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Deep in the bowels of Gotham City the Riddler schemes to take down Batduck and take over the city…
Riddler: I'll just leave this riddle here for Batduck….then I'll make my way to the Video Music Awards and wait for him. Heehee haha heehee!
…and off he goes-the Riddler is up to something very "fowl."
Riddler: Ahaha hee hee!
As Batduck and Robin fly through the air to protect the city they spy the large card below.
Batduck: Look, Robin! It appears to be a riddle on a card….looks like the Riddler has been around here.
Robin: What does it say?
Batduck: It says, "How do you wake up Duckie Gaga?"
Robin: Well that's easy, Batduck….."Poker" face.
Batduck: Looks like the Riddler is after Duckie Gaga…and it's on an 8 card which means he's going to be at the VMA's at 8pm….to poke Duckie Gaga in the face! We better get down there!
meanwhile at the VMA's…
Duckie Gaga: Hello, little monsters! I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time!
Riddler: Ahaha hee hee!
Batduck: Ah ha! Riddler! We meet again!
Riddler: Riddle me this, Batduck…What did the Batduck forget to do when the Riddler went to smack him?
Duckie Gaga: Duck!
Riddler: That is correct, Duckie Gaga!
Duckie Gaga: No, Duck, Batduck!
PoW! BaM! QwAcK! SmAcK!
Batduck saves the day and the Duckie Gaga! And the Riddler goes waddling off as fast as he can…..for now that is…
Duckie Gaga: Thank you, Batduck. I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me, papa, paparazzi!
Batduck: I'm kinda thirsty. Can you spare me a soda?
And Batduck saves the day….for now…what will the Riddler have planned next for Batman? Find out in the next episode…….
~The End~


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I'm looking forward to a 2012 that is just as fast paced as 2011. And for whatever it's worth, I didn't blog as much as I did last year which is something you will notice in this post of photos. Yes indeed, a picture is worth 1000 words.
In fact, we only made 12 posts for 2011 and in spite of this low showing, my faithful readers, according to a report WordPress sent me last night:
This blog was viewed about 9,700 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
I'm thrilled! Rock on!
Happy New Year Everyone! Let's kick some more ass in 2012.


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There must be a rush of ghost activity in Lancashire as Demdike Stare, everyone's favourite occult vinyl raiders, are back with another resupply of mutated house music (13 months after their previous three hour drop - spooky). Tryptych, from 2011, complied the beats Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker served up over three long vinyl sermons; Elemental puts together the gatefolds they released around the new year. To the uninitiated, nothing's changed: choirs are still chained to boilers, caged animals scream, the dance music rule book lies shredded in the corner. To those with a taste for Basic Channel and slasher films - and a willingness to now move slightly towards the light - Elemental is a high point in what's been called witch house, as edible a two hours of Arabian pile-ups you could ever hope to hear.
It begins with a plummet down to oblivion. This is what Demdike Stare fans pay their money for; Hammer Horror piano, ghouls, machinery, nuked landscapes. And of course, the downright bizarre: 'Mephisto's Lament' escapes its heavy metal title to offer drums and strained synths, somewhere between death and the Baywatch intro. It's Elemental's first Mr Hyde moment and Whittaker and Canty hang it out. The unease resurfaces on 'Metamorphosis', where train terminal crowds morph into techno, and on 'Kommunion' where waves of didgeridoo envelop the listener like tear gas. Anyone thinking they can self-hypnotise their way out of here is doomed, as numbers like 'Violetta strike out of nowhere, Dr Phibes jabbing the piano, beats like a shoe in a washing machine.
However, when compared to its predecessors, Elemental is Demdike's most well-behaved record, rewarding you with the tiniest glimmer of light. In fact, tracks like 'Mnemosyne' are almost luminous: a chirpy, where-the-fuck-did-that-come-from dance synth that crosses to Bhangra in a heartbeat. It doesn't make Elemental a 'happy' record but it does mean it's prepared to experiment, producing two hours of dread you want to stick with. 'New Use for Old Circuits' traps you in a stomach, but opts for innovation ahead of hair-whitening horror soundtracks. 'Dauerlinie's rogue 8-bit could be talking Clangers, its strings distorted till they sound like wood.
Elemental is undoubtedly Demdike Stare's most concise but varied release yet, right up to the crockery and boat engine bass of 'Ishmael's Intent'. There are so many strange ideas here Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker should be awarded doctorates - they've reshaped dance music till the only person who can move to it is crazy Arthur Brown himself. The use of machines as industrial psychosis hint at a more modern witchcraft in Lancashire - needles, cheap TV, car plants running on crack - but the old evil still gets top billing, horns and symbols scratched everywhere. There really is very little out there like this, and Demdike is a very acquired taste. If you've got the stomach for it then Elemental is their banquet - 18 nightmares you'll want to revisit.
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New era for ESA Redu ground station
A new page is being turned in the history of the ESA Redu ground station with the award today of a contract for maintenance and operations services to Redu Space Services S.A.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Where's the Art?
The media abounds in messages that today's new artists are trying to put something over on us and laughing all the way to the bank. The New Yorker always has a cartoon spoofing some current new art world trend. One of my favorites from many years back pictures two men, very well-dressed and puffed up, standing before a Jackson Pollock painting. One man says to the other, "His splatters are masterful but his dribbles lack conviction."
The Gap in the Bookshelf (one of my favorite subjects). In 1989 there were no books for young readers on looking at contemporary art . Biographies of artists tended to concentrate on the old masters.. So Sandra Jordan and I decided to write our first book together The Painter's Eye, which we hoped would help children enter a dialogue with new art and come to it with an open mind and a fresh eye. Now almost twenty years later, we have collaborated on 11 books together, and most of them focus on 20th and 21st century artists and artworks. Since the early 90's, some terrific books about contemporary art for kids have been published. In addition, the lives and works of earlier artists are now being presented in a more exciting, creative way. It was great recently to visit the bookstores at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Saint Louis Art Museum and see so many of these books filling the Gap on the Bookshelf.
Here are a few books on art for young readers that I enjoyed looking through. Some deal with modern and contemporary art; others cover artworks by more traditional and old master artists (chosen by me because they were so delightful!).
Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder by Tanya Lee Stone and Boris Kulikov. A charming tale about the artist "Sandy" Calder making his famous circus, now on display at The Whitney Museum in New York.·
Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin by Susanna Reich. This book about the artist George Catlin, famous for his paintings of Native Americans, is filled with photographs, drawings, and reproductions of the artist's works. Reich also tells a fast-moving story.
Behind the Museum Door: Poems to Celebrate the Wonders of Museums collected by Lee Bennet Hopkins. Illustrated by Stacey Dressen-McQueen. Some of our favorite poets for children invite us into museums and write poems about some of the treasures we might see there from a mummy to a Picasso.
