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Plots Tab (Preferences Window)
In this tab of the Preferences dialog, controls are provided for setting default characteristics of the plots.
The default characteristics that may be set are the plot width and height, the font, font size, font style, grid line visibility and color, and the major and minor tick sizes for the axis scales. The plot width and height can be entered in cm or in. Click on the unit designation to toggle between these choices. Regardless of what unit choice, the plot width and height inputs are converted to pixels and stored as an integer value. Depending on your equipment and video setting, a pixel is either 1/96 or 1/120 inch.
Ticks are the short line segments on the axis scale. Major ticks are placed on the scale at the point where the axis numbers appear whereas minor ticks occur between the axis numbers. Ticks which are drawn into the plot rectangle are represented with positive numbers. The plot can be configured for outdented ticks by specifying negative values for the tick sizes. These default characteristics are applied whenever a new plot is generated.
Resolution is relevant only when the Copy command is used to copy the plot to the Clipboard. The plot will be copied to the clipboard as a picture (enhanced metafile), as a bitmap, or as both a picture and bitmap depending on the setting of the radio buttons in the Copy as box. The resolution of the copy may be specified as 100, 300, 600, or 1200 dots per inch. Higher resolutions generally produce a better image, but in the case of the bitmap copy, they result in much greater memory utilization particularly if the copy is done in color. After a plot has been copied to the Clipboard, it can be pasted into another application using the application's Paste or Paste Special command. If the plot is copied as both a picture and bitmap, the paste special command provides a choice of picture, picture (enhanced), bitmap, device independent bitmap. Selecting Picture will paste the enhanced metafile. The device independent bitmap will paste the bitmap. You may want to test both of these options to see which provides the best choice for a high quality image in your application.
The Copy in Color check box controls whether the Copy command will reproduce the plot in color or in black and white.
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Thunder Bay police seek public's help in locating two missing men
Police are looking for Bernie Goliboski and John Boczkowski
Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., are asking for the public's help in locating two missing people.
Police said 47-year-old Bernie Goliboski was last seen by a family member on October 7 at around noon in the area of James Street and Redwood Avenue.
There is concern for his welfare, according to a written statement from the Thunder Bay Police Service issued on Thursday.
Police describe him as being six feet tall with a heavy build, medium length wavy hair and blue eyes.
He was last seen wearing olive coloured work boots, dark blue sweat pants and a grey fall jacket.
The second person city police are looking for is 67-year-old John Boczkowski.
Police said Boczkowski was reported missing on October 9, he subsequently returned to his home on Red River Road briefly, but left again at around 7 a.m. on October 10 and hasn't been seen since.
According to a written statement, efforts to locate the 67-year-old man have been unsuccessful and there is a concern for his wellbeing.
Police said he is known to frequent the Intercity area including Chapters and Wal-Mart.
Boczkowski is described as being 5'10" tall with a medium build, bald head and brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing a grey leather-sleeved black jacket, black jeans and striped toque.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts to Boczkowski or Goliboski is asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers.


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Dr David John Maddams is one of the best GPs I came across. He LISTENS to the patient and ASKS relevant questions. He appears to be highly intuitive where the medical diagnosis is concerned, and he always acts in a thoughtful and sympathetic manner towards patients' health issues. He also seems to embrace a holistic approach in his consultations, and shows the ability to 'connect the dots' where a patient's medical history a/ o health issues antecedents are concerned. This doctor is a superb (and, unfortunately, rather rare) example of how a GP should be. Here's a very thankful patient. Luminita Rusu-Martin
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2 Tbs sugar free syrup with 20 calories per serving (such as Log Cabin brand)
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optional: 1/3 of a banana, strawberries, or blueberries for topping
1.) In a mixing bowl combine milk, 2 egg whites, splenda, cinnamon, vanilla and mix.
2.) Take both pieces of bread and soak them in the mixture for 5 minutes so it can absorb as much as possible.
3.) Spray a pan with cooking spray and let heat for a minute.
4.) Put both pieces of soaked bread and cook until golden brown.
5.) Top with syrup, fruit, and enjoy!
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Leather Cutting Process line is equipped with high-definition and full-color leather contour acquisition system. Scan the leather with the acquisition system, transfer the leather's irregular contour shape, size, defects to the nesting software. The nesting software gives the most optimized cutting solution.
The three-segment structure - spreading table, cutting table and collecting table realize the automatic continuous cutting, which significantly increase the productivity.


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Have you ever seen the Dead Sea Scrolls? Most people have never had the opportunity. They have been called "one of the most important archeological discoveries in the world" because they prove the accuracy of the Biblical texts, predating the oldest manuscripts by 1,000 years!
This photo is of a scroll of the book of Isaiah. This, along with papyri fragments from almost every book in the Bible shatter the arguments of skeptics who claim that these sacred documents and fulfilled prophecies were written after the time of Christ. Arguments answered.
The more than 2,000 year old texts were discovered in 1947, when a shepherd boy threw a rock into a cave 40 feet up the side of a mountain to try and find some lost sheep. When he heard the sound of pottery breaking, he investigated and found a priceless treasure now kept under lock and key by the Israeli government.
This once in a lifetime opportunity to view these rare and beautiful documents at a local church inspired me and my family and reaffirmed what I already knew - that God watches over His words and that they are more precious than silver or gold.


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Why Our Gear Represents Our Personality
Looking back, it makes sense that I found the jacket the day after college. I had just gotten my psychology degree and was ready to try and figure people out. Myself, for starters. The jacket was hanging in our living-room closet: a high-end red North Face coat, lined on the inside, with Gore-Tex on the … Continue reading Why Our Gear Represents Our Personality


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Bring a Friend Day
Hillside School is excited to host "Bring A Friend Day" from Tuesday, February 19 – Friday, February 22, 2019. Bring a Friend Day is an opportunity for current students to show the students who are shadowing them what it is like to be a 'Bulldog for a Day.' Current students may invite a friend from their sports teams, summer camp, church, neighborhood, etc. to spend the day with them at Hillside. Prospective Hillside students who are not yet friends with a Hillside student will have a student host provided for the day!
To Participate:
- Complete the information form below.
- The deadline to RSVP is Thursday, February 14th.
- Please note that this event is for boys only, in grades four to eight.
- Please contact Bianca Cargill at (508) 485-3483 with any questions.
On Visit Day:
- Visiting students should arrive at Hillside at 8:20 AM.
- Our guests are welcome to observe sports practices from 3:15-5:00 PM but should otherwise plan to be picked up at 3:00 PM


