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The outstanding properties of this armchair are elegance, timelessness and exceptional seating comfort. Added is a lightness that only a cantilever model can have. While the first tubular steel chairs from the 1920s were rarely upholstered, the 1935 Thonet catalogue presented an entire series of voluminously upholstered armchairs and sofas. The in-house Thonet design S 411 from the year 1932 probably marks the beginning of this new product series. Today, it is produced with high-quality upholstery. A matching footstool is available.
Armchair with two different backrest heights and footstool, frames chrome-plated or lacquered tubular steel in various colours, covers in fabric, cowhide or leather as well as natural Napa leather with comfort cushion. Armrests in solid stained beech wood or oiled walnut, oak and ash. Also available in "Pure Materials" versions.
Following the tradition and philosophy of Michael Thonet, Thonet in Frankenberg develops products via a careful and innovative design process. Unmistakable and successful products are created by a team of designers, product developers, engineers, and craftsmen with the highest level of craftsmanship. The Thonet design stands for comfortable, timeless and modern furniture. The development focuses on the durability of the products. Therefore, the intelligent selection of materials and efficient use of resource-saving technologies as well as the functionality and aesthetics of the products process at Thonet are part of a solution-oriented and production-appropriate design process.» More details
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My latest article entitled "Wolfram Alpha: A New Tool for Genealogy" has been posted at Archives.com. This is one of many articles you'll find as part of the Learn from Experts series at Archives.com – check it out and you will see some familiar faces among the genealogy blogging crowd!
The most recent article discusses how you can use the site Wolfram Alpha – which terms itself as a "computational knowledgebase" – to assist you in your genealogy research. There are tools that help you calculate information related to names, dates, weather, money and more!
Visit the Articles page here at High-Definition Genealogy for my other recent and past articles on genealogy.
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And now the fire's the focus of the room
By winter made so. Like a gay salute
There crackles in the hearth
The holly's fusillade.
~ from Winter by Maurice Craig
May this season be full of love, merriment and comfort! Warm hearts & hearths to you and your loved ones, and many blessings in 2013!
Aymi & Laurel


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Jordan is a land steeped in history. It has been home to some of mankind's earliest settlements and villages, and relics of many of the world's great civilizations can still be seen today.
As the crossroads of the Middle East, the lands of Jordan and Palestine have served as a strategic nexus connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Thus, since the dawn of civilization, Jordan's geography has given it an important role to play as a conduit for trade and communications, connecting east and west, north and south. Jordan continues to play this role today.
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The Faculty Services Librarian is the primary contact for faculty members research needs. Visiting faculty and adjunct faculty members may access the same library services as available to full-time faculty members.
Requests from Faculty:
- The Faculty Service Librarian will promptly respond to all library requests from faculty members. The response will attach the requested material, notify the faculty member of the receipt of the request and clarify any questions on the request (i.e. timeframe, delivery preference, clarification, etc.) or schedule a meeting to discuss the request further.
- Research by the Law Library on behalf of faculty members will be limited to academic research related to the scholarship, teaching and administrative responsibilities of UGA faculty members.
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- Library research assistants are available for faculty research requests that are anticipated to take up to 40 hours to complete. Library Research assistants will be made available pursuant to the order that a request is received.
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- The Faculty Services Librarian will annually review the current awareness alerts for each faculty member to determine if any changes need to be made. The Faculty Services Librarian will meet with new faculty members to initially set up alert services.
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(L-R) Katie Zavodny and Hanna Nichols were named to the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) University Division All-State Softball Team.
Liberty senior outfielder Katie Zavodny and junior first baseman Hanna Nichols have been named to the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) University Division All-State Softball Team, as announced Wednesday. Zavodny earned first-team mention, while Nichols was voted to the second team. Zavodny receives all-state honors for the third year in a row, after garnering second-team plaudits in 2012 and 2013, while Nichols appears on the team for the first time. Zavodny is the first Lady Flame since Jessica Moore (2005-07) to be named to the VaSID All-State University Division softball team three straight seasons. Earlier this spring, Zavodny was named to the Big South All-Conference second team, while Nichols received honorable mention from the Big South. A three-time all-conference and all-state selection, and 2013 NFCA All-Region choice, Zavodny hails from Concord, N.C. Zavodny was a catalyst for the Lady Flames' offense again during the 2014 season. She paced Liberty in batting average (.349), hits (66), runs (37), stolen bases (32), triples (3), total bases (83) and multiple-hit games (18). She ranked second in the Big South, with 32 stolen bases in 2014. Zavodny is Liberty's career stolen base leader, finishing second in conference history with 111 career stolen bases. She currently owns or shares six program records. Nichols, a native of Richmond, Va., was one of Liberty's top hitters this season. She hit .289 while finishing third on the team in doubles (6), on-base percentage (.360), home runs (4) and RBIs (18). Nichols recorded eight multiple-hit games, including four hits against UMBC on Feb. 15. She hit a game-winning home run in the eighth inning against Presbyterian College on April 26. Nichols reached base safely in each of the last 10 games of the regular season. Junior catcher Megan Baltzell of Longwood was voted the 2014 VaSID Player of the Year, after receiving Big South Player of the Year honors and NFCA All-Region second team distinction. James Madison, 2014 CAA champion, took home the remaining three major awards. Sophomore pitcher/first baseman Jailyn Ford, the CAA Pitcher of the Year and 2014 NFCA All-America second team selection, was named VaSID Pitcher of the Year for the second year in a row. The Dukes' head coach Mickey Dean was tabbed VaSID Coach of the Year for the second straight year. James Madison outfielder Niki Prince, the 2014 CAA Rookie of the Year, was named VaSID Rookie of the Year.
2014 VaSID All-State University Division Softball Team First Team C - Megan Baltzell, Jr., Longwood 1B – Kayla McNair, Fr., Norfolk State 2B - Kylie McGoldrick, Jr., Virginia Tech SS – Caitlin Sandy, Sr., James Madison 3B – Brooke Blankenship, Jr., George Mason OF – Morgan Boyd, Sr., Norfolk State OF – Tiffany Webb, Sr., George Mason OF – Vanessa Gonzalez, Fr., Virginia Tech OF – Katie Zavodny, Sr., Liberty UT/DP – Jessie Hutchens, Sr., Radford P - Jailyn Ford, So., James Madison P - Heather Kiefer, Jr., James Madison P – Elizabeth McCarthy, Fr., Longwood
Second Team C – Katey Smith, R-So., Virginia Tech 1B – Cassidy Clayton, Sr., James Madison 1B – Hanna Nichols, Jr., Liberty 2B – Danielle Budden, Fr., Hampton SS – Lauren Gaskill, Jr., Virginia Tech 3B - Whitney Williams, So., Norfolk State OF – Amanda Ake, Sr., Virginia Tech OF – Taylor Newton, Fr., James Madison OF – Niki Prince, Fr., James Madison UT/DP – Logan Spaw, Jr., Virginia Tech P – Jailynn Jackson, Jr., Hampton P – Libby Morris, Jr., Longwood P – Jamie Schulle, Sr., Norfolk State
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Is a perfect copy of The David as good as the original, if you think it's the original?
Is the Mona Lisa just a copy of the woman it is a painting of?
Is a memory a copy? What if it's not really a memory? And what if we simply don't know? How does our knowledge—or lack of knowledge—change something?
In Certified Copy, an author, James (William Shimmel), has recently published a book in which he asserts that copies have their own integrity. As proof, if someone doesn't know it is a copy, he is filled with all the same feelings of beauty and artfulness as is the person who looks at the original. In the opening scene, he gives a reading, eagerly (though only briefly) attended by a woman, Elle (Juliette Binoche). What is her interest in him? We wonder.
The thesis seems wrong, maybe even a bit absurd. At one point James looks at a newlywed couple and says they ought to know what lies ahead for them, that their happiness is an illusion they should be disabused of. What is the harm, Ellie asks him. And hasn't he just repudiated the thesis of his book?
Partway through the movie, the two, having traveled to another town to look at a work of art—a copy, naturally—are mistaken for being married to one another by an old woman who runs a café. Elle, does not correct the error. For the rest of the movie, the couple—on their own, far from the café, continue the charade. But what if it isn't a charade? Our understanding of the couple, our feelings for and about them, change depending on whether we think they have just met, or have been married for 15 years.
As far as reality is concerned, it makes all the difference in the world whether they are married or strangers. But this is a movie, a work of art. How we regard (look at) it determines how we regard it (assess it as a work of art). Is a perfect copy of as good as the original, if you regard it that way?


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How to: Register, vote, go absent(ee)
Deadline: 5pm Monday, October 4
Where: Almost anywhere there's a crowd, there will be someone registering voters. By mail is also an option. More traditional spots are the registrars' offices (Charlottesville in the City Hall Annex, Albemarle at the DMV on Pantops).
What to bring: No identification is necessary, but you do need to provide your full legal name, current address, Social Security number, and where you were last registered to vote.
When: Tuesday, November 2, from 6am to 7pm
Where: At your local precinct. For that location, check your voter registration card, or call the registrar offices: Albemarle 951-6758, Charlottesville 970-3250.
