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Remembering Selma
As We Commemorate the Heroes of 50 Years Ago, We Also Come to Terms With a Still Uncertain Future
SELMA, Ala. — "Hey, y'all. Wake up."
Over the past two decades, tossing those two sentences over my shoulder toward my slumbering children became part of a ritual when ferrying my family between Columbus, Ga. — my hometown and where we lived for a dozen years — to visit relatives in my wife's hometown, Jackson, Miss.
A third of that trip, a 133-mile stretch between Montgomery and Cuba, Ala., was on state Highway 80. Beyond compulsory vigilance for speed traps along the way, rolling down what is now called Jefferson Davis Highway usually was an uneventful journey.
Until we approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
I didn't stir my two sons and my daughter because the bridge's namesake was a general in the Confederate Army and a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. I was just hoping they could understand, as I did, that this 1,248-foot-long span arching across the Alabama River was also an arch from a hateful past to a less hateful, but still racially tortured now.
As thousands like myself made the pilgrimage to Selma last weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, we were here to reflect on where we are as a nation and where we're headed.
As it did each time I drove over it, this steel and concrete structure gave me chills. The ease with which my family and I traverse it belies its horrific history and that of Selma, of Alabama, of the South.
Selma was like most of the South. White citizens regarded blacks not only as beneath them, but also as a threat to their way of life. It was a place where strident segregationists had no problem displaying their contempt for those who would challenge them.
That was also what made the city so attractive — 50 years ago — to Bernard LaFayette.
Today, Dr. Bernard LaFayette is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's national board chairman and a distinguished scholar-in-residence at Atlanta's Emory University. But in 1961, he was a 20-year-old undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary, determined to make changes and to challenge segregation. He was a staple of the Nashville sit-ins. He'd already staged a successful impromptu Freedom Ride with his close friend and fellow student activist John Lewis (now the U.S. congressman, in his 15th term, for Georgia's 5th District). In 1959, while traveling to LaFayette's home in Tampa for Christmas break, they decided to exercise their rights as interstate passengers by sitting in the front of a bus — something that was prohibited in the South — from Nashville to Birmingham, where he and others on the Nashville Student Movement Ride were arrested.
The Freedom Rides were among a flurry of movements undertaken at that time. Those involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), those involved with the Freedom Riders and the young people who drove the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, all created movements that brought about change. LaFayette and others were trained in nonviolence and trained in how to lead movements that spanned long stretches of time — the Freedom Rides that lasted from May to November and the three months of sit-ins in Nashville.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette in Selma last weekend.
It was on one of those Freedom Rides in 1961 when Selma first landed on LaFayette's radar, but not actually in his sight. After a violent confrontation at the Montgomery Greyhound station, they came up with another plan.
"Freedom Rides did not go through Selma, Ala.," LaFayette told me, recalling his trip crossing Highway 80 from Montgomery to Jackson. "We needed a decoy bus. I was on the first bus. We heard there was about a mob of 2,000 people waiting on the bus. So we had a decoy bus that went around Selma, Ala. That was one of my first memories of Selma. I'd never heard of it before."
After the Freedom Rides were done, James Bevel, Diane Nash, Lewis and LaFayette decided they were going to devote more time to the Civil Rights Movement. LaFayette headed for Atlanta to get an assignment to head a voter-registration campaign.
At that time, voter registration was considered a benign community-action activity. It had nowhere near the sizzle for the news media of the more radical protests. Blacks had the right to vote, but there was rampant discrimination in areas where there were large black populations. It was for that reason, LaFayette said, voter registration efforts bypassed urban areas, but instead concentrated on rural areas where there were large numbers of blacks who were not participating in government.
But when LaFayette got to Atlanta, James Foreman, executive secretary of SNCC, told LaFayette all the voter-registration assignments had been taken. Bob Moses had Mississippi and Charles Sherrod had Southwest Georgia. LaFayette was livid, he said, because Foreman had promised him an assignment. Foreman finally offered him an assistant director's position.
"I said no," LaFayette said. "I wanted to demonstrate the things that I had studied. We looked on a map on the wall and there was Selma with an X through it."
SNCC had decided it wasn't going to stage a voter-registration project in Selma — which meant all of Alabama — because the two SNCC teams sent there had returned with the same report. Nothing could be done in Selma, they said, because the black folks were too scared and the white folks were too mean.
"He asked me if I wanted to take a look at it," LaFayette said. "I told him, no, I want to take it. I had to do some research to find out why it is, of all places, why Selma was like that. We always thought Mississippi (where LaFayette had been arrested in 1961 and sentenced to a month at the Parchman State Prison Farm) was like that. Even on the Freedom Rides, we thought that Mississippi was the place where we had to deal with all of that. What I had to do was do some research. Had to find me a library where I could learn about scared black folks and mean white folks."
He learned about the power structure on the state and local levels. He studied Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, a strict segregationist, and tiny Selma, whose chapter of the White Citizen's Council — a racist organization whose membership rolls were laden with upper- and middle-class people — actually met in the local bank's boardroom.
"They (Selma officials) knew all the black folks," LaFayette said. "They controlled the jobs and even the other white folks. They controlled them. You had eight families that controlled all of Dallas County. If you were a part of those families, you were a part of the power structure, and you never had to worry about a job.
"They would target those ministers to make sure they did not come out and try to what they called 'step out of line,'" he said. "Here's what they did to the other black folks: If somebody spoke out, or tried to come to any kind of rally, what they would do is … they would fire your mother-in-law from her job and tell her, 'You need to spend more time with your son-in-law since he needs to learn how to behave.' There would be implosion of the family. You would be in more trouble getting your mother-in-law fired from her job than you losing your job."
What's more, any political activity could cost you your life. In 1962, LaFayette became the director of SNCC's Alabama Voter Registration Project and did so without incident until a year later, on Feb. 18, 1963.
LaFayette, after returning from a voter registration meeting, noticed a car parked in front of his home. One of the white men there asked LaFayette if he would give him a push to get his car started.
What they were doing, LaFayette surmised, was trying to lure him into the white neighborhood on the other side of town. He guessed there was a mob waiting on him there. The man looked at his car's rear bumper and LaFayette's front bumper, then told Lafayette he wasn't sure they would align. He asked LaFayette to take a look.
"I'd told them I wasn't going to charge them (for the push),'' LaFayette said. "I realized then they were going to try to knock me out. That's when they attacked me and knocked me to the pavement. I yelled to my neighbor when I found out one of the guys had a gun. That's what they beat me with.
"I had a neighbor upstairs and yelled for him, 'Red! Red!' so somebody could see what was happening. I didn't yell until I saw he had a gun. Red, a Vietnam vet, ran across the balcony with his gun. I stood between Red and the guy, because Red was going to shoot him. He was jockeying to get into position to get a good aim at him. I stood between them so he wouldn't shoot him. It was from a moral point of view, but also from a practical point of view. If Red had shot that white man, both of us would have been in jail there for life."
Red scared the men away, but not before LaFayette was severely beaten. He would spend a few days in the hospital and considered himself fortunate. Two weeks after the beating, an FBI team out of Mobile came to investigate. The investigation was necessary because the Justice Department had an injunction on those Alabama counties where blacks had been disproportionately represented in voter registration.
An FBI agent told LaFayette there had been a three-state conspiracy, in which "three of us were scheduled to be killed the same night about the same time," LaFayette said. The three were LaFayette, Ben Elton Cox in Louisiana and Medgar Evers in Mississippi.
Cox wasn't home, so his would-be killers couldn't find him, but Evers was shot in his driveway in Jackson and died in a local hospital less than an hour later. LaFayette didn't know Evers was dead until the next day because he was still hospitalized from his own beating.
The FBI told LaFayette the plan had been hatched in New Orleans. Who exactly hatched it remains a mystery. All LaFayette was told was that it was a "Klan-like group."
"The Klan didn't operate in Selma," LaFayette said. "You never saw anybody with a robe on in Selma. You know why? Because every white male, 21 and over, was automatically a part of (Dallas County Sheriff) Jim Clark's posse. You already had your gun and your horse. All you had to do was go get your badge."
The backing of state officials gave them even more power. To facilitate the suppression of the state's African-American citizens, Gov. Wallace placed a ban on nighttime demonstrations.
Wallace's ban not only failed but also was fatal.
During a nighttime march on Feb. 18, 1965, demonstrator Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed in Marion, a town 30-odd miles northwest of Selma, by state trooper James Bonard Fowler (who was finally indicted for murder and pled guilty to manslaughter in 2010). The bullet may have killed Jackson, but it also gave life to an idea.
Two days after Jackson was gunned down, James Bevel and LaFayette went to visit the Jackson family for what initially was a grief counseling session. It was a particularly difficult tragedy because Jackson had been the sole breadwinner in his family. Bevel, especially disturbed by this killing, asked Jackson's grandfather if the organizations should continue the marches.
"And he said, yes, by all means," LaFayette said. "(Bevel) asked him would he be willing to lead the march, and he said, 'Yeah. I got nothing else to lose. I've lost everything.'"
