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Push your boundaries way beyond what you previously thought possible. This brand new 21st century hyper flexible masters degree is all about you. Your passion, your learning, your focus, your thoughts, your hopes, your dreams and your future. Put yourself in charge and lead the way. This is your chance to thrive.
Take the framework of this qualification and build your own unique journey through it. A path that only you can take. A project that only you can complete. A place where you will excel as a music producer, a sound engineer, a performer, a practising electronic artist, a musician, a composer, a sonic artist, an explorer of life and a unique human being.
Whilst working on your self set project you will be surrounded by a like minded community of tutors and students from around the world who will act as mentors, peers, collaborators, audience and fellow travellers.
This hothouse environment will provide you with a constant cycle of creating, critiquing, self discovery and growth. Convert vulnerabilities into strengths, barriers into new pathways, pain into pleasure and fears into exciting new frontiers for exploration. It's a chance to explore all that you are and all that you are not whilst mapping out your future potential.
Celebrate your capabilities, stretch your skillset, innovate and build your creative industry profile. Expand your understanding of other creative pathways and collaborate on new concepts.
Ultimately it's about your future. Who are you and what do you plan to contribute to the world?
Throughout this intensive and challenging year you will be supported by a team of industry experienced facilitators who know you by name, care about your creative development and truly give a damn.
Creative Production is an intentionally broad term. Music production, recording, composition, programming, performance, sound design, improvisation, instrument design, sound art, field recording, artistic research, critical theory, new media or an innovative interdisciplinary form including some or all of the above. Your own imagination is the only limit. We'd be very happy to help you stretch it!
Our Creative Production Masters degrees are internationally recognised post-graduate masters of arts programmes, validated and administered by our partner the University of St Mark & St John. You can study our masters as a standard 1 year course.
We will enable you to imagine, develop and build the best version of yourself you can be. This is your chance to THINK BIG! But if you're planning to think big you'll need to develop a whole range of skills to help you reach your goal.
Whilst you hone your core music production expertise we will guide you in developing another set of skills and attributes. A set of skills which we all need to develop if we want to achieve our goals in life whether that be success in the music industry or anything else you might have planned.
This part of our unique educational approach starts with this question –
"What are the essential attributes or skills that make a person successful in life and how can they best be learnt?"
We use the word 'success' in the broadest terms. Whatever your own definition of success, there are a range of tools, skills, attributes and habits you can develop which will significantly increase your chances of achieving that success.
It is now widely recognised that these skills and attributes are the essential building blocks that will help turn a talented, hardworking human being into a genuinely successful one.
At dBs Berlin we also believe that personal well being and happiness are essential to living a truly successful life and we encourage our students to incorporate this into their own development.
This Masters degree is the newest addition to our course family and is currently still being developed. If you're interested in learning more please get in touch with us and we will be happy to answer your questions.
Some of 2018 was spent completely re-imagining and redesigning all of our courses. This allowed us to build on our extensive experience, take into account new developments and student needs and incorporate our own new thinking into a brand new range of courses. All of these courses including our new MA degree were successfully validated with our partner university in the summer of 2018.
Listen to Tracks Produced by Our Students
In the end it doesn't matter what we say. What matters is what happens here. Take a listen to some music our students have made.
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We're excited. Very excited. dBs Berlin have relocated to a brand new purpose built facility at the Funkhaus to house our rapidly expanding institute of creative production.
The Funkhaus is an internationally unique, extraordinary and atmospheric location and it's hard to imagine a better location for creative endeavour and learning.
All courses are now delievered at our Funkhaus campus.
Want to look around? We welcome you to sign up for an Open Day. These are a great opportunity to speak to our staff, students and see our facilities.More About Our Spaces
Your success depends entirely on you – what you bring to the course, your approach to learning and the grit, passion and sheer determination with which you build your future.
The employment model in the music industry has been transformed over the last 20 years. There are still roles with permanent contracts but it is much more likely that you will work either as a freelancer or as part of a small startup which you will have set up with friends or colleagues.
As the cohorts of Berlin students graduate, they quickly progress into exciting real world projects and careers. Here's a selection to whet your appetite:
- organizing large electronic music festival in Belgium
- sampling artist with growing list of commissions from international festivals including Dimensions and Roskilde
- designing proposals for improving background noise in cities
- field recording with Chris Watson
- stage manager for Dubfire
- creating music for an ad campaign for C&A
- music for an Italian fashion brand
- audio logo for Galeries Lafayette
- audio logo for an Italian telecommunications company
- sound installations at four art events in Berlin
- multiple releases on a range of techno labels
- sample packs for Loopmasters
- house engineer for a club in Berlin
- songs signed to BMG
- music and audio for a game featured on Indiedb
- created software for teaching synthesis
Our UK centres have been running successfully for many years and have had graduates working across the music industry from Abbey Road Recording Studios to the Glastonbury Festival and everything in-between.Apply Now


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Ross County defender Andrew Davies says his side will have to be on top form to get another result in this weekend's Highland derby.
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County had not won in nine league games against Inverness before this season, but the tables have turned with the Staggies winning both encounters 3-2.
However, Davies knows that Ladbrokes Premiership bottom club Inverness will be fighting for their lives.
"Obviously, before this season, they had us on toast, they kept beating us and beating us and I think we had to turn that at some point," said the 32-year-old, who is back in the squad after a head injury.
"This season we have, and we've gained a lot of confidence from that but we're not naive enough to say that they're not good enough to turn us over, we've got to do what we've done against them in the past and fingers crossed we can get that result.
