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A Sit Down – with Daniel Wilson COVT
For the benefit of our readers, can detail how you are involved in Developmental Optometry?
I am the Head Therapist and Director of Sports Vision Training at Austin Eye Gym in Austin, TX. I have been a vision therapist for 9 years now.
How did you first discover Vision Therapy?
I was going to college for a degree in teaching when a friend of mine told me about a job opportunity working with children and teenagers as a vision therapist. He explained how it could be a good way for me to gain experience that would translate into teaching. Once I saw what kind of impact I could have on a child's life and how vision therapy helps give them a new world, I knew I found my calling.
You certified in 2011 in Las Vegas. Can you describe that experience to us?
The certification process was one of the hardest but most rewarding things I have gone through as a therapist. It forces you to take a hard look at what you know and where you stand as a therapist. By going through the process I found that I was able to provide a higher quality of therapy.
I understand you were volunteered to do a second oral interview. Can you explain the circumstances?
After I had finished my first interview I received a phone call saying I had passed my oral interview and that due to how well I did they would like me to present a second interview to therapists who were interested in certifying the following year in the "Road to COVT"meeting. Initially, I was hesitant on going through this process again in front of so many people but Dr. Leonard Press did a great job of making the process as welcoming and supportive as possible.
Following your own certification, have you had the opportunity to mentor newer therapists?
I had the pleasure of being able to mentor three of my coworkers. This was a great way for me to remind myself of how much I have learned through the years and was rewarding to see my fellow coworkers grow as a therapists.
Can you explain your passion for Sports Vision Therapy?
Sports has always been my passion since I was a child. Being able to improve an athlete's game and make therapy more dynamic has been a great test of my knowledge in therapy and sports.
Have you ever envisioned a multi-disciplinary clinic involving sports?
Yes I have, my vision is to be able to create a program that can provide circuit training for teams to train while still providing training on an individual level. Ultimately, I would like to have a program created that I could go around to other clinics and help them start their own sports program.
Have you had the opportunity to work with athletes on any level?
Yes, I have been able to work with athletes on the professional, collegiate, high school, middle school, and club level. I have also worked with athletes on sports enhancement and concussion rehabilitation.
As someone who basically "fell into" Vision Therapy, it seems you've decided to make it a career. Can you explain the thought process behind that decision?
After 6 months or so of training and working in vision therapy, I started to see the impact it made on patient's lives and what a dramatic change it could make. I felt that this would be more rewarding given the fact I can work with a patient one on one versus teaching when the ratio is one on thirty or more. At the end of one of my first patient's programs, he was able to report that he was no longer embarrassed to read in class and started to cry. That memory has stuck with me my entire career and helps drive me daily.
What advice would you offer therapists who are looking to pursue Vision Therapy as a career?
I would offer that each person make every session with your patient count. The impact you make on their life will impact them forever and can be one of the most rewarding things they can go through. At times you will have patients who push you to your limits but those are usually the most impacted patient who will have the biggest gains in the end.
On a personal note, can you tell us about the recent addition to your life?
Last year, my wife and I welcomed our first child, Addilyn. She was born December 14th and has been the greatest thing to happen to us. Her smile and fun personality make every day amazing.
Some Closing Thoughts – A great thanks to my friend, co-worker, and golfing buddy, Daniel, for taking the time for this interview. Daniel and I first met while working together in Houston in 2008 and have been friends ever since. In fact, my son was the ring bearer in Daniel's wedding. Today, Daniel and I work side by side running Austin Eye Gym (he as Head Therapist and me as General Manager) and work very hard not only to help build our clinic, but also in motivating each other to be the best we can be with every patient. I am thrilled to have Daniel as a co-worker, and I am proud to call him my friend. Please join me in wishing Daniel, his wife Melissa, and their baby Addilyn, the absolute best!
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Unless you arrive by cruise ship or your own boat, there's only one way to get to Hawaii - by air on one of the airlines with flights to Hawaii.
Fortunately, there are many airlines that fly to Hawaii, not only from the United States and Canada but from multiple foreign cities, principally in Asia and Australia/New Zealand.
Here is a breakdown on the airlines that fly to Hawaii, including those that provide inter-island flights.
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Air Canada
Air Canada, Canada's largest full-service airline and the largest provider of scheduled passenger services in the Canadian market, flies to and from numerous Canadian cities to and from Honolulu (Oahu), Kahului (Maui) and Kona (Big Island).
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Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand, the national airline and flag carrier of New Zealand, offers a daily flight to and from Honolulu International Airport from Auckland, New Zealand.
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Air Pacific
Air Pacific, Fiji's national airline, flies to and from Honolulu from Apia (Samoa), Christmas Island, Nadi (Fiji) with connecting flights to and from Hong Kong, eastern Australia, New Zealand and numerous South Pacific islands.
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Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines began service to Hawaii in 2009 with flights to and from Anchorage, Alaska and Seattle/Tacoma, Washington to and from Lihue (Kauai), Honolulu (Oahu), Kahului (Maui) and Kona (Big Island).
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Allegiant Air
Allegiant Airlines will begin service to Hawaii from several cities in the western part of the United States beginning in 2012. Initial service will begin in June from Las Vegas and Fresno to Honolulu with additional departure cities being added in November 2012, including a direct flight from Bellingham, Washington to Kahului, Maui. Read more about Allegiant Air's Hawaii flights.
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American Airlines
American Airlines, one of the largest USA based carriers that serves 250 cities in 40 countries, offers daily flights from many cities worldwide to Lihue (Kauai), Honolulu (Oahu), Kahului (Maui) and Hilo (Big Island) and Kona (Big Island).
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All Nippon Airways
All Nippon Airways (ANA), the smaller of Japan's two international carriers, but a member of the Star Alliance network, offers daily service from Tokyo(Narita) to Honolulu (Oahu).
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China Airlines
China Airlines, the flag carrier of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan), offers daily service between Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (Taiwan) and Narita International Airport (Tokyo, Japan) to Honolulu (Oahu) with connecting service to numerous other destinations in Asia.Continue to 9 of 22 below.
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Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines offers daily service from Houston, Los Angeles and Newark (NJ) to Honolulu (Oahu). Future service is planned to Kahului (Maui) from both Los Angeles and Orange County (CA) and to Honolulu (Oahu) from Orange County (CA).
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Delta Airlines
Delta Airlines (now merged with Northwest Airlines) offers daily service to Honolulu (Oahu), Kahului (Maui) and Kona (Big Island) from numerous US cities as well as a number of international locations, primarily in the Far East.
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Island Air
Island Air, Hawaii's second oldest airline, celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2010 is a regional carrier, serving airports on all major Hawaiian islands. The airline offers flights between the Honolulu International Airport, Kahului (Maui), Kapalua (West Maui), Ho'olehua Airport (Moloka'i), Lana'i City Airport (Lana'i), Lihue (Kauai), and Kona (Big Island of Hawaii). Island Air operates a fleet of 37-seat Dash 8 turboprop aircraft.
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Go! based in Honolulu is a regional brand of Phoenix, Arizona-based Mesa Airlines. Go! operates inter-island services within Hawaii. Go! serves Kona, Lihu'e, Hilo, and Kahului from their hub at Honolulu International Airport. They also offer go!Express services, operated by Island Air, to the smaller cities of Ho'olehua, Moloka'i, Lana'i City and Kapalua, (West) Maui.Continue to 13 of 22 below.
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Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines, founded in 1929 (as Inter-Island Airways), is the 11th largest commercial airline in the United States and the largest airline based in the State of Hawaii. Hawaiian Airlines flies both inter-island routes and direct flights from numerous USA mainland cities in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. They also offer international flights from Pago Pago, American Samoa; Manila, Philippines; Papeete, Tahiti; and Sydney, Australia.
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Japan Airlines (JAL)
Japan Airlines, the largest international carrier in Japan, offers daily flights from Narita International Airport (Tokyo), Chubu Centrair International Airport and Kansai International Airport (Osaka) to Honolulu (Oahu) and from Narita International Airport (Tokyo) to Kona (Big Island).
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Jetstar Airways
Jetstar Airways, Australia, and Singapore's new (2004) low-cost airline offers several weekly flights between Sydney, Australia, and Honolulu (Oahu). Jetstar's Australian operation is wholly owned by Qantas but is managed separately and operates independently.
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Korean Air
Korean Air, South Korea's flagship airline offers daily flights between Seoul Incheon International Airport and Honolulu (Oahu).Continue to 17 of 22 below.
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Omni Air International
A U.S. Part 121 charter air carrier who partners with major tour operators, cruise lines, sports/incentive charters, commercial airlines and the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Philippine Airlines (PAL)
Philippine Airlines, the national airline of the Philippines, offers three roundtrip flights each week between Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Manila) and Honolulu (Oahu).
