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23 days until Miwok.
Every empty moment in my day is filled with thoughts of rehab. When I'm not injured, I don't even think about running in every. single. spare. moment, but now that I need my injury to heal in three weeks, rehab, rest and recovery are the only things on my mind.
When I wake up and slide out of bed to turn my alarm off, my inner eye is trained on the popliteus tendon in the back of my knee. How does it feel? Did it hurt when my foot touched the ground?
I try a single-leg squat to I pick up my phone and unplug the charger from the wall. Did that hurt? Do I have full range of motion?
Pulling off the calf sleeve that I sleep in, I run my hand over the tendons behind my right knee. How tight are they this morning?
I walk a few steps. Is it hurting?
In between serving breakfast for my kiddos, getting dressed, putting on makeup, making a cup of coffee, making sure my kids have gotten dressed and put their shoes on, my inner eye is constantly trained on that popliteus. Did that hurt? What about this? How about now?
On days that I don't have physical therapy, I get to my office and begin my hamstring curls as I check email on my standing desk. I use the hamstring to bring the right foot up behind me in endless repetitions. I lose track because I'm responding to, deleting and forwarding emails.
When those are done I take my first of several daily laps around the Bee Fit indoor walking path. The course involves two flights of stairs, up and then down. That inner eye is always trained on the back of the knee. First step. Did that hurt? Take two stairs at a time. Did that hurt? Put extra pressure on my right leg as I take another step. How about that? Walking up a flight of stairs isn't so simple anymore. It's a test.
First I stroll along, then I try walking faster. Any pain? Walk faster still. How about now? Step it up to almost race walking, after glancing behind me to make sure there are no coworkers around to watch my goofy gait. Still no pain? Maybe I can hike Miwok.
Back at my desk I pick my foot up and rest it on my desk, getting a deep stretch in the hamstring. That hurts.
And so this continues, just about every hour from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On days that I have PT, I drive straight there from dropping my kiddos off at school. I'm excited! Every minute spent in PT is a leap toward recovery. It feels better to do something to facilitate healing than to just sit and wait for it to heal.
I go through about 45 minutes of exercises: single-leg squats, hamstring stretch, gastroc stretch, soleus stretch, hamstring curls, foam rolling the ITB and inner thigh, a back strengthening move on the pulley system, "Jane Fondas" and more.
Then comes my favorite part: I lie down on my tummy on a raised "bed" and someone straps the Anodyne system to my leg. First my leg is wrapped in plastic wrap, then plates with dozens of infrared lights are set on my popliteus muscle. Everything is fastened down with velcro straps. For 15 minutes the machine is cranked up to full gear while I lie there and scroll through Facebook on my phone. I don't know exactly what this machine is doing, but my PT says it's used on diabetic patients to bring blood to an area and it really helps facilitate healing. I NEED HEALING!!
The machine gets a little warm, but I don't feel any effects immediately. About 2-3 hours after the treatment, my leg feels great. Almost as good as new. It's definitely doing something!
I go to PT twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday.
The rest of the days I diligently do my "homework" – the two exercises prescribed to me.
I ice the muscle.
I take ibuprofen.
I heat the area or do a warmup walk and then stretch the heck outta that thing.
I go to yoga; heated vinyasa seems especially helpful.
I sleep with a calf sleeve on.
I try to get at least 7 hours — usually about 8 — of sleep each night.
I massage my hamstring and calf.
Every spare moment is invested into my recovery. I HAVE to get better in three weeks.
Luckily, my PT told me today that my healing is actually ahead of schedule. For my injury, 4-6 weeks is needed to recover — but my PT said it was going to be "more toward 6." My injury came April 3, which left 5 weeks until the Miwok 100K. So, hopefully I'm at least one week ahead of schedule.
I told him today, "I will not run at all leading up to the race if that means I'll be recovered enough to run it. I won't train, I just want it to heal."
He still has a sneaking suspicion that I'm trying to run without telling him. But I'm really not! I am putting so much more effort into recovering than I have put into any training in the past year.
I need this Western States qualifier, and I'm going to get it. End of story.


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Anggraini Sari Astuti
I do some observations, literature review and discussions, also projects related to family planning especially among young people both married and unmarried, in rural and urban area and engaged with some youth networks and organizations related to SRHR and public health. Work in SRHR area which also studying in life stage of humanbeing always become my passion.
Personal experience at the age of 17, at that time its too difficult and too much worry to decide which clinic/doctor can give youth-friendly health services and information, also not discriminate and bring stigma. Second, I have big passion on this area - since got exposure from various meetings and forums , and supportive environment push me positively to become a youth advocate on SRHR today and future leader tomorrow.
young people already involved in developing process but don't forget to also actively involve them in implementation,monitoring and evaluation process. Make them as equal partner no longer only as beneficiaries. Sometimes, some organization did not have any mechanism in how they partnering with young people. So far, I do advocacy as youth leader to speak in front of audience which also include stakeholders, keep in touch among SRHR youth network and together work in grassroot community.
some people in my country thought that when we talk about family planning, we only discuss about married couple and about contraceptive method. Lack of awareness regarding family planning especially on how young people can easily access to youth-friendly health information and services with no stigma. By inviting commitment from all related stakeholders, including youth itself, parents, teacher, health personnel, private and development partner also having policy dialogue among them.
Professionally, I will keep up the advocacy work related to family planning, engage and partnering with more young people, and sharing knowledge and ideas among young leaders in grassroot level. Personally, as a young married woman, I want to prove that a young woman can and have to continue her education as high as she wants and pursue her dream which lead her and her family better family planning

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As a Christ follower this may come as a shock: I dread Easter. Call me a church rebel but I observe Jesus' death and resurrection at Passover. So did the apostle Paul, who calls Christ "our Passover." Easter (Ishtar) is a pagan goddess the Old Testament Israelites celebrated, provoking God's wrath. I'm guessing most pastors know this but remain silent. In the words of Jeremiah, the prophet who watched fellow Jews embrace idolatry: "Astonishment has taken hold of me."
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So I was thinking about taking a course in Espanoel. Just about everybody and his cousin in the Caribbean speaks Spanish, so I thought…why not?
The best self-course they tell me is The Rosetta Stone at Office Depot.
So VISA card in my hot little hands, I went down to the local Office Depot to begin my education.
Two hundred twenty nine smakaroos!
My neighbor Nelson is Cuban. He speaks Spanish.
A case of beer at the Circle K is $6.99
So Okay. I'll buy a case of beer. Nelson and I will drink it. The more Nelson drinks the less he speaks English.
