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Memorable Monday: Boston Strong!
Meb Keflezighi crossed the finish line of the Boston Martathon as the "The Star-Spangled Banner" played over Boylston Street, where thousands gathered to see the end of the race.
The Eritrean born Meb Keflezighi, who became an American citizen, was the first American man to win in Boston since 1983. A former New York City Marathon champion, Keflezighi was a silver medalist in the 2004 Olympics. He embraced his determination to win by wearing the names of the 2013 bombing victims on his racing bib.
As he got closer to the finish line, Meb said, "… I just kept thinking, 'Boston Strong. Boston Strong.' I was thinking give everything you have."
Later, Keflezighi expressed words that many in our nation have thought during this year of recovery and resilience.
"I'm blessed to be an American and God bless America and God Bless Boston for this special day."
Boston Strong. A blessing, indeed!
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Fantabulous Friday: Read, Read, Read!
The Editorial Assistant, Mom Karen, has had a particularly busy week and begged off writing the blog. So, here we are on Friday with a few words of inspiration!
I was a guest at the Read-In at the S.C. Statehouse yesterday, and the organizers were very considerate to let the Editorial Assistant tag along. I had so much fun. I received lots of pats and hugs, and I even got in a few dance steps with the fabulous drum line from Benedict College. It is an honor for us to be asked, of course, and, once we are there, people always ask lots of questions about me and our books.
Some 1,400 students, teachers, parents and guests attended this year's Read-In that honored Dr. Seuss and his wonderful book, "Oh, The Places You'll Go." Even S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley was there to participate, but I was the only poodle in the crowd.
The program featured people from around the world reading parts of Dr. Seuss' book in their native languages. We're offering these great words to you in English, and with graduation season just ahead we know that you'll find a chance to share them with a favorite graduate in your family, among friends or right in your own neighborhood!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
This is good advice for any of us — poodles, included, though we often have to steer our humans in the direction we choose! The Editorial Assistant was appalled when I headed in the direction of a student and his sandwich. I'm sure he wanted to share!
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Memorable Monday: Eiffel's last word!
"I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am." — Gustave Eiffel
We are celebrating the 125th anniversary of the March 31, 1889, dedication of the Eiffel Tower.
One of the world's most famous landmarks, the tower was built to honor the centenary of the French Revolution and to be the opening arch to the 1889 World's Fair. A design competition was held by the French government, which was planning an international exposition for the centenary.
More than 100 designs submitted, but the committee charged with the competition chose the design by engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and then built the monument. Well-known for his bridge-building expertise, Eiffel designed the framework for the Statue of Liberty. The wrought iron tower featuring a lattice work design was 10,000 feet tall, and, at the time, was the tallest structure in the world.
The tower's was opposed by many in the French arts community. Some opposed its design, others believed that it would mar the beauty of Paris, and some were concerned about its safety.
Undaunted by the protests, Eiffel moved forward. The tower was built in two years time and was under budget. At the dedication, Eiffel said the tower represented "… not only the art of the modern engineer, but also the century of Industry and Science in which we are living, and for which the way was prepared by the great scientific movement of the eighteenth century and by the Revolution of 1789, to which this monument will be built as an expression of France's gratitude."
Just in time for the 125th anniversary, a news article reported last week that more photos of the Eiffel Tower are shared on Instagram than of any other landmark in the world. Times Square finished second; Big Ben was third.
And to those naysayers: We say that Gustave Eiffel has had the last word on the value of his work!
("Eiffel Tower Paris At Dusk" by Vichaya Kiatying-Angsulee, freedigitalphotos.net)
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Thoughtful Thursday: It's Today!
We can always count on our friend Winnie the Pooh to put things in perspective for us.
The beloved fictional character was the creation of A. A. Milne. Pooh made his debut in the book "Winnie-the-Pooh," published in 1926 and followed by "The House at Pooh Corner" in 1928. Mr. Milne's character also was featured in his books of poetry, "When We Were Very Young" and "Now We Are Six."
Winnie the Pooh was brought to life in movies and short feature films by Disney, giving a face and voice to the lovable bear and the many friends around him.
Through his innocent charm, Pooh gave us many other delightful and inspirational lessons:
On Living Without Someone You Love: "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
On Friendship and Love: "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
On Caring: "Some people care too much. I think it's called love."
On Forgetfulness: "I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten."
On Courage: "It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal."Read More
Thoughtful Thursday: Just say spring!
Finally, the calendar has moved us to spring. Many of us have been wishing that winter would take a hike, and now it is official! Winter is moving out!
OK, maybe nature hasn't gotten the memo quite yet. We still have cold weather in many parts our world, and the earth isn't completely green. But we can look at the calendar and say, "It is spring!" And that gives our hearts hope that warmer days, bright blooms and green grass are just ahead.
On this Thoughtful Thursday, when we're thinking of a world awash in color, we've found some quotes on spring to share with you:
"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade." – Charles Dickens, author
"Spring is the time of plans and projects." – Leo Tolstoy, author
"Spring shows us what God can do with a drab and dirty world." – Rev. Virgil A. Kraft, author, teacher and lecturer
"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." — Robert H. Schuller, minister, speaker and author
"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes." — Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician and writerRead More
Mixed-Up Monday: An Enchanted Time!
St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. ~Adrienne CookRead More


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(July 1, 2019, Editor's Note: This program has been discontinued. Contact Dual Enrollment for other opportunities.)
Bryan College's Office of Spiritual Formation is excited to announce the expansion of the well-established Italy program with a new opportunity designed for high school students.
Participating in this Italy study tour is an academic adventure at a competitive price, according to spiritual formation's Coordinator for Strategic Support Anna Stewart. Students will have the chance to earn three hours of college credit over their 18-day trip overseas, where they will learn from faculty and staff, soak in Italian culture and arts, and watch God expand their view of the world they live in while they complete the FA211 intro to fine arts course.
Bryan College's longtime partnership with Saints Bible Institute in San Lorenzo, Italy, has given students the opportunity to invest in the lives of those they meet and see Christ as the Lord of all nations, not just the one in which they had been raised. Furthermore, the tour will enable high school students to experience the arts first hand, helping them "to integrate a knowledge of the Bible and liberal arts" as the course syllabus states. Students will walk in the footsteps of the great artists on the streets of Venice, Rome, and Florence, and behold with their own eyes legendary works of art many only dream of seeing.
"Our dual enrollment fine arts trip to Italy represents the best that education has to offer: excellent teaching combined with real-life application," says Matt Benson, vice president of spiritual formation. "This is right at the heart of Bryan College's mission to educate students to become servants of Christ to make a difference in today's world."
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After several months of negotiations, a majority of the workers at the Red Lion Hotel Seattle Airport signed a petition authorizing a boycott of their hotel. While the workers have not officially called for a boycott at this time, they are letting the public know that a boycott is a distinct possibility in the near future in the event they cannot reach a fair agreement with the hotel.
The workers, many of whom have worked at the Red Lion for close to a decade, are fighting for contract language that would protect their jobs and their Union if the hotel or restaurant (Gregory's) were to be sold or if a subcontractor took over the work. The company has stood strong in its opposition to "no subcontracting" language and full protections for restaurant workers if the Red Lion were to sell the restaurant to a separate company. At this date there has been no agreement from the company about contracting out hotel jobs.
You can support the Union members at the Red Lion Seattle Airport by calling the company and urging them to settle a fair contract that includes strong job security language. Tell them that you appreciate the workers who keep the hotel running and that you will honor the boycott when it goes into effect.
Call and/or fax Krisann Hatch, Red Lion's Human Resources Vice President.
