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Geographical classification: Corsica - Corse > Bavella Massif > Punta di U Chiapponu
Punta Malanda is another stone's jewel on Bavella Massif, though not as spectacular as Punta Lunarda and Teghie Lisce and a little more secluded inside the Purcaraccia Canyon. With its magnificent reddish SE face, the lonely dome of Punta Malanda is located to the West of Bocca di Larone, overlooking the great and complex canyon named Purcaraccia.
Its roundish shapes quite clash with the slender steepness of the nearby Punta Lunarda.
Also in reason of its long approach, to climb this peak will give you a wild experience; and in reason of its secluded situation its faces had waited until the beginning of the XXI century to be climbed. Just the easy normal route, having only a panoramic interest, had been climbed before.
The majestic entrance within Bavella group is the Bavella Pass m. 1211.
From BASTIA (Corsica Eastern coast) take RN 198 towards Solenzara; a few kilometers before getting there, turn to right following D268 to Bavella Pass (km. 130 from Bastia).
From AIACCIO (Corsica Western coast) follow the road RN 196 to Petreto, then the road N852 to Aullene, Quenza and Zonza (km. 90 from Aiaccio).
From Bavella Pass mt. 1211 descent along North East side of the road D268, reaching a pass named Bocca di Larone mt. 608. Parking. From Bocca di Larone parking get back a bit along D268 to reach on the West side of the pass the first great hairpin.
Punta Malanda routes overview (French scale)
South-East Face
- Sisyphe ou "L'Envolèe Granitique" TD+, 6b+ max., 6a obbl., 270 m.- equipped with bolts
- La Fille d'Avril TD+, 6c max., 6a+ obbl., 290 m. - equipped with bolts
- Gaia TD+, 6b max., 6b obbl., 270 m. - trad route
North Face
- Voie de la Face Nord ABO, 7c max., 6c obbl., 200 m. - equipped with bolts
Sisyphe ou L'Envolee Granitique report
TD sup., F6b+, F6a obbl.
Summit altitude: mt. 1166
Length: 270 mt.
Pitches: 7
Exposure: SE
First ascent: D. Allemand – L. Menetrier 2000
Starting: Bocca di Larone mt. 608 - Road D268 Col de Bavella
Hut: Auberge – Gite d'Etape du Col de Bavella
A technical superb route with extra-solid red granite. Equipped with bolts.
Approach: when driving from Solenzara to Col de la Bavellaalong the road D268, beyond the Bocca di Larone you will get a great hairpin. From here it starts on the right a mainly level track, entering a dense vegetation and skirting on the right the great canyon of Purcaraccia. After half an hour the track goes down to reach the stream. Cross the river gaining the opposite bank; after the ford rise immediately up along the steep vegetated slope along a not very obvious trail, but marked with several cairns. After 15 minutes the trail goes towards left along some slopes, reaching a great vegetated gully. Climb the gully. Starting point is situated in the upper and right part of the gully (1 hour and 30 minutes from Bocca di Larone).
Sisyphe report (French Scale)
P1 - Climb a technical smooth and sloping slab 6b+
P2 - Follow another technical slab a bit easier 6a+
P3 - Another slab 5b
P4 - Head slantaway towards right. Now the climb becomes steeper. A crux move, then a fine climb. 6a
P5 - A difficult and steep wall with some athletic moves. Spaced bolts. 6b
P6 - Another steep wall a bit easier. Spaced bolts. 6a
P7 - An easy pitchs leads onr the superb summit. A majestic view over Bavella stone's world.
Descent: abseiling. After the first three abseils on the line of the route, traverse left (facing in) reaching a vegetated ledge. From here an abseil reachs the route's second belay. Another abseil leads to the bottom.
Bavella Massif is a wild group situated inside a Regional Park. Free camping and bivouac are not allowed. Fires are strictly forbidden. Maximum care is required to preserve this extraordinary environment.
Nature is wild and peculiar; in Corsica we can find more than 5% of authoctonous kinds of flower and plants, in addition to authoctonous fauna. On the contrary, several kinds of animal current inside Mediterranean countries are away from Corsica, like squirrels and vipers.
Climate is the typical one of the mediterranean middle-mountain areas situated at these latitudes: often very hot in summer and with cold and snowy winters; early and middle Spring and early Fall are the better seasons to climb. Due to Bavella closeness to the sea, winds are often stronger how much they are at the same height in the Alps. Rainfall sometimes are important and dangerous when joined with strong winds. On the contrary, sometimes we can find some long periods of drought.
Best seasons are Spring and Fall.
- Auberge du Col de Bavella – Hotel and Gite d'Etape
- Les Aiguilles de Bavella – Gite d'Etape
– Hotel L'Aiglon, Hotel de la Terrasse
- Municipal Camping of Zonza, Camping La Riviere
"Bavedda – Aiguilles entre ciel et torrents: Escalade, Rando, Canyon" by Jean Louis Fenouil and Jean Paul Quilici - FFME
"Guide d'escalade en Corse" Vol. I Massif de Bavella Jean Paul Quilici – Bernard Vaucher
"Rocca è Sole" Massif de Bavedda Jean Paul Quilici – Francis Thibaudeau
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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
I have a relationship with flavored beers that is fraught with passion, angst, and wonder. At its worst, a flavored beer (such as Sea Dog Blueberry) obscures any and all beer taste with overly sweet, artificial flavors that wreck your palate and leave an unpleasant, cough syrup coating in your mouth.
At their best (such as Cigar City's Cucumber Saison and Hitachino's Nest Ginger) the flavors are there, but they work WITH the beer. Cucumber works well in a Saison because both are light, crisp, and refreshing. You still know you are drinking a Farmhouse Ale, but the cucumber is THERE in the best way possible.
Think of it this way: The flavor should win an Oscar for best supporting role, but the star is still the beer. Once you lose your hops, malt, and alcohol, you might as well drink a wine cooler or a Mike's Hard Lemonade. Those things have their time and place, if the time is someone's nineteenth birthday and the place is some house party where this one dude will not quit trying to feel me up.
But then, there are also those beers that I am a little embarrassed about buying, those beers in which the flavoring almost eclipses the beer itself. I'm talking Well's Banana Bread, Dogfish Festina Peche, Brooklyn's now extinct Cookie Jar Porter. These walk the line between "wanting to make out with the bottle" and "how dare you, sir." The only reason these beers get away with it is that the flavors themselves are so well done. The aforementioned brews really taste of banana bread, peaches, and oatmeal cookies. I appreciate a gimmick, but only a really well done gimmick.
