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A young driver found that a court appearance can be a pretty humbling experience when the judge forced him to apologise to his mum.
Dylan Shane Brailsford, 21, was in the dock at Brisbane Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, and pleaded guilty to a single count of making a false declaration.
He had been slapped with a driving ticket in February, after cycling within a metre of a group of cyclists, but officially declared that his mum was driving at the time.
But Magistrate Jeffrey Clarke slammed Brailsford's mum-blaming behaviour as 'pretty appalling'.
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'To take the conscious effort not only to lie to weave your way out of your own trouble but then to also blame your own mother is pretty appalling conduct', he said.
'I understand she's here and I hope that you've done your best to make amends with her and apologise.
Although the magistrate didn't record a conviction, he warned that Brailsford was at risk of selling his job in a Qantas Airlines store and police could still pursue the original traffic offence.


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Full List of Obamacare Tax Hikes
Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses Taxpayers are reminded that the President's healthcare law is one of the largest tax increases in American history.Arranged by their respective effective dates, below is the total list of all $500 billion-plus in tax hikes (over the next ten years) in Obamacare.
Obama and Romney spar over Defense budget
In a time of deep deficits and tight budgets, President Obama says the Defense Department cannot be entirely spared the scalpel. But Mitt Romney, his likely opponent in November's election, says the U.S. must spend more on the Pentagon now because it will pay off with a stronger economy in the long run.
Study finds that lying less improves a persons health
Who says a little white lie never hurt anyone? Recent research suggests it can affect your health. A new study conducted by University of Notre Dame researchers found that a person's mental and physical health improved when they stopped lying to others.
Employees wellness index
Workers who keep the country running through transportation, construction and other services may also suffer the worst health, according to recent rankings of employees' well-being.
Glocks vs Docs: Second Amendment issues in the cross hairs
There are few topics more evergreen in the U.S. political arena and consistently in the forefront of the news than a group protesting that either their First Amendment or Second Amendment rights are being curtailed. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before the two collided in a spectacular "Alien vs. Predator," coliseum-like spectacle of battling rights.


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In the admittedly small world of early-music performance, the event ranks as epochal, not so far behind Mendelssohn's revival of Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" in Berlin in 1829. And for one brief shining moment, New York could claim a primacy in early music that it has not remotely held since.
Fifty years ago (almost 51 actually), on Jan. 2, 1958, New York Pro Musica Antiqua gave the modern premiere of "The Play of Daniel," a path-breaking 12th-century musical drama that is now considered a prototype for opera, at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum's medieval collection in Upper Manhattan: an anniversary to be commemorated in high style this weekend with a new production of "The Play of Daniel" there. "A rare conspiracy of imagination, scholarship and showmanship," Edward Downes called the original in The New York Times the day after it opened. The conspirators were many and illustrious.
The prime mover was Noah Greenberg, the legendary musical polymath who founded Pro Musica Antiqua in 1952. The lead producer and set designer was Lincoln Kirstein, a founder of New York City Ballet, and the director was Nikos Psacharopoulos, a founder of the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts. Rembert Weakland, a medieval scholar and Benedictine priest who went on to become archbishop of Milwaukee (and later resigned in disgrace), prepared the performing edition. To help listeners negotiate the Latin text, the poet W. H. Auden contributed an English narration in verse, a work of art in itself that was undoubtedly crucial to the success of the revival.
The story that of Daniel and the lions familiar from the Bible, given a medieval gloss to suggest that he prophesied the birth of Jesus is rudimentary, hardly more than a framework for grand processionals. It begins in the court of Balthasar, king of Babylon, where it falls to Daniel, a Jewish captive, to interpret the ghostly handwriting on the wall, which spells doom for the king. Then, in the court of Darius, Balthasar's slayer and successor, Daniel falls victim to a conspiracy of envious princes and is fed to lions, only to be spared by the intervention of an angel.
The music, as it came down, is even more rudimentary: a skeletal manuscript from 1225, thought to reflect decades of development in the work's performance tradition at the Beauvais Cathedral in France. It consists of a single line of melody applied to the text, without indications of secondary voices, instrumentation or even rhythm but with sketchy staging instructions. As such, it was the ultimate playground for performers given to imagination, improvisation and informed conjecture, the particular strengths of Greenberg and those around him, who turned those bare hints into a lavish spectacle.
"Greenberg had no pretensions to scholarship or virtuosity," Harry Haskell wrote in "The Early Music Revival: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 1988). "But he was a man of keen enthusiasms, a born communicator, and early music was his passion."
He died in 1966, at 46, but "Daniel" lived on, in his Pro Musica production, which continued to tour widely. Frederick Renz, a member of Pro Musica, moved on to direct the Ensemble for Early Music (now Early Music New York), where he kept the production more or less alive, gradually transforming it into the circusy but delightful "Daniel and the Lions." And the work continues to circulate widely on recordings (Greenberg's having been the first) and in performance.
Now the Cloisters itself, in the person of Nancy Y. Wu, its museum educator, has taken the initiative in mounting a new production. The seed, Ms. Wu was quick to point out at a rehearsal on Monday, was sown by Benjamin Bagby, an American early-music specialist and a co-founder of the influential group Sequentia, who has spent most of his career in Europe.
