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In our recent newsletter we invited subscribers to submit their fishing photos, videos, stories and experiences for the purpose of sharing with our blog readers and Facebook fans. The simple reason is that collectively we can cover far more water and uncover so many more positive aspects of this sport than any one of us can individually. Within minutes of the newsletter send, we received our first response from D. Echols of Florida. We can't agree more with the title, yes, this is what it's all about. One fishing trip and all three anglers walk away with three completely different experiences, all of which are incredibly rewarding and valuable. Mr. Echols and Louie are fans of Avenger spinning reels and to keep the team together, we sent a fresh one down for Wyatt.
I've been an avid (some would say "fanatical") fisherman since the age of three. Let's see, minus the two years I spent in the Army, that's over a half century. That's plenty long enough to have gone through many of the hardships that can and do befall some of us "hard-core" anglers… things like hooks in the fingers, hooks in the feet, hooks in the back of the head, hooks in the top of the head, sinking boats, caught out in the storms, knots on the head from lead weights, a ton of cuts, stabs and bites from a variety of different fish, falling out of boats, broken rods, burned-up drags and I could go on and on. Having grown up right on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River in Southwest Florida, I've got so many fishing stories, and some so wild that most people don't even believe me when I tell them. But that's okay.
Fast forward quite a few years. There usually comes a time or two in one's life when things take a drastic turn, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. If yours hasn't happened yet, stand by, it will. I've had my share of both. One of the worst was when I was diagnosed with cancer a little over two years ago and was pretty much written off by everyone except my immediate family and one fantastic doctor who ended up saving my life. But on the other end of the spectrum, one of the best times was when a little boy who I call "Louie", came into my life. My goodness, things have definitely not been the same since. A little over ten years ago God blessed our family with this little boy and it didn't take long for me to realize that he was a whole lot like me, especially when it came to fishing. I guess when he was about two years old and would get my fishing rods out of the garage and fish in the pool is what really gave it away. Since then I've made it my mission to teach Louie everything that I possibly could about fishing. Not that I'm an expert by any means, but I (like many of you) do have a lot to offer. Louie has no Dad, so I have stepped in and tried to fill that gigantic void in his life. And at this stage of my life, nothing is more satisfying than watching him grow as an angler and as a person. Learning how to deal with whatever life has to throw at him, and having that spirit of a fisherman, I believe is helping prepare him for what lies in store later on in life, just like it did for me.
Having said all of this, all of the teaching and sharing of my experience paid off for me in a big way a few weekends ago. Louie's cousin (and best buddy) Wyatt came down from Clermont Fl., for a visit. Wyatt's eight years old, and has a keen interest in fishing, but doesn't get to go much. I saw how excited he got while looking at the giant bass in some of Louie's fishing photos. We keep them in a big album there on the coffee table in the living room. I asked him if he'd ever been bass fishing. He said "yeah, a couple of times with bread, but I've never caught one". Louie and I looked at each other and I could tell just what he was thinking. So right there I said, "let's take him to Mockingbird Lake right now"! Of course I got no argument from Louie.
We loaded up in the truck and off we went. And folks, this is where it got oh so good. What a great feeling it was, to just hang back and watch Louie take Wyatt under his wing. Listening to him tell Wyatt, with all the confidence in the world, just what to do, from the bait choice, to the cast and even the retrieve. My heart swelled with pride when I heard him yell "you got one, set the hook, set the hook, keep your rod tip up high & keep that line tight", for it was just a few years ago that I was yelling this same stuff at Louie. Thanks, at least partly to Louie's coaching and instructions, I watched as Wyatt caught the biggest bass of his life. And there's no doubt in my mind, that he is now hooked, and hereafter will never be the same. And neither will Mr. Louie. Thanks Louie and way to go Wyatt! Hopefully, as Wyatt returns to Clermont and goes fishing with his buddies, he will now impart his newfound fishing savvy and will be yelling "you got one, set the hook, set the hook, keep your rod tip up high & keep that line tight" to one of his friends. I know that most of you have heard it said "take a kid fishing" many times, so I won't say it here. But how can you read this and not come to that conclusion. After all, isn't this what it's all about? Thanks for reading.


