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- Mary Wanless Mary Wanless is an expert in rider biomechanics. She teaches frequently in the United States & is not to be missed! Make sure to take some time & read through her articles.
- Center For Anatomically Correct Horsemanship Klaus & Gabriele Shoneich teach training for the horse based in equine biomechanics.
- Peter DeCosemo Peter DeCosemo teaches regularly in Iceland at Urvalhestar owned by Magnus Larusson & Svanhildur Hall.
- Horst Becker, Classical Dressage Trainer (One of Knutur's teachers)
- Science of Motion Jean Luc Cornille
-Urvalhestar, Magnus Larusson & Svanhildur Hall, Icelandic Horses in Iceland (Magnus was one of Knutur's teachers)
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-Ute Lehmann, Horsewoman (One of Knutur's teachers)
- Honza Blaha (One of Knutur's teachers)

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Update on the Activities Inventory: Key Trends in LEDS Programs Globally
Several international efforts assist the creation of climate-resilient low emission development plans and strategies, including work on Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs), Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), low carbon growth plans and roadmaps. The user-generated inventory presented here links to many of these assistance efforts occurring internationally. The partnership developed the inventory to provide information on relevant activities and tools that can inform and support future work. Goals of this inventory activity are to avoid duplication of effort, to promote efficient use of resources, to assess assistance gaps and to support harmonization and coordination of climate-resilient low emission development planning activities internationally.
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Access the entire inventory here. Or, browse the inventory by:
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Add your program or tool to the inventory and us to provide a more comprehensive picture of climate-resilient low emission planning activities worldwide.
Number of Programs by Country. This map shows the number of climate-resilient low emission development activities added to the inventory for each country. Rollover the country that interests you, and the number of activities in that country will be displayed.


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What is a Food Blog?
To this day, there is no exact definition of what a food blog is or is not. Ask anyone for a definition and each person will have her own view of how a food blog should be structured and what "recipe" you need to follow in order to be successful.
Differing personalities bring about a great diversity of food blogs.
Finding the ones to follow that fit your unique tastes becomes a daily quest as we discover new sites that come into existence via the power of social media.
You will find blogs with heartwarming stories from childhood revisited in recipes recalled from the past. Others have a specific diet in mind. Then there are those with straightforward recipes - stripped down to the basics of ingredients and instructions with no stories attached. And while some might delight in those personal stories, a select few of us crave those sites which provide the scientific explanations of why and how something does or does not work.
My husband and I discussed this topic in depth last night after I asked for his feedback in regards to my latest post - my newest series A Food Story where I use the structure of a story with characters and plots along with photos to tell a short story about a recipe without actually writing the recipe in detail. "You need to pivot", he said. "If one thing is not working, do something different."
Specifically, he was telling me how I need to change things around in my posts and "list recipes first, tell stories later".
"Just give people what they want first", he said. "If they're interested, they'll read the words after the recipe."
"That's not how it works", I argued. "Food blogs are about stories", I kept telling him. "I'm saving the recipes for my book."
However, the "write it and they will come" mentality might not fit every case. In other words, not everyone will necessarily like your blog. Trying to "fit in" and writing about what you think will bring traffic to your site has a chance of coming out in your writing. People might sense that the "voice" is forced - that it is not uniquely yours.
I've been following the food
community for about a year. In that time, I noticed a few things. The one aspect that I find most prevalent is that a food blog is not solely a source of recipes.
It's about the stories, the photographs, the soul of a writer.
"If I wanted only the recipes, I'd go to a trusted site like Cook's Illustrated or one of my many cookbooks", I continued to argue.
When I visit a food blog, I take note of the sites listed on that blogger's blog roll if one is listed. Why, I ask myself, are these particular blogs highlighted? What makes them special? Is it all about the recipes? Or is there something more? In most of the cases, it's that "something more" that makes one blog favorable over another. Words spoken to which we can relate.
Developing recipes is an arduous process and not one to be taken lightly. Writing clear instructions is an art form in itself. My site is not a compilation of recipes curated from other sites. Rather the recipes I choose to share are my own and at this point it's simply a matter of experimentation. I share my views on food and life - something that connects each one of us. Some people might find this uninteresting, others might share a similar viewpoint to mine. Whatever the case, you have a great selection of food blogs from which to choose.
I refuse to accept
the argument that simply listing most of my self-developed recipes will
get people to my site. Perhaps it might get them
to my site but will it be enough to keep them coming back? Although my story
might resonate with only a handful of readers, I will continue to write and tell my unique story.
Not having a clear definition of what a food blog is or is not keeps things interesting and challenging. The possibilities are endless as are the stories. Thankfully, we all have a different story to tell with own unique voice which makes for a myriad of unique blogs to follow.
What are your thoughts on this? How is your blog different? Why do you follow the food blogs that you do? Is it solely for the recipes? Or is it that "something else" that the writer conveys through stories to which you can relate?


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There will be plenty of time to reflect on Margo Fenn's turn as executive director of Cape Cod Commission, but the immediate need is for the commission to figure out the top post of the agency.