You just have to marvel at the skill and chemistry that goes in to really nailing those flavors.
Whenever a new flavored beer monstrosity makes its way to the market, I am at once hopeful and terrified. Dessert beers are a particularly difficult beast, as the beer has to be sweet but still drinkable. I love Southern Tier's Crème Brulee stout, but only for like one pour at most. After that it gets cloying.
Recently, the internet has been yapping about Sweet Baby Jesus, by DuClaw. It apparently tastes like a peanut butter cup, and I would love/am afraid to try it. However, because I live in this godforsaken swamp known as Florida, I am not able to claim what is rightfully mine. Beer distribution is a funny thing. I went to several liquor stores and called around extensively, before being resigned to the fact that I was not going to obtain this particular porter this weekend.
That's when a sassy pink bottle caught my eye.
At first I was all "That's probably good" but then I remembered the Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple fiasco, which basically just tasted like liquid smoke with a hint of Mrs. Butterworth's (because it didn't taste like real maple, you see). But Rogue is not a bad brewery, and surely the Bacon Maple beer had taught them a lesson in gimmicks vs. substance.
So I bought the Rogue Rogue VooDoo Doughnut Chocolate, Peanut Butter And Banana Ale (bitch was $14) in the stead of DuClaw's Sweet Baby Jesus. I also bought a bottle of 360 Glazed Donut vodka because I was in full gimmick mode and could not be stopped.
First, we sample the beer:
Glass: I used a Spiegelau Lager glass (I know this is an ale, but this glass is the closest one in the series to a pint glass, and I really wanted to use my fancy beer glasses, OK?).
Appearance: Very dark, with some ruby tones. Good, thick head. A few thin streams of carbonation. Looks very promising.
Smell: Mildly alcoholic with faint chocolate notes. Very little banana detected, but what I can detect literally smells like an ester I synthesized in my organic chem lab.
Taste: WOMP WOMP.
Watery. This is like a watery, somewhat stale chocolate stout. Medium carbonation. I only taste the banana when I burp. I detect no peanut butter at all. As it warmed up, I detected more banana, but never peanut butter. The banana flavor gets more cloying as you work your way through the glass.
Fucking Rogue, man. They are becoming such a gimmick factory, that I'm beginning to wonder if I even take them seriously anymore. This beer was fourteen fucking dollars for a pint; I expected something more. I'm trying their Beard Beer soon (if I can ever wrest it from the talons of UPS) and I hope it's less of a cheap trick and more of decently brewed beer.
Let's give this donut vodka a shot (sorry).
Ugh. I know I already used the word "cloying" but holy hell is this cloying. Cloying and syrupy and not great. It's basically like any of the "whipped" vodkas but somehow even sweeter. This doesn't taste like a glazed donut so much as donut glaze diluted with ethanol.
All of this nonsense has somewhat dampened my enthusiasm for DuClaw's Sweet Baby Jesus. I've never had anything from DuClaw, and maybe they are better at perfecting a gimmick, but I'm not overly hopeful. I'm actually not even sure why everyone is talking about this beer right now. It's fucking July. We should be drinking bright, hoppy ales and refreshing Saisons, MAYBE a Lambic if you need something sweet (I recommend this one).
What do you guys reckon? Have you had the chance to try Sweet Baby Jesus? Do you even want to?

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TrialScope Attracts Top Customer Experience Executive
Chris Campbell Appointed as Chief Customer Officer
JERSEY CITY, N.J., January 14, 2016 – TrialScope, the global leader in clinical trial transparency and compliance solutions, today announced that Chris Campbell has joined the leadership team as Chief Customer Officer.
Campbell who was most recently Chief Client Officer at Origin Healthcare Solutions, will provide leadership, management and focus across functional teams to deliver a world-class customer experience. Campbell has 25 years of experience as a leader in the software technology and client services industries. She has been a Chief Client Officer in private companies as well as held Senior Executive positions in publicly traded corporations. Her leadership experience spans operations, technology, product management and client support.
Mike Forgash, Chief Executive Officer, noted, "The Chief Customer Officer is an emerging role within competitive companies and it is a new role for TrialScope. By investing in this role, we are recognizing the critical importance of the customer experience, particularly in the clinical trial disclosure arena where evolving requirements are adding to the challenges and complexities of maintaining compliance. Chris' experience will help to align our efforts while driving the customer perspective across multiple functional areas."
Chris Campbell added, "I am excited to join the TrialScope team. Our customers have more compliance challenges than ever before. They also have more choices. It is imperative that we build trusted relationships, collaborate on broader levels and deliver meaningful experiences in order to provide continuing value. The TrialScope team has built a strong foundation for this type of trusted partnership and I am looking forward to continuing to expand these efforts."
Campbell will be based in the Jersey City offices.
About TrialScope
TrialScope simplifies the complexities of clinical transparency management. TrialScope is a proven solution that has been implemented successfully and rigorously tested in the most complex environments with solutions that are currently implemented at 13 of the top 30 global clinical trial sponsors, including 6 of the top 10. The company's market-driven solutions and expertise enable sponsors to improve their clinical trial process, mitigate registry and lifecycle risk, and ultimately achieve greater compliance. TrialScope technology is offered via a validation-ready SaaS platform hosted in a private cloud.
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Marco J. Shmerykowsky
An occasional series on science and technology
This week The Ukrainian Weekly introduces a new feature, "Sci-Tech Briefing," an initiative of the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America. The debut article by Marco Shmerykowsky was prepared for The Weekly in late October.
The collapse of the Twin Towers
It has been two months since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and like most New Yorkers I still can't fully comprehend what happened. "How could two massive high-rise buildings simply vanish in an instant?" was the question a close friend, who happened to be across the street from the Twin Towers at the time of the attack, asked me that day. Although fire caused by burning aviation fuel was a major factor in the collapse, there were also other factors, which draw from the basic elements and theories of high-rise building design.
Buildings and structural loads
The structural elements of any building provide a way for loads from higher-floor levels to travel into the supporting ground. The loads supported by the building can be separated into two general categories: gravity loads and lateral loads. Gravity loads are due to forces caused by the weights of all the materials supported by the building, such as steel, concrete, plumbing pipes, electrical wire, office partitions, furniture and people. Lateral loads are due to the horizontal forces from events such as wind pushing against the walls of a building.
While lateral loads may play a comparatively minor role in the design of a sheltered, low-rise building, they have a significant impact on the design of a high-rise building. This is because a tall building provides a large surface for collecting the wind, which translates into a large horizontal force. The structural engineer also needs to ensure that the building will be stiff enough so that under normal wind conditions it does not sway like a ship caught in a hurricane, but remains comfortable for the people who occupy it.
