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NOTWITHSTANDING that the collodion process, particularly in its wet state, rendered such important services to photography, it is today almost wholly a thing of the past. The later generation of photographers, indeed, know little or nothing about it, and probably the majority would not know how to use it if they wished.
As early as 1850 Poitevinafter Daguerre and the two Niepces perhaps the most fertile of the earlier French experimenters in photography, and one to whom the art-science owes a great dealsuggested the use of gelatine as a vehicle in place of collodion, the dangerous nature of which, apart from other drawbacks, was always felt to be a disadvantage. He did no more, however, than throw out the hint; and it remained for others, either independently or acting upon his suggestion, to prosecute the line of research thus indicated.
Many busy brains and cunning hands were soon at work on the problem; although it was not until 1871 that Dr. Maddox of Southampton succeeded where others had failed. In the month of September of that year he published in the British Journal of Photography a note on the production of an emulsion, the chief ingredients of which were gelatine and bromide of silver. Thirty grains of gelatine were swelled in cold water, and then dissolved by the application of heat, four drachms of pure water and two drops of aqua regia being added. Into this solution were then cast eight grains of cadmium bromide and fifteen grains of nitrate of silver, the result being a fine milky emulsion of silver bromide.
Plates that had been given a thin coating of this emulsion and then dried, upon being exposed beneath a negative, showed a faint but clear picture when developed with a solution of pyrogallic acid.
Maddox's experiments were not completely successful, the reason being, as would appear, at least in part, the presence of nitric acid (caused by the aqua regia), which, acting as a restrainer, made the plates slow. Had he carried his investigations a little further he would doubtless have been able to overcome the defects in his process ; but all the available time he had at his disposal appears to have been taken up with photo-microscopy, and he had perforce to relinquish to others the line of research thus set afoot. Publishing his results, therefore, he left the matter for others to think over and work out to a more complete and satisfactory issue, remarking that " so far as can be judged, the process seems quite worth more carefully conducted experiments, and, if found advantageous, adds another handle to the photographer's wheel."
Amongst others who took the hint thus thrown out and worked at the problem involved, were Kermetter abroad and Burgess and Kennett in England, all of whom produced a commercial article, though without deriving much benefit therefrom. The fact is they just failed to reach complete success. The difficulty with Burgess's emulsion was that it was apt to decompose at anything like a high temperature. The presence of soluble salts was the trouble. These Kennett endeavoured to remove, and he patented a compound of "an aqueous solution of gelatine, together with a bromide, chloride, or iodide, and nitrate of silver," which "is cleared of certain salts," formed during the mixing, and then dried.
Both Burgess and Kennett prepared dry-plates, but commercially they were not a successpartly, no doubt, because they were a little before their time. Older photographers, who remember their introduction, will often recount, with an amused smile, how much they were beyond them. Their training in the old methods had been such that they could not understand their rapidity. They would spoil plate after plate, simply because of their inability to give them a sufficiently quick exposure.
Doubtless, the plates, too, were somewhat to blame. The fact is, that the time was not yet ripe for the perfect emulsion, because our knowledge of silver bromide was not sufficiently complete.
Perhaps it is worth while to note here that brominea deep reddish-brown liquid, fuming strongly at common temperatures, and found in sea-water combined with magnesiumwas only discovered in 1826, and that it was not until the publication of the researches of the Belgian chemist Stas in regard to chloride and bromide of silver that the world was made acquainted with the fact that the sensitiveness of bromine to light is greatly intensified by the application of heat.
It was the realisation of this fact by Mr. Charles Bennett, an amateur photographer of London, that finally solved the problem of a gelatine emulsion. By boiling his different solutions at a temperature of 90 degrees, he succeeded in making an emulsion that enabled him to obtain results which were a surprise to all who saw them, not merely on account of the quality of the pictures themselves, but from the rapidity with which they were taken. He very generously made public his process. This was in the early part of 1878, and, within a few weeks of the publication thereof, gelatine dry-plates had been manufactured and put on the market by several leading firms of photographic material manufacturers.
