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Off To See The Eclipse!
Anyone living in the US heard plenty of news on the eclipse this summer. As the date got closer, more and more information hit the newspapers, magazines, TV, the Internet, etc. Las Vegas was only going to have 70% on the Sun blocked so I decided to drive to Wyoming where they would have totality. My first choice was Jackson or Grand Teton National Park. But I kept hearing the week before the eclipse that both locations were packed with eclipse watchers. When I read that ranchers were charging and getting $1000 to let RVs park on their pasture, I looked for another location. Several articles were suggesting that the Wind River Reservation would have far fewer visitors and plenty of free parking. I called them and confirmed that the Wind River Casino would have free parking and Native American ceremonies leading up to the eclipse. My friend Chris was back from Thailand and I checked to see if he wanted to go as well. He did but was suffering from prostate issues and had a Dr. appointment on the 22th. I had booked a room in Evanston WY a few weeks before the eclipse just in case Chris decided to go. I can sleep in the back of my van but not both of us. When he declined I decided to keep the room.
Sunday, Aug. 20 was my departure date. I figured most of the eclipse watchers would already be in place and the traffic would not be too heavy. I got up early and headed North on I-15. I stopped in Beaver UT for gas and then saw the sign for Fillmore. I knew Fillmore had been the historic capital of Utah but had never stopped. Brigham Young picked the location as it was in the center of the Utah territory. Fillmore was named for the President at the time, Millard Fillmore. It was the territorial capital between 1851-56 when the capital was moved to Salt Lake City. I pulled into Fillmore and followed the signs to the old capital. Being Sunday nothing was open so I just walked around a popped a few photos. Click on any of my photos for a larger image and additional information about the photo and what I experienced.
I decided to take 189 at Provo instead of driving into SLC. 189 is very scenic and plenty of people were rafting the Provo River. I got on I-80 and headed for Evanston. I used my GPS to find the Knight's Inn where I had made my reservation. Found my room and took in my stuff. I drove over to the closest Wendy's and had a salad, frosty. Stopped for gas, back to my room. I did my stretching, sit-ups, shower, TV, read, bed. I set my alarm for 6 am and headed for the lobby area for BF. I saw the room when I checked in and was happy to see that they had hot, cold cereal, bagels, and a waffle maker. Several guys were already using the waffle maker so I had a bowl of oatmeal until they were finished. I got some OJ and then made my waffle. By 6:30 am I had packed my van and was on the road. To Rock Springs, then took 191 North to Lander. Traffic was light all the way. I turned onto 138 to made it to Riverton about 10 am. The Wind River Casino was off to my left and had hundreds of people on their grass setting up their lawn chairs and tripods. I joined the crowd and set up close to family that had a solar filter on the lens. I asked Steven if he could help me get my Canon G 12 set-up for the eclipse. He was very helpful and fiddled with my Canon until he thought it was ready to go. I then took my Nikon and started taking some photos of the Arapahoe dancers entertaining the crowd before the eclipse started. The guy on the microphone announced that they had free eclipse glasses for anyone that needed them. I got a pair and Steven help me tape them in front of my lens. The eclipse had started by then and I started firing away. The beauty of digital is that you can check your results in seconds. He got my camera on max zoom and then reset the shutter speed for better results. I fired away until the clouds rolled in. We had perfectly clear skies until about 20 minutes before totality. My shots before totality were OK for my camera and lack of a real solar filter. The ones of totality were not worth anything because of the clouds. We were all disappointed but what can you do? Weather is always a crap shoot and you take the good with the bad. Most of the time we had good visibility but not at totality. The crowd cheered when it went dark at totality. For 2 minutes we had dark skies at noon. I quit fiddling with my camera and just enjoyed seeing a total solar eclipse. The crowd was buzzing with excitement as we were all witnessing something special. We all knew this may be the only total solar eclipse we will ever see. I talked to people from Texas, Colorado, Michigan and all of us were glad we made the effort to get to Wyoming. As soon as the sun came back, many people started packing up and leaving. I stayed and took some photos after totality and then decided to go inside the Wind River Casino to use the bathroom and take a look around. Since I live in Vegas I was not temped to gamble any of my hard earned money while in the casino! After 15 minutes I headed back to my van to decide what to see next. I really should of joined the folks that left immediately after totality because I would get caught in horrible traffic shortly.
I saw on my atlas that just outside Lander was Sacajawea's grave. I had watched Ken Burn's 'Lewis & Clark's Expedition on PBS and knew Sacajawea was a vital member of the Corps of Discovery. Since her grave was not far off my route, I decided to take the time and visit her grave. The traffic was pretty heavy heading to Lander but never came to a complete stop. I turned right onto 287 and headed for Fort Washakie. There is a marker telling you when to turn and I followed several RVs that were also turning. We all stopped at a graveyard within a mile after turning, guessing her grave would be close to Chief Washakie's memorial. Wrong. I asked them if their smart phone would guide them to her grave but never got a good answer. I decided to go back a half mile and ask at the Wind River Center. They had a map printed up and gave me directions. The Native Americans have decided not to have clear direction signs on the highway. Not sure why but it does make it a bit more difficult to find. I drove to the Sacajawea Cemetery and grabbed my camera. There were dozens of people wandering around the grave site and I joined them. After a few photos, I headed back to Lander.
Plan A was to drive towards Dinosaur National Monument and find a room in Vernal. What I did not count on was a massive traffic jam in Lander. I stopped for some gas and tried to get out of Lander. Unfortunately, there is only one road that will get you out of town and thousands of eclipse watchers were all heading South on 287. I spent 3 hours going 2 miles trying to catch 28 to Rock Springs. By the time I got to Rock Springs it was 8 pm. I stopped at Wendy's for dinner and got on my laptop to see what motels were available. Most were either full or were still overcharging because of the eclipse. My GPS told me that a Wal-Mart was not far and I headed there. Inside to clean-up, toilet and then parked alongside over a dozen RVs, vans, big rigs. Plenty of others were going to sleep in Wal-Mart's parking lot as well. I made up my bed and by 10 pm I called it a night. I was up with the sun and started driving for Vernal. I stopped at the Flaming Gorge Dam and took a few photos. A FLDS couple was there as well. Not an uncommon sight in UT. As I was leaving the dam, a herd of deer crossed the road. If I had been 30 seconds faster or slower leaving the dam I would not have seen them. I took a quick photo through the windshield and continued on to Vernal UT.
I got to Vernal around 9 am and stopped at a public park. Bathroom break and then a few photos of some cement Dinosaurs that they have erected in the park. Vernal's claim to fame is being the gateway to Dinosaur National Monument. You go with what you have and Vernal plays up its dinosaur relationship.
There is a nice Visitor's Center when you turn off highway 40 to enter the NM. A quick stop to chat, fill up my water bottles and get a map of the Monument. I got out my Senior Pass and entered Dinosaur NM. I got my day bag, hat, camera and walked to the VC. I got my stamp for my NP passport and waited for the shuttle van. They run every 10 minutes or so from the VC to the building housing all the bones. I walked into the building and started taking photos. I chatted with the Ranger and got some good information on the history of building, the bones displayed. After 30 minutes I took the shuttle back to the VC and decided to drive over to see some of the petroglyphs and go down to the Green River. After seeing both I decided to start the long drive back to Vegas.
I could either drive to Nephi and catch I-15 South or head for Richfield and take I-70 West until it joins I-15. The lady at VC googled both routes and suggested going home via Richfield. It is a more scenic drive and I have never been thru that part of Utah. Back to Vernal, 40 to Duchesne, then head Sout on 191 to Price. It rained off and on as I got closer to Price. I had one of my apples and a few granola bars on the way to Price. I stopped for $20 worth of gas and just to walk around a bit to loosen up. On to I-70 West to Richfield. I stopped at Wendy's for lunch, then on to Cedar City. I loaded up on fuel and 3 hours later I was back in Vegas. My eclipse adventire was over.