Here's Looking at Me: How Artists see Themselves by Bob Raczka highlights self-portraits as diverse in style and period as an etching by Durer to a photograph appropriating a Caravaggio by Cindy Sherman. Bob's many art books for kids are fascinating!!!
There are many more terrific books about art and artists and over the next few months I will try to feature some of them. Hope you will have a chance to see my new book with Sandra Jordan,
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Through The Gates and Beyond (Roaring Brook Press). It tells the story of these two partners in life and art, who have collaborated on large-scale artworks all over the world. The projects from wrapping The Pont Neuf in Paris to unfurling The Gates in Central Park last not more than two weeks and are paid for completely by the artists.The funds come from the sales of Christo's drawings, prints, models, and earlier works. By the way, they were both born on the same day in the same year, each in opposite sides of the world. We interviewed them over a period of four years. One of the joys of writing about living artists is the opportunity to meet them and follow their work over a period of time. During the years they were organizing and engineering The Gates, our project was on hold. They were so busy. Sandra and I wondered if we would ever finish the book. Finally months after the hugely successful Gates project was dismantled, Jeanne-Claude left a message on our editor Neal Porter's machine, saying "Let's get the ball rolling." And we were back in business!
7 comments:
- April Pulley Sayre said...
Jan, great post. Your books, and Sandy's Circus would be a good reading combo with Blue Balliet's new fiction Calder-related book, The Calder Game. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see kids soaking up art!
April's new website
- October 29, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- Bob Raczka said...
Thanks for the nice mention, Jan. I'm a fan of your books as well, especially ACTION JACKSON. By the way, if you haven't seen the movie, "WHO THE !@#%*&$ IS JACKSON POLLOCK?", check it out. It's a hoot, and a real eye opener into how snooty the art world can be.
- October 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
Interestingly in Heart To Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth Century American Art, the poet Ronald Wallace wrote a poem responding to Calder's Circus. That would be fun to use as a model for the class to write their own poetry. (p. 62). Thanks, April..and Bob, I know there is a kind of elitist attitude toward high art and that sometimes the art world can be considered "snooty". (Warhol tried to blur the lines between popular culture and high art.) But in terms of doing books for young people about artists,especially those who are contemporary,would you not agree that choosing those who are considered significant by curators. critics and other artists are the ones whose works you would choose to share with our audience?
- October 30, 2008 at 5:21 PM
- Bob Raczka said...
By no means was I passing judgment on anyone's choice of artists for their books. I was simply passing along the title of a movie that I thought you might enjoy. In a nutshell, a woman who is a truck driver buys a $15 painting at a flea market, and it turns out that it may very well be an authentic painting by Jackson Pollock–someone she's never heard of. Her attempts to verify the painting's real creator make for a very interesting and funny documentary. That's all.
- October 31, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
Bob, I did understand that you were sharing your take on the movie...I read about it and didn't have a chance to see it. I was just trying to interest you (and other writers of biographies) in a dialogue about how we choose our subjects. Aside from highlighting an artists whose work is significant and who has an intriquing story, Sandra Jordan and I also have to be passionate about his/her wrtwork.
- November 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Anna M. Lewis said...
Jan, fantastic post!
One of my favorite places in the entire world is the Chicago Art Institute's children's book department in the store.
I'll be teaching an art appreciation lesson later this year around Calder. Of course, I will start by reading Sandy's Circus... and the poem will be perfect to read while the students do the project. Their teacher will read The Calder Game to them... maybe after the lesson. (I think I mentioned this in my last post.)
Can't wait to read your new Christo and Jeanne-Claude book!
- November 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks, Anna..There are two other marvelous books for children on Calder's Circus...actually both classics in the field...both sadly out of print..a look at the actual Circus in reproduction, I think, is important for kids to see...Jean Lipman's Calder's Circus(1972) and Maira Kalman's Roarr Calder's Circus (1991)...maybe they are at either your public or school library.
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Guy A. Lewis, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Lester Fernandez, Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Education. Office of Inspector General; and Lynn Clendenin, Special Agent in Charge. United States Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Miami returned a 17-count Superseding Indictment charging embezzlement of funds from the Pell Grant Program of the United States Department of Education and embezzlement of Job Training Partnership Act funds from the United States Department of Labor.
The Pell Grant Program provides funding for needy students enrolled in approved courses at participating schools, which obtained accreditation from a nationally recognized accrediting body approved by the Department of Education. The Job Training Partnership Act of 1982, administered by the Department of Labor, provides funding to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force and to afford job training to those economically disadvantaged individuals facing serious barriers to employment, who are in special need of such training to obtain productive employment.
The Indictment charges that CARLOS ALVAREZ, PATRICIA DONAWA, KELVIN ALEXIS, THOMAS KOONS, and BEACON CAREER INSTITUTE engaged in a conspiracy to cause the Department of Education to pay Pell Grant funds to BEACON CAREER INSTITUTE to which it was not entitled, to not refund to the Department of Education money that should have been refunded, and to wrongfully misapply such monies. BEACON CAREER INSTITUTE, which was owned by wife and husband PATRICIA DONAWA and KELVIN ALEXIS, was a for-profit school, located at 2900 NW 183rd Street, Miami-Dade County, incorporated in Florida for the purpose of providing postsecondary education, including technical and vocational training.
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The Indictment charges that as a result of their conspiracy, the four defendants caused a loss of Department of Education Pell Grant funds in excess of $720,000.
Twelve of the counts of the Indictment charge crimes that are each punishable by imprisonment for five years. Four of the counts, charging CARLOS ALVAREZ with engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, and one of the counts, charging CARLOS ALVAREZ with theft from a program receiving government funds, each carries a sentence of imprisonment for ten years
Mr. Lewis commended the outstanding work of Special Agents of the Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Education and Labor. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Robert Lehner.


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by Aimee Hoppe, Greenpeace volunteer:
On a beautiful, hot, sunny Saturday, we participated in the Annual International Coastal Cleanup at Bloubergstrand in Cape Town. It started at 10:00 am and was well organised. We received bags, gloves and even sticks to grab the rubbish with. We patrolled the beach looking for litter and found mainly small pieces like bottle tops, cigarette butts and straws.
It was saddening to see how much plastic you actually find on a relatively "clean" beach. I cannot think of a better place to be than on the beach and took the liberty of taking dips in the sea to cool off every now and then so it hardly felt like work at all and most of all, it felt good to be helping out. We cleaned for a good two hours and at noon, we were offered vitamin drinks and participated in a group photo. It was announced that there would be a monthly beach clean which I thought was a fabulous idea and we were also welcome to suggest other beaches that we thought were in need of a clean up.
We hope to see you on a beach soon!
