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|Aymonino, Carlo, Studio Ayde, Aldo Rossi
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Following WWII there was an urgent need for housing in Milan and under a succession of general plans the decision was made to expand the northern and western perimeters of the city with a series of satellite communities housing between 50,000 and 130,000 each. The first of these new communities, QT8 was started in 1946. A general master plan for the city, Il Piano Regolatore Generale (PRG), was adopted in 1956 and soon plans were begun for the second large new community, Gallaratese 1 and 2 (G1 & G2). The Monte Amiata Societŕ Mineraria per Azioni privately owned part of the land in the G2 area. Eventually, the plan allowed for this private development as part of the G2 area. Studio Ayde (Aymonino & De Rossi) was commissioned to design this project in September 1967. The project went through the early stages of design between September and October, when the basic idea of was formed of two diagonal slabs intersecting in an amphitheater, with a third building of gridiron form, extending north and west from this intersection. In November, Aymonino brought Aldo Rossi into the project to design part of the northern extension. By early 1968, the scheme had evolved into the five building complex as it basically exists today. Aymonino was responsible for buildings A1, A2, B, & C, and Rossi designed the fifth building "D" that extends to the north, paralleling building "B".
The Monte Amiata site was a very odd-shaped, triangular parcel at the intersection of two new streets, Via Cilea and Via Fichera that was flat and empty, without any particular organizational features. Two large 8-story slabs A1 and A2 are splayed along the south side of the site. A third long slab B 6-floors high, extends north from the intersection of A1 & A2. The final Aymonino building C, 2-stories high is a bridge connecting buildings B and A1. A wall connecting building B to A2 forms two triangular, raised piazzas at the "hinge" of buildings A1 & A2 and building B forms an outdoor amphitheater. The underside of the theater helps create the entrance to the complex. The fifth building, the Rossi contribution, is a long 3-story high slab that is paced in a position parallel to building B and defining a service entrance between the two buildings. The five buildings constitute a freestanding group, detached from any surrounding buildings and surrounded by a fence. Parking is provided at the lower levels. A main concourse level, which extends more-or-less continuously beneath all buildings, is equipped with a few shops and public facilities such as the amphitheater. Altogether, the five buildings house about 2500 people in 440 dwellings. There is a great range of dwelling types including minimum flats and duplex apartments. The public levels contain about 25 offices and several shops.
While they were teachers at the Instituto Universitario de Architetturai in Venice, both Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi researched and published books and articles about urban morphology and the study of urban precedents for use as design models. The stepped slab that appears in Aymonino's early sketches for Gallaratese is doubtless the product of an unusual fascination with two ancient Roman buildings, the Amphitheater and Tragan's Market. The section of the Amphitheater can be seen as a model for a structurally cellular and repetitive system that diminishes in volume from the bottom to the top, has stairs at repetitive intervals and both interior corridors and exterior galleries for horizontal circulation. An even more potent prototype, however was Tragan's Market. Like the amphitheater, the Market is cellular and structurally repetitive and, even though on a sloping site at the edge of the Forum, has a characteristic stepping section. Since the Market consisted of separate closed cells to begin with and offered considerable spatial variety , it could much more readily be seen as a suitable model for an apartment building
Aymonino's slabs are complex and typologically diverse in the extreme, "the morphological accumulation of scintillating fragments", derived from and rendered like the "archaeological section" of Tragan's Market. The sections and elevations especially are a clue to the conglomeration of building and dwelling types within. A zone of courtyard apartments occupies the spread base of the building, accessed from the public concourse in the bottom floor. The three floors above this contain maisonettes that interlock unité d'habitationi fashion about an interior corridor. The top floor floors are single-loaded types that are reached from galleries on opposite sides of the buildings with a maisonette occupying the top two floors. Elevators and repeating stair turrets, a dominant architectural feature of Aymonino's buildings, provide access to this diverse section. The eclectic nature of the sezione archeologico is also evident in the architectural details of the exterior resulting in a rich bouillabaisse of quotes from Clarte, Marseilles, La Tourette and other modernist sources.
Rossi's building, by contrast, is entirely repetitive and white. Referred to by one writer as la lama bianca, it was a reference, according to Rossi, to the galleried ballatoio housing of Milan of the 1920's. But this elementary structuralist slab makes reference as well, to Rational Architecture of the 20's and 30's, and to the post war popular housing built near the Gallaratese in the INA Casa complex along Via Harrar between 1953 and 1955. Almost 200 meters long, this block contains two and three floors of gallery-access flats raised on a high base containing a public arcade. The buildings of Aymonino, which originate and radiate from a common source--the nodal amphitheater--are rendered in a dark brown color and share similar details, red window frames, glass block, and balconies, and seem derived from the same complex cross section. Rossi's slab on the other hand, is detached from the other buildings and, in contrast to its neighbors, is derived from a most elementary section; a continuous, constant, repetitive wall that has a curious under-scaled, diminutive, toy-like quality because of the use of a narrow structural grid. Aymonino and Rossi worked together for ten years and between them produced seminal research about architecture and the history of the city, and, indeed, were the proponents of a revived interest in design as the logical extension of historic precedents. When they build together for the first time, however, there is an enormous conflict of style, two diametrically opposite attitudes about building.
In the early investigations of the Monte Amiata site there was a rejection of the building typologies of late CIAM planning, the architecture of freestanding slabs and towers. Instead, the concept of a group of buildings organized around and radiating from a common public space was adopted. Public arcades beneath the building radiate outward from this central space that is occupied by the amphitheater and small paved "piazza." The arcades were to have been used as space for shops and the intention was to create a settlement with its own public spaces and commercial streets. Unfortunately, very little of the commercial infrastructure was ever built or used and the arcades are empty and formidable, the amphitheater and piazza seldom used. No doubt, this is the result of a disparity between the desire to have a functioning commercial infrastructure as an essential element of a new settlement and the limits of a program and marketplace that seldom provide for this. The failure to complete the commercial infrastructure of projects like Gallaratese is also a reflection of at least the partial failure of the regional planning strategy to ensure that separate disparate communities like this develop in an interrelated way.
Between the time that the construction of Gallaratese was begun in 1970 and the buildings were fully occupied in July, 1974, there were many legal problems regarding the interpretation of the housing laws and the transfer of title from the Monte Amiata Association that owned the land to the city, about the terms of sale, and the financing of the dwellings. Much publicity was given the temporary occupation of the buildings by protestors in March 1974. This dispute over the high prices of the apartments was a reaction, according to some, prompted by the look of the buildings, that they did not look like typical popular housing. Gallaratese, it seems, was almost preordained to be the subject of exaggerated interest and publicity partly because of the notoriety of the 1974 occupation, but probably more from the ascension of Aymonino and Rossi in the international architectural community during and shortly after the construction of Gallaratese. At one point there were so many visitors and photographers (cacciatori de immagini), that the owners association had to charge an entrance fee and the buildings were patrolled by custodians.
