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I can think of no better way to get acquainted with a country than to read its literature, both fiction and nonfiction. (I wrote about this a while back in my other blog.) Everybody knows there was a famine (but … why?). We know Americans discriminated against the Irish in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (and again … why?). But there are even larger questions. My generation grew up knowing about "the Troubles," but I didn't understand what had caused them. I simply could not wrap my mind around the whole Catholic/Protestant tension, or why there was a little bit of Ireland that still belonged to the United Kingdom, and, wait, the country's only been independent since 1922? Yes.
In my work as an editor, I caution novelists not to reveal the backstory too soon, but when you're traveling to a country you know little about—leprechauns don't count—it's good to have a handle on the basic historical facts. (Misunderstandings abound. I was in a Dublin tour group with a know-it-all American who was shocked—and said so—when the guide used the words Irish civil war.) William Shakespeare wrote, "What's past is prologue" (The Tempest, act 2, scene 1), and nowhere is that more true than Ireland. (Ol' Will's intention was slightly different than our modern interpretation. But it still works.)
I have a long list that I'll post below; you can investigate individual titles at your leisure. But if you came to me and asked for a few recommendations to familiarize yourself with the history and the culture, I'd probably start with these ten:
• Ireland: An Illustrated History, by Henry Weisser (Hippocrene Books 1999)
Nonfiction—particularly history—is important if you're trying to "get" Ireland. You can read all about it online, of course. But Gerry bought me this little (read it in an afternoon) book at the United Nations in 2003. It's succinct and perfect. It's available new if you can't find it at the library, but I bet you can also buy it used.
• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, by Thomas Cahill (Anchor 1996)
When the barbarian hordes descended upon Europe from the north, burning the libraries in Greece and Rome and plunging Western civilization into the Dark Ages, Ireland was just too far for them to go. So there were all those monks, patiently transcribing books in their remote monasteries and beehive huts. And when the time was right, they got in their little boats and sailed back to England and beyond. This is seriously one of my favorite books of all time.
• Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, by Nuala O'Faolain (Henry Holt & Co. 1996)
O'Faolain—an Irish journalist, TV producer, and writer of both memoir and fiction—was born in Dublin in 1940, a time when Ireland lagged behind most first world countries in every way, much of it due to the stranglehold the Catholic Church had on every aspect of Irish life. She grew up poor, one of nine children, but was ultimately educated at University College Dublin, the University of Hull, and Oxford University. And she had a very interesting life.
• Ireland, by Max Caulfield, photos by Joe Cornish (Gill & Macmillan 1993)
I bought this coffee-table book in Ireland on my first trip in 2003. Primarily a book of beautiful photographs, it is also a record of six tours around Ireland, each beginning in a major town (Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Galway, Westport, and Belfast). Caulfield is a historian and journalist, and this book is absolutely the best overview I can think of if you're planning a trip. It's out of print but you can pick it up at any online used book source for just a few bucks … which is what I did for my sis and my friend Margaret when we were planning our 2012 trip together. It's that good.
• Ireland: A Novel, by Frank Delaney (Harper 2005)
The Irish have a rich tradition of folklore, and these stories are as alive in their twenty-first century culture as they were when they were first told by the seanchaithe (pronounce it SHAWN-a-kee), or bards. This novel was given to me by a publishing friend when it first came out. When I finished it, I realized that I'd learned every important Irish folktale, as well as the important points of Irish history, all wrapped up in the modern-day story. Again, it's a great overview.
• The Gathering, by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape 2007)
The gathering here is for a funeral; Liam Hegarty, one of nine children, has committed suicide. The sibling who was closest to him—his sister Veronica—is first shocked, then angry, and begins to remember incidents from her childhood (and Liam's). The novel ranges from the 1920s to present day, and is a really good look at a large Irish-Catholic family in Dublin. The prose is beautiful, the story is stunning, and it won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2007.
• TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann (Random House, 2013)
I wrote about TransAtlantic in my professional blog—it was my favorite book of 2013—so I'll just link you and let you go. It's a New York Times best seller, was long listed for the Man Booker, and it made me cry (in a good way). Fabulous book.
• The Land of Spices, by Kate O'Brien (Virago Modern Classics 2006)
Published in 1941 but set in 1905–1914 Limerick, this novel by one of Ireland's most famous writers is considered a classic. The action happens almost completely within the walls of a girls' convent school, with two protagonists—the Mother Superior and a young student. This may not sound like much, but the characters draw you in quickly and then in the last quarter of the book—bam! bam!—it punches you right in the gut, twice. It's an allegory, really, of the "new" Ireland—the Republic—rising up and leaving the old attitudes (particularly about women) behind. It knocked me out.
• After the Rising, by Orna Ross (Font Publications 2011)
This novel has a present-day story that is set up by events that happened in Co. Cork after the Rising (that is, the Easter Rising of 1916), in what became known as the War of the Brothers—Ireland's painful, tragic civil war. It is so detailed and so compelling, I was calling Gerry every day, asking him specific points of history. (This led to the arrival in my mailbox of Green Against Green, when my questions got too detailed; like me, he's been out of school a long time.)
• Trinity, by Leon Uris (Doubleday 1976)
This novel came out during the height of the Troubles, when the much, much younger me was having trouble understanding the root cause of a situation that seemed to be about religion. I'd loved Exodus, Mila 18, and other historical fiction by Uris, and this was no exception—particularly since it gave me the insight I needed to understand what was really happening in Ireland. My reading tastes have changed; I recently began to reread Trinity and liked it much less. But I recommend it because I believe this epic saga of four families will be absolutely perfect for some readers.
So that's the short list! Here's a longer list—still not complete—of Ireland-related books on my shelf (including those mentioned above). There may be something here of interest to you. Some of these were purchased in Ireland and may not be available in the States, in which case check an online used book source like Abebooks.com. Enjoy!
• A Short History of Dublin, by Pat Boran (Mercier Press 2000)
• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, by Thomas Cahill (Anchor 1996)
• The Shankill Butchers: A Case Sturdy of Mass Murder, by Martin Dillon (Arrow Books 1990)
• The Celts: Conquerors of Ancient Europe, by Christine Eluère (Harry N. Abrams 1992)
• They Never Came Home: The Stardust Story, by Neil Fetherstonnhaugh and Tony McCullagh (Merlin Publishing 2002)
• Northern Ireland: The Origins of the Troubles, by Thomas Hennessey (Gill & Macmillan 2005)
• Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War, by Michael Hopkinson (Gill & Macmillan 2004)
• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding, by Robert Hughes (Vintage 1988)
• The Great Shame: and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World, by Thomas Keneally (Random House 1998)
• Last Words: Letters and Statements of the Leaders Executed After the Rising at Easter 1916, ed. Piaras F. MacLochlainn (Government of Ireland, 1990)
• The Heart of Dublin: Resurgence of an Historic City, by Peter Pearson (O'Brien Press 2000)
• The Celtic Cross, by Nigel Pennick (Blandford 1997)
• The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage, by Bob Quinn (Lilliput Press 2005)
• The Quiet Revolution: The Electrification of Rural Ireland, by Michael Shiel (O'Brien Press 2003)
• Daughters of Ireland: The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation, by Janet Todd (Ballantine Books 2003)
• Ireland: An Illustrated History, by Henry Weisser (Hippocrene Books 1999)
Irish Interest
• Irish Place Names, by Deidre Flanagan & Laurence Flanagan (Gill & Macmillian 1994)
• The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece, by Jonathan Harr (Random House 2005)
• Glasnevin: Ireland's Necropolis, by Shane MacThomáis (Glasnevin Trust 2010)
• High Shelves & Long Counters: Stories of Irish Shops, by Winifred McNulty & Heike Thiele (The History Press 2012)
• Ireland Unhinged: Encounters with a Wildly Changing Country, by David Monagan (Council Oak Books 2011)
• Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels, by Mary Mulvihill (Townhouse Press 2002)
• Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World, by John O'Donohue (Bantam Books 1997)
• Everything Irish, ed. Lelia Ruckenstein and James O'Malley (Ballantine Books 2005)
• Irish Cottages, by Walter Pfeiffer & Maura Shaffrey (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1990)
• Slanguage: A Dictionary of Irish Slang, by Bernard Stone (Gill & Macmillian Ltd. 1997)
Memoir / Biography
• Michael Collins, by Tim Pat Coogan (Arrow Books 1990)
• It's a Long Way from Penny Apples, by Bill Cullen (Mercier Press 1998)
• Rory and Ita, by Roddy Doyle (Jonathan Cape 2002)
• Round Ireland with a Fridge, by Tony Hawks (Tomas Dunne Books 1998)
• In Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music, by Colin Irwin (André Deutsch 2004)
• All of These People, by Fergal Keane (Harper Perennial 2005)
• McCarthy's Bar, by Pete McCarthy (Thomas Dunne Books 2000)
• The Poor Mouth, by Flann O'Brien (published in Gaelic as An Beål Bocht by Myles na Gopaleen, 1941; first English translation 1973)
• Seán Keating: Art, Politics, and Building the Irish Nation, by Éimear O'Connor (Irish Academic Press 2013)
• Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, by Nuala O'Faolain (Henry Holt & Co. 1996)
• Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, by Nuala O'Faolain (Michael Joseph Books, 2003)
• Twenty Years A-Growing, by Maurice O'Sullivan (1933)
• A Literary Guide to Ireland, by Susan and Thomas Cahill (Charles Scribner's & Sons 1973)
• Ireland, by Max Caulfield, photos by Joe Cornish (Gill & Macmillan 1993)
• The Irish Way, by Robert Emmett Ginna (Random House 2003)
• Ireland: Eyewitness Travel Guide (Dorling Kindersley Ltd.)
• Dublin Top 10 (Dorling Kindersley Ltd.)
• The Sea, by John Banville
• A Long, Long Way, by Sebastian Barry
• Herself Surprised, by Joyce Cary
• Ireland: A Novel, by Frank Delaney (and many others by Delaney)
• The Ginger Man, by J.P. Donleavy
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle
• The Woman Who Walked into Doors, by Roddy Doyle
• The Gathering, by Anne Enright
• The All of It, by Jeannette Haien
• Long Time, No See, by Dermot Healy
• Langrishe, Go Down, by Aidan Higgins
• Shade, by Neil Jordan
• Dubliners, by James Joyce
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
• Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane
• The Butcher Boy, by Patrick McCabe
• TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann
• At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O'Brien
• The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien
• The Land of Spices, by Kate O'Brien
• The Mammy, The Chiselers, The Granny, by Brendan O'Carroll
• My Dream of You, by Nuala O'Faolain
• Knick Knack Paddy Whack, by Ardal O'Hanlon
• After the Rising, by Orna Ross
• Before the Fall, by Orna Ross
• The Portable Irish Reader, edited by Diarmuid Russell
• The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga), by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Rebels of Ireland (The Dublin Saga), by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Blackwater Lightship, by Colm Tóibín
• The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor
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Rejection is the Best Motivation
So I struggle with submitting stories. The why of that is complicated and many-faceted, and (at least on the surface) has little to do with rejection. I will attempt to unpack this.
I see this difficulty as a self-discipline issue, getting distracted with other, newer projects, or I don't make good on threats to research places to submit my stories to. Issues of focus and follow-through. Is there an element of rejection avoidance? Highly likely.
The whole process of submission overwhelms me. From finding a target, to polishing a piece to be specifically marketable to that target, to formatting to manuscript-standard and praying the file conversion doesn't screw with it too badly (one of these days, I'll have to break down and buy Word again, if only because that's industry standard), to the damned cover letter.
I loathe cover letters.
But most often, I simply stick on finding appropriate markets for my stories. So when I discovered a six-month workshop and mentorship that seemed tailor-made to my needs, I got super excited.
Unfortunately, the cost was far beyond my means and I didn't get a scholarship. Not that I had a ton of confidence in being able to keep up with the workload. (Still working on that write/life balance thing with a baby.)
The funny thing about that scholarship rejection? It solidified my determination to get off my ass and do something about these hangups of mine.
I have a plan of attack! Bite the bullet and pay for a year of Duotrope and look for markets for my short stories (stories currently written or still only concepts in my head). Try to create a community for support and cheerleading – otherwise known as outside accountability. Still working out the kinks here and need to decide which social platform to use and how, so suggestions are welcome!
This whole process has really kicked me into gear on the novel revision. Finally! Five chapters in one week is a giant relief after not working on it for so long. At this rate, I might feasibly finish sometime in March, barring life curveballs or the belated discovery of any massive changes. *knock on wood*
Rejections are like challenges. They tell me, "No, you can't do this thing." And I say, "Want to bet?"