All high-rise buildings have special portions known as lateral load resisting systems that are specifically designed to address problems due to lateral loads. These systems consist of frames composed of beams, columns and diagonal members that are specially connected to transmit lateral forces. The frames can be located anywhere within the building.
Design of the Twin Towers
The Twin Towers used a lateral load resisting system known as a tube system, in which a series of closely spaced perimeter columns and deep perimeter beams are used to create a shell that has the strength and stiffness of a large square steel "flagpole." In this system, the perimeter columns are designed to carry both lateral loads and gravity loads, and the interior columns are designed to carry only gravity loads. The net result is that the designers obtain a larger area of usable floor space.
The gravity forces on each floor level of the Twin Towers were collected by a floor system that consisted of open-web joists, which spanned 60 feet between the perimeter and core columns. An open web joist is basically a long truss that has top and bottom members (known as a chord), which are connected by diagonal members in a zig-zag pattern. These members are attractive from a design perspective because they can span long distances but weigh less than comparable solid steel beams.
In addition to supporting the floor, the open web joists interacted with the perimeter columns by providing brace points at each floor level. The lateral bracing of a column is an important concept because it has a direct relation to the amount of load a column can carry. As a column becomes longer, the amount of load it can carry decreases. If the length is too long in relation to the magnitude of the load, the column will want to bend sideways or buckle. Since beams connect to the column at each floor level and in each direction, the effective design length is considered to be the distance between floors.
Causes of the collapse
With these basic concepts of structural engineering in mind, it is possible to understand both why the towers withstood the initial impact of the airplanes and why the towers eventually collapsed.
When one of the airplanes collided with the towers, the initial impact destroyed a number of the perimeter columns, floor joists and core columns. Once these structural elements were destroyed, the building essentially re-wired itself and redistributed the loads to the remaining structural elements.
Since the perimeter columns were designed to simultaneously carry both the gravity loads of a fully occupied building and the lateral loads in extreme wind conditions, and to provide the building with enough stiffness for the tower to be comfortable for its occupants, the net result was that the members had extra load carrying capacity under normal conditions. Thus, after the collision of the airplane with the tower, there was sufficient structure remaining to continue supporting the tower.
The fire due to the aviation fuel, however, served to amplify the damage that was done. Typical high-rise construction requires that the builders provide two to three hours worth of fire protection around main structural members. The aviation fuel fire, however, burned much hotter and quicker than a normal office fire. As a result, the fireproofing material most likely disappeared quickly.
Once the steel was unprotected and heated beyond 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, the steel began to weaken and soften. Since the floor joists are built of thin components, they were most likely damaged by the fire first. As the floor framing failed, the bracing that the joists were providing to the columns was eliminated. Suddenly the remaining already highly loaded columns had their capacity reduced because they effectively became taller. As the fire continued to burn, the combined effect of failing floor members and weakening columns created a condition where the gravity loads from the portion of the tower above the fire could no longer be supported.
Once this point was reached, the top portion of the tower acted like a hammer driving a nail into a piece of wood. The levels at the collision point collapsed, allowing the upper floors to fall and hit the first undamaged floor. This impact was too great for that level to withstand, so it too failed. This sequence of floors stacking up like pancakes kept repeating floor after floor, until the entire structure was destroyed.
The second tower to be attacked was the first one to collapse for the simple reason that the plane hit at a lower point. Thus, there was more gravity load pushing on the tower's damaged section.
The collapse of the towers was a horrific experience for every New Yorker who experienced it first-hand and for millions more who experienced it on television. What should be noted and praised, however, is that the towers were designed so that they stood for nearly an hour after the tragic attacks occurred. This application of engineering principles allowed thousands of people to escape the towers with their lives.
Marco J. Shmerykowsky, P.E., is a principal at Shmerykowsky Consulting Engineers in New York, teaches high-rise design at The Cooper Union School of Engineering, and is president of the New York Chapter of the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 18, 2001, No. 46, Vol. LXIX


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A report card for the California recreational red abalone fishery was established in 2000, requiring pickers to record catch and effort, including date and location of catches. Beginning with the 2002 abalone season, CDFW biologists determined that a combination of returned cards and a random telephone survey would be the best way to estimate catch and effort, given that only a portion of the cards purchased are returned to the CDFW. A report describing the method for estimating catch and effort was published in the CDFW's peer-reviewed journal, California Fish and Game, and is included below. Catch estimates for abalone report card sites from 2002-2009 and a graph showing estimated catch for the top five sites are also included.
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Today we are a little late with our post because we wanted to work on it together and both of us had a busy weekend but here we go:
In the summer that Patrick came to Germany, my church had a Vacation Bible School. We had been dating for little over a month and weren't really open about our relationship then. That didn't stop me getting excited about spending and entire week, every evening with the man I was falling in love with.
When I heard about their Vacation Bible School I was anticipating to work in it. I had worked in the VBS's of my church and was really hoping to be a part of theirs but then I learned that it was going to be completely German. But it still worked out!!! I was put in charge of the games since I love games. I didn't know any German but had lots of fun anyways.
(Iris) I worked in the crafting department and we BOTH were apart of the music program. It was the first time we spent and entire week together and though I had the biggest knots in my stomach when Patrick was around I really enjoyed that week of Vacation Bible School (because Patrick was there ☺).
(Patrick) OK...so bellow is probably not the best picture of us either but actually the first picture that was taken of us together, in public, as far as we know! Yeah, I am on the guitar and Iris is listening...that's how our relationship began... MUSIC.
Bellow you see a video clip my Grandma made of us playing our VBS song while the children are singing. This is the unedited version and I want to warn you to turn your speakers down... IT WILL get LOUD!!! I hope you can enjoy the enthusiasm of children at Vacation Bible School. ☺
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England star Jack Nowell crashed to earth yesterday from the high of his maiden Six Nations campaign.
In Rome a week ago the 20-year-old scored his first Test try as England demolished Italy and only missed out on the title on points difference.
At Welford Road eight days on, he lasted only until half-time before being taken off with a banged-up shoulder as his Exeter side were crushed by a resurgent Leicester outfit.
Tigers wing Niki Goneva was the star of the show, making the first two tries and scoring the third as the champions fired out a warning that they won't give up their title without a fight.
He was too much to handle for Exeter and Nowell, who was defensively at fault for the first two scores.
It was a come down not only for the young winger but for Chiefs a week after they beat Northampton to win the Anglo-Welsh Cup - the first major trophy in their 143-year history.
