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BE the CHANGE SAMACITTA YOGA RETREAT with MONICA MARINI
Join us in Puglia for next retreat at the divine sanctuary that is La Rosa dei 4 Venti with asana teaching by Monica Marini of Yoga Morphic and bodywork with Katrina Johnston.
June 23 – 30, 2018 7 nights
6 days of Vinyasa Flow Yoga Immersion including Meditation & Pranayama with twice daily teaching - teaching influenced by the wisdom of Rod Stryker - with focus on strength, alignment, flexibility, balance, subtle body, energy, transition postures, ease, sustaining the posture….
- kriya's in the morning
- going from arms, torso, hips to legs
- doing sun salutes
- back bends
- and vinyasa krama...
- One full silence day beginning on waking until supper that evening (just a suggestion, not obligatory)
- With a half day trip to the nearby azure Adriatic beach and a typical Puglian town and beach meditation that evening before supper.
- 3 vegetarian meals daily, chef-cooked, farm-to-table meals, much grown in the venue's gardens and cooked with love.
Yoga Level: suitable for all levels
- Arrival: Saturday, 23 June, 2018 by 6pm
- Check in: after 6pm
- First class: Sunday, 24 June at 8am
- Last class: Friday, 29 June at 5pm
- Check out: by 10am
Saturday 23 JUNE, 6pm – Saturday 30 JUNE, 2018, 10AM
Retreat includes: 6 day's teaching with twice daily asana with Monica Marini and some meditation, 7 nights accommodation in either single or twin en-suite rooms, full board vegetarian/vegan food, indoor Yoga sessions in a beautiful yoga shala and outdoor meditation sessions in nature (if Monica/you so choose); one half day trip to the nearest beach for a swim in the ocean - and a quick visit to a typical Puglian town if you wish; use of the pool and exclusive use of all of the venue space and gardens.
Retreat does not include: airport transfers or bodywork or flights - NB we strongly suggest you take out travel insurance which covers for trip cancellation to avoid any disappointment with unforeseen circumstance or illness etc... Please see our retreat cancellation policy at the footer of the page on this website and note that in booking you are accepting our T & C's and cancellation policy automatically.
Private room single occupancy en suite £1475 pp - sale price now £1375
Twin share en suite £1075 pp - sale price now £975
Triple share room £875pp - sale price now £775
Full payment required on booking - we need all your travel plans and flights details by JUNE 19, i.e. 3 days before the start date of the retreat - booking is subject to availability, please enquire about availability by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
Bodywork/massage (extra/not included)
- An energising and deeply transformative Samacitta session to purify your system and enhance your energy levels - with Katrina Johnston www.samacitta.com
- Bodywork can be booked at La Rosa Dei 4 Venti upon arrival on 23 June. Price £75 for 60 minutes.
We will have an Opening Circle on the evening of 23 June to introduce ourselves and to answer any questions about house-keeping or excursion or about the schedule for the week. For anyone who arrives very late that evening and misses it - we will re-cap on the morning of 24 June.
Nearest airports are BRINDISI (closest) and BARI (a bit further away). EasyJet and RyanAir and British Airways fly from London (Gatwick and Stansted and Heathrow) to both BARI & BRINDISI. Please book early to avoid disappointment and to avoid flight prices going up and up. For a small cost the venue can arrange taxis to/from the airports on arrival day. After booking please email us your flight details and say whether you'd like a taxi arranged and we will inform the venue.
Monica is influenced by the teaching is Rod Stryker and believes yoga is a methodology for freeing life energy or prana so that we can live healthier and happier lives. Yoga is an internal practice that reveals something fresh and new about ourselves. More than to be watched or talked about, yoga is to be experienced thus allowing transformation to begin from within - and to begin to live from the inside out rather than from the outside in. On this retreat we will have twice daily asana practice with time for meditation either at the end of the morning or evening classes - 6 full days teaching - home-grown, hand-cooked and chef-prepared delicious alkaline vegetarian food for breakfast lunch and supper - luxurious accommodation with all bedrooms having own en-suite bathrooms - time for relaxing, swimming in the pool, for bodywork with Katrina - a half day to spend at the beach and enjoy the turquoise blue and crystal clear adriatic and to see a typical Puglian town - and time for gentle fun and for quiet reflection and walks in the 15 hectares of woodland at the venue in the famous Puglian Itria Valley.
The 6 day yoga teaching schedule for the retreat will encompass the following:
Day 1: AWARENESS - Becoming sensitised to our current state both physically and mentally to establish presence in our practice. Presence will be the holding principle throughout the week.
Pointers: Side bends, Mindfulness
Day 2: LETTING GO - We begin the process of letting go of ideas and notions that we hold about our practice and ourselves moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar. Letting go of resistance.
Pointers: Forward bends, Emptiness
Day 3: STABILITY - Having created internal mental and physical space we can now work at building stronger foundations for the new to emerge through an inner sense of stability and with right effort.
Pointers: Hips, Centering
Day 4: TRANSITIONING - From a place of stability it is easier to move fluidly and sustain the unknown with an open and clear heart. Strength sustains our efforts.
Pointers: Transitions, Moving from the core
Day 5: OPENING - Clarity is power. Not only welcoming but inviting change with the clarity of intention. Positively influencing the direction of our practice.
Pointers: Backbends, Expansion, Trust
Day 6: EMBRACING - Without expectations and sustained by clarity and strength, by presence and stability how do we own our 'new' state? Can we embrace it and also be prepared to let it go, allowing for the spiralling flow of life to continue?
Pointers: Twists and Inversions, Reset and move forward
About the Venue:
La Rosa dei 4 Venti is set in an elegantly restored 16th century masseria (namely a traditional farmhouse in this Puglia region). The family-run masseria is unique and comfortable and caters to specialist yoga holidays. The 15-hectare property is situated on a small hillock in the heart of the Itria Valley in the heel of Italy's boot (the nearest international airport is Brindisi). Staying true to the old Apulian style, many of the authentic features of the farm are still in place and provide an idyllic backdrop for the white-washed buildings which make up the accommodation. The retreat has both an indoor yoga shala and an outdoor yoga platform. Yoga classes take place twice daily and are suitable for all levels and abilities.
There is ample time to relax, enjoy the superb views, contemplate, swim, read, sleep or have bodywork sessions with Katrina in the treatment room.
Bodywork session timing can be arranged with Katrina at the start of the retreat.
Retreat Bedrooms
Each room is unique, full of character and comes with an en suite with shower, toilet and basin. Rooms are furnished to reflect the building and the area, creating a relaxed, calming and zen atmosphere.
The main house/masseria comfortably accommodates 10 people and close by there are another 5 rooms in the conical trulli houses. These small, white cone-shaped buildings are one of the most magical aspects of the Puglian landscape.
Freedom and simplicity are at the heart of this yoga venue. The surrounding landscape is scenic and rural and is dotted with olive trees and vineyards and divided by dry-stone walls. Between the green gardens, the swimming pool, wild forest and nearby fields and the tiny church, there is plenty of space in which to explore, to walk around & just be in, and in which to feel and be free.
Delicious Local Food
Staying true to the surroundings, traditional recipes of Puglia using local produce are offered as snacks during yoga breaks. Farm-to-table chef-cooked vegetarian meals are of an excellent standard, making full use of the local food and home-grown vegetable gardens. If you have any extra special dietary requirements or allergies, please let us know at the time of booking and we will do our best to accommodate them.


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It's Monday! What are you reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. Jen & Kellee from Teach Mentor Texts have adapted this to focus on Picture Books to Young Adult Books.
My reading continues to be influenced by the Nerdy Book Club nominations, as well as my search for more nonfiction picture books.
Here is what jumped out this week...
Giants Beware! by Rafael Rosado and Jorge Aguirre - Adventure, friendship, fun and some great lines and references.
Laundry Day by Maurie J. Manning - Part picture book and part graphic novel - the illustrations are lovely in this tale of a young shoe shine boy who goes in search of the person who lost a red scarf and discovers the diversity of his neighborhood.
