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Despite the name Allman Brothers Band, the legendary Southern rock group only included two brothers – Duane Allman and Gregg Allman. After Gregg's death on Saturday, May 27 at age 69, both are gone. Duane Allman was one of the greatest guitar players to ever live, recording a mind-blowing body of work in just 24 years of life.
Duane was born on November 20, 1946, just 13 months before his brother Gregg. The brothers were born to Willis Allman, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and Geraldine Allman. Almost exactly two years after Gregg's birth, their father was murdered.
Duane died on October 29, 1971 in a motorcycle crash, just months after the Allman Brothers Band began having their own chart success with the legendary live album At Fillmore East.
He was survived by two children, including Geladrielle Allman, who she never knew.
Here is what you need to know about Duane Allman.
1. Daughter Gadrielle Wrote a Book About Her Father, Despite Having No Memory of Him
In 2014, Geladrielle wrote a book about her famous father, Please Be With Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman. Born in 1969, she was only two years old when Duane died, but she learned much about his life while touring with the Allman Brothers Band and interviewing her grandmother in Daytona Beach. She went on the road for two years for research for the book.
"He died just shy of his 25th birthday and he accomplished so much," Geladrielle told SFGate at her North Berkeley home. There, she has Duane's favorite Les Paul guitar and other Gibson guitars her father used.
Her mother was Donna Allman, who was Duane's common-law wife. Nine months before her death, Allman forced Donna and his daughter to leave the "Big House," a communal home where the Allman Brothers Band's wives and children stayed. Donna Allman now lives in Oakland.
"My closest friends knew, but being Duane Allman's daughter wasn't part of my identity at all," Geladrielle told SFGate in 2014. "I was a punk rock teenager, and I was living in a culture where that wasn't cool."
Before his relationship with Donna, Duane did have a daughter with Patty Chanley. The daughter was born deaf.
2. Duane Performed the Lead Guitar on Eric Clapton's 'Layla' & Wrote the Signature Riff
While "Layla" is a song most associated with Eric Clapton, it's Duane's incredible guitar playing that makes it a key part of rock history. The song appears on the album Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs by "Derek and the Dominoes," a group Clapton set up for just one album. During a break from the Allman Brothers Band, Duane played on the album as a guest musician, contributing the famous guitar parts to the title track.
According to an Eric Clapton fan site, it was producer Tom Dowd who was responsible for introducing the two guitarists. Dowd got a call from Clapton's manager, Robert Stigwood, while he produced the Allmans' Idlewild South album. Clapton wanted to take Derek and the Dominoes to Miami to work with Dowd.
When Clapton arrived in Miami, he saw the Allman Brothers Band perform and was stunned by Duane's playing. They jammed together all night and then he contributed to Layla.
Duane made dozens of recordings outside the Allman Brothers Band. He worked with Boz Scaggs, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, King Curtis, John P. Hammond, Otis Rush and even Aretha Franklin. When you hear Pickett's version of The Beatles' "Hey Jude," that's Duane playing the lead guitar.
3. Gregg Wrote 'Ain't Waistin' Time No More' as a Tribute to Duane
The Allman Bothers Band's Eat a Peach was the first album released after Duane's death. The record is a mix of recordings made before and after he died. One of the centerpieces to the album recorded after his death was "Ain't Waistin' No Time," Gregg's tribute to his brother. It's the opening song and was released as a single.
After Duane's death, Rolling Stone published a profile of the band, looking at how they could continue without their guitarist. He truly admired his older brother, especially his rebellious streak.
"Duane was sure a bastard when he was a kid," Gregg told Rolling Stone in 1973. "He quit school, I don't know how many times. Got thrown out a few times too. But he had that motorcycle and drove it until it finally just fell apart. When it did, he quit school. While I was gone, he'd grab my axe and start picking. Pretty soon we had fights over the damn thing, so when it came around to our birthdays – mine was in December and his was in November – we both got one. I got mine a little earlier than my birthday, actually. Matter of fact, I put hands on my first electric guitar November 10th, 1960, at three o'clock that Saturday afternoon. Duane's guitar got into the picture shortly after that."
Incredibly, the band had to survive another tragedy almost a year to the date of Duane's death when bassist Berry Oakley died in a motorcycle crash at almost the same spot where Duane died.
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Free Bird' Was Dedicated to Duane, But Not Written for him
Although Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" was written before Duane died, it became a tribute to Allman in performances after his death. During a 1976 show in England, Ronnie Van Zant even tells pianist Billy Powell to "Play it for Duane Allman."
However, contrary to popular belief, the epic song was not written for Duane. Released on the 1973 album (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd), the song was written by Van Zant with Allen Collins. It was inspired by Collins' future wife Kathy, who asked him, "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" That became the opening line of the song.
After Oakley died, Van Zant added that they are "both free birds" before the band performed it on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975.
In the years since Duane's death, there have been countless other tributes to him. For example, in 1998, the Georgia State Legislature renamed a section of highway in Macon "Duane Allman Boulevard."