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Qantas Airways
Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia and Australia's largest airline. It is also the world's second oldest airline. Quantas offers three weekly roundtrip flights between Sydney, Australia, and Honolulu (Oahu).
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United Airlines
United Airlines one of the world's largest airlines and a founding member of the Star Alliance offers numerous flights each day between major US cities and Lihue (Kauai), Honolulu (Oahu), Kahului (Maui) and Kona (Big Island). United brings more passengers to Hawaii than any other airline. They offer direct flights to Hawaii from their hubs in Chicago (O'Hare), Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.Continue to 21 of 22 below.
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US Airways
US Airways (including the former America West) offers direct flights between their Phoenix hub and Lihue (Kauai), Honolulu (Oahu), Kahului (Maui) and Kona (Big Island) as well as between their Charlotte, NC hub and Honolulu (Oahu). As a member of the Star Alliance, connections are available from most major US and foreign cities.
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Westjet Airlines
Westjet Airlines, a Canadian low-cost carrier based in Calgary, Alberta, that offers a number of flights each week between Vancouver and Lihue (Kauai); Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary and Honolulu (Oahu); Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Kahului (Maui); and Vancouver and Kona (Big Island of Hawaii).
Check prices for your flight to Hawaii on TripAdvisor.

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BRISTOL TOWNSHIP -- Police haven't released the identities of either driver involved in a two-car accident Sunday evening.
Police say a silver Toyota Corolla was traveling east on Bristol Pike approaching Edgely Road when it made contact with a 1996 Buick Roadmaster traveling north on Edgely Road crossing over Route 13 around 6:15 p.m.
The 27-year-old Toyota driver wasn't injured. The 69-year-old Buick driver suffered serious injuries and was extricated from her car before she was taken to Aria Health�s Torresdale campus, where she is in serious condition.
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Tutorial Series: Free C# Fundamentals via ASP.NET Web Apps
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This lesson covers how to change the length of an array. Arrays are immutable by default, which means that once you define or declare an array, just like a variable, you normally cannot increase or reduce the number of array elements. Returning to a previous analogy, you cannot remove or add any more "buckets" strung up on the "broomstick"; it is of fixed size once that size is declared. We imprint on the broom-handle the size as precisely five elements:
Fortunately, the .NET framework class library defines arrays with some helper methods that can process the array, and return one with a new size – returning an array that is either larger or smaller than the original array. You can also access other helper methods that get the sum, minimum, maximum, and average values within the array, along with other generally useful operations.
Let's begin this lesson by creating a new ASP.NET project called "CS-ASP_023" and create the following Controls and programmatic IDs:
This application will be a simple calculator that allows us to add the number of work hours on a given project and return some statistics. Each work session will be stored in an array, so one session might be eight hours, another is four hours, and another is six hours. Those would be three different sessions. From that, we can access array helper methods to average them out and find the session with the most hours, the fewest hours, the average session length, and so on.
Let's first create the array with zero elements (to start off with) upon page load, and add it to the ViewState:
Then, in the addButton_Click event create another locally scoped variable called hours and populate it with all of the previously added elements preserved in ViewState. Remember that the ViewState["Hours"] is a generic object and therefore needs to be cast to an array of doubles.
Then resize the hours array (adding one more element) by passing it into the Resize() helper method found in the Array class. Note that the Resize() method takes in the current hours array, as well as its current length, plus one:
The ref keyword here means "reference" and essentially takes the actual variable/object hours into the Resize() method rather than just copying it. This means you can perform an operation on the variable and not have to return a copy of it back to the original variable. There will be a lot more said about passing by reference/value in further lessons.
It's worth noting that the Array.Resize() method doesn't violate the fundamental rule of array immutability. What the method actually does – behind the scenes – is make a new array with one more element than the one we passed into it (in this case hours), and then copies all of the elements from the one we passed in, into the new array.
Here's a concept that may help you wrap your head around how Array.Resize() works: if you're a Star Trek fan, you may be familiar with the concept of teleportation used throughout the series. With teleportation, no object actually moves from one place to another, but rather each particle (and its position in space) making up the source object gets copied (you can even imagine that the teleportation device uses three-dimensional arrays to represent each particle in three-dimensional space). A new object is simply built off of that copied information at the destination.
After that code, we will want to (1) return the highest numerical index in the hours array. And, since we know in advance that it will be the newest array element added in Array.Resize() – reference that index number (2) to store whatever the user entered in hoursTextBox.Text:
GetUpperBound() takes in the dimension of the current array that you are evaluating. Remember in the previous lesson we discussed multi-dimensional arrays, but in this case our array only has one dimension. Therefore, we pass in 0, since the arrays' indexes are zero-based.
And then simply replace the previous values in ViewState["Hours"] with the new hours array, and then output the sum of all array elements:
When you run the application, you will now be able to add hours and store them in ViewState in between PostBack's:
We can also call several other helper methods available to the array:
When you run the application, you will now see these various statistics. Here, we entered three values (6, 7, and 9) to represent the hours worked in three different sessions:
Lesson 1 - Series Introduction
Lesson 2 - Installing Visual Studio 2015
Lesson 3 - Building Your First Web App
Lesson 4 - Understanding What You Just Did
Lesson 5 - Working with Projects in Visual Studio
Lesson 6 - Simple Web Page Formatting in Visual Studio
Lesson 7 - Variables and Data Types
Lesson 8 - Data Type Conversion
Lesson 9 - Arithmetic Operators
Challenge 2 - ChallengeSimpleCalculator
Solution - ChallengeSimpleCalculator
Lesson 11 - Conditional If Statements
Lesson 12 - The Conditional Ternary Operator
Challenge 3 - ChallengeConditionalRadioButton
Solution - Challenge Conditional RadioButton
Lesson 13 - Comparison and Logical Operators
Lesson 13 Challenge - First Papa Bob's Website
Solution - Challenge First Papa Bob's Website
Lesson 14 - Working with Dates and Times
Lesson 15 - Working With Spans of Time
Lesson 16 - Working with the Calendar Server Control
Challenge 4 - Challenge Days Between Dates
Solution - Challenge Days Between Dates
Lesson 17 - Page_Load and Page.IsPostBack
Lesson 18 - Setting a Break Point and Debugging
Lesson 19 - Formatting Strings
Challenge 5 - Challenge Epic Spies Assignment
Solution - Challenge Epic Spies Assignment
Lesson 20 - Maintaining State with ViewState
Lesson 21 - Storing Values in Arrays
Lesson 22 - Understanding Multidimensional Arrays
Lesson 23 - Changing the Length of an Array
Challenge 6 - Challenge Epic Spies Asset Tracker
Solution - Challenge Epic Spies Asset Tracker
Lesson 24 - Understanding Variable Scope
Lesson 25 - Code Blocks and Nested If Statements
Lesson 26 - Looping with the For Iteration Statement
Challenge 7 - Challenge For Xmen Battle Count
Solution - Challenge For Xmen Battle Count
Lesson 27 - Looping with the while() & do...while() Iteration Statements
Lesson 28 - Creating and Calling Simple Helper Methods
Lesson 29 - Creating Methods with Input Parameters
Lesson 30 - Returning Values from Methods
Lesson 31 - Creating Overloaded Methods
Lesson 32 - Creating Optional Parameters
Lesson 33 - Creating Names Parameters
Lesson 34 - Creating Methods with Output Parameters
Challenge 8 - Challenge Postal Calculator Helper Methods
Solution - Challenge Postal Calculator Helper Methods
Solution - Mega Challenge Casino
Lesson 35 - Manipulating Strings
Challenge 9 - Phun With Strings
Solution - Challenge Phun With Strings
Lesson 36 - Introduction to Classes and Objects
Challenge - Hero Monster Classes Part 1
Solution - Hero Monster Classes Part 1
Challenge - Hero Monster Classes Part 2
Solution - Challenge Hero Monster Classes Part 2
Lesson 37 - Creating Class Files Creating Cohesive Classes and Code Navigation
Lesson 38 - Understanding Object References and Object Lifetime
Lesson 39 - Understanding the .NET Framework and Compilation
Lesson 40 - Namespaces and Using Directives
Lesson 41 - Creating Class Libraries and Adding References to Assemblies
Lesson 42 - Accessibility Modifiers, Fields and Properties
Lesson 43 - Creating Constructor Methods
Lesson 44 - Naming Conventions for Identifiers
Lesson 45 - Static vs Instance Members
Challenge 10 - Challenge Simple Darts
Solution - Challenge Simple Darts
Lesson 46 - Working with the List Collection
Lesson 47 - Object Initializers
Lesson 48 - Collection Initializers
Lesson 49 - Working with the Dictionary Collection
Lesson 50 - Looping with the foreach Iteration Statement
Lesson 51 - Implicitly-Typed Variables with the var Keyword
Challenge 11 - Challenge Student Courses
Solution - Challenge Student Courses
Lesson 53 - Working with Enumerations
Lesson 54 - Understanding the switch() Statement
Lesson 55 - First Pass at the Separation of Concerns Principle
Lesson 56 - Understanding Exception Handling
Lesson 57 - Understanding Global Exception Handling
Lesson 58 - Understanding Custom Exceptions
Lesson 59 - Creating a Database in Visual Studio
Lesson 60 - Creating an Entity Data Model
Lesson 61 - Displaying the DbSet Result in an ASP.NET GridView
Lesson 62 - Implementing a Button Command in a GridView
Lesson 63 - Using a Tools-Centric Approach to Building a Database Application
Lesson 64 - Using a Maintenance-Driven Approach to Building a Database Application
Lesson 65 - Creating a New Instance of an Entity and Persisting it to the Database
Lesson 66 - Package Management with NuGet
Lesson 67 - NuGet No-Commit Workflow
Lesson 68 - Introduction the Twitter Bootstrap CSS Framework
Lesson 69 - Mapping Enum Types to Entity Properties in the Framework Designer
Lesson 70 - Deploying the App to Microsoft Azure Web Services Web Apps
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 1 - Setting up the Solution
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 2 - Adding an Order to the Database
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 3 - Passing an Order from the Presentation Layer
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 4 - Creating the Order Form
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 5 - Adding Enums
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 6 - Creating an Order with Validation
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 7 - Calculating the Order Price
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 8 - Displaying the Price to the User
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 9 - Creating the Order Management Page


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Skiboots Snowshoe kittens are very special. These kittens are rare, unique and very individual. The kittens are born in my bedroom and raised in our home for maximum socialisation.
