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Christchurch's water- what's the story?
There's plenty of water flowing under Christchurch which is available for community use as well as sourcing the city's spring-fed streams. This page shows the key facts around the freshwater resource that sits under the city.
Christchurch's water supply is well understood by scientists and is sustainably managed. As a community, we are committed to protecting this precious resource from overuse or contamination.
- If you're interested in Cloud Ocean Water and its consent applications, visit our Water bottling - what's the story? page.
- If you're interested in who does what to protect, monitor and supply visit our Christchurch's drinking water page.
How much water does Christchurch have?
Around 375 million cubic metres flows beneath the city each year - that's the same as 150,000 Olympic sized swimming pools.
While we measure water in cubic metres, a lot of people think about water in litres which makes the numbers huge. If we did this then the amount of water under Christchurch is 375,000,000,000 litres.
Where is this water?
There is water everywhere beneath the city, filling the pore spaces in the gravelly sediments under the ground. There is just one interconnected aquifer under the city – not a series of separate aquifers – and water flows through the sediments.
Users extract water through bores or wells – Christchurch City Council has nearly 150 bores throughout the city which supply water to houses and businesses through a network of pipes and supporting infrastructure.
How much water flows under Christchurch each year?
The system under Christchurch is in balance: water in = water out.
Around 375 million cubic metres of water flows in each year, it is made up of:
- 123 million cubic metres of rainfall onto the areas north and west of the city
- 252 million cubic metres of water that 'leaks' from the Waimakariri River and flows via shallow aquifers towards Christchurch.
How much water does Christchurch use, and what are the natural outflows?
Around 375 million cubic metres flows out of the Christchurch system - it is made up of:
- 208 million cubic metres that enters spring-fed streams such as the Heathcote and the Avon/Otakaro and flows to the estuary and the sea.
- 15 million cubic metres which flows underground to the sea or other springs.
- 152 million cubic metres allocated for Christchurch (but not all is used).
How much of the annual allocated water is used?
Around 152 million cubic metres is allocated on an annual basis - but not all that is allocated is used. Christchurch City Council, for instance, uses only around 70% of its allocation.
The top 20 industry users, which includes water bottling, mostly use significantly less than their allocated amount each year.
The allocations in Christchurch are:
- 57% to Christchurch City Council for community supplies.
- 38% allocated to industry.
- 7% allocated for water bottling.
No more water can be allocated except for community supplies (Christchurch City Council).
Industry or water bottlers are prohibited from applying for new consents to take water – but they can trade or transfer existing usage consents or apply for a variation to an existing consent.
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Take a spellbinding tour around the wonders of Vietnam and Taiwan, on this 9-night odyssey to Hanoi, Halong Bay, Ho Chi Minh City and Taipei. Fall for the French-colonial elegance and bustle of capital Hanoi, enjoy an overnight junk cruise among the pinnacles of UNESCO-protected Halong Bay, and fly to Ho Chi Minh, formerly Saigon, for a burst of this vibrant metropolis. Here, opt to tour the Cu Chi Tunnels of the Vietnam War, or explore the stilted towns, rice paddies, and farms of the lush Mekong Delta and choose to finish with a dinner cruise along the Saigon River. Then, cap your adventure in Taiwan, staying in its neon-lit capital of Taipei and discovering a land of age-old temples, dramatic landscapes and hi-tech shopping.
Our voyage to Vietnam begins as we board an international flight to Hanoi, Vietnam's vibrant capital.
Meet your guide upon arrival and transfer to your hotel. The remainder of the day is yours to relax or start exploring this compelling city, which blends the mystique of yesteryear with modern-day architecture.
Vietnam's second largest city, Hanoi has been occupied by the French, Chinese and Japanese through its 1,000-year history and boasts tree-lined boulevards, busy markets and colonial buildings that all demand exploration. Today, visit the Ho Chi Minh Memorial to see Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, and peer into the Stilt House where the revered Vietnamese spiritual leader lived from 1958 to 1969. Other must-sees include the 11th-century One Pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature and the Museum of Ethnology. Continue your afternoon in Hanoi with an exploration of the old quarter before heading back to the hotel for an evening at leisure. Alternatively, you may want to immerse yourself in north Vietnamese folk culture with our optional Water Puppet Show and Dinner experience. Visit Hanoi's Water Puppet Theatre to watch a colorful show of traditional puppets acting out scenes on a pool of water as a stage. Afterward, head to a local restaurant for a Vietnamese dinner before returning to your hotel.
Included: Breakfast at hotel
★★★★★ Sunway Hotel Hanoi or similar
Today, gaze out over rural Vietnam as we drive to UNESCO-listed Halong Bay, a spectacular bay dotted with over 3,000 limestone islands. On arrival, transfer to a junk boat, your comfortable floating home for an overnight cruise. Enjoy a fresh seafood lunch on board as you sail past islands, fishing villages and craggy caves. Snap photos of the sublime scenery and relax on deck this afternoon as your chef prepares dinner, a feast of traditional Vietnamese dishes. Savor the meal on board tonight before retiring to your cabin.
Included: Breakfast at hotel, Lunch , Dinner
Admire the breathtaking sunrise over Halong's waters and enjoy the last of the views as we cruise back to dock. Disembark and bid farewell to Halong as we travel back to Hanoi and fly to Ho Chi MInh City, better known as Saigon. Meet your local guide upon arrival in Saigon and transfer to the hotel.
Included: Breakfast at hotel
Enjoy the morning free at leisure or join our optional tour to the Cu Chi tunnels. Covering almost 250 km in length, the Cu Chi tunnels were shelter to over 16,000 Viet Cong guerrillas during the wars. The network of tunnels served as communication routes, storage facilities, hospitals and living quarters for Vietnamese fighters throughout the war. After exploring the tunnels, return to the city center for lunch before we embark on our city sightseeing tour. Conquered by the French in the 19th century, this intoxicating city still sports boulevards and grand European buildings — colonial vestiges that contrast starkly with its now predominantly Buddhist culture and booming capitalist-driven economy. Today, our guided tour of the historic center showcases the colonial area with visits to the Old Saigon Post Office and Notre Dame Cathedral*. Afterwards, visit the Chinese district and the Thien Hau Pagoda before returning back to the hotel.
Included: Breakfast at hotel
★★★★★ Central Palace Hotel or similar
Today is yours to do as you wish: perhaps souvenir-shopping in Ho Chi Minh's Ben Thanh Market, exploring the city's poignant War Remnants Museum, or enjoying its enticing bars and restaurants. Alternatively, take our optional excursion to the Mekong Delta: a maze of islands and waterways lined with stilted villages, rice paddies, and fruit farms that forms the agricultural heartland of south Vietnam. After driving to the delta's Ben Tre province, ride a motorboat to a coconut workshop, brick kiln, and homes where families hand-weave sleeping mats. Then, savor fresh fruits and green tea at a local house before riding a bike or motorized cart around rice fields, villages, and farms. Following a typical delta lunch at a family home, glide along narrow canals by hand-rowed boat to visit a rice-making workshop and historical house. Wrap up your day with a transfer back to your Ho Chi Minh hotel where you can spend the evening at leisure, or join our optional farewell Saigon River dinner cruise—admiring the city lights from the water over a delicious buffet meal.
