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Former Jacksonville Suns pitcher Angel Sanchez returned to the Baseball Grounds Wednesday for the first time since he was released from the Miami Marlins organization in mid-June. The result was the same as when he was with the Suns.
Jacksonville hammered its former teammate with eight hits, good for seven runs in four innings and the Suns went on to an easy 9-4 win over the Birmingham Barons at the Baseball Grounds in a businesspersons matinee special.
The Suns (56-47 overall, 20-12 second half) are not use to winning by such a wide margin. It marked just the fourth time in their 20 second-half wins that Jacksonville won by more than three runs.
Sanchez compiled a league-worst 0-8 record with an ERA of 6.88 in 2½ months with the Suns. After he was designated for assignment by the Marlins, he was obtained by the Tampa Bay Rays, released three weeks later and claimed by the Chicago White Sox and assigned to the Barons.
Sanchez won his first game of the year with six scoreless innings against Mississippi Friday. But he couldn't come close to that against his old team.
The Suns went to work on Sanchez early, getting singles from Austin Nola and Austin Barnes to start the first inning. Sanchez's former battery mate, catcher J.T. Realmuto followed with a double that brought home both runners.
Realmuto added a third RBI with a single in the fourth inning when the Suns used a home run from Ryan Rieger, a double from Barnes and singles from Nola and Realmuto to produce four more runs and drive Sanchez from the game. Sanchez hurt his own cause with a fielding error that made three of the runs unearned.
Realmuto said having caught most of Sanchez's 12 starts with the Suns this year helped in three at-bats against his ex-teammate.
"I had a pretty good idea of what he likes to do with certain counts, pitches he likes to throw in certain situations," Realmuto said. "That gave me something to look for, especially with runners in scoring position. He's got some good stuff. He just left a couple pitches out across the middle of the plate and I was able to put a good swing on them."
Rieger hit his first home run with the Suns in the fourth inning. It was one of three for Suns batters. Alex Burg and Barnes also hit solo shots. For Barnes, it was his fourth home run in the last five days after he had hit just one in the first 3½ months of the season.
"We all knew that Austin had that type of power to hit home runs, it was just a matter of time until he showed it," Suns manager Andy Barkett said.
The Suns' overworked bullpen got a reprieve. Robert Morey went six innings, allowing four runs and nine hits. Jheyson Manzueta came on in the seventh and faced just 11 batters over the final three innings, allowing one hit and a walk to earn his second save.


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I went out on a limb and bought this phone. Love it!!! I successfully loaded Cachemate on it, imported caches, and am ready to cache without a second device for cachemate. Is great!!!
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I went out on a limb and bought this phone. Love it!!! I successfully loaded Cachemate on it, imported caches, and am ready to cache without a second device for cachemate. Is great!!!
Am looking into upgrading my cell phone and this one caught my eye. I have an iPAQ that I use for cachemate and I periodically have problems with it. I would also love to eliminate carrying three...
No wonder I didn't see it dave!!
Thanks Sabby!
i see it now.
Not sure why, but I just started a new thread in the Buy or Sell category that isn't showing up on my list of new posts. Great deal on a PN 20 set up.
If someone can help me make it appear in...
If you are interested in migrating to the new DeLorme GPS, this will be of interest to you!
New condition Delorme PN-20 GPS package ($500.00 + Value).
Out of the box for only a few months and...
Hope you had a happy, happy day!!
If you are interested some winter day when there is a lot of snow, I can give you a tour of the trek that Diana and I took to get there - LOL
Congratulations!!!!!!!! That is so great! Wish you both many, many years of happiness together : )
Hmmmmmmmm - wonder why you didn't pick Etna Bog - hehehehehe
A challenging feat it is for sure! I agree with others and echo the life style change as well. That is the key. Geocaching can't help but be a good addition to your overall plan. It may not be...
Wolf207 -
Welcome to the hobby and the website. Join the fun at an event at some point. The energy in a room full of cachers is craaaaazy!
That is a good start, but you still may want to look around. As much as I like LL, I have found the GPS prices to be steeper than most. I bet you could find another way to spend those $.
I am...
Wow - that was quite a nutshell - heheheheh
Thanks for sharing! It is so different in some parts of the west than here. Some day I hope to drive across the country and visit many of the awesome...
Oh my - I am laughing hard
Congratulations!!!! That is so fabulous :D Enjoy!
Sorry to hear Donna is not feeling well!!! Get better soon!
Pick a date that works for you two and you are sure to get cachers there. Not fond of the pig, but certainly don't mind it being...
That's great Tom! Glad you are home :)
Happy, happy day!!!
Thinking of you and sending well wishes your way!!
My favorite DNF's are my own caches - hehehehe Sad that I go to my own cache with a fellow cacher and can't find it. :o:rolleyes::eek:
But then again there is Old 470. I got frequent flyer...
Welcome to my world - lol
I was fortunate enough to get a FTF with a cash prize. I didn't have any challenges scooping that prize out of the container! Otherwise, I'm not sure what I would...
A bunch of years ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a healthcare outreach program in Armenia. Though not a third world country, they were devastated at the time due to volatile situations...
Thanks Rick!!!
Maybe I am missing a new place or a different step to get to it, but I am not finding the photo gallery. Help!
Oh yes, please do!! I want to meet Smiling Bob :D
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in Love
April 15
June 11, 2017
at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
based on the screenplay by Marc Norman + Tom Stoppard
adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
directed by Rachel Rockwell
April 15
June 11, 2017
at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
based on the screenplay by Marc Norman + Tom Stoppard
adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
directed by Rachel Rockwell
by Stuart Sherman
We know more details of Shakespeare's actual life than we do about almost any other playwright of his time. Even so, his life-record leaves whole swaths of terrain wide open for guesswork.
Over the past four centuries, his barely numerable biographers have filled the gaps, for better and for worse, with bold (and at times preposterous) acts of imagination, sometimes openly acknowledged—"We can only speculate …"—but more often awkwardly fudged: "Shakespeare must have felt …." As one of the best of them, Samuel Schoenbaum, once admitted, biographies of Shakespeare, in their very openness to obsessive guesswork, tend to reveal more about the biographer than the subject.
This time round, that peculiar truth will work to our advantage. Shakespeare in Love is, after all, the creation not of a scholar-biographer but of three playwrights, and of one among them in particular. Marc Norman hatched the notion and wrote the first draft of a screen comedy tracking Shakespeare near the outset of his career. Lee Hall has since reworked the filmscript for the stage. But it was Tom Stoppard who, by his own account, filled in the "vessel" of Norman's concept, "chang[ing] the plot quite a lot," writing "virtually all of the dialogue," and making the thing a masterpiece of wildly playful, strangely persuasive guesswork. As passionate, practicing, and preeminent playwright, Stoppard can claim, better than most biographers, an experiential credential for imagining what Shakespeare's working days were like.
In Shakespeare in Love, as in so many of Stoppard's comic histories (Travesties, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia), the playwright sets real, regally important figures (James Joyce, Lord Byron, Ivan Turgenev) in their real historical times and places—and then proceeds to treat reality less as lynchpin than as launchpad. The characters talk and interact not at our ground level, but at the speed and altitude of Quidditch, their words careening and caroming off each other at a pitch of wit we ordinary mortals could never muster.