Who says us Canadians can't negotiate toe to toe with them there foreigners.
Gawd I love my life!
The 10:35 Barracuda
Everybody talks about the laid back tropics. Bull! I've been living here over a month now; and I have noticed that the tropics keep a schedule tighter than any Swiss bus schedule.
For instance:
Every morning at 10:30 – 10:35 latest, a three foot long Barracuda show up under my dock. The locals tell me that Barracuda are territorial so this Barracuda must be just checking his crop of little fishes.
So what does he do for the rest of the day? Does he have a noon appointment under Jacques Cousteau's boat, Moulin A Vente to check out the minnows? At coffee time does he wander up the canal to see if there are any mini Groupers for take out? I really don't know what he does for the rest of the day. All I know is that at 10:35 AM every day, he shows up under my dock.
Another scheduled event. At 4:26PM or shortly thereafter the first 'No-see-um' bites me. Guaranteed.
So then I retire into my boat, as clouds of No-see-ums who have heard about the sale on Canadian Bacon descend on me. They hang around for a couple of hours as I hide in my boat, looking in the windows, checking out the vents. But about 8:00PM the No-see-ums have returned to their mangrove swamp most of them having bit the big one… me.
At 8:00PM if there are no clouds, every star in the sky is visible. As any loyal Canadian would do, I always look for 'our' star. The North Star.
At home in Winnipeg, this time of year, we look almost straight up at the North Star. Here in the Keys, the North Star is down the canal, dimly peeking between the two masts of that ketch where they have the loud parties with Portuguese music on Saturday nights.
Another thing you can set your watch by, is the tides. The dock that Royal Tease is tied up to stays the same level, but my boat rises and falls depending on whether I have to make the leap between boat and dock with one, or two bags of groceries.
So there you have it. Despite what those Puritans say, the tropics are a hotbed of schedules, deadlines and cycles that would even make a Swiss bus scheduler envious.
And if that scheduler doesn't believe me?
Okay, just skinny dip under my dock at 10:35AM.
Lawn Ornament
On the lawn of the Cracked Conch Cafe in Marathon Florida is a pile of garbage, Or at least that was what I thought it was until I stopped in for a bowl of conch chowder yesterday.
Pointing to the pile of dried banana peels I said to the waitress: "What's that on your lawn?"
"A boat."
"Don't tell me."
"Don't tell you what?"
"Don't tell me some poor bastard used that to escape all the way from Cuba."
There's homemade boats all over the Keys. Some of the better ones, and I use the term 'better' with a sense of awe; merchants like the Cracked Conch Cafe have dragged up, placed them in front of their establishments, and used them as sort of a display.
If you ever want a life lesson in freedom this is it.
After my soup I went out to look at the 'boat'.
What the refugee had done, was to steal ten sheets of real cheap roofing Styrofoam. He sandwiched them together using glue and electrical wire. Then he pulled it all together top and bottom, with pieces of plywood. After the block was made he hollowed out a place to sit, rounded the ends and launched the sucker. He risked his life on something that looked and felt like a half melted Safeway's ice cream bar.
Then he rowed ninety miles across shark infested, Gulf Stream churning, open ocean.
I wouldn't get in that boat on the Assiniboine River on a hot day in August.
Holy smokes Fidel! Just how bad are those three hour speeches?
What a testament to the spirit of liberty.
What an indictment to oppression.
Scroungers 'R' Us
If you own a boat, and are somewhat normal, you my friend are a scrounger. You have developed skin like an alligator, the eye for a deal like an eagle, and the heart of a New York City pawn shop owner.
I just bought a bow rail, and a pulpit that hold my anchor on my boat, also scrounged, for $40. Retail, the chandlers would have charged me $153 just for the pulpit, and for the bow rail? They would have charged me something the cost of which would have been just short of a liver transplant.
As a sailor you learn to never shop at a place that the employees greet you at the front door dressed in uniform and that cheery crocodile smile.
"Good Morning! My name is Something Steppford! I will be cheerfully performing your wallet-ectomy today!"
What you want is someone like John at Driftwood who points a half finished beer bottle towards a pile of derelict boats crumbling in the back of the boatyard and says;
"Show me what you got when you've finished, and we'll settle up."
This is the type of businessman you'd buy a case of beer for.
After we settled up; John took my $40 and gave it to one of the down on his luck semi-employees he hires on a casual basis, to help pay for the guy's phone bill.
Merry Christmas John and Shelly.
You Better Love That House
You can buy a house down here in Florida very cheap, relative to the rest of the USA. The recession, although not quite over in Florida is definitely ebbing. There are still loads of quality real estate to be had.
Just one proviso. If you buy a house on the cheap here, you'd better love that house because Bucko, you ain't ever selling it again. Not in your lifetime.
I made a wrong turn of the Overseas Highway and drove down a block of twenty houses. Twelve houses had for sale signs on them.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
New Bead Design.
You would think after 13 going on 14 years making glass beads you would run dry of ideas. Nope they keep coming.
I see pictures, or remember old techniques I haven't used lately and stuff just pops into my head. One thing I have learned is to draw it out, or write it down, otherwise I won't remember it.
I am thankful that I can keep my beads new and fresh, so my stuff is always evolving and doesn't look the same year after year. That's why if you copy me or my beads its no big deal, cause baby I WILL come up with something new. Fer shure.
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CHESHIRE — The Town Council awarded a $330,000 contract for bathroom renovations at Norton Elementary School to Millennium Builders, a Rocky Hill company, over the objections of another bidder.
The council voted 7 to 1 Tuesday in favor of Millennium Builders, the second-lowest bid received by the town. The company was recommended unanimously by the Public Building Commission.
The work, scheduled for summer, calls for the renovation of original bathrooms in the 70-year old school. Schools Chief Operating Officer Vincent Masciana said there is a seven week window for the work.
It's the second round of bids for the project. Mark Nash, chairman of the Public Building Committee, said his group discussed the first round in executive session, which violated Freedom of Information rules, so he decided to do another round.
Fifteen companies submitted offers in the first bid and nine in the second. Diversity Construction Group of Cheshire was the lowest bidder in both rounds. The company completed a Cheshire High School locker room renovation project, but the experience led the building commission to recommend another contractor.
James Keaney, president of Diversity, spoke at Tuesday's council meeting saying his company was the target of poor "opinion." He said concerns about the locker room project were only made known to him after the job was complete and that he's offered to meet with anyone unhappy with the work.
"I value my reputation, I value the work my company does," he said.
Nash said the unanimous vote in favor of Millennium was a "strong statement."
"Our commission voted last Wednesday. Unanimous vote, eight to zero," he said.