Conforti, Claudia, Il Gallaratese de Aymonino e Rossi, Officina Edizioni, Roma, 1981.
Conforti, Claudia, .Carlo Aymonino l'architettura non é un mito, Officina edizioni, Roma, 1983.
Grandi, Maurzio & Attilio Pracchi, Milano: Guida all 'architettura Moderna, Zanichelli, Bologna, 1980, pp. 348-52, p. 375.
Braghieri, Gianni, Aldo Rossi, Zanichelli, Bologna, 1981, pp. 54-63.


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Today Rockstar Games announced that their highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition will be available on select Android devices starting Decmeber 15th for $4.99. The game pays tribute to the original PlayStation 2 version that launched 10 years ago, but it will feature boosted the graphics with newly created textures, more complex characters with higher polygon count, and higher resolution assets from the game's PC release.
Don't expect to enjoy the game, unless you have a newer dual-core device. The list of supported devices is mainly limited to those with Tegra 2 processors, but we expect more will be added at a later date.
Look for Grand Theft Auto III on the following devices:
- Android Phones: HTC Rezound, LG Optimus 2x, Motorola Atrix 4G, Motorola Droid X2, Motorola Photon 4G, Samsung Galaxy R, T-Mobile G2x
- Android Tablets: Acer Iconia, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, Dell Streak 7, LG Optimus Pad, Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1, Sony Tablet S, Toshiba Thrive
Previous reports said that Rockstar Games was using a Tegra 3 tablet as their development platform, so we expect this game to be available on the upcoming Asus Transformer Prime. The game will feature on-screen controls, but we also hear that official gamepad support will be included so you play with an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 controller.
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It's 2016, and I'm not sure why we all aren't zipping around on motorcycles that have integrated heads-up displays (HUD).
The technology has been around for decades, the components and software are available and easy to implement, and with our connected digital lifestyles, the concept just seems like a no-brainer.
Yet, here we are, with our boring "Motorcycle 1.0" motorbikes.
Samsung hopes to change that though, showing off its "Smart Windshield" concept. The idea is straightforward: Samsung's Smart Windshield connects to your smartphone via a special app, and it displays navigation, call, text, and email information on your windshield, through a special projection system.


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The American Conservation Film Festival is dedicated to promoting outstanding films and the arts to educate and inspire people to become engaged in conservation. The motivating force behind ACFF is the power of imagery to engage, inform and inspire.
Provides a venue for diverse range of conservation films that rarely receive a wide showing;
Celebrates conservation film and video in the fun, eclectic atmosphere of historic Shepherdstown, WV;
Showcases independent, historic, publicly funded and Appalachian films;
Offers an education component that complements the film selections and supports those interested in conservation filmmaking;
Supports young filmmakers as they are beginning their careers.
The American Conservation Film Festival was created by a group of volunteers who shared both a devotion to film arts and a commitment to conservation. They also shared the belief that attitudes about the environment are shaped by our experiences in it and that people and their cultures are an essential part of Earth's biosphere.
The venture started and has remained in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, the location of two partners who have provided the venues for ACFF films since the Festival's founding in 2003: the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center and Shepherd University. From the outset, ACFF struck a chord with local filmgoers and tourists from the Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland regions. ACFF has expanded its audience by keeping ticket prices low and presenting many of its films free of charge.
We now attract more than 150 quality submissions each year, reflecting the festival's strong and growing reputation with professional filmmakers. They appreciate ACFF's way of making the filmmakers and their work the focus of the Festival. A film festival truly becomes festive when the creators join us and we strive to do everything we can to facilitate their presence.
ACFF also invites guest lecturers to help frame the topics of films that illuminate pressing environmental issues.
As the festival has matured, so has ACFF as an institution. The ACFF Board of Directors reflects a range of interests and backgrounds; people who share the vision of sustaining a quality arts organization that is focused on environmental education.


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Included in the program will be an owner review at the end of week one. This is where we show you what your dog has learned and teach you how to properly handle and work with your dog at the same time. A second review and graduation session is held at the end of the second week. A daily training log is kept of your dog's progress, plus discussions with you during the training stay and reviews are appropriate.
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Kiwi Enterprises' Kiwi Syslog Daemon 7.1.4 is a robust Syslog server for the Windows platform. The product lets you use a Windows-based computer to receive and process various system-event messages. I tested the licensed version, which offers additional features.
You can install Kiwi Syslog Daemon as a Windows service or run it as a standalone application. The product's extremely flexible rules let you direct Syslog events to text files, display them on screen, fire off email or SNMP alerts, display a Windows message, run an external program or script, or log events to a database. You can filter incoming Syslog event messages according to characteristics such as source IP address, host name, severity, or message content. The product provides real-time processing and output.
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Quakecon 2011: Day 2 Coverage
Introduction, 20 years of id Software, Skyrim, Prey 2
To commemorate 20 years in the gaming industry, several senior members of id Software came together for a "20 Years of id Software" panel to relive some of the history and mystery surrounding the company. John Carmack, Todd Hollenshead, Kevin Cloud and Tim Willits gave Quakecon gamers a fresh and candid look at id Software's humble beginnings and an in-depth view of their philsophies on PC, console, and mobile gaming.
During the question and answer session, the panel was asked about their advice and opinions on becoming an artist and programmer and their vision of the future of PC and console gaming. At the end of the panel discussion, the id Software team thanked the Quake community for their continued support as well as the Quakecon volunteers for their commitment to making the annual event a success every year.
One pleasant surprise was having G4TV's Morgan Webb as the panel moderator for the event. Webb was her usual smart and sassy self and helped make the event fun and lively for everyone. Overall, the event was very engaging and we got to see the id Software team in a different light that most gamers don't get to see from today's game developers.
Continue reading our second day coverage from Quakecon!!
Today's events also included a couple Rage Quick Drive drawings where gamers got to play a couple deathmatches of Rage for two tickets for 2011 Molten Orange Ford F-150 Raptor SVT contest. We also judged the annual case mod contest and took a look around the BYOC for a few more sweet case mods that we can share with our readers. We wrapped up the day by visiting a couple more vendors from InWin, Plantronics, Steelseries, and Gunnar in the exhibition hall.
The rest of the day featured the first ever demonstration of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (which we weren't allowed to photograph or video) and game director Todd Howard confirmed the availability of a limited collector's edition Skyrim for tbe Xbox 360, PS3, and Games for Windows and can be pre-ordered now for $149.99 in the U.S. when the game is released on Nov. 11 of this year.
