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Michael Kapiloff Wins Batchelor Award to Pursue Drug Therapies for Heart Disorders
Michael S. Kapiloff, M.D., Ph.D., a pediatrician who for 18 years has devoted his expertise and energies to developing drug therapies for intractable heart diseases, is the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Micah Batchelor Award for Excellence in Children's Health Research for a research proposal that could lead to new treatments for a number of cardiovascular disorders.
Selected from 11 outstanding applicants from the Department of Pediatrics, Kapiloff, professor of pediatrics and Director of the Cardiac Signal Transduction and Cellular Biology Laboratory at the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, plans to use the $300,000 award to demonstrate that a seemingly insignificant enzyme he and his team identified could serve as a therapeutic target for treating the most commonly inherited heart defect, Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM). Present in about one of every 500 people, HCM causes the heart muscle to overgrow, making it prone to heart failure and sudden death. It can be especially deadly in children and often causes sudden cardiac death in seemingly healthy young athletes.
Kapiloff, an internationally recognized cardiac researcher who has enhanced the understanding of intracellular signaling pathways, officially accepted the award at an August 22 ceremony at the Batchelor Children's Research Institute, where Miller School Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., and Judy Schaechter, M.D., M.B.A., associate professor and Interim Chair of Pediatrics, lauded his research accomplishments, selfless mentoring and humanity. As Schaechter noted, "He is a great scientist – that is for sure – but he is also a really, really good guy who always gives opportunities and credit to those in his lab and other trainees."
In her congratulatory remarks, UM President Donna E. Shalala also paid tribute to the late George E. Batchelor, the aviation pioneer and philanthropist who established the award in 2001 in memory of his grandson, Micah, to support Miller School investigators who were researching children's diseases. Seeded with a $5 million endowment, it is one of the largest awards nationally for children's health research.
"George Batchelor wanted every child in South Florida to be healthy and he wanted us to have an impact on every child in the world," the President said. "This year's recipient, Michael Kapiloff, exemplifies the kind of basic scientists and physicians who really make a difference, and who George, in particular, envisioned when he established the award."
Taking the podium, Kapiloff expressed his gratitude to the Batchelor family for investing in research and ideas that are pushing the frontiers of health forward. Turning to his own winning idea, he explained why RSK3, a little known and little studied enzyme, has taken center stage in his well-known research on the protein mAKAP, which orchestrates the regulation of heart muscle cell growth.
Though RSK3 is such a "bit player" in the heart that eliminating it has no ill effect on the health of mice, Kapiloff said, it happens to bind to mAKAP, and that association enables RSK3 to regulate heart muscle growth. That's why, he said, he proposed using genetically modified mice to test the idea that mAKAP-bound RSK3 is required for abnormal heart growth in pediatric heart disease. Though Kapiloff expects the animal experiments to demonstrate RSK3's value as a therapeutic target for the treatment of HCM, he said he also expects them to support the enzyme's potential therapeutic use for other, more common cardiovascular diseases.
"Because cardiac myocyte cardiomyopathy is actually the common response of the heart to any type of stress, our work actually will have an impact way beyond genetically encoded cardiomyopathy," he said. "In fact, it will be directly applicable to what my dad died of, aortic stenosis, and for those people who have high blood pressure. These experiments are part of a translational pathway that could lead to clinical trials in human patients within this decade."
Paying tribute to his father, Bernard Kapiloff, M.D., Kapiloff warmly recalled how the Baltimore surgeon who passed away last year at age 94 would call him every day for research updates. "Sometimes, I'd have to say, 'Dad, it's only been 24 hours! Your patients may get better in 24 hours, but we don't make discoveries every single day.' "
When the laughter subsided, Kapiloff said he looked forward to sharing news of his lab's research success in the near future.
For the first time this year, the Batchelor Award was opened to all full-time faculty with primary appointments in pediatrics. That resulted, the Dean and Schaechter both noted, in extraordinary proposals from superb applicants across the department, any one of which was worthy of funding. The other applicants and their proposals were:
• Carolyn Abitbol, M.D., professor of pediatrics, with "Early Detection of Kidney Disease and Abnormal Angiogenesis in Preterm Infants"
• Samita Andreansky, Ph.D., research assistant professor of pediatrics, with "Development of Influenza Specific T Cell Vaccines"
• Emmalee Bandstra, M.D., professor of pediatrics, with "Epigenetics of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Postnatal Environmental Adversity"
• Jeffrey Brosco, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical pediatrics, with "Newborn Screening and Health Disparities in the Genomic Era"
• Jayanthi Chandar, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, with "Promoting Functional Health Literacy in Youth Before Kidney Transplantation: Will this Improve Health Outcomes?"
• Nelson Claure, M.Sc., Ph.D., research associate professor, with "Automatic Adjustment of Inspired Oxygen for Prevention of Retinopathy of Prematurity and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Premature Infants"
• Aymin Delgado, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, with "Determinants of HCV Testing Among High Risk Children and Youth"
• Michael Freundlich, M.D., professor of pediatrics, with "Roles of Vitamin D and Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 in the Chronic Reno-Cardiac Syndrome"
• Charles Mitchell, M.D., professor of pediatrics, with "T Follicular Helper Cell Dysfunction as the Cellular Basis for Vaccine Non-Responsiveness among HIV-Perinatally Infected Children"
• Elena Perez, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics, with "The Intestinal Stem Cell Niche – Understanding the Immune, Epithelial, and Non-Epithelial Dialogs in the Intestinal Niche During Tissue Injury and Recovery"


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Norwich edged into the automatic promotion places in the npower Championship despite being held to a goalless draw by lowly Crystal Palace.
The Canaries are dreaming of back-to-back promotions having lost just once in their last 14 games.
But Palace have not let in a goal at Selhurst Park in nearly 10 hours and rarely looked like conceding until City skipper Grant Holt came up with a dreadful late miss.
Wes Hoolahan had earlier forced a fine save from Julian Speroni, while the hosts went close through James Vaughan, Paddy McCarthy and Wilfried Zaha.
However, City's leading scorer Holt should have snatched the points as full-time approached, only to blaze over the top.
With leaders QPR also being held, City will look on this as a missed opportunity to close the gap, which remains at five points.
Norwich started confidently and Henri Lansbury, back on loan from Arsenal, nodded an early chance over before Andrew Crofts glanced a header wide.
Palace had a let-off when Alex Marrow's poor clearance fell to Hoolahan on the edge of the area and his curler was tipped over by Palace keeper Speroni, making his 200th appearance for the club.
Yet Palace almost stunned the Canaries on the counter-attack when Sean Scannell burst through and played the ball across goal for Everton loanee Vaughan, who was inches away from sliding it into an empty net.
They came even closer on the half-hour when Darren Ambrose floated a free-kick in from the left and Eagles skipper McCarthy's header flew just wide.
Vaughan, on his second Palace debut, was perhaps lucky to escape with only a yellow card when he caught Adam Drury with a stray arm.
City would certainly have felt aggrieved if the striker had found the top left corner of their goal with an 18-yard drive moments later, but he actually found the top left corner of the stand behind.
Early in the second half Vaughan rampaged down the left and sent in a low cross which Canaries keeper John Ruddy fumbled but Leon Barnett managed to clear with Neil Danns lurking.
Ruddy, who does a passable impression of City legend Bryan Gunn with his close cropped hair, did a far better job of keeping out a fierce drive from Scannell moments later.
The former Everton keeper came to his side's rescue again with a fine save to keep out substitute Zaha's angled shot.
And with five minutes remaining Selhurst held its breath as the ball bounced invitingly for Holt in the penalty area but the Norwich skipper crashed his shot high over the crossbar.
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This dream is a reminder that you need to satisfy yourself and shut down any negative situations in your life.
The house in which you find yourself in your dream represents different interests or events in your waking life. To visit your own house in which there are either empty or unused rooms it shows that someone is acting cold towards you, so you should try talking to them.
The dream is most likely to occur in women, generally around the age of thirty. If you have undergone some difficult situations in the near past, this dream indicates that it is time for you to take opportunities and identify the elements of your life, to see what is important to you. Think about what makes you delighted and happy.
In your dream you may have…
Positive changes are afoot if...
Detailed dream interpretation
Spending some time understanding why you found yourself in an empty room means that you will need to truly embrace what is important to you in the waking world. It is very likely the dream is a secret spiritual page that you need to take a step back.
Feelings that you may have encountered during a dream of unused room.
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Karl Linn, a prominent landscape designer who created opulent spaces for some of the country's best-known architects but abandoned the work to spend the rest of his career building community gardens in devastated urban neighborhoods, died on Feb. 3 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 81.
The cause was acute myelogenous leukemia, his wife, Nicole Milner, said.
The landscape architect for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York, Mr. Linn also designed the interior landscaping for the Four Seasons Restaurant. But in the late 1950's he turned to making community gardens in depressed neighborhoods around the country.
Trained as a psychoanalyst, Mr. Linn came to believe that architecture should reflect a deep commitment to social justice. In New York, Washington, Philadelphia, the Bay Area and elsewhere, he helped inner-city residents transform vacant lots into "neighborhood commons," urban variations on the traditional village green that brought neighbors, and strangers, together.
He was in the business, quite literally, of creating rootedness: where a garden flourished, Mr. Linn believed, so, too, would a community. His gardens are noted for their use of native plants, bubbling fountains, colorful mosaics, benches positioned to encourage face-to-face contact and, above all, their involvement of neighborhood residents. Mr. Linn's work on one Bay Area garden was the subject of a documentary, "A Lot in Common," broadcast on PBS stations last year.
Karl Linn was born on March 11, 1923, in Dessow, later part of East Germany. He grew up on a 15-acre farm filled with fruit trees: his mother had founded the place in 1910 to train mental-health professionals in the art of "horticultural therapy." The only Jews in their village, the Linns fled Germany for Palestine in 1934. They established a farm near Haifa, and after his parents became too ill to run it, Karl left school at 14 to work the land full time. He graduated from the Kadoorie Agricultural School in Palestine and later helped found a kibbutz, Maagan Michael.
In 1946, Mr. Linn went to Switzerland to train as a psychoanalyst. He eventually settled in New York, where he helped found a school for emotionally disturbed children and maintained a private practice as a child psychotherapist. He took up landscape architecture again in the early 1950's, seeking to integrate his belief in the restorative power of nature with his psychotherapeutic work.
But in those years, as Mr. Linn discovered to his increasing discomfort, landscape architecture meant fattening the land of well-heeled suburbanites. "When I practiced landscape architecture in the 50's," he told Sierra magazine in 2001, "those who were affluent liked to show off -- the model of success being a huge lawn or a big tree that stood alone, looking like a king with a poochy belly, taking up all the nutrients in the soil."
He came to reject what he called "landscapes of affluence," and in 1961 founded the Neighborhood Renewal Corps, based in Philadelphia, which assisted members of disadvantaged communities in reclaiming, designing and rebuilding blighted urban spaces. Similar programs followed in Washington, Chicago, Boston and other cities. Mr. Linn was also a co-founder, in 1989, of the Urban Habitat Program, a project of the Earth Island Institute.
"The garden touches a core of humanness," he told The Jewish Bulletin of Northern California in 2003. "Because of all the war and terrorist activities and means of mass destruction, people think human nature at its core is warring. But there is a lot of evidence that human beings are really wonderfully put-together cosmic creatures. When I see all this volunteerism, it gives me confidence that a peaceful society is possible."
A fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Mr. Linn was also a founder of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. Until his retirement in 1986, he was a faculty member of the New Jersey Institute of Technology; he previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Fine Arts and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Linn's first two marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife, Ms. Milner; a brother, Henry, of Forest Hills, N.Y.; a son from an earlier marriage, Mark, of Haddonfield, N.J.; three stepchildren, Joel Ginsberg of San Francisco, Nomi Wanag of Oakland and Daniel Ginsberg of Gig Harbor, Wash.; and three grandchildren.


