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When I was a kid, my criteria for any artist was how well they represented horses, from the sculptors of Parthenon to Degas at the racetrack. My standard was not so much anatomical accuracy, but whether the was treated like a static object or allowed the same presence as the human figures.
So in the trip to the Clark Museum in Williamstown, MA, I was reunited with someone who rated pretty highly on that list –Albrecht Dürer. The exhibit is titled The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer. and ties the language of contemporary angst to the pictorial traditions of five centuries previous.
Because the Clark has a new policy that allows non-flash photography, I was able to use the iphone to pick out the details of my own narrative thread.
After extended travel in Venice and Florence as a young man, Dürer applied his prodigious talents to the study of anatomy and proportion (as well as architectural perspective and military machines and maneuvers) and made these Renaissance obsessions accessible to the rising middle class of Germany through affordable prints. They apparently took the same pleasure in a nice apple butt as a quarter horse lover might today.
Dürer elevated the woodcut to virtuosic levels, refining techniques and then training his own master craftsmen so that he could draw the image and have the block prepared in the workshop tradition of the era. Woodcuts require you to remove the material that will be the white area, and are therefore time-consuming to execute. The engravings were done by the master himself directly on the plate.
Some of Dürer's most popular subjects were religious, like Saint Eustacius seeing a vision of Jesus between the horns of a stag while out on the hunt. The horse and dogs who represent his passion for that lifestyle are front and center, occupying most of the picture's real estate.
All the prints, religious or not, seem fascinated with the worldly trappings they portray in an almost grotesque level of detail. I couldn't help obsessing over the horse furnishings that drawn with the care of a costumer.
Nemesis carries a bridle in her hand with what appears to be a snaffle bit with shanks.
Donkeys, parrots and pigs are also drawn with great care and without sentimentality. The landscapes in the background are often drawn from real locations, and include farms and wood mills as well as towns and castles. Dürer was no minimalist – every space required an occupant to bring it to life.
Dürer was a humanist, a friend of Martin Luther and other thinkers of the German Rennaissance, but there were traces of the Gothic love of the grotesque in his world, and of the fashion for moralizing on human failings.
He did not obscure his prints with vagueness and mystery – they were meant to be read and to answer all the important questions, like how the ill-assorted couple got to the landscape they occupy.
The production of the prints kept his household going even while Dürer himself fought health issues in middle age. In a letter to a friend, he expressed a wish to do more painting, but his colleagues pressured him to put his theories into a series of scholarly works on geometry, perspective, typography and human proportion. So maybe he was no stranger to modern angst after all.
If you are within travel distance of Williamstown, you can enjoy seeing the prints in its spacious galleries, as well as the bonus of overheard commentary. My favorite, from a man about to exit, "I've had about enough of this guy…" until his eye fell on the print of nude Nemesis, "..oh look! Boobies!"
But for the armchair traveler, there is a complete catalog of his work on line at Albrecht-Durer.org.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A Chicago steakhouse is among the latest in a growing list of eateries around the globe that have scrapped conventional wine lists and instead are offering diners an iPad loaded with wine information.
The apps contain photos, tasting notes, vineyard maps and even winemaker videos to help customer make a choice from the sometimes hundreds of wines on offer.
Matt Moore, co-owner of the Chicago Cut Steakhouse, said his restaurant still has a wine list.
"But we just hand them the iPad," he said.
Developed by his partner David Flom, the application includes Google flyover maps of the vineyards and even an 80-second video by Rob Davis of California's Jordan Winery's.
When the restaurant told John Jordan, 38, who took over the Sonoma winery from his parents about the app, he offered in-house produced videos of his vineyards and winery.
"People always want to know about the wines they're drinking," he said. "With this, you have the winemaker right there in your hands telling you about the harvest that year, the fruit, the fermentation. It couldn't get more personal," Jordan said during a visit to New York.
Patrick Martucci, chief executive of Incentient, LLC, which supplies digital wine lists on iPads to restaurants such as Claridge's in London, Olives and South Gate in New York and California Vintage in Hong Kong, said there is a cool factor to it.
"The guests do love it, but the main reason restaurants are doing it is it makes them money," he explained, adding restaurants have seen, on average, an 18 percent increase in wine sales.
"They make back their licensing fee in a day-and-a-half," he said.
Flom, who worked on his app for eight months before the restaurant opened in September, said he encourages customers to download it and use it before their visit.
"You know many wines improve with air and we encourage them to preselect wines so that we can open the bottle two-to-four hours before and let it breathe," he said.

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In a recent edition of the New Scientist (16 June 2010) the editorial discussed cracks in the peer review system. Staff at the New Scientist analysed a range of scientific journals and found a strong tendency for American researchers to be published faster and in higher profile journals than their rivals elsewhere. Th New Scientist undertook the analysis because a group of researchers had recently taken the unusual step of writing a letter to a leading journal complaining of 'unreasonable and obstructive peer reviews'. Of course it may simply be that Americans are doing better research, but the New Scientist editorial says we will never know unless peer reviews are published. Some journals are already doing this and the New Scientist hopes this practice increases so that justice can be seen to be done. The editorial concludes by saying that 'peer review may be flawed but it is the least-worst system we've got'.
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Our newest friend is Pristinet, a Colorado tech startup that launched the first of its nationwide tap water tests last month in San Jose. They empower parents with pivotal information concerning unregulated toxins, which pose a serious threat to household tap water and the children who drink it. Learn more about this initiative here!