On a beautiful, hot, sunny Saturday, Greenpeace Africa volunteers participated in the Annual International Coastal Cleanup at Bloubergstrand in Cape Town.
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Men's Sitting Hosts Canada in Key Matches
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 5, 2014) – As the Winter Olympic Games heat up later this week with Opening Ceremony on Friday in Sochi, Russia, the U.S. Men's National Sitting Volleyball Team will host their rivals from Canada in a four-match series Feb. 7-9 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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All four matches are open to the public and free of charge. Fans unable to attend the matches will also have the opportunity to watch the live video streams by clicking here.
Match Times (Listed in MT)
Friday, Feb. 7 at 3 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 9 at 8:30 a.m.
The first two matches will be held in Sports Center II Gym #7. Seating is very limited for these two matches. The final two matches will be in Sports Center I Gym #1. Fans can enter the U.S. Olympic Training Center at the Boulder Street gate with venue doors opening an hour prior to the match.
After the first match of the series on Friday, the Men's Sitting Team will get into the Winter Olympics spirit by traveling to downtown Colorado Springs and take part in the 2014 Olympic Downtown Celebration and Downtown Dash set for 5-10 p.m. The festivities will take place on Tejon Street from Platte Avenue to Pikes Peak Avenue. The athletes will be greeting the fans and signing autographs from 7-8:30 p.m.
The four-match series will serve as an early season warm-up for the 2014 ParaVolley World Championships to be held June 6-23 in Poland. Team USA qualified for the world event by earning the silver medal at the 2013 ParaVolley Pan American Sitting Volleyball Zonal Championship in October 2013. The Americans defeated the Canadians twice in the competition, including a four-set win in the semifinals. However, the U.S. lost to regional rival Brazil in the gold-medal match.
The Men's Sitting Team program has had rare opportunities for competition on American soil and the upcoming matches are important dates on the 2014 calendar. The four matches in Colorado Springs will be the only formal matches the team will have prior to competition at the World Championships.
"We are always needing more matches, especially at home," U.S. National Sitting Volleyball Teams Program Director Bill Hamiter said. "Playing Canada helps us in both those areas as well as gives us important preparation matches for Worlds."
Both the U.S. Men's and Women's National Sitting Volleyball Teams are based in Edmond, Okla., and train at University of Central Oklahoma. Hamiter feels these matches are a great opportunity to expose the sport to Olympic movement leaders in Colorado Springs.
"Neither of the Sitting Teams has ever played matches in Colorado Springs, so this is an excellent chance for the USA Volleyball national office and local supporters to watch the team play," Hamiter said. "This also gives any USOC and U.S. Paralympics staff that are still in town (not in Sochi for Winter Olympic Games) a chance to view the team."
U.S. Men's Sitting Volleyball Team
1 – Travis Ricks (San Diego, Calif.)
2 – Dan Regan (St. Louis, Mo.)
3 – Samuel Surowiec (Everett, Wash.)
5 – Eric Duda (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
6 – Jese Schag (Sheridan, Ill.)
7 – Steven Doudt (Pendleton, Ind.)
8 – James Stuck (New Kensington, Penn.)
9 – Hugo Storer (Greensboro, N.C.)
10 – Edgardo LaForest (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
11 – Roderick Green (West Monroe, La.)
13 – Charlie Swearingen (Gulfport, Miss.)
14 – Benjamin Aman (Edmond, Okla.)
18 – J. Dee Marinko (Norman, Okla.)
Head Coach: Bill Hamiter
Assistant Coaches: Greg Walker, Quinton Kraeer
Team Manager: Dixie Collins
Canada Men's Sitting Volleyball Team
4 – Larry Matthews
5 – Jesse Ward
7 – Douglas Learoyd
10 – Christopher Bird
11 – Jose Rebelo
12 – Jamoi Anderson
14 – Raymond Gauthier
15 – David Marchand
Head Coach: Ray Sewell
Assistant Coach: Paul Shearme


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No one gives birth to a child and name him or her 'Enemy,' thus; I haven't met anyone yet called 'Enemy.' Yet an enemy exists, the reason the dictionary defines it: As a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
What causes enmity between people? I watched a program of a man that hates his neighbour. According to him, his neighbour's stereo was too noisy and many times when he asks him to reduce the volume he refuses to yield to his demand.
I understand him, especially after the week's hard work, you wish to have a happy and quiet lovely weekend, reading your favourite books and newspapers, but that neighbour of yours has denied you all those good moments you're longing for.
At times you might be an enemy or someone might hate you for doing no wrong, just because of your efforts to live a happy life. Do you know that your hard work can sometimes spark jealousy and hatred from an empire of deceitful enemies?
Do you know that even your successful marriage sometimes makes you an enemy, because your neighbour's marriage is on the rocks? How do you handle such situations when you haven't done anything wrong but someone madly hates you?
I do hear people often say: The problem was beyond my control, the reason I used food as a means of consolation, became an alcoholic or drug addict. That's really a big mistake. When you're experiencing problems, you don't live on destructive measures to solve your problems, you need to fight those destructive elements.
Years back when I arrived in Europe, among other foreigners, I came to Italy at a time I don't know anyone. I slept at the Central Train Station in Rome for many days. (I have revisited Rome to see where I slept in the early nineties) I saw that the hard conditions were taking its toll on some of the homeless Africans.
Some became alcoholics, drug addicts, involved in drug trafficking and some decided to go back to Africa. I encouraged them to stay but many of them returned to Africa. Today, I'm no more an illegal immigrant. Above all, I live with my wife and three children in Europe. I wake up every morning at 5 AM and go to work like other workers, enjoying happy union with my family when I'm come at back home.
I know what the enemy wants. I wasn't ready to be a destitute, alcoholic, drug addict or courier. If I have made it, then you can. Never blame anyone for your failure in life. Don't let your enemy be happy. Fight those destructive forces to make them mad.


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The annual week-long meeting of the World Meteorological Organization's Hurricane Committee, which reviews the previous season and prepares for the forthcoming one, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Impact Based Forecast and Early Warning Services are being strengthened in Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in order to ramp up disaster preparedness and risk reduction.
Publish Date: 29 May 2019
Fact-finding mission makes recommendations for future resilience / The devastation caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth which hit Mozambique within the space of a few weeks is a wake-up call about more high-impact tropical cyclones, coastal flooding and intense rainfall linked to climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Publish Date: 13 May 2019
The Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference has opened at World Meteorological Organization headquarters with calls for more impact-based warnings that reach the most vulnerable as part of wider climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development strategies.
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Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani made landfall close to Puri in Odisha on 3 May, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 180-190 km/h. It tracked North-North Eastwards and weaken as it moves towards West Bengal and then on to Bangladesh, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. Accurate advance forecasts and a huge, well-coordinated disaster risk reduction campaign were credited with keeping the death toll to a minimum.