There will be plenty of time to reflect on Margo Fenn's turn as executive director of Cape Cod Commission, but the immediate need is for the commission to figure out the top post of the agency.If past practice means anything, deputy director John Lipman will carry the title, and he's a good choice. Our focus is on his replacement, and we know a candidate who'll be available after June 30 when Barnstable's new budget becomes effective.Left behind in the $148 million town spending plan was Tom Broadrick, hired as the director of planning in 2002. His title and duties changed with the advent of the growth management department in 2005.Broadrick has not made his future plans known to us (and really, why would he), but taking a cue from Elliott Carr, chairman of the commission review group, we, too, believe local talent should not be overlooked.Before Broadrick came to Barnstable, he was the town planner in Duxbury, but commuted from his home in Dennis, where he served five years as a town planner. He carries the requisite number of acronyms and letters on his business cards: member of the AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners), past-president of MAPA (Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association), among others.Interestingly, his planning background may have been the death knell for his time in Barnstable. The planning culture change in Barnstable Town Hall over the past few years, where planning dictates have been replaced with flexibility, places a greater premium on negotiation than pure planning.There's a need for that, but here's also a need to firmly set the playing field. While the ever personable and professional Broadrick may no longer fit Barnstable's model, he may be just what the commission needs. DS II
firstname.lastname@example.com first test Until now, whether the Sagamore Bridge Flyover will eliminate the traffic jams it was intended to cure has been a mostly academic exercise. We've lived with the new configuration for a number of months now, accessing it from all directions and speeds, but we can't replicate thousands of cars. The computer models suggest that it will move people faster, and it would be near impossible for that not to be the case.It's the necessary narrowing of two lanes from the north and two lanes from the south each into an efficient single-file formation that presents the biggest question marks.The new system is rational and organized on light traffic days, but rational and well-organized takes a back seat when bumpers get closer.Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce CEO Wendy Northcross has logged a lot of miles in TV trucks explaining to a hopefully large viewing audience how it's supposed to work and what drivers are supposed to do.When the rubber hits the road this weekend, those not fortunate enough to take the pre-test will have to figure things out on the fly (over). The concern has more to do with people getting here, not their inevitable departure. The straight shot over the bridge can only get gummed up by the Exit 1 onramp from those using Route 6A as a cross-Cape alternative and the natural tendency to slow down when faced with two-lanes of oncoming traffic. We have great expectations for the off-load.Will the $60 million project pass with flyover colors? We'll know soon enough.DS II


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The Northfield Rotary Club will be sponsoring Kids Voting on November 2. Kids Voting Minnesota is a grassroots, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to educating Minnesota youth about the rights and responsibilities and mechanics of participating in American democracy. Students in grades kindergarten through twelve may accompany their parents/guardians to the polling site on Election Day and vote for the same candidates and issues as adults. Though not part of the official results, student votes are tallied and reported at schools and by the media. (Source: http://www.kidsvoting.com)
Northfield children can vote at most polling places within the Northfield Public School district boundaries. The following list illustrates the polling places where Kids Voting will be available:
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Bridgewater Tsp. 500 Railway St. S., Dundas
Forest Millersburg Blvd.
Northfield Tsp. 110th St. & Jacobs Ave.
Webster Webster
Greenvale Tsp. 25140 Cedar Ave., Farmington
Waterford 321st. St. W.(2 miles off Hwy.3
City of Dundas 216 Railway St. N., Dundas
City of Northfield 1-1 St. Dominic's Church
1-2 United Church of Christ
2-1 City Hall
2-2 United Methodist Church
3-2 Emmaus Baptist Church
3-3 Bethel Luterhan Church
4-1 St.John's Luth. Church
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Yep, that's me! Ready to board the bullet train and head for Fukushima.
(The straw hat and luggage were provided by the station for photos………)
My "ekiben" on the way home. Yes, it was expensive!
Enjoying my train ride. Reading and thinking of writing………
I really enjoyed Yamagata City and seeing old friends there. I probably won't go back for a while….but who knows? The possibilities are endless.


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First bi-
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About Myneni Hari Prasad Rao:
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Today I'm letting you in on a little family tradition: the cookie party! I know we all have our little memories and things we celebrate each Christmas, but the cookie party in my family is taken VERY seriously. My sister went to culinary school with a focus in pastries so growing up this was always a fun way to spend time with her (we're 17 years apart). Now that I'm older and don't have the metabolism I once did I needed to figure out a recipe that would combat this. I never want loose the fun in this family tradition!
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- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup low fat butter, softened
- 1/4 cup nonfat plain yogurt
- 1 1/2 cups SPLENDA® Sugar Blend
- 1/4 cup egg substitute
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Stir flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a small bowl.
- Beat butter, yogurt, and SPLENDA® Sugar Blend with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth.
- Add egg allowing it to blend into butter mixture.
- Beat in vanilla extract.
- Mix in flour mixture until just incorporated.
- Roll dough into desired size and place 2-inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Place and spread with a finger or fork for cookies to better flatten.
- Bake in oven until golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Let stand on baking sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.
- Decorate & enjoy!
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What have you heard about Sex and the City 2? That it's bad? Let me tell you: this may be the most radical, challenging film ever made.
It is also deeply conservative. That combination has the capacity to blow minds. People will stagger out of cinemas in Tennessee and Arkansas, bug-eyed and dribbling. This could also happen in places where they weren't bug-eyed and dribbling on the way in.
The first oddness of the film comes from the fact that the creators of the TV series were evidently kidnapped, bound and hidden in a cupboard while the entire project was taken over by the hardline, religious right.
People who have always disliked the idea of Sex and the City, and misogynists (two groups with no insignificant crossover in the Venn diagram of cultural commentary), have been quick to explain how much they dislike the characters in the film: venal, vacuous slags, the lot of them. Commentators have written this up as though it is their own unique take. But this is Hollywood, the great manipulator: if your misogyny is tickled, that's because it is an intensely misogynistic movie. If you despise the women, it is because the film wants you to despise the women.