Phone: (509) 777-6350 Fax: (509) 325-7324
Please utilize our force majeure language in all contracts with the Red Lion Hotel Seattle Airport to protect your organization in the event of a labor dispute and check with UNITE HERE! Local 8 before booking new business. Stay tuned regarding the official launch of the worker-called boycott.
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Sony Online Considering One-Price Subscription For All Its Games
Soon, you may be able to get premium access to all of Sony Online's stable of games, including Planetside 2 and the upcoming Everquest Next, for one monthly fee.
On Reddit, SOE head John Smedley detailed the company's possible plans:
"We are considering (and are likely going to move forward with) a plan that means if you subscribe to one of our games you are a subscriber to all our games (this applies to PC titles only btw).. all for the current $14.99 a month. That's a benefit most companies simply can't offer because they don't have our portfolio of games. The goal would be to let you pick an item in each game you play. Some of you might say "well who cares..I only play Planetside 2. How is that a benefit to me?" My answer is simple - we've got a great lineup of games, some of which aren't announced yet that cater to a lot of players. We have EQN and EQNL coming along with other..... games... that PS2 players might just like."
It's important to note this would not affect players ability to play the games for free if they like, only offer more flexibility for premium subscribers to choose to get perks across multiple games. Smedley also said, because of business restrictions like the inability to use SOE's Station Cash currency, this new subscription model would not be coming to PS3 or PS4, only offered on PC.
Our Take:
This sounds like smart business to me, and a win for both SOE and consumers. I like it because it doesn't change the price of a subscription or force players to pay for anything extra they don't want. However, allowing them premium access and items in other games for no extra charge might encourage a Planetside player to check out DC Universe or vice versa.
Also, did anyone else notice this quote? - "We have EQN and EQNL coming along with other..... games... that PS2 players might just like." I wonder if this means a new Champions of Norrath game is coming?


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The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Phillies in a championship season create about the same excitement as the start of deer season does across Pennsylvania. Deer season and hunting is also big business with hundreds of thousand of people traveling within and to Pennsylvania's great hunting lands.
Like hunting in our woods, drilling is a very old activity in Pennsylvania, where 57,000 gas wells operate, the second highest number in the nation. Yet, the advent of the Marcellus shale boom has focused attention on the impact of drilling on hunting once more.
At this point, Pennsylvania is home to about 4,000 drilled Marcellus wells, with about half that number actually producing gas. So what has been the impact of gas drilling on hunting this season?
Not much, according to a front page article by Donald Gilliland in today's Patriot News. See http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/marcellus_shale_natural_gas_dr_1.html.
The article is largely anecdotal, though it reports the bear harvest is the second highest on record. It mentions some complaints about truck traffic and touches on fears about wildlife drinking drilling wastewater at impoundments.
But it seems that 2011 is another year when hunting and gas drilling have co-existed like many years in Pennsylvania's long, proud history.


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Brilliant article and thoughts..well worth a read,,go follow The stone club..great blog!
*** disclaimer: the following is just my thoughts. At the moment people still have the freedom to say what they think, not for much longer, but I'm going to post as much as I can while I still have the right. Thought crime isn't here yet, although it is just around the corner, Mark my words!
Don't judge what I say too harshly or even believe it, do your own research, I could be wrong.
Although anyone who doesn't feel worried about what is happening to our human rights, all this mass surveillance, talk of thought crime, all this persecution of the unemployed, immigrants, Muslims & trade unions – should be. ***
The more this bullsh#t war on terrorism develops the more convinced I am it is a conspiracy. Not just to subjugate us here in Britain, but the whole world. I believe, & these are just my thoughts…
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Rockport's Downtown Merchants Group would like to invite their Cape Ann neighbors and friends to shop locally this holiday season, and have designated a full week in December as Shop Local Week. From Sunday, December 15 through Sunday, December 22, treat yourself and your family to the delightful experience of holiday season shopping amidst the Christmas tree lined streets and beautifully decorated shops of Rockport!
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Being offered to take charge and coach these kids was a big honor. I was nervous but yet very excited for this experience that not many have the opportunity to do. I expected the kids to not be interested and not want to participate in learning to play. I thought they would be quick to judge me and the other player and that would affect us trying to teach them. Also I was afraid that I would fail in being a coach that got them interested and wanting them to play this sport.
Why I choose this
What got me so interested in this was the experience being so unique. Not everyone can say they went and taught another culture a new sport. I also picked this because I knew that I would enjoy myself and learn things that I didn't know about myself.
While I was their I hope to gain new friendships among the players. I also hope to gain some new knowledge of whats its like to be a leader or a head role.
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I knew ahead of time that we were going on the pueblo during a ritual time. This meant the pueblo was close but we had permission to be on it. So I expected to not learn much. But I hope I could learn a little about the culture and some things about how they live and what its like to live on the pueblo.
I thought I would benefit in being able to share my experience with college and other people. With this experience I thought I can use it to help get scholarships. I also thought that doing this would open my mind up to different community service projects.
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Big Red Car here. Starting to work on finding an ark contractor with all the rain in the ATX — could just be me cause we need the rain, I guess.
So yesterday, The Boss shares some thoughts on how CEOs should protect their flanks (jobs really) and The Boss gets a couple of emails from some venture capital friends of his. [Yeah, I know, makes me a bit uneasy myself and I'm just a Big Red Car.] Continue reading


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The Four Heatons Traders Association and its members have for the past eight years put on the annual Summer and Christmas Festivals, and have nurtured and grown them over that time until they blossomed into the much-loved fixture in the Heatons calendar they are. But we at the 4HTA have become a victim of our own success; for those 4HTA members who volunteer to run it, that burden has become excessive, and diverts significant time and energies away from other equally valuable parts of our core mission at the 4HTA. In short, we needed to look at how best we can take the festivals forward to continue, and increase upon, their success, but to spread the workload involved a little further.
The Steering Group and Membership of the 4HTA have been consulting interested bodies and other Traders' Associations and Events Managers on how best to go forward with the Heatons Festivals. I would like to thank all those who contributed to the debate for their time and their wisdom.
The 4HTA have decided that we will have a 'fallow year', to use Glastonbury's phrase, in 2017 and there will be no Summer or Christmas Festivals this year. This not just to give the park a little extra time to recover, but to also give us time to set up a new stand-alone community interest (or similar) company which will, we believe, be the best vehicle to take the festivals forward to bigger and better things in 2018.
We hope that this new Heatons Festival company we are creating will be able to draw its Steering Group and volunteers not just from the members of the 4HTA as in previous years, but also from the great pool of talent that is our local Four Heatons community. In the coming months we will be actively seeking those willing to give their time and energy to make the relaunched festivals even better in 2018, and to help raise even more money for good causes in the Heatons.
In the meantime the 4HTA members will be throwing their weight behind other local events so we won't be resting on our laurels.
May we thank you for all the support you have given the festivals that the 4HTA started eight years ago, and for supporting them year after year. If you would like to be part of the team that will re-launch them bigger and better in 2018 please get in touch and register your interest with us at email@example.com
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This is my official January 8 post–on January 8th! What a concept! 🙂
And THIS should be fun!
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The writing prompt from the Ultimate Blog Challenge for day 8 of January is:
Day 8: Time for a Contest or Promo
People love contests!
Why don't you come up with some type of contest
to engage your readers.
SO … I decided it might be fun to have an "Online Scavenger Hunt" and the prize will be a customized pillow, made by me for you! 😉 You can choose this style or another, in your own color choices and photo — this is a $40 value prize!
Here are the directions to participate in the Scavenger Hunt:
*I will give you three pictures of items to find.