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A few weeks after IDAI which wreaked havoc on central Mozambique (and eastern Zimbabwe), the country is dealing with another unprecedented event. Tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in northern Mozambique on 25 April, near the border with Tanzania, in an area where no tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite era. There is no record of two storms of such intensity striking Mozambique in the same season. Torrential rainfall in the days following the cyclone worsened the problem and hampered humanitarian operations.
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Florence and Michael won't have another chance to wreak havoc in the Atlantic Basin. The names of these two storms, which caused extensive fatalities and damage from Florida north to Virginia last year, have been retired by the World Meteorological Organization's Region IV Hurricane Committee.
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Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall on 14 March at 23.30 GMT, close to Beira City in Mozambique. Heavy rainfall, strong winds (above 150 km/h) and storm surge estimated at 2.5m height affected the region. Initial reports indicate there may be hundreds of deaths, and hundreds of thousands of people impacted in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
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The Warriors met Wednesday with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Giants CEO Larry Baer to discuss the feasibility of erecting a new, state-of-the-art arena near AT&T Park that would open before the 2017-18 season.
Warriors owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber have talked about the need to replace Oracle Arena in Oakland since buying the basketball team in July 2010, but this is the first time they have publicly stated their intent to explore options in San Francisco. They have also had discussions with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan about building an arena at their current East Bay site.
"The potential for building an arena near AT&T Park is very exciting," Lacob said. "The Giants have done some remarkable things over there. It's a great ballpark that revitalized an entire part of the city.
"It took a year to get our feet wet, examine the organization and make a lot of changes. Step 2 is starting the process of getting a new arena somewhere in the Bay Area. We're a Bay Area team. We consider the whole Bay Area our market, whether we're located in San Francisco or Oakland."
Lee reached out to the Warriors and Giants last week to set up the meeting. The Warriors then contacted Quan and scheduled an advance meeting.
Lacob and team President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts met with Quan on Friday, informing her about the upcoming meeting with San Francisco's mayor. They also said they planned to start studying development options for a new arena, including in Oakland.
South of the ballpark
The Warriors brass met Wednesday with Baer, Lee and Jennifer Matz, the city's top executive for economic development. Lee encouraged the Warriors and Giants to explore realistic sites on land south of AT&T Park.
"This is a great opportunity for San Francisco, and I'm going to make sure the Warriors know that we are ready to welcome them back home," Lee said. "I asked the Giants to join us because of their considerable expertise in building a world-class sports arena in a dense urban setting, their partnership with us, and their reputation for being a good neighbor and just a valuable asset to the city in many ways.
"The jobs and revenue that this could generate for our residents is considerable."
In his dual roles as the Giants' chief operating officer and president of the China Basin Ballpark Corp., Baer was the driving force as San Francisco opened then-Pacific Bell Park to widespread acclaim in 2000.
"Building a new facility - whether it's an arena, a stadium or a ballpark - is exciting," Baer said. "It's something that is coming out of the ground, and it's a vision. It's really exciting stuff. It could be a dramatic and amazing development here."
Baer was careful to take a tertiary role in the arena plans, saying that the mayor's office was taking a leadership role and that it is the Warriors' decision. The Giants are trying to develop land south of the ballpark, including an effort to build an arena in the area.
With the infrastructure in place to handle a 41,500-seat stadium and the necessary mass transit, China Basin seems a prime locale for a 20,000-seat arena. A parking garage is already expected to be added.
"We have to explore all Bay Area options to fulfill the expectations of our fan base and to fulfill the commitment to building a world-class, championship-caliber organization," Welts said. "I think that's what our fans expect, and it's what we need to provide.
"Nothing on our agenda is more important than a new arena, other than the basketball team. Those are our dual focuses."
The team was called the San Francisco Warriors from 1962 to '71 when they played at the Cow Palace, but in 1966 started playing some home games at what was then called the Oakland Coliseum Arena. The name was changed to the Golden State Warriors and the team played nearly all its home games in Oakland in 1971.
NBA's oldest arena
The Warriors' lease at Oracle Arena runs through the 2016-17 season. The arena, built in 1966, is the oldest in the NBA - two years the senior of New York's Madison Square Garden - but it was extensively renovated in the mid-1990s.
Lacob and Guber recently approved new flat-screen TVs in Oracle suites, and are hoping that a high-definition scoreboard can be added before the Christmas-night opener. They have also updated the sound system, installed four new LED scoreboards in the upper corners, renovated the locker rooms and added Wi-Fi throughout the arena.
"We agreed to explore all feasible options over the next 68 months," Welts said. "Where it goes, where it ends, that will have to play itself out over the next many months."
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Party Planner (Android – $0.99) and Simple Soiree (iOS – $1.99) – Party Planner and Simple Soiree are intuitive party-planning apps for the larger get-togethers. They are everything you need to be the perfect anfitrión!
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(shot), and oral form.
Leucovorin is a derivative of folic acid. Leucovorin works
differently depending on whether it is used with
methotrexate (MTX) or
fluorouracil (5-FU).
Leucovorin is used with either methotrexate (MTX) for the treatment
ectopic pregnancy or fluorouracil (5-FU) for cancer treatment.
Most of the complications and side effects of methotrexate can be
either prevented or treated by using leucovorin, which is usually given 24
hours after the methotrexate is given.
Leucovorin enhances the binding of fluorouracil (5-FU) and prolongs
the life span of 5-FU, increasing the anticancer effect.1
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine when used with high-dose methotrexate or 5-FU include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference
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Leucovorin is very well tolerated and has almost no side effects of
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Leucovorin generally decreases the severity of side effects of methotrexate (MTX).
It can increase the severity of the side effects of 5-FU when used with that
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
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Race, Law and Conservatism in America
I won't respond directly to this improbable claim, but I am interested in the historical connection between race and the rise of the conservative movement in the U.S. In recent years, there has been an outpouring of historical writing on the rise of the right wing in American politics. At the last Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, a panel was held on how historians should study conservatism "now that studying the Right is trendy." Historians have explored the rise of anti-Communism, the John Birch Society, Presidential politics, the Goldwater campaign, the religious Right, the old and the New Right, and Ronald Reagan in California. Likewise, legal scholars like Ann Southworth have begun to write the history of the rise of legal conservatism, focusing on right-wing public interest lawyers, the Federalist Society, and the Olin Foundation's sponsorship of the law-and-economics movement at law schools. Yet these histories of conservative movements have had surprisingly little to say about race, except as a "wedge issue" in electoral politics.
