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Today I have three fun bootcamp drills shared by readers.
Games in your bootcamp sessions is what makes them stand out from any other fitness class. Use them as a way to build community and get some laughter in your sessions.
Bootcamp Chess
From Mark Couldry
Equipment needed: 3 bean bags per team, different coloured cones to use as the Chess Board and Home Bases.
Here is a game I like to use as a finisher. Not only is it challenging but fun and tactical all at the same time.
2, 3 or 4 teams can play at the same time. Teams consist of 2, 3 or 4 players.
Each team needs 3 coloured bean bags or team markers. The numbers on the board represent number of burpees to be performed at each station.
The Aim
Be the first team to move all the bean bags from the home base to the base diagonally opposite.
Each team must take turns to grab a bean bag, one player at a time, run out to a coloured marker on the chess board, perform the relevant number of burpees, leave the bean bag and sprint back.
Teams must work together to identify the route of least burpees to the opposite base.
The Rules
- Teams can only move 1 bean bag at any one time.
- Bean bags can only be moved across the board one burpee marker at a time.
- Bean bags can be moved in any direction, forward, backward, diagonally.
- Teams CAN have all their bean bags in play on the board at the same time
The Twist
There can only be ONE bean bag from ANY of the teams on any ONE burpee marker at one time.
This forces teams to move their bean bags backwards and forwards to avoid already taken burpee markers as they make their way across the board.
This game can get very challenging but is great fun. Hope you enjoy!
About Mark
I run Benchmark Fitness in Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK. I have been interested and involved in fitness for over ten years and am extremely motivated towards helping people meet their goals as quickly as possible.
Training and exercise should be interesting, challenging, but most of all enjoyable! I firmly believe workouts should be more than just spending hours pounding away on a treadmill.
Bootcamp Poker
From Loren Mallett
One of our favorite games is poker.
I have marked up 2 -3 decks of cards with various exercises. The number of reps depends on the card (i.e. Ace = 1 and King = 13).
I have also included random cards like no sugar (or artificial sweetener) for rest of day. We then play various games with the cards.
One game has a leader who places the deck of cards in a new location each round (great for rookies as they control where the cards are put). People gather cards throughout the 15 – 30 minutes of poker and who ever can come up with the best Poker hand wins. You only get to keep the cards that you completed the exercises for.
Showcase Showdown
From Loren Mallett
Each player takes turns collecting two cards from the deck.
Like the Price is Right, the player looks at the first card and decides to keep it or pass. If he or she keeps it the rest of the group gets the second card. If the player passes on the first card, the group gets the first card and the player has to do what is on the second card.
This usually results in group begging, bullying or trying to coerce the player to accept the harder card. It is quite the scene when the player passes on 8 burpees only to get 13 burpees as the second card.
About Loren
I run an informal bootcamp for co-workers 2X per week outside at lunch (rain or shine and as we live in Vancouver Canada we get a lot of rain). I am not a personal trainer but have worked with several trainers over the years and have borrowed (stolen) many bootcamp ideas from them.
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With this weekends RideLondon event taking place on the capital's streets, it was clear to see just how far cycling has come over the past decade in the UK. Over 25,000 cyclists flocking to London to ride the 100-mile route that has recently gained UCI World Tour status on the professional circuit.
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Somehow 8 weeks have passed since we launched Livelo London and it's been a busy time for the team. Our fleet of Cannondale Supersix Evo bikes have facilitated our clients with over 50 riding days and our team of riders have now completed over 500 kilometres of guided tours.
It's been a real pleasure to see the initial success of our London location as it meets a demand from cyclists and gets people out riding who may not have been able to otherwise. There's nothing more rewarding than receiving messages from ecstatic clients, thrilled at the overall experience they have had during their time in London. In many ways, it doesn't seem fair to take all the credit when it's the bikes and the incredible local riding that does all the work for us!!
We've met people from all over the world, all linked by the common desire to get out on a bike while they have some time in London. Some travel for work, others for pleasure, but all want to ride while they are in England's capital city… and with so much going on this summer, why not.
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Last January, I was given the opportunity with my dear friend Lisa Leibfried (BSILR '16) to begin working with the Bekondo Foundation, a newly developing non-profit organization that strives to promote sustainable development from the cocoa crop in the village of Bekondo, Cameroon. At the time of applying to do Human Resources for this foundation on campus, my understanding of the Bekondo Foundation was limited. At the time, though, I was excited to be working on a mission that promoted a humane cocoa crop that would allow me to love the chocolate we eat while knowing that it was harvested through fair trade. Additionally, as a self-proclaimed chocoholic, I was ecstatic to be offered this opportunity, but to also find out that I would be working alongside my friend and travel partner from India the summer before made working with the Bekondo Foundation even sweeter (no pun intended).
Through the process, I learned of the wonderful natural resources in Cameroon that if properly integrated, would help foster a healthy community that not only would bloom from the cocoa crop, but also would enable the entire country to do better. By demonstrating awareness and creating a sustainable work arena, we helped turn the Bekondo Foundation into an endeavor that contributed not only to the humane treatment of workers, but also to a lifestyle that would support families and in turn the community.
From this internship, Lisa and I both learned the value of Human Resources when it came to keeping an organization together foundationally. Together, we utilized our different skill sets to evaluate how the foundation could be stronger from the bottom up. We started with leading organizational meetings with the four co-founders to find out how they could, most importantly, become better communicators as they embark on managing the foundation from different parts of the world. This became especially difficult as one co-founder was from the US, one was currently living in Spain, and the others were from different parts of Cameroon. It was and still is a challenge, but together we were able to analyze our strengths as a team, and we continued to remind ourselves about what made this mission so special to each of us.
Lisa and I took on this role with much ambiguity, but as we had learned the summer before from Donna Ramil, ambiguity was something to be embraced. Because of this, we were able to really look at the organization from an outside perspective and share what we felt would be the most beneficial during our 6 weeks in country. We organized interviews for both internal and potential external employees, lead team exercises on strength building from the results of a SWOT analysis and personality tests, as well as created databases to track the foundation's goals and financial performance. With the help of our Cameroonian partner and Bekondo Foundation intern, Coretta, we developed a new program called Women's Initiative for Village Entrepreneurship in which we held weekly meetings for women to come learn a new skill or learn how to be more sustainable with the readily available resources in the village.
