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This article was originally published in the spring of 2014.
It began innocently enough. It was my day off and I was out exploring the newest town. Anything to get out of the apartment, and perhaps find a short cut down to the office. I came around a corner and there it was, standing in the middle of the road. A bronze statue on a pedestal, bayonet fixed, charging out of his nonexistent trench to cross no man's land and make the world safe for democracy. I quickly found a place to park the car and ran across the street out to the small triangle of grass the Doughboy controlled. There, along Antietam Creek, just a few miles from Sharpsburg, Maryland, home of one of the bloodiest battles in American history, stood a memorial to the grandsons of the Civil War.
That was seven years and many miles ago. I've chased monuments from Utah to Tennessee, from St. Louis to Salem, Massachusetts. We as Americans memorialized our veterans and fallen soldiers as individuals and in their tens of thousands. Often we remembered them by neighborhood, by church parish and by county. Some cities chose to list all their war dead, regardless of race, some noted their African-American soldiers with the letter C (for Colored, the parlance of the day), others intentionally ignored dozens and even hundreds due to the inconvenience of their race. The monuments are a snapshot of the inter-war period, remembering the soldiers sailors and marines who had died in the war. They celebrate America's tradition of democracy, monuments that range from classical temples to art deco palaces to the dead. They embody the clash of classes, and the fact that in many cities benign neglect was the best an African American could hope for from government.
Zanesville, Ohio has been a center of transportation from the early days of the Republic. It began as a ford site of the Muskingum River along Zane's Trace. It grew as a city on the National Road, which in 1925 became US 40, stretching from Atlantic City, New Jersey to San Francisco, California. Nearly a decade later Zanesville, like so many other cities and towns, wanted to remember its veterans and war dead, and they chose to order a pressed copper statue from E.M Viquesney of Americus, Georgia. The Viquesney monuments are the most common monuments to the World War in the United States, and continue to have a special place in the hearts of American towns and cities including Vernal, Utah, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Castile, New York, and Enosburg Falls, Vermont.
Salem, Massachusetts conjures up certain images in the minds of people across the world. Yet by the 1920s Salem was more than 225 years removed from the time of the infamous Witch Trials. In that time Salem had grown from a predominantly Protestant village to a center for global trade, then to a center of manufacturing dependent in large part on immigrant labor. Much of that labor consisted of Catholics from Europe, and Canada, whose social lives revolved around their local parishes. When the soldiers returned from Europe the people of Immaculate Conception Parish had a memorial created by Raymond Averill Porter, who taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, who then went on to create a statue of Senator Lodge, the fierce opponent of Wilson's League of Nations, along with numerous other monuments, memorials and sculptures of various types. Salem had suffered from a fire that consumed a large portion of the city in 1914. That had spared the Immaculate Conception Parish, but destroyed many of the parish buildings, and more importantly much of the housing for St. Joseph's Parish. St. Joseph's was historically made up of French Canadians, who had only built their current church in 1911. While the parish's people recovered, along with the parish schools, nunnery, and vicarage, a new church wasn't commissioned until after the Second World War. At the same time the new, modernist building was under construction St. Joseph's also commissioned a joint World War One and World War Two monument. In much the same style as the new church building the monument reflects mid-century design. In contrast to the "Columbia" of Immaculate Conception's bas relief, holding her shield reading "for God Country and Humanity" the St. Joseph's Parish monument is easily 20 feet tall, an angel holding a sword, with the words "Time will not dim the glory of their deeds" around the base. While Immaculate Conception remains a vibrant parish on the edge of Salem's tourism district St. Joseph's is no more. The parish and its church fell to the joint wrecking balls of parish closure and reconstruction, the modernist mid-century glory that was the center of Quebecois life in Salem remembered by the hearts of its former parishioners and by the monument in "The Point" beside Lafayette and Washington Streets.
Permanent old world presence in what is now St. Louis had begun in 1764, and by the beginning of the 20th century St. Louis had become a major transportation hub, home of the two westernmost Major League Baseball teams, host of the 1904 Olympics, and the 1904 World's Fair, celebrating the Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase… albeit a year late, to allow more countries to participate. At the same time, St. Louis and its neighbor across the Mississippi East St. Louis, Illinois had serious racial divides, which led to the infamous 1917 Race Riots in East St. Louis, housing discrimination throughout St. Louis proper, and tensions between unionized white labor and cheaper, African-American labor recently arrived from the deep south (while unions refused to allow the African-Americans to join). It was against this backdrop that St. Louis began construction of its Soldiers Memorial in 1922. The Memorial, and its museum cover a city block at the center of Memorial Park and took more than a decade to complete. The building was dedicated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936 and finished in 1938. The structure was designed by the firm Mauran, Russell & Crowell, and four statues surrounding the building were created by Walter Hancock, whose better known works include the Pennsylvania Railroad World War Two Memorial in Philadelphia's 30th Street Station and the Garden of Gethsemane series at Abbey of Gethsemini in Kentucky. Hancock was also one of the Monuments Officers involved in the search for looted art in Germany during the Second World War.
Just as small towns, church parishes, and large cities built monuments to the First World War, many of the States did as well. Utah was a small state in the 1920s. In fact it had a smaller population then the City of St. Louis. But in the shadow of the State Capital, beside City Creek the Silver Star Mothers had a Pagoda built around 1924, with the urn and its list of names added in 1932. Despite being dedicated by the Silver Star Mothers, the memorial carries the names of those who were killed in the war (Silver Star Mothers was an organization of women whose sons had served in the war, but not died). The Pagoda and Urn, along with their location in the verdant City Creek Canyon encompasses the visual traditions of 19th century architecture and mourning harkening back to Greek and Roman themes.
While communities constructed memorials for the soldiers who served, there were also monuments created for individuals. Perhaps the most often seen, as well as most often over looked of these is the Fr. Duffy Monument in New York's Father Duffy Square. Who was Fr. Duffy and where is Father Duffy Square you ask? Well Fr. Duffy was a Canadian priest who moved to the United States and became the regimental chaplain of the 69th Infantry, aka the Fighting 69th. The 69th had begun as a regiment just before the Civil War, made up of first generation Irish Catholics. By 1917 the regiment was "only" half Irish, and now included Italians, Germans, Jews, and Native Americans. Fr. Duffy traveled to France with the 69th Regiment, which was now a federalized unit merged into the 42nd Infantry Division (the Rainbow Division) under a new number, the 165th. Fr. Duffy could have sat in the rear as the regiment served on the front, but he didn't. He accompanied first aid squads in the front line trenches, hearing confession and giving last rights while bullets flew and poison gas shells burst around them. He served with the regiment its entire time in France, never being rotated home, and came to be a Major, the highest ranking chaplain in the 42nd Division. He held the respect of both the men and the officers, including Wild Bill Donovan, who went on to create and command the OSS (predecessor of the CIA) during World War Two, and General Douglas McArthur, already a controversial figure in American military and political circles, who went on to lose, and retake the Philippines during World War Two, and successes and failures during the Korean War.
Where is Duffy Square? Well, that comes from his career after the World War. Once the 69th returned Kitchen. At Holy Cross Church Fr. Francis Duffy served a community of working class men and women, many of whom had served with him in France. He also established a church community for actors from Broadway as well as the 2:30 AM "Printer's Mass" Sunday mornings for the workers at the New York Times, Herald Tribune, Daily News and Daily Mirror who led nocturnal lives to print the cities papers. Additionally he had become a confidant of important political figures of the day including Al Smith, the 1928 Democratic candidate for President, as well as the first Catholic to run for the office. It was Fr. Duffy who ghost wrote Smith's editorial in response to questions of his loyalty to America rather than the Pope. Fr. Duffy died in 1932, and by 1938 a monument had been built to him, at the northern end of Times Square. It shows Fr Duffy standing in front of a large Celtic cross, wearing his officer's trench coat, but no weapons, just as he did during the war. The monument appears, yet stands uncommented upon in thousands of photographs a day, in scenes showing the hustle and bustle of Times Square, and in film and television, without being focused on by the characters.
The monuments discussed in this article are in good condition, yet all across America there are monuments to the First World War that lay forlorn, forgotten by the communities that built them. Perhaps the city needs funds to restore them. Perhaps they are truly forgotten on the wall of an abandoned courthouse, in an unused portion of a cemetery, or moved from place to place, and now hidden away in the basement of the city hall. Some monuments are city auditoriums or gymnasiums. Some of the best known monuments stand as stadiums, there initial meanings forgotten; such as Soldier Field in Chicago or the California Memorial Stadium at the University of California (Berkley).
Fortunately, there is a way you can help. The World War I Memorial Inventory Project is in the process of creating an online inventory where you can enter information on your local memorial including location, date of installation, material types (if known), and other information. The World War I Memorial Project can be found online at http://wwi-inventory.org photographs, articles, and the descriptive details are greatly appreciated.
An article and a quest like this naturally are indebted to those who have helped along the way. Special thanks must go to the people at Memorial House in Salt Lake City who confirmed forgotten details of the monument in Monument Grove, to the staff of the St. Louis Soldiers Memorial Museum, the many friends including but not limited to Camesha Scruggs, Jonny Eberle, and Lisa Berray who have taken the time to send me photos of monuments near them I was interested in, and most importantly, to the more than four million Americans who were mobilized to make the world safe for democracy.


