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Anna Cohen has designed, developed, managed, art directed, and advised in the apparel and accessories industries for large and small companies with varying product lines in Italy and the United States. She has worked for such brands as Patrizia Pepe, Max Mara, Guess, Pendleton, Adidas, and Imperial Stock Ranch as well as developing and launching her own line of sustainable women's apparel. Anna attended FIT in New York and Polimoda in Italy, graduating with a Fine Arts degree in International Fashion Design.
Anna pioneered the field of sustainable fashion via her namesake line, which launched to critical acclaim in 2005 and received press and accolades in the US and abroad. Featured in Vogue, Elle France, Nylon, WWD and the New York Times, the ANNA COHEN line was nominated for the international sustainable design ecoStyle Award and was sold across the United States.
See more about her work for the Portland Art Museum and her feature in Oregon Art Bet at the following links

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July 1, 2014 – Faith & Politics: Religious Freedom (Independence Day)
Season 6, Episode 1
Get your sparklers ready, because on this episode of Friends Talking Faith with The Three Wise Guys we discuss faith and religious freedom. On the Fourth of July many Americans celebrate with friends and family, maybe with a cookout, or a day at the beach, or the park, possibly with a cool swim, and often watching fireworks somewhere. On Independence Day it seems very appropriate to discuss religious freedom. How do we think about it from our various faith traditions? And, are there limits to religious freedom? You do have the freedom to do something else…. but, why not exercise your First Amendment right and listen to this episode of Friends Talking Faith.


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The Barbour Library is closed for major renovations, and is slated to re-open by the beginning of the 2019-2020 academic year. Please visit us in the interim in our temporary library in the Kadel Dining Room, McNaugher Hall (campus map)! Our digital presence still resides at https://www.pts.edu/barbour-library, and the library calendar hours found there apply to the temporary library. See the Accessing On-Campus Storage Items and Accessing Off-Campus Storage Items tabs on this guide for instruction on requesting circulating books.
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Buell Kazee enjoyed his biggest hit with a version "On Top of Old Smokie", called "The Little Mohee", which sold some good 15.000 copies. He was born in 1900 in Kentucky and began to study at the Georgetown College. It was during this time that he began to perform and write down the old folk songs and hymns which he had learned from his family. In 1927, he made his first recordings for Brunswick and that same year, "The Little Mohee" became his biggest hit. In 1928 and 1929, he cut more excellent folk music, but retired from recording then. In the 1960s, he found a new audience with the young folk music fans and appeared at the Newort Folk Festival and several other venues. He died in 1970.
I have compiled the following mp3-files from various sources:
1. Darling Cora
2. The Railroad Boy (The Butcher's Boy)
3. The Dying Soldier
4. Orphan Girl
Read more about Buell Kazee.
Welcome to Mellow's Log Cabin. This blog's purpose is to supply information on a diversity of American southern music - ranging from country, blues, old-time and folk to R&B, rock'n'roll and rockabilly. I regularly present my research results about artists, labels, shows and also give guest writers a chance to publish their texts here on occasion.
• Jack Turner recordings available here.
• Jack Turner recordings available here.
• Update on Les Randall acetate.
• Thanks to Bob more info on Bill Harris.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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Michalina Drejza
- Working at IFMSA as Director and then Liaison Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS, coordinating actions of medical students worldwide on advocacy for SRHR for all and head of delegation at high-level meetings building partnerships and coordinating sessions and capacity building trainings
- Coordinated reproductive health and development project with Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in rural clinic in Madagascar
- Intern in WHO Department on Reproductive Health and Research, currently involved in research on medical students' knowledge on family planning
- Young researcher focused on polish adolescents' attitudes towards family planning, passionate peer educator
- Youth scholar for International Conference on Family Planning, Women Deliver and AIDS 2016
"When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach so
She ran away in her sleep
And dreamed of
Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise
Every time she closed her eyes"
(Coldplay - Paradise)
I was always a dreamer.
I imagine a world where people can decide about their bodies.
For young people FAMILY PLANNING does not necessarily mean PLANNING FAMILIES, it is PLANNING THE FUTURE!
Our fight will not stop if the choice is not given to all!
Stigma and myths around the sexuality, family planning and contraception.
Since the beginning of my work around sexual and reproductive health I was called "this girl who always talk about sex" and I wasn't treated seriously in many cases.
My biggest success is the advocacy made in my family, in my hometown and among friends who now see how important family planning issues are.
Let alone all the rest of the world!
Think global, act local is fully applicable to my story!
The biggest challenge in my country is access to comprehensive sexuality education, access to proper family planning services - many of the modern methods are not available to adolescents.
Polish women are still struggling to receive safe abortion services from medical providers even if they are in full right according to the law to get one!
Inclusion of SRHR in medical curriculum is a must! That will help us to have medical providers WE WANT! Zero stigma and discrimination in healthcare!
I want to connect two worlds - as a clinician being Obstetrician/Gynecologist and a passionate global health advocate for sexual and reproductive health rights for all.
My plan is to provide and work on scientific evidence to back up advocacy efforts for inclusion of family planning in medical schools curricula.
Being aware of the global family planning struggles through sharing best practices I want to work for raising awareness on sexual and reproductive justice for polish adolescents.


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UGC - User-Generated Content is usually UMC - User-Manipulated Content... Just messing with media.
The most confident artists - and those with multiple sources of income - encourage sampling and mashing of their material. Check out all the Music Mashup categories on Wikipedia.
But can't this be as easy as looking at existing content from a differnt angle? Here is what you see if you separate the leaves of one of Conde Nast's beautiful Point of Passion print inserts... No point. Just art.


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Archive for the 'History' Category
Museum of Political Corruption
Check the transparency and ethics of government and corporate management daily. Maybe hourly?
Teachers, create a popular lesson by displaying the reach and excesses of political corruption all the way into the classroom.
Random browsers, visit the Facebook presence of the Museum of Political Corruption
No building is big enough to hold the documented and undocumented malfeasance of politicians and their money-bag cronies. Mr. Big, and Mrs. Big too, built their short-cut to the big-top on a pile. They usually don't get caught; throw their myrmidons out as distraction bait.
The Museum of Political Corruption will be located in Albany, a city-state capital thought to be the bedrock of American political corruption. Maybe the museum library will be interested in maintaining print and digital archives of reporting on political corruption. Some writers and journalists have deep troves of subject files long predating the Internet.
Fortunately, investigative reporters like Susanne Craig of The New York Times are on the case. In May, 2017 Susanne Craig was named first winner of The Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting.
Reporter Susanne Craig's mailbox mysteriously yielded leaked pages from Donald Trump's 1995 tax return. A former Albany bureau chief for The Times, Susanne Craig has also led investigations into allegations of wrongdoing in state government, such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to shut down a much-heralded commission investigating public corruption.
The Museum of Political Corruption established the Nellie Bly Award to recognize the vital role investigative reporting plays in government oversight and maintaining an informed electorate. The award is named after late 1800s pioneering investigative reporter Nellie Bly.
Footsteps of the Saint-Simonians in Cairo
When I visited Cairo in 2013 the Arab Spring had not yet devolved to utter bloody chaos throughout the region, though anyone could see the trend.
In Cairo I sought the Franciscan Friars' Oriental Studies Library intent on researching the pioneering men and women who traveled from France to Egypt in 1833-34 with Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin. The French group of adventurers were members of a social reform movement (sometimes described as a sect) known as Saint-Simonianism. Their philosophy originated in the writings of the Comte Henri de Saint-Simon, a proto-socialist aristocrat focused on improving education for working people, removing the influence of the Roman Catholic church on private life, and replacing marriage inequality with rights for women and family alliances outside of civil or religious certification. We would call that common law marriage or a civil partnership, but the conservative French government and the church described it as "free love" and jailed the Saint-Simonian leader Enfantin with a handful of others for inciting revolutionary ideas.