"Leicester hit us hard early on but we weren't really that tough defensively," admitted Exeter boss Rob Baxter. "Hopefully this is a loss that shocks us back into reality.
"It was always going to be a challenge for Jack. He's had to learn to come out of a successful Six Nations and drop back into Premiership rugby.
"He was a bit knocked around and having had a fair bit of time in the saddle lately it was the right decision to get him off."
Goneva, who turns 30 next month and is out of contract this summer, was in charge from the moment he put Manu Tuilagi over for the opening try on nine minutes.
He was twice involved in the move that sent prop Logovi'i Mulipola in for the second and then side-stepped his way to a quite magnificent solo try on the half hour.
Soon after half-time Adam Thompstone bagged Leicester's bonus point try, which gives them a seven-point cushion over fifth-placed Sale.
England scrum-half Ben Youngs then left the field to a standing ovation on his 100th Tigers appearance.
It was typical of Exeter's day that his replacement, David Mele, should help himself to the last two tries.
LEICESTER - Tries: Tuilagi, Mulipola, Goneva, Thompstone, Mele 2. Cons: Williams 2, Flood. Pens: Williams 3.
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So, my opinion of the specific line I received, the Sea Pure Natural Anti-Aging Skincare line, is extremely positive. First of all, when I first got these products, the first thing I noticed was the lovely packaging. The line comes in light blue boxes that go with the whole sea theme. The next thing I noticed about the line in general was that it all smells amazing! It's a very clean citrus scent, not overpowering like lemon cleaner, but refreshing and invigorating, especially in the morning. Now I'll tell you about each of the products I've been using. First, there's the creamy Facial Cleanser, which I like to use in the morning. It wakes you up with a refreshing scent and cleanses your skin. Next, I use the Renewing Prep Tonic, which is a toner that enhances the skin and helps moisturizer work more effectively. Then, there's the Deep Moisture Cream, a moisturizer that helps repair damaged skin and makes your skin feel soft and smooth. The Perfecting Eye Cream is also great for under the eyes, to keep the area around your eyes fresh looking and smooth. It's also good for those of use with dark circles/bags under the eyes. Even though I'm not very old yet, it's never a bad idea to use anti-aging products a little sooner. And if you are a little more advanced in years, this line will be great for you as well. At night, I like to use the Gentle Refining Polish, which is an exfoliating scrub that gets rid of dead skin cells to make your skin new, fresh, and soft.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York authorities on Friday announced criminal charges against 17 people accused of running an international drug ring trafficking in tons of khat, a leafy plant chewed as a stimulant.
The ring allegedly moved the khat across four continents and distributed it in New York, Massachusetts and Ohio, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Police Department Commissioner William Bratton said.
Khat is grown and sold legally in much of eastern Africa where chewing the plant is an ancient social custom. It is widely consumed by Yemeni, Somali and Ethiopian communities and is considered a controlled substance in the United States.
According to the 215-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Supreme Court, the khat was obtained in Yemen, Kenya and Ethiopia and shipped to the United States through the United Kingdom, China, Holland and Belgium.
"Khat is a dangerous and illegal drug with worldwide reach," Schneiderman said in a statement. "As a result of this international takedown, a sophisticated operation accused of bringing drugs into the United States and sending the profits overseas has been shut down."
Following a nearly yearlong investigation, the indictment charges 17 co-conspirators - from England; New York City; Rochester, New York; Everett, Massachusetts; and Blaine, Minnesota - with crimes including drug trafficking and possession, money laundering and conspiracy.
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Conductor Leads the Half a Billion Dollar SEO Technology Sector With 300 Percent Customer Growth Year-Over-Year
Conductor Searchlight™, the World's Leading SEO Platform, Meets the Evolving Needs of More Than 1,000 Global Brands
Conductor, the leader in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology, is ready to take the SEO technology market into the next phase of accelerated growth with its Searchlight™ platform – already the first, and most widely adopted cloud-based technology used by Fortune 500 companies to measure, improve and manage their natural search efforts in order to increase site traffic and boost revenue.
92 percent of all search-engine clicks on websites come from organic search traffic and Forrester Research forecasts the SEO technology market to exceed $600 million by 2016 in the United States alone. As the leader in this rapidly growing category, Conductor is well poised to continue its enviable growth trajectory and lead the market in delivering a highly scalable solution that gives brand marketers the visibility, optimization and automation to conquer the complexity of SEO, while harnessing its revenue-generating power.
First introduced to market in June 2010, Conductor Searchlight is a cloud-based marketing platform that has transformed SEO by giving marketers and brand owners complete control over every piece of the natural search process. No longer do search marketers struggle with the lack of transparency, insufficient resources or an inability to understand what is going on. With one simple interface, Conductor Searchlight gives digital marketers the ability to effectively stay ahead of the thousands of data points that affect their company's search ranking.
"SEO technology has reached its strategic tipping point – marketers realize the tremendous gains to be had with natural search vs. the paid alternative – and are looking for cutting-edge technology solutions that help capture web traffic, increase mindshare and convert impressions into dollars," said Seth Besmertnik, CEO of Conductor. "Conductor's agile technology infrastructure and robust tool set gives brand owners peace-of-mind knowing millions of dollars won't be lost when search engines like Google make changes to satisfy consumer interests. With Searchlight, marketers have the insight, intelligence and real-time data to react quickly to change and stay ahead of the competition at all times."
Conductor maintains a stampede of interest by major brands as they look to replace manual and disparate tools with a strategic, enterprise-level SEO solution. Large brands like FedEx, Siemens and General Electric turn to Conductor Searchlight to optimize their natural search marketing programs. On average, Conductor Searchlight users triple the amount of keywords moving onto page-one by actively implementing the intelligence and recommendations delivered in the platform. Many customers report an increase in natural search traffic of more than 60 percent after deploying Searchlight.
On the heels of the most successful quarter ever, Conductor enters 2012 with more than 1000 brands supporting half a million keywords and more than 3.5 billion in SEO revenue.
A Future-Proof Technology Platform Readies for Big Data
Embracing the latest open-source technologies like Hadoop and HBase, and pushing the limits on rapid software development methodologies to build and release new product features, 2011 saw more than 150 releases to the Conductor Searchlight platform — most notably universal search optimization, enhanced keyword discovery, international SEO capabilities and the first platform to leverage Google +1 for SEO intelligence. On average, Conductor pushes new code out four times a week, enabling customer feedback to make its way into production quickly.