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To achieve this, Burton Hathow offers wrap-around care from 7:45am - 5pm during term times, with a diverse selection of after school clubs available for the children to choose from. Most of these clubs operate within the school's fees, with the exception of those provided by external agencies. There will be no charge for Early Morning or After School Club for children from Year 1 - Year 6. Should Reception children wish to use the nursery facilities for after school care, there may be a small charge.
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In the first quarter of 2013 we have received many blessings from the Lord. Tom Bice Ministries is now under the spiritual authority of Kingdom Light Church, Arlington, Texas, and Pastor Jeff Daniel. Kingdom Light Church has been a great blessing to this ministry. I will continue to teach and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ as an outreach ministry in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area and will be traveling to Africa and the Philippines later this year as an evangelist to lead others to Jesus.
From the leading of the Holy Spirit, we have decided to raise $1,200 to send as support to Hope House Cebu, Cebu City, Philippines. Pastor David Wilkerson is the missionary and Pastor. You can visit their website at http://hope4cebu.com/HOPEHOUSECEBU.html or visit their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/hope4cebu
Your support will provide food, clothing, medicine, school uniforms and supplies, Bible instruction, English instruction and group activities. David Wilkerson founded Hope House Cebu to reach poor, forsaken residents of the city. This is a simple ministry, and he lives very humbly right there in the slums, bringing the kingdom of God to a needy community. As a result, lives have been changed and many children are being protected from the human traffickers who prowl neighborhoods like this one in search of easy targets desperate enough to believe their lies about a better life in Manila or abroad.
Together with his wife, Ailene, and a few other helpers, they provide a safe place for girls and boys to hang out, hear the gospel, and occasionally receive food and clothing as needed. They are also implementing a discipleship program for the many who have given their hearts to the Lord and get them involved often in ministry to the homeless on the streets.
Please help to support Hope House Cebu as they minister to the homeless and hungry, and provide meals, clothing, an education and much needed medical care. Our goal is to send $1,200 to them by May 6, 2011. Your generous seed planted in good soil will make a difference in the life of a child. Please donate today. May the Lord bless you.
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Group 1 sprinter Vega Magic showed he was on the verge of returning to the elite level this spring after he monstered his rivals in a jumpout at Flemington on Monday morning.
With the important addition of blinkers to his gear, Vega Magic skipped through his non-preferred heavy ground to send a warning to his rivals that at seven years of age, he is far from finished despite a run of misfortune over the past few seasons.
The former WA sprinter was ridden by Damien Oliver and he gave his younger rivals a galloping lesson, eventually easing down to score from three-year-old stakes placegetter Hawker Hurricane and last season's juvenile Flemington winner Moldova.
Co-trainer David Hayes was duly impressed: "That's his third jump-out and he's really in the zone now."
"He jumped out in the blinkers and he'll probably run first-up on Memsie (Stakes) day (August 31) in the 1100-metre sprint (The Heath) and he'll be pretty hard to beat on what I saw today.
"He wasn't completely happy in the heavy ground but he (Oliver) kept hold of him and he spaced them."
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Dan Savage has already weighed-in on TIMMMMYYHH!! and his ilk
TIMMMMYYHH!! is of course oblivious to Dan — and every other LGBT who draws breath. As you'll note we are entirely absent from his list of reasons why the tide has turned and stampede begun. That's because he can't image Teh Ghey to be anything other than errant genitalia — not the persons attached to them.
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|Milo Yiannopoulos
The Face of Conservatism
Stranger things have happened,
but I can't remember when.
- Stuffy old asshole Elitists like George Will and Charles Krauthammer have been tossed into the trash can of history only to be replaced by flamboyant Gay Jewish Conservative Milo Yiannopoulos.
- Only a matter of weeks ago I was asking "What the Hell is a Milo?" Now I can't get enough of him. Conservatism badly needed a face lift and Milo is it.
- You know Milo is the real thing because the Left is doing everything possible to shut him down.
(Daily Caller) - The left-wing group that helped organize the violent shut down of the Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday is backed by a progressive charity that is in turn funded by George Soros, the city of Tucson, a major labor union and several large companies.
The Global Alliance for Justice, based in Tucson, is listed as an organizer and fiscal sponsor for Refuse Fascism, a communist group that encouraged left-wingers to shut down the Yiannopoulos event.
The call to arms succeeded. Yiannopoulos' talk was cancelled after demonstrators lit fires, vandalized businesses, and assaulted Donald Trump and Yiannopoulos supporters.
Refuse Fascism, which includes Princeton professor Cornel West as one of its founding "initiators," defended the response, issuing a statement on its website that called the shut down "righteous."
(RELATED: DNC Platform Member Cornel West Is Tied To Group Behind Berkeley Violence)
And on its Facebook page, the group asserted that the vandalism and arson were not "violence." Instead, the group argued that Yiannopoulos and Trump perpetrate violence through the policies they support.
"Dismantling police fences is not violent. And to compare preventing someone like that from speaking to the real-world violence that they perpetuate everyday is ludicrous," reads one post on the group's Facebook page.
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Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Selena Gomez, and other celebs have been unlucky with the choice of outfits this week.
Regarding favorite celebrities, we use the carrot and the stick, remembering not only the best but also the worst fashion experiments.
We had to assemble a small planning meeting to come up with the name of the thing Britney Spears has recently worn. We did not succeed.
A good outfit in a rock'n'roll style should combine aggressive and feminine elements. A dress and a black leather jacket, ripped jeans and stilettos are a good combination. A leather jacket, ripped jeans and loafers with an X-ray print look bad.
We love style experiments. But sometimes it is too much, as is the case with Rita Ora's outfit.
We sincerely hope that Selena Gomez's housekeeper confused the celebrity's pants with those of her boyfriend. Otherwise, we'll have to assume that it was her decision to wear those baggy leather pants with wedge sneakers.
Jeans with a print are good. Spike jeans look bad. And, Hilary, please tell us, how are you going to sit in them?


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In our 4N/5D Bhitarkanika and Simlipal tour package, we will guide you to places that are of immense importance, i.e - places where you can seek solace, delve into natural wonder and even study or explore the wild species. During this tour, our guided itinerary will take you around Odisha's best treasured places like Ratnagiri, Udayagiri, Lalitgiri where you can visit Stupas and Buddhist Monasteries. A countryside boat cruise with a view of the Ramsar site will be organized. Our itinerary will guide you to Bhitarkanika National Park/Bird Sanctuary where you can trek to the ancient hunting tower and a cruise to different creeks on a boat, you may as well get a chance to see crocodiles. Keeping in mind for those who like history, art and culture, our itinerary also include a visit to the Bhitarkanika Museum and Project Area and in the evening, a visit to Jagannath temple to partake in the live aarti darshan is also a riveting experience. Also, this tour package will take you to Similipal where a visit to Similipal Tiger Reserve and Crocodile Breeding Farm will be organized. Later a visit to two beautiful waterfalls like Barehipani and Joranda and a jungle safari around the tiger reserve as well as in the chahala zone.
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Qigong For Health, Martial Arts Exercise, and Meditation
This article is an excerpt from the new second edition of Dr. Yang's popular Qi gong guide is for martial artists and health seekers who want to improve their health and vitality, increase their strength and develop explosive martial power. Dr. Yang shares ten complete sets of effective Qigong exercises, teaches meditation, and discusses the theory of Chinese Qigong and Chinese medicine.
Meditation Breathing
The first goal is to achieve a calm mind while concentrating on deep breathing. You create a type of hypnotic state to do this. You should stay at this stage until you can expand and withdraw your Dan Tian while breathing with no conscious effort, and without your attention wandering. The first and most important step for effective meditation is proper breathing. There are two basic methods in use in Chinese meditation: Daoist and Buddhist.
Daoist breathing, also known as Reverse Breathing, is used to prepare the Qi for circulation, and its proper development is crucial. In Daoist breathing the normal movement of the lower abdomen is reversed during inhalation and exhalation. Instead of expanding when inhaling, the Daoist contracts, and vice versa. (see Figure 1) Never hold your breath or force the process. Inhale through the nose slowly, keeping the flow smooth and easy, and contract and lift the lower abdomen up behind the navel. When the lungs are filled, exhale gently.
Inhalation is considered Yin and exhalation is considered Yang. They must operate together like the Yin-Yang symbol, one becoming the other smoothly and effortlessly in a fluid circular motion. As exhalation occurs, slowly push out the Dan Tian or lower abdomen. The area of the Dan Tian is where the Qi is generated and accumulated in order to start Small Circulation. Because of this, the muscles around the Dan Tian must be trained so that they can sufficiently contract and expand while you inhale and exhale. At first, expanding the lower abdomen while exhaling may be difficult; but with practice the muscles learn to expand more and more until the entire lower abdomen expands upon exhalation from the navel to the pubic bone. Do not force the Dan Tian to expand, but work gently until success is achieved.
This whole process of Daoist breathing is a form of deep breathing, not because the breathing is heavy, but because it works the lungs to near capacity. While many people who engage in strenuous exercise breathe hard, they do not necessarily breathe deeply. Deep breathing causes the internal organs to vibrate in rhythm with the breath, which stimulates and exercises them. The organs would not receive this type of internal exercise without deep breathing. Many forms of strenuous exercise only condition the external muscles, while doing very little for the vital organs.
In the Buddhist breathing method, the movement of the abdomen is the opposite of the Daoist. When you inhale, expand your lower abdomen, and when you exhale, contract it. This kind of breathing is called Normal Breathing. It is the same kind of breathing a singer practices.
Both methods use the same principle of Qi generation. The main difference is that the coordination of the abdominal motion and the breathing is opposite. In fact, many meditators can use either method, and switch very easily.
Meditation and Qi Circulation
Once you can breathe adequately according to the Daoist and Buddhist methods, you can take up sitting meditation to begin the process of Qi circulation (see Figure 2). The first goal is to achieve a calm mind while concentrating on deep breathing. You create a type of hypnotic state to do this. You should stay at this stage until you can expand and withdraw your Dan Tian while breathing with no conscious effort, and without your attention wandering.
Dr. Yang has been involved in Chinese Gongfu since 1961 and has more than thirty years of instructional experience. Dr. Yang has published twenty-four books and twenty-eight videotapes on the martial arts and Qigong. Currently he is president of Yang's Oriental Arts Association, Boston, MA.