*There will be one picture from each of my three K-Lee's Kreations sites:
–>My Etsy shop
–>My Bonanza booth
*You will have to find all three and then come back and post a comment that you found them. THEN send the following details for each item to my email at klees.kreations at gmail dot com (in proper format, of course): name of the item, price, and site where you located it.
*The first person who correctly provides all that info will win the pillow. It will be based on the time I receive the email.
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Let the game begin!
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LOS ANGELES – Quick, name the number of jobs where taking your clothes off is mandatory to get the job, and Washington internships don't count.
For 16 would-be newscasters, that would be with Naked News, which uses the tag line "The Program With Nothing to Hide." That includes its on-air talent. The 10 women who present the news start out their reports dressed, but as they read the news, they slowly strip down until they are stark naked.
There is a similar gimmick in Russia, except their newscasters do this on the regular TV networks. Naked News is Internet-only, for now. Launched in December 1999, Naked News now gets 6 million unique visitors per month, two-thirds of what CNN draws to its website, according to Kathy Pinckert, vice president of the company.
The company is not only growing and profitable enough to expand and add male on-air talent, but it has also signed an agreement with an as-yet-unnamed cable company to bring its strip show to cable television. Details on the deal will be disclosed soon, Pinckert said.
The company came to Los Angeles, the capital of plastic surgeons and wanna-be stars, looking for a few good newsreaders this week. The final round of 16 came back to take the final screen test, which meant performing in the nude.
After some quick tutoring on how to pose for the camera (no covering yourself with your hands), the applicant stepped into the bathroom, undressed, and came out to do one final audition in front of four Naked News employees and five reporters.
None of the 10 on-air current naked 'casters are professional journalists, Pinckert said, but the people working the copy behind the scenes are. For most of the people auditioning, comfort in front of the camera was more important than pedigree, although most had some experience with a camera to one degree or another.
In the case of Paul Fitzgerald, 42, he is a nudist who's perfectly comfortable with the role and was fit and tanned and completely at ease around everyone. "There used to be a point in my life where I'd ask, 'Is this going to be on the Internet?' Now that's not a concern," he joked.
Fitzgerald was able to retire as a painter in Florida after some good financial deals. He came to Hollywood to write a book and has acted as an extra, and thought his affinity for acting and nude camps were a perfect pairing. "What better job for someone who's an avid nudist?" he asked.
While nudity is the hook to pull in viewers, Pinckert insists the content is what makes people come back.
"The response we get from people tells us they come back to listen," she said. "The nudity is captivating, but so is the content. You don't grow and you don't become successful and look to growing this news organization without quality. The novelty would have worn off probably around March."
Also auditioning was Kitana Baker, a 6-foot Amerasian woman who claimed she worked for the Playboy Channel's Night Call 411 show. She tried out for the chance to do something different, she said. "It was fun and interesting to do. It's a very unique form of newscasting that brings a little spark to the news," she said.
While 16 were auditioned, Naked News had no set number of people it would hire. All prospective news readers were asked if they were willing to trade sunny Los Angeles for Toronto, Canada, where the company is based, and they all said yes.
At least they won't have to do a report from the field during a Canadian winter. Fortunately for them, the job just involves reading wire reports. And, they save a lot of money on wardrobe.
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No.13: The Royal Pavilion, Brighton
issue 42 Apr / May 2008
In this issue, Tim Burrell-Saward of Light Bureau chooses his favourite.
This sentiment can also be applied to the Prince Regents patronage of John Nash and the creation of the Royal Pavillion. He would no doubt have approved of his palace being illuminated in bright pink, as the style of the Pavilion, although referred to in architectural circles as 'Regency', is more 'high camp'. It was built as a giant folly bursting with colourful inventive décor and imaginative oriental chandeliers and is documented to have been used as a sort of extended party game: a stage-set for private theatricals. Adorned with gilded dragons, carved palm trees and imitation bamboo staircases, it fuses the style of Asian exoticism with English eccentricity.Before taking on the more serious role of King George IV, the Prince Regent rented a farmhouse in Brighton in order to take in the sea air and enjoy liaisons with his mistress. In 1787 he employed Henry Holland to extend the farmhouse into a neo-classical building known as the 'Marine Pavilion'. Between 1815 and 1823, at a cost of £500,000, John Nash was employed to transform the Pavilion, enlarging the building and adding the domes and minarets by superimposing a cast iron framework over Holland's work. Nash was the darling of fashionable aristocratic society, eclectic, humorous and audacious in style, recklessly mixing forms, motifs and details from different historical periods and styles. Described variously as vulgar, decadent and an outrageous extravagance with noted diarist of the day, John Wiliam Croker quoted as saying; "it is, I think, an absurd waste of money and will be a ruin in half a century". It is however, indisputably a romantic flight of fancy and is seen as a physical realisation of many aspects of Regency society.
Although it is Indian on the outside, the opulent interiors are Chinese and were designed by Robert Jones and Frederick Crace who created an exquisitely detailed riot of colour, texture, pattern and light. The extraordinary interior of the Music Room is lit by nine lotus-shaped chandeliers. The Long Gallery admits daylight through its large painted glass leylights and is illuminated by night with a combination of a large oriental style chandelier and painted lanterns. Even in the Great Kitchen where the ceiling is supported by four cast iron columns with painted copper palm leaves, daylight enters via the high lantern with its twelve sash windows. But the most spectacular interior is the Banqueting Hall, designed with a shallow dome. From the centre of the dome hangs a chandelier, 30 feet long, held in the claws of a silvered dragon suspended from the apex in the ceiling, while below, through a fountain of glass, six small dragons exhale light through lotus glass shades.
After George IV died, no-one appreciated his creation and Queen Victoria after visiting in 1837; "The Pavilion is a strange, odd, Chinese looking place, both outside and inside. Most of the rooms are low, and I can only see a morsel of the sea, from one of my sitting room windows" gutted the entire palace. The Pavilion was sold to the town of Brighton for £53,000 in 1850 and wasn't used until World War 1 as a hospital for wounded Indian and West Indian servicemen. After many decades of neglect, a programme of restoring the stonework and structure of the Pavilion began in 1982, lasting ten years and costing over £10 million. The programme to reinstate the interior decorative schemes approved by George IV in the 1820s still continues today.
The Pavilion currently recieves approximately 500,00 vistors a year.
"The Royal Pavilion is as close to a physical representation of the spirit of the city of Brighton as you are ever likely to find – bold, brash, gaudy and leftfield. It's the focal point of a city made up of oddballs and undesirables, artists and deviants, and with its history of debauchery, it is well-suited to the role.
There is something about its unashamed exoticism and sublime ridiculousness that resonated with me from the moment I saw it. Where else could you find vast Indian-inspired onion-shaped cupolas next to intricately carved full-size oriental dragons without having to visit a theme park? Perhaps that's what makes it so appealing – it feels like it was put there to make you smile.
In 2004, Brighton Council decided to celebrate the Pride Festival by bathing the palace in a lurid pink light. To suddenly have one of the most prominent icons of the City display its apparent acceptance and encouragement of homosexuality was a refreshingly bold statement to make as not everybody in the city approved.
Technically it was a cheap, easy and un-complicated feat to achieve, but you really have to admire the balls that must have been required to see it through to fruition."
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A screen goddess, a rockstar's daughter and everyone's favourite elf princess, Liv Tyler lets her hair down as she chats with Azza Arif in Shanghai about motherhood, Gunpowder, and the importance of a good bodysuit.