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Floating Permaculture offers a solution to the inevitable depletion of fossil fuels and its effect on food. "Normal" farming as we know it puts a strain on fossil fuels, as produce is often trucked hundreds of miles to consumers, which contributes to traffic, air pollution and carbon emissions. Koering feels that recent alternative methods, like rooftop farming, will still not be enough to sustain the population, as not every roof can support a farm or produce enough food.
The idea of a permaculture loop originates from the Aztecs, who sought to create self-sufficient farm systems. The multilayered floating farms draw energy from alternative resources, outfitted with solar receivers, wind turbines and wave turbines. Wastewater and rain water are filtered naturally, through either an algae farm and subsequent reactor, or through a filter system using zebra mussels, and then re-circulated to nourish the organic produce. The zebra mussels also provide nourishment for fish and chickens which are raised on the mass. The excrement from the fish and other animals is used to fertilize the rice paddies, which in turn feed the chickens – as does the excess algae from the water purification system. Each feeds the next.
One problem of this idealistic system is that the current technology that harvests wind and sun energy cannot maintain or store enough energy to sustain the permacultures. A hydrogen-fuel cell can help generate the necessary energy, which can then be stored in a hydro-electric power-plant.
This fantastical floating utopia may seem like a science fiction movie from the 1960s now, but could be a viable option in the future if our natural resources do in fact run out. Complex self-sufficient and looped systems may be the answer to food production if traditional farming is no longer an option.
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I do have my own concept for a fleet of floating, sustainable cities (among other things) that would circumnavigate the globe, although even if I've never heard of Permaculture, I think it's a lot closer to practical application than this approach might be.
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Courier & Press archives University of Evansville forward Denver Holmes (34) leaps for a rebound between Butler University forward Khyle Marshall (23) and center Andrew Smith (44) in overtime of UE's first regular season game in the Ford Center on Nov. 12. Evansville beat Butler in overtime 80-77.
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Fairly hairy terms of reference in anyone's language, so when the English-born, Mildura-reared, Swedish-based Crump was invited to participate in the Red Bull Race Off at the 2012 Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix, he was all ears.
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Which is just as well, as 37-year-old Crump did spent some time in the Albert Park outfield in this afternoon's opening race, as he completed the five-lapper in last position behind five other members of the eclectic Red Bull stable of athletes all driving identically prepared Meganes -- V8 Supercar driver Ricky Kelly; freestyle motocross guru Robbie Maddison; 13-time F1 winner David Coulthard; professional drifter Mike Whiddett; and driving instructor and racer Samantha Reid.
Kelly, Coulthard and Maddison have all returned from active duty in 2011, with Maddison scoring the overall honours in the maiden event.
"After I ran off the track I looked up and the buggers had taken off on me," said Crump. "I drove like a man possessed trying to keep up and it was a lot of fun – you kind of forget that it's an exhibition once the competitive juices start flowing."
Crump, a great mate of Mark Webber's, for many years lived near the legendary Silverstone F1 circuit in Northamptonshire, but he didn't get the chance to drive there – which kind of makes sense with the top speedway riders often competing 4-5 times a week across countries such as Poland and Sweden.
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Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - Juan Uribe's two-run home run in the ninth inning halted a Mets comeback, and sent Los Angeles to an 8-5 victory in the middle test of a three-game series.
Uribe finished with two hits, three runs scored and four RBI for the Dodgers, who have taken the first two in the set and three straight overall.
James Loney and Matt Kemp added a pair of hits, RBI and run scored each for LA, which had dropped three of four to the Mets in late June at home.
Chris Capuano (10-5) allowed eight hits and three runs with nine strikeouts over seven solid innings for the win.
Ronny Cedeno homered, while Daniel Murphy and Kirk Nieuwenhuis picked up pinch-hit RBIs for the Mets, who have lost eight of their last nine.
"This time of year they all become the most important game each and every day," said Mets manager Terry Collins. "We've struggled. We came back today and made it a game. We gotta keep fighting. The clubhouse is filled with guys that understand that and know ... it's no fun going through what we're going through."
Miguel Batista (1-3) was tagged in defeat for five hits and four runs over three full frames.
