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Submissions welcome! Japan-related event in London to add? Just click the green '+ Post Your Event' button. It's free, & easy to do.
Explore the full history of the birth and evolution of rugby union in Japan, from 1866 when Yokohama became the site of the oldest rugby club in Asia, to being awarded Rugby World Cup 2019.
World Rugby Museum adult ticket £12.50. Concessions available.
Like sushi and sashimi? Why not take our one-day sake course to understand the different styles of saké and get top tips to pair your Japanese dishes with the right saké? We'll also teach you how to make a bottle of mirin (a condiment similar to sake) for you to take home and pair with your food!
17 March, 9am to 5pm. Details & registration: https://bit.ly/2LXnyDl
#VSFWineEducation #Sake #Saké #Nihonshu #FoodPairing
BUTOH RESIDENCY offers three days of live performances, films and a workshop that see Japanese and European musicians, dancers and artists working together to advance the global recognition of Butoh – both as a uniquely Japanese art form and as a vibrant international platform for communicating in or beyond all languages. Collaborating artists include pianist and vocalist Aya Ogawa and dancer Mushimaru Fujieda from Japan; Butoh-Techno from Poland, French electronic musician Pascal Savy and, on film, performances by the late Sapporo based dancer Yoko Muronoi.
BUTOH RESIDENCY offers three days of live performances, films and a workshop that see Japanese and European musicians, dancers and artists working together to advance the global recognition of Butoh – both as a uniquely Japanese art form and as a vibrant international platform for communicating in or beyond all languages. Collaborating artists include pianist and vocalist Aya Ogawa and dancer Mushimaru Fujieda from Japan; Butoh-Techno from Poland, French electronic musician Pascal Savy and, on film, performances by the late Sapporo based dancer Yoko Muronoi.
Learn everything about saké in a saké brewery in action, right in London!
VSF Wine Education is joining hands with Kanpai Sake Brewery (the UK's first sake brewery) to run this course that will provide you with a detailed understanding of the production methods that affect the style, quality and price of saké. Upon completion you will be able to assess sakés accurately, and use this information and your understanding of sakés to make authoritative recommendations. 18+19+25+26 May 2019. Details & registration: https://bit.ly/2seHf0a
#Nihonshu #Sake #Saké #London
"Our mission for Okinawa Day 2019 is to introduce Okinawan culture further in the UK and enrich the existing relationship between Okinawa and the UK which has been established through our previous Okinawa Day events. We are also keen to reach an ever-larger UK audience to participate in future Okinawa related events and to create an Okinawan cultural hub in the UK.
Okinawa Day 2019 will also offer entertainment for kids, making it a unique opportunity for families to enjoy the richness of Okinawan culture. We are planning to present the following events at the main square – performing arts (folk and classical songs accompanied by sanshin lute, drumming performance and Eisa dance, etc). "
The prospective program includes:
・Ryukyu (Okinawa) and Amami traditional music, Eisa dance, Karate performance, Ukulele music with Hula dance.
Performances of Okinawa-related music, dance, martial arts by individuals and groups from the U.K., France, Amami islands and Okinawa islands
・Entertainment for kids stall
・Food and drink stall
Display of Okinawan food and drink outlets including Awamori (Okinawan liquor), fruit juice, Okinawan sweets and more.
・Arts and Crafts Stalls from Okinawa
Display of Sanshin and other unique and original arts and crafts objects from Okinawa and our original t-shirts.
Grimeborn Opera Festival
8pm 23rd August
3pm 24th August
8pm 24th August
Origami and music. A multi-media opera installation. Verity Lane's two-part project draws on her 10 years' experience of living in Japan, exploring classical Japanese traditions with a uniquely avant-garde twist.
A brand-new performance project with music, stories and concept by Verity Lane, Origami Soundscapes: Flower, Bird, Wind & Moon explores ancient symbolism and Japanese birdsong, featuring a large-scale origami performance by Coco Sato, percussion, shakuhachi and storytelling.
The Crane reimagines a Japanese folk story about a magical crane that takes human form, set around Hokkaido's Otowa Bridge. This mystical opera installation explores traditional Japanese aesthetics through a blend of Noh theatre conventions, traditional and contemporary dance, avant-garde music and animation.
Sung in English and Japanese without surtitles.
Music and Libretto (English and Japanese) by Verity Lane
Supported by Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Verity Lane/music, words, creative directer
Coco Sato/Giant Origami
Beibei Wang/Percussion
Mirei Yazawa/Dance
Tomoko Komura/Voice
Hester Dart/Voice
Kiku Day/Shakuhachi
Rowan O'Brien/Animator
Verity Lane
Born in Tottenham and spending nearly a decade in Japan, visual artist, composer and writer Verity Lane specialises in creating highly visual performance installations for traditional Japanese instruments. and beyond.
Her recent multi-media projects include A Thousand Bamboo in a Dancing Wind (performance installation for 300 shakuhachi, 2 dancers, projection and performance poetry, commissioned by The World Shakuhachi Festival, held at Goldsmiths, 2018), Yugenism: Animated Soundscapes of the Japanese Sublime (supported by Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation), and Japanese Sandscapes: The Tale of Mt Fuji where she worked with artists including Ko Ishikawa (sho/Reigakusha), Etsuko Takezawa (koto/shamisen) and Kaho Aso (traditional Japanese dance/kotsuzumi). Both projects saw Lane launch herself within London's avant garde music scene, selling out venues across London.
Coco Sato is an award-winning Japanese artist based in the UK. Her work uses origami to change the way people see the world.
Mirei Yazawa is a performance artist based in London.
Beibei Wang is a genre defying percussionist based in London.
Tomoko Komura is a London based performer from Japan, trained at the London International School of Performing Arts with an MFA in Lecoq-based Actor-Created Theatre (2006). She has performed and toured in shows by award-winning theatre companies such as Theatre Ad Infinitum (Ballad of the Burning Star), Theatre Témoin (Jukai) and Out of Chaos (Out of Chaos).
Kiku Day is a shakuhachi player based in Denmark.
