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Dan Tremblay holds a Master of Music degree in Performance from McGill University and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Université de Montréal. He studied trumpet with Russell DeVuyst, Jean-Luc Gagnon and Guy Archambault.
Dan is Principal/Solo Trumpet with the Orchestre Symphonique de l'Estuaire. He is an active freelance musician, clinician and private trumpet teacher in Quebec and Ontario. Dan plays regularly with different symphony orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique du Nouveau Monde, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Longueuil, the Kingston Symphony Orchestra and l'Orchestre Métropolitain du grand Montréal. He has been Principal trumpet with the Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, the National Academy Orchestra in Hamilton, and with the McGill Symphony Orchestra.
From 2004 to 2008, Dan was a member of Alliage Brass Trio with Les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. The trio performed in Maritimes provinces, Quebec and Ontario, with a show called "Mission sur la Planète Alliage". Trio Alliage received the Ménard-Pomerleau Award in 2006.
Since 2006, the support of the Fund for Scholarly and Professional Development from Queen's University allowed Dan to study conducting with some of the most sought-after mentors including Kenneth Kiesler (U of Michigan), Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Alain Cazes (McGill) and Gilles Auger (Conservatoire de Québec). Dan was a participant at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak (2010), the National Arts Centre Conductors Programme (audit-2010), the conducting workshops with the Orchestre Symphonique de Lévis (2011) and was the Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne (2007).
Since 2001, Dan is a faculty member of the Queen's University School of Music where he teaches trumpet, Brass Techniques and Methods classes and is responsible for the brass and percussion studio. He also conducts the Queen's University Wind Ensemble, Brass Choir and Trumpet Ensemble. Since 2006, he holds the position of adjunct lecturer in trumpet and chamber music at the Crane School of Music of the State University of New York at Potsdam.


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St. Paul's Sarcophagus Unearthed
Some who think of me as a tradition-basher have asked me to comment on the recent discovery of the sarcophagus of St. Paul. Personally, it's of less interest to me because I don't foresee much helpful information coming from it, unless, as Paleojudaica jokes, there's an airtight container with a copy of his letters inside.
Here's the straight scoop:
1. The sarcophagus was not found in a random location, but was located in the very place that tradition said it was. Several years ago after a visit to the church, before they started digging, I noted that this altar is built over the traditional tomb of Paul. That is where this sarcophagus was discovered.
Church of St. Paul Outside the Walls
2. Constantine built the first church over the site in the 4th century. That means that the tradition is a very old one.
3. After three years of digging underneath the altar, they found a sarcophagus. That sarcophagus was found underneath a tombstone which had written, in Latin, "Apostle Paul, Martyr." This means that whoever wrote the tombstone (presumably in the 4th century, but I can't be sure from the news reports) believed this was Paul's tomb.
The sarcophagus was found below this altar.
4. So instead of connecting the dots from the 20th century back to the 1st, we simply have to evaluate the potential accuracy that the site was preserved correctly from the 1st century to the 4th. This is the typical situation of holy sites in Israel as well; the earliest traditions usually date to the earliest Christian presence, which is in the 4th century. How reasonable is it to assume that the memory of a site was preserved for up to 300 years? My answer is that it depends upon the nature of the tradition. For the tradition of the place of Jesus' crucifixion, I doubt that Christians would have failed to pass this on accurately. For the tradition of the place of Jesus' birth, I have a little more trouble imagining Jesus pointing the site out to his disciples. Sometimes our knowledge shows that a traditional site cannot be correct, as in the case of the feeding of the 5,000 or the Transfiguration. In the case of Paul's tomb, I am unaware of any evidence that rules the church out as a possibility. Would early Christians have remembered the site of Paul's beheading? My guess is that they would. It's also important to note that there was the continuous presence of a believing community in Rome from the time of Paul's death until Emperor Constantine's construction of a basilica.
I think it's quite possible that curiosity is going to push Vatican officials to open the sarcophagus. When they do, it will be interesting to see if 1) Paul's head is missing, and 2) they can determine what sort of malady he suffered from (cf. Gal 4:13-15).
Interior of Church of St. Paul Outside the Walls
For more information about the discovery, see the National Geographic news article or the story in the Telegraph.
All photos from the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands, Rome volume (Kregel, 2003); used with permission.
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"Josef Albers/Ken Price," a thrilling exhibition at the Brooke Alexander Gallery in SoHo, can make you feel as if your eyes were attached to a bigger, more perceptive brain. It brings together the work of two great artists in a way that enables you to see both more clearly.
The pairing is a natural, except that no one had thought to do it, let alone in such depth, until now. The idea took root over a decade ago, when Brooke Alexander learned that for many years Ken Price, the brilliant ceramic sculptor, had only one work by another artist hanging in his studio in Venice, Calif.: a print by Josef Albers (1888-1976), the German-born abstract painter, Bauhaus instructor and color theorist.
Mr. Alexander spent more than two years assembling works and lining up loans. By a combination of plan and luck, his show serves as the centerpiece and touchstone for a veritable Albers/Price fest that is also playing out in four other galleries around town.
The dovetailing of these two artists may not be immediately obvious. Mr. Albers, who left Germany for the Eastern United States in 1933, is best known for corralling pulsating colors into the straight-edged nesting geometries of his compact "Homage to the Square" paintings. Mr. Price, who was born in Los Angeles in 1935 and has spent most of his life out West, has similarly focused on highly retinal color, first in glazes and more recently in layered, jewel-like acrylics both matte and metallic. But his latest efforts are exuberantly suggestive biomorphic forms devoid of straight lines, whose surfaces are pocked with tiny goose bumps and divots of layered colors. (There is an exquisite Fabergé aspect to Mr. Price's work, though lately it's achieved with a modernist randomness that relates to Pollock.)