Soon, these French idealists were heading to the middle east with vague plans to to discover a female Messiah to balance the Christian emphasis on the male Messiah. On that pursuit they were unsuccessful.
However, Saint-Simonian ideas did influence other areas of French social structure, finance, and public transportation during ensuing decades. Their work in Egypt was especially notable and enduring.
Scientists and engineers, doctors, midwives, and educators affiliated with Saint-Simonianism worked under the aegis and with the approval of Muhammad Ali, the Egyptian Viceroy, to establish or improve and modernize the infrastructure of Egypt. Saint-Simonian efforts included building a medical school and the military training infrastructure, preliminary work on the Suez Canal, midwife training for local women and children's education.
While in Cairo and Alexandria, many of the French men and women died during cholera and typhus epidemics during 1834-35 and 1836. I hoped to find their tombs.
My prior reading suggested that some tombs of the dead French idealists were located in the cloister of the Franciscan Monastery. In particular, Jehan d'Ivary, author of the 1928 travel book Promenades a Travers du Caire, which I examined in the Municipal Library in Toulouse in 1982, stated that a few Saint-Simonian workers were buried at the Monastery of the Franciscan Fathers, at the Hospital Abou Za`abal, and other locations, but that it was impossible to discover the locations of other French graves from that distant time.
In the 1830s Abou Za`abal was the Egyptian army hospital, but 170 years later, it was one of Cairo's prisons and a short–or long term–compound for those ruled to be on the wrong side of the Arab Spring demonstrations. Abou Za`abal made international headlines in August, 2013 when dozens of prisoners perished as fully reported in the Guardian newspaper in February, 2014.
I arrived at the Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies Library when the head priest was having lunch, or praying, or resting — I wasn't certain of the explanation. Seeing my disappointment, the French-speaking library manager graciously invited me to use the library and perhaps return tomorrow when I could talk to the priest about the history of the Franciscan Monastery. Always at home in a library, I fingered through the card catalog searching for names of the French engineers, doctors, teachers, and other Saint-Simonian personnel. Without my laptop at hand, it was hit or miss to recall the correct spellings of the French immigrants from long ago. Eventually I found a trove of catalog cards citing books by or about the French-trained Doctor of Medicine and of Surgery, Dr. B. A. Clot (known in Egypt as Clot-Bey) who was the founder of Western medical systems in Egypt. After submitting a few book request cards to the library manager, I soon was paging through a copy of La Peste written by Dr. Clot-Bey. It was published in Paris in 1840 detailing his observations and experiments with quarantain during the frequent cholera outbreaks during the 1830s. I began scribbling notes
As Surgeon-in-Chief of the Armies and founder of the medical school in Cairo, Dr. Clot-Bey was awarded the honorific "Bey" by Muhammed Ali, the Viceroy of Egypt, and excused from pledging fealty to the Viceroy or the Muslim religion. At the time, Egypt was subject to the rule of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople, but Muhammed Ali was in charge and had visionary ideas about improving Egypt. Dr. Clot-Bey selected and trained medical officers for the Egyptian army hospital founded in 1827 as Qasr al-'Ayni School of Medicine.
Religious leaders at the time resisted the perceived threat of modern medical treatments and practices. Examination and autopsies of cadavers were considered insults to the body and prohibited in the Koran. Women could not be seen or touched by male doctors. The persuasive power of the Viceroy brought gradual change, but male medical doctors trained at Clot-Bey's institution were forbidden to treat Egyptian women. The Viceroy asked Dr. Clot-Bey to found the maternity school for midwives which began training hakimas (Egyptian medical women).
During the decades of my interest in the Saint-Simonian women and their early feminist social movement, I have read and accumulated information about those who traveled to Egypt to teach hygiene and midwifery. In her memoir of the Saint-Simonian women in Egypt, the French midwife Suzanne Voilquin, mentions Dr. Clot-Bey as teacher and mentor. She later traveled and worked in Russia as a midwife.
Dr. Clot Bey was concerned with public health issues for containment and treatment of cholera and typhus as well as the childbirth mortality. His influence led directly to the foundation of a separate medical school for women and training midwives in Cairo. Dr. Clot-Bey's thesis for the Doctor of Surgery awarded in 1823 by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier was "Dangers of the Instrumental Manipulation in Obstetrical Delivery." Even in the 21st c. infants and mothers remain at risk of damage and death from forceps manipulation.
What ultimately made this visit to the old Franciscan Monastery library so important to me was holding the book La Peste. The library 's copy was inscribed by Dr. Clot-Bey himself. Dr. Clot-Bey's book brought out of the stacks for me to explore and read was an 1840 gift to the Monastery with the author's signature in brown ink, copperplate script. The covers had been wrapped in different paper. I expressed surprise and appreciation to the library manager who reminded me to return the next day to meet the director.
When I returned the following day, I enjoyed an hour or so with the head of the monastery who listened to my research project and counseled that it would be nearly impossible to find tombs, graves, or headstones from nearly two hundred years ago. But he did have handwritten ledgers of deaths which I could peruse.
He disappeared for a while and I returned to claim a table in the small reading room area of the library. At another table a woman student was participating in a language reading lesson in a low voice while a senior man, possibly her father or other relative, observed looked on. This was familiar; I've taught English to immigrants in Maryland libraries, though parental escorts weren't required. Soon the director brought out a stack of fat bound ledgers recording deaths of people from the international community living in Cairo from 1833 to 1836 who were in some way affiliated with the monastery's church. Most of the deaths recorded in the large ledgers were due to cholera but I noted there was an occasional drowning or street accident. The nationalities of the deceased included citizens of Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, England, Italy, Spain and France.
The author in appropriate disguise.
The handwriting in the ledgers was difficult to decipher, and the script changed when one recorder succumbed to cholera which a note in the ledger explained with emotional emphasis. I managed to find records of a few French residents and even a doctor who was part of the Saint-Simonian group and died during the cholera epidemic, as Dr. Clot-Bey details in his book.
A significant street in Cairo is named Clot-Bey, depicted below on a 19th c. postcard from the Gilded Serpent website.
Ultimately, I wandered through a cemetery in the old Coptic section but none of the dates on grave markers extended to the 1830s. I contented myself with the timeless connection of using a book handled and inscribed by Dr. Clot-Bey, reward enough for my effort.
Burrow, Gerard N. "Clot-Bey: Founder of Western Medical Practice in Egypt." The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine: 48, 251-257 (1975) .
M. Paul Merruau, "L'Egypte Contemporaine de Mehemet-ali a Said Pacha", Paris, Librarie Internationale, 1860, p. 84.
Myntti, "Medical Education: The Struggle for Relevance". Middle East Report, V:161
Clot-Bey, Antoine-Barthelemy. "De La Peste Obseré en Egypte." Paris: 1840.
Robert Louis Stevenson in Calistoga, California
Roaming in the California Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson
My affair with Robert Louis Stevenson started early, I was five or six. Daddy read Treasure Island aloud from a thick volume with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth while we three girls took turns sitting next to him on the couch. Little me enjoyed a kindred imagination and the vivid alternative worlds where adventure happened every day. More of that, please!
Perhaps unconsciously, I've followed that path, seeking outdoor thrills and ultimately creating opportunities to assuage that addiction to the adventurous options life offers. Stevenson wandered the world, so to follow his footsteps could take many months, probably years. I planned a journey in California dogging Stevenson's tracks during 1879-80 while the young writer waited to marry Fanny Osbourne, who needed a divorce first.
