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The SAGE Companion to the City
Publication Year: 2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446211694
Subject: Urban Planning, Urban Sociology, Urban Geography
This reference is a comprehensive study guide to the city. The text explains and evaluates the key ideas, informed by the latest research, adding the necessary historical context to situate the student in the literature and the essential debates. Organized in four sections The SAGE Companion to the City provides a systematic A-Z to understanding the city that explains the interrelations between society, culture, and economy.
- Chapters
- Front Matter
- Subject Index
- Introduction
- Section One: Histories and Ideologies
- Chapter 1: Power and Prestige
- Chapter 2: Faith and Devotion
- Chapter 3: Science and Technology
- Chapter 4: Modernity and Utopia
- Chapter 5: Monuments and Memories
- Section Two: Economies and Inequalities
- Chapter 6: Capital and Class
- Chapter 7: Global and Local
- Chapter 8: Innovation and Creativity
- Chapter 9: States and Laws
- Chapter 10: Pleasure and Leisure
- Section Three: Communities and Contestation
- Chapter 11: Migration and Settlement
- Chapter 12: Segregation and Division
- Chapter 13: Civility and Etiquette
- Chapter 14: House and Home
- Chapter 15: Housing and Homelessness
- Section Four: Order and Disorder
- Chapter 16: Politics and Policy
- Chapter 17: Speed and Slowness
- Chapter 18: Planning and Conflict
- Chapter 19: Crime and Policing
- Chapter 20: Terror and Surveillance
- Chapter 21: Dreams and Nightmares
Copyright[Page ii]
Introduction and Editorial Arrangement © Tim Hall, Phil Hubbard and John Rennie Short 2008
Chapter 1 © Lily Kong 2008
Chapter 2 © Keith Lilley 2008
Chapter 3 © Colin Chant 2008
Chapter 4 © John R. Gold 2008
Chapter 5 © Lisa Benton-Short 2008
Chapter 6 © Kevin Ward 2008
Chapter 7 © Yeong-Hyun Kim 2008
Chapter 8 © Andy C. Pratt 2008
Chapter 9 © Angus Cameron 2008
Chapter 10 © David Bell, Sarah Holloway, Mark Jayne and Gill Valentine 2008
Chapter 11 © Marie Price 2008
Chapter 12 © David Wilson 2008
Chapter 13 © Mick Smith and Joyce Davidson 2008
Chapter 14 © Sarah L. Holloway 2008
Chapter 15 © Gerald Daly 2008
Chapter 16 © Don McNeill 2008
Chapter 17 © Alan Latham and Derek McCormack 2008
Chapter 18 © Malcolm Miles 2008
Chapter 19 © Steve Herbert 2008
Chapter 20 © Jon Coaffee and David Murakami Wood 2008
Chapter 21 © Stuart C. Aitken 2008
First published 2008
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List of Tables and Figures[Page v]
- Figure 1.1 Woolworth Building, New York 22
- Figure 2.1 The city imagined: Bristol as depicted in the middle ages. © Bristol Record Office 31
- Figure 2.2 The 'hidden geometry' of Grenade-sur-Garonne (France) 38
- Figure 3.1 Antoine Desgodetz, "Elevation de la face du Pantheon, a Rome", in Les edifices antiques de Rome. Paris: Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1779 (engraving) 53
- Figure 3.2 Steam-driven trams, Melbourne, 1925 58
- Figure 4.1 Hook New Town 79
- Figure 5.1 Aerial view of the Washington Monument with the White House in the background (photo by Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway (Property of the US Federal Government) 97
- Figure 5.2 Spontaneous memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales, in Paris (Photo © Andrew Pingstone 2001) 100
- Figure 6.1 Engels' plan of Manchester, 1844 (from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, London: Swann Sonnenschein & Co., 1892) 110
- Figure 7.1 Friedmann's hierarchy of world cities (© Friedmann 1986) 128
- Figure 7.2 GaWC's global network connectivity (© Friedmann 1986) 130
- Figure 8.1 Guggenheim museum, Bilbao 142
- Figure 9.1 John Bull's friends alarmed by new taxes (cartoon) 160
- Figure 10.1 Hogarth's Gin Lane cartoon (© Burstein Collection/CROBIS) and Beer Street (© Bettmann/CORBIS) 170
- Figure 11.1 Global urban immigrant destinations, based on data from the Globalization, Urbanization and Migration website (Source: Nuala Cowan, Department of Geography, George Washington University) 193
- Figure 11.2 The 'Global Yard' – a public housing project in Vienna, Austria, that is home to equal numbers of foreign-born and native-born residents (Photo: Rob Crandall) 196 [Page vi]
- Figure 11.3 A welcome sign in 11 languages at a Montgomery County library in Maryland, USA (Photo: Rob Crandall) 206
- Figure 13.1 Anti-social Britain (after Hogarth) (© Max Ellis) 232
- Figure 14.1 Levittown, c. 1955 252
- Figure 16.1 Kuala Lumpur skyline 296
- Figure 17.1 Cars and traffic define the rhythm and sense of speed of many contemporary cities (Photo: © John Rennie Short) 312
- Figure 18.1 Acts of resistance: political flyposters (Photo: © Malcom Miles) 324
- Figure 19.1 Gated community, Saskatoon, Canada 339
- Figure 20.1 Downing Street entrance (Photo: © Jon Coaffee) 363
- Figure 20.2 Entrance through the Docklands' Iron Collar (Photo: © Jon Coaffee) 364
- Chapter 21 opening images. (Left) Original comic panel of Dwight in Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City. Courtesy of Miramax Film Corp. (Right) Carla Gugino as Lucille and Mickey Rourke as Marv in Frank Miller's Sin City. Photo courtesy of Miramax Film Corp. 373
- Table 12.1 Changes in black ghetto neighbourhoods in major US cities 214
- Table 12.3 Ghetto districts in UK 215
- Table 12.2 Percentage of stories presenting black ghettos as pathologically consumptive 215
- Table 12.4 Statistics on select marginalized ghettos in the UK 216
- Table 14.1 Couples' breadwinner type by women's occupation 257
- Table 14.2 Couples' caring work by women's occupation 258
- Table 20.1 Typology of interdictory space 361
Acknowledgements[Page vii]
This book represents a collaborative project. We are especially grateful to all the contributors; they responded to our requests and mercifully failed to comment on the length of time the project took to complete. The brief was simple and ambitious: bring together a list of active scholars to write accessible, informative pieces on aspects of the contemporary city. In practice of course, even the best-laid plans rarely unfold so easily or seamlessly. We acknowledge the patience of the contributors and publishers. We would also like to thank Robert Rojek who initiated the project, got the editors together and then gave us time and space to develop the project. Parts of Chapter One were previously published in Chapter 4 of Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World by Winchester, Kong and Dunn (2003). They are reproduced here with permission from the publishers. Figure 2.2 is reproduced with permission of Bristol Record Office; Figure 13.1 is reproduced with kind permission of Max Ellis, the http://Junkyard.co.uk. All other photographs are copyright the authors or have been sourced from copyright-free websites/archives.
List of Contributors[Page viii]
Stuart C. Aitken, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, USA.
David Bell, Department of Geography, Leeds University, UK.
Lisa Benton-Short, Department of Geography, The George Washington University, Seattle, USA.
Angus Cameron, Department of Geography, Leicester University, UK. Colin Chant, Social Sciences, Open University, UK.
Jon Coaffee, School of Environment and Development, Manchester, UK.
Gerald Daly, Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Joyce Davidson, Department of Geography, Queens University, Ontario, Canada.
John R. Gold, Department of Geography, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Steve Herbert, Department of Geography/Law, Societies and Justice Program, University of Washington, USA.
Sarah Holloway, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK.
Keith Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queens University Belfast, UK.
Mark Jayne, Department of Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK.
Yeong-Hyun Kim, Department of Geography, Ohio University, USA.
Lily Kong, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.
[Page ix]Alan Latham, Department of Geography, University College London, UK.
Derek McCormack, School of Geography, University of Oxford, UK.
Don McNeill, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Malcolm Miles, School of Art and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK.
David Murakami Wood, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Andy C. Pratt, Cities Research Centre, and Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, UK.
Marie Price, Department of Geography, The George Washington University, Seattle, USA.
Mick Smith, Department of Environmental Studies, Queens University, Ontario, Canada.