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Mmmm Soapy
This is my bathroom hand soap. It was almost empty of Milk & Honey soap so I filled it up with the purple lavender soap. Pretty neato. It was fun to watch the milk & honey soap creep up to the top through the lavender soap. Oh it's the little things in life that amuse me.
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Bank worker Samantha Bell was just 22 when she was diagnosed with advanced heart disease that meant her heart could stop at any minute.
"I never thought something like this would happen to me," she says. "I was very frightened. I'd gone from being healthy, to being told I'd need medication for the rest of my life – and perhaps a transplant."
At a time of life when most young people are living life to the full, Samantha's condition severely limited what she could do. At first she was fitted with a mini defibrillator inside her chest – both to regulate her heartbeat, and shock her heart back to life if it stopped. Frighteningly, it did stop while she was having dinner on a family night out.
She then became even more seriously ill, putting her liver and kidneys at risk of failure. Doctors moved her onto the urgent heart transplant list – and as she recalls, "I knew things were not looking good for me. If I didn't get a new heart soon I would die."
Thanks to the generosity of an organ donor, Samantha got the transplant operation she so desperately needed and the operation was a success. She was able to leave hospital just three weeks after her operation.
Now nearly a year on from her transplant, Samantha is focusing on the future. "Hopefully one day I'll get back to work as a personal banker," she says. "I just want to be able to live life as a normal girl in her twenties."
She doesn't know who her donor was, but says "I would like to find out more when I'm well enough and write to their family to thank them. Thanks to their gift, they've saved my life."


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Archive for June, 2008
the announcement..!!
The Government announced yesterday an increase in petrol and diesel prices, stating that it can no longer continue to subsidise fuel. I dunno whether it's true or not because i'm not a politicians who's working in their line…but it's still fine for me because i'm working near my house..hehehe…but i juz wana remind "them" that we as citizens already burdened by the rising cost of living. We cannot justify the increase by saying that our fuel price is still lower than Singapore.
One thing bout them, they r SHIT..!!!!Singaporeans expressing relief that the Malaysian government would not imposed a ban on sales of fuel to foreign-registered vehicles at petrol stations located within 50km from the border.F**K u all Singaporeans…damn realy hate them…!!!berlagak nak mampos..!!!