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The Journey in between what you once were and who you are becoming is where the Dance of Life takes place.
– Barbara De Angelis
First off, let me just say I'm so happy I've finally got my own BDJ Planner! I've been in love with these sleek beauties for quite a few years now but since my work provides me with free planners, I didn't want to buy another just because it appealed to the kikay inside me. But, what with motherhood starting to take its toll, having something trendy and colorful to use is exactly what I need to remind me that being a mom is not all I am.
BDJ stands for Belle de Jour, a term that has become more and more popular with the 'it' crowd with every passing year. Fun fact: 'Belle De Jour' is French for 'Morning Glory' (like the flower) or 'Beautiful in the Day/Beauty of the Day' (the literal translation). How ever you care translate it though, there's no denying the feminine sentiment. That is what the BDJ Planner attempts- very successfully -to convey: the empowerment of women. In these demanding times, it's easy for small details and unwritten dreams to be forgotten. Happily, Darlyn Ty, the entrepreneur behind Viviamo Inc., really hit the nail on the head with this gem of a planner. And to think it just started in 2006!


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The Conservatives will conduct a free vote on a bill to change the lyrics of the national anthem, according to a spokesperson for Opposition House Leader Andrew Scheer.
Debate on the bill will resume tomorrow and a vote will take place on June 1.
The private member's bill was introduced by Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger, who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) last fall and is slowly dying from the disease. It proposes making O Canada gender-neutral by changing "In all thy sons command" to "In all of us command".
Bill C-210, an Act to Amend the National Anthem Act, was debated in the House three weeks ago. The Liberals and New Democrats supported the bill and wanted to fast-track debate to send it to committee, with the hope that Bélanger will live to see it become law, but the Conservatives filled up the allotted debate time with members opposed to it. The move frustrated the government and likely delayed passage of the bill until the fall, though Scheer denied that the Conservatives were stalling and said they were engaging in debate on an issue important to Canadians.
The bill is back on the agenda for tomorrow only because Liberal MP Linda Lapointe agreed to swap her time in private members' business with Bélanger to put it back at the top of the agenda.
The bill is likely to pass regardless with support from both the Liberals and the NDP.


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Inside each heart
there lies a love,
though hidden
it may be.
A gift that comes
from up above,
placed there
to set us free.
And even if
the world is slow,
to spread
it's love around.
A time draws near, when
we'll have vanquished fear,
and in love, this
world will abound.


