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The event is called Support Women Artists Now Day or SWAN Day.
According to the website of the national organization WomenArts.org, the event – which will be held locally on March 5—"is an international holiday designed to showcase the power and diversity of women's creativity."
The event begs the question, are women artists treated differently than men artists? According to some of the artists participating in the Connecticut event on Saturday (which is organized by Bristol ex-pat Jennifer Hill, who also will perform as Murderess Chanteus), the answer is more complicated than a simple "yes" or "no."
Jenn Jacobs, who is showcasing her fashion line Bad Bunny at SWAN Day at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain, said, "Honestly, I've encountered more gender bias when I was a singer… Everyone always assumed I was someone's girlfriend. Then people would doubt my ability to help lug equipment."
"And even within the band, which was all men, I had trouble getting my voice heard, ironic given I was a singer," said Jenn. "Not all the guys were bad, just a few bad apples."
"As far as art," said Jenn, who is a visual artist as well, "things may be changing a little more quickly in that arena for gender equality but there are still issues. One being on the education level."
"As a child," said Jenn, "I learned of a myriad of famous male artists, such as the great masters— and few female artists… I had little artistic influence from women as a child, besides the women I personally knew. I looked up to lots of male artists. It didn't necessarily faze me then, I just thought that's the way things were. But it's not. There were lots of wonderful female artists before 1850, and I think that is only just now starting to be explored."
"As far as being a female artist myself in the present day, I haven't had anyone necessarily question my ability. But I do believe traditional gender roles are still things female artists have to overcome. I know I've struggled with it and feel it may have even stunted my career," said Jenn.
Julie Kathryn of I Am Snow Angel, one of the musical guests Saturday, said being a woman artist has not necessarily been a hardship for her. "People are generally very supportive and give me a lot of respect. For the most part, I feel like musicians and producers treat me as an equal."
"Still," she continued, "there have been times I've been underestimated, for sure. For example, when I've explained that I produce and engineer my own material, I've sometimes still been asked 'but who makes your tracks for you?'"
Times are changing, said Julie. "Fortunately, women in music — all areas of music, including production — are gaining a lot more visibility now, so these gender biases are lessening."
Ebony Amber , who is serving as one of the hostesses and is an artist and fashion designer in her own right, said: "I grew up in a family full of creative people who in turn had many creative friends. Both of my parents were art teachers and my father curated shows in New Jersey and New York. I never saw any sexism within this community. By the time I was a 10, I was submitting work and getting in to art shows that were generally filled with work from both genders."
Although the phrases male artist and female artist is part of the vernacular—hence Support Women Artists Now—- Jacobs, Amber, and I Am Snow Angel do not really see that creativity itself has a gender.
Julie said: "I don't really think there is a specific 'male' or 'female' approach to making art. I do think that men and women are socialized to communicate differently, which, in turn affects the artistic process, especially in collaborative projects."
"Growing up, females are often taught to keep the peace and 'people please,' while males are encouraged to be more direct. So I think these differences in communication are largely cultural— rather than innate. When it comes to making music, though, there are so many different approaches and strategies; I don't these are specifically tied to gender," said Julie.
Amber said: "I think women and men create artwork based on feelings more so then gender. It can be said that men and women deal with their feelings differently and that may come out in certain ways during their creative process but I have seen some of the most beautiful and gentle artwork created by the hands of a man and the most dramatically orchestrated painting of a war reenactment done by a women."
"In the '80s and '90s when I was growing up, women were extremely powerful within the art community. You had some of the greats such as Ella Naper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cindy Sherman and many many more. Women were expressing themselves through music, filmmaking, and all avenues of art during my lifetime. I have only seen this spectrum grow," said Amber.
Jacobs said: "I think traditionally, creativity has been portrayed to have gender… In reality, I don't think creativity has a gender. I think each artist's experience certainly influences them, and it would be natural for certain gender related topics to come out. But I think simply being one gender or another doesn't change one's approach."
SWAN Day CT will be held at Trinity-on-Main, 69 Main St., New Britain on Saturday, March 5. Doors open at 5:15 p.m. and show time is 5:45 p.m.
Ebony Amber of Ebony Amber Cosplay and Darcy Anderson-Abbott will be hosting. Musical performers are: Them Damn Hamiltons, J Cherry, Chaser 8, Post Modern Panic, Dina Brass, Canyon, The Girls From Ruby Falls, I Am Snow Angel, Murderous Chanteuse, Someone You Can X-ray, Gracie Day, Nicki Mathis, Nan Roy, That Virginia, and Kiersten Seiser. Burlesque performers are: Victoria Van Layer, Mistress Leona Star, Vivienne LaFlamme, Vanil LaFrappe, and Hula Hooper Danielle Duncan. Blissninja Shamenpunk and Bad Bunny will showcase their fashion designs and Ebony Amber Parish will show her costume design collection. Kerry Kennedy will paint live.
Tickets are $25 and will be available at the door.
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Robots can pose-or can appear to pose-a threat to life, property, and privacy. May a landowner legally shoot down a trespassing drone? Can she hold a trespassing autonomous car as security against damage done or further torts? Is the fear that a drone may be operated by a paparazzo or a peeping Tom sufficient grounds to disable or interfere with it? How hard may you shove if the office robot rolls over your foot? This paper addresses all those issues and one more: what rules and standards we could put into place to make the resolution of those questions easier and fairer to all concerned.And it's not just the profs saying this. Homeland Security says it, too:
The default common-law legal rules governing each of these perceived threats are somewhat different, although reasonableness always plays an important role in defining legal rights and options. In certain cases - drone overflights, autonomous cars, national, state, and even local regulation - may trump the common law. Because it is in most cases obvious that humans can use force to protect themselves against actual physical attack, the paper concentrates on the more interesting cases of (1) robot (and especially drone) trespass and (2) responses to perceived threats other than physical attack by robots notably the risk that the robot (or drone) may be spying - perceptions which may not always be justified, but which sometimes may nonetheless be considered reasonable in law.
We argue that the scope of permissible self-help in defending one's privacy should be quite broad. There is exigency in that resort to legally administered remedies would be impracticable; and worse, the harm caused by a drone that escapes with intrusive recordings can be substantial and hard to remedy after the fact. Further, it is common for new technology to be seen as risky and dangerous, and until proven otherwise drones are no exception. At least initially, violent self-help will seem, and often may be, reasonable even when the privacy threat is not great - or even extant
The US Department of Homeland Security issued an intelligence assessment to law enforcement agencies Friday warning that recreational drones "could be used by adversaries" to attack the United States.Best to shoot it, just to be sure. And remember to double tap.