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Viking Global Color Mosaic (MDIM1 controlled) 925m
About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km/pixel. Individual image frames acquired during a single spacecraft revolution ("rev") were first processed through radiometric calibration, cosmetic cleanup, geometric control, reprojection, and mosaicking. We have produced a total of 57 "single-rev" mosaics. Phase angles range from 13 to 85 degrees. All of the mosaics are geometrically tied to the Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM), a black-and-white base map with a scale of 231 m/pixel.
In producing a global mosaic from Viking images with useful color and albedo information for the surface, the largest challenge has been the photometric normalization, including removal of atmospheric effects. First, we selected a subset of single-rev mosaics that provide the best global coverage (the least atmospheric obscuration and seasonal frost). A Minnaert photometric normalization was applied to normalize the variations in illumination and viewing angles. Image data acquired at illumination or emission angles larger than 77 degrees were trimmed off, as these data are strongly affected by atmospheric scattering. A model image of condensate haze was created from the violet images, consisting of 60% of the violet-filter reflectance greater than 0.05, smoothed over 20-km scales. The haze model was then subtracted from both the violet- and red-filter images. The residual polar caps were excluded from haze removal. This procedure is "conservative" in the sense that it errs on the side of undercorrecting for the haze. Finally, these normalized mosaics were combined into global mosaics. Global coverage is about 98% complete in the red-filter mosaic and 95% complete in the violet-filter mosaic. A green-filter image was synthesized from an average of the red- and violet-filter data to complete a three-color set.
References: * Eric Eliason, Raymond Batson, Anthony Manley, Mars Mosaicked Digital Image Model (MDIM) and Digital Terrain Model (DTM), "Mission to Mars", USA_NASA_PDS_VO_2001-2007, "VO1/VO2-M-VIS-5-DIM-V1.0", NASA Planetary Data System, 2001 , http://pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/Missions/Viking_Orbiter/vo_2007/.
* Kirk, R.L., Archinal, B.A., Lee, E.M., Davies, M.E., Colvin, T.R., and Duxbury, T.C., 2001, Global image mosaics of Mars: Assessment of geodetic accuracy, Lunar Planet. Sci., XXXII, Abstract #1856, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston (CD-ROM).
* Batson, R.M., and E.M. Eliason, 1991, Digital Maps of Mars, Photogram. Eng. & Remote Sens., 61, 1499–1507.
* Wu, S.S.C., and Doyle, F.J., 1990, Topographic mapping, in Greeley, Ronald, and Batson, R.M., eds., Planetary Mapping: New York, Cambridge University Press, p. 169-207.
* Wu, S.S.C., and Schafer, F.J., 1984, Mars control network: American Society of Photogrammetry, in Technical papers of the 50th annual meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry, vol. 2, Washington, D.C., March 11 - 16, 1984, p. 456-463.
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- USGS Astrogeology Science Center
- Author
- USGS Astrogeology Science Center
- Originator
- Group
- Added to Astropedia
- 16 May 2014
- Modified
- 15 May 2017
- Purpose
This Mars color mosaic incorporated roughly 1000 Viking Orbiter images and provides gap-free coverage of the Martian surface.
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- Global Mosaic, Remote-sensing Data
- Edition
- Online Linkage
- https://planetarymaps.usgs.gov/mosaic/Mars_Viking_ClrMosaic_global_925m.tif
- Native Data Set Environment
- ISIS v3
- Color
- Color
- Supplemental Information
- http://pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/Missions/Viking_Orbiter/vo_2007/
- System
- Mars
- Target
- Mars
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- Geomorphology, Image Processing, Remote Sensing
- Mission
- Viking
- Instrument
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- public domain
- Use Constraints
- None
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- Publication date
- Progress
- Complete
- Update Frequency
- None planned
- Logical Consistency Report
- As noted in the process description, images in the mosaic were obtained under a wide range of illumination conditions and were processed by a simple scheme intended to reduce but not eliminate differences in appearance of topographic features. Comparison of such features in different parts of the mosaic should therefore be considered only qualitative. The majority of the source images have resolutions in the range of 200 to 300 m/pixel, but images with resolutions as poor as 1000 m/pixel were used to fill gaps in a few areas. The accuracy of the original MDIM could not be evaluated at the time of its production, because of the lack of a suitable reference data set of higher accuracy. The precision of the control network on which the mosaic was based was estimated at 20 pixels (5 km) root-mean-square (RMS) (Batson and Eliason, 1991) Subsequent control networks and mosaics were later produced from the same images but with a number of improvements, primarily 1) use of Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)-derived elevations (~10 m vertical accuracy) to constrain all network points; 2) use of MOLA-derived horizontal coordinates to constrain a globally distributed set of points; and 3) use of the MOLA elevations to orthorectify the images before mosaicking. Comparison of the coordinates for the center point of each image in MDIM 1.0 and in the later, MOLA-controlled product indicated mean differences of 0.16 km in easting and -1.01 km in northing, with RMS differences of 3.15 and 4.33 km. The contribution of errors in the MOLA coordinates (<0.1 km horizontal accuracy) and the later MDIM tied to it (~0.3 RMS accuracy relative to MOLA) contribute negligibly to this result. Note that some confusion exists in the literature over the systematic error of MDIM 1.0 in longitude. The mosaic was tied to an erroneous identification of the Viking 1 landing site approximately 0.2° from the true location, which would correspond to an error of ~12 km in easting, but this error was partly corrected by adjustment of the W0 rotational parameter to place the crater Airy 0 at zero longitude. Furthermore, comparisons between MDIM 1.0 and an intermediate solution (MDIM 2.0) partially tied to MOLA indicated a 6.7 km (0.11°) mean difference in longitude. This difference was attributed primarily to errors in MDIM 1.0 but in fact was primarily an error in MDIM 2.0, with MOLA and the final MDIM 2.1 control solution coincidentally quite close to the original product.
- Completeness Report
This Mars mosaicked digital image model (MDIM) incorporated roughly 4600 Viking Orbiter images and provides gap-free coverage of the Marian surface.
- Process Description
Cartographic experts at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Ariz., created the MDIM mosaic. The images underwent noise removal, radiometric, geometric and photometric correction, reseau removal, and tone matching. The ground control points were established based on a low resolution mosaic produced at USGS under the direction of Sherman Wu. In addition to the ground points, a network of tie points was collected between all identifiable overlapping images, making sure that all four sides were tack to other images. Once the camera pointing was updated for a set of images, the updated camera pointing information was saved and stored so for later access if necessary. The images with the corrected geometry were projected to a sinusoidal equal area projection and mosaicked together. The tones were matched using a highpass and lowpass filtering technique to simulate a photometric correction.
The images used in MDIM 1.0 were obtained over wide ranges of incidence and phase angles and atmospheric haze. As a result, it was not possible to preserve the radiometric integrity of the observations and simultaneously produce a uniform representation of the Martian surface. Instead, a simple radiometric-photometric processing approach was used that yielded a mosaic with reasonably uniform brightness and contrast. In particular, the differences in the contrast of topographic features of similar slope that were imaged at different incidence angles have been reduced. This processing consisted of highpass spatial filtering to suppress regional-scale albedo variations and gradients in illumination, followed by normalization of the slope-dependence of surface reflectance, based on a Lambert reflectance model. Because the processing was carried out on images with 8-bit integer pixel values, additional radiometric distortions such as contouring were introduced in areas of low original contrast.
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- Planetary Data System
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- 15 March 2001
- Source Title
- Viking Online Data Volumes
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- http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/volumes/viking.html
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- Accurate to Control Net
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Eat, Drink and Be Murray at the Murray Bros. Caddyshack Restaurant
Visit the Murray Bros. Caddyshack Restaurant in booth #608 to grab your "Carl Spackler" card, good for one (1) FREE beer or glass of wine with the purchase of an appetizer. Plus, you'll be able to enter for a chance to win a bottle of Murray Bros. Vodka! One lucky winner will be chosen each day!
The Murray Bros. Caddyshack Restaurant is the perfect place to relax and grab a bite after the show. Enjoy specials on signature cocktails made with their very own Murray Bros. Caddyshack Vodka: The Carl Spackler Greenskeeper Cocktail, Murray Mule, 19th Hole and "It's a Birdie!". And for the beer lovers out there, The Caddy Lager, Shack Ale and Freeze Gopher will be featured on draft!
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Every year, the Digital Methods Initiative organises an intensive summer course in which students learn and develop internet research techniques for studying societal conditions and cultural change.
During the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) Summer School, participants actively engage in empirical research projects, employing web-specific software tools, such as scrapers and crawlers. The course concludes with an event at which the research projects are presented.
The quotation comes from an essay on why to quit Twitter, but more generally it could be considered a summary of how social media and particularly its dominant study have evolved over a few short years, though the order could be changed around. If one considers the chronology of research, one could begin with the dictators and especially the debunking of the naiveté and euphoria associated with the web's potential. Instead of emancipatory, the web became authoritarian, with Shirky's web supplanted by Morozov's. Post-Snowden, the surveillant state (and corporation) became the lamentably preferred object of study, rather than the connective action behind social movement power. Studies of automation that depart from the Microsoft experiment of Tay to the so-called computational propaganda that includes autonomous agents inflating follower counts and thus symbolic power, are preferred over critiques of metrification and later datafication. Trolls in themselves were once tolerated as part of the landscape like an otherwise strong European democracy might be said to have tolerated a small right-wing party. But the idea that studying the "earnest" web for social causes and civic initiatives misses the "ambivalent" web of insincere mockery is a recent turning point. We now turn to that ridiculing web as worthy of study, even if it provides it with more "oxygen". Initially a misapplication of the term, scholars now also study the other 'trolls' seeding national media systems with disinformation, and whether consumers of the online junk actually believe what they share. This current state of the web and social media is the starting point for this year's Summer School, including how its study may be productively oriented.
For more information on the summer course see the website of the Digital Methods Initiative:
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Albany, NY - Sen. Schumer Wants FDA's Food Recall Process Overhauled
Albany, NY - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says federal regulators are too slow getting bad food off the shelves.
The New York Democrat is calling for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review its recall process from top to bottom to determine if it's doing enough to prevent contamination-related food illnesses.
The action follows a preliminary report by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggesting the FDA has taken far too long to initiate food recalls.
Schumer notes that a 21-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted flour began in December but the recall wasn't issued until May.
According to the FDA, at least 57 products have been recalled since May 31 due to listeria, salmonella and other bacteria.
More of today's headlines"Cleveland - As he turns his attention to the general election, Donald Trump is signaling that he is ready to tone down his fiery rhetoric on illegal immigration — at..." Cleveland - Trump Backers Claim Shift In His Immigration Rhetoric "Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and..." Washington - Clinton Says Russian Intelligence Services Hacked DNC
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Twenty-one men are beginning their journey to become permanent deacons in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Bishop Michael J. Fitzgerald celebrated Mass including the Rite of Admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders on Saturday, Sept. 28 in St. Martin's Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood.
The men now begin a five-year period of academic and spiritual formation before their eventual ordination as deacons serving the Church in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Father Patrick Brady, dean of the Permanent Diaconate Division at St. Charles, concelebrated the Mass. Deacon of the Mass was Deacon James Owens, director of the Office for Permanent Deacons.
The new candidates for the diaconate shown above, not including one candidate who could not attend the ceremony, are (front row, from left): Mario G. Mirabelli, John S. Gray, John J. Knesis, Kevin T. Mead, James M. Browne, Eugene J. McNally, David J. Matour, Robert G. Flynn, Phuong T. Nguyen.
Show at rear, from left: John K. Murray, Melvin A. Burton, Gino J. Benedetti, Dwight C. Johnson, Jerome M. Maghee, Albert J. Murphy, Stephen J. Martino, Raymond H. Thuel, Michael P. Nungesser, Anthony O. Willoughby, C. Robert Nowak. Not pictured: Jonathan P. Hess.
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Broadway Shopping Centre, Mirvac, Year of the Dog Installation
Art Pharmacy Consulting's latest cultural activation with Mirvac is taking place at Broadway Shopping Centre, Sydney just in time for Chinese New Year's Year of the Dog! We've engaged a multidisciplinary artist, to create an installation alongside Broadway's escalators.
Art Pharmacy Consulting caught up with the artist to hear about what inspired her use of metallic piñata dogs, why she wants a playful audience and how she uses matte materials to make the materials 'pop'.
Check out our projects page to see our other Mirvac collaborations.
So – why piñata balloon dogs and palm trees?
When asked to create an art installation for Broadway for The year of the dog, I dreamt of creating a contemporary fantasy-landscape where the glitterati puppies would exist. If it was my year and I was a dog, where would I go ..... to a tropical island right ?
What affect do you want to achieve on the people visiting Broadway with your visuals? What do you want to go through their heads?
So many installation artworks lack PLAY. The scene is simple enough to allow viewers to experience a moment of imagination. To perhaps spend that moment day dreaming, and making their own story. Working in the space between to escalators, with its narrow ascending steps lent itself to a design dramatic proportions.
The 3m height of the palm trees creates a really unique line for viewing. The Monochromatic tones are arrangement to represent a sunset. The repetition of dogs and palm trees is a stylistic approach I like to carry through my work.
What drew you to using the combination of metallic and mattes in this installation?
For me the dog is hero ! It's the year of the dog and it's their time to shine (ha ha - puntastic), so it made sense to use matte, frosted and opaque textures and huge hit of flickering red foil, so the dogs pop!
What other senses (beside visuals) do you hope to stimulate with this installation?
Emotion .... memory ... perhaps even physical, with a smile, a laugh or a squeal !