Included: Breakfast at hotel
★★★★★ Central Palace Hotel or similar
After breakfast, check out of your Ho Chi Minh City hotel and transfer to Ho Chi Minh City International Airport to catch your flight to Taipei, Taiwan's buzzing capital. This subtropical gem lies off China's coast in the Pacific Ocean, and is renowned for its mountain scenery, highly developed cities and elaborate temples. On arrival, relax with a transfer to your hotel in the city, and spend the remainder of your day as you wish. Perhaps make the most of the comforts and amenities at your hotel, or head out for your first taste of this fast-paced metropolis.
Included: Breakfast at hotel
★★★★★ Howard Plaza or Similar
After breakfast, set off on a fascinating half-day sightseeing tour of Taipei: a pulsating metropolis where stylish shops and glass skyscrapers go hand-in-hand with colorful markets and ancient temples. Stroll around the National Palace Museum to view its acclaimed collection of Chinese antiquities and visit the grandiose Chiang Kai-shek Memorial and Martyr's Shrine. Soak in the electrifying pace as you tour, and then enjoy the afternoon at leisure, relaxing or sightseeing as you wish. This evening, join our optional Taipei by Night tour, visiting the Hwahsi night market and Taipei 101, the world's second highest building, before enjoying the ever-famous Din Tai Fung dumplings.
Included: Breakfast
★★★★★ Howard Plaza or Similar
Explore and enjoy Taipei in your own way today, or seize the chance to see more of Taiwan on our day trip to Taroko Gorge. Ride a train and venture deep into Taiwan's picturesque East Coast National Scenic Area, passing lush paddy fields, sheer cliffs and fishing villages. Marvel at the incredible Taroko Gorge, a narrow canyon that threads through marble cliffs , and take a drive along the spectacular road carved into the gorge side above the Liwu River. Afterward, visit the Eternal Spring Shrine, Swallow Caves, Tunnel of Nine Turns, Tienhsiang Lodge, Chi Hsing Beach, Hualien Stone Sculptural Park and other must-sees before enjoying your scenic train ride back to Taipei.
Included: Breakfast
★★★★★ Howard Plaza or Similar
Relax over breakfast at your hotel this morning and after checking out, enjoy a convenient transfer to Taipei International Airport for your homebound journey. Bid goodbye to Taipei as your board your international flight, bringing your Thailand and Taiwan adventure to an end.
Included: Breakfast
Create your ideal getaway with the following upgrade options. Extensions and upgrades can be added during the booking process.
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While in Hanoi, opt to join our evening Water Puppet Show and Dinner excursion to experience this long-standing art form. After a transfer from your hotel, take a seat at a classic water show theater for a memorable puppet performance. Dating to the 1200s when villagers made entertainment by standing in flooded rice paddy fields
This morning, you will be transferred by a private car to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels. Covering almost 250 km in length, the Cu Chi tunnels were shelter to over 16,000 Vietcong guerrillas during the wars. Initially created in 1948 to provide shelter, the network went on to serve as communication routes, storage facilities, hospitals
Take our optional Mekong Delta excursion from Ho Chi Minh for a fascinating insight into life in this lush delta region—whose rivers, villages, rice paddies and farms make up Vietnam's 'rice basket.' After breakfast, enjoy a scenic drive south to the delta's Ben Tre province as your guide shares background on the region and its
Mark your last night in Vietnam with our optional farewell dinner cruise on the Saigon River. This mighty river flows south from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh, and serves as the lifeblood of the city and a wonderful vantage point for viewing its futuristic skyline and bridges. After pickup from your hotel, step aboard a
Taiwan's capital of Taipei comes alive at night with neon-lit malls and skyscrapers, illuminated temples and noisy street markets that draw locals and visitors alike. Get a taste of the floodlit sights and the pulsating evening atmosphere, and enjoy a mouth-watering dumpling dinner, one of Taiwan's culinary claims-to-fame, on this 3.5-hour night tour.
After pickup from
Marvel at one of Taiwan's natural wonders and top visitor magnets on this full-day excursion to the Taroko Gorge from Taipei. After early morning pickup from your Taipei hotel, ride a high-speed train to Hualien on Taiwan's eastern coast, passing sheer cliffs, rice paddies, mountains and quaint fishing villages and enjoying glimpses of the Pacific


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The definition of inject, the meaning of word Inject
Is inject a scrabble word? Yes!
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FCC pushes to resolve LPFM applications
The Federal Communications Commission Thursday took the first steps toward
following through on Chairman Michael Powell's pledge to speed the approval of
LPFM stations as part of his localism initiative.
Those steps include helping station-seekers with conflicting applications to
find alternative channels on the band and permitting settlement payoffs for more
than cost.
The commission Thursday said that any outstanding mutually exclusive
applications for LPFM stations that are settled by Oct. 31 will receive
expedited processing. No partial settlements need apply, however.
To further encourage "the rapid licensing of new LPFM stations," the Media
Bureau said it will allow applicants to resolve technical conflicts by seeking
out an alternate frequency among all available FM channels.
The bureau has "reactivated" a channel-finding online tool, which is located
at http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/lpfm_channel_finder.html.
The FCC will also allow settlements for more than "legitimate and prudent
expenses," waiving its prohibition on such payments and on associated
"certification and disclosure requirements."
Petitions to deny the grants can still be filed within 30 days of the FCC's
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Where great King Billy pines
Snake trees inscribed
with lichen tales
trails that lead
to rosewood polished pools
The tangle-foot Fagus
falls from green to gold to red
here, are all the seasons
and rivers fed from way above
Currawong* scrapes his metallic song
along the rusted belt of sky
and through moss and scrub,
light on foot we fly
Bleached white trunks abound
an ancient rare trod ground
and the eyes of wombat holes
stare out the blinking earth
And finally, the river flows
quiet with all its thought wrung out
Look beyond the ridge line,
look: beyond the scree,
where great King Bill pines his love
and all the world can see,
the verdant lustre of this place
and how, it found the peace
in you and me.
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It's evident enough that you're touring among some wonerful places through your exquisite descriptive piece. I loved every word there and appreciated the use of the alliteration especially in the opening stanzas. Can't really decide a favorite line or stanza as I really like all. However the use of the word finally in the stanza before the last came to limit the unlimited scene for me and I am not sure about the use of the colon and the comma in tbe last stanza. Maybe I'm missing sth there?
Anyway I've really enjoyed the tour. Thank you.
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Social housing costs £15 billion a year. The governments cap on benefits will still provide enough rent to afford suitably sized accommodation. When a lot of this money goes towards socially engineering entire communities, a rethink about social housing is deserved, writes David Vaiani.