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Stylist101July 5, 2015
From 3-5 July I attended a styling workshop hosted at FEDISA presented by the fashion editor of Fairlady Magazine,Cara-Lee Ruditzky, to help those interested in fashion get their sneak peek into the styling world. This 3-day intensive welcomed us with goodie bags filled with all kind of lovely things including gift vouchers from Cotton On, Undeez Online and Bootlegger Coffee Company. We also got goodies from Typo, Zang, makeup from Rubi and a few FEDISA things!
Day 1
The first part of the morning was spent in the auditorium listening to Cara-Lee speak about her life as a stylist, how she got into it, interning and freelancing and eventually how she ended up working at Fairlady. You may be wondering why a photographer would attend this course? Well, I actually style many of my own photoshoots and thought doing this would help give me an extra creative edge. I believe its always helpful to know every aspect of what goes on at a photoshoot, so that you can always jump in if something goes pear-shaped. On the first day I learned a lot more than I thought I would – especially when speaking one-on-one with Cara-Lee about her experience freelancing, as this is what I have recently decided to do for the time being.
After a short tea break she spoke about the different kind of styling jobs one can get, from TV to adverts and editorials and celebrity styling. A lot of questions were thrown her way by students and one that resonated with me was how does one avoid having a style that everyone can just recognize and know who did it? And, in short, the answer was would you really want no one to recognize your work? This is something I struggled with during my studies as I couldn't seem to find a personal style, but eventually I comfortably developed one without even knowing it.
We also received a styling kit in a little denim Bernina bag with all the stylist necessities – elastic bands, masking tape, double-sided tape, clamps and pins, which we would be using the next day.
After lunch we had a booking agent from One League Creative Management, Nina Krouse, speak to us about what they look for when putting a stylist on their books and found this particularly relatable as a photographer. She gave everyone quite a reality check with how harsh the industry is, but its what we all need to hear and be reminded of.
After that we headed downstairs and were greeted by rails of Cotton On clothing, shoes and accessories. We were told to style 3 different looks for a photoshoot happening the next day. I stayed for about an hour looking through all the items and left with a few ideas in mind. However I was kept awake by my thoughts until about midnight trying to put looks together. I also emailed Cara-Lee to ask if I could photograph my 3 styled looks in addition to the photographed photographing them the next day. We shall see if there's time..
Day 2
I was pretty much the first person at the FEDISA campus on Saturday, and wandered around getting a few shots of the clothing that I didn't photograph the previous day since I didn't bring my camera. We started the day with preparing shoes for shoots so that they don't get damaged by taping them up underneath (since they have to be returned) and then steaming some of the outfits. There were four models in total and we weren't able to choose which ones we wanted for which look so fingers crossed I landed with the three I wanted. At this point I still had no idea what to do for my third look and whether or not the one model would be comfortable in the outfit I chose. This is where my head was at at the time:
Grey blazer (Cotton On)
Grey wide brim fedora (Cotton On)
Black skinny jeans (Cotton On)
Jeffrey Campbell shoes (Stylists own)
Plaid throw (Cotton On)
Plaid shirt (Cotton On)
Plaid scarf (Cotton On)
Navy boyfriend jeans (Cotton On)
Black boots (Cotton On)
Black skinny jeans (Cotton On)
Black tank top (Cotton On)
Bracelets (Cotton On)
Jeffrey Campbell x Black Milk shoes (Stylists Own)
With Laeeqa from Head2Toe on makeup and only one model being done up at a time, this put us extremely behind schedule, not great for me since I wanted to do my own photos. The photographer, Gavin van den Berg, came downstairs whilst the second model was being done telling us we're running out of time and I cringed inside. Luckily Aliki, also from Head2Toe, came to the rescue as a second hair and makeup artist.
The shooting began at about 11am and I planned to go last so that after Gavin had photographed my looks, I could photograph them myself afterwards. So the wait began. We waited and we waited. I knew the models and photographer had to leave at 4:30pm and by the time it was 4pm I knew there were still about 4 people who still had to have two looks each shot, so I spoke to one of the FEDISA lecturers, who was also doing the course and was planning on going last too, and asked if I can call one of my friends in to model and photograph mine and hers myself since we'd be photographer and model-less soon. I called a friend who had modelled for me before, Little Harlequin, and pleaded for her help. She happily said she'll be there as soon as possible and just after 4:30 she arrived! (Bia, you are a LIFESAVER).
Models styled by @sikimsuseni
At this point the models and photographer had packed up and left as well as all the students. It was just myself, a classmate and Cara-Lee left. I'm actually incredibly glad I got to photograph my looks myself, and especially glad I got to shoot with Little Harlequin, as she is the most amazing model and an absolute pleasure to work with. I started with my first look, then photographed Nicole's look, then my second look, her second look, etc. I shot insanely quickly as I knew everyone wanted to leave at this point and was exhausted. I'm so thrilled with the outcome of the images though!
Model & MU: @the_little_harlequin, Photography & Styling: @megandaviesphotography
Day 3
We started off our Sunday by giving Cara-Lee some feedback on what we thought of yesterday's shoot day and she spoke a little bit about being a personal stylist and everything it involves. After a short break she handed out certificates to all of us, which is great because I don't even have a certificate from where I studied for 2 years, so having something so official is exciting! There was also a mini raffle, where Cara-Lee had everyone's names written down and in a bag and whomever name she pulled would be able to come to a Fairlady photoshoot and spend the day with her on set. GUESS WHO GOT CHOSEN!? I can't wait!
After that we had another break whilst waiting for our guest speaker, Tracy-Lee Rosslind, so myself and a few other students went up signal hill and had ice cream and soaked up the sun for about half an hour. When Tracy-Lee came she brought with two designers from UF – Designed4Gentlemen and spoke to us about the hardcore world of celebrity and set styling – and was open about how brutal the scene really is. Tracy-Lee loves to support South African designers and says she only styles from local designers and was wearing the most beautiful outfit from one of FEDISA's graduates! She was such a fun and bubbly person and I hope to work with her some day!
Honestly, this course was so much fun and so insightful and I highly recommend that when there is another one hosted that you all sign up for it! You learn so much about the fashion world and meet phenomenal people.
Above photo from @fedisacapetown
#stylist101 photoshoots were shot at the #ormsxfedisa studio.


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This is the trip report of our Dreamland Resort Tikaboo Expedition 2000, and I believe that we all agree that the mission was a complete success. Not only did we witness the late night takeoff of an unidentified aircraft from Groom, but we all made some new friends, and we could not have asked for a better group to share this experience with. Thank you all, Bill, Chris A., Chris M., Connie, David, Diane, Doug, Guy, Keith, Linda, Michael, Mike, Patricia, Rino, Sharad and Thompson. And special thanks to Norio Hayakawa, Peter Merlin and Chuck Clark for sharing their expertise on Area 51 with us, to my friend Andre Dall'au for making this trip possible, and to Connie for writing this excellent article.
Enjoy the trip report, and I hope to see you next time. Yes, there will definitely be a next time...
|Meet the group: Standing: Doug, David, Rino, Michael, Thompson, Connie, Linda, Chuck, Chris M., Sharad, Chris A. Sitting: Diane, Bill, Joerg, Guy, Mike. On all fours: Snickers and Big Dog.
Whatever you desire to call it, Dreamland, Area 51, the Box or Groom Lake, it's been the subject of many late night talks and speculation among those wanting to know what really goes on there. What kinds of top secret projects are going on? Is there a group of mad scientists with frizzy hair working on something out of this world?"
In April, after almost a year of planning, a group of about 20 souls converged in Rachel, Nevada for the Dreamland Resort Tikaboo Expedition, 2000. Rachel is the virtual melting pot for aircraft aficionados, stargazers, researchers and UFO seekers.
The expedition was put together by Dreamland Resort founder and webmaster, Joerg Arnu with the assistance of Andre Dall'au of Florida. Rachel's own Chuck Clark was our guide. We also had the pleasure of being joined by former researcher Norio Hayakawa for a portion of the trip.
