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Testimonials at The Left Bank Village
5th July 2019 - Party - Kim
"A big thank you to all your wonderful, friendly, accommodating staff, great food and the perfect venue. A good time was had by all... and the sun shone ☀", Best Wishes Kim Hughes
24th May 2019 - Wedding (Harriet & Carl)
"Carl and I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone at the Left Bank! From start to finish it was amazing. The bridal suit was perfect, the food was out of this world and every single member of staff we came across were more than helpful and friendly. You ALL made our wedding day perfect and stress free. Lily keep doing what you're doing, you're amazing! Thank you so much. Love to you all!" Mr & Mrs Parker!
18th May 2019 - Wedding (Lydia & Josh)
"Hi guys, I just wanted to say the biggest of thank yous for the most incredible day on Saturday. It was so so so special, and I will never forget it. Thank you so so much again."
30th March 2019 - Wedding (Hayley & Wayne)
"Myself and Wayne would like to say a big thank you to yourself (Lili-Beth) and Nat for such a perfect day. You did such an amazing job making sure our day went seamlessly. It truly was the best day of our lives."
23rd December 2018 - Christmas Party
"Just like to say a BIG THANK YOU to you and your team for a wonderful evening last night , food was lovely and DJ played some great music. Have a lovely Christmas"
10th December 2018 - Christmas Party
"Everyone I spoke to had a fab time – thank you! I'm sure we will be in touch in the New Year about reserving a date for 2019. Thanks again for all your help!"
8th December 2018 - Christmas Party
"Just a quick email to say thank you so much for Saturday. Everybody had a really good time and thoroughly enjoyed the evening"
7th December 2018 - Christmas Party
"Just a quick email to thank your staff for a great party on Friday 7th Dec 2018 it was enjoyed by all and everyone had a really great time. Please pass on our thanks to your team for making it such a great evening we will certainly be back if you will have us Wishing you and your staff a great Christmas although you will be busy I am sure"
4th November 2017 - 40th Birthday
"Just want to say thank you for Saturday night. Everyone had a great time. The staff were excellent and the food was lovely. I will certainly recommend you guys to others. Thank you for all your help."
2nd November 2017 - Awards Ceremony
"I'd like to say a huge thank you to your team last night. Everything ran very smoothly, the food was good (and hot!) the venue looked amazing and everyone had a really enjoyable evening"
13th July 2017 - Sixth Form Ball
"Please pass on my thanks to your staff for all that they provided at the sixth form ball."
12th May 2017 - Retirement Party
"Just an email to say thank you to you and your team for the support they gave enabling us to hold a small gathering at the left bank for our retiring service manager. Staff were most helpful and very accommodating and whilst it ended up only being a small gathering, it was enjoyable. Thank you once again, it really was much appreciated." Nichola
22nd January 2017 - Baby Shower for Racheal
"I just wanted to say thank you for everyone who worked on the baby shower for us. It was a lovely day and mother-to-be thoroughly enjoyed it. The spread was INCREDIBLE! Best we have had by far!! If you could pass on our thanks to everyone that would be appreciated". Racheal
12th January 2017 - Vennture Christmas Party
"Thank you so much for last night, we all had a fantastic evening. The venue looked amazing, it was so lovely to be able to have some fun with our volunteers and treat them to a special occasion like last night. Thanks for all your help in coordinating". Micha, Project Development Manager
11th January 2017 - Lunch in De Koffie Pot
"I would like to say a big thank you for a super lunch at De Koffie Pot last Wednesday. I have written a blog about it for my on line magazine. Click here to see the blog. Michelle looked after us really well and I will DEFINITELY be back. I have tweeted and FB. It was nice to meet Gary too. Have a good week" Best wishes, Elaine
31 December 2016 - Wedding (Sarah and Rob)
"I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you for everything you did leading up to the wedding. Rob and I had such an unbelievable good time! It all went so smoothly, Mike was fantastic at timings and order, a big thank you to Gary for the fireworks. It really was a super day/evening – the atmosphere was perfect. So many guests commented on the venue – it really is fantastic. Finally, thank you for Gwynne House – it really added to the wedding – somewhere to stay the night before, have a super tasty breakfast in the De Koffie Pot (The porridge was amazing) with very attentive staff, and such a cosy and relaxing place to stay. Good luck with all the other events planned this year, I'm hoping to attend the comedy night and jazz night you have advertised. I just thought I would attach a picture from the terrace that James took on the evening." Sarah and Rob
"On behalf of the Curtis family, a note of thanks for all the hard work by you and your team in marking Robert and Sarah's wedding such a success. You came up trumps with the whole event for which I am personally very grateful." Kind regards. David (Father of the Groom)
"We just wanted to thank everyone for making the day so special. The left bank is such a lovely venue.
Would you also thank Mike, he was very professional and so helpful." Kind regards, Ann & Bryan (Brides Parents)
3rd December 2016 - Christmas Party
Can I just say what a great night had by all at Arctic Circle on Saturday night. Everyone here has commented how superb the food was and that the venue was an excellent place to have the Christmas party at. Clean tidy and pleasant staff to go with it, therefore I would like to take this opportunity in thanking you for your kindness and hospitality on Saturday night. Thanks again Carey and have a successful Christmas and I am sure all companies will feel the same. Steve (Arctic Circle)
2nd April 2016 - Jodie's Birthday Party
"Thank you very much for hosting my birthday party.Lovely evening - everyone enjoyed the venue, delicious soup, music and great customer service. Please pass on my thanks to the staff especially the manager who looked after us well. Hope it was benificial for you too. I know a lot of people will be returning customers. See you again soon. "
12th March 2016 - Spitfires Rock 'n' Roll Evening
"A huge big thanks to everyone at left bank for helping my parents enjoy their 51st wedding anniversary. You were amazingly helpful in setting up the evening so they really enjoyed themselves, and they thought the spitfires were great and enjoyed reminiscing over all the 50s and 60s song. You are so well equipped to help someone in a wheelchair with genuinely easy access, lifts, loos and table side service. I can't thank you enough for making their day and highly recommend you to others." Tracy Emery
11th March 2016 - Fundraiser for Womens' Cancer Charities
"Just wanted to say a massive thank you to Gary for kindly offering us the venue, it's a beautiful venue. Thanks to all the staff that were so friendly and helpful plus Sy and Minnie, thank you your organisation and assistance on top. We raised a massive £6,200 for women's cancer charities, without your kind support we wouldn't have been able to achieve that. So thank you again so much." Jacky and all the Hereford Heifer's 🙂
10th December 2015. Redmayne-Bentley Wine Tasting
"The room looked lovely and the evening worked well with the clients being able to sit in groups of 6. Simone and Flo looked after us very well too. Thank you so much for arranging for us to have the larger tables – I really appreciate it. It was a very enjoyable evening and I think the clients will have gone away with a very good impression of the Left Bank". Thanks again, Karen. Investment Manager. Branch Manager. Redmayne-Bentley Stockbrokers. http://www.redmayne.co.uk
8th December 2015. Christmas Party
Hi , Everyone at the Left Bank. "We would like to say a very big thank you for a very enjoyable night on Saturday. We all enjoyed it very much. Food was lovely , venue was great, disco fun , thank you again ,all my staff had a great time, and thats what its all about" Linsey. Red Hair Studio. x
7th December 2015. Christmas Party
"I wanted to let you know what a fabulous time we all had Saturday night for out Christmas party. The food was amazing and the room looked stunning. Hats off to you all, was a great night. Kind Regards. Sally. HLC Nursery Manager
15th August 2015 - Wye Valley Rotary Charity Dinner Dance
"I am writing on behalf of the Wye Valley Rotary Club to thank you for allowing us to use the Left Bank venue for our Summer Ball. We all had a great evening, and the success was largely due to the fantastic venue. Many thanks for your help and assistance" David Evans
5th May 2015 - Hereford Cathedral School PTA Ball
"Huge thanks to you and your team for Friday evening. Rob Mitchell and his team were brilliant. We can never thank you enough for your support over the past 2 years. My time as Chair is drawing to a close but I have managed to get an equally lovely Mum to take on this crazy role! I hope she & her team will continue to use Lyde Court & The Left Bank. I have advised them to book early!!!! Just like we did years ago!! Where has the time gone?! Thanking you and Karen again." Helen. Chairman HCJS PTA
Saturday 4th April 2015 - Surprise Birthday Party for Matt
A huge thank you for our fab party, Matt was over the moon with it and everyone was great and very accommodating.


