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Lunch is served at the Senior Center Monday through Friday at 11:30 am. Suggested donation is $2.50. Reservations are required by the preceding Wednesday. The menu is included in our monthly newsletter.
After a referral to Old Colony Elder Services is made and services are approved, volunteer drivers deliver meals to elders who are unable to attend lunch at the Senior Center, or who have no one to help with meal preparation. | 85381515 |
When a new mom has her baby, it is ideal to give her a gift she’ll truly enjoy. Often the new mom receives duplicates or even triplicates of some gifts and these gifts are simply not as appreciated as others. A unique and creative idea for a baby gift is to give a gift basket with a fun theme.
There are many great themes for a baby gift basket. The very best gift basket theme keeps both the baby and the new mom in mind. Certainly, there are many different likes and tastes to please. A gift basket is a great way to give anyone lots of little treats instead of a larger gift. It is also a fun way to package several gifts.
Organic Baby Gift Basket. Many moms are turning to organic products for their babies. Organic cotton clothing and diapers are popular choices. Organically produced shampoo, lotion and other baby products are also ideal. An excellent idea for this baby gift basket are small sizes of organic baby food products any new mom would be sure to appreciate. A book about living organic would be a great introduction to the organic lifestyle if the new mom needed more information.
Baby Toys Gift Basket. Every mom knows that an active baby is a happy baby! A happy baby means a happy mommy! Moms love to find great ways to keep their babies active. There are lots of great toys that babies love that would make a wonderful baby toys basket. Fill this basket with stuffed animals, a mobile and toys that will keep that adorable baby happily occupied.
Baby Books Gift Basket. There is nothing like getting your child started on a love of books at an early age. Children that grow up reading grow up more confident about school and learning. Bill Clinton once said on this exact subject, “Readers are leaders.” Fill a baby gift basket with great baby books. What is so popular with babies and moms today are board books. These books are sturdy and will stand up to being tossed or chewed or anything else that a baby just might do to a book. Some popular baby books include Goodnight Moon and Green Eggs and Ham.
Pampering Mom and Baby Gift Basket. This is a great gift basket idea to keep both the new mom and baby very happy. Giving birth can be both an exciting and very stressful time. A gift basket filled with little treats for both mom and baby shows that you are encouraging this new mom to take good care of herself too. We all know that some moms will put themselves at the very bottom of the list and never take care of their own needs.
A gift certificate for a massage, chocolates or a good romance novel could be great ideas for the new mom. The baby would love a soothing baby lotion ideal for nighttime. There are nighttime baby lotions with lavender and chamomile that encourage the baby to lull them to sleep. A CD of lullabies would be a lovely gift. A handwritten note promising to babysit is a gift that would please both mom and baby!
Gift baskets make a wonderful gift, especially for the new mom and her baby. This is a great way to give a creative and very personal gift. You can often find pretty baskets, cellophane and satin ribbons at your local craft store. These items will easily “dress” any basket and make it look so beautiful for that new baby gift.
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If you are struggling with frizz, keratin treatment is a life saver. It is especially tempting to undergo this procedure during summer to minimize the time spent on styling. But if you are planning your vacation by the seaside, forget about swimming in the ocean – salt will ruin your perfectly straight and smooth hair.
Why is salt water harmful?
Salt water contains sodium which penetrates into the hair cuticles and ruins keratin. Your hair will not only lose its shine and straightness but will become dry too. Unfortunately, chlorine has the same effect so swimming in the pool is not an option either.
WHAT IF I SWIM ANYWAY?
First of all, do try not to. But if you do, remember to use a leave-in conditioner or wet your hair with usual water before swimming. This is not much help but it does keep salt and chlorine from acting too quickly. Additionally, wash your hair as soon as you are done swimming to remove salt or chlorine asap.
Another element that ruins the effect of a keratin treatment is sulfate which is frequently used in shampoos. Be mindful to only buy sulfate-free shampoos.
The first few days after keratin treatment are critical. Do not wash your hair at all and keep it loose (do not form a ponytail). Washing the hair removes keratin, while a ponytail can cause frizz and kink. Wait three days, after that you are safe. | 4898514 |
Chilli farmers staged a road blockade on NH 16 on Thursday demanding that the State government take immediate measures to purchase their produce at the Market Intervention Price of `6,250 per quintal (including overhead charges) announced by the Centre. In the wake of a further decline in the price of chillies to `2,000 to `3,000 per quintal, hundreds of farmers thronged Sri Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Market Yard and demanded that their produce be procured by the government agencies at the MIP of `6,250 per quintal.
Vehicular traffic between Guntur and Chilakaluripet came to a grinding halt due to the road blockade by chilli farmers. Mirchi Yard Chairman M Subba Rao reached the spot and urged the farmers to give up their road blockade. The guidelines pertaining to implementation of the Market Intervention Price are yet to be finalised. The arrival of huge stocks at the market yard has resulted in further decline in the prices of chillies. As the market intervention scheme of the State government and that of the Centre will be in force till June, chilli farmers should not be in a hurry to bring their produce to the market yard and they should show restraint to avail themselves of the benefit, he said.
A police team, led by DSP M Santhosh, rushed to the spot and pacified the agitating farmers. After persuading the chilli farmers to give up their road blockade, the police cleared the stranded vehicular traffic on the highway. Market Yard secretary M Diwakar said 80,000 quintals of chillies arrived at the yard on Thursday. The yard has a total stock of about 3 lakh quintals of chillies. Purchase of chillies at the MIP announced by the Centre will commence once the Centre finalises guidelines for its implementation, he added. | 335380534 |
The Estate 7102 HWSY is a powerful multi purpose Lawn Tractor with a large 102cm deck powered by a smooth and powerful twin-cylinder Kawasaki engine with a net power output of 9.7 kW @ 2300 rpm.
Featuring an electromagnetic PTO engagement that provides instant, safe activation/deactivation of the cutting blades by simply pushing a button, ideal for quick disengaging of blades in order to avoid hitting stones or debris. Driving this hydrostatic model is smoother than ever before, the further you press the drive pedal, the faster the machine travels and the STIGA soft-grip steering wheel and STIGA Comfort Plus seat allow for a comfortable ride. The new bonnet has powerful LED headlights and the new 5.5" colour display lets you monitor the settings quickly and easily using the intuitive icons.
The 102 cm cutting deck with two blades has 4 anti-scalp wheels; the cutting height can be adjusted in 7 different positions ranging from 30 to 90 mm. The blades are activated by an electromagnetic clutch at the simple touch of a button. The Estate 7102 HWSY can collect clippings in the 320-litre grass collector. An alarm sounds to let the driver know when the collector is full, which is a valuable feature; there is nothing worse than overfilling the collector and then having to unblock the discharge chute by hand – at least you know when the collector is full on a STIGA! Emptying the collector is done from the driving seat; simply pull the tipping lever and the collector opens wide emptying out the clippings - you don’t even need to get off the tractor.
All STIGA garden tractors cut wider than the wheel width, which means there is little trimming left to do after the lawns have been mown. Grass cuttings are blown from the twin-bladed cutting deck into a large 320 litre capacity rear mounted collector..
STIGA lawn tractors are extremely versatile machines; they can collect the grass clippings, or rear discharge them when required. When conditions are suitable, they can also mulch and recycle your grass!
Delivery Information: This ride-on lawnmower will be delivered by our premium White Glove delivery service. Your local Stiga authorised dealer will prepare the machine with a thorough pre-delivery inspection and then deliver it ready to use at a time convenient to you. If required they will also demonstrate how to use the machine. | 346737158 |
Our niece Nicole was baptized this last weekend in the waterfall at her parents home outside of Smithville, TN. We are so proud of you Nicole!! You are growing up to be such a kind-hearted and wise young lady. | 143062033 |
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The blog hop is going so well! There are already 165 entries and 12 more hours to go! I guess a lot of us papercrafts love our coffee and coffee stamps! lol I actually made two cards for the hop, so I thought I'd share my second one around the halfway point.
For this one, I used the new card kit from Simon Says Stamp! I was so excited about it being coffee this month. :) It came with this adorable little cup die and I am already totally in love with how cute that is! I used a Bo Bunny set for the splatters on the side.
We now have a box big enough to ship a toddler. Thanks, Amazon! It was a battle of cats and toddler for the rights to the delivery yesterday, but Laila finally won out. She's already asked me to get it back out and put the bag of balls we have in it. Cheap entertainment for the evening. Ha!
Today is National Coffee Day! It could be my new favorite day of the year! lol Chaitali is hosting a fun coffee-themed blog hop on her blog and I just had to join in! If you have time, you can whip up a coffee card and go join in as well! The linky is open until midnight and there are prizes to be won!
I used a new Lawn Fawn set for my card. I love all the little cups and mugs that come with that set! So, so cute. They gave me a great opportunity to get some practice with my Copics. I used the current sketch at The Paper Players for my layout. I also want to enter it in the MarkerPOP Anything Goes challenge.
1. When did you start drinking coffee? For me, it was back in college. I worked almost full-time and took a full classload, so I needed all the help I could get staying awake. It really started to be an addiction when I got my first real job and had to wake up before 6am!
2. What is your favorite brand? I'm a huge Starbucks fan and love their Vanilla Macchiato, Pumpkin Spice Latte, Peppermint Mocha, and White Mocha. For home coffee, I love Green Mountain brands in my Keurig.
3. What is the most amazing coffee that you had? Remember when and where? Strangely enough, at a friend's house! Her husband is VERY into coffee and they have their own espresso machine. He buys the beans at peak time and grinds them fresh for each cup. I love going to visit, but even more so if they offer up a cup of that deliciousness!
5. If I don't drink my needed coffee, I will.... Kill someone? lol Just kidding...kinda. With a toddler in the house, I need it to wake up and keep up with her. If I don't have it, I will be fighting a headache and fall over of exhaustion (probably before 9am).
Oh, and before I forget, I made a new Facebook page for my cards. I'd love for you to come by and say hi!
I got my new card kit from Simon Says Stamp, so I decided to use it for their Wednesday Challenge this week since it was anything goes. :) I love coffee stamps, so I was super excited to get this one! I used our sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week for it too!
We had a fabulous time at the zoo yesterday! The weather was so nice and Laila was very well-behaved. She rode the carousel five times and was actually okay when we left. Normally that's the meltdown point for us, so we let her ride it a few more times than usual. That seems to take away the novelty of it and we could go enjoy the rest of the zoo.
It's Freshly Made Sketches day! Karren is our hostess and sketch creator this time and she made us a tag sketch. I was all excited about her sketch, but then fell short on time to make my card. I actually made my card in my head and then ran into my room when Laila went down for a nap and started making the paper version. Not too bad, huh?! I needed a baby card, but when I saw the new Simon Says Stamp challenge on Flickr I decided to go with it instead. I'll be stamping up a baby card tomorrow now since I do need one this week.
It is finally feeling a bit more like Fall down here, so I am loving the cooler weather. I've been feeling a little icky with allergies the past two days, but I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that my body adjusts to whatever is in the air soon. It seems like a lot of my friends are having the same problem, so it must be a bad allergy season around the country. Thankfully Laila has enjoyed snuggling and reading, so we've been doing a lot of that.
Labels: Freshly Made Sketches, Rita Wright, Simon Says Challenge, Simon Says Stamp Card Kit, Stampin' Up!
I pulled the colors gray, yellow, orange, and green from the picture and used a brick embossing folder to mimic the texture of the wishing well.
I thought I'd share one of my rejected cards for the week. This was the first card I made for Freshly Made Sketches this week and I didn't like how it turned out at all. Sometimes that happens and we start over...and sometimes we start over several more times. lol I loved my second attempt, so thankfully I didn't muck it up too many times. I did sponge clouds behind my little fawn, but they don't really show up in the picture.
It has been an extremely trying last few days. The new thing is to scream. It is getting old super fast, so we are trying our best to get her to stop. She has been testing us so much lately. I had three really good days with her, but it's not been so great since Jason's been home. I'm crossing my fingers that tomorrow is better. I have my stamping ladies over and it seems like both Laila and the cats are crazy on that day. I usually end up a big stressed out mess. The good thing is we already have plans to either go out or pick up dinner and all my supplies are prepped and ready. I just need to clean up a bit and make a yummy snack. I'm off to see what dessert or appetizer I want to try from Pinterest.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Hugs!
I never was a huge fan of tags, but I'm really starting to embrace them. Maybe being on the Freshly Made Sketches team with a tag lover like Jen Mitchell has rubbed off on me. :) When I saw that the new Wednesday challenge on Simon Says Stamp was a tag challenge, I decided to play along. I am still using my last card kit and trying to get as much use of it before the new coffee themed one arrives this month. Woo Hoo!
Someone LOVES getting to put her little "buddy bucks" into the machine and hitting the button. It's always a nice incentive to behave while we shop. ;) It's been rainy the past 2 days here, so we were all happy to be out a little this evening.
Laila says the best way to eat your peanut butter sandwich is to stick your fingers in and get out all the good stuff. Don't bother with the bread. ;) So silly. Today we are going to attempt watercoloring. It should be fun. It's also my first day to volunteer at the pet store with the cats that are up for adoption. I hope I can give lots of snuggles and not get too attached.
Labels: Four Feathers, Good Greetings, Rita Wright, Stampin' Up!
I found a fun new way to play along with Simon Says Stamp! I am really enjoying their card kits, so I love to use those for the challenges they host. This one is on Flickr and was a color challenge. I used some of the papers that came in the last kit to make a simple card. I LOVE it! I find it hard to mix so many patterns, but I like how it turned out. :) I hope I got my colors close enough. They looked different on the monitor in my stamp room.
I guess it's a good thing that I'm not doing events outside of my home now. I seem to have lost both my calculators to a toddler. ;) Out of all the fun goodies in my stamp room, that's what she had to have to bring out.
I seem to pull out this Wonderfall set a lot lately, but it just seemed so perfect for this week's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. Cindy L. created such a fantastic sketch and I enjoyed creating with it so much. I dusted off some old designer paper that I bought way back in my first year as a demonstrator. Do you remember it? I LOVE it. It's heavier than normal patterned paper and so nice. I tend to hoard it, but man! I have SO MUCH paper. It is time to show it off! Do you have a favorite paper that you can't seem to cut into? Try it with our sketch this week and let me know that you did. I'd love to see it!
Pardon the messy hair. She will not leave a bow in and it gets out of control. She found this bag while we were in my stamp room yesterday and she just had to have it. She cracks me up because anytime she puts on a purse, she keeps her arm up so that it doesn't fall off. It's so adorable.
I wanted to ink up my new coffee set from Lawn Fawn, so I thought the new challenge at MarkerPOP was perfect for that. I love using greens for coffee cards! I stamped, colored, and cut out this little image a few times and layered it on some rectangles that I cut from my Lil' Inker stitched rectangles dies. Love those!
Sometimes you need stop eating lunch and go sweep. She's so silly! She has been so sweet and snuggly this week. I love it!
Labels: Copics, Lawn Fawn, Lil' Inker, MarkerPOP, Rita Wright, Stampin' Up!
Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge was to make your own background. They are showcasing Gelatos over on the blog, so I thought I'd pull out mine and try them again. I still don't think I have the hang of it, but it was fun to play with them. I paired the purple I used with the darker Concord Crush color. It's retired, but still one of my favorite purples. I popped up my diecut you on dimensionals to give it a little more depth.
She came clopping through the house with Jason's shoes on the other night. That girl loves her some shoes. We struggle to find ours now because she's always put them on and walked off with them.
Labels: Dictionary, Rita Wright, Simon Says Challenge, Simon Says Stamp, Stampin' Up!
I have my monthly stamping group next Sunday, so I started working on some samples for it today. We are going to make up some fall projects, so I decided to use my new wreath set for Fall. I went through a ton of colors and different combinations until I finally just decided to go simple with Cajun Craze and Early Espresso on a Crumb Cake background. It's a simple card, but I think it's pretty for Fall. I hope my ladies enjoy making it and learning how Stampin' Up! really improved the stamping and cutting of this set. There's a notch on each of the 3 layers of the wreath and on the coordinating framelits so you know exactly where to place them. It's SOOOOO nice and much less frustrating than some other sets I have.
We had some family art time yesterday. :) She's doing so much better with coloring and painting, so maybe that coordination is finally developing a bit. She still uses both hands, so we have no idea when we'll know which she'll prefer. Jason is a leftie, so she sees us using different ones.
I'm headed back outside to enjoy the cooler weather before it warms back up tomorrow. It's actually in the 70s!
It's in the 70s here, so bring on the snowman stamps! lol I just got some new goodies from My Favorite Things, so I thought I'd paly along with their current sketch challenge. I'm a bit in love with this snowman stamp already. He's fun with Copics.
Isn't that a fun sketch? I thought it worked great with my new stamps! I need to make a card using a wreath, so I think I'll be using it again for that.
Here's Laila's other picture we picked from her Hope Calendar shoot. She looks ready to fly! Now we are about to head out for a family breakfast at Panera and then grocery shopping. Have a great Saturday!
I saw an awesome sketch on Pinterest and decided to go check it out. I found it was actually an awesome challenge on the Taylored Expressions website. I have several of their sets on my wishlist, so I was excited to play along.
Part of the challenge was also taking a selfie with your card and mailing it to someone you love. It just so happens that my college roommate has a birthday that I need to acknowledge. She was like a sister to me for the time we lived in the same town and I still love her to pieces.
Happy Thursday! I hope your week has been a good one and you are ready for the weekend. We are supposed to get a "cold front" here in Texas tomorrow, so it might acutally NOT be 90 this weekend. Woo Hoo! I think rain is in the forecast with it, but oh well. I'll take the cooler temperatures. I went and stamped a little after dinner tonight and this was my card. I made it for the Fall challenge at The Paper Players. I tried to use the sketch from Mojo Monday but I was dealing with Laila trying to take my chair and I missed part of the sketch. I used the new Winnie & Walter set that I won last week and I love it. The sentiments are just so beautiful.
I don't know how many of you read the Simon Says Stamp blog, but go check this out! I was so excited today!
We got our Hope Calendar pictures this week and I love this one so, so much. I can't wait to send off for prints so I can send it out to our family. Today was an eventful day. She's been crawling under the last gate we have up so we decided to go ahead and take it down. Oh my! She doesn't want to leave my craft room now and she insists that my chair is hers. lol I might be sitting in a folding chair stamping for a while. ;-) She also (out of nowhere) knows how to open doors. I knew that would happen soon, but man! We've been working to make sure any and all chemicals are put away in every room now because she can go anywhere really. Crazy how fast they grow and learn new stuff. | 85354319 |
Every year, the RTA prepares four performance measure reports. The Regional Report Card and Sub-Regional Report focus on the performance of CTA, Metra, and Pace over a five-year time period. The current reports are for the year 2017 and are based on data submitted to the Federal Transit Administration’s National Transit Database (NTD), which was published in October 2018. The Regional Report Card aggregates the data from the Service Boards for the purpose of providing a description of overall transit throughout the RTA system. The Sub-Regional Report examines each transit mode separately.
Ridership was down for the fifth consecutive year; CTA and Metra each posted ridership losses while Pace saw ridership gains for fixed-route bus service and ADA Paratransit remained unchanged from 2016. System-wide, the region’s ridership dropped by 3.3% for the second consecutive year.
Significant progress toward fleet modernization was achieved in 2017; the percent of vehicles in service beyond useful life dropped to 20.9%, the lowest percentage since performance reporting began with 2005 data.
Capital investment continues to be significantly and negatively impacted by the lack of state funding and growing capital needs of the region; 2017 capital expenditures of $725.6 million was less than one-third what is needed annually to bring the system to a state of good repair within the next twenty years. | 133486242 |
The long term athlete development model (LTAD) is a plan that maps out athletic development over a person’s life span. The LTAD suggests best practices for different developmental stages to best optimize the athletic, emotional and mental experience for athletes of a given development level. The LTAD was designed, in part, to improve the performance based ‘win at all cost’ year round development models that have been plaguing athletes over the past few decades.
The early stages of the LTAD focus on fun and skill acquisition. Fun, for young athletes, leads to greater focus throughout practices and ultimately improves their bodies’ ability to retain movement skills. Learning the language of movement is paramount in early stages of athletic development. Because of this, it is very important that young athletes are exposed to a wide range of sports and/or movement practices at a young age. Exposing young athletes to multiple sports and/or physical activities during early, critical development periods, enhances motor learning and motor skill variety.
Want to see an athlete learn to move improperly? Burn them out with excessive training volume while they are still developing movement skill proficiency (stabilization patterns, motor control, spatial awareness, etc.) and you will see their movements slowly fall apart. You see, the body needs a fresh nervous system to get some things accomplished at an optimal level and one of them is motor learning (especially fine motor skills). It’s like trying to improve sprint speed while you are gassed from doing conditioning drills.
The early specialization approach to development has been repeatedly proven to fail athletes relative to their multi-sport peers. In a study conducted by Loyola University, researchers found single sport athletes to be 70%-93% more likely to suffer injury than athletes of multiple sports. Sure, some sports require an immense amount of fine motor skill refinement from a young age. Other sports, like gymnastic, have an optimal body type that don’t lend themselves well to older, more physically mature, competitors and becoming good at a young age is ones only chance of becoming world class. These activities may act as exceptions, but putting in training time based on a theory that involves a set amount of hours of practice to become an ‘expert’ (which has been disproven) is ridiculous for young athletes. Scientific research has also found (compared with multi-sport athletes) pre-pubescent single sport focus to be a pre-determining factor to early burn-out, earlier self dismissal from sport and inactivity in adulthood. When NCAA division 1 athletes were polled, a large majority said they participated competitively in 2 or more sports up until the end of high school.