Cedeno's homer brought the hosts within 6-3 in the sixth, then Murphy tripled in a run and Nieuwenhuis added an RBI groundout in the eighth to pull the Mets within a run.
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Kenley Jansen walked two batters with two outs in the home half, but recovered to fan Scott Hairston to end the game and earn his 18th save.
Los Angeles picked up a run in the first as Kemp and Andre Ethier walked and Loney singled in Kemp. The Dodgers went ahead by a 3-0 count in the third on Uribe's two-run double and a Luis Cruz RBI base hit.
"We really jumped on them early and really grinded out some nice at-bats," said Capuano. "It made for some long innings which can be tough sometimes when you're in the dugout for a long time. But I just tried to keep my energy up."
The Mets responded in the home third on back-to-back RBI singles from Hairston and Jason Bay, but Kemp tripled home Adam Kennedy in the fourth and Matt Treanor scored Uribe on a double in the fifth which pushed LA's edge to 6-2.
Uribe's four RBI were his most since similar performances on April 20 and 22, 2011 against the Braves and Cubs, respectively, and his three runs scored were the most since he crossed the plate three times for the Giants against Arizona on May 29, 2010...Prior to the contest, the Mets placed Johan Santana on the 15-day disabled list with a right ankle sprain and recalled pitcher Jeremy Hefner from Triple-A Norfolk.


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Le Palais royal des expositions et les jardins Carlton qui l'entourent ont été conçus pour les grandes expositions internationales de 1880 et 1888 à Melbourne. Le bâtiment et le terrain ont été dessinés par Joseph Reed. Le bâtiment, construit en brique, bois, acier et ardoise, amalgame des traits byzantins, romans, lombards et de la Renaissance italienne. Cet ensemble est représentatif du mouvement des expositions internationales. Entre 1851 et 1915, plus de 50 d'entre elles furent organisées dans des villes comme Paris, New York, Vienne, Calcutta, Kingston (Jamaïque) et Santiago du Chili, sur la base d'un principe et d'un objectif commun : dresser un état des lieux du progrès en exposant les réalisations de tous les pays.
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تم تصميم مبنى المعرض الملكي وحدائق كارلتون المحيطة لإحتواء المعارض الدولية الكبيرة بين 1880 و 1888 في ملبورن. رسم المبنى والأراضي المحيطة جوزف ريد. وتمّ تشييد المبنى بالقرميد والخشب والمعدن والأردواز (حجر صفائحي ناعم) وخليط من السمات البيزنطية والرومانية واللومباردية ومن النهضة الإيطالية. تمثّل المجموعة حركة المعارض الدولية، فبين 1851 و 1915، تمّ تنظيم أكثر من 50 منها في مدن مثل باريس ونيويورك وفيينا وكالكوتا وكينغستون (جامايكا) وسانتياغو (شيلي) على أساس مبدأ وهدف مشترك: تحديد وضعية التقدّم بعرض إنجازات كل البلدان.
source: UNESCO/ERI
澳大利亚皇家展览馆及其周边的卡尔顿园林,是为1880和1888年墨尔本的盛大国际展览而特别设计的。展览馆由约瑟夫·里德(Joseph Reed)设计。整个展馆和园林由砖、木头、钢和石板等材料建成,风格则融合了拜占庭式、罗马式、伦巴第式以及意大利文艺复兴风格。展览馆专门用于举办国际展览活动,从1851年至1915年,有50余场来自巴黎、纽约、维也纳、加尔各答、牙买加金斯敦、智利圣地亚哥等地的展览在此处举办。所有活动有一个共同的主题和目的:通过对各国工业的展示,记录物质和精神进步。
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Здание Королевской выставки и сады Карлтон (Мельбурн)
Здание Королевской выставки и окружающие его сады Карлтон были спроектированы Джозефом Ридом для проведения больших международных выставок 1880 и 1888 гг. в Мельбурне. Здание выставки было сооружено из кирпича, деревянных и стальных конструкций, покрыто шифером, и объединило архитектурные элементы разных стилей – византийского, романского, ломбардского и итальянского Возрождения. Объект типичен для международных выставок, более 50 из которых были проведены во всем мире между 1851 и 1915 гг.