Last week the government's housing benefits cuts were challenged in the High Court. Lawyers representing the Child Poverty Action Group claimed that the new policy of setting a cap on weekly rents would lead to a sharp increase in homelessness. Some rather excitable commentators have even gone so far as to accuse the government of engaging in an act of 'social cleansing'.
So, what do these caps amount to? Put simply, the cap means that people on benefits will receive a maximum of £250 for a one-bedroom flat, £290 for two bedrooms, £340 for three bedrooms and £400 for four bedrooms. Given that £250 per week can still, despite recent rent increases, secure you a perfectly decent one-bedroom flat in many parts of central London, let alone the rest of the country, talk of 'social cleansing' is ludicrous, not to mention deeply offensive.
What critics of the new policy fail to grasp is that nobody has an inalienable right to be housed in the most desirable parts of the country. For my own part, I would quite like to live in Mayfair but I can not afford to, so I have to compromise by living somewhere less expensive. Equally, I have friends with young children who have been forced to move out of the capital altogether because they cannot afford even a modest home with a garden in London.
These are the choices the vast majority of us have to make and, for the most part, we make them without complaining about our lot. Ultimately, if your personal or financial circumstances change, you may also need to reconsider your housing needs and requirements. Given that most people have to come to terms with this fact of life, it surely cannot be right to house over 4 million people in houses which they (and the majority of taxpayers) could not hope to afford on their own steam.
Those who defend the cost of social housing frequently argue that mixed communities are essential to creating greater equality and social cohesion across our society. In common with many other socialist ideas, this theory sounds superficially plausible and indeed desirable, but there is sadly no practical evidence to suggest that there is any truth in the above claim. Although I am not an advocate of segregated communities or ghettoes, the truth of the matter is that attempting to force people from different social backgrounds together in the hope that their lives might converge amounts to little more than crude social engineering.
The rich and poor cannot be forced together, for they lead very different lives. Broadly speaking, they have different levels of education, different aspirations and different hobbies and interests. They only rarely use the same services, they probably use different hospitals and they almost certainly send their children to different schools. In short, the rich and poor may live on the same street, but they do not inhabit the same world.
Given that the total cost of social housing in the UK amounts to an eye-watering £15 billion per year, is it not time that we thought again about whether we should continue to subsidise this hugely expensive form of social engineering? Could the money not be put to better use by building new affordable homes instead of subsidising rents in some of the most expensive parts of the country? On the whole, the government is heading in the right direction on housing, but it could be considerably more radical in its thinking.
To read David Vaiani's other articles visit David Vaiani's Politics On Toast blog. This article is (C) Politics on Toast and David Vaiani.


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Monday, August 29, 2011
DCLXXIV: Looking Back
Fun fact: Colorburn was first started on this day five years ago. Now, I don't mean to sound all wistful, but five years is kind of a long time, especially for a blog. A five-year-old blog is probably about 4,126 years old in human years, but somehow it's still limping along, managing to hold on to a small corner of my brain just enough to make me post something every now and then. Sure, I might only need one hand to be able to count the number of people that read this blog, but honestly, that doesn't really matter at this point. And nevermind that we get more visits from people Googling "kai greene nude pics," which apparently is not an uncommon search phrase. Someone landed here once with that, so I put it in the sidebar box cataloging the weird searches that bring people here, and that has acted as a sort of keyword spam that gets picked up by the Google crawler bot.
We were going to make this into a book. We didn't. It was supposed to bring us a stream of pocket change through sidebar ads. It didn't. But I look back, and that's okay.
Anyway, five years. In that time I've graduated from college, gone through numerous cameras (sold/traded them, not broken them), got a new job, and so on. DSLRs were still fairly uncommon when this blog started up, but now everyone has one, including ibleedgraphite although he quickly got bored with his. I've traveled quite a bit around the U.S. in the past five years and my tons of road trips have given me a solid 80,000+ miles on my car in that span. In fact the drive I made to San Luis Obispo to visit ibleedgraphite just a few weeks after this blog started up was the first time I ever went on a road trip without my family.
The past five years have seen many friends come and go. This blog, too, might one day see its last post. But I'm still good friends with ibleedgraphite and that means I don't have a reason to formally kill off the blog.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
DCLXXVIII: A Guest Appears
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There are many ways to make yogurt. Some people use yogurt machines, some people don't. I've heard that some Vietnamese people make yogurt out of sweetened condensed milk. The yogurt at my favorite Indian place tastes like they steep onions in it. You can buy a powdered yogurt starter, or you can use plain yogurt as a starter. Greek yogurt is made from high fat milk and then strained.
I prefer to make yogurt with the help of a yogurt maker. The most important thing about making yogurt is getting the temperatures right. You need the milk to be the right temperature when you combine it with the yogurt starter and you need to maintain the right temperature for the 7 hours that the yogurt cultures are growing in the milk. This second part was very difficult for me before I got a yogurt maker. Our house is not insulated, has drafty windows and doesn't have heating or air conditioning. So the inside of our house can be anywhere from 50F in the winter to 90F in the summer. That's why I really like having a machine that keeps the yogurt at the right temperature for as many hours as I want.
Even if you don't use a yogurt maker, I highly recommend you buy a candy/deep fry thermometer so that you can make sure your milk is the right temperature. It's not expensive and will give you better results.
Ingredients and equipment:
- 2 T plain yogurt
- 1 liter/quart milk (I use UHT milk because it's more easily available)
- a yogurt maker
- candy/deep fry thermometer
- Warm the milk up to 45 or 50C (
- Whisk the milk and plain yogurt together
- Pour into yogurt maker jars and wait 7 to 9 hours
- Refrigerate yogurt overnight
- If you like your yogurt flavored, stir some good quality jam into it before eating.
How To Make Homemade Yogurt – If you don't have a yogurt recipe, I recommend this recipe. Also, Kristen uses normal (not UHT) milk, which is why she heats the milk to 190F and lets it cool back down to 120. Bringing the milk to that higher temperature kills germs, but that has already been done to UHT milk.


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Published: 3:03 pm, Mon. Aug. 15th, 2016Updated: 3:01 pm
Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, at Terpening & Son Chapel for Duane Tucker of Artesia.
Tucker, 85, passed away Aug. 13, 2016, at his home in Artesia, surrounded by his family.
Jim Barnett will officiate at the services, with interment to follow at Twin Oaks Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Eric Tulk, Cody Tulk, Chuck Tidwell, Stan Nolan, Frank Castillo and Joe Temple. Honorary pallbearers are Curtis Teel, Bill Joy, Bill Spencer, Jimmy Tucker, Don Young and Doyle Pounds.
Visitation began at noon today at Terpening & Son Mortuary.
Duane was born July 14, 1931, in Gorman, Texas, the son of Shelley Andrew and Cleo Izora (Cozart) Tucker. He came to Loco Hills in 1939 from Gorman.
On May 19, 1953, he married Floy Louise Bruner in Walnut Creek, Calif.