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Remember, folks, Donald Trump is not the first Republican to come up with the various incendiary talking points that make up the core of his platform. Trump was given the opportunity to proceed by Republicans.
On Monday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan posted a statement to Twitter about "Kate's Law," which the House recently passed and which "will toughen the punishment for illegal immigrants who re-enter the country."
This law sounds reasonable enough on the surface — perhaps. In reality, the law is birthed out a racist obsession with illegal immigration as one of the key issues holding American society back when it, in fact, is not.
Ryan's statement tells the story of Deputy Sheriff Frank Fabiano of Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was shot and killed by a drunk driver after he pulled him over.
Ryan's statement should end there, but it does not. Instead, Ryan goes on to make the completely irrelevant assertion that Fabiano's killer "should not have ever been in the country in the first place."
Maybe not. However, the killer's place of origin as an undocumented immigrant has absolutely nothing to do with his crimes, period.
Ryan's statement to the contrary, as posted to Twitter, is below.
Check out Twitter's response below.
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Craft will mark World Refugee Day #WithRefugees with a collaborative garland making workshop.
Facilitated by Island Welcome artists Anna Davern, Belinda Newick, Michelle Cangiano, and Nicky Hepburn, join us in Craft's main gallery space for a communal afternoon of making, creating and coming-together.
Using recycled plastic water bottles, the project aims to focus on the water restrictions placed on asylum seekers in detention.


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Sunday sounds
Sirens in the distance: I picture big red trucks racing somewhere. We hear them far less often now that we aren't living on the university campus, where they seemed to respond to several proto-emergencies a day in our neighbourhood of fraternity houses and eco-Franco-Italian-mitteleuropa residences. Figures, I guess. All those high-risk 20-year-olds.
Birds. Caltrain, whistling its way from San Francisco to San Jose, probably pretty empty on weekends, but full of commuters other days. It whooshes by two blocks west of us and there are level crossings everywhere with barriers that clang up and down. Every now and then a car gets stuck on the tracks in rush hour and, sadly, more often, someone jumps in front of the train, so the drivers are understandingly anxious. But at other times, the whistle sounds like an old time train whistle crossing the Canadian Prairies, then the Rocky Mountains and pulling into the old station in downtown Vancouver. When I was a student I used to work summers at a lodge in the Rockies and when we were off work we'd go into town and eat soft ice cream and watch the train go through. Steam. With porters.
Reading Le Monde this morning, I see that Saint Exupéry is the favourite author of French high school students, which reminds me of how much I loved his books when I was twenty and makes me wonder what it was about them. Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes): the lyrical Sahara desert landscape, I think. Maybe the affinity with night skies and the flat prairie wheat fields of Alberta and Saskatchewan.


