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Bloom's Butterfly Garden Basics - http://copland.udel.edu/~lynneb/butterfly/
A butterfly garden planned and built by Thurgood Marshall Elementary School. Copy of plans, plants used and butterfly basics.
Butterflies and Butterfly Gardening in West Virginia - http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/wildlife/butterfl.htm
Information on hibernation boxes, host plants, food and habitat.
Butterfly and Bird Gardening - http://www.floridaplants.com/gard_butterfl.htm
Information on plants and shrubs specific to Florida to attract wildlife.
Butterfly Garden Plant List - http://garden-gate.prairienet.org/bflyplnt.txt
Names, colors, and sizes of plants used in a butterfly garden in Illinois, USA.
Butterfly Gardeners' Quarterly - http://butterflygardeners.com/
Newsletter for gardeners and butterfly enthusiasts.
Butterfly Gardening - http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1701.htm
Factsheet from Clemson University on designing a home garden to attract butterflies. Includes lists of nectar and larval food plants.
Butterfly Gardening - http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/en/info_verte/papillons/papillons.htm
Tips from the Montreal Botanical Garden's Green Pages on how to make a garden that will attract butterfiles. Advice on planning the garden and choosing plants.
Butterfly Gardening and Conservation - http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/insects/butterf/
Photographs, diagrams, and types of butterflies. Focuses on butterflies most commonly found in Missouri.
Butterfly Gardening and Conservation - http://www.butterflygardeningandconservation.com
Information about many species of butterflies, including their life cycle, and the plants you can grow to attract them.
Butterfly Gardening for Ninnies and the Horticulturally Challenged - http://users.htcomp.net/weis/butterflygarden.html
Xeriscaping with easy-grow, drought-tolerant plants that attract butterflies.
Butterfly Zone - http://www.butterflies.com/garden.htm
Reasons to start a butterfly garden, and information about host and nectar plants.
Christina Mild's Rio Delta Wild - http://www.riodeltawild.com/
Articles about plants native to southernmost Texas, including notes on their use by butterflies.
Flying Flowers - http://melanys.tripod.com/
Butterfly gardening in Florida. Lists of garden plants and how to grow them, information on butterflies and how to attract them, and how to raise caterpillars and butterflies.
Gardening for Butterflies - http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/APOL14/jun99-1.html
Detailed article with photos, butterfly checklist, and list of plants useful to Australian butterfly gardeners.
How to Make a Butterfly Garden - http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef006.htm
Instructions and pictures of correct plants, placement, preferred colors and butterfly anatomy.
Kingston Field Naturalists - http://kingstonfieldnaturalists.org/
A non-profit charitable organization, is to stimulate public interest in nature, the protection and preservation of wildlife, and to acquire and provide knowledge of natural history.
Marinduque Butterfly Culture - http://www.geocities.com/marl_insect/
Information about live butterfly and pupae and educational tips about butterfly gardenning.
Milkweed Cafe - http://www.milkweedcafe.com/
Offers informational books about raising, celebrating with and gardening for butterflies,as well as raising kits and gifts.
Milkweed Cafe's Butterfly Garden - http://www.milkweedcafe.com/bflygarden.html
Favorite host and nectar plants, and information on puddling, basking and shelter.
Milkweed Farm - http://www.MilkweedFarm.com/
Guide to growing milkweed and raising Monarchs. Asclepias seed catalog.
Monarch Watch : Butterfly Gardening - http://www.monarchwatch.org/garden/index.htm
Host plants and gardening tips to attract the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.
Neb Guide to Butterfly Gardening - http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/Horticulture/g1183.htm
Sections on butterfly anatomy and life cycle, commonly attracted butterflies in Nebraska, attracting butterflies, a list of plants to attract butterflies and additional reading.
Plants for Attracting Butterflies in Central North Carolina - http://www.carolinanature.com/plants4leps.html
Notes on over 60 plants that attract butterflies and do well in the Piedmont of NC, with a list of local sources.
Smithsonian Butterfly Habitat Garden - http://www.gardens.si.edu/horticulture/gardens/nmnh/butterfly.html
Garden in Washington, D.C., with lists of host plants, tips and articles.
The Butterfly Garden - http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/butterfly/
Active forum provided by gardenweb.com. Ask questions, give answers.
The Butterfly Site- Butterfly Gardening Articles - http://www.thebutterflysite.com/gardening.shtml
Articles on butterfly gardens, plants, and attracting butterflies to your garden.
WHS Butterfly Farm - http://www.marinduque-butterfly.com
Supplier of live butterflies and pupa, dried and framed butterflies from Marinduque, Philippines.
Butterfly Gardening - http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/en/info_verte/papillons/papillons.htm
Tips from the Montreal Botanical Garden's Green Pages on how to make a garden that will attract butterfiles. Advice on planning the garden and choosing plants.
Butterfly Gardening and Conservation - http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/insects/butterf/
Photographs, diagrams, and types of butterflies. Focuses on butterflies most commonly found in Missouri.
Monarch Watch : Butterfly Gardening - http://www.monarchwatch.org/garden/
Host plants and gardening tips to attract butterflies. Includes a list of plants that are good for particular species.
All About Butterflies - http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/butterflies/allabout/
A comprehensive on-line book about butterflies.
Animal Facts: The Monarch Butterfly - http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_butterfly.htm
Offers facts, photos, drawings, links, and a free printable coloring page.
Beal School's Exploring Butterflies in Kindergarten - http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/beal/curriculum/butterfly/butterflies.html
An up-close look at the bodies and life cycles of butterflies. Includes photos, drawings, scientific terms with definitions, and students' reflections.
Butterflies - http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/butterflies.html
Basic information about all types of butterflies; includes information about the life span and life cycle of butterflies.
Butterflies Along Alaska's Hiking Trails - http://www.turtlepuddle.org/alaskan/ak_butterflies.html
Photos and information about Alaskan butterflies by Mary Hopson.
Butterflies and Moths - http://www.arandaps.act.edu.au/environment/activity/humus/buttrfly/biology.htm
Contains brief information about these creatures and lists some common foods that several species of them eat.
Butterflies at the Field Museum - http://www.fieldmuseum.org/butterfly/
Explains the basic characteristics of butterflies, tells about their habitats, and shows photos from the museum's collection.
Butterflies North and South - http://www.museevirtuel.ca/Exhibitions/Butterflies/
Photos of butterflies from Canada and Peru, basic facts about butterflies, information about butterfly conservation and tips for creating butterfly gardens in 4 specific regions of Canada. Includes some games and educational activities.
Butterflies of North America - http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm
A comprehensive list of butterflies that are commonly found in North America.
Gypsy Moth in North America - http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/morgantown/4557/gmoth/
History of introduction of the gypsy moth to New England, maps showing current locations, photos of the life cycle.
Jack Hulland Elementary - Butterflies On-Line - http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/jackhulland/projects/butterflies/
Watch an on-line metamorphosis and learn about the life-cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly. Developed by Yukon Grade three classes complete with activities and teacher resources.
Mighty Morphing Monarchs - http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/cycle/morphing.htmlx
View interesting facts about the life cycle of a monarch.
Monarch Conservation - http://whyfiles.org/083isotope/index.html
A new way of tracking Monarch migration through isotopes, and a theory that Monarchs make their way to overwintering grounds by finding the thermals.
Monarch Watch - http://www.monarchwatch.org/
Dedicated to education, conservation, and research of the Monarch butterfly, features information about the life cycle, gardening instructions, migration and tagging, and curriculum guides.
Monarchs and Migration - http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/
Lists ways kids can investigate butterflies. Also includes photos and stories. From the Science Museum of Minnesota.
