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Lebanon Kentucky Winter Senior Session | Tiffany Bickett
Tiffany Bickett's Winter Senior Session in Lebanon, KY / Kentucky Senior Photographer Rebecca Beatty
Snow has finally made it's appearance here in good ole Kentucky! And when it snows, it's time for some senior portraits!! Being one of the few seniors that was wanting snow portraits, Tiffany and I met up around some open land that most people would over look to start her winter session. However! We never thought that after the first day of snow, it would be even more cold and even more difficult to stay focus and WARM! Lol!
But no matter how much cold weather we face, we was able to get some beautiful shots! Check out just a few of my favorite shots from this gorgeous winter session!


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Check out these tips for an Oklahoma City Girlfriend's Getaway. Travel Tips | Destinations |Travel Savings |Travel Oklahoma I have been a native of Oklahoma City all of my life. Born and Raised here and it's crazy how much our city has grown just in last several years. I love to travel, and it's even better when I get to hang out with some of my … [Read more...]
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Artist Spotlight || Allison Cosmos
Happy 2018!!! I have plenty of reasons (one of them being that I was miserably sick!) as to why I'm so late in the game of wishing you a fabulous year, but I don't want to bore you with my excuses. But I do want to wish you all a wonderful 2018 filled with many special moments with your loved ones, lots of shared experiences and laughs, lots of health and plenty of energy and grit to keep after your dreams. This is your year!!! And because you all deserve the best from me I wanted my first blog post this year to be really fabulous and intesresting so I want to introduce you to a gem of an artist Allison Cosmos.
I can't remember how I discovered Allison and her amazing work but I fell in love with everything she does immediately. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida and her work has been featured in Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Veranda, Metropolitan Home, HGTV and Houzz. Let me show you some of her work-
I really love Chinoiserie panels and wallpaper and would love to own a triptych of hers someday because I love the level of detail and the exotic landscapes she composes. Her choice and mix of plants and flowers with the various wild life is exceptional. I was curious about how Allison got interested in Chinoiserie and here is her answer-
"My grandparents did a lot of travel to Asia in the 1940's and 1950's so their home was a mix of European and Asian things and I thought it was SO cool. The first Chinoiserie commission I ever did was almost 18 years ago in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. They wanted little Chinoiserie scenes on each of their cabinet doors. Since I LOVE detail and LOVE painted furniture I was immediately in love with the project. I come from a mural background so I've been fascinated with landscape scenes and large scale works since I graduated with a BFA in painting 22 years ago. Murals sort of bridge into wallpaper which is a natural transition for me. My current works of art are being done with the intention of creating a modern Chinoiserie series offered in repeat wallpaper panels. "
I also asked her about what she enjoys the most in doing this kind of work-
"I love to paint odd and colorful birds the most. Composing and balancing different sizes, shapes and colors of flowers and plants in my work is challenging but a fun additive evolving process. My most favorite piece thus far is probably the Palm Beach Paradise (below. This one is my favorite!) piece but I'm REALLY excited about a new one I've started with a Greek "theme". I enjoy studying the plants and animals of a region and especially like to include endangered or extinct species. "
Aren't the colors of this one INSANE!! She has original triptychs available for sale and she also does commissions. If an original is a little outside your budget Allison also offers high quality prints on both canvas and paper of her work (even of the triptychs! She currently has three available here, here and here). And she also does smaller individual pieces if a triptych is too much of a commitment for you.
Don't you love her work? You can learn more about Allison here and you can follow her painting journey thru Instagram here. Obsessed right? And here are plenty of images of how different people used panels in their homes.


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Josh Janssen is a podcast host and content creator based out of Melbourne, Australia. His podcast is called The Daily Talk Show, a podcast that releases a new episode every weekday. Josh and co-host Tommy Jacket launched at the beginning of 2018 and just surpassed episode 200. In the times of fast content, Josh has consistently brought a high level of production quality, providing value for their listeners in forms of insightful conversation and guests they bring on the show.
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Jonathan Wagnr made his Broadway debut with School of Rock as the original Dewey understudy, performing the role over 100 times. He spent the last 15 years performing all over Chicago at the Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare & The Second City among others. He is also an award-winning composer/songwriter, having written hundreds of songs and four full-length musicals!
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Theatre Teacher Education
The Theatre Teacher Education sequence at Illinois State University is dedicated to preparing highly qualified teachers/artists to meet the challenges of education in the secondary school system.
Illinois State University is recognized nationally as the second largest producer of teachers among institutions certified by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. Nearly one of every seven teachers in Illinois public school classrooms holds a degree from Illinois State.
Point of Pride
Theatre Teacher Education students play an important role in planning and running the Illinois High School Theatre Festival, one of the largest festivals of its kind in the U.S.
Why study Theatre Teacher Education?
As a Theatre Teacher Education student, you will receive a solid foundation of basic skills in traditional theatre courses, such as acting, directing, design, theatre history, and dramatic literature. At the same time, you will follow a course of instruction specifically focused on teaching theatre at the secondary level. Your teaching skills will be enhanced by professional studies classes taught through the College of Education.
The strength of our Theatre Teacher Education sequence lies partly in the variety of clinical experiences you will experience while working in a high school setting. These include the opportunity to assist master teachers in extracurricular speech and theatre activities; presenting workshops; and demonstrating teaching lessons in the classroom. The culminating experience for Theatre Teacher Education students comes when you take complete responsibility for a fully mounted theatrical production at a local high school.
During your last year at Illinois State University, you will student teach in a high school classroom under the supervision of a master teacher.
How to Apply
Applying to Illinois State
Illinois State's preferred filing period for freshman students for the fall semester is September 1-November 15. Applying early is encouraged, as the University must limit enrollment due to space at the University and in specific majors/programs. Visit the Office of Admissions to apply today!
Applying to the Program
The School of Theatre and Dance applies the same academic standards as those required for admission to Illinois State University. There is no separate ACT or Grade Point Average requirement for admission to the School of Theatre and Dance.
Any student accepted by Illinois State University may declare a major in Theatre Teacher Education. No audition or interview is required, although Theatre Teacher Education majors may arrange an interview for departmental scholarship consideration.
Students must apply to Illinois State University prior to interviewing for a Theatre Education scholarship within the School of Theatre and Dance.
2019-2020 Interview Dates
- November 9, 2019: Illinois State Campus
- January 10, 2020: Illinois High School Theatre Festival (not for scholarship consideration) Students much be registered to attend the festival and sign up to participate in the auditions
- January 18, 2020: Illinois State Campus
- February 15, 2020: Illinois State Campus
- February 29, 2020: (Not for Scholarship Consideration)
Applying for a Scholarship
If you wish to interview for a School of Theatre and Dance scholarship in Theatre Teacher Education, please select an interview date after completing your application for admission. Prior to your interview date, please submit:
- A resume detailing your theatre production experiences.
- A recent photo.
Please come to the interview prepared to discuss your goals, your experiences in theatre and any additional information that is relevant to your study of theatre and film.
Deadlines and Review Dates
Students are accepted into the Theatre Teacher Education major contingent on admission by Illinois State University.
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Safe Food Resources understands the value of an educated workforce and we provide training that meets the learner where they are today. Our courses are designed to provide relevant and comprehensive direction for our students that they can immediately apply to their work.
Food Safety Certification – 2 Day Course Format
All food manufacturing companies are required to have a "Preventive Controls Qualified Individual" to prepare and maintain their food safety plan. This FSPCA course is designed for those individuals who have responsibility for the food safety plan under the Food Safety Modernization Act Regulation 21CFR117.180. It is a hands on workshop presented under a standardized curriculum approved by the FDA.
Food Processors who are regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture or Food & Drug Administration must comply with the HACCP Regulation that pertains to their food product. This hands-on introductory workshop is accredited by the International HACCP Alliance and is designed for individuals on the HACCP Team who have responsibility for the development, implementation and maintenance of a HACCP based food safety system.
U.S. based importers who meet the definition of "importer" in the FSVP rule are required to meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's provisions in the Food Safety Modernization Act. This Foreign Supplier Verification Program course was designed and developed with funding from the FDA. Attending this course will help you understand the FSVP requirements and how the requirements can be met in your circumstance.
The tragic events of 9/11 reshaped our nation and the entire world. As such, companies located domestically here in the United States and around the world are being challenged each day with new opportunities to better protect their assets, their employees, products and stakeholders. There is a growing demand for security at food manufacturing companies across the nation. Your company's survival could depend on how prepared you are to prevent and respond when disaster strikes.
Short Food Safety Courses
The short courses are designed to keep the learners abreast of updates for regulations and 3rd party audit schemes. Typically, the courses are 4 hours in length and include the changes and implementation strategies to ensure your food manufacturing company is operating within the regulations or standards. We focus on HACCP, Preventive Controls, SQF, BRC, and FSSC 22000.
The new version of FSSC aims to make the GFSI-recognized standard more rigorous and consistent, through the introduction of unannounced audits, food fraud prevention and FSMA readiness. Since Version 4.1 was released in 2017, companies and auditors have a year to adapt to the new requirements. This course will review the new requirements and show examples of best practice in the industry.