Gill Valentine, Department of Geography, Leeds University, UK.
Kevin Ward, Department of Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK.
David Wilson, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.[Page x]
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philosophy of ministry
Ministry can be and is being done in various ways. Each church ministry differs from the next. So which way is right?
How do we go about biblical ministry in such a way that it brings honor to Christ, the Head of the Church, and exemplifies faithfulness to God's revealed will in Scripture?
The Bible spells out what the minister is to do and how he is to do it. The Bible gives the pattern for the church's mandates and traditions through divine precept or example.
A High View of Scripture
A high view of Scripture first of all affirms its inspiration. The Bible teaches verbal, plenary (i.e.., every word) inspiration of itself (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:20-21). It has literally been "breathed out" by God, a source outside the human authors, though He moved them along.
A high view of Scripture, second of all, affirms inerrancy; the Bible is free from any errors and is unable to fail (infallible). As God conveyed His truth to divinely chosen instruments, He made sure that what they wrote was a faithful transferal of the original formulation of truth as it existed in the mind of God (Ps. 19). Since the Bible's source is God, its truthfulness, accuracy, and inerrancy are anchored in the character of God, who cannot lie (Titus 1:2).
Furthermore, a high view of Scripture affirms its authority. In order to have a biblical ministry, man must obey what the Bible says (Ps. 119). God said it…that settles it. It is absolutely binding on man if he desires to honor Christ. The Christian makes obedience to the Word an obsession, not an option.
A high view of Scripture also includes an affirmation of its sufficiency (2 Pet. 1:3-4; Ps. 19; 2 Tim. 3:17; Heb. 4:12). A true belief in the sufficiency of Scripture prohibits any attempt to mingle it with psychology or worldly philosophy. Paul makes it clear in 1 Corinthians 1, as well as James in his fourth chapter, that man is to choose God's wisdom rather than man's.
Finally, a high view of Scripture is one that believes it to be relevant and applicable for every situation of life (Ps. 19; 2 Tim. 3:17; Ps. 119:105; Is. 40:8). Man is to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matt. 4).
A High View of god
A high view of God leads man to glorify Him for His absolute holiness, righteousness, justice, etc. God demands to be worshipped through man's lips and life as he testifies of God's attributes by demonstrating those qualities in his own life. A high view of God also leads to a God-centered ministry as opposed to a man-centered ministry. A God-centered ministry is one that concerns itself with only pleasing Him. This kind of ministry exalts God for His goodness rather than reducing Him to man's terms in idolatry (Rom. 1:21 ff.). Man-centered ministry, however, is more concerned with the fear of man and with meeting man's felt needs rather than fearing God in amazement at His utter holiness (Is. 6; Heb. 12:28-29).
An accurate view of man
When man considers God enthroned above, high and lifted up in all of His glorious splendor, man sees himself woefully undone as Isaiah did in Isaiah 6.
First of all, man is totally depraved, not simply deprived. Some would believe that man has been deprived of the optimum environment to fan the flame of his own innate goodness. This "goodness of man" theology craves self-significance and selfish vainglory. On his own, man cannot do good or seek after God (Rom. 3:10-18). Man's heart is deceitfully wicked (Jer. 17:9-10). His goal in life is selfishness and only evil continually (Gen. 6:5).
Second, man was created for the sole purpose of glorifying God, but because of sin, he seeks to glorify himself (Rom. 3:23). He is constantly interested in enthroning self, rather than God. The sinner is alienated from God, and as a result, he will seek fulfillment from the world's evil system (1 Jn. 2:15-17).
An accurate view of the church
Godly, qualified leadership is essential to every biblical ministry. The concept for biblical leadership is emphasized throughout both the Old and New Testaments. When Moses was overwhelmed with the responsibility for leading Israel, his father-in-law offered great wisdom as he urged Moses to choose leaders to assist him (Ex. 18:13-27).
The New Testament continues with this concept as Paul commands Titus to "appoint elders in every city" (Titus 1:5). Paul himself appointed elders in each city on his missionary journeys (Acts 14:23). The elders were responsible for the church's monetary receipts (Acts 11:29-30). They also were chosen by the Holy Spirit to oversee and shepherd God's flock (Acts 20:28), protecting it from false teachers (Acts 28:29-30). God's plan is to have a plurality of godly men lead and protect each local assembly of believers. The writer of Hebrews instructs us about the congregation's obedience to their leaders (Heb. 13:17). This plurality of godly men is not to lord authority over the flock but to serve them and be an example (1 Pet. 5:2-3). Their only authority, at best, is a derived authority, as God speaks to His Church through His Word and as it is taught and applied. To be examples to the flock, leaders must reflect the character of Christ and fulfill the qualifications set forth in Scripture (1 Thess. 2:4-12; 1 Tim. 3:1-13; Tit. 1:5-9; 1 Pet. 5:1-5; Ps. 15).
Leaders also must be faithful to equip their people to do the work of the ministry (Eph. 4:11-12). From the moment a person embraces Christ as Savior, leaders who serve in the church should help him determine his Spirit-giftedness and help him get involved in utilizing that gift for the benefit of the Body of Christ (Heb. 10:24-25).
Some helpful resources to enhance a biblical view toward ministry are:
John MacArthur, Jr., Rediscovering Pastoral Ministry (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995).
John MacArthur, The Master's Plan for the Church (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2008).
George Zemek, Doing God's Business God's Way, A Biblical Theology of Ministry (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004).

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Hey everybody,
Got a new article up over at World's Best Media. It's about my new favorite time travel show, "Travelers." Hope you enjoy!
I want to tell you all about a show that I've literally heard no one talking about, but I don't want to spoil it. So please bare with me.
The Netflix show Travelers, has some of the most compelling time-travel I've seen in a long time. The premise, is that people are coming back from some far off, terrible future, in hopes of fixing it. In that regard it's pretty standard, but everything else really stands out for me.
The travelers have their consciousness placed in the heads of ordinary people in 2016-2017 (there have been 2 seasons so far), at the moments before they were going to die. The point of this being, that they're not killing someone to make room, they're just borrowing what would otherwise be an empty shell. Without getting too into spoiler territory, this process doesn't always workout for them, and that creates a lot…
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Tessa Chan is an editor and multimedia journalist, with a focus on exploration and conservation. She has studied photojournalism, feature journalism, and is a qualified drone pilot. Before joining the Post she worked for Leo Burnett Worldwide, Contagious Magazine and Warner Music Spain. She commissions travel content and creates multimedia features for the Culture desk.
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(Uhm yeah, I lost a key there on my laptop)
In case you don't realize it, English is not my first language…
It just happens that I love to write in them and to use them on a daily basis with Lil' A. He is growing up between the two languages, English and Indonesian just as Mr. X and I had agreed on.
Maybe it's a matter of personal taste but I.love.writing.in.English.
I've been blogging in a language that I learn from childhood for years now yet lately I've been feeling like I'm not good enough. Reading other blogs who can push out beautifully written and crafted words make me envy and make me feel little doubtful of my own writing.
I suck at grammar!
Yes, I can spell and pretty good at it but grammatically, I am challenged.
Even when my Indonesian friends said my writing is good I still feel like I'm not good enough. One of my friends think my English is on a native level and she asked how I learned, where I learned. I had no definite answers. I grew up a miner's daughter – or so I lovingly prefer my father's job as – I was surrounded and exposed with English language since early on. English course? What course? Tried that many moons ago but I never got to finish it because I was bored.
Even when people at my office had 'nominated' me as an unofficial translator – I still feel that I'm not good enough.
Even when some of our projects managers who are Australians had asked before "Why do you sound so American, Maureen?" – I still feel I'm not good enough.
That no matter how hard I try, I will never write as good as everyone else and this thought has been weighing me down lately.
Feeling like I am not good enough in this whole blogsphere. Maybe I lost my mojo?
Then last month, I got my first ever fan e-mail. Well maybe it's not even one but it came from someone I didn't know who was pointed in the direction of my blog. He commented on my 'bravery' to blog about my divorce journey so openly and I told him that despite how open it may look like, what I blog about only covers the outer layers. Blogging through my divorce helps me cope and most definitely cheaper than seeing my therapist! Reading my reader's comments – especially those who had been through the same painful journey of ending a marriage truly help.