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Just read this post by Melanie Dale, who writes about living a life she didn't choose. Her story resonates!
I often struggle with our culture's obsession with living a big-adventure, unconventional, extraordinary life. While I'm the first one up for a big adventure and extraordinary anything, let's face it: life can sometimes be downright hard and limiting due to forces far beyond our control. The relentless challenge to live an outside-the-box, call-of-the-wild adventure can sometimes feel more cruel than inspiring.
"Ordinary," we are told, is a sell out. If we aren't pursuing our dreams–and mind you, it better be a BIG dream–then we are, at best, settling. At worst, we are losers because we lack the faith or the personal gumption to "be all that we can be!"
I just don't buy it anymore.
As a Christian, if Jesus is my model (and he should be, right?) his version of an extraordinary life is not exactly the adventure-filled, wild ride we have in mind. But if Jesus taught us anything about living an extraordinary life, he taught us to follow him into places we would never otherwise venture. In fact, he taught us that losing your life is the way to finding it.
Don't get me wrong. We were created to dream and to cultivate the unique gifts that each of us possess. In fact, Jesus often challenged the too-small thinking of his followers, just as he also challenged them to use the gifts they already had to accomplish extraordinary things.
At the same time, I don't know about you, but I've followed my dreams right off a cliff before. I've learned to be careful what I ask for!
I'm also learning to dream big but then to ask God to help me trust him to fulfill those desires in ways I cannot imagine.
One of my favorite movies is Under the Tuscan Sun. In the film, the main character is a depressed and despondent divorce who, on a whim, buys an old villa in Italy and sets out to renovate both the home and her wreck of a life. All kinds of things go awry, of course, and during one particular low point, she sobs to her only friend in the village, who also happens to be her realtor, about all the dreams she had for her house–dreams of a wedding and children and home filled with friends and family. "I bought a house for a life that I don't even have," she wails. I don't want to spoil the film for you, but let's just say that by the end of it, there's a wedding, but it's not hers. There's a child, but it's not hers. But she is surrounded by extraordinary love, family, and friendship. The realtor reminders her: she got everything she wished for and more, just not as she imagined it. But the reality, though much messier and more frustrating than her dream, was also a better and even more of a beautiful mess than she could have conjured on her own.
No one would choose a cancer diagnosis. But because of that diagnosis, I've been introduced to new levels of extraordinary. Like the regular phone calls from my sons…just to talk. (If you have sons, you know just how extraordinary this is!) Or like the friends and family who showed up on my doorstep with food or flowers, or sat all day with me at the hospital. Or my friend, Dawn, who sends me something to laugh about every, single day. Or my friend Connie who cooks for me when we're together, not because I can't cook for myself but because she is spoiling me a little. Or like the quiet back-porch nights with Barry that are even better when it's storming.
Or there's my new friend Audrey at the radiation center. She's a feisty, sassy grandmother of 10 who loves the Elks Club and likes to wear the hospital cape with the poker cards all over it. She scared, but she's brave. I like her.
There is a certain amount of drudgery, frustration, and fear in everyday life that no one is immune to. But extraordinary usually happens right there, right in the midst of the muck and mess. I have a vivid picture in my mind of the first time my son Isaac smiled. I was an exhausted mess of "new mom, " who was just hoping this 3 am feeding would go quickly so I could go back to bed! And then he stopped, looked right at me, and grinned from ear to ear. Thirty-three years later, I still see it perfectly.
Losing your life to find it is such a strange but true paradox. I'm not suggesting that there's any romantic allure to pain or suffering. I'm only saying that if we look closely at the cracks in our oh-so-ordinary lives, we may find a bit of glory filtering through.
This post by Melanie Dale speaks beautifully to the whole idea of finding an extraordinary life in the least expected place. It deserves a read!
Melanie Dale knows something about life not looking like she thought it would. After twelve years of building her family through infertility and adoption, she finally snuggled down with three kids from three different continents, cultures, and stories. She thought, "Now the fun begins," but then they encountered diagnosis after diagnosis. With words like "autism,"…
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Infinite Space at Pinnacle PAC
1001 W 84th Ave
Denver, CO 80260
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor
MONTGOMERY Starburst
STEPHENSON Celestial Suite
HOLST The Planets
We honor the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Holst's epic suite, The Planets. Our Open Space season blasts off with Jessie Montgomery's exuberant Starburst and continues with James Stephenson's Celestial Suite, inspired by pioneering astronomers throughout history.
Note: This concert does not include video projections.
Sponsored by
Nancy Clairmont & Bob Braudes
Suzanne & David Hoover
Beatriz & Juan Roederer
About Jessie Montgomery, composer
Jessie Montgomery is a violinist, composer and music educator from New York City. She performs and gives workshops in the US and abroad and her compositions are being performed by orchestras and chamber groups throughout the country.
Jessie began her violin studies, at the Third Street Music School Settlement, one of the oldest community organizations in the country. Upon graduating with her Bachelor's degree from the Juilliard School in Violin Performance in 2003, she joined forces with Community MusicWorks in Providence, Rhode Island, a nationally recognized leader in community development and music education. With this appointment came her first experience as a professional chamber musician as a member of the Providence String Quartet. She continued her chamber music endeavors as a founding member of PUBLIQuartet, a string quartet made up of composers and arrangers, featuring their own music as well as that of emerging and established contemporary composers. Since 2012 she has held post as a member of the highly acclaimed Catalyst Quartet, raved by The New York Times as "invariably energetic and finely burnished…performing with earthly vigor," touring regularly in the US and abroad. Most recently she has become a collaborator with Yo-Yo Ma's Silkroad Ensemble and will tour with them in the 2018-19 season.
Since 1999, Jessie has been affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports the accomplishments of young African-American and Latino string players. As a member of the Sphinx network she has played numerous roles within the organization, as a teacher, juror, orchestra member and concertmaster, panelist and ambassador, as well as being a two-time laureate in their annual competition. Jessie was also Composer-in-Residence with the Sphinx Virtuosi, a conductor-less string orchestra which toured her music for three seasons. www.jessiemontgomery.com
About James Stephenson, composer
Leading American orchestras, instrumentalists, and wind ensembles around the world have performed the music of Chicago-based composer James M. Stephenson, both to critical acclaim and the delight of audiences. The Boston Herald raved about "straightforward, unabashedly beautiful sounds," suggesting "Stephenson deserves to be heard again and again!" A formal sense of melody and tonality characterize his music, each embedded in a contemporary soundscape.
Most recently, Charles Vernon, Chicago Symphony bass trombonist, asked Stephenson to write a new concerto, a work to be premiered in their 2018-19 season under the direction of Riccardo Muti. A second bass trombone concerto will receive its orchestral premiere with the St. Louis Symphony and soloist Gerry Pagano in 2017. The 2017-18 season included a new "low brass concerto" with the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä.
The Devil's Tale (2013), a sequel to Stravinsky's famous "Soldier's Tale" has become a highlight of Stephenson's extensive chamber music output, having already garnered much critical praise for its recent recording ("a most remarkable work" – Fanfare Magazine) and numerous performances at noteworthy venues such as Ravinia and Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center.
James M. Stephenson came late to his full-time composing career, having performed 17 seasons as a trumpeter in the Naples Philharmonic in Florida. As such, the composer is largely self-taught, making his voice truly individual and his life's work all the more remarkable. As his catalog grew, so did his reputation. That catalog now boasts concertos and sonatas for nearly every instrument, earning him the moniker "The Concerto King" from Chicago Symphony clarinetist John Yeh. The vast majority of those compositions came through commissions by and for major symphony principal players, in Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Washington DC, St. Louis, Oregon, Milwaukee, and Dallas, among others. www.composerjim.com