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Brooks Guesthouse
Owners Carla and Andrew Brooks have made a foray into the country (see entry, Ross-on-Wye), but everything ticks over nicely back at their 'impressive' city B&B. More
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27. 4 in Airstream caravans on roof.
all year except 24–26 Dec.
lift, lounge/breakfast room, honesty bar, free Wi-Fi, in-room TV (Freeview), courtyard garden.
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contemporary in lounge and breakfast area.
all ages welcomed.
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per room B&B single £89–£149, double £99–£169. Min. 2-night stay Sat.
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Owners Carla and Andrew Brooks have made a foray into the country (see entry for Brooks Country House, Ross-on-Wye), but everything ticks over nicely back at their 'impressive' city B&B. It occupies a converted 1960s office block in the old town, by St Nicholas market, a stroll from the harbour with its waterside eateries. The unfussy style mixes bare floorboards with leather sofas, moulded plastic chairs, an honesty bar. Bedrooms have controllable heating, shutters, efficient bathroom, hospitality tray, wine glasses, a Roberts radio. Some overlook the Mediterranean-style courtyard. A novel option, especially fun for children, is to take one of the Airstream camper vans on the Astroturf-covered roof. One, sleeping four, had 'a good-size double bed', two small singles, good bedding and towels, a powerful shower, 'great lighting including colour-changing strips'. When the seagulls sound reveille it is time for breakfast in the open-plan kitchen, including organic yogurts, 'lovely jams, marmalade and juices', home-made granola, fruit compote, the full English, bacon butties, smoked-salmon bagels. 'The staff were very friendly, taking time to ask the children how they liked staying on the roof.' It was 'very good value'.
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This hotel accepts discount vouchers which entitle readers to a 10% discount off their normal B&B rate for a single night's stay. To take advantage of this offer, you must present the voucher at the time of booking.
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Win: Tickets to Wild Front at Monroe's LiveWild Front combine clever, dreamy pop-rock with choppy guitars and three-part harmonies. Their influences range from 80's rock to alternative indie, taking inspiration from folk, classical and hip-hop along the way.
They have played in front of festival crowds including Bestival, Isle of Wight and the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury.
Wild Front stop off at Monroe's Live as part of their Ireland and UK tour on Wednesday 29th November and Flirt FM have a pair of tickets to give away.
Just tell us what city the band hail from, and send us your answer. Text 083 433 1013, tag @flirtfm on twitter or message us at www.flirtfm.ie
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[Wow, two posts in one day!]
The third and final wedding of 2011 that I was in was for my cousin's wedding this past weekend in Edmonton, AB. This was the only wedding where all the bridesmaids had the same dress.
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I emailed my cousin pretty much as soon as I found out I was pregnant to find out if I could make my own version of the dress that would allow room for my growing belly. She said it was fine by her. I only had about 3 days to make the dress – we were away for 10 days at the last wedding, and then I was working pretty much everyday before leaving for Edmonton. So it was a bit stressful… luckily it was a much simpler dress to make than the Love Is In The Air (Part II).
I based the bodice on a sloper I had in my stash, added a halter strap, and used the slash-and-spread method on an old skirt sloper so I could have a gathered skirt. Since the original dress I was basing my version on was made of black dupioni silk, I used the same fabric, and added a faux-belted waistband like the original. It turned out to be a pretty close replica, except that the grainline of the dupioni on the original is horizontal and mine runs vertically. Oops, tant pis! The photo I was working off wasn't very detailed…
The wedding had a 1940s vibe, and I was so lucky to have had Garrett at Grateful Head in Edmonton do my hair for the day. He said he has done tons of hair and makeup for local theatre companies and 1940s is pretty much his favourite theme ever. I just said "go for it!" so I ended up with fabulous rolls and curls – I felt like I stepped right out of 1946. I loved it. The red lips and winged eyeliner completed the look. My cousin looked amazing in her dress, and her birdcage veil was to die for.
All in all, it was a fabulous day. It was nice to see my family again since we don't get together very often… We are too spread out across the continent! Hope you all had a lovely weekend as well.


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Discrimination on grounds of sex/gender, or WHAT IS IT?
Discrimination on grounds of sex/gender, or WHAT IS IT?
Discrimination means any unreasonable, unequal treatment of individuals by state authorities or other persons who have certain powers, competence or move within environments where people depend on one another in a certain way. The state should make sure that society does not discriminate people on grounds of sex. Discrimination on grounds of gender/sex is usually hidden because it works in combination with gender stereotypes that are usually considered "normal" and "right".
Discrimination on grounds of sex – direct: When a person receives a less favourable treatment because of their sex (e.g., job postings that read "looking for a male for the post of a director").
Discrimination on grounds of sex – indirect: A situation when a regulation, practice or policy that appears non-discriminatory (neutral) at the first sight have a negative impact on one of the genders (e.g., an employer decides that trainings will only be open to full-time employees. However, given the fact that part-time employees are almost exclusively women, the decision is discriminatory).
What is sex and what is gender?
Sex is a biological feature of an individual, determining whether a person is a female or male from the point of view of reproductive anatomy, these characteristics being universal. Gender is a "social" or "cultural" construct of sex referring to what society understands as masculine or feminine, or what is expected from a woman and man in society. From this point of view, gender is a learned behaviour of an individual. Unlike sex which is a universal category that does not change over time, gender defines roles, behaviours and norms deemed typical of women and men, which vary throughout different society, different time period or different social groups.
What is a gender stereotype?
Stereotypes or prejudice are generalised views society or individuals hold of a certain group of people. Gender stereotypes assess, in a simplified and generalised manner, abilities and qualities of men and women, or create a simplified picture of what is masculine and feminine while ignoring uniqueness of each individual. Stereotypes are usually negative in their nature, generally suggesting that all members of the same group are the same with the same behaviours. With respect to gender stereotypes, it gives rise to generally accepted and deeply rooted ideas of what is considered masculine and feminine. For example, all women are generally considered sensitive and all men rational (or "women are from Venus, men from Mars"), while a rational woman or a sensitive man are not deemed "normal".
We usually consider gender stereotypes "innate", even though they are in fact models of behaviour which people learn from their early childhood, similarly as they learn their mother tongue or other social roles. It means that children cannot develop what is natural to them, but their individuality is suppressed in favour to the fixed model of femininity or masculinity.
Stereotypes do not always play a negative role only. They simplify and make easier for individuals to understand various situations in life. On the other hand, they may result in superficiality. If they are present all around us, we consider them invariable standards. It is not true, however.
What is gender equality?
Gender equality is a fair treatment of women and men, which can also refer to "equal treatment, as well as a treatment which is not equal, but equivalent in terms of rights, benefits, obligations and possibilities. All human beings have the right to freely develop their abilities and chose possibilities without being limited by gender roles. Different behaviours, aspirations and needs of women and men are equally recognised, assessed, considered and supported."(quoted from the Glossary of Gender Equality – gender equality/inequality at http://glosar.aspekt.sk). It also means an equal visibility, empowerment and participation of both sexes in all spheres of public and private life. (definition by the Council of Europe)
Who discriminates?
In the case of discrimination on grounds of sex/gender, it is important to distinguish not only who is discriminated, but who discriminates, as well.Most often, the discriminating person is an individual who has a certain authority or powers to decide on matters important for others and is influenced, for example, by his fixed ideas of masculinity and/or femininity.
The state also discriminates, through its representatives, i.e., public servants, police officers, customs officers, prosecutors, judges, etc.
The most recent statistical survey has shown that Slovak women earn considerably less than men even if they have the same level of education, experience and skills as men doing the same job. Such a behaviour is discriminatory on grounds of sex/gender and results from a generally accepted and fixed idea of a man as a breadwinner, which is now often far from truth.
Service providers may also discriminate; for example a restaurant owner or a private security service that allows/prohibits entry to an entertaining establishment.
Discrimination may also occur with an employer recruiting and hiring a new employee, or a supervising officer who decides on bonuses or career promotion of their subordinates.
Colleagues at a workplace/schoolmates can also be those who discriminate – for example, by mocking, humiliating, slandering or encouraging to discrimination because in the workplace, people share a common environment, communicate together and results of their work or studies often depend on cooperation with others.
A condition that must be fulfilled in order to recognise a certain treatment as discriminatory is that a person who discriminates has the authority or powers, provides services or goods to others, or coexists with other people in a certain closed environment where people depend on each other in a way.
Is discrimination the same as intolerance?
Discrimination is not the same as intolerance. If a married couple quarrels because they cannot agree on how to bring up their children, or how they should spend their free time, it is not discrimination but a family dispute and intolerance. This conflict may be considerably serious, and end up with a divorce, but we can hardly find any discrimination in that because the man and woman are equal in their relationship and none of them depends on the other. However, if one of them was economically dependent on the other and suffered physical or psychological violence, coercion or ridicule, it would be discrimination.
If a company looking for an assistant includes in its job posting "looking for a woman below25", it involves discrimination both on grounds of sex and age because it prevents men and people older than 25 year to apply for the post. Discrimination on grounds of discrimination is also involved when an employer prefers a male applicant over a female one for a management position, even though the woman is more fit for the position (she has better education, is more experienced), based on a stereotype that men are "better" managers.
When a famous dance club requires entrance fee from men only, and the entrance door is marked with "Babes Enter for Free", it is direct discrimination. This particular case could also involve an instruction to discriminate, if ushers were instructed by their employer in advance that they should only ask entrance fee from men.
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The research stream "Service Systems" at Wi1 covers exploring, designing, engineering and evaluating systemic service innovations. Our research focuses especially on stakeholder integration, co-creation and value appropriation in complex service systems. Typical questions we try to answer are:
With prototyping and design science research we, thus, especially contribute to the development of the field of service systems engineering.
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Ocean Challenge - Article Search Function
The Ocean Challenge Article Search allows a structured search of articles in all published editions of the Challenger Society publication.
- Select Type of Article (or leave as "All")
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- Add Keywords (optional).
- Click the link to add General Subject Areas or Topics (optional).
- Once search terms and requirements are complete press the "search" control at the bottom of the page and the results will be displayed.
Use the + control to expand the search results and display a download link to the search result result.
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The Institute for Global Change of the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences is pleased to host the Annual Meeting of the Challenger Society Special Interest Group for Ocean Modelling, and the Challenger Society's AGM.
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There is a new online search function for all Ocean Challenge issues that allows anyone to easily search for articles on a specific topic. We hope this will be used not just by the marine science community but by educators who would otherwise not have access to such resources.