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Miami in November/
Hold up. I know you're probably wondering why the heck I'm posting photos that look like they stepped right out of the July archives, and also why on earth I'm wearing a calculator watch (other than it being awesome, you mean?). Before you start thinking I've lost my marbles, let me explain. See, on Sunday I went to a birthday party that had the best theme ever - Miami Vice. I've always wanted an excuse to dress in this theme, so I was excited for the opportunity, even in the height of colder temps and holiday excitement. I didn't want to buy anything new, so I woke up the summer wardrobe from hibernation and went more for an "inspired by" rather than a literal look. The first thing I always picture when I think of that show is the white blazer with rolled up sleeves over a t-shirt look. Even though that style was more for the guys, I had to go with it - along with one of my all time favorite 80's shades of pearly pink lipstick (Revlon's Silver City Pink). I had to go to a work event directly after the party, so I kept my hair in this decade and later switched out the shirt and jacket to more fall appropriate versions. This wouldn't exactly be the first look I would recommend for winter (even in Miami), but there's no reason not to rock one of these elements mixed into more wintery outfit. A white blazer over a metallic blouse and black skinnies would be super chic and festive for a holiday party, and any leather trimmed pants would be a snowy statement in white or cream. My favorite Ray-Ban mirrored sunnies were my summer go-to's but they'd also make killer snow bunny shades on the slopes this winter. I'm always surprised when I find inspiration in the weirdest places. Thanks for playing along!


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We've worked up an appetite this summer! For our FINAL CHILDREN'S HOUR OF THIS YEAR, we are celebrating with some traditional foods! Learn more about the foods you see at many traditional celebrations, check out a cooking demonstration, get a taste and bring home a recipe to try! Thank you all for joining us for this year's children's hour and be sure to look for us again in 2019!
Children's Hour at Tomaquag Museum is a FREE public program held every Wednesday morning from 10:00-11:00 am for children of all ages. Each week features a different interactive lesson. Through music, dance, storytelling, crafts and Narragansett language, museum educators focus on Indigenous New England history, culture and art.
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My previous participation in Ludum Dare involved music for seven game projects, and sound effects for one. That went super well, because I needed that many projects to occupy me for the entire weekend. I even had a painful amount of downtime and wrote a couple bonus songs.
This time, for Ludum Dare 39, I created Audio Hook in 48 hours. This showed me how little down time you get if you make a game entirely by yourself. Games are huge, complicated beasts, and 48 hours isn't a huge amount of time.
Something else totally new: I streamed the entire event live on my Twitch channel. You can watch the full recording on YouTube. But be warned: I overworked myself and might be a little zanier than usual.
My past couple experiences with this – LD 34 and LD 36 – were meant to be Compo entries. However, by the time the 48 hour deadline started rolling around, I decided it would be impossible to have a finished, working game in that time, so I took on the extra 24 and entered the Jam instead.
For LD 39, I used what I've learned about time management (at least in the context of game jams) to force myself into the Compo, whatever it took. And I succeeded.
As always, this document is meant primarily to tell my future self what to do and what not to do with the next Ludum Dare I enter. There won't be a lot of info about the game itself, so you might want to glance at the Audio Hook LD page before reading.
Take my advice with a grain of salt, because it's specialized to my particular situation. I hope you can get something out of it. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about my experience, or want to talk about Ludum Dare in general.
What Went Right
Have a solid idea before going to be the first night – and sticking with it.
The first night, I paced back and forth in front of a whiteboard, marker in hand, spewing out whatever came to mind. This eventually paid off in the following design:
The next morning, I had doubts. The idea had holes, didn't fit the theme perfectly, and might require a ton of music. Also, there would be several graphical assets to produce.
The takeaway here? Stick with it. The 48 hour limit doesn't give you time to redesign after spending a night sleeping on an idea and dreaming about its possibilities. Maybe you'll fix the problems, maybe not. But commit to succeeding or failing the whole jam.
Doubts are a good sign. You should be even more suspicious if you think the idea is perfect after reflection. This means you're blindly loyal to it, and that could cause more problems in the end.
Commit to requirements (in my case, minimal graphics with a focus on audio/gameplay) early.
I'm basically an audio person, with a strong programming background and a bit of dev/design experience. The gaping hole in my skillset is visual art. With enough practice, maybe I could be okay at sprites and models, but since my interests lie elsewhere, it's difficult to polish up this skill.
With this in mind, I set out trying to create an audio-focused game with minimal graphics. My approach for Ludum Dare 36 was to make a text game, but I don't think this appealed to much of an audience. Having some kind of graphics and a more traditional video game (with actual visuals) sounded like a better idea.
This one was a double-edged sword, though. I'm not totally satisfied with one or two of the game's sound effects, and the music could use some extra polish. However, I spent very little time on graphics. At one point, I made the misguided attempt to texture the hookshot line. This turned out okay, but I could have spent the time and energy better elsewhere.
Implement a full play experience before broadening the game.
The advice I hear over and over, and constantly gave myself in previous postmortems, was to start with a tiny, playable experience. Get that working, and the rest is just filling in content. Although I ran into some roadblocks for this (see the bit about the audio system in the next section), I did manage a complete playable experience with a single level before expanding to more.
Cut corners early to start release process with several hours left before the deadline.
The initial plan was to have a full playable on the first day. That didn't happen. I pushed it back to noon ET on the second day, then 3pm ET on the second day. The deadline was 9pm ET.
Eventually, I started cutting corners when it got to be around 3 – 4pm. With the deadline fast approaching, I knew it usually took more time than estimated to produce the final executable and make sure it works. The build came around 6pm, leaving me three hours until the deadline (with an extra hour of leeway for submission).
This was a fantastic idea, because the built version immediately showed critical problems. The whole time, resolution hadn't even entered my mind. Unity uses a free-form shape when playing in the editor by default. This doesn't show you how your interface will look in, for instance, 16:9 or 4:3.
When I played windowed mode at the lowest resolution to test (640×480), a viewer on the stream pointed out that the interface was getting chopped off. Sure enough, he was right. Wish I knew his handle because I'd love to credit him for it. This is one part of:
Stream the event. This forces you to work diligently and gives you pseudo-playtesters in the eyes of the viewers.
Streaming might not be for everyone. Some people don't have the setup, some people just don't like it. I thought the experience would be far too distracting because I enjoy interacting with chat.
The result was the opposite. Because I had to come back for streaming, and I knew there were people watching, there was an extra urgency to getting back to work. Most jams, I'd take all sorts of breaks, convincing myself they were needed. For the most part, they're just a waste of time, and streaming helped me focus on the task at hand.
As previously mentioned, viewers can also be a sort of playtester. They'll spot things you might miss while you're focused on something else. This simultaneous feedback is hugely useful because you rarely have time to iterate during a game jam. It just takes too much time to get the game into someone's hands and take their feedback into consideration.
What Went Wrong
Take more breaks.
Although streaming helped me avoid taking too many breaks, in the end it ended up forcing me not to take enough, either. The streaming+jam mindset had me locked to the computer more than a usual jam, feeling like leaving the house would be problematic.
I took one break on Sunday to get the mail. Other than that, my breaks were just grabbing food or coffee, no more than five minutes. This led to some of the more frustrating moments which could have done with a brisk walk out in the fresh air. Usually I can approach problems from a new angle when I come back from such a break.
Build the critical system first (in my case, audio layering).
I knew from the first hour that the game would involve layering of audio stems as a core mechanic. With this in mind, it should have been one of the first systems I developed, if not the first. Tacking it on after the code had already become a bit of a convoluted mess led to many problems.
Eventually, I scrapped a lot of the code I'd written to rewrite that particular system. It ended up a bit too coupled by the final product, a mess I could have avoided by taking some breaks (see previous note) and making it before anything else, so the critical bit would be working first.
Design around content taking more time than anything else.
A common piece of advice for game jams, especially short ones like Ludum Dare, is to use procedural generation as much as possible. This allows for a larger game experience in a limited design without the need for loads of content.
My design worked well for procedural generation of levels and graphical content. Not so much for audio. See, each level needed its own unique audio stems to work. Even if I had multiple levels with the same song, I would have to manually split into a different number of audio stems in order to handle a different number of in-game stems.
I'm glad I went forward with it because I like the game's design, but ultimately this led to having three levels in the Compo version rather than the planned eleven (or the currently planned 16).
Pick a name early on so you can reflect on it.
Right as the clock was ticking down and I was putting finishing touches on the build, I pulled a name out of nowhere: Hook, Beat, an Keeper. I thought it was a clever take on "hook, line, and sinker" and loved that "Keeper" was a reference to football (soccer).
Turns out, people thought the game was about hooker and beer. Names are important, friends.
This Ludum Dare was more successful than any previous LD for me. It's the first time I've streamed the entire event and the first time I submitted to the compo. The votes and feedback are rolling in from all sorts of awesome people, and I've even made a few potential friends along the way.
Next Ludum Dare, I'm streaming the whole thing again, whether doing music or a game of my own. However, I'll take more breaks, make sure the game's size isn't limited by the amount of content, and maybe experiment a bit more with graphics.
Thank you for taking the time to read through my reflections. I hope you found something useful, and if you aren't already interested in Ludum Dare, I encourage you to dive in with the next event. You can learn a lot in a single weekend, especially working with a team for the Jam.
Again, feel free to reach out to me through Twitter, email, or checking out my Twitch stream on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. I'd love to talk about my experience, Ludum Dare, or game development in general.


