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Claims czar seeks to reassure Gulf Coast residents
BILOXI, Miss. — Kenneth Feinberg, the Washington attorney who will take over BP's $20 billion claim fund within the next few weeks, assured Gulf Coast residents Friday that he will compensate eligible people and businesses damaged financially by the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
"I am beholden neither to the administration nor BP," said Feinberg, who has cemented a reputation for fairness and compassion as administrator of the 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund in New York. "I work for the people in the Gulf."
Feinberg has been hosting town hall meetings in the Gulf states to explain in layman's terms how the fund will work. His approach was straightforward when he spoke to an audience of more than 200 on Friday at the Coast Convention Center in Biloxi.
He said his job is to distribute money to people, and businesses large and small, with proven losses.
"I think you're crazy if you don't sign up," Feinberg said. "It's up to you." He said people are free to hire attorneys, but they should be prepared to spend five years in litigation. They are also welcome to have attorneys accompany them to file claims, or to consult one of the pro bono lawyers he is lining up to help with the process.
He credited BP with already having paid $200 million in claims. That money, he said, is not being deducted from the $20 billion fund. BP has pledged to continue honoring claims if the initial fund is drained.
A couple of major changes to the claims process are coming. Feinberg wants to expedite payments to businesses. He said those payments have moved more slowly than individual claims.
Rather than monthly payments for emergency claims, which Feinberg called "ridiculous," the independent fund will offer emergency payments for six months of losses. People who accept those payments will not give up any rights to later sue BP.


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Treworgy Orchards: NIGHT MAZE
October 20, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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2018 Dates: October 19, 20, 26, and 27!
For years our own families have enjoyed wandering through the corn maze at night, beneath the stars, and we are delighted to share this magical experience with you.
Tickets are $10/person kids 2 and under are free and do not need to be registered. If you would like to register for a specific day and time, go to https://treworgyorchards.com/night-maze
The Night Maze is family-friendly, so there is nothing scary or "haunted," just good old-fashioned fun.
Bring your own flashlight to wander through the maze. Each station will be lit, and guests will collect treats as they go.
Night hayrides will be available, and from our cafe, you can purchase hot cider and donuts, too. Warm up by our night fire and enjoy the fantastic Maine night sky.
Your ticket price includes the night hayride and candy treats distributed at the stations in the maze.
Please park in the lower field by the Pember Road entrance.
FMI: (207) 884-8354 or https://treworgyorchards.com/night-maze

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The Mews (or it's full name, The Mews of Turtle Mills) is a condominium complex located at 100 Monmouth Road in West Long Branch, NJ. Each street in the development is named after a famous horse racetrack, a nod to the nearby Monmouth Park Racetrack. There are 90 total units in the development with 15 units per Court. The Mews is comprised of one, two and three bedroom town house style condos. The Mews have an open floor plan with high ceilings, a spacious family room, master bedroom and bathroom. Each unit has a central air, fire place and a full basement with ample storage! Some units have garages and there is also overflow parking. The Mews condo complex sits on 12 acres that are professional maintained. Amenities also include a swimming pool, tennis and basketball courts with low HOA fees (that include water). The Mews are conveniently and centrally located close to Routes 35, 36 and the GSP. If you commute, the NJ Transit is only 10 minutes away & Seastreak Ferry about 20 minutes. Less than 10 minutes to the beach and premium outlet stores. Less than 5 to Monmouth Mall, Monmouth Park racetrack, shopping and more. Close to golf, park systems, hospitals and schools. 12 minutes to Red Bank and 15 to Asbury Park.
Community Features
- Pet Friendly (2 per unit; owners only)
- Rentals Allowed
- Square Feet: 906-1679
- 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Condos
- Some Units Have Garages
- Washer/Dryer in Unit
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We have a tradition in this family of renaming vegetarian/vegan products with a sort of short-hand. If it's fake chicken, it's ficken; if it's fake crab, it's fab; fake bacon is fakin'.
We do this will all sorts of meat replacements. And… as my husband found out the hard way… one should not do this with duck, particularly in front of one's 8-year old daughter. Fake duck = …. oops!
We've been looking for a good feese (aka fake – or vegan – cheese) sauce recipe for quite some time. I had tried at least 4 or 5, with varying results according to our family of palettes. It was not until I tried Robin Robertson's "three nut cheeze whiz" in her Quick-Fix Vegan cookbook that I felt like I had something I could work with. We were close to EUREKA!
Several rounds of tweaking later, and we finally have out favorite, go-to feese sauce. It's perfect for nachos, baked potatoes, spooned over tater tots, or mixed with pasta for the most satisfying vegan mac 'n' cheese ever (or, in our house, mac 'n' feese). Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
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Homemade vegan cheese sauce is a glorious thing. This Feese! recipe has a little bit of heat to it as well, simply because of how we tend to use it. The chipotle pepper adds a nice bit of smoky spice to dishes with which the sauce already pairs well. Feel free to omit it if you'd like something more mild. It'll still be crazy good.
2/3 cups cashew pieces (raw is best but toasted is fine too)
1/3 cup nutritional yeast (think of it as a heaping 1/3 cup)
1/2 tsp fine sea salt
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp – 1/2 tsp chipotle chili pepper powder (you can also use cayenne, though it will not be as "smoky")
1 cup almond milk (plain, unsweetened)
2 Tbsp almond butter or tahini
1 Tbsp lemon juice (fresh is best)
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
2 tsp dijon mustard
- Put the cashew pieces, nutritional yeast, sea salt, garlic powder, and pepper into a food processor. Process the ingredients until well combined and consistent in texture (it should look like cornmeal or a medium-grain powder… essentially, no big chunks or lumps).
- Add the wet ingredients (almond milk, almond butter or tahini, lemon juice, vinegar, and mustard) and process until smooth.
- If you're adding to macaroni, simply pour the sauce over your hot, cooked pasta and blend well. If you're using for nachos or potatoes, you may want to warm it up first.
- If warming, transfer sauce to a medium saucepan and heat over medium, stirring well. Sauce will thicken as you warm it. Stop when it reaches the consistency and temp you desire (and don't forget to stir!).
- This sauce will store well in the fridge in a covered, sealed container for up to 5 days. It reheats well, but if using the microwave, warm it in small increments (say 30 seconds at a time) and stir each time to keep it from clumping or burning.