5. Gregg Called the First Albums They Recorded a 'Shit Sandwich'
Before the Allman Brothers Band that we all know came together, the Allman brothers were in several different outfits. Duane's first group was balled The Escorts, then the brothers created the Allman Joys. They got a record deal in 1967 as a group called "Hour Glass." They recorded two albums that sound drastically different from the Southern rock they pioneered later.
The two albums were released by Liberty Records, which convinced the brothers that they would make them the next Rolling Stones, Gregg told Rolling Stone in 1973. But it wasn't their kind of music.
"Together those two records form what is commonly known as a shit sandwich," Gragg told Rolling Stone. "Liberty was paying all our expenses for us until we earned enough to pay them back."
They gave up on trying to make it in Los Angeles and headed back to their familiar territory. Duane later got stuck at Muscle Shoals, Alabama as a session guitarist, but his work impressed Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler. Allman eventually got tired of this and headed back to Jacksonville, Florida. By March 1969, the line-up of the Allman Brothers Band that would be successful was born.
The group only recorded two studio albums – The Allman Brothers Band (1969) and Idlewild South (1970) – and the live album At Fillmore East (1971) before Duane's death.


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In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxMacEwanU, where x = independently organized TED event.
At our TEDxMacEwanU event, TED Talks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
Laying New Tracks is about celebrating MacEwan's innovations, the people behind them — and the impact contributions have made within MacEwan and in our community at large.
It's about forward momentum and forward thinking—like revolutionizing education and the student experience by bringing novel research and innovative teaching into the classroom. Our collection of presenters includes faculty and students laying new tracks in a diverse range of expertise including innovative student business solutions to urban food security and the intersections of music/culture/video.
We also acknowledge the tracks that brought us to where we are now. We recognize that our university rests on traditional Treaty Six Land, and as we work towards Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, we recognize our responsibility to protect this land.
And, finally, our university is built upon the former site of the Canadian National Railway line. As this historic railway celebrates 100 years of its tracks physically connecting our nation, we hope to build on the idea of connecting people through inclusion and reconciliation.
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Why thinking differently about property and pensions will help retirement.
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Given the latest hurricanes, fires, and threats of nuclear annihilation, I believe that everyone can be a little more prepared when emergencies strike.
There are many different types of prepping and many different types of preppers. What this means is that the way you approach prepping is going to depend on your individual circumstances. For example, a family of four with two kids prepping for a natural disaster is going to have survival requirements that are far different from an individual or couple prepping for a government overthrow (although this may sound like a ridiculous notion at first, Venezuela is a recent and terrifying example of just that). Additionally, the logistics of survival for families with children or elderly family members are much more complicated than logistics for an individual or a couple. Another important thing to consider is that the amount of risk you will be willing to undertake will be different based on whether you have children and family to worry about, for fear of putting loved ones in harms way (this is not to say that prepping and survival are incompatible with having a family, just that the way you prep will be different based on your specific circumstances such as family, age, skill, location etc.). That being said, I hope that you will follow along with this blog, and I hope that I can help provide a guide for creating a survival plan that is useful and unique for all individual situations.
We have already seen in instances like hurricanes, earthquakes and power outages how quickly the societal systems we have come to rely on break down. In Puerto Rico, for example, a large majority of the population is without power (approximately 85% at the time of this article). According to Governor Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico, "Our telecommunications system is partially down. Our energy infrastructure is completely down." What's more, it is expected that 95% of power will be restored in December 2017. Restoring energy is a first priority for the government of Puerto Rico right now, and their estimated time of completion is three months from now. Can you imagine how long it will take to restore water service, regular delivery of supplies, medical services, and other necessities that are not their first priority? All of this is happening to U.S. Citizens and even with the backing of the federal government, the timeline for restoring infrastructure is bleak. There have been reports across news outlets that people have resorted to pumping water out of a hazardous-materials site because they have run out of options for water. Hurricane Maria was not a once-in-a-lifetime hurricane, yet it shut down the delivery of supplies, aid, and power for months. It showed that a recurring weather event (think Hurricane Harvey, Jose, Irma, and Maria in 2017), could decimate a U.S. territory, and leave U.S. citizens to fend for themselves for months. This is why everyone needs to have a survival plan in place after taking into account the various catastrophes, big and small, that could befall their individual communities.
It can be difficult to think about all the small things we have come to rely on thanks to modern society. We don't often think of toilet paper as a "necessity", but in a shitty situation, running out of toilet paper can quickly make your life difficult. This one small thing may not mean the difference between life and death, but other small things like antibiotics or a wound stitching kit could certainly mean the difference between life and death during a catastrophe.
At the end of the day, you never want to find yourself without something that could save your life, or the life of your family, due to a lack of preparation and planning.
So, what is the prepper mindset?