What to bring: Proper identification, such as a driver's license– or sign an Affirmation of Identity statement, unless you registered by mail or at an unofficial table. Then ID with your name and address is mandatory.
Deadline: Mailed absentee ballot applications must be received by the Charlottesville registrar by 4:30pm Thursday, October 28, and 5pm that day by the Albemarle registrar. Walk-ins can drop them off until 5pm Saturday, October 30. Ballots must be received no later than 7pm on Election Day.
Where: Applications may be procured from the registrars' offices or online.
What to bring: A good reason for voting absentee, such as being a student, soldier, or business person out of town– or perhaps a prisoner awaiting trial.
No chads will be hanging from Charlottesville's electronic voting machines.


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Saturday, July 2, 2011, begins the month of Sha'ban. Here then is the supplication, or prayer, of the Holy Month of Sha'ban, the famous Munajat-e-Shabanyeh, narrated by the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali:
"In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful"
"Oh God! Send salutation upon Muhammad and His Holy Progeny and since, I beseech You (please) grant my prayer; whenever I cry,- please listen to my cry; whenever I supplicate You please pay attention towards my condition; Because, I have taken refuge in You, am standing before Thy Threshold in a state of grief, entangled with hardships shedding tears, while still remaining hopeful of Your mercy and compassion- Thou are Knowledgeable about my heart; is aware of my needs, knows thoroughly about myself; and there is nothing hidden from You as far as my affairs of this world and next worlds are concerned."
"And whatever I bring upon my tongue to speak about my needs as well as regarding my being hopeful in Thee for my eternal salvation-Thou know every thing about it- Oh my Master! Thou will governs all the hidden and apparent affairs of my life till its very last breath; whatever profit or loss reaches to me, it is from Thee and not from other than Thee- Oh God! If Thou deprive me than who else is there to provide my sustenance ? If Thou make me abject then who else is there to support me? Oh God!! I take refuge in Thee from Thy wrath and the severity of punishment- Oh God! If I don't deserve to receive Your blessing –Thou possesses the decency of bestowing forgiveness upon me with Thy infinite mercy and compassion."
"Oh God! As though I am standing before Thy sacred threshold; my good faith and trust in Thee has already spreaded the shadow of mercy upon my head,- whatever was befitting from Thy magnanimity and benevolence, Thou have done with me accordingly, forgiveness and blessing has surrounded my entire existence- Oh God! If Thou pardon me who else is more befitting than Thee ?"
"And In case my death is near and my deeds did not earn Thy nearness, Then I will present my admittance of sins as a means to receive Thy forgiveness. O God! I do admit that I have oppressed my self: then woe be upon the self: if you do not bestow forgiveness upon him. Oh God ! Thy beneficence and merci surrounded me throughout my living; therefore, do not deprive me from Thy grace in my dying. Oh God! how can I be disappointed from receiving Thy Favors, after death, because during my entire life I have not seen any thing from Thee except compassion ?"
"Oh God! Be my guardian and supervisor over my affairs the way it is befitting of Thee (not what I deserve) pay attention with Thy benevolence and merci towards me -a sinner who has been overtaken completely by his ignorance. Oh God! Indeed thou have covered all my sins in this world; I need their cover-up in the Hereafter much more than the covering of this world, because, Thou were kind and did not expose them to anyone of your descent servants; therefore, on the Day of Judgment do not insult and expose me in front of all the humanity."
"Oh God! Thy mercy and compassion have increased my hopes, because Thy forgiveness is for better than my deeds. Oh God! On the Day when Thou will issue the final verdict for Thy servants, make me happy with Thou countenance. Oh God! I beseech Thou for forgiveness like some one who really is in need of acceptance of his repentance, therefore, accept my excuse, oh Beneficent! Who is besought by the sinners for atonement. Oh my Master! Do not turn down my request; do not deprive me from remaining hopeful of Your forgiveness," through the grace of Thy magnanimity do not cut off any hope and desire.
"Oh God! If thou had the intention of seeing me despised, would never blessed me with Thy guidance; if Thou had intended seeing me contemptible, would not have blessed me with health and happiness. Oh God! I can never believe it that Thou will turn down my request for which I have spent an entire life beseeching Thee for its grant. Oh God! Thou are the only one worthy of praise and adoration -the eternal and continuous praise always increasing and never ending, only if it could receive Thy pleasure and acceptance.
"Oh God! If Thou will remonstrate me for my offenses I will seek refuge in Thy forgiveness," if Thou will take me to task against my sins, I will take Thee to task for Thy forgiveness, if Thou will send me to Hell will inform its inmates that I loved Thee. Oh God! If my deeds are insignificant, but as compared to them my hope and desire in Thy magnanimity and benevolence is too much. Oh God! How can I return deprived and disappointed from Thy magnanimous kingdom, while remaining quite hopeful about Thy compassion and merci, that thou will be kind to me, and would include me among the rescued ones.
"Oh God! I have spend my entire life in ignorance, negligence, and forgetfulness from Thee, wasted my youth drunken into passions being ignorant of Thee. Oh God! I did not awake, because of being too proud to receive Thy forgiveness, and in this manner I followed the path of Your wrath and rage. Oh God! I am your humble servant and son of your servant who is now standing before Thee, pleading for Thy mercy and compassion as a means of my salvation.
"Oh God! I am your servant who has came to Thy threshold as ashamed and apologetic, I seek forgiveness and pardon for all my sins and transgressions, which were committed by me due to my lack of modesty from Thy presence, because bestowing forgiveness is the characteristic of Thy magnanimity. Oh God! I do not have the power of relinquishing sins except that Thou awaken me with love and kindness. Or, if thou desire that I should become the way Thou want me to be,' must be thankful to Thee for spreading Thy compassion and cleansing and purifying my heart from the filthiness of negligence.
"Oh God! With Thy Magnanimity treat me like some one to whom Thou invited -he accepted, and Thou asked him for obedience –he obeyed. Oh near one who is never away from Thy lovers, Oh Beneficent and Merciful who never acts miserly towards those who are hopeful of Thy favors. Oh God! Bless with a heart eager and anxious of Thy nearness, a tongue which should keep itself engaged in sending the words of truth up-ward towards Thee, and an insight which should bring me closer to Thee.
"Oh God! Whoever is known by thee cannot remain un-known; whoever takes refuge in Thee can never be despised, whoever received Thy attention would never become servant of anyone else, whoever followed Thy path become enlightened, whoever sought Thy shelter become secured. And I have taken refuge in Thee, therefore, Oh God! Don't disappoint me from Thy blessings and do not deprive me from receiving Thy grace and favors."
"Oh God! Consider me among Thy favorite saints and bestow upon me the rank of some one who strives to receive Thy love as much as possible. Oh God! Reveal upon me the sweetness and pleasure of engaging into Thy remembrance continuously, bless me with the courage to seek pleasure, victory, and dependence in Thy Sacred Names and Exalted Essence. Oh God! I swear You by Thy Own Exalted Essence and the right which Thou possess over the creation to include me among the obedient ones and bestow upon me a descent position of Your pleasure and consent, because I am totally incompetent and neither can defend my self while encountering an evil nor can increase any profit for myself Oh God! I am a helpless servant and repentant sinner full of defects and faults, therefore, do not include me among those who earned your displeasure and because of their negligence become deprived of Thy forgiveness.
"Oh God! bestow upon me perfect attention towards Thee; open the esoteric eyes of my hearts so that they could witness Thy glory and piercing through the veils of celestial lights may connect them with the Absolute Source of Majesty; let our souls achieve the union with Thy Exalted Holy Essence. Oh God! consider me as some one to whom Thou called he accepted Thy invitation, when Thou paid attention toward him -became infatuated due to Thy glory and splendor and Thou confided in him secretly -he accepted it explicitly.
"Oh God! Don't impose hopelessness and sorrow upon my good expectations towards Thee, do not cut off my hopes from your generosity. Oh God! If my offenses have made me low and abjected before Thee, pardon me for the sake of my reliance and good faith in Thy forgiveness. Oh God ! If my sins have made me distant apart from Thy mercy and compassion, my belief reminds me about Thy magnanimity. Oh God! If ignorance and negligence have caused me to remain unprepared for Thy countenance, Thy bounties and blessings make me aware. Oh God! If Thy wrath and punishment will send me to Hell's fire, Thy generosity and reward have invited me towards the eternal Paradise.
"Oh God! Therefore, whatever I need I beseech Thee; cry and shed tears with hope, desire and anxiety before Thy Holy Threshold; I request Thee to send salutations upon Muhammad and His Holy Progeny; include me among the ones who are busy in Thy remembrance continuously; never break their commitments with Thee; don't forget thanking Thee even for an instant; and don't treat Thy commands lightly."
"Oh God! Enlighten my existence with the illumination of thou Sacred Essence whose cheerfulness and joy is far superior than any other pleasure, so that I become absorbed in Thee completely, getting cut off from others, fearing Thee and paying attention towards Thy commands. Oh Thou possessor of splendor and majesty and salutations of God and lots of greetings be upon Muhammad and his Holy Progeny"
Ya Haqq!