During the public demo of Skyrim, which was done on an XBox 360 and angered the PC gamers in the crowd, Howard showcased the game's redesigned UI and also discussed the new characters, creatures, environments, and weaponry of Skyrim. "We wanted to make the virtual fantasy world come to life on the screen," said Howard. "Make you feel like it was the first time you have played one of these games." According to Howard, Bethesda spent alot of time completely redesign the game's graphics engine and adding new graphics and gameplay not seen in previous Elder Scrolls titles. Howard also took some time giving the audience an overview of all the micro and macro details in Skyrim, which includes countless levels of details to create an immersive and rich environment. "Our view on rendering is we are going to draw all of it," said Howard. Overall, Howard did an excellent job of showcasing the games new features and Skyrim was well received by PC and console gamers alike.
We weren't able to attend the public demo of Prey 2, but Bethesda added some new screenshots of the game on their blog. Human Head's co-founder Chris Reinhart gave the demo and Prey 2 starts inside the plane where U.S. marshall Killian Samuels somehow survived the crash. The story jumps ahead several years as Samuels wakes up on the planet of Exodus. He has no memory of what happened in between the plane crash and now but apparently he's been spending time on the planet as a bounty hunter. Prey 2 will focus on Samuels's adventures in Exodus as he learns what exactly happened to him in those missing years. Fans of the original game will be happy to know that the lead character from Prey, Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi, shows up on Exodus as well and also apparently knows Samuels. Prey 2 is scheduled to be released sometime in 2012.
Bethesda's Quakecon 2011 screenshots on Flickr
Real smart. Bring an xbawks to the largest ... PC ... gaming event of the year.
Come on marketing. Get your act together!
In QL the marketing is left up to a web developer. You can do that when you introduce a genre creating sw as Quake was then. In 2011 they need to have somebody with other than a programming background running marketing.
Awesome. Can't wait to see the interview.
Have you also recorded the Carmack keynote Q&A?
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Master Sgt. Russell P. Petcoff is assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs. This blog is the result of a Department of Defense Blogger's Roundtable held Jan. 15 and discussed one aspect of Air Force Humanitarian Relief to Haiti.
WASHINGTON – An Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk is providing imagery to determine the extent of damage to earthquake-stricken Haiti and usability of its infrastructure, said the vice commander of the 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing.
"A lot of images of destroyed buildings," said Col. Bradley G. Butz, 480th ISR vice commander. They are looking at images of airports to find airfields to land aircraft. The image quality and clarity is good enough whether or not an airfield can accept aircraft, the colonel added.
"We've got pretty good coverage of the entire country of Haiti," Colonel Butz said.
The Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance UAS with an integrated sensor suite that provides worldwide ISR capability.
The 480th ISR, based at Langley Air Force Base, Va., is providing its images to U.S. Southern Command officials for use by whomever needs the images, Colonel Butz said. The objective is mass distribution to people and organizations that need the images to support relief and recovery operations, he added.
These images can help determine the level of destruction since aerial images of Haiti exist from June 2009. Comparing the June 2009 and the January 2010 can give an indication of the extent of the disaster. Without context "we just don't know the impact," the colonel said.
In addition, the Global Hawk provides assistance to soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division who are deploying to Haiti. The Global Hawk is providing images of where the Soldiers are deploying to help them prepare for their mission, Colonel Butz said.
The Global Hawk flew 14 hours Jan. 14, providing between 400-700 images, the colonel said. It is flying daily out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The colonel said the Global Hawk will continue providing Haitian overflight support as long as the president requests.
This is the first use of the Global Hawk in a disaster relief mission in the Caribbean, according to the colonel.
Photo cutline: An aerial view of the damaged National Cathedral in Haiti by a U.S. Air Force Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system Jan. 14. Aerial images are providing U.S. military planners valuable situation awareness as they coordinate U.S. military support to the Haiti relief effort. (Release by U.S. Southern Command)


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An orphaned chimpanzee now has a new home at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Ruben, born at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida, was left without a caregiver after his mother, Rukiya, died of a heart condition soon after he was born. Zoo officials believed Ruben's father would be incapable of looking after him.
"His father wanted to play all the time and Ruben just wasn't ready for that," Lowry park curator Lee Ann Rottman told NewsOK.
After 8 months of trial and error, Ruben now has a family in Kito, his surrogate mother, and her troop thanks to the surrogacy program at Oklahoma City Zoo.
"Our Zoo has had two successful chimpanzee surrogate situations and we are gaining a good reputation among accredited zoos for our surrogate program," Laura Bottaro, Oklahoma City Zoo mammal curator, said in a OKC Zoo press release.
However, having a successful surrogacy situation isn't usually easy, zoo curator Robin Newby told NewsOK, because chimpanzee communities have a complex hierarchal structure that can be hard to understand. Though Kito had been a successful surrogate before there were still no guarantees that she would accept Ruben, but curators trusted her saint-like patience.
Kito gently bonded with Ruben by leading him to her without any kind of force.
"Her strategy is to gather all of the nice bedding material each night, things like hay and wood wool, which is shredded wood," Bottaro said to NewsOK. "She puts that stuff around her. She never forced him. She waited for him to come to her. She was saying to him, 'Unless you want to sleep on a hard floor, you have to be in my vicinity.'"
And it worked. Just a few weeks in, Ruben is already adjusting well to his new family, seen riding on his surrogate mother, Kito's, back and playing with the others.
In the wild, common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. With a significant population decline in recent decades, according to the organization, chimps are threatened by "high levels of exploitation, loss of habitat and habitat quality due to expanding human activities."
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Mexico City, Mexico, Aug 13, 2007 / 02:31 pm (CNA).-
As Amnesty International convened a high-level meeting in Mexico City this past Saturday, its new policy on abortion has taken center stage again.
Some of the organization's supporters have said that they hope the gathering will result in the overturning of a recent controversial decision by the human rights group to adopt a pro-abortion policy.
The Vatican and Catholic bishops in several countries have warned that if Amnesty International sticks with the change, Catholics will be urged to withdraw support for the organization.
AI on Saturday opened the annual meeting of its 400-strong international council, the organization's "supreme governing body." The meeting is closed to the press and public, and the agenda has not been made public, reports CNS News. Queries sent to the organizers' spokesman about the program and the abortion issue drew no response.
Two weeks ago, AI Secretary-General Irene Khan was quoted as saying that although the abortion issue may be discussed in Mexico City, the policy decision had already been taken.
Despite the repeated pleas from Catholics, Amnesty's spokespeople around the world have reacted with an attitude of open defiance.
In fact, Amnesty's deputy secretary-general, Kate Gilmore, has angrily accused the Catholic Church of misstating the facts.
"We have the dirt under the nail and the blood and pain of the people that we are responding to. The Catholic Church, through a misrepresented account of our position on selective aspects of abortion, is placing in peril work on human rights."