"They're not a team that's just going to lay down and die, they're a team that are fighting for survival this season so it's going to be a really tough game.
"But in both of those games we've done what the manager has asked, and we've played to our full ability and that's why we won the game."
READ MORE - Rumour Mill: Warburton on Ibrox exit | director of football interests McLeish | Walker on Scotland snub

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"Summer Melt" refers to a phenomenon in which high school seniors are accepted into college during the spring, but over the course of the summer, they decide against attending a postsecondary institution. It's also the title of the book written by researchers Lindsay C. Page and Benjamin L. Castleman to document their findings and provide suggestions for reversing this trend that affects anywhere from 10% to 40% of high school seniors each year.
In addition to being the co-author of "Summer Melt," Page is also an assistant professor of research methodology at the School of Education and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She explains some of the issues facing these young adults, many of whom come from low-income families and are navigating the college admissions and financial aid process alone.
Why students fail to show up for class
From the time a student completes high school to the first day of class, there are several actions that must be taken. "Despite these requirements, summer is a period of time when students typically aren't connected to a particular institution because they have completed high school … and have not yet matriculated to college," Page explains.
"Students can get hung up in completing required tasks, and it's not a given that a knowledgeable adult is keeping tabs to keep them on track." Also, with first generation college students, Page says that their parents wouldn't have experience with the college admissions and financial aid process.
The role of financial aid
A survey of parents and students reveals that filling out financial aid forms is more stressful than applying to college – so imagine how difficult the process would be for students who have to fend for themselves.
"During the summer, students may still be working to complete the FAFSA or they may be required to complete the process of income verification, where they must provide additional documentation to all of the colleges to which they have applied to verify the financial information reported in their FAFSA," Page says. "Ironically, lower-income students are more likely to be flagged for income verification."
In addition to completing forms, some students may be grappling with the realities of not having enough aid to cover tuition.
"Students may also find the process of signing a master promissory note challenging or may face charges – such as those for student health insurance – on their tuition bill that were unexpected." These factors can often be overwhelming. "In a recent project with Georgia State University, the GSU admissions and financial aid staff identified financial aid as the key domain that contributed to their summer melt," Page explains.
Helping students navigate the process
So, what can be done to help these students make it to the first day of class? Page says it's important to be proactive.
"It's not sufficient to just tell students that help is available should they need it and wait for the students to follow up."
She recommends that either high schools or colleges reach out to students to check on their progress and offer assistance and guidance.
"We have done this with low-tech strategies – such as counselors reaching out to students one at a time, and with more high-tech strategies like sending students personalized but automated text-message outreach regarding tasks that they need to complete."
In fact, Page continues to work on ways to overcome Summer Melt.
"Recently, Hunter Gehlbach and I worked with a technology partner (AdmitHub) and Georgia State University to implement and test an artificial-intelligence enabled text message chat bot to support students with the summer transition."
The messages were customized to address the students' needs – for example, if a student needed to verify income, the bot would initiate contact to provide the necessary information and guide the student through the process.
"This system was used extensively by students, and our experimental results showed that it improved student completion of pre-enrollment tasks and also timely enrollment among students who committed to attend GSU."
However, since this isn't a national model, Adrian Ridner, CEO and co-founder of Study.com advises students to contact a school counselor or a friend who is in college for advice and guidance.
"If you don't have a specific form or record that's required by the school, you can always contact your future university to see if there are any work-arounds."
He says the school's enrollment officer might be the best source of help.
Sometimes, recent grads might not feel prepared to tackle college-level classes.
"Online courses are a great way for students to get a taste of college-level material while earning credit," Ridner says. "Online courses also help students practice self-directed learning, which is an important differentiator between the high school and college learning experience."
Additional tips
Ridner also provides a variety of other tips to help students navigate the enrollment process and succeed in college:
- Take advantage of alternative credit options to graduate faster and save thousands on tuition. Supplement the traditional college experience with low-cost mechanisms for earning college credit like AP exams, College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams or online courses. Not only are these more affordable, but online courses are much more convenient.
- Understand the difference between merit-based aid (like scholarships), need-based aid (like grants), and aid that you need to pay back (like loans). Sites like College Board have lots of resources available to help you search for scholarships, maneuver aid like the Pell Grant and FAFSA, and explain the details of taking out student loans. Set reminders and keep diligent track of deadlines.
- Don't worry about the college "brand name." Most employers today aren't as focused on which university you graduate from; they care more about the degree and your ability to learn. In many cases, paying a premium for brand-name university simply isn't worth it. Think more about what's marketable in your desired career and focus on refining those particular skills.
- Recognize that a four-year college is not a one-size-fits-all solution and there are more flexible ways to attaining a college degree. Nearly half of all students graduating with a four-year degree have had some experience with a two-year institution, like community college – which is often a more affordable pathway and can fit into changing lifestyles.
- Make sure you graduate on time. At most 4-year public universities, the majority of students won't graduate on time due to things like impacted classes, lack of prerequisite credits and more. Not only does this affect tuition, but living expenses (housing, transportation, meals, books) add up significantly. Check your university and your department's graduation rates and try to stay on track with your course load.


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DUBLIN, OHIO — It was team meeting time in 1981, the evening before a dozen determined men would perform for the first time as teammates.
They were professional golfers, men accustomed to doing their business on a daily basis in a pressure cooker. Dave Marr knew each on a personal basis, had seen all 12 numerous times in tournament play, under the most intense conditions.