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Front-Lawn Renovations: How to Prepare Your Yard for Summer
After spring cleaning your property to prepare for warmer weather, you are ready to begin your annual pre-summer lawn care routine. Spring is the perfect time to identify and remedy any problem areas on your property, and is also ideal for planting new landscaping features. The first step to a healthy lawn and landscape is to complete basic lawn care for the upcoming season.
Basic Lawn Care
Early spring is a good time to seed your lawn if your grass was patchy at the end of the previous summer, and you should decide whether your lawn needs aerated early in the season to promote thicker, healthier grass later in the season. After the last frost of the season, remove winter mulch and other protective coverings.
Some shrubs and trees also need pruned before new growth appears in late spring. Check with a professional tree trimmer to develop a pruning schedule that is right for your landscape. Professional tree trimming services also increase the plant's resilience to disease.
Encouraging Healthy Summer Growth
Spring is the best time to test your lawn's ph. Amend the soil as needed before planting gardens or landscaping features, and choose plants that are suitable for your soil type to encourage healthy growth. Your local tree trimmer can test your soil and assist you in choosing plants that suit your soil type.
Spring is also the ideal time to boost plant growth with fertilizer. Apply fertilizer to both new and existing garden plots by working the fertilizer into the soil during the tilling process. To fertilize existing plants, apply the fertilizer to the roots according to the product packaging.
Prevent Weeds
To prevent weeds, apply pre-emergent herbicide to your lawn, but only if you haven't spread grass seed recently. Herbicides can kill early grass growth. You should also wait until after the lawn is aerated to apply the herbicide to ensure the herbicide is as effective as possible.
If you haven't spread grass seed recently, apply the herbicide before new growth begins in the spring to prevent crabgrass and other nuisance weeds. Another option is to wait until late spring to apply herbicides. In late spring, weeds are easy to identify, allowing you to spot treat your lawn easily.
Perfect Results
From trimming shrubs to preventing weeds, a perfect lawn is just weeks away when you finish an early care routine in spring. With consistent care throughout summer and professional help from a company like Schulhoff Tree & Lawn Care, Inc., your lawn can withstand the winter for hardy growth in the spring.


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Drunk Pirate Lance Clifford reports today from Johnson Valley.
With blowing sand, sideways rain at the start and an excited group of racers the results are just in today from the desert near Dagget, California. Campbell Enterprises takes first and second place at the first annual King of the Hammers in Lucerne Valley. Shannon Campbell started 43rd out of 44 vehicles entered in this race and he was the first vehicle across the finishline. Campbell's team had to change a flat and weld a suspension link bracket but still captured the overall win!!
Teammate Casey Currie finished second, 7 minutes behind Campbell. Currie had Shannon's brother Nick Campbell in the right seat with him leading him thru the rocks.
Today, Lance reports that 'Totally' tried to keep the race radio equipment dry today. Not from the rain,"No Beer by the machinery!" And another racer who broke down this afternoon before the finish, clearly had his attention on something other than racing, "I have a gallon of Tequila in the trailer". All of the race drama center stories from Lance, the Drunk Pirate, will be reporting form all the desert races this year, courtesy of Baja Racing News.com Totally!
1. KING - Shannon Campbell
2. Casey Currie
3. Rick Mooneyham
4. Doug Bigelow
5. Brett Porter
6. Joachim Schwiesow
7. Richard Gauthier
8. Dean Bulloch
9. Jack Adams
10. Eric Anderson
11. Drew Burroughs
12. John James
13. Hobie Smith
14. Roger Lovell
15. JR Reynolds
16. Nicole Johnson
17. Eric Holder
18. Jack Graeff
19. Scott Ellinger
20. Ian Plaine
21. Chris Geiger
22. Craig Thompson
23. Tom Wayes
24. Jeff Mello
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Former CFTC Commission Bart Chilton tells NexChange that the Dodd-Frank reform is about 70% complete -- putting it ahead of European and Asian regulators implementing new rules to make the financial community safer. Chilton shared his insights during a recent LaunchTalks panel on regulation and fintechs. Disclosure: Bart Chilton is a senior advisor to NexChange.


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Veteran hard rock band Motley Crue are currently in the middle of an 18-month farewell tour that will mark the end of the group after 24 years.
The tour will culminate with a New Year's Eve show at The Staples Centre in Los Angeles and, if Alice Cooper has his way, the band's deaths.
During an interview with Australian classic rock radio station Triple M, as reported by Ultimate Classic Rock, Cooper – who has been serving as an opening act – revealed he has offered to chop off the band's heads as a finale.
"They finish up in the United States on New Year's, and that's their last gig," said the 66-year-old singer, who has been known to include guillotines in his live shows. "I told them, 'Why don't you let me kill you onstage? That finishes everything.' Four guillotines, floomp! Done!"
Cooper has previously claimed there are no modern rock 'n' roll stars because today's crop of musicians don't have any "testosterone".
"I keep looking for the 17-year-old kid who wants to hang his guitar down here and play it from his crotch, not his brain," he said in 2012.