Hester Dart is a London based contralto and graduate from the University of Leeds. They study with Prof. Neil Baker and are currently finishing their second year at the Morley College Opera School. Hester is particularly interested in promoting the work of
LGBTQ+ composers and musicians. They would like to contribute towards a more inclusive and accessible environment within classical music and opera.
Rowan O'Brien is a renowned animator and 3D artist from the West Coast of Ireland. He mixes sketches, objects, computer animation, and video in his work. He has screened and exhibited work across Europe, South Korea and Japan, where he lived and studied Japanese fabric craft known as oshie.
LIVE SCREENINGS: Rugby World Cup 2019
The Hall, Lower Floor, Japan House.
Drop in; Admission Free.
Join Japan House for live screenings of the Rugby World Cup 2019. With over 10 matches lined up and more to be announced, Japan House welcomes guests to watch the world cup on a four metre by two metre screen. Guests can drop in anytime during a match; refreshments and snacks will be available to purchase from The Stand.
Live screenings*
Admission is free and on a first come, first serve basis. Additional dates for the finals will be announced closer to the time. Currently Japan House is showing:
|Friday 20 Sept
|Japan v Russia
|Saturday 21 Sept
|New Zealand v South Africa
|Monday 23 Sept
|Wales v Georgia
|Thursday 26 Sept
|England v USA
|Saturday 28 Sept
|Japan v Ireland
|South Africa v Namibia
|Monday 30 Sept
|Scotland v Samoa
|Thursday 3 Oct
|Ireland v Russia
|Tuesday 8 Oct
|South Africa v Canada
|Friday 11 Oct
|Australia v Georgia
|Saturday 12 Oct
|Ireland v Samoa
*live screening dates are subject to change.


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A Facebook page created for missing 13-year-old Dylan Redwine has been deleted after Dylans mother, Elaine Redwine, requested the administrator remove it.
The Missing Dylan Redwine CMCF page has been deleted, and Elaine Redwine says she asked the administrator, Kimberly Kay Bowman, to delete it Wednesday night because she didnt think the posts were appropriate.
Posts were being posted that we didnt feel was in the appropriate way to helping us find Dylan, Elaine Redwine said. There was speculation that I didnt think was necessary.
The Bayfield community has been relying on the Find Missing Dylan Redwine Facebook page created by Redwine family friend Denise Hess for information about the case and events held for Dylan.
Bowman was accused of collecting money for merchandise related to the Jessica Ridgeway search despite protests from the Ridgeway family, 9News reported.
The 10-year-old Westminster girl went missing Oct. 5, and her body was found five days later. A 17-year-old has been arrested for the murder of Ridgeway and is currently facing charges.
Attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bowman and the nonprofit she created, Colorados Missing Children Foundation.
Bowman could not be reached for comment.
The La Plata County Sheriffs Office reported earlier this week that a scam artist identifying himself as Abass Gadafi is demanding a ransom on Facebook with the money being sent to an address in the United Kingdom through Western Union.
A cash award for information leading to the recovery of Dylan through Crime Stoppers has increased from $6,000 to $11,000.
Authorities have no new information to release about Dylans disappearance, La Plata County Sheriffs Office Spokesman Dan Bender said.

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I Fly High needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 78 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Looking for a minimal/simple logo for a website that allows people to organize photo scavenger hunts. What's that? Imagine groups of people scouring manhattan taking pictures of random/weird stuff in the search for ultimate glory.
Looking for a simple/minimal logo using the word PHUNT. Should be cute and playful.
PHUNTING is a photo scavenger hunt where teams of people crawl their local cities taking photographs of random weirdness in the quest to be the top team with the most highest rated photographs.
Logo should be very simple and useful across different properties (web, branding, etc.). Should express the concept behind the site.
- Simple
- Clean
- Fun
- Cute
- Sassy
- Complicated
- Obtuse
- Drop shadows
- Bubbles
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Journey Thro' The Purbecks
The famous Dorset Folk Group take a 'walk on the wild side'! Captured on film - a once in a life-time chance to see THE YETTIES being thrown off a train - through lack of cash! With the co-operation of the SWANAGE RAILWAY we followed 'the lads' on their desperate dash to arrive at CORFE CASTLE in time to perform a concert! The only way of course - by train (with stops en route). In honour of the occasion, the M7 took it's first rake of passenger coaches to Corfe Castle in 29 years. Prior to this THE YETTIES must work for their fare - cleaning, lighting, coaling, turning the engine and finally taking her to be watered!!
HIGH JINKS on the PURBECK LINE with SWANAGE STEAM composed by THE YETTIES especially for this video. Pure fun and music with plenty of steam.
When we first embarked upon this video we had a few songs in mind, a location or two and that was all. There was no script, no plot, just a vague idea on how things should start and finish. It wasn't until we started to work and began to relax with Phil and Jenny and the Classic Video crew that ideas began to flow from all directions. I think there was a secret but unanimous decision that this could be fun. So it turned out to be and I hope it gives you as much pleasure in the watching as we had in the making. Special thanks to the Dorset weather for being so kind, the Purbecks for being so lovely and the staff of the Swanage Railway for being so co-operative. Dave Green gets an extra medal for the numerous cups of coffee despite the fact that on some days he was so busy he was puffing more smoke and steam than the M7.
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Classes, Screenings & Support Groups
Leukemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma Support Group
A support and educational group for leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma patients and their caregivers. Facilitated by an experienced oncology nurse and a psychologist. You must call the facilitator at 925-947-3322 before coming to the group.
Cost: FREE
Register for any three fee-based* classes during one transaction and receive a 20% discount.
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Coastal Federal Credit Union's quick response to the Target data breach was 10 years in the making.
Ever since the BJ's Wholesale payment card breach in 2004, the $2.2 billion asset credit union in Raleigh, N.C., has focused on procedures and defenses to mitigate cyberfraud losses.
"It's been a learning process, an iterative process, and some cobbling together," says Carlton Howard, vice president of risk management. "But a lot of it is good, old-fashioned paying attention and taking action."
To mitigate risk following a breach, credit unions should take these six steps, according to Ann Davidson, a senior risk management consultant at CUNA Mutual Group:
1. Educate members not to respond to mysterious calls or emails or text messages asking for personal or financial information, and encourage them to frequently review account activity and create transaction alerts.
