both were almagamated and transformed into \"a joyful day of rest\" for Man (Perhaps \"expanding upon\" the Babylonian notion that the day was not only an evil day, but also a \"FORTUNATE DAY\"? ).\nI note some interesting variations with \"new twists\" on themes contained within the Babylonian 7th day taboos, as appeared later in Jewish observance of the Sabbath which suggest a possible relationship. Jews did not light fires on the Sabbath, it being considered work (Meals prepared by contact with \"fire\" is mentioned as Taboo in Babylon). Jews did not travel great distances on the Sabbath (the king shall not \"ride\" in his chariot); Jewish Sabbath service begins at Sunset (the king shall not place an offering before the god during the day, but \"at night\"); Jewish physicians did not heal on the Sabbath, Christ being accused of healing on the Sabbath (A physician shall not lay his hand on the sick).\nGilgamesh in seeking out Utnapishtim, sought not only the secret of immortality, but also by what means he could enter into \"the rest\" from toil enjoyed by the gods and Utnapishtim (I am indebted to Randall Larsen [17 July 2000] for this observation).\nRandall Larsen (of the University of Hawaii):\n\"Another item of interest, Gilgamesh's visit to Utnapishtim was to learn the secret of how to enter into his rest [to be exalted to \"recline with the gods\"].\"\nHeidel's translation of Gilgamesh's observation of Utnapishtim's freedom from toil, lying about on his back (implying his entering into \"the rest\" from toil enjoyed by the gods):\n\"Gilgamesh said to him, to Utnapishtim the Distant: \"I look upon thee, Utnapishtim, thine appearance is not different; thou art like me. Yea, thou art not different; thou art like unto me. My heart pictured thee as one perfect for the doing of battle; [but] thou liest (idly) on (thy) side, (or) on thy back. [Tell me], how didst thou enter into the company of the gods and obtain life (everlasting) ?\"\n(cf. p. 80, Alexander Heidel, The Epic of Gilgamesh and Old Testament Parallels. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1946, reprint of 1993)\nBelow, is another mythical variation of how and why mankind came to be created by Enki. In this account he is sleeping through the commotion on the earth's surface caused by the earth-dwelling junior gods called the Igigi who labor ceaselessly to provide food for the senior gods called the Anunnaki or Anunna (Enki or Ea is an Anunna god). He is awakened from his sleep in his underwater Abzu dwelling called the E-engur by his mother who asks him to end the commotion. He creates man from clay above the Abzu transfering the burden of agricultural toil from the earth-dwelling gods to mankind. In the Bible God makes man of dust and places him in Eden to tend God's garden. Enki's \"sleeping\" recalls to mind the Psalmist portraying Yahweh-Elohim \"sleeping\" while Israel's enemies destroy her (cf. Psalm. 44:23; 78:65)\nThe Enki and Ninmah Myth, notes the \"complaining of the Igigi gods at Eridu, a type of \"clamor\" or \"noise\" if you will, that will be transferred to man who is created to replace them and bear their grievous toil:\n\"In those days, in the days when heaven and earth were created; in those nights, in the nights when heaven and earth were created; in those years, in the years when the fates were determined; when the Anunna gods were born; when the goddesses were taken in marriage; when the goddesses were distributed in heaven and earth; when the goddesses... became pregnant and gave birth; when the gods were obliged (?)... their food...for their meals; the senior gods oversaw the work, while the minor gods were bearing the toil. The gods were digging the canals and piling up the silt in Harali. The gods, dredging the clay, began _complaining_ about this life.\nAt that time, the one of great wisdom, the creator of all the senior gods, Enki lay on his bed, not waking up from his sleep, in the deep engur, in the flowing water, the place the inside of which no other god knows. The gods said, weeping: \"He is the cause of the lamenting!\" Namma (Nammu), the primeval mother who gave birth to the senior gods, took the tears of the gods to the one who lay sleeping, to the one who did not wake up from his bed, to her son: \"Are you really lying there asleep, and... not awake? The gods, your creatures, are smashing their ...My son, wake up from your bed! Please apply the skill deriving from your wisdom and create a substitute (?) for the gods so that they can be freed from their toil!\"\nAt the word of his mother Namma, Enki rose up from his bed. In Hal-an-kug, his room for pondering, he slapped his thigh in annoyance. The wise and intelligent one, the prudent, ... of skills, the fashioner of the design of everything brought to life birth-goddesses (?). Enki reached out his arm over them and turned his attention to them. And after Enki, the fashioner of designs by himself, had pondered the matter, he said to his mother Namma: \"My mother, the creature you planned will really come into existence. Impose on him the work of carrying baskets. You should knead clay from the top of the Abzu; the birth-goddesses (?) will nip off the clay and you shall bring the form into existence. Let Ninmah act as your assistant; and let Ninimma, Cu-zi-ana, Ninmada, Ninbarag, Ninmug, ... and Ninguna stand by as you give birth. My mother, after you have decreed his fate, let Ninmah impose on him [mankind] the work of carrying baskets.\"\n(\"Enki and Ninmah.\" <http://theoldpath.com/senkimah.htm> cf. also Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford. 1998.)\nThe Atrahasis myth portrayed ONLY _ONE_ GOD, Ea (Aya/Ayya/Enki), as \"caring\" for man's welfare, he \"suffered\" the anger, rage and abuse of the other gods who wanted man to toil ceasely, they even begrudged man any of the fruits of his labor (or food he was cultivating for them) and he risked the displeasure of his fellow gods in warning Utnapishtim of the Flood. I suspect that these themes, of a _SINGLE_ god who cared about man and who wanted his workload reduced, inspired the Hebrew author to envision a Single God in place of the many gods who sought man's demise. This ONE god, Aya/Enki, may also have wanted to provide man with a rest day, as Enki did realize that the Iggi god's rebellion was in part because they had no rest from their toil. The notion of God's (Elohim's) \"suffering\" because man (Adam) \"turns on him,\" (by not obeying him) and not appreciating all he has done for him, \"grieveing his heart,\" is being drawn from Aya/Enki who \"suffers on man's behalf.\" So, I understand that the ONE GOD Aya/Enki was transformed into the ONE God Yahweh-Elohim because both are suffering and caring gods, both of whom wanted to alleviate the toil of mankind, and seeking his welfare. God provided abundant food for Adam in the Garden of Eden, Aya/Enki risked the displeasure the gods by letting man enjoy some the fruits of his toil. God doesn't have Adam toil for food in Eden, as man had to in the Atrahasis myth (I would characterize this \"a new twist\"to an old theme). Aya/Enki in another myth, \"Adapa and the South Wind,\" permits man to obtain \"forbidden\" knowledge and wisdom (Aya/Enki is the god of Wisdom), but _denies_ him immortality. In the Bible Yahweh-Elohim, allows Man (Adam) to obtain forbidden knowledge, but _denies_ him immortality. It is a Lower Mesopotamian Aya/Enki who lurks behind the biblical presentation of Yahweh-Elohim in the Genesis account (Moses' ehyeh asher ehyeh, \"I AM that I AM...\"Tell them Ehyeh [I AM] has sent you\" Hebrew: hayah, Exodus 3:13-14)\nLeick on Ea/Enki's reason for saving mankind from a flood, he realizing the gods need man to be their servants:\n\"In the later mythological tradition, Enlil's relationship with mankind is always problematic: he is easily roused to anger and impulsively gives in to his urge towards destruction. The flood myths describe how, when the noise generated by the masses of humans drives him to distraction, he immediately decides to wipe them off the face of the earth. In contrast, Enki/Ea realizes in his wisdom that the gods depend on mankind and finds ways to foil Enlil's plans for annihilation.\"\n(p. 153. \"Enlil.\" Gwendolyn Leick. Mesopotamia, the Invention of the City. London. Penguin Books. 2001)\nIf Leick is correct then perhaps Ea/Enki did not save man from the Flood because he cared about man's well-being, he did it out of self-interest. The Gods had made man to replace the Igigi gods as laborers. Who would build the canals and irrigation ditches, grow, harvest and prepare food for the gods if man was no more? The gods would have to do this. So, Ea/Enki, being a god of \"wisdom\" forsaw what would happen from Enlil's rash act and thus warned Utnapishtim to save the \"seed\" of mankind and creatures for a new beginning.\nLeick on Enki's assimilation with Ea/Ayya:\n\"Ea - also 'Ay(y)a; Akkadian god,\nThe name of this god is probably Semitic, although no reliable etymology has yet been found. Ancient Babylonian scribes derived it from Sumerian E.a, 'house of the water'. In the texts from the Old Sumerian and Sargonic periods Ea/Ayya occurs mainly in Akkadian personal names. The pronunciation Ea (Ay-a) is attested since the Ur III period. The original character of this god is impossible to assess because of his syncretism with the Sumerian god Enki, which probably occurred as early as the Sargonic period. Ea's functions in the Babylonian and Assyrian tradition are therefore essentially the same as Enki's. He is a water god (bel naqbi, 'lord of the Spring') a creator (ban kullat, 'creator of everything') a god of wisdom (bel uzni, 'lord of wisdom'), the supreme master of magic (mash.mash ilani, 'incantation specialist of the gods'), the protector of craftsmen and artisans.\"\n(p. 37. \"Ea.\" Gwendolyn Leick. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. London. Routledge. 1991, 1996, 1998)\nWe see now, that Genesis has preserved several \"key concepts\" albeit, in a transformed and somewhat re-interpreted manner, from the ancient Mesopotamian myths about man's creation; the theme of gods needing to rest; the importance of attaining rest for mankind who now \"clamors\" and desires \"a rest\" from his god-imposed toil, and how a Flood was resorted to, to end man's \"clamor for a rest,\" because the gods could not themselves attain their rest by day nor sleep by night.\nTo recapitulate, according to the Mesopotamian Atrashasis myth, the Igigi gods' clamor or noise was because they had _no rest, night or day_ from their god-imposed agricultural toil upon the earth over a period of 40 years. The Annuna gods' (or Enki's/Aya's/Ayya's/Ea's) \"solution\" to end this clamor and threatened rebellion was to make man as the new slave or servant, taking over the Igigi gods' labor, allowing the Igigi gods an eternal rest from toil. But the Igigi gods' _clamor was also transferred to man_, who now had \"no rest\" from god-imposed toil.\nOne would have thought that the Mesopotamian mythographers would have solved the \"Clamor problem\" by having a \"new\" creature perform the labor, \"giving rest to mankind,\" but of course _this was impossible_, because this motif was an explanation for WHY man had been made by the gods, he was made to be their slave/servant, harvesting and presenting food for them and giving them eternal rest from toil upon the earth.\nAfter the Flood, as noted in the Gilgamesh Epic, the gods crowded about the sacrifice made by Utnapishtim like hungry flies. They had come to realize that they NEEDED man to grow food and feed them- they realized it was foolish to destroy mankind, for they would have to return to the earth and grow and harvest their food and \"give up\" THEIR ETERNAL REST from toil.\nThe 7th day of the Flood became a day of foreboding for the Mesopotamians, recalling that on that day ALL the gods had obtained their rest via man's annhilation. Nowhere in the Mesopotamian myths do we find a story about the gods providing a day of rest for a toiling mankind who clamors for a rest from toil, only that a Flood was resorted to to end the clamor.\nIt was probably a Hebrew Savant, perhaps Abraham, who, while dwelling in \"Ur of the Chaldees,\" observed that these peoples had myths about a 7th day being a sacred day of rest for ALL the gods, a day that was not to be violated or the gods might be angered again. Perhaps he created a new relationship between god and man, and, via an INVERSION, created a GOD who WOULD give mankind a \"temporary\" rest from toil, that rest day being the 7th day, when ALL the gods had rested after man's demise accomplished by the Flood. The 6 days and nights of the earth's destruction via another INVERSION became 6 days of creation of the earth for man by a God who LOVED man, and who sought his well-being.\nIt is worth noting here, that the Hebrews accepted without question the Mesopotamian notion that gods needed a place to dwell in on the earth and daily food presentations. Yahweh ceased receiving his daily food and drink offerings with the destruction of the Temple of Solomon under the Romans circa 70 A.D. when Titus, the son of Vespasian, destroyed Jerusalem.\nChristianity, still later, picks up on this ancient theme of man entering into a \"God's rest,\" (Hebrews 3:11,18; 4:1-11) a type of \"Sabbath\" if you will, where the righteous will, after death, no more have to toil, they will wander the banks of the river of life flowing from under God's throne in Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, and feed off the trees of life lining the river's banks rather like Adam did in the Garden of Eden (cf. Revelation 22:1-2). They will, according to this myth, at long last, enter into \"the rest\" enjoyed by the gods as portrayed in the ancient Mesopotamian myths, a rest which according to those myths, had originally been \"denied to man.\" And so, the myth of a \"Sabbath and a Rest\" for God and his creation, mankind, has come \"full-circle,\" with the Christian re-interpretation of the ancient Mesopotamian myths, giving hope to millions over the ages.\nWe are told in the Bible that Abraham's family ORIGINALLY was of Ur of the Chaldees (Genesis 12:31) which is identified by some scholars with a site, modern Tell Muqqayyar in Lower Mesopotamia, and I concur with this identification. If Abraham's family was originally of this location then we have a possible connection for the \"pre-biblical origin\" of the Sabbath.\nThe Epic of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis located the Flood as occuring in this region at the nearby city of Shurrupak, the \"Sumerian Noah\" being the local king called Ziusudra (Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh or Atrahasis in the Atrahasis Epic). It was the Mesopotamian god Enki (Ea in the Gilgamesh Epic) who warned Ziusudra of the coming Flood, telling him to save himself and family by building an ark or boat. Was Ea/Ayya/Enki transformed via another INVERSION into Ehyeh/Yah/Yahweh?\nPerhaps God's \"revelation\" to Abraham while at Haran (Genesis 12:31) in northern Mesopotamia, alludes to Abraham's family's _INVERSION_ of the 6 days and nights in which the Gods destroyed the Earth, seeking the annihilation of a mankind that they \"abhorred\" and who's noise prevented them from resting by day and sleeping by night? Perhaps this \"new vision\" or \"revelation\" (INVERSION) was \"rejected\" by the local inhabitants, which necessitated Terah's or Abraham's family migrating to a new location, Haran, where a less hostile community might be open to a new concept of a single God creating the world in 6 days and nights for man, his pinnacle of creation, and resting on the 7th day, the Sebittu day? That is to say, perhaps either Abraham's father Terah or Abraham himself, are the originators of the INVERSION? To the degree that they are portrayed as being \"Arameans\" dwelling at Ur, perhaps this is the reason they took \"liberties\" in reformatting the local myths?\nI am somewhat reminded here of the Prophet Mohammed who founded a new religion, Islam. He too, like Abraham, had a \"new vision\" of how to worship God, a vision, that was rejected by the local populace of Mecca as perhaps happened at Ur of the Chaldees to Terah and Abraham. He, like Terah and Abraham, moved to another location, Medina, and found a more tolerant and open audience to expound his ideas to. Another prophet, Brigham Young, also had a \"new Vision\" of how to worship God which was rejected by many and he too migrated like Terah, Abraham and Mohammed to another less hostile environment.\nThe \"Apocrypha\" suggests a Jewish understanding from as early as the Hasmonean period (late 2nd century B.C.), that the Israelite forefathers were indeed originally of Ur of the Chaldees (Chaldea), and *only later* of Harran \"in Mesopotamia.\" This important relic is found preserved in Judith 5:5-9. It also suggests that the reason for Terah and Abraham leaving Ur of the Chaldees was that they HAD REJECTED THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF THEIR ANCESTORS. Here is the account (believed by some scholars to date from the late 2nd century B.C.):\nJudith 5:5-9 RSV\n\"Then Achior, the leader of all the Ammonites, said to him, \"Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth about this people that dwells in the nearby mountain district. No falsehood shall come from your servant's mouth. This people is descended from the Chaldeans. At one time they lived in Mesopotamia because they would not follow the the gods of their fathers who were in Chaldea. For they had left the ways of their ancestors, and they worshipped the God of Heaven, the God they had come to know; hence they drove them out from the presence of their gods; and they fled to Mesopotamia, and lived there a long time. Then their God commanded them to leave the place were they were living and go to the land of Canaan. There they settled, and prospered...\"\n(Herbert G. May & Bruce M. Metzger. Editors. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. (Revised Standard Version. New York. Oxford University Press. 1977)\nLeick on the city of Ur being a \"repository\" of ancient Mesopotamian texts, some which, were probably of a religious nature (?). Perhaps Terah and Abraham were exposed to and transformed these religious motifs ? :\n\"Ur. Modern Tell Muqqayir, in southern Iraq (originally by the ancient coast of the Arabian sea); ancient Sumerian city which spans the whole of Mesopotamian history. Ur was the city of the moon-god; it was also the seat of several dynasties and one of the most important Mesopotamian sites, and a large number of Sumerian and Babylonian texts have been found there, dating from all levels of the city's occupation.\"\n(p. 174. \"Ur. Glossary.\" Gwendolyn Leick. A Dictionary of Near Eastern Mythology. London. Routledge. , 1998.)\nTerah and Abraham, according to the Bible dwelt ORIGINALLY at Ur of the Chaldees and this site is identified by some scholars with Tell Muqhayir, and I concur. If one troubles to take the time to look at a map, Ur is located between Eridu which is Enki's principal residence and Shuruppak where the Flood warning is given to Utnapishtim by Enki. Please click here for a map showing the proximity of Ur to Shuruppak (to Ur's north), Eridu (to Ur's south) and the marshlands or wetlands, \"a place well-watered,\" and Qurnah.\nAccording to Leick, her study of the ancient Mesopotamian myths suggested that Amorite or Syrian influences were present. The Mesopotamians called northern Mesopotamia Amurru \"the West,\" and I note that Abraham eventually settled at Haran in Aram (Northern Syria) or Amurru. Is it possible that the Bible has correctly noted Terah and Abraham as 3rd/2d millennium B.C. figures in Ur of the Chaldees, and that the \"presence\" of Amorite motifs in the Lower Mesopotamian myths might recall the Hebrew's ancestors active involvement in myth-making or cosmologies regarding the relationship between gods and man?\nLeick (Emphasis mine):\n\"What we define here as Babylonian myths are a number of texts which were written Akkadian during the second millennium BC...Most of these compositions, however, are preserved on tablets that were found in the great Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian archives, notably those of Nineveh, Uruk, _Ur_ and Babylon. We know from colophon entries and other reports that the majority of the texts were copies of older material...The oldest editions of some texts date from the Old Babylonian period...The Babylonians inherited the culture and religious structures of the Sumerians. The scribes of the Old Babylonian period copied and translated a number of Sumerian mythological texts...BUT THERE IS ALSO MUCH THAT OWES MORE TO SYRIAN AND AMORITE CONCEPTS THAN SUMERIAN TRADITION.\"\n(pp. 23-24. \"Babylonian Mythology.\" Gwendolyn Leick. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. London & New York. Routledge. 1991, 1996, 1997. ISBN 0-415-19811-9 pbk)\n\"Amorites. Akkadian amurru (Sumerian mar.tu) was rather widely used to designate the various Semitic tribes living to the west of Mesopotamia...Following the collapse of the Ur III 'empire', the Amorites penetrated deeper into the agricultural and urban areas, formed cohesive political units and eventually one of their leaders, Hammurabi (c. 1794-1750 BC) initiated the Amorite or First Babylonian Dynasty.\"\n(pp. 168-169. \"Glossary.\" Gwendolyn Leick. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. London. Routledge. 1991. 1998)\nWhen the Assyrians conquered this area in the 8 century B.C. they noted the presence of Arameans dwelling in the region. Perhaps this accounts for the notion of Terah and Abraham being Arameans and dwelling at Ur of the Chaldees?\nFor the Aramaeans, the beginning of the Iron Age was a time of forceful expansion, and Tiglath-pileser did not succeed in curbing their progress. For more than a hundred years, the shadowy figures that succeeded him were unable to cope with this situation, and the same was true of Babylonia after Nebuchadnezzar I. In Babylonia the Aramaeans were to remain a major ethnic ingredient, alongside the related Chaldeans and the longstanding Akkadian population; 8th century Assyrian sources list 36 of their tribes. Like unsubmissive elements of all times, in resisting imperial authorities they are branded as bandits. In a text in which Sargon II boasts of having successfully hacked his way through to Babylon, he names Aramaeans in one breath with lions and wolves as sources of insecurity.\"\n(Vol. 2. p. 1282. Paul E. Dion. \"Aramaean Tribes and Nations of First-Millennium Western Asia.\" Jack M. Sasson. Editor. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Peabody, Mass. Hendrickson. 1995)\nKramer noted that the Mesopotamian Flood Epic existed in more than one recension and that details \"differed\" between the Sumerian and Babylonian versions. Of particular note is that the earlier Sumerian account had a Flood lasting 7 days and 7 nights, while the later Babylonian account had the Flood lasting 6 days and 7 nights. It is my understanding that it is the Babylonian account that lies behind the Biblical account of God making the earth in 6 days, transforming the 6 days of destruction of the earth by the Gods. Noah's release of birds to determine the degree of abatement of the Flood waters in Genesis also appears to be indebted -in my opinion- to the Babylonian account, as this motif does not appear in the Sumerian version.\nKramer (Emphasis mine):\n\"The Sumerian flood episode is part of a poem devoted primarily to the myth of the immortalization of Ziusudra, and this myth was artfully used by the Babylonian poets for their own purposes. Thus, when the weary Gilgamesh comes before Utnapishtim (the Babylonian Ziusudra) and questions him concerning the secret of eternal life, the Babylonian poets did not let him answer briefly and to the point; instead, they took advantage of this opening to insert their version of the deluge myth. The first (the creation) part of the Sumerian myth, they omitted altogether as unneccessary to their theme. They retained only the deluge episode ending with Ziusudra's immortalization. And by making Utnapishtim (Ziusudra) the narrator, and putting the narration in the first person instead of the third, they changed the Sumerian form, in which the narrator was a nameless poet.\nIn addition we find variation in details. Ziusudra is described as a pious, humble, god-fearing king, but Utnapishtim is not thus described. On the other hand, the Babylonian version is much more lavish with details concerning the building of the boat, and the nature and violence of the flood. In the Sumerian myth the flood lasts seven days and seven nights; in the Babylonian version it lasts six days and seven nights. Finally, the sending of the birds to test the degree of water abatement is found only in the Babylonian epic.\"\n(p. 191. \"The First Case of Literary Borrowing.\" Samuel Noah Kramer. History Begins At Sumer: Twenty-seven \"Firsts\" in Man's Recorded History. Garden City, New York. Doubleday Anchor Books. Doubleday & Company, Incorporated. 1959. paperback edition [1st edition in 1956 by Falcon's Wing Press])\nThe Sumerian Flood version:\n\"...a flood will sweep over the cult centers to destroy the seed of mankind...[it] is the decision, the word of the assembly of the gods, by the word commanded by An and Enlil...All the windstorms, exceedingly powerful, attacked as one, at the same time, the flood sweeps over the cult centers. After, for seven days and seven nights, the flood had swept the land, and the huge boat had been tossed about by the windstorms on the great waters, Utu [the sun god] came forth, who sheds light on heaven and earth, Ziusudra opened a window on the huge boat, the hero, Utu brought his rays into the giant boat. Ziusudra, the king, prostrated himself before Utu, the king kills an ox, slaughters a sheep...Ziusudra, the king, prostrated himself before An and Enlil. An and Enlil cherished Ziusudra, life like a god they gave him; Breath eternal like a god they bring down for him. Then Ziusudra the king, the preserver of the name of vegetation and of the seed of mankind, in the land of crossing, the land of Dilmun, the place where the sun rises, they caused to dwell.\"\n(pp. 154-154. \"The First Noah.\" Samuel Noah Kramer. History Begins At Sumer: Twenty-seven \"Firsts\" in Man's Recorded History. Garden City, New York. Doubleday Anchor Books. Doubleday & Company, Incorporated. 1959. paperback edition [1st edition in 1956 by Falcon's Wing Press])\nThe Babylonian version of the Flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh (Pinches, 1908) :\n\"Six days and nights the wind blew, and the deluge and flood overwhelmed the land. THE SEVENTH DAY, when it came, the storm ceased, the raging flood, which had contended like a whirlwind, quieted, the sea shrank back, and the evil wind and deluge ended. I noticed the sea making a noise, and all man had turned to corruption. Like palings the marsh reeds appeared I opened my window, and light fell upon my face, I fell back dazzled, I sat down, I wept, over my face flowed my tears...The first day and the second day the mountain of Nisir seized the ship, and would not let it pass...The seventh day, when it came I sent forth a dove, and it left, the dove went, it turned about, but there was no resting place, and it returned. I sent forth a swallow, and it left, the swallow went, it turned about, but there was no resting place, and it returned. I sent forth a raven, and it left, the raven went, the rushing of the waters it saw, it ate, it waded, it croaked, it did not return. I sent forth (the aimals) to the four winds, I poured out a libation... Then Ellilia, when he came, he saw the ship. And Ellila was wroth, filled with anger on account of the gods and the spirits of heaven. \"What, has a soul escaped? Let not a man be saved from the destruction.\" Ninip opened his mouth and spake, he said to the warrior Ellila: 'Who but Ae has done the thing and Ae knows every event.\" Ae opened his mouth and spake, he said to the warrior Ellila: \"Thou sage of the gods, warrior, verily thou hast not taken counsel, and hast made a flood. The sinner has committed his sin, the evil doer his misdeed, be merciful -let him not be cut off- yield, let him not perish. Why hast thou made a flood? Let the lion come, and let men diminish. Why hast thou made a flood?...Let the hyaena come, and let men diminish. Why hast thou made a flood? Let a famine happen, and let the land be destroyed. Why hast thou made a flood? Let Ura (pestilence) come, and let the land be devastated. Why hast thou made a flood? I did not reveal the decision of the great gods- I caused Atrahasis to see a dream, and he heard the decision of the gods.\" When he had taken counsel (with himself), Ae went up into the midst of the ship, he took my hand and he led me up, even me he brought up and caused my woman to kneel (?) at my side; He touched us, and standing between us, he blessed us (saying): \"Formerly Pir-napishtim was a man; now (as for) Pir-napishtim and his woman. let them be like unto the gods, (even) us, and let Pir-napishtim dwell afar at the mouths of the rivers.\" He took me, and afar at the mouths of the rivers he caused me to dwell.\"\n(pp.105-108. \"The Flood.\" Theophilus G. Pinches. The Old Testament In the Light of the Historical Records and Legend of Assyria and Babylonia. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.1908)\nHeidel (1946) slips in, in brackets, \"six days and [six] nights\" for the Flood :\n\"Six days and [six] nights the wind blew, the downpour, the tempest, (and) the flo[od] overwhelmed the land. When the seventh day arrived, the tempest, the flood, which had fought like an army, subsided in (its) onslaught. The sea grew quiet, the storm abated, the flood ceased. I opened a window, and light fell upon my face. I looked upon the sea, (all) was silence, and all mankind had turned to clay...I bowed, sat down and wept, my tears running down over my face.\"\n(pp. 85-86. \"The Gilgamesh Epic.\" Alexander Heidel. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels: A translation and interpretation of the Gilgamesh Epic and related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press. 1946, 1949, reprint 1993)\nDalley suggests (?) seven nights and six days for the Flood :\n\"For six days and [seven (?)] nights the wind blew, flood and tempest overwhelmed the land; when the seventh day arrived the tempest, flood and onslaught which had struggled like a woman in labour, blew themselves out (?). The sea became calm, the imhullu-wind grew quiet, the flood held back. I looked at the weather; silence reigned, for all mankind had returned to clay.\"\n(p. 113. \"Gilgamesh XI.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh and Others. New York. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991)\nI have not been successful in finding a scholarly reason for the brackets [ ] and elipses ( ), regarding the statement \"six days and ([six/seven]) nights.\" I don't know if the cuneiform sign is \"indistinct\" at this point ,or the clay tablet is damaged. Pinches read \"six days and nights\" for the Flood's duration. However, the Mesopotamians were fond of using repeating refrains or \"catch phrases\" for poetic purposes in their compositions and other passages frequently mention six days and seven nights. For example in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu has sex with Shamhat the harlot for six days and seven nights, then later the Mesopotamian Noah (Utnapishtim), puts Gilgamesh to a \"test,\" he asks him to remain awake for six days and seven nights.\" Gilgamesh no sooner agrees than he falls into a deep sleep for the stated period of time. Perhaps Enkidu's and Gilgamesh's feats involving six days and seven nights is why some prefer \"to emend\" Pinches' \"six days and nights\" for the Flood to read instead \"six days and [seven] nights\"? By the way, I understand Gilgamesh's sleep and/or possibly Enkidu's \"sleeping with\" (?) the harlot, to have been recast by the Hebrews into Adam's \"sleep\" in Eden.\nIs Eden's association with four rivers an echo of the \"mouths of the rivers\" the Euphrates and Tigris, where lay the paradise called Dilmun? Some have thought that the \"mouths\" of the rivers should be rendered the \"source\" of the rivers. Professor Kramer understands that this \"mouth\" is NOT where the rivers terminate, as in a delta or flood plain, or marsh, but rather that the \"mouth\" is their SOURCE. In other words the rivers _arise_ from a SINGLE source or mouth, rather like a spring. If he's right, then this passage may explain the biblical notion that the river of Eden arose from an ed, rendered \"spring\" by the Greek Septuaginta. In Mesopotamian myths the earthly paradise of Dilmun was originally without water, then Enki arranges to have a lesser god create a \"water source\" for the garden located there. Enki is the god of freshwaters (his sperm is the freshwaters which fertilize crops) and he is shown with two rivers gushing form his shoulders with fish in them, perhaps these two streams are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? The word for river in Akkadain is id. Could the \"river of Eden\" be a Hebrew \"punning\" or \"wordplay\" of id into Eden, or did the ed become Eden? Enki is associated with several locations, his main shrine at Eridu on the Euphrates at the edge of the marshes; for recreation he is portrayed \"punting\" his boat in the nearby \"snake marsh,\" (a place obviously well-watered like Eden), and he dwells at times at Dilmun. It was at Dilmun that he ate several of his wife's plants \"in order to know them\" without his wife's permission, said action causing her to curse him with death. A number of scholars have proposed that Dilmun is the Mesopotamian prototype underlying Genesis' Eden, and I concur, it is one of several other Mesopotamian prototypes.\nDid \"warrior and sage\" Ellila (En-Lil, \"Lord Air\") one of the gods who _instigated_ the Flood come to transformed into the Hebrew El-Elohe Israel, \"El the God of Israel\" who brought about Noah's Flood (Ge 33:20)?\nIs Ae (Aya/Ayya/Ea or Enki) Ehyeh (Hebrew Hayah)? Did Atrahasis and wife become Adam and Eve? Did the wife's kneeling at \"the side\" of Atrahasis, become Eve being \"made from\" Adam's side or rib? The kneeling of the woman becomes womankind's \"kneeling subservience\" to mankind or Adam? Did Atrahasis' libation at the end of the flood become a drunken Noah? A strange statement is made about Noah in the Bible: \"Out of the ground which the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us _relief from our work_ and the toil of our hands.\" (Ge 5:29) Might this be an echo of the Mesopotamian notion that ONLY the Flood survivor attained \"_relief_\" or _freedom from toil_ in Dilmun, an agricultural toil that had been transferred to man from the lesser gods or Igigi by Enki?\nIn the Mesopotamian \"Flood myth\" it is En-Lil (Ellil) who is portrayed as instigating the flood, while En-Ki (Ea) intervenes to spare the pious Ziusudra by having him build a boat to save self, family and animals. It is Shamash (the sun-god) who warns the \"Mesopotamian Noah\" of just when to to board the boat.\n\"Shamash set for me the appointed time:\nIn the morning, cakes in spates,\nIn the evening, grains in rains,\nGo into your boat and caulk the door!\"\n...I went into the boat and caulked the door.\"\n(p. 87. \"Tablet XI.\" Benjamin R. Foster. The Epic of Gilgamesh. [A Norton Critical Edition]. New York & London. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001)\nAfter the Flood Enlil who was enraged that there are survivors, is convinced by Ea not to ever send another flood to reduce man's population. Enlil also blesses Ziusudra and wife with immortality. It appears to me that three gods have been amalgamated into Yahweh, Enlil, Shamash and Enki. Yahweh instigated the Flood, warned the Flood hero to build a boat and to enter it. Yahweh after the Flood swore to never bring another Flood upon man, just like Enlil swore to never destroy man with a Flood.\nHighly reccomended to the reader is a scholarly article exploring Genesis' Flood and the Epic of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis accounts by the late Professor Tikva Frymer-Kensky. She was in 1977 an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit. The article is titled \"The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1-9.\" The Biblical Archeologist. December 1977. pp. 147-55; available \"on-line\" at the following url\nShe was a Professor of Hebrew Bible and the History of Judaism in the Divinity School; also in the Law School and the Committees on the Ancient Mediterranean World and Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago.\nFrymer-Kensky proposed that Genesis _rejected_ the Mesopotamian notion that the Flood's purpose was to limit mankind's population on the earth:\n\"Unlike Atrahasis, the flood story in Genesis is emphatically not about overpopulation. On the contrary, God's first action after the flood was to command Noah and his sons to \"be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth\" (Gen 9:1). This echoes the original command to Adam (1:28) and seems to be an explicit rejection of the idea that the flood came as a result of attempts to decrease man's population. The repetition of this commandment in emphatic terms in Gen 9:7, \"and you be fruitful and multiply, swarm over the earth and multiply in it,\" makes it probable that the Bible consciously rejected the underlying theme of the Atrahasis Epic, that the fertility of man before the flood was the reason for his near destruction.\nIt is not surprising that Genesis rejects the idea of overpopulation as the reason for the flood, for the Bible does not share the belief of Atrahasis and some other ancient texts that overpopulation is a serious issue. Barrenness and stillbirth (or miscarriage) are not considered social necessities, nor are they justified as important for population control. On the contrary, when God promises the land to Israel he promises that \"in your land women will neither miscarry nor be barren\" (Exod 23:26). The continuation of this verse, \"I will fill the number of your days,\" seems to be a repudiation of yet another of the \"natural\" methods of population control, that of premature death. In the ideal world which is to be established in the land of Israel there will be no need for such methods, for overpopulation is not a major concern.\"\nShe also understood that God sent the Flood because of mankind's sinfulness, NOT his overpopulation of the earth:\n\"Genesis states explicitly that God decided to destroy the world because of the wickedness of man (Gen 6:5).\"\n(Tikva Frymer-Kensky. \"The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1-9.\" The Biblical Archeologist December 1977, pp. 147-55)\nGenesis 6:5-14 RSV\n\"The Lord saw that the WICKEDNESS of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was ONLY EVIL continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, \"I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground. man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.\" But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord...Noah was a righteous man...Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence...And God said to Noah, \" I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them, behold I will destroy them with the earth.\"\nI would \"qualify\" Frymer-Kensky's above observation about the Atrahasis Flood being an attempt at \"population control.\" The texts suggest for me the real complaint was not population size, it was about mankind's incessant clamor or noise because he was denied any rest from his god imposed toil, disturbing the gods' ability to rest by day and sleep by night. Had there been no clamor, there would be no need to limit population size.\nI have earlier noted that the six days and nights in which vengeful gods destroy the earth in order to annihilate mankind and end his clamor is drawing from the Babylonian version of the Flood, rather than the earlier Sumerian account which has a duration of the Flood of 7 days and nights. I have also noted that the Babylonian version has various birds being released to observe the abatemnet of the Flood waters which seems to be mirrored in Genesis.\nFor me, another \"clue\" to Genesis' indebtedness or reformatting of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Flood account is the reason given for the Flood. The Sumerian account does NOT explain WHY the gods want to destroy mankind (cf. above, Kramer's translation), but the Babylonian account DOES (cf. above, Pinches' translation). The reason is man's SINFULNESS or EVIL, which seems to be mirrored in Genesis. Please note, it is ONLY in the Atrahasis account that we learn that the gods sent the Flood because of mankind's \"constant clamor or noise\" which DIFFERS from the Babylonian Gilgamesh Flood account noting man SINFULNESS as the reason for the Flood. The Babylonian account also notes a plea to the god Elilla NOT to ever attempt to destroy all of mankind again with another Flood, but to reduce mankind's population by other less drastic means. Genesis has Yahweh informing Noah that never again will he seek all of mankind's demise with a Flood.\nThe Babylonian Flood account in the Epic of Gilgamesh (Pinches, 1908):\nThen Ellilia, when he came, he saw the ship. And Ellila was wroth, filled with anger on account of the gods and the spirits of heaven. \"What, has a soul escaped? Let not a man be saved from the destruction.' Ninip opened his mouth and spake, he said to the warrior Ellila: 'Who but Ae has done the thing and Ae knows every event. Ae opened his mouth and spake, he said to the warrior Ellila: 'Thou sage of the gods, warrior, verily thou hast not taken counsel, and hast made a flood. The SINNER has committed HIS SIN, the EVIL doer HIS MISDEED, be merciful -let him not be cut off- yield, let him not perish. Why hast thou made a flood? Let the lion come, and let men diminish. Why hast thou made a flood?...Let the hyaena come, and let men diminish. Why hast thou made a flood? Let a famine happen, and let the land be destroyed. Why hast thou made a flood? Let Ura (pestilence) come, and let the land be devastated. Why hast thou made a flood?\"\nYahweh's \"mercifulness\" in not seeking the perishment of all mankind again because of his \"evil heart\":\nGenesis 8:21-22; 9:11,15 RSV\n\"...I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is EVIL from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.\"\n\"I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth...the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.\"\nThe Sumerian account makes no mention of \"rivers\" in association with the land of Dilmun, where the Flood survivor and wife are placed, but the Bablyonian account does. We are told that Dilmun is located \"at the mouths of the rivers.\" Most scholars understand that \"the rivers\" are the Tigris and Euphrates which empty into the marshlands south of present day Qurnah, where modern Arab traditions locate the Garden of Eden. Genesis, like the Babylonian account, associates the Tigris and Euphrates with a paradise garden. Some scholars have noted that Genesis suggests a great spring (Hebrew: ed) existed in Eden to water the garden, and that this spring became a river which left the garden and became four rivers, the Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris and the Euphrates. The word for river in Akkadian (Babylonian) is id. In Mesopotamian myths, Enki dwells in a subterranean house in the depths of the apsu or abzu, the freshwater ocean under the earth. He is portrayed as the god whose semen fills the river beds and canals of Lower Mesopotamia (water being seen as a fertilizing agent of the earth, creating crops). His main temple is at Eridu on the edge of the marsh lands and he enjoys punting his boat in the marshes. An important clue to Dilmun's location is a statement made by the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib who defeated Hezekiah of Judah ca. 704 BCE. Sennacherib circa 689 BCE utterly destroyed Babylon for repeated rebellions to his authority. He boasted of tearing down its walls, buildings and temples to their foundations and then had the dust of the city dumped into the Euphrates which carried the mud down to Dilmun where its king upon seeing the darkened waters was terrorized. Obviously the \"edenic garden\" of the gods, Dilmun, is somewhere DOWNSTREAM from Babylon, its NOT somewhere in Turkey where the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates arise -some scholars suggesting Eden is at the source of these rivers (Please click here for my article \"Genesis' Genesis, the Hebrew Transformation of the Mesopotamian Myths,\" for more data on the Garden of Eden and Dilmun\").\nThe Israeli professor Cassuto argued that Eden might mean \"a place well watered\" from Ugaritic 'dn. I suspect he is correct, and that the marshands near Qurnah and Eridu \"fit\" the description \"of a place well-watered.\"\n\"The suggested explanations of the name that connect it either with the Sumero-Akkadian word edinu ('the steppe-land, wilderness') or with the expression ha`okhelim lema `adhannim ['those who feasted on dainties'] (Lam. iv 5) are unacceptable...in Ugaritic we find the stem `dn, with an ordinary `ayin, whose signification is well-suited to our theme. In the Epic of Baal, for example, it is stated (Tablet II AB, V, lines 68-69): wn `p `dn mtrh b`l y`dn `dn [to be rendered according to some authorities: and now also the moisture of his rain/Baal shall surely make moist': y`dn `dn are derived from the root `dn] in connection with the watering of the ground. In this connotation it is possible to find the root adhan also in Hebrew: and Thou givest them to drink from the river of Thy watering [ `adhanekha; E.V. Thy delights] (Psa xxxvi 9); and in rabbinic language: `rain water, saturates, fertilizes and refreshes [me adden] (B. Kethuboth 10 b); 'Just as the showers come down upon the herbs and refresh [me`addenin] them', etc. (Sifre Deutr 32:2). The etymological meaning of the name Eden will, accordingly be: a place that is well watered throughout; and thus we read further on: that it was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord (xiii 10).\"\n(Vol. 1. pp.107-108. Umberto Cassuto. A Commentary on the Book of Genesis. [2 Vols.]. Jerusalem. The Hebrew University. The Magnes Press. 1944. 1986)\nLambert suggested that knowledge of the Mesopotamian creation and flood myths came to Canaan no earlier or later than the Egyptian Amarna era, the late 18th Dynasty, the period of Amenhotep IV and his succesors, who changed his name to Akhenaten upon declaring only ONE GOD was to be worshipped, the Aten/Aton or Sun disk (Akhenaten reigned ca. 1350-1334 B.C.):\n\"The differences are indeed so great that direct borrowing of a literary form of Mesopotamian traditions is out of the question. But if the case for borrowing is to be established, at least a suggestion of the manner and time of transference must be made. The Exile and the later part of the Monarchy are out of the question, since this was the time when the Hebrew traditions of creation and the early history of mankind were being put in the form in which they were canonized...one is forced back at least to the time of the Judges, and even this may be too late...The present writer's opinion is that only the Amarna period has any real claim to be the period when this material moved westwards. This is the period when the Babylonian language and cuneiform script were the normal means of international communication between countries from Egypt to the Persian Gulf. From within this period the Hittite capital in Asia Minor has yielded a large quantity of fragments of Mesopotamian literature, both Sumerian and Babylonian, including the Gilgamesh Epic. A smaller quanity of similar material has been yielded by Ras Shamra [ancient Ugarit], including a piece of the Atra-hasis Epic. Megiddo has given up a piece of the Gilgamesh Epic, and Amarna itself several pieces of Babylonian literary texts. This spread of Babylonian writings at this period of history is not only the result of the use of cuneiform writing for international communication, but also is owed to the cultural activities of the Hurrians, for they were great borrowers from all the peoples in which they moved and settled, so much so that they were rapidly absorbed and lost their identity. Thus in the Amarna age the Hittites not only had Babylonian and Sumerian literature in addition to native texts, but also works translated from West Semitic. Cultural barriers were indeed broken down in Syria and adjacent lands at this time. Nor was knowledge of borrowed Mesopotamian works restricted too the small number of scribes competent in cuneiform. Among the Hittites the Gilgamesh Epic was available in both Hittite and Hurrian translations. Also that version of Nergal and Erishkigal from Amarna is so completely different from the traditional Mesopotamian one in its wording as to give the impression that oral tradition alone will explain it.\nEarlier borrowing of the material is ruled out, in the present writer's opinion, because Genesis shows no knowledge of Mesopotamian matters prior to 1500 BC, a point of considerable importance. The description of Nimrod's kingdom and the account of the Tower of Babel both presume a period when legends were clustering around the city of Babylon. Up to the sudden and unexpected rise of Babylon under Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BC) it was an utterly unimportant and obscure place. One must surely allow a century or two before it could become the centre of legends about early times, as indeed it did in Mesopotamia by about 1200 BC. Negatively the case is equally strong: Genesis shows no knowledge of Mesopotamian matters prior to 1500. The very existence of the Sumerians is nowhere hinted at. While borrowing may have been altogether more involved and complex than we have suggested, all the known facts favour the idea that the traditions moved westwards during the Amarna period and reached the Hebrews in oral form.\"\n(pp. 108-109. W. G. Lambert. \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis.\" pp. 96-113. Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumra. Editors. \"I Studied Inscriptions from before the Flood,\" Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994. ISBN 0-931464-88-9)\nProfessor Millard on the issue of the Hebrews borrowing Mesopotamian concepts and motifs and reformatting them (Emphasis mine):\n\"There can be no doubt that the concept of a history of man from his creation to the Flood is similar both in Babylonian and in Hebrew. Any future consideration of possible origins of the Hebrew story must take this into account, and not treat Creation and Flood separately. Thus it is no longer legitimate to describe the Hebrew Flood story as \"borowed\" from a Babylonian \"original\" without including its complementary Creation account.\"\n(p. 125. A. R. Millard. \"Observations on the Babylonian and Hebrew Accounts Compared.\" in his article \"A New Babylonian \"Genesis\" Story.\"pp. 114-128. Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumra. Editors. \"I Studied Inscriptions from before the Flood,\" Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994)\n\"In light of the literary structure of \"Creation-Rebellion-Flood\" in the \"Atrahasis Epic,\" some scholars have suggested that the primeval history in Genesis stretches from the creation story through the end of the Flood story, namely Genesis 1-9, rather than Genesis 1-11.\"\n(pp. 48-49. David Toshio Tsumura. \"Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction. pp. 27-57. Richard S. Hess & David Toshio Tsumura. Editors. \"I Studied Inscriptions from before the Flood\", Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994)\nI find the above to be a very important observation, Genesis 1-9 should be seen, _in my opinion_, as a re-working of earlier Mesopotamian Creation-Flood accounts regarding the relationship between god/s and mankind. The Gilgamesh Epic Flood account portrays man's sin as why the Flood occurred, which as I noted earlier (above) is mirrored in Genesis' notion of mankind's \"evil heart.\"\nThe need for man to have a rest day in the Pentateuch echos the clamor of mankind for a rest from their god-imposed toil in the Atrahasis myth, which the gods denied him (Atrahasis is a Creation-Flood myth, explaining why the gods made man and why they later sought his destruction with a Flood). Other articles on my website trace various motifs and concepts found in Genesis 1-9 such as the Garden of Eden, and eating of a tree to acquire knowledge, man's nakedness in Eden with Enkidu's nakedness in Edinu \"the steppe/plain\" as being nothing more than later reworked and transformed Mesopotamian myths.\nAs is to be expected, the defenders of Holy Writ, believing the Bible to God's Holy Word, either DENY or DOWNPLAY any \"borrowing and reformatting\" of Mesopotamian concepts by the Hebrews. The most common stratagem they employ is to note that numerous details differ between Genesis 1-9 and the Mesopotamian myths. In addition the morals drawn about the relationship between god/s and man differ as well. Ergo, for Bible-believing Conservative scholars any parallels between the two cultures are dismissed as nonsense, God REALLY DID reveal to Moses what to write about how Man came to be created by God and later destroyed in a Flood. Millard's \"Christian Conservatism\" is apparent in his preference for Genesis' Creation-Flood theme being \"earlier than\" the Mesopotamian account.\nMillard challenges Lambert's above proposal as to when Mesopotamian Creation/Flood myths came to be known in the West, at Syrian Alakah and Byblos (Emphasis mine):\n\"Did the Hebrews borrow from Babylon? Neither an affirmative nor a negative reply to the question can be absolutely discounted in the light of present knowledge. Reconstructions of a process whereby Babylonian myths were borrowed by the Hebrews, having been transmitted by the Canaanites, and \"purged\" of pagan elements remain imaginary. It has yet to be shown that any Canaanite material was absorbed into Hebrew sacred literature on such a scale or in such a way. Babylonian literature itself was known in Palestine at the time of the Israelite conquest and so could have been incorporated directly. The argument that borrowing must have taken place during the latter part of the second millennium BC because so many Babylonian texts of that age have been found in Anatolia, Egypt, and the Levant, cannot carry much weight, being based on archaeological accident. The sites yielding the texts were either deserted or destroyed at that time, resulting in the burial of \"librarie\" and archives intact. Evidence does exist of not inconsiderable Babylonian scribal influence earlier (e.g., at Alakah and Byblos).\nHowever, it has yet to be shown that there was borrowing, even indirectly. Differences between the Babylonian and Hebrew traditions can be found in factual details of the Flood narrative...and are most obvious in the ethical and religious concepts of each composition. All who suspect or suggest borrowing by the Hebrews are compelled to admit large-scale revisionism, alteration, and re-interpretaion in a fashion which cannot be substaniated for any other composition from the Ancient Near East...If there was borrowing then it can have extended only so far as the \"historical\" framework, and not included intention or interpretation...The two accounts [Hebrew and Mesopotamian] undoubtedly describe the same Flood, the two schemes relate the same sequence of events. If judgement is to be passed as to the priority of one tradition over the other, Genesis inevitably wins for its probability in terms of meterology, geophysics and timing alone...In that the patriarch Abraham lived in Babylonia, it could be said that the stories were borrowed from there, but not that they were borrowed from any text now known to us.\" (pp.127-128. Millard)\n\"...I reject the idea that the biblical account gradually evolved out of the Babylonian; for the differences are far too great and similarities far too insignificant.\"\n(p.138. Alexander Heidel. The Babylonian Genesis, the Story of Creation. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press. 1947, 1951. Second edition. Reprint 1993)\n\"The Gilgamesh Epic drew heavily upon Mesopotamian literary tradition. Not only did the author of the Old Babylonian version base his epic on older Sumerian tales about Gilgamesh, but he and the editors who succeeded him made extensive use of materials and literary forms originally unrelated to Gilgamesh.\"\n(p. 247. Jeffrey . Tigay. The Evolution of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania. 1982)\n\"It has been long recognized that the Gilgamesh Epic constitutes a literary compilation of material from various originally unrelated sources, put together to form one grand, more or less harmonious whole...The composite character of our epic is thus established beyond any doubt.\"\n(p. 13. Alexander Heidel. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1946, 1949. paperback. reprinted 1963, 1995)\n\"The work of the Semites, however, did not consist simply in translating the Sumerian texts and combining them into one continuous story; rather, it constituted a new creation, which in the course of time, as indicated by the different versions at our disposal, was continually modified and elaborated at the hands of the various compilers and redactors, with the result that the Semitic versions which have survived to our day in most cases differ widely from the available Sumerian material.\"\n(p. 14. Alexander Heidel. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1946, 1949. paperback. reprinted 1963, 1995)\nLambert and Millard note that the various \"recensions\" of the Flood Epic differ widely from each other and offer the follwoing observations, which, for me, explain why the Hebrew version found in Genesis differs from the Sumerian and Babylonian accounts:\n\"...The ancient world has no proper titles, no sense of literary rights, and no aversion to what we call plagiarism. Succeeding ages often rewrote old texts to suit new language forms and tastes.\"\n(p. 5. \"Introduction.\" W. G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Hasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Oxford University Press. 1969. Reprint, 1999 by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake. Indiana)\n\"The wide divergencies between the Old Babylonian copies illustrate how the scribes and editors could take a free hand in rewriting the text.\"\n(p. 14. \"Introduction.\" W. G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Hasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Oxford University Press. 1969. Reprint, 1999 by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake. Indiana)\n\"The Sumerian epic...comes closest to Atra-Hasis...Despite the similarity in content, the size is quite different (some 300 Sumerian as opposed to 1,245 Akkadian lines), and THE WORDING NOWHERE AGREES.\"\n(p. 14. \"Introduction.\" W. G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Hasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Oxford University Press. 1969. Reprint, 1999 by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake. Indiana)\nKramer's observation on the Babylonian remolding of the Sumerian motifs _for me_ applies just as well to the later Hebrew \"remolding\" of the earlier Mesopotamian creation myths regarding man:\n\"To sum up: Of the various episodes comprising the \"Epic of Gilgamesh,\" several go back to Sumerian prototypes actually involving the hero Gilgamesh. Even in those episodes which lack Sumerian counterparts, most of the individual motifs reflect Sumerian mythic and epic sources. In no case, however, did the Babylonian poets slavishly copy the Sumerian material. They so modified its content and molded its form, in accordance with their own temper and heritage, that only the bare nucleus of the Sumerian original remains recognizable. As for the plot structure of the epic as a whole -the forceful and fateful episodic drama of the restless, adventurous hero and his inevitable disillusionment- it is definitely a Babylonian, rather than Sumerian, development and achievement. In a very deep sense, therefore, the \"\"Epic of Gilgamesh\" may be truly described as a Semitic creation.\"\n(pp. 194-195. \"The First Case of Literary Borrowing.\" Samuel Noah Kramer. History Begins At Sumer, Twenty-seven Firsts in Man's Recorded History. Garden City, New York. Doubleday Anchor.  reprint 1959)\nI agree with Tigay and Heidel's assessment that the Epic of Gilgamesh employs several originally unrelated strands from different compositions. Lambert noted that the Mesopotamian cosmographers forte was not the creation of new concepts from whole cloth but the combining and reinterpreting of various motifs and concepts from originally unrelated compositions. It is my understanding that Genesis 1-9 (The Creation to Flood account), follows along in the traditions of the Hebrew's Mesoptamian predecessors (Abraham being originally of Ur of the Chaldees in Lower Mesopotamia). Millard noted that for those arguing that Genesis is a borrowing and reformatting of many different myths must admit a major transformation exists \"unheard of\" in earlier ANE history. The observations by Tigay and Heidel which note the bringing together of motifs from different unrelated compositions and harmonizing them into one grand epic, would seem _to belie_ the notion that the Hebrews were doing anything \"new and unheard of\" in recasting and bringing together several previously unrelated motifs from a variety different compositions (said compositions having been identified by myself as Adapa and the South Wind; the Epic of Gilgamesh; Atar-hasis; Inanna and Utu; Enki and Ninhursag in Dilmun; the Enuma Elish; etc.). In other words, I understand the Epic of Gilgamesh, long regarded one of the earliest, longest and \"most polished\"compositions of the Ancient Near East, embodies the very same methodologies -the harmonizing of disparate motifs from unrelated works- as appear in Genesis 1-9. I find myself in full agreement with the insights of Professor Lambert:\n\"The authors of ancient cosmologies were essentially compilers. Their originality was expressed in new combinations of old themes, and in new twists to old ideas. Sheer invention was not part of their craft.\"\n(p. 107, Wilfred G. Lambert, \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis,: , in Richard S. Hess and David T. Tsumura, Eds., I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood, Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns, 1994)\nThe Sumerian Flood account has the rain-storm lasting 7 days and nights, the later Babylonian account has the rains ending on the 7th day as well. I wonder if perhaps these \"motifs\" have been preserved in the Genesis account as an \"INVERSION\" ? God is portrayed as announcing that in 7 days time the rains will begin and continue for 40 days. In other words, following a period of 7 days of NO RAIN, the Flood will begin. I would argue, then, that the 7 days of rain in the Sumerian and Babylonian accounts were INVERTED into 7 days of NO rain in the later Hebrew account; that is to say, the rains _ending_ on the 7th day have been transformed into rains _beginning_ on the 7th day.\nGenesis 7:4 RSV\n\"For in SEVEN DAYS I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights...\"\nMillard and Lambert noted that Atra-Hasis had 7 days notice for the Flood's commencement (emphasis mine, Update of 07 April 2005):\n\"...in Atra-hasis Enki gives the hero ONLY SEVEN DAYS in which to prepare for the onset of the flood...\"\n(p. 12. \"Introduction.\" W. G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Hasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Oxford University Press. 1969. Reprint, 1999 by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake. Indiana)\nOf interest here, is that in the Bible, we are told that the Flood commenced in the 600th year of Noah, I note that the Atrahasis myth suggests that the Flood occured at the end of a 600 year interval too. It appears _to me_ that the Hebrews have preserved Atrahasis' 600 year interval of time elapsing before a Flood commences and reformatted this motif as occurring in Noah's 600th year.\nI wonder if the Flood's commencement in the 600th year of Noah's life is a reformatiing of the \"catchline\" or \"repeating refrain\" of the Atrahasis Epic that implies for 600 years the gods have endured man's noise and now seek his demise ? In the epic, every 600 years (at last 3 or 4 times) Atrahasis receives advisement about the god's efforts to decimate mankind.\nGenesis 7:11-12 RSV\n\"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.\"\n\"600 years, less than 600, passed and the country became too wide, the people too numerous. The country was as noisy as a bellowing bull. The god grew restless at their clamor, Ellil had to listen to their noise. He addressed the great gods, \"The noise of mankind has become too much. I am losing sleep over their racket.\"\n(p. 18. \"Atrahasis.\" pp.1-38. Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh and Others. New York. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991)\nDisease decimates the populaton (p.18. Dalley)\n\"600 years, less 600 passed (p. 20. Dalley)\n\"Tablet II :\n600 years, less than 600, passed and the country became too wide, the people too numerous. The country was as noisy as a bellowing bull. The god grew restless at their clamor, Ellil had to listen to their noise. He addressed the great gods, \"The noise of mankind has become too much. I am losing sleep over their racket.\" (p.20. Dalley)\n3 year famine attempted (pp.20-22. Dalley)\n\"[600 years, less than 600, passed and the country became too wide, the people too numerous...He grew restless at their noise. Sleep could not overtake him because of their racket.\" (p.23. Dalley)\nDalley on Atrahasis and intervals of 600 years:\n\"Six hundred years is a round number in the sexagesimal system used by the ancient Mesopotamians. as a numerical unit, 600 was the simple noun neru in Akkadian. Repetition of a number seems to occur as a literary device..(Note 22. p. 37. \"Atrahasis Notes.\" Dalley)\n\"Note the literary strategem which defies literal chronology by featuring Atrahasis as the same mortal in recurrent crises 600 years apart.\"\n(note 32. p. 38. \"Atrahasis Notes.\" Stephanie Dalley. Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh and Others. New York. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991)\nBiography on Dalley :\n\"Stephanie Dalley has worked on various excavations in the Middle East and has published cuneiform tablets found there by the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq as well as a book for the general reader about those discoveries. Mari and Karan (1984). She taught Akkadian at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford and is now Shillito Fellow in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute, Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College. She is editor and main author of The Legacy of Mesopotamia (Oxford University Press). (cf. inner flyleaf of Myths from Mesopotamia)\nI must acknowledge here the insights of several scholars whose acute and penetrating observations underlie much of this work. The first is Wilfred G. Lambert (Emeritus Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, England). Lambert made a very important observation regarding the manner in which Mesopotamian cosmographers worked:\n“The authors of ancient cosmologies were essentially compilers. Their originality was expressed in new combinations of old themes, and in new twists to old ideas.”\n(W. G. Lambert. “A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis.” Journal of Theological Studies. Vol. 16 (1965). pp. 287-300, reproduced in Richard S. Hess & David T. Tsumra. Editors. I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994. pp. 106-107)\nA cosmology is, in part, an attempt to explain \"the origins of the world.\" I believe Lambert’s observation can be applied to the Hebrews who were combining \"old themes\" and putting “new twists” to \"old ideas.