Lafayette said Bevel wanted this march to be proportionate to Jackson's death. It was bigger than marching to the county courthouse to get registered and being denied. An Alabama state trooper had killed Jackson.
"James said, 'I got a message I want to deliver to Gov. Wallace,'" LaFayette said. Bevel told LaFayette he wanted to walk all the way to Montgomery. "We were on the way to the mass (voter-registration) meeting, and he asked me, 'If I walked to Montgomery, do you think anybody else would come with me?' I told him, 'I don't know about anybody else, but I will go with you.'"
Thus was hatched the idea for the Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
Scenes from the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 7, 2015.
"He went before the meeting that night and asked would anybody else join him in marching to Montgomery," LaFayette said. "I was in the pulpit behind him and everybody in the place stood up. He turned to me and said, 'It looks like we got a march.'"
Which quite possibly saved the lives of white citizens in and around Selma. The fear that once gripped the black population had been overtaken by rage. The white power structure held the belief that the only reason the blacks stood up for themselves was at the urging of white "interlopers" encouraging them. They felt blacks around Selma would not dare stand up on their own. That was a near horrific miscalculation.
"When Jimmie Lee Jackson got killed, you could not buy a bullet or a gun within a 50- mile radius," LaFayette told me. "The farmers out there — the black farmers — had bought up all the ammunition. Do you know what they told us? They said, 'Y'all (protesters) can go sit down now. They're speaking our language. We'll take it from here.' They were arming themselves for a bloody situation.
"They could shoot the eyes out of a squirrel running," LaFayette continues. "These guys used to hunt to eat. What we said was we had to escalate the nonviolent movement otherwise you are going to open the door right now for other folks (to be killed). Black folks, there were some of them that, especially in those rural areas, where they actually owned their own farms, they were not nonviolent. They said we support the movement, but they said we can't be involved in no marches and stuff."
So LaFayette said the group had to escalate and have a larger march. They decided the goal was to stage a five-day, 51-mile Selma-to-Montgomery march.
As it turned out there would be three marches, the first of which would be March 7, 1965. The second, which included Dr. Martin Luther King and became known as Turnaround Tuesday, was on March 9. Only the third, which began March 21, made it all the way to Montgomery.
It was at that first march where some 600 protesters who stood at the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge were beaten by state and local law enforcement officials. The world looked on in horror. That included LaFayette, who was in Chicago recruiting and training people for the marches.
"I was going back and forth to Chicago recruiting folks to come down," LaFayette said. "We had the Vice Lords, a gang, to come down as marshals. If you saw film of the Selma march, you'll see a fella who had the beret on — turned backwards on his head — carrying the American flag. That was one of the leaders of the Vice Lords, Lamar McCoy, that I recruited. Selma was their (street gangs') training ground in nonviolence."
LaFayette returned to Alabama after Bloody Sunday to participate in the second and third marches. Their efforts to recruit, and the nation witnessing the brutality on Bloody Sunday, proved so successful that finding flights to Montgomery were a challenge. Eventually he found a flight into Birmingham where he and Diane Nash's uncle would be picked up and driven to Selma.
When LaFayette reached the Birmingham airport, he immediately recognized the driver. It was a white housewife from Detroit who had joined the efforts and used her car to haul protesters to airports from their homes and college. Just hours after the third march, that housewife, Viola Liuzzo, would be killed by a sniper in the same car that LaFayette had been in three days earlier.
The Rev. Al Sharpton in Selma.
"Sir, could you please move off the street?"
I heard those words from a white Alabama state trooper this past Saturday morning, 50 years later. He gently guided me out of harm's way on the curb and away from being struck by a security vehicle that was backing up.
Against the backdrop here in Selma for this commemorative jubilee, honoring those who endured so much a half-century ago, the officer's simple gesture brought a smile. This weekend, there was much to smile about. As a 54-year-old black man, how could I not smile as I watched people of all races and faiths choking the streets near the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge while awaiting remarks from the first African-American president, instead of choking on tear gas as many did some 50 years ago?
State police and local law enforcement officials from around Alabama supplemented federal units in protecting not only President Barack Obama, here for his remarks, but to keep safe the thousands here to commemorate — and more.
You had people promoting causes (the Teamsters, the National Organization for Women), those hawking programs and T-shirts ("Hands Up, Don't Shoot"), the hapless couple cornered by the omnipresent conspiracy brother ("YOU DO KNOW MALCOLM X WAS KILLED ON JOHN LEWIS' BIRTHDAY, DON'T YOU?"), and the sea of selfies being taken on the bridge where selfless sacrifices took place.
President Barack Obama speaks to a crowd of an estimated 70,000.
Evelyn Knight, now 81, came back to Selma from her home in Long Beach, Calif., for the commemoration. She was here 50 years ago for the second march, Turnaround Tuesday, and subsequent marches. When I asked her if she thought, because of the work she and so many others did to fight for the right to vote, that she'd live to see an African-American in the White House, she gave a non-traditional answer.
"Hell to the no," Knight said, as Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" filled the air behind us. "But it's a good thing. It's good to see him talking that talk, and trying to walk the walk. As much as they'll let him."
Evelyn Knight, back in Selma 50 years after Turnaround Tuesday.
Knight had every intention of walking the walk on that Tuesday years ago, but there were greater plans in play. The marchers, led by Dr. King, left Brown Chapel, walked down what was then Sylvan Avenue for two blocks, cut right down Alabama for five blocks, made a left to the bridge, went over it, then stopped.
"Martin said, 'We're going to pray. We're not going to go tonight because I don't want to get you guys killed,'" Knight remembered. "We were scared what was going to happen to us was what happened to the people on Bloody Sunday.
"So when we saw them (state police), we knew they were not there for the welcome squad. We went back to Brown Chapel after we turned around. We didn't know — because Martin didn't tell us — that he was in negotiations with Lyndon Johnson to deputize the National Guard to accompany the people when they marched again from Selma to Montgomery."
Fred Gray Sr., attorney to both King and Rosa Parks, did the heavy lifting that allowed the Selma-to-Montgomery march to proceed. He sued Gov. Wallace and the State of Alabama on behalf of the marchers beaten on their first march in the landmark (Hosea) Williams v. Wallace case. Based on Gray's argument, Federal District Court Judge Frank Minis Johnson ordered Gov. Wallace and the State of Alabama to protect the marchers.
And with that decision, the third march was catalyzed. So many young people were among them, like a then 17-year-old John Rankin.
"We really thought a lot more people were going to be killed like Jimmie Lee Jackson," Rankin said. "Scared? Were we scared? We sang, we got beat up. We had the saying, 'Keep on keeping on.' Believing that you can make it. That it was possible with hope."
John Rankin was 17 years old when he did the Selma-to-Montgomery march.
If anyone can attest to the truth of Rankin's belief and see it lived out before him, it's Fred Gray Jr., an attorney in Montgomery and also my classmate at Morehouse College.
"This is a monumental weekend, actually, when you think about 50 years ago," Gray said. "When you think about the marchers when they first tried to cross the bridge, they got all the way to the other side. And that's when they got beaten up. You had that defeat. Then they got the victory that came a few days later. And today, we still struggle, but it's a lot better than it was 50 years ago.
"But you also think about the struggles that we now have still. Voting rights is a big thing, and restoration of the Voting Rights Act is very key to us. And the economic gains that we have made vs. those that we still have to make. There's a lot of work still to be done."
Fred Gray Jr., whose father argued for and won a 1965 ruling that required the State of Alabama to protect the marchers.
It is that work that brought Evelyn Knight back.
"When I came here the first time, I was coming to get our right to vote," Knight said. "It is unbelievable to me that I'm back again to try to protect our right to vote we've already won. We need to wake up. These folks are forever shitty."
That is Lafayette's fear — that people aren't alert to things happening now that mirror what happened 50 years ago.
"The tactics have not changed," LaFayette said. "Why do you think they put ropes around people's necks to kill them? To shut them up so they can't breath.
"Think about Ferguson and New York. They don't want them to breathe because they don't want them to speak up. For them to have a voice. The same thing with the chokehold. The man saying, 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe,' and the man was still using a chokehold. If the man had kept his mouth closed and dropped his head, the police would have thought they succeeded. The vote is the same thing. The vote is a voice in government. Folks fought too hard to get it."
My family and I live in Atlanta now, and we no longer make those trips from Columbus to Jackson over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And that's a shame. Despite what seemed like a lifetime of my chidings and admonishments into the back seat of our car, my kids failed to get it until my wife, Nannette, and I took them to Phipps Plaza for a New Year's Day viewing of the movie, "Selma."
The powerful film disambiguated for them what this slice of the Civil Rights Movement was about in ways I clearly could not. They sat rapt.
The lives of my three children — Cole, Dillon and Dailey — are so vastly different from those of the heroes, famous and not, who were depicted on the screen, yet by the looks on their faces, I knew they finally understood.
They also now understand that, really, they face their own struggles. They have their own bridges to cross. Same battles, different decades. They now understand why crossing that structure always struck such a nerve with me. For that I am wholly gratified, and oh so tempted to take a detour over that bridge one more time.
Because now, their eyes are wide open.
Tim Turner at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.