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Minneapolis, June 24, 2011— A special event at the Walker Art Center on July 12 will invite the public to support the rights of artists worldwide and honor those whose freedom of expression is restricted. Anyone wishing to participate may drop off a chair of any type on the Walker's Open Field. The goal is to amass 1001 chairs by 6 p.m. that day. The event is inspired by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 2007 project Fairytale: 1001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs, an installation made up of 1001 Qing Dynasty wooden chairs and first presented at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany.
Ai was detained April 3 by Chinese police at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong. Though Chinese authorities have alleged that Ai is guilty of tax evasion, his family and many in the international community fear the arrest was the government's response to his politically-charged art work and social activism. In particular, Ai has criticized the government for its response to the deaths of the thousands of school children during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake as well as its treatment of Chinese dissidents.
The Walker had originally planned to stage the event to mark what would have been Ai's 100th day of detention. Though the artist was released on June 22, the Walker plans to proceed with the event to acknowledge Ai and other artists in China and around the world who work under oppressive conditions where artistic freedom is compromised.
The Walker has connections to several such artists. For example, the Israeli actor and filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered in the West Bank April 4, ostensibly because of his artistic and political views. Mer-Khamis has appeared in some 20 films, including director Julian Schnabel's recent Miral, which screened at the Walker March 18. Award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose film White Balloon had its area premiere at the Walker in 1996, was jailed in Iran in February 2010 because of anti-government themes in his films and remains under house arrest.
"We believe that no artistic voice should ever be silenced in any society," said Walker executive director Olga Viso. "We envision the chairs on the Open Field as a reminder of artists across the world—artists we may not even know—who have been lost and who face repression and censorship every day. Weiwei's art and his recent detainment have brought this reality into disturbing and important focus."
The conditions of Ai's release forbid him to speak to the media.
Visitors can drop off chairs throughout the day on July 12 and can witness the culmination of the event at 6 p.m., when Viso will make brief remarks. Visitors can collect their chairs between 6:15 p.m. and 8 p.m., and unclaimed chairs will be donated to charity. The Walker will offer free gallery admission for the entire day, and galleries will remain open until 6 p.m., an hour past their usual closing time.


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Bitcoin price (BTC) retreated below the support level of $9,000 for the first time since the start of this month. Although bulls are firmly defending the cryptocurrency markets, the recent bearish trend was supported by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates downbeat assessment of bitcoin price.
"Very quiet. The bulls will say it's an accumulation phase. The bears will say it's the markets turning cautious based, at least in part, on Buffett, et al," wrote Jeff Koyen, President of 360 Blockchain USA.
Bitcoin price traded near the $8,700 level early today – putting the coin down 10% in the last seven days. The coin had hit $9,900 at the beginning of the week.
Altcoins are also fumbling at a high mid-single digit rate today, pulling the total cryptocurrency market capitalization to the lowest level in the last two weeks.
Bullish Bets Aren't Optimizing Sentiments
Experts have been predicting substantial price growth for bitcoin and other digital currencies, both in the short and long run. Tom Lee expects bitcoin price to increase almost 70% next week amid the consensus summit – which he believes will help to enhance investor's confidence in the cryptocurrency market.
The cryptocurrency market, however, isn't showing any signs of recovery despite such bullish bets and increasing acceptances from other marketplaces.
Bitcoin price plummeted sharply today even though Tom Lee highlighted his reasons for a dramatic price hike he expects for BTC:
The new theory for price assessment is based on the relationship between Bitcoin mining costs and its price. The new price assessment metric is known as Bitcoin Price to Mining Breakeven Cost or (P/BE).
"We expect the mining economy to grow over the next several years, and project a BTC price of ~$36,000 by year end 2019 based on the historical average 1.8x P/BE multiple," Tom Lee tweeted.
Perhaps these opinions don't have any bearing on the market after-all…
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As we enter 2018 the 747 is now becoming a rare beast in US skies. Only the now ageing 747-200 pair that operate as Air Force One carry any type of passenger.
Recent years have seen Cathay Pacific, ANA, JAL, Thai, EVA Air, United, Delta, Air France, Singapore Airlines remove their last 747-400's from service along with others, and many of the largest operators have slashed their fleets.
The worlds largest operator was, and still is, British Airways, but the heady days of their 58 aircraft fleet are gone, with numbers reducing to 18 refurbished units that will remain until 2023.
KLM still operates the unusual combi, Virgin Atlantic still flies 7, Korean Air is keeping its fleet a while longer, enhanced with 10 748i's. Lufthansa is also planning on keeping a handful of 744's until 2022-23. As the only major customer for the 748i – ordering 25, but only taking delivery of 19, it declared in 2015 that it was disappointed with their economy and performance and would retire them as the reached 10 years of age. They'll be replacing them with 777-9's. The Transaero and Arik Air 748i's will Now never happen as one was forced into bankruptcy and the other isn't far behind.
In November there were 379 of the classic 747-400 configuration still in the air, as well as 124 of the 747-8 variant. Of those, 236 are in service as passenger planes, so it's not quite over and out for the 747 yet.


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Beekeepers have announced an upcoming European tour and the release of their debut full-length album 'Varroa Mites' via Vacant Stare Records, out this fall.
If your music video game has been weak lately, let us catch you up with some of our favorite recently released visuals with DIY feels.
Silver Lake locals The Fontaines just released the animated video for "Young & Beautiful"—their dreamy take on Lana Del Rey's original.
The Coathangers debuted a video for "Watch Your Back," taking us behind the scenes with shots in the recording studio and clips from tour this year. This track will be released on a 7″ split with The Black Lips this Friday (Suicide Squeeze).