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Need another simple game to play that doesn't require complicated controls or too much thought? Check out Drifty Chase, the latest in a long string of games you can play with just one tap. Drifty Chase is one of those games that is so simple to play yet so hard to master. The goal is to rob banks and outrun the cops by drifting through crowded city streets.
Drifty Chase requires one finger to play. Your car auto drives itself and all you need to do is tap on the screen to perform a drift turn. Your vehicle will now what direction to turn but pay attention to the streets you are turning to because they are usually filled with other cars. not only that, streets can be either really wide or really narrow with traffic going in either one direction or both directions. There's also the possibility of failing extra hard and hitting a building. You'll have to really get your timing down with the turns so you can avoid all the hazards.
For the most part, Drifty Chase is a simplistic game that offers a good challenge. Getting far can be difficult but with much practice, you can get a pretty decent score. Pay attention too to what city you're in because that can change the what side of the street you drive on. Overall, Drifty Chase is a fun little time waster.
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Active Kids Nursery
8 West Way, Hove, BN3 8LD
Inspection date Previous inspection date
Not Applicable
The quality and standards of the early years provision This inspection: 2 Previous inspection: Not Applicable How well the early years provision meets the needs of the range of children who attend 2 The contribution of the early years provision to the well-being of children 2 The effectiveness of the leadership and management of the early years provision 2
The quality and standards of the early years provision:
This provision is good
- Good arrangements are in place to help children to settle when they first start at the nursery, and to quickly identify and reflect their individual needs in planning.
- Effective team working and effective self-evaluation results in a service which is continually evolving to more fully reflect the needs of children and their families.
- Children enjoy playing with the impressive range of resources and use these effectively to enhance their learning and development.
- Children who speak English as an additional language make good progress. Staff plan activities effectively to ensure they feel included, and promote their understanding of English well.
- The environment and activities on offer very successfully promote children's physical development.
- It is not yet outstanding because
- The lead roles and responsibilities within the staff team have recently been finalised and are not shared effectively with all staff and parents.
- Parents receive regular updates on their child's achievements and progress but staff do not fully engage them in helping to identify future learning goals for their chid.
- Inspection report: Active Kids Nursery Hove, 02/04/2014 2 of 10
- Information about this inspection
- Inspections of registered early years provision are:
- Scheduled at least once in every inspection cycle – the current cycle ends on 31 July 2016
- Scheduled more frequently where Ofsted identifies a need to do so, for example where provision was previously judged inadequate
- Brought forward in the inspection cycle where Ofsted has received information that suggests the provision may not be meeting the legal requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage or where assessment of the provision identifies a need for early inspection
- Prioritised where we have received information that the provision is not meeting the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and which suggests children may not be safe
- Scheduled at the completion of an investigation into failure to comply with the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
- The provision is also registered on the voluntary and compulsory parts of the Childcare Register. This report includes a judgment about compliance with the requirements of that register.
- Inspection activities
- The inspector viewed all areas used by the nursery.
- The inspector spoke with the provider, staff, parents and children at appropriate times during the inspection.
- The inspector observed the interaction of staff and children during a range of activities.
- The inspector undertook a joint observation alongside the provider.
- The inspector viewed a selection of documentation including children's records and written policies and procedures.
Inspector Liz Caluori
Information about the setting
Active Kids Nursery Hove registered in 2013. It is privately owned and operates from a contained unit within a community building in Hove, East Sussex. There are two group rooms with additional areas for indoor physical play and arts and crafts. There are also three outdoor play areas. The nursery is registered on the Early Years Register and both the compulsory and voluntary parts of the Childcare Register. It opens each weekday from 8am to 6pm all year round. There are currently 24 children on roll, all of whom are in the early years age group. The nursery is able to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, as well as those who speak English as an additional language. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education to children aged two, three and four years. There are five staff employed to work with the children, four of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications.
What the setting needs to do to improve further
To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:
- Offer clearer information about the roles and responsibilities of individual staff, including the newly reviewed key person arrangements
- Extend further the arrangements to involve parents in their child's learning by discussing specifically how to help children reach the next steps in their development.
Inspection judgements how well the early years provision meets the needs of the range of children who attend.
Children respond well to staff and enthusiastically join in activities. This is because staff work effectively together to create a friendly, comfortable but very stimulating atmosphere. Staff complete sensitive observations of children to build a picture of their individual interests and abilities. They use these to plan interesting activities which offer a good level of challenge. Effective arrangements are in place to monitor children's progress and plan the next steps in their learning. Staff understand the importance of regularly exchanging information with parents about their child's progress. However, there is a tendency for them to focus more on what the child has achieved rather than discussing plans to support their future development. This does not fully encourage parents to take an active role in their child's learning. There is appropriate provision for completing the required progress checks for children aged two years. Children make good progress in their communication and language. This is particularly apparent in children who speak English as an additional language. Staff use good techniques to help children develop their vocabulary by speaking clearly and naming objects. Children and staff engage in many conversations and children use their rapidly developing language to share their views and ideas, and to ask questions. There are extremely good opportunities for children of all abilities to extend their physical development. There is a lot of space, both inside and outdoors, for young children to practise crawling and walking. Older children have use of a very impressive selection of equipment to promote their general fitness. For example, they very regularly use ride-on vehicles which they steer confidently. They also use climbing equipment, including ropes, to help develop their strength and coordination. Staff very successfully build on children's existing knowledge and curiosity to extend their language. An example of this includes a gardening activity. Staff teach children how to fill pots with soil, plant seeds, water them and talk about how they need sun to grow. During discussions, children confidently name the different creatures that they are likely to find in a garden. Staff competently contribute additional ideas to increase children's understanding of the natural world. Good arrangements exist to work with children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. The manager has a good knowledge of the local agencies which are available to provide specialised guidance and support where necessary.
