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Robyne Zimmerman is a Professional Business Consultant with Pareto Systems. Robyne has a very diverse background that includes experience as a Financial Advisor, District Manager at ADP and a top producing sales representative at South Florida Parenting Magazine, a nationally recognized parenting publication.
The foundation of Robyne's successes is her ability to not only secure new business, but to grow and nurture her client base. She has a keen sense of customer relationships, and how to maximize them into mutually beneficial growth opportunities.
Possessing an entrepreneurial approach to business, Robyne has been able to capitalize on both opportunities and challenges as she herself grew her businesses. Her excellent communication skills, one of her strongest assets, enables her to share her work experiences, helping her Pareto System Clients achieve their desired results.
More About Robyne Zimmerman
Robyne has been married to Michael for 30 years and has lived in her current South Florida home for over 22 years. Being only blocks from the beach Robyne jogs regularly on the beach, which is one of her passions. Together Robyne and Michael share a love for jogging, fishing, cooking, wine, and the company of friends and family. Jake, their only child, has just completed his Coast Guard certifications for his Marine Captain's license and is pursuing a career in the yachting industry.
Robyne also devotes time to charities to create a good balance of work, family, and giving back to the community. Her primary focus is Fund-raising for organizations that have a global emphasis on sports and education.


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A Good Fit at Knapp's
Whatever your reasons for riding a bike, a proper bike fit is hugely beneficial. Riders of all levels will find a good fit increases comfort, though it can also alleviate or prevent nagging injuries, as well as increase power output. It's important to consider bike fittings are dependent on what you might want to do with your bike. For instance, track cyclists and touring riders will want wildly different fit options. With the oftentimes-overwhelming sea of options out there, it can be hard to find a solid, well-fitting setup; here's where a professional bike fitting comes into play.
In fact, there are different tools and methods to help perfect a personal rider position in every single area. While the vast majority hoping for a nice fit might focus on where the toes touch the ground, the point of contact between the toes and pedal is arguably more important. A cleated shoe greatly increases efficiency, but exact position of the cleat—down to an 1/8th of an inch—on the bottom of the shoe can be the difference between comfort and pain.
Growing up, many of us told that while sitting on the saddle, if our toes are just kissing the ground, we're golden. But the sport is well beyond this oversimplification, and we're able to take into account frame height, stem length, seat post height, saddle width or shape, bar shape, and many other factors. If this seems like too much to think about, fear not. Knapp's Cyclery's staff is well versed in what each of these parts can do to improve a rider's experience.
For example, if your sit bones hurt, you might need a new saddle.
Knapp's has a measuring device that will actually measure the width of your sit bones, telling you which saddles best fit your specific measurements (don't worry if it sounds a bit too intimate—all you do is sit on the padded foam, called a assometer (and, yes, I bet you are wondering how they got that name) for 10 seconds).
The ball of your foot should be directly over the pedal; often, the easiest way to see this is on a trainer in a shop. Rather than constantly tweaking different parts of your bike to see what works, you can sit on your own bike in a trainer at the shop, while a skilled professional analyzes your body in motion.
Measurements like saddle height, which are typically held to an exact science, can be tweaked according to the rider's preference. It's important to experiment a bit with your personal preferences. If a professional tells you to ride higher, and all of the sudden you're in a lot of pain, try riding it a bit lower (but do keep in mind an expert opinion, it's worth a lot). Bar shape or height can often be difficult for beginners to understand. Performance road bikes use the drop bar shape not only to put the rider in a more aerodynamic position, but to allow more body weight directly over the pedals, where the rider's power is most useful and accessible. Touring bikes, as mentioned earlier, are built for covering long distances (generally with more gear) at a slower pace than most performance riders. As a result, the bar position is slightly higher and more comfortable than a racing bike. Many new riders are used to the position of a cruiser or comfort bike: very upright seating. While possibly the most comfortable seating position, it's also the least efficient. When sitting upright, it's very difficult to get good power out of your pedal strokes. Lean forward, pedal harder.
Wondering what fitting option is best for you? Knapp's offers a few different fit packages, catering to all types of riders. The basic fit covers existing bike adjustments ranging from stem length and angle, knee over pedal alignment, handlebar size/position, frame size, saddle height/position, and other various comfort issues. The advanced fitting encompasses exact measurements that allow for a new bike with custom geometry. A Retul fitting, the most advanced and technical option, uses a 3-D motion capturing technology developed by professional racers. The sensors gather real-time three-dimensional data of pedal strokes and movements. With this fitting, a near perfect bike fit—within millimeters—can be achieved.

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Data Science Education Centre of Excellence
Recognising the need for a coordinated and collaborative approach to Data Science Education across the University in order to deliver on our Data Driven Innovation (DDI) programme requirements and beyond, we are leading on a Centre of Excellence (CoE) via the Bayes Centre for the benefit of the University.
The Centre of Excellence provides a focal point for current and planned data science education and training across the University and will work to gain a better understanding of existing content, regulatory, software and process limitations, and planned growth in order to help quickly leverage opportunities as the University of Edinburgh develops data science activities.
The Data Science Education CoE Strategy Group with representatives from across the University works to identify, scope and prioritise activities and projects. Its membership includes representatives from across the University's DDI Hubs (Bayes, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Usher, and Easter Bush) the DDI Skills Gateway and key stakeholders from across the University, working with Schools, Colleges and University service organisational units through future workshops. Further information on the Strategy Group can be found on the Committee webpage here: Data Science Education Centre of Excellence Strategy Group
For queries please contact the Bayes Education Managers at: email@example.com
Mission Statement:
The Data Science Education Centre of Excellence (DSE CoE) is an entity which will provide leadership and coordination support for best practice and new initiatives by:
- Supporting proposers of ideas in converting opportunities into business plans that are workable given UoE structures
- Providing insight into existing capabilities and offerings to proposers
- Where appropriate, coordinate cross-University initiatives that can benefit from the networks established by the CoE
About us
The Data Science Education Centre of Excellence provides a focal point for current and planned data science education and training across the University
The Centre acts as a central coordinating unit for data science education through current and future collaborative projects
We periodically hold workshops to identify appropriate consistent approaches to the delivery of data science education across the University


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Jim Beam
Old Grand-Dad 43%
Another historic, high rye content brand. Originally produced at the Old Grand-Dad distillery situated at Hobbs Station in Kentucky from 1882 until its closure during prohibition. Production was then switched to the K. Taylor Distilling Company distillery at Elkhorn Forks near Frankfort with the brands sale to National Distillers (who incidentally re-named the distillery 'Old Grand-Dad). Like Old Crow the brand was bought by Jim Beam in 1987 and the distillery closed. It's believed that Old Grand-Dad and its variants (Basil Hayden) are the only brands Beam makes that use a different mash bill and yeast.
Tasted: Mar 2012
Initially the nose is a tad shy but there's no mistaking the clarity of the sharp rye grains. Quite complex with caramelised citrus, burnt toffee and a touch of fat corn, but it's the buzzy rye that impresses. Relatively light with a touch of unobtrusive oak.
Soft on the palate, opening with the slightly burnt, sugary corn with the rye kicking in on the middle. Seriously mouth-watering with a long violet tinged finish. Still fairly young and displaying some youthful cerealy marc like notes and just enough oak to give it structure and a dry, wood spiced finish. Well balanced with the sweetness of the corn lingering enough to offset the bittering oak at the death.
We deliver to the UK normally by the next working day using one of our preferred couriers.
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You can buy online and collect from our Nottingham shop. Save on the delivery cost, pay online prices (which can sometimes be lower) and check your items are available before heading into town.
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We often fail to realize that tour operators puts their reputation on the line with every trip they plan. Operators must feel comfortable with their suppliers; they have to know that their customers are going to be taken care of when visiting our museums, restaurants, hotels, theaters, cities, etc.
Here are a few pointers for connecting to tour operators:
- Be persistent. No reasonable person will buy a car from a manufacturer of whom they've never heard. Tour operators won't just throw you business because you made a single phone call. Use a variety of methods (phone, direct mail, e-mail, Web, advertising, personal sales calls, etc.) to build a steady drumbeat of brand impressions throughout the year.
