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"A Century of Innovation: American Art from 1850–1950" opens at Questroyal Fine Art
On view today---during the American Art Fair Springtime Gallery Walk, a series of open houses at premier New York City galleries, from 2PM to 8PM---is a spectacular exhibition designed to illustrate the progression of American art from the Hudson River School to Modernism. Highlights among the sixty curated works on display are a brilliant Willard Metcalf painting of poppies viewed against Claude Monet's home in Giverny and Arthur B. Carles' modernist masterpiece, "Still Life, Flowers." Visit Questroyal Fine Art, 903 Park Avenue @ 79th St., Suites 3A & Ba. The show runs until June 28, 2010.


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It's finally happening, Canada. A woman will most definitely be featured on our new $10 banknotes, and her name is Viola Desmond.
After months of speculation and over 26,000 submissions sent in to the Bank of Canada, the Minister of Finance announced on Dec. 8 that Desmond, a Nova Scotian black civil rights activist, would be honoured.
Desmond, who was born in 1914, is sometimes known as the "Canadian Rosa Parks." However, her act of defiance against racial segregation actually happened nine years before Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., according to the CBC. In 1946, the then 32-year-old businesswoman refused to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre and she was jailed, convicted and fined as a result.
The Bank of Canada says her court case was the first known legal challenge against racial segregation brought forth by a black woman in Canada. Desmond was unable to fight off the conviction, but in April of 2010–45 years after her death–she finally received a posthumous free pardon. This wonderful Heritage Moment by Historica Canada perfectly sums up Viola's fight for civil rights in Nova Scotia and Canada:
Viola's younger sister Wanda Robson held a presentation following the banknote announcement and said (in the video above), "One time, I went to a school and there were two little girls there–one girl black, one girl white–with their arms around each others shoulders. 'We're best friends,' they said. Then they told me how Viola had inspired them. Well those two little girls inspired me, as they should in all of us…I'm so proud, I'm almost to tears."
The Bank will now begin designing the $10 bill, and it's expected to come out in late 2018. We can't wait.


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Members can jointly bid on common utility goods and services
FMPA's Joint Purchasing Project issues bids on behalf of its members to simplify purchasing and reduce supply costs. Joint purchasing reduces the number of bids members have to issue individually, which saves members' staff time. Bidding as a group also gives FMPA members the purchasing power of a larger utility, which reduces costs for all. Finally, the program encourages communication and sharing between utilities. Participants can connect online to see other utilities' inventories and exchange goods.


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A garden is not a substitute for nature, but it is a link to nature. It is a place where you can reflect on the beauties of the natural world.
Gardens are an everyday part of our lives. They come in a variety of shapes and designs, and many people have their own. In this article, I would like to highlight the importance of gardens and horticulture from a historical, cultural, ecological, and psychological perspective.
A garden is much more than just a place where fruits and vegetables are cultivated. In the past, many cultures and civilizations have paid special attention to horticulture. In Islamic civilization, for example, gardens and gardening are of great importance, not least because they are inspired by the primary written sources: the Qur'an and the Hadiths. Their descriptions and ideas of paradise were taken as a model in horticulture, and so gardens take on an important role in the history of the East.
Traces of the old Islamic garden culture can be traced down to the present day. From Granada to Cairo, and from Istanbul to Samarkand and Kashmir, it developed in interplay with the different geographical features and conditions. A well-known example of this is the palace-garden of the Alhambra, which was built in the 13th Century in Granada, present-day Spain, by the rulers of the Nasrid dynasty. Despite all the destructions and changes the palace has undergone, today, the Alhambra is one of the most visited tourist sites in Europe. One reason for this is the harmony between the building's architecture and its gardens. The parts of the garden that still exist in the east and west of the palace bear witness to its former splendor. They provide a classic example of Islamic garden art. In pursuance to descriptions of the paradise in the Qur'an – it mentions four streams in paradise – this garden was divided by four intersecting waterways into four different sections. Around these waterways there were fruit trees, and colorful flowers and shrubs. There were also several pavilions, surrounded by various plants.
It shouldn't be surprising that the term paradise is derived from the Persian word Firdevs, meaning garden.