The contribution of the early years provision to the well-being of children
The staff team has only recently been fully formed and, as a result, key person arrangements have only just been assigned and have not all been shared with parents. The role of the key person is, however, fully established. It includes helping key children to settle, monitoring their progress, supporting their individual learning and liaising with their parents. Children form strong attachments to staff and this helps them to feel secure. Staff are very sensitive to children's emotional wellbeing and are always on hand to offer a reassuring cuddle. Children listen well to their trusted carers and demonstrate extremely good social skills. They are polite, friendly and behave very sensibly. Children take part in experiences which allow them to begin to take some carefully managed risks. These include exploring the challenging rope ladders creatively set out against a grassy bank in one of the outdoor play areas. The nursery environment is bright, clean and well-maintained. The organisation of space is good and children benefit from the freedom they receive to explore the broad range of resources. This encourages them to develop independence in their learning. There is a separate craft area with a well-stocked art trolley for children to visit independently. In addition, the three outdoor areas create inviting play spaces for children. Children receive clear messages about the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles. They enjoy freshly prepared snack and meals which include several portions of fruit and vegetables throughout the day. Staff create menus which are available for parents to see in advance. These reflect individual dietary requirements and colour-coded place mats alert staff to any dietary restrictions when serving food. Staff help children to become independent in their self-care. They teach them to wash their hands before eating and are prompt to offer a tissue or to wipe children's noses when necessary. Effective arrangements are in place to support children as they move on to school. These include liaising with the schools that they are going to attend to establish relationships with the Reception teachers. In addition staff plan activities such as school-style physical education sessions to help children develop practical skills, such as changing in and out of their clothes.
The effectiveness of the leadership and management of the early years provision
Leadership and management within the nursery is strong. The staff team works extremely well together and all take an active role in shaping the educational programmes for children. As processes and working practices are evolving, all staff meet regularly to monitor their success and to determine areas for further development. They are working closely with advisors from the local authority and have clear action plans in place to prioritise improvements. The manager supports staff through regular one-to-one supervisions and annual appraisals. Within the staff team there is a lot of expertise in relation to child protection, behaviour management and the care of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff are all aware of the colleagues to refer to for guidance in each of these areas. However, at this time, the manager does not clearly share the finalised details of the designated roles with staff and parents. Robust arrangements are in place to promote children's safety. The deputy manager takes the lead in safeguarding and child protection. She has an extremely thorough understanding of the procedures to follow should concerns arise regarding the welfare of any child or in case of an allegation against a member of staff. The manager also has rigorous recruitment procedures to check that staff are suitably vetted, qualified and experienced. Staff undertake risk assessments and daily health and safety checks in order to identify and address any potential hazards. This includes identifying areas in the outdoor areas where staff must be deployed to effectively supervise children. The security arrangements are appropriate. The perimeter fencing is in good condition and there is a buzzer entry system to gain entrance to the building. Visitors to the nursery are supervised at all times.
Children benefit from observing the friendly exchanges between their parents and the staff. Parents spoken to during the inspection are very happy with the service they receive and are pleased with the progress their children are making. Effective arrangements are in place to share information with any other childcare settings attended by the children in order to provide coordinated and cohesive care.
The Childcare Register The requirements for the compulsory part of the Childcare Register are met. The requirements for the voluntary part of the Childcare Register are
What inspection judgements mean Registered early years provision Grade Judgement Description
Grade 1
Outstanding provision is highly effective in meeting the needs of all children exceptionally well. This ensures that children are very well prepared for the next stage of their learning.
Grade 2
Good provision is effective in delivering provision that meets the needs of all children well. This ensures children are ready for the next stage of their learning.
Grade 3
Requires improvement
The provision is not giving children a good standard of early years education and/or there are minor breaches of the safeguarding and welfare requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage. It will be monitored and inspected within twelve months of the date of this inspection.
Grade 4
Provision that is inadequate requires significant improvement and/or enforcement action. The provision is failing to give children an acceptable standard of early years education and/or is not meeting the safeguarding and welfare requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage. It will be monitored and inspected again within six months of the date of this inspection.
The provision has no children on roll. The inspection judgement is that the provider continues to meet the requirements for registration.
Not met
The provision has no children on roll. The inspection judgement is that the provider does not meet the requirements for registration.
This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children's learning, development and care, known as the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Setting details Unique reference number
EY466444 Local authority
Brighton & Hove Inspection number
955439 Type of provision
Full-time provision Registration category
Childcare – Non-Domestic Age range of children
0 – 8 Total number of places
30 Number of children on roll
24 Name of provider
Renata Ghassemi Date of previous inspection
not applicable Telephone number
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Type of provision
For the purposes of this inspection the following definitions apply:
Full-time provision is that which operates for more than three hours. These are usually known as nurseries, nursery schools and pre-schools and must deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage. They are registered on the Early Years Register and pay the higher fee for registration.
Sessional provision operates for more than two hours but does not exceed three hours in any one day. These are usually known as pre-schools, kindergartens or nursery schools
and must deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage. They are registered on the Early Years Register and pay the lower fee for registration.
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Liberal's softball team was competitive at Dodge City Tuesday. LHS led the first game 2-1 into bottom of the third and led game two 3-0 into the third but lost the games 11-4 and 17-4. In game one, Emily Bayouth was 3-4. Liberal was in the game until Dodge City scored five in the sixth. In game two, the Red Demons scored 12 in the fourth. Liberal is 6-14 and will likely play at regionals Tuesday in Great Bend against Valley Center.


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Pratt officials insist their engine is on plan to meet the DoD's cost and delivery requirements.
It looks like this is the beginning of a new round of fighting to keep the second engine alive, with several lawmakers jumping back into the fray, including House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Buck McKeon, R-Calif. According to Politico, McKeon wants to make sure that "competition remains in the Joint Strike Fighter program."


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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Breaking Back!
Calling all chem nerds and meth heads, can you believe Breaking Bad is finally back tonight?? And...I actually have a blog post? Yeah, yeah, yeah... it's been a month. But I haven't been cooking at all and have only baked (desserts!) a few times at my friend's house out at the beach. Truth be told, I'm still not cooking. And I'm definitely not cooking meth like Jesse and Walt (or Mr. White as Jesse stills calls him). BTW Did anyone happen to catch this interview with chemistry prof, Dr. Donna Nelson? It's awesome. She has been volunteering as the show's science advisor since season two, after she had read an interview that show creator Vince Gilligan gave to Chemical & Engineering News and reached out to him directly to offer some assistance. Badass.