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Palacio Real de Exposiciones y Jardines Carlton
Proyectados para albergar las dos grandes exposiciones internacionales celebradas en Melbourne en 1880 y 1888, el Palacio Real de Exposiciones y los Jardines Carlton que lo rodean fueron diseñados por el arquitecto Joseph Reed. El palacio, construido con ladrillo, madera, hierro y pizarra, integra diversos estilos arquitectónicos: románico-bizantino, lombardo y renacentista italiano. El edificio es representativo del movimiento de promoción de las exposiciones internacionales, que alcanzó su apogeo entre 1851 y 1915, con la celebración de más de 50 en ciudades de todo el mundo, como París, Nueva York, Viena, Calcuta, Kingston (Jamaica) y Santiago de Chile. Todas esas exposiciones tuvieron el mismo denominador común y un idéntico objetivo: mostrar el progreso material y moral de la humanidad, presentando los productos industriales de todas las naciones del planeta.
source: UNESCO/ERI
source: NFUAJ
Koninklijke tentoonstellingsgebouw en tuinen van Carlton
Het Koninklijke tentoonstellingsgebouw en de tuinen van Carlton zijn door Joseph Reed ontworpen voor de grote internationale tentoonstellingen van 1880 en 1888 in Melbourne. Het gebouw is opgebouwd uit baksteen, hout, staal en leisteen en combineert elementen uit de Byzantijnse, Romaanse, Lombardische en Italiaanse renaissancestijl. Het pand is typerend voor de wereldtentoonstellingsbeweging die meer dan 50 tentoonstellingen organiseerde tussen 1851 en 1915 in Parijs, New York, Wenen, Calcutta, Kingston (Jamaica) en Santiago (Chili). Alle tentoonstellingen hadden een gemeenschappelijk thema en doel: de materiële en morele vooruitgang in kaart brengen door de industrie van alle naties te etaleren.
Source: unesco.nl
Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens are a surviving manifestation of the international exhibition movement which blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition building was constructed as a Great Hall, a permanent building initially intended to house the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880 and the subsequent 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition. These were the largest events staged in colonial Australia and helped to introduce the world to Australian industry and technology.
The site comprises three parcels of Crown Land in the City of Melbourne, being two Crown Land Reserves for Public Recreation (Carlton Gardens) and one dedicated to the exhibition building and the recently-constructed museum (Exhibition Reserve). The inscribed property consists of a rectangular block of 26 hectares bounded by four city streets with an additional 55.26 hectares in the surrounding buffer zone.
Positioned in the Exhibition Reserve, with the Carlton Gardens to the north and the south, is the Great Hall. This building is cruciform in plan and incorporates the typical architectural template of earlier exhibition buildings: namely a dome, great portal entries, viewing platforms, towers, and fanlight windows. The formal Carlton Gardens, with its tree-lined pathways, fountains and lakes, is an integral part of the overall site design and also characteristic of exhibition buildings of this period.
Criterion (ii): The Royal Exhibition Building and the surrounding Carlton Gardens, as the main extant survivors of a Palace of Industry and its setting, together reflect the global influence of the international exhibition movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement showcased technological innovation and change, which helped promote a rapid increase in industrialisation and international trade through the exchange of knowledge and ideas.
The completeness of the inscribed property has been retained with the same boundaries as set out in 1879. The Melbourne Museum was constructed in 1998-2000 to the north of the Royal Exhibition Building.
The present state of the conservation of the Great Hall is very good. Conservation work has recently been undertaken on the building's dome and structure, the external joinery and stonework, and timber floors. Additionally, upgrades to building services have been completed. The scroll and parterre gardens on the southern side of the exhibition building, which were part of the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition, have been restored. As part of the restoration of the 1880 German Garden, an extensive water harvesting and storage system has been installed that involved the installation of underground water tanks in the western forecourt to capture roof and surface runoff. The formal ornamental palace garden, being the southern part of the Carlton Gardens, provided the context for the Palace of Industry and is substantially intact in form including its treed avenues. These works contribute to maintaining the integrity of the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens.
The property of the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens has retained high authenticity of setting, maintaining its original form on the international exhibition site defined in 1879. The site is still surrounded by city streets and is edged by the bluestone plinth, the base of the iron railings that bounded the 1880 exhibition grounds.