After a stop in Santa Cruz to photograph the house where I lived for a while back in the day, and a brief stop at San Gregorio Beach to dip my toes in the Pacific, I nosed the rental south on 101 past artichoke fields and cattle ranches. Wind tilted the few bicyclists braving the blustery day. More than a decade had passed since I'd visited this region. Development had been contained, leaving the shore visible where the road passed close. Nature's whiplash had gouged portions of the cliffs and flooding had eroded the roadbed, but highway department trucks and workers gave the sense that government was attentive to the problem.
Carmel-By-the Sea was my first destination. This picture-perfect secluded upscale community that nurtures the American impulse to shop was a colony for Bohemians and artists back in the 1880's, a place where Stevenson would have fit right in. Nor did I have any trouble blending in with the Keds and khaki-clad locals frolicking with their dogs on the beach. After lunch on the shaded patio at The Village Corner, I poked around the courtyards of Carmel and discovered a charming design store selling accessories for Beatrix Potter style gardening. Carmel is still an artist's colony. In another courtyard studio, the artist Lisa Bryan-Day showed me watercolor sketches of horses while we sipped Napa's fruit.
At sunset I ambled through Mission Trail Park, a nature zone opposite Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo, aka Carmel Mission. The meandering trails pass surprisingly close to the back gates of high-end real estate. When I focused on the woods or scanned the distance for the Mission's red tile roof, it didn't take much imagination to place Stevenson in the landscape leaning against a pine tree, smoking and considering the evening light. There's no proof that Stevenson prowled these same hills, but Carmel is on the way to Point Lobos where Stevenson spent happy hours staring at the raging waves. According to his diaries, he would ride a donkey out from Monterey and stay with the goatherds camping in the Carmel Valley.
Just a few miles south of Carmel, Point Lobos juts into the Pacific. I could have biked or walked, maybe done something about that lost muscle tone, but I chose the soft bottom solution and drove through an early morning rain shower. The spectacular feast of colors that composes the Pt. Lobos landscape startled me with elaborate painterly compositions of wind bent cedars, sage green lichen on rocks along the path and purple seaweed massing in the turquoise ocean below. As I tromped along, a bunny dashed across the path. I stopped to paint two water colors trying to capture the purples, blues, yellows, greens, vermillion, and orange. One picture more or less succeeded, but the other was a pale wet mud pie. Perhaps watercolor painting is also a use or lose condition.
A baby deer stared out from a thicket that barely screened the beige backs and legs of its older relatives. I froze in my tracks to watch. Eventually, the fawn turned into the brush to hide. Intermittent sunshine formed sparkling jewels of light on the Spanish moss hanging from trees and on the knee high grass in the meadows. At sea, rocky remnants of earthquakes created a coastal barrier over which the water thunders, splashes and recedes. On Sunday morning, I headed to Monterey which lays large claims on Stevenson's fame though he only stayed here for three months while his beloved Fanny Osborne completed divorce proceedings. A large sign on the waterfront asserts that Stevenson composed the plot to Treasure Island while walking that beach. Yet, in Napa Valley there was an historical marker that claimed he used a lookout point there as the model for Spyglass Hill.
The sailor's flophouse where he lived in 1879 has been fixed up and renamed Stevenson House. I pressed close to the glass cases to scrutinize the writer's silver flask, wallet, and pocket knife. The knife had all the recognizable Swiss army knife features and one curious addition we don't need today, the button hook. My heart clutched briefly to see the man's personal items – his lighter/flint box, a silver box that may have stored cigarettes and another for calling cards, a green velvet jacket laid out on the bed in the room Stevenson probably occupied. The quill pen and ink stand seemed too ceremonial; surely all that countryside trekking required a portable notebook and pencil.
While the well-informed state historian plied me with facts about the Stevenson family dining table that came all the way from Scotland to Samoa where Stevenson died and then back to California with Fanny and her children, I studied Stevenson's photograph. By the lines on his face, I could tell he was a man who laughed.
Monterey was a fishing and and whaling port in Stevenson's day. Undertaking a whale watching cruise thus seemed in character, albeit with a group of intense and rather humorless tourists clad in expensive waterproof jackets and brand new sneakers, instead of in the company of salty dog sailors. The whale watchers clustered at the bow commanding their chunk of railing until the captain asked everybody to move back. A handful of passengers huddled in the cabin, their stomachs churned by the winter wave action. While the marine biologist blared from the loudspeaker that the whales have super sensitive hearing, she praised the boat captain for staying back far enough so the whales wouldn't hear the engines. What about the loudspeaker announcing every blow spout, I wondered, don't the whales hear that? But then I come from the contemplative school of silent nature watching, which I imagine Stevenson shared.
Wrapping up my day in Monterey, I sped north to Napa Valley and Calistoga where Robert and Fanny Stevenson enjoyed the first weeks of their marriage. Calistoga sits among thermal geysers where Native Americans once built sweat lodges and contemporary sybarites soak in hot mineral water or mud wraps. Calistoga strives to conjure its past by cultivating a quasi-frontier era vibe with signs and store names. The railroad track that the Stevenson entourage traveled over still runs through town. Not sure what happened to the trains.
Stevenson's ailments would have profited by the mineral baths. During his California visit he suffered from pleurisy, eczema and episodes of acute illness probably brought on by malnutrition and stress. Not one to miss a hot soak, I signed up for a mud bath which effectively ended thinking and action that day.
On the morrow, I browsed through the Silverado Museum in the St. Helena Public Library Center. Volunteers lovingly tend a collection of letters, manuscripts, memorabilia, even the lead soldiers Stevenson played with as a child and his wedding ring. During my walks around town, I searched for cornerstones in St. Helena's older stone buildings that might fix them to 1880, but saw only handsome examples of 20th century local prosperity.
Intent on muscling up hills or down glens, I decided to hike up Mt. Saint Helena where the newly married couple occupied an abandoned mine manager's cabin for several months in 1880 while Robert wrote The Silverado Squatters. Today, the area is part of Robert Louis Stevenson State Park. About a half-mile up the trail, far enough that some effort is required, a polished stone monument of an open book on blocks of granite memorializes the site where the miner's cabin stood.
Another plaque I had seen in the area avvered that Mt. St. Helena was the spyglass hill in "Treasure Island' which was written after he, Fanny and her children went to live in the Stevenson family home in Scotland later in 1880. Right above the mining cabin site marker I climbed a rocky promontory which offered a clear view of the surrounding landscape. It was easy to imagine Stevenson settled in the chair-like embrace of the yellow orange rock, smoking and staring down at the Napa valley.
Back at the Indian Springs Resort in Calistoga, I turned to my lifelong companion of the imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson, to keep me entertained until sleep.
Carmel has no street addresses. Locations are identified by the nearest cross streets. Inns, hotels and guest houses are clustered around the shopping area. I stayed at the Tally Ho Inn (Monte Verde & 6th Streets) across the street from its more expensive and better known sister property, The Pine Inn Hotel.
Carmel: The Village Corner Bistro
Carmel area: Point Lobos State Reserve Extensive network of trails for self-guided hikes.
Calistoga: Indian Springs Resort and Spa, 1712 Lincoln Ave.
Calistoga: Calistoga Inn Restaurant and Brewery
Calistoga: Sharpsteen Museum
St. Helena: Gillwoods Cafe
St. Helena: Tra Vigne
St. Helena: Silverado Museum
Monterey: Stevenson House.
Monterey: Monterey Bay Aquarium
Da do ron ron an' taliban 1985
Is this a photoshopped cut and paste image? Really real?