Mal and Chad: Food Fight by Stephen McCranie - This has been on my list to read and glad to finally find it.
Holiday choices...
The Christmas Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood; Illustrated by Renata Liwska - Check out the book trailer. I love The Quiet Book and The Loud Book. This is a great addition to the collection.
A Christmas Tree for Pyn by Olivier Dunrea - I am a fan of Dunrea's books and I enjoyed this holiday story about a young girl who dreams and plans for a Christmas Tree.
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A great option to night time entertainment while visiting Anna Maria Island is the Players Theatre. The Manatee Performing Arts Center is another great choice for Anna Maria Visitors.
A pleasant 40 minute drive down Longboat Key from Anna Maria Island will bring you to the heart of Sarasota, where the Players Theatre resides at 838 North Tamiami Trail. They are celebrating their 83rd season with a truly phenomenal array of productions. Need more musicals? Visit the Manatee Performing Arts Center, or if you want a night of theatre that's closer to home, check out the Island Players.
Players Theatre of Sarasota 2013-2014 Performances
Steel Magnolias: September 18-29
Crazy For You: October 23- November 3
White Christmas: December 4-15
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: January 8-19
Sordid Lives: February 12-23
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: March 19-30
Urinetown: April 16-27
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From childhood playing with our first set of building blocks, we are taught to build from the bottom. We learn trial after trial that our tower will fall over if our foundation is not solid and the ground work is not set properly.
So why then, through life, must we relearn this lesson time and time again, just in different scenarios?
The latest lesson…Millennium Towers in San Francisco.
The Millennium Towers is located in Yerba Buena and considered the "symbol of wealth" by locals. Boasting the most expensive one bedroom condo in the city, this building is home to celebrities including Joe Montana and other high influential members of society.
Did I mention that since it's completion in 2008 the structure has sunk more than 16 inches and slopes almost 2 inches to the northeast?
16 inches, no big deal right? Well, let's consider it…exactly how tall is 16 inches?
That's equivalent to 2 average sized Chihuahuas stacked, the length of 1.5 footballs set end to end, and
Still think 16 inches is irrelevant?
Professor Greg Deierlein, director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. Multiple high believes it's "significant…and of concern." As of late, high rises in downtown San Francisco are being evaluated for safety standards and
Ok, it's sinking. Now what? Are measures being taken to correct the problem? Nope. Now the blame game starts.
The first finger pointing started as Millennium Tower is blaming the adjacent Transbay Transit Center claiming that "all buildings settle over time" according to a spokesman for developer Millennium Partners, and the tower has "settled more than originally anticipate because it was affected by subsequent construction by other."
The finger directed at Millennium Tower is blaming poor design, focusing on the "concrete slab foundation that doesn't reach bedrock" at a depth of 200 ft. A prepared statement by TJPA legislative affairs and community outreach manager, Scott Boule, says that the Millennium Tower
As a bystander, viewing the situation from afar, our opinion is neutral but condo owners are beginning to seek legal advice. The main complaint in the suit is as a result of "diminution in value" of all units in the Tower on 301 Mission St. Residents of the building were warned that the building was still sinking and cracks in the parking garage appeared.
This is a tough lesson and one that has not even begun to come to a conclusion. Stay tuned.


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Well, I would be lying if I said, "I really know what's going on at Wimbledon." Except for a few updates...okay, I'd still be lying.
There's something much larger going on right now and I can't be bothered with tennis, a sport I love so much.
Another sport, soccer, is having its World Cup right now. I began playing soccer as a child down here in the South when most people were clueless if you mentioned the sport of soccer and you dared calling it football. I was selected for the All-State team and went on to college to play and I should have looked at other colleges I didn't know were looking at me (long story). But, I never called soccer, football. There's good reason - to prevent confusion and also to avoid some angry fans of the other game I also like, from making ignorant comments about the one I was playing at the time.
I have played and still enjoy all the above, and although I'm not a regular at the waffle table, if you mention Belgian waffles, I may take a seat. More on this later.
No Americans, male or female, made it to the Round of 16 at Wimbledon in singles. They are either in the stands, back at home with their families or off somewhere with their coach planning for the next tournament. They were competing as U.S. individuals. It's not as if the Davis Cup or Fed Cup was being played, but it is a Grand Slam tournament and most of us Americans pull for or at least identify with our fellow citizen pro players when playing abroad.
The U.S. soccer team did make it to the Round of 16, as they have before in the World Cup, but were prevented from making it to the quarter-finals by Belgium (purported creators of the Belgian waffle) in extra-time (over-time) 2 to 1.
If you know or have played the game long enough and watched our play in the World Cup, you may have been dismayed by the formations we used, the lack of ball control and possession, and perhaps some of coach Klinsmann's decisions.
Nonetheless, we worked with what we had in our armory, the general had his plan and best of all, we saw more and more Americans get interested and excited about this sport than ever. We toughed it out. Ask our goalie, Tim Howard.
If you don't understand or even appreciate soccer, I get it. My only exposure to professional soccer as a kid was from watching German football on PBS and the good fortune of a YMCA coach from England who had Pele (world-renown Brazilian player) training films sponsored by Pepsi. My coach actually worked for Coca-Cola.
Knowing soccer comes from either playing it or having exposure to it on or at the field, growing up with it in your family or community, just like most other sports. It's difficult to understand or appreciate all that is taking place on the field without having this.
I don't wave a soccer banner, get fanatical about much of anything and take little offense to someone who bashes the sport. It's a game one does not have to learn, nor love - just like all the others.
We are a country of money and marketers and if there ever was a strong push to popularize soccer it in the United States is was when Pele joined the roster of the New York Cosmos in the original NASL (North American Soccer League) in 1975.
Unfortunately, along with Pele's retirement just a few years later, the massive amount of game coverage and attendance overall waned until the NASL folded in 1984.
Fortunately, during those days, soccer youth camps and leagues sprung up across the country and there began the throng of American players and fans we see today.
As with most sports, the more popular they are in the neighborhoods, schools and communities, the more likely we will later have generations of athletes in and followers of those sports. It just took about four or five generations for soccer to get where it is now.
So, if you don't understand soccer, it's okay. As an unaware spectator it can be quite grueling:
Give it a try. If you don't know the game, hang out with some friends that do, played or still play. If not, okay.
Soccer is not going to replace our football (I said it.), nor any of our other major sports. I don't even know what replace truly means in this case. It's irrelevant.
Our football is never going to go away. For many, even those not truly fans, you can feel football coming this time of year, particularly if you are a college fan, a high school student or parent of one. Football is huge, dynamic and a multi-billion dollar industry and more than anything else, it is an event.
Even though I enjoyed extremely my time hanging out at a pub watching, cheering/cringing and discussing the U.S. versus Belgium World Cup match yesterday with a bunch of fans, the quantity of which I have never noticed at a Gamecocks away football game, I can't wait for the the Gamecock's first-game kick-off.
Like the commercials says, just call soccer futbol for a while.
As for tennis, we have seen the decline of our U.S. players making it well into the late stages of major tournaments, but tennis is not going away either. Tennis is one of the most athletic sports played by so many for a lifetime. As long as families keep playing and those people, who take it up later in life, keep playing, we'll be okay.
Oh, yesterday, while watching the world cup match, someone recited a list of Belgian things (as the clock ticked and our odds of winning slipped away) he was going to avoid. I consider myself (not sure about anyone else) to be a fairly smart and worldly guy. I don't know if this guy once lived in Belgium or took a course on it. He rattled off about ten Belgian things and I could only come up with three: diamonds, beers and waffles.
Come to find out through Wikipedia (Not normally my sole source, but I'm gonna run with it.) that there is no waffle in Belgium known as a Belgian waffle, although the guy who introduced it to North America was from Brussels, Belgium, which does have claim to the home of Brussels sprouts. I don't know if Belgian sprouts would have made these miniature cabbages any more tasty (great when creatively prepared), but it sure does make those waffles more appealing or perhaps the waffles make Belgium more appealing, which it is not right now because they knocked us out the World Cup.