New Zealand Butterflies - http://www.newzealandbutterflies.org.nz
Offers biology background of butterflies, gifts, watching guidelines, and types of butterflies found in New Zealand.
The Butterfly Site - http://www.thebutterflysite.com/
Includes information on gardening, biology, breeding, and conservation. Also provides fun facts, activities, and pictures.
The Butterfly Website - http://butterflywebsite.com/
Extensive collection of butterfly information, including an atlas of butterflies, locations of butterfly gardens and houses, a photo gallery, stories, and information about obtaining grants to make a butterfly garden at your school.
The Children's Butterfly Site - http://mpin.nbii.gov/insects/kidsbutterfly/
Kids can learn all about butterflies and moths at this site. It includes a coloring page with the life cycle of the Monarch, and a gallery of pictures.
The Effects of Ultraviolet Light On Tiger Swallowtails - http://www.geocities.com/tiffywiffyuva/
Student research project testing the effects of UV light on butterflies.
Where Do Butterflies Come From? - http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html
A simple hands-on look at the life cycle of butterflies.
Woolly Bear Caterpillar - http://www.enature.com/guides/show_species_fg.asp?beautyID=7859&recsFound=2&curPos=1&curGroup=Butterflies&screenType=normal&guideID=ng&recNum=BU0165&searchType=&color=&size=&shape=&leafShape=&fruit=&habitat=&range=&useFreeText=true&freeText=woolly+bear
Kids and Teens can learn the habitat, description, and range of the Wooly Bear Caterpillar and the Woolly Bear Caterpillar moth.
Monarch Butterfly - http://home.wi.rr.com/monarchraising/
Information on Monarchs, tips on raising them, and a large list of host plants for various butterfly species.
Monarch Lab - http://www.monarchlab.umn.edu
Research projects and information about the monarch butterfly and its yearly migration.
Monarch Monitoring Project - http://www.concord.org/~dick/mon.html
Results of weekly road censuses of Danaus plexippus, conducted every fall in Cape May, New Jersey, USA.
Monarch Watch - http://www.MonarchWatch.org
Dedicated to the study of the monarch butterfly and its yearly migration.
Monarchs over Chincoteague - http://users.erols.com/robgibbs/monarch/
Monarch migration research project at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia with survey data, habitat information, and maps.


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Get That Clear Radiant Skin By Reducing Internal Impurities
To get that radiant, blemish free skin with the attractive glow, requires more that just treating your skin on a superficial level. Dealing with internal issues is considered more important that treating skin on the surface, but what can you do to achieve this? No matter how much we treat our skin on the surface, all the treatments are superficial and the results are not going to last for very long. To actually have clearer, glowing skin, it's essential to cleanse the body from the inside by reducing internal impurities. Radiant skin comes from a healthy, toxin-free body while blemished, pale skin is often the result of harmful toxins being ingested by the body. ''People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.'' Read the original article right here This is an interesting article with some great tips and information on what you can do to start clearing your internal system of heavy metals if you have them and how to start reducing toxic build-up in the body. We cannot emphasise enough how important is it to make sure you have a healthy and good working internal system if you want to achieve lasting clear skin free from skin conditions such as acne. Click To Read More »
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A shameless plug for the #asc14
Written by: Captain Skellett // February 2nd, 2014 // 1 Comment » // Science Communication
Australian Science Communicators are converging today for the ASC conference of 2014. I very much enjoyed the 2010 one in Canberra where I happened to be, and made a special trip to be at the 2011 conference in Melbourne, but unfortunately can't make it to Brisbane this time around. Instead, I'll be watching the action on Twitter – #asc14 – and I'm @CaptainSkellett if you want to chat.
Some events are being livestreamed and you can join in at the ASC Conference website. The conference is running from 2 – 5 Feb, plenty of time to catch something interesting!
As for me, I'm baking coffee scrolls and packing boxes for another move interstate, from Melbourne to Canberra. Hope to catch up with some friends at Questacon, the ANU and CSIRO while I'm there for the next few years.
I also feel like I need a new five year plan – perhaps I've spent too much time in the corporate world over the past year, and I've absorbed the desire for strategic direction through osmosis. Nonetheless, I think the big goal for the future is to focus more on writing and editing. I've been freelance writing (and doing a share of editing) for the past four years now, and despite the occasional stress of a creeping deadline, I still really, really enjoy it. I can certainly see myself making a lifelong career from it, which is something that's been hard to picture in any of my other jobs.
So that's a solid direction to be starting with. There's a livestreamed ASC event on The Storytelling of Science beginning in an hour, and I'll pop it on while I pack.
Cuddly robot seals assist in dementia care
Written by: Captain Skellett // December 17th, 2013 // Comments Off on Cuddly robot seals assist in dementia care // Recent Research
When I was a child, I had a toy from Seaworld that was a baby seal, and man I loved that little guy. I also had a Furby, one of those fluffy toy robots that took the world by storm in 1999, and are having a major comeback now.
Little did I know that, had I smooshed them together in an elaborate Toy Storyesque toy reconstruction, I could have invented Paro, the robotic baby harp seal.
Paro, developed by Dr Takanori Shibata at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, is used in dementia care. Its big, blinking eyes gaze at the person interacting with it, responding to sound and light. It can recognise words used by its owner and though it can't talk back, it can make baby seal noises and nuzzle.
This engagement helps reduce anxiety in people with dementia, according to research led by Wendy Moyle at the Griffith Health Institute in Brisbane, Australia. The research split 18 dementia patients into two groups, one engaging with Paro and the other reading in a group. The results found that people in the PARO group had higher quality of life scores after five weeks compared to the reading group.
Why a fluffy baby seal? As well as being downright adorable it is just about the same size as a baby, so people can hold it on their laps. The researchers also note that some people have had bad experiences with a cats or dogs, and might react with fear. Who could be afraid of a baby seal?
On the downside, each Paro costs about $5,000, and need to be shipped back to Japan for repairs. At such a hefty price tag, it might limit use in care facilities. Then again, if it's significantly effective at improving quality of life, reducing need for medication or allowing people to live at home longer, maybe it's money well spent.
That's the focus of Wendy Moyle's next project, supported by a one million dollar boost by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The new study will be a large, randomised trial involving 380 people with dementia, and will compare three different care options – Paro, a soft plush toy, and usual care. Large aged care facilities in SE Queensland interested in taking part in the research can click through for more details.
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Written by: Captain Skellett // September 19th, 2013 // Comments Off on Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! // Just for Fun
Ahoy mateys! It be the best day of the year once again! Happy talk like a pirate day!
It's too late to get your ergonomic pirate keyboard, but add plenty of R's into your day anyway.
The image is from the Language Log, who weren't sure who to credit it to. They had a little post about the linguistics of Arrr a few years back. O'course, I highly recommend the Official Talk Like a Pirate Day website for all your piratey needs!
May your timbers shiver and mainsails rise! Arrrr
New approach to gently insert DNA into cells with high-tech lasers
Written by: Captain Skellett // August 29th, 2013 // Comments Off on New approach to gently insert DNA into cells with high-tech lasers // Recent Research
Ethical concerns aside, gene therapy is a really exciting area of science. How cool to explore the functions of DNA and cellular machinery by inserting exactly what you want into a cell of your choice. How many options to treat disease, create better crops or fun novelties like glow in the dark cats.
As an undergrad, when we played with inserting genes into E-coli and yeast we would take a whole bunch of cells and mix them in a tube with the DNA we wanted them to absorb. Then we'd "shock" the cells by heating them up and cooling them, so that – hopefully – a small percentage would be so stunned they would just nom up all the bits of DNA and incorporate them into their own genome. Then would be the tedious bit of plating them out onto agar that contained antibiotics or whatever and checking that they really did take up your bit of DNA that gave them resistance to antibiotics.