While Mr. Albers is considered one of the forefathers of Minimalism, Mr. Price — despite sharing the emphasis on a work's wholeness with Minimalist contemporaries like Larry Bell, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin — has always been its prodigal deviant. His pieces are wildly contaminated with Pop, Surrealism, kitsch and the psycho-sexual.Continue reading the main story
The installation at Brooke Alexander deftly mingles mini-surveys of about two dozen works by each artist: paintings, prints and early photographs from 1933 to 1969 by Mr. Albers and sculptures, watercolors and prints from around 1959 to 2008 by Mr. Price. The passion for the inexhaustible possibilities of color is the strongest link here, but the profusion of dots to be connected, of shared interests, inspirations and references, is close to mind boggling. Naming some may help: adobe houses, pre-Colombian pyramids and architecture in general; rocks variously hand cut, au naturel and trompe l'eoil; dark mysterious doorways and other apertures; interior volumes and interior décor; cities ancient and modern; art high and low; harsh light and velvet shadows.
One of the show's first revelations is that Mr. Price's sculptures — which are sanded down to reveal fine pores of color within color — exploit concentric contrasts not unlike the squares within squares of an Albers Homage, if irregularly and minutely. The installation drives the point home by juxtaposing works with similar palettes, so that Mr. Albers's paintings seem to announce from afar the color combinations to be seen, closer up, in a Price surface. And you'll see Mr. Price progress toward his fine-pored mottling in geometric works like the marvelous, faceted, rocklike "Ming" and "Bolivar" from 1998, whose dark openings cradled in planes of smooth color echo Mr. Albers's nested squares. You'll also newly appreciate the deliberate textures of the Albers paintings — often executed on the reverse, rough sides of masonite panels.
Both artists found inspiration south of the border. The importance of a trip Mr. Albers made to Mexico around 1935 emerges in several photographs. One shows the dark, elaborately framed window of an adobe house next to one of his "Variant" paintings, this one from 1955, whose composition evokes a flat-topped adobe structure with two doors. Other photographs suggest the impassive forms of the pyramid at Tenayuca as an inspiration for the immovable frontality of Mr. Albers's compositions.
As for Mr. Price, his "Cityscape Bowl" (1991) revisits the Mexican tourist wares quoted in his "Happy's Curios" series of the 1970s (named for his wife, Happy Price). But instead of the scenes of adobe houses and sombrero-wearing peasants of the curios, this vessel is decorated with blank-faced Los Angeles office buildings. Such crisscrossing references are common in Mr. Price's work. Looking at the four patchworks of festive, geometric shapes of "From Happy's Curios," a posterlike painting on paper from 1973, you suddenly see that each composition centers on a single dark green shape that reads as the monumental opening to a cave or some other inner sanctum. Similarly, the aperture at the top of the especially geometric sculpture, "Baby Blue" (1990) might well lead to a sacrificial chamber.
This exhibition also reminds us that Mr. Albers's art is not always geometric, and that Mr. Price's is occasionally symmetrical. The sinuous lines of Mr. Albers's silvery, nearly automatist dry point "Velocidad" (1940) reiterates the lavender agitation of bumps that is Mr. Price's "Gonzalo" (2008). And the carefully stacked, but somewhat fused forms of Mr. Price's "Mululu" (2004) and the smaller "Hefty" (2005) have the regularity of a pyramid's staircase. (The assembled biomorphic Prices suggest three basic vernaculars: single shapes often absurdly stretched into assorted intimations of gesture and body parts; piles of discrete blobs, like the magnificent "Long Shot" of 2004; and fused smaller blobs, as with "Gonzalo.")
As far as I'm concerned this superb show could be maintained in perpetuity, courtesy of the Dia Art Foundation or some such. It should be required viewing for anyone hailing from the fraught curatorial profession. Its overarching theme is that abstraction is reality-based, distilled from lived experience, and actualized through highly personal approaches to process and materials. It's a lesson in life as much as art.
Chelsea also offers more extended views of Mr. Price's art, present and past. The Matthew Marks Gallery on West 22nd Street is displaying a dozen impressive new pieces, including three exceptionally large works that show him experimenting with the scale of his mottling, and also returning to the monochrome. The biomorphic blobs here — less irregular and squishy than before — are usually either quasi-sausages or Mallomar shapes. In pieces like "Maureen" and the all-gold "Lying Around," such forms combine to verge on the figurative.
Nyehaus on West 20th Street, in concert with the Franklin Parrasch Gallery in Midtown, is showing a revelatory selection of early Price "egg" and "cup" sculptures and drawings, against walls painted Pricean colors of deep pink, lavender and yellow. The show indicates early interests in the erotic, Bauhaus geometry and Duchamp (especially in an homage to his "Female Fig Leaf"). It also includes what may be one of the first blobs, a penile, fecal, goose-bumped, wormlike, oddly headless form from 1966 on a stepped plinth that is beautifully multicolored and titled "Specimen CP2625. 13." A different juggling of repulsive and irresistible is found in the 1967 "Wart Cup," whose blooms of lush color are punctuated by worrisome growths.
At Parrasch on West 57th Street, which has shown Mr. Price's work since the mid-1990s, die-hard fans can view (by appointment) a presentation of several decades' worth of show announcements, catalogs, magazines and illustrated books, along with a short, engrossing film of Mr. Price making a recent piece, start to finish. It adds the finishing touches to the sense of an artist who never doubted the expressive power of fired clay and who has only gotten better.
Meanwhile, back in SoHo, the Peter Blum Gallery corrects the visual balance of power with a headlong plunge into Mr. Albers's career: a display of "Formulation: Articulation," a portfolio of 127 silk-screens from 1972. It sums up many of his lifelong interests, starting with a folded geometric design that he etched in glass in 1931 while still teaching at the Bauhaus, and concluding with the "Homage to the Square" motifs.
The prints' back and forth between straight-edged and biomorphic motifs is another link with Mr. Price's work. And Albers's explanations for each image further illuminate their connection. Sometimes his words justify his reputation as a pedagogue. ("Here I ask you to follow the thick and thin lines to the right and back to the left.") But more often they indicate his real-world inspirations, especially when he describes the colors of his Homages and other motifs in terms of weather, buildings, water and times of day. Titled "Statements of Content," his notations reinforce the revelations of the Albers/Price show nearby, offering us abstraction as an art of everyday life.Continue reading the main story


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On 16 July 2015, the European Court of Justice issued a judgment on an application for a preliminary ruling made by the Stockholm Tingsrätt (the Stockholm District Court in the dispute between Abcur AB ("Abcur"), on the one hand, and Apoteket AB ("Apoteket") and Apoteket Farmaci AB ("Farmaci") on the other, concerning the production and distribution by Apoteket of medicinal products, Noradrenalin APL and Metadon APL.