A mixture of people met from as far away as Pittsburgh, Chicago, Florida and Tennessee to as close as Las Vegas, Reno, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Ages ranged from the youngest age 12 to 40 plus. Our common goal - to hike up the "hill" and get a glimpse of the base.
Tikaboo, some 25 miles away from what the government calls "an operation near Groom Lake, Nevada" is the closest peak now that affords a view to those willing to make the trek up to the top. White Sides Mountain and Freedom Ridge, popular viewing points about 12 miles from the base was seized by the government in 1995 after much public protest.
Some of us met in Rachel a day or two before the hike, where we spent time gawking at the night sky, watching military aerial exercises enhanced by flares and of course, getting to know one another, anticipate the hike and speculate.
The day prior to the hike, Clark lead us to a number of "tourists" stops in the valley, including the Rachel Back Gate, Groom Lake Road, and the base of Bald Mountain.
|At the foot of Bald Mtn. The cammos are watching us from the other side
Bald boasts a 150-foot tower with microwave and high frequency antennas. The high technology surveillance devices can even hear what occupants are saying in vehicles on the highway, said Clark. "The vibrations are picked up and translated into voices," he said.
And of course, the cammo dudes are equipped with the parabolic "big ear." They can hear conversations of people milling around the border signs.
To the uniformed, we could have been similar to a "tourist" group, minus Hawaiian shirts, much like the tours that take sightseers on whirlwind bus trips to see 14 countries in 10 days. Only we were seeing restricted area border signs, surveillance cameras and cammo dudes in one day.
|Stop at the Black Mailbox
Some of us anticipated a visit from the famed blackhawk helicopters. We thought we heard a faint hum, but alas we waited in silence with no results.
We drove back to the highway and the 13 miles up Groom Lake road to the border signs. We all made ourselves at home under the watchful eyes of the cammo dudes.
Joerg, Andre and our photographer, Patricia set up a portable studio to conduct interviews with members of our group. White Sides Mountain provided a marvelous backdrop. Individuals gave their views and insights on what they thought was transpiring at the base, the issue of worker safety as well as opinions on the extraterrestrial connection.
|Interview with Norio Hayakawa, near the border on Groom Lake Road
Some agreed that while the government should keep some things secret in the interest of national security, they must be held accountable for illness and deaths imposed upon base workers and their families. There has been little compensation to workers and their families who have suffered. "The government should own up and do the right thing," said Clark.
Some speculated on the presence of alien technology at the base. Although many believe Groom is a routine testing facility, they also think there's more advanced experimentation going on about nine miles south at Papoose Lake (aka S-4).
"There's technology that is not in compliance with Einstein's or Newton's theories," said Clark. "It breaks all the laws of physics." Perhaps others are visiting us from our future or another dimension. "It's anybody's guess what's going on out there," said David. "There's no real evidence that there's alien technology," he said. "There's a mystery and enigma about this place."
One small group including Andre, Michael, Chris and Joerg ventured up Hawkeye Hill to get a look at the guard shack located about 1/2 mile from the border signs. They were surprised to see the cammo dudes only a few dozen feet away. "We could overhear their radio traffic," Dall'au told us later.
"Another more aggressive cammo in a Jeep radioed in our license plates as he checked out our vehicles parked down the road." The cammos in the pick-up nearby warmly waved to Michael and Andre as they departed.
Later, a number of us stood by as the white bus transporting base workers swiftly drove by on Groom Lake Road.
The next day, after loading up our vehicles and eating a hearty breakfast we set out on the road to Ash Springs, our final stop in civilization before heading towards Tikaboo.
The road leading to Tikaboo is not recommended for regular cars. Four-wheel drive with high clearance is extremely advisable. Two vehicles suffered flat tires. But with the support of group members the flats were quickly repaired and we were on our way to the "parking area."
Upon arriving we were met by a conspicuous white Jeep Cherokee. A man with a wide brimmed hat, adorned with a smart camouflage ensemble was standing outside the vehicle.
|Joerg Arnu, Chris M. and Peter Merlin at the top of Tikaboo. We made it...
Only a few SUV's made it up the last leg of the road. Big Bertha, our Chevy Tahoe, had a close encounter with a pinion tree and was forced retreat at the bottom of the hill.
The first leg of the hike was, to put it mildly, arduous, even for those in fairly good shape. The grade was laden with loose shale and talus making it difficult, and at times almost unbearable for some of us.
Bill, one of the group members brought his two dogs. They seemed to have no trouble scampering up that hill. Dogs have it pretty easy is this life----.even going up Tikaboo.
My son, Michael was much further ahead with Merlin and Chris. Some of us took our time. Although we got a late start, there was still plenty of daylight left. Fortunately, the weather was on our side ...about 70 degrees. The occasional breeze provided comfort to our sweaty brows.
We were glad for a reprieve when reaching the saddle. This portion lead to a more vertical ascent, but in my opinion much easier than the first part. It was steep, but the large boulders and rocks are embedded in the ground, which make for better footing.
|The view from Tikaboo Peak over Tikaboo Valley, looking northwest. You can see Hwy 375 coming from Hancock Summit on the right, leading to Rachel in the background. Groom Lake Road runs across to Area 51 on the left. Mailbox Road and the corral are also visible
The view from Tikaboo is spectacular. Although challenged with afternoon haze we could see Dreamland. "I'm actually looking at this famous base," was my first thought.
The mountaintop provides a panoramic view of southern Nevada's vast desert and hills. "Even if the base wasn't there it's still a beautiful view," said Guy.
The desert has a special beauty of its own. I won't deny it's brown, but it is full of life. Standing on that mountaintop made me feel small-not in a negative way, but I thought, here's just a small portion of the world and the universe, but it's such a BIG small portion.
And nestled about 25 miles away from us is the base so secret that it is known the world over.
|The view of Area 51 from Tikaboo Peak, 26 miles away. You can see the fuel tanks in the south, the water tanks on the hillslope, and various buildings and hangars, including the huge Hangar 18 and the Red Hat hangars in the north. The two runways are also visible in the forground
No doubt, there were some who wish they had a cold beer, glass of wine or a hot cup of latte to savor the moment, but who would've wanted to carry all that? We had no trouble indulging in MRE's, power bars and water.
|We all made it. What a team!
Precisely at midnight those still at the top, braving the winds had a treat. Groom Lake's runway lights came on. Some of us quickly exited our sleeping bags, joined the others, hoping to get a glimpse of "something."
There was an object at the south end of the runway and it appeared to be very large. There was a sense of busy, anxious conversation amongst us as to what this was.
At 12:37 an aircraft sped down the runway and took off. Its navigation lights quickly darkened. That moment was the last we saw or heard it.
|Morning on Tikaboo. Rino, Connie, David and Bill discussing last night's sighting, Chris is catching some Z's, and Guy enjoys the view over Tikaboo Valley towards Area 51
Shortly thereafter, an aircraft was spotted to the south. After much debate, emails and discussions there still is disagreement as to what this aircraft was. A MiG 23 Flogger perhaps. That's some of the opinion, but there is still no complete agreement.
I'm going deem this aircraft a P.I.F.O (Partially Identified Flying Object). Pronounced: pie foe. Whatever that craft was and whatever we saw at the other end of the runway confirmed my belief, that, yes, there is activity going on there. It's up to others to decide what they think it is.
As we hiked down that morning, we all agreed on one thing: How in the H$#L did we get up this mountain?
Although the descent was considerably faster, we still gingerly chose our steps as we made our way down. Some of us opted to slide on our behinds when confronted with the shale at the lower portion of the mountain.
|Back by the vehicles. And no one thought of bringing a cold beer!
The Tikaboo Expedition 2000 group was comprised of a broad selection of souls, but we all have one thing in common. This similar longing and adventurous spirit brought us all together in a small corner of the Nevada desert to see what's out there.