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Computer-based math eduation summit/
Just a quick posting that we had a terrific first computer-based math education summit at the Royal Institution in London. We made good progress at an early start to charting out a new direction for the world's math students both for formal curricula and for the multitide of other ways that learning takes place.
Over the coming months you'll see topics and modules showcased alongside video of discussions from the conference. We haven't worked out our full plan yet, but for something destined to take a minimum of 10 years, we're thinking it through carefully. Watch this space!

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Upcoming workshops
All Media Portrait Workshop
Sunday, June 4th 2017; 10am - 4pm
Learn to achieve not just a likeness, but to create depth and capture the personality and emotion of the human face within a portrait working within your chosen medium. Working with a live model, this full day workshop will start with an oil painting demonstration in the morning and will allow participants to work with one-on-one instructor guidance in the afternoon. All mediums and all skill levels welcome.
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August 4, 5 & 6, 2017
The Adirondack Pastel Society is pleased to sponsor a 3 day figurative workshop with the amazingly talented Pastel Artist, Corey Pitkin. This studio workshop will be held in the Shirt Factory Gallery, Glens Falls, NY, during the 3rd Annual National Adirondack Pastel Exhibition. Workshop will be limited to 15 participants. The total cost for three day workshop is $250.
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GCE Chemistry
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We're waiting with turkey-baited breath for the big date! December 6th is the launch date according to Peachpit but Amazon has us at December 16th. Either way, what could be a better gift than some learning-laden games for the holidays?
As a side note, we had to look up "baited breath" (which is also spelled "bated") out of cat-like curiousity. And it turns out there's a darkly humorous related poem, by Geoffrey Taylor.
It's called "Cruel Clever Cat:"
Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.
Gotta love a clever couple of couplets!
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Water sensitive urban design, or smarter use of stormwater in cities, has been around for 20 years or so. It creates greenery in the urban landscape, and cleans the water before going to rivers and bays. It's a good thing - but hasn't been adopted as a mainstream design opportunity in any city in Australia.
And one of the reasons why is maintenance. Prof Tim Fletcher says he thinks maintenance is the largest impediment to adopting WSUD right now.
Stormwater Victoria ran a seminar on WSUD Maintenance. Fair to say lots of people are aware of the problem, but we are a fair way of fixing it. But we know more about what good maintenance looks like, and why assets have failed in the past.
Melbourne Water have spent $15 million on grants with local council over the past 10 years helping them co-fund WSUD assets. So they were very keen to know which assets are still working and why or why not. Short answer - not as many as you'd hope.
Get the design right, spend more time on hold points in construction, and then put WSUD into a mainstream asset management database and system so that it can be maintained.
I think the key is simpler designs, and more proactive maintenance, and all couched (as Dale from E2D said), in the language of financial liabilities and community benefits. We hope to be part of the next wave of WSUD and new maintenance models.


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New Moon @ 19 Scorpio 01'
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As the Sun and Moon come together in the sign of Scorpio, you may find yourself needing to face the reality of situations that you don't want to acknowledge. Scorpio is an archetype that embodies the awareness of uncomfortable truths—those things in our lives that the mind and ego would rather ignore. But our subjugation of anything, either personal or cultural, only amplifies its influence and control over our lives. The planet Mercury joins this New Moon, bringing with it an expansion of perception to include a greater awareness of what you have been ignorant of or have chosen not to deal with.
You can still choose to ignore it; nothing will stop you, but you will have to continue your life knowing that something dark and potentially troublesome will be left to fester and grow within you. In this dark of the Moon, you have the opportunity to set in motion a strategy to bring consciousness and awareness to that which is unknown to you. And what is unknown isn't always as bad as you think it is, but the only way to find out is to be brave enough to step into the dark consciously.
The planet Mars is nearing the end of its passage through Virgo and is about to enter Libra to align with the North Node of the Moon. As Mars nears the cusp of Virgo, it correlates to this feeling of something that's "about to explode". Mars is activating the intersection between the personal and the collective. Put simply, it brings to the surface events that affect us all, collective events that seep into our personal lives. It symbolizes the emergence of issues that are much bigger than you alone.
And as you choose to deal with situations you've buried or pushed aside, you have the opportunity to reach out and ask for help. Take the initiative and admit that you're scared or that you need support and assistance. A new cycle is emerging that invites you to stop sitting alone in that dark corner. The world is populated with a lot of other people who can help you if you know where to look or who to ask, but that will require vulnerability.
In your personal or intimate relationships, this New Moon requires opening up and getting real about what you have been ignoring. It also requires that you open your mind and perception to include input from others you trust and rely on. If you can approach this moment with honesty, realism, and humility, as well as a willingness to face some uncomfortable material, you will have succeeded in illuminating some mysteries (whether they're what you feared or not), leading potentially to rapid healing and transmutation. Whatever the reality of the situation, try to acknowledge that help and support is available to you if you're willing to receive it. You don't have to face this darkness alone.
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The impact of unu electric scooters on CO2 emissions
unu electric scooters on a mission: Let's talk about CO2 emission
One of the biggest topics of 2016, and likely for many years to come, has and will be global climate change. We have seen all the sound bites from different media outlets covering the many alarming statistics that clearly demand a fundamental change from the top. The current systemic issues in how we address climate change are in clear need of reform, especially given the current trends that will only lead to intensify the current problems.
According to United Nations Estimates 54% of the global population is currently located in urban areas, cities account for 70% CO2 emissions and passenger traffic demand in cities will increase more than 68% by 2030. This underlines that mobility and urban environments are a crucial area for us to direct our attention towards, pioneer a positive change and make an impact.
It is for this reason unu is proud to do everything it can to further pursue change in cooperation with cities and those who inhabit them. Our customers, by simply having chosen to drive electric scooters, have already taken tremendous initiative that should not go unnoticed.
unu customers have substituted their commute with a clean alternative which has prevented more than 1,000 tons of CO2 emissions from being polluted into the atmosphere.
They are the early adopters who lead the way and demonstrate the potential to the masses. We hope this figure continues to grow exponentially as others join us on our mission to be an advocate for positive change. Get a test drive with an electric scooter and you have done the first step to change.
The challenge of mobility in cities is not one that lives in the shadows or is hard to connect with; urban dwellers see and experience it every day.
When we drive to work, we experience it: 38 hours of delay on average per year due to congestion, according to Stanford Research.
When we look for parking we experience it: 30% of a city's traffic is caused by drivers searching for a parking spot.
When we commute via public transport we experience it: on avg. only 60% of urban populations in Europe have heavy access to public transportation.
With the status quo, we can no longer wait for the establishment to act and change to come from the top-down, but instead we must aim to grow from the bottom-up. We must look to each other to become advocates and pioneer a new mobility revolution.
Written by Sahand Dilmaghani (Finance)


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I'm excited about our upcoming event in New York City on April 4th and 5th. It will be great to see some familiar faces there but also to meet new people who are interested in our life. It's a really unique feeling to travel somewhere for the purpose of participating in an event on immortality. It sort of strips you of all the other things you do and are in your life and causes you to stand for being immortal and nothing else. It's not work and it's not vacation. It really makes me confront who I am in a different way.
This year the theme is Get Real about Your Immortality. Our asumption is that everyone relies on some concept of immortality to maintain their sanity. The only difference is that we couldn't simply live with an abstract story of immortality, we needed the real thing. We are looking for other people who feel this way. That's what this event is all about. There's nothing more exciting than seeing someone literally wake up out of death. It's incredible for them and for us.