Whether you stumbled upon the existence of Liv Tyler in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, fell in love with her half-elven character Arwen in The Lord of the Rings, or admired her startling role as the sinister cult leader Meg Abbott in HBO's The Leftovers, the stunning actress has always occupied a special place in the hearts of those of us who grew up in the '90s. I, for one, have had an unwavering girl crush since Armageddon.
There I was, at the Presidential suite of The Langham Shanghai, bright-eyed on a Wednesday morning, dithering over whether to start with the much-anticipated cover shoot, or dive head-first into our interview. Liv turns up, dressed in a luscious pastel floral coat and plush hotel slides; her obsidian long waves framing her high, sweeping cheekbones and signature pillowy lips. She looked as beautiful (if not, even more) in person as she did decades ago when the entertainment world first laid its eyes on her in Aerosmith's music video Crazy. "I hope I didn't keep you all waiting for too long," she said grinning, chiming hellos all around. She was so ethereal, so luminous, and almost otherworldly; so much so, that I felt the room actually light up with her presence.
My first impression of Liv was that she was refreshingly grounded. Perhaps that is what motherhood does to a person – it's only been less than a year since she gave birth to her third child, Lula Rose Gardner. "I love being a mom." She gushes in her signature lullaby voice. "I remember being about six and always knowing that I wanted to have children and be a mother and have a family. And I'm very grateful to be able to do that. It's the most important thing in my life; my relationship with my children and my family is how I measure my happiness and success. When I know everything is well at home, I feel good."
The Tyler-Gardner family- includes Lula, the couple's son Sailor Gene as well as an older son each from their previous marriages—have settled permanently in London not too long ago. While meeting up with her agent, she casually mentioned that she was looking to find a project in Europe that she could do in the next couple of months, whilst being able to stay close to home. As fate would have it, a week later she was presented with an opportunity to cast in the three-part BBC period drama Gunpowder. "It was of those things that I definitely wasn't planning on doing at that moment, as I just had Lula and I had just moved," says Liv. "I had a lot of other things that were at the forefront of my important list, but then it was such a great and wonderful opportunity and a really exciting challenge, so I thought 'you know what? I'm going to do this!' And it all just happened really fast."
Set in 1605, England, the three-part series chronicles the Catholic's plot to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I. "The story revolves around religion, and what was going on at that time between the Catholics and the Church of England, and there were a lot of really harsh and horrible things going on," she says. "And I wasn't raised a religious person at all, even though I am very spiritual, so it was very interesting for me to learn about that time in history and all the historical parts about it and get to know the characters on a really personal level, because I think sometimes when you shoot things that are a part of history they can seem very removed. The way the writer wrote the story and the way the actors portrayed the characters—you felt like you could empathise with their motives and actions, whether you agreed with them or not."
"I don't base my unhappiness on somebody else's opinion"
The part Italian, German, Polish, English and African-American actress played the role of Anne Vaux, who, for 20 years, secretly protected Henry Garnet, leader of the English Jesuit Mission. "My character is really interesting. She is very strong and very independent for that time period. She is not married, and chooses to live a life that probably a lot of them were not accustomed to at that time, so it was very risky for her."
Although she has been acting since age 16, the daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and model Bebe Buell doesn't revel in the limelight. She also doesn't let negative, or positive, comments get to her. "I don't really pay that much attention to bad reviews. A good comment or a bad comment goes through one ear and goes out the other, and I don't mean that in an arrogant way at all," says the actress with a wry smile. "You could give me the most amazing compliment which would really touch my heart, but I'd force myself to forget about it. And someone might say something horrible, but I just think 'oh that's their opinion' and let it go, unless it's something I personally feel I could do better at."
Dress & cape, Dior.
She also distances herself from comments about her work and instead has learnt to just enjoy the process of filmmaking and hope for the best. "I don't base my unhappiness on somebody else's opinion," says Liv. "The post-production process can take a year, in which they can edit and change things, or the movie can turn out completely different than what you thought, and so I always sort of happily separate myself at that point and wait and see. But the real special part about it (filming) is the experience of making it, more than the moment it comes out. It's always a sweet surprise when people like something, and it makes you feel excited when it connects in that kind of way. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't, and you never really know. Part of it is luck, and part of it is quality."
"After three children and nearly turning 40, I am doing my first lingerie campaign!"
While we wait for lunch to be served, the conversation shifts to her obsession for lingerie—bodysuits to be precise. She shares with me how ecstatic she was when international lingerie brand, Triumph, approached her to be the face of their luxurious line, Essence. And believe it or not, this was the very first global campaign she has ever done for a lingerie brand. "Crazy right? Especially after three children and nearly turning 40, I am doing my first lingerie campaign!" she exclaims. "I love lingerie so much, and collecting different pieces. As a woman, every article of clothing needs a different undergarment: whether you are wearing a white dress, or black pants, you always need something different," she reveals. "And what I like about Triumph is that they have a variety of different shapes and sizes for you to choose from, and it is nice to be able to have the styles that you like. I carry with me this massive bag with all my different underwear bits everywhere I go, because you will never know what you may need."
Coat, Bally, Lingerie Essence by Triumph
Liv has always existed in her own sphere, living by her own rules; but the American sweetheart reveals that she is far from being competitive when it comes to anything and everything. "I'm like that with everything, I'm so weird, even with sports! I'm not a very competitive person, I'm quietly ambitious. Obviously within myself, I am very hardworking, and I set goals for myself, but I'm not a very competitive person by nature. Even when I'm watching a basketball game or something, I can see the good in both sides of the team. I guess I am neutral."
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I will be reviewing The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron for sfrevu.com later this month. But as it is still some time away, I really just wanted to do a brief write-up about it to let you know that it really is aces.
This is from Orbit's site:
Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief.
But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age – and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners – a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls – he's going to put his plan into effect.
The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he'll need to steal some big things. But he'll start small for now. He'll just steal something that no one will miss – at least for a while.
Like a king.
Eli Monpress is a rogue and a scoundrel and we love those. His single act of stealing a king sets in motion events he can't begin to have conceived.
I started reading The Spirit Thief on Monday morning and moved through it so quickly because the writing is so engaging. The secondary characters are also well scripted with Eli actually being the one you're not entirely sure of. I loved the mystery factor surrounding him. And there is hardly any back-story to these characters which is just fantastic. You get to know them very well, very quickly as the story unfolds. The world building is intricate and clever and never boring. I stood no chance as a reader. I am completely in love with Eli, Josef (the swordsman) and Nico (well, what is Nico exactly?) and with Miranda (the Spiritualist aka wizard). I cannot wait to read the other two books in the series.
Read the first two chapters here, on Ms. Aaron's website.
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Lovely piece thank you. I have also found some interesting writing on illness and storytelling in "Healing Fiction" by James Hillman, the wonderful Clarissa Pinkola Estez who weaves myth and fairytales into pathology and "Archetypal Medicine" by Alfred J. Ziegler…allows the stories of the body to be listened to in a new way, psyche through soma…
I suppose it's inevitable that we return to the same themes again and again in the course of a writing career, particularly – as is inevitably the case – the same damn things keep cropping up.
Take illness, for example. From an early age, I linked illness with storytelling. My father was a GP, my mother had been a nurse throughout World War Two, both in London during the Blitz and in what was then called 'The East'. I grew up listening to medical stories. In the village I would hear people talking about their illnesses. Sometimes I would hear their views (when they didn't notice I was there) on my father, of what a fine gentleman and doctor he undoubtedly was, but of how they 'wished sometimes he would take a firmer hand with people and tell them what was what'. I, as his son, had evolved a somewhat contrary impression, but that, of course, is to be expected.