I am angry and saddened by the illnesses and deaths fallen upon base workers and the lack of accountability from the government. Yes, they did sign away their rights, but a line has to be drawn somewhere.
As a reporter I want to know everything. I want to hunt and capture the answers. It's frustrating to be standing at the border signs or looking at the base from a mountaintop and not knowing everything, but the excitement of the hunt is sometimes what it's all about.
We'll be there again soon!


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Welcome to a Playsign Co-Design session in City Space at Oulu center, on Friday the 6th of April, 14-16. This time the focus is not on some city area or a new building complex, but on Playsign tools themselves! So co-design of city co-design tools.
Toni begins by opening up the motivation behind Playsign, largely inspired by iconic city and society games such as Sim City, Civilization but on the other hand street-level city simulations like Grand Theft Auto. Then the focus is on drafting and dreaming about how similar systems, but tailored for real-world development use, could serve us to develop and manage cities and human life now. We'll also describe how Playsign has been used so far for an open discussion on strong and weaker points, both cheers and criticism are welcome! The event is a part of a Masterclass series on city development, kickstarted by Johannas Helama last week on participation in city development.
For more information, the Facebook event is at https://www.facebook.com/events/2027917934098607/ or you can reach Toni by email (toni at playsign.net) or by phone +358-40-7198759 . You are most welcome, and there is coffee and snacks 🙂 The address of the new experimental Kaupunkitila place (city space in Finnish) is Hallituskatu 9, Oulu.


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Trump Cries Wolf – Backs Down On NAFTA Cancellation Already: "Trump's Bluff Didn't Come Off"
by Mish
In the here we go again category, please consider Donald Trump will not terminate NAFTA treaty after 'pleasing talks with Canada & Mexico'.
The President congratulated his Canadian and Mexican counterparts for "proceeding quickly" and is adamant the deal will allow all three countries to be "stronger and better".
A White House statement said: "President Trump agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time and the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly, according to their required internal procedures, to enable the renegotiation of the NAFTA deal to the benefit of all three countries."
Trump said in a statement: "It is my privilege to bring NAFTA up to date through renegotiation.
"It is an honour to deal with both President Enrique Peña Nieto and Prime Minister Trudeau, and I believe that the end result will make all three countries stronger and better."
Carlos Serrano, chief economist at BBVA Bancomer in Mexico City, said: "Trump's bluff didn't come off."
The initial reports that Trump was considering a removal of the trade agreement brought a horrified reaction from a number of top Republicans.
Senator Ben Sasse, said: "Scrapping NAFTA would be a disastrously bad idea. It would hurt American families at the checkout, and it would cripple American producers in the field and the office."
Trump Cries Wolf Again
These negotiations could take a year, or longer. The only thing Trump achieved with his sudden reversal was getting a horrified reaction from Congress while setting himself to be labeled "the boy who cried wolf".
Mike "Mish" Shedlock


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Union Health Minister chairs 28th GoM, says India's COVID-19 recovery rate improving
"In the last 24 hours, we have the least number of cases in the last 61 days which is 1,00,636 cases, 1,74,399 recoveries were reported. Our fatality rate is 1.20 per cent," the minister said.
Published: 07th June 2021 02:50 PM | Last Updated: 07th June 2021 02:50 PM | A+A A-
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) Dr Harsh Vardhan chaired the 28th meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Monday and said that India has 14,01,609 active Covid cases. He added that the country's recovery rate is climbing and stood at 93.94 per cent now.
"The country reported its first Covid case on January 30, 2020. Till now we have reported 2,89,09,975 cases in the country out which 2,71,059,180 people have recovered. Today we have 14,01,609 active cases in the country. A couple of weeks back we had over 37 lakhs active cases in the country. Our recovery rate is climbing up which is right now 93.94 per cent," Vardhan said.
"In the last 24 hours, we have the least number of cases in the last 61 days which is 1,00,636 cases, 1,74,399 recoveries were reported. Our fatality rate is 1.20 per cent," the minister said.
He said that a total of 23,27,86,482 vaccine doses have been administered to various categories of people in the country.
"Between 18- 44 years of age, we have given the 1st dose to 2,86,18,514 peopleand second dose to 1,68,00,302 people. As of today morning, 1,43,01,409 doses are still available with the states. 36.64 crore tests have been done in the country. Yesterday we did over 15 lakh tests despite it being a Sunday," he further said.
"The daily positivity rate is declining and is at 6.34 per cent, which is less than 10 per cent for the 25 th consecutive day. There are 15 states where the positivity rate is greater than 10 per cent. 83 per cent of active cases are in 10 states. Seven states Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Gujarat have less than 1000 cases," added.
"We know RNA viruses have the potential for frequent mutations and can affect disease transmission and severity. We had established 10 national labs and we have done 30,000 sequencings. Recently we added 18 more labs taking to a total of 28 labs for genome sequencing," the Minister said.
Union Ministers Hardeep S Puri, S Jaishankar, Ashwani Kumar Choubey and several others attended the meet.
Union Health Minister also informed about the key presentations that are to be held in the meeting
"Dr V K Paul will do a presentation on latest vaccination status, future plans and about what is being done about vaccination of children and up-gradation of infrastructure around paediatric wards. The way forward of handling Covid appropriate behaviour in the society will be addresed in the presentation," he said.
"We will have another presentation by Girdhar, Aramane, MoRTH secretary. He is going to brief us about the availability of oxygen and about the ongoing project for putting up various PSA plants in the country. Amit Khare, secretary of Information and Broadcasting will also do a presentation," he added.


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Jeff Golub Evans, a renowned cosmetic dentist, died on August 1. He was 72.
With a background in dentistry and fine arts, New York City native Golub Evans founded the New York Center for Cosmetic Dentistry in 1978. His practice flourished, and Golub Evans became widely recognized as one of the premier cosmetic dentists in the United States, with an extensive celebrity clientele that included Hugh Jackman and Mary Louise Parker. Golub Evans, who studied fine art at New York University, also became a successful artist whose works were displayed in both local and national galleries; his woodcuts of Balinese scenes belong to the National Museum in Ubud, Bali.
Golub Evans frequently shared his expertise with Allure. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of all things dental and always made the topic interesting by adding an offbeat anecdote or totally obscure (but completely fascinating) piece of trivia. I interviewed him a few months ago for an upcoming article and was struck not only by his friendliness and sense of humor, but also by his sincere enthusiasm. It was one of the first interviews I conducted for the magazine, and I remember hoping they would all be as enjoyable. We at Allure will sincerely miss him.
He is survived by his wife, three children, and one grandchild.


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There's no dearth of lip care products out there in the market. Some work. Some do not. Some simply turn out to be disastrous. I have an inimitable fascination for strawberry-flavored lip balms since they 'mostly' have a very soothing and refreshing fragrance and also impart a delectable tint which of course, is very attractive and prepossessing to look at. So, today I'll share Eva Lip Drench Strawberry Lip Balm Review with you all and let you know how it fared for me.
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Eva Lip Drench Strawberry Lip Balm comes in a tube packaging with a sturdy cap that makes it leakage-free. Of course, the comfort of application for me is highest in case of lip balms that come in stick form. However, this isn't as bad as those lip balms that come in tubs and make application no less a Khatron Ke Khiladi task. Okay, that was slightly exaggerated but you get it. Lip balms that come in tubs make the entire process of application very messy and it's all the more troublesome when you happen to have long nails. So, on the whole, in terms of packaging, it is fine. It is travel-friendly, somewhat sturdy and relatively hygienic. Moreover, the cap does not loosen with regular usage too.
However, Eva Lip Drench Strawberry Lip Balm is very waxy/greasy in texture and a little amount applied on one's lips makes one feel as if something heavy is applied which is a major put-off. During winters, it may work but given its greasy texture, it has a high probability of melting during summers. And it will give a very unappealing impression to your lips. In fact, you lips will look as if they have been drenched in oil! So, I won't recommend this lip balm to anyone for use during summers.