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A Special Issue and Dutch Central Bank/CGIR Workshop – Board Diversity
Keynote Speakers:
Ruth Aguilera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics and Political Science
December 19th – 20th, 2013, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam
Board diversity represents both challenges and opportunities for board practice and research. Although intuition suggests diversity should be a key input to effective governance, boards remain remarkably homogenous and quite stable in their make-up. As a result, gender diversity has become a topic of active policy making in many countries, with some national governments establishing quotas for publicly traded and/or state owned enterprises and others merely offering guidelines for diversity. But it is not clear how and whether these policies will have the desired outcomes, because academic research has not been able to demonstrate a clear relationship between board diversity and effective board performance. One reason may be that it is not clear which concept of diversity is important. For example, organizational behavior distinguishes between surface and deep-level diversity. In this literature there is an extensive debate about the antecedents, relevant dimensions and implications of board diversity with a focus on social categorization processes that may increase conflict and diminish performance. Another reason may be the endogenous nature of corporate boards in general and board diversity, in particular, which is a focus of the economics and finance literature. Finally, the board process literature suggests that the implications of board diversity can best be understood by analyzing behavioral processes.
The aim of the special issue is to feature cutting-edge research pertaining to board diversity that will help inform the policy debate. By drawing on the latest research in psychology, sociology, finance, management, law, corporate governance, and entrepreneurship, the special issue seeks to build bridges between theoretical and empirical perspectives on diversity and to highlight the implications of various types of diversity for effective governance.- The aim of the workshop is to provide a stimulating environment in which academics can discuss their work and interact with policy makers. To provide a basis for discussion, the conference will feature keynote speakers and a policy panel on women in finance. The policy panel is TBD. De Nederlandsche Bank (The Dutch Central Bank), in particular, but not exclusively, invites submissions of scholarly papers that address topics of diversity related to boards in financial institutions.
For the workshop and special issue we invite submissions on a broad variety of related topics. A non-exclusive list of themes includes:
– Board diversity and corporate performance
– Board diversity and board dynamics
– Board diversity and board input
– Board diversity and effective governance
– Determinants of board diversity
– Dimensions of diversity in boards and its implications for effective governance
– Women on boards
– Women in finance
– Comparative institutional analyses of board diversity
– Socio-political analyses of board diversity
– Methodological aspects related to board diversity (e.g. construct validity, measurement, endogeneity)
Papers should be submitted through the CGIR submissions website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cgir by September 1 2013. Please be sure to indicate that the submission is for the special issue on Board Diversity.- Papers submitted to the special issue will go through the same review process as regular CGIR submissions.- Authors who do not wish to have their papers considered for the special issue should send their papers directly to Jacob de Haan at firstname.lastname@example.com
Renee Adams, University of New South Wales
Hans van Ees, University of Groningen
Jakob de Haan, De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch Central Bank)
Siri Terjesen, Indiana University
The Dutch Central Bank will provide some funding for workshop attendees upon request. Authors should e-mail Jacob de Haan at firstname.lastname@example.com to express their interest in travel support.


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Unexpected finds on a cold, headachy day.
A package arrived from Melinda's Fabric Shop.
Oh yeah - They had some great batiks on sale the other day.
I was clearing out my temporary files (a perfect project for a blechy day when I can't concentrate on math).
Not many treasures in there. Random bids & plans - a picture or two. Then I found an article that my awesome KT wrote for the zoo volunteer newsletter. I read it back then and I'm sure I kept a copy for the manchild's scrapbook, but I haven't look at it since then.
Too cool not to keep at hand. Too cool not to share. We'll file this under the "book" heading.
A genuine treasure - don't you think??
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I was inspired by the masquerade theme and the brick wall.
The photo of our daughter is taken on a festival when we passed a tent where children could dress up. She dressed up in a lot of different ways and we had so much fun. I think maybe this was even more fun than the Tivoli part of the festival and it was totally unplanned. This story explains the text used on the layout.
Here are two close-ups:
I hope you feel inspired by the street art and decide to join the challenge!! Don´t forget to pop over at ARTastic for some awesome inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.
Thanks for stopping by!! Take care!


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Last month the journalist Owen Jones wrote a piece in the Guardian where he argued that: "Britain is going backwards on violence against women" *. While I know Owen Jones is not to everyone's taste or politics, he makes a very important point.
He argues that the 'safety net' that has been a feature of our welfare system since the 1940s is being quietly dismantled with virtually no public debate because many of those that need this safety net most - like women affected by domestic violence - are almost entirely absent from any discussion in the media; an astonishing omission given that figures from Women's Aid suggest one in four women will suffer it in their lifetime.
While not all these women rely on the benefit system, the circumstances of many mean they do - for example, those that flee at short notice with only a suitcase of clothes; those that are the victims of financial as well as physical abuse, where debts have been run up in the victim's name or where they have been forced to leave the world of work - either directly by the partner; or through the shattering of confidence and self esteem that goes with abuse. These women and their situations are not being aired in the debate on welfare reform. Instead the focus is revolving around the more popular image of those who are on benefits being feckless and workshy.
But if there is little wider public debate on the issue of domestic violence, then the impact on the children in those families is one not even the social care sector has done much to address. Domestic violence projects have traditionally, and understandably, focused on the direct recipient of the abuse. However, living with and witnessing abuse is harmful to children and they therefore have their own support needs, separate from those of their parent.
