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Senegal volunteer's library appeal
Former Senegal volunteer Erin O'Quinn has been back in the US for over a year now, but she definitely hasn't forgotten the children who made such an impression on her during her Care & Community placement.
Erin is planning a return trip to Senegal in December to visit her host family and old friends but, following a recent moment of inspiration, she now has a more ambitious plan too. As Erin says, "I found a French Picture dictionary around my house the other day, and it got me thinking about how few books I saw in Senegal my whole time there."
Books and reading materials are expensive and hard to come by in much of Africa, with many poor or illiterate parents unable to afford the sacrifices that would be required to buy books for their children. Some kindergartens in St Louis (Projects Abroad's base in Senegal) even keep the few books they do have safely out of sight in the principal's office, as they are thought to be too precious for the children to touch!
Erin is now planning to use her trip to establish a small library of books in French that can be accessed by local children and used by volunteers to promote reading in local schools and kindergartens. Doing a little research on Amazon.com, Erin says she was "really excited when I found that they have classics like Goodnight Moon, The Giving Tree and lots of others translated into French. They also have lots of used books in French, some as cheap as $.03!" She has now set up a wish-list at http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/3IKZ8258D0VUW, featuring a broad selection of books for different age groups. Anybody wishing to support her project can view the list and purchase a book to contribute. All the books that are bought will be shipped out to Senegal in October, and Erin will travel there herself in mid-December to collect them and set up a borrowing system.
Erin is a student at the University of North Carolina, from where we recruit several volunteers each summer for our Senegal programmes, and she intends to continue developing her initiative through them, sending out additional books each year.
"Many thanks in advance to all who support Erin in this worthwhile scheme!"


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I come to you asking for prayers, healing thoughts, and positive energy for my beloved husband, Jim, the worlds most wonderful Dad.
Jim has a 2 1/2 inch mass on his left lung, lower lobe. Following a CT scan last week, Jim met with our pulmonologist (he treated Michael during his final illness and has treated Jon several times in ICU). He told Jim that he believes that the mass is cancerous.
On Friday, 1/13, Jim will have a needle biopsy of the mass, performed at our hospital. If all goes well, he will return home in the afternoon, and I will provide his care. If there are complications, Jim will be in the finest hospital in our area, with state of the art technology.
Were trying to process all of this, which seems sudden but was expected in some ways, given Jims symptoms. We did our best to prepare for this diagnosis, while keeping our prayers on the answer being anything else other than cancer.
Since you dont know Jim, let me share a few things about him with you.
Jim and I met when Jim arrived as Michaels school bus driver in 1992. We became friends. We fell in love. We married. Weve been together for 25 years this year, and during that time, we have only been apart for 5 days, when he returned to England for his mothers funeral in 1999.
Jim is a devoted dad, and he has provided every kind of care to Michael and Jon, he has been at their bedside in the hospital with every crisis, throughout the night. He isnt afraid to do anything ~ suction, change a trache in an emergency, whatever is needed, hes there and ready to do it. He always remains calm and collected, helping me to do the same.
Within a couple of minutes of being in the presence of Jim and Jon, you will know how much they adore each other. Jims illness will impact Jon severely, and we need to protect him as much as possible from this stress.
Jim has served Jon and Michael, me, our family, our friends, strangers ~ he is gentle, loving, caring, compassionate person. And he has a fantastic sense of humor. He is British.
I cant be in two places at once, of course, so we have to rely on our dearest friends to help us through this crisis. There are many things to consider, and my mind is spinning constantly thinking of what we need to do and when we can get it done.
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As the release date for game developer Crispy's Tokyo Jungle approaches, more details of the game have been released. The latest info is survival points and a costume feature.
Survival points, as they are aptly named, are obtained by surviving the environment. How long your animal avatar has survived, how many calories they've consumed, how many times they've leveled up, and how many times they've procreated and moved on to the next generation, invading territory, and completing challenges all help to increase survival points which can be used to unlock more playable animals and to purchase costumes.
While the obvious question is why one needs animals to dress up in a survival game, images released show that different costumes provide different merits and minuses for the animals that are wearing them to increase their survivability, although, it's hard to see the survivability merits of a cow wearing a schoolgirl's outfit… There's one panty shot I DON'T want to see.
Tokyo Jungle will be released in Japan on June 7th.
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Country music's favorite fiery redhead is back to host the 2019 ACM Awards.
Reba McEntire will return to emcee the 2019 ACM awards. The entertainment icon shared her excitement around hosting the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas saying, "On my way to Vegas! So excited to be back hosting the 54th @acmawards on CBS, Sunday, April 7. #ACMawards"
The video clip that Reba shared on socials is typical of her comedy laden antics. "I'm on my way to Vegas to host the Academy of Country Music Awards," says the redhead as she walks along an abandoned desert highway. The camera pans out and exposes a moving sidewalk and soundstage. "You didn't really think I was walking, did ya?" she quips.
Reba is a natural host and a one-woman show, making her the perfect choice for such a prestigious honor. As a 16-time ACM winner herself, Reba cites hosting the ACMS as a highlight and is eager to return. The "Fancy" singer, has also become a brilliant asset to the 'CMA Country Christmas' taping and has acted as host for two seasons.
Reba may have other news to share with fans today. She has also been cryptically teasing new music that is expected today (Feb. 11th). Reba shared a post on Instagram with the caption, "What's #StrongerThanTheTruth? I'll let you know on Monday." Could it finally be the album that she had teased last year?
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Around this time of year, my Twitter feed explodes with things like, "Eco-friendly tree decorations!" and "Greenest stocking stuffers!" and "How to make eco-friendly tinsel out of Capri-Sun wrappers!" It's all well-intentioned (or mostly; some of it is still trying to sell you stuff you don't need and will never want), but at the same time, I have to wonder: how green can you really make the highest-impact, most wasteful holiday of the year by replacing things you don't need with slightly lower impact versions of things you don't need?