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Today my mom called me and said "Broders has gone bankrupt and they're trying to get rid of all their books... the whole place is like half off!" So my mom, dad, sister and I drove over and meandered through the left overs. My sister went straight for the books about puppies, my mom ran over to the romance/crime/love affair type fiction section, my dad set off on a search for an oddly specific book about whales, and I think I may have hurt some people on my way to the art section.
About an hour later we all reconvened at a table with TONS of books and started to narrow down our choices- my sister couldn't decide between "150 Cutest Puppies" and "100 Puppies from Around the World," my mom had about 10 small packets of Mini Belgian Waffles, claiming that "they are only 68 cents each!!" My dad fell asleep and I started browsing through about 10 different books that I picked out.
I narrowed it down to Vanity Fair: The Portraits, Annie Leibovitz at Work and Andrew Zuckerman: Wisdom. At the end i settled for Annie Leibovitz and Andrew Zuckerman. But I want to talk about the Annie Leibovitz at Work book for just a sec. The book is a bit unlike most of her books... first off, it is smaller in scale and page count. It has a nice linen cover with a beautiful sleeve. The book is nicely layed out and it highlights her life as a photographer starting with her mother and father and moving through her 70's era with the Rolling Stones and onto her Vanity Fair work and her portraits of the Queen and Obama. Each phase is composed of only a few pages with some very iconic images and short, yet compelling text written by Leibovitz herself. I haven't had a chance to read it just yet since its a Christmas present, but the little text that I read at Borders did catch my eye and it seemed to come from a more personal point of view: Leibovitz on Leibovitz. So what makes it worth it? Modest book for Leibovitz, beautifully designed and reproduced, her own writing on her own work but short, concise, to the point but well written and very interesting. And finally, it was on clearance at Borders even though it was released only a few months ago.
Now, here's the thing, people always either love or hate Annie Leibovitz. I tend to go back and forth, I like most of her work and I think shes very talented. I also admire the fact that you can tell that she is a really hard worker, she has had a long career and there is a large archive of images to account for it. I love that she is a lesbian, has kids and is Susan Sontag's partner (may she rest in peace). But of course there are all the stories about her being a bitch, very pretentious and having her interns cleaning her telephone with a Q-Tip. Also there is all the fuzz about her making all of this crazy commercial work and being a sell out blah blah blah but I guess she does have to pay for that big house of hers on top of her studio and all of her equipment and her 15+ crew. Point is, that's why I like the book... because it is modest, it is not over the top, and it just focuses on her work, how she made it and why she made it.
As for the Andrew Zuckerman book, very nicely reproduced, very nice photographs, but more importantly I find his Wisdom project very honest and quite moving too. Its a nice book and it comes with a DVD.


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Ever thought of getting far away from the rest of the world and live a life of fantasy where problems and stress are at its minimal. Many call it safe heaven better than the land of Eden with honey and sweet-scented water.
Talk of memories and unforgettable events and occurrences: Call it a lifetime experience. All these are to be found in the Royal Coral Bay hotel in Paphos. Opened 9 years ago in the exotic islands of Cyprus. It is situated near the beach in Pegeia and regional attractions include the king tombs and Paphos many archaeological sites.
It is a luxury hotel catering for your well-tailored needs and your personal satisfaction.With a unique balance of new and old together with warmth and elegance, the comfort of our clients are our primary aim, the management says. The environment is quiet and ensuring the hotel clients get a serene environment of calmness and free interaction with nature at its fullness.
With the ability to accommodate over 200 guests both in the corporate and personal categorical gateway, they offer the best accommodation facilities with over 60 fully furnished and cozy apartments. Dinning hasn't been elusive when it comes to us. We know that a full stomach is essential and vital. With restaurants and bars you will be spoilt for choice with the menu and continental cuisine. The food is not only delicious but also made nutritious and balanced for all the clients. Corporate are not left as there are up to date newly furnished conference facilities with microphones and a public address system.
The apartments are well furnished and with an en-suite bathrooms ,hairdryer, direct dial telephone for room service, cable television network with broadband and Wi-Fi, air conditioning and a balcony with good positioning towards the sea where in the evening you can relax and watch the tides. The disabled are not left, with a whole floor set for them. For adult get away the hotel has its own outdoor private Jacuzzi and direct access to a river like pool.
Consider it a shopping expedition too since there are many shops in the area with exclusive boutiques and jeweler stores whether it's buying gifts of buying for personal needs. Here you can relax and forget about your problems for a while and enjoy the many services we offer. Sport lovers and leisure activities have a list of upgraded choices and are up to date. Whether its swimming or water sports, there is a spacious outdoor pool and an indoor heated pool with a sauna. A fully equipped gym are also available. Evening entertainment with music and shows can be enjoyed throughout the holiday season.
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Talking Shop with Of a Kind's Claire Mazur & Erica Cerulo
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Friends in fashion: for those of us less stylishly oriented, these are the girlfriends who keep tabs on up-and-coming designers so we can make a purchase that counts as cool every once in a while. Which is why we stalk everything that pops up on the curated shopping site Of a Kind. Founders Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo are the kinds of women we idiolize, with impeccable taste, a sense of humor and a constantly rotating supply of limited edition accessories, clothing and home decor. We recently chatted them up for designers to know, travel must-haves and destination intel from Brooklyn to New Orleans.
What was the inspiration behind launching Of a Kind?
Claire: Erica and I had already been friends for eight years by the time we started the business, and we had spent so much of our hang-time scouring boutiques on the northside of Chicago (where we went to college) and on the lower east side of New York (where we moved after graduation), searching for the perfect pieces from some unknown designer — things nobody else would have. We've always loved that feeling of being one of the first people to discover a new talent. I remember Erica had ordered a pair of earrings from Lulu Frost at a young designer's market and ended up having to pick them up from the designer's apartment. We wanted to recreate that same thrill of discovery and sense of intimacy by introducing pieces that really excited us and sharing the backstory behind the people who made them.
How do you find your designers, and what makes something a perfect fit for Of a Kind?
Claire: We find designers all over the place — scoping out boutiques in our hometown but especially when we travel to other cities and trade shows, and increasingly on blogs and Instagram. We have this group message going on Instagram with Erica, our buyer, and me, and we're constantly just sending each other posts of stuff we love on there. When it comes to finding products that are the perfect fit we're always thinking about what feels really special but accessible — we don't want the things we sell to feel intimidating or esoteric. Good design should be something that people of all backgrounds can appreciate. That accessibility extends to price, too. We want to train our audience to look beyond fast fashion (and its low price points), but in order to do that, I think you have to ease them in somewhat gradually. So we do our best to try to keep prices in check.
You both live in Brooklyn, i.e. the king of the NYC food scene. What's your go-to place for a cozy brunch or a date night out?
Claire: Nightingale 9 is a go-to for Friday night dates with my husband. We usually sit at the bar and get two orders of the papaya salad and the Chaca Catfish because we love both of those dishes too much to have to share them.
Erica: I'm full-blown obsessed with Tilda All Day, right on the Prospect Heights/Clinton Hill border. My husband and I have a standing breakfast date there on Wednesdays. The food is so, so much more impressive than it needs to be (not that I'm complaining!) — I had whipped tofu with roasted beets, radicchio, and charred scallions this week. And the owners are straight-up charming. It's exactly the place you want in your neighborhood.
When you're not shopping online, what are the local boutiques that you love?
Claire: Modern Anthology down the street from my apartment in Dumbo is really great for guys — I always end up walking out having spent too much money on clothes that my husband probably doesn't need.
Erica: I don't know why it took me so long to discover French Garment Cleaners in Fort Greene, but it's probably good for my bank account that it did.
You must have some of the best-stocked closets in the city. What are your must-brings when you're packing for a trip?
Claire: A giant scarf is a must because it serves so many different purposes — warmth, makeshift pillow, sarong. I've started to amass a tiny collection of ones from the Japanese designer Tamaki Niime — she handweaves them and they're gorgeous.
Erica: I've brought The OG bag by Lo & Sons on every trip I've taken since I got it about four years ago. Man, is it one well-thought-out carry-on, and it holds up really nicely.
We love your 10 Things emails, with five picks from each of you. How do you feel about turning it on for travel? Favorite destination, and five things you love there - go!
Claire: Okay, LA! Sugarfish for sushi, Brentwood Farmer's Market for produce, Angeles Crest for hiking, Tortoise General Store for the most beautiful Japanese objects, and The Getty Center for the art inside its walls and the gorgeous landscaping and views outside of them.
Erica: Oooh, New Orleans is definitely up there for me. First things first: Go during Jazz Fest (and I'm not a music festival person… or even a music person, really). Stay at Soniat House, eat at Cochon (like everyone tells you — it's for real), drink at Bacchanal Wine, and shop at Solange's boutique Exodus Goods so you can tell me about it because I haven't been and need to know everything.


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The XX deliver music industry careers experience to local young people/
Careers experience just got officially upgraded by the team behind The XX's Day + Night festival, running this week in Brixton. In partnership with Artist Pledge, The XX are collaborating with seven local initiatives in their efforts to support the local community throughout the week. Social enterprise Spiral Skills kicked it off with a unique careers industry showcase for the benefit of media students from Lambeth Careers College.
The workshop invited young people to design a tour campaign for their chosen artist, from budgeting tasks and booking tour dates, to marketing and designing merchandise. Music industry insights were provided by professional volunteers from the Day + Night team, including; XL Recordings, EYOE, Young Turks, Coda and local artist Toyboy and Robin. The music industry showcase culminated in a dragons den, with young people pitching back their campaign proposals to the Day + Night team.
To top off a fantastic day, young people engaged by the workshop are now being referred into paid internship opportunities with the record labels and promoting agents involved in Day+Night. Watch this space!
The day was designed and facilitated by the team at Spiral Skills with thanks to Artist Pledge and kind hosts Livity UK. Spiral deliver careers education to young people most at risk of becoming #NEET (Not in employment, education or training). Through engaging interactive workshops, we invite young people to try a career, before they buy it. Young people gain impartial insight from professional volunteers, and build transferable skills by undertaking challenges that replicate the working world. We know with improved career insight and skills, young people can achieve sustained and most importantly fulfilling employment.
We'd like to say a monumental thank you to the Day + Night team and Artist Pledge. It's refreshing to see big brands sharing their expertise for the benefit of local communities. We look forward to seeing their work with other local partners 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Brixton Green, Marcus Lipton Community Enterprise, Photofusion, Raw Material and the Baytree Centre.
Do you offer work experience or career opportunities? Partner with Spiral to bring enriching opportunities to London's young people.