Rail Link from China to Germany :: Silk Road Revived
Update: China's Grand Project, The Economist August 5, 2017 p. 49-50.
In 2013, Zhengzhou, a business and logistics center in Central China, became the starting point for rail transport service to Hamburg, Germany and other European ports. The trip is a 6,436 mile (10,214-kilometer) run taking 15 to 18 days — twice as fast as shipping goods by sea.
China manufactures products for the world. We all know that. And it imports tons of materials and mineral resources. Trade connections between China and the major markets of Europe and North America are essential for global economic prosperity.
No one can overlook the importance of railroad infrastructure and the challenges of distance in historical economic advancement. If a country can't get its goods to a robust marketplace with money, the economy doesn't grow. Ship, truck and airplane transport are all part of the modern trade and transport equation, but rail is often the cheapest way to ship goods overland.
China was slow to build its rail system, but it is now third largest in the world. During the past few decades, China has made lightening strides to improve its rail networks for passengers and freight. Some analysts believe the extensive new rail infrastructure may have been built too fast, given the problems along the Beijing to Tibet line.
The Mag-Lev rail connecter from Shanghai airport to the city's terrific subway is a marvel, priced for tourists from the western hemisphere and wealthy Chinese. I also traveled on other Chinese railroads promoted as high speed, which were not.
Why Ship by Rail? Why Now?
Maritime routes from Central China to Northern Europe go through the Suez Canal, because despite global warming and climate change, shipping on a great circle route over the North Pole isn't a viable option yet. According to the information graphic, the China to Northern Europe sea route is one of the heaviest travelled routes in the world. It also goes right through pirate zone near the Horn of Africa. The Suez Canal and eastern Mediterranean, last time I checked, have issues of potential instability.
This land route from China to Northern Europe saves potentially 80 % of the cost compared with air shipments, and it's about $489 cheaper on average, compared with road transportation. DB Schenker manages the transportation and logistics.
Nicknamed the New Silk Road, the route goes through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland. Zhengzhou International Inland Port Development Co Ltd is responsible for cooperating with partner rail companies in each country.
Variables affecting international rail transport include:
1) Rail loading gauge — how much weight can be tolerated on given carriers and track.
2) Track gauge — the width between the tracks.
There is broad gauge, standard or international gauge and narrow gauge. Further complicated by an array of different widths for broad gauge.
Loading gauges, couplings, container markings, and much more are encoded by the International Union of Railways, an organization created in 1922 to standardize rail transport industry practices. There are 82 active members including from Europe, Russia, China, Kazakhstan and others. The U.S. is an associate member.
With a route that travels through five or more countries, there are challenges along the route. The railroad containers have to be shifted by crane twice:
- From Chinese rolling stock to the Russian style broad gauge line at the Kazakhstan-China border at Alashankou, in northeastern China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
- Second transfer to standard gauge at the Polish-Belarusian border.
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Hewlett Packard was an early customer of the new rail connection. They booked the route for a major shipment of H-P computers manufactured in China destined to ship from Holland across the Atlantic Ocean to the US.
Here is a video of train route that the H-P computers traveled to Rotterdam, including crane transfer of containers from one railway track to a different gauge rail track.
I'm looking forward to the day passenger trains run the route!
Do it Yourself :: Panama Canal
Viewing the Panama Canal from a cruise ship might not be the best vista. Canal bound cruise ships are so large and the decks so far above the water line that you can't see what is going on below in the lock passages.
Boat tours of the Canal locks are offered by various providers. I went with Argo Tours on a partial transit, the only option on the day I contacted them. I couldn't find a web link to Argo recently, so maybe their name or management has changed, but whoever offers the canal lock passage tours, the experience is worthwhile. The food was much better than I expected for a tour boat, and copious. The guide explained the history, natural lore, and mechanical process of the lock transfers in English and Spanish.
I had hoped to walk the isthmus during this two-week trip to Panama, but had difficulty lining up maps sufficiently detailed for a solo walker. Next time I travel in Panama, I plan to ride the Panama Canal Railroad which has been refurbished for the tourist trade, but will offer another perspective of travel across the isthmus.
Prior to exploring the Canal area, I spent several days at Bocas del Toro on the Carribbean side and enjoyed a 1 day island boat-snorkel tour offered by several tour operators in Bocas. Make sure you hire a boat with a canopy as the sun can be fierce.
Another day, I flew from Panama City to Isla Coronado in the Pacific for an overnight in a spiffy cliffside beach hotel. Various high-level international refugees have stayed there — the Shah of Iran, possibly Manuel Noriega and other shady characters.
On one of the weekends, friends of Experience Panama tourism guru Ana Rojo invited me to join them for the cross country drive west-north-west to Boquet in the highlands, for cooler temperatures, ranch-style living and coffee plantations. Isla Verde guest house is nice there — run by a friendly German family. The hike up the mountain is worth the effort.
In Panama City, use good sense and hire a car and driver to view the tourist highlights, because public transport can be problematic unless you have lots of time to sit around and wait. Cabbies can be helpful, or not. I rode city buses a couple of times and boarded efficient inter-city buses to reach Bocas del Toro from Boquete.
The Smithsonian operates a world-class tropical research institute at Barro Colorado, an island in Gatun Lake. The day was interesting, but we were kept close to the administrative buildings. Experienced hiker-naturalists might find the nature walk a disappointment.
If you can, book into the Country Inn and Suites Hotel (an American style business hotel with the usual discounts for AAA, government/military and seniors) because of the direct view of the Canal and all the ships. For me, that made the trip, to be able to look up from the balcony and see a tanker nosing through the canal, or the sun setting over the tropical forest on the opposite side of the canal.
A 6 km causeway made from dirt excavated from the canal runs alongside the canal, open to pedestrians and cyclists. At the end of the causeway, there's a handful of charming islands, one of which is a small Smithsonian marine research/education facility, converted from a WWII-era lookout station. The recreational port area attracts sightseers and the marina area is bracketed by seafood restaurants. For me, it was restful to walk along the causeway, maybe visit the marine research island, have a snack at one of the restaurants and walk back to the CountryInn Suites hotel then finish up the evening looking at the canal during twilight. All along the causeway, sea breezes rustle the palm trees and folks of all generations run, rollerblade, walk and cycle.
The birdwatching at Canopy Tower and nearby trails is incomparable. Panama offers many national parks, though transportation to the parks could present a logistical hurdle.
Travel Tips. Bring along a roll of $1 and $5 US banknotes. For some reason it was hard to get singles and that's what you need in this tip driven economy. US currency is used throughout and some prices were quite modest, except for classy hotels in the city and resort areas. If you do find yourself taking taxis, be aware that the first rate quoted by the driver is the tourist price and the normal price is perhaps 1/4. ( e.g. for a $1.25 cab ride, 8 minutes travel time, the driver will quote me, Miss Gringo Tourist, $7.00, then come down to $5.00 and even when I offer $3.00, will still try and get me to agree to a "tour".


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Senior Staff and Board
Ann Medlock is the Project's founder and its Executive Director. She writes most of the Project's website and all of the monthly Heads Up e-zines. She created the Project's Stan Tall & Bea Tall characters for the very young, and wrote the K-2 curriculum, the Giraffe Heroes Training Kit, and much of Voices of Hope.
Her background includes editing Viet Nam Presse in Saigon; chairing the Children's Cultural Foundation in New York; freelance writing for magazines and corporations, and media consulting for Western Union, AT&T, and the US Maritime Administration. She has been editor-in-chief of Children's Express, a curriculum developer at Macmillan and Science Research Associates, and speechwriter to the Aga Khan. Medlock is active on Facebook and blogs for the Huffington Post. She earned a magna cum laude in English from the University of Maryland, and has published a novel and a book of poetry.