The requests referred to the Court concerned whether the medicinal products at issue in the main proceedings might be covered by the so called "pharmacy exemption", as provided for by Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community Code relating to medicinal products for human use (the "Directive").
Abcur is a Swedish pharmaceutical company which manufactures and distributes the following drug products:
- Metadon DnE, a narcotic which is used to treat opiate addiction, and which may only be prescribed by a doctor with a special authority to prescribe narcotic medicinal products; and
- Noradrenalin Abcur, a pharmaceutical preparation for infusion which is mainly used to treat acute low blood pressure in emergency and intensive care units and which is not available on prescription to individual patients.
Apoteket is a company owned by the Swedish State. Until 1 July 2009, when Sweden reorganised its regulatory framework of pharmacies, Apoteket had the sole and exclusive right to retail medicinal products in Sweden. Before that date, it marketed Metadon APL and Noradrenalin APL, both produced by the Apoteket group company responsible for magistral formulae (any medicinal product prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with a medical prescription for an individual patient), Apoteket Produktion och Laboratorier AB ("Apoteket PL"), and then supplied through another Apoteket's company, Apoteket Farmaci
Noradrenalin Abcur was first authorised for sale as a medicinal product in Sweden on 3 July 2009. Before that date, there was no Swedish noradrenalin medicinal product authorised for sale, the needs in Sweden being met by using Noradrenalin APL, then ordered by health care institutions from Farmaci on the basis of the relatively immediate needs of those institutions known in advance.
Metadon DnE was first authorised for sale as a medicinal product on 10 August 2007. Before that date, there was no authorised methadone product in Sweden and needs in Sweden were met solely by using Metadon APL, also prepared by Apoteket PL and marketed in Sweden by Apoteket between 2000 and 2011.
Noredrenalin APL and Noregrenalin Abcur contain the same active substance, they are used in the same dosage and have the same pharmaceutical, the same applies to Metadon APL and Metadon DnEThe only difference between the Apoteket and Abcur products is the sugar and alcohol content and the taste.
Abcur brought a legal action against Apoteket and Farmaci before the Stockholm Tingsrätt claiming that they infringed the Swedish legislation in having advertised Noradrenalin APL and Metadon APL without having obtained a marketing authorisation from the competent authority. Abcur also claimed damages.
The defendants claimed that the Directive should not apply to the products in question and the Stockholm Tingsrätt stayed the proceedings and referred the Court for a preliminary ruling concerning the scope of the Directive and, in particular, the scope of the so called "pharmacy exemption".
In particular, the Stockholm Tingsrätt asked the Court to state if the prescription-only medicinal products for human use, such as those involved in the proceedings, for which no marketing authorisation has been granted and which are marketed and supplied in the circumstances and under the conditions described in the proceedings, may be covered by any of the exceptions contained in Article 3(1) or (2) of Directive 2001/83. In particular, where there is another authorised medicinal product containing the same active substance being used in the same dosage and having the same pharmaceutical form.
The question referred to the Court essentially deals with exemption contained in Directive 2001/83/EC, hereafter referred to as the "pharmacy exemption", pursuant to which the Directive does not apply to magistral formul or to any medicinal product which is prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with the prescriptions of a pharmacopoeia and is intended to be supplied directly to the patients served by the pharmacy in question ("officinal formula").
The Court firstly notes that the main aim of any legislation concerning the medicinal products for human use is to safeguard the public health and that, as a consequence, any exception to the general principles provided for in such legislation shall be interpreted restrictively. This also applies to Article 3 and to the conditions to be fulfilled in order for the medicinal products to caught by the Directive.
The Court then turned to examine whether the pharmacy exemption may apply to drug products such as those at issue in the main proceedings.
With reference to the Article 3 (1) of the Directive, the Court noted that it implied the patient must be identified before the medical product is produced, the purpose of that provision being to enable pharmacies to produce, on a small scale, tailor-made products for individual patients. It follows that, the key issue in answering the question of the Swedish Court was, whether the medicinal products at issue in the main proceedings were manufactured after an individual patient was identified.
In that regard, it appeared clear to the Court that Noradrenalin APL was ordered by the hospitals before an individual patient was identified and that Metadon APL was supplied on subscription, i.e. without an individual prescription in every instance. Thus, none of the said products fall into the scope of the said article. Therefore, since one of the conditions for the application of Article 3 (1) of the Directive was not satisfied, that provision could not apply in the case at issue.
With regard to the Article 3, point 2, of the Directive, the Court noted that it implied that the medicinal products must be prepared in a "pharmacy", "in accordance with the prescriptions of a pharmacopoeia" and "intended to be supplied directly to the patients served by the pharmacy in question". Nonetheless, the Court noted that no definition of "pharmacy" is contained in the Directive. In the absence of any pharmacy definition, the Court decided to follow the definition proposed by the Commission in their observations submitted to the Court, pursuant to which a pharmacy is a physical facility with the right to sell, supply, monitor and prepare in small quantities, medicinal products. Thus, according to the Commission, the main phases of preparation of a pharmaceutical product must take place in a pharmacy. A laboratory cannot, as such, be considered as a pharmacy. As a consequence, if it cannot be established that both the production site and the dispensing site are situated in the same physical facility, the criterion is not fulfilled.
Since Noradrenalin APL and Metadon APL were both prepared at separate geographical sites from the one where they are dispensed, the Court concluded that none of themfall into the scope of the pharmacy exemption.
So what?