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Elucidating sustainability sequencing, tensions, and trade-offs in development decision making
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What is hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a mucopolysaccharide composed Of repeated disaccharide units of glucuronic acid and N-acetylglucosamine. The commercial HA is commonly a sodium form, called Sodium hyaluronate. HA is widely presents in the extracellular matrix of animal tissues and vitreous humor. Its main physiological function is water retention and lubrication.
The origin of hyaluronic acid
In 1934, Karl Meyer and his assistant John Palmer first announced the discovery of HA. They purified HA from bovine vitreous and showed that it contained a hexuronic acid and a hexosamine. They proposed "for convenience, the name hyaluronic acid, from hyaloid (vitreous) + uronic acid." Up to the mid-1940s, HA had been isolated successfully from other sources- synovial fluid, skin, umbilical cord, cock's comb, etc.
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He rang me as soon as he'd received it. "Badders, old chap!" he exclaimed (I do wish he wouldn't call me that...) "Just the ticket, mate!" (....mate..!!?!)
Anyway, it looks like HM Gov. will put all of my proposals into practice, which is no more than to be expected (I am an expert).
If there's one thing I really can't stand it's amateurs (I think they refer to themselves as 'parents') believing they know what's best for children.
The teaching profession was created for a very good reason and has been serving the best interests of children since its inception. How could these lentil-weaving, tree-hugging, dole-scrounging, home educators possibly believe the education they provide is equal? They don't have teaching qualifications!!! End of discussion...
Just look at the product of our secondary school system. Young adults, well-adjusted, peaceful, dedicated to the achievement of true excellence, which as you know can only be measured by examination results.
I explained all of this to Ed Balls on the phone, but I don't think he got it.
"Yeah, yeah, very interesting, Badders, but basically your report provided the whitewash we needed to force through legislation we had already prepared..."
"Yeah, mate. Whitewash... It's a Government term for a full and balanced report by an expert chosen by the Government."
"I'm not sure I understand.... What are you implying. Because, I AM an expert you know..."
"Yeah, but only in state education."
This confused me. But Ed went on to elaborate;
"I mean how many kids have you personally home educated, Badders?"
I was deeply offended. What an outrageous and ugly suggestion.
"NONE!" I said, somewhat forcefully.
"Exactly! So you're not really an expert on education per se, are you? If we'd wanted a balanced report we'd never have asked you in the first place. We'd have also involved home educators in the process!"
I was beginning to get more and more confused.
"But I am an expert.....!"
"Yeah, yeah. We've been through all that."
"But what you're suggesting I've done would be similar to asking David Cameron to decide Labour party policy..."
"Yeah, exactly!"
"Or Abu Hamza to suggest changes to the Jewish religion...."
".....er.....yeah....... Look, must go. People to see, human rights to trample on, I'm sure you know the kind of thing. Bye, Badders, speak soon."
"Um, er, yes, right. Well if I could just say....."
"Missing you already." *CLICK*
I went into the lounge a little unsettled. Not something I'm used to at all. My wife called through to ask if I'd like ham or cheese sandwiches. She always asks me for guidance. I am an expert you see.
My head was still spinning when she placed the plate in front of me. So much so, I forgot to give her marks for food preparation and presentation.
"Cheer up, Badders!" she said. (I do wish she wouldn't call me that)...


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Jack Ford
Jack Ford is a 20 year television personality specializing in legal commentary, hosting and presenting on numerous information and entertainment programs.
Ford was first hired by WCBS-TV as its legal commentator and joined Court TV (now TruTV). He moved to NBC News as Chief Legal Correspondent and became the co-Anchor of the network's morning show Weekend Today. Before returning as co-Host with Ashleigh Banfield, the two-hour daily afternoon program Banfield & Ford: Courtside on TruTV, he was ABC News' Correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, and Moderator of ESPN's The Sports Reporters. Ford earned a law degree from Fordham University School of Law and subsequently spent three years as a prosecutor in New Jersey, before beginning his own private practice as a lawyer. He also served as an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School and currently teaches at New York University and Yale University. Ford has received two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, an American Radio and Television Award, a National Headliner Award, and the March of Dimes FDR Award.


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Life Writing Through Micro-Memoir
Book review: Heating & Cooling, by Beth Ann Fennelly (Amazon / Book Depository) Poet Beth Ann Fennelly writes a collection of 52 "micro-memoirs": mini-essays, a genre idea I love, loosely based around family, marriage, love, sex, and sometimes grief. This book got a surprising amount of buzz upon its release last year, in my opinion, for an essay-cum-memoir-cum-almost poetry collection. It seemed to hit a sweet … Continue reading Life Writing Through Micro-Memoir