- Be sincere. If you can't do something, be honest about it. The tour operator may have solutions you haven't even thought of. Plus, no one likes the sleazy sales person, so don't be one!
- Be personable. We've all been told, "it's about the relationships." Don't be afraid to get to know your clients, their tastes, their preferences. Join a Sales Mission to see them face-to-face and understand their work environment.
- Listen. Ask the right questions and listen carefully to the answer. One of my favorite questions is, "What would it take to earn your business." Take note of the response and try to work those selling points into your presentation.
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text: I am looking at starting my own business and currently working on my business plan. However, I am unsure where to go to for information on what land is available and how to get it rezoned for business purposes. My business would be kids orientated and would involve a kiosk as well and with that being said, who do I approach to find out what legislation states on the building of bathrooms, license(s) for the kiosk etc etc. I don't want to give up and am determined to see this through, but am currently feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all. Ofcourse finance is another pitfall, so if anyone has any advice on any of the above and what to look out for when approaching banks/investors, please let me know. I would appreciate your business know-how.


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The Currency Markets remain the most liquid market of all in the Worldand something equivalent to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trenchwhich is the deepest known point in the Earth's oceans. The ForeignExchange market trades in excess of $5.1 trillion a day. Within the 24hour cycle, the market exhibits Liquidity peaks and troughs and wehave witnessed spectacular and exponential moves typically in theearly hours when most of the World is in the Land of Nod and liquidityis at its lowest. You might recall a night when Sterling tanked tenbig figures, a night when the Rand flash-crashed and even this year wesaw the Aussie get creamed. Wizards and Gremlins stalk the night. Onceupon a time, the FX market was a ''voice-over'' market, today itsentirely screen-based and algorithimic and High Frequency Trading is abig component and both are heavily reliant on complex mathematicalformulas and high-speed computer programs. HFT strategies utilizecomputers that make elaborate decisions to initiate orders based oninformation that is received electronically, before human traders arecapable of processing the information they observe. Algorithmictrading and HFT have resulted in a dramatic change of the marketmicrostructure, particularly in the way liquidity is provided. Theattraction of the FX market is that it allows all Participants todeploy outsize leverage. Basically, You can deploy up to 200xLeverage. There is no other market that allows this level of leverage.The US Dollar [notwithstanding endless chatter over its imminentdemise] remains the dominant currency representing around 60% of themarket. Of course The [Petro] Dollar underpins US Power and this is anobservable fact. The US has frequently deployed coercive financialwarfare strategies and it works a Treat and in fact President Trumphas lobbed the odd Tweet to good effect but more than that You can seehow coercive financial warfare has ground the likes of Venezuela andIran into the dust. Thats the background.The Market View pivoted big time on the Dollar at the end of last yearand priced out further interest rate increases and has now priced in arate cut. Typically, a reduction in interest rate expectations wouldsoften a currency. However, the market has now absorbed the view thatit will be a synchronised global slowdown and that the US will likelyoutperform. I stand by my view that the Dollar will appreciate about10% in 2019.The currency markets in Africa, however, have been idiosyncratic andendlessly fascinating. The Ghana Cedi slumped to an all time low lastweek, has weakened 8.6% Year to Date and is the worse performingcurrency in the World.Tito Mboweni the South African Finance Minister delivered a currencyYehudi Menuhin level master-class last week. He delivered his BudgetSpeech last week and began by presenting the aloe ferox which he saysis resilient, sturdy and drought resistant. He then started with allthe bad news, the proposed and expensive rescue of Eskom and this sentthe Rand into an almighty Tail-Spin and an orgy of Rand selling. Atone point the Rand was -2.00% on the day. Then he rowed back and hehad all the Rand Shorts where he wanted them. The Rand ended the daymarginally positive. Mr. Mboweni's Budget Speech and the finesse withwhich he skewed his delivery [negative first and then gradually morepositive] set the Trap. He exhibited a feel for the markets which wasseriously noteworthy.Zimbabwe finally overhauled its dysfunctional,''whack'' and evenVoodoo FX regime. Zimbabwe's government dropped its insistence that aquasi-currency known as bond notes are at par with the dollar as itoverhauled foreign-exchange trading and effectively devalued thesecurities. While the government has previously insisted that bondnotes and RTGS dollars are worth the same as U.S. dollars, the unitscurrently trade at between 3.66 and 3.8 to the dollar respectively onthe black market [Bloomberg]"The introduction of a Zim dollar will be just in name, but the RTGS$is essentially the Zim dollar."Tendai Biti is predicting a 6-8 range whilst the Government is lookingfor it to appreciate to 2.5 which is best characterised as''Hail-Mary'' economics. This is the right move but I would definitelybe short at 2.5, if it ever gets there which is entirely unlikely.The Sudanese Pound has been in FreeFall and its consequences areself-evident with Omar Al-Bashir imposing a State of Emergency.Nigeria maintains a two tier FX Regime a little like King Canute. Itsentirely unlikely that Nigeria can accelerate out of the GDP slow lanewith the current FX regime.The Stand-Outs in Africa from a currency perspective are Egypt andKenya. Egypt's Al-Sisi devalued big and early and the consequences ofthat bold economic pivot is there for all to see, Egypt GDP is likelyto have a 5 handle in 2019 and the economy overtook South Africa. Andin Kenya, The Shilling has appreciated by +1.6% in 2019 and is testingthe key 100.00 level.
A moonshot project is a project which is astronomically ambitious
I first met Priya Ramrakha on a back street in Kampala, Uganda, in1966. I was helping him and his editor at Time/Life, where I worked asa stringer and a fixer, to rent an aircraft to fly to Bukavu, in theeastern Congo, where some white mercenaries had taken over the town.Hiring the small plane required tedious paperwork in a governmentoffice, so, while the editor filled out an application, Priya wanderedoutside, into the equatorial sunshine and the broken road, his cameraaround his neck, and I followed. A large, dark snake, probably amamba, highly poisonous, lay dead in the road. Priya stood over it. Hecocked his head, then he raised his camera and looked through theviewfinder. He did not snap a picture; he paced around the snake andcontinued to examine it through his camera lens, bringing it intofocus, enlarging it, studying it. I realized then that that was how hesaw the world—that the camera was an extension of his brain and hiseye, and that it did not shy away from danger or death.In those years, the sixties, when African countries were becomingindependent, a job was more than a job, it was a mission. I wasteaching then, at Makerere University, and felt that I was part of apan-African movement, helping to create a more literate and moreproductive society. I was that bore, that monomaniac, thatmoralizer—an idealist. Priya was, too. Kampala was the center of agreat deal of cultural activity—we had a literary magazine,Transition, and two decent English-language newspapers; the NationalTheatre put on plays by local writers; Makerere University had a filmsociety; and all along Kampala Road there were bars and bistros wherewriters and activists and publishers met and argued. Uganda by thenhad been independent for four years; though there were tensionsbetween the Kingdom of Buganda and the central government, no oneforesaw the attempted coup d'état, the government assault on theKabaka's palace, or the later usurpation by and rise of Idi Amin. Westill believed we were helping to make Uganda a better place.they were easily assimilated in Britain and elsewhere, because theyhad learned how to be aliens. One of Priya's gifts—again, it isevident in his photographs—is that he was at home in the wider world.
IN PHOTOS: Kim Jong Un leaves Pyongyang Station for the#TrumpKimSummit. He's accompanied by his sister, Kim Yo Jong, andnegotiator Kim Yong Chol #북미회담 #전용열차https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1099525187513475072
The Question remains as follows. Kim Jong-Un can hardly forget whathappened to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, both of whom met theirEnds after being de-fanged. So my Question remains, what securityguarantees can Trump provide to Kim? that convince him todenuclearise. Offering up bullet-proof security guarantees is theequivalent of threading the needle.