The key points of the decision rendered by the Court can be summarised as follows:
- medicinal products for human use, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, issued in accordance with a medical prescription and for which no marketing authorisation has been granted by the competent authority, may be covered by the exception referred to in Article 3, point 1, of the Directive only if they have been prepared in accordance with a medical prescription issued before their preparation, which must be specifically for a previously identified patient; and
- the same products may be covered by the exception referred to in Article 3, point 2, of the Directive, only if they are delivered directly to patients supplied by the pharmacy which prepared them.
The decision in comment is interesting as:
- this was the first case in which the European Court of Justice defines what a "pharmacy" is under European law.
- the Court clarified the precise scope of the pharmacy exemption, in particular stating that, in order to fall within the exceptions set forth in Article 3, points 1 and 2, of the Directive, the medicinal products shall be prepared and sold at the same facility.
In its decision, the Court followed the approach of the Advocate General. In the Advocate General's opinion, he called the Court's attention on the fact that it is clear from the wording of Article 3 that the medicinal products shall be intended to be supplied directly to the patients served by the pharmacy in question. Therefore, if it cannot be established that both the production site and the dispensing site of those products are situated in the same pharmacy, Article 3 of the Directive cannot apply, regardless any other reason of practical convenience.
The decision, and in particular, the new approach concerning the pharmacy exemption, is likely to have significant consequences on the preparation and distribution of magistral and officinal formulae, in particular of those magistral and/or officinal formulae prepared by the hospital pharmacies, which had benefited from the Article 3 exemption, even though the preparation and supply of them physically did not take place at the same location.
Indeed, the concept of pharmacy was not defined in the Directive and there was no formal requirement that the preparation should have occurred at the same place where the product was supplied to the patient. Moreover, many courts (e.g. the UK courts) were used to broadly interpret the pharmacy exemption basing their interpretation on the argument that it could actually be safer and more convenient to keep the preparation of the medicines separate from the supply to patients.
We can therefore expect that, following the decision of the Court in comment, situations such as those described above and other situations concerning the use, preparation and distribution of magistral and officinal formulae, which were usually included within the scope of the pharmacy exemption, and therefore excluded from the scope of the Directive and its authorisation regime, could now be reconsidered in light of the new approach.
The decision of the Court also seems to be coherent with the recent regulatory trend to limit, as far as possible, the circulation of medicinal products whose preparation and circulation cannot be properly controlled.
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Former Royal Bank of Scotland CIO for corporate and institutional banking (CIB), Scott Marcar, has joined Deutsche Bank as head of IT infrastructure.
Marcar will be responsible for designing, operating and modernising the German bank's infrastructure to improve security and drive greater cost efficiency.
He will join officially in October following his departure from RBS after seven years. He had previously held senior technology roles at JP Morgan Chase, after joining the investment bank in 1993.
Marcar is one of two appointments announced by the German lender, with Richard Shannon joining as Americas CIO and co-head of Group Technology & Operations (GTO) for the Americas.
Shannon joins after 20 years with investment bank Goldman Sachs, where he held the title of global head of web platforms technology.
He will support Deutsche Bank's compliance and regulatory technology initiatives, with the bank planning to hire 1,300 staff to improve its systems and controls.
The staff additions follow the recent hire of Michael Grimaldi, who joined from Goldman Sachs as CIO of corporate banking & securities and global transaction banking business divisions.
Both Marcar and Shannon will report directly to global CIO and global co-head of GTO, Kim Hammonds, who arrived at the firm from aircraft manufacturer Boeing in November 2013.
"Richard and Scott are strong technology leaders who will add to our deep bench of technical expertise," Hammonds said. "Their skills and experience will prove invaluable as the bank continues to enhance its IT platform while strengthening controls."


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The College at Brockport is very proud to showcase works by our faculty authors. This Bookshelf features works published by the faculty and professionals (both current and former) of the Department of Social Work. It also includes items that have contributions by our authors including films, books and chapters.
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Patrons of The College at Brockport may check these books out at Drake Memorial Library. Otherwise, please use your library's Interlibrary Loan program to request them from us.
Child Welfare Practice : A Conversation About Reality
Kenneth J. Herrmann
By Kenneth J. Herrmann, College at Brockport faculty member.
"The author's fifty years of practice in social work and child welfare have resulted in this examination and critique of America's treatment of childhood. This advances a radical approach to ensuring the needs of children, an approach based in social justice and human rights."
Days in the Lives of Gerontological Social Workers : 44 Professionals Tell Stories From "Real-Life" Social Work Practice With Older Adults
Linda May Grobman, Dara Bergel Bourassa, and Trevor Gates
Edited by Linda May Grobmen and Dara Bergel Bourassa.
Includes a chapter by College at Brockport faculty member Trevor Gates: Field placement in geriatric case management.
This book, like its predecessors Days in the Lives of Social Workers and More Days in the Lives of Social Workers, highlights the experiences of social workers through first-person narratives. This volume focuses on professional social work in direct and indirect practice with and on behalf of older adults. The contributors to this book are social workers at the BSW, MSW, and doctoral levels. Gerontological social work is a growing and exciting practice specialty! The stories told by these gerontological social workers will transform your thinking about what this type of work entails. You will gain a better understanding of the issues facing older adults and their social workers, and you may be inspired to pursue this career path. This engaging collection will make a welcome supplement to the theory found in traditional textbooks. Organizations, Web sites, additional readings, and a glossary of terms are included to assist you in further exploring these areas of social work practice. Photographs by social worker/photographer Marianne Gontarz York are featured to expand your visual images of real people as they grow older.
Mot nguoi My o Viet Nam hom nay: Lepers and Lunacy: An American in Vietnam Today
Kenneth Herrmann
By Kenneth J. Herrmann, Jr.
An autobiographical account of a war veteran who returned to Vietnam and started a study abroad program there. A unique perspective of the relationship today between Vietnam and America that not only takes the reader into the author's life, but also into the lives of lepers, families who live in a garbage dump, and many others.
Lepers and Lunacy : An American in Vietnam today : A Novel
Kenneth Herrmann
By Kenneth J. Herrmann, Jr.