Needless to say, it wasn't easy and many bacteria died in the process – either when I shocked them or, most likely, when I plated them on poison (oh the blood on my hands! Out damn spot.) So I found this press release really exciting.
Scientists from South Korea poked holes in single cells using a high-powered femtosecond laser. Then, with the finesse of a golfer on the green, gently popped in a polystyrene-based microparticle coated in DNA using optical tweezers. The tweezers use laser beams like magnets to attract or repel polar chemicals.
The method of poking holes, or pores, into cells with lasers already existed, as did optical tweezer technology. This research combined the two to ensure that the DNA was specifically inserted into one cell- a big boost in precision.
One of the cool things about this is that it can be done without opening the petri dish, unlike microinjection. With microinjection, which I guess is like those videos where people poke DNA into an egg for cloning, there's a chance of contamination.
Another benefit is that the microparticle they inserted could be modified to sense things in the cell, rather than just delivering a payload of DNA. So there are a whole bunch of useful functions that they could explore with this technique.
A third benefit – you can play GOLF AT A CELLULAR LEVEL! That is just geekery at its finest. The next question for researchers will be – can you get lab coats to match golf pants?
The paper is open access and available here.
Talking endangered words in Adelaide
Written by: Captain Skellett // July 23rd, 2013 // Comments Off on Talking endangered words in Adelaide // Science Communication
On Thursday I'm heading to Adelaide for the Australex 2013 linguistics conference at the University of Adelaide. The topic – Endangered words, and signs of revival.
I volunteer with a project to revive an endangered language called Barngarla, which was spoken by Aboriginal people in the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. During the missionary days people weren't allowed to speak their language or teach it to their children, and within a few generations it had all but disappeared.
Old documents written by missionaries recorded a Barngarla dictionary and grammar, and Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, who's also organising the conference, and a team are using them to revive the language. It's ironic (in a wonderful way) that the missions wiped out the language while also preserving it and ultimately became key to reintroducing it. Barngarla is now being taught to people once more.
The Australex conference is celebrating 175 years of Lutheran Missionaries' Aboriginal Lexicography (writing dictionaries.)
I find it interesting that linguistics shares so many words with biology. Linguists talk about endangered languages and hybridisation, while biologists have DNA transcription and translation. My explanation is the oft-used by imperfect analogy of DNA as a "recipe book" or "instruction manual" – placing it more firmly in the realms of language.
It's actually a bit strange that we still think of DNA this way, that we haven't updated it to, say, a hacked Wiki – sometimes edited by viruses. Hey, that's not a bad analogy actually. Both are built up over time and the contributions of many, and aren't exactly perfect but they do the job. Except that there's not so much junk on Wiki's as there is in DNA, but in both cases humans are pretty good at sorting the junk from the useful stuff.
I'm looking forward to the conference and meeting more of the people involved in reviving the Barngarla language, and hearing about similar projects in Hong Kong and Tibet. It should be an interesting few days, and I'll try to keep you posted on what I hear.
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Correção dos exercícios de engenharia do conhecimento em Prolog Jacques Robin, DI-UFPE www.di.ufpe.br/~jr
Estudo de caso: a terrível novela Requisitos em Inglês 1. A soap opera is a TV show whose characters include a husband, a wife and a mailman such that: 2. the wife and the mailman blackmail each other 3. everybody is either alcoholic, drug addict or gay 4. Dick is gay, Jane is alcoholic and Harry is a drug addict 5. the wife is always an alcoholic and the long-lost sister of her husband 6. the husband is always called Dick and the lover of the mailman 7. the long-lost sister of any gay is called either Jane or Cleopatra 8. Harry is the lover of every gay 9. Jane blackmails every drug addicted lover of Dick 10. soap operas are invariably terrible! 0. Who are the characters of a terrible TV show?
Correção do exercício 1: A terrível novela em L1
Correção do exercício 2: A terrível novela em Prolog tvShow(Cast,Qual) :- soapOpera(Cast,Qual). soapOpera([dick,W,M],terrible) :- soapCast([dick,W,M]), blackmail(W,M), alcoholic(W), longLostSister(W,dick), lover(M,dick). soapCast([]). soapCast([H|T]) :- soapChar(H), soapCast(T). soapChar(C) :- alcoholic(C). soapChar(C) :- drugAddict(C). soapChar(C) :- gay(C). gay(dick). alcoholic(jane). drugAddict(harry). lover(Harry,G) :- gay(G). longLostSister(jane,G) :- gay(G). longLostSister(cleopatra,G) :- gay(G). blackmail(jane,M) :- lover(M,dick), drugAddict(M). ?-tvShow(Cast,terrible). * Cast = [dick,jane,harry].
Estudo de caso: o banco de dados acadêmico Requisitos em Inglês 1. Bob is 40 and is the manager of the CS department. 2. His assistants are John and Sally. 3. Marys highest degree is an MS. 4. She works at the CS department and is friend to Bob and Sally. 5. Every faculty is a midaged person who writes article, makes in the average $50,000 a year and owns a degree of some kind, typically a PhD. 6. A facultys boss is both a faculty and a manager. 7. Every person has a name, friends who must be persons, and children who also must be persons. 8. Every employee is affiliated to some department, has a boss who is also na employee and joint work on reports with other employees. 9. Every department has a manager who is an employee and assistants who are both employees and students 10. A boss is an employee who is the manager of another employee of the same department. 11. A joint work is a paper that is written by two faculties 0a: Who are the midaged employees of the CS department and who are their boss? 0b: Who published jointly with Mary in the Journal of the ACM? 0c: Where did Mary published joint work with Phil?
Correção do exercício 3: O banco de dados acadêmico em Prolog 1/ fatos ground person(bob). age(bob,40). works(bob,cs,faculty). manager(cs,bob). dept(cs). works(john,cs,assistant). study(john,cs). works(sally,cs,assistant). study(sally,cs). hiDeg(mary,ms). works(mary,cs,faculty). friends(mary,bob). friends(mary,sally). works(phil,cs,faculty). degree(phd). degree(ms). journal(jacm). conf(cacm). article(flogic,[john,sally,mary,bob],jacm). article(florid,[phil,mary,bob],cacm).
Correção do exercício 3: O banco de dados acadêmico em Prolog 2/ regras de dedução hiDeg(F,phd) :- works(F,_,faculty), not hiDeg(F,ms). salary(P,5000) :- works(F,_,faculty), not salary(F,_). midaged(F) :- age(F,A), !, integer(A), A >= 30, A =< 60. midaged(F) :- works(F,_,faculty). works(B,D,faculty) :- manager(D,B), works(E,D,faculty), !. activity(F,paperWriting) :- works(F,_,faculty). person(P2) :- friends(P1,P2), person(P1). person(C) :- parent(A,C), person(A). person(P) :- study(P,D), dept(D). person(P) :- works(P,_,D), dept(D). works(S,D,assistant) :- study(S,D), dept(D), works(S,D,_), !. works(M,D,_) :- manager(M,D). boss(B,E) :- manager(D,B), works(E,D,_). jointWork(W,F1,F2,P) :- works(F1,_,faculty), works(F2,_,faculty), F1 \= F2, report(W,Fl,P), member(F1,Fl), member(F2,Fl). member(H,[H|T]). member(X,[H|T]) :- member(X,T). report(T,Al,J) :- article(T,Al,J), journal(J). report(T,Al,C) :- article(T,Al,C), conf(C). report(T,Al,D) :- techrep(T,Al,D), dept(D).