The Searchlight platform was architected from the ground-up to easily scale to meet changing market conditions. This has proven to be a key differentiator for Conductor. As other solutions fail to keep pace with the ongoing, algorithmic changes made by Google, Conductor has easily risen to the occasion and prospered. In fact, Conductor's most successful quarters are directly tied to major changes announced by Google including "fresh" and Search plus Your World.
Conductor's highly responsive, robust and scalable technology infrastructure is equipped to handle Big Data requirements and deliver unprecedented insight into a brand's web visibility. Social media networks, blogs, machine sensors and location-based tools are generating a whole new universe of unstructured data that — when quickly captured, managed and analyzed — can help marketers uncover facts and patterns they weren't able to recognize in the past. With its social signal tracking of Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn and the introduction of the SEO Cloud™, which allows third-party marketing platforms like Adobe Omniture to integrate and exchange data with Searchlight, Conductor is on the frontlines of turning digital Big Data into actionable marketing intelligence, collecting millions of search engine results weekly and storing more than 25 terabytes of historical data securely.
To meet the growing demand for its products and services, Conductor plans to increase headcount by as much as 50 percent in 2012. To learn more about career opportunities at Conductor, go to www.conductor.com/careers.
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Though Meenakshi Arya is a well known name in the small screen where she has acted in many serials, this is for the first time that she is going to enter big screens of films. She has been signed as the lead actress in Mujhe Rang De by the producer Nareshwala and director Mukesh Agrawal.
Amar Upadhyay and Aslam Khan are also in lead roles in this film and selection of other actors is in progress. Story, screenplay, and dialogues are written by Mukesh Agrawal himself and producer Nareshwala is also directing the film in association with Mukesh Agrawal. Music directors are Shabab-Shailendra, lyrics ar by Shabab Azmi, cameraman is Shad Kumar, editor is Pranab Patel, and Kalyan Ji Chhauraha is the co-producer. Film is soon going on floor .
Meenakshi has earlier worked in Ramayan which was telecast on Imagine TV, Jyoti and Sabki Ladi Bebo and other serials and some ad films. She was also seen in the promos of IIFA Awards. She is also working in another Hindi film 'Tonight in sole valley'.
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Reviewed By Jamaludin M (Santa Fe, NM) Reviewed for a 1983 Audi Quattro —10/31/2012 7:09 AM
This shade appears virtually identical (apart from the fitment) to one purchased a couple of decades ago (which is still going strong) for a different vehicle so I expect it to last a while. The finish is not as reflective as some other sun shades, but whether that actually translates into meaningful differences in temperature is hard to judge. Fit is decent, with a slightly larger gap around the rear-view mirror and edges than I would like.


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Introducing the revised Education Agent Training Course. Incorporating the Simplified Student Visa Framework, the EATC is Australia's preferred agency training platform. Immediate QEAC exam access now available with downloadable EATC course notes.
IEAA sees quality assurance programs for education agents and industry professionals as vital to ensuring the viability of the Australian international education sector. The EATC is one of Australia's most respected education training programs and is one component of accessible, affordable professional development for agents.
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There are no dents or scratches to mar the beauty of this item but some of the electroplated silver has been worn away with use revealing the brass base metal.
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British singer Sam Smith is keen to form a new soul super-trio with Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan.
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HBO host Bill Maher argued Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz "did cheat" in Iowa by saying fellow candidate Dr. Ben Carson was dropping out on Friday's "Real Time."
Maher stated, "Donald Trump does have kind of a point. Ted Cruz did cheat. He put out a press release…saying Ben Carson, the other Evangelical in the race, was dropping out, to trick his voters, as Jesus would do. And it worked. Well, — and it worked because 64% of Republican voters in Iowa are born again, and 100% are born yesterday."
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Some poems by Homer, the Greek poet, (around 850 BC), contain accounts of the genesis of the world and the succession of divine rule etc. According to the doctrine of 'divine right to rule', a monarch or a despot derives his indisputable right to rule directly from God.
According to some dead Persian poets, three essential elements are required to make a person a right king: bestowed divine glory, pure nobility and perfectionism plus acquired intellect.
To understand this phenomena, we need to briefly explore the implications of 'succession of divine right to rule' in the 1st millennium of Persian long history, beginning 558 BC, ending 334 BC, when Alexander of Macedonia toppled Persian Empire under King Darius III. After the disgraceful defeat, for several hundred years, some Persian books, related that Alexander was a half-brother to the fallen king! Therefore, it was simply a domestic dispute between two brothers. A king comes, a king goes. Today, this defense mechanism is called denial, minimisation (denial and rationalization), projection or cognitive dissonance.
After 1000 years, the same cognitive dissonance happened again when the first idolaters-turned Moslem warriors invaded the legendary Sassanid Empire of Persia, whose kings were said to have been selected by Ahura Mazda, God, in 635 AD.
The ideology of the succession of divine right to rule supported by influential Mullahs of the time prevented the Sassanid courtiers to choose a commoner as their king. In 5 critical years, from 628 to 632, the Persian Empire was in chaos, as they kept placing 11 baby-kings on the throne, hoping that the divinity will whisk away the infidel invaders. It did not work. Battlefields required battle-tested generals directed by an efficient Emperor and a working Command & Control Post in the battlefield.
Arabs, although outnumbered, defeated the well-equipped Army of the Persians who were demoralized by the rumor that the Arabs were soldiers of the divinity.
What exactly happened, in the aftermath, is interesting: The good Persians packed up their assets and began an exodus towards India and settled there, named Parsians, a down-to-earth god-fearing community who have contributed a lot to the economy of India. Those who remained behind were a bunch of deranged Mullahs and ignorant peasants who belatedly realized that they had been betrayed. They unsuccessfully initiated an on-going campaign to get rid of the invading idolaters-turned-Moslems.
As soon as the invading Arabs reached the Persian Empire capital in present Iraq, they looted the treasury, burned down the vast library, and, according to Islamic canons, took females as slave booties. Among the female slaves, there was a Princess, daughter to the fallen King. She was given to Ali, the future 4th Caliph of Islam who passed her to his younger son, Hussein. Thus Hussein, like Alexander, supposedly became the Persian's son-in-law, another Alexander, but they were wrong as the slave females had no conjugational rights! However, the mentality has continued for 1400 year to present time. (to be continued)


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Rumors are running wild between the University of Texas and University of Alabama. Every day this week provided a new "report" about Texas head coach Mack Brown's job. One day he is fired, then he is staying and now he may be stepping down. This has caused many to prop up Alabama's head coach Nick Saban as the next Texas coach, even though it is all speculation. Alabama star quarterback AJ McCarron said he knows Saban will not leave Tuscaloosa anytime soon.