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Bahrain's Tender Board says total number of opened tenders reached 1,091 in 2017, up by 9.2% on the previous year
Bahrain saw strong growth in its tender opportunities in the past 12 months, according to the 2017 annual report released by the country's Tender Board.
The total number of opened tenders reached 1,091 in 2017, up by 9.2 percent on the previous year. In response, 5,208 bids were submitted, to which 1,892 tenders were awarded worth BD3.75 billion ($9.9 billion), up 156 percent on 2016.
Basim Bin Yacob Al Hamer, Minister of Housing and chairman of the Tender Board, said: "We had a strong 2017 and we are expecting continued growth over the next 12 months. Procurement laws are being updated to better suit current business needs and further improve an already highly transparent system.
"The Cabinet recently approved new streams of revenues that will allow us to hire qualified personnel for new specialized roles, add further value to our services, develop our capacities, and implement further strategic improvements."
According to the report, the top five purchasing authorities with the highest value tenders in 2017 were Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), Gulf Air, the Electricity and Water Authority, Ministry of Housing and Tatweer Petroleum.
Among the major projects was the Bapco Modernisation Program, the purchase of aircraft engines for Gulf Air's new fleet, the transmission of cable works for the Electricity and Water Authority and the construction and maintenance of housing units for Ministry of Housing.
The Tender Board said the number of local suppliers registered jumped to 4,268 from 3,123 in the previous year while there was also a 35 percent increase in international engagement.
Hayam Al Awadhi, secretary general of the Tender Board, said: "We are very proud of what we have been able to achieve in the past 12 months and plan to continue on our path forward with more enhancements that tie directly back to our vision. We plan to continue improving the transparency and efficiency of the kingdom's Government procurement practices in ways that are sure to encourage more suppliers and contractors to engage with Bahrain."


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Nick Viall's Polished Gent Ad Is Too Funny
We're in between seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette right now, so you know I'm just itching to use the phrase "for the wrong reasons." Luckily, I got the perfect opportunity with Nick Viall's The Polished Gent ad, which is hilarious... for the wrong reasons. The Polished Gent has been around since 2016 and appears to be both fronted and backed by Nick Viall, who described it on The Ellen Show as "a Birchbox for men's grooming supplies like hair and skin." So... a Birchbox Man. Which exists. But do you know what the Polished Gent has that Birchbox Man doesn't have? This commercial.
To quote Stefon from SNL, this Polished Gent commercial has everything: a nondescript magic box, the phrase "I think I look young as f*ck," Old Jim, an invisible snake, a miraculous transformation, getting your torso squirted with water while you're talking, and no actual shots of any products.
It seems to be modeled after those irreverent, almost meta Old Spice commercials, and it's certainly memorable, because this ad will definitely stick in my brain for a long time to come. Just maybe not for the reasons they had in mind.
They were probably hoping I'd be piqued with excitement to see what products Nick Viall would endorse after teasing this on the company's website:
Since my mid-20s, I have put more time than I would like to admit into keeping a youthful appearance. Most of that time was spent just buying random products hoping some of them might actually work! Sadly, that method resulted in a huge amount of time and money wasted. A handful of products really stood out over the years and I am excited to share them with you.
But instead I'm here wondering things like (a) what precisely they're releasing on May 8, (b) if everyone's gonna get one of those weird wooden boxes, (c) and whether they really think I've forgotten about Nick Viall's haircut, pre-Paradise. I trust now-Nick to suggest grooming products, but then-Nick is an entirely different matter.
If you really want to sell me something Nick Viall-themed, give me ab oil or give me nothin'. Or, alternately, maybe just give me some more details about what exactly is going on here. Otherwise, I'll just enjoy this ad for the sheer fun Nick Viall seems to be having being in it.


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Note: Advent, from the Latin, adventus, "coming", is the Christian season of preparation for Jesus' birth, the heart of the Christmas celebration, and, according to scripture and the Christian creeds, his second appearance on some future, unknown day and also according to scripture and Christian tradition, his daily coming through the Holy Spirit. Hence, the theme of waiting for Jesus is Advent's clarion call.
O Lord Jesus, I wait this day for the wonder of Your Wonder; that is, Your holiness, again!(1)
God spake unto His servant, saying, "Moses! Moses!" further saying, "Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground" and Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.(2) Yet You, O Lord Jesus, in the flesh of Your incarnate divinity, hath brought God near, yea, verily, face to face.
O Lord Jesus, by Your Spirit, may I, without fear, behold Your holiness in every face of family and friend and stranger, of women and men and girls and boys, of aged and young, of gay and lesbian and transgender, of rich and poor, of well and infirm, and, on some day and at some times, perhaps the hardest for me, in the mirror.
(1) See my post of yesterday regarding Wonder: waiting for Jesus – an Advent-season-prayer-a-day, Day 17, Wednesday, December 19, 2017
(2) See Exodus 3.5-6