Its moisturization power is low-to-average. In my case, it kept my lips hydrated for about 45 minutes. I happen to have normal lips, so if you have parched/extremely dry/chapped lips, this might not be the product for you since it calls for frequent re-application. Also, it neither has any tint. nor any sheen. Hence, won't hide/conceal your pigmentation.
On the whole, Eva Lip Drench Strawberry Lip Balm?doesn't perform well on the basic parameters on which one usually gauges the effectiveness of a lip balm. So, I'd call it a dud.
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Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Giorgio de Chirico, Henry Moore, Keith Roberts, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Paul Nash, Tristram Hillier
He discovered the Hardy novels, and in time the painter Nash; the hills and trees and standing stones, flowers that broke from their moorings to sail the sky, fossils that reared in ghostly anger from the rocks. Suns rolling their millstones of golden grain; and it seemed he heard, far off and far too late, the shock of distant armies.
Keith Roberts, The Chalk Giants, Hutchinson, 1974, p21
Coming across that passage in the mid-1970s would have been the first time I came across the name Nash. Much later, I added a forename, Paul (later still I discovered there was another Nash, John, his brother and also a painter, though I am embarrassingly unfamiliar with his work). But even with a name, I wasn't sure which Paul Nash I knew about. There were two that seemed to appear, work occasionally glimpsed in magazines or on the television: the weird, surreal artist, and the one who did all those pictures from the First World War. It would be some time before I realised they were the same; it would be even longer before I saw that they were the same.
Still, the first time I saw "Solstice of the Sunflower", very probably the first Paul Nash painting I ever saw, I recognised it immediately as the picture that Roberts was referring to in The Chalk Giants. And having made that connection, I began to see how important Nash was in the work of Keith Roberts. Even without mentioning Nash specifically, or drawing attention to any particular painting, you can see the Nash aesthetic at work behind scenes in Pavane and the Kaeti stories, as well as The Chalk Giants which is overtly his Paul Nash novel. And of course when you look at Roberts's own pictures you see the same angularity, the light falling like a solid object, the small objects that lift the image out of the real even if they never quite make it surreal.
The more you look at Paul Nash paintings, particularly those he produced between the late-1920s and his death just after the Second World War, you can see exactly why they spoke to Roberts. This is the landscape that Roberts's stories inhabited, the rolling hills and small formal woodlands of Southern England, a landscape from which fragments of the past emerge like the roots of dead trees. (If Roberts had been a more urban writer, I think his influence might well have been Giorgio de Chirico, who was, of course, a significant influence upon Nash.) Following de Chirico, Nash would imbue his landscapes with odd shadows and strange, angular intrusions that suggest a story we can't quite grasp, a story somehow in mid-flight whose conclusion cannot be known and may never be reached. And those were the stories that Roberts was telling, the story of "The Signallers", the story of "Monkey and Pru and Sal", stories imbued with mystery and arrived at by shadows and allusions and hints. This is why Roberts's natural form was the fix-up, a mosaic of stories that collectively implied the whole without any of the parts ever actually being the whole.
And as I loved the work of Keith Roberts, so I loved the work of Paul Nash, even if I didn't know so much of it. Even if, as it turned out, I knew even less than I thought. Even if Roberts caused me to (perhaps) misinterpret a Nash painting. I never saw "Solstice of the Sunflower" as a sunflower, for me it was always the sun, detached from the sky and rolling across the landscape. When I first learned the title of the picture it didn't make sense to me. Then, at the Paul Nash exhibition, I learned that yes it was a sunflower, but it was also a representation of a country practice in which, after harvest, bundles of straw would be tied around a cartwheel, set on fire and rolled across the field (probably a very efficient way of burning stubble). Suddenly the interconnection of sunflower, sun and burning cartwheel tied the picture once more to Roberts's description.
For a few years in the 80s I worked across the river from the Tate (as it was then), and I would regularly mooch around the gallery for half an hour or so at lunchtime. Always, I found myself gravitating to whichever Paul Nash paintings were on display. Never more than two, as I recall. Usually one of the famous ones, "Equivalence for the Monuments" or "Landscape from a Dream", which became the images fixed in my mind as what Paul Nash did, and consequently my view of his work was uninformed. Everyone said he was a surrealist, so of course he was a surrealist. But Roberts wasn't a surrealist: that should have been my cue.
Then, a few days ago, we managed to get to the Paul Nash exhibition at Tate Britain just before it closed. It was crowded and jostling and I have never more wanted to take a Kalashnikov into an art exhibition (aim low, Maureen said, at their legs, then they'll fall out of your way and the blood won't spatter the paintings); I particularly desired to drill the woman in four inch heels and haughty demeanour who would go from picture to picture, open a stool and plant it directly in from of the painting, then sit there for minutes on end so that no-one else could get close. And it was overwhelming: not just the heat or the crowds, but the sheer number of pictures, near enough 150 of them in room after room after room.It changes the way you see them: like this, entire rooms filled with his work, you see connections and repetitions that really are not obvious when you see the pictures piecemeal, one or two at a time.
The early pictures here, mostly black and white, crude figures (he never was particularly good with figures) on strange nighttime landscapes, looked as if they could have come straight from a Samuel Palmer exhibition we saw some years ago. But amid these a couple seemed to presage what would come. "The Cliff to the North" has a woman's shadow stretching towards the cliff edge like some presentiment of a tragedy, while "The Pyramids in the Sea" shows two pyramids emerging from rolling waves, the angular shapes and odd juxtapositions that would mark his later, best work.
Then came the First World War and, eventually, everything changed. For the first years of the war, a member of the Artists' Rifles, he was stationed in England and continued to paint the sorts of landscapes he had been doing before. But in 1917 he was sent to France. He was invalided home briefly later that year, during which interval most of his platoon was wiped out at Passchendaele, then he was commissioned as an official war artist and returned to France, and it was then he acquired the technique and, I suspect, the passion that informed his work ever after. Now tree stumps reared at unlikely angles, like strange architectural fragments, bursting from a lumpen, rolling, unnatural ground. Light from sun or shell bursts in harsh, jagged, tangible spears. Figures are small, bending or folding or leaning as if they are no more living than anything else in this vista. "The Menin Road" or the gloriously titled "We Are Making A New World" are stunning, breathtaking works,
even if they are rather smaller than I had imagined them to be.
When, several rooms later because the exhibition is arranged on roughly chronological lines, we came his his work as a war artist in the Second World War, and particularly to "Totes Meer", I wanted to scream out: "No, they belong together. 'We Are Making A New World' and 'Totes Meer' are the same picture, don't you see that?" They are: the same rearing, raging ground torn and angry, the same sense of a world that cannot be at rest, the same light from sun or moon rising over a distant skyline, the same colour palette, the same emotional impact. But maybe we don't see that, maybe we never did. Maureen has pointed out that at one point in that crowded room everyone was watching a black and white film about "Totes Meer" and no-one was looking at the picture itself. I was reminded inescapably of "Brother John" by Keith Roberts in which the eponymous monk has been busy drawing the angular, distended shapes of victims being tortured by the Inquisition, and cries out in anguish "But I enjoyed my work!" In that moment I think Brother John and Paul Nash (brother of John?) are one and the same!
And yet, "Totes Meer" seems to be not a singular painting but a climax, a final version of something Nash was always working towards. Was "Totes Meer" there in "The Pyramids in the Sea"? I think so. And among a series of extraordinary paintings he made at Dymchurch in the 1920s, all jagged man-made angles and roiling angry seas, there was the haunting "Winter Sea", all white and black and sharp planes just waiting for the shards of German aircraft to begin to surface.
(Parenthetically, it was at Dymchurch that he began work on a painting that would only be finished a decade and a half later. It's called "Nostalgic Landscape", and if I ever write enough stories to put together a collection, increasingly unlikely as that may be, this is the picture I want on the cover.)