A 2002 amendment to the Children Act which says that witnessing domestic abuse can now be considered "significant harm" for the purposes of children's services, suggests that services are moving in this direction. However, recent investigations by both Lord Laming and Eileen Munro into child protection have found that children living with domestic violence are still not given the priority they need.
Most recently City Bridge Trust's research, in partnership with NSPCC and Refuge, found that professionals are often inclined to assume that children's needs can be met by addressing the mother's needs and that not enough attention is given to addressing children's needs in their own right. **
Recent research commissioned by Scottish Women's Aid has found that suddenly and/or frequently moving home has a dramatic impact on children. They have high levels of anxiety; trouble sustaining friendships that were previously a significant source of support; have missed long periods of school; and worry about leaving behind personal belongings and all that was familiar to them.
For many years the issue of domestic abuse has been the one which Buttle UK sees the most in the 15,000 applications we receive each year for our Small Grants programme. Here we provide items such as cookers, fridges, washing machines, children's beds and bedding for women and their families who have been affected by violent and abusive relationships. So we are acutely aware of how important financial support is at a crucial point in a family's recovery, and how it is a key part of the holistic package of support needed to enable families to recover from the trauma they have experienced. But as Owen Jones points out, this support - as far as it comes from statutory sources - is under threat.
Against this backdrop, I am absolutely delighted that Buttle UK has just launched a new partnership with the City of London Corporation's charity, City Bridge Trust.
The funding will allow us to provide financial support across Greater London, over the next three years, directly to these families.
The aim of the partnership is to provide children of affected families with financial support to recover from the trauma and upheaval they have experienced caused by domestic abuse, and at the point where a family is making the difficult transition to independent accommodation for the first time. We know this is a point at which families are particularly vulnerable to returning to an abusive partner.
There is much we hope to learn and share as a result of this exciting project, which we hope will be a definite step forwards for both women and children affected by domestic abuse.
* http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/30/britain-violence-against-women-domestic-abuse-funding-cuts
** Radford, Lorraine, Ruth Aitken, Pam Miller, Jane Ellis, Jill Roberts, and Ana Firkic. Meeting the Needs of Children Living with Domestic Violence in London. Refuge / NSPCC, November 2011. http://refuge.org.uk/files/onlineDVLondon1.pdf
Gerri McAndrew, Chief Executive of Buttle UK, the leading children's grant giving charity, has formed a partnership with City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation's charity, to support children of families affected by domestic abuse in Greater London. Domestic violence accounts for 29 per cent of violent crime in the capital. The first tranche of £470,000 towards the three year project has just been awarded.


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We got to talking about it today, and decided that we would run Heroic Shattered Halls, followed by the daily Heroic Underbog. We had me, (70 Dwarf Paladin [Protection]), Xanice (70 Human Priest), Rhianne (70 Night Elf Druid [Restoration]), and new High Council member Alphaquasar (70 Human Warlock). We were looking for a mage, and a couple of guildmates with mages came on (Hodo and Hawtas), but were off doing other things. (Happy Birthday Hawtas!)
So we decided to do group quests until we found a fifth. After our first quest, we picked up a pug 70 Dwarf Warrior who ran with us for like 3 hours. Quiet, but did his job well. It was nice to make 200+g today with friends.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
WIDT: Group Quest Saturday
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Came up for fourth of July weekend.
On Friday night we went to the Rogue brewpub in the Pearl, and it was the only disappointing point of our entire visit. The beers were bland, except for the hazelnut brown, which tasted overwhelmingly of hazelnut syrup. Actually, Im not sure what else we even drank, because our server only got 2 out of 4 beers correct on the bill, and I think they only correctly served us 1 out of 4 that we ordered. The kobe burgers were OK.
Saturday morning we had pastries and coffee/tea at the Pearl Bakery. We got there early, so it was pretty empty, but it started to fill up by the time we left. The huge oven past the counter was very impressive. My brioche was tasty.
From there we went to the farmers market, which is certainly better than any farmers market we have in Los Angeles. We must have made four laps of the circuit. We put together a picnic lunch of rosemary bread, pate of pork and figs, wrapped in prosciutto, goat cheese with olive tapanade and then cherries for dessert.
Dinner was at Gotham Building Tavern, to which we took the Max yellow line. Side note we walked or took MAX/buses/streetcar to everywhere we ate, with the exception of one taxi ride. We found it extremely easy to get around the city without a car.
One of the highlights at GBT was the fat liver appetizer. I wonder if its called this to avoid any foie gras controversy? I had a terrific hanger steak with patatas bravas, which were spicier than I would have expected, but very good. I wasnt thrilled with the jumped up greens though. The service was fantastic, down to letting us try small tastes of the dessert wines my wife was thinking about ordering. In the end we ordered a glass of each! I found the prices quite reasonable, by LA standards. Definitely better food/service than what you would get most places in LA for that price.
We had pastries at Kens Artisan Bakery on NW 21st the next morning, where I especially liked the Oregon croissant. It was filled with berries, but still crispy.
Lunch was an uninspired piece of pizza at Pizza Schmizza, as we had been walking around for hours and just needed fuel quickly.
Dinner was in the shady outdoor area at Café Castagna, which I enjoyed just as much as GBT. I found the food very subtle/refined. I especially enjoyed the mushroom (cant remember which kind) and lentil soup. The broth was rather thin, but the lentils and mushrooms gave it a lot of texture and depth.