My writing has got me through some of my most hellish time, it's my therapy because as it allows me to bear my soul, my pains, my joys, my hopes, my dreams. So I shall continue writing, continue blogging, continue forming sentences with simple words to express what's inside me.
If it could inspire others who was or still is in the same/similar situations as mine then I would be honored.
I may not be the most popular blogger or snag a book deal but for now, I am good enough to have my own little corner here in the blogsphere to be me and make new connections with others.
I am good enough in this sea of many great bloggers with all my grammatically challenged sentences, I am my own person, I am me…unique and different.
This post is inspired by Just.Be.Enough. A powerful group of women pioneered by Elena to empower, to inspire and to celebrate ourselves.


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Listening - It's the last day of my 5 day weekend... I baked yummy treats, spent time with family, hit up the Black Friday sales (at noon, not midnight!), and now it's time to catch up with my usual Sunday routine as I prepare for a busy week. Fun fun! :-)
Loving - SO much right now! I LOVE time off from school to spend time with my family and my husband's family. I love Thanksgiving leftovers and not having to cook for a few days! And I love my holiday decorations... my husband and I put the tree up last week and it's gotten me into the holiday spirit. I love having the decorations up early enough to actually enjoy them.
Thinking - December will be crazy but fun! I am excited for the winter craftivities and writing projects that we are doing in the next few weeks. Now to only decide what to do for my kids' gift to their parents...??? I always struggle with this and change my mind every year. Help! Last year we did the cutest snowflake ornaments with their pictures on them, but I should have bought a lifetime supply because I can't find them anywhere! :-(
Wanting - Yay!! I love TPT sales. I can't wait to stock up on some goodies for the winter months and on materials I've been using to supplement our new Wonders reading series. I can't wait!
Needing - Yes, I am the silly girl who is usually done by Thanksgiving break... but this year, I haven't started! What?! Looks like December will be a bit more busy than usual.
Favorite Tradition - Christmas Breakfast at my Mom's house. Since the holidays are so busy and we usually have to be in 5 places at one time, my family started doing a Christmas breakfast so that we could still find time to get together. I'm not usually one to make time for breakfast on a normal day, so I get really excited to have the whole breakfast buffet of choices. Then we relax and open presents before our busy day begins.
Make sure you link up with Farley and share your December currently! Hope you have a happy holiday season!


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Mick McCarthy has been confirmed as the new Republic of Ireland manager. He will be replaced by Stephen Kenny after the Euro 2020 finals.
Dundalk manager Kenny has been appointed Under-21 manager, taking over from Noel King, as the FAI put plans in place to build for the future while also trying to ensure qualification for the next European Championships.
Kenny will leave his role at Oriel Park, ending a hugely successful spell that yielded four league titles in five seasons.
McCarthy has signed a two-year contract with the FAI and will hold his first press conference at 3pm Sunday at Aviva Stadium.
Kenny will oversee the development of underage players from the Under-15 to Under-19 grade.
The draw for Euro 2020 takes place in Dublin's Convention Centre next Sunday, 2 December, and the FAI chief executive John Delaney has moved swiftly to ensure he has his management team in place before then.
Alan Cawley believes the decision to promise Stephen Kenny the Irish manager job in 2020 is somewhat bizarre, but it's a move that will please League of Ireland fans. pic.twitter.com/MwoCoxYUEu— RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) November 24, 2018
It is expected McCarthy will be joined by long-time assistant Terry Connor and Ireland's record goal-scorer Robbie Keane in a coaching capacity.


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Unrivalled multipurpose and flexible venue caters to a diverse calendar of events
aTP- Arab tourism portal- Dubai, UAE – Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) hosted over 87 non-trade events in 2015, welcoming over 686,192 visitors. Combining a mix of theatrical productions, music festivals, family entertainment, sporting events and more, the action-packed line-up reinforced DWTC's commitment as a catalyst to further diversifying Dubai's event calendar.
Theatre and Music
Hosting 36 entertainment events over the course of 2015, DWTC attracted more than 173,000 visitors. Key experiences included the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra drawing a multicultural audience during the annual Dubai Classics. Cirkopolis swiftly followed, wowing 3,800 visitors with its stunning performances, complemented by a state-of-the-art stage design. Dubai Music Week brought together over 14,000 music enthusiasts with international and regional superstars gracing the stage. DWTC was also abuzz at the end of the year with more than 7,000 visitors roaring for Masters of Dirt, the most dangerous freestyle show in the world and a first of its kind in the region.
Dubai Sports World
The exhilarating 10-week schedule of sports, tournaments, and academies at DSW 2015, the Middle East's largest indoor sporting venue, set new records with attendance up by an impressive 13% on 2014, with 198,625 sports fans beating the summer heat. The multi-purpose arena covered more than 22,000m² of air-conditioned, indoor space and featured a vast array of activities for serious athletes and sporting novices of all ages.
Family entertainment
Committed to providing entertainment for the whole family, DWTC once again hosted Modesh World, offering games, experiences and rides including its unique Mirror Maze and 5D motion-theatre X-Rider, attracting 189,861 visitors. In addition, DWTC's annual Ramadan Majlis and Night Market saw a total of 22,283 attendees enjoy the spirit of the Holy Month.
Commenting on DWTC's success and focus on hosting non-trade events, Ahmed Alkhaja, Senior Vice President – Venues, DWTC said: "In line with our commitment to supporting Dubai to achieve its target of 20 million visitors by 2020, DWTC has made a strategic decision to expand our offerings to make DWTC the venue of choice for organising events of any scale and type. To accelerate this area in 2016 and beyond, we will continue to invest in home-grown events, further attract international event organisers from across Europe, Asia, and the USA, as well as regional talent – ensuring a thrilling and diverse events calendar."
January 2016 live events calendar
The first month of 2016 promises to showcase a cultural melting pot of live events at DWTC. January events include; Al-Faris, a local saga musical based on the poems of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai; Disney's international show-stomping musical Beauty and the Beast, and comedian Russell Peters' which will take place from 19-20 January.


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All the Sandy Murphy RSW RGI PAI paintings have been taken down today and carefully wrapped. I felt a little sad, but being surrounded by Margaretann Bennett's new work gave me that little frisson of excitement I feel when a challenge awaits. Plus, they are just plain fabulous!
I have to find the perfect home on the Smithy walls for the forty eight beautiful pieces that make up her new collection. Hanging an exhibition is always a little daunting. I want it to be as good as possible, with every piece in it's optimum place.
I know how much work and preparation the artist has put in, and I really want to do their effort and talent justice. Although mainly figurative, Margaretann's latest collection also includes some of her intricate still lifes and landscapes.
As I lay the pieces out and am mentally going through combinations and patterns, a welcome break occurs from my machinations as Lesley Carruthers arrives with sculpture to complement this exhibition.
Lesley is a widely acclaimed, talented sculptor working mainly in cast aluminium, and I am delighted to introduce her work to Smithy Gallery, particularly in conjunction with this exhibition.
These three pieces, set on the best quality oak plinths will be a fabulous punctuation to such a strong body of work from Margaretann.
Even with such a lot of work to do, I am already looking forward to the opening of the exhibition this Sunday, mainly because the gallery will be transformed into something completely different. From the tranquility and tonal subtlety of the Sandy Murphy exhibition, it will have an altogether new and vibrant energy about it, and this is what I love about art, expression, creativity and being lucky enough to house it all under one roof.
Hope to see you there.
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Rouge Vif D'Etampes (Cucurbita maxima) photo by Joyce D'Agostino
This growing season was a challenge for most of us due to the heat and lack of rain. Many pumpkin growers this year reported their crops maturing weeks earlier than the normal schedule due to the extreme drought conditions.
If you grew pumpkins this year, now is the time to prepare them for harvest and storage. Knowing when to cut and store your pumpkins is important. Pumpkins are not only suitable for eating but are great for fall decorating and carving. Like winter squash, pumpkins take most of our growing season to produce the pumpkin. Choosing the right variety for your climate helps you achieve a successful fall pumpkin harvest.
|Sugar Pie (Curcurbita pepo) photo by Joyce D'Agostino
Pumpkins are ready to harvest when their stems appear dry and the skin resists penetration by a thumbnail. This Planttalk bulletin gives a great summary of the tips for harvesting: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/ptlk/1829.html. However, given weather uncertainty, be sure to follow the directions in this bulletin and watch weather forecasts for any predictions of hard frosts. Pumpkins can tolerate cooler temperatures and even light frosts but will be damaged if exposed to a hard freeze.