Unbeknownst to me, the Bekondo community was a family. We lived in a community surrounded by strangers that we had no idea would soon become lifelong friends. We bonded with children daily over hand clapping games, swimming in the local watering hole, and singing. This experience was one full of growth, and it helped me to once again understand the importance of respecting cultures outside of your own. Despite the difficulties in adjusting to a country that was entirely foreign to me from every other aspect of my life, I will forever smile at this experience. I am and always will be grateful for Donna Ramil and her guidance throughout this entire process. Thank you to the ILR Travel Grant committee for funding me to embark on what was truly a journey of a lifetime.


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Read for this week's study: Rev. 12:17; Rev. 13:1-15.
Memory text: "For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes" Revelation 7:17.
Key thought:
Christ the Lamb offers present salvation and future eternal life. The dragon, Satan, supported by earthly powers that obey him, offers the pleasures of sin and eternal death.
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My new drug of choice? It's Pokey. I'm buying an HDTV monitor just to watch him tear it up even clearer than I do right now. I want a NESN talk show dedicated to what the guy's doing when he's off the field — shopping for toothpaste, waxing the car, enjoying a sandwich. I want all Pokey, all the time, because watching him devour anything that comes within centimeters of his far-reaching personal space gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling akin to watching vintage Pedro mow 'em down, Manny drive a towering shot, and Denise Austin doing lunges.
Last night, Pokey snared a line drive that Francona himself said the guy "had no business catching." He defies gravity and sensibility every evening, turning Fenway into the Big Apple Circus and making us wonder just how in the fark we were willing to settle for the likes of Jeff Frye, Rey Sanchez and Craig Grebeck shuffling about the infield.
Plus: My man hits! He's no longer that automatic out that you simply conceded while you ambled to the fridge. Last night he jacked a wall-ball double that he clearly thought was gone — hell, we all thought it was gone — but still drove in a couple runs. We chant his name and don our Pokey shirts and we keep our eyes on Pokey, not the pitcher, because we don't want to miss a friggin' thing he does.
And to think, we HAD this guy a coupla years back and traded him to Pittsburgh before the start of the 2002 season.
But now is not the time to look back. It is time to focus on the future. It's the year of the Pokester.
For more info on last night's 4-1 defeat of L.A., see what a better writer had to say. Me, I just wanna talk Pokey.
Oh, and yesterday, the Yankees flipped the switch and turned a certain defeat — they were down by two runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth — into a victory over the Padres in extra innings.
But, y'know what? Screw New York. They got no Pokey.


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Kavanaugh-Ford Takeaways
I'm trying to understand all the takeaways here. So when being sexually assaulted one should:
1. Have witnesses in the room willing to sign an affidavit.
2. Ideally, have the assault filmed to increase the chances of being believed.
3. Have your loving parents call the FBI to report the assault as it's happening.
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4. Make sure your attacker has added it to his daily calendar.
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NGC7000 Cygnus Wall
NGC7000 Cygnus Wall
The Cygnus Wall is in the southern area of NGC7000 also known as the North America Nebula. It is approximately 1800 light years from Earth, and is in the constellation Cygnus. The Wall is an energized shock front and contains the most concentrated star formations in the nebula. The size of the North America Nebula is about 4 full moons.
NGC7000 20min Ha Subframe
NGC7000 20min Ha Subframes x 18 = 360 min combined image
NGC7000 20min OIII Subframe
NGC7000 20min OIII Subframes x 18 = 360 min combined image
NGC7000 20min SII Subframe
NGC7000 20min SII Subframes x 18 = 360 min combined image
Scope Planewave 17in
Camera Apogee U16
Mount Paramount ME
Filters Astrodon Ha5nm OIII3nm SII5nm
Exposures Ha 6hrs OIII 6hrs SII 6hrs 20min subs
Location Sierra Nevada Mountains CA. Heavens Mirror Observatory SRO 2013


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Working on in-depth piece for @thetimesIE on cancer of match-fixing in Irish football. More I hear, the more sinister it gets. Also spoke to LOI coach who talked about packing in the game as a result. I'd welcome anything that may help at email@example.com (historic or recent).
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Making a pleated skirt – what could be simpler?
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A co-worker of mine, who is an ultra-marathoner and one of the inspirations behind my starting to run, pointed me toward this excellent essay The Perfect Game by turn of the century author G.K. Chesterton. I encourage you to take few minutes and read the entire essay; but to summarize, Chesterton is playing a game of croquet with a friend and is getting beaten badly. Chesterton's friend asks him why he bothers even playing croquet since he is so bad at it. Here is the response:
It is only we who play badly who love the Game itself. You love glory; you love applause; you love the earthquake voice of victory; you do not love croquet. You do not love croquet until you love being beaten at croquet. It is we the bunglers who adore the occupation in the abstract. It is we to whom it is art for art's sake. If we may see the face of Croquet herself (if I may so express myself) we are content to see her face turned upon us in anger. Our play is called amateurish; and we wear proudly the name of amateur, for amateurs is but the French for Lovers.
What Chesterton is saying here is that his friend only likes to play croquet because he is good at it. But his friend does not love croquet. It is really Chesterton who loves the game, because he continues to play even though he is so bad at it.
For me, this idea really hits home. I've been playing pick-up soccer now for about 2 or 3 years, and I am very, very bad at it; especially compared to most of the people who play. Yet, I have stuck with it over the years, in spite of jeers both internal and external because I love playing soccer. As time has gone on, I know I have gotten better at it, so my sticking to it has paid off.
This idea can really be applied to anything – art, music, whatever. If you really enjoy something, you should continue to do it for the joy of it – not because you will necessarily become good at it (although that can happen too).
This is idea can also be applied to your fitness journey. You may be self-conscious about how you look at the gym, how you can't bench 225 lbs., how you can't run for one minute on the treadmill without getting winded. But whatever you do, DO NOT GIVE UP. Do not stop. Keep doing it. Forget what other people are able to do. Develop a love for fitness and working out, and making good choices. Over time, that love will pay off with a happy, healthy body that can do things you never expected – to the point where you might even scare yourself.


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By Doug Porter
Despite laying out a vision for San Diego at his state of the city speech earlier this week looking very much like the one mayoral candidate and City Councilman David Alavarez might craft, the lack of a formal endorsement in the race by iMayor Todd Gloria was troubling for many Democratic Party activists.
Fear not. It was all a matter of timing. Gloria held off on the official blessing until this morning, issuing a full-throated endorsement of city councilman Alvarez, saying:
"This week, I put forward a progressive vision for San Diego to be a great city. It includes ending homelessness, increasing the minimum wage, aggressively funding infrastructure, and implementing a strong Climate Action Plan. David Alvarez is the candidate in this race who shares my vision and who we can count on to make San Diego great."