2. Evaluate compromised card number information to determine the severity and magnitude of the exposure.
3. Ensure use of name matching for magnetic stripe data .
4. Accelerate card expiration dates on active cards if they expire within 180 days, and consider whether to block or reissue other cards.
5. Monitor card-not-present potential exposures, cash withdrawals, and daily dollar limits on affected accounts; and watch for an uptick in PIN activity.
6. Scrutinize daily card fraud to identify any changes in fraud transaction patterns.
Coastal Federal learned of the Target breach by reading an antifraud blog, "Krebs on Security." The credit union notified members through electronic messaging, regular mail, and a website banner, asking them to follow the precautions noted above.
The credit union identified members who'd shopped at Target within the breach period through CO-OP Total Revalation, a data analytics program from CO-OP Financial Services.
Coastal Federal contacted the affected members through an autodialing blaster generally used in collections, and created a notification bloc for its online banking portal that popped up specifically for those members when they logged on.
Typically, the credit union reissues cards before blocking the old ones, so members aren't left without access to their accounts. But when its antiphishing service, RSA FraudAction, discovered 88 members' cards on the black market, the credit union immediately blocked those cards.
Coastal Federal uses utility programs to automatically reissue and block cards—a home-grown version for debit cards and FIS/CSCU's Compromise Manager for credit cards—which negates the time-consuming task of manually entering all the data.
Thanks to its game plan, Coastal Federal acted decisively when the threat arose.


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SnipWire - Snipcart integration for ProcessWire
Snipcart is a powerful 3rd party, developer-first HTML/JavaScript shopping cart platform. SnipWire is the missing link between Snipcart and the content management framework ProcessWire.
With SnipWire, you can quickly turn any ProcessWire site into a Snipcart online shop. The SnipWire plugin helps you to get your store up and running in no time. Detailed knowledge of the Snipcart system is not required.
SnipWire is free and open source licensed under Mozilla Public License 2.0! A lot of work and effort has gone into development. It would be nice if you could donate an amount to support further development:
Status update links (inside this thread) for SnipWire development
2020-01-28 -- added Custom Order Fields feature (first SnipWire release version is near!) 2020-01-21 -- Snipcart v3 - when will the new cart system be implemented? 2020-01-19 -- integrated taxes provider finished (+ very flexible shipping taxes handling) 2020-01-14 -- new date range picker, discount editor, order notifiactions, order statuses, and more ... 2019-11-15 -- orders filter, order details, download + resend invoices, refunds 2019-10-18 -- list filters, REST API improvements, new docs platform, and more ... 2019-08-08 -- dashboard interface, currency selector, managing Orders, Customers and Products, Added a WireTabs, refinded caching behavior 2019-06-15 -- taxes provider, shop templates update, multiCURL implementation, and more ... 2019-06-02 -- FieldtypeSnipWireTaxSelector 2019-05-25 -- SnipWire will be free and open source Plugin Key Features
Fast and simple store setup Full integration of the Snipcart dashboard into the ProcessWire backend (no need to leave the ProcessWire admin area) Browse and manage orders, customers, discounts, abandoned carts, and more Process refunds and send customer notifications from within the ProcessWire backend Process Abandoned Carts + sending messages to customers from within the ProcessWire backend Complete Snipcart webhooks integration (all events are hookable via ProcessWire hooks) Integrated taxes provider (which is more flexible then Snipcart own provider) Useful Links
SnipWire in PW modules directory (alpha version only available via GitHub) SnipWire Docs (please note that the documentation is a work in progress) SnipWire @GitHub (feature requests and suggestions for improvement are welcome - I also accept pull requests) Snipcart Website
By d'Hinnisdaël
Happy new year, everybody 🥬
I've been sitting on this Dashboard module I made for a client and finally came around to cleaning it up and releasing it to the wider public. This is how it looks.
ProcessWire Dashboard
If anyone is interested in trying this out, please go ahead! I'd love to get some feedback on it. If this proves useful and survives some real-world testing, I'll add this to the module directory.
You can find the latest release on Github.
Check out the documentation to get started. This is where you'll find information about included panel types and configuration options.
Custom Panels
My goal was to make it really simple to create custom panels. The easiest way to do that is to use the panel type template and have it render a file in your templates folder. This might be enough for 80% of all use cases. For anything more complex (FormBuilder submissions? Comments? Live chat?), you can add new panel types by creating modules that extend the DashboardPanel base class. Check out the documentation on custom panels or take a look at the HelloWorld panel to get started. I'm happy to merge any user-created modules into the main repo if they might be useful to more than a few people.
This is a pre-release version. Please treat it as such — don't install it on production sites. Just making sure 🍇
These are the things I'm looking to implement myself at some point. The wishlist is a lot longer, but those are the 80/20 items that I probably won't regret spending time on.
Improve documentation & add examples ⚙ Panel types Google Analytics ⚙ Add new page 🔥 Drafts 🔥 At a glance / Page counter 404s Layout options Render multiple tabs per panel panel groups with heading and spacing between ✅ panel wrappers as grid item (e.g. stacked notices) ✅ Admin themes support AdminThemeReno and AdminThemeDefault ✅ Shortcuts panel add a table layout with icon, title & summary ✅ Chart panel add default styles for common chart types ✅ load chart data from JS file (currently passed as PHP array) Collection panel support image columns ✅ add buttons: view all & add new ✅
By Robin S
This module is inspired by and similar to the Template Stubs module. The author of that module has not been active in the PW community for several years now and parts of the code for that module didn't make sense to me, so I decided to create my own module. Auto Template Stubs has only been tested with PhpStorm because that is the IDE that I use.
Auto Template Stubs
Automatically creates stub files for templates when fields or fieldgroups are saved.
Stub files are useful if you are using an IDE (e.g. PhpStorm) that provides code assistance - the stub files let the IDE know what fields exist in each template and what data type each field returns. Depending on your IDE's features you get benefits such as code completion for field names as you type, type inference, inspection, documentation, etc.
Install the Auto Template Stubs module.
You can change the class name prefix setting in the module config if you like. It's good to use a class name prefix because it reduces the chance that the class name will clash with an existing class name.