An autobiographical account of a war veteran who returned to Vietnam and started a study abroad program there. A unique perspective of the relationship today between Vietnam and America that not only takes the reader into the author's life, but also into the lives of lepers, families who live in a garbage dump, and many others.
Helping Battered Women : New Perspectives and Remedies
Albert R. Roberts and Diane C. Dwyer
Edited by Albert R. Roberts.
Includes a chapter by College at Brockport faculty member Diance C. Dwyer: Domestic violence and woman battering : theories and practice implications.
Provides the most current, empirically-based and realistic overview of policies and intervention methods, combining a rich array of perspectives by professors and scholars in the fields of social work, criminology, and clinical psychology. The book focuses on a full range of policies and programs which include case management service models, 24-hour hotlines and crisis intervention programs, social worker-police collaboration, mandated arrest of batterers, electronic technology, and group/play therapy for the children of battered women, methods which are all effective in breaking the inter-generational cycle of abuse.
Critical Issues in Crime and Justice
Albert R. Roberts, Diane C. Dwyer, and Roger B. McNally
Edited by Albert R. Roberts ; foreword by Roslyn Muraskin.
Includes a chapter by College at Brockport faculty member Diane C. Dwyer and former faculty member Roger B. McNally: Public policy and prison industries for the 1990s.
Critical Issues in Crime and Justice provides a comprehensive examination of the current critical issues and policy dilemmas within the American criminal justice system. Developed for introductory courses on the American criminal justice system and its related components, the book begins with an overview of criminal justice and a case exemplar on criminal justice processing. The authors examine the successes, failures, and trends of law enforcement, as well as juvenile justice, the courts, and correctional systems. Each chapter is authored by a recognized authority on the specific topic and timely case illustrations and trend data are presented throughout. Policy and model program examples from many of the 50 states and end-of-chapter summaries are included to further students' comprehension. Discussion questions are found at the conclusion of each chapter. This volume is an excellent primary or supplementary text for Introduction to Criminal Justice and related courses.
I'm Nobody's Child
Kenneth Herrmann
By Kenneth J. Herrmann, Jr.
Fictional account of an abused child who, while not a delinquent, struck back through violence. The social workers who knew him were shocked, and the parents moved from the state with their children. The child welfare system which was partially responsible continued its routine work in its own bureaucratic manner. This story is told in order that others might be helped.--from the Introduction
I Hope My Daddy Dies, Mister
Kenneth Herrmann
By Kenneth J. Herrmann, Jr.
A factual account of Herrmann's encounter with the problems of child neglect and child abuse while working for two child protection agencies. Available in full text here through the generosity of the author.


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Blu in Sicily
New artwork in Niscemi Sicily by Blu, artist known for his large-scale paintings. » read moreleggi tutto
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INSA (previously) is a fine artist and designer who has established himself from a graffiti background through extensive street level work and gallery shows around the world. INSA's canvases and installations are often hyper real, finely crafted creations in which sexual desire and commodity-fetishism merge and contrast. Brilliant! Enjoy it!... » read moreleggi tutto
Surreal murals in Tehran
Artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo and Blue Sky Painters Company transformed Iran's capital city, Tehran, into a huge gallery of surral paintings with these huge murals done on what once were grey pieces of concrete. [via mymodernmet] » read moreleggi tutto
The L.I.S.A. project in NYC's Little Italy
L.I.S.A. stands for Little Italy Street Art, a project started by Wayne Rada in 2012. The mission is to bring a diverse group of street artists together in the Little Italy area of downtown on historic Mulberry Street, between Broome and Canal to create Manhattan's only mural district. Many artists are... » read moreleggi tutto
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Polish artists known as Etam Cru, have created a collection of large scale murals around Eastern Europe. » read moreleggi tutto
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Dale has established himself over a period of six years as being one of the most respected and individual artists on the London art scene. Collectors and buyers have appreciated his distinctively direct and passionate style internationally. » read moreleggi tutto
Amazing miniature oil paintings by Joseph Martinez
Joseph Martinez (Denver, CO 1983) chose matches boxes as his favorite media for oil paintings. The richness of details in these tiny pieces are unbelievable. This series in particular is dedicated to the city of San Francisco and its street artists. » read moreleggi tutto
Tristan Eaton's murals
Tristan Eaton is a Los Angeles born artist, now based in NY, where in 2003 he founded Thunderdog Studio, a successful creative studio working for clients such as Disney, Canon, Kid Robot, Dell, Nike, Nissan, Rockstar Games and many others. At the top of this post, his last work in... » read moreleggi tutto
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DALeast is a Chinese born artist that lives and works in Capetown, South Africa. The 29-year-old, who keeps his real name a secret, has been making art since he was three. His unusual paintings, which are sometimes hundreds of feet across, looks three dimensional and appears to have been created out... » read moreleggi tutto


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Happy 2019! Have you set any goals for the year?
My goals are to continue playing with math (1) in my homeschool co–op classes and (2) on this blog — and (3) hopefully to publish a couple of new books as well.
My favorite way to celebrate any new year is by playing the Year Game. It's a prime opportunity for players of all ages to fulfill the two most popular New Year's Resolutions: spending more time with family and friends, and getting more exercise.
So grab a partner, slip into your workout clothes, and pump up those mental muscles!
Rules of the Game
Use the digits in the year 2019 to write mathematical expressions for the counting numbers 1 through 100. The goal is adjustable: Young children can start with looking for 1-10, middle grades with 1-25.
- You must use all four digits. You may not use any other numbers.
- Solutions that keep the year digits in 2-0-1-9 order are preferred, but not required.
- You may use +, -, x, ÷, sqrt (square root), ^ (raise to a power), ! (factorial), and parentheses, brackets, or other grouping symbols.
- You may use a decimal point to create numbers such as .2, .02, etc., but you cannot write 0.02 because we only have one zero in this year's number.
- You may create multi-digit numbers such as 10 or 201 or .01, but we prefer solutions that avoid them.
My Special Variations on the Rules
- You MAY use the overhead-bar (vinculum), dots, or brackets to mark a repeating decimal. But students and teachers beware: you can't submit answers with repeating decimals to Math Forum.