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Mike is the only person in Texas history to serve as chief of staff for two Texas Governors. Former three-term Texas House member and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Named one of Texas top lobbyists in the 2015 Lobby Power Rankings.
Present Position:
Partner – Texas Lobby Group
- Ranked the Top Hired Gun Lobbyist in 2011 by Capitol Inside.
"Mr. Toomey . . . is now considered the leading business lobbyist in Texas." New York Times, 2011
Immediate Past Positions:
Chief of Staff to Governors Rick Perry and Bill Clements 2002 – 2004; 1989 – 1990
- Only individual in Texas History to be Chief of Staff for Two Texas Governors.
- Chief of Staff to Governor Rick Perry: 2002-2004
"Mike Toomey brought incredible talent, expertise and focus to my staff and was a major factor in the successes of the 2003 legislative session." – Governor Rick Perry, Press Release, Sept 3, 2004.
- Chief of Staff to former Governor Bill Clements: 1989-1990
"His hard work contributed significantly to the success of the regular session this year." – Governor Bill Clements, Dallas Morning News, 1989
State Representative, HD 135 – Houston, Texas 1983 – 1988
68th Legislature
- Named the Best House Freshman by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
- Judiciary and Urban Affairs Committees
69th Legislature
- Named one of the Ten Best Legislators by Texas Monthly Magazine.
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Dedicated State Funds
- Appropriations Committee
- Conference Committee on Appropriations Bill
- Judiciary Committee
70th Legislature
- Named one of the Seven Best Legislators by the Dallas Morning News.
- Chairman, Judiciary Committee
- Natural Resources Committee
- House Sponsor of successful Tort Reform legislation.
South Texas College of Law, Juris Doctor, 1976
Baylor University, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, 1972
Civic Activities, Achievements, & Awards
- Former Chairman of the Board – West Houston Chamber of Commerce
- Optimist Club President
- Recipient American Tort Reform Association, "Tort Reformer" 1987
- Rated One of the Top Five Hired Gun Lobbyists by Capitol Inside every year since entering the profession.
Newspaper and Magazine Comments about Mike Toomey
"Austin lobbyist Mike Toomey and political guru Dave Carney have long been linked as architects of Republican politics in Texas."
Dallas Morning News, March 2014
"Mr. Toomey, Mr. Perry's former chief of staff, is now considered the leading business lobbyist in Texas."
Albert Hunt, New York Times, August 21, 2011
"…it should come as no surprise that no one is rated higher on Capitol Inside's Texas Lobby Power Rankings for 2011."
Hailey, Capitol Inside, 2011.
"Mr. Toomey has turned his robust lobbying business into a political force in the state"
"Under Toomey's guidance, that vanguard of political professionals helped undertake the complete Republican takeover of state government."
Laylan Copelin, Austin American Statesman, May 16, 2004
"A man who had always been known for his intensity and hard work…"
Dave McNeely, Austin American Statesman, August 26, 2001
"Toomey was such a key budget-cutting member of the House Appropriations Committee during the economic turndown in Texas caused by the oil bust.."
Dave McNeely, Austin American Statesman, August 26, 2001
"…Texas Monthly magazine named him one of 10 top legislators."
Dave McNeely, Austin American Statesman, August 26, 2001
"Toomey was the first real tort reformer. He started the crusade, and he was successful."
Bruce Gibson, Austin American Statesman, August 26, 2001
"There's nobody who works harder, studies the issues more and is more determined. He is a tough, tough negotiator."
Kent Caperton, Austin American Statesman, August 26, 2001
"Toomey read every single bill that was filed. And I don't mean skimmed'em."
Cliff Johnson, Austin American Statesman, August 26, 2001
"He has once again served the state tirelessly, and I am grateful for his dedication to serving the people of Texas."
Governor Rick Perry, Austin American Statesman, September 4, 2004
"…had all the qualities essential to mastering this most difficult of legislative arts: industry, inspiration, a mind for detail, and objectivity."
Paul Burka and Alison Cook, Texas Monthly's 10 Best legislators, July 1985
"….Toomey has accumulated the skill and will to influence every issue of consequence. Toomey brings to the job a work ethic that has been legendary since 1985.."
Patricia Kilday Hart, Texas Monthly, May 2003
"He approaches issues with a zeal and tenacity that even his detractors admire. Everything about him speaks of discipline."
Patricia Kilday Hart, Texas Monthly, May 2003
"Toomey does his homework, argues his points and carries voluminous knowledge on a wide range of issues…"
The 7 Best, Dallas Morning News, June 2, 1987
"His hard work contributed significantly to the success of the regular session this year."
Governor Bill Clements, The Dallas Morning News, 1989
"For the past twenty years, Mike Toomey has loomed large in state government,…as the Capitol's premier business lobbyist…With his encyclopedic knowledge of state government…"


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Quartetto Fantastico - Chris Woods (violin), Paul Cartwright (violin), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (viola), and Peter Jacobson (cello)
Quartetto Fantastico is comprised of four musicians that think and play outside the box, covering a wide range of repertoire in various styles, from Classical to Jazz to Hip-Hop to Modern, including original compositions from the players. A large inspiration for the group is improvisation, whether in the context of a piece or as the basis for an entire section of the performance. Quartetto loves music and loves to share their amazing musical journey with audiences, leading to exciting, unpredictable, one-of-a-kind performances that present music in a fresh, dynamic, hip, exuberant way, affirming life and the power of music!
Quartetto Fantastico Credits:
As a quartet, Quartetto Fantastico has worked with:
Dr. Dre
The LXD Dancers Mochilla
Capitol Records
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O'Connor often flashes back to his time as a loss-prevention officer at Tiffany & Co.'s in New York City, a busy store containing immensely valuable items. Each day, tourists would come into the store to marvel at the magnificent jewelry. "It was an amazing experience to stand and monitor the crowd: hundreds of people, all basically following the pattern of a shopper — except for the three or four people who are not, the toxic outliers," he recalls. "It's the same for managers in an organization. There are going to be those outliers. With our unique experience, internal auditors can help keep the honest people honest as well as identify the truly toxic leaders before they cause too much damage."
Read more here if you are an IIA subscriber (it is behind a paywall, unfortunately) about how internal auditors can create positive change in the face of toxic forms of leadership, and how that change can cause a ripple effect that improves not only leadership, but the culture of an organization.