John Graham is the Project's Director of Operations, its principal speaker/workshop leader and Director of Giraffe Heroes International—the overseas affiliates launched by the Project.
He was a US diplomat for 15 years, where his assignments included revolutionary Libya, Viet Nam, NATO, the US Mission to the UN and a stint as foreign policy advisor to Senator John Glenn. He joined the Giraffe Heroes Project staff in 1983. His degrees are from Harvard and Stanford, and his mountain climbing credits include the first ascent of the north wall of Denali, a climb that's never been repeated. He is the author of Outdoor Leadership, It's Up to Us, Stick Your Neck Out and On the Edge.
Aaron Davis (Chair) is a Convention Services Manager for Visit Seattle, the official destination-marketing organization for Seattle and King County. Davis serves as a liaison for conference organizers, enhancing the employment opportunities and economic prosperity for the region. He graduated from Central Michigan University in 2003 with a BS in Industrial Technology and Management. While at Central Michigan, he became very involved in civic engagement and helped coordinate and participate in one of the nation's largest Alternative Spring Break Volunteer Programs.
Jayasri Ghosh (Secretary) is the Head of Bright Water School, a PreK-8 Waldorf School on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The former Head of School at the Annie Wright School in Tacoma, Washington and at the Seattle Country Day School, Dr. Ghosh holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and Gifted Education.
Malory Graham (Treasurer) holds a 6th degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido and is the chief instructor of her own dojo, Seattle Aikikai where she teaches both aikido and yoga. Previously she founded and ran the nonprofit Reel Grrls, an after-school media & technology training program that empowers girls to critique media images and to gain media technology skills. Her video company, Small Planet Productions, produced 'Holding up Half the Sky: A video portrait of women aikido instructors. She has contributed her video skills to Giraffe, creating a film of kids doing Giraffe actions.
Ann Medlock is the Project's founder and its Executive Director. (See above under Senior Staff).
Ron Reed served on the Board in the 1980s and returned in 2016. Now retired from a long career as an Episcopal priest, he did development work for the national church, and for parishes where he was vicar. He's created education programs, has worked all over the world, and is a longtime supporter of the Project. He joins our meetings from Kansas
Peter Tavernise is a senior executive of the Cisco Foundation in California, and a long-time advisor to Giraffe Heroes. He became the Project's volunteer webmaster in the 1990s, when he was a fundraiser for Duke University. He brings to the Project's Board a deep understanding of the philanthropic world, of technology and education, and of the Project's mission.
Patrinell Wright holds the "Giraffe Heroes seat" on the board. She was commended as a Giraffe Hero in 1992 for founding and sustaining The Total Experience Gospel Choir. Wright understands well the process and the challenges of keeping a nonprofit operation going, and what it means to stick your neck out for the common good.


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University of California, Berkeley, Multicultural Urban Secondary English (MUSE)
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University of California, Hastings College of the Law
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Taught 11th Grade American Literature at urban high school. Created, planned, and taught unit on identity through a critical theory (race, gender, class) lens, using A Raisin in the Sun as the focal text. Prepared and implemented lesson plans as part of units planned by cooperating teacher on The Things They Carried, research and presentation (Google Docs presentation software) of controversial issues, and autobiographical essay in conjunction with 826 Valencia. Prepared and implemented lesson plans for CST and EAP Test preparation, including use of Data Director to determine student needs. Responsible for grading and grade-tracking using School Loop. Working on management of talkative class with poor track record of attendance and classwork/homework completion. Attend multiple 11th grade team planning meetings, English department meetings. Participated in grade-norming activities for school-wide writing assessment.
Student Teacher – Mission High School San Francisco, CA September 2011-December 2011
Taught 10th Grade Intermediate English Language Development and assisted in 10th Grade Beginning English Language Development at large urban high school, both new-comer classes. Worked at developing relationships with students and building trust to create space in which students felt safe and could learn. Prepared lesson plans as part of unit on Globalization planned by cooperating teacher. Integrated grammar lessons throughout unit. Planned and taught unit on Participation and Democracy, including focus on understanding academic texts that included literary (e.g., Meditation 17, John Donne), public (e.g., Declaration of Independence), and journalistic documents (e.g., contemporary newspaper articles). Met with parents, including Spanish- and Cantonese-only parents, on Back to School night, and participated in student activities, including an ELD Halloween party and end-of-semester ice skating trip.
Grammar Coach (Volunteer) – Leadership High School, San Francisco, CA October 2011-present
Worked closely with two students in AP Literature class to improve writing and grammar, determining needs and providing relevant instruction and discussion.
Volunteer – San Francisco Education Fund, San Francisco, CA September 2010-May 2011
Worked at Horace Mann Elementary School running a mandatory study-hall class and helping facilitate a seminar on Jazz and Democracy. Worked closely with students, teaching concepts in homework or seminar curriculum with which they were struggling, and developing relationships. Kept order in classroom and ensured school rules were followed and environment conducive to learning was maintained.
Volunteer – School to College Program, Balboa High School, San Francisco, CA Fall 2007
Mentored high school students through college application process, edited personal statements, counseled on college and career plans.
Substitute Teacher and Classroom Volunteer – Carondelet High School, Concord, CA 2003
Worked closely with English Department Chair to develop lesson plans in literature and grammar for Freshman, Juniors, and AP Seniors. Corrected and provided feedback on student papers and assignments. Lectured on Modernism, Postmodernism, and Allusions in Slaughterhouse Five; led classroom discussions on various topics, asking questions to encourage deeper thinking. Worked as substitute teacher.
Clinician – Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, Berkeley, CA 2002-2003
Taught remedial reading and reading comprehension to students with learning and developmental disabilities at elementary, secondary, and college level. Saw significant improvement in each student, including one six year-old boy who went from an inability to combine sounds to first-grade reading level in a few months.
Tutor – Diablo Valley College Language Lab, Pleasant Hill, CA Spring 2000
Trained to teach the writing process to English Language Learners and other students struggling with college-level English classes. Tutored these students in writing, helping them to develop arguments, outline papers, write, and edit.
Work Experience (Law)
Supervised two law clerks (interns), assigning projects and critiquing their writing and argument to improve both the document submitted and their writing and analytical skills generally. Instructed clerks in the writing process. Discussed substantive law with clerks and assisted in developing research questions and plans.
Responsible for heavy personal injury and employment law caseload. Wrote substantive motions, pleadings, correspondence, and research memos. Took and defended depositions, made court appearances requiring oral argument. Worked with mediators, opposing counsel, and clients to bring about resolutions to disputes. Interviewed clients to determine problem and best course of action, advised of options and relevant law.
Professional Activities and Awards
Awarded Graduate School of Education Alumni Fellowship Award, Fall 2011
Created, maintain, and write for cohort website: https://sites.google.com/site/muse2013/
Served as volunteer coordinator for U.C. Berkeley GSE Research Day 2012
Member, National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), Secondary Section
Member, California Teachers Association (CTA)
Member, Phi Delta Kappa International, Professional Association in Education, U.C. Berkeley Chapter
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Conversational in Spanish; familiar with HTML and basic web design; familiar with School Loop and Data Director; interested in equitable and accurate assessment creation, integrative and constructive grammar teaching, and the intersection of linguistics, identity creation, knowledge creation, and power relations.


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In the Silence of the Yams pre-heat challenge, bakers make yam desserts that evoke classic scary movie cliches from chainsaws and hockey masks to bloody knives and creepy dolls. In the main heat, the bakers turn a pumpkin patch into a "bundtkin patch" by creating a pumpkin patch out of mini bundt cakes.