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Today at the pool, about ten kids I didn't know called me "Auntie." Here in Hawaii it happens every day.
"Auntie! Watch me put my head underwater!"
"Auntie! My sister can jump, you want to see her?"
"Auntie! Will you help me get my towel?"
"Auntie! Can you show me how to kick my legs while I hold onto the edge of the pool?"
I'm always taken aback by the fearlessness of the kids. They trust me immediately. I'm an Auntie--an elder-- and their sense is that I will take care of them.
It reminds of something very old. And something very new. Something many of us have lost and are looking to regain.
Innocence. Trust. Ease.
In Hawai'i it's called O'hana-- Family.
Now each time a child calls me "Auntie" I feel so proud. That they've chosen me, that they trust me. They ask. I give. It's so easy. I haven't forgotten.
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I love this! Living in Hawaii, I can't tell you how close to home this hits.
Howard Zinn on Obama, from Alternet
Excerpt of Liliana Segura's fascinating interview with dear family friend and ultimate power-to-the-people historian, Howard Zinn. Thoughts?
From Alternet
LS: What do
you think about Obama and the fact that he's following the trajectory
of the Bush administration with the whole "war on terror"? You endorsed
him, right?
Howard Zinn: Endorsed Obama? (Laughs.) Yes -- I endorsed Obama, I wanted him to win. I wanted Bush and Cheney out of there. I wanted change -- and the truth is I didn't have much choice. It was Bush or Obama. I chose Obama. And, in fact, I was hopeful. Not too hopeful, because I know something about American history. I know how much hope has resided in presidents, and I'm aware that presidents are political animals. I'm very much aware that Lincoln was a policitian and Roosevelt was a politician and, in fact, you might say the theme of my work is that we cannot depend on people in the White House. We can depend on people picketing the White House. So my attitude towards Obama has been watchful from the beginning in the sense that, okay, it's good to have Obama in there, I'm glad that he aroused a lot of people getting people involved in politics -- now I hope these people who have been aroused and energized will use that energy to push Obama in a direction different from the one he seems to be going in right now.
LS: What do you think about the comparisons between Obama and Roosevelt that came up following the election?
Howard Zinn: It's interesting, you know, if Langston Hughes were around, we could have a poem, "Waiting on Obama." But the difference is, we shouldn't be waiting on Obama. We should be informing Obama that we expect more from him than he has done so far. Now, he has done some things that have moved in the right direction on domestic policy. In terms of the federal government taking a more aggressive stand in creating jobs, calling for a tax policy that will be directed at taking money from the richest one percent of the population, and easing the tax burden on other people, some of the initiatives he's taken have been good.
But his domestic policies are not bold enough. He is still doing too much through the market system, through private enterprise. For instance, right now he is having a a big conference with people who are giving him advice on the health system. But he has not shown an inclination to do what the public really wants and what is absolutely neeeded, and that is to institute a government-financed health system which will bypass the insurance companies -- the kind of system they have in Canada, and France, Italy, New Zealand. He's not shown the boldness necessary in certain domestic programs, even though as I say, he's moving little bit at a time in the right direction.
The economic situation is so bad. Although it's not as bad as it was in 1932, it's bad enough that it calls for bolder domestic measures. It calls for the government to institute, as Roosevelt did in his first couple years, a huge jobs program. The federal government under Roosevelt gave jobs to six million people; if you did it proporational to population, Obama would be creating a jobs program that would give jobs to ten million peope. He's very far from that. If he were bold enough, he would be instituting a federal arts program -- one of the very best things that came out of the New Deal -- where artists and musicians and writers and poets would be given jobs by the government to do the things they wanted to do. These are people who are bypassed by the market system. Artists struggle and they have to take other meanigless jobs in order to continue to do their art. And that's all, as I said, with his domestic policy.
With his foreign policy, unfortunately, he shows no signs of departing from the traditional militarism of the Democratic and Republican parties. The idea of sending more troops to Afghanistan is disastrous, really absurd. I mean, almost as soon as he came into office he sent missiles into Pakistan. Civilians were killed. The whole tone of foreign policy, adding more soldiers, leaving 50,000 in Iraq even after withdrawing them in 16 months, all of this is very bad. And, therefore, he's going to need a great big push -- protest, really. He's going to need demonstrations and protest and letters and petitions. He's going to have to face the kind of agitation that Roosevelt faced when he came into office.
Skull and Bones: Geronimo's
Geronimo's Heirs Sue Secret Yale Society Over His Skull
HOUSTON — The descendants of Geronimo have sued Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University with ties to the Bush family, charging that its members robbed his grave in 1918 and have kept his skull in a glass case ever since.
The claim is part of a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington on Tuesday, the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death. The Apache warrior's heirs are seeking to recover all his remains, wherever they may be, and have them transferred to a new grave at the headwaters of the Gila River in New Mexico, where Geronimo was born and wished to be interred.
"I believe strongly from my heart that his spirit was never released," Geronimo's great-grandson Harlyn Geronimo, 61, told reporters Tuesday at the National Press Club.
Geronimo died a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1909. A longstanding tradition among members of Skull and Bones holds that Prescott S. Bush — father of President George Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush — broke into the grave with some classmates during World War I and made off with the skull, two bones, a bridle and some stirrups, all of which were put on display at the group's clubhouse in New Haven, known as the Tomb.