Gardens in the traditional Muslim city
In the traditional Muslim city, which played a key role in Islamic civilization, a great garden culture developed. The city of Medina is holy to Muslims, while the word Medina also symbolizes city and civilization in general. Medina is the first spot where Islam spread geographically. Here, the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, once worked and acted, and here, also, his grave is located. As the Turkish sociologist Ali Bulac puts it, "Human relationships, social life, law, economics, politics, ethics and all kinds of human and social behaviors took shape and were lived out in Medina according to the new religious message and its basic principles" (Bulac 2007, 126).
Two features were critical for garden culture in the context of the traditional Muslim city. On the one hand, large city areas have been designated for gardens. On the other hand, garden culture was not limited to particular social groups or places, such as palaces and homes of the upper class. Most houses hosted their own garden in the courtyard. But even if there was no courtyard, beds were created in which a variety of plants were grown.
The city of Algiers provides an example of this. During the reign of the Ottomans, it was famous for its terrific gardens that were tended by rich and poor alike, regardless of social status.
The famous Ottoman traveler, Evliya Celebi, who lived in the 17th century, reported that the city of Istanbul hosted public gardens and parks, accessible to the public. Here also, common people were allowed to relax and stroll around. On certain days of the year, the gardens of the wealthy population of Istanbul were made accessible to the public as well. Another traveler, during the 17th century, described Istanbul as a garden city dotted with cypresses. Le Corbusier, the famous architect and urban planner, visited Istanbul in 1911. He wrote, "Istanbul is an orchard, while our own cities are quarries. In Istanbul, the houses are surrounded by trees; man and nature enrich each other" (Ayvazoglu 2011, 25).
There are also traces of Islamic garden culture in Palermo, Sicily. Under Muslim rule, about 800 years ago, the island flourished. In addition to their irrigation technology, Muslims brought with them plants such as lemons, oranges, and dates. In and around Palermo, magnificent gardens were built. And even 100 years after the conquest of Sicily by the Normans, this tradition continued, especially under the Norman ruler Roger II. He appreciated the lifestyle of his predecessors and also spoke Arabic. He invited great Muslim scholars and artists to his court, one of them being the famous traveler and cartographer, Al-Idrisi, who described Palermo as traversed by irrigation canals. The city distinguished itself through countless gardens and the most beautiful buildings; fruit was available in huge quantities. Parts of the large gardens that Roger II had built in Palermo can still be visited today, in the former residences La Zisa and Porto Vecchio. The complex of La Zisa hosts a museum of Islamic art.
Gardening and urban ecology
Unfortunately, this traditional garden culture has been partially lost in present times, which are characterized by extreme population growth and fast urbanization. Air and noise pollution, floods, and monotonous cityscapes are part of everyday life now, especially in big cities. Yet, just like in the past, gardens and parks still play an important role. They not only serve as recreational areas, but are also important for the ecology of cities. Their benefits include:
- Gardens and parks provide for a better climate. They reduce wind speed and mitigate heat.
- They produce oxygen and filter dust particles from the air. It is known that indoor houseplants positively influence the air inside rooms. There's a real reason parks are referred to as "the green lungs of the city."
- They reduce noise pollution. Trees and shrubs can break noise waves more effectively than concrete.
- Green spaces absorb rainwater, thereby reducing the risk of flooding.
- Gardens offer a habitat to birds and animals, which are the natural enemies of harmful insects.
Psychological and therapeutic benefits of gardens
Gardens and green areas not only have ecological, but psychological and therapeutic benefits. Just imagine that you stroll through some blooming cherry tree gardens on a beautiful spring day, or through a forest whose leaves shine in a variety of colors on a sunny autumn day, accompanied by singing birds and colorful butterflies. This very idea evokes pleasant and soothing feelings. Just the look of a garden can trigger positive medical effects. The U.S. scientist, Roger S. Ulrich, has proven with his research in hospital rooms that patients who see gardens or green spaces when they look out of the window recover faster than patients who need to stare at bare walls. They take fewer painkillers, are more relaxed and sociable, and are released faster from the hospital.
Plant's scents are a healing source, too. Even the physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina) pointed to the calming and relaxing effects of fragrances. In the past, for example, the scents of roses were used against headaches, and the scents of violets against melancholy and depression.