Life does go on.
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Sea kayaking Cornwall is located in the South West of England in Falmouth. There are many ways to get to us and this page will help you plan your visit.
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Once you get to Exeter take the A30 until the turn off for the A39. This will take you through Truro where you will then pick up signs for Falmouth. When you get to falmouth you will pass a large ASDA supermarket on your left. At the next roundabout with Cannons on it turn right. Go straight over the next roundabout and after a mile you will see a sign for Tregoniggie ind estate on your left. Turn here and we are down the hill on the left.
There is an excellent rail service that takes you within a mile of the office and to the town center. Falmouth is on a branch line from the main line. The main line runs from London to Penzance on the tip of the peninsula. You will need to get off at Truro and change to the branch line to falmouth.
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Every night there is a sleeper train from London Paddington to Truro. It departs at just after 23:30 but you can get on earlier. It is around £40 for a bed and you get woken up with coffee and breakfast. It is a great way to squeeze in a weekend away from the city without wasting time travelling.
Exeter airport is 2 hours away by car or rail and is a good option and has more flights.
Bristol has alot of cheap flights. You will need to get a bus from the airport to Bristol train station where you will be able to get a train to Falmouth with 2 changes and takes around 4 hours in total.
Heathrow is convenient as the Heathrow express takes you to Paddington where the direct train to Cornwall including the sleeper departs from. It is a 5 hour train journey from Paddington.
Gatwick has a rail link and so you can change at Reading to get onto the London to Cornwall line.
Stanstead is a bit of a hastle as you have to get the stanstead express to liverpool st then the tube to Paddington then the train. If there are cheap flights it still may be worth the extra journey.
There are many airlines that operate but here are a few and where they fly.
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If you dine out with friends, need a compatible roommate, want to stay current with neighborhood happenings, or care about historical street scenes, these four innovative apps will make life in The Big Apple—and in some cases, other cities, too—a whole lot easier and more enjoyable.
Split a restaurant check with friends in a single click
Instead of counting cash or stacking credit cards—much to your waiter's dismay, we're sure—to divide up the bill among your friends, use Cover, which lets you check in, pay the bill, and add the tip using ApplePay or your credit card.
It's also a quicker way to pay even if it's just you picking up the check. The app will even calculate the tip for you, based on what percentage you want to leave.
Ah, simplicity!
You do have to make sure the restaurant takes the payment method first—over 300 restaurants do—and let your server know that is how you'll be footing the bill.
The app is also available for use in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Find out what's happening in your very own neighborhood
The Blockfeed app lets you know what's happening, and when, in any of New York City's five boroughs.
In addition to notifying you about fun things to do, it also aggregates the most popular local news based on social media feeds, tracking your location and keeping you up to date on important neighborhood news via a local news stream.
BONUS: A Safety App That Lets Friends Digitally Walk you Home at Night
Hold up your phone to see what the view was like 100 years ago
OldNYC, a digital project that comes straight from the New York Public Library, lets you see what one of 35,000 buildings used to look like up to 100 years ago.
Many of the photographs were actually taken by one man, Percy Loomis Sperr, who spent decades photographing the city.
Using the app, just hold up the viewfinder, and you'll be directed to a photo from a database that contains buildings as they appeared back in the day. The database is also full of photos of important historical moments, like a shot of Union Square in 1885 during Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession.
Other cities have instated similar apps, like London's Streetmuseum app, and the website WhatWasThere.com, which gives you access to old photos from around the world.
Know what you're getting into with your new roommate
Roomi, an app that helps you find the perfect roommate before you co-sign that lease, aims to take the risky guesswork out of committing to a cohabitation.
The company aims to take the "fear of the unknown out of moving" and ensure that people feel more at-home wherever they live.
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The Cambridge Union Society debate on pornography is now available online. Our Senior Partner, Ann Olivarius, spoke in favour of the motion that "pornography is inherently oppressive." Other speakers on her side were Professor Rae Langton from the University of Cambridge and Teresa Baron, sociology student at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Opposing the motion were Jerry Barnett, from the Sex and Censorship campaign, and Cindy Gallop, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.
44% voted for the proposition, 33% opposed and 23% abstained.
The full debate is available below. Ann's talk starts at minute 1:02:05.


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Many a backyard has a simple treehouse built by some enterprising parent who wants to indulge their offsprings' deepest fantasies. Owning a treehouse may be a childhood aspiration, but many adults haven't lost their attraction for tree-based housing. In fact, as you will see, it seems that for many people that fascination has only grown with time. There are even some cultures where treehouse-living is the norm: both the adults and children of the Korowai people of Indonesia normally live in treehouses that can reach up to 35 feet above ground.
Beside, what is a penthouse apartment but a glorified treehouse? Some builders have decided to appeal to those who still long for the isolation, vertical dominance, and clubhouse exclusivity that treehouses embody. The treehouses on this list are not slapped up with leftover plywood, either. Oh no, not at all- these treehouses are mostly luxury dreamscapes. Their owners or renters would have to mow a lot of lawns or sell tankers full of lemonade from their lemonade stands to fund these dwellings in the sky. Some of these treehouses are not really treehouses at all by my standards. For me, a treehouse has to be in a tree somehow or otherwise supported by a tree, at least in part. Now the larger treehouses have to be bolstered by extra supports, certainly, for safety reasons if nothing else. In my book, though, a house on stilts next to some trees doesn't count. Here, then, are 15 extremely unique treehouses.
15 Enchanted Forest Treehouse, Canada
This three-level treehouse is not intended for private use but instead is on the grounds of The Enchanted Forest theme park in British Columbia. Every time my parents drove past The Enchanted Forest during a BC roadtrip, little did I know I was missing out on this kiddie fantasy. The structure is almost a parody of what a fantastic treehouse should be. No worries, though. Some of the architects later on this list seem to have been inspired by the same treehouse archetype buried in humankind's collective unconscious. Let the kids have the Enchanted Forest treehouse, I say, and move on down this list for more adult-oriented versions.
14 The Dragon Fly At The Treehotel, Sweden
Laplanders are known for their fondness for snow, reindeer and sled dogs, but someone in Lapland has also taken a liking to treehouses. The Treehotel/Brittas Pensionat in Sweden's Lapland region has several different treehouses for rent. The Dragon Fly is the priciest at 7500 SEK ($1,100 US) a night. It was built in 2010 by Sami Rintala of Rintala Eggertsson Architects. This structure can serve as a meeting space, since it has a conference room along with two bedrooms with either two double beds or four single beds. If this treehouse doesn't suit your fancy, you might try one of the Treehotel's other treehouses, one of which is a mirrored cube and another which is shaped like a UFO.
13 Tsala Treetop Lodge, South Africa
The rooms at Tsala Treetop Lodge sit high above Plettenberg Bay on the tip of South Africa. Along with two-bedroom villas, the lodge offers ten Treetop Suites. The suites are treehouses made of stone, wood and glass and include a sitting room with fireplace. Each suite has a private deck with an infinity pool. If you choose to venture to ground level, and you should, since breakfast is included, you can dine at the lodge's dining room, which has a dining deck from which to look down at the ground or up at the ancient growth forest. You can't get too high at Tsala!
12 The Too-High Tea House, Japan
Speaking of too high, Terunobu Fujimori started life as an architectural critic and historian. He was not a working architect. When he was in his forties, however, he was commissioned to build the Jinchokan Moriya Historical Museum. Now that he's started, he can't stop. He likes to combine modern sensibilities with whimsical touches inspired by Japanese folklore. Numbering among his buildings are some treehouses. His own treehouse in Nagano balances precariously 20 feet in the air on two tree-trunks. As usual, Fujimori treated some of the materials by hand, including the rolled copper roofs. He knows the treehouse is a little scary-looking, hence its name.