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2014 was a monumental year. A house in June. A baby in July. A layoff notice for Dave in November. If there's one thing I learned over the past year it's that the only constant in life is change. 2015 will bring more changes as Dave pursues a freelance career, I look for a new job and we figure out childcare options for our daughter. (Getting into daycare in Toronto is tougher than being granted membership to the elite Soho House.) I have to admit I'm a wee bit anxious about how it will all unfold.
One thing that hasn't changed over the past few decades is my compulsive journalling. (I know this feels like a jarring segue, but it will all come together in the end, I promse). I've kept a diary since I was a little girl and I can still remember my first one, complete with a lock on the cover to keep my cherished secrets safe from snoopers. I distinctly remember writing a note on the title page of the diary; it was a warning, really, addressed to my younger brother, threatening some sort of bodily harm or public humiliation if, in the event that he managed to break the lock on the diary, he so much as thought about reading any further. My back-up security measures proved unnecessary–my brother had far more interesting things to do with his time than read my trivial girlhood ramblings.
That original diary disappeared long ago, but I recently reconnected with a large Tupperware container full of diaries that my mom was kindly storing in her basement. The earliest one is from seventh grade. It has a picture of Anne of Green Gables on the front, and, while my overuse of the exclamation mark is cringeworthy, my penmanship is excellent, if I do say so myself. There must be ten diaries in that storage bin, page upon page of ink documenting the various dramas in my life from high school, through university and grad school, and right up to the fall of 2008 when I met Dave.
Of course, when you find a bin of journals, it's impossible not to skim through them. (One of my favourite entries is a barely-legible note that I scribbled after too many beers in which I basically plead with the universe to let me one day marry Dave.) As I read through some of my old writing, I gleaned a valuable lesson: every time I've been on the threshold of change, I've felt afraid. Fear was present as I entered high school and worried that I would become a punk-rock-druggie-teen-mom-drop-out. It crawled into my suitcase as I prepared to leave the comfort of my mom's house in Windsor for campus life and frat parties and dense literary journals in Kingston. Moving to Toronto for grad school, starting new jobs, falling in love–whenever I'm on the cusp of change, fear is never far behind. But it's helpful to read my old journals and realize that I've pushed through the fear and accomplished things that I wanted to in my life, despite the knots in my stomach or that wretched voice in my head saying, "What makes you think you can do this?" It's nice to look back and know you can handle the changes that come your way.
Change is hard for most humans. It's scary wandering into unknown territory. How will we know which creatures are our friends, or which berries are poisonous? There have been times in my life when I tried to resist change–I metaphorically laced up my boxing gloves and tried to make it slink back to the ring corner, bloodied and bruised, because I liked things just as they were, thank you very much. But you can't bully change. So you might as well embrace it, along with the growth that it inevitably brings. Or at least, that's what I'm going to try to do as I ring in this new year and find myself once again (and as always) on the cusp of great change.
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Funeral Services near Lisle
Funeral Services near Lisle Illinois
Tony Cappetta and family have called Lisle Illinois home for more than 20 years. West Suburban Funeral Home has provided Funeral Services near Lisle Illinois for almost as long. Lisle, a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States is home to approximately 21,182 residents and is part of the Chicago Suburb/metropolitan area.
Currently, Lisle Cemetery is among the oldest registered cemeteries in the state of Illinois, and is located just a few miles west of West Suburban Funeral Home and Cremation Services. The cemetery was established in 1832 when James C. Hatch donated a portion of his land so fellow settlers could bury their loved ones.
Lisle is also home to the Lisle Library District, located at 777 Front Street. The LLD houses a collection of materials, resources, technology and digital content. The library is continually evolving to meet the dynamic needs of patrons and serves as a place to research, study, experience cultural programming and gather/collaborate as a community. The Lisle Library also hosts local art exhibits at Gallery 777.
The Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, Illinois, is a garden and museum with a library, herbarium, and program in tree research including the Center for Tree Science.[2] Its properties include cataloged trees and other living plants, gardens, and restored areas, including a restored tall grass prairie. The living collections include over 4,100 various plant species, all together the grounds contains more than 200,000 cataloged plants. The arboretum offers extensive nature-centered education for children, families, school groups, scouts, and adults, including tree and restoration professionals.
West Suburban Funeral provides Funeral Services near Lisle Illinois and Funeral Home visitors traveling from near downtown Lisle can simply head east on US-34 E/Ogden Ave for approximately 5.0 miles to Cass Avenue. Turn right onto N Cass Ave and the Funeral Home will be on the left at 39 N Cass Ave, Westmont, IL 60559.
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Not so long ago, in the days before stadium seating and 3,000-screen openings, it wasn't unusual for small-town kids to read the comic-book adaptation of big blockbusters like Star Wars or Raiders Of The Lost Ark long before they got to see the movie. Now those kids—all grown up and into art films—can relive their youth via The Fountain, a graphic-novel adaptation of Darren Aronofsky's upcoming hard-fantasy epic. Aronofsky says "adaptation" is the wrong word, since the book is based on a script he's since heavily revised. But those old comics weren't always accurate either. The book version of The Fountain generates the same feeling of peeking behind the curtain before the show starts.
As a piece of graphic fiction, The Fountain has its problems. Kent Williams' half-painted pages are often strikingly beautiful, but they're too much in Vertigo's prestige-project house style, all muted colors and loose lines. And Aronofsky's dialogue looks clunky on paper, without professional actors and a dense sound design to disguise the flaws. But the millennium-spanning story is strong, and richly meaningful. In the 16th century, a Spaniard named Tomas leads an army on an expedition to find the Biblical tree of life. Five hundred years later, a doctor named Tommy races to find a cure for his terminally ill wife; 500 years after that, a space explorer named Tom is haunted by his past while searching for a star on the verge of a supernova. Aronofsky shifts between the three stories, piling up parallels: the sacrifices, the cycles of death and rebirth, the comforts of sex, the recurring images of rings and trees, and the arrogance of men who defy God's will.
It's difficult to read The Fountain without imagining how it's going to look as a movie, or wondering what Aronofsky ultimately changed for the screen. But that's actually part of what's enjoyable about the book. Readers can treat it like an elaborate storyboard and see a movie in their minds. Given Aronofsky's penchant for obscurity, the mind-Fountain may even end up being clearer than the finished version, even though it lacks the director's gift for dynamic cinematic poetry. Still, there's a chance that when the movie opens this fall, those in the know will refer back to the comic, to get the message in a plainer package.


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Valentinus was a leading Christian Gnostic who taught in Egypt and later in Rome. His school was the most popular in Egypt and it attracted much attention in Rome. He expressed the idea that the disciples were a sort of initiatory school in which Christ taught them the Word. This is consistent with the following biblical quotation from Luke 8: 10, "Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand." Valentinus claimed to have received his teachings from a student of Paul named Theudas. Valentinus argued that according to the secret knowledge he received from Theudas, the Orthodoxy who would later unify with the Roman government and become the Catholics misunderstood the teachings of the Christ. Rather than interpret Christianity through the misogynistic lenses of Greco-Roman and Judaic cultures, he used Afrikan culture to interpret the Christ. The followers of Valentinus or Valentinians, as they were called, held worship services that offered women full participation. Opposed to a church hierarchy, the Valentinians structured their services based on egalitarianism. Instead of ranking their members, they rotated spiritual authority based on divination. At one meeting one person performed the duties of bishop, at another he or she may act as priest. Men and women participated in the Gnostic rituals with equal authority. Consequently women flocked to their services in large numbers.
Although Valentinus believed the Supreme Being was essentially unknowable, he also conceived of the him/her as a dyad that consisted of both masculine and feminine aspects. The masculine aspects of divinity embodied the Depth and the Primal Father, while the feminine embodied Silence, Grace, the Womb and "Mother of All." The Valentinian materials found at Nag Hammadi abound in reproductive metaphors concerning the nature of the divine. This indicates clearly that they had never removed the feminine from their notion of the divine. Valentianian Gnostics prayed to a divine Father and Mother because some had asked, "how is it that a single masculine God states in Genesis 1: 26, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness'?" That same God then created humanity, "male and female." Many concluded God must be both masculine and feminine. Another Gnostic text referring to Creation, describes it as follows: From the power of Silence appeared "a great power, the Mind of the Universe, which manages all things, and is a male . . . the other . . . a great Intelligence ... is a female which produces all things." . . . [T]hese powers, joined in union, "are discovered to be duality . . . .This is Mind in Intelligence, and these are separable from one another, and yet are one, found in a state of duality."
Various Gnostics had interpretations of the above text. Some said the Supreme Being was essentially androgynous, others said he/she could manifest as either, depending upon the situation, while still others, said "it" was in reality neither. The essential point is the divine should be understood as the reciprocal and harmonious interaction of complements. Since this idea is foreign to Orthodox Judaism, Christianity and Greek philosophy, we must attribute its origin within Gnosticism to Afrikan thought.
Valentinian Gnosticism recognized the Holy Spirit of the Trinity as the feminine principle; thus they expressed their trinity as a divine family consisting of the Father, the Son and the Mother. In the Orthodox translation of the word for Holy spirit, the Greek term pneuma is used, which denotes asexuality. However, in the Gnostic text, the Secret Book, the Hebrew term for spirit ruah, a feminine word, is used. Here we see how a translation can alter the meaning of a text. In another Gnostic text, Gospel to the Hebrews, Jesus calls his mother "the Spirit."
It should be clear that the Christianity Valentinus preached, that it was free of the sexism and misogyny of other schools during the period. Valentinus used his own Egyptian culture as a prism to view and understand Christianity. He was being African centered in a world that was dominated by Hellenistic thought. This is a lesson we must learn, to find our center in the midst of foolishness.
If Black folks are going to celebrate a Valentine, then it should be the Egyptian Christian Gnostic because it is in his teachings that we see a genuine respect and reciprocal love for men and women.