It would be impossible not to. Samantha (Kim Cattrall), once a confident, funny female character who enjoyed casual sex, is, in this film, demeaned, humiliated and punished like no woman has been since the great days of the Victorian novel. She is made grotesque.
She spills condoms, scrabbling on her knees in the dirt to pick them up. She pulls her knickers down to rub ointment into her vagina in a public office. Spotting a handsome man in a kaffiyeh, she screams: "He's Lawrence of my labia!" Dining in a restaurant, she gropes desperately at her companion's penis; his erection looms at the camera, horrified faces of fellow diners in soft-focus behind.
Meanwhile, her friends race around in an unnecessary fleet of gas-guzzling Mercedes, shrieking and salivating over hotel suites and shoes. Their souls are gone; nothing remains but cold, hard acquisition.
This must all be tremendously satisfying for those who disapproved of the single, self-motivated and sexually liberated women from the series. Look how it all turned out! The married ones find some happiness, once they surrender to joblessness and stop questioning their husbands' lust for large-breasted young nannies, but the one who stayed single? Ah, yes, she has developed into a desperate, shameful old whore.
Hence my assumption of a takeover by the American Christian right. As an ending to the story of these women, it reads like an extreme Calvinist pamphlet. It's like a film written by the sort of people who stand outside abortion clinics with misspelled placards and guns.
But the film would not boggle minds if it stopped there. In order to hammer home the women's vapid, degenerate existence, the story takes them out of New York and contrasts them with normal, right-thinking people. Does it take them, as a road trip naturally might, to the genteel parlours of the American south?
Why, no. It takes them to the United Arab Emirates. The people who stare in horror as Samantha crawls in the dirt are robed, bearded Muslims. And the audience. The people who look revolted as Samantha claws a man's balls at the dinner table are women in niqabs. And the audience.
The film confirms the darkest prejudices of the man or woman who despises sexually liberated New Yorkers, then holds up a mirror and shows them an Arab. This is quite astonishing, since it's appealing to the sort of moron who also tends to think that Arabs are raghead terrorists who need bombing into submission.
In one stunning metaphorical moment, the four chums are trapped in a souk, endangered, and dressed insensitively in shorts and plunging tops. Their escape comes – freedom is theirs – when they climb into burqas. Thus, its message is both the most conservative and the most radical we have seen in a Hollywood movie, possibly ever.
This morality tale appears to have the enormous ambition, the brave and culturally groundbreaking aim, of building bridges between religious extremists of east and west.
Sadly, it will take more than a rubbish film with bad puns to bring those groups together.
Laws, rules and idiocies
The old, sparky, witty, observational Sex and the City would have had enormous fun with the story of David Laws. The question that Carrie would be typing, as she sat smoking in her underwear, would be: "When does a relationship become 'a relationship'?"
Mr Laws has been far too apologetic about breaking this preposterous rule against "renting accommodation from a partner", which is a meaningless sentence when nobody knows what a "partner" really is.
Should an MP phone the parliamentary standards committee if he tumbles into bed once, drunk, with his landlord? Or are you allowed five shags before the government sees fit to deem it a partnership?
Are you allowed to claim back the room rental for as long as you haven't met each other's parents? Or does this become an expenses fiddle the first time you visit Homebase together? Are you allowed to claim rent paid to someone with whom you have watched an entire series of The Wire or only sporadic episodes?
The whole point of legalising civil partnerships was that "married" gay couples should have the same benefits, protections, tax credits and inheritance of tenancy agreements as straight couples. Not having undergone a civil partnership, David Laws does not have his relationship recognised by the state in any way that helps him. So why should it be recognised just to hinder him?
Until you have had a formal service, it's not for anyone else to say what is or isn't a partnership. The current parliamentary rule, for all practical purposes, can be translated only as: "You're not allowed to hump the landlord." And that's no rule for grown-ups.


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It's been six years, but the group 015B will finally be linking up with a new guest singer.
015B is prepping for a new single release, and a new guest singer will be featured on it. The first time they've done so since their 7th album in 2006.
015B was the first group to really create this new trend of using featured artists. Artists they've worked with in the past include Park Jung-hyun, Dynamic Duo, Verbal Jint, Yozoh, Horan, Yoo Hee-eol, and 4minue.
The new song will drop sometime at the end of this month.
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I cannot believe how good the weather has been int he UK lately. If it continues, I am going to have to completely update my summer wardrobe. At the moment I can get away with wearing Autumn pieces, but the random heat waves that keep coming our way mean that I am struggling to dress for the weather. This is good and bad for me, because it means I get to go shopping, but my bank balance does not agree in the slightest.
One thing that annoys me most about the UK, is that you get a week of really good weather, followed by 3 weeks of rain. So it's a tough choice to decide to spend money on something you can't really wear that much. I still like to look for new pieces, and this is my summer dresses wish list. Right now, Zara are really killing it giving me MAJOR Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman vibes and I want everything.
Let's get started…
Monki £50
I actually found this dress by looking for Bridesmaid dresses for an old friend. I immediately fell in love, and luckily, she hasn't chosen this one for the wedding, so it's definitely going to be my dress for the big day and I'm so excited. Unless another comes up before, but I doubt it will…
Flynn Skye $176
Zara £39.99
How amazing is this dress?! Pretty woman eat your heart out! I actually have the dress Julia Roberts wore in the film (the one in the photo) as my mum had it stored in the loft. Once she moved house, I dug it out and grabbed it to come home with me. It's a little small, so I need to do some work to get into it, but I don't think I will ever get rid of it!