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From My Indiana Window
You were warned.
I say to thee:
Imagine yourself in the skin of an individual Who is from a heritage that has been the subject, or target of oppression from day one. A fact that can't be argued for it is historical record. You are one of many people's that have had to live under a whip, No matter How that whip manifest itself, it is your master, your gun line, and you've been told this since birth. You see it everyday via education, commercial industry, politics, religion, and even entertainment.
And if that isn't bad enough, those sworn to up hold justice, the very idea this habitat was "built" upon, are not protectors, yet enforcer's. Sentinels that walk this land with an air of malice intent and greed of power, but even worse, they hold the knowledge of knowing they have No one to answer too, and it is your daily life struggle to survive this truth.
But like a child bullied to often, a employee overlooked too many times, a slave subjugated to oppression on a daily basis for centuries, something inside of you says enough is enough. A fire in you reaches critical mass and you explode into fits of rage.
You revolt. You fight back. You riot…
And the Sentinels believe you mad. They are baffled by your actions. We employ you, clothe you, feed you, house you, even let you learn here and there. Why are you so angry? Why are you so…. ungrateful?
How absurd of us who clock in like you, spend like you to stimulate OUR economy, get taxed like you, love our children like you, enjoy a cold beer like you, but never get treatment the same as you, act so ungrateful to the ills of the society that swore we are equals, and made document that we all are to be treated fairly?
As if your "allowance" to educate, work, live, and love ourselves is enough to justify the pointless excessive force to our people. You acknowledging our basic human rights makes it OK to target us and make examples of us? Yes, we are obviously out of our God damn minds to be so fed up with systematical bullshit, that we would finally exorcise the restraint we so courageously have shown though out the years.
Oh yes, we have held our heads highest in the face of oppression for fear of revolution ending with more of us wrongly killed.
But No more. The Laws of this land do not apply to us. Whether we obey or revolt we are still targets. The officers of this place are no protectors of ours, so we call a truce to the black on black crime you inspired, and ruthlessly toss in our faces, as if it is equability as wrong as your ill will, and we protect each other.
If your stores, neighborhoods, businesses we're never for us, why should we care about the well being of the city it resides in?
Yes, these establishments are our means of "survival", but what good is a dollar, if I have to slave to make it, but can't peacefully spend it?
Our children will watch the streets burn, our elders will witness chaos consume the land, and your sentinels will either idle and observe or participate and perish before we allow the media and state to define our pain, our suffering, our story.
Fools you are to assume that actions like this, pain like this, carnage like this is completely unwarranted, out of the blue, and unjustified.
If I place my boot of your neck too hard for too long, eventually, you will not only gain the rage turn strength to remove me off of you, but also make it your point to make sure I never place you under my boot again.
America, you were warned.
Sincerely –
An observer of Baltimore.


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2010 marks the 17th year that The Media Arts Center of San Diego, Changing Live Through Film brings us the San Diego Latino Film Festival. MACSD is a non profit organization that works to aide under-served communities learn technology skills, media literacy and preserve culture through community-based story-telling.
This year the festival will screen over 180 diverse films beginning March 11 through the 21st. SDLFF 2010 will celebrate Mexico's Bicentennial with incredible featured films as well as animated shorts. Also to be showcased, the talents of many gifted female filmmakers in Cine Mujer. As well as experimentals in categories like Venezuelan Cinema; Cine Gay, Comedy and much more.
Another reason to join the 20,000 who are expected to attend the festival this year; all profits at the SDLFF will benefit youth media education programs. The Festival will be based at UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center, with lots of parties and events supplementing the film screenings over the festival's eleven day run. Be sure to come out and commemorate this momentous occasion of exceptional cinematic achievement as the longest-running Latino Festival in Southern California.
When: March 11-21
Where: UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center (7510 Hazard Center, San Diego, CA 92108)
For more info on the Media Art Center of San Diego and how to attend the Latino Film Festival visit: www.mediaartscenter.org/site/pp.aspx


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Two Matsuura Aya Official Hello! Project Photogaphs from Ray of American Wota
North American auction, ends Apr 26th @ 9pm EDT
A set of two Matsuura Aya Official Hello! Project Photogaphs. These photos use a Hawaiian Alo Hello theme, with Ayaya posing with an Alo-Hello sign in one of them. Dimensions 6 inch by 4 inch. A great addition to your Jpop collection! This auction item available only in United States and Canada.
If you're a long-time fan of something, this will happen inevitably: you find unexpected troves of old stuff you bought and forgot you had. This happened to me while preparing to ship out the earlier auction items, and I figured, "God is telling me to put this stuff up for auction, too." (Well, most of it. I'm holding onto a couple of items still. God will understand.) Some of it came from when Hello! Project kept a permanent Information Village in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center; other items came from when my family crashed the temporary Alo-Hello store during one of Morning Musume's tours. Look at how small Haruna is in those pics! And how skinny I was! (Relatively speaking.)
I have no idea what happened with the third Ayaya pic from this series, since the old pics indicate there was a third. But these two are pretty nifty on their own, as far as I'm concerned.


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Wintertime In Saxony (Sachsen)
Wintertime Impressions from the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) in Saxony (Sachsen) in Germany near to the Czech border. From Fichtelberg on the idyllic, greatest village in Saxony – Teller properties – via the intimate knight by Pöhlwassertal Environmentally friendly and on to Black Mountain sales opportunities our visual journey. Previous the snowy and pristine open fields, mountain ridges and slender forest streets, lined by pine trees with thick snow. Previous the ice and snow confined mountain streams and waterfalls. Trip to the workshop of the beef carver plate homes – in the Fridolin – Cleats and soar to the exercise...Read More


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2011 Cloud Mountain Fall Fruit Festival
Category : Events, Farm Stands, On the Farm
If you've never been to one of Cloud Mountain's Fall Fruit Festivals, next weekend is an opportunity to share the joy! If you've been to one before, we'll see you there!
Cloud Mountain Farm Center, located at 6906 Goodwin Rd., east of Everson, will be hosting their 22nd Annual Fruit Festival, Saturday, October 1 from 10am-5pm, and on Sunday, October 2 from 11am – 4pm. Fruit sampling of over 200 varieties of apples, European and Asian pears, kiwis, table and wine grapes, cider, and jams and jellies of unusual small fruits will take place throughout both days.
I recommend planning a strategy in advance for the tasting. The number of varieties can be overwhelming, so you might want to focus on particular types of apples–heirloom, sweet, tart, red, green, pioneer Whatcom varieties, easy to grow varieties, brand new varieties this year, etc. The people staffing the tasting tables are incredibly knowledgeable and can answer just about any apple related question you can think to ask.
Cloud Mountain Farm Center is a newly formed non-profit organization. This new project will build on what Tom and Cheryl Thornton have created over the last 30 years. The farm will become an educational and training center for market farmers and consumers. All of the existing crops and plant material will continue to be grown at the farm with many new projects in the works. The Thorntons will lead this effort as staff of the new farm center.
The music this year will feature Bridge. The members of Bridge have performed with each other in various musical configurations over the past decade. Cloud Mountain Farm Center brings them all together for the first time to celebrate the fall harvest. Influenced and inspired by blues, jazz, folk and rock, the band bridges these musical genres through original songs and instrumentals and a wide range of cover tunes. Seattle musician Brian Butler will cross many bridges on his journey north to join Whatcom County musicians Brian Cunningham, Cary Stevens, Keith Carpenter and Lynne Givler. The guitars,
mandolin, percussion, bass, harmonica and vocals of Bridge will beckon you to the grassy dance floor in one tune and pull you into the relaxing rural landscape in the next.
Nursery plants for fall planting will be for sale with special prices. Other events and activities include Julia's Pumpkins, fun projects for kids, and cider pressing. Mallards Ice Cream will be available featuring fruit picked specifically for the various flavors offered at the festival. Call the farm for more details, 360-966-5859. Admission is $3.50/person or $9.00/carload. Children under 5 are free. Please no dogs. All proceeds will benefit Cloud Mountain Farm Center.
Visit the farm for a tasty and festive weekend for the whole family!
(Read my article about the 2010 Festival.)