Gilmore said Amnesty defends the right of the Church to address moral beliefs, but "our purpose invokes the law and the state, not God. It means that sometimes the secular framework of human rights that Amnesty upholds will converge neatly with the standpoint of certain faith-based communities; sometimes it will not."
In response to the policy change, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said that if the group persisted with the change, "individuals and Catholic organizations must withdraw their support because, in deciding to promote abortion rights, AI has betrayed its mission."
Amnesty International maintains that its new policy, which was adopted and not made public for some time, is one that is still neutral on the issue of abortion as a universal right.
However, Catholic League president Bill Donohue described AI's statement as dishonest.
"While it is true that Amnesty has thus far withheld support for abortion as a universal right, the very fact that it has -- for the first time -- engaged this issue (on the pro-abortion side) means that it has broken its silence," he said in a statement.


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SHELTON, CT (WCBS 880) – Illiad Estrada at Connecticut Home Mortgage says lower credit scores mean higher rates.
"What used to be perfect credit at 680 is now 740," she says.
But there, are in her words, programs out there for all buyers and while some of the largest deals are now demanding 50 percent down, she says, "We still can do 3.5 percent with FHA and 10 percent with conventional mortgages because private mortgage insurance has eased up a bit. I even have some banks that will allow five percent down."
With mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bound for oblivion, many new players have come out out on to the field. Estrada works with portfolio investors and credit unions, among others, who've moved into mortgages.
WCBS 880's Paul Murnane On The Story
The financial reforms of the Sen. Christopher Dodd – Rep. Barney Frank legislation are settling in across the lending industry.
"Every mortgage bank and mortgage banker are putting together their own reforms thinking that this what the government wants," says Estrada.
She says they include a new federal consumer credit agency.
Jonathan Miller and Miller Samuel Appraisals says lenders can help struggling sales and prices.
"And I'm suggesting easing it to where it was during the boom because that's where why we're having the problems we're having now," he says.
What he says was a credit bubble and not a housing bubble, should get the blame for a housing market that will struggle for another three to five years.


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The Heart Line can be found the line starts under your pinky to the index finger.
This line indicates your love tendency and expressions of your affection. Basically, the length of your heart line is in proportion to your time of being love.
The average heart line normally ends between index and middle fingers. Those average person have good balance in romance.


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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Tiny Wishes for the New Year
Happy New Year everyone! I'm so happy to kick off the years post with my first project for 7 Kids College Fund DT.
Today's card showcases Penny Black's Tiny Wishes Stamp. Our current challenge is to try something new and believe it or not I thought I would give paper piecing a try...not sure why I've never done this before.
Here is a complete list of products I used on this card and links to where you can pick yours up:
KaiserCraft Coconut Blooms
Penny Black : Tiny Wishes Stamp
Spellbinders: Blossom Tags and Accents
See Ya tomorrow
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2 comments:
- Frances said...
Lovely card, great color combination and the flowers are beautiful. hugs, Frances.
- January 4, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- Caroline D. said...
awwwww.... this is adorable!! beautiful flowers on there too!
- January 6, 2012 at 11:07 PM
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The British Library has excellent resources for studying the work of the English poet and novelist Stevie Smith (1902 - 1971), the author of the bleak yet comic poem "Not waving but drowning". These include first and later editions of her poetry and prose and published sketches, as well as critical studies, biographies and literary journals in which her work is discussed. Each is entered in Explore the British Library.
Stevie Smith was a pseudonym of Florence Margaret Smith.
British Library Manuscripts Catalogue (Smith is entered under the name Smith (Florence Margaret)
English literature: reference sources (general literary resources)
British Library Sound Archive Catalogue (for recordings by and about Smith, and readings of Smith's work, e.g. by Glenda Jackson)
National Portrait Gallery Catalogue (contains portraits of Smith)
UK National Register of Archives (Smith is entered under the name Florence Margaret Smith)
Jack Barbera, William McBrien, Helen Bajan, Stevie Smith: a bibliography. London: Mansell, 1987. Shelfmark: 2725.c.991


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Jack Pearce Memorial Lecture: 'Food Integrity – The Nuclear Option
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Professor Jack Pearce died suddenly in 2016.
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Canada could be down to five defencemen at world juniors
Canada's roster for the 2014 world junior championship is set.
But that doesn't mean there might not be some upheaval.
Coach Brent Sutter cut forward Felix Girard on Sunday, bringing Canada's roster to 22 players.
Yet when Canada opens the tournament in Malmo, Sweden, on Thursday against Germany, it's unclear whether defenceman Mathew Dumba will be on the ice.
Loaned to Canada by the Minnesota Wild, Dumba was assessed a kneeing major and a game misconduct during a 3-0 exhibition loss against Sweden on Sunday in Angelholm, Sweden, after he hit Erik Karlsson.
There is the possibility that Dumba could be suspended by the International Ice Hockey Federation.
That would leave Canada in a tough spot, since defenceman Griffin Reinhart will miss the first three games of the tournament as he finishes serving a four-game suspension that was levied at the 2013 world junior in Ufa.
If Dumba gets suspended, Canada would be down to five defencemen. Canada's final roster is due to the IIHF on Wednesday.
"It's not okay to go into tournament with five defencemen," Sutter told TSN. "I think you're grasping to think it is a possible suspension. Whether there is a suspension labelled to it, I could not tell you."
What's more, Canada couldn't handle Sweden's speed overall and thoroughly was outplayed.
The Swedes took advantage of the penalty to Dumba, scoring their second goal just as the major was about to expire as Andreas Johnson beat goalie Jake Paterson with a shot from the slot.
Andre Burakovsky, who got blood boiling earlier when he said that Canada — on paper — was not as good as Sweden, gave his country a 1-0 lead seven minutes into the second. Burakovsky was named Sweden's player of the game.
Lukas Bengtsson made it 3-0 early in the third period during a Sweden power play.
Marcus Hogberg made 21 saves for the shutout. Paterson faced 34 shots in the Canada net and was named his team's player of the game.
"I think it is a good lesson for us," Sutter said of his team's bad performance.
"We lost a lot of one-on-one battles. We did not have the puck enough. We were very passive and we let them dictate the game."
With Girard cut, it means that forward Connor McDavid will be the sixth 16-year-old to play for Canada at the world junior, joining a group that includes Sidney Crosby, Jason Spezza, Jay Bouwmeester, Eric Lindros and Wayne Gretzky — not that there was a question as to whether the supremely talented McDavid was in danger of not making the team.
Canada, which beat Finland 4-2 in its first exhibition game, will plays its final pre-tournament game on Monday against Switzerland.