The iMayor's announcement pointed out he and Alvarez worked together to increase funding for affordable housing, update the Barrio Logan community plan, and increasing vital city services via the 2014 budget.
The Alvarez campaign noted that his opponent City Councilman Kevin Faulconer opposed all three of these measures, lest he disappoint his corporate downtown campaign backers.
Gloria will be on the road until next week, but was eager to release his endorsement, according to a press release from the Alvarez campaign. The two will begin making joint appearances soon.


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January, 23rd, 2008:
A tragic day in the lives of all Harley Quinn and Joker fans.
Actor Heath Ledger passed away at the tender age of twenty-eight due to as yet unknown causes.
Heath had just finished filming the role of The Joker in the new Batman film, The Dark Knight. By all accounts, the performance is a staggering one, brilliant and groundbreaking.
Heath sequestered himself in a hotel room for a month with Joker comics, developing the role, the characteristics, voice and attitude of one of the world's most fantastic fictional villains. So psychologically daunting and strenuous was the role that it affected Heath's sleeping, but all who saw it said that it was wonderful and terrifying.
Here, fans share their thoughts on Heath Ledger and make their final tributes to him. Send yours in.
I never knew much about Heath Ledger. As far as I was aware, he was just a spunky teen-idol type actor. When he was announced as The Joker, I was incredibly disappointed, sure a mistake had been made.
My opinion began to change with the first image of The Joker, a close-up shot with smeared makeup and a scarred face. It embodied the essence of The Joker - insane, maniacal, creepy... and I began to feel the first stirrings of excitement.
When I saw the first full-length image of Heath's Joker, on the cover of Empire magazine, I felt a chill run through me. Even though this Joker was being portrayed as wearing makeup, rather than having naturally coloured white skin and green hair, it was The Joker, no doubt about it. The smug, sly, cold grin, the eyes lit deep within with malice and a joke only he was privvy to - I knew then that this Joker was going to fulfill all the dreams I'd ever had about a liveaction Joker.
When I saw the first trailer, my heart sung. The voice, chilling like a fingernail drawn gently down one's spine, again with that dark humour ensconced deep inside it, the mannerisms, the laughter, the sheer mirthful viciousness... it all came rushing back to me, everything I've always loved and been intrigued about with The Joker... finally coming to life on the big screen.
I cannot claim to be a big Heath Ledger fan, or even really a fan at all. I'm not that familiar with his work. I'm a Joker fan. The character of The Joker is incredibly important to me, and has played a huge role in my life for many years. I love the character passionately and it is incredibly important to me to see him portrayed in a way that honours and embodies him.
Everything I saw of Heath's performance indicated that he was doing this, and doing it magnificently.
Prior to seeing Heath's Joker, the Haven had stood, dead and frozen in time, for the last six years. It was thanks to Heath's portrayal that I came back to this fandom and started updating this website again.
The fact that Heath put so much into it, devoted so much of himself and his energy into doing justice to this challenging and fascinating role, makes him a hero in my eyes.
I am so incredibly sorry Heath will not be around to see the legions of Batman fans enjoy and revere what I feel will be the penultimate liveaction Joker to date. I am sorry his talent will not be able to go towards creating other roles and delighting other people.
I'm very sorry his friends have to say farewell to him and sorry all of his devoted fans will not be able to see him in future roles..
I'm so incredibly sorry his little girl has to grow up without her father and that his family have lost his beloved presence in their lives.
May all his loved ones find peace and solace together during this terrible time of mourning.
But thank you, Heath, for all that you have done and all the lives you have touched during your too-brief stint on this earth. Thank you for what you have done with Joker. I claim no knowledge of the afterlife, but wherever you are I hope you have peace, joy and laughter. You will always be remembered.
Love and blessings from Elise, webmistress of Harley's Haven.
I wasn't his biggest fangirl in the world. Don't get me wrong, I still loved him, but- and I slightly regret this fact now- I didn't have pictures of him plastered all over my walls. (Well...non-Joker ones anyway. ;) )
I've always kind of had a crush on him since The Patriot. He was a damn fine actor and not too hard on the eyes! But when I heard he had been casted as the Joker, I - and I now sorely regret this as well- was outraged. Being a HUGE Joker fan, I immidiately jumped on Hollywood for just wanting a big name to draw crowds. I resisted his casting up until the moment I finally saw the first trailer.
Even from those brief snippets of voice clips, I was sold. I put my foot in my mouth and took back everything I'd said. Imagine my joy when the theatrical trailer came out. I watched it so many times, I was hearing it in my head for days afterward.
I participated in the viral marketing, taking pictures of people and places as per instructions from an internet stranger, recieving packages of the Gotham Times, and even hunting down a cake at a bakery. (Someone beat me to it- damn!) Getting so into it.
The news of his passing hit me with such shock, I don't think I've ever felt this way before. I fell to my knees that very instant, crying and trembling, and unable to speak or even move. So many thoughts and feelings racing through my head; and a voice screaming this can't be real. This is a joke. It's just too surreal to even try and accept the reality that he's gone- so suddenly and far too early.
But I take it and move on, knowing that he would be happy to have those who love him even in such dark times. I'll always miss him, and my heart goes out to his family and his fans everywhere.
Heath <3
Heath Ledger brought keenness to the roles he chose whether it was as Sonny Grotowski in Monster?s Ball or Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain. Those roles of his made us think about life and the world around us. His other roles such as Sir William Thatcher or Patrick Verona that made us laugh and smile. He exuded a great variety in the field of acting that at times people can feel is a scarcity. His acting legacy will live on in all of the wonderful movies he was able to grace with his presence. I can only hope for the best today and in future for his daughter and family that have lost him on this day.
Stark, a fan .
thought Heath was an amazing actor. He could really transform into any role he took on, and it's such a shame to see great talent like that gone. So sad that a gorgeous daughter of his was left behind...
I doubt that he committed suicide...I think it was just an unfortunate accident. Such a shame that the role of the Joker took such a huge toll on him...he will most certainly be missed.
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The passing of Heath Ledger has me pondering one question: Why do we care? Because the answer to that question will ultimately express what we're all feeling.
We see people pass away on the news on a daily basis. Yes, it's always unfortunate. Yes, we always feel bad for the loved ones left behind. But we typically don't give it two seconds thought and change the channel to something more upbeat. However, that was not the case for many of us today. If you were like me, you felt emotionally shaken to some degree and found yourself glued to news for hours, waiting for any new tidbits of information.