The prepper mindset is no big secret. Preppers sometimes get a bad rap for being crazy, loner, conspiracy theorists. I want to challenge that image. A prepper is someone who has thought about the situations that may befall and endanger their lives and the lives of their family, and has the answers, supplies, and a plan for every day life questions when shit hits the fan. For example, in a natural disaster, knowing that a hurricane is coming and having a bathtub bladder on hand may mean survival for you and your family, especially if the alternative is having to scramble and buy water in the last minute when supplies are running low. But what if the hurricane decimates your home and your bathtub bladder is useless? These are the logistical challenges I will tackle in this blog so that the answers to them will be second nature in an emergency situation.
Ok, you've convinced me to become a prepper. What is the first thing I need to do after reading this blog post to be on my way to becoming a prepper?
The first thing you need to do to be on your way to becoming a prepper is to sit down and think about (preferably jot down) some of the things your family needs to survive. Think about the specific things you will need to plan for based on your location, living situation, and specific needs. Here are some questions you should think about before you start making a specific plan:
- How many people live with you? Are they children or adults? Do you expect more people to join you in an emergency situation (grandparents, siblings, friends)?
- Do you have a meet up plan in case communication goes down and you/your spouse are at work and your children are at school? (There should be a primary and secondary plan where to meet).
- Does anyone in your family take life-sustaining medication?
- Do they need specific items to help them function daily?
- Do they wear glasses/ contacts (having two backup pairs of glasses can mean the difference between life and death for people who need glasses to see)
- Do they need allergy medication/ EPI pens?
- Are they using insulin or oxygen?
Before I end this blog, I suggest that you think about how these three questions apply to your family. Would your children know where to meet up with you if staying at school was no longer safe? Would your spouse know what to do if an emergency struck while both of you were at work and all communications were down? A good place to start is to ask you children or family members what they would do in a hypothetical emergency situation. Then, start working on a plan and discussing it with those in your family unit so that everyone is on the same page if an emergency strikes. In the next few blogs, I will discuss some of the most important supplies and knowledge necessary for survival. You are joining me at the beginning of this blog, and I hope you keep coming back for more survival logistics.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The June summit of European Union leaders must focus on cutting disastrously high levels of youth unemployment, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said on Thursday after a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Speaking at the end of a series of visits in Berlin, Paris and Brussels, he said he was returning to Rome more optimistic that European leaders were ready to give more priority to boosting economic growth and said the June summit had to give "concrete messages."
"We would ask above all that the fight against youth unemployment should be the most important, most concrete message to come out of the June European Council," he said.
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BY SUSAN KIM | PHOENIX, AZ | June 30, 2002
Spiritual care was the focus in Arizona as anger grew when a part-time fire fighter was arrested for setting the huge blaze that destroyed more than 400 homes.
Even as faith-based groups kept assessing needs in Arizona, wildfires in the Dakotas were forcing evacuations and destroying homes.
Church World Service (CWS) has sent a representative to assess short- and long-term needs in fire-stricken Arizona. CWS will be working directly with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross, along with other groups of the Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster coalition.
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involvement for both remaining evacuees and those who lost homes and belongings. CWS will also assess possible requests for spiritual and emotional care support.
Meanwhile in Deadwood, SD thousands fled a wildfire Sunday. The 700-acre blaze had destroyed 10 homes as of Sunday morning. Many of the evacuees are tourists. In North Dakota, the tiny town of Shields, home to 15 people, was destroyed by another fire.
While about 25,000 of Arizona's 30,000 evacuees went home Saturday, those from the hardest hit community of Heber-Overgaard did not. Of the 423 homes that have been burned, at least 200 are in that community. Many are unsure whether their homes survived.
Residents returned to Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside, and Hon-Dah.
The Rodeo-Chediski fire was 45 percent contained Monday morning. It was still burning out of control and threatening some 600 more homes Saturday. It was still edging toward the subdivision of Forest Lakes, some 40 miles west of Show Low. The fire was within two miles of the evacuated community Friday.
Meanwhile a 71,000-acre blaze near Durango, CO was 30 percent contained and had burned at least 57 homes.
Firefighters and residents alike need prayers, said faith leaders.
"Please maintain your fervent prayers of support," said Gil Furst of Lutheran Disaster Response. "Pray for the firefighters on the front line, who work long hours in perilous locations. Pray for the thousands who must evacuate their homes, not know to what situation they will return."
Monetary contributions to responding groups are a highly recommended way to help, according to responders.
The hard-hit community of Heber-Overgaard has lost its senior center, feed store, and many other community mainstays.
According to Forest Service officials, of nearly 400 homes and businesses destroyed, more than 200 were in Heber-Overgaard. About 3,500 people live in the community year-round, although the summer population can swell to 10,000.
At the Pinecrest Lakes RV Park, home to many retirees, an estimated 168 of the 200 mobile homes were destroyed.
The fire season is still young. The ten-year average for acreage burned in the western U.S. is roughly 985,000 acres per year, pointed out Peter J. Van Hook, a disaster response and recovery liaison with the CWS emergency response program. "So far in 2002 the fires have burned 2.6 million acres, with most of the fires still out of control," he said.