That's of course what happens here. Will and his wide circle of theatricals—his friend and rival Christopher Marlowe; his manager Philip Henslowe; his present star player Ned Alleyn and his future superstar Richard Burbage—all wield their words at precisely that pitch of fun and wonder we might expect of Shakespeare himself, eternity's most antic wordsmith, and of Stoppard, his thriving kindred spirit, who after all launched his own astonishing career by reworking Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
In that play, Stoppard made his mark by fusing one play with another: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, live, linger, joke, and die on a template cheerfully swiped from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In Shakespeare in Love, Stoppard and company compound that gamesmanship several-fold. Though we are ostensibly tracking Shakespeare at the anxious commencement of his career, he is already inhabiting, with varying degrees of awareness, the plots of several of his own plays to come. His beloved Viola, for example, by virtue of her name and her self-disguise, figures in part as emissary from a tender, melancholy future comedy, Twelfth Night. Ghosts—or seeming ghosts—stalk and startle as they will in Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
And while we watch Shakespeare gradually learn to craft Romeo and Juliet out of his own fresh experience in love and loss, Stoppard suffuses his script with a matching parallelism—a third echo chamber—which we can savor though the characters can't. Virtually every element of Stoppard's plot corresponds to some component of Will's emerging tragedy: London's rival playhouses for Verona's feuding families; Lord Wessex for Tybalt; Marlowe for Mercutio; and Britain's Queen Elizabeth for Verona's plot-resolving Prince.
By patterning things so playfully, Stoppard, Hall, and Norman make of their layered story a rich and resonant game, in which not only does art mirror life (as Shakespeare's love becomes Romeo's) but life mirrors art: orchestrated by a "higher" craftsperson, the rivalries, tensions, and transactions engulfing these theater people, as they work on a play, weirdly replicate the play they're working on.
And this is where Shakespeare in Love works its best, most mysterious alchemy. Dealing in such patterned, patent fictions, how does the show manage to make us feel that it is also telling compelling truths?
The answer has to do with the secret vector of that Love. As one of the movie's first commentator's (the Chicago Tribune's Gary Dretzka) pointed out, this is not so much a love story as it is "a love letter to the theater" itself, and "to the people who labor in it." When Stoppard and company tell the play's romantic love story, they are mainly making it up, and mostly tailoring it to Romeo and Juliet's long-set specifications. But when they show Shakespeare and company striving sweatily to hatch a new production, they are transmitting truths about theatrical life that they know on their own pulses: the daily, ever-fretful labors of love; the ceaseless re-tweaking of local details and overall design; the inexorable combat, collisions, and communions entailed by collaboration; the unpredictable oscillation of hits and flops—love's labors won; love's labors lost—that hovers like a question mark over every fresh instance of another opening, another show.
And so Stoppard and company's guesswork, deeply grounded in their long theatrical experience, prompts us almost automatically into guesswork of our own. Shakespeare after all really did work with many of the people he works with here, and he must have grabbed at anything in his own life—a phrase overheard, an intense encounter, a profound experience—for use in the plays that he turned out at such a heady rate. Shakespeare's theatrical life can't have been exactly like this (it's all too neat, hilarious, and over-the-top). But it must have been something like this. And that something is spellbinding to contemplate.
For as long as the lovely spell lasts, Stoppard, Hall, and Norman outdo the biographers. Mingling arrant fiction with pleasing truth, they prove that guesswork can produce a profoundly gratifying form of play.


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Cities can heal themselves from within, with commerce as the catalyst and planners nowhere to be seen. So says Tony Siebenthaler of urban agent Downtown Liverpool I recently spent a few days away from London, borrowing from one of the many guardians of our heritage, at small cost, a rural retreat - an 18th-century coastguard's cottage. Though immediately struck by the efficiency of the one-up, one-down layout, and the easy way it accepted 19th-century additions dealing with sanitation, I also noted that while being an elegant and economical response to its dense siting in a wooded coastal valley, it would fail today's regulatory criteria. The site would be too dark, the windows too near its neighbours, and its arrangement of doors and stairs would cause health-and-safety consternation. Nevertheless, it functioned delightfully.
As well as a wood-burning stove, the building offered me full access to the dubious delights of terrestrial TV. Although I am fortunately out enough to ensure that the rhythm of my life is only controlled by TV on a Sunday (Antiques Roadshow), far from home the TV fascinated me. Most viewing until at least after midnight - when decent films are scheduled - was fantastically poor. Classic and new-wave soaps, 'docusoaps' and 'dramadocs' dominated. Everything, regardless of subject, claimed to be 'real' - real story, real life, real footage. 'Real' seemed to be the sign of quality; for 'real', read 'good'.
Yet it struck me during my intense exposure that, in fact, the greater its claim to be 'real', the further a programme is removed from any reality;
for 'real', read 'bad'.
The second striking thing was the plethora of property makeover programmes that exploit our commitment to home ownership. We are now, it would appear, more a nation of homeowners than of animal-lovers. We are keen on homes near and far, our purchases defining the new EU boundaries. We don't just buy them either - we do them up.
Apart from these brave adventurers, the programmes largely focus on the home market. The nearer to home, the greater the increase in value and the better the TV, or so BBC2 would have us believe. The winner of 'worst reality TV show' must be The Million Pound Property Experiment. Justin and Colin - two unqualified incompetents very much in love with each other, the cameras and the drama of the deal - are apparently on a compressed 'real-time' property adventure. Starting with a modest property, they are demonstrating how they can, with the help of their design savvy, an honest builder and project manager, trade up until they own a million-pound home - doing in a few years what most of us dream of doing in a lifetime.
Their 'costings' included surprisingly high architects' fees, which further demonstrates the fantasy of reality TV shows. And in the show I saw, the architect involved was not deemed worthy of TV exposure. This supremely irritating experience did confirm one thing: as well as our well-recognised problem in gearing up to deal with the mega-commissions swamping the health and education sectors, we architects also have a problem dealing with small-scale jobs.
We are, judging by TV, not doing enough to adjust our offer of services in the small works category so that we can demonstrate our design savvy. More than 60 per cent of RIBA members work in practices of five or fewer and, from what I saw on BBC2, the more the better. Let's get out there and compete with Justin and Colin, and while we're at it, let's charge fees based on our increase to the property's value rather than the cost of bricks and mortar - or in their case MDF and curtain hooks.
'There's no such thing as cultural regeneration, ' says Tony Siebenthaler, co-director of a new urban ideas and lobbying organisation, Downtown Liverpool. Hardly a viewpoint that would endear him to most local authorities or government agencies at the moment, especially in his native Liverpool where public and private sector are committed to a mammoth culture-led redevelopment of the city centre and waterfront in time for the city's European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008. Yet Downtown Liverpool, set up by Siebenthaler and Frank McKenna, a former leader of the North West Regional Assembly and deputy leader of Lancashire County Council, is gaining currency and growing in influence.
Siebenthaler argues that for a city to thrive, development has to be diverse, chaotic, nonprescriptive and commercially rather than culturally led. Too many British cities have landmark cultural buildings in search of content. They should be demand-led, says Siebenthaler. Inward investment, zoning, planning, and restrictions on height and highways kill creativity and urban dynamism. 'The notion of planners trying to shape a dynamic city is absurd, ' he says. 'Planners and designers need a new skillset.'
In Liverpool, Downtown has already clashed with the controlling agencies about Will Alsop's Cloud, and the planned Grosvenor Henderson retail development.
'We're not saying commercial buildings are better than cultural ones. Both statements can be made, but you can only retain cultural diversity where there is a high-density city centre that supports creative people and small businesses, not one that sweeps it all away for a large-scale stilted firetail experiencefl. Culture can be a catalyst, but every two-bit city is going down the cultural regeneration route. If you want a landmark cultural building, Liverpool already has one - St George's Hall.'