Uh. Sorry. I think my Grinch is showing. But tongue firmly in cheek, I came up with a list of revised suggestions for a [more] eco-responsible[-ish] holiday. You know, for grouchpuss greenies. Extreme? Nah…
- Be poor if you can possibly help it. (And if you can't, I have to think that you're not trying hard enough.) Poverty is the single best way to cut down on decorations, gift-giving, traveling, and impulsive holiday buys, like the bouncy inflatable Santa my neighbors down the street have. I'm finding that it also forces me to be more creative. Instead of buying stuff this year, I'm reusing, doing without, or coming up with creative workarounds and unusual presents (dress altering services, anyone?). Also, I hope you really, really like my pottery.
- Stop traveling to see people you don't like. Sharing DNA is not a good reason to spend your time or your carbon dioxide on people you can't stand. I don't recommend this as a networking strategy, but it works amazingly well if you want some extra time and peace for the holidays. And in the same vein:
- Stop buying presents for people you don't like. With regards to the people we don't know well or like much, yet still feel obliged toward…can't we just come to a non-gift agreement already? A plate of cookies and a card, maybe? A handshake to imply goodwill without the transfer of material goods?
- Put off inessentials until the last minute. If you've waited till now to get up your Christmas lights, you might as well not do it at all because it's so much effort for a two week show. I've had finals up until yesterday, so I've been putting off everything, with the end result that I am not likely to bake cookies, write cards, or make a mix CD this year. It's okay. Every couple years is fine.
- Try a non-meat-based holiday dinner. Taste-wise, Tofurky is somewhere between a rubber tire and a salt lick. But if you're already feeling glutted (Thanksgiving was only a month ago) or guilty about the impact of your holiday ham, there are lots of tasty, meatless, or low-meat alternative holiday dinners. How about pumpkin and sage pot pies? A mushroom and tarragon pate? I have my eye on a couple of veggie holiday recipes to try this year.
- Draw a line between doing things out of tradition and doing things that are meaningful to you. As the daughter of an angry ex-Catholic schoolgirl mother and a vaguely Confucian father, I can't say that my family ever went all out for Christmas. But we did do the tree, the presents, the holiday ham. As a tree lover, I can't bear the thought of cutting down a live tree just for decoration. As a tree hugger, I can't see myself getting a fake tree. And as a vegetarian, I'm not about to go for the Christmas ham. So that leaves presents (but not many of them, because I'm poor), which I genuinely enjoy taking the time to choose or make, wrap, and give. Kevin and I also like to go for a drive in the redwoods on Christmas day, which isn't very green, but has become a tradition that we're willing to swap out others for.
My bottom line is the same as it usually is. Cut out the stuff that doesn't actively, actually make you happy. Enjoy the stuff that does. And don't let social expectations bully you into doing otherwise. Happy non-denominational winter holiday of choice!
I'm off school until the end of January, which is exciting because chemistry gobbled up all my brain bandwidth and left me gibbering about acid-base equilibria and stoichiometry and volumetric flasks. (You know this if you follow me on Twitter.) I have a few posts that I just haven't had the brain space to write, so I'll get those up and catch up with your blogs and resume normal functions until the next semester starts. Hope you've been well!


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Buenos Aires based artist Laura Guarie is my latest inspiration source, with her retro collages blended with graphic illustrations influenced by European history, art, architecture and design. Still a graphic design student, Laura's work has been featured on a lot of major design websites and magazines. There's even an awesome tattoo design in there somewhere, her lines are so on point.


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You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'Chew' tag.
The holiday season is an awful time to blog, unless your blogging is about Christmas or the holiday's. This season can also be a difficult one for picking up and reading your comics every Wednesday, but there is good news. The holiday's are over; mine were great, how were yours? I have also caught up on all my comic book reading.
I read some pretty great comics over the past month. Most of my weeks have been fairly big with the exception of this week, which was just two comics. Instead of doing a best and worst of each week I have missed, I'll just be doing the best from each week. However, I'll add some comments about other comics too.
December 22, 2010:
My pick for this week went to a series I just began to pick up in issues after reading the first three trades. Chew #16 opens up with some background on the chicken prohibition: where and when it began, but we still don't know the what and the why. We also get a new type of, what I am going to call, food power. We get a character who actually gets smarter when he eats. Layman uses this issue though to demonstrate to his readers how one of these food powers can cause problems for it's user. The story, as always, is a crazy ride where you're not sure what's going to happen, and this is one of the things I love about this book and another series I gave my pick to, and will talk about later. What we often see in a story can be predictable, which most times is a result of the genre it is placed it, as it follows certain beats and formulas; think CSI. Chew is a book that uses a number of genres and formulas, but uses them to it's advantage, not only by using one formula instead of another or turning a genre staple on its head, but by also having a very different premises gives way to an unpredictability. I can't forget to talk about the art and story telling of Rob Guillory. This man packs so much into his panel that forces you to read this book in a few ways. You can read it through fast or slow, or multiple times, and each time you will notice something different. A great example of this is the first couple pages of this issue where we see the progress of Mother Cluckers chicken from opening day to it's eventual closing. Each panel offers lots of easter eggs, but more importantly tells a story about the declining mom and pop operations and the rise of the corporate world. these were pages I kept going back too. This series is one of my favourites right now, because it's different, and it's not super heroes, a genre I am slowly getting sick of, save for a few books.
December 29, 2010:
This week's pick for best comic goes to SHIELD #5, a Marvel book set in the world of superheroes but isn't about superheroes. What' so inventive about this book is that actual historical figures such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Nostradamus and a few surprising others are responsible for the creation and maintaining of SHIELD, the world's defence against anything that threatens it. More so, it re writes the histories of some Marvel characters, most predominately Howard Stark and Nathan Richards, the fathers of Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic respectively. This issue had some Kirby like flavour to it, lots of technologies introduced that seem far beyond the time period of the 60s, but presented, and drawn by Dustin Weaver, in fantastic ways, much like Kirby did in the 60s and 70s with books like the Fantastic Four and his creation of the New Gods. This tech is very different from Kirby's, but its extravagance is very similar; this is a great way of making the technology used look fresh, but dated not only to today, but the time period it's presented in. Also the big reveal and cliffhanger demonstrates the lengths and the thought put into the ideas of Jonathan Hickman, who, as with his other boo, the Fantastic Four, is creating a larger story, but re-building a part of the Marvel Universe. The only downfall of this book, and it is not much of a down fall at all, is that tis book is bi monthly, and we won't see it until late February. The wait at this point has been well worth it.