The directory path used to store the stub files is configurable.
There is a checkbox to manually trigger the regeneration of all stub files if needed.
Add a line near the top of each of your template files to tell your IDE what stub class name to associate with the $page variable within the template file. For example, with the default class name prefix you would add the following line at the top of the home.php template file:
/** @var tpl_home $page */ Now enjoy code completion, etc, in your IDE.
Adding data types for non-core Fieldtype modules
The module includes the data types returned by all the core Fieldtype modules. If you want to add data types returned by one or more non-core Fieldtype modules then you can hook the AutoTemplateStubs::getReturnTypes() method. For example, in /site/ready.php:
// Add data types for some non-core Fieldtype modules $wire->addHookAfter('AutoTemplateStubs::getReturnTypes', function(HookEvent $event) { $extra_types = [ 'FieldtypeDecimal' => 'string', 'FieldtypeLeafletMapMarker' => 'LeafletMapMarker', 'FieldtypeRepeaterMatrix' => 'RepeaterMatrixPageArray', 'FieldtypeTable' => 'TableRows', ]; $event->return = $event->return + $extra_types; }); Credits
Inspired by and much credit to the Template Stubs module by mindplay.dk.
By Mike Rockett
Jumplinks for ProcessWire
Release: 1.5.60
Composer: rockett/jumplinks
⚠ NOTICE: 1.5.60 is an important security patch-release for an XSS vulnerability discovered by @phlp. It's HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that all Jumplinks users update to the latest version as soon as possible.
Jumplinks is an enhanced version of the original ProcessRedirects by Antti Peisa.
The Process module manages your permanent and temporary redirects (we'll call these "jumplinks" from now on, unless in reference to redirects from another module), useful for when you're migrating over to ProcessWire from another system/platform. Each jumplink supports wildcards, shortening the time needed to create them.
Unlike similar modules for other platforms, wildcards in Jumplinks are much easier to work with, as Regular Expressions are not fully exposed. Instead, parameters wrapped in curly braces are used - these are described in the documentation.
Under Development: 2.0, to be powered by FastRoute
As of version 1.5.0, Jumplinks requires at least ProcessWire 2.6.1 to run.
View on GitLab
Download via the Modules Directory
Read the docs
The most prominent features include:
Basic jumplinks (from one fixed route to another) Parameter-based wildcards with "Smart" equivalents Mapping Collections (for converting ID-based routes to their named-equivalents without the need to create multiple jumplinks) Destination Selectors (for finding and redirecting to pages containing legacy location information) Timed Activation (activate and/or deactivate jumplinks at specific times) 404-Monitor (for creating jumplinks based on 404 hits) Additionally, the following features may come in handy:
Stale jumplink management Legacy domain support for slow migrations An importer (from CSV or ProcessRedirects) Feedback & Feature Requests
I'd love to know what you think of this module. Please provide some feedback on the module as a whole, or even regarding smaller things that make it whole. Also, please feel free to submit feature requests and their use-cases.
Note: Features requested so far have been added to the to-do list, and will be added to 2.0, and not the current dev/master branches.
Open Source
Jumplinks is an open-source project, and is free to use. In fact, Jumplinks will always be open-source, and will always remain free to use. Forever. If you would like to support the development of Jumplinks, please consider making a small donation via PayPal.
Enjoy! 🙂
By Robin S
Add Image URLs
Allows images/files to be added to Image/File fields by pasting URLs.
Install the Add Image URLs module.
A "Paste URLs" button will be added to all image and file fields. Use the button to show a textarea where URLs may be pasted, one per line. Images/files are added when the page is saved.


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The company has been involved in a legal dispute since German manufacturer and partner Enercon cancelled a licensing agreement between the two companies in 2007.
This dispute has included the use of the Enercon name and the German company's efforts to enforce a change. Speaking about the changes, World Wind India managing director Yogesh Mehra said that the domain name was acquired on 20 November 2012 and the change took place as of 1 January 2013. "The company structure and share ownership structure does not change and remains the same as before" Mehra said.
He added: "The name change was done as 100% shareholders of (erstwhile Enercon (India) Ltd), wanted it to be done." However, Enercon, still the 56% majority stakeholder in the joint venture company, said it was not consulted about the name change. Enercon's lawyers were first informed on 7 January 2013, according to an Enercon company source.
Yet, the company's website resembles more of a holding page. Despite the name change happening this year, it still (as of 22 February) promises a new site is set to roll out. Likewise there is no information available on the company's product range.
At some stage, the name change looked inevitable, but why it finally happened in an apparent rush — judging by the fledgling website — is not clear. The Delhi High Court had directed EIL's 44% minority owner, the Mehra Group, to change the company as long ago as September 2011 and, in 2012, Enercon lodged a complaint about the slow implementation of this court order before the relevant Registrar of Companies, Mumbai, and the Registrar of Companies, Goa, Daman & Diu.
As of now, no decision has been handed down in these cases. In parallel, proceedings are under way against EIL/WWI use of Enercon trademarks. A final ruling in the long-pending trademark infringement suit is also still pending.
Meanwhile, disputes over the intellectual property licence agreement with EIL/WWI that Enercon terminated in 2007 continue. To date, EIL has challenged 46 of 124 patents granted to Enercon in India. 13 patents were declared invalid in 2010. Enercon's appeals against these decisions are still pending.
It's not clear when the disputes will be brought to an end, nor when Enercon will finally extricate itself from the India business. The relationship between Enercon and the Mehra group became increasingly problematic from 2005, some 11 years after EIL was founded. The disagreements over strategy, investment and management style reached a climax in 2007 when Enercon's representatives were effectively excluded from the EIL board.
Collaboration between Enercon and the Mehras stopped, and the legal disputes between the two parties have been grinding on ever since. Enercon has been keen to distance itself from a business over which it had lost control.
Mehra said that 2011, Wind World (India) Ltd (erstwhile Enercon (India) Ltd) had installed 666MW in 2011, and 592MW in 2012 in India. He declined to comment on what names are now given to the turbine products nor on whether it is the intention of the Mehra Group to buy out the Enercon stake, pointing out that these matters "are subjudice."