11 11. Trillium Treehouse, United States
Unlike some of the treehouses on this list, the treehouses at Treehouse Point don't have hot tubs or full kitchens for their renters, but the houses are gorgeous. The managers aren't too keen about flashing around their rates, but a few online reviewers have hinted at prices at or over $250 a night. Trillium, for example, is two stories high and pressed tight against a tree as though sprouting from it. Windows all around the house permit glorious views. Pre-adolescent children and pets are not allowed, so this is a strictly an adult-only zone. Trillium and its sister cedar treehouses are located near Issaquah near Seattle.
10 Geodesic Treehouse, United States
Dustin Feider's O2 Treehouse is an architectural firm that builds treehouses. The wooden Geodesic Treehouse in southern California is inspired by Buckminster Fuller, that madman-genius for whom Buckyballs and Fullerenes are named. The luxury of this treehouse lies not in its amenities but in the actual presence of this wonder on one's property. This treehouse starts on the ground at the base of an elm tree and then expands up and around the tree. Like many of the treehouse builders on this list, Feider strives for sustainable development in his work, so he tends to use recycled materials for his projects. If you want one in your backyard, you won't need your dad's help: O2 will slap one up for you.
9 Takashi Kobayashi Treehouse, Japan
Takashi Kobayashi has a grand plan for the world: to build a community of Tree House People who exist side-by-side with living trees. According to his English-language website, Japan is "a Nation of Trees." Accordingly, this company's goal is to promote architecture that enriches Japan and indeed the world both ecologically and aesthetically. The work of his Treehouse Creations often rise up from festival grounds or for the benefit of non-profit organizations. Many a Japanese kindergarten has a Kobayashi treehouse to play on. The pictured tree house is in Nasu. Like O2's geodesic treehouse, the luxury of this treehouse lies in its intrinsic beauty.
8 Treehouse Djuren, Germany
Some treehouse fantasists probably don't want to risk their hearts being broken by a creaky, slanty treehouse made out of the leftover wood in your uncle's garage. For those finicky people Baumraum comes to the rescue. This firm provides architecturally designed treehouses. The Djuren in Groß Ippener is designed for a family that wanted to hang out way up in a treehouse. Like a proper treehouse, the tree does some of the supporting, though metal struts also help. This oblong treehouse has two terraces along with the treehouse proper. The terraces and the lower half of the treehouse are made of local oakwood, while the treehouse's body has a zinc-skinned roof and acrylic glass sides. The inside sitting area is covered with grey wood felt. Compare that to what a typical kiddy treehouse has for sitting: a dog's drying towel and the old linoleum ripped out ten years ago from your basement.
7 HemLoft, Canada
When a software engineer precipitously retires at age 26 and gets the urge to expand his horizons, what happens? Hemloft in Whistler, British Columbia happens. Joel Allen sharpened his newborn carpentry skills on this self-funded, homemade wooden egg in a tree. His financial ups and downs included him living in his car (down) and finding ash hardwood for the interior for free on Craigslist (up). Completed in 2011, Hemloft seems to hang off the side of a sloped ridge in a hemlock forest on government land. A little footbridge connects the lip of the ridge to the suspended treehouse. Allen and his girlfriend even lived in it for a while.
6 Melody The Free Spirit Sphere, Canada
Some fearless travellers may want their outdoor experiences to combine the comfort of cabin life with the rotundity of a volleyball. For them is Tom Chudleigh's Free Spirit Spheres, which rents tree orbs on the east coast of Vancouver Island. The priciest of Free Spirit's three models is Melody, available for $314 a night. According to Free Spirit Spheres, Melody contains a Murphy bed for two that can be folded up so that the rest of the day can be spent working. (Really?) Melody is constructed of a fibreglass exterior with a wood frame interior. And yes, the floor is flat, so you can stand up no problem and, I guess, work.
5 Redwoods Treehouse Restaurant, New Zealand
Built in 2008 as part of a marketing campaign for Yellow Pages, this restaurant sits 10 metres off the ground in a forest near Auckland. Available for private functions for $3,000, it seats 30 people or stands 50 people for more informal gatherings. The slatted building is 10 metres wide and 12 metres high and is made out of poplar and ash. It is designed to look like something that might hang from a tree, such as a cocoon or seed pod. The treehouse does not have kitchen facilities, so all food must be catered. The treehouse is featured in the MTV series The Shannara Chronicles, though not as a restaurant--it is the exterior of Eretria's treehouse.
4 Lantern House, United States
Roderick Romero is the treehouse designer for the stars. He has built structures for Sting, Val Kilmer, Donna Karan, Ozzy Osbourne and Julianne Moore. A Romero treehouse can cost $75,000 to $275,000. Considering his clientele, Romero often fixes up his treehouses with running water and electricity for the treehouser who chooses not to equate sleeping in a tree with back-to-basics living. His Lantern House in Santa Monica, California, is relatively modest amenity-wise, but it is beautiful. Made almost entirely of recycled wood, it is wedged between three eucalyptus trees and is fitted with stained-glass windows salvaged from a movie set.
3 Casa Paraiso, Costa Rica
The Finca Bellavista Treehouse Community in Costa Rica contains several treehouses for vacationers. The fanciest is the Casa Paraiso, which rents for $250 per night per double occupancy. With room for six, it has two bathrooms and two bedrooms. In this ecologically conscious complex, the kitchen appliances are powered by the sun. Take the stairs up nine metres to one of the Casa Paraiso's two balconies and gaze up and down at the rainforest, or walk along one of the suspension bridges that link the treehouses. The complex has hiking and ziplines for those who tire of relaxing among the leafy canopies in this tropical paradise.
2 Chateaux Dans les Arbres, France
This set of castle-like treehouses is available for those seeking unusual accommodations in Bergerac, a city in the Aquitaine region of France. The ritziest of their treehouses is the Cabane de Puybéton. It accommodates two people, which sounds small, but it has a full bath including a shower and clawfoot tub, a king-sized bed on gorgeous wood floors, and an outdoor hot-tub on the generous deck, all for 300 euros a night during peak season. If for some unfathomable reason your arboreal chateau begins to bore you during your stay, you can swim in the site's infinity pool or get a massage. Tarzan never had it so good in his shack in the sky.
1 4Treehouse, Canada
Designer and architect Lukasz Kos of Four O Nine used four trees to support this treehouse at Lake Muskoka in Ontario. Built in 2004, this private home has three levels and has room to sleep four people. The goal was to make the home be part of the landscape with minimal damage to the local ecology. The two-tonne structure is anchored to the trees with only one puncture in each truck. The house is not so much on the trees but rather hangs between the trees. The beauty of its horizontal and vertical lines is magnificently emphasized when it is illuminated at night.
Sources: architectuul, dailymail, dwell, inhabitat, mnn


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Is Architecture the ultimate ideological anesthetic, or can it be?
How can a profession whose education and practice - based on selling projects through visual manipulation and redundant, subjective, apolitical rhetoric - maintain a critical stance when the condition in the real world are completely fueled by politics?
"Please, feel free to share and discuss your own views about this issue "
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Why do you think a "critical stance" is a priori a good thing? That's a very loaded, doctrinaire, and highly problematic political position all on its own.
the condition in the real world is fueled by money not politics...Just so happens that politics is also fueled by money.
