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Eggplant, one of the great defining elements of the cuisines of the Mediterranean basin, has also been a staple in Southern kitchens at least since the late eighteenth century. Believed to be native to the Far East, this exotic vegetable with the odd-sounding name found its way to the Mediterranean and Africa long before the Americas were colonized, but its exact migration has been lost to time. Likewise, no one is sure how it found its way into the South.
In some parts of our region, it used to be known as "Guinea melons" or "Guinea squash," after the West African nation, which, while by no means proof of the route it took getting to our shores, is certainly suggestive.
At any rate, for at least a generation before Mary Randolph's landmark work The Virginia House-Wife was published in 1824, Southerners have been loving eggplant. Read More
Recipes and Stories
11 August 2018: Stuffed Eggplant
Eggplant, one of the great defining elements of the cuisines of the Mediterranean basin, has also been a staple in Southern kitchens at least since the late eighteenth century. Believed to be native to the Far East, this exotic vegetable with the odd-sounding name found its way to the Mediterranean and Africa long before the Americas were colonized, but its exact migration has been lost to time. Likewise, no one is sure how it found its way into the South.
28 July 2018: Old-Fashioned Shrimp Salad
Before July slips completely away, here's one last word on those old-fashioned chopped meat salads, specifically, one that's quintessential to a Lowcountry summer: shrimp salad.
No one would argue that tomato sandwiches are the primary hallmark of summer for most of us. We eagerly anticipate that first really vine-ripened tomato so we can thickly slice it, tuck it into soft white bread slathered with mayonnaise, and relish it wearing an old shirt (or no shirt) while standing over the sink, because it's going to drip all over us when we bite into it.
But here in the Lowcountry, the hallmark sandwich of summer is shrimp salad. Read More
27 March 2018: Shrimp Bonnie
One of the real joys of teaching is the sharing. It's more than just showing someone the basics of cooking, but also sharing the subtleties that make a cook into a good one, trading culinary secrets with other teachers and students, and revisiting memories of the people who've shaped me into the cook I've become.
Unhappily, it's been a year since my last class. So, a recent class for a group of feisty Southern ladies who gather under the singularly appropriate appellation "Southern Comfort" marked a welcome return of the sharing, trading secrets, and revisiting of memories.
The best memories it brought to fore were of my lovely friend Bonnie Gaster, the fabulous cook who helped me create the appetizer that opened the class. Read More
March 27, 2018 10:58 AM EDT
I'm coming to live with you and eat at your table!
- Joberta
March 29, 2018 12:37 PM EDT
Cooking with Damon thru the years has been a joy and WAY too much fun a few times! Cannot wait for our first May Prawns...get ready Damon and Tim!
- bonnie
March 30, 2018 5:43 AM EDT
Thank you, Bonnie! I'm looking forward to those May Prawns and sharing a kitchen with you again!
- Damon Fowler
April 28, 2018 9:29 AM EDT
Making Shrimp Bonnie for my sister-in-law tonight, who's recovering from a knee replacement. Rummaged through my implement drawer and found...aha!....what looked like it might be a "bar zester" that I purchased at Kitchen Outfitters some time ago but had never used. Works perfectly!
- Pam Mc.
April 28, 2018 10:12 AM EDT
A bar zester removes the zest in thin julienne strips. Sometimes it had a larger cutter on the side for doing zest curls for drinks as well.
- Damon Fowler
29 July 2017: Classic Shrimp Salad
One of the great seaside dishes of summer in the Coastal South, whether that coast abuts the Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico, is shrimp salad. It's been commonplace in the South since the beginning of the twentieth century, but I've not found printed recipes for it that date back much further than the latter part of the nineteenth century. That said, the same basic recipe was used for fish and lobster salads as early as the 1830s and 40s, and along the coast, shrimp would almost certainly have been made into salad in the same way.
Those historical recipes were a simple triad of cooked shrimp, chopped celery, and homemade mayonnaise. That was it. And the basic recipe has changed very little: The most that sensible modern cooks add is a little onion. Read More
July 29, 2017 4:40 PM EDT
Delicious! The best way to use sweet Georgia shrimp.
- Edna Williamson
July 29, 2017 6:06 PM EDT
Thank you, dear Edna! Miss you!
- Damon Fowler
3 July 2017: Shrimp and Corn Pie, or Pudding
One of the loveliest mid-summer supper dishes of the Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry is a simple casserole known in these parts as shrimp and corn pie. Traditionally, almost any custard-based dish cooked in a shallow casserole is called a "pie" in Carolina and Georgia, just as our version of macaroni and cheese is known as macaroni pie, although a similar dish would be called a "pudding" in Virginia or other parts of the South.
Well, no matter what you call it, it's one of the happiest pairings of two of our best summer staples: Read More
July 06, 2017 4:33 AM EDT
Making this Sunday for my friends wine dinner.
- Jersey in KY
July 05, 2017 7:50 AM EDT
Thank you all so much for your kind words and for reading! Bon Appetit!
- Damon Fowler
July 03, 2017 3:02 PM EDT
How wonderful. I'm adding it to my summer menu.
- Janis Owens
July 03, 2017 4:15 PM EDT
Thank you, Dear One!
- Damon Fowler
July 04, 2017 11:18 AM EDT
I have GA shrimp in my freezer and I will go to the farm this week for SC corn. Sounds wonderful.
- Ginny Clifford
July 04, 2017 3:10 PM EDT
Thank you, dear Ginny! If your shrimp are fairly large, you might want to cut them in half. Bon Appetit!
- Damon Fowler
July 04, 2017 7:27 PM EDT
I cannot wait to put this together and eat my fill!
- VL Heraty aka Dream Momma
July 05, 2017 5:19 AM EDT
I'm trying this out tonight for dinner with my parents...looking forward to it!
- Diane
July 05, 2017 6:05 AM EDT
I can hardly wait to try this. Mouthwatering w/o tasting ....yet. thanks
- Donna Lovelace
23 June 2017: Seafood Stuffed Tomatoes
One of the many things that Southern cooks share with Italians, especially those along the Ligurian coast that's known as the Italian Riviera, is a love for filling hollowed-out vegetables with a blend of their chopped pulp, stale bread crumbs, herbs and seasonings, and often some kind of chopped meat, poultry, or seafood.
Here in the Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, stuffed vegetables have long been a beloved part of our summer tables. Recipes for them date back well into the nineteenth century. Read More
27 May 2016: Mama's Breakfast Shrimp
When shrimp season rolls around each May, it always takes me back to some of the best days of my childhood. That may seem odd, since I didn't grow up on the coast where the opening of shrimp season marks the real beginning of summer. But a small part of most of my childhood summers was actually spent on the Isle of Palms, a barrier island just north of Charleston.
While we were in shrimp territory, we ate as many of them as we could manage. Most of the shrimp we ate were bought from the many local fishermen who sold them roadside from the tailgates of their battered pickups, Read More
3 May 2016: Shrimp and Ham Jambalaya
3 May 2016: Shrimp and Ham Jambalaya
Whether you call it pilau, pilaf, perlow, paella, or jambalaya, in the end, it all amounts to the same thing.
The techniques used vary slightly from dish to dish and the type of rice may differ—a paella, for example, is made with a short-grained rice whereas a pilau is made with long-grain rice. Read More
23 September 2014: Welcoming Autumn
It doesn't often happen, but the first day of autumn was met here in Savannah with a hint of genuine coolness in the air. It's not quite chili, pot roast, and hearty stew weather, but the suggestion that it is on the way is an unexpected gift that's not to be ignored. Read More
30 August 2014: Seafood Cocktails
Labor Day weekend is traditionally summer's last hurrah for most Americans, even though the season won't officially end until the autumnal equinox later in September, and, in the Deep South, won't be effectively over until well into October. But never mind about the calendar and heat index: Summer's waning, whether actual or merely symbolic, is as good an excuse as any for one more outdoor party. Read More
1 July 2013: Shrimp and Rice
July 02, 2013 10:58 AM EDT
I grew up on Chicken Perloo, thanks to my grandmother,and still enjoy it making it, but I've never tried shrimp. Thanks for sharing your recipe. On a rare occasion my mother, and grandmother would add diced tomato to the chicken perloo. I once told a friend that, and she "poo poo'd" me, saying it wasn't "real" perloo. I felt a little miffed then, but seeing you add tomato to the shrimp pilau (perloo in my family) adds a sweet taste of redemption.