We walked over to Pix for dessert and shared a lemon tart and an apple/almond nougatine. I just loved the whole idea of this place. The beer/wine list has a ton of variety and the place just has a comfortable feel to it. I can imagine it gets cramped when its crowded though. I had a beer from Dogfish Head, the innovative Delaware brewery. I know its sacrilege to drink beer from Delaware when visiting Portland, but you cant get Dogfish head in Southern California (believe me, Ive tried). I smuggled back a bottle on the plane, which the TSA agents at PDX jokingly threatened to take from me for quality control checking.
All in all it was a great trip. Were coming back in September, and have been talking about how much we would like to live there. Maybe well just keep coming up for weekends and having great food!


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On June 29, and after more than 35 years working for Volvo Powertrain (Mack Trucks) Russell "Babe Brother" Keyes closes one chapter of his life and starts a new one — retirement.
His brother, Reginald Keyes, looks forward to spending more time with him, if Russell can break away from his garage, working on his automobiles.
Congratulations on your well-deserved retirement. Your family wishes you happiness in the years ahead.
Gospel concert
The Zion Baptist Church Choir will sponsor a gospel concert Saturday at 6 p.m. at the church at 61 W. Bethel St. in Hagerstown.
The concert will feature the St. Matthew's First Baptist Church Choir of Winnsboro, S.C., as special guests.
Diabetes support program
The Diabetes Support Group at Walnut Towers, 12 S Walnut St., will meet Wednesday, July 18, at 1:30 p.m. in the eighth-floor community room.
The program is titled "Myths of Diabetes Revealed."
John Lipscomb, from Advanced Diabetic Solutions, will be available for diabetic shoe fittings and glucometers.


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Silver Wind - Additional Special Offer
In addition to Silver Wind's current special offer* of 20% off charters in May, June and September 2017, the incredibly stylish motor yacht is now offering an extra 10% discount on any bookings made by 1st March 2017 for the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May) and the Monaco Grand Prix (25-28 May).
The new rate will now be €139,500 per week. As well as being able to accommodate up to eight guests in four beautifully-appointed staterooms, Silver Wind can also welcome up to 30 guests for cocktails while in port.
For more information on Silver Wind, please contact your charter broker.


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Antioxidant for the Relief of Heart Disease
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You have most likely observed the definition of "anti-oxidant supplements," however which are the function which antioxidants play in stopping cardiovascular disease?
In fact, according to proponents of antioxidant supplements, vitamin antioxidants not only can stop cardiovascular disease, but in addition turnaround for the damage that always leads to several long-term diseases. It's vital that you understand the part of anti-oxidants in your body.
Exactly how De-oxidizing Dietary supplements Work
As cells inside you metabolize o2, the by-products in which derive from the particular metabolizing process are known as free radicals. A free significant is an atom by having an unstable, unpaired electron. Free radicals take electrons through cells in your so that you can acquire stability. This will cause the oxidation of tissues and might also affect the DNA, based on Oxygen-Review.com. Poisons within the body furthermore are a consequence of polluting the environment, herbicides as well as cigarettes. Cleansing your system through this kind of toxins as well as other poisons is essential to prevent more harm in your body.
You can compare the actual oxidation process within our body to the corroding result that corrode is wearing a piece of metallic; the actual oxidation causes the actual metallic to collapse. Oxidized cells lead to rapid ageing, condition and passing away.
Anti-oxidants present in anti-oxidant health supplements, however, search for poisons and neutralize the particular oxidation attributes. Vitamin antioxidants additionally are able to restore the damage which toxins cause. In this manner, antioxidants assist the body to be able to rejuvenate alone and convey a good anti-aging result.
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Every time Ray Conniff lifts his baton, an audience thrills to the anticipation of another masterly performance. The product of years of hard work, devotion and imagination, all culminates in Ray Conniff the musical genius who created a new sound along with some very stylist arrangements, a selection of which is reproduced for you on this recording.
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Falstaff's men could find their proper mount at Gentry's when the saddle train comes up from Ah-wah-ne. Ten, twenty, thirty, horses, mustangs, mules, rusty black, dingy white, streaked red; ungroomed, unfed, untrained; harmless only because they are feeble from hunger; sure to keep on, if their strength holds out, to the end of the journey, simply because their one instinct is to escape somewhere; saddled with saddles of all possible shapes, sizes, colors, and dilapidation; bridled with halters, likely enough, or with clumsy Mexican bits, big enough to curb a mastodon, or not bridled at all if they are to carry luggage; gaunt-ribbed, swollen-jointed, knock-kneed, piteous-eyed beasts,—surely, nobody ever saw out of John Leech's pictures so sorry horseflesh. You stand on the piazza, at Gentry's, and watch the procession come slowly up. Nose after nose comes into sight, followed by reluctant, stumbling fore-feet; so slow they climb it seems to take a good while before you see the whole of any one horse.
They stop long before they reach the piazza, thinking that their riders may as well get off a minute or two sooner. The guides whack their haunches and push them up to the steps, and the Ah-wah-ne pilgrims slip or spring from their saddles with sighs of relief.
You, who were longing for these to come out, that you might go in, look on with dismay. On all sides you hear ejaculations from the people waiting. "I'll never go on that horse;" "nor on that;" "that poor creature will never live to go down again." Everybody gazes intently toward the crest of the hill, over which the pathetic file is still coming. Everybody hopes to see a horse better than these. But there is not a pin's choice between them, when they are all there. Wherever their riders leave them, there they stand, stock-still, till they are pushed or dragged away. Heads down, tails limp, legs out, abject, pitiable things,—you feel as if cruelty personified could not have the heart to lay a feather's weight on their backs.