Free People $198
Major major boho chic vibes going on, and the perfect festival dress.
Zara £29.99
I've saved the absolute best till last. Oh my goodness. I need this dress. Major bonus, it's only £30!!! Think I may need to go to my local Zara and pick this baby up.


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You use the free Google Translate service to instantly translate text from one language to another and in some language pairs, you may even listen to the translated text by clicking the blue speaker icon as show in the the above screenshot.
In theory, such a feature may come handy in situations when the person on the other side of the phone doesn't understand your language. You can type the text in your native language, hit translate and play the translated text as audio over the phone.
But will this thing really work?
As part of Demo Slam, these girls decided to call an Indian restaurant and placed the entire order in Hindi using the "text to speech" feature of Google Translate.
They typed their responses in English in the Google Translate box and played the translated Hindi version to the order taker. After some waiting, the ordered food was at their doorstep.


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I've been having a lot of "love at first sight" moments with art lately. Such is the case when you're actively looking for beauty; you seem to find it everywhere.
On Saturday, the coldest night ever, I swung by the Richard Beavers Gallery to check out artist Bisa Butler's latest exhibition in Brooklyn, "The People Who Could Fly: Royalty Without Riches". Butler uses everyday materials denim, cotton, silk, vintage flour sacks, etc. to create intricate portraits of the people who surround her such as her father, a friend's daughter, or her grandmother, along with famous women who inspire her such as Lauryn Hill, Nina Simone, and Zora Neale Hurston.
In a quick speech on her opening night, Butler she spoke of the nobility she sees in the people she encounters daily, and how she reflects their sense of dignity in her work.
"The People Who Could Fly" is on display thru March 26, 2016. For more information: HERE
Butler's exhibition was full of lovely pieces, but this confident little girl, "The Princess", in pigtails, her bow used as a cocked crown, was the standout for me. The walls of my home are packed with art. I wish I had a place for her.
Check out the details. The contrasting prints moved me. Butler used Tk Tk T for this piece.
A few more favorites. Catch those crowns. Thinking of Butler's emphasis on nobility, I was reminded of one of my favorite Dr. Maya Angelou quotes: "Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it."
"Thembi "(below):
The name is Zimbabwean for "hope".
The name means "grace".
In case you're curious about the title, The Asantehene is the "absolute monarch of Ashanti and Ashantiland and the Empire of Ashanti of the Ashanti (or Asante) people's ethnic group" in Ghana. (I had to look it up.)
"Flowers for Faith"
Isn't she precious? I adore her little part and pigtails, and her expression. She's perfect!
I don't quite understand the title of this one. Did I mix it up with another work? I dunno. But these colors are everything.
"Primo". I loved the incorporation of African print here.
"Royal from Her Head to her Toes". I loved this one too.
My grandmother looks nothing like this, but the feeling of this work immediately evoked my memories of her. It's the clip on earrings and the way she clutches her Bible to her chest.
"Nina Simone"
Butler captured Simone's somber expression perfectly.
"If I Ruled the World"
This was inspired by a very famous portrait of Lauryn Hill shot by Marc Baptiste. The original is one of my faves. Butler captured Hill's eyes perfectly.
The original photo by Marc Baptiste:
"If She Hollers Let Her Go"
I was drawn to the sensuality of this one.
"Wrapped in Rainbows"
My favorite author, Zora Neale Hurtson, and her famous hat. I love the use of patterns here.
The original photo:
"Natural Crown"
Get it?
"The Senegalese"
An amazing use of (vintage) denim here:


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Dorothea Lange
Lange in 1936
Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn
May 26, 1895
Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
|October 11, 1965 (aged 70)
|Known for
|Documentary photography, photojournalism
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.[1]
Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn was born on May 26, 1895, at 1041 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken, New Jersey[2][3] to second-generation German immigrants Heinrich Nutzhorn and Johanna Lange.[4] She had a younger brother, Martin.[4] She dropped her middle name and assumed her mother's maiden name after her father abandoned the family when she was twelve years old, one of two traumatic events early in her life.[5] The other trauma was her contraction of polio at age seven, which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp.[2][3] "It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it."[6]
Lange graduated from the Wadleigh High School for Girls,[7] and although she had never operated or owned a camera, she was adamant that she would become a photographer upon graduating from high school.[8] Lange was educated in photography at Columbia University in New York City in a class taught by Clarence H. White.[8] She was informally apprenticed to several New York photography studios, including that of the famed Arnold Genthe.[5] In 1918, she left New York with a female friend to travel the world, but was forced to end the trip in San Francisco due to a robbery, and settled there, working as a photograph finisher at a photographic supply shop.[9] where she became acquainted with other photographers and met an investor that aided in the establishment of a successful portrait studio.[3][5][10] This business supported Lange and her family for the next fifteen years.[5] In 1920, she married the noted western painter Maynard Dixon, with whom she had two sons, Daniel, born in 1925, and John, born in 1930.[11]
Lange's early studio work mostly involved shooting portrait photographs of the social elite in San Francisco.[12] At the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her lens from the studio to the street. Her photographs during this period bear kinship with John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.[13] Her studies of unemployed and homeless people, starting with White Angel Breadline (1933), which depicted a lone man facing away from the crowd in front of a soup kitchen run by a widow known as the White Angel,[14] captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
In December 1935, Lange and Dixon divorced, and she married economist Paul Schuster Taylor, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.[11] For the next five years they documented rural poverty and the exploitation of sharecroppers and migrant laborers. Taylor interviewed subjects and gathered economic data, while Lange took photographs. Lange resided in Berkeley for the rest of her life.