I haven't taken chemistry since high school (when I felt like the science advisor to many of my classmates) but I think it's not a total stretch to say that there is some chemistry involved in cooking and baking. Baking especially. OK whatever. I think these fudgsicles are the perfect summer meal (I'm serious) when it's 90 plus degrees and 80% humidity. Or if you are Walter White and live in the southwest year round. Gah! I can't wait for tonight's ep! I might have to spend the next 7 hours watching AMC's BB marathon and eating fudgsicles in preparation.
Sicilian Chocolate Gelato Fudgsicles
Adapted from Bittersweet
3 cups whole milk
2/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup premium unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
1. In a medium saucepan, bring 2 cups of the milk to a simmer over medium heat.
2. Meanwhile, whisk the remaining 1 cup milk with the sugar, cocoa and cornstarch in a small bowl. Scrape the cocoa mixture into the hot milk. Cook. stirring constantly until the mixture thickens abd bubbles a little at the edges. Then boil gently, stirring for 2 minutes longer. Scrape into a large bowl and let cool completely.
3. Pour into ice pop molds and freeze until firm. Makes 8 - 10 fudgsicles.
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This hidden gem in the Monongahela National Forest provides one of the best views in the state of West Virginia. Avoid the crowds at nearby Seneca Rocks and Dolly Sods with a hike in the woods along the North Fork Mountain Trail.
Chimney Rock (also referred to as Chimney Top) is a hidden gem in the Monongahela National Forest that offers some of the best views in the state of West Virginia. There are several trail options that pass this overlook, including a 24 mile point-to-point backpack of the North Fork Mountain Trail, but this adventure details the hike via the Landis Trail off of Smoke Hole Road. This is the shortest route, but also the steepest.
There is a small parking area at the trailhead where you will find a trail post with a map and information about the area. From here the trail begins to gradually make its way up the mountainside. The path is well-worn and marked with blue-blazes throughout, making it easy to follow. Nearly all of the 1500 feet of elevation gain takes place on this first 1.5 mile stretch. Once you reach the intersection with the North Fork Mountain Trail, it will begin to level off. From this junction, follow the sign and turn right. The blue-blazes continue and will become more helpful as the trail thins out. The first overlook is easy to spot, roughly 0.3 miles from the junction. But the best views are further ahead at Chimney Rock.
Eventually, you will need to leave the main trail to get to Chimney Rock. Your first option to do so is after another 0.5 miles. Keep an eye out for a bend in the trail, where the blue blazes will point you to the right and downhill, but another path with continue straight ahead. If you follow the path that lies straight ahead, you will eventually make your way to Chimney Rock. It will require some maneuvering around bushes and trees, but the path is clear enough that you can find your way. The second option is to continue on the blue blazes for another 0.2 miles and look for a side trail to the left. This option is much steeper and easier to miss, but it will get you there nevertheless.
The overlook at Chimney Rock is very windy, so use extra caution if you make your way onto the outcrops. And be aware of your footing, as the dropoffs are steep in this area. After taking time to enjoy the view, return the way you came by heading south on one of the unmarked trails until you rejoin the main North Fork Mountain Trail. From there, retrace your steps back to the Landis Trail and down to the parking area.
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One of the best in WV
This is possibly my favorite hike in West Virginia. There are a couple different routes to take, but take the North Fork Mountain trail. It will pay off with the most views
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Beautiful Views
This hike was absolutely stunning, I hiked it during the first week of June and for half of the hike the trail was surrounded by beautiful white flowering bushes! At the peak there were many places to look out over the rolling mountains. You even have a view of Seneca Rocks far below. This was a very thickly vegetated trail, make sure to throughly check for ticks after your hike. It's a perfect afternoon hike hidden away in the West Virginia Mountains!
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Hello Sarah! I will be doing this hike on Sunday. Any advice?
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And so it was that one sunny Saturday morning in March, after months of planning and preparing, I woke up to the first day of our Permaculture Design Course. The weeks and days leading up to it were intensely busy (in case you've been wondering about my absence from this space) but in the end, all the details came together perfectly. A full course of 24 participants, a curriculum we facilitators were feeling really excited and solid about, and a venue so perfect we couldn't have dreamed anything better: City Roots urban farm just down the street from me and my co-facilitator Matt.
Our course's "home site" is the farm's brand new events greenhouse, where we are appropriately surrounded by kale and tomato seedlings, and just across the way from the tilapias in the aquaponics system and the new chicks in their brooder. In the afternoons, if the glare in the greenhouse gets too intense, we move to a covered outdoor classroom right next to the farm's no-till rye fields. Standing there that first afternoon teaching the session on natural patterns, I could point to nature's patterns right there around us — a tree, a cloud, the movement of the wind — to illustrate my point.
With two weekends behind us now, the course is in full swing. The participants are an inspiring bunch — coming from diverse backgrounds and interests and bringing to the course such good energy and enthusiasm and unique talents.
One of the highlights of the course so far has been our natural building session, with four hands-on stations for learning different natural building techniques: cob wall and garden bench building led by our tireless Emily McCravy, natural paints beautifully taught by Kelley Adair, as well as slip straw wall insulation and clay plastering. Music was playing, the sun was shining, everyone got their hands and feet dirty. In other words, a good time.
As a co-facilitator of the course, I have the great pleasure of sitting in on the sessions taught by Nick Tittle and Matt Kip, and I always find myself learning something new. One of my favorite new concepts lately has been the idea of "zones of brilliance" that Nick introduced, drawing on Javan Bernakevitch of Permaculture BC. The idea is to take the notion of zones used in permaculture land design and use it as a tool for life design: finding the "zones" in your life where you shine, by asking the questions:
What are my inherent natural gifts?
What am I perennially passionate about?
What pattern of problem do I see that needs solving in my community?
I have long been curious about the applicability of permaculture principles to our inner lives, and this seems to me one of the more compelling approaches. You can catch Javan himself talking about it here and here. I myself need to let it sink in some more, but I dare say this entire course experience is one grand opportunity to explore my zones of brilliance.


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Well. This week did not give us patch 2.2. I hear that supposedly Blizzard has upgraded the version of the sound "drivers" they use within WoW and this testing/tweaking/fixing is what is causing some of the delays in the release. As much as I am ready for 2.2 to be released, I would prefer it have as few bugs as possible (unless they are in my favor). I am currently not in favor of computer rebooting bugs.. They are my least favorite (tied with computer lock-up bugs).