\" My research indicates that, at times, \"reversals\" or “inversions” are occurring in the Hebrew transformation and reinterpretation of concepts and motifs appearing in Mesopotamian myths. These “inversion/reversals” can take the form of different characters, different locations for the settings of the stories and different morals being drawn about the nature of God and Man’s relationship.\nAnother scholar, Gordon J. Wenham (Senior Professor of the Old Testament at Cheltenham & Glouster College of Higher Education, in Cheltenham, England in 1987), made another important observation about Genesis, it is apparently a polemic, challenging the Mesopotamian view of the relationship between God and Man:\n“Viewed with respect to its negatives, Gen 1:1-2:3 is a polemic against the mythico-religious concepts of the ancient Orient...The concept of man here is markedly different from standard Near Eastern mythology: man was not created as the lackey of the gods to keep them supplied with food; he was God’s representative and ruler on earth, endowed by his creator with an abundant supply of food and expected to rest every seventh day from his labors. Finally, the seventh day is not a day of ill omen as in Mesopotamia, but a day of blessing and sanctity on which normal work is laid aside. In contradicting the usual ideas of its time, Genesis 1 is also setting out a positive alternative. It offers a picture of God, the world, and man...man’s true nature. He is the apex of the created order: the whole narrative moves toward the creation of man. Everything is made for man’s benefit...”\n(p. 37. Vol. 1. “Explanation.” Gordon J. Wenham. Genesis 1-15. [Word Biblical Commentary, 2 vols.]. Word Books. Waco, Texas. 1987)\nProfessor Bruggemann appears to be in agreement somewhat with Wenham regarding Genesis being a refutation (emphasis mine in italics):\n\"The text is likely dated to the sixth century BC and addressed to exiles. It served as a refutation of Babylonian theological claims.\"\n(p. 24. Walter Brueggemann. Genesis. Atlanta, Georgia. John Knox Press. 1982)\nLambert, Wenham, and Brueggemann's observations are, for me, “keys” to understanding how and why Genesis was formatted in the manner it now appears. I understand, in agreement with Wenham and Brueggemann, that Genesis _is denying, challenging and refuting_ the Mesopotamian beliefs regarding how and why man came to made, what his purpose on earth is, and why he was denied immortality. For me, this was accomplished by the Hebrews having taken motifs from a variety of contradicting myths and giving them “new twists” (to use Lambert’s phraseology), changed the names of the characters, the locations, and sequences of events. It is my understanding that the Hebrews are deliberately recasting the earlier myths and their motifs in order to refute and deny them, hence the “reason why” there are no individuals called Adam, Eve, the Serpent, and a God called Yahweh-Elohim appearing in any of these pre-biblical compositions. It is my understanding that the Primary History (Genesis-2 Kings) in its present format was created by one author in the Exile circa 560 BC. This “late” composition however possesses motifs and concepts -especially in Genesis- that can be traced to the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC and Lower Mesopotamia and a city there called Ur of the Chaldees where dwelt a man called Abraham.\nProfessor Rogerson, who seems to share \"somewhat\" Brueggemann's view on the final \"dating of Genesis,\" understands it last form or redaction/editing was in the Exile or shortly thereafter:\n“The simple answer to the question of date is that Genesis 1-11 is part of the larger work containing Genesis to 2 Kings...This complete work did not reach its final form until during or after the Babylonian Exile in the sixth century BCE. However, the date of the final editing does not determine the date of the individual items to be found in Genesis 1-11.”\n(p. 76. “The Date of Genesis 1-11.” John William Rogerson. Genesis 1-11. Sheffield, England. JSOT Press [Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. University of Sheffield]. 1991)\nThe fourth scholar I am heavily indebted to is the late Samuel Noah Kramer (Curator Emeritus of the Tablet Collection at the University of Pennsylvania and Clark Research Professor Emeritus). His several books on the subject of the Sumerians and their religious beliefs have helped my research immensely. I am in agreement with him that many concepts appearing in the Book of Genesis echo motifs and concepts appearing in much earlier Mesopotamian literary works.\nA fifth scholar whose insights have been very helpful is the late Joseph Campbell, famed for his volumes on the Mythologies of the Occident (the West) and Orient (the East). He very astutely and penetratingly noted that the Hebrews in the book of Genesis appear to have employed at times \"inversions\" or \"reversals\" which \"turn about\" Mesopotamian beliefs by 180 degrees (emphasis mine):\n\"No one familiar with the mythologies of the primitive, ancient, and Oriental worlds can turn to the Bible without recognizing COUNTERPARTS on every page, TRANSFORMED, however, TO RENDER AN ARGUMENT CONTRARY TO THE OLDER FAITHS.\n(p. 9. \"The Serpent's Bride.\" Joseph Campbell. The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. Arkana. New York. Viking Penguin Books. 1964, 1991 reprint)\n\"The ultimate source of the biblical Eden, therefore, CANNOT have been A MYTHOLOGY OF THE DESERT -that is to say, a primitive Hebrew myth- but was the old PLANTING MYTHOLOGY of the peoples of the soil. HOWEVER, IN THE BIBLICAL RETELLING, ITS WHOLE ARGUMENT HAS BEEN TURNED, SO TO SAY, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREES...One milllennium later, the patriarchal DESERT NOMADS arrived, and all judgements WERE REVERSED in heaven, as on earth.\"\n(pp.103, 105-106. \"Gods and Heroes of the Levant.\" Joseph Campbell. The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. Arkana. A Division of Penguin Books. 1964. 1991 reprint)\nCampbell on the Hebrews \"inverting\" of earlier myths (Emphasis mine):\n\"The first point that emerges from this contrast, and will be demonstrated further in numerous mythic scenes to come, is that in the context of the patriarchy of the Iron Age Hebrews of the first millennium B.C., THE MYTHOLOGY ADOPTED FROM THE EARLIER NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATIONS of the lands they occupied and for a time ruled BECAME INVERTED, TO RENDER AN ARGUMENT JUST THE OPPOSITE TO THAT OF ITS ORIGIN.\"\n(p. 17. \"The Serpent's Bride.\" Joseph Campbell. The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. New York. Arkana & Viking Penguin. 1964. Reprinted 1991)\nI am in _full agreement_ with Professor Campbell's above observations, the Hebrews have taken earlier Mesopotamian themes, concepts and motifs and recast them to offer a 180 degree counterargument via inversions and reversals.\nAll the gods rested on the seventh day after destroying a world and mankind, this destruction having ended man's clamor or noise, the \"silence\" now reigning on the earth allowed the gods to rest. Objecting to this notion of many gods resting on a seventh day after _destroying a world and man_, the Hebrews had only one God resting on the seventh day after _creating a world and man_.\nNiels-Erik A. Andreasen. The Old Testament Sabbath: A Tradition-Historical Investigation. Missoula, Montana. University of Montana. Society of Biblical Literature. 1972.\nJeremy Black & Anthony Green. Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, An Illustrated Dictionary. Austin. University of Texas Press. 1992.\nJoseph Blenkinsopp. The Pentateuch, An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible. New York. Doubleday. 1992.\nFred Gladstone Bratton. Myths and Legends of the Ancient Near East. New York, Barnes & Noble. 1970, 1993.\nWalter Brueggemann. Genesis. Atlanta, Georgia. John Knox Press. 1982.\nJoseph Campbell. The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. New York. Arkana & Viking Penguin Books. 1964. Reprinted 1991.\nEdward Carpenter. The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs [first published as Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, 1920, London, Senate [an imprint of Random House UK], Reprint of 1996.\nUmberto Cassuto. A Commentary on the Book of Genesis. [2 Vols.]. Jerusalem. The Hebrew University. The Magnes Press. 1944, 1986.\nRichard J. Clifford. Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible. Washington D.C. Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series #26. 1994.\nStephanie Dalley. Myths from Mesopotamia, Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1989, 1991.\nPaul E. Dion. \"Aramaean Tribes and Nations of First-Millennium Western Asia.\" Vol. 2.\np.1282. Jack M. Sasson. Editor. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Peabody, Mass. Hendrickson. 1995.\nBenjamin R. Foster. The Epic of Gilgamesh. [A Norton Critical Edition]. New York & London. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001.\nBenjamin R. Foster. From Distant Days, Myths, Tales and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Maryland. CDL Press. 1995.\nTikva Frymer-Kensky.\"The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1-9.\" The Biblical Archeologist. December 1977. pp. 147-55.\nRobert Graves & Raphael Patai. Hebrew Myths, The Book of Genesis. New York. Greenwich House. 1963, 1983.\nWilliam W. Hallo. \"New Moons and Sabbaths.\" pp. 313-332. Frederick E. Greenspahn. Editor. Essential Papers on Israel and the Ancient Near East. New York. New York University Press.1991.\nGerhard F. Hasel. p. 849. Vol 5. \"Sabbath.\" David Noel Freedman. Editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York. Doubleday.1992.\nAlexander Heidel. The Babylonian Genesis. Chicago. Univ. of Chicago Press. 1942, 1994.\nAlexander Heidel. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels. Chicago. Univ. of Chicago Press. 1946, 1993.\nRichard S. Hess and David T. Tsumura, Eds., I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood, Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns. 1994. (An anthology of collected scholarly articles from scattered journals bearing on Genesis' backgrounds)\nThorkild Jacobsen. The Treasures of Darkness, A History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven. Yale University Press. 1976.\nE.O. James. The Cult of the Mother Goddess. New York. Barnes & Noble. 1959, 1994.\nW. G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Hasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Oxford University. 1969. Reprint 1999 by Eisenbrauns. Winona Lake, Indiana)\nStephen H. Langdon. The Mythology of All Races, Semitic. Vol.5. Boston. Marshall Jones Company. 1931.\nWilfred G. Lambert. \"A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis.\" 1965. pp. 96-113, in Richard S. Hess and David T. Tsumura, Editors, I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood, Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns.1994.\nWilfred G. Lambert & A. R. Millard. Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1969, 1999.\nGwendolyn Leick. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. London. Routledge Ltd. 1991, 1998.\nA. R. Millard. \"Observations on the Babylonian and Hebrew Accounts Compared.\" in his article \"A New Babylonian \"Genesis\" Story.\"pp. 114-128. Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumra. Editors. \"I Studied Inscriptions from before the Flood,\" Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994.\nTheophilus G. Pinches. The Old Testament In the Light of the Historical Records and Legend of Assyria and Babylonia. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1908.\nJohn William Rogerson. Genesis 1-11. Sheffield, England. JSOT Press [Journal for the Study of the Old TestamentUniversity of Sheffield]. 1991.\nJohn Skinner. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis. Edinburgh, Scotland. T & T Clark. 1910, 1930 revised edition, reprinted 1994.\nJeffrey Tigay. The Evolution of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania. 1982.\nDavid Toshio Tsumura. \"Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction.\" pp. 27-57. Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumura. Editors. \"I Studied Inscriptions from before the Flood\", Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Winona Lake, Indiana. Eisenbrauns. 1994.\nGordon J. Wenham. Genesis 1-15 [Word Biblical Commentary, 2 vols.], Word Books. Waco, Texas. 1987.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Our work\nConservation International (CI) is a US-based international conservation organisation that applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth?s richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas as well as important marine regions around the globe. CI?s vision is that we imagine a healthy prosperous world in which societies are forever committed to caring for and valuing nature for the long-term benefit of people and all life on Earth. Building upon a strong foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, CI empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature for the well-being of humanity.\nCI is committed to helping societies adopt a more sustainable approach to development ? one that considers and values nature at every turn. Some of the lead programmes with activities underway supporting human well-being and poverty reduction research, implementation, and policy analysis include:\n- The Science and Knowledge Division (formerly the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science) brings together leading experts in science and technology to collect and interpret data about biodiversity, develop strategic plans for conservation, and forge partnerships in all sectors that promote conservation goals.\n- The Center for Conservation and Government (CCG) assists CI?s government partners in overcoming challenges in balancing conservation with their respective development goals, economic interests, and political realities, helping leaders understand and act on the important issues facing our planet?s ecological health. (www.conservation.org/discover/centers_programs/policy/Pages/default.aspx)\n- The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB) engages the private sector worldwide in creating solutions to critical global environmental problems in which industry plays a defining role (www.celb.org).\n- The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint programme of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank. The fund is a global leader in enabling civil society to participate in and benefit from conserving some of the world's most critical ecosystems. A significant number of CEPF grants have provided the basis for improving incomes and economic well-being of poor communities (www.cepf.net).\n- The Conservation Stewards Program (CSP) uses Conservation Agreements to achieve poverty reduction and improve human wellbeing while pursuing measurable conservation outcomes. Conservation Agreements are negotiated arrangements with communities in which development support is provided in exchange for contributions to conservation actions, thus reflecting a direct-incentive approach (www.conservation.org/csp).\n- The Food Security Initiative is built upon the organisation?s extensive experience in promoting sustainable rural livelihoods all over the world and leading cutting edge applied research in the field. CI seeks to understand, demonstrate, enhance and leverage the role of nature in helping ensure that people have access to adequate food for a nutritious diet at all times.\n- The Indigenous & Traditional Peoples Program is a key component of CI?s new strategy, well-positioned to help achieve CI?s vision for a healthy world and societies committed to caring for nature.\n- Verde Ventures provides debt and equity financing to businesses that benefit healthy ecosystems and human well-being, such as agroforestry, ecotourism, sustainable harvest of wild products and marine initiatives. (www.conservation.org/sites/verdeventures/Pages/partnerlanding).\n- The Population, Health and Environment programme seeks to reduce human impact and pressure on the limited natural resources in rural, biologically rich important areas and improve local conservation activities. As part of CI?s emerging institutional health security initiative, CI partners with the University of Rhode Island?s Coastal Resources Center and PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc. on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-supported BALANCED Project (http://Balanced.crc.uri.edu). The Project seeks to improve the well-being of people living in critical watershed and coastal areas who depend on the ecosystem for food, income, livelihoods, and other goods and services.\nCI?s scientists, field staff and policy experts are: measuring the contribution of healthy ecosystems to human well-being; assessing the implications of development decisions; putting cutting-edge, rigorously tested information in the hands of decision-makers and the public; and demonstrating through field models how economic opportunity and the stewardship of natural resources can leverage change at an international scale.\nCI carries out projects aimed at linking poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation in each of the geographic areas listed below (www.conservation.org/explore/Pages/in_the_field.aspx).\nCI has had a long running involvement in great ape conservation and poverty reduction projects in Africa:\n? in Liberia, a western chimpanzee range state, they run the ?Green Economy? project to promote low-carbon development. This includes a field project at East Nimba Nature Reserve to demonstrate the value of ecosystem services for local people;\n? in DRC CI works on training in conservation biology and supporting the Tayna Gorilla Reserve, a community-run conservation area for eastern lowland gorillas that benefits locals through ?healthcare, education and economic development programmes.? Tayna has been successful, with a radical decline in hunting and mining, and there is now a network of seven new community reserves in the area (UGADEC).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In January 2013 local, state and federal officials announced an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to consumption of ground beef produced by Jouni Meats, Inc. and Gab Halal Foods. Public health investigators used DNA “fingerprints” of Salmonella bacteria obtained through diagnostic testing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) to identify patients considered to be part of the outbreak. Collaborative investigative efforts indicated that ground beef produced by Jouni Meats, Inc. and Gab Halal Foods were the likely source of the outbreak.\nA total of 22 persons infected with the outbreak strain were reported from six states: Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Among persons for whom information was available, illness onset dates ranged from December 9, 2012 to February 20, 2013. Ill persons ranged in age from 2 years to 87 years. Among 14 persons with available information, 7 ill persons were hospitalized. No deaths were reported.\nInitial investigations focused on 7 ill persons in Michigan (6) and Arizona (1) who reported eating at the same restaurant before their illness began. All seven of these ill persons reported eating raw ground beef kibbeh (a dish typically made of finely ground red meat, usually beef, minced onions, and bulghur wheat) at this restaurant before becoming ill. An additional 9 ill persons were interviewed and answered questions about foods consumed and other exposures during the week before becoming ill. Although several of these ill persons reported eating beef prior to becoming ill, a likely source was not identified that linked these illnesses with the illnesses at the restaurant.\nOn January 24, 2013 Jouni Meats, Inc. recalled approximately 500 pounds of ground beef products. In the FSIS recall news release announcing this recall, FSIS stated that the investigation identified that raw ground beef was consumed at a restaurant. The products subject to recall are various size packages of ground beef. These products were produced between December 4, 2012 and December 9, 2012, and distributed to a restaurant in Macomb County, Michigan, and sold directly to consumers at Jouni Meats, Inc. On January 25, 2013 Gab Halal Foods recalled approximately 550 pounds of ground beef products. The products subject to recall are various size packages of ground beef wrapped in clear plastic. These products were produced between Dec. 4, 2012, and Dec. 10, 2012, and distributed to a restaurant in Macomb County, Michigan, and sold directly to consumers at Gab Halal Foods.\nThe causal link between our clients’ Salmonella Typhimurium infection and ground beef produced by Jouni Meats, Inc. is clear. On December 8, 2012 they ate kibbeh prepared at Ikes Restaurant in Sterling Heights, Michigan. They shared this meal with other family members, who were also diagnosed with Salmonella Typhimurium.\nOn March 15, 2013 the CDC issued a final notice declaring the outbreak to be over. Yet, no one has yet to trace the Salmonella Typhimurium to its source.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Technological innovations are evolving; however, fraudulent activities are equally coping with them. With fraudsters on the rise, ‘Phishing’ is the most common type of scam people have recently faced.\nWhat is ‘Phishing’?\n‘Phishing’ is a scam where an attacker impersonates to be from a reputable identity or source through emails, phone calls, texts, or other communication modes.\nThrough phishing, the ‘phishermen’ used to exploit personal information by creating a robust human interaction, fooling people with a web of tricks and making them fall prey to fraudulent activities.\nHow do phishermen act?\nThe person performing fraudulent activities uses people’s sympathies or convincing tricks and gets the required information. To connect with people, scammers mostly opt for malicious websites or emails as baits to deceive people into extracting their information or use malicious software to capture sensitive data from the person or an organization. Here are some of the most prominent information caught from people:\nPersonal questions and answers\nSocial Security Numbers (SSNs)\nBank or credit card details\nCustomer names, emails, passwords, addresses, phone numbers, etc.\nWhy do companies need to evade phishing?\nFinancial loss: The fraudsters usually target the financial accounts using ransomware attacks leading to money plundering from businesses.\nData leaks/breaches: Data breaches cost heavily on a business, as they lose important data, leading to regulatory fines, damaged equipment, etc.\nSpoiling brand reputation: When a company has been exposed to cyber attacks, it will lose its brand identity with the incapability of maintaining a loyal customer base and garner a negative impact on attracting new customers.\nHow to safeguard your business against phishing?\nProtecting your businesses against cyber criminal attacks is the need of the hour. Ensuring proper software authentications and educating workers about security threats could positively impact your business. In addition, look at some of the best practices that do not allow you to be victimized.\nBeware of unwanted links: One of the crucial factors is to start teaching employees about recognizing scams through form fill-up through phones, fake websites and emails. Also, check on links or URLs before clicking on them, as they may be fraudulent even if they look authentic.\nCautious of direct contact: Scammers use direct social interactions as one of their weapons for phishing. They contact the people directly and ask for some information or OTPs by provoking the person’s desires, getting the credentials/bank statements, and exploiting them efficiently. So, it’s essential to be aware of the interactions and not share sensitive information.\nMaintain good password practices: Follow specific regulations in changing passwords. For example, never use more accessible passwords, i.e., ABCD123, names, date of birth, etc. Also, should avoid replication of passwords for multiple accounts and follow the procedure of changing the passwords frequently.\nEntertain secondary authentication: Second-step verification/authentication through SMS, emails, authentication apps, or hardware tokens will help prevent scams.\nWith dedicated managed services in play, you can easily avoid phishing threats inside your business. Also, you can rely on third-party vendors to protect your digital resources as they can provide a higher up-time and 24/7 support, reducing your workload considerably.\nFor more details about managed services or vendor partnering, please visit", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The presence of just a few autonomous vehicles can eliminate the stop-and-go driving of the human drivers in traffic, along with the accident risk and fuel inefficiency it causes, according to new research. The finding indicates that self-driving cars and related technology may be even closer to revolutionizing traffic control than previously thought. “Our experiments show that with as few as 5 percent of vehicles being automated and carefully controlled, we can eliminate stop-and-go waves caused by human driving behavior,” said Daniel B. Work, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead researcher in the study. The use of autonomous vehicles to regulate traffic flow is the next innovation in the rapidly evolving science of traffic monitoring and control, Work said. Just as fixed traffic sensors have been replaced by crowd-sourced GPS data in many navigation systems, the use of self-driving cars is poised to replace classical freeway traffic control concepts like variable speed limits.\nFrom University of Illinois, Chicago Photo Credit John Vlahakis", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A fusible link is a mechanical or electrical safety device. They are used in fire sprinkler heads to activate the sprinkler in the presence of heat. They are used in automobile electrical systems as a fuse.\nA mechanical fusible link is a device consisting of two strips of metal soldered together with a fusible alloy that is designed to melt at a specific temperature, thus allowing the two pieces to separate. Mechanical fusible links are utilized as the triggering device in fire sprinkler systems and mechanical automatic door release mechanisms that close fire doors in warehouses, etc. Fire dampers in ventilation systems have fusible links so that the dampers close automatically in case of fire,limiting the spread of flame or hot gases through a building.  Some high-security safes also utilize fusible link-based relockers as a defense against torches and heat-producing tools. Mechanical fusible links come in a variety of designs and different temperature ratings.\nAn electrical fusible link is a type of electrical fuse that is constructed simply with a short piece of wire typically four American wire gauge (AWG) sizes smaller than the wire that is being protected. For example, an AWG 16 fusible link might be used to protect AWG 12 wiring. Electrical fusible links are common in high-current automotive applications. The wire in an electrical fusible link is encased in high-temperature fire-resistant insulation to reduce hazards when the wire melts.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sure you heard those acronyms very often… but do you know what they really mean?\nEvery DBMS (Database Management System), such as Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and of course SQL Server, have their own command language. This language is the interface that allows you to take actions over a database.\nThese languages are command based. These commands are divided into the following groups and their syntax and functionality may vary from DBMS to DBMS. These acronyms refer to command groups or category.\nSQL (Structure Query Language)\nThis is the globally accepted name when you refer to a language used as an interface for a DBMS. All commands groups are categorized under SQL. Each command is also known as a “SQL statement”.\nDDL (Data Definition Language)\nUsed to create or remove objects and modify their structure in a database.\nCommands: CREATE, DROP, ALTER\nDML (Data Manipulation Language)\nUsed to manipulate data in a database. With them, you can retrieve, insert, update and delete records in a specific table.\nCommands: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE\nDCL (Data Control Language)\nUsed to administer security permissions on database objects.\nCommands: GRANT, REVOKE\nTCL (Transactional Control Language)\nUsed to manage transactions in a database.\nCommands: TRANSACTION, COMMIT, ROLLBACK", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about how we can learn about software architecture by studying and comparing it to the sport of Baseball. This series was inspired by the book Management by Baseball.\nCoaches in baseball are unique in a couple of ways compared to the coaches in other sports. One of the most obvious differences is that in baseball, the coaches actually wear the team uniform. I personally cannot think of another sport where this is the case. In some other sports the coaches actually have to comply with a dress code that is vastly different than the players (I think it is the NBA that requires the coaches to wear coat and tie when they are at court side). Not only do the coaches in baseball wear the team uniform, but they are assigned a number just like the players on the field. The coach is really a part of the team.\nAnother key difference between coaches in baseball and coaches in other sports is that two of the coaches in baseball are actually allowed on the field of play during the game. On the first base and third base lines there are two coach’s boxes where the team can choose to have a coach positioned during the game.\nThere is a distinction between this and other sports that allow coaches on the sidelines (such as soccer, football and basketball). When a coach is on the sidelines in those sports, they are totally out of the field of play. A ball that leaves the field of play is dead. In baseball the foul territory where the coaches stand is still in play, so a player can catch a foul ball in the coaches box and the batter will be out. A ball can be overthrown during a play and hit a coach, interfering with the play; there are even special rules that govern when this happens – which is not very often, because the coaches are usually pretty good about getting out of the way.\nThe coaches in baseball are literally feet away from the action and are able to interact with the players in a deep and meaningful way. When a player reaches first base or third base safely the coach can give him encouragement and intelligence about how the pitcher is delivering the ball to the plate. This can help the player decide if this is a good time to attempt to steal a base or take only a short lead off of the bag (to avoid a pickoff move).\nThe third base coach is an integral part of the action when there is a man on base and there is a ball hit deep into the gap or down the lines in the outfield. As the runner on the base is rounding third a split second decision has to be made to send the runner to home or to have him hold up on third base. The player is in the worst position to make this decision, as his back is to the outfield. The third base coach is the one who makes the decision to send the runner or not. If you have ever been to a game in person, nothing is more dramatic that seeing the third base coach swing his arm wildly, followed by a close play at the plate.\nSo what can we as software architects learn from the coaches in baseball?\nWear the Uniform – Often times I see people make too much of a distinction between the architect and the developers who are working on a software development project. This can manifest itself in a lot of ways, and many of them are bad. The role of the architect is different than the role of the developer, but they should be seen as one cohesive team. This statement applies equally well to the designers, testers, DBAs, server tech and project managers on the team as well.\nBe a part of the action – Architects are sometimes referred to as Ivory Tower dwellers. Sometimes this is meant as a joke, sometimes is a half-joke and other times it is just downright true. As an architect we should strive to be as close to the field of play as possible. The perception when you are away from the field of play is very skewed. Get out of the Ivory Tower (maybe press box is a better analogy) and get into the coach’s box.\nBe a coach – One of the things that I did not note in particular when talking about the coaches is that most of them are former professional ball players themselves (I don’t think that is unique to baseball coaches). They bring with them years of experience that they can impart to the players them are coaching. Most of us who carry architect in our title were at one time developers ourselves and as a result, we carry with us many years of experience. In addition to architecting the application, we can make the team more successful by sharing our knowledge with the team.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tag Archive: collections\nComments Off on Harnessing the Power of Natural Science Collections\nThe UK’s museums and botanical gardens hold exceptional and diverse natural science collections ranging from insects to dinosaurs. The estimated size of this national collection is over 150 million objects.\nThese collections can be used to study millions of years of change to the earth and centuries of biodiversity, supporting research across a broad range of topics from human health and food security to ecology and conservation. Currently, most of this work is undertaken in person, requiring researchers to travel or for specimens to be shipped all over the world.\nDigitisation is the process of converting physical information into a digital form. It has the potential to open up collections data to unlimited numbers of scientists, researchers and artists across the world, creating a sustainable, freely accessible resource. The digitisation process can be complex and will differ depending on the type of collections and the level of information that is available. Some UK organisations have already started to digitise collections, however the total scope of the task is enormous and requires significant investment.\nA new programme, Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo UK), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will begin to address the challenges of digitising UK collections. The first step is to understand the scale and nature of the collections of the UK digitisation community. The programme is already reaching out to collection holders to assess the type of collections, as specific methods are required to digitise different specimens.\nGallery Oldham’s natural history curator, Patricia, along with other natural history curators from Orkney in the north of the UK to Portsmouth in the south have taken part in the survey and recently have been submitting photographs for an on-line event next month. The event is for all UK natural history collection holders to be present to hear the outcomes of the scoping surveys completed last winter and discuss the next steps in the plans for a national digitisation programme. The images will be used in a short promotional film for the DiSSCo UK initiative, to promote this national digitisation programme.\nHere are the images submitted by Gallery Oldham showing the diverse range of our collections:\nClick here (opens in new tab) to take a look at natural science collection images submitted by other museums around the UK.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "CreativInn aims at promoting artists from around the world as well as creative projects that could make the world better. Today, I want to talk about Boyan Slat, who, since he was a teen, has wanted to make the planet blue again.\nHOW OCEAN CLEANUP IS BORN\nWe often associate teens with getting out of bed at 11 am, hanging out late at night and pure laziness. However, in 2011, 16-year-old Boyan Slat proved that even teens can change the world, as he devoted his life to saving the sea. In summer 2011 while diving in Greece, Boyan Slat was dismayed when he found more plastic bags than fish.\nTwo years later, he created The Ocean Cleanup as a tool to clean up the ocean. Although this project may seem incredibly daunting, Boyan Slat is confident that in 2018, with the help of the revolutionary technology he designed, we may have finally made a dent in getting rid of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling vortex of primarily plastic waste in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.\nIndeed, some of the improvements from the 2015 model include but are not limited to: a floating net to gradually push the plastic material to the seashore and use of sea-currents to improve its efficiency and limit the pressure endured by the machine. Once ashore, the plastic waste will be reprocessed into sellable items to finance the project. According to Boyan Slat, the aim of this new micro-circular economy is to make the enterprise more cost-effective.\nUsing these creative innovations, the depth and seabed may be relatively ignored, allowing for a better set of targetable fields. Moreover, the firmness of the net – or its lack thereof – drastically improves the adaptability of the project as the path of the net will change according to the sea currents. In fact, Boyan’s genius resides in transforming the adversity of the unpredictable currents of the sea into an asset of adaptability.\nPROBLEMS OF PLASTIC IN OUR WATER ENVIRONMENT\nHumans now are producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic materials annually, 50% from single consumption. Eight million of those 300 million are emptied into our ocean waters yearly. Plastic materials are affordable and extremely versatile, which has made it perfect for the new “disposable” way of life of the 20th and 21st centuries.\nUnfortunately, the consequences for this modern way of living are severe; around 50% of plastic materials are only used once before being discarded, likely into the sea.\nAs the plastic waste floats under the sun, it becomes brittle and breaks into tiny, dust-sized pieces. Once in the ocean, a fraction of this “dust” is deposited on the seashores, thus polluting them. The rest is carried off to one of five ocean gyres. A gyre is a rotational dead zone in the ocean. The trapped particles poison the water and destroy its fragile ecosystem. Furthermore, the chemical substances cause the ocean temperature to increase. It is estimated that these particles cover an area twice the size of Texas, weighing more than three million tons, mainly plastic material.\nIn this gargantuan area, all sea life is at risk. Choking on waste, mistaking plastic material for food and getting trapped in plastic bags are some of the problems dolphins, turtles, fishes, birds and many other sea animals must face. When they ingest vibrantly colored plastic waste, it either fills their stomachs or becomes entangled in their gills. When turtles and Cetacea inhale the dust-sized particles, they inevitably choke to death.\nCLEANING UP OUR OCEANS, BOYAN SLAT’S CREATIVE SOLUTION\nThe goal of The Ocean Cleanup project is to extract plastic pollution from the oceans while preventing more waste from getting into ocean waters.\nHe used a high-school biology essay to explore the plastic material pollution issue and to address the belief that “oceans can’t be cleaned up.” This ultimately guided him to the concept of using the natural ocean currents to allow the oceans to clear themselves.\nHe first introduced the idea in 2012 in a TEDx Talk, which quickly went viral, and was watched millions of times. An interested public funded him while researchers, experts, and engineers stepped up to assist him in his herculean quest. In 2013, The Ocean Cleanup project was ready to take on world pollution.\nAs of July 2017, it has received over $31.5 million from many different sponsors, including Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff, philanthropist Peter Thiel, Julius Baer Foundation and Royal DSM. The Ocean Cleanup also collected more than 2 million USD from a crowdfunding campaign in 2014. The foundation’s head office is located at Delft in the Netherlands.\nThe elimination of plastic material particles is still in its formative years. Some attempts, such as Project Kaisei, have used ships with nets to capture the plastic waste for testing. The Ocean Cleanup proposes a larger-scale procedure for removing debris in or close to the gyres. This will be accomplished by using 1–2 kilometers long (0 .62–1 .24 mi ) moving floating devices, secured by an anchor at an estimated depth of 600 meters (0 .37 mi ). A strong screen underneath the floating pipe will capture and concentrate the particles. These U-shaped devices are designed to easily navigate in the North Pacific waters and transport the plastic material in a central stocking position where it can be removed and transferred to the seashore by support vessels. The initial method is set to be implemented by mid-2018 and The Ocean Cleanup estimates to have the ability to clean up 50% of the particles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years’ time, as of full-scale deployment in 2020.\nSOME DIFFICULTIES BOYAN SLAT HAS TO SOLVE\nNonetheless, it seems that The Ocean Cleanup is facing numerous obstacles.\nRegardless of the massive public interest in the project, oceanographers and biologists are voicing less-publicized concerns. They doubt whether the design will work as intended and how the nets will withstand the amazing power of the open ocean. The impact of the nets on marine life is also a troubling issue. Is fighting nets with nets really the right approach? Shouldn’t we focus more on pollution avoidance or endangered species protection? Many experts remain skeptical.\nAdditionally, the giant sea anchor doesn’t seem to really fit the project. The Ocean Cleanup is passive. It utilizes the ocean currents to capture and concentrate the plastic material. By suspending a large sea anchor in an intense, gradually moving water layer, the process may slow down enough to ensure that the plastic material moves quicker than the cleanup process. This would surely prove to be catastrophic as the captured plastic material would build up against the cleanup process.\nThen remains the size problem. Even if Slat’s plan works and the plastic material is funneled into a center point, how will the waste be evacuated? Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using traditional techniques like vessels and nets would take ages and cost billions.\nTHE CREATIVE MIND OF BOYAN SLAT\nHowever, let’s not forget the creative mind of Boyan Slat, the mastermind behind this project. By developing incredible new designs and improving others, this innovative genius estimates that half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will be gone within 5 years, at minimal costs. This astounding efficiency can be attributed to these key technologies:\n- By using high-density polyethylene (HDPE), an extremely durable recyclable material, the floaters’ durability has been greatly improved.\n- Nets have also been replaced by a solid screen to capture the sub-surface particles while assuring the safe passing of sea life with the current. Fiber-reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), will make for a strong and long-lasting screen.\n- By attaching ballast to the anchor, The Ocean Cleanup team can counteract the difference in speed between the water at the bottom of the screen and the screen itself. They may change the depth of the anchor as they wish to better the cleanup rate.\n- The support vessels have also been equipped with state-of-the-art pumps and belts to guarantee the fastest possible cleaning of the Vortex.\n- Finally, research has shown that this plastic can (and will) be converted into high quality, sellable products. The Ocean Cleanup project will thus be self-sustainable.\nTHE FUTURE OF OCEAN CLEANUP\nIn 2018, after much-needed refinements of the screen design, supervised by executing a series of assessments in the North Pacific, The Ocean Cleanup project will finally start the cleanup of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.\nThe project will start with one system in mid-2018 and progressively make use of additional systems until it achieves full-scale deployment by 2020. Each system is projected to get rid of 3 tons of plastic material per week. The speed of roll-out depends on the investment capital and good results on risk tests, including the development of recycling capability on land. However, corporations have already accepted to exhibit their interest in becoming a part of the largest cleanup in history.\nIn 2020, after full-scale deployment in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and its predictable success, the Ocean Cleanup Foundation plans on progressively expanding this creative project to the four other gyres. This expansion will mostly be funded by the sale of the recycled plastic material and by sponsorships, from both corporations and individuals.\nAlthough cleaning up our planet’s seas and shores may seem both ridiculous and impossible, Boyan Slat and his creative team are showing the world that not only is it feasible, it is paramount to ensure our ocean’s and their sea life’s well-being, as well as our own. They have also proved that they can — and will — overcome the hardships that’ll accompany this seemingly gargantuan task. In the end, we will all have to thank one boy’s particular genius and courage for the salvation of our blue planet.\nImages by Erwin Zwart/ The Ocean Cleanup", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Welcome to The David Mulhall Centre, specialists in Retained Reflex Syndrome (RRS), which is the believed root of neuro-developmental delay and many childhood and adult disorders, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), dyspraxia, dyslexia, Asperger’s syndrome, panic attacks, even glue ear and bedwetting.\nBut those are just the labelled disorders. RRS affects many more of us in a low-level way that we learn to cope with, but which undermines our whole existence. If you find writing difficult, you are poor at sports, perhaps a fussy eater, a fidget and can’t bear labels in the back of your clothes, you can bet you have RRS. Similarly, if you feel that life is a constant struggle, that you never complete tasks and are easily distracted and overwhelmed, then RRS may well be the culprit.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In 1890, Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath, was invited by a clergyman acquaintance to address the young men of his congregation. The boys had been lured by the promise of “a half-crown spread for a penny” and the vicar was anxious to find a speaker who might be interesting enough to hold their attention. In an age before the phenomenon of the teenager was recognised, he was having trouble connecting with his youthful audience. After tea and cakes, the Earl decided he would entertain them with tales he had himself enjoyed, of the men who had been awarded the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny. His choice of subject was spot on; the boys were enthralled but it soon became clear that, not only had they never heard about the Indian Mutiny, but nor did they know anything about India.\nLord Meath was appalled. After enquiring with the local schoolmaster he discovered that most pupils’ knowledge of history did not extend beyond Henry VIII.  How, he queried, “could one expect to make patriotic citizens of boys whose knowledge of the Empire stopped four centuries and more before their own time? They knew nothing of Great Britain’s relations with India, with America, or the later swelling Imperial note which resounded through the world, to make Britain not only the greatest political fact but the greatest political fact in the farthest-flung Empire the world has ever seen.”\nMeath, an ardent Imperialist wanted the nation’s youth to share his enthusiasm, and, after discovering the situation was similar around the country, made it his personal crusade to educate and disseminate the idea of Empire to a rising generation. Setting up an office in his home, funding his campaign with an annual budget of £5000 provided by his wealthy wife and working with two secretaries, he set to work, lobbying high profile M.Ps. By 1896, he was proposing an Empire Day, first adopted by the province of Ontario the following year.\nMeath suggested May 24th, the birthday of Queen Victoria, as the most suitable day to celebrate. It would be a public holiday for all school children around Britain, “with the exception of a couple of hours in the morning, to be spent in exercises of a patriotic and agreeable nature and in listening to lectures and recitations on subjects of an Imperial nature.”\nThe official adoption of Empire Day around the world was gradual. In 1905, Australia recognised the May 24th celebration. In 1916, when Britain was in the tightest grip of war and a reinforcement of national patriotism was called for, King George V officially sanctioned the observance of Empire Day by ordering the Union Jack to be flown from public buildings on that day. Lord Meath however had been encouraging it far longer, though not everyone was as enthused about the idea as he was.  An opinion piece in The Bystander from 1913 had a cynical tone: “Empire Day is over and thousands of little Englanders have once more been reminded there is such an institution as the British Empire. Presumably it is with a view to blaring this fact into their ears that the excellent Lord Meath keeps the celebration so noisily going.” In 1922, the Government of India also officially adopted Empire Day though again, it had been celebrated in that country since 1907.\nOnce established in the mother country, Empire Day was a major event. In 1928, The Sphere magazine reported that 5,000,000 children took part, and in Hyde Park, 100,000 attended a celebration in Hyde Park where they were led in patriotic singing by Dame Clara Butt and the massed marching bands of the Guards played “appropriate songs”. Children in towns and villages around the country would enjoy their day off school, many dressing up in costume, sometimes to take part in a pageant of British history. Invariably, among the fancy dress costumes, there would always be at least one Britannia.\nThrough our eyes, looking back to over a hundred years ago, with the British Empire a dim and distant memory even for the older generation, Empire Day, with its meetings, songs and lectures sit uncomfortably with our current views and concerns over our Imperialist past and the growth of nationalism in the post-Brexit era. Subliminal brainwashing and patriotic jingoism? Or a celebration of the bonds between nations in an Empire where the sun never set? Lord Meath certainly believed it was the latter, and the movement’s motto; “Responsibility. Duty. Sympathy. Self-Sacrifice” indicated there were worthy motives behind the pomp and pageantry of Empire Day. Lord Meath died in October 1929, long before the Second World War and the final dismantling of the Empire he had done so much to promote. In its place, the Commonwealth, founded in 1949 and with King George VI, and now our present Queen as Head. With its programme of initiatives to promote peace, development and justice, the Commonwealth, currently with 53 member states, is a force for good. Commonwealth Day is held in the second week of March, and is therefore further disconnected from the Empire Day in which it is rooted. Nevertheless, pride and participation in the concept of Empire was an integral part of being British in the first half of the twentieth century and on this day a century ago, children across the world would have been looking forward to a day off school.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hematoxylin staining of paraffin sections.\nIn plant histology this staining is appropriate for paraffin sections through samples fixed with Navashin. This fixative is a mixture of 1 % chrome trioxide, 37 % formaldehyde and 100% glacial acetic acid in the following proportions 70:28:7 ml.\nSteps of the staining protocol.\n- Deparaffinize (3 baths of xylol) and hydrate to water using a grade ethanol series, 3 min by step with gently agitation: ethanol 100 2x; ethanol 90; ethanol 70 then distilled water.\n- Immerse sections in filtered Harris hematoxylin for 12 to 15 min, according to the kind of specimen and age of the stain.\n- Wash in tap water the in distilled water.Mount coverslips with Eukitt or Histokitt\n- Optional: 30 sec staining before mounting in a fresh solution of red ruthenium (1:5000) to reveal pectic substances of cell walls.\nPrinciple of hematoxylin stain\nThis is an example of indirect staining.Hematoxylin is a natural dye extracted from the heartwood of the tropical tree logwood, Haematoxylin campechianum anditself does not stain tissues. It needs to be oxidized to form hematein, the active staining reagent. Oxidation may be obtained by atmospheric oxygen (keep the solutions in an open bottle) or by adding metal alums (the most common is ferric ammonium sulfate) or iodate to the dye solution. The commercial hematoxylin of Harris is ready for use as hematein.\nHematoxylin is a good nuclear stain and heterochromatin as well as chromosomes appear strongly stained. It is also useful for mitosis counting in a section.\nExample : staining of longitudinal paraffin sections 8 microns thick through a primary root tip of Zea mays\nThe two micrographs below show different steps of mitosis in the meristematic region.\nQuiescent center (CQ), and the meristem with mitosis (white arrows). mec : calyptrogen.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "text © Don Davis\nThe first V-2 and the dawn of the Space Age\nThe developments leading to rockets capable of lifting spacecraft have their origins in weapons development. Technology is available, as is much of everything, to destroy or to build. The use of rockets to explore space later became the means of understanding many things formally unknown to us, giving us the insight to ask more questions of the Universe. A historic benchmark on our path to this knowledge was the first successful flight of the 'V-2' rocket on October 3, 1942, the day the rocket graduated from a firework to a vehicle.\nBecause of a vivid recollection\nwhich Krafft Eriche personally shared with me of that first successful\nV-2 launch, while we attended the Apollo 17 launch cruise, I felt\ninspired to learn what I could of that great moment. Such an event\nis a tangible expression of many underlying causes and trends,\nand a brief sketch of some of these is given as the background\nto this technological milestone, which approached the atomic bomb\nitself as the most significant invention of the Second World War.\nIn this presentation of the first successful flight of the V-2 and its historic background, the written accounts of the participants were used whenever possible, particularly the detailed recollections of Dornberger and Von Braun which appeared in 'The Coming Of The Space Age' edited by Arthur C. Clarke. Where Dornberger and Von Braun's accounts differ I defer to Von Braun.\n& Von Braun\nThe romance of big rockets excited\nthe imaginations of several important Germans who realized what\ncould be done with enough resources. In a society rebounding from\nlosing the 'War To End All Wars', rockets were adopted as a cause\nby many young enthusiasts in the wake of circulation of ideas\nof space travel in literature. The publication of Hermann Oberth's\n1923 book 'The Rocket In Interplanetary Space' marks an early\nPost Tsilkovsky conceptual elaboration of the potential of Rocketry.\nFritz Lang's 1928 Frau Im Mond ('Girl on the Moon') had appeared in theaters as among the last of the silent movies. This influential film introduced to the screen many of the elements familiar to space enthusiasts such as the stage rocket, and the effects of acceleration and weightlessness. The most enduring legacy of this film was the dramatic device of the countdown of the last seconds before the ignition of the rocket. This was later adopted as practice for actual launches as well as for nuclear bomb tests! Oberth was sought out as technical advisor on the film, and he tried unsuccessfully to build a liquid fuel rocket for the premier of the movie.\nGerman Rocket enthusiasts, with networking between them facilitated by Willy Ley, actually built small but functioning liquid fuel rockets which relied on combining fuel elements through complex plumbing to create a controlled combustion. This is fundamentally different from the ancient powder filled tubes invented by the Chinese in the early 1200's. One of these new rockets climbed over 1000 feet in October 1931. The next year the German Army showed interest in their work with Captain Walter Dornberger, head of powder rocket development, visiting their facilities. In 1929 Dornberger had been assigned the task, by Army Ordinance development, of developing a rocket capable of greater range than Germany's legendary 'Paris Gun' which lobbed shells 65 miles during the World War. What Dornberger saw led to his offer to key personnel to work for him in an Army development program. Among these young tinkerers was Wernher Von Braun, most gifted of that generation of German rocketeers.\nAfter spirited debate some of them took the offer, seen as an opportunity to perform the kind of Research and Development they had only dreamed of with the pocket money previously available. After years of doing work in garages it must have seemed miraculous to see buildings, test stands, and manufacturing plants spring up to support their needs. They were defining the essentials of a new technology, as other individuals in other countries were doing, except that one country's government generously funded the crucial research and development and the others didn't. Although obviously a tool for war at its inception, the potential for other uses later on must have been a factor in the motivations in at least some of these people. Rockets were not specified as forbidden by the treaty Germany was bound by following it's defeat in the first World War, so pouring money into developing such vehicles could proceed without raising international alarm. Within a few years working liquid fuel rockets were being fired from test stands. The many failures were dealt with and the art of rocketry began to mature. The versatility and inventiveness of the rocket team was shown in January 1935 when Major Von Richthofen, a cousin of the famous ace, paid the facilities a visit to express curiosity about using rockets to propel aircraft. Within 6 months a Heinkel fighter plane was modified to carry a rocket engine which was operated by the pilot. This was test fired on a stand for Von Richthofen, who was greatly impressed with the speed with which the work had been carried out as much as it's success. Thereafter money poured into the place, the larger scale of the operation causing the facility to be moved to Peenemunde, an isolated peninsula of land from which significant work could be done without attracting undue attention.\nBy mid 1937 most of the old rocket crowd had been gathered into Dornberger's group, of which Von Braun was the most important in the overseeing of the work. Von Braun and the other technicians had to join the National Socialist party in order to continue their work, although ironically the Nazi party was largely hostile to intellectual and academic interests. Among the prominent people the gifted engineer Arthur Rudolph was rare in apparently being an enthusiastic Nazi, joining the party early in its ascendancy. Dornberger used his diplomatic and political abilities to protect Von Braun and the others from the predatory bureaucrats lurking in the Nazi government. A few other influential visionaries saw to it the program was nursed through periods of wavering support. Many military development projects were under way in Germany at the time, often redundant but a few truly important. A few of these, such as the deployment of Jet fighters, were subject to irrational delays often initiated by Hitler himself. Adolf Hitler tended to mistrust new technologies evolving since his World War I career, and was slow to grasp their advantages. At times he even seemed to let omens he saw in dreams affect his priorities. By the late 30s the process of rocket development had attracted some influential fans, including Army Supreme Commander Field Marshall Von Brauchitsch, and most importantly the powerful Minister of Armaments Albert Speer. In 1939 Hitler cut off funding for big rockets, however Speer and Von Brauchitsch arranged for hefty production contracts for Peenemunde to keep the facility busy. Speer continued to arrange covert funding for large rockets in what became a 'pet project' for him during the early crucial years of development.\nIn a sheltered supportive environment the Peenemunde Group labored to quickly develop a large military rocket. Besides having a range considerably greater than that of the shells from the Paris Gun, a design constraint was that the missile had to be able to fit through existing railway tunnels. The final design for their big rocket, initially called the A-4, was a 46 foot long behemoth which could hurl a one ton warhead up to 200 miles. It's smooth aerodynamic shape and streamlined fins had the exotic look of a visitor from the future. Engineers and various ranks of workers of very different status, such as university professors, specialist prisoners of war, and soldiers worked on the project. In those days people had jobs as 'computers', almost all women. These rows of slide-rule wielding ladies at their desks in one building were called the 'measurement girls'. One group of these 'computers' used so much paper to display trajectory data they were nicknamed the 'wallpaper girls'. Recruitments of competent people was done through universities and through a unique device of creating a specialized 'battalion' of personnel with scientific and technical skills drawn from the general military population. Among the people suddenly finding themselves ordered to Peenemunde was a tank platoon leader who had fought from Dunkirk to the suburbs of Moscow, Krafft Ehriche. In the spring of 1940 Wernher Von Braun was approached by an aid of Reichsfueher SS Heinrich Himmler who urged that he join the SS. After getting Dornbergers advice, Von Braun finally wrote his consent and was promptly appointed a Lieutenant, with yearly promotions.\nThe year 1942 was an especially\ncrucial year of World War II. Hitler's conquests had made him\nthe ephemeral master of Europe. Germany's penetration of Russia\nwas reaching it's peak, with Stalingrad becoming the focus of\nvast resources for devastating attacks by the Germans and unrelenting\ndefense by the Soviets. The two armored Colossi of Western and\nEastern Europe were locked in a death struggle, as vast as the\nrest of the Second World War put together. Some German technical\nadvancements which could have changed history for the worse if\nfully exploited fell victim to fundamental weaknesses in the mentality\nof the Nazi ruling elite and the wartime disruption of industrial\nproduction. Jet and rocket propulsion were being tried in fighter\naircraft, but the jets underwent years of delay to satisfy Hitler's\nirrational whims. The tiny Komet rocket fighters, admittedly fast\nand deadly, were woefully brief in their powered flight after\nwhich they helplessly glided to a touchdown on a ski like skid.\nA few of the Komets would blow up suddenly in flight for no apparent\nOn June 13, 1942 the first full scale test flight of an A-4 was attempted. After rising for one second the thrust stopped, causing the giant projectile to settle back to Earth, the fins crumpling as it tumbled on it's side. Smacking into the concrete, the fuel filled body burst like a great water balloon then flashed violently into a billowing inferno. Number 2 was launched August 16, and rose majestically until it spun out of control and exploded about 45 seconds into the flight, about 8 miles high. Unfortunately a lot of VIPs were witnesses to that failure. The pressure was on. The midsection of the missile was strengthened, and ongoing design improvements were incorporated into the next flight vehicle. By this time a 'do-or-die' sentiment made everyone especially careful, knowing the hazards of being an expensive exotic government program unable to produce results in wartime.\nThe turning point came on the third try.\nThe morning of October 3,\n1942 was clear and beautiful at the Peenemunde complex. Atop\none of the camouflage draped buildings Captain Walter Dornberger\nstood with a microphone in one hand, his powerful binoculars in\nthe other. Near him a small television apparatus provided a tiny\npale picture of the A-4, which was hidden from direct view by\na tree covered low hill. The benevolence written into his features\nwas starkly highlighted in the bright sun with lines of worry.\nThis was probably going to be the critical demonstration of the\nworthiness of the idea he and his gathered talent had long slaved\nfor. Next to Dornberger stood his lifelong friend, Colonel Leo\nZanssen. Both men had no love for the Nazis and as a military\ncommander of Peenemunde Zanssen had assisted Dornberger in keeping\nthe Party types at arm's length.\nThe paved facilities around them gave away in the distance to green marshlands and coastal forests. A red brick cathedral stood above the green hills, clear in the sunlight. Nearby other observers were taking their places. On the isolated launch pad stood the results of everyone's best work, eagerly watched through periscopes by engineers in their nearby concrete buildings, others watching through closed circuit television. Further away, among and atop the buildings, every vantage point was swarming with spectators, There were many people 'in the know' but not really supposed to be there. Tinny voices on loudspeakers barked out the status of the various systems, and engineers were queried on how their part of the process was going. A voice over the loudspeaker called out \"X minus three, Counting off\".\nSwinging his binoculars sideways, Dornberger spied Wernher Von Braun among a small group atop a nearby building. Apart from them sat a pair of professional observers, both peering through special binocular periscopes and giving their own accounts of what they were witnessing, each with a secretary taking down what they independently said. White vapor poured from the Oxygen tank valve near the base of the rocket, with a band of frost encircling the location of the oxygen tank itself well above the middle of the vehicle. The access platforms were moved away, leaving the massive projectile standing alone as Man's newest challenge to the sky. The tall rocket displayed the graceful tapering contours dictated by the extremes of physical forces it would experience, a vision of the future.\n\"X minus one\" barked the announcer. The Pennemunde Minute, legendary for it's subjectively great length, had begun. The preparations were over, and the situation was in the hands of the kind of fate people have long prayed to in hopes of influencing it as they stand helplessly by. Dornberger forced himself to stare at the television image of the rocket and not at his watch. A green smoke trail appeared as a flare signaling 10 seconds left was fired. The wind changed it's shape only slightly. \"Ignition\" was loudly announced as sparks sprayed from the engine nozzle and quickly turned into a violent column of flame roaring against the concrete. Cables fell away from the rocket, smoke billowed around it and the missile was then operating under it's own battery power. The announcement \"Cleared\" was made as the final buildup of thrust carried it's force past that needed to lift the 13.5 ton vehicle. Slowly, magnificently, the pointed tip of the A-4 rose above the smoke and into the view of everyone.