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SamTrans is also a public transportation option for festival-goers. Route ECR provides service between Daly City and Palo Alto, with buses running every 20 minutes on the weekend.
Now in its 35th year, the Palo Alto Festival of the Arts will feature display booths from more than 300 artisans, a Kid's Art Studio, street painting demonstrations, and a tasting area with food and drink offers from local businesses. About 150,000 people are expected to attend the festival.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
You are all invited to...
14 comments:
- Lichtworte said...
I really would like to come - really. But from Germany it's a long way... I promise to visit your gorgeous wonderland some day!
Love, Anke
- 3 November 2008 at 21:02
- quero embrulhARTE said...
I wish you all the luck, i live in Portugal but once a year I visit my mum in yeovil somerset, next time I'll go to your shop (sorry about my english).
xx M.J.
- 3 November 2008 at 22:40
- Little Knitter Gem said...
Best of luck for your Grand Christmas Weekend!! When will you next be putting some items on ebay, as I would love to have a chance to peruse and buy!!! :)
- 3 November 2008 at 23:37
- vivi said...
oh, why am i so far?
best luck with the christmas weekend, there will be more than magic to enjoy there, for sure
- 4 November 2008 at 11:16
- serendipitylovesnewyork said...
Your going to have to get a website up and running girly!! Even though I have my own online shop, I love yours...lol.. I can definatly recommend Mr Site!! I was so gutted when I popped to Watchet for a visit and you were closed for your refit!!! Claire xx
- 4 November 2008 at 20:20
- pink-petal-designs said...
Wish i could come, wishing you luck and lots of fun!
Sarah x
- 5 November 2008 at 10:48
- Valentine Hearts said...
Love the invite, it's fantastic!! I have to say I agree too, you need an online shop...or should I say selfishly we need you to have an online shop. I do make sure I check ebay but there's been nothing for a while. Watchet is soo far from Gloucestershire, it's such a shame! x
- 5 November 2008 at 16:38
- Lee Laurie said...
I wish that I could come! Your shop looks like my kind of shop!Good Luck!
- 7 November 2008 at 21:55
- Little Knitter Gem said...
Wishing you lots of luck for today and tomorrow. I so wish I could attend - maybe next time!
x x x
- 8 November 2008 at 12:48
- mollycupcakes said...
I hope it all went very well sweetie, sorry i couldn't make it but Somerset is a long way from Rochester, wish i could have a trdis and pop from place to place.
I'm also so sorry i haven't posted you my trade price list, it's just crazy here what with our move into a new home and orders coming out of my ears. Maybe it's best to do it in the new year?
Lots of love,
Catherine x
- 9 November 2008 at 21:02
- KC'sCourt! said...
I MISSED it! I have just found your blog, and I only literally live down the road in Minehead! Wished I had seen it sooner.........
- 11 November 2008 at 14:42
Oh, how I wish I could have popped in. Over here, in the Netherlands, I have just come across your blog and you have given me a great idea to update my sewing room's chest of drawers. It's just like the one in your March entry but mine's all pine and having grown a little tired of it I've decided to paint it white except for the top and knobs! I'm so excited to have found this. Thank you so much! Hope the fair was a succes!
- 15 November 2008 at 19:38
- Cath J said...
Nice shop!
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Speaking to the ZBC News on the sidelines of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) in Harare today, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora said they are disseminating information to school heads and procurement heads on the law that criminalises photocopying of books.
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Victoria County History Northamptonshire Volume 5
The river crossing from which both Old Stratford and Stony Stratford derive their names must have been replaced by a bridge, first mentioned in the 13th century, at an early date, although in the 1830s Baker claimed that the site of a ford could be identified immediately upstream from the bridge. In the early 17th century the bridge crossed the Ouse itself by a single span, flanked on the Buckinghamshire bank by a causeway pierced by three groups of three arches, apparently built to carry water off the meadowland alongside the river. The bridge is said to have been partly destroyed in the Civil War and then to have become dilapidated. In 1801 an Act for paving, lighting and improving Stony Stratford also provided for the repair of the bridge, whose maintenance had, ,since the early 16th century, been the responsibility of a local charity.This measure was evidently insufficient, and in 1834 the two counties which shared responsibility for the bridge obtained another Act, under which a new bridge was built the following year. The Act provided for the cost of the bridge to be divided between Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire; for tolls to be collected for 21 years; and for the charity which had previously maintained the old bridge to be discharged from this responsibility. Tolls were apparently taken at the bridge in the Middle Ages.
The Bridge over the River Ouse
There are three rivers in England called the "Ouse". One is situated in the Midlands and eastern England, one in Yorkshire and one in Sussex. The Midland River is often known as the Great Ouse. The Great Ouse separates Old Stratford and Stony Stratford. It also rises in the hills between Banbury in Oxfordshire and Brackley in Northamptonshire. It turns northeast to Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire and is joined by the smaller rivers the Tove and Ouzel.
The Northampton Mercury January 25th 1800
On Sunday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, as one Baldwin, a shoemaker, of Stony Stratford, was crossing the bridge to Old Stratford, owing to the darkness of the night he slipped off the causeway into the water, and was unfortunately drowned.
In 1815 the Buckingham to Newport Pagnell road became tumpiked and it is apparent that by then the route on the north bank of the Ouse from Old Stratford through Deanshanger was more desirable than the old way to Beachampton, probably because it lay along higher ground which was less liable to flooding. Most of the old cast-iron milestones can still be seen along this road, though the one on the road from Stony Stratford to Wolverton had been re-sited, originally being in the Old Wolverton Road by which the Turnpike went, prior to the development of the new town of Wolverton Station in the mid nineteenth century.
The whole of the London to Holyhead road, Watling Street, had been reconstructed under the supervision of Thomas Telford as a central government project following pressure from the G.P.O. which found it unsafe for its mail coaches. The treasury allocated a large sum to this in 1815 and by the 1830's, when the road was completed, time tables for London to Manchester service show a distance of 196 miles was scheduled to take just over 18 hours on the north-bound journey and nearly 20 hours coming south. This same journey had taken four days or so during the mid 1700's.
In 1833 a team of horse drawn wagons were transporting to Coventry a piece of machinery for making plate glass. The bridge at that time was made of timber, and as the last wagon went over the bridge, the timber weakened and the wagon fell through into the river Ouse. It took forty harnessed horses to drag it up the steep hill to Old Stratford.
A Government Act in 1834 allowed the bridge to be rebuilt and the causeway to be raised by 4ft. This rebuilding took one year to complete and it was re-opened to traffic on July 25th 1835. The first stone was laid by the Rev. Loraine Loraine Smith, the rector of Passenham and a local J. P.
The Northampton Mercury February 14th 1835
OLD STRATFORD BRIDGE, on the Holyhead Road.
NOTICE is hereby given, That any Person desirous of Contracting for building a Stone Bridge over the River Ouse, situate on the Holyhead Road, at or near Stony Stratford in the County of Buckingham, and Old Stratford, in the County of Northampton, is requested to deliver a Tender in writing for the same, sealed up, addressed to THOMAS TINDAL, Esq. Clerk of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, at his Office in Aylesbury: or to CHARLES MARKHAM. Esq. Clerk of the Peace for Northamptonshire at his Office, in Northampton, on or before the 17th day of March next.
The Party contracting will be required to give two sufficient sureties for the due performance of his Contract, and is to set forth in Tender the names, and description of such sureties.
The Superintending Justice of the Peace for the said Counties of Buckingham and Northampton. appointed in pursuance of the Act of Parliament made and passed to the 4th year of the Reign of his present Majesty, King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for taking down and removing " Old Stratford Bridge, over the River Ouse in the Counties "of Buckingham and Northampton, and for erecting a more "commodious Bridge in lieu thereof," will MEET at the COCK INN, in Stony Stratford. On WEDNESDAYT the 18TH day of MARCH next, at Eleven o'clock, in the forenoon, to receive the Tenders, and to decide upon which shall be accepted; but the said Justices do not undertake to accept the lowest Tender, but reserve to themselves the right of fixing upon such as, under all circumstances, they shall deem most eligible.
Plans and Specifications of the intended New Bridge, and all particulars required in the Tenders, may be seen at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, in Aylesbury; and at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for Northamptonshire, in Northampton.
13th February, 1835.
The bridge has three stone arches and was raised by the aforementioned 4ft to prevent any flooding. The road that crossed the bridge was just enough for two horse drawn carriages to pass one another at the same time. The bridge then, as now, was surrounded by meadows and some beautiful scenery. It was carried across the river on three arches from the higher ground at Old Stratford and continued with a raised causeway across the flood meadow on the Stony Stratford side.
The Northampton Mercury August 1st 1835
On Saturday last, a considerable number of persons assembled to witness the laying of the first stone of Old Stratford New Bridge. It had been proposed that Major Mansel, the oldest magistrate at that time in the neighbourhood, should perform the ceremony ; but being obliged to decline it from infirm health, it was laid by the Rev. Loraine Loraine Smith. A bottle was inserted in the stone in which were deposited various gold, silver, and copper coins of the realm; the Northampton and Times newspapers, and a piece of vellum, bearing the following inscription, written by Mr. John Durham, jun.:"This bridge was erected under the authority of an act of Parliament passed in the 4th year of the reign of Wm. the Fourth, Anno Domini 1835; the first stone whereof in the presence and under the superintendence of John Christopher Mansell. Esq. and other Justices of the Peace for the counties of Buckingham and Northampton, on Saturday the 25th of July, 1835" digging out the foundation of the old bridge, some ancient copper coins were discovered, with a human skull, a pair of ancient stirrups of curious make ; a spur, measuring 9½ inches from the back of the heel to the extremity of the rowel ; a war-hook, a spear, an instrument forming an adze and hammer, a small earthen urn, and sundry other ancient relicsmost or all of which were found from six to ten feet below the bed of the river. After the ceremony of laying the stone was concluded, the workmen, about forty in number, partook of a dinner and plenty of ale, which had been ordered by the magistrates
There were ongoing discussions and disagreements regarding the expenses for the Bridge project, mainly due to its crossing parish and County boundaries.
The Northampton Mercury August 29th 1835
Comment: To the Editor of the Northampton Mercury
"Another is building at Old Stratford, the extremity of the county designed more to benefit Stony Stratford and the county of Buckingham; yet the expense it appears, is to be paid from the county rates of Northampton - £114. 8s. 5d. having been paid during the past year."
The Northampton Mercury August 29th 1835
An Abstract of the Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Treasurer of the County of Northampton, ending the April sessions, 1835
On account of the New Bridge, at Old Stratford £1,768 2s. 4d.
The Northampton Mercury October 31st 1835
Stony Stratford Bridge was reported to be in forward progress. Mr. Ireson had completed one part of his contract, and the Surveyor stated that the work was extremely well done. It is to be finished by the 1st of September, 1836.
The following articles from 1836 onwards show us how the various authorities attempted to defray the costs of its construction and maintenance via the tolls system.
The Northampton Mercury June 18th 1836
In pursuance of the Order of the Superintending Justices appointed under the Act of Parliament passed in the 4th year of the reign of his present Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for taking down and removing "Old Stratford Bridge over the River Ouse, in the Counties of "Buckingham and Northampton, and for erecting a more "commodious Bridge in lieu thereof," made at a Meeting held at the Cock Inn, at Stony Stratford, on Monday the 16th day of May, 1836;
Notice is hereby given,
That from and after TWELVE O'CLOCK of the night of SUNDAY the THIRD day of JULY next, the following TOLLS will be demanded, taken and received at the TOLL GATE to be erected at the said Bridge, before any Cattle or Carriages shall be permitted to pass through the same (that is to say):
The Northampton Mercury July 30th 1836
An Abstract of the Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Treasurer of the County of Northampton, ending the 29th June, 1836.
To the several Sums borrowed on Mortgage of the County Rates under the Old Stratford Bridge Act. £2,500.
The Northampton Mercury October 7th 1837
An Abstract of the Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Treasurer of the County of Northampton, ending the 26th June, 1837
To Cash received of John F. Congreve, Esq. for the half share of the Fees paid by the County of Northampton to Messrs. Dorington & Co. for Soliciting the Old Stratford Bridge Bill £214 10s 5d
On Account of the New Bridge at Old Stratford, viz.
J. F. Congreve, Esq. the Treasurer, on Account 1,700 0s 0d
interest of money borrowed £100 0s 0d
The Northampton Mercury December 8th 1838
An Abstract of the Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Treasurer of the County of Northampton, ending the 30th June, 1838
To a further sum borrowed on Mortgage of the County Rates under the Old Stratford Bridge Act. £1,000
Ten years later, these arguments were still persisting, as the deadline for the abolition of tolls approached, and the Bridge was still not paid for.
The Northampton Mercury October 20th 1849
Stony Stratford Bridge. The Clerk of the Peace reported to the Court that the sum £3,500 would be payable from the county in 1855, borrowed in 1834 for the building of Stony Stratford Bridge. Mr. SAWBRIDGE and the Legislature had contemplated when the act was granted that the tolls would be sufficient to pay interest and principal in 21 years, when the tolls were to be abolished. But the opening of the London and North-Western Railway had had the effect of so reducing the tolls that they did not pay the interest. The question was whether they could not obtain some relief from the Legislature. Mr. WING remarked that as soon as the Buckinghamshire Railway opened, the tolls would fall off still more. On the motion of Colonel CARTWRIGHT the question was referred to the Superintending Justices of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire relating to the bridge.
One hundred and fifty years later the Bridge still stands, carrying the huge increase in today's traffic. The only difference is the absence of the Toll House which originally stood at the southern end. This was removed in 1857 despite a petition by 69 local inhabitants, amongst whom are to be found most of the 'solid citizens' of the time, who expressed concern that this would lead to damage to the bridge and danger to people using it.