Last night we meandered on down into Shattered Halls (no, not heroic). It was an ALT run.. Well, ALT run for everyone but me… My alt (highest one) is still only 38.. Getting there though. I'm hoping I can figure out a way to speed up my leveling.
Team Fortress 2 is NOT HELPING! It is taking up a great deal of time I might otherwise play WoW and level my Priestie… Ah well.. 🙂
We also haven't gone back to our little Draenei since that first night. Kara run starts tonight and while it is my week, we try to get some of the newer members face time with the first few bosses every week. But, depending on whom is around, I may be on the list. If not, I might play TF2… 🙂 Or maybe work on leveling Fhuun. I really like when I get to group with other guildies to work on the quests and such. It makes it much more fun and the time goes by much faster (seemingly). Obviously it is even better when we have a nice lvl 70 to help guide us (and , ahem, kill stuff, ahem). I have quite a few quests in STV still but they are all > 40 and orange to me right now. Maybe I'll look at my quest list again and decide on an area to work on to start clearing stuff out.
I'd like to go run an instance with Fhuun, but I abhor PUGs… I would end up being required to heal and I'd prefer to learn to do that in a guild group. Since I'm specced shadow, I might have to respec to try that out.. Not sure I want to bother though. I can heal okay with shadow spec, I just have to drink a lot :). I know we have a few 35-38 alts in the guild right now so maybe we can set up a run into some instance (when we aren't busy with kara).
Last week I decided to swap out my +AGI enchant on my Legacy and get the "Savagery" enchant (+70 AP I think). My unbuffed (completely) DPS is now > 300. And this is without BM speedup talents or area damage bonuses.
I think our 5v5 arena team forgot we needed to run this week for our points… 🙁 Well, hopefully we'll have time this week so we can get our points on! We also need practice since we haven't really won too many matches.. I actually found the arena battles pretty fun and can't wait to get back in there.
Ok… I'm done.. Busy night ahead of me. I'll talk to you all later! Peace.


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My classroom is a home away from home for the 65 4th and 5th graders that come through the door every day. My students often see their teachers and classmates more than their own families and have a strong bond as a classroom community. In a small school of approximately 250 students in PK-5th grade, we are a prime example of the saying "it takes a village to raise a child". Students come with a wide range of strengths and challenges but are always eager to learn. We eat breakfast and lunch together daily and are a true school family. Many students are at school from 7 am to 5:30 pm as they are reliant on bus transportation and are part of our after school activities designed to help families in need of child care.
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"Show your work" is probably the most spoken words in any elementary math classroom and mine is no exception. I'm always encouraging my students to show their thinking and annotate their work as they go through our problem solving model and learn new whole number, decimal, and fraction computations. Scratch paper is always available and plentiful! Living in Austin though, my students are very aware of their outdoor environment and are mindful about their day to day choices.
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We definitely have the Recycle and Reuse part down but could use some work on the reducing the amount of paper we use in the classroom. Having dry erase boards and dry erase markers will eliminate our use for paper tremendously! Using white boards allows me as the teacher to assess student immediately and give constructive feedback as we work together to construct learning. At the beginning of every class, my students practice 1-2 computation problems. When they write these on paper, it is difficult to see and makes us go through lots of paper everyday! Having new whiteboards will help us reduce the amount of paper we use and will make it easier for me as the teacher to see what mistakes they are making, if any, and give that immediate feedback.
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It is well known that women are not allowed to mingle with men in Saudi Arabia unless they are related. Six women and five men have reportedly been sentenced to 300 lashes of the cane and 1-year imprisonment after neighbors reported them to the police for having a beachside party.
Police found images of indecent pictures and alcohol after a raid on a beachside villa in Jedda, Saudi Arabia and charged the offenders with 'obscenity'.
The group were initially given jail sentences ranging from eight days to a year and 150 lashes, according to a report by Breitbart, but their prison terms were increased and their flogging sentence raised to 300 lashes after a failed appeal.
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You don't have to spend a lot of money buying a flash mount. Take a quick trip to the hardware store and pick up the parts you need for a few dollars and make it to your specifications.
1Get your strip of aluminum. Be sure that it can hold around 5 pounds without breaking and is at least 30 centimeter (11.8 in) or 12" in length.
- Optional: Bend the aluminum strip with vice grip/pliers to match the photograph.
2Make the measurements for the holes to be drilled.
3Drill the holes into the aluminum strip being sure to keep balance in mind.
4Drill another hole on it's end.
5Bend the aluminum strip with vice grip/pliers, shape it like a letter "C"
6Assemble four screws, bolts and wing nuts like in the example.
7Attach the hardware to the strip using speedlight mounts or cold shoes.
8Fasten the pocket wizard to the short part of the bent aluminum.
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- According to picture: Pocket Wizard is wired to the SB-28 and the SB800 is set to remote Su-4 mode.
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- piece of aluminum strip that is sturdy and can handle 5 lbs. 30 centimeter (11.8 in) in length. Search the local flea market, scrap metal yards or thrift stores.
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Wonder Woman II is upcoming sequel to Wonder Woman in very early stages of development. It is part of the DC Extended Universe.
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In April 2017, director Patty Jenkins talked about the possibility of a sequel, stating "I'm excited for her to come to America and become the Wonder Woman we are all familiar with from having grown up around her as an American superhero. I'd like to bring her a little farther along into the future and have a fun, exciting storyline that is its own thing. Wonder Woman 1 is so much about her becoming the person she is. I can't wait to spring forward with who she is and have another great standalone superhero film."[1] In May 2017, Zack Snyder has confirmed that a sequel is in the works.[2]
- For the film's sequel, Gal would like Halle Berry to be her love interest.
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word "respite" as either "a period of temporary delay" or "an interval of rest or relief".
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks." – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
The parking lot exists and then the car, and then inside it: Seth. As always, he sits in the near-empty lot, inside his junk-filled car, staring out the windshield and watching the pollen-infused water spill down the glass. The rain pelts his car, he can hear it like tiny acorns dive-bombing onto the roof of his aged sedan. The rain is now washing away the pollen that had accumulated over the short weeks.
Before the rain, the pollen decorated his car with a yellow dust, spread down his windshield and rested in an allergy-infused pile on his wipers. It seems now the rain and pollen mix together and trickle down his windshield, a gross shade of mustard as the particles dissolve into the water, creating a sickening, vomity-solution.
