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Made from hard-wearing, Kenyan beef leather and lined with a soft, goat-skin lining. 100% glass beads, and solid brass hardware. Hand-stitched to uphold our 'lifetime' guarantee.
All our Safari Belts are made with hard-wearing, Kenyan, natural, free-range, beef leather and finished on the inside with a soft, goat-skin lining.
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All our belts tell a story, some inspired by the beautiful tribal patterns of East Africa such as those of the Maasai, Pokot, Turkana, Samburu, Bajuni, or Akamba, amongst many more, while other beading patterns like Rafiki, Kilimanjaro or Blue Nile are a contemporary take on traditional East African beadwork. We also pay tribute to some of the S.W. Native American beadwork in patterns like Mesa, Santa Fe, Geronimo and Kiowa.
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Here's the fashion editorial of the current issue of Out Magazine. "Vampires in Los Angeles" is photographed by Francois Rousseau and styled by Gregory Wein. Also in this after dark issue there is an article and photos of NY's famous club promoters and door people.
John Barrowman is on the cover of the issue and there's and interview of him inside too. Apparently he's playing some gay alien hero in some gay channel. The last time I saw him was in that short lived TV show called "Central Park West" where he's character was based on JFK Jr. I think I kind of see now why some actors hide in the closet. Why is it very single interview of an openly gay celebrities always end up focusing on their sexuality, even though they came out years ago?
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5 Things You Need to Know About Organ Donation
More than 120,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, including 4,000 in New Jersey. Some misconceptions about organ donation prevent people from enlisting as donors. Here are 5 Things You Need to Know to clear up misconceptions about organ donation with the goal of helping to save lives. To register as an organ donor go to Lourdes Medical Center, Gift of Life or www.NJSharingNetwork.org.


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Alcohol abuse increases after weight loss surgery
A new study has found that adults who undergo a common type of bariatric surgery to lose weight appear to have a significantly higher risk of abusing alcohol two years after the procedure, according to researchers the University of Pittsburgh.
The study investigated alcohol consumption and abuse in nearly 2,000 patients across the United States. Researchers surveyed bariatric patients on their alcohol consumption 30 days before surgery, then again one and two years after surgery.
Nearly 70 percent of the participants had gastric bypass surgery – which reduces the side of the stomach and shortens the intestine – and were most at risk for alcohol disorders. Another 25 percent had laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery, which uses a band to make the stomach smaller, and the remaining 5 percent had other, less-common surgeries.
Of those patients who had gastric bypass, 7 percent reported symptoms of alcohol disorders before surgery. That rate increased to 10.7 percent two years after surgery – a relative increase of more than 50 percent. Translated to the entire population of people who undergo gastric bypass in the U.S., this could mean an increase of 2000 people suffering from alcohol disorders per year.
Though a prior problem with drinking was one of the best predictors of having a disorder later, more than half of the participants who developed disorders two years after surgery did not have a prior history of alcohol abuse, according to the researchers.
"There have been several studies showing if you give gastric bypass patients a standard amount of alcohol, they reach a higher peak alcohol level, they reach the level more quickly, and they take longer to return to a sober state – they're experiencing alcohol differently after surgery," study researcher Mary King, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, told FoxNews.com. "So we weren't entirely surprised to find a significant increase. It could be a combination of the change in alcohol sensitivities coupled with higher levels of drinking."
In contrast, among patients who had lap band surgery, about 5 percent suffered from alcohol use disorders two years after surgery, which was similar to pre-surgery rates. According to King, while there have been no formal studies done, it is unlikely lap band surgeries affect patients' sensitivities to alcohol like gastric bypass procedures do.
The survey the researchers used, known as the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification (AUDIT) test, was developed by the World Health Organization to identify symptoms of alcohol use disorders, which include alcohol abuse and dependence, or alcoholism.
The participants were categorized as having an alcohol-related disorder if they had at least one symptom of dependence. Symptoms of dependence included not being able to stop drinking after having started or not being able to remember what happened after a night of drinking.
The patients most at risk of developing an alcohol-related disorder were those with little social support, those who had engaged in recreational drug or alcohol abuse in the past, those who suffered from depressive symptoms, men, and young adults. King said that while 'addiction shifting' – such as a switch from binge eating disorder to alcoholism – is a topic of focus in the media, the researchers did not find any evidence that a prior history of binge eating symptoms increased a patient's risk of developing an alcohol use disorder.
According to King, the results indicate that more needs to be done as far as educating patients about the potential risks and benefits of bariatric surgery, especially with the rise of obesity rates in the U.S.
"This is really something that needs to be a part of patients' discussions with their surgeons – but as just one of the potential risks in the context of all potential risks and benefits of surgery," King said. "The study shouldn't be used to suggest that gastric bypass surgery isn't a good weight loss strategy, but it should be used to educate patients."
King added that a mere pre-operative discussion may not be enough, considering the majority of patients did not show an increase in alcohol consumption until two years after surgery. "I definitely think this has implications for long-term clinical care," she said. "Patients need to hear information when it's applicable to them. They need to be reminded at annual follow-up screenings as a part of clinical care, so referrals to counseling can be given, if needed."
The study was published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was funded by the National Institutes of Health.


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We just found out that one of our images has been chosen for a new poster at the Portland Japanese Garden. The series of posters represents the four seasons; ours is Summer.
Etsy artist of the day:
We love the work of Laura Sue of Earth Art in Springfield, Tennessee. Her composition, choice of colors, and interesting textures really make her art stand out. You can see some of her work, like the paintings below, in her Etsy shop: EarthArt
Friday, November 6, 2009
Japanese Garden Poster
We just found out that one of our images has been chosen for a new poster at the Portland Japanese Garden. The series of posters represents the four seasons; ours is Summer.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tomorrow night, November 5th, marks the final First Thursday "Art Walk" of the season on NW 13th in the Pearl District, here in Portland. It's a great opportunity to do some early holiday shopping and to support local artists. It's also a chance to buy some unique, reasonably-priced, hand-made gifts that will be appreciated much more than something that you'd find at the mall!
We've been working on a series of triptychs comprised of images captured on Ektachrome, then intentionally distressed by applying filters, giving them a "vintage" appearance.
We're initially offering them in mats, but we'll also make them available in frames upon your request.
We hope to see everyone tomorrow night from 6 to 10 in the Pearl!
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Last Thursday on Alberta
This evening marks the final "Last Thursday" art walk of the year on NE Alberta Street, here in Portland. Having a monthly art sale in this artsy district has always been a great idea. Sadly, though, the growth of the event and the manner in which it is being managed has done more harm than good to the participating artists.