All kittens will be sold desexed, microchipped, F3 vaccinated x 2, Veterinary Health checked and guaranteed healthy. They have been regularly wormed and are free of fleas.
They will be available to approved pet homes only from 12 weeks of age.
A copy of their pedigree will be provided (each kitten will be registered with FCCV). Kittens for Showing and Breeding by special arrangement only. Each kitten leaves with a full kitten pack, including bedding / food / toys to help them settle quickly into their new home.
*Note: When buying a Skiboots Snowshoe kitten you can expect to pay a little more than from the other Snowshoe breeders, this is because of the years of work we have put into establishing this breed in Australia, and the vast outlay we have made in importing the very best bloodlines we could find to launch the Australian Snowshoe. Skiboots has earned a very fine reputation both in Australia and overseas, and this does not come easily. Our cats are proven as wonderful pets, successful Show cats and reliable breeders across many countries.
Pet prices start from
approx. $1,200 for Colour Point (no white) kittens, up to approx $1,800 - $2,000 for the best marked kittens. The majority of our kittens are around the $1,600 mark.
The rare Tabby Point, Tortie Point, and the exceptionally rare Red Point would be individually priced by negotiation.
By negotiation for the rare Classic Pattern.
Show and Breed prices on application.
Discounts for multiple purchases.
Please keep in mind that the Snowshoe Cat is a highly intelligent, active and social cat. It is therefore not ideal to be left alone for long periods of time & it is preferable if your family is gone all day that the Snowshoe have another pet for company. We will give good discounts for people buying two kittens at once, or we recommend considering the adoption of a rescue kitten at the same time if you do not already have a cat and your family will be absent every day. On rare occasions we may have an adult available for re-homing with a kitten.
It is worthwhile to spend the time reading and watching the various links about Snowshoes on our Snowshoe Snippets page. This should give you a good insight about being owned by a Snowshoe!
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text: One of my favorite series from the BBC is Inspector Morse. Police drama set in Oxford, England, Morse is the atypical Inspector: he loves opera, good wine & beer(Bud Lite not one of them), good book and crossword puzzels. Not only entertaining but educational in the arts. It was only on for 7 seasons from 1987 – 2000. Series at the BBC are much different than here. But I digress – while watching an episode, his Sargeant Lewis recites a quote: treat triumph and disaster the same. Morse says, "Kipling", and of course if watch many of these Lewis is not as familiar with writers as his boss. But the quote intrigue me and so with the help of Google, I found where it is from and it is a wonderful poem that should be studied further. Not sure if I will do it but finding it is a start. So here is Kipling's poem IF…enjoy! If— BY RUDYARD KIPLING: 'Brother Square-Toes'—Rewards and Fairies If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son! Source: A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1943) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175772 So don't discount television shows, some you do learn something. A more up to date is Big Bang Theory. Funny as hell but it does use and makes the sciences so cool! Since the arts are more my area, I haven't looked up any vocabulary because most I can pronounce much less spell.😁!


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As an information technology professional or a small business owner, you know how very important it is to run a regular and scheduled data backup event. The loss of data files to an organization, such as from accidental deletion of files, a virus attack, a fire or flood, or any number of other similar events, can cost an organization a tremendous amount of time and money. There is also another solution that you may be overlooking in your data management solutions, and this is drive image software.
In the event that you do experience a data loss event, the most important task at hand is to retrieve and restore the lost data files in a fast and accurate way. You absolutely want to minimize downtime in your organization when such an event happens because it is true that time is money. When you have a data loss event, you know that while you can retrieve the data files from your backup solutions, this can take a bit of time. With drive image software, however, the time to retrieve and restore the lost data files is truly minimized. Such a solution essentially will take a carbon copy image of your drives today, basically mapping the drives for your use later when you need to recreate the drives. Then, when a data loss occurs, you simply restore the mapped drives and then quickly restore the lost data files.
Drive image software is also ideal for use when adding a new user to your system to ensure uniformity in your organization as well as when upgrading from an older machine to a new system. The bottom line is that such a software solution can save everyone in your organization a tremendous amount of time and stress in a number of different scenarios, and it should be included in your data management solutions.
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My good friend D's sister recently headed back to HK for a 6 week hollier and whilst perusing thru her pics on FB, came across some really mouthwatering seafood ones. I found out through D that her sis had gone on a day trip to Po Toi Island (蒲苔島), part of a group of islands lying to the southeast of HK Island and popular with folk for hiking, birdwatching......and eating seafood! D and I organised to meet on Saturday morning to take the ferry to 蒲苔島 from Aberdeen to try out the food at the only resto on 蒲苔島, Ming Kee Restaurant (明記海鮮酒家). Turns out the resto is owned by the rellies of a friend of D's sis, small world indeed!! The decor and seating are typical of what you might find dining by the beach, nothing much to look at but the food was fresh and super tasty!! Worth the trip.....we would've stayed for longer to walk around the island but decided against it cos 1) it was so hot that I was sweating profusely just standing around and 2) needed to get back for early Mother's Day dinner. A nice day trip away from the hustle and bustle of the city :)
Ming Kee Restaurant (明記海鮮酒家)
Po Toi Island
Tel: 2849 7038


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South Loudoun Parents Make Final Pleas Ahead of Boundary Changes
One week before it signs off on new attendance boundaries for elementary schools in the southern end of the county, Loudoun's School Board heard from a dozen parents at a final public hearing on the matter Tuesday night.
School assignments need to be adjusted in that area ahead of the opening of Goshen Post Elementary School next fall and to relieve some of the county's most crowded schools. The new school is under construction on land next to John Champe High School along Northstar Boulevard.
The attendance zone changes could impact students at five Dulles South elementary schools: Buffalo Trail, Hutchison Farm, Liberty, Little River and Pinebrook.
The School Board has narrowed the proposed attendance maps to four options: one proposed by Eric Hornberger (Ashburn) called Plan 3, another drafted by Chairman Jeff Morse (Dulles) called Plan 4, and two others drawn up by Jill Turgeon (Blue Ridge) and Beth Huck (At Large) called Plan 6 and Plan 7.
The plans have a lot of similarities—they all reduce enrollment counts at the most crowded schools and take into account that some attendance lines in that area will have to be shifted again in when another new elementary school (ES-29) opens in 2023.
Plan 3 would reassign a total of 1,057 students, fewer than the other plans, and makes it so fewer families will be reassigned a second time when ES-29 opens. Plan 4 is similar, "but the primary difference is when it comes to the balance between Hutchison Farm and Liberty," Morse said. Plan 4 leaves more students at Hutchison Farm, while Plan 3 would leave more students at Liberty.