So if you want to control either you must control the money.
what jl said.
also, i don't where the hell you're practicing, but apolitical rhetoric not that common in nyc, especially in large projects. past a certain scale, politics and money permeate client-architect discussions at every single phase of a project; in this place.
jla, garnering money implicated you politically. money requires consensus (politics)...politics needs facility(money). so i would not put money ahead of politics especially where money is not a critical issue (those who have lots of it) . within the context of money (your clients' world views, the inculcated ethics of your business and culture, the nature of micro/macro government...), there will be a certain habitude; something expected from you to be palatable to your audience, be they edgy artsy metropolitan types, hail from a nobility, simple folk. so, quite bluntly, even a consensual apoliticism is political not because it is apolitical but because it is consensual - there is an audience paying heed and enforcing limits of comprehension
. ...of course, its not always that discrete- there might be always be some flower power in the 'redneck', some steel in the flowers, some flesh in the abstract, some heart in hitler...
as a comprehensive network of minds and variety of contexts (intellectual, societal, legal), the culture of architecture, rhetorically, accumulates different sensibilities - some very abstract and self-referential, some empirical and based on cause-effect , some political (realpolitik, humanist...etc) and indeed some that sound very lofty and existentially-centric (whatever). we are either assigned or we choose one of those sensibilities or, within the full scope of architecture, we cross the veils seperating these parallel rhetorical worlds depending on context and audience. in tandem (otherwise, little would be done), we employ an arsenal of associations (blank wall= defensive , glass= transparent, accessible, alum cladding = institutional (practical) , masonry/earth= homey, couryard= social...), whether conventionally or subversively, in tandem with the sensibilities. even architectural style itself is associatively cannibilized- gothic to imbue with sombre reverence or filmic horror or mock-horror; modernism equals idealism, dissociated intellectualism, luxury or dystopia (hello theperrenialwhole), and the avant garde of the day seems mostly to implythe implicit fatalism of the status quo, however it imagines it to be...until it is superceded by another and may breathe a richer air of interpretation and infuence.
however, behind these veils, and beyond particularities, Salome is bound by the mettle of the imagination that time and in that place; although she might be presented as a loyalist or a rebel, she will always be defined and will define the territory (contents and limits) of the imagiantion. i would therefore say that, fundamentally, architecture as a discipline is hyper-political and not merely political or apolitical. it is political whether it is deliberately political or intentionally apolitical.
tammuz - your posts are too long, and once one starts reading them it's the equivalent of a mental strip-tease - except you catch glimpses of a flabby middle-aged man underneath. I like my text completely opaque, like a burka.
i am not the topic here so stop barking my way. you needn't read my posts.
more pertinently, Bilal, are you egyptian? i was wondering about the spelling of your name...g instead of j. otherwise syrian/ lebanese? your question might gain richness by being contextualized. can one say that the reconstruction of either beirut's downtown or the rebuilding of the razed part of the southern suburb by hezbullah were not political? what about the parts of syria after the ongoing war depndig on the outcome? the construction industry in the era of mobarak? the impact of escalating (i use that word deliberately) religiosity on egyptian city planning (with saudi arabia as a precedent). these all are or would be examples of politics translated into architecture.
Critical stance - you read too much Tafuri. Furthermore, architecture is far too slow to have any real critical impact. In such a fast world, I often wonder if architecture is even relevant anymore. All we really need is a box to keep our heads dry as we navigate the world with the ever-increasing speed of communication. If you want to be critical, target the internet.
Money and politics are a condition of place [city-state] and infrastructure.
Come now, friends - let's not be unbalanced . . .
you forgot to crticize the first part of the question.
Who had an education that was about selling projects? or about visual manipulation?
'redundant, subjective, apolitical rhetoric' - sounds like youre looking for a choir to preach to - plenty of that to be found here.
Why not actually go read some Tafuri (doesnt actually sound like you have) - it might provide some helpful reflection.
"How can a profession whose education and practice - based on selling projects through visual manipulation and redundant, subjective, apolitical rhetoric - maintain a critical stance when the condition in the real world are completely fueled by politics? "
That's because architecture and architectural education is based on a worldview of ideals. Not that ideals are bad, they give us something to shoot for, an end goal to shoot for.
But in political science (and in economics and philosophy), there are 2 types of arguments - The Normative (i.e. what things OUGHT TO BE) and The Positive (i.e. What things really are)
An example of a Normative statement is, "People *should not* litter". A Positive view is "People will do what is convenient, not what is right. Hence people will litter, because it is the convenient thing to do."
This is important to the discussion of politics and economics (both tied to one another) because a business man does not set prices based on compassion and benevolence... It is unrealistic to think otherwise. He always sets as high a price as he can, before he loses his customers.
I quote Adam Smith from The Wealth of Nations:
"But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. ... Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer... It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
"The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."
Some people read Adam Smith's statement as an argument that justifies greed. I read it in a different light - it's simply a Positive statement about how it is impossible to expect an economy based 100% on mutual generosity and charity, despite best efforts and intentions. It is impractical.
The only practical and predictable system which one can operate in is one that is based on mutual agreement of exchange of benefits. These benefits are not based purely on charity and generosity, but it is also based on self-interest. (self-interest doesn't necessarily mean greed - there's a difference).
This sets up a system where the market is "self-regulated", where competition will cause the price to reach "market equilibrium". (Too low a price and you don't cut a profit, too high a price and people won't buy from you).
In a world of ideals, we certainly hope that everyone is able to buy things cheaply and sell their own goods at a high price for a good profit. But in a market of buyers and sellers, "my price is good for me", doesn't make it a "good price" for others. There's no way to set prices fairly except through competition and free market.
Likewise, politics are based off of moral beliefs and personal values, which is usually Normative in nature. But whose/which values?
There is always a co-existence between the Normative (ideals, what things should be) and the Positive (pragmatic and what actually works in reality) and there's always a tension between the two.
Unfortunately, architectural discourse has been tilted towards ONLY the ideal - "People should not litter", rather than see from the perspective that "People will litter out of convenience." - that businesses are regulated by market forces, not by ideals of what a utopian city should be like.
(But it doesn't mean we shouldn't work towards that ideal either, even though we know that an ideal (i.e. perfection) is never reachable.)
C- you confuse the normal with the ideal, and it makes your argument unintelligible.
Normative vs. Positive statements/arguments
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I just spent a half an hour debugging a heisenbug and thought I'd pass on what was happening.
I was running my unit tests for one of my features and they were reliably failing. Unfortunately the instant I ran the test case under the debugger, the problem went away. Problems that disappear under the debugger are a classic symptom of a heisenbug, this was no exception.
If I attached the debugger AFTER the test started but before the failure hit, I was able to see the failure occur. The problem only occurred when launching the app under the debugger. At that point I realized what was happening.
As MSDN says:
Processes that the debugger creates (also known as spawned processes) behave slightly differently than processes that the debugger does not create.
Instead of using the standard heap API, processes that the debugger creates use a special debug heap. On Microsoft Windows XP and later versions of Windows, you can force a spawned process to use the standard heap instead of the debug heap by using the _NO_DEBUG_HEAP environment variable or the -hd command-line option.
It turns out that I had added a member variable to a class and failed to initialize it in the constructor of the class. When launched under the debugger, the debug heap initializes all allocated memory to a known value. That means that when launched under the debugger the member variable had that known value, when launched without the debugger it was uninitialized and happened to have the value of 0. For a number of reasons, this value caused the test to fail.
I hate heisenbugs, but I like it when they're really easy to find like this one.


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Cuomo to Close Distracted Driving LoopholeLeave your thoughts
A proposal by Governor Andrew Cuomo aims to close a loophole in New York State's distracted driving laws. As it currently stands, the law forbids the use of any kind of electronics – including an external GPS system, camera, or smartphone – while the vehicle is in motion.
Some New Yorkers have used the fact that the car must be moving as a defense to avoid distracted driving convictions. The governor is looking to close that loophole. The proposed legislation would make it illegal for drivers to text or use other electronics behind the wheel even if the car is not moving, such as while stopped at a red light or in gridlock traffic.
Very little detail about the law is available; it was mentioned in a single sentence in Cuomo's State of the State book. A spokesperson for the New York Department of Motor Vehicles called it a common-sense measure to close a glaring loophole, and all indications are the proposed law would still allow cell phone use when a vehicle is stopped at the side of the road.
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Scotland winger Allan Johnston yesterday returned to the North-East in a bid to revive his career after quitting Rangers for Middlesbrough.
The 27-year-old midfielder, who saw his dream move to Ibrox turn to dust in a difficult year north of the border, has completed a £600,000 move to Teesside on a three-year deal.