\nDornberger saw it seemingly emerge from the treetops through his binoculars, gleaming in the Sun against first the distant green scenery then the blue sky, unleashing a column of bright flame as long as the rocket itself. It rose steadily along it's intended path, straight and true with no spinning. Five seconds after ignition, the thunder of the launch reached the buildings, the waves felt as well as heard while rippling through everything. The roar filled the skies and rolled over the forest and across the oceans beyond. Higher and faster the rocket climbed, becoming lighter as fuel was spent, the continuous engine thrust acting against less weight every moment. Slowly the missile began it's programmed tilt in it's path to achieve the desired 45 degree angle for maximum range. The rocket's roar began to change into a sputtering of slowly lowering tone, with other local noises gradually emerging from the din.\nseconds elapsed since the flight began were counted out continuously\non the loudspeaker, but other speakers gave information, such\nas a 'measuring tone' of a slowly changing pitch broadcast from\nthe rocket which gave an audible indication of the speed the vehicle\nwas traveling due to the sensitivity of the receiver to the 'Doppler'\nshift of the rocket's transmitter. The tone was changing from\na low humming to a piercing trill as the speed built up. During\nthe otherwise monotonous counting, occasional flight milestones\nwere announced, such as \"Sonic velocity\". Now supersonic\nspeed had been reached! Through the binoculars the rocket, shortened\nby perspective, spouted it's orange flame brightly against the\ndark blue heavens. A half minute had passed, and double the speed\nof sound was reached. The rocket now flew higher than any mountain\non Earth. Just after 40 seconds into the flight a vapor trail\nappeared, with alarmed murmurs from the crowd expressing fears\nthat the rocket had exploded. An announcer reassured everyone\nwhat they saw was simply the oxygen vent opening.\nNow that this rocket had lasted longer than it's predecessor, each moment was spent in new territory. Other voices expressed fears the rocket was flying erratically when what they observed was actually the initially straight vapor trail being stretched about by swift high altitude winds. Until that moment only meteors had left trails at such altitudes. At the 54 second mark the engine cut off was announced, and through binoculars only the glowing vanes along the inner edges of the rear fins were seen as a tiny white speck at the base of still climbing rocket.\nThe A-4 was sailing higher than any human being would go for another 18 years. If one could accompany the missile the sky above would be jet black, with brighter stars and a diagonal line of planets visible in the same sky as the brilliant morning Sun. The distance to the horizon would be a thousand miles and growing, with the curvature of the Earth obvious. A fuzzy envelope of luminous air would separate the dark blue seas and lushly forested coastlines below from the eternal empty vastness above. With practically all the air left behind, the rocket arced in a graceful mathematical path unhindered by wind resistance in a sterile vacuum environment. Unfiltered sunlight harshly illuminated one side of the projectile, outlining in crisp shadows every dent and rivet along its length. A painting of a woman sitting on a V-2 looked out from between the fins of the missile towards the actual crescent Moon high in the southwestern sky. As the A-4 reached the peak of its arc it skimmed the realm of the rest of the universe.\nDornberger at last put down his binoculars, drawing his breath slowly. It had worked! A decade of work had made a huge mark on History! Turning to Zanssen, who was tearfully laughing, they shook hands, yelled, and gleefully embraced like victorious schoolboys at the end of an important ball game. Atop and between buildings people were shaking hands, clapping, and even dancing. Dornberger descended from his vantage point and grabbed a vehicle, weaving his way through the jubilant confusion. Spying Von Braun, he pulled him into the car and careened to the launch site to join the people gathering there. The scene at the smoldering pad was chaos as everyone babbled their impressions to the senior staff present. The flame's effects on the firing area was worse than expected but would be planned around the next time. By now the rocket was in it's fourth minute of flight, falling with great speed.\nDornberger hushed everyone up to hear the end of the flight take place. The tone broadcast from the rocket still sounded, but the 3000 mile per hour speed of the missile was about to be quickly slowed by one third as it re-entered the dense atmosphere, and the danger of overheating and breakup haunted him as a moment of truth no less than the actual launch. Then, a few seconds short of 5 minutes of flight, the measuring tone abruptly began lowering as the speed dropped during the atmospheric descent, with the word \"Impact\" cutting off the tone. Now it was an unqualified success! A dye capsule in the rocket would reveal it's location to a search plane. The impact point was some 124 miles distant, with an altitude of nearly half that having been reached.\nProfessor Hermann Oberth ran out of a building and clasped hands with Dornberger with congratulations while exclaiming \"This is something only the Germans could achieve!\" The crescent Moon with a lady sitting on it painted on the fin was in honor of the film 'Frau im Mond', for which Oberth was technical advisor. Dornberger replied to Oberth \"The day on which we had been privileged to take the first step into space must also be a day of success and rejoicing for you, and that the congratulations must go to you for showing us the way\". At the foot of the building Dornberger had witnessed the launch from an engineer had just placed a large boulder with the words \"A great weight has fallen from my shoulders\" painted on it. That evening a small celebration was held in the officer's club with many key workers on the project addressed by Dornberger, who clearly saw past the immediate use this invention would be put as he said:\n\"The history of technology will record that for the first time a machine of human construction, a 5.5 ton missile, covered a distance of 120 miles with a deflection of only two and a half miles from the target. Your names, my friends and colleagues, are associated with this achievement\"...\"Our self steering rocket has reached heights never touched by any man-made machine. Since the tilt was not carried to completion our rocket today reached a height of nearly 60 miles. We have thus broken the world height record of 25 miles previously held by the shell fired from the now almost legendary Paris Gun. The following points may be deemed of decisive significance in the history of technology: We have invaded space with our rocket and for the first time-mark this well-have used space as a bridge between two points on the Earth: We have proved rocket propulsion practicable for space travel. To land, sea, and air may now be added infinite space as a medium of future intercontinental traffic. This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel...\" The lecture then turned to the need to develop and deploy the new weapon as soon as possible.\nIn some ways that day became the peak experience of the Rocket Team's German days. Never again would the accomplishments of Peenemunde seem to offer so much potential, nor would the wartime environment again be so friendly towards realizing their dreams. But the power of that day's triumph radiated forth like the sound of a shot in the night.When Speer mentioned the success of the test to Adolf Hitler, the Fuehrer at last took an interest in the project. A meeting between Hitler, Dornberger, and Von Braun took place on July 17, 1943.\nIn the three quarters of a year since\nthat first successful A-4 flight the War had taken disastrous\nturns for Germany. Early in 1943, after running the gauntlet of\nthe fortunes of war, dwindling supplies and the freezing weather,\nthe remnants of the army trying to take Stalingrad hobbled through\nthe snow in long tattered lined into surrender. This event, perhaps\nthe most intensely concentrated battle in history, marked the\npivotal turnaround in the war with Russia. The recent surrender\nof the famed Afrika Corps during the loss of North Africa was\nanother alarming loss of territory under German control. The Battle\nof Kursk, both the largest tank and air battles in history, was\nabout to grind away the last hopes by Germany to regain the initiative\nin the East. The walls were slowly closing in on the Reich, and\ndrastic new weapons seemed more inviting.\nAs Von Braun and Dornberger waited for their audience, they kept reviewing what would be said. Finally they were admitted to Hitler's presence with pomp and ceremonial announcements. The Fuehrer stepped forwards, from the first moment appearing not quite so 'bigger than life' as he once was. To Dornberger the strain of the recent years on Hitler's appearance showed alarmingly, with an appearance of weariness and a stooped posture the main differences noted from his 1939 meeting. The man who had been able to project a Messiah like persona before millions was turning into the reclusive over medicated tyrant of his last days. Accompanying the harried dictator were Speer and other top officials with their aides.\nVon Braun knew his presentation well, leaping into an enthusiastic description of the workings of the rocket and it's effects upon impact. At this point Hitler interrupted, and cautioned that a very sensitive fuse would be needed to assure the warhead didn't bury itself to excessive depth before exploding, thus limiting it's effect. Hitler was never shy on offering his opinion on anything. The rest of the lecture went well, and at the proper moment the lights were dimmed and a color film of the October 3 test was shown. The vision of this streamlined leviathan hurling itself skyward upon a pillar of fire transfixed Adolf Hitler. As the rocket roared to life on the screen the fires of the previous decades reawakened in his piercing blue eyes. It was as if the deliverance he yearned for was being revealed to him, and sudden hope animated his further intrigued inquiries. His desperate imagination brought significance beyond rationality to what this weapon could mean to the war. Amid an obsessive tirade on the need to build more destructive weapons of this type, he paused for a moment and reflected \"Europe and the World will be too small from now on to contain a war. With such weapons humanity will be unable to endure it.\"\nHitler than gave the A-4 weapon the highest priority, at least in his mood of the moment. When Von Braun returned to Peenemunde, a check on Hitler's concerns of delayed detonation upon impact proved them to be valid! Hitler had a knack for inspired intuition but often trusted it in inappropriate domains. A funding crisis in the program was initiated by a dream Hitler supposedly had suggesting the V-2 would be a failure. Similarly reasoned decisions fatally delayed the appearance of German jet fighters and imprudently cut back on arms production while operating under optimistic war scenarios. In the mean time Germany began fighting a grim 'delaying action' war, especially against the Russians. Although the Germans would inflict lopsided casualties on the Russians, desperation increased as the territory under German control steadily dwindled. In the meantime Allied bombing increasingly disrupted the industries needed to quickly bring about the dreams of the engineers. Only a few projects went anywhere, such as a primitive cruise missile called Vengeance Weapon 1 or 'V-1' by the Propaganda Ministry and of course the forerunner of the ballistic missile the A-4 renamed by Goebbels the 'V-2'.\nThe Olympian days of German rocket development were over. It was time to turn the missile into a weapon. Long gone were the days of public exposure to ideas of space travel in Germany. In the meantime German news media had been forbidden to use the word 'rocket' at all, and every copy of Lang's film Frau im Mond within German reach was quietly confiscated and destroyed. With success at Peenemunde came interest from the dreaded Heinrich Himmler, with his overtures followed by heavy-handed measures to move the SS into the rocket game. In a meeting called by Himmler in February 1944 at his East Prussian headquarters, Von Braun found himself being invited to join the inner staff of the man he described as being \"as mild mannered a villain as ever cut a throat\". In his polite delivery Himmler assured him of greater access to the Fuehrer and the end of delays caused by Army red tape. Von Braun quickly reiterated his loyalty and admiration for Dornberger, emphasizing the delays were primarily due to technical and not organizational causes. Von Braun then faced down Himmler, telling him that the V-2 was like a fragile growing flower which needs sunshine, a gentle gardener, and a measured amount of manure. What Himmler was proposing, he then said, was like a jet of liquefied manure which could kill the little flower! .\nTwo weeks later Von Braun and others were arrested by the Gestapo, facing a treason charge which in wartime Germany was courting a death sentence. Although they were evidently spared the brutality most others similarly charged went through in the hands of the SS, they were indeed being taught a lesson! After two weeks they were rescued by Dornberger successfully appealing to Speer and even Hitler for his rescue, on the grounds that without Von Braun there would be no V-2. By this time, however, the introduction of such a weapon was of declining importance to the outcome of the war.\nContinuous high priority status\nmay have led to the missile being available close to a year earlier.\nAllied bombing and shrinking frontiers steadily pinched off necessary\nsupplies for this and other new weapons. In a way the very pursuit\nof the V-2 project sapped the efforts of rocket specialists who\nmight have developed better air defense methods which, along with\nthe jet fighters properly deployed, may well have defeated the\nallied air offensives. Speer later actually regretted his going\nout of his way to push the V-2 rockets, each one of which used\nnearly enough resources to build a fighter plane. It was yet another\nfatal error in the conduct of the war which saved the world from\na German plunder based slave empire. Within Hitler's shrinking\nrealm, suffering beyond precedent continued, largely due to the\nactivities of the dreaded SS carrying out Hitlers dark agenda.\nIn the wake of a devastating air raid on Peenemunde in August 18-19, 1943, rocket production shifted to the dank realms of the new massive underground facility near Nordhausen in the Hartz Mountains. The failed attempt to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944 caused a violent purge of German Army officers including the head of Army armaments Friedrich Fromm, who had the misfortune of being the commanding officer of Lt. Col. Klaus Von Stauffenberg, the man who left the briefcase bomb in the conference room. Himmler assumed the imprisoned Fromm's duties, and the leadership of the Rocket program soon passed from the best of Germany's Prussian military tradition, represented by Dornberger, to it's worst represented by the man Himmler soon appointed to run the rocket program.\nSS Major Hans Kammler was a favorite 'rising star' in the SS and things got really ugly under his influence. Kammler was an icily calculating man whose ambition was matched only by his cruelty. His grim career included the demolition of the ruins left by the bloody suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and the overall architectural layout of the Auschwitz death camp including the fabrication of the gas chambers and crematoria. His new project was the 'Mittlework' V-2 factory tunneled within the Mountains. Kammler would gather a work force by the expedient method of mass arrests, boasting openly about the 'protective custody' his workers toiled under. Early in one morning he awakened officers by firing a machine gun, yelling that if he couldn't sleep no one else would! In the deteriorating conditions of the later months of the war he assembled a sizable slave empire, and desperate projects were undertaken with no regard to the human cost. A few of the Peenemunde group who were assigned to work with him were later to regret that association, most notably Arthur Rudolph. This brilliant engineer, after his work on Apollo's leviathan Saturn V rocket a generation later, would be hounded by reports of his working at the 'Mittelwork' plant.\nWhile searching for specialists in various\ncritical fields among those caught up in the SS roundups, Von\nBraun once visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and transferred\nprisoners from there to 'Mittlework', which he twice visited to\nevaluate their work force. He called for for more French prisoners\nto be sent there. This technically made Von Braun guilty of the\nwar crime of using slave labor. It is also fair to note that Von\nBraun is known to have tried to be protective of people working\nfor him. Thousands nevertheless died at Mittlework under hellish\nconditions. Kammler and his underlings worked masses of people\nto death in dank noisy tunnels. Shafts being tunneled by prisoners\nusing hand tools often collapsed, burying in one case hundreds.\nExplosions killed more, with subsequent manufacturing improvements\ngeared towards efficiency rather than safety. Under Kammler's\ndirection over 1300 rockets would strike England, 518 on London.\nIn February 28, 1945 Kammler placed a pilot inside a 'Natter', a small piloted missile. This man, Luftwaffe Lieutenant Lothar Sieber, became the first person to be launched vertically in a rocket. The honor was a brief one. After climbing 330 feet, the cockpit bubble tore loose, in some accounts abruptly decapitating the pilot. At 1600 feet the Natter faltered and dived, ending this inglorious debut for manned vertical rocket flight. In the end, Kammler plunged to the depths of depravity, shooting groups of prisoners himself just for the hell of it. Once over 200 inmates fell victim to one of his blood orgies. Finally he retreated to his special train, the 'Vengeance Express' and issued a flurry of orders fewer people each day could hear much less respond to. Probably realizing his diminishing career potential, Dornberger heard that Kammler finally ordered an aid to shoot him before the approaching Russians could capture him. Another story has him meeting his end in Czechoslovakia in an April gunfight with partisans. His boss Himmler, after years of a pampered life, had an especially brutal awakening. Within Himmler's SS empire Hitler's darkest visions were realized as several groups, especially the Jews, Russian prisoners of war, and the Gypsies were worked to death, starved, and murdered by the millions in secluded concentration camps. The collective list of death and POW camp victims of the above categories probably approaches 10 million, about 6 million of that number Jews, which Hitler vowed to exterminate above all others. Shunned in his pathetic diplomatic overtures to the West, Himmler, once among the most feared men in Europe, spent his last days hiding until his capture and suicide.\nOn April 30, with the walls of his underground bunker shuddering from Russian shells, Hitler shot himself in the temple while biting on a poison vial, his new bride Eva Braun at his side. The blanket wrapped bodies of the newlyweds were carried upstairs and lowered into a shell crater outside the bunker's conical roofed emergency exit. Cans of precious gasoline were poured over them, then ignited with a tossed blazing rag. The battle taking place around the small Viking funeral thundered among the burned out facades of once gleaming edifices, like the rumblings of fierce thunderstorms among jagged peaks. The small gasoline fireball briefly flared, then after initially retreating the small group of officers stepped forward from the shelter entrance to face the pyre and raise their right arms in a final Nazi salute. As the bodies burned before them, the city of Berlin blazed from one end to the other. The sparks rolled skywards in twisting forms as if a malevolent demon was glimpsed in its retreat from its Earthly incarnation.\nThe bulk of the Peenemunde group migrated amid the chaos of collapse toward the Americans and away from the Russians. The story of the archiving of their engineering data and the exodus Westward, culminating in the surrender to the Americans and their subsequent adventures essentially continuing their previous work, has been well described elsewhere. They were fortunately regarded as valuable by the country the group knew they had the best chance to continue their work in.\nMany of the Peenemunde group ended up crafting the near mythical behemoths of the Apollo program, the greatest peacetime project in history. The German rocketeers were able to finally fulfill their lifelong dreams with the spectacular Saturn rockets which carried men to the Moon. In two developmental 'windows of opportunity' a generation and an ocean apart, two very different charismatic leaders important in world history, Adolf Hitler and John F. Kennedy, sponsored the vital work which in one case began, and in the other matured, the means to spread human presence far beyond the reach of those who came before.\nIn both of these efforts substantially the same German rocket team worked themselves into the right place and the right time to assume a pivotal role in fulfilling a grand vision. The accomplishment of the Moon landings will beam forth like a lighthouse across the ages as a noble use of a great nations scientific and technological prowess.\nBooks referenced for this account:\nClarke: The Coming Of the Space Age. Meredith Press, 1967\nOrdway, Sharpe: The Rocket team. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979\nSpeer: Inside the Third Reich. Macmillian Company, 1981\nPiszkiewicz: Wernher Von Braun The Man Who Sold The Moon\nYves Bon : Planet Dora", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Democracy was defined as a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. This description embedded the concept of democracy within social life. However, it was recognized that broad diversity across society makes it challenging to create a sense of connection to any particular ideal. Therefore, democratic societies must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.\nIt is believed that education could bring about common values and that the role of the school is to provide students with opportunities for collaborative communication and investigation. These opportunities characterize the way that students engage in “democratic living” and develop common goals and understandings, as well as the behaviors needed to pursue justice, equity, and social change. It was said that students working together on common problems, establishing the rules by which their classrooms will be governed, testing and evaluating ideas for the improvement of classroom life and learning, and participating in the construction of objectives for their own learning.\nSocial Life Applied in School\nResearchers also insisted that measures be developed and utilized to determine the value of various models of social life when applied in schools. He noted that there are both positive and negative models of social living, and suggested two standards for considering the value of these. First, we must examine the number and variety of shared interests within the example. Second, we should assess the interactions within and beyond the model. It was warned against creating ideal models without applying them to actual societies, or schools when we are using metrics to examine models of democratic education. In other words, we cannot create democratic school models that are impractical or impossible. At the same time, we need ways to measure school models in order to define and describe exactly what distinguishes them from other types of schooling.\nThe First New Tech High School\nThe first New Tech high school was founded in 1996 with the goal of preparing students more effectively for post secondary education and careers. Within a few years, interest in the high school led to the founding of the New Tech Network (NTN), an organization responsible for scaling up the school model. In order to facilitate school development, NTN utilizes a Learning Organization Framework, which incorporates the use of data to inform short-term decision-making with the creation of aligned learning structures, shared and emerging leadership, and progressive school culture to inform long-term decision-making. NTN provides support to districts and schools during the implementation process through onsite instructional coaching and leadership development, as well as ongoing professional development institutes.\nThree Design Features of New Tech School\nThe NT school model consists of three design features engaging teaching via project-based learning (PBL) as the primary instructional approach, empowering and egalitarian school culture, and integrated technology. NT schools utilize a project-based learning instructional approach with an emphasis on rigorous and relevant projects, and links to the schools’ local community. In addition, NT schools develop an empowering culture of trust, respect, and responsibility where students and teachers have exceptional ownership of the learning experience and their school environment. Finally, NT schools use integrated technology, including a one-to-one computing ratio, internet access, and a learning management system, which allow all students to be self-directed learners and all teachers to be effective facilitators of learning.\nWithin the state where this study was conducted, districts sought the NT model as a response to perceptions of declining economic opportunity within rural and urban communities and small towns, as well as out of the desire to offer a more innovative education to students across the state. The state legislature facilitated growth of the model by offering grants to cover the cost of adoption and implementation. Although the NT model had originally been conceived to accommodate about 400 students per school, expansion to this state challenged NTN to broaden its implementation guidelines. For instance, rural schools often had enrollment between 400 and 600 students so that adopting the model for the whole school made more sense than implementing it with two-thirds of students.\nAll in all, the NT high schools in this state implemented the model in one of three ways: whole school, autonomous school, and small learning community. Autonomous schools operate like magnet programs that draw students from across their school districts to a campus separate from the local high schools, and small learning communities function as specialized programs located within the walls of a district high school. As described above, whole-school implementations typically include around 600 students, or the entire student body, while autonomous schools and small learning communities serve about 400 students, or 100 per grade level. As usual, please check out the circular saw, the best drill bits and the best Router Tools if you intend to work with wood or other material at the same condition, thank you.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Reviews for Piece = Part = Portion : Fractions = Decimals = Percents\nBooklist Reviews 2003 December #2\nGr. 3-5. Notable for its clean design, this brightly illustrated book introduces the idea that fractions, decimals, and percents are different ways of saying the same thing. An introduction is followed by a picture of a single gym shoe and the explanatory words, \"1/2 of a pair of shoes,\" \".50,\" and \"50%.\" The next 14 double-page spreads follow the same pattern: a large, sharply defined photo and large-print text that defines the picture in terms of its subject along with three ways of expressing it numerically. But while \"1/10 of your toes\" (smartly illustrated with a big toe poking through the hole in a sock) is \".10\" or \"10%,\" some of the decimal numbers and percentages are rounded-off approximations: \"1/7 of a week\" is not exactly\" .14\" or \"14%\" of a week. If that's close enough for a teacher's purposes, then this attractive book will fit the bill. However, those who value the precision of mathematics will be disappointed that Gifford chose to use inexact equivalencies without at least mentioning the useful concepts of rounding and approximation. This is, nevertheless, a promising first book for Gifford, an elementary-school teacher, and another striking visual interpretation from Thaler, the photographer who illustrated George Levenson's Pumpkin Circle (2002). ((Reviewed December 15, 2003)) Copyright 2003 Booklist Reviews\nHorn Book Guide Reviews 2004 Spring\nAfter a compact but clear and thorough explanation of the relationship among fractions, decimals, and percentages, Gifford gives examples: \"\"1/12 of a dozen eggs / .08 / 8%,\"\" etc. Each example faces a large, striking photo of the featured object, bordered by solid color bars for a neat graphic effect. The examples (\"\"1/10 of your toes\"\"; \"\"1/3 of a traffic light\"\") are well chosen and original. Copyright 2004 Horn Book Guide Reviews.\nKirkus Reviews 2003 September #1\nMath classes in the upper elementary grades and middle school are the logical audience for this deceptively simple work that shows the correlation between numerical amounts expressed as fractions, decimals, and percentages. Each left-hand page uses the repeating pattern of a fraction, a few descriptive words in colored type, and then the corresponding decimal and percentage. Right-hand pages show an attractive photograph of the object under discussion against bright borders. Some of the examples are easy to comprehend (3/4 of a sandwich, .75, and 75%) and others are more complex (1/12 of a dozen eggs, .08, and 8%). A juicy piece of pizza on the front cover is complemented by the rest of the pizza on the back cover, and the concept of a whole (1 whole pizza, 1.00, 100%) is the concluding spread. This clever idea will work best when introduced to students by a mathematically literate adult. (author's note) (Picture book/nonfiction. 8-13) Copyright Kirkus 2003 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.\nSchool Library Journal Reviews 2003 November\nGr 3-5-The striking photography in this book will not only whet an occasional appetite, but also satisfy the need for a visual treatment of the topic. Opposite three written representations of the same portion-a fraction, a decimal, and a percent-Thaler contributes clear, close-up illustrations. The large photographs framed in bands of bold color draw the eye from the matching numeral equivalents. While the examples include the tried-and-true pieces of pie and pizza and quarter of a dollar, Gifford relates more unusual divisions of a whole to illustrate other fractions: 1/7 of a week and 1/11 of a soccer team offer a fresh look at other portions. This simple text, paired with large vibrant art, provides a startlingly clear mathematical perspective.-Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TX Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Date: October - December, 2005, California Agriculture journal\nMedia Advisory: Testing times follow two cases of mad cow disease\nWhile only two cases of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE) have been confirmed in the United States since late 2003, they set off a national debate over how and to what degree American cattle should be tested for BSE. The current issue of the University of California’s peer-reviewed California Agriculture journal focuses on the policy implications of the U.S. cases of the fatal bovine disease.\n“Critical questions facing the U.S. policy establishment include which tests to use, how many cattle to test, which cows to test, whether to decentralize testing sites, and in particular, whether or not to allow testing on farms,” writes Kate O’Neill, associate professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, in the October-December 2005 issue.\nIn peer-reviewed studies, O’Neill analyzes U.S. regulatory policies regarding testing cattle for BSE, while UC Davis researchers describe a new DNA-based test to detect bovine contamination of cattle feed. In an editorial overview, leaders of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Bennie Osburn (dean) and Donald Klingborg (associate dean), discuss how University of California scientists are contributing to efforts to better understand, monitor and control BSE. Related news coverage explores recent BSE-related policy and research.\nBSE is spread among cattle via feed contaminated with rendered ruminant animals infected by similar diseases. This practice was widespread in the United Kingdom — where BSE devastated the cattle industry during the 1990s — but is less common in the United States. BSE has been identified in cattle from about two-dozen nations around the world, albeit at much lower levels than those found in the United Kingdom. Scientists linked consumption of BSE-infected beef to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a new form of an extremely rare but fatal brain disease in humans.\nIn 2004, the USDA vastly expanded BSE testing rates, with the majority of the program voluntary. To date the USDA has tested nearly 500,000 cattle for BSE. Critics of the current testing policy note that about 36 million cattle are slaughtered in the United States each year, making current levels insufficient. They also have called for disclosure of geographic location, age and disease status of sampled cattle. But proponents argue that the low levels of BSE found in the United States do not warrant the huge expense of a significantly expanded testing program.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\"Capacitor Plague\" is the colloquial term for a vast range of electrolytic capacitor failures, most often used when several capacitors on a circuit board are bulging or have burst. The following photo shows the cooked acidic residue that sprayed out from several capacitors hiding under the mechanical part of one of my DVD players.\nIn my case, the residue had been cooked onto the backplane and corroded several surface mount components. This cheap DVD player is a write-off. I could probably fix it, but it would be more trouble than it's worth.\nCapacitor plague is common on older motherboards and video cards, as well as in other chintzy consumer electronics. When it happens, there's usually a hiss or a pop from the device. If you catch it (and clean up the electrolyte using flux cleaner or high-grade isopropyl alcohol if any leaked) before it ruins something else, you can usually buy and solder in replacement capacitors of equal value. Remember, though, that many capacitors are polarity sensitive.\nElectronics repair tips:\n- If polarity is marked on a component (by a colored band down the side of a capacitor or a band around the positive end of a diode), mark the positive terminal on the board before removing the component. I usually just put a black dot near the positive terminal on the solder side of the board using a permanent marker.\n- Avoid confusion of parts by replacing only one failed component at a time.\n- Use a grounded work mat and a wrist strap to avoid a static discharge that could damage the part you're working on.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Racial segregation in the USA, which was enshrined in law until 1964, refers to the so-called racial segregation, especially of white and black people, whereby Asian and Latinx people were also affected. This was based on the assumption of white supremacy over blacks and people of color. These divisions took place in all areas of life, such as education, medical care, occupations, and voting rights. For example, there were benches and drinking fountains in parks that Black people were not allowed to use. Beginning in the mid-1950s, the Civil Rights Movement campaigned to repeal the discrimination against black people that was enshrined in law. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) played a key role in this.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Properties and Benefits of Lavender Honey: Lavender (Lavanduala) is an aromatic plant in the mint family that comprises several dozens of different varieties used primarily for the production of the fragrant lavender oil, but also for ornamental purposes. However, lavender flowers are also a source of food for honey bees, their nectar being used to make lavender honey. Lavender honey is a delicate, aromatic monofloral variety of honey with multiple beneficial health effects, notably antibacterial and antiseptic action, antioxidant and digestive benefits and soothing and calming properties.\nWhat is lavender honey made of? The variety is made primarily from nectar honey bees collect from lavender flowers. However, honey bees also collect pollen which is incidentally added to the honey. And despite the fact that pollen is one of the main allergens in honey, it is also a beneficial compound that adds to its antibacterial properties and basically makes honey what it is. Moreover, it is based on the pollen content that we can determine whether or not a honey is monofloral or polyfloral and what flower nectar it is actually made of.\nPollen is what determines what variety a honey is. For example, lavender honey should contain mostly pollen from lavender flowers (around 45% of the total pollen count in the tested honey). Pollen from other plant species can be present in varying amounts in lavender honey or other monofloral varieties, but standard regulations say it’s the predominant type of pollen that determines the variety of honey. The most common lavender species used to make honey are: Lavandula angustifolia (true lavender or common lavender), Lavandula stoechas (Spanish lavender), Lavandula latifolia and Lavandula intermedia (a hybrid variety).\nWhat does lavender honey look like? The variety generally has a clear, very light yellow color with rich golden undertones and a viscous texture. Its appearance is reminiscent of sunrays trapped in a jar. The honey crystallizes in a matter of months. The process not only makes it solid, but also changes its color, making it turn a paler yellow-beige color. However, when a honey crystallizes, it is a good sign because it shows it hasn’t been messed with. Processing can prevent honey from crystallizing, but also takes away a lot of its beneficial properties, if not most of them.\nWhat does lavender honey taste and smell like? Lavender honey has a delicately sweet and fragrant flavor and a warm taste with woody, floral notes and sometimes a citrus-earthy faint aftertaste. Its odour is only faintly reminiscent of lavender so if your store-bought honey has a strong lavender smell to it, it might just be infused with lavender, not real lavender honey. Because of its medium sweeteness and light, floral flavor, the variety is a wonderful taste experience.\nDifferences in the appearance, taste and even fragrance of lavender honey may appear depending on the plant variety the bees had access to. For example, the Spanish Grosso variety of lavender (Lavandula stoechas) yields a honey with a less delicate flavor profile. This is suggested to be a result of the species higher content of an aromatic compound called camphor which instills the honey with a sour-bitter, almondy and not so pleasant aftertaste. Different lavender varieties or hybrids may result in a particularly light honey or a medium-amber honey.\nWhat is lavender honey good for? Lavender honey is a unique variety that derives its health effects from beneficial compounds such as antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids and others. Considering its composition, its most noteworthy properties and health benefits include:\n1) Antibacterial and antiseptic action. Studies show lavender honey boasts mild antibacterial and antiseptic effects, meaning it helps not only inhibit bacterial growth, but also destroy pathogenic bacteria, hence its effectiveness in reducing wound healing time. However, because it has been found to have a less potent antibacterial effect than manuka and other honey varieties, it’s needed in higher concentrations to obtain the same effects. What gives lavender honey its antibacterial properties is it’s content of hydrogen peroxide, acidic pH and low moisture content. Hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant and antimicrobial that occurs naturally in honey as a result of the interaction between glucose and an enzyme secreted by honey bees called glucose oxidase.\n2) Useful for respiratory infections. Honey in general is a great natural remedy for cough and sore throat. Its viscous texture makes it great for a throat soreness, soothing irritation and allowing the throat lining to heal. Its antibacterial action helps reduce bacterial load, contributing to improving the evolution of respiratory tract infections such as the common cold and the flu and their symptoms. It is recommended to either add honey to tea or take it as it is. Raw, unprocessed, unfiltered honey is best because it still contains all of its beneficial components (pollen, nutrients etc).\nIt is also recommended to avoid heating honey because heat destroys most or all of its biologically active components. So when adding it to tea, it is important to allow the tea to cool down so its heat doesn’t alter the properties of the honey.\n3) Soothing properties. Lavender honey is particularly soothing on mucous membranes, forming a sort of protective layer that prevents further irritation and allows the sensitive mucous linings to heal. It has been traditionally used for conditions such as gastritis, sore throat, sensitive skin, wounds, scars and burns. Preliminary studies recognize the effectiveness of honey for healing burns (Natural Standard Herb and Supplement Guide: An Evidence-Based Reference).\n4) Helps relieve tension and pain. It would appear that lavender honey can help induce calmness, relaxation and reduce nervous tension because of its mild antispasmodic effects. These effects can be likened to those of lavender oil and lavender tea, but may be less pronounced. It has been theorized that certain biologically active compounds in various parts of the lavender plant are transferred to the honey through nectar and thus give it effects similar to those of other lavender preparations.\n5) Antifungal action. Lavender honey appears to be particularly efficient against Candida albicans, Candida krusei and Cryptococcus neoformans, inhibiting the growth and spread of the fungi naturally (Antifungal effect of lavender honey against Candida albicans, Candida krusei and Cryptococcus neoformans). The honey was effective at higher concentrations (16%-30%) and the compound responsible for its antifungal properties has not been identified yet.\n6) Beneficial for skin health. Like all honeys, lavender too is good for the skin. It can help reduce the frequency of acne breakouts naturally, both because it exerts a local antibacterial action and because it has a soothing effect, calming irritation and redness. Moreover, light honeys like lavender are great for dull skin, giving a natural glow and radiance to skin. They also help cleanse pores, further contributing to managing acne.\n7) Nutritious and energizing. Lavender honey is a particularly good source of antioxidants, aromatic compounds and nutrients. It has been found to contain antioxidants such as phenolic acids, flavonoids, carotenoids and enzymes with antioxidant activity (glucose oxidase, catalase etc.) as well as nutrients such as vitamin C and dietary minerals (Antibacterial and Antioxidant Potency of Floral Honeys from Different Botanical and Geographical Origins). Moreover, lavender honey contains important amino acids and is a source of natural sugars. All of these elements contribute to its beneficial action.\nI have found honey in general is a good solution for preventing hypoglycemia. Whenever I fell extremely low on energy I take on tablespoon of honey (acacia, pine nut, orange blossom, sunflower, lavander, whatever variety I may feel like at the time) and fill up on energy for another 20 minutes, giving me enough time to eat something good.\n8) Source of amino acids. Research shows lavender honey has a particular amino acid profile, providing trace amounts of arginine, histidine, lysine, phenylalanine, proline, tyrosine and valine (Free amino acid composition and botanical origin of honey). It actually contains the highest content of the amino acid tyrosine, more than eucalyptus, rosemary, thyme and orange blossom honey. Tyrosine is needed for the synthesis of thyroid hormones and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline and is vital for the synthesis of the skin pigment melanin and Coenzyme Q10.\nWhile lavender honey is not enough to meet the body’s demands of the amino acid (poultry, beef, eggs, cheese, nuts are the best sources), it does provide it in small amounts, which adds to its beneficial action.\nAttention: Like all honeys, lavender too can cause allergic reactions. Anyone allergic to lavender flower pollen, honey bee enzymes and other secretions or various other elements from honey should avoid consumption. If you are unsure, but are already allergic to the pollen from more than one plant species or to other honeys, it is best to have a skin allergy test to know whether or not it is safe for you to eat the honey.\nConclusion. Overall, lavender honey is a wonderful variety of honey with a rich color, moderately sweet taste and delicate fragrance. It’s nutritious and energizing, great for skin care, respiratory infections and soothing on the stomach and throat. It has an impressive antibacterial and antifungal action and contributes to reducing healing time for wounds and burns. However, such properties and benefits are only present in the raw honey, unaltered by processing and heating that may deprive it of all its beneficial compounds.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This juvenile/first-basic Scandinavian Herring\nGull (Larus argentatus argentatus) was photographed\nin October 1995 in Baltic Germany by Ronald Klein. Ronald comments:\n\"Finnish-ringed gulls (migratory) change their mantle/scaps\noften very late (Febr./March). But Herring Gulls in western Baltic\n(mostly non-migratory) are surely nominate and most of them moult\nmuch earlier. It is possible that this is a result of their migration\npattern. Pure, true argenteus exist probably only on British islands\nand in Northern France. The gulls between the Netherlands and\nDenmark are more intermediate. Argenteus in the Baltic is a rarity.\nI read the rings of birds I find at Baltic German rubbish-dumps,\nand have seen only a single British and a single Dutch-ringed\nHerring Gull. The number of Finnish-ringed birds is nearly 1,500!\"\nNote that this (presumably locally-bred) bird has already molted\nmost of its juvenile mantle/scap. feathers:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Some of my students and colleagues with electrical engineering background found the following explanation useful to distinguish plan-based and agile methods.\nFirst and foremost, I think a more accurate distinction is that methods exist on a continuum from predictive to adaptive (see Boehm). In this continuum predictive methods focus on planning the future in detail, in contrast, adaptive methods empasize adapting to changes quickly. So, in the following I use the plan-based as a synonym to predictive, and agile as a synonym to adaptive approaches.\nTo emphasize the differences of the plan-based and agile approaches I use control theory analogy in the following. Plan-driven methods are similar to open-loop control systems: at the beginning of the process the desired output (desired product) is defined, then the controller (development coordinator) determines the necessary inputs (development plan) for the system (development team) in other to that realizes the output (product). So an open-loop control system determines the input using only the current knowledge about the desired output. It means that the system does not observe the output of the process that it is controlling. Therefore, an open-loop control system can not engage in machine learning, cannot correct any errors that it could make, and it also may not compensate the disturbances that influences the system. Open-loop control system is useful for well-defined control systems (development situations) where the relationship between input and the desired output are well known.\nUnfortunately, only one thing is usually constant in software development situations: the change. The changes are emanating from different sources, for example, changes of customer requirements, business goals, and technological demands. Consequently, these software development processes should respond to these changes by adapting its execution to the changed situation. Continuing the previous analogy, we can characterize agile methods as closed-loop control systems: additionally to the open-loop control system the disturbances (changes), which affect the system, are measured by different sensors (development reviews) that are transferred to the input of the controller (developer coordinator) in other to the input of the system (development plan) can be adapted to the changed situation. In agile methods, actually, there are typically three planning levels -- therefore three feedback loops -- in the process: daily-, iteration- and release plans to adapt the development process at (roughly) daily, weekly and monthly plan-levels. The intuitive mapping of agile methods to closed-loop control system can be seen in the next figure.\nInterpreting the previous mapping on the Scrum method, the method can be visualized as in the next figure (Please note, the daily loop is not shown.).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Most Common Types of Car Crash Injuries\nDespite many drivers’ best efforts to exercise caution and avoid collisions when driving, car accidents still happen at an alarming rate. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that there were 7,277,000 police-reported car accidents in the United States in 2016. Car accidents are the leading cause of injuries in the United States.\nThe most recent data from the NHTSA, which was published in 2018, reports that in 2016 there were 2,177,000 police-reported car accident-related injuries. This number is up from the previous year of 2016, in which there were 1,715,000 police-reported car accident injuries. The data shows that since 2007, the earliest year highlighted in the report, police-reported car accident injuries have been on the rise.\nFollowing are some of the most common injuries related to car accidents.\nOne of the most common car accident-related neck injuries is whiplash. Whiplash occurs when the neck is caused to move forcefully and rapidly in a back-and-forth motion. This also can be referred to as a neck strain. Vehicle occupants often experience whiplash when they are hit from behind. Some common symptoms of whiplash include the following:\n- Neck pain or stiffness\n- Loss of range of motion in the neck\n- Tenderness in the shoulders and upper back\n- Tingling in the arms\nNeck injuries should be diagnosed and treated by a doctor. More severe neck injuries can result in paralysis. Unfortunately, wearing a seat belt will not help prevent whiplash.\nHead and Brain Injuries\nVarious head and brain injuries can occur as a result of a car crash. Traumatic brain injuries occur when the head is forced to move back and forth in a rapid motion, causing the brain to hit the skull. Some common types of traumatic brain injuries suffered in car accidents include, but are not limited to, concussions, contusions, and hemorrhaging. Some common symptoms of a traumatic brain injury include the following:\n- Loss of consciousness\n- Disorientation and dizziness\n- Nausea or vomiting\n- Inability to sleep or sleeping more than usual\n- Difficulty with speech\n- Sensitivity to light and sound\n- Issues with memory\nThere are other signs of brain injury. If you have suffered a blow to the head, seek medical attention as soon as possible, as a brain injury should be diagnosed and treated by a medical professional to ensure minimal damage.\nArm and Leg Injuries\nDepending on the circumstances of an accident, arms and legs can be injured in various ways, including, but not limited to, the following:\n- Broken or fractured bones\n- Torn ligaments and tendons\n- Lacerations and scarring\nAlso, a limb may have to be amputated as the result of a car accident.\nThese types of injuries can occur due to the driver hitting the steering wheel in a collision, a seatbelt tightening around an occupant, or by striking the dashboard. Chest injuries can involve broken or bruised ribs, punctured lungs, and heart issues. Chest injuries may be accompanied by symptoms like:\n- Chest pain\n- Coughing up blood\n- Shortness of breath\nThese types of injuries can occur due to impact with an object during a car accident, such as flying debris and glass. Facial injuries may include cuts and scarring and may require continual treatment.\nAlthough any accident can cause injury, some factors that contribute to the likelihood of injury and may worsen resulting injuries can include any of the following:\n- Whether the individuals involved in the accident were wearing seatbelts\n- What types of vehicles were involved in the crash, that is, sedans, sports utility vehicles, crossovers, pickup trucks, or motorcycles\n- How fast the vehicles were traveling when the accident occurred\n- Point of impact on the vehicles\n- Where in the vehicle the travelers were in relation to where the vehicle was hit\n- Whether the airbags deployed\n- Whether the crash in a rural area or a city\n- Whether any of the drivers were under the influence of drugs or alcohol\nIf you have been involved in a car accident, seek medical attention for your injuries. Individuals involved in a collision may be transported to the hospital by ambulance or helicopter. Other accident victims who walk away from the scene should seek medical attention as well, even if the accident is considered minor, as some symptoms may be delayed and some issues take time to manifest.\nBeing in a vehicular accident is a traumatic experience. As a result of an accident, victims and their families may face many short- and long-term consequences that often require ongoing medical treatment and missed time at work. At Hankey Law Office we believe that you should not have to face the aftermath of an accident alone. If you or a loved one has been injured in a car accident, contact the experienced and compassionate Indianapolis car accident attorneys at Hankey Law Office to learn more about your legal rights. Call us today at (317) 634-8565.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Did you know?\nThis page is for some lesser well known facts about West Lulworth.\nDid you know that in 1789, the King and Queen of England landed at Lulworth Cove?\nOn 3 August 1789, the King and Queen of England, as part of the Royal tour, landed at Lulworth Cove and went from there to see East Lulworth Castle.\n[Recorded under the title ‘Memorable Events -\nDid you know that in the First World War, two West Lulworth men were killed in action on the same day?\nLance Corporal Bertie Whittle and Private Ernest Budden, both born in West Lulworth, were both killed in action on 21 August 1915 on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. They are both commemorated on the West Lulworth war memorial.\nDid you know gliders launched from a cliff top just west of Lulworth in the 1930s?\nThe first Dorset Gliding Club was formed in 1929 following a demonstration of ridge soaring at Maiden Newton, close to where 'Hardy's Monument' now stands. This was done by a group of German pilots who toured the country doing demonstration flights.\nThe Club's first flights were done there, then later from the cliff top West of Lulworth. All launches were by bunjy, landings were usually at the bottom of the slope where the gliders had to be derigged, carried back up and rigged for the next victim.\nThe early gliders were German stringbags but a couple of 'Wrens' found their way into the Club in the late 1930's.\nThe Club was disbanded at the outbreak of war in September 1939 and the gliders stored in a garage locally but later requisitioned for flying training.\nSource: Dorset Gliding Club website\nDid you know that in the Second World War, two Spitfires crashed near West Lulworth?\n1941: 10 September: R6639 Spitfire I 53OTU crashed at West Lulworth during forced landing\n1945: 29 March: PR150 Spitfire 761Sq flew into high ground at West Lulworth\nDid you know there was a proposal to build a railway through West Lulworth?\nThe following appeared in the London Gazette of 24 November 1899:\nLight Railway Commissioners.—November, 1899. Light Railways Act, 1896.\nLulworth and Osmington Light Railway.\n(Construction of Railway from the Wareham and Dorchester Branch of the London and South Western Railway near Wareham, in the county of Dorset, to Lulworth and Osmington; Land Powers; Tolls and Charges; Agreements with Landowners and others, and also with the London and South Western Railway Company, and other powers; Incorporation\nand Amendment of Acts.)\nNOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made in the present month of November, 1899, to the Light Railway Commissioners, by Henry Weld Blundell, of White's Club, St. James's-\nTo authorise the promoters to make and maintain a railway in the county of Dorset, to be worked and maintained as a light railway, with all necessary and proper stations, approaches, works, buildings, sidings, and conveniences connected therewith respectively, that is to say:\nRailway No. 1, commencing in the parish of Arne, in the county of Dorset, by a junction with the Wareham and Dorchester branch of the London and South Western Railway, about 1¼ miles south-\nLondon and South Western Railway, about 410 yards south-\nRailway No. 2 commencing in the parish of West Lulworth, in the county of Dorset, by a junction with the intended Railway No. 1 before described, at a point on the eastern side of the road between Burngate and West Lulworth, about 370 yards, measured along the road in a north-\nRailway No. 3, commencing at or near the boundary between the parishes of Chaldon Herring and Owermoigne, by a junction with the intended Railway No. 2 before described, at a point 1,080 yards or thereabouts, measured in a northerly direction, from the north-\nWhich said intended railways and works will be constructed within the following parishes, or some or one of them, viz.: Arne, East Holme, East Stoke, Tyneham, East Lulworth, West Lulworth, Chaldon-\nIt is intended to construct the before mentioned railways on a gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches, and the motive power to be used will be steam, electrical, or other mechanical power.\nThe quantity of land proposed to be taken for the purposes of the before mentioned railways and works will be 120 acivs or thereabouts, chiefly consisting of pasture, down, arable, or other lands used principally for agricultural purposes.\nIf you have any interesting facts about West Lulworth that you wish to share, please email them to us at firstname.lastname@example.org\n|Jonah & the Labour Exchange|\n|Old - Layout|\n|Old - Inscriptions|\n|Old - Name Index|\n|Old - Number Index|\n|Over 60's Club|\n|The Lulworth Players|\n|The Lulworth Society|\n|Village History Group|\n|Baptisms 1813 - 1824|\n|Baptisms 1825 - 1836|\n|Baptisms 1837 - 1850|\n|Marriages 1731 - 1845|\n|Marriages 1901 - 1916|\n|Lulworth Cove Inn|\n|Lulworth Mill House|\n|Stair Hole Cottage|\n|West Lulworth House|\n|St. Andrew's Farm|\n|West Down Farm|\n|St. Oswald's Bay|\n|The Old Barn|\n|Bus & Coach Services|\n|Wills - Barnes|\n|Wills - Browne|\n|Wills - Cockram|\n|Wills - Crispin|\n|Wills - Fookes|\n|Wills - Harvell|\n|Wills - Langrish|\n|Wills - Parmiter|\n|Wills - Penny|\n|Wills - Randall|\n|Wills - Senneck|\n|Wills - Smith|\n|Wills - Trinkhole|\n|Wills - Tewxbury|\n|Wills - Tuxbury|\n|Wills - Vye|\n|Wills - White|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Bedside robots could soon be a reality in public hospitals in the UK.\nNHS, the body governing the operations of the public hospitals in the UK is considered to deliver one of the best healthcare in the world. About 243 million patients are seen each year by the NHS. According to the latest figures, NHS employs 106,430 doctors; 285,893 nurses and health visitors; 21,597 midwives; 132,673 scientific, and therapeutic and technical staff. However, a lack of funding and a severe shortage of manpower is making this task more and more difficult with each passing day.\nAI in healthcare, UK\nA report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in April this year indicates that a wide adoption of AI and Robotics by the NHS can potentially free up £12.5B worth of resources annually, easing the burden on the system. It will help doctors and support attend to other patients while bedside robots take over functions like helping the patients around the ward, conducting digital triage, and even helping them with exercises and nutrition.\nIn addition, the use of machine learning and AI can help the NHS with the screening of diseases like Diabetic Retinopathy, certain cancers without involving a specialist. Acting on the recommendations, the secretary of state for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hunt, has announced a review into how the current NHS staff could be trained in AI and robotics.\nThis is a huge news for the AI community as this signals a wider adoption by a dominant publically funded body.\nAI goes beyond just treatment\nWith an implementation of AI in healthcare in the UK, patients would have a better access to healthcare. Even though the healthcare in the UK is quite good, patients often have to wait to see a doctor. In many cases, an experienced nurse, also known as a Nurse Practitioner sees a patient with a minor ailment. In the UK as well as the USA, NPs can see patients, make a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment.\nWith the help of AI, both patients, as well as the Healthcare professionals, will have a better interaction, with easier follow up, convenient prescriptions, and support beyond the clinic. When a patient chooses the services of Aimedis, say in the UK, he has an option to get an e-consultation from a doctor for less, without footing the bill of an expensive private consultation. He can choose to share his data – age, diagnosis, treatment given, outcomes, any side effects, impact on his daily activities, data from his health trackers, with researchers. This helps the researchers come up with better treatment recommendations, Pharmaceutical companies to come up with safer medicines with fewer side effects, and doctors with a feedback for their treatment.\nAimedis welcomes this news and hopes to see exciting developments in the use of AI to shape Public Policy", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Researchers at NASA have been conducting an experiment with a particle collector mounted on the outside of the International Space Station, in an effort to learn more about cosmic rays, the charged particles that fill the universe.\nThey say that telescopes are an invaluable tool to measure photons, tiny particles of light both visible and invisible, giving us much of the knowledge we have of the universe so far. But the ‘cosmos speaks to us in languages other than light’. The particle collector, known as an ‘Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer’, or AMS, makes it possible to study cosmic rays for the first time from space.\nNikola Tesla discovered cosmic rays in his experiments with high-frequency electricity in 1897, and devoted the last part of his life to developing a system to harness them. He said “This new power for the driving of the world’s machinery will be derived from the energy which operates the universe, the cosmic energy, whose central source for the earth is the sun and which is everywhere present in unlimited quantities.” (Brooklyn Eagle July 10, 1932)\nThis is a video about the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Countries of > Africa | Asia | Europe | North America | South America | Australia and Oceania\nThe smallest in the world continent of Australia and Oceania is surrounded by the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans. It consists of the Australian mainland, such big islands as New Zealand, Tasmania, New Guinea (only it's eastern half), and the many thousands of petty tropical islands of the Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia regions, scattered throughout the South Pacific.\nThere are 14 independent countries and 11 dependent overseas territories. The largest state is Australia, occupying about 86% of the region's total area. The smallest independent country is Nauru, which is so tiny that you need less than an hour to drive around it.\nThe most visited tourist destinations in this part of the world are the Australian cities of Sidney and Melbourne, the famous beach resorts of the Gold Coast. The best natural attraction is the Great Barrier Reef, and the popular island holiday destinations are Fiji and Bora Bora.\nDevelopment | Ra2Directory+ | Multimedia | Photography | Design\n( Copyright © 2000/2020 Ra2D ™ All Rights Reserved. )", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I just made ZeGreatest discovery! You know those orange spheres that are piling up in farmers’ markets and grocery stores? They’re pumpkins! Okay, you probably already knew this, but pumpkins are totally new to me. (Give me a break: I’m a zebra!)\nI always figure the best way to find out about something you never knew existed is to do a little detective work. My favorite farmers, food historians and librarians were happy to help out. I even asked a couple of dogs, since if they like something, you KNOW it’s going to be cool.\nI found out that pumpkins are members of the squash-and-gourd family (it’s always fun to have family, don’t you think?). Some people think pumpkins are vegetables, but they’re actually fruits. You can tell because fruits almost always have seeds on the inside (although berries like to be different and have them on the outside). If you’ve ever scooped the squishy guts out of a pumpkin, you know they have LOTS of seeds.\nYou might think from their bright orange color that pumpkins give you tons of energy — and you’d be right. They’re loaded with natural sweetness and awesome nutrients like beta-carotene, vitamin C, potassium and fiber. Crunchy roasted pumpkin seeds are packed with good-for-you stuff like protein, B vitamins, iron and vitamin E.\nThe kind of pumpkins that are best for eating are known as “sugar pumpkins” (they taste super-sweet). Farmers also grow special pumpkins that are great for carving, which are called “jack-o’-lantern pumpkins.”\nHumans are pretty smart – they’ve been growing and eating pumpkins for thousands of years. They’re native to Central America, but have been grown in North America for centuries (archaeologists have found bits of pumpkin in ancient cliff dwellings in the American Southwest).\nNative Americans made use of the pumpkin harvest in all sorts of cool ways – from drying pumpkin strips for weaving into mats to roasting pumpkins for food.\nWhen the pilgrims arrived in New England in 1620, Native Americans shared their pumpkin knowledge with their new friends. They taught settlers how to make what would eventually become pumpkin pie – and a Thanksgiving favorite!\nHere’s what they did: pilgrims cut the top off the pumpkin, removed the seeds and filled the hollow inside with milk, spices and honey. They put the lid back on the pumpkin and roasted it in the embers of a dying fire. This created sweet, spicy pumpkiny goodness that later became the filling for today’s pumpkin pie.