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The French Laundry
One of my goals finally achieved! I got the opportunity to eat at The French Laundry in Yountville, Napa Valley. I can't really say whether it's "overrated" or "over-priced" because for one, I went for the experience as well as the food and two, I've only done a tasting dinner once before. How can I be a judge of anything? All I can tell you is what I experienced and how everything tasted to me...and the latter I will preface by saying I am totally biased due to some of my personal tastes. With that said, I begin to tell you about my very fun, cool and FULL experience I had at The French Laundry.
The French Laundry, as you approach it from the street, looks like quaint dark brown brick and wood building with vines creeping along the sides. You'll miss it if you don't look carefully. The only sign is a softly lit one on the retaining wall bordering the front of the restaurant. (I'm glad we drove by earlier in the day so we would know where it was because we did miss it at first!)
If you're looking for the garden, you'll need to look across the street. Unfortunately, we went late at night so we didn't get to look at it. Walking around the front of the house to the entrance you'll see a few tables set out in the yard area to the side of the house set with wine glasses ready for you to sit yourself down and enjoy the outdoors for a bit...but again, it was too late for us to make use of it. From the side of the house, you get a glimpse of the kitchen through windows of what seems like a separate single story building that is actually connected to the restaurant. Wish I could have lingered out there a while more but I wasn't sure if they liked to be "watched" or not...and we were also too eager to see what it was like inside. As you enter, there is a nice cozy parlor with non other than the Bouchon and The French Laundry Cookbooks out on the table. I wanted to peruse through them while we were waiting (since we had gotten there early) but they sat us almost immediately.
When we walked into the dining room, we realized that the main dining room had about 8-10 tables and most of the 2 person tables were to the outer edges with the 4 person tables all to the center. I was surprised then as the waiter took us into a small little "nook" just off to the right of the main dining room. This room, I believe, was made to look like a little wine cave with stone ambiance on the ceiling and a view through a little window into their wine cellar. There were only 3 tables in there; one 4 person table and 2-2 person tables. I was VERY excited at this point - whoever had given up this table causing the table for 2 to be thrown up on OpenTable.com must either have been very important or very darn lucky. But we ended up lucky in the end to have been seated at that table because it was great! Even the lighting was a little dimmer in this little nook and it felt really romantic.
We were seated at our table and immediately I was happy with tulips as their choice of flower (my favorite) for their floral touch and our napkins tucked into an old fashioned clothes pin tying in the "Laundry" theme; EXACTLY like the front of Thomas Keller's Cookbook of the same name.
Finally, to the food! They had started us off with Amuse bouche, a set of appetizer or starter "finger food" as the waiter explained to us. Typically food served before the actual courses of the menu. Because they are Amuse bouche, these tasty morsels are not listed on the menu and so we can only make a guess as to what they were since our memory was already blurring after the 6th or 7th course later. The "ice cream" cone appetizer was a mini sesame cone filled with a creme fraice type concoction with (I'm guessing now) a type of caviar on top (not sturgeon since it was very orange in color) because it was salty. Good salty mind you. It was a faaabulous combination! Wish I could have had more! Next to it in the bowl came cheese filled pastry puffs. Oh - they were good! So yummy just out of the oven, the cheese just melted into the puff and it was delicious.
Next we had "Oysters and Pearls", a "Sabayon" of Pearl Tapioca with Beau Soleil Oysters and White Sturgeon Caviar. This was one of our favorites overall. This 1st course was excellent! Great texture, nice balance of saltiness and creaminess...it was so silky. Again, this was one I wish I could have a big bowl of. I couldn't get enough of it! The oyster was so delicate and the caviar tasted as good as it was expensive. The Sabayon at the bottom (I don't get Sabayon a lot) was really nice and went well with the salty caviar and oyster. The sauce was a buttery layer that sat atop the Sabayon. We were very VERY excited about the rest that was to come after having this 1st course!
For the second course, we had our choice of "Salad of White Asparagus" (Poached Field Rhubarb, Garden Mache and Black Truffle "Coulis") or Moulard Duck "Foie Gras Au Torchon" (White Peach Relish, Hazelnut Puree, Pickled Ramps and Red Mustard Greens). Well, since there were two of us, we split our choices. Since my husband hates asparagus (poor guy), I took the Salad and he ordered the Foie Gras. Of course, it doesn't matter since we made our plan to share everything anyway. I was excited about the White Asparagus since I LOVE asparagus and I was really looking forward to the Black Truffle Coulis. The asparagus was very light and the rhubarb kind of sweet. The black truffle coulis was a sauce swished over the plate and tasted great with the veggies. Wish I had more of the sauce actually.
Though it was good - it could not compare to the show stopping Foie Gras! This was also one of our favorites since it was so interactive in addition to being sooooo yummy. The presentation of the Foie Gras was very nice accompanied with 3 silver dishes of specialty salts. One salt being a french 40,000 year old salt; very fine with dark and light bits in it. The second being a rock salt from France and the third being a red rock salt from Kauai. (I think I have this in my cupboard actually. We Hawaii people love our rock salt and Alae rock salt (or red rock salt) is common in Hawaii cooking households these days) Also served with the Foie Gras was freshly made brioche. Mmmmm. The direction we got was to spoon a bit of each salt onto our plates first.hen slice off a bit of the Foie Gras, top with a pinch of one type of salt and savor. Repeat with the other salts and see how your taste buds like the contrast of the different flavors. Each salt brought a different level of contrast to the Foie Gras and my favorite was the 40,000 year old salt. Since I had my asparagus, my husband ate the brioche with the Foie Gras that was left over after we tasted to our heart's delight the Foie Gras with the salts. The French Laundry is very particular about their brioche and replaced our original brioche with a plate of new ones so that we would have warm brioche to eat with the Foie Gras (I guess we took our time doing our salt comparisons. :) That was very nice of them to do.
The next course we again had two choices and again we ordered both. This course was the fish course and consisted of "Crispy-Ckin Fillet of Pacific Suzuki (Spring Garlic "Confit," San Marzano Tomato "Compote," Nicoise Olive Crumbs and Golden Squash Puree) and "Tartare" of Japanese Hamachi (Cucumber "Gelee," Red Radish, Haas Avocado, Kumquats and Cilantro Shoots). I had the Suzuki...it was ok. I think I enjoyed the flavors of the puree and compote and found them more interesting than the fish itself.
However, the Tartare my husband ad was very nice! The Cucumber Gelee was so interesting! The Hamachi was very nice...not exactly Tartare (hence the quotation marks) which I liked actually because we got to eat fresher tasting cubed Hamachi instead of something that was chopped up and mixed with too much sauce to notice. I liked it this way and with the Cucumber Gelee and silky avocado ribbons - it was a very excellent combination. And of course, why not?! The whole entree was a relative of the California Roll with Hamachi instead of the traditional tuna. Loved this idea - taking a common food and basically turning it inside out. And the presentation was so nice and bright with the color of the Gelee and the ribbons of Avocado.