Though he is not involved in this production, he was the one who called attention to the impending anniversary a few years ago. Ms. Wu has since aligned herself with Gene Murrow, a former Renz associate and now the executive director of the Gotham Early Music Scene, as producer; Mary Anne Ballard, a string player and musicologist, as music director; and Drew Minter, a noted countertenor, as stage director.
All these moving parts were functioning smoothly in place at the rehearsal on Monday. Well, almost in place. The rehearsal was taking place in Romanesque Hall, which was used for Greenberg's original performance; but the stage for this production was being set up in the adjoining Fuentidueña Chapel, which was reconstructed at the museum only after the Greenberg premiere, from 1958 to 1962. One of the chapel's particular charms, for present purposes, is the sculpture atop a pilaster near the front showing Daniel being licked by lions on either side.
And surroundings matter to this production. "Just go around and look at the statues," Mr. Minter said to the cast members, exhorting them not to let their thumbs splay, for example, when they held up their hands in rhetorical gesture.
As several people with long experience in "The Play of Daniel" noted, choreographic movement is a hallmark of Mr. Minter's direction. Lucy Cross, who plays the zitherlike psaltery and joined the Pro Musica production in 1970, approvingly noted the "deliberately medieval gestures" gleaned from manuscripts and the visual arts. But she winced at one of the musical touches: lines added to the tune of the concluding Te Deum that create unusual dissonances.
Still, her biggest reservation, she noted in a follow-up e-mail message, is that the production does not use Auden's poem. It would slow down the action, she acknowledged, "but it did explain it, and the language was inexpressibly beautiful."
"That was what made the overall tone so different," she added.
Yet inexpressibly beautiful music, lost for centuries, remains, couched in drama that may well transport you to another time, another world, and should put you in mind of the visionary musical adventurer who brought them into the here and now.


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2019 couldn't have been going much better for Youp Schmit (I-99 / Avanti Sails) with the Bonairean winning the single elimination at his home event before eventually finishing second at the Bonaire PWA World Cup - which was his best result on the world tour to date.
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Youp Schmit: "I injured myself during a windsurf training session a week ago, I was sent immediately to Colombia to get an MRI scan as soon as possible, so we know what the exact problem is within my knee.
The results came in and the doctors could see there is a piece of my meniscus broken and that has to be removed.
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Set in rundown/hipster Brooklyn of the 1990s, Self-Portrait with Boy sets out a year in the life of artist Lu Rile. She lives in an illegal squat in DUMBO where the owner charges rent to artists who need large spaces for their work. While only 20 years ago, it is still a notable part of Brooklyn history when gentrification was getting going and property traders were buying and increasing rents. It was a time when trash didn't get collected so regularly, crack was on the streets, and places could become infested with rats. Interesting in its own right, it also provides a vivid backdrop to Lyon's story of a 27-year-old artist who has shut herself away in her apartment taking self-portraits with her camera. She hardly sees anyone except at work – she has a part time minimum wage job at a health food store, which she hates, but she has to pay the bills.
Lu's project at the start of the novel is a series of photographs of herself. One day she is catching images of herself nude jumping in midair and by accident she also catches through her window the image of a neighbor's nine-year-old boy Max falling to his death from the roof of their building. The boy's death of course is upsetting to everyone in the building, but through it, Lu befriends his parents, Kate and Steve. It takes Lu a while to even notice the image with her and the boy, and when she does, she is transfixed by its beauty. Yet she cannot bring herself to talk about it with them. So it becomes a secret she can't reveal.
It's here that author Lyon explores a couple of interesting and maybe related ideas. First, she becomes haunted by Max, not in a friendly way, but with menace. She cannot sleep because of the noises he makes. As her life becomes more difficult, and she needs to earn more money, she takes on other part time jobs. Her state of mind becomes ever more frazzled. Second, the reader is pushed to question Lu's first person account of her own motives. She gets a connection with an art gallery and she is extremely persistent in exploiting this to her advantage. As a narrator, she portrays herself as overwhelmed and at a loss about how to cope, but other characters react to her negatively, and see her as scheming. So we have to wonder how trustworthy she is, and whether she is ready to sacrifice others for the sake of her own career in art. Lu tells her story from the perspective of the present time, decades after this all happened, and while we don't know much about her artistic career, we do know that she survived and prospered. Maybe her haunting by Max's ghost is a revenge for the choices she makes in the name of art.
Self-Portrait with Boy is beautifully written, vividly depicting an important stage in the history of Brooklyn, and with a powerful plot. The supernatural thread of the story is managed without being spooky or silly. The art world of Manhattan at that time is lampooned a bit, but is not ridiculed. Lyon has written a gripping novel exploring some serious themes. Recommended.
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Marsha Parrilla (AfroTaíno)
Founding Artistic Director- Lead Choreographer
Marsha Parrilla is the Founder, Artistic Director, and lead Choreographer of Danza Orgánica. She holds a BA in Languages from the University of Puerto Rico, and a Master's degree in Dance Education from New York University. Marsha produces the annual festival: We Create!, a festival devoted to promote the work of self-identified women, and non gender conforming artists. She devotes her life to her family, her company, and social justice work.