Working for the Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration, Lange's images brought the plight of the poor and forgotten--particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers--to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, Lange's poignant images became icons of the era.
One of Lange's most recognized works is Migrant Mother.[15] The woman in the photograph is Florence Owens Thompson. In 1960, Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph:
I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.[16]
After Lange returned home, she told the editor of a San Francisco newspaper about conditions at the camp and provided him with two of her photographs. The editor informed federal authorities and published an article that included the images. In response, the government rushed aid to the camp to prevent starvation.[17]
According to Thompson's son, Lange got some details of this story wrong, but the impact of the picture was based on the image of the strength and need of migrant workers.[18] Twenty-two of the photographs she took as part of the FSA were included in John Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies when it was originally published in The San Francisco News in 1936. According to an essay by photographer, Martha Rosler, the photo became the most reproduced photograph in the world.[19]
In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for achievement in photography.[20] After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she gave up the prestigious fellowship to record the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast on assignment for the War Relocation Authority (WRA).[21] She covered the internment of Japanese Americans[22] and their subsequent incarceration, traveling throughout urban and rural California to photograph families preparing to leave, visiting several temporary assembly centers as they opened, and eventually highlighting Manzanar, the first of the permanent internment camps. Much of her work focused on the waiting and uncertainty involved in the removal: piles of luggage waiting to be sorted, families wearing identification tags while awaiting transport.[23] To many observers, her photograph[24] of Japanese American children pledging allegiance to the flag shortly before they were sent to camp is a haunting reminder of the travesty of detaining people without charging them with a crime.[25]
Her images were so obviously critical that the Army impounded most of them, and they were not seen publicly during the war.[26][27] Today her photographs of the internment are available in the National Archives on the website of the Still Photographs Division, and at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1945, Ansel Adams invited Lange to teach at the first fine art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA), now known as San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). Imogen Cunningham and Minor White also joined the faculty.[28]
In 1952, Lange co-founded the photography magazine Aperture. In the mid-1950s, Life magazine commissioned Lange and Pirkle Jones to shoot a documentary about the death of Monticello, California and the subsequent displacement of its residents by the damming of Putah Creek to form Lake Berryessa. Because the magazine did not run the piece, Lange devoted an entire issue of Aperture to the work. The collection was shown at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960.[29] Another series for Life magazine, which Lange began in 1954, featured Martin Pulich, a lawyer, due to Lange's interest in how poor people were defended in the court system, which by one account grew out of her experience with her brother's arrest and trial.[30]
In the last two decades of her life, Lange's health declined.[4] She suffered from gastric problems as well as post-polio syndrome, although the reoccurrence of the pain and weakness of polio was not yet recognized by most physicians.[5]
Lange died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965, in San Francisco, California, at age seventy.[11][31] She was survived by her second husband, Paul Taylor, two children, three stepchildren,[32] and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Three months later, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted a retrospective of her work, which Lange herself had helped to curate.[33] It was the first one-person retrospective by a female photographer held at MoMA.[34]
In 2003, Lange was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[35] In 2006, an elementary school was named in her honor in Nipomo, California, near the site where she had photographed Migrant Mother.[36] In 2008, she was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts; her son, Daniel Dixon, accepted the honor in her place.[37] In October 2018, Lange's hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey honored her with a mural depicting Lange and two other prominent women from Hoboken's history, Maria Pepe and Dorothy McNeil.[38]
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) announced her intention to become a photographer at age 18. After apprenticing with a photographer in New York City, she moved to San Francisco and in 1919 established her own studio.
|Dorothea Lange's Documentary Photographs, at J. Paul Getty Museum


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It was the Dahon's turn for an adventure yesterday, Wednesday. However, still a little sore from the 77 mile ride on the Trek on Monday, I had my concerns that I wouldn't make it. But at 0400hrs I woke up and I was straight out of bed.
The Dahon was going to France!
This was another one of my planned rides during my week off work. Although I'm not going to get through all of them, I have now completed my new main ones: France and Hyde Park.
The first leg of the journey was to cycle to Rochester train station to catch the first train to the south coast. The train was due to leave at 0533 so I had aimed to get there a little early so that I could take some photos. Rochester was quiet so on my way I took a few night shots of the Dahon in the high street before moving on to the station.
I purchased my ticket at the self-serve machine, an 'anytime' return to Dover Priory station (£16.70), before heading under the tracks and up to the southbound platform. The train arrived on schedule and we left Rochester at 0533, travelling south through Gillingham, Faversham and Canterbury (and others) on the way to Dover Priory.
The Dahon fitted easily between the seats on the empty train – it was in its element! Although bikes are permitted on trains outside of 'peak times', there are no restrictions for folding bikes.
The journey took about an hour and ten minutes and I was soon at the station in Dover. The sun was up by the time the train arrived so no lights were required on the 1.2 mile ride to the ferry. There was a slight downward incline to the short ride but I pedalled hard to get there as quickly as possible, conscious of the fact that the check in deadline was near.