- You may NOT use a double factorial, n!! = the product of all integers from 1 to n that have the same parity (odd or even) as n. The Math Forum allows them, but I feel much more creative when I can wrangle a solution without invoking them.
For many years mathematicians, scientists, engineers and others interested in mathematics have played "year games" via e-mail and in newsgroups. We don't always know whether it is possible to write expressions for all the numbers from 1 to 100 using only the digits in the current year, but it is fun to try to see how many you can find.


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The SafeWise Report Announces the 10 Safest Cities in Maryland
The SafeWise Report released its "10 Safest Cities in Maryland" report this week. To compile this report, SafeWise used the most recent FBI crime data from 2012 to analyze and rank these cities, which all have a minimum population of 5,000 people.
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"If you're living in or visiting any of these towns, you have a less than four in 1,000 chance of becoming a victim of violent crime," SafeWise security analyst Rebecca Edwards said. "Seeing modern communities pull together to make sure their children grow up safe is inspiring and a good model for other cities to follow."
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Forget reading all six pages of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's opinion of whether school districts can offer the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples. It is all in the summary.
According to Abbott and the state constitution, government entities such as school districts cannot offer marriage benefits to same-sex couples. It is that simple - and those that choose to violate the state constitution should assume the legal risk.
Abbott provided the opinion Monday at the request of state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston. (In related stories Tuesday, The Associated Press referred to Patrick as "tea party-backed," although why this designation was relevant wasn't clear, much less applied to equally well-funded lawmakers of other parties.)
Abbott's summary at the end of the six-page opinion was clear: "Article I, section 32 of the Texas Constitution prohibits political subdivisions from creating a legal status of domestic partnership and recognizing that status by offering public benefits based upon it."
In other words, there are cities and at least one school district - Pflugerville - that are potentially violating the state constitution by offering marriage benefits to same-sex couples.
As a reminder to those entities that want to choose which parts of the state constitution to follow, it was longtime state Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, that championed the 2005 constitutional amendment that states: "Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman. This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage."
Those who oppose this constitutional amendment are free to propose rival legislation and proceed through the legislative process.
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Two former bosses of HBOS and the ex-chairman will next week be forced to defend their roles in the run up to the bank's near collapse in 2008 after being called to appear before the commission on banking standards.
Sir James Crosby and his successor Andy Hornby will on Monday appear before the sub-panel set up to scrutinise why HBOS needed an emergency takeover by Lloyds in September 2008. Lord Stevenson, chairman of the former building society for a decade, will appear on Tuesday.
Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP, who chairs the committee, said: "Two of these men (Hornby and Stevenson) were on the bridge when HBOS failed, when public money was needed to rescue it and when trust in our banking system – both within the industry and amongst the public – collapsed almost completely."
"The decisions taken during this period, and before, had severe consequences for financial stability, for the economy as a whole and for every person in the country," Tyrie said.
Crosby handed the helm to his protege Hornby in July 2006, barely two years before HBOS was rescued by Lloyds and the enlarged bank was given a £20bn bailout by the taxpayer.
Hornby and Stevenson appeared before MPs after the 2008 bailout while Crosby was forced to resign from the board of the Financial Services Authority after he was alleged to have missed warnings about risks being taken by the bank.
The FSA is currently compiling a report on the collapse of HBOS after former corporate banking boss Peter Cummings was fined £500,000 and banned from the City. The MPs and Lords on the banking standards committee have been conducting public evidence sessions on the collapse of HBOS, and taken evidence from former board members in recent weeks and will finish its sessions next week.
This article was written by Jill Treanor, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 28th November 2012 12.04 Europe/London
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With snow still on the ground and freezing nights long from over, it's finally time to sow the first seeds of spring.
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The only seeds to sow in February are allium seeds. The Allium family (thanks for the great name, Linneus) include onions, leeks, shallots, chives and garlic. Garlic is planted in fall and chives can wait 'til April, but the first three are best sown mid-February to mid-March. It's not a race and no need to make any extra work for yourself, just know if you're looking forward to homegrown shallots as much as I am, it's time to start planning.
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In 2017, the Putnam County Election Board approved voting centers for the county. This means that if you are registered to vote in Putnam County, you can go to any of the eight voting centers on Election Day. Early voting will take place at the Putnam County Courthouse in Greencastle.
Voter registration for the May 8th primary must be completed by April 9th. You can check your registration status here and see who is on your ballot to vote for. There are many Republican seats that are contested in the primary including State Rep, Congress, County Council, County Commissioner, and Sheriff. For the Democrat Primary, there are multiple people running for the Congressional seat in our district.
To vote in the November 6th General Election, you must register to vote by October 9th. Since I am unopposed in the Primary, I will be appearing on the November ballot and would love to discuss with you the issues important to me.
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Bowling Green in Warren County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
Warren County's Chief USA Civil War Officers / Warren County Awards
1st Brig., 2nd Div., 23rd Corps
Col. Benj. C. Grider, 9th Ky. Inf.
Col. J. H. Grider, 52nd Ky. Inf.
Col. P. B. Hawkins, 11th Ky. Inf.
Col. Atwood G. Hobson, 13th Ky. Inf.
Col. E. L. Mottley, 11th Ky. Inf. Over.
Confederate Medals of Honour
Sgt. Wm. E. Kinman,
Co. H, 9th Ky. Inf.
at Stone's River, 1863.
Pvt. Benjamin F. Parker,
Co. A, 2nd Ky. Inf.
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Erected 1968 by the Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Department of Highways. (Marker Number 1201.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Kentucky Historical Society marker series.
Location. 36° 59.566′ N, 86° 26.568′ W. Marker is in Bowling Green, Kentucky Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1001 College Street, Bowling Green KY 42101, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Warren County / Portage Railroad (here, next to this marker); Bowling Green (here, next to this marker); Veterans of the American Revolution (here, next to this marker); Spanish - America War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Bowling Green - Warren County (a few steps from this marker); Warren County Courthouse (a few steps from this marker); James T. Morehead, (1797-1854) (within shouting distance of this marker); Long Hunters (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Bowling Green.