He was a diesel mechanic for Navajo Refining Co. and was blessed to work for 33 years at a place he looked forward to going every day.
Duane was a member of the Hope Church of Christ in Hope and served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He enjoyed woodworking and loved hunting with his wife and grandsons, camping, and spending time with family and friends. He would help anyone who needed it.
Survivors include his wife, Floy Tucker, of Artesia; daughter Nelva Tidwell and husband Vann of Ft. Worth, Texas; honorary daughter Joy Nolan of Lubbock, Texas; grandchildren Amber Castillo and husband Frank, Eric Tulk, Cody Tulk and wife Kaitlan, and Delanie Temple and husband Joe; great-grandchildren Aubrey Tulk, Taylor Tulk, Ella Tulk, Lucas Tulk, Lane Tulk, Ashtyn Castillo, Camdyn Castillo and Landyn Castillo; and numerous family and friends too many to mention.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to Lakeview Christian Hospice or J&J Home Care.
Arrangements are under the direction of Terpening & Son Mortuary. Condolences may be expressed online at www.artesiafunerals.com.


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Years ago, a famous and astute Victorian jewelry collector told a story of how she would peruse the New York flea markets many years before and buy jewelry. Delighted over her purchases, she would then promptly dump the antique boxes in the trash. Ouch!
She winced as she related her tale, now knowing how prized those boxes are over the last decades. Today they are highly coveted and collected and many empty boxes sell for small fortunes.
In an antique box of brown leather (not original to the necklace) with fuchsia silk and velvet interior is a magnificent example of a Victorian choker necklace. Created all in silver, it appears to have been little worn but cherished nonetheless.
A veritable silver garden of roses and flowers fill the senses and astound the eye. Fashioned in filigree, cannetille work and three-dimensional silver, there are eleven graduated in size links and a clasp with the same rose element atop.
Choker length of 14 inches, all but the last two smallest sections, 9 in all, consist of two parts, a main scalloped creation and another separate and articulated swag. The silver rose at the midpoint of each link creates a three-dimensional work of art complete with 3 or 4 layers of open petals and the interior embellished with tiny silver stamens.
Beneath the roses are leaf forms and an undulating scalloped open work backdrop of cannetille scrolls and orbs of precious metal.
Each swag is suspended beneath the front links and creates a filigree garland of leaves with a different type of smaller, sculptural flower at its heart.
Circa 1880, it is breathtaking in its scope and rendering of a garden for the wearing.


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If you've been wondering whether you're pregnant, it can be a long and difficult wait before you finally find out. Although you'll likely know for sure in a few weeks, there are many symptoms you can watch for that offer early clues.
It's important to remember that while any of the following symptoms may indicate pregnancy, they may also be signs of more serious conditions. If you're not sure whether the changes in your body are due to pregnancy, visit your Montgomery County physicians at Potomac Obstetrics and Gynecology for a comprehensive exam.
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Missed period: This is the most well-known sign of possible pregnancy. If you are pregnant, your body will not shed the uterine lining and you won't get your regular period. However, you may begin to notice other signs of pregnancy before you ever notice you've missed a period.
Tender or swollen breasts: The hormonal changes in early pregnancy can cause the breast tissue to become particularly sore or sensitive to pressure.
Nausea and/or vomiting: Pregnancy-related nausea is most likely to appear in the morning, although it can affect you any time of day or night. The nausea may be constant, or it may come in waves. The cause of morning sickness is still unclear, although it may be related to rapidly increasing levels of hCG (the "pregnancy hormone").
Increased frequency of urination: It may seem strange that this would happen so early in pregnancy, but hormonal changes can have you running for the bathroom long before your uterus is weighing heavily on your bladder. Your blood volume begins to increase after conception, and this increased fluid volume contributes to frequent urination.
Fatigue: This is a common symptom throughout pregnancy, but it's especially apparent in the first trimester. Progesterone is a pregnancy-related hormone that makes you feel sleepy - and during early pregnancy, progesterone levels are rapidly rising.
Food cravings or aversions: Suddenly can't stand the sight of your favorite cuisine? Craving certain foods that no other meal can satisfy? It's not clear exactly why this happens, but it may be one of your body's first reactions to pregnancy.
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Women who suffer from migraines may notice changes in their headache patterns when they're pregnant, experts say.
For example, many women will have fewer migraines during pregnancy.
"If you suffer from migraine, there's a good chance your migraine attacks will improve during pregnancy," Dr. David Dodick, chair of the American Migraine Foundation, said in a foundation news release.
"Research has shown that 50 to 80 percent of women who have migraine before pregnancy may notice a reduction in migraine attacks, especially in the second and third trimesters, likely due to a rise in estrogen levels," said Dodick, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Arizona.
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I have 10 GPU attached to one system and want to mine with all, as ubuntu GUI not allow to run 10 GPU at a time, So will go with the command line and able to mine there.
Now I want to run my miner on system startup for particular this I am following this tutorial (step-7). I have done all the things as per tutorial but not able to start ./start_only_eth.bash command(no screen session created) in screen session.
If I am executing below command, I am able to find this session using "screen -ls" command.
screen -dmS ethm
Below is my script (demo.sh)
// update
if [ "x$1" = "x" -o "x$1" = "xnone" ]; then
sleep $DELAY
su aman -c "screen -dmS ethm /home/aman/Desktop/claymore/start_only_eth.bash"
I have added this script's path in rc.local file as mentioned in this tutorial (step-7).
below is my rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
# rc.local
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
# By default this script does nothing.
sh '/home/aman/Desktop/demo.sh'
exit 0
After restart if I execute "screen -ls" command I got below message
No Sockets found in /var/run/screen/S-aman.
Note: I think problem is not in rc.local, problem is in demo.sh. If try to execute demo.sh manually the script will fail and got above message.
// // -------------------------- With TMUX -------------------- // //
I have also tried this with tmux, this time I am able to run miner(manually) in tmux session but again fail to run script using rc.local for this below is my demo.sh
tmux new-session -d -n MINER
tmux send-keys -t MINER "cd /home/aman/Desktop/claymore" C-m
tmux send-keys -t MINER "./start_only_eth.bash" C-m
Below is what I am getting(console) when try to test rc.local
aman@aman-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/rc.local start
[sudo] password for aman:
[ ok ] Starting rc.local (via systemctl): rc.local.service.


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This is a delicious, nutritious dish served up by a gourmet chef somewhere in the recesses of the American South. At first glance, one might think it to be escargot (a.k.a. snails, the kind I vanquish in my garden), the choice of Francophiles and bone fide French citizens. Upon closer inspection, it is a singing insect that fills the night air with a piercing sound that reassures the listener that pollution hasn't killed off every living creature yet - the cicada, apparently the "other protein."
Astute analysts of our food sources show that raising cattle for beef consumption has far-reaching, detrimental effects on the environment that even contribute to global warming. (Go figure. McDonalds may be an even greater culprit than General Motors for our ever-increasing crazy weather patterns, not to speak of our ever-increasing girths.)