The highlight of Plan 6 is that it assigns most of the Greens at Willowsford neighborhood (planning zones 7.3 and 7.4) from Buffalo Trail to Goshen Post. Plans 3 and 4 would split them, keeping students in 7.3 at Buffalo Trail and sending students in 7.4 to Goshen Post. "We don't want to split them up just to reunite them later," Turgeon said, noting that 7.3 would likely be assigned to ES-29 when it opens.
It also keeps a small neighborhood north of Rt. 50, called 6.6, at Aldie Elementary School, to free up space in Goshen Post for those Willowsford students.
Plan 7 differs from Plan 6 in that it assigns the last piece of the Greens at Willowsford, planning zone 7.1, with their neighbors at Goshen Post.
Most of the parents who approached the board at the final boundary public hearing Tuesday were from the Willowsford neighborhood.
J.T. Wilson told board members that his children ride a bus past two other elementary schools to get to Buffalo Trail Elementary and, when Goshen Post Elementary opens, they would be riding past three elementary schools. He supports plans 6 and 7 that would send his neighborhood to the new school.
"Buffalo Trail is really far from our zone. Our kids spend way too much time on the bus," he said, noting that they board at 7 a.m. and get home at 3:15 p.m. each day. "It's a long day for them to spend in transit and not in the classroom."
Several other parents asked that their children be allowed to stay at their current school. North Riding resident Asheesh Chhabra, who has a second-grader at Liberty Elementary, said he and his neighbors are tired of changing schools every few years. He prefers plans 4, 6 and 7—but especially Plan 4. "I think this plan really helps stabilize the eastern part and brings the most stability going forward," he said.
The School Board will vote on a final boundary plan Tuesday. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. and will be held at the school administration building, 21000 Education Court in Ashburn.


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11 Child Actors In Bollywood Whose Powerful Performances Left The Audience Asking For More
Can you imagine Bajrangi Bhaijaan without Harshaali Malhotra or Taare Zameen Par without Darsheel Safary? No, of course not! They are the heart and soul of these movies.
The powerhouse performances of these child actors would put even the veteran actors to shame. Oh! and let's not forget their adorable expressions!
So without further ado, let us revisit some of the new and old Bollywood movies to find some of the most powerful performances of these child actors.
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#1. Harshaali Malhotra in Bajrangi Bhaijaan
The whole nation was taken in by Harshaali Malhotra's immense cuteness and charm as Munni in Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Despite playing the role of a deaf and mute character in the movie, her performance strongly spoke of her acting skills. The adorable child actor has also acted in popular TV shows like Laut Aao Trisha, Qubool Hai and Jodha Akbar.
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#2. Partho Gupte in Stanley Ka Dabba
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Like father, like son! Son of Amol Gupte, the man behind Taare Zameen Par, Partho Gupte is just as amazing as his father. He won many hearts as well as accolades including the most prestigious child actor award at the Schlingel International Film Festival for the portrayal of his role as Stanley in Stanley Ka Dabba. Partho, along with all the other kids, is simply adorable in this gem of a film. After his performance, he shined in other films as well like Hawaa Hawaii.
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#3. Darsheel Safary in Taare Zameen Par
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It has been close to a decade since the much-acclaimed movie Taare Zameen Par released, but the images of the bunny teeth boy struggling with dyslexia is still fresh in our minds. Playing the complicated role of Ishaan Awasthi was not easy, but Darsheel Safary with his superb acting skills made us fall in love with the kid. He even won the Filmfare Critics Award for the Best Actor, and also the Zee Cine Critics Award for Best Actor. He later went on to act in the film, Bumm Bumm Bole, and even showed off his dancing prowess in season 5 of Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa.
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#4. Harsh Mayar in I am Kalam
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Born to a poor family in the slums of Delhi, the bright eyed Harsh Mayar gave an excellent performance in the heart-warming movie, I Am Kalam. Just like his character in the film, the young boy got a chance to give wings to his dreams of becoming an actor. His impeccable performance as Chhotu in his debut film even helped him bag the National Film Award for Best Child Artist.
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#5. Purav Bhandare in Tahaan
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Holding your own, while sharing screen space with veteran actors like Anupam Kher, Sarika and Rahul Bose, is a difficult thing to do. But, the cute little boy Purav Bhandare not only held his ground, but also won everyone's heart with his extraordinary performance as Tahaan, a traumatised Kashmiri child. Anupam Kher mentioned in all his interviews that he was super-impressed by his performance.
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#6. Rohan Dey in Rockford
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Rockford is a beautiful movie by Nagesh Kukunoor about a teenager, Rajesh, growing up in a boarding school. And, Rohan Dey as Rajesh is just excellent. His portrayal of a boy struggling through his teenage years in an all-boys boarding school is very impressive. It was perhaps one of the most favourite movie of the kids of the 90s.
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#7. Master Shams Patel in Thanks Maa
Thanks Maa is another beautiful and hard-hitting film about a bunch of street kids, their struggle to survive and deliver the abandoned baby on streets to its mother. The strength of this movie lies in its children, especially in the hands of Master Shams Patel, who delivers an extraordinary life-like performance as a young boy named Municipality. Shams even won a National Award as Best Child Actor for his role in Thanks Maa.
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#8. Parzan Dastur in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
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Now, who can forget the jalebi boy counting stars in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? He was too adorable in all the scenes. Although he has acted in various movies since then, his role of the cute Sikh kid in KKHH is just as unforgettable as the film itself.
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#9. Sana Saeed in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
The little Anjali from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai with her cute smile and superb performance was instantly popular with the audience even before the film was released. She played the pivotal role of bringing Rahul, his father and Anjali, her father's best friend, together. After being absent from the silver screen for a long time, Sana was again seen as Tanya, a hot and sexy girl in the 2012 superhit movie Student of The Year.
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#10. Shweta Basu Prasad in Makdee
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Even though she played the role of Sakshi Tanwar's daughter in the highly popular show Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, it was her film Makdee that got her noticed. She even won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist for portraying the role of identical twins Chunni and Munni. After Makdee, she gave another brilliant performance as Shreyas Talpade's sister in Iqbal. Shweta is all grown up now, and we really hope to see her doing some important roles in Bollywood.
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#11. Ahsaas Channa
Remember the cute little boy who played the son of Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna? Well, that child actor has grown up into a GIRL! Yes, that was child actress Ahsaas Channa playing a boy's character in the movie. She has also earlier worked in movies like Vastushastra and My Friend Ganesha.
She is all grown up into a beautiful girl and has with numerous TV projects to her credits including Devon Ke Dev… Mahadev. Ahsaas hopes to make it big in Bollywood and we truly wish her well.
Now, what do you have to say about these powerhouse performances by the juniors of the industry? Have you seen them all? If not, you are surely missing out on some amazing cinematic experiences.
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Having a hard time after my first ablation. Advice?Hi all,
I had my first ablation (PVI /cryo) yesterday. Although newly out of the hospital, the recovery has not been easy. I feel like I went running with the bulls in Spain and lost. I couldn't sleep the first night because of the chest and throat pain. I'm not sure what exactly they put in my throat, but it was more than just an ET tube. I can barely swallow and have bruising to the back of my throat. I also feel and hear crackling bubbles, almost like pop rocks (just not as loud) in my throat. When I swallow, I have pain down my esophagus that radiates to my right shouder blade. I'm also coughing up small amounts of bloody phlegm. I discussed it with the nurse and my EP and no-one seemed concerned. I'm worried the anesthesiologist caused a tracheal tear. Could this 'bubbling' be caused by gastritis?There is no subcutaneous air in my neck, no fever and my oxygen saturation is normal.
I also have chest pressure, back pain and shortnessof breath. My EP started me on Colchicine for the cardiac inflammation and Famotidine for the gastric issues.
So, 24 hours out and feeling like crap. Advice? Is this normal? It seems like most of you sailed through your ablations, so I'm a bit worried.
Thanks for any help you can give me!
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Plumeria162, March 14, 2018 8:26am ESTI had the same "popping" sounds after the procedure that you describe. They went away after about 5-7 days. Mine were respiratory, not GI. A tracheal tear should cause some SQ empysema,so not likely. I never found out what caused it, but it did go away. I, too, was unprepared for the chest pain after the procedure. Even after asking about what to expect post-op multiple times, I was unprepared for how crappy I felt. The nurses and doctors were like "you'll be fine in a couple of days" but I wasn't. (I am also no wimp. I treated a broken ankle by myself and was at work the day after I broke my radius.) I had chest pain and coughing, not to mention that sore throat! It took about 2 weeks for the chest pain and cough to subside. Afterward they told me the chest pain was normal because of all of the trauma that had been done. I did take a couple of doses of percoset in the hospital but it made me feel so lethargic I switched to plain acetaminophen that they said was OK. I went back about 2 weeks after because I still had breathlessness and a slight cough. They did an ultrasound and radiographs and blood work and all was normal. No one knows what the popping was and I suspect it is fairly common, but because it is not a problem, the doctors ignore it. ( Just my theory of doctors don't care if it isn't pathology.) Try to get your questions asked and answered. Coughing up blood is the only thing you describe that sounds abnormal. I think we all walk that line between not wanting to ignore something serious/abnormal, but not wanting to seem a hypochondriac. We don't know what is normal because, frankly, the hospital doesn't do a very good job of telling you what to expect. Good luck with your recovery!