\nPumpkins’ name comes from the Greek word “pepon,” which means a large melon. The English word was “pompion” until about 1640, when people decided “pumpkins” sounded like more fun.\nI think so too, so I decided to learn even more about pumpkins at a super-fun festival in Half Moon Bay, California — the Pumpkin Capital of the World. My friend Farmer Mike told me that the largest pumpkin he’s carved at the festival is about the size of a Volkswagen (but you can’t drive it)!\nHungry for pumpkins? Here’s a colonial rhyme: “We have pumpkin at morning and pumpkin at noon. If it were not for pumpkin, we should be undoon!”\nIf you feel the same way, try the Pumpkin Power Porridge from my buddy Jennifer Wickes (recipe below).\nWant it at noon? Instead of having chips with your lunch, try some roasted pumpkin seeds. You’ll find an easy recipe from Chow Bella Kids just underneath the porridge recipe.\nThis should give you more than enough fun fuel for a happy and healthy fall!\nRecipe: Pumpkin Power Porridge\nAs you can see, this recipe makes enough to power up your whole family. If you just want a bit of pumpkin power for your own breakfast, a super-quick and easy option is to stir about 1/4 cup pumpkin puree and a little brown sugar and cinnamon into a bowl of cooked oatmeal.\nWhat you need:\n1 1/2 cups quinoa, cooked (ask an adult for help)\n1 1/2 cups Steel Cut Oats, cooked (ask an adult for help)\n3/4 cup soy milk\n3/4 cup pumpkin puree (fresh or canned)\n1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice\n3 tablespoons agave nectar\n1/2 cup walnuts, optional\n1/2 cup dried cranberries, optional\nWhat you do:\nMix all ingredients thoroughly together and serve.\nIf you like hot cereal: mix the ingredients, heat gently on the stove (ask an adult for help with this) and enjoy!\nMakes 6 servings\nRecipe: Yummy Roasted Pumpkin Seeds\nWhat you need:\nSeeds from 1 large pumpkin\n1 tablespoon olive oil\n1 teaspoon salt\nWhat you do:\nPreheat oven to 300 degrees F.\nScoop the seeds out of your pumpkin, then rinse off the slippery pulp.\nToss with olive oil and salt.\nSpread the seeds evenly on an ungreased baking sheet.\nBake until dry and crispy – about 45 minutes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "late 14c., \"material, physical; secular;\" c. 1400, \"of or belonging to the body;\" from Old French corporal (12c., Modern French corporel) \"of the body, physical, strong\" and directly from Latin corporalis \"pertaining to the body,\" from corpus (genitive corporis) \"body\" (from PIE root *kwrep- \"body, form, appearance\").\nCorporal punishment \"punishment of the body\" (as opposed to fine or loss of rank or privilege) is from 1580s. Related: Corporality.\nlowest noncommissioned army officer, 1570s, from French corporal, from Italian caporale \"a corporal,\" from capo \"chief, head,\" from Latin caput \"head,\" also \"leader, guide, chief person\" (from PIE root *kaput- \"head\"). So called because he was in charge of a body of troops. Perhaps influenced by Italian corpo, from Latin corps \"body.\" Or corps may be the source and caput the influence, as OED suggests.\nEarlier it meant \"a communion cloth\" (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin corporalis (palla).\nlate 14c., punishement, in law, \"the assessing or inflicting of pain, suffering, loss, confinement, etc. on a person for a crime or offense,\" from Anglo-French punisement (late 13c.), Old French punissement, from punir (see punish).\nFrom early 15c. as \"suffering or hardship inflicted as punishment;\" mid-15c. as \"a penalty or sentence imposed as punishment.\" Gradually extended to \"pain or injury inflicted\" in a general sense; the meaning \"rough handling\" is from 1811, originally in fist-fighting.\n\"inflict trouble or pain on for the purpose of correction,\" 1520s, with -en (1) + the word it replaced, obsolete verb chaste \"to correct (someone's) behavior\" (Middle English chastien, c. 1200), from Old French chastiier \"to punish\" (see chastise). Now chiefly in reference to moral discipline, divine rather than corporal punishment. Related: Chastened; chastening.\nWhom the Lord loveth he chasteneth [Hebrews xii.6]\n\"cylindrical vessel or cask, generally bulging in the middle and made of wooden staves bound by hoops,\" c. 1300, from Old French baril \"barrel, cask, vat\" (12c.), with cognates in all Romance languages (Italian barile, Spanish barril, etc.), but of unknown origin. Also a measure of capacity of varying quantity. Meaning \"metal tube of a gun\" is from 1640s. Barrel-roll (n.) in aeronautics is from 1920. To be over a barrel figuratively, \"in a helpless or vulnerable condition,\" is by 1914 and might suggest corporal punishment.\n1530s, from French impunité (14c.) and directly from Latin impunitatem (nominative impunitas) \"freedom from punishment, omission of punishment,\" also \"rashness, inconsideration,\" from impunis \"unpunished, without punishment,\" from assimilated form of in- \"not, opposite of\" (see in- (1)) + poena \"punishment\" (see penal).\n\"of or pertaining to punishment by law,\" mid-15c., from Old French peinal (12c., Modern French pénal) and directly from Medieval Latin penalis, from Latin poenalis \"pertaining to punishment,\" from poena \"punishment,\" from Greek poinē \"blood-money, fine, penalty, punishment,\" from PIE *kwoina, from root *kwei- \"to pay, atone, compensate\" (source also of Greek timē \"price, worth, honor, esteem, respect,\" tinein \"to pay a price, punish, take vengeance;\" Sanskrit cinoti \"observes, notes;\" Avestan kaena \"punishment, vengeance;\" Old Church Slavonic cena \"honor, price;\" Lithuanian kaina \"value, price\").\nLance corporal \"private soldier performing the duties of a corporal\" (1786) is a folk-etymology or partial nativizing of obsolete lancepesade \"officer of lowest rank\" (1570s), which is an Englishing of Old Italian lancia spezzata \"old soldier,\" literally \"broken lance.\"\n\"moral fault, wickedness,\" c. 1300, from Old French vice \"fault, failing, defect, irregularity, misdemeanor\" (12c.), from Latin vitium \"defect, offense, blemish, imperfection,\" in both physical and moral senses (in Medieval Latin also vicium; source also of Italian vezzo \"usage, entertainment\"), which is of uncertain origin.\nVice squad \"special police unit targeting prostitution, narcotics, gambling, etc.,\" is attested from 1905, American English. Vice anglais \"fetish for corporal punishment,\" literally \"the English vice,\" is attested from 1942, from French. In Old French, the seven deadly sins were les set vices.\nHorace and Aristotle have already spoken to us about the virtues of their forefathers and the vices of their own times, and through the centuries, authors have talked the same way. If all this were true, we would be bears today. [Montesquieu, \"Pensées\"]", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Studies conducted over the past few decades came to the conclusion that ferroelectricity and magnetism tend to be mutually exclusive, and interact only weakly with each other when they do coexist. The recent discovery of multiferroic materials, in which ferroelectricity and magnetism are intimately coupled, has completely changed these established views, opened routes to new technological applications, and has forced physicists to reconsider some long-accepted ideas .\nCoupling between magnetic and electric orders makes it possible to design promising devices, such as high-speed memories with magnetically and electrically addressable states, magnetically tunable tunnel-junctions, sensors, filters, transducers, etc. For instance, the control of magnetization by an applied electric field via the magnetoelectric coupling offers an opportunity to combine the respective advantages of FeRAMs (ferroelectric random access memories) and MRAMs (magnetic random access memories) in the form of non-volatile magnetic storage bits, which can be switched by an electrical field and thus combine the merits of MRAMs in terms of access time and endurance with a low writing energy .\nMeanwhile, a major effort is currently underway to revisit the ferroelectric-ferromagnetic dichotomy and to understand the multiferroic properties on fundamental grounds. The multiferroic compounds are scarce, as symmetry considerations impose severe constraints. Indeed, their space group should be non-centrosymmetric, to accommodate ferroelectricity, but also compatible with a magnetic ground state. Last but not least, all multiferroic materials found to date exhibit a certain amount of magnetic frustration. This, together with a strong spin- lattice coupling, seems to be a basic physical ingredient for multiferroicity. For example, the orthorhombic RMnO3 compounds, where R is a rare-earth element (R = Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy), are archetypes of multiferroic materials. Magnetic frustration arises from competing magnetic exchange interactions, yielding an incommensurable spiral magnetique structure. As proposed in the “spin-current” model, the spin-lattice coupling is a result of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction: minimizing the corresponding term in the Hamiltonian of the system results in a relaxation of atomic positions and, in turn, in an electric polarization .\n S-W Cheong et al., Nature Materials 6, 13 (2007).\n A Barthélémy and M. Bibes, Nature Materials 460, 81 (2009).\n H. Katsura et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 027203 (2007).\nA rapid survey of the literature shows that there also exist a large number of multiferroic materials with a triangular-based geometry. Much work at LLB was thus devoted to the study of delafossite-type materials, such as CuCrO2 and CuMnO2, in close collaboration with the CRISMAT in Caen (Figure 1). These studies showed that the ground state properties of these compounds can be very different, even if the required basic ingredients are present. In CuCrO2 the magnetic ground state is an incommensurate 120° magnetic structure, with spin dynamics that is close to that of a 2D Heisenberg triangular lattice; it is multiferroic in its antiferromagnetic phase, but no unambiguous structural distortion was observed so far at TN . There are, however, anomalies in the spin-wave spectrum, which can be assigned to additional in-plane interactions, and could be an indication of a magnetoelastic coupling in this material. In contrast, the collinear antiferromagnetic ordering in CuMnO2 occurs simultaneously with a symmetry-lowering structural transition, which releases the frustration inherent to the triangular lattice. Below the magnetoelastic transition, CuMnO2 is an improper ferroelastic, but is not magnetoelectric . Even though the basic ingredients of multiferroicity (magnetic frustration and spin-lattice coupling) are at play, the balance between the two is subtle and remains unknown. More studies are in progress, focusing in particular on the role of the ligand ions on the magnetic interactions.\n Spin dynamics in the geometrically frustrated multiferroic CuCrO2\nM. Poienar, F. Damay, C. Martin, J. Robert, and S. Petit Phys. Rev. B 81, 104411 (2010).\n Spin-lattice coupling induced phase transition in the S=2 frustrated antiferromagnet CuMnO2\nF. Damay, M. Poienar, C. Martin, A. Maignan, J. Rodriguez-Carvajal, G. André, and J. P. Doumerc, Phys. Rev. B 80, 094410, (2009).\nFigure 2. Energy scans performed at the zone center Q = (0,0,6) in YMnO3, in the spin-flip (red) and non-spin-flip (blue) channels. Left and right curves correspond to temperatures above and below TN, respectively. The spin wave is in reality a hybrid mode, as evidenced by its “lattice” counterpart (bottom right).\nMultiferroicity in hexagonal RMnO3 compounds\nHexagonal RMnO3 with R elements having smaller ionic radii, (R = Ho, Er, Yb, Lu, Y) form another class of triangle-based multiferroic materials, which has been widely studied at LLB in recent years, in collaboration with the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay (ICMMO University of Paris-Sud 11) .The Néel order at 120° imposed by the geometric frustration is accompanied by an isostructural transition: each ion “moves” inside the unit cell when Mn moments get ordered. This effect provides evidence for a giant magnetoelastic coupling, likely connected with an increase in the ferroelectric polarization. To shed light on these materials, high-resolution neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering were carried out on four RMnO3 compounds (R = Y, Sc, Ho, Yb), with either non-magnetic (Y, Sc) or magnetic (Ho, Yb) R ions, showing (Ho, Sc) or not (Y,Yb) a spin reorientation at the temperature TSR (Figure 1.9). We have shown that the isostructural transition is a systematic feature in this series. In addition, we have established a correlation between the atomic positions, the type of magnetic structure, and the nature of the spin-waves, depending on the compound and its magnetic structure. The key parameter is the position of the Mn ions within the triangular plane, which tunes the sign of the exchange interaction. We speculate that, thanks to the magnetoelastic coupling, the atomic motion helps to release the frustration by selecting one particular magnetic structure, depending on the x value . This process recalls the spin-Peierls states stabilized in several geometrically frustrated 2D or 3D compounds.\nMagnetoelectric coupling also results in mixed magnon-phonon excitations, called electromagnons. While their existence has been theoretically predicted a long time ago, their dual lattice and spin nature makes it challenging to observe them experimentally. Due to their dipole electric activity, they could first be detected by optical measurements, especially in GdMnO3, TbMnO3, Eu0.75Y0.25MnO3, DyMnO3, YMn2O5, TbMn2O5 and BiFeO3. Recent inelastic polarized neutron scattering experiments provided one of the first direct observations of a hybrid dispersive wave in the hexagonal series of RMnO3 materials: part of a spin-wave branch is found to be completely dressed by nuclear spectral weight . Again, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction could be at the origin of this hybridization.\n Spin-Phonon Coupling in Hexagonal Multiferroic YMnO3\nS. Petit, F. Moussa, M. Hennion, S. Pailhès, L. Pinsard-Gaudart, and A. Ivanov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 266604 (2007).\n Magnetic order in YbMnO3 studied by neutron diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy\nX. Fabrèges, I. Mirebeau, P. Bonville, S. Petit, G. Lebras-Jasmin, A. Forget, G. André, and S. Pailhès, Phys. Rev. B 78, 214422 (2008).\n Hybrid Goldstone modes in multiferroic YMnO3 studied by polarized inelastic neutron scattering\nS. Pailhès, X. Fabrèges, L. P. Régnault, L. Pinsard-Godart, I. Mirebeau, F. Moussa,M. Hennion, and S. Petit, Phys. Rev. B 79, 134409 (2009).\n Spin-Lattice Coupling, Frustration, and Magnetic Order in Multiferroic RMnO3\nX. Fabrèges, S. Petit, I. Mirebeau, S. Pailhès, L. Pinsard, A. Forget, M. T. Fernandez-Diaz, and F. Porcher, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 067204 (2009).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dynamic Earth: Revealing Natures Secrets\nExplore the geological process of plate tectonics through hands-on computer interactive animations. Computer games allow visitors to discover how geological processes have shaped the Earth over the millennia, creating new biomes to which plants and animals adapt. Search and uncover evidence of biological adaptations as you are immersed in unique dioramas of an African savannah, tropical rainforest and arctic tundra.\nAn exhibit about the planet Saturn sets the stage for discovery. From an ancient \"wandering star\" to a modern day celestial laboratory, Saturn tantalizes the eye, spirit and mind. This ringed wonder has been explored with telescopes, flyby probes and the orbiting Cassini spacecraft. Countless rings and dozens of moons harbor clues to the history of our solar system and help us understand our place in the universe.\nThis exciting interactive exhibit about renewable energy creates awareness about the benefits of advanced energy technologies and demystify the science behind generating electricity.\nLook/Touch/Learn : Tibet\nAn interactive educational resource where individuals, families and school groups can gain valuable information on Tibetan life and culture, as well as learn about the Museum's extensive and world-renowned collection of sacred and secular Tibetan objects.\n1784 Old Stone School House\nLearn about the history of the building and about school days long ago from the newly installed interactive labels. See a map of the school's first site, examine a photograph of children posing proudly in front of the school a century ago, and learn about the first schoolmaster, a Princeton graduate named John Lyon who earned only $12.00 a month!\nFire Escapes: Danger & Survival is an exciting and important new initiative to teach fire safety and prevention to thousands of children and families from throughout Newark and surrounding communities. Highlights include a real modified fire truck cab that children can climb on and explore, a demonstration area with fire gear, clothing and equipment that children can try on, and a Hazard House featuring special effects and interactive devices to provide a simulated experience for locating fire dangers within the home and safely escaping without harm.\nThe exhibition A Cry of Fire: The New Jersey Fire Story features historic protective clothing, equipment, illustrations and memorabilia to help visitors better understand the history of fire fighting and outstanding bravery of the men who battled life threatening fires.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Types of seizures whether with a etiology or unknown:\nI-Partial seizures (seizures beginning local)\n1-simple partial seizures-(the person is conscious and not impaired). With motor symptoms, autonomic symptoms and even psychic symptoms.\n2.)-Complex partial seizures-(the person is with impairment of consciousness)\nII-Generalized seizures-(bilaterally symmetrical and without local onset).\n3.) Tonic clonic seizures – Grand Mal\n1-Epilepsy is sometimes referred to as a long-term condition, as people often live with it for many years, or for life. Although generally epilepsy cannot be ‘cured’, for most people, seizures can be ‘controlled’ (stopped) so that epilepsy has little or no impact on their lives. So treatment is often about managing seizures in the long-term.\nMost people with epilepsy take anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) to stop their seizures from happening. However, there are other treatment options for people whose seizures are not controlled by anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs).\n2-The ketogenic diet is one treatment option for children with epilepsy whose seizures are not controlled with AEDs. The diet may help to reduce the number or severity of seizures and can often have positive effects on behaviour.\n3-Vagus nerve stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or ‘pulse generator’) which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator send regular, mild electrical stimulations through this nerve to help calm down the irregular electrical brain activity that leads to seizures.\nThere are several ways to treat epilepsy. How well each treatment works varies from one person to another. Vagus nerve stimulation therapy is a form of treatment for people with epilepsy whose seizures are not controlled with medication.\n4-There are different kinds of epilepsy surgery. One kind of surgery involves removing a specific area of the brain which is thought to be causing the seizures. Another kind involves separating the part of the brain that is causing seizures from the rest of the brain.\nSurgery may be possible for both adults and children, and might be considered if:\n- you have tried several AEDs and none of them have stopped or significantly reduced your seizures; and\n- a cause for your epilepsy can be found in a specific area of your brain, and this is an area where surgery is possible.\nWhether you are suitable for surgery is something that you may like to talk about with your GP or neurologist. If you meet these criteria and are considered for surgery, you will need to have further tests before you can have the surgery.\nIf you are referred for surgery you will probably go to a specialist centre for tests. There are many different pre-surgical tests you might have before you can be given the go-ahead for surgery. This could include further MRI scans, an EEG (electroencephalogram) and video telemetry (an EEG while also being filmed). Other types of scans may also be done, which trace a chemical injected into the body. This can show detailed information about where seizures start in the brain.\nMemory and psychological tests are also used to see how your memory and lifestyle might be affected after the surgery. These types of tests also help the doctors to see how you are likely to cope with the impact of having this type of surgery.\nThe tests will confirm whether:\n- the surgeons can reach the epileptogenic lesion during surgery and can remove it safely without causing new problems;\n- other parts of your brain could be affected by the surgery, for example the parts that control your speech, sight, movement or hearing;\n- you have a good chance of having your seizures stopped by the surgery; and\n- you have any other medical conditions that would stop you from having this kind of surgery.\nThe results from the pre-surgical tests will help you and your neurologist decide whether surgery is an option for you, and what the result of the surgery might be.\nyour specialist will also talk with you about the possible risks and benefits of having surgery.\nFor many people the results show that surgery is not an option: the majority of people who are recommended for surgery, and have these tests carried out, are unable to have surgery.\nTake the action and make your life one without seizures occurring putting your life on HOLD you need to TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! That is all up to you, the patient diagnosed with it or questioning if they have seizures.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "© ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI – LACER/ACTIONS, Realistic and not Manipulated Images of Torn and Decomposed Publicity Posters, Cracks, Scratches and Urban Signs\nIn early October, oil and gas company Repsol will begin exploratory drilling in the Canary Islands in an attempt to bolster the Spanish economy. Environmentalists and locals in Spain are calling foul on this practice, as the drilling could devastate not only the tourism economy, but also the rich population of whales and dolphins who call this place their home. Tell the Spanish government to stop this oil prospecting and instead create a sanctuary to protect these wild and majestic creatures.\nThe waters off of the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are jeopardized by oil drilling. One-third of the world’s cetacean species call this place home, and the possibility of an oil spill, loud noises, and contamination could devastate all species. A vast majority of Spanish citizens oppose oil drilling, stating their love for the environment and wildlife, and expressing concern toward tourism. In 2011, several whales in the region were found dead from noise pollution and other factors. These deaths inspired the environmental minister to pitch the idea of making the waters a protected sanctuary—an idea that has rallied many citizens.\nUnfortunately, Spain’s own Supreme Court threw out many challenges, as the country is eager to jump-start its economy. Spain relies heavily on tourists to drive the economy, and while many citizens understand this, the government doesn’t seem to. Respol is trying to calm citizens, stating that it is only looking for oil in the area. If oil is found, Respol claims it will openly discuss what is to be done with concerned citizens and government officials.\nRespol is only concerned with profits, but many citizens are concerned for their economy and the lives of whales. While the company can claim that it is merely looking for oil, it will no doubt pursue drilling if oil is found. Respol does not care for the whales and dolphins in the area, and it seems like the government doesn’t either. Urge the Prime Minister of Spain to stop oil prospecting, and instead create a sanctuary for whales and dolphins.\nI been in the beautiful and wild Fuerteventura. Local people and associations have raised protests. Greenpeace told that the planned oil spill – located in deep waters, at 3000 meters – would required 500 boats to act immediately in order to contain it. Fuerteventura doesn’t have the structure to be able to defend itself immediately against such a disaster…\nNatalia Evora, Environment and Trasports Councillor in Fuerteventura, said to “Fuerteventura Magazine Hoy” : “First of all we must remember that in 21st Century we must speak of energies that do not pollute and we therefore think oil has become an obsolete industry… We must take into account the great damage and risks that this would create in our marine element, for biodiversity and for tourism…The Islands that are Biosphere Reserves, such as Fuerteventura, are creating another energy model and not one that is already being eliminated in many countries because of the problems it has created… An oil spill would immediately close the desalination plants that provide the water we consume”.\nSIGN THE PETITION…\nDear Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy,\nI urge you to stop oil prospecting in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. These waters are home to one-third of the world’s whales and dolphins, and if oil prospecting were to occur here, it would endanger their lives. Furthermore, oil drilling would hurt your nation’s economy, as it is mainly driven by tourism. If the whales and dolphins were to die because of the noise pollution and oil spills, it would no doubt cause severe harm for your nation’s economy.\nMany of your citizens are against oil prospecting, and it baffles me that your Supreme Court would even consider backing this endeavor. While I understand that your economy is struggling, it does not give your government the right to harm living creatures. Consider the harm you will be doing not only to your whales and dolphins, but to the environment and your people if you pursue oil drilling.\n[Your Name Here]", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By: Mir M.Hosseini\nIn the second session of the first Majlis term, Sanioddoleh was elected head of the parliament while Vosooghoddoleh was appointed as his deputy.\nMorteza Gholi Khan Sanioddoleh (c. 1857-1911) was the son of Ali Gholi Khan Mokhberoddoleh and grandson of Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat. Sanioddoleh was a Qajar politician and entrepreneur. He was graduated as Industrial engineer in Germany. He opened the first textile factory in Iran. Due to Britain’s monopoly on many industries including textile, his attempt failed and so did his project of Iron furnaces. He then tried to restart Aminoddoleh’s ailing safety matches and sugar factories.\nAfter another failure, he entered mining business in Pasghaleh area. When he brought machinery and technicians from Germany, Constitutional Monarchy took place. Reformist Qajar era politicians such as Naserolmolk, Motamenolmolk, Mohsirolmolk and Mokhberossaltaneh urged him to accept being the head of Majlis.\nThe first Majlis was not chosen by public vote and well-known people chose representatives from among themselves. This way, the parliament had more an air of a teahouse as some deputies brought along their servants. They used to sit on the flower and chat with each other while drinking tea and smoking Hooka. There were also many visitors sometimes submitting complaints as this Majlis was also called the House of Justice of Mozaffaroddin Shah.\nSanioddoleh as a technical person decided to abandon his Majlis duty to Ehteshamossaltaneh and pursue his long time dream; the railroad. But on a Wednesday, on Oct, 8, 1911 he was shot dead by a Russian from Georgian origin named Ivan at Mohkberoddoleh Intersection.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "After speaking with other parents of children who went to school with his son, Oscar Naval discovered that he was not alone in noticing that kids play games with computers but do not understand or appreciate what makes them work. Rather than kids just playing games, why not teach them to change the game's virtual world with programming and control devices. As a result Oscar created a STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Mathematics) learning program, originally \"STEM-Learn\", that teaches \"Physical Computing\". Physical computing means building interactive systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the real world (e.g. using Raspberry Pi computer with electronic I/O circuits).\nIn the 21st century, project-based STEAM education is a requirement; it is a basic skill. Yet, the education system model we follow was designed in the 19th century. STEAM learning is analogous to the basic reading and writing skills of the past centuries.\nPAST (the 19th & 20th centuries): “Why learn to write when all we need to know is how to plant crops or apply a trade?” Really, how many of us have grown up making a career as a writer? So why become fluent in reading and writing? Obviously, we all know you must learn to read and write because it is a basic skill that opens up opportunities even though we may never make a career as a professional writer.\nPRESENT (the 21st century): Even if you never become a technical professional or even have a technically related career, the process of learning STEAM is now a basic skill that opens up new opportunities. Project-based STEAM learning using gizmos and gadgets helps you learn of the 4 C's (Creativity, Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration), failing and trying again (i.e. program debugging), logical process thinking, and project planning by breaking down ideas into smaller processes.\nThese basic skills are transferable to the fast, ever-changing job market, including non-technical careers as more and more careers are being automated. It is a requirement for all creative innovators, lean businesses and entrepreneurs of today.\nOscar started his career in the Silicon Valley in California USA working in digital electronics, EDA (Electronic Design Automation), and programmable logic devices (specifically, FPGA's or Field Programmable Gate Arrays). When he came to Australia he worked as a Science Interpreter at World of Energy in Fremantle, working with school groups facilitating science, energy conversion, alternative energy, and global warming classes. His other roles have included Quality, Health & Safety, and Environmental advisement, TAFE lecturing in IT, and as a Training Coordinator and Business Analyst for Westone Services for the Department of Training & Workforce Development (formerly known as the Department of Education & Training).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Device records smells to play back later\nIMAGINE being able to record a smell and play it back later, just as you can with sounds or images. Engineersat the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan are building an odourrecorder capable of doing just that. Simply point the gadget at afreshly baked cookie, for example, and it will analyse its odour andreproduce it for you using a host of non-toxic chemicals.The device could be usedto improve online shopping by allowing you to sniff foods or fragrancesbefore you buy, to add an extra dimension to virtual realityenvironments and even to assist military doctors treating soldiersremotely by recreating bile, blood or urine odours that might help adiagnosis.The system will use 15 chemical-sensing microchips, orelectronic noses, to pick up a broad range of aromas. These are thenused to create a digital recipe from a set of 96 chemicals that can bechosen according to the purpose of each individual gadget. When youwant to replay a smell, drops from the relevant vials are mixed, heatedand vaporised. In tests so far, the system has successfully recordedand reproduced the smell of orange, lemon, apple, banana and melon.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Science of Ceramic Glaze Color\nThe colors we observe from surrounding objects are fascinating phenomena of their interaction with light. When a beam of light strikes an object, a portion of the light frequencies is absorbed by the object, whereas the unabsorbed wavelengths are reflected back to our eyes. The light receptors inside our eyes convey these messages to the brain, producing our perception of a color associated with the object.1,2 Light consists of a continuum of frequencies with corresponding wavelengths and energy levels. The relationship between energy and wavelength can be explained by the equation: E=hc⁄λ, in which λ is the wavelength value, E is the energy, c is the speed of light and h is Plank’s constant.3,4,5 The frequency value is reciprocally proportional to wavelength through the equation v=c⁄λ. (Figure 1a). As frequency increases for an incidence of light, shorter wavelengths are present with greater energy (Figure 1b).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Elucidating the Neural Circuitry\nUnderlying Multisensory Decision-Making in Drosophila\nby Alex Buhimschi\nThis summer, I am working in Yale’s Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology in the lab of Dr. Michael N. Nitabach. The aim of this summer research is to train fruit flies to associate visual cues (e.g. the colors green or blue) with aversive stimuli (e.g. a pulsed electric shock) and then determine whether they can retain these memories. Therefore, flies trained to associate the color green with a shock should learn to avoid green even in the absence of shock. Later, we want to test the same type of conditioning on mutant flies with subsets of their dopaminergic neurons either activated or suppressed to identify which specific neurons are involved in the multisensory decision making process.\nWith the help and expertise of Josh Revkin, we used the museum’s ShopBot to build a new training rig capable of both classical and operant conditioning because it allows us to deliver shocks to either half of our arena. The new design uses two parallel coils spaced closely together so that when a fly comes in contact with two adjacent rails, it completes the circuit and receives a shock. An arduino controls the frequency (pulsed or continuous) and position (right or left) of shocks as well as the colors (blue, green, or red) of the LED backlight board. So far this work has challenged me to apply skills I learned as an apprentice like engineering, electronics, and programming. I am very thankful for the exposure the museum gave me to integrating these disciplines in new and creative ways.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A rooftop photovoltaic (PV) power system is a photovoltaic system that has its electricity generating solar panels mounted on the rooftop of a residential or commercial building. These kind of power plants are also called solar roof-top power plant. The different components of such a system include photovoltaic modules, mounting systems, cables, solar inverters and other electrical accessories. Rooftop PV systems on residential buildings typically feature a capacity of about 5 to 20 kilowatts (kW), while those mounted on commercial or industrial roof often reach 100 kilowatts or more. Photovoltaic systems for industrial and commercial rooftops are the mainstay of distributed electrical energy supply. Continuous power failures as well as growing prices for grid electricity and diesel fuel to power diesel generators are a major concern for companies in Australia. They enable businesses to produce a proportion of their power requirement in a cost-effective and reliable way, which will bring down the cost of energy considerably. Solar rooftop systems for captive consumption can be integrated with the existing electricity infrastructure to off-set a major part of your energy needs. Suncliff offers complete turnkey solutions to help you offset your energy needs with solar power so that you see a return in your bottom line. Suncliff is your trusted partner for rooftop power plants.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Research efforts have translated new discoveries into better methods for preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and treating cancer, the group wrote in a statement. According to the report, the number of cancer deaths decreased by 1 million since 1990 and 1991 for men and women, respectively.\nAlso, the number of cancer survivors continues to grow, with nearly 14 million survivors alive at the beginning of 2012. In the past year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 11 new drugs to treat various cancers, three new uses for existing drugs, and three new imaging techniques, AACR said.\nCancer genomics research is also progressing rapidly. Almost half of the new anticancer drugs approved by the FDA in 2013 target specific genetic deficits, and anticancer immunotherapies are also yielding sustained patient responses, the organization noted.\nBad habits, population an uphill battle\nYet despite significant advances in research, more than 1.6 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and more than 580,000 will die from one of the more than 200 types of cancer, according to AACR. The prevalence of obesity and smoking continues to contribute to the problem.\nIn addition, 75% of cancers occur in individuals 55 years and older, and unless the U.S. commits to more research, the healthcare burden and economic costs of cancer will skyrocket in the coming years. The report predicts that global cancer incidence will increase from 12.8 million new cases in 2008 to 22.2 million in 2030.\nThe U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that the overall cost of cancer in 2008 was $201.5 billion, consisting of $77.4 billion in direct medical costs and $125 billion in lost productivity due to premature death. However, the NIH budget has been shrinking for 10 years, and the losses have been compounded by a direct cut of $1.6 billion due to sequestration.\nEfforts are needed to develop new tools, analytics, ways of thinking about cancer, and ways of working together to help all biomedical research stakeholders achieve the goal of removing cancer as a major health threat. Accomplishing this will require a comprehensive understanding of the biology of cancer, the group concluded.\nA copy of the report is available here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Why is it important to identify Asperger’s Syndrome in adults?\nGrowing up with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome can be traumatic for many individuals. For many, the diagnosis and education that follows an assessment can be an extremely helpful and healing experience.\nProper diagnosis can help adults put their difficulties into perspective and also to understand the underlying reasons for their lifelong struggles. Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome have often\ndeveloped negative perceptions of themselves and may regard themselves as “weird”, “crazy,” or “broken.”\nCorrect diagnosis and effective treatment can help improve self-esteem, work performance and skills, educational attainment and social competencies.\nWhat are the behaviors associates with AS?\nAsperger’s Syndrome affects individuals uniquely. Those with moderate to mild traits are most likely to fly “under the radar”. They are most likely to have partners and children, and also are often able to hide their difficulties from people outside of the close family.\nOther individuals with AS may have greater social and communication difficulties, which can even make living independently a challenge. Without support from families and guidance from professionals who are familiar with AS, these individuals are susceptible to isolation and chronic employment problems.\nAn individual with AS may display varying degrees of several or many of the following characteristics:\nDeficiencies in social skills, such as inappropriate social approaches\nDifficulty realizing when others are in trouble and need help\nDifficulty recognizing the emotions, feelings and thoughts of others\nAn inability to consider others' viewpoints\nLimited interest in friendships\nDifficulty with all aspects of communication\nDifficulty in comprehension of meaning and social reasoning\nDifficulty with transitions and changes\nRigid resistance to novelty, and a strong need for routines\nNarrow range of interests or idiosyncratic special interests\nOverly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells and sights\nMotor coordination difficulties\nNormal or above normal IQ\nDifficulty managing their own negative feelings, especially anxiety, anger and depression\nAdults with AS are also susceptible to having various psychological difficulties. Often these challenges are a result of the individual’s difficulty coping with their AS, as well as the stress, anger, frustration, confusion, anxiety and fear that they feel.\nThese additional difficulties are often misinterpreted, misdiagnosed, misunderstood and mistreated, especially if the underlying AS is undiagnosed or is not adequately understood.\nSome of the most common additional difficulties include:\nAnger outbursts (physical or verbal aggression, verbally threatening behavior)\nAgitation and restlessness\nIncrease in obsessional or repetitive activities, thoughts, or speech\nLow mood or depression\nApathy and inactivity\nOnset of uncharacteristic, bizarre behavior or thoughts\nIt is also common for adults with AS to experience chronic struggles in major life activities such as family, friendships, finances, health, and the workplace. Examples of these struggles include:\nDifficulty maintaining serious or romantic relationships\nPartners or spouses complaining of lack of intimacy\nChildren feeling distant from AS parents\nFriendships end due to lack of attention or invitations\nNot understanding why friends or partners become frustrated\nLack of proactive attention to finances and health, resulting in dangerous neglect\nChronically being “underemployed” or unemployed\nFrequent job changes due to “boredom”, lack of challenge, or interpersonal problems\nIt is unfortunate, but professionals who are unfamiliar with AS often focus on the surface symptoms and behaviors and thus arrive at an incorrect diagnosis. Among other, these can include:\nObsessive Compulsive Disorder\nHow should Asperger’s Syndrome be managed?\nThe solutions for each individual with AS are different and will depend on personality, interests, circumstances and experiences. In order to find useful approaches to difficulties, it is imperative to understand what contributes to them.\nMost of the time, the challenges someone with AS faces result from a complex interaction between the individual’s internal characteristics relating to having Asperger's Syndrome, and external factors relating to life events and experiences, adulthood, independence and expectations.\nThe external factors which contribute to the difficulties include:\nnot having a diagnosis, or explanation\nnot having access to information about AS\nnot having access to others with AS\nloss of routine, structure, occupation and or life plan\nincrease in independence\naccumulation of experiences of failure\nlittle or limited support networks\nincreased need for internal motivation and drive as the person gets older\nincreased self-awareness of limitations and differences\nincreased gaps between intellectual, cognitive skills and social, self-help skills.\nInternal factors which make individuals with AS vulnerable to significant psychological distress and the development of additional difficulties include:\ndecreasing internal motivation\nrigid ways of thinking\nlimited distractions from negative/obsessional thoughts\nlimited insight into own difficulties or reasons\npoor coping strategies\nlow threshold for tolerance of stress, frustration and nger\npoor self-identity, understanding and esteem.\nTo reduce and prevent further difficulties it is important to focus on\nunderlying causes which will be different for different individuals. The aim is to provide:\ndiagnosis and explanation\nsupport with understanding of Asperger’s Syndrome\nexplanation and education of significant others (professionals, employers, etc.)\nrelevant daily occupation and routine\nplans and goals\nconcrete strategies for preventing and reducing anxiety\nsupport and advice for increasing tolerance and developing coping strategies\nopportunities and experiences to increase self-esteem\nIncrease or encourage:\ndaily routine and structure\ngoal-planning and achieving\nregular physical exercise\nstimulating occupations and activity\nparticipation in structured social group activity\nIn order to reduce:\nThis article is available for reprint. Click here for the permission form", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Is it possible to control your diabetes with nutritional supplements\nIs It Possible To Control Your Diabetes With Nutritional Supplements?\nImproper nutrition does contribute to the development of diabetes, but proper nutrition can be a powerful\ntreatment for this disease. (1) This disease is so closely related to diet and nutrition; scientists have studied\nhow nutritional supplements can effectively treat diabetes. In researching vitamin supplements, researchers\nhave found that many vitamins and herbs can effectively help lower blood sugar. Some of these supplements\nare vitamin C, B vitamins, minerals like chromium and vanadyl sulfate, and herbs like Gymnema Sylvestre can\nall help lower blood sugar. If one combines these supplements together, they can synergistically work together\nto lower blood sugar. First let’s look at what diabetes is and then we can discuss how these supplements\nThe foods we eat are digested and broken down into simpler forms; most carbohydrates are broken down into\nsugar also known as glucose. These sugars are absorbed through the intestinal tract into the bloodstream\nwhere it is circulated through out the body to feed cells.\nInsulin is a hormone released by the pancreas. The pancreas is a long skinny organ that sits behind the\nstomach adding enzymes into the digested food. Insulin helps deliver nutrients and sugar from the\nbloodstream into cells where it is needed. The sugar supplies energy to various organs such as the heart and\nlungs; for example the heart beats and lungs breathe which keep us alive as a result of sugar’s energy supply.\nThere are two classes of diabetes type I and type II. Type I diabetes is sometimes called insulin dependent,\njuvenile or child onset diabetes. This type usually starts at a very early age and the pancreas stops producing\ninsulin. When the body does not make insulin, the sugar stays in the bloodstream instead of going into the\ncells where it’s needed. This can be fatal, so a person with type I diabetes needs a shot of insulin every day\nfor his/her body to function properly (to stay alive).\nType II diabetes usually starts in adults and is the most common kind of diabetes in America. Most people\nwho have diabetes have type II, that’s about 90% -95% of all diabetics in America. In this type of diabetes, the\npancreas is producing enough insulin but the body doesn’t use the insulin effectively. This is called insulin\nresistance, cells in the body do not respond to the insulin and so the pancreas produces more and more\ninsulin to over compensate this resistance. When blood sugar starts to raise in the bloodstream in this\nmanner, the medical doctor (MD) will diagnose type II diabetes. Most type II diabetics need a prescription drug\nto lower the blood sugar because a diet change isn’t enough to control their blood sugar problem. (4)\nIn both cases, the blood sugar is too high in the bloodstream and will cause several problems. The first\nproblem is cells cannot absorb sugar for energy; they starve and start to die. Secondly an excess amount of\nsugar in the blood leads to cardiovascular disease, hardening of the arteries, nerve and eye damage, and\nScientists are not exactly sure what causes type I diabetes, but they do know it has something to do with the\nimmune system. A healthy immune system protects us from the common cold and cancer cells (cells in the\nbody that go bad). The immune system can becomes confused and starts attacking good cells, in some\ncases, the healthy cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, which causes diabetes. (4)\nType II diabetes has been linked to individuals who are overweight. These overweight individuals have high\nblood pressure and high cholesterol as well which may also lead to this form of diabetes. Being overweight\ncauses the body to become insulin resistant and by dropping some excess weight one could possibly reverse\ntype II diabetes (rare).\nIf you think you have diabetes, you should look for the following symptoms. Type I diabetics usually have\nfrequent urination because of the high blood sugar; the kidneys are trying to balance the body’s bloodstream.\nThe kidneys are forced to eliminate all the unused nutrients and sugar in the blood over working the kidneys\nand if left unchecked can lead to kidney damage. If you experience intense thirst, your body is trying to\nreplace the liquids lost from frequent urination. You may experience increased hunger but you will not gain\nweight when you do eat more. This is because your body’s cells need more nutrients, but since these cells\ncan not absorb the insulin and nutrients the body starves.\nWith type II diabetes you might not notice any symptoms. Type II diabetes usually happens very gradually and\nthe person doesn’t know about it till diabetic complications occur, then it’s too late. (3,4)\nAll diabetic complications are caused from high blood sugar. The longer the blood sugar goes unchecked the\ngreater your chances of having complications. High blood sugar causes cardiovascular disease. The blood\nvessels begin to thicken from excess fat in the bloodstream because high blood sugar elevates the fat\ncirculating in the blood. When the vessels thicken circulation becomes poor and with poor circulation your\nability to heal is impaired. Heart attack, heart pain, and stroke are common in diabetics because of poor\ncirculation and blocked arteries form all the fat buildup in the blood vessels.\nNerve damage is another complication of diabetes. Diabetics may notice numbness in their arms and legs\nbecause of nerve damage caused from high blood sugar. These nerves can not send signals to the brain\nrelaying pain and touching sensations. Most diabetics will notice numbness in the feet and lower legs before\nother parts of the body are effected. (3,4)\nThe next complication is eye damage. A more sever complication because going blind is not pleasant for\nanyone. The eye has very small delicate vessels in the retina, these vessels help you see when light shines\nupon them in the eye. When blood vessels are weakened, they can hemorrhage and leak fluid into the eye.\nThis causes swelling and blurs the vision. There is a clear gel in the eye keeping it solid and round, if blood\nleaks into this gel, your vision can become blurred or completely impaired. As the eye continues to get\ndamaged, the eye will attempt to repair itself by growing new vessels. These new vessels are fragile and can\nburst. Scar tissue can form and cause the retina to pull away from the eye, worst case causing blindness.\nBlood vessels network throughout the entire body. Your kidneys are made up of vessels and can become\ndamaged as well. If the vessels in the kidneys become impaired, waste cannot be eliminated from the body\nand a form of treatment called dialysis might be required. If blood sugar is not kept under control, damage to\nthe kidneys will continue to the point where a transplant might be needed or daily dialysis is required to\nremove waste from the bloodstream. The good news is practically all of the complications that occur with\ndiabetes can be prevented when the right care is taken.\nWith proper diet and nutrition one can successfully prevent diabetic complications. Along with diet and\nnutrition, vitamins, minerals and herbs can also help lower blood sugar and reduce the complications that may\noccur. The best kind of supplement is one that combines vitamins and herbs together so that they work\ntogether synergistically to effectively lower blood sugar. You might be wondering what vitamins, minerals and\nherbs are good for blood sugar, your in luck here is a list:\nVitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin B-6, Folic Acid, Vitamin B-12, Biotin, Magnesium, Zinc, Selenium, Copper,\nManganese, Chromium, Gymnema Sylvestre, Bitter melon, Fenugreek seed extract, Bilberry berry extract,\nBioflavonoids, and Vanadyl Sulfate. Make sure most of these ingredients are in the formula you buy. The\nfrequency at which you take these supplements should be listed on the bottle you buy as well. As a rule of\nthumb they should be taken at least twice a day. Do not stop taking your normal multiple vitamin supplement;\ndiabetic formulas are a complement to what you currently take not a replacement.\nVitamin C (ascorbic Acid) – keeps diabetics blood vessels and kidneys healthy. Vitamin C works with vitamin\nE to get sugar out of the blood stream and into the cells.\nVitamin E (Natural Tocopherols) – helps prevent nerve damage, helps prevent kidney damage, blindness, and\nheart attack. Vitamin E works with the B vitamins to help keep the pancreas healthy.\nVitamin B-6 (pyridoxine HCL) – works with folic acid to help prevent nerve damage and heart attack.\nFolic Acid – works with B-12 to help prevent stroke and the loss of limbs due to diabetic complications.\nVitamin B-12 (cyanocobalamin) – works with B-6 and folic acid to help relieve neuropathic pain.\nBiotin – helps insulin work better and helps keep the pancreas working well to lower blood sugar.\nMagnesium (Krebs Cycle Chelate) – helps insulin work more effectively and relieves neuropathic pain.\nZinc (picolinate, chelate) – helps insulin work better and helps shuttle blood sugar into cells.\nSelenium (aspartate) – helps prevent nerve damage and protects blood vessels against elevated blood sugar.\nSelenium mimics insulin helping blood sugar into the cells.\nCopper (picolinate) – helps protect the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas. Also, copper helps prevent\ndiabetes-related damage to blood vessels and nerves, and lowers blood sugar levels.\nManganese – helps prevent damage to nerves and blood vessels.\nChromium (picolinate) – works with biotin to help bring down blood sugar and keeps the pancreas working\nGymnema Sylvestre leaf extract – helps balance blood sugar and may protect us from gaining weight.\nBitter melon whole fruit extract – helps pathways in the liver work more efficiently; lowers blood sugar levels.\nFenugreek seed extract – helps our kidneys and liver metabolize blood sugar more efficiently.\nBilberry berry extract – helps reduce the severity of diabetic cataracts.\nMixed bioflavonoids – helps protect vitamin C and E from becoming damaged. Helps clear and sharpen vision\nVanadyl sulfate – helps muscle and liver cells use insulin more effectively.\nThese supplements will not lower your blood sugar too much, but help bring them down to a more normal\nlevel. Diabetes is a disease that needs to be monitored daily several times throughout the day. When you start\ntaking a diabetic supplement to help equalize your blood sugar, monitor your sugar levels more often at first\nso you can get a feel for where you sugar levels come down to before taking more insulin. A normal range of\nblood sugar for diabetics before a meal is 70 – 150 (1,2,5) and ideally 70 – 120.\nThe diabetic formula you may take for lowering blood sugar is by no means a license to eat any way you want.\nYou still need to eat healthy and see your health practitioner on a regular basis. Diabetes might make you feel\noverwhelmed, especially if you have recently been diagnosed with it. With proper exercise, diet, and vitamin\nsupplements you can be well on your way to a lower more manageable blood sugar level, and live a longer\n1. American Diabetes Association. In the news. Available at: www.ada.yellowbrix.com/pages/ada. Accessed\non December 10, 2001.\n2. Guven S, Kuenzi J. Diabetes mellitus. In: Porth CM. Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States.\n5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott; 1998: 810-830.\n3. Guyton AC, Hall JE. Diabetes mellitus. In: Textbook of Medical Physiology. 10th Ed. Philadelphia, Pa: W.B.\nSaunders Company;2000: .\n4. Grodner M, Anderson SL, DeYoung S. Diabetes mellitus. In: Foundations and Clinical Applications of\nNutrition: A Nursing Approach. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby; 2000:540-548.\n5. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Do your level best. Available at:\nwww.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/dylb/chap1.htm#e. Accessed December 31, 2001.\nVisit VitaNet Health Foods at http://vitanetonline.com/. VitaNet sells high quality vitamins and herbs\nlike Nature’s Plus Vitamins. Please link to this site when using this article.\nArticle from articlesbase.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the current age we live in, technology has become an important component and is also playing an increasing role in education. As technology advances, it is used to benefit students of all ages in the learning process.\nAt C.D. Foundation students will be helped in absorbing the material in the manner they are comfortable with. Since some pupils are visual learners, projection screens linked to computers can allow them to see their notes instead of simply listening to a teacher deliver a lecture.\nTechnology will be a part of all curriculums, even outside of computer and technology classes. Students would be using computers to create presentations and use the Internet to research topics for papers and essays.\nVarious software programs will provide study questions, activities, and even tests and quizzes for a class that can help students continue learning outside the classroom.\nLaboratories are equipped with all industry standard modern equipments which would be used in developing a solid foundation of basic science concepts, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills that will facilitate accelerated growth of all pupils.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It takes up to a thousand years to produce the top few centimetres of soil and its rate of formation is proportionately linked with the number of inhabiting worms - the largest contributors to soil maintenance. Capable of moving and mixing vast amounts of topsoil, these structural engineers are responsible for creating soil macro-pores which are vital for efficient oxygen and water circulation. Furthermore, earthworms shred surface residue and pull it down into the ground, making it more accessible to microbes which can then process the debris and convert it into humus.\nInversion tillage techniques and intensive use of pesticides have a detrimental effect on earthworm populations and the wider soil fauna community, disrupting the natural process of soil rejuvenation and maintenance. Small earthworm count means poorer aeration, water circulation and overall soil structure. Reducing such interference as much as possible is therefore the first step towards effective soil management.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The gradual introduction of small doses of peanuts to people with a peanut allergy could alter how their DNA reacts, according to new research from Stanford University and Packard Children’s Hospital. The research supports a growing body of evidence for oral immunotherapy (OIT) including recent positive results from the University of Cambridge. This latest study, published in the journal The Lancet, suggests that when kids slowly increase their tolerance to the allergen, OIT changes how their genes express themselves inside the body.\nScientists call this type of DNA alteration an epigenetic change, from the Latin word epi, which means above. An \"epigenetic\" change literally means an alteration that is \"above\" the genes that a person is born with.\nCurrently, doctors have no cure for peanut allergies, which can cause severe reactions including death. In the study, researchers examined the blood cells of a group of 20 peanut-allergic children and adults who had undergone immunotherapy for two years. That meant that doctors had these patients eat gradually increasing amounts of peanut powder every day for two years until they became desensitized to the allergen. At the start of the trial, the patients were already able to eat four grams of peanuts every day with no signs of an allergic reaction.\nTo test the success of the immunotherapy (and find out the mechanisms behind it) the doctors told the patients to stop eating peanuts for three months, and then gave them a small dose. Seven out of the 20 patients had no reaction to the peanuts, while 13 regained their allergy. The researchers compared the white blood cells of the patients who could now tolerate peanuts with a control group who had never had immunotherapy before. More specifically, the researchers looked at the genes within these white blood cells.\nFor the patients who never received immunotherapy (the control group), a large number of chemical tags called methyl groups were now affixed to their DNA. These methyl groups controlled how certain genes actively expressed themselves in the body. The large clump found on the control group’s genes had locked, or silenced, the genes that were supposed to help them fight off the allergic reactions.\nIn contrast, the researchers found that the seven patients who could now tolerate peanuts showed a very sparse number of methyl groups on their DNA, meaning that the genes that help them control their allergic reactions were free to actively work within their body.\n\"It's interesting that the change we saw is at the epigenetic level,\" Nadeau said in a news release. \"This might help us tell people if they can safely go off of immunotherapy, or if they need to continue to eat the food every day.\"\nNadeau also said that examining epigenetic changes could help monitor how effective OIT is for certain people — according to Nadeau, the method is inexpensive but requires FDA approval before it can be used for a general population.\nSource: Syed A, Garcia M, Lyu S, et al. Peanut oral immunotherapy results in increased antigen-induced regulatory T-cell function and hypomethylation of forkhead box protein 3 (FOXP3). The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2014.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Working together as a team to help your child succeed.\nRather than parents and tutors feeling that they are helpless and unable to do anything to get their children to do their schoolwork they should consider that they are part of a tutoring team. If the Parents, Tutor and Student can work together this will help your child succeed.\n1. Communication is the key to making the Tutoring Team work:\nThe first thing a team does is they get to know one another. Spend some quality time with your child. Talk about things that they enjoy. Encourage your child’s Tutor to also spend the time to get to know your child.\nYour child may not understand why they even need to be doing their homework in the first place. Consider having a talk with your child and your child’s tutor to discuss why they need to do homework and how it will help them for the rest of their lives. Much of what we learn comes from repeated practice over time. This will help your child understand why doing homework is important.\n2. Establish each member’s role in the Tutoring Team:\nEach member of a team plays an important role. A Tutoring Team is no different. There is the need for supportive parents, who care about their child’s success. The student should try their best to work hard and to work with their parents and their tutor. Tutors also play a supporting role to help establish lesson plans that can be adapted to the individual student’s learning styles.\n3. Setting Team goals to work toward during Tutoring Sessions:\nThe next thing a team does is to establish a goal. What are you trying to accomplish as a team? You all are working together so that the student can master the specific skills that they need to learn and be able to advance to the next level. Establish specific goals with specific rewards. Involving your child in this process will help them to take ownership of their schoolwork.\n4. Consistency and Keeping up the Moral of the Team: Don’t set your child up to fail\nIt is important to find ways to help your child succeed at doing schoolwork. Try to set tutoring sessions during a time when your child is the most productive – this could be different for each child. Some children are able to do their homework as soon as they come home from school while others may need some down time to play and release some energy. Others may work better after dinner. As long as you and your tutor are consistent and help your child stick to their scheduled homework and tutoring time- you will see your child is more likely to succeed.\n5. Having the Proper Practice (Tutoring) Space and Equipment:\nAll teams need a place to practice and the proper equipment in order to improve their skills. Make sure that your child and tutor have the space and materials they need for their tutoring sessions. Your child’s Math Tutor may need to use a whiteboard or have access to a CD player or computer. Having the Space and materials can make all the difference!\nIf you view yourself as part of a Tutoring Team you will be more committed and active in your child’s learning process. When the Team wins a game or when your child starts to improve at school you will feel even more proud because of the part you played to help your child accomplish their goals.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hassan Mahamdallie, author of 'Crossing the River of Fire: The Socialism of William Morris' shares his thoughts on William Cuffay and the London Chartists, who are currently depicted in Red Saunders' reimagined photograph in front of the Gallery.\nThe 1832 Reform Act had extended the vote to more men with property but the working class still did not have a vote. A nationwide campaign involving men and women called for change and they became known as The Chartists, the first mass working class movement in Britain. The People’s Charter of 1838 demanded votes for all men, constituencies of\nequal size, the abolition of the property qualification, annual parliaments and salaries for members of Parliament. Portrayed in Red Saunder’s photograph is a meeting of the London Chartists in Whitechapel in 1842, with William Cuffay, the son of a slave and the elected President of the London Chartists. He was transported to Tasmania for his endeavours, later pardoned, and continued to be politically active there.\nA joint meeting by the Waltham Forest Radical History Workshop and the Friends of the William Morris Gallery", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Scientific Facts About Meat\nAt one time science supported the consumption of meat. It no longer does. The facts are so overwhelming that the eating of animal flesh is doomed as the age of enlightenment is being ushered in. One day mankind will look back in horror at the carnivorous and murderous habits of its predecessors. The eating of animals and other living creatures will seem as barbaric and disgusting to future man as the eating of human meat now seems to the average American. Animal-eating is only one step below cannibalism. Consider these facts:\nIn 1961, the “Journal of the American Medical Association” reported that a vegetarian diet could prevent 90-97% of heart diseases.