The Events that took place on Friday at the truce village of Panmunjomand during the Inter-Korean Summit were breathtaking for the HollywoodOptics. The Opening Shot of Kim Jong Un surrounded by a Phalanx ofNorth Korean Officials [later replayed as Chairman Kim sat in hisPresidential Vehicle surrounded by his Ninja bodyguards] was almost asgood as the opening Sequence in PT Anderson's Boogie Nights [Steadicamoperator Andy Shuttleworth]. This was Cinema of the highest levelwhich is no surprise when You consider that Kim Jong-Il the Father wasobsessed with Cinema and amassed arguably the world's largest personalfilm collection: over 20,000 bootlegged 35mm screening copies. KimJong-Il also had a penchant for Hennessy Paradis cognac and for twoyears in the mid-1990s, he was the world's largest buyer of HennessyParadis cognac, importing up to $800,000 of the stuff a year. KimJong-Il began his career as the head of the state's propaganda andagitation department and its clear that Kim Jong-Un's sister Kim YoJong who holds the same role and evidently handles all the optics, isa chip off the old Block. Friday was tip-top Geopolitical Optics. MikePompeo, the newly minted US Secretary of State [His predecessor wasfired via Twitter] had visited Pyongyang the previous week andpronounced; that the young North Korean leader was "a smart guy who'sdoing his homework"
"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock,which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft,and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is anotherparadox: What is soft is strong," Lao TzuSouth Korea is set to be peeled off and going by his puppy dog smilesPresident Moonriver will be in PyongYang before you can pronounce KimYo Jong correctly. Russia always had their back. China was neverinterested in bringing him to heel. After all, he is the buffer statebetween China and more than 30,000 US soldiers parked on theirdoorstep in South Korea.
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon which is about thedesign, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several charactersto uncover the secret of a mysterious device named the "Schwarzgerät"(black device), slated to be installed in a rocket with the serialnumber "00000". As the world watches PyongYang, I cannot helpwondering if Kim Jong-Un has read Pynchon which speaks of "A screamingcomes across the sky" and North Korea."But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is theparabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -guessed and refusedto believe -that everything, always, collectively, had been movingtoward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of nosurprise, no second chance, no return.''
They all have had tiny little hands like the Elves in the Elves andthe Shoemaker. And this country has nuclear weapons and on its borderwith its neighbour South Korea sit 25,000 American soldiers.
"This country shares a lot of similarities with state of Israel andoffers a lot of ground for mutual cooperation," new Israeli ambassadorRon Adam said after meeting with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame.The two countries, both with histories largely defined by genocide,already have close ties, including being embroiled in a controversial2018 deal that sought to deport African refugees and asylum seekersfrom Israel.
"Assuming both sides make additional progress, we will be planningSummit for Pres Xi and myself, at Mar-a-Lago, to conclude anagreement. A very good weekend for U.S. & China!,
It really did seem like Lighthizer was at the end of his rope andlosing it. Great look, meanwhile, to have a dispute over terms betweenthe president and his chief trade rep, in front of the high levelChinese delegation.
An exasperated Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, triedto gently educate his boss, Donald Trump, on the meaning of a"memorandum of understanding" in the Oval Office on Friday, leading toa presidential lecture in front of television cameras and a topChinese official.The exchange between the president and his top trade negotiatorunfolded Friday when the president was asked during a meeting with aChinese trade delegation about how long so-called memorandums ofunderstanding would last in an eventual accord with Beijing.Negotiators have been drafting MOUs on areas such as agriculture,non-tariff barriers, services, technology transfer, currency andintellectual property as the two nations work toward a deal.Trump told gathered reporters that the memorandums would "be veryshort term. I don't like MOUs because they don't mean anything. To me,they don't mean anything."Lighthizer then jumped in to defend the strategy, with Trump lookingon. "An MOU is a binding agreement between two people," he said. "It'sdetailed. It covers everything in great detail. It's a legal term.It's a contract."But the president, unswayed, fired back at Lighthizer. "By the way Idisagree," Trump said.The top Chinese negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He, laughed out loud."The real question is, Bob," Trump said, "how long will it take to putthat into a final binding contract?"The exchange marked the latest instance in which Trump tried toreshape the branding of a major trade agreement during high-stakesnegotiations.Last year, he persuaded leaders from Canada and Mexico to change thename of the North America Free Trade Agreement, known as Nafta, to theU.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.Trump said the prior agreement carried the baggage of closedfactories, while his new acronym evoked the U.S. Marine Corps.Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute,said that Lighthizer is in a bind because he wants China to treat adeal with the U.S. as binding even though it's not."The Trump administration originally chose MOUs because no trulybinding agreement can be made on the exchange rate or large futurepurchases of corn, much less technology coercion China denies has everhappened," he said."If the administration switches to calling it a binding tradeagreement, members of Congress will want to vote on it. If they don'tget to, this looks exactly like Obama not wanting Congress to vote onthe Iran nuclear deal."But in Friday's debate over memorandums of understanding on Friday,Lighthizer eventually deferred to his boss."From now on we're not using the word memorandum of understandinganymore. We're going to use the term trade agreement," Lighthizer toldreporters. "We'll have the same document. It's going to be called atrade agreement."He then turned to Liu to ask if the Chinese would accommodate the newterminology, winning a nod from the Chinese leader."Good, I like that term much better," Trump said, before againcomplaining that memorandums of understanding were not thatmeaningful."We'll never use that word again!" Lighthizer responded.As Trump turned to take another question from reporters, Lighthizerwhispered to Liu about not calling the agreements an MOU.
Sirloin steaks, Catena Zapata Nicolas Malbec [2014] HuaweiTechnologies Co. and Wanzhou MengYou will recall that Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping enjoyed a muchanticipated ''Truce'' Dinner at the G20 in Buenos Aires and quaffed aCatena Zapata Nicolas Malbec [2014] wine with their sirloin steaks andfinished it all off with caramel rolled pancakes, crispy chocolate andfresh cream, a dinner that ran over by 60 minutes and one where thedinner Guests broke out into spontaneous applause thereafter.