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One year we went out for a meal and instead of bringing along the usual chocolates or wine, I offered the hostess an array of colorful salads. After seeing how muchthey were enjoyed, I thought it would be nice to recreate them. All these salads can be made a day in advance and refrigerated until serving time, making them ideal for a hectic, busy Yom Tov time of year. Besides, it's always nice to have something different and delicious to serve when extra guests and family come over…
Colorful Baby Corn and Pea Salad
Serves 10
Ingredients for salad
3 cans of baby corn, each chopped into small, bite sized pieces
2 cups frozen peas, thawed, NOT boiled
1 medium size Spanish or red onion, sliced into half rings
1 red pepper, diced
1 orange pepper, diced
1 yellow pepper, diced
Ingredients for dressing
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon pepper
In a large bowl combine chopped baby corns and the frozen and thawed peas. (If you are pressed for time, simply rinse the peas for a minute under tap water, using an ordinary sieve. Then drain them briefly and add them in.)
Then add the peppers and red onion.
Pour the dressing ingredients over all and mix well. Place the salad in a covered container and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight. Presents beautifully every time!
Red & Green Cabbage Sala
Serves 8
Ingredients for salad
1 small head red cabbage, shredded (or use a half bag prepared shredded cabbage for each color), about 2 cups of shredded cabbage
2 cups of shredded cabbage
1 carrot, peeled and shredded
1 stalk celery, diced
1 small green apple, diced
1 scallion, diced
1 medium sized firm cucumber, peeled and diced
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup slivered almonds, optional
Ingredients for dressing
3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup light mayonnaise, optional
Place all the shredded and diced vegetables and fruits in a large bowl and toss. Chill the salad in a covered container until serving. In a separate small bowl, mix together the Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar, sugar, parsley, olive oil and mayonnaise. If you prefer the dressing thicker, you can whisk it up in a blender instead of doing it by hand. Directly before serving, drizzle the dressing over the salad, toss it well and serve.
And here's to one more simple yet different salad…
Mushroom and Pepper salad
Serves 6
I'm a real fan of mushrooms in whatever form they come. I made up this recipe years and years ago and somehow never thought to publish it before now. It couldn't be simpler.
Ingredients for salad
1 large can of mushrooms or two smaller cans OR 2 boxes of fresh mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
1 red pepper, diced
1 orange pepper, diced
1 yellow pepper, diced
1-2 scallions, sliced
Ingredient for dressing
1/3 cup canola oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt (you may need more salt if you are using fresh mushrooms, the canned ones have salt already added)
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon dried dill
Just put all the mushrooms and diced vegetables into a large bowl. Add in the dressing ingredients and toss to mix well. Leave it to marinade in the fridge, covered, for several hours or overnight. Serve in a pretty dish and watch your guests enjoy!
If there's anything left over, you can serve it the next day over some shredded lettuce or other greens…
This last recipe is an all time favorite in my family. I got the idea from my mother-in-law, Mrs. Gloria Ansh of Teaneck, NJ. No matter what the age, from two year olds to seniors, this recipe is always a favorite. I enjoy serving it as a second main dish to the Shabbos Chol Hamoed day meal but really, it can be used any time you want a kid friendly recipe that every person at the table will reach for…
Chicken Schnitzelettes
(Well, that's my personal name for them! Others would call them 'nuggets')


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Andrew Devis has been very busy, indeed. Already one of the community's most prolific content creators, Andrew has released a comprehensive Premiere Pro CS6 video tutorial series on the Creative Cow website. Already featuring 75 in-depth video tutorials, the series helps people get started with Premiere Pro CS6, and those that are coming from other applications.
This series is a good introduction to Premiere Pro, and a boon to all those wishing to know more about the application. Thanks to Andrew!
Opening Premiere Pro CS6
Project Panel
Playback Controls
Keyboard Short-cuts
Matched Sequences & Bins
New Items
Importing Assets
Importing PSDs
Timecode & Playhead
Insert & Overwrite Edits
Targeting Tracks
Tools Part 1
Tools Part 2
Tools Part 3: Rate Stretch
Tools Part 4
Trim Monitor
Timeline Trimming
JKL Trimming
Dynamic Trimming
Un-Linking Tracks
Exporting Single Frames
Three & Four Point Editing
Replacing Footage
Track Headers Options
Naming Conventions
Transitions: What, Why, When
Applying Transitions
Audio Transitions
Titles 1: Basic Titles
Titles 2: Formatting Titles
Titles 3: Title Styles
Titles 4: Exporting Titles
Titles 5: Text on Paths
Titles 6: Rolling Titles
Titles 7: Crawling Titles
Titles 8: Creating an Arrow
Project Management
Fixed Effects
Animating Fixed Effects
Picture in Picture Presets
Corner Pin Effect
The Pen Tool
Color 1: Color Correction
Color 2: Color Waveform
Color 3 The Vectorscope
Color 4 RGB Parade
Color 5: Color Cast
Color 6: Output Levels
Color 7: Skin Tones
Color 8: Color Corrector
Color 9: Secondary Color Correction
Color 10: Vignettes 1
Color 11: Vignettes 2
Color 12: Luma Corrector
Color 13: Luma Curve
Color 14: RGB Curves 1
Color 15: RGB Curves 2
Color 16: Levels Effect
Color 17: Day for Night
Color 18: Leave Color Effect
Color 19: Change to Color
Color 20: Blend Modes 1
Color 21: Blend Modes 2: Lens Flare
Color 22: The Filmic Blend Technique
Color 23: Adjustment Layers
Audio 1: Track Types
Audio 2: 5.1 Audio Channel
Audio 3: Clips & Tracks
Audio 4: Clip & Track FX
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Building further excitement in Canada's 150th year, the Maplewish Mosaic is a collaboration between the WAG and TakingITGlobal. We identified 13 youth artists from each province and territory to create art representing their community. When combined, the pieces form a diverse mosaic of the Canada 150 design.
Artists: Yamaan Alsumadi, Chance Angus, Thanda Lwin, Chinodin Neekan, Mesaquin Neekan, Kim Watts (Ontario); Felipe Bonilla (Nova Scotia); Cara Kansala (Newfoundland and Labrador); Ashley Anne Clark (Prince Edward Island); Matt Cardinal (Alberta); Jany Dussault Houle (Quebec); Emma Hassencahl (New Brunswick); Sandeep Johal (British Columbia); Larissa Kitchemonia (Saskatchewan); Rene Marriott (Manitoba); Shelton Nipisar/Cie Taqiasuk (Nunavut); Maya Rosenberg (Yukon); Jasmine Sangris (North West Territories) > More information
Come see the Maplewish Mosaic at the Winnipeg Art Gallery!
On view until October 1, 2017. For more, visit wag.ca
Watch the videos from Jessie, Evin, and Becky!
Watch the final videos for WAG's ART EXPRESS'D/ART EXPRIMÉ Cross-Canada Art Adventure Celebrates Canada 150 Watch Becky Thiessen's video. Watch Evin Collis' video. Watch Jessie Buchanan's...
Concluding ART EXPRESS'D
Wrapping Up ART EXPRESS'D
October 31, 2017
by Stasa Veroukis-Regina
I was sitting on the floor in my office, sorting through all 150 canvasses that were created along the North Route of the ART EXRESS'D and I found two canvasses featuring big red hearts. At that moment I was struck with a deep desire to paint. One canvas was painted in Inuvik, the other in Churchill. I've always had a thing for hearts, so naturally these images struck a chord with me. And then I smiled, thinking "That's exactly what we wanted to accomplish with ART EXPRESS'D – to inspire Canadians to create, to make art, to spark emotion."
I started working on ART EXPRESS'D in late November 2016 – it's been nearly a year and I feel very grateful to have had this opportunity to be the "hub" of this incredible project. It really was incredible! I have many memories from this year, these are just a few of my highlights.
I remember calling Jessie one day to chat about upcoming travel logistics but we ended up chatting about her experiences so far along her travels. She told me how she felt exhilarated bringing painting to the north. Although northern communities are filled with artists, painting is typically under-represented as a medium. She felt energized bringing her workshops to these communities to perhaps inspire others to paint.
I remember when Evin was in Ottawa we were booked at Inspiration Village during the weekend that La Machine turned the streets of Ottawa into a giant puppet theatre. Thousands upon thousands of people lined the streets and Evin was rushed off his feet creating papier mache characters and facilitating stop-motion animation all weekend. In the hubbub though, he managed to take some time to enjoy the theatrics of La Machine and become a spectator himself. He was amazed and inspired – and I couldn't be more pleased that he got a chance to see the spectacle and take part in this once in a lifetime event.
I remember Becky working with children and with Minister Melanie Joly on a hot summer's day at the Forks Parks Canada Place in Winnipeg. She was between stops on her tour and was able to fly back to Winnipeg. When the Minister visited Winnipeg Becky was in town and could run a workshop. Seeing Becky in action and in her element was a real treat for me because I remained in Winnipeg the entire time directing traffic from my office. Becky is a natural teacher and clearly at ease facilitating artmaking with people of all ages. She helped Minister Joly paint her very own stencil and I was able to witness the joy of artmaking.