Rewind back to an excerpt from this blog in July, 2008:
"This unusual event, at which local artists display and sell their work anywhere that they can find an open piece of sidewalk, has become increasingly popular, but has also experienced some growing pains. Last year, in response to a rowdy party that had absolutely nothing to do with the artists, the police took out their frustrations by disallowing anyone to display their work under canopies. Meaning, now our work has no protection from rain or, at this time of year, the scorching sun."
"WE'RE BLOCKING OFF THE STREET", a flyer read, giving artists a shot of optimism. For that decision came with a little present for the artists: We could once again set up our artwork beneath the shelter of canopies. Surely, this was a step in the right direction. Little did we know that the new and improved, un-motorized version of Last Thursday would come with an unexpected downside.
Throughout this season, Last Thursday has been transformed into something that cannot seriously be referred to as an art event anymore; it has instead become a raging street party, fueled by alcohol, where any artists trying to show and sell there work are an afterthought, at best. Even during the peak hours in the early evening, the thousands of attendees stroll down the middle of the street with tunnel vision, barely any of them even noticing all of the art that's set up on the sidewalks. The sad truth is. . . the local artists who were once the very reason that people came out to this event are now insignificant, if not invisible. Ask any artist how their sales have been affected by the street closure and they'll certainly tell you that sales have plummeted this year.
To all Portlanders who love the arts, we hope that we'll see you tonight and that you'll start your Holiday shopping early, despite the gloomy weather. Thanks!
Etsy Artist of the Day
We'd like to draw your attention to South Texas fine artist Roz of RozArt. We love the theme and colors of her "Beach 8" painting and we think her cow paintings images are absolutely hilarious. Roz's Etsy shop, filled with "whimsical" paintings, is a must-see! http://www.rozart.etsy.com
Thanks for supporting independent artists and buying hand-made!
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Paul Turns 50
Speaking of Kenton. . . Fellow Portland Etsy artist Kenton Beadworks has some beautiful hand-crafted jewelry that you should check out.
You can see more of this talented artists's work on Etsy at KentonBeadworks or at Pulse Salon in Downtown Portland.
As always, thanks for supporting Etsy artists and buying hand-made!
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
We're Still Here!
Wow! We've really been AWOL in the blogosphere! Like everyone else, we've really been scrambling to make ends meet in this horrific economy. As full time artists, that's a challenging enough task, even when times are good!
We've also been making a conscious effort to print a number of images that, for whatever reason, we've never taken the time show publically. One such print is the one shown above, which is the village of Najac, in southern France. We just adore quaint, rustic villages. . . something there is no shortage of in France!
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Apple's much-ballyhooed online Apple Store posted impressive-sounding results in its first month of operation. However, although there's no question that the Apple Store has been an online success, how much of a difference can it make in Apple's overall financial situation?
The day after the Apple Store opened, Apple claimed it did $500,000 of business in 12 hours, and last week Apple issued a press release trumpeting that the Apple Store did $12 million of business in its first month of operation. Those numbers sound impressive, but a big number doesn't necessarily equal an impressive financial return. First though, let me say I'm not trying to denigrate what Apple has achieved with the Apple Store, just pointing out that the reported numbers paint a rosier picture than is perhaps warranted. That said, let's look at those numbers.
Dollars Per Year? If the Apple Store had continued at its initial $500,000 per 12 hours rate, that would be $1 million per day, or $30 million in the first month. Even if you halve that amount, assuming that most people would order during a 12-hour window roughly corresponding to the business day in the U.S. (since the Apple Store doesn't yet take international orders), you're still talking $15 million, or $3 million more than Apple reported for that first month. (There was also some thought that the free camera promotion Apple ran in the Apple Store coincided neatly with the final week of the Apple Store's first month, potentially bumping up the numbers.)
From these figures, it might seem as though the Apple Store hit the "splash" effect on the Internet: new resources get the most attention immediately after they appear, and attracting that much attention again is harder to do. For instance, a major new Web site will sometimes be overwhelmed immediately upon being announced, and after that, hits drop to a baseline level.
Let's hope that hasn't happened to the Apple Store. At $12 million per month, the Apple Store would pull in about $144 million per year; although that's certainly not small change, it also wouldn't even dent some of Apple's more negative quarters. Of course, that $144 million is gross sales, not profit, and although Apple's margin on direct sales is unknown, it's unlikely to be more than 35 percent (gross margin has been hovering around 20 percent, and distributors and dealers may add another 15 percent before users see a price). If those figures are reasonably accurate, the Apple Store would contribute about $50 million a year to Apple's bottom line. Or would it?
The Apple Store receives orders that - in many cases - would otherwise be handled by other Macintosh resellers. If we assume Apple makes 15 percent more on a Mac sold through the Apple Store than one sold through another channel, 85 percent of that $50 million would have come in anyway, leaving the true yearly advantage of the Apple Store at about $7.5 million (assuming the Apple Store sustains $12 million per month in business).
Is it worth it? Overall, I'd say yes, but Apple's playing a balancing act, because unlike direct sales poster child Dell Computer, Apple has always relied on resellers and will continue to do so, because local resellers enable customers to try a Mac before buying. Dell doesn't suffer from this problem, because you can try any PC at a store and assume that it will work much the same as a Dell you buy direct.
For the reseller view of the Apple Store, I spoke with Michael Koidahl, president of Westwind Computing, my favorite dealer in the Seattle area. He felt that the Apple Store is currently harming dealers because dealers aren't allowed to sell built-to-order Macs. Michael said Apple has promised dealers build-to-order capabilities in the first quarter of 1998. Setting up such a system undoubtedly takes time (since dealers must stock the necessary parts) but Michael suggested Apple could leverage the existing repair infrastructure to enable dealers to order and stock parts, then use them either for building custom Macs or for repair jobs (with the added benefit of speeding up repair service that would otherwise have to wait for parts to arrive from Apple).
Number of Customers & Macs? It's worth noting another confusion that could result from looking purely at the sales figures for the Apple Store. For instance, Apple reported that the Apple Store had $500,000 in orders in its first 12 hours. If you assume an average order of $2,500, that only equates to about 200 customers. That's not too bad for 12 hours, but it's a bit less impressive when you consider the Apple Store took 4.4 million hits (at perhaps 20 to 50 hits per person?) in those 12 hours. In essence, many people browsed the site, but relatively few bought products.
If you do the math for the month in which the Apple Store brought in $12 million, using the same $2,500 average order, you end up with about 4,800 customers, or 160 per day, down somewhat from that initial rush in the first 12 hours. Again, 160 customers per day is nothing to sneeze at, but if you assume each is buying a single Mac (necessary, given our $2,500 average order assumption), you end up with 58,400 Macs sold online per year. When you consider the fact that, in its heyday, Apple sold more than a million Macs per quarter (and even now Apple sells about 650,000 Macs per quarter), 58,400 machine sales in a year doesn't seem all that high.