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Introduction: Super Easy Laser Trip Wire / Alarm / Coilgun Switching
Switch your coilgun coils, protect your home or hook it up to a counter.
The most simple lightgate out there, yet very reliable!
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Step 1: All Parts You Need:
- 9V clip
- 10k resistor 0.25W (to transistor)
- 300 Ohm resistor (for a blue LED)
- Photo-transistor SFH 309
- BUZ 11 transistor
- Small SCR
- Slide switch (main switch)
- Momentary switch (reset button)
- Wire
- Board
- Solder
- Soldering iron
- Laser pointer (cheap key chain laser will do)
Step 2: The Steps:
If you are unexperienced with electronics, just copy the schematic 1:1
and put it on a board.
Hook up the laser to a separated battery, make it hit the phototransistor,
then switch on the board. Break the beam and the LED should light up.
EASY was not a lie, thats it. You can now switch a multistage coilgun with it,
protect your room or door.
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Kohler, one of our recommended manufacturers of faucets and bathroom fixtures, has released a new high tech innovation we are very keen to see in action.
Kohler launches Kohler Konnect smart home range of iPhone-configurable bathroom and kitchen fixtures
The new line of connected devices using Kohler Konnect mostly centers around the bathroom experience, with each including some element that users can fine tune to their preference. The Kohler Konnect companion app can be used to alter presets, such as temperatures and lighting, and in some cases, to remotely turn on elements.
A key aspect is the inclusion of voice control, allowing for the user to operate a kitchen faucet or intelligent toilet, change the lighting in a bathroom mirror, run a shower, or automatically fill a bath to a specified depth and temperature, all through vocal commands.
While the system runs on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, and has a greater focus on using Amazon's Alexa for automation and commands, a number of items from within the range are also able to support Apple's HomeKit, along with the Google Assistant. In theory, this means that some of the announced items could be automated in HomeKit scenes, or for features to be remotely triggered by Siri commands.
The main featured item in Kohler's new product range is the Verdera Voice Lighted Mirror, which is claimed to be an industry first with Amazon's Alexa built into the unit. Containing dual microphones and hermetically sealed stereo speakers, the mirror offers LED lights for illuminating the user, a motion-activated wayfinding nightlight, and the ability to access thousands of Alexa skills.
So how does all this technology make life easier? In our mobile device, Google Assistant, Amazon Alex connected world, it means with this sort of plumbing technology installed in your home, voice activation is now possible:
Away from the bathroom, the Sensate Kitchen Faucet offers motion-based and vocal control for water dispensing. Commands can be used to turn the water flow on or off, or to dispense water to a measured volume, for example the vocal command "Pour eight ounces."
These are nice quality of life improvements for just about everyone. Not mentioned here is how these voice activated innovations can make homes more liveable and convenient for our friends and family who have physical limitations. Anyone out there in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Redondo Beach, or Venice who has physical limitations where these voice activated controls would help greatly, we would love to be your preferred plumber on the spot to install the Kohler Konnect system here and check up with you after of few weeks of use to see how it works out for you. Give us a call at (323) 992-6477, we would love to hear from you.


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Make Your Health Insurance Work for You
Are you taking advantage of all the services your health insurance offers? Make sure you know about the added incentive programs that may be included in your plan.
Want to maximize your health and insurance dollars? Your health insurance plan may be able to help.
"Health insurers are increasingly offering wellness benefits to members at no extra cost," says Robert Zirkelbach, director of strategic communications for the American Association of Health Plans in Washington, D.C. In a 2008 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health nonprofit, more than half of almost 2,000 employee-sponsored health plans polled offered wellness benefits and programs. Some health insurance plans even give members financial incentives to participate. However, not all members know about these insurance benefits or take advantage, notes Zirkelbach.
Here are examples of popular wellness benefits as well as cost-savings ideas.
Insurance Benefits: Physicals and Health Assessments
Annual physical exams and regular preventive screenings are fully covered by most health insurance plans. Services like flu shots may be as well. Taking advantage of these health services will lower your risk of illnesses that could result in co-pays or even prevent costly medical bills. In addition, 10 percent of employee-sponsored health plans in the KFF survey offered the option of completing a health risk assessment to pinpoint potential health problems, and of those, 12 percent gave members some sort of financial incentive to do so.
Insurance Benefits: Mail Order Prescription Plans
For people on long-term prescription medications for chronic conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol, to name just two, the mail order prescription component of your plan can save you hundreds of dollars every year once any deductible is met. In general, you receive a three-month supply for about what it would cost for just two months of refilling at your local drugstore. These plans usually classify drugs by tiers; which of the three tiers your prescription items fall into determines their cost. You can save more money by ordering generics if available. Many plans allow you to reorder online, eliminating the paperwork, and even offer an e-mail reminder service so you won't forget and run out.
Insurance Benefits: Nurse Lines
Free advice from a nurse may be as close as your phone. Some health insurance carriers keep registered nurses on call 24/7. These health professionals can provide medical advice and tell you whether or not symptoms require a doctor's visit. They can also answer any questions you may have about medical procedures and treatment options. "Additionally, using this insurance benefit can help you communicate more effectively with your physician and allow you to make the most of the limited time you'll have in the doctor's office," says Zirkelbach.
Insurance Benefits: Gym & Diet Plan Discounts
Belong to a gym or health club? Your health insurance may offer membership deals. "More and more health insurance carriers are offering discounts to workout facilities because regular exercise has been shown to reduce medical costs," says Zirkelbach. The same goes for weight-loss programs, such as Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers. You may save 20 percent or more by signing up through your health insurance plan. Some health insurance carriers also provide discounts on nutritional counseling by registered dietitians for weight loss and disease prevention, or provide this service free of charge.
Insurance Benefits: Disease-Management Programs
If you have a chronic condition, make your insurance work for you by signing up to participate in a program to help manage your illness and save you money. "Disease-management programs for conditions such as diabetes and asthma have become popular in the last couple of years," says Zirkelbach. "They usually don't cost members a cent, and evidence shows they keep a substantial amount of money in your pocket." One example: People enrolled in an asthma management program run by a Florida health insurance plan reduced their ER visits by 22 percent in just one year, according to a 2008 report by the American Association of Health Plans.
Insurance Benefits: Cash Rewards
A growing number of health insurance plans give "wellness incentives" to members who exercise regularly, eat healthy, participate in stop-smoking classes, attend seminars on stress management, or participate in other wellness programs. These incentives typically come in the form of cash or gifts. And you don't have to go it alone. You can get professional help, such as phone calls and e-mails, to help you stay on track, says Zirkelbach.
Insurance Benefits: How to Take Advantage
To find out what's available through your health insurance plan, call your insurer's toll-free number, talk to the folks in your HR department at work, or visit your health plan's Web site, which should list approved services and providers for wellness programs, along with discounts.
Taking advantage of all these options can boost your health and your bank account at the same time.
Learn more in the Everyday Health Family Health Center.


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As anyone who has seen The Sandlot surely knows, Babe Ruth-signed balls are the Holy Grail of baseball memorabilia.
Baseball aficionados don't part with them easily, and when they do they can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in return.
So when John Lackey, who was traded to the Cardinals from the Red Sox at the MLB trade deadline, was willing to swap a Bambino-signed ball for a jersey number and nothing else, it was a big deal.
St. Louis reliever Pat Neshek, who owned the No. 41 at the time of Lackey's acquisition by the Cardinals, tweeted this photo Wednesday:
Huge Thanks to John Lackey for the incredible gift for changing my uni # pic.twitter.com/SFnuTh2d7x
— Pat Neshek (@PatNeshek) August 20, 2014
Lackey is one of the more superstitious players in baseball, so perhaps he feels tied to the No. 41. But compared to what other athletes have paid for a number, this is a substantial price. According to some reports, the price of a Ruth-signed ball varies wildly depending on the condition, and those in bad shape could go for as low as $3,000 or $4,000. The ones in good condition, however, have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, with the most expensive one going for $388,375.
In recent years players have paid $25,000, $50,000 and even forked over a year's supply of diapers for the right to a certain number.