In addition, gardens can be used for preventive and rehabilitation therapy. One can be physically active and sharpen the senses in them, especially those senses that often go unchallenged in everyday life, smell and taste. Also, motor skills can be stimulated or strengthened by activities in the garden, which is very important, especially for elderly and disabled people, and for children. Besides, caring for plants strengthens a sense of social responsibility. Nancy Well, a scientist working at the State College of Human Ecology in New York, has proved with her research that children who spend a lot of time in nature can concentrate and adapt better. But of course, gardens are also of interest to adults, especially working professionals; physical activity is a good balance to academic work, and relaxes the mind.
A garden is not a substitute for nature, but it is a link to nature. And it is a place where you can reflect well, as pointed out in the following verse from the Qur'an "Look at their fruit, when they begin to fruit and as they ripen. Surely in that there are signs for those who will believe and who will deepen in faith (as they see new signs)" (6:99).
Much of what you have read here, you might already have known. Nevertheless, people should be reminded that a garden is actually much more than merely a place where different things are grown and cultivated. Gardens formerly had great value in Muslim culture. In my opinion, the Paradise descriptions of revelation texts could be used in modern city planning as well. A look at them is worthwhile, anyway. If the city planners of the past sought inspiration in these descriptions, why shouldn't they also be taken as a model in the present? In such an inspired environment, any person would find peace of mind more easily. On your next visit to a park or garden, take your time and leisure, and observe the wonders of creation in detail.
- Bulac, Ali. 2007. Tarih, Toplum ve Gelenek, Istanbul.
- Leser, Hartmut, 2008. Stadtokologie in Stichworten, Berlin, Stuttgart.
- Petruccioli, Attilio. 1995. Der islamische Garten, Stuttgart.
- Schimmel, Annemarie. 2001. Kleine Paradiese: Blumen und Garten im Islam, Freiburg im Breisgau.
- Schneiter-Ulmann, Renata. 2010. Lehrbuch Gartentherapie, Bern.
- Schmidt, Walter. 2009. "Das ist aber schon hier!" in Psychologie Heute, No. 10.
- Wirth, Eugen. 2000. Die orientalische Stadt im islamischen Vorderasien und Nordafrika, Mainz.


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• Day 1: Arrival in Tehran – Arrival in the early morning and check in to your hotel. After a late breakfast start your sightseeing of the Iranian capital and finish the day with dinner in Darband mountainside.
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• Day 2: Persepolis & Shiraz – After breakfast we check out and head to the domestic airport for a short flight to Shiraz. We proceed with a tour of Persepolis before returning to the city for a little bit of sightseeing.
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• Eram Garden (UNESCO Site)
• Vakil Mosque & Bazzar
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• Day 4: Pasargadae – A short drive takes us to Pasargadae.
• Pasargadae – Tomb of Cyrus (UNESCO Site)
Hotel: Perspolis (5 star) – double rooms
• Day 5, 6: Drive to Isfahan– Isfahan is a place for savoring the Persian culture and getting lost in its old bazaar.
• Imam Square(UNESCO Site)
• Ali Qapu Palace & Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
• Chehel Sotun Palace (UNESCO Site)
• Vank Cathedral Museum
Hotel: Parsian Kosar (4 star) – double rooms
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Hotel: Parsian Esteghlal (5 star) – double rooms
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Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney general, was sacked by Ed Miliband for sneering at a family home draped with England flags. Anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe was sacked by Sainsbury's after saying David Cameron should resign for using his 'dead son' as a front to privatise the NHS.
So why wasn't Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, sacked in 2012 for his ignorant and heartless remarks after saying that disabled Remploy workers were "not doing any work... just making cups of coffee"?
Why wasn't Iain Duncan Smith sacked in 2014, after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publicly admitted it was wrong, that it should not have axed the disability benefits of Asperger's sufferer Mark Wood, who starved to death just five months later, weighing five-and-a-half stone.
I could cite additional examples, but suffice it to say that Iain Duncan Smith has committed more wrongdoing than Emily Thornberry and Jack Monroe combined—and astonishingly, has not been forced to resign. The 'quiet man' has become the 'Teflon man'. Nothing sticks.


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The State Parliament's Upper House voted against Labor's Return to Work Corporation of South Australia (Crown Claims Management) Amendment Bill, which sought to privatise public sector workers' compensation insurance in South Australia. Under the Bill, Crown claims would be referred to claims agents – Employers Mutual Limited and Gallagher Bassett – rather than managed in-house by the relevant Department.