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Kristen Stewart Talks About Her Gold Ring From Robert Pattinson
K-Stew says 'everybody wants to know' about her ring from Rob — and that includes us!
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's relationship is more serious than ever — and the proof is in the bling! Part of K-Stew's new interview in the June 2012 issue of ELLE magazine includes a mention of the gold ring on her index finger, and even though she doesn't say too much, her word choice is very telling: "Everybody wants to know," she says about the ring. "Everyone already knows — it's ridiculous."
OK, let's dissect Kristen's nine words, shall we?
When assume she means "everybody wants to know" about her and Rob's relationship — but what about it, exactly? That they're getting married? That they're together at all? (Yes, we're familiar with the non-believing "Nonstens.")
But her second sentence is even more suspect: "Everyone already knows — it's ridiculous." Is she calling speculation of their relationship "ridiculous" because "everyone already knows" they're together, or is she saying it's "ridiculous" how everyone assumes they know about her and Rob's relationship?
Obviously every piece of K-Stew's jewelry means something, because she also has a silver spoon ring on her thumb that she shares with her entire family.
"All four of my brothers and my mom and dad have these," she says of the silver ring. "My mom went and got them for Christmas."
All right, that's pretty adorable.
But what do you think of the gold ring on K-Stew's index finger? Drop a comment with your thoughts on Rob and Kristen's relationship. In case you haven't noticed by now, HollywoodLife.com is pretty into those two.
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A portable scientific instrument, known as the BenthoTorch (manufactured by bbe Moldaenke, Germany) is providing a diverse group of South African aquatic scientists with the means to measure algal growth off living cells in their natural habitat. Various algal species have adapted their nutrient uptake systems enabling them to survive in shallow water close to the shoreline, where sunlight still penetrates to the sea or river bed. This habitat is home to benthic algae, ranging from the microscopic to the enormous. Such flora play an essential role in primary production. The ability to measure the level of algal growth, in situ, as well as the dominant groups present (the BenthoTorch can distinguish the pigment signatures of green, blue-green and diatom algae), is of enormous importance for assessing the condition and ecosystem health of streams, rivers, estuaries and coastal shorelines.
Traditional methods include sampling of benthic algae by scraping surface materials or rapid deep-freezing and subsequent chlorophyll extraction. However, these methods cannot determine different algal groups. Alternatively, the use of time-consuming microscopy is limited to accessible objects rarely found in the field. Benthic algae measurements have, therefore, become much easier with the development of the BenthoTorch, which enables quick and easy analysis of benthic algae in real time and in situ by utilising the fluorometric characteristics of the different algal pigments in the intact cell. Thus, no sample preparation is needed.
In South Africa, GroundTruth Consulting are using the BenthoTorch – with a standardised sampling method they devised – for the proposed Lesotho Polihali IFR (in-stream flow assessment) setting and a variety of local studies. With funding received from the Water Research Commission the scale of the project has been increased, and an MSc student is using the BenthoTorch to understand periphyton dynamics in open canopy wadable rivers in a summer rainfall environment. Related work is being undertaken with another BenthoTorch by Justine Ewart-Smith (Freshwater Research Centre).
In the marine environment, Professor Renzo Perissinotto and Dr Nelson Miranda of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth have, for some time now, been using the BenthoTorch's big brother, the Fluroprobe. The Bentho-fluoroprobe has been used to collect data from St Lucia Estuary (KwaZulu-Natal), since 2004, by their UKZN research group. Dr Miranda has been collecting data since 2009 as part of a project titled ''Climate Change and the Management of KZN estuaries: St Lucia Estuary'', under a Research Agreement with the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority. Prof Perissinotto is currently the holder of the DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow Water Ecosystems, housed at NMMU, as well as Professor Emeritus at UKZN. After the establishment of the Research Chair last year, Dr Miranda became involved and used the Bentho-fluoroprobe in a project addressing the recently discovery of tufa stromatolite ecosystems on the south coast (Eastern Cape), in collaboration with Tommy Bornman of SAEON, Rosemary Dorrington of Rhodes University, David Bell of NMMU and others. A scientific publication on their work is imminent. Both projects are ongoing and Dr Miranda now uses the BenthoTorch and the older Fluoroprobe in a dedicated pelagic mode.
The South African researchers, who also include Toni Belcher from the company BlueScience, have been fortunate to link up with the experience of Corina Carpentier who works in the Netherlands and has just completed her PhD – with the marvellous title of "Carpet of the Sun: On the Quantification of Algal Biomass". Corina will be visiting Bill Harding (DH Environmental Consulting) and Andrew de Villiers (GroundTruth) in South Africa later this year. Last year, the BenthoTorch was used in a large study of the Danube River (the largest river in Europe), and this resulted in a dataset of over 100 sampling points along 2,500 km of river (left and right bank, and tributaries). Parameters included in the study were phytobenthos biomass and biodiversity, phytoplankton biomass, benthic invertebrates, fish, nutrients (N, P), flow velocity, transparency of the water, general physico-chemical parameters (pH, T, Oxygen, EC, etc.), and a huge number of chemical parameters (pesticides, industrial chemicals, etc.).
The BenthoTorch embodies the following features: no sample preparation needed; automatic substrate correction; integrated instrument display; GPS sensor; cable-free operation; data logger function; rechargeable (internal) battery and USB connection. Anyone who has utilised chlorophyll data in their monitoring and/or research will know the frustration of not being able to have instantaneous measurements. Well, the BenthoTorch and the AlgaeTorch, a similar instrument that allows for rapid measurement of chlorophyll signatures from phytoplankton in lakes and reservoirs, provide just this: instantaneous readings off living cells! As demonstrated in the research cited hereunder, the BenthoTorch provides a non-destructive means of sampling sensitive and/or rare communities such as stromatolites.
Here are two links to research articles in which the BenthoTorch played an important role: Link 1 Link 2
In South Africa the AlgaeTorch and BenthoTorch are supplied by DH Environmental Consulting (Pty) Ltd. (www.dhec.co.za). (see previous post on the AlgaeTorch instrument).


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MONDAY, Oct. 27, 2008 - Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake (1690s Massachusetts witch hunt locale)
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Relative difficulty: Easy
THEME: SPIN (55D: Twirl ... or a cryptic hint to 20-, 36- and 51-Across) - "SP" goes "IN" to a common answer to make a wacky answer, which is "?"-clued.
Easy, breezy, beautiful, Cover Girl. No problem. Cute. Not one of ACME's more inspired puzzles, but it'll do. I beefed to Will that it's really more SPON than SPIN, in that you tack "SP" "ON" to the beginning of phrases, rather than inserting it "IN." He agreed, and yet I think we both agreed that the placement of "SP" fit under a broad understanding of "IN" - plus SPON, sadly, just isn't a word. I don't have much to say about this puzzle. It did inspire me to put on Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini" while I write this entry, which I am enjoying, so I appreciate the puzzle for that, at least (12D: Instrument for Rachmaninoff - PIANO).
I stumbled only a couple times, appropriately at two uncomfortable answers: GASSY (7D: Bloated, as the stomach) and ON CREDIT (39D: By deferred payment). For whatever reason, neither would come easily. Beyond that, I wondered aloud why the "Real-life" part was necessary in the SFPD clue (31D: Real-life org. seen in "Bullitt"). Will explained that it was to distinguish the answer from fictional org.'s like KAOS. But I don't think there was a fictional org. in "Bullitt." Just handsome Steve McQueen and his badass Mustang.
I also winced at the butchering of END [of] AN ERA (40A: With "of" plus 49-Down, momentous time). Cluing made me want to carry the four and divide by pi. If you can't get the "OF" in the grid, skip it.
Theme answers:
- 20A: Aerosol tanning? (SPray of sunshine)
- 36A: Tiffany showroom? (SPace of diamonds)
- 51A: Babble incoherently? (SPutter nonsense)
It occurs to me that this puzzle is a LOT like yesterday's puzzle, where "ST" was added to phrases to get wacky phrases. I won't compare them - Mondays and Sundays are apples and oranges, respectively.
- 58A: Lerner's partner for "Camelot" (Loewe) - LOEW = theater owner, LOEWE = musical theater composer.
- 61A: Pesos : Mexico :: _____ : Turkey (liras) - argh, currency. Still weird to me that Turkey has Italy's old currency.
- 4D: Europe/Atlantic separator, with "the" (Atlantic) - also a fine magazine, to which I subscribe.
- 22D: 1690s Massachusetts with hunt locale (Salem) - also the cat on "Sabrina the Teenage Witch."
- 54D: Baseball's Hideo (Nomo) - memorize. N.L. Rookie of the year in 1995. Threw two no-hitters. His name will be in the puzzle forever.
Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld