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It's been almost one year since I bought my PC. One of the biggest reasons I choose this PC was to play FSX (Flight Simulator X) as I am an FSX gamer... if you will.
The thing is that a few months ago I started to notice some stutters while playing FSX. I have already done a factory state reset quite a few times without any luck.
I somehow feel this has something to do with my graphics card.
Any assistance is very much appreciated.
Are you running the DVD version or the Steam version?
What resolution are you running at?
Are you sure it's still running on NVidia GPU and not Intel?
Running the DVD version (SP1 and SP2).
Resolution is 1920x1080x32. Monitor is Samsung model S22D300HY. VSync is on.
100% sure I'm running on NVidia GPU.
I'm thinking on contacting support then...
Did you do any driver updates and then start noticing the stutters...or did it just start stuttering with no driver changes?
To be quite honest, I can't remember.
In any case, a factory state reset was made. One thing that caught my attention is that the drivers contained in the Resource DVD are not compatible with the graphics card. None of them! A warning comes up saying that the graphics card is not compatible with the driver. The same happens with the drivers at the support page, except for one.
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Call them what you will- Cryan or Brystal (the emcees came up with these gems, not me folks! hahah)- but the real way to describe these guys is best friends and truly committed partners for life.
In August, I got to celebrate with Crystal and Brian for their I do's! Working in the theatre world, having their wedding on "dark day"- Monday- was not the only amazingly untraditional thing about the festivities!
They got ready together in the same house, did a first look, hung out in Quidi Vidi all day with their entourage, walked down the aisle together for their ceremony, and shared their first dance with all the wedding guests.
It was the perfect way to make things official and celebrate the love they share! Thank you C+B for the most chill wedding day ever and for being such friendly, welcoming, fun loving souls <3
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CAMP / Roundup 2
So what happens at camp? Well there is a lot of rules and a lot of scheduling and a lot of go go go. But there is also a lot fun and energy. My favourite was the weekly "Water Wednesday". This day involved a pool party, water fight, and sometimes even a trip to the water slides. I also loved going on the boats down at waterfront even if it made me sea sick. Each time I went down a bit early with the boat drivers to get things ready. While we waited for the campers to show up on the beach, we'd circle up the boats in the middle of Cultus and take a dip in the water (which was always somehow the perfect temperature).
I'm so grateful for the amount of time I was able to spend out doors in the sun and water. I've never been this tanned before!
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Henry Aaron, it begins.
Bernard Aaronson. William Aaronson. Charles I. Abady. Pasquale V. Abate. Victor Emanuel Abate.
On it goes, this roll call of Brooklyn's dead in World War II, through 11,500 names, including 19 Katzes — Abraham, Abraham, Abraham W., Adolph, Daniel, Harry, Harvey, Herbert L., Irving, Joseph, Leonard, Lester A., Louis H., Morris, Morris N., Murray, Philip, Robert and Solomon — before reaching William A. Zwolski.
In sheer numbers, the roster of the Brooklyn War Memorial in Cadman Plaza dwarfs that of the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center. It fills 15 walnut panels almost 20 feet high with countless three-quarter-inch bronze letters. Dedicated in 1951, six years after the war, the display was meant to overwhelm. It still does.
But you have probably never seen it, because the roster occupies a hall into which the public is rarely admitted. You may have assumed, as I did, that the limestone exterior — two colossal allegorical figures (war and peace, or victory and family) flanking a dedication to the men and women who fought in World War II — was the monument in its entirety.
In recent years, however, Memorial Day ceremonies outside the structure have underscored its fundamental purpose. "All of a sudden, people in the community realized, 'Wow, this is a memorial,'" said Toba Potosky, president of the nonprofit Cadman Park Conservancy.
The conservancy and the New York City Parks and Recreation Department hope to reopen the main hall of the Brooklyn War Memorial while there are still World War II veterans alive.
"It becomes more of a debt, as the years go by, to honor what they've done," said Stephen A. Varone, president of Rand Engineering and Architecture, which is surveying the structure's condition for the conservancy. The building — now reached by steps — must be made accessible to wheelchairs, a process that includes the construction of a ramp, the installation of an elevator and the alteration of bathrooms.
Money is in hand to begin that work, said Martin Maher, chief of staff in the Brooklyn parks office: $3.5 million from the federal government as compensation for using part of Cadman Plaza as a construction staging area; $1 million allocated by Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president; and $500,000 allocated by State Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon.
"Five million dollars gets us what we need to get people inside," Mr. Maher said.
Over the years, the hall was used by the Heights Opera Company, the Marionette Theater Company and the Creative Artists Public Service Program, which held a competition in 1971 that gave "the place the look of a gallery that has been in a collision with a rummage sale," as The New York Times described it.
It was the setting in 1973 of the induction of 230 new officers of the Housing Authority Police Department, including Cynthia Brown, the first female recruit. And it was at the center of a 2006 controversy over artistic censorship when the Brooklyn parks commissioner ordered the closing of a Brooklyn College student show as being inappropriate for families.
The art and antiquities unit of the parks department has a workshop in the basement of the building, and the Kings County Jewish War Veterans keeps a part-time office there. But for the most part, the hall has gone unused since the mid-1980s.
Restoration and rehabilitation will proceed by "baby steps," Mr. Maher said, adding, "We wanted to build a constituency first." There are a few impromptu exhibits in the hall showing how it might focus on subjects like other wars in history, branches of the armed forces and recipients of the Medal of Honor.
In 2008, the parks department cleaned and stabilized the 24-foot-high exterior sculptures by Charles Keck: a female figure sheltering a child and a male figure wearing a laurel and holding a sheathed sword.
But the agency doesn't always make repairs on such a large scale. More than a decade ago, parks workers located a bronze "O" in the workshop, said Jonathan Kuhn, the director of art and antiquities. They refinished it and swapped it out for an "A" upstairs.
With that, "Marton Finkelstein" became "Morton Finkelstein." At long last.