I'd made my reservation on Tuesday via the Internet (only £8) and, with bike folded, I checked in at the P&O counter before being whisked off by bus to the waiting ferry. Again, the Dahon fitted easily on the bus and although there were a few curious glances, none were disapproving. Of the handful of people on the bus, I was the only passenger, the others were staff/crew – I was to be the only foot passenger on that crossing.
Before long I was seated in the lounge on board the ferry with a good window seat and a large hot coffee next to me. Soon, people began making their way up from their parked cars on the lower decks and populating the rest of the ship – its entertainment rooms, duty-free shops, bars and lounges. I sat and watched.
The crossing was relatively smooth with only a slight swell in the middle of the English Channel and around 90 minutes later we were docking in Calais, northern France. Bonjour mon amies! 🙂
I disembarked and jumped aboard my 'private' bus (only me for them to transport) to the terminal. And there we were, me and the Dahon standing on French soil.
The plan was to just cycle/walk around Calais and take in the sights, get some fresh air and relax. I hadn't planned anything for the day, I hadn't really looked into what was in Calais to see and visit, I was just going to ride around and see what I could find.
Fortunately, Calais has its fair share of history so I wasn't short of places to visit. Dotted around the town were maps of Places of Interest to visit and alongside each POI was a sign detailing the historical background of each particular structure/building/site (luckily in both English and French!).
One of the things I had to do over in Calais was to ride on the right-hand side of the road! On a few occasions I had to think twice before proceeding, but in the whole, I didn't make too many mistakes.
It was raining heavily as the ship arrived in Calais harbour but as the morning drew on it began to clear and the sun came out. On the seafront, there were strong winds and that, together with the threat of rain, must have been keeping the locals and tourists off the beach. I sat on the seafront for a while and just 'chilled', watching the ferries, the birds and the sea. Rows of small beach huts were lined up in front of me and I eventually dragged the Dahon down the steps and between the huts before walking alone to the sea. Calais seemed strangely deserted.
Back on the Dahon, I followed the beach road for another mile before winding back into Calais to search for the next sight to see. Spotting some spires towering over the old skyline, I used my Garmin GPS receiver to lead me to them – one a church, the other the Town Hall. Moving inland, there were more people around. Perhaps being sheltered from the wind or perhaps simply gravitating towards the bars and restaurants; the residents of Calais were discovered at last!
As with most towns, Calais has its share of unattractive areas but it also has some very pleasant places, interesting history and old buildings. Being a key crossing point to Britain, it does (unfortunately) attract more than its share of 'illegal' immigrants who try to cross the Channel for a new life in England – the infamous Sangatte Refugee Camp was only a few miles from Calais. However, even though that camp closed years ago, cycling around Calais I saw numerous groups of individuals who were obviously destined to attempt their illegal entry into the UK.
The sun was out and the afternoon turned out to be very warm and pleasant. I continued to slowly cycle around the town taking in the French air and watching the locals going about their lives. I watched, ate, took photos and read a few chapters of a book (Brave New World, Huxley) and generally relaxed and enjoyed myself in France for the day.
I cycle/walked 10.3 miles around Calais during the day and at 1600CEST I was very tired – the day's exercise and Monday's Hyde Park exertion all catching up with me. For my last hour or so in France I sat on the quay in the old harbour and watched the seagulls. Then it was back to the ferry port to check in.
I managed to catch an earlier ferry back to Blighty and sat in the same area drinking coffee as I had done on the outward journey (although this was a different ship). The GPS reported that we were speeding across the Channel at around 24mph and 90 minutes or so later we were at Dover Harbour. Unfortunately, a technical problem hindered berthing and 15 minutes of 'extreme' vibration later a tug pushed us toward the dock to let us off.
It was raining heavily as I unfolded the Dahon outside the port. I donned my hi-viz waterproof jacket, put the three Cateye lights on to flash, and mounted the NiteRider to the handlebars. Then I was off! The rain and wind slowed me but I enjoyed the 12 minute ride back to the train station where the train was waiting. Despite the delay at the harbour, I still had 30 minutes before the train left Dover Priory to take me back to Rochester – time for a couple of photos.
The train journey took another hour and ten minutes and I watched as the stations went by, counting them down as I got closer to home. GPS reported a maximum speed of 88mph on the train and it was handy to see my location on the Garmin's map as we shot through the darkness of the Kent countryside.
The final leg of the journey was a 1.7 mile cycle from the station to my house. The rain was very heavy, it was 2100hrs and it was dark. All the lights back on, I headed out. The NiteRider really proved its worth in such bad weather. The three Cateye lights, and the Knogs, all in flash mode, gave me confidence that I would be seen by other road users.
It had been a very long day but it had been good fun. Getting out and about had been great, and a varied journey to France had been interesting (cycle/train/ferry/bus). I'd used the Dahon for the first time in muti-mode travel and it had been a success – this is something that I couldn't have done with the Trek.
One final note: the Dahon is SO comfortable compared to the Trek with its narrow and hard seat. 😉
More photos from my day-trip to Calais can be found on Flickr.


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Event: 2015 runDisney Avengers Half Marathon
Event Date: November 15, 2015
Event Location: Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, California
This is the second leg of the Infinity Gauntlet Challenge. Check out Jennifer's review of the lead-off event, the Captain America 10k.
Why I decided to run this race.
Of all the race themes offered by runDisney, this seemed the most unique and interesting. Sure, Star Wars is fun and it's always nice to be a princess. But to be a superhero (or villain) for a day? Awesome!