"Furthermore, the fire season has just begun -- that is, the heat of the summer and the summer thunderstorms are yet to come."
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On the 14th – 16th of February, Richard and our partner DigitalGlobe will be attending Oceanology International North America in San Diego. We will be at booth B23 demonstrating our full range of bathymetry products, and we also have a fantastic free prize draw so please drop by and take part!
We will be attending Ocean Business, with our partners DigitalGlobe and DHI, on the 4th – 6th of April. We will be launching a new Bathymetric product line. As part of this launch we will be presenting a training session on Thursday the 6th of April. The training session "TCarta Marine, Demonstrating a new Satellite derived bathymetric global dataset" will be held at 1.30pm in Node Room 1.
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A college education is the completion of a bachelor's, master's or PHD degree. Outweigh: to exceed in value, importance, or influence,
(and) benefits: something that is advantageous or good in short and long term.
Contention 1: - There are many alternatives to pay for college rather than paying out of pocket. As we all know, the United States is currently in a recession, attacking the middle class drastically. Many people who are not financially capable to pay for college can obtain certain resources like scholarships, grants and/or financial aid to help pay for expenses. The people who receive these financial aids come from struggling middle class families. According to CollegeBoard.com, a total of 35% of high school students earned academic scholarships and 11% earn athletic scholarships in 2011. Also, 20% of students going to ivy league schools obtained the pell grant. As you can see, there are many alternatives to help paying for college without giving the students too much debt. Why should financial burdens prevent a qualified student from going to a college of his or her dreams?
Contention 2- People that go to college have a more fulfilling job.
The definition of satisfaction is an act of fulfillment and gratification. One may be content with themselves no matter what occupation they do every day. However, when one obtains a degree in a specific field, they will gain more financial wealth and security, thus gaining the capital needed to pay for student loans and other expenses. According USA.gov, in 2010 alone, 68.1 percent of high school graduates attended college. Compared to the 32 percent that didn't attend college, those who did grossed an average of 29,000 dollars more a year. With that much money made more a year, a college graduate can afford a larger mortgage, or save their money towards his or her's children's college fund. The more someone invests in themselves, the more return they're going to get out.
Contention 3-When students attend college, they help maintain the democratic system America has so perfectly designed. Imagine if your state senator or representative did not attend college? Imagine what decisions these politicians would make without having taken an ethics class? As Thomas Jefferson stated "Information is the currency of democracy." If college is not worth going to as the affirmation attempts to advocate, then, my fellow americans, we are a country of poor democratic worth. Also, according to a statistic stated by CollegeBoard.com, 60% of college graduates play a role in our democratic system, either by attending city council meetings, volunteering for potential political candidates, or simply voting. As you can see, when students go to college, they participate substantially more than high school graduates.
1] yes there are scholership to get a college degree but what after that? will you get a good job?
2]watch this documentary and you will understand what kind of fullfilling job you can get after college education.
3] abraham lincoln did not have college degree yet he became president of united states. thomas paine did not have a college degree, yet he designed the american constitution.
so college education has nothing to do with democracy.
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colleges are playing with our money and giving us nothing but a kind of education that makes us inelligible in the job market.
the increasing number of unemployment shows us that the market do not think that our college degree does have some value.if our employer don't think our degrees are valuable and fire us for that reason, our degrees really don't have ny value.
therefore college education has no benefit at all.
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MWP Holiday Gift Guide
Nov 25th
Not sure where to spend your money this year? We have some ideas. Food and art always make great holiday gifts. Support your local art and food artists that give back.
All of the artists featured on the Made With Passion website are wonderful, passionate people, and you can feel good knowing that your money goes to support them directly. Show and share your love this year by giving something that is made with passion.
Thank you to all of our featured artists. We're off to a good start, and we couldn't have done it without the contribution of the fine artists that we love.
Thank you to our first featured food artist, Yankee Doodle Deli, and their Zels gourmet pretzels, which make a wonderful stocking stuffer.
Thank you to Grateful Grahams and their soft, chewy graham crackers, which I know for certain, people will be serving at their parties and putting in stockings this year. Rachel and Marilyn, we are excited to watch your businesses grow. Congratulations on a stellar year.
Thank you to the Unlucky Charms and their decadent Irish pub music that keeps us smiling and stomping through the Holidays.
Thank you to Jason Morgan and his wonderful blog about the self-sustaining arts, especially wine making and bee keeping. Thanks for having us out to smash apples this fall, and for that gallon of fresh apple cider that didn't last the week.
Thanks to all of our fine digital artists. Niels Maclellan was our first, with his gorgeous and inspiring surrealist art. We also featured budding abstract artist Michael Burleigh and fantasy artists Kevin B. McBriarty and Jesselee Lang. Some of our digital artists offer prints, which would make a fine addition to any home or office.