The effect produced by the introduction of the gelatine process was second to nothing that had gone hefore in the history of photography. It caused a complete revolution in the art, and, necessarily, in much of the material and apparatus whereby its results were achieved one of the minor, though still important, changes produced, being a saving in cameras, which were so rotted and deteriorated by the wet plates. These may be treated together, seeing that the changes that were brought about in the form and interior mechanism of cameras, in order to meet the increased rapidity of exposure, and by the augmented resources of the art in regard to picture supports, are but branches of the same subject.
The "new things " in photography come so quickly one after another that we are apt to for-get the sensation of yesterday in the novelty of today. Yet it is but a few years since the photographic world enjoyed more than a nine-days wonder in what is known as the roller-slide, with its accompanying paper or film support.
The history of these things, like most else in photography, is one of gradual evolution; one idea being thrown out here and another therethe two then lying in wait for the development of a third. As early as 1854, we have the first germ of the roller-slide in a patent taken out by Spencer & Melhuish. Though crude enough in its general mechanism, the idee mere was present in the two rollers within the frame of the camera, one of which held the supply of sensitized paper, while the other received it as soon as it had been exposed, length by length, and received its picture. In this way, a succession of pictures could be taken on a long strip of sensitive paper. Although this invention appears to have had some successa qualified success as an ingenious noveltyit was unquestionably before its time.
About the same period, several other workers were exercising their wits in the like direction, and notably Captain Barr in India. But it was reserved for Warnerke to give the world what was in reality the first practical roller-slide. His own description of the contrivancepublished in 1875gives its principal components as "two rollers on which the sensitive film is wound," which afford room for one hundred plates." By this he means that, " before the film is attached to the roller, it is divided into sections corresponding with the size of the plates by black lines drawn in pencil or otherwise." Through the instrumentality of a darkened glass plate in front, in the place corresponding with the focussing surface, the sensitive film was guided in its progress from one roller to the other, and secured in its proper position. The film was wound from one roller to the other by means of metallic heads to the rollers. Exposure was obtained by a sliding shutter, and in the shutter was a tiny orange-glass window, for the purpose of observing the black lines on the film, and so securing the sections in proper position.
The roller-slide was only made possible with the introduction, or rather the revival, of sensitive film supported, not on glass, but on a flexible material. As we have seen, Fox-Talbot made use of paper for his negatives; and al-though paper was superseded by glass when the collodion process became popular, yet photographers were not slow to recognise that such a brittle substance as glass possesses serious disadvantages. Investigators endeavoured to find or to produce some material which, while possessing the transparency of glass, would be lighter and of a less brittle nature. Amongst others, Woodbury turned his attention to this problem, and in 1876 succeeded in manufacturing such a compound from Canada-balsam, collodion, and castor-oil.
This mixture, after being spread on a sheet of glass and allowed to dry, was coated with a sensitive emulsion and again allowed to dry. It was then taken from its glass support and cut into lengths for use in the camera. Although the inventor did not go beyond this, he threw out the idea that the film, being perfectly flexible, and hence capable of use in long bands, might, by means of rollers, be submitted in suitable lengths to the luminous image, and thus the inconvenience of changing plates be dispensed with by the turning of a handle outside the camera.
Warnerke took up this idea, and, though on the first appearance of his roller-slide he used paper coated with collodion emulsion, on the introduction of the more highly sensitive emulsion, which would not permit of the use of orange-glass windows, a further stage in the evolution towards the instantaneous camera was reached.
Besides the advantages of lightness and non-fragility, film photography possesses another superiority to glass, and that is its freedom from halation–the term applied to a certain blurring of the image caused mainly by reflection from the back surface of the glass support. In glass negatives it is shown by an encroachment of the light portions upon the dark, as, for instance, in taking a window, where there would be an invasion of light upon what should be dark all round the edge.