I'd also like to point out quickly the final issue of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's mini series Nemesis. I picked up this book on its concept, what if Batman became the Joker, and while this is an interesting one, a guy as smart as Batman, who plans for everything, have the mind of the Joker; it's a scary thought. This book however was terrible, with unnecessary acts of violence, inappropriate twists and an ending that made a mockery of its self. I really love some of Millar's work because he really does look at the larger aspects of society and how we are shaped by them, but this was just useless action and a reason to bring up some dumb ideas.
January 5, 2011:
Until this week I was collecting three Avengers titles: Secret, Young and Prime. This week I picked up two of these books, my favourite, Young Avengers: Children's Crusade and my least favourite, and the book that ended this week: Avengers Prime. These two books had similar beats, which included a big action scene, and were beautifully drawn by a guy who has been around for awhile (Alan Davis on Prime) and a guy who's been around for a few years (Jimmy Cheung on Young). The characterization and story however were opposite ends of the good/bad spectrum. Avengers Prime was to be the book that reconciled Thor, Steve Rogers and Tony Stark after so many years apart. It was also be the story that transitioned from Siege to Heroic Age. Unfortunately, due to timing and an emphasis and humour, Avengers Prime did not do its job well. The series started out very strong, but once it started ignoring continuity in other books, conversations about who slept with who, and Steve Roger turning into Captain Kirk, the book became less about the reconciliation of these three friends (which does occur but in an unsatisfying manner) and more about, well I'm not sure really. On the other hand, Alan Hienberg (yes of OC fame) crafts a story full of characterization, fantastic dialogue, an intriguing twist and a great surprise. for me, this has been the most Avengers-like book I have read. This issue does answer some questions about the whereabouts of the Wanda Maximoff, but it also leaves some to be answered later, and with five issues to go, it's hard to say where this book is going to go, and that's a good thing. The only weak characterization in this book so far has been Wolverine. This issue was his best so far, but ultimately he is being used for a particular purpose, which I don't mind since he is in a dozen other books. I made Young Avengers my pick of the week because it was able to give you a lot without overcrowding the characters or the story, and the cliffhanger was great. These books are bi monthly as well; it hurt Prime, but Young's quality is benefitted from this scheduling. I can;t wait to see what ramifications this book will have on the rest of the Marvel Universe.
Side note, Superboy #3 came out this week, and because I picked up this weeks comics a week later, I missed out on it, which was okay for me, because after two issues I decided a superman in high school story is not what I wanted. Sorry Jeff Lemire, I loved you Essex County, but your Superboy is not for me.
January 12, 2011:
After this paragraph, I will be caught up on my picks. This week was small; one DC book and one Marvel book. the problem is, I loved both of these books, so it was very hard to choose. Ultimately I went with THUNDER Agents #3 because it is paced, characterized, drawn and plotted unlike most of the books I read. Now I realize I have given this book my PoW for best book every time I read it, but it really is something different, and lately, different has been winning out for me. With this issue we are introduced to N0Man, a Dr. Manhattan type hero, who was one of the original THUNDER Agents, who gets called back to duty. What we also get is a little more history of the older THUNDER Agents, and this is provided by the love him or hate him artist Howard Chakyin. His past NoMan pages really emphasizes two things: the past, which is important to this story, it almost seems like Chakyin is used to represent a story that was told in another book, almost like using older footage from a TV show in a later season. the other emphasis Chakyin gives the reader is the deterioration of NoMan's ability to feel. He becomes emotionless, and is really brought out in the darken sockets of NoMans eyes, all while surrounded by slightly cartoonish figures. This is a great way to visually show the readers so they do not have to be specifically told. Kudos to who ever's idea this was.
The other book I picked up was Amazing Spider-Man #651. Dan Slott has really re-invented Peter Parker. Not only does the finally to hist first arc Big Time have some modern silver age lining, it lets Peter has a life he has wanted to live without feeling to forced. You know that Peter will always get the short end of the stick, but this time when it comes, I think he will tackle this challenge in a completely different way then he used to. Slott also has this great way of making old ideas seem new, but natural at the same time. The next arc is a different, but similar artist, which has me excited to read it, plus very happy that I can read a Spider-Man books again.
I hope to get back to some articles this week or next. I am currently working on the second part of my "Can Superman be Modern" series, which is yielding some interesting thoughts on Superman's future.
It's Monday, so that means it's time to look at what I'm getting from my LCS. As always, I pull my comics at iFanboy, and you should too, it's a really great site.
What's big this week? Not too much. I'm probably mostly excited for THUNDER Agents #2. I have another two DC books out this week too, Flash #7 (didn't number 6 just come out?) and Superboy #2. I really enjoyed Lemire and Gallo's first issue, but I will be giving them a couple more issues to really wow me in order for me to stay.
I have only one Marvel book this week; Thor #618. This series is starting to let me down, and that mostly has to do with the story, a story I have no idea where it's going, and that's not a good thing. The Pasquel Ferry art is what's keeping me here for now. It has some great scope, and lots of clean lines.
I've read the first two volumes of Layman and Guillory's Chew, and have been loving it so far. It's really a crazy book with awesome art and crazy ideas. I'll be picking up the third volume with the rest of my comics.
P.S. I want to thank the great response to my Aquaman article, especially the guys over at Aquaman Shrine for linking Panel Flow!


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Following In His Footsteps
As Father's Day approaches, and those long warm days outdoors, here's a "card" that your child can make to last for years and years. Using a few simple materials from your local craft store, you can create an artistic garden stepping stone that shows your appreciation for Dad.
All year round, you can let Dad know that you're literally "following" in his footsteps! If your Dad is no longer here, it makes a wonderful memorial stone for your garden.