After Tuesdays' meeting, Nash said there were about 40 change orders during the locker room project and the work cost more than originally planned.
Millennium was also chosen to build a new fire station on North Farms Road in Wallingford, which opened in late 2016.
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So, if you have even vaguely been aware of my incessant whining on Facebook and Twitter, you know that my sore throat is in fact a viral thing that got a bacterial infection with thrush on top.
Yeah. Shoot me now. And of course, this took several calls to my doctor and two unnessecary trips to the ER to confirm.
The first trip was suggested when the nurse at my OB asked me if I had any body aches. "Does one leg count?" I said, half jokingly.
Three hours and a leg ultrasound later, and I do not, in fact, have a blood clot.
Great. But what about my fucking throat?
"Oh, its probably something viral, no worries." Says the ER doc, as he glances in it with no light and no tongue depressor.
I wake the next morning to find my tongue appears to be rotting off.
Exaggeration? Um. Not entirely. It's fucking gross.
And when I say "wake up" here, I mean finally give up on trying to sleep after being woken up 20 minutes after I fall asleep because I reflexively try to swallow the lump in my throat that is, in fact, my THROAT, because of the swelling. The pain is so bad, I can only imagine it feels like swallowing broken glass must feel like. And this is WITH PAIN MEDICATION. I can't stress that enough. I can't imagine how miserable this would be without it.
So three nights of this later, and a day spent Googling strep + rotting tongue, and Google says I either have cancer or the flesh eating virus.
Thanks, Google. Helpful as always.
So of course, it's Sunday, which means my chances of finding my Doctor are slim to not a fucking hope in hell. So I head back to the express care clinic at the emergency room.
When they ask me what the problem is, I just stick my tongue out.
Four prescriptions later and I need a nap.
And of course, every time I get sick, the Husband rolls his eyes and says, "Every time you get sick, its the sickest you have ever been. "
This time, when I stuck my tongue out at him in response, he goes "Um, holy shit, maybe you should go get that looked at. And also, don't kiss me. And also: Eww. Ewwww. Ew. "
People, THIS right here, is why I need the stupid Swine Flu Vaccine. Because, seriously, who gets thrush? As an adult? And a bacterial and viral infection at the same time?
I'm like a magnet for weird health shit.


text: Master degree in Conservation at Istituto Centrale del Restauro in 1978 and master degree in Architecture at Politecnico in Torino. Chief restorer selected by Public Administration in Beni Culturali in 1980, in Rome Palazzo Barberini and after two years become private restorer and opened a study in Torino and in Rome. After winning the scholarship Fullbright of the commission of exchange Italy-USA, lived two years in New York to develop the study of conservation of Contemporary Art in U.S.A. Institutions, working in different private studies specialised. Works since thirty years in Italian and foreign institutions for the conservation of works of art, continuously deepening conservation matters with research studies and sperimentation in collaboration with universitary institutions in different fields. Worked with institutions for the realisation of meetings and lectures and has been responsible for Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Turin for the project INCCA, creation of a network for Contemporary Art Conservation. Since eight years has been teaching restoration at Accademia Albertina of Turin in the course of conservation with new laboratories, and teaches history and technique of conservation at University of Turin, and Politecnico of Turin as contract teacher. He teaches in different institutions as Istituto Centrale del Restauro and Scuola Normale di Pisa, transferring his experiences to the new generations of restorers. Published in various revues on conservation studies and reports, participating to the international debate about the role of restorer defining the deontological characteristics of the profession. The laboratory in Torino is fully equipped with all instrumentation necessary with special effort for the documentation with the study of materials and technique of execution and stratification of different phases.


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I'm back in Cambridge! The US always looks so funny after traveling abroad. It's such a quaint country-- a little run down, sexually uptight, rather chubby. But it's home, and I'm glad to be back.
I really do love Cambridge (greater-Cambridge, Boston included), for a million reasons, and it's going to kill me leaving it. But would you all disown me if my big move this June is to Rio de Janeiro?
Brazil isn't my favorite country; Rio is far from my favorite city. But for its huge diversity, for its place in an incredible travel network, for being simultaneously prospering and in desperate need, for speaking the second-most-beautiful language in the world, I think it might be just right.


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For as long as she could remember, Jackie's had an interest in photography. It started when she was young, often picking up her dad's Nikon and playing with it. Her love for photography has since evolved into a romantic and sentimental notion. She embraces the ability to capture moments, which are fleeting, and be able to hold on to it in the form of a photograph.
Nowadays, her photography preferences haven't changed much. She's still a Nikon girl who loves to shoot with film, and has a great appreciation for a good black & white photograph.


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text: Share: Comments Print November 30, 2014 at 5:52 PM Kayaker drowns on Stillaguamish River Posted by Matt Kreamer A 24-year-old kayaker drowned Sunday afternoon on the Stillaguamish River. The man, originally from Alaska, was with two friends about 2:30 p.m. when his kayak overturned in the river near the 28300 Block of the Mountain Loop Highway in the Granite Falls area, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office. His body was found several minutes later and he was brought to shore, but resuscitation efforts were not successful, the sheriff's office said. His name was not immediately released. Due to the location of the victim along the weather and river conditions, search and rescue personnel said they would wait until daylight Monday to recover the body. Comments | More in General news, The Blotter | Topics: drowning, Granite Falls, kayaker


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Though Woodward Park Recreation Center wasn't on the list of 11 recreation centers the city closed because of budget problems, the center's patrons likely will notice some changes.
Though Woodward Park Recreation Center wasn't on the list of 11 recreation centers the city closed because of budget problems, the center's patrons likely will notice some changes.
Remaining recreation centers will see changes in personnel as staff members from other recreation centers earn new assignments, said Terri Leist, spokeswoman for the Columbus Department of Recreation and Parks. About half of the city's recreation centers, including Woodward Park, will have new directors as a result of the cuts.
"They're certainly going to see a difference in the staff members who are there," Leist said of recreation center patrons.
As other centers close, Leist said, employees at those centers are able to bid on other positions based on seniority.
Budget cuts to the department are not expected to immediately affect the programming at Woodward Park, Leist said, but as different staff moves in with expertise in different areas, the programs may be altered.
"If you were hired as a rec leader based on your artistic skills, you likely won't be teaching basketball," Leist said.
For the winter session, programming at the rec centers will remain the same, but there may be changes come spring or summer, Leist said.
"I think it's probably too soon to tell," she said. "It's hard to say how it's all going to shake out at this time."