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In this issue we will look at one of the most unusual families in all Christian history, a family who contributed person after person, generation after generation, both men and women, to significant Christian ministry. We will look at this family through its most famous son whose name was Basil. Born about AD 330 and educated for high position and prestige, Basil had everything needed to establish himself successfully in this world, but he chose the service of Christ above earthly power.
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His family was a wealthy Christian family from Cappadocia, in east-central Asia Minor, modern day Turkey. History does not record exactly when the Gospel came to Cappadocia, but possibly it was through Jews who heard Peter's powerful sermon at Pentecost (Acts 2:9). By the end of his life, Peter was writing to Christians in their area (I Peter 1:1). But the church in Cappadocia became firmly established in the region through the evangelism done by Bishop Gregory, often called Thaumaturgus or the Wonder-worker. Note that after the apostle Paul, Gregory "The Wonder-worker" was one of the few "big name" Christian ministers for the next 250 years.
This was a period of persecution and there were no public mass evangelism meetings allowed. Basil's grandmother Macrina came to Christ through Gregory the Wonder-worker's ministry in the third century. When persecution of the Christians broke out under Emperor Diocletian, Macrina and her husband fled their home and lived in the hill forests of Pontus for seven years. When they did return to their homes, persecution again broke out, and much of their property was confiscated. Macrina's son Basil later married Emmelia, who was the daughter of a martyr. Basil and Emmelia had ten children and raised them all in the Christian faith for which their parents had suffered so greatly. The oldest child, a girl, was named Macrina after Basil's mother. The second oldest, a boy, was named Basil after his father; he is the main subject of our story.
Basil, Sr., was a lawyer and rhetorician in Cappadocia, and he provided Basil, Jr., with a classic education to follow in his steps. After schooling in Caesarea and Constantinople, Basil went to Athens where he studied for six years. There he became friends with Prince Julian, later Roman Emperor, and fellow-Cappadocian Gregory of Nazianzus. Basil excelled at rhetoric and became very proud of his abilities. When he came home, he began teaching at the university of Caesarea. Basil's father had died when he was away, and on his return he found his sister Macrina had taken over the care of their mother and was looking after the education of the younger children. Macrina was an extraordinary woman. Gregory of Nazianzus once wrote regarding her, "it was a woman who was the subject of our discourse, if indeed you can say 'a woman' for I do not know if it is appropriate to call her by a name taken from nature when she surpasses nature."
Macrina's Marriage Plans
Disappointed Macrina was engaged to be married when she was twelve, but her fiancé died. She resolved to remain unmarried and devote her life to the Lord and the service of others. Since a young girl Macrina had especially studied the Song of Solomon and the Psalms. As her brother Gregory later wrote: She went through each part of the Psalm at its special time, when getting up, when engaging in work, when resting, when she took her meals, when she arose from the table, when she went to bed or arose for prayers; always she had the Psalms with her like a good traveling companion. Not forsaking them for a moment.
A Sister's Rebuke, a Brother's Death
When Basil returned from Athens, Macrina warned him about his pride in his rhetorical abilities and the way he exalted himself and despised very worthy men. Macrina showed him that worldly success was less important than being right with God. At first Basil shrugged off Macrina's words, but when his brother Naucratius died unexpectedly, Basil was shaken. He woke up as if he had been in a deep sleep and saw his preoccupation with rhetoric as "vain labor in which I was engaged, occupying myself in acquiring a knowledge made foolish by God."
What to Do with His Life
But if as a Christian Basil was not to be consumed with a worldly education, how was he to live? He studied the gospels closely to see what his life should be like: Accordingly, having read the Gospel and having seen clearly there that the greatest means for perfection is the selling of one's possessions, the sharing with needy brethren, the complete renouncing of solicitude for this life, and the refusing of the soul to be led astray by any affection for things of earth, I prayed to find some one of the brethren who had chosen this way of life, so as to pass with him over life's brief and troubled waters.
Basil's sister Macrina had moved with her mother and female servants to the family's property at Annesi in Pontus and established a female monastery there with Macrina as leader. Basil too renounced his worldly office and decided to lead an ascetic life. He visited monastic communities in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Mesopotamia before establishing his own community in Pontus. Basil was strongly in favor of a community life rather than the life of a solitary ascetic, for many of Christ's commands could only be fulfilled by living with others and serving them. Basil's brother Gregory and his lifelong friend Gregory of Nazianzus joined with Basil in the monastic life. Basil believed strongly that the monastery should not be autonomous but should be under the control of the local bishop and work closely with the church. He established seven times of prayer a day and established rules which continue to be followed by Eastern monasteries and influenced the rule Benedict established in the West in the sixth century. He encouraged monks to minister to the surrounding population by providing medical care, relief for the poor, and education for the young.
Refusing the Emperor, Feeding the Poor
Julian, Basil's friend from his schooldays in Athens, had become Emperor and tried to encourage Basil to work at his court, but Basil refused the call of the world and chose the ascetic life. He had only lived in the monastery six years, however, when he was persuaded to return to the city of Caesarea and be ordained. When famine came to Caesarea in 368, Basil worked tirelessly to help the people of the city. He sold much of his inheritance to provide food for the people and received funds from many wealthy patrons to avert disaster. He also worked to persuade the merchants to keep their prices down and not profit at the expense of the people's welfare.
You Can't Bribe a "Guest of God"
In 370 Basil was chosen Bishop of Caesarea. He used his position to stand firm for the orthodoxy established at the Council of Nicea. Valens, the Emperor by this time, was a strong Arian, denying the deity of Jesus Christ. He tried to use every means at his disposal to bring Basil over to Arian beliefs. First he tried to bribe Basil to tolerate the heretical Arian bishops, but Basil would not be bought. Then Valens sent officials to openly threaten Basil with confiscation of his property, banishment, and death, but Basil would not be intimidated. He told the officials: "Nothing more? Not one of these things touches me. His property cannot be forfeited who has none; banishment I know not, for I am restricted to no place, and am the guest of God, to whom the whole earth belongs; for martyrdom I am unfit, but death is a benefactor to me, for it sends me more quickly to God, to whom I live and move . . . ." Valens was about to banish Basil when his son became very ill; he called for Basil to pray for the boy, and he recovered for a time.
Through correspondence, sermons, and theological treatises, Basil stood firmly for the doctrine of the Trinity. He and his brother Gregory, who became Bishop of Nyssa, were staunch defenders of the deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit and were influential in defining the terms by which the three persons of the Trinity were one deity. With Gregory of Nazianzus, they also defended the complete humanity of Jesus. One heresy of the day was that Jesus had a human body but not a human soul or mind. The Cappadocians recognized that Jesus had to be fully human if he was to save us fully. The importance of the role of the Cappadocians in the theological and doctrinal realm cannot be overestimated. The church had been scandalously divided over theological issues, particularly Arianism. It even led to rioting in the streets in major cities, various forms of violence, and exiling of bishops. The Cappadocians skillfully worked through key issues with deeper understanding so that a level of peace could be achieved.
Basil combined a pastor's heart in caring for his church with a theologian's love for the truth. When he died in 379 his last words were "Into Thy hands, O Lord I commit my spirit; Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth."
Two years after Basil's death, the new Emperor Theodosius called a church council at Constantinople to finally deal with the Arian heresy. The two Cappadocian Gregories, Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa, and his friend, Gregory of Nazianzus, were leaders in formulating what is now known as the Nicene Creed. Today Basil is considered among the eight doctors of the early church, along with Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom.
Six Saints in One Family
In the Eastern Orthodox church, not only is Basil himself venerated as a saint, but so are his sister Macrina, his two brothers, Gregory Bishop of Nyssa and Peter Bishop of Sebaste, his grandmother Macrina the Elder, and his mother Emmelia. Quite a Cappadocian family!