It may seem strange to suggest that there has been little attention to race and conservatism when the reaction to the civil rights movement has received so much historiographic attention. But it's a remarkably regionalized – even segregated – literature on "massive resistance" in the South. According to the standard story, a Southern backlash to the civil rights movement fueled the electoral shift from a solid white South for the Democrats to the Republican Party, as well as the "Southernization" of American politics, as race has been a reliable "wedge issue" for the Republicans to pry white working-class voters away from the Democratic Party.
Yet, as a new generation of historians of racial politics in the South as well as the urban North (especially Joe Crespino, Matt Lassiter, and Tom Sugrue) have shown, the South is not "another country." The politics of nonviolent – and legal – backlash against African Americans moving into white neighborhoods and public spaces was a national phenomenon, tied centrally to the rise of the "New Right" and the conservative legal movement. Moreover, conservatives in law and in politics successfully drew on historical narratives about race that tell reassuring stories about the path from slavery to freedom, what Nancy McLean has called "Neoconfederate" stories.
"Color-blind constitutionalism," which has been identified and critiqued by a generation of critical race theorists, has a history in post-War America. Conservatives appropriated this once-liberal ideology not only through legal opinion-writing, but drawing on the narratives generated by grass-roots movements of opposition to integration, especially in housing and schools – narratives about "freedom of choice," meritocratic individualism, and religious freedom.
I've been thinking about this a lot as I'm in the early stages of a research project on the history of race, law and conservatism in the United States from the 1960s through the 1990s, bringing together the legal history of color-blind constitutionalism with the social history of grass-roots conservative movements that organized to oppose the integration of African Americans in housing, schools, and public life in American cities. Please send me your ideas! I am curious what legal historians think about the current politics of race and its connections to a longer post-civil rights era history.
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- Joshua Hitchcock said...
Fascinating post! I cannot comment on the USA experience, but I can provide a New Zealand perspective if that proves helpful to you. I do not think that racism is restricted to one particular political grouping. Yes, the international trend is for racism to be more prevalent in the far right - but then again it depends on how you define racism. To some, the paternalism enforced by the left over indigenous and minority races is also a form of racism in that it denies such peoples their rights to self determination and treats them as people unable to look after their own affairs - in effect, considering them subordinate.
Instead, when talking about race and how it intersects with politics, the New Zealand experience demonstrates that people and groups right across the political divide will use race as a means of securing support from the majority.
I look forward to reading more of your thoughts as your research project develops. As an indigenous rights lawyer in New Zealand such a topic fascinates me.
- July 29, 2010 at 8:04:00 AM EDT
- Shag from Brookline said...
I would think your timeline should be extended beyond he 1990s to the current situation to consider the election of Pres. Obama in 2008 and the reactions of conservatives to this first African American President, including the steps being taken for this November's midterm elections. The use of an Epilogue post-1990s might also be considered.
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Like most everything related to parenting, when it comes to potty learning (or training) there is not a one size fits all approach. Just as every child is different, every family is different and what works best for one will not work for another. However, since potty learning is a hot topic in our house these days, I thought I would share what we have found to work best for us.
When it comes to potty learning and my kids, I approach it similarly to the way I approach weaning from the breast. I trust that when the time is right and the child is ready, it will happen. I know this is not a method that would work for every child or every family, but so far its been working for us.
My oldest Ava was completely out of diapers (including at night) somewhere between ages 2 1/2 and 3. Julian became interested in using the potty earlier than Ava, but the transition to using the potty full time has been much more gradual. He's currently 3 years and 2 months and mostly potty learned during the day, but not for the occasional nap or at night.
While I say, "it (potty learning) will happen," that's not to say I (and my husband) don't do things to encourage the kids. The process is not left entirely up to them, but I do let them take the lead and guide how fast or slow the transition takes.
Here are some of the techniques I used with my kids to facilitate potty learning
Naked "Training"
One of the first things I like to do that helps them get more familiar with their body and elimination sensations is allow them to be naked from the waist down while at home. If it's particularly cold, I'd suggest the kiddo wear BabyLegs or something similar on his/her legs, though my kids don't seem to mind the cold at all.
Another benefit of being pant-less is that they can run to the potty and use it without having to worry about getting clothes out of the way first.
Since I'm at home with my kids this technique has worked well for us. Obviously though, isn't for everyone.
Amber from Strocel uses the naked time technique as well. "During toilet training I … allow lots, and lots, and lots of naked time. Because it's much more obvious to both you and the kid that they're peeing when they aren't in a diaper."
Annie from PhD in Parenting said, "Being naked helped him (her son) to feel what was going on, it felt different from having a diaper on, it saved on laundry significantly, and it also made it quicker when he did rush off to the potty because there were no snaps and zippers and things to deal with."
Keep a potty (or two or three) nearby
I try to keep a potty in the room wherever the child is playing. In our house that's usually in the living room. I think having the potty where they can see it and have easy access to it helped my kids learn to use it. When they move off into another room and the potty isn't right there, that's usually when the accidents happen. (If you can invest in a few potties to scatter around the house, all the better.)
Once they have mastered using the potty in the living room, I would either move it into the bathroom or just encourage them to transition from the potty to using the actual toilet.
Praise, praise and more praise
My husband and I offer a lot of praise when our child uses the potty or toilet. In fact, in the beginning there's often a lot of cheering, clapping hands, silly dances, etc. to encourage the new behavior.
Read books about going potty
The book I loved for helping my kids learn more about their bodies and using the potty was "Once Upon A Potty" by Alona Frankel. There are two versions of the book – one for boys featuring Joshua and one for girls featuring Prudence. I have to confess, one of the reasons I loved this book so much was the way Ava would say "Pwudence." So cute.
There are many books available on this subject.
If my child didn't seem to be ready for using the potty, we'd take a break and come back to it another time.
I remember having a success or two with Ava and the potty at a young age and I thought, "Yes! This is it!" But then she didn't do it again so I figured it wasn't the opportune time for her and we tried again in a few months.
Julian, who turned 3 in November, has been going through the motions of potty learning for over a year now. When naked and at home, he would use the potty or toilet about 90% of the time. It wasn't until just the past couple months though that he would start asking to go potty while we were out of the house (and this was while wearing a diaper or a pull-up). Now he is using the toilet consistently when he is awake. If he's napping or asleep at night, that's not always the case and he wears a diaper or pull-up during those times. I'm not in the hurry to get him night "trained," but trust that it will happen when he's ready.
In Annie's post about potty learning, she references a potty training readiness quiz by author Elizabeth Pantley, which is a great place to start if you are contemplating potty learning. Ask Dr Sears also has a wealth of toilet training information – from tips to know before you start to helping the child who won't go to traveling while training.