Correção do exercício 3: O banco de dados acadêmico em Prolog 3/ consultas midagedWorkerOf(E,D) :- works(E,D,_), midaged(E). bossOfMidagedWorkerOf(B,D) :- midagedWorkerOf(E,D), boss(B,E). ? setof(E,midagedWorkerOf(E,cs),Le), setof(B,bossOfMidagedWorkerOf(B,cs),Lb). * E = _20, Le = [bob,mary], B = _51, Lb = [bob]; * no. ? setof(F,jointWork(_,F,mary,jacm),Lf). * F = _20, Lf = [bob]; * no. ? setof(P,jointWork(_,phil,mary,P),Lp). * P = _20, Lp = [cacm]; * no
Correção do exercício 4: O banco de dados acadêmico em L1 1/ formulas ground
Correção do exercício 4: O banco de dados acadêmico em L1 2/ formulas quantificadas
Correção do exercício 4: O banco de dados acadêmico em L1 3/ consultas
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Art of Music, Sydney's most unique and dynamic fundraising event, is presented by Jenny Morris to raise funds for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
From the overwhelming success of the inaugural event 10 years ago, Art of Music has become one of the most anticipated events on the calendar and 2016 did not disappoint!
The gala dinner was held on Saturday 18 June, 2016 in the spectacular setting of the Grand Court of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The crowd was treated to intimate performances which highlighted the works of art on display: Stan Yarramunua, Megan Washington, Bertie Blackman, Jonathan Zwartz, Prinnie Stevens and to close the show Bernard Fanning.
Spotted amongst the crowd were Simon Baker, Hugo Weaving, Justine Clarke, Craig Hall, Sara Wiseman, Iva Davies, Rebecca Rigg, Melissa Doyle plus plenty more. It was the who's who of music, entertainment and art in Australia!
Also in attendance were the artists themselves: Lucy Culliton, Nicholas Harding, Laura Jones, Guy Maestri, Michael Muir, Ben Quilty, Alex Seton and Stan Yarramuna. Plus a few special guest artists Leslie Rice and Luke Sciberras.
As well as the artwork, there was a Prada Galleria Saffiano leather handbag valued at $3,000 up for grabs as well as a business class package to LAX flying Virgin Australia and limited edition artwork prints.
Jenny Morris, Art of Music founder: "Music therapy and its promotion is a passion of mine. It is powerful and it changes lives. I am incredibly proud to see how the Art of Music events have gone from strength to strength over the past 10 years and to see them raise over a million dollars (and still counting) for music therapy. Art of Music relies on the generosity of the artists and musicians, to whom I am eternally grateful. It blows me away every time to see how readily they agree to support the cause. Sit back and enjoy the artistry, and at the same time know you are helping to raise much needed funds to support Nordoff-Robbins and their vital work in the community"
Artists who presented works for the 2016 auction were:
lucy culliton
Inspiration: Pony, by Kasey Chambers
Oil on canvas
110 x 91cm
Born in Sydney in 1966, Lucy Culliton worked first as a graphic designer before graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney in 1996. Lucy is a highly accomplished painter and her sophisticated use of texture and colour renders her subjects with a sensory potency that brings a sense of appreciation to even the most modest of subjects.
Lucy has held eight solo exhibitions and has been awarded several prizes for her work, including the Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize in 2006 and the Mosman Art Prize for Painting in 2000. She has been a finalist in the Archibald, the Sulman and the Wynne prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW and the Dobell Prize. Her work is represented in collections of the National Gallery of Australia and Parliament House, Canberra, as well as many private collections. Lucy lives and works in Bibbenluke, NSW.
Inspiration: Surfing With a Spoon, by Midnight Oil
Surfing With a Spoon
Oil on linen
138 x 138cm
Nicholas Harding was born in 1956 in the UK, and came to Australia in 1965. Nicholas has been an Archibald finalist every year from 1994-2009 and he won it in 2001 with a painting of actor John Bell as King Lear. He was commended in 1998 for his portrait of Margaret Olley and Highly Commended for his portrait of Bob Dickerson, 'Bob's Daily Swim' which won the People's Choice Award in 2005. Since 1981,
Nicholas has been included in numerous group shows, including the Dobell Drawing Prize (winning in 2001), the Wynne and Sulman Prizes, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Kedumba Drawing Award (joint winner in 1994). He has exhibited in London and has had regular solo exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. He received a Centenary Medal for Services to Australian Art in 2003 and won the Kilgour Prize in 2006.
lAURA JONES
Inspiration: How Much Does Your Love Cost?, by Thelma Plum
How Much Does Your Love Cost?
Oil on linen
152 x 122cm
Born in Sydney in 1982, Laura completed a Master of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW in 2006 and a Bachelor of Arts Asian Studies, University of Sydney in 2003. Laura's group exhibitions include; Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Carriageworks; NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament; Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Moran House; Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio and; The Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery. Laura has held numerous solo exhibitions since 2011 with her latest being 'Wildflower' at Olsen Irwin Gallery in 2016.
Laura's residencies include Printmaking at Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos Island, Greece and Drawing Marathon, New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, New York, USA. In 2007 Laura was awarded The Young Emerging Artists' Award, Mosman Art Prize and since then has been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize, Bertt Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Portia Geach Memorial Award, Salon des Refuses, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize and the Kogarah Art Prize.
Inspiration: Dead Fox, by Courtney Barnett
Dead Fox
Oil on linen
102 x 122cm
Guy Maestri completed B.F.A Honours Painting at National Art School, Sydney in 2002. His collections include National Portrait Gallery, Macquarie Bank and Parliament House. Since 2001 Guy has had regular solo and group exhibitions including the Brett Whitely Traveling Art Scholarship in 2002, 2003 and 2004 with Highly Commended in 2002, the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007 & 2008, the Paddington Art Prize, the Melbourne Art Fair, the Mosman Art Prize and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
In 2009, Guy was the winner of the Archibald Prize and in 2011 the winner of Commendation Prize, Mosman Art Prize. In 2012 Guy was a finalist in the Wynne Art Prize and Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and a winner of the COFA Print Making Award (Paddington Art Prize). In 2013 Guy was a finalist in the Wynne Art Prize and winner of the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament House. In 2014 Guy was a finalist in the Wynne Art Prize and winner of the Kings School Art Prize.
Inspiration: The Sea, by Jonathan Zwartz
Oil on canvas
80 x 80cm
Born in Chertsey, United Kingdom in 1958, Tim lives and works in Sydney Australia, France and the UK. In 1985 he studied at the Kunstakadamie Dusseldorf and in 1984 he studied painting at both Sydney College of the Arts and The City Art Institute.
His work is held in numerous private and corporate collections both overseas and in Australia. Public collections include the National Gallery of Australia, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Tim is the winner of numerous awards including the Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship, 1993 and the Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Inspiration: Orleans Stomp, by The Cruel Sea
Orleans Stomp
Oil on linen
137 x 122cm
Born in 1975 in Kilmarnock, Scotland, Michael arrived in Australia in 1981 and lives and works in Sydney. With an emphasis on colour and natural light, Michael's painted works explore the notion of a fusion between representation and abstraction.
Michael won the Mosman Art Prize in 2014 and has been a finalist in numerous major art awards including the Wynne Prize, Sulman Prize, NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize, Metro Art Award and the Fleurie Prize for landscape. Michael has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. His works are held in public collections with Artbank, Harbour City Estates Hong Kong, Macquarie Group, Mosman Municipal Council and the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre.