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Autumn Term: we are currently working on music to be performed at our Spring concert, making a start on Dvorak's New World Symphony and Rossini's Overture The Thieveing Magpie!
Later on this term we will get a bit festive when we unwrap the music for the Wonder of Christmas Concert – held in collaboration with Alton Choral Society, Ancora and the Maltings in Alton. This ia a festive delight not to be missed.. save the date: Sat 16th December 2017.
Following on from our most successful LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS to date!
Join us for an evening of musical entertainment in the Alton Public Gardens with gates opening at 6pm for the concert at 7.30pm.
The theme for 2017 is – A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES!
A musical selection of well known film favorites from great cinema classics to modern day movies such as
Superman, James Bond, Titanic, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, My Fair Lady, Marriage of Figaro and West Side Story.
Alton's Last Night of the Proms is brought to you by the Alton Concert Orchestra and Alton Town Council with headline sponsor Specsavers Alton and the support of our Proms Patrons.
For further information please visit – http://www.alton.gov.uk/


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Go Visit: Fountain's Abbey
The National Trust has long held a special place in my heart. As a child I remember multi-coloured rugs, picnic baskets and walking boots as we hiked around the properties and then wandered through the enchanting buildings, usually leaving a muddy trail behind. It was inevitable, then, that as soon as we reached the point in our careers where days out were actually affordable, a National Trust membership for Mr CC and I would not be too far behind. Today's post features a place that is of even greater import since August last year when we got engaged on a visit to the property: Fountain's Abbey.
We like to explore places a bit differently, and so instead of going to the Abbey when we arrived, we followed a walking route handily provided on the website and aptly named the Boots, Gaiters and Vistas walk. The advice states it will take you approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, and with a picnic stop (and proposal!) along the way, it took just a little over this. The walk around the estate was beautiful, if a bit of a trek at times. There are stunning views across the valley (hence the 'Vistas'), herds of cows to pass and muddy tracks to climb; a great mix of terrain if you're looking to build up an appetite. The other attraction was the lack of people. Don't get me wrong, I am definitely a people person, but when you're on holiday it's sometimes nice to escape from everything and everyone. Walking back through the deer park with a sparkler on my finger definitely made the crowds that followed a lot more bearable!
If you're not up for such a trek, there are plenty of walks in the Abbey grounds to enjoy. Fountain's Abbey has so much to offer that you'll never see it all in one day, and that's the beauty of it! Check out this link for more information on activities and events, particularly over the Easter break. Have fun!


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The Pipeline Improvement and Preventing Spills Act, introduced last week by U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters of Michigan, also calls for new research on oil spill response, such as how to respond to a spill during the winter when ice covers the lakes, and increases access to safety information about pipelines.
The pair said in statements that they were inspired by a large spill in the Kalamazoo River.
"One can only imagine what a disaster it would be for a similar oil spill to occur in the Great Lakes, the world's largest system of fresh surface water," Sen. Peters said in a statement.
The pair also noted discomfort among maritime officials about the effectiveness of oil spill cleanup methods, such as oil dispersants, in times of cold water.
Among those advocating for the measure were Save the River, Clayton, which dedicated its winter conference to the topic earlier this year.
"Shipping on the St. Lawrence River has long been an all-risk and no-reward proposition, and crude oil on ships would greatly increase that risk to our environment, our economy and our communities," D. Lee Willbanks, the group's executive director, said in a statement.
Tom Flanagin, spokesman for Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, said that the congresswoman was looking for ways to protect the lakes without limiting access to affordable energy, and that the proposal was under review by her staff and the Great Lakes Task Force.
Similarly, a spokesman for Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said the senator's office also is reviewing the measure. A spokesman for Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said she is considering the proposal, and is committed to protecting area lakes and waterways.
Currently, no crude oil shipments are made by vessel on the Great Lakes, Save the River and lawmakers said. However, the possibility of Canadian companies shipping crude oil on the St. Lawrence Seaway was reviewed last year by the U.S. Department of State as a part of its examination of the Keystone XL pipeline project.