Walter Benjamin speculates somewhere about the possible relationship that exists between the art of storytelling and the healing of illness. I know what he means, and have been circling around it, on and off, all my life, much of the second half of which, thus far, I have spend as a chronic, or recidivist patient.
Many, or most of my favourite writers, have been consistently and wretchedly ill, or bed-ridden, or rather, have spent long tracts of time in bed. Coleridge, De Quincey, Stevenson, Proust . . . I am well aware that, like myself, this list (which could be greatly extended) includes those who are termed to have 'self-inflicted' illnesses brought on by their vices or addictions. But until last week I had never read Virginia Woolf's wonderful little essay 'On Being Ill'. If indeed it can be called an essay, rather than a series of digressions on a theme. I found a very attractive edition, published on nice paper, by The Paris Press in 2002, with an Introduction by Hermione Lee, which I can recommend.
The essay was first published by TS Eliot in his New Criterion magazine in January 1926, despite his unenthusiastic response to it. The essay was, we learn from Woolf's later correspondence, written in bed, never a bad place to write, I find personally. But Woolf was concerned: "I was afraid that, writing in bed, and forced to write quickly by the inexorable Tom Eliot I had used too many words."
"Writing in bed" continues Hermione Lee in her Intro, "has produced an idiosyncratic, prolix, recumbent literature – the opposite of "inexorable" – at once romantic and modern, with a point of view derived from gazing up at the clouds and looking sideways on to the world" – and here I am reminded of E.M. Forster's memory of Cavafy, as of a man 'standing [or lying] absolutely motionless, at a slight angle to the universe.' "Illness and writing are netted together from the very start of the essay."
But is writing in bed for everyone? How about novelists, the novelists of Big Books? Can you imagine Balzac, for instance, writing in bed? Certainly not: he would rather be charging apoplectic up and down the drawing room, tearing down the curtains and writhing on the floor chewing the carpet.
No, Virginia, has strong views on the ill-wisdom of composing entire novels in bed:
"Indeed it is to the poets that we turn. Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose extracts. We cannot command all our faculties and keep our reason and our judgment and our memory at attention while chapter swings on top of chapter, and, as one settles into place, we must be on the watch for the coming of the next, until the whole structure – arches, towers, and battlements – stands firm on its foundation."
Monsieur Proust, however, might have been inclined to disagree.
If you google 'writing in bed' a surprising number of articles appear, including one from a blog by Chris Bell (from whom I borrowed the image of Mark Twain) and by Robert McCrum, about whom I have many reservations, but am open-minded enough to leave this link.


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Silver Sunday ~ Bring It On Mother Nature & Poor Man's Silver
And now for the actual Silver Sunday photo I know you have all been waiting for! I started collecting pewter when we were first married....poor man's silver. I have supper plates, napkin rings, goblets, saucers, mugs, platters, Jefferson cups and small accessories. The photo shows one shelf of the kitchen French cabinet they are housed in. Also in that photo is an antique papier mache pig that I have had for years. I love him! (Jenny...that's for you...ha!) And the SILVER bird nest painting, a dear blogging friend painted. So there you have it, my Silver Sunday post.
I am so excited!...Doing cartwheels...I am so excited. Beth, our fabulous Silver Sunday Sista hostess is going to continue with this fun day. Not only that I hear tell she is having a give-away for today so you best get on over to Gypsy Fish Journal and sign up and see what all the fuss is about. Thanks Beth! I love Silver Sundays!
28 comments :
- black eyed susans kitchen said...
Perfect pewter pictures for today!! Actually, I love the pewter displayed on a shelf..it adds so much character to a room. The snow? You can see how I feel about that in my previous post.
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- The Muse said...
Hi there sweetness :) Yes, yes, show me more snow...I am just blanketed here..and the farm has kicked in to over drive! So glad I made it out of DC..lol they can't handle a few flakes(no not congress) LOL I mean snow!
I have to say I am loving that pig!!!!
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Linda said...
Beautiful snow pictures...looks so peaceful and serene. Great bucket, I think patriotic colors would be fun fun to plant.
What a wonderful collection of pewter...I especially like the style of your plates.
hugs, Linda
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Margaret Cloud said...
I am sick and tired of snow, but the pictures are so pretty, I like to see snow cling to trees. That little pig is so cute. I feel guilty around here, we had only one bad snow storm this winter, we still have snow on the ground but you can see some of the ground. The sun was shinning today and the rays felt so nice and warm. Sorry about all your snow. Have a nice day.
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Ceekay-THINKIN of HOME said...
Are those sweet little pewter napkin rings I see tucked in there....I love that! Sorry for the snow...you could come here...we are in the 70's!
Happy SS!
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Lucy said...
A nice collection of pewter and really, it has much more character than silver plate. Your snow pictures are delightful! You should click on over and see the lovely day we've had!
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Kathy said...
Love your pewter, Lynn. I only have a couple of pieces but I love. I hope your snow leaves you quickly! We have been so blessed this year in our area of Michigan. We've managed to just miss the worst of every storm so far this winter. But then again, it's our turn to catch a break - last year was horrendous! Stay warm and safe...
Wonderful Silver Sunday post!
xoxo...Kathy@Mimi's Garden
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Blondie's Journal said...
Love your snow pictures. They look like they are in black and white!!
I love pewter. I have a neighbor friend who collects it and I adore looking at it all over her English style home. Beautiful. And you have some very nice pieces!
I hope you are snuggled up warm and cozy!! ;-)
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Brenda Eason said...
It can never be to much snow for me,but then again I live in the south. Oh I wanna move north so bad. Just beautiful.
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Amy Kinser said...
The snow is beautiful and I love your pewter pieces. Poor man's silver or not, I think it's great.
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Brynwood Needleworks said...
Thanks for the snow photos. Makes me NOT miss snow!
As Miss Piggy would say "Cute pig!"
Hope you'll stop over and enter my two drawings...the more, the merrier.
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Diann @ The thrifty Groove said...
Your pictures sure do remind me of crystal and silver!
Love the pewter!
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- ImagiMeri said...
Beautiful pic's everywhere of snow, and all I've got to look at is sunshine.....my bad, today we are cloudy...:o( Oh, well, it's the desert's version of snow.....LOL.
- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- {oc cottage} said...
What gorgeous shots!
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- Saturday, February 06, 2010
- Kristi said...
The snow looks abstolutely gorgeous! I am almost afraid to say it, but I am in upstate NY and we haven't had ANY snow for almost a month! Now watch what happens, LOL! :)
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- Marty@A Stroll Thru Life said...
Cute, cute pig and the pewter is just gorgeous. Love it. Hugs, Marty
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- The French Bear said...
Great pig head!!! I love pewter, no polishing!!! Yeah, more snow, although it does look pretty!!!
Margaret B
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- Cheryl ~ ZanyMayd said...
It does look Gorgeous, but I remember the effects, Fortunately We Missed it here in Michigan, totally went under us ~ I should be knocking on wood, since there is still alot of winter left, but we have skirted many storms this year, I think we have Under our normal snow fall
[I am Knocking on all the wood I can find]
try to have a Beautiful Week ~ Thanks for sharing the pretty pics of the snow - silver too.
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- the old white house said...
What great pictures, I love the bird waiting for the right moment to swoop in. Stay Warm! Theresa
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- Rust: Vintage Inspired Design said...
Love your snowy pictures....we sure could use some of that fluffy white stuff here with the Olympics just days away and not enough snow in our mountains!
Happy SS!
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- The Muse said...
Hoping you have a blessed Sunday~and a delightful Super bowl! LOL
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- Sherrie said...
I feel so bad. I think I have less snow up here in Maine right now than I think the rest of the country has. I even have large patches of grass showing (although all brown). Your photos look very pretty, I especially like the one with the little bird. Thanks for sharing.