When you are helping your young child make athletic decision, think fun, variety and skill orientation. For more information on these topics visit; http://canadiansportforlife.ca and/or www.activeforlife.com.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Athletic Development, hockey, LTAD, Specialization, Training. Bookmark the permalink. | 199549922 |
Maciek playing Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues at HJS 26th April 2015.
The Hamilton Big Band playing swing music with some very well executed singing and solos from all involved. Colin Ogle is doing a great Job of leading them. Thank you to all the musicians involved on this occasion. | 95037773 |
Inca Grampian is a well grown and strong male who reached maturity at an early age. His conformation is very correct and he displays a true to type head, great proportion and he moves in a fluid motion and with great presence. The fleece on this male carries a high degree of the positive traits expected in an elite herd sire. The fibre is very soft, dense, bright and uniform in micron right across the saddle and up into the neck.
What makes this male special is the depth of quality and the uniformity in phenotype that his bloodlines share. The high level of quality running through both sides of his pedigree should reduce progeny trait variance and increase predictability. Inca Grampian is the ideal male for those breeders looking to bring deep colour and well known current bloodlines into their herd.
Registered With: British Alpaca Society – BNBAS05623 Date of Birth: 21st June 2012.
1. Mulberry Alpacas provide a three day live cria guarantee. If your cria should die in this time then Mulberry Alpacas will offer a return service at no charge (mileage not included). Special circumstances surrounding cria death after three days will be considered.
2. Transport of the sire(s) for mobile services will be charged according to mileage at a rate of £0.50/mile. Mulberry Alpacas will attempt to group customer bookings so that stud services are carried out during the same journey resulting in shared mileage charges.
3. Mulberry Alpacas cannot guarantee dates for mobile stud service visits. However, Mulberry Alpacas will endeavor to work with customers to book dates that are mutually agreeable and convenient.
4. For mobile services a maximum of three visits are included in the price (mileage not included). If the female in question is not pregnant after the third successful mating an additional charge may be added for subsequent visits or the female may need to be checked by a vet or the owner may substitute the female for another.
5. When a client books a stud service they are committing to the service and the service fee is payable no matter what the pregnancy outcome. Mulberry Alpacas will provide adequate access to the stud sire in question.If after the services have been carried out, the female(s) do not fall pregnant or lose their pregnancy, the stud service will be valid for the following season and fee is payable after an invoice has been received.
Please email ([email protected]) or call Harry on 07713639447 to book a stud service package. | 260850967 |
A desolate land stretches out from the city of poverty. A motorcycle speeds recklessly, blowing clouds of sand and dust. The rider is the protagonist of this story – he has neither a name nor a past. All he has is his ring name, “Junk Dog” and a technique for rigging MEGALOBOX matches with his pal Gansaku Nanbu, which they use to support their hand-to-mouth lives. JD is bored, resigned, and unfulfilled. Yuri has been the reigning champion of MEGALOBOX for the past few years. He has the skills and presence of a true champion. This is a story of JD and his rival, Yuri. | 11086467 |
Stay on top of the game by knowing your key messaging is getting through to your audience and to have the scientific analysis edge to improve or have they watered down by thousands of external key messaging. Key message is the key to a successful communication strategy. If your organization constantly uses key messages in press releases, interviews or speeches, this product suits you, as it measures strength and popularity of messages. | 98196244 |
PEG stands for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy - a procedure by which food is provided by placing a tube directly into the stomach. It is safe and effective, aided by endoscopy and one of the most common procedures performed for individuals whose oral intake is inadequate and for patients who have difficulty swallowing. The procedure is done to provide the patient with adequate nutrition.
Special liquid foods and nutrition are provided through the tube.
Where the PEG is placed following a stroke and patient experiences difficulty swallowing restrictions on oral food intake may still be applicable.
At Jacob’s Hospital, Kochi medical professionals are well-trained in the painless placement and removal of PEG tubes. | 355967787 |
Gel nail polish has revolutionised the manicure industry. No longer do you have to wait for your polish to dry before leaving the nail salon; and you can now say goodbye to chips a few days into a glossy manicure.
And while the correct thing to do at the end of your two-week gel manicure would be to go to the salon to remove it, that’s not always feasible. But do you know what you shouldn’t do to clean your nails? Pick at them.
Knowing how to get gel nail polish off correctly is crucial because the thing is, to get those incredibly long-lasting results that you love from your gel manicure, that nail colour has to be stuck on real good, which means removing them incorrectly can wreak havoc on your natural nails underneath.
“When you pick off your gel polish, you are removing layers of your natural nail, which sets the stage for weakened nails,” says CND Education Ambassador Skye McIntyre. And weak nails are more likely to break or split.
If you’ve ever wondered how to remove gel nail polish the right way (minus the nail damage), we’ve got you covered. Here, McIntyre shares exactly how to remove gel nail polish at home.
Before you break out the gel polish remover, grab a nail file like OPI Crystal File (or a buffer block) and gently and slowly buff the surface of your manicure, removing the top layer of gel nail polish. This will make it easier to remove.
Next, McIntyre says to saturate a cotton pad with CND OFFLY FAST™ Replenishing Remover, and place the pad lengthwise directly on your nail. Then, wrap some foil tightly around the cotton pad, squeezing to secure it. The foil should be snug on your finger. Repeat on all fingers and leave for eight minutes. The remover has been formulated to work on a CND Shellac manicure, so if you’ve used a different brand, you may need to leave it to soak for a bit longer.
TOP TIP: McIntyre suggests doing one hand at a time, as this is easier to manoeuvre. Also, make sure your room has adequate ventilation to avoid breathing in too much acetone.
Next, using a twisting motion and pull the foil wrap from your nails, loosening the polish, which will begin to have a raised or flaky appearance. Once the foil is off, gently slide off any gel polish remains with a manicure stick.
TOP TIP: If you still have some gel polish on your nails, McIntyre recommends repeating the process in step 1, this time leaving your wraps on for about two minutes.
Once all of your polish is removed, McIntyre advises adding a dose of hydration to your nails. Apply a cuticle oil, like CND™ SOLAROIL® or Sally Hansen Cuticle Rehab, to your nails and cuticles, massaging the product in to nourish.
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Caitlin Shannon and Jenson Boman each had a goal and an assist Thursday to lead Coronado’s girls soccer team to a 2-0 home win over Silverado.
Goalkeeper Taylor Book had two saves to earn the shutout for the Cougars (13-1-4), who remained undefeated in the Southeast League at 5-0-1.
Green Valley 1, Foothill 1 — At Foothill, Maggie Bender’s second-half goal for the Gators forced a tie against the Falcons.
Amber Risheg scored in the first half for Foothill.
Bonanza 1, Sierra Vista 1 — At Sierra Vista, Calista Reyes scored an unassisted goal in the 59th minute to give the Mountain Lions a tie with the Bengals.
Delmy Ordonez scored on an assist from Ashley Vasquez in the 49th minute for Bonanza.
Bishop Gorman 9, Spring Valley 0 — At Spring Valley, Tavin Hays had three goals and two assists, and Hannah Borgel had two goals and two assists to power the Gaels past the Grizzlies.
Caitlyn Rueca and Jensen Garcia each added a goal and an assist for Gorman. Norina Romo and Linda Romo also scored a goal for the Gaels.
Kirsten Kircher and Emilie Hong combined on the shutout.
Canyon Springs 2, Durango 0 — At Durango, De’Imani Davis and Alianna Carrison each had a goal as the Pioneers shut out the Trailblazers.
Moapa Valley 2, Chaparral 0 — At Chaparral, Bailey Bunker and Ashlyn Western each scored a goal to lead the Pirates by the Cowboys.
Ida Velthoven had an assist for Moapa Valley, and Jessica Leon had fives saves in the shutout.
Tech 6, Del Sol 0 — At Del Sol, Melissa Lopez had three goals and an assist as the Roadrunners downed the Dragons.
Valerie Webb scored twice, and teammate Maria Galindo supplied a goal and an assist for Tech. Leslie Santos had three assists for the Roadrunners.
Chloe Dody earned the shutout for Tech.
Virgin Valley 4, Boulder City 1 — At Mesquite, Abbie Barnum scored four goals to lead the Bulldogs past the Eagles.
Kennedi Ludvigson and Ally Wright each had an assist for Virgin Valley, which scored three goals in the second half to pull away.
Madison Manns scored Boulder City’s goal.
Eldorado 2, Western 1 — At Eldorado, Brianna Duran scored a pair of first-half goals to lead the Sundevils over the Warriors.
Duran scored once on a penalty kick, and the other off an assist from Karla Moncayo.
Laura Arias scored for Western.
Desert Oasis 5, Clark 0 — At Clark, Miah Strellnauer scored four goals as the Diamondbacks routed the Chargers.
Madison Montellano also scored for Desert Oasis, which scored three first-half goals to put the game out of reach.
Audrey Dunn had three assists, and Ashley Wood had two assists for the Diamondbacks.
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Too many college football rivalries were sacrificed to the gods of television revenue, vis-a-vis conference realignment.
From the Backyard Brawl to Oklahoma-Nebraska, the staff at The Student Section breaks down dormant rivalries that need a reboot. Of all the realignment-killed rivalries, the Backyard Brawl’s demise is especially asinine.
West Virginia shirking a decades-old, bitter rivalry with Pitt — located a stone’s throw away — in order to truck around America’s Heartland crystallizes the absurdity of conference realignment.
West Virginia and Pitt, Oklahoma and Nebraska or even Texas and Texas A&M don’t necessarily need to share a conference to rekindle their rivalries. Clemson-South Carolina, Florida-Florida State and Georgia-Georgia Tech all maintain intense rivalries over league boundaries.
While the changing landscape of college football has gobbled up some rivalries, Army and Navy have no intention of joining those ranks. The rivalry — arguably the sport’s most famous — is played the second week of December, after the College Football Playoff field is announced.
The timing of the Army-Navy Game is one lingering question the committee has publicly talked of getting around to addressing, but administrators from the academies already have an emphatic answer: nothing changes.
The market is bullish on the Tennessee Volunteers in head coach Butch Jones’ third season at the helm. Some, like Friend of the Site Tyler Waddell, are buying in so much that they have the Vols atop the SEC East.
With two-time defending divisional champion Missouri losing key players on defense, and Georgia facing an uncertain quarterback forecast, the East appears wide open. So why not Tennessee?
USC’s dynamic triple-threat Adoree’ Jackson won the Pac-12 championship in the long jump, and that’s hardly the last individual honor the two-sport Trojan plans on adding to his collection in 2015.
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It has been two months and the ship has now crossed much of the Southern and part of the Northern Atlantic. We were supposed to finish up our research and get off at the Azores but I am very happy to announce that we will continue the research all the way to Stavanger! This means that we are able to take samples of the entire Atlantic ocean – all the way from the South to the North!
Our last update was from when we were about to embark from Cape Town. Since then, we have trawled many times, with very different results in the different seas and currents we encountered. We found that the quantities of plastics present in the South Atlantic are few, but stable and were quite disconcerted to find so many plastics in all trawls even in one of the ‘cleanest’ oceans on earth.
Sailing in the South Equatorial current we were able to gather enough to get a picture of the abundances in the area and saw a decreasing amount of plastics as we headed farther north, and out of the South Atlantic Gyre. We reached the Doldrums a few degrees north of the equator, where the weak winds gave us ample opportunities to sample. The Equatorial Counter Current was almost as empty of plastic as it was of wind. Our trawls from there turned up very few or no pieces of plastic. This current separates the North and South Atlantic Gyres, flowing against and between the North and South Equatorial currents.
Plastic quickly reappeared as soon as we entered the North Equatorial Current, the southern limb of the North Atlantic Gyre. A single glance in the net was enough for us to realise we’d far exceeded the quantities of plastic from any previous trawl. With over 140 individual pieces we’d either entered a new area of the ocean or a particularly plastic-abundant gyre. The next day our sample contained over 300 individual pieces. With a third and fourth sample collecting double the amount of the day before, until we reached an astonishing number of 1500 pieces, we can comfortably state that the contrast in plastic quantity tells us without the aid of a chart that we have entered a new region of the ocean: the North Atlantic Gyre, with its debris coming from the European and American coast, and so an increase of marine industrial activity.
It is in these oceans, that a ‘plastic soup’ of microplastics have been discovered by the Ocean Cleanup. It seemed we were going just through that; there were several clear days where you could just look into the water and see numerous small fragments floating by. Our plastic observation team was forced to make estimates, because it was impossible to keep count. These days were also the days that we saw a great many large objects floating by. Every time we looked out, there was an object to be found. We saw pieces of Styrofoam, fishing crates, a shoe even, buckets, jerrycans, nets… Much of it seemed to come from other (fishing/cargo) ships. The abundancy of plastics was also visible on the beaches of Horta (Azores), where a large amount of plastics is visible (even sometimes in the water, I just picked up a plastic bag while swimming) on the beaches.
Although research shows that there is a lot of damage already done in the North Atlantic regarding plastic pollution, the reactions to our research and seeing that so many people were so supportive and motivated to contribute in their own way is extremely encouraging.
We are delighted with the overall research results and most especially with all the involvement of everyone and are positive that together we can make a change!
What will happen next is that we will take our samples to the lab for analysis – what types of plastics did we find? – and see if we can trace found plastics back to producing industries. This will provide the basis for greater research where we will look at how the producing side of society can contribute to limiting the amount of debris coming from their products. We believe that together with an increasing awareness on the consumer side, there is a need and a market for products that are produced and encouraged to be disposed responsibly and that a large part of the solution can be found there!
For now, we thank you for your support and hope you will continue to help fight plastic pollution! If you are interested in more detailed updates of our project: please follow our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PlasticResearchBarkEuropa/. We expect our first report about the results and analysis of our samples to be ready this fall and we will of course send this to you. Also, look out for our video, soon to be edited and published!
You’ll hear from us again!
Ps. Do you also want to do something for our oceans? A great way to contribute is by limiting the amount of single use plastics you buy, for example in food packaging, and by using re-useable containers made of long-life recyclable plastic and other materials. You can also help by spreading the word and share our page – Research for clean seas: Researching plastics in the Atlantic.
Indicators for the prevention of microfibre shedding from apparel found through the Don’t Feed the Fish campaign.
Microfibres released from clothes during both the manufacturing and the consumer wash and wear stages, have been found to have detrimental effects environmentally. Initially assumptions from the industry pointed at fleece fabrics as the main contributor, but driven to challenge this deeper within textile engineering, the campaign #DontFeedTheFish was launched in January 2017 to take research to the polymer, fibre and yarn level.
Backed by the industry at the brand, non-profit and supplier levels, detailed research studied polyester yarns in lab conditions under various situations to assess breakage behaviour patterns. Work concluded that UV exposure and yarns of a smaller denier are both considerable factors in lowing tenacity in Polyester.
The #DontFeedTheFish Campaign was launched, to raise awareness at the industry and consumer levels of this unseen, yet hugely impactful issue, whilst raising resources to conduct laboratory-based, controlled research. Industry-based support for this campaign was spearheaded by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) together with key brands including The North Face, Mammut and Finisterre who all recognised the need for a deeper textile engineering understanding of the issue. “Brands have a duty of care to make steps to ensure that the clothing we make is well designed and well made, and mindful of the impact of our sourcing decisions.” said Deborah Luffman, Product Director, Finisterre.
The early support by brands to this work, raised a call to action to other industry brands and retailers in collective support of this challenge. “To solve a problem, you must first understand it,” said Peter Hollenstein, CR Manager, Mammut “The pioneering research performed in the #DontFeedTheFish campaign plays an important role in our industry’s collaborative endeavor to grasp the Microfibre issue in its full complexity and develop effective solutions. As industry interest grew, the work spun out into the Microfibres Consortium Leaders Group headed up by the EOG (http://www.europeanoutdoorgroup.com), of which biov8tion is a key research partner.
Although the industry saw this initially as an issue associated with fibres pulling out of fabrics, #DontFeedTheFish highlighted this as a larger issue, associated also with fibre fragmentation generated by all fabrics of varying constructions, weights and compositions. With a hypothesis substantiated by desk-based research, the work set out to identify what triggers cause fibres to fragment, and how the varying textile production processes can be seen as opportunities to make change within textile engineering and processes longer term.
The work focused on 100% polyester filament samples.
The key learning from this entry level research found UV exposure to be a significant trigger on lowering tenacity in polyester. A lower tenacity of yarns at the garment level would mean that polyester fabrics are more prone to fibre fragmentation after UV exposure. Such an observation was consistent across the varying yarn specs tested, with up to 42% tenacity reductions after 72hrs UV exposure.
A range of yarn sizes that varied from a 30 to a 150 denier were studied. Results were reviewed as tenacity in g/d and also as force in grams at break (which gives a more realistic representation of the yarn in use in a product). With the force-at-break approach, a consistent sliding scale was seen where the smaller sizes required lower force to break, and larger sizes a higher force to break.
Many other observations were made in regard to recycled content, yarn brightness and supplier processes used, but were deemed inconclusive at this stage, due to relatively small low data sets gathered. Three subsequent pieces of work have since developed from this at both research and industry levels.
The area of recycled vs virgin raw materials has been taken into a deeper piece of research in order to work towards concluding if virgin or recycled differ in regard to fibre release.
A correlation of yarn results with corresponding fabric structures is being conducted in order to better understand the interconnection between yarn and fabric construction.
Work carried out in collaboration with supply chain partners, has been kick-started to look at how these results can be used to support future product solutions at the yarn level.
#DontFeedTheFish has successfully demonstrated a need to elevate research and development from the ground level (polymer) upwards to include fibres, yarns, and subsequent processing stages within the textile industry.
Eloise specialises in utilising immunohistochemical, genotyping techniques and statistics to identify associative risks for Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology from a large population-based brain cohort.
Almost a year ago I released my crowdfunding campaign to collect funds to carry out my research into Alzheimer’s disease. 66 backers from 8 different countries supported me to continue my research for two months. That got me through some tough times last year, and I’m proud to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I am no longer wary about talking with everyday people regarding my research.
What was especially encouraging was meeting some of my crowdfunders. I gave a seminar late last year, which was attended mostly by family members, and friends and family have inquired how much my research is progressing through normal discussions about daily life. Surprisingly, the majority of my backers did not want anything for their support, apart from the knowledge that they were helping me out. This was quite a shock to me, but has led me to believe I should make the effort to be open about what I do, because to the general public what I do might seem daunting.
I had the very special experience in early Autumn last year to meet some of my crowdfunders in person, and show them around the laboratories. We sat down for almost 2 hours in total and enjoyed a discussion of my research, their queries about Alzheimer’s disease, and some common problems with research on Alzheimer’s disease. It was a pleasant meeting and I was humbled by their interest and encouragement, and at how my campaign had appealed to them.
I also have a further one under review with my collaborators in Sweden.
I was also requested to write a special piece for a Finnish journal, and currently my funding situation is comfortable until after the summer. I am waiting to hear back on my personal funding applications over the next couple of months, but it’s inspiring to know that I have my colleagues, collaborators, funders, friends, and family around to support me if things get bad again in the future.
I have many new topics that have become interesting to me, and hopefully I will be able to get started on these and share some insight on them in the coming months as I take more confident steps into my career as an academic researcher. One of the topics is the (much neglected) connection between cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s and I will be continuing investigations into Herpes simplex as a pathogenic agent in AD.
Once again, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my crowdfunding supporters for their belief in my research, and me as a researcher.
Could getting a cold sore increase risk of Alzheimer’s?
Painful Science – getting published is tough!
Should scientists learn to pitch?
At the beginning of June 2016, I was selected as a finalist in a competition about innovation in scientific research communication. The reason for my nomination was specifically related to my crowdfunding campaign on Walacea and the supposedly novel way I communicated my Alzheimer’s research to the public. The campaign involved a short video which I did in the lab, some written text and offering a few perks to people who supported my work from seminars to a simple postcard. As a result of the campaign I found that people were actually quite curious about my work and interested in what I had to say about it. Before the campaign I’d assumed that talking about my research with any level of details was likely to be a conversation killer!
The competition was a fun and enjoyable experience and the winner took home €3000 (which would have been nice). The run up culminated in an online voting system, which I’ll admit I wasn’t prepared for – it involved background work and lots of marketing to my network. As the only single individual of the 6 finalists (the rest were organisations or collective groups), I was largely doing it on my own which was tough, but I was proud of my efforts and really want to thank my friend Iita for nominating me, the organisers for selecting me, and of course everyone who has supported me throughout the whole (crowdfunding) ordeal! I came runner up out of the 6 finalists which is a a great achievement for me.
This whole event and the social and research aspects of the concept of research communication were very new to me. I took on crowdfunding as a means to acquire financial support and continue the research I enjoy, and learnt the basics as I went. The further on in my campaign, the more I realised what was at stake, what was required and that more effort lead to more financial support. In addition good communication was vital! The campaign also gave me a broader view on things that go wrong in science and how engaging the public is a useful and important part of being a scientist.
So, should scientists pitch for funding?
During the Competition day, I took part in a workshop on the ABC in Pitching. In science, this is not a particularly strong point of interest. People give presentations on their work at conferences and seminars, and some also lecture to students or teach laboratory groups. They usually involve one topic and range in time from 20 minutes up to an hour or more. Plenty of time to get around to what you want to say, and also on the odd occasion to bore people’s pants off.
Pitching is what I imagined entrepreneurs do to get funding to support their business idea and get it off the ground. Wait. Those essential elements are what we as scientists are trying to do. Once you get the ball rolling with support and publications, then things usually take on (to some degree) a life of their own. But in the beginning, you have to put in the hard work.