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Are these UK made too? I believe most (all?) Lusso kit is?
The Lusso Windtex Over Boots help keep your feet warm and dry. It's not the Messiah, but it is a very good boy.
Keeping feet both warm and dry is a challenge to test the best of kit. One answer is to invest in winter boots, but if you need wallet-friendly itinerant protection from the elements, a set of overshoes, overboots, booties, or whatever you like to call them, is the way to go. If it's cold and wet you're unlikely to be concerned about breathability. No, you just want to keep water out, and by extension wind as well. In this regard, the Windtex material Lusso uses for its Over Boot is just the ticket.
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Lusso has gone for hefty Velcro as the closing mechanism, removing the risk of a grit-filled zip failing at an inopportune time. Of course this does make for more faff getting things on and neatly in line, but not beyond the wit of man and only taking a few seconds over a zip.
The orange upper Windtex section is stitched to a snug laser-cut cuff that follows the contour of your bib tights/leg warmers and has a grip strip inside, to help keep things in place. Along the Velcro edge is a reflective stripe and on the front a small Lusso roundel, working with the orange to give decent heightened visibility to other road users. Feedback from riding partners is that the borderline-hysterical orange works a treat aiding visibility – and matches nicely other items in the Lusso range.
Underneath, the road-cleat cutouts are enough to facilitate pedal and heel contact without encouraging wear or letting excess water in.
Fit-wise, the mediums are slated for EU42-43, but I had no trouble putting them over EU45 winter boots or summer shoes that should require a large.
In my experience if you start out with cold boots left in the garage your feet will never make them warm, so winter-round mine sit on the radiator pre-ride. In temperatures below 5°C I often resort to an overboot, or at the least a toe cover. Out in a few degrees plus wind, the fleece-backed Windtex did the job of keeping my feet warm, and did a similarly good job in a freezing garage during hour-long turbo sessions over the top of some decidedly summerweight shoes.
They did an admirable job keeping spray off too, as you'd expect from a fully waterproof fabric. But like any overshoe they will inevitably let water through the top, and ultimately through the bottom, seeping up the inside. So it's a case of for how long water is kept at bay – I found the Lusso boots were passable over summerweight shoes for a few hours of pretty decent rain, before the inevitable leakage down from my tights and up from the road had soaked through.
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Lusso didn't go full orange on the Windtex boot, which means they don't look shabby covered in mud after a few minutes. Once filthy they washed out well, although given the plastering they receive there will always be a trace of past rides ingrained.
Overall I found the Lusso Windtex Over Boots to be a quality bit of kit, good for days when the weather – or temperatures – take a turn for the worse.
Quality protection from the elements, with enhanced visibility and good fit
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Lusso Windtex Over Boot
Size tested: Medium
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
It's for people riding in wet, cold weather, who want to be seen.
Lusso only states: "For road use only"
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
* Velcro back fasteners with reflective tape
* Windproof
* Breathable
* Thermal
* Made in the UK
* Machine washable
How easy is the product to care for? How did it respond to being washed?
When rather filthy, hand-washed out almost clean – some staining remaining, but might come out with more aggro.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Pretty darn well.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The colour.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Velcro. I'm not sold.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
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These are indeed very good boots – they don't set the world on fire, but they don't disappoint either.
About the tester
Age: 43
I usually ride: Merida Ride 5000 Disc My best bike is:
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: A few times a week I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo-cross, club rides, general fitness riding, mountain biking, Dutch bike pootling


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1. An aircraft that spends more time being serviced or requiring maintenance than it does flying. The new stealth jet was a promising addition to the Air Force's fleet, but due to its frequent breakdowns, it has proved to be more of a hangar queen than a useful plane.
2. An airplane that is permanently grounded so that its parts may be used to repair other aircraft. I loved my first plane, but as I began buying more, it became a mere hangar queen to replace the parts of the newer ones.
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Graduates in Corpus - The Big Picture
Corpus as an intellectual community
The Corpus graduate community (also known as the middle common room or MCR) is a lively, multi-disciplinary and international one, with strong representation and traditions in the humanities, social sciences and the sciences. Graduate students from Corpus have gone onto a wide range of careers in academia, the professions, business and the arts (and much more!). To get a feeling for the nature of the student body have a look at our graduate student life and graduate student achievements pages.
The guiding philosophy of the graduate community is combining serious intellectual ambition with a lack of pretension and a strong sense of scholarly community. Whether one is in the lab every day, working in the depths of a library, or carrying out empirical social science research - the quest is the same -great scholarship and research. The College seeks to support all students in that quest by creating an environment in which wide ranging intellectual inquiry is encouraged. As active scholars and researchers, the senior common room (SCR) (fellows, professors, and lecturers) also know that great scholarship and research involves serious hard work, pushing intellectual boundaries, and often frustration. We also recognize that due to the very different nature of the degrees graduate students are taking the time spent in college will vary from student to student and have structured our graduate provision around that fact. Whether you come into College every day or every fortnight - you are always welcome.
Corpus is small compared to other Colleges and one of the advantages of this, besides creating a very friendly atmosphere, is that there is a great deal of intellectual interaction between the SCR and MCR. In term time there are Monday lunches which both groups can sign up to at which cross cutting issues are discussed. There is an immensely successful seminar series in which graduates and SCR members present their work and graduate students also have the opportunity of dining at High Table with Fellows and their guests in a scholarly environment. Each graduate student has a College Adviser assigned from the SCR who can act as a source of advice and support if needed. There are termly advisor lunches, an annual graduate dinner, and an annual supervisor's dinner. There are also annual meetings with the President and Tutor for Graduates to discuss academic progress. The College Office and Tutor for Graduates are additional sources of advice.
Alongside all this, the graduate community has its own common room which provides a social and physical base for students in College. It carries subscriptions to various newspapers and journals and has a small but well-appointed kitchenette. It is a popular venue for social events. There is an MCR Committee which organises many of these events and through which graduates' concerns are represented to the administration of the College. More details are available at the MCR website.