Instant recognition of the dreamscape is made, specifically of the building that seems to be surrounded by shadows. He sighs as the water continued to spill gross pollen away from the roof of his car and down his windshield. This was the dream again.
In the lonely parking lot his car rests, crooked somewhere in the third row of a stretch of empty spaces, column B.
Rain, he thinks, is a stupidly common metaphor for cleansing. He hated when it rained in his dreams.
He remembers leaning back in the chair and looking to his left at Dr. Sherman in his drab attire and ethnic office. There were tribal masks, busts, paintings, and tiny statues of various people around the world. Dr. Sherman certainly considered himself to be worldly.
"It would often times be associated with renewal, rebirth, or even baptism," Dr. Sherman would repeat to Seth each week when hearing about the parking lot dream. He rolled his eyes as he thought of how cliché his dreams were then to even have rain in them. At least he didn't have to pee. He remembered looking out the window of the office that day and seeing her sitting in the very car he should have been in now, eyes closed, waiting for him. He would tell her about the dream after, and the appointment, and she would say that they should get some chowder. Then she would give him a smile that worked like a little plastic cup of NyQuil, instantly putting him to rest.
Now he's back in the car.
The transition leaves him nauseous and he scrunches his eyes shut as he catches his bearings.
The rain of course stops suddenly, because that's what things do in dreams when you acknowledge them. They cease to exist. He gets out of his car and does not bother closing the door. The asphalt of the parking lot is wet and sparkling with an unmistakable smell, the one from when Seth and his brother Wyatt would run away from their mother and play in the puddles.
He was in the parking lot of the church house. His mother and Auntie Cam were inside for their weekly New Negro Literature club. He and Wyatt would escape the supervision of the children's area, sneaking out the fire-escape door in the coffee room and together, hand in hand, would flee their imprisonment. They would squeeze their tiny bodies through the rusted iron bars of the cemetery and hold their breath as they ran past the graves, careful not to step on any. His brother's curly hair was a deep brown and he let it grow out into an afro back then. These days his head was shaved. Seth remembers his brother as he is now, bald head and thick muscles, and broad shoulders. He was standing there next to him when he married Elaina and the two of them had shared embarrassing stories about him.
There is a memory he doesn't recognize when he thinks of the church. He sees Elaina crying, holding a now adult Wyatt's hand and the two of them seem heart broken as they sit in a front pew of the church in South Carolina. This could be the funeral of his mother… but Elaina is in a beautiful black dress, the one she had picked out to wear to a dinner party in June for his award from the children's hospital. They never went. Seth is trying to remember why when he hears giggling.
Looking into the woods next to the lot. He can see past the hazy shadows of undefined dream and he sees the surreal image of the younger versions of he and his brother, fleeing the church. These two are playing tag around the cemetery in the drizzle while the rain collects puddles on the hot June pavement around him. The sticky smell of summer rain in South Carolina fills his nostrils, despite the fact that he currently resides in Boston. He looks back to his sedan and the church and his past disappear over his shoulder.
The sun is peeking out of the grey clouds and shining its light onto the hood of the automobiles that now filled the lot. The sun reflects off the hood of a silver Mitsubishi and stings light directly into his eyes. This forces him to squint and suck air in between his teeth. It is suddenly a dreary humid, and the smell of hot pavement, only recently poured on, gives the air an almost artificial fume. As he breathes deeply in and out, looking around him at the previously deserted parking lot, now slowly filling more and more before his very eyes as cars seemingly appear into place, rocking back and forth as they settle into their place between the lines.
With the exhale of air, he remembers his mother's perfume. He could smell it from a yard away when the wind blew right, even over that scent of the heavy, wet, summer Carolina air that overpowered so many of his memories.
Elaina found the perfume when they and his brother were going through her things after her death.
Elaina asked what it smelt like and Seth couldn't put it into words. Wyatt, always the poet, simply stated that it was the smell of a beautiful woman with confidence and class, and a good Christian heart. Elaina liked that description and the two boys, laying on their mama's bed, regaled her of stories of the sturdy woman who was their mother.
The lot now has that thick humidity where the droplets could still be in the air, hanging loosely and floating about, and taking in a breath was akin to sticking your head into a full sink and just sucking in water. It made your lungs and the back of your throat feel heavy and damp. This sensation is recalled as is the memory of Elaina's terrible story. The children's hospital ball, set in place to honor their finest doctors and donators, was canceled when one of their most celebrated medical professionals was killed in the rain.
Seth looks over his right shoulder and as he does so, the supermarket he had visited three months prior, to get a bottle of champagne. He turns his head back to the car to see if he could find his cell phone. He did, and stretched his arms out to reach it the car door, which was uncomfortable in the suit he was presently in.
It was the grey suit, the one his mother had picked out with Elaina, but was too afraid of telling them it fit improperly. When awake, he avoided wearing it because the arms of the jacket didn't quite fit him correctly, and everything felt tight in his armpits.
He takes the jacket off, and throws it into the car, just like he did that day, and yanks the phone off it's charger and stuffs it into his pants pocket, and finally shuts the door so he can go into the supermarket and get the champagne.
His pants, his belt, his button-down, powder-blue shirt, all match which meant the day leading into the dream was probably not too chaotic. It wasn't often that he got the belt to match. This was a nice brown leather belt and he now he can't quite remember how he acquired it in real life, or if he even had. The shoes, a chocolaty brown similar to the belt, he had gotten as a birthday gift about two months into his job, that much he remembered. He realized one of Elaina's sisters probably gave them to him. Maybe his nephews.
His white sedan would have to continue to loiter in the parking lot a while longer as he tries to get to the bottom of this dream. His dreams were often unorganized and although lucid dreaming was a trait in his family, his clairvoyance within the other-worldly scenarios allowed him deep and personal introspection.
He suddenly misses Elaina. He recognizes this dream immediately as a distinct variation of the ones he had before, the ones that were talked about in session with Dr. Sherman. In previous versions, however; there was far more confusion and he certainly was never in a suit. In fact, he often was in sweatpants and a crumby tee-shirt, the same clothes he went to sleep in.
Sometimes he was in a strange hoodie, watching himself in the pajamas get out of the car. He never recognized the hoodie during the dream, but knew it was his.