What You Need:
1 5-lb. bag of dry cement, available in craft or hardware stores
1 cement mold (you can find plastic ones in many shapes at a craft store, or just use a sturdy corrugated cardboard base from a large pizza box, reinforced at the seams with a little duct tape!)
Wooden paint stick for stirring
Plastic bucket
Chopstick or bamboo skewer for marking words in concrete
Broken tile and/or round colored glass pieces (available at craft stores or, if you ask, at hardware or tile stores)
What You Do:
Find a sunny, protected part of your back yard where it's OK to mess around. Then, prepare your stepping stone "mold." If you're using a plastic piece (available inexpensively at many craft stores), just place it on a level surface. If you're making your own, cut off the bottom of a sturdy, corrugated pizza box, and reinforce corners and open edges with a little duct tape.
Following the directions on your concrete package carefully, pour the concrete powder into your plastic bucket, and then add the amount of water required on package directions. Immediately begin mixing everything together with your mixing stick. Don't be surprised if it thickens pretty quickly, and feels stiff. You don't want concrete to get too runny!
As soon as water and powder are all mixed together, pour the mixture all at once into the mold. Tap the mold lightly to help the concrete settle evenly and to pop out any air bubbles. As the mixture evens out, make sure you rinse your plastic bucket thoroughly. Once the concrete dries, it's going to be much more difficult to clean up!
At this point, your stepping stone is ready for the best part: decoration! Give your child a chopstick or bamboo skewer, and invite her to scratch out a message for Dad, along with the date of Father's Day this year. Then encourage her to break out her creative energies with tile and glass pieces! To mark this moment in your child's life, you might have her (and other siblings) to press hands or feet into the concrete, and surround them with jewels; or you can arrange tile pieces into a flower, star, or tree design.
Your concrete may seem to dry fast, but do beware: it's not going to be fully ready until it has sat in a dry, sunny place for at least 2 days. When it has dried all the way, it will naturally pull away from the edges of the mold, and it will pop out easily. Present it with pride on Father's Day—and enjoy it in your garden for years to come.
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Nature and Science
December 2016
"Like all words, time has boundaries, by which I don't mean hard and impenetrable shells but porous edges."
~ from James Gleick's
Time Travel: A History
Recent Releases
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and The Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh
For acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh, who describes his ancestors (hailing from what is now Bangladesh) as "ecological refugees long before the term was invented," climate change is personal. In this passionate, issue-oriented account, Ghosh characterizes our collective response to the crisis as a failure of imagination. He also makes a case for art, particularly literature, as a means of addressing the subject in a world that largely lacks the political will to acknowledge or act on the threat that climate change poses to humanity.
Time Travel: A History
James Gleick
As he did in
The Information
, popular science writer James Gleick weaves together literature, science, and philosophy in this fascinating exploration of time travel in popular culture. Beginning with H.G. Wells' 1895 novel
The Time Machine
, which Gleick describes as an attempt to "gin up a plausible-sounding plot device for a piece of fantastic storytelling," the book examines fictional time travel in the context of its scientific underpinnings. From going back in time to prevent one's own birth to creating alternate timelines, no plot device or paradox goes unexamined in this concise and accessible, yet intellectually wide-ranging discussion.
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes
From the stately specimens that grace the National Mall to the scrappy sapling of
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
, trees have always played an important role in American life. "Critical to public and individual health," according to author Jill Jonnes, urban trees improve air quality, absorb excess rainwater and surface runoff, and save energy as well as inspiring and uplifting a city's human inhabitants. Spotlighting notable tree enthusiasts, such as Philadelphian William Hamilton (who introduced the gingko to the U.S.), Jonnes also examines threats, past and present, to urban canopies. Readers who enjoy this book may also like Peter Wohlleben's
The Hidden Life of Trees
or Eric Rutkow's
American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
This biography of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, the first such account in English, recounts the Italian-born Fermi's life from his upbringing in Rome to his flight to the U.S. in the 1930s (spurred by the rise of Fascism) and subsequent involvement in the Manhattan Project. Emphasizing his unusual facility in both theoretical and experimental physics, the book also explores his scientific contributions to areas such as statistical mechanics, nuclear physics, and quantum theory. For an examination of Fermi's wartime work, try Richard Rhodes' sweeping history
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
or Brian
VanDeMark's group biography
Pandora's Keepers
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott
Three astrophysicists join forces to present this accessible introduction to the cosmos, based on an introductory astronomy course they co-taught at Princeton University. Aimed at general readers, this book begins with an overview of the universe, examining its composition and structure, before tackling the
physics of multiverses, superstring theory, M-theory, and more. For big ideas in a compact and digestible format, look no further than
Welcome to the Universe
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Eugenia Cheng
If you dread math, this book might just change your mind. Armed with a seemingly infinite supply of logic, enthusiasm, and baking tips, math professor Eugenia Cheng explains how mathematicians think by focusing on category theory, which she dubs "the mathematics of mathematics." Employing a blend of accessible lessons, personal anecdotes, and tasty recipes to introduce concepts such as abstraction and
axiomatization, Cheng also emphasizes the underlying mathematical mindset that uses logic to discover truth.
This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth? From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets...
Patrick Di Justo
Have you ever wondered what's in eggnog? Steak sauce? Chewing gum? For journalist Patrick Di Justo, it was a can of Easy Cheese that sent him a nearly decade-long quest to find out exactly what ingredients comprise the food products we eat. Based on
s popular column "What's Inside," this eye-opening book is the result of in-depth research and interviews with CEOs and PR departments as well as scientists, government officials, and lawyers. As a bonus, it also examines the composition of everyday products that we don't (or at least shouldn't) consume, including household cleaners and illegal drugs.