Woodward Park assistant director Kelly Hoffman said the center hasn't seen an increase in traffic since the other centers closed nearly two weeks ago. However, most activities are in the middle of the winter session, Hoffman said, and the center expects to see more people signing up for the spring session of programs.
"Our programs are pretty much ongoing," Hoffman said. "For spring, we may (see an increase). In fact, we anticipate it."
Hoffman said he expects much of Woodward Park's new patrons will come from nearby Feddersen Recreation Center, which was closed Feb. 14.
Leist said recreation centers that remain open will not receive any additional funding to help deal with an increase in traffic.
Regardless, Hoffman said the increase in demand on programming without additional funding is not expected to affect the amount of programs the center can accommodate.
"We don't anticipate a reduction in programming," he said.


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Invasion of Privacy
If you're the person who murdered my wife and think you've gotten away with it, think again. I'm looking for you, and I'll eventually find you.
1. Losing Diane
"This is my last job, I'm just waiting for the computer to reboot and then I'll run a quick scan," I say to my wife, Diane, while working in a client's home. "I should be back in less than an hour. Have you been very busy?"
"There were several customers earlier," Diane says, "but it's been quiet for a while now. I'm thinking about locking up and calling it a day, but I'll wait until you get back. What do you think about going out to dinner tonight? I've been hearing about a new restaurant— I've got to go, someone just came in. See you soon, love you, bye."
Arriving at the store about an hour later, I sit in the parking lot a moment. I still get a thrill when I look at the small business we've created. It might not look like much, but I remember it without the new windows added to the front. There's a customer walking out, carrying a laptop. Trying to be friendly, I say, "Hi, how's it going?" He doesn't respond and quickly gets in his car and leaves but not before I get a good look at him. He's about my size, just under six feet, with long brown hair. There's nothing unusual about him except he has a spider tattoo on his face, just under his right eye.
"Diane, I'm back," I say while walking in the door. I'm surprised she isn't at the front counter since a customer has just left. She's probably in the backroom. I notice the X-770 laptop is gone. Spiderman made a good choice, I think while walking past the display of new computers. There's a pile of papers lying on the floor, as if they'd fallen from the counter. It isn't like Diane to let something like that go; I'm always teasing her about her compulsive neatness.
I'm starting to get a bad feeling; something doesn't feel right. "Diane, where are you?" I hear a noise coming from behind the counter and rush over to look. Diane's lying there on the floor, bleeding.
"Diane," I scream, "What happened?"
There's blood everywhere … so much blood. I grab her and press my hand against the wound on her neck to try and stop the bleeding. The warmth of the blood and the sticky wetness of it, surprises me.
"You're going to be fine," I say, trying not to panic, "It's OK, I'm here, don't worry."
Her eyes are closed, but they flutter open briefly, looking at me. The vacant look in her usually bright blue eyes frightens me. She's trying to tell me something.
"Don't try to talk," I say while dialing 911.
"911, what is your emergency?" the young woman calmly asks.
"My wife is bleeding, please send help."
"What is your address, please?"
"738 Harrington, Jim's Got Web, the computer store, please hurry."
"Sir, I'm contacting the medical dispatchers. Are you with your wife right now?"
"Yes… Please hurry. I'm trying to stop the bleeding—there's blood everywhere."
"Sir, an ambulance is on the way. I need you to stay calm. Can you tell me what happened?"
"Someone stabbed her—the man with the spider on his face—please hurry."
"Spider? Sir, what are you talking about? Sir?"
I drop the phone so I can use both hands on Diane.
"Diane, please… You'll be fine—you're ok. The ambulance is on the way. No, please, no…"
She's trying to talk again. I put my face against hers and faintly hear, "I'm sorry … I love you."
"I know. I love you too. Diane, listen to me. You have to hang on. I need you. Diane, please … Don't leave me."
I'm trying not to think about losing her. What would I do? Keep pressure on the wound, I tell myself. I can't believe how much blood there is. The metallic smell and the sight of the blood is starting to make me dizzy …
"Sir, can you hear me?" a voice in the distance asks, "Can you stand up? Let's walk outside … Easy—take your time."
The fresh air helps to revive me, "Diane," I yell, remembering what happened.
"Your wife is on her way to the hospital. I'll take you there. Are you feeling better?"
Diane's blood is all over me. I must have passed out. "Is she okay? Damn it, how long have I been out? I was trying to stop the bleeding. I can't believe I fainted … Please, take me to her."
When we arrive at the emergency room, I run up to the desk, "Where's my wife?"
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Labour pledge to end the badger cull
The Labour Party have made a commitment to stop the badger cull in England if they get into power on June 8th. In their official party manifesto, Labour stated:
"We will cease the badger cull, which spreads bovine TB."
As far back as 2013, Jeremy Corbyn tweeted about his opposition to the cull, saying:
"I am opposed to Badger cull. No to killing tens of thousands of these protected animals. Vaccinate against BTB"
Conversely, the Conservatives are extending the cull significantly. The government have issued new licenses in parts of Wales and sharply increasing the number of licensed counties in England.


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College Success Seminar
I. Course Prefix/Number: COL 101
Course Name: College Success Seminar
Credits: 1 (1 lecture; 0 lab)
II. Prerequisite
III. Course (Catalog) Description
Course provides an introduction to the college setting and develops the competencies necessary to be a successful college student. Students learn strategies for success like goal setting, time management, test taking, self-assessment as a learner, and critical thinking. Students may only receive credit for COL 101, COL 108 or COL 110.
IV. Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you will have a toolbox of strategies for becoming a successful and lifelong learner by demonstrating competency in the following areas.
- Setting Personal and Academic Goals
- Understanding Self as a Learner
- Using Study Skills for Success
- Thinking Critically
You will achieve the expected competencies through materials related to an overall topic. For each of the 4 competencies, there are specific learning objectives for which you will demonstrate and assess your progress.
- Setting Personal and Academic Goals
- Student will explain how a SMART* goal differs from a more general goal.
- Student will construct a set of SMART* personal goals for the next 2 years.
- Student will construct a set of SMART* academic goals for the next 5 years.
- Understanding Self as a Learner
- Student will describe self as a learner in a one to two-page paper.
- Student will complete a learning inventory and write a one-page paper describing how the results will enhance and/or challenge learning performance.
Using Study Skills for Success
- Student will create a time management plan for the term.
- Student will explain how test taking strategies produce successful results.
- Thinking Critically
- Student will analyze a current topic based on an article or video and present the analysis to the class.