"I messed with Coach, [saying] he's getting too old to start up again somewhere else," McCarron said on ESPN's "College Football Daily" from Walt Disney World. "He told me he's not leaving. And I know Miss Terry [Saban's wife] well enough; she runs that house. And she's not allowing Coach to leave either. I think he'll be at the University of Alabama for a little while."
Despite his statement, it is still speculation. Before he left the Miami Dolphins for Alabama Saban reiterated many times at press conferences he was not the next head coach at Alabama. However, it did not take him long to secretly split and board a plane for Tuscaloosa.
In March 2012, Alabama gave him an extension to 2020 and a raise to $5.62 million a year. Saban even said it "represented his intention to finish his career at Tuscaloosa." But Geoff Ketchum, owner and publisher of the popular Texas website Orangebloods.com, tweeted that Saban may be testing the waters.
An OB source has confirmed that Nick Saban has initiated the vetting process of trying to see what a staff at Texas might look like.
— Geoff Ketchum (@gkketch) December 12, 2013
No one will confirm or deny anything, which is not surprising since it is bowl season. Alabama athletic director Bill Battle said they are concentrating on their BCS bowl game against University of Oklahoma.


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This is a good classic Sci-Fi book. I would highly recommend this. Definitely old school pulp.
A classic of the finding a lost civilization genre. I found this novel very interesting. Unfortunately I haven't seen the old movies that were made from this book. It wasn't terrific but it did held my attention.
I found this book mildly interesting but the science in it is absurd. I know they didn't know much but I've seen better books during the period in when it was written. It was written by a person who was involved with the opera.
A very good story in the Burroughs vein of stories. Good science fiction for its time.


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Lindsay Lohan To Get the Barbara Walters Treatment
Lindsay Lohan is trying to get her life back on track—again—and the first step this time appears to be an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters.
The troubled 26-year-old actress made headlines last week after her father leaked an audio recording of a phone call that followed a tempestuous fight between Lindsay and her mother Dina. Lohan later called TMZ to say the fight was a "heat of the moment" thing, and she has now cut ties to her father.
Lohan will sit down with the iconic newswoman in the coming weeks and discuss the parallels of her life and that of Liz Taylor, including drug addiction and child stardom. Lohan plays Taylor in the biopic Liz and Dick, and her interview will coincide with the film's debut on Lifetime Nov. 3.
Of course, if Lohan really wants to draw parallels to Liz Taylor, she might want to spend less time in court and more time on set.


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July 13, 2006
Congressman Mike Capuano, a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has asked the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to immediately bring in a team to investigate the recent tragic accident in Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T). Additionally, Congressman Capuano is asking the NTSB, in accordance with the authority it already has, to conduct a long term safety study of the entire CA/T project. The NTSB had had no previous involvement in the CA/T and is in the best position to conduct an immediate independent review. He is joined in this effort by the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation, Senators and Representatives, all of whom have signed onto the letter. The text of the letter follows:
July 13, 2006
Mark V. Rosenker
Acting Chairman
National Transportation Safety Board
490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
Washington, DC 20594
Dear Acting Chairman Rosenker:
We are gravely concerned about the July 10, 2006 tragic death of Milena Del Valle as a result of falling concrete in a section of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T). Clearly, this raises critical concerns about the safety of the entire CA/T.
We are writing to ask that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) immediately bring in a team to investigate this recent tragic accident. The NTSB has the authority to investigate accidents on our nation's highways.
In addition to investigating Monday's accident, we are asking the NTSB, in accordance with the authority it already has, to conduct a long term safety study of the entire CA/T project. Criminal investigations into the tragic accident have begun. Inspection of the I-90 Connector tunnel has led to its indefinite closure and the identification of at least 60 more areas that are raising safety concerns. The general public has good reason to be uneasy about something they should be able to take for granted the safety of the roads on which they travel.
Public safety is of paramount concern. The only way to identify flaws in the system and to definitively conclude that the roadways are safe is to place a thorough analysis in the hands of an agency that has had no previous involvement in the CA/T. The NTSB can conduct an independent review so that Massachusetts residents get the answers they deserve. We cannot wait any longer.
We thank you for your consideration of this matter and await your prompt response.
Contact: Alison M. Mills (617) 621-6208


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Sub-Committee F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs)
of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union is
conducting a short inquiry into the social policy aspects of the
Convention on the Future of Europe. Working Group XI of the Convention
published its proposals at the end of January,[57]
for consideration by the Convention in the preparation of draft
Treaty articles.
The Working Group's main proposals are:
· the inclusion in the Treaty
of a number of additional social values and objectives
· some extension of Community
competences in the area of public health
· specific Treaty provision
for the "open method of co-ordination"
· improved coherence between
the economic and social processes
· explicit recognition in
the Treaty of the role of the social partners (and civil society).
The Working Group proposes little change in the matters to which
Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) should apply.
· The Sub-Committee would
welcome evidence on these and other aspects of social policy relevant
to amending the Treaties. It suggests that in submitting evidence
witnesses should have in mind what it sees as the main questions
underlying these issues:
· where to strike the balance
between Member State and Community competence in social policy
· at what level social policy
should be drawn up and implemented
· what flexibility Member
States should have to adapt a Community social policy to their
particular circumstances.
In order that its report can contribute to public debate on proposals
under consideration by the Convention, the Sub-Committee plans
to complete it by the end of March. In view of this very tight
timetable the Sub-Committee will be relying primarily on written
submissions and holding very few oral evidence sessions. It regrets
that it has had to set such a short deadline for the submission
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Steamboat Briefs: Registration open for Steamboat Triathlon
April 27, 2009
Registration is under way for the 2009 Steamboat Triathlon, Aug. 30 at Lake Catamount. Offering a sprint distance event, the triathlon takes place entirely in Steamboat. The 3/4-mile swim event is on a point-to-point course in Lake Catamount. The 20-mile bike course runs on county roads to a downtown turnaround. The 4-mile run is on paved roads near Lake Catamount.
The Steamboat Springs Triathlon is limited to 650 entries and sanctioned by USA Triathlon, the sport of triathlon's national governing body. For more information, go to http://www.usatriathlon.org.
Hayden tee ball league registration under way
Totally Kids is accepting registrations for Hayden Tee Ball, for children ages 4 to 7. Registration forms can be picked up at Hayden Valley Elementary School. The registration fee is $25 a child, and the deadline is Thursday. The tee ball season runs from mid-May through June, with games on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Call Donna at 276-4213 for details.