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More. Search the internet for Warren County's Chief USA Civil War Officers / Warren County Awards.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on May 17, 2015, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. This page has been viewed 237 times since then and 28 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on May 17, 2015, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.


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2 skinless boneless chicken breasts
1/3 cup reduced sodium chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 bell pepper (any color), cut into 1-inch pieces
1/4 apricot spreadable fruit, melted
1/4 ripe avocado, sliced
- In 10-inch nonstick skillet, heat chicken breasts, broth, garlic powder, pepper and bell pepper over medium-high heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer about 10 minutes or until juice of chicken is clear when center of thickest part is cut. Remove chicken; keep warm.
- Pour broth mixture into blender; add spreadable fruit. Cover and blend until bell pepper pieces are pureed. Slice chicken breasts crosswise. Arrange chicken and avocado slices on plates; top with sweet pepper sauce.
Now for those of you who know me, I'm no Julia Child and I seem to have a reading level of maybe 2nd grade, when it comes to cook books (I'm working on that). I forgot to melt the apricot spreadable fruit, and I accidentally bought thinly sliced chicken breasts at our grocery store and had to use 4 instead of 2 regular chicken breasts. Regardless of my mistakes, it came out rather well with the only real issue being the chicken breasts were a little dryer than I'd hoped. As I said previously my husband absolutely loved this and finished the meal with "I demand this meal to be on repeat".
Next time I think I will make sure to get full chicken breasts instead to help with the dryness and distribution of the spices.
*Disclaimer: I forgot to take a photo before my husband got to it and...I'm better known for taste than presentation! The picture below is my husband's seconds. I hadn't planned for seconds so he just took one of the thin fillets put a chunk of avocado on it and poured the sauce on top!


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I distinctly remember being in elementary school and only reading a select few books. There's always the few books schools would assign, the ones that tested your reading comprehension, but none of those were as interesting as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles books my mom would buy me. I don't remember much else from those years other than that I knew everything Tolkein like the back of my hand, and I don't remember even understanding them, but definitely chugging through the Lord Of the Rings.
That point being that the time when a boy leaves elementary school and goes on to enter middle school is an odd transition period, in many ways more awkward than the transition to high school. Middle school is distinct in that the kids never even raised the question of finding themselves before, and suddenly they are thrust into the entire matter. It is their first taste of drama, their first glimpse into adulthood and freedom and all the misery that comes with it. By no means are they adults by this age, but simply they have the aspires to be adults by this age and that's what counts the most. Some would argue that children seem to be growing up faster, and, whether true or not, presses this issue of adulthood even further.
There is a definite reason why parents should want their children to choose idols that aren't themselves: and that's simply because young teens don't really like their parents. Everyone remembers that phase in adolescence when they felt like their parents were the most cruel oppressors in the world, forcing them to turn to someone else. The most parents can do is to help guide their children to the right role models while their children silently reject them.
The following are a few books I wished I would have received when I was younger, just so I could have skipped the whole angsty self-fulfillment stage of my life that is so prevalent in young boys.
- Call of the Wild: Jack London's naturalist story of survival seems like an obvious choice. At first boys are enthralled at the idea of reading about wolves fighting to the death, but then it's inevitable they discover something more in the story. While London's story is a short one, it is a story that reveals simple truths about life, as exemplified through the rough reaches of nature and what London calls the "Law of Club and Fang." But even though this story may be a little harsh for some people, it is one that is not only exciting but wise.
- Meditations: Marcus Aurelius, one of the most admired ancient Roman Emperors, spent much of his life on the front lines of war. With much of the Empire ravaged by disease (taking the life of Marcus's brother in the process) the Germanic tribes began to push in attempts to claim land from Rome. Aurelius also suffered from a stomach ulcer. Despite all this, Marcus Aurelius would write reflections to himself in his tent at night to keep his virtue. Although never meant to be published, his Meditations discuss what it means to be a man, a citizen, a happy person, and a stoic being. Though the stoic philosophy of Aurelius might be hard to grasp for some young men, it will quickly be absorbed into the most useful information a young man could ever receive.
- Catcher In the Rye: It seems like most people either love or hate this book, with good reason too. The main character Holden is whiny, obnoxious, arrogant, and pretentious. This is what makes him so relatable. Holden's trek through life represents that seminal coming of age story that we've come to love. The very fact that a young man can relate to him causes them to rethink themselves. Not only does it represent the young man, it represents the young man's first taste of freedom, something that many around that age begin to experience for the first time.
Looking back on it I wished I hadn't read so many Tom Clancy books in middle school, I'm not sure what effects that had on my young psyche. But I wish I had taken an interest in the topics mentioned above much sooner. The first thing people will argue is that the works I listed are too mature for young boys, and I would absolutely agree with them. But the works mentioned above are works that make the boys mature enough to grasp them, that's part of their charm.


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Idk if I should continue with the speech therapy?
Idk what to do. My son is going to be 3 years next month and he recently started getting speech therapy. And just 2 weeks ago he started a preschool. Today I got a call from his...
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Q: Is a federal flat tax a good alternative to the current progressive income tax system?
Panel's answer: 5 yes, 3 no
The question:
Marney Cox, San Diego Association of Governments
Answer: Yes
As an alternative, the flat tax is a less destructive and less intrusive way of collecting revenue to fund government. There are at least three elements of the flat tax that make it more attractive than the current system. First, all forms of employee and business income are taxed, broadening the base; today over half of all business income and all fringe benefits are not taxed. Second, the flat tax eliminates the double taxation of income earned by business and paid out to shareholders (think more funds for retirement accounts). Third, the flat tax would lower interest rates by eliminating the tax deduction for interest paid and the tax on interest earned.