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Program Description
The program in Public Pedagogy and Art Practice at Srishti brings together a rich set of practices from cultural activism, public art, urban and rural studies and the study of local knowledge systems into an emerging area of study that looks at traditional and contemporary public creative practices that are used to educate, inspire and provoke a larger public. These forms draw from a diversity of public engagements, evoke the absurd, catalyse agency for social action and emerge from many different sites of on-the-ground experimentation. They are community based, multi-age and focus on social transformation that challenges mainstream elite forms of knowledge production. The program takes learning back to the street by understanding practices and practitioners that have rejected the exclusive institutional structures, focusing instead on peoples' science, peoples; medicine, peoples' history and peoples' education.
When learning is an aesthetic experience, it becomes enmeshed in a person's spirit instead of merely a moment of passive reception. The arts have the transformative ability to encourage and foster positive change. Especially in India where the Kalakaar is often considered to be an integral part of society and is considered to be a creator of 'rasa'- the essence of any experience, the one who touches the heart and spirit of our human core.
The Public Pedagogy and Art Practice Masters programs develops public pedagogues who facilitate learning through cultural practice. The program develops the ability to work with transdisciplinary practices with sensitivity as opportunities for civic learning and participation.
Blank Noise Action Heroes facilitated by Jasmeen Patheja stage a pubic demonstration as part of the 'I Never Asked for It' campaign.
Core Values
"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it's to imagine what is possible." - Bell Hooks
Paradox and Action
Diversity and Disagreement
Empathy and Agency
Participation and Belonging
Informal Learning and Emancipatory Learning
Love and Essence
Artists from Kaimera Productions work with Srishti Students on DATAPRINT, a public performance that questions and educates about the ethics of data privacy. Using dance, theatre, and interactive technology installations this act of public pedagogy took place at a Metro Station in collaboration with Art in Transit.
Who Should Apply
The program in Public Pedagogy and Art Practice course is especially designed for individuals from the following arenas of work:
Public and Community Art: Artists and art students who are interested in art as activism; cultural activism; art and education; art and community empowerment; and art in the public sphere.
Non-formal Education Sector :People interested in education. Teachers who are looking at working outside the confines of institutionlised education in community learning environments. Community program developers and facilitators in informal learning centres; art & craft collectives; environmental organizations; publishing houses etc.
Interdisciplinary Practice Based Education: Those from any field (journalism, traditional art and crafts, technology, urban planning, service sector) interested in taking their practice and daily work to community education in the public sphere.
Corporate Social Responsibility Sector: Those with expertise in Business Management, specifically geared towards CSR planning, implementation and reimagining the frameworks for progressive, meaningful contributions to the social sector.
Srishti Student Karthika Sakthivel facilitates Cyanotype Picnic a participatory art making event at Cubbon Park.
Course Structure
- Studios & Labs: Immersive spaces and forums that foster making, experimenting, conversations, thinking and a sense of being.
- Workshops: provide intense learning experiences in making and doing, across the different disciplines.
- Seminars: provide a space for investigating a particular idea, topic, praxis through reading, writing, making and discussion.
- Independent Studies: are undertaken in an area of student interest with minimal mentoring through specially designed study units.
- Internship: provides students an opportunity to use multidisciplinary skills and learning acquired during the course of study and obtain professional inputs that complement academic learning.
- Electives & General Studies: Engagement outside the disciplinary framework, that allows for extension, building connections and broadening world view through liberal arts modules. Click here to read more about the General Studies Program >>
- Self-Initiated Projects: An end of semester challenge that allows the student to engage in research/enquiry in a chosen topic.
- Interlude (Open Elective): is a space for a practical engagement related to a relevant field of study that is creative, reflective and extensive.
- Capstone: Mentored project that is a culmination of the research capabilities and knowledge gained over the previous three semesters
Artist Anjana Kothamachu uses wireless headphones as a way to share intimate stories about the city of Bangalore in a crowded public place.
Learning Approach:
The two-year post-graduate course of study in Public Pedagogy and Art Practice combines theory and practice. The course focuses on traditional and contemporary forms of public pedagogy and art practice, inviting diverse practitioners to share what, how and why they are engaged in public pedagogy through creative practice, in the form of lectures, performances, site visits, workshops, and case studies. Simultaneously students will have the option of varied on-site field experiences and internships and frameworks of practice will emerge from:
1. Working with communities
2. Reading and responding to a place critically and creatively
3. Developing creative public pedagogic practices.
4. Documenting and positioning the practice through communication, proposals and other traditional and contemporary forms of knowledge production.
Contributing to the Field:
There is a paucity of available resources and research around Public Pedagogy and Art Practice, especially in the South Asian context. This course attempts to correct this by collating as well as contributing to this knowledge field. The student can contribute to this lacuna by building research using Case Studies of practice in and around the Indian subcontinent. The student will be well equipped to write articles that contribute to the field, including but not restricted to journalism; writing effective RTI applications; advocacy papers and maximising impact on social media (i.e. twitter, Instagram and blogs). Specialisations such as Urban and Social Design, Education, Public policy, even farming and medicine can use the expertise of Public Pedagogy and Art Practice for a more efficient and effective implementation and wider understanding of the issues on the ground.
The Public Pedagogy and Art Practice course draws upon examples of practices in India and internationally that use forms of cultural practice (drawing, poetry, creative writing, theatre and performance, technology, weaving, etc.) to engage communities and encourage cross disciplinary understanding and experience for students. The course is designed for students to experience the potential and power of:
- Practice Based Research : Cycle of observing, intervening, facilitating, improvising, researching, negotiating, acting in community environments.
- Skills to Make and Do (Practice): Making in the Arts and Cultural Practices; Facilitation of Public Practice; Proposal Writing; Creating job opportunities for oneself and the community they are involved with.
- Thinking and Communicating:Conceptual, Theoretical and Communicative skills.
Artists from Migratory Cultures use projection mapping to share stories of migration to the city of Bangalore. These multi-lingual oral histories are shared in public spaces.
Opportunities for Graduates
New and emerging spaces are opening up to artists and community pedagogues because of their expertise of being mediators and the ability of the arts to access, address and unpack public opinion without antagonism. From corporate to government and NGO sectors, there is an increased demand for creative practitioners who can facilitate and activate public participation.
Graduates of the Public Pedagogy and Art Practice Master's course will be equipped to work in:
Education and Community Learning Environments:
- Teachers and After School Program Facilitators
- Program Developers and Education Design for alternative learning environments
- Non-Profit Organisations in the Development Sector that require Community Facilitators
Government Sector:
- Urban Planning Departments
- Tourism Sector
- Education Sector
- Creative practices in public sector services like police, planning, public works and resource departments
- Activism and Political Office
- Development of Public Policy
Craft and Art Sector:
- Art, Architecture and Urban Planning Organisations
- Event Planning, Art Festivals and Biennials
- Revive and develop contemporary forms of community mapping
- Revive and develop contemporary forms of traditional craft and art practices
Corporate Environments
- Corporate Trainers
- Corporate Social Responsibility Teams
- Human Resources and Team Management Environments
Not for Profit Sector
- Reimagining funding and sustainability for the not for profit sector. This includes self help groups, not for profit trusts, and other registered NGOs.
- Facilitating community based research studies
Modes of Learning
Public pedagogy and Art practice course is a full-time, practice-based research course that allows practitioners (both novice and experienced) to develop and extend their professional practice. It is offered in two modes of participation of onsite studios and tutorials with practice based research in a field project.
Notes on modes of participation:
Mode 1: Three weeks per semester of onsite participation This mode is designed for practitioners with a strong inclination for independent study and for whom periodic short-term intensive + self study is most viable. Practitioners would need to plan for two weeks of study at Srishti, Bangalore at the start of each semester. This period includes a course overview, introduction to the overall processes and methods of the course, guidelines for practice based research and field based assignments.