Jenny Morris portrait
Oil on linen
130 x 110cm
Ben Quilty was born in Sydney in 1973 currently lives and works in Robertson, NSW. Ben was a finalist in the 2006 Archibald Prize for his portrait of artist Adam Cullen. He was a finalist in the 2004 Archibald and Wynne Prizes and in 2005 was an Archibald finalist with his portrait of Beryl Whitely, mother of the late Brett Whitely and founder and patron of the Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, which Quilty won in 2002.
Ben has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia as well as completing residencies in Hill End, Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Barcelona. In 2009 Ben was awarded the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, in 2011 won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Margaret Olley, in 2012 was a finalist in the Archibald Prize and in 2014 was awarded the Prudential Eye Award (both overall & painting) in Singapore.
joan ross
Inspiration: Fool, by Sarah Blasko
Digital print on rag paper
60 x 90cm
Joan holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts, City Art Institute UNSW 1985 and Masters of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts UNSW 2012.
Joan has exhibited in contemporary galleries, regional, state and the National Gallery as well as exhibiting internationally. Joan has works held in major private collections in Australia, China and the United Kingdom. Joan's corporate and public collections include; National Gallery of Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney; University of Wollongong; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; Gold Coast Regional Gallery; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery; Artbank; University of Sydney; Macquarie Group Collection and; City of Sydney.
Inspiration: Break in the Weather, by Jenny Morris
Break in the Weather
Carrara marble
30 x 30 x 30cm
Alex Seton is a Sydney based artist who graduated from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 1998. He has exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions and has exhibited at the last five Art Basel, Hong Kong and Art HK fairs. Alex's solo shows include 'Elegy on Resistance' at Art HK in 2012 and 'As of Today, Australian War Memorial' Canberra 2014-2015. Alex's most recent international solo show 'The Journey' was shown at Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris in 2015.
Alex's work is held in numerous public and private collections including; the Art Gallery of New South Wales Society, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; ArtBank; Australian War Memorial, Canberra; Danish Royal Art Collection Denmark; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle; Patrick Corrigan Collection, National Art Gallery of Australia and; the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane. In 2014 Alex was granted the inaugural Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence, Margaret Olley Art Centre, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah.
christian thompson
Inspiration: Sleeping Beauty, Divinyls
Sleeping Beauty
C Type Print on Fuji Pearl Metallic Paper
100 x 100cm
Dr Christian Thompson was born in 1978 in Gawler, South Australia (Bidjara People). In 2010 Christian made history when he became the first Aboriginal Australian to be admitted into the University of Oxford in its 900 year history. Christian holds a; Doctorate of Philosophy (Fine Art), Trinity College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Master of Theatre, Amsterdam School of Arts, Das Arts, The Netherlands; Masters of Fine Art (Sculpture) RMIT University; Honours (Sculpture) RMIT University, Melbourne Australia and; a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Christian has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. His work is held in major public and private collections including; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands and; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
Journey for Love
The didgeridoo has been hand-crafted by Stan Yarramunua. The goanna represents 'journey' and the turtle represents 'love'
Stan Yarramunua is the founder of Art Yarramunua Galleries in Melbourne and Daylesford. Stan started painting over 20 years ago, he began by selling artwork at markets and galleries. Soon after he began representing other artists with didgeridoos, boomerangs, clap sticks and paintings.
After years of markets and exhibitions, it became apparent that he needed a gallery to house and exhibit the fine artwork of the artists he was representing. In 2008, Stan was proud to open Art Yarramunua in Melbourne and then in 2011 opened a country cousin gallery in Daylesford. Art Yarramunua now represents numerous major indigenous artists including Tommy Watson, Jean Burke and Kuddtjil. Stan has also created the Yarramunua Foundation, which aims to provide positive role models so young aboriginal people can develop pride and gain strength in themselves and their culture.
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In retrospect, the signs — at least some of them — were there. The three-storey council block on the Angell Town estate in Stockwell, south London, is tidy and well-kept, but neighbours say that the opaque net curtains were permanently drawn.
The balcony on the first floor appears to have been used for storage; an unkempt hedge screens the ground floor windows, preventing those living on either side from seeing who went in and out. Members of the local community say the estate is a friendly place to live.
Many of the blocks overlook each other, and people say they know everybody by face if not by name. But the residents of this particular house — a couple of Indian and Tanzanian origin, both aged 67, and three women aged 69, 57 and 30 — stood out because they were so reclusive.
"I thought the elderly couple were looking after the others, as if they were carers," said a resident who did not want to be named. "But there was something strange about it all. The older couple were definitely the ones in charge. They were the dominant ones, you could tell that."
A neighbour, who gave her name as Sophie, said she saw one of the women being pushed in a wheelchair by another member of the family three weeks ago.
This was the house from which, on Oct 25, three women escaped, after being held captive for 30 years in conditions of slavery.
They were not sexually abused, but the three were regularly beaten and subjected to profound emotional abuse. The youngest, a British citizen, is believed to be the daughter of the man of the house and has spent her entire life in captivity. The other two are Irish and Malaysian.
Following a succession of secret telephone conversations with the Irish woman, representatives of a small, Norwich-based charity called Freedom mounted a rescue attempt, supported by the Metropolitan Police's Anti-Human Trafficking Unit.
At an agreed time, the Irish and British women managed to walk out of the house. They were met by charity representatives and taken to safety. A short time later, the rescuers returned for the Malaysian.
Such is the influence the captors had exerted over the three women that the victims only agreed to escape on condition that the police would not take any action against their captors.
Over time, however, the police "[worked] to gain their trust and evidence". On Thursday – four weeks after the women had escaped – the "heads of the family" were arrested in a dawn raid with "no confrontation".
The couple stand accused of assault and false imprisonment, and also face immigration charges. Both have been released on bail until January, on condition that they do not return to their home.
Police have confirmed that the suspects, who were unaware of the escape, had not reported the three women missing in the four weeks prior to their arrest. Intriguingly, the police have also revealed that the suspects were arrested in the Seventies, though no further details have been released.
One of the most mystifying aspects of the case was how these women could possibly have been held captive for so long without the use of physical constraints, bound only by what Commander Steve Rodhouse of the Metropolitan Police called "invisible handcuffs".
However, it emerged on Saturday night that the origins of the relationship between the captors and victims lie in a "collective" of the Sixties. And it began to make rather more sense.
According to Commander Rodhouse, the 67-year-old couple met the two older women after coming to Britain in the Sixties.
They were drawn together by a "shared political ideology" and lived together at "an address that you could effectively call a 'collective'."
"Somehow that collective came to an end and the women ended up continuing to live with the suspects," said Commander Rodhouse.
"How this resulted in the women living in this way for over 30 years is what we are seeking to establish, but we believe emotional and physical abuse has also been a feature of all the victims' lives."
Dr Suzanne Newcombe, a research officer at Inform, a research unit specialising in cults and New Religious Movements at the London School of Economics, is not surprised by the suggestion that the 30-year incarceration may have its roots in a cult-like organisation.
"Ideological beliefs of any sort can have an incredibly powerful effect on how people behave," she says. "I remember speaking to a man who had stayed in a room without leaving it for several years, even though he knew that the door was not locked and he was physically able to leave. He saw it as half punishment and half spiritual test."
Dr Newcombe believes that the influence non-religious political groups can exert is just as profound as religious cults.
"We have over 4,300 groups on our database classified as New Religious Movements, and that definitely includes groups that are political and ideological rather than religious," she says. "The latest research is finding that non-religious political beliefs can be just as powerful."
According to Professor Rod Dubrow-Marshall — a social psychologist, expert in cults and pro-vice-Chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire — London was "an extreme hotbed of political and religious ideology" during the Sixties. Extreme political groups often drew on elements of religious philosophy.