Getting there/the lead-up to the race
My only concern leading up to the race was the temperature. My costume was going to be really warm and I was hoping for cooler temps so that I wouldn't overheat. As it turned out, I didn't need to worry because we had perfect running weather on the morning of the half.
The race Expo and Swag review
Check out my review of the Captain America 10k for my thoughts on the expo.
The gear
Figuring that many runners would stick with the main Avengers characters for this race and being a little bitter that so many of the female characters are stuck in boring black spandex, I dug deeper into the Marvel catalogue to select a more colorful character. I ended up going with classic comic book Mystique. Although there were a few women and teenage volunteers who got it, my sweet spot was men in their mid-20s to late-40s. I got more heartfelt shout-outs and mid-race photo requests during this race than I have ever gotten; even the cosplayers on course were unusually excited for my costume. And it broke up the monotony of the run to overhear conversations like this:
Lady: "Hey scary lady. Who are you dressed as?"
Me: (responding with a stuffy nose due to allergies) "I'm Mystique."
Lady: "The Stink? Who's The Stink?"
Lady's Husband: (with an eye roll that was practically audible) "No, honey. She is clearly classic Mystique. From the X-Men comics. Mystique, not The Stink. By the way, it's an awesome costume."
The costume: full-length high-waisted dark blue leggings and long-sleeve dark blue halter top from Dancewear Solutions, white Princess Leia dress altered to remove the arms and add leg slits, custom-made skull belt, red hair extensions, and two Hippie Runner headbands – Red Rocks and a blue version of Nessy.
The rest of the gear: grey Adidas sports bra, Injinji socks, Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 shoes, Garmin Forerunner 620 and Gymboss interval timer, and Camelbak Marathoner hydration vest.
The pre-race
Knowing that we probably didn't need to leave quite as early as the day before but still wanting to give ourselves enough time to get to our corrals (to avoid a repeat of the Disneyland half when we were blocked from entering our corrals), we left our hotel about an hour before the race started. This gave us enough time to hit the port-a-potties before splitting up to go to our individual corrals. For the first time, my husband didn't stay with me because he knew he would need the extra time on course since he would be walking. So I headed into my corral, played a bit on social media, listened to an awesome version of the National Anthem by a member of the Air National Guard, and then got ready for my earliest corral release ever (since the half marathon didn't sell out, there were fewer runners and I was bumped up a corral).
Along the course
I'd heard a lot of negative reviews of the Avengers half marathon course, but I attributed most of that feedback to the terrible winds that plagued the race in 2014. However, having run the course, I will now agree that this is one of my least favorite Disneyland courses. From the starting line we immediately turned into the California Adventure backstage area, we then ran straight through the park, crossed into Disneyland for a little bit, and were out on the streets of Anaheim by mile 3. We spent the least amount of time in the parks of any of the races.
There were, however, two things I did really like about our time in the parks: 1) When we entered the on-stage area of California Adventure, we did so through the Paradise Pier side of Carsland. This gave us the great view of the Carsland mountains at sunrise, which was one of my favorite sights on the Star Wars course (the only other course that has us enter from this direction). 2) Although hitting the parks early in a race usually leads to significant crowding and therefore slow running, the visual of the Carsland mountains right off the bat immediately caused the crowds to break up since a good number of us stopped for pictures and allowed the faster runners to continue through. Shortly after that was a character photo stop, which helped break up the crowds even more. This is the least crowded run through the parks that I've ever had.
The course through the streets of Anaheim was not bad, it was just kind of boring. There were a few bands, a line of superhero cosplayers on a section of the Santa Ana trail, cosplayers in historic military uniforms and active duty military personnel, and a chance to round the bases at Angels Stadium…and that's about it. For any other race in any other city, that would be considered great course entertainment. But for a Disney race, it was a pretty poor showing.
Even though the course may not have been quite as magical as a typical Disney race, I had a good experience. I worked with my coach to devise a race strategy that kept me feeling strong the whole time. I didn't have any tummy troubles and I never hit the wall. I danced down the street with my fellow runners as one of the bands played "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5 (I guess we all have a bit of Baby Groot in us). I cheered for the swing dancers in 1940s attire outside of Angels Stadium. And I finished a half marathon with my husband, for the first and probably only time, when I caught up with him half a mile from the finish line (though I was really tempted to run past him and beat him across).
The SMOpinion
I walked away from this race with two SMOs: a silver spinner for the half marathon and a gold Infinity Gauntlet for the challenge. The challenge medal isn't really my favorite since it looks a bit like jelly beans glued to a hunk of gold. But I like it better than the teething ring medal from the Pixie Dust Challenge, so that's good.
The post-race experience
Since my husband and I crossed the finish line together, all we had to do was to find our friend so we could all go into Disneyland to pick up Fastpasses for Fantasmic that night. Having successfully obtained our Fastpasses, we had to make an unexpected trip back to the race village to replace both of my husband's medals—he lost two stones from his challenge medal and his spinner fell out. Luckily, the volunteers at the information tent had extras and we exchanged them without a problem. And having completed everything we needed to do at the parks and the race village, we headed back to the hotel to shower before going out to our traditional post-race lunch at Ruby's.
Playlist Peak
My iPod took the theme and location of the Disneyland Avengers half marathon very seriously, serving me up appropriate tunes like "Ride to California" by the Paper Tongues, "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars, and "Move Along" by The All-American Rejects.