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"The results allow us to say that we should congratulate PresidentMacky Sall on his re-election," Prime Minister Mahammed Boun AbdallahDionne said at midnight, predicting the incumbent would receive "atleast 57 percent" of the vote TRT World
Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa closed a speech quoting Ben OkriWe dream of a new politicsThat will renew the worldUnder their weary suspicious gaze. There's always a new way,A better way that's not been tried before.This week Nigerians [84m people are registered to vote] were intendingto go to the Polls in the country's sixth general election sincemilitary rule ended in 1999. In fact, The Nigerian vote is ''thelargest democratic event in African history'' [@TheEconomist]. TheElections were postponed at 2.40am on election day. The Nigerianelectoral commission pronounced that the general elections werepostponed by a week. Charlie Robertson tweeted"#Nigeriadecides but not yet. Postponement is typical. 2011 electionswere pushed back twice, the 2nd time when the parliamentary vote hadalready begun ... In 2015 they were delayed by 6 weeks (roughly a weekahead of time)"Like Ben Okri's preferred literary genre of "magic realism" NigerianPolitics has spun some surreal narratives of its own. Who can forgetthe legendary Pleasure- Seeker General Sani Abacha, President UmaruYar'Adua who allegedly was kept alive [or not] for a number of days inan ambulance in the State House grounds, even the austere PresidentBuhari went missing for a few months."The significance of the Nigerian elections for Africa is tremendous,"said Professor Nic Cheeseman [Bloomberg]"A flawed election and the political instability that this couldgenerate would not only undermine confidence in the feasibility ofdemocracy in one of Africa's most important states, but also sloweconomic growth in West Africa and the wider region."'In a system where candidates jump between political parties as ifthey were changing buses, personality & money trump policy discussion'tweeted David PillingIt's a Nollywood Level drama but permit me to give you some context.GDP growth has lagged Population growth, GDP grew by 1.93 percent lastyear, up from 0.82 percent in 2017 and grew 2.4 percent in the fourthquarter. Nigeria was the second biggest economy in Africa in 2018,using the market exchange rate of NGN362/$ or the biggest economyusing the fixed rate [@RencapMan]. Unemployment has risen from 8.2% to23.1% under President Buhari's watch which would be a plain untenableposition for any incumbent Politician seeking re-election in mostparts of the World. The President is a victim of low oil prices whichprovide 70% of government revenue. ''Baba Go Slow'' has to becontrasted with President Al-Sisi's Egypt. Al-Sisi [and I for onedisagree with him on many things particularly with his''incarceration'' strategy] made bold moves when it came to theEconomy. Egypt devalued its currency early, took a brutal punch in thesolar plexus but is now reaping the dividend from its bolder economicpolicy, Nigeria is still muddling along with its ''Voodoo'' level FXeconomics. Since President Buhari came to power in May 2015, Nigeria'sstock market has fallen more than any other in the world, dropping 50%in dollar terms. There is a Message in that performance. The StockMarket has perked up over the last few sessions, however.Atiku Abubakar, the main challenger to Mr Buhari, is also in his 70s.It is an extraordinary Outcome that as the Continent becomes younger,Our Leaders in many cases are getting older. This Elastic Band [thedifference between the average of leadership and the average of itsCitizens] is now stretched to breaking point and will snap.Abubakar has struck a Bill Clinton circa 1992 when he kept chanting"It's the economy, stupid"Atiku Abubakar's mantra is "Let's Get Nigerians Working Again". CitingMargaret Thatcher, he says he wants to privatise state-owned firms,which frankly is the optimal economic policy if it's done fairly andincreases ownership in the Nigerian economy. I saw The ThatcherRevolution up close and personal and it worked. From Ethiopia toNigeria to many other parts of Africa, Governments are running out ofheadroom and they absolutely need to embrace Thatcherism. It is aSilver Bullet.We have seen a number of elections in Africa. Overturning Incumbentsis a thankless task but not too long ago we saw a number of Upsets inWest Africa. However, recently we witnessed a Nollywood level PlotTwist in the DR Congo and its clear the Will of the People was notexpressed in the result.Mr. Mbeki said "They are aware that the rest of the world is busy withbigger issues, In Africa, things are most likely to get worse beforethey get better."
RDC M. John Peter Pham, Envoyé spécial des Etats-Unis dans larégion des Grands-Lacs reçu à la Cité de l'Union africaine par lePrésident de la République S.E. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.Vendredi 22 février 2019.@Presidence_RDChttps://twitter.com/Presidence_RDC/status/1099106378541608965
President Bashir is hanging on by his fingertips. He has managed toclaw his way back into position before and is a political HarryHoudini otherwise he would not have lasted more than three decades butits clear these are "the last days" or "end times."
They could be #ClimateChange's first heavyweight political victims.
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The cedi has weakened 8.6 percent this year, the most among more than140 currencies tracked by Bloomberg, after the central bankunexpectedly cut its benchmark rate in January and signaled moreeasing may be in storeOut of the 2.1 billion cedis ($391 million) of two-year andlonger-dated maturities sold by the government through Jan. 31 thisyear, foreign investors bought just 6.3 percent, according to datafrom the Central Securities Depository Ghana Ltd. That compares withmore than 30 percent in 2018.he cedi declined as much as 0.5 percent on Friday to the weakest levelsince Bloomberg started keeping the records in 1994, before reversinglosses to trade 2.2 percent stronger at 5.3772 per dollar by 4:38 p.m.in the capital, Accra.
An attack on an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. convoy in Mozambique was oneof multiple raids that took place Thursday in an area where companiesplan to develop $50 billion of liquefied natural gas projects,according to two people familiar with the matter.An Anadarko contractor was beheaded in the violence, the people said,asking not to be identified because they're not authorized to discussthe matter publicly. Anadarko confirmed one person died and at leastsix people were injured in the raids.The violence could signal a major shift in tactics by suspectedIslamist militants who've waged an insurgency in northern Mozambique'sCabo Delgado province since October 2017. It could be the firstsignificant coordinated attack by the Islamists, as well as the firsttime an oil and gas company has been targeted.Anadarko said there were two related attacks on Thursday, with onecontractor killed, according to a statement on its website. Both raidsoccurred on the road from the coastal town of Mocimboa da Praia toAnadarko's project in Afungi about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north, itsaid. The company's project-construction site has been placed onlockdown, the company said.At least six separate assaults took place in the area between Palmaand Mocimboa da Praia in Cabo Delgado, according to one of the peoplewho asked not to be identified. The assailants targeted an Anadarkoconvoy and vehicles operated by contractors, as well as villages nearthe main highway, he said. Two other Anadarko contractors died in oneof the incidents, he said.The raids were carried out by suspected Islamists, the second person said.The attacks demonstrate that "militants now possess the capacity tothreaten LNG operations on the mainland," said Nick Branson, seniorAfrica analyst at Verisk Maplecroft."Further incidents could potentially jeopardize Anadarko's plans foran onshore processing facility," he said in an emailed note Friday."Beyond the short-term disruption to operations, the attack coulddelay Anadarko's final investment decision on its Rovuma Basin assetsuntil the second half of the year."Anadarko is expected to spend at least $20 billion on its project inPalma, near the Tanzanian border, where more than 100 people have diedand hundreds of homes have been destroyed since a shadowy insurgencybegan in October 2017. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Eni SpA are also planningnatural gas projects in the area.Augusto Guta, a spokesman for the Mozambican police in northern CaboDelgado province, said the authorities are investigating theincidents."Attacks occurred and we're still gathering information," Guta said byphone. "We'll issue a statement after field work."
Amor é um fogo que arde sem se ver,é ferida que doi, e não se sente;é um contentamento descontente,é dor que desatina sem doer.É um não querer mais que bem querer;é um andar solitário entre a gente;é nunca contentar-se de contente;é um cuidar que ganha em se perder.É querer estar preso por vontade;é servir a quem vence, o vencedor;é ter com quem nos mata, lealdade.Mas como causar pode seu favornos corações humanos amizade,se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?Love is a fire that burns unseen,a wound that aches yet isn't felt,an always discontent contentment,a pain that rages without hurting,a longing for nothing but to long,a loneliness in the midst of people,a never feeling pleased when pleased,a passion that gains when lost in thought.It's being enslaved of your own free will;it's counting your defeat a victory;it's staying loyal to your killer.But if it's so self-contradictory,how can Love, when Love chooses,bring human hearts into sympathy?
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Kenyan ride-hailing company Little is expanding to Tanzania and Ghanaby May and plans to raise about $50 million more from investors, itschief executive officer said on Friday.Little, which competes with global players Uber and Taxify in Kenya,is valued at about $70 million to $75 million, Chief Executive KamalBudhabhatti said, a minnow compared to rivals but it has aims toexpand across Africa.The company will offer rides in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar esSalaam from next week and plans to launch in Accra by May, Budhabhattisaid, adding to operations in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia."We want to get into a lot more countries than what we are in at themoment," Budhabhatti said.He said Little was talking to investors to raise about $50 million inseries A funding, the financing received when a start-up opens up tooutside investors for the first time. It aims to finalise this bymid-2019."We are meeting a couple of investors, both on the continent and inSilicon Valley. The interest is there," he said, adding that new fundswould be used to develop technology and to expand to more countries.He did not name the potential investors.Without the deep pockets of its ride-hailing rivals in the region,Little has been attracting drivers by encouraging them to offer extraservices to earn money, Budhabhatti said."Our drivers are agents, they can sell insurance to you, they can sell(mobile) airtime, they can pay light and/or water bills, they can doall those little things around that increases that income," he said.Little, which has a marketing partnership with Kenya's biggest mobileoperator Safaricom, is also available to Kenyan customers who do nothave a smartphone.
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HOUSTON — The Southeastern Conference's leader in tackles for loss didn't feel fully healthy until early October.
Marcell Frazier can only wonder what his senior season would have been like if he had been healthy from the get-go.
"If I was healthy the whole year, who knows what could have been," Frazier said. "I think I salvaged what I could of the season."