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Happy Friday, everyone! Apparently, there was a major derailment last night on my commuter rail (10 cars full of garbage!) so I worked from home today. It was delightfully peaceful being at home. My mom and I had a lunch date in town and I ate the most incredible juicy burger and the crispiest, well salted fries. Well, now I've had my iron intake and pretty content.
With a lull between conference calls, I went out to swatch some makeup. There is a sweltering heat wave here in the eastern part of the US with temperatures touching 100 degrees Fahrenheit and even though common sense told me to stay inside and sip my cold drink, I went outside with cream products to swatch them for the blog.
Can you join me and say DUHHHHHHH? DUHHHHHHH.
I wasn't outside very long, but my By Terry Ombre Blackstar in Misty Rock softened enough to smush when I applied pressure to the tip. And Laura Mercier Caviar stick in Rose Gold BROKE. *ricken racking, criminy, shd8f739128*&*A&*#&!!*
I regained my common sense and fled back inside with those things and my cream Kjaer Weis blushes. I managed to take a few pictures so I hope to have some new posts up in the near future.
How are you beating the heat if you are in the eastern US? Are you some place cool in the world? Can I come over and stay?


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$10 Cover / Start 10pm / Doors 9:45pm
New York Pianist, Elan Mehler, has released three albums on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings and two with Challenge Records. Most recently the solo piano record 'Early Sunday Morning' called "disorienting and fascinating" by MOJO magazine and a "...refreshingly slow answer to our trashy nanosecond pop culture" by Time Out London. This concert sees Elan turning towards something a little....darker. Drawing inspiration from Screamin Jay Hawkins, The Lounge Lizards, Tom Waits, Randy Newman and Charles Mingus. For the whiskey drinkers and degenerates.
"Early Sunday Morning" available now on Challenge Records.
Elan Mehler, piano and Rhodes
Simón Willson, Bass
Dor Herskovits, drums


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The Log Book.---Collector Morse, of Cape Vincent, has given notice that under the provisions of the act of Congress of March,2, 1881, the name of the steamer JOHN THORPE, of Cape Vincent, is changed to ISLANDER.
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Thurs. Dec. 1, 1887 p 6
ISLANDER steam paddlewheel of 118.61 gross tons. 59.31 net tons. Official U. S. Number 75508. 125 x 20 x 7 Built 1871 at Rochester N.Y. Home port, Cape Vincent. Formerly steam paddle (a) J.H. KELLY (b) JOHN THORPE.
List of Merchant Vessels of the U. S. A., 1889
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I realize most of you think it's crazy to go without makeup on a Monday, but inspired by my friend Alexis Wolfer of The Beauty Bean, I have decided to take the Columbus Day and rock the no makeup look to give my skin a break from last week's crazy schedule. With that commitment, I also thought I'd apologize to my face the best way I know how, which is with Tarte Pure Maracuja Oil ($46 via Sephora.)
I'm using a stock image since my bottle is almost empty, but that should give you a feel for how much I use it. Because when I've had a week where I'm rocking a whole face full of makeup and possibly changes in makeup throughout the day, my skin take a beating and this soothing, healing oil is like sending flowers to my face.
Maracuja oil is packed with Vitamin C and essential fatty acids, which means not only can it help soothe and smooth rough textures and dryness, but it brightens and hydrates. Now, here's the thing, ladies and men who love great skin: it's specifically targeted for those of us with sensitive skin and/or acne-prone oily skin. I know most of you who have oily skin are screaming, "That's a big fat glass of NO WAY IN HELL, chick!" when you saw that I suggested that you combat oil with oil, but hear me out: it works.
Essentially, if you have oil-prone skin, your whole job in life is to keep your skin moisture balanced. Because your face literally senses a disturbance in the Force (i.e. the hydration of your skin, blockages, irritation), and it sends reinforcements. Reinforcements = sebum, which is oil. If you won't keep your face soothed and hydrated, your oil glands will try and do it for you. If you add just a touch of this to cleansed skin, it might change your life. It won't clog your pores and it will leave you with hydrated, glowing, non-greasy skin.
Try it. I'm pretty sure you'll sleep with it next to the bed on a velvet pillow like I do…or at least keep it in the medicine cabinet.


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India among top 10 countries likely to be worst hit by asteroid impact
In a new study, scientists have identified the countries that are most likely to be worst hit by the catastrophic damage caused by asteroids.Research from the University of Southhampton have identified for the first time those which will suffer catastrophic loss of life or be so crippled it will be almost impossible for them to recover.The top ten countries most at risk are: China, Indonesia, India, Japan, the U.S, the Philippines, Italy, the U.K, Brazil and Nigeria.
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Wine, Brew and Cuisine: All In One Urban Oasis/
The Settlement Building in Vancouver, BC is the location for an all in one urban oasis. This oasis houses a winery, brewery, and restaurant/lounge all under one roof. Patrons drawn to this space get to experience all locally produced products in one location. Lets take a look at three different subdivisions of this multi- faceted business.
Vancouver Urban Winery
The Vancouver Urban Winery was the first business to inhabit The Settlement Building. The fashionable urban wine experience brings the community closer to the wine production process. Instead of people having to take a trip to a vineyard they can learn, taste, and swirl closer to home. It provides a location for patrons to taste and discover wines from throughout British Columbia. The venue offers wines on tap for on site consumption, which not only eliminates waste from your normal wine bottles but also serves as a unique vessel. There are 20 white wines along side 16 red wines on tap. The wine flights include a sampling of 5 wines and are sampled in a progressive manner based on body. A selection of beautiful crystal decanters provide a vessel for customers to share quantity equal to a bottle of on tap wine. The most distinguishing characteristic of this part of the venue is the wines on tap concept.
Postmark Brewery
Postmark Brewery was the creation of three long time friends with a passion for beer. This aspiration is evident when you visit the brewery and see the love and craft that goes into each individual batch that is brewed. The brewery is exclusively run and operated on site at The Settlement Building. Patrons can see the beer being fermented and the operations of the brewery.
There are several distinctive things about this brewery including a custom designed growler counter, tasting flights, and exceptional seasonal beers.
An fashionable growler counter and filling station in which visitors can pick up or refill growlers without even stepping foot into the main venue space. Locals love the ease of this set up because they do not have to wait in line and can immediately get access to locally crafted beer.
Tasting flights are available in the lounge and are served in a gradual manner established on hop. Patrons can choose from Pilsner, Saisonella, Dry Irish Stout, IPA, and seasonal beers.
The seasonal beers that are offered are enough reason to check this place out. The current offering is a Butternut Brown, which is a Northern English Nut Brown with subtle roasted butternut squash flavors. It has an ABV of 4.3% and 18 IBUs.
Belgard Kitchen
The Belgard Kitchen is the place where everything comes together as a wine bar, brewery, and lounge where they offer lunch, brunch, and evening fare. This space maintains a "Social Eating Concept" which provides a fun and social environment. The food menu is served progressively from light appetizers to heavier fare. The lounge gives patrons a chance to taste the wine and beer being manufactured by Vancouver Urban Winery and Postmark Brewery. The best way to try all these products is through the many tasting flights being offered. The venue utilizes some of the beer and wine in the preparation of dishes including a beet salad with Postmark IPA and flank steak with chimichurri with a Malbec molasses.
This concept of an all in one urban oasis is a very distinctive concept that is trending throughout Vancouver and globally. This manner of establishment is ideal for small, craft enterprises that want to partner together and offer patrons a more elevated and diverse experience.