Did I like the actors work? Sure, but I would have never considered myself a huge fan. Did I care about the man? I never knew him, so how could I make such a claim. It leads right back to original question, doesn't it. Why do I care?
The very simple, most shallow reason is because he was about to play a character very important to me, and there's nothing wrong with that really. Heath Ledger was professional and understood being seen as a character alone. In fact, he's said that he wouldn't want anyone to go to a movie to see 'Heath Ledger', but to see the character he was portraying, which is why he is seen as such a dedicated actor. I'm sure he'd actually appreciate the though of me being upset at 'the Joker's' passing. But it goes deeper than that.
Artists touch people. A particular artist isn't going to touch everyone, but those that are will feel that person's passing in some way. No, it's not a personal loss of a loved one, but it is losing the person that made something you loved and I'd think you'd have to be inhuman not to experience sadness at that.
I'm glad that this happened before the movie's release rather than after. It takes his actual portrayal of the character out of the equation, which, let's face it, could still be disappointing. We don't know and it's not really important right now. What I do know is that, from the little I've seen, I've gone from despising the thought of him in the role to being genuinely excited about it and that was quite a feat. His willingness to stretch himself as an actor and taking the role seriously spoke volumes to me. And that is why we care: We know he gave his all for something we all cared about deeply and now he's gone.
I'll see you all 07/18/2008.
- Gladrial
I was devastated upon the news of Heath's death. Honestly, my head's not in the right state right now, but I have to say a few words… I've been a fan of Heath since "10 Things I Hate About You" and was amazed by the versatility from film to film such a young actor could possess. He did command the screen effortlessly; his facial expressions and attitude said it all. His career truly had not hit his peak. He was so young, and I wish his family and friends all the best in this sad time. My deepest condolences.
Heath always reinvented himself. Every single character he portrayed, he poured his heart, soul, and energy into making those characters believable. Joker is a prime example. He didn't just jump right into the role, but got into the state of mind to prepare for this role. He deserves to be commemorated in The Dark Knight. I wasn't a huge fan of Heath Ledger, but I do know a dedicated good actor when I see one. He will be missed, but never forgotten.
Spiderbait - Calypso
(This song was played during the movie "10 Things I Hate About You", and it was a song that Heath Ledger desperatley wanted on the movie.)
Usually when a celebrity passes away I don? take much notice. Nevertheless, when I found out only this morning that Heath Andrew Ledger had passed away in his apartment I was speechless. I found it hard to believe that someone so unique, young and innocent could be snatched away from the world. He was only 28.
It is somewhat ironic that his last role was to be that of the Joker, a sadistic clown villain for the newest Batman movie. Looking at the interviews and filmclips now, some of the things he says are uncomfortably eerie and forshadowing, particulary his last interview, where he talked about how he is happy to die now that Matilda is part of him.
I was always a fan of comic books, but I never really edged into Batman and the like. But as images of Ledger's Joker began to appear, I became FASCINATED with the idea of this new Joker, and Batman. It was a breath of fresh air, a change from the goofy, clownlike Joker and a step into a spinechillingly insane character. I loved it. I didn't realise until about a week before his death what a fantastic actor Heath was.
Many of the media are pinning the blame of his death on the emotional struggle of portraying the Joker, seeing as he spent a month alone in a hotel room perfecting the physcology of his role, and suffered insomnia as a result.
I guess you got sleep eventually.
My heart goes out to his family, his friends and especially little Matilda, who will never know her father.
I thought Harley Quinn was an appropriate representative for the Batman fan community's collective sadness over the untimely death of Heath Ledger.
In a short period of time, Heath went from being an out-of-left-field choice to play The Joker to being the definitive Joker of our generation, all before the movie even came out. All it took was a 2-minute trailer of his performance to win over nearly the entire fan community, so well did he embody the character. He entertained us, thrilled us, moved us.
For me, personally, I have been dreaming of and waiting for a faithful live action Joker movie performance for nearly 10 years. Heath's portrayal promises to deliver all that I could have ever hoped for, and more.
It is a small thing, perhaps, but seeing a favorite character embodied on the screen so perfectly means a lot to me, as I know it does to many others.
Heath's performance was already inspiring me. I never draw real people, but last month, my sheer excitement from The Dark Knight trailer compelled me to draw the picture of Heath as Joker that I used, desaturated, in this tribute.
All we can do now is thank him for bringing joy to us fans, and honor his memory.
R.I.P. Heath Ledger.
I don't have a poem or a picture of the man in his honor, all I have are my words. Heath Ledger always caught the corner of my mind. He was never an object of my obssession, yet I always had the utmost respect for him. Looking back at his roles, I can confidently say that he is the closest thing to perfection in acting. Well, he was.
I feel peculiar about this situation. I've never felt like this about any "celebrity", even those who I have spent more time dwelling on than Heath. Perhaps time is they key here. It was so short a career, let alone life, yet he managed to fill it with so much good. When it's time to die, it's time to die, it's just so sad that his time came so soon.
Heath made me fall in love with the Joker. While I'm a drop-dead fan of the animated series take, Heath is truly what set the spark on fire for my adoration of Mr. J. But that is just the sort of power we're talking about here. I am actually morning the loss as though he was someone I knew, that is how much soul and personality he put into his roles. He made you know those characters, he made them your friends, and in his own way, he gave a piece of himself to you with each performance.
I suppose that's all I have to say on the matter. My best wishes go to his friends and loved ones. I don't know how the afterlife works, but I'm certain he is smiling and watching over his family.
Thank you,
I don't know Heath Ledger personally, but I know that he was a man of great talent that could achieve things far beyond anyone else. I can tell that he was a simple man, but so unique in character, and his passing was like draining the blood from my body and taking my breath away. He was a good man, and we are honored to have been there, watching him as he proved his worth to all.
My most heartfelt condolences to Heath's family and friends, Michelle, Matilda, Jake Gyllenhaal and all others who knew him and stood by his side.