Why is this version of the dream so bland? he thinks. He turns away from the car completely now and stops short to see a young woman smiling at him as she runs towards him, from the store, champagne bottle in hand. It is Elaina, just like it always is.
"What are you smiling at?"
He startles himself at how fast he had asked the question, as if her presence predicates the question.
She squeaks a laugh and opens the car door to his sedan, passenger side. She is wearing a blue tank top with a nice brown vest over it, some kind of faux-tribal designs were threaded into the vest.
She wears a distinct brand of designer jeans that should normally cling to her shapely legs but are now sticking to her like a second layer of skin from the rain. Her entire slender body, from her jeans to her hair is drenched, sticking to her head and shoulders. A black dress is draped over the seat and she flings it into the back so as not to get it wet. He takes her purse while she gets in.
"I hate getting caught in the rain" she mutters with a half-grin and shuts the door.
She mouthed some words to him, and he gave her a puzzled look, hoping she'd re-explain. He never did get a chance to hear what she had to say.
That day she only smiled back at him as she reached into her glove box. She pulled out a paint-marker, something she kept on her at all times for what he assumed some girlish-purpose probably stemming from her high-school graduation, and begins to write something to the glass of the passenger window. Her smile has shifted itself into a clever smirk and as he bends to the window, for the millionth time reliving the horrible day exactly as it happened. He lifts his hand to tap on the glass.
Suddenly a severe pain enters his chest. He flings his head back in wild agony as he tries to protect his chest from whatever is happening to it. The same thing that has happened to him every time. To his horror, as he pulls his hand away, a puddle of blood has started to form on his shirt. She looks up from her writing, her smirk turning into a frigid expression of disgust and terror, her hand goes to her mouth to cover her horror. As he stumbles forward, his bloodied palm slaps against the window and as he struggles to stay on his legs, his hand and his body slip to the pavement from the grueling pain.
He tries to reach out to her, but suddenly he begins to sink down to his feet. The car seems to be washing away in the puddles, further away from him, as if caught in some kind of current, and soon her, the car, and the dream, are being pulled far, far away from him.
Elaina jolts upright, screaming his name and with a deep sweat soaking their sheets. She covers her mouth to stop from screaming and instead whines into her palm, choking back tears. She turns to sees the picture of him in a grey suit, arms around two children in wheel chairs smiling and giving the camera a thumbs up. Beneath this picture is an award given to doctors in pediatric cardiology.
"For incredible efforts of compassion and professionalism."
Another picture beside them, Seth is holding her and smiling at the camera, and she realizes she is finally awake. She grunts as she looks to his clock. 2:07AM. She puts her hand over his place on the bed. It as it had been for just over three months now.
Empty and cold. He was gone and all she had left were the memories they shared and the dreams where she could see him again. Taking another plastic cup of NyQuil, she flopped back into her pillows and waited for exhaustion and medication to overwhelm her so she could return to the rainy parking lot once again.
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And the Winner of the "War on Terror " Is... Corruption
The "War on Terror" will never end, which is, to some, a Good Thing.
As Dwight Eisenhower warned, war is money... and we have certainly entered the golden age he warned about.
The military budget shows America is a country that prioritizes "strength" over health. America harvests taxes from the poor and invests in global dominance. Communications technologies have eliminated dependency on our own working class. We can leverage the labour of China, India, and any other global player.
America's dominance helps the economic elite win big. Not only does the fear unleashed by the "war on terror" encourage people to empty their pockets, it also allows the government to batten down the hatches, killing transparency for the sake of "security".
Without transparency, corruption is an endless, blissful orgy. Domestic spying makes business intelligence a complete snap. No-bid contracts create the ability to pretty much print money. Electronic voting means perpetual power. It's a sociopathic playground.
All thanks to the war on terror.
The winner of the war on terror is certainly corruption. We have entered a golden age where faith supercedes reason and concern for your country is tantamount to treason.
Until the gold rush ends, it's going to be interesting times.
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We measured top-down and bottom-up influences on human saccadic eye movements by having observers perform a visual search for an oriented target in the presence of an orthogonally oriented distractor. Bottom-up, salience-based mechanisms predict the frequency of saccades both to the target (correct) and to the distractor (incorrect) will increase similarly as their contrasts increases, with correct saccades favored as the distractor contrast decreases. Top down, template-based mechanisms predict that the proportion of correct saccades will increase as target contrast increases and incorrect saccades will decrease as distractor contrast increases. Our experiment measured the relative contribution of these two mechanisms to saccadic targeting.
Two observers performed a 6 AFC (6 locations equally spaced at 6.0 deg eccentricity) search task to find the target (vertical Gabor) and disregard a distractor (horizontal Gabor). The Gabors were both odd-phase (SF: 3.3 c/d, σ: 0.23 deg) and added to white noise (RMS 26%). All combinations of 4 target contrasts (6% - 24%) and 5 distractor contrasts (0% - 24%) were used. The target and distractor locations were independently and randomly chosen. Observers searched the display and at the end of each trial indicated the target location with a mouse. We defined the 1st saccadic 6AFC decision as the element location nearest to the 1st saccade's endpoint.
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Gråsten Palace (Danish: Gråsten Slot) is best known for being the summer residence of the Danish Royal Family. It is located in Gråsten in the Jutland region of southern Denmark. The main house has a modern, all-white facade, with Venetian doors opening onto sweeping, manicured lawns and gravel walkways. The grounds include a huge stables court.
Legend says that Gråsten Palace is where Hans Christian Andersen wrote, The Little Match Girl, during his visit in 1845, but that's not true. He wrote it when he visited Augustenborg Palace.[1] The south wing of the present-day main house is believed to be built on the site of the second structure, that was built in 1603 to replace a hunting lodge which had been destroyed in a fire in the middle of the 16th century.[2] After about three and a half succeeding centuries of ownership by Danish nobles, Gråsten Slot was taken over by the State, extensively restored, and by 1935, it was the summer residence for then-Crown Prince Frederik, later King Frederik IX, and Crown Princess Ingrid, later Queen Ingrid, who adored the palace until her death in November 2000. It is the usual venue for the royal family's official summer photo shoot.