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Victoria Sagardía
Puerto Rican artist, Victoria Sagardía accomplished a Bachelor of Arts at Emerson College. She is ballet trained, and also trained with CoDa 21 in Puerto Rico. Her newest passion is Capoeira, and she trains with Sinha Capoeira. Victoria is thrilled to be dancing with Danza Orgánica.
Etienne is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he began his training at La escuela Julian Blanco and Ballet Concierto. He graduated from the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, with a Masters in choreography & performing arts. Hernandez performed throughout Spain with El Joven Ballet de Cámara de Madrid for 5 years. He was also a member of Ballet Brio in P.R, and has presented dance works internationally. Presently he teaches in Boston and around the north shore area and is delighted to be a member of Danza Orgánica.
Dey Hernández
Dey is an architect, interdisciplinary artist, performance artist, and educator. She designs and directs workshops with AgitArte, a non-profit organization dedicated to artistic and popular education projects in marginalized communities. Dey is also a puppeteer of the Puerto Rico-based radical workers' theater collective, Papel Machete. Her work and performances most recently have been exhibited at the Mills Gallery of the Boston Center for the Arts, and Loisaida Center in New York City. She is currently the art director and curator of When We Fight, We Win!
Earnest Gildon
Beginning as a martial artist, Earnest studied various systems of Far Eastern and European Martial Arts for 13 years. His exploration of movement led him to classical ballet training at Ballet Austin, Columbia City Ballet, and The Ballet Arts Academy. He was an apprentice company member with the Columbia City Ballet, and also performed as a principal dancer with Austin City Ballet, Austin Dance Ensemble, and as guest artist with Ballet Spartanburg and the Dance Department at Palomar College. Earnest is currently enjoying his practices as a licensed Manual Therapist/Bodyworker, and capoeirista with SINHA' Capoeira.
Claudia E. Varela
Claudia was born and raised in Reynosa, Mexico, where she danced with Academia de Danza La Scala and Casa de la Cultura de Reynosa. She graduated Cum Laude from UC San Diego with a Dance B.A. and a Bioengineering B.S. Varela believes that dance is a powerful way to protest and advocate for social justice, and in her choreographic work, she has explored issues such as, the drug violence affecting her hometown and the disappearing of 43 students in Ayotzinapa. Currently, Claudia is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and is thrilled to have the opportunity to dance with Danza Orgánica.
Fray Cordero
DO Movement Apprentice
Fray Cordero is a movement artist who is fully diving into the experience and process of working with Danza Orgánica.
Andrea Muñiz
DO Movement Apprentice
From San Juan, Puerto Rico- Andrea is a dancer, choreographer, and movement artist. She graduated from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee with a BFA in Contemporary Dance with an emphasis in choreography and improvisation. She has performed with El Taller Juvenil de Andanza, The Robin Aren Company, and Boston Dance Theater. Andrea is excited to be joining Danza Orgánica as an apprentice and to continue to work in a creative and collaborative environment.
Resident Composers
Colombian pianist and composer Ricardo Gallo completed his undergraduate with honors at the University of North Texas and holds a Masters and PhD in music composition from Stony Brook University. He has published eight albums as a leader or co-leader. Gallo has received commissions from Colombia National Symphony Orchestra and Big Band Bogotá. He has been funded for tours and residencies from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, The Banff Centre and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec in Canada. Gallo maintains a strong connection with Bogotá's music scene, and is currently based in New York City.
Shane Shanahan has been
touring around the globe with Grammy award winner Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble since 2000. He has performed and/or
recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, Philip Glass, Alison
Krauss, Deep Purple, Jordi Savall, Sonny Fortune, Chaka Khan, and Glen Velez,
among others.
"By the time he finished in a virtuosic jester's dance, limbs flying as he whirled back and forth between doumbek, cymbals and body parts, the audience roared with delight."
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A graduate from Trinity College, Ella Wechsler-Matthaei has a Bachelor's Degree in the Fine Arts in Theater and Dance and was awarded Trinity's second prize of The Diebold Family Prize in Dance in May 2014. Ella, trained in the Trinity La MaMa Performing Arts Program and studied abroad in Trinidad and Tobago where she trained with the Marcia Charles Dance Theatre Company and performed in the International Soca Monarch carnival event for Benjai.
Zimbabwean artist U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, is a collaborating artist with Danza Organicá's Running in Stillness. Her newest artistic contribution to the community comes in the form of a poetry book called: Soul Psalms. You can learn more about her work by clicking here.
Tyhgita Céspedes is a dancer, choreographer and fine arts educator who focuses on hip hop and jazz funk. Tyh taught dance and drama after school and summer programs with the North Shore YMCA school aged program in 2015. She choreographed for the original play performed at Edinburgh International Fringe Festival 2012: After Orpheus, and danced in Thee Slap Bracelets dance crew, which won 1st place at Prelude New England in 2011.
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Joe Gonzalez
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Gabriela Silva
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Why Enterprise Development?