He becomes new Boro boss Steve McClaren's fourth signing after Gareth Southgate, Jonathan Greening and Mark Wilson, and is likely to go straight into the squad for next Saturday's Premiership clash with derby rivals Newcastle at the Riverside.
Johnston will be hoping to get his career back on track after two desperately difficult years.
He was a key member of Sunderland's first-choice 11 as the Wearsiders shook off the bitter memories of Division One play-off final defeat to surge into the Premiership and then secure a seventh-place finish at the first attempt.
But then things turned sour for the Glaswegian when, amid rumours linking him with a move to Rangers on a Bosman free transfer at the end of the 1999-2000 season, he turned down a new contract at the Stadium of Light and was frozen out by manager Peter Reid.
Loan spells at Birmingham and Bolton kept his eye in before he finally did get the call to return to his home city, but chances proved few and far between and it eventually became clear that he was no longer part of Dick Advocaat's plans.
His international prospects have inevitably been harmed by his lack of first-team football, and he will hope that the Premiership will prove the stage on which to get his Scotland career back on track.
Johnston began his professional career at Hearts in June 1990, and arrived at Sunderland in March 1997 for £550,000 after less than a year with French club Rennes.
He played as an out-and-out left winger for the Black Cats, although he he has lined up on the right for his country.
He has spent much of the last week on Teesside discussing terms and undergoing a medical, but finally signed on the dotted line yesterday. That will come as a boost to McClaren, who has seen his best laid plans torn to shreds in the opening weeks of the new season with three defeats and not a single goal to show for his side's efforts.
The manager has acknowledged that changes need to be made, and Johnston's arrival is unlikely to be the last as he overhauls a squad which had to stage a nailbiting fightback from the brink of relegation last season after drastically under-performing before Terry Venables was parachuted in to help out Bryan Robson.
The subsequent departure of both men saw McClaren take on his first job in management, and his baptism could hardly have been more difficult, with Boro one place off the bottom of the table.
Austrian midfielder Markus Schopp has been training with Boro this week in the hope of winning a move from Sturm Graz, while a loan deal involving Celta Vigo's South African striker Benni McCarthy is also on the cards.


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So excited to share my New York Fashion Week Fall 2016 Day 1 highlights!
Hi friends, thank you so much for your beautiful comments last week and following along during our New York Fashion Week adventures. It was so good to be back at NYFW this season! I never really realized how much I missed not being at the last two seasons and so it felt incredible to be back again in the action. Sharing a few of my highlights from this season's fashion week with you, and this first part of the series is day 1 of fashion week in New York. We're also working on a very exciting NYFW VLOG to give you an insider view on what really happens behind the scenes for my fashion week adventures. Stay tuned!
One of my main highlights of Day 1 New York Fashion Week was the BCBGMAXAZRIA show. I've always been a huge fan of Lubov and Max Azria, a power couple in the fashion industry. Lubov never fails to impress as the lead of the company's design team. Every season Lubov brings out a very special and unique collection, and in particular I'm drawn to her attention to detail and creativity in her designs. The 2016 fall winter collection is absolutely perfect. I love how Lubov played with mixed fabrics, layers, and a variety of silhouettes. Yet the collection flows seamlessly throughout. I've included some of my favorite looks captured from the runway that I think you'll enjoy.
When attending fashion shows, I prefer to wear the designer's clothing to support the designer and showcase my favorite pieces. I wore this BCBGMAXAZRIA soft blush suede dress and layered it with a cozy wool fringe vest to stay extra warm. I love the way this dress flows and it would also look really cute when paired with a belt around the waist and tall boots. I fell in love with the spring pastel suede colors in the BCBGMAXAZRIA collection and this outfit is currently available in stores now. I've also included my Shop the Look feature below for easy clicking to their online store.
The evening of the BCBGMAXAZRIA show, the BCBGMAXAZRIA team had an intimate dinner with myself and a few fellow bloggers and Canadian magazine editors. I wore this dress here, love that it's a simple little black dress with mesh detail that gives it that standout qualities I look for.
Love this outfit and the beautiful grey palettes. I can't get enough of long line coats and this one has made it to the top of my wish list for fall.
This look is everything! I love the combinations of leather textures plus the play on denim fabrics.
The moment I saw this coat on the runway I was smitten. This coat has beautiful intricate details going across the front and back, truly making this a standout piece.
A long fur coat feels so chic. Love the touch of vintage vibes throughout this entire outfit.
Let's talk about the shimmering knits and slashed leggings! Would you wear this? I love these stockings, and I think BCBGMAXAZRIA styled the looks well by pairing bold and unique footwear to finish off the looks. So artistic and fun, I will absolutely wear these in the fall!
Congrats to Lubov and Max Azria on the 40th BCBGMAXAZRIA runway show presented at NYFW! Truly a talented and fashionable couple.
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A closeup of my outfit for the BCBGMAXAZRIA show.
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Huge love and hugs to the BCBGMAXAZRIA team for having me apart of the NYFW events, it was truly a pleasure!


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Post-op and PT
Since I had the surgery in the UK but live in the US, physical therapy started out a bit bumpy. Almost all of it is aimed at someone who has had a THR and is therefore trying very hard to limit your motion. What we hit upon finally was to treat the rehab as if recovering from a hip dislocation (you get one of those for free during surgery). In that case movement and strengthening are the order of the day.
At heart I am a martial artist and an athlete, so I took all those years of training and put them into practice. Click here for some notes on conditioning. A big thing is to understand that speed can only come from smoothness. So slow practice of whatever is very crucial. Oh, sure it's boring at times, but I know that I can spend a couple of boring weeks doing something slowly and get it right or sort of flub through it for months, hitting a plateau I can't get off.
One thing I did very early on was walk on the treadmill. The idea is to practice. Walking actually takes a very specific firing of nerves in a specific order, of course. Walking ginky for me meant lifting the whole side of my body and leading with my toes rather than my heel. It was quite maddening to say the least, since the body would do the motion whether I liked it or not. So, I got onto a treadmill, one with two handrails. I then held on and turned the machine on its slowest setting (about 1/2 mph) and practiced perfect form. I had a mirror across from me and watched myself and yes, I did put a book on my head from time to time to check my posture. I wanted every step to be exactly like the one before it. Eventually, I increased the speed. Every week I upped the speed and time, so that by about week 6 I was able to walk for a good several minutes at 2 – 3 miles an hour. This is what it takes to walk. Remember that I was hanging on to both handrails because I was supposed to be using two sticks. When I switched to one stick, I switched to one handrail.
By the time I got off sticks completely, I was able to walk a good 20 minutes at a normal clip with excellent form. This took me to the 12 week mark. After that, I keep a weekly mileage goal, although I try to do about 5 miles a day if at all possible. We all know that the work mile comes from Latin mille or thousand, since a mile is 1,000 paces, don't we?
Leg lifts are also important. Do them both sides and lying down as well as standing, since this varies the load. I was up to a couple of hundred a day. I also practiced isometric exercises by standing in martial arts stances. Looked very much like tai chi chuan, because I moved slowly to get the muscles working in the right order.
One unexpected casualty was my foot. Your feet actually have reflexes to grab the floor in a way specifically that allows you to stand and walk. My right foot got stupid. The fix was really simple. Stand on it for 30 sec – 60 sec 3 or 4 times a day for a month. Start out by holding onto things, but get so you can let go. This was sufficient to retrain the muscles and helped a lot with my gait.
Here is a listing of other topics people always ask me about on the list.
Clunks and thunks. One of the more disconcerting sensations post-op is when the soft tissues glide over each other, entirely analogous to having a knuckle crack. Of course, this is a darn big joint and is bearing your weight, so the feeling is often unsettling. It is called, clunking, thunking or slippage. This is normal and I found that stretching it excessively would cause this to increase for a few days. Stretching here is relative to your activity level, mind you. I found once after a very long drive and a bit too enthusiastic workout that I got the other hip to clunk too. That should put your fears to rest if you are experiencing this.