- Rebecca
July 02, 2013 11:46 AM EDT
Oh, my dear: I think every cook who makes pilau is convicted that theirs is the One True Way, and that all other versions are imposters! I had a reader take me to task for suggesting pancetta as an alternate ingredient, saying it was an Italian ingredient and bacon or SALT-CURED SIDE MEAT would've been more "Southern" . . . never mind that Pancetta is . . . salt cured pork!
- Damon Lee Fowler
July 02, 2013 11:48 AM EDT
I had to explain that I often suggest pancetta because it's almost universally available nowadays, whereas dry-salt-cured side meat is not.
- Damon Lee Fowler
July 02, 2013 12:00 PM EDT
Just if you're interested, this is a blog post I did back in November when I last made chicken perloo. If you scroll even back further on my blog to some time in May 2012, you'll see a post too on Mint Juleps, where I gave you props and a little blog lovin'. You don't have to publish this particular comment, Damon, I just thought you might want to see my posts. take care!
- Rebecca
July 02, 2013 1:00 PM EDT
Happy to post and give you a little plug from here!
- Damon Lee Fowler
July 04, 2013 9:01 AM EDT
In Horry County, South Carolina, it is called "Chicken Bog". My father and workers would make it in an iron pot over an open fire while buying, shelling and storing field corn from the community farms. If I gave you the secret family recipe, I would have to kill you. I will definitely try Shrimp and Rice. It sounds divine.
I am currently reading "Classical Southern Cooking" cover to cover. A great read with fabulous southern recipes, history, culture, and humor. Thank you for this wonderful work. I cannot wait to get to the kitchen and get out the lard, butter, and cream!
- Teresa
July 04, 2013 10:59 AM EDT
Teresa, actually Chicken Bog is not the same thing as Chicken Pilau (or perloo). They're similar, but most Bogs are a lot wetter than a pilau, which is almost rattle-the-plate dry.
Thanks for all your kind words about Classical Southern Cooking. It really was a labor of love and when it gives a reader that kind of pleasure and inspiration, I feel as if it has been worth it.
By the way, this site doesn't show a comment until it has been approved by the moderator, so that's why your comment didn't show right away.
Thanks so much for visiting, reading, and caring enough to share in the conversation!
Warmest regards,
- Damon Lee Fowler
August 04, 2013 2:18 AM EDT
Interesting that I have just read your Perloo blog which refers to dry salt cured side meat, aka "rank meat". I just made some totally ten sausage with 1/2 smoked hog jowls and 1/2 Lord's (Dexter,Ga) "Country Cured Jowls" , dry salt sodium nitrite cured, i.e. old fashioned. It is some really good sausage. No bacon/pancetta. With Logan Turnpike Stone Ground Speckled White Grits, (www.loganturnpikemill.com). BREAKFAST HEAVEN!
- The Judge
November 05, 2016 11:39 AM EDT
Just to elaborate a wee bit and clarify the origin of the Pilau. Before Africa it started out probably in India but had a huge influence made upon it by the ancient Persian's. The name itself is a combination of Sanskrit and Persian.
Your recipe is outstanding and I probably will make a big batch for Sunday afternoon Supper (I'm drooling like a Rottweiler as I type this :)))
If you ever get a chance try out some recipes for Persian Jeweled Rice called Javaher Polow which reminds us of Christmas time. Also try Kabuli Palow (Afghan) which is traditionally made with lamb or chicken. Tiger shrimps, monkfish or Rainbow trout work great in it too :)))
Thanks and I found a bunch of recipes here to try out and added a couple of your books to our "Must Have" list.
Have a wonderful day,
- Brandon J. Li
November 05, 2016 12:14 PM EDT
Yes, sir, I know the ancient origins of pilaf/pilau of course: but it wasn't really pertinent to the story at hand. The Lowcountry versions of pilau owe most of their heritage to West Africa and a little to Provencal cookery. Both cuisines of course derived their versions from Persia by way of the Ottoman Empire. It was rarely talked of until recently, but the enslaved West Africans who were largely responsible for Carolina's rice culture were actually Muslim. It's an interesting spiral in history, but it was more than a short essay on the Lowcountry pilaus needed to get into.
- Damon Fowler
July 11, 2018 9:25 AM EDT
I would very much like to follow you through my emails. Is there a way I may do so. I'd hate to miss one of your recipes and stories!
- Cheryl Donnelly
July 11, 2018 10:50 AM EDT
I'm afraid I don't have a newsletter yet. I just haven't been able to work out the logistics of it. But if you are on Facebook, I post links to all my recipes and stories entries and to all my newspaper columns on my author's page under Damon Lee Fowler. Meanwhile, thank you so much for your interest in my work. If you send me a message through this site, it will come through to my personal email and I'd love to hear from you! All my best,
- Damon Lee Fowler
3 August 2012: Seafood-Stuffed Tomatoes
16 July 2012: Pickled Shrimp
3 July 2012: Shrimp Creole
Without a doubt, Shrimp Creole is one of the most neglected classics in the entire repertory of modern Southern cooking. Though a version of it can be found in almost every comprehensive anthology, and it still turns up on the menu of many Louisiana restaurants, it no longer has the respect that it deserves, and is treated as a hackneyed cliché, indeed, almost as an anachronism. Read More
July 04, 2012 5:20 AM EDT
This is one of the few dishes that in my opinion out ranks gumbo. Its great on one of those rare summer days on the coast when a raining nor'easter blows for three days.
- Earle
July 04, 2012 6:09 AM EDT
Thanks! Remember those hot summer evenings when I used to make this for us? Thought I was soooo sophisticated!
- Damon Lee Fowler
July 04, 2012 7:39 AM EDT
Oh, boy! Now I know what I'm fixin' for a dinner party this Saturday night! Out to replace all the food we lost in the storm -- and shrimp was already on my list.
Thank you, Damon, for being a friend.
- Nancy Carter Crump
July 04, 2012 8:46 AM EDT
I have been looking for a good shrimp creole recipe. Cannot wait to make this!
- Paige Couoer
July 04, 2012 11:10 AM EDT
Thank you! It is a good one, if I say it myself!
- Damon Lee Fowler
July 12, 2012 7:28 AM EDT
Oh Lord, have mercy. This looks wonderful. I much prefer shrimp creole without a dark roux, and this recipe looks perfect. Love your blog! Thanks for sharing.
- Rebecca
July 12, 2012 8:22 AM EDT
Thank you, Rebecca! I think you'll enjoy this one, too. I really don't like that dark roux very much, either, except in an etouffe.
- Damon Lee Fowler
22 June 2012: Sherried Shrimp
10 August 2011: Supper Shrimp and Grits
To begin with, it would not have occurred to anyone to have grits at dinner, particularly not at a formal table. In the second place, in those days the idea of something as substantial and satisfying as shrimp swimming in rich gravy as merely an appetizer would have seemed truly strange.
Once it got into the hands of creative chefs, however, there was no turning back until it had been so gussied up and overdone that it was hackneyed and passé. It then came full circle and was rediscovered as fashionably "retro"—whatever that is supposed to mean.
That's not meant to be a cranky slam of what professional cooks do when they spin on a classic. It's just that, in all their spinning, everyone lost sight of the original dish and its humble origins.
A lot of us stopped thinking of shrimp and grits as a perfectly sensible breakfast and supper dish and started thinking of it as too fancy for regular meals. We either quit making it altogether or saved it for company—something our grandmothers would rather have died than do.
This past Monday evening, I'd picked up some lovely local brown shrimp for supper. Since there were just two of us, it needed to be something simple, and I stood there with the refrigerator door open, getting nowhere, until the bag of grits on the bottom shelf caught my eye.
How could I have forgotten about shrimp and grits? The perfect supper on a hot summer evening had been there all the time, just waiting to be noticed.