Jeanamo, March 14, 2018 8:57am ESTQuilabell,I hope you are beginning to feel better as the days go by. After reading your post and Plumeria's post, we are reminded that the ablation procedure can affect each of us differently and our recovery periods can differ as well. Some people are "lucky" and have no problems while others experience difficulties just as you have. It is important that your doctor is aware of all the issues that are causing you concern so they can be addressed. Experiencing problems such as you have described can be discourating and provoke anxiety. Not everyone has "sailed though" their ablations and I am so sorry you are having problems. Thank you for posting and I hope you will get some words of encouragement and support from other members of this community who can relate to you with their experiences. So...most important is to keep your doctor informed and to allow a few more days of recovery and hope that there is improvement and relief from your symptoms..Please continue to post and let us know how you are doing.Thinking of you and wishing you the best,Jean(My A-fib Experience Community Leader)
quilafizz, March 15, 2018 11:43am ESTThank you both for your encouragement and help. I'm so relieved someone else has had those 'pop rocks' in the back of their throat. It's a little scary to have free air in places you shouldn't. I'm feeling a bit better today, just extremely fatigued. I'm going to try and walk for a bit. This really is a surgery and pretty invasive when you look at all they are doing: General anesthesia, intubation, TEE and esophageal thermometer in your esophagus ( that is a LOT of hardware to place in ones chest at once), arterial lines, venous catheters, transeptal punctures and burning or freezing intra and external cardiac and pulmonary tissue. Calling this a 'minimally invasive procedure ' is very misleading and causes post operative anxiety for those who wake up feeling like they were run over by a train. Im not sorry I did it. And as bad as I feel, I will do it again if my a.fib returns, because my a.fib was ruining my life. I just feel that the medical community should be a bit more straightforward about what is going to happen to you so that you can prepare yourself. I am so grateful for this forum. You have all been a source of light during a dark time.Thank you for that.Quila


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A Conversation With George Bruce
UNTIL GEORGE BRUCE died on July 25, 2002, at age 93, he was the oldest living poet in Scotland. The summer before, I had been fortunate to hear him read at the International Book Festival, and subsequently interviewed him at his home in Edinburgh on Tuesday afternoon, August 21, 2001. That interview, excerpted here, will be the basis of a one-hour documentary, The Thing Itself, incorporating his poetry, archival photos, interviews (with family and friends, collaborators and critics, his literary editor Lucina Prestige, etc.), and, of course, spectacular footage of the Northeast of Scotland.
Mr. Bruce gives a charming, warm and witty interview, at the same time detailing how in the face of Hitler's onslaught and his own stance as a conscientious objector, the struggle to find an authentic voice in the midst of what appeared to be a "decaying civilization," led him to reject the local poets and to look to American poets Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to "free the language." He tells the story of a non-conformist whose life in poetry spanned almost the entire 20th century, while he struggled to chronicle the times with a freshness and authenticity that earned him a distinguished place in the Scottish Literary Renaissance. He actively worked up to the end of his life, constantly revising and honing down his work, balancing vowels and stanzas, which his daughter says, "he achieved by sheer labor." His granddaughter says of him that, "he was a master of life." His son-in-law says, "He was a child in an old man's body." What can endure in a world that is essentially destructive? This was a recurring theme in the mind and poetry of George Bruce: permanence versus the decay, manifest in humanity's inability to rise above its own gross and destructive tendencies. "We are the endangered species," he writes in the poem, "The Singing of the Foxes." Likewise, in both "My House" and "Cliff Face Erosion," two poems that mark the major shifts in his voice, he explores the duality of rock, simultaneously a symbol of destructiveness and "a means of learning" for humanity. One is reminded of the line from William Carlos Williams' poem "A Sort of Song:" "to reconcile the people and the stones." An extraordinary man with an enormous talent, one of the last practitioners of what is now referred to as the Scottish Renaissance in Literature, George Bruce was born 1909 into an "unusual family" that had a herring-curing business for generations in Fraserburgh, a fishing village on the Northeast coast of Scotland. (Fraserburgh is also known locally as The Broch.) George Bruce remembers his father explaining Einstein's Theory of Relativity over the soup and reading DH Lawrence's treatise on creativity when he was 12 years old. The debating of ideas was the family sport. His mother wanted him to be a painter, which instilled in him an enduring love of art throughout his life that is evident in the many Rembrandt, Cezanne and Velasquez poems he created. But he was hardly the ideal schoolboy. In later life, he would laugh about his inability to concentrate on anything at school. Despite a proclivity towards mathematics, the young George "wanted to be absorbed" instead by Shelley and by politics. A brilliant footballer, George Bruce was offered a position on Arsenal, a major soccer team of the time. His father insisted on college, however, and despite failing his entrance exams in everything but math and physics, he went on to receive extreme honors in English at Aberdeen University, where he would later garner an Honorary Doctorate.
The period leading up to and including World War II had an enormous effect upon him. He-along with some of other leading artists of the time-became a conscientious objector. The influence of FR Leavis (the prominent Cambridge critic of the time who stressed the important social role of literature and attempted to distinguish between serious writers and entertainers) during his time at university resulted in an unending concern with society and what appeared to him to be its "imminent destruction." This led him away from the popular poetry of Burns and towards the search for a voice to more reflect the currency and turbulence of the times.
Then, after WWII, Bruce also departed from the theorizing of friend and fellow poet, Hugh MacDiarmid. Born CM Grieve, MacDiarmid (1892-1978), famous for his radical politics and flamboyant behavior, had made a devout commitment to the revitalizing of Scottish nationalism and identity through language (which he called "Lallans," or Lowland's Scots). Though he wrote in both English and Scots, MacDiarmid in his most famous poem, The Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, called for a cultural revolution to reject the sentimentalized Burns and the anglicized imperialism of the British Empire. But, as we in the interview here, this recurring debate of Scots vs. English in Scottish poetry is a conflict Mr. Bruce rejects-while insisting on the need to make his own choices of language in order to get through to "the thing itself." During his 93 years, George Bruce traveled extensively with his wife Elizabeth, and lived in eight different states in the U.S., teaching at several colleges, including The College of Wooster in 1976-77. At the invitation of Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound's daughter, he also traveled to St. Andrew's College in North Carolina to lecture as well as help annotate Pound's Cantos, an enterprise he chronicles in Epistle to Edwin Morgan I. (Mary de Rachewiltz also invited him to lecture at Brunnenburg, Pound's castle in Italy). George Bruce was the first Creative Writing Fellow at Glasgow University and the Scottish Creative Writing Fellow at New South Wales in Australia, and in 1984 was the recipient of an Order of the British Empire. He also served as an arts producer for the BBC for over twenty-four years, meeting and interviewing many of the top writers, musicians and artists of the twentieth century. He was a Theatre and Literary critic for the Sunday Times-as well as writing and editing scores of books and essays on poetry and art.
When his wife died in 1994 after over 59 years of marriage, he transformed his sadness into a renewed burst of activity which led to a collaboration with artist John Bellany and the producing of a limited edition book of etchings and poems called Woman of the Sea. In 1999, at 90 years of age, he won the Saltire Award, the top literary prize in Scotland for his book of poetry Pursuit. His latest book, Today Tomorrow, was published in both the United Kingdom and the United States in 2001. At the time of his death, he was working with artist Elizabeth Blackadder on an illustrated book of haikus, Through the Letter-Box, which is now being prepared for publication, and another new collection of poems, The Singing Of The Foxes, which will appear posthumously as well. For those interested, some of Mr. Bruce's original manuscripts are archived at the National Scottish Library and at the Poetry/Rare Books Collection at University Libraries, SUNY-Buffalo. -Mallie Boman, New York City, September 9, 2002
Mallie Boman: There seems to be a great debate going on currently about the use of Scots versus English. I noticed that your earliest work was written entirely in English, while your use of Scots shows up in some of your later poems, particularly the Rembrandt poems. Then in "The Edge, Returning to The Broch," you employ both seamlessly. On what side of this debate are you?