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Accessing WPD via MTP (jmtp API)
As the title says i want to access a Windows Portable Device.
Access in this case means to check wether folders exist, create new folders and transfer files.
As the WPD does not have a drive letter i am currently using the jmtp API
( to be found here jmtp - Java API to access MTP compatible portable media players - Google Project Hosting )
I have got two questions concerning my project (a windows application, not mobile, not web):
1. Am i bound to use an external API or is there anything JAVA internal i am missing?
2. Does anyone experienced with the API know wether it is possible to access folders without creating them or checking wether folders with a certain name do already exist?
thanks in advance
p.s. I have further tried another API ( to be found here: jusbpmp - Java library for USB portable devices - Google Project Hosting ) but return values and practicability seemed rather odd to me. If anyone got suggestions, they are very welcome :).
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Meet the mixers behind the slow-burning cocktail revolution in Brussels
"It's about the pleasure of the experience, to stimulate the senses with taste, and the mood it makes you feel," says Harouna about his passion for cocktails at Life is Beautiful. His protégé cocktail maker Ali pulls a small blowtorch out from under the bar and proceeds to singe the wedge of blood orange and the sprig of rosemary on top of my drink with a naughty grin. He's making the bar's bestseller of the season, the Bees Knees: organic Cachaca Abelha Silver shaken with ginger, lime, lavender bitters, blood orange cordial and coffee-infused Martini bitter. The last two ingredients are Harouna's personal creation for this season's menu.
I take a tentative first sip. The smoky orange and rosemary gives way to the sour depth of the alcohols, bitters and coffee, then comes a fiery little kick from the ginger. After a stir with the sustainable glass straw, the second sip has the sweeter overtones of the blood orange and lavender. It's a complex, balanced combination, quite lovely, and rather invigorating.
Harouna and Karoline started with a monthly cocktail taster evening in Ixelles three years ago. It became so popular they started looking for their own place to create a beach haven atmosphere in, and Life is Beautiful was born on Brussels' Rue Dansaert in June 2016. Plants hang from the ceiling, cushions are strewn over the seats, a mixtape of funk, African rhythms and bits of 60s psychedelic wafts through. The place exudes the feeling of being among friends.
Life is Beautiful is rare in Brussels for making some of its own bitters – alcohols steeped with botanicals and spices. The process takes several months. For the summer, Harouna is hoping to reduce it to a month, using siphon technology to create micro-batch bitters. Other homemade ingredients on the 10-strong menu each season include small batches of fruit cordials, and syrups like pistachio and salted caramel.
The couple are also big on sustainability and source ingredients as locally as they can, or support brands with a social impact, like Snow Leopard vodka, which funds work to save the world's remaining snow leopards from extinction. The chocolate used comes from Frederic Blondeel, beer from the Brussels Beer Project and coffee from Moka, all in the vicinity.
Beer capital
Cocktail culture has been slow to take hold in Brussels, according to Sophie, one half of Green Lab on Avenue Louise. "It's what you get for being in the capital of a strong beer culture," she says. "Almost anything creative takes hold in Antwerp first, then Ghent, then Brussels, then Wallonia. But the desire for special flavour blends has been growing in Brussels for the last two years. Now we can really say we have a scene," she says, beaming.
Green Lab is a modern-day speakeasy with an industrial vintage vibe, serving around 200 gins, 10 absinthes and a menu of six cocktails developed from scratch every two months, as well as DJ nights, live jazz and opera. "We source a lot of Belgian gins from small producers," her partner Leslie says as she shakes me An Englishman Lost in La Provence. It has a base of Earl Grey tea-infused gin, homemade lavender syrup, lime, absinthe, Bloom bitters and egg white. It's refreshingly floral, sensual even, conjuring up a fragrant summer day in the country. "That's exactly what I had in mind on the rainy grey Brussels day I created it, and how I wanted to feel," she says.
My Brussels-born friend who scoffed at the idea of trying cocktails undercover with me has a beer, but lights up at a taste of mine, then sneaks in several sips when she thinks I'm not looking.
Cocktail week
Sophie and Leslie have been instrumental in putting the capital on the cocktail map, by creating the first ever Brussels Cocktail Week last year. The second edition, from 23-29 September this year, will see guest bartenders and mixologists at more than 30 bars and restaurants around Brussels presenting new creations, food pairings and tastings.
Green Lab also hosts a Martini Monday on the last Monday of the month, where a Brussels mixologist creates a Martini with a twist. "It's a popular night among mixologists as it's traditionally a bartender's day off," says Sophie. The last one saw Feodora Van Calster from Hortense create a Martini with dried Jerusalem artichoke peel and smoked hay.
While I sit studying the menu at Vertigo in the Sablon, bartender Carmello is busy dissolving vanilla sugar in dark rum, in a small copper pan he's heating with the help of a blowtorch. He's experimenting for the new summer menu. It's a rainy Belgian night, and there's a fire roaring away in the hearth of this listed old tavern. Things couldn't get much cosier.
I can't decide what to have so he sets to work on a spontaneous creation, adding the rum mixture to a shaker, with a chocolate liqueur, mezcal, lime, a homemade orange cordial, a coffee bitter and two other ingredients that flash by too quickly. It's pure theatre and poured from a great height. The result is a dessert in a glass – rich, chocolatey, comforting. He says he'd like to enter the World Cocktail Championships but at 18 he's still too young. I tell him he's going to smash it when he's 21.
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As any recent university graduate will tell you, unemployment sucks. I've been spending my week making trips to the local Job Centre, trying not to spend my hard earned savings on trivial things and working out whether or not taking unpaid work is actually worth it. Luckily this doesn't take up a great deal of my time, which is all the better for researching new apps for Giz. Take a gander at this week's list:
Push Launcher: Hate trawling through your folders looking for your favourite apps? Sounds like you need Push Launcher. Push Launcher is a nifty little app that allows you to stick all your favourite apps into one place, your phone's notification centre. Not only can you add, delete, and edit which apps are included as you please, you can also assign them a time for easy access when you want it. Do you always read your news apps in the morning? Set the time and make it as easy as possible. [£0.69]
AVG PrivacyFix: Privacy on the internet can be fickle. Especially when social networks are seemingly making it their top priority to ensure that privacy and visibility settings are as confusing as possible. This is where AVG's PrivacyFix comes in. This handy little app can take a look at your Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn accounts and show exactly what you're sharing to the public. Better yet, it can take you straight to the privacy settings to get it fixed. Most importantly though, it will tell you when policies change so you can readjust your privacy settings quickly and easily. [Free]
KakaoGroup: Spin off from messenger app KakaoTalk, KakaoGroup is a way to privately chat with people, whether they be family, friends, or colleagues. Exactly the people you'd want to talk to with a messenger app anyhow. Useful if you don't have one already. [Free]
InPic: Unfortunately Instagram has yet to release an official app for the Windows Phone. But never fear! Third Parties are here! InPic will provide you with everything you need to take, edit and upload photos to your Instagram account. Best of all? No ads! It's all 100 per cent free of charge. [Free]
OneNote: Phones are great for many things, one specific use is making notes when you're out and about. If you're like me though, you tend to just forget about them. In these cases OneNote is one handy tool to have. By utilising the cloud, OneNote can access your notes when and where you need them, regardless of what device you're using. [Free]
Comic Director: Ever fancied yourself a professional comic writer/artist? Unfortunately this app can't land you a job in the big leagues, but it can help you create your own graphic novellas. You can use your own photos or videos in conjunction with the supplied art to design and create your own comic masterpieces, right there on your phone. Who knows, maybe this handy little app will help you become the next Stan Lee. [Free]
Breez: Internet-enabled phones have forever changed the way we find information, weather forecasts are no exception. Breez allows you to pin a permanent weather forecast to your home screen, making it that bit easier to find. With a choice of 24 hour or three day forecasts it's handy for anyone to have. [Free]
School Timetable: Back when I was at school, and university for that matter, my timetable was usually a printed off piece of paper stuffed into my bag. Nowadays we have nice phones and apps to do that job for us. Isn't technology wonderful? School Timetable, as the name suggests, is a handy place to store your timetable without having to faff about with the hassle of printing or remembering where you're supposed to be. [Free]