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Sintra Print - The King's Palace
Portugal Photography
Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal.
This original 5·2·7 print is sold without a frame and mat. The print displayed is 8x12 inches with a 1/2" white border. It is printed on premium lustre paper, which is matte with a slight sheen. This paper is the industry standard for fine art printing and is printed with archival ink for a life of 100+ years. PLEASE NOTE, the colors you see on your monitor may differ slightly from those of the print due to variations in monitor settings.
Adding a white border to the print is a cost effective option when the frame does not have a mat, however, the border will MINIMIZE the size of the image on the paper. Additionally, it is not recommended to print the image with a border if white frames are going to be used as the white color from the frame and border won't match exactly. View examples of all print sizes with borders at http://bit.ly/527borderoptions
This image is shown in low resolution for web purposes but will be printed in high resolution.
United States: FREE SHIPPING. Please allow 1-3 business days for processing and 3-5 business days for ground shipping. Priority and Express shipping are available.
International: Ground shipping is available and rates vary by country. Express shipping is not available at this time. VAT and customs fees are the buyer's expense.
All 5·2·7 prints are sold without the frames and mats but CraigFrames on Etsy sells frames in all sizes with many colors and styles to choose from.Copyright 2015-2019 5.2.7 Photo. Artwork may not be reproduced or resold without the express permission of the artist.


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I have six brothers and sisters and we have come, from a far away land to visit the museums of Liverpool. I am going to Sudley House to find out all about it!
About me
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- Likes: Grass, painting and popcorn.
- Named by: Hugh, 5 and Georgia-Rose, 11.
Because my name can't be heard or understood by the human ear, I have been given the name Monty. It sounds odd to me, but both Hugh and Georgia-Rose suggested it, so it must be a good name!
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To quote TIOBE, "The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors." We don't use the term Realbasic often, but it is important to realize that it is the name of Real Studio's programming language. If you're writing about the programming language, try to use Realbasic to describe it.
A special thank you to Kevin Cully, founder of the Real Studio Atlanta Group, for pointing out Realbasic's rise in the April Index.


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Hello, it's Joni – the face behind Cote de Texas. I thought I'd introduce myself for once – all professionally photoshopped, with 54 year old wrinkles and jowls miraculously removed and my image stretched vertically to make me look less……horizontal! Thank God for photoshop! Signing off on 2008 brings thoughts of this past year – a year in which Cote de Texas played a huge part in my life. So many wonderful things have come my way because of this little design blog – the friendships made in real life and through emails, the support you brought with each and every comment (except that occasional nasty Anonymous!) and then there was the wealth of knowledge that came from reading your own blogs about design in your lives. It's a small, but growing community – the design blogs – a sisterhood (and brotherhood) dedicated to our homes and our love for them and for those of our friends.
Cote de Texas has become a passion – something which I feel a great responsibility to. I think about it a lot, questioning my ability to keep you entertained: what I will find to write about next, will I ever think of anything decent to blog about again? Just knowing you are out there, clicking onto an old post drives me mad – I wish I could have something interesting and new to post three times a day, but three times a week is more the reality, unfortunately.
Sometimes what goes on behind the scenes is funnier than what is written. This year – the award for absurdity goes to a homeowner who shall remain nameless. When I received gorgeous real estate photographs of her house in an email, and was informed it was up for sale – I naively shared it with you, of course! The homeowner quickly wrote me, aghast, and demanded to know if I had broken into her home and taken pictures of it!!! Uh, no. I'm not THAT crazy for a new story line! What a headline that would make:
"Desperate for a new topic, blogger Cote de Texas broke into a Houston mansion to steal pictures of it to show her readers. Arrested, she remains in jail, unable to post bail – her funds all dried up due to her incessant purchasing of French antiques."
OK. I'll admit to suffering from writer's block now and then, but trust me people, your homes are safe from me! But, finding new topics to write about became somewhat harder this year. 2008 was the year of the Design Blog explosion. Every day brought a new and exciting design blog to read and with each new blog, the competition for fresh material became just a little bit more intense. I can't tell you the number of times I've started to write about something, only to discover three other bloggers had already covered the subject, and more adequately, too. Still, somehow I managed to write a number of columns that you found interesting judging from the amount of comments and emails it garnered. So, here, is a recap of 2008's more popular Cote de Texas stories. I hope you enjoy revisiting these with me. Follow the RED links to reread the story in its entirety, if you so desire. And my favorite picks of the 2008 design blogs follows.
Katrina refuges seek shelter in the Houston Astrodome.
I learned a big lesson this year. Politics and design blogging don't mix! Not everyone, by a long shot, who reads this blog wanted to hear how great Obama was. Trust me on this! When I wrote about President Bush and Hurricane Katrina in Gustav – The Bad, boy were the comments heated! Quite a few of you threatened to never read my blog again after that post! But it worked both ways. A Republican blogger friend suffered the same exact threats from Democrats. I learned, I learned!
Kelly Wearstler, noted designer and author, is just one of the many famous interior designers fined in Florida.
The one story that truly resonated with readers and created the most comments was ASID – An Agency Out of Control - a post written about Kelly Wearstler, among other notables, being fined in Florida for practicing without a license. I was stunned to learn what is happening to interior designers in Florida and other states and it was a real eye opener to read how intrusive ASID has become. Readers mostly agreed, though some pro-ASID people left comments too. To date, there have been more than 200 comments left, debating the issue of the state licensing of interior designers. The battle still rages on, but the anti-ASID side seems to be making the most strides.
Another popular storyline and a more poignant one was the series about Hurricane Ike. I was deeply touched by all the well wishes and prayers you sent our way during Ike. I can't express how much your comments meant to my family, even though I didn't have the electricity to read them and had to resort to using my car battery to charge up my laptop! As I write this now, our fence is finally being replaced from Ike's damage – but we were the lucky ones. Galveston and Bolivar Island suffered greatly and still suffer today.
The beautiful oaks trees and houses of Galveston's Historical District.