For two persons (and this doubles nicely), you'll need
¾ pound of medium shrimp
2 strips of extra-thick-cut bacon cut into ½-inch dice
1 small or half a medium yellow onion, trimmed, split, peeled and cut into ½-inch dice
1 large clove garlic, lightly crushed, peeled, and minced
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Salt and ground cayenne pepper
4 cups hot Cooked Hominy Grits (recipe follows)
1. Peel the shrimp, reserving the shells. Cover, and refrigerate the shrimp. Put the shells and 4 cups of water in a stainless or enameled pot. Bring it to a boil over medium-high heat, being careful not to let it boil over. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook until the liquid is reduced to 1 cup. Turn off the heat, strain the broth into a stainless steel or glass bowl. Discard the shells. If not proceeding right away, cool completely, cover, and refrigerate. (If you're in a hurry, you can omit this step and just use water for the gravy, but this does make it tastier.)
2. When you are ready to continue, put the bacon in a large sauté pan or skillet that will hold the shrimp in one layer. Sauté over medium heat, tossing occasionally, until browned. Add the onion. Raise the heat to medium-high and sauté, tossing frequently, until it's pale gold, about 4 or 5 minutes. Add the garlic and sauté until fragrant but not colored. Sprinkle in the flour and cook, stirring constantly, until it is lightly browned, about 2 minutes more.
3. Slowly stir in the shrimp broth (or 1 cup of water) and bring it to a boil, stirring constantly. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the shrimp and season lightly with salt and cayenne. Cook until the shrimp are curled and pink, about 2 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasonings and serve at once over hot grits.
Cooked Hominy Grits
Serves 2
½ cup hominy grits (often labeled "regular" grits . . . whatever that means)
1. Bring 2 cups water to a boil in an enameled or stainless steel saucepan over medium heat. Prepare a teakettle of water, bring it to a boil, and keep it simmering.
2. Slowly add the grits to the saucepan in a steady stream, stirring constantly. Bring it to a boil, still stirring, and reduce the heat to a steady simmer. Loosely cover the pan and cook, stirring often, until the grits are very thick and tender, about an hour. If the grits get too thick before they're tender, add a little of the simmering water from the kettle.
3. Season to taste with salt and simmer 5 minutes longer. Read More
August 11, 2011 3:29 PM EDT
This is probably my all-time favorite dish. We usually have it on Sunday nights. Don't ask me why...it just seems to fit the bill. I'll never forget the first time that we were served this at a fancy-schmancy wedding reception as a "grits bar". There were 10-12 different toppings for the grits, but the shrimp was everyone's favorite. It was served in crystal martini glasses. I'm sure that my grandmother got a chuckle if she was looking down on us that night. Thanks for sharing your recipe!!!
- Lynn Hagan
August 11, 2011 4:18 PM EDT
I've been given to understand that the martini glass grits bars are passe now . . . thank goodness! So glad you enjoyed the story, Lynn! Share!
- Damon Lee Fowler


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Sarah Palin welcomed in the New Year with a charming image from 1965's 'The Sound of Music', that cleverly quoted from the lyric of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song, 'Sixteen Going on Seventeen'.
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You wait, little girl, on an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
That men will want to write on
To write on
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads and rogues and cads
Will offer you food and wine
Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken
You need someone older and wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I'll take care of you
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe
I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those
Totally unprepared am I
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken
I need someone older and wiser
Telling me what to do
You are seventeen going on eighteen
I'll depend on you
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Happy new year everyone!
365 new days means 365 new opportunities.
I've decided that this will be a good year. A very good year. How about you?
God bless 2017.
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Making a Better Future for Audubon Chapters in Ohio
Council of Ohio Audubon Chapters. Ever hear of it? It's a real organization and it's alive again. It's mission is to share best practices among Ohio chapters through workshops.
By Mary Anne Romito, Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society
Council of Ohio Audubon Chapters. Ever hear of it? It's a real organization and it's alive again. It's mission is to share best practices among Ohio chapters through workshops.
Members of WCAS initiated such a workshop on Oct 1, 2017. Six chapters attended the meeting in Parma, Ohio. We got a lot accomplished! During the meeting we discussed many ideas that included: programming, projects and gaining support for them.
We will be having another workshop in mid-March 2018 in Huron, Ohio. It will be hosted by the Firelands Audubon Society chapter. We will have round table discussions and share what our chapters have done with membership involvement and fund raising.
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The boat is in the water. Spent the past week (90 degree days) burning the candles at both ends getting it ready. Worked days Saturday, Sunday & Monday. Sunday, I towed the boat with me to work in Norwich (half-way to the shore), went down in the evening after work, met a Bob & Brian, launched it and got the mast up. Accomplished some more on Monday night and a bit before going to work Tuesday evening. Tuesday, we had an aviation staff meeting at 1600, then a program wide meeting from 1800 to 2100. At 2215, we took a burn patient from Hartford Hospital to Bridgeport and got back a bit after midnight. I had just lain down, when we got request for child from Stamford Hospital to Yale in New Haven. A 1000′ ish scattered layer was developing on the approach to Yale. By the time we were ready to head back to Hartford, it had thickened up so we ended up returning by taxi, and left it up to the day shift to retrieve the aircraft mid-morning. I took a nap from 0730 to 1130 before going down to get the boat presentable for our first sail and race. Seth showed up a bit early and Bob & Brian a few minutes later.
It was an unusually cool evening of sixty degrees with winds SE at 10 to 12 kts at the beginning of the ebb. The start area was just west and clear of Horseshoe. The course was two laps out to Intrepid Rock and back, total distance 4.3 nm. We had sailed down past the pin end and did not hear the initial warning signal, so never got squared away properly on the countdown for the start. We started in clear air less than a quarter of the way down the line on starboard with most of the fleet crossing near the pin. A pin end start would have put us farther up course to the windward mark, yet would have been far more crowded. Continuing on starboard, we followed closely behind Get Fuzzy (Catalina 27) halfway to Groton Long Point then tacked along with them out to mid channel where we tacked back to starboard to lay Intrepid with a good set. A jibe to port (halfway to GLP) carried us in to the leeward mark.
We went for a leeward douse (smoothly done by the crew) as the run had turned broad, but lost some distance to windward at the rounding as I was slow getting the main in. With a good call by the crew, we again laid the mark a good distance out in mid-channel. This time we jibed to port shortly after the set and with the exception of Second Draft (Catalina 30) were able to remain in clear air all the way to the finish. Plus we benefited from a good 30-second ride in Second Draft?s stern wave. Nearing the finish we had a smooth jibe back to starboard to cross at the pin.
We were certainly a bit rusty (me especially), yet ended up with a 4th out of 8 boats.
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Dimensional knitwear that can be achieved through a series of easier techniques and combined with the right choice for fiber and yarn construction. Learn how to create this fun textured Hisho shawl as well as learn how to pick the right colors and adapt it to your liking.
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Panaji – Goa Tourism today rubbished rumors that there will be a strict dress code for the state Carnival, which will begin on February 6.
"There is no dress code. Only obscenity will not be permitted. This is not Brazilian carnival," Goa Tourism Development Corporation's Managing Director Nikhil Desai told PTI.
Desai said the dress would be the regular ones which are worn for Carnival festivities annually. "There is no restriction of whatsoever."
Certain media reports had claimed that state government was trying to impose a dress code for the Carnival celebrations this year.
"While I agree vulgarity has no place in my carnival, people are allowed to wear what they want. There is no dress code for carnival," said Shalom Sardinha, who has been selected as King Momo for Carnival 2016.
Shalom, son of former Goa Chief Minister Francis Sardinha, accused one legislator of trying to create confusion in the minds of people.
"One MLA is just trying to create confusion in the minds of people because I am selected as King Momo," he said, without naming the legislator.
"How can people make merry if costumes and fun clothes are not allowed?," Shalom questioned.
The carnival has been celebrated in Goa from Portuguese time, but the recent addition are the float parades which are led by King Momo, a mythological character who rules the state for four days during the celebrations.
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It has been a while, so here are some current "happenings" related to polymer art. Read a synopsis of "The Broken Telephone Project" conceived and orchestrated by Dan Cormier and Tracy Holmes in the upcoming issue of Ornament magazine (vol. 36. no.4). Cormier first presented this take on a well know communications game at the IPCG's Synergy 3 conference in Atlanta, GA in March, 2013. The article written by Cormier leads the reader through from conception to realization. Eight artists participated: Cormier, Cynthia Toops, Meredith Dittmar, Kathleen Dustin, Sarah Shriver, David Forlano, Celie Fago and Maggie Maggio.