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The Bjørvika development project is the biggest city development project Norway has ever seen. 20 000 people will work in Bjørvika and 10 000 people will live here. Oslo S Utvikling (OSU) is developing 380 000 sq.m. of the total 900 000 sq.m. The company was established in 2001, and is owned by Entra ASA, Linstow AS and Bane Nor Eiendom AS. OSU's vision is to develop Bjørvika to become Norway's most attractive district.
Situated between Oslo Central Station, the Middelalder- and Ekeberg parks and the Oslofjord, Bjørvika will become the new heart of Oslo, surrounded by idyllic scenery. Oslo S Utvikling will in total develop and build around 170 000 sq.m. office space, 1900 homes and 29 000 sq.m. retail space, which will house restaurants and cafes, shops, service providers and art galleries.
The whole Bjørvika area will be finalized within 2024. It will be an exciting, diverse and vibrating place to experience, as it will host and merge cultural experiences, galleries, museums, great restaurants, Norway's leading businesses, modern homes and architectural gems; All wrapped in a green environment next to the Oslofjord. It is also expected that many tourists will flock to the area to see and experience the Opera House, the new Munch Museum and Barcode


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Rhett Walker Band is a Christian Alternative-Southern Rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band is composed of Rhett Walker Canipe on vocals, Kenny Davis on drums, Joe Kane on guitar. The band will release their debut studio album under the Essential Records label on July 10, 2012 called Come to the River. The band's debut single "When Mercy Found Me" has achieved placement on many radio stations including K-LOVE, and has charted on a multitude of Christian music charts. ,
Rhett Walker Band frontman Rhett Walker Canipe is a preacher's kid. Walker started his rebellious stage at the age of 16, when his family moved from his hometown, and during that time he used drugs and hung out with the wrong crowd. This would have consequences for Walker because at the age of 17, he got a girl he was with pregnant. They met while at a Christian school that Walker's parents sent him to in order for him to straighten out his life. After this they both committed their lives to Christ, and started living right. This girl would later become his wife, who is named April. Walker loved music, but he could not sing as a youngster that caused him to learn how to play the drums. The band formed in 2011 and consist of Walker and the additions of Kenny Davis, who plays drums, and the guitarist Joe Kane.
The band has released their debut single called "When Mercy Found Me" on April 23, 2012, and it has been steadily rising up the Christian charts. The song has risen all the way to No. 19 on the Hot Christian Songs chart, No. 20 on the Hot Christian AC chart and now at No. 14 on the Christian AC Indicator chart. These chart positions were all for the week of June 25th, 2012. This song was written by Rhett Walker and Jeff Pardo. The song is from the bands' upcoming debut album Come to the River that releases on July 10, 2012 by Essential Records. Walker said they wrote 50 songs while coming up with songs for the record.