Homemaker Guild offering "2nd chance" scholarship
The Colorado Master Farm Homemaker Guild is offering a $500 scholarship to a Colorado woman with an agricultural background. Known as the "second chance scholarship," the gift is awarded to someone whose college education was interrupted or postponed. Homemakers are encouraged to apply. Applications are due May 15 and are available at the Routt County Cooperative Extension Office in the Routt County Courthouse Annex on Sixth Street.
VNA offering free screening for breathing problems
The Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association is now offering free screenings for people experiencing breathing problems or diagnosed with asthma, COPD or other related respiratory illnesses in Routt, Moffat and Jackson counties. Spirometry testing, pulmonary functions studies, prescription medications and disease management are available at a reduced charge based on income. For details or to schedule a screening, contact Victoria Barron, RN and Community Health Educator, at 970-875-1883.
Library offering space to art or history collections
Bud Werner Memorial Library has display space available to feature your unique, historical or artistic collections. Share a story about your trip around the world, your community project or your nonprofit organization. For details, call Karen at the library at 879-0240, ext. 306.


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2018 Resource Allocation Model funding
In October 2017, all NSW public schools will receive a 2018 Planned School Budget Allocation Report. The report will assist with the management of the total budget delivered to schools through the Resource Allocation Model (RAM). The Resource Allocation Model (RAM) methodology distributes funding based on the individual needs of students and schools. This gives schools greater flexibility to make local decisions. Learn more about the 2018 funding by visiting the department's website or watch a short animation about managing the total school... Read more
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Year 12 Farewell Assembly
Year 12 Final Assembly and End of term Achievement Awards will commence at 10.30am this Thursday 21 September 2017. Join us to celebrate our students achievements.... Read more
NDIS continues its roll out across NSW
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) started in NSW in July 2016, rolling out across half of the state. The rollout for the rest of NSW started on 1 July 2017 and the NDIS will be fully rolled out by mid 2018. The NSW government is writing to the families of children and young people with disability who currently receive disability supports in the rollout areas to advise how and when they will enter the NDIS. How will people move into the NDIS? There is a planned approach to the way people enter into the NDIS. The first people to... Read more
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BOURKE HIGH SCHOOL INVITES STUDENTS, PARENTS AND CARERS TO ATTEND THE 2018 SUBJECT SELECTION NIGHT ON TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 TO BE HELD IN THE SCHOOL'S LIBRARY. STUDENTS IN YEAR 8 - 5.30 PM STUDENTS IN YEAR 10 - 6.15 PM... Read more
NAPLAN Online School readiness test
NSW schools will participate in the NAPLAN Online School Readiness Test from 14 August to 22 September. There is a lot of information for schools, students and parents on the NAPLAN Online transition website. The school readiness test is a 'practice run' for schools to assess their technology as we prepare to transition to NAPLAN Online. It provides an opportunity for schools to become familiar with the NAPLAN Online assessment platform but is not an assessment of student ability.... Read more
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Education Week 2017
Next week (Monday 31 July – Friday 4 August) is Education Week, a statewide annual event to celebrate public education in NSW. The week highlights the achievements of public education and local schools, putting the spotlight on our students, our educators and the communities that support them. This year's theme is I Learn, We Learn. It is a celebration of the commitment of the NSW Department of Education to ensuring that our students are at the heart of learning and that all our schools improve every year. Education Week is also a time for... Read more
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BHS Italian Night
Bourke High School is hosting an Italian night on 4 August 2017 at 6.30... Read more
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Bourke High School Year 11 Hospitality cater at ICPA NSW State Conference in Bourke
Bourke High School Year 11 Hospitality students provided catering on Day 2 of the ICPA NSW State Conference held in Bourke 29 & 30 March 2017. The students supported by their teacher Ms Ibbotson served Morning and Afternoon Tea to the conference participants as well as taking the opportunity to showcase their talents to Mr Geoff Pellizzer, Executive Director Public Schools NSW who was attending the conference.... Read more
Bourke High School #Bullying No Way
Bourke High School staff and students say #Bullying No Way 2017. Students designed #Instagram quotes to combat Bullying No Way.... Read more
FebruaryReturn to top
Introducing Healthy School Canteens
The introduction of the revised Healthy School Canteen Strategy increases the availability of healthy food and drink options in school canteens to make the healthy choice, the easy choice. It replaces the Fresh Tastes@School Strategy in NSW schools that was commonly known as the traffic light system. The revised strategy is consistent with the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines and classifies food and drinks as either Everyday or Occasional. Sugary drinks will continue not to be sold. NSW public schools will have until the end of 2019 to... Read more
Our shared responsibility
Welcome back for the 2017 school year. I hope everyone had a relaxing and refreshing break. I'd like to particularly welcome students (along with their parents) and staff starting in our schools for the first time. May the year ahead be engaging and rewarding – a wonderful year of teaching and learning. We know the world is transforming profoundly and quickly, and it is our great responsibility to prepare our children and young people so that they can flourish through such change. When our children finish school and enter the evermore... Read more
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Bourke High School Students Return to School Dates
Students attending Bourke High School in 2017 will be required to return to school as outlined below Monday 6 February 2017 - Year 7, Year 11 and Year 12 Tuesday 7 February 2017 - Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10... Read more


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Summer 2011
volume 26 no 2
From the Editor
The Endangered Species Act will turn 40 soon, and it's experiencing something of a midlife crisis.
When he signed the ESA into law in 1973, President Nixon praised the act for protecting "an irreplaceable part of our national heritage – threatened wildlife." At the time, the bald eagle was down to fewer than 500 breeding pairs. Other beloved species – the whooping crane, the gray whale, the peregrine falcon – were also on the brink of extinction. The new law provided legal protections for those animals as well as …more
- The Last Stand
- Twenty years ago, an extraordinary effort by environmentalists saved the northern spotted owl – or did it?
- Cry, Wolf
- How a Campaign of Fear and Intimidation Led to the Gray Wolf's Removal from the Endangered Species List.
- A House Divided
- Louisianans, One Year After the Spill
- Feedback: Letters & E-mails
- Around the World: Local News from All Over
- Temperature Gauge: Notes from a Warming World
- Spyhopping: Don't Mini-mize the Dangers of Nuclear Power
- Earth Island Reports: Orella Stewardship Institute
- Digging Deep
- Earth Island Reports: Project Survival Media
- Say It Loud
- Earth Island Reports: Center for Safe Energy
- Lessons in Ecotourism
- Earth Island Reports: Energy Action Coalition
- Stir It Up
- Earth Island Reports: Sustainable World Coalition
- New Book and Campaign
- Earth Island Reports: New Earth Island Projects
- Dispatches: Breaking Down Bioplastics
- Is the Bioplastic Cup Half Full or Half Empty?