The 1880 Great Hall survives substantially intact in its form and design, internally and externally. Authenticity of form is manifest in its survival as the only Great Hall from a major industrial exhibition of the late 19th and early 20th century. The east and west annexes, not part of the original design and intended to be of temporary use only, were demolished in the mid 20th century. Some modern interventions have been reversed including two structures attached to the north elevation in the 1960s and 1970s which were removed and the original structure repaired. Recent restoration works have included the reinstatement of missing ornamentation around the parapet line.
Interior spaces have been largely retained and are once again used for large-scale exhibitions demonstrating a relatively high authenticity of function within the Great Hall. Prompted by fire safety concerns, most of the original timber staircases were replaced by concrete early in the 20th century, an acceptable risk-sensitive reduction in material authenticity. In 1994, major restoration work included the reworking of the interior colour scheme to the documented era of 1901. The ornate internal paintings have mostly been replaced by the third decorative scheme of 1901, however, parts of the 1880 murals are still intact.
The museum's construction removed part of the north garden although the surviving garden has retained its late 19th century layout. The original axial layout of the south garden survives with its formal paths, tree clumps and central avenues, lawn areas and two lakes (although reduced in size) and fountains. One fountain, the 1888 Westgarth Fountain, has been relocated. A high number of the trees extant on the site are from the 1880s and 1890s layout. Restoration of garden pathways and plantings are based on research.
Protection and management requirements
The property has effective legal protection and a sound planning framework. The management system takes into account a wide range of measures provided under planning and heritage legislation and policies of both the Australian Government and the Victorian Government. The Burra Charter principles support the Conservation Management Plan for the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens and the World Heritage Environs Area Strategy Plan. Together these documents provide the policy framework for conservation and management. The property is maintained and preserved through regular and rigorous repair and conservation programs undertaken at all levels of government.
The Royal Exhibition Building is managed as an integral part of Museum Victoria, the state museum. The Carlton Gardens are managed by the City of Melbourne.
The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens was included in the National Heritage List in 2004 under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and on the State Heritage Register of Victoria in 1998 under the Heritage Act 1995. Inclusion in the National Heritage List requires that any proposed action to be taken inside or outside the boundaries of a National Heritage place or a World Heritage property that may have a significant impact on the heritage values is prohibited without the approval of the Federal Minister. Inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Register means that works inside the boundaries of the registered place are prohibited without approval under the Heritage Act 1995.
A Conservation Management Plan for the whole site was finalised in 2009. A buffer zone, the World Heritage Environs Area, covering an additional 55.26 hectares, was established in 2010 and has been supplemented by the World Heritage Environs Area Strategy Plan. Changes to local government heritage overlays have been made to give effect to this plan. Any future developments immediately outside the World Heritage Environs Area, which are likely to have a significant impact on the World Heritage values of the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, are subject to the provisions of the EPBC Act.
Long Description
The Royal Exhibition Building and the surrounding Carlton Gardens, as the main extant survivors of a Palace of Industry and its setting, together reflect the global influence of the international exhibition movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement showcased technological innovation and change, which helped promote a rapid increase in industrialization and international trade through the exchange of knowledge and ideas.
The complex was designed for the great international exhibitions of 1880 and 1888 in Melbourne. The building, designed by Joseph Reed, is constructed of brick and timber, steel and slate; it combines elements from the Byzantine, Romanesque, Lombardic and Italian Renaissance styles. The property is typical of the international exhibition movement which saw over 50 expositions staged between 1851 and 1915 in venues including Paris, New York, Vienna, Calcutta, Kingston (Jamaica) and Santiago (Chile). All shared a common theme and aims: to chart material and moral progress through displays of industry from all nations.
The scale and grandeur of the building reflects the values and aspirations attached to industrialization and its international face. The Building boasts many of the important features that made the expositions so dramatic and effective, including a dome, a great hall, giant entry portals, versatile display areas, axial planning, and complementary gardens and viewing areas. Unlike many international exhibitions, the Building was conceived as a permanent structure that would have a future role in the cultural activities of the growing city of Melbourne.