Heath, rest in peace, knowing that we will all remember you
James, Nicosia, Cyprus
Heath Ledger was brilliant in so many different ways. A great man, a great father, a great fiance, a great son, and of course a great actor. The dedication of his work towards acting is a humongous inspiration to everyone out there aspiring to do something in the creative arts. He is one of those 'one in a million' type of people. Someone who can do so much with their life, but were cut short of it. The tragedy did not hit me until weeks later; I was crushed when I realized how much of an inspiration he is to me, and now he was gone. As an aspiring actress I wanted to work with him, meet and befriend him, and pass on acting techniques to really nail a character. Now I realize i'll never be able to do that, but that didn't stop me from being friends with him or him being my inspiration. Heath Andrew Ledger is the person I talk to through my prayers, and when all the world crashes down on me, he is the person who I can tell it all to. What an incredible man; talent just vibrating off of him. His role as the Joker was astonishing, and there are no words to describe it. He went through a month of writing an Emotional Diary as the Joker, and mastering his voice and moving techniques all to make sure the Joker would be memorable and real. And he was, he really was. R.I.P Heath Ledger, we all miss you, and we all love you. You'll never be forgotten.
Love one of many fellow actors,
Nikki D.
I'd seen the actor before, no clue who he was at the time, but I thought he was great. When I learned he had died, I was like 'Isn't that the guy who was playing The Joker?" and I wondered how the movie was going to do, he was a terrific actor, and he was very dedicated, I'm sure. He was only 28, which, I suppose, is what upset me the most, and while I never knew the guy(well...duhh), he was one of my favourite actors, I trust his performance in TDK will be just as good, if not better, than his previous ones.
sending out best wishes to those who knew him,
Erica "Pippin" <3
Nick Cave's 'O Children' is the song I'm dedicating to Heath:
Pass me that lovely little gun
My dear, my darling one
The cleaners are coming, one by one
You don't even want to let them start
They are knocking now upon your door
They measure the room, they know the score
They're mopping up the butcher's floor
Of your broken little hearts
O children
Forgive us now for what we've done
It started out as a bit of fun
Here, take these before we run away
They keys to the gulag
O children
Lift up your voice, lift up your voice
Here comes Frank and poor old Jim
They're gathering around with all my friends
We're older now, the light is dim
And you are only just beginning
O children
We have the answer to all your fears
It's short, it's simple, it's crystal clear
It's round about, it's somewhere here
Lost amongst our winnings
O children
Lift up your voice, lift up your voice
The cleaners have done their job on you
They're hip to it man, they're in the groove
They've hosed you down, you're good as new
They're lining up to inspect you
O Children
Poor old Jim's white as a ghost
He's found the answer that was lost
We're all weeping now, weeping because
There ain't nothing we can do to protect you
O children
Lift up your voice, lift up your voice
Hey little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the Kingdom
We're happy, Ma, we're having fun
And the train ain't even left the station
Hey little train! Wait for me
I once was blind but now I see
Have you left a seat for me?
Is that such a stretch of the imagination?
Hey little train! Wait for me!
I was held in chains but now I'm free
I'm hanging in there, don't you see
In this process of elimination
Hey little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the Kingdom
We're happy, Ma, we're having fun
It's beyond my wildest expectation
Hey little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the Kingdom
We're happy, Ma, we're having fun
And the train ain't even left the station


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Integrating new systems to optimise supply chains provide retailers with better business intelligence.
Selling out of a product is usually a great thing, but it also highlights the difficulty of correctly predicting demand, especially for the holiday shopping season. Retail specialists have long battled with the idea of how past performance can feed into a better understanding of what stock, promotions and even staffing are required to meet future needs.
Without using performance metrics and predictive analysis, retailers may be unable to meet a spike in demand, or be left with unsellable stock if they over-estimated demand.
Taking advantage of integrated business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, retailers can use data driven insights to put in place plans to predict and deal with future demand.
Predictive planning is especially important when dealing with perishable goods. An oversupply can leave food rotting in the warehouse, whereas a lack of future planning can leave the retailer without the stock needed to supply a rise in demand.
For a specialty retailer like Vic's Meats, which employs 170 staff, has in excess of 3,500 retail customers at two locations, and supplies 700 wholesale clients, an understanding of past performance and moving away from paper-based and ad-hoc forms has transformed the business.
In the past, customers would call, fax or drop in hand-written notes, or order via email. Because of this manual system, it was very hard for Vic's Meat to gain an understanding of stock levels. Predicting future demand was almost impossible.
Vic's Meat went to market and installed a BI system linked to a brand new online ordering portal. This meant all orders are now handled in a consistent manner and customers could order at any time during the day, up until 2am using the device of their choice, and know their order would be picked and dispatched by 8am, in time for the day's business. Customers can also see order history, outstanding invoices and, for specialist customers, order from a bespoke menu.
The new system has improved the business's operational efficiency and order accuracy by removing human error. The system also allows the company to understand its past demand and use data for their predictive analysis in order to define future demand and performance.
Take another example, trade tools retailer, Gasweld, who took great pains to modernise its reporting system when management realised they didn't have the information at hand they needed in an easily digestible format.
The company, established in Newcastle, NSW, in 1978 currently employs around 170 staff at 19 locations. Along with its retail locations, it also enjoys a rapidly growing ecommerce operation. With the aim of predicting future demand and planning for retail stock levels, Gasweld implemented a state of the art business intelligence system capable of managing its 300,000 strong catalogue of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs).
The implementation of the business intelligence system gave the company clear visibility into all aspects of its business. This, in turn, allowed for fast, informed and smarter decision-making for future planning.
In the past, employees had picked stock manually, with no location identification. Introducing a next generation business management system enabled warehouse location tracking for optimal picking paths and efficient replenishment. The retailer has also increased staff efficiency – whereas in the past it took a new staff member up to six months to become fully productive, new employees are now up and running within two days of coming on board.
For a business like Gasweld, reporting is an important part of being able to understand past sales and plan for demand. With real-time data and reporting, staff can understand what is selling, when it is selling, and what is not selling.
In the past, company reports were run manually, and it took a trained staffer to extract and format the data for the management team. Now the reports are delivered in the right format and scheduled automatically, sitting on the right person's desk, inbox or smartphone.
The new system has made a significant difference, increasing speed in which business decisions can be made and providing better business insights.
They can analyse information from multiple sources, tie data between receivables, inventory and manufacturing, and from there, easily identify new opportunities to further expand the business.
In the retail game, real time stock visibility is a critical element, especially during live promotions where stock may be sitting idle in one store while flying off the shelves at another. Being able to see the velocity of inventory movements in real time, and (even better) being able to redistribute that inventory on demand, can maximise returns and avoid those embarrassing "post-sale" markdowns. Retailers still running with "batch mode" Point of Sales systems are sadly missing this opportunity because information may be out of date before they see it.
What's clear from Vic's Meats and Gasweld is that software can provide the insights into the business that allow for streamlined planning and predictive analysis, without which, would certainly impact their competiveness and ability to capitalise on rapidly growing markets.