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The mainstream media turned a deaf ear to Canada's conservative government as they withdrew support for a United Nations led anti-racism conference on charges that the conference itself is a "a systematic promotion of hatred and bigotry". One Canadian official called the U.N. Durban II conference a "gong show" as Ottawa withdrew all support in protest of the escalating rhetoric against Israel. This of course comes as no surprise considering that the United Nations, in all its limited wisdom, elected Libya to chair the conference, Cuba as the vice chair and named Iran to the organizing committee. (h/t Girl on the Right)
The so-called Durban II conference "has gone completely off the rails" and Canada wants no part of it, said Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity.
"Canada is interested in combatting racism, not promoting it," Mr. Kenney told The Canadian Press. "We'll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance.
"Our considered judgment, having participated in the preparatory meetings, was that we were set for a replay of Durban I. And Canada has no intention of lending its good name and resources to such a systematic promotion of hatred and bigotry."
Not one mainstream media newspaper outlet bothered to cover Canada's walk out with any in depth analysis despite this being an election year where foreign policy in the Middle East, the politics of race and racism and the war against radical Islam are key issues. Instead most outlets deferred to the brief feeds of the AP, Reuters and the AFP to provide scant mention. The New York Times managed to miss the story altogether; feed or otherwise.
Notable events that escaped the scrutiny of the majority of the selectively scrutinizing members of the news media:
- The next two key preparatory meetings have been scheduled on the Jewish holidays of Passover and Yom Kippur. This is a deliberate move by organizers to prevent Israeli officials from participating.
- Iran has been named to the organizing committee despite statements from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that repeatedly calls for the destruction of Israel.
- The U.N. Human Rights Council was created to reform the United Nations Commission on Human Rights yet 14 of it's 15 resolutions charging human-rights violations were against Israel according to statements by Canada.
- The United Nations held its first World Conference Against Racism in Durban way back in 2001. That conference was marred by anti-Semitic bigotry that eventually led the United States Israel to walk out of the conference. Some non-governmental organizations had been reported to have posted pro-Hitler posters yet each of the non-governmental organizations that were invited to the 2001 conference have been invited back to Durban II.
The most complete accounting I could find came from the Canadian Press as found in the Globe and Mail.
The 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban turned into "a circus of intolerance," Mr. Kenney said.
One government official on Wednesday called the conference "a gong show."
Arab and Muslim countries ganged up in their criticisms of Israel. Israel and the United States walked out in protest; the Liberal government of the day remained in an effort to decry the attacks.
With Libya elected to chair the next gathering, Cuba appointed vice-chair and rapporteur, and anti-Israel rhetoric and actions building, Mr. Kenney said his government was left with no choice but to abandon the preparatory process for the followup meeting.
B'nai Brith Canada applauded the government, saying Durban I "degenerated into a hate-fest directed at Israel and the Jewish delegates attending the conference."
The group's executive vice-president, Frank Dimant, said Ottawa has acted "clearly and decisively by refusing to participate in a venue that pays lip service to anti-racism but in fact provides a platform for the promotion of hatred and bigotry."
Mr. Kenney noted important preparatory meetings have been called on Jewish high holidays, preventing Israeli officials from participating.
The UN gave planning oversight for the conference to its Human Rights Council, which has targeted Israel in 14 of its 15 resolutions charging human-rights violations in its first two years of existence.
"We've tried to influence it so that we would not revisit the overt expressions of hatred which came out of the original conference," said Mr. Kenney. "But we unfortunately ran into a brick wall.
"The process has been hijacked by those who would seek to replay the terrible experience of the first Durban conference."
Iran was named to the organizing committee, Mr. Kenney noted.
"This is a country whose government has publicly expressed its desire to eliminate the only Jewish country in the world," he said.
Furthermore, all of the non-governmental organizations invited to the first conference have been invited back to the second, including those that were at the "forefront of the hatred," some of which posted pro-Hitler posters at the 2001 gathering.
The statements by the Canadian government are damning indeed. They come at a time when liberal Democrats are calling for U.S. law to be diluted by international standards. These standards would no doubt be influenced by the same world wide bodies that allow human rights abusers and state sponsors of racism and terrorism to prop up their anti-Semitic views with the legitimacy of world governments behind them. That news is as important today as it should have been in the not so distant past when such actions were ignored to the detriment of millions who died to prevent this from ever happening again.
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In what used to be a scourge mostly confined to the metro area, especially the PSAL and CHSAA, Upstate New York is now seeing an unprecedented exodus of top-shelf hoops talent.
The latest to decide to pack his bags is low-post dynamo Isaiah Stewart. a rising junior who is leaving McQuaid to attend La Lumiere, the La Porte, Ind., boarding school that plays a national schedule with a roster showcasing multiple Division I prospects. Matt Trabold of WHAM-TV was the first to tweet the development early Sunday, and Dan Fetes of WROC-TV reported Stewart will fly to Indiana this morning.
Stewart was 10th-team all-state in Class AA as a sophomore despite not making his season debut until Feb. 1 after suffering a back injury that required surgery. He averaged 20 points and 9.8 rebounds.
The list of upstate underclassmen previously deciding to change addresses this summer includes:
•Cooperstown's Tyler Bertram, the 2017 New York State Sportswriters Association co-player of the year in Class C, and Symir Torrence, who would have been a junior at Syracuse Academy of Science, will enroll at Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vt.
•Jeenathan Williams is leaving University Prep in Rochester to spend his senior year at Prolific Prep in Napa, Calif.
•Bishop Ludden three-year starting point guard Mika Adams-Woods will play next season at New Hampton (N.H.) Prep.
•Buddy Boeheim (Jamesville-DeWitt) will enroll at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire.
•Park School low-post force Joe Jones is transferring to Orangeville Prep in Mono, Ontario.
•And though he's staying in-state, 6-foot-8 Frankie Policelli has traded in his New Hartford jersey for a Long Island Lutheran uniform.
Prominent among the downstate stars who've decided to relocate: Guard James Bouknight, the reigning NYSSWA player of the year in Class B, is leaving LaSalle Academy to attend MacDuffie School in Massachusetts; Tykei Greene from Thomas Edison in Queens is also enrolling at LuHi; and Holy Cross guard Hassan Diarra has picked Putnam Science Academy in Connecticut.
The above recitation doesn't include players who graduated in the spring and are headed to post-graduate stints to raise their profiles before entering college. For instance, Cheektowaga's Dominic Welch (the Section 6 career scoring leader) and Aquinas' Jalen Pickett will both be playing for SPIRE Institute Prep School in Geneva, Ohio.
Wojciechowski 'heartbroken': The Sachem East coach reassigned pending an investigation into the death of one of his football players told Newsday he is "heartbroken by the loss of a fine young man" and accepts the administration's decision to remove him as coach.
Commenting for the first time since the death of Joshua Mileto, 16, on Aug. 10, Mark Wojciechowski said in a statement that he supports the decision to appoint an interim coach while the school district investigates the circumstances surrounding Mileto's death during a conditioning workout.
"I fully understand and accept the district's need to conduct a full and fair investigation," he said. "I support it, and at this time, it makes sense for me to step aside and accept the reassignment to give the school district full
He added: "Since the tragic accident that claimed the life of Josh Mileto, I have been grieving along with everyone else in our terrific community."
Open football dates: While tidying up his master schedule in the aftermath of the decision by Oriskany, Pulaski and Binghamton Seton Catholic to drop 11-man football this fall, Steve Grandin of the NYSSWA has compiled a list of schools that we believe have open dates at the moment:
Week 1 (Sept. 1-2): Roosevelt (Sec. 1), Warrensburg/Bolton (2), Thousand Islands (3), Waterville (3), Notre Dame (4), Bishop Timon-St. Jude (M), Nichols (M).
Week 2 (Sept. 8-9): South Jefferson (3), Westmoreland (3), Bainbridge-Guilford (4), Bishop Kearney (5), Bishop Timon-St. Jude (M), Cardinal Hayes (C), Christ the King (C), Dalton (I), Harvey (I), Long Island Lutheran (I), New York Military (I).
Week 3 (Sept. 15-16): Hoosic Valley (2), General Brown (3), Sauquoit Valley (3), Harpursville/Afton (4), Bishop Kearney (5), St. Mary's (M), New York Military (I).
Week 4 (Sept. 22-23): Helderberg Valley (2), Lowville (3), Morrisville-Eaton/Hamilton (3), Oxford/Gilbertsville-Mount Upton (4), Bishop Timon-St. Jude (M), Nichols (M).
Week 5 (Sept. 29-30): Pawling (1), Granville (2), Beaver River (3), Canastota (3), Watkins Glen/Odessa-Montour (4), Bishop Timon-St. Jude (M), Nichols (M), Nazareth (C), Horace Mann (I), New York Military (I), Poly Prep (I), Rye Country Day (I).
Week 6 (Oct. 6-7): Sidney (4), Nichols (M), St. Dominic (C), Albany Academy (I), Dalton (I), Harvey (I), Long Island Lutheran (I).
Week 7 (Oct. 13-14): Altmar-Parish-Williamstown (3), Mount Markham (3), Greene (4), Dalton (I).
Week 8 (Oct. 20-21): Dobbs Ferry (1), Rye Neck (1), Tuckahoe (1), Woodlands (1), Whitehall (2), Nichols (M), St. Mary's (M), Port Washington (8).
Week 9 (Oct. 27-28): Nichols (M), Port Washington (8), Tupper Lake (10), Xaverian (C).
Week 10 (Nov. 3-4): Nazareth (C), Long Island Lutheran (I).
Appointed: Rich Jacob, who has been the head coach at Daemen, Medaille, Villa Maria and Niagara County Community College, was named the boys basketball coach at Park School. Jacob, 58, inherits a team that went 17-6 under Mike Battaglia, who stepped down this spring.
Jacob had been the associate men's basketball coach at Erie Community College since 2010.
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Bruins Capture Miller Cup For Third Consecutive Year
April 16, 2005
Marina Del Rey, CA - The No.13 Bruins dominated the waters at the 30th annual Miller Cup at Marina Del Rey on April 16th, capturing wins in the varsity eight, second varsity eight, varsity four, and novice eight. The Bruins edged out the competition from Loyola Marymount, San Diego State, University of San Diego, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara to finish the day in top form. After splitting the Miller Cup with LMU last year after a tie in the cup race, the varsity eight fully regained the title.
This is the third consecutive year the Bruins have brought home the Miller Cup, and is their 16th title since 1976. The varsity eight outrowed their competition by over 15 seconds in the grand final, finishing the 1500m course in a time of 4:47.58 against San Diego State (5:08.20) and UC Santa Barbara (5:04.18) for the cup title.
The UCLA varsity eight consisted of Liz Pallas-Jacobs (stroke), Kristin Bixel, Monica Grova, Kelsey Hicks, Erin Haggerty, Jessica Fritz, Elizabeth Lee, Jessica Rogers, Emina Ong (cox).
The second varsity eight, varsity four and novice eight also outrowed their competitors, placing first in each of their preliminary heats, as well as the grand finals. The second varsity eight finished ahead of San Diego State (5:25.42) and the University of San Diego (5:20.28) in the grand final, with a time of 5:08.69. The varsity four defeated San Diego State (6:09.09) and the University of San Diego (5:58.68) in a time of 5:43.46. In the novice eight grand final, the Bruins edged out San Diego State (5:27.5) and the University of San Diego (5:45.8) to finish in a time of 5:25.7.
'It was a great day for the Bruins,' says Head Coach Amy Fuller Kearney. 'We had success in every event, which is always a fun way to end our competitive season at home. It was exciting to see the Bruins ahead in every race, and to bring the Miller Cup back to UCLA.'
For the Bruins, the Miller Cup marked the last home race of the season, and the last home race for eight seniors.
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Many people consuming RDA levels of vitamins are likely to suffer from deficiency disease and premature death. Current official recommendations for nutrient intakes are inappropriate. As this book demonstrates, the Recommended Dietary Intake (RDA) for vitamin C owes more to politics and prejudice than to science. Furthermore, the research behind the RDA values for vitamin C is biased and insubstantial. This book presents an open challenge to the government "experts", who support the out-of-date RDA approach to nutrition and thereby endanger the health of the entire population. Non-printable online version. A printed version of this book is also available ($14.99). For people who value the peer review process, this book was read by thousands, including doctors and scientists. The readers reported no significant scientific errors. The RDA for vitamin C is both invalid and indefensible.
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The place was the world's capital, Rome. The occasion was the great fire of 64 A.D., a fire set by the Emperor Nero himself. To divert suspicion from himself, Nero brought the charge of arson against the Christians.
The charge seemed plausible, for the people were suspicious of Christians and imagined them guilty of many secret crimes. The accusation of arson, we are told by the pagan historian Tacitus (Annals 15,41), was unproved, but a "vast multitude" were convicted on a vaguer charge of "hatred of the human race".
Tacitus continues , "And they were put to death with insults , either dressed in the skins of beasts, to perish by the worrying of dogs, or else put on crosses to be set on fire when daylight failed, for use as light by night. Nero had thrown open his gardens for that spectacle, and mingled with the people in jockey's dress, or driving a chariot."
Here we see the sufferings of Christ repeated - the false charge, the hatred of the crowd, the mockery, and the cruel death. Another historian, Suetonius, tells us that among new laws enacted by Nero was one which inflicted punishment on the Christians, a people described as "given to a new and mischievous superstition" (Life of Nero 16, 2). In the period from Nero to Diocletian (64-313 A.D.), historians counted ten persecutions. To be a Christian was a crime which could launch a persecution at any unexpected moment. The ultimate aim was to destroy the Christian faith completely. But that effort was frustrated by the zeal of the Christians, and by their surprising readiness to suffer and die for their faith.
No one better describes that frustration than the Roman lawyer Tertullian, converted in Carthage, who turned the sharpness of his wit to defend the Christians and taunt their adversaries. The pagans, he says, have their own heroes, men willing to die for their country. But if a Christian is willing to suffer for God, he is called a fool! "But go to it, my good magistrates! The populace will count you a great deal better if you sacrifice the Christians to them. Torture us, rack us, condemn us, crush us; your cruelty only proves our innocence. That is why God suffers us to suffer all this. But nothing whatever is accomplished by your cruelties, each more exquisite than the last. It is the bait that wins men for our school. We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed . . That very obstinacy with which you taunt us is your teacher. For who beholds it and is not stirred to inquire what lies indeed within it? Who, on inquiry, does not join us, and joining us, does not wish to suffer, that he may purchase for himself the whole grace of God." (Tertullian, Apology 50, 12-15).
Thus did the early Christians follow in the footsteps of all those godly men of biblical times.
Solomon, the wise king, said, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction: For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth" (Proverbs 3:11-12).
The words of Solomon are repeated in Hebrews (12:5-11), with the added encouragement: "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby".
And to the Roman Christians Paul writes: "We glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope" (Romans 5:3-4).
Christians are also exhorted to emulate the achievements of the heroes of faith. A catalog of such heroes is presented in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the most famous names of Hebrew history. Some were mighty in battle, others died under torture. Some were mocked, scourged and imprisoned; some stoned to death or sawn asunder.
"Wherefore," the exhortation continues, "seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:1-2).
With unquestioned confidence in Christ, his followers were gladly ready to follow in his steps. Peter encourages them: "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange things happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you; on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part is he glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf' (I Peter 4:12-16).
Early Christians considered persecution a joyous privilege because in persecution, they saw the providence of a loving Father who did all things well (Philippians 1:29). God allowed persecution to fall on both Old and New Testament saints as a part of his discipline designed for their spiritual growth in righteousness and holiness(Hebrews 10:32-34).
God has told us clearly that we must suffer persecutions as followers of Christ (John 15:20), but the Christian sees in such sufferings God's appointed means of testing faith, purifying character and developing humility and compassion. "What happens in us is much more important than what happens to us."
Therefore "we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope" Romans 5:3-4. Peter, writing during a time of fiery persecution, declares that these trials test the genuineness or real character of our faith (I Peter 1:6-7). Though persecutions within themselves do not make heroes or cowards, they do reveal the strength or weakness of our faith just as winter reveals which trees are evergreen.
Because Jesus endured temptations, the gainsaying of sinners and finally the cross, we are assured that he is compassionate and sympathetic with us (Hebrews 2:18). In like manner, persecution helps us to grow in ability to sympathize with others. Persecutions serve also to increase our dependence and trust in God because when we are most conscious of our weaknesses and needs, then his all-sufficient grace more abundantly rests upon us (II Corinthians 12:10-11
Therefore, we need to understand that the so-called "dark days of persecution" may in reality be the time when the light of faith and trust glows brightest and when holiness and mercy are most radiant. Never was the church more free, more holy, never stronger nor more extensive in its outward and inward growth than at the times when it was counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name of Christ!