- 1,000 Words: Eye to Eye
- Bryant Austin
- Dispatches: Call of the Wild
- Dispatches: Murky Waters
- Dispatches: Cat Eyes
- The Eastern Cougar Has Been Declared Extinct. So Why Do Sightings of the Animal Persist?
- +/–: Green Economy?
- Do Carbon Offsets Work?
- +/–: Nothing More than Hot Air
- +/–: Fighting Climate Change with Forests
- Conversation: Ric O'Barry
- In Review: Plan B
- HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
By Mark Hertsgaard
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 340 pages
- In Review: The Most Dangerous Game
- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
Knopf, 2010, 352 pages
- In Review: Hunters and Gatherers
- The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth
by Richard Conniff
WW Norton & Company, 2011, 464 pages
- Voices: Fear of Flying


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Art therapy
In the studio they grow… (Art Therapy again!)
This Art Therapy thing. I'm going to keep banging on about it for a little bit. Mainly because I just keep getting SO MANY students parents/guardians telling me how different their mini-artist is since they started doing weekly art lessons.
There's so many benefits from art therapy – the stress relief, the lateral cognitive development, the fine motor skills exercising – but (I think) more important than all those reasons, is the confidence that students gain by exploring the thoughts that they may not have the words to express.
In my studio I watch shy children, turn into young artists with a voice.
I watch how they grow from trying to "blend in" with the motley group that frequents my studio, to realising there are so many different characters that they couldn't blend in, no matter how hard they try, so they start beaming their own unique little (and sometimes big) personality through the already character-cluttered studio.
I watch as the parts of them they choose to show turn from "I'm too cool for that" to "watch this really silly thing I can do." I hear them as they proclaim to the class that they are "oddball" and "not like everyone else" and then I watch them make friends with other self proclaimed weirdos, and in finding a place where no one is cool, they find a space to be authentic with themselves.
I think at least half of my students have at some point told me they aren't like anyone else. Whether this is born from their own ability to see their uniqueness, or their parents encouragement to be themselves without defaulting to mimicking the social norms – it doesn't matter. What matters to these kids is that they congregate with likeminds. That gives them a kind of confidence to be who they are in the studio, and gives them the confidence to face the world outside of the studio.
In my studio I see young artists turn their newfound skills into confidence, and surely that confidence they carry has the best therapeutic value of all.
So go ahead and put a paintbrush in your mini-artists hand. Give them a space to be messy. Give them a challenge to complete. Give them the opportunity to develop the express themselves freely – and if possible do it with others.
If you're on facebook feel free to share your mini-artists work on the Artlis Studios page or join our Kids Art Sharing Group to connect with other guardians of creative mini's. We love to see your work!!
How can Art Therapy help your child?
Since I first started working with aspergers students, and hearing first hand from them how much they felt art was relaxing and helping them concentrate on life, I've had so many questions from parents in regards to how art therapy can help their child.
My mini-artist sessions (both one-on-one and group classes) now consist of kids with aspergers, anxiety, ADD, hyperactivity and some who are just downright shy! My classes are also filled with such a huge range of characters, some who have told me they "don't fit in with the normal kids", some who have a normally interactive social life, and some who use my art classes as a chance to let their "real self be set free because no one in here cares if you're weird." The resounding feeling in every session I teach is that mini-artists feel safe to be just whoever it makes them happiest to be when they are doing art, because art can be ANYTHING so why shouldn't they?
This is important for all kids to feel, but more particularly for those mini-artists who have been through trauma, or living their life with a disability or disorder. An important step in overcoming these issues, is knowing there's no expectation on them to repress any parts of their character that may not match up to social expectations.
Clinical therapies can be efficient for kids that have to deal with such things, but that might not be the best approach for them. In fact, many times the issue comes from communication and in that situation talking won't really make things a lot easier. Creative therapies can offer a great supplement to clinical therapy and give the student another avenue of expression, where they can explore feelings that they may not have the verbal capacity or mental maturity to express.
What art therapy does is that it uses the power of psychotherapy in order to address a variety of issues that the child has. However, it does that in a creative, interactive manner. This makes it very appealing for children and it also helps them stay away from stress.
Thanks to the aid offered by a therapist, kids have the ability to find the meaning of art, all while being able to create art on their own as they see fit. This helps art therapy become a one of a kind, refined creative outlet that delivers both value and a very good experience!
How can art therapy help a child?
There are many issues that can be addressed via art therapy, and these include:
- The death of a family member
- Behavioral problems
- The inability to understand physical disabilities
- Mental disorders
- Dealing with serious diseases
- Improving the cognitive abilities
- Learning disabilities
- Emotional problems and phobias
- Childhood trauma caused by various factors
How does art therapy work?
The art therapist can acquire art supplies and then he will place them in front of the child all so that he can learn how to use them. This is a very appealing, exciting and enticing experience. With the proper guidance, the child will be able to express himself and take better control over his emotions. Treatment can take place either in an individual manner if the child is shy but it can also work very well in the group setting, it all comes down to each child.
How does it support children in learning?
Thanks to art therapy children have the ability to express themselves and remove fear or stress, emotions that won't help them learn anything. In addition, art therapy is designed in order to support creativity and interactions, things that make the therapy experience simpler and a lot more appealing for the child. If you want to help your child go through a bad time in his life easier and with the proper support, then art therapy is a worthwhile avenue to pursue.
Aside from all of that, art therapy can help a child become more confidence in his own power and for a creative mind, there's no doubt that it relieves stress. So even if the only benefits you end up seeing are these few common ones, it's worth a shot right?


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It is interesting to note that Scurvy, a severe vitamin C deficiency, cannot be reversed with ascorbic acid but can be reversed with paprika or a natural food source vitamin C complex. Szent-Gyorgi, the original discoverer of ascorbic acid, found that it would not cure scurvy; only the natural complex can do that. Isolated ascorbic acid is made from corn sugar (glucose), and it is a naked substance devoid of all the cofactors. The reason ascorbic acid masquerades as vitamin C is for commercial reasons. It is profitable.
Now, of course the ironic thing is that these natural C products are MUCH more expensive than pure AA, so I've taken this with a grain of salt.
Does anyone know if the scurvy statement is true, or where the study is that created that controversy?