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Last Wednesday, my wife went on a trip to the capital city for a rally.
6:04 am - my wife shakes me awake
6:06 - after blinking the last remnants of sleep away, I get up and go to the bathroom.
6:19 - after making my rounds of e-mail, text messages, IMs, & games on my iPhone and getting dressed, I go downstairs and I see that my wife is already gone. I sit with the girls while they watch Disney/Nick.
7:05 - I ask the girls what they want for breakfast. They both said cereal.
7:07 - after washing two bowls and filling them with their cereal, I realize that there's not enough milk to do one bowl. My wife forgot to tell me that we needed milk. I use soymilk on their cereals instead (they like soymilk anyway).
7:07 - they are served and I contemplate washing a bowl so I could have a cereal too. I decide to wait and use one of their bowl. Just didn't feel like washing another. ;)
7:21 - the older daughter is done and the younger chimes in with "I done!" so I ask the older if she wants the remains of her sister's cereal. She nods with wide eyes. I take her bowl and return to the kitchen.
7:22 - after rinsing off the bowl, I fill it with my cereal. I pour in my milk...and it wasn't even close to being adequate. I remember seeing a small carton of chocolate milk in the fridge. Why not? I pour that into the center and the pre-existing milk doesn't turn color at the visible edge.
7:23 - I always start at the edge of my cereal and work my way in...the constant digging into my cereal has made the milk look more brownish-dusty. No real flavor of chocolate yet.
7:24 - I finally reach the chocolate-y part of the cereal and it's quite interesting to experience. Not bad at all. Just more..."fun"...to eat.
7:45 - I brush my teeth and shepherd the girls off to their schools.
8:56 - I'm still tasting the chocolate milk...the cereal taste is long forgotten. Made me smile.
See? Now that I am a family man, drawing on my bachelor days helped me cope with the shortages creatively. ;)
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Wiley S. Drake, a Buena Park pastor and a former national leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, called on his followers to pray for the deaths of two leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The request was in response to the liberal group's urging the IRS on Tuesday to investigate Drake's church's nonprofit status because Drake endorsed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president on church letterhead and during a church-affiliated Internet radio show.
Drake said Wednesday he was "simply doing what God told me to do" by targeting Americans United officials Joe Conn and Jeremy Leaming, whom he calls the "enemies of God."
"God says to pray imprecatory prayer against people who attack God's church," he said. "The Bible says that if anybody attacks God's people, David said this is what will happen to them. . . . Children will become orphans and wives will become widows."
Imprecatory prayers are alternately defined as praying for someone's misfortune, or an appeal to God for justice.
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office," the prayer reads. "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
Conn said he was "startled" at Drake's reaction to the complaint against Drake's First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park.
"We expected him to try to defend his actions," Conn said.
"Instead he goes on spiritual blitzkrieg against us, praying for our destruction. He completely glossed over the fact that his actions are clearly a violation of federal tax law."
Drake is a long-time Orange County evangelical preacher who frequently captures the spotlight.
In the 1990s, he protested "Gay Day" at Disneyland and a 2 Live Crew concert as obscene. He also fought Buena Park city officials who tried to stop him from sheltering homeless people on church grounds.
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Anne Smidley
"Anne Smidley" was the name used on a letter to Astounding in the January 1936 issue which announced the (hoax) death of Bob Tucker. This was part of the nonsense in the (hoax) First Staple War that began in 1934. It was the Smidley letter which caused ASF editor F. Orlin Tremaine to refuse to print any more letters connected to the First Staple War.
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Cool Cisse felt no pressure
Newcastle new boy Papiss Cisse insisted he felt no pressure when he was thrown straight into the heat of Barclays Premier League battle.
The 26-year-old arrived on Tyneside in a near £10million switch from German side Freiburg last month, but had to wait until Sunday's clash with Aston Villa to make his debut after joining club-mate Demba Ba in the Senegal squad at the African Nations Cup.
And Cisse established himself as an instant hero after coming off the bench to claim the winner with a stunning 71st-minute strike. Asked if he had felt the expectation on his shoulders, he said: "No, not really, not real pressure."
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Differences in life expectancy by education and income are increasing. And while differential trends in smoking and other habits partly explain the life-span gap, it's mostly a puzzle. I suspect that a major factor is stress — that prolonged exposure to stress has risen more among families of moderate income than it has among those of high income, and that the stress is literally killing people.
A new study raises doubts about this hypothesis. The researchers found that British women aged 50 to 69 who said they were unhappy or felt as if they had no control over their lives were more likely to die over the next decade than those who did not. But when the researchers adjusted for self-reported health at the beginning of the study, the correlation effectively disappeared.
The researchers concluded that the women in worse health had shorter life expectancy, and that their health problems were also what caused them to feel stress and unhappiness. As the lead author, Bette Liu of the University of New South Wales, commented, "Illness makes you unhappy, but unhappiness doesn't make you ill."
That would certainly undercut the idea that stress is a killer — were it not for three things that got almost no attention in the press coverage of the study.
First, previous studies have found a stronger association between happiness and health for men than for women.
Second, if unhappiness and stress do affect health, they may begin to do so well before the age of 50. In that case, when the authors of the British women study adjusted for self-reported health at the start of their research, they would have removed the connection they claim doesn't exist. One of their appendix tables shows that, among the women who said they were unhappy, 40 percent reported fair or poor health at the beginning of the study, compared with only 15 percent of those who said they were happy. The researchers argue that this shows that those in bad health are unhappy, rather than the other way around, but that's not necessarily the case. (These numbers, by the way, exclude those who, at the beginning of the study, had cancer, heart disease, stroke or chronic obstructive airways diseases. But to the extent that unhappiness and stress before age 50 could contribute to those conditions, the point is even stronger.)
The authors of the British study did find that, after age 50, there is effectively no association between life span and happiness or stress. Indeed, this is perhaps their strongest finding and understandably raises questions about how unhappiness affects health.
But it also brings me to my third caveat. The unhappy people who reported being in excellent health when the study started may well be exceptions for whom unhappiness imposes no harm. Other research from Britain shows that the harm from stress depends a lot on one's beliefs about it. If you're under stress but believe it doesn't affect your health, it doesn't. And if you believe it does, it does. This was true among subjects who rated their health as good as well as those who rated it as poor. So it's entirely possible that the unhappy women in the more recent study who were in excellent health view the effects of their unhappiness and stress differently than other unhappy, stressed people do.
Given that we still don't know what's widening the life-span gap, and that stress cannot be eliminated as a possible factor, the academic and medical communities need to explore much more aggressively how stress affects different people.
Peter Orszag, a Bloomberg View columnist, was formerly President Barack Obama's director of the Office of Management and Budget.