Were there bumps along the way? Of course. This was a unique project with unique challenges. I was nervous as the launch day approached and each of the containers were on the road en route to the three coasts. Becky, Evin, and Jessie hit the road via planes and cars. Would they reach their destinations on time? (They did). Would the mobile art studios make their way without delay? (There were delays, but the mobile art studios made it to all three coasts for the launch date). I definitely learned a lot along the way. I learned how big Canada really is. I learned it's actually faster to get to Inuvik than it is to St. John's – who knew? Most importantly, though, I learned how helpful people are along the way. I worked with people at 15 different community organizations across the country at galleries, parks, art centres, community halls, theatres, universities, and schools. They were all happy to host our traveling art studios and help coordinate events on the ground. Even when I was not able to be there in person, these individuals took the reins and made sure the events were successful.
There were a lot of people along the way who helped out and I recognize that without them this tour wouldn't have gone very far. Everyone at the venues (our hosts), our sponsors, and of course the team at the WAG. Thank you to all the hosts and teams of people who made each event a success!
Working at the WAG was an amazing opportunity for me, and I thank all the people at the WAG for making ART EXPRESS'D shine. It's been a joy to come to work at the WAG every day, to be surrounded by people passionate about the arts, and who are willing to help out wherever possible.
The WAG's ambitious vision for Canada 150 to turn three sea containers into mobile art studios, pack them up with art supplies, and send them off across Canada with three artists leading the way has now been realized. Now, at the end of the journey, I am happy to say this project accomplished what it set out to do – to bring art to communities across Canada.
Enjoy this photo of me exploring shipping containers last winter.
Artist Jessie Buchanan Reflects on her Completed Cross-Canada Journey
Artist Jessie Buchanan Reflects on her Completed Cross-Canada Journey
October 23, 2017
by Jessie Buchanan
For me, ART EXPRESS'D was connected to the changing landscape of Canada. As a First Nations artist and art therapist, I viewed this project as important because I believe in the power that art has to transcend and unite cultures. Specifically, art creation has been used not only to heal, but has also proved to lend visibility to individual and collective voices. All of the communities I visited were northern Canadian communities, and with our country being the size it is, I think this project is a way for these communities to be heard and represented in the south. So in a way, I view ART EXPRESS'D (and my container exhibit, entitled Voices of the Landscape), as a way to bridge the distance between communities and have new conversations. What I learned from this experience is that no matter where you go in Canada, there are always people who are willing to help. When faced with challenges, I felt very supported by the participants and locals at each stop. I was offered volunteers, help with organizing participants, and even invited over for dinner!
The spirit of Canada 150 was about national pride and transparency, in positive ways and in a spirit of honesty. The celebration of Confederation was received ambiguously in the places I stopped; in many of the indigenous communities I visited I found people had different, sometimes opposing, views of Canada 150. In fact, it is difficult to summarize how people 'as a whole' felt about the 'Canada 150' thing. Generally speaking, everyone I spoke to was very proud to be Canadian, and almost everyone who came out to the workshops was very enthusiastic. At the same time, there was definitely a sense that there were both positives and negatives when considering the past 150 years and how things currently stand in Canada. I was very interested in ART EXPRESS'D being a vehicle for participants to use their voices to represent how they feel about Canada 150, and so some of the artwork is political in nature. With this being said, most participants used the artwork as a way to show pride, regardless of background, social-economic status, or gender. Pride not only in Canada, but also pride of traditional ancestry, lifestyle and connection to the landscape.
There was so much about the journey that was exciting, but I would have to say that being able to travel across northern Canada was the highlight of it all. I realized that there are many similarities between northern communities, (midnight sun, fireweed, short spruce trees or tundra) but also many differences. The differences are interesting to me, and are what kept me excited at each community I visited. For example, I didn't realize there were so many different groups of Inuit people and Indigenous people in the north, who all have their own unique languages and traditions. Getting to meet the wonderful people in each location was something that I will take with me always.
Driving the Dempster highway from Inuvik to Whitehorse with my driver, Kevin, in a 22-wheel semi, pulling the ART EXPRESS'D art studio was one of the biggest highlights for me. The Dempster Highway is a must see because you drive through both the Richardson and Tombstone mountain ranges. We had a blast! When we arrived in Whitehorse the shipping container-transformed-art-studio was a mess! It was completely covered in all the dust and mud from the Dempster Highway. We spent a solid afternoon power washing it before the day of my first workshop at the Yukon Arts Centre. Again, I should say that each of the communities I visited had amazing people who came out and participated in the project. I can't say enough good things about the kind and wise people that I met along the way (and hopefully I will stay in touch with many of them). That's another highlight for me.
There was this sweet, young girl, October, who came out every day in Inuvik. She would ride her bike over and meet me almost every morning (before school— remember, this was the beginning of June), even if it was just to say hi, but she usually wanted to stick around. She did the most beautiful painting of a sunset. For some reason, we just connected. I often wonder what she's up to way up there in
Inuvik, and I hope to see her again someday. In some ways, people like October are one of the main reason I decided to take part in this project: I thought that if I can inspire even one person along the way, then it would be worth it. And the funny thing is that October (and many others along the way) wound up inspiring me in ways I hadn't even anticipated!
This experience has definitely changed my previous perceptions of Canada. I realized how diverse and welcoming our northern neighbours are. In some ways this country is divided between the vast majority to who live in the southern areas, and those whose lives are lived in the immensity of the north. It can be easy to forget both the wisdom and the hardships of living in the north. For many of these communities, what food there is must be flown in or hunted from the land; the prices of 'fresh' produce, or in some cases of accommodations, are extremely high. Also, in many ways our northern neighbours are the people who feel the seismic shifts of a changing climate. I just think it's something that we 'southerners' need to remember: these northern people are up there and they deserve our attention. Before going up on the project I definitely didn't know how much wisdom and beauty and hardship went into life in the north.
I would like to thank the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Government of Canada, for this wonderful, once in a lifetime opportunity. I will always be very grateful for this opportunity as it has forever changed me. There are too many people to name here, but each of the people I met during my journey has made an impact on my life and how I see the world. This country is vast but also full of closeness. We are separated by long distances and yet we rely on each other every day. I feel privileged and honored that I've been able to paint and laugh and learn in places that most people do not get the chance to go. In June, during a CBC interview, I was asked what Canada 150 meant for me. I replied then that Canada 150 was 'truth and reconciliation'. I still feel the same way now: we live in the best country in the world, but in order to make it even better we need to make sure everyone is included as we move forward. We need to be honest about the wounds of the past and the pain of the present, but if we do the hard work, we just might be able to create a future together that brings reconciliation and togetherness. Even though we are all different, we are still one. I feel like northern Canada will always be a place I will return to!
Artist Becky Thiessen Reflects on her Completed Cross-Canada Journey
Artist Becky Thiessen Reflects on her Completed Cross-Canada Journey
October 23, 2017
by Becky Thiessen
Travelling and making art with others, is a dream come true. We have such an interesting country. Such variety in geography and people. I think about all the various places in Canada that I have gone and marvel at the extreme differences in landscapes and weather and waters. I think about this diversity and then I think about the people. We do live in a special place. I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and make art with many Canadians, young and old with so many different stories to tell.
I love when a parent comes with their child and initially think that the art making is for the kids. My goal in my workshops, is to engage everyone. I always encourage the parents to participate and not just with the child, but on their own as well. Many adults have lost that excitement with art making, and I love bringing it back to them. I designed my art project to be very accessible. I adapt it so that the very little can participate, the people with mobility issues, the older people and the ones who haven't touched paint since grade 3. We all started to draw before we learned our letters and numbers, and I think that people can find their drawing skills again as an adult. My project also engages the most technically skilled, it is a process where anyone, if they want, can participate with success.
I have many stories to share. I have a collection of stencils and each one of them has reminds me of the different people I met along the way. The stencils pay it forward to the next community. In Alert Bay a soon-to-be mom, was making a stencil of a butterfly. She told me that she comes from the butterfly clan and wanted to make a baby bag with a butterfly stencil. That stencil then travelled with me to many other places and used many times over. In Notre Dame-de-Lourdes a young woman, who was also pregnant, was drawn to that butterfly stencil and started using it, I was so thrilled to tell her where it came from and who made it. A little girl on her tenth birthday came and made art with men Saskatoon, she was a little bit apprehensive about the project. She drew a puppy and I cut it into a stencil. That stencil became one of the most popular stencils. I got to meet up with her later and tell her, that her art inspired so many others. It was so fun when two teenage boys wandered into my workshop in Lethbridge and ended up staying for hours.
I had so many joys working with people, teaching them a technique that they might never have known before. It really can be such a joy when the art under the stencil is revealed, so much cheering and laughter. I had a great time sharing my art with so many Canadians. I want art to be accessible and I want people to explore and learn new things and have confidence in themselves to create.
The more I travel Canada and meet others living in this country, the more excited I am to learn about my country and the people who live here.


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Tokyo 2011: Alpina B6 Bi-Turbo, B3 GT3 Unveiled
It may yet be some time before the next-generation BMW M6 arrives on the scene, but German BMW tuner Alpina may have given us the next best thing when the firm unveiled its B6 Bi-Turbo convertible at this year's Frankfurt show. Today, Alpina debuted the coupe version of that car at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, along with a limited-edition B3 GT3 - not based on the new 2012 3 Series like you might expect, but rather a race car tribute built around the previous-gen E92 model.