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Intangible Imagination in Shame Culture
Rachael Ward
by Rachael Ward
Collectively, I've spent my twenties brushing off abuse from family dynamics and religious institutions which formed my upbringing. Through these words, thoughts and actions of such abuse, I have carefully crafted a narrative to aim at my own being.
It is self-hatred. It is shame and it is deadly.
I am tired of living into the narrative someone else programmed me to believe into and asked of me to lift for my own. I am exhausted with living disconnected from my mind and body out of continued internalized homophobia and regret of my existence.
Who wouldn't be tired of such a subconscious and conscious assault upon your person?
This is where my mind lives these days. Battling between the illuminated truth and the false narrative of disparage of who I am as a human.
But, there is a new shift here for me in this struggle. I have found the on switch to my body, the on switch to the origin and the on switch to being able to call this treatment abuse.Read More


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Trauma-Informed Practice & Improving on the current standard
Trauma-Informed Practice has been an increasingly popular topic in the world of counselling and community work. For those not familiar with the term, it refers to a way of approaching others as though anyone we meet could be a trauma survivor or victim of violence. There has been a significant push toward Trauma-Informed trainings for workplaces, hospitals, and schools. From my perspective as a trauma therapist, this is an excellent development. It increases the likelihood that victims and survivors will be met with greater sensitivity and positive, helpful responses from the community.
There is, however, one notable way that I believe Trauma-Informed Practice could be improved upon. The majority of the literature that inspires Trauma-Informed Practice falls short by misrepresenting people's responses to adversity as "effects". The language of effects is something that we're all intimately familiar with in one way or another. It's very closely related to scientific reasoning, which is often concerned with cause-effect relationships - a perspective that works great for looking at the interaction between objects in the natural world, but not as well for beings with free will, such as humans. By this I mean that it is fair to say something like, "Rising global temperatures effect the polar ice caps by causing them to melt." As passive objects, polar ice caps are likely to melt as temperatures increase. It's very simple, straightforward, measurable science. However, I believe that inferences like the one just mentioned become problematic when applied to human beings. For example, you may have read somewhere, or heard someone say, "Depression, anxiety, and nightmares are all common effects of trauma". Statements like that position people in exactly the same way as the poler ice caps in the example before it: as passive objects, rather than active subjects. This is inaccurate, because when forces act against the will and wellbeing of humans, they resist (even in subtle ways). When we look at people only through a lens of "effects", we don't see the purposeful things they do to survive and make it through bad situations.
From the current perspective of Trauma-Informed Practice, when someone experiences trauma, they are presumed to be damaged or disordered. We see this in terms like "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder". There is no account of the things a victim or survivor did/does to create safety and survive during and after the traumatic experience. The actions and emotions that they display after the experience are often taken out of context and seen as evidence of their disorder. This is not encouraging of their dignity – something that I believe is of great importance - even if we don't think about it all that explicitly.
Toward a Dignity-Informed Practice
From a response-based orientation, overt efforts are made to account for how the victim or survivor created safety and minimized the harm they were subjected to. Even if someone is unable to outright stop the traumatic event from happening, we see that the person did the best they could in the situation. Furthermore, their actions and emotional responses are recognized as purposeful and context-bound. So what some might call "depression" in the wake of trauma or violence might be better understood as sadness about what happened, or dissatisfaction for how they were treated by others after. What may be labeled "anxiety" could be better understood as worry for their safety in similar situations going forward, or fear of judgment or rejection from people who don't understand. I argue that these are very sensible, life-affirming responses – not symptoms of disorder. Acknowledging these life-affirming acts is very much in line with upholding dignity.
While I applaud efforts toward recognizing that our fellow community members may be responding to trauma and violence – which we should therefore exercise sensitivity and care around – taking our social responses a step further, toward acknowledging victim/survivor resistance is crucial. By moving beyond an effect-based misunderstanding of responses to trauma and adversity, we can be more effective helpers building more helpful communities. I see a response-based approach as being far more in line with upholding the dignity of all people - especially those in crisis.


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Focus on fifty-two remarkable women in Scripture - women whose struggles to live with faith and courage are not unlike your own. This week we'll study Leah.
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Have you driven by the old Oak Bluffs basketball court down at Niantic Park lately? Well, it was there one day and gone the next, but is slowly being rebuilt. The center of summer activity for Oak Bluffs youth needs some help to be completed. The original courts were built many years ago, at least 35. Led by the director of recreation at the time, Dan MacCarthy, and with sweat equity by numerous volunteers including the Fire Department and the cooperation of the Park Department, it was completed in one summer, and was the answer to keeping hundreds of young people involved in safe and healthy activities through many summers. But now donations are needed to complete the renovations for the basketball and tennis courts. You may send donations to the Town of Oak Bluffs Niantic Park Fund, P.O. Box 1327, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557.
If you think Oak Bluffs is only a summer playground, take a look at all the other events coming up in August.
Islanders Write is coming back. Organized by MVTimes Contributing Editor and Oak Bluffs resident Kate Feiffer, you can catch it on Monday, August 10, at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury; the first panel begins at 8 am and the last one at 4 pm. The day features workshops, panel discussions about writing, author signings, and much more (including food by Rosewater Market). It's free and open to the public, and features an outstanding cast of Vineyard year-round and seasonal residents and visitors. For more information, visit IslandersWrite.com.
Our Oak Bluffs library will host Vinyasa Flow Open Level Yoga on Tuesday, August 11, and Thursday, August 13, at 10:30 am. Yuliana Kim-Grant will lead this class. Please bring a mat if you can. An author's talk by La Shonda Barnett will take place on Thursday, August 13, at 6:30 pm. Her historical novel, "Jam on the Vine," is about a black woman who launches a newspaper in the Jim Crow Midwest. Storytime in the Park is every Tuesday through August 25 at 10 am in Hartford Park, Oak Bluffs. Come join Miss Sondra for songs and stories outside. Canceled in inclement weather. Meet your local heroes on Thursday, August 6, from 10 to 11 am at the library, where you will be able to explore a fire truck, a police car, and more. And for great fun, you are invited to bring your stuffed animal to the Stuffed Animal Camp-Out on Friday, August 7, to Saturday, August 8. On Friday between 10 am and 2 pm, drop off your favorite stuffed animal for an all-night adventure in the library! Join them for breakfast the next morning at 10:30 am to hear all about their wild time.
Brad Reedy, Ph.D., LMFT, owner and clinical director of Evoke Therapy Programs, will be visiting the Island to give a presentation on "Raising Resilient Children" on Tuesday, August 11, from 4:30 to 6 pm at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School library. The Island Wide Youth Collaborative (IWYC) is sponsoring the event, which is free and open to the public. You will also have an opportunity to purchase Dr. Reedy's newest book, as he will hold a book signing for "The Journey of the Heroic Parent: Your Child's Struggles and the Road Home," which will be available for sale at the event.
The Martha's Vineyard Community Services Thrift Shop, Chicken Alley, kicks off its Collectables Sale weekend with a fashion show and boutique sale on Friday, August 14, from 5 to 8 pm at the Thrift Shop. The event also includes the screening of the film "Traceable," free of charge, at 4 pm at the Capawock Theater in Vineyard Haven on Saturday, August 15. The Big Art Show and Sale is Sunday, August 16, from 1 to 5 pm at the Thrift Shop.
The Martha's Vineyard Museum is holding its annual meeting, highlighted by the 2015 Martha's Vineyard Medal award ceremony on Monday, August 10, at 5 pm. The meeting will be held at the former Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven. This year's recipients include Pat Gregory (posthumously), Patricia Morgan, and Cynthia Riggs. The medal is awarded annually to leaders in the community in recognition of their outstanding commitment to preserving the history, arts, and culture of the Island.
Curious about those gingerbread cottages in the Campground? Well, mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 12, when the Martha's Vineyard Camp-Meeting Association proudly presents the 20th annual Gingerbread Cottage Tour. The tour runs from 10 am to 3 pm, with the last ticket sold at 2 pm. Tickets are $25, and proceeds benefit the Tabernacle Fund. The tour includes visits inside six cottages, admission to the Cottage Museum, and delicious desserts, finger sandwiches, and punch. You may purchase tickets in advance at mvcma.org, or on the day of the tour at the Tabernacle.
Remember, if you get a yearning for lobster rolls on Tuesdays, you can purchase them at the American Legion Hall in Vineyard Haven. They start selling at 4:30 pm until 7 pm, and there is always plenty of parking.
We send birthday smiles to Ben deBettencourt on August 7, Ken Debettencourt and Bob Gatchell on the 8th, Oak Bluffs Fire Department Fire/EMS Chief John Rose on August 9, Danielle Sedlier and Sarah Trudel on the 10th, my daughter Kati Alley and Deb Hammett on the 11th, Terry McCarthy and Richard Mello III on August 12th, and Nelson Oliver and Shaun DePriest on the 13th.
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We assume happiness is stable, an endpoint to achieve our goal to chase. It's not. Recent behavioral research suggests that the meaning of happiness changes every 5-10 years, raising the question: how might we build organizations and lives that cultivate happiness? Research suggests it is better to aim for meaning. In Rethinking Purpose, we explore how to rethink purpose in work and life. Students will hear from guests and take a field trip to see how Google has reconsidered purpose. Building on the principles for Solve for X (www.solveforx.com), a platform encouraging moonshot thinking to solve huge problems in the world, we'll harness design thinking principles to create personal moonshots and a path to continue to find those moonshots over the life course. Lastly, we'll map out how to use time in ways that would help build innovative teams, products, and ultimately lives that have positive, meaningful, lasting impact in the world.
- Gain insight on the behavioral research on happiness, meaning and impact.
- Share frameworks that allow students to (a) rethink happiness to aim for purpose, (b) gain insight on how to identify personal moonshots, and (c) adopt a design thinking process to refresh those goals over time and across contexts.
- Learn how to operationalize these goals by how to use your time.
- Dates of Class: MWF, February 27 + March 1, 3, 6, 8, 10
- Time: 3:00 - 5:50 pm
- Location: CoLab (GSB)
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If you go outside enough, chances are you'll meet some places that make you stop dead in your tracks and audibly say, "damn." I can happily tell you that the number of those moments only increase with the amount of time you spend traveling to different places. I was fortunate enough to spend about a week in Terrabonne, OR which is only a short drive from the entryway to Smith Rock State Park. I had a lot of those moments during my time there.
I've never personally spent time in central Oregon. I've been to Portland to visit friends and family, road motorcycles through the dense forests, and have ran along the coast with wine bottle in hand like a true Dharma Bum. When you think about Oregon you don't really think of sage and juniper ruling the landscape. As someone that loves the desert, it felt like a home.
The climbing community in Smith is small and tight knit. Everyone knows each other, and what car they drive so they can decide if they want to stop for a beer in the small climbing shop, Red Point, or not. Walking through the park you're guarantied to stop a few times to ask each other how their day is going, what they got on, and how their dog is feeling.
The rock is sharp and unforgiving. You're never quite sure if a hold is going to break and crumble in your hand, you just trust the chalked up spots and hope the last people to climb the route were right. The whole time you're climbing at Smith you're playing hide-and-go-seek with the sun. Staying in the shade in the morning until the cold rock numbs your hand, jumping onto a route in the sun to warm up, and then running back to the shade when your skin instantly starts dripping with sweat two bolts up.
The climbing here is humbling. The routes are long, the rock is rough, and a few of the climbs are sandbagged. A perfect combo for some type II fun. You struggle up a route, fall, get scared, and then you top out. You get to take the view in of a truly magical place. You get to hang some couple hundred feet off the ground and have a perfectly orchestrated "damn." moment.
They say that the average Smith visitor only spends ten minutes in the park. That includes driving in, walking to the entrance trail overlooking the park, and snapping a photo. They then get back into their car and drive away. It's mind blowing that people think that's enough time to take in a place like Smith. Places like Smith deserve so much more, they need your full attention. I hope the next time you go somewhere beautiful, you take the time to settle in, observe the greatness around you, and allow yourself to have a "damn." moment.