\nStudies reveal 59% less cancer among people who eat small amounts of meat, compared to average meat-eaters. (Imagine how much better those figures would be when compared to vegetarians.)\nScotland has the highest rate of bowel cancer in the world and they eat 20% more meat than the English.\nThe kidneys of the meat-eater must work three times harder than the kidneys of the vegetarian.\nAlthough meat needs to pass through the digestive tract quickly, it takes four times longer than grains or vegetables.\nDuring World War I, Norway and Denmark could not get meat. The death rate dropped 17% and then returned to normal when they returned to their meat diets. The American National Institute of Health, in a study of 50,000 vegetarians, found that they live longer, have far less heart disease, and a much lower cancer rate compared to meat-eaters.1\nIn England, vegetarians pay less for life insurance. Studies show that vegetarians are stronger, more agile, have greater endurance, and recover from fatigue faster than meat-eaters.\nA Yale University study revealed that vegetarians have nearly twice the stamina of meat-eaters.2 Cornell University announced through major newspapers in May of 1990, “Humans are natural vegetarians.” The report said: “Animal foods, in general, are not really helpful and we need to get away from eating them.” “In addition to reducing the risk of heart disease, low cholesterol also protects against colon cancer, the most common life-threatening cancer among Americans.”\nWorld starvation is well connected to meat-eating habits. If Americans stopped feeding grain to cattle, the excess grain could feed 500 million people (not to mention the land that could be used to grow food instead of being used for grazing cattle). When people see those programs on TV about all the starving children, they should consider that their diets are a contributing factor.\n**Pasteurized milk, like meat, drains the body of alkaline and electrolyte minerals. Milk that has been cooked (pasteurized) takes more calcium to digest than it gives back!\nChemistry of Food and Nutrition, by Sherman, H., MacMillan Co., NY 1952, pg. 208.\nThe Science of Nutrition, Sherman, H., Columbia University Press, NY, 1943, pg. 177-1981\n1 Note: Most American vegetarians were once meat eaters and even after many years on a vegetarian diet, they still carry old dead meat or its toxins in their intestinal tracts. It takes thorough cleansing to get rid of it. Lifelong vegetarians have a tremendous advantage, even if they eat poorly, as many do. When this study was made, most of the vegetarians ate large amounts of meat substitutes, the highly processed soy products, which are detrimental to the human body.\n2 In this study, they used athletic meat-eaters, and compared them to vegetarians who did not participate in sports. Would you call that a fair study? Yet the vegetarians still won out.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Project Fujisawa Smart City, led by the Japanese brand Panasonic, demonstrates the latest technologies to create, store and save energy.\nJAPAN PROMOTES THE CREATION OF SUSTAINABLE AND SELF-SUFFICIENT CITIES\nEnvironmentally-friendly, eco-architecture, urban regeneration, environmental technology, bioclimatic, ecology, are concepts that have recently been integrated in an important way in the vocabulary of the 21st century. These new “global” concepts can be found in specific towns, as well as in large urban developments and in local communities.\nIn order to have “sustainable” cities it is necessary to recover green areas, fields and forests, but above all to reduce the excessive use of fuels, to devise new systems for saving energy, and to produce buildings that avoid artificial wastage, replacing it instead with elements that channel natural resources and unconventional energies. Finally, sustainability must be part of our daily life.\nFUJISAWA; A FORWARD-THINKING CITY JUST 50KM FROM TOKYO\nThe Fujisawa project, led by the Japanese brand Panasonic, is expected to be completed in 2018 when the brand celebrates its 100th anniversary. The buildings allow for a sustainable development of the city and its community. The city will be able to grow on a large scale as a “green” and “smart” place that prioritizes an ecological and healthy lifestyle for its residents. To achieve a global reduction in CO2 emissions by 70% when compared against 1990 levels, apart from connecting the city to new forms of sustainable energy, biodiversity is being promoted by creating green zones throughout the city.\nThis smart city uses cutting-edge technologies to create, store and save energy and thus reducing energy expenditure by up to 70% in homes and 20% in public areas. This new model has zones that facilitate recharging electric cars and bicycles, but also favours pedestrian areas. Using state-of-the-art equipment and services, Fujisawa’s council intends to build a sustainable city for 100 years.\nThe concept is founded on three distinct categories, where energy and people’s lifestyles converge to create infrastructure that moves towards an ecological and sustainable society. Its main pillars will be energy (including the generation, storage, saving and management), mobility, safety, health, single-community portal, finance, natural resource management, and sustainable-livelihood promotion platforms. The goal here is therefore to encourage healthy lifestyles not only among residents, but also among people living in the surrounding areas and visitors from other regions.\nSPAIN AND RENEWABLE ENERGIES\nIn Spain we should take advantage of all our natural resources since we are a country that has been left with sun, wind and water, and with large areas of land so as to produce electricity. What has happened is that the Spanish government is against renewable forms; the “tax on the sun” testifies to this. In other European countries, with fewer natural resources than in Spain, they have better infrastructure. In Japan they have a culture that is accustomed to managing their own resources due to the fact that they have limited territory.\nAt HJAPÓN, we strive to advise our clients interested in buying luxury homes, and one way is to promote sustainable practices when renovating houses. Improving energy efficiency, protecting the environment using renewable energy, the safety and replacement of electrical installations, water, gas or other supplies that benefit the access to the property are all ways in which to achieve this.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Some historical events from 1968:\nJanuary 1968: The worlds first heart transplant was carried out. Alexander Dubceck became the new Prime Minister of Czecholslovakia. The Soviet Union launched the manned Soyuz 4 spacecraft. The Soviet Union launched the manned Soyuz 5 spacecraft. The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed, from the merger of two companies. The Island of Mauritius became independent of Britain.\nFebruary 1968: The world's largest hovercraft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight. The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced. English astronomer Jocelyn Burnell announced the discovery of the first pulsar.\nMarch 1968: Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, was granted independence after 158 years of British rule. The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was killed in a plane crash.\nApril 1968: Martin Luther King, the US black civil rights leader, was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. Apollo 6, an unmanned test spacecraft, was launched on a Saturn V rocket. An oil tycoon bought the old London Bridge, and shipped it stone by stone to the USA. Britain's first decimal coins, the 5p and 10p, were issued in preparation for decimalization. The largest underground nuclear device ever to be tested in the US exploded in Nevada.\nMay 1968: Legoland, in Denmark, was opened.\nJune 1968: US Senator Robert Kennedy was shot and killed in Los Angeles. NHS Prescription charges began. A stampede at an Argentinian football match left 73 dead. Tony Hancock, the famous English comedian, died. Gaullists won victory in the French National Assembly elections.\nJuly 1968: Alec Rose reached Portsmouth after sailing around the world, single handed.\nAugust 1968: Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia.\nSeptember 1968: Second class post was introduced in the UK. Theatre censorship in Britain was abolished.\nOctober 1968: The US spacecraft Apollo 7 was launched from Cape Kennedy, with a crew of three. In London, the new Euston railway station was opened.\nNovember 1968: Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman, to be elected to the US House of Representatives . The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth ended its final transatlantic journey. Enid Blyton, the childrens writer and creator of 'Noddy', died.\nDecember 1968: Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford. Prize winning author, John Steinbeck, died in New York ('Grapes of Wrath' & 'Of Mice And Men').", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Plastic Oceans Foundation, an environmental lobby group, is encouraging UK supermarkets to wake up to the impact of plastic packaging on the environment and give customers the option to buy non-plastic products.\nAs well as unwrapped food aisles, the interest group also wants to see more retailers embrace biodegradable materials for food packaging.\nBut some packaging industry experts have questioned the viability of the plan, suggesting that plastic will be an important part of the industry for many years to come.\nFor their part, they have suggested alternative ways that retailers can cut down on plastic without leaving the material behind completely.\nIs plastic free a reality?\nPlastic packaging has proved its worth over the years. It is cheap, safe and easy to make. In many ways, plastic is a victim of its own success, and widespread use has led to environmental problems.\nIn a bid to tackle plastic in the world’s oceans, the Plastic Oceans Foundation is trying to convince major users of plastic packaging like supermarkets to do their part.\nSian Sutherland, a trustee at the foundation, will negotiate with UK supermarkets.\nShe told Sky News: “We want to buy food that is not wrapped or contaminated with plastic. We are asking supermarkets to be part of the process. The situation with plastics is very very urgent and we have to do something now.”\nBut the move has drawn criticism from different corners of the packaging industry.\nBarry Turner, Director of Plastics and Flexible Packaging at the British Plastics Federation, said: Customers and retailers should continue benefiting from the numerous technical and environmental advantages of plastic packaging before ensuring it is recycled. In addition, everyone needs to continue to take action to prevent littering and to prevent plastic from finding its way into our oceans.\nHe also pointed out that in many cases, plastic packaging is used because it has a smaller environmental impact than other materials.\nHe said: “It is important that the public understands that plastic packaging IS the greener option ” it uses less energy to produce, reduces transport costs and CO2 emissions because it is lightweight, and significantly reduces the amount of fresh food wasted by protecting it in a hygienic environment and extending its shelf life,” Turner continued.\n“Remember, ten years ago a major retailer trialled selling cucumbers without plastic packaging but the scheme was abandoned due to the huge amount of food that was wasted.”\nAlternative ways of reducing plastic consumption\nPlastic free aisles have several drawbacks, not least because plastic is important to protect products and keep them fresh in supermarkets.\nWith this is mind, some companies have tried to reduce their plastic usage in different ways.\nMultinational megabrand Unilever has focused on a process called ‘lightweighting’ to try and reduce the amount of plastic it uses to package its products.\nThey strip back the amount of raw plastic used in their packaging or replace some plastic with different materials.\nA foamed layer that it introduced into bottles of Dove body wash, for example, apparently cut the overall plastic content by 15%.\nOther companies have adopted different tactics. Marks and Spencer have tried to make their supply chain greener by using one recyclable plastic polymer across all its packaging.\nWhile some supermarket packaging is recyclable (like water and milk bottles) other bits are not (like the plastic trays that hold meat).\nM&S are trying to avert this by using one recyclable plastic across the company.\n“We know there’s an issue with customers being a little confused about what you do with different types of plastic: from the tray with your meat to the light films around vegetables,” Kevin Vyse, M&S packaging technologist told The Guardian. “With plastic, we are giving them a lot of things to do and certain local authorities don’t even want to handle multiple plastics.”\nBut Mr Vyse also recognised the importance of plastic and the difficulties associated with phasing it out.\n“Plastic is incredibly valuable in delivering food through supply chains and keeping it fresh,” he said. “The challenge is lightweighting to a point where we might be in danger of creating food waste […] If you get too light, the plastic will also deteriorate before it gets to the recycling process and you start getting leakage.”\nSmart packaging design can reduce plastic\nSmart design can help reduce the amount of plastic that goes into packaging.\nA recent change to the design of many supermarket milk bottles, for example, saw the overall plastic content reduced by 15%. This was achieved simply by moving the plastic handle from the centre of the bottle to the corner.\nThis gave the plastic milk bottles more structural integrity, allowing the packaging makers to make the walls thinner.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Having traveled globally for years and visited ancient sites myself, the subject of Peru was bound to come up. Peru is a place our Lara has traveled to in the past. Though there is one outstanding place that she has not ventured and that is Machu Picchu. However, Vilcabamba (Espíritu Pampa) is only a few hundred miles away from Machu Picchu, and we all know about Lara’s travels there.\nSide Note: I highly recommend the four-day trek to the Machu Picchu ruins from Cuzco. The trail follows the Urubamba River. If you have enough endurance for this dream trek, it holds a rich experience in the history of the area unlike any ride up by Train or Bus will ever impart.\nThe Inca Empire dominated western South America in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is within this timeframe that Machu Picchu is believed to have been built. It is alleged that Machu Picchu, “old peak” in the native Quechua language, was abandoned around the same time the Spanish conquest of the pre-Colombian civilization began in the 1530s.\nHistorians believe that because of the lack of evidence concerning the conquistadors ever reaching or attacking the mountain citadel, many suspect a smallpox epidemic was the reason for abandonment. However, this is a suggestion and we may never know the exact reason.\nA Variety OF Functions Perhaps …\nWhen your eyes first set sight on this remarkable place it takes your breath away. Machu Picchu is comprised of terraced terrain and over 150 buildings. There are bathhouses, temples, and sanctuaries to name a few. Modern thought suggests Machu Picchu was a royal estate where Inca emperors such as Pachacuti (1438–1472) and other nobles resided.\nHowever, there were other thoughts about the site that suggest it could have been used as a prison, trade hub, a women’s retreat even a city that was devoted to royal coronations. The scholarly perspectives on interpreting what Machu Picchu was is endless.\nIt wasn’t until 1911 that American archaeologist Hiram Bingham came to Peru in search of the aforementioned Vilcabamba, remember the Tomb Raider version? haha, that’s right, the same place only far different. However, Bingham’s quest took him in a different direction after he arrived in the Urubamba Valley. There, a local farmer directed he and his small team toward some ruins on a mountaintop he called Machu Picchu. After he and his team tackled the steep mountain trail to the ridge a group of local people led by a boy of 11 – years – old took Bingham and company to the threshold of the famed Inca citadel.\nExcited about this discovery, Bingham wrote a book titled, “The Lost City of the Incas“\nThis ignited a flood of tourists eager to see the legendary city for themselves. During Bingham’s time spent at Machu Picchu, he excavated several artifacts, which he took back to Yale University in the interest of further study. The action, in turn, caused a battle over the legal claim of the artifacts and the return of the items to Peru. This legal dispute went on for nearly 100 years. It was not until the Peruvian government petitioned President Obama for the repatriation of the artifacts that Yale allowed their return.\nA Defined Layout …\nMachu Picchu’s walls, terraces, ramps and other structures appear to be a geometric natural wonder when viewed from above. You will see remarkably defined stonework with stones set so true that nothing can enter between the seams, because; the stones were intricately cut to fit together without mortar.\nThe terraced fields and amazing irrigation system display the Inca people’s astute knowledge of architectural, agricultural and engineering proficiency.\nAnother interesting factor about Machu Picchu is the way the city is divided into sectors. Archaeologists determined there is a farming zone, a residential zone or neighborhood, a royal district and a sacred area, which holds the Temple of the Sun and the Intihuatana stone. It is a sculpted granite rock believed to be a calendar or a solar clock.\nI do believe that our Lara would have a field day uncovering various artifacts and whatnot in Machu Picchu I know I did. Maybe one day Lara shall travel to the famous site and take us on another fantastic journey through the eyes of a legend or a new connection. Only time will tell, and we all know tempus fugit! So, maybe sooner than you think. Nevertheless, as Lara would say:\nExplore the world!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Managed in cooperation with\nNational Park Service\nNational Park Service\nBig Cypress WMA consists of 565,848 acres within the 720,566 acre Big Cypress National Preserve. The area spans parts of Collier, Dade, and Monroe counties and borders Everglades National Park adding to the diversity and protection of this unique ecosystem. Big Cypress, the first preserve in the National Park Service, was established in 1974 to protect water quality and to ensure the continuing ecological integrity of the area.\nThe name 'Big Cypress' refers to the extent of the area and not to the size of the trees. In fact many of the trees within the Big Cypress are dwarf pond cypress but areas of pinelands, tropical hardwood hammocks, and freshwater marshes abound. Both temperate and tropical flora and fauna are found throughout Big Cypress. Here you can find many rare and protected species including the Florida panther and black bear as well as the tropical liguus tree snail, royal palm, and cigar orchid.\nRecreational opportunities include hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing, paddling, hiking, biking, and camping. Designated campsites are available at several locations in the WMA. In addition, primitive camping is also available throughout much of the WMA except in the Bear Island unit where all camping is limited to designated campsites.\nThe Oasis Visitor Center is located on Highway 41 (Tamiami Trail) mid-way between Naples and Miami. There are two driving tours, abundant with wildlife, that lead you through open prairies, cypress swamps, hammocks, and pinelands; Turner River Road (Rte 839) and Loop Road (Rte 94). Turner River Road is a dirt road which dead ends approximately 20 miles north of 41 with no access to I-75. Loop Road has access points at Monroe Station and Forty Mile Bend Check Station and runs south of Highway 41 for 23 miles (15 miles, dirt; eight miles, paved).\nHiking trails of varying difficulty are located throughout Big Cypress, including 31 miles of the Florida Trail. Bear Island is a great place to ride a bike and the Turner River Canoe Trail winds through a variety of South Florida habitats. For most, visiting Big Cypress is more pleasant in the winter when bugs are fewer and both temperature and water levels are lower.\nRules Regarding Dogs\n- Hunting dogs may be taken onto the WMA after 8 a.m. the day before the opening of a season and shall be removed by 6 p.m. one day after the end of the season. Hunting deer or wild hog with dogs is prohibited. The possession of dogs is prohibited, except bird dogs or retrievers are allowed for hunting purposes only. Dogs are prohibited in the Loop Unit. Dogs are prohibited in areas posted as \"closed to public access\" by FWC administrative action. No person shall allow any dog to pursue or molest any wildlife during any period in whick the taking of wildlife by the use of dogs is prohibited. Leashed dogs may not be used for trailing wounded game.\nVisit the National Park Service web site for information on the following:\nBig Cypress National Preserve.\nVisit The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission website for information on regulations summary for the area and hunting and fishing license information.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Toltecs say that we should never assume anything. This is possibly the most precious advice ever.\nWhen we communicate with people, it’s very tempting to fall into old paradigms and fixed ways of seeing the world. This is what assumption is.\nIt’s easier for us to reference an event into a frame we’re familiar with rather than allowing for the possibility of something completely unexpected.\nExpect the unexpected\nWith ever-increasing advances in technology (See, “The Zero-Sum Game” by Luba Rascheff), the external means that we use to express ourselves will become more and more adapted to the electro-chemical bundles that represent our bodies. For example, cutting edge research involves understanding how fat is the quickest way to move data. Fat, who would have thought? Don’t assume anything, say the Toltecs.\nIf, as Michio Kaku says, in the future, we will be able to obtain information at the blink of an eye (or, by blinking our eye since the ubiquitous screen will now be attached to a contact lens) (See, “The Zero-Sum Game”), this necessarily implies that there will be a more intimate connection between our bodies (mind = body + thought) and the artificial elements (machine = chip + circuits) that facilitate the information exchange process.\nTell me what you know\nIn the future, our ability to instantaneously obtain any information we need will reduce our tendency to make assumptions.\nIt will break down our old frameworks of thinking and introduce new ones.\nThe electro-chemical bundles in which we move around–our bodies–will become instruments with which we communicate holistically with our environment. This approach will be radically different from traditional methods of communication. It will be streamlined, instantaneous, coordinated and highly efficient.\nTo get to this point, though, we must start assuming less and engaging more with our quickly changing environment. We must do as the Toltecs.\nDO AS THE TOLTECS Copyright © 2013 Luba Rascheff", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Acanthuriformes\n(Surgeonfishes) > Chaetodontidae\nEtymology: Chaetodon: Greek, chaite = hair + Greek, odous = teeth (Ref. 45335); declivis: Named comes from the latin 'declivis' (means 'sloping') and refers to the abrupt diagonal demarcation in the color pattern..\nMore on author: Randall.\nEnvironment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range\nMarine; reef-associated; depth range ? - 23 m (Ref. 89972). Tropical\nCentral Pacific Ocean: Marquesas Is, Kirimati I. in Line Is. (Ref. 121910).\nTwo subspecies: Chaetodon declivis declivis in Marquesas Is.; Chaetodon declivis wilderi. in Line Is.\nKirimati I. is also called Christmas I., which is not the one in eastern Indian Ocean.\nSize / Weight / Age\nMaturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm\nMax length : 12.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9710)\nFound over rocky and sandy bottoms. Oviparous (Ref. 205). Form pairs during breeding (Ref. 205). In aquarium trade (Ref. 9210).\nLife cycle and mating behavior\nMaturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae\nForm pairs during breeding (Ref. 205).\nAllen, G.R., 1985. Butterfly and angelfishes of the world. Vol. 2. 3rd edit. in English. Mergus Publishers, Melle, Germany. (Ref. 4858)\nIUCN Red List Status (Ref. 125652)\nThreat to humans\nReferencesAquacultureAquaculture profileStrainsGeneticsAllele frequenciesHeritabilityDiseasesProcessingNutrientsMass conversion\nEstimates based on models\nPhylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805\n= 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].\nBayesian length-weight: a=0.02344 (0.01165 - 0.04718), b=3.00 (2.83 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-BS (Ref. 93245\nTrophic level (Ref. 69278\n): 3.3 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives\nResilience (Ref. 120179\n): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).\nFishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153\n): Low vulnerability (10 of 100) .\nClimate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649\n): (0 of 100) .", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This therapy that has more than 5000 years of evolution. Throughout history it has been used successfully in millions of patients.\nThe illustration that can be seen is the first page of a modern edition of this book.\nAcupuncture was used not only in China but in all realms of influence, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam and others, since the seventeenth century in the West.\nNaturally, every year in all countries dozens of tens of healing techniques are invented and tested to have a real value, endure only those with real value and the rest are forgotten.\nAcupuncture serves humanity for over 5000 years, being revalidated and perfected in every age. Even being used successfully in veterinary medicine. The engraving can see a map of points to treat a horse. Argument against the supposed power of suggestion of acupuncture.\nFinally, the most reluctant institution to accept new therapies, the FDA of the U.S. government made an experience to test the effectiveness of this therapy. In “El País” 10/11/97 on page 33, as the title reads: “The U.S. health authority blesses acupuncture”. An article describing, as after much hesitation, a group of 12 researchers from the National Institute of Health found that acupuncture is really effective and then decided that insurance companies reimburse patients for costs of the treatments done with this technique.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud’s redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later work Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture. -wikipedia\nColorized historic photographs enhance and refine the original black and white pictures, and make them come to life, giving them a new visual perspective. Each black and white photograph is professionally “painted” with the brilliance of color that’s perfect for the modern home, office, and any other space that’s prime for the art of colorful nostalgia.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Period pain is something that almost all menstruating individuals have to grapple with. It can often be so severe that it can disrupt our daily lives. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to ease the discomfort associated with period pain. From lifestyle changes to natural remedies, there are a number of options available to help manage period pain. In this article, we will explore nine ways to cope with period pain and make it more bearable. We will discuss various methods that can help reduce the severity of the pain and make it easier to get through those difficult days. So if period pain is something that you struggle with, keep reading for some tips and tricks to make it more manageable.\nWhat Is Period Pain?\nPeriod pain is a general term used to describe the pain and discomfort that some people experience during their menstrual cycle. Symptoms can vary from person to person; some experience very mild pain, whereas for others, it can be severe enough to disrupt daily activities and interfere with sleep. Period pain is often caused by changes in your hormones during your menstrual cycle. Specifically, it is associated with progesterone and oestrogen, which are hormones that drop before your period begins. However, period pain can also be caused by menstrual disorders such as PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder), fibroids, ovarian cysts, PID (pelvic inflammatory disease), endometriosis, and adenomyosis.\nSigns Of Endometriosis And Other Menstruation Conditions\nIf you are experiencing discomfort during your menstrual cycle, it is important to rule out the possibility of a more serious condition. If the symptoms are severe and are accompanied by bleeding outside of your normal cycle or unusual pain, you should consult a doctor as soon as possible. Endometriosis is a condition where the uterine lining grows outside of the uterus. This misplaced tissue typically attaches itself to other reproductive organs, such as your fallopian tubes or ovaries. Symptoms of endometriosis include painful cramps, pain during sex, nausea, constipation, diarrhoea, and even blood in your urine or stool during your period, as well as difficulty getting pregnant. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, it is important to see a doctor to rule out any serious conditions, as the disorders mentioned in the previous section can also have similar symptoms.\nTips For Reducing Period Pains\nIf you are experiencing period pain, there are a variety of pain relief medications that can help reduce discomfort. One of the most common is ibuprofen. It is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that can help ease period pain. If you have an allergy to ibuprofen or prefer not to take it, a combination of paracetamol and aspirin can also help to relieve your symptoms. If you are experiencing severe period pain and over-the-counter medicine is not helping, it’s important to speak to your doctor about prescription alternatives.\nReduce Bloating By Drinking More Water\nOne of the most common symptoms of your period is bloating. While it is a normal symptom during your period, it can be extremely uncomfortable. One way to reduce bloating during your period is to increase your water intake. You can drink water in a variety of ways, but the easiest way to drink more water during your period is to keep a water bottle with you at all times.\nUse Herbal Teas To Relieve Inflammation\nSome herbs are known for their anti-inflammatory properties and can be used to help relieve the inflammation associated with period pain. There are a variety of herbal teas that can help ease menstrual cramps. Fennel is a great option as it contains anti-inflammatory properties. This can help ease menstrual cramps and reduce swelling and bloating. Chamomile tea is also a great option, as it has natural anti-inflammatory properties that can help with cramps and bloating. Ginger tea is another herbal tea that can help ease menstrual cramps and reduce bloating.\nRelax Menstrual Cramps With Anti-Inflammatory Foods\nCertain foods are known to have anti-inflammatory properties. These can be eaten to help relieve menstrual cramps and reduce bloating. Foods that contain anti-inflammatory properties include pineapples, tomatoes, leafy green vegetables, berries, walnuts, almonds, and fatty fish such as salmon. You can also try incorporating spices into your diet that are known to help reduce inflammation, like turmeric, ginger or garlic.\nAvoid Foods High In Sugar, Fat, And Salt\nWhen experiencing period pain, it may be tempting to reach for comfort food, but it is best to avoid foods that are high in sugar, fat, and salt. These types of foods have been shown to increase bloating and cramps, making your period more difficult to manage. Instead, it is recommended to consume more balanced meals that consist of protein, carbohydrates, and vegetables. This type of meal plan is recommended not just when suffering from pain but also when trying to maintain overall health. Consuming healthy foods can help you to feel better and avoid future health issues.\nIt is a good idea to avoid caffeine during your period. This is because caffeine has been shown to increase menstrual pain as it causes the blood vessels to narrow, which constricts the uterus. If you need a caffeine boost during your period, you can choose to eat protein-filled snacks instead for the same energy boost you get from caffeine.\nApply Heat To Reduce Cramps\nOne of the easiest ways to manage period cramps is to apply heat to the areas that are experiencing pain. This can be done in a variety of ways. You can apply heat using a heating pad, hot water bottle, or warm towel. You can also take a warm bath or shower. Applying heat to the areas experiencing pain will help to relax the muscles and reduce the pain as well as the inflammation. It is important to note that it is best to avoid applying heat directly to your skin as this can cause burns.\nTry Exercise To Relax Muscles\nPhysical activity can help you to relax your muscles and ease menstrual cramps. This includes walking, swimming, yoga, and more. Physical activity can also help you to manage stress. Incorporating exercise into your lifestyle can have many health benefits. Not only can it be great for your mental health, but it can also be a useful tool to help manage menstrual cramps.\nConsider Hormonal Birth Control\nHormonal birth control is a form of contraception that also reduces the symptoms people experience during their periods. If your symptoms are extreme, your GP may recommend that you go on hormonal birth control in order to manage the symptoms better. Hormonal birth control can be a helpful solution if you are struggling with heavy bleeding, painful periods, and severe cramping. There are many types of hormonal birth control, and finding the right one for you may take time as well as trial and error.\n- Combined pill\n- IUD (coil)\n- IUS (hormonal coil)\n- Progestogen-only pill\n- Vaginal ring\nPeriod pain is a normal part of menstruation, but it can be incredibly painful and disruptive to our daily lives. There are a number of ways to cope with period pain, including drinking plenty of water, using herbal teas to reduce inflammation, eating anti-inflammatory foods, considering hormonal birth control, and more. There are also a number of over-the-counter medications that can help relieve menstrual cramps. No matter how severe your pain is, there are ways to make it more manageable and easier to get through. Periods don’t have to be a dreaded experience. With the right planning and a few helpful tips and tricks, it can be an experience that is manageable.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "While leaving the office behind cuts down on vehicle emissions, remote work can tangibly increase carbon emissions, as discovered by Purdue University, Yale University and Massachusetts Institution of Technology.\nThe collaborative study unveiled some not-so-surprising pandemic work trends, including a 20 per cent surge in internet use and a reduction in travel-related CO2 emissions. What is pressing, however, is remote work’s environmental impacts. The study predicts that the work could contribute another 34.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions if the trend continues until 2021.\nIn addition, the study pegs the total energy consumption of data centres at one per cent of the global total. This, the report says, is higher than the energy consumption of many countries, and the figure will continue to rise as more applications and services take to the cloud.\nBreaking down the figures more, the report noted internet use has a carbon footprint of 28 to 63 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigabyte. Although technology improvement is constantly increasing efficiency, it can’t scale against the demand for better services.\nThere are peripheral environmental damages to working remote as well. Whereas office buildings order supplies in bulk, they’re now being shipped in smaller quantities to houses which increase delivery transport emissions.\nSo what can remote workers reduce their carbon footprint? Global News reporter Madison Wong noted the following tips in her article:\n- Turning off cameras during remote meetings can reduce the meeting’s carbon footprints by 96 per cent.\n- Streaming in standard definition as opposed to high definition can cut down carbon dioxide levels by 86 per cent.\n- Moderate the air conditioning or use a smart thermostat.\n- Buy supplies in bulk and buy local.\n- Delete old emails and cloud storage.\n- Switch to LED lightbulbs.\n- Make small adjustments to reducing waste, they’ll build up over time.\nIn the end, the article noted that not everyone needs to do all of these things at once, even making one or two changes can amount to large reductions if we do them together.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Scientists model sleep control proteins\nU.S. researchers say they have used a plant photolyase protein to aid them in understanding the complexities of human sleep-wake cycles.\nThe plant photolyase structure provides a much better model to use to study how the cryptochrome proteins in the human clock function than we have ever had before, said the study’s lead investigator Kenichi Hitomi.\nIt’s like knowing for the first time where the engine is in a car. When you know what the most important parts of the protein are, then you can begin to figure out how it functions.\nWhen scientists understand that, they can begin to fix the clock when needed, added senior author Professor Elizabeth Getzoff.\nIn addition to decoding how the clock works, a long-term goal is to develop a drug to help people who can’t reset their clock when they need to, like people who work night shifts or travel long distances. Having the three-dimensional protein is a great step forward in both of those pursuits.\nThe study that included Luciano DiTacchiom and Satchidananda Panda of the Salk Institute, Junpei Yamamoto and Shigenori Iwai of Osaka University, Sang-Tae Kim and Takeshi Todo of Kyoto University and Andrew Arvai and John Tainer of Scripps Research is reported in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Commerce of Louisiana During the French Régime, 1699-1763\nPublisher: Columbia University Press\nPlace: New York\n476+[7 ad] pages with maps, tables and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 3/4\" x 6 1/2\") issued in wrappers. From the library of Edward Alexander Parsons. Studies in History, Economics and Public Law volume LXXI, number 1. First edition.\nBy the time French colonists sought a portion of the New World's riches, much of those resources had already been claimed by Spain and Portugal. Once settled in North America, however, they quickly turned their attentions to commerce, specifically to trade within the Louisiana region. For almost 65 years French explorers and soldiers, administrators and accountants, focused on establishing a string of forts and small villages at key points in the Mississippi and Illinois River valleys, eastward to the Mobile River drainage and westward toward New Mexico. Despite a long and costly war at home, for a time it looked as though the French would be successful in controlling a vast swath of the middle of North America, with routes stretching from Quebec City to New Orleans. Under the guidance of leaders such as LaSalle, Joliet, Father Marquette, Frontenac, Hennepin, and Bienville, the French made a good start in the lucrative trading business and established working relationships with most of the Indians of the region. But by 1763, with war in Europe and a faltering economy at home, commerce in the New World eroded along with the ability of the French to control the region and to protect their investments from the encroachment of the Spanish and English. This volume reveals the wider scope of the French political and economic situation, as well as the minutiae of common barter and trade in Louisiana during the French Regime.\nChips to wrapper edges with some tears. Some age darkening to head edges else a very good copy.\nWe Also Recommend\nFray Juan Crespi : Missionary Explorer on the Pacific Coast 1769 -1774\nClara y sucinta exposicion del pequeño catecismo : impreso en el idioma mexicano siguiendo el orden mismo de sus preguntas y respuestas, para le mejor instruccion de los feligreses Indios, y de los que comienzan á aprender dicho idioma\nOrdenanzas para el govierno de la labor de monedas, que se fabricaren en la Real Casa de Moneda de Mexico", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Подготовить менеджер ресурсов\n#include <unistd.h>#include <sys/iomsg.h>int ionotify( int fd,int action,int flags,const struct sigevent *event );\nNULLto disarm a notification.\nThe ionotify() function arms the resource manager associated with fd to send the event notification event. The event is sent when a condition specified by a combination of action and flags occurs.\nThe flags argument specifies the types of conditions that can be checked for notification. Each resource manager maintains a different context for each notification condition. Only those notification bits specified are affected. In the following example, the second call to ionotify() doesn't affect the first, since it specifies a different notification:\nionotify( fd, _NOTIFY_ACTION_POLLARM, _NOTIFY_COND_INPUT, &event );ionotify( fd, _NOTIFY_ACTION_POLLARM, _NOTIFY_COND_OUTPUT, &event );\nThe conditions specified by flags are:\n1. For a character device such as a serial port, this would be a character. For a POSIX message queue, it would be a message. Each resource manager selects an appropriate object.\nThe method for changing the default number for\n_NOTIFY_COND_INPUT depends on the device. For example, character special devices can call readcond().\nFor resource managers that support both an edited and raw mode, the mode should be set to raw to ensure proper operation of ionotify().\nThe above flags are located in the top bits of flags. They are defined by\nIn the case of an asynchronous notification using the passed event, such as a Neutrino pulse or queued realtime signal, the 32-bit value in event->sigev_value.sival_int is returned to you unmodified, unless you've selected the\nSI_NOTIFY code, in which case the top bits (defined by\n_NOTIFY_COND_MASK) are set to the active notifications. In this case, you should limit the sival_int to the mask defined by\nFor example, the Unix select() function specifies\nSI_NOTIFY and uses the allowable data bits of sival_int as a serial number.\n| If you're using the |\nThe action argument specifies the type of arming action to take. When a condition is armed, the resource manager monitors it and, when met, delivers event using MsgDeliverEvent(). When an event is delivered, it's always disarmed except where noted below.\nNote that for transition arming (as specified by an action) of\n_NOTIFY_ACTION_TRANARM, only one notification of that type can be outstanding per device. When the transition arm fires, it's removed.\nEach action is designed to support a specific notification type as follows:\n_NOTIFY_ACTION_POLL. However, if none of the conditions specified in flags are present then each condition specified in flags is armed. If any condition is met, none of the conditions are armed. The Unix select() function uses ionotify() with this action. Returns active conditions as requested by flags.\nYou can use the\n_NOTIFY_ACTION_POLL action to generate events that are level- as opposed to transition-oriented.\nWhen an action is armed in a resource manager, it remains armed until:\n| There's a limit of one notification per message queue or resource manager. If a notification was already armed for the specified resource, ionotify() indicates an error of |\nActive conditions as requested by flags. In the case of a transition action, a zero is returned.\nЕсли возникла ошибка функция возвращает\n-1, код ошибки записывается в errno.\nmq_notify(), select(), struct sigevent\nПредыдущий раздел: Описание API системной библиотеки", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is Holy Week?\nHoly Week refers to the week which begins with Palm Sunday and concludes on Easter Sunday during which the church remembers the events and words spoken by Jesus twenty centuries ago.\nWhy participate in Holy Week services?\nAs I’ve celebrated Easter lately, it has grown increasingly difficult to capture all that Easter means during an hour and a half worship service on Easter Sunday. Emotionally, it feels like too much to take in: the anticipation at the meal on Thursday evening, the shock of the betrayal, denial, and abandonment, the devastation on Golgotha, the finality at the tomb on Friday, and the thunderstruck hope and joy on Sunday. This year we will remember the events of Holy Week by celebrating Palm (or Passion) Sunday, Holy (or Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday (Tenebrae), and Resurrection (or Easter) Sunday. Both Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday will be celebrated during our regular worship times. In addition, we will hold special services on Thursday and Friday evening from 7-8pm.\nWhat are the services?\nPalm Sunday (10:30 am on March 25). Found in Matthew 21, Palm Sunday remembers Jesus’ triumphal entrance into Jerusalem upon a donkey colt which in effect identified him as the promised Son of David. Recognizing this, some in the crowd spread palm branches in Jesus’ path while others laid their cloaks on road and the crowd ran ahead of Jesus shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”\nHoly (Maundy) Thursday (7 pm on March 29). Sundown on Holy Thursday begins the Triduum (tree do ‘em) or “three days.” Holy Thursday is oftentimes referred to as Maundy which is taken from the Latin “mandatum” or “commandment.” After washing his disciples’ feet and instituting the Lord’s Supper, Jesus told his disciples, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another (John 13:34).” On Holy Thursday, we will gather and recount Jesus’ last words to his disciples and celebrate the Lord’s Supper. Holy Thursday concludes with recalling the betrayal of Judas Iscariot.\nGood Friday or Tenebrae (7 pm on March 30). Tenebrae is Latin for “shadows.” During the Good Friday service we will remember Jesus’ last words, his crucifixion, and death.\nResurrection (Easter) Sunday (10:30 am on April 1). Resurrection Sunday remembers the truth that the tomb was empty because the Lord Jesus had conquered death by rising from dead. Jesus’ resurrection confirms for us that he is the Son of God, that he accomplished the work of saving his own, and that we too share in the hope of the resurrection and the promise of new life by our faith in him.\nChildcare, as usual, is provided during our Sunday worship services. However, childcare is not provided for Holy Thursday or Good Friday service. Both Thursday’s and Friday’s services are quiet and more somber in their mood. Because of this somber mood, it may feel like too much of a challenge for parents to monitor young children. I want to encourage you to try it out. It has been my experience, that children pick up on the unfamiliar feel of the service and respond surprisingly well. How will they learn unless given opportunity? Not only is this a worship experience, but it is a teaching opportunity.\nAs you prepare to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, you may want to reflect on the following passages and hymns:\nRead John 12-21. These chapters recount the last week of Jesus’ earthly ministry.\nRead through the following hymn lyrics. Teach the tunes to your children. “All Glory, Laud, and Honor,” “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” “What Wondrous Love is This,” “Morning Sun,” “Jesus Christ is Risen Today,” “Christ the Lord is Risen Today,” or “Up from the Grave He Arose.”\nOn Palm Sunday: Read: Psalm 24, Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 11, and John 12.\nOn Holy Thursday: Read: Jeremiah 31:31f, Matthew 26, Mark14, Luke 22, John 13-17.\nOn Good Friday: Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 18-19.\nOn Resurrection Sunday: Matthew 27-28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20, 1 Corinthians 15.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Evidence of 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Bacterial Ecosystems Found in Australia | ScienceDaily\nReconstructing the rise of life during the period of Earth’s history when it first evolved is challenging. Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks are not only rare, but also almost always altered by hydrothermal and tectonic activity. A new study from a team including Carnegie’s Nora Noffke, a visiting investigator, and Robert Hazen revealed the well-preserved remnants of a complex ecosystem in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old sedimentary rock sequence in Australia.\nClouds Detected on Alien Planet —New Hubble Discovery | TheDailyGalaxy\nWeather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today’s forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosphere of a super-Earth class planet orbiting another star for the first time.\nNeptune is the outer most planet in our solar system; it orbits the sun with a radius of 2,798,000,000 miles. Neptune is the 4th largest planet by diameter, 3rd largest planet by mass and densest of all the gas giants. Neptune has a great dark spot similar to that of Jupiter. Both spots are Anticyclonic storms, meaning the winds around the storm flow opposite to the direction dictated by the Coriolis effect. However, unlike Jupiter’s spots, Neptune’s dark spots appear to only last a few years (as opposed to a few hundred) and have relatively calm and cloudless centers. Observations have shown that Neptune spends about the same amount of time with and without its largest dark spot. The storms activity seems to cyclical.\nNeptune has 14 moons, Triton is the largest and composes more than 99.5% of all the mass that orbits the planet. Triton is roughly the same size as our moon: (Neptune’s Triton vs Earth’s moon)\nTriton has a retrograde orbit around Neptune, meaning that it orbits in the opposite of the planet’s rotation.\nThese images were taken by the Voyager 2 space probe and the Hubble space telescope, with the exception of the last image being an artists impression of Neptune seen from its moon Triton.\n\"Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the \"habitable zone\" — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our sun.\"\nNice! Getting closer to finding our “Twin Earth..”\nThe kirrabilli are a sentient hexapodal species about four and a half feet high, living on a small, warm world orbiting a slow burning star.\nAlthough now technologically advanced, the kirrabilli evolved as environmental specialists who hunted for both animal and plant food across the extensive moss-like forest floors of their subtropical home. This soft sponge-like substrate played a key role in the evolution of the kirrabilli and their unusual needle like feet: The thin tips, unable to support themselves on the moss, sink into it several inches and are stopped from slipping deeper by a ring of tough, fibrous hairs. This provides some extra traction, but more importantly allows the thin and highly sensitive tips to detect vibrations passing through the denser ground beneath. By sensing the substrate in this way the kirrabilli can detect large creatures moving a considerable distance away while also communicating with one another via rhythmic vibrations through the ground. As their evolution progressed towards more complex intelligence, entire long range conversations could be carried on this way and thus the groundwork was laid for co-operative hunting and intertribal communication.\nWhilst their stable environment made thermoregulation largely unnecessary, the kirrabilli are able to maintain an elevated body temperature when necessary by concentrating warm blood near the central organs and withdrawing it from the long slender limbs. Weather falling outside of their range of tolerance was met by moss matt shelters and communal huddling until the discovery of fire and limited clothing.\nSensory input comes from several highly specialised organs and is dominated by sight. Two stalked and densely packed compound eyes extend from the front of the head, below which hang sensitive olfactory organs to detect scents and changes in humidity. In keeping with their well-developed vibration detection abilities, their hearing is acute and is mediated through mobile ears at the tip of the abdomen.\nAs omnivores, the kirrabilli possess mouthparts and manipulators of a generalised and adaptable design. The arms, derived from the lips, lack a solid skeleton and collect fruits or carry weapons for subduing small prey. Equipped with their own basic sense of taste, these arms pass food up the mouth that lies between them.\nTheir most critical adaptation, however, may be their linguistic abilities which encompass visual, aural and infrasonic components. Various configurations of the limbs and body reveal the colourful blue patches on the legs and abdomen, the different combinations conveying meaning and intent. Sound is generated through a combination of stridulation using the rough inner surfaces of the arms, and air expelled and modulated through the twin breathing spiracles on either side of the abdomen. Dramatic punctuation and long range communication can be supplemented by beating on the substrate.\nCurrently a technologically advanced and relatively peaceful people, the kirrabilli have developed sustainable high density agriculture and their population continues to grow.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "First was the flood of new immigrants into California after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848. The gold rush increased the population in northern California dramatically and it was clear that there needed to be local organization and governance. The Mexican province of California was the most advanced and unified part of the lands acquired by the United States in 1848, and its citizens applied to Congress to be admitted as a state.\nHowever, this could not be done easily because of the issue of slavery. By 1849 there were thirty states, fifteen free and fifteen slave. Neither the proponents nor foes of slavery were prepared to let in new political entities which would wreck this equilibrium. California would come in as a free state and that would upset the balance of power in Congress. At the same time, because of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, where slavery was prohibited north of the 38°30” degree line, it seemed that most of the land in the Mexican Cession would also be non-slave, a situation unacceptable to many Southerners.\nHearing that California was petitioning for statehood, Young sent his representatives to Congress to ask that this region be admitted as the state of Deseret, which he thought should include also a bit of the southern California coastline. The name “Deseret” came from a word in the Book of Mormon meaning “honeybee,” representing industry. Congress, which was strongly anti-Mormon at the time, refused to accept any such state dominated by Young and his followers.\nThe lands of the Mexican Cession outside of California were divided into two large territories, separated at the 37° parallel, with Utah to the north and New Mexico to the south. It was here that the Southerners were paid back for the admittance of the free state of California, for these two new territories were brought in under principle of “popular sovereignty,” where their own citizens would be able to vote on whether to allow slavery or no. Some of the New Mexico territory and all of the Utah territory was north of the Missouri Compromise line, but it was argued that that compromise did not apply to these territories as these lands lay outside of the original Louisiana Purchase.\nBy 1853, a number of attempts had been made to form a Nebraska Territory in this region, but Southerners stonewalled any such territory for it would, by the Missouri Compromise, have to be a free territory. The need to develop these lands created a pressure situation in Congress which was finally relieved in 1854 by Stephen Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act.\nThat compromise was to bring in these new territories under “popular sovereignty.” That is, the citizens of the Kansas and Nebraska territories could vote on whether to be free or slave. Since both these territories were part of the original Louisiana Purchase and lay north of 36°30”, this compromise was in direct contravention to the Missouri Compromise. This act infuriated many Northerners, and it not only led to the formation of the Republican Party, but it was one of the primary causes of the Civil War six years later.\nWhile two states were created in the 1850s after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, no new territories appeared, something which would change quickly in the 1860s, as discussed in the next post in this series.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. When you hear the term “Eating Disorder”, you may think African-Americans especially women can’t relate. However, current trends and studies beg to differ.\nHere are some interesting facts according to the National Institute of Health:\n- Women are more likely than men to have eating disorders.\n- It usually starts in teenage years.\n- Eating disorders often occurs with depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse.\n- Eating disorders can cause heart and kidney problems and even death.\nEarly detection is key in addition to getting the help and treatment you need.\n4 Steps Involved with Treatment:\n- Nutritional counseling\n- Mental Health Therapy\n- Monitoring Progress\n- Medicines (sometimes)\nIf you or someone you love has an eating disorder, please click on the links below for more information:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Australia is a land like no other, with about one million different native species. More than 80 per cent of the country’s flowering plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia, along with most of its freshwater fish and almost half of its birds.\nAustralia’s marine environment is home to 4000 fish species, 1700 coral species, 50 types of marine mammal and a wide range of seabirds. Most marine species found in southern Australian waters occur nowhere else.\nAustralia’s geographic isolation has meant that much of its flora and fauna is very different from species in other parts of the world. Most are found nowhere else. However, some closely related species are found on the continents which once made up the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana.\nCovered in rainforest and ferns 300 million years ago, Gondwana included South America, Africa, India and Antarctica. Most of Australia’s flora and fauna have their origins in Gondwana, which broke up about 140 million years ago.\nAustralia separated from Antarctica 50 million years ago. As it drifted away from the southern polar region, its climate became warmer and drier and new species of plants and animals evolved and came to dominate the landscape.\nAustralia’s Flora and Fauna and Charles Darwin\nObservations of Australia’s unique fauna and flora, combined with considerations of the continent’s geographical isolation, contributed toward Charles Darwin (1809–1882) developing his theory of evolution by natural selection.\nCharles Darwin’s theory was that species change over time, or evolve, in response to their environment. This theory transformed the way people understood the living world, and provided a logical, unifying explanation for the diversity of life. Darwin’s theory of evolution changed the face of science and natural history forever.\nWhile Darwin never saw a kangaroo in Australia, despite riding a horse from Sydney to Bathurst, he did see many other species. Darwin made some very astute observations about Australian animals, especially the platypus. At the time, the platypus was regarded as a curious creature, and it baffled the scientific world. Darwin was the first British scientist to see a platypus in its natural environment, at a creek near Bathurst, in 1836.\nFor over forty years after his visit, Darwin used and relied upon collections of specimens from Australia that related directly to his ‘theoretical concerns at any given time and his recognition of the peculiar status of the continent’.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Programming using applets and oracle 0 Answer(s) 7 years ago\nPosted in : Applet\nRelated Tutorials/Questions & Answers:\nProgramming using applets and oracle - Applet Programmingusingapplets and oracle Develop an Online Examination software in java usingapplets as front end and oracle as back end. Software should handle at least ten users at a time. There are Multiple Choice questions\nApplets? Applets? applets are using now a days\nPlease visit the following link:\nProgramming with applet and oracle - Applet Programming with applet and oracle Develop an Online Examination software in java usingapplets as front end and oracle as back end. Software should handle at least ten users at a time. There are Multiple Choice questions\nimage store in oracle using jswing\nimage store in oracleusing jswing hello ,ihave searched the image store in oracleusing jswing but i did not find the code please help me\noracle database backup using jsp oracle database backup using jsp I want to take the backup of oracle database.I want to write the code in jsp ,so that when the page is loaded a backup of the database is stored in one of my local drives.Is it possible to do\nPagination in jsp using oracle and not sql\nPagination in jsp usingoracle and not sql I need the code for pagination in jsp usingoracle.\nI already tried it with rownum between instead... Pagination using Mysql database\n<%@ page language=\"java\" %>\nAPPLETS - Security\nAPPLETS In java applets sun.misc is not working can any body help me for the alternate solution.\ni got runtime error...\nApplications and Applets\nApplications and Applets\nNow a days, Java is widely used for applications and\napplets. The code... using a Java interpreter.\nWhereas, A Java applet produces object code which\nException while inserting image in oracle using java\nException while inserting image in oracleusing java import...());\nConnection con=DriverManager.getConnection(\"jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost... affected: \"+stmt.executeUpdate());\nMy Oracle table description is:\nJava Programming using array\nJava Programmingusing array I'm creating a programmingusing array that will accept 10 letters and test if those letters are consonant...','H','J','K','L','M','N','P','Q','R','S','T','V','W','X','Y','Z'};\noracle oracle sir now am doing one project , my frond end is vb and backend is oracle.\nso 1> how can i store the image in my field\n2> how can i back up the table into .txt file\nfetch record from oracle database using jsp-servlet?\nfetch record from oracle database using jsp-servlet? how can i fetch data from oracle database by using jsp-servlet. i'm using eclipse, tomcat server and oracle database and creating jsp pages and also using servlet\njava programming using RMI - RMI\njava programmingusing RMI Write a program using RMI to sell an item to the customer remotely and don't allow the customer to purchase the item if the stock is nil , by displaying an appropriate message", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Male and female guppies|\nW. Peters, 1859\n|Distribution map for Poecilia reticulata|\nThe guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as millionfish and rainbow fish, is one of the world's most widely distributed tropical fish and one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species. It is a member of the family Poeciliidae and, like almost all American members of the family, is live-bearing. Guppies originate from northeast South America, but have been introduced to many environments and are now found all over the world. They are highly adaptable and thrive in many different environmental and ecological conditions. Male guppies, which are smaller than females, have ornamental caudal and dorsal fins. Wild guppies generally feed on a variety of food sources, including benthic algae and aquatic insect larvae. Guppies are used as a model organism in the fields of ecology, evolution, and behavioural studies.\nGuppies were first described in Venezuela as Poecilia reticulata by Wilhelm Peters in 1859 and as Lebistes poecilioides in Barbados by De Filippi in 1861. It was named Girardinus guppii by Albert Günther in honor of Robert John Lechmere Guppy, who sent specimens of the species from Trinidad to the Natural History Museum in London. It was reclassified as Lebistes reticulatus by Regan in 1913. Then in 1963, Rosen and Bailey brought it back to its original name, Poecilia reticulata. While the taxonomy of the species was frequently changed and resulted in many synonyms, \"guppy\" remains the common name even as Girardinus guppii is now considered a junior synonym of Poecilia reticulata.\nDistribution and habitat\nGuppies are native to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. However, guppies have been introduced to many different countries on every continent except Antarctica. Sometimes this has occurred accidentally, but most often as a means of mosquito control. The guppies were expected to eat the mosquito larvae and help slow the spread of malaria, but in many cases, these guppies have had a negative impact on native fish populations. Field studies reveal that guppies have colonized almost every freshwater body accessible to them in their natural ranges, especially in the streams located near the coastal fringes of mainland South America. Although not typically found there, guppies also have tolerance to brackish water and have colonized some brackish environments. They tend to be more abundant in smaller streams and pools than in large, deep, or fast-flowing rivers. They also are capable of being acclimated to full saltwater as well as being used to cycle saltwater aquariums like their molly cousins.\nGuppies exhibit sexual dimorphism. While wild-type females are grey in body color, males have splashes, spots, or stripes that can be any of a wide variety of colors. The development and exhibiting of color patterns in male guppies is usually due to the amount of thyroid hormone that they contain. The thyroid hormones not only influence color pattern, but control endocrine function in response to their environment. The size of guppies vary, but males are typically 1.5–3.5 cm (0.6–1.4 in) long, while females are 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) long.\nA variety of guppy strains are produced by breeders through selective breeding, characterized by different colours, patterns, shapes, and sizes of fins, such as snakeskin and grass varieties. Many domestic strains have morphological traits that are very distinct from the wild-type antecedents. Males and females of many domestic strains usually have larger body size and are much more lavishly ornamented than their wild-type antecedents.\nGuppies have 23 pairs of chromosomes, including one pair of sex chromosomes, the same number as humans. The genes responsible for male guppies' ornamentations are Y-chromosome linked and are heritable.