Third Largest? Apple's press release also claimed that the Apple Store is the third largest electronic commerce site on the Internet. No details were given to back up this claim and Apple's PR department didn't respond to my queries, but ironically, some numbers came out of Dell the same day as the Apple press release. In a keynote at Internet World, Dell CEO Michael Dell said that Dell sells more than $3 million per day via its Web site with several days during this holiday season reaching $6 million. That's about $1 billion in yearly sales. Dell expects half of its business to come from online sales by the year 2000.
In short, then, clearly the Apple Store is an unqualified online success, but at the same time, it won't do much for Apple's bottom line at the current sales rates. It's also clear people are patronizing the Apple Store in large part because they can order custom Mac configurations; Apple's inability to offer custom configurations has long been a source of frustration. The Apple Store faces challenges in the upcoming year as dealers are given the right to sell built-to-order Macs, but on the positive side, opening the Apple Store up to international sales may cause a significant upturn in sales from parts of the world where Apple dealers are few and far between. Ideally, the Apple Store will end up making real contributions to Apple's financial results without cannibalizing sales from those dealers that Apple relies on for sales, support, and repairs.


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Warm Bourbon Cider: http://bit.ly/1qp3C82
This first cocktail is perfect for this time of year! The recipe makes 20 glasses which is great for a party but I wanted something for just me so here is what I came up with.
Single Serving Warm Bourbon Cider
1 cup of fresh apple cider
1 jigger of bourbon
Light sprinkle of cinnamon
Directions: Heat the apple cider in the microwave to your heat liking. I like mine the same warmth as my tea which is hot! When at desired temperature take out and pour in bourbon, sprinkle cinnamon, then stir and enjoy!
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Mint Julep: http://bit.ly/1vb5w0I
Everyone I know loves a mint julep! It is a nice spring and summer drink that you can really drink anytime of year. I order this instead of a mojito because it is light and refreshing and I LOVE bourbon! Another plus it is not as hard to mess up like most bartenders do when making a mojito!
This recipe is really very easy to do and soon all your friends will be coming over to your place begging for a mint julep!
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"Uva Family" � The Uva boys, Trevor (7) and Travis (4), disrespect authority figures, curse, insult and bully their classmates. They expect their parents to do everything for them. Mom Rosemary owns and operates a pre-school full time, and is too tired by day's end to give her boys the attention and love they desperately need. She craves more help from her husband, John, a stay-at-home dad who is admittedly clueless and detached from his sons. He brings them to Rosemary's pre-school every day because he doesn't know what else to do with them. The boys have gained a reputation for being the worst behaved kids there, and their parents have essentially given up. Jo enters the equation with a master plan for this family to wake up to the reality of their situation. Her ultimate goal is to boost John's pride in his role as stay-at-home dad, teach both parents to step up their discipline measures, and help the family bond and become happier, on "Supernanny," MONDAY, AUGUST 13 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast. OAD 9/18/06)
Supernanny Jo Frost catapulted to fame when the U.K. version of "Supernanny" debuted in 2004, and she's considered by many to be a godsend to parents, counting millions of viewers among her fans. In addition, she is a bestselling author -- her paperback book, Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children, rose to No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List and her other book, Ask Supernanny: What Every Parent Wants to Know, was published by Hyperion Books in September 2006.
On the television program, Jo observes how parents handle their day-to-day obstacles with their children. Once she's assessed the pitfalls, she works with the parents, instilling her tried-and-true methods for transforming unwanted behavior. Then, after demonstrating just how well the new style will work and getting unbelievable results from the children, the parents must fly solo with the Supernanny techniques. For several days they try to implement Jo's suggestions, and she revisits them at the end of the program to help keep them on track for the future. When parents witness Jo's results and -- even better -- achieve them on their own, they are true believers in the Supernanny way. Best of all, children and adults alike can enjoy the lasting benefits of a more harmonious family life.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that happens during the same time each year.
While it can happen at any time of year, it is most often associated with Fall and Winter (you've heard the term winter blues, right?)
This is due to lack of sunlight which of course results in a Vitamin D deficiency. It's getting darker sooner, which throws off your internal clock, remaining indoors due to cooler or bad weather (hello cabin fever!) and what I call a "lack of an interesting landscape"; in other words everything lacks the color, vibrancy and fragrances of the warmer months.
I'm bringing this up because in the last few days I kept remarking to my husband, "I feel so tired all the time," and "I feel like I have no energy," and wanting to eat every carb in sight. Personally, nothing has changed for me to bring this on. I'm very happily married, am passionate about my career, enjoy my sons and so on.
He then brought it to my attention that since the weather has gotten colder, I've been outdoors less; it's getting darker earlier, etc. And then it clicked. During the days of getting my degree in Psychology, I had learned about SAD and recognized the symptoms.
Beginning to feel the same as I am? Here is a SAD check list (as listed by the MAYO Clinic):
Loss of energy
Heavy, "leaden" feeling in the arms or legs
Social withdrawal
Loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed
Appetite changes, especially a craving for foods high in carbohydrates
Weight gain
Difficulty concentrating
While it is always recommended to talk to your doctor, there are some things you can do to help combat Seasonal Affective Disorder at home.
Hydro Chromotherapy: Light therapy has been used for a while to combat SAD. I love light therapy incorporated with the relaxation of water.
Whereas some hydro chromotherapy systems can be very expensive, there are others that simply involve LED Showerheads that are completely affordable. Prices do range from under $10 to upwards of $150. (Plus it may encourage your kids to actually want to bathe.)
Aromatherapy: The power of scent can be mood altering. You know this the moment you walk into a spa, light a candle in your home or apply your favorite perfume.
Bergamot, frankincense, geranium, chamomile, lavender, marjoram and citrus-derived oils are the most effective for treating SAD. There are some amazing products out there now that add essential oils to your shower head, as well.
Essio uses essential oil pods that attach to your shower head. While you shouldn't attempt to wash your hair while the oils are being dispersed, it's just another great way to lift your mood (and soften your skin in the process!) You can read Gail's review of Essio for more details!
Sidenote: Try A Girl's Gotta Spa! Energizing Citrus Body Wash while showering – it's made with citrus essential oils.
I also love my aromatherapy diffuser from Gurunanda. I use it during the day to keep me focused and at night to help me sleep soundly.
Exercise: A great way to boost serotonin and dopamine levels is with daily exercise. If you can get outside and enjoy the Fall/Winter landscape, even better, as you take in some Vitamin D in the process.