The B6 Bi-Turbo Coupe, much like its drop-top sister car, is powered by a version of the standard 650i's twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 massaged to the tune of 540 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque. To achieve this, Alpina upsized the exhaust turbines of the turbochargers to deliver more power over a broad rpm range. The B6 puts that power down to the pavement with the help of an eight-speed Switch-Tronic automatic transmission designed by ZF. This gearbox was designed for comfortable cruising, but can also bang out crisp shifts when switched to Sport Shift Mode. Alpina claims the whole package is good for zero to 62 mph in 4.4 seconds and a top speed of 197 mph.
The other Alpina making its debut in Japan is the B3 GT3, a limited-edition 3 Series variant commemorating Alpina's return to motorsports and recent win in the German GT3 Series. You might think Alpina would want to celebrate its victory by releasing a special version of the car it won with, the B6 GT3, but the firm instead decided to outfit 99 previous-generation 3 Series models with racing-inspired goodies. The B3 GT3 gets the same unique green-and-blue paint scheme used for the brand's racing livery, along with the tuner's characteristic multi-spoke alloy wheels. The familiar twin-turbo 3.0-liter I-6 found in the standard 335i is tuned to 408 hp and 398 lb-ft of torque in the B3 GT3. A six-speed automatic transmission transmits that power, while upgraded brakes help stop the race car look-alike. The interior is outfitted with Recaro front bucket seats and an Alcantara-upholstered sport steering wheel. Alpina claims the car can hit a top speed of 186 mph, and can accelerate to 62 mph from a standstill in 4.6 seconds.
For the complete story on the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, be sure to click over to Automobile's Tokyo Motor Show home page, with all the latest photos, information, and much more on all things Tokyo.
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Camilo José Vergara, the photographer who took the picture that graces this cover of HUMANITIES magazine, has been documenting the shifting fortunes of American cities for decades. (See also page 27 for time-lapse images from the same location.) He is one of twelve individuals to receive the National Humanities Medal in July. His painstaking work suggests that an awareness of the passing world brings with it a duty to consider, to take note, and also to praise or lament.
This year's class of humanities medalists is notable both for what they have absorbed from the history of their time and earlier periods, but also for their contributions to how others have understood the world around them. They are twelve of our best, and as this issue with a special section devoted to their works goes to press, the White House prepares to honor them.
Honor of a different sort shaped the violent life and times of William Goebel, onetime governor of Kentucky and victim of an assassin's bullet. Marianne Walker tells us this little-known story, relying, in part, on contemporaneous accounts available through Chronicling America, which brings together efforts in thirty-two states to digitize historic newspapers dating back to the early nineteenth century. Funded and supported by NEH and the Library of Congress, it promises to help us rediscover many neglected events and figures of American history.
If you, like most people, assume that only in the past fifteen or so years did humanities scholars become seriously invested in digital projects, this issue will gently correct that misimpression. In a groundbreaking report on the use of computers by bibliographers and literary scholars in the 1960s, Meredith Hindley shows how machines came to replace certain varieties of textual drudgery and even helped solve some long-standing mysteries of authorship. And we learn that NEH was an enthusiastic champion of such projects from the very beginning.
Before recently stepping down from the chairmanship of NEH, Jim Leach interviewed this year's Jefferson Lecturer, filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The result is a broad and enlightening conversation about Scorsese's upbringing, what he saw when he watched On the Waterfront, and how music inspires his imagination.
Until a new chairman is approved by Congress, Carole Watson will be NEH's acting chairman, as she was before Jim Leach was appointed.


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Apple Needs an Old-School Beat
There are plenty of people who claim to know what kind of financials to expect from Apple when it reports earnings this afternoon, but the truth is, no one has any idea.
Analyst estimates for Apple's fiscal first-quarter earnings run the gamut from a low of $11.53 a share to a high of $15.50 a share. Sure, consensus is $13.47 per share, but the variance between low and high estimates is vast. Depending on whom you ask, Apple is either going to blow the quarter out, or flat-out blow it. It might post a 12 percent year-over-year increase in earnings. Or it might post a 14 percent decline. Consensus calls for a 3 percent decline, but that's just an average of what is obviously some pretty broadly distributed guesswork. Further complicating matters: In the year-ago quarter, there were 14 weeks; this time, there were 13.
So Apple's earnings report today is likely its most pivotal in years. Certainly, it's among the most highly anticipated.
If Apple does post a decline in profit, it will be the first such drop in a decade. And that could exacerbate fears that the pace of Apple's growth is slowing, and that waning demand for the iPhone and iPad really is the reason the company has reportedly been curtailing purchases of some components. Apple's shares have dropped almost 30 percent on such unease since hitting a closing high of $702.10 in September.
If Apple doesn't post that expected decline in profit, those fears won't simply evaporate. Concerns that the high-end smartphone market that the company has dominated is nearing maturation, and that new products like the iPad mini are eating into Apple's historically high profit margins will persist. But the immediate concerns that have been weighing on its shares will likely ease a bit.
When it last reported earnings, Apple said that, for its first quarter, which ended in December, it expected to report $52 billion in revenue and earnings of $11.75 a share. It's a safe bet that the company will beat its own guidance. But that's not going to be enough for the Street. It never is. For Apple to restore investor confidence, at least in the near term, it has got to substantially beat Wall Street's expectations. That means coming in well above the $13.45 per share consensus.
"Investors are worried about iPhone demand, iPad mix, Mac sales and most importantly margins," BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk told AllThingsD. "What we need now is an old-school Apple beat on top line, and margins that will make people forget about the March quarter and the rest of 2013 — at least for a few days."
Apple reports results this afternoon after market close.


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Nancy Reagan tripped and fell Tuesday night during an event at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley.
As the former First Lady was escorted to her seat, she appeared to have lost her balance and fell down. The crowd gasped, but Marco Rubio (R.-Fla) and others helped her get to her seat.
Reagan Library spokeswoman Melissa Giller told NBC4 Mrs. Reagan remained at the event and was not injured. Giller said the room was packed and Mrs. Reagan apparently tripped on a post used for crowd control.
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Hey! Remember me? I'm still alive and blogging! I've been pouring all of my energies into the blog and online store for NataMari Design's, our textile design business. Yep, the day is here and our online shop is now open and the blog is alive and kicking.
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Hopefully it hasn't escaped your attention that The Nation's Favourite, Radio 1, has reached something of a milestone. Forty years in the business, the BBC's premier pop station is marking its anniversary with a mildly irritating Est 1967 campaign. But while listener figures fluctuate from show to show and presenters come and go for reasons often uncertain, what we want to know is: what does Radio 1 mean to you today, and is it, as Colin Murray reckons, "the world's greatest radio station".
"We're here for anyone who enjoys great music" proclaims the station's website; of course, such a statement is entirely subjective, as great music can be measured a variety of ways: creativity, talent, appeal, units sold. The latter factor seems more and more influential at Radio 1, with Private Eye recently commenting that daytime presenter Jo Whiley is no longer carrying the standard 'In New Music We Trust', but 'The Station That Isn't Afraid To Try Popular New Things'. See recent playlist additions from the likes of Kate Nash and The Twang: both new acts, sure, but certain to achieve a decent enough level of popular success (i.e. sales) because of the team behind the scenes.
Whiley leads us onto the age issue at Radio 1: as the old guard shuffled out of the building what seems like way back when – no more DLT, no more Tony Blackburn (ousted, coincidentally, at the ripe old age of 40), a new dawn was promised. Yet here we are again, force-fed the latest substandard drivel dressed up as "my favourite band of this minute, right now, that a major label is backing" by a woman beyond Blackburn's departure age. Oh, and then there's the whole staged phone call thing that's recently emerged (see today's newspapers): while it's wrong to linger on Whiley's role at Radio 1, and her descent from Evening Session days to a role as stooge for the nation's larger labels, when was the last time an indie act 'proper' made her show? Peter Björn and John? A year too late.
Whiley's slide from respected broadcaster of taste and influence to a voiceover for some shit-awful album littering the stationary aisle of your local Tesco Metro is, perhaps, indicative of Radio 1's failing profile in a market populated by niche digital channels. 6Music was only last night awarded the gong for Best Digital Radio Station at the BT DMAs (DiS left with nothing – perhaps we should have paid for a table?), with drive-time presenter Steve Lamacq simply stating afterwards, "We're really chuffed". Lamacq is a Radio 1 old boy – schooled in music journalism – whose stint on the Evening Session made him a household name amongst folk like myself; he was a conduit to be respected, much like the late John Peel, and remains just that. Whiley, his former co-host? Well…
Don't linger on Whiley… Zane Lowe, enthusiastic soul though he is, misfires wildly so far as quality control figures; he, like Whiley, seems to set out to please everyone on his playlist, to tick as many boxes in as little time as possible. While his scattershot hyping is endearing to a degree, his delivery grates awfully given sufficient exposure. That was never the case with Peel or Lamacq, and recently Colin Murray proved himself to be quite the adept host too – likeable while his former co-presenter Edith Bowman slowly became one of those awful parasites of the industry, like Lauren Laverne although, mercifully, not so over exposed.