V. Academic Integrity and Student Conduct
• cheating,
• plagiarism (turning in work not written by you, or lacking proper citation),
• falsification and fabrication (lying or distorting the truth),
• helping others to cheat,
• unauthorized changes on official documents,
• pretending to be someone else or having someone else pretend to be you,
• making or accepting bribes, special favors, or threats, and
• any other behavior that violates academic integrity.
There are serious consequences to violations of the academic integrity policy. Oakton's policies and procedures provide students a fair hearing if a complaint is made against you. If you are found to have violated the policy, the minimum penalty is failure on the assignment and, a disciplinary record will be established and kept on file in the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs for a period of 3 years.
Please review the Code of Academic Conduct and the Code of Student Conduct, both located online at
VI. Sequence of Topics
The course is designed to address many aspects of student success. This includes becoming aware of yourself as a learner and getting to know your strengths and challenges. You will develop specific skills and strategies that build on your strengths to help develop areas that are challenging.
The course is organized around the mastery of 4 competencies. Once you have mastered them, you will be on your way to becoming a successful and lifelong learner.
The competencies include:
- Setting personal and academic goals.
- Understanding self as a learner.
- Using study skills for success.
- Thinking critically.
VII. Methods of Instruction
The class will be interactive with an emphasis on small group activities. You will frequently be asked to provide articles for discussion. Class sessions will include various amounts of lecture; class and small group discussion; use of videos; use of computers and library resources for research; readings from course materials packet and other course materials, journaling and other written assignments; guest speakers and out of class co-curricular activities.
Course may be taught as face-to-face, hybrid or online course.
VIII. Course Practices Required
Course may be taught as face-to-face, hybrid or online course.
Student Responsibilities (You will construct these in collaboration with your instructor during the first class session.)
Instructor Responsibilities
- The instructor will provide regular, timely feedback on all student assignments turned in by the due date. The instructor will also provide guidance on all drafts submitted before the due date.
- The instructor will facilitate a respectful learning environment in the classroom.
- The instructor will publish office hours and times when available for electronic communication.
- The instructor will announce any changes to the syllabus in a timely fashion.
- The instructor will actively engage in discussions and assume the role of facilitator by providing questions to guide the discussion.
- When materials are assigned, the instructor will provide questions to guide the readings.
- The instructor will invite appropriate guest speakers to enrich the class discussions.
IX. Instructional Materials
The course uses a text that combines a variety of instructional materials including the Oakton Catalog, student handbook, articles, newspapers, videos and materials from various sources. The materials will be analyzed through the lens of a topic selected for the course.
X. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress
The instructor and you will continuously evaluate your progress toward meeting the learning objectives within each competency area. The means of evaluation are listed under each competency. Along with the assignment, you will also complete a rubric with your self-evaluation.
Specific areas of assessment and total possible points:
- Active engagement in class - 10 points
- Setting personal and professional goals - 15 points
- Understanding yourself as a learner - 10 points
- Using study skills for success - 10 points
- Thinking critically - 5 points
Your final grade is based on the following point totals:
- (Excellent) = 45 - 50
- (Good) = 40 - 44
- (Satisfactory) = 35 - 39
- (Minimal Passing) = 30 - 34
- (Failure) = Below 30
For each competency and learning objective, you will receive a rubric that describes your progress on a scale of 1-5. In consultation with your instructor, you may resubmit an assignment 2 times to increase your evaluation.
XI. Other Course Information
If you have a documented learning, psychological, or physical disability you may be entitled to reasonable academic accommodations or services. To request accommodations or services, contact the Access and Disability Resource Center at the Des Plaines or Skokie campus. All students are expected to fulfill essential course requirements. The College will not waive any essential skill or requirement of a course or degree program.
Oakton Community College is committed to maintaining a campus environment emphasizing the dignity and worth of all members of the community, and complies with all federal and state Title IX requirements.
Resources and support for
- pregnancy-related and parenting accommodations; and
- victims of sexual misconduct
Resources and support for LGBTQ+ students can be found at www.oakton.edu/lgbtq.
Electronic video and/or audio recording is not permitted during class unless the student obtains written permission from the instructor. In cases where recordings are allowed, such content is restricted to personal use only. Any distribution of such recordings is strictly prohibited. Personal use is defined as use by an individual student for the purpose of studying or completing course assignments.
For students who have been approved for audio and/or video recording of lectures and other classroom activities as a reasonable accommodation by Oakton's Access Disabilities Resource Center (ADRC), applicable federal law requires instructors to permit those recordings. Such recordings are also limited to personal use. Any distribution of such recordings is strictly prohibited.
Violation of this policy will result in disciplinary action through the Code of Student Conduct.


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Served by a free lift, the main nursery slope of the resort is the perfect place to try the skis for the first time as it is conveniently located at the bottom of the slopes and by the main streets, allowing everyone to take a break whenever they feel like it.
Top tip: Once you have gained some confidence, take the Bellevarde Express. There are several green runs near the lift and long enough to practice your skills away from experienced skiers.
Top tip: You can also ski here in the summertime – great for summer ski holidays!
Top tip: Do not forget your camera – perfect postcard panoramic views!
Top tip: Go there when the weather is nice – the views are fantastic!
Top tip: This slope is marked black and only suited for advanced skiers – if you are a beginner you should avoid it!
Top tip: The area of the Val Park is mostly sunny, that is why the non-free rider should go there to relax in the sun and watch other skiers jumping through the air!
Top tip: The official slopes should only be left with the right equipment and level of experience! Otherwise off slope free riding can be life threatening!


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The Motor Won't Rotate When Performing The Valve Stem Seal Repair. What Should I do?
It's likely that you have something lodged in the cylinder on top of the piston. Carbon buildup can drop from the valve onto the piston during removal, causing a jam. The piston is unable to squeeze the carbon build up through the .5mm clearance in the cylinder head, which prevents the motor from rotating to top dead center. We recommend using a borrow scope to see if there's anything located on top of the cylinder in top dead center that was previously worked on. If you notice debris, use a needle nose nozzle to remove the blockage with compressed air.
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Are the valve stem seals you sell OEM?
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Do the N63 and N62 Valve Stem Seal Tool Kits have everything I need to complete the valve stem replacement repair?
The Master's Collection Kit has everything you need to complete the repair including the Cam Timing Tool Kit, the Fuel Injector Tool Kit and the N63 Update Kit. However, you will need to purchase these items separately if you decide to go with our basic kit. We sell these items separately, however, it is not necessary for you to use our kits exclusively.
Will the N63 Valve Stem Seal Tool Kit work on an N62 engine?
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Do I need to replace the camshaft bolts during the N63 or N62 Valve Stem Seal Repair? Are camshaft bolts included in the kits?