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This is a hard thing to do perfectly because there are a lot of variables to consider as far as individual personalities are concerned in your kitten. Let's go through a few things that you need to remember for those first hours on that first day of your new kitten's family-based life. This will make it a little easier.
Let Him Come Out At His Own Pace
Some kittens will bound out of the carrier in no time at all, wanting to explore and play and do all kinds of amazing things right away. More often than not, though, your little baby will hide in the carrier anywhere from minutes to hours. They need to work out whether or not it's safe to leave their hiding spot, and you have to allow him the time to come out at his own pace to explore. Trust that he will do what he wants to do when he's ready. Don't shove him out or force him to move anywhere.
Stay Calm And Don't Approach Him
If he comes out while you're in the room and starts to tentatively (or boldly) explore, allow him to do so and stay out of his way. He knows you're there and he's trying to see whether you're going to "hurt" him (that is, whether you're going to come after him) or not.
You can watch him and even talk to him quietly if you want, but you have to stay still and calm and make sure that you allow him to do what he needs to do. If he does approach you then you can let him sniff you and even climb all over you if he wants to. Just go at the same pace as your kitten and don't be discouraged if he is terrified of you at first. Remember, he's in a whole new world, and it'll take him time to get used to that.
Allow Him To Explore
If your kitten does come up, and then runs away again to explore or play or even hide again, just let it happen. He needs to adjust and learn and understand what's going on, and you're going to need to make sure that you help him by giving him the freedom to do what he wants to do. Kittens are curious and love to explore and make a mess.
Enjoy the fun that comes from watching him do his own thing, and you'll see that he'll get more curious as time goes on, meaning he's starting to adjust to his new and exciting space.
Keep Family Members And Pets Away
One of the most important ways to help him adjust to his new home is to keep it calm and controlled. So, keep family, friends, and especially pets away from his room. If you're in the room, you can send photos to everyone else. If you aren't in the room, you can keep an eye on him through a baby monitor or something similar like that. The point is to refrain from throwing in more chaos. He needs to see that his room is his safe space.
While each kitten is different, as mentioned, this will help the first day go as smoothly as possible. Yes, it's going to be hard to suppress the urge to cuddle and hug your kitten and chase him around and bring in lots of people, but you need to wait. This baby needs you to protect him from too much stimulation and chaos, and that's your job as his pet-parent.


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If you want to stay at the best hotel in Carovigno, Trip.com is here to help! Book your hotel on Trip.com for an amazing travel experience. If you travel to Italy, visiting Carovigno is a good choice. In Carovigno, both areas with attractions and the city center are good places to stay.
Though there is no civilian airport, it's still easy to take a bus or train to reach Carovigno. Although there aren't any airports or train stations, visitors can come to the city via bus or other means of transportation.
On Trip.com, there are 40 recommended hotels in Carovigno. The local average price is 136 AUD per night. There are a variety of hotels to meet the needs of different types of travelers. There are 4 four-star hotels in Carovigno at an average price of 166 AUD per night. Unique local hotels in Carovigno provide guests a unique and fresh feeling. A popular hotel in Carovigno, Hotel Resort Corte di Ferro is also one of the highest rated. If you're still unsure, Trip.com recommends Relais Masseria Caselli.
If you stay at a hotel in downtown Carovigno, nearby attractions like Dabby di Tateo Davide can be your first stop. For short trips in Carovigno, Area Marina Protetta di Torre Guaceto are all good options. The most famous attractions locally are Cineblu, Azienda Agricola Pietrasanta, Castello Conti Filo.


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As Halloween creeps up on us, Magill and Caitlyn have decided to dedicate the next trilogy of episodes to scary topics, starting with a tribute to the late Wes Craven. On this show, they'll be looking at one of the heavy-hitters of 80's slasher horror: Freddy Krueger! Could the Christmas-sweater-wearing, wisecracking dream demon have his origins in folklore? Click here to find out!
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Jobs and Regional Growth Fund
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Worker Transition Scheme and rapid response
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Queensland Charter for Local Content
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This trip we visited only 2 wineries. The goal was to show Napa valley to my parents who were visiting us from Ukraine, and I believe they liked it. First winery that we visited was V.Sattui winery.
This is a pretty popular winery in Napa Valley. Usually in summer time, it's pretty much crowded. I mean so crowded than even overflow parking is full. This time, we found parking very easily. It was nice to walk around, to take pictures, and enjoy the day. It was cloudy this day, and I could really feel like all flowers, trees, and plants are "enjoying" such weather after hot sunny summer :)
Inside the winery, visitors can taste wines before buying them. Or they can just test... without buying :) Testing room is cozy, and the staff is nice and friendly.
All wines are available in the store which is located inside.
Also, there is cute daily section where visitors can by many different cheeses, salamis, oils, and other gourmet snacks. So the idea is to buy a bottle of a good wine, gourmet snacks, and to have a picnic in a beautiful shady picnic area right outside the winery :).
Next winery that we visited was Beringer Winery. It's also one of my favorites because I like their wines, and I like the winery itself.
There is a gift shop inside the winery along with a wine shop where so many beautiful things are sold. I have to admit I'm a big fun of gift shops :) I love all this small and not only small cute things which are there :)
I could not resist to buy several bottles of wines they I like. They mostly semi-sweet with reach fruity notes. Yummy :)
Well... it was a really nice day. I hope my parents also enjoyed it :)
I uploaded more pictures from the trip in higher resolution there.


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ZZ Top LP
Cinco No. 2: The Second Five LP's (LP5) (2018)
Format: LP - Glasba
Šifra: 081227931698
- I Thank You
- She Loves My Automobile
- I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
- A Fool For Your Stockings
- Manic Mechanic
- Dust My Broom
- Lowdown On The Street
- Hi Fi Mama
- Cheap Sunglasses
- Esther Be The One
- Tube Snake Boogie
- I Wanna Drive You Home
- Ten Foot pole
- Leila
- Don't Tease Me
- It's So Hard
- Pearl Necklace
- Groovy little Hippie Pad
- Heaven, Hell Or Houston
- Party On The Patio
- Gimme All Your Lovin
- Got Me Under Pressure
- Sharp Dressed Man
- I Need You Tonight
- I Got The Six
- Legs
- Thug
- TV Dinners
- Dirty Dog
- If I Could Only Flag Her Down
- Bad Girl
- Sleeping Bag
- Stages
- Woke Up With Wood
- Rough Boy
- Can't Stop Rockin'
- Planet Of Women
- I Got The Message
- Velcro Fly
- Dipping Low (In The Lap Of Luxury)
- Delirious
- Concrete And Steel
- Lovething
- Penthouse Eyes
- Tell It
- My Head's In Mississippi
- Decision Or Collision
- Give It Up
- 2000 Blues
- Burger Ma
- Doubleback
ZZ TOP is set to dish out a second heaping helping of analogue goodness with the sequel to its previous vinyl set. On the menu this time around are the albums that made "That Little Ol' Band From Texas" global superstars during the 1980s. The collection includes five studio albums pressed on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl, presented in a box the design of which has been inspired by the custom suits made for guitarist Billy F Gibbons' by Hollywood's Jaime Castaneda a/k/a "Jaime The Tailor."
Between 1979 and 1990, Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard released five groundbreaking and earth shaking albums including Degüello, El Loco, Eliminator, Afterburner and Recycler.
The new collection picks up where the previous set left off, beginning with the band's 1979 release Degüello. The record features several standout songs that remain fan favorites, like "Cheap Sunglasses," "I Thank You" and "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide." El Loco followed in 1981 and featured radio staples like "Tube Snake Boogie" and "Pearl Necklace." The album also was a turning point for the band's sound, introducing cutting edge contemporary technology into the mix for the first time.
Eliminator went on to become the best-selling record of the band's career so far, being certified four times platinum in the UK, and reaching number 3 in the charts. It included big hits like "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Give Me All Your Lovin'". The band's popularity continued to soar with the 1985 release of Afterburner. Certified platinum in the UK, it includes hits like "Rough Boy," "Velcro Fly" and "Sleeping Bag." The final album featured in the new vinyl collection is Recycler. Released in 1990, it included a trio of hit singles; "Concrete And Steel", "My Head's In Mississippi." and "Doubleback," – as heard on the soundtrack to the film Back To The Future III in which ZZ Top played a version of themselves from the past.
Each album features audio sourced from the original masters and boasts artwork that faithfully reproduces the original releases and will be available on June 1st.
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American blues rock band, formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. The band members are Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar), Dusty Hill (bass guitar and vocals), and Frank Beard (drums). They hold the distinction of being one of the few rock bands still comprised of its original members for over 40 years, and until 2006, with the same manager/producer, Bill Ham. They reached the peak of their commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, scoring many hit songs during that era; but they remain together today and are still touring and releasing albums. ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2004. Summarizing their music, Cub Koda wrote, "As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America's finest blues guitarists working in the arena rock idiom … while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support."[1] Their song lyrics often feature sexual innuendo and humor. Nearly as well-known as their music is the group's appearance: Gibbons and Hill are always ...Več