Pumpkins are also high in beta carotene and other nutrients, so they are healthy additions to your cooking and baking. They also store very well which means that if you can't use it at the time you harvest, you can hold them at the right temperature and use as you need them.
Due to its acidity and density, pumpkin puree cannot be safely canned at home even with a pressure canner. The USDA recommends freezing as the best way to preserve your puree. Simply bake your pumpkin wedges at about 350 degrees and when tender scoop it out of the skin, discard the skin and puree in a food mill or food processor. Don't forget to save the seeds and bake them for a great fall treat.
This year I grew Sugar Pie Pumpkins (Curcurbita pepo). They are not large pumpkins, but valued for their sweet flavor and smooth texture, perfect for pie filling.
When you begin to choose which pumpkins to grow, you will see that online seed sources or their catalogues have many types and sizes to choose from including heirlooms and mini sizes up to the large Atlantic Giant which are grown each year in competitions for "Biggest Pumpkin".
Here are a few publications to help you select and grow a great pumpkin:


text: Since Claire Martin first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1991, she has built an enviable reputation as Britain's finest female jazz singer. "Claire Martin - The Early Years Anthology" showcases her matchless talent and for the first time brings together her acclaimed first four studio albums on Linn Records. This is a four CD collection at budget price in a beautifully presented glossy digipack complete with stunning new artwork. • "The Waiting Game", Claire Martin's debut album, was chosen by The Times as one of their "Records of the Year" and was the album that firmly established Claire Martin as a future star • "Devil May Care" cemented Claire Martin's place in the UK jazz scene and displayed her skills as a songwriter as well as her fine sense of timing and phrasing. • Released in the year that Claire received the "Rising Star Award" at the British Jazz Awards, "Old Boyfriends" is an eclectic selection of songs (including the title song by Tom Waits) backed by a superb band. • Produced by Joel E. Siegel and recorded in New York, "Make This City Ours" was the album which led to Claire Martin's first "Best Vocalist " BBC Jazz Award in 1997. • Claire Martin is a multi-award winning singer (having won the Best Vocalist title a record fivetimes at the BBC Jazz Awards) who is widely acknowledged as one of Britain's finest jazz singers. • Claire Martin and her band regularly tour the Far East, Europe and Australia, as well as appearing at festivals in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Canada Witness the beginnings of a wonderful career, the works of an inspirational talent and, above all, the voice of a truly great jazz singer. "The Early Years Anthology" is an essential for any jazz fan.


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Prefix : DACALDORF (Dachshund (Miniature Smooth Haired))
Our miniature smooth dachshunds are raised in the home environment as part of the family. Each and every one of them are very special to us. Although, we have recently commenced showing and breeding, this beautiful breed has been a part of our life for many years. While our dogs go into the show ring, first and foremost they are our pets. The old saying that "you take the best dog home" is so true. Even though we are new to the show-ring, our dogs have done very well (despite the human "newby").
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Episode 252: How to Make the Most of Your Daily Energy
In the episode you will hear about:
• How lack of energy magnifies any worries or problems we have
• Ways to increase your energy
• Giving a "watt" about the things that serve you and our purpose
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Show Notes
I feel that energy is the most valuable commodity – and how awesome is it that it's something we can help control? So with that in mind, what are you giving your energy to today?
Ever notice that when you're feeling low energy or tired that the things that seem big, scary or stressful seem even bigger, scarier or more stressful? When this happens, we know we're not supporting that habits that keep us fully energized.
While talking at the gym the other day with my friend, Mark Karpenko, he told me that we're all only given 100 watts of energy a day. Wow. Only 100 watts and often they're not being spent wisely.
Sometimes we're not waking up at 100 watts for a number of reasons. Whether it's because the kids were up late or a relationship is weighing heavily on our hearts, or perhaps we're just taking too many things personally – our energy is being drained. The good news?
"We can always change something."
Get more sleep. Move your body or meditate. Eat better foods. And sometimes the most difficult (but often most helpful), be mindful of who you're spending your time with. Don't give up any of that wattage to things that don't support love and your true talents and gifts. Be quick to forgive and let the small stuff roll of your back.
What will you give a "watt" about today?
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You've survived every bad day you've ever had.
Tag: Parenting
The First Steps
Xander finally took his first steps, so how will I take mine?
Are Parents Cool?
I think we're cool, but I may be biased.
Give Back to the Community
Your community will have a huge impact on your children as they grow.
Responding to Parental Alienation
How do you respond to parental alienation?
The Parent I Choose to Be
What type of parent do you want to be for your children?
Giving Pictures a Voice
A picture can be worth more than a thousand words.


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Sugar Season is Here! (6 Tips to Help You Navigate)
Okay, we've already established that we Americans eat A LOT of sugar, right? Well, it seems to me that Thanksgiving to New Year's Day has got to be the peak time for consumption of the white stuff. Those attractive little red & green foil wrappers are just the beginning…
So what will you do? Are you already resigned to give in, knowing you'll feel awful come January 2nd? Perhaps you'll exert your utmost willpower as you go from one holiday event to the next; but then lose your resolve with the first concession: "Well, maybe just ONE Santa cookie." If you have come up with a strategy that actually gets you through the month feeling terrific, I think you should write a book!
One thing I learned during the last couple of years is that having food sensitivities can be a real advantage, if I approach it the right way. Two years ago, I "cheated" a little. A few cookies, a piece of pie, some stuffing with my turkey. By the end of the holidays, I was pretty miserable. Wheat & gluten do NOT like me, even a tiny bit. So, last year, it was easier. Every time I was offered an offending food, I said "no thank you," without a trace of regret. It was so nice to feel so much better! And a bonus of all that was that I also had substantially less sugar.
I often hear people trying to motivate themselves to resist sugar. "I know I shouldn't eat this. I't's so bad for me." This does not work! Everyone's a little different, but here are some suggestions for keeping things a little better balanced this December:
1) Watch your blood sugar. How? Eat a little protein at each meal. Eat whole grains & vegetables. In fact, try to fill up mostly on these things. Don't wait til you feel starved to eat, but do wait til you feel a little hungry. I'm personally not a fan of eating lots of "small meals" instead of 2 or 3 main meals. But if that's how you need to do it to keep your blood sugar level, do it (for now).
2) Be active. Just a brisk walk around the neighborhood is enough for me to feel energized, & it also inspires me to eat better. Or get together with a friend or two for racket ball or a little hike. Maybe do your shopping where you can do a lot of walking between stores. Schedule in a zumba or spin class. Whatever works for you!
3) Plan good foods for yourself wherever you are. Pack baby carrots & peanut butter or dressing to take with you. Put a small container of almonds & raisins in your purse, or an apple in your bag. Make a big pot of soup on the weekend, then bring it for lunch a couple of times during the week. Instead of thinking so much about the holiday treats you'll make, plan the delicious savory vegetable dishes you can serve with a nice piece of fish or pot of beans. Add raw veggies everywhere you can think of.
4) Eat before you go to the party. (I know you've heard this one before!) If I am already full of good food when I arrive, it's so much easier to grab a cup of tea or coffee, or sparkling water, & just enjoy the company, instead of heaping up a plate of "goodies," or drinking the cocoa or hot cider.
5) Drink water. I tend to become dehydrated when I'm frantically busy with holiday activity. Then I think I'm hungry, when all I actually need is a big drink of water. Staying hydrated helps your immune system work more efficiently, and helps prevent headaches, too. Especially if you live in a dry climate, like I do. Best of all, you won't be as tempted by sugary drinks– one of the biggest sources of seasonal calories.
6) Choose your favorite sweet treats now & then, and really ENJOY! Don't deny yourself til you just can't stand it. Tell yourself ahead of time, "when the pecan pie is served, I'm going to savor every bite!" Chew slowly so you can really appreciate your indulgence (and digest it!)
The bottom line here is: be intentional. Take a few minutes to set an intention for the next 6 weeks. Just this simple step will empower you to face the holidays with more optimism, and hopefully, feel better & healthier in the long run.