I've been waiting to say this...I had a PRETZEL at The French Laundry! Ofcourse, not the kind of pretzel you get at the fair, but it's a pretzel non the less and I was tickled to be offered it. It was a nice lightly salty bread between courses that I enjoyed like a kid at the fair. :) (sorry, the picture is blurry)
The next course (our 4th) was "Beet and Leek" (Maine Lobster Tail "Pochee au Beurre Doux" with King Richard Leeks, "Pommes Maxim's" and Red Beet Essence). Such a pretty presentation with the Pommes Maxim's sitting on top. I had to take a second picture to give you a view of the yummy lobster and beet essence underneath. Oh!, and did this taste as good as it looked. Not only was it lobster but it was lobster sitting in this heavenly, slightly sweet, delicious red beet reduction sauce. I am looking up this recipe for sure! This sauce was excellent! I was hoping for more pieces of lobster so that I could run it through the sauce. Now me and lobster - we go way back from when my mom was craving lobster when she was pregnant with me so for me to get distracted by lobster with a sauce, that's something.
The next course (our 5th) reminded me of breakfast. :) Since we had a choice again, we ordered one of each of the "Wolfe Ranch White Quail" (Morel Mushrooms, Roasted Romaine Lettuce, Corn Bread Pudding and "Foie Gras Mignonette") and the "Bacon and Eggs" ("Rouelle" of All Day-Braised "Tete de Cocon," Soft-Poached Quail Egg, Frisee Lettuce and "Sauce Gribiche"). You get all that? Though the titles and descriptions sounded so yummy, unfortunately this was one of our least favorite courses. I think I'm not that big on quail because I should have been awed. Though I wasn't, the quail was melt in your mouth...see the piece on the left? That piece absolutely just melted. And I loved the morel mushroom since I love mushrooms and I don't get to eat this variety very often. Doesn't the Foie Gras sauce look so yummy? It was. :) The corn bread was an interesting accompaniment. I know it's probably normal to have it - but my taste buds thought it odd. But, it was yummy none the less.
My husband liked his Bacon and Eggs. It was just okay for me. I think I wasn't in the mood for Pork. The presentation was nice with the pork being stuffed into the center of something that was deep fried. Looked like a little tater to me :). Hey, I just looked up "Tete de Cochon" and it means Head from Hog. Y'know, I never had pigs head before...
Our next course was Snake River Farm "Calotte de Beouf Grillee" (Braised Beef Cheeks, Thumbelina Carrots, Globe Artichokes and "Sauce Bordelaise"). Me and meat, thanks to my Dad, get a long very very well. I loved the slice of meat in this dish, it was served just how I like it. My husband, being a lover of ribeye thought it okay. I was really looking forward to the beef cheek and it was very soft and tender. (though the flavor reminded me of something I eat at dim sum - I'll fill in here if and when I remember what it was!)
Our next course was a goat cheese course. "Blanc de Bleu du Rizet" (Goat Cheese with Fennel Bulb, Prune Puree and Watercress Leaves). The cheese was sooo heavy. By this time we had gone through 6 courses and this was our 7th. I know it's hard to believe from the size of the portions that we could be full, but eating 7 of these little plates in succession is more filling than you think. I was so ashamed I could only eat 1 out of the 3 pieces that was given to me! I was so sad that I was a little mad. "Why do they serve this now and here? Not even my Cab can cut through this to help my taste buds." It was very good cheese but at this point in time, we just could not finish it. I felt bad when they came to take them away with so much still left on our plates but what could we do? I'm sure this is normal to serve it here - maybe the purpose wasn't to eat it all?
Ah! now THIS was nice. The 8th course was so refreshing! It was "Glace de Fruits Excotiques" (Pineapple "Granite," Lilikoi and Coconut Sauce. I am partial to Passion fruit and am happy to see almost every restaurant taking advantage of this fruit these days. I was very happy to see it on the menu and was looking forward to it. In contrast to the cheese, I LOVED this as simple as it was. And how about that plate?! Gonna find me some for sure - so nice for entertaining.
Our 9th course, dessert, consisted of "Composition de Chocolate Italien" (Amedei Gianduja Chocolate" "Creme Patissier," oscano Nut Brownie and Nougat Glace") and "Summer Pudding" (French Laundry Garden Lemon Verbena Ice Cream and Summer Berry "Compote") I wish I had pure Nougat instead of a glace. I LOVE nougat and was looking forward to a stronger flavor there. The other cylinder in the picture tasted of hazelnut which was the Gianduja chocolate. Hmmm, I wanted a stronger flavor here too...I think they went light on purpose, but I guess I wasn't reading the menu well and hoping for a whopping of chocolate and nougat. I should pay more attention. My husband's Summer Pudding was topped with a foamy concoction which made it fun. Each piece of the "pudding" by itself isn't that great, but together, they worked well and was a pretty refreshing dessert. I think as a dessert lover - I had high (which equalled "rich") expectations of this dish which made me judge it unfailrly. Looking back, these were delightfully light and let you taste the elements without being too rich and over powering.
To our eyes delights (& moans of our full stomachs), following our 9 courses was "Mignardises".
Mignardise. (i) Decorative pastry puff, (ii) Small dainty dish.
---International Dictionary of Food & Cooking
Small and dainty for sure, we were presented wth a small pot of Panna Cotta and a pretty little dish of creme brule. After 9 courses, thank goodness these dishes were small! Even though my stomach couldn't possibly handle anything more, I had to order a coffee to help get through these "small dainty dishes".
And just when you think it's over, more "Mignardises"...
"At a sophisticated meal in France, an assortment of petits fours (sometimes known as mignardises) may be served either with or after the dessert."
---Larousse Gastronomique
Sweet Cigar shaped confections and Chocolate Covered and Sugar Powdered Macadamia Nuts followed. I think I could only eat one cigar and being from Hawaii, I skipped the macadamia nuts.
And can you believe it? There was STILL more...
The term mignardise, as applied to the culinary world, means an assortment of small, dainty confections. This assortment is generally composed of petits fours in the larger sense: tiny decorated cakes, specialty cookies, bonbons and sugared fruits. In other words, a plate of identical petits fours confections (no matter how ornate) would not be considered a mignardise. A mixed presentation of small, decorated specialty pastries, cookies and candies would qualify as mignardise.
© Lynne Olver 2000
The presentation of this next set of Mignardise was a silver container consisting of a tier of chocolate truffles (one milk, one dark and something else), a tier of wrapped nougat and nut confections and a top tier of wrapped fruit confections.