George Bruce: Well the thing is that in my case, there was no debate. One I dismissed Scots. Out! And two, I recognized that MacDiarmid had discovered a wonderful music-and it was of no use to me or to most people. In fact, they just made a mess of it for a term after that. MacDiarmid's Scots, after the first burst of lyricism, which he himself didn't recognize for its own qualities, went on to a much more social program, you might say, in The Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, the thistle being Scotland, the drunk man being MacDiarmid. At any rate, you're quite right. Throughout the '30's and '40's there was this grand, nonsensical, I think, debate about whether we could refer to 'Lallans' (which really means 'lowland Scots'), which Burns used. He called it "Lallan"-singular, Lallan, lowland Scots, and it's quite true there is variance all over the place, but the substance of it has a common base. But there's another common base-English itself. We note the American/English complex easily enough. Well, there's a Scottish/English complex as well. So, in these circumstances, as far as I am concerned, there is no debate. The thing is given for a specific purpose. The poems I write about Rembrandt are all in Scots, because Rembrandt's Dutch is much closer to Scots than it is to English, apart from anything else, you see. And, although Lucina Prestige decently-for the sake of English people-has done a kind of English translation of my Scots poems, I think it's unfair. I think the readers should be made to look up what they don't know.
Boman: Because the work feels Scots to you?
Bruce: Yes. But, generations have done this, for goodness sake. And the simple truth is I doubt very much that people who have no Scots background really write good Scots. It is too artificial. The tones and pitches are very much more subtle things than realized. Again, they don't know their objectives. I wanted-my early objective was to get through to- (and I came across this phrase in Plato): "the thing itself". "The thing itself" was what mattered. This is the thing to grasp, to get a hold of. And "the thing itself" did me very well, you might say, over many years.
Boman: Yet, isn't the argument still there?
Bruce: Yes. There was such an argument. Scots have carried on page after page of this. "Scots is artificial." "Scots isn't real." But, there's a local poetry involved that uses it. I can speak Scots at any moment. I mean, in and out without any problem at all, you see. And, therefore, normally attractive, it had no attraction for me at all, because it had been sentimentalized so much. The true bit of the language-the technical part, knowing that 'adze' is an English word for the sharp end of a cutting tool, whereas the Aberdeesher word is 'eitch'-these were facts, but I didn't realize that this was going to be of importance to me. Of the matter, Edwin Muir made the mistake of saying, "Scots is becoming a language of sentiment." Whereas, from my point of view, it was the reverse. It had been sentimentalized for a long time. Well, there was partly the fact of Burns, you see. Magnificent as he is, there was gradual deterioration-no, not gradual, rapid deterioration-just more and more of the sentimentality, and that was no good to me. Then there came, as significantly as anything, the condition of the times. As a student at Aberdeen University, the irrelevance of most of the poetry I was coming across struck me very fiercely-very considerably. I mean, 1925, 1926, right on up to the Hitler business. And therefore the sensation of a decaying civilization-I was almost going to say culture as well-this sensation was not being met in any way, as far as I knew, by any writers until I came to Ezra Pound. Then I knew that the nervous speech energy, which Pound largely got from Browning, had an immediate contact for me. And this was confirmed, surprisingly enough, by the Scots poet William Soutar, who in his poems wrote little of that side to it. But, in his secret diaries-(so to speak, they weren't all that secret). Well, anyway, he kept a diary. He was in bed for nearly 13 years. There you find it repeated again and again, his being increasingly, aware of (what's it called-yes) "the grossness of our society." Well, you think what it's like now, the awareness of the total vanishing of any kind of sensitivity whatsoever; only the corroboration remaining, I would say, of this grossness and this appalling fragmentation so that people don't recognize they are all human beings. This is what we have witnessed since Willie died a long time ago. He died when he was forty. 1988 would have been his 100th. So, at any rate, there was that side of the matter, but still it was no use to me because I just felt that despite Pound's natural energy, it seemed so hopeless and the deterioration seemed so imminent.
Boman: Yes, this was a great period of uncertainty in the world, especially for Europeans.
Bruce: The sensation of life coming to an end was stronger for me in the twenties than now. Much stronger. The sense of ending, and of going into nothing. It was much more powerful in part because I was looking at society all the time then. Not only that, but the people shaping me at Aberdeen University were people like Leavis and company.
Boman: The intensity of the times can both inspire and shut down a poet.
Bruce: Yes. There was an extraordinary chance then. I was a teacher at Dundee High School. One December night, during a blackout as we had in this country all over the place, I felt then, going down the street, there was only one thing for it-to write another Waste Land in my own terms of reference. As I got to the train, however, I found myself writing something totally different:
My house
Where the Firth flows,
Blow from the North,
In the dark
And heard the wind,
["My House"]
That was the true beginning. Recognizing the limitations, you might say. But, at the same time, here was a positive which had been in the mind of generations of generations, you see. And therefore it took its final symbolism or symbol in the "rock", which is destructive in itself in so far as the human being was concerned and, on the other hand, it is a constant, as well as a means of learning and knowing. I had to find a language which would penetrate the language of poetry-so you were hardly aware of it being poetry. You would be very close to prose except there was passion involved. It was only after that that I began to get this grip, this grasp, this recognition: 'no adjectives.'
Boman: Well, that's the real skill, to hone down the poem into its essence. But I'm curious about the range of influences over the years. You've traveled extensively, lived through an entire century which encompassed two world wars, space travel, enormous discoveries in medicine, science, technology. You're associated with the Scottish Renaissance in poetry and letters. You appear to be the quintessential Renaissance man, having diverse interests and associations with some of the leading thinkers and artists of the times. Where does it all come from?
Bruce: I can't go into all the influences. I was very fortunate in my upbringing in terms of music, poetry, opera and all the rest, as well as being surrounded by a family-very open-minded, endlessly debating. Everything was debated! (sighs) My brother at the age of 10 or 11 said to my father, "I am an atheist." And my father said, "Give me your reasons." So he gave his reasons. And then my father said, "I can give you better reasons for being an atheist than you have given me." Now, that's not in the game, is it? (laughs). But it indicates the kind of open mentality. They simply were unshockable, my parents. We did our best, but we failed.
Boman: How many brothers had you?
Bruce: Just one brother, Robert, who died last August. He was very different from me. He was logical-and talked umpteen languages in a logical sense-while I, he maintained, was all intuition. We were hopelessly different. I don't know-he was Marxist for years, and after he'd taken his degree, my father said, "What are you going to do?" And he said, "I have no idea." My father said, "Civil servant." And my brother said, "That will do." So my father then filled the application in for him and sent it off. The interview consisted of, "Are you sure that's the one you want to go to," referring to a post in Mali.
Boman: How many languages do you speak?
Bruce: (laughs) I'm hopeless at languages. I just get stuck in them, I do. And then I can't get any English to come. I've written in Italian, you see, though I didn't mean to. I woke up early one morning, 3 or 4 in the morning, and there was a wonderful happening going on. I knew that my granddaughter was in Thailand and very much becoming a Buddhist. Immediately I began to write. But I couldn't get any English words, so I had to write it in Italian. I wrote several things in Italian, then went back to sleep again.
Boman: I had to laugh when I read the poem written to your dentist explaining why you missed an appointment. Writing a poem is rarely a planned event, or even a chosen thing.
Bruce: This is one of the problems. People ask you: how did you come to choose? I don't choose anything; it chooses me. There was this particular occasion. Chopin once lived in Number 10, Warrington Crescent, for thirty-eight days to be precise. This house is now the Polish Circle, an Arts Center, several houses down from mine. Well, there was a girl from Cracow there, playing with great feeling, with passion. I then wrote a poem, which I sent to her. But it was what happened after that that was so strange. Nearer to the time of year of Chopin's death, on October 6, I woke up at 3:45 in the morning and I shouted out in a loud voice, "It was the cold that got ya! Well, it was. These houses was very drafty and all that." Then I went to sleep again. But, of course, I waked up my poor wife and she didn't go to sleep again so easily. Then a day later, exactly the same time, I sat up in bed, and in an even louder voice, shouted out, "It was the cold that got ya!" and then laid back down to sleep. But my wife wouldn't let me. She said, "You're not going to sleep. You're going to write that poem! Go downstairs and write that poem!" There was no heating on. We hadn't yet got central heat. In this case, who's choosing anything there? It's the same thing with Scots English.
Boman: Then there is that wonderful poem of yours, "On the Edge- The Broch," in which you employ both languages effortlessly.