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"Labor's Bill could not have provided better service for injured workers or the Crown agencies and quite rightly the sector is pleased to see it crash and burn in the State's Upper House."
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was born in 1976 in Texas. His interest in photography began as a freshman in high school when he took his first photojournalism class. Of special note was his love and admiration of the photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. Apparently, this freshman year class was pretty good. He is a true documentary photographer in that he doesn't really like making things up, and prefers and follows the mantra that it's better discovering and 'seeing' what's around him.
Brian Finke – A Color Larry Clark?
These days his impetus is more Larry Clark than any of the "normal" photojournalists, delving very deeply into the subject at hand. His first award for photography was at the age of 22, and pretty soon after he started defining himself as a documentary photographer. He was subsequently awarded the 'New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Photography' in 2004. He produced his first monograph about American Cheerleaders & Football Players. It was this breakout work that received a lot of attention.
He loves getting that reaction of surprise when he's on assignment and pulls out a Polaroid from his back. People start thinking of him as an art photographer. And he's fine with that. He exclusively shoots film with a Hasselblad. And loves everything about it. From the grain and depth of film, the chromogenic print, to the actual camera and process itself. And when viewed at large scale in a gallery, the beauty alone gives him no reason to change.
Documentary to Art
He's had solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Jacksonville, and Houston, among others, and are in many collections worldwide. His book, "Flight Attendants", is a great work of photographic documentary and art combined. He began photographing flight attendants as he traveled around the world. He even visited a flight attendant school documenting the training. The airlines included Delta, JetBlue, Hawaiian, Hooters Air, Southwest, Air Asia, Thai, Tiger, ANA, Japan, and Cathay Pacific. Colorful, sad, comedic and filled with irony. A beautiful book available on Amazon.
He lives in New York City now, and his commission schedule is full. Check out his website link below, and check out the myriad of stories he's documented,…with perfect composition and perfect color. Something to aspire to.


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|Lt. V. J. Pra Sisto, USNR
|4.) 01 Dec. 1945 - 17 Jan. 1946
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What began as aggressive driving on the Kilpatrick Turnpike led to the death of one man in a northwest Oklahoma City parking lot and life in prison for another.
In late October, the prosecution rested its case against David Bloebaum, accused of first degree murder in the September 2012 shooting death of 29-year-old Jason Yousif. The defense,which claimed Bloebaum acted in self-defense when he shot Yousif five times in a Target parking lot, also rested its case, but without calling a single witness.
The following day, a jury deliberated for about an hour after hearing closing arguments and returned with a guilty verdict for charges of first degree murder and unlawful use of a firearm.
On Friday, Bloebaum was sentenced for his murder conviction. Oklahoma County District Judge Timothy R. Henderson followed the jury's recommendation in sentencing Bloebaum, 59, to life in prison without parole. Bloebaum plans to appeal.
Bloebaum has maintained since the shooting that he acted in self defense when he fired at Yousif from inside his vehicle. He said that the younger man reached into the vehicle to try to stab him, but witness testimony seemed to contradict Bloebaum's claims. Witnesses did, however, testify that when Yousif fell to the ground after being shot, a knife fell from his hand.
Regardless of the scenario that led to one man's murder and another man's life sentence, it could not have been worth it for either man. Annoying driving on the turnpike can make anyone angry, but it shouldn't make a person angry enough to take or to lose a life.
According to SafeMotorist.org, a website of the American Safety Council, road rage is defined as "incidents of screaming, rude gestures, and sometimes even violence." The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) says road rage is "an assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapon by the operator or passenger(s) of one motor vehicle on the operator or passenger(s) of another motor vehicle or is caused by an incident that occurred on a roadway."
In general, road rage is marked by rude or obscene language and gestures or aggressive driving. Aggressive driving, the threat of violence, and violence are criminal acts that could lead to injury or death, and for the perpetrator of road rage, it could lead to significant legal consequences.
How prevalent is road rage? The NHTSA and Auto Vantage statistics compiled at SafeMotorist.org are concerning:
- 66% of traffic fatalities are caused by aggressive driving.
- 37% of aggressive driving incidents involve a firearm.
- Males under the age of 19 are the most likely to exhibit road rage.