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You can see where this stitch got it's name, can't you? It looks like a basket! Basically, it is just a simple herringbone stitch with the top and bottom Vs meeting. It has some fun possibilities though. I hope you will enjoy it if you decide to give it a try.
I decided to use my sample to make a basket motif and here is what I came up with.


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ALERT Advancement—Unit 63
May 15Free – $8
From the moment R-night begins, every recruit looks forward to Advancement Day. There is no other day so anticipated by ALERT men and their parents. From the skills demonstration early in the afternoon, where the men exhibit the capabilities they have acquired, to the moment they reunite with their families after nine challenging weeks, Advancement is an opportunity to commemorate what the men have accomplished in the power of God's might.
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM – Registration, Field House Gym: Housing, Name Tags, and Meal Tickets
10:30 AM – Optional Brunch – Dining Hall
11:30 AM – ALERT Preview Day Meeting*
1:00 PM – Phase Two Training Options Overview (Field House Gym)
1:30 PM – Skills Demonstration (Sports Field)
2:00 PM – Drill and Ceremony Review (Sports Field)
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Anyway, here's what I hope to accomplish in March.
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Organize and print digital photos. Is this not the worst thing ever? I have all my photos on Google Photos, but I'd like to organize them within that, so that I can easily create photo albums. I'd also like to get some of our family photos printed and hung up in our house (imagine that!). I've had this as a goal for the last several months, I'm hoping the luck of the Irish is with me this time...
Get back into a routine that works for me. Before Violet was born, I had a pretty good blogging schedule and system going. I don't want to set unrealistic expectations for myself, and I'm also okay with not having a strict schedule to follow. However, I'd like to at least get back to planning ahead on my editorial calendar, and scheduling out a few posts ahead of time if possible. Additionally, I want to get back to joining in linkups and reading and commenting on more blogs when I can.
Try two new breakfast recipes and one new salad recipe. I mentioned in my Currently post Wednesday that I'm in a breakfast rut once again, so I'm hoping to find some inspiration on my "breakfast" Pinterest board. Additionally, I need more vegetables in my life, but since I'm the only salad eater at my house I rarely make them. However, I love salad, so I'm thinking if I could prep ahead it would be the perfect thing to take to work for lunch.
What are your goals this month?
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(EnergyAsia, July 1 2014, Tuesday) — Puma Energy, one of the world's largest independent midstream and downstream companies, has acquired InterOil Corp's oil refining and fuels marketing businesses in Papua New Guinea for US$525.6 million, the two companies have announced.
With the takeover of InterOil's 28,000 b/d refinery in Port Moresby, a network of 52 retail service stations fuel terminals, 30 fuel depots and aviation facilities, Puma Energy said it will become Papua New Guinea's main fuels supplier.
The Singapore-based firm said it plans to use its extensive experience in fuel storage, distribution and refining to link the Papua New Guinea fuel market with its global operations. It said it plans to retain InterOil staff and manage operations locally.
Puma Energy said it will fund the acquisition from its existing bank facilities and available cash on balance sheet.
CEO Pierre Eladari said: "We have been impressed by InterOil's business, its strategic asset base, its customer portfolio and the quality of its management and people. There are many parallels between our global businesses and that of InterOil's – in particular the importance of expertise in logistics, guaranteeing the reliable and secure supply of high quality fuels to our customers.
"We believe strongly in Papua New Guinea and its future growth prospects, and see many opportunities for continued investment in infrastructure and in the skills of our employees to build upon the historic success of InterOil's business, and to position PNG as a strategic hub within our regional portfolio. This investment marks an important step in the execution of our regional strategy and offers considerable synergy with our developments in Australia and the broader Pacific region."
InterOil said the sale, which followed an unsolicited approach from Puma Energy, will enable it to focus on its upstream and liquefied natural gas (LNG) businesses.
InterOil's chief operating officer Jon Ozturgut said:
"For the past 10 years, the refinery and distribution businesses have contributed to InterOil's business model and Papua New Guinea's development.
"However, our upstream and LNG business has become core to the company's growth and, as a result of the success we have had in discovering and monetising gas, the time is right to focus on this part of our business. The transaction immediately provides additional capital to fund our upstream and LNG