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My dear FRIENDS.... I have the blissful joy, to present you my first disco-graphical task in music.
The above ALBUM is called " SHIPS AND SHEPHERDS "
" Beauty is mysterious
as well as terrible.
God and the devil fighting there
and the battlefield is the heart of man"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This album means for me the ingenious , the plainness- artlessness , the unaffected unsophisticated... means which invasive the ethos manner.
It has to do with how real you want to be to yourself and to the others as continuity , so that the colors of your soul became sound...
It is a double album, a duet with the exceptional pianist Alex Maguire Alex Maguire. The cd will be released soon May 19 . I want to thank Antonios stavrinos Døn Stavrinos(trumpet) and Stathis Diamantidis (contrabass) for their participation in a my composition, the song , called "Labyrinth" ...was one of the most beautiful moments creatively ...
I would also like to thank all those unsung friends who helped and supported to achieve ... and these professionals who worked on the disc as the photographer Dimitrios Giannoulakis Dimitris Giannoulakis the Dimitrios Karpouzas Dimitris Karpouzas for recording in Lizard Sound ... for the sound John Gkargkalakos as well the Kontsantinos Fragkopoulos Konstantiinos Fragkopoulos from Shellac Recordings studio for the mix -mastering and also graphic designer Constantino Miari disc editing ... special finally thank to my wife Sophia for the cover photos all his invaluable contribution!!!
The free improvisation is the beauty of this album, the compositions {either my own or Alex's } the are only melodic skeletons... there are also pieces that were born at that time as the "Athos", "Olympos" ...
Without, rehearsals and without any preparation , recorded within eight hours, LIVE!!! released soon May 19 from SLAM PRODUCTIONS SPECIAL THANKS TO MR George Haslam George Haslam!!!
Enjoy it...


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Cleverly Wrapped -Summer Pop-Up!
We're thrilled to be showcasing our NEW Spring/Summer collection at the Cleverlywrapped Summer Pop-Up Shop at the end of this month. There will be some fabulous British Lifestyle and Beachwear brands and amazing prize draw's to be had - Get yourself ready for Summer and come visit! Details below:


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The Narc Decoder: Snap, Crackle, Pop! Father's Day Craziness
by Tina Swithin
Why do I waste blog-space on Seth at this point in time? He has been gone from our lives for almost a full year.
Good question.
I am sharing my latest email from him NOT to give him the spotlight but because the Narc Decoder blogs are the most popular. I believe reading the pure craziness helps people to feel less alone. By sharing Seth's bizarre rants, I am able to teach people who are new to this battle how to communicate and decode the sheer insanity that only a Cluster B person can provide.
I highly encourage you to take your power back. Turn alerts off on your phone if those alerts notify you of an email from your ex. Only open emails when you are centered, focused and in control. I knew that Seth would be emailing due to the Father's Day weekend. I know he is escalated because my brave 9-year old warrior, Piper, has set boundaries with him. She has refused his calls since April and while in therapy, wrote him a letter straight from her heart. She is hurt and angry. It was eloquent and powerful. I sent him the letter and he of course, took what he wanted from it and refused to accept a quarter ounce of responsibility. Of course, it is all my fault.
Tonight I opened an email from Seth which promptly went into the Narc Decoder.
Given that it is Father's Day this weekend, I would like to see the girls at a place of your choosing for any interval of time. It's absolutely tragic that (Commissioner) and (Evaluator) decided it was appropriate to oust me completely from Piper and Sarah's lives because in the company of my parents on 111 degree day I enjoyed a beer.
Every restaurant you go to, you see parents enjoying wine or beer with their children present. You know this is the case and you know you drink wine in front of the children often. It is absolutely unusual and unfair punishment not only for me but for the girls that because of this the daughters no longer can have a normal relationship or any with their father.
On another note, I work my ass off to keep my job and my career. It is incumbent upon you to tell the girls that I provide enough money to you to cover rent, food, clothing and activities for my daughters. They do not seem to be aware of this.
You have won with the Commissioner. I used to say, back in 2010, that this divorce process has had almost no emotional effects on Piper and Sarah to people. The girls understood you had boyfriend and I was their Dad. Now it is clear that Piper in particular is going to have severe emotional scars from her loss of her father.
Tina, you grew up with a biological mother who had mental illness. Had your father not taken you tïo California from Illinois, she might have kidnapped you and you may not be alive had he not raised you away from your mother. What we are dealing with here is a very, very different situation. I drink high quality beer or wine as little or as much as my other friends who are parents, professionals and had working people. I do not drink every day. I exercise 2-3 hours every day sometimes 5-6 hours a day.
I am not some evil, monster as you describe me in your blog. I may have been taken by success and wanted to earn more and more money. But, that is my personality, to try to be the best in my field. It is time that you turn the mirror on you and realize that the damage this divorce has caused me has now been magnified on our daughters.
I disagree completely with the Commissioner's punitive measures against me. I could understand if I smoked pot or did drugs to require supervised visits but he clearly hates me and you know this. Thus, you dragged me in front of him 30 times until he snapped on me permanently. He was sick and tired of seeing us and I do not blame him. This was all you. You constantly harassed me with court hearings in the middle of my work week. You cost me jobs because of this Tina.
All I wanted was to spend one week a month with Piper and Sarah. The custody evaluation buried me. Now, the daughters are in emotional turmoil.
I would really like to see the girls please. Even if we see them at the Children's Museum and you're there. I don't really care. I just want to see them.
Thank you for your consideration, Seth
As Seth's email comes out of the Narc Decoder, I hear, "Snap. Crackle. Pop." Yawn. Silly narcissist. You have zero effect on me anymore.
Here is the decoder version of Seth's email:
Given that it is Father's Day, I feel entitled to see MY daughters. MY possessions. You know, the ones that I haven't seen in 11 months? Seeing them on Father's Day would certainly boost my ego and I would be able to report back to my mommy that I am a good son who cares so much about my children. Using phrases like, "intervals of time" makes me feel important. Do I sound important to you?
I think it's completely tragic that the court saw through me. How dare they have an issue with the fact that I drank alcohol against court orders in a bar with MY possessions. Tragic. It was premium beer for God's sake. I should receive some slack for the fact that I don't drink the same beer that lower life forms consume. It was PREMIUM beer, Tina. Can you grab me a beer while I sit here and project my alcohol issues on you? I know you drink wine and I don't think it's fair that you don't have DUIs, Drunk in Publics and Wet n Reckless charges on your record. You probably do…you probably slept with the police officers to get away with it all! Damn you!
I am going to ignore the fact that in addition to the violation of court orders, there was a 43-page report that could make Cyndi Lauper bust into song…"I see your true colors shining through….your true colors….."
Can you please make the girls aware of the child support that I pay? Have them send me a thank you card in the morning because they would not be able to enjoy cereal if it weren't for me. You are all so ungrateful. Everything you have is technically mine. Did you know that? You should send me a thank you card also.
I saw the letter Piper wrote. Since when has she been allowed to set boundaries and express feelings? That's just weird. Make her stop immediately.
This is the part where I remind you of your dysfunctional childhood. I do this in an effort to make you feel bad and in turn, make myself feel better. Do you feel bad? Is it working? Did I mention that I drink high-quality beer? I do so there!
I am the evil monster that you portray me to be in your blog. How dare you tell the truth about me. It literally eats me alive. Can you please turn the mirror on yourself and realize what you have done? Enough already! Give me the mirror back so I can see myself again!
I disagree with the measures the court took to hold me accountable for my behavior. How dare they do this to me! I don't do drugs. I drink premium beer. I am not a looser. My mom said I was perfect. This was all your fault for telling them the truth about me. I believe the distorted version of reality that I have spun in my head and so should you. So should the courts. You constantly held me accountable for my behavior. How dare you!
Now that I am finished telling you what a cold, evil person you are, can we just put this all behind us and forget the 4 year custody battle? I'd love for you to violate court orders this weekend by bringing the girls to the museum so that I can pretend to be a dad on Father's Day. Sound good to you? Thank you for your consideration – Seth
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EXCLUSIVE Interview: Blue Stahli Launches New Electronic Project, Sunset Neon
Multi-instrumentalist Bret Autrey is no stranger to sharing his talents with the world. Since the late 90s, the Detroit-based mastermind has been performing as Blue Stahli. Last year, Autrey launched a new future funk project under the moniker Sunset Neon.
Starlight, Autrey's debut album as Sunset Neon, dropped last December. An explosive collection of neon tunes, the record experiments with in-your-face disco jams and more understated shoegaze tracks. Starlight begins with "Opening Title Sequence," a schizophrenic instrumental loaded with otherworldly layers and crescendos, a foray into the rest of the spacey album. Following the intro is "Got You," an addictive, fast-paced electro anthem seemingly the result of Michael Jackson trapped in an unending old-school video game sequence. Autrey's unforgettable time as Blue Stahli makes its way onto the record too, as he opts to include "Never Dance Again," a tough pop-rock track from 2013.
Starlight's halfway point slows the record down with "You Are The Sun," a hazy lo-fi love song. The smooth slow-jam is electric, bursting with synth flavor and dreamy vocals. Next, the album's title track moves through echoing dins of thick percussion and distant desperation as Autrey sings, "Stay with me / You're all I need / And in this night / We are starlight." Later, he covers Prince's iconic funk anthem, "Kiss." Autrey's falsetto and synth-treated details offer a delicious tribute to His Royal Badness. On "After Hours," the tone is forlorn, mimicked by slaps of intense percussion and frenzied, brooding vocal riffs, together creating the most beautiful and emotive piece on the album.
With his latest project, Bret Autrey proves that his work as a multi-instrumentalist transcends time. On Starlight, he is an expert curator of a museum of deliberate soundscapes and themes. His songs are electrifying, swells of the disco spirit merging with fantastical sequences, all masterfully produced.
We've got the scoop below on Sunset Neon's latest album, his new musical goals, and rescuing kittens (yes, you read that right).
The Music Mermaid: First, can you tell The Music Mermaid a little about yourself and your music?
Sunset Neon: Absolutely! My name is Bret and I'm the sole member of Sunset Neon, which is a brand new project for me, as I'm also the sole member of Blue Stahli, which swings around from dark-yet-catchy electronic rock, big cinematic electronic weirdness, and wild multi-genre flailing for more film, TV, and video game stuff!
TMM: What is the music scene like in Detroit and how has it influenced your music at all?
SN: Honestly, I couldn't tell you what the Detroit music scene is like -- I rarely leave the studio. I've never really been connected to any scene before. I'm really just some weirdo outsider guy who's happiest being in a studio and seeing how many new fun ways I can destroy sound and blend a bunch of genres together. What really does influence this approach is the fact that we're all so connected now, that when I release new music as either one of my projects, there's people all over the world who can have it and interact immediately. That's not to discount the importance and camaraderie of local and regional scenes (those are awesome and vital especially for people with a killer live show), it's just never factored into how I approach stuff. I always picture people in different countries and cultures blasting my music (thereby annoying their neighbors).
TMM: How has your own work evolved since moving from Blue Stahli to your latest Sunset Neon project?
SN: Even though Blue Stahli is a multi-genre project, it's the instrumental stuff made for film and TV that tends to have the wildest genre shifts and more upbeat feel. My main vocal records that Blue Stahli is most known for have a much darker, heavier atmosphere and approach to them. I had started writing more upbeat pop tracks, but they never really fit in the context of a regular Blue Stahli vocal record, so Sunset Neon became my place to go nuts making hazy indie-pop and glitchy VHS nu-disco stuff. The biggest thing is that doing this album was also a fun experiment in returning to the old-school ways I used to make music.
TMM: What was the production process like for Starlight?
SN: When I first started making music years ago, I used DOS-based programs called trackers that function very differently than what people are used to seeing in something like Ableton or Pro Tools. Most of the Blue Stahli stuff I had done was firmly in the realm of Pro Tools and Cubase, the "traditional DAW" approach, but I kept feeling the call of returning to the tracker world of weirdo programming tricks and glitches in hexadecimal. So I started doing a few Blue Stahli tracks and remixes solely in this badass tracker called Renoise, and when the idea of doing a full Sunset Neon record popped up, I figured this would be an excellent opportunity to do the lion's share of the production in Renoise. I would cut and edit vocals in Cubase, then dump it all into Renoise as chopped up samples.
There are tracks where synths were made by stacking up single-cycle waveforms in the sampler to do kind of a ground-up synthesis. Lots of taking one shot samples from old drum machines and just compressing the holy merciful hell out of them, pulling up something like a synth loop and cutting a single note out of it (that still has the harmonic tail of the previous note) and running it through fun fx. Just a bunch of absolutely gleeful nerd shit (which is pretty much a motto at this point).
TMM: What is the songwriting process like for you? What are some central themes you tend to employ?
SN: My phone is full of archived, half put together vocal line ideas that come to me at odd times, just recorded in memos. Sometimes it'll just be experimenting with beats and seeing what happens when something like an old Fairlight sample gets stretched out and run through a bunch of fx, then fitting vocals around whatever hazy neon monstrosity I just made. As for lyrical themes, there's a few tracks on Starlight that are purely for fun tongue-in-cheek action, like a wink to soundtracks from b-movies. Though I've now also made Sunset Neon a place to put dreamy love songs that sound like you've played them on cassette a hundred times while driving up the coast.
TMM: What is your main musical goal for Sunset Neon?
SN: Sunset Neon is all about making you feel a VHS-tinged nostalgia, and remixing some of it through a glitchy nu-disco lens. This record is meant to sound like the soundtrack to your favorite low budget 80s flick that got chopped up and put back together. Really, I just hope people have fun with the tracks and connect to the music, whether it's the fun dance stuff or the dreamy [stuff].
TMM: Who are your biggest inspirations, both musically and personally?
SN: Late night straight-to-video VHS flicks, malfunctioning samplers, old-school demoscene .MOD/.S3M files, and the pure absolute joy of loudly singing along to guilty pleasure songs.
TMM: Who are three musicians you think the world needs to hear ASAP?
SN: I'm super excited to see where the new ionnalee music goes. [And] VHS Head, who builds his tracks entirely out of sampling microclips of obscure video tapes. Go listen to early 90s rave mixes and miscellaneous jungle tracks, find all the fun electronic music that never gets mentioned these days.
TMM: What are some other passions or hobbies you have that our readers might not know about?
SN: 1. Challenging strangers to feats of strength, only to lose on purpose and make them feel good about themselves.
2. Rescuing kittens stuck in trees so people will clap for me, even going so far as to place kittens in those very trees beforehand to make sure there's always a supply of danger.
3. Directing traffic during the holiday season in front of a mall until someone yells at me to "Get the hell out of the middle of the road, asshole!"
4. Printing out pictures of Grace Jones from the movie Vamp to hand to anyone outside a grocery store who wants me to take a survey.
The Music Mermaid: Finally, what's next for Sunset Neon?
Sunset Neon: Now that Starlight is out, I'm doing a few remixes and making some new singles as Blue Stahli, but there are songs that I wrote for Starlight that I ran out of time to finish for the album, so I'll be doing those and making some brand new Sunset Neon singles as well! Stay tuned, there's a lot more where this came from!
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We spent time last fall talking about affiliating with the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, and identifying as a church that advocates for the full inclusion of all people as God's beloved, especially those who have been marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. We signed up, because AWAB's work is the same work FBC has been about for decades. We explored and discussed that affiliation, and when we said yes, we celebrated.
There's another affiliation that has long been central to this church's identity: we belong to the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. We receive their newsletter (copies are under the bulletin board in the Gathering Room; it sometimes features words from Bill Apel). We send people to Peace Camp; we once hosted when it was out this way. FBC members support BPFNA with their dollars, and BPFNA provides resources, training, and inspiration for how we can more faithfully follow the way of Jesus. Their theological statement seems especially poignant these days:
We strive, following Jesus, to listen with openness, speak with conviction, resist evil, receive hostility and return love, break silences which harm, resist cooperation with structures that cause hardship and suffering, practice healing, mend creation's wounds, offer hospitality to the refugee and the sojourner, insist on human rights, love friend and stranger, ally and enemy: to point with our words, attitudes and actions to the acceptable year of God. — Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America (BPFNA) ~ Bautistas por la Paz
This past season has left many of us startled, angered, disbelieving, unsure of how to move forward. And some of the answers are still out ahead of us, and we will discover them together in the days to come.
But some of the answers are even now centering and grounding us, found in the ways we've already defined ourselves. What if the only challenge really facing us now is: how do we more fully become who we've already said we are?