The rapidity of the dry-plates and the film is such that cameras specially constructed for the purpose can be held in the hand during the operation of exposure. Much ingenuity has of late years been given to the development of the capabilities of the camera in connection with the use of dry-plates. The forms the dark-box " has taken under the new requirements are almost uncountable. For small-sized photographs various contrivances have been adopted whereby the camera itself becomes a storage for plates, a simple mechanical arrangement permitting the exposed plate to be transferred to the back, while another takes its place. The " magazine camera," as it is called, possesses certain undeniable advantages, though it is outdone by the roller-slide camera when the film used in the latter can be thoroughly relied on, which, unfortunately, is not always the case.
While, therefore, for ease and the rapidity with which successive exposures can be made and views taken, nothing comes up to the hand-camera with the roller-slide and film, for sure work the magazine camera is, on the whole, preferable. It forms no part of the scheme of this work to enter into the respective merits of cameras ; there are many excellent ones in the market ; but for hand as well as tripod use, Newman & Guardia's instruments cannot easily be beaten. They are provided with good lenses, and have all the special features of a first-class tripod cameravertical and horizontal rising fount, extension to double or triple the normal focus of the lens, iris diaphragm, hand and pneumatic releases, etc.
Another development which has arisen out of the extreme sensitiveness of the dry-plates is what are known as flash-light pictures. These are photographs taken by means of the almost instantaneous flash of light produced by scattering powdered magnesium in the flame of a lampof which there are many specially contrived for the purpose. There is generally a receptacle attached for holding the magnesium powder, which is carried into the flame by means of a pneumatic ball and tube. Very effective pictures of groups and of children are taken in this way. Exposure is generally managed by pressure of the pneumatic ball, which puffs the powder into the flame, so that the simultaneity of the two operations is as nearly as possible perfect.


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Goddesses Lexi and Summer are extremely considerate Owners who always make sure to keep their lowly pet well fed. He will learn to be a good boy and lick up every last morsel of fresh puppy chow from their expensive leather boots whether he likes it or not. The cruel Goddesses can't help but enjoy every minute of the boy's suffering as they uncontrollably laugh at the bitch trying to hold down his not so delicious dinner.
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Deals round up – January 15th - 22nd
Two major M&A deals announced today could boost hopes for a spike in dealmaking activity.
Two major M&A deals announced today could boost hopes for a spike in dealmaking activity.
In the biggest deal so far this year, Sanofi is set to acquire the blood disorders company Bioverativ— a spin-out from Biogen—for $11.6 billion. Through the deal, Sanofi will gain Eloctate for the treatment of haemophilia A and Alprolix for the treatment of haemophilia B.
And following a string of recently announced immuno-oncology deals, Celgene announced it will buy Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion. Juno has a substantial pipeline of CAR-T therapies, including some such as JCAR017 that the company hopes could soon reach the market, in the wake of Novartis's Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) and Gilead's Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel). Like Celgene, Gilead bought into CAR-T therapies, through its $11.9 billion acquisition of Kite Pharma last year. Separately, Pfizer announced last week that it will collaborate with Gilead to trial Yescarta in combination with its 4-1BB agonist utomilumab in certain blood cancers.
In another immuno-oncology partnership, Forty Seven has teamed up with Roche's Genentech unit to conduct trials of its CD47-targeted antibody Hu5F9-G4 with the PDL1 blocker Tecentriq (atezolizumab) in bladder cancer and acute myeloid leukemia. This is the second collaboration that Forty Seven has establish for Hu5F9-G4, just months after a deal with Merck KGaA to test it in combination with its PDL1 blocker Bavencio (avelumab).
Finally, in an early-stage oncology partnership, Merck KGaA will work with Cancer Research UK's commercial partnership team and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in a multi-project collaboration and licensing deal to discover and develop new cancer therapies and biomarkers. The deal gives Merck rights to move the successful candidates into clinical development, with royalty and milestone payments being paid to Cancer Research and the ICR.


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"Have you gotten what you wanted...? Life was a relationship that you rejected."