Mode 2: 9 months of onsite participation commencing from the inception of the course This design facilitates the completion of coursework for semester 1 and 2. In addition, practitioners will be encouraged to find and work on a project. Guidelines for practice based research and field based assignments for the subsequent period will be provided.
Modes are offered based on cohort size.
Antara Khurana's series of posters focuses on what has been lost in the city. Lost Perspective, Lost Identity and Lost Voice are part of a growing series to provoke thought about these intangible losses.
This course is led by Arzu Mistry and Aastha Chauhan
For further information, kindly email Arzu Mistry at firstname.lastname@example.com or Aastha Chauhan at email@example.com
Sharath Chandra uses open sources weather data and projection mapping to compare weather data of the silicon cities of San Francisco and Bangalore, drawing a parody between the Climate of Economies and the Economies of Climate.
Disciplinary Intersections
This course is informed by the following learning disciplines:
Contemporary Art Practices
Curatorial Studies
Language Arts
Performing Arts
Arts Management
Information Technology
Language and Literature
Social Innovation
Public History
Critical Geography
Ecology and Environment
Heritage & Conservation
Policy Studies and Environmental Law
Political Science
Sustainability Studies
Design Research
Digital Arts
Game Art
Design and Development
Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Service and Systems Design
Areas of Knowledge:
Place:Public Space Design, Urban Planning (peri-urban, rural), Sustainability, Ecology
Society: Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Policy, Language
Art: Contemporary and Traditional Art Practice, Creative Practice, Craft Practice, Cultural Practice, Cultural Activism, Art-Science
Practices (Forms): Community radio, Public performance, Poetry, Writing (RTI / Campaigns / Creative Writing), Coding and Repurposing internet tools. Zines, Local Publications, Curation / Archives, Oral History, Facilitation, Public Art Interventions, Public Space Design, Public Graphic Practices etc.
Research and Collaboration.
(Art)Science BLR
Blank Noise
Center for Public History (CPH)
designEARTH lab
Srishti Films
The Kabir Project
Invoking SENSITIVITY within the self
Capability to navigating complexity and engage with courage
Capability to engage authentically with care for communities
Capability to reflect and iterate and evaluate the quality of public action
Seeing and emerging OPPORTUNITY
Capability to respond to site and phenomena
Capability to seek opportunities and identify and use available tools and resources
Capability to build collaborations
Developing PUBLIC PRESENCE
Capability to animate self to facilitate
Capability to invite a type of social consciousness from action
Capability to engage in robust action research
Inner circle
Srishti as an institute and what art creates
Festival/ spectacle/ dynamics of making
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Festival of Stories 3
About the School
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Bot Arena 2 is a Robot Fighting Game. Destroy the opposing teams robot to earn money. The money you get may be spent to buy more bots and weapon/armor upgrades. Enemies get stronger per level so always check available upgrades. Our tip to winning the game is to spend some time earning money on weaker opponents. This way, you could buy better armor and weapons to beat the stronger bots.
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Jatiluwih village in Penebel, north of Tabanan has paddy fields following the contours of terraced land against the background of spellbinding Mount Batukaru and Mount Agung use traditional Balinese irrigation known as subak, Bali's community-based water control management system. Lies at an altitude of 700 meters, the cool atmosphere of more original beautiful Jatiluwih is better than the most well known Tegallalang which has plenty of cafes and souvenir shops. Two routes to Jatiluwih are Denpasar > Kediri > Tabanan > Penebel > Jatiluwih or Denpasar > Mengwi > Baturiti > Jatiluwih. Jatiluwih has gain acknowledgement from UNESCO as part of the world's cultural heritage.
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Biblical scholars have long held that the first relatively clear and certain reference to a doctrine of "the resurrection of the dead" occurs in Daniel 12. This is striking, since Daniel was almost certainly the final book of the Hebrew Bible to be written. Because of the barely disguised allusions to Antiochus Epiphanes in the second half of the book, it is almost always dated to roughly the Maccabean period, in the 160s BCE.
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Top 5 On Trend Cocktail Dresses for Summer 2017
Say hello to summer parties! The warm weather is on its way, and a season of summer events is rolling towards us.
That means being prepared for an array of engagement parties, bachelorette nights, weddings and baby showers. An on-trend cocktail dress will see you through just about any event. If you've been flooded with invitations, look no further than our top 5 on-trend pieces for Summer 2017.
These short and versatile designs will take you from garden party, to the club with a quick styling adjustment. They also display some of the season's hottest fashion trends, meaning you'll look effortlessly stylish. For any event that calls for a semi-formal dress code, you'll be glad to have one of these ready to wear.
These designs also do so much to flatter the wearer and that's even more important than looking fashion-forward. Choosing a design that suits your body type is key such as our homecoming dresses 2020. A figure-skimming design or fit-and-flare piece will highlight your curves in jaw-dropping style.
Subtly sexy and red carpet inspired too, these short dresses will have you looking your best. If you want this look in a longer style, try our off the shoulder prom dresses.
On-Trend Summer Cocktail Dresses:
White Fit and Flare Strapless Short Dress JVN41424
This strapless little white dress is a versatile design that will fit in at almost any event or occasion. Covered in intricate white lace and with a sweetheart neckline, it's so feminine and pretty. With a belted waist, this dress highlights your slimmest point and creates an hourglass look.
You can style this up or down – wear with flat sandals and a floral clutch to a garden party. Dress it up with nude heels and a formal hairstyle for a wedding or cocktail party. You can easily throw a jacket over this for when the weather shifts, or to give it a casual twist for day-wear.
This is a wardrobe staple and you'll find endless opportunities to wear it.
Eggplant Fitted Open Back Cocktail Dress JVN43008
Eggplant and rich shades of burgundy are currently trending. This '90s inspired halterneck with sexy cutouts makes the most of this fashion-forward shade. Featuring zip-detail and a back cut-out, there are so many unique design elements that make this short dress so hot.
It's beautifully structured to create a figure-enhancing silhouette. The neckline is on-trend and very sophisticated, making it appropriate for an array of events. You'll be able to wear this to a bachelorette party or engagement celebration with ease.
Depending on the style of the event, you can choose to accessorize this casually or with a formal twist. This will team up with a classic black biker jacket for a night out. Wear with vintage curls and heels for a dinner date.
Silver Beaded Form Fitting Sleeveless Short Dress JVN51294
Sparkling and sexy, this red carpet inspired dress is a no-fail party look. The narrow straps and sweetheart neckline lend this design a classic aplomb that is virtually unbeatable! This dress is covered in glittering embellishments and highlights your curves with a sophisticated subtly.
With a more dressed-up vibe, this party look is just right for night time events such as cocktail parties or a girls night out. Give this a fashion-forward finishing touch with minimal nude heels, a statement clutch and a smoky eye. Paired up with loose wavy hair and a choker necklace to add fashion-forward styling that will instantly turn heads.
If you're having doubts about what kind of dress style suits your body type, try out a fit and flare design. This dress in particular is flattering with a plunging sweetheart neckline and a floaty flared skirt. The bodice is embellished with great detail, creating an opulent party look that will fit even a wedding dress code with the right styling.
Belted at the waist, this highlights your narrowest point. The sheer chiffon layer of the skirt creates a delicate look. We love the on-trend grey color that will suit most skin tones too.
Style this with blush sandals and a clutch for a low key party, or dress it up with high heel gladiator shoes and a braided hairstyle. This skater inspired style can be given a casual makeover with the addition of a denim jacket or on-trend bomber. Keep jewels minimal to place all of the focus on the shimmering embellishment detail.
Blush is undoubtedly one of the biggest color trends for the summer season. This minimal blush design gets bonus points for keeping it simple and placing the focus on silhouette. With a plunging neckline and belted waist, this figure-skimming pretty pink look is all about gorgeous fit.
The pretty light hue of pink makes it romantic and girly, which means it'll fit in at any engagement party or baby shower. Team up with tan sandals and a box clutch for instant party chic. A fishtail braid and peach-hued makeup will continue the vibe of the dress.
Add skyscraper heels and a statement lip to take this into night. Team with a pendant necklace to highlight the plunging neckline. Alternatively, go classic with a pearl bracelet or gold chandelier earrings.
Summer 2017 Trends & Best Dresses
This is not the end of your choices for summer 2017. There are many more beautiful dresses to choose from, including a vast array of pretty party looks to cover you for the season. We previously looked at the best summer party dresses that included strapless prints, florals and more.
There's also no beating the Little Black Dress. Don't miss the top 5 timeless LBDs that are wardrobe must-haves. These will also see you through any events you have lined up for this season and beyond.
Not sure how to style your final look? Get started by checking out our formal footwear guide. This breaks down the most fashion-forward shoes to wear with any dress type. No matter what you choose to wear for your summer event, let your confidence and personal style shine through.