Vitamin D supplements: I love Nature Made VitaMelts because they come in delicious flavors. Yum. You can take 1 tablet 4 times per day. And the Vitamin D supplement is great for bone and immune support too.
Phototherapy at the spa: It's obvious, I truly believe that the spa is more than just a place of escape, but a necessity for a more balanced mind. Many spas offer phototherapy and are worth booking a treatment for!
Of course, none of this advice should be supplemented for speaking with your doctor. While I have my degree in Psychology, my tips should never trump that of a doctor. If you feel depressed in a way that is unrelated to the seasonal change, please consult a professional local to you.
Have you ever suffered from SAD? What tips would you offer?
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Guest Designer/Anyone For Leftovers
A great good morning everyone. I have to start out with the announcement of my blog candy winner from last week. First the answer to my question was, all the DT members and myself used images of little girls. And the WINNER is: Linda from Multicoloured Imagery .
Pink and Cream seemed to conjour up images of little girls, so to my surprise when I got my post ready for this morning I didn't even realize until now that my mind went to little boys for my next card.
This weeks challenge at Creative Inspirations is: Anyone For Leftovers
I used the Faux Torn Mosaic technique for my background paper which was a piece of paper leftover from a previous project. It already had some torn edges so this technique seemed to lend itself to this card. You can find the instructions for this technique on Splitcoast Stampers .
Looking forward to seeing all your neat creations that you come up with this week after you have rummaged through your leftovers. Hop over to Creative Inspirations later this morning and see what the Design Team has come up with out of their leftovers.
Being guest designer has really been a fun endeavor and a great honor. I think one of my next goals will be to apply for a Design Team member spot. 2010 has been good to me so far, I might get accepted somewhere, you never can say never.
Supplies: Kraft Card Blank 4" X 5 1/2" Paper Refliction, Papers: All from my scrap box-I didn't used to be good about keeping papers and scraps separate, but I'm trying to do better-sometimes other want to know where they came from, the layout is similar to the one with the instructions for the technique, Stamps: Inkadinkado-97620 Dogs, CTMH-C1184 Frogs, Ink: Stamp Up-Pacific Point, CTMH-Z 2123 Goldrush, Snails generated in Printmaster 11, The Paper Studio Spare Parts-button brads, Jo Ann's-Gold Metal Rim Tags, colored hemp cord, pop dots.
Thanks for viewing,
Beverly G
3 comments:
- Linda said...
this background is wonderfully "boyish" in color--I love it!
And thank you for the blog candy--such a nice surprise since I get eye candy every time I visit your blog ;-)
- February 10, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie said...
Hi Beverly,
Wonderful job on this week's challenge. I love that paper you used - it works great for the faux torn mosaic technique! And it is very boyish too, which works great for your theme.I wanted to thank you too for all the nice compliments you have left on my blog. I'm so happy you are enjoying your visits!
Have a great weekend.
- February 13, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- Janiel/ janny said...
Hi Beverly, Great job on the card for this week. I love the torn effect of the the piecing.
Hugs, Janiel
- February 13, 2010 at 11:33 PM
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A member of the audience is chosen by the magician to go on an adventure, a Magic Carpet ride...
The audience is shown a "Magic Carpet" resting on two steel swords and a decorative screen.
The volunteer is asked to sit on the "Magic Carpet." Slowly, the decorative screen is taken away. Next, one of the steel swords is taken away. Finally, the last sword is whisked away and the volunteer is left floating in midair! For the finale, the volunteer starts spinning in midair, just as if they were really floating!!!
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Take a trip back in time, Napier city has retained the Art Deco style of the 1920's and 30's and is the site of some of the finest examples of authentic Art Deco in the world. The Museum and Art Gallery have a permanent exhibition of Art Deco. Burtie, Ambassador for Napier will provide you with a nostalgic tour. Other attractions include Marineland of New Zealand, Cape Kidnappers and vineyards with award winning wines. The climate allows for excellent fruit growing of all kinds.
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NSEA has been working hard for salmon recovery efforts in Whatcom County for 26 years. The organization is involved in habitat recovery in the form of school education programs, volunteer community work parties, salmon habitat data collection, and large scale restoration projects including barrier removals, large woody debris placement, and invasive removal.
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This will be a place to share explorations as I work towards defining my interests and positions through a seminar course. The Degree Project Seminar provides an opportunity to explore and test applied research through individual work and group conversation.
This is the period where the intentions and goals for work are initiated and clarified.
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Neither part nor whole; no longer here, but not yet there.
Somewhere between within and without
Architecture objectifies our desires
The proposal seeks to explore a spatial order that examines the role of monolith in developing architectural space that is "bigger" on the inside, than on the outside. Notions of Inside/Outside - Background/Foreground - Horizontal/Vertical become primeval. The arrangement of architecture primitives reveals the Instability and ambiguity in a seemingly monolithic form. The body exists physically in the space, but simultaneously elsewhere through mediated form. We are able to project ourselves outside the physical constraints of architecture.
The sum made irrelevant, the absence made apparent
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A House for the Stranger
Familial tangencies arrested by the denial of geometric fulfillment.
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The obliterated ground, below, above, made free to rise and fall
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A man without a mother
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If a history of the United States were written with chapter titles taken from the threadbare clichés of today's television news, an incident that took place on May 22, 1856, would come under "Surreal" and "Out of Control."
Just such a book, with no clichés to mar its confident prose and irresistible readability, is the work of American History magazine contributor Stephen Puleo, who specializes in significant events that tend to fade over time. His subject here is the blood that was spilled on the floor of the U.S. Senate when South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts nearly to death with his gentleman's walking stick. The ferocious attack rates barely a mention in today's history textbooks, but Puleo shows conclusively that, although it did not actually cause the Civil War, it created a "visceral maelstrom" that eliminated the middle ground and silenced reasonable voices in the ongoing debate over slavery, cutting off even the pretense of political civility until armed conflict was inevitable.
If that moves you to the kind of pensive curiosity that our media linguists call "déjà vu all over again," you have a point. The political atmosphere of 1856 was very much like that of 2012. The caning happened during a presidential-primary season amid mutters of "secession," and the principals represented the same North-vs.-South polarization we see today.
A Boston intellectual whose friends included Thoreau, Longfellow, and Emerson, Charles Sumner stood six-foot-four and was as handsome as a leading man, but he was far less imposing on the inside. Unable to please his impossibly demanding father, he overcompensated with a pose of superiority and a resolve never to let his mask crack. His lack of "imagination, wit, and a sense of humor" was noted by Oliver Wendell Holmes. "He was totally put off-balance by good-natured banter," said one friend, "and when anyone tried to joke with him, his expression was one of total astonishment." He was especially afraid of being trapped at parties by well-bred, sophisticated women who were good at small talk. Whenever his friends saw him in such situations, they made bets on how long it would take him to extricate himself.