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Neil Patrick Harris doesn't scare easily.
He is, after all, the guy who strode across the Dolby Theater stage in nothing but his tighty-whities as the host of this year's Oscars.
So the idea of fronting a live hour of hard-to-describe television for NBC in the first eight weeks of the 2015-16 season doesn't faze him in the slightest. Or so he insists. "Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris" is getting the Rolls-Royce treatment from NBC as the tentpole of the Peacock's fall launch, fueled by his star power.
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"At worst, it fails. And if it fails, then I'll do something else," he says over a late breakfast in Beverly Hills in August between a packed schedule of production meetings. He's doing a good job of making it sound like an easy thing for him to take a flier on; that's the same approach he'll have to take on air to convince viewers to join the party. And stay.
"But I have no intention of it failing," Harris adds. "It's chock full of fun things. It would really have to crash and burn to fail. But even crashing and burning, I think it would be watchable."
He compares the job of clowning around live on TV to performing "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on Broadway, where he strutted on stage in drag, night after night for months, a role that earned him a Tony Award. "I relish taking challenges and trying things that might make me uncomfortable, and realizing it doesn't affect me that much," he says.
The multihyphenate, who grew up in the public eye, had to chart his own course — both personally and professionally — after his days as boy genius "Doogie Howser, M.D." That's only fueled his ambition to take on difficult opportunities when they arise. "You can say the same thing for coming out," he explains of his decision to share details of his personal life. "It's much scarier before it happens. And once it does, it's either inconsequential or freeing and positive. I hope the same thing is true about the show. It's scary to think how people will respond, and then once it's done, we'll enjoy the things that worked, and then we'll move on."
Few TV execs in the U.S. had heard of "Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway" when ITV Studios began to shop the project in the summer of 2014. But at NBC, the show — filled with trivia, games, pranks, practical jokes, stunts and more — had already been on the radar, thanks to Paul Telegdy, the British-born president of alternative and late night, who'd gone so far as to show his boss, entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt, a few clips via the Internet. Intrigued as they were, they knew it would be impossible to pull off without the perfect host. And their wish list was very short indeed.
"We kept saying to ourselves that it would be a high-wire act to produce, but it will only work if we have that amazing frontman who can be so playful and fun," Greenblatt says. "Punking people and pulling off the hidden camera stuff without seeming mean — that's not something that everyone is able to do."
Meanwhile, Harris, who'd kept his options open after wrapping his nine-season run on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" in March 2014, was presented with the idea by ITV Studios. He was dismissive of the show until he sat down to watch it — an experience, he says, that left him giddy. "I'm super-random in what I like and what I do professionally," he notes. "I love that I can bounce from 'Gone Girl' to 'Hedwig' to 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' to hosting an awards show. This show exemplifies that."
With Harris formally on board not only as host, but also as executive producer with his shingle, Prediction Prods., the project ignited interest among the broadcast nets, including CBS and ABC, but the Peacock ultimately won out.
"Mr. Moonves has been nothing but super-supportive and parental, and great to me and my family," says Harris, who'd discussed a late-night gig with CBS honchos. "But right now, they are not in the business of primetime, live variety explosiveness (the show will settle into its Tuesdays-at-8 slot after a pair of initial airings at 10). And I just was blinded by Bob and Paul's enthusiasm for what this show could be for me, for them and for the audience. That made it an easy decision as far as I was concerned."
NBC gave some thought to shifting the show to an entirely taped format, which would have eased some of the complications of production, but soon realized that would sap it of its vitality. And Harris was more than game for the challenge, given his experience on Broadway as well as hosting live kudocasts. Four of his five Emmys have come for his work on the Tony telecasts — and he's nominated again this year for fronting the Oscarcast.
Earning his EP title, he's been waist-deep in adapting the British format for American audiences, shaping and executing the segments — much more so than simply taking on the emcee functions of traditional variety-show hosts.
"Stars get producer credits for a lot of reasons, not many of them having to do with actually producing," Greenblatt says. "He's involved in every way in making this thing sail."
Harris even chose the title: "Best Time Ever." "It's intentionally sardonic," he says. "Declaring the best time ever for a show filled with nonsense, I think has its own sense of humor. I hope it explains everything and it explains nothing."
The scene at a "Best Time Ever" rehearsal at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens — which features extreme pogo stick performers; nubile female dancers; male dancers juggling bottles, glasses and martini shakers; and crew members standing in for the marching band to come — underscores the creative chaos that will unfold on Stage K when the show beams live on Sept. 15. Seven days from the premiere, Harris and the troupe are honing in on the "End of the Show Show" segment, a song and dance number that will close each hourlong episode.
Harris runs, jumps, pogos, juggles and gyrates throughout the number that will feature Pitbull's hit "Don't Stop the Party." The level of synchronicity with choreographers and camera operators that goes into every step that he and regular sidekick Nicole Scherzinger take in the number reinforces the wildly ambitious nature of doing such a production every week. Harris is literally all over the stage — which is much bigger than the typical talk show set — and ends the number standing on top of a bar prop balancing a baton on his chin.
The amount of direction that "NPH," as he's referred to on set, delivers in the rehearsal reflects his familiarity with live productions. The sweat stains on his checkered Oxford shirt after his fourth run-through of the "End of the Show Show" number speak volumes: If "Best Time Ever" doesn't live up to its lofty title or connect with the American public, it won't be for lack of trying on Harris' part.
Of course, his ultimate contribution will come when the show premieres live, when he will undoubtedly have to make choices on the fly, whether in reacting to a surprised participant, or on-the-spot editing if the program is running long. "No one is a harsher critic of my presenting things than myself, so I will know right away if something is not working," Harris says. "If something is sloppy, something doesn't work, a sound feed gets cut, then I'll just be able to comment on it, and that might make it even funnier."
Telegdy says he's fervently hoping that Harris and Co. face some curveballs, if only to reinforce to viewers that anything can truly happen.
"There are live shows we do on 'The Voice' where the team is working together flawlessly, and absolutely nothing goes wrong," Telegdy says. "I don't think ('Best Time Ever') will be one of those. This is going to be about meticulousness with a spot of anarchy." The show will air with a seven-second tape delay, as does all of NBC's live programming, to guard against F-bombs or anything else that would send the FCC into fits. That's a genuine concern with a format that incorporates hidden camera material and live reaction shots from people who had no idea they were going to be on live TV. "Someone cursing on camera is the least of our worries," Telegdy says. "The big worry is someone not giving us the big reaction we want."
Also vital to adapting "Takeaway" for the U.S., the show needed a seasoned hand to manage the circus. That meant importing "The X-Factor" exec producer Siobhan Greene to New York City for an extended stay as an exec producer, alongside showrunner David Hurwitz of "Fear Factor" fame.
"She's a five-foot-one barrel of dynamite," Greenblatt says of Greene. "She's done all the trial-and-error; she knows what works and what doesn't. We needed her to show us how to pre-produce the show before you go out there live without a net."
Greene says NBC execs didn't have to work hard to convince her to make the move. " 'Takeaway' is a show very close to my heart," she says. "But it's not about re-creating what's gone before. That wouldn't be worth it to me. It's about the challenge of executing it with somebody completely new. Neil isn't just talent. He's a proper producing partner. He's absolutely the real deal."
She admits she's nervous about showing off what she and the team have produced. But she's confident their around-the-clock, around-the-country work will have paid off.
"You've got to have guts to commit to a show like this, because it's expensive, it's nerve-wracking, it's live, and we've got a big star doing it. You need balls of steel. And we've got them," she says.
Harris won't be alone on stage with just his wits: He's recruited his celebrity friends not only as prank victims but also as guest announcers (Reese Witherspoon and Jack Black are among the first).
And besides Scherzinger, there's Little NPH, his 7-year-old doppelganger (played by Nathaniel Motulsky). That's a bit they borrowed, too, from the British version. Little NPH's role is to fill in when Big NPH is otherwise occupied with his many on-stage tasks. One role the producers envision for Little NPH is interviewing celebrities about whatever comes to mind.