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WHAT do we do at REACH Community Church? We strive by God's grace to become like Jesus so we can love people as Jesus...practically and spiritually!
How do we do this? Simply put, we gather corporately to be "filled up" so that we can scatter individually to be "spilled out."
We do this in a number of different ways from taking part together in worship services to meeting during the week for children, youth, adult and community ministries.
We would encourage you to take part in these different opportunities and join us as we...gather and scatter to love and serve others like Jesus!


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Match 139
Ground #: 105
Ground: Stamford Bridge
Competition: English Premiership
Kick Off: 3pm
Cost: £30
Programme: £3
Attendance: 41,332
Chelsea 1
Drogba (pen) 23'
Aston Villa 3
Ireland 28', Petrov 83', Bent 86'
People can sometimes slate social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter but if you use them in a positive way then you can gain a lot of out it. Through Twitter, I've met some of the various hoppers and general football fans out there and it was some Chelsea lads who got me a ticket for a reasonable price by borrowing a season ticket for this game so I could finally get to Stamford Bridge! I'll be honest from the start, I have a soft spot for Chelsea, dating way back to the late 90's when Zola, Vialli, Di Matteo and Poyet were all in the side that occasionally won a cup. Needless to say, I was looking forward to this.
Chelsea is an area of West London bounded to the south by the River Thames, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road and Chelsea Harbour. The word Chelsea originates from the Old English term for "landing place [on the river] for chalk or limestone." By 1694, Chelsea – always a popular location for the wealthy, and once described as "a village of palaces" – had a population of 3,000. Even so, Chelsea remained rural and served London to the east as a market garden, a trade that continued until the 19th-century development boom which caused the district finally to be absorbed into the metropolis. The street crossing that was known as "Little Chelsea", Park Walk, linked Fulham Road to King's Road and continued to the Thames and local ferry down Lover's Lane, renamed "Milmans Street" in the 18th century. Chelsea's modern reputation as a centre of innovation and influence originated in a period during the 19th century, when the area became a Victorian artists' colony. It became prominent once again as one of the centres of 1960s "Swinging London", when house prices were lower than in the staid Royal Borough of Kensington. The Swinging Sixties was defined on King's Road, which runs the length of the area.
Founded in 1905, Chelsea have represented the swinging and trendy area of London well (although Stamford Bridge is actually in Fulham) since their election to the Football League soon after 1905. They soon became known as a club for signing big name players and entertaining the crowds, but not much success came their way in the early years. After the war Ted Drake became manager and his modernisation of the club, led the Blues to their first league championship (in 1955) and a challenge for honours throughout the 60's (now led by Tommy Docherty and later Dave Sexton). The next two decades were poor for Chelsea as troubles on and off the pitch began to emerge. The team were relegated to Division 2 and nearly dropped into D3 for the first time in 1982. There was also a hooligan element amongst the support which plagued the club throughout this period, during a time when football hooliganism was rife anyway. Ken Bates then bought the club in the early 80's for £1 and began to slowly build the club up again, although their form in the newly created Premier League was poor until Dutch legend Ruud Gullit took over as player-manager and the trophies (and big name players) started to arrive. In 2003, the club then changed again, dramatically when Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich took over and spent that summer buying everybody. I remember coming home from school everyday just to see who Chelsea had signed as they gorged over £100 million on new talent. No trophies came however until The Special One arrived…
Love him or hate him Jose Mourinho changed football in this country, and in my eyes, for the better. His impact (positive or negative) is a debate for another day but his record at Chelsea was superb. Two Premiership titles, 1 FA Cup and two League Cups means Mourinho is Chelsea's most successful manager. Since his days however, the Stamford Bridge club have never looked like replicating his success after he'd gone in 2007, although Ancelotti did win the double in 2009. Current boss Andre Villas-Boas is in his 1st season and is under pressure after a less than successful start that has seen the Manchester clubs fly away and even Tottenham have seemed to have leapfrogged them as Chelsea were coming into this game in 4th. Aston Villa also have new blood in charge this season with ex Hibs boss Alex McLeish taking over. Villa had started reasonably well, albeit defensively, but a shocking run of form has seen them tumble down the table to 14th and McLeish needs to turn this around quickly otherwise he would be on for a second successive relegation. Villa did have some hope for this game though as their recent form against Chelsea was good and had recently taken part in some crackers at Stamford Bridge with a 3-3 draw, a 7-1 defeat that famous 4-4 draw back in 2007.
Sat in the Shed End behind the goal, you get some excellent views of Stamford Bridge – although the classic fans would probably want to see The Shed back to terracing. (maybe one day!) Chelsea started reasonably ok as well I though as it was no surprise Villa had set their stall out defensively and looked for the pace of Agbonlahor and N'Zogbia to hit them on the counter attack. The home side though created chances, firstly Mata (who Chelsea always looked to for anything) was unlucky when he tried a flick on that went wide and then Daniel Sturridge fired over after some good work down the right. Chelsea had clearly spotted a weakness in Villa's left back position with Steven Warnock struggling to contain the home side at times. In fact when Chelsea took the lead on 23 minutes you had to think it would be a long afternoon for Villa if they were just going to play counter-attacking football. Ref Mark Halsey let Chelsea play on after a foul in the middle of the park and Ramires bombed forward while Villa backtracked to lay the ball off to Sturridge. He was fouled off the ball as he came forward but Halsey played on again to allow Drogba to run into the box where he was cynically taken out by Richard Dunne. Clear cut penalty. Drogba himself got up and dispatched it to equal Peter Osgood's 150 goals for the club and he pointed to the penalty spot where Osgood's ashes were scattered. A nice touch. Villa though, actually went for it and with Steven Ireland starting to boss the midfield, they were level soon after. He sent N'Zogbia away down the left and he skipped past a bizarre tackle/block/not anything from Paulo Ferreira to cut it back to Ireland. His first shot was blocked on the line by Terry but he coolly slotted home the rebound to make it 1-1. Chelsea were frustrated and for the rest of the half played like it.
The second half saw Villa pinned back for the majority of the play, but never really looked in too much danger apart from a couple of scary moments. In fact, it wouldn't be unfair to suggest they were comfortable on occasions. Mata nearly ended this right before it started when he fired a cross/shot along the face of the goal but nobody was there to fire home. Villa though, showed they could still attack when some neat passing on halfway sent Agbonlahor through but his glorious 1 on 1 chance was well saved by Cech. This woke Chelsea up, they needed to get back in front in this game and fast. Lampard came on to the delight of the crowd and started to get the ball around quicker and then Torres came on as well as Chelsea went for it. Torres very nearly scored a wonder goal with his first touches as on the edge of the area, he skipped away from a tackle before unleashing a shot which cannoned off the bar with Brad Guzan completely beaten. Drogba then had an excellent chance on 73 minutes when Lampard put him through, but he rushed his shot and in the end dragged it wide. The last 10 minutes belonged to Villa, firstly McLeish signalled his intentions by bringing Darren Bent on and the England striker should have won a penalty when Terry brought him down in the area. The ball wasn't really cleared and so when Clarke's through ball cut straight down Chelsea's defence, Stiliyan Petrov had time to pass the ball away from Cech and into the bottom corner. Amazingly Villa led and with 4 minutes to go, they added a 3rd. Lampard for reasons beyond me tried a square ball across the halfway line which Steven Ireland gobbled up and ran clear, along came Bent who had an easy tap in to end the game there and allow Villa to take the 3 points back to Birmingham.
This was not good from Chelsea and they knew it. Some of the pressure (maybe a minimal amount) came off Villas-Boas as Lampard turned hero in their next game when he scored a 89th minute winner to beat Wolves while Villa were back to normal, crashing 2-0 at home to Swansea. Chelsea need a lot of work on the side to bring them near the Manchester clubs and challenge for the title again. Their 2-1 win earlier in the season over Citeh, shows there is some quality there though and once Villas-Boas makes his mark on the team, they will be back up there, although it remains to be seen if AVB will get the time he needs. Villa can look forward to a midtable finish this season under McLeish and nothing more. Glad to have finally got to Stamford Bridge and thanks to Yasser on Twitter for the ticket while he was away! I do aim to go back again, hopefully to see a Chelsea side in their swagger rather that in transition.
Photos from Chelsea vs Aston Villa
Match Ratings:
- Match: 6/10 (not a classic)
- Value for money: 5/10 (what I paid is just about acceptable for football, £57 for the seat I was in is not)
- Ground: 7/10 (good ground with some history)
- Atmosphere: 4/10 (not great really)
- Food: N/A – Didn't even look at food prices
- Programme: 6/10 (ok effort)
- Referee: Mark Halsey – 6/10 (reasonable game)


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Status Report
From: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Astrobiology. March 27, 2008, ahead of print pgs. 215-228.
In this study, we utilized transmission electron microscopy to examine the contents of fluid inclusions in halite (NaCl) and solid halite crystals collected 650 m below the surface from the Late Permian Salado Formation in southeastern New Mexico (USA). The halite has been isolated from contaminating groundwater since deposition approximately 250 Ma ago.
We show that abundant cellulose microfibers are present in the halite and appear remarkably intact. The cellulose is in the form of 5 nm microfibers as well as composite ropes and mats, and was identified by resistance to 0.5 N NaOH treatment and susceptibility to cellulase enzyme treatment. These cellulose microfibers represent the oldest native biological macromolecules to have been directly isolated, examined biochemically, and visualized (without growth or replication) to date.
This discovery points to cellulose as an ideal macromolecular target in the search for life on other planets in our Solar System. Astrobiology 8, 215-228.
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Students Testify in Support of Affirmative Consent Bill
Yesterday, State Senator Mae Flexer and I welcomed overwhelming student and other support for this year's Affirmative Consent bill during its public hearing before the Higher Education Committee. Sen. Flexer and I have co-sponsored House Bill 5376, AN ACT CONCERNING AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT, which would require all public and private state universities and colleges in Connecticut to establish 'affirmative consent' as the threshold in campus investigations of sexual assault and intimate partner violence cases.
The bill seeks to clarify school policies about what 'consent' is and provide consistency state-wide, and it builds on the unanimous legislation to combat sexual violence on college campuses passed in 2014. The bill also provides clarity for university disciplinary boards hearing sexual assault cases.
Sexual assault on college campuses is an epidemic that we must act to address. Updating the standard for consent from 'no means no' to 'yes means yes' recognizes that silence is not consent. By creating a uniform definition of consent, this legislation gives every college student in Connecticut equal protection from sexual assault. I'm hopeful that the bill will pass this year and that soon all Connecticut colleges and universities will use an affirmative consent standard.