Bruce: It's too long to read here, the poem about the Broch. It begins with me as a child kicking a football about, and some fisherman coming along and from the wet sand getting the bait. And I knew how to get the bait for them and they knew I knew. So they say, "Come and help us." It's all in Scots, and the last word in that section is the word "hame". But the first word in the next section is the word "home," because I am at home, here in Edinburgh, and speaking very much the language as we speak it now. The whole poem is a single response to life. Therefore, there's no doubting as to which should be which, in these terms of reference. Syne means "then," by the way:
As the sanle leapt oor hand's flasht,
Home: bed: nor-east corner: night winds beat
And it continues like that-in a neutral language, until the influence of the personal circumstances modifies it. On that particular occasion I was seven and my father decided we'd go to Bruce's Lookout. It was built higher than anywhere else, so you could see the whole round of sea like that and I can discover the horizon.
Boman: What would you say was the next biggest shift in your work after "My House"?
GB: "Cliff Face Erosion." How can I date that one? I've got it: 1988, a man presents me with a picture of an eroding cliff. It destroyed me nearly. Cliffs don't erode, as far as in my imagination at least. But it's perfect. This one has just gone to pieces practically. And I have to write a poem. Well, it was splendid! The whole thing opened up as a result of it for me. The whole business. Lucina, my editor, says there were many good poems before that. But, at any rate, that was a crucial point. But the change didn't simply apply to language. It was partly a realization, a recognition of the acceptance of a very wide view-a 'Eurodency', which linked, in a sense, with my family. The establishment of at least something that would stay, that might be there tomorrow. Something of use. It didn't have to make up a civilization, that would be far too much to claim for it altogether. Nevertheless, I didn't need to return to the inward world of Virginia Woolf-let's put it that way. But the sense of the tremble, the inevitable destruction of what remains of a blighted civilization, prevailed. And I was still in that condition of "let me have no adjectives."
Boman: "Cliff Face" uses the powerful image of the eroding cliff to explore, not only as you've mentioned, the sense of "a blighted civilization," but the human experience of aging as well. This layering makes the poem enormously intense.
Bruce: I'd had a positive within it and a negative. The negative, it was, that made the positive infinitely stronger, the acceptance of the negative. "I look upon your face and it is mine." That was written towards the end of the last century. I think of Auden's face. . .
I am old. Yet the breathing intimacies
You tell me what I would not know.
["Cliff Face Erosion"]
Boman: This wide view you mention, it relates back to the family and school environment you came out of?
Bruce: Yes. I remember D.H. Lawrence, a passage being read to us. I was about 12 years old, by my father at the dinner table. Midday, he said, "This is something that should interest you, it's about the creative process, etc, etc." So, we all listened, put up with it, while we got on with the soup. (laughs) Nobody told us this was a slightly unusual household.
Boman: All of your early poems are centered in the life of your hometown of Fraserburgh. You mentioned previously, there was a war beginning. Was it difficult to have your work published?
Bruce: At the time I'm a student at Aberdeen University. And, quite right, all my earliest poems are about Fraserburgh, and somehow they make their first appearance in Contemporary Poetry USA. It was Mary Miller Ogden who published my poems. And that led to Kathleen Moore, then the librarian of Buffalo, who writes me saying, "We've collected all you've written!" This so horrified me, but I couldn't do anything. I mean, the awful stuff I'd written as a student. Most unfair. I rather hoped to God they hadn't collected that. In the meantime, now I had become a teacher in Dundee and what we'd been doing, we'd been using my manuscripts to light the fire with or send off for salvage. My wife Elizabeth said, "Give 'em the lot, give 'em the lot." So we piled everything up and whoosh, like that, sent them to Buffalo.
Boman: What were you doing for the BBC?
Bruce: I did television for about 24 years. Then they handed it on to a much lighter person, and he didn't bother to learn what it meant. A very beautiful song of Burns, wherein Burns' words-he didn't make up the tune in this case-began, "I walken o. . ." Well, they've got a couple walking along a beach. But it doesn't mean that at all. It means, "I was awake all night," and other lines go on to emphasize this, that she can't get to sleep for thinking of her lover. So the word "walk" means "waken" you see. "I walk on, O'walk I and weary / O' can't get to sleep, sleep I can't get for thinking of my dearie." It made nonsense of the whole thing. And when I complained, they said, "Oh it doesn't matter." Nothing matters you see, nothing matters any longer.
Boman: I heard you were almost a footballer, or as we Americans say, a 'soccer player'.
Bruce: I wasn't very good at school. I never got my mind at the right moment on the matter in front me. But it was a good thing I was good at football. My father was quite despondent because the firm was going down; it was the end of the herring business. And I said, "All your worries are solved about me, I've been offered a trial for Arsenal. And he said, "Oh, so you're finished when you're 28 years old." But at that time I was only 15 or 16. I was a brilliant footballer. Nowadays I'd have made vast sums of money. But even a manager didn't get much in our day. Anyway, I failed my entrance exams at the University, what they called "Preliminaries." Underneath my name "George Bruce," they said "Passing the Whole by Compensation." "By Compensation!" The boy had no brains it meant. (laughs) And so I had to go see the Secretary at the University, and he said, "Well, it's like this, Mr. Bruce, you've failed everything, except one, and what you failed you were just below the surface in each case except one. But, at that one, you were outstandingly good." I said "English?" and he said, "No, you failed that! Mathematics." So, I went off to do mathematics.
Boman: Your father, was he any kind of an artist?
Bruce: He was a businessman, with quite unusual concepts. My father was ducks in mathematics at the Fraserburgh Academy. And my mother, she was eight years younger, she was ducks at mathematics, too. When I was about eleven my father said, "You know, this business of relativity is quite simple. You can easily understand it." And then when calculus came along, he was still on about this same business. "It relates to relativity, you understand." But I said, "I don't know any physics, I'm not doing this." Then, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, there was a new Physics Professor, and he set up a far too difficult paper. Though to me, it was simplicity itself. And when I got off the train at Fraserburgh, forty miles north, my father said, "How did you get on?" I said, "Very badly." He said, "Did you?" "Yes," I said, "it was too easy." So he immediately got the paper, went through the whole test and said, "You've got everything right." I sure had. Over ninety-five percent. (laughs) But I didn't want to do mathematics.
Boman: You wanted to write.
Bruce: No, not at that stage. I wanted. . . I loved to be absorbed into, not only Shelley and his "spirit is like a charm. . . / Sweet singing like a boat. . . ," but also the long passages of protest and all manner of that kind of thing. It was the right thing for debate in our house. It didn't matter what you debated, as long as you debated.
Boman: In your poetry, it seems that you access the world and language from a unique vantage point of intensity that begins in a particular time and place, becomes filtered through the mind, and then finds the resultant intense emotion embodied back in a concrete image.
Bruce: Apparently I didn't know this, but I've always lived life with such intensity that the after-image stays with me for perhaps 20 years. That's why I'm good at telephone numbers and all sorts of irrelevant things like that. But, the experience can come back with tremendous intensity. And therefore, my brother is always surprised, "How could you remember that- where the boy drowned?" I'd say, "You mean you don't remember the rock stuck out like that?" and he'd say, "No I have no picture of that." But to me, it's as vivid now as it was then.
Boman: You've written so many poems about paintings and artists. I can see you spend a lot of time in the National Gallery of Scotland, that you've been inspired by art.
Bruce: My mother wanted me to be an artist. My father just didn't care. The great thing, we lived in Fraserburgh right out on the very point. You could see the sun rise out of the sea in the morning and see it setting in the west in the evening.
Boman: So how could you not be a poet?
Bruce: I know, it was terrific, I haven't thought in these terms for ages. But no, no, it was very different. The interesting thing too was that my mother was all logic and my father was all intuition. He did all the crazy things, you see. We never asked him for more pocket money because we knew he would give us too much. So we asked her, you see, and she'd do the right thing. She was sensible, like most women are sensible. (laughs) Well, I know I'm not sensible because my daughter told me so. She said to her brother, right in front of her mother she said, "He's no sense," meaning me. And her mother just said, "You're right. That's right, he's no sense. So you just have to accept that." The trouble with me always was, to quote my mother, "George is not listening."
Boman: Perhaps you were listening to something else.
Bruce: I thought I was listening. It's a terrible escapist device, but I never noticed it. There was book knowledge and there was the knowledge of life itself, and when they come together, it's like one thing, like poetry. Then you're right. But you can't get together until you've got the language, until you know you trust that particular language.
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I have covered my cakes in marzipan.
Also my kitchen.
Dear lord, I've only realistically got a week to make a bookmark, some toffee and a pair of mittens. Aargh! Why was I not more organised?! I spend TOO MUCH TIME on internet forums.
Sorry for the heavy tone of the last post. Well, I'm not sorry really, because it was important, but I realise that being depressing is not the way to achieve whatever the hell it is I'm trying to achieve (or really to achieve anything), so while I don't apologise for anything I thought of felt, I do apologise if it made you feel anything like I did on Friday night! Still haven't come up with that damn list, either…
We also have a Christmas tree. There was some confusion and faffing about in the garden centre, so we aren't actually entirely sure if it has roots or not – responsible consumer or what?! – but it is the right size and very cheerful, and if it doesn't have roots we can get one with roots next year….