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Romanian cinema seizing chance
Cannes wins, recent standouts have biz taking noticeMihai Chirilov, director of the Transylvania International Film Festival, last year predicted great things for the Romanian motion picture industry.
"Watch out, big festivals," he said. "You'll certainly hear more from us."
Well, he was right. At Cannes in 2006, Corneliu Porumboiu's "12:08 East of Bucharest" — which asks the question if the Romanian Revolution happened at all — won the Camera d'Or for best first film, and countrywoman Doroteea Petre picked up the award for best female performance for her work in Un Certain Regard entry "The Way I Spent the End of the World."
A year later came the country's shining moment: Director Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a heartbreaking drama about abortion in communist Romania, won the Palme d'Or at the 60th edition of Cannes last month.
Tudor Giurgiu, honorary president of the Transylvania festival and the director of "Love Sick," which screened at the Berlin International Film Festival last year, disagrees with Chirilov.
"It's nothing that could've been predicted before," he says. "I think it is just a couple of young(ish), talented filmmakers who managed to deliver some good films in a row, both shorts and features.
"I know that from a foreign perspective this looks like a generation thing, a new wave of Romanian filmmakers, but here at home we see it as a couple of good stories picked up by a couple of talented people in a short period of time," he says. "It is not a result of some system, not at all. It could work for some more years, but then it's over if we don't do a different type of cinema."
Whether you saw it coming or not, Romanian cinema has come a long way.
In 2000, Romania, still mired in the post-Ceausescu mess that plagued the nation's film industry throughout the 1990s, produced zero films. But then things began to change.
In 2002, director Nae Caranfil's "Philanthropy" received the jury prize at the GoEast Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, and Sinisa Dragin's "Every Day God Kisses Us on the Mouth" took the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
"The film that actually made the breakthrough in the way Romanian cinema was perceived was 'The Death of Mr. Lazarescu,' " Alex Leo Serban, the best known and most influential critic in Romania, says of Cristi Puiu's film, which won the Un Certain Regard honor in Cannes in 2005.
And in addition to the Palme d'Or for "4 Months," Romania picked up another award at Cannes when Cristian Nemescu's "California Dreamin'" won the Un Certain Regard award.
That was Nemescu's first and last film, however; he died last year in a car accident at age 27.
"That was a huge loss for Romanian cinema," Serban says. "He was the youngest of this successful generation, and he had something absolutely original. He had a combination of cinema verite, documentary-like slices-of-life moments with very playful tributes to famous movies. He had a talent of putting together a grim social reality with fairytale-like stories. I think he created his own brand of neorealism. It's a very sad fact that he's gone."
Romania's film industry is also becoming popular as an authentic and inexpensive shooting locale for foreign productions.
But while the country is garnering international awards and production business, moviegoers at home are not queuing up to watch local product.
"I don't think people are not interested in watching Romanian films," Mungiu says, "they are not interested in watching films in theaters in general, including Hollywood movies. People are used to downloading the films or buying burned DVDs and watching at home.
"For the moment, there is a huge interest for my film, but I don't know if this is going to (translate into tickets being sold). Even if that happens, it can't be a big commercial success because we don't have any theaters left. We only have 38 theaters all around the country," he laments.
Still, the most successful Romanian director ever has no plans to ride the wave of success out of the country.
"When you win the Palme d'Or, a lot of people call you, all the biggest agencies from the States are looking for you, but for the moment my plan is not to leave," Mungiu says. "I'd like to stay here, think about my next film and help improve whatever can be improved in Romanian cinema."


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I've spent weeks getting technical, workshopy, precise in my own practice and, I suppose, in my teaching. I've taken one tiny aspect of a pose and approached it from standing, against a wall, lying down, and upside down. I've done it over and over again. I've practiced going in, coming out. I've studied the anatomy and memorized terms, repercussions, hormonal shifts. This is science, and craft, both. This morning I found myself practicing without technicalities. I woke early for it being a Saturday, the house still full of sleeping others, and without knowing why I'd woken or thinking much at all I cleared a space on my hardwood floor and I practiced. I practiced twice; after that first, whispery practice I went through my day: errands and people and breakfast and lunch and more errands, more cleaning. Halfway though washing the windows I wanted to practice, again. Both times I stepped into the first pose without much foresight, without a sequence jotted down or memorized. There was no music, no plan, no reasoning.
I remembered, later, being a kid and the irrational, heady urge to simply run. To run far and fast until my legs burned. To swing and swing and swing until the hinges of the swing's chains seemed welded to my internal gravity and inner ear and rocking brain. Back. And forth. I did this as a teenager, driving. Just driving on and on. I've watched others do it. I've read about it. Sufi mystics, those whirling dervishes, spin around and around and around until their thoughts surrender and their hearts take over and they find themselves dancing and tangled up and god. Runners talk like this. And jazz musicians.
When you practice chanting, you repeat a word or a phrase over and over again until you chant yourself into silence. When you practice movement, vinyasa, or flow, you move yourself into stillness.
I tend to believe all music, and all efforts at speech and communication, ultimately bend back to silence. And all movement is wrapped up in stillness. It is only noise, distraction, chattering mind and confusion that tell us otherwise. We can stay caught up in the layers of noise forever, I think. Like an argument that goes on and on, a tangled ball of yarn that can't be undone. We can, and there is not anything particularly wrong or bad about this. There is much to be said, and we should speak. We should think, and reason, and plan, and create.
But we should also revere silence, and listen to it. We can find rest in movement. We should recognize the oxymoron of the awe-some world in which stillness is never really still, infinity is immediate, and words don't say anything at all.
I can and do often talk about what happens, on an anatomical and philosophical level, of what happens in a pose or a generalized practice. Inversions do this, say. Backbends open the heart and ease the spine; lateral bends tone the obliques and the intercostal and release the secondary muscles of respiration; twists press against our pancreas and thus regulate blood sucrose levels.
But it is an altogether different thing to simply say what it is I feel, when I practice. It isn't a simple thing at all. It can't be said, but felt.
The density of muscle and bone, a strange increase in their loudness and articulation, distinction, twitches and burns and deep releasing in places I hadn't felt at all, before. A gravity, a heaviness, a weight and stillness and thud. But under that heaviness a kind of rippling burn, an electrical wave of flying and thrilling and being energized. A calm that is poised, more poised than feeling tired or spent or asleep. But an awake that feels more firey than cocaine or coffee or fear, simple adrenalin, or any combination of them all. There are lights inside my body, under the skin, and my stomach burns with something I don't quite know a name for. Joy, perhaps. It lurches and pinches. Excitement. Passion, surely. It is a fire under the ass.
To practice in this way is to be lulled, to let the breath and the moving become a lullaby and the brain become mesmerized and swooned. There is sinking, falling in, surrender.
And at the bottom of the breath there is a rising up again, more so.
When I practice this way, I hit a depth that is not always there, that seems elusive. After a practice this way, the edges of things seem different for hours if not days afterwards. Colors are brighter, as though my eyes had been covered with a scrim of sepia and brown, or are milky as a newborns, and suddenly I am given sight again. The edges of pine needles, the fibers of blankets and carpets and denim, the roundness of grapes and the shout of sunshine riot as if springtime and noise had both been reinvented and updated and newly strut in their best shoes.
As if the depth sounded inside were reflected out there, too; all things have a terrible depth and profundity and it is luxurious just to dip your fingers in sudsy water or watch the droplets of water shimmering out of a garden hose.
Things have meaning, after all.
- expect lots of dynamic movement, moving meditation, focus on breath this week.
- practice, at least once, letting go of as much technicality and 'progress' as you possibly can, surrendering over and over and over again to moving with your breath. Breathe more deeply. Make your movements more full. Give over to that place that is rhythmic and graceful and oddly, still.
- tratakam is candle watching, fire watching meditation. Odd that such an ephemeral, never still thing should inspire such stillness and reflective states in us...and have done so throughout different eras and cultures. Spend a few minutes staring into a flame and afterwards wonder about stillness and movement; notice how still and calm and steady and heavy the experience truly is, while not being 'still' at all.
-vinyasa your way to a dance, or while washing dishes, while walking, while rocking a child to sleep.
- pick a word, any word, and repeat it to yourself fifty times. Or five hundred. Until the word SOUNDS different, becomes nonsense, starts to mean something other than what you thought at first, or simply becomes silence. Maybe because I'm a poet and words have always been magical to me, I remember doing this as a very young child. I'd like to think all kids do it. Maybe they don't. If you did, remember that.
- Notice how dynamic savasana is.
- Try to keep ujjayi breath steady throughout a practice. Notice, how at the end of practice, the breath itself has built up a momentum; it doesn't stop the moment you lie down in savasana. It might take a few minutes to actually let that breath pattern go. No particular lesson. Just power. Just awareness. Just a new found respect for how freaking real pranayama is, outside of consciousness and what we say it is.