text: News Significant Seven: best TV and cinema ads December 19, 2011 4:01 by Colin Delaney 5 Over the next few days, we are publishing highlights from this year's Mumbrella Annual.1. The Sydney Opera House, 'The Ship Song Project' What its creators called a "labour of love" is the surest sign yet of an agency finding its stride. Spine-tingling stuff as the likes of Neil Finn, Kev Carmody, Sarah Blasko and Martha Wainwright take turns to sing Nick Cave's The Ship Song as the camera loves every angle of Australia's most famous landmark, inside and out. Does it matter that the film has echoes of the BBC ident 'Perfect Day' made 14 years ago? Agency: The Monkeys 2. Volkswagen Passat, 'Pleasure before business' A lovingly crafted tribute to what lots of Australians like do before they have to go to work – surf, cycle, swim – ending with a blissfully happy man in a suit, lying in a forest with donkeys. Another sincere, canny effort by an agency that knows how to hit the spot for its oldest client. The Toureg and Tiguan work that followed was good -but it did not quite live up to this. Agency: DDB Sydney 3. Vegemite, 'Phiggles the flying scientist' "He flies everywhere teaching heaps of kids across Austraaalia," does Phiggles, the flying scientist. Bundles of very Aussie charm shine in the story of a local hero brought up on our favourite spread, told by members of an outback community. "I reckon he's got a massive brain," says one kid. Another: "My little brother think he's magic." And: "Not very tall. Little beardy fella." That it's a true story makes a loved brand more loveable. Just shades the 'Darwin Ice Hockey club' spot. Agency: JWT Melbourne ADVERTISEMENT 4. Hahn Super Dry, 'Super goes in' Beer is made at the factory with things that guys like. TV, beach buggies, rock music, sports trophies, helicopters and a rubber tiger filled with beer, washed down with the Knight Rider theme tune (always a winner). The first work for the brand by Mojo carries the mark of the now departed ECD Micah Walker. Stylishly directed by Tom Kuntz. Agency: Publicis Mojo Sydney 5. Office of Road Safety WA, 'Enjoy the ride' Viewers have probably been tortured enough by wailing families and bloodied bodies flying through windscreens. This drive safety ad was a simple plea to slow down and think about the things we miss in life when we're in a hurry: "When was the last time we actually took time to breathe? When we slow down, we discover that life has a natural pace. And it's good." Agency: 303Lowe 6. SBS, 'Immigration Nation' A promo for SBS's 'Immigration Nation' paints a rosy picture of the Australia of old: "The lucky country… plentiful land… a land built on the dream of a perfectly equal society for all men." An asterisk appears by the word 'men' and a disclaimer reads: "Terms and conditions apply. Equal society was for whites only… the White Australia Policy was designed to keep Australia white." Agency: US Sydney 7. John West Tuna, 'Tuna Tempters' A fully clothed fisherman takes his chances with sharks, sea lions and dolphins to dive for the pick of the bait ball – and prove that John West endures the worst to bring you the best. Using BBC documentary footage and some CGI wizardy, it's hard to tell that the ad was shot in a public swimming pool in Auburn, NSW. As good as John West Salmon's kung-fu fighting bear? Almost. Agency: Grey Melbourne This list first appeared in the Mumbrella Annual, which is currently on sale priced at $10 for access to the digital edition or $20 for both print and digital access. Both can be ordered through Realview, via this link Colin Delaney topics 303LoweDDB SydneyGrey MelbourneHahn Super DryImmigration nationJWT MelbournePublicis Mojo SydneyThe MonkeysUS SydneyVegemite Share Tweet Share Comments: 5 Add Comment The book of lists 19 Dec 11 Seven very good ads. Now, what's your list of the 7 most effective ads of the year? Reply Sam Eoldidea 19 Dec 11 Re SOH 'Ship Song', yes it does matter. Nicely shot, great track and very watchable, but it's not an original idea. "Best" does require a degree of originality, surely. Reply snowflake 19 Dec 11 oh man, i could watch the ship song project over and over again. and each time i tear up a bit too. Reply mish 20 Dec 11 Love the WA ad. Perfect. Reply 1 28 Dec 11 -1′ Reply Have your say Name Email Address (optional) Website (optional) ADVERTISEMENT Most Discussed 40 Comments Bauer closes eight titles including Harper's Bazaar, Elle and Instyle 38 Comments Brands need to trim the fat, starting with waste-of-money agencies 35 Comments Ex-R/GA boss Jon Holloway returns to agency 35 Comments Good riddance to the Bauers, the family that wrecked Australia's magazine industry 34 Comments Foxtel secures further $10m funding from Federal Government


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The main tomato varieties are: gourmet (or 'common'), which are round and pink to bright red in colour; sweet truss tomatoes, still attached to their vines; small red or yellow cherry and grape tomatoes; or elongated and firm red or yellow Roma tomatoes.
Choose brightly coloured tomatoes with no bruises or soft spots. For red tomatoes, choose bright red to use immediately or paler ones to ripen for future use.
Store at room temperature for 2–3 days until slightly soft and bright red. To keep longer, refrigerate for up to a week. Refrigerate ripened cherry and grape tomatoes in their containers and use as soon as possible.
Tomatoes can be eaten raw or cooked with almost any dish. Simply wash and cut off stems before eating. To peel, place in boiling water for 2 minutes until skin splits, or peel from stem down.
Did you know? Using whole tomatoes in cooking can increase a dish's antioxidant content by up to 53 per cent. Try using the skin and seeds, not just the flesh, in your next tomato dish. Your body will thank you one day!


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The Excalibur range comprises 3 distinct models and all feature the most advanced materials and processing technology ever used in a high performance surfcaster. A significant reduction in tip weight delivers increased performance and
The Excalibur J is a significant step forward in rod dynamics and incorporates exclusive technology – both in the tip and butt section. Century's well established Autoclave Technology, Gearbox Design and AT-T (anti twist technology) is complimented by a new HPR resin technology primarily in the tip section. The outcome and benefit is a significant reduction in the tip weight, greater toughness and a very fast tip recovery to neutral after the casting cycle.
The Excalibur J is built and designed to accommodate an angler who will require good performance both on the cast and retrieve without necessarily digging deep down in the power storage areas of the butt: the design is undoubtedly capable at long range for those that require it but it compliments an angler with a reasonable overhead, OTG or Brighton style casting technique, who wishes to fish medium ranges without reverting to full pendulum. The rod will prescribe a curve that effectively delivers a longer length and thus positive leverage when moderately compressed compared with a rod at maximum compression. When fully compressed the energy storage and release is dramatic. The new technology in the tip increases tip recovery and more efficiently translates effort into tip speed. The speed of recovery has been a consistent remark by all that have fished the Excalibur J.
When fishing the tip responds brilliantly to taught line bites and even sulky fish that just sit motionless will eventually give rattle indications which can easily be detected. The super slim diameter is stable in high winds and the low moment of inertia makes match style – repetitive cast and retrieve – much less tiring.


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Family fitness is an important life priority and a healthy goal for everyone in the family. Engaging in family fitness activities such as physical exercises provides us with an opportunity to spend time together as it also acts as an excellent model for young children. Thus, being physically active and focusing on fitness is important and should begin at childhood to build healthy habits.
There are a couple of health benefits associated with exercising together as a family. Exercising aids in building self-confidence, reducing anxiety, improving sleep, reducing stress, and increasing physical and cardiovascular health. Therefore, helping your kids to build healthy future habits is possible when you become physically active together.
The following are a few health tips to promote family fitness.
1. Build Healthy Habits & Hobbies
In a family setup, coming up with an endless list of healthy habits and hobbies is one of the best ways to inspire family fitness. Hobbies may include things like cycling, swimming, dancing and hitting the gym. In order to ensure that, your list is exhausted and the entire family benefits from those physical activities, fixing one event at a time into your schedule on a daily basis is the best way to go.
Hitting the gym, offers great deals for a family membership, thus motivating you and your entire family to get active. Or if you love salsa dancing, teach your kids a few moves and make it a family activity.
2. Try Family Challenges & Contests
Occasionally, a little family contest can be motiving. Hence, taking part in family challenges and competitions are all you need for a healthy family life. Bike riding is full of fun for all ages; everyone can take part in it. Most importantly also is the fact that you can turn this activity into a family competition.
Taking a family bike ride gets your whole family moving, i.e., enduring rides through the woods or back roads for enhanced physical activity and unifying adrenaline rush.
3. Engage More In Outdoor Activities
There are countless ways you can be active outdoors with your family. However, most of these outdoor activities depend on seasons. Nevertheless, there are lots of fun outdoor family activities to take part in together. Engaging in such physical activities is not only good for your family's health but can also be revitalizing for all no matter the age. Family outdoor activities are fit for children, parents, and grandparents all together.
Swimming, for example, is one of the popular summer season activities full of fun and experiences for you and your kids. Apart from serving as a physical activity for family health and fitness, swimming can also be done competitively or recreationally.
4. Taking An Evening Walk
Taking an evening walk as a family, while everybody talks about their day is yet another important way of strengthening family bonds as well as a natural way of exercising. We all have tight work schedules during the day, and if we don't check on collective activities to bring our family members together after a busy day, we are going to lose it as parents or guardians.
Family walks may be scheduled either daily or a few days in a week to help you and your family members pick yourselves up away from the workplace stress or school work for children. In most cases, an evening walk can either be before dinner or after dinner as agreed by the family. However, a walk after dinner works best because it will help improve digestion.
5. Keep Track Of Your Family Goals
Every family has a unique set of targets and goals as far as family fitness and health is concern. The difference is on the family composition whereby some families have people engaging in certain physical activities while others don't due to health-related complications. But keeping track of your entire family goals helps everyone to maintain relevant workouts or diet routine that suit every family member.
Not everyone in your family will be on the same page, but trying to strike a balance and letting everyone set their own goals is the best thing you can do. Then later harmonizing on the way forward to ensure that the family still gets active and fit.
Therefore, it is only through continuous family fitness sessions, that you will build a permanent family connection that will last for ages as you also learn to adapt to this healthy lifestyle.