- Half of drivers who are on the receiving end of an aggressive behavior, such as horn honking, a rude gesture, or tailgating admit to responding with aggressive behavior themselves.
- Over a seven year period, 218 murders and 12,610 injuries were attributed to road rage.
- 2% of drivers admit to trying to run an aggressor off the road.
Most of us have been angry at another driver at one time or another, whether that driver's aggressive or reckless driving nearly caused an accident, or whether we're annoyed by a driver going too slow in the passing lane. Regardless of the reason for our anger, most people wouldn't dream of killing someone over a traffic incident. Yet in the heat of anger, a situation can quickly escalate--especially when both involved drivers react out of anger.
Are you prone to road rage? You may think you aren't, but these indicators from the American Safety Council may cause you to reconsider your actions behind the wheel and take steps to calm down while driving:
- Do you regularly drive over the speed limit, or try to "beat" red lights because you are in a hurry?
- Do you tailgate or flash your headlights at a driver in front of you that you believe is driving too slowly?
- Do you honk the horn often?
- Do you ever use obscene gestures or otherwise communicate angrily at another driver?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you might have a problem with road rage. If you answered no, you aren't off the hook, though. While you may not have road rage yourself, you may have driving behaviors that provoke it. The American Safety Council notes that the following acts may ignite road rage in others:
- Do you frequently use your phone while driving, or otherwise drive while distracted?
- Do you keep your high beams on, regardless of oncoming traffic?
- Do you switch lanes or make turns without using your turn signal?
- Do you fail to check your blind spot before switching lanes to make sure you aren't cutting someone off?
Whether you are an aggressive driver or a thoughtless driver, it makes sense to evaluate your own driving behavior to make sure that you are being a safe driver. Calming down and paying attention to your driving can help prevent avoidable accidents and incidents of violence on Oklahoma roadways. Learn more about aggressive driving and road rage here.


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Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 7
趣味は何ですか?shumi wa nan desu ka? What is your hobby?
Beginning Japanese Conversational Phrases #7: Continuing Hobbies
Today's podcast will review how to ask about hobbies and add a new grammatical pattern.
趣味は何ですか? shumi wa nan desu ka? What is your hobby?
趣味はカラオケです。 shumi wa karaoke desu. My hobby is karaoke.
You can drop the 趣味は and just say
カラオケです。 karaoke desu. It's karaoke.
趣味はスポーツです。 shumi wa supo-tsu desu. My hobby is sports.
趣味はコンピューターです。 shumi wa konpyu-ta- desu. My hobby is computers.
Let's make the answer a little more complicated by saying, "My hobby is watching movies."
"Watching movies" is 映画をみること
"Movies" is 映画 eiga
The を o is a direct object marker
みる miru is a verb meaning 'to see'
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みること the thing to see.
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趣味は映画をみることです。 shumi wa eiga o miru koto desu. My hobby is watching movies.
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Our Expedition on the Restored Rubber Boom Era Boat, the Ayapua
On our latest expedition we chartered the Ayapua, a rubber boom era ship that has been restored to her original glory, and then some. Since the Ayapua's restoration in 2005 she had been used primarily for research and conservation expeditions.
Thank you very much Richard Bodmer and AmazonEco for realizing the historical importance of restoring the Ayapua in the first place, and for allowing Dawn on the Amazon, and our guests, the opportunity to experience your magnificent ship.
The Ayapua is 33 meters long and 6 meters wide. Our 9 guests, two guides, Marmelita and I went aboard and never saw each other again…No just kidding, it's not that big, but the Dawn on the Amazon group totaled 13 and the crew of the Ayapua totaled 14, including 3 biologists, and a nurse, but we didn't get in each others way.
The goal of the first day's cruise was used to get well inside the boundary of Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve. There was a visible improvement in the quality of the rainforest as soon as we entered the reserve, around 5 hours after we cast off.
The first night some of us watched the movie Fitzcarraldo. It was filmed in and around Iquitos. Although I have seen Fitzcarraldo half a dozen times, I enjoyed it again. This time I was struck by the similarity of the Ayapua to the rubber boom era boat in Fitzcarraldo.
The next morning our guests were given a choice of visiting a village, taking a jungle hike, going fishing, or lounging on the Ayapua. Everyone divided according to they're interests.