It is strongly recommended by BMW that you replace the camshaft bolts during the repair, but it is not required. Camshaft bolts are currently not included in our Valve Stem Seal tool kits.
Is there a way to tell if my stem seals are good without having to remove them?
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Paula Kramer's books will be available as both printed books and some form of downloadable book. Many of the books will also have free PDF downloads of worksheets. Print copies of the worksheets will also be available for purchase.
All of these books are partly to mostly written. Everything takes longer when health problems interrupt normal life. She will finish the books as she is able to.
Paula writes blog posts about subjects related to her books at:
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Books in Various Stages of Completion
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You Have to Burn the Rope is a platform game in which the player must guide the character through a short level through which text on how to beat the game is clearly visible. At the end of the level, the player has a boss fight against the "Grinning Colossus". To beat the boss, the player must jump to one of the torches on the wall and use it to burn the rope attaching a chandelier to the ceiling, dropping it on the boss. The character can throw axes which lower the Grinning Colossus' health bar. However, the health bar regenerates too fast for the player to completely drain.
At the end there is a short section of credits which includes the all-original song "Now You're A Hero", composed by Henrik Nåmark. The entirety of the game is often shorter than the credits song itself, which runs for 2:13.
Despite the simplicity of the game, both a text and video walkthrough have been released.
Source: Wikipedia, "You Have To Burn The Rope", available under the CC-BY-SA License.
The game is widely considered both a satire on players who take beating games too seriously, as well as players who want their hands constantly held during games.


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The cure for boring Shakespeare!
Feb 23, 2010
We begin our series on Hamlet by letting go of some of the
baggage this poor play has had to carry around, while we shed some
light on the myth of Hamlet's mommy issues.
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A lot of people consider getting tattoos and then decide not to go through with it. Many of these folks opt for temporary tattoos, which they can apply whenever they are in the mood to make a statement with their body or express a point of view. It's fairly easy to make your own temporary tattoos, whether you have the ink or need to make it yourself.
Sift the henna powder to remove clumps.
Put one trouser sock inside another so they form a double layer, and pour the henna powder into the sock.
Twist the top of the sock so it won't come open, and place the sock in a container that has a lid. Shake the container roughly, sifting the powder through the sock.
Open the container and remove the sock. Pour the sifted powder into a small bowl.
Pour in some lemon juice and mix well until your new substance is the consistency of runny mashed potatoes.
Add a tablespoon or so of honey, which will thicken the mixture a little and help the coloring stick to the skin.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit for several hours. Check the bowl every hour to see if the dye has been released. You'll know it has when the surface of the mixture starts to turn brown on top and dark green underneath.
Spoon the mixture into a squeeze bottle that has a very fine tip.
Apply the tattoo ink by squeezing it on your skin in the desired pattern.
Allow it to dry, then carefully cover the design with boiled lemon juice and sugar.
Dry the tattoo with a paper towel, then wrap the design in plastic wrap and leave on overnight.
Start with simple designs and work your way up to more complicated and intricate designs as you gain experience.
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With the breakthrough of technology and modern options, changes become inevitable. From the conventional and customary practices to contemporary ones, things have dramatically changed for the better. As such, many people today are invested on whitening products and tools.
We cannot deny that men and women alike are fixated over the idea of achieving a flawless, white and beautiful skin. With that being said, numerous skin brightening products are made. Such thing is becoming more and more popular because it helps the people to correct some complexions or skin conditions that bother them a lot. Apparently, it has some associated benefits that are taken into account while its manufactured to ensure that clients get what they deserved.
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Margaret Pemberton was born on 10 April, 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire and is an author of romantic fiction and women's fiction. Her novels are set all around the world. She enjoys tango, travel, history and the countryside, has five children and lives in Whitstable, Kent.
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Margaret Pemberton's The Londoners trilogy is a saga set in the nation's capital that touches on many of the social issues that engulfed the country during the 1940s and 50s.
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The first book introduces Carl Voigt, a First World War prisoner of war who had married a Cockney girl and never moved back to his native Germany. Now a widower, Carl and Kate were always popular but during the Second World War, they start to be treated as outcasts. Finding friends is hard and Kate finds herself alone and pregnant. However, during the blitz Kate forms a bond with a wounded sailor called Leon Emmerson who is also being shunned by society...
The following books find Kate facing a battle just after the war to keep her young son with her; and her new family celebrating the Coronation in 1953.
A war that could turn friends into enemies, lovers into fighters ...Summer 1935. Best friends Kate Shelton, Ella Tetley and Daphne St. Maur are on the cusp of a new life, having graduated with Classics degrees. Kate is desperate to start work on an archaeological dig straightaway and she is thrilled to be given a position at the famous Knossos palace site in Crete. However, she doesn't bargain for working with gruff site director Lewis Sinclair - nor for her own complex feelings towards him. In Yorkshire, Ella's family expect her to marry Sam, her steady friend who is training to be a doctor, but Ella too feels pulled to the Mediterranean by the promise of freedom. When she meets Christos, life as a country GP's wife seems even less appealing ...Daphne however throws herself into London's high society, falling madly in love with diplomat and heir Sholto Hertford - but then his work brings them to Crete, and Daphne becomes enchanted by the island as well. Meanwhile, the threat of war rumbles on, as reports of Hitler's rapid expansion across Europe become impossible to ignore. It seems that nothing can touch the perfect, glittering sea and snow-capped mountains, but Kate, Ella and Daphne know that the island haven they now call home will never be the same again.
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Sweeping from the Great War, through the Jazz Age to the 1940s, this unforgettable tale follows the entwined lives of the Fentons, an aristocratic family from Yorkshire. Thea, the eldest daughter of Viscount Gilbert Fenton, flouts the unwritten rules of her class by embarking on a love affair with Hal, the fiercely socialist son of one of her father's tenant farmers. Carrie, her close childhood friend and granddaughter of the Viscount's nanny, has always been expected to marry Hal - but when she goes into service she finds herself longing for the one person she can never hope to marry. Olivia, the middle Fenton sister, follows a more conventional path, forging friendships with the British royal family and attending a finishing school in Germany. Her relationship with Count von der Schulenburg does not raise eyebrows, but as the mid-1930s approach, she finds herself in a country experiencing rapid, radical and dangerous social change. Violet, the youngest of the Fenton sisters, is also the most reckless. She dreams of becoming an actress in Hollywood, unaware her life will be filled with more drama than any part she will ever play. And then there is Rozalind, their American cousin, who is secretly in love with a married U.S. senator. Her ambitions to become a photojournalist will also take her into the heart of Hitler's Germany. Set against the rich canvas of the first half of the twentieth century, A Season of Secrets is an unforgettable tale of passion and betrayal, love and war.