-Rupert Everett
"The above quote is from an eulogy that the 47 year old Everett recited for a friend in 2007. Isabella and Rupert were friends since their teenage years and a cursory reading of her Wikipedia biography is telling-Isabella's inability to "find a home in a world she influenced"-is provocative. Isabella's inability to succeed is typical of females; typically, men use more violent methods, guns, whereas women use less violent methods, such as an overdose of sleeping pills. We understand weed killer as less violent, although it can not be less painful.
While amorous pursuits are oftentimes and accurately described as "rejected", we are intrigued by understanding life itself as a "rejected relationship"-intrigued by the wording and the repercussion of the meaning. We doubt that few people see life as a relationship, that is, "the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected." Of course, the deliberate taking of one's life is a rejection of the relationship between oneself and the world.
While amorous pursuits are oftentimes and accurately described as "rejected", we are intrigued by understanding life itself as a "rejected relationship"-intrigued by the wording and the repercussion of the meaning. We doubt that few people see life as a relationship, that is, "the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected." Of course, the deliberate taking of one's life is a rejection of the relationship between oneself and the world.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-The Republic
We presume Isabella did not reject her past accomplishments and accompanying accolades, although there must be disappointments. Perhaps past success or accomplishments could not be sustained or perhaps there was little or no stability in her life. We suppose that she may have reviewed her life and realized that that each succeeding decade was worse than the previous decade and understood that there was no reason to continue with the inevitable physical and mental decline.
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Nietzsche wrote that individuals would "rather will nothingness than not will". We understand this as meaning that an individual would prefer to end one's life than to do nothing, to just exist, to only be; without goals, without aspirations, without meaning. Perhaps we can also understand this "will" as the desire to control or to influence events or circumstances in our lives. When the this ability to influence or gain control over one's life is severely diminished or eliminated, then we can understand why individuals choose this course. Regardless of the reasoning, such as "There are fewer days ahead than behind" or "There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.", the end, that is, the result, is the same.
"You take the good, you take the bad, You take them both..."
-"The Facts of Life"
Everett knew Isabella for decades and we can reasonably presume that he was familiar with her swings in behavior, the manic and the depressive, long before any medical diagnosis later in her life. While it recently become fashionable to diagnose historical figures with a variety of mental and physical ailments, there is a consensus that gifted individuals' brains process information and make connections between various unrelated concepts that is beyond the ability of mere mortals. This creativeness is the "good", but there is also the other side of this "gift", the bad. As a commentator, it seems that, for the individual, the heights of the mania are proportional to the profundity of depression, that is, great minds do not have a small or insignificant depressive episodes.
"We love life... because we are used to loving."
We understand love as a type or form of creation. For the gifted composers, we are not surprised that their music compositions sound natural or unforced. But for an amateur with no formal training who does not fully understand the playing techniques of the strings, woodwinds, not to mention the voices, to work with a less than ideal libretto and attempting multiple false starts and countless reworkings for that finished "natural" effect, the drive to create and the success thereof; what is that long arduous process, but falling short of the Divine nature? The same exhilaration can be felt when painting or writing, for we know from long and painful experience that the mediocre can only do one thing well. How can these works be described? They are formed in the unseen mind and come into existence either perfect, as Athena, or as one born out of due time and, by necessity, must be reshaped and reworked until perfected. What is this process, but creatio ex nihilo?
"I have said, Ye are gods."
-Psalm 82
We conclude with two quotes from Rupert Everett:
She "was constantly dazzled by life and life was constantly dazzled by her."
"You were a one-off, a genius friend, your own creation in a world of copycats..."


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I sincerely wish you have fun!
• • •As a matter of fact, we are enjoyable people, we take delight in listening a music, right music.
• • •I say thanks you, we made this deed. In 2008 we have 368 news (something ~ 365 days...it's by accident).
Thanks for your help! :)
• • •So...music will come back in middle of January, 2009th.
I needs a several days of rest, without I-net.