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Tips on Wearing Animal Print Dresses
Animal prints is certainly on the top list of the hottest trends this year and it seems like it's going to be on trend for quite some time until next year. Wearing the animal print trend can be a little tricky for some women, though, because it has a very sexy and sensational vibe to it and some are afraid of looking 'too seductive' in it. This is especially true with wearing animal print dresses. If you have a gorgeous animal print dress sitting in your closet or if you're contemplating on buying one for yourself but you're afraid that you can't pull it off, here are some tips that might just help you wear that stunner with confidence!
- Pick an animal print dress in neutral colors – aside from the fact that neutral colored animal print pieces are more natural-looking (have you ever seen a real zebra with pink stripes on its skin?), it's also more classy and elegant plus it's a lot easier on the eyes. An animal print dress with an earthy color / tone is also more sophisticated so you don't have to bother about looking cheap in it.
- Go for simple and minimal accessories – wearing an animal print dress is already a statement in and of itself so if you want to keep it chic and classy, make sure to go easy on the accessories. It may be a tempting idea to get all matchy – matchy by getting animal print accessories but believe me, you'll just end up like one of the Jersey Shore girls – a far cry from classy and chic. Stick to simple pieces instead like a gold bangle or a pair of stud earrings and maybe a neutral – colored clutch and keep it to one or two pieces, at the most.
- Choose a classic dress style – choose a dress that's not too sexy when it comes in animal print. You don't want too much going on when wearing this trend. It's already a stunning and sexy print so go for dresses with classy styles instead. That means nothing that shows too much skin and nothing that squeezes your body too tight.
- Get the right print size – animal print dresses can come with big prints, medium sized prints, small prints or a combination of all. All these can be flattering if you know which one works for your body. If you're not too sure about this, here's a quick tip big prints make you look bigger; small prints make you look slimmer. So, if you're busty, avoid dresses with big animal prints on the chest area but if you're lacking curves on the waist, go for dresses with big animal prints near that part to emphasize and enhance it. Fitting the dress to see how it looks on you is always a good idea.
So, what are you still waiting for? Go ahead and rock that animal print dress you've been tempted with for so long! Keep these style tops in mind and you wills surely be a head – turner in your fabulous dress.


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Live online: April 2016
Each portrait is not just a bio and personal story, but also a look at the journey and principles which led to success in a profession.
23 april
We do not host events, we host guests!
Laura Schwartz, ex-Director of Events at the White House, professional speaker & emcee, author of Eat, Drink & Succeed and international television commentators
23 april
Client sets the creativity
Jens Mayer, Managing Director of "Jack Morton",
23 april
It is the Golden Age of Experience
Jason Megson, managing director at George P. Johnson Experience Marketing
23 april
I need to be surprised
David Wirtgen, DW Technical Design & Project Management
This section introduces the latest trends and innovative tools for extraordinary events
9 august
The audience is the headline perfomer
Tuomas Kallio, Artistic Director of the Flow Festival
Interview by Max Hagen, editor of LCM
Interview by Max Hagen, editor of LCM
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23 april
Technology is just a means to an end
Sakchin Bessette, creative director and co-founder of Moment Factory
23 april
Sometimes you have no choice
Philip Thomas, CEO of the Cannes Lions festival
Key principles of live comm industry. Real facts and useful tips from leading experts and major clients.
24 april
Each of our events has a specific goal
Jan Gemrich joined Google 4 years ago while finishing his Masters in International Management Studies at the University of Sydney and the University of Economics in Prague. Gemrich has worked for Google in Prague and London, where he was – amongst other things – responsible for consumer, small, and large advertisers, and agency and acquisition events with budgets up to $1 mln. He currently works in consumer marketing for Google Canada.
A detailed showcase of the most outstanding and offbeat recent events in varying formats
1 july
Google — The Digital Workplace
23 april
Take action or soon there will be no real animals to photograph
23 april
The Art of 7
The creative idea for the launch of the new BMW 7 series in Slovakia was conceptualized as "THE ART OF 7" story...
23 april
S.Pellegrino young chef
The show was conceived to enhance the final event of the international competition joined by more than 3000 young talents of the gourmet food industry...
23 april
Adobe Symposium
The Adobe Symposium helps the industry's leading minds to better understand how the digital transformation impacts their business, and to re-think their current strategies and tactics and create credibility and relevance for Adobe in that process.
Independent report on key industrial business events all over the world
8 august
The real power of live communication: for #eventprofs
Amsterdam, Aug 8th — local initiative to evolve into a one-of-a-kind social event for #eventprofs.
24 april
EVENTEX Announce Winners for 2015
17th March, Sofia, Bulgaria, the winners in the 6th edition of the Global Event Awards were announced at a gala ceremony during the Eventex 2016
24 april
Food for your brain and your delight
How to make the ordinary trade show special? How to involve your guests and attract as much attention to your stand as you only wish you could? How to create a special atmosphere at your stand? How to make it memorable? The professional Dutch event-association IDEA has the right answer to all these questions. With their brilliant concept BRAINFOOD for the IDEA stand during the most prominent Dutch exhibition Event16.
23 april
Key improvements to the EuBea have been made in Mont Blanc
Courmayeur, April 4, 2016. The EuBea Advisory Board gathered on 1st April in the Italian town of Courmayeur to discuss key principles and major improvements to the 11th edition of the International Festival of Events & Live Communication, which will take place in Saint Petersburg on 13-15th October 2016.
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25 july
Jackson to Guest-Edit Live
20 July 16, London, UK: Kevin Jackson has been named the Editor-in-Chief of a professional pan-European media Live Communication Magazine (LCM)
1 july
Inspire. Empower. Succeed. Key Pillars for more value of your event.
Ilka Dzeik, Event ROI Consultant and Strategic Advisor of EuBea international festival of events & live communication.
24 april
How to plan a world-class event
Timo Kiuru — Creative Director, Author of Experiential Creative Planning. How to plan a world-class event, available on the iBooks Store in 51 countries, and the founder of the international creative consultancy, The Unthinkable.
24 april
The UK's live events industry
How big is the live events industry? How can we work together to make it bigger and better? And why does this industry matter – to governments, clients, suppliers and the European economy? Questions like this are easy to ask and not so easy to answer.


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Irving Penn, Bee, New York, 1995, printed 2001, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Promised Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © The Irving Penn Foundation
Irving Penn (1917–2009) (1917–2009), known for his iconic fashion, portrait, and still life images which appeared inVogue, ranks as one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century. Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, the first retrospective of Penn's work in nearly twenty years, will celebrate his legacy as a modern master and demonstrate the photographer's continued influence on the medium. The exhibition features work from all stages of Penn's career—street scenes from the late 1930s, photographs of the American South from the early 1940s, celebrity portraits, fashion photographs, still lifes, and more private studio images. Penn's pictures reveal a taste for stark simplicity whether he was photographing celebrities, fashion models, still lifes, or people in remote places of the world.
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. On display will be 146 photographs from the museum's permanent collection, including the debut of 100 photographs recently donated to the museum by The Irving Penn Foundation. The exhibition presents forty-eight previously unseen or never exhibited photographs. Also on view for the first time will be Super 8 mm films, made by his wife, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, of Penn in Morocco that add a vivid picture of the artist at work.
In a career that spanned nearly seventy years, Penn's aesthetic and technical skill earned him accolades in both the artistic and commercial worlds. He was a master of both black-and-white and color photography, and his revival of platinum printing in the 1960s and 1970s was a catalyst for significant change in the art world. He was one of the first photographers to cross the chasm that separated magazine and fine art photography, narrowing the gap between art and fashion. Penn's portraits and fashion photographs defined elegance in the 1950s, yet throughout his career he also transformed mundane objects—storefront signs, food, cigarette butts, street debris—into memorable images of unexpected, often surreal, beauty.
Merry Foresta is the guest curator; she was the museum's curator of photography from 1983 to 1999.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue ($45, softcover), co-published by The Irving Penn Foundation and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and distributed by Yale University Press, with an essay by Merry Foresta and an introduction by Betsy Broun, the museum's director. Foresta's essay introduces Penn to a younger generation and delves into his use of photography to respond to social and cultural change.
National Tour
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is available for tour after closing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. If you are interested in hosting the exhibition at your museum, please visit our traveling exhibitions page for contact information.