"There were literally hundreds, if not thousands, of different groups, some of which didn't even have names," he says.
"There was a whole mixture of spiritual and far Left political ideology. New groups would take ideas from established political and religious doctrines and create a toxic mix of their own, and leaders would claim to have special insight or powers that would allow their followers to reach a sort of promised land."
Built into the ideology of many of these groups were mechanisms of mind control.
Followers of both political and religious leaders were made to believe that breaking away from the group would have catastrophic consequences. Moreover, according to Prof Dubrow-Marshall they were often required to perform menial tasks "24 hours a day, seven days a week" as an "act of political or divine work". The parallels to this case are all too obvious.
"Many devotees may have had a genuine attachment to the leader initially," he says. "But because of the beliefs they developed, they would grow to admire him and wish to demonstrate that by operating essentially as a slave to that person.
"Sometimes it fades over time. I've known people who are devoted for 30 years and one day they find that they can't deal with it any longer and they walk out. The ideological significance of their tasks had faded away, and they gradually began to question if they are doing the right thing."
It was also common for a group to dissolve into multiple smaller groups over ideological disputes, or rival allegiances to different leaders. Sometimes, this left tiny splinter groups operating in isolation.
"Where the ideology is very powerful and people have really committed to it, even when the group disappears they continue to work towards their overall spiritual goals," says Professor Dubrow-Marshall. "It can take decades before they are free from those psychological bonds.
"I have known groups that have splintered into groups of two or three who are bound together very strongly by ideological conviction. Often it would start with a charismatic leader running a larger group, but then there is a split and he continues to operate within his family or close circle."
It is not clear whether the suspects retained their beliefs of the Sixties and used them against their victims, or whether the ideology fell away and the mind control remained. Either way, it seems certain that the apparatus of manipulation, established in the context of a Sixties collective, remained intact, and allowed the suspects to exert a power over the three women for decades.
Doubts may have been growing in the women's minds over a long period of time. The catalyst for action was a television programme, believed to be Forced to Marry, which was broadcast in October as part of ITV's Exposure series.
The Irish woman, moved by the documentary, memorised the telephone number for the Freedom charity, which was featured on the programme and called the number in secret.
It is impossible to know which section of the programme prompted the woman to make the call. But for David Henshaw, the executive producer of the programme, one particular sequence stands out.
"There was a very telling interview with an anonymous woman in her fifties," he says. "She was forcibly married at 15, then kept in servitude for 40 years. I think this would have had an impact on the victims."
Indeed, the segment is harrowing. "You just stay quiet and just hope today will be over, tomorrow will be another day," says the woman, the weariness weighing in her voice.
"That day has gone by, the next day might be a better day. Then it just goes on and on, and life goes by. My childhood was taken away from me. I wouldn't wish that on another girl."
Even after this first spark of recognition, however, the cultish brainwashing was so effective that it took the charity workers a great deal of effort to break through.
"The woman quickly started to have second thoughts," recalls Aneeta Prem, a London magistrate and karate black belt who founded the charity three years ago and who played a key role in speaking to the woman.
Aneeta Prem of the Freedom Charity (PA)
"She wondered whether she was doing the right thing. We had to persuade her that the outside world could hold something much better than she would ever experience in captivity."
An integral part of the process was building up a reservoir of trust. To achieve this, the relationship was allowed to go both ways, with charity workers sharing details about their own lives. Aneeta told stories about her dog, a five-year-old Shar Pei called Diva, her mother and other family members.
The Irish woman felt particularly close to Aneeta. She had been the person she had seen on the television documentary, and she felt that she had "a face she could trust".
But Aneeta's emotional investment was far more than just a professional technique.
"We only spoke a few times, but it was very intense," she says. "We have actually become close friends. When I met the three ladies for the first time I was incredibly nervous. They threw their arms around me and we all started crying. They said individually: 'Thank you for saving our lives'. It was very highly charged and emotional.
"Then we talked about some of their experiences, and I showed them pictures of my dog, my mum, and other people I'd spoken about. It was like a family reunion. I felt as if I'd known them for a long time."
The three victims are now being sheltered together in a safe house provided by charities. They had escaped without any of their possessions, and are existing solely on donations.
According to Aneeta, they feel that "the pace of the outside world is very fast". They are following the media attention that surrounds their case, and are concerned that "the charity number should always be on the screen to help other people trapped in slavery."
Prof Dubrow-Marshall says if the cultish influence was present in these women's lives until their escape, it will be "a long road to reconstruction — or construction — of a new identity."
"They have probably been living a very ritualised life which may have mutated over the years," he says. "Now they will need to develop new rituals. People who leave groups sometimes feel a great deal of guilt and uncertainty. There is a huge existential loss when someone has devoted their life to group or a leader. There is a tendency to try to find a replacement.
"Certainly they will be very vulnerable and will need a great deal of sensitive care and support to allow them to develop a normal identity again."
Aneeta has visited the three women many times since their release, and they are able to contact her at any time. She is planning a range of outings to reintroduce them to the world. When she speaks about the victims, there is a tangible sense of warmth in her voice.
"The 30-year-old woman is a very intelligent young woman, who can read and write even though she grew up in captivity," she says. "The two older ladies had been there for more than 30 years, but not as many as 40. They are all very lovely, warm people.
"I have taken them all to my house to meet my dog. But the women are at the beginning of a very long and hard journey."


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Practical Ways to Bolster Resilience: A Life-span Perspective
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Practical Ways to Bolster Resilience: A Life-span Perspective
In the aftermath of traumatic and victimizing experiences, 75% of individuals evidence resilience while roughly 25% develop PTSD and several co-occurring physical and mental health disorders. This presentation will discuss what distinguishes these two groups from a life-span perspective as well as effective interventions to improve resiliency.
Presenter: Donald Meichenbaum, PhD
Disclosures: The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.
Session Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Target Audience: RN
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Discuss resilience across the life-span.
- Identify interventions to help build resilience.
Keywords: Veterans, Resilience, Trauma
Continuing Nursing Education:
1.25 contact hours. * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.
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Release Date: November 10, 2017
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A Culinary Adventure for Food Lovers in the Napa Valley
Brought to the public by the world's premier culinary college, The CIA at Copia is a "foodie wonderland" (The New York Times). Take a class in our state-of-the-art teaching kitchen. Enjoy tasting events and food "Conversations." Relive history in our Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum. Feast on garden-picked ingredients in our restaurant, and play bocce and relax in our patio. But most of all, immerse yourself in the wonderful world of food!
Upcoming Events
Sat 29
Pairing Basics: Basic Flavor Interactions
February 29 @ 3:30 pm–5:00 pm
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CIA Summit for Sommeliers and Beverage Professionals
March 1–March 3
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Korean Food Pop-Up
March 2 @ 5:00 pm–8:00 pm
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Julia's Kitchen: Celebrating French Cuisine (Hands-on Class)
March 5 @ 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Discover why Sonoma Magazine calls The CIA at Copia "Disneyland for Food and Wine Geeks."