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Hopkinsville Electric System (HES) is a municipal not-for-profit corporation established by Kentucky statute and city ordinance. June 11, 2017 will mark the 75th anniversary of our municipal electric system in Hopkinsville. HES is one of over two thousand municipal public power systems in our nation. HES serves the "old" boundaries of the city limits and approximately 13,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers within our service area, with an average residential electric usage of approximately 1,200 kilowatt hours per month.
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Nose: Elegant and intriguing, with grassy and minty notes accompanied by honey and citrus.
Palate: Sweet and chocolatey with candied citrus peel, more mint and a nutty edge.
Finish: Long and fruity, with citrus fading to reveal soft spice.
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Definitely one of my favourite whiskies. Smooth and sweet, with detectable notes of vanilla and chocolate.
Very good but not amazing. Smooth but with a slightly volatile finish. Savoury and herbacious more than honeyed, touch citrusy. Quite elegant.
Super smooth and unfortunately that's all about there is to the story here. I wouldn't even bother typing this comment here if Auchentoshan 21 was a cheaper dram. It certainly doesn't deserve its price tag, keep in mind that Aberfeldy 21 YO, which is the winner of a Gold Medal and Best in Class at the International Wine & Spirits Competition 2010, is £20 cheaper and has the punch this Auchentoshan lacks, in spite of its higher ABV%.
Super smooth and triple distilled, you could be forgiven for thinking it was Irish! Complex, delicate, soft, rounded, honeyed and plenty of vanilla from the 21 years spent in oak. A lovely, easy drinking, medium weight malt and decent value for the age. You can understand why Jim Murray gave it 93 points. Top of the standard Auchentoshan range.
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On September 5th we held our 2nd annual team building event at Go Ape in Creve Coeur Park. This is such a fun and unique event that we look forward to every year. In case you haven't heard about it, it's an outdoor experience that provides participants hours of outdoor fun and exercise swinging from the treetops. The course allows participants to explore the park from an otherwise unobtainable vantage point while navigating through the treetops using zip lines, obstacles and Tarzan swings.
We work hard all year ensuring our clients get the most responsive and creative designs. It is nice to take that same creative and collaborative approach outside of our office and apply it to our internal team. The challenge of completing the tree top obstacles, and of course the trash talking that ensues, allows us to grow as a group and form bonds that makes our collaboration and design work even stronger.
This year was no different, we flew through the trees, we encouraged each other, we tested our limits, and we all came out stronger as individuals and as a team.
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And now for yet more live event reportage and cultural pontificating. The Crab Fair is a straightforward traditional country show, it dates back to the 12th century. It incorporates contemporary culture but is in essence I suspect unchanged in its aims to celebrate local skills and give everyone a day/week off during which they will have a good time with their family and friends getting horribly drunk. One aspect of the fair that is immediately apparent and nowadays unusual is that the commentators know pretty much everyone by their first names and comment on them and their foibles throughout the day.
The highlights of the day programme are the wrestling, its odd to see yoofs in trackies so seriously doing this traditional, skilled and slightly silly form of sport, the show of vegetables and poultry are equally impressive being of very high standard and again with many young people involved.
The famous highlight of the fair is the Gurning (making ugly faces) competition; it is slightly ruined by loads of outsiders/lads, stag parties taking part, many of whom get booed and one of who hilariously drops his trousers. Boy I've never laughed so much in my entire life, how my sides remained joined is a miracle, this was imaginative thinking at the cutting edge of the blue skies world of management consultantcy, brilliant, it has to be the very last thing anyone would have thought of doing, all I can say is this young man will go far, very far, very far indeed. The rest of the twats are just hopeless having not made any effort, however the organisers generously give each of them a go albeit in a disgruntled manner, the compere's laconic asides help ease the boredom. In each heat a local master is included and when these practitioners take the stage the audience erupts into chants of 'ugly ugly', and indeed they are. The ritualistic nature of the event is very apparent and in effect the comperes riff on that. Everyone knows what the outcome will be, and looks forward to that magical moment played out annually. Tommy Mattinson has won the competition 9 times his father before him 10 times, he is the best and his performance well honed – he goes from suave Miami style beach bum to snarling dogwolf thing, even his back seems to articulate forming an angular jackal like hump. When Tommy inevitably wins, the stage is darkened, the dry ice floods the Dias - pierced by shards of light ala some horror film, Carmina Burana pounds out, the Omen films being the point of reference – Tommy whirls on the audience, clutching the horse collar, snarling, his George Michael beard framing his barred teeth, squatting between the two Burton besuited car salesman styled commentators in matching red kipper ties, their arms spread-eagled, Al Jolson showbiz style, it's a fleeting but powerful demonic triptych, the audience, the tradition all adding meaning, weight, humour – it is well worth the wait (and I've seen it before). I guess it would work just as well as a photograph or film clip, you didn't have to be there but then you would have to understand the place the context, the people, know the life.
But what makes me more receptive to this performance than the others I have recently witnessed – well it's 'real' for one, but that's not enough there's plenty of real I'd rather not see. There is a naturalness about the routine, its relationship to its audience, this is a community that's playing ball, and in the image a host of pertinent references, many of them unconscious no doubt. The celebration of being of an outsider community wedded to Sellafield Nuclear Power Station – although the event long predates Sellafield. A contemporary image of the devil, the evils of society and a way to exorcise it (as per many traditional evil/death/fear type folk events) I love the references to estate agents, the use of film reference etc. The idea of transformation, the best gurn has to transform a presentable face into an ugly one, just starting of ugly and going further doesn't cut it at all. Even the insider outsider prejudice thing talks a lot about contemporary life, of course none of this needs articulating, as you understand it all intuitively in an instance. There is a lot of Mathew Barney in this but it isn't ultimately produced by some super privileged celebrated New Yorker pondering the fracturing of society with a bunch of seductive but clumsy references – could be that it's just honest.
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I somewhat reluctantly agreed to attend a night of Prince – I thought it might be interesting in relation to the Il Tempo Del Postino art theatre, attending something genuinely popular. Prince will play 21 nights at the Dome – so like 200,000 people, that's popular.
My expectations were high, with a nagging hint that I might be disappointed. I heard the tales of the purple ones hay days of flying beds, smoke and bikes and cars and knob shaped guitars and high heels and light and video shows of extraordinary sophistication and slickness.
I haven't been to a live concert of this scale before indeed I have never been to any event of this scale and let me tell you people it was a brutal experience. The venue, the transport, the ticket price, the merchandise, the drink etc - all brutal. Karen's camera was confiscated (the worst thing there being the que to get it back) and evidently even if you are paying Ł50 for a ticket the wine although costing the same as a vintage Meursault is about as drinkable as a hedgehog and comes in the inevitable plastic glass. The facilities included sitting on a dirty concrete floor followed by a deeply uncomforatble plastic chair with massive drink holders instead of armrests (form follows function). But ok so the trappings of rock haven't changed much. The audience was big, white and middle England aged – actually I think we may have been there on roadie night, we were surrounded by Tom Saxondales. I think Karen was disappointed by the mainstreamness of it. For her Prince was a revolutionary experimental cultural innovator/musician who rocked her world – she was extremely cross when I said he reminded me of Jools Holland – it's easy to forget that for each generation their music is very much more than the light entertainment that it is for the rest of us - it's a radical revolutionary force. Popular music is this rather fragile territory, we all know it's basically light weight inconsequential faff, but it is somehow vital to our identities, our 'growth' and when someone points out what you clearly already know it makes for a deadly assault on your very existence - hence people get murdered for asking for Queen's 'Fat Bottomed Girls' to be turned down a tad.
The venue was brutal to the music as well, terrible sound, the supporting act, a London African rap group sounded absolutely dreadful, brutally the audience of 10,000 Mexican wavers actually booed them off. During the extended wait for Prince we were entertained by a tiny video screen showing a series of appallingly made promotional videos for tacky merchandise available in the foyer, interspersed by the Prince logo rotating against a cloudscape – cheapo cheeseo.
Finally after 3 brutal hours of hanging around while the audience whistled, waved and were broadly irritating - a short Hall of Fame documentary puff film was shown, a multitude of people saying that Prince was the greatest thing on earth and all without any qualification. Prince finally appeared through some dry ice and worked through his multitude of MOR hits. It was like seeing a good R&B band, so okish, I was most reminded of Tina Turner complete with ghastly whirling dancers in skin tight britches, looking a lot like a couple of frogs undergoing electric shock therapy. The band was made up of some legendary figures, legendary because they can play their instruments well, a skill that for me doesn't really deserve legendary status, I mean if you're a musician surely it's not asking to much that you should be able to play other peoples music well - however that's another subject. Maceo Parker took his traditional sidekick role getting the James Brown treatment from Prince, ie being wheeled out to fill out songs when it just would be unbearable to hear yet another hard rock guitar solo (the bit about Prince I have never liked). The live versions of the songs were massively inferior to the recorded versions and additionally ruined by the audience singing along. I was placed it would seem in the centre of a choir assembled bit by bit by the legendary Dr Frankenstein, in another key, and on another planet, 'whern dubs kurwhy' it did make me laugh but Jesus after a while I was keen to punch something and the those tiered seats do offer a tempting target at just the right height to really get behind the punch and I am guessing that might have helped the Stigs make those high notes that Prince does so well. As you can imagine by this point my partner Karen was livid with me, furious that I could'nt just join in and be lost in the mass event instead of standing up there with my fingers in my ears stroking my pseudo intellectual beard and pontificating on 'the interesting phenomena', as Karen pointed out maybe if anything that I was involved in was even a micro fraction as popular. Of course this is right, the Grizedale performances, all the work I've ever been involved in, added together would not touch this single performance for numbers and mass enjoyment. In fact I wonder if anyone has ever enjoyed anything I have ever been involved in. I could say that enjoyment is not exactly the ambition but would I in reality like to generate this stomping appreciation?
Leaving the gig entailed a lot of queing furiously. With Karen now not on speaking terms I listened to the conversations around me, most were not about the gig, those that were tended to deal with practicalities of how Prince got under the stage (he rose on a lift through the stage) apparently he was brought through the crowd in a black box. There wasn't really anything to say, it was, this event like a football match, an endless repetition of the same thing, same physical actions, like when footballers do that weird physical theatre, pointing and shouting, ritualistically adjusting their waistbands, theatrical spitting etc, Prince made all the traditional rock language moves, offering the mic to the audience, cupping his ear, endlessly introducing the band, it was church for Neds. But this is a reality of humanness, the capacity/requirement for repetitive ritual, all sport, most arts. Had I finally realised after 48 years that most people myself included don't want something different every time, you cant make sense of it. Il Tempo did something a bit different from either the normal art or theatre experience and it wasn't entertaining but it was more interesting than Prince, I remember it better, I have thought more about it and I have reacted to it. It was disappointing because it seemed it should and could have been better, Prince on the other hand did not disappoint, but he did'nt add anything either, even minutes after the experience they had nothing to say about it.
As we left the stadium the audience football chanted 'No-thing compares, no-thing compares - to you, apart from the above men-tioned stuff'.
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I was much entertained by the ridiculous quote that seemed to headline the press coverage of the recent Manchester Il Tempo de Postino theatre performance, it runs;
'It is like being on an aeroplane in 1978, the whole audience is watching the same screen'
I can't really imagine what happened here, did the editor think wow Phillipe has said something really stupid lets put it on the cover.
It is kind of possible to make this into an interesting statement, leaving aside the obvious response that surely it's more like being in a theatre, etc - this fracturing of the audience is not such a common place thing as yet. I did see a news piece on home entertainment the other day which showed a family sitting room, full of kids, each of them was watching or using a separate piece of equipment , their wide screen TV was split into 4 parts and each viewer watched a separate entertainment. So I guess the procienium arch is not really so reflective of a contemporary consumption of culture, that's not to say contrary to Ill Tempo's notion that it's not still the primary form of entertainment and you don't need to go back in time and 30,000 feet up to experience this 'weird' phenomena ie all watching one thing. The other slightly incomprehensible cross reference re the title of the Ill Tempo thing, is this idea of the time of the post, an idea of expectation that seems to hark back to an old age where the arrival of the post was an event to savour, does anyone do that now? I thought postmen were just a bad tempered and sporadic supplier of junk mail and rubber bands.
This valuing of the live experience (theatre) has always seemed odd to me, I would far rather hear or see a recorded/presented version everytime, live is normally uncomfortable and often painful and that covers everything from sex to sking. There is I think an idea about authenticity and the historical precedent that we haven't entirely shaken - where you did have to see the 'live' version, the only other option being a ham fisted wood block print of it. Maybe I need to start to value the discomfort and pain of live experience as the product.
Which brings me to my most recent live experience where 10,000 people miraculously looked at the same thing (like being in a submarine in October 1944) and collectively found that it was good, sadly for me I was not one of those 10,000 Maniacs.
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ECDC Forward Look Risk Assessment: Seasonal influenza 2010–2011 in Europe
The 2010/11 seasonal influenza epidemics in Europe are dominated so far by the A(H1N1)2009 viruses which emerged in the 2009 pandemic, although these are now considered seasonal viruses. This is an interim risk assessment and will be up-dated at intervals as more data and analyses emerge.
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Speaking note: Season flu, "bird flu" and pandemic flu: what are the threats
ECDC press release: Seasonal influenza transmission in Europe
Today ECDC publishes its risk assessment on the 2012/13 seasonal influenza epidemics in Europe. Epidemics started earlier than in the previous season and western Europe and Scandinavia were the first affected areas.
ECDC Forward look risk assessment (Update 28 October 2010): Likely scenarios and uncertainties in the 2010/2011 influenza season in Europe and beyond
Likely scenarios and uncertainties in the 2010/2011 influenza season in Europe and beyond.
ECDC rapid risk assessment: Reassortment seasonal influenza virus and swine influenza virus
New strain of swine influenza identified in two workers on a pig farm in Canada. Swine influenza (SI) is an acute viral infection of the respiratory tract in pigs. Subclinical infections are also common. The mortality is low and recovery usually occurs within 7-10 days.
Risk assessment: Seasonal influenza 2011–2012 in Europe (EU/EEA countries)
ECDC produces an annual risk assessment for the seasonal influenza epidemics in Europe. This is following both a recommendation in the report on the handling of the 2009 pandemic adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2011 and the model developed by ECDC during that pandemic. The first EU seasonal influenza risk assessment was published in January 2011, following the start of the influenza season in late November 2010. In 2012, the season started later than in most years, with the first five countries exceeding their epidemic threshold in week 3/2012.
Risk assessment: seasonal influenza 2011-2012 in Europe
The virological influenza pattern observed was not consistent enough to make a clear prediction for the 2011-2012 season in Europe. In general, the findings on the impact of influenza in the southern hemisphere in 2011 were reassuring for Europe, and the match of the A(H3N2) viruses with the vaccine was considered good.
Assessment tool for influenza pandemic preparedness in European countries
The tool is used for ongoing country support visits by joint missions from ECDC, the European Commission, and WHO EURO. The tool follows the main components of the European Commission communication on pandemic influenza preparedness and response planning in the European Community, the WHO global influenza preparedness plan, the WHO checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning, and existing country preparedness plans.
Suggested 'Acid Tests' for helping assess, stregthen local preparedness for moderate or severe pandemics
The idea of these acid tests is that those responsible for local services can use them to assess whether the can deliver what is expected of them in a crisis. They should be applied along with planning assumptions of 20-30% of staff being off sick for short periods (2 to 3 weeks) just when numbers of people seeking or requiring care increases considerably.
ECDC Pandemic Preparedness Self Assessment Indicators
This is part of the pandemic preparedness assessment tool for Europe, developed by the Unit for Preparedness and Response at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm, in collaboration with the European Commission and the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe.