Chad Gates is the Managing Director of Pronto Software, an award-winning business management software. Find your moment: www.pronto.net


text: Alternative processes need to be designed for the treatment of industrial effluents containing pharmaceutical and personal care products to improve their quality, permit the reuse of water for industrial applications and meet the standards set by environmental regulations prior to discharge. This type of effluent is a major source of water pollution since conventional activated sludge-based treatments are not effective in removing micropollutants. Carbamazepine, caffeine and triclosan are important trace contaminants commonly found in wastewater treatment plants, and were selected as target compounds to be treated in a cyclic anoxic/aerobic membrane bioreactor. This study aims to evaluate the biomass' characteristics and activity, and its influence over membrane fouling when treating the aforementioned compounds. Caffeine is known to be partially biodegraded whereas triclosan can inhibit microorganism's activity. In order to evaluate this effect, complimentary batch experiments were set up to determine whether triclosan might inhibit nitrification. Low ammonia removal efficiencies were observed in both experimental systems, therefore suggesting that nitrification was being inhibited probably due to the presence of triclosan. The ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor process demonstrated to be an efficient and appropriate technology for chemical oxygen demand removal, achieving an average of 97%, for caffeine reaching up to 93.7 ± 9.7 removal efficiencies, and 89.7 ± 8.3% for triclosan. For carbamazepine the removal was lower (36.2 ± 6.8%) due to its recalcitrance. Furthermore, biomass filterability indicators displayed high sludge deterioration increasing substantially the fouling.


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HVS Supports Cal Poly Viticulture & Enology Old Vine Research
In the summer of 2020, the HVS Board was approached by Federico Casassa Ph.D., Associate Professor of Enology at the Cal Poly Wine & Viticulture Department.More
In the summer of 2020, the HVS Board was approached by Federico Casassa Ph.D., Associate Professor of Enology at the Cal Poly Wine & Viticulture Department.More
Thanks to Sonoma Magazine for featuring Sonoma's historic vineyards in this wonderful article.More
Don't miss this great article on the Forbes website all about HVS!More
Exciting news about the historic DeLuca Vineyard property (planted 1961) in Lodi's Clements Hills appellation. Thank you to Michael David Winery for your work to help preserve these old vines!More
It's difficult to describe the last several weeks throughout Sonoma and Napa. Horrific fires raged a path of destruction across our beautiful land, and while the fires are behind us, they left deep scars that will take a great deal of time to heal. But amidst the heartbreaking news were countless examples of heroism and generosity, along with astounding stories about historic vineyards being saved.More
It's hard to believe, but another year has come and gone, and as we reflect on the last twelve months, we'd like to update you on the latest HVS happenings and give a preview of what's to come for the Historic Vineyard Society in 2017.More
Harvest is fast approaching, and before our lives become completely consumed with vines and grapes we wanted to update you on where we've been over the past several months and where we plan on going post harvest '13 and into 2014.More
The California Assembly Agriculture Committee has unanimously agreed to approve HR 9, a resolution that seeks to raise awareness of California's living historic vineyards through State recognition of the contribution that these vineyards have made, and continue to make, to the agricultural and social history of California.More
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AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS (June 6, 2016) – C.H. Robinson has announced it is a proud sponsor of the Cool Globes exhibition, featuring several outdoor sculptures promoting the idea of climate protection. In addition to the sponsorship, the C.H. Robinson Warsaw Transportation Office provided transportation services to ensure the sculptures arrived safely and on time.
"This was a natural fit for our office–we were able to provide our expertise to an event that raises awareness for global warming," said Arkadiusz Glinka, C.H. Robinson Director of Transportation, Eastern Europe. "C.H. Robinson is dedicated to supporting our customers as well as community and environmental causes. We are excited to be part of this great initiative."
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You want to always be there for your child but you also want your child to succeed when you can't be there. Catalina talks about the moment she realized her son Ghandhi needed to learn independence and how her family supported him to reach that goal.
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Sometimes teaching your child the skills they need to live independently requires a little creativity and a lot of fun.
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Carolina Public Press' recent report on state government documents regarding last summer's suspension of Femcare, Western North Carolina's only abortion clinic, drew a response from the state's Department of Health and Human Services yesterday. In it, a DHHS spokesperson again denied that political motives were behind the suspension.
The March 13 article, "Documents disclose political, PR pressures surrounding Asheville abortion clinic's suspension," detailed findings in internal records from both DHHS and the office of Gov. Pat McCrory. It showed how key legislators involved in new state legislation tightening restrictions on abortions pressed the department for details about Femcare's inspection history. It also showed how the McCrory administration mounted a publicity push surrounding the suspension.
Last week, state Rep. Susan Fisher, a Buncombe County Democrat, told WLOS that CPP's report on the documents "solidifies my belief that politics were at play in the closure of Femcare."
"The documents exposed [last] week confirm that the laws passed this summer had nothing to do with women's health and safety — everything to do with restricting access to safe and legal abortion care," said Suzanne Buckley, executive director with NARAL NC, as reported by the (Raleigh) News & Observer's state politics blog. "To put it simply, Governor McCrory and the extreme lawmakers in Raleigh are playing politics with women's lives."
DHHS spokesperson Kevin Howell took exception to that interpretation of Femcare's suspension.
Regarding state legislators' inquiries about Femcare and the clinic's subsequent suspension, he said in a statement: "Legislators routinely seek information about facilities regulated by DHHS, and we provide them with information accordingly. This is part of a normal process. Nothing about the (Femcare) inspection was politically motivated."
As for the department's media outreach before and after Femcare's suspension, he wrote: "At the time, the governor was being wrongly accused by his political opponents of restricting access to abortions. Even after last year's survey of Femcare found egregious rules violations, some of the governor's opponents chose to ignore the potential medical consequences that necessitated the inspections in favor of inciting political passions. Patient care and safety has always been and always will be the primary concern of Governor McCrory and (DHHS) Secretary Aldona Wos."
According to a news release sent out by the agency last year about Femcare, inspectors found that the women's health clinic had, among 23 rules violations, failed "to maintain anesthesia (nitrous oxide gas) delivery systems in good working condition, with torn masks and tubing held together with tape." Read the entire inspection report here.
As Carolina Public Press first reported yesterday, Femcare is now for sale and is slated to close. The Raleigh-based Planned Parenthood Health Systems says it is preparing to provide abortion services in WNC.
Clarification: Carolina Public Press edited the headline to more accurately reflect the range of services provided by Femcare.