Confirmed venues include:
Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas (April 15, 2016 – August 14, 2016)
Lesley University, College of Art and Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts (September 10, 2016 – December 16, 2016)
Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee (February 24, 2017 – May 21, 2017)
Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas (September 30, 2017 – January 7, 2018)
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from ART MENTOR FOUNDATION LUCERNE, Sakurako and William Fisher, The William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund, The Lauder Foundation – Leonard and Judy Lauder Fund, Edward Lenkin and Roselin Atzwanger, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Margery and Edgar Masinter, The Margery and Edgar Masinter Exhibitions Fund, the James F. Petersen Charitable Fund in honor of Tania and Tom Evans, The Bernie Stadiem Endowment Fund, and the Trellis Fund. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum's traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go.
fonte: @edisonmariotti #edisonmariotti
Museu de Washington terá retrospectiva de Irving Penn em outubro
A primeira retrospectiva em 20 anos dedicada às obras do fotógrafo americano Irving Penn será inaugurada em outubro em Washington, com 146 imagens, anunciou nesta segunda-feira o American Art Museu da o capital federal americana.
A mostra "Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty" ("Irving Penn: além da beleza"), estará em cartaz dos dias 23 de outubro deste ano a 20 de março de 2016, sendo que algumas fotos que nunca foram expostas, explicou o museu num comunicado.
Nascido em Nova Jersey, Penn morreu em Nova York em 2009, aos 92 anos de idade. Ele alcançou a fama com fotos de moda, muitas delas publicadas na revista Vogue, nas décadas de 40 e 50.
A mostra também inclui cenas de rua, retratos de celebridades, naturezas mortas, além de "imagens mais pessoais de estúdio", inclusive um filme de família gravado em Marrocos pela esposa do fotógrafo, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn.
O Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nova York anunciou no mês passado que terá sua própria retrospectiva a partir de abril de 2017, para marcar o centenário do nascimento do artista.


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So there are some things I'm seriously sick of reading, hearing, and seeing. So, some new rules are in order. Disobeying of these rules will result in me leaving or immediate banning, no exceptions
1. There will be no raging, with some exceptions. This includes on Sonic 06, The Twilight Saga, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, One Direction, and The Hunger Games. You may only rage if the others are equally enraged - for example; "How do you feel about Nintendo buying Sonic," "I am seriously ticked about it." Then you may write your angry paragraph.
2. There will be no trolling, flaming, bullying, or the like. For the love of Christ, do I even have to explain this one?
3. Before talking someone's ear off, make sure they know what you're talking about. For e…Read more >
Yes, I'm still around. Yes, I'm feeling better. No, I don't hate you Pheo, though my brain really wants me to. I've chosen to stick around until summer, maybe a teeny tiny bit in the summer. Don't make me change my mind.
So I'll be on Chat for a few hours. If nobody comes around . . . too bad, you gotta wait till Monday. See you all later.Read more >
Okay, I'm done with my Internet life. I'm leaving and there's not much you can do to stop me. Don't take it personally. Unless you're one of the reasons... okay, even then don't take it personally. It's just that, someone I care about a lot that just so happens to be one of my Internet-exclusive friends, is causing me a lot of heartache and doesn't even realize it, even with the obvious hints I've been dropping LIKE THIS ONE. I'm through with this, it's taking up all my time that I should be spending in school. That's what school's for, right? TO LEARN, PEOPLE. So, bye. Maybe I'll return after I graduate, or after I'm married, so the hurting will stop. Goodbye my friends.Read more >
I'm sorry. I am so, so sorry.
Before I begin I need you guys to know that I have NOT been avoiding you, ANY of you. This grounding and being away from everyone is harder for me than you know. Stupid page editor only loads if I'm making a new page or blog post. I love you all and don't forget it peeps.
I'm sorry. I might have to quit trying. I've been making attempt after attempt at to contact everyone. Please pass this along if you are reading this, give it to all my friends or at least those you know of.
Zed: Damn you for being so lovable. I miss you.
AuraX: I BEAT ELISA and the play was great. Miss you.
Nessie: PIE and I miss you
EoP (ESPECIALLY Fiora): Sorry I can't work on anything, ugh. If there is anything AT ALL you guys …Read more >
I was fooling around with Heroine Fanart Maker, trying to come up with a design for Willow 5, and I made this one. I really want to use it for something where she won't go different within 3 chapters... maybe one of her companions? But regardless, I need a name for her. Any ideas?
- You can name her after a character from something, but no naming her after someone who is WAAAY overused, like Juliet.
- Foreign names are not required but would be nice.
- It must be worthy of this amazing goth.
- Kathrine


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Sanjib Dey's III Smoking Barrels is being touted as the biggest film of the year from Northeast India. The film's trailer was recently launched in Guwahati, Assam in the presence of its ensemble cast led by noted the spians like Subrat Dutta and Mandakini Goswami. Dey's directorial debut is a multilingual film employing a homogeneous blend of six languages, viz. English, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Nagamese, and Manipuri. The film recently won two major awards at the 7th Assam State Film Awards, bagging Best Film Other Language for producer Amit Malpani and Best Supporting Actress for Mandakini Goswami. The film had earlier won the prestigious Silver Palm Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 12th Mexico International Film Festival.
Having completed its yearlong festival run all across the globe which began with a world premiere at 38th Durban International Festival in July last year, III Smoking Barrels is finally set to release in theaters across India on 21 September, 2018. "The film is an anthology story about Northeast India. It deals with three stages of human life: childhood, boyhood, and manhood. Through these three stages I have tried to portray three issues which are majorly affecting this beautiful region of India," explains Dey. The film's three pivotal characters—a girl child caught in armed conflicts, a boy who is addicted to drugs and an illegal migrant involved in elephant poaching—are inspired by real people. "The three major characters of the film are the real people I have met in my life. For example, the boy's character is based on my own nephew, the son of my deceased sister who sadly passed away during the making of the film. So the film is inspired by real life stories. Although, the events and characters are fictionalised for dramatic reasons, I have tried to keep the essence intact," reveals Dey.
III Smoking Barrels is entirely shot in the Northeast, sporadically over the course of its shooting schedule that spread across two years. A large part of the film is shot at the international borders of Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar—locations that caused the cast and crew several hardships. Poonam Malpani, who is the film's line producer, recounts, "I remember once we were shooting in the border area near Bhutan and while everybody was away shooting I stayed back along with my driver in order to make some last minute arrangements for dinner. We suddenly ran out of oil and so the driver had to rush back to get the supplies. It was then that I realized that I was all alone in the middle of a jungle. It was evening time and the local people gathered around the house we were staying at and started drinking liquor. Seeing all this I got a bit clueless and so I just ran inside and locked myself in the room. It was a really scary moment but thankfully they all left after some time to my great relief." For Dey, who has previously worked on some international projects as well, shooting extensively in the Northeast was an experience of a lifetime. "I hail from this region but for the most part of my career I have been working in Mumbai and so coming back to the Northeast after all these years was really special. The icing on the cake is that my producer also happens to be my childhood friend and it was really his dream to make a film about the Northeast but with a pan India appeal. So I am glad that with III Smoking Barrels we have realised just that," rejoices Dey.
Producing a film can be a risky proposition for a first time producer but for Amit Malpani it's like a dream come true. "During my graduation years at Hansraj College back in the '90s, I quickly realized that all my friends had great misconceptions about Northeast India. Although, I knew that it was out of sheer ignorance, it still made me feel really bad," confesses Malpani, whose family has been running tea estates in Assam for last many generations. "I remember once talking to a friend from Nagaland, who was one year junior to me at the college, in Nagamese and I was shocked to see that all my North Indian friends were laughing at me. One of them even commented that he didn't know that I could even speak the wild tongues. It was an incident that hurt me deeply. From that moment itself I had been carrying this thing in my mind that one day I would do something that could help change the general perception about the region," recollects Malpani.
In the past some Bollywood films, including Mari Kom, have been criticised for overlooking the local talent when it comes to casting actor for major parts. But III Smoking Barrels has set the record straight by casting the local talent in the pivotal roles such as Siddharth Boro who plays the boy in the second story, NSD alumna Mandakini Goswami, who plays his mother, and Shiny Gogoi who plays the girl child in the first. Boro, a model-turned-actor, observes, "The film highlights some of the major problems that we have been facing in the Northeast but most of the people don't know about it. It is really heartening to see such kind of hard hitting cinema emerge out of the region and with local talent in it. Hopefully, it will bring greater attention to the region and the problems that we are facing." Goswamy, reveals, "What drew me to this film initially was its close association to the Northeast. When Sanjib approached me to do the film he was quick to tell me that my character was inspired by his real sister. My biggest challenge was to get hold of the character's emotional arc and understand the its innermost drives." Guwahati girl Shiny Gogoi too had to deal with a lot of hardships during the shoot. "The very thought of a child being abducted and plunged into arms conflict is scary. And to think that such things are actually happening is deeply disturbing. So I am glad that such issues are being addressed by a film," says Gogoi.