As paternal rejection continued to eat away at his grandiose self-image, he was drawn to politics as a route to the acceptance and recognition he craved. One of the last of the moderate Whigs, he was anti-slavery and, as a Free Soiler, he was against the extension of slavery, but his supporters felt that his aristocratic, statesmanlike demeanor would mollify the South. The northern electorate was almost solidly composed of "Union men" who dreaded the possibility of secession, and Sumner was considered representative of this opinion when he was named to the Massachusetts Senate seat recently vacated by Daniel Webster (who had famously sworn, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable").
Sumner was lucky that senators at this time were chosen by state legislatures, because he never could have won a popular vote. "Brilliant in some ways, he possessed little in the way of street smarts and instinctual savvy," writes Puleo. "The inspirational music of Sumner's anti-slavery message was often drowned out by the tone-deaf insolence of its messenger. . . . His language, at once stinging and eloquent, roiled the chamber with a rancorous turbulence." But Sumner, consumed by a driving need to hurl invective to assuage his buried resentments, was "oblivious to the wounding power of his venomous words."
The inspirational music of his anti-slavery message changed keys when he abandoned statesmanship and its compromises for the radical stance of abolition. It did not seem so radical to Sumner, because it was also the stance of his progressive, liberal friends, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who praised John Brown as "the new saint . . . awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross."
The abolitionists demanded an immediate and unconditional end to slavery without compensation to slave owners that — equally important to mercantile New England — stood to bankrupt the Yankee textile mills that spun the cotton picked by southern slaves. But Sumner, in tones of "sneering arrogance that dripped with condescension," called the southerners and their northern supporters "Lords of the Lash and Lords of the Loom" and alienated both, savoring the image of himself as a martyr standing alone against all injustices wherever they existed.
His martyrdom of May 22, 1856, occurred after his five-hour speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which let territories vote on whether to be slave or free. Sumner was already notorious for his personal attacks on public men, and his father-substitute on this occasion was the venerable Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina, a leading supporter of the act. Butler was not present, owing to a recent stroke that had left him with partially paralyzed facial muscles — and just as well, said Sumner, who delivered his own 12,000-word speech from memory, for Butler was capable of voicing nothing but "incoherent phrases that discharge the loose expectorations of his speech."
#page#It was too much for Butler's kinsman Preston Brooks. Two days after the speech, the South Carolina congressman waited for the visitors' gallery to be clear of ladies, and then marched up to the desk where Sumner was still seated and struck him over the head with all his might. Blow after blow rained down, opening Sumner's scalp and exposing his skull. The cane broke midway into the fray, so Brooks continued the assault with the heavy metal knob; the tall, 45-year-old Sumner made no attempt to rise and defend himself against the short, 36-year-old Brooks. The author maintains that, while Sumner's long legs were stuck under his desk, all he needed to do was push back on his roller chair. Why didn't he? Was he embracing the martyrdom?
What happened next transformed slavery from a political issue to "a titanic moral struggle replete with religious overtones." Someone (we aren't sure who) collected the slivers of the broken cane and had them made into rings, bracelets, and necklaces — "like sacred relics," said the flattered but astonished Brooks — while thousands across the South sent him new canes the way today's Americans send teddy bears. Sumner, who was carried home to his Washington rooms instead of to a hospital, left a trail of blood for his friends to preserve and enshrine. His soaked frock coat was displayed to celebrities such as the former slave Frederick Douglass, who was granted permission to touch it reverently.
Southern newspapers reacted predictably, characterizing northern men as either arrogant or effeminate. "Fanatics of the male gender, and weak-minded women and silly children, are horribly affected at the thought of blood oozing from a pin scratch." "Cowhide the bad manners out of them and good manners into them." "They have grown saucy, and dare to be impudent to gentlemen. They must be lashed into submission." (Inevitably, one southern paper even praised Brooks's chivalry for waiting until all the women had left the visitors' gallery.) The northern reaction, while also enraged, contained a self-congratulatory note that we still hear today whenever liberal urbanites discuss the South: In 1856, the word was "barbarian"; today, it is "redneck"; but it's still the same stereotype, and there's no slavery around today to justify it. It lives on, says the author, because "both sides still believe the other does not understand their values." As Henry Ward Beecher said when he heard about the caning: "The symbol of the North is the pen; the symbol of the South is the bludgeon."
The most important result of the caning was its astonishing effect on the election of 1856. The Democrats nominated the pro-South James Buchanan and his Kentucky running mate; the Know-Nothings ran Millard Fillmore; and the new party, the Republicans, chose explorer John Charles Frémont to run on their anti-slavery platform. The South had threatened to secede if the Republicans won, but no one expected the Republicans to get more than a token vote; yet a combination of New England "Union men" disillusioned by the caning plus the many new, less emotionally involved voters in western states and territories gave the Republicans 33 percent of the popular vote. "The Republicans have suffered a glorious defeat," said one Philadelphia editor. "They have not got a Presidency but they have got what is better — a North."
There is much, much more, but I don't have the space to go into it except to say that this is the best book I have read in years, packed with fascinating details of the kind that seldom make it into lesser works. There is Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, the Maryland tobacco planter who handed down the Dred Scott decision, and so resented northern cultural elitism that he refused to let his daughter vacation in Newport, R.I. — because, he said, "This is nothing more than the unfortunate feeling of inferiority in the South, which believes everything in the North superior to what we have." There is the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Philip Barton Key, nephew of Chief Justice Taney and son of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," who lowered Preston Brooks's charge of attempted murder to simple assault. There is the masochism of Charles Sumner, who refused ether or chloroform when his doctor applied open flames on his vertebrae to relieve the pressure on his brain. And there is an account of Preston Brooks's sudden death just seven months after the caning episode that will make you feel as if you are watching a horror movie.
Best of all, there is Puleo's superb writing, as in his description of John Brown: "A confrontational, enigmatic Moses-like giant whose flowing beard, mercurial disposition, and anti-slavery fanaticism branded him indelibly — the deep furrowed brow, the sneering, contemptuous turned-down mouth, the lines etched in his face like dried parchment, and the cold, hard steel-blue eyes."
Don't miss this one. There's no telling whom you might find in it.
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Completing the North East Link to connect the Metropolitan Ring Road with East Link should be Victoria's top infrastructure priority, ahead of a congestion tax.
RACV General Manager for Public Policy, Brian Negus said the North East Link was critical for reducing congestion and connecting arterial roads. It needs to be delivered within 10 years, and planning should be underway.