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"Moneytalk hosted by Bob Brinker" Update for February 29, 2008:
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- Article: Sunday, February 24, 2008 "Moneytalk Summary February 23-24, 2008"
- Article: Thursday, February 28, 2008 "Libor Rates"
- Article: Thursday, February 28, 2008 "Tax Breaks and Tax Credits For Homeowners"
- Article: Thursday, February 28, 2008 "David Korn: Brinker's Stock Recommendations"
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- Article: Wednesday, February 20, 2008: "Bob Brinker Sez Market-Bottom Is In"
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It's official, Taco Bell's advertising is decidedly anti-health. It's sad, but I actually would rather see that annoying chihuahua saying "Yo Quiero Taco Bell!"
Their newest one starts off with:
Their newest one starts off with:
"Heard of the triangle?" (aka the Food Pyramid)
…"Well, how about the square? Perfect for your late-night FourthMeal."
The square has melty, crunchy, spicy, and grilled.
Seriously? Even McDonald's is more concerned about the health of their customers at this point! Promoting a "meal between dinner and breakfast" is just wrong.
Check out Taco Bell's Nutrition Guide here.


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Space medicine
The primary concerns of space medicine are the health and safety of the astronauts, the subtle changes to the human body that occur in weightless conditions, and the hazards of irradiation by solar protons and cosmic rays.
The Medical Operations team at the European Astronauts Centre is responsible for the wellbeing of astronauts before, during and after spaceflight. But there is growing interest in the contribution that space can make to medicine on the ground. For example, a Swiss-led research team will culture cartilage cells in weightless conditions on the International Space Station, with a view to re-implanting them to repair knee injuries.


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Harry Arter got booked for a foul on €35million man Memphis Depay in Dublin last night, we know that much.
Whether the Bournemouth man booked his seat on the plane to France when Ireland fly out in 11 days' time is not so clear-cut.
With his decent display in last night's win over Holland in Dublin Arter, at least, did not play his way out of contention, as Paul McShane did in his audition two months ago. In what was only his second cap and his first start on the international stage, Arter looked as composed as you'd expect from a player with his Premier League experience and he's certainly in Martin O'Neill's mind as the Ireland manager ponders his final 23-man squad between today and Tuesday night's deadline.
But Stephen Quinn was the big winner from last night's action, his busy and effective contribution before he was replaced on 66 minutes an encouraging sign.
Shane Duffy also shone until he was caught out for a late Holland equaliser, but Arter and David McGoldrick still have some work to do.
Ireland's defence will be tested in France with the scary thought of what an in-form Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Eden Hazard could do to an Irish defence which - Gibraltar apart - has not kept a clean sheet on foreign soil in two years.
That Irish defensive unit was, until a flurry in the last 20 minutes, barely tested by a limp-looking Holland side which did wake up late on. Holland's front three last night of Memphis, Promes and Janssen (good name for a trio of cops in one of those Scandi-dramas on BBC4) are valued at €60m, AZ Alkmaar man Janssen linked with a number of Premier League clubs, but apart from Janssen's chance on 68 minutes, they didn't muster an attempt on goal and it fell to sub Luuk de Jong, a one-time flop at Newcastle United, to profit from some sleepy Irish defending five minutes from time and equalise.
Darren Randolph didn't really need to prove that he was Ireland's No. 1 as he travels with that status intact but he had one of the quieter nights of his career last night, barely touching the ball in the first 45 minutes, though the manner in which Ireland allowed Holland, improved by some second-half subs, get into the game and earn a draw.
Ireland's only goal at Euro 2012 came from a set-piece and while the goal last night was scrappy, the manner of its arrival will have pleased O'Neill, Brady again the instigator with his dead-ball delivery and if Brady can provide more of those in France, the chances of John O'Shea, Richard Keogh or Shane Duffy - and the big man from Derry had another accomplished performance last night before he was caught out for De Jong's headed goal - then it can only bode well.
The points for O'Neill to stress to his players weekend will be the need for concentration as the concession in France of a late goal like Holland's last night could be costly, but in Quinn and possibly After, O'Neill may have his midfield complete.


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The spring and summer of 2018 will be a very productive period for us here at ROC Animal School. After a successful February, we are eager to keep the momentum going! Here's what we're up to!