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Understanding pathways to extremism and the Prevent programme
Bulk Discounts
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Course Overview
The aim of the course is to give you an awareness of the radicalisation process so you can feel confident about being proactive in taking a multi-agency approach to early intervention and support.
After completing this course you should:
- Understand what extremism and radicalisation are and why it is important to discuss and address these
- Know the main elements of the Prevent strand of the government's CONTEST strategy
- Better understand what makes people vulnerable to radicalisation
- Know your responsibilities and recognise indicators that radicalisation might be taking place
A number of subject matter experts contributed to this course, including Lincolnshire Safeguarding Adults Board, Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Board and Safe in Tees Valley.
Course Details
Lesson Plan
- Welcome and Learning Outcomes
- Introduction
- Prevent Strategy
- The Radicalisation Process
- What should I do?
- Summary and Further Reading
On completion of this course you will be able to download and print a Virtual College certificate.
Approximately an hour to an hour and a half to complete. However, the length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. You can proceed as quickly or slowly as you like.
Target Audience
All professionals who work in sectors where they come into contact with people who may be vulnerable to radicalisation, whether they are adults, children or young people.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
£30 + VAT (£36 inc. VAT)


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Samsung says the normal pressure applied to a phone is less than 110 pounds
There are only a few things in this world which are unbreakable and smartphones unfortunately aren't one of them till yet. There might come a time when they resist almost any worldly force, but this era isn't that time and we all have to face the hard truth; regardless of how much money we spend on our fancy smartphones, they are all prone to breaking or bending. This is pretty much understood, but the real question is how easily do our smartphones break. After the Bendgate scandal surrounding the iPhone 6, all eyes had been set at the Samsung Galaxy s6.
This is exactly what SquareTrade had set out to find out when they put the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge under their pressure machine. It was found that Samsung's latest flagship could bend under 110 pounds of pressure which is the same pressure level under which the iPhone 6 gave way. This was only worse. Whereas the iPhone 6 Plus only 'bent' under such pressure, the Galaxy S6's curved screen completely got smashed.
SquareTrade's video gave a nice footage for this entire scenario but their ending has the Korean giant a little pissed off. The video was signed off with "so, is this bendgate 2? No. But for Samsung fans it may be worse, instead of a bent phone, they may have a pocket full of glass."
Samsung surely couldn't afford this kind of popularity for their latest flagship and they were quick to respond with a video of their own – full of justifications. Samsung says that the "normal force" applied to a smartphone by a consumer is less than 110 pounds. You are not alone if you think this sounds familiar because this is exactly how Apple had responded to its Bendgate issue.
"The video assumes a very specific condition – 110lbf (50kgf), which rarely occurs under normal circumstances. The normal force that generated when a person presses the back pocket is approximately 66lbf (30kgf). Our internal test results indicate that the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge are not bendable even under 79lbf (32kgf), which is equivalent to putting pressure to snap a bundle of five pencils at once." Said the official blog, Samsung Tomorrow.


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The gothic buildings of Brussel's Grand Place have been given an extraordinary jolt of color this week, as volunteers constructed a giant floral carpet made from 600,000 begonias in the square's open space. Created as a tribute to African tapestry weavers the 1,800 square meter artwork is expected to be viewed by 100,000 people this weekend.
Grand Palace In Brussels Pays Tribute To African Art With Giant Flower Carpet Made From 600,000 Begonias
Me on the Internet in 1997
Someone asked me recently when I realized the internet was a big deal.
I gave the answer that was the first thing I could think of at the time (AOL chat rooms!), but it just occurred to me that a better response might have been: winning an Armani Exchange online contest! A|X was one of the first retailers I remember having a web presence that I was at all interested in. This being 1997ish, just to be clear.
So - A|X had contests calling for ideas on where/how people would wear items from their new collections. How you entered: you sent "them" an email. Seems charmingly outdated and limited in its social scope now, but hey - that's how the internet used to be! I'm sure they got dozens, if not hundreds, of responses.
That simple, two-way interface also encouraged me around that time to write Abercrombie and Fitch and ask them why they didn't still stock shoes. Again, 1997, people! I got a very friendly, well-considered response. Who were the people manning the inboxes of these brands at the time, I wonder?!
Anyway, I won a massively oversized, terrycloth, logo-emblazoned hoodie that I wore proudly around the house. It is now lost to the sands of time, much like my first-ever internet purchase (also around that time) - a pair of Royal Elastics sneakers from Boo.com. I love my parents for handing over their credit card, and not judging me too much for how I took advantage of the "big deal" retail possibilities of the internet.


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