- The country's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 26.7% over the first quarter of 2018 compared to the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the quarterly labour force survey released by Statistics South Africa
- The expanded unemployment rate, which includes people who did not have jobs but, were not actively looking is 36.3%
- Employment opportunities within the rural and most fragile communities are virtually non-existent
Structural Determinants
- Lack of education
- Lack of local investment
- Distance from industrial and business hubs
- Distance from and access to markets
Our Work
- We work with communities to identify potential areas of economic development that can contribute to increased employment and income in needy communities
- Development of local 'Commercial Village' concept
- Financial capacity building for communities (Mbashe ADP)
- Food garden development in schools, at homes, and within the community have an impact on the health profiles of the children and on their attendance at school as well as reducing the load on household expenses
- Local Value Chain development – Value Chain Development is a business management concept. The concept of the value chain is applied strictly to business. The value chain approach is used to both promote economic growth as well as reduce poverty. This is done by intervening in value chains in which a large number of poor households and youth are presently involved or can be involved in the future
- Empowered Word View – Understanding and acknowledging that we are created in the image of God, and are invited to participate in what God is doing in the world, using our God given gifts and resources for the good of others. This is a transforming tool/approach for unlocking potential and utilising locally available resources (people & assets) to spur change for improved child well-being in every community
- Village Savings
- Savings Groups are a promotion model rather than a provision model – cost effective and earnings retention
- Fits with community based and food security programs empowering community/farmer groups
- Fits with poor contexts, high levels of subsistence and HIV/AIDS
- Savings Groups provides the basis for developing economic capacity in very poor communities
- Enterprise Development addresses the root causes through a multi-faceted approach that looks at increased income, improving food security, resilience and livelihoods. Households are empowered to own their business initiatives, create employment for each other linked to the market and all partners through value chains and saving groups and have access to micro finance opportunities.
- Food security addresses issues of agricultural production, crop and livestock production in partnership with different entities who have the same objectives of graduating the household farmers and small businesses. Farmers and SMMEs have access to government initiatives and support. Farmers are supported with improved technology, introduction to drought resistant crops, linkages to market information, linkages to extension services and training in conservation agriculture that will help to avoid environmental degradation.


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I've just got back from a magical trip to one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to.
My top three cities previously were, in order, New York City, Rome and London. But now… Dubrovnik has definitely made the list. It might even come in at number two.
So if you're planning a trip to this stunning city, here are some of my top suggestions for things to do.
Get lost in the Old Town
Dubrovnik is made up of winding alleyways, thousands of steps (over 4000 within the Old Town itself), shining stone and tucked away shops. It's small, it's easy to get to know, but it's also full of surprises around every corner.
The Pile Gate is the more impressive entrance, and it leads directly to the main Stradun. It's always busy and full of lots of cafes with lovely looking outdoor seating… but we never ate there. Instead, we wound our way into smaller passages and sought out the hidden gems.
I'd recommend stopping at La Dolce Vita to pick up an ice cream before heading up the stairs to Prijeko Ulica. This stretch has some lovely souvenir shops, some fantastic restaurants (keep an eye out for my food blog) and also leads to a shop containing an Iron Throne replica – what more could you want?
You can make your way out towards the old port, where you can catch a ferry or hire a boat, or just gaze longingly across the sea.
Make sure you leave yourself several hours to explore. Although we were there for four days, and although the Old Town itself is quite small, there are definitely many passages we didn't go down and secrets we didn't discover. It's this quality that makes Dubrovnik so magical.
Walk the City Walls
Once you've seen the city from street level, the next logical thing is to see it from above! No need to buy a drone or hire a helicopter – the City Walls loom over the city and give access to 360 degrees of panoramic awesomeness.
As advised, we headed there early, and were on the walls by half 9am. As we'd visited in September, the Walls weren't too crowded, but in peak season it's likely to get a bit intense.
Remember to fill up your bottles of water before you head up in one of the many drinkable water fountains you can find around the city. It gets hot up there! If you do fancy a bit of a break there are various food and drink establishments scattered about. The prices are higher but not extortionate, and it's nice to sit and enjoy the experience.
It's worth the climb up to the top of Minceta Tower on the north side of the city, as it's the highest point of the route, with views over the entire city and out to Lokrum. You also might want to stop by the Maritime Museum at St John Fortress near the harbour – it's a nice chance to get out of the heat while learning a lot about the unusual history of the city. If you're a Game of Thrones fan, make sure you research which parts of the walls were used during filming as well (blog post to follow).
The entry fee for the walls is 150kn, which also gets you free entry to Fort Lovrijenac (the Maritime Museum is extra). We bought the Dubrovnik Card, which had entry to the walls and museum included. Bear in mind that you can't leave the walls and come back later – not without paying a second time, that is – so make sure you're ready for a long slog. It took us about 2.5 hours to do the full circuit at a fairly leisurely pace. On the plus side, it doesn't matter where you enter the wall – it's a complete circuit of the city, so you can start at any of the three entrances, although they do operate a one-way system.
Sail across to Lokrum Island
We expected to be over on Lokrum for a couple of hours. We ended up spending an entire day there.
Lokrum is the small island you can see easily from the Old Town, covered in woods and hiding away a lot of secrets. It's a short fifteen-minute ferry ride (discounted from 150kn to 105kn with the 3-day Dubrovnik card) that departs from the Old Town port, giving you fantastic coastal views of the city as you speed your way over to the island.