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Yes, they come in packs of twelve. Yes, this was the first pack we ever actually attempted to use. Yes, I decided I want to be a mom and so I removed my IUD and even though we weren't supposed to have sex anymore, we did anyway.
We used one of twelve that night. In the morning we didn't use anything. Eleven days later I had a positive pregnancy test. A few days later it was clear I wasn't pregnant.
And yes, it was clear it was time to end it. Because you are not where I am. I am not where you are. We care in the present. In this relationship, there is no future. Yes, there is honor in what we shared. No, there is no tomorrow.
And yes, I was confused and happy and concerned and unsure. And no I wasn't ready, but yes I did have an imagination.
I imagined an intrepid little kid who decided to be conceived and convinced me to take out my IUD and calmed me to agree and wait patiently on a night when I would otherwise say no ... and then to let that morning happen. I imagined that kid for a while.
And now I have eleven condoms left and no you, and no intrepid little kid, and I'm OK with waiting, and figuring out a better way with someway, not you.
But I am just not sure what to do with the remaining barriers of our failed attempt at boundaries because I still have some sort of screwed up hope that an intrepid kid will make the throwing away a lot less ceremonial.


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"A Quiet Crisis: The Urgent Need to Build Early Childhood Systems and Quality Programs for Children Birth to Age Five," Policy Statement. (2009)
At the heart of Reach Out and Read is our nationwide corps of
dedicated and experienced medical providers (MDs, DOs, NPs, and
PAs). To ensure that all of our providers consistently deliver
efficient and high-quality literacy messages to their patients,
they are required to take the Reach Out and Read Core Training
Course. Other pediatric and family practice clinic staff, as well
as Reach Out and Read on-site coordinators, are also encouraged to
take the course since all staff who interact with patients and
families can reinforce the Reach Out and Read model and
The core course covers Reach Out and Read's evidence based
program model, research, video clips of providers in the exam room
modeling the Reach Out and Read intervention, book choice, and ties
literacy anticipatory guidance to Bright Futures guidelines. Free
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits (1.25) are awarded to
eligible providers upon completing both the course (with a score of
at least 70 percent) and the required evaluation.
Reach Out and Read is proud to provide professional development
resources beyond the core training course, including:
In addition, Reach Out and Read
releases a quarterly Provider Bulletin and hosts frequent Train the
Trainer webinars for Reach Out and Read Providers who wish to train
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Colour Trends for 2016
Posted by Hayley Gilbert Tuesday, 12th January 2016
With the New Year underway, now is the perfect time to reassess your home's colour scheme and give it a fresh new look for 2016. Whether you veer towards a subtle palette of soft muted shades or prefer a pop of colour, there's something to suit every style and interior. To help get you started, here's a taste of what's on trend for the coming months…
deVOL's latest design is the Bloomsbury WC1 kitchen and is quite different to anything they've done before. Painted in Flint, a colour from their bathroom range, it's sophisticated and atmospheric – the perfect complement to a period property. Creative director Helen Parker says that the colour somehow gave a feeling of complete authenticity. The Shaker cabinets are simple and uncomplicated while the honed marble worktops and splashback create a striking contrast. Prices start at £8,000.
Each year, Pantone announces its colour of the year and for the first time, the blending of two shades has been chosen for 2016 - Rose Quartz and Serenity. Challenging traditional perceptions of colour association, these two shades demonstrate a balance between the warm embrace of the rose and the cooler tranquil blue. Said to reflect connection and wellness as well as a soothing sense of order and peace, there are plenty of products available to match such as this Senn chair from Danetti, which costs £36.
Paint brand Dulux has also revealed its colour of the year and 2016 is the year of Cherished Gold. Use it sparingly to add a touch of luxe to a living area or open-plan kitchen – think wall tiles, rugs, lighting, window dressings and accessories rather than full-on furniture if you want to avoid the Goldfinger look. These gold coasters have a hand beaten, dimpled finish to add texture to the dining table with rubber backing to protect surfaces. They cost £24 for four at Mia Fleur.
Bespoke kitchen designer Rencraft has highlighted its key kitchen trends as clever storage solutions, open shelving and combining textures and materials such as high shine finishes with matt consoles and splashbacks. Another key look is marble, be it flawless marble worksurfaces or a dramatic splashback. Choose from cool white designs or a dark, dramatic black – the perfect complement to a stainless steel Rangemaster cooker. This kitchen is handpainted in Farrow & Ball's Pavilion Gray with a Down Pipe painted island and Carrara marble worktop. Kitchens start at £18,000 with marble at £435 per square metre.
The right flooring can have a huge impact on the look and feel of any room, especially the kitchen. New for 2016 is a range of beautiful handmade Moroccan tiles from Livinghouse. Suitable for both walls and floors, these encaustic designs feature stunning geometric patterns. Our favourites are the Sefrou Moroccan cement 20cm x 20cm tiles, which have a satin matt patina, classic black, white and grey pattern and cost £91.20 per square metre.
Graham & Brown have revealed their wallpaper and paint trends for the coming year with five key trends based on the following influences – Chameleon, Culture Vulture, Eccentric, Origin and Utopia. According to the brand, 2016 is set to be an exciting year for design, from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro to the hot new fashions coming off the runway. Head of design Mike McGuire says that key trends such as interstellar iridescent, organic marbling and dense jungle foliage are sure to be a big hit. The new wallpaper collections will start to launch from January, priced from £12 per roll, while paint colours are available online now, from £24 for 2.5 litres.
Whatever colour gets you going, Rangemaster has a great selection of range cookers shades to suit all schemes, from traditional Cherry and Cranberry to sleek slate and vibrant orange. Which one's your favourite?