Then, in 1928, Nash saw his first exhibition of paintings by de Chirico, and became a surrealist. That's what he said. That's what all the critics say. But as we walked around the exhibition, Maureen said: "I don't think he's a surrealist." And I agree.
I can understand why he'd say he was. At the time, in the middle of that strange, uneasy, interwar period, there was a lot of tension between what was called national and international art. Fascist regimes, first Italy then Germany, made a big thing about promoting their national art. In Britain, isolationists and right wing critics talked about "British Art" as something completely separate from anything anyone else was doing. But Nash, along with friends such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Tristram Hillier and Ben Nicholson, emphatically identified himself with International Art. At the time the most exciting movement in international art was surrealism (something that really got up the noses of the traditionalists who proclaimed National Art), so there was clearly a sense in which to be an internationalist was to be a surrealist. And certainly people like Moore and Hepworth, Nicholson and Hillier, with whom he briefly formed the collective "Unit One", were surrealists.
But Nash, I think, was less a surrealist than someone who would occasionally incorporate surrealist elements into work that was, in other respects, indistinguishable from the work he was doing before and after this period. True, there were straightforwardly surreal paintings, "Opening" (another picture I would choose for my cover art), "Kinetic Feature" and "Voyages of the Moon". But others, "The Nest of the Wild Stones" for instance, or "Circle of the Monoliths" were often quite straightforward representations of the fossils he collected linked with his fascination for Avebury. Many of the more famous surreal pictures, such as "Equivalent for the Megaliths" or "Objects in Relation", look to me like Henry Moore sculptures transplanted into the sort of landscape he had been painting since before the First World War. One of my favourite pieces in the exhibition was called
"Forest"; it consisted of the wooden hand shapes that were used to stretch gloves which had been cut up and glued to a board in a way that suggested trees. These hand trees then reappeared in a painting called "Wood on the Hill", but the wood itself was another iteration of Wittenham Clumps, which he had been painting since 1913, and which would reappear in paintings from the last years of his life.
There is, in other words, too much of the art he produced before and during the First World War, and that would recur in non-surrealist paintings such as "Totes Meer", for these paintings to feel wholly and wholeheartedly surrealist. But then, it is the tension between all the different things he was doing that makes Paul Nash perhaps the most interesting of British artists.


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Smokestack industry still has key role in Midwest's future
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What's next for America's industrial heartland? Myriad layoffs and plant closings, brought on by the recession and growing overseas competition, have fueled predictions here that it may only be a matter of time before the Midwest's heavy industries fall, never to rise again.
But the consensus of a number of regional economic experts queried by the Monitor is that - dependent as this region is on steel, cars, farm equipment, and machinery production - no such economic obituary is in order.
They readily concede that Midwest manufacturing will never again employ as many workers as it once did, and that a radical streamlining of its structure and operations is vital.
''If it's going to survive, it's got to modernize and learn to contain its costs,'' explains Nina Klarich, chief regional economist with the First National Bank of Chicago.
But few economists rate the region's heavy industry as in any genuine danger of extinction.
''Don't sell the smokestack industries short - they're still at the heart of this region's growth,'' says Paul Moscarello of Merrill Lynch Economics Inc. ''It's just that we've grown a little lazy and haven't invested in modernizing equipment to make them as profitable as they should be.''
''I think there's a common image that the smokestack industries are dead, but I don't think we'll ever even get near that point,'' agrees Robert Schnorbus, a regional economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. ''The Midwest is going to continue to be a manufacturing-based economy for a very long time.''
Still, there are few signs as yet that producers are willing or able to invest the needed dollars to keep these industries going and growing. A recent Commerce Department survey, for instance, reveals that businessmen expect to reduce capital spending by almost 4 percent this year. George Cloos, vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, says the only capital spending increases he has noticed have been for backhoes, which scoop up dirt for trenches and foundations, and for a little logging equipment.
Yet replacement and expansion of industrial equipment is expected to play a vital role in the Midwest's recovery. Usually that kind of capital spending picks up in the third or fourth quarter after a recovery begins. This time, most economists say, it will come later.
''Much of the Midwest's existing capital stock is extremely old, but business is behaving in a very cautious manner,'' notes Mimi Ryan, a regional economist with Data Resources Inc.
Some economists insist that stepped-up consumer spending for cars, appliances , housing, and steel over the last several weeks has already helped the Midwest considerably.
''The evidence in hand suggests that we're coming along very nicely on the recovery trail and are not out of step with the national average,'' says Charles Lee, vice-president of Chicago's Northern Trust Bank. ''The level of activity in certain areas is depressed - and nothing to be happy about. But the change in activity is quite positive.''
When the Midwestern economy does recover - and most experts insist it will not until capital spending picks up - the smokestack belt will remain a region in transition. It has been estimated that more than 1 million manufacturing jobs have been permanently lost over the last four years.
''You may see production go back to historical highs - but not employment,'' insists Stanley Duobinis, a regional economist with Chase Econometrics. Though there are glimmers of hope, as auto and steel workers are periodically recalled in small numbers, many who have been laid off must retrain, relocate, or both. Many have taken lower-paying service jobs such as clerking or waitressing. For most, the transition is tough.
''It takes a long time for a steelworker to realize that his job is really gone, and you can't convert him into a computer programmer or medical aide overnight,'' explains Mr. Schnorbus.
For their part, Midwestern manufacturers continue to search for ways to pare down and consolidate operations. General Motors' Buick Division, for instance, recently announced plans to centralize operations from start to finish on 1986 model cars made in Flint, Mich., which it is calling ''Buick City.'' Buick is encouraging parts, materials, and service suppliers to locate nearer its assembly lines, and will order supplies on a much more precise schedule than in years past. The hope is to save transport and inventory holding costs.
''One thing high interest rates made everyone aware of is how expensive it is to hold spare parts and supplies in inventory,'' notes Chase's Mr. Duobinis, who says he thinks other automakers will soon follow Buick's lead.
Though manufacturing has been growing at a slower rate in the Midwest than in other parts of the nation, many economists say that in time this region too will experience some growth. The comparative economic advantage of relocating Midwestern industries in other parts of the country, for instance, is not expected to continue forever. And the region's excess skilled labor supply may soon begin to attract more varied industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostic equipment, and business communication systems.
''As long as manufacturing nationally continues to grow - albeit at a lesser rate than service industries - I think we'll capture our share,'' insists Schnorbus.
But economists are not looking to the region's heavy, mature industries as a source of growth. A few doubt that some farm equipment manufacturers will even survive the lingering effects of the recession. Though crop prices have improved a little since December, farmers are not expected to be in a good position for another two or three years.
The Midwest would like to lure as much high-technology industry as possible. But David Merkowitz of the Northeast-Midwest Institute in Washington, D.C., argues that the supply of such industry is limited and often not labor intensive. The institute is encouraging communities in the Midwest and elsewhere to decide on a broad, grass-roots basis what economic direction they want to take and then try to pave the way as much as they can. Mr. Merkowitz cites Cleveland's decision to concentrate on the growth of health services and medical technology as a case in point.
''We're warning people, especially in the Midwest, about the dangers in following the siren song of high-tech,'' he says. ''The hope is that they will look at other creative strategies.''


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Biggest EPS Miss Since Lehman, And This Time It's Not The Tsunami's Fault
The S&P 500 posts the biggest earnings Earnings Per Share miss since the infamous Lehman Brothers incident prior to the 2008 Financial Crash.
Yes, we know it doesn't matter because Ben & Mario have got our backs at whatever multiple is required to levitate the economy market, but as Citi's credit desk points out; despite the constant chatter about EPS beats (despite top-line misses), the trick is that analysts have been dragging down expectations since the earnings-cycle began and so judging 'misses' must be done against a 'frozen' pre-earnings number. If we do this 'fair' approach to considering expectations, the percentage miss in the S&P 500′s EPS for Q2 2012 is as bad as the Q2/Q3 2011 Tsunami-driven miss – and the worst we have seen since Lehman Brothers shuffled off this mortal coil. So as usual, be careful what truth you believe and consider just how much more 'hope' is now in this market given this reality.