Mr Negus was commenting on Infrastructure Victoria's proposals for the city's road network released in October. The plan included a two-tier congestion tax (with one ring around the inner suburbs and a second around the central business district), the North East Link to be completed within 15 years and a rail line to Melbourne Airport.
Congestion tax not wanted (yet)
Mr Negus said Infrastructure Victoria's proposal for a congestion tax is a misplaced priority because it would be unfair without improvements to public transport and major new road projects to offer commuters an alternative to using their cars, and new ways around the city area.
"They are saying let's try reducing congestion by forcing people out of their cars with a congestion tax. That's not the way to go," Mr Negus said. A congestion tax should only be part of a thorough reform of the taxes and fees that motorists pay, he said, and it should only be introduced once major projects such as the North East Link and the Metro Rail Tunnel were in place.
Structure a fair system
"It's unfair to add a congestion tax on top of existing fees and charges including registration, fuel excise and GST, and import and sales duties. A properly structured and fair system would charge motorists for the weight of the vehicle, the distance travelled, location and contribution to congestion, but only with the removal of fuel excise, GST and the other fixed taxes.
"There is no link between the revenue from the existing taxes and spending on roads and public transport. The funds from a reformed road user pricing system must be committed to road and public transport projects."
Improvements needed
RACV believes many improvements are needed to urban transport including upgrading the airport Skybus service, better arterial roads in outer Melbourne accompanied by enhanced Smart Bus and outer suburban bus services to provide the connections people need.
The detail of how to configure the congestion tax should be part of a comprehensive review and involve widespread consultation with the community.
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Crowdfunding minimizes business risk-taking and increases entrepreneurial mind-set, which is why an unused crowdfunding potential represents a huge challenge, especially in the eastern parts of central European countries. We recognized this challenge while working on the Crowdfunding Academy project, and joined the consortium of organizations working on the Crowd-Fund-Port project with the realization of the importance of overcoming it.
CROWD-FUND-PORT aims thus to improve the skills and competences of all relevant stakeholder groups to prepare them for taking advantage of the crowdfunding phenomena. Change will be visible in improved financial conditions for start-ups fostering innovation, employment and social stability in the region. The project focus will be on economically weaker businesses with fewer opportunities, who do not have access to bank loans, but who would be able to start business ideas through crowdfunding.
The project, including ten partners from nine central European countries, was launched in 2016 and will run until 2019. Outputs and results of the project will benefit crowdfunding platform operators, as well as small and medium sized enterprises by increasing their competences. Crowdfunding investors will profit from increased safety by a better understanding of the benefits and risks and policy makers will gain increased decision-making competencies.
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The Washington Post editorial board falls well short of its usual standards in this superficial and intellectually dishonest piece of partisanship attacking Republicans for opposing Tom Perez's nomination for Secretary of Labor. The Post characterizes Republican opposition as driven purely by policy disagreements:
Democrats highly regard Mr. Perez, a former secretary of labor in Maryland, for his aggressive action on voting rights, police abuse and fair lending cases. Republicans dislike him for the same record.
Actually, when it comes to voting rights, Republicans dislike Perez mostly because he failed to take aggressive action when the voting rights of whites have been at stake — as in the New Black Panther Party case.
Moreover, the reasons for opposing Perez extend well beyond policy. For example, Perez gave false testimony to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about the New Black Panther Party case. Under oath, Perez said that no "political leadership" at DOJ was involved in the decision not to pursue that matter. But federal district court judge Reggie Walton found that internal Justice Department documents "contradict" this testimony.
The Post's editors are also disingenuous when they cite Republican policy disagreement with Perez about fair lending cases as a source of opposition to his nomination. Republicans don't oppose Perez because he favors applying disparate impact analysis to fair lending cases. They oppose him because, in a quid pro quo deal with the City of St. Paul, he gave away a lawsuit seeking damages in a whistleblower case in exchange for the City's agreement to withdraw an appeal to the Supreme Court that would have tested the use of disparate impact analysis in fair lending cases. Perez also made false statements in an attempt to cover up his involvement in the quid pro quo.
The Post knows this very well, but fails to so inform its readers. Instead, without mentioning the quid pro quo, the Post mocks Republicans for (in the Post's view) only pretending to care about the federal program to protect minorities that was at issue in the St. Paul whistleblower case. The Post thus compounds its intellectual dishonesty by resorting to ad hominem attacks, even as it hides key facts.
The Post concludes by vouching, without any analysis, for Tom Perez's "high ethical standards." But it precisely because his ethical standards are in serious doubt that Perez shouldn't be confirmed.


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Apologies for not blogging for a while – it has been a busy couple of weeks.
Firstly we had visitors from Canada, which meant the house had to be cleaned, dogs washed, guest beds made and food bought. Once they arrived they had to be given their instructions: No toilet paper in the toilet, it has to go in the bin next to the loo. No using of electrical equipment such as the toaster or coffee maker when we are using the inverter as the electricity is off. Never drink the water out of the tap. Yes the internet does go off sometimes - just wait for it to come back on. No, the colmado doesn't sell peanut butter, you have to drive 2 to 3 hours to get that. They must feel they had gone to the back of beyond, and no going to fancy restaurants, instead I got them shucking peas for rice and peas for lunch.
Then I was invited to go to Puerto Plata on the north coast to speak about "What About Your Saucepans?" at the Meeting Place, which is a lovely English speaking bookshop and more. You can see their website here. It is located in a beautiful Victorian building in Puerto Plata.
And there I am next to the seriously great Dominican authors!
Off to Santiago then for a couple of days work, then back to campo land.
So I am sure you are desperate to know how the chickens are doing. The hens are still not laying eggs and Danilo has decided the reason is that the big beautiful noisy cockerel is gay. The Dominican word for a cockerel bonking a hen is pisar, which literally means to tread. I find that interesting, as when reading Chaucer's the Nun's Priest Tale at school, Chanticleer(the cockerel) trod Pertelote (the hen). Or as Chaucer says "and trad hire eke as ofte". Obviously some link there. Well our cockerel wants nothing to do with the hens and spends all day long puffing his feathers up at next door's cockerel through the fence.
Anyway, as we had no eggs, I was dispatched to the convent to get some from the nuns and was told to ask them if their chickens had been "pisado" by a cockerel. Personally I think that is a tad personal to ask a nun so I didn't, plus I can't use the verb without giggling, and I had no idea why the sex life of the hens was so important.
I was to find out.
The next thing I knew was the neighbour gave us a batch of eggs from a hen who had been trodden by a cockerel, or whatever we say in English, and one of our hens is now lying on the eggs, so I assume they will hatch. No idea why we need more chickens as unless the cockerel does what he is supposed to we won't ever have any eggs as it appears that Dominican hens do need to be trodden or trod or whatever before they lay - whatever Google says.