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This post will start out about an update on the California condor at The Raptor Center and then will go into a kind of gross mouse story. There are no photos, but if you have a problem with dead stuff don't go beyond the condor update.
On a side note: can you id the bird in the photo?
The condor is recovering nicely and will be at TRC for about another week. The camera is still up in the lobby, but is now running on battery power. Apparently the condor thought it was fun to chew on the power cord so it was replaced with a battery pack. I'm not sure how long the battery will be up and the condor will probably be gone next week, so if you want to check it out, I would do so relatively soon. I was watching the camera this morning and boy, the feet on that bird are amazing!
Today I went in for more bird handling refresher training at TRC. Even though I've handled birds since 1998, I took a few months off this year when my schedule got insane. Now that I have proper time to devote to TRC I want to be back to where I was handling-wise and I need to make sure that my handling is consistent with how everyone else handles the education birds. It's less stressful for the birds that way.
Kate the Bird Curator had me prep food for some of the birds today. When we feed the education raptors, we feed them all dead food like rats, mice, chicken, day old chicks and the like. We usually have to prep the food by removing the intestines (helps minimize the risk of salmonella poisoning to the ed birds). Today I had a first. I got a particularly fat mouse out of the fridge and began to cut open the abdomen, instead of immediately finding intestines, I found a litter inside it. It was a bit more tricky removing the intestines--the fetuses came out of everywhere inside the mouse. I know it sounds really gross, but I was amazed by not only how many were inside, but just that they seemed to be all over inside the body. At one point when I thought they were all all out, a squeezed the mouse a tiny bit and other popped out from the back. All part of the day's work if you are going to be a volunteer at TRC.
After I got the food ready got to feed a kestrel and peregrine falcon on the fist. It's a good day when you get to have one of those guys sitting on your hand. Incidentally, the bottom half of the bird in the top photo is a peregrine falcon. A big clue are the toes, peregrines have long, long toes for grabbing fat breasted bird like pigeons and teal.


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Interview | 2019
Jean-Marc Fray
Since moving to Austin, TX, after my MFA in 2012, I've been doing commercial product photography for various businesses and clients. My longest and favorite relationship by far has been with the folks at Jean-Marc Fray Antiques. So it's a real delight to the share the news that they are now offering several works from my _cloud_ series as limited editions (5+2APs) to their clients and collectors!
Interview | 2018
Excited to share this interview, show some new _cloud_ images, and participate in Photoma's growing archive and directory of Filipino photographers!
Publication | 2017
Filipino American Artist Directory
Very honored to be included in this year's FilAm Artist Directory. The directory exists "to increase the visibility and recognition of Filipino American artists through an online and annual print resource for students, educators, curators, and collectors, as well as organizing events and exhibitions throughout the country."
There is currently a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the print portion of the directory.
Interview | 2017
Spot Magazine
Excited to share a conversation about photography with curator Lauren Fulton for the Houston Center of Photography's twice-annual print magazine. When the issue arrived, I was especially happy to see the high-quality reproductions they made from my Best General View series. Something about print!
Interview | 2016
Thanks to Lauren Richman and Coronagraph for the patience, support, and platform for such an extensive interview. In it, we talk about my practice, my interest in doubt and photo histories, and the particular work and context surrounding the creation of Index.
Interview | 2016
Happy to participate and be included in this wonderful site full of artist interviews. It's always helpful when I'm prompted to find a way to vocalize—or at least begin to describe—what I've acted out or pursued. This was no exception. I had a fun time trying to clarify my thoughts about performing photography, some recent projects, and share my affinities for Bruce Lee and rock climbing.
Review | 2015
Arts and Culture Texas
Wow! May this be the most generous and thoughtful review I ever receive.
Feature | 2015
Slideluck Potshow Houston
Happy to share a photo and music slideshow with images made during the Road to Ruscha project.
Feature | 2014
Triple Canopy Publication Intensive
Here is a thoughtful recollection of a two-week seminar I participated in with an amazing group of artists, writers, curators, and designers.
Feature | 2014
P-DPA Log
I've discovered so many fascinating "post-digital" projects on this Tumblr, so as a fan of the site, it's exciting to see The Histograms included in the archive.
Feature | 2014
Landscape Stories
A selection of images from Best General View is included as part of their Mountains issue (#15)
Feature | 2014
In the In-Between
I had the pleasure of writing a brief essay around some of the issues that surrounded the making of The Histograms. Thanks to Gregory Jones for the opportunity!
Interview | 2013
Here is a conversation with Paula Kupfer, Jordan Tate, and myself, on the eve of a group show curated by Jordan and hosted by Mixed Greens Gallery.
Review | 2013
Artist and curator Jordan Tate discusses the artists and themes behind Color Shift, a group show he's organized at Mixed Greens Gallery. Excited to be a part of it!
Feature | 2012
I probably look at this site every morning, so it's cool to wake up and see them share The Histograms with their readers.
Interview | 2012
Happy to share a long-form interview with this popular German arts and culture site. Our conversation touched on some of the conditions and influences surrounding the development of Horror Vacui.
Feature | 2012
i like this art
This is one of my favorite art sites, so I'm really excited to share the installation view images of my thesis show about installation view images!
Feature | 2012
Thanks to Quipsologies for sharing The Histograms with their readers.
Feature | 2011
Make Space
A portfolio of images from The Histograms series
Review | 2011
Art Info
Happy to be among the artists included in Nicolas O'Brien's exhibition, "Notes on a New Nature," at 319 Scholes.
Book | 2011
Flash Forward 2011
Excited to be included as an honorable mention in the Magenta Foundation's annual emerging photographer catalogue!
Feature | 2011
F-Stop Magazine
Issue #48 | Relations
Feature | 2011
Dust Magazine Blog
A portfolio of images from the Content Aware Fill series
Feature | 2011
Triangulation Blog
A portfolio of images from the Best General View series
Feature | 2011
New Landscape Photography
A portfolio of images from the Horror Vacui series
Feature | 2011
Hippolyte Bayard
Thanks to Fabio Severo for his thoughtful remarks about several of my projects!
Feature | 2011
A portfolio of images from the Griffin Memorial series.
Feature | 2011
Make Space
A portfolio of images from the Griffin Memorial series.
Feature | 2011
Thanks to Aline Smithson for a warm write-up and introduction to my projects.
Feature | 2011
Art Focus Oklahoma
(Vol. 26, No. 1) | Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition | Print (Jan/Feb)
Feature | 2010
Excited to share Horror Vacui on this site, and relieved the comments were positive!
Feature | 2010
Art Focus Oklahoma
(Vol. 25, No. 5) | Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition | Print (Sept/Oct)


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For over a years there have been rumours about Amazon's smartphone. Now finally a report by The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that the report is indeed true. As reported by the Journal on Thursday, Amazon is developing a wide-ranging line-up of gadgets which includes two smartphones, out of which will sport a 3D screen ..
The Journal quoted multiple anonymous sources, which said that the 3D-capable smartphone won't require any special glasses and will let users navigate by their eye gestures, which means that the device will be capable of tracking a user's retina, and the images will appear as if floating above the screen. Samsung was earlier trying to work on a similar technology but was proven unsuccessful ..
Additionally, Amazon is also rumoured to be working upon a music streaming device and a set-top box ..
As of now, Amazon's hardware efforts were centered around the Kindle e-readers and tablets to enable reading. However later, CEO Jeff Bezos shared with a reporter that Amazon is planning to expand its hardware range in the coming year. He said that the company is certainly looking for expansion but by next year. He said that Amazon have some more things that they hope people will enjoy ..
What is to be seen is whether Amazon will use its Kindle brand name to sell these devices or will introduce a whole new range ..


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Hei guise, wanna play?
The next trailer had a voiceover by the main character. He was speaking as if he were in that world, and was facing the contemporary conflicts. Nice, but again.. no clue what kind of gameplay. But it gave the feeling of an RPG, or at least a questing sort of adventure/action thing.
The last trailer.. (well, I saw this one first...) was a DETAILED explanation of the gameplay, the mechanics, options. That would have been great!
Except the voiceover.
A very competent fellow, who did his job well. But he was the WRONG guy for the job. I think I've heard him narrate other game trailers, and he has to stop. This epic game, with swords, monsters, war, grit and blood... but explained in a voice and tone more fitting for... I don't know.. A boy-scout recruitment video, or Wyoming tourist ad.
If that trailer was the only one I'd seen, I would have been turned right off, despite the game mechanics being appealing to be. Thankfully I then went on to watch the other 2, and it washed the bad taste of Mr. Cleaver's voice off of it.
Are you saying I CAN'T impale orcs and zombies??
Who am I kidding.. I'll never play the game. The guy that was me back when I had the time would have been jotting it down on his birthday wish list, but the me that is me still hasn't gotten through the karting game I got for Christmas. O, the shame of it all. BUT....
"Don't worry, Joe, we'll play after your kids move out, and you've written all the books you wanted to. When will those be done again? Really..? uh..."
...but Rubberman's Cage has 10 pages left in my first editing pass...
Coming... by October, I hope!.. and the cover might be tweaked a bit.....