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"We agonize over what we don't have, dogs appreciate what they do have."
That's the way one owner of a blind dog summed up his pet's remarkable ability to function without eyesight.
In this ease, the dog-a Basset Hound-lost both eyes to glaucoma when he was 6 years old. With real-looking prosthetic eyes in place, most people he encounters
don't believe Nestor (at right)is totally blind
. "He can see a little, can't he?" is the usual reaction when strangers are warned not to startle
him. Contributing to the misconception is that this dog, when spoken to, looks up into the face of the speaker. The glass eyes, darkened to normal color,
add to the illusion that he can see.
Nestor's ability to cope with blindness is not unusual for a dog. But the owners of many a dog on the verge of sightlessness think their pet's quality
of life is over and the kindest option is euthanasia.
Not so, insist the experts as well as those who have adjusted to living with a "disabled" pet.Ears Looking at You: Although his eyes are not real, most people believe that Nestor (above) is gazing into their faces."Dogs
don't drive, read, write, or work, so their lit really don't change if they can't see," says Michael Ringle, DVM, a veterinary ophthalmologist associated
with New Jersey's Red Bank Veterinary Hospital. "Their keen senses of smell and hearing help them compensate and they can have a good quality of life.
Blind people are productive; so are blind dogs."
Sore Eyes
Ringle says that many of his patients surprise their owners, who are expecting the worst. "An overwhelming number of clients come back and tell me I was
right . Their dogs are playing, they're happy, and they're leading normal lives."
The most important thing: "Don't change their environment. Keep their food and water dishes in the same place keep everything as constant as possible."
Gasserian D. Aguirre, professor of genetics and ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees.
"Dogs with vision problems do just fine," he says, explaining that the real issue is pain. If the pet has a painful ailment that cannot be controlled with
medication, removal of the eye is the only option. Among the painful conditions are intra-ocular infections, tumors, and ulcers, as well as glaucoma.
Aguirre runs Penn's Inherited Eye Disease clinic. He made headlines in 2001 when he was first to use gene therapy to restore vision in Briards blinded
by a rare retinal disorder.
Cataracts need not be surgically treated, both veterinarians agree.
"If a dog is a good candidate for surgery, I'll recommend it," says Ringle. Neither is likely to go that route with a senior dog.
Of course, Agony concedes, finances can be an issue with a per owner facing a large surgery bill. For cosmetic reasons, many owners choose to have prosthetic
eyes implanted, a more costly procedure and one that requires a specialist. If the eyes need to be removed, the less-expensive option is to have the
lids sewn shut.
Don't Move the Furniture
Early detection is a key to possible treatment, Ringle emphasizes. "It's not normal for a dog to walk into walls. If that happens, don't wait to seek attention."
Both veterinarians recommend Caroline D. Levin's Living With Blind Dogs: A Resource Book and Training Guide for the Owners of Blind and Low Vision Dogs
(Lantern Publications, 2004). This manual contains a wide spectrum of tips for helping dogs and owners adjust.
Levin recommends teaching a vocabulary of commands that can play an important role in helping sightless dogs navigate. The commands up, curb, climb, or
step can signal that the dog needs to step up a curb or climb a flight of stairs, with words like descend or drop to signal to step down.
She also suggests capitalizing on the exquisite canine sense of smell to help blind dogs make sense of their surroundings. Levin says that scent marking,
using several different kinds of perfume, can help dogs maintain mental maps of their living space.
There are countless stories of blind dog successes, including Isobel, a Siberian Husky in Churchill, Manitoba. Totally blind, she relies on other senses
to continue in her work as a sled dog taking tourists to see the region's famous polar bears.
One of the most famous blind dogs is Norman, a yellow Labrador Retriever who graced the cover of People magazine after he rescued a teenage girl. Levin
cites his story as a prime example of how a dog can use other senses to compensate for loss of vision.
In August 1996, Norman, who had lost his sight due to progressive retinal atrophy (PRA), a generic condition in which retinal cells degenerate, was running
on the beach along the Necanicum River, in Oregon, when he suddenly leaped into the water. His owner, Annerre McDonald, didn't realize what he was
up to, until she heard faint cries for help. A 14-year-old, Lisa Nibley, had fallen into the rushing waters and was drowning. Although sightless, Norman
used his sense of hearing to find her. The blind dog dragged her to shore, saving her life.
Brighter Future
Cataracts are one of the major causes of blindness in dogs and humans. Scientists are probing the generic causes in breeds that have a tendency to develop
the condition, with hopes of developing a DNA rest that will help breeders eliminate cataracts from their pedigrees.
Bancha, a cattle-dog mix, was picked up off the street at about 6 months of age, and ended up living in a shelter. Her potential for finding a new home
worsened when she began losing her sight, probably from cataracts, at about 9 years old.
Bancha's future seemed as dim as her vision, until an animal lover from New Jersey, Karen Quigley, took the time to get to know her. Soon she was on her
way to her first real home. Quigley was surprised by how
the dog rapidly adapted to her surroundings, using her sense of smell and her smarts to learn her way around. The other dogs in the household accepted
this newcomer without incident.
When she arrived I walked her through the house, and after that I just never moved anything," Quigley said.
While Quigley thought she would give Bancha a home for a couple of years — she was already 11-Bancha had other ideas. She lived to be 19.
In harness, dashing down a snow-covered path, Isobel looks like just another member of the Bluesky Expeditions (blueskymush.com) dog team that takes tourists to the polar bears in the wilds around Churchill, Manitoba.
It's hard to. believe that she can't see a thing.
"Isobel went blind almost four years ago," says Jenafor Ollander who, with Gerald Azure, runs the Bluesky team. Ollander was certain Isobel's working days were over, and brought her home to be a pet. But Isobel would have nothing of it. She stopped eating an drinking. The Ollander and Azure brought another dog, Thunder, tin to the house. Isabel perked right up. "I said to Gerald, That dog misses other dogs,' "Ollander recalls.
They took Isabel back to the dog area, where she immediately started to eat and drink. Then, because the dog went so wild when the team got into harness, Ollander hooked her up as well. Isabel has been pulling the sled ever since.
"She goes by sound, feel, touch, and smell," says 0llander. 'She's turned out to be our strongest team member. We've made our weakest link into our strongest one."Testing
Glaucoma is another common cause of blindness in dogs, usually undetectable until it's too late for corrective surgery. A tendency to develop it appears
to be inherited in several breeds, including Bouviers des Flandres, Dandie Domineer Terriers, Welsh Terriers, and Basset Hounds, but it strikes all
kinds of dogs, purebreds and mixes alike.
Meghan, a Basset Hound, was diagnosed with glaucoma in one eye. The eye was removed, and the dog went into a temporary home to recover. As often happens,
the family fell in love with this very personable girl and considered keeping her. Their plans went awry when the other eye failed and had to be removed,
"I don't think we can live with a totally blind dog," was the first reaction. Nevertheless, Meghan's temporary home became a permanent one.
Shortly after that, she accompanied her multi-dog family to their summer-vacation home. A neighbor told them they were crazy.
"Why are you keeping a blind dog?" the neighbor asked. By the time the vacation ended, the same neighbor had done an about-face. She approached Meghan's
owners. "If you don't want her, we'll be happy to take her," she said.
Meghan lived a long life, spending many happy hours in the yard listening for the sound of apples falling from the trees and running to retrieve them.
Blind? You'd never know it.
Pearl was another Basset who was blind from glaucoma. After seeing her picture on a rescue group's web site, a young woman called to inquire about her.
Admittedly, her physician husband was less enthusiastic but agreed to meet Pearl. Within minutes, Pearl's engaging personality and ability to function
won him over.
Pearl became a fixture in schools, meeting with young children and reaching them it's OK to be less than perfect. When Pearl died, this couple opened their
home to another sightless Basset Hound.
Leaping Over
Among the "spokesdogs" for Maryland-based Pets With Disabilities are two blind Collies, Lady and Emma, owned by volunteer Virginia Johnson.
Lady lost her vision as a puppy from retinal detachment. Her sire and dam had been tested prior to the breeding but, like most tests, it was less than
perfect. Blindness has not deterred Lady from leading an active, fun-filled life.
Now 10, Lady not only does therapy work and makes appearances for Pets With Disabilities (petswithdisabilities.org).
Originally afraid to walk up stairs, Lady now practices agility, in which dogs jump, scale an A-frame, and go through tunnels, among other feats.
How can a sightless dog accomplish this? By using her acute sense of hearing and focusing on her owner-handler, Johnson explains.
"I tap the obstacle and give her the command," she says. The hardest one is the jump, but by walking Lady up to it rather than running her, Johnson is
able to tap the jump and over the dog goes.
Later, Johnson adopted 6-month-old Emma with no reservations because she had already had learned from Lady that living with a blind dog was not so difficult.
Sue Schrock discovered this when her miniature Poodle began to lose his sight. "At first it was night blindness, but then he gradually began bumping into
things in daylight. Our veterinarian referred us to the university, where he was diagnosed with PRA."
PRA results in total blindness and is untreatable. The veterinarian's sage advice:
"Take him home and don't move the furniture."
The Schrocks did just that. Despite a double whammy-blindness and epilepsy-Minoche (French for "brat") lived happily ever after, to the ripe old age of
All of these clogs had three things in common: loss of sight, owners who gave them a chance, and long, happy lives.


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***I had the opportunity to study international public relations in the cultural hub of London. Below are my notes from a tour of Edelman.
Edelman : Largest, independently owned PR firm with great room to grow and practitioners of diverse backgrounds. They assess the different skills the practitioners have and give them job positions based on that. Many of their clients are global (XBox, Microsoft). To be part of the team after college, you can apply for the Graduate Scheme where you spend one month in each department to find your niche. At the end, you rank the departments you worked in. The process includes an online application, phone interview, an assessment day in London with a presentation, one on one interview, group test and interview test. Corporate employers can learn by having good judgment, learning quickly and observing those around you.
Reputation Management
Everyone has a personal brand which is broadcasted on a multiplicity of networks. Marketing tools means utilizing the entire scope of media in order for your message to be heard.
Reputation specialties for the UK Government they have worked on-
♦ Public Affairs
♦General Elections every 5 years
♦Parliament- House of Commons/ House of Lords
Tips for aspiring PR Professional?
Strategic networking is the stepping stone to jumpstarting a career. The global economy is competing with each other. Try to learn new languages and be mindful on customs.


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I'm yet another work experience student and yet another Daniel. In the summer of 2014 I was tasked with creating a student's introduction to Verilog. This summer I worked with the skills previously learnt and was tasked with creating a simple processor with Verilog, with the specification of AAP.
Peter Bennett (my partner in crime for this project) and I had almost no clue how to go about making a processor. If you imagine people making processors, you picture some super-intelligent university graduates in rooms with chalkboards floor to ceiling, and we were merely two teenagers finishing GCSEs in a room with just the one whiteboard — which we made the most of, producing our schematic.
We learnt about the different architectures of processors and AAP follows the Harvard architecture, as the memories are separate. This is normally seen as a dastardly thing as it makes lives harder. However, it seemed very logical and approachable for someone who has never played around with processors before.
We were mentored in part by James Pallister. So during the summer we took a trip up to Bristol to visit him at the University of Bristol's Department of Computer Science, located at the Merchant Venturers building. He helped us a lot during this short expedition from the South Coast, to fix our code and to clarify design points.
Peter and I had nearly finished implementing the instruction set when Peter went off sailing, so I finished the rest of the processor on my own for the final few weeks of summer. The completed application note is now available:
I've taken lots away from this experience: I learnt to manage my time, improved my Verilog skills, improved my whiteboard drawing dexterity and enjoyed visiting CERN to assist in a talk on AAP.
I am now undertaking AS-Levels at sixth form. Also I am now working towards my silver duke of Edinburgh award, as part of this I will be volunteering locally by hosting Shrimping workshops.