The ducks now have a pond rather than a wheelbarrow, but they have had to be separated from the chickens as a couple of chickens committed suicide and drowned in their new pond.
It still doesn't look like an English duck pond, but I suppose it is a bit better than a wheelbarrow.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
On the road and the continuing chicken traumas
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The Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware is housed in Old College. This building is on the historic register and houses two history of technology studios, a photographic materials and conservation laboratory, and administrative offices. Material Culture Preservation undergraduate students work primarily at the Newark campus and have access to objects from the University Museums, that contain archaeological and ethnographic materials, a diversity of Western European medieval to contemporary works, a large collection of gems and minerals, and the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art.
In the Crowninshield Research Building of the Winterthur Museum (15 miles north of the University of Delaware) there are 26 conservation studios, laboratories, examination rooms, and workshops used by faculty and students in our graduate programs. The Winterthur Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation. Our students have regular access to Winterthur's internationally recognized collections—nearly 100,000 American decorative art objects housed in 180 period room settings and an associated exhibition building—as well as a comprehensive American material culture research library.


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The New Weathermen
Recently, pretty much on a whim, I decided to monitor the accuracy of radio and TV weather reports, since these affect our daily behavior in all sorts of different ways: what we wear, whether we go in to work or not, look to the repair of the shutters, go up on the ladder to check the rain gutters, don't forget the sunglasses, etc. I gave the weather experts one week to prove their credentials and began keeping careful score.
The TV reports were terribly impressive. They were also impressively terrible. For all the intricate color charts, the high pressure areas and low pressure areas marked in bold, the sweeping curvilinear lines, the little puffy clouds extruding rain drops, the smiley-face suns, the luminous chromatics of competing "systems," and all the rest of it, it turned out that the cocksure prognostications were as just wrong as they were right.
After the week had passed, my scorecard showed that the weather person had blundered grievously on three days, had been correct on three days, and was partially correct on one day when the rainfall forecast for the morning arrived only in the evening. A 50% success rate hardly qualifies as confidence-inspiring, seeing that it approximates nothing more convincing than the results of a coin toss.
It's tempting to extrapolate from the quotidian to the planetary, from the small tomorrow to the big tomorrow, and inquire into the competence of our "official" climatologists, who have assured us that we are heading for meteoric catastrophe, noncompliant weather notwithstanding. Climate warm-mongers naturally try to rescue their hypothesis by dishing up vain distinctions, like the climate "expert" interviewed on CBC Radio's As it Happens who, confronted with the fact of colder winters, claimed there is a difference between climate and weather!
The game works like this. If the weather is warmer than usual, it is an infallible sign of global warming. If the weather is colder than usual, it is an equally infallible sign — owing to some ludicrous formula straight out of an alchemist's notebook — that the climate is heating up alarmingly and we must all go green, pass cap and trade, drive Volts, turn down our thermostats, and set up phalanxes of unsightly, bird-shredding, budget-breaking, and neurosis-inducing windmills that may, on good days, produce enough electricity to power a 40-watt bulb. A massive snowfall climbing over the window ledge indicates the approach of desert-like winters when parents will recount nostalgic tales of snowball fights of yore to their wondering children. The predictions, though, need not always be counter-intuitive. A dry season means the baking inferno is nigh. A wet season signals the onset of Noahide floods, rising sea levels, and the submerging of Pacific islands. An ordinary day is merely the ominous quiet before the impending storm. It makes no difference what the data may be, they always point in the same direction.
Quite frankly, we have, most or at least many of us, gone stark raving mad. Experience counts for nothing. Theory is everything. One thinks of the old joke: It's fine in practice, but will it work in theory? Only it's not fine in practice, in defiance of which the theory must be patched together and upheld at all costs.
Thus, increasingly unable to rely on the accuracy of their findings, which had the annoying habit of turning into fables, mainstream climatologists, like their colleagues in the political arena, were compelled to fall back on their next best option. If reality refused to cooperate, then all that needed to be done was to change the terminology. First it was global warming. When the earth decided not to play along and pummeled us with a series of colder winters and major snow storms, we suddenly discovered we were the victims of climate change. When it became evident that there were fewer rather than more hurricane events, as confidently predicted by Al Gore, we were now subject to global weirding, whatever that was supposed to be. When the latest substitution didn't catch on, it became global climate disruption, an umbrella term big enough to shelter climatologists from the facts pelting down on them.
The technique of blatantly merchandising outright lies as uncontested facts was evident in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report claiming that the period 2002-2009 was "the warmest on record worldwide," when something very close to the opposite was the truth (AP, February 8, 2010). Not content with passing off one whopper, the NOAA, which derives its evidence from the dubious NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, claimed that June 2010 was the warmest month on record and that Arctic temperatures had risen by close to four degrees from average. The problem here is that Goddard has no thermometers north of eighty degrees latitude and so projected their readings from their more southerly apparatus. "Really," comments meteorologist Art Horn, who has closely tracked these facets of the climate fantasy, "they make it up."
And that's the truth. They make it up. Of course, making things up turns out to be a profitable business, generating all manner of perks, titles, offices, grants, and funds, an appanage without limit. Take UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman Rajendra Pachauri, who has recently been implicated in a conflict of interest, as he sits on the boards of companies poised to profit from the "climate change" industry. And when it comes to pure invention, let us recall that he was also the chief backer of the great "Himalaya melt" scare, which has now been shown to be based on an undocumented, unchecked, and unproven "speculation" of a single Indian scientist, Syed Hasnain, who was then recruited by Pachauri to his The Energy Research Institute (TERI). The IPCC's 2007 report, vetted by Pachauri, said there was a 90% chance that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. This claim has now been decisively refuted. The Pachauri gang also had to admit that its 2007 statement that 55% of the Netherlands lies below sea level was in error — it is 26% (Big Journalism, February 13, 2010).
The plot thickened — or thinned — in late November 2009 when the Hadley Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia was hacked, releasing thousands of files suggesting a covert mega-operation to propagate an anthropogenic global warming myth. This is an excellent instance of the Groves of Hackademe doing what they do best — misconceiving the world and then misleading it. "Warmist scientists," wrote James Delingpole about the Hadley contretemps, "have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause" (Telegraph.co.uk, November 21, 2009). The CRU was clearly practicing counterfeit science. It had become undeniable that measurements were tampered with to paint the desired canvas, that counter-evidence was deliberately squelched, that character assassination against climate skeptics was an accepted tactic, and that experimental results were falsely replicated.