Thank you to our first photographer, Josefine Jönsson, who's fine art and eye for fashion really demonstrates her passion for her art. We were also introduced to the astounding portrait work from master photographer Edward Carlisle. Lilyana Karadjova's thought provoking and passionate works keep us engaged. Dawn Heumann's bold and sensitive eye tells us amazing, and honest stories. All of these artists have prints for sale. Also, some of our featured photographers could create beautiful and memorable holiday photos of your family. Josefine has a 2011 calendar coming out soon, which would make a great gift for anyone that would enjoy a little extra passion every month.
We had oil painter Daryl Urig who's amazing plein air and subtly impressionistic paintings are just brimming with color, life, and emotion. Daryl's insightful blog also teaches and inspires us. Daryl has original paintings for sale, which would look great over the fireplace or in any room of the house.
Visionaries & Voices is a community based outreach program that facilitates art among disabled artists. Original, beautiful, and highly collectible artworks from V&V artists are for sale all year in various galleries and exhibits throughout Greater Cincinnati.
Fab Ferments has some amazing, delicious, and naturally preserved foods that are easily gifted. Their gourment krauts, kimchis, and kombuchas are always well received. I am hoping that their pineapple and grape kombucha end up in my stocking.
We love Five Star Foodies' compassion and family spirit with their vegan assortment. Why not serve up their kind, delectable items for the holidays?
If you buy milk from the store, Snowville Creamery's traditional grass fed, healthy milk should be on your table for the holiday meals. Support local, independent bakers, and consider Cakes by Capano for your holiday cakes, and try their amazing chocolate cream cheese filling. Mindo Chocolate Maker's perfect dark chocolate would be the perfect gift for the chocolate lovers in your family. You can also pick up an entire gift basket of assorted Mindo chocolates at the Ann Arbor farmer's market.
Soon, we will be featuring some more amazing, and passionate artists. Sweet Peace Bakery's vegan baked goods will satisfy your sweet tooth without breaking any hearts. HaloMiner's green-friendly fashions will keep you carbon neutral. Their fashionable, hip, and always trendy items make thoughtful gifts.
We also look forward to reading about local bee keeper and honey producer Green Toe Gardens. Locally raised honey goes great with coffee or tea. Lone Oak Vineyard's Gamay Noir and Pioneer White wines are delicious and affordable. Share them with your friends and family during your holiday meal or as gifts.
Thank you to our local food providers and artists everywhere. We love you. Please share the love and continue supporting your local markets, food, and art communities this holiday season and all year. Shop local and celebrate with your neighbors.
Most of all, thank you to our readers, especially Amy Tobin from Amy's Table and Jose Navales from Spred the Love.
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Dawn Heumann – Everything is beautiful
Oct 14th
Dawn Heumann is a portrait, documentary, and fine art photographer from the San Francisco and Northern California area. She is currently a graduate student, working towards her Master's in Fine Arts at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, where her latest passion sometimes puts her at odds with the police.
Many of us have done it. We're in someone else's bathroom, and as soon as the door's shut, we peek in the medicine cabinet. It's normal curiosity. However, when Dawn's in your bathroom, stealing a glimpse into that intimate, personal part of your life, you're not home. You don't even live there anymore.
Dawn grew up in Sebastopol, California, a small but charming little town, about an hour north of San Francisco. When she was young, Dawn and her two older sisters were frequently whisked away from the quiet town to all parts of the world. Her parents made their living creating travel films, an artistic endeavor that, while having a lasting impression on Dawn, was lost to her in those days.
I spent my young years chasing the morning light from Fiji to Alaska and beyond. I can hear [my father's] harsh voice shushing me to this day as he tried to capture the sweet song of the morning birds. I didn't know it then, but image making was in me from the start.
When Dawn became older, her parents were reluctant to take the girls away from school for the duration of a film. Instead, the girls stayed at home while their parents traveled. Dawn and her sisters had been taught to think for themselves, and they enjoyed copious amounts of freedom.
As teenagers, we would often spend our evenings occupying abandoned farmhouses and barns. We would steel a few bottles of wine from the back of one of our parent's cellars or a bottle of peach schnapps from their liquor cabinets, assuming they wouldn't miss it. A few blankets, a flashlight and someone with a car were all we needed. I had my first kiss on a blanket sprawled in the middle of a dirt road near a local abandoned barn. It seemed as normal of a place as any for such a moment.
Growing up, Dawn felt grounded by her country lifestyle, yet exposure to other cultures created a desire to find her place in the world. In 2003, Dawn studied Philosophy and Religion, with an emphasis in Peace and Justice, at San Fransisco State University.
My pursuit of such studies was born from a determination to grasp the hugeness of the world and the oneness of the cultures I had observed within it as a child. For I felt that if I could understand humanity, culture, religion and the anthropological and social constructs of such ideals, I could also better know myself.
Shortly after Dawn earned her Bachelor's degree in 2007, she bought her first SLR, a Nikon D40. She left to travel the world again for two years, this time alone. She packed her camera with her.
Dawn first traveled to India, where she observed the Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim religious cultures, all in a single country. After three months in India, she moved on to Europe, Mexico, and Africa. Photos of the Masai and other tribes in Africa, as well as candid shots taken during her long stay in India formed her first art show.