Experience Cooking Classes
Have you ever dreamed of cooking in a modern, fully equipped professional kitchen? Or pondered how to pair food and wine? What about learning how to cook from a CIA chef? You can do all that and more here at Copia! We offer a wide variety of public cooking classes for every skill level, with expert guidance from the CIA's industry-leading instructors.Learn more about our classes
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Showcasing fresh seasonal produce from the Copia garden, sustainably raised meat and seafood, and other high-quality provisions, The Restaurant at CIA Copia offers a memorable and delicious dining experience in downtown Napa. The CIA's world-renowned passion for culinary excellence will shine through in your meal.Make a Reservation Now
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Rare culinary antiques exclusive to the CIA, stunning dinnerware, handmade jewelry, French linens, and CIA logo apparel are just some of the many top-quality items you'll find in our retail store. It's the perfect place to peruse for unique gifts and other treasures for the home, bar, and garden.Shop Online Today
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More than 4,000 culinary artifacts await you in our impressive Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, including our picture-worthy wall of rare copper molds, animal-shaped tureens, and a plethora of other culinary curiosities. Feel free to explore our other rotating exhibits.Visit The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum
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Energize Your Membership: Creating Active Members
Apathy is deadly in any organization, and especially in campus groups � where your time is limited in the first place, and a lack of commitment means it's unlikely anything will get done.
Energize Your Membership: Creating Active Members, a National Center for Student Leadership trainer shows how to tap into the abundant energy your student members possess.
This program will cover and uncover many relevant questions and their answers.Viewing this presentation, you will discover:
- How to recruit effectively
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- How to establish a shared vision
- How to encourage a sense of ownership through participatory decision-making
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- How to create a sense of team
- How to use recognition to maintain commitment
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After participating in this video presentation, you will be able to:
- Learn strategies for increasing member involvement and engagement
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Budget Battles
Trump Promises More Bailout Cash for Farmers
Elizabeth Warren Won the Debate. Will It Matter?
How Medicare for All Is Tearing Democrats Apart
Mike Bloomberg's Plan to Boost Social Security
Court Strikes Down Trump Admin's Medicaid Work Rules
Pete Buttigieg's Deficit Talk Scares the Left
Deficit Soars 25% Over First Four Months of Fiscal 2020
Trump Promises More Bailout Cash for FarmersBy Michael Rainey
The Trump administration has allocated $28 billion in aid for farmers hurt by the president's trade war, with $12 billion set aside in 2018, followed by an additional $16 billion last year. On Friday...
Census Bureau Spending Millions to Reassure Immigrant CommunitiesBy Michael Rainey
The Census Bureau is spending $500 million over the next five months to boost awareness of and encourage participation in the national 2020 headcount. Some of the money is being spent to reassure...
Point-Counterpoint: Bernie Sanders' Big Spending Plans
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has proposed ambitious plans — most notably, a transition to a Medicare-for-All system — that would...
Court Strikes Down Trump Administration's Medicaid Work RequirementsBy Michael Rainey
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the Trump administration's approval of work requirements in the Arkansas Medicaid program, delivering a serious blow to the effort to impose more...
Pentagon to Divert Another $3.8 Billion to Pay for Trump's Border WallBy Michael Rainey
The Trump administration plans to use billions of dollars intended to purchase combat equipment – including F-35 stealth jets, transport aircraft and an amphibious assault ship – to fund construction...
Which States Rely Most on Federal Money?By Michael Rainey
About 23% of total state revenues came from federal grants in the 2017 fiscal year, contributing to programs that touch on a range of issues including health care, education and infrastructure. This...
Deficit Soars 25% Over First Four Months of Fiscal 2020
The federal budget deficit over the first four months of fiscal year 2020 totaled $389 billion, up more than 25% from the same period last year, according to data released Wednesday by the Treasury...
The $844 Billion Mystery in Trump's Budget
Unlike in previous years, the White House budget proposal released Monday didn't include a detailed plan to replace major portions of Obamacare. It did include what Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the...
In Search of the 'Disappearing Corporate Income Tax'By Michael Rainey
Lawmakers clashed on Tuesday over the performance of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in a House Ways and Means Committee hearing titled "The Disappearing Corporate Income Tax," with Democrats arguing...
Trump's $4.8 Trillion Fiscal FantasyBy Yuval Rosenberg and Michael Rainey
The Trump White House on Monday released a $4.8 trillion budget for 2021 that calls for steep reductions in spending on safety net programs including Medicaid while proposing greater outlays for the...
1 Big Winner and 1 Big Loser From Congress's Year-End Spending Deal
Christmas came early on Capitol Hill as lawmakers racing to finalize a nearly $1.4 trillion year-end deal to fund the government through September 30 loaded up their must-pass 2,300-plus-page package...
Congress Is About to Kill 3 Obamacare Taxes as Part of $1.4 Trillion Spending Deal
Congressional leaders and the White House have reportedly agreed to permanently repeal three taxes created under the Affordable Care Act as part of their year-end deal detailing nearly $1.4 trillion...
All of America's War Powers DeploymentsBy Michael Rainey
As required by law, President Trump updated Congress last week on all the locations the U.S. has deployed troops under the authority of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. While some of the...
Medicaid Work Rules Approved for South CarolinaBy Michael Rainey
The Trump administration on Thursday approved South Carolina's request to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Watchdog Questions $6.7 Billion in Medicare PaymentsBy Michael Rainey
Health insurance companies in the Medicare Advantage program have received billions in extra payments after making adjustments to their patient charts – changes that the Department of Health and...


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Friday, May 30, 2014
Armchair BEA Day 5: Middle Grade/Young Adult
Happy Friday! Today's topic of choice for Armchair BEA is Middle Grade/Young adult books. Here's the prompt from their website:
Our final genre of discussion is one that we know is a popular one these days: books for the younger crowd, from middle grade to young adult. If you do not normally talk about this genre on your site, maybe you want to feature books that you remember impacting you during this stage in your life. If this is where you tend to gravitate, maybe you want to list your favorites, make recommendations based on genres, or feature some titles that you are excited to read coming later this year.
I absolutely LOVE Young Adult fiction. I love it because young adults are at such an impressionable age--it's the perfect time to get them hooked on reading and become lifelong readers. Also, young adults are going through so many changes in their lives, and I feel like there are so many fantastic YA books out their that they can relate to that will help them to not feel so alone and that their feelings are "normal."
Here are some of my all time favorite MG and YA books, both recent and not so recent!
1. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (my review)
2.The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (my review)
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
5. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
6. Matilda by Roald Dahl (more MG than YA)
7. Charlotte's Web by E.B.White (also more MG than YA)
And now, for some YA books I am looking to reading and are on my TBR list (again, some recent, some now so recent)!
1. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
2. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
3. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
4. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
5. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
6. The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
7. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (I NEED to read these soon!)
What are some of your favorite YA books? What are some you are looking forward to reading?
Happy Reading!
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I loved the Lunar Chronicles. Anna and the French Kiss was cute (it probably helped that I read it on the plane ride home from Paris last summer). I need to bump Eleanor and Park and The Fault in Our Stars higher up on my TBR.ReplyDelete
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I don't think that I have an YA books that I'm especially eager to read right now. Perhaps Winter, when it comes out. Here is my Armchair BEA Day 5 post with some of my favorites that aren't so well known.ReplyDelete
Great list! I'm glad I'm not the only one who hasn't read the Harry Potter books!!ReplyDelete
Anna is my favorite, for sure. And you know I adore all books by Rainbow Rowell. :) I'm really looking forward to Landline!
I'm one of the few who disliked Hunger Games. I enjoyed the movie - but not the book. I read it while I was pregnant and couldn't stomach it at all. Just bad timing on my part!
I loved Eleanor & Park. Hope you like The Lunar Chronicles. I love that series.ReplyDelete


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Hi Ai Fans!
It's the second week of the Flowers and Foliage Challenge over at Art Impressions! There is also a Release of new Watercolor sets for you to try out!
I got to play with the new "WC Cottages Set". There are 3 cottage images with the set, think of all the different scenes you could create! My backing paper is from the Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Fall 6x6 collection. I several watercolour sets to make the landscape details. The sentiment is from the Ai WC Sentiments set.