"I hope it's more fun for an audience to see someone who's new at this, asking authentic questions and misbehaving in a real way as opposed to a theatrical, infomercial kind of way," says Harris. "I hope he doesn't clam up. And if he does, then I suddenly will do a ventriloquism act for five minutes," he adds with a laugh.
On set shooting the title sequence, Harris checks in frequently with his Mini-Me, his paternal instincts coming through as the camera crew takes a bit too long between setups, leaving Nat standing around awkwardly.
Once the director's satisfied with the take, both NPHs watch the playback. Nat's not a child actor (he got the job through word-of-mouth), and that was ultimately what sold everyone on him for the role.
Harris is keenly sensitive to making sure every moment feels authentic. "I find it a little bit tricky in our unscripted television world now," he says. "Everyone knows what seems to be reality isn't, and what seem to be authentic reactions aren't. When the Bachelorette is crying over the three guys, do you think she is really crying, or is she TV crying? I don't like that inauthenticity."
As much as the show is live, months of prep work have gone into the eight-week run. Since January, producers have been laying out the groundwork for a wide range of stunts that will play out in real time on unsuspecting guests. "The ethos of the show is anything can happen, and it can happen to you," Hurwitz says. "Whether you're a viewer watching at home or you're sitting in the audience, you could be a participant in the show without realizing it, because Neil's been orchestrating things behind the scenes, getting to know things about you or been somewhere you were and you didn't know it."
Harris got his own boot-camp training in "Takeway" in March when he, Telegdy and Meredith Ahr, exec VP of alternative programming, took a field trip to London to immerse themselves in the British production. Harris served as guest announcer of that week's installment of "Takeaway."
"Ant and Dec were incredibly generous," Ahr says of comedy duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, who host the show. "We got to live a week in the life. The whole staff opened the doors to every meeting, and let us ask every question. Neil was so engaged in the process and very specific in terms of wanting to know every detail of what goes into pulling off every type of segment."
Calling "Takeaway" a finely-tuned machine, Harris says "Best Time Ever" borrows heavily from the British version, now in its 12th season. "I feel like it would be ineffective to diverge too far from what they do, just for the sake of being American," he says. "I want this to be inclusive of as many demographics as possible, and yet the one gap demographic I'm going to be keen on entertaining is that 'Funny or Die,' Sarah Silverman, Andy Samberg, Amy Sedaris kind of world. I still want them to think the show is fun so it just doesn't feel like giant, mainstream commercialism."
Yet, just as important, Greene says, is to make sure their version makes the most of its host. "It's got to have Neil all the way through it. It's got to have his DNA, his personality in every element and every segment of the show," she says. "You've got the roadmap of something that you've had before, but then the execution of it will absolutely feel different in every segment."
The plan is that every week, each episode will look different than the next. That, ultimately, is what appealed to Harris. "There just hasn't been a show like this," he says. "It's not just a game show and it's not just me showing off magicians and jugglers. You are in for a ride, and I am a pretty good driver."
That it was only an eight-week commitment, he says, made it a far easier than taking on another Broadway musical or a scripted TV series.
Harris credits his parents, both attorneys, with helping him navigate Hollywood and making sure his morals didn't get twisted along the way.
"I've always really enjoyed the process of work. I've enjoyed some of the fruits of the labor of it all, but I've never been that interested in how famous can one get," he says. Now he's hoping to do the same for his own twins, Gideon and Harper, 5, who are back in New York at the moment with his husband, David Burtka.
He hopes they don't become actors, but concedes, "I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up industry-adjacent just because they know so many people." But right now, Gideon has his sights set on being a Jedi, while Harper is showing off her directorial tendencies. "Her favorite game is to try to convince you to play a game with her, and then the game has as many rules as she can possibly throw at you, so you are constantly doing whatever it is wrong," he laughs.
NBC's hope is that the Harris charm and the anything-can-happen appeal of a live format will draw the curious — with the help of the network's top lead-ins: The "Best Time Ever" premiere follows the season finale of "America's Got Talent" on Sept. 15, while the second episode, on Sept. 22, follows the second half of the "Voice" season opener — the biggest platform the network has to offer. The 10 p.m. airings are not ideal, execs acknowledge, because the show is meant to appeal to a family audience. But given the newness of the concept, the most important thing is to get as many people to sample it as possible.
Explaining exactly what "Best Time Ever" is to viewers has not been easy, Greenblatt admits, which means the drive to tune in rests largely on Harris' shoulders. "We're all so conditioned to the 'It's a blankety-blank show,' " Greenblatt says. "We've been tiptoeing around the word 'variety' because it's not a traditional variety show. You're not going to see rock bands and singers come on and do performances. It's a lot of things — it's stunts and playing with the audience, hidden camera bits and a little bit of razzamatazz in the finale. But it's not 'The Sonny and Cher Show.' "
For his part, Harris says he's not going to pay attention to ratings, but to audience retention. "I hope once people start watching, they will be encouraged to watch again, the way I left smiling when I watched 'Takeaway,' " he says. "I'm going to work hard to make it fun, and I have no intention of coasting my way through a show like this. I think for Americans who work all day and come home and don't want to be stressed, they can just sit back and have a laugh with their family. But they better dress decent, because they may be on TV."


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5 Realistic Habits That Will Improve Your Head-to-Toe Health
No one needs to tell you how important it is to take care of your overall health and well-being. But amid the hustle and bustle of life, it can feel impossible to find time for self-care. Fortunately, there are realistic ways to foster your physical, mental, and emotional health on a daily basis. If you need to improve your head-to-toe health, start by implementing these five habits in your life.
10 Simple Habits You Need to Adopt to Be Healthy
How are you feeling right now? Are you tired? Is your energy low? If you answered yes to these two questions, then it might be time to reconsider your daily habits and make a few adjustments. We get it—changing your lifestyle is hard, especially when the indulgent holiday season is upon us.
Be More Dog than Cat Today.
Cats. You know them. Lazy. Sleeping all day. With little mental stimulation may become bored and take naps because there's not much else to do. They won't fetch a ball and refuse to learn tricks.
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Too restless for silence? On the hunt for the perfect mood music for writing, working or whatever you do at work? Having ambient noise can help you focus and stay productive.
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Workshop: [SOLD OUT] Observing and Understanding Distributed Systems With OpenTelemetry (Afternoon Session)
Modern systems architecture often splits functionality into microservices for adaptability and velocity. The challenge of managing infrastructure for microservices has led to the cloud native ecosystem, including Kubernetes, Envoy, gRPC, and other projects. Observability, including application performance management (APM), is an essential component of a cloud-native stack. Without observability, application developers and operators cannot understand the behavior of their applications and ensure the reliability of those applications.
OpenTelemetry (the successor to OpenCensus and OpenTracing) is a standardized library and specification that collects distributed traces and metrics from instrumented services. By instrumenting once with OpenTelemetry, developers and operators can understand how data and events flow through their applications through a variety of different visualization backends.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to instrument a distributed set of microservices for traceability using OpenTelemetry, and how to analyze your service's traces using open source software backends like Jaeger/Zipkin. Finally, you'll be able to leverage OpenTelemetry vendor-neutral flexibility to try out other tracing backends including the hosted SaaS products Stackdriver and Honeycomb, without recompiling. And you can go home feeling comfortable with implementing OpenTelemetry in your own applications, and being prepared to choose how you will store and visualize traces.
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With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty.
Software Supply Chain
Life of a software artifact from commit to deployment. Security, observability and provenance of the software supply chain.
Microservices Patterns & Practices
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on managing and operating Microservices at scale.
Pushing the Web Forward: JavaScript, Frameworks, Transpilers, and WebAssembly
JavaScript is the language of the web. Latest practices for JavaScript development in and how transpilers are affecting the way we work. We'll also look at the work being done with WebAssembly.
Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using DevOps and a lean approach to delivering software.
Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods & probabilistic programming.
Socially Conscious Software
Power of leadership, Engineering Metrics and strategies for shaping the org for velocity.