Photography is often thought of as a collaborative art form between the photographer and the world around them. To tell the story on the other side of the lens, you must first peer through it. The photographer, while reflecting the world, also reflects herself.
The lesson was immediate and invaluable, I realized that the creativity and self-expression that came from being behind the camera was a much quicker path to understanding the world and my place within it than philosophy was. The gift of those years was a form of self-expression through creativity, which lent itself not only to my own sense of freedom and expression, but also penetrated the lives of the people I photograph.
Upon her return, she enrolled in the Academy of Art, and since then, Dawn Heumann has been shooting semi-professionally. She enjoys shooting portraits and events, such as weddings.
In contrast, Dawn's thesis is a series of fine art photographs, titled "abandoned:rural", which portrays sill life subjects such as abandoned buildings and cars. Still life art depicts inanimate, commonplace objects, often in beautiful arrangements.
Inspired by the memories of the old buildings that she haunted as a child, Dawn sneaks into abandoned homes, barns, and other buildings with her camera.
Sometimes I see a building and I say to myself, "I will get into that building", and I repeat it every time I pass it, until I try, sometimes once, twice, three times until I am successful.
Once inside, like her father's documentary fieldwork, Dawn documents the lives that lived within. Once cherished places are now nearly forgotten. The stories are in the details. Dawn is captivated by the nuances, which also bring back fond moments from her past.
These sorts of locations are comforting to me. Many of them are full of intimate memories. The smells of mold and rust that come with such locations are not foreign to me.
One house that Dawn had visited as a teenager left especially vivid memories. She still remembers how the dishes had been laid on the dining room table, as if the owners were in the middle of preparing for dinner, and then suddenly were called away, never to return. She also experienced exhilarating moments there with her friends when neighborhood teenage boys pulled pranks by hiding and scaring the girls.
That house sticks in my mind so vividly to this day I cannot even express it to you. Since the beginning of my series on abandoned buildings I have tried three times now to get into that house. Each time, a neighbor or a policeman catches me; I haven't made it down that long driveway since that foggy night in high school…. I am still determined to photograph it before my thesis is finished.
Much like the clandestine peeks into the medicine cabinet, it's the uninvited guest that gets the most compelling stories. We're careful to blame it on curiosity, but in truth, we all seek the same thing — honest and intimate relationships with those around us. We want the stories behind the facade. It's the pimple cream in the cabinet that shows us that they're just like us — flawed, embarrassed, and human.
Dawn Huemann's uninvited perspective into abandoned buildings and rural areas leaves us with a deeper connection to those around us. The photos tell stories through the things that we once cherished, and are now left abandoned. It's a look into our future as much as the past.
The couches were once soft and new, windows clean and shiny. Now, what is left is peeling wallpaper, falling boards, displaced bricks and a book or a kettle here and there. Within the decaying walls and broken windows there lies a graveyard of forgotten importance.
Ultimately, Dawn Heumann's photography thoroughly expresses her very own sentiment.
When I look at the world through a lens, I see only beauty.
Dawn continues to build up her thesis work and already has a few more locations scouted out, including an abandoned church in an actual ghost town. She's excited and promises additional photos soon.
When asked who inspires her, Dawn cited Joyce Tenneson and Annie Leibovitz as professional influences, especially Leibovitz's ability to let her subjects' personalities come through. Both Tenneson and Leibovitz are renowned for their portraits and their ability to connect with their subjects. However, Dawn says that one of her largest creative influences has been her father.
He has been nothing but encouraging of my creativity since before I could speak. He has persistently managed to create a career and a life around the work that he loves the most.
Dawn says that her biggest accomplishment has been learning the art of real film photography.
Learning how to work with film, and understanding its beauty transformed me as a photographer. Making my first fiber print in a dark room was perhaps the most prized moment I have had as a photographer. I felt in touch with the ancestors of this art form and proud of myself for taking the leap.
Dawn expects to graduate with her Master of Fine Arts in the spring of 2011. I have a feeling that her passion and spirit will propel Dawn and her career in whatever direction she decides to take it.
You can see more of Dawn Heumann's portrait, event, and fine art photography at her portfolio Web site. Also, check out her professional Web site, where you'll be able to hire Dawn Heumann's professional services for your portraits, weddings, or other events.
Let me know which of Dawn's photos is your favorite. Click the "I heart this" button to show Dawn some love, then go follow your passion, wherever it takes you.
For those interested in taking snapshots similar to Dawn's abandoned series, she offers a few words of advice.
I have been in all kinds of situations; from falling through the second floor of an old home to setting off motion detectors in huge warehouses, to being faced with police. Often the buildings are not safe and are not meant to be walked in. I try to use my best judgment and be safe with how far I will take my shoot in an unsafe environment.
If you get nabbed, don't call us, but do send us your photos.