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Here are a few things I'm grateful for this Thanksgiving.
1. My little family of three.
2. Theo's birthparents for bringing him into the world.
3. Sunny autumn days.
4. Theo's energy, personality and good health.
5. Theo's grandfather, who cares for him regularly and has endless patience and good sense.
6. My family in Ontario who will be gathering imminently for a wedding and birthday celebration.
7. The best playgrounds in the world. I can walk several blocks in almost any direction and hit a fantastic playground within minutes.
8. The kids downstairs who treat Theo like a sibling. They play with him, feed him, dogpile him, bring him T-shirts when they go away and remember his birthday.
9. Friends without children who still ask me out for dinner, hikes and Film Festival movies.
10.The Hipstamatic and Instagram iPhone apps.


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What is Young Arts?
Started in 1973, Young Arts provides exciting opportunities for children and young people to expand their horizons through involvement in creative arts activities.
We aim to inspire young people with a lasting enthusiasm for the arts and an awareness of our arts heritage and its conservation. Our vision is equality of opportunity for all to learn through participation in the arts.
Arts Society Young Arts projects are many and varied and usually linked to curriculum work within schools. Through our efforts we aim to enable youngsters to learn and practise new skills, experiment with unfamiliar materials and acquire art-related technological expertise. The programme usually runs on a two year cycle and schools can expect up to £500 of funding per year.
A recent undertaking was the sponsorship of a weekly art class for young people, aged four to 19, who have a diverse range of disabilities. The class, in Northwich, is part of a multi-sports club providing a range of activities for these youngsters. Under the guidance of artist Andy Leigh, they have produced a large multi-media picture, titled 'Identity', which relates to their hobbies, aspirations, emotions and families. This follows on from our two-year support of a group of deaf children at St Andrew's Primary School, South Manchester. Initially they created a jungle-themed fabric collage, followed by a photographic project - both under the tutelage of professionals.
This year's grant of £500 has been given to Signpost for Young Carers. Signpost is a Stockport charity that provides information an support for carers of all ages. In particular, they provide recreational activities for Young carers. It will be used to provide 8 sessions working with an Artist John Hamilton. He will deliver two sessions each for four groups of young people of different ages. At the end of the project he will be mount their work, making it suitable for display. We will be able to visit the groups during their art sessions and may be able to mount a display of this work at one of our meetings.
" Seasons" Young Arts project with Styal Women's Prison is now complete. Its acceptance and movement to " The Clink " restaurant where it might be seen by our members is in negotiation.
Past projects include: linking art projects with healthy eating; willow weaving; utilising links formed with The Lowry Gallery; quilting; an Olympics project at Park Lane Special School, Macclesfield, with input from 'Artists in Schools'. The Arts Society takes an active interest in all the projects, compiling photographs and other data for our records.
The photograph shows Multi-Sports Club's 'Identity' picture with (left to right) artist Andy Leigh, club volunteer Liam Leach, Young Arts co-ordinator Michelle Gray and club business manager Cindy Seiler.


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Organic India® Heart Guard is a dietary supplement containing extracts of Arjun tree, Soapnut, and Moringa.
Organic India® Heart Guard is used as an additional supporting agent for people suffering from or being at risk of various cardiovascular disorders (e. g. coronary artery disease, heart attack, arrhythmias, heart failure, heart valve disease, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, etc.). Although Organic India® Heart Guard beneficially affects the health in patients with aforementioned conditions, the sole use of these capsules will not cure any of them.
- Arjun tree (Terminalia Arjuna) extract acts as a cardio-tonic due to the high amount of polyphenols and flavonoids in its bark. It promotes the muscle tone of the heart maintaining healthy blood flow through the whole body. The extract of Arjun tree is also thought to support of healthy cholesterol blood levels.
- Soapnut (Reetha fruit) extract possesses anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and calming properties. It helps fight daily stress, that is extremely harmful and damaging for human cardiovascular system. Also, Soapnut beneficially affects the skin and hair, boosts energy levels, and thought to act as an expectorant towards cough.
- Moringa is a plant with potent antimicrobial, healing, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-toxic properties. Moringa leaf extract contains a high amount of vitamins and minerals, including Vitamins A, C, B1 and B2, iron, fiber, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. It lowers cholesterol and sugar blood levels and improves digestion. Also, it fights damaging compounds called free radicals thereby protecting liver, heart, and other organs.
Organic India® Heart Guard capsules are for oral use only.
Take 1-2 capsules with food and water twice daily for 3 months at least, or as directed by your doctor.
If you miss a dose you should take it as soon as you remember about your missing. If it is the time for the next dose you should continue your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose.
If an overdose occurs and you are feeling unwell, you should seek emergency medical attention or contact your healthcare provider immediately.
Store at a cool and dry place, away from direct sunlight. Do not freeze. Throw away any unused preparation after the expiration date. Keep out of the reach of children.
Organic India® Heart Guard is a natural, infused with herbal extracts preparation. If while using Organic India® Heart Guard you are feeling unwell, you should seek emergency medical attention or contact your healthcare provider immediately.
Do not use Organic India® Heart Guard if you are allergic to any ingredients comprised in these capsules.
Do not take Organic India® Heart Guard during pregnancy or breastfeeding without your doctor's approval.
Always give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use.
Q: What is Organic India® Heart Guard used for?
A: Organic India® Heart Guard is a nutritional supplement formulated to improve cardiac function. The regular intake of these capsules provides cellular rejuvenation, supplies blood with the essential nutrients, strengthen heart muscles, and supports blood circulation. Infused with pure extracts of certified organic herbs. Vegetarian and safe for long-term use.
Q: How often should I take Organic India® Heart Guard?
A: Take 1-2 capsules with food and water twice daily for 3 months at least, or as directed by your doctor.
Q: Can pregnant or breastfeeding women use Organic India® Heart Guard?
A: Do not take Organic India® Heart Guard during pregnancy or breastfeeding without your doctor's approval.
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