\nTwo generations of guppies per year occur in the wild. Guppies are well developed and capable of independent existence without further parental care by the time they are born. Young guppies school together and perform antipredator tactics. Brood size is extremely variable, yet some consistent differences exist among populations depending on the predation level and other factors. Females of matching body sizes tend to produce more numerous but smaller-sized offspring in high-predation conditions. Female guppies first produce offspring at 10–20 weeks of age, and they continue to reproduce until 20–34 months of age. Male guppies mature in 7 weeks or less. Total lifespan of guppies in the wild varies greatly, but it is typically around 2 years. Variations in such life historic characteristics of guppies are observed in different populations, indicating that different evolutionary pressures exist.\nGuppies' body sizes are positively correlated with age, and their size at maturation varies highly depending on the predation risk of the occupied environments. Male and female guppies from high-predation regions mature faster and start reproducing earlier, and they devote more resources to reproduction than those from low-predation regions. Females from high-predation regions reproduce more frequently and produce more offspring per litter, indicating that they are more fecund than low-predation females. Female guppies' reproductive success is also related to age. Older females produce offspring with reduced size and at increased interbrood intervals.\nOne major factor that affects wild guppies' senescence patterns is the mortality rate caused by predation. Guppies from high-predation environments suffer high extrinsic mortality rate because they are more likely to be killed by predators. Female guppies from high-predation environments experience a significant increase in mortality at 6 months of age, while those from low-predation environments do not suffer increased mortality until 16 months. However, guppies from high-predation environments were found to have longer lifespans because their reproductive lifespans are longer. No significant difference is seen in postreproductive lifespans.[dubious ]\nIn addition to senescence pattern, resource availability and density also matter in regulation of guppy populations. Guppies reduce their fecundity and reproductive allocation in response to scarce food. When food is abundant, they increase brood size. Differential reproductive allocation can be the cause of seasonality of life-history characteristics in some guppy populations. For example, during the wet season from May to December, guppies in the Northern Range of Trinidad reduce their investment in reproduction regardless of predation level, possibly in response to decreased food resources. Population density also matters in simpler environments because higher intraspecific competition causes a decrease in reproductive rate and somatic growth rate, and a corresponding increase in juvenile mortality rate due to cannibalism. It was confirmed that in low-predation environments, guppy populations are in part regulated by density.\nEcology and behavior\nGuppies have the mating system called polyandry, where females mate with multiple males. Multiple mating is beneficial for males because the males' reproductive success is directly related to how many times they mate. The cost of multiple mating for males is very low because they do not provide material benefit to the females or parental care to the offspring. Conversely, multiple mating can be disadvantageous for females because it reduces foraging efficiency and increases the chances of predation and parasitic infection. However, females gain some potential benefits from multiple mating. For example, females that mate multiple times are found to be able to produce more offspring in shorter gestation time, and their offspring tend to have better qualities such as enhanced schooling and predator evasion abilities.\nFemale guppies mate again more actively and delay the development of a brood when the anticipated second mate is more attractive than the first male. Experiments show that remating females prefer a novel male to the original male or a brother of the original male with similar phenotypes. Females' preference for novel males in remating can explain the excessive phenotypic polymorphism in male guppies.\nInbreeding ordinarily has negative fitness consequences (inbreeding depression), and as a result species have evolved mechanisms to avoid inbreeding. Inbreeding depression is considered to be due largely to the expression of homozygous deleterious recessive mutations. Numerous inbreeding avoidance mechanisms operating prior to mating have been described. However, inbreeding avoidance mechanisms that operate subsequent to copulation are less well known. In guppies, a post-copulatory mechanism of inbreeding avoidance occurs based on competition between sperm of rival males for achieving fertilization. In competitions between sperm from an unrelated male and from a full sibling male, a significant bias in paternity towards the unrelated male was observed.\nFemales' mating choice\nFemale guppy choice plays an important role in multiple mating. Female guppies are attracted to brightly colored males, especially ones with orange spots on the flank. Orange spots can serve as an indicator of better physical fitness, as orange-spotted males are observed to swim longer in a strong current. There is also the concept of color association to possibly explain mate choice since one of the food sources wild guppies compete vigorously for is the fruit of cabrehash trees (Sloanea laurifolia), an orange carotenoid-containing fruit. The orange coloration that female guppies select for in males is composed of carotenoids, the saturation of which is affected by the male's carotenoid ingestion and parasite load. Guppies cannot synthesize these pigments by themselves and must obtain them through their diet. Because of this connection, females are possibly selecting for healthy males with superior foraging abilities by choosing mates with bright orange carotinoid pigments, thus increasing the survival chance of her offspring. Due to the advantage in mating, male guppies evolve to have more ornamentation across generations in low-predation environments where the cost of being conspicuous is lower. The rate and duration of courtship display of male guppies also play an important role in female guppies' mating choice. Courtship behavior is another indicator of fitness due to the physical strength involved in maintaining the courtship dance, called sigmoid display, in which the males flex their bodies into an S shape and vibrate rapidly.\nFemale mating choice may also be influenced by another female's choice. In an experiment, female guppies watched two males, one solitary and the other actively courting another female, and were given a choice between the two. Most females spent a longer time next to the male that was courting. Female guppies' preference for fit males allows their descendants to inherit better physical fitness and better chance of survival.\nGuppies have many predators, such as larger fish and birds, in their native range. Some of their common predators in the wild are Crenicichla alta, Anablepsoides hartii, and Aequidens pulcher. Guppies' small bodies and the bright coloration of males make them easy prey, and like many fish, they often school together to avoid predation. Schooling is more favored by evolution in populations of guppies under high predation pressure, exerted either by predator type or predator density. Coloration of guppies also evolves differentially in response to predation. Male guppies that are brighter in color have an advantage in mating as they attract more females in general, but they have a higher risk of being noticed by predators than duller males. Male guppies evolve to be more dull in color and have fewer, smaller spots under intense predation both in wild and in laboratory settings. Female guppies in a high-predation environment also evolve to prefer brightly colored males less, often rejecting them.\nWhen guppies encounter a potential predator, some of them approach the predator to assess danger. This behavior, called predator inspection, benefits the inspector since it gains information, but puts the inspector at a risk of predation. To reduce the risk, inspectors avoid the predator's mouth area—called the 'attack cone'—and approach the predator from the side or back. They may also form a group for protection, the size of which is larger in high-predation populations. Although evidence indicates predators are less likely to attack an inspector than a non-inspector, the inspectors remain at higher risk due to proximity to the predator.\nRisk-taking behaviors such as predator inspection can be evolutionarily stable only when a mechanism prevents selfish individuals from taking advantage of \"altruistic\" individuals. Guppies may adopt a conditional-approach strategy that resembles tit for tat. According to this hypothesis, guppies would inspect the predator on the first move, but if their co-inspectors do not participate in the predator inspection visits or do not approach the predator close enough, they can retaliate at the trailers by copying the trailer's last move in the next predator inspection visit. The hypothesis was supported in laboratory experiments.\nWhen guppies detect a predator, their irises rapidly darken from silver to jet black, which draws predators to attack the guppies' head instead of their body's center of mass. Perhaps counterintuitively, this predator divertive behavior allows guppies to rapidly pivot out of the way as predators lunge where the guppies' head was; this \"matador-like\" anti-predator behavior was first described in guppies but may be found in other animal species with bright, attention-grabbing coloration located on vital organs, such as epaulette sharks.\nGuppies are also host to a range of parasites and one of these, Gyrodactylus turnbulli, has been used as a model system for studying host-parasite interactions. Recent work on this has shown that the interaction between exposure to chronic anthropogenic noise and G. turnbulli can decrease guppy survival. While a short burst of underwater noise has positive effects on parasite densities on the host. Most likely resulting in negative fitness effects for guppies.\nWild guppies feed on algal remains, diatoms, invertebrates, zooplankton, detritus, plant fragments, mineral particles, aquatic insect larvae, and other sources. Algal remains constitute the biggest proportion of wild guppy diet in most cases, but diets vary depending on the specific conditions of food availability in the habitat. For example, a study on wild Trinidad guppies showed that guppies collected from an oligotrophic upstream region (upper Aripo River) mainly consumed invertebrates, while guppies from a eutrophic downstream region (lower Tacarigua River) consumed mostly diatoms and mineral particles. Algae are less nutritious than invertebrates, and the guppies that feed mainly on algae have poor diets.\nGuppies have also been observed eating native fishes’ eggs, occasionally expressing cannibalism, also eating its own young, when kept in laboratory conditions.\nGuppies' diet preference is not simply correlated to the abundance of a particular food. Laboratory experiments confirmed that guppies show 'diet switching' behavior, in which they feed disproportionately on the more abundant food when they are offered two food choices. The result shows that different groups of guppies have weak and variable food preference. Diet preference in guppies could be related to factors such as the presence of competitors. For example, the lower Tacarigua River has a larger variety of species and competition for invertebrate prey is higher; therefore, the proportion of invertebrates is small in the diets of those guppies.\nGuppies often forage in groups because they can find food more easily. Shoaling guppies spend less time and energy on antipredatory behavior than solitary ones and spend more time on feeding. However, such behavior results in food that is found being shared with other members of the group. Studies also show when an evolutionary cost exists, guppies that tend to shoal are less aggressive and less competitive with regards to scarce resources. Therefore, shoaling is preferred in high-predation regions, but not in low-predation regions. When guppies with a high tendency to shoal were isolated from high-predation regions and were relocated to predator-free environments, over time, they decreased their shoaling behavior, supporting the hypothesis that shoaling is less preferred in low-predation environments.\nGuppies are highly prolific livebearers. The gestation period of guppies varies considerably, ranging from 20 to 60 days at 25 to 27 C and depending on several environmental factors. Reproduction typically continues through the year, and the female becomes ready for conception again quickly after parturition. Male guppies, like other members of the family Poeciliidae, possess a modified tubular anal fin called the gonopodium, located directly behind the ventral fin. The gonopodium has a channel-like structure through which bundles of spermatozoa, called spermatozeugmata, are transferred to females. In courted mating, where the female shows receptive behavior following the male's courtship display, the male briefly inserts the gonopodium into the female's genital pore for internal fertilization. However, in the case of sneaky mating where copulation is forced, the male approaches the female and thrusts the gonopodium at the female's urogenital pore.\nOnce inseminated, female guppies can store sperm in their ovaries and gonoducts, which can continue to fertilize ova up to eight months. Because of the sperm-storage mechanism, males are capable of posthumous reproduction, meaning the female mate can give birth to the male's offspring long after the male's death, which contributes significantly to the reproductive dynamics of the wild guppy populations.\nThe guppy has been successfully hybridised with various species of molly (Poecilia latipinna or P. velifera), e.g., male guppy and female molly. However, the hybrids are always male and appear to be infertile. The guppy has also been hybridised with the Endler's livebearer (Poecilia wingei) to produce fertile offspring, with the suggestion that, despite physical and behavioural differences, Endler's may represent a subspecies of Poecilia reticulata rather than a distinct species.\nDue to the extensive selective breeding of guppies for desirable traits such as greater size and colour, some strains of the fish have become less hardy than their wild counterparts. Immense inbreeding of guppies has been found to affect body size, fertility and susceptibility to diseases.\nIn the aquarium\nGuppies prefer a hard-water aquarium with a temperature between 25.5 and 27.8 °C (78 and 82 °F) and salt levels equivalent to one tablespoon per 19 L (5 US gal). They can withstand levels of salinity up to 150% that of normal seawater, which has led to them being occasionally included in marine tropical community tanks, as well as in freshwater tropical tanks. Guppies are generally peaceful, though nipping behaviour is sometimes exhibited between male guppies or towards other top swimmers like members of the genus Xiphophorus (platies and swordtails), and occasionally other fish with prominent fins, such as angelfish. Guppies should not be kept as a single fish in an aquarium because both males and females show signs of shoaling, and are usually found in large groups in the wild. Its most famous characteristic is its propensity for breeding, and it can breed in both freshwater and marine aquaria.\nGuppies prefer water temperatures around 22.2–26.1 °C (72–79 °F) for reproduction. Pregnant female guppies have enlarged and darkened gravid spots near their anal vents. Just before birth, the eyes of fry may be seen through the translucent skin in this area of the female's body. When birth occurs, individual offspring are dropped in sequence, typically over a period of one to six hours. The female guppy has drops of two to 200 fry at a time, typically ranging between 30 and 60.\nWell-fed adults do not often eat their own young, although sometimes safe zones are required for the fry. Specially designed livebearer birthing tanks, which can be suspended inside the aquarium, are available from aquatic retailers. These also serve to shield the pregnant female from further attention from the males, which is important because the males sometimes attack the females while they are giving birth. It also provides a separate area for the newborn young as protection from being eaten by their mother. However, if a female is put in the breeder box too early, it may cause her to have a miscarriage. Well-planted tanks that offer barriers to adult guppies shelter the young quite well. Guppy grass, water sprite, water wisteria, duckweed, and java moss are all good choices. 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{"text": "Each person goes through the day making assumptions. We assume the sun will rise in the east; the light will turn on in the bathroom; the shower will have hot water; the car will start when we leave for work and our computer will connect to the internet. The number of assumptions we make every day as we walk through our lives must add up into the hundreds. We are blind to them because events unfolding in front of us do not challenge our assumptions but instead support them. Unknowingly to us most of our assumptions are strengthened every day.\nPerhaps assumptions are mental habits or conditioning and serve a similar purpose to learning how to tie shoes. When we first learn to tie a shoe it requires considerable attention or intentionality. We think about each move and either verbally or mentally repeat the instructions. It is a very manual and slow process. As we learn to tie our shoes we create ‘moving memory’. The more we practice the less attention is required and the faster and smoother we become. After the memory is completely programmed within us there is no benefit to keep thinking about each movement. Movement without thought can be a good thing. Ask any athlete about thinking too much when playing a sport. Just let your body do what it does and it will perform well.\nAssumptions are often referred to as something bad. Many times I have heard the phrase: “You know what happens when you assume something? Makes an ass out of u and me”. So what would our lives be like if we didn’t make any assumptions? What if we thought through every situation and condition before making a decision or taking a step? If making assumptions is a bad thing then it follows that not making assumptions is a good thing.\nWe have all had an experience where we made an assumption that led to an unexpected and negative incident. In those situations we vow to never assume anything again because it can sneak up and bite us. Is that vow realistic or even desirable?\nWhy do we make assumptions? To relieve ourselves of the active thinking about events that almost always occur based upon our experiences. We don’t waste our time thinking about whether the sun will rise. We don’t think about how our bodies will digest the food we have for lunch. We don’t think about many things going on around us.\nSo from one perspective assumptions are time savers. That is until the assumption does not work in our favor. It is similar to the noise the refrigerator makes when it is running – you don’t notice it until it stops. We don’t see our assumptions until things do not go according to plan. Then we look for what we missed and try to see how it could have gone differently. Quite often we discover an action we overlooked but did not recognize because we made an invalid assumption.\nThis is especially true in business. Decisions based upon invalid assumptions can lead to disastrous results but we are blind to the assumptions until the results are coming in. And then it can be too late.\nImagine the value of a list of common invalid business assumptions that lead to poor performance. By knowing the assumptions you can avoid making them. Stay blind and you are doomed to repeat them over and over again.\nDuring the past four years my business partner and I have been compiling such a list and have found them to fall into four categories. For the sake of brevity I have only included one invalid assumption in each category along with a description of the assumption. I have three more invalid assumptions for each category listed in a lengthier document. If you wish a copy of that document contact me through this blog or directly reach me at email@example.com.\nThe first category of invalid business assumptions executives make are about the Goals they develop. These are important assumptions because the goals of a business establish the performance requirements for the entire enterprise. For instance if a corporate sales goal is to increase revenue by a certain dollar amount then the year will be considered successful only if the business performs at that level. Anything less is unsatifactory. Goals and performance requirements are the same thing.\n· All Goals are Achievable.\no Just because you set a goal does not mean you can achieve it. Businesses are challenged to set “Big, Hairy, Audacious, Goals” (BHAGs) but if those goals are not achievable then setting and working on the goals is actually harmful. There is nothing wrong with setting stretch goals but they need to be attainable. If it is impossible for your business to grow a certain percentage with your existing Business Model – there are five discretely defined components to a Business Model – then you have to either change the goal or redesign your business to be able to achieve that goal. If you are not designed to achieve the goal then no matter how hard you work or push your people you will not reach the goal.\n· Invalid Goal assumption 2\n· Invalid Goal assumption 3\n· Invalid Goal assumption 4\nThe second category of invalid business assumptions made by executives concern the Design of their business. There seems to be an intuitive understanding that businesses have a design because the term Business Model is used frequently by CEOs. A model is the physical manifestation of a design. When a product is prototyped the designer creates a set of blueprints (designs) that are used to build the model. The next time a CEO speaks about his/her business model ask him/her to show you the design. And since the CEO’s understanding of the business design is so vague it is easy to have invalid assumptions about it. Here is one.\n· Improving Information will Improve the Design of the Business\no Many executives look to IT systems to solve their problems. With better information they will be positioned to make more intelligent and timely decisions. Executives need to remember that systems support organizations / organizations execute processes / processes create products or services / products or services are delivered to customers. Systems are the last thing executives should be looking to change! Will replacing the dashboard (information system) in your car change its performance capabilities? No. The root cause problem in your business is seldom the result of any IT system. The fault usually lies in the design of the business.\n· Invalid Design assumption 2\n· Invalid Design assumption 3\n· Invalid Design assumption 4\nThe third category of invalid business assumptions deals with Strategies. This is an activity that nearly executive has engaged in and can relate to. It is the source of out-of-the-box thinking and it sets the direction of the corporation for years to come. Strategic planning is considered essential for the survival of every company because executives know that to be stagnant is to die. They have to change and the vehicle for change is thought to be strategies. And if this is indeed the vehicle (which we know it is not) then any invalid assumption in this group can be crippling. Here is the first invalid business assumption in this group:\n· Strategies are Strategies\no Not all strategies are created equal. There are at least three types of strategies: design strategies, implementation strategies and execution strategies. The nature of each type of strategy is very different as well as their timing. Business executives often confuse a design strategy with the design of the business. They are two completely different ideas and need to be kept separate in order to reduce confusion. Know the difference between design and strategy.\n· Invalid Strategy assumption 2\n· Invalid Strategy assumption 3\n· Invalid Strategy assumption 4\nThe fourth group of invalid business assumptions is about Performance. Performance is important for the health of the organization. If there is substandard performance from the customer’s perspective then sales will suffer and the business will fail. Customers are looking for companies that can offer the greatest Value Proposition. If there are performance issues as it relates to the return on investment then stockholders will opt to invest their monies in better performing businesses. Shareholders are looking to create personal wealth and companies that are not financially successful suffer in the market place and that has a negative impact on the company’s stock price. Actual Performance is very important in the long-term prospects of any company.\n· Performance Problems are Always Execution Problems\no Business executives are aware of the impact that the quality of a design has on the performance of the product but they fail to apply that understanding to their business. 80% of the time the quality and relevance of the business design is at the root of performance problems. A poor design can never result in good performance. But since executives are unaware of business design they see execution as the culprit. Execution is particularly attractive to management since those problems are the fault of the employees while the quality of the design is management’s responsibility.\n· Invalid Performance assumption 2\n· Invalid Performance assumption 3\n· Invalid Performance assumption 4\nKnowing that you are operating under an invalid assumption may give you the chance to change your decision making. If you are making assumptions about things that you can control then you do have the option to make changes. If your assumptions are about large external events such as the economy, then you can not control the outcome but you can develop scenarios.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It’s that time of year again! A day to reflect on all the things your mother has done for you and show her your appreciation with a gift, hug and kiss. The only thing better than the sweet sentiment this Sunday, May 11th, is the days’ revolutionary feminist history and its connection to the church.\nMother’s Day, as we know it in America, is the result of years of women’s activism that coincided with other women’s movement, such as the women’s suffrage and labor movements, around the turn of the 20th century.\nIn the years right before the American Civil War, Ann Reeves Jarvis, from West Virginia, began organizing “Mother’s Day Work Clubs’ to help improve health and sanitation through women’s education. At about the same time, Boston poet and feminist Julia Ward Howe published “A Mother’s Day Proclamation.”\nFollowing Ann’s death in 1905, her daughter Anna began petitioning for a national holiday that celebrates mothers everywhere. She sent letters to President William Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt, and even enlisted financial help from John Wanamaker, a Philadelphia department store owner. She also began organizing her own Mother’s Day celebration at a church in Grafton, West Virginia.\nThe Mother’s Day custom reportedly spread to other churches around the country, causing lawmakers to pass a resolution to make it a national holiday in 1914. This year’s Mother’s Day is the 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day so please take a moment to honor all the mothers in your life and all the pioneering women who made this holiday a reality!\nHere’s a photo montage in honor of weather’s mom, Mother Earth – enjoy!:\nHappy Mother’s Day!\nThe WeatherBug – Earth Networks Team", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What Supportive Govt Policies Can Do: North Carolina Becomes Hotbed for Renewables\nThink about 23 acres of solar panels stretching to the horizon. Now think about them all on one roof, topping Shoe Show's distribution center in North Carolina.\nThat's a big roof and its North Carolina's largest rooftop solar system and among the largest in the US. They produce 5 megawatts (MW) of solar a year, enough to supply over 600 homes.\nThe $22 million project paid for 18,500 PV panels for the nation's leading independent shoe retailer.\nRather than using the power for Shoe Snow's electricity, it will be sold to Duke Energy or the city of Concord through a power purchase agreement, giving the company an additional revenue stream.\nFederal tax credits which allow owners to deduct 30% of the project cost combined with a 35% tax credit from the state of North Carolina, reduced the payment period from 20 years to 5-6 years. Combined with much lower prices for solar panels, the project made business sense.\nToys \"R\" Us is building the largest rooftop PV system in the country at 5.38 MW on its New Jersey distribution center. It's also greening 44 stores.\nNorth Carolina Becoming Solar Hotbed\nThese tax breaks combined with the state's Renewable Energy Standard, which requires the state to get 12.5% of its electricity from renewables by 2021, are combining to make solar an important growth industry.\nNorth Carolina has plenty of open land, sun, wind and major transmission lines tied to the PJM Interconnection, the largest competitive wholesale electricity market in the world.\n\"Alternative energy is one of our main economic niches now,\" Vann Rogerson, president of North Carolina's Northeast Commission, which recruits industry there, told The Virginian-Pilot.\nUtilities are ahead of schedule, especially in solar, Julie Robinson of the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association said.\nA 20 MW Perquimans solar plant will power nearly 3000 homes, almost half the homes in the county.\nAnd many other solar plants are being built: Duke Energy Renewable's Murfreesboro 6.4 MW Solar Project, and BGE Carolina Solar's 3 MW plant.\nApple is building a solar farm to power its new $1 billion data center there.\nOn the wind energy side, Iberdrola Renewables is planning 150 turbines on 20,000 acres and Invenergy plans to do the same. Together, the projects could power about 100,000 homes.\nWho says we can't transition to renewable energy?!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wise Teacher, Wise Student: Tibetan Approaches to a Healthy Relationship\nWise Teacher, Wise Student by Alexander Berzin explores the intricate and complex relationship between Western students and Eastern teachers. This particular type of relationship has its own unique set of challenges due to language barriers, cultural divides, and occasionally conflicting expectations. Berzin focuses on bridging the gap between the two worlds by exploring the student-teacher relationship through the Tibetan Buddhist outlook and its implications for Western students.\nThe text explores the basics of Tibetan Buddhism, including what a typical spiritual seeker in traditional Tibet would look like. I appreciated that Berzin provided information about the influence on Chinese occupation of Tibet as a means of bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. While this occupation is indeed tragic, it has provided the vehicle for Western students to learn about and participate in spiritual rituals and practice. I found this to be an important piece of information for understanding why this particular type of relationship needed special exploration in the first place. According to Berzin, Western spiritual seekers are very different from their Eastern counterparts. Tibetan seekers usually start their spiritual journey and education at a very young age, while most Western students begin their study as adults, after receiving a formal education, and expecting equality and full knowledge of each and every step of the spiritual journey.\nAfter exploring these differences, Berzin touched on foundational concepts and ideas such as the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path, rectified terms, including the differences and misconceptions surrounding the terms guru and lama; and laid out basic requirements for a seeker and teacher. While this was only the first of three sections of the book, this one definitely feel the heaviest and most time consuming due to the sheer volume of information it contained. The other two sections explored the dynamics of a healthy relationship with a spiritual teacher, and unhealthy relationship behaviors such as fear, overdependence, and even rebellion. These two I found much more interesting, although somewhat dry.\nThe section that struck me most was on the importance of establishing a relationship based on respect. Part of establishing a healthy relationship with a mentor is focusing on that mentor’s good qualities and strengths. This is not to say that the student should ignore the bad qualities or shortcomings of their mentor, but that they should mediate and focus their energy on the positive attributes. By dwelling on the negative aspects and things one doesn’t like about their teacher, a student can potentially miss out on the lessons and parts that are positive. I found this to be a great overall piece of advice for engaging in any sort of relationship, be it with a spiritual teacher, a friend, family member, or partner. Many times relationships, of any kind, can be trying and difficult, but if you can focus on the things you appreciate about the person, you’ll be much more willing or in a place to engage in a respectful and healthy manner. Any relationship based on respect, on behalf of both parties engaged, has the greatest chance at being healthy and fruitful for all involved.\nOn a whole, I found the book to be very overwhelming. There was a lot of important information packed into relatively small sections. At times, it assumed the reader had a slightly greater than basic understanding of Buddhist concepts and practices, but at others, found space to break down actual terms into digestible nuggets of information. Due to this strange assumption about the knowledge base of the reader, I had a difficult time figuring out who the target audience for such a book would be. While I understand the desire to appeal to and be useful to a wider audience, I found it difficult to navigate some of the information. I found it most appropriate for a class at a Dharma center, or an intermediate course on Buddhism.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A patent print poster of the Phillips Screw and Driver (called Means for Uniting A Screw with a Driver). The patent was issued by the United States Patent Office on July 7, 1936. This is in essence the patent for both the Phillips screw and Phillips Head Screw Driver. It was invented by Henry F. Phillips. The Phillips screw drive was created by John P. Thompson, who after failing to interest manufacturers, sold his design to businessman Henry F. Phillips who patented it. Phillips is credited with forming Phillips Screw Company, improving the design, and promoting the adoption of his product.\nPatent prints allow you to have a piece of history in your home, office, man cave, geek den or anywhere you wish to add an interesting touch.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Outdoor Hour Challenge #2\nUsing Your Words\n1. Read page 15 in the Handbook of Nature Study. (The Field Excursion) Read page 23-24 in the Handbook of Nature Study. (How to Use This Book) Make note of any points you want to remember. My favorite is \"The chief aim of this volume is to encourage investigation rather than to give information.\" This is where many people misunderstand the HNS. It is not a field guide but it teaches us how to help our children with nature study.\n2. \"It is a mistake to think that a half day is necessary for a field lesson, since a very efficient field trip may be made during the ten or fifteen minutes at recess, if it is well planned.\" Challenge yourself to take another 10-15 minute \"excursion\" outdoors in your own yard again this week. Before setting out on your walk, sit with your children and explain to them that when you remain quiet during your nature time, you are more likely to hear interesting things. Brainstorm some sounds they might hear and build some excitement about remaining quiet during their nature walk this week. Take your walk and if they get rowdy, use the universal finger over your lips sign to get them to quiet down. Set a good example and be quiet yourself, modeling how to listen carefully.\n3. After your walk, challenge your children to come up with words to describe the following things:\nOne word to describe something they heard. (For example: rustling, snapping, crunching or chirping)\nTwo words for something they saw. (For example: tall trees, frozen water, red birds)\nThree words for something they felt. (For example: freezing cold wind, rough sticky pinecone)\nThe point of this assignment is to get them to start thinking about what they see as they go along. Each time they take a nature walk they will develop more and more vocabulary and this will eventually trickle down to their nature journals. If they have difficulty coming up with things to say, help them out with some of your own words to get them started and they will soon catch on. Once we start identifying objects they see on their nature walks, you will be surprised at how easily they remember the specific names of plants, trees, and birds.\n4. Optional nature journal entry:\nUse their words as the basis for a simple nature journal entry. If the child is too young to write in the journal himself, you can write for them. \"Everything he learns should be added to his nature notebook by him or, if he's too little to write, his mother.\" Charlotte Mason, volume 1, page 58.\nAt this point, you can pull out some colored pencils or crayons and invite them to illustrate their nature journal page if they want to. I always leave it as an option for my boys and I would say about half the time they draw. I feel like the nature walk and the discussion is the meat of our nature study and that it is the most important part of what we do. \"No child should be compelled to have a notebook.\" HNS page 14 (Next week we will read about drawing in our nature journals in the Handbook of Nature Study, page 17.)\n5. If in your discussion of your nature walk your child expresses a particular interest in something they saw or heard or felt, make a note of it for further research later in the week. Remember to check your Handbook of Nature Study index for more information about your nature interests.\nIf you create a blog entry for this challenge or any other challenge this month, please submit it to the Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival so other families can be inspired to continue in their nature study.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sunday, January 31, 2016\nTime may be at its most precious in relation to modern teacher professional development. Our school calendars, established generations ago, often provide scant time for teacher training, sometimes only four or five days.\nYet teacher professional development has never been more crucial as schools seek ways to alter and improve classroom instruction. In pursuit of more time for this activity, we shorten school days, having late starts, early dismissals, sometimes even entire days with no students. However, we do so with extreme reservations because we know one of the Correlates of the Effective Schools Research is to carefully guard student time on task (Lezotte, 1991).\nAs our local economies and our state tax bases slowly improve in the wake of the devastating recession of 2008 to 2015, we may be on the verge of an opportunity to improve education by creating more time for professional development. Most schools in the United States have been cash-strapped for nine years. As a result, teacher salaries have fallen behind, teachers have suffered, and the teacher shortage has approached critical levels in many instructional areas.\nNow is the time to put more money toward teacher pay and include additional days as part of the package. This can be done at a local level by re-prioritizing our budgets, but it should also be a state initiative.\nSome state legislators believe that fully funding their state's education formula does little to attract attention to themselves, advance their political clout, or garner votes in the next election. However, tying new dollars for teachers to additional time for professional development could be a stirring idea. We know teacher training has the potential to enhance student achievement. This would be using tax money directly for the purpose of improving classroom instruction.\nThis will be an idea most teachers will support. Most teachers have never been afraid to put in additional time, and many are actively seeking ways to improve. Linking additional pay to time for school improvement could be a winning combination.\nI urge us all to talk to our legislators about putting more money into education with the intent of purchasing additional days and ultimately improving education in the United States.\nImage Credit: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí, 1931, Museum of Modern Art, New York City\nTuesday, December 1, 2015\nA decade and a half into the 21st Century, computers are everywhere. Most people carry in their pockets a smart phone that has more computer power than all of NASA had at its disposal in 1969 when it landed a man on the moon. Today’s mobile devices are more powerful than the desktop computers of the 1990’s.\nThis is only going to increase. Today we carry our mobile devices in our pockets. Tomorrow we will be wearing them and putting them on each morning as we do our clothing. The education of today’s students must include how to effectively use modern technologies. It is right and appropriate that our schools modernize so that technology is integrated into instruction as it will be in the workplace of the future for our students.\nSchools planning for a digital learning initiative have some parents who naturally express apprehension about whether or not students are responsible enough to care for such powerful and expensive digital learning devices. Certainly responsible behavior often matures with age. However, this is exactly one of the reasons we needed computers in the hands of the kids—that we need to teach them how to use their computers responsibly.\nWith this new movement of digital learning devices in schools, a new curriculum is emerging. The whole world is now accessible to any student with a digital device, and schools need to teach digital citizenship. All schools need a K-12 curriculum in this area, and teachers need training in how to instruct digital citizenship skills.\nOctober 18 – 24 this year was National Digital Citizenship Week. A growing number of schools each year are engaging in learning activities at all grade levels with lessons designed to teach students the responsible use of technology tools.\nI endorse the work of Common Sense Media (www.commonsensemedia.org). They have an appropriate K-12 curriculum with a coordinated scope and sequence and age-appropriate lessons that address digital literacy and citizenship topics. Their curriculum includes professional development materials, student interactives, assessments, and family outreach materials. What is more, their curriculum is free and it is turnkey so schools can use immediately. This is welcome and refreshing news for the many public schools across this nation that have been bludgeoned by repeated budget cuts over the past decade.Digital literacy and citizenship skills are skills that students can use for the rest of their lives. New devices and systems will come and go, but responsible use of technologies will be timeless. A brave new world is emerging, characterized by anytime, anywhere connections for everyone. This age is coming with new challenges and new trials for our children. However, schools can play an important role in educating students for how to use technology responsibly.\nFriday, October 23, 2015\nTuesday, October 13, 2015\nThere is a paradox present in the public perceptions of the schools in the United States. For years I have seen this same result in the annual Gallup poll on American public K-12 education. A paraphrase of one question reads, “Overall, how satisfied are you with the quality of K-12 education in the U.S. today?”\nIn the latest poll (which is very similar to poll results for each of the last ten years), only 45 percent of those polled expressed some level of satisfaction with the quality of America’s public schools. The majority, or 54 percent, indicated dissatisfaction.\nAt the same time for each of the last 17 years, people were polled with a similar question, but one with a distinct difference. Parents were asked, “How satisfied are you with the quality of education your oldest child is receiving?”\nOverwhelmingly, parents expressed satisfaction with the quality of the local school system their child is attending. A dominant 76 percent of parents said they were either completely satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the educational quality of their child’s K-12 school. Only 18 percent expressed dissatisfaction.\nAnd these results were very similar to the results recorded fifteen years earlier in 2000 and with little deviation throughout the intervening years.\nIf this polling truly represents the length and breadth of our great nation, then the two numbers should be similar and not polar opposites. Gallup is among the best in the business. I trust their poll numbers. On a school-by-school basis, our American public is pleased with public school quality. The difference in the polling tells me there is a perception problem.\nPeople know their local schools from first-hand experience. However, the only way the average person can know our nation’s schools is by what they read and hear from national news, politicians, and pundits.\nLet us cut through the phony criticism. Americans like their schools. They regard the schools as providing quality education to their children.This is an opportunity to celebrate and demonstrate our optimism for public schools. In business the customer is always right. For America’s schools, their customers support the work they are doing.\nTuesday, September 22, 2015\nPublic education is in a state of crisis. It is vilified by uninformed media, greedy business people, and opportunistic politicians who decry it as a failed institution and a waste of tax dollars. As a result, political leaders, policy makers, and legislators decide to limit further investment in this otherwise essential public service.\nThe result of this condemnation is ongoing underfunding, dwindling resources, discouragement, and a teacher shortage now in drought conditions. Perhaps the greatest casualty of this onslaught is the erosion of public confidence in its schools. This is indeed a sad and unjustified loss.\nAn essential part of the job of every public educator must be advocacy for the profession. This is hard for many of us. It does not fit in our wheelhouse. We were never trained with any sense that public relations was a key essential among our job skills. As a result, some shrink from this duty. I have heard it said, “I just want to go into my classroom and teach.” Unfortunately, the ostrich approach is one of the limitations we must overcome.\nHowever, we have those champions among us who step forward and lead. Understandably, when an institution is under attack, supporters often respond emotionally to the attacks. This sometimes results in acrimonious replies and accusations laced with vitriol. For all of us who have become disgusted with politicians, we cringe at their affronts and hate-instilling rhetoric.\nTo build a brighter future for public education, we need to frame our narrative with positive messages. Let us tell our public what is still right about our school, how they are making a difference, and how much more we can accomplish if we have adequate resources. This builds alliances and supporters. People want to be part of a positive and hopeful cause.\nEschew the urge to fight back. We appear small as a result. Confrontation intimidates many. Fill the message with the many wonderful things happening in education today.\nIf you think about it, this can be really easy. Our work in service to humankind writes a million positive stories every day. The time is now to bring forth all the good there is in our profession. We need to emphasize the benefits to civilization as well as the rewards we reap as career educators.\nPeople want to hear the positive messages. In a world where the nightly news is inundated with stories of sadness, suffering, and sometimes horror, we have the opportunity to be the shining star that guides our culture. People want to hear what is right with the world. So let us all start and end our conversations with all that is good in public education. When we all do this, our public support will return.\nSo sing it with me: “The sun’ll come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar, . . .”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Since his head was separated from his body 300 years ago this month, Edward Teach (or Thache), also known as Blackbeard the pirate, has served as the archetype of the bloodthirsty rogues who once roamed Caribbean and Atlantic coastal waters.\nOnly in the past few years have genealogists, historians and archaeologists, thanks to a combination of hard work and good luck, unearthed surprising clues that reveal the man behind the legend, one that Blackbeard himself helped spawn. In his day, merchants whispered his name in fright. Reports circulated of a large man with “fierce and wild” eyes who kept a brace of three pistols on a holster across his chest and a tall fur cap on his head. Lighted matches made his luxurious beard smoke “like a frightful meteor.”\nThis pirate, according to a British account written a half-dozen years after his death, “frightened America more than any comet that has appeared there [for] a long time.” But Blackbeard vanished abruptly when a British naval expedition personally funded by Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood ambushed him and most of his men in a bloody battle off Ocracoke Island on November 22, 1718. Blackbeard’s head was stuck on a piling off Hampton, Virginia, as a warning to other lawbreakers.\nThe fearsome buccaneer never scared Hollywood producers, however. Blackbeard gained new notoriety in the mid-20th century, when the 1952 movie Blackbeard the Pirate proved popular. A half-dozen films centered on his exploits followed, and he emerged as the quintessential cinematic pirate. In 2006, he garnered his own miniseries detailing his search for Captain Kidd’s treasure. He even had an encounter with Jack Sparrow in the 2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. These representations further embellished a legend that long ago overwhelmed historical truth. “The real story of Blackbeard has gone untold for centuries,” says Baylus Brooks, a Florida-based maritime historian and genealogist.\nEven the most basic biographical details about Blackbeard have been hotly disputed. No one knows the year of his birth or even its location; some claim Bristol, in western England; others point to Jamaica. Still others insist he was from North Carolina or Philadelphia. His early life was a complete mystery. But few had attempted to trace Blackbeard’s family tree.\nOn a lazy summer morning in 2014, Brooks wondered if there might be records of any Teaches or Thaches in Jamaica, one of the places the pirate was said to consider home. Then he remembered his subscription to Ancestry.com and began his research there. “I expected nothing, but I got a hit,” he says. It was the baptismal record of Cox Thache, a son of Edward and Lucretia Theach (Thache and Theach were common variants of Teach), in the Jamaican settlement of Spanish Town in 1700. “This was all in about two hours over coffee in my favorite chair,” Brooks recalls.\nBrooks knew that an English visitor to Jamaica in 1739 made reference to meeting members of Blackbeard’s family residing in Spanish Town, and his mother was said at that time to be still living. “My life had changed,” said Brooks. Ever since, he has been on the paper trail of the pirate’s family tree. With the help of Jamaican researcher Dianne Golding Frankson, he discovered that Edward Thache—who Brooks believes was Blackbeard’s father—was a captain and a man of status who remarried twice; Lucretia was his last wife.\nThe real treasure that Brooks found, however, was a yellowed 1706 document on a shelf in the parish archives retrieved by Frankson. Written aboard the 60-gun Royal Navy ship Windsor while it was anchored in the harbor of Jamaica’s Port Royal, the author was Edward Thache’s son, who bore the same name. In this deed, Thache turns his late father’s estate over to his stepmother, Lucretia, for the “love and affection I have for and bear towards my brother and sister Thomas Theache and Rachel Theache”—his half siblings.\nIf Brooks is right, then Blackbeard joined the Royal Navy and magnanimously turned his father’s estate, which as the oldest son he inherited by law, over to his Jamaican family. Checking the Windsor logbooks, he discovered an Edward Thache who had arrived in England aboard a Barbados merchant ship. On April 12, 1706, the young man joined the crew while the ship was anchored off England’s Isle of Wight near Portsmouth.\nIn Brooks’ telling, Blackbeard’s family left Bristol while the pirate was still young to seek their fortune on the wealthy island of Jamaica, where sugar was known as white gold. They owned enslaved Africans and appear to have been of high social status. Why the young Edward, likely in his mid-20s, would leave home to join a merchant ship and then the Royal Navy is not clear, but it may have been a natural step to achieve advancement as well as nautical experience.\nThis historical Blackbeard is far different from the rampaging maniac or Robin Hood figure of myth. Brooks’ Thache is a well-educated man of social grace, literate and capable of using complex navigational equipment. This background would explain why, shortly before his death, he hit it off so well with North Carolina’s governor Charles Eden and other leading members of the colony. The pirate might have even been upset over the demise of the House of Stuart that put George I—a German speaker—on the English throne, perhaps the reason he renamed a stolen French ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge, after the last Stuart monarch.\nOther historians have recently noted that despite Blackbeard’s terrible reputation, no evidence exists that he ever killed anyone before his final battle at Ocracoke, near Cape Hatteras, when he was fighting for his life. “He likely cultivated that murderous image,” says Charles Ewen, an archaeologist at East Carolina University. “Scaring people was a better option than to damage what you are trying to steal.”\nBrooks admits he cannot definitively prove his Thache is our Blackbeard, but other scholars find Brooks’ case compelling. “It makes sense and it seems credible,” says Ewen. Some are more cautious. “There is some validity,” adds historian Angus Konstam, “but it is not yet tied up.”\nWhat drew Blackbeard to piracy a decade after joining the Royal Navy, however, is not a matter of dispute. In 1715, a fleet of Spanish ships left Havana, Cuba, for Spain filled with treasure, including vast quantities of silver. An early hurricane wrecked the ships on Florida’s Atlantic coast, drowning more than a thousand sailors. English pirates, privateers, and others—particularly Jamaicans—descended on the area to plunder the vessels, sparking what Trent University historian Arne Bialuschewski calls “a gold rush.”\nBlackbeard first appears in the records as a pirate at this moment.\nHis career, like so many of his colleagues, was short-lived; within two years he was dead. “People have this romantic notion of piracy, but it was not a cushy lifestyle,” says Kimberly Kenyon, field director for excavation of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, which went aground outside Beaufort, North Carolina, and was abandoned shortly before Blackbeard’s death.\nKenyon’s team has hauled more than 400,000 artifacts to the surface, from two-dozen massive cannons to a fragment of a page from a 1712 travel book—Blackbeard was known to plunder books as well as commodities. The pirate may have had a fondness for good food too, since records show that he kept the ship’s French cook. The archaeological team has also found remains of wild boar, deer, and turkey, a sign that the crew hunted fresh meat. And the team has only excavated half of the wreck—the world’s only pirate wreck to be scientifically studied.\nBut if Blackbeard was loath to use violent means, he certainly was ready to do so. The ship was heavily armed with 250,000 bits of lead shot, 400 cannonballs, dozens of grenades, and many muskets, as well as a total of 40 English and Swedish cannon. Disease likely posed a greater threat than the Royal Navy, however, as evidenced by the urethral syringe found by archaeologists still bearing traces of mercury, a popular treatment at the time for syphilis.\nThe recent archaeological finds coupled with Brooks’ research may make Blackbeard “even more enigmatic,” says Kenyon. He is no longer the cardboard villain of the past, but his personality and motives are still unclear. “He continues to be so elusive. There are so many facets to this person. That’s what makes him fascinating.\nEditor's note, November 20, 2018: This story has been corrected to indicate that Blackbeard joined his crew near Portsmouth, not Plymouth.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I had trouble deciding what I wanted to create after being given this prompt, because there were so many options. I decided to create “Pentagon,” a game in which a player used objects to move other objects.\nMy game starts with five circles (in my class, I named them Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Sirius, and Lupin) stacked on top of one another. If the player touches any of the circles, the screen pulses black and white. Touching Ron causes Hermione to move, while touching Hermione causes Hagrid to move, while touching Hagrid causes Sirius to move, and so on. The goal of Pentagon is to create the titular shape by touching circles until they line up to form the point of a pentagon, like so:\nThis goal is simple, so I decided to make the screen pulse black and white when any circle is being touched to make the pentagon harder to form (and hence why the pentagon in the picture isn’t perfect.)\nPentagon isn’t finished yet; I still want to add a win state. Right now, I’m trying to figure out how to trigger a win state when the circles line up with specific pentagonal points on the screen, but I’m having trouble making the tablet differentiate between a circle passing a point briefly (which shouldn’t trigger the win state) and a circle actually being stopped on a point.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How to Manage Pests\nPests in Gardens and Landscapes\nRaywood ash canker and decline\nFraxinus oxycarpa 'Raywood' commonly is affected by this disease. Although trees usually are not killed, severely affected ash are often removed because of unsightly dieback, reduced shading, and their potential limb drop hazard.\nDieback of multiple branches throughout the canopy is indicative of Raywood ash canker and decline. Botryosphaeria stevensii can usually be isolated from the dead branches and is believed to contribute to the decline.\nThe Botryosphaeria stevensii fungus is a weak (secondary) pathogen. It is aggressive and damaging only when trees are stressed, such as by adverse growing conditions. Stressful site conditions and especially moisture deficit predispose Raywood ash to Botryosphaeria damage.\nRaywood ash is apparently less drought tolerant than previously believed. Occasional deep watering during the drought season and pruning to thin canopies and reduce transpiration demand may improve the performance of Raywood ash.\nGreen ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, appears not to suffer from this problem. It is a similar-looking alternative for planting.\nRaywood ash leaves dying from ash dieback\nLimb cankers on Raywood ash", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It is evident that water crises in California are not new. In recent times, however, record drought, groundwater contamination and overdraft, environmental impacts, aging infrastructure, a growing population, competing water needs, and climate change have further elevated the sense of urgency in addressing California’s water quality, supply reliability, and food production.\nRecognizing the complex and long-term nature of these challenges, CRWFS began a yearlong series of dialogues focused on what the members believe is the major impediment to resolving these issues—widespread disconnection—and identifying a new, strategic and unified approach to addressing them.\nFrom Crisis to Connectivity: Renewed Thinking About Managing California’s Water and Food Supplydescribes the resulting connectivity approach. The report provides a whole-systems framework for applying the concept of connectivity to our water management decisions, including guiding principles for:\n- Connected thinking\n- Institutional linkages\n- Public and stakeholder engagement\nVarious food and water management projects are already underway throughout the state that apply these guiding principles and generate the sorts of connected-benefit solutions described in the report. Several of these are featured in the accompanying booklet, Applying the Connectivity Approach: Water and Food Supply Projects in California that Connect, Link, and Engage.\nDownload: Applying the Connectivity Approach: Water and Food Supply Projects in California that Connect, Link, and Engage", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The individual works of Paul Backes (distributed and remote operations), Eric T. Baumgartner (manipulator control) and Larry Matthies (navigation systems) have advanced robotic technology, particularly rover operations, and made possible the scientific exploration of Mars. The three played individual roles in the overall integration of robotic technology used in space flight systems, particularly the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission Spirit and Opportunity rovers. The rovers are designed to carryout complex tasks safely, while exhibiting human-like qualities such as awareness, cognition and judgment. The contributions of Backes, Baumgartner and Matthies have broad significance to the robotics field in both terrestrial and space applications and have been widely cited in robotics literature.\nDr. Matthies, an associate member of IEEE, pioneered the development of algorithms for visual odometry and real-time 3D perception with stereo vision and contributed to algorithms for visual descent velocity estimation. These capabilities were incorporated into the MER mission, enabling landers to estimate horizontal velocity and rovers to detect obstacles and measure slip. Dr. Matthies’ work is the origin of the rovers’ visual abilities. He is currently supervisor, Computer Vision Group, and Senior Research Scientist at JPL. Dr. Matthies has twice received NASA’s Exceptional Achievement medal, holds two patents, and has published over 100 refereed papers. He holds a bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a master’s of mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in computer science.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pesticide Action Network Updates Service (PANUPS)\nA Weekly News Update on Pesticides, Health and Alternatives\nSee PANUPS archive for complete information.\nSenators heard testimony this week about how exposure to toxic chemicals may be linked to learning and developmental problems like autism, and how biomonitoring could strengthen the federal government's ability to protect the public from toxic chemicals. At a Senate subcommittee hearing on Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health, public health advocates presented Mind, Disrupted, a biomonitoring project documenting dozens of neurotoxic chemicals in the bodies of adults who experienced developmental delays themselves or in their families. Each of the 12 volunteer participants in the study, which used biomonitoring to measure chemical in blood and urine, tested positive for at least 26 of the 89 measured chemicals. Overall, 61 chemicals known or suspected to cause neurological damage were present in the bodies of study participants. While the Mind, Disrupted report (PDF) doesn't claim that specific chemicals found can be blamed for the participants' health problems, it raises the question of the risks such chemicals—found in everyday products such as baby bottles, computers and conventionally grown produce—may pose to public health.\nTSCA reform: This week's Senate hearing was part of ongoing discussions in Congress about updating the national law governing industrial chemicals, the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Many scientists and environmental health advocates cite the fact that U.S. EPA has evaluated just 200 of the estimated 80,000 industrial chemicals in commerce—and banned only five—as evidence of TSCA’s failure to protect the health of consumers. A coalition of more than 120 organizations called Safer Chemicals Healthy Families is pressing for a fundamental overhaul of the 30 -year-old law to better protect the public from toxic chemicals. Such advocates argue that methods like biomonitoring to test for chemical exposure could play an important role in strengthening TSCA. “A strong biomonitoring program could provide the evidence regulators need to take action reducing exposures of concern,\" says Margaret Reeves, Senior Scientist at Pesticide Action Network. \"A program designed to include key geographic and demographic information would enable regulators to target policies to best protect those most exposed such as workers, infants and children, the elderly or immune-suppressed individuals.”\nIn designing a national biomonitoring program EPA could look to California’s precedent-setting Environmental Contaminants Biomonitoring Program passed into law in 2006. Key elements of the California program include community participation in selecting target chemicals, and the right of those tested to receive their individual test results. Subcommittee Chair Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) is expected to introduce a TSCA reform bill soon that may include biomonitoring as a means to decide which chemicals should be prioritized for evaluation.\nOntario lawn-care companies are taking legal action against doctors, public health officials, and environmentalists who publicly lobbied for a ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides. An individual representing approximately 400 residential lawn companies claims that the ban, which took effect on Earth Day last spring, could cost the industry more than $300 million and was based on a falsified health study from the Ontario College of Family Physicians. The College stands behind its study, calling the lawn-care companies' claims baseless. Among those targeted by the request for charges are members of the Ontario College of Family Physicians, the Canadian Cancer Society, and Canadian Associate of Physicians for the Environment. The same individual, Kingston resident Jeffrey Lowes, also asked for charges against Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen and five senior officials who worked on the ban in a separate action. The charges against government officials are thought to have very little chance of proceeding. Environmentalists and physicians named in the suit -- who do not share the relative immunity of government officials -- say that making the case for laws that are being considered is an important part of the democratic process that should not be subject to “frivolous legal disputes by companies or individuals opposed to regulatory actions.” Across Canada, Nova Scotia and British Columbia are currently considering similar bans. Quebec phased its ban into effect between 2003 and 2006 and now contains the strictest standards in North America. Quebec's ban prompted Dow Agrosciences to file a notice of intent to seek compensation under the investor protection provisions North American Free Trade Agreement.