Downtown stepped into the debate around Alsop's Cloud, not by opposing its existence but by calling for it to be not a museum but a business powerhouse, acting as a focus for the city's emerging entrepreneurs and microbusinesses. The larger issue for Siebenthaler is about wresting control from the public sector.
'I like the Cloud, though personally I'd move it right to the waterfront without the walkways and urban parks, which I don't see the need for. We certainly needed a contemporary design that broke the stranglehold that the Liver Building has on the skyline, and the Cloud does that. But it should be a point of departure rather than something fixed and fundamental. Liverpool desperately needs to make a commercial statement that it is back in the world, still here, still moving. I have nothing against museums, I'd have 50 museums, but do they send out that message to the world?' Forget the Guggenheim factor, he says, cultural buildings can't regenerate a city.
'Business creates wealth and shapes the dynamic city and its cultural worth. The public agencies have a value, but should not have a controlling role to play.'
Siebenthaler points to New York as the consummate city; a human ecosystem where vibrancy is rooted in the existence of SMEs and micro-businesses, with architecture an expression of its modernity and savvy. 'What cities deliver is potential. One tragedy of the Twin Towers, apart from the human cost, was the loss of all the small, indigenous New York businesses and their support structures. All that expertise and irreplaceable local knowledge was wiped out. The big firms and the blue-chips can go anywhere, but the city's bedrock is small businesses and entrepreneurs. It's the same in any city, and it's how Liverpool used to be. It was a city built on entrepreneurialism, and all its best commercial architecture was built for home-grown companies: Martin's Bank, the Liver Building, the Royal Insurance.' It's no coincidence, he says, that the big multinationals produce the blandest architecture. 'I worry for Liverpool's architectural future because modernity was our tradition right up until the 1970s.Now it's got this twee lustre because we've sat back on our behinds for 30 years.'
Siebenthaler grew up on a tough estate on the outskirts of Liverpool and has always been fascinated by the way cities work. 'My strong early memories are of the thrill and the buzz of going fidowntownfl. That's where people went - hence our name. I thought Liverpool was a metropolis on a par with New York, ' he laughs.
Reality did little to dent that illusion, and though he left school at 16 and worked in various jobs, mainly in the building trade, he always intended to study architecture or planning.He did finally do an urban studies degree as a mature student. 'Buildings and cities were the common thread. I knew I wanted to be involved in Liverpool's revival and not part of the mass exodus, ' he says.
Siebenthaler loves the resonance of history but hates the dead hand of heritage, and Downtown has clashed with English Heritage on several schemes in Liverpool.
Liverpool is trying to steer a course between progress and the development demands of Capital of Culture, and the World Heritage Site status it has been recommended for. 'We are in danger of driving ourselves into a diversity cul-de-sac if we go with the heritage industry, ' he warns. 'The heritage viewpoint is ideologically extreme and narrow, and you will end up with soulless pastiche that uglifies and celebrates the mediocre. There are too many restrictions, particularly on height.
A good contemporary design is not the same thing as an obtrusive building, which can be two or 200 years old.'
What Downtown is advocating is the repopulation of the city centre, not just with the young and retired who can afford to live there, but families as well. 'This would create massive potential.' The creation of the new towns, which emptied city centres of their populations, had a fundamental flaw, says Siebenthaler. Over 30 per cent of the British population moved out of cities in the 1960s. 'City centres were not viewed positively because of the horrific conditions, and it was considered that the only way to tackle the problems was to move people out. But it was the social conditions and the slum landlords that were the problem. City centres are inherently good because they maximise the potential to share, create and improve the quality of life for everybody. You can have a framework, New York had its grid plan, but then, like a child, you let it go.' Ebenezeer Howard had a lot to answer for, he laughs.
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The New Year has been and gone and, unless you've got particularly lazy bones, those spent party poppers and empty glass bottles and half-devoured cheeseboards will have been chucked into bin bags or filed into the recycling.
And for some smaller businesses, the perfect New Year's Day treat is similar to your party clear-out – a deep clean for their premises. Many companies will witness a downturn in January profits as consumers take a post-Christmas breather from purchases. So, while everyone's veering away from retail premises, restaurants or cafes in the first month of 2016, this could be the perfect time to give your workplace a thorough clean.
Sparkling premises
The hygiene standards of kitchens in all eateries should be optimal, no matter what time of the year. A quick Google of hygiene ratings in the news will show you tens of cafes and restaurants shutting their doors because of filthy food prep areas.
Some, such as the cat cafe in Leicester, are obvious hygiene concerns, while others might receive a poor hygiene rating thanks to minor factors, like the tops of refrigerators or the inside of ventilation systems.
Our commercial kitchen cleaning services can be the kick start to the year that your company needs, providing a thorough and precise scrub. We've got the professional touch to keep your kitchen up to par for the coming year.


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Call Mom Maybe.
In honor of Mother's Day weekend, multi-platinum pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, the superswank Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and its BleauLive performance series will be answering "the wish in a well" of Jepsies and their momsies with fun, brunch, manicures, pedicures, blowouts, and even a Carly Rae concert.
"And this is crazy" ... There's not even a reason to "beg and borrow and steal." Because BleauLive and Crossfade are giving away 10 free pairs of tickets.
See also:
-iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party 2013 Lineup: Pitbull, Ke$ha, Afrojack, Icona Pop, Krewella
Carly Rae Jepsen's BleauLive Concert Ticket Giveaway Instructions
1. Head over to Crossfade's Facebook page.
2. Find the Carly Rae Jepsen and BleauLive update and leave a comment.
3. From the pool of commenters, we'll randomly select ten lucky Jepsies and their momsies to party with Carly Rae and the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. So keep an eye on your Facebook messages.
4. Last thing ... You only have until 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, to enter.
Of course, BleauLive and Crossfade's tix are only for Carly Rae's Friday show in the Sparkle Ballroom.
So if you and mom wanna upgrade to the full "Bleau Fan Package" (i.e. the aforementioned fun, brunch, manicures, pedicures, blowouts), it'll cost an extra several thousand "pennies and dimes."
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Carly Rae Jepsen and BleauLive Mother's Day Weekend
Bleau Fan Package
From $299 per night
-Deluxe guestroom accommodations
-Two general admission passes to BleauLive presents Carly Rae Jepsen on May 10, 2013, inclusive of two-hour open-bar and "youth" bar
-Access for two (2) into BleauLive private lounge on Friday featuring discounted specialty cocktails
-Welcome amenity
-Mother's Day brunch for two at Vida on Sunday May 12, 2013
-Late 2 p.m. check-out
-Based on double occupancy. Each additional guest $80 per night
Carly Rae Jepsen. Presented by Fontainebleau BleauLive. Friday, May 10. The Sparkle Ballroom at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach. The concert begins at 10 p.m. Call 305-538-2000 or visit fontainebleau.com.
Mother's Day Weekend. Presented by Fontainebleau BleauLive. Friday, May 10, to Sunday, May 12. Fontainebleau Miami Beach, 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach. One- to three-day hotel packages cost $299 and up per night via fontainebleau.com.
Follow Crossfade on Facebook and Twitter @Crossfade_SFL.


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A few words of explanation about the pages within this site.
The vast majority of the entries are from old trade directories, so if you see an entry where the source is Pigot's, Kelly's, White's, Post Office or some other name; this is from where the information was taken. These directories list who was at the premises around the time they were published, but they may have been some years out of date. They also didn't state what the person was doing there in relationship to the premises, but I have assumed that, like today, they would be the licensee - the equivalent to "having your name over the door". There are many instances where the occupation of the named person is listed as being other than that relating to the retailing of alcohol. This is because most entries in the directories listed the name of the premises, the name of the person there and any secondary trade they might be involved in. Indeed the earlier directories, up to the mid 1850's, would list the person there as "& Farmer" or suchlike.