Dislocation risks. In a THR there is a great deal of fear at a dislocation. While I was given the all clear post-op, meaning I was allowed to do anything I wanted except bungee jumping, I also had the feeling the hip was nice and solid. I can fully support the doctor's contention that dislocation risk is approximately the same as a natural hip. So, I undertook a pretty stout stretching program at the 3 month mark. Before that I was cautioned that I should let the hip capsule heal to being nice and tight. I found that laying on my back and drawing the knee to the chest was one of the best stretches for me. I could not do that for years. Also the yoga position called the plough is a good one.
Teeth and going to the dentist. As this was explained to me, the bacteria that live in your mouth tend to be sticky, like barnacles, since they must resist chewing action to remain. If these get into your blood system they will stick to any and everything, including a metal implant. Since the body does not have a blood supply into the implant, it cannot fight the infection. Once an implant gets infected, all that can be done is to remove it, treat the infection then do a revision. Therefore, people with implants (not just hips) have to take extra care with keeping the teeth in good shape. I get 3 cleanings a year, just in case. Also, anytime there is a dental procedure of any sort, including cleaning, antibiotics should be taken. A prophylactic dose is normally a triple or quadruple dose taken an hour or so beforehand. This ensures that any bacteria that enter the blood land in a toxic environment. This is no big deal to do at all, but you should really make it a standard part of your dental visits.
Pain in the other hip/knee. Going into this I had so much pain in the other hip that I thought I might need a bilateral (double) replacement. McMinn told me not to fret and wait to see how things stabilized. He was right, the pain was from walking badly. Once my gait got unscrambled and I had regained some strength, the pain magically vanished. I can make things hurt by really overdoing it, but all is within the normal expectations for someone of my age.
Other types of conditioning I phased in starting at the 6 week mark, beginning with just slow stance work. I wanted to be stable on my feet at all costs. I did ask if I could do my stances low. That was ok'ed. They don't violate the 90 degree rule.
Here are two things you can do that will really help you. When you take your daily walk (not if!), ever so often walk on a line. This forces you to extend your hip and makes you balance. This is simple and effective. Another great thing to do is get a circle about the same radius as your height. If you go to a gym, a basketball court has one of those right in front of the basket. Walk around the circle clockwise for a minute or so, then counter-clockwise. (Look here for more about this.) Your feet are on either side of the circle rather than on it. I found that once I could walk straight, I still had trouble turning. Just a couple of minutes of this a few times a week for a month or so does wonders. Make sure your toes point where you want to go (that was hard for me at first) and your gait is normal.


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North Star Academy provides early behavioral intervention for children ages 2½ to 12 years with intellectual or developmental disabilities, including children with autism spectrum disorder. Each child served at North Star Academy experiences an individualized and comprehensive program designed to assess and treat challenging behavior while increasing functional skills.
North Star Academy utilizes the principles and evidence-based practices of applied behavior analysis. NSA provides on-site assessment of skills and functional analysis of challenging behaviors. Each child has an individualized program based on assessment results and 1:1 instructional ratio.
As appropriate, instruction in the following areas is provided and tailored for each individual: language, communication, social skills, leisure skills, daily living skills, vocational skills, health and safety skills, and academic domains.
There are opportunities for community-based instruction, including trips to CLO's Midnight Farm.
The Autism Curriculum Encyclopedia, a nationally-recognized and specialized online curriculum, is used to assist in the development, monitoring, and summarization of each student's customized behavior reduction and skill acquisition goals.
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The Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundationare pleased to announce the continuation of the Education and Training to Professionalism Initiative. IMAP and the Macy Foundation will give five awards to support faculty-directed educational programs that address one or several of the critical components of medical professionalism. Grants will be provided for a two year period at $25,000 per year.
Click here to download the Request for Applications. The proposal deadline has been extended to April 11, 2014. Information on past grantees can be found here.
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GENEVA, Ohio – Several SCIAC student-athletes competed on day one of the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships on Thursday at the SPIRE Institute.
On the men's side, CMS' Joshua Sealand earned the top qualifying time in the men's 1500m (3:49.61).
Pomona-Pitzer's Calvin Aylward placed sixed in the finals in the men's javelin with a toss of 210-01.
Hugh Pegan from Occidental advanced to the finals in the men's 200m with a time of 21.50.
In the men's 3,000m steeplechase, freshman Daniel Rosen from Pomona-Pitzer qualified for the finals in a time of (9:18.71).
Occidental's 4x100m relay team of Jeh Johnson, Pegan, Keane Collins and Kyle Dalton qualified for the finals (41.26). Their 4x400m relay team also qualified in a time of (3:12.66) which includes Gabriel Barrett-Jackson, Caldwell Biddle, Pegan and Johnson.
Competing in the preliminaries but not advancing to the finals in the men's 400m hurdles from Redlands was Nick Burchett (55.05). Redlands men's 4x100m relay missed out on the finals, placing 14th overall.
In the women's heptathlon, senior Alison Smith from Redlands sits in third place with 2,820 points after four events.
The Redlands women's 4x100m relay advanced to the finals in a time of 47.55.
In the preliminaries for the women's track events, Tyra Abraham from CMS advanced to the finals in a time of 24.84. Bryn McKillop from CMS had the second-best time in the preliminaries in the 1500m with a 4:32.47.
Also competing on the day representing the SCIAC but missing out on the finals, were: Julissa Tobias from Whittier in the women's 1500m and Melissa Cerrillos from La Verne in the 10,000m by just two spots.
In the women's field events, Freshman Kendal Guidetti from Cal Lutheran competed in the women's long jump.
CMS' Vaiva Palunas competed in the women's discus placing 20th.
Jessica Finn just missed out on the finals in the javelin for Pomona-Pitzer with a throw of 130-09.
Jacquelyn Desmond from CMS competed in the women's pole vault finishing 19th overall (12-1.50).
View complete results here: http://results.deltatiming.com/ncaa/tf/2017-ncaa-d3-outdoor-championships#/2017-05-25.


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Here we are!
One day this young kid, maybe ten years old, was going to check his favorite place near his home in his hometown called Canoas in Brazil.
A place of adventure and mystique...a grove of eucalyptus trees and other bushes filled with all kinds of birds..big and small and a little pond. Yes that's me! The kid with dreaming eyes... Back to the story... He was there contemplating nature at its glory that morning...lost in his dreams and wonders...
Suddenly he hears a loud warning chirp...it came from a Quero-Quero (Vanellus chilensis ) a Southern Lapwing! It wanted to warn all birds there that he was coming in and wanted to let them know who the boss was!
All birds, I mean ALL birds became quiet and landed on whatever they could find nearby and there was no more sounds except the wind blowing gently that morning.
The southern lapwing flew around the pond two times descending slowly to his chosen bush. For a few minutes only the sound of wind could be heard...and slowly the birds started to fly again and quietly they started to sound their voices!
The kid was mesmerized! He was hooked in nature!!! Years later he saw some paintings of his uncle Wilson Velasco showcasing the beauty of landscapes around his hometown, and I, the kid, was again in awe of his creations thinking to myself...he could even paint the shadows of the trees...great colors for everyone to enjoy!
The kid grew older and I left Brazil to America!!! California has been a great playground for my eyes and dreams and wonders and life! Here I discovered that art and nature are connected and alive! Here I decided to immerse myself in photography...and the more I photograph life around me the more I discover that I love art...and here I am!
I love nature! I love God! I love kids! I love California! I love San Francisco!
I love photography! I love art!
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Coming up with a clever costume is often a difficult task for some men. Some guys don't care what they dress up as. Others don't want to shell out big money for a great costume that they'll only wear once. Well, Halloween costumes can be made cheap and with little effort. Whether you're going to a costume party with a date or by yourself, there are plenty of effortless and cheap costumes. On a side note: for the love of God, please don't dress up as Harley Quinn and the Joker. We guarantee there will be at least four others at any Halloween party you attend.