I now realise more than ever that pitching should be an integral part of a scientist’s every day means. ‘Elevator pitches’ should be the correct way to grab the attention of funding agencies as well as members of the public through crowdfunding and make them interested enough to read on, ask questions and hopefully potentially fund you. Entrepreneurs would never send a full business plan to a potential investor from the gecko, they send pitch decks, executive summaries and arrange meetings and events…this system works for business so just maybe it could work for science and save everyone lots of time in terms of writing and reading grant proposals?! And infact, this is the system that crowdfunding is using where scientists can create a 5 minute video pitch about their work than a more detailed explanation of what they plan to do. It worked for my campaign and perhaps with even more pitch practice next time it could work out even better!
Are women taking the helm in Science Communication?
On a side note, at the competition one thing that struck me about the whole event was the gender difference. The majority of the people there either representing the finalists, or listening and at work promoting science, were female. There was a massive majority of women participants – almost to the realm of 90%!
I wondered whether this was just a product of the fact this competition was held in Finland with primarily Finnish participants, or whether science communication is primarily undertaken by women throughout the world. A quick google of the topic seems to suggest that “women are more suited to communicating due to their natural style of communication,” thus indicating that perhaps it is not a phenomenon known only to Finland.
In any case, I must admit that I myself have found a fair amount of satisfaction and pleasure in sharing my research and also my experiences through my crowdfunding campaign, radio, magazine, newspaper and tv interviews, as well as this blog, and the continual contact I keep with my supporters and followers. I hope that I continue to be as well received! Thanks for tuning in again!
Can scientists be media personalities?
In keeping with the idea that scientists can also be media personalities, I’ve just received an email to be interviewed for a women’s magazine here in Finland. Yes, it’s true. I’m not really sure of the positive fluffy role model image that I could provide, but they are interested in hearing about my crowdfunding adventure. As a colleague earlier said to me “It’s not bad if a scientist is in the news in a positive light”. Well….ok, I’ll go with it.
But I should backtrack a little. I had my manuscript accepted for publication a while back and this week was the early view publication release. Now, that’s nothing to rejoice at in the world of science – although let’s be fair, I haven’t had an article published in four years, so I’m pretty ecstatic about the whole thing – but I believed the concept would appeal to the general population, so thought I’d jump on the bandwagon of press release accompanying research method.
Well…it certainly has appealed to the public. An article on the University’s website (coupled with an English version – these guys are really getting to know me now!), plus an article in the local paper. Not to sound too arrogant or anything, but that’s kinda THE DREAM….for a scientist. To get your research read by every day people thinking you’re on the way to a cure for such and such a disease. Because let’s be honest, as scientists we all believe our research is finding the ultimate answer to this or that.
I do know however, how the media take your results and rewrite them the way that makes it seem like you HAVE found the cure. Boy have they done that. How many times do we have to read about the next ‘cure for cancer’ or something? Well that’s kind of what they did with my research. But I’m still excited about it, and if you’re interested in actually hearing more about it from my perspective rather than the media’s, I’ll attempt to explain the research itself and the implications.
I was given an older autopsy series to work with on this topic, (compared to the one I usually work with) which had brain lesion data (information about whether the individual had amyloid beta aggregations or plaques) and alcohol consumption data. Amyloid beta aggregations are thought to be the cause behind Alzheimer’s disease. The protein accumulates in clumps and is believed to cause the death of neutrons, which leads to the associated memory loss. The alcohol consumption information involved types of alcohol drunk and an estimate of how much (note this is retrospective data, which is less strong than data collected in real time). The alcohol data came from relatives of the deceased, so to be fair, it’s not entirely rock-solid info. However, it’s interesting enough to show some insight into how these people lived. You’d be amazed at how much you can divulge on a person’s habits when you really think about it.
One final point is that the cohort is a non-demented cohort, meaning that none of them are cognitively impaired, although some had the brain lesions. This could mean that they would have developed dementia if they had lived longer, or may alternatively suggest that these lesions can occur without dementia and there is something else required to cause Alzheimer’s disease.
Fig 2 shows that beer drinkers had less than half the amount of amyloid beta-immunoreactivity compared with non-beer drinkers. Amyloid-beta aggregations are strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
I’ll focus on our most interesting results to keep it simple. We measured the amyloid beta aggregations as a dichotomous variable (present or not) and had a look whether any alcohol amounts or types were statistically associated with the brain lesions. In one of those beautiful eureka moments, the statistical program I use (SPSS, in case you’re wondering) spat out a nice significant result. Beer drinkers were less likely to have amyloid beta aggregations in their brains than drinkers of other types of alcohol.
So does that mean beer is good for you?
Yes, it is possible that beer could be good for you! But before we go jumping to extravagant conclusions, let me bring you back down to the ground. This was quite a small study (125 males – which means the results cannot be assumed to apply automatically to women – sorry ladies!) and when we investigated further it seemed that age had a large part to do with the effect. But this isn’t the end of the story. I have another larger cohort with similar information (with both males and females) where I will look to see if I can find similar results.
Of course it will also be nice to back up our results with a substantial theory as to how and why we found this result. Our thinking is that beer has a number of nutrients that are involved in important mechanisms in keeping cells functioning well. So another step will be to see if we can measure certain metabolites to corroborate our story, of which I’ve made a new collaboration to tackle this topic, through the sharing of my research!
So yeah, beer could potentially be good for your brain. But as I should point out all things should be enjoyed in moderation and a full healthy diet with exercise should be paramount to living a healthy long life!
Underwater seagrass meadows are disappearing fast, Dr. Kelsey Feser investigates why with the support of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI).
The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in Ithaca, New York, USA is currently running a campaign to support its new dating laboratory. Before you jump to conclusions, this is not a lab taking the likes of tinder to a new scientific level, it is a lab for gauging the ages of biominerals such as seashells and bones using a technique known as amino acid racemization (AAR) geochronology (for info on how this works see PRI’s project page). The dating of biominerals and seashells has many applications in research. Fields such as paleontology, tectonics and marine conservation all benefit from accurate dating methods that can help scientists put their samples in temporal context and form a clearer understanding of what has been going on over a period of time.
How did you collect the seashell samples and what can they tell us about human impacts on the spectacular marine environments of St. Croix?
I collected the seashells by digging sediment cores while SCUBA diving in shallow seagrass meadows just off the coast. The cores were 40cm deep, and contained all of the sand and seashells that have accumulated on the seafloor for hundreds, or even thousands of years. By picking out the shells of thousands of clams and snails from several depths in the cores we were able to construct a record of how the abundances of these animals have changed over time.
Clams and snails are very sensitive to environmental changes, particularly those imparted by human activity, so through this research we hope to determine whether the population changes we found were caused by nearby sources of pollution.
The sorts of pollution sources that we think could be impacting marine clams and snails in St. Croix include runoff during heavy rains and contamination from a power plant and a large, unregulated dump.
Human impacts on the coast of St. Croix are not hard to find—Dr. Feser photographed this decaying barge not far from the island’s main power plant.
Why is AAR dating important for your research on St. Croix? What do you hope to learn from the data you are collecting at PRI?
I’ve been working in St. Croix for six years, and the question that keeps popping up is “how old are these shells?” And it’s not a trivial question. I am interested in the effects of human impacts on populations of marine clams and snails through time, so it is incredibly important to know how recently these population changes took place. If they happened 5,000 years ago, humans were likely not the cause! By sampling in seagrass beds, where a thick root mat anchors the sand and prevents it from getting mixed up by waves, we are hoping to find that the deeper the shells are buried, the older they are.
The clam shells being dated are tiny—smaller than a fingernail!
This would help us better interpret the changes we see in clam and snail populations through our cores. By collecting lots of shell ages throughout a given core, we can answer this question.
Finally, we want to know how long-lived seagrass beds are through time; this is especially pressing given the alarming declines in seagrass meadows around the world.
By combining our knowledge of change in seagrass-indicating mollusks, and the ages represented through the core, we can determine over what timescales seagrass beds have remained stable around St. Croix and hopefully improve our understanding of what the human impacts on these ecosystems have been over time. The results of this research could have important implications for the conservation of other types of marine life that rely on seagrass, such as sea turtles.
What have been the benefits of running your samples at PRI?
I was thrilled when I found out PRI was getting an AAR lab! By visiting the PRI lab, I have learned the AAR process first-hand and am processing my own samples. This has provided me with invaluable insight into the steps required to date a shell and has also brought down the cost of sample processing considerably. I also was able to bring along one of my undergraduate students, John Lewis, who is participating in a faculty-student summer research program with me. Neither of us could have gained this “insider’s insight” had we elected to mail our samples to a lab to have them run for us. Additionally, working with PRI researchers like Greg Dietl and Steve Durham has been valuable and hopefully will lead to new collaborations beyond my short stay here in Ithaca.
A big thanks to Kelsey for answering our questions. You can learn more about her research on St. Croix in the video below.
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So, I’ve finished my crowdfunding campaign, raised enough money to survive for roughly 1-2 months, and had a whirlwind of an adventure with the press and interviews and competitions! So what’s next?
First of all, let me recap. I had 66 backers, providing me with £3398. Wow. That’s amazing and totally unexpected. But it was a lot of work. I found myself on Facebook and Twitter every day trying to plug something about my campaign. It got very tiring in the end, trying to come up with new ways of saying the same thing…and I’m a native English speaker! But it did pay off in the end, and it’s given me a lot of insight into how science should be presented to the public. I’ll touch on that a bit later in more detail, but suffice to say it has led to this blog!
I also became a sort of local celebrity by appearing on the local tv news. I’ve had parents, teachers, and the manager at my boys’ kindergarten point out they saw me on tv! I’ve also been amazed by the reach of my campaign. There were roughly 25 backers that I did not know – and some of them very generous – from all across the world! I was even approached for an interview by a journalism and science student from the University of Queensland! My friend nominated me, leading to me being selected as a finalist in a National (Finnish) Innovation in Research Communication competition, where I will present my crowdfunding campaign on Friday 3rd June in 6 minutes and be in the running to win €3000 (another month’s funding!!!)! So it has all been very exciting and fun!
To find out people are interested in what I actually do, instead of the usual party line of “I’m a biochemist and I study Alzheimer’s disease.” I feel comfortable now going into details, encouraged by the enthusiasm and questions from people without a science background (and to be fair, also those WITH a science background, but that’s not new to me).
Whilst all this was going on, I’ve managed to get a manuscript published (hear more about that in another blog as it hasn’t officially been published yet), and submit another. I feel like I actually have a career! My boss has also secured some funding, so he can fund me a few months after the summer, which has really made me feel like my research is worth doing – on a broader scale than just me thinking it’s important.
So to summarise, I’ve had to put a lot of hard work into marketing my research. It was difficult, and I had to change my mindset and think of what the general public would be interested in hearing about (as opposed to the grant funding agencies), as well as spam the hell out of all my friends/colleagues and family (sorry everyone!!!) and use a lot of time on social media. But, it was worth it. I had a blast, and it has encouraged me to take my research to the public on a more regular occurrence. I’ve started this blog, and if things look a bit dire in the future, perhaps I’d even approach a crowdfunding campaign again. Who knows? At least one thing I’ve learned…it’s not a bad thing for a scientist to engage the public!
Thank you and until next time!
You can view Eloise’s crowdfunding campaign page here.
Project Update: Can The “Spirit Molecule” DMT Help Protect Brain Cells?
What do you associate with elves? Christmas? The Lord Of The Rings? DMT? For the vast majority of people, the latter is doubtful, and you’re probably left a little confused right now. But for those who have experienced the psychedelic effects of the hallucinogenic chemical DMT, the mention of elves may well have just flooded your mind with memories of that drug trip.
DMT, or N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, is a powerfully psychoactive compound that can induce profound experiences, such as the feeling of transcendence and intense visuals. These hallucinations commonly feature humanoid beings or entities sometimes described as elves.
But there’s much more to DMT than otherworldly creatures; some scientists believe it may have a place in modern medicine, and the brains behind a successful crowdfunding campaign launched on Walacea last year has made it his mission to explore this idea further. Six months on from the campaign’s closure, we caught up with this quirky scientist for an exciting update on how the project has progressed so far, and plans for the future.
Those who generously backed the project may be familiar with the science, but we’ll start off with a bit of background for those who aren’t. DMT is produced by many different plant species, some of which are used to make the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca, used for centuries by Amazonian tribes in shamanic ceremonies. It’s also found naturally in very tiny amounts in humans, known as “endogenous DMT,” and fairly recently it was discovered that the human brain has multiple active transport mechanisms that allow it to cross our protective blood-brain barrier and cellular membranes. Together, these suggest that DMT likely has some role or purpose in the body, other than being a hallucinogen.
Interestingly, DMT also acts on a cell receptor called sigma-1 which studies have indicated has a protective and restorative function in neurodegenerative diseases and brain ischemia, or the restriction of blood flow to the brain, suggesting it could also play a role in stroke. This, combined with the fact that near-death experiences have been likened to DMT trips, forms the foundations of Dr Ede Frecska and colleague Attila Szabó’s research, who believes that DMT could help protect brain cells from damage caused by a lack of oxygen, or hypoxia, such as during a heart attack, coma, or clinical death.
After successfully smashing his crowdfunding goal of £2,000 last November, raising almost £3,600, Ede Frecska and Attila Szabó have now completed the first phase of their studies, and the results were very promising.
More specifically, Frecska explained that his team exposed human stem cells that had been coaxed into becoming neurons to low levels of oxygen and added varying concentrations of DMT to different dishes. As expected, being starved of oxygen caused the cells to become stressed and die, and adding very low concentrations of DMT didn’t seem to mitigate this. However, higher concentrations of DMT caused three times as many neurons to survive. They also repeated this procedure with a different type of brain cell, called glia, and found similar results.
“The next step is to start using animals,” said Frecska, “so I wish to publish this second DMT paper soon. We have already published work showing that DMT has an anti-inflammatory effect.” That’s also a potentially important find, since chronic inflammation has been linked to a myriad of diseases of civilisation, from Alzheimer’s to heart disease.
If results in such animal models are similarly encouraging, indicating some neuroprotective role of DMT during hypoxia, then Frecska hopes to pursue human trials, possibly investigating its use in individuals whose brains have sustained injury or a lack of blood, and thus oxygen flow. But to progress his work, Frecska needs further funding, which is hard to come by for most scientists, let alone those working on Schedule 1 drugs like DMT.
“Psychedelics are stigmatised,” said Frecska. “You don’t have an endogenous opioid system just so you can have a nice time in an opium cave! And we don’t have endogenous hallucinogens just to make us go crazy.
Psychedelics are proving themselves not only as promising therapeutics, particularly with regards to mental health, but also as a potential window for investigating fascinating subjects like consciousness – check out the groundbreaking LSD research we also helped crowdfund. It’s time to end the stigma so that more studies like these can be conducted, and so research isn’t hindered by outdated ideas that are rooted in fear rather than science. Thank you for helping towards that goal, and for bringing this study to life!
Evolutionary education: An approach set in stone?
The Virtual Natural History Museum, a project which is being led by a team of palaeontology experts at the University of Bristol, will provide a unique resource to teachers – offering digital access to specimens rarely seen outside of academia.
Its creation follows a request from the UK’s Earth Sciences Teachers’ Association, which asked professional palaeontologists for help in collecting multimedia resources to help illustrate their lessons.
The request was picked up by Palaeocast, a palaeontology podcast operating out of the University of Bristol. They’ve attracted funding from The Palaeontological Association and the Geologists’ Association and are crowdfunding to cover the remaining costs.
This website will primarily rely on the online research catalogues that museums produce for academics, bringing them together in an easily-accessible way.
Dave explained: “Many museums have digitised large parts of their collections and made them available to the scientific community. Unfortunately, they don’t publicise these catalogues to the public, nor are they presented with any sort of engaging interface; they’re just a gallery of specimen numbers and pictures.
The user-interface of this virtual museum is set to appear and function exactly like a computer game; allowing users to explore the collections using an avatar, just as you would do in real life.
While produced for a specific educational purpose, the Virtual Natural History Museum will allow for whole collections to be publically displayed for the first time.
The fossil collections of the National Geological Repository are the second-largest in the UK, but they have no public exhibition. Even large museums, such as the Natural History Museum in London, only display a fraction of their specimens.
The Virtual Natural History Museum will be able to provide a public front for those museums without displays and offers the option to exhibit fragile specimens without them needing to leave the collection stores.
The project has already been supported by numerous museums as well as educational and academic associations, including the Earth Science Teachers’ Association and the National Geological Repository.
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Northern Kentucky has a pair of new state champions.
Mirena Combs of Newport High School and Jon Cummins of Simon Kenton High School won KHSAA state singles championships Thursday, Feb. 7, at Executive Strike & Spare in Louisville. In this, the eighth year under KHSAA sanctioning, Cummins became the second male to win the boys singles championship, following Highlands’ Andy Campbell last year. Combs became the first female from the area to win the title.
Cummins was the top seed in the stepladder bracket after five games of qualifying, in which he scored 1,179 pins, averaging 236. He scored 55 pins higher than second place in qualifying, meaning he had a bye to the state championship match. There, he edged Austin Tungate of Taylor County 178-175 to win the championship.
Combs squeaked into the stepladder finals with a five-game score of 996 (192 average), 10 pins ahead of the fifth-place finisher. She then raised her game to another level to win three matches in the finals, beating Emma Workman of Apollo 212-183, Ranelle Ulanday of local rival Cooper 257-192, and Emma Owens of Ballard 220-213 in the championship match. Ulanday finished third overall.
Both Cummins and Combs are two-time regional champions. Cummins, who averaged 233 in regular NKAC matches this season to lead Northern Kentucky, is the first two-time regional champion in NKY boys bowling. Combs averaged 175 during the regular season to rank fourth in the conference.
Abby Bach of Highlands also won a state medal, finishing eighth.
Crystal Williams of Ryle finished as state runner-up in the Adapted division.
Local schools will vie for the team championships Friday. Cummins and Simon Kenton will be in the boys field with Campbell County, Dixie Heights and St. Henry. Girls teams there are Campbell County, Cooper, Highlands and Notre Dame.
Other boys competitors: 9. Rieley Ulanday (Cooper) 655, 18. Cameron Bechtol (Campbell County) 578, 23. John Ivey (Simon Kenton) 542, 25. Alex Bach (Highlands) 514, 26. Andrew Melching (St. Henry) 513, 29. Alex Radford (Dixie Heights) 480, 31. Kyle Zamborsky (Ryle) 434.
Other girls competitors: 16. Kara Strong (Boone County) 546, 20. Kaylee Hitt (Campbell County) 536, 28. Emrel Woody (Highlands) 479, 29. Skylar Brinkley (Boone) 472. | 80242747 |
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Norse Noir: Still Coming (soon)!
Hello all! It's been quite some time since our last update here on Steam. Norse Noir has been delayed significantly since that time, as you might have noticed, but the team is still working on the title and our efforts are about ready to pay off! After quite a long wait we are dedicating ourselves to a launch within the next two months - That means Norse Noir will be available for purchase on Steam before the end of August!
With the extra time we've been able to take with making the title we've added in new animations, cutscenes, voice & sound work and much, much more; what was originally planned to be a 2/3 hour title is now double that length, with a planned completion time of at least five hours for this first chapter - All fully voiced by our cast of professionals.
We're looking forward to finally delivering Norse Noir (chapter 1) to our audiences world-wide, and hope you are too! We'll be back soon with an updated trailer, screenshots and more; until next time!
Additional funding for Norse Noir secured!
Hello everyone! We have some very exciting news to share, as Norse Noir: Loki's Exile has just secured another grant from the Norwegian Film Institute for just shy of $60,000 USD! This is obviously huge for us on the team, and though we're still nailing down exactly what this will mean for us in the long run we wanted to go ahead and share the awesome news with everyone here.
We have more details available in our blog post about the news here[norsenoir.com], and welcome everyone to comment with their thoughts and questions for the team. Talk more soon!
Norse Noir: Loki's Exile - A classic style, hand-drawn adventure game, where the roaring 20s and Scandinavian mythology collide!
Norse Noir: Loki's Exile is KreativeSpill's love letter to the classic point-and-click adventure games most of us on the team grew up playing, using a simple, era-inspired art style that helps to set the light-hearted tone of our glimpse into the swing music years of the United States.
With a planned length of between three and four hours, and a price point to match, Norse Noir: Loki's Exile is the first episode in a planned series of titles revolving around the setting and characters introduced in this game.
In Loki's Exile players take the role of Lars Kristiansen, down-on-his-luck street magician and former low-level courier for the local mafia. Sinking under debt to the city's new crime bosses, a ruthless trio of sisters named the Swahns, Lars has three days to pay back everything he owes or, as he was so succinctly told, "else".
What starts as a quick quest for cash quickly grows into something more as Lars stumbles a mysterious pendant that threatens to turn his whole life upside down. With danger, mysteries and odd occurrences around every corner Lars will have to use every trick in the book and then some to save his own skin... and just maybe the world, too.
For more information on Norse Noir: Loki's Exile, please visit us on the web at http://www.norsenoir.com - Also please visit our Kickstarter page to see our funding campaign, and secure your pre-order copy of the game. Thank you very much for your time and we hope for your vote. Ha det bra!
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I love the style. Steam needs this.
I love the art style and premise behind the game - especially mixing Norse mythology with the 1920's. The theme of this game reminds me a bit of Witchmarsh, another kickstarter game that blends the 1920's with Lovecrafrian fantasy/horror. I'm proud to back this on kickstarter. Good luck with your development!
i love point-and-clicks! and i love even more games with traditionals background!