Beerhouses also need an explanation. Back in days gone by, beer was considered part of the staple diet (still is to this author) because the process of boiling water to make beer was also a purification process. Unlike today, water in many areas wasn't safe to drink in its natural state, so beer took its place. Therefore it was made quite a simple process to obtain a license to sell beer to the local people out of a person's house, farm, smithy etc. Very few beerhouses are named within the directories, but most would have had a sign outside alerting the passing traveller to the fact that there was beer for sale. Census returns usually give the name of the sign.
Waffle over!
Folklore has it that this term for liquor comes from a Philadelphia distiller named E.C. Booz who prospered around 1840 by selling a popular spirit in bottles shaped like a log cabin. This is not correct. The word has been around since the fourteenth century and in use in America since the early eighteenth century. The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang records a cite of Benjamin Franklin using the term boozy from 1722, and Webster's 1828 dictionary has entries for boose and bouse meaning "to drink hard; to guzzle," and for boosy meaning "a little intoxicated; merry with liquor."
It derives from the Middle Dutch verb busen, meaning to drink heavily, and first appeared in English as a verb spelled bouse.
From Spenser's 1590 The Faerie Queene, I.iv.22:
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Of which he supt so oft, that on his seat
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LEGO-worshipping, zoo-reinventing wunderkind architect Bjarke Ingels first made his mark in Washington, D.C. this past summer with a 3,600-square-foot plywood labyrinth installed inside of the National Building Museum.
While the tourist-snaring maze was pure Ingels — thought-provoking, boundary-pushing and unapologetically fun — it was, in the end, a small-ish and ephemeral work that lasted only one season. Peanuts, as they'd say, compared to Ingels' next D.C. project which was unveiled late last week by the Smithsonian Institution and the Danish maverick's appropriately acronym-ed firm, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG): a $2 billion revitalization, restoration, reconstruction and "radical reinterpretation" of the Smithsonian's south campus along the National Mall.
Positioned in between the Mall and Independence Avenue SW, the Smithsonian's South Mall campus is home to several world-class museums, galleries and gardens along with the Smithsonian Institution Building, a gothic landmark popularly known as the Castle that serves as the administrative hub and historic heart of the world's largest museum and research complex. Despite this, the Smithsonian's presence along the South Mall — confusing to navigate and partially tucked away underground — has never been really able to compete, foot traffic wise, with the North Mall zone which is home to the prominently situated crowd-pleasers, the National Museum of Natural History and, to the west, the National Museum of American History.
First announced in March 2013 as a modest one-to-two-year project that would involve visibility-improving tweaks to the Smithsonian's South Mall campus buildings located between Seventh Street and 12th Street SW, BIG's proposal — a proposal that aims to "resolve the contradictions between old and new, and to find freedom within the boundaries of strict regulation and historical preservation"— has morphed into a full-on facelift that will forever change how visitors interact with the storied cultural institutions that line the Nation's Backyard. The master plan, described by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Wayne Clough in a press statement as a plan that will "offer open vistas, connected museums, galleries bathed in daylight, new performance venues and gardens that invite people into them," is the largest construction project to hit the National Mall in more than 100 years.
In total, 11 of the 19 galleries and museums operated by the Smithsonian are located on the National Mall.
As detailed by the Smithsonian, the basic goals of the proposal remain the same as when BIG was first announced by the Smithsonian as the project architect: "To improve and expand visitor services and education, to create clear entrances and connections between the museums and gardens, and to replace aging building mechanical systems that have reached the end of their lifespan."
Funded through a mix of federal and private sources, the scheme impacts all seven Smithsonian venues, operational and non-operational, on the South Mall campus in a manner that, in the words of Ingels, "treads carefully, and respectfully, to enhance the quality and identity of the existing buildings." Three Smithsonian buildings on the South Mall — the Freer Gallery of Art (1923), The Arts and Industries Building (1879) and The Castle (1855) — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
As mentioned, upgrading building systems and repairing aging infrastructure to make these older buildings more energy-efficient (the Smithsonian anticipates a 40 percent reduction in CO2 emissions) is a key part of the revitalization. But just as important is the plan to subtly entice visitors who would normally flock en masse to the Mall-facing museums located on the opposite side of the park.
Currently accessible by not-always-easy-to-find, gazebo-esque entry pavilions, the subterranean Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the National Museum of African Art, both located directly underneath the 4-acre Enid A. Haupt Garden in the quadrangle behind the Smithsonian Castle, will get fancy new angled glass entrances visible from the Mall. Post-renovation, the Haupt Garden will be converted into a massive, skylight-ringed public lawn that curls up at its northern corners to reveal the new entrances.
"It's almost as if the spaces underground open up and reveal themselves to the garden and to the Mall," Ingels tells Smithsonian magazine. "Where today each museum is almost like a separate entity, in the future, it's going to be a much more open, intuitive and inviting campus to meander around."
Located on Independence Avenue SW, the above-ground Freer Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, flanking the Smithsonian Castle on the west and east, respectively, will gain greater visibility and access from the Mall. At the Hirshhorn Museum, the donut-shaped Modernist edifice's "incarcerating" concrete perimeter walls will be lowered and additional exhibition space for contemporary art along with an auditorium will be added below ground, underneath the adjacent sculpture garden.
Still shuttered after a $55 million renovation, the Arts and Industries Building will undergo further renovations "once decisions are made regarding its long-term use." BIG envisions adding a public viewing platform atop the building's rotunda.
And then there's the Castle. The decaying crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution, the red sandstone beauty designed by James Renwick Jr. will receive the most attention with extensive restoration and preservation work that will include crucial seismic retrofitting. The Castle's Great Hall, divvied up over the years, will be restored to its former, pre-partition grandeur.
Additionally, the Castle's existing visitor center will be replaced with a bi-level underground visitors' hub complete with gift store, restrooms and café that's linked via passageway to its subterranean neighbors: the National Museum of African Art, the Sackler Gallery and the Ripley Center. Interestingly, moving visitor amenities underground into a new complex helps the historic structure become more earthquake-resilient through an innovative seismic upgrade technique known as base-isolation.
Essentially, BIG aims to transform the Castle from a low-traffic, administrative-centric relic — I'll only go in there because I know the bathroom lines aren't long — to a user-friendly gateway to the entire Smithsonian campus.
There's a lot more info to be found over at Smithsonian magazine and at the Washington Post where architecture critic Philip Kennicott shares his assessment of the "enormously complex plan" which would commence in 2016 (major construction would follow five years after that) and continue from 10 to 20 years provided that the proposal passes through a delightful assortment of bureaucratic hoops and hurdles including review from the National Capital Planning Commission. And, of course, there's the not-so-small issue of funding.
Any thoughts on a hotshot forty-year-old architect from Copenhagen revamping one of America's most cherished — and as BIG points out, most heavily regulated — pieces of real estate? Have you found yourself wandering lost and confused on the Smithsonian's South Mall campus as it is now? And what are your feelings about Ingels' already contentious plan to essentially remove the beloved Haupt Garden to make way for oversized skylights and less obscure access points to the underground museums?
Via [The Smithsonian], [ArchPaper]
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Article: Post-Ignite Boulder 7, Teflon Kicked to the Curb
As expected, Ignite Boulder 7 did not disappoint in the least.