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If you bought large swaths of land in California or Connecticut in 1975, today you would be a very wealthy person.
That is one of the large takeaways from a new GIF from the folks at Howmuch.net. Using data from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Howmuch.net animates how average land values have changed over the last 40 years from 1975 to 2015 by looking at the cost of tracts of land necessary to build an average home:
Howmuch.net notes that starting in 1976, average land values began to exceed $15,000, with Connecticut and California becoming the first states with average land values to exceed $140,000 by 1989.
By 1999, most states had average land values above $15,000, and throughout the beginning of the new millennium land values continued to increase rapidly.
However, in the three years after the financial crisis hit in 2008, there was a sharp drop in the value of land across the US — especially in Nevada, Florida, and Arizona. Land values have began to rebound, but several states - Oklahoma, Mississippi, West Virginia, and New Hampshire - still have land values worth an average of less than $15,000 despite 40 years of inflation.


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UPCOMING: National Information Sharing Exercise/
Information sharing exercises are rare and hard to put on, but are important to learning about how to improve information sharing in disasters.
I am passing on this information about an upcoming information sharing exercise. Participation is open to many different organizations in the EM community and I encourage your to sign up and participate as soon as possible. The exercise will take place on May 11, 2016.
Below are the details that were provided to me:
"In May 2016, the National Information Sharing Consortium (NISC) will conduct CHECKPOINT 16, a virtual tabletop exercise that will allow participants to test, evaluate, and download for daily use various model web applications, tools, and data models for situational awareness and decision support. Dozens of organizations have signed up to participate in CHECKPOINT 16, with participants coming from state, local, and Federal government, non-profits, private sector companies, and academia. Participants can choose their level of participation, from being an observer, participating in a limited way using NISC-provided tools, to being a full-play participant integrating CHECKPOINT 16 tools into their own native operating environment throughout the exercise.
The exercise will take place from 11 am to 4 pm ET on May 11, 2016. For information on the exercise and to register, you can visit www.checkpoint16.org. So far the NISC has conducted two training events for the exercise, and these trainings can be viewed on the checkpoint 16 webpage; the next event will take place on April 21."


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — In 142 stark pages, the Iraq Study Group report makes an impassioned plea for bipartisan consensus on the most divisive foreign policy issue of this generation. Without President Bush, that cannot happen.
The commissioners gave a nod to Mr. Bush, adopting his language in accepting the goal of an Iraq that can "govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself." But the administration's talk of Iraq as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East is absent, as is any talk of victory.
Instead, the report confronts the president with a powerful argument that his policy in Iraq is not working and that he must move toward disengagement. For Mr. Bush to embrace the study group's blueprint would mean accepting its implicit criticism of his democracy agenda, reversing course in Iraq and throughout the Middle East and meeting Democrats more than halfway.
Assuming he is not ready to go that far, despite some recent signals of flexibility, he faces the more general question of whether he is ready to embrace the spirit of the report — not to mention the drubbing his party took in the midterm elections a month ago — and produce a new approach of his own that amounts to more than a repackaging of his current worldview.
"In a sense," said Dennis Ross, who worked for both President Clinton and the first President Bush as a Middle East envoy, "what you have here offers the Democrats a ready handle to show, 'We're prepared to be bipartisan on the issue of Iraq, because we'll embrace the bipartisan Iraq Study Group — are you prepared to be bipartisan as well?' "Continue reading the main story
The study group, for instance, calls for direct engagement with Iran and Syria; so far, Mr. Bush has refused. While Mr. Bush has steadfastly resisted a timetable for withdrawal, the report says all combat brigades "not necessary for force protection could be out of Iraq" — note the careful use of the conditional — by the first quarter of 2008.
The report in effect calls on Democrats, at least those who have been pushing for a rapid withdrawal of troops, to show patience, warning that a fast pullout would lead to "a significant power vacuum, greater human suffering, regional destabilization and a threat to the global economy" — in effect, pushing Iraq into total anarchy.
But the real target of the Iraq Study Group was Mr. Bush. The president has already sought to play down the role the report would have in shaping his thinking. The administration has several reviews of its own under way, and Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, began saying as early as October that the White House was "not going to outsource the business of handling the war in Iraq."
So while Mr. Bush called the report "an opportunity to come together and work together" after receiving it Wednesday, it was no surprise on Capitol Hill that many Democrats were quicker to embrace it than Republicans were. Members of the president's party seemed to be adopting a kind of wait-and-see posture, praising the report for its seriousness and depth as they searched for clues about what Mr. Bush would do.
"I was impressed by the seriousness with which this group reached its conclusions and its plea that the level of partisanship we've seen in Iraq be toned down," said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who will soon be the Republican leader. But Mr. McConnell cut short any conversation of what Mr. Bush should do. "I'm not going to give the president advice," he said.
The president spent weeks trying to shape the political climate in which he would receive the report. He ordered up a Pentagon study and commissioned his own White House review. Last week, he went to Amman, Jordan, to meet with the prime minister of Iraq, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki; on Monday, he received a powerful Iraqi Shiite leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, at the White House.
Those moves have been aimed at giving Mr. Bush the flexibility he needs to do pretty much whatever he wants. But, meeting with him in the Oval Office on Wednesday morning, the commissioners made a pointed appeal for him to give their study greater weight than his own, if only because it has the backing of both parties.
"This is the only bipartisan advice you're going to get," the Democratic co-chairman of the panel, Lee H. Hamilton, told Mr. Bush, according to an account by Mr. Snow. Commissioners said afterward that the president seemed to absorb that plea.
"I don't want to put too much in his mouth now," said Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who was secretary of state under Mr. Bush's father, "but there was not one bit of argument. He didn't come back at us on anything."
Mr. Bush has already been adjusting policy in modest ways — carrying out, for example, some of the recommendations made to him in late October by his national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, engaging other Iraqi leaders, like Mr. Hakim, and sending Vice President Dick Cheney for talks with the leaders of Saudi Arabia.
That is not the only sign the president will give serious consideration to the report. Mr. Bush's new choice for defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, caught Washington by surprise on Tuesday when he testified in his confirmation hearings that the United States was not winning in Iraq. It may be no coincidence that Mr. Gates is a former member of the Iraq Study Group.
The report offered a little something for everyone, and took away a little something from everyone as well. The reaction was harshest at the ends of the political spectrum.
William Kristol, a neoconservative thinker and the editor of The Weekly Standard who pushed for the invasion, lambasted the recommendations as "a disguised surrender." Representative John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat whose call for withdrawal touched off a firestorm last year, complained that the panel offered a prescription "no different from the current policy."
The real question now is whether the report can generate what the panel's Republican co-chairman, James A. Baker III, called the "tremendous amount of political will" necessary to prod Democrats and Republicans into genuine cooperation — and Mr. Bush into embracing policy prescriptions he thus far has shunned.
As he stood before the press corps Wednesday to unveil the long-awaited report, Mr. Baker, a longtime confidant of the Bush family, was asked if Mr. Bush had the capacity to "pull a 180," as the report would seem to require. He ducked the question then, but later answered it in an interview with Brian Williams of NBC News.
"I don't know what the president will do," Mr. Baker said. "But I do know this. I know the president is conflicted by the situation there. I know the president would like to approach this in a bipartisan way and in a manner that would have the support of the American people. Here's a vehicle to do that."Continue reading the main story


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Overcoming Distractions
Thriving with Adult ADHD
Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with Adult ADHD profiles many entrepreneurs around the county who have found success and joy in life. Through the eyes of those that are self-employed, Overcoming Distractions tells the stories of adults with ADHD who have shed the perception of the distracted child and made an impact in the business world. From inventors, serial entrepreneurs, entertainers, real estate agents and more, Overcoming Distractions offers street smart advice for crushing the bad traits of adult ADHD and leveraging the good that comes with ADHD.
The book also features many professionals in the ADHD community. With a focus more on ADHD coaches, the book outlines the foundation necessary to succeed as a distracted adult and how to implement strategies in your life so those distractions don't take over your world. A handful of doctors were interviewed for the book but the book is careful not to be a medical reference.
However, much of the great and valuable advice comes from those adults with ADHD that have found a way to crush it in business, stay focused on their goals and actually use their ADHD to their advantage. I'm convinced that advice from those who have experience dealing with a particular situation is the best you'll find.
Most of us at one time or another have found ourselves very distracted, unable to achieve certain milestones in our lives and felt that we need some new ideas to get us motivated. Overcoming Distractions does just that.
There is nothing more powerful than learning from adversity. As humans we somehow find a way to thrive through hardship and we develop techniques and systems that eventually allow us to overcome our difficulties and shine in business and in life. Those are the lessons you'll take away from Overcoming Distractions.
Get your copy of Overcoming Distractions today!
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The ADHD Career Guide
Coming soon -my new book on ADHD and careers
We all have a desire to love what we do for work and career. But for those with ADHD, it's critical that you find a satisfying career that utilizes your strengths. Finding a fulfilling career is part of the backbone of surviving ADHD as an adult. Get in the wrong career and many other aspects of your life can suffer a negative impact.
Coming in early 2018 is my new book on how to manage your career if you have ADHD or just prone to distractions. In fact, just about anyone will walk away with a better understanding of their career path after reading this book.
This is not just a book on how to write a resume or master the job interview. In the book I cover how to truly identify your strengths and weaknesses, what you are destined to do for a career and how to really take the time to conduct a complete self-assessment.
Also featured in the book are adults with ADHD who have found a career that they love. They talk about why they love what they do, how they found that career and what they do to stay happy. You might be surprised to know that in the book there are the creative minded professional as well as attorneys, people that help manage money and others that have found careers they love.
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Candice Swanepoel, Victoria's Secret model: Is she too thin?
(CBS) Victoria's Secret Angel Candice Swanepoel turned heads in Los Angeles recently - not for her model behavior, but for appearing startlingly slim.
The 22-year-old South African beauty revealed a strikingly thin figure while modeling the lingerie label's new line of swimwear Wednesday.
Pictures: World's top-paid models
Posing in a tiger print bottom and black top alongside Brazilian models Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio, Swanepoel stood out with her ultra slender legs and tiny waist.
While Victoria's Secret has long been known for its voluptuous models like Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum and Naomi Campbell, this isn't the first time the label has been under fire for promoting models that are deemed too thin.
Last March, Ambrosio was criticized for her slim figure while posing in St. Barts for Victoria's Secret.
While the tabloids described Ambrosio as looking like a "young teenager," the 29-year-old responded by telling the U.K.'s Daily Mail, "I'm very lucky to work for a brand (Victoria's Secret) that wants women to be healthy. You need to be able to fill out the bra and the panties, so yes, I'm a curvier girl."
Tell us: do you think Swanepoel or Ambrosio are too thin?