Remember those beautiful trees from the Historical Districts in Galveston that you commented on? All those gorgeous trees are now dead, killed by the salt water during Ike. I can't bear to think how terrible it must be for that neighborhood, many of those oak trees were planted right after the Great Storm. In an interesting side note to the Galveston story, one reader was motivated by the pictures to purchase a second home in the historical district! Lucky girl!
The Wheat's beautiful kitchen.
So many of you enjoyed Stalking the Wheats in West University and at their Beach House – Bolivar Style. I still get emails about their house and specifically their kitchen paint color: Benjamin Moore Fieldstone, btw! In all – those two stories generated lots of comments and private emails and Sally Wheat became a bit of a celebrity with Cote de Texas readers. Luckily their Bolivar beach house survived Ike.
The Toile Peugeot!
New Car Blues (and white) was another one you commented on. But more interesting was the fact that so many design bloggers love the vintage Jeep Wagoneer. Let's start a petition to bring it back!
Virtual Beach House #1 versus
Virtual Beach House #2
I never can anticipate what story you will like or reject, and sometimes your choice is surprising. One such surprise was My Virtual Beach House. Apparently, everyone has dreams of one day furnishing a second home too! You voted on whether you liked Beach House #1 or #2 best. House #2 won.
The beautiful living room from the popular movie Something's Gotta Give.
My all-time favorite topic to write about is the Something's Gotta Give beach house – and I've done it as much as humanly possible. So many people had emailed me about that house that I decided to write a blog on how to achieve the same look in your own home in Beach House-Series #4, Hamptons House. My dream is to one day write an entire book about that movie beach house!!
Nancy Lancaster's Famous Butta Yellow Drawing Room
The answer to that aged-old decorating dilemma – To Clutter or Not to Clutter remains elusive to me and, apparently, to lots of you too!! It seems a number of people can't decide if they want to live in a cozy, cluttered home or in a slick, clean and spare interior. I'm still undecided – what about you?
The Infamous Miles Redd Slipcover
When Decorno wrote that she hated this skirted table in a Miles Redd interior, I felt a need to defend it in Skirted Tables. After Decorno responded, the war of words was on and comments flew from my blog to hers and back again. Never has such a silly topic gotten so heated!
And finally - Thank Yous to Bloggers, Readers, and Stalkers!, a recap of the year's emails and gifts I received deserves a reading if you missed it the first go round. If you have ever sent me a picture of your home, it probably was included here!
Here is my list of favorite new blogs in 2008. There is one for each month – it was hard to limit it to just 12, all the new blogs are great!!! In no particular order, in fact the last one is favorite:
Velvet and Linen – What can I say about Brooke Giannetti? Beautiful, talented, sweet, warm. Her blog is phenomenal, her talent even more so. The first time I read hers I thought, "well, it's been fun writing mine." Brooke lives a fairy tale life in two beautiful homes she and her architect husband created. Read it and often – you will be amazed.
Visual Vamp – Another dynamo, Valorie Hart is an interior designer, florist, tango dancer, inn keeper – you name it, she's done it. Her blog is the stream of consciousness that flows from her intellectual brain. I adore her!
Cheap Chic – A 17 year old writes about fashion. OK, it's not design, but she's my daughter!!!!! oy!
The Lettered Cottage – Layla is redoing her darling cottage and we get front row seats. Catch her now – she's probably going to be HGTV's next Design Star!!!
Color Outside the Lines - Artie, working and decorating and gardening in upstate New York. He's a doll – the sweetest there is.
Simply Seleta – Seleta lives in Florida's wonderful northwest area. Beautiful with 4 beautiful little ones living in a beautiful house.
Renee Finberg – is an interior designer from Florida. A wealth of knowledge, her blog is exotic and heady. Worth a daily visit!
Lime in the Coconut – Florida again. Linda writes about beaches, hotels in sunny spots, her house, and her tropical style. Delightful!
Canyon Wren Cottage – Texas! Austin! A recap of real estate happenings in the Hill Country.
Willow Decor – Swedish gray and white all the way. Lots of yummy eye candy.
Harmony and Home – A Californian interior designer blogs about interior design. Rebecca's story on the Golden Mean is first rate.
French Essence – France, Provence, Vicki Archer, The Book, The Blog – Vicki leads the life we all dream for!!!!
Here is wishing all of you and yours a Happy and Very Healthy New Years!!!! I am looking forward to sharing 2009 with all of you!!!


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Filter'd Out #08 — 13 [Hatchings]
Huh, looks like I inadvertently took off the the past couple of months from blogging. To be more accurate, I took off from summarizing other people's blogging. So let's jump right in with a summer clearance sale, the most enlightening* blog posts from summer 2011! First up, the June through July window.
* Including but not limited to: entertaining, challenging, informative, inspiring, alarming, and/or that simply spoke to me.
For the weeks covering 20 Jun through 31 July 2011 I've Filter'd Out:
American Robin
Chris Petrak, writing for Tails of Birding
I certainly succumb to the adrenal rush of seeing something new and unusual, but I also enjoy slowing down and appreciating, really appreciating, the common and the familiar. If you don't have a kid or a camera (two devices that do that automatically), Chris does it for you, but not by cajoling, encouraging, or pleading with you to look around, but by simply and eloquently passing along what he sees.
The natural habitat for the American Robin is the great primeval forests. Those forests have almost completely disappeared. The robin remains, having accommodated itself to the changes we have made to the landscape. When trees were planted around homes on the great grassland prairies, the robins moved in. But if there are no trees, then a bush will do – or a stone wall, a building, a fence, or even the ground.
So That's Why They're Called Waxwings
Minnesota Birdnerd, writing for Minnesota Birdnerd
Mr. Birdnerd's post about waxwings caught my eye for two reasons: I've also been seeing/hearing waxwings everytime I turn around, to the point I thought I might be suffering from some unknown medical condition. Good to know I'm not alone, though it now opens the Chatty Cathy questioning: are there more around? If so, why? If not, why does it seem like it? And so on. Second, the waxy bits on waxwings are really awesome, and seeing them in a Wayne's World "Extreme Close-up!" fashion is exponentially awesome.
Lots of the Cedar Waxwings we handle don't show their namesake waxy tips on the wing secondaries. This fellow however was in full display mode. I've personally been seeing and hearing more CEDWs lately than usual. There should be lots of young mixed in with any flocks that may be around.