Adam & Eve is a great couple's costume. With a hot-glue gun, fake leaves, and short-shorts, you can create a very revealing but hilarious costume with your girlfriend/date. This idea is perfect for an ABC (Anything But Clothes) party, so make sure to hit the gym hard this month.
The "cop and a donut" is a great combination that will make anyone laugh. The cop outfit is for the girl, as she can make it look sexy and seductive. You, on the other hand, will be wearing the "donut," which is just an inner tube around your waist. You can simply paint on the colorful frosting and sprinkles or buy it from Amazon for just $20.
If you're going to a Halloween party as a single man, then you're going to definitely have to make an impression on the ladies. The Boxed-Wine costume is a hilarious way to meet some women at this year's party. For this, all you need is a box big enough to wear over your torso, and a bladder of wine. Make sure to paint the outside of the box to look like a box of Franzia. The best part is attaching the bladder of wine to the inside of your costume. Of course, the tap of the wine has stick out of the "crotch" of the costume. So prepare to get some phone numbers when the ladies get on their knees to sample your wine.
Want to really get clever? Effortlessly dress up as a literal Rubber Tree Plant. After gluing numerous condoms (aka rubbers) onto a trash bag, wear the bag as a poncho. With a few leaves and twigs in your hair, you'll have everyone at the party guessing what your costume means. Only the clever girls at the party will understand!
Whatever you wear to the next Halloween party, it should be clever and home-made. Showing up to a party in a hilariously cheap looking outfit is always more memorable than any expensive costume!


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Could you have a love of all things Tuscan buried deep inside you, but never new how to define it? Tuscan style is rich and warm with color and texture. Think fall colors – shades of rust, reds, yellows, greens, plums – all mixed together and working with each other to create a warm, harmonious, inviting ambiance. Dark heavy baskets, iron work, distressed wood, lots of fruit, wine, roosters…..all of these things create that magical Tuscan warmth that makes a kitchen so cozy and inviting. Accents of Salado has a wonderful selection of Tuscan accents to create just this look.
Baskets and fruit always make for a cozy Tuscan kitchen.
Fall colors are used throughout the space to create the Tuscan theme.
Combining textures is common.
Lots of distressed wood and iron embellishments fill the Tuscan kitchen.
Detail work and wonderful curves in the woodwork is common in traditional Tuscan decorating.
This oil painting says it all – wine, fruit, iron, texture and lots of fall color.
Iron candle holders always add Tuscan flavor to a space.
Pot racks and roosters – very common in the Tuscan kitchen.
Love this colorful, interesting, fun vent-a-hood and backsplash. Rich in fall colors and texture. You don't have to be overly serious about everything. Bring in some whimsy and fun!
Images by Accents of Salado
The Tuscan kitchen with its warm, welcoming ambiance is the heartbeat of the home….like the warm and cozy comfort of a fireplace in the winter. So break out that bottle of wine, peruse some Tuscan decorating magazines and books (and my blog, of course) and think about creating this same inviting look in your own kitchen.
Happy Decorating!


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Many people ask us what it is like to volunteer at CCF. We are fortunate to have volunteers all year round, coming from all walks of life, lending their skills and passion to help us carry out our work, either in Namibia or Kenya. Here is a short essay written by Liz Karch, one of those incredible people that keep us going. For information about volunteering, please visit our web page, http://www.cheetah.org/ and click on Volunteer.
Come, Come, Come!
Back in the late 70s, I remember watching the show "Fantasy Island" where people lived out their fantasy for a week. I used to wonder what my fantasy was, but don't think I really came up with one. That was then, this is now.
In October 2007, thirty years later, I traveled to the Cheetah Conservation Fund and lived out my fantasy. For two weeks I worked along side a team of dedicated, cheerful and talented people. Our little group pulled into CCF on a rainy late afternoon - the first of the "little rains" had arrived. And so had we. The very next morning, we filed into the Hogwarts yard with a group of farmers and walked to the end corner. We were told the rules for the cheetah run: Stay together … Don't bend down. The three cats stood at attention, the lure started to move and they were off! Everyone watched them intently; they completely ignored us.
But not all of the 46 resident cheetahs felt that way about us. When we appeared at Bellebeno, a 158-acre enclosed area for some female cheetahs, the cats would hear our trucks and meet us at the entrance. They knew we had food and were anxious for us to drive down the dirt road yelling "Come, come, come! Come, come, come!" We would stop the truck and then throw each a chunk of meat.
After feeding the Bellebeno girls, our group had the privilege of bone clean-up. A couple weeks before the little rains came, the cats were temporarily relocated and the staff carried out a controlled burn. Due to the high probability of a lightening strike starting a wildfire, the area had been set on fire. Everything was scorched and black. This helped us find the bones left over from weeks of daily feedings. We would return looking like we had foraged through a charcoal jungle. At night while washing my hair, I would smell like Burnt Bellebeno. How I wish I could smell that now.
Center Feeding was a bit cleaner. Here the cats are kept in smaller, fenced-in enclosures with a separate feeding pen. First we would go in with scoopers and buckets to pick up bones and any waste while the cheetahs hissed and growled and spat from the other side of the fence. Next we'd bring in and line up the bowls of meat. Then we would leave through the gate and open the guillotine. The hungry cats would race in, scoop up their chunk of meat and take off. Some of them, though, would politely eat from the bowl. Those were great photo op moments.
I brought along my new digital camera (about the size of a deck of cards) and kept it in my pocket at all times. You'd never know when that three thousand dollar picture (as one staffer called it) would appear. In my case, I was standing outside the pen area as the other volunteers went in to clean. Four male cheetahs were stalking up to the fence toward me - hissing and growling and spitting and stomping. As if on cue, they lined up perfectly with their hackles up. Click! It nearly drove me wild.
Driving is a way of life at CCF: trekking out to Bellebeno, checking cheetah traps and camera traps and rain gauges, conducting game counts and looking for spoor tracks. Riding down a dirt road - and they're ALL dirt roads! - on the back of a truck, with a 360 degree view of the Namibian landscape, is exhilarating. But the jewel of it all is the Big Field, also known as "Little Serengeti." It was mostly here that we saw an abundance of wildlife: red hartebeests, kori bustards, warthogs, black-backed jackals, and a variety of antelopes. The Bellebeno farm is also home to giraffes and zebras. And everywhere there are birds, chipmunks, rabbits, snakes, and other small creatures like lizards and spiders.
Yet the cutest little animals by far are found right at CCF. We were lucky enough to have arrived weeks after Tylee and Ushi - two Kangal Anatolian Shepherds - had their litters of puppies. Those energetic and adorable puppies would run up to you, pull at your shoestrings and nip at your ankles. It wasn't hard for these future livestock guarding dogs to steal my heart.
My emotions ran the gamut. I got teary-eyed while walking into a cheetah necropsy in progress, and eventually leaving as the sight of an adolescent cheetah was too much for me. Some nights while looking up at a clear and starry sky, tears of pure joy rolled down my cheeks. I experienced tremendous sadness seeing a very old livestock guarding dog, in really bad shape, that had been returned to CCF. Petting Chewbaaka, Kanini and littleC - and listening to Kanini's thunderous purr - was amazing. Sheer exhaustion felt so pleasurable after a hard day's work. Never in my life have I worked so hard and enjoyed it so much.
There was, of course, administrative work to be done. My official assignment was to enter the feeding logs into an Excel spreadsheet. I also worked in the Clinic doing filing, and spent a couple hours in the Center's gift shop straightening up and restocking the shelves. Each and every task, no matter how small or how challenging, was cherished.
Volunteering at CCF was one of the greatest experiences of my life. When I think back (and I often do!) I am so thankful to have been there. Was it a Fantasy Island? In some ways it was. But more than that, it was an amazing opportunity to help save the wild cheetah just by being there. And I can't wait to do it all over again.