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Last Friday the world stopped. A fabulous and wonderful present was being joyfully and majestically imparted to everybody who cared to receive it. Too many powerful epithets, aiming at besieging and conquering the reader's emotions? I cannot help it. After so many gloomy and terrifying events shaking the global stage, the royal wedding was like a breath of fresh air.
Let's not think of political scheming, intricate hidden agendas and devious PR maneuvers… nobody says the world is perfect. The royal wedding day was a moment of happiness, a glimpse of beauty, a fairy-tale unfolding at hand. People watched in awe, smiled, laughed, cried, overwhelmed by unexplainable feelings.
Princess Catherine was a vision, a dark beauty in white lace and satin. Very much like the delicate, sweetly-fragranced flowers in her bridal bouquet. Prince William was infinitely handsome in his scarlet officer jacket, the very image of the fairy-tale prince, tall and strong, fair and blue-eyed. And, yes, his baldness makes him real, adding to his personal charisma. The irresistibly shy and kind smile as well as the proud posture of his athletic body make up a very charming man, a legacy of Lady Diana's warm personality and Prince Charles's aristocratic sobriety. Watching Prince William and Princess Catherine throughout the wedding ceremony was uniquely beautiful and impressive. It was as if everybody was given the chance of stepping into the fairy-tales' realm and living there for several happy hours. Unforgettable.
Who knows what time has in store for the lovely couple? The future seems worrying enough, not only for them, but for everybody. Let us just hope and pray that more and more fairy-tales, theirs and ours, will have a happy-end. I keep my fingers crossed.