If you fancy a dip, remember to bring your swimwear. There are a number of places to swim on Lokrum, including their own Dead Sea. The high salt content of the water can keep even the most sinkable person afloat. We forgot ours, however, which only gave us more time to explore.
The Fort of Lokrum is the hardest part to access, with a steep climb and a bit of clambering to do, but it's 100% worth it. From the top you get outrageously beautiful photos of the city, such as this…
Especially if your boyfriend is willing to climb on the roof for that perfect shot #boyfriendgoals.
There are a couple of small museums on the island, some featuring Richard the Lionheart who allegedly washed up on shore there. It's also home to a replica of the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones, and the island itself was used in some filming – there's a hidden away museum containing lots of info about the series.
And don't worry about bring a packed lunch. You might think that the restaurants would be total tourist traps, but we had one of the best meals of our visit on there.
Enter the world of Game of Thrones
It's been peppered throughout the post, and I'll be doing a full blog on my Game of Thrones adventures in Croatia, but I can't mention top things about Dubrovnik without mentioning this too.
If you do decide to do a Game of Thrones tour, I'd recommend doing it as early as possible during your trip. Otherwise, you'll find yourself falling over locations that you won't realise the significance of.
The city itself was mostly used for King's Landing, while nearby Lokrum doubled up as Qarth. There are also a few spots outside the city that you can travel to, though we unfortunately didn't have time.
There are bajillions of tourist shops selling Game of Thrones memorabilia, and most stock identical items, so don't feel the need to go into all of them (like I did). The one with the most range (that I could see) was on Ulica od Puca, though honestly they're all pretty similar.
Relax on Sveti Jakov beach
When you get tired of the city life or worn out by all the action, a beach day is essential. Rather than Banje beach, located a stone's throw from the Old Town (and therefore crowded AF), we headed to Sveti Jakov.
Sveti Jakov, or Saint Jacob, beach is located a short drive from Dubrovnik. You could probably walk but, since we were feeling pretty fatigued from the many many steps in the city, we took the bus. There are yet more steps down to the beach itself (about 100) but once you get there… it is so worth it.
Tucked away in the bay opposit Dubrovnik, you get outstanding views of the Old Town and Lokrum Island. The water is so clear, it's misleading – the beach itself drops off to fairly deep water, although if you're more of a shallow-water-lover like me, there's enough to keep you going.
It is a stony beach, not a sandy one, so aqua shoes are a must. Thanks to my friend Katherine's tip, we picked some up pretty cheaply from Hot Tuna before we went, but there were tons of places selling them in Croatia if you forget. You also can't really just lie on a towel – two sunloungers and an umbrella cost us 150kn.
Floating away in the Adriatic Sea, under the scorching sun, with clear blue water under your body and a view across to the most gorgeous city… heaven.
Visit after sunset
This is really point number one. We arrived into Dubrovnik around 6pm. After settling in and unpacking, we headed (down a zillion steps) into the Old Town for dinner. It was after sunset. We came in through the Pile Gate. Guards in uniform were standing to attention. We came through the main entrance, through the inner gate, and out into a square.
Your first sight of Dubrovnik is down the Stradun, with the light shimmering on the stone. "Dubrovnik is a city of stone and light," said one of our guidebooks, and that is never more true than at night.
Stroll through the lamp-lit streets. Drink wine. Balance on the strange gargoyle head near the Pile Gate, and if you can take your shirt off, you'll be lucky in love. Sit on the Jesuit Stairs and watch the cats play. Go out to the harbour and gaze across the sea, and imagine you could see Italy.
Fall in love with that city.
What I didn't do
I wish I'd had a week in Dubrovnik. I wish I was still there. And I've got to go back, simply because there are still things I need to do there:
- Go up the cable car for a view from above the city
- Visit the nearby Peljesac Peninsula, which I hear is excellent wine country
- Visit more of the Game of Thrones filming sites near the city, such as Trsteno Arboretum
- Take a day trip into Bosnia and Herzegovina, to cross another European country off my list
- Sail away to Korcula, which someone said was a mini Dubrovnik
But those will have to wait for another visit. In the meantime, I'll have to contend myself with looking at the photos and remembering the magic.


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SLD02428 - Sold By Cle France €197,000 ref: SLD02428
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Situated just 10 minutes from Fougeres, IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, in a very quiet setting, we have this DETACHED FRENCH LONGERE PROPERTY facing South/West of 165m² (4 Bedrooms, possibility of having 6), with bread oven, wells and OUTBUILDINGS, all on an adjoining plot of more than one hectare, very well maintained.
Ground floor: living room of about 40m² on parquet floor, with fireplace (wood stove), exposed on two sides, garden access, kitchen (about 19m²), hallway distributor, office tiled floor (about 15m²), laundry, WC, shower room. Garage at each end of the house, garage level cellar.
First floor: landing mezzanine, 4 rooms on carpet exposed South/West (approximately 9, 12 and 14m²), hall, shower room, WC, insulated loft (approximately 12m²).
Wooden and aluminium windows, electric heating (1550 euros a year). Large outbuilding with drain pit.