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First, I have very little experience with compressor pedals. Second, the Ego compressor was not some new release for the Nashville Amp Expo.
Wampler Pedals actually had a pretty cool high-gain distortion pedal they were demoing for the first time at the show. The SLOStortion is a surprisingly thick sounding distortion pedal. Not entirely my cup of tea for blues, but I was surprisingly intrigued by it's beefy tone.
I spent a good amount of time in the Wampler room trying out the pedals, mostly playing through their compressor pedal called the Ego.
I've never used a compressor pedal in my signal chain because it felt like cheating. Maybe cheating is the wrong word. I just felt that compression should come from the amp as the tubes are overdriven, so a compressor pedal SHOULD be un-necessary.
However, a clean amp played at relatively low volumes is an exceptional case. The tubes aren't adding any compression of their own, so it's not the "clean" that bothers me, just the lack of sustain. At loud volumes, a clean amp will cause the strings to sustain more, but a clean amp at low volumes is rather plinky.
A compressor pedal, I theorized, could help solve some of this by adding more sustain to the notes. But I didn't want to lose the snappy attack, especially for those plucked Albert King style bends. So I kind of wanted the best of both worlds.
At the Amp Expo, I tried out the Ego Compressor from Wampler, and was delighted to find that it has a "blend" control. This blend allows you to mix the compressed signal from the pedal with the uncompressed original signal. So you retain the snap of the initial picking attack, but your notes will sustain longer, to the degree that you've mixed in the compressed signal with the "Blend" control.
I am in no way a connoisseur of compressor pedals. So when I bought the Ego, I had not done a ton of research on competing pedals. But it did what I wanted it to do, and sounded very transparent. Good enough for me, and I like it quite a bit.
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Hardwood floorings are quite stunning, however sadly not all homeowners can afford to use them in their houses, but that does not suggest that you can not get the exact same sort of impact in your home; if you do not have much of a budget plan for genuine hardwood floor covering, then you need to attempt wood laminate flooring instead. This kind of floor covering product has the exact same feel and look of real wood, however you do not have to invest 10s of thousands of dollars on them. In this post, you will learn practically everything you need to know about this type of flooring and why you should provide a shot.
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Laminates are made up of different products that are bonded, or laminated together to form a more powerful composite product. There are some wood laminates are made using a more affordable species of wood with a wood veneer glued on the surface area, however the majority of the laminates that you can discover today are actually made from a melamine-based resin with a photographic applique on the surface area. Thanks to today’s modern-day printing methods, laminate floor covering can closely imitate the look of genuine wood; no one can actually tell that they are not genuine wood unless they are informed.
Besides the inexpensive price, there are other reasons why wood laminate flooring is so popular with many households. Alleviate of setup is one of the best advantages of laminate floorings. Practically all wood laminate floors are “drifting” or are just resting on top of a foam underlay that is straight on top of the concrete sub-base with no form of adhesive. To make it easier to set up, the laminate planks come with a tongue and groove interlocking system to make sure that they always stay attached to each other.
Installing laminates is so simple that you can in fact do it yourself in the course of a weekend; you only need a few standard tools like a rubber mallet and a saw to cut the edges.
Although wood laminate flooring is not technically real wood, people can not really discriminate once they are already installed on your floorings. The only issue with laminates is that they tend to fade, particularly in high-traffic locations. But if some slabs on your floor do get damaged, you can easily change the broken part without excessive of a hassle and without spending excessive cash.
If you want to give your home a bit of class, then you need to install wood floor covering. Wood floorings are not simply stunning to take a look at, they also have purpose. There are a number of benefits that you can receive from wooden floors that you can not get anywhere else, and some of them will get gone over in this article.
One of the very best reasons for having wood floorings is that they are so simple to keep tidy. Unlike carpets which you need to vacuum daily due to the fact that dust and other small particles do tend to stick onto the fiber, hardwood flooring just needs that you do a quick sweep over the surface to get rid of many dirt and dust.
And, if you have wooden floorings, you do not need to fret about unexpected spills leaving a stain. If someone spills any type of drink on the floor, you just need to wipe it up using a moist rag and you are done; if the very same thing takes place on carpet, then you can be sure that you will be looking at a big costs from the cleaners.
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There will always be some times when your excellent wood floors will get a little damage, like deep gouges or holes, and when they do you would be glad to understand that fixings are simple. For example, if there are some scratches on the flooring, all you need to do is lightly sand the location utilizing some fine-grit sandpaper until the scratches are gone then apply a great layer of paste wax on the surface area and then rub it using a soft fabric.
These are simply a few of the advantages that wood floor covering have more than the other materials. There are plenty more of them, a lot that they can not fit into this article. If you want to find out more about the charm of having wood floors, then you must ask around your regional hardware shop.
Not all property owners have a spending plan that will permit them to utilize real wood on their floorings, however that does not suggest there is no chance that they can get the exact same kind of take a look at a budget friendly rate; this is where vinyl wood plank floor covering can be of terrific aid. As the name recommends, this type of flooring material is not truly made of wood, however from vinyl; so this indicates vinyl planks are greatly cheaper than real hardwood, but they still look like the real thing.
Unlike genuine hardwood floorings that are so challenging to set up that you have to get a contractor to do it for you, vinyl plank flooring setup can really be dealt with as a weekend task. You can find plenty of simple to follow how-to videos online so that you know where to begin with the installation and how to do it effectively.
Wood may be gorgeous, but they can not be installed in areas where the floors are continuously getting wet, like the kitchen area and the restroom; this is not a problem with vinyl wood slab floor covering. Given that vinyl is water resistant, they can be installed where other type of flooring are not truly ideal. And, if a mishap takes place and someone spills their drink on the flooring, it will simply roll off the surface and will not even leave a stain behind.
Thanks to contemporary printing technology, the applique that is on wooden vinyl floor covering slabs looks much like real wood. They are so persuading that the majority of people who see them might not even inform that they are not truly made from wood; it will be your own little trick that your floors are not actually made from hardwood.
There are few floor covering types that have the exact same mix of charm and cost that vinyl wood planks do, which is why they are quite popular amongst individuals. If you are searching for a good material for when you renovate your floorings, but your budget can not accommodate costly products, then attempt utilizing vinyl wood slab floor covering. Not only is this kind of flooring material inexpensive, because you can install them on your own, you likewise save on labor costs.
Hardwood floorings are most likely the most beautiful flooring type that you can set up in your home. There is something about the natural patterns in the wood’s grain that really makes any space quickly feel comfortable. If you are constructing a brand-new house for your household, or you are renovating your existing flooring, then it is highly suggested that you attempt utilizing wood instead of other products. If you are not totally convinced about using wood as a flooring product, then maybe the following reasons will help comprise your mind.
There are many kinds of wood that are ideal for flooring that you will actually have a tough time selecting simply one. They come in many different tones from the reddish oak or birch, the rather dark mahogany, or if you desire you can use light shades that originate from ash or maple wood. There are even some exotic ranges that have extremely striking grain patterns, like tigerwood and Brazilian walnut. It does not matter exactly what sort of décor you have in your home, you can be sure to discover the ideal wood floors to match them.
Other floor covering types require lots of routine care to make them look excellent, take carpets for example. When you spill any sort of drink onto carpet, 10 times out of ten you can be sure that there will be a stain that is left, specifically if the carpet is light-colored. Hardwood flooring on the other hand does not really require excessive upkeep to retain its appeal; all you need to do is offer it a light sweeping daily to avoid dust from settling, and apply floor wax each month to keep the flooring smooth and shiny.
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How Much of a Robot Are You?
This is a simple test designed to determine your robot level. It examines your lifestyle, social involvement, interests, and psychology to determine how much of a normie you are.
Select the option that best describes your social life.
I have a group of friends that I hang out with on a regular basis, but don't socialize much outside of that group.
I have a few friends that I see on a semi-regular basis.
I have very few/no friends but I try to get out and socialize when I can.
I have no friends (except possibly online) and make no attempt to socialize.
When was the last time you were in a romantic relationship?
Are you currently employed or seeking employment?
Are you currently enrolled at a university or another educational institution?
How many Pepes do you have saved on your computer?
Describe your typical daily outfit.
How many hours a day do you typically sleep?
How many hours a day do you spend online (discounting time spent online for school or work)?
When was the last time you had meaningful interaction with another person in real life?
Do you suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or another similar psychological condition?
Have you been diagnosed with autism, Aspergers, or another spectrum disorder?
Have you ever seriously contemplated suicide?
Do you find it difficult to empathize with "normies"?
Have you ever fantasized about participating in a revolt, in which the underdogs of society rise up and overthrow the established social norms?
How often do you browse 4chan?
What is your assessment of your position in society?
I live apart from mainstream society and have no desire to participate in it.
How often do you engage in a basic hygeine routine, such as showering, shaving, brushing teeth etc.?
Do you collect bodily fluids in jars or bottles?
Do you pull pranks on "normies" or conspire to get them in trouble with authorities?
Is your primary source of income a passive source, such as government assistance, interest from an account, or a stipend/inheritance?
How would you describe your general outlook on humanity and human nature?
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I thought I would share a smile that artists who have been on workshops may recognise.
Over the years we have all been on workshops at some point or another. Many inspire us,some we are disappointed with but we always without fail learn something from them.
In many cases you have heard of an artist, admire their work and contact them to book a place. You are thrilled to find they have a slot and you book accomodation making arrangements for your stay and then eagerly look forward to the event.
You plan your route and get there in plenty of time to set up and meet the fellow artists attending. And then in this case you wait and wait for the grand entrance of the main star who finally walks in, coat over shoulders with a curt nod to the class.
The " How lucky you are to be in the same room as me " attitude fills the air!
The artist then comfortably sits at their demonstration area and the vast class has to huddle around for a chance to peep through arms or over heads to get a glimpse of the brush hitting paper. Here you realise being six foot tall could be a terrific advantage. Or possibly having the build of an all in wrestler could help to push others out of the way. I have neither height nor build! Standing on tip toe I still can hardly see but gradually I manage to get a position where I can and we all watch mesmerised for the first thirty minutes. After an hour concentration started to obviously diminish. After an hour and a half everyone was feeling eager to have the chance to paint too. The initially interesting "life story" was fast losing the groups attention and I was certain that the two gentleman to my left were falling asleep on their feet!
Suddenly the door to the room opened and someone who had got lost on their journey arrived with a red face of embarrassment and apologies for being late. They tried to explain there had been a car crash but at this point our " star" was furious and told the latecomer off suggesting they sit quietly at the back of the room until the afternoon session. The latecomer was almost reduced to tears and an uncomfortable silence fell on the studio.
We had almost twenty minutes until lunch where we were finally allowed to paint and the "star" disappeared.
This was where chaos began. With our elbows touching we were physically crammed into spaces to work. The light was so bad everyone raced for the only section of the room with windows. Those who could see what was about to happen raced to the back to get more space assuming they could do without light but needed elbow room! This was like a comedy show but without laughter!
Tip: Always ask how many will artists be in a workshop and what the facilities are like!
During lunch we all imagined what we would be painting that afternoon. So fully rested after our break we headed back to our positions and picked up our brushes. This is where the demonstrating artist eventually appeared and started walking around the room "correcting" paintings to the point they were now completely beyond recognition of the attending artists own work. But they did get to leave with a free painting! However I discovered as the demonstrating artist came nearer to me I found I was beginning to feel rather possessive about my work.So like a child in primary school I almost huddled over it when they arrived thrusting a scrap of paper in their direction asking them to show me how they would approach my subject without letting them touch my own which I was really pleased with as it was!
I could turn this into a marathon post as a blog entry but I will simply add that a few of the artists left before the first day was over and several did not return the following day. They had " had enough" like the above painting. They disappeared into the sunset never to be seen again.
The demonstrating artist although brilliant at painting was not a natural teacher. There is a mix between getting ideas across and encouraging others to paint. There is also a way to be inspiring whilst demonstrating.
It is an art in itself which not all artists possess or even wish to possess.
For me? I learned a lot this day.
I learned how NOT to teach!
Over time I have received many emails regarding attending workshops. I often read how nervous an artist is about attending a session even from the most established in the art world. I read comments on how others feel they are not good enough to come or how they have never been on a workshop before. Some coming are really worried about being in a room full of far better artists. Then I will hear from the artist who has been painting for years but feels stuck in a rut or the artist who has completely lost motivation. Or the artist eager to try something new. I often hear from many artists who want to come back time and time again for the adrenalin rush of being in a room full of enthusiasm.I know how they feel. I always have a sense of excitement as my own workshops draw near because I put so much into them and to be honest I gain so much from them too. Without fail I always meet fascinating people who hold a passion or curiosity for watercolour as a medium.
There are many different people attending workshops all over the world and many hold similar feelings.
As it is the time of year when many exciting workshops are coming up I thought I would share a few of my thoughts.
1) Nerves. The only person who really has a reason to be nervous in a workshop is the tutor.The artist demonstrating. Every part of how the workshop is enjoyed and comes over rests on their shoulders. I usually explain this the minute my workshops start and after the first few minutes everyone is already relaxed and laughing. You see if I am not nervous how can you be? So enjoy every minute of being on a workshop and if you are nervous remember others in the room may be also but hiding it well!
2) Other Artists on the Session. Everyone has chosen to attend the same workshop because they love the artists work. Everyone is there for the same reason. To watch the demonstrator and improve. Never forget that every single artist is aware that we were all beginners once. In fact the artists with less experience are often made to feel comfortable immediately because we have all been standing in their shoes at some point.
3) Relax and bear in mind when we are painting nothing else matters. Often you could hear a pin drop on my workshops as no one is interested in what anyone elsse is doing.They are far too wrapped up in their own painting!
1) Look at the artists work and if it is what you are looking for then make a booking well in advance.
2) Be brave,book with artists who are at a higher level than you in both skill and their art journey. If you keep going to a beginners class there is a possibility you could stay a beginner for a very long time or even feel great in the group with a false impression of how good you really are. Choose a workshop level that is suitable for you but one that is always a little bit higher in standard than your own and keep stretching yourself!
3) If an artists list of workshops is fully booked ask if they have a waiting list or when their next workshops will be available. You may then be one of the first on the next schedule.
1) Arrive early and take everything you need with you. Prepare well before leaving home and ensure you have enough paper to try all you see. The most commonly forgotten item on my sessions is a water container!
2) Take all your watercolour euipment including your favourite shades. Take a few resource subjects with you in case you aren't happy with what is provided.
3) Take one or two of your own paintings and if the instructor has time ask for their opinion and tips on how to improve your work. Not all demonstrators will but it does help them to understand on which areas you can improve most.
4) Work! There are always breaks for coffee and tea and these are the times to get to know your fellow artists on the workshop. Many sessions are expensive so make the most of them by painting at every opportunity.
5) Don't interrupt a fellow artist when they are in the middle of a wonderful connection with their work. Bear in mind that just because someone isn't holding a brush doesn't mean they are not thinking about where their first brushstroke is going to be!
1) Having taken the time to choose an artist and watch their demonstrations make sure you set time to work on the new ideas when you leave the workshop at home or in your studio. Practise all you have taken in as much as possible.
2) Try to incorporate new ideas and techniques with your own. Avoid cloning! Remember no matter how brilliantly you are copying someone else this work will never be your own creation. Always aim to be unique!
3) Stay in touch with an email showing the artist your new work since the session.Let the artist know how much you enjoyed the workshop and explain if you would like a future booking. When sessions become available you may then be one of the first to know.
Most importantly of all enjoy every second and let it show in your new creations!
Diary of a Professional Artist.
Winning Painting of the 2009 SAA Professional Abstract and Experimental Artist of the Year Category.
When I painted " A La Marche" last year I had no idea where my art journey would be leading me. However 2009 turned into one of the most exciting years of my art career. In 2010 we are only into February and my weeks are flying by with so many wonderful opportunities each day that see me either constantly painting in my studio or racing to meetings. My diary is incredible and I am meeting some very amazing people.The coming months seem to read like a celebrity guest list within the art world and outside of it.
My diary so far consists of.
I am on one major Art Society Council and another main Art Society Commitee. This means involvement on a different level for each.
I am organsing a prestigious art event for later this year which is really exciting and taking a portion of my time. It meant booking a castle as a venue and this week saw me driving to a meeting to discuss the occasion. I will be discussing the guest artist on another post on my blog soon. What they have achieved in their lifetime really is inspiring on so many levels and my trip was very thought provoking.
Art wise I am working on my body of work for one main show in London and one in Hampshire which takes place later this year. I have several galleries which showcase my work and I am working on new collections for each. I also need paintings for two major events in London for April and May along with a special piece for a charity event in Hampshire in July 2010. With my art I am now supporting three major charities and will continue to do so on an annual basis.This is where my heart lies and I feel shines with my brush.
I have my workshops which I keep on a personal level. My goal is to inspire and ensure every single artist attending any of my sessions leaves feeling 100% motivated and eager to paint. I aim to have new ideas in every session on technique and subjects. These are my heartbeat and often leave me inspired also. Orders of supplies and new colours for each and contact with all the artists coming from all over the world keeps me busy on a full administration schedule. I also have requests for workshops abroad and I am looking ahead to future possibilities.USA is on my list and I am already actively looking into my first watercolour workshop there.
On this note if you are in an Art Organisation and would like me to visit your country please contact me on [email protected] as I am looking at my travelling diary and plan ahead. Now is a good time to discuss future events.
I am always thrilled to be contacted by art groups and societies inviting me to demonstrate or give talks. My 2010 diary is full and looking at my schedule I can see I am going to meet some wonderful groups in the future. It is a terrific life to be able to meet so many people with the same passion as yourself and I enjoy each one and the chance to share my enthusiasm and love of working in watercolour.
My first book " How to Paint Colour and Light in Watercolour " will be available in July this year and I am already working on my second.. There is still so much to do involved with the release of my first book so behind the scenes I am working on many areas of being an author. The idea people may have in that once the book is written "That is it" is a myth. Now the real work begins!
I am also included in another book which I will share details of at a later date which will be released in USA.
I have been approached regarding a DVD to go with my book and this is very dependant on a screen test which I have managed to fit in next month. This will be a very interesting exercise as I am a person who hides when anyone picks up a camera! In fact I am laughing as I type this because it really is going to be an eye opener if this adventure does eventually happen! So many friends who know me will understand what I mean. They will have experienced seeing me race to turn my head away from photography and on that note the hardest part for me with my first book was having the shot taken for the inside cover of the book! Watch this space!
I feel a little bit like a juggler with many things to keep in the air but the strange thing is I love it. New opportunities keep coming my way and I find myself agreeing to them. And this is my life of being a professional artist.Whilst one commitment is completed I am already working on those further away. And amazingly taking on new ones.
The most incredible part of my art career is that I am also renovating an old cottage which has seen me regularly visit my home with the need to make many decsions. It is looking beautiful and is in the final stages of internal decoration. And so a move is on the cards for the end of April.
I am asked often " How do you ALL that you do?" I think the answer is you have to love what you are doing.
Part of a new collection to be unveiled at the Alton Spring Exhibition.
"Watercolours With Life" my main workshops cover a wide range of subjects and techniques in each session. As I am not limited to one particular theme you will see everything approached in my style with both enthusiasm and new ideas on how to create a vast range of effects in watercolour. Whilst my Spring workshops are fully booked I do have one cancellation in April and a few places left in the Autumn sessions. I always work on a first come first booked basis so please if you are interested in any contact me directly on [email protected] to confirm your booking.
Due to a cancellation I have one place available .Please contact me directly for this very popular and exciting session.
Painting beautiful golds and a selection of subjects with texture and vibrance as a main goal.
All other sessions are now fully booked.
Following my October sessions I will not be holding further Winchfield workshops until 2011.
I am demonstrating and holding workshops throughout UK during 2010 along with visiting Norway in August. I am hoping to hold a workshop in USA in 2012 and more details on this will follow at a later date.
If you wish to make a booking for a workshop anywhere in the world please contact me and I will be happy to discuss the possibility. My enthusiasm, energy and passion for watercolour is endless so I will be delighted to hear from you.
Amazingly it is only one week to the Private Preview of my next exhibition. It seems like only yesterdy it was the beginning of Autumn and this was a mere discussion. But here we are with a new collection and today I am at the gallery for the final details.
It is amazing that when we visit exhibitions we often forget the behind the scenes preparations. The collection being put together, framing, titles and pricing. For me it is also preparation for workshops at this show and then dates for each including the Private Preview. And while this is all going on I am always working ahead to the next exhibitions.
I have recieved so many wonderful requests on what subjects everyone would love to see. I have been asked if there are cockerels, elephants, dogs,cats and flowers. And a special subject that seems to disappear as soon as it hits the wall!
Have my favourites in this event along with new ones and as always a few surprises. I hope everyone who visits loves my new work and enjoys the variety.
And if you are reading this and coming to the Private Preview please say Hello as I would love to meet you. Invitations are available through the gallery.
One of the many joys of being a professional artist is that you come across so many other artists beautiful work in group exhibitions. I was approached to exhibit in a gallery for a show with an " Africa " theme. I can remember being delighted at the time and took along a collection of paintings that would be suitable for the event.
In this exhibition I came across the work of an incredible artist Paul Apps. His work took my breath away and still does. It is a wonderful surprise to see Pauls name as a follower and I too am now following his blog. Thank you Paul.
If you would like to see art by someone who has an amazing talent please look at this link and look in awe at his wonderful work.
Paul can also be found on facebook and I thoroughly recommend joining his fan page. A link to which is on his blog.
Texture and Colour : Snowdrops.
I am beginning to believe I do definitely see things differently to non artists. A country walk will often see me observing colour combinations and abstract shapes. This week the woodlands and country lanes are full of snowdrops in Hampshire. They are impossible to miss as my dogs and I take to the countryside for our daily breaks.