New Programs in Development
We've been hard at work creating new educational content. Obviously, our goal is to spread knowledge and to be as involved in the community as possible. While some programs are ready to launch (see below), we have some others in the works that will be ready to go later this year. Currently in development are initiatives to educate people on wildlife native to our area (county and statewide), a program on being a pet parent/domestic animals, an in depth program on local nocturnal animals, as well as new bird of prey programs.
New Programs Launching
We are adding to our list of available programs! Here's what's ready to go!
- Curious about "Coywolves?" – The Eastern Coyote: This program will be hosted by our talking coyote mascot, Dakota, and will focus on the amazing eastern coyote, sometimes referred to as the coywolf. This animal is has a mixture of coyote, wolf and dog DNA which makes it quite an adaptable creature with the ability to call both the countryside and urban areas home. Are you curious about coywolves?
- Coyote Class: Coyotes are often dubbed the song dog because of their dynamic range of vocalizations. This incredible canine is one of the most adaptable animals of all time, expanding its range across much of North America and making itself right at home in cities as well as the wilderness. Do you have what it takes to live as a coyote? Our mascot, Dakota Coyote will get everyone howling along!
- Animal Jams – Nature Rocks! Animals can make a lot of noise! Some animals are more musically inclined than others. Come learn about the songs of birds, coyotes, wolves, owls, insects and other wild animals!
And as always, we can create custom programs to fit your needs. Just let us know what you're looking for!
Animal School: Out and About!
This year, we will be appearing regularly at the Pittsford Famers Market, showcasing new themes every month. This will give us a great chance to interact with more of you while allowing us to hopefully shed some light on what creatures might be living in your backyard and some local environmental issues you might not know about. Or, you can just pop by to learn some fun animal facts while shopping! We'll have one of our talking mascots on hand at each appearance to give folks the chance to ask them questions about wildlife and maybe get a few selfies!
We will also be appearing at area libraries over the summer, as well as some area festivals. If you haven't heard by now, we will be attending this year's Rochester March for Science and Expo on April 14th. We're really excited!
New Mascot Characters
We are slowly adding to our roster of educational talking mascots. Oslo the Owl just debuted at the annual Owl Moon event at the Genesee Country Village and Museum. We hope to have our lion and Dalmatian up and running by the fall as well. Skye the Eagle, who debuted in October, has been making several appearances alongside our friends from Braddock bay Raptor Research through the month of February.
Stay tuned for more updates as they come!
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SYFY's Channel Zero: Candle Cove scared the bejesus out of a whole lot of folks last fall with its offbeat brand of alternative horror and nightmarish puppets, and the next season of the anthology series is stepping into a whole new nightmare with Channel Zero: No-End House.
Based on the internet's Creepypasta scary stories, Channel Zero's plan is to roll out a terrifying series of shows each based on one of these urban legend fan fictions. We've already been alarmed with several unsettling No-End House teasers and now comes the official trailer that conveys a potent sensation of delirious dread.
Have a peek into the notorious abode where your memories eat you alive!
Season 2 will be based on the Creepypasta story, The No-End House, by Brian Russell, centered around a legendary shape-shifting haunted house and its insane architecture of six paranormal rooms. Amy Forsyth stars as Margot Sleator, a young woman who explores the confines of the supernatural residence and its labyrinth of horrors. American Horror Story: Freak Show's John Carroll Lynch (Twisty) co-stars, with director Steven Piet (Uncle John) steering this terrifying tour for all six episodes.
The original short story revolves around a cash-poor college grad who steps inside the No-End House on a dare to make his way through nine paranormal rooms and discover the house's exit and claim the $500 prize.
Reminiscent of Stephen King's 1408 and The Shining, or Mark Danielewski's trippy haunted house novel, House of Leaves, SYFY's Channel Zero: No-End House brings its bizarre exploratory tale into the relatively safe comforts of your home starting September 20.