Despite the great impact of the international exhibition movement worldwide and the impressive nature of the many buildings designed and built to hold these displays, few remain. Even fewer retain their authenticity in terms of original location and condition. The Royal Exhibition Building, in its original setting of the Carlton Gardens, is one of the rare survivors. It has added rarity as the only substantially intact example in the world of a Great Hall from a major international exhibition.
Carlton Gardens are in two parts: an axial garden layout in the southern part of the site and a northern garden that was landscaped after the close of the two great 19th century exhibitions. Bounded by Victoria, Rathdowne, Carlton and Nicholson Streets at the edge of Melbourne's city centre, the entire block remains intact as originally designated by the Victorian Parliament in 1878. During the 1880 and 1888 international exhibitions the southern portion of the garden became a pleasure garden, with many attractions. The South Carlton Gardens, as it is now known, continues to be used for parkland and exhibition purposes. The southern entrance to the building, on the city side, is the apex of the design. A level promenade was created along the front of the building, and a semi-circular space has as its centrepiece an ornate fountain. A ceremonial approach is provided by a 24 m wide avenue, and two other paths form a radiating axis from the fountain. In 1888 another fountain, the Westgarth Fountain, was added.
The aesthetic significance of the Carlton Gardens lies in its representation of the 19th-century Gardenesque style. This includes parterre garden beds, significant avenues including the southern carriage drive and Grande Allée, the path system, specimens and clusters of trees, two small lakes and three fountains. The formal ornamental palace garden, which was the context for the Great Hall of the Palace of Industry, is substantially intact.Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC
Historical Description
The history of the buildings and gardens is closely linked to the history and development of the international exhibition movement – a phenomena that spread across all continents. Although the first great exhibition took place in 1851, in the Crystal Palace in London, the idea of celebrating manufactured goods had been in being for almost a century, with national exhibitions in England then France and elsewhere in Europe.
The difference between these small celebrations and promotions and the great exhibitions that followed was of scale and classification. The great exhibition movement, as it came to be known, espoused the 19th century passion for discovery and creation, but above all for classification. Classification – as exemplified in museums and botanical collections – demonstrated man's control over his surroundings. Great exhibitions were a way of both celebrating the industry that emerged from the Industrial Revolution, and showing man's domination over it in an international context.
Over 50 exhibitions were held between 1851 and 1915, each different yet sharing common theme and aims – to chart material and moral progress within a world context, through displaying the industry of all nations. Venues included Paris, New York, Vienna, Calcutta, Kingston, Jamaica and Santiago, Chile. Most had display 'palaces' specially constructed, often from manufactured iron components stretching technology to the limit.
By the 1870s a form for the overall layout had come to be established which consisted of clusters of history-domes, national pavilions and viewing platforms surrounding a 'Palace of Industry' all set within landscape grounds. And a network of contacts has been set up with 'commissioners' observing and suggesting improvements for the next event.
By around 1900 the slowing of national economies, combined with peoples' realisation that manufacturing did not always improve the quality of life, led, outside the United States, to exhibitions begun to lose their appeal.
The Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne is thus an example from the mid-point of the movement. It did not appear out of nowhere: a first small exhibition building had been built in 1854, and others followed larger in scale, usually precursors to international exhibitions elsewhere. The two international exhibitions of 1880 and 1888 took place at a time when Melbourne was booming.
Unlike many other exhibition buildings, Melbourne's has survived still on its original plot and surrounded by gardens. However there have been significant changes to the extended complex of buildings and gardens. The east and west annexes of the exhibition building were removed in the 1960s and 1970s (one of the halls being reconstructed off-site as a tram museum). The major recent change has been the building of the new Melbourne Museum in the north garden.
The uses of the building have been diverse since it was built. Until 1901 it was used for exhibitions. It then became part of the parliament until 1919 when it was used a fever hospital during the First World War. Between then and 1975 it served as stores and offices, and as troop accommodation and as a ballroom. The new direction for the building started in 1975 when was officially listed on the Register of the National Estate.