Honestly, there were no bad presentations, but here are a few of my favorites:
Kristina Wang (shown above, with Andrew Hyde) delivered a fine talk on saving an endangered species: Engineers.
A tour of Antarctica and South Georgia Island, complete with penguin-eating skuas, shipwrecks, and more icebergs than you can shake a camera at. Nice work Alek Komarnitsky!
Groundbreaking research on sustainability, green living, and environmental responsibility via the F-bomb, from Erika Napoletano at ReadheadWriting.
More research from the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) covering From Wrong to Funny. Fantastic.
True to form, Ef Rodriguez starting things off with some outstanding caroling to banish the BahHumbugler from the evening (and beyond).
My talk entitled Cast Iron Cookware: Why Your Great-Grandma Schools Your Ass on Sustainability went last, and seemed well-received from what I recall. It sure was a lot of fun, and has generated many kind words. Thanks everyone!
I'll post the video once it is up... and in the meantime, here's a (kinda dark) photo of that Teflon cookware that I found kicked to the curb when I parked my car before the event. A good omen.
Thanks again to everyone who came, and especially to Andrew Hyde, Benjamin Chait, Kath, and the rest of the Ignite organizing team. And special thanks to my peeps at Foraker for suffering through lots of practice!
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You did an amazing job, Derek. I know you've been showered with loads of compliments already, but I can't help but add more lovely nuggets to your coffers.ReplyDelete
You rocked like a unicorn on a surfboard.
Thank you sir! And right back at ya. Awesome evening all around.ReplyDelete
Fine #fbombing work, Derek. I'm a slave to my cast iron and only hope I could look as good as Jessica Alba when I oil it up!ReplyDelete
"Unicorn on a surfboard" is an awesome level of rock.ReplyDelete
I'd say you got there, indeed.
Your presentation was fantastic for so many uncountable reasons. My car ride home was full of my passengers quoting one-liners from your speech! Also, thanks for the shout out and the photo...had so much fun. :)ReplyDelete
Erika, I have no doubt that you are at least as hot as Jessica Alba when you oil it up. Looking forward to whatever Ignite Boulder 8 might bring from the Readhead!ReplyDelete
Jake, you know I love you.
Kristina, glad to hear your crew enjoyed it. Hope you're already working on your next spark!
Epic...just epic!ReplyDelete
Growing up, all my Mom used was Revere Ware & Cast Iron. We were all raised with **SPECIFIC** instructions on how to wash/dry/use the Cast Iron skillets (we had 3)
As I got older (read = more anal-retentive compulsive about cleanliness) I couldn't get past the 'greasy' factor.
Now? I am ready to travel the Cast Iron road once more.
Could you please enlighten me on the whole greasy factor as it relates to cleanliness, etc?
I want to believe!!! :-)
Thanks again for presenting...your blog rocks and I'm adding you to my blogroll asap :-)
Hey Kath,ReplyDelete
I will have a blog post up soon that's all about putting it away greasy... (ifyaknowwhatimean)
Hey folks, posted that (iPhone) video, and also put up a new FAQ... so please submit your questions! Thanks. Looking forward to whatever Ignite Boulder 8 will bring.ReplyDelete
Howdy! Thanks for visiting, and thanks even more for leaving a comment. I'll respond as soon as the kids are asleep.


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Artist name Collas, Louis-Antoine Proper name: Collas, Louis-Augustin Cited Artist: Collas, Louis Augustin (1806) Sex: m Artist occupation: painter; portrait painter; miniature painter Geographical data: France; Russia; United States State: France; Russia; United States of America Date of birth: 1775 Place of birth: Bordeaux Date of death: 1833 Place of death: Paris? Place(s) cited: St. Petersburg; Paris; Bordeaux; New York; New Orleans (Louisiana); Charleston (South Carolina) Book Sources: AKL XX, 1998, 279
Born in Bordeaux, France, Louis Antoine Collas studied art in Paris with François André Vincent. An adept miniature and portrait painter, Collas first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1898 with a self-portrait. In 1808 he moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, for three years where he painted miniatures and portraits of aristocrats and the czar's court. In 1812 he again began exhibiting at the Salon. Seeking patrons and exhibition opportunities, Collas arrived in New York City in 1816.
He traveled up and down the eastern seaboard, receiving commission in Philadelphia and Charleston and exhibiting at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York City and the
Somewhere around 1816-18 he traveled to in Charleston/South Carolina. He experienced short stays in Baltimore (1818) and Philadelphia (1819); and then once anew in New York in 1820. 1822-24 and 1826-29 he became a prominent miniaturist in New Orleans. In 1829 returned to Bordeaux, and around 1831/32 was noted in Paris, where he exhibited 1831 and again 1833 in the salon American Academy in Philadelphia. Collas was among the earliest group of the European artists to work in New Orleans, which he reached in 1822. Until 1829 he visited Louisiana regularly, painting miniatures and portraits of the growing middle class of plantation owners and merchants. Although he is to have painted also large sized portraits, at present only portrait miniatures are well known. While the work of the early years in France of women, are characterized by a rigid uniformity, his Russian examples tend to exemplify self-willed realism.WORKS
BORDEAUX, MAD: Two Works of Ladies, 1799/1800 and 1802. CAMBRIDGE/Mass., Harvard University AM. CHARLESTON / South Carolina, Gibbes Museum of Art. DEN HAAG, Mauritshuis: Großherzogin Katharina Pavlovna von Rußland, 1809. NEW ORLEANS/ La., Museum of Art: Viscount Bolingbroke, 1816. - Louisiana State Museum: 4 Portraits; 2 Miniatures, von Etienne de Bore. NEW YORK, Metropolitan Museum - American Jewish Society: Joshua Moses, 1804. ST. PETERSBURG, Hermitage: Großherzogin Anna Pavlovna von Rußland, 1809. WALTHAM/Mass., Amer. Jewish Historical Society, WORCESTER/Mass., AM: Unbekannter, 1817.
EXHIBITIONS G: 1816, '20 New York, Amer. AFA / 1928 Bordeaux, MBA, Dép. d'Art Ancien: Expos. d'iconogr. bordelaise / 1936 Charleston, Gibbes AG: An exhibition of miniatures owned in South Carolina / 1982 Leningrad, Ermitage: Zapadnoevropeijskaia min. XVI-XIX wekow / 1990 New York, Metrop. Mus. of Art: Amer. min. in the Manney Coll. / 1991 Den Haag, Mauritshuis: Portrait in miniature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Thieme-Becker 7, 1912 (Lit.). Groce/Wallace, 1957; DBF IX, 1961; Schidlof I, 1964; Young, 1968; Bénézit III, 1976 (bei allen [vier] auch s.v. C., Louis Augustin); Encyclopedia of New Orleans artists 1718-1918, New Orleans 1987; Blättel, 1992; Karel, 1992 (s.v. C., Louis-Augustin). - Großherzog N.M. Romanov, Portrait russes, II, StP. 1905-09, Taf. XCII, Nr 178; Lemberger, 1911; F.Lugt, Le portrait-miniatura, Am. 1917, 102, Abb. 49; T.Bolton, Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature, N.Y. 1921, 26; H.B. Wehle, American Minature, N.Y. 1927, Taf. XXXI; H.R. London, Min. and silhouettes of early American Jews, To. 1970, 49 s., 63, 137; Farr Thompson, 1970; J.Du Pasquier, Pierre-Edouard Dagoty et la min. bordelaise au XIXe s., Chartres 1974, 17-20; P.Pierrepont Bardo, Engl. and continental portr. min. The Latter-Schlesinger Coll. (K Mus. of Art), New Orleans 1978, 111; M.R. Severens, The min. portr. coll. of the Carolina Art Assoc. (K), Charleston 1984, 22-25; S.E. Strickler, American Portrait miniatures in the the Worcester AM Coll. (K), Worcester, Mass. 1989, 46 s.; K.E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M.E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The portr. min. in the coll. of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle 1993, 63, 299, 485; L'âge d'or du petit portr. (K Bordeaux/Genf/Paris).