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A winner was selected from 135 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
Agilite (pronounced agility) provides web-based, integrated sales automation and risk management solutions to healthcare insurance companies. Primary customers are insurance companies. Users include insurance agents / brokers, underwriters, customer service staff, and end consumers.
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Insurance Automation On Demand (does not have to be incorporated into logo)
Desired Color Scheme:
Primary: blue, secondary: blue, gray, green, or orange
Desired Style:
Must be able to work well on a website and in print (stationery, business cards, fax). Nothing too intricate. Please stay away from any copyright issues.
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff); (High Res PSD), Fonts Used, jpg OK for preliminary designs
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Looking for a great logo that can stand the test of time along with business card and letterhead designs. Want to make sure name is clearly readable on web pages and in print.
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Cardiovascular Toxicity of Concentrated Ambient Fine, Ultrafine and Coarse Particles in Controlled Human ExposuresEPA Grant Number: R832416C002
Subproject: this is subproject number 002 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R832416
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Harvard Particle Center
Center Director: Koutrakis, Petros
Title: Cardiovascular Toxicity of Concentrated Ambient Fine, Ultrafine and Coarse Particles in Controlled Human Exposures
Investigators: Silverman, Frances , Gold, Diane R.
Current Investigators: Silverman, Frances , Gold, Diane R. , Urch, Bruce
Institution: University of Toronto
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2010 (Extended to September 30, 2011)
RFA: Particulate Matter Research Centers (2004) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Health Effects , Air
Using our controlled particle exposure facility, we have demonstrated that short-term exposure to fine Concentrated Ambient Particles (CAPs) + ozone (O3) causes acute conduit artery vasoconstriction and is associated with increased diastolic blood pressure in healthy adults. Both of these findings were associated with the organic carbon component of the particulate matter (PM).
This proposal aims to further examine the components and sources of PM responsible for these cardiovascular physiologic responses. A new state-of-the-art ambient PM exposure facility (to be built at the University of Toronto in collaboration with Harvard School of Public Health) will allow us to examine responses to fine, ultrafine and coarse CAPs, in downtown Toronto, Canada. To gain insight into these responses, cardiovascular outcomes in the proposed study will include not only our more established physiologic outcomes (brachial artery diameter and blood pressure), but also complementary measurements including cardiovascular hemodynamics, autonomic function (e.g., HRV), markers of systemic inflammation (e.g., CBCs, IL-6, CRP) and endothelial dysfunction (endothelins).
We propose to expose 50 healthy adults to fine, ultrafine and coarse CAPs and particle-free (filtered) air. Each participant will receive 4 exposures in random order, separated by at least two weeks. Cardiovascular outcomes will be measured both pre-, post- and 24 hrs post-exposure and will include measures of: brachial artery diameter, flow- and nitroglycerin-mediated dilatation by ultrasonography; stroke volume (SV) and cardiac output (CO) by echocardiography; blood pressure (BP); and venous blood CBCs, IL-6, CRP and endothelins. Also, during exposures, continuous measurements of: beat-to-beat arterial BP by Finometer monitor, including calculated determinations of SV, CO and systemic vascular resistance; and HRV using 24 hr Holter monitoring will be performed. PM exposures will be characterized for particle mass, number, diameter, size and composition (inorganic ions, trace metals, organic and elemental carbon and black carbon). Gaseous co-pollutants (carbon monoxide, CO2, NO, NO2, SO2, O3), temperature and humidity will be monitored continuously during the exposure experiments. In addition, on the days before and after exposures, 24-hr measurements will be conducted for each participant using a multi-pollutant personal sampler. For each of the observed biological effects, repeated measures ANOVA models will be employed to assess differences among treatments. These models will contain a random effect for subject and a categorical variable for the four exposure treatments (fine, ultrafine, coarse, CAPs and particle-free air). To assess exposure-response relationships between biological outcomes and CAPs mass or individual components concentrations, single pollutant analyses will be conducted in which a separate linear mixed regression model will be used for each exposure parameter. These models will use biologic response as the dependent variable, subject as a random effect, and either particle mass, number, diameter or component as the exposure metric in the model. Hierarchical linear models will be developed to account for the multiple levels of data, including measurements taken at different time points within an exposure, for a subject.
Expected Results:
We expect to find physiologic responses consistent with vascular narrowing (increased BP, decreased brachial artery diameter) in response to all three CAPs size fractions, as compared to particle-free air. Also, we expect that the cardiovascular responses may vary by CAP treatment (fine, ultrafine, and coarse).
Publications and Presentations:Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 8 publications for this subproject | View all 200 publications for this center
Journal Articles:Journal Articles have been submitted on this subproject: View all 5 journal articles for this subproject | View all 194 journal articles for this center
Supplemental Keywords:Air pollution,, RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, Air, particulate matter, Environmental Chemistry, Health Risk Assessment, Risk Assessments, ambient air quality, atmospheric particulate matter, chemical characteristics, human health effects, cardiovascular vulnerability, automobile exhaust, airborne particulate matter, chemical composition, biological mechanisms, biological mechanism , traffic related particulate matter, human exposure, mobile sources, ambient particle health effects, autonomic dysfunction, human health risk
Progress and Final Reports:
Main Center Abstract and Reports:R832416 Harvard Particle Center
Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R832416C001 Cardiovascular Responses in the Normative Aging Study: Exploring the Pathways of Particle Toxicity
R832416C002 Cardiovascular Toxicity of Concentrated Ambient Fine, Ultrafine and Coarse Particles in Controlled Human Exposures
R832416C003 Assessing Toxicity of Local and Transported Particles Using Animal Models Exposed to CAPs
R832416C004 Cardiovascular Effects of Mobile Source Exposures: Effects of Particles and Gaseous Co-pollutants
R832416C005 Toxicological Evaluation of Realistic Emission Source Aerosol (TERESA): Investigation of Vehicular Emissions


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I really like old airplanes so I frequently draw them. I did this one really just to help and teach myself photoshop. This is a Lockheed Constellation. First ordered by Howard Hughes for TWA these where the last of the piston airliners used in the united states, the very last commercial flight being in May of 1967.
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Antisect are a band based in London, UK.
Formed in 1982 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, UK, their debut album, In Darkness There is No Choice, was released in 1983.
Antisect are a significant band in the timeline of hardcore punk music, said to have been a major influence upon "black-clad, politically charged punks over the last 30 years".
The band addressed issues including animal rights and social justice, communicating their ideas to a largely punk rock audience, and were among the instigators of the squat venue scene in the mid to late 1980s. Members lived the lifestyle of being either on the road or part of the vibrant London squat scene of the time. They toured extensively both in the UK and Europe, before splitting up in 1987. The band reformed in May 2011.
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