Frazier said he initially tore his quad during a July workout, then re-injured it during fall workouts. He didn't consider sitting out to let the injury heal.
"I wanted to play through it because I felt like I was a leader of the team and I wanted to be out there with the guys," Frazier said. "When I look back on it and watch the film, it's like night and day from when I got healthy."
Frazier also broke his arm during spring practices in April. That injury wasn't fully healthy when the season started, either.
"I wasn't able to move my arm fully until like the second game of the season," Frazier said. "I was doing therapy on my arm throughout the whole summer."
Frazier never disclosed his injury to the public — or at least the severity of it — during the season. Neither did his coaches or teammates.
Even within the team, it wasn't common knowledge.Right tackle Paul Adams knew about Frazier's injury because the two would often go head-to-head in practice and Frazier would occasionally sit out of drills, but Drew Lock said he didn't even know about the injury until Frazier was healthy again.
"People know, but when you're considered a leader, you just want to be out there for support," Frazier said. "I was giving my best effort, but my body can only do so much with an arm, a quad, some lingering injuries."
The stats back up Frazier's analysis. He recorded just 2½ tackles for loss and 1½ sacks through the first five weeks of the season. He said he finally started to feel healthy before the Georgia game in Week 6.
"When everything got to feeling normal, I feel like I got back to playing like I was last year," he said.
Over the season's final seven weeks, Frazier racked up 11 tackles for loss and 5½ sacks. He was the only Missouri defender to earn postseason all-SEC honors, making the second-team.
"It just speaks volumes about his character," Adams said. "He's a huge competitor. It shows that he's not going to let something like that slow him down. When he got healthy, he started tearing it up."


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Scott Golden released the following statement on the end of Tennessee's 2019 legislative session:
"As this year's legislative session comes to an end, I am proud that our Republican legislators were able to pass so many great bills that work to make the lives of Tennesseans better. A lot of progress was made on Governor Lee's agenda, including criminal justice reform, the fight against the opioid epidemic and education.
"Tennessee was also able to unanimously pass a fiscal budget for the first time in nearly a decade. Pay raises for teachers, the establishment of the Governor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and the largest deposit ever into the Rainy Day Fund are just a few of many accomplishments of that budget.
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For a cruise that spends a day in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and then a day in Halifax...what recommendations do you have for sightseeing?
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In new Brunswick you should go to ST Martins and explore the caves or tour around uptown saint John.
In Halifax the waterfront is usually hopping with activities. about 9 years agoAnswered by Joanne via Ask a Nomad iPad app
I haven't been to New Brunswick (other than through it) - but if you're into paleontology, the Joggins fossil cliffs are supposed to be neat. The Bay of Fundy for both, of course - see a tidal bore if you can. In apple blossom time (especially), the Annapolis Valley is pretty. On the other shore, Lunenberg (home of the Bluenose II) is worth a visit. Cape Breton Island is probably too far for one day, but well worth its own visit - Louisbourg, in particular, is a must-see. In Halifax, enjoy the waterfront, and go see the Citadel (just a few blocks from the water). about 9 years agoAnswered by Marc via Travellr.com
Visit the Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy. The tide comes in and out every 12 hours, so depending on what time you are there, you can walk along the beach and see these magnificent flower-pot-shaped rocks or if the tide is out, you can canoe along the shore.
Drive throuh the Bay of Fundy National Park; it's stunning.
St. Andrews-By-The-Sea in New Brunswick near the Maine border is a charming little town to visit and is home to the landmark Fairmont Algonquin Hotel. You can take whale-watching tours (highly recommended) from St. Andrews-By-The-Sea into the Bay of Fundy where you'll see other wildlife such as puffins and American Bald Eagles. about 9 years agoAnswered by Lori Bosworth via Travellr.com


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Historians are rewriting the history of slavery and capitalismHistorians in the News
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Questions about the relationship between slavery and capitalism in the United States have animated historians for nearly a century, and they have never really been resolved. Where some scholars have argued that profit motives, entrepreneurialism and market relations defined American slavery, others have insisted just as emphatically that the slave society of the southern states lacked a truly free labour market and precluded the cultivation of bourgeois values and the development of large cities, which are distinguishing characteristics of capitalist society.
In the past several years, however, the former view has been clearly ascendant, with historians producing a steady stream of scholarship advancing the argument that slavery in the US was both itself deeply capitalistic and made profound contributions to the burgeoning industrial world whose guns, ships and bombs would eventually bring about slavery's demise. Books by Edward Baptist, Sven Beckert and Walter Johnson have made the most noise. But their work, along with that of the historians Daina Ramey Berry, Seth Rockman, Caitlin Rosenthal, Calvin Schermerhorn and many others has effectively launched an entire subfield of literature dedicated to exploring the ways that human bondage gave rise to a modern Western superpower.
Unsurprisingly, it is an avenue of enquiry that has roiled academics and the public alike. For some, the definition of capitalism in recent works is too imprecise or insufficiently grounded in theories of political economy to take seriously. Some question whether the authors of these works have an understanding of economics deep and thorough enough to sustain their claims. Still others are underwhelmed by arguments they feel they have heard before and found less than convincing the first time. And for some people the very idea that slavery could be integral to capitalism is anathema, because to them capitalism is the foundation of freedom itself.
There is some irony in all this reactionary hodgepodge, because whether it comes from the left or the right, the hostility toward the new history of slavery and capitalism frequently seems rooted in disdain that is as much a matter of dogma as of analysis.
Notwithstanding skeptical critics, there are reasons so many find this new scholarship refreshing, compelling and persuasive. In part, of course, an emphasis on the darker side of capitalism's history comports well with the world today. It is a world where, following the financial meltdown of 2008, the fragility of the economic system is apparent. It is a world in which almost anything can be commoditised and securitised for the benefit of a small minority, while those at the bottom struggle to scrape by. In this world, a past in which the most vulnerable literally belonged to forces of capital that manipulated their labour and their lives for profit makes perfect sense. Indeed, sometimes the past presents striking, specific parallels with the present. The crisis of 2008, for example, grounded in reckless speculation and foolish beliefs about the endless rise of real estate and housing prices, looks not so dissimilar from the crisis of 1837, grounded in reckless speculation and foolish beliefs about the endless rise in the prices of cotton and enslaved people. ...
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I went OOB again this morning after awakening, just for a short travel, but again it was with a new transition to it. I really think now, that all the 'pieces' are coming together - the 'false awakenings', the out-of-sync feelings, the repeated questioning of 'is it real' or is it IP? - the knowing of what it 'feels' like (I guess my energy perceptions...)
Driving home from graduate school last night, late and it's dark and a good 30 minute ride - I had the time to think, and made the observation that 'gee, this could easily be a prelude to OOB' - BUT - it is such a different 'feel' to my questioning that I had NO concern at all that it was IP. (Don't worry, I'm not becoming confused as to what 'state of consciousness' I'm in!)
I just used it as an example to compare to my OOB 'questioning' of reality - which made a lightbulb go on in my head. There IS a difference in 'feeling' to tell when you are IP or OOB - and the mere fact that you actually take a second to stop and 'question reality' will tell me that I AM ready to go out. (Is this making sense??)
By having all those false awakenings and real IP scenes in the prelude to OOBs actually helped me make this perception of consciousness easier now.
So, this morning I became aware I was doing something at my Mom's house outside, playing games with children and a ball - and ran to go get it when it went into the neighbors yard. At the point I was crossing the stone wall (that is there IP), I stopped for a second and wondered, "am I really here or not?" which immediately made me remember that anytime I'm questioning reality like that, to just try to 'take off' because I am usually OOB.
(I also figured if I wasn't I'd just jump and fall down - not too bad a price to pay for the chance to OOB!)
So I jumped, and took off! Such flying freedom again, I just wish you could be there too! I actually played around with the ball and as it came down, tried to catch it with my feet, upside down! lol
The next I remember I'm carrying this young girl - I related it to my daughter at age 3-4, yet it didn't look like her - so I'm actually thinking this may have been me (!) - is that possible? I'm showing her how to fly and how much fun it is - I even 'flipped' her over to show the freedom but she got scared so I stopped and apologized for the scare.