Going commando
I have to admit that Julian isn't in underwear full time during the day yet. He still either wears a pull-up or, if at home and is not half naked, goes commando under his pants. I think we are getting to the point where he could wear underwear regularly and be fine, but it's just recently that we've gotten to that point. It seems like if he has pants on but no underwear, he is more easily able to feel when he has to pee.
With regard to poop
Once I noticed my kids' pooping cues – both either went into a corner or behind a couch, it was easy to transition from pooping in a diaper to pooping on the potty. Thankfully neither of them had any poop resistance (where kids refuse to poop unless in a diaper), but I know that is common for many kids. Annie wrote a bit about how they overcame poop resistance with her son.
Potty learning at night
When the kiddo starts consistently waking up in the morning dry (i.e. you check their diaper as soon as they wake up and encourage using the potty), that's a good indication they are ready to go all night in underwear.
It took a while of Ava waking up dry before I felt ready to take the plunge and let her go overnight without a diaper, but she was obviously ready and did well with it.
Techniques other parents swear by
The reward method
We never tried the reward method (yet?), but I know others who have had success with offering an M&M or something similar for each successful trip to the potty.
EcoMeg is currently using the M&M system for potty training her son.
Much More Than a Mom has also been using the reward system (chocolate chips or stickers) to help with potty learning her son.
Elimination communication
Hilary Stamper wrote an informative post explaining how elimination communication (EC) – the process of observing one's baby's signs and signals and providing cue sounds and elimination-place associations – worked for her and her baby.
Hobo Mama also has a great post chock full of information about using elimination communication with tips from her experience with her child, but also many links to other sites about EC.
Related links:
Angela at Breastfeeding 1-2-3 wrote Potty Training the Easy Way. She describes her method as somewhere between Potty Training and Elimination Communication. "The 'easy way' in my mind does not mean the fastest way or the least messy way. It's an investment of time that respectfully helps my child learn to use the toilet."
Previously mentioned, but very informative is Dr. Sears section on toilet training.
How did you go about toilet learning/training with your kiddo(s)? If you have any tips to share, we'd love to hear 'em.
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With oil falling below $30 again, the Export-Import bank has moved in an effort to help small energy companies avoid default. The bank announced its efforts to work with businesses to fight the fall in oil prices and the concurrent revenue decline. Speaking to CNBC, an American financial cable news channel, Ex-Im Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg said the bank has committed itself to making sure that smaller companies have the liquidity and financing necessary to avoid default.
"Everybody's got to compete much harder and sharpen their pencils to get those orders. Where we step in is making sure they have the financial tools to compete effectively," he said in an interview Tuesday.
Global Financial Crisis Comparisons
Hochberg went on to say that the bank has worked closely with small oil firms, who have grown increasingly dependent on them, while larger companies also feel increased pressure from the commodity decline. He compared the situation to the subprime mortgage crisis that lead to the 2008 financial meltdown, noting that the bank wants to avoid a similar catastrophe.
"In the peak of financial crisis, we did over $36 billion worth of loans and insurance. A year ago, we did $20 billion, because there was a lot of liquidity and excess capital in the market. If it tightens, that's where we come back into play to support businesses and even out those curves, ensuring exports are still flowing," he said.
Nonetheless, Hochberg added that the bank takes a "fiscally modest" approach to lending and remains "prudent" about its loan decisions.
Market Turmoil
The fall in oil prices traces back to the fall in emerging market and European stock markets, though those occurred for different reasons. In China and Asia, the fall in oil has served as a reflection of weakening consumer demand in China and thus a need to sell off equities. The Shanghai Composite fell over 6.4 percent on Tuesday, with Hong Kong and Japan falling around 2.4 percent.
In Europe, stocks fell as investors worried that Germany's biggest manufacturing machinery buyer—namely, China—suffers from a weakened economy, and therefore represents a growth limitation for Germany, the Eurozone, and Europe as a whole. Germany fell 0.6 percent with similar losses in London and Paris.
The American Exception
The United States managed to buck the trend despite a close and continually emerging correlation between the S&P 500 and oil prices. Even as oil fell below the $30 watermark that served as a significant support level, the S&P 500 shrugged the decline and saw strength throughout the day.
Consumer confidence rose 1.8 points to 98.1, exceeding expectations, while the PMI services index stayed steady at 53.7. Additionally, the Federal Housing Finance Administration saw home prices rise 0.5 percent on a month-to-month basis and up 5.9 percent on a year-over-year basis. That also helped the FHFA House Price Index rise above its pre-crisis peak in March 2007.


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|SeniorNet@FSL Huntington receiving Proclamation from the Town of Huntington Board
Berland Honors SeniorNet for Winning National Award
Author: Megan E. Lavery
Article Date: 02/11/09
Councilwoman Berland with the Town Board, SeniorNet director Slava Vero and volunteers
Huntington, NY - Councilwoman Susan A. Berland presented the Don Weidman Computer Learning Center with an official proclamation from the Town of Huntington Tuesday night for receiving the "Exemplary Learning Center of 2008" award from the national SeniorNet Board of Directors.
The criteria used in the selection process for this award included the Center's contributions to SeniorNet, the Center's volunteer base, promotion of the SeniorNet brand on the Center's website and its physical site, the Center's website appearance/structure, the overall Center's marketing, strength, growth and responsiveness/collaboration with SeniorNet headquarters.
The Don Weidman SeniorNet Computer Learning Center is one of 200 SeniorNet branches in the country that provides access to and education on technologies and Internet for adults aged 50+. The Don Weidman SeniorNet Computer Learning Center, located at the Family Service League in Huntington, was recognized for its impressive leadership, its high level of professionalism and for overseeing community outreach initiatives such as the computer-refurbishing program.
"SeniorNet is a wonderful organization and I'm proud to honor them tonight," commented Councilwoman Berland. "This organization provides a great service to our senior community and I congratulate them on receiving the 'Exemplary Learning Center of 2008' award."


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Dallas is, to the casual and logical observer. But don't let the mayor of Arlington hear you. He might get mad.
"Does it make me angry? No. It's just something we have to overcome,"[Mayor Robert] Cluck said. "I'm frustrated. Sure. That's the word."
Cluck is referring to things like Mike McCarthy saying "we're thankful we're going to Dallas," and Mike Tomlin telling his players he'll "see everyone in Dallas." That really grinds his gears because Cowboys Stadium is, of course, technically located in Arlington, Texas.
Arlington's a big old city in its own right, and is justifiably proud of having the stadium. After all, they had to raise taxes, invoke eminent domain and kick out homeowners just to build it. But are they right to get huffy when someone says "Dallas?"
Here's a list of cities that have an NFL stadium but don't "have" an NFL team: Arlington, Landover, Miami Gardens, East Rutherford, Orchard Park, Foxborough. Have you heard of those places? Yes, and probably only because they have stadiums. That's good for business, but what's even better for business is having hotels and restaurants in the municipality, so you actually see the money that comes in. Arlington does, so they shouldn't get worried when someone hears Dallas Cowboys and thinks Dallas. We'd like to introduce Mayor Cluck to metonymy.