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So it's really no secret here, we're big big big fans of Gray Malin here at Libby Living Colorfully.
Whether it's lining our bedroom walls with his breathtaking beach photography, watching his adorable and sunshine-y Snapchats, or overall, his personal design aesthetic, we really can't get enough of all things Gray.
Clearly, his banana leaf print bedroom makes the cut once again. Recently, Gray and his hub underwent a little design update to their bedroom to achieve that "serene coastal cabana vibe." Mission accomplished.
Let's talk more about this banana leaf headboard situation shall we? While Gray's canopy is truly one of a kind, we found this adorable alternative on Etsy for just $350. Yes please.
Interested in where to find some of these great bedroom pieces?
Shop the links below using the left and right arrows!
Gray Malin Artwork: Left of Bed: The Swimming Pool /White Frame/ 24" x 36", Right of Bed: Poipu Beach Vertical /White Frame/ 24" x 36", Above Large Dresser: The Den/Custom Frame/32" x 48" and Next to Plant: Montauk, Point Beach Vertical /White Frame/36" x 54"
Check out the full post on Gray's blog with more before and after photos!


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Three breathtaking regions of northern Italy
Culture, Food & Wine: Tre-Venezie Tour
"Salute, Alla Tua, Cin-Cin, Evviva, Prost"!
Explore the land known as Le Tre Venezie, the three northern regions once part of the Venetian Republic- Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and Trentino-South Tyrol, a melting pot of people, traditions, and cultures with a rich Roman, Medieval and Renaissance history.
Travel along ancient Roman roads through small villages and hamlets, stunning castles, and fortresses to be surrounded by lush golden vineyards at the peak of grape harvesting while discovering the diverse culinary traditions and the most appreciated wines.
The tour begins with a 5-night stay at a boutique hotel on Lake Garda, Italy's largest lake with a typical Mediterranean climate. This is our base to explore Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige/Sud Tyrol. After one night in the town of Bassano del Grappa, stay 4 nights in a Castle nestled among the vineyards of Friuli's Colli Orientali.
In Veneto, be enchanted by charming Valeggio sul Mincio where you will learn about the famous Nodi D'Amore, a local pasta specialty.
Walk the bridge designed by Andrea Palladio in Bassano del Grappa before a unique grappa tasting. Learn about the production of Prosciutto di San Daniele in the small town called Friuli's little Siena.
Enjoy private expertly led guided tours of the city of Verona, the archeological remains of UNESCO World Heritage, Aquileia in Friuli.
Taste delicate and high-quality award-winning olive oils produced abundantly along the lake.
Among the culinary experiences selected during this tour, a hands-on cooking lesson is for you while enjoying the views overlooking stunning Lake Garda.
This tour is a wine lover's delight with VIP cellar tours at well-known and artisanal boutique producers with sit down tastings in the wine regions of Trento DOC, Teroldego, Terlano, Valpolicella/Amarone, Soave, Lugana, Custoza, Breganze. Prosecco Conegliano-Valdobbiadene, Carso, Collio. and Colli Orientali.
Traveling the road of Trentino-SouthTyrol/Alto Adige, Europe's oldest wine-growing region with over 20 top quality international grape varieties flourishing on 5,000 hectares of terraced vineyards, the scenery is spectacular. Here some of the best white and red wines from international as well as local grape varietals like Teroldego Rotaliano, Gewutzertraminer, Schiava and Lagrein are produced.
In Veneto, we visit family run wineries and internationally known estates along the famous Veneto wine routes. Discover the unique wine region of Breganze where an ancient vinicultural center and entirely distinct, stylistically, and geographically from every other Veneto DOC.
In the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, we dive into the rich wine making tradition. Here enjoy tastings at of wines made with local grape varietals like Refosco dal Penduncolo Rosso, Schiopettino, Ribolla Gialla, and Friulano, Malvasia Istriana, Vitovska as well as international grape varietal like Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay.
Join me and 12 travelers or fewer, on this unforgettable 10-day journey rich in history, passion, local traditions, incredible wines and culinary delights.
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You may wish to arrive before the tour begins, or stay after the tour ends and we would be happy to assist you with trip proposals . You may also consider joining another one of our tours.


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Here is a list of my favorite CG Challenges across the web, I think they can be very useful for learning and pushing yourself further.
"3dRender.com" Lighting and Shading Challenges:
This is a great website for people who are interested in the subject. There are 26 challenges which you can download the scenes and do your best and post the result for critiques on the CGSociety forums. For newer challenges you should visit this topic on the forum:
Some examples:
"Shaders.XYZ" Shading and Look Development:
Great website and community for people who looking for more challenging subject created by Zeno Pelgrims.
You can download the 8 scenes that are available and play around with them, learn how to solve the problem by learning from solution posted by other users.
"SHADERS.XYZ is a forum created in an effort to unite all look-development nerds from the various render engines out there. The focus is on doing monthly material challenges whilst being as transparent as possible about your process. It's all about learning from and sharing with like-minded people."
Their 8th and latest challenge is the "Sliced Bread" and the deadline is March 1st 2019, so hurry up!
"11 Second Club" Animating Challenges:
"The 11 Second Club is a monthly character animation competition. Animators from all over the world participate, animating a character speaking a line of dialogue provided by the club. Throughout the competition, participants can share their progress with each other and critique each other's work. At the end of the month, everyone votes for whose submission they consider the best for that month. The idea is to give animators a chance to practice their skills in a fun, challenging environment."
"Polycount" Hardsurface Modeling Challenges:
You can find great modeling challenges on the Polycount forums, here is the ink to the 1st Week Challenge:
I'll try to keep updating this post with more interesting stuff.


text: While scrolling through my Instagram feed, I saw a post where Briana Mccarthy raved about her 'Vetiver Night Women' being featured on an up and coming British artist's EP. Being the inquisitive person that I am, I instantly went to the artist's feed and checked out the songs. I fell in love! I now have all 4 songs on my iPhone and I've been blasting it all day. I really hope you enjoy the soulful stylings of Purple Ferdinand.


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Thanks to a Freedom of Information request and some further digging, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has uncovered just about everything there is to know about the U.S. Army's chatbot sergeant — including the technology's past as a tool for catching pedophiles and terrorists on the Web. The revelations are part of EFF's ongoing investigation into how the military interacts with and collects information from the public over the Internet.
Sgt. Star is the well-known virtual public spokesperson for the United States military, appearing on the Army Careers website and associated Facebook pages to answer questions from potential recruits. EFF has compiled all of his possible responses into a 288-page document that cover all aspects of military service and even the issue of whether soldiers can use umbrellas (yes, in certain circumstances). There's also a page of usage statistics — Sgt. Star engaged in nearly 600,000 online chats in 2013.
The chatbot was introduced as a cost-cutting measure in 2006, designed to reduce the time that human operators needed to spend on online enquiries — the military estimates that Sgt. Star can do the work of 55 real recruiters. The company behind the bot, Next IT from Spokane in Washington, has also previously developed similar technology for the FBI and CIA in the past. In this case, chatbots were used to engage suspected pedophiles and terrorists, looking for signals that would point to suspicious behavior and allowing a federal agent to monitor 20-30 conversations at once.
EFF believes this kind of activity raises questions about data collection and online monitoring — once again, the balance between the need to catch criminals online and protect the privacy of the ordinary citizen is called into question. "What happens to conversations that aren't relevant to an investigation, and how do the agencies weed out the false positives, such as when a chatbot misinterprets a benign conversation as dangerous?" asks EFF researcher Dave Maass.
"For all his character quirks, a user would never mistake Sgt. Star for human — that's just not how he was designed," continues Maas. "That can't necessarily be said for other government bots. Military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies have employed virtual people capable of interacting with and surveilling the public on a massive scale, and every answer raises many, many more questions."


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Most people talk about their parents in therapy and eventually understand their importance in shaping their current views of the world and of themselves. But many people don't understand the importance of their siblings. In most cases the developmental impact of siblings is not as weighty as the impact of parents, but in many cases siblings are just as important: the older brother who was the center of the universe, while you were simply one of a million stars; the younger sister who was "the smart one" while you were "the cute one." Our position in our family constellation has a lifelong impact—usually an unconscious one.
I've done a lot of thinking about sibling relationships because I have a sister and a brother. I wrote an article about another aspect of sibling relationships for thirdage.com.
If you would like to read more of my thoughts on this please CLICK HERE or the image above.