Kelly Cunningham, National University Systems
Answer: Yes
The simplicity, fairness and transparency of a flat tax system are vastly preferable to the current monstrosity. Ending the widespread and corrupt practice of inserting loopholes and preferences into the tax code for politically connected entities would be a much more equitable system for everyone. Eliminating deductions, shelters, exemptions, and other distortions in the tax code that upper-income taxpayers far more often utilize could actually generate more revenues. Stronger incentives for productive behavior would also result from lower taxes on work, savings, investment, and entrepreneurship, with decisions made on the basis of good economics rather than clever tax planning.
Alan Gin, University of San Diego
Answer: No
A flat tax would make the already growing income inequality even worse, as high-income earners benefit more than low-income ones. A flat tax is often advocated in the name of tax simplification. But looking up a progressive tax in a table or calculating it is easy; it's the myriad of deductions that makes taxes complicated. Even the father of free market economics, Adam Smith, expressed some support for progressive taxation: "It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."
James Hamilton, University of California San Diego
Answer: No.
The income gap between the richest 20 percent and poorest 20 percent of Americans has increased significantly over the last 30 years, and I think that has been a factor in a number of the problems we face today. Moving from our current system to a flat tax would lower tax rates on the rich and raise them on the poor, which is the opposite of what we really should be doing. I am deeply skeptical of claims that a flat tax would increase economic growth rates -- the rising inequality of the last decade has hardly been a period of robust growth.
Gary London, The London Group Realty Advisors
Answer: Yes
But only in the sense that any refinement to the tax system which simplifies it must be good. Simplification can also be accomplished with a valued added tax (VAT) because consumption is largely a choice (exceptions being your house, food, education and transportation). A flat tax puts a disproportionate burden on the lower income earners at the very moment when many are struggling. But a flat tax also might plug up the loopholes exploited by many who effectively pay no income tax. But, our economic ills are not likely to be solved by any tax alternative. Let us not divert the fiscal argument to a tax argument when the entitlement cuts need to be on the center stage.
Norm Miller, University of San Diego
Answer: Yes
If we can start the flat tax at a high enough minimum income level so as to not be too regressive a system. Plans like 9-9-9 are extremely regressive (hurts lower income households more) since relative consumption declines at higher incomes, but a flat income tax can work. Everyone knows the current system is too complicated and that higher income households use deductions to bring effective tax rates down. With a flat tax rate there will be less cheating and less black market economic activity, so more income will be revealed.
Lynn Reaser, Point Loma Nazarene University
Answer: No.
Most Americans are not willing to accept a system where higher and lower income earners would pay the same rate. They do support a major simplification of the current 3.4 million-word tax code. Broadening the tax base by eliminating the labyrinth of deductions and exemptions could both reduce all tax rates and raise revenues. The corporate tax rate should be reduced from the present 35 percent, which is the highest in the world. The double taxation of capital gains and dividends (currently taxed as profits at the company level and as income when distributed to shareholders) should also be ended.
Dan Seiver, San Diego State University
Answer: Yes
Our current income tax system is inefficient, inequitable and too complex. We have used the tax code for dubious social engineering and to benefit powerful interest groups. Reform and simplification are long overdue. But a straight 9-9-9 flat tax will increase the overall tax burden on poor people and reduce it for most rich people, and probably not generate enough revenue. A 20 percent flat tax, with exemptions for the poor, and a few key deductions retained, would be fairer and more workable, but the practical difficulties abound. Why should there be any deductions? I think Americans would support a simple progressive tax (say 10-20-30) with no deductions, which would save us billions of work hours wasted on tax preparation, avoidance and evasion, and put a lot of lobbyists out of work.


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5 Wonderful Beach Vacation Destinations in South Africa
Are you thinking of vacationing in South Africa? Perhaps you have heard so many wonderful things about this country in the southern region of Africa and decided to explore the country. Ok, say you go there and start exploring and get tired at the end of week and are in dire need of a place to cool down, someplace like a beach, what happens then?
Before you decide to go explore South Africa, you should have considered all these, you are going there to have the time of your time after all. So, just in case you end up needing a cool beach to relax while in South Africa, below is a list of five wonderful beaches in South Africa you should consider visiting:
- The Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal
Located in a providence famed for its mountains, beaches, and wild animals filled savannah, it is little wonder why the Ballito is deemed an excellent place to go beach vacationing.
The Ballito has a magnificent boulevard designed to enable visitors take long strolls to clear their heads and relieve themselves of stress. The boulevard is also excellent for romantic strolls. It doesn't end there though, the Ballito has lots of great beaches and swimming, while also being set up in a way that it is animal and child friendly.
A visit to the Ballito is bound to provide with numerous unforgettable experiences in addition to a wonderful time.
- Camps Bay, Western Cape
Are you an admirer of nature and a night/party person? Then Camps Bay would be perfect for you. The view of the sky which becomes filled with lots of colours right before the sun retires for the night is so out of this world it can't be perfectly described.
Once the sun goes to sleep however is when Camps Bay wakes from its own slumber as nook and cranny of the place is guaranteed to be bustling and you can be rest assured you would never experience a dull moment at this beach destination.
- Clifton Beach, Western Cape
The one advantage Clifton Beach has over lots of other beaches is the atmosphere and vibe it gives off. Clifton Beach gives off very glaring vibes of a wonderful, calm and fun place to be. It also has a magnificent expanse of beach where you can go relax and ease yourself of stress and the likes.
All in all, Clifton Beach is a wonderful place to be and you would be pleased you went there.
- Llandudno, Western Cape
The Llandudno also offers a great sunset sight. The dashing sea and the golden mountain makes watching the sun set in the Llandudno a sight so breath-taking you wouldn't mind coming back daily just to behold this wonderful sight over and over again (I know I would). All these along with the beach come together to make the Llandudno a wonderful place to cool off and forget about the week's stress.
- Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal
Umhlanga Rocks has its great weather to significantly thank for what it is today. The weather in this area is always great regardless what season it is. This destination also has a warm sea and a beautiful boardwalk coupled with a relaxed atmosphere given off by the town.
It is all these that come together to make the Umhlanga Rocks the wonderful and magnificent place you just have to visit.
Go ahead, enjoy yourself and be sure to let me know your experiences when you eventually decide to vacation in any or all of these beach destinations.