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It is early summer in 1953, and the friends and neighbours of Magnolia Square are looking forward to celebrating the Coronation. The war has become a memory; the future seems rosy. Kate Emmerson looks on with pride at her growing family, including Matthew, whose father was killed during the war. But Matthew's wealthy relations have never really forgiven Kate for marrying Leon, a West Indian who works as a Thames lighterman, and when Matthew runs away from his smart boarding school in Somerset the tensions which exist between the two families come to a head. Meanwhile Zac, the wonderfully talented and handsome new signing at the local boxing club, is being eyed hopefully by all the young women of Magnolia Square. But he has eyes for only one woman - Carrie Collins, who has teenage children of her own and whose husband, Danny, seems more interested in the boxing club and his market stall than in her. In the weeks leading up to the Coronation festivities, drama and tragedy threaten to haunt Magnolia Square, but by the time the great day dawns, the bells ring out in celebration as the Londoners enjoy themselves as only they know how.
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Magnolia Square in South London was a friendly and vibrant place to live, not least for Kate Voigt and her father. Carl Voigt had been a WWI prisoner of war who had married a cockney girl and never gone back. Now widowed, he and Kate were part of the London life of the square with all its rumbustious and colourful characters. Then came the war. Suddenly it seemed the Voigts were outcasts because of their German blood. When Carl was interned, Kate's only support was her best friend Carrie, and Toby, the R.A.F. pilot whom she loved. Finally, when Toby was killed, and even Carrie turned against her, she found herself pregnant and totally alone. Late one Christmas evening, during the Blitz, she was approached by a wounded sailor asking for lodgings. Leon Emmerson, like Kate, was also a lonely misfit because if his parentage. It was to be the beginning of a new friendship, of startling and dramatic events in Kate's life. And as the war progressed, as the Londoners fought to help each other while their city was bombed and burned, so the rifts in the community were healed, and Kate and those she loved became, once more, part of Magnolia Square.
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1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to normal. But for some, the end of the war brought serious problems. Kate Voigt was at last able to marry Leon Emmerson, the man she loved, a Londoner like herself, but of mixed race. When old man Harvey, a powerful and wealthy figure in South London and great-grandfather to Kate's small son, heard of the match he was determined that young Matthew should not be raised by Leon. Slowly, insidiously, he began the fight to wrest Kate's son away from her. And for Jewish refugee Christina, who had married Jack Robson, a commando and the handsomest man in the Square, the end of the war brought its own special torment. She was convinced that her mother and grandmother had somehow escaped the holocaust and were alive. It seemed that her determination to find them could put everything, even her marriage, at risk. As Magnolia Square, scarred and battered, but still surviving, prepared to enjoy the 'Peace', so the inhabitants of the Square begin to try and rebuild their lives.
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Yesterday, was Thanksgiving, one of those days where you can eat and over-indulge without feeling overly guilty about it. I don't know about you, but yes I did my share of feasting. Here is how my day went:
1/3 cup quick oatmeal, 1/3 cup blueberries, cinnamon and honey and a banana
16 oz of black coffee
A.M. Snacking
Small brownie
Feast Time – urrr Lunch
Turkey – 2 cuts of breast meat and seconds the same
Potato – probably about 3 servings
Carrots – from our garden
Turnip – from our garden
Squash – from local farm
Homemade yeast rolls dry – 3 of them
Cranberry sauce – homemade
Crushed red peper on most everything instead of butter/margarine
Homemade pumpkin pie (pumpkin grown in our garden)
Sparking non-alcoholic grape drink (I have it once a year)
It was a very good meal!!!!
P.M. Snacking
Small Whoopie Pie
2 small pieces of brownie
Green Tea
Large Grapefruit
Toasted dark meat turkey sandwich with sharp cheese melted on
Wise potato chips probably 3 serving sizes
Green Tea
One more slab of pumpkin pie
Evening Snacking
Walked Bennie 1.0 mile first thing.
I did get a 2.0 run in during the morning, but once the clean-up was over, it became a football extravaganza and last night I spent most of it drafting a new blog post. Overall, I was not as bad as I usually am on Thanksgiving Day. No food induced coma in my chair
Bennie evening walk .5 mile
The reality is that
usually, for me it is the 3 or 4 days after Thanksgiving that are the real killers for. The leftovers need to be eaten up, there are usually too many deserts left lying around that I can't resist and my activity level goes way down. This year it is a little/lot different, TheWife only made brownies and pumpkin pie and there is only one piece of pie left and the brownies are almost all gone. The whoopee pies are still in the freezer.
The food was plain and wholesome, no fancy recipes, most of the veggies were boiled and the mashed potatoes didn't too much many "extras" in it. Instead getting a 15 pound bird, we got an 8 pounder, so leftovers are a lot less this year than in past years. The deserts were all homemade.
So hopefully, unlike many past years where Thanksgiving is the beginning of the seasonal splurge in eating, it looks as though it will be a lot more healthy and a LOT less junk food going down my pie hole. You know all those things that people bring in to eat over the Holiday season, trying to show how nice they are.
Yes I did eat too much yesterday, but it really, really wasn't as bad as most other years. My sweet tooth raised its head and said feed me and I did more than I should have, but even that was moderate compared to other years where I would gorge myself on anything with sugar in it.
I looked at the scale this morning and it was up only 2 pounds and that will go away pretty quickly as long as I keep paying attention.
How did you do during your Turkey Day feasting…look back at the whole day, not just the meal 😉
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Certainly, there were new things to write about. Americans had settled in the New World, where they experienced nature as a wilderness - demonic, to some minds, edenic to others - but in either case, very different from the mapped and cultivated nature of Europe. Americans were building a new kind of society, free from the constraints of hereditary aristocracy, state-established churches, and other European social forms.
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This is the second installment to the Five Photos/Five Stories challenge from LolaWi of Simply Beautiful.
There are many churches in Greece. If you go to Santorini, you'd see several church domes in close proximity to each other. They are not necessarily big, many are chapels. It turned out that many built personal chapels to commemorate a deceased loved one or as a gesture of thanksgiving.
My former boss of 30 years is Greek and I had an occasion to visit his birthplace one summer. He came from a very tiny village, almost isolated in the mountains of the main island of Peloponnese. In their property is a tiny chapel dedicated to her only sister who passed away as a child.