And of course, this was not the end. The final ending of the night came with the bill and a bag of shortbread cookies to take with us tied with ribbon adorned with the restaurant's logo.
All in all - an expensive night but what an exquiste night. One of those I will truly remember for years to come. Was it worth it? For me, being able to experience it, taste it and share it all with you, yes it was. For my husband, he was happy just to see me happy. :) Hope you liked sharing in the experience too.


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Colin Grassie, CEO, Deutsche Bank UK and member of the Group Executive Committee, yesterday launched Born to Be, the Bank's new strategy for its UK Corporate Citizenship programme, with a visit to Carney's Community, a sport and education centre, in Lambeth, South London.
Speaking before members of the press, Grassie introduced Deutsche's flagship partnership with Sported, the foundation which uses sport for development to change the lives of disadvantaged young people. Joining Grassie was Sir Keith Mills, founder of Sported and Deputy Chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sir Keith spoke about the impact that programmes such as the one at Carney's Community can have, saying, "It's something that intuitively everyone knows is positive." Click here to see a clip of the launch event which appeared on BBC London last night.
From left to right: George Turner of Carney's Community, a club member, Sir Keith Mills, Colin Grassie, another club member, and ex-boxer and coach Mark Reigate.
Sported will operate the sporteducate programme on behalf of the Bank, whereby 33 community sports clubs in London will receive grants to run education activities alongside their sports programmes.
Carney's Community is one of these 33 sports clubs. It offers one-to-one mentoring, focusing on education, employment and personal development, alongside group activities – such as boxing – to help realise the potential of young people that suffer from crime and violence.
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Festival + Summit in association with Telefilm Canada, the Script Competition introduces experienced Canadian writer/producer teams to Chinese studios with
production financing on the table.
"The entire film world is looking for ways to develop relationships and growth opportunities with China," says Jane Milner, WFF's Director of China Canada
Gateway For Film®. "This initiative provides a unique opportunity to develop relationships with production companies in China, forge co-production deals,
and ideally secure distribution of films into the massive Chinese marketplace."
The China Canada Gateway for Film® Script Competition is the first national effort of its kind, and the first that received the blessing
of Beijing-based China Film Group, the most important film production company in China. Historically Canada/China co-productions are few and far between
and are negotiated individually based upon long-term relationships. WFFS has invested several years to build relationships in China. The Script Competition
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Canadian writer/producer teams are invited to submit an application and script synopsis by September 30, 2014 for consideration. A
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12 finalists will be announced by October 31, 2014. The finalists will take part in the pitch competition at the Whistler Film Festival's Summit on
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The Whistler Film Festival is facilitating the opportunity by bringing the parties together and will not be in involved in the actual deals. The structure
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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
In the world of social media, when does calling someone out because you disagree them with becoming plain in-fighting or trolling?
Lets ask the White British Feminists shall we? Or, more specifically, White British Feminists with regular newspaper columns, a recognised voice, and a strong platform from which to express their point of view.
A pattern I have seen on my Twitter feed is that these are the people who deign to say what is fair comment and what is irrelevant/trolling when it comes to feminism.
Their high profiles may mean they receive unfair, nasty threats for expressing their views, but at the same time, they enjoy a platform from which to both guide and express that many minorities do not have.
It is a huge responsibility and I am sure these writers are aware of their part to play in achieving equality. To be honest, I think they do a lot to move it forward and I enjoy a lot of their work.
However I have been surprised on more than one occasion by some of their reactions on Twitter when people with experiences different from their own, and with less representation in the media, contact them with a counter-argument that's as well thought out as it can be in a 140 letter limit.
Last week Suzanne Moore, who I've always looked up to, wrote about the value of women's anger. Unfortunately she didn't get us riled up about the intended subject.
I think even those who weren't offended by Suzanne Moore's flip remark regarding 'Brazilian transexuals' were a bit surprised at the very least to find her deny the existence of transphobia on Twitter. And that was probably the most defensible thing Moore said in her response to those suggesting she apologise for the (I think) unintentional slur.
Moore's follow up article in The Guardian's Comment is Free section did not quell Twitter. Mainly because it twanged of the 'but some of my best friends are black!' school of justification. It was also rather galling to see it suggested transgender people don't concern themselves with important issues and their fight for rights irrelevant.
This argument is invalid because we can't rise up against oppressors until we stop oppressing. To request people don't correct you until the revolution is won is pointless.
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see those questioning the feminist establishment regarding inclusiveness and intersectionality accused of undermining feminist solidarity. In fact it sickens me. To me it looks suspiciously like saying certain people at birth have apparently relinquished their right to solidarity.
The notion of waves in feminism demonstrates to me that feminism is constantly updating, reassessing and questioning. This is a good thing! I refuse to believe listening to minorities can be such a power sap to the sisterhood or feminism, and I do not want to be involved in something that shuts down discussion.
Look, I want equality. I don't want to get there climbing over my sisters (that's ALL my sisters) with other experiences and less or different privilege. You know why? That would not be equality or sisterhood.
In the name of said sisterhood, Julie Burchill wrote a piece defending Moore. I would normally quote her here to demonstrate my point, but I truly believe some of the remarks made with regard to transgender people were so nasty and potentially triggering I won't.
If you haven't read it yet, Burchill appears to be playing offensive bingo and manages to mention the black and white minstrels, list several transgender slurs and sum cis-womanhood up as PMT, menopause, HRT and sexual harassment. Even among the cis womb presence and action is an incredibly problematic method of gender identification.
What really is sad about this whole gender debate is that what unites us with transgender men and women is that we are forced to live in fear. Burchill doesn't seem to recognise this and instead chooses to go with another ism (it's always nice to mix your isms I think).
She uses classism to cast all transgender people as over-educated, middle class academics, while Burchill, your regular salt-of-the-earth working class woman tells of a diet of champagne and lobster. You know, keeping it cis-real.
It's not true, just as you can't choose what class you're born into – you can't choose what body you're born in. Whether or not transgender people are over-educated is neither here nor there surely?
University of Life is something we all have to attend, Google is my co-pilot. Or my library. Actually my library is my library. Basically I am aware that if I don't want to marginalise then I have to educate myself.
Burchill has chosen to separate herself from her transgender sisters. All in the name of defending her friend from Twitter attacks.
You know, between November 15th 2011 and November 14th 2012 265 transgender people have been reported murdered around the world. The hashtag transdocfail has helped transgender people tweet about their struggles when dealing with medical professionals.
Being 'chased' off a social networking site seems a bit silly now doesn't it. Irrelevant perhaps?
It is, perhaps no more my place to write this than it was Burchill's to write her opinion piece. I am writing this in order to extend a hand of solidarity from a cisgender woman to all transgender people.
And I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if you took the precaution of slapping it away.