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7 Tips to Help You Get a Better Beard
Today Carlos is gonna talk about a few thing you need to know when growing a beard. This is all based on his experiences and the people around him, like Eric. He's not an expert, but he'll give it a shot.
Tip 1: Eat Healthier
Eat your greens, get your protein, add some nuts into your meal, just help your beard grow from the inside out. Eat things that have a lot of nutrients. It's all about adding bits of healthy stuff to your meals if you don't want to change your diet completely. Also, you'll want to drink plenty of water, roughly 2-3 liters a day.
Tip 2: Stop Shaving
Leave it alone for a few months. It may depend on your job, so make sure to put that first, but still, let it grow and trim every once in a while. But if you're able to grow it out, just leave it alone for 2-3 months.
Tip 3: Scrub Your Face
Use a facial scrub at least once a week. It'll help get rid of all the dead skin cells that accumulate throughout the week. Keep cleaning and help the hair flow nicer. Even if you have a larger beard, you'll still want to use the scrub but also you'll want to use wash and softener once a week as well.
Tip 4: Moisturize
No matter what stage of your growth you are in, you'll need to use beard oil or utility balm to moisturize your skin and hair. It helps soothe the itching as well in early growth.
Tip 5: Train Your Hair
Not all hair grows at the same rate, so you need to train your beard to grow in the way you want it. You may need a few friends to help with this stage. Use a comb to help guide your hair in the direction you want it to grow. It may not seem like it's doing anything, but just keep brush or comb it a few times a day. This will also help get rid of the curls in your beard.
Tip 6: Exercise
Get testosterone to be produced more in your body. Lift weights play sports, just get active so your body produces more. Do what you like, you don't need to go to the gym. Just get the testosterone flowing.
Tip 7: Mindfulness
It helps you get more patient to just let that beard grow. You can read, you can focus on yourself, and just focus on the moment. Growing a beard takes a lot of patients, and this will really help.