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Long Stacktraces in Apache Camel No More
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In the upcoming Apache Camel 2.12 we have improved the internal routing engine to dramatically reduce the stacktraces our end users will see when an exception occurs and is logged.
During the development of the improvement we had a small sample route for benchmarking.
It was basically a simple route with:
from("seda:start") .to("log:foo") .to("log:bar") .to("log:baz") .process(new Processor ...);
And in the processor we forced an exception being logged. In Apache Camel 2.11.x the stacktrace would be around 40 lines. The Camel team managed to reduce this down to 15 lines. And the bottom 6 lines is 3 from the JVM and 3 from the seda consumer. So in between the routing engine is executing; and that's where we have optimized the code. So we went from (40-6 = 34) to (15-6 = 9). Eg before we had 34 lines during the routing, and that is down to 9 now.
Camel is still executing the same functionality. As an end user there is no functionality turned off or missing now. Its all still there and being executed; just in a different way. What we did was refactor most of the internal cross cutting functionality into a single entity CamelInternalProcessor (name subject for change), and fold that into a single stack-frame being executed.
This improvement is internal changes only, and all end users Camel application is upgrade compatible.
For our end users who have been debugging the Camel source code, this is now also simpler, as we added code comments in the CamelInternalProcessor with pointers how to do this easier, and which part you can safely skip over, to make your debugging experience easier and faster.
And speaking of debugger. Then we also added a new BacklogDebugger, which is a Camel routing debugger JMX MBean which is ready to use for tooling and end users. For example you can use it easily set breakpoints, single step a message in the routes, and edit/view its message content. Now for the graphical UI, then James Strachan is hacking on hawtio to add this in the upcoming hawtio 1.2 release. And since its JMX based you can always use it from a JMX console such as JConsole or JVisualVM. And for the brave a plugin to Eclipse / IDEA could be developed to integrate it with their native debugger; but thats a big task to take on.
For further details and background on the stacktrace improvement then you can take a look at the ticket CAMEL-6077 and our discussion on the Camel developer mailing list. As well we have a sample of the before and after stacktraces in the CAMEL-6077 ticket.
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The very dry conditions in the UK Midlands, is currently very serious for pasture based dairy farmers. Little or no rain has fallen in Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Derbyshire or
Nottingham for
months. On farm pasture is critical & farmers are heavily feeding. Winter
feed supply is critical. A look at the monthly rainfall patterns in the each month
is very revealing. UK
The very dry conditions in the UK Midlands, is currently very serious for pasture based dairy farmers. Little or no rain has fallen in Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Derbyshire or
Not only is rainfall scarce but ground water supplies on some farms are very low. Some on farm water bores are drawing less than 20% of normal supply. Daily water demand is more than twice normal due to the dry diets being fed….concentrates, silage & minimal high DM% pasture. Normal daily water used for dairy cows is approx 2x daily milk production. Some farms using electro pulse meters (LMS systems) have recorded daily use as high as 100litres per cow per day. Water tables are very low throughout the
Midlands. If the autumn winter rainfall in these areas is
low this will be very serious next summer not only for pastures but for
livestock water supply too.
Phil Evans from LMS http://www.liquidminerals.co.uk/ tells me that the normal pattern of daily water consumption is 40% after am milking & 60% after pm milking. Water use is seasonal & dependent on the diet (DM%)
The water demand of a country is usually expressed as the total water withdrawn from rivers, lakes & aquifers in that country for different sectors of its economy. However this doesn't equate to the total demand for water as a country as many products including food are imported. The "Water Footprint" of a country or a product like milk is calculated to include both the direct water used & the virtual water associated with that product's production. Unlike carbon footprints of which there are hundreds of different versions (total shambles!) there is only one agreed water footprint method of calculation.
On farms there are three types of water available…Green water = rainfall (not including runoff which is lost). Blue water = surface & groundwater. Grey water = recycled water including effluent & dirty water.
Globally the Water Footprint for milk is 1000 litres of water used to produce 1 litre of Milk.
On farm nothing crashes milk production more than being short of water. Drinking water is NOT just about water troughs. Rather it's the combined impact of the water supply, pumps, water pipe diameter & trough size. The biggest on farm problems relate to the circulation/delivery water pipes not being large enough.
The most efficient & lowest cost installation is a ring main system with minimal laterals to the water troughs.
In the UK we tend to take water for granted. In Australia water is gold! Now we find that we are very short of water in some areas.....its very serious! Its very stressful too.
Current UK Pasture Measurements
West Cheshire, 1774, growth
13, hot windy & dry, feeding anything I can get my hands on. East Cheshire, AFC 2600,
growth 60+
In the UK we tend to take water for granted. In Australia water is gold! Now we find that we are very short of water in some areas.....its very serious! Its very stressful too.
Current UK Pasture Measurements
Situation now critical in Midlands. Can you help with feed?
Contact me if you can help especially if you have organic feed that could be transported into the Midlands. Ring me.
TheAverage Pasture Cover (kgsDM/ha) & Pasture Growth (kgsDM/ha/day)
Cumbria AFC 2568, growth 44, Summer here at last
Staffordshire, 1800, growth well below demand, feeding 4kgs conc + 7 kgs silage, Cows drinking 55litres/day
Staffordshire, 2370, gr down from 40 to 24, pastures water stressed. Bores okay but both farm streams dry
Shropshire, 1750, gr 16, de 10 feel like high input farmer 6kg in parlour + 12kg DM TMR Water now requires the Mains
Herefordshire, 2346, gr 35, de 18, 3mm rain
Herefordshire, 2275, gr 30 de 52, still very dry
Oxfordshire, 2150, gr 30, de 20
Gloucestershire, 2505, gr 50, demand 50,
South West Wales, 2601, growth 63, demand 44, Heifers AFC 3245, gr 65, de 27
Dorset AFC 2204, growth 62, demand 30


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Can You Name the Biggest Samples on N.W.A.'s 'Straight Outta Compton'?
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The Matador is hand-blocked on sinamay, this simple silk-covered classic is finished with a broad suede band and is festooned with ostrich feathers. Available in other fabrics. Please enquire.
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I spent all afternoon trying to think of something clever to say here. The words did not come. I'm at a loss. I'm forced to resort to distraction. Look, pretty pictures! Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies Makes about 3 dozen cookies. Source: My imagination. 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2...Read more
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Sunday morning, Little Italy saw the confluence of two of the most amusing stories to come out of the New York gubernatorial race: Curtis Sliwa's "King Cuomo" character and the public mockery of Sandra Lee's lasagna.