To Eat: A Country Life
Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd
Don't worry, you're not the only one who doesn't quite know what to do with chard. Nevertheless, with more than 40 years of gardening and culinary experience, authors Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have a lot of good ideas to share. In this book, the couple -- who in 1974 moved to southern Vermont to start a farm on 28 acres of wilderness -- shares what they've learned from a lifetime of growing and cooking their own food. Divided into short thematic chapters, the book also includes charming black-and-white illustrations as well as recipes by chef and restauranteur
Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta
Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat
John McQuaid
The tongue has one job: "to distinguish food from everything else." However, the process though which we determine what's edible is complicated, requiring an understanding of, among other areas, microbiology, genetics, and neuroscience. It also requires cleansing one's mental palate by, for example, discarding that diagram of the tongue depicting four distinct regions dedicated to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter flavors (which has no scientific basis) and accepting that, to a large extent, taste is hereditary. If you've ever wondered why and how we eat what we eat, check out
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach
Can your stomach really burst? And why doesn't it digest itself? As she's proven in previous books, including
, science writer Mary Roach isn't squeamish when it comes to the physiology or functions of the human body. In addition to exploring the science of the digestive system, she also debunks myths and misconceptions including flammable farts and the possibility of surviving being swallowed by a whale. And as a bonus, you'll be able to impress your friends with all kinds of trivia ranging from explosive colonoscopies (France, 1977) to slang terms describing the act of concealing contraband in one's rectum ("keistering," "hooped," and "prison wallet" are but a few examples).
Contact your librarian for more great books!
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By Mac Almedia from Maddie Day's Murder on Cape Cod.
Hey, everybody. I'm Mackenzie, but you can call me Mac. I'm so excited to tell you we finally have a December 18 release date for my new series - and it's a cozy mystery featuring a cozy mystery book group! That's right, the Cozy Capers read one cozy mystery a week. We meet and talk about the book, plus taste at least one of the recipes from it (if it doesn't include recipes, we make another food that's mentioned in the story).
Things got complicated last June, though, when I literally tripped across a body on my way home from book group. It was a foggy Cape Cod evening and...well, here's what happened.
Now I found the turn from the bike trail to the pathway that cut up to Main Street. Near the end of the path a hedge of scrubby coastal Rosa Rugosa separated the walkway from my postage stamp of a yard. The fragrant scent from the just-blooming native shrub mixed with the salt air and reminded me of my childhood here on the Cape. I slowed as I rounded a bend. I was scanning through the mist for the opening that would let me through the wall of roses when I tripped.
The obstacle in my path, oddly both soft and solid, was a sizable one. I yelled, arms windmilling like in a vintage cartoon. The air gave me nothing to grab hold of and I landed on my hands and elbows. I glanced down and back to see my knees resting on…Jake.
"Gah!" I shrieked and scrambled forward off of him. I crouched in place, my heart beating like the timpani in the Cape Symphony. Jake lay on his front with his head half-turned toward me, lips pulled back in a grimace, eyes unblinking.
I'd been publicly arguing with Jake earlier in the day, and later my brother became a prime suspect. Everybody in the book group pitched in to try to find the killer before someone else in Westham became the victim.
Readers: What's your favorite waterfront getaway?
My author wants to give one of you an advance copy of the book, so be sure you leave your email address! If you don't win, you can preorder it from Barnes & Noble - they have a print exclusive on Murder on Cape Cod for the first year, but if you're a Kindle user, you'll be able to buy it in 2020.
Maddie Day creates the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. As Edith Maxwell, this Macavity- and Agatha-nominated author writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and award-winning short crime fiction.
Maxwell is President of Sisters in Crime New England. She lives north of Boston with her beau and two cats, and blogs here and with the other Wicked Cozy Authors. You can find her on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, and at her web site, edithmaxwell.com.


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Three good reasons to visit the galleries at University of Richmond Museums -
Jeremy Drummond - His show will close October 9th. I missed the talk, I bet it was good.
Fiona Ross - Her opening is TOMORROW NIGHT!!! I screwed up, sorry for the late notice! All photographs I have seen of her ceramic work on the internet DO NOT look nearly as interesting as the work is in real life. I was just admiring one last week at Rentz Gallery.
Hans Friedrich Grohs - This opening is tomorrow night too!! I think I am going to really enjoy these.
All three of these shows look good, the openings for Ross and Grohs are tomorrow night, Tuesday, from 6pm - 730pm. University of Richmond openings usually have lots of good food, maybe they will tomorrow too!!!


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Bear Grylls Ultimate Fixed Blade Knife
The Ultimate Knife is the pinnacle of Gerber's Bear Grylls Survival Series. Intricately designed by Gerber and Bear, it's loaded with innovations that won't be found in any other fixed blade knife. Like everything in the Survival Series, it also includes Bear's Priorities of Survival pocket guide.
- Open length: 10.0"
- Blade Length: 4.8"
- Weight: (with sheath): 14.7oz.
- Weight (no sheath): 11.2oz.
- Knife Features:
- ½ Serrated High Carbon Stainless Steel Drop Point Blade - Ideal for edge retention and cutting rope
- Ergonomic Textured Rubber Grip - Maximizes comfort and reduces slippage
- Stainless Steel Pommel - At base of handle for hammering
- Emergency Whistle - Integrated into lanyard cord
- Sheath Features:
- Fire Starter - Ferrocerium rod locks into sheath, striker notch incorporated into back of knife blade
- Nylon Sheath - Lightweight, military-grade, mildew resistant
- Land to air rescue instructions
- Diamond Sharpener - Integrated into sheath for on-the-go sharpening
- Priorities of Survival - Pocket guide contains Bear's survival essentials
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It's healthy that political conversation on education has focused on the question of how to get rid of bad teachers. But that conversation has failed to tackle one big point: where will high-quality replacements come from?
It's not clear, given the troubles with teacher training programs. Camille Esch, a leading California thinker on education (full disclosure: she runs an education program at the New America Foundation, where I'm a fellow), takes a hard look at teacher training programs and suggests some smart ways to improve them. Here's her piece from today's LA Times.


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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Daring Bakers: Sourdough Starter Bread
I began to bake bread quite frequently after I purchased The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart. It's a fabulous bread baking book. I use it every month, at least, but have never used sourdough starters. They kind of grossed me out. I mean, really, flour and water fermenting for days..or years..to get a rise out of bread? Kind of ishy, I thought.