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When I was 12, I wasn't like other girls.
A lot of girls were vapid back-stabbers obsessed with boys, makeup and gossip. I was a bookworm interested in creative writing and online role-playing games.
I strutted around in frumpy, oversized hand-me-downs while all the other girls wore the latest Abercrombie & Fitch apparel. I listened to Paramore and Panic! at the Disco religiously, since pop music was uncultured and meaningless. I was proud to be out of touch with mainstream tastes, since it meant I was occupying myself with more worldly pursuits.
I wasn't like other girls. I was different.
… Wasn't I?
Give me a break.
Looking back at my tween angst days fills me with cringe-inducing humiliation that only the wonders of puberty can dredge up.
"I'm not like other girls" was my mantra for the majority of my middle school career. Each utterance was another protective layer against confronting the true source of the problem: my low self-esteem and crippling insecurity. In an effort to elevate my self-worth, I sought to tear other girls down.
I didn't resort to anything as drastic as cyberbullying or hanging effigies, but I didn't have to. It was enough that I had these poisonous thoughts in my head. I would unfairly dismiss women even before I really got the chance to know anything about them.
However, even at the peak of my internalized misogyny, all of my closest friends were girls (girls I'm still friends with today). It's as if some part of my subconscious knew how much of an idiot I was being and surrounded me with amazing and talented women.
To this day, I'm still surrounded by a rich variety of thoughtful, interesting and supportive women who show through their actions that being like other girls isn't a death sentence.
They are passionate activists, aspiring doctors, creative advertisers, hard-hitting journalists, talented photographers, successful entrepreneurs, genius coders, inspiring leaders and future lawyers. They answer my calls in the middle of night when I'm feeling stressed or send me links to cute animal videos when I need a pick-me-up. They rope me into philosophical discussions about morality and fate, tutor me in subjects I know nothing about and accompany me on bad reality television binges. They may drive me crazy with their antics at times, but they love me for who I am, flaws and all, just as I love them.
So if being like other girls means being a loyal friend, compassionate role model and diligent student, then I can only hope that I have even an iota of their likeness within me.
In the words of the great philosopher Hailee Steinfeld, "Most girls are smart and strong and beautiful / Most girls, work hard, go far, we are unstoppable / Most girls, our fight to make every day / No two are the same / I wanna be like, I wanna be like, most girls."
The "I'm not like other girls" mentality can manifest itself in different forms. Sometimes it's "I only have guy friends because girls are just so dramatic" or "I love and support all women, but … "
It's 2018. Let us move away from these toxic ideologies that force us to pit other women against one another.
I am in no way saying we should fall to our feet for every woman for their every action. Instead, I am proposing that we move away from pigeonholing women into unattainable and unjustifiable standards and that we see them for who they are: flawed, multi-faceted individuals trying to live their life like the rest of us.
Happy International Women's Day — here's to the other girls I aspire to be like each and every day.
Contact Fionce Siow at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter at @fioncesiow.


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Snowflake by Wilson Bentley
Words: Ellie Costigan
"For more than 100 years, Wilson Bentley has had legions of private admirers. Now, his legend is shifting away from the science lab, towards the museum and gallery," says James Brett, founder of The Gallery of Everything.
Born in 1865 in Vermont, USA, Wilson was a dairy farmer, who from a young age had an insatiable fascination for snow. Having been home-schooled, he used his microscope—given to him on his 15th birthday—to examine the swathes of snowflakes that surrounded his home in rural Jericho for much of the year, fueled by his desire to understand these "exquisite lineaments… from cloudland".
At first he tried to capture his findings by pencil, but soon grew frustrated. By adapting a microscope to a bellows camera, however, he eventually, through years of trial and error, became the first man to photograph a single snow crystal, in 1885. "Bentley was far more than a passionate hobbyist; he was an adventurer, who realised the potential of microphotography and used it to capture the impossible individuality of each and every snowflake," says James.
Gaining traction
He went on to produce thousands of stunning photographs which revolutionised the field of photomicrography and gained attention the world over. "Now, 130 years later, his work is gaining traction not only as science, but as art."
Following this "important re-contextualisation", here we'll see a collection of the artist's rare original glass plates, alongside a number of photographs of snowflakes, ice crystals and frosts from the turn of the century, in what will be the first significant exhibition of Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley's work in the UK.
The new Chiltern Street gallery's Journeys into the Outside exhibition will also feature works from artists such as Indian landscape architect Nek Chand Saini, and the multi-disciplinary French artist Chomo, inspired by the Channel 4 documentary series of the same name which sought to invite "British viewers to explore some of the world's most astonishing art environments".
Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley & Jarvis Cocker's Journeys Into The Outside
Until 1st January
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JKBT has initiated several water harvesting measures in partnership with the local community so as to have water for support irrigation and for cultivating crops in the Rabi season also. Constructing technically improved Farm ponds, reviving and constructing Percolation Tanks and construction of check damns have been successfully undertaken. Looking in to soil composition which is sandy loam, it is needed to promote soil conservation measures such as field bunding and contour bunding. These measures reduce the erosion of the fertile top layer of the soil and help in maintaining humidity and recharge water in the ground.
As a part of its strategy, JKBT along with community has put its effort by construction obey structure, revival of existing old structures and also diverting rain water to recharge the ground water table. Under this programme Check Dam. Embankment of Farm Pond, Revival of Percolation tank, excavation of streams have been taken up.
Family harvest rain water and fulfil in safe and pure drinking
water at the door step
JKBT believes in sustainability of the structures which should benefit community for years. Hence it also motivates and enables community to plant vegetation on builds. A series of capacity building activities like trainings, workshops and exposure visits are also being done in these areas to make community empowered to use miscue structures sustainably. Trainings on water management are also being taken up for the, Judaisms use of water to get maximum yield.
Drinking Water
Water is a precious resource, especially so in water scarce areas like Sikar, where the average annual rainfall is as merger as 450mm. Besides, the gradual depletion of the ground water resource is further adding to distress of the community. JKBT has been instrumental in organizing and sensitizing the communities on water conservation and management interventions. The key objectives of JKBT's interventions are: (1) To promote water harvesting techniques by constructing roof rain water harvesting structures and (2) To enable and sensitize people to manage community resources efficiently.
JKBT has promoted Rain Roof Water Harvesting Structures (RRWHS) and Community Bore well for the drinking water at door step.


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Laboratory Analytics
Substrate- and animal feed analyses
- Standard biogas substrate analytics (DM, oDM, acids, FOS/TAC, total C, total N, C/N, total S, etc.)
- Micronutrient screening (Co, Mn, Mo, Zn, Cu, Se, Fe, Ni)
- Animal feed analytics (crude protein, -fibre,- fat, starch, sugar)
- Detection of biogas potential of substrates (NIRS method)
- Advisory within the evaluation of necessary and suitable analyzing methods
- Advisory within the interpretation of analyses results
Biogas potential tests
- Declaration of biogas potential in substrates (organic input material) in the biogas laboratory
- Consultancy within the choice of a convenient test method
- Realization of Batch Tests
- Organic substrates will be digested in anaerobic conditions. On the one hand, basic figures about a possible Biogas and Methane production can be evaluated and forecasted with this test method. On the other hand statements about the substrate's ability for a digestion in real conditions can be predicted.
- Realization of Continuous Flow Tests
- Organic substrates can be tested using the continuous flow test method. Also the organic loading rate, the hydrolytic retention time, the process stability and efficiency can be tested. This test method simulates the usage of the substrate in a real biogas plant using a scaled down biogas plant environment in the laboratory. This method enables to draw a long lasting conclusion for the operation of the tested substrate in real conditions in a biogas plant. Real process conditions can be simulated and can give a forecast about the biological and economic impact of the process.
- Advisory within the interpretation of analysis results