With the timid reverence natural in the mind of one going toward Ah-wah-ne for one coming from it, you approach the newly arrived and ask concerning these horses. Your pity and horror deepen when you are told that the poor creatures are never fed, never sheltered. They are worked all day without food, often being out from six in the morning until six at night, carrying people over steep, stony trails; then they are turned loose to shift for themselves in the meadows all night. By four or five o'clock in the morning the guides are out scouring the meadows to drive them in again. And so their days go on. There was but one alleviation to this narrative. It was the statement that every morning a good many horses cannot be found. They trot all night to find fields out of reach of their tormentors, or they swim off to little islands in the Merced and hide. Mr. Hutchings has lost seventy horses in this way since last year. When we were told these things, we said:—
"Very well. The horses that carry us down the wall of Ah-wah-ne shall be fed. We will not go down until afternoon, and they shall have all the barley they can eat between now and then."
Sol White, a ruddy-faced man, whom we had chosen for our guide as soon as we saw him laugh, assented with a comic shrug of his shoulders to this Quixotic humanity, and led off the astonished horses to the stable. But another guide who stood by—a tall, thin man, whose deep-lined face looked like that of a Scottish Covenanter —said, half sadly, half gruffly:—
"'Taint any kindness to 'em. The sooner they die the better."
We watched the rest of the saddle-train off,—the fat women on the little saddles, and the tall men on the short mules, and the eager children on horses that wouldn't budge, and the pack-mule going ahead, under a mountain of everybody's valises. Each one disappeared down the steep trail so suddenly it seemed as if he had pitched down headforemost; the last view of each tail and pair of hind-legs showing them in the air.
Ah! the comfort of that five hours' rest at Gentry's. If all travellers to Ah-wah-ne rested thus at the entrance of the Valley, we should hear less of the fatigues of the journey. After three hours of the severest jolting in a stage, to undertake three hours more of horseback riding is a serious mistake for any but the strong. The bread or the barley of our charity to the poor horses came back to us tenfold, and that speedily.
The pleasant little sitting-room, with its bright carpet and lace curtains and melodeon; the bedrooms, clean as clean could be and with two beds in each; the neat dining-room and good dinner; the log cabin for a linen closet; the running spring water; the smiling faces and prompt kindliness of the landlord and his wife,— what a marvel it was to find all these in this new clearing in a pine forest of the Sierra Country, seven thousand feet above the sea!
And better than the barley for the starved horses, and better than five hours' rest, and the dinner, and the faces of Mr. and Mrs. Kenny, was it that we entered Ah-wah-ne in the late afternoon, when the impertinent noon lights had passed and shadows went before us and journeyed by our side.
We set out at three o'clock. Our first sensations were not agreeable. We had seen how steep it looked when horse and rider disappeared over that hill-crest. It felt steeper. To an unaccustomed rider it is not pleasant to sit on a horse whose heels are much higher than his head. One's first impulse is to clutch, to brace, to cling, and to guide the horse. But there is neither comfort nor safety till you leave off doing so. With a perfectly loose rein and every muscle relaxed, sitting as you would sit in a rocking-chair, leaning back when the horse rocks down, leaning forward when he rocks up, and forgetting him altogether, riding down precipices is as comfortable and safe as riding on 'a turnpike. I do not say that it is altogether easy in the outset to follow these simple directions. But, if you are wise, it soon becomes so, and you look with impatient pity on the obstinacy of women who persist in grasping pommels, and sitting so stark stiff that it seems as if a sudden lurch of the horse must inevitably send them off, before or behind.
The first two miles and a half of the path down the wall of Ah-wah-ne are steep,—so steep that it is best not to try to say how steep. It is a narrow path, zig-zagging down on ledges, among bowlders, through thickets. It is dusty and stony; it comes out suddenly on opens, from which you look over and down thousands, yes, thousands of feet; it plunges into tangles of trees, where a rider must lay his head on the horse's neck to get through, for oaks and pines and firs grow on this precipice; high ceanothus bushes, fragrant with blossom, make wall-like sides to the path, and bend in as if trying to arch it. In some places the rocks are bright with flowers and ferns, which look as if they were holding on for dear life and climbing up: they project so nearly at right angles from the steep surfaces. With almost every step we get a new view,—more depth, more valley, more wall, more towering rock. The small cleared spaces in the valley are vivid light green; they seem sunken like emerald-paved wells among the masses of dark firs and pines, whose tops lie solid and black below us. The opposite wall of the valley looks steeper than the wall we are descending. It seems within stone's throw, or as if we might call across; it is less than a half-mile distant. Its top seems far higher than the point from which we set out; for it lies in full sunshine, and we are in shadow. One waterfall after another comes into view, streaming over its edge like smooth silver bands. The guide calls out their names: "Inspiration Fall," "Bridal Veil Fall." The words seem singularly meaningless, face to face with the falls. How do men dare to name things so confidently? The luggage mule, who is ahead, keeps clambering out of the path, in search of something to eat. We come upon him sometimes apparently standing bolt upright on his hind-legs, he is feeding on so sharp a slope We all halt, while the guide spurs his horse up the rocks and drives the mule down again. We are almost grateful that the mule makes us laugh, for Ah-wah-ne overawes us. It takes an hour to reach the bottom of the wall, As we near it, the opposite wall appears to lift and grow and stretch, till the sky seems pushed higher. Our trail lies along the bank of the river, on sandy stretches of low meadow, shaded by oaks and willows and bordered by alders. Occasionally we come to fields of bowlders and stones, which have broken and rolled down from the walls above; then we pass through green bits of grass-grown land, threaded by little streams, which we ford; then we ride through great groves of pines and firs, two and three hundred feet high. These feel dark and damp, though the ground is sandy, for it is long past sunset here; but the gray spires and domes and pinnacles of the eastern wall of the valley are still bright in sunlight. The luggage mule trots off and disappears. After vain efforts to combine the two duties of looking after him and looking after us, Sol White finally gallops away, exclaiming:—
"That pesky mule'll swim the river with your baggage, an' not be heard of for days, if I don't keep close up to him. You can't miss your way. There ain't but this one trail up the valley, an' its only five miles to Hutchings's."