I ordered some decoration kits from the nice people over at Christmas Matters which should arrive tomorrow, so I can get started on those. So little time, so much to do….
This extract from the Song of Songs was just read out as part of the sermon on Choral Evensong.
"For now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land."
Made me think of Christmas.
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Buzznet is not my all time favorite place for storing photos online (I just keep a few "family photos" of the cats in there), but they did score some points with me in having, I noticed only today, a "Not Interested" option under Status.
At most sites, you get the usual choices between married, single, divorced or whatever and I'm often tempted to select married (call me old fashioned, but I don't like to lie, even on social networking sites), because if I truthfully select single or divorced, a flurry of lovesick Romeos wants to be my "friend."
Often I've resorted to spelling it out on profiles, but that makes no difference, whereas, I'm sure this is a field people would be able to search on at most sites, so you would HOPE that those looking for other single members would not even see the profiles of the irrelevant and "Not Interested" ones in their searches.
Whilst, I know some people use social sites as dating sites, it's wrong to assume that single always means "and looking." It would be nice if more sites added a "Not Interested" option for those of us who are "Not Interested".
It would be nice if there was some sort of equivalent that worked in the real world too, but that's a whole other story / rant for some other day! :)


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November 4, 2011 — Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez wear out rumors have hit the world. According to new reports, the 'Wizards of Waverly Place' star dumped vocalist after reports that he fathered your baby with Mariah Yeater hit this ocassion.
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Then there have been the movie's resident hunks. Sex along with the City fans were probably glad discover John Corbett in function of Ramona and Beezus' dad. And also My Children/Las Vegas alum Josh Duhamel was phone as Uncle Hobart. But my initial recollection of all of these characters didn't drum up any visions of hunky leading men and women.
Get ready, Wizard listeners. Next month, the Disney Channel brings us the first Wizards of Waverly Place movie. The Russo family takes a Caribbean vacation and things go awry when daughter Alex tussles with mom Theresa and ends up inadvertently investing a spell for both her oldsters. The parents, Theresa and husband Jerry, can't remember ever meeting. It's up to Alex and brothers Justin and Max to have their parents together again. Max goes off and away to make them fall for each other again while Alex and Justin (grande funeral and David Henrie) face troubles each morning jungle as they search for the Stone of Dreams the only thing that can cancel the spell.
Well, it looks like the Kanye West-taylor swift has officially ended. The moment the VMA incident in which West took over Swift's acceptance speech and then faced a hailstorm of criticism, West has made good on his promise to personally apologize to Swift. After she dropped the news on 'The View' which he hadn't in fact spoken to her, he gave her a telephone.
Not suprised that the lovely Beyonce took best female artist. Surprised, but very pleased that Mr. A-Z Jason Mraz took home best male singer. Lady Ga Ga has certainly taken the music world on the magical mystery tour and took home Best Dance recording for my child Poker Face and Best dance album for 'The Fame'. The delicious Michael Buble won best traditional pop vocal album, nevertheless i would have preferred my boy Harry Connick Junior. Best metal performance, Judas Priest? Who knew those guys were still alive? However had zero competition for that title. I cannot comment on rap because rap isn't music.
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Launch Announcement
In a world increasingly hungry for natural resources of all kinds, explorers and developers are venturing into the most forbidding frontiers to replace depleting global reserves. Many are looking northward, to Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. C-CORE responded with a new initiative to help them accomplish their project goals: Leading Operational Observations and Knowledge for the North – LOOKNorth.
LOOKNorth is a Centre of Excellence for technology commercialization, which supports safe and sustainable Northern resource development by validating and commercializing satellite and other monitoring technologies for use in these challenging and environmentally sensitive environments. Its work focuses on providing information critical to project and regulatory decision-making.
Responding to the need for an operational and comprehensive monitoring capacity, LOOKNorth engages resource industries, researchers, service providers, local communities and government organizations concerned with monitoring in support of the development of northern resources. Commercialization of technologies is driven primarily by the needs of the natural resource and energy sectors.
Thanks to a combined investment of more than $12 million by the governments of Canada and Newfoundland & Labrador, as well as the private sector, LOOKNorth will create a cross-Canada network of industry, research and community stakeholders, dedicated to safe and sustainable development of Canada's Northern natural resources. The network will cooperate to validate satellite and other monitoring technologies for use in these challenging and environmentally sensitive environments, in order to provide cost-effective access to reliable information that can support project and regulatory decision-making for all stakeholders.
C-CORE was awarded $7.1 million for LOOKNorth by the Government of Canada from its 2010 Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) competition. This will enable the LOOKNorth network to coordinate, consolidate and build on existing Canadian monitoring technologies and expertise.
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador will support the Centre's activities with $2M through the Department of Innovation Trade and Rural Development (INTRD) and the Research and Development Corporation (RDC). Each organization will provide $1M.
C-CORE provides space, business support services and executive oversight for the centre.
Additional private sector funding is secured for specific technology validation projects.
"Canada's vast North is a treasure-house of largely untapped natural resources," says C-CORE CEO Charles Randell. "It also contains some of the world's most pristine and fragile ecosystems and plays a crucial role in the global climate system. Climate change is having a noticeable impact across the north, altering ice regimes, changing operational conditions and opening expanded seasons of viable exploration. As interest increases in Canada's (and indeed the world's) Arctic resources, the need increases to ensure responsible and sustainable development. Accurate and continuous environmental characterization will be essential to succeed in that endeavour."


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EFFE Laureate - Gender Bender International Festival
Often a festival is begun in order to draw attention to a place and then chooses an art form or theme to show it off. It is rare, however, for a theme to come first and then have a festival started to develop it. That is the case, though, with Gender Bender. The LGBT community in Bologna have had a public office and venue for more than thirty years but at the beginning of this century it was decided that there would be a great deal more understanding throughout the city and beyond if there was a festival to show the excellence of the arts that the community internationally was producing.
"When we started fifteen years ago," says artistic director Daniele Del Pozzo, "the word 'gender' was very specific – it implied 'studies' – but now there is a much wider topical and cultural agenda because gender identities are always changing. We want to show how contemporary artists represent these identities." The atmosphere has changed too so that now it is easier to have a celebration rather than being polemical. "For young people it's an open debate – we can help people have an easier approach. OK, we are produced by a gay and LBGT centre but the festival is something that is open to everyone; we have to make a much wider audience understand if we are to reach our goal."
Daniele finds his audience research figures unexpected and surprising but very positive. "60% are female and 40% are heterosexual. Artists are very surprised because it is not an exclusive audience." He thinks that is because, "we pick artistic quality first. We use beauty as the medium and that seduces, attracts you so that you are more open."
That is partly also a function of Bologna itself, always one of Italy's most radical yet sophisticated cities. Its huge student and post-studies population means that it is always renewing itself. Bologna loves good shops, good eating and good conversation. When I lived there (as a post student writer) in the mid-1970s it was always said that the Bolognese idea of communism was that everybody should be able to afford the best restaurants.
Daniele says that, although it has its bourgeois side, Bologna is still radical and he is pleased to be part of that. "The composition of our audience is very mixed – you don't automatically know their orientation. We were founded to have a public role, to serve all citizens, not just those in the LGBT community. You could say we are guided by the phrase, 'also but not only'."
Location: Bologna, Italy
Director: Daniele Del Pozzo
Dates: 2017/10/25 – 2017/11/05
Art Disciplines: Dance, Music, Theatre, Film
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I would like to share with you two commissioned portrait about the Birman sisters. Kadife is a sweet little pirate kitten. She lost one of her eye due to acute glaucoma, because she was lucky to be treated by a good vet who knew which is the best decision in cases like hers. She is a charming fluffy creature, living a very happy life with her sister Kutsal, in Norway! Both sisters are beautiful creatures, and I enjoyed to paint about them equally. I am not able to decide which is more cute, I believe it must be amazing to have two fluffy hairball as company at home!
My third painting was made of a photograph about April and Adele, the sweet tabby kittens. What is more cute than a kitty? Two cute cuddling kittens! These sweethearts just cannot get enough from eachother, and it is exactly what they call a cuteness overload!
If you would like to volunteer to be my next cat model, please visit my Cats of Karavella Atelier Facebook Page, you can send me there photos of your cats in any of my post comments. Probably your cat will be my next muse for a lovely watercolour cat painting.
I am also open for custom orders about your pets, for inquiries please contact me at my Online Art Gallery!
Have a purrfect day!