Fantasy Birding?
Zugunruhe, writing for The Z Bird Birding Blog
This one caught my eye because I had a couple of thoughts of using eBird as a platform to create a couple of virtual birding "games." The super-secret ulterior motive was to entice more eBirding (on the work-front I always held my prescribed mission as to increase submissions), but also to have fun with birding when you couldn't be out birding. More on my thoughts later, but what do you think of Zugunruhe's idea?
Anyway, I just had a thought that it might be possible to set up a fantasy birding league based on eBird submissions. (OK, yes, I know real birding is way better than fantasy birding. No need to bring that up.)
The State of the Web
The Oatmeal, writing for The Oatmeal
OK, this one has nothing to do with birds, nature, or anything really related to what I usually read. But without the Internet I wouldn't be posting my favorite blog posts, so this is relevant. And frickin' hysterical.
You've changed, Internet. It's like I don't even know you anymore.
What am I doing with my life?
Paul Riss, writing for Punk Rock Big Year
I'm not the type to commit to a big year, but I am the type that will commit to reading about other people's big years. Paul has taken us along on many birding trips, but here's a trip into his soul. Those types of posts always make for good reading.
It seems crazy. It is crazy. There are so many times when I just think, "Stop it, stop being so weird and just be a normal person. Normal people don't do this." And believe me, when I'm standing ankle deep in ice-water in 70km/hr winds with watering eyes that pretty much instantly freeze up, 800km from my wife and kids, I can't help but think I'm wasting my time here.
Denali National Park
Chris, writing for Slow Birding
Denali. That's all I need to see and I'm hooked. Any post about Denali National Park, Alaska is golden. Especially when photos capture the majestic landscape.
When we arrived at the signs we only found a golden eagle taking sticks to a large nest site. Soon after we were fortunate to see a pair of gyrfalcons circling nearby but very high overhead. We walked a bit further down the road and found some more signs. As we walked up a male gyrfalcon flew down towards us, and then circled briefly before flying about 300 yards back up the mountain where it perched. We had lunch while we waited hoping it would fly down closer to another perch that was obvious because of the white bird poop splattered below it.
The Reputation Paradox
Nate, writing for The Drinking Bird
Not all birders admit it, but birds are not all they think about. They think about other birders. Like any other activity that attracts more than one person there's that issue of perception: how do my peers perceive me, and what do I think of them? Of course there are the vain superficial judgments, but the one that matters is trust. Not many birders broach the subject, and I think Nate's willingness to do so is noteworthy.
As birders, it's well known that the only thing we have to our name in this community is our reputation, one painstakingly built over years of convincing sight records and personal interaction. It is devilishly hard to get to the point where people are going to trust you on matters as complex as, say, to use a particularly pertinent example, hybrid herons. It is sadly way, way too easy to lose all that good will with a simple post that turns out to be wrong, or, at least, it's too easy to be worried that that could happen. This is, of course, nonsense.
Introducing the Birder Jargon Project
Nate, writing for The Drinking Bird
More from Nate on the sociology of birding: how we talk. In a laudable effort to be inclusive, Nate offers to decipher the lingo unique to the birding community.
Birders have a language, a dialect maybe, that's really only immediately comprehensible to other birders. We're all aware of it. We talk about it often amongst ourselves, in the self-deprecating manner of those who realize that their avocation is seen as quirky among the general public. We nurture it, adding regional nicknames for birds and bird behavior to the greater birder dictionary for those to use beyond our circle of friends and colleagues. And we all remember how difficult it was to get those bits of birder jargon into our heads when we first picked up binoculars.
Creating A "Social Field Guide"
Dave Irons, writing for BirdFellow
The Internet continues to change how we do almost everything, so why not change how we use a field guide? Why stop there, why not change how we create a field guide?
The time has come to tap into and harness our collective knowledge and create the field guide that no single author or small group of authors can produce. The term that describes this process is "crowdsourcing." Using the online platform that BirdFellow has created, any member of the birding community can make meaningful contributions to our base of knowledge about birds. Perhaps it's an ID tip, or an interesting behavior that you've observed. Maybe you have a photo of a bird in a strange transitional plumage that stumped you in the field. The BirdFellow Social Field Guide provides a forum and respository where these can be shared and used by other birders.
Courtship on the Tundra—Spoon-billed Sandpipers [Field Report]
Gerrit Vyn, writing for Round Robin
Earlier I Filter'd Out Gerrit's post as he headed towards the Spoon-billed Sandpiper's breeding ground. So, what's he found since he's arrived? One of the brilliant things about the Internet and blogging: sharing in near real time, no waiting for the post-season wrap-up.
So far, filming Spoon-billed Sandpipers has been difficult. Skittish, sparsely distributed birds, challenging weather, and poor light have contributed to far more filming failures than successes. But this evening was one of those that makes up for all of the long hours, frustrations and hardships you endure on a trip like this. With calm winds, gentle evening light, and a confiding pair, the conditions were ideal.
#59 Field Tip: Birds at 2, 5 and 10 o'clock!
Adrian Binns, writing for Birding with BiNns
Getting your own binoculars onto a bird is one thing, but guiding your buddies to the same bird? "Herding cats" comes to mind. Here's another handy tip from Adrian about how to accomplish this seemingly-simple-in-theory but seemingly-impossible-in-practice feat.
"Check out the Oriole at 2 o'clock!" Does this mean to go home for lunch and come back in a few hours? Of course not! Clock directions provide handy points of reference to share the location of a bird in a tree.
A Mystery Sound
David Sibley, writing for Sibley Guides
For the past six or so years I've been listening to birds as part of my everyday job. Therefore, anything to do with bird sounds rouses my interest, especially when an acknowledged expert on North American birds — same guy who wrote the field guide that is sitting not too far from you right now – confesses he doesn't recognize a bird call from his backyard. Plus, I love a good mystery.
Sitting at my desk today I was roused by a bird call that I did not immediately recognize. This is a very rare occurrence for me, especially at my house where I spend many hours every day, and I know the birds that are here very well. As the seconds went by I focused more of my attention on the sound, got up to open the window wider, thought over the possibilities, and still I came up with nothing.