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By Gilles Charmet, WHEALBI Coordinator, February 6th 2017
In 2016, The EXOME (coding part of the genome) of 512 barley and 512 wheat varieties of the WHEABI collections have been captured and sequenced. More than 25 and 35 millions of read pairs have been produced for barley and wheat, respectively. These raw data have been processed for quality control and alignment with the most recently available reference sequences. This enabled WHEALBI partner to identify 450 000 and 265 000 robust variants (SNPs) in barley and wheat exome, respectively.
In 2017, these data will be used by WHEALBI partners for further analyses, including evolution of the genomes from wild species to cultivars and genome-wide association studies. To do that, WHEALBI partners will evaluate agronomic traits such as canopy development, disease tolerance (powdery mildew, septoria blotch…), and use exome sequence data to identify the genetic bases of adaptation.
Ultimately, WP7 will identify a list of desirable traits to be associated in future varieties adapted to sustainable more farming systems such as no-till or organic. Statistical methods developed in WP6 will help breeders to better exploit genetic resources to achieve these breeding goals. Finally, in 2017, the college project and several trainings will help disseminating knowledge's to future farmers, technicians and breeders.
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Radisson Opens New Hotel Near Detroit Airport
The 272-key property offers 15,000 square feet of meeting space and eight rooms for corporate events or wedding receptions.30 December 2016 18:42
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Iconic Detroit Building Saved by Major Hospitality Chain
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Sage Hospitality and Whitman Peterson have kicked off their new investment relationship with the acquisition of six Courtyard by Marriott lodging properties from Clarion Partners. The 852-room group of hotels is located in metropolitan Atlanta, Dallas and the Detroit area.04 April 2013 14:44
$44 Million Grant Helps Detroit RiverWalk Redevelopment
By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor In an effort to wrap up the remaking of the 5.5 mile RiverWalk that connects the Ambassador Bridge and Belle Isle, the city of Detroit received a total of $44 million in state and federal grants as financial support for the final stage of construction. According to Detroit Free Press, [...]25 July 2012 21:21
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By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor The Detroit Masonic Temple in the lower Midtown area and several blighted properties in the surrounding area could embark on a $38 million renovation project. According to The Detroit News, a team of state and local brokers is currently establishing the financial aspects of the investment, which could get the [...]14 June 2012 13:32


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It's always fun to play dress ups and shoot photos with other bloggers. I follow so many bloggers and find so much inspiration from what others are doing. I love constantly being inspired, especially by woman who are finding the time to get creative in life and do something they love.
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Islamic Interpretation of Dreams (Ibn-i Sirin):
Reading or listening to Qurâiinic verses in a dream may carry needed interpretations related to oneâs current studies of Godâs holy Book.
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*President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring in an Oval Office speech to the nation Tuesday night: "It's time to turn the page."
Adamantly opposed to the war from the beginning, Obama said the United States "has paid a huge price" to give Iraqis the chance to shape their future – a cost that now includes more than 4,400 troops dead, tens of thousands more wounded and hundreds of billions of dollars spent.
"We have met our responsibility," Obama said. "Now it is time to turn the page."
After praising the men and women in uniform for their sacrifice, Obama said "Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country. Having drawn down 100,000 troops since taking office, a much smaller force will stay to train and assist the Iraqi forces during the transition period. …All U.S. troops will leave by the end of next year."
Obama said he had telephoned Bush, whom he had criticized so often in the 2008 campaign, and praised the former Republican president in the heart of his speech.
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I've known April and Chris for a long time – I just never knew that they knew each other. April graduated from Bear Grass High School a year or so after I did, and Chris's family has stayed at my family's campground for years. I never got a chance to meet with April and Chris at the same time, so I never made the connection until I saw him at the church. Small world.
I generally don't post any of the posed family portraits on this blog, but this one is amazing: When working with a large group I usually have the entire family come in for the first shot, and then start to chip away till it's just parents and the newlyweds. When I said "everyone in", they grouped up just like this. No direction, no suggestions, they just knew what to do!


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Sufjan Stevens' thoughts on Savages' use of typography. (Don't mind the unicorns throwing up rainbows in the background.)
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This Five Star Friday roundup is brought to you by decluttering, hope and faith, online dating, responsibility, divorce, putting the horse before the cart, effeminate masculinity, a future love, and Mignon McLaughlin:
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In 2012, the first sex blogger conference of Eroticon, was held in Bristol. At that point, I had only been blogging sex toy reviews since January 2012, although my NSFW blog, had been up for longer. I was also recovering from an operation, which meant I couldn't attend. So, when they announced Eroticon 2013, I was really excited to have a chance to go.
But unfortunately, reality takes over and paying out £90.00 for a ticket, plus travel & accommodation, just isn't something I can afford, as a single mum with 2 children. Plus with certain family commitments coming up, my time is some what swaddled down to zero.
But the whole point in Eroticon for me, is to learn more about the sex field, especially on a creative writing level. Let's face it, I do like to write, otherwise I wouldn't have this blog, would I? I'm a keen photographer but I could do with an insiders knowledge, I am pretty sure that John Tisbury is someone who can hand over some very valuable pointers.
Of course, all the seminars would be amazing to attend, there is no doubt about that.
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Safe Internet League to Combat Child Pornography with Photo DNA
The Safe Internet League has become the first Russian NGO to be licensed by Microsoft to use its Photo DNA software to combat child pornography, joining a sel ected group of international organizations. The software will enable it to zero in on child pornography web sites and flag them for subsequent blocking, as well as to find and help the child victims of the illegal industry.
Developed in 2009, the Photo DNA technology was first donated to the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) who pioneered its application in combatting child pornography. The software is capable of analysing images and videos, assigning them unique IDs to later compare with, that is, to find their copies, even the edited ones. For example, NCMEC routinely checks web sites, comparing their contents against its blacklist of millions of Photo DNA IDs of child pornography photos and videos, and demands that sites flagged positive be taken down.
The technology is currently used to detect illegal images by some of the Internet giants like Facebook and Twitter. The Safe Internet League became the first NGO in Russia (and one of the first internationally), to be licenced to use Photo DNA. The League is planning to use the software not only to detect web sites hosting illegal content, but also to help the exploited children. «We have a photo and video archive of child pornography which is the largest in Russia. Sadly, it is constantly growing. There are thousands of children depicted in it — most of them victims. But investigating cases of distribution or production of child pornography, the police do not ask themselves who these children are, and what became of them. Using Photo DNA would not only help us track copies of the material we archived, but to find the children involved. For example, it could ID a child and then search for him or her on the Internet or in the Interior Ministry's databases to find out where this photo or video originated from, whom it was confiscated fr om, who were the persons behind it. This way we will be able to gather information and help this child», said Safe Internet League CEO Denis Davydov.


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Review: Sample Society's December Box
Philosophy Hope in a Jar Night Moisturizer
I still have mixed feelings about this product and will be continuing to test it out. When I first put it on my face, it smelled really strange and burned my sensitive cheeks a little. However after a few minutes it settled in fine and the smell went away or I just didn't notice it anymore. So I'm still not sure...
dermalogica Daily Microfoliant
Definitely not a product for me. It's difficult for someone clumsy like me to use and seems more like a hassle than anything else.
IPKN New York IPKN Moist & Firm BB SPF 02 Light
This was incredibly dark when I first put some onto my hand, but it ended up blending out fairly well on the skin and when I used very little. It's definitely not going to be replacing any of my other BB creams any time soon but it was nice to give another brand a try.