The adjective Royal was added to the building in 1980.Source: Advisory Body Evaluation


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Sinasaar is a traditional crepe from the city of Djenné, in central Mali. It was once commonly prepared on the occasion of important events, such as weddings and religious festivals (such as tabaski, better known as Eid el-Adha, and Ramadan), or the arrival of guests. Today few young women know this recipe, and it risks being lost completely. A local chef, Kadidia Djenepo, has organized a cooking workshop to be held on Terra Madre Day, to teach Djenné's youth how to prepare this unique rice flour crepe.
Ingredients for 4 people
1 kg rice flour
125g white rice
½ tbsp. yeast
125ml oil or 125g of butter for frying
1 tsp salt
Cook the rice in half a liter of water for around 30 minutes, stirring often until it reaches a dense creamy consistency. Set aside to cool.
Sift the rice flour and mix together with the creamed rice in a large bowl by hand. Add the salt, yeast and half a liter of water and mix well – the dough should be runny in consistency. Leave to rest for two hours.
Heat a knob of butter or splash of oil in a wide flat-bottomed pan and then add two ladles of the mix: cook on a low heat for 10-15 minutes (popping the air bubbles that appear on the bread's surface as it cooks), before flipping it and allowing it to cook for one more minute. If necessary dampen the side already cooked with a little water.
Repeat with the rest of the mixture.
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WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass.—It's noontime on a Wednesday at the town dump in this small (population: 6,600), middle-class community 30 miles south of Boston. This means that Bill Weleck, a 64-year-old retired mail carrier, is due for his four-and-a-half-hour work shift. He bicycles in, as usual, and dons a town-issued, fluorescent-green vest and a pair of gloves, then starts sorting through bags of plastic bottles in search of recyclables. The air is a tad pungent, but that doesn't bother Weleck, who looks forward to the work. As he puts it, "What would I be doing at home? This gets me out into the community."
Weleck isn't working for wages. He is compensated for his time by an abatement on his property taxes worth up to $750 per year. The state's "senior property tax work-off program" is popular with fiscally strapped Massachusetts towns that can't afford to pay union-scale wages for needed work. Some 30 residents in West Bridgewater, ranging in age from their mid-60s to mid-80s, can be found not only at the dump (a much-desired worksite among the men) but also at the library, the forestry and maintenance departments, and the warrens of town hall. "The girls I have—and I call them girls—want to learn," said Karen Lavin, a Building Department supervisor for a rotating crew of seniors who greet customers at the window, answer the phones, and help to process permits. "In my opinion, they're worth every penny."
Americans, it's no secret, are living longer than ever. Life expectancy at birth, currently about 78 years, is increasing at the rate of roughly 1.5 years per decade. Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 per day. The number of Americans age 65 or older, a mere 20 million in 1970, is on track to rise from about 40 million today to some 70 million by 2030. The share of seniors in the population, now about 13 percent, will reach 18 percent by 2030. The ranks of Americans who survive into their 90s are expected to soar from 1.9 million in 2010 to 9 million in 2050.
Long life may well be a blessing for the individual. But is it also a blessing for society? The fashionable answer is an increasingly anxious no. Choose your apocalyptic metaphor. The aging of America represents a "financial time bomb," The New York Times has proclaimed—with the solvency of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (the last in line for nursing-home payments for patients who have depleted their assets) all at risk. Foreign Policy magazine has warned that a "gray tsunami is sweeping the planet," the United States included.
And yet the forecast that Americans' increased longevity is a collective downer for the nation ain't necessarily so. The fiscal threat, while real, provides too narrow a prism for understanding a question so complex. History suggests that the size of the total economic pie tends to grow larger as life expectancy rises. From 1950 to 2010, Americans' life expectancy at birth grew by 15 percent and, at age 65, by more than 30 percent—even as household incomes and the gross domestic product increased sixfold.
So, as counterintuitive as this may sound, it is possible, even likely—listen up, worrywarts!—for Americans to live longer and grow richer.
Everything depends on two variables. The first is the health of older Americans, now and in decades to come. Will we have a population of bedridden elders subsisting in nursing homes as wards of the state, or will seniors be relatively able-bodied contributors to the economy, whether by working or by spending money on golf outings or gifts for the grandchildren? The difference for society is huge.