What miles they were. Mile by mile the grand rocks, whose shapes and names we already knew, rose up on either hand: The Cathedral Rocks, The Spires, El Capitan, The Three Brothers, The Sentinel. Already the twilight wrapped the western wall. The front of El Capitan looked black; but its upper edge was lined with light, as sometimes a dark cloud will be when the sun is shining behind. The eastern wall was carved and wrought into gigantic forms, which in the lessening light grew more and more fantastic and weird every moment. Bars and beams of sunlight fell, quivered, and vanished on summit after summit, as we passed. At last we heard the sound of waters ahead to the left. Soon we saw the white line, indistinct, waving, ghostly, coming down apparently from the clouds, for it was too dark to see distinctly the lip of a fall two thousand and seven hundred feet up in the air. This was the great Yosemite Fall. Its sound is unlike that of any other fall I have seen. It is not so loud as one would expect, and it is not continuous or even in tone. Listening to it intently, one hears strange rhythmic emphases of undertone on a much lower key. They are grand. They are like the notes of a gigantic violoncello,— booming, surging, filling full and rounding out the harmony of supernatural music. Sometimes they have an impatient and crashing twist, as if the bow escaped the player's hand; sometimes, for an hour, they are regular and alike, as the beats of a metronome. Men have said that these sounds are made by rocks thundering down under the water. They may be. I would rather not know.
For the last mile before reaching Hutchings's Hotel, the trail is little more than a sandy path, winding in and among huge granite bowlders, under and around oak and pine trees, and over and through little runs and pools, when the Merced River is high. It ends abruptly, in a rough and dusty place, partly cleared of bowlders, partly cleared of trees. Here are four buildings, which stand apparently where they happened to, between the rocks and trees. Three of these make up Hutchings's Hotel. Two of them are cottages, used only for lodgings. One of these is called "The Cottage by the River," and stands closer than is safe to the banks of the Merced; the other is called "The Cottage in the Rocks," and seems half barricaded by granite bowlders. "Oh, Mr. Hutchings!" we exclaimed. Put us in the 'Cottage by the River.' We cannot be happy anywhere else."
There are no such rooms in Ah-wah-ne as the rooms on the river-side of this little house. This is the back side; and those who wish to see the coming and going of people, the setting-off of saddle-trains, the driving up and down of the laundry wagon, would better take rooms on the front. But he who would like to open his eyes every morning on the full shining of the great Yosemite Fall; to lie in bed, and from his very pillow watch it sway to right and left under moonlight beams, which seem like wands arresting or hastening the motion; to look down into the amber and green Merced, which caresses his very door-sill; to listen at all hours to the grand violoncello tones of the mysterious waters,—let him ask, as we did, for back bedrooms in the Cottage by the River.
But if he is disconcerted by the fact that his bedroom floor is of rough pine boards, and his bedroom walls of thin laths, covered with unbleached cotton; that he has neither chair, nor table, nor pitcher; that his washbowl is a shallow tin pan, and that all the water he wants he must dip in a tin pint from a barrel out in the hall; that his bed is a sack stuffed with ferns, his one window has no curtain and his door no key,—let him leave Ah-wah-ne the next day.
Not that there are not tables and chairs and wash-bowls and pitchers and keys in Hutchings's Hotel; and not that you cannot, by a judicious system of "jumping" and coaxing and feeing, very soon collect these useful articles, and lock them up in your room, and live decently and with sufficient comfort for weeks in the muslin-walled bedroom; but the soul which in its first hours in Ah-wah-ne can be hindered or interrupted by sense of lack or loss on account of its body's being poorly lodged will never thrive in Ah-wah-ne air. It has come to the wrong place of all places in the world, and the sooner it takes itself and body away the better for it and for Ah-wah-ne.
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Auckland City Libraries has expanded its pilot of a New Zealand cash card solution - in conjunction with network computers - to the entire library and will be rolling it out to its community libraries later in the year.
The system, known as the library cash card, comes from New Zealand firm Copy Monitoring Systems.
Auckland library members can use the cash cards at the central city library to pay for a variety of technologies - photocopiers, Internet time and printing from Index New Zealand and other CD-ROM products.
Auckland Libraries business development manager Linda Edwards says overall cash handling time by staff has been reduced, allowing staff to spend more time on providing professional services. The aim of the system is to reduce the time library staff spend on what is perceived as the non-core business.
"It's an overall efficiency gain for the staff and a service improvement for customers, because they don't have to carry around pockets full of coins."
The cash card software operates on both PCs (on Winfows NT) and network computers (NCs).
Edwards says NCs are ideal for such a system, although the library had already opted to go with NCs for administrative and management reasons before selecting the cash card system.