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New 2019 JeepCherokee LATITUDE FWD Sport Utility
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- Body/Seating
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- Transmission
- 9 speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- front-wheel
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- 2.4L 2.4L I4 MultiAir Engine
Highlighted Features
- Wireless phone connectivity
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By Mountain Mama on Monday, March 20, 2017Yes, and in fact did! We loved my Cherokee so much that when my husbands car died, he bought a Cherokee, too! We live in a hilly area, get fair amount of snow, so 4WD is more than just nice, it can be essential for getting to work. This Cherokee is the most comfortable vehicle weve had, and we just love the bluetooth connectivity. The backup camera is so clear and easy to use. Do yourself a favor and take one for a test drive.
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Tea Party Junk Journal
Sharing my January Junk Journal for Tsunami Rose DT project. Journal measures 5 1/2 by 7 3/4.
28 pages
Majority of all pages are printed on both sides, I used Bird and Bees, Sew Cute,and Sense and Sensibility paper pack to make pockets, tags, and tucks
For this journal I used lace trimming, doily's, vellum paper, bling, and ribbon
I used a variety of printables from Tsunami Rose. To name the ones I used. Big Elements 1776 Collection, Big Elements Calendar, Decoupage Flowers,
Added a ribbon tassel on the spine of the journal.
For inspiration drop by Tsunami Rose Face Book page
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Prof. Mathini Sellathurai
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 451 3356
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- Address
Room 2.06
Earl Mountbatten Building
Heriot-Watt University
Roles and responsibilities
Head of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (staff)
EPS Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team member.
Research- Head of Digital Signal Processing Research group (Lab locahttp://cms.hw.ac.uk/cms/Icons/CommandButtons/ok.giftion EM 3.24) Organizer events/meeting for Women is ISSS/EECE at HWU.
Teaching: Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Circuits (B37EA1) for Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Students from First Year Image Processing (4th year MENG (EE) and MSc in Mobile Communications Students) Advanced Image Analysis (Vision, Image and Robotics Erasmus Mundus MSc students) Digital Design (MSc Embedded Systems, MSc Mobile Communications, MSc in Robotics, Autonomous and Interactive Systems)
External Roles: Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee member General Chair for 17th IEEE International workshop on Signal Processing advances in Wireless Communications in Edinburgh, UK July 2016 IEEE Technical program committee member of for international conference on Communications since 2004 Technical committee member Sensor Signal Processing for Defense, organized by MOD-UDRC in Signal Processing since 2010 Peer review college member, reviewer, panel member with Engineering Physical Science Research Council Research Assessors for EPSRC , Carnegie Trust and EU Member of IEEE Women in Information Theory and Signal Processing
Areas: Signal Processing for intelligent information infrastructures for wireless communications; radar technology, parasitic antenna technology and analogue beamforming and precoding techniques, adaptive, cognitive (intelligent) and statistical signal processing techniques in a range of applications including Radar, Lidar, Sonar and RF networks, Network Coding, Cognitive Radio, MIMO signal processing, satellite communications and underwater communications.
Selected publications
A list of all research publications is available on the Research Gateway
Dr. Mathini Sellathurai is currently a Reader in Signal Processing with the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K and leading research in adaptive, cognitive and statistical signal processing techniques in a range of applications including Radar, Lidar, Sonar and RF networks, Network Coding, Cognitive Radio, MIMO signal processing, satellite communications and underwater communications.. She has been active in the area of signal processing research for the past 15 years and has a strong international track record in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) signal processing with applications in radar and wireless communications research.
She has 5 years of industrial research experience. She held positions with Bell-Laboratories, New Jersey, USA, as a visiting researcher (2000); and with the Canadian (Government) Communications Research Centre, Ottawa Canada as a Senior Research Scientist (2001-2004). Since 2004 August, she has been with academia. She also holds an honorary Adjunct/Associate Professorship at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and an Associate Editorship for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing between 2009 -2013 and IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee member since 2013. She was an organizer for the IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Systems, IIT Delhi, India, 2009, 2010 and 2013. She has been a Technical Program Committee member for the IEEE International Conference of Communications from 2004 to 2012. She is also a peer review college member of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK.
Dr. Sellathurai has published over 120 peer reviewed papers in leading international journals and IEEE conferences; given invited talks and written several book chapters as well as a research monograph as a lead author. The significance of her accomplishments is recognized through international awards, including an IEEE Communication Society Fred W. Ellersick Best Paper Award in 2005, Industry Canada Public Service Awards for contributions in science and technology in 2005 and awards for contributions to technology Transfer to industries in 2004. Dr. Sellathurai was the recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's doctoral award for her Ph.D. dissertation
Dr. Sellathurai's research has been presently funded by EPSRC (for network coding) and DSTL (cognitive radar). She is also involved in European Union Frame Work 7 projects Cognitive radio oriented wireless networks, interference alignment . In the past, she was involved in signal processing for defense research as PI in the first phase of UDRC programme for work on Forward Looking RADAR and OFDM signal recognition/classification. She also held defense signal processing research grants from industries QinetiQ and Wireless Fiber Systems to work on MIMO RADAR and underwater communications. She was funded by EPSRC under EP/D07827X/1 for advanced signal processing techniques for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output broadband wireless communications; MIMO-RADAR and waveform agility to improve low elevation target detection (also partially supported by QinetiQ, Portsmouth); EP/G026092/1 for Bridging the gap between design and implementation of soft-detectors for Turbo-MIMO wireless systems and EP/H012257/1 for Signal Processing Techniques to Reduce the Clutter Competition in Forward Looking Radar. She is also involved in the phase II UDRC
Further information
Workshops: Organizing a workshop on Emerging MIMO Technologies in 5G Wireless Cellular Networks in VTC 2015, Glasgow 11-14 May 2015. Please submit papers and details are in https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1376
Recent Grants: EPSRC grant on Large Scale Antenna Systems Made Practical: Advanced Signal Processing for Compact Deployments in collaboration with University College London and University of Edinburgh. Please contact email@example.com for research fellow positions. Funding details can be found in http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/M014126/1


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Set comprises: Scout Alpha Stickys (inclusive 6 hook and look designs), sports bag, pencil case 23pcs and pencil pouch.
Spacious backpack for school with ergonomic soft back, adjustable back strap system, large front pocket and 2 side pockets.
Savety-feature: retroreflective, fluorescent
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my mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but i think she enjoyed it.
As soon as the Internet became accessible to me (I was 13), I began earnestly, even obsessively, researching my post-secondary options. I knew more about domestic and international grants and admissions requirements than my career counselor in high school. I could tell you the courses required to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Medieval History at Oxford University, a Masters of Literature in Medieval History from St Andrew's University, and a PhD from Cambridge University, because that was precisely the route that I was going to take. My path, I had thought, was set in stone.
Unfortunately life does not progress according to all of our plans, and instead of curating museum exhibits or lecturing students at a prestigious university, I am employed as a digital marketer with nary a post-graduate credit to my name. Although I would have enjoyed the path I had originally chosen, I make no complaints about where I have ended up. But, at the time of year when my friends and acquaintances are announcing that they have finished their Masters or have been granted their PhD's, I do reflect on the life I had thought I would lead.
I know that I am not finished with my education; I still have hard goals that I wish to achieve, albeit in a different field of study and on a much different timeline. Such is life, though, to make an incredibly detailed plan and then follow a completely different path.
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Spiced California Fig "Juicy Lucy" Burgers
Instead of topping your burger with cheese, try these cheese stuffed burgers. The surprise is inside. To keep the cheese from leaking out of your Juicy Lucy burgers as they cook, make sure the ground beef is tightly sealed around the cheese before placing them on the grill. If you can see any cheese, it will find its way out of the burger!
1 ½ pounds ground beef
4 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, cut into cubes or short batons
1 cup Blue Ribbon Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Mission Figs, sliced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 cup Spiced Fig Not Ketchup, divided
Hamburger buns, lettuce, tomato to garnish
- Heat the grill to medium-high (400 degrees).
- Divide the ground beef into four equal portions.
- Form one portion of the ground beef into a loose sphere. Make a dent in the middle with two fingers, then put 1 ounce of cheese and some of the sliced figs into the well. Pull the edges of the ground beef over the cheese and figs, enveloping them completely in the ground beef. When the cheese and figs are encased in the meat, gently flatten the bundle into a burger, taking care to keep the cheese and figs inside. Repeat with the rest of the ingredients to form the remaining three burgers.
- Grill the burgers, brushing with Spiced Fig Not Ketchup on both sides, until cooked through to your liking, about 15 minutes for medium.
- Serve the burgers garnished with lettuce, tomato and more Spiced Fig Not Ketchup.
PRO TIP: To keep the cheese from leaking out of your "Juicy Lucy" burgers as they cook, make sure the ground beef is tightly sealed around the cheese before placing them on the grill. If you can see any cheese, it will find its way out of the burger! Recipe by Erika Kerekes of Not Ketchup.If you make this recipe, snap a photo and tag us @valleyfig —we'd love to see what you're cooking on Instagram and Facebook!
Nutrition Information
amount per serving
- Calories 710
- % Calories from Fat 37%
- Fat 29
- Cholesterol 140
- Protein 45
- Carbohydrates 64
- Fiber 6
- Iron 7
- Sodium 990
- Calcium 370
- Potassium 817