Former Bread Oven to renovate. Well. Orchard. Very neat ensemble property.
The department of Ille-et-Vilaine is the oldest in Brittany with gentle rolling countryside, forests, dunes and marshes to the north. The English Channel is to the north, Lower Normandy to the east, Pays de la Loire to the east and south, Morbihan and Cotes-d'Armor to the west.
Ille-et-Vilaine's coastline heads westward from Mont-Saint-Michel to an estuary 5 miles west of Dinard and includes the rocky Cote d'Émeraude and the Rance River estuary where the towns of Saint-Malo and Dinard are located.
Rennes, the department's capital, is located centrally and is situated on the Ille et Rance Canal which connects the north flowing Rance river with the Vilaine river that flows south-westerly into the Atlantic.
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The cribs and crib accessories are one of the very first daycare furniture ordered by daycare centers. The changing stations are good for the baby while changing and feeding. The cubbies are multipurpose with essential partitions to store different utilities. The room dividers play a useful role in making smaller rooms suitable for different activities of the kids. The step stools make a toddler confident to reach out to a height. The wall mounted lockers make effective use of wall space to curb utilization of floor area. The storage and shelving offered by drawers, adjustable racks and multipurpose hangers prove to be valuable while furnishing the wardrobe.
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ETO's spring tour opens with a concert of highlights from the operas of which Rossini was most proud, those which contain his most brilliant writing for orchestra, and his most challenging vocal fireworks. These are his serious works including Otello and the rarely performed La donna del lago, Maometto II, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra and Ermione. John Andrews will conduct the full ETO orchestra.
Another kind of fun will be a new production of one of the world's most popular and compassionate of operas, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. During the course of one eventful day, Figaro and Susanna must overcome every obstacle put in their way by Count Almaviva and his cronies before they can finally be united as man and wife. Blanche McIntyre's production will focus on the social, racial and gender inequalities that exist in modern society, through the lens of a comedy performed by a company led by Ross Ramgobin as Figaro, Rachel Redmond as Susanna and Nadine Benjamin as the Countess.
Puccini's Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi were originally designed to be part of Il trittico, his trio of one-act operas each sharing the concealment of a death but played out in very different moods and styles. The double bill certainly provides a dramatic contrast, Il tabarro being a moody romance set in Paris and ending in a grotesque murder, and Gianni Schicchi a vivacious comedy set in Florence about a family inheritance. Directed by James Conway and Liam Steel respectively, they were highly praised when first performed by the company in 2011.
The English Touring Opera Spring tour opens at the Hackney Empire, London on February 22 with Rossini: Fireworks! and continues on February 28 with Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. The double bill of Puccini's Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi opens on March 2.


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Gamifying a Mobile App: Benefits, Dangers, and a Bit of Psychology
You have an idea of a cool mobile app, and then another thought strikes your mind: what if you and your team apply game design elements and principles to your application? What if you gamify it?
Before starting implementing this idea, check our introductory guide to the world of gamification.
Why You Should Gamify Your Mobile App
Here are three advantages of gamification:
1. Increased user engagement and an extra source of revenue.
An opportunity to earn rewards while using an app can increase user engagement and give you a chance to monetize your app. People are competitive by their nature, and you have probably experienced this yourself. Have you ever been captured by a game? Have you spent hours on completing one level after another? If yes, then you know how things work.
Games can be extremely captivating, especially when players level up every time they complete a challenge. With gamification, apps work in the same way. When users know that they can get something for using your app, they will spend more time in it. Rewards can be given for completion of certain challenges, making in-app purchases or spending time in the app.
2. A higher number of users.
Unlocking different achievements and earning rewards is great, but some users are looking not only for recognition — they want to become the best! If you allow your users to compete on the leaderboard, you will motivate them to play and use your app more often. And if they share their achievements, for instance, on popular social networks, your mobile app will attract new users.
And it is not only about competition and social networks — a properly gamified app can be much more interesting than its analog without any gamification. This is especially true for education, fitness, and other apps for life improvement.
For instance, Zombies, Run! became one of the biggest fitness games ever. It has already attracted over 1 million players, and it is not going to stop. Apart from helping users to keep fit, this app boasts an amazing scenario. Users have to run away from zombies and collect diverse supplies to rebuild the city — there are 200 missions to complete! And just to compare: Wahoo RunFit, another app for those users who like running, was downloaded around 10 thousand times (from Play Market). Not bad, but Zombies, Run! is still much more popular.
3. A greater acquaintance with your users.
If your users are able to share their progress on social networks, it will be easier for you to keep in touch with them and provide them with better experience. The better the experience is — the wider audience you get.
When Gamification is Not the Best Strategy Ever
Not every app needs to be gamified — this highly depends on your product's purposes. For instance, Wuppermann Steel, a Dutch company, once created a special board displaying stoppages and accidents. The purpose was noble — to reduce the number of incidents.
However, workers found the dashboard very depressing. What is worse, employees were divided into teams and compared for unprofessional behavior. To maintain the high score, teams did their best to leave problems for other teams. That was not an app, only a dashboard, but you got the idea — gamification shouldn't harm your users and make them feel depressed.
Implementing gamification just because you want your app to be gamified is also a bad thing to do — if you go for gamification strategy, it must have some kind of sense. Zappos is a great example here.