August 29, 2011 10:16
Hi Mike,
I was tipped off to your post by John Puschock at Zugunruhe, whose post I'd been tipped off to by David La Puma over at Woodcreeper.com, whose post mentioning "fantasy birding" I'd spotted last week…ah, the echo chamber of the Internet. Anyway, I've been thinking quite seriously about the fantasy-birding concept for some time now — seriously enough to have already done a good bit of Web design & development to that end, after touching base with Marshall Iliff and others to clear my conscience about using eBird data. I would love to have someone else to bounce ideas off, and maybe to pull in on a pilot run. If you're at all interested, please drop me a line at mcsmitfl at yahoo dot com and we'll talk. This seems like an idea whose time has come.
Matt Smith


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Loyre de Aralla Kennel
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Madrid
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Understanding this situation !!!!!
Good morning
I try to add the puppies of the matting between Hacker de La Gretosa and Laska de La Gretosa without results.
The two puppies born the 27 of November. Are two females. Their names are
"Zoe Sweet Child of Us Loyre de Aralla" and "Zelda Rain of November Loyre de Aralla"
I keep in my kennel Loyre de Aralla the first one, " Zoé Sweet Child of Us Loyre de Aralla"
And more... I was send trough the web the genetics results of my dogs, Hacker, Laska and Tabatha, as same results, nothing update and the worse, without response.
It can not be that the reference database is in these conditions. When you can not, you have to know how to delegate.
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Loyre de Aralla Kennel
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Madrid
Posts: 8
I try to send this without results too, te web crash !!!!
Hello good morning
The Wolfdog.org is a shame, and forgive me telling you this way. After sending you the Hacker and Tabatha titles, the genetic tests of all my dogs, the hip and elbow tests, is still not updated.
Hacker has won a championship of Gibraltar, the international championship, and tabatha has achieved, the jr championship of Portugal, and the absolute of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and the Iberian championship. She has also won the title of great champion of Portugal, in addition to 6 city winners. We continue without updating.
It is curious, also mysteriously, someone announces my litter, from Hacker and Laska. 2 bitches have already been born, moreover, one is already in england with its owner and the other one keep with me. I can not add dogs, even if you are an FCI breeder.
I do not understand anything. You have to know how to delegate.
The only response is silence. I wrote too to de facebook page whitout results
Inexplicable that the reference database of the breed functions that badly
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My first love as a speech-language pathologist is pediatric feeding. I spend lots of time talking to little kids about "carrot crunchies" and "pea-pops" and various silly names for the sounds that different foods make in our mouths as we explore all of the sensory components of food in weekly treatment sessions.
Is it possible that sound is a larger component of our eating experience than many of us realize? What's sound got to do with eating, or more specifically, with taste? Discovering how the sound of a crunching potato chip affects flavor is more than just curiosity. Prof. Charles Spence, who leads Oxford's Crossmodal Research Laboratory, studied how the sound that food makes in our mouths influences our perception of freshness. It's an important point for potato chip manufacturers, who strive to create the "crunchiest crisp possible."
Background sounds in the environment also influence our interpretation of taste. Spence conducted an experiment in which people were presented with four pieces of identical toffee. Two pieces were eaten while the subjects listened to the lower pitch of brass instruments. Two other pieces were eaten while listening to the higher pitch of a piano. The pieces eaten during the higher pitched piano music were rated "sweet" by the subjects and the pieces eaten during the lower pitched music were rated "bitter."
Chef Blumenthal, owner of The Fat Duck near London, has taken Spence's research findings to the next level. Order the "Sound of the Sea" and you'll enjoy more than seafood delicacies presented on "a sand of tapioca and fried panko, then topped with seafood foam." The dish is accompanied by an iPod nestled in a seashell, "so that diners can listen to the sound of crashing waves as they eat." Spence reports that diners experience stronger, saltier flavors with the sound of the ocean in the background. Another London restaurant, the House of Wolf, serves a cake pop along with instructions to dial a phone number and then, before tasting, press 1 for sweet and 2 for bitter. Diners who listened to the first prompt heard a high pitched melody and those who pressed "two" heard a low brassy tones. In an article for the Telegraph, Spence said, "We have also looked at the crispiness of crisps and biscuits and found that by boosting certain high frequency sounds when volunteers bit into them we could make them taste crunchier, and they became softer if we dampened those frequencies." It's not just diners across the pond who are experiencing the marriage of sound and taste. Major food companies in the United States also have consulted with Spence, who developed a soundtrack to "complement" the coffee at Starbucks®. Speaking of coffee, in a recent study, Spence found that humans can detect whether a liquid is hot or cold, just from listening to the sound of it being poured into a glass, porcelain, paper and/or plastic cup. I'll consider this the next time I'm waiting for my drink at the local coffee shop. Perhaps, from now on, I can just listen to the sound of the pour, grab my drink and avoid the barista announcing "Lite Iced Triple Venti Half-Pump Americano Skinny for High Maintenance Melanie" with that smirk on his face. But, I digress…
When I consider my little clients in feeding therapy, I wonder how this research might be expanded to detect possible differences in taste perception in children with sensory processing challenges, including kids with autism. Certainly, respecting the differences in a child's sensory system is an integral part of feeding therapy for most clinicians. Could it be that this hiccup in auditory, visual, gustatory or other sensory systems communicating efficiently with one another makes eating a variety of foods especially difficult for some children, more than we know at this time? A recent article in The Journal of Neuroscience reported that kids with "autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have trouble integrating simultaneous information from their eyes and their ears" and discussed how this might affect their language skills. Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, at Columbia University Medical Center explained in a recent video for parents how a poorly functioning pathway for simultaneous auditory and visual information (and the secondary problems of processing and responding to sensory signals) causes a child with ASD to be overwhelmed in environments that we find quite comfortable. Perhaps future research may include Spence's work and how it might apply to children in feeding therapy. Would certain tones be more soothing while eating? Would certain music in the school cafeteria help children eat faster or even choose more nutritious foods? The common phrase "a feast for the eyes" may one day turn out to be "a feast for the eyes and ears" as we consider all the possibilities.
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