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Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective Wellbeing
NBER Working Paper No. 9619
This paper analyzes the effects of business cycle volatility on measures of subjective well-being, including self-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower perceived well-being. Greater macroeconomic volatility also undermines well-being. These effects are moderate but important: eliminating unemployment volatility would raise well-being by an amount roughly equal to that from lowering the average level of unemployment by a quarter of a percentage point. The effects of inflation volatility on well-being are less easy to detect and are likely smaller.
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When I was a senior in high school, I became obsessed with weightlifting. I would go to the gym every day after school with a group of friends and often lift for two hours or more.
We were teenage boys, so naturally we were competitive. We were in a constant battle to out-lift each other and put on more muscle than one another.
To get an edge, I would look up YouTube videos posted by fitness gurus and professional bodybuilders. I would try to find the hidden secrets that allowed these fitness buffs to put on so much muscle.
But the more videos I watched, the more I began to notice a trend: each fitness guru was essentially doing the same types of lifts – the only subtle differences being the order in which they did them. I began to realize there was no hidden secret to their fitness success.
There were simply five or six different types of movements that composed the art of weightlifting. And anyone who could master these movements was capable of building muscle.
But this realization almost seemed too good to be true. If there really were only a few different types of movements one must master to put on muscle, why weren't there more bodybuilders out there? I couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer to this question.
Simple Truths
Over time, I began to notice a similar trend in other areas outside of weightlifting – there were always a few simple truths one had to understand to become a master in any field.
I read Stephen King's memoir On Writing and discovered he only had two pieces of advice to aspiring writers: read a lot and write a lot.
I listened to interviews of Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all time. His advice to young players was straightforward: if you want to be good, shoot hoops in your driveway every day before school.
I listened to Jerry Seinfeld's advice for up and coming comedians: write jokes every single day. That's it. The majority of them will be bad, but keep writing.
Then one day it clicked: none of these incredibly successful people were offering groundbreaking, earth-shattering techniques to become a master of a craft.
Rather, they were preaching a different message: do the simple things, but do them over and over. The real secret to success lies in the amount of time one commits to doing an activity.
Stephen King wrote every single day for years on end. Kobe Bryant spent hours in the gym shooting every day for most of his life. Jerry Seinfeld wrote joke after joke for decades.
These individuals weren't incredible because of what they did each day; these individuals were incredible because of how long and how consistently they practiced their craft.
Learn to Love Boring
In no field is this idea of consistency more relevant than in finance: to truly become rich, there are only a few simple truths one must understand. Specifically:
Pay down debt.
Spend less than you earn.
Invest the difference.
And yet again, many people are aware of these truths, but very few people are actually rich. Part of the problem is the boring nature of this advice. That's it? The secret to getting rich is to spend less than you earn for many years? That's so mundane.
Most people would rather be told they need to find the next Amazon stock. Most people would rather look for shortcuts – anything more exciting with a quicker short-term pay off than spending less than you earn and diligently investing. Most people would rather become a day-trader. This is far more exhilarating than being a diligent saver.
And while most people are out looking for shortcuts, the people who are truly becoming rich over time are the ones who do the boring things really well for many years – the diligent savers and investors. The folks who save over 50% of their income and throw it in boring index funds.
Related: One of the easiest ways anyone can increase their income is through flipping items for profit.
These people are becoming rich. They know that the road to wealth doesn't need to be overly complicated or glamorous – in fact, attempting to make the road complicated and glamorous is a great way to avoid becoming rich.
Consistency is King
The other part of the problem lies in the fact that people typically don't have long enough time horizons. No matter how hard you work, how much you read, how much you grow your social network, acquiring one million dollars in two years is an extremely difficult goal to achieve. It's a fun goal to set, but not achievable for most people. But one million dollars in ten years? That's far more realistic.
The problem is, most people don't like the idea of waiting ten years. They want to see immediate success. They want to see the benefits of their labor instantaneously.
Unfortunately, this prevents most people from becoming rich. The inability to visualize our own lives in ten years prevents us from taking the necessary action now to create the dream life for ourselves in ten years.
Stretching out one's time horizon for a goal is one of the best ways to drastically increase the chances of achieving that goal. As the famous maxim goes: we overestimate what we can accomplish in a day, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in a year.
The truth is, to acquire wealth you must be a consistent saver and investor for many years. Wealth won't show up at your doorstep overnight begging to come in.
So do what is simple. Pay down debt. Spend less than you earn. Invest the difference. Rinse and repeat for several years. By doing this, you will likely reach financial independence sooner than you think. It's not a glamorous strategy, but it works.
Consistency, consistency, consistency. That's all you need.


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You're going to have to bear with me because I freakin love Evan Rachel Wood. I would marry her if that was at all possible. Even during the Manson days I was one of her biggest fans. So with all of the success she's had recently due to the Wrestler, I couldn't be happier for her.
And I'm glad that Venus Zine agrees with me. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find the magazine anywhere so if anyone knows where it is sold, leave a tip in the comments.
Here are some highlights from the interview:
On what her parents thought of her getting into acting: My parents were so worried if I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or something like, "What are we going do??"
On gaining her reputation for taking riskier roles: I would always get frustrated when I would see films about young girls because I could never relate to them and I thought they were just completely fake. I started saying, "Why am I waiting for somebody to make it? Why don't I just go out and do it instead of complaining about it?"
On what makes her relax: "I forget how important it is to laugh until I haven't done it in so long and then something happens and I laugh until I can't breathe, and it's just the greatest feeling in the world. I get to relax and let go.
How she feels about bloggers attacking her: It's so easy for people to be cruel, just cruel, now. Because they can write something and never show their face. They can criticize you all they want, but it's not like they're going to put a face behind it. It's like throwing a rock at someone's window and then running away. We're already down, we don't need you to bring us any lower. We put enough on ourselves, we don't need you to remind us.
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Design & Drafting LD Assistant '08
I am big proponent of paperwork. Even for simple systems, some kind of plot and hookup is critical for me to have as a reference for what is connected where.
When I started out in the lighting business, Microsoft Excel did not exist, so all of the schedules were created and updated by hand. It was a challenge to remember to update all the changes on each schedule.
If the color changed in a fixture, you may have had to change that information on several schedules, as well as the large plot and the detail plots. Now that we have computers, you just have to enter your information once, and the change is reflected everywhere.
The creation of a lighting design is in the mind. The transference of that design requires paperwork, and to create paperwork, you require a drafting program. That being said, I would like to introduce you to the latest version of LD Assistant.
At its heart, LD Assistant is a CAD (Computer-Aided Design) program that is built using AutoCAD programming languages developed for third-party partner code writers.
As a lighting designer it is important to provide your crew with a graphic plot that shows them where to hang the lighting fixtures. This simple light plot becomes the start of the design, and the next step is a report based on the light plot containing detailed information about each fixture. Such data includes the type of fixture, location, circuit, dimmer, channel, color, gobo, wattage, etc. All of this data needs to be sortable so that it can be viewed in different ways. Some of the standard reports are Channel Hookup, Dimmer Hookup, Instrument Schedule, Color Count, Instrument Count, etc. LD Assistant has all of this functionality at its core so that you can easily create and disseminate the information about your design.
All of the basic elements for creating the plot and paperwork are only the beginning. Now we want more from a design program. We may need to see what the show will look like with pictures, (renderings). These days 2D isn't enough, I have to be able to draw my lighting design in all three dimensions, turn on the lights realistically, and capture that cue as a picture, and be able to do this in the same amount of time it used to take to produce the light plot. I need a program that is fast and easy to use, which will allow me to create the room and add the lighting. Here are some of the components of LD Assistant.
First is the suite of drafting tools that are common to all CAD, 2D and 3D. Second, the program works in the standard .dwg format so any building drawings you can get from the architect will open right up. The program has all of the tools required for any complex drafting project, and you don't need to be a wizard with CAD to produce results. This program has some built in features to make lighting design easy. They have provided two extra drop-down menus not found in other programs just for lighting designers; Lighting, and Production. In these menus you will find tools to help create professional looking drawings with minimal training.
Now let's talk about blocks. If you have not heard about these gems, you will find them invaluable in your process of designing. LD Assistant comes with an extensive library of ready to use blocks, from lighting fixtures to chairs and tables. A block is "A generic term for one or more objects that are combined to create a single object". In a simple design you can drag a truss block onto the page and set the height, then drag fixtures and snap them to the truss. You can then add a stage, either as one whole piece or as individual platforms, then add curtains, and you are ready to turn on the lights.
Each block you bring in has attributes that allow you to fill in all of the information used in reports. When you pick a fixture certain attributes are all ready filled in, such as "Type", "Frame Size", "Candle Power", etc. Other attributes are customizable, such as "Filter Color", and "Channel". Not only are you adding information for your reports, things like color will show up in your renderings.
Once you have the plot in 3D you can start to use the really fun features that differentiate this program from any standard CAD program. The first thing to do is focus your fixtures and put in color, and possibly gobos. Once you have the show focused, you can use the program to pre-visualize your cues. In order to use the "LD Control window" you will have to hook up your fixtures to DMX in the attributes window. With LD control you have a built-in fader console that will allow you to create scenes and record cues so that you can play back the show as if you were in the space.
You are not limited to dimmers only- you can also control moving lights and see the gobos rotating. Beyond that, if you have a DMX interface you can connect your lighting console to the program and record the cues directly to the console. The program supports eight standard interface devices found in the market.
Another really cool feature is the ability to add a projector to your design and play back full motion video. If you need to show the Pastor what the new stage configuration will look like, you can put everything in the image. If the rendering doesn't really show the video well, you can go to the next level and walk through the space.
After you have created a series of cues, you can add an audio file and then capture the cue sequence as you walk through the space and save it for playback as an animation file. To make the image as real as possible, you can also add images to surfaces, so if you have stained glass windows, you can take pictures of them and place those images on the drawing.
As you can imagine, taking advantage of the full potential of this product will take some time, but in comparison to the way things used to be done, the learning curve is well worth it. This product takes all of the current tools any LD will need and provides a very manageable user interface to pull it all together.