Of course, new blood is being injected into Radio 1 as you read this: new shows, reshuffled times, presenters so Hip and Cool that the likes of myself have no idea who they are. Kissy Sell Out? Who dat? Huw Stephens is settling nicely into some sort of Peel mould, and for every Vernon Kaye there is, still, someone like Mary Ann Hobbs. Thank Christ. And Rob da Bank's still in there… somewhere. Not that schedulers seem to care anymore for these pure souls – hidden away in the middle of the night, alone save for nocturnal types craving satisfaction beyond the mundanity of the mainstream.
So, what does Radio 1 mean to you as it turns 40? Is it the place you turn to for the best new music, or is its mission statement – to provide this service, to trust in new music – somewhat wide of the actual mark? Do you have favourite hosts on the station, and are they part of the furniture or brand new additions? With so many digital radio stations and podcasts around, can Radio 1 compete for the distant future? Are DiS readers bound to be of the opinion that Radio 1 is far from the force it reckons itself to be, or are the Whileys of this world – plague though they most certainly are – the true tastemakers in an industry seemingly preoccupied with quick results and returns over artist development and longevity? Just how much do you miss John Peel, even now…?
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Forgive me, Mother Earth, for I have sinned. In these busy weeks of summer with grandkids and their friends raiding the fridge and cupboards, our recycling efforts took a downturn. There were times, I admit, I held in my hands a plastic bottle or cardboard box and knew I should walk to the recycling bin in the garage but, in a rush to clean up, tossed it in the nearest wastebasket.
It's no wonder every garbage day we were lugging three or four big black plastic bags, plus a garbage can, to the curb.
But then two things happened to straighten me out. The city of Rockford dropped off a bright blue recycling barrel, almost as big as a standard garbage can. About the same time, I happened to see a memo sent to Rockford Park District workers by Brandon Larson, building and facility supervisor. He suggested they hide their trash cans for a day and see how much of what they normally throw away could be recycled.
Re-inspired, I led the troops in a recycling campaign. I reminded them of what can be recycled, including things once forbidden like Styrofoam, spray cans, and those little gum wrappers they leave around the house.
That week we carried to the curb one garbage can barely more than half full and one packed-to-the-gills recycling can. I was so surprised I thought perhaps it was just a strange week for disposables in the Nikolai household. But the next week, the same thing happened.
Wow — for the little effort it took to recycle all that could be recycled, we saved money by not using black garbage bags, we avoided the yuckiness of garbage bags setting in the garage for days, and we helped Mother Earth.
Now, if only someone invented a kitchen trash container with space for garbage and recyclables, we would be set. So far, we are saving the recyclables in a separate waste basket.
Builders ought to consider this when designing kitchens. I think every new home ought to have a built-in bin for trash, recyclables and, maybe, even compost material.
If you have a handy way to separate and handle household trash, let me know at the email address below and I will share the tip.
Garden tours
Today is the last day of Wild Ones' free tour of gardens which attract birds and beneficial insects, including the declining Monarch butterflies. The nine sites, open from 1 to 5 p.m., are: 9293 Easton View Court, Midway Village Museum, 3218 Redhawk Trail, 3038 Bildahl St., and 4411 Dorset Drive, all in Rockford; 7777 Shaw Road in Belvidere; 720 N. Center St. in Rockton; NorthPointe at 5605 Rockton Road in Roscoe; and 14197 White School Road in South Beloit.
Geri Nikolai writes about home, nature and gardens for the Rockford Register Star. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or 815-871-6850.


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Mercs booting me out of missions
MechVM - A MechWarrior 2 remake.
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I recently just moved to a new desktop computer instead of a laptop and I reinstalled MechVM and Mech2, GBL, and Mercs. Mech2 and GBL work just fine and I just recently got Mercs working except for the fact that it will sometimes just boot me out of a mission with the music still playing. Any ideas?
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Fresh off the completion of its acquisition of Lifestyle Family Fitness, LA Fitness remains active in the building and remodeling of clubs across the country.
The Irvine, CA-based company announced it is remodeling 10 clubs in the San Diego area. LA Fitness says it is spending more than $5 million on the renovations.
"San Diego has always been a great market for our clubs, and the community has been incredibly supportive with our growth," Bill Horner, senior vice president and chief real estate officer of LA Fitness, said in a statement. "Members of these clubs will have access to other clubs in the area so that they do not experience an interruption in their normal routine."
One LA Fitness club in Encinitas, CA, has already been remodeled. The majority of the renovations will take place next month. Those clubs typically will be closed about four days before reopening.
LA Fitness also is building four new clubs in upstate New York, the Henrietta (NY) Post reported. The Henrietta, Irondequoit, Buffalo and Clarence clubs are expected to be completed by early next year, the newspaper reported.
Last Friday, LA Fitness announced it had completed its acquisition of the 32nd and final Lifestyle Family Fitness club in the Hyde Park section of Tampa, FL. The completion of the purchase of the Lifestyle clubs was announced on July 2, but negotiations continued between the two companies involving the Hyde Park club.


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Dinner Tonight: Zucchini Galette Recipe
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Another week, another baked egg dish. Nothing makes me happier then picking off a few slices and stashing the rest for a quick breakfast for the next morning. I found the recipe in the Provence Cookbook, which features gloriously sun-drenched recipes that makes me wish I could hop over for a Mediterranean weekend. I figured this recipe for galette, which is a kind of flat baked dish, would be a decent alternative.
Of course, the element that initially jumped out at me was the curry powder, which seemed utterly out of place. Luckily, the curry powder doesn't dominate the dish, it just imbues it with a mysterious lingering spice. What really makes this dish interesting is the zucchini, which lends a sweetness and lightness to each bite. The recipe also recommends some optional fresh tomato poured on top. Luckily, I had some left over. It adds another dimension to the dish, but is not absolutely necessary.
- 1 pound zucchini (about 4 medium), trimmed
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, grated
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- fresh tomato sauce (optional)
- olive oil
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Meanwhile, grate the zucchini. Toss in a colander, sprinkle 1 teaspoon of the salt on top. Let the zucchini drain for about 30 minutes. Then run the zucchini under the faucet for a few seconds, to rinse off the salt. Dry the zucchini with a towel.
Whisk together the eggs in a large bowl. Add the bread crumbs, cheese, curry powder, and the rest of the salt. Dump in the dried zucchini. Stir everything until combined.
Pour the mixture into a 10 1/2 inch baking dish rubbed with oil. Pat the mixture down with the back of a spatula, until it is flat and smooth. Transfer to the oven and cook for 15 minutes. Remove, let cool for a few minutes, and then slice and serve with fresh tomato sauce poured on top, if you so choose.
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In previous columns I introduced a number of topics related to the concepts of heritage planning, and in my last posting dated March 23, I wrote about how to foster healthy family dynamics. In this posting I will focus on the importanance of openly discussing money matters with children (view all eight postings to date on the concept of Heritage Planning on this AdvisorOne home page).
It is critical that children begin to discuss financial matters at an adult-to-adult level with their parents. Developing and establishing a Family Bank is one of the keys to accomplishing this. The process of building a functional multigenerational Family Council that actively mentors subsequent generations and brings them into the leadership fold will promote the long-term success of a multigenerational strategy for fostering family unity and growth.
Failure to openly discuss money matters with children is one of the greatest predictors of family disharmony and affluenza—a dysfunctional relationship with money or the pursuit of money. How many of you have ever witnessed someone receiving an inheritance or winning the lottery, only to be left with nothing soon thereafter?
The cure for this problem is the ongoing implementation of pre-inheritance experiences. The Family Bank is the best vehicle for ensuring that this process is intentionally integrated into a family's heritage planning.
Each Family Bank is different, and serves the unique needs of the family for which it is created. That said, there are a number of elements and concepts that universally apply. To address the issue I'll be calling upon the work of Jerry Garrett and John Unice of the Orem, Utah-based Keeler Thomas, Inc. Garrett and Unice are leaders in the field of heritage planning, and they have paved the way in helping to streamline the process of setting up a Family Bank.
According to Garrett and Unice, there are three distinct stages of Family Bank Development:
- Capital Accumulation
- Family Advancement
- Legacy Participation
Each stage has specific goals. During the Capital Accumulation phase, for instance, the goal is to set in place the necessary training, Bank procedures, reporting systems, and Council regulations in preparation for Bank activities. It is also the time for concentrating effort on development and accumulation of Bank assets prior to major disbursements.
The Family Advancement phase is the time and process during and through which the activities of the Bank are turned toward disbursements that are aligned with and/or fulfill the family development objectives that were initially outlined in the family's Heritage Statement.
Finally, the Legacy Participation phase acknowledges and acts upon the role of mentoring and training the upcoming generations to be prepared to continue the mission of the Family Bank and broader integration with the concept of facilitating a transfer of authority and leadership from G1 (Generation 1 = Parents) to G2 (Generation 2 = Siblings) to G3 (Generation 3 = Grandchildren and nephews and nieces) and beyond. Garrett and Unice have given each of these three phases much thoughtful treatment. In my next column I will follow up on each of them with more depth and engagement.