We went into a house with many room, but I can only recall the last room, an old attic type room with lots of 'fixtures' and 'stuff'. We were outside the door, peering in, and I'm telling her it's the 'astral room' with all stuff you use when you go to the astral.
We never went inside and the experience faded shortly thereafter - but one other thing I remember was that my 'talk' with the young girl was nonverbal (of course), yet was in an 'adult' language, not in a normal language you would use for a 3-4 year old.
COMMENTARY: Again with this experience, the transition was the new development for me. Becoming more sensitive to what I am feeling is my key to further travels.
As always, you wonder why you have such experiences as 'false awakenings' and confusing with perception while OOB, but in the end, you find the Universe has an orderly plan to put it all together for a very good reason! I am excited to know that I am progressing as planned, and am looking forward to even more wonderful experiences!
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This fonds includes correspondence and legal documents of Jonathan Bliss, 1790-1822. There is also correspondence and other material of William Bowers Bliss (1834-1863).
Bliss family (Saint John)
This fonds includes correspondence and legal documents of Jonathan Bliss, 1790-1822. There is also correspondence and other material of William Bowers Bliss (1834-1863).
Bliss family (Saint John)
The fonds consists of family records. There are two lot certificates for land on Germain Street, dated 1783, belonging to John Chaloner (lot 553) and Benjamin Chaloner (lot 554). There is a commission of 1827 appointing Benjamin Chaloner tide surveyor, gauger, and weightmaster in Saint John. There is also a bond, dated 1828, given by Ninyon Chaloner to Benjamin C. Chaloner, executor of John Chaloner's estate. It bound Ninyon to ensure that Peggy, a Black woman who had been the late John Chaloner's servant, received comfortable care during her lifetime and at her death, a decent burial at Ninyon's expense.
Challoner family (Saint John)
This fonds consists of bound handwritten notebooks and microfilm copies. Not all years in the ranges of dates are present. They include the minutes of the Quarter Sessions of the City and County, 1868, 1872: minutes of the committees; 1874, 1886, 1893; minutes of County Council; 1877-1879; and the Sessions order book; 1860-1869, 1875, 1876.
There are records of tax assessments and collections for the parishes of Musquash,1877-1909; Portland including Indiantown, 1863-1869; St. Martins, 1864-1910; Simonds, 1871-1910 and Lancaster, 1856-1910. There is also a record book of the election of councillors with list of voters, 1877.
City and County of Saint John
Department of Transportation District 4 map
A map of the Kingston Peninsula and surrounding area that shows the roads and their different classification.
This fonds consists of 2 papers written by Cochrane, "History of the St. Martins, New Brunswick built ships" is a 256-page manuscript which includes details of the history of St. Martins area, lists of the master mariners and captains of coasters from St. Martins and statistics on the tonnage of St. Martins built ships. There are records of many of the local vessels giving: names, types of vessel, tonnage, dates built and names of owners. There are also some information on captains, crew, passengers, incidents or accidents, mutinies, damage due to storms, shipwrecks, vessel dimensions, cargos and sailing routes, which included the West Indies, the U.K., Europe and Australia.
The other paper, "The whale fishing industry of Saint John, N.B.", is about the history of the whale fishing industry in Saint John from 1830 to 1850. Material includes a list of the St. John Mechanics Whale Fishing Company officers and stockholders, 1837. There are details of the dividends paid in 1841 and a list of ships owned by the company. This manuscript provides information about Charles Stewart, a pioneer in the whale fishery in Saint John, and the commander of the last whaling ship which sailed from the city in 1848 and about James Millidge who was also engaged in this industry. Other subjects include uses for the whale oil and whale bone, and amounts of whale oil carried aboard the ships.
Cochrane, Frederick Maine
This fonds cconsists of two letters, one from Hugh in 1818 and the other from Mary in 1837. The letters contain family news.
Cumming, George
The fonds consists of a lot certificate given to Hannah Flood in 1837. It is for lot 35 in the southeast range in Willow Grove, Loch Lomond. The certificate was given by the body responsible for administration of Crown grants to the Black refugees. It is unclear whether Hannah Flood had actually purchased the land.
Flood, Hannah
Liquor offences recordbook, Saint John City and County
The fonds consists of 1 volume of records of liquor offences which occurred in the City and County of Saint John, New Brunswick during the period 1913-1917. The offences took place in the parishes of Lancaster, Simonds, and St. Martins. Information includes names of offenders, the stipendary magistrates, and the chief inspectors as well as the nature of the offence, the fines levied and the parish. There are several repeat offenders in these records. Offences included keeping liquor for sale or barter and selling liquor without a license.
Liquor offences recordbook (Saint John, N.B.), Author
This fonds consists of correspondence between Samuel Mayes and George Botsford and their customers, 1884-1904.
Plumbago Mines (Saint John, N.B.)
This fonds consists of the administrative records of the club. It includes committee minutes, 1923-1938, registers, financial and legal documents, 1896-1954, correspondence, membership records, logs, diaries and information about racing and the annual cruise.
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La Salle Explorers picked to finish ninth in A-10 coach's poll
Following a disappointing season during which they finished eighth in the Atlantic 10 with a 9-9 conference record (19-19 overall), the Explorers are tipped to struggle again. The losses of Jordan Price and Demetrius Henry will be tough to cope with but the Explorers do have interesting options on the team.
This has led to the Explorers being tipped to finish ninth in the Atlantic 10 coach's poll. The Explorers are slated to finish behind Richmond and ahead of George Mason.
The offense will be centered around B.J. Johnson who put up 17.6 points per game and averaged 6.3 rebounds per game last season before declaring for the NBA Draft to test the waters. While Johnson ultimately returned to school, his declaration for the draft is an important step for his development as a player.
"B.J. received great feedback from exploring his NBA potential," Giannini said. "He is extremely focused and motivated to improve himself and our team to reach his highest goals. He had interest to workout for several teams. However, he has some minor health issues from last season that would be best to take care of now to maximize his preparations for next season. He has decided to take that route and it bodes well for him and our team."
He'll be ready to lead this team and his hand will be healthy all year which will be a boon for what was already a good offense. Johnson won't be alone providing the offensive fireworks as the electric Pookie Powell will be ready to take a step forward for the Explorers.
While the offense should be good, defence will and the thing that holds these Explorers back. Much of their issues were with size last season but with Tony Washington, Cian Sullivan, and Johnson in the middle, the Explorers will have better size than they have had in years.
Coupled with quick gaurds to stay in front of you, this could be an intriguing team. I feel like I say this every year but La Salle could suprise a few teams in the conference but until they show more performances like their shocker at URI last season, their low preseason ranking is justified.


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While animal proteins increase levels of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1, and most plant proteins bring levels down, "high quality" plant proteins, such as soy, may not significantly affect levels in either direction. This, however, may depend on the quantity consumed.
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See Protein Intake & IGF-1 Production and Higher Quality May Mean Higher Risk for some immediate background, and IGF-1 as One-Stop Cancer Shop for why we'd like to see these levels low in adulthood (though not in childhood—see Cancer-Proofing Mutation). Is there a level of soy food consumption at which one might see IGF-1 levels comparable to those induced by animal protein? The title of my next video kind of gives it away: Too Much Soy May Neutralize Plant-Based Benefits.
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Today was Miss Fedora's last day in our classroom. She is our grade 12 work experience student who has helped out in our classroom for the last 2 weeks. Miss F. was so much help to us, we really have appreciated the extra help.
We wish her well in her grade 12 year and hope she comes back to visit sometime!


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2018 is over. Good-bye. Hello 2019. The racing season is approaching. By the end of this month I'll be at a racetrack in Florida watching cars for twenty-four straight hours. I'm ready for this season to start; there are so many things to get excited about.
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Openings | Closings
This weekend, I went gallery hopping to enjoy the new fall breeze and the enormous quantity of quality work coming to the city for the season and EXPO (which I will explain more about).