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Lexy Panterra is a dancer and singer from the USA. She won her first beauty pageant at the age of 5 and successfully raced motorcycles from the age of 8 until her father, professional motocross racer Tony Panterra, had a serious accident and forced Lexy to retired from racing when she was 11 years old. It was then that she started dance and theater classes.
Dame Dame is the new single from Claydee. It is an electro-dance track about being in love and wanting to dance. It is a catchy tune with an Eastern flavour and a refrain that sticks in your head for ages after the song has finished, and has a great beat behind an interesting rhythm and isn't overloaded with sound. The video is filmed in what appears to be a desolate quarry with a strange collection of characters, from bikers to nuns, and an assortment of dancers performing at a makeshift bar for no apparent reason other than for the sheer enjoyment of it.
You can buy Dame Dame on iTunes.
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"The light of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed, therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness." Luke 11:34, 35.
Why are those condemned who do not come to the light? "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." John 3:19.
If one is really seeking for truth, what will he do? "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." John 3:21.
What will those who reject light and truth, be finally led to believe? "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:11, 12.
From what source does one derive light? "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Ps. 119:105, 130 (Prov. 6:23).
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198379419907919214.post7581340202481265931..comments2020-01-01T04:50:46.887-08:00Comments on A Sheltering Tree: Are You Eating Dirt?Pamelahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198379419907919214.post-26794808437188924802017-05-03T17:45:38.137-07:002017-05-03T17:45:38.137-07:00This blog is wonderful. I'm glad I found it. I...This blog is wonderful. I'm glad I found it. I'll be reading it regularly. God bless you and your family.Lisa Howardhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198379419907919214.post-29775005828851594682017-02-19T23:30:32.812-08:002017-02-19T23:30:32.812-08:00Thank you, Pamela. This is an area I think that ma...Thank you, Pamela. This is an area I think that many Christians, especially women, struggle in. I know that I certainly do. It's staying consistent in worship and adoration in Him. Not getting caught up in the world. There are far too many distractions, and I just want to want more of Him and less of me. It's that absolute surrender that I can almost taste and see, but I take steps backwards and get caught up in self-pity. I'd love for you to write more about this subject if the Lord leads. We also have to remember NOT to become legalistic about worship/time with the Lord, but also to not act in license (looseness). It's finding that "happy medium" that pleases Him, and refreshes the soul!Shannon Wallacehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198379419907919214.post-50321839870127838142017-02-19T10:56:14.366-08:002017-02-19T10:56:14.366-08:00Hi Pamela, what a lovely post. I agree with every...Hi Pamela,
what a lovely post. I agree with everything you have written here, and the scriptures have a power in them that nothing else has. I have always believed that the Bible is a vocabulary, not a book, and that God knows exactly what to speak to us at the appropriate time. All we have to do is believe and act on that word spoken to us.Brendahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198379419907919214.post-29634635239053116082017-02-19T04:23:24.280-08:002017-02-19T04:23:24.280-08:00Love your ideas for feeding on the word. Love your ideas for feeding on the word. Shoregirlhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198379419907919214.post-11189436724690264842017-02-18T17:47:27.075-08:002017-02-18T17:47:27.075-08:00At one time or another, I've done each of thos...At one time or another, I've done each of those five!
Great reminders. Strong truth here.
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By Garrick Brown, Vice President, Research – West Region
On September 1st, DTZ and Cushman & Wakefield merged. The new Cushman & Wakefield draws on the best of both legacy organizations to create one of the world's largest real estate services firms, with a combined total of $5 billion in revenue, 43,000 employees, more than 4.3 billion square feet under management, and $191 billion in transaction value. Cushman & Wakefield will be led by Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Brett White and Global President Tod Lickerman. Cushman & Wakefield is owned by an investor group composed of TPG, PAG, and OTPP.
What's that mean for us in retail? Well, it means that our retail network of brokers has more than doubled in the United States alone. And that doesn't even get into what it means for our ability now to do deals in Europe, Asia, South America, etc. with all of our new global colleagues throughout both legacy organizations. While the DTZ and Terranomics brands are being retired, we're all still here and will be going forward under the Cushman banner. This move not only expands our reach and ability to assist clients with their real estate needs anywhere in the world, it also creates one of the largest and most dynamic retail practice groups in the world. The new Cushman & Wakefield retail team features some of the top suburban shopping center AND high street urban retail specialists in the world as well as an unparalleled capital markets team.
So welcome to the New Cushman & Wakefield Retail Newsline!
I'm writing to you today from beautiful San Diego on the opening day of the ICSC Western Division Conference and Deal Making event. This is one of the top three national ICSC events each year and always a great spot for not just doing deals but getting a feel for what is happening in the industry. I will be tweeting live from the Convention Center floor over the next couple of days. Today is golf day, special certification day and welcome reception day. The heavy lifting starts tomorrow. But I will be working the booth and roaming the floor dropping some interesting facts and tidbits as I go. If you want to follow me, check me out at Twitter—my handle is @retailwizard.
So we have an awful lot of news to catch up on in this expanded edition. Actually, there was so much news over the past two weeks that we are going to do expanded editions both this and next week simply to not overload everyone.
The big news of the past few days though is that consumer spending is up. All the stock market turbulence of the past five or six weeks didn't mean much. Ironically, I still think it will take its toll on consumer confidence numbers for September when those are announced next week. What's really interesting about the boost in consumer spending (+.4% in August and an upwardly revised +0.6% in July) is that not only are the numbers pretty robust but that they have been driven largely by two things; automobile sales and restaurant sales.
Now obviously this is not music to the ears of hard goods retailers. But it shouldn't be viewed as bad news either. Do consumers who are nervous about the economy (and let's face it, for the overwhelming majority of us that means our jobs) typically start spending more money eating out? Uh, no… that is usually one of the first things they cut. More importantly, do consumers who feel negative about the economy typically go out and make the large and usually relatively long-term commitment of buying new cars? Uh, no again. In fact, of all the categories where Americans could have boosted their spending over the past month the two that arguably have the greatest symbolic implications are where we have seen the biggest jump. Spiking automobile sales show Americans are less concerned about the longer term economic picture and feel secure in making a larger financial commitment. Increased restaurant spending shows that they are willing to pamper themselves more right here and right now.
But guess what? According to the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index (CCI), American confidence in the economy stood at 101.5 in August. If Vegas took bets on it, I would not hesitate to put some serious money down on the proposition that the CCI Index drops when new numbers are released next week (BTW, speaking of degenerate gambling… I would make that same bet that the Fed isn't going to do anything tomorrow).
It's important to listen to what consumers say. But it's more important to watch what they do. There is a relationship between consumer confidence and consumer spending but it is not as airtight as many think. Where the relationship appears strongest is after prolonged periods of up or down movement in confidence. That tends to be where we see the strongest correlations behind up or down movement in consumer spending. But even then it's a loose relationship.
OK, you have enough reading to do this week. Next week I will be back with a super extended "Who is Doing What" section as well as more commentary.
During our hiatus of the last couple of weeks, my good friend Mike Palenchar of the MR Group released his monthly update of detailed same store comparables for the retail sector. He shares them with us each month and though these are a little late due to our break, I know many of you track these religiously. Here is the data for August and thanks again Mike!
By the way, there are a couple of people out there who track and disseminate same store sales data, but none that are so comprehensive in their coverage. Mike (firstname.lastname@example.com) also happens to be one of the top retail talent recruiters in the business. Mike has been active in the industry since 1999. His company specializes in identifying top talent for mid to upper level positions in the retail and building industries nationally. He's helped a lot of people I know some great positions and he is a good friend to the Newsline. You can get on his mailing list for same store sales data by dropping him a line. He puts out a great monthly report that is free.
This post is commentary from the latest weekly edition of our Cushman & Wakefield Retail Newsline, which you can subscribe to for free by e-mailing email@example.com.
Garrick joined Cushman & Wakefield (formerly DTZ / Cassidy Turley) in October 2010. He serves as Vice President of Retail Research for the Americas. He speaks frequently at industry events and has been a keynote speaker at symposiums, conferences and market forecasting events for groups like the Appraisal Institute, Urban Land Institute, CREW, ICSC and PRSM. He is also a member of Lambda Alpha International, an invitation-only land use society for those who are involved in the ownership, management, regulation and conservation of land, but also those who are involved in its development, redevelopment and preservation.