So, our little singing friends might be an answer to the devastating effect that hamburger and steak lovers wreak on our stratosphere, not to speak of the health care system.
Perfect solution? Yes and no.
My gut reaction to the cicada dish (nauseating) harkens back to a time when I was in 7th grade - the era of middle schoolers, as in sweet young ones who are rapidly turning into mega-brats as the ravages of puberty descend upon them.
It is lunch hour in the fluorescent-bathed school cafeteria, and I have brought a tuna sandwich from home with lots of mayo and crunchy celery squished in between two slices of Wonderbread. A little squirt with slicked back hair hails me over to his table, smiling with such charm that I plop down my tray across from him. Before digging in, I head for the drinks counter for my apple juice carton; in those days Coke was not de rigueur.
Fast forward: half of a tuna sandwich down the gullet, but me thinks that the celery seems overly crunchy. Curiosity compels me to open the second right triangle and behold - a bevy of fried grasshoppers interspersed amidst tuna flakes, celery and mayo; dead as dead can be although if they were still moving, my horror would have quadrupled.
The little hoodlum across from me laughs manically as he pulls out his extra stash of dead hoppers, proving that he is the source of this prank. As for me, my usual voracious appetite is gone, as well as sandwich half number 2, thrown directly into the trash.
This begs the question: I never tasted anything 'bad' in my tuna, just something extra crunchy. And with my current knowledge that insects are actually an excellent source of protein, with as much flavor variety as a garden filled with herbs, then why the extreme aversion, even now, as I contemplate the artfully displayed nouvelle cuisine?
The cause is something called "cultural relativity." Which means in laymen terms, whatever we have been taught since birth that falls within the range of customary and reasonable we accept. Whatever is foreign, different, or unknown in our small world is deemed unacceptable, repulsive, dangerous, or benignly weird.
As our tribes, towns, and cities become globalized, we are now exposed to a larger array of behaviors than ever before. Cultural relativity is challenged to become less relative and more universal - which means opening our minds and noticing what our judgmental inner voice is telling us when we encounter "the other."
While I think that I will never be a convert to the cuisine of the creepy crawlers, there may be a time on planet earth where we will be grateful to our insect friends for their sacrifice. In this spirit, I applaud that Southern chef for his bravery in advancing civilization and daring to propose a viable solution that crosses the boundaries of cultural relativity and pushes them into a bigger playing field.
If the US is to remain a global player, then wake up shoppers of America! Over 2 billion people in 80 countries already consume1,400 different species of arthropod. Who knew?
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Explaining the Effects of Climate Elements in Tehran's Metropolis Air Quality
Nabi allah Ramezani
Bohloul Alijani
Reza Borna
1- Department of Geography, and Science and Research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Geography, Faculty of Geographical, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran ,
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and Background Atmospheric pollutants are elements whose high concentrations cause damage to the Earth's biological cycles, and its concentration is usually determined by concentrations of air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone and suspended particles. Air pollutants have changed the composition of air and affect the air quality of local, regional and global climate. Air quality is strongly influenced by climatic conditions, topography, automobiles and industries, transportation system and the type and amount of pollutants.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the direct and indirect effects of climate elements on the quality and pollution of Tehran metropolitan air.
The research method is quantitative-analytical and the data also includes selected meteorological parameters and air pollution in Tehran. The path analysis method was used to study the effects of climate elements on air quality in Tehran metropolis. This method investigates the causal relations of direct and indirect effects and the total effect of each of the independent variables on dependent variables which is Tehran air quality and interprets the relationships and correlations observed between them. In the process of analyzing the path, a theoretical diagram based on the possible effects of variables relative to each other wll be considered as the initial assumption, and then after the path analysis, variables affecting the final graph of the path are specified and interpreted.
The results of the research have shown that, given the wide and important performance of meteorological data in this study, we must consider the meteorological factor as a decisive parameter that has great control over many other factors affecting the air quality of Tehran. This factor has played a significant role in both direct and indirect effects on Tehran's air quality.
Path Analysis
Conceptual Model
Climate Elements
Air Quality
Tehran Metropolis.
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Tooltips need to go away on mouse move Follow
I belive I mentioned this tooltip issue once before, but I think it is worthy of bringing up again.
I am currently porting some code porting some code from ActionScript to ruby and thus I am getting lots of hints that is making the tooltips more painful. Here is my scenario.
I have code that has hints in it, i.e. a variable, myView is highlighted (indicating a hint), and as soon as the mouse touches the highlight area a tooltip pops up telling me the name should be lowercase. The problem is the tooltip is covering the line below the one with the hint, and that was actually the line I was moving my mouse towards. So what happens is I end up with my mouse over the tooltip and I cannot get to the code. So we are clear my code looks like this.
myVar = something
myOtherVar = something_else
I am moving my mouse from the top of the screen in an attempt to click on myOtherVar, and as I pass over myVar, a tooltip pops up covering myOtherVar. I then have to move my mouse way out of the way and sneak up on myOtherVar. Two things I would like see here:
1. I should have to hover over the item for some period of time (.5-1.0 seconds) to get the tip to show up.
2. Moving the mouse more than a couple of pixels should make the tip disappear. I would say moving the mouse at all should make it go away, but then an accidental move would kill it, so I would say if the mouse moves more than 5-10 pixels from the point that initiated the tip, it should go away.
Regards, Guy
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The Euromaidan uprising in Kiev, followed by radical regime change, the annexation of the Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine, have shattered European security. The Western response to Russian aggression has been uncertain and hesitant in handling the unfamiliar yet large nation of Ukraine, a country with a complicated past, and one whose history is little known in the rest of Europe.
In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe's borderland and in Russia's shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russia's actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this present-day confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine's major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Yalta – cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlögel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analysing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future.