Alterna Caviar Dry Shampoo
I am much too loyal to my Dove dry shampoo to replace it any time soon. This shampoo was alright, but I'm not a fan of powders and I could tell it left a bit of a weird coloration behind when I massaged it in.
Jane Iredale Lash Conditioner
My favorite product from this month's box was this lash conditioner. I'm not entirely sure at how effective it actually is, but it seems to do a great job at separating my lashes to prepare them for the mascara to follow.
Overall I am really disappointed. Maybe I hyped up Sample Society too much in my head or something, but this first box definitely left me wanting. It's no Ipsy, that's for sure.
To hear more reviews watch the video!
What do you think of Sample Society?
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Kaisariani monastery
Location: Kaisariani
The Monastery of Kaisariani in Athens: One of the oldest monasteries in Attica is the Holy Monastery of Kaisariani located on the slopes of a hill, on the northern side of Mount Hymettus, at an altitude of 350 meters. The medieval church was founded during the Byzantine times, in the late 11th century and it was dedicated to the Presentation of the virgin in the Temple. According to several historical sources, the monastery was built on the remains of a Roman sanctuary.
The Monastery of Kaisariani is among the finest examples of cross-in-square architectural form. The church has four columns with a dome and its walls are built with brick ornaments. The interior of the church is decorated with wall paintings that date back to the16th and 15th century and constitute an example of Cretan painting style. The chapel located at the northern side of the church is dedicated to Agios Antonios and was built during the Turkish domination, while the bell tower was constructed much later in the 19th century. At the eastern side of the yard is located an archaic fountain which according to the tradition it had therapeutic treatments in female fertility.
The monastery flourished during the 12th and 13th centuries and it was established as a cultural and spiritual centre. The monastery had a rich library with an important collection of books used by many philosophers of that time which was destroyed in wars and invasions. Most importantly, several excavations conducted in 1958 revealed the ruins of a 6th century basilica. The monastery is surrounded by a rich forest with trees, bushes and rare plants that reflect the calm and peaceful atmosphere and boast a unique view. This forest has a large network of hiking trails and is a popular picnic excursion in Athens. Today, the monastery doesn't work but it is one of the landmarks of Christianity.


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To: Kristen Ricks, Karen Mayne, Lyle Hillyard, Mike Christensen, Peter Knudson, Steve Urquhart, Stuart Reid, Susan Allred,
Subject: Re: July SJCC Meeting
Date: Fri Jun 20 04:19:33 MDT 2014
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:54 AM
To: Karen Mayne < firstname.lastname@example.com>, Kristen Ricks < firstname.lastname@example.com>, Lyle Hillyard < firstname.lastname@example.com>, Mike Christensen < firstname.lastname@example.com>, Pat Jones < email@example.com>, Peter Knudson < firstname.lastname@example.com>, Steve Urquhart < email@example.com>, Stuart Reid < firstname.lastname@example.com>, Susan Allred < email@example.com>
Cc: Scott Jenkins < firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: July SJCC Meeting
Dear SJCC members:
The governor has sent us two more judicial appointments. Senator Jenkins would like to have the advise and consent session on the July interim day which is the 16th. That means that the committee meeting needs to be before that. Senator Jenkins can meet on the following days:
Monday, July 7 (preferred)
Thursday July 10
Friday July 11
Monday July 14
Could you respond as soon as you can so we can get the date set.
Also at the last meeting there was concerned expressed about getting the packets to you sooner in order for you to have the time to review them. We are going to have the packets to you the first of next week and then send the notice and agenda when the date is finalized. Hopefully this will be helpful to you.
Thank you,
Kristen C. Ricks
Legislative Secretary
Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel
Telephone (801) 538-1032


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Limited edition four colour screen print, designed and hand printed by Nadia Taylor.
Edition of 45, numbered and signed.
Paper size - A2 - 594 x 420 mm/ 23.4 x 16.5 in. Will fit in a standard A2 frame.
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Discussion in 'Grin & Bare It Bar and Grill' started by StandOnIt, Jan 14, 2018.
should just sparkle a bit
A little too much of SOMETHING --- or maybe a huge lack of smarts. Damn.
Just plain damn dumb.
I present this idjit for a future Darwin award!!
I'm laughing and choking. I came here expecting to see like a fountain of diarrhea or something of the sort.
Why did he do this indoors? I bet there's a hole in the ceiling.
I do the same thing every time I watch it. When he says it should sparkle a little bit I'm gone from there.
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Weekly Wine Pairings
Each week, Wine Specialist Sarah Pierre brings you suggestions to complement your PeachDish meals. Sarah is one of the owners at 3 Parks Wine Shop in Glenwood Park, Atlanta. She paired up with the team of The Shed at Glenwood and The Pig and The Pearl and opened 3 Parks in 2013. Prior to opening the store, she spent most of her career working and managing notable restaurants in Atlanta and New York City. Sarah selects all of the wines that are offered at 3 Parks Wine Shop and also assists in pairing wines for local events and dinners throughout Atlanta.
Butter Bean & Barley Salad with Feta & Eggplant Coins
Oregon Pinot Noir - This PeachDish meal is bursting with flavor. It's full of vegetables and herbs with a nice pop of acidity from the lemon. Pair this dish with a light, earthy Oregon Pinot Noir which won't overpower the dish and will allow all the ingredients to shine. Suggestion: Elk Cove Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, OR
Pinot Grigio - Try a more neutral white wine that won't interfere with all the components of the dish. Suggestion: Barone Montalto, Sicily, Italy
Stuffed Summer Squash with Fresh Tomato Sauce
Chianti Classico - All I can think of is Italy. Lots of fresh herbs, including basil and oregano, mozzarella and ricotta cheese, and a bed of stewed tomatoes - the obvious choice would be the Italian mother's milk: Chianti.
Gavi - This acidic white from Piedmont, Italy is 100% Cortese. It's light and zesty and will pair nicely with the tomato sauce. Suggestion: Riva Leone Gavi, Piedmont, Italy
Sungold Tomato & Chevre Pita Pizza with Zucchini Salad
Beaujolais - If you're going to go with a red wine, pick something that is lighter and softer. You definitely don't want a wine with a lot of tannin. Beaujolais (Gamay) is perfect - light, delicate fruit, perfect amount of acid, and very little tannins.
Sauvignon Blanc - A Sancerre works particularly well for this dish. It has a way with goat cheese that makes you go back for seconds. Suggestion: Domaine Fournier Pere et Fils Sancerre, France
BUN – Vietnamese Noodle & Chicken Salad
Sparkling Rosé - If you can find a Bugey Cerdon, you're in for a treat. This off-dry Sparkling Rosé is a great pairing for Vietnamese dishes - especially if you choose to make this one spicy.
Sauvignon Blanc - Once again, Sauvignon Blanc is a great pairing for this dish. The fresh herbs and cucumber will complement the wine.


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Shuffle & Cut Games is excited to announce a Triple Kit Tournament for Android: Netrunner to take place Sunday, May 24th at 1:00 PM. All sets up to and including Breaker Bay will be authorized for this event. Entry will be $10 and if you preregister online (by clicking HERE), you will be entered in to a drawing for a data pack of your choice from our current stock. We will be playing swiss rounds with no top cut for this event. In addition the the prizes listed below, $10 store credit will be added to the prize pool for each person in excess of 8 who attends. For instance, if 20 people play, then $120 store credit will be added to the prize pool.