There are a number of issues that those who are setting up a Family Bank must address. One issue that needs to be addressed during the setup of a Family Bank is the organization of the Bank's Investment Committee. In addition, a determination needs to be made and put in place regarding cash balance fund requirements. It is also normal for the Committee to draft an Investment Policy Statement to assist in effectively supervising, monitoring and evaluating the management of the Family Bank. Guidelines need to be developed to ensure that bank assets are used in ways that promote the development of the family for current and succeeding generations, especially regarding the establishment of approved lending purposes, requirements for family members to borrow funds, creation of standard terms, documentation and the lending approval process.
Provisions also need to be made regarding the ongoing responsibilities of the Investment Committee, especially as it pertains to Committee development and maintenance; qualifications for use of Family Bank income; and ongoing Committee fiduciary responsibility.
It might sound like a lot of work. By many measures, it is a lot of work. f course, no one ever suggested that building a successful multigenerational family and team would be easy. In my next column I will endeavor to suffuse each of these topics and areas with more clarifying light.
Heritage Planning Month
The month of May is designated "Heritage Planning Month." Around the nation, events will be held to introduce Heritage Planning and its benefits to professional advisors, families and non-profit organizations.
If you are interested in learning more about Heritage Planning and how it can be of benefit in your financial planning practice, please watch the live webinar presented by the CEO of The Heritage Institute on May 16 from 10:30am to noon CST. In addition, Heritage professionals will be hosting a series of local events nationwide to inform advisors and the public on Heritage Planning.


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text: Capriles demands investigation into the shooting that killed two opposition politicians and one supporter [EPA]A third opposition supporter has died from a shooting at a rally this weekend, that was the worst violence of Venezuela's volatile election campaign, presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said."We are going to defeat violence in Venezuela," Capriles told a rally in Caracas on Sunday, after confirming the third fatality in the confrontation at an opposition event in Barinas state on Saturday.Capriles demanded an investigation into the fatal shooting that killed two opposition politicians from Capriles' party, Primero Justicia (First Justice), and one supporter.The gunman reportedly started shooting during an argument which broke out after a group of Chavez's supporters blocked a campaign caravan. The government of President Hugo Chavez, who is seeking re-election, confirmed the deaths and vowed the perpetrators would be brought to justice. Tareck El Aissami, the interior minister, said the shooting happened when loyalists of both candidates faced off on a road between the communities of Barinas and Barinitas, about 450km southwest of Caracas, but he did not say anything about the dead men's political affiliation. Opposition politician Julio Cesar Reyes said a group of Chavez supporters blocked a motorcade of Capriles backers and people on both sides were arguing when a man appeared with a gun and started shooting. The interior minister said police were still investigating. Venezuela is awash with guns, and violent crime is frequently cited as voters' main concern. There had been shootings and fistfights in previous opposition rallies as "Chavistas" and Capriles' supporters clashed, but no deaths. "This tragedy gives us more strength and faith to fight for a Venezuela where justice and non-violence reign," Primero Justicia said in a statement on Saturday. One of the victims was from its party and another from Accion Democratica (Democratic Action), it said. Primero Justicia said that witnesses identified the offending vehicle as belonging to state oil company PDVSA or the local mayor's office. It also said another two people were injured and there were six arrests after the attack on the motorcade, but this account was not confirmed by police or other authorities. Tight presidential race Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Chavez showed off new infrastructure projects in Caracas, while Capriles accused him of wasting Venezuela's money on foreign allies. With polls inconclusive, both men are wooing undecided voters in what looks likely to be the tightest presidential election of the charismatic socialist leader's 14-year rule. Despite two bouts of cancer since mid-2011, Chavez, 58, has declared himself completely cured and is trying to recapture some of his old panache and energy to win a new six-year term. On Saturday, he inaugurated a monorail, then inspected extensions to the subway system, and a cable car in poor areas of Caracas typical of his power base. The projects cost a combined $2.5bn. "We are not thinking about making money. That's the difference with capitalism," Chavez said in Petare, one of the largest slums in Latin America. "The loser will have to go to the moon and see if he can govern a rock there because here the bourgeoisie are never coming back," Chavez quipped of Capriles, whom he portrays as representing a heartless, right-wing elite. Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor who has a centrist political vision and sees Brazil's mix of free-market economics and strong welfare polices as his model, has been crisscrossing Venezuela all year in an exhausting campaign. Addressing thousands in Falcon state, in west Venezuela, Capriles accused Chavez of making false promises to the public, while squandering oil revenues on foreign allies. "The government prefers to build a refinery in Nicaragua, or send oil and worry about power cuts in Cuba, but it doesn't care about blackouts here in Falcon," he said. Of the six or so best-known pollsters in Venezuela, a majority put Chavez ahead, but they also show Capriles creeping up in recent weeks, and two put him just ahead. Venezuelans are transfixed by the race, but also nervous of possible violence if the result is close and disputed. SOURCE: Agencies Politics Latin America Brazil Cuba Nicaragua


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Berkery Noyes Releases Media and Marketing Industry M&A Report For Full Year 2012
NEW YORK — January 7, 2013 — Berkery Noyes, an independent mid-market investment bank, has released its full year 2012 mergers and acquisitions trend report for the Media and Marketing Industry. The report analyzes M&A activity in the Media and Marketing Industry during 2012 and compares it with data covering 2010 and 2011.
Berkery Noyes' research showed that deal volume increased three percent on a year-to-year basis, from 1,570 transactions to 1,611 transactions, and rose 22 percent relative to 2010. Aggregate transaction value showed a gain of 17 percent, from $65.41 billion in 2011 to $76.23 billion in 2012. The median revenue multiple declined from 1.8x to 1.3x, while the median EBITDA multiple fell from 9.8x to 7.5x. Strategic acquirers represented 87 percent of the Media and Marketing Industry's deal volume, which was the same percentage as in 2011.
Transaction volume specifically within the Exhibitions, Conferences, and Seminars segment increased 82 percent compared to 2011. The most active segment acquirer during the three years covered in the report was United Business Media Limited (UBM) with 27 transactions. In addition, financial sponsors accounted for 18 transactions in the segment in 2012, as opposed to eight transactions in 2011. This represented 22 percent of the segment's 2012 volume, a slight uptick from 18 percent the prior year.
M&A activity in the Entertainment Content segment improved 18 percent from 2011 to 2012. This was driven in part by film studio related transactions, which increased 42 percent throughout the last twelve months. On a similar note, The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm for $4.10 billion in 2012 was the highest value Entertainment deal contained in the report.
The most active 2012 acquirer in the overall Media and Marketing Industry was WPP Group. WPP's largest transaction was its announced acquisition of AKQA, a digital agency headquartered in San Francisco, for $540 million. Aside from this deal, most of its targets were either digital marketing startups or international companies.
The number of transactions within the Marketing segment, at 504, remained nearly constant from 2010 to 2011. The digital marketing subsector specifically increased 34 percent, from 172 to 230. As for the Internet Media segment, there were four deals that reached the $1 billion threshold in enterprise value, compared to just one in 2011. Therefore, although transaction volume in the segment was down 10 percent, the segment's transaction value rose 81 percent. One of the largest Internet Media transactions in 2012 was Permira's acquisition of Ancestry.com, a portfolio company of Spectrum Equity, for $1.44 billion in the fourth quarter.
Deal volume in the Consumer Publishing segment rose 20 percent over the last twelve months. However, the segment's value fell 38 percent, indicating a greater number of small and mid-sized acquisitions. M&A activity in the B2B segment increased four percent during the same timeframe, with a median revenue multiple of 2.0x and a median EBITDA multiple of 9.0x. This was well above the overall industry's median enterprise value multiples for the year.
"The ongoing trend toward non-print based delivery has led to changing business models in some instances," said Kathleen Thomas, Managing Director at Berkery Noyes. "This includes many along the spectrum from recurring revenue offerings to purely advertising based revenue ones. Nonetheless, strong original content is still king in the B2B marketplace, regardless of the delivery mechanism."
A copy of the MEDIA AND MARKETING INDUSTRY M&A REPORT FOR FULL YEAR 2012 is available at the Berkery Noyes website.
Berkery Noyes specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory, debt and equity financing, and financial consulting services for companies in the $10 million to $500 million range, a market that is enjoying a surge in activity. The firm's research teams publish acquisition activity in the respective sectors they follow on MandAsoft.com.
About Berkery Noyes
Berkery Noyes is an independent investment banking advisory firm servicing the information industry. Since its founding by Joseph W. Berkery in 1983, the firm has worked with corporate clients to grow through acquisition, divest non-core assets, and maximize shareholder returns through strategic transactions and restructurings. For private owners, Berkery Noyes helps create liquidity and execute timely exit strategies that achieve their personal and professional objectives. Securities services are offered through Berkery Noyes Securities, LLC.