They have a really nice rewards program. Users earn points, climb the VIP ladder, and enjoy diverse cool things: free shipping, early access to products, and so on. That's amazing, but at some point they were giving out badges with no value. They were just meaningless, and that's it. The badges program is already over, and it was not the best page in the Zappos history.
Gamifying your application can also be a wrong choice if your app is going to be focused on a very wide audience — not all users appreciate gamification apps. However, in this case you can make the gamification feature optional.
How Gamification Works on a Psychological Level
Let's remember a few interesting things from the school anthropology course. When a person experiences a pleasant situation, dopamine, one of those chemicals which bring happiness, is released in the brain. Then, the mind tells a person to look for the same experience again, as it was good to have it. This is where the addiction may start.
When users take part in diverse competitions, complete challenges, get rewards, and level up, they gain positive user experience. As a result, their brain gets some dopamine, and they want to have this experience again. Being a part of a community is another reason why users download and install gamification apps. People are social creatures, and for most of them it is important to be a community or team member.
That's what Waze offers — it is something more than a simple app for drivers. It is an entire community of people working together to share information about accidents, traffic jams, and diverse road hazards. The maps are constantly updated, so users can always reach their destinations without any problems.
Besides, the app allows saving on gasoline, as drivers share reports about gas prices. Currently, Waze unites around 100 million drivers. They earn points (even for having the app running while driving!), level up, and help each other to deal with the traffic.
Gamification Can Pay Off Even Before it's Done
Users love gamification, and they are ready to support such projects even before they are released. Zombies, Run! collected money on Kickstarter, and they raised an amount six times larger than their initial goal. So if you are looking for funds on the development of your app, gamification can become a reason of your project's success on Kickstarter or any other crowdfunding platform.
All the more, gamifying a mobile app is not that expensive. No one makes you to equip your app with an entire set of features at once — you can start, for example, with adding only badges or competitions.
According to TechNavio and Business Wire, the value of the gamification market is expected to reach almost 12 billion by 2021, while in 2016 it was a bit less than 5 billion. The market of gamification apps exist, and it is developing, so why not to join the trend and release your own application? Thanks to gamification, your mobile app can attract more users and retain the existing ones, and bring you profit. Besides, now you know not only the advantages, but also what things to avoid. So don't hesitate to develop your application — we would be happy to try it one day!


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Miles By Molly - Welcome to my fundraising page!
I grew up outside playing basically every sport, whether it was out front in the street, or in an organized league. Starting at age seven, my goal was to become a collegiate athlete and I'm proud to say I made it happen! I decided to play field hockey in college, where I had a very successful career on and off the field. I was a three time All-American, four time Academic All-American, captain, broke nearly every record the field hockey program had, and set some new ones of my own.
As you can see, sports have been a huge part of my life and have made me the hard-working, self-assured, go-getter person I am today. I was fortunate enough to be born with full physical capabilities, and to be frank, I took it for granted up until a few years ago. Sports create a sense of confidence, community, inclusion, and empowerment. I believe everyone deserves a chance to participate in such meaningful experiences.
Now, I am challenging myself by running across the country (CA to NY) to help raise funds and awareness for those who challenge themselves every day at Challenged Athletes Foundation. I want to use my God-given athletic ability to help others find theirs. This 3,000 mile journey is going to be my biggest challenge yet…and that's the point! My intention is to spread awareness, promote inclusion, and unite people along the way.
By making a donation towards my fundraising goal you will provide individuals with physical challenges with the tools necessary to find success in sports — and in life!
To put things into persective:
- $50 grants a WCMX athlete a 1-month kids skate park membership
- $100 covers the entry fee for a wheelchair racer's first marathon of the season
- $250 provides 2 months of specialized adaptive Crossfit coaching
- $1,000 sends wounded veteran to Warrior Games
- $2,500 travel grant for child + parent to come to CAF 3-day Adaptive Kids Surf Camp
- $10,000 is equipment and travel expenses for a Winter Paralympian to compete in PyeongChang, South Korea at the 2018 Paralympics.
- $15,000 for a running foot for an amputee child
Thank you for your support, much love!
Molly Cuevas


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During his university years, he was involved in clinical work at his father's small animal clinic. After graduation, he worked in Budapest in a first opinion and referral practice before moving to the UK in 2016 to broaden his knowledge. He worked in Northamptonshire and East Sussex as a general practitioner in first opinion practices before joining Grove Lodge Vets at the beginning of 2018.
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Hand Made Christmas Ornaments
Each year my mom sends hand-made Christmas ornaments to family and friends. They are usually very intricate in both structure and painting. It's a bit harder now with our large family size but ours are typically personalized with our first names painted on the ornament. She does exceptional work on crafts like this. We always encouraged her to make a business out of her various crafty things but she was never interested.