To get a sourdough to ferment I needed a warm space, which is difficult in December in Minnesota. 86F is ideal. My house is never 86F, even in August. I mixed up 1/3 cup of rye flour and 3 T of water to begin this science project and placed the tupperware container in Troy's bathroom, near the vent. Troy's bathroom doesn't have any window, no drafts so it is about the warmest place in the house during the winter months.
Each morning I added 1/3 c of rye flour + 3T of water and mixed, watching for life. Eventually I did find a few bubbles and my mixture smelled yeasty. Tyler arrived home for the Christmas Holiday and asked what in the world was that bubbly smelly stuff in his bathroom? I knew it was finally ready!
It just seemed so strange to me that I wasn't using yeast in this bread. The sourdough starter creates it's own yeast from the bacteria floating around my house, apparently. Interesting.
I wasn't completely into this experiment until I watched my bread rise in the oven today. Yeah, the bakers are correct, sourdough does create it's own yeast. What a concept, hu? I didn't use all of the starter so now the remainder just hangs out until I decide to make another sourdough bread, which will probably be next week!
Here is my creation! Not too bad for a first time, if I do say so myself. Doesn't it look light, for a rye flour? I thought it would be a dark bread, like a pumpernickel. I was wrong. I really do love to bake breads. Thank you to Jessica to giving me the nudge I needed to try a sourdough. I no longer this of it as a gross science project :)
Be sure to visit Jessica for the complete recipe and details.
4 comments:
- Jenni said...
Fantastic job!! Your first ever sourdough loaf looks beautiful, so you must be a natural! I love my sourdough starter!!
- SteveQ said...
That's a fine looking first loaf! The dark rye breads usually have molasses for coloring.
For your upcoming birthday, would you like my recipe for Canelake's "Hot Air?" It took 4 tries, but I perfected it.
- Julie B said...
Thanks Jenni! It is pretty, isn't it? I was very very surprised!
Thanks Steve. Not too shabby :) You are right on the darker breads, aren't you. I hadn't thought of that.
YES, I'd love your recipe for Hot Air. Mine left much to be desired..you are patient..4 tries!!
This looks great, well done on finding just the right spot for the starter to kick off. I'm so looking forward to making my second sourdough loaf today, this Daring Bakers lark just keeps on giving :)


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Running CGI Scripts in UISacad
.htaccess files
A .htaccess file is a way to set configuration directives on a per-directory basis. When Apache serves a resource, it looks in the directory from which it is serving a file for a file called .htaccess, and, if it finds it, it will apply directives found therein.
Enabling CGI access in your account
Choose a directory where you want cgi enabled on. This directory must be somewhere inside your public_html directory. The easiest thing to do is to create a directory called cgi-bin inside your public_html directory. Using your favorite editor create a file called .htaccess in that directory. In the .htaccess file, you'll need the following directives:
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
This tells Apache that execution of CGI programs is permitted in this directory and that your cgi scripts will have the extension .cgi or .pl.
Writing a CGI program
There are two main differences between "regular" programming, and CGI programming.
First, all output from your CGI program must be preceded by a MIME-type header. This is HTTP header that tells the client what sort of content it is receiving. Most of the time, this will look like:
Content-type: text/html
Secondly, your output needs to be in HTML, or some other format that a browser will be able to display. Most of the time, this will be HTML, but occasionally you might write a CGI program that outputs a gif image, or other non-HTML content.
Apart from those two things, writing a CGI program will look a lot like any other program that you might write.
Your first CGI program
The following is an example CGI program that prints one line to your browser. Type in the following, save it to a file called first.pl, and put it in the cgi directory you just created.
print "Content-type: text/htmlrnrn";
print "Hello, World.";
Even if you are not familiar with Perl, you should be able to see what is happening here. The first line tells Apache (or whatever shell you happen to be running under) that this program can be executed by feeding the file to the interpreter found at the location /usr/bin/perl. The second line prints the content-type declaration we talked about, followed by two carriage-return newline pairs. This puts a blank line after the header, to indicate the end of the HTTP headers, and the beginning of the body. The third line prints the string "Hello, World." And that's the end of it.
If you created your cgi-bin directory inside your public_html directory then open your favorite browser and tell it to get the address:
or wherever you put your file, you will see the one line Hello, World. appear in your browser window. It's not very exciting, but once you get that working, you'll have a good chance of getting just about anything working.
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Last week I attended a JIBS–Eduserve seminar entitled 'Where next for resource licensing?'. Owen Stephens keynote discussion focussed on the increasing use of mobile technology by library users and how we should be meeting these changes in access. He suggested that we needed to get smarter in the type of support offered for these users, and that e-journal licences needed to make provisions for off line access, such as re-formatting/re-packaging for e-books. He ended with what to me came to be the theme of the day, walk-in users and how many found the term a confusing concept.
Following this Louise Cole gave us an excellent overview of the 'thorny issues' experienced by librarians attempting to decipher e-journal licences and terminology, and proposed her definitions of what the terms partnerships, alumni, walk in users and distance learners might mean, but stressed that interpretations may differ between licensors and licencees.
Jenny Carroll relayed the results of her survey of Eduserve Data Contacts which suggested that Universities were interested in extending their e-journal licences – and therefore access – to partners, alumni and local businesses and communities, there was uncertainty about how they could implement this and what costs would be involved.
After lunch Matt Durant gave us a positive insight into the implementation and workings of OpenAthens LA 2.0 at Bath Spa University, followed by Mark Bide from EDItEUR talking about machine readable licences. I found this area of particular interest because it could have a huge impact on those such as I who handle copyright for University staff and students. The idea is that their ONIX-PL (ONIX for Publications Licences) would allow users to click on a button and receive clear and concise information as to what they could and couldn't do with the journal article they were viewing. This would certainly help answer many users queries of this nature, as well as enable course pack and digitisation list checking to be simplified and streamlined.