'The deftly translated Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland is a powerful and erudite assertion of Ukraine's legitimacy as a nation-state, its rich cultural heritage, and the underlying sources of Russia's campaign against it. In the book, Schlögel, a renowned scholar and life-long admirer of Russia, takes his readers on a tantalising historical and intellectual tour of Ukraine's major cities. . . . What's best about Schlögel's Ukraine is the affectionate, inspiring journey on which he takes the reader through the nation's ages, empires, and metropolises, colouring in the blank swathes with history, purpose, and significance . . . He populates each vignette with its literary and luminaries and other figures of history who lived at least part of their lives in Ukraine.' — International Politics and Society
'This book is an invitation to the broader public, well-familiar by now with the cities in Western and Eastern Europe, to discover Ukraine, to explore its multifaceted identities. Since an end to the war in Ukraine is not yet in sight, books like this are much needed. When most of the publications available reiterate the same narratives of unbridgeable differences between Ukraine's east and west, it takes Schlögel's insightfulness and erudition to show the commonalities between Lviv in the West, Odessa in the South and Donetsk in the East; to take Ukraine out of the shadow of Russia and put it back on Europe's mental maps.' — European History Quarterly
'Suggesting that, despite its prominence as a target of Russian aggression, Ukraine remains unfamiliar to most Westerners, Schlögel profiles the country's major cities. He explores the dilemmas presented by the country's geographical relationships with Russia and Europe.' — Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
'One of the best works on Ukraine's highly peculiar geography, history, and modernity I've ever come across . . . As Schlögel himself points out repeatedly, the struggle for Ukraine's future is not going to end any time soon. Books such as this inspire hope that the struggle is not in vain and that Ukraine will eventually emerge as a fully fledged European state – not just "a country at the edge."' — Geographical Magazine
'In response to these events, this book is an effort to make amends: to educate the broader public about Ukraine, Europe's terra incognita. It presents not only a fascinating, oftentimes poetic investigation of Ukraine's highly diverse urban landscapes, but also records the inner struggles of a German historian trying to make sense of Putin's undeclared war against Ukraine . . . This book is a path-breaking study of the urban archaeology of post-Soviet Ukraine, haunted by the demographic catastrophes of the twentieth century.' — Europe-Asia Studies
'Karl Schlögel excels at bringing 20th century history to life through urban space, to which he is a guide with wit, subtlety, humanity and restraint. His skills lie in his assiduous research, scouring through phonebooks, minutes, memoirs and maps, brought to life through a vivid eye for the look and feel of a city's architecture, streets and vistas. Here, Schlögel leaves his usual territory - Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow - to take us on a tour of the cities of Ukraine, revealing the diversity, complexity and importance of a country too often seen through a reductive East/West binary. Here, we have great cosmopolitan cities like Odessa and Kiev, and cities that were once great cosmopolitan cities forced into provinciality by the Holocaust, like Lviv and Chernowitz; the crushing of the diverse histories of Crimea into a shrill Russian nationalism; the stories and streets of Soviet industrial behemoths like Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk; and the outward-looking capital of the Soviet avant-garde of the '20s, Kharkov. All these cities suffered from Russian nationalism, from Stalin's great famine, and from a horrific German occupation, that Schlögel describes with a restrained rage. They have carved out from these terrible experiences distinctive identities and unique spaces, and here they've finally found a sympathetic western interpreter.' — Owen Hatherley
'Through Karl Schlögel's encounter with Ukraine the reader will understand the crisis of democratic politics in the West as a whole. It is among the very few texts written in our century which reveal the psychological core and philosophical
essence of the challenges thinking citizens now face.' — Timothy Snyder
Karl Schlögel is a historian and essayist and Professor Emeritus of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His many books include histories of Moscow, Berlin and St Petersburg, and he won the European Charles Veillon essay prize in 1990 and the prize of the Historisches Kolleg Munich in 2016.
Ukraine, Or Remapping Europe: Preface To The English Edition
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Europe's Ukraina: An Introduction
1 Information War
2 Farewell To Empire, Farewell To Russia?
3 Seeing For Ourselves: Discovering Ukraine
4 Kiev, Metropolis
5 Ah, Odessa: A City In An Era Of Great Expectations
6 Promenade In Yalta
7 Look Upon This City: Kharkov, A Capital Of The Twentieth Century
8 Dnepropetrovsk: Rocket City On The Dnieper And City Of Potemkin
9 Donetsk: Twentieth-Century Urbicides
10 Czernowitz: City Upon A Hill
11 Lviv: Capital Of Provincial Europe
12 The Shock: Thinking The Worst-Case Scenario
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Monday, 28 July 2008
Yikes, I'm really going to San Francisco!
Yes, the time has finally arrived! I'm just chilling at the moment before doing my final packing, and then this evening, it's off on the first stage of my long journey to San Francisco. Spending a night at a hotel at Leeds/Bradford airport, so we're on the spot for our 5am check-in... eek!
Not sure if I'll be able to keep in touch while I'm away [I'm a rubbish blogger when I'm home!] but there may be Tweets to the right, if my phone will work properly in the US, and there may even be mini blogs from my phone, although not many, because it'll be expensive.
So, hope to have some nice piccies when I get back, and lots of stories to tell about the conference and all the fun I'll have with my mates, old and new.
Au revoir and all that... :)
4 comments:
- Lindsay Townsend said...
Good luck Wendy! Have a fab time! Safe travel there and back. Let us all know the gossip and stories!
Love Lindsay
Lindsay Townsend/Flavia's Secret/Bookstrand/July 29(Tomorrow, when you fly!)
A Knight's Vow/Kensington/March 2008
- 7/28/2008 1:26 pm
- val said...
You mean 5 o'clock happens twice in one day?
Have a great time, Wendy.
- 7/28/2008 4:51 pm
- Portia Da Costa said...
Yeah, apparently it does, Val!
Thanks, I'm sure I'll have fun!
- 7/28/2008 5:06 pm
- Portia Da Costa said...
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Swalwell & Blumenthal Introduce Bill to Reduce Student Debt for Public Servants
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) & Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Strengthening Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants Act to enhance the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLFP), which offers student loan forgiveness to teachers, police officers, public health workers and others who dedicate their careers to public service.
Swalwell introduced this legislation as part of a week of action he announced on Tuesday, which is aimed at seeking solutions for the student debt crisis our nation faces.
The PSLFP provides student loan forgiveness after qualified borrowers make 120 full, scheduled, monthly payments while employed full-time in public service. The Strengthening Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants Act would let new PSLFP participants have their eligible Direct Loans deferred while they work in public service and receive loan forgiveness in proportion to their years of public service – after every two years, they would have a certain percentage of their eligible balance cancelled.
"The rising cost of a college degree is taking a toll on the ability of students to freely make a career decision after graduating," said Swalwell. "Young people shouldn't be dissuaded from pursuing a career in public service due to a looming, debilitating monthly student loan payment. The PSLFP does a good job of incentivizing a public service career, but it takes too long to help many people with debt. The Strengthening Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants Act does more to support graduates who serve their communities while helping to lighten the load of student debt along the way."
"We should reward public service-particularly as the need for talented and dedicated public servants grows," said Blumenthal. "This bill gives a helping hand to the police officers, teachers, and healthcare workers who often make significant personal and financial sacrifices to keep our communities safe and successful. By expanding the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and easing their student debt burden, we can make these careers more attractive and financially attainable for young Americans."
Swalwell is the founder and chair of Future Forum, a group of 26 young House Democrats that has engaged with thousands of millennials across the nation on the issues most important to them. Student loan debt consistently ranks high among the concerns of millennials, who now are the largest and most diverse generation in U.S. history.


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Getting back to school after a holiday is always tough for me… tougher than for the kids, I think! This week we left Canada, but we did one last craft before leaving. Though our curriculum suggested cardboard snow shoes while studying the Inuits, (Eskimos), we decided to do something a little more practical for Southern California. Using the duct tape from the Easter bunny, we made duct tape flip flops!