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A study of the world's top 27 wine regions' temperatures and wine quality over the past 50 years reveals that rising temperatures have already impacted vintage quality. As for the next 50 years, climate modeling for these same wine regions predicts a 2°C temperature rise that is likely to make cool growing regions better producers of some grape varieties, and already warm wine regions less hospitable for viticulture.
The details of what rising temperatures and longer growing seasons have done and are likely to do to wine quality will be presented by Southern Oregon University's Gregory Jones at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting on Monday, November 3, in Seattle, WA. Jones worked on the study with Michael White of Utah State University and Owen Cooper of the University of Colorado/NOAA Aeronomy Lab.
"Grapes are a good indicator crop," explains Jones regarding the broader applications of their wine-specific work. Because wine grapes are grown in temperate climates - what's called a "Mediterranean" climate - and wines are almost obsessively tasted and rated for quality, wine grapes are a particularly good indicator of changes that are probably effecting other crops in the same areas, says Jones.
Jones and his colleagues used records of Sotheby's 100-point vintage rating scale data (where wines scoring over 90 are "excellent to superb" and under 40 are "disastrous") along with climate records dating back to 1950 to look for trends in wine quality or growing season temperatures. What they found was an average temperature rise of 2°C rise over the past 50 years and higher vintage ratings.
"There were no negative impacts," Jones said of the apparent temperature rise in the world's most renowned wine producing regions. Included in the study were five southern hemisphere wine regions, including three in Australia, one in South Africa and one in Chile.
While it is clear that improvements in grape growing and wine making technology have produced better wines, climate will always be the wild card in determining year to year variations in quality, said Jones. "If the climate is more conducive in general or less variable, then higher quality should be easier to obtain."
To project into the future, Jones and his team used the HadCM3 coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) developed at the Hadley Centre in the UK. It is a model that has been used previously for predicting future agricultural conditions, Jones says.
Based on the modeling, the same top wine-growing regions can expect another 2°C over the next 50 years. Does that mean even finer wines? Not necessarily, says Jones. Warmer temperatures could mean that cool growing regions should ripen fruit more consistently and should experience less year-to-year wine quality variability. In addition, already warm wine-growing regions could experience challenges in terms of overripe fruit, added water stress, and increases in diseases and pests.
For example, Italy's famous Chianti region, which already is very warm in the summer, could be hotter, making harvest earlier during hotter periods and giving some pests more time to mount an attack on the vineyards. On the other hand, the Rhine Valley region in Germany could benefit with greater ripening potential, but might eventually have to produce different wines in the changing climate.
On the other hand, warmer temperatures are already allowing wine grapes to be grown at higher latitudes and elevations - places that were once too cold. For instance, vineyards are on the rise in southern England.
Along with the climate and grape-growing changes, there are also bound to be some big shifts in thinking for people of the wine growing regions, says Jones. "There is a huge historical and cultural identity associated with wine producing regions." A region known for a superb merlot, for instance, might need to shift to another kind of grape, changing the cultural identity that has developed over centuries.
The bottom line, says Jones, is that growers need to pay attention to what might be happening in terms of climate. "In the coming 20 to 30 years they may have to work to replace varieties or change management strategies," he said. Survival of today's wine regions will depend on how well viticulturists adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Climate Change and Global Wine Quality
Monday, November 3, 11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m., WSCTC: 307/308
Abstract may be viewed at:
Gregory Jones
Southern Oregon University
During the GSA Annual Meeting, Nov. 2-5, contact Ann Cairns at the GSA Newsroom, Washington State Convention Center and Trade Center, Seattle, for assistance and to arrange for interviews: 206-219-4615.
Geological Society of America
115th Annual Meeting
Nov. 2-5, 2003
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
Seattle, WA, USA
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Category Archives: Women
About women
Ziva is slavic pagan goddess – a mythical character who represents life and fertility.
i recently read about Ziva considering the Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni named his first child as Ziva.
In general, there is an opinion that the Slavic mythology is probably obscured by Christian faith.
Ziva was often depicted naked, holding apples in one hand (like Eve from the Abrahamic myths), and grapes or strawberries or wheat in another. The apples she possessed, were said to shine a brilliant gold.
Živa was above all the goddess of water. In the consciousness of people she represented the concept of life, personified by water. She was their first "goddess", even before mother Earth, who rules when the spread of agriculture follows.
Interestingly, there are lot of research to explore the connection between shiva, the Hindu God and ziva.
Yana is for Y – the Czech model who turned into an Indian actress – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Gupta
Am not a fan of Yana, though she being a vegetarian is a good factor to impress me. Being in show business, she has done well as an author of the health book. For a women of her age, she has managed her life and career well.
She has been on many modelling assignments with impressive labels like Calvin Klein, Sony, Lakme, Honda, Toyota, etc.
She is probably one of the few (or the only one?) Western Caucasian women to get into India film industry.
Xena is for X – the warrior princess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xena
While Xena, the warrior princess was a fiction character in the TV shows and movies, the entire theme of evil turning to good where Xena goes through her path of redemption is impressive. Ofcourse, the LGBT undertones brought in spice to the Xena character. The reason i added Xena to the list is two fold –
- While there were too many heroes for the little boys to idolize, there were hardly women characters for the little girls – Xena fills in the gap as a female action hero.
- And i do not have any women impressive enough with their name starting with alphabet Z 🙂
Winne is for W – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh
While Winnie is a fictions cartoon character, the morals and philosophy which she teaches to the children of the world is impressive. I enjoyed reading Winnie as a Disney character who was extremely committed to friendship. Winnie always highlighted the importance of small niceties in life over any such materialistic attitudes and ambitions.
It was one of the great characters to read out to children in their young age. Look at the sample here
Vidya and Venus
Vidya and Venus are the two for V in #atozchallenge
- Venus – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29
- Vidya – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidy%C4%81
Both are mythical women goddess from different cultures and religions – Venus is that beautiful Roman goddess who embodies love and beauty and fertility. Vidya is that serene Hindu goddess who embodies the art of learning and knowledge.
Venus appears in multiple works of art in the different periods of art – sculptures and paintaings. So, is Vidya – there are so many ancient temples with her sculpture and the famous painter Ravi varma did beautiful paintings of Vidya. While Venus is equalized to Aphrodite, Vidya in Indian culture is associated very closely with knowledge.
Both the women goddess still have lot of influence across humanity. Romance and Knowledge are still the most sought after in any community!