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- a directive for everyone to straighten up their cubicle in preparation for a visit from some corporate VIPs
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Erna at Shanghai Zoo
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The 19-year-old mother elephant Erna lazily paces up and down inside the tall room as her three-month-old son, Yuanyuan, rubs his head against her legs. They ignore visitors who try to cheer them up, showing interest only when zoo keeper Wang Haitong enters their compound with a hose to cool them off.
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"A puppy goes on joyful adventures in this photo-filled rhyming picture book.
Hannah is an adorable Bernese Mountain Dog puppy who loves to play in the snow. After realizing that a
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Low-carb, Mediterranean diets best for weight lossJuly 17th, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 17 (IANS) Low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets may be just as safe and effective as medically prescribed ones for weight reduction. In a two-year study, 322 moderately obese people were randomly assigned either a low-fat, calorie-restricted diet or a Mediterranean calorie-restricted diet or a low-carbohydrate diet.
Although participants actually decreased their total daily calorie intake by a similar amount, net weight loss from the low-fat diet after two years was only 2.9 kg, compared to 4.4 kg on Mediterranean diet, and 4.7 kg on the low-carbohydrate diet.
"These weight reduction rates are comparable to results from physician-prescribed weight loss medications," explained Iris Shai, the lead researcher.
The low-fat diet reduced the total cholesterol to HDL ratio by only 12 percent, while the low-carbohydrate diet improved the same ratio by 20 percent.
Lipids improved the most in the low-carbohydrate diet, with a 20 percent increase in the HDL ("good") cholesterol and, 14 percent decrease in triglycerides.
The two-year study is also significant because of the relatively large number of participants coupled with a low drop-out rate; 95 percent were in the study after one year and 85 percent were still participating after the second.
Ben Gurion University, Nuclear Research Centre, Dimona, Israel, Harvard University, University of Leipzig and University of Western Ontario, Canada collaborated in the study.
The findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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- High-fat diet lowers blood sugar in diabetics - May 13, 2012
- Low-Carbohydrate Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet In Decreasing Heart Risk - Aug 04, 2010
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- Low-carb, Mediterranean diet just as safe as low-fat diet for losing weight - Jul 17, 2008
- Plant-based, low-carb diet may help lose weight, improve cholesterol levels - Jun 09, 2009
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- Low-carb, low-fat and Mediterranean diets 'reverse atherosclerosis in fat people' - Mar 02, 2010
- Calories, not carbs, key to weight loss - Feb 08, 2012
- Adding monounsaturated fats to diet 'improves cholesterol levels' - Nov 02, 2010
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' $1,000,000,000,000,000 in Sales. Not One Cent for Sales Tax '
#AceFinanceNews – UNITED STATES – July 05 – The trading volume on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) reached an incomprehensible $1 quadrillion in notional value in 2012. That's a thousand trillion dollars. In comparison, the entire U.S. GDP is $17 trillion.
On that quadrillion dollars of sales CME imposes transfer fees, contract fees, brokerage fees, Globex fees, clearing fees, and contract surcharges, many of them on both the buyer's and seller's side. As a result, the company had a profit margin higher than any of the top 100 companies in the nation from 2008 to 2010, and it's gotten even higher since then.
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Another day of Business Program of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia
Second day of the festival Russian Art Heritage, proceeding in frames of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, started with the special excursion to the exhibition of national arts and crafts arranged for participants of the meeting. Natalia Kozlova, fashion historian, told about the specifics of applying traditional decorative crafts in fashion and interior design.
The next on the agenda was the official Meeting to Work out Systematic Approaches to Strategic Development of the Field of National Arts and Crafts in partnership with Women's Council of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Members of the Women's Council of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the RF, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Gulnaz Kadyrova, CEOs of production factories and investors from different regions of Russia took part in the discussion. Board's Chairman of the Association of National Arts and Crafts of Russia, Gennady Drozhzhin, underlined the importance of developing sale channels for craft products abroad.
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Aida Robertova, holder of the grand prix of the competition named after Nadezhda Lamanova, opened the second day of the Fashion Week with her Spring/Summer 2017 Collection. Loose shapes, light cuts and straight silhouette turned into quite sensual and feminine looks. The colour range symbolized natural and warm attributes – river mother of pearl, coventry, the colour of pink carnation interchanged with graphical outfits.
The next on the runway was collective show from Art-Heritage. Kids' collection was divided into several blocks: tender loose dresses in pink and orange were followed by creamy and lilac garments. Painted patterns and ethnic themes scattered on hems of the girls' dresses and shirts for young male fashionistas. Block of the loose cut outfits in sky-blue and white shades was like a breath of fresh air on the hot summer day. The highlight of the collection were genius checked suits, floral coat-cloaks and a line of white garments with red finishing. The entire show manifested fashion as our historical heritage.
Show from YULIA KOSYAK fell into two parts: the line of beachwear and relatively casual line. Beachwear featured coloured swimming suits woven of fiber, delicately twisted, beautifully wrapping thin waists of the models. Colours – bright and garnish: dark-blue, scarlet red, canary-yellow, dramatic black. The second part was milder and featured items of natural fabrics. Thus, simple cuts of the sarafan were complimented with the bold appliqué just as the relaxed male outfit.