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We offer a variety of cooking classes in San Sebastian, suited to any and all levels of culinary expertise. The classes are taught by our wonderful and experienced chef, and you're sure to learn a lot of new tricks to impress your friends and family at home. The classes are a great hands-on way to really dig into the local culture.
The Classic Cooking Class features pintxos and traditional Basque dishes with modern touches. You'll then enjoy the fruits of your labor with wine and good conversation.
It starts with a guided tour of the food markets, visits to a couple of the city's gourmet shops and continues in our new culinary studio overlooking one of the most emblematic streets of the old part of San Sebastian.
Here your private chef will show you how to prepare some of the most emblematic Pintxos as well as some useful cooking tips, you will get to taste what you prepare and enjoy a sit down meal with good conversation and company together with some local Basque wine!
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If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.
There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below
It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.
Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.
Travel Health Questionnaire
To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill and print out the form. This should be brought down to the surgery where an initial telephone appointment will be made with the Travel Nurse.
Please note questionnaire must be submitted 6 weeks prior to date of travel
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If you are travelling to Europe a very useful booklet has been published with advice and guidance to help you get the most out of your holiday. To visit please click:- http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/86/en.pdf (this is a large document and may take a minute or two to view)
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It is so exciting, the brand new Spring/Summer Catalogue came out yesterday and on top of that Saleabration has begun! Such an exciting time of year for us Demonstrators and for papercrafters everywhere! Why am I so excited, well let me try to explain lol without choking on my excitement! lol
The new Spring/Summer Catalogue has soooo many gorgeous new products, I had alot of trouble trying to choose just a couple to show you. As a Demonstrator I have had about a month before the launch of the new catalogue to have a play and I can tell you I have had so much fun, my hubby has been coming into my craft room and saying 'you coming to bed yet!' lol
So here's a couple of projects I've made hope you like them.
The first one is with In The Meadow Stamp Set and it's the Spotlight Technique
The next one is using Birthday Blooms Stamp Set and this time I did the Watercolour Technique using an Aquapainter and Reinkers
Finally, my last one to show you used Party Wishes Stamp Set along with the Party Punch Pack and it's a Side Stepped Card
I am sure you will love the New Spring/Summer Catalogue and there is never a better time to get your hands on some of the products. Why you say lol, because it's SALEABRATION of course! lol
From 5 January through to 31 March for every £45 you spend on not just products from the Spring/Summer Catalogue but from the Annual Catalogue too, you can choose one of the fantastic products from the Saleabrations (SAB) Catalogue absolutely FREE! I can tell you I have them all, yep all of them and I LOVE THEM ALL! lol
Why not Join Stampin'Up! and me and my Team? It's a great deal for joining at the moment.
Or host a party and get more Stampin' Rewards to spend on Products.
So, if you like what you see and want to know more, please get in touch.


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Current Time and Space artist-in-residence Beverley Bennett curates an evening of short films looking at the experiences of women of colour.
Including 'A Tribute To Black Women, They Don't Get a Chance' and her own film 'Amine', among others.
'F Word' (2016) dir. Savanna Leaf
F Word is a self-funded, short-film reflecting on the feelings of a young adult addressing her biological father who abandoned her. Taking us on a journey across South London, we're shown the affects of a distant father on a receptive, young woman as she confronts seemingly inescapable and uncontrollable conflicts in an honest portrayal of self-discovery.
'Cedar Wood and Silk' (1995) dir. Jillian Li-Sue
"There are some things that mothers and daughters share, but there are also many secrets that they keep." Cedar Wood & Silk is about handing things down from one generation to another. It's about the perspectives Jamaican mothers have of their British-born daughters and vice versa and the battles they have with clothes. Fashion has a lot to answer for.
'A Tribute to Black Women, (They Don't Get a Chance)' (1986) dir. A.Carney, B. Phillips
'How many famous Black women can you name who aren't either sportswomen or entertainers' Mostly the folks of Liverpool draw a blank – making the point that too little is known or taught about Black women. Using lively vox pops and interviews, the tape investigates why this is so, pointing to inadequate media representation and bias in the education system which Black women have to overcome to uncover their own history. By focusing on the careers of two women seldom mentioned in school history books – Harriet Tubman and Mary Seacole – the film begins to redress the balance.
'Dreaming Rivers' (1988) dir. Martine Attille
A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the Caribbean, lives alone in her one-room apartment, her children and husband having left her to pursue new dreams. When she dies her family and friends gather at her wake. The tapestry of words that interweave the drama convey the fragments of a life lived, but only partly remembered.
'Amine' (2017) dir. Beverley Bennett
A tapestry of voices reveals the multi-faceted complexities and experiences of what it is to be a black woman in the UK today.


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From: Prem Khanna J [mailto:premj_at_rediffmail.com] Sent: Mon 7/5/2004 4:16 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Cc: Subject: OT - How to run java concurrent program in APPS envJared and All, Excuse me for this OT question :| the env is oracle 11.5.9 / oracle DB 18.104.22.168 / AIX5.2L
I am trying to run a java concurrent program. i.e.,2 java classes (A and B), A.class calling B.class
if B.class is in the same dir as A.class,it works fine. Whereas if make B.class as B.jar in the same dir,then i get
"java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle.apps.hippy.B"
i have included my jar file in CLASSPATH and AF_CLASSPATH env variables.but still i get the above error
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The majority of works in the art collection of the NSLM are by British or American artists. However, we also have some excellent examples by continental European artists. Our only painting by a Dutch artist also happens to be one of the oldest paintings in the collection.
Portrait of a Horse in a Landscape was painted by Abraham van Calraet (Dutch, 1642–1722) around 1690. Calraet was from the city of Dordrecht, in the southwest region of The Netherlands. He lived and worked during the later half of the great Dutch "Golden Age," a time of amazing artistic production, when artists like Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals, and Judith Leyster flourished. Calraet painted still lifes, landscapes, and small horse portraits, or "Pferdeporträts," which were increasingly popular in the late-17th century. He likely studied with another Dordrecht painter, the more well-known Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620-1691). Both artists often signed their works with their initials "A.C.", which led to some confusion. For many years – centuries, actually – works by Calraet were attributed to Cuyp. In many instances, Cuyp's signature was falsely added to the paintings. It wasn't until the early-20th century that scholars started identifying which of those works were actually by Calraet.
The dark bay horse in the NSLM painting has a broad chest, substantial build, and a kind eye. He is shown standing in a field with no tack and no humans to be seen, though he is shod and clearly well cared for. Most of the background is made up of sky and clouds. The landscape below features a small group of cows lounging near the river bank (a common scene in Dutch paintings of this time period). The modestly sized oil painting is on wood panel, rather than canvas.
It is not known whether the painting was commissioned by the owner of the horse, or if the artist chose the subject because it would sell well on the open market. But we do know that the exact same dark bay horse appears in another Calraet painting from the same time period.
Here the dark bay has been joined by a chestnut friend, and a more typical Dutch landscape (with a meadow and windmills) is shown in the background.
Another Calraet work which bears similarities to our painting is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Like the NSLM piece, this painting is also on wood panel, and a lone horse is the focus. While this horse is a paint, the conformation and sweet expression are very similar to our dark bay. The background is much darker, and the foreground here shows barnyard supplies – a 17th century saddle and tack, a curry comb and brush, a bucket, and a clog shoe. All three of these paintings include a feature the artist and his contemporaries often incorporated into compositions – the tree or tree stump in the very near foreground.
The NSLM's Calraet horse is quite well traveled (those Dutch warmbloods are such jet setters). During its lifetime, the painting has been included in exhibitions in London, Dordrecht, Paris, Birmingham, Alabama, New Orleans, and Baltimore, Maryland. In 2008, the work came to stay at its new home here at the NSLM, when it was generously donated by Mrs. Henry H. Weldon.
Portrait of a Horse in a Landscape is currently on view in the permanent collection galleries of the Museum. Stop by and meet him soon!


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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Morning view~Nature Notes~032212
Posted by desertsandbeyond at 5:48 AM
Labels: morning view
4 comments:
- Teresa said...
I see that cottontail...great find. Love this picture. So pretty. I love first morning light.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:16 AM
- Gaelyn said...
Nice shot.
Had a couple of cottontails in my snowy yard last weekend.
- March 22, 2012 at 12:58 PM
- Rambling Woods said...
I enlarged the photo to see it better and sure enough..there was the rabbit...Hope the storm isn't too bad..it is like summer here in western NY...Michelle
- March 22, 2012 at 5:40 PM
- Spare Parts and Pics said...
Wonderful photo... the long shadows and colors are so great! We were in Joshua Tree last weekend, so I got some good fog and low cloud shots.
- March 22, 2012 at 11:00 PM
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