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Best beginner spot in Indonesia« on: March 30 2016 19:03:00 »
I am currently in southeast asia and want to learn to surf somewhere. After doing some research it seems like indonesia has a plethora of surf spots for all skill levels. I would like to know which spot has the best combination of good waves and a good area to stay. I have read all about kuta and how nice it is for beginners, but the hectic pace of the town isnt exactly what im looking for. I would appreciate suggestions about other good spots around indonesia.
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is there any place you would recommend to stay? Any place that offers lessons on site?
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Cimaja was my first spot to surf.
Less crowd, beach break, from unique to inexpensive stay, great experiance and community as well. I have some friends either lifeguard and surf instructure
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I went to Kuta 1 year ago and I really appreciated. It is one of the only beaches in Bali with sand and no reef, so it's the most secure place for learning surf.
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When it came time for professional sleezebag Newt Gingrich to address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), he used part of his time to paint Hillary Clinton, the presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, as an "obstacle to economic progress," saying that to frame her in this way was a "key to winning the White House":
If this is a fight between the future and the past and we truly represent for the average American a better future and they truly represent for the average American those forces blocking that future, we will win decisively.
As proof, Gingrich went on about how Democrats want to slow down the number of smart-phone apps we will be able to get, pointing to the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has proposed regulating health-related smart-phone apps. Oh, horrors.
If you are wondering what is this hideous debasement of our freedom of which he speaks, this is from a Sept. 2013 FDA press release:
This, he says, is "a fight where we can be on the side of younger Americans and the left is hopeless."
Mobile medical apps currently on the market can, for example, diagnose abnormal heart rhythms, transform smart phones into a mobile ultrasound device, or function as the "central command" for a glucose meter used by a person with insulin-dependent diabetes.
"Some mobile apps carry minimal risks to consumer or patients, but others can carry significant risks if they do not operate correctly. The FDA's tailored policy protects patients while encouraging innovation," said Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
This, he says, is "a fight where we can be on the side of younger Americans and the left is hopeless."
I can't say what particular bug is up Newt's ass on what seems a reasonable regulatory approach, but if he thinks the GOP is going to turn itself into the party of techno-cool by appealing to young people's concerns about mobile medical apps, good luck with that.
If Republicans really want to appeal to young people, perhaps they should get on the right side of marriage equality, legalized marijuana, an increased minimum wage, good paying jobs generally, or education affordability.
That's a thought, although the medical app thing could work too.
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The new year is a great time for book lovers – many of us are busy making reading resolutions, re-organising our to-be-read piles, and keenly waiting to see what exciting new books the year will bring. We've taken a sneak -peek at what the book world has to offer in 2019 – and we are positively itching to tell you what bookish treats are in store! There are books by authors we know and love, as well as some promising and interesting debut fiction emerging. Take a look at our most anticipated reads for 2019!
The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
A woman who needs no introduction, Dervla stole the hearts of readers world-wide last year with her stunning debut, The Ruin. And now, not a year later, she is set to release her second novel, The Scholar, a compulsive new crime thriller featuring DS Cormac Reilly.
When Dr Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit and run outside Galway University late one evening, she calls her partner, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him.
A security card in the dead woman's pocket identifies her as Carline Darcy, a gifted student and heir apparent to Irish pharmaceutical giant Darcy Therapeutics. The multi-billion-dollar company, founded by her grandfather, has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities, to funding political parties, to philanthropy. And, it has funded Emma's own ground-breaking research. The enquiry into Carline's death promises to be high profile and high pressure.
As Cormac investigates, evidence mounts that the death is linked to a Darcy laboratory and, increasingly, to Emma herself. Cormac is sure Emma couldn't be involved, but as his running of the case comes under scrutiny from the department and his colleagues, he is forced to question his own objectivity. Could his loyalty to Emma have led him to overlook evidence? Has it made him a liability?
At The Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino
We cannot wait for this one to hit our shelves. At The Wolf's Table is an international bestseller that has, at long last, been translated from Italian to English. Based on the shocking true story of the women conscripted to risk their lives as Hitler's food tasters, fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz will be utterly captivated by Rosella's raw and honest depiction of life during WW2.
Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines. Alone, she has little choice but to leave war-torn Berlin behind and live with her in-laws in a village near the Wolfschanze, the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's hidden headquarters.
Convinced that the enemy wants to poison him, Hitler conscripts ten women, including Rosa, to be his food tasters. Even though food is a luxury, eating the rich and decadent feasts Hitler will soon be served is an act of torture – after each meal, the women must wait an hour to see if they will die. Every minute seems like an eternity. None of the women are allowed to meet Hitler, none can enter the Wolfschanze, but the Führer is a constant presence. He is in every conversation, in Rosa's thoughts, and forever on the radio. He looms large above them all, like some kind of deity.
As the war outside goes from bad to worse, so do the lives of the ten women trapped in the tasting room, forced to eat what may kill them. Rosa's friends are keeping explosive secrets, the vindictive SS officer in charge of the tasters takes a special liking to her, and Rosa must figure out how she can stay alive as it becomes clear that she and her friends, her Hitler, everyone she knows, are on the wrong side of history.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
At the end of 2018, Margaret Atwood announced that she would be writing the sequel to her best-selling novel The Handmaid's Tale – The Testaments.
Still in its formative stages, we don't know a great deal about this book as of yet. But what we do know is that it will be set 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. We personally can't wait to see what Margaret has in store for us.
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, is gracing us this year with a delicious novel of adventure, sex, and glamour, and a young woman's journey to discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.
The summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll have been deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, she soon finds gainful employment as the self-appointed seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, her unconventional Aunt Peg's charmingly disreputable Manhattan revue theatre. There, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the trash and tinsel only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses.
Exile in New York is no exile at all: here in this strange wartime city of girls, Vivian and her girlfriends mean to be free, to get up to no good, to drink the heady highball of life itself to the last drop. And when the legendary English actress Edna Watson comes to the Lily to star in the company's most ambitious show ever, Vivian is entranced by the magic that follows in the wake of this true star.
But there are hard lessons to be learned, and bitterly regrettable mistakes to be made. Vivian learns that to live the life she wants, she must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new.
The Binding by Bridget Collins
Bridget Collins' first adult debut, The Binding, is an unforgettable, magical novel: a boundary-defying love story and a unique literary event that we are waiting to read with bated breath.
Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice – but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.
He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. If there's something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible.
In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books – and memories – are meticulously stored and recorded.
Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it…
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text: Your wellbeing Occupational health Last updated: 07 December 2018 What is discrimination? People are different from one another in many ways and the way in which they approach work. Acknowledging, understanding, and appreciating these differences can help to create a workplace which is flexible enough to meet different needs and preferences, and creates a motivating and rewarding environment. Discrimination exists in different forms - find out more below. We have separate guidance on dealing with discrimination - both from an employee and an employer perspective. Read more Direct discrimination This occurs when someone is treated less favourably than another person because they have a protected characteristic or because they are perceived to have a protected characteristic (discrimination by perception). Direct discrimination also occurs when a person is being treated less favourably because they are linked or associated with someone who has a protected characteristic. This kind of discrimination is sometimes referred to as discrimination by association. This has been extended, from race, religion or belief and sexual orientation, to cover sex, gender reassignment and disability. An example of direct discrimination An anaesthetist refuses to work with a colleague because they believe the colleague to be gay, irrespective of whether the colleague is gay or not (discrimination by perception). A consultant is overlooked for promotion because their partner has undergone gender reassignment (discrimination by association). Indirect discrimination This occurs when there is a rule, policy or practice that applies to everyone but which particularly disadvantages people who share a particular characteristic. An example of indirect discrimination An employer who requires staff to commit to working from 8pm to 11pm every evening indirectly discriminates against women, who are more likely to be primary carers of children. Indirect discrimination has been extended to include disability and gender reassignment. Moreover, indirect discrimination can be justified only if it can be shown that it is necessary to meet a legitimate objective in a fair, balanced and reasonable way. Consideration should be given to whether there is any other way to meet the objectives that would not have a discriminatory effect, or that is less likely to disadvantage people who have a protected characteristic. Although pregnancy and maternity are not specifically included, any policy or practice that would put pregnant women or new mothers at a disadvantage could constitute direct discrimination on the basis of sex. Harassment This is defined as unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic, although, the protected characteristic does not necessarily have to belong to the victim. Harassment can also be unwanted conduct that is sexual in nature. In both these cases the conduct must have the purpose or effect of violating a person's dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for them. An example of unwelcome physical contact This may range from unnecessary touching or brushing against another person's body, physical assault, coercing sexual intercourse, physical threats, insulting or abusive behaviours or gestures. This may also encompass invading someone's personal space; by standing very close to him or her where this is unnecessary. An example of unwelcome written, visual or physical interaction This may include sending unwelcome emails, notes or pictures, displaying or sending offensive material (for example, displaying pin-ups of males or females in states of undress), making obscene or offensive gestures, persistently sending unwanted gifts, or following, spying or stalking someone. An example of unwelcome verbal conduct This may include the making of remarks and comments about appearance, lewd comments, sexual advances, innuendo and banter, the making or repetition of offensive or stereotyped comments, jokes or songs, the making of threats or the making of patronising comments (for example, comments which repeatedly draw attention to a person's disability or impairment). The definition of harassment has been extended so that it now prohibits harassment based on association with, or perception of, a protected characteristic. Examples of harassment based on perception or association A GP partner makes offensive remarks and jokes about people with autism to another GP partner who has a son with autism (harassment based on association). A nurse spreads rumours and makes offensive comments because they believe a colleague is Muslim, irrespective of whether the colleague is a Muslim or not (harassment based on perception). 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The victim is no longer required to show that they were treated less favourable in comparison to someone else who was not involved in an action under the Equality Act; the victim only needs to show that they were treated badly. What does the law say? Equality legislation has been simplified with over 116 separate pieces of legislation brought together into a single Act, the Equality Act 2010 which came into force on 1 October 2010. The nine main pieces of legislation that have merged are: The Equal Pay Act 1970 The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 The Race Relations Act 1976 The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of any of the protected characteristics. What are the protected characteristics? The Equality Act 2010 covers the same groups that were protected by the previous equality legislation but extends some protections to groups not previously covered, and also strengthens particular aspects of equality law. The 'protected characteristics' in the Act are: Age Disability Gender reassignment Race (this includes ethnic or national origins, colour and nationality) Religion or belief Sex Sexual orientation Marriage and civil partnership Pregnancy and maternity


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By Ramon Pacheco Pardo, King's College London
The levels of tension between the states is a lot lower than some have suggested.
In fact, the key political outcomes of this disaster have been the regional co-operation in East Asia and subdued criticism of Malaysia by the Chinese government.
But if the official criticism by China's government has been muted, the frustrations of grieving relatives (the majority of whom are Chinese) is something even Beijing cannot keep a lid on.
It's well established that co-operation helps countries deal with disasters – this has been demonstrated countless times, recently in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, the Tokohu earthquake and tsunami of 2011 and the Haiyan typhoon last year. These disasters each affected just one country, but East Asian neighbours co-operated in the relief efforts.
The search for the missing flight MH370 has taken this co-operation to a whole new level. While most passengers came from mainland China, others on board included Malaysian, Indonesian and Taiwanese citizens, among others. The drawn-out mystery surrounding the route taken by the flight widened the search area significantly, which meant that air forces and navies of several East Asian countries, along with civilian rescue teams, have had to work together in the search for the missing aircraft. It's a promising sign of co-operation in a region that is riddled with territorial disputes.
Gunboats and diplomacy: China's navy
Unsurprisingly, China's decision to deploy several vessels has attracted most attention. Beijing has been following a military modernisation programme for several years now. This programme is a logical development for a rising power. Yet, it has attracted criticism due to an alleged opacity about the intentions of the Chinese government.
Beijing's new-found willingness to deploy its military further afield – whether it is to support search missions, to counter piracy or to rescue Chinese citizens trapped in civil conflicts – will only make this a more common feature of international politics. When Chinese citizens are involved, Beijing will try to use all necessary means to take care of the situation, including working with other countries.
Because the majority of the passengers on board flight MH370 were Chinese and it was a Malaysian Airlines flight headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the tragedy has the potential to disrupt relations between the two countries. Interestingly, the Chinese government's criticism of Malay authorities has been rather restrained. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Xinhua News Agency have called for the Malay government to be more transparent and to act more decisively. More than two weeks after the plane disappeared, the Chinese government also dispatched deputy foreign minister Zhang Yesui to Kuala Lumpur to obtain more information about the missing aircraft.
But the criticism and the late dispatch of an envoy amount to little more than a slap on the wrist. China has continued to co-operate with Malaysian authorities in the search for the missing plane. Thailand, by contrast, withheld information from them for over a week. The reason given was that Kuala Lumpur had not asked for it. Meanwhile, Vietnam even scaled back its rescue efforts for a while due to a disagreement with the way Malay authorities were communicating new information.
Domestic strife
But it's a different story among the public. Distressed relatives of the missing Chinese passengers have been very vocal in their criticism of the way Malaysia has handled the crisis and particularly critical of the limited information provided by Malay authorities. Kept in a hotel for almost three weeks, they have also started to press the Chinese government to forcefully ask Kuala Lumpur to devote more resources to the rescue effort and to communicate with them more regularly.
These protests have led some commentators and media outlets to speculate about the willingness of China's Communist Party to "tolerate" criticism of Malaysia. This assumes that the party can somehow contain or direct protests by its citizens, of which there is scant evidence at best. The Xi Jinping government can be more or less responsive to its citizens' grievances, or give them space in the state-controlled media. But it cannot stop understandably distraught relatives from expressing their anger and frustration. This is beyond the control of China, as much as any other government.
Ultimately, the mystery surrounding flight MH370 shows that Beijing has to deal with regional, bilateral and domestic dynamics over which it lacks sufficient control. This tragedy, however, has shown that the Chinese government is more willing to co-operate and less intent on scoring political points than is generally assumed.
Ramon Pacheco Pardo does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.


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Retailers – and shoppers - across the Borough of Mid and East Antrim have been urged to 'get involved' in the UK-wide initiative 'Small Business Saturday'.
This is aimed at encouraging consumers into independent and smaller retailers on one of the biggest Christmas shopping weekends of the year.
Councillor Billy Ashe, Mayor of Mid and East Antrim Borough said: "We are delighted to support Small Business Saturday and will be encouraging local shops in the towns and villages across Mid and East Antrim to take part.