By our count, this marks the third time Sliwa has donned his regal trappings – complete with a sign, should you somehow miss his subtle point – to protest Andrew Cuomo's candidacy. This time, he targeted the attorney general's girlfriend Sandra Lee, whose "semi-homemade" lasagna was recently criticized by Andrew's mother. In Little Italy, the part of Lee was played by an enthusiastic woman in a low-cut turquoise dress.
Sliwa decreed that all lasagna in "Cuomolot" would now be made with cottage cheese and tomato soup instead of ricotta and sauce, as per Lee's recipe. He also said that there was no truth to the rumor that his "lapdog" Kathleen Rice would prosecute Lee for "first degree assault" on his tastebuds. Rice currently has Cuomo's backing as replacement attorney general.
Fun fact: according to the press release distributed before the event, it was the 18th anniversary of Sliwa's brutal shooting at the hands of Gambino gangsters. Because what could be more life-affirming than harassing out-of-towners with your polemic noodle dish before being written up for blocking foot traffic?
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Corr was a fanzine by Perri Corrick.
Published by Periwinkle Press in Madison, Wisconsin U.S.A., Corr appeared in the 1960s and 1970s.
The first issue of Corr was published in 1969.
Issue 2 1/2 also appeared in 1969, and featured contributions of artwork by Richard Delap, Alex Gilliland, Dale Goble (Interplanetary Cornchips), Bill Guy, and the editor. The cover is by Perri Corrick. Contributing editor is Jim Corrick.
Issue 6 was released in 1976.
The cover art fir issue 6 was by Glen Brock, back cover by Moadlib, and interior art was by Perri Corrick, Jeanne Gomoll (Janus), Beary Gravel, Bill Guy, C. Lee Healy, Barry Jensen, Michael Kallita, and Jim McLeod (Interplanetary Cornchips).
Contributors of writing included Raymond L. Clancy, Geary Gravel, Clayton Hamlin, Everett Lawton, Robert Weinberg, and the editor.


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Santa Clara
Gloria "Goldenrod" Garcia was born into Santa Clara Pueblo in 1942, daughter of Petra Montoya Gutierrez of Pojoaque Pueblo and Juan Gutierrez of Santa Clara. Among Goldenrod's sisters are Thelma Talachy, Lois Gutierrez de la Cruz and Minnie Vigil.
In 1942 World War II was on and Pojoaque Pueblo had been reestablished less than 10 years before. Living conditions were pretty rugged and there was little infrastructure in place. When the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1933 asked for information on where to find the Pojoaques, many of them came out of Santa Clara. Those families had left Pojoaque after the Cacique (the pueblo's religious leader) died and the last Governor left the area to find work around 1908, leaving what was left of the village to sink into the landscape.
At Santa Clara, Petra's children grew up surrounded by a vibrant artist community and they learned to make pottery from some of the greats. As they married, though, they had to make choices. Thelma chose to move back to Pojoaque Pueblo after marrying Joe Talachy while Goldenrod and the others stayed at Santa Clara.
Today, Goldenrod freehand etches (sgraffito style) her hand-coiled seed pots with designs that often feature buffalo, corn maidens, rain clouds, deer, bear and birds. She won First Place and Best of Division at Santa Fe Indian Market, three years after she began making pottery. The Smithsonian's permanent collection also features some of her work.
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Santa Clara Pueblo
Ruins at Puye Cliffs, Santa Clara Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo straddles the Rio Grande about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. Of all the pueblos, Santa Clara has the largest number of potters.
The ancestral roots of the Santa Clara people have been traced to the pueblos in the Mesa Verde region in southwestern Colorado. When that area began to get dry between about 1100 and 1300, some of the people migrated to the Chama River Valley and constructed Poshuouinge (about 3 miles south of what is now Abiquiu on the edge of the mesa above the Chama River). Eventually reaching two and three stories high with up to 700 rooms on the ground floor, Poshuouinge was inhabited from about 1375 to about 1475. Drought then again forced the people to move, some of them going to the area of Puye (on the eastern slopes of the Pajarito Plateau of the Jemez Mountains) and others to Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo, along the Rio Grande). Beginning around 1580, drought forced the residents of the Puye area to relocate closer to the Rio Grande and they founded what we now know as Santa Clara Pueblo on the west bank of the river, between San Juan and San Ildefonso Pueblos.
In 1598 Spanish colonists from nearby Yunque (the seat of Spanish government near San Juan Pueblo) brought the first missionaries to Santa Clara. That led to the first mission church being built around 1622. However, the Santa Clarans chafed under the weight of Spanish rule like the other pueblos did and were in the forefront of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. One pueblo resident, a mixed black and Tewa man named Domingo Naranjo, was one of the rebellion's ringleaders. When Don Diego de Vargas came back to the area in 1694, he found most of the Santa Clarans on top of nearby Black Mesa (with the people of San Ildefonso). An extended siege didn't subdue them so eventually, the two sides negotiated a treaty and the people returned to their pueblo. However, successive invasions and occupations by northern Europeans took their toll on the tribe over the next 250 years. The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 almost wiped them out.
Today, Santa Clara Pueblo is home to as many as 2,600 people and they comprise probably the largest per capita number of artists of any North American tribe (estimates of the number of potters run as high as 1-in-4 residents).
Today's pottery from Santa Clara is typically either black or red. It is usually highly polished and designs might be deeply carved or etched ("sgraffito") into the pot's surface. The water serpent, ("avanyu"), is a traditional design motif of Santa Clara pottery. Another motif comes from the legend that a bear helped the people find water during a drought. The bear paw has appeared on their pottery ever since.
One of the reasons for the distinction this pueblo has received is because of the evolving artistry the potters have brought to the craft. Not only did this pueblo produce excellent black and redware, several notable innovations helped move pottery from the realm of utilitarian vessels into the domain of art. Different styles of polychrome redware emerged in the 1920's-1930's. In the early 1960's experiments with stone inlay, incising and double firing began. Modern potters have also extended the tradition with unusual shapes, slips and designs, illustrating what one Santa Clara potter said: "At Santa Clara, being non-traditional is the tradition." (This refers strictly to artistic expression; the method of creating pottery remains traditional).
Santa Clara Pueblo is home to a number of famous pottery families: Tafoya, Baca, Gutierrez, Naranjo, Suazo, Chavarria, Garcia, Vigil, Tapia - to name a few.
Pueblos of the Rio Grande, Daniel Gibson, ISBN-13:978-1-887896-26-9, Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001
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