But I don't see simply small white flowers surrounded by green foliage. I see the sun hitting old autumn leaves on the ground, twigs and earth each giving beautiful foundation and background colour suggestions for my compositions. Which is why I chose brilliant orange as a backdrop for this piece! I must admit in my previous paintings I have always chosen cool violets or blues for my snowdrop collections but this has the " WOW" factor for me and I love it. It isn't finished yet but already looks so exciting.
Unfinished Snowdrops A painting in progress gradually building up in texture and detail.
I love one section especially. Isn't it always the way with artists to fall in love with one area above all others in every painting they create!
Above : Flowers starting to come to life before the final brushstrokes.
This is the area where the painting started from my imagination.
You can just see a piece of clingfilm in the foreground above for added texture effects which will contrast with the bubble wrap texture below in the background area.
I am having so much fun writing and working on new ideas for my next book. Many I will not include here so as to leave excitement and surprises when the book comes out! But my enthusiasm is difficult to dampen and I so love sharing my thoughts and experiments on my blog.
There is so much joy and passion in every painting I create. A part of my soul touches each one with eager brushstrokes. I am alive with a brush in my hand and always on the look out for new subjects and new ways to paint them.
I know my enthusiasm is infectious and I eagerly look forward to my 2010 Spring workshops. I know those attending are eager to come to them too.This years will be really exciting and I cannot wait with all the surprises and techniques we are going to share up my sleeve.
What a wonderful year 2010 is turning out to be!
The joy of designing a garden means lots of trips to established gardens and centres to study plants. I need to understand how they grow, what light and soil suits them best and which plants will provide year round colour for my cottage. I always choose plants I wish to paint. I look at shape,colour and texture. This is how I work with my paintings also. This makes my compositions interesting.
Last year I became entranced with hydrangea in its' many varieties. I bought some for a Spring workshop and loved how artists fell in love with their shape. A year later and I am still very much in love with the plant. I especially love this painting because what you can't see adds so much more impact than what you can.
Study the flower in the distnace that is hardly there behind the main cluster. It says so much with so little detail. The flow of dark green through the centre brings a wonderful connection between all the individual blossoms.
It started like this with the central flow in place and developed gradually.
Another simple play of colours created this next study which was the start of a new addiction to my painting these flowers.
Another composition and collection of ideas for future work.
The more you study the same subject, and the more frequently you paint it the stronger the fascination appears to be.
The saying " Practise makes perfect" holds true in so many ways. But I usually ask artists attending my workshops to only paint subjects that make them feel excitement when they pick up a brush.When you are bored with your work it really shows in the results. At the moment I am now in love with painting hydrangea but if you know me well you won't expect them to appear on my blog tomorrow. Like a thistle seed in the wind my energy and creative soul will be carried at will to the next subject and my brush will be moving eagerly to capture it with a variety of texture and colours in each piece.
It is Monday, a whole new week lies in front of us to cover paper with colour.I aim to make this week the best ever in my work.
My life is a blur. I have finally realised how much I was working on and how it is affecting my soul and art. I am constantly seeing Spring flowers which somehow flow into my subjects regardless as to what they are. In this study of horse racing I feel my recent paintings of primroses are almost there in the distance. If you study this you will see what I mean. It is the colour selection in the background. I believe I could turn sections into small flowers if I wished and what an unusual abstract that would be!
I am working on light,movement and flow in my work. I am racing to display excitement in my brushstrokes and the energy that I feel in my spirit.
I want a part of me to show in each new painting which means I need to rest my artists soul from time to time to regenerate my existence in the art world.
Today I aim to enjoy the beauty of nature and bring this into my paintings next week. But it is so hard to come down to earth when my heart is singing with life from an exciting new series that is magically appearing in front of my eyes.
I am on what they call "A roll" and I don't want to sotp but I feel I should at least for one day. I will see how long I can last without picking up my brush this Sunday!
It is far easier to share wonderful work by art friends at times than our own. I have exhibited with Arina Gordienko on several occasions and her work really does take my breath away. It is impossible to walk into a gallery and miss it for the sheer size and impact in each piece.
I first met Arina when we particpated in the Art Liberating Lives Exhibition in 2008 raising funds for the Sue Ryder Charity. That year sArina had won the Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award at the SWA Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition. I could see why.
You can admire her amazing collection on a video via this link.
In 2009 I followed in Arinas footsteps when I submitted to the SWA for the first time,had all six paintings accepted and my work was selected for the Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award. I was thrilled for so many reasons because I am so passionate about watercolours. I work hard with style and technique and to recieve this accolade for my own paintings was overwhelming. And I am very honoured to follow artists like Arina who deserve such recognition.
In person Arina is wonderful, her art has to be seen to be believed as on the screen it somehow misses the beauty it holds in reality.
So my post this Sunday is a tribute to a wonderful friend who happens to be an artist with amazing talent.
Arina...it is an honour to know you and call you a friend. I wish that 2010 be a real success for you as in my heart I know it will be.
Following my leap back into action paintings I spent a wonderful session in my studio yesterday creating this racing scene.
From a few placements of pigment while working with a sense of excitement figures rapidly began to appear. As I worked away from my main rider I really had to depend totally on my imagination to allow the scene to come to life.
At this stage I didn't want to be "dictated to" by what I saw. I had the desire to paint what I felt instead which is a far more powerful way of creating.
From my soul as an artist.
" Taking the Lead " First Stage.
Even now there is so much of the story already told.
Why does this painting work? I knew from the beginning it would bea good result because I could see the finished piece in my mind. It isn't enough for me to look at an image and want to paint it.
I want to capture the very essence of every single thing I am working on and bring it to life so that viewers of my creations feel they are involved in each scene. In this painting I want them feeling as though they are there at the races. I want them guessing who will win and almost hearing the noise of hooves on the ground creating a flurry of mud and dust rising from the movement and speed of the racing.
This is an exciting scene to witness in reality. Therefore it has to be an exciting scene in a painting. It has to be rich in all aspects.Colour,brushstrokes,composition,technique. Everything has to work.
And for me in this piece it does.
I am happily working on a new collection and really loving the series!
By the way, I really think the rider in green on the outside is about to take the lead, take a look and see if you agree!
When everyone expects me to share paintings of Spring Flowers or cockerels it really is nice to do my usual of being " unusual" by throwing in an unexpected subject. It feels very suitable to share this painting which started as a study last night.
My life feels like a blur at the moment as I juggle so many projects constantly. My March Exhibition in Alton is now prepared but I am working on new collections for another gallery and a special show later this year. I am also working on my second book . I jump from subject to subject at will as my heart leads me and enjoy the variety of colours in each.
This painting holds excitement for me and the sense of movement that is necessary to bring it to life. Working without a preliminary sketch means my focus really is on colour and how it interacts. Techniques are vital to create variety throughout the composition so that the viewer can really fill in gaps with their own imagination. I can just see the horses muzzle although this isn't painted. I can feel the speed at which the horses are moving even though they aren't even there and the steam from the heat of the animals as their breath hits the cold air all adds to the thrill of the race.
I am racing to fulfil my commitments today and possibly this feeling is entering my work.
A complete change from painting flowers to peaceful calm lyrics!
In life we are often faced with making decisions. Many on a daily basis. Some are far more important than others. In my studio I have a wonderful collection that is growing constantly with new favourite paintings. I have several exhibitions and galleries which I will be delivering work too in the next few weeks.
I am also moving into a renovated old cottage in Spring which has an owl house on a beautiful log cabin which acts as a garage. I will be wanting to hang my favourite paintings in my new home. This is one. I started painting owls recently and the pose on "Too Wise" has appealed to me ever since this subject first started appearing with my brush. There is a softness in the feathers that catches my attention. The eyes shine with eager alertness that you would expect from these birds.And that beak somehow has a magic I can't define.
It is a special piece. My heart tells me to keep it but my artists choice is to exhibit for others to enjoy.
In a frame this looks so different and my heart will be torn yet again when I see this hung but it will be part of my Spring Show. I have made a wise decision. But I will silently pray no one buys it and if they do I pray they will be a very special buyer.
How attached we all become to our work. Our emotions combine with our brushstrokes and our feelings often show in our paintings.
I will always aim to make wise decisions...and I will always love this owl.
Market Street Gallery, Alton,Hampshire, U.K.
Private Preview Invitations Available from the Gallery.
Preparations are now well under way and the Spring collection is looking really beautiful.
Whilst the workshops are already fully booked I will be at the Private Preview prior to the official opening.There are a few invitations available for this event so please contact the gallery directly if you would like to come.
An experience on a scrap of paper destined for the bin when I started.
Last week I bought a spray of lilac to work from in my studio. I paint from life finding light is more magical to capture from reality than when working from photographs. This could be why there is a huge variety of colour in my work. I see "real" colour not the flat darks often found in digital images.
To relax and close a studio session I placed colour on a scrap of old paper allowing it to flow . Then began to pick out lilac shapes. I soon became mesmerised by the tiny flowers in each lilac form. The scent was so intense I almost began to feel I was aiming to capture the perfume which was rich and dramatic rather than light and soft as the blossom.
This piece was painted deliberately for the bin. It had served its purpose into introducing me to wonderful colour combinations for the serious paintings and I discovered composition suggestions for a series also.
However when I shared this with others the feedback was glowing.
One of the main setbacks when we look at our own work is we often see what we were aiming for. Not what we achieve.
Others only see the results and only focus on this.
If only we could see our work through others eyes.See what they see and feel.
Then we too may just see the beauty!
Working on a second book is opening my eyes to techniques to create movement and life in watercolour. I have a feeling of even greater excitement as I explore new ideas. My studio seems to be a haven with an assortment of products and items I have never even thought of using before and some I had forgotten about. It will be a wonderful way to share a different approach to painting.I also smile knowing this second book is going to contain quite a few surprises. It is wonderful to be able to share the behind the scenes thoughts before this one hits public attention!
Yesterday I delivered the last of the collection to the Market Street Gallery for the Spring Exhibition. Looking at all the pieces together I know it will be a really colourful show and I cannot wait for the Private Private Preview.
Many artists will understand the need for working ahead so I am now working on future exhibitions and I have a few charity projects I must complete also. To be able to support others by way of my brush is a vital part of my work and personality. At the moment five charity events will each recieve a very special painting and will take place throughout the year. I have time to work on each individually to ensure funds raised really do help.
I never take for granted my own health or life style. I am able to see, feel and use both hands. I also was somehow blessed with this passion for working in watercolour. I honestly believe this kind of passion is a gift which is best appreciated if it is shared. All gifts are all the better if they can affect orthers in a positive way.
Sharing whether it is a smile or an act of kindness is like a ripple on a pond. It spreads and can do great things.
It is Monday morning and you have a million and one things to do. Two very excited dogs are eager for their walk on which you prioritise the order of events for when you return to your studio which has already been invaded by the family cat. You gently move the cat off your desk and in minutes move them away from your water container which they seem to believe is there solely for their drinking purposes.
You patiently move the cat off the keyboard as you aim to complete the mornings administration.
Paintings are then selected ready to be delivered to the gallery for an exhibition and it is time to add any last finishing touches to your latest collection. All the time you are mentally working on your list of necessary things to do.
You patiently pick up the cat and remove it from your palette where it has managed to gain different shades on each paw which are now casually being walked all over the clean sheet of watercolour paper you had placed on the floor next to the easel to be used during the mornings session. It has now become an abstract. Maybe a piece of modern contemporary art.
There is only one painting left to complete before you leave for the trip to the gallery and the model happily co operates by washing immediately in front of the easel!
The dogs are finally sleeping, there is peace at at last and the cat?
A typical Monday morning with a wonderful cat in glorious shades of gold capturing my attention taking my mind away from the task in hand. Preparations for my March Exhibition at the Market Street Gallery in Alton,Hampshire.
Please contact the gallery directly for invitations to the Private Preview where I will be meeting guests during the evening.
As I wake this morning I think of all the cards and flowers that will be given all over the world as a way of showing how much love is shared between two hearts. Young girls will hope to recieve cards from admirers, lovers will find ways to show each other how much their relationship means, couples will show how strong their feelings still are even after many years of living together.
And there are those who will treat this like any other day.
And there are those who would give anything to share just one more moment to say " I love you"
Earlier this year I was asked to donate a painting for a very special auction. I chose "Femme" . She was in a beautiful antique frame and had a sense of calm about her. Please allow your own feelings to imagine what this figure is thinking. Is she a lover? Has her lover just left or is she waiting for him to arrive? Maybe she is a loving wife. Maybe an artists model. She started to appear during an art session and the point where I stopped was where the session closed.She was placed on my easel and I soon understood any further brushstrokes could hinder not add to the story she was telling. And so she was framed and I later decided she would be part of my private collection until I received the charity request.
As the artist I see her turning her back on all of her troubles and looking forward to something so beautiful and very private. Maybe her lover or husband taking her into his arms. The golden light in the upper right corner signifies happiness yet to come. The red in the lower left corner signifies the colour of love perfect for St Valentines Day.
This morning as I wake in my loved ones arms I realize how lucky we are. I have a romantic evening to look forward to with an element of suprise as I haven't a clue where I am being taken. Like the girl who fell in love years ago I feel as though I am going on a date. I have a new dress to wear which is feminine and romantic. I am still very much in love. I know how lucky I am to openly type that line.
And for a moment this morning my heart thinks of those who can't be with loved ones today for whatever reason.
My wish this morning is that everyone who is lucky enough to have someone in their lives will show them just how much they are loved because our tomorrows can never be taken for granted.
From a collection of my earlier portraits.
When I returned to UK from Dubai and Hong Kong it took a while to settle. Renovations on an old country house took so much of my time and I also became obssessed with renovating an old country garden. I took a break from a hectic professional art career and enjoyed life to the full. But my heart wouldn't settle without a brush in my hand.The demands on professional life are great if you are a successful artist.The days where you pick up a brush simply to paint are gone.You have administration to deal with,a diary to organize years ahead and you need to be on top of juggling so many projects and invitations to exhibit.
During this time I was invited to the Felpham Art Trail in Sussex. On my very first visit I met so many fantastic people and artists. From there my participation turned into annual events when possible with each year seeing my growth as an artist and giant leaps in my career. I always came home feeling rejuvenated and even more inspired. I now even look at the trail as my " lucky charm" because following these breaks by the sea I always seemed to have fabulous new opportunities flying my way.
My favourite memory is of my first visit when I met a very proud Grandfather. I was demonstrating a childs portrait at the time and he offered to show me images of his grandson. I fell in love with the sweet face immediately and this child has been a favourite subject ever since. My first painting of Jacob won " Best Painting in Show" at the Farnham Art Society Autumn Exhibition of that year.
I give favourite paintings like the one above to the Grandfather as they couldn't possibly be loved as much by anyone else and I am grateful for the wonderful inspiration. I strongly believe in giving back in life whenever you are blessed to have met someone who has influenced or been kind to you.
This year I asked permission to use Jacob in my first book on watercolour. My wish was granted but when the book started evolving something magical happened. I decided against using Jacob but the Grandafther may have a surprise because he is in it !
I looked at my first book yesterday and at times still can't believe I painted all the images or wrote all the text. I even made a remark to my publisher "Did I really paint that?" which makes me laugh this morning. I know wihout a doubt even if this wasn't my own book I would buy it. I would want to own it and I am so happy to be able to type that line. From start to finish I can see why certain techniques came to life over the years. I have grown so much and I look at the above painting of Jacob and easily see how far my journey with watercolour has come.
The above painting looks very different to how I paint today but how thrilled I was when I created this without a pencil for the very first time. No preliminary sketch at all with this piece.Just colour building up in layers to create the face.
You can read more about the Felpham Art Trail on this link.
My world is coming alive with wonderful Spring flowers. I am tempted each day to paint daffodils,snowdrops and primroses. I set up my working space in my studio every evening with some arrangement to dream about and to entice my brush in the morning.
On my facebook page I asked a question.Which are your favourite yellow shades.The replies were varied and interesting so I thought I would share mine and set a wonderful challenge at the same time. How about brightening March on facebook and blogs by sharing brilliant sunshine and a host of golden daffodils?
Here are the yellow shades on my palette. Winsor Yellow is a favourite of mine!
Next I have placed swatches of colour on a scrap of paper. For me this is a wonderful way to start the day with fresh clean colour simply playing. Some tubes could get neglected in my materials box if I didn't use them all regularly.
Can you see where this experiment with colour is heading?
I am raring to go and eager to pick up my brush now.............and I know which colours I will dismiss and which new ones I will try!
March 1st is St Davids Day in Wales where I am from. The dadffodil is our national flower.......I would be thrilled to see a world full of daffodils shared on this day in any medium all over the internet! The race to paint a million daffodils is on! Please invite your freinds to join in too.
In my first book "How to Paint Colour and Light" in watercolour I introduce exciting ways to paint minus the use of a preliminary sketch. This simple and fresh approach really can turn into an addiction in wanting to try to capture every single thing you see in this loose style.......please be warned,this really can be a very addictive way of painting!
It has been an incredible week. As I mentioned in a previous post a form of fear set in prior to my cover being released. I laughed at first because I wasn't expecting these emotions but the mild fear gradully turned to complete panic as the day grew nearer when I would be showing the cover for the very first time. Friends were eager to see it and all over the world artists who had asked me to write were also nudging my arm for a clue as to when they could finally see what I had been working on.
I shared the cover on facebook and my blog and almost felt like hiding which is absolutely ridiculous! This is when being connected with artists from all over the world helps. I came in touch with Nita Leland on facebook and confessed how I felt. This very wonderful artist not only took the time to listen and reach out. Nita understood my feelings. She gave me that extra confidence with wonderful words of encouragement and from here I shared the cover details. My book was out there for all to see and hear about with a helping hand from an already highly successful author.
Please take a look at Nitas blog and her work. Her fabulous personality shines and it is because of this artist many of my friends actually finally got to see the cover of my book!
Now I am sat here with the final proof of my book. There seems to be always one more " final proof" ! I am told this really is it. The last chance to change anything as it is ready to go to print now and be on sale. It has been to the professional proof reader prior to its release and it has also been to the design team for approval in the layout. My recent meeting covered this aspect and it is interesting to see my ideas come to life on pages instead of a workshop!
Being in the hands of a successful and professional publishers is essential when entering the world of writing. My leap into being an author has been the most exciting of journeys and I hope from sharing I may inspire other artists to fulfil their dreams.
I have this last chance to change my book before you see it. I am trying to see it through your eyes. I can even name people who will be jumping up and down with happiness because of whats inside......these will be thrilled because they have what they asked me for. And I have tried so hard to please everyone!
I will close this entry with a heartfelt thank you to Nita. We all need someone to turn to at times and for me Nita ,already a star in the art world is now my " Author Angel" for being there ! Thank you so much Nita.
As an Associate Member of the SWA ,Society for Women Artists I thought it would be a great idea to share members news.
"Founded in 1855, the society has had a unique history dedicated to promoting art by women. The Annual Exhibition at the prestigious Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, SW1, showcases a stunning and eclectic mix of artwork in all media. The Society encourages variety and versatility and features some of the finest contemporary women artists from all over the world, thus sustaining a reputation for excellence"
A simple telephone call can turn into a creative few minutes if scraps of paper are at hand. The childhood habit of "doodling" is evident even when I am on the phone especially when I am having a light hearted conversation with a close friend. When working on serious paintings I shut myself in my studio and avoid any interruptions.But there are times when it is fun to take a break.
I think this collection of colour really does reflect the warmth and personality of the friend who had called me.The light really does reflect my mood. Carefree, happy and so full of the joy of new life that surrounds me this Spring.
I love how granulation creates texture interest and the way a mixture of pattern edges give the loose interpretation of flowers.
As primroses sit on my studio desk in a pretty pot they are the main influence. I paint what I see as well as what I feel. Emotion is in this small piece as my feelings for this particular friend shine so brightly.
She is caring, genuinely warm and full of spirit.
Our paintings reflect our personality. Mine is gentle which often is evident in my brushstrokes.
I feel I have captured the colour of friendship in this unfinished piece.
And what a wonderful way to pass the time with a friend even if it is via the phone!
My first book "How to Paint Colour and Light in Watercolour" is now available to pre order from Search Press. It is packed full of information on how I work, see, think and bring techniques into my paintings with influences from my travelling.
"A stunningly beautiful book that teaches you how to produce loose and expressive paintings, filled with colour and light.
Encapsulating Jean Haines' enthusiasm and passion for art, this stunning book, packed full of ideas, tips and expert advice, opens up a whole new world filled with colour and light that will not fail to inspire and excite you. Drawing on many years' experience as an accomplished and well-known watercolour artist, Jean guides you through every stage of the painting process, filling you with enthusiasm for painting beautiful watercolour paintings of your own in her characteristic loose and expressive style. The book includes sections on materials and techniques, composition, colour and light, and there are three step-by-step projects to help you put everything you have learnt into practice. The huge range of subjects covered, including portraits, still-lifes, animals, flowers and landscapes, has a truly international flavour, reflecting the experiences Jean has gained from living all over the world."
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I had debated the doctrine of conditional security for nearly 30 years and now the Lord was showing me what the scriptures really said because I was not able to see this truth before I turned from my sins. Since that eye opening event occurred I have lost most of my friends and my siblings have written me off. I've had to confront an entire congregation of their error and I have received threats on my life in exchange. All of these things happened and I have the most perfect peace about them. | 69285713 |
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In case you did not know, ‘Mersal’ is an action-drama and has been directed by Atlee. Besides ‘Thalapathy’, it also features Kajal Aggarwal, Nithya Menen and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in the lead. As far as ‘Vivegam’ goes, it is a spy-thriller and features Ajith in a stylish avatar. It had hit screens in May.