For the third story that's based on a Bangladeshi migrant involved in poaching, Dey has cast a noted Bengali actor and NSD alumnus Subrat Dutta in the pivotal role. "When I arrived for the shoot the first thing that I asked for was to get me checked out of the hotel. Everyone thought at first that I was throwing tantrums. But I couldn't have essayed my poverty stricken character Mukhtar while staying at such a lavish place. So it took some efforts to convince them to move me to a place away from all the worldly comforts," reveals Dutta. It was no less challenging for actor Nalneesh Neel to play the character of Ikram, a mute man who assists Mukhtar in his poaching activities. Having played small parts in big budget Bollywood films like Shuddh Desi Romance, Raees, and Fukrey Returns, playing Ikram proved to be a completely different experience for Neel. "Since I was playing a person who can't speak I had to internalize the emotions for my character. I developed a sign language of my own. I remember watching Mel Gibson's Apocalypto which gave me the inspiration for my character. Also, I stopped taking bath in the weeks leading to the shoot in order to add greater believability to the character," reveals Neel.
Other than the film's realistic approach and meticulpous setting another unique aspect of the film is its choice of folk songs which include an Assamese Borgeet sung by Papon and two Bengali Bauls sung by Karthik Das Baul. Dev Gupta who has written one of the Baul songs reveals, "The director had a specific requirement for a song to be used in the third story based on a tune he had in mind. I was supposed to write the lyrics. The song comes at a point in the story where suddenly these poor people have begun to earn money but through illegal means and so the song is like a warning call, urging them to overcome temptation and stay righteous. It's sung by Karthik Das Baul and arranged by Anurag Saikia who has also composed the film's background score along with the Italian composer Michele Josia."
It is really a pity that over the years not many filmmakers have managed to do justice to the beguiling beauty of Northeast India through their camera lens. One of the major reasons for this inaccessibility is the region's remoteness from mainland India— connected to the Northeast by just a narrow stretch of land of about 22 kilometers called the Siliguri Corridor. Hopefully, all that will change with III Smoking Barrels. The film's trailer has already crossed 1.25 million views on social media and as the film approaches its release date, one hopes that it will succeed in creating greater awareness about Northeast India as well as the issues affecting the region.


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CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!
Section 7
Question 7 | Test
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In the last section, we discussed effective behavioral strategy number six: "Imagined Exposure" through four key concepts that I ask my clients to keep in mind. These four concepts included: sensory experiences; emotional responses; internal physiological reactions; and thoughts and ideas.
In this section, we will examine effective cognitive behavioral therapy strategy number seven: "Reducing Rituals." For this strategy, I use three different smaller CBT techniques. These three smaller techniques include: Ritual Restriction; Gradual Selective Ritual Prevention; and Response Delay.
♦ Technique #1 - Ritual Restriction
♦ Technique #2 - Gradual Selective Ritual Prevention
Slowly, we began to organize imagined exposure sessions. First, we started with the older coworker dying. Once that session had been completed, Luke was no longer permitted to turn around in circles. However, if the thought of his wife being diagnosed or dying appeared, he was allowed to perform the ritual.
♦ Technique #3 - Response Delay
♦ Technique #4 - Taking Control
In this section, we examined effective behavioral strategy number seven: "Reducing Rituals." For this strategy, I use three different smaller techniques. These three smaller techniques included: Ritual Restriction; Gradual Selective Ritual Prevention; and Response Delay.
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If the temperature has gone down below freezing which has made the water inside your pipes to freeze, it will eventually burst. In such a situation, the first thing you should do is switch off the main water supply. Thereafter, contact a professional plumber. After the measures are taken, take precautionary actions to avoid the same thing happening in the future.
High risks move around the pipes which are installed in unheated areas like the basement, garages, etc. as there is no source of heat in such areas, chances of pipes freezing in cold temperature increases drastically. There is also a chance of pipes freezing in exterior walls (source) due to less or no insulation. But you shouldn't worry because you can easily keep the water running without the pipes bursting by a few simple ways.
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They call it the Great Firewall of China - an elaborate system of software filters that dictates what internet content China's 100 million web users are allowed to access.
The Chinese Government uses it to weed out all the things it doesn't want its citizens reading about, listening to or watching.
As well as criticism of its policies and administration, the Government is adverse to "sex, violence and feudal superstitions", according to the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua. It's not keen on gambling either.
It means that if you are in China, there's no point Googling Tiananmen Square, Dalai Lama or anything triple-x in nature on Google.cn. You won't get the whole story.
Pen columns in the West about China's meddling in Tibet and it's unlikely anyone in China will ever get to read them.
We were shocked that an Asian broadcast of Prime Minister Helen Clark's interview on CNN was edited when she strayed onto the touchy subject of China's human rights record. The Chinese live with such interruptions every day.
As Clark pointed out: "Obviously China is not a democracy, and it is governed in a way that would not be acceptable in a Western democracy."
And neither is the internet governed in China as it would be in a Western democracy. According to a report released in April by the Open Net Initiative (http:/www.opennetinitiative.net/) China has the "most sophisticated internet-filtering regime" in the world and has increased censorship since the last report in 2002. China's internet monitoring taskforce numbers 30,000 people.
It's a different world, one where fear of defaming someone or embarrassing yourself are not the things holding you back from publishing your opinions on the internet, but the real risk of going to prison.
China's legacy of public infrastructure ownership means the Government has direct access to the fibre-optic networks that carry internet traffic in and out of the country.
They identify "objectionable" content by internet protocol (IP) address, searches for keywords and by domain name. I doubt that the Friends of Falun Gong website (www.fofg.org) gets any hits from China.
It's not just the big search engines and websites such as Sohu.com, Netease.com and Baidu.com that are monitored and filtered. Email messages, instant messenger conversations, weblog postings and bulletin board messages also pass through the filter. T he Chinese understand technology, so the filtering is very good - it's done in real time and is selective in nature. Sections of a website will often be blocked rather than the entire site.
If the censorship wasn't bad enough already, a new edict handed down from China's Ministry of Information Industry - at www.cnii.com.cn/ecnii - threatens to limit free speech even further.
Every Chinese website and weblog has to be registered with the Government by the end of the month to avoid large fines and having their websites blocked.
It means that the Government will know exactly who is operating each website and whose door to kick in if something disagreeable is published.
This regressive move has infuriated free-speech advocates. The organisation Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org) has been particularly critical of the Government's moves to tighten the thumbscrews, worried that the registration rules will force the more vocal bloggers to host their websites overseas and therefore not be available to Chinese surfing the web in their home country.
But I don't think China's stranglehold on free speech can last much longer. That's because two things are becoming more readily available in the country: technology and money.
There are 43 million broadband users in China and 330 million cellphone users.
As new technologies are adopted, including satellite broadband and 3G mobile services, it will become harder to ringfence the Chinese internet.
An expanding middle-class is also demanding more services, including e-commerce. And they want the services we in the West enjoy. Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and Google, the powerhouses of the internet, are all looking to China for growth.
Any company of any size wants to do business in China and to accommodate them, a freer internet environment will have to operate.
At the same time, Chinese corporations are investing heavily in other parts of the world as they take advantage of the forces of globalisation. It's only a matter of time before they push their agenda for change back home.
Which is why China's internet censorship regime is likely to be quietly dismantled over the next few years. Economic necessity will dictate it.
In the meantime, activists develop ways of circumventing the system.
Free-speech advocates Peacefire (www.peacefire.org) are offering their Circumventor software, which allows content to be sent to someone in China with a URL that is unrelated to the source.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an initiative under way called "Tor" http://tor.eff.org/, which is designed to make web activity anonymous.
"Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers, instead of taking a direct route from source to destination," says the foundation.
The most worrying thing about Chinese internet censorship is the level of self-censorship it has developed among the Chinese. People know where the line is and are scared to cross it. That's because China has a dodgy track record on human rights, as this report from the US Government points out: www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41640.htm.