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MARVEL & ARCHIE Team-Up For New Co-Publishing Initiative
Marvel and Archie Comics are embarking on a new kind of inter-company crossover. While we won't see Hulk and Jughead in a hamburger eating contest anytime soon, Archie will be publishing a new line of licensed Marvel comics in their classic Digest format, according to Publisher's Weekly.
Titled Marvel Comics Digest, the content will feature Marvel's top heroes, but will be packaged and distributed by Archie six times a year.
The first volume of Marvel Comics Digest will be on shelves in June, and will feature stories of Spider-Man and the Avengers. Subsequent digests will feature Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Iron Man, and more.
"For years, Archie has made the digest format our bread and butter," said Archie publisher and CEO Jon Goldwater. "We are supremely excited to spotlight iconic characters like Spider-Man and the Avengers through this major partnership with Marvel. These books will serve as a great introduction to the Marvel Universe for new readers and a very special, curated selection of stories for existing fans."
It's unclear whether Marvel Comics Digest will feature entirely new content or reprints of any kind. It's also unclear whether any new content included in the Digest will be created by Marvel, Archie, or both.


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Today, ladies and gentlemen I have something really quite rare. It truly is a phenomenon. I'm talking of course, about a game that has been uploaded to Steam that is still in early access. I know, hold on to your hats. If you weren't quite sure, I am being sarcastic. It feels as though every game on Steam is an early access title (all 7000 of them). And thus, we come to Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator.
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator
As it sounds; Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is a battle simulation game. Similar, if not slightly more realistic, than Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS). It was created/ is being created by Brilliant Game Studios who's only previous soiree into the video game world is with a game called The Last Sniper VR. Although not having the pedigree of other companies is by no means a reason to write a company off. We have seen some true masterpieces from independent developers before, recently in fact with Paradigm. So let's get into it.
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is a game where players can generate teams to fight against each other. There is multiple variations of warriors ranging from Chickens to Chunk Norris (Not a typo) and from Giant Ogres to Archers. You can pit teams of thousands off against each other and see how the carnage unfolds.
However, you can't pit teams of thousands off against each other. I am fortunate in that I own a pretty good computer. Currently I am using an Intel I7 7700K CPU, a GTX 1080Ti GPU, 16GB of Corair Vengeance DDR4 ram, a 1TB SSD among other peripherals but when I load in 10,000 units I'm lucky if I reach the dizzying heights of 4 frames per second. It takes an unbelievable amount of processing power to load 10,000 AI controlled assets and calculate their every move. It makes for the world's slowest war rather than a true to life "Battle simulator".
Also, I have an issue with Chunk Norris. I understand that he was put in as a kind of joke character but if he is on one team, it won't matter how many enemies are on the opposing teams. Chunk will win. I even tried to surround him with thousands of soldiers at one point. They managed to slowly get rid of 10% of his health. I then proceeded to blink and suddenly he was back up to full health?! I don't know whether it was some kind of glitch or whether he is supposed to be indestructible. If it's the latter, then why even include him in the game?
Is it a game?
I'm leaning to the side of no, it isn't a game. I don't mean any disrespect by that it just doesn't feel like a game. You just set the sides up and watch how it plays out. There's no real sense of fun, joy, horror or any real emotion of any kind. It just feels like watching a movie where every species animation is the same. There isn't a goal. I know that it is early access and things like that may be introduced in the future but I have to judge the game as it is now (seeing as the public can buy it for £12).
It just doesn't feel as though the developer knows what he wants it to be. It has an interesting feel to it but it is stuck somewhere between a game and a standalone simulation.What would make it feel better would be to make it more like TABS. Introduce a budget system to it and create some scenarios where an army is trying to reach a certain point, you have to stop them using only x,y or z. That allows players to get creative with how they position teams to turn the odds in their favour.
It may be early access but a lot of work is needed; both for optimisation purposes and in terms of making it fun.
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Well, I've been hinting about it enough for the past few weeks/months, I even mentioned it on the EMS Garage Podcast this week. I think it's well overdue that you all found out about the BIG plan as well.
As you are all aware, Happy Medic and I have developed a bit of a friendship since this blog began. We have had multiple posts linking to each other's blogs and have wrote considerable numbers of words comparing the way emergency care is delivered in the UK and the USA. As well as blogging, we have been bombarding each other with questions via email, and one day we had the bright idea of actually experiencing for ourselves what the others service is like, and hence "The Project" was born.
So, what is" The Project", I hear you all say!
Towards the end of this year (October/November), I will be travelling out to Happy Medics corner of the world and "riding out" with him as he goes about his day to day work as a Fire Fighter Paramedic in San Francisco, then as I leave to come back home, he will accompany me back over to the UK to spend some time working alongside me. We spent some time talking about how this was all going to work, and how we would blog about our experiences, when we thought, why not go even further?
The end result to various negotiations is that a BBC film crew will be coming out with me to film the whole experience, including Happy Medic coming back over here!
We hope to experience the good and maybe not so good of each other's services, and learn from each other the difficulties that are both unique and common to paramedics across "the pond".
I am really looking forward to experiencing the workings of a Fire based EMS system, along with the perceived difficulties that we all hear about privatised health care. Is it all bad? or are there some good things that may find their way over to the UK? I am also looking forward to showing Happy Medic, how we do things over here.
Socialised healthcare is pretty much top of the agenda in US politics at the moment, certainly for healthcare workers. It's going to be fascinating to see what HM actually thinks of it, as well as our systems of not having to take all patients to hospital, and our ability to refer on to other health care providers. I am sure that there are going to be many, many things that are incompatible between our two systems, but maybe there will be some that do work and that can improve things even further for all of our emergency patients in both of our countries.
When the trip does happen, I am planning on posting daily, so that you can be well ahead of the crowd, in seeing how we get along.
One thing is for sure, Happy Medic willl be speaking some wonderful Geordie phrases by the end of it – Why Aye Man!!!
It's going to be one hell of a ride, I can't wait!!


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some of our favorite(home)things: roast pork loin
i blog primarily to document my life. our lives in and around the agapeshack.
we've been painting the wrong picture for you…..we don't eat out all the time…we actually cook a lot. especially after theresa finished classes at the french culinary institute. so as we transition into our baby days and eating out less….here are some of the everyday things we eat…because we cook them on a regular basis.
we love inviting a few people over to share the goods since we can't and shouldn't finish all of this food. tonite, its regular resident steph and occasional guest star of club vision, peili. she entertained theresa when she said in response to if she ever cooks……that she made brunch once. quickly pei li learned how silly she is.
this is what's on the menu tonite…..arugala salad with an olillieberry dressing, roasted veggies/potatoes and roasted pork loin.
the secret and flavor? butter. (that's not really a secret).
peili was thoroughly impressed. steph knows that this is how we usually roll. try to get invited.Posted under some favorite home things