The second crucial factor is public policy. Will government take an imaginative and flexible approach to contributions that seniors can make—as exemplified by West Bridgewater's tax work-off program? Will Washington relieve the fiscal stress on entitlement programs by, perhaps, raising the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare commensurate with the increase in life expectancy?
Nobody can say. But experts cite grounds for optimism, especially in regard to improvements in health. Medical advances make it likelier that seniors will spend a diminishing portion of their remaining days in pricy nursing homes. "People are staying healthier longer—we're not producing a generation of really sick old people," said David Canning, a professor of population science, economics, and international health at Harvard's School of Public Health. "From the individual's point of view, this is good news. From society's perspective, this is also good news."
How rare.
The fancy term for what Canning described is "compression of morbidity"—the squeezing of serious illness, of all "morbid" conditions that cause death, into as short a time as possible at life's end. Maximize the living, minimize the suffering, is one way to think about it. A personification of this principle is 106-year-old Signy Moen of West Barnstable on Cape Cod. Born in 1905, she tells of a childhood on a Norwegian farm with no electricity, of hopping on a ship to America by herself at age 18 ("I wanted to go places"), and of working as a Rosie the Riveter in a factory in Chicago making airplanes during World War II. And she recounts stories of her husband, who died in 1974—"a good man; I miss him," she says, gently rocking in a parlor chair, a red blanket on her lap.
This article appears in the December 14, 2011 edition of National Journal Magazine.


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Lady Bucs look to remain perfect against Kennesaw on Thursday night
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
KENNESAW, Ga. (Dec. 17, 2008) - On Thursday night two of the league's preseason favorites will hit the hardwood, when the Lady Bucs travel to the Peach State to take on Kennesaw State in an early conference battle. Tip is set for 7 p.m. inside the
ETSU was tabbed the preseason favorite in both the coaches and media polls, but the Lady Bucs looked anything but that in their conference opener at Mercer two weeks ago.
Mercer stunned the Lady Bucs, 77-61, in that contest; however, ETSU responded in a big way last Friday night in
The Lady Buccaneers will now look to head into their Christmas break with back-to-back victories. A win over
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My first child was born at 6:51 AM on December 10, 2011. She was 21 inches long, 9 pounds 3.4 ounces, and two days overdue. "Aylah Racheal-May"My labor pains lasted 12 hours, starting at 2cm dilated and jumping to 5cm at 2 AM check-in by midwife and then to 10cm at the last minute check. I was then told I could give in to the urge to push, and five pushes later, she slid out faster than the midwife could put her hands in the water.I had a natural birth in a tub, which I decided had too hot of water, not enough room (though it was massive), and at the end: did not take enough pain/pressure away for my comfort. Everyone gave me cold washcloths to keep on my forehead, neck, and sides, and amused me for one second when my doula announced I needed to give her a second to move her hand before I snapped her fingers off.I did panic a bit, but was actually able to relax (finally) when my momma prayed out loud and right after she finished I was allowed to push. According to my DF, I made him cry before she even came out because I kept looking to him to help me and he didn't know how to help me besides sit there holding me up, breathing with me, and telling me he wasn't going anywhere and that I could do it; and I remember at the last minute making him promise me that he could feel where her head was so I would know she was actually coming out when I was trying to push (which, I stopped for a minute after the first to ask him several times if she actually did move forward to come out).Aylah had been measured as small for weeks before delivery and when she came out, I had only seen her for one second before deciding that she was NOT small. However, I only needed a couple of stitches in the end, so I guess she wasn't too big. Her father handed her to me, weighed and measured her, cut her cord, bathed her, and dressed her before I nursed her for the first time and then he also got her diaper changed (and she showed me some loving expressions from him that I have never seen before)! She is now nursing regularly and has gone through a stack of diapers. I am also grateful she is a solid sleeper -- only having woke up twice during her constantly sleeping because of an excited family member fussing over her (fingers crossed she lets me get some sleep often).This whole pregnancy (and especially during delivery), I swore up and down she would be an only child due to increasing discomforts, but now that mommy-hormones have hit, taking away the negativity, I would certainly do it again. I never thought you could feel so strongly for someone you had never seen before, by only looking at them for a second and then their first sounds being loud cries, but you can.
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