Executions are numerous and thousands of dissidents are jailed for criticising the Government. In that environment, speaking your mind is incredibly risky.
You can't blame the Chinese who opt for a safer, filtered view of the world.
They call it the Great Firewall of China - an elaborate system of software filters that dictates what internet content China's 100 million web users are allowed to access.
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Introduction: Sorry for Your ASH Getting Chewed
There was a lot of left over beaver chewed remnants in one of the areas I went to for firewood this fall. Looking at their busy work I had an inspiration for making an award of sorts. Granted it is a bit punny but I thought I would give it a try and everyone who has seen it has really liked it. Basically I processed one of the beaver chewed stumps into an Ash chewing award.
I find Beaver to be amazing. They really like Ash trees, apparently they taste good, but ash is a really hard dense wood. I have trouble cutting it so I can't help wonder if they don't also have trouble with it.
To think about these little guys looking up at one of these giant cottonwood trees and just going to work to chew it down, that takes ambition. The chain saw in the picture has an 18 inch guide bar. With the bar the saw measures 35 inches so its just short of 3 feet. The tree in the picture then is more than 3 feet across. And it was just one of many that they had chewed down. Amazing.
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Step 1: Making a Flat Spot
The first step in making this log is to peel off some of the bark to clear away the dirt and other junk. To much dirt can dull the planer blades so making a clean spot is a good place to start.
I started up the planer and shaved off a little bit at a time until I got a nice flat area to work on. It is possible to use a tool like a band saw for this but I have had really good success in just using the planer.
After getting it flat the next thing is to sand it.
Step 2: Cleaning It Up
After the initial work I discovered that I should have picked a different side to flatten since this one had a large crack in it.
That's alright, it can be fixed.
First I cut the edges to open up the crack. This is not unlike dental work. You have to get at the problem. Clean out any other problems too, like places where bugs have chewed.
Speaking of bugs, there is a remote possibility that there might be some larva or eggs in the wood especially since I am leaving most of the bark on. To make sure there is nothing living left inside I put the Ash in the microwave and cooked it for 5 minutes. This did not heat the log up that much because its pretty dry wood. I actually thought it would be hotter. But it should have cooked any bugs that are left inside so it should be sterile.
Once it has cooled down I ran a bead of wood glue down the cracks. This will stabilize them so they shouldn't get bigger. I let the glue dry overnight and then after trimming it a little, I filled the crack in with wood putty. I needed a nice flat surface for writing so this helps to achieve that.
Another session with the belt sander followed up with some 500 grit sandpaper left a very nice surface.
Step 3: Adding the Graphic
I searched for and found a graphic that I really liked. This one is from the Alaska Fish and Game. I printed it out with a laser printer. Laser printers use heat to transfer and bond the toner to the paper and you can reverse the process and transfer the image to something else using heat. My wood burner has a tip just for that purpose.
Cut the image out and place it on the wood. Remember that it will now be reversed, a mirror image. Rub the hot tool over the image and press lightly. You should practice doing this first on a scrap piece of wood. Although you can't erase the transferred image if you make a mistake you can just sand it off and start over if you need to. The heat should cause the paper with the toner to stick to the wood. You can peel it up a little and look to see if its dark enough. The paper should stay in the same place since its stuck down. If it looks the way you want it to, then slowly peel the paper off. Use the heat tool again if it's stuck too tight. Just get it warm and pull the paper off. You should be left with a very nice image. If you get a little bit of paper stuck, don't worry about it. After the wood is cool you can scratch that off with a finger nail.
Step 4: Lettering
I made my lettering using a desktop publishing program. Once again I printed it with a laser printer. There was a lot of trial and error here as I adjusted the letters sizes and positions to fit the log and the graphic.
Cut everything up and lay it out on your wood to make sure you get it where you want it. In the publishing industry they used to call this process "paste up". It's where you place everything where you want it to be and then arrange it to look good.
After you get everything set up, you're going to have to take the extra step of reversing it. It has to be the mirror image in order for it to come out correctly onto the wood.
Use the heat tool and once again stick the toner to the wood. If it's not that way you like it, sand it off and do it again.
Step 5: Start Burning
Wood burning takes time to do. Work at it slowly and carefully. The tip I used for this project was a pinpoint since my letters were a little small. How good your work turns out will depend on a lot of things, including the type of wood you use. Ash works pretty good for this although it has some spots that char a lot faster than others.
I did not plan on going over the graphic with the wood burner. It's much to fine a design for me to do that. I suppose a much better wood burner might be able to do it but I thought the graphic looked just fine the way it was.
You probably notice that the wood putty that was in the crack did not show any charring from the burner. I wasn't sure it would until I tried it. I got around that by using a brown magic marker to tone in the wood putty. It's not cheating, its finding creative solutions to unusual problems.
Step 6: Lots of Possibilities
I put several coats of finish on the face to preserve it and also on the stump side. I am debating on whether to put a finish coat on the bark and the chewed side. Putting a finish seal on the bark would help seal it up and preserve it from damage but it also alters the way it looks.
I have also thought about making a mounting board for it. I kind of like it without one but it would be really easy to screw the ash to a display board.
The tree rings show that this relatively little tree was between 70 and 80 years old. These are very slow growing trees here because of the harsh winters and the lack of rain in the summer. It survived all that time struggling against the elements just to end up as lunch for the beaver. But at least its now preserved due in part to the humorous manner of it's death.
I have a lot more ash stumps that I have been saving, little ones, big ones (Yes, I have some BIG Ash logs) and even one that was not finished, an interrupted unsuccessful chew. I have been thinking of all the fun puns I could use for them.
For instance, this one could be changed from the chew-e to the chewer,
"Sorry I chewed your Ash".
And there is:
I am a professional Ash chewer, I do this to live. (or, its my life)
Caution, professional Ash chewer!
And then there is a different vein altogether
"I love a tasty piece of Ash to start my day"
Skinny Ash, big Ash, it all tastes the same to me.
Without my daily Ash I would die of starvation.
I have thought of so many I can't even remember them anymore.
SO here is the deal I have for you :
Step 7: Readers Pun Page and Contributions
I am going to make this a special page for any fun puns you readers come up with.
Remember to keep them reasonably clean.
Put them in your comments and I will then copy and paste them into this page, provided of course I am amused. Who knows, maybe I will put them on my next piece of Ash.
I wonder how many we can get.
It's up to you all.
Oh, one of my future projects "No chewing Ash at the table".
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whats that supposed to mean?
What is what supposed to mean? That a beaver is sorry it chewed down somebodys tree.
Great job! It's funny! I love it! And I really admire the beaver and it's dedication! I didn't know they went after such big trees!
Having actually read the ible, hot transfers are also used to make printed circuits.
I like the pun, the work ( old tool vs new ) and really like the short wave bug kill, something I would have never even thought of until way later.
Beavers really prefer Ash to Cotten-wood ?
They almost look like giant crayons when you stand them on end. I wounder if I could do a giant crayola box with chewed ash. But then where would I put it, no room in the house for something like that. But maybe if I can get enough of them it would be fun to try it. Real rustic art.
The ash usually disappear first so I am guessing that is what they prefer. Could be also that they are lower to the ground and have more leafy branches. A government funded study could probably determine it, you know double blind taste study kind of thing. A good Congressional pork project! One tree they don't care for is Russian Olive. Deer don't like them either.
How did you get the image on the wood
It shows that process in step 3.
Anything printed with a laser printer can be transferred to something else as long as it can handle the heat. Laser toner is fused on to paper with heat by the printer. Its waterproof but not heat proof. If you use something like an iron, or in this case a special "tip" for the wood burner the toner gets soft when it gets hot and will stick to another surface. It works for cloth also but not as good as the regular T shirt transfers. If you have an image printed on a color laser printer you can transfer the color print the same way.


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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Food, Haji Qalandar Khan Lodhi has said that under Billion Tree Plantation campaign 4m saplings will be planted till March this year while 5 million trees will be planted in district Abbottabad.
He expressed these views while addressing a function after inaugurating Billion Tree Plantation Project in Government Girls Degree College, Lodhi Abad and Thathi Faqir Khan under the auspices of Watershed project in Abbottabad Sunday.
On this occasion, Conservator Forest, Watershed Management, Javed Arshad and DFO also addressed and highlighted Billion Tree Plantation Campaign.
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