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Another year is drawing to a close, and I'm another year closer to cancelling my backup plans.
Plans made for the "by the time I'm at the ripe-old, very distant age of 35" kind of deadline.
I should've travelled at least half the world, become super successful in my career, gone to a Backstreet Boys concert, be married.
Ah the all-important cliché, if-I'm-not-married-by backup plan and the subsequent and much more fun, backup friend.
To blame our baseless desire to be married young on society, movies, parents or fear of being alone, would be weak. It was cool to have a backup and be a backup. That's the absolute only reason.
It was like flirting a little but mostly for the future, with someone you didn't want to give your A-game to right now.
For the life of me, I cannot remember my backup. The person I chose (after not much deliberation) to throw away what would be left of my life with. Clearly, it was a match made in lazy heaven.
Good thing I got me my M, or I'd have to rummage through my memory and send out some embarrassing emails. Or you know, not desperately marry the ol' trusty friend who I may have had a heart-to-heart with on a sad day.
And trusty friend he must have been. How else did I feel so free to propose marriage to him – and for him to accept – under the conditions stipulated?
Maybe that's why people publicly renew their wedding vows, to send a message to the backup friend that their pact is off.
Luckily, I wasn't solely relying on Prince Charming to infuse meaning into my life. I even set a deadline for career goals. I was meant to be at the top of my game right about 2 years ago.
Backup plan? That I suck. I should just give up on writing and go back to being a Civil Engineer.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just not my calling. Right now, I want to keep writing. Maybe later, I'll want design school bags. Or be a nurse. Who knows!
There will be no "giving up" in any case, just dreaming some more. If we give ourselves the freedom to change personal styles and whom we love, then changing dreams shouldn't be called giving up, just growing up.
I haven't travelled the world, either. My backup plan was to drop everything and leave.
Um, no. And um, yes.
We did drop everything (not so much drop as plan and ponder over for 4 months) and jump on this little adventure to move overseas for a little while. It's the married-with-kid version of dropping and leaving.
Besides, I've moved around a lot and I've fallen in love with different cities. And I've realised that there's no deadline for travelling. I'll get there. But right now, I'm kinda in the middle of a pretty big adventure.
I barely recognise the girl who made this list on my sister's PC several lifetimes ago. She was a few months shy of turning 20 and knew nothing about being an adult in the real world. She wasn't sure about what she stood for and what she was capable of.
But she had heart, I'll give her that. Something that hardened with time, with heartbreak, loss and failure. But those are the things that strengthen resolve and make tough, badass women.
I am strong, and it has served me well.
But now I want more heart.
More trust and faith and love. More fire and less give-me-that-job passion. More affection and less xoxo. More care and less duty.
I want to feel so much affection for a friend that I can ask them to be my backup in another lifetime.
I want to let myself express so much love for my husband, child and inner circle that they think I'm being borderline creepy.
I want to feel happiness without cynicism, and kindness without a cause.
So I'm putting only one thing on that deadline list today with no backup plan.
I want to have more heart.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - Abry Jones has played a lot of football for Georgia - 46 games, to be exact.
The senior defensive end wanted one more chance to suit up for the Bulldogs. That should come in Tuesday's Capital One Bowl against Nebraska more than 10 weeks after tearing tendons in his left ankle.
"I felt like it's my senior year and I missed so much, I always want to play one more game with the fellas," Jones said Friday before Georgia held its third bowl practice at Celebration High School.
Jones, already cleared to play in the game, said he's feeling about 75 to 85 percent healthy in practice as he returns from surgery similar to what tailback Richard Samuel had last season when he missed five games.
Jones is running and can cut "a little bit."
"It's just trying to build up my confidence," Jones said. "I get a little winded, but it's nothing. It will pretty much snap back when it's time to play."
Jones could have taken it slower and skipped the bowl to prepare for the NFL draft.
"Ever since he got hurt, his attitude was, 'I want to get back and I want to play,'" Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "He's been working towards that the entire time. I really don't know how much he'll be able to play, what type of stamina he'll have to be able to play. He wants to play. The plan is to play him, but as practices go on, we'll have a little better gauge what that might look like. Right now just the thought of him fighting like mad to get back on the field is a sign of his integrity and a sign of his love of the game and love of Georgia."
Defensive coordinator Todd Grantham said Jones "can really give us some depth and spot play and do some things like that if he continues to function at a rate that can help us."
Will Geathers wait for new coach?
Kwame Geathers, Georgia's redshirt junior nose guard, doesn't know if he will wait for a the Bulldogs to hire a new defensive line coach before deciding whether to enter the NFL draft.
Rodney Garner, who recently left Georgia after 15 seasons to join Auburn's staff, not only was Geathers' position coach, but he was the closest of any assistant to him.
Grantham says he wants to hire a new defensive line coach soon after the bowl. He said there are "quality candidates" in the mix.
"I'm really excited about some guys that have talked about being interested," he said.
Whether they are coaches currently with college jobs or the NFL, Grantham didn't want to say.
"It can be any of the above," he said. "I'm still looking at several."
Geathers said the loss of nose guard John Jenkins to academics doesn't put added pressure on him to be productive with a heavier workload.
"No, it doesn't put more stress on me," he said. "I think I'm in good shape to be able to do it."
The 6-foot-6 Geathers said his weight is now at 346 pounds. Mike Thornton and defensive end Garrison Smith are available to fill in with Jenkins' absence.
Grantham, who coaches the outside linebackers, is overseeing the defensive line now.
Players at both positions meet with Grantham. Graduate assistants Brandon Wheeling and Mike Kelly are stepping up their roles as Grantham goes between the two groups for part of practice.
"You're only talking about roughly 15 to 20 minutes of the practice," Grantham said. "Then from there, we go to our team stuff."
Martinez says Georgia like Big Ten defenses
Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez was asked after Friday's practice at Freedom High School what stands out most about Georgia's defense.
"Nothing really," he said. "It's just another typical Big Ten defense. If we go out and play, we'll be perfectly fine."
Comparing Georgia to a Big Ten defense might seem like an insult to Bulldogs fans, but the Big Ten has three top-15 total defenses, just one fewer than the SEC.
Michigan State is No. 4, Michigan is No. 10 and Wisconsin is No. 13. Georgia is 27th nationally, sixth in the SEC.
"They're very fast, they're physical," Nebraska offensive coordinator Tim Beck said. "They get hats to the football. We've got to play well. We've got to come ready to play, we've got to be physical with them and we've got to hang onto the football."
Grantham to attend Russell Athletic Bowl
A crew from a television station in Roanoake, Va., was at Georgia's practice to interview Grantham, who played for and coached at Virginia Tech.
Grantham and his family planned to go to the Russell Athletic Bowl Friday night to watch Virginia Tech play Rutgers in the same stadium where Tuesday's game will be held.
Grantham coached at Virginia Tech with Hokies defensive coordinator Bud Foster and was a graduate assistant at the school at the same time as current offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring.
"I know a lot of guys on that staff," Grantham said. "They've obviously got a special place in my heart because I kind of grew up there and went to school there."
Former Georgia offensive lineman Brent Benedict is a starter for the Hokies.
Quick hits
Junior inside linebacker Alec Ogletree, projected by some as an first-round NFL draft pick, said he did not send in paperwork to get a projection from the NFL draft advisory committee. Ogletree is expected to enter the draft. Asked if there was a chance he might return, Ogletree said: "I'm here right now. That's all I'm worried about. Once the game's over, I'll go home and talk to my family and make a decision." … Capital One Bowl CEO Steve Hogan told CBSSports.com he's expecting a crowd of 57,000 to 60,000 for the game.


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