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- Sarah said...
Beautiful snow photos! Love the pewter with the pink pig. He is adorable! Happy Silver Sunday!
- Sunday, February 07, 2010
- Tallulah's Antique Closet said...
I love the look of all that snow on the trees it's bueatiful. But's I guess it's easy for me to say becuase it snows here maybe once in 20 years. But there is a lot on our mountains for now. And your pewter is great. Thanks for shareing. Julian
- Monday, February 08, 2010
- Gypsy Fish said...
Love the snow.....hey we shared the same storm this weekend...how cool is that? Thanks for playing along....See you next Sunday for the giveaway reveal and the first Silver Sunday of Season 2.
{{gypsy hugs}}
- Monday, February 08, 2010
- Jennifer said...
Gorgeous snow pictures, Lynn! This has been
the strangest winter that I can remember, at least here in the south. I love your pewter dishes. An absolutely beautiful collection.
Have a wonderful week,
- Monday, February 08, 2010
- Jenny said...
You know me too well Miss Lynn!! hehehe! Love the piggy! Hope you guys are all doing okay in the snow and I know you are so heartbroken about that dentist appointment!
- Monday, February 08, 2010
- Unknown said...
Lynn, I could look at snow pictures all the time. They are so beautiful. I take lots of snow pictures too. I love the little bird. I always wonder how they survive in such harsh weather. We are expecting snow tomorrow. I will be out with my camera too. Stay warm..
- Monday, February 08, 2010


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A Weekend at Pocono Raceway
One on One talks to Fordham student and driver Chase Mattioli and his family at the Pocono Raceway
This past Saturday, One on One was live at Pocono Raceway with some special coverage centered around Fordham student Chase Mattioli, a business major in the class of 2012.
Chase is in 3rd place for the ARCA series rookie of the year, and 17th overall. Ben Allen, Ricky Cibrano, and Joe Tordy were able to get behind the scenes with Chase and his family.
Ricky and Joe had a chance to catch up with Chase. They talked about how he got into racing, how he's doing in the ARCA series and his first race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck series, the business side of racing, and balancing school with racing.
Ben talked to Chase's grandmother, who with her husband, owns Pocono Raceway. She talked about the past, present, and future of Chase's racing career. Plus, they discussed the family business, and what in her eyes is unique about the track.
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Lightroom Removes the Curse of Mixed Color Lighting from Your Photos
I've just now returned from the California Photo Festival, but before I share my experiences from that event, I'd like to stay with Bahrain a little bit to share a great technique for dealing with color casts associated with mixed lighting scenarios. The following image was captured as a quick snapshot of my traveling companions at a music store in Manama, the capitol city of Bahrain.
This image was shot very quickly and it clearly needs to be brightened up and the yellow color cast removed from the white clothing of our arab oud salesman (the oud is the ubiquitous middle eastern lute). The first step is to remove the yellow color cast caused by the tungsten lighting in the store – a quick click with the White Balance eyedropper does the trick…
Now, after some simple brightness and contrast adjustments, we have good color on our subjects but we have an unusual blue/purple color cast in the background. The effect is jarring and quite distracting. This is actually a very common problem with interior shots that look out through a window into a sunlit scene. In this situation, the room lighting is a much warmer color temperature. When we balance the color for the warm tungsten lights by cooling down the color overall, we also cool down the background and this exaggerated blue cast is the result.
Fortunately there is an easy fix available to us in Lightroom. Go to the HSL panel choose Saturation and select the Color Target Tool in the upper left corner of the panel. You can now simply click and drag down on a color in the image to de-saturate…
The result, after de-saturating the blue, is much less distracting, leaving the emphasis properly on the subject. This trick is quite effective in a number of different situations. The following image was shot inside the Grand Mosque. The original shows the blue cast of the light coming through the windows – a mis-match with the warm interior lighting.
Applying the blue de-saturating trick in Lightroom results in the following…
Beware of any warmly lit subjects that might have blue color in them (blue clothing, etc…) because as soon as you shift out the blue in the background the other blue in the image will also shift. In these cases you may have to process out two versions and blend them together with layer masks in Photoshop. I have found that, most of the time, this technique works quite well without too much effort in Photoshop
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Ingrid Fliter Dances with Chopin
Ingrid Fliter is coming to perform in Colorado on September 11th and 12th - and is releasing a new CD of Chopin Waltzes in November. In preparation for this, I took a a chance to listen to a previous recording - Chopin and am delighted in how wonderfully lyrical she plays the music.
Solo piano music is very intimate and yet can also be intimidating, particularly for the performer when confronted with attempting to put all those notes onto one little CD. Frédéric Chopin was a brilliant performer with some of the most endearing yet challenging music ever written for the piano. Listening to Ingrid Fliter I got the impression she either studied with Chopin (not likely, he died 160 years ago) or has at least had intimate conversations with him regarding his music. Her intuitive touch on Chopin's solo works feel as organic to her hands as his music is to the piano.
Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3 is filled with lots of rubato elements, hovering at the top of the keyboard and then rushing down, with bold, rich chords to light melodic lines wafting through the air. Ingrid performs each of these with a delightful touch. There is a sense of her classical style, reminiscent of a time when romantic music was played with the lush, florid manner as the composers themselves might have played it. The Scherzo is an exercise in sheer technical ability with an opening of rapid fire notes, flying across the keyboard. Shifting to a lovely, yet gloomy passage, the music allows Ingrid a chance to display as keen sense of the darker elements of Chopin's music. The Largo demonstrates Ingrid's ability to construct some of the softest, most subtle, emotional moments in the music. Then, the Finale closes off the opening piece, combining the previous elements into one elaborate finish.
The Mazurka's drift along beautifully. At the end of the first, Ingrid delights in allowing the piece to lightly fade away – the end mysteriously drifting into the next piece. Ingrid speaks in the liner notes about the Mazurka's being intimidating, yet seductive. Well, her performance is certainly seductive - so entrancing for the listener it's hard to imagine any struggle with the music whatsoever.
The Barcarolle in F sharp is atmospheric music. Although Chopin was opposed to program music, there are definitely the influences of Venetian Gondola tunes. Ingrid drifts the canals bringing to light numerous colors and textures, all amusingly concealed in the music. Chopin's Op. 18, grand valse brilliante is perhaps Chopin's most famous waltz, but I don't know if I've ever heard it played more impeccably in line with the style of the music. There was no touch of schmaltz, even though pieces like this tend to get performed that way, tongue in cheek. Gliding across the keys, Ingrid had to be dancing to the music internally. I imagine she was probably grinning from ear to ear as she performed it – the pleasure of playing is evident with every note.
The CD continues with Waltzes Op. 64 and Ballade No. 4, equally as well performed and charmingly brought to life. These pieces were recorded in 2007, so she's had a couple of years now to grow and mature as a pianist. I can't wait to hear what she does with Schumann Piano Concerto in Denver or what her next Chopin CD is like.


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Message in a Bottle Valentine Party
This is what Elise said about planning this party– "Wouldn't we all love to receive a romantic message in a bottle from some mysterious source? Whether the sender is anonymous or someone we know, how romantic to receive a beautiful love letter floating atop the waves!
To style the dessert table for this party, I used lots of nautical items mixed in with the Valentine's theme anchors (which I am in LOVE with right now!), hooks, bottles, twine, sand, starfish and sea shells. I love all these elements mixed with the white, pale pink, red and gray colors of the printables I designed to go along with it.