Before the tree came down this year I decided to grab quick shots of some of the ornaments. While the crafts stand on their own artistically I'll throw out a few comments on how I shot them. First off, I didn't light them except with the lights on the tree and the ambient (tungsten) light in the room. I used a tripod and bracketed the shots thinking that I might even do some HDRs given the large difference between the shadows and the lights on the tree. In the end the only HDR is shown at the top of the post…it's just OK photographically IMO. I didn't spend any time in Photoshop trying to make it better. I experimented with aperture. I didn't get enough DOF with f/2.8 — even when considering only the ornaments and not the tree and lights. Using f/22 gave interesting starbursts in the lights of course but required either very long shutter speeds at low ISO or a higher ISO which I avoided since I was planning on HDRs. Of course I could use any shutter speed I wanted but I was simply too lazy to do manual exposures/bracketing above the 30 second maximum sans "bulb" mode. I didn't want to do starburst HDRs that badly. So, I ended up processing individual frames with apertures ranging from f/6.3 to get some bokeh vs. f/22 to get the starburst effect. Lightroom was used for some simple adjustments — mainly clarity, contrast, sharpening, and vignette. A variety of combinations are posted here.
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For those with limited mobility the Centre is able to provide a warm and friendly service to ensure all customers can enjoy their shopping experience. Use of these facilities must be booked in advance of your visit. All users must register before use of any equipment (personal ID will be required e.g. passport, driving license or similar and a registration fee will be charged, please call or visit the Shopmobility unit for further details. There is a nominal hire charge of £3 per session of up to 4 hours this includes scooters and power chairs and £1 hire charge for a manual chair hire. We do operate a visitor manual chair hire of £4 per session up to 4 hours, please see Shopmobility for any further detail.
Please note, the Shopmobility facility is currently closed until further notice. For further information, please visit our customer service desk in centre or call 01952 238009.
The Sat Nav postcode to direct you to the Shopmobility Unit and nearest car park (Debenhams) is TF3 4BN
Disabled toilets can be found in New Row and Sherwood Row.
For more information please call 01952 238005
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Visit our Quiet Room, located within our Shopmobility Unit, and experience dimmed lighting and soft furnishings. The room also provides a quiet space for people affected by autism if they require some time out from a busy shopping environment.
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Well, hello everyone. It's been a bit since I've written a blog post… I'm excited to be back! Side note from this blog, I've been doing a lot of thinking about my blog and how to spice things up and bring more updates to you all. Without getting into too much detail… get ready for more updates, more blog posts, and a whole lot more inspo, people.
But back to the post… celebrities killing the body positive movement lately. Yes please. As you have probably noticed, I follow the celebrity scene pretty closely. Kind of a guilty pleasure? And since starting The Curve Confessions, I've realized now more than ever they are talking about body image. How cool for my blog, right?! Exactly what I was thinking.
This Sunday, gather some inspiration from each of these amazing ways celebrities are supporting ALL OF US in the body positive movement.
- Beyonce: Since I know there's a lot of ladies out there who follow and love the Queen Bey, I think her recent interview and cover with Vogue was SO important. If you missed it, check it out. She talks about her post-partum body and how she's loving her "FUPA" (her words, not mine!), and how she gave herself self-love and self-care, and embraced being curvier following her complicated pregnancy. Hell yeah, girl. In my opinion, the message here is listen to your body and rock it no matter what stage you're at. And I'm so glad she could bring that message to the masses in this interview.
- Emmy Rossum: If you aren't familiar with the name, Emmy stars in Shameless (aka the best show ever). And not only is she an incredible actress, but I've also been catching that she's an awesome person, too. Shortly after the whole Kardashian's calling each other "so skinny" thing and talking about their weight (Kim saying on her Instagram story that she's 119 pounds), Emmy has been promoting some crazy good messages about weight (and how it's so not important). She wrote a series of Instagram posts asking her followers if they wanted to know how much she weighed – followed by an image of her with things about herself that had absolutely nothing to do with weight. She then encouraged followers to post their own photos – and directed them to an online community called "I Weigh," which is a movement to look beyond the scale. I'm SO here for this and love Emmy even more now. I encourage everyone to follow both Emmy (@emmy) and I Weigh (@i_weigh) for more inspiration.
- Amy Schumer: Okay, Schumer is always a proponent of telling women everywhere to rock the skin they're in. I'm beyond late to the party, but I watched her movie 'I Feel Pretty' and it gave me all the feels. She basically breaks down society's expectations of women and the pressure we put on ourselves, but sheds light on the fact that no matter how you look – EVERYONE feels their own insecurities. But beyond that, it encourages women to have confidence no matter what their size is (something I hope you all feel when following my blog!). In addition to her movie that I was completely late to the game on, she also recently spoke at the BlogHer 2018 conference, encouraging women to lift each other up. Basically, I'm just all in for Amy Schumer's support of women and positive body image, and I hope you are too.
These women are just a few examples of celebrities in the public eye talking about issues that are SO important for girls and women everywhere to hear and practice. This is the stuff I love seeing – and only hope to continue seeing.
Question for you: Do you like the celebrity stuff? Do you want to see more of it? I hope so! But that's also okay if not. Leave me a comment or drop me an email if you have anything specific you want to see me write about. firstname.lastname@example.com. And if you're not following me on Instagram, get going! @thecurveconfessions
Have a kick butt Sunday, you all. Oh also, speaking of celebs, if you haven't listened to Ariana Grande's new album Sweetener, please go do that.
XOXO, Kenzie


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