Modern Data Architectures
Today's systems move huge volumes of data. Hear how places like LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber and more built their systems and learn from their mistakes.
Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed systems clustering.
JVM and its Ecosystem
JVM futures, JIT directions and improvements to the runtimes stack is the theme of this year's JVM track.
Optimizing Yourself: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC.
Living on the Edge: The World of Edge Compute From Device to Infrastructure Edge
IOT/IIOT, Federated Learning, Application Gateways, Serverless, Kubernetes, WASM/WASI all at the edge? This track explores what's being done at the modern edge.
Trust, Safety & Security
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines.
Machine Learning for Developers
AI/ML is more approachable than ever. Discover how deep learning and ML is being used in practice. Topics include: TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch & more. No PhD required.


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Black Bear
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Despite its impressive stature, the North American black bear is actually the continent's smallest bear species. The black bear is the most common bear species worldwide, and due to its close proximity to urban areas, the most frequently sighted and interacted with by humans.


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Tree And Branches
I know I could sound strange, but I need your help. When somebody cut an important branch off the tree, is it possible to correct somehow this situation and put on this place a new branch, or do you know any other solution?
Certified GKH Gardening Expert
The best we could recommend is that you could slowly force another branch on the tree into the area the old branch is. This is a process that would take years though. Unfortunately, you cannot reconnect branches once they have been cut off like you might with a human that had, say, a hand or foot cut off.
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If you experience a dental emergency, be sure to our practice as soon as possible. If you need immediate attention after hours, call our emergency phone number 646-763-1683 and our on call staff member will help you. If you are unable to reach our office during an emergency, dial 911.
We are here to help you, any time, any day. When your dental health is at risk, we will do everything we can to make that you're treated as soon as possible. While dental emergencies are rare, they can happen, and it's important to know how to care of your teeth no matter what.
Common dental emergencies include:
- Broken or cracked tooth/teeth
- Broken jaw
- Permanent tooth knocked out
- Object caught between teeth
- Severe toothache
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can rose of sharon shrubs be planted right next to house?
Can the roots of a rose of sharon shrub do damage to basement cinder block walls? I have 2 large ones planted next to house that have been there for years, and somebody said I should remove them, but I didn't think roots of a shrub could damage basement walls.
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The root system should not harm anything. Be aware though that these shrubs can be a bit invasive in certain climates, and if this is the case in your climate, you will need to be diligent about cleaning up seedlings to keep them from over running the area.
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Digital Home Experience Solution for Customer Care
Complex home WiFi networks with numerous internet devices are presenting new challenges for customer service representatives (CSRs) who need to resolve technical issues for residential broadband customers. With more than 80% of technical issues happening in the home network, the pressure is on to improve the home user experience while squeezing operational costs by:
- Reducing the burden on customer care
- Minimizing escalations to network and field engineering
- Alleviating the need for frequent truck rolls to solve common technical issues
An integral part of the Digital Home Experience Solution, Smart CSR gives customer service representatives guided troubleshooting flows to automate issue resolution and improve successful first-call resolution rates.
Find out how the Incognito Digital Home Experience Solution is transforming customer care by accessing the SlideShare on the Smart CSR Journey. This short presentation shows how an optimized call center leveraging automation and guided automated troubleshooting flows can reduce the costs of customer care while delivering an improved home user experience.


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Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Out Working The Trail!
7 comments:
- Anonymous26 May 2009 at 22:55
I'd pay to piss in that clown!ReplyDelete
Oh dear what a photo OR. We don't all look like that you know!ReplyDelete
I didn't see Gordon around but then I haven't watched television tonight as I was doing my best to start hanging baskets.
Good luck with your public meeting.
Bless, Subrosa.ReplyDelete
Dunne flipping or is he clean? Where is Lady Maude when you need her?ReplyDelete
Oh and by the way, as the BBC reported, correctly, I am one of the few MPs entitled to claim under the Additional Cost Allowance (which pays the cost of maintaining a second home so we can work in Westminster and our constituency, if outside London) who has not done so since elected in 2005.
If rich MPs don't claim then £100 million becomes available!
Pencil him in for a Cabinet post then!ReplyDelete


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Zone Bases
Zone's Bases mean more than just blinking targets for team games, they mean profits and exciting options for your corporate and group events.
Team games can account for almost two thirds of your laser tag game sales.
Groups, corporate, and lock-in events often require additional options, targets, and game strategies to sell a memorable experience. The simplicity of bases can make strategic options available and a strong selling point for your events. That's why we offer these bases as part of every HELIOS package.
Unlike the competition, however, Zone Bases aren't just basic targets. Of all our arena devices, the Outpost is the most versatile, the most connected, and the most game-play supported. That's why many arenas will have 6 or more!
The bases are fully programmable with our HELIOS Software to add a number of options and game formats.
Bases can offer a strategic element of defence and extra points for players to score with.
- Eight team colours
- Solo mode
- Loud speaker audio
- Brilliant LED lights
- DMX triggering of events
- Preprogramed light events
- Reload mode
- Defence mode – will tag players back
- Have up to 8 in a Helios Pro arena
Base Gameplay
Capture the Flag
The old classic gets a blast of new energy with Zone Outposts. Each team must work together both offensively, to pick up their opposition's flag, and defensively, to protect their own. Tag an opposition's base to take the flag and return it to your own base in order to capture it and score. But be careful, players can only capture the flag if their base has their own flag in it.
Base Clones
A thrilling solo game, Base Clones really gets the blood pumping. In this game all bases act as one; when a player destroys a base, all other bases will also be destroyed. Anyone caught in the blast radius will also be tagged!
Kaboom! is an intense Zone game in which players must collect keys in order to "Kaboom" (destroy) all players. To collect the keys players must tag bases. When a player has collected all but one key, all bases go on lockdown, that player changes to Cyan and all other players must focus on finding that player before they hit the last base and—KABOOM!


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Most fossils are found in sedimentary rock, which is the most common type of rock on earth. Sedimentary rocks form when particles of sediment are deposited by water or wind, and then (in most cases) hardened or consolidated through time. Shale, sandstone, and limestone are types of sedimentary rocks that often contain fossils. Shale is a fine-grained rock formed from clay, and often separates into flakes or sheets. It is often grey, although it can be black, brown or red. Sandstone is a coarser- grained rock made of cemented sand grains, varying in color from cream to grey to rusty brown. Siltstone is composed of sediment particles intermediate in size between shale and sand-stone. Limestone is formed from calcium carbonate, which may precipitate chemically from water or derive from shell fragments of many tiny marine creatures. It is often beige or tan. An especially pure and soft form of limestone is known as chalk. Dolomite is similar to limestone, but with the calcium partially replaced by magnesium. For more information on sedimentary rock types see: http://marcellus.com/guide-shale-limestone-sedimentary-rocks/
Occasionally fossils occur in materials other than sedimentary rock, such as ancient tree resin (amber), in which insects or other small animals became stuck and entombed. Similarly, bones of mammoths, saber-tooth cats, and other extinct animals have been found in tar pits, in which unfortunate animals became trapped and mired. Fossils in amber or tar are often preserved with extreme detail. In arid environments, fossils may be found in a dried, mummified state in loose soils or sands. Likewise, in cold regions organisms may be frozen and preserved largely intact in frozen ground or permafrost for millions of years. Fossils also may be found in round or oval nodules called concretions, which may be split carefully with a hammer, or by repeated freezing and heating. Types of rock that normally lack fossils are metamorphic rocks (formed from sedimentary rock under heat and pressure), and igneous rocks (the result of molten or volcanic rock that later cooled). The scarcity of fossils in these rocks are due to the harsh manner in which they form, which usually destroys or severely deforms any remains of living things.
Fossils are more common than many people think. Even though a relatively small proportion of plants and animals that live are preserved as fossils, because so many animals live and die, and because sedimentary rock is very common, finding fossiliferous (fossil-bearing) rocks is not very difficult. Although some sedimentary rocks are barren (largely devoid of fossils), most contain at least some fossils, and some are quite rich in a variety of fossils. In some localities rocks are composed almost entirely of fossils or fossil fragments. Sites with exceptionally abundant or extremely well- preserved fossils are sometimes referred to as Fossil-Lagerstatten.