\nNext week the New Hampshire state legislature will debate House Bill 1456, which would create a committee to “Study the effects of a moratorium on the use of…pesticides and herbicides…in residential neighborhoods, school properties, playgrounds, and other places children congregate.” The bill, sponsored by Rep. Suzanne Smith, is inspired by the movement to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides that is sweeping across Canada: cities from coast to coast, and the provinces of Quebec, Ontario—and most recently New Brunswick— have all enacted bans on lawn care pesticides, and other provinces are considering similar measures. Such a moratorium in New Hampshire would be the first in the States. HB 1456 would not actually ban anything—it would only establish a committee to explore the consequences of a ban—but already the pesticide corporations are circling their wagons. Industry groups have reportedly sent notices to every lawn care professional in the state urging them to lobby against the bill. Meanwhile, public health and environmental advocates are working hard to educate legislators on the issue. The LEAH Collective and other local groups will hold a screening the film “A Chemical Reaction” for legislators, and the filmmaker, Paul Tukey, will testify before the legislature. The feature-length documentary tells the story of the Canadian movement to ban lawn and landscape pesticides. According to Tukey, \"the chemical industry is clearly threatened by this bill and they'll fight it every inch of the way. But this bill is just the start\nof a tidalwave that the chemical industry can't stop.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Eastern Front: The German War against the Soviet Union\nNazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. They quickly conquered large expanses of Soviet territory. German forces waged a “war of annihilation” against the Soviet Union and its peoples, killing millions of civilians. However, the Soviet armed forces eventually pushed the German military back and finally conquered Berlin in spring 1945. Often referred to as the “eastern front,” the German-Soviet theater of war was the largest and deadliest of World War II.\nAdolf Hitler always planned to destroy the Soviet Union and to establish Lebensraum (living space) for the German people in Soviet territory.\nNazi Germany waged a “war of annihilation” against the Soviet Union that aimed to kill tens of millions of civilians. The Nazi “Final Solution” policy began with the systematic murder of Jews behind the eastern front.\nNazi Germany’s fighting and losses on the eastern front made it vulnerable to Allied invasions in Italy and France, leading to its total defeat.\nThe Soviet Union (USSR)\nThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally established as a state in 1922. The Soviet Union—as it is often called—was a communist dictatorship based in Moscow. During World War II, the USSR was ruled by dictator Josef Stalin.\nThe Soviet Union was the result of the collapse of the Russian Empire and of the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). In February 1917, a popular revolution ousted the Russian tsar. The imperial regime was replaced with a provisional government. This revolution was followed by a coup in October 1917 in which Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party seized power. In 1918, the Bolshevik Party was renamed the Communist Party. The Bolshevik coup led to a civil war that resulted in Communist control over most of the former Russian Empire. Soviet territory included the countries of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Belorussia), among others.\nThe USSR actively sought to foment a world communist revolution in the name of the international working class. There were communist movements in nearly every industrialized country of the world. Many of these movements looked to the Soviet Union, then the only communist state, for leadership. The Communists aimed to eliminate all national, social, and economic distinctions between people. They also sought to abolish religious institutions. Since powerful elites within a society could not be expected to give up control voluntarily, the Communists advocated a violent revolution. After World War I, there were violent communist uprisings in Germany, as well as some other European states. Consequently, the Soviet Union was seen as a grave threat throughout the world, especially by members of established religions and the middle and upper classes, supporters of liberal democracy, capitalists, nationalists, and fascists.\nThe Soviet Union in the Nazi Worldview\nFrom the founding of the Nazi movement in Germany, the Soviet Union was portrayed as an enemy with which a showdown was inevitable. The Nazi view of the Soviet Union was based on three tenets of Nazi racist ideology.\n- Hitler saw the lands of the Soviet Union as the Germans’ destined Lebensraum (“living space”). He believed that Germany had to conquer these lands and populate them with Germans in order for the German “race” to win the constant battle for survival between the races.\n- The Nazis maintained that Jews had created Bolshevik communism and were using it to gain world domination. Consequently, they often referred to communism as “Judeo-Bolshevism.” The Nazis viewed conquering the Soviet Union as a necessary step towards destroying Jewish influence in the world.\n- The Nazis believed that the Slavs and other ethnic groups in the Soviet Union were racially inferior and by nature enemies of the German “race.”\nFor the first six years of Nazi rule, Nazi propaganda viciously attacked the Soviet Union. In private, Hitler spoke repeatedly of a future conflict. Nevertheless, in 1939 Nazi Germany embarked on a temporary strategic policy of cooperation with the Soviet Union. This temporary reversal reflected Hitler's tactical decision to secure his eastern flank while Germany destroyed Poland and defeated Britain and France.\nGerman-Soviet Relations, 1939–1941\nDuring the summer of 1939, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union were fighting an undeclared war in Manchuria. In August of that year, Stalin welcomed the German offer of a pact. Like Hitler, Stalin wanted to avoid involvement in a two-front war. In addition, he hoped that war between Germany, Great Britain, and France would weaken all three nations and leave them vulnerable to communist uprisings directed and supported by the Soviet Union.\nOn August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the German-Soviet Pact. This agreement is also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (named after the two foreign ministers who negotiated it). The pact had two parts, one public and one secret. The public part was a non-aggression pact in which the two countries promised not to attack each other for ten years. And in a secret protocol, the signatories divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence and agreed to partition Poland.\nThe German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939, without fear of Soviet intervention. Two days later, Britain and France—having guaranteed to protect Poland’s borders five months earlier—declared war on Germany. These events marked the beginning of World War II.\nIn accordance with the pact’s secret protocol, the Soviet army occupied and annexed eastern Poland in the autumn of 1939. On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union attacked Finland. After a four-month war, the Soviets annexed Finnish borderlands, particularly near Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In the summer of 1940, they occupied and incorporated the Baltic states and seized the Romanian provinces of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia.\nGermany Prepares to Attack\nBy July 1940, Germany had occupied Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It had also defeated France. Hitler decided the time had come to vanquish the Soviet Union, even though Great Britain continued to fight. Hitler and his military leaders believed Germany would swiftly defeat the Soviet Union and would then have an unassailable position on the European continent.\nGerman diplomats worked to secure Germany’s ties in southeastern Europe. Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia all joined Germany and Italy in the Axis alliance in November 1940. On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive 21 (code-named Operation Barbarossa). This was the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union. During the spring of 1941, he initiated his eastern European allies into the invasion plans.\nThe German Invasion of the Soviet Union\nHitler and his military advisers planned Operation Barbarossa as a Blitzkrieg (lightning war) that would defeat the Soviet Red Army in a matter of weeks. Originally, the invasion was planned to begin in May. It was postponed for a month so that Germany could secure its southern flank by conquering Greece and Yugoslavia.\nGerman forces invaded Soviet-held territories on June 22, 1941, less than two years after the German-Soviet Pact was signed. Operation Barbarossa is considered the largest military operation in the history of warfare. Three army groups, including more than three million German soldiers, were soon joined by more than half a million troops from Germany’s allies (Finland, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, and Croatia). They attacked the Soviet Union across a broad front, from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.\nFor months, Stalin had refused to heed warnings from Britain and the United States that Germany was about to invade the Soviet Union. Germany thus achieved almost complete tactical surprise and the Soviet armies were initially overwhelmed. Millions of Soviet soldiers were encircled. They were cut off from supplies and reinforcements, and forced to surrender. After just three weeks of fighting, Hitler and his military advisers were confident that complete victory over the Soviet Union was at hand.\nWar of Annihilation\nHitler and the German military planned the campaign against the Soviet Union as a “war of annihilation” (Vernichtungskrieg) against both the “Judeo-Bolshevik” communist government and Soviet citizens, especially Jews. Leaders of the Wehrmacht (Germany’s armed forces) instructed soldiers to ignore the rules of warfare for protecting civilians and to deal with all enemies “without mercy.”\nGerman planners decided that the German army would live off the land rather than be provisioned from Germany. They recognized that this policy would cause tens of millions of civilian inhabitants to starve to death.\nIn retaliation for acts of resistance, the Wehrmacht instituted collective punishment of civilians. This frequently involved burning down entire villages and murdering their inhabitants.\nMass Shootings behind the Eastern Front\nIn preparation for the war of annihilation, officials of the Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres, OKH) and the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA) negotiated arrangements for the deployment of SS Einsatzgruppen to conduct mass shootings of Jews, Communists, and other persons deemed to be dangerous to the establishment of long-term German rule on Soviet territory. Einsatzgruppen were special task forces of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei, Sipo) and the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst-SD). Often referred to as \"mobile killing units,\" they operated immediately behind the front lines. Together with other units of the SS and police, and supported by the Wehrmacht and local auxiliaries, the Einsatzgruppen shot to death well over half a million civilians by the end of 1941. Jewish men, women, and children made up the vast majority of the victims. The systematic mass murder of Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union marked the beginning of Nazi Germany’s “Final Solution” policy of annihilating the Jews in Europe.\nMass Murder of Soviet POWs\nGermany’s annihilation policies included Soviet soldiers who had surrendered. The Wehrmacht enclosed millions of Soviet POWs in make-shift camps with little or no shelter, food, or water. Starvation and epidemics quickly took their toll. The Wehrmacht also turned over hundreds of thousands of Soviet POWs to the SS. The SS executed the Soviet POWs or worked them to death in concentration camps. By February 1942, less than eight months after the start of the invasion, two million Soviet soldiers had died in German captivity.\nThe Front Stalls\nBy early September 1941, German forces had reached the gates of Leningrad in the north. They had taken Smolensk in the center and Dnepropetrovsk in the south. German units reached the outskirts of Moscow in early December. But with the onset of winter, the German advances stalled.\nAfter months of campaigning, the German army was exhausted. Having expected a rapid Soviet collapse, German planners had failed to equip their troops for winter warfare. Moreover, the speedy German advance caused the forces to outrun their supply lines, which were vulnerable due to the great distances involved (Moscow is almost 1,000 miles east of Berlin).\nIn December 1941, the Soviet Union launched a major counterattack against the center of the front, driving the Germans back from Moscow in chaos. The Germans repulsed subsequent Soviet offenses in the northern and southern areas of the front. But it took them nearly two months to stabilize the front east of the city of Smolensk. They then regrouped and planned to go on the offensive again.\nThe Blitzkrieg campaign failed to achieve its objective. Nevertheless, German leaders were still confident that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse. They assumed the country had nearly exhausted its resources. Further, they believed that the Soviet Union’s disgruntled citizens would not be willing to sacrifice their lives for Stalin’s regime. In fact, some people in the territories seized by the Wehrmacht at first welcomed the Germans as liberators.\nBut during the winter of 1941–1942, the Soviets evacuated factories east and massively increased production of planes, tanks, and other weapons. Great Britain and the United States supported these efforts with shipments of materiel. Meanwhile, German policies of mass murder gave credence to Stalin’s arguments that Soviet citizens’ survival depended upon repelling the German invaders. In addition, Red Army soldiers who retreated were executed by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. Confronted with the prospect of starving to death in a German camp if they surrendered or facing a firing squad if they retreated, Soviet soldiers generally preferred fighting to the death.\nThe Eastern Front, 1942–44\nIn the summer of 1942, Germany and its allies launched a massive attack to the south and southeast toward the industrial center of Stalingrad on the Volga River and toward the oil fields of the Caucasus. German military leaders believed seizing the oil fields would cripple the Soviet war effort and ensure that Germany and Italy had sufficient fuel to pursue the offensive on all fronts and at sea. For Hitler, taking the city named for Josef Stalin would be a major psychological, as well as strategic, victory.\nBy September 1942, Germany had reached the peak of its military success. It dominated Europe from France in the west to the Volga River in the east; from the Arctic Circle in Norway to North Africa. In the three years since it launched World War II, Germany had not experienced a single major military defeat.\nThen November brought two major reversals. On November 8, as German forces seemed on the verge of taking Stalingrad, British and American forces landed in North Africa. To confront them, Hitler transferred troops, armaments, and airplanes from the eastern front. On November 19, the Soviet army launched a massive counteroffensive against the German and Romanian forces trying to conquer Stalingrad. In less than a week, Soviet forces had surrounded their enemy, including the entire German Sixth Army. Two more months of fierce combat followed in which both sides took heavy casualties. The surviving German soldiers surrendered between January 31 and February 2, 1943.\nThe German defeat and the death or capture of a quarter million soldiers at Stalingrad shocked the German public and shook their faith that Germany would win the war. The campaign on the eastern front had massively depleted German manpower and weaponry. In the meantime, the western Allies’ bombing campaign was crippling German efforts to rearm and turning German cities to rubble.\nIn July 1943, the Germans launched one more major offensive at Kursk, in Russia. The Soviets were well aware of German plans and defeated the German forces in just a few days. At the same time, the western Allies landed in Sicily. Their arrival there forced the Germans to send troops to battle on a new front. From this point, German forces steadily retreated on the eastern front. They never again succeeded in resuming the offensive.\nBy the end of 1943, Soviet forces had pushed German forces out of most of Ukraine and virtually all of Russia and eastern Belarus (Belorussia). Shortly after the western Allies successfully landed in Normandy, France in June 1944, the Soviets launched another major offensive. In this successful campaign, the Red Army took control of the rest of Belarus (Belorussia) and Ukraine, most of the Baltic states, and eastern Poland. By August 1944, Soviet troops had crossed the German border into East Prussia (a German province located between interwar Poland and Lithuania).\nThe German Surrender\nIn January 1945, a new offensive brought Soviet forces to the Oder River, in Germany proper, about 100 miles from Berlin.\nIn mid-April 1945, the Soviet army launched its final assault on Nazi Germany. It captured Vienna on April 13 and encircled Berlin on April 21. On April 25, Soviet advance patrols met American troops at Torgau on the Elbe River in central Germany, effectively cutting the country in half. After more than a week of heavy fighting in the streets of Berlin, Soviet units neared Hitler's central command bunker. On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide. Berlin surrendered to Soviet forces on May 2, 1945.\nThe German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west on May 8 and in the east on May 9, 1945. On May 9, the Soviet army entered Prague, the last major city still occupied by German units. The western allies proclaimed May 8, 1945, as Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day).\nMore people fought and died on Nazi Germany’s eastern front than in all other World War II campaigns combined.\nSeries: World War II\nCritical Thinking Questions\n- Investigate the number of civilian and military casualties suffered by the Soviet Union. What percentage of the population are these figures?\n- When Allied soldiers landed on the D-Day beaches on June 6, 1944, what was the status of the war on the eastern front? How far had the Soviet army moved westward?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Posted by Madison on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:26pm.\nI have to fill in the blanks of this sentence with 5 of the 8 words provided but I am totally lost. I would appreciate any help.\n___(1)___ soir, nous ___(2)___ rencontré des amis au restaurant. Nous ___(3)___ avons ___(4)___ le jour précédent. Après un bon diner délicieux, nous les avons raccompagnés jusqu’à chez ___(5)___.\n- French help - SraJMcGin, Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:48pm\n1) Hier soir = last night\n2) avons = we found\n3) les 4) invités = we invited them\n5) eux = up to their houses.\nSra (aka Mme)\n- French help - MathMate, Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:53pm\nTry to get access to an English-French Dictionary and look up the words before attempting the questions. Some of the words may mean different things in context, that is where your teacher's notes come in handy.\nI will give you a head-start. Try to fill in the blanks as much as possible and feel free to post back for answer checking.\navons: (we) have\neux: their (place, in this context only)\nles: them (in this context only)\nAnswer this Question\n- French - I had to fill in the blanks of this phrase with the following words: ...\n- French - I would appreciate it if you could take the time to double check my ...\n- math - Show how to make one addend the next ten number. complete the new ...\n- French - I am working on my French homework (direct/indirect) and would like to...\n- calculus - Leave any unneeded answer spaces blank. [Hint: use synthetic division...\n- statistics - Terms and Definitions matching ___ Statistics ___ Discrete variable...\n- French - Hello, I am taking a French course online and i just want someone to ...\n- science - freezing and thawing cycle that causes potholes in roads and breaks in...\n- Algebra, help please!!! - Fill in the following blanks to find other expressions...\n- Chemistry Lab - Provide the correct coefficients to balance the following ...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Loretta Hall\nNew Mexico’s sky has always been captivating. Not only beautiful to look at, it was historically useful for predicting the changes of seasons for agricultural planning. A thousand years ago or so, observatories were built by the Jornada Mogollon people in the southeastern part of the state and the Ancestral Puebloans in the northwest. Rocks were aligned to track the movement of certain stars, the sun, and the moon. Observation points were marked to note key positions of celestial bodies in relation to natural notches in distant mountain ranges.\nDuring the past century, modern observatories have been built throughout the state to gather information about the nature of objects and energies in outer space. The data gathered by optical and radio-wave telescopes allow scientists to explore distant parts of the universe. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west of Magdalena is perhaps the most prominent example. Built in the 1970s and upgraded in 2011, this movable array of huge dish antennas has been used to examine 80 percent of the Earth’s sky.\nLooking at the sky from Earth is one thing, but sending spacecraft to explore regions beyond this planet is another. Researchers working in New Mexico have contributed significantly to that effort for nearly a hundred years, beginning in 1930 in Roswell.\nDr. Robert H. Goddard, a physics professor in Massachusetts, had a vision—one might even say an obsession. Inspired by reading books by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, Goddard envisioned the marvelous potential of humans to travel to our moon and other planets. He committed himself to doing everything he could to make that possible. At that time, rockets were powered by solid fuels such as gunpowder or saltpeter. That worked well enough for small rockets used for ceremonies, celebrations, or as war weapons—but Goddard recognized that such fuels were not powerful enough to propel vehicles away from the Earth. He dedicated his life’s work to developing more powerful liquid-fuel rocketry. He began experimenting with rockets fueled by gasoline, using liquid oxygen to support combustion.\nBy 1929, Goddard’s first few rocket test flights in Massachusetts were impressive enough to frighten people who lived nearby, and the state fire marshal prohibited any future tests. Unwilling to give up his work, Goddard began searching for a new location. He needed a place with expanses of level, wide-open spaces, little vegetation to limit fire potential, sparse population to limit fear and possible injury, generally good weather all year round, and railroad access for bringing in supplies. A relatively high elevation would be helpful too, as it would reduce the amount of fuel needed for each launch. After consulting with weather experts and the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had flown over much of the country, Goddard settled on Roswell as the best choice.\nGoddard set up operations in Roswell in 1930 and began conducting experiments involving rocket propulsion, flight stability and steering mechanisms, and parachutes. With the help of his wife, Esther, and a few employees, he made dramatic progress with liquid-fuel rocket performance. He launched the first manmade vehicle to travel faster than the speed of sound in 1935, and one of his rockets reached an altitude of nearly 9,000 feet in 1937.\nWorld War II interrupted Goddard’s rocket research, but similar work was being pursued in Europe by then. In particular, Germany’s Nazi regime created a liquid-fuel rocket development program led by Dr. Wernher von Braun. Their premier result was the V-2 missile, which could deliver a ton of explosives to targets up to 200 miles away. The extent to which that missile’s design was derived from Goddard’s inventions is unclear, but when Goddard saw captured parts of a V-2 in 1945, he noted their remarkable similarity to his inventions. This could have resulted from copying his work or simply from simultaneous but independent invention.\nBy the time Goddard left New Mexico in 1942, the U.S. Army at White Sands Proving Ground (WSPG) was developing its own liquid-fuel rocket, the WAC Corporal. Its designers had consulted with Goddard for advice. The Army missile was intended for scientific research of the upper atmosphere. The 1945 test flights of its solid-fuel booster rockets and then the WAC Corporal itself were the first rocket launches at the White Sands facility.\nAbout a year later, New Mexico hosted the next major advance in rocketry for space exploration. At the end of World War II, von Braun and more than a hundred of his colleagues surrendered to the U.S. Army in Germany. Under Operation Paperclip, they were brought to this country and assigned to White Sands Proving Ground to work with American scientists and engineers in further developing their V-2 missile and other rockets. Three hundred train car loads of German missile components, launch equipment, and research documentation were brought to WSPG.\nOne result of that collaboration was the world’s first two-stage, liquid-fuel rocket in 1948, known as the Bumper project. Its first stage was a modified V-2, and the second stage was a WAC Corporal. In one test at WSPG, the second stage reached an altitude of 244 miles and a speed of 5,100 miles an hour. In 1950, the Bumper project was transferred to a new launch facility in Florida, and the New Mexico-developed rocket became the first vehicle launched from Cape Canaveral.\nSpace exploration research in New Mexico reached a new, broader level after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958, the same year that White Sands Proving Ground was renamed White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). At last, plans were underway to send people into space, as Goddard and von Braun had long dreamed. Projects planned and carried out in New Mexico were keys to the success of that effort.\nSuborbital rockets launched at WSMR during the next decade tested the ability of various devices to withstand the forces of rocket launch and reentry, and to operate correctly in microgravity (commonly called weightlessness).\nSince 1946, research at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo has centered on biological factors related to spaceflight. In 1953, Dr. John Paul Stapp became head of the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman, where he conducted much of the research and oversaw the rest. Stapp’s personal interest was in the effects of rapid acceleration and deceleration on the human body. He devised several types of equipment to study this topic using animals and human volunteers. He always tested an experiment on himself before allowing other men to experience it, in order to ensure its safety.\nStapp was the only subject for his most famous human experiments. In 1954, he rode a rocket-propelled sled on Holloman’s high-speed test track in three successively more severe acceleration /deceleration tests. The ultimate run came that December. Stapp was strapped into an unprotected seat on the sled, wearing a standard Air Force flight suit and a helmet with a full visor. His arms, legs, and head were secured. Then nine rocket engines on the back of the sled ignited for five seconds, propelling him to a speed of 632 miles an hour. Just after the rockets shut down, the sled hit a water brake section that brought the sled to a complete stop in one and one-quarter seconds. During that stop, Stapp experienced 25 Gs of sustained deceleration that actually peaked at 46 Gs for a fraction of a second. He sustained broken blood vessels in his eyes, but was back to essentially normal health by the following day.\nThis daring experiment proved the human body’s ability to withstand far more powerful forces than would be experienced during rocket launch and reentry. (Experience would later show that maximum acceleration forces in manned space flights of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were about 7 Gs; and the greatest deceleration forces were about 11 Gs.)\nIn spaceflight, an astronaut would experience not only acceleration and deceleration forces, but also the virtual absence of the force of gravity. Scientists worried that blood would not circulate adequately in that condition, or that an astronaut might not be able to swallow food or drink. Or they might become so disoriented in an environment with no up or down that they would be unable to do their required tasks. To explore these possibilities, airplane pilots at Holloman became proficient in flying a series of steep vertical arcs that produced half a minute of microgravity at each apex. Volunteers riding in the plane’s cargo bay could try eating, drinking, writing, and doing other essential activities.\nThere was one other important project developed at Holloman called Manhigh. Led by Dr. David Simons under Stapp’s command, it demonstrated the feasibility of constructing a space capsule that could protect an astronaut during an extended stay in the cold, low-pressure, radiation-exposed environment of a space-equivalent altitude. The capsule also required an oxygen regeneration system and communications capabilities. During the most successful of the program’s three manned flights, a 200-foot-diameter, helium-filled balloon carried the capsule to an altitude of more than 100,000 feet (19 miles). Simons stayed at a very high altitude for twenty-three hours of the thirty-two-hour flight. The program’s three flights demonstrated not only the performance of the space capsule but also the ability of a trained person to function effectively in a small, confined space at a great distance from the ground.\nThrough these and other experiments with animals and humans, researchers in southern New Mexico verified that spaceflight was humanly possible. By 1959, NASA was ready to select its first astronauts, who would fly into near-Earth space in the Mercury program. Using selection criteria expanded from ones used in the Manhigh project and drawing on a pool of potential candidates who were military test pilots, NASA narrowed its choices to thirty-two men. (Women were automatically excluded because they could not be military pilots at that time.) The next step was conducting medical exams to ensure these men were in “excellent physical condition,” which was one of the selection criteria.\nNASA chose Dr. William Randolph (Randy) Lovelace II to design and conduct the test regimen at the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque. Lovelace had been developing oxygen equipment for pilots in high-altitude flight since the late 1930s. By 1958, he was chairman of NASA’s Special Advisory Committee on Life Sciences. The Lovelace Clinic had already been conducting secret physical exams for pilots of the ultra-high-altitude U-2 spy planes, and its staff had developed a machine-readable card system that made analyzing the astronaut candidates’ test results very efficient.\nBeginning in February 1959, the astronaut candidates came to the Lovelace Clinic in groups of half a dozen, each group being tested for seven and a half consecutive days, with each day’s tests lasting eleven hours or more. Lovelace described the regimen as “one of the toughest medical examinations in history.” Not knowing exactly what physical challenges spaceflight would present to the human body, the doctors examined basically everything they could think of. This process not only revealed the overall health of each candidate, but it also provided baseline measurements that could be compared with post-spaceflight examinations to identify any possible physical effects.\nOf the thirty-two candidates examined at the Lovelace Clinic, eighteen passed “with no medical reservation.” After psychological examinations and physical stress tests in Ohio and further interviews, seven men were chosen to be America’s first astronauts.\nAs NASA moved forward through its Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo manned space programs, crews in New Mexico continued to test new generations of equipment. Seats astronauts would sit in during Apollo launches were evaluated on acceleration/deceleration devices at Holloman Air Force Base. Essential instruments to be used on missions to the moon were subjected to rocket launches, landings, and brief exposures to the space environment at WSMR. Recovery of payloads proved to be a major challenge, as they often landed far from the target location and the impact could bury them in the sand upon landing. In the mid-1960s, specially trained dogs were used to find the payloads, which had been coated with a distinctive scent. This novel approach was highly successful, with a recovery rate of 96 percent.\nThe Soviet Union sent a cosmonaut on a one-orbit flight before NASA conducted its first two manned suborbital flights, and then sent a second cosmonaut on a seventeen-orbit flight before NASA’s first manned orbital flight. Nevertheless, NASA chose to proceed with an abundance of caution, sending a human surrogate on each type of flight before sending a human. A chimpanzee named Ham took a fifteen-minute suborbital flight in January 1961 before Alan Shepard became America’s first man in space. Another chimpanzee, Enos, flew a two-orbit mission later that year, before John Glenn became the first orbiting astronaut in February 1962. Ham and Enos, along with several other chimpanzees, had been trained at Holloman Air Force Base to endure spaceflight and to perform mental and physical tasks during their flights. In both of the chimps’ flights, malfunctions caused the animals unexpected stress, yet both performed their assigned tasks almost flawlessly. Ham the Astrochimp is buried at the New Mexico Museum of Space History beneath the flagpoles.\nIn the haste to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s pledge of sending a man to the moon and returning him safely to the Earth by the end of the 1960s, the three phases of NASA’s first manned space program overlapped. As the Mercury program was validating orbital spacecraft and humans’ ability to function in space, the Gemini program was being planned and prepared. Its missions would also be in Earth’s orbit, but would test equipment and procedures for extravehicular activities (spacewalks) and docking of two orbiting spacecraft. Preparations for the Apollo missions, with larger crews ultimately reaching the moon for landings and lunar orbiting, actually began as early as 1962, the same year as the first Mercury orbital flight. During all that time, Holloman and WSMR played active support roles.\nIn preparation for the Apollo moon landings, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque began developing procedures in 1963 for making sure the landing modules did not contaminate the lunar surface with foreign materials. They also helped develop and test radioisotopic heaters that would provide necessary warmth for equipment left there by the first human visitors.\nAlso in 1963, NASA built its own propulsion systems development station on the edge of the WSMR property outside of Las Cruces. Rocket engines designed for use in the Apollo program were evaluated in static tests at this White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) before being approved for use in actual launches.\nAfter the last Apollo missions in 1972, NASA shifted its crewed space activities to Earth-orbit operations. The space shuttle vehicle was developed to serve first as an orbiting laboratory and then as a transportation vessel to carry astronauts and supplies between the Earth and the International Space Station (ISS). In fact, more than two dozen shuttle missions delivered modules used to construct the ISS in low-Earth orbit.\nNew Mexico figured prominently in the space shuttle program. WSTF staff tested materials and components that would be used in the shuttle’s propulsion, power, and life-support systems as well as payloads and experiments to be carried on missions by the shuttle and the ISS. The facility even has a team of smell testers that evaluate objects for potential unpleasant odors in the confines of crewed spacecraft or the ISS.\nWhite Sands Space Harbor, a facility operated by WSTF using a pair of runways on WSMR property, became a practice facility for landing shuttles starting in 1976. The shuttles landed as gliders, so the astronauts flying them had only one chance to make a safe landing. This made actual training flights, as well as those done in stationary simulators, crucial. Four Gulfstream II airplanes were modified to fly like a space shuttle would during landing, and the cockpits were outfitted as replicas of shuttle cockpits. Before each shuttle mission, the astronaut assigned to land the craft had to complete 1,000 landings in the training aircraft. Most of these practice sessions were at White Sands, although some were also done at the primary shuttle landing sites of Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Edwards Air Force Base in California.\nIn addition to being a major training facility, White Sands Space Harbor was the contingency landing site for each space shuttle mission during the program’s duration from 1981 to 2011. If both Kennedy Space Center and Edwards Air Force Base were unavailable as landing sites, White Sands would be used. Although only one shuttle actually landed at White Sands, in 1982, crews and equipment were assembled and ready at the end of every shuttle mission in case they were needed.\nDuring its thirty-year history, the space shuttle program experienced two disasters with the losses of the Challenger during its 1986 launch and the Columbia during its return from space in 2003. After both incidents, scientists and engineers at Sandia National Laboratories helped determine the causes of the catastrophes and develop equipment and procedures for preventing similar events.\nSo far, humans have explored space in person only as far as the moon. But people in New Mexico have helped explore objects and environments much farther away by means of unmanned space probes. Scientists and engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have played major roles in those endeavors. For example, as early as the mid-1950s, they began trying to develop nuclear power for rocket propulsion in Project Rover. Nuclear power would dramatically reduce the weight of the fuel needed to power the rocket and provide propulsion for a much longer period of time. While it has not yet been feasible to use nuclear power for rocket launch, other applications of nuclear power have proven enormously useful in long-duration, unmanned missions to distant planets, asteroids, and comets.\nOne nuclear application developed for spacecraft at Los Alamos was radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). These devices can generate electricity to power instruments on the spacecraft and to provide heat in the extreme cold of deep space. RTGs have been used in many space exploration projects including the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes launched in 1977. Both are still gathering and transmitting data, now from interstellar space. RTGs also powered the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions launched in 1972 and 1973 that performed the first flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. RTGs were also used on the New Horizons mission to Pluto in 2015. A replica of the spacecraft is on display inside the Tombaugh Education Center at the New Mexico Museum of Space History.\nBoth Goddard and von Braun saw the potential for electric propulsion of spacecraft by creating charged ions that would be expelled from the spacecraft to produce thrust. Ion propulsion produces a very small amount of thrust; but operating continuously for a long period of time, it can propel spacecraft to very high velocities. LANL employees have worked on developing ion propulsion systems. During the Deep Space 1 mission, which launched in 1998, LANL-developed instruments and analysis determined that ion propulsion could be used without interfering with operations of the scientific instruments on board.\nRobotic explorations of Mars have been the next best thing to going there in person. Dr. Larry Crumpler of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque knows that better than anyone. A planetary geologist, he was a member of the Mars Exploration Rovers team that operated Spirit and Opportunity on the red planet from their landings in 2004 until Opportunity’s last communication in 2018. A rare exact duplicate of one of the rovers is on display at the museum in a realistic Mars-like setting constructed of soil and rocks gathered from parts of New Mexico.\nUntil relatively recently, American space exploration has been the purview of NASA. New Mexico, however, has been at the forefront of a new generation of commercial space exploration. Just over thirty years ago, in March 1989, a NASA scientific mission first used a commercially built and launched rocket that took off from White Sands Missile Range. Even the payload integration was performed by the contractor, Space Services. From that beginning, New Mexico has been a leader in the development of commercial spaceflight.\nThe brief descriptions in this article give just a hint of the crucial contributions New Mexico researchers and engineers have made to space exploration for nearly a century. Each of the topics mentioned here can be explored in far greater depth for a better understanding of their details.\nBut the state’s involvement is even broader than the locations and facilities mentioned here. Staff members at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo have created a “New Mexico Space Trail” to more fully document important sites throughout the state. A map showing fifty-two historic sites can be downloaded at NMSpaceTrail.org. The sites include ancient astronomy installations, twentieth-century observatories, museums, Apollo astronaut training sites, and other test and launch facilities, as well as all of the places described in this article.\nUse the New Mexico Space Trail as a roadmap to further explore New Mexico’s unique, prolific history of space exploration. Some of the sites are not open to the public, but you can visit them virtually through books, articles, and museums. As New Mexico continues its leadership role in space exploration through its growing commercial space industry as well as its ongoing contributions to its traditional partnerships with NASA, it is useful to understand how that leadership position evolved.\nLoretta Hall is the author of four space-related books including Out of this World: New Mexico’s Contributions to Space Travel and Miguel & Michelle Visit Spaceport America.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How good, how useful and how appropriate are the individual tasks or items in a psychological test??\nWhen I present psychological tests in training sessions on remedial diagnostics, I can be sure that the first critical comments will be about the quality of the tasks or items: \"These tasks are much too difficult for three-year-olds\" or \"Such tasks are not appropriate for children, the children I know would never take them or only for a short time\". I can literally wait for such and similar remarks.\nThese critics do not know that every single item of a psychological test has been checked for quality in the course of test construction. In a first development step, test designers assemble test tasks or items that they assume both capture the trait or ability being tested and are appropriate for the target population. The resulting collection of tasks or raw test data is conducted on a large number of children, adolescents or adults, the so-called calibration sample. The results and experiences gained here form the basis for the second design step, the item analysis and item selection. For each item the difficulty index, the discriminatory power and the homogeneity are calculated in this context.\nThe difficulty index indicates the degree of difficulty of a task and is ultimately nothing more than the probability of solving this item. If an item is solved correctly by many subjects from the calibration sample, it is obviously an easy one, and if it is solved correctly by only a few, it is a difficult one. Tasks that are not solved correctly by anyone, or by everyone, are either too easy or too hard and are the first to be removed from the test. Thus, in a psychological test there can never be a task that is too difficult.\nWith the help of the difficulty index, the items in a psychological test can be arranged with increasing difficulty or louder items of equal difficulty can be selected, depending on what the test author needs for his test.\nThe discriminatory power provides information about the extent to which the set of solvers remains constant across all items or whether each item measures in terms of the overall result. It is therefore calculated as a correlation (systematic statistical relationship) between the overall result (test score) and the result of each individual item (item score). All subjects who achieve a high overall score on the test must, if possible, also be appropriately successful on each individual task. All items that do not sufficiently meet this requirement are removed from the test.\nHomogeneity indicates the degree to which items on a test measure the same trait or characteristic. Homogeneity is calculated by correlating the solutions of each task with the solutions of all other tasks. It is expected that there is a high systematic statistical correlation between the items belonging to a test or to a subtest. If there is such a sufficiently high correlation, take that as evidence that all tasks capture the same characteristic, the same ability.\nAfter the items with insufficient quality were removed from the test, the final version of the psychological test is available, which will now be subjected to a quality check as a whole in a further development step. So the items certainly don’t end up being too hard for three-year-olds if the test is designed for three-year-olds.\nThis is the 5. Article from the series \"Test diagnostics. You can find all articles of the series under this keyword.\nBreitenbach, Erwin (2005): Introduction to pedagogical-psychological diagnostics. In: Stephan Ellinger& Roland Stein (Ed.): Basic studies in special education. Oberhausen: Athena Verlag, pp. 114-141.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "– Wikipedia topwonders\nThe Alofaaga Blowholes, also known as the Taga Blowholes, are a natural feature located in the district of Palauli, south west of Salelologa wharf on the island of Savai’i in Samoa. The entrance to the blowholes is in the village of Taga.\nIn this area, lava flows have created a series of tubes connecting a flat clifftop of lava rock with the ocean below. Waves breaking against the lower end of the tubes send water at high pressure up through the tubes, creating fountains that spray every few seconds. As most of the land in Samoa is under customary ownership, the village charges a small admission for entry to view the blowholes. The area is unfenced and surrounded by wet, slippery rocks which can be dangerous. Falling into one of the blowholes would be almost certainly fatal. A track along the coast can be followed west to the ancient village of Fagaloa.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "While these are ideal to use with kids who can write themselves, you can still use them with your little ones – especially the Draw & Write prompts. Simply have them draw a picture according to the prompt and then allow them to dictate what they drew.\nThese Fire Safety Writing Activities sets included:\n- 26 pages of copywork – The Preamble to the Constitution\n- 7 Preschool Letters related to Fire Safety\n- 7 Early Manuscript words about Fire Safety\n- 6 Manuscript phrases about Fire Safety\n- 6 Cursive phrases about Fire Safety\n- 12 Constitution Day themed Draw & Write prompts\n- 6 Manuscript lined pages\n- 6 Plain lined pages\n- 18 Constitution Day themed Writing Prompts\n- 9 Manuscript lined pages\n- 9 Plain lined pages\n- Extra lined pages for both\nDon’t forget to follow us on Pinterest for more great ideas.\nNo Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for KidsBig Frank’s Fire Truck (Pictureback(R))Arthur’s Fire Drill (Step 3)The Berenstain Bears: Safe and Sound!Miss Mingo and the Fire DrillStop Drop and RollLet’s Meet a Firefighter\nTo download these Fire Safety Printables, simply add it to your cart and then checkout. Upon checkout, you will be added to my Weekly Newsletter list.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "All Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) share common elements. The details of each agreement, however, are unique to the national context of each partner country, as they are based on national laws and the priorities of national stakeholders.\nThe outputs of each agreement include:\n- A timber legality assurance system\n- Frameworks for monitoring and evaluating implementation\n- Commitments to improve transparency and other aspects of forest governance\nThe text of a VPA, which is in two sections, the main text and the annexes, describes these outputs. The main text of a VPA outlines the basic principles and structures, and varies little between VPAs. The annexes vary between VPAs because they provide country-specific detail on issues such as:\n- The legal requirements the partner country will monitor and ensure compliance with under the VPA\n- The procedures for verifying legality, tracing timber and issuing FLEGT licences\n- The documents and data the country will make accessible to the public\nDeliberations among stakeholders in a timber-exporting country determine the ambition and content of a VPA. These deliberations help the government of a VPA partner country determine the scope of products a VPA will cover, whether or not to include domestic markets, and the extent of legal and governance reforms.\nA VPA that includes legal reforms and domestic market measures provides a strong signal that the partner country's government is prepared to address fundamental governance challenges that result in illegal logging comprehensively.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Glacial melting is sounding the alarm of global warming in Antarctica, one of the world’s most rapidly warming areas over the past fifty years.\nAntarctica has experienced air temperature increases of 3°C in the Antarctic Peninsula. Studies show that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is warming at a higher speed than the global ocean as a whole.\nResearchers suggest that the situation has reached a critical point where glacial melting will accelerate and become irreversible. Nasa’s study found that Thwaites glacier could probably flow into the sea and generate a fifty centimeters rise in sea level. Other glaciers are in a similar situation.\nGlobal warming is making significant changes to both living and physical environments. The permafrost, which had initially been resilient to warming in the Pole region, is now starting to melt. The measurements confirm that some areas are melting ten times more rapidly than ever before known.\nMost recent researches have found that the rate of ice loss from Antarctic glaciers has doubled in the last six years and is now five times faster than in the 1990s, creating a significant reduction in thickness at some sites of up to 100 meters. Satellite data has shown that Antarctica has lost as much sea ice in the last four years as the Arctic lost in the last thirty-four years.\nWhile this change is concerning for various reasons, it holds the potential to affect both animals and humans significantly. We’re starting to feel the effect through the food chain since the changing habitat has already impacted many species of animals that rely on Antarctica’s cold temperatures for survival. Though the full effects are unknown, it is expected to threaten crops, livestock, and aquatic species. These changes can, in turn, affect the availability of food, driving up prices and possibly even making some foods unattainable.\nFor those that travel around Antarctica for fishing or recreational purposes, the rising ocean will significantly change its weather patterns. Regions and channels known to be safe may become dangerous, a problem that will impact shipping lanes and cause delays. Overall, the two primary changes that we, as humans, will experience are potential food scarcities and higher costs for products obtained overseas.\nAntarctica is home to animal colonies, which are now in danger with rising temperatures. The distribution of these colonies has already been affected. We will see a decrease in their numbers over time, and some species may even become extinct. As the sea ice conditions keep altering, the distribution of penguin has changed. Melting of perennial snow and ice covers gave way to increased colonization by plants. A decline in Antarctic krill abundance may be associated with reduced sea ice cover and reduced provision for animals that depend on this species to feed. Massive changes have occurred in the ice cover of the Peninsula. Many glaciers and ice shelves have retreated in recent years, and some have collapsed completely.\nFurthermore, many seals and whales are dependent on the sheets of ice for their food and reproductive purposes. They are in danger of not having access to these sheets, which will also decrease their life expectancy. The minke whale and orca are, particularly in jeopardy.\nThe study suggests that those losses in ice can’t be regained, even if temperatures return to preindustrial levels. The simulations indicate that temperatures would need to drop to at least 1 degree Celsius below preindustrial times for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to regrow to its modern extent.\nGlobal warming in Antarctica is a significant danger, posing a real but sad example of how the rest of the world may be affected. Keeping an open mind and staying informed will help us find ways to contribute individually, as families, and at community levels. Our contribution is more critical than ever; finding local solutions will help with this global crisis. Our responsibility is not only with our planet, the only home we know but with all generations to come.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Engineering is Elementary team is committed to making our engineering curricula accessible to all students, including English Learners—the fastest growing group of public school students in the United States. We already have Spanish-translated student-facing materials available for our 20 in-school curriculum units, and you'll notice an exciting addition if you check out our two out-of-school time curricula. You can now download Spanish translations of the student notebooks for all 20 Engineering Adventures and Engineering Everywhere units!\nWhy translate the student notebooks for our out-of-school time curricula into Spanish? The EiE team’s research has shown the power of engineering notebooks in helping students organize their information, scaffold their work, and collaborate and communicate effectively with their peers. And because 77% of English Learners speak Spanish at home, we want to provide those same supports while promoting literacy in their home language.\nWe’ve also recently revamped our download pages to make the process even easier to navigate. Now, when you’re ready to get started with an Engineering Everywhere unit like It’s About Time: Engineering Timers, you’ll have even more options on our re-designed download screen. There, you’ll be able to download both the Spanish and English versions of the notebooks that your young engineers will use to document their engineering design journey. You’ll also be able to download all of the other resources you’ll need to complete the unit on that same page.\nProviding translations of our out-of-school-time notebooks is just one piece of EiE's ongoing commitment to English Learners. We also have Spanish translations of the student-facing resources—storybooks, worksheets, and family letters—available for all 20 in-school EiE units. You can download the Spanish-language family letter from our website on the individual page for each unit. And, if you’re looking for translations of the worksheets or storybooks, give our customer service team a call at 617-589-0230 and they will be able to assist you.\nKeep your eye on our newsletter and blog for even more exciting announcements—we're making it even easier for teachers to access more of our Spanish-language resources, and you'll be the first to know! Want to take a peek at our out-of-school time curricula? Click on the buttons below to access free downloads of our Engineering Adventures and Engineering Everywhere units.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Chris Tournazou, F.J. Lidgey, D.G. Haigh\nAnalogue IC layout has turn into the basic ebook masking the current-mode method of built-in circuit layout. The technique has sparked a lot curiosity in analogue electronics and is associated with vital advances in built-in circuit know-how -- similar to CMOS VLSI which permits combined analogue and electronic circuits, and high-speed GaAs processing. The publication attracts jointly educational contributions from the world's most outstanding analogue circuit designers. it really is now being republished in paperback because the topic has entered the syllabus of higher point undergraduate classes in electronics and circuit design.Also available:Design of excessive Frequency built-in Analogue Filters - ISBN 0852969767High-frequency Circuit Engineering - ISBN 0852968019The establishment of Engineering and expertise is without doubt one of the world's major specialist societies for the engineering and know-how neighborhood. The IET publishes greater than a hundred new titles each year; a wealthy mixture of books, journals and magazines with a again catalogue of greater than 350 books in 18 diversified topic components together with: -Power & power -Renewable power -Radar, Sonar & Navigation -Electromagnetics -Electrical dimension -History of know-how -Technology administration\nRead Online or Download Analogue IC Design: The Current-Mode Approach (EII Circuits and Systems Series) (Eii Circuits and Systems Series) PDF\nBest electronics: radio books\nIt's the first program to nuclear-physics from energy-density sensible approach, for which Professor Walter Kohn bought the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The e-book offers a accomplished extension of the Bohr-Wheeler idea with the current wisdom of nuclear density distribution functionality.\nAnalogue IC layout has develop into the fundamental booklet overlaying the current-mode method of built-in circuit layout. The strategy has sparked a lot curiosity in analogue electronics and is associated with vital advances in built-in circuit know-how -- equivalent to CMOS VLSI which permits combined analogue and electronic circuits, and high-speed GaAs processing.\n- Corrosion induced by low-energy radionuclides: Modeling of Tritium and Its Radiolytic and Decay Products Formed in Nuclear Installations\n- ESD in Silicon Integrated Circuits\n- Modelling Radioactivity in the Environment\n- Hints & Kinks for the Radio Amateur\n- A little Smalltalk\n- Global RFID: The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management\nAdditional info for Analogue IC Design: The Current-Mode Approach (EII Circuits and Systems Series) (Eii Circuits and Systems Series)\nCrucially, the simplification afforded by restricting ourselves to considering purely monochromatic waveforms in no way restricts the analysis since any angular 20 Principles of planar near-field antenna measurements frequency may be considered to be a component of a Fourier series or in the limit a Fourier integral, thus enabling this analysis to be applied to arbitrary waveforms. 15) Here, µ is the magnetic permeability of the medium, ε is the permittivity of the medium, that is, the dielectric constant and σ is the specific conductivity.\nHowever, although a distribution of separate charges may be individually in translational equilibrium they may be in motion relative to each other and therefore there will be no inertial frame relative to which all of the charges constituting the distribution are stationary. To take account of this relative motion a second vector B is defined. This vector relates the force that acts on the test charge in the presence of fields at the points in space that the charge instantaneously occupies when it is in motion.\nAdditionally, however, Chapter 4 will set out an alternative methodology for utilizing this equation that is more convenient when considering most, but not all, problems encountered in the study of planar near-field antenna metrology. However, a methodology that will be instructive and gives insight in to the nature of the EM interaction that is often successfully adopted to evaluate the EM fields produced and subsequently radiated by moving charges is to consider the fields E and B to be the resultants of potentials.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There's a sex bias in evolution, according to an article in PLoS Genetics, and it's demonstrated by the fact that women have been more successful on average in passing their genes on to the next generation. \"This is because a few males have fathered children with multiple females, which occurs at the expense of other less successful males\", says Dr. Michael Hammer, ARL Division of Biotechnology at the University of Arizona.\nThe group has found DNA evidence that polygyny, the practice among males of siring children with multiple female partners at the same time or successively, has led to an excess of genetic diversity on the X chromosome relative to the autosomes.\nThe X chromosome is present in two copies in females and a single copy in males. The autosomes, which are inherited equally by both sexes from each parent, are expected to have more genetic diversity than the X chromosome in a population with an equal number of breeding males and females.\nThe research team measured levels of neutral polymorphism at 40 independent loci on the X chromosome and autosomes in ninety humans representing six populations, including: Biaka (Central African Republic), Mandenka (Senegal), San (Namibia), French Basque, Han Chinese and Melanesians (Papua New Guinea). The group contrasted alternative explanations for the higher observed levels of X-linked (versus autosomal) diversity.\nBackground selection, changes in population size and sex-specific migration were all discounted as contributors to the observed patterns of genetic variability. Only the process of polygyny could by itself account for the sex ratio skew and resulting patterns of genomic variation. By this process, fewer unique male genes are being passed into the next generation.\nThe group's research highlights how unseen, sex-biased forces have shaped genomic patterns of variability. Over the long-term, the findings may provide lessons on the dynamics of beneficial mutations on different chromosomes as they sweep through the population.\nThe article examines potential demographic and evolutionary forces that have led to higher than expected genetic variation on the X chromosome.\nCITATION: Hammer MF, Mendez FL, Cox MP, Woerner AE, Wall JD (2008) Sex-Biased Evolutionary Forces Shape Genomic Patterns of Human Diversity. PLoS Genet 4(9): e1000202. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000202", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The design process for a product first requires a clear understanding of the functions and the performance expected of that product. The product may be new, or it may be a revised version of an existing product. We have all observed, for example, how the design and style of radios, toasters, watches, automobiles and washing machines have changed. The market for a product and its anticipated uses must be defined clearly, with the assistance of sales personnel, market analysts, and others in the organization. Product design is a critical activity because it has been estimated that 70 to 80 percent of the cost of product development and manufacture is determined at the initial design stages.\nDuring product design and once a part design is finalized, the production processes must be planned. In process planning, the general characteristics of the part, such as the general part configuration, material, surface finish, and tolerances, and must be determined first. These characteristics will affect part handling, the type of tooling and machines, the sequence of operations, assembly, and rate of production .\nWhat is lean?\nLean Enterprise — A business system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, and customer relations. Business and other organizations use lean principles, practices, and tools to create precise customer value-goods and services with higher quality and fewer defects-with less human effort, less space, less capital, and less time than the traditional system of mass production.\nMany of the key principles were pioneered by Henry Ford, who was the first person to integrate an entire production system, under what he termed \"flow production.\" Following World War II, the Toyota Motor Company adapted Ford's principles as a means of compensating for its challenge of limited human, financial and material resources. The Toyota Production System (or TPS), which evolved from this need, was one of the first managerial systems using lean principles throughout the enterprise to produce a wide variety of products at lower volumes and many fewer defects than competitors.\nLeaders today in a wide range of industries, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, healthcare, and other areas are finding ways to apply the principles of lean as a means of producing goods and delivering services that creates value for the customer with the minimum amount of waste and the maximum degree of quality .\n Kalpakjian, S. \"Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Third Edition.\" Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995.\n \"What is Lean?\" Lean Enterprise Institute, 2006.