On a related note, ‘Mersal’ contains a scene which ridicules the central government’s GST scheme. And, needless to say, it has ruffled a few feathers. Recently, a BJP leader had lashed out the GST jibe and called it a ‘political move’.
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Homeless to Harvard subject, Liz Murray writes her own true life story. Here is an excerpt.
I have just one picture left of my mother. It’s 4×7, black-and-white, and creased in different places. In it, she is seated slightly hunched, elbows touching knees, arms carrying the weight of her back. I know very little about her life when it was taken; my only clue is written in orange marker on the back. It reads: Me in front of Mike’s on 6th St. 1971. Counting backward, I know that she was seventeen when it was taken, a year older than I am now. I know that Sixth Street is in Greenwich Village, though I have no idea who Mike is.
The picture tells me that she was a stern-looking teenager. Her lips are pressed together in thought, offering a grimace for the camera. Framing her face, her hair dangles in beautiful wisps of black, smokelike curls. And her eyes, my favorite part, shine like two dark marbles, their movements frozen in time forever.
I’ve studied each feature, committing them to memory for my trips to the mirror, where I let my own wavy hair tumble down. I stand and trace similarities with the tip of my finger through the curve of each line in my face, starting with our eyes. Each pair offers the same small, rounded shape, only instead of my mother’s brown, I have Grandma’s rich yellow-green. Next, I measure the outline of our lips; thin, curvy, and identical in every way. Although we share some features, I know I’m not as pretty as she was at my age.
In my years with nowhere to live, behind the locked bathroom doors in different friends’ apartments, I’ve secretly played this game in the mirror throughout all hours of the night. Tucked in by their parents, my friends sleep while images of my mother’s graceful movements dance throughout my mind. I spend these hours in front of their bathroom mirrors, my bare feet cooled by gridded tiles, palms pressed on the sink’s edge to support my weight.
I stand there fantasizing until the first blue hints of dawn strain through the frosted bathroom glass and birds announce themselves, chirping their morning songs. If I’m at Jamie’s house, this is just the time to slip onto the couch before her mother’s alarm beeps her awake, sending her to the bathroom. If I’m at Bobby’s, the grinding noise of the garbage truck tells me it’s time to sneak back to the foldout cot.
I travel quietly across their waking apartments to my resting spot. I never get too comfortable with my accommodations, because I’m not sure if I will sleep in the same place tomorrow.
Lying on my back, I run my fingertips over my face in the dark, and I envision my mother. The symmetry of our lives has become clearer to me lately. She was homeless at sixteen too. Ma also dropped out of school. Like me, Ma made daily decisions between hallway or park, subway or rooftop. The Bronx, for Ma, also meant wandering through dangerous streets, through neighborhoods with lampposts littered with flyers of police sketches and sirens blaring at all hours of the night.
I wonder if, like me, Ma spent most days afraid of what would happen to her. I’m afraid all the time lately. I wonder where I will sleep tomorrow — at another friend’s apartment, on the train, or in some stairwell?
Tracing my fingertips over my forehead, down to my lips, I long to feel my mother’s warm body embracing me again. The thought sends tears streaming from my eyes. I turn to my side, wiping my tears away, covering myself with my borrowed blanket.
I push the feeling of needing her far out of my mind. I push it beyond these walls lined with Bobby’s family portraits; past the drunken Latino men just outside, slamming down winning hands of dominoes, seated atop milk crates on Fordham Road; away from the orange blinking lights of the bodegas and over the rooftops of this Bronx neighborhood. I force my thoughts to fade until the details of her face blur. I need to push them away if I am ever to get some sleep. I need sleep; it will be only a few more hours before I’m outside on the street again, with nowhere to go.
From Breaking Night by Liz Murray. Copyright 2010 Liz Murray. Published by Hyperion. All Rights Reserved.
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This song reminds me of a traditional Sunday morning church service. There?s just not much more to say I think we can all sing this song and testify that God always makes a way, always!
How can You forgive me when I've often gone astray?
How can You think of me when I do things my way?
Why do I go away when I know I am no good when I'm on my own?
Why do I go away when I know I am no good?
Who will love us all?
I'd give you the world, but actually what would that do.
So I wish you all you need, to be more than I can be.
This is what I wish for you.
I wish you falling leaves, so you'll understand that seasons change.
I pray you'll always see; the forest through the trees.
And this is what I wish for you.
And I'd stay right by your side and show the way you should take.
I hope you live with no regrets.
I wish that the air you breathe, is all that you'll ever need.
And if you lose your will to try, I wish you wings to fly.
I wish you wings to fly.
I wish you everything you need.
I'd give you the moon, but you'd never know the warmth of the sunshine, I'd give you the world, but actually what would that do. I'd promise you wings to fly, but how would you ever learn to run, So I wish you all you need, to be more than I can be. This is what I wish for you. I wish you rainy days, so you can know the beauty of a clear blue sky I wish you falling leaves, so you'll understand that seasons change. Cause, if I gave you the mountains, would you learn to climb, I pray you'll always see; the forest through the trees. And this is what I wish for you, And this is what I wish for you. If I could I'd say the word and take your fears away, And I'd stay right by your side and show the way you should take. But this your life, this is your story, and we know this, go ahead and say, I hope you live with no regrets. I wish you ocean breeze, and rivers that can bring you everything you dream, I wish that the air you breathe, is all that you'll ever need. And I wish you nights of love, and days of joy and shoulders when you cry, And just enough helloes, to get you through, goodbye, And this is what I wish for you. I pray one day you'll have a home, with arms stood open wide, And you'll have someone who loves you, always by your side, And if you lose your will to try, I wish you wings to fly. I wish you wings to fly. I wish you everything you need. And this is what I wish for you, And this is what I wish for you.
I gotta know how can the King of Glory care so much about me?
I am a Christian, do you know what that means?
I am a believer, listen do you know what that means?
I am your sister, can I show you the way?
It seemed the task at hand was much too great for me.
I spent my yesterdays wondering if tomorrow would be the same.
That's the word that comes to mind when I think of all you've done for me.
"What a wonderful change in me."
Taking inventory of the things I see.
Until you took control of my life.
Even if you change me Lord.
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A Pentagon spokesman last month claimed that Abdul Hasib, the head of the Islamic State in Afghanistan was killed. Today, it has been confirmed by President Ashraf Ghani that the reports are correct.
Hasib rose to power following the death of his predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan who was killed in a U.S. drone strike.
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After months of writing blog posts, I've come to realize that many authors agree on one thing; they hate marketing their books. I can understand why. Marketing isn't an easy job. You spend all of your time and energy writing an amazing book, and still there's so much work to do after that to ensure that your baby makes it into the world.
I'm by no means an expert when it comes to marketing, but I've learned a few tricks through my own experiences and also reading articles/blogs from experts in the field. I would definitely suggest looking into Jenn DePaula of Mixtus Media. She's actually running a sale on her Book Marketing Foundations class. Also, check out Alexa Bigwarfe from Write. Publish, Sell who also provides valuable information and courses in marketing.
Build a Community: Whether this is through social media, readings and signings, conventions, or gushing over a book, make connections with writers and readers in your genre. Building connections helps open you to other opportunities in the literary world, like signings you never heard about. It's also just nice to make new friends. Try to focus on those in your genre because they will be the people you sell to later. It's better to have a smaller group of interested people than a large group of followers who won't take a second look at your book.
Social Media: As much as some people hate it, social media is important. It's how your readers get to know you. You can share information about your story or your everyday life. Keep in mind, you don't have to do all social venues. Pick the ones that work well for you. Maybe update a blog every week, or keep a twitter account active. Don't try to do everything, otherwise you might become overwhelmed. Just make sure people have a place to find you, buy your book, and learn more about you. Readers want to feel connected with the author.
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Nestled down next to Lake Ontario in the heart of Canada's Golden Horseshoe is the historic city of Hamilton. Founded shortly after the War of 1812 by George Hamilton, the city named after him earned the name of Steel City, a name it continues to uphold today as Canada's foremost steel and heavy manufacturing providers. Known for its beautiful landscape, hardworking citizens, and budding culture, Hamilton has another nickname: Ambitious City. Though the name may seem hard to live up to, Hamiltonians are nothing if not ambitious. The people, the city, and their will are as strong as the steel they manufacture.
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Look of the day – Meshed up!
Today’s look started with some new things from Ingenue, Whippet & Buck, and Fri.day.
more pastel shades, while the Stumblebum colours are all brights.
My skirt is also mesh, and is Whippet & Buck’s item for this round of Collabor88.
button details and deep pockets.
Just strolling through a Parisian marketplace on a beautiful summer morning. Wearing my RezIpsa Loc summer floral print dress from the Chic birthday event. This pretty dress features a sculpted floral print skirt, strapless bodice and sash with a sculpted bow behind. Available in Cool as shown or Warm tone.
For a quick look of the day this photo took a while since my computer needs to think about a shadow picture for about 25 mins before getting it right!
I love Ingenue shoes! Creator Betty Doyle excels at creating vintage styles that look fabulous with even the most contemporary fashions.
Of course Ingenue has a booth at Shoe Fair 2011 and it is packed with the most recent releases.
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Jane Wedge sandals are low heeled two colour summer sandals. They come in 12 fresh summer colour combinations, plus the one shown above right. Jane Wedge sandal in Roses is Ingenue’s donation item. 100% of the sales of this colour will be donated to Soles4Souls.org.
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I hope you wouldn’t mind me calling you thus. I came to know from Wikipedia that you are the Prime Minister of India and thus enlightenment dawned on me that my nation has one.
Prime Ministers are supposed to be the most prime of the ministers that rule the country. The last time that I came across one was Mr.Vajpayee as I distinctly remember my nation being made proud by his announcement that India had blasted three atomic weapons. The next time was when he brought in the visionary ‘Golden Quadrilaeral’ project. Since then I have not had the opportunity to know that I had a Prime Minister as I have not been able to see anything progressive happening in the country at the behest of yourseld that would make an ordinary citizen proud of.
Well, not wishing to dwell too much on the previous PM, let me quickly revert back to your tenure.
1. Natwar Singh episode and the kickbacks from the ‘Oil for Money’ programme of Saddam husseing government. Your then external affairs minister was getting money from another government. Well, getting money from another government was nothing new for your party and I very well know that.
2. H.R.Bharadwaj, the then Law Minister giving a clearance to the Bank of England to de-freeze the accounts of Quattorchchi, the friend of Sonia. And immediately Quattorochchi withrew all his money – needless to say that the money was the bofors kickbacks money. I distinctly remember your statement then that an innocent person should not be troubled too much. These happened even when the CBI had a red corner notice against Quattotochchi. And immediately after that statement of yours, the CBI closed the case.
3. The shoddy treatment meted out to Dr.Abdul Kalam, the then outgoing President and your backing of the current President despite all the cases pending against her and the RBI’s Liquidation notice to her bank.
4. The eqally shoddy treatment meted out to the former Chief Election Commissioner’s recommendation regarding Mr.Navin Chawla. Even before the President had an opportunity to go through the report from the former CEC, your law minister said that the recommendation would be rejected. And all tall talk of constitutional propriety ?
5. Your cabinet ministers speak out of turn in every given opportunity while at the same time speaking ill about another ministry – recent examples being Jairam Ramesh chiding the Infrastructure ministry and Infrastrucure minister Kamal Nath ridiculing Montek Singh Ahluwalia of the Planning Commission.
6. Your Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has all the time in the world to look after BCCI and IPL that he doesn’t have the time to concentrate on rising prices and decreasing agricultural produce. Yet he continues to be your Agriculture Minister.
You have been blamed of inaction in every sphere be it th rising prices, the Kashmir conundrum, the Maoist menace, the China issue et al.
Wait a minute. Do you know that there is a state called Arunachal Pradesh that is supposed to be an integral part of India ? Do you know that China considers it her own integral part ? Are you aware that China does not issue visas to enter China for the Indian bureaucrats from Arunachal because it treats the people of Arunachal to be their own citizens and therefore issues only stapled visas that are not endoresed in the passport ? Have you made atleast one statement on this ?
Additionally for the people of Kashmir ( Indian part), China does not issue visas endorsed in the passport and it just issues a stapled visa. Are you aware of this at all? I have been waitng for the last 6 years to hear from you on this.
Can you issue stapled visa to people from Tibet thus making a stand on the Tibet issue? Probably you would need to ask Sonia who in any case wouldn’t know anything at all as she considers Italy her home even now.
The last person to acknowledge that China is a real threat to India was George Fernandes. Have you atleast understood the magnitude of the problem ?
Despite my best efforts, I am not able to remember any other positive achievement of yours during the 6 years that you have been in office so far.
I have explicitly refrained from writing about the CWG, Adarsh and 2G scams as enough has already been written and said about them. And it is too depressing to write only about scams and let-downs on the part of the government.
What bothers me, as a concerned citizen, is your spectacular stiff upper lip on all these. You have not spoken on any of the scams at all. Either your ministerial colleagues have said something ( I am restraining myself from using expletives here as I still have some sense of honour left for the office of the PM ) or your coalition partners have conjured-up some verbage neither of which has helped soothe my highly tensed nerves.
Neither do you exercise control on who your ministerial colleagues are nor do you seem to have control about what your ministers say.
The Radia tapes don’t even mention your name in any ministerial allocation exercise. As a citizen partially literate about the ‘ it is the Prime Minister’s prerogative to choose his minister’ kind of constitutional stuff, I am constrained to ask this question : Do you realize that you are the Prime Minister of this country and the constitutional obligation to follow and uphold the constitution of the nation ?
Any ordinary worker would have quit his position / job if he would have found that he would not be able to perform his duties due to interferences etc. Are you aware that you too have that option ?
I am not as academically qualified or as intellctually bent as you are. Hence I would request you to correct me if I would have attributed anything above that should not have been attributed to you.
But I have a confession to make. When you had assumed power in 2004, I had seen that your academic qualifications had all the permutations and combinations of the English alphabet. I had a hope that under such an academic personality, India would scale new heights in many positive aspects. But after six years of your two consecutive terms, the only sphere in which India seems to have scored high is in corruption – corruption of un-imaginable proportions. What a fantastic feat !
In any case I have a great admiration for you. That is because of the following: When the 2G episode was unfolding itself and the Supreme Court was making you look like a school boy who had failed in all subjects yet appeared in the First-Rank list, there was this party conference of yours where Sonia was making a scathing attack on corruption. You remained stoic and calm and composed while I would have burst out in laughter on hearing what Sonia had said. Your ability to control the un-controllable laughter amidst such a hilarious joke is certainly a quality that I would want to emulate.
I don’t expect to get a reply for this letter. Probably you would be too busy covering the tracks on 2G along with Kapil Sibal.
Wishing you a happy republic day when I expect to hear another version of the Presidential Speech of last year – equally lacking in lustre and equally boring as your Independence Day speeches.
A concerned Citizen of India.
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Open daily, from 10:30 am until midnight.
The Roadhouse Barbecue is a large, three story restaurant situated precisely on the corner of Rama IV Road and Surawong Road.
You can travel to this bar by taking the MRT to Silom MRT Station, or by taking the BTS To Sala Daeng BTS Station. From Sala Daeng BTS Station, stay on the Skywalk and follow the signs for the MRT, all the way to Rama IV Road. When the Skywalk comes to a “T” intersection, go left.
From Silom MRT Station, follow signs for the BTS, taking escalators up to the Skywalk, and proceed until you intersect with the main Skywalk that is directly above Silom Road, and running in the same direction as Silom Road. This will put you at the same “T” intersection, but coming in from the right branch of the “T”. Proceed straight ahead to the left branch of the “T”.
This was one the very first places in Bangkok to offer American craft beers.
This venue has a large kitchen staff and operation, offering the extensive menu that you can see behind Dana in the picture up above. I particularly enjoy their seafood chowder, and their beef brisket sandwich.
The road house has separate bars on both the first (ground) floor, and on the third floor, with the ground floor kitchen serving to all three floors. Clean, well-maintained toilets are located on the second floor, off an alcove to the left of the stairwell, as you come up from the ground floor.
The largest bar is on the ground floor, and they often have a duet – guitarist and vocalist – performing live in the evening.
The third floor is a full-on sports bar, with perhaps eight video screens, a full-sized pool table, shuffleboard table,and a foosball table.
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Scotch bonnet pepper sauce recipe – Learn how to make your very own homemade flaming hot pepper sauce that’s great for meat or a even side serving condiment.
This condiment is every heat seekers dream come true because the flavours from this scotch bonnet pepper sauce are bold and the level of heat is just mind blowing. The entire recipe is made from scratch, homemade using only fresh ingredients. pepper sauce would make a great dip or simply use on some poultry or seafood.
I love hot sauce, believe me I really do, it’s in my DNA so it’s about to go down. Prior to my blogging days I would venture off to the supermarket and pick up a bottle or two.
The first thing I would do is scan the back of the bottle for the list of ingredients. I knew exactly what I was looking for and that was the vinegar, I don’t like hot sauce that has that strong pungent vinegar taste.
Sometimes I would hate it when I saw a bottle of hot sauce, scoop it up, only to find one of the main ingredients was vinegar.
What is a scotch bonnet pepper?
In short, a scotch bonnet pepper sometimes known as Caribbean pepper is a variety of chilli pepper that is native to Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
The heat level is hotter than a jalapeno and the bonnet peppers vary in colour from orange, green, red to even bright yellow.
They are used in Caribbean dishes to form a part of a marinade or used as a condiment/dipping sauce. Many people often compare scotch bonnet peppers to the habanero peppers. Although they do bear a striking resemblance in respect to the thin waxy skin, the pungency varies depending on cultivation.
Where Can I buy scotch bonnet peppers?
The most obvious place to source them would be a market place that sells African/Latin/Caribbean food produce. I can purchase a large quantity for dirt cheap because I live in a neighbourhood with high African Caribbean demographics.
Most supermarkets in the UK such a Asda, Tesco, Co-op have now begun to stock scotch bonnet peppers. I find the supermarket to be more expensive with a small quantity sold per bag. If possible do try to get them from your local market place instead.
Adjusting the heat level – I used 8 whole scotch bonnets including the membrane to complete this recipe. That yields a very very hot, pungent sauce. If you don’t care for extreme heat then I suggest discarding the membrane/seeds and adjust the heat according to taste. Two scotch bonnets is mild, so the more you add the hotter the sauce so keep that in mind.
Handling the scotch bonnet – Needless to say it’s advised to wear gloves while handling the scotch bonnet peppers. In fear of rubbing your eyes while in direct contact with the pepper.
Pureeing the ingredients – I started the recipe by pureeing the each ingredient separately, use a little water to help the pureeing process along the way if required. Pureeing can be done in either a food processor or a blender, both work fine.
Cooking the pureed mix – You want to combine all of the ingredients in a skillet and simmer for about 20 minutes. This is to allow the flavours to come through and deepen, make sure you follow this step as it really makes a difference to the resulting flavour.
Preservation – since no vinegar is used to preserve the hot sauce I used lime juice instead. Lime juice behaves in a less acidic way to vinegar and this should help to keep the sauce for awhile.
Storage – Use mason jar and/bottle jars to house the sauce and keep chilled in the refrigerator at all times.
Can I use another pepper like habanero/jalapeno if I can’t find scotch bonnet?
Yes, of course. habanero peppers are probably the best replica in my opinion.
How long does the pepper sauce last when refrigerated?
Follow on by pureeing the carrots, bell peppers and scotch bonnet peppers.
Add the coconut sugar to the pureed vegetables and stir.
Add the pink salt and juice of a lime to the pureed vegetables, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
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The Musical Theatre Program is designed to train actors in a wide range of skills, techniques and experiences that provide a broad overview of theatrical performance, practice, history and literature. The overall arc of the program is to begin by establishing a foundation in the first year, moving into progressively more challenging work in years two and three, and finally exploring each student’s unique artistic voice in the final year. The end goal is to provide a high level of instruction and experiences that prepare students for further study at the college level or entrance into the profession.
Using improvisation as a basis for the fall semester, students will explore a connection to the self and their ensemble. They will begin with exercises and techniques developed by Viola Spolin to explore and heighten their connection to sensory life, environment and relationship in order to develop their creativity, imagination and understanding of human behavior. They also will develop skills related to scenic objectives, listening, impulse, problem solving, physical and verbal communication and given circumstances. Building on the work of the fall, students will begin to work with text (existing and self-generated) such as monologues and Story Theatre in the spring semester. They will be expected to take all the skills they have developed in the first half of the year and to apply them to the text. Performance Requirements: Freshman Preview (Fall), Musical Theatre Curtain Call (Spring).
This course introduces students to treble and bass clefs, rhythmic notation, simple meters, intervals, the construction of major and minor scales, key signatures, and triads. Aural recognition of these musical elements also will be a significant component of this course. Students further develop their music theory skills through application on the piano.
Dance II is a beginning-intermediate level jazz and classical ballet class with a higher emphasis on classical ballet. Class will consist of either jazz warm-up or classical ballet barre, strengthening exercises, across the floor exercises and musical theater inspired combinations. This class is designed to benefit dancers of various levels ranging from beginning to advance dance student and it builds upon the foundation and the vocabulary learned from the previous year. Emphasis will be on developing body alignment, clarity of movement, musicality, personal artistic growth, and performance.
An acting class that focuses on non-musical theatre repertoire for monologues and scenes, including analysis, objectives, tactics, given circumstances, and sense memory.