Many collecting sites are described in books and field guides. Some of the more popular books are listed in the bibliography. Although some sites are visited by many collectors each year, many new fossils may be exposed each spring, due to the effects of erosion, rocks falling from higher areas, new excavations (if the site is a quarry), and (in northern regions), the effects of repeated thawing and freezing each fall and winter (which tends to split rocks).
The mention of a site in a guide book does not necessarily mean that permission is given to collect there. Again, always check with the owner, and be sure to discuss any ground rules for collecting (times and places to collect, any fees due, permits or waivers to sign). Strictly abide by the owner's policies. Do not dig, trespass, or park cars except where allowed. Before leaving a site, please pick up any litter, close any gates that were opened, and fill in any unsightly or potentially dangerous holes made during your digging. In general, be thoughtful and courteous. Otherwise, you and others may not be allowed back. Many sites have been closed because of the behavior of a few thoughtless collectors.
Collecting sites also may be found through local fossil clubs, geologic societies, and museums, many of which hold regular meetings and field trips. A list of some of the active organizations in the eastern U.S. is provided in the appendix. Many high schools, colleges, and universities also sponsor trips to fossil sites in conjunction with earth science classes. Collecting with a group provides greater safety and comradery, and increases the chances that someone will be able to identify any unusual specimens found. Fossil collecting is forbidden in most state and national parks, but some allow limited collecting (check with the park office). Collecting on federally owned public lands is governed by the Bureau of Land Management (Department of the Interior) and any state and local regulations. Until recently most states permitted at least limited collecting on public lands outside of parks, provided that no machinery is used, that the collected material is not for commercial use, and that the quantities collected are small. However, many state and local regulations are currently being reviewed or rewritten, and several federal bills are pending in the U.S. Congress that could affect (and possibly severely restrict) collecting on public lands. By the time you are reading this, one or more federal bills may have passed. Always check in advance with pertinent authorities for the latest collecting regulations at each site.


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Two more podcasts I found via the Hoxton Handmade website. One is Cast-on. The podcaster is an American knitter who now lives in Wales. funny stuff.
This second one is simply amazing. This American Life is hosted by guys, non-knitter guys. I'm a fairly new listener so I still can't tell who's who. One of the podcasts is about this chimpanzee Lucy who was raised by humans and then let go to live in the wilds. That's all I will say. You have to listen and form your own opinion. There's a podcast about the secret Coca-cola recipe; there's one about JFK and Marilyn Monroe; another about a British submarine and a sealed letter. I am completely hooked. I listen and I knit and I get a lot done.
Spring is almost here but I'm not ready to let winter go.


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New Delhi, 21 August 2014: The Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Steel and Mines, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar chaired the 28th meeting of the Central Advisory Committee on Beedi Workers Welfare Fund here today. The Central Advisory Committee is an important tripartite forum and it advises the central government on matters arising out of the administration of this fund. The meeting was attended, inter-alia, by representatives of employers, worker unions and other organizations concerned.
Addressing the members, Shri Tomar said, "60 lakh beedi workers spread across the country belong to the poor and down-trodden section of the society and their upliftment is the primary objective of the welfare fund." Shri Tomar stressed upon the government's commitment to the welfare of workers and creation of employment.
The Committee deliberated on and considered various proposals aimed at enhancing the reach and effect of various welfare schemes meant for beedi workers in the country.
The committee recommended:
- To develop a modified housing scheme, with Rs. 75,000/- as proposed contribution from Beedi Workers Welfare fund for each beedi worker, for building a house.
- To enhance the rate of welfare cess from present 5 % to 8 %
- To reduce the cess-exemption limit for beedi-manufacturers from the present turnover level of 20 lakh beedis to 5 lakh beedis
- To enhance the amount of financial assistance under the group insurance scheme
- To earmark 20 % of scholarship budget for skill development scheme and sponsorship of beedi workers and their children for training in it is
- Mandatory wellness check-up for every beedi worker and their dependents


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Hey guys, two weeks ago I underwent a beauty procedure at Bellezza Clinic in London to treat my dark circles. I never, ever in my life had suffered from dark circles and undereye bags until I had two children! Lack of sleep and tiredness took a tool on my face and I decided to try carboxytherapy and microneedling offered to me by the clinic.
The first treatment consists in injecting CO2 around our eyes, which will result in a massive oxygenation of the area. It improves circulation and stimulates the production of collagen and elastin, it's very safe and painless (although if feels uncomfortable).
The second treatment, which is done right after the first one, consists in using a derma pen with microneedles to create microscopical punctures, stimulating fibroblasts. They also add a cocktail of tailored vitamins and minerals according to your skin needs, helping reduce hyperpigmentation and fine lines. Downtime is also little!
You can check all the details on the video, and see how it went as well as my thoughts on it! You can also get 50% of discount in any treatment, check the details on the description box of the video!
Have you tried any of these treatments yourself? Let me know in the comments!


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Around the World in 90 Films
Plan your days! Explore the full film and sessions programme with prize screenings, workshops, special events. Consult the interactive map of film locations in 38 countries.
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The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that the following Film Prizes have been awarded at the 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, London, 23rd - 26th June 2011.
11th RAI Film Festival, 2009
CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University
10th RAI Film Festival, 2007
GCVA, The University of Manchester
7th RAI Film Festival, 2000
SOAS, University of London
I Dream of Mummers #311
11:30 hrs, Sunday 26th June, Roberts G08
Director / Anthropologist: Adela Peeva / Iglika Mishkova
Year of Release: 2010
Duration: 26 mins
Country of Production: Bulgaria
Location: South Bulgaria, Village of Sushitsa
Language: Bulgarian (English sub)
Production: Adela Media Film & TV Production
I Dream of Mummer's is a story about a custom whose origins are hidden far back in the past, a tradition that has become part of the history of an entire nation. The custom is found in many places in Bulgaria, but here, in the village of Sushitsa, it has almost completely preserved its authenticity and can still be seen as it was performed centuries ago. This is a film about a small village and its inhabitants, about an ancient tradition that they have preserved almost intact to this day, and about a friendship as undying as the tradition itself.


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No Earplugs Necessary
The best part about being in the free concert zone is the ability to see artists you might not ever see live. Certain artists just don't seem like the type I would like, and shelling out $30 for a ticket just doesn't seem right. And often these shows are sold out long before I book them as an usher. Tonight was an example of both of these instances.
Jason Mraz is a singer from San Diego, who apparently got his start opening for Jewel. He plays a light bouncy pop with a clear bright tenor without any of the nasality that is so popular for some reason. He tours with a tight five piece band that features a harmony singer/percussionist, a multi-instrumentalist, a bass player and drummer.
Most people of his career span (one indie album, one major label album) tend to play for about 75-80 minutes. He played 2 hours and 20 minutes, and it never got boring. He was very engaging with the crowd, even having people come up on stage to do spontaneous rhyming and/or singing. He constantly puts pieces of other songs into his own songs. Nelly's Hot In Herre, Madness's Our House and somebody's Leaving on a Jet Plane are just a few of many examples. He does a lot of freestyling himself, throwing out rhymes about San Francisco and the Fillmore during his act.
The sold out crowd was extremely receptive to him. This was a much higher energy level than I have seen in the hall before. Some people knew every word, some people were just swept up by how great the performance was. My fellow ushers and I were all really surprised. None of us knew much of him before tonight. I think it is safe to say that we are all fans now. I would have bought the button, but the button said "I Love Sex" and had Jason Mraz's name on it. Now I do love sex (who doesn't), but I just can't see myself wearing that button around town. I think this button was for the predominantly female crowd to wear. Another popular merchandise item was the Jason Mraz baseball shirt with "69" on the back.
My job tonight was raffle ticket seller. This unfortunately led me to miss the opening act, Chantal Krevianuk (but yields extra free drinks). I sold raffle tickets to win an autographed poster from tonight's artist. I sold $81 worth of tickets, which is usually quite acceptable. However, the last show at The Fillmore was the only night of Metallica's run for which there was a poster. They sold $556 worth of raffle tickets, a record by about $300, apparently. So they all told me I had to break the record or I wouldn't be invited back. Thank goodness they weren't serious. I want to go back!