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The Oscar-winning actress spoke on BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier this month, but was later reported to the Advertising Standards Authority for "mumbo jumbo" claims
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Yes, we're a little abs crazy. But the truth is, there are so many different exercises you can use to hit your core, it's hard to resist sharing them with readers. A new favorite: The single-leg Swiss-ball jackknife. Ready to try it? Just use the instructions that follow.
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The Swiss-ball Jackknife
Assume a pushup position with your arms completely straight.
Position your hands slightly wider than and in line with your shoulders.
Rest your shins on a Swiss ball.
Your body should form a straight line from your head to your ankles.
Brace your core, and then lift your right leg off the ball and hold it there.
Without changing the arch in your lower back, roll the Swiss ball toward your chest by pulling it forward with your left foot.
Pause, then return the ball to the starting position by rolling the ball backward.
Finish all of your repetitions, and repeat with your other leg.
Use This Move In Your Workout
Do 2 to 3 sets of 10 to 12 repetitions, resting 60 seconds between each set. Remember, the key is to keep your lower-back posture the same from start to finish. So your lower back shouldn't round as you do the move, and it shouldn't arch more than it is at the beginning of the exercises. This requires that you stabilize your core as you do the exercise. A good cue: Before you start, pretend that you have to make your midsection "skinny"--the way you would if you trying to zip up a tight jacket. Then hold your core like that for the entire exercise. If that's too hard, perform the same exercise, but with both shins on the ball, so that you're pulling the ball forward with both feet.


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Chapter V, verse 18 or verse 5.18 of the Bhagavad Gita (BG) is literally translated by Chinmayananda as:
"Sages look with an equal eye upon a brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, on an elephant, and even on a dog and an outcaste"
Here goes a part of the great soul's explanation to this verse:
"The gold-seeing goldsmith considers but the gold in all forms; he cannot see the distinction of Rama-gold from Sita-gold, or the Lakshmana-gold from Hanuman-gold. Whatever be the form, it is all gold. The Self-realized sage after his experience of inner Divinity, sees nothing but the same Spirit everywhere and, therefore to him a man of knowledge and humility, dog, or an elephant, or a dog-eater are all different containers containing the same truth"
Our analysis of the comment and concern at the mutilation of Queen's English
The Guru rarely ever launches into his exposition of BG without his characteristic poetic and figurative flourishes, so what if it is with all the might of savagery.
Let's witness and explore the involuntary and unwitting poesy of the Gurudev in the alliteration of the phrase "the gold-seeing goldsmith". Without hastening into any judgment of the alternating retardation of poesy and prose in the commentary, let us see what inspirations are evoked by this placement of sounds. One would have thought the phrases " silver-seeing Silversmith" or "black-seeing Blacksmith" as phrases contending for the glory of figurative comparison. We were almost proceeding to coin an alliteration based on "wordsmith", but reined ourselves in out of a sneaking concern for the effects of the inflictions of alliterative barbarity on an already mortified language.
Our grudging acceptance of the Gold standard of spirituality
Yet we must pronounce with a sense of grudging reluctance that the "gold-seeing goldsmith" out-shines the rest. Do we espy a gold "seer" in this gold-seeing goldsmith, as in a prophet of gold?. The days of the gold 'bug' and the gold 'bull' are passé. We are witnessing the ascent of the goldsmith to the golden heights of seer-hood. Lest we get blown away in our own mistaken awe of the gold-seer, we are provided with an enumeration of the kinds of gold among which the goldsmith perceives little distinction. These kinds are the Rama-gold, Sita-gold, Lakshmana-gold and the Hanuman-gold. What are they? Mere titles or designations or brands of gold and jewellery imbued with luster of the Ramayana?
May the ignorant souls of the spiritual dark lands be forgiven for assuming that these golds are the pillars that lay the groundwork for the 'gold standard' of spiritual essence? So what if the economic world has forsaken the gold standard of money, the 'gold standard of spiritual renaissance' is waiting in the wings ready to soar into the clouds of spiritual ecstasy.
Hold back thy pernicious insinuations, O vile profaner of the devout, and listen to the parable of iconoclasm that preceded the seer's commentary.
Our feeble effort at recounting the great story-telling skills of the Gurudev
Unfortunately, in deference to the rules of parody we are constrained to paraphrase or shorten this parable instead of hearing it being narrated in the Gurudev's inimitable words. So as the parable goes, a rich youth by his reckless and dissolute ways squandered most of his inheritance and in the end was left with the only resort of disposing of the idols or icons of Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman and Rama to that gold-seeing goldsmith. Here we connect the dots with that gold seer again. To continue the parable in our own insipid way, somehow that goldsmith being unaware of the modern methods of transacting gold and jewelery, used to smash those idols in order to weigh them and pay the youth on the basis of the weight of gold.
Though the young man as well as we couldn't comprehend why the gold idols must be smashed to weigh the gold in it, we do not possess the temerity to dispute this testimony of the Gurudev.
Back to the youth, though he held his composure through all the barbarism of the idol-smashing, he let loose his litany of complaints when we saw that the Rama-idol was paid the same amount of money as the other idols. While we would like to add our sympathetic voice to the remonstrations of the youth at the desecration of the icons of Ramayana and especially the inequity of monetary value for the Rama-idol, we are checked by the Gurudev's admonition of this un-spiritual gripe of the youth.
As we seek deeper meanings in the Guru's commentary, it dawns on us that all that the gold-seeing goldsmith sees is gold in all forms, even if it means that gold may have to be smashed to see it in a smashed form.
In all humility we must pay our tributes to this worthy successor of Midas and shed a tear for the gold-crossed youth.
Moral of the story and an important lesson for the gold industry
Another insight of the Gurudev's fable that has somehow escaped the gold industry is that gold could be smashed instead of going through all the trouble of smelting it. We appeal to the gold industry with all its gold-seeing goldsmith members to seriously consider this energy-saving method of converting gold into well! Gold.
The leap from gold to divinity and the spiritual 'containers' of truth
Leaving the goldsmith to his gold, the guru describes the experience of inner Divinity of the Self-realized sage. Apparently the luster of this inner Divinity is more blinding than the luminosity of the yellow metal, that the Self-realized sage becomes blind to the distinctions between the man of knowledge and humility, dog, or an elephant, or a dog-eater. Yet to be so blinded, we somehow suspect that the out caste of the BG has turned into dog-eater who is to receive the same condescension, sorry consideration from the sage as the dog, or an elephant. Leaving the poor animals with the Hobson's choice of an indifferent sage and a dog-eater, let's turn to the wonders of the experience of inner Divinity. There the goldsmith saw only gold and here to the Self-realized sage all "are different containers containing the same truth".
While different containers may contain the same truth, is there a difference if the truth is contained in the same container or the container is contained by the differences? As it is said it is all the same as 'considering the consideration' and 'producing the production'.
For now we must retire to the confines of sanity and seek refuge from the throes of metals and containers


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New store «Game On» at Les Promenades Gatineau shopping centre
Feb 14, 2014, 16:38 ET
GATINEAU, QC, Feb. 14, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Les Promenades Gatineau shopping centre is proceeding with its recently announced $110 million redevelopment - the most significant renovation since the opening of the centre in 1978.
''Game On", offering products featuring sports league such as t-shirt, caps, sweatshirts, jackets, pants, shorts, ready to wear for women, men and kids opened its door this morning at Les Promenades Gatineau.
''We are really excited about opening our new store. It's a new concept in a great location. Our product variety will bring in more customers. We know that this new store will be successful, " said Yasin Mahomed-Owner of Game On"
The coming of this store is one of many improvements to Les Promenades Gatineau that will take place in the next months. ''The arrival of new stores such as Simons, H&M and Forever 21 will maximize the offer and meet customers' needs," said Serge Rossignol, General Manager, Les Promenades Gatineau. "This $110 million investment in modernizing Les Promenades Gatineau is one of the many ways Les Promenades is helping to develop the community and enrich the daily lives of Gatineau and Outaouais residents.''