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Are you that rare breed of information professional that knows how to create insights by which the business impact is maximized? Would you like to work on issues which play a pivotal role in the marketing strategy in order to reach millions of customers?
We - Takeaway.com - are the leading online food-delivery platform in continental Europe and are looking for a Business Analyst to join our new Customer Analytics teams.
You are one of the driving forces behind the creation of in-depth customer analysis and operational marketing analytics. Together with your brilliant team members, you build models and crystal clear insights, and you know how to visually present it, so that your audience can adopt it in their daily work. As such, you use your superb communication skills in transmitting your passion for data to others.
The position
- Perform in-depth analysis like Customer Lifetime Value, Cohorts, Sales forecast, marketing mix modeling
- Develop together with the various stakeholders; metrics and KPI's
- Make information and KPI's available for other departments in dashboards
- Help with the numerical justification of business cases
- Play a key role within the new Customer Analytics teams, responsible for implementing a cutting-edge data-driven strategy for Takeaway.com.
A day in the life of
Your team is developing a model which should determine the right marketing (channel) mix. You know that there are multiple possibilities to come to an advice. Therefore, today you investigate the differences between various attribution models. At the end of the day you have found an interesting result which you share with your fellow team members. Happy with this new insight you leave the building: when we implement it, this means that we reach more (potential) customers than before!
Your profile
- An academic degree (MSc/PhD) in Econometrics, Mathematics, Business Administration, Engineering or related field with a strong emphasis on statistics.
- 3+ years of working experience in a similar role
- Experience in using statistics in a commercial environment
- Experience in E-Commerce is highly rated
Bonus points for
Experience in building; Customer Lifetime Value models, cohort analysis, advanced segmentation, marketing mix modeling, etc. Experience in using R and/or Python as well as data retrieval using BI tools and SQL.
You are part of one of the new Customer Analytics teams which has a focus to gain insights to improve our reach to customers and restaurants, which includes reporting and dashboarding but also ad-hoc business cases/questions using (advanced) statistics. Therefore the people in the team have different backgrounds and roles to achieve the goal (and thereby opportunities to learn from your peers). By doing so you have a big contribution to Takeaway.com's Data Driven Decision Making strategy. From a planning perspective the team works in an agile way using SCRUM. As a team you present to the rest of the company the insights you have developed during the sprint, which gives the team a great visibility within the organization.
Our offer
- Big data!
- Work in a fast growing company
- Being part of a new, young, professional and international team
- A competitive salary including 8% holiday allowance
- Travel costs 1st class public transportation
- Pension plan 50% paid by Takeaway.com
- 25 holidays a year on a full-time basis
- An office location within the heart of Amsterdam (5 min. from Central Station)
- Internal as well as external schoolings and conferences
- Hackathons and prototyping of new solutions
- Awesome team events
Takeaway.com is the leading food ordering website in Continental Europe, with a proven business model that provides an effective revenue stream for restaurants and convenience for consumers. Headquartered in Amsterdam and with established operations in 9 countries across Europe and Vietnam, our business has grown rapidly in recent years. With almost 50 million orders and double-digit growth we are the fastest growing player in many markets and still see a lot of untapped potential.
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Open ones mind to the possibilities that await you in all parts of your life, look not for just one source to fill your needs but to any thing that has an opening for you being mindful of all there is coming into your life. Living with an Attitude of Gratitude and a smile to give those around you be the light for others to follow.
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Hello everyone! I am back after a nice holiday break. Now, however, it's time to get down to it. It's time to do some project planning for the new year. I think we can all feel inspired and overwhelmed when it comes to project planning. The new year comes and we think, okay, one of my resolutions is going to be___________.
Well, sometimes that blank is really several blanks and they all involve our homes. Fixes to improve things or beautify things, or make things more functional, etc. The list goes on and on! So how should we go about this list of things we want to fix or change? Well that is why I'm here.
This is the first post of a twelve part blog series, and throughout the series, I am going to teach you how to organize, prioritize, and complete those projects in 2016.
In this post, we're going to talk about figuring out exactly what it is that should go on your to-do list for 2016. I wrote a blog not long ago called Five Things I Hate About My House. That post talked about walking through your house and really assessing things to determine what you love about your house - and what you hate. This really is the best way to start your planning for 2016. Make a list and be honest. Determine what is realistic to change and what isn't. Decide what smaller things can you do to help those bigger things that you might not be able to tackle this year.
It may seem a little simplistic but it's a great way to get some perspective on what really needs to be done. Put three columns on your list - and don't think about money just yet. Start off by making your lists as complete as possible.
List # 1: What You Need to Change:
Anything that is wasting money or posing a danger should go on this list. That includes things like windows that leak hot and cold air, a dripping faucet that is wasting water, or a piece of torn flooring that people are always tripping over.
List # 2: What You Want To Change:
This list should be things that you want to do to make your house function better and make you like it better. Things that will make you more comfortable. Things that make your home, well, more user friendly. Maybe reorganizing your kitchen cabinets and finally getting some storage in there that helps with functionality. Maybe you need to come up with a better way to arrange things in your family room to accommodate all of the different activities that take place in there.
This list will probably include some purchases. Maybe some new furniture pieces or shelving. Maybe you need to paint a room because you are sick to death of it and how run down and outdated it feels.
List # 3: What You Dream of Changing:
This list is the one that tops them all. What would you do to your home if money and time were no object? Knock out a wall between two rooms to really open up the space? Completely renovate your backyard and turn it into an oasis? Put all new flooring throughout your house... or maybe get all new appliances in your kitchen? List your wants here.
Now you have the breakdown. You may wonder... why these three lists? And why bother with the last one at all? Well if you can see the difference between what needs to be done, what you want to be done, and what you dream of having done it becomes easier to organize. You have three smaller lists and not one ginormous overwhelming one.
Now, when it comes to prioritizing your projects - there are three big determining factors you need to consider. Time, ability and money. As a next step, go through your lists and determine if you have the time needed to complete those items, if you have the ability to take care of those things on your own or need to hire someone, and if you have the money available to complete them.
Speaking of money…in my next blog, I'm going to talk about how to build a budget for each item on your list. Granted, it's not fun - but it is necessary so that you can go through your lists with confidence and figure out exactly which items are doable and which will have to wait for another time.
Now, what will you do next to love where you live?
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The Cutie Kabuki Brush
The Cutie Kabuki Brush
A true client favourite: "It's so cute!" Handy and fun to use, this high-performance brush was specially designed to use with DDB Mineral Powder Foundation and is suitable for all powder, liquid, and cream makeup. Ultra-soft, tightly packed synthetic bristles on a durable handle, this little beauty fits in the palm of your hand for quick maneuvering and maximum control. The Cutie Kabuki Brush works like a brush and sponge in one; thousands of micro-fine tips pick up, apply, and buff on wet and dry makeup for a polished finish. The unique tapered dome tip reaches corners around the eyes, nose, and mouth. Also ideal as a shaving cream brush for gentlemen.
Store the Kabuki brush in the provided bag and wash monthly with anti-bacterial dish detergent.
Cutie Kabuki Brush Care
To clean your DDB Cutie Kabuki Brush, wet it under running water with the tip pointing down. (You want to avoid getting water into the handle.) Release a drop of dish detergent into your palm and work the bristles into the soap with a swirling motion. Massage the soap through the tips where most makeup remains. Rinse under warm running water, massaging the bristles until all the soap and makeup are removed and the water runs clear. Shake the brush a few times to remove excess water. Lay your brush on a towel to dry overnight.


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Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., sent the request Friday to the inspector general of Amtrak, the nation's passenger railroad system.This quote from the article was a bit curious.
South Dakota used money from the federal railroad agency to replenish the state aeronautics fund after buying the $1.5 million aircraft.
States without Amtrak rail service got a one-time payment from the agency in 1997; South Dakota got $23 million. The money initially could be spent only on intercity bus and rail service, but that was expanded in 1998 to include air service centers and "the purchase of intercity air service between primary and rural airports and regional hubs."
Oberstar's letter states that the airplane purchase was "in violation of the express purposes for the funding."
State Sen. Jason Gant said the Government Operations and Audit Committee, which he leads, had found nothing improper in spending from the aeronautics fund. But he had "no idea" whether the spending violated federal law.So as an auditor he is unaware if the federal money spent by South Dakota violated federal law? Wouldn't you think that should have been investigated at some point considering the source of the funds?


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Alice Springs prisoners taste freedom as they compete in cricket carnival
Low security prisoners from the Alice Springs Correctional Centre are welcoming the opportunity to play in an Indigenous cricket carnival.
The 25th Annual Imparja Cup, which finishes today, is the premier Indigenous cricketing carnival in the Northern Territory.
Mark J is one of the prisoners who has been allowed to play with the Alice Springs Correctional Centre Eagles.
"It's a good opportunity to come out and play because they trust us," he said.
Steep learning curve
Although he has only ever played indoor cricket, he said he was relishing the chance to get outside the barbed wire perimeter fence.
"They know we have never been into trouble and never got into trouble and they are the ones that they have picked us for the opportunity to get out there."
"It's very important just to show the officers that you use your manners and respect them and do what you're told."
Having only played since Tuesday, Mark J said the learning curve had been steep.
"I've been a bit nervous…but have been playing pretty good."
Ian Macdowell Jones, who is the Sport and Recreation officer at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre, said the privilege to be allowed outside of the prison was not lost on the players.
"These men have been chosen because of their behaviour and the way they've conducted themselves," said Mr Jones.
"It's this enormous amount of pride amongst these blokes and they actually are team players that back each other up.
"It's about having fun, it's about being respectful. It's about being better men and better quality when they get back to the community," he said.
The power of cricket
According to Mr Jones, the power of cricket has had a positive effect on some of the more difficult prisoners.
"The big thing for us is the fact that guys who are not normally team players have just gelled and have become team players. It's not about 'me' because on the inside of the wire it's a lot about 'me', outside here it's about them the team and I think that's the biggest thing."
Allowing prisoners on day release to participate in the cricket carnival takes a team of people and resources.
"It takes a lot of time, we have to do the paperwork and it's not just one person. It's a whole team of people, it's kitchen, it's reception, it's a whole team of people who get these people out."
The stakes can be high for prisoners who might see participating as a chance to escape.
"There's always that chance of someone doing the bolt, but realistically these men are low security and they're not bad blokes. They enjoy this, they wouldn't ruin it.
"For them to let down their families, to let down themselves and their communities, it would be frowned upon."
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sport, cricket, law-crime-and-justice, alice-springs-0870


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Pastel colours are a big spring trend this year and we couldn't be happier. These subtle shades are the perfect way to style your wedding and here are just a few of our favourites that we've plucked from Pinterest. Head over there and check out our inspiration boards for more ideas. We particularly like the [...]
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Simple Table Decoration
We have created a lovely table to inspire you when you are thinking of your next event or your wedding. With floral accents from Joanna Game, and botanicals playing a huge part in 2017's styling trends, you can bring the outside, inside with some very simple design touches, whatever the season.