Have you read Julie Burchill's article? Let Kate know what you think below, or on Twitter @squeamishbikini.


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By Misty Volaski
In the early morning hours of May 21, amateur astronomers will be gazing skyward for the first annular solar eclipse in 18 years.
The night before, from 5 to 8 p.m., Libbey Bowl will be filled with local jazz lovers grooving to the sounds of the Ventura Jazz Orchestra Sextet for the 'Bowlful of SolÓ event.
Featuring vocalist Donna Greene, the sextet includes piano, bass, drums, trumpet, trombone and saxophone, said Ventura Jazz Orchestra


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Blog | January 29, 2014, 15:02 PST
NASA's best kept secret is out
The best part of my job as a science communicator at JPL is talking to people—all kinds of people. I often give speeches to audiences large and small about NASA's mission to study our home planet. I've spoken at schools, professional conferences, and business events and in one-on-one conversations with family and friends, or at parties. At some point in the exchange I always ask the same question. It's like my own personal survey that I've been conducting since 2007, the year I started working here. I ask them, "Do you know that NASA studies planet Earth? You know, our planet, from the vantage point of space?"
When I first began carrying out my little unofficial survey, typically only one or two people in a large group knew that NASA does Earth science and has satellites that study our home planet. Sometimes no one knew.
But I continued. I kept asking that same question to all the different groups of people I came in contact with and eventually the answers started to shift. The change happened slowly; sometimes there were only a few "yeses"; maybe one of two hands would go up in a crowd. Every year that went by, and every time I spoke, a few more hands would go up. More heads would nod and more people would say, "Oh yeah, I knew that NASA studies Earth." I wondered if NASA's outreach was working.
For a quite a while the results hovered around 5-10 percent of any group who acknowledged that they knew about NASA Earth missions. Then, sometime in 2012, it jumped to about half of the people I talked to. Wow, that was a big deal for me. I shared the news with my team at JPL.
And finally—you guessed it—for the first time, in the fall of 2013, every time I asked that question, the answer was "yes!" More people know that NASA studies Earth from space right now. I think that might be because people care more about our planet than ever before
So, to any of you people of Earth reading this: thank you. Thank you for noticing us at NASA, thank you for joining our mission.
Now, I've got another question for you. Did you know that NASA currently has 16 Earth orbiting science satellites and is preparing to launch five more? I wonder how long it will take to get a "yes" answer to that one.
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OXFORD The fate of the older building at the Oxford Veterans Home on Highway 220 in the town of Oxford is still under discussion locally and between state officials.
On June 30, Village Mayor Terry Stark asked members of the Chenango County Health and Human Services Committee whether the county supported an alternative use for the 1970s era 200-bed facility and what those possible uses would be.
And prompted by a letter from Stark, New York State Senator Thomas Libous wrote to Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines on June 12 asking for a meeting to discuss the following options: demolition as recommended by a consultants study last fall, continued use by the state, or deeding the building over to a local government entity such as the Chenango County Industrial Development Agency (IDA).
The community believes there is a beneficial economic and/or social use for the existing building that could create jobs and foster more human interaction between the Oxford village/town residents and the veteran residents of the home. We believe this will lead to a better quality of life for both the veterans and the community, wrote Stark in his correspondence to Libous.


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New York, NY (PRWEB) January 07, 2014
Work Market, the leading enterprise software platform for managing and hiring contract labor announces today its membership with premier retail services organization, the World Alliance for Retail Excellence and Standards. As part of its commitment to this elite community, on January 9th, 2014, will also be leading a webinar for the World Alliance Community with current trends and tips for leveraging on-demand talent.
"The retail services sector is increasingly relying on freelancers as they build their extended workforce," said Jeffrey Leventhal, CEO of Work Market. "According to our research, we expect 85 percent of businesses to hire the same or more freelancers in 2014, and we anticipate a lot of this activity will be in retail. At Work Market, we are true experts on how businesses can better find, hire and manage on-demand talent and are looking forward to sharing best practices with the World Alliance community in our upcoming webinar."
The webinar to be held at 12 pm on January 9th and will cover topics such as why it's crucial to use a marketplace when finding freelancers, the systems to consider when using on-demand talent and strategies for growing a business using on-demand talent in 2014. The webinar is free for World Alliance members and signup can be found here: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=lkp8nmaq4atl.
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Triplet Returns To Western New York After Life-Saving Transplant [VIDEO]
Twenty-six-month-old Kira Palermo is used to being part of a trio. The little girl is among triplets born to Dan and Kari Palermo. Kira is also one of three people in the world born with a rare blood-platelet disorder.
Kira is back home with her family in Western New York today after undergoing a bone marrow transplant in Cincinnati in hopes of curing an extremely rare blood-platelet disorder. Ironically, the triplet is one of three people in the world with Medich Giant Platelet Disorder which means she has trouble making blood platelets.
Kira has spent the last six months at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital where she had the transplant. Kira's sisters, Sarah and Annaliese, were donors. Initially, Anna donated marrow to Kira and later Sarah donated white blood cells to help her sister. The odds of both girls being a match for Kira were only about 25-percent. Turns out three may have been a lucky number for Kira.
Kira's family received free transportation to and from Cincinnati from volunteer pilots via the Wings Flights of Hope program based here in Western New York. (The group is conducting a fundraiser this weekend. For more info, click here.)


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Cerberus Announces Termination of Cash Tender Offer for the Outstanding Shares in BlueLinx Holdings Inc. Not Owned by Its Affiliate
Oct 19, 2010, 08:44 ET
NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Cerberus ABP Investor LLC ("CAI"), an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. ("Cerberus"), and owner of a 55.37% majority stake in BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (NYSE : BXC ) ("BlueLinx" or the "Company"), today announced that CAI and Cerberus' cash tender offer (the "Amended Offer") of $4.00 per share for all of the outstanding publicly held shares of BlueLinx not owned by CAI expired at midnight, New York City time, on Monday, October 18, 2010, without acceptance of the tendered shares, due to the 90% Condition not being satisfied. It had been a condition to the Amended Offer that, as a result of the Amended Offer, CAI would own at least 90% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company.
The depositary for the Amended Offer has informed CAI and Cerberus that, as of the expiration of the Amended Offer, approximately 6,747,593 shares have been tendered and not withdrawn. CAI and Cerberus have instructed the depositary for the Amended Offer to promptly return all shares tendered.
About Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
Established in 1992, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., along with its affiliates, is one of the world's leading private investment firms with approximately $24 billion under management. Through its team of investment and operations professionals, Cerberus specializes in providing both financial resources and operational expertise to help transform undervalued companies into industry leaders for long-term success and value creation. Cerberus is headquartered in New York City with affiliate and/or advisory offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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