U is for Uma in #atozchallenge
The most powerful incarnation of energy in Hinduism is in the female deity – the goddess called by many names – If you understand the language of Sanskrit, then "Lalitha Sahasra nama" is the one which lists all her 1000 names…..just a simple sample of what kind of powerful goddess we are referring to here.
See the list of 1000 names in the alphabetical order with the English meanings here
1000-names-of-goddess – lalitha-sahasra-nama-with-meaning
Uma is one of her 1000 names. Being born in a Hindu family, I am completely captivated by the mythological stories of Sakthi, her different forms and the thousands of temples. Trying to cover her in this short post is crazy – but if you need to learn more, there are multiple great web pages all over the internet. Couple of them are here
Teresa, Mother Teresa is for T of atozchallenge
When I was at middle school, the non-detailed studies were mandated as part of English language courses – looking back, i realize how it helped me a lot to get a glimpse of wide world than I could imagine – Mother Teresa's stories was one of the non-detailed study as part of my curriculum in middle school – while there is no real grades attached to non-detailed studies, my dad was encouraging us to read them during the summer vacation even before the school started. In the era of no internet, books were the best bet to entertain us during vacations.
That is how i read about Mother Teresa and then started dreaming that I may also get enlightened one day like her if i continue to do the good deeds she recommends – ok, that is a cliche!! but that is what i thought when I was in middle school – I was obsessing on being a good soul and fancying secretly the greatness of being a christian missionary nun – I anyways already had a great impression about the christian nuns in their pure white habits – this is a result of going to a Christian convent for my junior school. Ofcourse, later when i read more about multiple religions, this fancy fad faded when I realized every religion is a framework with its own styles helping the humanity to attain the final goal of self realization!
So, here goes my memory on one of the greatest soul who was of an Albanian descendant but made a sea change to the people of India and then the world. More about Mother in the below links
Subbulakshmi is for S of #atozchallenge
If you have visited Hindu temples, you have listened to MS Subbulakshmi's songs without fail – the captivating voice is something which is unique even after so many years of her passing. Again, if you think it is good enough to be wowed by her voice and beauty, you are in for a surprise.
Subbulakshmi persevered her life through various ups and downs and consistently kept her focus on music – she dedicated her life for music and in turn music let her conquer it.
I have to share this short note about one of her habits. MS Subbulakshi used to get lot of silk sarees (Indian traditional women's dress) as gifts whenever she is on music concerts. She had a great method to maintain her simplicity. She always had only 10 sarees – if she gets a new saree presented to her, she immediately will gift one of the existing sarees to one of her mailds. This way, she ensured that she only had 10 sarees at any time !!
it was not only she was the queen of music, she seem to be a queen in her life with her passion and empathy towards others.
MS amma – Queen of music!!!!
Rosa Parks
R is for Rosa Parks for atozchallenge
African American women have done extremely well for themselves – while i am of Asian lineage, and it is very natural to look at Asian women as role models, I am equally surprised by the wide diversity of area in which the African American excel well.
Probably Rosa Parks is one of those first few women who stood up for themselves and in turn for the society. When she was subjected to a situation which she felt was wrong, she stood for the right – the right to be free and speak about it and do something about it – She had the courage to do what she thought was right and that in turn laid the foundation of a big change in the American history. If you want to pick up one person who taught that women can be fearless anytime, then you have to read more about Rosa Parks – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
It is the irresistible Queen of Sheba who is for Q of #atozchallenge.
I first knew "Queen of Sheba" as a game which is played when you are in a group. A game which requires some intelligence to do what the queen is asking the participants to do. And then came the mythical character of Queen of Sheba in Bible, in jewish scriptures and also in Islam. One more instance of a strong powerful women who is known for her beauty, and more so for her intelligence. The story is that Sheba traveled to meet King Solomon of Israel to check his knowledge through her riddles. It is a very interesting story where Sheba is finally tricked by King Solomon and they have a son together – who becomes an important mythical character in ensuring the Ark (container of the sacred ten commandments ) is brought into Ethiopia. Lot of interesting stuff to read about mythology and Queen of Sheeba is one of those interesting characters.
This is for those history buffs for a weekend read on Sheeba – http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/cultures/sheba_01.shtml


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text: Put simply, Northern Ireland is destination delicious. Here, out of a landscape of lush green fields, fresh pure lakes and crystal clean Atlantic and Irish Sea waters, a distinct food culture has developed, with a focus on the very best local ingredients. Love Dairy, Love NI Meat, Bread & Baking, Brewing & Distilling… these are just some of the fantastic themes you can taste But how do you celebrate what's already a mouthwatering occasion? Easy: we have selected 12 of our favourite food and drink themes to celebrate the different delicacies on offer across the whole of Northern Ireland! Take your pick, your tastebuds will thank you for it. From top left: Established Coffee, Belfast; Bushmills Inn, County Antrim; Balloo House, County Down; Sheelin Brewery, County Fermanagh; Pat O'Doherty, Lough Erne Local food and drink heroes Wherever you go in Northern Ireland, you'll naturally find fabulous food and drink, but you'll also hear stories of the passionate people who rear, make, cook, distill and serve these feasts to your table. Take Bernie McClelland, who asked her chef proprietor at Rayanne House to recreate the Titanic's last meal – after all, they are in the home of the Titanic in Belfast. Or husband and wife team, Fiona and David Boyd-Armstrong, who built their own baby distillery a few years ago and now make their Shortcross Gin using only botanicals grown in their own garden! And the folks at Ballygally Castle Hotel had so much fun when HBO's Game of Thrones was filming nearby that they decided to launch their own themed afternoon tea – just taste their Dothraki Trifle with Mini Dragon's Eggs! Handled by the experts… Of course, all that great produce needs to be handled with respect and a legion of excellent chefs, from Noel McMeel at Lough Erne Resort in County Fermanagh to Derek Creagh at Harry's Shack in Portstewart, County Londonderry, certainly know what they're doing. It's what makes travelling here so rewarding – from small village delis to luxury resorts, there's a real sense of creativity, quality and innovation. Created by you... Want to brush up on your own skills, or learn something new? Cookery schools in Northern Ireland will broaden your culinary vision, with panoramic backdrops that really elevate the experience. Just look at the Belle Isle Cookery School on the magnificent Belle Isle Estate in County Fermanagh, or the Mourne Seafood Cookery School, in County Down overlooking pretty Kilkeel Harbour. It's a great way to create something new. Take a bite out of Northern Ireland Northern Ireland's food revolutionNorthern Ireland produces superb seafood, beef, cheese and whiskey. Here's where to dine on the best… Discover Derry~LondonderryWith its historic walls, vibrant culture and fabulous food, it's time to get your teeth into Derry~Londonderry. Belfast DaysKnown for its cool hangouts, galleries and hip nightlife, Belfast is also a food-lover's paradise.