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Except in cases of a non-working woman or specific child custody rights, both men and women have equal rights in a divorce proceeding, according to LegalZoom. Throughout the separation or divorce process, the couple discusses financial and custodial issues via court proceedings or mediation.
While most divorce court cases do not award special rights to women, alimony issues become relevant in situations in which the wife does not work. If the wife does not work because of her choice, and she has the proper education and skills to receive work, alimony is rarely awarded, explains LegalZoom. However, if she is unskilled and uneducated, the court may require the spouse to provide continuing support.
If the wife is young and uneducated, she often receives a type of alimony known as rehabilitative alimony, explains LegalZoom. This is meant to provide her with a temporary cushion while she develops the skills and education necessary to get back on her feet. In cases where the marriage lasts more than 10 years or the wife is past a certain age, she may be awarded long-term alimony. This lasts until the spouse passes away or the wife remarries. The final amount and duration of alimony is ultimately up to the presiding judge.


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- R2300 TVS Supercharger
- Upper and Lower Intake Manifolds
- Air-to-Water Intercooler System
- Dual-Core Low Temp Radiator
- Degas Bottle
- Twin 60mm Throttle Body w/ Spacer
- High Flow Cold Air Induction System
- 100mm MAF Tube/Housing
- Fuel Charging Assembly
- High Flow Fuel Rail w/ 47lb Injectors
- Supercharger Pulley
- ROUSH Flash Voucher Card
- Zero Heat Range Spark Plugs
- 1st Sheave FEAD System
- Heavy Duty Tensioner
- All required fasteners, wiring, brackets, hoses & clamps
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Reformer Collections
The Reformer is one of the most recognisable pieces of equipment from the Pilates collection, and holds an excellent reputation for producing results.
One of the many advantages is the fact the Reformer is raised above ground level, therefore providing the instructor with an excellent vantage point to observe and correct align-ment/technique. Consisting of a series of springs, straps, pulleys and a gliding platform, the machine offers a versatile, impact free workout that enables the client to perform resistance exercises whilst lying down, sitting, kneeling or standing.
Essential Reformer is a two day course which explores the fundamental movements of the Reformer repertoire, exploring and analysing exercises which enhance the guiding principles of the Pilates technique and alignment. You will build on existing knowledge of the matwork repertoire and understand how to deliver both group and individual session on the Reformer.
Dates: 1st-2nd February 2020
Venue: Moss Pilates, Worship Street, London EC2A 2DF
Cost: £500 (incl VAT)
Dates: 5th-6th September 2020
Venue: Moss Pilates, Kings Cross, London N1C 4DD
Cost: £500 (incl VAT)
Progressive Reformer is a two day course which completes the Reformer repertoire whilst further developing knowledge gained from Essential Reformer. This will enable you to deliver the more advanced movements to challenge clients further and develop a greater range of levels and modifications.
Dates: 28th-29th March 2020
Venue :Moss Pilates, Worship Street, London EC2A 2DF
Cost £500 (incl VAT)
Dates: 3rd-4th October 2020
Venue: Moss Pilates, Worship Street, London EC2A 2DF
Cost £500 (incl VAT)
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With the Shared Spirits App, brand marketing dollars are used to build depletions in specific accounts. When consumers use the Shared Spirits app, consumer information including, who the drink was purchased and redeemed by, when it was redeemed or depleted, where the on premise experience took place, and what behavior took place by the consumer took place after the experience is all measured and delivered to our participating brand partners.
Three to five days after the redemption or depletion took place, the Shared Spirits engagement model allows for promotions to centralized retail, other on premise locations and consumer reviews seen only by the brand.


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It's safe to say few were sorry to see the Comics Code Authority quietly fade away in 2011, having become literally no more than a stamp on the covers of a handful of titles, but it was nonetheless an important part of history.
Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, realized this three years ago and sent a letter to Heidi MacDonald, asking who had the files of the Comics Magazine Association of America, the trade association that administered the Code. While Howe thought the records had vanished, Mark Seifert was told they were donated to DC Comics.
This week, Howe reiterated his appeal on his blog:
The records of Josette Frank and the Child Study Association of America—which had challenged the comic-book scare of the late 1940—had been donated to the CMAA years ago. Now they have vanished, along with detailed notes on industry-wide meetings throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s among Jack Liebowitz, Stan Lee, Carmine Infantino, John Goldwater, and others.
While he doesn't mention it specifically, DC's move next year to Burbank, California, adds a sense of urgency: It's possible that if the right person doesn't recognize the significance of the files, they may end up getting tossed. If that information disappears, historians will lose an important piece of comics history, perhaps forever.
To name just one example, Carol Tilley has done some fascinating research on the comics hysteria of the 1950s, the part that Frank and the Child Study Association played in promoting comics and allaying fears, and the animosity that Fredric Wertham had toward Frank and her colleagues, which may have influenced his actions. Without files such as these, our accounts of this era will be reduced to a few simple lines and we will lose the richness and texture that details in the files would provide.


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Tree Plantings
Stream-Link Education organizes volunteer tree planting events every spring and fall. Events are open to volunteers of all ages and link community members to their local environment and waterways through education and hands-on tree planting.
Visit our Volunteer page to see upcoming tree-planting events. Contact Lisa Baird at email@example.com if you are a group interested in sponsoring a private event.
Adult Programs
Scott Key Center
In partnership with the Scott Key Center, Stream-Link works with special needs clients on completing greenhouse tasks.
Alternative Sentencing
Stream-Link gives meaning to service by providing people in the Alternative Sentencing program with an experience to build stewardship values and instill a sense of ownership and pride in their service work.
Youth Programs
Scouts of America
Stream-Link works with local scout troops on receiving conservation credit hours and on earning merit badges as well as to inspire a younger generation to protect our environment.
Engage and educate community members at local Outreach Events.and make tree cookie necklaces!
Natives for Nonprofits
Here are a few recipients:
A Boy Scout earning his Eagle Scout badge organized a planting at Gambrill Park. We were able to provide 25 native shrubs.
Fountain Rock Park and Nature Center in Walkersville, Maryland received 10 shrubs for a memorial garden.
Catoctin Mountain National Park was awarded 18 trees and shrubs that were planted near the Visitors Center.
Mount Saint Mary's University received 47 plants that were planted along a local steam on campus.
Friends of Frederick County received 15 trees that went to students participating in an Earth Day poster challenge.
Catoctin Creek Park & Nature Center received 12 shrubs for a silent auction that benefited their environmental programs.
A Boy Scout earning his Eagle Scout Badge organized a planting at Catoctin Mountain National Park and received 119 seedlings.
Students participating in Yellow Springs tree planting received a tree or shrub. 35 total given away.
A Boy Scout earning his Eagle Scout Badge organized days of maintenance on 500 trees and received tree food, stakes, and shelters.
Carroll Creek Montessoir School received 20 stakes, shelters, and wire for their school yard planting.
Water Reporter
Become a Water Reporter today! Download the Water Reporter App on your smart phone or go to https://www.waterreporter.org/ to create a profile and join our group, Stream-Link Education. This is a powerful way for citizens to be involved reporting water pollution. We need YOU to be our eyes and ears in our watershed. Start reporting pollution, unbuffered streams, wildlife you see, erosion issues, or share photos from our tree plantings or while you're just out enjoying nature. Just snap a photo, mark the location, add a short description, and associate it with Stream-Link Education. Get involved in the campaign to protect the Monocacy River by adding the hashtag: #monocacy.


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Mix Tape
Posted by Dahv Daniels on Apr 29th, 2013 in Plays, Uncategorized
My play Mix Tape now has a home on my blog – click here to watch it now
Quick Update
Posted by Dahv Daniels on Apr 26th, 2013 in Essays
Hello all: Finals week is approaching within the next couple days, and because of my workload, I will not be able to add onto Caramel Cigarettes. By next weekend, there will most definitely be a new addition (maybe even two). I will also be using my blog for academic reasons. As of now, there are two posts that are marked as password …