About Les Promenades Gatineau
With close to 150 stores, including The Bay, Costco, Urban Planet, Sports Experts, and Archambault, Les Promenades Gatineau is the biggest shopping centre in the Outaouais region and is proudly managed by OPGI. Les Promenades Gatineau is located at 1100 Maloney Blvd. West in Gatineau. For more information, visit: www.lespromenades.com
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Oxford Properties Group Inc. is a global platform for real estate investment, development and management, with over 1,700 employees and over $25 billion in assets under management. Established in 1960, Oxford has offices in Toronto, London and New York. Its portfolio includes approximately 50 million square feet of office, retail and industrial spaces, as well multi-residential and hotel assets. Oxford is the real-estate management arm of the OMERS Worldwide. For more information, visit: www.oxfordproperties.com.
SOURCE: Les Promenades Gatineau
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Serge Rossignol, General Manager
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1100 Maloney Blvd. West
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Tom's Roid Rippin' Sweet Mesquite BBQ Sauce
Tom Slosser of TomsRoidRippinHotSauce.com has ventured beyond the hot sauce world and created Tom's Roid-Rippin BBQ Sauce – Sweet Mesquite. Don't be mislead, it says "Sweet" but this BBQ sauce packs a big hit of heat from some red habanero peppers.
We are excited to bring you an exclusive first review of it.
Before we actually cooked with it, we tasted Tom's Sweet Mesquite BBQ Sauce straight out of the bottle. It was quite smoky, very sweet and savory and VERY spicy. There is some real flavorful heat here folks.
We think there are many, many awesome BBQ sauces out there that really turn out fantastic after you grill with them. But some can taste a bit odd straight out of the bottle and then really blossom after slathering on meat and applying some heat. This time, we need some finesse. We need to cook with it. Let's see how it stands up after grilling and cooking.
Ingredients: tomato juice, tomato paste, water, distilled vinegar, molasses, sugar, honey, raisins, lime juice, liquid smoke – mesquite, butter, red habanero peppers, olive oil blend (canola oil, olive oil), salt, Worchestershire sauce (water, distilled vinegar, worchestershire concentrate, molasses, vinegar, spices, natural flavor, garlic powder, caramel color, anchovies, tamarind, sulfiting agent, sugar, salt), onion powder, paprika, garlic powder, black pepper, dry mustard.
Taste straight up:
Tom's Roid-Rippin' BBQ Sauce – Sweet Mesquite is quite powerful and raw straight up out of the bottle. In our opinion, it's not meant to be your typical dipping/glugging BBQ sauce. The mesquite smoke flavoring is fairly strong, and although there is indeed a lot of sweetness from the molasses, sugar and honey, the red habaneros are nothing to mess with. They add quite a bit of heat and spice to the mix. The Worchestershire sauce adds a nice dark flavor, and the end spices round things out nicely.
Texture & Appearance:
Thick and dark, Tom's Sweet Mesquite BBQ Sauce is also very sticky. Because of the heavy sweeteners you must brush this on your meat near the end of the cook so as not to burn it. After heating and grilling with it, the sauce thinned out and presented a nice shine and glaze – a great result for ribs or wings.
On Grilled Wings:
We started with grilled chicken wings for our first taste test. The sauce set up nicely, although it was a bit thin for our preference. The Mesquite flavor mellowed out somewhat, but the heat stuck with us. This is a spicy BBQ sauce.
On Pulled Pork:
Next, we tossed some pulled pork in Tom's Sweet Mesquite BBQ Sauce, and heated up the mixture. Placed on lightly toasted buns, these pulled pork sliders really wowed us. The sweetness of the pork really tempered the heat of the sauce, which made for a delicious combination of heat and mesquite and sweet. The pork sliders were big winners for us – really showcasing the rich flavors of this BBQ sauce.
Heat Level: – This sauce is pretty spicy straight up, but after heating it up, or cooking with it, the heat subsides a bit. It's smoky, slightly fiery and very savory.
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Overall Rating: – We're going with a 4 star rating due to the great marriage of flavor and spice on our pulled pork. While Tom's Sweet Mesquite BBQ Sauce is hot and flavorful, and it works pretty good on the wings (we don't think it's thick enough to stand up to the high heat of grilled wings), – the pulled pork sliders really shined, and were our favorites. I hope to cook some beef with this incredibly dense and rich sauce soon. True to all of Tom's Roid-Rippin' sauces, it's a delicious addition to the Roid-Rippin' family of flavors.
You can purchase Tom's Roid Rippin' Sweet Mesquite BBQ Sauce here.
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London Wall Place
DescriptionThis multiple award-winning development right in the heart of the City has released a new piece of public realm in the most ancient part of London. Previously the modern concrete and glass commercial building dominated the adjacent St Alphege Gardens, the site of the pre-Norman St. Alphege Cripplegate church, and public access was difficult. Make Architects won the project to create new commercial space in this historic area, with new public space available to all by opening up the central area of the site, including the remnants of the Roman London Wall. This landscape design was led by Spacehub of London.
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The new open central core of the development has reinstated the historic grid as pedestrian routes through a series of new landscaped gardens, both at street level and on bridges at high level and has provided a pleasant retreat formed by a series of pocket gardens, just waiting to be discovered.
Bearing in mind that this development is just the latest layer in the history of the site, establishing healthy trees amid the complex below ground works was never going to be simple. Many of the chosen planting positions were very limited in soil volume, and GreenBlue Urban were asked to suggest ways that good tree canopy cover could be provided.
Having carefully considered the tree species requirements and taking into account the unusual microclimates that exist in the City, the use of the ArborSystem consisting of soil support cells to connect discrete soil areas, a soil aeration system and root management has enabled the trees to establish in a very satisfactory way without causing any difficulty with surfacing or below ground utilities.
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We are pleased to have Edward Melton, the new Library Director for the Harris County Public Library as the speaker for our Friends of the Atascocita Library Annual Meeting on May 12 at 7:00 PM., at the Atascocita Library, 19520 Pinehurst Trail Dr. The public is cordially invited. There will be a short business meeting, which will include election of officers and presentation of the budget for 2015 – 2016.
Edward Melton is keen on leveraging partnerships and collaboration to build sustainable library service models. Even though he strongly supports innovation and technology, he is very practical and traditional in his value of public libraries. He understands the traditional role of libraries and works to create a balance between innovation and tradition.
Edward holds a B.A. in History and Secondary Education from Morehouse College and a MLIS from Clark Atlanta University. He has attended the Brookings Institute for Public Leadership. He has vast experience in libraries including cataloging and indexing, youth services, technology integration, grant management, capital projects, budget and strategic planning, training, operational efficiency, partnerships, and service innovation.
During his tenure as Chief of Branches at San Francisco Public Library, Edward was instrumental in helping complete the Branch Library Improvement Program which included the construction of the last two capital building projects. He led the comprehensive review of library services hours and implemented expanded hours throughout the branches. Edward also enhanced access to technology and learning opportunities at all the branch libraries for youth and the public at large. Edward has been actively engaged with the community and has chaired the Council of Neighborhood Libraries. Edward recently received the 2014 Joey Rodgers Leadership Award by the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) in recognition of his contributions as a public library leader and in support of his continued professional development.
Before his work in San Francisco, Edward was an Administrative Manager with Houston Public Library in which he provided oversight for the HPL Express and Mobile Express service model. He was recognized in 2010 as an Operations Service Innovator by the Urban Library Council. He has also been active in the Texas Library Association and was a Tall Texan Class of 2007. Edward has traveled the country integrating technology in libraries and training librarians with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation US Library program providing him with a vast range of experience from large urban libraries to small rural communities. He began his work at Harris County Public Library on November 3, 2014.
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