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia will be held from October 13 to October 17, 2016 at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall. Over 70 fashion designers from Russia, Georgia, Ukraine and other countries will present their collections. Most of the designers and brands will demonstrate their spring/summer collections, but some will exhibit the current season or mixed collections, following the 'see now buy now' trend.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia will be opened by the regular Fashion Week headliner SLAVA ZAITSEV. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia catwalks will see collections by Alena Akhmadullina, VIVA VOX, YASYA MINOCHKINA (Ukraine), Yulia Nikolaeva, Dasha Gauser, Julia Dalakian, IGOR GULYAEV, Goga Nikabadze (Georgia), DIMANEU, Saint-Tokyo and others.
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During the Children Fashion Festival on the side-lines of MBFW Russia Walt Disney Company in association with 'Children's World' store chain will present a clothing collection inspired by the characters from 'The Beauty and the Beast' feature film. Before the show a surprise entertainment will be offered to the guests at the lobby – a fairy-tale photo-area and a catwalk, where little glamour girls will have a chance to feel as if they were participating in the show.
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Against the backdrop of the controversy over upcoming Bollywood film "Padmavati", Hindu Janajagruti Samiti today asked filmmakers to be cautious about not "twisting" the history of Hindus in the name of cinema. "Filmmakers and actors should take lessons from the assault on Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It's the Indians who make the film fraternity earn their money. They cannot be allowed to hurt the sentiments of people and twist the glorious past of Hindus in the name of cinema," HJS spokesperson Ramesh Shinde told reporters here.
Bhansali was assaulted on Friday by activists of a Rajput organisation at Jaigarh Fort in Rajasthan when he was shooting for the historical drama. The activists were angry over 'distortion' of Rajput history and especially the portrayal of queen Padmavati or Padmini.
Shinde said people in Mathura have objected to script of Akshay Kumar-starrer "Toilet – Ek Prem Katha" as it "belittles the glorious tradition of the sacred city." "The Censor board too should take cognisance of the sentiments of people," he said. Shinde proposed that filmmakers should have a dialogue with leaders of community they want to make film on so that there is no opposition and they should give in writing they will not depict anything in mythology that is not true.
Karni Sena has said that if Bhansali wants to resume shooting for the film, he has to change the title of the film and it should no longer be called Padmavati, named after Rani Padmini of Chittor. Not only that, the activists have demanded a full review of the portions of the film they have already shot.
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Umm, new to Leopard Geckos, need advice asap please
So, I found a lady outside of the Midwest Reptile Expo today. It was 16 degrees Fahrenheit and she was holding a leopard gecko in a box. She was asking people if they wanted it because she couldn't care for it anymore. I would get the box and I looked inside and there was a 8-9 inch albino leopard gecko, turned out to be a tremper albino. I said I'd take it because nobody else was and took it straight home. I put it in a ten gallon tank w/ some decor, and the thing ate like it was starved. I have no experience with Leo's and really need help... Parents said I could keep him though, and I am. But I really need some help. What do they eat, can they eat crickets, is the ten gallon ok, reptile carpet or dirt, stuff like that. THX SO MUCH LUV U GUYS!!!!
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Umm, new to Leopard Geckos, need advice asap please
Hot temps: high 80s with a 90- low 90s basking spot
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Quick, Draw!
We have been having fun in the office today with Quick, Draw! A new A.I experiment released by Google. It is a fascinating neural network that is able to guess what you are drawing on the screen.
The premise is simple enough. You are given a word, and have twenty seconds to draw it well enough for the app to figure out what you are drawing. There are six different pictures to draw and the aim is to have the app recognise as many as possible.
It has resulted in a lot of fun today and we thought we would share some of our efforts! Let's see how well we did.
Quick, Draw!
So I must hold my hands up, drawing was never a strong point for me. I did feel hard done by with my lobster not being recognised though:
Fortunately my colleagues are a lot more talented! This is how to get a neural network to recognise a lobster:
A great effort here with a close to full marks attempt:
This is how it's done:
And finally, we thought that 'Draw animal migration' in twenty seconds was a tall order and deserved a special mention! Here was our best attempt which, sadly, did not get recognised:
So overall, we have very much enjoyed experimenting with this web app today. It is great to see a creative and fun way to employ pattern matching techniques and neural networks in technology, and it is certainly exciting to see how things progress in the machine learning area of technology moving forward.Tags Quick, Draw


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The Fab Finds Under $50 Outfit Inspiration calender said to "pair floral with stripes," so I paired my striped cardigan with pops of blue with my blue floral tank top for a polished look to wear to work. I also did battle with a severe storm (with 70mph winds, torrential downpours and pea to marble sized hail) in my car while wearing this outfit (hence the slight look of unease on my face). Luckily, me and my car made it home safely and undamaged.
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