I kept the food for the table very simple and easy for any host to re-create including vanilla cupcakes, creaming soda jell-O pots, meringue cakes, strawberry milk, lollipops, Hershey's Kisses and assorted candy.
I chose William Gunn Jetty, Manly, Brisbane for the location since it's very much in keeping with the nautical theme. I was so lucky that a beautiful replica Schooner sailing boat was in dock and made THE perfect background for the table.
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Lydia Drukarz, appointed to take over the organising mantle, managed the running of what has become one of the beacons of UK Jewish cultural events with a quiet efficiency that ensured the event's success.
Despite heavy rain, the first Sunday, 4th September, saw a surprisingly large number of people visiting the various sites.
As always, the guided tour of London's historic Willesden Cemetery proved a popular attraction, with Rachel Kolsky, a Blue Badge London Guide, providing an informative commentary about the many distinguished Jews buried there. She also led a large group on a walking tour of London's East End, the former home of so many Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century. Immigration is also the theme of the London Museum of Immigration and Diversity where some 200 visitors, mostly non-Jewish, came on the Sunday, with another 900 expected during the week, which included an evening when Michael Horovitz, OBE, enthralled an international audience with a selection of poetry and prose readings. Nearby Fieldgate Street Synagogue also welcomed large multi-faith groups.
Other synagogues across London opened their doors, too, such as the magnificently refurbished Hampstead Synagogue, the Grade 1 listed New West End Synagogue and the main Sephardi Synagogue
B'nai B'rith UK has a close link to the Jewish members of the British Armed Services, so that the display at the Jewish Military Museum was of interest, while at the wonderful refurbished Jewish Museum a fascinating exhibition "I didn't know he was Jewish! Behind the scenes of British Cinema" revealed the amazing involvement of Jews in the film industry.
As always, Klezmer music, organised by the Jewish Music Institute in Regent's Park, attracted literally hundreds of people to an afternoon alive with music, singing and dancing and - of course, delicious picnics.
Jewish Heritage and Culture in the United Kingdom is of course in evidence throughout the land, not only in London. Synagogues in various towns were open to the public. Our association with the national English Heritage Open Days helped to publicise the EDJCH to a wider public.
Visitors were attracted to a concert of Jewish music at Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham, to the "High Victorian" Middle Street Synagogue in Brighton, to Princes Road Synagogue in Liverpool where some people even had to be turned away due to a limitation on numbers. Guided tours of the Montefiore Synagogue and Mausoleum in Ramsgate, Kent introduced visitors to the life and work of the philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore. Not far away Thanet Reform Synagogue mounted an exhibition on 'Facing the Future', while in Bradford, the Reform Synagogue, a Grade II listed building, and the oldest Reform Synagogue outside London, attracted the local press and BBC TV cameras.
In the regions, the EDJC always enjoys support even amongst the smaller communities, such as Cheltenham, (a record number of visitors), Canterbury, Chatham, Norwich, Lincoln and Exeter, whilst in Manchester, home of the second largest Jewish community in the UK, the Jewish Museum and the Higher Crumpsall Synagogue are enthusiastic participants in the annual Multi-Faith Cheetham Festival, organised by a partnership between B'nai B'rith, English Heritage and Faith Network Manchester.
The B'nai B'rith European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage has now become an increasingly popular event. The organisers are to be warmly congratulated.


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NWC Drops A Heartbreaker Against AWC, Blows Out Tohono O-odham
The Northwest College women's basketball team saw mixed results at the College of Southern Idaho Tournament in Twin Falls, Idaho last week. The Lady Trappers faced off against Arizona Western, losing 58-55, on Friday, Nov. 24, and rebounded Saturday to beat Tohono O'odham Community College, 113-56.
"It was a close one, back and forth," said head coach Janis Beal about the game against Arizona Western.
After the first quarter, NWC trailed by four, 16-12.
"When it comes down to it, those couple possessions in the first quarter were big for us," Beal said.
In the second quarter, the Lady Trappers cut the Arizona Western lead to only one point to trail 23-22 going into halftime. In the third quarter, both teams scored 14 points to bring the score to 37-36 going into the final quarter of play.
The Lady Matadors then outscored the Lady Trappers by two points in the fourth quarter to win the game, 58-55.
"Those close games — that's when little things matter that much more," said Beal.
The coach noted that was similar to what she said the prior week, how every possession mattered in a game against North Idaho College that went into overtime.
The little things were free throws, turnovers and missed shots.
For free throws, the Lady Trappers made 12 out of 20 attempts to shoot 60 percent for the game.
"That, in a close game, hurts you," said Beal of the eight misses.
Meanwhile, Arizona Western improved from 37.5 percent free throw shooting in the first half to 83.3 percent in the second to shoot 57.1 percent for the game overall at the line.
In the turnover category, the Lady Trappers had 22 compared to the 21 by the Lady Matadors.
Northwest did score more points off of turnovers compared to Arizona Western, 25-21, but fewer turnovers could have changed the outcome of the game.
"They shot the ball well, we didn't shoot as well, especially from the 3 [point line]," said Beal. "We got to knock down shots when we have them."
In the second half, Arizona Western sank 66.7 percent of their attempts from 3-point range; NWC shot 25 percent.
Inside the arc, both teams shot relatively the same, ending the game with NWC shooting 37 percent and Arizona Western at 37.5 percent.
Tala Aumua-Tuisavura scored 13 points and had five steals.
Julynne Silva added 12 points and six rebounds — four defensive and two offensive.
Also collecting six boards — four defensive and two offensive — was Dani McManamen.
Another factor in the game was the lack of fouls by the Lady Trappers. Going into the final 30 seconds of the game, NWC had committed zero fouls.
"One of those only times that not having fouls was actually a detriment to us," Beal said with a slight chuckle, adding, "you don't see that very often."
Had the Lady Trappers fouled, the clock could have been stopped, putting a Lady Matador at the free throw line and giving NWC a chance to get the ball back and score some points.
Overall for the game, "Arizona Western is a very good team," Beal said. "They've competed with some of the best teams that are ranked this year and been real close with them, so I think it shows that we are right there with some of the better teams if we can just correct some of those couple little things."
Facing Tohono O'odham Community College of Sells, Arizona, Beal said her Trappers were the better team and "it was a good thing, because it gave the opportunity for everyone to play."
All but one player on the NWC bench cracked double-digits in scoring. They included Savanna Savage and Charri McArthur scoring 16 points each, Kaylee Brown with 14, Shelby Wardell at 13 and both Samantha McCrorey and Alexi Payne with 11 apiece.
"The thing of it is, they took an opportunity and played well when they were in, so it was a good opportunity for them to get some minutes," Beal said of the bench players.
Also scoring in double digits was starter Silva with 10.
"It was fun for everyone to get a chance to play," said Beal, adding, "It's tough, 'cause those are games where you don't get better as a team. We were making some of the same mistakes against a not-as-good team and that's why we seem to lose the close games, because we aren't disciplined enough right now to do those little things in games."
The Lady Trappers shot 47.7 percent from the field, 48 percent at the 3-point line and 70.4 percent from the free throw line.
In rebounds, Silva led with nine. Brown, Savage and Payne each grabbed seven boards off the bench while Tayla Sayer added six. McArthur led the team in steals with four.
Beal said the team's goal is to be fundamentally sound by the time region play arrives.
Next up for the Lady Trappers is the Big Horn Federal Shootout at home. On Friday, NWC will take on Dawson Community College at 5:30 p.m. On Saturday, they'll tip off against the Rocky Mountain JV at 3 p.m.


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"2014 Dream Concert" Releases Full Lineup and Servers Crash
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The tickets for "2014 Dream Concert" went up for sale online recently after their confirmation of the full line-up, and due to the star power of the line-up ticket sites such as Interpark experienced server crashes from the massive amounts of visitors.