During signups tonight, I signed up for a bunch of new shows: Love, Musiq, Lou Reed, Yo La Tengo and Taj Mahal.
Tomorrow, stay tuned to this space for a report on The Flaming Lips, Starlight Mints and Liz Phair!


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Welcome to the April 2018 newsletter. Mahara 18.04 is right around the corner, and we are looking forward to making this new release available to you very soon. Find out about new plugins as well as use of Mahara in groups of students.
If you want to share how you are using Mahara, please send us your article. We'd love to hear how you are using Mahara.
The next newsletter will be published on 1 July 2018, and you can send articles to [email protected].
The Mahara Newsletter is published under the Creative Commons BY-SA license 3.0.
Mahara in use
Group work perspectives
Angelique Bodart (Cranfield University, UK)
Going one step beyond group work... sharing group project progress with the sponsors, not just the final product.
When students are tasked with group projects to test their ability to apply learning in a real situation, often the sponsor only gets sight of the final product, which may or may not be what they were hoping for. This was the case for the MSc module, Organisational Development, at Cranfield University. Sponsors felt out of the loop and wanted the ability to guide the students in a direction that would ensure their needs were met at the end.
Check out how a Mahara page was designed and used to support this, from a learning technologist and a teacher perspective.
Mahara in upcoming events
Mahoodle for Digital Assessment, 26 April 2018
Sam Taylor and Aurélie Soulier (Cranfield University, UK)
Cranfield University and the Defence Technology Enhanced Learning team invite you to attend the Mahoodle for Digital Assessment day.
This free event is for those who support the design and delivery of assessment using Moodle, Mahara, or 'Mahoodle' (a combination of both). By assessment, we mean any activity that allows students and their teachers to evaluate where they are on their learning journey, and for which feedback can be given either via an automated response or by a designated reviewer.
The event:
- Date: 26 April 2018
- Venue: Defence Academy for the United Kingdom, Shrivenham
- Arrival and registration: 9:15 a.m.
- Finish: 4:15 p.m.
The day will comprise:
- a series of show-and-tell presentations from institutions from all over the UK,
- an overview from our sponsor Catalyst IT who will be showcasing the new features of the next Moodle and Mahara releases,
- a workshop on evaluating tools to support digital assessment,
- a clinic and soundboard to troubleshoot any queries you have,
- all kicked off by our keynote Dr Mark Glynn from Dublin City University.
This event would be particularly suitable for those who support the use of Moodle and Mahara, such as Learning Technologists, Platform Managers, eLearning Support Officers and anyone who is tasked with supporting academic staff with assessment design. We hope that all attendees will leave with ideas which they can implement at their own establishment.
Please note that attendance is limited to just 50 places, so please register your interest as soon as possible.
ePortfolios & more: The developing role of ePortfolios within the digital landscape, 23-25 May 2018
Kristina Höppner (Catalyst, New Zealand)
Dublin City University is going to host the "ePortfolio & more" event facilitated by AAEEBL (the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Experience-Based Learning) and the CRA (the Centre for Recording Achievement). The seminar will take place from 23 to 25 May 2018 in Dublin, Ireland, and will bring together ePortfolio practitioners from many different institutions. Visit the website for more information.
AAEEBL annual meeting, 23-26 July 2018
Kristina Höppner (Catalyst, New Zealand)
The 2018 annual meeting of AAEEBL (the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Experience-Based Learning) stands under the motto of "Building bridges with ePortfolios". Join North American ePortfolio practitioners and researchers as well as those from other countries in discussing how ePortfolios can make connections. Read more about the annual meeting.
Mahara in past events
Integrating authentic ePortfolio assessment – An ePortfolio unconference, 26 January 2018
Lisa Donaldson (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Ireland's first educational technology unconference took place at DCU on January 26, funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. The unconference format is a high energy and flexible approach for professional learning which features discussion and collaboration at it's core! The event focused on ePortfolio practice across Ireland and attracted attendees from 9 Irish institutes of higher education, as well as participants from Enterprise Ireland and UK colleges and organisations. Sam Taylor from Cranfield University was the featured keynote speaker.
The highly interactive day was captured through online and visual media to illustrate the energy, relevancy and collaborative nature of the discussions and in a blog post.
Eportfolio Ireland and Mahara User Group meeting online, 21 March 2018
Kristina Höppner (Catalyst, New Zealand)
On 21 March 2018 the newly founded Eportfolio Ireland user group (emerged out of the Mahara User Group Ireland MaharaIRL) and the Mahara User Group (New York) held a co-organized webinar that gave an introduction to the Irish ePortfolio context, talked about critical reflections, and ePortfolio assessment. You can watch the recording of this session.
Mahara in development
Assignment submission via LTI: New sponsors
Kristina Höppner (Catalyst, New Zealand)
In the last newsletter we shared the good news that the University of Canberra was the first sponsor to support the development work of the assignment submission functionality via LTI. Since then, four more colleges and universities have come on board, and we are excited to have them as partners for this development work. The Australian National University is funding 25% of the costs, and the Australian Catholic University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Monash College are each contributing $2,000.
Due to the support from all these institutions, we could start the development work, which will benefit schools, universities, and training providers around the world, no matter what learning management system they are using as long as it supports LTI.
If you want to co-sponsor this feature, please get in touch with me to discuss the details.
Mahara 18.04 release
Kristina Höppner (Catalyst, New Zealand)
It is April and thus the month of the Mahara 18.04 release. We are putting the finishing touches on this release, and are excited to have a large number of new features included.
Take a look at the user manual for the highlights. These include:
- Support for the new EU privacy regulation GDPR
- Password policy
- Copying of portfolios as Leap2A
- Support for object storage
- Link to internal Mahara portfolio pages
- Image rotation
- Link to the user manual from each page to the relevant section
- Auto-refresh of SAML metadata
- Improvements to SmartEvidence
These are just a few of the new functionality available via Mahara 18.04. We will make this new version of Mahara available shortly, within the first two weeks of April 2018, so that institutions that need to comply with the GDPR have time to upgrade before 25 May 2018.
If you want to install the pre-release of this upcoming version, check out the necessary information. Alternatively, you can test the features at https://master.dev.mahara.org
If you want to see the changes for the GDPR, check out this video.
Object storage for Mahara
Kristina Höppner (Catalyst, New Zealand)
The Catalyst IT Australia team created plugins that will allow institutions to utilize object storage for files stored in Mahara. The necessary support in the Mahara infrastructure will be available in Mahara 18.04, but can also be backported to older versions of Mahara. The team has done that successfully for Mahara 17.04 for a client.
Currently, there are plugins available to support S3 from AWS and Blob Storage from Microsoft Azure. They allow you to store media files (except image thumbnails) in object storage, which is cheaper than conventional storage and thus allows institutions to save on hosting fees. The plugins that you will need are the following (besides having Mahara 18.04 or the backported support for objectfs):
Bevan Wishart, one of the developers, created a demo for the setup.
QR code generator for Mahara
Kristina Höppner (Catalyst, New Zealand)
Ruslan Kabalin (Lancaster University, UK) created a "light" and upgraded QR code generator of the existing QR code generator plugin for Mahara. When the QR code block is placed onto a page, it creates a unique QR code to that page. This plugin was tested with Mahara 17.10.


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Greek Mati (Evil Eye) Ring Set
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The belief in the Evil Eye dates back almost 3,000 years to ancient Greece and Rome. It is one of the strongest symbolic images in the world.
Wearing an 'Evil Eye' or 'Mati' as it's called in Greek culture as an amulet is believed to provide protection against evil forces and anyone who wishes you harm. The Mati has symbolism in many countries and religions - such as; Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism and Christianity.
Two-toned ring set consisting of:
- Sterling silver band with brass eye accent and lash detail
- Sterling silver contour band
- Eye size: 13mm
- Band thickness: 1.5mm
Kindly select your exact ring size from the drop down menu above. You can find more information on ring sizing here.
Each and every MIA piece created in our little studio is made with sugar and spice and everything nice - so please allow us up to 7-10 working days to make your order amazing. Trust us the wait will be worth it! This excludes delivery times.