I spent Friday night in River North for their many, many openings. Sadly I was only able to make it to a hand-full in the couple hour window that is the event. Personally, it was highlighted by the Benjamin Cook show at Zg gallery. Cook has a colorful fun assortment of paintings and some fibers installations, each category exploring materiality, mass produced color and graphic qualities that can be both found in street art and now the mass market- mass produced fashion for the street. To top it off, the gallery had some temporary tattoo reproductions to take, which I am now strongly boasting. Friday, on an entirely different spectrum of the art market/ cannon, I enjoyed the Tetsuya Noda retrospective at Andrew Bae gallery. While looking at beautifully rendered prints from 50 years of Noda's life, there was a little nod to engagement with diary entries posted by each piece that gave additional insight into the artists life and thoughts, and added an extra layer of power and meaning. Diary entries are personal and often kept secret or prized, yet these feelings of change, humor, uncertainty and growth can be understood on a basic human level, bringing the contemporary Chicagoan viewer to Noda's context.
Saturday afternoon, I went over to the west loop to Woman Made gallery for the closing of their internationally juried show. What a gem! I wish I was telling you about an opening rather than a closing because it feels like such a taunt and lost opportunity (It is well documented on their website though). This was a well curated show of a variety of artists in a variety of mediums, so I did not know what to expect form the artists' talks, happening with the closing. I was pleasantly surprised about the multi generational aspect of the artists involved. As they spoke about their work, informally for about ten minutes each I was struck by the artist community that was in the room, rooted in a shared identity and practice. Occasionally an audience member would spout out a feeling or reading that would fill in the gaps of the artist's preceding explanation.
For me there were two highlights of this show that I just want to mention. The first, the ceramic piece by Cathy Schwalbe that she described as a retrospective of sorts because she has gathered images and stories over the years that are referenced in the various tiles. The piece asks the audience to touch and take, to interact with these historic traditions of the Midwest. The fun alliteration title, "sewing, sowing" brings the content and the relationship between the male and female work to the fore front. The second piece, by Angela Swan "listen", is beautiful in its simplicity. Is is a large printed photography of a sculpture project of two phones connected. The audience decided on a variety of symbols: sex, integration, dialogue of past times, race relations, a stand off, marriage, etc. all pointing to the power in a message that can be understood in a variety and on multiple levels.
I can not wait fro Chicago Expo and especially the After Hours event, featuring more alternative spaces and works. If you are in the Chicago area you should mark your calendar!
This past year I have been struck by an unshakable artist's block. Unlike previous unproductive phases stemming from lack of creativity, I find myself asking "how does an artist make art today when the world is so broken?" "how can there be art after Ferguson?"
This past week these question become more concerning as the news again is plastered with broken bodies. My question is not one out of neutrality ( as a white, straight, female I feel the need to clarify and acknowledge my privilege), but one coming out of hurt and anger at the system that I live in and perhaps sometimes unconsciously enabled. I feel helpless and tired that the communities that I am a part of, and friends I respect continue to see the issues in black and white rather than through a lens of humanity, where reconciliation could bring about change.
We live in the era of the hashtag, constantly updating to reflect the next tragedy, yet not full encompassing the entirety of the issue. But perhaps these quick snippets is all we can handle because if we go too deep, release ourselves to the progression of paint on canvas, shout out our cries to the Lord through music, or go to the streets in dance, we may drown in the darkness that is our reality.
The World Wars drastically changed the trajectory for the arts. The Dada's explored meaninglessness after there months dug into the trenches. The Surrealists no longer trusted the conscious on its own, realizing that the subconscious could pull and sway, coming out into unexplainable art. The poet Theodor Adorn blatantly wrote that there could be no art after Auschwitz. I am also reminded of the Chicago based Monster Roster, who distorted the figure and expressed pain while much of the US art world had reverted to abstract expressionism. These movement all have in common there lack of concern or perhaps more offensive breakdown of beauty.
The cannon of art history leads me to believe that art will continue to happen even while black men must fear for their lives but it must take on a new form. What that may look like, I, with regrettable curiosity,look forward to finding out. Jackson Pollock once said: "It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique." (interview with William Wright, 1950)
I would like to end with a beautiful piece by Amena Brown, which I came across on a Liturgist podcast a while back but I find new power and relevance in after recent events.
This year has brought us tears and sorrow
1. Discernment- AKA Life is hard.
This is my daily struggle. But is it really so unclear? An interesting read for the spiritual, or not.
2. Need some inspiration: Find it HERE
The semester has started but maybe you are uninspired. Here you go.
3. Get a Jump Start to Spring Cleaning with Spark Joy
Man, two of my favorite things: spring and cleaning! This is a free pdf that is worth the read. I managed to clean out 6 garbage bags worth of clothes and shoes out of my closet and hopefully they have now found a new home.
4. When Change is Scary
A beautiful post by Without Borders. It may give you chill bumps.
5. Need a good cry?
I understand, we all have those days.
6. Louis Bourgeois sketchbooks
insight about the sketch book practice from a prolific artist.
7. Sketchbook Look- John Hendrix
Hendrix sketches at church, creating a dialogue between the verses and his interpretation as an artist
8. The Outsider Art Fair
I was not aware that this existed but it's great. Adding to my bucket list stat, plus they have an informative list of artists online.
9. Renovation of the CAA
Great writeup and pictures the really capture the retained character of a Chicago landmark
Instacurate: two
As part of a continuing series of inspiring makers, here are some picks from my instagram feed. Each artist has their own take on medium, organic inspirations and color. They all have a place in my day-dreaming gallery show.
Instacurate: one
Instagram is by far my favorite form of social media. I follow mainly artists, museums and other creative individuals that I would not have otherwise known about and they offer me constant inspiration and heightened dream goals. I have decided to start a new project series on the blog and curate some of my favorites, thinking of technology as the new gallery space and how one can present groupings to a different viewership than a traditional gallery.
Becca's Must Reads: Archives
This past summer I added a "Must Read" feature to my home page because I am constantly told about or stumble upon interesting websites (wow. Isn't technology astounding?) and wanted a place to share them, even if I did not have time to write an entire post about it. But recently, I realized that I have no documentation of these recommendations, and once I update it is lost forever. So... I am starting an archive! When I am done with links on the front page, I will move them here to the blog. This also means I will not hesitate from updating it more often. Win, win.
October - January List
1. An Amsterdam Museum Asks Visitors to Pick up Pencil and Paper
This article is a new interesting take on smart phones in the museums. As a hopeful-future-museum-educator I fully advocate for this move.
2. Current Train Ride Read: The Devil in the White City
Man this book is a goodie! It is full of facts figures and a little bit of suspense. Pick one up at your local library!
3. Known As A Collector, Gustave Caillebotte Gets His Due As A Painter
It is about time! Thanks NPR and the National gallery.
4. What I Wish I Could Tell Them About Teaching in a Title I School
from Love, Teach blog.
A great reality check for myself and others interested in working in the Title 1 system, and for those in decision making roles in our school systems.
5. Salmela Architect.
I can not get enough of this firms work.
6. Art Palooza! Engaging High School Students in Art History through Fashion Design
from Alt/Space
This is what I am excited about, with the countless productive ways art can be used in the classroom.
7. 11 Contemporary Authors Every Christian Should Read
You know I love lists, so I thought I would share my next reading one with you.
8. Need new Music? Why not check the Runway.
9. This is my city on the news
A different outlook on the news of the Charleston shooting, one that hits close to home.
Francis Friday: Knots
When I was little, my favorite, most ingenious prank to pull was tying my little brother's shoe laces together as he innocently watched cartoons. As the TV held his complete attention I would tighten and twist and quadruple knot his laces into an unmanageable mess. It always ended up the same when the cartoon ended: my brother cried, I was sent to my room and my mother diligently untied every knot until my brother could again use his shoes for the designed purpose. Yes, I was a little devil child.