1st: Choice of playmat, choice of deck box, choice of 2 promo cards
2nd: Choice of playmat, choice of deck box, choice of 2 promo card
3rd - 4th: Choice of playmat, choice of deck box, choice of promo card
5th-8th: Choice of deck box, choice of promo card
First 20 players: 1 x Plascrete Carapace Promo Card
All Players: 1x Pop-Up Window, 1x Aesop's Pawnshop Promo Cards
Top 8 players will choose their Promos in order of finish from the following pool:
Playmats available for Top 4
Can't get enough Fantasy Flight Living Card Games? Shuffle & Cut Games is making it even easier to stay current with all the latest data packs, force packs, war packs and more! Subscribe to one or more games and as each new pack comes out we will not only set one aside for you to pick up in store at your convenience, we will also give you a discount off our already low prices! We will be supporting all of Fantasy Flights current LCG offerings with this program as well as the Doomtown Reloaded ECG by AEG.
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We will be close at Noon Friday July 3rd and re-open again for business, Monday, July 6. Have a happy and safe Independence Day!
Be sure to come in soon to have your footwear looking its best for holiday gatherings! Everyone here at Divine Shine and Cheryl A. Lofton & Associates wish you safe and joyous holidays and a Happy New Year!
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Jessica's knowledge and expertise allowed us to achieve the WOW Factor that we were looking for. She assisted us in choosing furniture, fixtures and equipment that maximized the return on our real estate investment. Her invaluable insights, and eye for detail, helped us redesign most of the interior of our home simply by moving items to new places, changing a few wall colors, to highlight our art work and other special collections. We were glad to have had Jessica on our team!
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I always thought that I would get to the right design solution for my house on my own. How can anyone else know what I want better than me? But after a few weeks of busy work schedules, procrastinating, and stressful decision choices – I reached out for support. Jessica helped me clarify and understand what I was intuitively looking for and how to complete the picture with the right design choices. She was thoroughly organised, professional and laid it all out.
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I was happy to work with Jessica on re-imagining our Guest Bedroom. We had a large piece of artwork that we didn't know how to make pop. Jessica chose fun pieces that complimented our artwork and style. I am sure that her selections will be in our collection for years to come.
I am so grateful for Jessica. Her simple suggestion for the throw pillows on the living room couch made such an impact in the room! I would never have had the courage to pick those colors much less use the variety of textures you suggested. I am looking forward to our next bigger & better adventure!
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
You may not find out very much about the elusive Molan Spectrum from their website. Still, some things are best left unsaid. Search the website for clues, if you're curious that way.....
To avoid falling under the hypnotic spell of the abysmal catastrophe,go direct to
the inner sanctum, and view their salacious offering, "Rock Off and Die" directly on your computer. A tale of spurned love and business deals with a very unlikely ending. Frustratingly addictive.
Or see it on Youtube at this link : Rock Off and Die.
The only pop video you'll see where the furniture also smoulders, in the deeply unsavoury setting of a transport cafe.
Rock Off and Die is an eclectic masterpiece featuring the oddly endearing vocals of Sir Dangerous Dave. Once infected, you'll need to hear those inspiring lyrics again and again to chant to your boss, unloved ones or just yourself on an off day. DeLorean fans and other anachronistic idolisers will appreciate the appearance of not one, but four of the legendary car icons, and their disappearance into broad daylight in a stream of fire.
Unfortunately, once heard, you won't be able to resist requesting this track to play to all your nearest and dearest at time of family crisis.
Look out for the sequel :
"Hit the Floor"
in which Dave exploits the Scandinavian clubbing market with a brilliant dance track which is bound to irritate - chafe even.
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By Dustin Rowles | Lists | November 21, 2008 |
He's often maligned around here, but thank God for Judd Apatow, people. Do you realize that, if geeks and nerds, stoners, and freaks weren't the leads in the teen comedies that are popular these days, then we'd be forced to live in a world where twatwaffles dominated the genre. These twatwaffles are everywhere, and there's enough gel in their hair to fuel a supertanker. Unfortunately, while they are slightly harder to find in film, to some extent, they do dominate television shows aimed at the 50/50 Gen. The CW, Disney, Nick and MTV are littered with them. They're everywhere. Fortunately for most of you, unless you follow the gossip blogs obsessively or are under the age of 21, you probably don't know who most of them are. But they do comprise a very large percentage of the text-speak generation's heartthrobs, which is a sad state of affairs. A few of these men will become the next generation's Johnny Depp or Ashton Kutcher, a teen actor that rises to the top to become a legitimate leading man. Tear off your own head (It's a Doll Revolution).
And my guess is, that unless you're under the age of 25, most of you won't be able to identify more than 30 percent of them. But they're out there. In shows you don't watch. In movies you avoid. On blogs you don't read. This is not a quiz, folks, that you're going to feel proud to do well on. The winner, in fact, gets no prize — just shame and derision. Let us know how you did in the comments so we can throw stones at you.
Here it is: I'll give you a picture and a short list of credits, and you identify the actor.
A Pajiba Quiz / Dustin Rowles


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Kathryn Topping '19
Jeanne L. Diorio Memorial Fund 2017–2018 recipient
Kathryn Topping '19 is fulfilling her dream of becoming a special education and elementary school teacher. Experiential learning opportunities allow her to immediately practice what she is learning at the University's College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions (ENHP), giving her the best preparation possible to succeed:
I chose the University of Hartford because in all of the colleges I toured, this one had the best education program. I felt that I would obtain what I need to become the best teacher possible.
My experience as an elementary education/special education major has been great. I have had hands-on experience since freshman year, which no other school could offer me. I also am being taught by amazing professors. They all have different experiences and specialties that have helped me to make the most out of my own experiences in different schools. I became interested in special education and elementary education because I enjoy teaching. I have always been around kids and it is interesting to see how they can grow. Their thought processes change and I want to be a part of shaping that and helping them learn.
My greatest accomplishments so far have been from my field work experiences. Because of the instruction of my professors, I have been prepared to practice what I have learned. Recently, I was placed in a fourth grade class at the Fred D. Wish School in Hartford. I was able to help support my cooperating teacher with her math instruction. I was able to help students and I know I made a difference because they were able to help their other classmates. I would help one student and then that student would teach their classmate. I feel accomplished knowing that I made a difference in a student's life even though it might have been small.
The extracurricular that I participate in at the University is Best Buddies. I help students at the local transitional academies to feel like they are part of the college experience. I take part in different activities with them to help them feel included, such as holiday parties, going to college basketball games, and more. This experience has helped me to learn more about people with disabilities and how to help them feel like they are a part of the University of Hartford community.
My plans after graduation are to find a job working in an elementary school in Connecticut. I would like to be in an inclusive classroom working with both students with disabilities and those without disabilities. I would like to find a job closer to my hometown in Madison, Conn., so that I can make an impact on children from my own community at home. My career goals are to eventually complete a master's program. I think I might want to specialize in speech and language to be able to support English language learners and students with speech difficulties.
Thank you so very much for this scholarship. My family and I are beyond grateful. I know that this will make an impact on my education that will then allow me to make an impact on others. I will be able to become the best teacher and make long-lasting impressions on my students.
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New windows for this house and next door neighbors!
New energy efficient windows
Brand new roof for this Home and the color looks great!!!
Just replace all windows and front door, just in time for the cold weather. Can't wait to see how much they will save on their energy bills!!!
New windows
Install new vinyl, wood, and a monster bay window.
New roof. New envy of the neighborhood.
New Roof, Siding and Door
New Roof, Siding and Gutters making this house look brand new!
Check out this beautiful home that received the complete Brandywine Exteriors treatment. I think the neighbors are happier that the home owners
Finishing touch to a new siding project. We used vinyl cedar shake and board & batten on the front with 5" vinyl straight on the rest of the house. Looks beautiful and done in time for the Memorial Day Pool Party.