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Ordering our outrage
It has been difficult to avoid succumbing to the atmosphere of anger and despair that has developed in the wake of the havoc wreaked by Typhoon Yolanda, internationally known as Typhoon Haiyan, especially when, by most accounts, relief and rescue operations led by the present administration have been and continue to be slow while thousands of people starve, sicken, suffer, and die in the devastated areas of Visayas. The frustration and resentment have been particularly pronounced among users of social media, who, prior to the current crisis, had already been up in arms for weeks on end over the Priority Assistance Development Fund (PDAF) scam involving several legislators and its most prominent—thus, most hated—face, businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, and had more recently been in anguish because of the effects of the 7.2–magnitude earthquake that had hit Bohol, Cebu, and their neighboring provinces.
Even after we had heard from our relatives in Kalibo, Aklan, which, though not as badly ravaged as other places, has certainly seen its share of death and destruction, I continue to feel weighed down by elemental helplessness, and it has been tempting to yield to the impulse to contribute to the rapidly rising tide of recriminations that I have observed among my colleagues, friends, and other contacts. There can, after all, be no denying that the response to Yolanda so far signals immense, perhaps criminal, failures on the part of the government, both at the local and national levels, in terms of disaster risk reduction, mitigation, and management, and therefore scrutiny and censure are more than called for. (In line with this, I would particularly like to know whether charges of treason would prosper against local officials who, despite being safe and sound, chose not to reach out to their constituents, but to ensconce themselves in Manila and issue statements to the press.)
The problem with social media, however, is that it can perpetuate a vicious cycle of validation rather than allow for catharsis: when we vent in Twitter, Facebook, or similar platforms, there is a distinct possibility that our fury and despondency may not drain away to create a space for clear, intelligent thought, or convert itself into energy for deliberate, effective action. Instead, it may simply go round and round and round, accumulating intensity and power while destroying our ability to ask ourselves what has so provoked our emotions and to consider if our reactions are still commensurate to the matter at hand. I do not wish to suggest that indignation cannot be productive—a cursory survey of our history as a people would prove otherwise quite easily—but any expression of such ought, I believe, to be accompanied by a strong sense of proportion, of responsibility: the best instances of criticism contain within them not only an invitation to dialogue, but also a commitment to it. Engaging in vituperation helps nothing and no one, as this reduces us to mere cogs in a mindless machine of rage.
If we are to converse on Yolanda and its aftermath in a manner that is meaningful and can lead to vastly improved disaster response in the future, I suggest that we begin with the following considerations:
First: Yolanda was one of the most powerful typhoons in the recorded history of the world—the fourth strongest, in fact, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii. While the Philippines is battered by about 15 to 20 typhoons each year, it does not seem reasonable to suggest that this has given us sufficient experience to face a monstrous weather event like Yolanda, which had one-minute sustained winds of 315 km/h, a speed that would enable one to traverse a traffic-free EDSA from end to end in less than five minutes. Prior to November 8, when it first made landfall in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, it is difficult to imagine any individual or institution being able to extrapolate from available data and set a baseline for preparations that would be good enough. How does one prepare a nation for a natural disaster of this magnitude?
The initial plans that had been made—and it must be acknowledged that plans were in place—were based on assumptions that Yolanda, precisely because it was so unprecedented, easily blasted, ripped apart and destroyed. The excruciatingly sluggish pace of the response is not necessarily a function of ineptitude, but it is definitely a function of lack of information: how can one plan when one does not know the reality on the ground? And how can one know what is out there when communication lines, roads, bridges, seaports, and airports are out of commission, wrecked, or otherwise unusable owing to safety and security concerns? Such situation has begun to be addressed, but repair and recovery work takes time. Anecdotal information may come in from several sources, but these reports still need to be collated, arranged, and made sense of from a broader perspective to facilitate the conduct of aid that is as efficient as can be, in light of prevailing constraints.
Second: Much of the rage that I have seen (hardly representative, admittedly) appears to be based on the heavily sensationalized—or, to use John Crowley's term, "catastrophized"—stories and images of agony that the media, especially parachute journalists like CNN celebrity anchor Anderson Cooper, can capture: as of this writing, various news entities have collectively served up seven days of post-apocalyptic poverty porn for the combination of the 24-hour news cycle and Web 2.0 that has proven so menacing to journalism and so soporific to the general public. The latter was something that cultural critic Neil Postman had warned about as early as 1985, in his book against television, Amusing Ourselves to Death:
In both oral and typographic cultures, information derives its importance from the possibilities of action. Of course, in any communication environment, input (what one is informed about) always exceeds output (the possibilities of action based on information). But the situation created by telegraphy, then exacerbated by later technologies, made the relationship between information and action both abstract and remote. For the first time in human history, people were faced with the problem of information glut, which means that simultaneously they were faced with the problem of a diminished social and political potency.
Cooper et al. may not be malicious—a contentious point that I will leave on the table for now—but that does not mean they are not guilty of imperial and imperious condescension: a number of commentaries, academic and popular, have underscored the problematic, even racist, rhetoric of Western media when their reporters cover Third World events, as in the case of the 2010 earthquake that struck the Carribean nation of Haiti. Here, for instance, is Rebecca Solnit on the coverage of that specific tragedy:
The belief that people in disaster (particularly poor and nonwhite people) are cattle or animals or just crazy and untrustworthy regularly justifies spending far too much energy and far too many resources on control — the American military calls it "security" — rather than relief. A British-accented voiceover on CNN calls people sprinting to where supplies are being dumped from a helicopter a "stampede" and adds that this delivery "risks sparking chaos." The chaos already exists, and you can't blame it on these people desperate for food and water. Or you can, and in doing so help convince your audience that they're unworthy and untrustworthy.
As well, it may be useful to remember that no less than the United States of America hardly seemed like the global superpower it styles itself to be following Hurricane Katrina, as evidenced by this timeline, or by this clip, in which Cooper interviews Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu:
(None of the foregoing, by the way, should not be understood as a tacit defense of broadcaster Korina Sanchez, who I understand has been pitted against Cooper in many discussions given her reaction to the coverage of CNN. As far as I am concerned, Sanchez, given that she is the wife of Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, should not be associated with any outfit that purports to report news.)
Third: Whenever we are moved to slam the government, we must remind ourselves that "government" is not a faceless, monolithic entity or an arena populated entirely by corrupt, greedy, and incompetent officials who are hell-bent on looking after their interests, preserving their prerogatives, and perpetuating their political careers at the expense of lives.
The government is also made up of the tired, hungry, overworked, and utterly courageous police officers, soldiers, doctors, nurses, drivers, pilots, clerks, technicians, engineers, and aid workers who are contributing to the relief effort. The government is also made made up of people who have lost their possessions, their homes, their relatives, and their friends to Yolanda, and yet they are out there in Eastern Visayas, sifting through the ruins of various cities, towns, and barangays, to save who and what they can. The government is also made up of people who need to know that we completely support what they are doing, and that our appreciation and gratitude for their vital work are boundless.
Finally, the government is also made up of us—we who are, in ways large and small, inextricably bound to and complicit with the system as it exists, and if said system needs to be renovated, refurbished, or razed to the ground so as to establish a better one, then this could be the moment to seize and to shape, not by way of ire-driven status updates, but by sustained, collaborative action beyond the screen, in the real world for which the digital one, for all its attractions, will always be a poor substitute.
(This has been cross-posted from Random Salt.)


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Why doesn't the episode show that there were six separate days of creation?
God's wonderful creative acts were shown briefly in an overview. Time limitations prevented us from showing the days of creation in more detail.
Before Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, why didn't the lion attack the people or animals?
Before Adam and Eve sinned, the Garden of Eden was an unspoiled paradise. God had given Adam and Eve dominion over the earth, and animals did not attack people. Many Bible scholars believe that before Adam and Eve sinned, all animals were vegetarians.
In the battle that was shown, why was Michael's sword flaming?
We used creative license to show Michael with a flaming sword that is reminiscent of the flaming sword that kept Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. The Bible records, After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life (Genesis 3:24 NLT).
Why is Satan shown as Lucifer during the rebellion in heaven?
Many Bible scholars believe that Satan used to be a mighty angel called Lucifer. But when He rebelled against God, he became corrupted and evil. The Bible tells us, How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! (Isaiah 14:12 NKJV).
Who were the bad angels?
The evil angels were the ones that Satan convinced to join his rebellion and be part of his demonic army. This is symbolically referred to in the book of Revelation, with Satan referred to as a dragon and the angels referred to as stars of heaven: And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth (Revelation 12:3-4 NKJV).
What happens to the angels when they are struck in battle and disappear?
We used creative liberty to depict the battle between good angels and fallen angels. When an angel is struck down, it can no longer fight in the battle.
Why did Lucifer change in form to be so ugly? Doesn't he come "as an angel of light" to deceive us?
Lucifer's change in appearance was an outward reflection of how he had corrupted himself and become evil. On the other hand, he can try to deceive people by disguising himself as a good angel. The Bible tell us about Satan's deception when it says, But I am not surprised! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14 NLT).
Was it Jesus or God the Father who walked in the Garden of Eden?
God was the one walking majestically through the garden. We depicted Him as radiant and divine, and we showed Him exercising miraculous power. The Bible reveals that the Creator really did walk in the midst of His creation: And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden (Genesis 3:8 NKJV).