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The property includes a stables court, manicured lawns, and gravel walkways. The palace grounds themselves are an oft-described[by whom?]-as-Romantic landscape. The landscape, and especially the gardens are said[by whom?] to be Anglo-inspired. The palace chapel, the only part of the estate that is open to the public, is a copy of the Jesuit Church of Antwerp. Despite a badly damaged interior from the Schleswig wars, the chapel is decorated with 80 paintings. The chapel has bilingual congregations, with German and Danish services to accommodate the mix of local culture.[2] The estate area has an area of 6.6 km² (2.5 mile²).
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- ^ Kaufman, Oryana (14 December 2004). "Where fairytales become real". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20080610034826/http://www.ses.dk/399655f0
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- Gråsten Palace and Palace Gardens Agency for Palaces and Cultural Properties (in English)
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Former world number one tennis player Jim
Courier is known for his impressive work ethic, practicing above and beyond
what is expected of him, and his efforts have paid off with a remarkable career
in the sport. Sometimes, though, things just happen by chance.
In March 2007, he was at a tournament in
Key Biscayne where he "bumped into" Dragon Bay developer Mike Ryan, who is a
huge tennis fan. "I didn't know him personally, but we had mutual friends, so
we started talking and he invited me down to Cayman," says Courier.
"We struck up a friendship, and lo and
behold, I've been coming back ever since." This friendship, it might be fair to
say, became the stuff of Legends – the tennis tournament hosted and sponsored
by Dragon Bay and The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, that is.
The following year, Courier and a group of
elite players including John McEnroe, Wayne Ferreira and Jimmy Arias,
participated in the first Legends Championships to take place in the Cayman
Islands, which has since become an annual fixture. This year's event is set for
5-7 November, with first serve for the charity Pro-Am Tournament slated for 4
Hosting the tournament was a natural fit
for Dragon Bay and the Islands as a whole, Courier explains.
"We had the Champions Series up and running
and Mike loves to play. He has such a wonderful facility here so we talked
about this being a great spot to have the biggest tournament in the entire
Caribbean. Mike committed to it and we committed to it and we've been off and
running. There is nothing of this magnitude in the Caribbean.
"This island has what you want. The Ritz
has the beautiful tennis facility, and obviously the proximity for the players
to be at the hotel and have everything on campus is a big, big plus. It's all
five-star, first-class premier down here."
The destination has become a big draw for
the players, and for Courier the choice could not be clearer. "If you've been
here, you know," he explains. "It's such a spectacular spot and Mike and his
team make everyone feel so welcome. If you're going to work some place, this is
a pretty good place to do it."
Courier's enthusiasm for the tournament and
for Cayman makes him a natural ambassador and an enthusiastic participant in
the event. "It's such a spectacular site to play in, such an intimate gathering
for the crowd. The crowd is right up close and personal with all of the
"Players like Stefan Edberg and Marat
Safin, both (previously ranked) number one in the world, coming to play here
for the first time this year, I think is something really special."
For those players who have yet to take part
in the Legends Championships, Courier says that he doesn't have to work too
hard to get them interested, "(I tell them) we have a great event and a
beautiful island. We're playing in early November, the weather should be
perfect and, by the way, you can come early and stay late and have an
incredible vacation with a little bit of work in between."
Another attraction for Courier is the
opportunity to give something back. Proceeds from the Pro-Am Tournament, as in
previous years, will benefit the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre. "Every public
event that we do for the Champions Series has a charity partner and the Crisis
Centre certainly is a very worthy cause."
The Pro-Am has a new format that Courier is
excited about from the perspective of the amateur participants.
"This year's Pro-Am is really something
special. There is nothing like it anywhere in the world. There's no other
opportunity like this; you can't do it anywhere else.
"This is an extended multi-day Pro-Am where
you're really on the court competing with the pros. I would liken it to the
Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament where you're able to play alongside the
"You get to see what Stefan Edberg's kick
serve really looks like and what Marat Safin's backhand looks like. It's all
right there for you."
Courier also feels it is important to offer
the public an opportunity to see the tennis stars in action, and he and the
other pros will be participating in a free street event on Saturday, November
"The Legends is being held in an intimate
stadium and not everyone can get over to The Ritz-Carlton, so this is a chance
for the public to see us hitting some balls around. We wanted to make sure that
everyone could see a little bit of the tennis.
"We have set up in town squares before at
other Champions Series events and those have been very well-received. This will
be the first time we are doing one here and I'm looking forward to it. It will
be fun to do."
He is hoping to attract Cayman's younger
tennis enthusiasts as well to the event. Courier views these occasions as
unique opportunities to get children involved in tennis and develop a healthy
attitude towards sports in general. "There are some really great qualities that
sports can bring about in developing children. Things like responsibility,
honesty – because in tennis we call our own lines – integrity, setting goals,
dealing with disappointment. Tennis isn't the only sport that teaches but it
certainly has its pluses."
Not to mention that through a mutual love
of the sport Courier met Ryan and discovered Cayman. Whenever the tennis star
comes down, he heads for The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman.
I've stayed in the
hotel several times; I've stayed in The Residences several times. There is a
reason it is ranked the number one resort in the Caribbean. It is superior in
every way."
Apart from the tennis, he came to visit a
few years ago with his then-girlfriend and now wife, Susanna. The couple was
just married in August of this year. They came to ring in New Year's 2009 and
spent a week here.
"We had a really special week. We played
golf, we played tennis, we went to the spa. We took advantage of all the
amenities of The Ritz-Carlton. The New Year's fireworks display was really
something special. And we had some incredible meals."
On one of his trips to Cayman, Courier recalls
spending a memorable day with Ryan, which included what the Dragon Bay
developer has been recommending to all who will listen: commuting by boat.
"One thing that was really very cool was
Mike and I going from The Ritz-Carlton in a boat over to his house and playing
tennis over there. I love being out on the water and going there in the early
morning when the sun's coming up, or at sunset when the sun's going down, that
was pretty sweet.
"I have to say, you would be hard-pressed
to find a better commute than Mike's. If you're on the boat with him, you see
it. It's a short commute, there's never any traffic, and it's gorgeous. I think
it would be a perfect way to get your head clear before you came into work and
to clear it after work, too."
Courier plans to return to Cayman with his
wife as soon as they can. "We're always looking for pockets of time to be able
to come back here. Life gets a little bit busy. But if you get a chance to
unplug and can make it down here, this is as good as it gets. It really is.
We've been lucky enough to come here several times and we'll be coming back."


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