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If you live in the British isles, we're sure you'll have noticed that it hasn't stopped raining now for, ooh, about 50 years, give or take.
Not only is this pretty depressing for those of us who live here, it also creates all kinds of sartorial issues, so for today's Pick of the Day, we present you with this emerald green shower-proof trench coat from F&F. The classic trench coat never goes out of style (that's why it's a classic, obviously), but if beige is too boring for you, the bright green of this coat will brighten your day – and if you don't fancy that, perhaps the bright red will be more to your liking? (And it also comes in beige, just in case you really DO prefer to keep it classic…)
This doesn't have a hood, so you'll also need this heart-print umbrella – and maybe a pair of glitter wellies, too. (Don't worry, they're subtle enough for you to still feel like a grown-up while you're wearing them…)
Of course, once you've got the outerwear sorted, you can wear pretty much anything you like underneath. We've picked this polka dot wrap dress from Uttam Boutique, just because we like it (It also helps that it's the kind of dress you can wear to work AND out for drinks afterwards…), and because we're pretty sure you're not going to want to walk around in your wellies all day, we've also included a bag large enough for you to pop your regular shoes into, so you can wear them later.
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Getafe Demands Biblical Devotion
Spanish premier league club Getafe is disturbing Catholic supporters with a TV ad campaign using Biblical and other religious characters to call for devotion to the game of football. The spot, shown first in public at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez, opens with Abraham being called to take the life of Isaac, his son, as a sign of devotion. Moses, in the desert, facing a call from God, considers the cost of devotion. Joan of Arc, maid of Orleans, burned at the stake, faces the cost of integrity. Adam, in the Garden of Eden, considers the cost of losing a rib. Jesus, on the cross, breathes his last word. What makes the ad controversial is the associated voiceover suggesting that such sacrificial acts should first be made for the sake of the football club, Getafe.
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The devotion ad was developed at Publicis Lado C, Madrid, under the creative direction of Lucas Paulino and Angel Torres.
"It wasn't our intention, but if someone has been offended the most I can do is apologise, but nothing more," Getafe president Angel Torres told reporters.
"I believe there are more important things in the world like terrorism or hunger than for people to be worried about an advert. People are getting things out of proportion. There is nothing in it to offend people. We have been respectful to everyone. I am sure that within a few days we'll return to talking about football and forget all about this."
Getafe has withdrawn the first scene, featuring Abraham, hoping to deflect criticism. Apparently, the remaining scenes are just as offensive, considered sacrilegious by not only Catholic bishops, but also by city leaders.
Filed under: Commercials
Tagged: Getafe, Jesus, Publicis, Publicis Espana
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She is doing great! Kaya has grown from 12 pounds when we got her to about 23 pounds now. She absolutely loves playing with her brother, Ninja, taking her morning walk by the creek, kissing her daddy all over his face when he gets home, and enthusiastically unloading her toys from the basket. She is such a joy to have around - friendly and not timid towards any people or dogs. She sets a great example for our other (much more skittish) dog. She's learned to swim in the pool and loves to go on the boat with us, swimming sometimes with her lifejacket on.
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SKL International works in partnership with two governorates in Iraq – Al Qaddissiyah and Dohuk. The aim of the partnership is to support strengthened governance and management in the social care sector in Iraq by addressing issues of service provision and service quality, accessibility, accountability, responsiveness, effectiveness, and coordination-cooperation between legislative and executive powers at sub-national level.
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The project is guided by four immediate objectives, which are to contribute to:
- Clarified roles, responsibilities, and mandates of organisations in the social welfare sector at sub-national level
- Strengthened capacity to plan and monitor services responsive to the needs of community members with special needs
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The ambition of the project is to work with small-scale, step by step, practical, and tangible improvements in the way decision-makers and officials, organisations, and institutions are functioning and interacting in the two governorates. The project will work with two dimensions of sub-national governance: governorate representative decision making represented by e.g. council committees and provincial administration, the organisation and management of social care services e.g. departments and units of MOLSA directorates of social welfare and special needs/the disabled.
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- governorate exchange visits
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- exchange between politicians
- seminars with governorate stakeholders
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In early 1998, Rays scouts on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico spotted a strange looking animal. The creature, apparently drawn to the boat by the smell of hotdogs on the hibachi, climbed aboard and soon won the scouts over with his silly antics. During the excitement, a scout had a brilliant idea: make this fun loving fuzz ball the mascot for the new baseball team. ?Raymond? as the scouts dubbed him, immediately accepted their contract offer of all the hotdogs he could eat, all the high fives he could handle, and the ability to shake his groove thing to countless Tampa Bay fans.
Raymond?s animal-like appearance causes confusion among fans of all ages. His fuzzy face is similar to a walrus and his bulbous blue belly likens him to a mutant manatee. So what exactly is he?
In 2005 marine biologists and zoologists made a startling discovery; Raymond is actually a previously undiscovered species of dog known as ?Canus Manta Whatthefluffalus? or in layman?s terms, a Seadog. Seadogs have all the traits of normal dogs. They enjoy going for walks, playing with kids, and fetching. Unlike other dogs they are five to six feet tall, walk upright, are blue in color, and chase catfish. While other dogs live on land, Seadogs usually live in or around the water. Seadogs are well known for their fun-loving nature, passion for baseball, and general good looks.