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Occupational therapy focuses on the child’s “occupation”, which includes developmental tasks involving their ability to interact with people and objects in their environment. Difficulties in the ability to interact with people and objects in their environment are noted to impact their performance in play, social relationships, learning, and activities of daily living skills. The occupation of childhood is to develop the skills necessary to become functional and independent adults. The areas assessed and treated in occupational therapy include, but are not limited to: Regulation of arousal level in order to attend; Refinement of sensory discrimination and processing; Continual refinement and development of fine motor skills (including handwriting); Age appropriate self care skills; Self concept and Cognitive functions.\nThe expectations for the level of development through therapy & treatment of any of these skills will vary depending on the age of the child. It is important to remember that all of these skills are developing concurrently. Impairment of one area is likely to stunt development in other areas.\nAt Lowcountry Therapy Center, play is the media most often used in the occupational therapist's treatment of children. It is highly motivating and a natural media used by all children. Education and involvement of the family is critical to success, and is therefore always a part of the therapy session.\nLowcountry Therapy Center will be offering upcoming camps addressing reading, writing, and handwriting. We look forward to working with you! Call or contact us today with any questions you may have about our therapy & treatment methods.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The “what-is-it” that made its first appearance in Greensboro on or about January 16th has been the subject of a great deal of speculation. What is the thing whose tracks are so much like those of a horse or mule, and travels where horses and mules cannot possibly go? Some of the footprints seemed to show that the hoof making them wore an iron shoe, even to the nails in the shoe. Many of these tracks were observed in Greensboro on the 17th inst., and were viewed carefully by many good-thinking citizens of the community, including Messrs. Joseph B. Orrell, R.D. Clark, William Sipple, Rev. J.H. Beauchamp, and a number of others. Nearly every garden in Greensboro bore marks of the presence of the strange animal. Some people are afraid they will meet it along the road, but many regard the thing as a myth, although none can give any explanation at all of the presence of the tracks. It is said it has but little use for some colored people, and dogs are so afraid of it that they will not go near its tracks. The animal, the writer was told, passed through a porch near town, knocking out the watch-dog, but was so swift in its movements that it could not be seen. It left traces of remarkable speed all about the place.\nThat the “air-horse” did not confine his operations to Greensboro seems to be proven by a Goldsboro correspondent, who writes: “The 'what-is-it' kept our people guessing for a week or ten days, and some of our timid and nervous ones in of nights. None, however, had the opportunity of making its acquaintance or of meeting it in combat.”\nThe accompanying drawing was made by Mr. J.V. Hauck, the Philadelphia Bulletin artist, from descriptions given him. The animal, bird or devil is said to be about three feet and a-half high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It has a long neck, wings several feet in length, and back and legs like a crane, with horse's or mule's hoofs. It walked on its hind legs and held up two short front ones, with paws on them. Those who saw the creature said it didn't use the front legs at all while they were watching.\nFor some time after the jabberwock's tracks appeared it is said several well-known citizens did not like to leave the fireside's cheerful glow after the shades of night had fallen. If they were called away late in the afternoon they did not tarry; they wanted to go home – and they went.\nOne theorist has it that these strange visitors are from the fathomless caverns deep in the earth, and that the upheavals caused by the great earthquake in Southern Europe set them free, and that they are thus, as Shakespeare says, “doomed for a while to walk the night.”\nThe Centreville Observer last week said: “Rivalling in mystery and wonderment the days when hobgoblins and grotesque figures followed in the wake of giants that were then supposed to abound, is the strange animal which for the past few days has infested the districts of Barclay, Sudlersville and Roberts. Although evident everywhere by its tracks, not a single person has laid eyes upon the creature, human or supernatural, whatever it may be. The tracks first became noticeable after the snow of last week, first in Sudlersville and afterwards in the two other towns. In Sudlersville and Barclay the tracks were mostly in open fields close to woods, althoguh they were seen right in the heart of the former place. Upon coming to a woods the tracks vanish, leaving the impression that the animal might be a gorrilla [sic] or some climbing creature. At Roberts only was the size of the creature anywhere near ascertainable, and then the facts were brought out so vividly and startlingly that the tracks were soon abandoned by curiosity ridden hunters. The tracks came from the woods near Roberts, passed across an open field and under a bunch of brush only about two feet high, without disturbing it in the least, and passed between two trees not more than six inches apart. The prints are almost eight inches apart and are shaped like a hoof, being about 2 ½ inches wide and a little longer. Some have believed that it is the evil one prowling about in their vicinities, but as yet no signs of horns, pitchforks, or other necessary accompaniments have been discovered. Persons of a less superstitious nature think that it is some animal that has escaped from a passing show and spent the winter there.”\nFriday, September 23, 2011\nThe devil went down to Maryland (1909)\nFrom the Denton (Md.) Journal, January 30, 1909:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Focus on productivity\nThe author is an economics professor at Korea University.\nThe excessive measures of the government’s income-led growth policy have hit the Korean economy’s weakest link: small businesses. With their low productivity, these companies can barely endure an economic slump, let alone the shock of President Moon Jae-in’s policies. As employment growth has slowed, more businesses are closing, and the income of the lowest earners has actually fallen.\nIn Korea, the service sector has lower productivity than manufacturing. Labor productivity, or the amount of output per hour, is just 45 in service industries, compared to 100 in manufacturing. The average productivity of the service sector in developed countries is 90.\nEven in the same industry and field, productivity varies drastically among businesses. Some are thriving, but a majority can barely survive. Small and medium-sized enterprises with low productivity cannot endure if the government increases the minimum wage by 29 percent in two years and enforces new labor regulations.\nWhen wages rise faster than productivity, companies reduce hiring. Small businesses have to deal with the shock by cutting other costs or raising prices. Government subsidies can only be a temporary measure. Businesses will hire more, and pay more, only when productivity improves. When overall incomes rise as a result, demand will rise, too, and a good economic cycle will begin.\nThe market economy develops when individuals work hard to enhance productivity, and the market rewards productivity. World-class football players make far more than average players, and all athletes strive to be the best. Poor-performing football clubs make less and thus pay players less. When the government intervenes and sets a minimum salary for all clubs, football clubs will fire players whose performances don’t meet the minimum salary. The government can provide subsidies to maintain their employment, but there won’t be a fundamental solution until there is better performance.\nLabor productivity is affected by individual efforts, but more crucial factors are accumulated capital and technological progress. Labor goes hand in hand with capital and technology to produce output. It is hard for an individual born in a country with little capital and low technological competence to be as productive and make as much as those born in Korea or the United States.\nIf Lionel Messi played football not in Barcelona but in Argentina, his productivity and salary would be much lower. The average annual income of Cambodians is $1,400, equivalent to one month’s salary of a minimum-wage earner in Korea. This income gap is not because of individual efforts and competency but due to differences in capital and technology.\nTo enhance the Korean economy’s productivity, education and technical training need to be strengthened, and capital and technology accumulation should be accelerated. Public investment in education, child care, social overhead capital, research and development should increase, and regulatory reform and assistance must focus on urging innovative companies to make drastic investments on future growth drivers.\nFields and industries with especially low productivity invest in people and technology. When labor productivity consistently increases, per-capita income will rise, and so will economic growth. Productivity-driven economic growth will bring a good cycle of employment, growth and distribution.\nThe government has announced a new budget that includes more social security spending to promote income-led growth. It is only fair to provide more unemployment benefits and vocational training to protect the socially vulnerable, but that can only be a temporary measure to fend off the adverse effects of a policy with government money.\nAdding public jobs should be limited to fields where an increase is necessary. Expanding fiscal spending without considering more effective policies would add to debt. Social security spending will only grow as the population ages, and when the pension fund begins to dry up, the burden on future generations will grow.\nResources for inter-Korean cooperation and reunification are also needed. While the government will need more money, a tax hike won’t be easy when productivity declines and economic growth slows.\nMoon’s income-led growth drive is a policy that prioritizes improved distribution, and that is very important, but growth must accompany it. While some say that people can be happy with equality despite lower income, as seen in the people of Bhutan, the standard of happiness is different. People feel miserable when living standards worsen compared to the past.\nMost Koreans wouldn’t be so happy living in Bhutan. If current policies are making the lives of low-income earners, jobless young people and small business owners harder, the direction should be changed, and a new breakthrough should be sought. The administration is listening to the voices of the people.\nTranslation by the Korea JoongAng Daily staff.\nJoongAng Ilbo, Aug. 30, Page 35", "label": "No"}
{"text": "do you know our newsletter? It’ll keep you briefed on what we publish. Please register, and you will get it every month.\nThanks and best wishes,\nthe editorial team\nLess food, more dengue infections\n– by Roli Mahajan\n© Glen Morey/picture-alliance/AP Photo\nSmoke caused by Australian wildfire in late December.\nAs temperatures rise and the planet heats up, both flooding and droughts are becoming more common. These and other impacts of the climate crisis will negatively affect the food security of millions of people, which in turn will harm their physical well-being. According to a recent report in The Lancet, one of the world’s premier medical journals, there are other health risks too. For example, a hotter climate will allow infectious diseases to spread faster. The authors warn that climate change is likely to undermine much of the progress made with regard to health gains in the past 50 years.\nAs several dozen researchers from UN agencies and other institutions point out in The Lancet Countdown 2019 report, air pollution is set to worsen because of climate change. An example is the smog caused by wildfires – as is currently evident in Australia, though this crisis is of course not mentioned in the study which preceded it.\nHowever, air pollution is principally driven by the use of fossil fuels and dirty power sources. According to Nicholas Watts, the lead author, controlling it is probably “the most important thing we should be considering from a public health perspective”. Air pollution has caused 7 million deaths worldwide in 2016, according to the report, and the scenario will only get worse unless the energy sector changes dramatically. Related measures, of course, would also serve to mitigate climate change.\nThe report states that, unless the world meets the Paris Agreement targets to limit global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, children born today will experience a world that is more than four degrees warmer by the time they reach the age of 71: “The life of every child born today will be profoundly affected by climate change.”\nThe number of undernourished people worldwide has been steadily increasing since 2014, according to The Lancet. This trend affects children under five in particular. Consequences include stunting, hampered development and various health complications. Food availability, access and affordability all matter. A hotter climate will lead to poorer harvests, which in turn will cause food price inflation, the scholars warn. Their data show that, over the past three decades, global yield potentials have fallen – by three percent in the case of rice, four percent in the case of maize and six percent in the case of winter wheat.\nMoreover, rising sea temperatures, severe weather events and ocean acidification are affecting fisheries. Fish is a source of protein for 3.2 billion people, with people from low and middle-income countries depending on this resource in particular. The researchers reiterate that people’s health suffers if their protein intake is insufficient.\nCompounding the problems, warmer temperatures herald an era of infectious diseases. The climate is becoming more hospitable to dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease. In recorded history, nine of the 10 years in which conditions made dengue transmissions most likely have occurred since the turn of the millennium, according to The Lancet Countdown study. It considers Dengue to be the fastest spreading disease, putting half of the world population at risk.\nAccording to the report, “reduced labour productivity is often the first symptom of the health effects of heat.” It states that, due to higher temperatures, about 30 % more potential work hours were lost in 2018 than in 2000.\nThe consistent international pattern is that people’s resilience to the impacts of climate change depends on their wealth. The poor are always the most vulnerable. Poornima Prabhakaran of India’s Public Health Foundation, a public-private partnership, expects “few countries to suffer from the health effects of climate change as much as India”. The reasons she indicates are the “huge population, high rates of health-care inequality, poverty and malnutrition”. She notes that diarrhoeal infections are a major cause of child mortality in developing countries, with things set to get worse due to rising temperatures.\nProsperous world regions\nThe report insists that humanity is burning too much fossil fuel, with global carbon emissions still increasing. It also highlights that China, India and Southeast Asia are using far too much coal, with dire implications for air pollution. However, air pollution also haunts prosperous world regions, as the authors point out. Tiny particulate matter (PM2.5) is the most dangerous pollutant, causing serious cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The report warns that – should PM2.5 remain at 2016 levels for another century – the average European lifespan will be reduced by almost six months.\nOther health issues similarly affect the rich regions of the world. For example, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean are most vulnerable to heatwaves because societies are ageing and non-communicable diseases are weakening ever more people. At the same time, the report points out that wildfires are becoming more common internationally, with India and China seeing the largest increase.\nThe report includes some good news. Achievements include:\n- China has been reducing its reliance on coal,\n- European air-pollution levels have been improving, and\n- about half of all nations now have climate-emergency plans.\nThe authors also appreciate that health-care systems are increasingly being adapted to the new needs. They welcome these trends, but also make it very clear that much more must be done – and fast.\nThe Lancet Countdown 2019:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "N55 ROCKET SYSTEM\nN55 ROCKET SYSTEM, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005\nThe N55 ROCKET SYSTEM enables persons to communicate their protest in a concrete way. It is a low tech, low cost, highly efficient hybrid rocket propulsion system, fueled by a mixture of polyethylene and laughing gas (N2O).\nThe N55 ROCKET SYSTEM makes it possible to distribute various things from high altitudes. For example, printed matter or plant seeds could be spread over a vast area.The rocket PROTEST, constructed to protest against large concentrations of power, can carry a payload of 2 kg to an altitude of approximately 5200 m, if launched from an angle of 85 degrees. The fuel will burn for 6 seconds, bringing the rocket to a maximum speed of 475 m/s. The N55 ROCKET SYSTEM has been equipped with a parachute and can be reused when a mission is completed. The ROCKET SYSTEM is part of the N55 SPACE PROGRAMME, which aims at creating space for persons and making space technology accessible and useful in everyday life situations.\nBig corporations increasingly decide over and profit on vast dominions of human existence. Formerly common things such as land, water, the air (the rights to pollute) are being monopolised. Food is being polluted by GMOs introduced without any public knowledge. The traditional means of protesting through street manifestations and via formal channels seem inadequate for invoking changes in the present dangerous and undemocratic situation. As people in power fail to live up to their social responsibilities, and let populations down by favouring concentrations of power, the need for new means of expression emerges.\nRelatively advanced technology is normally only available to concentrations of power such as governments or corporations, or a few highly specialised individuals. The N55 SPACE PROGRAMME, and the N55 ROCKET SYSTEM, is part of an effort to distribute and give persons in general access to specialised knowledge and technology.\nPROTEST with launching pad and launch control box.\nThe version of PROTEST shown in this manual carries a payload of Superweeds: seeds of naturally occuring and genetically modified (GM) weed plants that if allowed to germinate and crosspollinate, will evolve into a Superweed that will be resistant to current herbicides such as Roundup. To counter the threat of genetic pollution posed by biotech firms, persons are encouraged to equip themselves with superweeds to potentially sabotage commercial GM crop fields. SuperWeeds are distributed by Heath Bunting, www.irational.org/cta/superweed/\nPayload: Capsules with superweeds will be released once the rocket reaches its peak\nThe blasting bolt fixed at the center\nof the payload section is controlled by a timer. The blast will cause\nthe rocket to divide into two parts.\nThere exist three forms of chemical rocket engines, defined by the form of their propellants: solid, liquid, and hybrid propellants. The first and most simple form uses a mixture of rubbery fuels mixed with crystalline oxidizers and often powdered metals like aluminium are used to increase the energy content. In the solid rocket motor a so-called grain made of this fuel is burned slowly to produce hot gasses under high pressure. The solid rocket is simple, but unfortunately it cannot be stopped once ignited – and the propellants are potential explosives that must be manufactured under rigorous safety precautions. Examples of use are most military missiles, and strap-on boosters like the SRB´s or solid rocket boosters used on the space shuttle.\nLiquid propellant rocket engines are typified by high performance, high versatility and a complex design. Unlike solid motors they can be stopped and started many times and can be designed for reuse and multiple starts and stops. A liquid propellant rocket motor may also be throttled during flight. The drawback of liquid rocket propul-sion lies in the complexity of the engine, fuel and oxidizer surplus systems (that may include turbo pumps) and the resulting high cost. Liquid propellants may be corrosive and toxic chemicals, especially if they are to be earth storable. Examples of use are in most spaceboosters e.g. the space shuttles main engines and in most manned rocket applications.\nHybrid rockets are essentially designed to combine the best from both forms of rocket propulsion. The fuel will be a polymer like polyethylene LDPE or hydroxyterminaltedpolybutadien HTPB, and the oxidizer either liquid oxygen, LOX or dinitrogenoxide, N2O (laughing gas). The solid fuel is placed in a combustion chamber. It is machined or cast into a desirable form, most often with one or more longitudinal openings or ports. Combustion takes place in these ports when oxidizer liquids are sprayed over the top of the polymer fuel block. Downstream the fuel, just above the nozzle, the combustion completes and as in any rocket, hot gasses under high pressure is formed. This gas is then expelled through the nozzle where the gas reaches speeds in the 1500 - 3000 m/s range.\nWhat makes a hybrid rocket very interesting is the safe, simple and cheap design. A solid propellant rocket may explode violently if a crack appears in the fuel grain. A liquid engine may explode e.g. during start if fuel and oxidizer liquids are mixed but not ignited until some mass of the mixture has accumulated. This most often starts a cataclysmic destruction of the entire rocket system and its cargo or crew. In conventional rockets these explosions occur when the design fails to control the rate by which propellants are burned and turned into hot high pressure gasses.\nIn a hybrid rocket the solid fuel and liquid oxidizer cannot be mixed any faster than the solid can be evaporated into combustible gasses. As a result the system is potentially much safer than any of the two first type of rockets. Most important hybrids still can be turned on and off, and even throttled by changing the flow of oxidizer.\nIn the practical world the liquid oxidizer must still be fed to the combustion chamber. This can be done using pumps or pressurized tanks. The most weight economic method depends on the size of the system and of the material that the tanks and combustion chamber are made from. Today ultra high strength synthetic fibres like glass, kevlar or carbon fibre are commonly available along with epoxy binders, so only in the most extreme size of rockets will the turbopump systems be superior. For low-tech simple systems, ordinary steels or stainless steel are quite suitable and very robust materials.\nThe oxidizer used for the N55\nROCKET SYSTEM is dinitrogenoxide (N20). It is chosen for availability\nand safety. It is purchased in steel cylinders under pressure and can\nbe fed under pressure to the rockets flight tank. At 20 deg. C the\nsteam pressure of N20 is some 40 bars, quite adequate for supplying it\nto the combustion chamber. All parts of the rocket are made of steel,\ncopper and fiberglass, are machined using simple machinery and subsequently\nThe oxidizer tank is the largest and most heavy part of the hybrid motor. Its stores the N20 oxidizer at very high pressure, and must be made with great care, since failure of the tank during filling and pressure rise is the most dangerous process during preparation of the rocket.\nThe tank is made from mild steel tube. The tube is cut to length, and is fitted with a forward and aft bulkhead. The bulkheads are turned into a section of a sphere to increase strength. This is done using a hydraulic press. Such endcaps can also be purchased, but with a hydraulic jack and a short section of the tank skin it can be made much cheaper.\nAt the center of both endcaps holes are cut for the main oxidizer valve and for the filling valve. Finally a skirt is welded on both ends to make it possible to connect the tank to the other section of the rocket.\nPossible improvements of the tank:\nThe problem with the tank is the mass of it. Improvements must aim at reducing weight. This can be done in a number of ways. Reducing the very high margins of safety of the present rocket PROTEST is one potentially dangerous way. Instead it would be cheap and simple to give the tank a carbonfibre unidirectional coil simply wrapping it into a coil of carbon fibre to transfer radial forces from the steel to a much stronger fibre material. In a perfect design, only longitudinal forces would be absorbed by the inner steel tank. Relative to PROTEST this could take some 50 % of the weight away. It preserves the simple connections made in welded steel, and would have great effect in a slightly larger rocket.\nTo make the entire tank from\ncarbon fibre would reduce 80 95 % of the weight of the tank body,\nbut valves and connections would be a relatively great weight expense.\nIn a slightly larger rocket the valve can be radio controlled, and have its actuator onboard. This allows for in-flight premature cut-off restart and throttling.\nThe N20 oxidizer injector is machined from mild steel. It meters and controls the flow of the oxidizer. The six 1.5 mm oxidizer holes are angled to induce impingement leading to effective atomisation of the oxidizer. The complex two-phase flow of N20 cannot be predicted by standard injector calculations, so test using actual N20 is needed to understand the process. Extensive testing have indicated that a hole of 1 mm ( area 0.78 mm2 ) injects some 0.050 kg N20 pr. sec, and this figure being almost unaffected by the pressure drop. The PROTEST injector has six 1.5 mm holes, and its designed to inject some 0.650 kg of N20 pr sec.\nPossible improvements of the injector:\nIn a slightly larger system a more complex injector can be used to induce better atomisation, possibly surpressing combustion instability and motor vibration.\nThe ignition of a hybrid motor is simpler than one would expect. In the PROTEST motor a pyrotechnic strand burner is inserted from one side and a pyrotechnic scuip or igniter is inserted from the other.The openings are placed just downstream of the injector above the fuel grain. Prior to launch, at T-5 sec, the pyrotechnic device is activated. Its combustion fills the combustion chamber with reducing gases and decomposing plastic fuel gases. Once the main valve is opened the gases mix, react and release more fuel gases from the plastic fuel and the motor is on.\nImprovements of the ignition system:\nNone. During years of testing the ignition system has never failed.\nThe fuel for PROTEST is polyethylene. Combustion of this material is clean, efficient and predictable. The gases produced are mainly carbonoxide, carbondioxide and water. The mixture of 02 and fuel gases starts at the top, and as the hot gases flow down the seven ports of the grain more and more fuel is induced to the mix. The length to diameter ratio of the ports determine the fuel to oxidizer mixture ratio. As the ports gradually open the combustion rate reduces, and this compensates to some extent for the change in O/F ratio. Still there are some changes, starting with a relatively fuel rich mixture that gradually goes closer to neutral. However the N20 / HDPE combination is very insensitive to this change, exhaust speed vary some less than 10 % from a mixture ratio of 5 to a mixture ratio of 10 kg N20 / kg fuel.\nThe fuel grain is placed in the combustion chamber and is sealed to the chamber walls with two o-ring seals. These prevent combustion on the outside of the grain by stopping the flow of N20 here. Close to engine cut off these O-rings are no longer needed, and they partially burn with the rest of the fuel.\nPossible improvements to the fuel grain:\nPROTEST uses a\ngrain with seven cylindrical ports. The fuel residue can be reduced using\na more complex configuration, but the gain is limited. Other improvements\ncould be finding the perfect length to produce gases with non-oxidizing\nThe combustion chamber is made from the same type of tube as the oxidizer tank. It is not directly exposed to hot gases, but some heat transfer must be expected at the top, and near the nozzle. Because of the large (15 20 bar) injector pressure drop the combustion chamber is not as highly stressed as the tank. The fuel grain is inserted during fabrication and the combustion chamber is welded outside the grain.\nSame as the oxidizer tank,\nbut less important. Secondary would be anything that could make the gasses\nproduced in the combustion chamber non-oxidizing.\nIn the De Laval nozzle of the PROTEST, the heat and pressure energy of the combustion products are converted into kinetic energy. In fact the purpose of the whole motor system is to supply the nozzle with hot gasses under high pressure. The nozzle is under very high heat stress, and also exposed to some chemical oxidizing stress. Due to the sometimes oxidizing properties of the medium, nozzles made from graphite and carbon may have very high regression rates. For this reason and for its ability for reuse, the PROTEST nozzle is made from cupper.\nMaximum speed: approx. 475\nm/s or 2600 km/h\nSteel tube Ø 102 mm", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Despite a frustrating lack of any palpable challenge to Socrates’ naive, limited essentialism, Plato’s Gorgias is of undeniable interest to any rhetorician even beyond the explicit discussion of oratory and sophistry contained in its opening discussion. The dialogue is well known in composition and rhetoric for its inaugural debate in which Socrates utilizes his famed method of questioning to outwit the well-known and likable orator Gorgias, who is not accustomed to Socratic questioning. Gorgias, in this case, serves metonymically to represent long, formal speeches, the Greek rhesis, which do not invite challenge or resistance and therefore draw the ire of Socrates. Gorgias fails to defend his chosen oratory form, much to Socrates’ delight, and finally caves upon a fatal admission to Socrates’ typical display of ironic politeness. A second orator, the young Athenian Polus, fairs a little better at first but soon falls victim to a similar exercise as Gorgias. Polus’ agreement after a long series of sequential, carefully coordinated questions that it is worse to do wrong than to suffer wrong directly contradicts earlier assertions he’d made, effectively ending that branch of the dialogue. Polus, despite combatting Socrates’ subtle onslaught for a few blows, bows to the elder philosopher and concedes that, despite his earlier beliefs, it seems that it is better to suffer a wrong than to commit one. Whether the Socratic method produces actual truth rather than simply ironing out consistency of belief in an isolated setting is a question not quite relevent here, but it nonetheless certainly merits future discussion. The dialogue largely abandons explicit discussions of oration and rhetoric at this point, though frequent references by Socrates to the meta-components of the conversations corral the attention of anyone reading with a rhetorical lens.\nRounding out the Gorgias is a final exchange between Socrates and a new challenger, the even younger Athenian politician Callicles. Proving himself far more well-equipped to protest Socrates’ rather predictable methods of reasoning, Callicles mounts a hostile and borderline aggressive assault on Socrates’ chosen discipline of philosphy. In particular, Callicles targets his opposition on Plato’s understanding of fair, productive argumentation, accusing him of cornering Polus in their earlier discussion between a winning argumentative position and public shame. The implication here is that Socrates hadn’t conducted the argument here on even, fair grounds, but rather had taken advantage of Polus’ need to be accepted by his fellow members of society, a need never particularly meaningful to Socrates. In Callicles’ estimation, Socrates’ great advantage over Polus is his social indifference, his estrangement from the public sphere of intellectual life, his withdrawal into isolated philosophical meandering. Ever the spirited pragmatist, Callicles accuses Socrates of forgetting how others in society behave, of overlooking the will and mood of society in favor of naive idealism, of prioritizing idealism over concrete reality. This is a crucial moment in Plato in which the topic of democracy begins to be probed– quite valuably to the present moment, I argue. Callicles follows Polus by suggesting that it is better in a democracy to be popular than to be wise, thoughtful, educated or particularly ethical. Here’s where things get sticky.\nFirst, let’s be careful not to view this short blog post as an attack on democracy as an institution or as a political method. Obviously, that’s not the point of this short exploration. Rather, as the title suggests, it’s meant to probe democracy, to explore it from a new angle. Socrates certainly would agree that successful functioning of a democratic society requires the citizens maintaining it to be its custodians– to care about it enough to critique it, to examine and analyze it, to fix it when it requires maintenance. Like an old motorcycle (I revisited Pirsig’s philosophical novel last night, so this metaphor has latched itself into my mind), democracy needs to be kept in tune, re-dialed on occasion, measured and calibrated accordingly. Quite unlike Plato, Socrates and Callicles, we inhabit an era in which much of the population consumes its news via Twitter, in which the public sphere is increasingly an exercise of public digital performance. Russian operatives hacked our social web information streams, thousands of voters reading articles deliberately crafted to stoke tensions based on race, culture and difference. Countless “culture wars” rage at the present moment: the vice president walking out on a National Football League game in a coordinated, rehearsed effort after players took a knee on the field to protest police violence against persons of color; the culture clash over gun rights and ownership; the battle over whether news organizations should have the freedom to print information the executive branch considers “fake news,” frankly astounding in its dystopian, Orwellian tremors.\nDemocracy, when it comes to the social web sphere, is enacted in complex rhetorical situations that merit a lifetime of further examination and probing.\nIt is important here to acknowledge neither Plato nor Socrates to be defenders of our conventional modern notions of democracy. Indeed, it seems to me that Plato is just as much a believer in authoritarianism as either Callicles or Polus, though with radical differences in their definitions of right to rule and of the responsibility of rulers to their subjects. Callicles’ principle quarrel with Socrates turns out to be his supreme belief in “might is right,” that those with strength, courage, power and privilege are tasked with ruling fully and completely over the “weaklings” of society. He refers to a myth of Hercules in which the hero steals cattle from Geryon without paying for them, positing that it is the way of nature for the “weaker and inferior” to give way to the “man who is better and superior.” It is important here not to disregard the gender power conceptions not mentioned; equally absent is much discussion of the complexities of what is meant by “superior” or “better” in regards to the process of determining public policy. Plato’s conception of autocracy is quite the opposite of that affirmed by Callicles. He expounds upon an ideal philosopher-king that would act always to further the more virtuous interests of society, detailing a ruler who would not only possess the major virtues of Socratic areté (discipline, justice, reverence and courage) but would also educate the general public on them, including encouraging the average active political citizen to replicate them in everyday life, therefore generating a better society at the level of the individual. The social emphasis placed upon civics as a rung on the ladder of active democracy in the Greece of Plato’s time has, my argument goes, been eroded as well as warped by the processes enacted in our current era, especially within democracy as it appears on the social web.\nPolus and Callicles are distinguished from Socrates principally by their commitment to public life in the Athens of their day. Both consider themselves members of the (all-male) public body ruling the city, and avoid anything more than minor deviations from conventional, commonsense wisdom, something Socrates spends his entire body of philosophical work railing against. It is here that I’d like to transition the various arguments enacted by Plato and his characters into a discussion of extreme import to modern political life- Twitter and the larger social web. While Plato and Socrates were extremely critical of the Athens of their day, they would undoubtably be stupefied and dismayed by modern politics and its penchant to pandering, extravagance and self-gratification. When a Twitter account has the universally-acknowledged power to provoke nuclear war, as has nearly been the case recently, we as rhetoricians are spurred toward an analysis of the various rhetorical situations that account creates and responds to. As a politician frequently concerned with the television ratings he garners, Donald Trump is undoubtably well-versed in checking the metadata associated with his Twitter account, including the likes, responses, ReTweets and media uproar each garners. We must ask ourselves: what is his primary motivation, or purpose, when utilizing the rhetorical power contained in his Twitter account? Would it square with the duties of rules outlined in the Gorgias?\nThe human-tool interaction that occurs at the site of the tweet and Twitter like is a complex negotiation inside of a rhetorical situation that, similar to the arguments made by Polus and Callicles, encroaches into dimensions pertaining directly to political pandering, for gratifying an audience rather than leading it, and to the ideal philosopher-ruler envisioned by Socrates and Plato. Socrates warns the citizens of Athens to be careful not to have “purchased political power at the cost of all we hold dear.” Undoubtably, modern political functioning is fine-tuned to appeal to the widest possible audience. Specifically, the relevance reflected by Twitter metadata is of extreme importance to this discussion.\nActs of democracy are increasingly performed on social web spaces such as Twitter. The issues plaguing democratic functioning throughout history, ie. blind, angry, oftentimes xenophobic and hate-driven populism, tend to fester when education in civics and citizenship is eroded and corroded. Composition’s role is clear here moving forward. I would like to revive Linda Adler-Kassner’s call for an activist WPA, as well as to forward Scott Sundevall and Katherine Fredlund’s recent endeavor in Composition Forum to teach critical media literacy and responsible citizenship through writing curricula. Sundevall and Fredlund call for student-citizens capable of participating and challenging the society they live in, a necessary function within democracies both in Athens and in the contemporary global moment. Nathaniel Rivers and Ryan Weber have recently called in the pages of College Composition and Communication for public writing pedagogies that expand the scope of rhetorical action as emerging “through a complex ecology of texts, writers, readers, institutions, objects, and history,” part of which should in my contention include considerations of student roles as actors in web 2.0 democratic spaces. Can we teach students to be responsible digital citizens in spaces like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, places where democracy is enacted each and every day?\nLastly, I’d like to propose public writing within composition courses as a possible anecdote to the modern-day manifestation of the same problems Plato outlines in the Gorgias, including asking students to take on a role of public rhetor who must think and act for the public benefit rather than simply pandering to instructor evaluation wishes within a course experience functioning as an echo chamber, gratifying active rhetorical actors rather than educating, challenging or enlightening them. The future of democracy hangs in the balance. What will democracy look like in the future? How can we ensure its survival through teaching responsible rhetorical action to its citizens?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he knew that he was going to his death.\nHere’s what his last week looked like:\nEncounters blasphemous treatment of the temple – clears the temple.\nPlots to kill him continue, failed attempt to arrest him.\n[Matthew devotes five of his 28 chapters to this day alone (most of chapters 21-26).]\nJesus is teaching, and pushing back against ongoing attempts by his opponents to trick him into saying something self-incriminating.\nJesus prophecies about heaven and hell, the fall of Jerusalem (70AD) and his own Second Coming.\nProbably stayed in Bethany, just outside Jerusalem.\nLast Supper. Judas Iscariot, possessed by Satan, leaves the meal and betrays Jesus.\nJesus arrested and taken to the house of the High Priest deposed by the Romans.\nBeaten and mocked.\nHearing before Caiaphas (Roman-approved High Priest) – false testimony made against Jesus, accused of blasphemy.\nTrial before the Sanhedrin (Pharisees & Sadducees); accused of blasphemy.\nTied up and taken to Pilate.\nTrial before Pilate, accused of treason.\nTaken to Herod.\nTrial before Herod.\nMocked and ridiculed, sent back to Pilate.\nCrowds call for Jesus to be crucified.\nPilate has Jesus whipped, then hands him over to be crucified.\nJesus stripped, crown of thorns pushed into his scalp, mocked, beaten repeatedly on the head with a large stick.\nCrucified. Nails through outstretched wrists and ankles meant Jesus had to push against those wounds constantly in order to be able to breathe.\nJesus wasn’t a masochist – he didn’t want to go through ANY of that.\nBut greater than his desire to avoid those things was his love that provoked a desire to honour and glorify his Father in heaven, and to save his people.\nBring on Sunday.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The word Karma means ACTION but it has come to represent the universal cosmic law of cause and effect. Like Newton’s 3rd law of motion – for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction – the Law of Karma suggests that whatever action we take will have an appropriate consequence.\nForces occur in pairs: every action has a reaction or consequence. In physics the action and reaction are simultaneous and it almost makes no difference which occurs first – cause and effect is fixed. But people tend to ascribe values on Karmic actions – we judge the actions and consequences to be good or bad based on our own morality. There is also the idea that there is a fundamental, universal morality that makes fair and impartial judgments of actions and based on that judgment, imposes appropriate consequences. The EFFECT is “chosen” based on the CAUSE. Thus, ACTION is judged based on intention and motive. This interpretation gives people comfort of a sort but it goes against the nature of the law.\nSome also interpret Karma as a record of merit or demerit points – our lives and future lives are seen as determined or influenced by how many good or bad points we accumulate. The circumstances we find ourselves in are thought of as a result of the good or bad actions we have previously taken. This can lead people to speculate that the universe – our lives in particular – is based on some system of rewards and punishments. And if we accept the punishment and pay off are debt in some way, we can be free of further prosecution.\nKarma should not be seen in this way. Karma is a natural law of the universe like gravity. There is no system of rewards and punishments built into it. Rather, there are simply natural consequences to certain actions and behavior.\nThe Bible explains it with the statement that “as you sow, so shall you reap.” If you plant an apple seed, an apple tree grows. If you plant corn, corn will grow. If you plant pain, suffering, fear, anger, hostility, violence – then these things will grow within you. And you will bear the accompanying fruit. What seeds you plant now might bear fruit in this life or in a future life – but the thing you plant will surely grow. Our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, actions and behavior eventually return to us. This is the way we grow in understanding and evolve spiritually. There should be no thought of judgment or the accumulation of Karmic Debt.\nWhen we recognize the consequences of our actions, when we notice the effects in our lives, we can begin to modify our thoughts and behavior and move ourselves out of the negative circumstances we find ourselves in and develop more freedom and attain peace of mind.\nThere is an old saying – sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. This is more in line with how the cosmic law of Karma works.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Leo Zeilig, Haus, £9.99\nPatrice Lumumba, murdered at the age of 35 in 1961, was prime minister of newly independent Congo for just seven months. The Belgian imperialists, desperate to eliminate him from history, had him shot and his body dissolved in acid. As the news came out, weeks later, mass demonstrations shook capitals across the world.\nMalcolm X described Lumumba as \"the greatest black man who ever walked the African continent\". Patrice Lumumba was a new icon of resistance.\nLeo Zeilig's biography charts the meteoric rise of a young man from humble rural origins to the heights of anti-imperialist struggle. Lumumba was not born to lead. By dint of extraordinary personal effort he clawed himself up the rigid hierarchy of 1950s Belgian racist colonialism and achieved the status of an \"évolué\" - formally registered as a member of the \"civilised indigenous population\" and one of a tiny caste of privileged Congolese.\nHe embraced his role as one of the Belgians' chosen natives and, for example, insisted that his children went to private French-speaking schools. But he baulked at the racism inherent in colonialism, became involved in moderate political projects and was promoted as a representative of the Congolese by his colonial masters.\nLumumba, a loyal post office clerk, was not a revolutionary by choice.\nBut events moved fast and in the space of three short years his nationalist party, the Mouvement National Congolais (MNC), the first in Congolese history, grew to 58,000 members and catapulted him into the leadership of the liberation movement.\nHe collaborated with all the great figures of the African anti-colonial struggle and moved from a willing reformer to an intransigent and eloquent exponent of anti-imperialism. His blistering speech at the Congo's independence celebrations is alone worth buying this book for.\nAfter Lumumba's election as the first prime minister of the newly independent Congo, the Belgians successfully fostered ethnic and regional divisions to protect their mining interests and launched a military uprising.\nLumumba's desperate appeals for military support to pan-Africanist comrades, such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, were rejected - lofty promises tragically betrayed. Too late he turned to his natural supporters to launch mass resistance, but failed.\nFor socialists, this is not just a heroic and tragic story, it is a vital lesson for struggles today and in the future. Zeilig brings to life Tony Cliff's pathbreaking theory of \"deflected permanent revolution\" - which explains how middle class leaders rise to power on the back of popular aspirations.\nThe Congolese movement of 1958-61 showed yet again that urban workers and rural masses have the power to shatter imperialism and its local agents - but also require the political analysis and strategy to bring about victory.\nThis little book is an important addition to our history of the 20th century and essential reading for students of, and activists in, the African liberation struggle.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pilotage is the use of fixed visual reference on the ground or sea by means of sight or radar to guide oneself to a destination, sometimes with the help of a map or nautical chart. People use pilotage for activities such as guiding vessels and aircraft, hiking and scuba diving. Pilotage techniques apply when close enough to land or other navigational reference points. In these circumstances there is often not enough time for more elaborate navigational techniques that are used when out of sight of both navigational aids and hazards. In these circumstances, it is usually not necessary to know exactly where you are, but that one is in a safe position, or at least on a safe line and will remain so for a period of time, and to know when the next change will be required.\nWithout such pilotage references, it is necessary to navigate using dead reckoning (typically with a compass and some form of log for speed or distance estimation), radar, radio navigation, and satellite navigation (such as GPS).\nPilotage depends on the pilot being able to recognise the visual references in order to make use of them. The pilot must either be familiar with those visual references or be able to discover them from a map, aeronautical chart or nautical chart. Many nautical and aeronautical disasters have resulted from the pilot incorrectly identifying visual references.\nPoor visibility may affect safe pilotage by obscuring the natural features used by pilots in an area. In such situations, pilots use navigational aids such as radar and the GPS to determine position and monitor their passage.\nCommon types of visual reference point used for pilotage:\nDuring the day:\n- Natural features: Mountains, hills, lakes, rivers and coastal features such as cliffs, rocks and beaches\n- Man made nautical features: sea marks, landmarks and radio aerials\n- Man made land features: Airports, cities, dams and highways\n- Man made nautical features: Lighthouses, lightvessels and sea marks with lights\n- Man made land features: Airports, illuminated towers and buildings\nWhile not strictly a \"visual feature,\" depth, measured by electronic means or manually (with a lead line), can also be an important element of pilotage.\nPilotage is frequently combined with navigation techniques such as dead reckoning. When a pilot at a known location cannot see the next visual reference on the route to a destination, he or she can use dead reckoning to get closer to the next reference point. This is the most common form of VFR navigation.\n- \"Pilotage: Why Do We Need Pilotage Plans?\". Sailtrain.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2013.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the year 1500 BC, the Israelites who had settled in Egypt had significantly grown in numbers. So much so that the Pharaoh at the time grew fearful of them: paranoid that they would eventually take over. Forgetting that it was actually an Israelite by the name of Joseph - yes, the guy with the groovy coat - who had guided the Egyptian people away from famine a few hundred years earlier, the Pharaoh made all the Israelites slaves. Things then took a most heinous turn when the Pharaoh ordered the midwives to drown all male Hebrew babies at birth.\nDespite the Pharaoh’s orders, the midwives did their best to go against the will of their ruler, and a Hebrew mother called Jochebed was able to give birth to a son who she kept secret for three months. Out of desperation, when Jochebed could no longer keep her baby safely hidden, she got hold of a basket made of reeds and bullrushes, waterproofed it, and placed her baby within it on the Nile.\nIt just so happened that the Pharaoh’s daughter happened to be swimming close by with her entourage. She spotted the basket floating near by in the tall grass, and asked a servant to retrieve the object; this was all observed by Moses’ older sister, Miriam, who had been keeping a close eye on events the whole time from the river bank.\nUpon retrieving the basket, the Pharaoh’s daughter guessed that the baby must belong to one of the Israelites, and out of compassion she planned to adopt him. Witnessing all this, the babies sister, Miriam, came dashing over and asked the princess if she would like her to fetch for a Hebrew nursemaid. Unbeknown to the Pharaoh’s daughter, Miriam naturally returned with Jochebed, the baby’s mother, who was then even offered a fee to feed her own baby until he was able to be weaned and raised in the house of the Pharaoh’s daughter.\nThe daughter of the Pharaoh named the child Moses, which in Hebrew translates as 'drawn from the water', and in Egyptian was close to the word for 'son'. The rest, as they say, is history.\nComments will be approved before showing up.\nIn Greek mythology, Halcyone and Ceyx were lovers who incurred the wrath of the god Zeus by mocking him and his wife. Angered, Zeus killed Ceyx.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In September 1917 Annie Wheeler received a desperate letter from Christina Robertson. Her brother, John Robertson, was unwell and had been unwell for a number of months. Something happened to John either before he embarked in February 1917 or on the troop ship from Australia.\nJohn was working as a draper in Townsville when he enlisted in 1916. He was 23 and had come to Australia as a child. His family were from Buckhaven Scotland and John had cousins and friends in Scotland. John told his family in Townsville he would cable and write when he landed in England. By April, when no cable or letter arrived they began to worry and when they heard from John’s friends that he had spent the last part of the voyage “dangerously ill in the ship’s hospital” they feared the worse. An officer who was on board the ship told them John arrived in Plymouth in April 1917 in a “sick and dangerous condition”.\nLetters to the AIF only increased their anxiety. Initially, they were told there was no report of John being sick and the AIF could only investigate further if the family provided more information about what they had heard. The family did and received a response dated 9th August informing them John had been in Devonport Military hospital after he arrived in England with a “slight attack of bronchitis” but was now with his training battalion in Rolleston. This didn’t tally with the reports they had received and if John’s illness was mild why hadn’t he contacted them or his cousins? John’s cousin headed to Rolleston to see for himself and was shocked by John’s condition.\nChristina told Annie John was severely depressed, caused or exacerbated by John contracting the mumps on board the ship. However, there is no mention of mumps in John’s military records; in April he is admitted to hospital with bronchitis but discharged in May and sent to a training battalion in Perham Downs and then Rolleston. Around the time John’s cousin visited he had been AWOL for three days and was awaiting court-martial.\nAt the end of September, without anyone else to turn to, Christina asked Annie to help “cheer our Brother’.\nWhether as a result of Annie’s visits, his family’s letters, a combination of both or something else, things did improve for John. A doctor’s assessment in October noted he had suffered from melancholia on board his transfer from Australia but improved and re-joined the training battalion. However, he found John’s melancholia had returned. “He lies about his hut and is difficult to rouse. He is developing dirty habits, never washes or shaves and wanders aimlessly about. He suffers from loss of memory and when questioned gazes aimlessly about. He makes no friends and his conduct is erratic.” The doctor declared him unfit for general service and unfit for home service. He was admitted to Hurdcott Hospital but only five weeks later was discharged and returned to his training battalion. Something happened during those five weeks that enabled John to “see things in a different light”. In early 1918 John was promoted to acting lance corporal and sent to fight in France. He survived the war and returned to Australia in 1919.\nChristina Robertson’s letter to Annie Wheeler is part of Annie Wheeler’s collection in the State Library of Queensland.\nJohn Robertson’s military record has been digitised by the NAA and is available online.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This article from the Australian Broadcasting Commission, reinforces and draws on a lot of the ideas I've previously heard. Ideas that have been confirmed by the elders I've been speaking to, but it also doesn't quite go far enough.\nAs Australia's first city, the pathways of Indigenous people were certainly used as the basic method to get from place to place, and those paths eventually became the accepted methods used by settlers, then paved for use by carriages and cars.\nBut in addition to the Sydney basin, this occured across the whole country. Explorers typically followed the paths linking different communities of Indigenous nations, often aided by native guides. When later leading surveyors across the land, the explorers took the paths they knew, and the Aboriginal pathways became locked into the settlers maps as the roads between towns.\nOften the Aboriginal settlements were located on strategic waterholes, places where paths crossed rivers, or trading paths crossed each other, so naturally these became the places where settlers established their own towns to take advantage of the same strategic geographic elements. The Aboriginal communities were driven off, or killed, or otherwise had their connection to the land removed. Their marked trees were torn up, so that evidence of their sacred sites could be denied, but the placement of the old camps and settlements lies embedded in the current maps of the continent.\nThis basically means that in Walkabout, the Nomads roaming the highways uphold the sacred journeys of the Indigenous wanderers. They don't do it deliberately, but the travels along tarred motorways follow the same tracks that have been trodden for dozens of millennia (at least). The communities they meet are settled on places where the spirits have watched and influenced humanity since before recorded history, some home to those who have tried to reclaim the old ways of industrialization, some home to those who have tried to claim even older tribal ways.\nDescendants of the Australian Aboriginals can be found in all these groups.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The operators of equipment are heavy workers using heavy equipment to move materials in construction. Operators can work one or more machines, such as pavers, graders and machine load, depending on your area of training and specialization. The average certified salary a heavy equipment operator has depends on factors such as location, working hours, job and experience.\nThe average income of workers in heavy construction is around $ 21 per hour, or $ 44,000 per year, according to the National Center for Education and Research Building. Salaries vary between US $ 14 to US $ 23 per hour for heavy equipment operators from May 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US.. The highest paid workers earn US $ 38 per hour, with the 10 percent paid less than $ 11 per hour. The lowest wages were in the paving equipment operators, while the hammers made the most on average. Annual salaries vary based on average hours worked per week throughout the year.\nAlong with variations per job, the certified heavy equipment operators also receive different wages based on location, with large metropolitan areas that pay the highest average salary. Work projects available, along with the local climate and its effects on the working outdoors play an important role in determining the salaries of these workers, often resulting in an annual base salary, even for workers with wages more high per hour.\nTraining and promotion\nSchool graduates may be offered to provide training on the job, from lighter construction equipment before moving the machinery with more technology and computerization. The International Union of Operating Engineers offers apprenticeship programs lasting three years of training, including classroom training. Certifications vary by specialization and are available in national professional organizations. Some employers require some type of certification for employment consideration. Operators may advance to supervisory positions or teaching, while others choose to start their own business.\nThe average job growth through 2018, with growth of over 10 percent in the openings, means that the certified heavy equipment operators must continue to find employment opportunities, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experienced operators on multiple machines have increased flexibility, leading to a greater chance of getting quality jobs. Employment growth should be higher in areas related to energy, such as oil rigs and pipelines as these companies increase their infrastructures.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Francis Galton was an accomplished figure in late 19th century science. Known chiefly for his work on heredity and eugenics, he also made important contributions to fields such as forensics and statistical methods.\nOpen the Galton papers\nView digitised items online\nFrancis Galton was a long-lived polymath, remembered chiefly for promoting a selective approach to human breeding in order to perfect the 'race' and coining the term 'eugenics' to describe it. He also deployed his passionate interest in the collection of scientifically robust data across a wide range of subjects, making important contributions to meteorology and the forensic use of fingerprints, as well as biostatistics and psychometrics.\nThe exhaustive collection includes a substantial number of biographical notes and albums of photographs that go back several generations. A child prodigy himself, Galton's distinguished forebears included Erasmus Darwin, and Charles Darwin was his first cousin. His inherited wealth meant that he could devote his full energies to his investigations without needing to worry about earning his keep.\nGalton obsessively recorded and collected data about himself, with examples of this including: a will, written at the age of eight\nin a remarkably confident hand, leaving his \"collection of beetles\" (and much else besides) to his sister; his doctor's prescription\nof \"blue pills\" (mercury) and Leamington Water for constipation at the age of 12; and a report of his examination by a phrenologist\nwhen aged 27.\nGalton's early adult life was devoted to intensive study and travel. He explored and charted Damaraland (part of modern Namibia) from 1850 to 1852. \"I saw enough of the savage races,\" he wrote in his journal, \"to give me material to think about for the rest of my life.\" On his return his marriage to Louisa Butler put an end to his travels. Louisa maintained annual summaries of their years together until her death in 1897. She mainly notes visits to friends and relatives, and illnesses and deaths among their acquaintances, though she does also refer to \"Frank's\" work.\nGalton's scientific interest in inheritance came after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859. On a quest to discover whether human abilities were due to \"nature or nurture\", Galton delved into the family relationships of judges, MPs, military officers and many other notables from historical accounts, publishing his findings - in favour of nature - in his 1869 book Hereditary Genius. From the start his ideas received mixed reviews: \"The mere accumulation of disjointed facts remain an inert and lifeless body…logically worth nothing,\" wrote an anonymous reviewer for the 'Saturday Review'. Galton continued to collect family data, for cattle, horses and dogs as well as humans.\nEven his sister Emma was troubled by his views. But he dismissed her scruples, writing to her that \"It is one of the few services that a man situated like myself can do, to take up an unpopular side when he knows it to be the true one\". Though he and Darwin did not see eye to eye on every matter, Galton was devastated by Darwin's death in 1882, writing to Emma, \"I owed more to him than to any man living… The world seems so blank to me now Darwin is gone\" [letters to Emma\nIn pursuit of reliable data on which to base his studies of human inheritance, Galton pioneered the measurement of individual differences in mental and physical ability. His methods of data collection included innovative questionnaires on everything from twins to mental imagery, and much of the correspondence in the collection represents responses to these surveys - an early form of 'citizen science'. His Anthropometric Laboratory, established in 1891, was a predecessor of the Department of Applied Statistics at University College London, established by Galton's colleague Karl Pearson.\nTo analyse his data he invented or developed a number of useful statistical techniques and concepts, notably regression to the mean and the standard deviation from the mean, or 'law of error', - the performance of homing pigeons served as data to test this idea.\nGalton died convinced that the way forward for a scientifically enlightened population was to favour for reproduction the most physically and psychologically able. He left the considerable residue of his estate, after gifts to his relatives, to University College London to found the Galton Professorship of Eugenics and a laboratory \"to pursue the study and further the knowledge of National Eugenics that is of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial faculties of future generations\".\nOriginals held by...\nThis material has been provided by UCL Special Collections where originals may be consulted.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "DOM CSS Rule Object\nThe CSS Rule object of the StyleSheet object allows you to access and modify the individual rules of a stylesheet. IE and Firefox varies in their implementation of the CSS Rule object, though luckily, the difference is mainly in the syntax:\ndocument.styleSheets.cssRules //access the first\nrule in Firefox\ndocument.styleSheets.rules //access the first rule in IE Win\nCSS Rule Object\nAs mentioned, IE and Firefox relies on two different CSS Rule objects to access a stylesheet's rules. Below lists the two objects:\n|cssRules||DOM2 based CSS Rule object. Supported in NS/ Firefox.|\n|rules||IE's CSS Rule object.\n|cssText||Returns the content of a\ncss rule in its entirety, from the selector to the corresponding CSS\ndeclaration(s). NS/Firefox only. A useful property to\neasily search within a rule, by looking at both the selector and\nattributes of a rule all at once.\n|length||Returns the length of the CSS Rule object (cssRules.length or rules.length), in other words, the number of rules within a stylesheet.|\n|parentStyleSheet||Returns the styleSheet object that contains the current rule.|\n|selectorText||Read/write property that returns the selector part\nof a rule. Setting this property yields unpredictable results in\nboth Firefox and IE.\n|style||The \"style\" object of the css rule object provides\nread/write access to individual attributes defined in the rule,\nsimilar in fashion to the \"style\" object of inline styles.\nDD CSS Library\nFree CSS menus and codes to give your site a visual boost.", "label": "No"}