The final session of the day by Martyn Jansen from Eduserv was also extremely interesting and it was great to hear from someone who works with the writing and implementation of e-journal licences on a daily basis. Eduserv had undertaken a review of their Chest licence to ensure it was fit for purpose and proposed a number of additional clauses, a prototype version of which was sent to contract/legal contacts of their 23 journal suppliers. The results were somewhat skewed by no response having been received from 13 publishers, but Martyn was hopeful that Eduserve could negotiate with suppliers to refine the licence so that it meets both the University librarians needs as well as the concerns of the publishers.
It was an event that was well worth attending and brought JIBs to my attention. I shall look out for further events in the area of e-journals and their licensing.


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Magazine Scandal: Serious abnormalities found in evacuees; Sapporo doctor shocked by quick onset of suspected thyroid cancers — Such rapid growth was impossible in children before 3/11, says report
By ENENews
February 24th, 2012
Title: Japanese Magazine "Sensationalizes": "Thyroid Cancer Suspected on Two Children Aged 4 and 7″
Source: EX-SKF
Date: Feb 23, 2012
"Serious abnormalities found in 11 evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture"
7-year old girl had 8 millimeter nodule on her thyroid [Blood tests determined 'benign']
Her 2-year-old sister also had 2 millimeter nodule
Doctor who examined them said "I've never seen anything like this"
2 children and 9 adults were tested in Sapporo, and thyroid cancer was suspected
Adult woman has been confirmed to have thyroid cancer
Japanese researchers [say] "it is impossible for children under the age of 6 to have nodules 5 millimeters or larger"
But the doctor who examined them in Sapporo, Hokkaido says, "Whatever they say, this is the result"
In the case of Chernobyl, it took 4 years till the cases of thyroid cancer started to appear. The doctor in Sapporo is shocked by the quick onset
Kouta Kinoshita's blog translation and comments by EX-SKF
He and several others had known about it, and were trying to find a better way to disclose the information with the agreement of all the parties involved (parents, for one). He seems rather upset with the reporter. He also quotes an expert of the Chernobyl accident he consults with: "At this stage, you can't tell whether it is a malignant tumor. I personally think the Bunshun article went overboard. What's known now is that they have some tumor of unknown nature. The growth is rapid, and no doubt it is a health damage from radioactive materials. I think it can be categorized as damage caused by radiation, even if the growth is benign, because before March 11 [accident], such growth was impossible in children."
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Toggi - 'Let Them Bleed' - Free Download
It's not hard for anyone living in Iceland to understand where the inspiration for 'Let Them Bleed' came from.
Our super-overextended banking system, run and fuelled by the greed and debt of a handful of billionaires exploded, leaving the Icelandic state with enormous debts for future generations.
Immediately afterwards our government was overthrown following mass street protests. In other words, interesting times, as the Chinese curse would have it.
Here, as in the rest of the world, the greedy banksters that caused this global crash are all still rich, still walking free among us, while normal people are enslaved by their actions. And while the title of the song is not to be taken literally, people around the world are calling out for justice for those who gamble with their futures. The Banksters.
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New milestone in Australia-China collaboration on food security
6 March 2013
A new milestone in Australian and Chinese collaboration has been reached today with the signing of agreements between the University of Sydney and two premier Chinese research institutions to tackle the mutual challenge of food security.
At today's launch of the University of Sydney's new Centre for Carbon, Water and Food, by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, two memoranda of understanding were signed by representatives from the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science and Nanjing Agricultural University, in the presence of the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China in Australia, His Excellency Yuming Chen.
The Centre for Carbon, Water and Food is Australia's first multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to tackling the nation's and region's biggest food security and environmental challenges through the integrated study of carbon, food and water. The University of Sydney and the federal government have together invested more than $20 million in the purpose-built facility, which draws upon the University's already established world-class expertise in areas such as soil science, ecology and ecophysiology, and plant breeding.
The first memorandum of understanding between the University of Sydney and the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science will see a Sino-Australia Joint Laboratory for Sustainable Agro-Ecosystems established and housed at the Centre with a mirror facility in Beijing.
The second memorandum of understanding between the University of Sydney and Nanjing Agricultural University will see a Sino-Australian Laboratory for Food Security established and housed at the Centre with a mirror facility in Nanjing.
These new agreements will enable joint research in areas such as crop protection, food and soil security and the mitigation of climate-change effects on agricultural eco-systems, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The bilateral effort will include research projects for external agencies such as the World Bank and Gates Foundation, creating further international benefit from the collaboration.
Professor Mark Adams, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment and Head of the Centre for Carbon, Water and Food, said the longstanding relationship between University of Sydney researchers and China celebrates a new phase of development with the signing of the two agreements.
"These agreements are the culmination of several decades of collaboration already undertaken between University of Sydney researchers and Chinese colleagues from a multitude of institutions," said Professor Adams.
"Australia and China face many of the same challenges in food security. In China, for example, water yield and quality in major river systems and the land base for agriculture are threatened by both degradation and alternative uses, much like in Australia."
"We both face the same problems with respect to water, soil, pests and disease."
"By comparing research approaches and collaborating on research we are able to learn from each other and redouble our efforts to address these mutual areas of concern."
The Joint Sino-Australian Laboratory for Food Security will focus on four areas of research:
- crop protection and improvement - plant breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stress and for improved yield
- precision agriculture - new technologies to improve efficiency of land and resource management
- climate change - securing soil and water resources and managing the atmosphere
- food security - development of economic and social policy to secure food supply.
The Joint Sino-Australia Laboratory for Sustainable Agro-Ecosystems will focus on research in:
- adaptation and mitigation of climate change effects on agro-ecosystems including reduction of greenhouse gas emission from the agriculture sector
- improvement of soil quality, especially the soil carbon and nutrient content
- reduction of water consumption in agriculture production
- prevention and reduction effects of plant pests and diseases on cereal production
- treatment and recycling of poultry litter and livestock manure.
Professor Adams said each partnership will deliver for both Australia and China over the coming decade and both Australia and China would use their partnership to help build further and stronger bridges with other institutions and countries.