Unfortunately I was struck down by the Inca Atahuallpa's revenge and was relegated to hostage status near the fringe of the boat's toilets for most of the cruise.
Fortunately, Marmelita guided the three village visits and the three jungle hikes, and my fishing guides, Edson and Bernardino lead the fishermen to four lakes, and fishing the river.
The first hike took 3 hours after a big rain. Our guests learned about medicinal plants, and different types of rainforest. The second hike was to visit a remote community. Our guests bought candy to share, and were surrounded by children. Some bought beers in the local store, some played volleyball with the older kids. I think they loved the children. The third hike was about how the locals plant their gardens and fields, and involved tasting the local produce. The combination of three hikes provided a good opportunity to learn about the ecology of the Amazon, particularly the interaction between the needs of the indigenous people, and the need to protect the rainforest.
The water level had gone up several meters in the two weeks prior to our expedition, flooding the lakes and rivers into the rainforest, making fishing difficult.
Steve and Dave were our two most serious fishermen, and were rewarded for their hard work, getting up early, making the most good casts, fishing in the rain, and were the only ones to catch peacock bass. Steve caught a giant fresh water stingray.
Bob caught a large black piranha. Jay caught a few catfish.
Steve is a licensed fishing guide in the States, so when he told me how the process of catching the giant fresh water sting ray was one of the greatest fishing experiences of his fishing career, that meant something special to me, because that is the kind of result we are trying for here beyond the edge of civilization.
When Steve and my guide Bernardino paddled away from the Ayapua, Steve thought they were going peacock bass fishing, but Bernardino had other ideas. Much to Steve's amusement, Bernie customized a jungle fishing rig out of Steve's fancy hooks, lures, and braided line, dug some worms, and positioned the canoe over a flooded sand bar. Soon Steve thought he had hooked a log, but the log took off, and Steve had no idea what was fighting him until the ray surfaced. He released the ray, without even taking a photo, probably against Bernardino's better judgment.
Over all I think this is the story of 9 good friends from Cincinnati Ohio that have traveled together to Costa Rica, and other destinations, coming to the Peruvian Amazon looking for a little adventure and something different. They brought their own fishing gear, 120 cigars, a couple of bottles of scotch, and a good attitude. We liked these guys. We can't script these adventures. It is too wild here, things happen. We did the best we could, and they made the best of what they could, and I think we were all fairly happy with the results.
Ed wrote a journal of his expedition. I hope he lets me use it on this blog. All of them are articulate. I hope they leave comments telling their version of the events of our expedition.
Thanks to Pablo Puertas the Iquitos representative of the World Wildlife Organization who accompanied us. Pablo took most of the photos for this article. All of my cameras are kaput.
Our Expedition on the Restored Rubber Boom Era Boat, the Ayapua
Bill Grimes, Dawn on the Amazon
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Swift@IBM Open Playbacks
In an effort of engaging more with the community, the Swift team at IBM will be hosting regular webinars via Google Hangouts discussing code and future directions for Kitura and the tools around it. The first webinar is scheduled for today! Check the link for time information.
Let's Encrypt to offer wildcard SSL/TLS Certificates
Free SSL/TLS Certificates are coming to Let's Encrypt offering starting next January. This is great news! Gone are the times where you had to pay for simple SSL certificates. With the wildcard option, we can secure all of our website for free! 🎉
Apple Machine Learning Journal
Apple has just started a Machine Learning journal. This blog will probably be a mix of on-device and server-side machine learning, leaning more towards the on-device side of things, given they just released CoreML as part of the iOS SDK. Anyway, it's great to see Apple take the initiative this way!
Xcode 9 Beta 4
Xcode 9, Beta 4 is out! Go download it! 🚀
Memory Management in Swift: The Strong, The Weak and The Unowned
A good reminder of how memory management works in Swift. I had already linked to an article discussing memory leaks in closures. It's always good to review these things. Sometimes details just slip out of one's mind.
Mike Ash with a detailed explanation of the
Codable protocol. A few articles have focused on this new feature lately. Hopefully, you'll enjoy this one as well.