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49 Days is an interactive journal designed to help readers nurture their mindfulness, inner dimension and relationships. Over the course of seven weeks, readers are encouraged to focus on one area of inner work at a time, ranging from love and relationships, all the way through to self-improvement, truth and the spiritual dimension.
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Joseph P. Lawlor was born in De Witt, Iowa in 1893, and attended South Dakota State College in 1915 and 1916. He received his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. After serving in WWI as an infantry captain, 1918-1919, he resumed his engineering career. He became assistant manager of Dakota Engineering Co. in Memphis Tenn. in 1921; vice-president of Layne Arkansas Co.; and was secretary-treasurer of Layne Central Co. from 1922-1930, and vice-president and general manager from 1930-1934. In 1934 and 1935 he was chief engineer at Thorpe Well Co. in Des Moines.
As a Navy commander during WW II Joseph Lawlor commanded the 92nd SeaBee Battalion that built an airfield on Tinian Island in the South Pacific. It was from this base that the Enola Gay launched its bombing run to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan.
Lawlor organized General Filter Company at Ames in 1935 and remained president until 1958. He was assistant professor of civil engineering at Iowa State College in 1942-1943. Besides serving as six years as councilman and four years as mayor of Ames, Lawlor was active in many civic organizations, was president of the Iowa Taxpayers Association, and a trustee of the Iowa League of Municipalities. With his wife, Loretto Wiesman, the Lawlors had four children: Marguerite, Joseph Patrick, Conrad, and Leo. After 1958 the Lawlors moved to Florida to retire. Joseph P. Lawlor died March 22, 1982 at his home in Winter Haven, Florida.
The Lawlor exhibit depicts the career of Joseph P. Lawlor (1893-1982) using photographs, artifacts, and textual captions mounted in a portable, hinged, wooden case. Artifacts include: WWI - uniform and helmet, first aid field dressing and pouch, woolen leg wrappings, cartridge belt, and field compass; WW II - blue service coat with campaign ribbons, khaki overseas cap with Navy crest pin, SeaBee postcard; Civilian - General Filter plaque and mechanical pencil, mayor of Ames badge, American Society of Civil Engineers necktie clip, and wife's rosary. Reproductions include: nine photographs, video tape package cover from the film The Fighting SeaBees, resume, and headline from Ames Daily Tribune dated January 4, 1954.
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin once roomed with the Conrad Lawlor family "back when I was at Iowa State University from 1958 through 1962," he said Saturday during an appearance at the Ames Historical Society. So when Conrad and his brother, Leo, of Ames, asked if he would help obtain medals honoring the military record of their father, the late Joseph Lawlor, Harkin said he was only too happy to help.
In a ceremony attended by friends and family members, Harkin presented the Lawlors with a World War I Victory Button, World War I Victory Medal, World War II Victory Medal, the American and Asiatic Pacific campaign medals for World War II. According to Conrad Lawlor, Joseph Lawlor (1893-1982) was a U.S. Army veteran during World War I and helped with the Pancho Villa campaign along the U.S. Mexican border, joined the Navy during World War II and served as a commander of the Navy Seabees (construction battalion) on Tinian Island.
"He was also one of the Seabees who was chosen to be part of the motion picture, 'The Fighting Seabees,'" Conrad Lawlor said before the ceremony began. The motion picture was filmed at Camp Pendelton, Calif., where Conrad, then a 13-year-old, got to meet actor (and Iowa native) John Wayne, who starred in the movie. Joseph Lawlor was part of a Seabee project to build what was then the world's largest manmade harbor at Tinian, Conrad said. The USS Indianapolis, which carried the first atomic bomb from the U.S. to Tinian, docked at the harbor his father helped to build, he added.
Leo Lawlor made wood cabinets and displays honoring the life of his father, who founded General Filter Company and served as Ames' mayor from 1954 through '57. Harkin said that because so many constituents asked about military honors for their family members, he saw to it that additional money and jobs were added to a program that expedites background checks and the awarding of medals.


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Making decisions on react variables
I am just now starting to absorb some of this. I have coded up a basic room with a watch and a couple source events.
My control variable is BedRoom-Activity.
I see my watch and whatever source event firing when variable gets set. For example, Watch-DTV
Now, in my watch event, I want to make decisions on source as well, for example to set an input on a TV.
Is there only way to get the current value of the react variable and store in a urc variable?
Then standard if/else on the value of the urc variable.
Doug, you should be storing all values of the React Variables into associated URC variables. You will still find occasions where the best option is to still do some filtering.
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In this case, I what to localize actions needed to watch TV in this room.
1 - turn TV on/or verify it is on
2 - delay until it is ready for input change
3 - change input based on source being watch.
I have localized the source actions in their corresponding event
The react variable has all the required information. To make decisions on the react variable, I am currently storing the variable in a URC variable just so I can do a if/else decisions on it.
if source:bedroom includes DTV
set input 1
if source:bedroom includes atv
set input 2
I am wondering if I can avoid having to store by react variable (bedroom-activity) to source:bedroom and achieve the same thing.
You are going to want to store the value always into the URC variable as a best practice, this may actually be required.
I understand that you don't want to use it though. You have a couple options here. You can just put input commands in with the sources. That way they don't need to be filtered. You could then send the input immediately and then again after a delay that would be needed in order for the TV to come on. An alternative would be tracking if the TV is ON or OFF with a URC var and then sending a refresh after the necessary delay in your TV Power On event. I am doing something like this with my Emotiva AVR. But it was pretty late when I finished it and now that I look at it, I could probably improve it. Let me do some testing and Ill report what I find.last edited by Spin
Justin Spiniolas
ok, thanks. I want to localize the delay. Also, I want the concurrent processing of the source actions and tv. I don't want to hold/delay the source actions because TV setup is slow
Braden Napier
@Doug-Reiland do me a favor and read through the DRP Documentation and make sure you are following that protocol - it will be a big deal for React Organization so you don't start to see "Ghost Bugs" that are hard to troubleshoot.
Essentially you should have your room Activity be Bedroom not Bedroom-Activity. Other variables might use something like Bedroom-Lights - that will be valid but the activity will always be just the name of the room.
Value should always follow DRP as well "isWATCH-DirecTV" or "isWATCH-SatBox"
As for simultaneous triggering while keeping the delay, I don't recommend localizing the variable into the isWATCH and reading the value to see if DirecTV is included, for example. While this would work, it kind of takes away from the concept we are doing. Instead I would create Device Events for "If the variable includes DirecTV" - if you want, you can create two identical events that look to see if the variable includes DirecTV - this will create two macro streams and you can have one with the delay and one without - however I might be misunderstanding what you want to do.last edited by
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I have read it and I am playing. You guys have a lot more experience than I do so thanks for feedback. I hate redundant code and like to localize stuff. 1 place to change delays, 1 place if inputs need to shift, ..
Plus, I thought I nailed it moving the delay from keeping the source setup from proceeding.
Anyway, I still messing with it. I moved to small config and coding fake rooms/devices so downloads are fast and it makes trying stuff less of a burden
Doug here is an example of what I am doing. This may help you.last edited by
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No-one seems to have covered this yet, so here's the skinny: Matsumoto Seicho's novel "Zero no Shoten" (Zero Focus, out on DVD in the U.S. from Home Vision) is getting the silver screen treatment again, this time with Inudo Isshin ("Josee, the Tiger and the Fish", "La Maison do Himiko") running the show. It'll be a major entry in Toho's 2009 lineup, with a release set for autumn commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Matsumoto whose works have formed the basis for 35 films to date. The original "Zero no Shoten" film was directed by Nomura Yoshitaro for Shochiku back in 1961, with a script by none other than Yamada Yoji and screenwriting legend Hashimoto Shinobu (who recently rejigged his own scenario for the remake of "Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai" (I Want to Be a Shellfish). Inudo is co-writing the screenplay for the new version with TV scribe Nakazono Kenji, whose sole film credit came from another adaptation of sorts: Miike Takashi's "Salaryman Kintaro".
Here's a synopsis pilfered from the San Sebastian Film Festival, where Nomura's "Zero no Shoten" screened this year as part of their Japanese Film Noir retro:
Teiko, a young newlywed, bids farewell to her new husband, Kenichi, in a Tokyo station, as he leaves to conclude business in Kanazawa, promising to return on December 12. But the 12th comes and goes with no word from Kenichi. Teiko's only clue to her husband's whereabouts is a couple of strange postcards she finds among his belongings. When Kenichi's employers invite her to Kanazawa to help them locate him, Teiko finds herself embroiled in a complicated mystery.


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Does Congress Really Get Nothing Done?: BR Podcast 7-26-17
BR 7-26-17; On this edition of Beyond Reason Radio Yaffee addresses McCain's speech to the Senate where he complains about partisanship and Congress not getting things done. Yaffee shows that maybe this is a false narrative and the problem is Congress does TOO MUCH and that usually entails spending more money and growing government. ALSO Yaffee talks about the latest with Jeff Sessions, Trump banning transgenders from the military, and MORE! Listen to the podcast here now!