Then there was the church above. It was a short drive away from their house. He explained to me that his father was in the army during the war and just when everyone thought that he probably got killed he suddenly showed up one day. Remember there were no cell phones then and we know communication was very difficult. He was so grateful that he survived and was able to return to his family that he pledged to build a church in their village.
I was not able to get close to the church to even see its interior because his car broke down. I took this photo with my SLR while waiting for one of his cousins to come and get us while a passing acquaintance repaired the car right there. Aside from taking pictures, with his niece Katherine and my boss's first cousin, John, who was also my good friend, we kept ourselves busy picking wild berries and figs.
It was a very rustic place. Very sedate and not too many houses. My boss had the biggest house in the village and the only one with a pool and the newest as they had rehabbed their old house. Cable was spotty and so was internet. It was a great place for day dreaming, perfect place to get away from the hub-bub of the city.
And I was very tired from island hopping before I got there that I fell asleep on the patio chair and missed taking a photo of the old shepherd with her herd of sheeps despite the reminder from my boss's daughter to watch for it. The murmuring of the river down the mountain was like sweet music that lulled me to sleep. And then there were the smell of lavender, sage and oregano. When I woke up my boss had left a plateful of figs for me on the table from the next door neighbor – his cousin's. The fig tree actually had branches with fruits that went over their property which were so easy to reach.
We had dinner one night at the next village which was a short drive from their house. It was a family restaurant and the fare very simple. We had a couple of trays of grilled baby lamb chops, crusty bread, olive oil and slices of watermelon. Of course the local wines. And yes, stewed rabbit too!
They told me what went on in the village square – the most happening place. Greeks spend their summers in their hometowns and that's where they all meet and congregate. It was the place to look and be seen, where many courtships happen.
I spent almost three weeks in Greece that summer, attending a friend's wedding and island hopping but I wish I had spent more time in that tiny village. I had taken several hundreds of photos and I had given the negatives and hard copies to my boss. I kept a CD for myself and hard copies too.
When Jim's dad passed away a few years ago, I saw the enlarged copy of the above photo next to his remains at the funeral home. I felt so humbled and at the same time honored.
End of story . . .
Yesterday my first nominee was Ompong. Ompong it turned out was a former executive in the Philippines of the company I work for. Small world indeed. He considers himself a media warrior but he's not only a good photographer, he might just find a new calling in this challenge, as a story teller. Please visit his site and tell me if you don't agree.
For today, I would like to nominate Michael Lai of Retiree Diary. Michael is one the most well-traveled photographers here in WP, including his wife, friends and other family members. I hope Michael would join us in this challenge as I've not only enjoyed his photos but also the stories he told about his friend's dog. Thank you!
Rules: "Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge".


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Finished De Tocqueville, Ancien Régime (but still intend to read some more appendices, including that on Frederick the Great; I found very interesting the one about French Canada displaying in its purest, most oppressive and most dysfunctional form the absolutism of the ancien régime). He keeps referring by way of contrast to Voltaire's three years stay in England, so I've now started Letters on England (in English, Penguin).
That was on the train to Waterloo this morning where I was en route to the Courtauld Gallery for opening time of the last day of Cézanne's card players. It was one room, about 20-25 pictures, all on the same theme -- just right for a single gallery visit. Not too crowed either -- I suppose not that many people know where it is.
They weren't all card-playing scenes but were all peasants, portraits with and without pipes, some playing cards in two or three and studies for them, none doing peasant stuff in the peasant environment but all indoors in the studio, the space traditionally reserved for posher people. (The notes and captions were -- for once -- good; not a hint of Tate Modern's post-modern bollocks.)
So, a good chance to look properly, an activity to which I was impelled by an article on the show by T.J. Clarke which was either very profound or rather silly, I'm not able to decide, but was certainly interesting and not post-modern.
So here's some of what I saw.
Well, they were beautiful, if you're allowed to say that these days. The atmosphere was calm and contemplative, the figures dignified despite their clown's hats and pipes. The colours rich and wonderful.
I could see where this way of painting was headed: you could have taken passages of paint from these works and transferred them to a cubist painting of a decade and more later: painting that looks like paint marks applied with a broadish brush and close up doesn't look like anything else.
I.e. if you looked closely at the actual jacket or its sleeve (sleeves are big in these paintings) as the chap was wearing it, you wouldn't see what the painting shows. Each brush mark doesn't represent something corresponding in that position in reality. But the whole effect does look like a sleeve or jacket: solid, volumetric, dipping away, protruding, lit and shaded, borne up and drooping or falling. It's a mystery how he could do this, since to apply the paint he must have worked so close up that the marks lost their bigger context and were emptied of meaning.
So what's the process? Perhaps: form a concept of the the whole effect and of the bits that will go to make it up; then, keep that firmly in your head and approach the canvas, but in painting keep the idea in mind and take no notice of the meaningless of the marks you're making.
Or was it like this? He's evolved a language or vocabulary of types of brushstrokes. (Of course it's wrong to say that it's a language -- in many ways it's nothing like -- but the idea of combinable elements, some arbitrary -- not representational -- is similar.) He's found another way than copying each minute bit to convey the effect of an object, using instead an ensemble of brush marks, each meaningless in itself but together delivering the idea; he's found that human perception can be relied on to produce that transformation. So, having that language, he looks at a sleeve, forms a concept, and then paints the concept -- constructs the sentence 'sleeve', something that means sleeve just as the sleeve as seen for real does but getting there by starting somewhere quite different.
I'm interested enough to want to know more about this, so -- something I never do -- I bought the catalogue and to hell with the expense. The articles looked as if they'd be helpful. Then I want to know how he got there from, presumably, being a conventional young painter.
What's the best book on Cézanne's life and career?
Sunday, 16 January 2011
What was Cézanne doing?
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The idea of doing a community garden sounds great. However, who knew what it would take. Who knew the tools that would be needed to get the end result. Turn on the coffee pot, get a case of water, sharpen our pencils and get pads of paper. Wait open a window. A literature teacher once said fresh air helps open the mind and people think better. Is that true? I don't know but it couldn't hurt.
Sitting down with Master Gardner's and watching them in action. Words start coming out – Propagation, Trellising, Remediation and NPK. the non-gardeners think remediation, is catching up. BUT; in gardening remediation means making the soil healthy; repairing it or getting the soil back to where it was. This has been a productive day. We have a rough design of the garden and items needed for SECTION "A" of the garden. Ok yes, there are four sections of the garden. By the way NPK= Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium the three nutrients required for anything to grow. Are we back in chemistry class? What does chemistry have to do with gardening? Master Gardner laughs and says everything. Like we all should have know that. Darn back in school again. Well school this time will be more fun and we all will be hands on.
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