This class is a survey of Western musical theatrical history, drama and practices from late 19th century through modern day. Students will study the social, political, cultural and historical influences of each period to understand the context in which theatre was created. Likewise, they will explore the means by which theatre was produced and practiced including theatre companies, acting styles, design and architecture. They also will study the musical theatre literature of each period including a critical analysis of each text.
A continuation of the previous year’s study with an integration of techniques from tap, world dance, and hip hop dance.
Theatrical Stagecraft will provide students with an overview of the theatrical production process with an emphasis on exploring the various components and responsibilities associated with production, theatrical organizations and the fundamental skills required for serving on a stage crew (sets, lights, costumes, sound, props and make-up).
A continuation of the work begun in Theatrical Stagecraft, the emphasis of this course is on the various design elements of production (scenery, costumes, lighting, sound and props) and the process of creating a design based on a theatrical text.
Preparation for college auditions and/or entrance into the profession including an overview of the business of musical theatre performance and audition preparation.
Dance IV is a study in a hybrid of techniques including ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, and dance composition. The primary focus for this course is to increase strength, coordination, and technical proficiency by building upon what has been learned in previous years. College and professional audition prep is a high focus in the first semester. Students will be given tools to aid them in the creation of their Senior Project Musical through a unit on dance composition. Also students will obtain the basics of a tap and contemporary dance class. At the completion of this course students should, consequently, exhibit notable growth and change in their physical coordination, conditioning, movement articulation, alignment, dance terminology, self-confidence, musicality, and performance skills.
Further exploration of vocal music techniques including repertoire from contemporary popular music.
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Wales Millennium Centre is sending three young people from Cardiff to Cape Town as part of its creative learning programme, Tooling Up.
Tooling Up has been designed by the Centre to collaborate with the present community of Butetown and the historic Tiger Bay area as part of its next significant production, Tiger Bay the Musical.
The musical – produced in association with Cape Town Opera – is currently in rehearsal in the South African city ahead of preview performances later this month. Ismat, Idris and Ibrahim, from Butetown arrived on Tuesday 16 where they will spend a week with lighting, sound, costume and production teams to get hands on experience.
Created specifically for young people aged 16-25 from the local area to develop skills for a career working behind the scenes in the arts, the Tooling Up six-week programme will develop work-based skills, such as marketing and technical aspects of theatre production.
Sarah Roberts, Senior Creative Learning Producer at Wales Millennium Centre said: “At the Centre we are passionate about inspiring the future generation of talent, whether that is on the stage or behind the scenes. Tooling Up is part of a wider programme of activity to engage young people in the arts.
Tooling Up is just one aspect of the Centre’s creative learning programme. Already underway is Performance Platfform, weekly workshops for 10 to 14-year-olds led by industry professionals to build confidence, impart audition techniques and give the young people a chance to audition to be part of the homegrown production.
Tiger Bay the Musical, tells the tale of Cardiff Bay’s vibrant past in the early 1900s at the height of South Wales’s coal trade, in a story of courage, reconciliation and love. Set to a rousing score from award winning Welsh composer, Daf James, a cast of shop girls, sailors, donkeymen, suffragettes, immigrants and raggedy water boys will bring the atmosphere and sounds of old Tiger Bay to life.
For information on developments in Tiger Bay the Musical’s creative learning programme, visit tigerbaythemusial.com. The world premiere of Tiger Bay the Musical is on Wednesday 15 November 2017 at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Tickets on sale now.
“I only live a stone’s throw away from the Centre, and I’m very lucky for this opportunity to go out to South Africa. We don’t really get opportunities like this, they don’t come often. Wales Millennium Centre is a big creative umbrella with many career opportunities for us, and we are very creative people. | 254714412 |
Fiendster Jeffrey and I just did the “Jinx!” thing on Twitter, having both noticed that @thatpuzzleguy Tyler Hinman and @rexparker Michael Sharp both tweeted about Clarkson almost simultaneously. (Tyler meant Clarkson University, a hapless hockey rival of his alma mater, RPI; Michael was talking about singer Kelly Clarkson.) So imagine our surprise, mere minutes later, when we solve this puzzle and encounter 42d: [Clarkson College locale], OMAHA, and head to Twitter to mention 42-Down (@XwordJeffrey got there first). Then Jeffrey notes that the Wordplay blog quotes BBC star Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear. Patricia Clarkson, honey, your publicist needs to be doing more for you.
Anyway! Fun puzzle. This 72-worder brings the goodies: OLD GEEZER has not been RARIN’ TO GO so much since CHILDHOOD. DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH! Watch out for POISON OAK while riding your TRAIL BIKE. The Stones’ BROWN SUGAR, LONG ISLAND, Scrabbly ZOOPLANKTON, consonant-pileup FDR MEMORIAL, Scrabbly KAZOO, POP CULTURE, and a PAPER TIGER round out the juicier long fill.
1a. [White-whiskered sort], OLD GEEZER. I thought of walruses and whatnot before I thought of look-alike Wilford Brimley.
10a. [Symbol of Einstein’s gravitational constant], KAPPA.
21a. [What head shots are used in], SOCCER. Not photography head shots.
23a. [Eddie’s partner in musical comedy], FLO. Wha…?
46a. [Fox on Fox], MULDER. On The X-Files, back in the day.
53a. [Toxicodendron diversilobum], POISON OAK. I can’t be the only one who leapt at POISON IVY and felt clever, right?
1d. [400-pound calf, perhaps], ORCA. Orca awards!
4d. [Drug czar Kerlikowske], GIL.
11d. [“I’ll Be Around” songwriter Wilder], ALEC. Who?
34d. [Sno-___ (winter blower brand)], THRO. Never heard of it, but it makes sense.
40d. [One of nine numbers on a card], PAR. Golf scorecard, not playing cards.
48d. [“Cannery Row” brothel owner], DORA. So that’s where Dora the Explorer got her name.
31a: [One working with magnetite], IRON MINER, is kinda dull. But then it’s right next to 33a: [Minor, legally], PETIT, and I like the MINER/minor echo.
40a. [They often have good rhythm], POEMS. Yes, it’s true. Poems can dance. Except haiku. All they can do, really, is sway dumbly to some blues or reggae.
9d. [Bygone means of corporal punishment], KAZOO. That would be a great clue/answer pairing, right? Alas, that clue goes with ROD, and KAZOO’s clue is 10d: [Buzz generator].
Four stars. The fill is quite good, isn’t it?
One aspect of crossword writing that Patrick especially excels at is finding a new angle to a familiar idea. The familiar idea here is using diagonals to conceal entries; the new angle, which is both elegant and subtle, is to have the X’s in the grid serve as diagonally-oriented hyphens in the hidden entries.
In Patrick’s execution there are three X’s in the grid and four concealed entries, one forming the NW-SE axis and the other three crossing it pointing northeast. The long diagonal spells out TOPXOFXTHEXLINE, while the three crossers spell REDXHOT, KILLERXDILLER and FIVEXSTAR. Each is clued parenthetically on the same square where another clue just happens to begin, so FIVE-STAR is clued at 72-across, which is FARE, as [Travel expense: (NE: Exceptional, say)]. Those three X’s (the only ones in the grid, of course) multitask nicely as hyphens oriented along those diagonals.
This is an extremely impressive construction. The concept of using the X’s this way is novel (to my knowledge), logical and clever. The execution of the concept must have taken a long time to get right: he’d have to decide how many X’s to include; then how and where they should be logically placed; and, after he’d decided on three X’s and four words and the pattern of one long entry crossed by three shorter ones, he’d have to choose the hyphenated words and fill the grid. Diagonal grids are notoriously difficult to fill, and one with this many diagonal words must have been challenging (84 words in this grid). But the fill was kept reasonable (and even above-average in the SW corner) which is all that’s required when the bar is set this high.
Another subtle but important decision Patrick had to make was how to hint at the presence of the diagonal entries. Starting them on the same square where another clue starts, and giving their definition and direction, was the right amount of nudge. And when the four hidden entries emerged from the grid it all seemed so obvious (but only in retrospect).
One of my favorite puzzles of the year so far. Great concept and great execution don’t always inhabit the same crossword but here they did. 4.80 stars. Bravo.
Hi all! On this week’s WEBISODE of Andy blogs the Saturday LAT: UNBALANCED, DIABOLICAL LESBIANS take an ICE AXE to the OPERA BOX! ALL IN ALL? I DON’T REALLY CARE. Next, on NET TV!
19a, BEE-EATER [Bird that dines on stingers]. Just the thought of anything eating bees makes me gag a little. In case you were curious, bee-eaters smack insects that have poisonous stings on a branch, then they close their eyes and rub the insect to discharge the venom. The birds don’t actually eat the stingers of the insects, but insofar as insects that sting can be called “stingers,” the clue is accurate.
27d, GANGSTA RAP [“Straight Outta Compton” genre]. N.W.A. has a lot of things to say about the police, not many of which I can reproduce here.
Straight outta Compton… and straight into my heart.
39a, LONGEST DAY [1959 Cornelius Ryan best-seller about the Normandy invasion, with “The”]. Never read it or seen the movie, but with a cast that includes Sean Connery and Gert Fröbe, I’m just going to assume it’s Goldfinger: Normandy Edition.
42d, SKI BIB [Apparel for the slopes].
For when you eat ski lobster. HA HA HA (I’ll leave it to you to determine whether our fearless constructor meant for the clue [Hysterical] to be taken sarcastically or not).
1a, WEBISODE [Installment in a modern series]. I have a strong aversion to the word “webinar,” but strangely I don’t find WEBISODE nearly as irksome. They’re both fairly pointless portmanteaux.
37a, I DON’T REALLY CARE [“Whatever”].
Also the title of a track by the ever-delightful Waka Flocka Flame.
Guy Lombardo clearly doesn’t care.
62a, LESBIANS [Many characters on “The L Word”]. Spoilers await anyone who clicks on the following link, showing the intricate web of relationships formed during the show’s run.
10d, I CAN’T SAY [“It’s hard to tell”]. It’s especially hard to tell when you’ve got laryngitis.
I really, truly enjoyed this puzzle. The 8×4 stacks are both pretty (the acrosses more than make up for the iffy EXTRO-, ALTA., and LCDS). I found the cross-referenced TEE SHIRT and V-NECK satisfying when I figured them out. And the grid is just so sparkly: WEBISODE, CIPHER OPERA BOX, ICE AXE, TARZAN, FUNGI, V-NECK; the consonant-heavy MS-DOS next to the rare triple-letter-in-a-row BEE-EATER; the conversation-unto-itself “I CAN’T SAY” / “I DON’T REALLY CARE” crossing; EPEE nearly on top of FOIL.
Gotta knock some stars off for the partials and abbreviations, so we’ll call this one 4.25 stars. Until next week!
Just six days until the ACPT and I clock in with a solving time of more than eight minutes–and it’s not even the Sunday Challenge! Maybe I’m just getting all the slowness out of my system now. Sure, I’ll go with that.
20-Across: [Chorizo, for one] is PORK SAUSAGE. Speaking of pork sausage, a few months ago I used this recipe for the “Bacon Explosion.” It’s well-named. And as soon as my cardiologist gives me the go-ahead, I’ll make it again. Estimated date: mid-2015.
35- and 45-Across: PASTA / SALAD is the [dish often topped with Italian dressing]. That’s a fun way to use an unpaired 10-letter theme entry! I love the creativity.
56-Across: PEPPER STEAK is the [Chinese beef dish] that I had a harder time sussing out. I guess I don’t think of pepper steak as a Chinese dish; maybe I’m influenced by the fact that the only Chinese food we ever get in crosswords is General TSO’s chicken.
11-Down: The [“Loaded” appetizer] is a POTATO SKIN. So yummy, yet so poisonous.
29-Down: A PIZZA SLICE is indeed a [Piece of a pie], though since I came to this corner fairly early on (before getting the theme) I kept wanting some answer that related to pie charts. Damn you, business meetings!
That’s a nice amount of theme density, yet the grid also offers some nice treats like ALCATRAZ (clued as [“The Rock”], though that made me want to try DWAYNE JOHNSON), OAK TREES, the [Acorn sources], BUZZ, PICKLE, and Trisha YEARWOOD. My hang-ups came in the northeast and southwest corners.The main mystery in the southwest was FICHU, the [Triangular kerchief] that, not surprisingly, is not a part of my wardrobe. I had YAPS instead of ARFS as the [Barks in comic strips] crossing there, so that didn’t help.
Up in the northeast, I had no clue for the answer to [Lascaux find]. That turned out to be CAVE ART (sure). I might have figured it out sooner had I tumbled to the answer to the crossing [Booth user, perhaps] (VOTER). When I saw “Booth” all I could think about was Seth MacFarlane’s joke about John Wilkes Booth at last weekend’s Oscars. Oh, and the crossing SERE was likewise a mystery for the longest time. Let’s hope this answer to [Dried and withered] won’t be on any of the puzzles in Brooklyn–I need a fighting chance!
Favorite entry = SWAP OUT, clued here as [Switch]. Favorite clue = [They may be drawn] for LOTS.
Is it just me or was this puzzle really tough? When all was said and done, I couldn’t declare anything unfair or out of bounds. Tough clues, is all.
5a. [”News” Store at many airports], CNBC. Why is the “S” in “Store” capitalized? What do they sell at CNBC stores?
20a. [Words spoken while shaking], UP AND AT ‘EM. While shaking someone awake?
22a. [Category between subfamily and genus], TRIBE. News to me.
28a. [Olmos role of ’88], MATH TEACHER. Figured we needed the character’s name. Wasn’t it Jaime something? Yes, Escalante.
35a. [Entry on J’s family tree], IOTA. I don’t understand this at all. The letter J, related to the Greek letter iota?
42a. [TR trademark], PINCE-NEZ. I could only think of Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘stache. Slightly misleading to have the initials when the answer is not abbreviated in any way, no?
46a. [”Guerrilla Prince” subject], FIDEL CASTRO. Makes sense.
62a. [Billy, in Bologna], ELMO. Huh. Short for Guglielmo.
5d. [”On the Balcony of the __ Rosada” (”Evita” tune)], CASA. Musical theater is not my bag.
12d. [Rookie firefighter], PROBIE. In a probationary period.
13d. [Verbal insensitivity], TIN EAR. The “verbal” part of the clue had me thinking of words, not music. But you can be non-literally tone-deaf and manifest it by saying/writing insensitive things.
41d. [Sister brand of FRAM], PRESTONE. Here’s Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong duetting on “The Frim Fram Sauce” in 1946. I know it from this CD, Ella & Friends.
40d. Drummer or pitcher], SALESMAN. Drum up sales with a good sales pitch.
The fill: I’LL PASS, MATH TEACHER, FIDEL CASTRO, PINCE-NEZ, DEAN’S LIST yes, IRS AUDIT no.
Four stars from me for this beat-down.
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Yeah, good fill but lacked a fun, or any other, factor for me.
I’m mystified by “one of nine numbers on a card” for PAR. This is not a clue a golfer would have written or approved. Most courses are 18 not 9 holes; but beyond that almost every card lists the total par for each nine and (if 18 holes) for the course; so an 18 hole course will have 21 par numbers and a 9 hole course will have 10 par numbers. And let’s not even bring up the fact that many cards also list ladies’ pars which can be different than men’s pars.
Bottom line: I have never seen a card with 9 par numbers. I have seen cards for 9-hole courses with 10 and 20 par numbers.
Andy, is that G Lombardo image going to be a regular thing?
Don’t make me get all Lawrence Welky on you.
Loved the Silk for all the points mentioned earlier, but did love the two technical clues from different branches of science (KAPPA, POISONIVY/OAK). Sat with IVY for two long until IKEA popped up. 5 stars!
Did not expect to see another stunner this day until I visit the PB site – that was a masterpiece only because I first saw only the long diagonal and was disappointed that there wasn’t more. Of course, I went back to the other parenthetical clues and found the rest of the diags! Holy smokes – a tour de force. 5.5 stars!
So an ICEAXE is used to make a crack big enough to get one’s fingers into.
And ADEPT as a noun is an expert.
Just as a quibble, for “purchase” I’d venture it doesn’t require getting a part of a human body on or in it. The ice ax itself, or an inserted piton, is enough. More expansively, I feel “purchase” can be more or less synonymous with “traction,” so a car might struggle to get purchase on a gravelly road.
In any context, the root meaning of “acquire” or “obtain” is still discernible.
Thanks for the rave reviews on my latest website puz, Matt and AV! So glad you liked it. It started as a possible ACPT submission, but I did something with directional words last year so I held onto it. I went through a couple of titles: “Hyphen Nation” and “Unlevel Best” were my two favorites, and I debated whether to add circles or shading and opted against it. More and more I’ve come to suspect that the greatest enjoyment for solvers is the surprise that comes from an unassuming puzzle, one that doesn’t show its hand too soon.
Major DNF on the stumper, especially on the, um, northern hemisphere.
Kudos to Patrick B. for giving us this paragon of puzzle prestidigitation, which I did manage to finish.
NYT was brilliant was red herrings, most of which I fell for. I started with OLD CODGER (instead of OLD GEEZER). Then figured that PTS would matter in the NFL (instead of NBA), which led me to believe that TRAIL FORK (instead of TRAIL BIKE) was the off road option. I also thought that HARPO not ZEPPO was the famous brother, SNO-THRU (not THRO) was the snowblower, and that the buzz generator was a RAZOR instead of KAZOO.
I love being led astray. Tough but fair puzzle. | 171634899 |
Long strip with 60pins or more, but just trimmed to size.
Just kidding. Just thought the post was funny. I thought perhaps the Omega2 would be breadboard compatible.
No-header Omega Onion as an option?
@Lazar-Demin I've performed the surgery twice and getting proficient at it. Thought I'd ask. | 30407373 |
Speeds of 30 Mbit/s or more are now available to 83% of Scottish properties, up from 73% in 2015. This is the greatest increase in superfast coverage of all the UK’s nations.
Many consumers in Scotland remain unable to access broadband with decent speeds.
Around 192,000 homes and offices in Scotland – or 7% of premises – remain unable to sign up for broadband speeds over 10 Mbit/s, the speeds required to meet a typical household’s digital needs. This is often because they are situated a long way from the local street cabinet or telephone exchange. This is down from 354,000, or 14%, last year.
To help close this speed gap, Ofcom has today set out its technical advice to the UK Government on implementing its plans, announced in 2015, for universal broadband.
So we have begun discussions (PDF, 41.9 KB) with mobile operators to look at radical and ambitious solutions to deliver universal mobile coverage, to keep pace with consumers’ needs.
The average download speed of a broadband service in Scotland increased from 27 Mbit/s to 35 Mbit/s. This reflects not only better coverage, but also people choosing to pay for faster broadband packages.
However, take up of superfast broadband remains relatively low despite the increase in availability. 27% of homes and offices in Scotland have an active superfast broadband connection compared to 83% availability.
The increase in the availability of superfast broadband has been driven by BT upgrading its network; Virgin Media converting more homes to faster packages; the UK Government’s on-going Broadband Delivery UK programme and the Scottish Government’s Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme.
Superfast services are now available to 73% of small and medium sized enterprises in Scotland – a considerable increase from 55% in 2015.
Mobile coverage has also improved in the last year. Mobile voice services from all four operators can be accessed in 84% of Scottish premises while 75% now have access to mobile data services.
However, it can be difficult to access mobile voice services in many areas of Scotland. Scottish consumers are unable to access mobile voice services from all four operators in approximately two thirds of Scotland's landmass (geographic voice coverage from all four operators increased to 36% from 29% in 2015). This should increase further following an agreement between the Government and all major operators to achieve better geographic coverage of voice services across the UK by the end of 2017.
4G rollout in Scotland has so far focused on urban areas. Geographic coverage of 4G networks from all four operators has increased to 12%, from 2% in 2015, but Scotland still lags behind the rest of the UK (40% in 2016). Ofcom rules mean that O2 must deliver a mobile data service to 98% of UK premises, and at least 95% in each of the nations, by the end of next year.
Mobile phone users increasingly need coverage everywhere, so Ofcom is examining how regulation can help make that happen, and has called on network operators (PDF, 41.9 KB) to go beyond current targets by exploring options for reaching areas without premises – such as transport lines and remote locations. | 86705978 |
The Ravenna Area Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for its annual Raven Awards.
Nomination forms are available on the chamber website, www.ravennaareachamber.com or by contacting the chamber office at 330-296-3886. Nominations can be submitted by any individual, group or business residing, working, or doing business in the Ravenna community.
The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. on March 15. The selected recipients and their nominators will be honored at the chamber's annual Ravens Award dinner on April 25, at the Elks Club in Ravenna.
Lifetime Achievement -- An individual who is generally recognized as having made a significant contribution to the prosperity and the quality of life of the Ravenna area community over a period of several years.
Volunteer of the Year -- An individual or group who goes above and beyond, exemplifying the true potential of how volunteers make a difference in the Ravenna area community.
Citizen of the Year -- An individual, who in the spirit of community service, demonstrates exceptional leadership and initiative in their efforts to support the betterment of the Ravenna area community.
New Construction -- Recognition for new construction of a building or public structure in the Ravenna area completed in 2012.
New Renovation -- Recognition for interior or exterior renovation of a building or public structure in the Ravenna area, completed in 2012. | 215647841 |
Quail cottage has a large kitchen with breakfast bar, rangemaster oven, fridge and freezer, microwave, dishwasher and washer/dryer.
The lounge has tv. video and DVD player, and a sofa bed for the occasional visitor. The main bedroom as a king size bed, walk-in wardrobe and en-suite bathroom with separate shower and bidet. The second bedroom has twin beds and double wardrobes and dressing table. There is a separate shower room with toilet and basin and also a further toilet and washbasin at the end of the hallway. The conservatory has a dining table and a seating area, the french window leads out to the private patio and garden area. Full central heating, Free WiFi, pets are allowed, we have a small dog walk near the property. | 218056356 |
Happy Dance! We've passed 50% funding milestone!