Members can access a variety of databases from multi-use workstations, using the card to pay for any of the charged services.
Edwards says in the past library members had to go to different workstations for various purposes (such as viewing CDs or library catalogues). The cash cards are rechargeable with a lifetime of 3000 recharges.
Copy Monitoring Systems director Jim Milne says the system is "a bit of a hybrid", with the hardware coming from France and the software that controls printing coming from Canada. The remainder of the software - that provides communication between the hardware and the library system - was developed by Milne in New Zealand.
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At present the card is separate to members' library cards, but Edwards says the library hopes to move toward a combined membership and cash card. Another feature planned is allowing people to pay fines with their cash card.
The same system is now installed at other libraries in the country, including Canterbury Public Library and North Shore Libraries.
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Students must have more control over committee representatives
This summer, the president's office, then headed by Chairman of the Corporation Paul E. Gray '54, asked the Graduate Student Council and the Undergraduate Association to submit names
of students for placement on
the new Committee on Demonstrations.
The committee would be composed of four administrators, four faculty members, two graduate students and two undergraduate students. As usual, the president's office expected the GSC and the UA to each submit a list of five or six names. Those people would then be interviewed, and two students from each list would be chosen to represent their respective student bodies.
However, this time the GSC and the UA did not do what was expected of them. They each submitted a list of only two names, and they each submitted a list of changes that they would like to see in the construction of Institute committees:
1/3 The graduate student members on the committees should be chosen by the GSC alone, and the undergraduate students should be chosen by the UA alone.
If it is true that the Institute wishes to see the student population represented fairly, then it must allow the GSC and UA to select their own representatives. Students can do a better job of deciding who should represent themselves than the administration.
The president's office argues that it would like to make sure that the selected students will get along well in the committee. However, the student bodies feel that providing fair representation is more important than creating a committee that is designed to "get along."
The president's office also wants to make sure that both sexes and all the races at MIT are well represented. This is simply paternalism.
1/3 The GSC and the UA should have the right to replace any of their members on any of the committees if they find that those members are not fully performing their duties as committee members.
The GSC and the UA like their student representatives to keep in touch with their governing bodies while sitting on committees. This way, the GSC and the UA Council can survey student opinion and relay it to their representatives, and the representatives can, in turn, tell the councils what is going on in the committees. If students do not stay in contact with their governing bodies, those bodies must have the right to replace them.
1/3 If there is a disagreement within a committee on its findings, then dissenting members should be allowed to write dissenting opinions that will be appended to the final report.
One glaring reason to ask for this is the report of the IAP Policy Committee. The report was written by the head of the committee with little or no input from several of the members.
Despite this, the report still stands as the culmination of the committee's study. If, however, the excluded students had been allowed to write dissenting opinions for final report, all views would have been represented.
Former President Gray's response to this third demand was that the committee reports should be written under consensus, and that the official report itself should include any dissenting views.
However, if the chair of a committee decides that one particular dissenting view is not worth representing in the report, then as it now stands, that report can be written without it.
If members were allowed to write dissents that would inevitably weaken the report of a committee, then it would be in the committee's interest to come to a better consensus and to include all of the viewpoints in the first place.
Right now, not one of these demands has been accepted in general, although the president's office has accepted the four names that were given to it for the Committee on Demonstrations.
Not one of these demands is unreasonable. The only hardship the student groups ask MIT to bear is that it be prepared to use staples on its reports long enough to include the occasional dissent.
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Sticking to a proper maintenance schedule on your Craftsman riding lawnmower maintains the engine for years. Change the oil in your riding mower after every 50 hours of use. If you do not use your mower more than 50 hours a season, change the oil once a year. Always check your oil level each time you operate your mower as running the engine low on oil could result in permanent damage.
Park your mower on a flat surface and allow the engine to run for a few minutes to warm the oil in the engine. Warm engine oil will drain faster than cool engine oil. Place a drain pan on the right side of the mower beneath the oil drain valve. The oil drain valve is under the hood beneath the engine oil dipstick and fill tube.
Remove the cap from the oil drain valve and push the oil drain tube, provided with the mower, onto the valve. Place the end of the tube into the oil drain pan. Push in on the drain valve while turning it counterclockwise to unlock it, and pull out on the valve to open the drain.
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I am honored to be a monthly contributor to The Wisdom Daily, a website that provides political, cultural and spiritual commentary and analysis. This month, I wrote about how challenging it has become to give and receive holiday wishes and greetings. I've shared the article below.
For all of us who celebrate Chanukah, may the last few nights be filled with lots of light. May we share this light with those who celebrate Christmas or other December holidays by offering our good wishes and blessings. And may we be grateful for the genuine holiday cheer that friends, neighbors and even strangers share with us. Hopefully we'll all spend some time this holiday season giving thanks for the fact that we live in a country where various religious traditions have so much to celebrate at this time of year.
Happy Chanukah and Shabbat Shalom!
The Wisdom Daily – Andrew Jacobs
Back in 2009, Gap released one of my favorite holiday commercials. It featured a group of happy, sweater-wearing, scarf-clad people dancing while chanting the following:
Two, four, six, eight 'tis the time to liberate!
Go Christmas! Go Chanukah! Go Kwanzaa! Go Solstice! Go classic tree!
Go plastic tree! Go plant a tree! Go without a tree!
You 86 the rules. You do what just feels right.
Happy do whatever you wannukah and to all a cheery night!
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