"We are also asking consumers to 'shop local' and so support small businesses in their own communities," Cllr Ashe said, adding: "Local shops contribute over £37bn to the economy, providing over 407,000 jobs to a diverse range of people in their communities."
This year the Saturday chosen for the campaign focus will be the 5 December with hundreds of business-related events taking place all over the UK.
Now entering its third year, Small business Saturday is already the UK's most successful small business campaign.
The day itself aims to increase revenue for local small businesses, encourage consumers to promote the benefits of shopping locally and raise awareness of local entrepreneurs and help local businesses build up longer-term trade by attracting new customers.
The campaign is also an effort to get consumers to understand the significant, positive effect their local spending can have in their communities at a key time the shopping calendar.
Local businesses, including restaurants, wholesalers, pubs, beauty salons to local shops can participate in the campaign by offering promotions, deals and complimentary services to entice people to shop with them on the day and in the run up to Christmas.
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Yesterday, as the wind blew and the snow swirled, I spent a good many hours planning our first garden. We're fortunate to have a pretty large yard with a substantial area (40′ x 100′) already fenced off for gardening. even though it's currently buried under a foot of snow (which I adore, it's fabulous,) it's time to start planning things for spring.
Having been through thirty-mumble transitions from dead-of-Michigan-winter to OMG-IT'S-SUDDENLY-SPRING, you could say this isn't my first rodeo. I know if I put things off any longer, it'll be too late to order seeds and get them in on time (or have a hope they're still in stock.) Thus, I am Planning and gazing contemplatively out the window:
Left entirely to my own devices, I would have created something monstrous, inefficient and unproductive – I haven't done any gardening at all since I was but a wee lass eating peas off the vine in Mom and Dad's garden. I needed help, and lots of it.
The three resources I used most yesterday were these:
I'll be ordering from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange based on a friend's recommendation and a casual look at their sustainable practices. Their catalog provides good descriptions of each seed variety, and their selection is quite extensive.
Having seen the ravages of non-indigenous plant species decimating habitat(see Scots Broom and Himalayan Blackberry in the Pacific Northwest,) I focus on planting native species. Flowers and native plants will mostly be coming from Wild Type, a nursery just down the road specializing in plants found natively in this part of the state. Their primary business is native commercial landscaping, but they have a few days throughout the summer during which they're open to the public. Last summer, I took home several flats of plants, including several species of sunflower that did very well, even in the limited growing time they had. We closed on the house in mid-July, and didn't get fully moved in until nearly August – too late to do much with the garden, but at least some decorative and wildlife-feeding plants got in. There is still much flower/herb planning to go.
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening, by Louise Riotte, proved a valuable resource. Riotte lists an abundance of vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers and trees along with their companion plants – plants that improve each other's yield or protect each other from pests. She covers other basic aspects of the plants as well, including medicinal and poisonous plants.
There's one potential problem, though; she doesn't cite her work. While I know there's plenty of time-proven, tribal gardening knowledge, I do have to wonder if the information she's providing is accurate. Statements like, "Tomatoes also dislike potatoes and fennel," uncited, make me curious. For some of her wisdom, though, she at least gives a somewhat scientific reason, as here: "Because of its saponin content, spinach is a useful pre-crop and does well planted with strawberries."
Thus, as I planned things out in growveg.com, I knew to put the allium and brassica families (onion and cabbage) together, to place pumpkins under sweet corn, beets with kohlrabi and so on and so forth. GrowVeg.com is a neat tool, and is free for 30 days. There is a garden planning/mapping tool, email alerts for planting/harvest and a planting guide. It's not a perfect tool, but it's not too bad. It would be very nice if the software (a Flash application used via a web browser) labeled each plant. If one wants labels, one must label everything tediously by hand (or be forced to memorize their key.) The ability to group plants into a single object would be lovely, as well; as it stands, if I decide to move one of those raised beds in the top left, I have to move every single element within it. That's a hassle.
From the GrowVeg website:
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A. Once your 30-day free trial is over you will need to subscribe if you wish to continue accessing the garden plans that you have produced and receive the emails that remind you when to sow and plant. When you come to plan next year's garden the GrowVeg.com Garden Planning Tool will remember your garden layout and where crops have been grown in previous years. This allows you to quickly produce next years' plans without having to re-draw your layout. In addition, GrowVeg.com shows you where to avoid for crop rotation, based on your previous years' plans."
A one-year subscription is $25, $40 for two years. I haven't signed up yet, and I'm not certain if I will. If they had more fully-developed features and a slightly more advanced user interface, I would be happy to do so.
Here's a sample of half my garden plan thus far:
Looking down on this, I envision hundreds of pounds of fresh, organic, delicious produce providing us its bounty. I foresee learning how to can and properly freeze to get us through the winter months. I see myself driving baskets of produce to my dad and stepmom, to my friends and co-workers. It is a gratifying fantasy.
What I'm not able to clearly envision is how many hours per week it's going to take me to weed and maintain that gorgeous, yet relatively enormous for a first-timer, patch of land. There will be mulch, oh yes, and compost. Companion planting should help with insect and animal pests, but what about the weeds? There will be no herbicides. Ground cover? Perhaps.
The Southern-most 25 feet I have currently planned to be covered in something like buckwheat. If I end up using the full 40′ x 100′, then amen and hallelujah, but I deem this unlikely. Whatever empty space there is will be a productive green manure crop. I'd pick clover, but one of our neighbors is on an anti-clover crusade, and I'd hate to a.) enrage her or b.) have her come over and spray the dickens out of it. So perhaps buckwheat, perhaps vetch; something to feed the bees. Certainly wildflowers.
There is so much to do, once the snows begin to melt – building raised beds and cold frames, spreading composted manure and tilling it in, maybe even planting a green manure crop. So much to learn…
Next up, planning for the chickens!


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It's BAAAACK. For a while, at least.
pc version is SOOO much bigger!!
That's what sh- no, must... resist...
XDYeah, I'm addicted. I made a glass house in a magma bubble last night....where else can ya do that? Trying to figure out these circuits and switches now.Wow, I didn't know the pc version was so much bigger. I have the pocket vers too on my iPad. It hardly has anything compared to the Xbox. Is the pc version free? And will it run on a non gaming computer?
I haven't played minecraft in ages, I used to be addicted to it though xD
PC version costs £19.95. You buy it on minecraft.netAnd Minecraft will run very slowly on a non-gaming computer. I tried playing it on my non-gaming laptop, I had only 15-20 fps and game run slowly
I use a non-gaming PC and I can run it at like 120 fps sometimes. And the PC itself is like 5 years old. o_o
1.6 comes out 4 PC next week HORSES
If you're really that concerned, then you can get a mod called Optifine that reduces lag and gives you more potentially lag reducing video settings.
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Caregiver's Role in Caring for People with Parkinson's
Written by: Emily Downward | Last reviewed: March 2017
- Caring and Coping, National Parkinson Foundation. Accessed online on 3/3/17 at http://www.parkinson.org/sites/default/files/Caring-and-Coping.pdf
- Keys to Caregiving, Educational supplement 4. American Parkinson Disease Association. Accessed online on 3/2/17 at http://www.apdaparkinson.org/userfiles/files/4_rev2011.pdf
- Parkinson's Disease Foundation. Accessed online on 3/2/17 at http://www.pdf.org/
- Carter JH, Stewart BJ, Archbold PG, Inoue I, Jaglin J, Lannon M, Rost‐Ruffner E, Tennis M, McDermott MP, Amyot D, Barter R. Living with a person who has Parkinson's disease: the spouse's perspective by stage of disease. Movement Disorders. 1998 Jan 1;13(1):20-8.