Funding pledges are now just over the halfway point! Kickstarter statistics show that only 3% of projects fail to reach their goal once they pass 50%, so this was a thrilling milestone for The Recollection of Trees project!
I sent out over 30 more press releases yesterday, so here's hoping more news outlets pick up the story. I am still so grateful to the City Pulse for the kind mention in this week's edition.
I'm working on another 'backers only' surprise as a thank you for your support and help in getting the word out. Stay tuned...and thank you for continuing to share, like, retweet, and forward!
Aimee Stout and Patricia Sokolowski Dudley like this update. | 160986952 |
You must be over 21-years old, and hold a current, valid (non-temporary) driver’s license (no major moving violations, DUI convictions, or similar infractions) and present your license to RealCar when you receive your vehicle.
If you are under the age of 25, you may be required to demonstrate at least two years of current, U.S.-licensed driving history.
If you hold a foreign licence, you must be at least 25 years old, and will be required to show your passport and a photograph of your license.
All renters must be physically present at the time of the rental. Unfortunately, RealCar does not allow 3rd parties to pick up vehicles, and our employees must physically hand the keys to the car’s driver.
What information is required of renters?
Payment card information : The renter must also provide their payment card information.
Driver’s license information : Every renter must submit his or her driver’s license number, in addition to the name and address on their driver’s license.
Identity verification questions : RealCar asks domestic applicants to provide the last four digits of their Social Security number, and may also ask them a few straightforward questions which they should be able to answer readily without reference to documentation to confirm their identity.
International Drivers:Non-US drivers are required to provide additional information, valid passport, and driver’s license from their home country.
Are my passengers allowed to drive? How do I add a driver?
Additional drivers may be added at no additional charge by selecting “+additional driver” in “my profile” under the “my account” menu of the RealCar website. Each additional driver must submit a valid driver’s license and will be subject to the same age, licensing and driving-record restrictions as the primary renter.
May I add a driver once the trip has already started?
Yes, you may. After signing in to “my account”, select “+ additional driver” in “my profile” on the RealCar website.
May I have car Delivered / Pick-up?
You may choose to pick up / return your vehicle directly to your home, office, hotel, airport, or other location at no additional cost. Please note: All pickup & delivery arrangements must be confirmed at least 24 hours in advance in order to guarantee on-time service. Any changes to pickup or delivery times/locations with less than 24 hours notice may incur an additional transportation fee.
What times can i get car delivered?
Our normal delivery hours are between 9am and 9pm. Any deliveries outside of those hours must be pre-arranged with us. We’ll do our best to work around your schedule.
Yes, you may, unless another renter has already booked the vehicle. If a trip is not extended and the vehicle is kept beyond the scheduled trip end time, you will be subject to significant late fees.
What are parking rules for street parked cars?
It is the renter’s responsibility to carefully check all signs on the street where the car is parked in order to ensure that the spot is valid for at least 12 hours. If the vehicle is towed and/or ticketed within 12 hours of the car being returned, the renter will be responsible for the towing fee, any applicable tickets that were received, and an administration fee of up to $25.
Do you have any cars that I may smoke in?
All of the cars in the RealCar fleet are strictly non-smoking.
Renters or their passengers are not permitted to smoke in any vehicle in the RealCar fleet. RealCar takes reports of smoking very seriously. If smoking is detected after a reservation has ended, the renter will face fines of up to $250. If the smell of smoke is detectable at the start of a reservation, please report it via email to [email protected] (with subject line “Smell of smoking Prior to Reservation”) at the very beginning of your reservation so that you are not held responsible for the fee.
We offer a 24-hour grace period to make changes to or cancel your reservation (unless the rental is within 7 days), after which time you will be charged a cancellation fee of 50% of the total rental cost, or $500 (whichever is greater). If you cancel or reschedule fewer than 7 days before your rental begins, you will be charged a cancellation fee of 100% of the total rental cost.
Do I receive a refund if I end a reservation early?
Unfortunately not. You will be charged for the full cost of the reservation regardless of when you return the car, so please plan your trip accordingly. If you do wish to return a vehicle early, please confirm it with us at your earliest convenience.
What uses of a RealCar vehicle are prohibited?
Can I drive out of the country?
RealCar rentals are allowed to be taken throughout North America only. Please note: Renters must communicate their intent to take the rental into Canada and receive consent from RealCar before booking your trip.
The renter is responsible for all parking, traffic, speeding or other tickets or violations issued while the vehicle is being rented and must pay for any fees, penalties, towing charges, or impound costs. If you notify RealCar that you are going to take care of the ticket, you will not be charged any additional administration fees. If RealCar receives the ticket from a violation bureau, the credit card used for the reservation will be charged immediately for the amount of the ticket. You may be charged an additional fee.
Who is responsible for toll fees?
Renters are responsible for paying all toll fees incurred during their use of a rental. Failure to pay a toll properly will result in an administrative fee in addition to any charges associated with paying the toll fee. In the case that there is an all-electronic tollway with no way to pay manually, it is the responsibility of the renter to reimburse RealCar directly so the proper fee can be added to the rental charges. Failure to do so will result in an additional fee.
What is my daily/weekly/monthly mileage limit?
Daily and weekend rentals include 200 miles free per day, weekly rentals include 1,000 miles and monthly rentals include 3,000 miles free, unless stated otherwise. Each additional mile driven will be subject to a charge at the stated mileage rate.
I only want it for one day on the weekend. Can I do that?
Because of the huge demand we get for weekend rentals, RealCar isn’t able to guarantee one-day rentals on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays in advance.
If you definitely need that car for a single day special event over the weekend, the only way to guarantee availability is to book for an entire weekend (Friday-Sunday, 72 hours or more).
RealCar does offer “non-guaranteed” (i.e. stand-by) one-day rentals on weekends. Please give us a call on the morning of, and if the car you want is available, we’ll gladly rent it to you same-day for just that single day.
Yes. Unfortunately, flat tires are a fact of life in driving cars, and you, as a renter, are responsible for any flat tire that occurs during the reservation, as well as any related damage that may result from that flat tire.
The only exception to this policy is if it is professionally documented that the flat is the result of a tire that was either 1) defective, or 2) had been subject to excessive wear such that it was unsafe to be driven as of the start of the reservation.
In the event of a flat, the renter should use the spare tire, and then coordinate with RealCar to determine how to resolve the issue. Repair may, in some instances, be appropriate; if the sidewall is damaged or a repair is not possible, the renter is responsible for replacement of that tire, but is not responsible for replacement of any of the non-damaged tires. The renter needs to receive approval from RealCar for a replacement tire, and must replace the tire with one of equal or greater quality.
Will the insurance or coverage I have through my credit card cover my RealCar rental?
American Express offers a program called “Premium Car Rental Protection.” This service is available directly from American Express and provides coverage for your GDC rental vehicle. This is option may be purchased in addition to your regular insurance policy, providing an extra layer of protection. Please carefully review the terms provided by the credit card, and ask them if you have any questions about the specifics of their coverage.
I returned the car, and RealCar didn’t mention that there was any problem, but now I’m being told that there was damage to the car. What should I do?
While you’re renting the car, you’re responsible for any damage that might occur. The best way to ensure you have no liability is to document the condition of the car at the beginning and end of the reservation with RealCar. You can do that with the rental checklist, and you may also email pictures of any damage to [email protected] at the start and end of the reservation.
You will be charged for your trip when the rental is booked. If you incur additional fees such as mileage overages, parking tickets, cleaning fees, etc. you will be charged after the trip ends. We will charge to the card on file, so please make sure that you have the proper funds available.
Yes, pets are allowed in our cars. However, please note that RealCar reserves the right to assess a service fee of $150 if the vehicle requires additional cleaning up after your pet.
Normal “wear and tear” that is part of the normal operation of a vehicle is an inherent part of renting out a car; the renter is not responsible for wear and tear resulting for normal usage of the car. Wear and tear may include engine wear, brake and suspension wear, weathering of the paint or minor scuffing of the interior surfaces, as well as small (less than 2 inches in length) nicks, scratches, abrasions or dents to the exterior (including wheels) normally associated with street parking, shopping cart bumps, and the like.
However, renters are fully responsible for, and RealCar does not provide any protection to renters for 1) any damage related to “misuse” or Prohibited Uses of the vehicle, 2) any damage to the interior of the car, or 3) any mechanical damage resulting from a renter’s improper driving (e.g., clutch damage from rough driving, suspension damage from running over speed bumps at high speed or into curbs, continuing to drive with warning indicator lights illuminated, etc). | 7439146 |
All must be English courses, six hours of which can be thesis hours.
Nine hours must be in Medieval and/or Renaissance literature.
Six hours must be in Medieval/Renaissance literature, Medieval/ Renaissance courses in other disciplines, or thesis hours.
Three hours must NOT be in Medieval or Renaissance.
Comprehensive Exam. As part of ENGL 6365: Capstone Research Paper of 25 pages utilizing research methodology in composition theory. Portfolio of self-selected assignments completed for MA courses. Comprehensive Exam, including Translation Component.
(2) Satisfactorily complete 24 hours of English, pass a comprehensive examination based upon the department’s Master’s Reading List, prepare a thesis for which 6 hours of credit are earned, and pass an oral examination over the subject matter of the thesis.
Visit the following links for more information about the M.A. English Comprehensive Exam: Policies and Procedures, Reading List, Sample Exams, Exam Dates, and Information Sessions.
In both plans, at least 15 of the student’s 30 hours must consist of 6000-level courses. All students pursuing the Master of Arts in English are required to pass.
The department strongly recommends that ENGL 6393 be taken at the earliest opportunity.
Upon acceptance into the graduate program, each student will be advised by a member of the department’s graduate faculty and will procure a Master’s Reading List from the departmental secretary. At or near the end of the candidate’s program, the Coordinator of Graduate Study and members of the graduate faculty will give the student a comprehensive, written examination. If the candidate’s performance is unsatisfactory, the student may be re-examined during one of the regularly scheduled comprehensive exam periods.
Should the student elect the thesis option, he or she will select a professor to direct the thesis. When the thesis is submitted, an oral examination will be given by a committee composed of the major professor, a member of the graduate faculty (to be appointed by the departmental chairperson), and a member of the graduate faculty from outside the Department of English. | 288181668 |
Most specifically, social change implies the involvement of a large number of individuals in group dealings and tasks which differ from the interactions and activities that their parents (or even they themselves) participated in earlier (Vago, 1992). The word 'society' may be used to describe a multifaceted network of relationship patterns wherein every member takes part to different extents. Social relationships and behaviors undergo simultaneous modification. People encounter novel scenarios that they must react to. Such scenarios reflect factors like the institution of novel methods, novel means of earning, home shifts, novel inventions, social standards and concepts (Mutekwe, 2012).
Technology, in its most rudimentary sense, may be likened to social change. Technology's sociological importance is: its value transcends the tool by a great degree. Groups' adopted technology forms set the base for their respective non-material cultures. Indeed, technology even affects how individuals think and connect with each other (Stromquist, 2005).
Berson and Whithworth (2003) state that technology and computers' effect (as an instructional subject as well as technique) on the field of social studies is huge. Technology-oriented learning can aid the development of pupils' problem resolution and decision-making abilities, communication skills and data processing abilities (Yigit, 2013).
Social and geographical movement, medicine, education and corporations are the main areas in which the computer's effect is most greatly felt (World Bank, 2009). Doctors use computer technology to probe the human body's internal unseen recesses for ascertaining the functioning of its many parts or for assessing whether or not an operation is required. Surgeons are able to operate on earlier-inaccessible brain regions and unborn babies (King, 1994). Microchips are a herald of ever bigger technological marvels in the future. In the academic arena, the computer persistently works wonders. Thus, nearly all-American schools have introduced the computer to pupils of all grades and taught them to type and use scientific and mathematical software applications. Quality academic programs utilize game-like teaching patterns for making pupils forget the fact that they are learning. The computer works to a profounder degree in organizations, transforming social relations (Mutekwe, 2012).
The social equilibrium theory addresses modifications transpiring in a particular segment of society, together with the adjustments required in diverse segments. The failure to ensure this may threaten social equilibrium and give rise to problems. Web users are also able to interact with other people from far-flung areas. This can generate strain disparities as the economically disadvantaged ignore particular sociological events and are geographically restricted when it comes to jobs, educational prospects, and healthcare opportunities on hand (Howard, Busch, & Sheets, 2010). | 14831329 |
calendar month, month - one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month"
KUWAIT, Sept 19 (KUNA) -- Interior Ministry's Undersecretary Lieut-General Mahmoud Al-Dosari announced Tuesday launch of the security plan to safeguard Husseiniyas during the Islamic calendar month of Muharram.
A representative from the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs has confirmed that the Moon Sighting Committee will meet tomorrow in order to make announcements regarding the start of the Islamic calendar month, Dhul Hijja.
Gergaoun, which is usually, celebrated on either the 13th, 14th or 15th of the Islamic calendar month of Ramadan, is a time when little ones dress in pretty traditional attire, knocking on doors and receive sweet treats from neighbours and friends such as chocolates, candies and crisps. | 315983560 |
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Ms. Petrona Davies, commended the trainees at the start of the training programme.
Deputy Chief Social Development Officer, Stacie Stoutt also added that the Government remains committed to improving the lives of residents and will ensure that their voices are heard.
The week-long workshop began on October 29 and is co-facilitated by OECS Social and Gender Analyst, Mrs. Amonia Paul-Rolle, who has 20 years of experience in social development work and CALC implementations in Dominica; and Social Worker, Ms. Angelle Smith, who was previously trained as a PPA trainer. | 17620296 |
We are doing a special and FREE working in progress performance for our latest project – ‘Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain’ at the Theatre Chipping Norton.
Come along and check out this bran new material from us!
After the success of Winston On the Run (★★★★★ WhatsOnStage) and Dr Brown Because (★★★★ The Times, The Sunday Times, TimeOut) Fol Espoir’s next endeavour will be a rib-tickling family show – Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain.
Inspired by the 1942 pamphlet given to American soldiers on their way to Blighty, the Instructions were a crash course on the quirks and customs of British life, featuring everything from cricket, warm beer and ha’pennies to Sunday afternoons in the country. With lashings of physical comedy the show will lovingly poke fun at British eccentricities and the doomed attempts of outsiders to understand them. | 306115750 |
I love children. I love my children. I love the many children I have taught, and my nieces and, in an abstract way, I love all the children I will never meet, and the children we all once were. They see the world through fresh eyes and as they grow they taste and smell and hear the world. Their senses are open, as are their hearts, at least for awhile. And so are their minds. At least for awhile.
I also love life. All the ridiculously perfect things about life, like the smell of fresh basil and a balsam fir tree, the way fresh polish looks on toes, long guitar riffs, the sticky air at the beach, standing next to greatness at the MOMA or touching lips with a loved one. And all the other things I can’t list here. And all the not perfect things – well, I don’t love them, but I love that I am alive to experience them and think about them and accept them or rail against them, as is my wont and my right.
I love that we are alive and have free will and can choose. I can choose to drink decaf in the morning. You can choose to give a tenth of your paycheck to Amnesty International. My son can choose to live in a tent. Your son can choose to shop at Wal-mart. Or not.
We can choose for whom we vote. We can choose not to vote. We can get drunk every day or we can lie down and choose never to make a choice again.
But what I do not get about the abortion debate is that it is always about life or choice. Why doesn’t anyone talk about the kids?
So here’s what I think. Children are invited into life by adults. Because of that, we have a responsibility to them. All of us have a responsibility to all children. Because all children are here at our invitation. Not a party crasher in the bunch. That’s the bottom line. And even IF every adult in the world signed off on free health care and food for all children living in poverty, we could not give them that one ineffable thing they deserve and only one person in the world can give them. To be wanted. We can’t get Congress to sign being wanted into law.
So, okay. Sure. A woman needs to have control over her body. Yeah, she needs to have control over her life. But why is that so important? Well one big reason is so that she is not forced to bring a child into the world that she’s not ready for. Or doesn’t want. Or can’t take care of.
90% of the time, when I hear the talk on the radio, or see the rants in the paper or online, it’s about precious life vs. a woman’s right to choose.
What is so precious about a life that no one wants to take responsibility for? If that life will not be treated as precious, who has the right to insist on it? The very fact that a single life is precious is why those laws are so stupidly blind. The ones that seek to take away a woman’s right to choose to raise a child as it deserves to be raised – or not have it at all.
Remember that George Carlin rant about how the pro-lifers (and I so strenuously object to their calling themselves that) are all about the rights of the fetus but when it’s an actual child, they throw up their hands and say, “Taking care of your unwanted baby is not my problem aka the government’s job.” I mean, George Carlin said it better, but you get the drift. The government can legislate you out of your right to choose to terminate a pregnancy but has no interest in helping you provide for the child once it’s born.
For years I had a sticker on my bumper that read: Pro-child/pro-choice: every child a wanted child. To me that sums it all up.
I know what people say and I am sure it would be true for me too, had my outcome been different. You love all the children you have, previously wanted or otherwise. But I don’t know what it’s like to live in a one room apartment, a single mom with a child I can’t feed, unemployable because I could not finish high school or maybe because I can’t find affordable child care. Does she love her child? Yes. But it is specious in the extreme to say that every woman who has had an abortion is missing something. She is simply carrying out her choice to wait. Until she finishes school. Until she has a job. Until she has a partner. Or whatever it is for her. And maybe her choice is simply not to bear children.
Maybe people who are pro-choice are wary of bringing the child into the conversation. Maybe they don’t want to remind everyone that there is a child at stake. Not just a fetus, but a future child who deserves to be wanted and have the basic rights to love, food and shelter, and also education, healthcare and the chance to get a job one day. But skirting the fact that choice is as much about life as it is about a woman’s body is just artificial. It is about the baby’s life and the mother’s life. And yeah, her body. But pregnancy only lasts 9 months – motherhood lasts a lifetime and no one should be forced to do that job against her will. It is the most important job there is, and a woman brave enough to admit she’s not ready to take it on is all right by me.
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An important practical benefit of using the K-Protector® Return Idler Guard is that its lightweight, making it easy enough to be handled by one person to install or remove for maintenance. | 270814736 |
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My wife got me a Kindle for Christmas. I love it. I can’t tell if it is because I love the technology or because I love reading – I think it is because this particular type of technology is invisible most of the time – I am just reconnecting with my love of reading.
Because I am a new owner of a Kindle, I found some Kindle blogs to follow – it is what I do!
Publishers are trying to get a disproportionate share of profits.
Instead of cutting prices for readers and encouraging reading they are setting unrealistic ebook prices.
They want to spend less on ebooks than they used to on books and still make more.
Instead of giving authors more of a share they want to have the same royalty rate.
Costs are lower and our role is diminished (and perhaps no longer necessary). So we guess we should get an even larger piece of the pie.
Your book was a huge hit. So we’ve bumped up your royalty from 15% to 25%.
Why then should authors let Publishers take an even larger piece of the pie?
As long as Publishers had the power they took the lion’s share of profits.
Now they don’t have the power and they will have to get used to not getting the lions’ share.
It seems it is already time to outline more specifically what Tim Sharp’s meeting with the publishers was all about!
As for me, I have a ton of publishable stuff that I (1) have procrastinated for years in placing with a publisher, and (2) am now afraid to do too much too soon, lest I get a totally raw deal on the royalty. Dan Gawthrop’s recent responses are from a person who was essentially self-publishing, with a distribution agreement with EC Schirmer. I myself began the process of a publishing house a few years back, with some of my own pieces matched with a good number of other well-performed composers. It was a massive undertaking, and I soon realized that the days when a single person (like Don Hinshaw, many years ago now) can barely expect to break in with the standard print-publish model.
So the new electronic model, it seems to me, will foster new companies. Some will likely morph from older, standard publishing houses; others will come up as purely e-commerce companies. Since every choral publishing house now works on the basis of PDFs, this is likely the basis for electronic choral commerce, in my humble opinion.
Well, Tim would know for sure, so you might ask him. Since I received word from Barbara Harlow of SBMP, it’s clearly not supposed to be a secret. I imagine we’ll hear soon, either from Tim or the individual publishers as the ideas they introduced at that meeting take flight….
I’d love to know what was discussed and what new ideas they have. I wonder if they could share this information with everyone or at the very least, with the composers they work with?
Does anyone know whcih publishers were present for this meeting?
I agree, Tim Sharp is a sharp guy!
RE your comments about choral publishers, did you know that many of them recently met with Tim Sharp to discuss a more progressive future? I got an email from my publisher about it after the event, and she sounded pretty excited.
I have high hopes, since Tim is a fabulous visionary … and the publishers I know have big hearts and sharp minds.
I like Tom’s idea! I’m already sick of the 10% deal.
Also, in my opinion, I think presently that our various traditional “name brand” choral publishers are WAY behind in looking into the future (even the very near future). I see none of them trying to reinvent themselves or their delivery systems (because, actually a publisher is just a delivery system) for the current and future environments.
Thanks again, Philip, for all these interesting blogs.
My take on the publishing issue is that publishers do have great value — without them, authors would have to go the self-publishing route, which would usually result in much reduced visibility and readership. So, publishers deserve a fair take, but so do authors.
As far as Kindle goes, I would propose something similar: The Kindle price should reflect the production cost (I can’t imagine it being anything but lower than print). And once the publisher’s Kindle costs have been met, they should split the remaining net proceeds 50/50 with the author. | 87111281 |
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