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This series takes concepts learned in an MBA program and adapts them for easy comprehension by scientists without a management background. This is currently the 20th part of the series and the third in drafting a business plan.
In the last few months, we've discussed why a scientist might want a business plan, and what format and style to use when writing the plan. This month, we discuss the first real "meat and potatoes" section of the plan: the description of the management team and the corporate structure of the business. When asked what the three most important parts of a business plan are, many venture capitalists will use a modified version of the old real estate maxim, and tell you "management, management, and management." That is why this section will often come first in a plan, even before a discussion of the business, the intellectual property, or the revenue model. People like to know who they are investing in, and how the business is going to be run.
The problem with many start-up businesses (and the reason many people have problems writing this section of their plans) is that, at the time of drafting the plan, they have no management team. Most scientists I know have trouble putting themselves down as president of a company; then they have even more trouble finding other people to add to the team. Others feel they should have a full management team in place, but have no real idea of what types of positions a business requires. Our discussion this week will include both what you'll need as a management team and how to package it for the business plan.
Setting Up Your Management Team
A management team in a start-up business is usually pretty small. But it should be more than just the original entrepreneur-scientist. A typical team should include at least one person with some kind of business experience as well as the scientist. You really don't need more than that in the early stages of the business, unless you're going to start selling stuff right away. Instead, the other "experts" are traditionally either on the board of directors, or on an advisory board of some kind.
So here's how a typical business structure works. There are three tiers of corporate governance: The officers of the business, who are the people that run the business from day to day; the board of directors, who tell the officers what to do; and the owners or shareholders of the business, who appoint the board of directors. On top of this, most businesses will also have an advisory board of some kind (usually a scientific advisory board). In a start-up, a lot of the time there will be overlap between these different levels of management. For example, you, the scientist who has decided to start this business, may be a shareholder of the business, a member of the board of directors, and the president of the company (and thus an officer). However, each of these sections of the corporate governance take very different roles in the running of the company, so keep this in mind when designing your team.
The officers of the company include the president, who is in charge of all day-to-day operations of the company, and the vice presidents. Usually, a mature company will have a vice president for finance, sales and marketing, and research and development. In a typical science-based start-up, there will be a vice president for finance, and maybe for business development, and little else. Remember that the president of the company is often a scientist, and can thus fill the role of research and development vice president. Remember also that each of these positions has to be paid, so the younger the business, the fewer people will likely be on the management team.
The board of directors is appointed by the shareholders of the company, and they act as a steering committee of sorts for the business. While not involved in the day-to-day activities of the business, they'll likely need to approve any major transactions, the hiring and firing of officers, and the like. The board of directors does all the "big picture" business thinking and will likely include someone appointed by a venture capitalist who has invested in the company. Directors of a small company are usually not paid more than an honorarium and some stock options.
The owners of the business are likely to be the founders and any other people that may have invested time or money into the business in exchange for shares. The owners aren't all that important for the business plan, but some aspects of ownership are important. Typically, venture capitalists or other investors will like to see that the people they are investing in have a big stake in the success of the company. If the founders of the company don't own shares, they really don't have much at stake and can just quit and get jobs elsewhere.
Many start-up businesses also have advisory boards of some kind. Usually, these are scientific advisory boards, made up of important scientists who understand the intellectual property driving the business. However, more and more companies also have advisory boards for other facets of the business. Clinical trial advisory boards, marketing advisory boards, and business development advisory boards are becoming more common. Advisory boards are a great way of saying, "there are a lot of people behind this project," without having to pay those people a whole lot. They also allow the young entrepreneur a way of tapping in to expertise that would be hard to get otherwise.
Writing the Management Section of the Business Plan
Now that you've figured out who's doing what in your business, you've got to write it up for your business plan. Typically, the management section of the business plan will have subheadings for officers, board of directors, and advisory board. Most start-up businesses will also have a subheading (often before any of the others) describing the founders of the business and a heading at the end of the management section describing the businesses' ownership structure. In each case, the information that should be conveyed in the business plan should include answers to the following questions: Who is the management comprised of? What is each person's role? What is their previous experience? And how much stock do they have in the company?
Typical plans will have each person's name and position under the different subheadings described above. After the person's name, there should be a brief bio of that person: what they've accomplished in the past and how much time they will be devoting to this business. The final section, that of ownership stake, should simply be in tabular form, explaining who owns what share of the business and who might have any outstanding options. (Options, for those unfamiliar with the term, are a way of paying someone in stock--that person has the option to purchase a certain amount of shares, at a certain price, for a given amount of time. This way, if the business does well, the optionee can profit because they can purchase the stock at a lower "insider" price. If the business doesn't succeed, the optionee hasn't lost any investment, but the company has saved money in the interim by offering a stake in the company's success rather than a higher salary or other compensation.)
The management section is the most important section of your business plan. Investors invest in people, not products, and this section describes who the brains behind the company are and what their stake is. Though the section should be short (a couple of pages at most), it should well represent the people behind the business. It should also convince the investor that these are people that can be counted on.


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The making
Selected, early-harvested Pedro Ximénez grapes are cold desluged and fermented at a controlled low temperature. Alcoholic strength: 13.5%
Tasting notes
This is a clean and bright looking wine, with yellow shades and greenish nuances. With a high aromatic intensity, it features green and fresh fruity primary aromas, thus making us remember the moment of the harvest. Dry, well-balanced acidity, well structured and with an easy mouth passage.
Logistic Sheet
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Logistic Sheet
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Pipeline inspection can be performed in a variety of ways, with a range of tools and equipment. When many different companies and manufacturers are promoting their brands, even seasoned pros can struggle to find the tools, methods and equipment that best fit their needs.
In order to provide some guidance, we're pleased to share the expertise of Eric Sullivan, Principal of Sewer Knowledge, who specializes in sewer infrastructure assessment and CIPP technologies. His research explores the two main methods of data collection, quantitative and qualitative, and analyzes an example of each.Read More


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