Looking back now
Sure, this wasn't my favorite of the Disneyland courses, but I actually really enjoyed the race. I felt strong, I love the theme, and the weather was great. I'm not sure I'll do it again but if someone wanted to buy my entry and send me a plane ticket, I would run it without hesitation. Especially if the rumors are true and the challenge medal will highlight a different Infinity Stone each year…I'm a sucker for medals in a series.
This is the second leg of the Infinity Gauntlet Challenge. Check out Jennifer's review of the lead-off event, the Captain America 10k.
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A few months ago I submitted an abstract to the British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section (POWS), for consideration for their Undergraduate Prize 2013. Psychology is an interest, not my principal field, but the literature I focus on tends to have psychiatric/psychological themes. The abstract I submitted was a (slight) reworking of the abstract from my first conference paper (given in 2011); "Staying here will be good for you": Amalie Skram and the [un]willing female psychiatric patient.
My submission was really a bit of a whim after I heard about the award via an email newsletter; I can't even remember which one! Imagine then, my surprise, when I received an email on the 11th of April to inform me that my abstract had been shortlisted. I was absolutely delighted, and even more so with the comments passed on to me from the reviewers:
I think that this could make an extremely interesting paper, but the author would have to be clear about the original findings and contributions to theory or practice in their paper. There is scope to further show how application of the interpretation of the books will be developed and if this is carried out well could be a very interesting extension of knowledge. I expect this will be a piece of value and interest.
Naturally, the shortlisting has filled me with inspiration and enthusiasm. I have been toiling over the paper ever since and hope, as the reviewers suggested, to present them with a paper which incorporates original findings and theoretical knowledge, along with interpretations of the literature. I am thrilled to have been shortlisted and, as Psychology is not my specific subject per se, I do not expect that my paper will move beyond this stage, though it goes without saying that if it were to progress I would be extremely pleased.
The submission deadline (for a 3,000 word paper) is the 16th of May. The prize for the winning paper is awarded at the POWS Annual Conference, and comprises of £200, the opportunity to present the paper at the conference, fees and travel for the conference, and publication in the POWS Review.


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Bridal Hair and Makeup in Houston
Like most girls, you too may have dreamt about your wedding while you were still little . . . the kind of dress you would be wearing, the place where you will be wedded, how beautiful you would look, and how perfect your husband will be.
Well, of course, you know that, come that day, more than on your husband to be, all eyes will rather be on you, staring at, and staring again, at three very important things: your dress, your hair and your make up.
Some brides want to think of themselves as knowledgeable in makeup application and hair styling, thus, they do most of these things on their own or with the help of a friend or kin. One thing you should know, however, is to never make this mistake.
Your Wedding Day is one of the most important days of your life. But, however you would want to look, with a touch of glamor or simplicity, the best way is to leave it to the experts – people who have been trained in bridal hair and makeup.
On its website, Therapy Salon explains that bridal hair and makeup should not only be beautiful, memorable and flawless, but should also be able to endure the weather, especially if you are planning for a wedding outdoors.
While some salons will leave you at the hands of any of its hair-stylists and makeup artists who, like a general surgeon able to treat a wide range of illnesses, would claim being knowledgeable in all kinds of hair styles or makeup artistry, respectively, well-established and trusted salons have trained and certified experts who handle certain types of hair styles or makeup. This is to make sure that you look your absolute best on this extremely special occasion.
Therefore, rather than have your hair lose its style during the so many hugs and kisses after the ceremony (long before the dancing part) or suffer the embarrassment of your face slipping off because the primer, setting powder, foundation, blush, mascara, and eye shadow used were not budge-proof, why not go to the experts. Your wedding may last only for a few hours, but the pictures which will capture just how beautiful or "not so beautiful" you are will last forever.


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- Page 1 Canon PowerShot A2000 IS Review
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- Page 4 Features Table Review
- Page 5 Test Shots – ISO Performance Review
- Page 6 Test Shots – Detail and Lens Performance Review
- Page 7 Test Shots – Exposure Evaluation Review
Main shooting mode is controlled via a large dial on the camera's top panel. The dial itself feels a bit cheap and clunky, with distinct air of Fisher Price about it. The shooting modes consist of program, full auto, video mode and five quick scene modes with a further 11 under the SCN setting. There are no manual exposure options.
Canon uses variations of the same menu system on all its compact cameras, including the useful function menu system, simply adding or removing features for each model as necessary. The menu on the A2000 appears to be similar to some of the recent IXUS range, with fewer options than usual for an A-series camera, but it is just as quick and easy to operate as ever.
The function menu offers exposure compensation, white balance, the "My Colour" settings, metering mode and image quality settings, all of which are useful, and the custom setting in My Colours does allow adjustment of contrast, saturation and sharpness. The main menu is also fairly simple, with basic AF settings (AiAF, face detection or centre spot), custom self-timer setting and image stabilisation options among others, but again there is little in the way of creative control. All the other functions, such as drive mode, ISO setting and macro/landscape focus mode, are selected via secondary functions of the D-pad.
The external controls don't appear to be as solidly mounted as they might be, and some feel decidedly flimsy. Catch one with the edge of a fingernail and it gives an distinctly plastic 'ping'.
The zoom control is a rotary bezel around the shutter button. The control action is fairly crude; you have to turn the ring a long way to make it move, and when it does it moves jerkily and too quickly, making accurate framing difficult. Since the 6x zoom range is a major selling point of the camera I would have hoped that Canon might do a better job on the zoom control.
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