"We are excited about what is possible - we expect more than 100 PhD graduates to work with the Centre, to produce technologies that increase production while improving efficient resource usage, and to create new knowledge in key fields that underpin food security including research on water, greenhouse gases, biodiversity, and plant and animal breeding," Professor Adams said.
"We will also produce better skilled and more broadly trained researchers able to work on more resilient food systems and higher quality and safer food."
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Updated 1:05 pm -- President Barack Obama will publicly announce his gun-safety proposals on Wednesday, with new recommendations, including some executive actions in addition to legislative proposals like a ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
"Tomorrow, the president and the vice president will hold an event here at the White House to unveil a package of concrete proposals to reduce gun violence and prevent future tragedies like the one in Newtown, Connecticut," White House spokesman Jay Carney said during a briefing Tuesday afternoon.
President Obama and Vice President Biden will announce a package of gun control proposals in response to the Connecticut school massacre, says White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Carney said that the president will be joined at the 11:45 a.m. event by children from around the country who wrote the White House with concerns about gun violence in the wake of the Newtown school shootings that left 20 children dead.
He added that the president has previously backed a "comprehensive approach" including an assault weapons ban and a measure to ban high-capacity clips, but he stressed that both items will require congressional action.
"The president will take a comprehensive approach, but it is a simple fact that there are limits on what can be done within existing law and Congress has to act on the kinds of measures that we've already mentioned, because the power to do that is reserved by Congress," Carney said of the need for "significant" action on gun control measures.
The president met with Vice President Joe Biden Monday - a day ahead of schedule - to discuss the Biden-led task force's recommendations after the group's series of meetings with stakeholders in the gun violence debate.
Congressional officials familiar with the task force meetings said late Monday that Biden and his staff have developed 19 areas where Obama could use executive orders to institute new gun control policy.
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President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the East Room of the White House on January 14, 2013 in Washington.
The possible executive actions were not listed to the members of Congress who attended a Monday White House meeting, but officials said Biden mentioned new avenues for gun violence research as well as the strengthening of existing gun laws. Options pertaining to mental health were also mentioned.
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The measures potentially implemented by executive action would be different than legislation regarding a possible assault weapons ban or a large magazine ban that may be introduced in Congress, officials said.
Conservatives have raised strong objections to the idea of any executive actions on the part of the White House, saying that the president's efforts constitute a violation of the Second Amendment.
Freshman Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, has even threatened to introduce articles of impeachment.
"Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible," he said in a statement. "Under no circumstances whatsoever may the government take any action that disarms any peaceable person — much less without due process through an executive declaration without a vote of Congress or a ruling of a court."
But Democrats have pushed back at the notion that any executive action would affect gun ownership or rights, saying that unilateral action from the White House will merely reinforce current laws rather than creating new ones.
"There are many (options), but they all are directing federal agencies to increase or to activate more aggressively on items that already exist in the law," Rep Chaka Fattah, D-Penn., told NBC News. "The notion that he's circumventing Congress is not accurate at all."
Fattah was not at the meeting with Biden, but he said his staff was in attendance.
NBC's Carrie Dann contributed to this report.


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London's legendary Ronnie Scott's jazz club, located in the heart of Soho, has become the latest high profile venue to select and install a Yamaha CF series grand piano.
The move coincides with both Chick Corea and Hiromi selecting Yamaha CF grand pianos for performances at Cadogan Hall and the Royal Festival Hall, and is the latest in a series of high profile CF installations throughout Europe, including London's Royal Festival Hall and the nearby Queen Elizabeth Hall, Abbey Road Studios, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris Berlin Philharmonie Hall and Opera Filharmonia Bialystok, Poland.
The CF6 piano was selected for Ronnie's following an exhaustive evaluation process conducted at Yamaha's European HQ in Hamburg by the club's Musical Director James Pearson and acclaimed jazz pianist Tom Cawley. The duo were presented with a range of CF6s to play each voiced and toned differently.
James Pearson comments, "We were given the choice of five or six pianos, all of which had completely different characteristics and were prepared slightly differently. They were all glorious and we moved them around the selection room to hear them with a different acoustic. It was very important to consider how the piano would sound in the club, which has a dry acoustic. The colours and range of the CF6 are very strong: you can get a hard and aggressive sound and a wonderful gentle sound and timbre. The CF6 is 6'11", so it's not a concert grand, but it has a richness I'd associate with a much bigger instrument. It's also incredibly versatile: it can be brightened or softened and regulated very easily. Durability is a vital factor as the piano at Ronnie's can be played by three or four pianists every single day, and it's also regularly moved around. The CF6 copes with this brilliantly."
Founded in London's West End in 1959 by saxophonist Ronnie Scott as a place where local musicians could meet and play, the club eventually relocated to a buzzing Soho and is now arguably the world's most famous jazz club, attracting capacity audiences almost every night of the week. Ronnie Scott's early days saw artists of the stature of Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie and Miles Davis performing. The club continues to present the biggest names in jazz music, including, most recently, Wynton Marsalis, Cassandra Wilson, Jamie Cullum, Hiromi, Jeff Beck, Michele Le Grand and Joe Bonamassa.
Always at the cutting edge, the club is also renowned for being the first place to catch hotly tipped rising stars, visionary artists and the next big thing.
Yamaha's latest CF series pianos were introduced in 2009 and are proving highly popular with venues and concert halls all over the world. The CF6 can be characterised by Yamaha's revered reputation for tonal clarity, tremendously deep and rich bass, open broad sonority and a long, singing sustain. The instrument draws on Yamaha's exemplary heritage with pianists of the highest calibre.


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After being totally wowed by the plethora of Star Wars, GI Joe and Marvel Universe custom figures on the internet I got inspired to bust a couple out myself! The purpose of this blog is just to share my work, get feedback and make connections with other people who love custom action figures and creative expression as much as I do. I love comments, whether you love my stuff or downright hate it, so leave your opinions for me to see! I am always open to ideas and suggestions for new projects as well. Thanks for viewing, and may the Force be with you.
January 2018
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