Our kids are blessed with some wonderful pen pals from Mississippi who often send then duct tape crafts. They can't wait to make a pair of these for their pen pals. (Holly, if you're reading this pretend you don't know who I'm talking about!) They are VERY simple. I used a tutorial you can find here. These would make a great summer craft! My kids have worn theirs every day, and even out and about. Happy taping!


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Samsung has entered an agreement with Carphone Warehouse to open a new line of high street stores in Europe.
The gadget retailer will begin operating 60 Samsung-branded outlets across the continent over the next three months, according to Reuters.
The official Samsung stores will stock the company's tablet, smartphones, laptops and other products, and will spring up in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Carphone Warehouse has stated that there is scope to expand the partnership should the venture prove fruitful for both parties.
The move sees Samsung step up its competition against Apple, which operates 432 retail stores in 14 countries around the world.
Samsung is expected to launch several new flagship products, including its Galaxy S5 smartphone and Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch, in the coming months.


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Shedul.com Raises $20M in Series B Round to Enhance Its ProductBack
Shedul.com, the booking platform for salons and spas that was born in Dubai and backed by MEVP since its inception, announced today a Series B investment of $20M, valuing the company at $105M.
The round was led by Partech Ventures, an investment firm with hubs in Paris, San Francisco, and Berlin, along with participation from Berlin-based Target Global, Dubai-based BECO Capital, and New York-based FJ Labs. Additionally, the round included personal investments from entrepreneur Niklas Östberg, Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero AG.
The fundraise was oversubscribed with additional secondary transactions of $3M. The Series B round brings the total amount raised by the London-headquartered company to $32M to date. The company plans to use the investment to accelerate product development and support the ongoing worldwide rollout of its Fresha.com consumer marketplace.
Shedul.com is an intuitive, free SaaS-enabled marketplace that salons and spas around the world use to streamline their business operations. In just a few years since launch, the company has captured a vast customer base of merchants in more than 120 countries, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
Recently, the company launched its consumer marketplace Fresha.com, which connects merchants using the free business software to consumers online. The marketplace unlocks revenue potential for merchants by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile apps and integrations to Instagram, Facebook and Google.
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The company's Co-Founders, William Zeqiri, and Nick Miller, shared how their strategy helped outpace conventional competitors to achieve hyper growth. "Being customer-driven is ingrained into our team's core," explained CEO William Zeqiri. "Since day one, we have focused on solving major challenges to make our customers happy. We spend much time talking to our customers and acting on their feedback, enhancing our platform to suit their needs. That's how we've built an award-winning product that can sell itself."
"It's not only the quality of our product which gives an advantage, it's the unbeatable accessibility our platform offers customers" added Nick Miller, the company's Chief of Product. "The market is highly competitive, crowded with legacy software providers who charge excessive fees to simply access their products."
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Michael Reafsnyder: Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
by Dave Hickey
Michael Reafsnyder is a radical artist; he is also a radical painter, and we haven't seen one of those since the early 1970s. He is radical because he is less concerned with how we look at his paintings than with how we look at paintings in general. Like most of the Minimalists, he is a radical revisionist. As a painter of gestural abstraction, he is all too familiar with the geriatric language of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud—repression and resistance, dance and performativity—ideas which continue to inform the painting and the critique of gestural painting. So, Michael Reafsnyder's project has always been to cut away opportunities for antique readings. He would keep what he likes and dispense with all the rest to revivify the practice. What he likes about his paintings, he can do; anything that might be misinterpreted is suppressed.
Reafsnyder's first principles are easy. (1) Postwar American-style painting was brand-new and celebratory. (2) It was not a continuation of World War II or the Depression, but rather a refusal of it. (Postwar paintings, in their spontaneity and waste, were a repudiation of what had come before them.) (3) The Postwar movement was not ironic, not repressive, not crazy, and not personal. (Willem de Kooning at dinner one night: "Ach! You make a painting about a crazy world, they call you a crazy man.") The central problem, as Reafsnyder sees it, is that "history"—Marxist and Freudian history, weathered by the Depression and the war—grabbed Abstract Expressionism much too quickly and recast it as the bitter exhaust of World War II.
This interpretation illustrates one of the problems with historicizing the present. Abstract Expressionism was grabbed so quickly out of the fire that no one noticed that a boundary had been crossed—from the abjection of war and poverty into the Postwar giddiness of American culture. American-style painting was the first evidence of this optimism, and this fact was ignored. Someone let the dogs out, and nobody noticed. For my own purposes, I have traced the heart of this radical skew to a remark made by a professor at an opening of an exhibition of Arshile Gorky's paintings. "What a mess," the professor said. "You've got to believe that an American painter would make a tidier painting than this if he had a chance." Translation: An American artist has to be crazy or enslaved by some demon to make a "messy" painting. I let this madness slide at the time, and today I admit to myself that my "Abstract Expressionism," like Reafsnyder's, arises in the West in the 1970s with de Kooning's great paintings.
I have also imagined a teleology for Michael Reafsnyder's artistic progress that is pretty close to the truth. The artist was born in Southern California, where he still lives. He enrolled at Chapman University and attended an art class with an older painter, Bill Boaz, who had studied with Hans Hofmann. The young artist was innocent of art but had a certain talent for composing seemingly spontaneous dribbles, splashes and smears on the canvas. His professor told him that these markings looked OK and showed him a Cy Twombly book. Something clicked. Not long thereafter, he encountered a 1970s painting by de Kooning that was almost giggling with élan and sprezzatura. The painting looked like something that would be fun to make, something joyous.
So that was a goal, although, almost immediately, everyone started telling the young artist that de Kooning was not about joy. De Kooning's paintings, he was told, were about his existential struggle with angst and despair, with the whole cosmology of repression—a notion the young artist did not believe. He still doesn't, although no one has agreed with him yet. His closest colleagues believe the "wrong things," just like everybody else. Eventually, with the advice of his graduate professors, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Mike Kelley, Michael Reafsnyder set out to remedy the catastrophic misapprehensions that have plagued American gestural painting from the beginning—because, sadly, Americans seem to require certain attributes to be "American." The abstract, supposedly reflecting the negative upheaval of the time, became personal, and the past just ate up these Postwar paintings, which were, in fact, newer than new.
Today, Reafsnyder keeps an example painting from every series he has painted. He hangs them around the studio when he starts a new series to remind him of gaps and redundancies. Then he takes out tubes, jars, or cans of Golden Acrylics. For
Duck Diving
he pulls out red, blue, and white, as well as some green and yellow. He stretches Belgian brown linen on a 22" x 26" x 1" aluminum stretcher support. He primes the canvas white—thick enough to suppress the grid, light enough so the linen retains some drag. Once the canvas is white, he applies blue tape to the edges to be pulled away when the painting is finished. At this point the painting proper begins, although it is more like fresco than painting.