As was previously announced, the 20th Anniversary Dream Concert will be taking place at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on June 7th, starting at 6p KST. The confirmed lineup is the following: Girls' Generation, EXO, B2ST, 4minute, B1A4, A Pink, Girl's
The concert also features a charitable side, offering to donate the proceeds from the sales of official merchandise at the event in order to help youths in need.


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Kortrijk, Belgium / Cologne, Germany 7 november 2019Smappee, an innovative clean-tech company headquartered in Belgium, is pathing the way in terms of energy management and related solutions. Smappee's key product, the energy management system (EMS), Smappee Infinity, collects real-time and historical production and consumption data down to the appliance level, resulting in actionable insights. Based on those insights the energy efficiency within buildings can be optimised by managing all energy flows and relevant devices- independent of their manufacturer or brand. Smappee has started the integration of EEBUS communication in its energy management products and solutions, starting with the gateway between the company's monitoring system and the cloud: The Smappee Genius. With EEBUS, connectivity and compatibility to all categories of key energy devices is realised and enables Smappee's energy gateway to optimise demand and supply based on standardised use cases. With regard to software integration, Smappee works with KEO GmbH, the leading EEBUS integrator with years of experience in EEBUS implementations.
"The EEBus Initiative links all major energy consumers in the household via a global manufacturer-independent language for energy. This vision goes hand in hand with Smappee's aim to be at the heart of any smart building, automatically managing energy flows by controlling all appliances regardless of their brand and enabling self-sufficiency. Therefore, I am very proud to announce Smappee's agreement on the integration of EEBUS. Our users will be able to benefit from all the EEBUS Use Cases and partners will be able to integrate their products or services even faster into our ever-growing ecosystem.", says Stefan Grosjean, CEO Smappee.
EEBUS for connectivity and interoperability among a large cross-industry network.
With a manufacturer-independent and standardised language, EEBUS provides an open standard for energy in the Internet of Things. EEBUS communication is based on energy-relevant devices applying use cases, specified by a cross-industry network of companies and associations. The EEBUS specifications enable the development of a future-proof, maintainable and simple device interface to connect devices with a central energy management system or an energy management platform and the grid. In this way, every relevant device from photovoltaics (PV), heat pumps to electric vehicles (EVs) speak the same language and can be managed in accordance with energy market or grid signals. In the field of energy management, EEBUS enables the development of applications – such as self-consumption optimisation, tariff-optimised device operation up to grid optimisation.
Furthermore, EEBUS allows the energy management system to bundle all energy relevant devices and capacities within a building. Doing so, the building gains a central interface and point of contact for grid stabilisation and energy balancing mechanisms. Particularly, the grid operator benefits from this standardised communication interface on the grid edge. Respective EEBUS Use Cases provide real-time transparency of building loads and enable the grid operator to set dynamic values for maximum power consumption at the grid connection points. In case of critical grid situations, an overload or even blackout of the electricity grid can therefore be avoided.
Picture 1: Smart Building ecosystem with Smappee EMS speaking EEBUS.
"With EEBUS, manufacturers and providers of energy-relevant devices and systems are enabled to offer interoperable products and solutions, based on standardised use cases. Smappee's commitment to EEBUS implementation will enable smart homes speaking EEBUS and thereby drive the rollout of EEBUS networks in the market and the grid. We are pleased to count Smappee as a member of the Initiative. Possessing knowledge and experience in the field of energy management, we are convinced the company can contribute to the further development of the EEBUS specifications." says Dr. Bernhard Thies, Chairman of EEBus Initiative e.V.
Making buildings smart grid ready.
With the integration of EEBUS, Smappee strengthens its position as a comprehensive and future-proof energy management tool on the market. Soon, its solutions for energy management inside the building supports all released EEBUS Use Cases and therewith provides a wide range of added values for its customers. The compatibility with all key energy devices categories, such as EVs, heat pumps, white goods, PV and battery inverters allows for a seamless communication between the energy management system, among devices and in interaction with the grid. Applying standardised EEBUS use cases within residential and commercial energy management increases the self-sufficiency of end user systems and thus allows for additional cost savings. With EEBUS, the local energy management system is further able to care for secure load management within the building to prevent the local energy system from an overload.
Moreover, the ever-growing Smappee ecosystem, with control over a wide range of smart home appliances from various manufacturers, is expandable by even more devices and systems via EEBUS connectivity. In this way, Smappee is compatible with a wide range of devices speaking EEBUS. In addition, the topic of device and building compatibility with the smart grid becomes increasingly important. Variable tariffs and grid signals will require a standardised interface inside the building to interact with. This common interface then manages connected loads within the house accordingly. Establishing this feature in the future energy infrastructure is relevant for both, residential and commercial buildings, as they are equally part of the overall energy system and thus impacting grid stability and market mechanisms.
Smappee's energy management solutions will soon speak EEBUS - implemented by KEO.
Smappee will work with Cologne-based software company KEO GmbH to implement the EEBUS communication interface into Smappee's Genius. As a long-standing member of the EEBus Initiative, KEO has supported the development of the standard since the very beginning and is an expert in every aspect of EEBUS. Offering standardised EEBUS connectivity stacks and solutions, the company works with stakeholders from all relevant EEBUS industries and accompanies its customers from the initial demonstration to series-ready EEBUS products and solutions. Smappee and KEO have already started on the integration of the EEBUS standard into Smappee's Genius and are ready to release EEBUS native solutions in the near future.
Picture 2: Smappee Genius, enabler of various energy services and control based on EEBUS communication.
"We are very pleased to work with Smappee, as an innovative and future-orientated company, on the integration of EEBUS into their energy management solutions for the private and commercial sector," says Marc Eulen, Managing Partner of KEO GmbH. "By committing to EEBUS, Smappee soon can access a large international network of EEBUS devices to set up new partnerships and to connect their energy management with. In the near future the energy manager will play an essential role in all smart buildings and homes. Providing a central energy manager in the building that supports standardised use cases will solve essential problems and create added values for the end-customers as well as for the overall energy system."
About EEBUS.
The EEBUS Initiative e.V. is a non-profit organisation with over 60 members who are the leading stakeholders in all fields of connected home, electrical mobility, energy and smart appliances. Members of EEBUS collaborate in various working groups to establish a standardised and common language for the interoperability of connected devices. Smart heating, electrical vehicles, photovoltaic systems, smart home systems, energy managers and other appliances can thus communicate seamlessly about energy management and usability. For more information please visit: http://www.eebus.org.
About KEO GmbH.
KEO is the leading EEBUS Software Integrator. With its EEBUS Software Stacks, the company connects energy-relevant devices to energy management systems and the grid. KEO's Software solutions are based on various technologies, manufacturer-independent and customised to various domains. The EEBUS products and services are pushing forward the integration of a common language for energy enabling a seamless communication. Besides Connectivity-Stacks, KEO offers test tools and -environments related to EEBUS specifications.
About Smappee.
Smappee is an award-winning global cleantech company that aims to save its customers energy and money by reducing energy consumption and improving energy efficiency. Their future-proof energy monitoring system uses state-of-the-art technology to analyze the real-time use of electricity, solar power, gas and water. Smappee is a leading player in its field, offering accurate energy data down to the appliance level. Thanks to its low TCO and multiple integration options, Smappee is the perfect match for ESCOs and companies looking for IoT energy technology integrations.
Contact for the press KEO
Annike Abromeit
Business Development
Contact for the press Smappee
Delphine Van Hoecke
Communication Officer


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