Xcode 9 Text Macros
We can finally customize things like the copyright notice in Xcode-generated files! Whoo! 🙌
The Xcode team has gone above all my wildest dreams/expectations this year! For whoever works there, keep the good stuff coming, please! I'll give you cookies and all my love! 😍
This package by John Connoly is a distributed task queue for server side swift applications. Task queues are used as a mechanism to distribute work across machines. SwiftQ uses messages to communicate between clients and workers with the help of Redis.
The Web sucks on a slow Internet connection
A friendly reminder that we, as developers, always need to take into account where the user is located and under what circumstances they might be using our app (no matter if it's for the web or native).
Quote of the week
""What are micro-services other than ['objects'] that maintain their own data & operations, performing ops in response to receiving messages?"


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The time you recommend to purchase your wedding dress in is NOT ACCURATE!!! You make an appointment AT LEAST 9 months in advance, so you need more time. If not SOONER!!! You want to leave room for alterations, deciding color and styles for your Bridesmaids (which can take up to 6 Months to order), the Groom and Groomsmen and also the Mothers. That takes time and you want to make sure to have your gown selected before that. It sets the tone for the whole style and look of your day, 2nd only to the venue. So, not something that should be rushed. If you start about a year out, you'll have the most options.
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Marzahn Botha visited Zanzibar and learned that the only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it. Never forget the power of perspective, it may chance the way you view the world. The beaches of Matemwe on the […]
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Two other bears slept and played nearby as the fight broke out in a snow storm.
David C Schultz, the photographer, spent five days in the Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada, capturing this series of wonderful images.
He sat just 40 metres away from the bears, along the shore of the Hudson Bay, as they waited for it to freeze over.
They will soon head out to hunt ring seals for the winter.
Mr Schultz, 53, said: "I watched for about three hours as four polar bears lay sleeping and rolling around in the snow, basically being lazy.
"The tundra buggy driver positioned us so we could take advantage of the wind blowing the powdery snow off their coats and surroundings.
"That gave me an opportunity to get some beautiful and more dramatic back-lit images when the bears decided to show a little more activity.
"You sit for hours with the cameras at the ready then all of a sudden the bears go at it – but that only lasts a few minutes."
He added: "They were extremely playful at times and they managed to entertain themselves and me.
"I had seen this group of bears almost every day and they do have their individual personalities.
"There was one bear which seemed to be the troublemaker of the group – the one that would go and start a fight with one of the others while it was sleeping.
"Or he would go over and fall on top of another only to use it for a pillow.
"He had the scars to prove he had been in a few sparring matches.
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Martin Sheen on Charlie Sheen: 'Emotionally, he still is [a kid].'
Martin Sheen and his eldest son, Emilio Estevez, picked a complicated time to promote their film, The Way, the story of a man (Sheen) who embarks on an arduous pilgrimage in order to mourn and better understand his estranged son (Estevez). The former Brat-Pack idol wrote, directed, and co-stars in the film, but the personal story of a father and his son lends itself all too easy to journalists' questions about that other Sheen, the embattled and increasingly erratic former Two and a Half Men star. Martin Sheen was generally sympathetic to his son's plight in a recent interview to the London Telegraph, saying, "I know what hell he's living in. I've had psychotic episodes in public. One of them was on camera — the opening scene of Apocalypse Now. So I know what Charlie is going through. And when you do something like that, that is out of control, that's the most difficult thing. You have to have courage."
Estevez shared some painful memories from the making of that historically difficult production — in which his father drank heavily and suffered a heart attack. Then only 14 years old, Estevez was practically ignored by his parents during the shoot in the Philippines, running around the dangerous streets of Manila with fellow teenager Laurence Fishburne. "What were they thinking?" Estevez asked his parents after he got older. "We had four of you," Estevez recalled them saying. "If we had to lose one, we would. We were just trying to survive."
Sheen the elder believes Charlie is being strangled by addiction, something he can relate to, but he seems resigned that his paternal guidance isn't always welcome anymore. "Every now and then [it is]," Sheen says. "Depends on whether it's a moment of clarity for him. I can't determine that for him. You know, Charlie's 45 years old. He's not a kid. Emotionally he still is. Because when you're addicted, you don't grow emotionally. So when you get clean and sober you're starting at the moment you started using drugs or alcohol. You're emotionally crippled."
Charlie Sheen frequently mentions his admiration for Apocalypse Now, a great film by all accounts, but is it revealing at all that he chooses to celebrate a chapter of his family's life that was so volatile?
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