Since the Pope's visit a couple of weeks ago (I meant to get to this earlier, alas, grad school), I have been thinking about knots physically and metaphorically. In Philadelphia, a group of artists created a community based, interactive sculpture called Knots Grotto, designed and built by Meg Saligman, Dan Ostrov, and Stephanie Cole. It is a beautiful piece that invites visitors to write down their challenges, wishes, hopes, and prayers, then tie them onto the grotto, so adding a literal knot. The artists also collected knots by mail and at local pop-up events for months in advance, making for a wide encompassing project with many participators and a large impact. The work was inspired by one of Pope Francis favorite devotional paintings Mary Undoer of Knots by Johann Georg Schmidtner.
There are many examples of prayers said by Pope Francis to Mary, the untier of knots but this one is my favorite:
Holy Mary, full of God's presence during the day of your life, you accepted with full humility the Father's will, and the devil was never capable of tying you up with his confusion.
Once with your Son you interceded for our difficulties, and full of kindness and patience, you gave us example of how to untie the knots in our life.
By remaining forever Our Mother, you put in order and make more clear the ties that link us to the Lord.
Holy Mother, Mother of God and our Mother, to you who intie with a motherly heart the knots of our life, we pray to you to receive in your hands (the name of the person), and to free him/her of the knots and confusion with which our enemy attacks.
Through your grace, your intercession and your example deliver us from all evil, Our Lady, and untie the knots that prevent us from being united with God, so that we, free from sin and error, may find Him in all things, may have our hearts placed in Him, and may serve Him always in our brothers and sisters.
Since, I am a protestant, I do not pray to Mary as intercessor but I still find comfort in the idea of our heavenly mother and father working to untie the many knots in each of our lives because Lord knows there are many. There are the knots, obstacles and daily happenings that keep us from really truly living to God's fullness such as maybe a tiring job or unhealthy relationship. There are the knots that keep us tied to something else, a distraction. But then there are also the positive knots that are our ties to the Lord, they show us a path and lead the way. I am reminded of a trail at camp called the Beaver Pond Trail that is marked by a rope full of knots that help visually impaired campers walk on the path. They feel the knots and know they are on a safe path and that soon they will reach a braille plaque with information just for them. These are positive and comforting knots.
I am reminded of knots as obstacles at camp as well. During staff training one summer, the Hope Females had to work as a team to go through a spiderweb made of knotted rope. It is complicated and we can only make it across if we work together as a team. After one day of knowing each other we had to be honest and physically close to work together which was at times very uncomfortable for those of us who have a large personal bubble. But we eventually made it and came out on the other side as a real team. Friends and family can act as undoer of knots as they carry, push and support you past life's obstacles.
The sculpture, Knot Grotto, asks each participant and viewer to think of the many obstacles and negative knots in their lives and release them. By tying them together into something beautiful the problems are given to the community for support, each member can work together to get the others past so in a way making a positive knot, a reassuring spot an the path. The prayer talks about Mary uniting knots which is a beautiful image, with her pristine fingers diligently untwisting our messes like my own mother did back in the day, but perhaps what is even more comforting and relevant is that God works through wondrous ways and he can use others to also untie the bad knots and point to the knots that eternally bind us to Him.
Day tripping
Yesterday, in need of inspiration and quiet repose, I adventured over the state lines to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. I go pretty often yet the trip never ceases to satisfy. The museum is having some pretty great exhibits right now that may get overlooked since they are not big names.
Greeting you outside in the pavilion is Los Trompos, a colorful assortment of interactive spinning tops. It has become the children' favorite but also an Instagram star. I loved watching the school kids race out of the stuffy Early American section to the "play ground" on their lunch breaks. The littlest ones and even the "to-cool-for-school" high schoolers ran around and interacted with these tactile spinners. This is a great exhibit to get anyone and everyone excited about art. So if you are anywhere near hot-lanta you should go and enjoy the sunny day for atleast a bit of time.
Los Trompos is a great community project because it brings its a place for people to gather together. It provides a venue that can be experienced and enjoyed b all, bringing everyone to the same level, high art connoisseurs to the youngest children. It is all about joy and beauty, easily understood feelings but still necessary and emotions that people want to experience. There is nothing trivial or silly about Play!
The High also is showing to young, Atlanta-based artists in their large special exhibition place. Imagining New Worlds: Jose Parla and Fahamu Pecou was not what I had expected, not that I had preconceived expectations because I had never heard of the artists nor had any idea the exhibit was on view until I was there. I was most interested in Pecou's work, which encompasses drawings, paintings, sound and sculptural installation to make an active environment, hopping with reflection and inspiration. Pecou talks about race and the African American culture. He elevates it through his paintings, depicting Young African American men in what may be preconcieved/ misconceived as "gangster" apparel on magazine covers or leafed in gold. He has interactive sound boxes and head phones where viewers can live in and experience a part of Black culture by making and listening to their own music beats. Viewers can create their own beat by taking clips of rap bass, African poetry and other parts of the culture. The installation was an interesting juxtaposition of graffiti and small voodoo like objects in a sancturary-like place. The viewers were overwhelmed by the size and all encompassing colors just this made one hone in on the small details of votive candles and little plastic toys. It was really a great piece on present day race and culture relations.
Lastly, the High is having an exhibit to celebrate the anniversary of Coca Cola by looking at the design of the iconic Coke bottle. When I heard about this show I will not lie, I was not excited, but it was a bit surprising because it was very well done. I can se that it is a good exhibit to teach people the history and art behind the dish and then how that design was used in art like Warhal and the pop art movement. I was just a bit bored until I came to the last piece, an installation of coils of recycled material that are in fact abstracted coke bottles. So I shall leave you with this beaut!
Until the next adventure of whimsy and time,
Though I sadly do not have enough hours in the day to write about each lecture I was able to attend, I do want to summarize some my favorite parts and my overall feelings at and post the NCECA conference.
The first lecture I went to was about the subversive nature of ornamentation given by an undergraduate student, Djnnaya Stroud. Ornamentation has evolved over many periods from the ancient to the contemporary ceramics, it has been used for propaganda, religious narrative and now social issues. In the most basic sense ornamentation makes a pot "pretty" and so appeals to and attracts viewers. Stroud specifically looked at the works of Grayson Perry. Perry points out how our, societies, tastes are given to us by the "default man". Minimal taste is no longer revolutionary because it is the typical upper middle class surroundings. Ceramics is rooted in every day life so by adding ornamentation to the functional, the issue becomes approachable.
Chris Staley is a loved, soon to be retired, professor at Penn State. His circle of love and support after the lecture was overwhelming. He spoke about teaching clay and how it involved three factors: clay, student and teacher. Clay is physical and tactile. It is collaboration. Teacher and student must trust each other for the classroom to work.
Then comes the list of advice that scribbly covers my sketchbook.
1. Ask quality questions that lead to bigger questions
2. Everything you, or your students produce is a metaphor. When you make something, ask what that metaphor is?
3. As a teacher, share how much you see so the students can see more.
4. It is ok not to know. The idea of wonder is the essence of learning.
Michael McCarthy is also a ceramics teacher but in a completely different setting. McCarthy leads the ceramics studio at the Austin Riggs residential psychiatric center, a place where the studio and the hospital overlap. He talked about the basics of the studio: it was not a privilege so was not taken away from patients, it was always available to them for expression and exploration. McCarthy tries to combat the idea of "failure" and pushes the idea of "students" (not patients) learning.
Then there were the many emerging artists lectures on Saturday. Each were unique and invigorating for technical, conceptual and social reasons. Roberto Lugo was by far the most moving and instead of me summing it up I recommend you just see for yourself.
As I read over my notes and recollect from the past weeks adventure I notice one thing in common- The potential of clay for social change! So many artists and teachers are doing so many great things and then so so so many more artists and students are excited about the potential and sitting in lectures to learn, grow and then do. Clay is play but also academic. Clay is approachable and accessible. Clay is a material, and object and a process. Clay can be used to teach views in a museum, or used to help overcome an illness in a residential museum. I believe in Social Clay and I am pumped to be in this world with so many "mad potters"!


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