Reafsnyder uses a wide selection of Plexiglas blades. No color is "carried" by these shaping devices. He plops a selection of colors on the linen beginning with red, which constitutes the base coat. Once the red is dry, he pours on the other colors and rakes them in a swath from the edges of the linen toward the center of the canvas, thus occluding the so-called "problem of the edge," and inferring circularity like Jasper Johns and Kenneth Noland. In this process, a little ball of various colors gathers itself at the lower center of
Duck Diving
. Since gestural abstraction does not love the bottom of the canvas, Reafsnyder pours a pile of white paint at the top of the canvas and scrapes it into a "U" shape, suspending the surface of the painting from the top, as Arshile Gorky liked to do, demoting the cluster at the bottom to secondary relevance, like a pendant. The surface of the paint deploys itself inward and swirls like the crinkly, flat water out beyond the surf at Huntington Beach. The acrylic paint hardens into a surface. Unlike the corporeality of oil paint, acrylic paint does not set like skin, and this suppresses the false affect of the gestural paint and human skin, both the artist's and the beholder's. So the paintings are not painted, not pictorial, not personal, and not associated with the body. Nothing that might infer spiritual magic is invoked.
When Reafsnyder was painting with oil, he marked each painting with a smiley face, like a chop, to emphasize material and the absence of angst—to tell you that this was a painting and not a crime scene. When he switched to acrylic, this made it possible to wipe the surface and execute invisible corrections and suppress the scuff and over-lay of improvisation. It also allowed the smiley face to take on different roles. Painting with oil, there is a lot of waiting, and the artist's pace is broken. Acrylic, on the other hand, is very fast. You are painting wet into wet. So if things go really wrong, Reafsnyder reconceives the whole painting as a single entity. He paints it again and throws away the first version. Wastefulness is part of the tradition.
One might well ask why an artist would indulge in all these procedural maneuvers. The answer is both big and simple. Reafsnyder hopes to discredit some of the most astonishing critical misprisions in the history of western art. He wants us to see his paintings as he (and I) once saw those 1970s de Koonings, as smooth sites of bacchanalian celebration, as inventions rather than symptoms. Symptoms tie art to the past and to its audience. Inventions destroy the past and its traditional beholders. My late friend Willard Midgette used to argue that an artist's work is best kept alive by its detractors because negative responses encourage new, more nuanced, readings. It is killed by its admirers who only see what they came to see, and a hundred years from today, artists and critics will look back in dismay at the damage that critics, fans and scholars did to American-style painting and its inheritors, simply because all the narratives that have accumulated around gestural painting are wrong—and, in the present moment, only Joan Mitchell survives on the energy of her ruthless temperament.
In public chatter, this first bouquet of free American painting reminded American critics that they were unfamiliar with abstraction and the language of form. Most of them thought abstract painting was "abstracted" from something, so there was always a hidden picture whether you liked it or not. As a consequence their criticism was freighted with literary narratives of pain and conflict. Based on negligible empirical evidence, tragic Marxism and Postwar Freudian angst found its "picture-book" in these paintings. Critics found visual codes in the images abstracted, because secret codes were all the rage in Postwar America. None of this was actually there, but a fictionalized Promethean image of the artist arose. It was constructed on the premise that the artist would be making tidy, ingratiating paintings if they were not so "upset."
This is why a dealer friend of mine remarked that he was in the business of selling pain, which would have been easier to do were it true. In the intellectual world, Freudian and Marxist critics began writing about Abstract Expressionist painting in the 1940s and 1950s. The freedom and ebullience of these artists was read as repression of the tidy pictures that American artists really wanted to paint. Their freedom became tyranny. The painters were making ebullient paintings, but the "world" was looking at angry paintings. Abstract paintings were being created and the world was looking for secret codes.
Thus, the painter's ludic gesture became a sword swung by a puny discombobulated artist against the over-powering force of bourgeois history or the family romance. Under this regime, paint became blood, the canvas surface skin. The stretched canvas became a boxing ring—as if this style of painting was not a liberation from World War II but a memorial to it. The tattered mark stood for painful, insecure gestures made against overwhelming odds that were shared purportedly by the artist and beholder. This false affect arose from the analogy between the painter's mark, the painted mark on the canvas, and the painted mark as perceived—as if the mark were some kind of transmission device, a rhyming analogy between the painter painting and the viewer viewing. A great deal was made of this intimacy between the artist and the beholder, to which a great many artists took exception, although it would have been a good sales pitch if it were true. The simple fact was that beauty and delight were not options in that moment, and the contemporary inappropriateness of certain images at a certain time is pretty much what avant-garde means. Given these "tragic presumptions," American gestural painters for the next fifty years have worked to make paintings devoid of sprezzatura and affect, with nothing much to offer in their place.
The mirror trick of calling works of art ironic if you don't like them was born here. The "ironic slap," I call it, and the point of all this,
vis a vis
Michael Reafsnyder, is that Reafsnyder has found a way to make paintings where nobody's home and something is actually happening, purged of Sturm and Drang. By simply skipping the ideologies of the gestural American painting that arose in the wake of Abstract Expressionism, the field felt clear but in need of redesign—something like the magic Eugene Delacroix discovered in the Louvre. One might imagine Reafsnyder dropping into a wave and slipping into the tube of it in 1950 and re-emerging at the turn of the century, with no one but Joan Mitchell and de Kooning as guiding lights.
In the years Reafsnyder elided, painting became a practice obsessed with eluding or embracing Marx and Freud, with flattening affect, and suppressing the chromate of the Western Hemisphere. The problem was that you couldn't paint such paintings as long as painting was thought to communicate. Over the course of his career, Reafsnyder's manner and materials have shifted, but always for a reason. To take a shot at these reasons, I asked Reafsnyder about the artists with whom he would most like to exhibit his paintings. Michael came up with high-hearted artists like Mitchell and de Kooning, of course, but also Ken Price, Ron Nagle, John Wesley, Jasper Johns, Jeff Elrod, Gary Hume, and others.
From this list one might infer that Reafsnyder, like all good curators, chooses surfaces and temperaments. One must also infer that, unlike most painters, Reafsnyder is comfortable with objects, and necessarily regards his own paintings as objects. Finally, almost inadvertently, Reafsnyder has claimed gestural abstraction for California, where art was going when he started painting, and this changes the relationship between the painting and the beholder substantiality. No more hazy cozy. The painting becomes a colorful, decorous superman, and the beholder becomes one of the superman's pals. They are tough but polite, and they will grow together with time, while still being themselves.
Essay © Dave Hickey 2019
Dave Hickey, formerly an executive editor of
Art in America
, has written for many publications including
Art News
Harper's Magazine
Rolling Stone
, and
Vanity Fair
. Hickey is the author
Art Guitar: Essay on Art & Democracy
Andy Warhol Giant Size
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
(2012), and
Pirates and Farmers
(2013). He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship award in 2001. Hickey lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.


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Frozen Out of Disney, Mattel Looks to Universal
After losing a coveted deal to make dolls based on Disney's "Frozen" and other princess films to rival Hasbro last month, El Segundo toy maker Mattel announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Universal Pictures to develop a line of toys based on the "Despicable Me" movies.
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