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Category Archives: ShiverWriggle Creates
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 2, Part 1
By: Patrick Artie died today. Or, maybe yesterday, I don't know. The email from the secretary wasn't clear. And I didn't know Artie well enough to consider the details worth chasing up. A lot of our members seem to … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 1, Part 3
By: Patrick Our final member that morning came in shortly afterwards. Luciano Corallo was one of Joey's most devoted disciples. Young, handsome, passionate, he was one of the more militant enforcers of the primacy of the interpersonal in philosophy groups. … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 1, Part 2
By: Patrick Joey generally refused to eat or drink at the places we hung out. When put on the spot by a particularly insistent waitress, he would begrudgingly order some green tea or something, but generally he would order nothing. … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 1, Part 1
By: Patrick We never really worked. Work was for bums, not philosophers. Bertrand Russell's In Praise of Idleness was our Bible. We got by, well admittedly we got by largely as we were all retired having worked bloody hard … Continue reading
Sunday, Around Midday (2)
By: Patrick Walking back to my car, And suddenly the present, uninvited, emerges. It's a cloudless, sunny day. I take in the birds, the cars, The voices of a couple of neighbours On the other side of the road. … Continue reading
Saturday Morning (1)
By: Patrick Today My world drags Like a bad movie. I stare at the murky surface of a cup of green tea For minutes on end, Without a thought in my mind. Yesterdays confuse and amuse. Today Is about … Continue reading
The Wait
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The Wrong Thing
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The Glass Tree
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Song of the Trees
By: Lydia Crow Originally written for: 2011 Trees for Life Charity Exhibition. Whish, whish, Embla, Embla, Echo in the night. Màthair, màthair, whaa, whaa, Shades of dark and light. Thalla whither, thalla whither, Whisper loud and long. Tawasentha, … Continue reading


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This is something we need to work out – our new house will be in a smoke control area. To check whether you're in a smoke control area look up your local authority here. If you are then the only wood or multi-fuel burning stoves you can fit are listed on the exempt appliances list. It also explains what types of fuel you're allowed to burn in them.
There is a good collection of the usual suspects – Clearview models, the Dunsley Yorkshire range, several Rayburns and Morsos. And some I haven't looked at before – Dovre, Hwam, some Stovax models, and Westfire. Stoves Online have a great list of their clean-burning stoves, with links to piccies and details
In a surprise, Esse do not have any models on the list, but a quick check of their site shows that they have just launched (9th Feb) a new model that is OK in smoke-free zones. It's the compact 100SE model – as shown in the photo!


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After growing up in Rochester, NY, Marie now lives in Vail, Arizona with her husband and three children. She enjoys gardening, music, reading and writing novels, but most enjoys spending time with her family when they are traveling in their RV. She has a Bachelor of Science in Radiography and has had a varied career ranging from the travel industry, cosmetology to hospital management.
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Turn your ideas into professional print books
Printed books are a great way to tell your story. Whether you want to create a book of your travel photos, a portfolio of your work, or a printed marketing piece, Blurb® is the best tool out there. In this class Dan Milnor will show you how to use the Bookwright tool to easily create your publication, including:
- Building a tradebook in blurb
- Workflow best practices
- Selecting layouts for your content
- Working with typography and font licensing for ebooks
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Dan Milnor
Daniel Milnor is currently "Photographer at Large" for Blurb, Inc. the world's premiere print-on-demand publisher. He splits his time between the smog-choked arteries of Southern California and the spiritual landscape of New Mexico. Milnor is a former newspaper, magazine and ... read moreSee instructor's Classes
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This course is about how to use Blurb, not about how to make a book. What I mean is, it is helpful for people who have made books and/or photo albums before and want to learn how to use Blurb. It was also helpful to me as someone who has already made a few Blurb books already but wanted to learn to use it better. I definitely learned a couple things, and given that I watched it during a free broadcast, it was totally worth the price of admission (in my case, 60 minutes of my time). In my case, I learned that Blurb has downloadable icc profiles as well as the ability to make low-res proof pdfs. As someone who learned Blurb by downloading the program and clicking away (from time to time searching some online forums) these are extremely useful things I wouldn't have known about any other way. What the course does not do, however, is teach you how to make a book. It names all the steps (color management, edit, sequence ...) and how important they are, but don't expect anything but a shout out to help you remember to do it well. As examples: The section on color management is basically "Remember to calibrate your screen and soft proof using an icc profile." If you don't know what either of those mean, this course won't teach you what it is, much less how to do it. Secondly: he shows you how to add a background color to your pages, but nothing about when to do that, why to do that, and how to do it well. A last example: Daniel's most important advice is to "edit tight" -- SUPER important but for me, really difficult. Unfortunately, Daniel doesn't go into how to go about doing so. He doesn't even give tips about what to think about when culling down your own photos. I'd have paid a lot of money to watch him cull photo's for two or three books, listening to his thought process while he chooses which photos to include and which to cry over and then leave out. To do all these things would have required a day-long course rather than an hour-long course, but for me, that course would have been far more helpful. It probably have been useful for people using other programs and/or vendors as well. What the course does do, of course, is explain the Blurb BookWright software. You COULD teach yourself by pressing buttons and searching on-line forums like I did. Or, you could watch this course, save yourself a lot of time, and get information you didn't even think to ask about. Since the course goes through all the basic buttons, the course could be useful to an absolute beginner photo album maker, which is what Daniel clearly wants to achieve. He spends a lot of time trying to encourage people who have never made a book before. In my opinion, an absolute beginner book / photo album maker could learn a lot more by starting out with a far more "let me do a lot of this for you" type of program. You know the type I mean? The program that comes with (perhaps cheesy) themes, clip-art, frames, etc.? That way, see the possibilities and develop a sense of what you like before you use something like BookWright, where any and all objects that end up on the page have been created and placed by the person making the book. Doing so will give you far more ideas when you start creating entire spreads ex nihilo on your own. Then, if you want to switch to Blurb, you can watch this course (before or after you've made a couple books just using trial and error). That background will increase the chances that (if you're lacking a degree in publishing) you'll be able to piece together what Daniel's talking about when he uses the specific publishing industry vocabulary.
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Dan gave some good information on * how to layout a book * some good helps with the main page of bllurb. * some entering photos on the screen and layout I do not agree that this is a trade book. He did not go through how to add text with a photo. A trade book to me would be instructions along with photos. He did not show how to do that. The course is supposed to be a trade book
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Even though solar panel manufacturing is on the increase every year, the prospect of installing solar panels on the roof of your own home is still an expensive one. Some solar panel home kits have starting price tags of over $8000 which isn't exactly pocket change for the average consumer.{ad}
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SACRAMENTO - Today, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) introduced a groundbreaking legislative proposal to ensure that all children have access to preschool regardless of their family's income. Under the provisions of AB 47, the California Department of Education will be required to work with the Legislature and the Department of Finance on how to bridge the preschool gap for the children of low income parents who aren't already covered by the state's preschool coverage efforts, which passed earlier this year as part of the state's budget.
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(SACRMENTO) – Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) was sworn in as the Assemblymember for California's 7th Assembly District today.
"It is an honor to serve residents of the 7th Assembly District," said Assemblymember McCarty. "I grew up in this community and will dedicate my time in office to restoring the California Dream for future generations – starting with reinvesting in our P-16 education system. I am humbled by this opportunity and ready to get to work."
Assembly District 7 includes the communities of Sacramento, West Sacramento, Rio Linda, Elverta, and Antelope. The ceremony was held on the Assembly floor of the State Capitol.
The oath of office was administered by California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin Liu.
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