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Food always tastes better when you have a hand in its harvest. And though summer is approaching, there are still plenty of opportunities to pick your own produce in the Phoenix area.
Here are four great local farms that would love to let you into their orchards right now.
Schnepf Farms
The month of May means the return of a very important Phoenix-area tradition, the Schnepf Farms Peach Festival. And you'd better hurry, because the last days to take advantage of the event will be this Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17. Attendees will be able to take a hayride out to the orchards to pick your own fruit, then return to the festival to sample peach preserves, peach pancakes, peach salsa, peach cinnamon rolls, and a variety of other peachy goods.
If you miss the peach festival, don't worry — they'll also have apples available around May 30th. For updates keep an eye on the Schnepf Farms website.
The Farm at Agritopia
Citrus season has just about died down at The Farm at Agritopia in Gilbert, but The Farm re-opened its orchards to the masses last weekend and will do so again this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.. The farm's peach trees are laden with fruit that's ours for the picking. U-Pick peaches are currently priced at $2.50 per pound.
Agritopia also has plenty of budding apples and nectarines, which we're told will be ready for harvest in a few weeks.
Fenway Park Orchards
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Located in Morristown, Fenway Park Orchards is a great place to pick all the best produce of the season. The farm opened Mother's Day weekend for the summer U-Pick season. They've got four varieties of peaches ready to pick right now, and will have apples available towards the end of May. Check out their website for a coupon for a free pound of peaches when you buy ten pounds.
Cotton Lane Citrus
Oranges might be on their way out of season, but Cotton Lane Citrus still has plenty of lemons and grapefruit ready to pick. The citrus grove, located in Surprise, loves hosting U-Pickers — but these sour little beauties won't last long. Cotton Lane recommends calling ahead to ensure availability. Check out their website for more information.


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Dr. Kerry Postma was appointed as Superintendent of Schools in July 2014. She started her tenure in Edgewater as vice principal at the Eleanor Van Gelder School in 2011 and was promoted to principal of the new George Washington School in 2012. Born and raised in Bergen County, she has served its public schools for over twenty years in the positions of elementary teacher, middle school English teacher, supervisor of curriculum, vice principal and principal.
As a classroom teacher, Dr. Postma was named "Teacher of the Year" and earned the "ETS Recognition of Excellence Award" in honor of exceptional individual performance on the English Praxis II Series. As a supervisor of curriculum, she launched a district-wide literacy initiative based on the model developed by The Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College in New York City. Dr. Postma supported the Edgewater staff in their implementation of the same model when she joined the district in 2011.
Dr. Postma earned a Bachelor of Arts from Grove City College in 1997, graduating with High Honors in Elementary Education. She graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University in 2005, earning a Master of Science in Language Education as well as certification as a Reading Specialist. Dr. Postma earned her New Jersey Supervisor certificate from William Paterson University in 2005 and her Principal and School Administrator certificates from the Foundation for Educational Administration in Monroe Township, New Jersey in 2006. In 2019, Dr. Postma earned her doctoral degree from Seton Hall University in Education Leadership, Management and Policy.
Dr. Postma is a member of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators. She resides in Ringwood, New Jersey.


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Glass Fusing FAQ's| Frequently Asked Questions
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- What is dichroic glass?
- Can dichroic glass be fused together with other glasses?
- Do you teach glass fusing classes?
- Is glass fusing the same as glass lampworking?
- I need a place to do my glass work. Do you provide open studio access?
- Can you use dichroic glass for glass blowing?
- Why does dichroic glass have multiple colors?
- What is the firing temperature for dichroic glass?
- What is tack fuse?
- What is a full fuse?
- What is slumping?
- Can I use your kiln to fire my glass work?
- How do you slump (flatten) wine bottles?
- What is needed to slump a wine bottle or any glass bottle?
- What is the rationale for slumping glass bottles?
- My slumped wine bottle broke; can I fix it?
- Can you recycle a glass bottle that has been previously slumped?
- I have a wine bottle from my wedding; can I get it slumped by you?
- What types of bottles can you slump?
- What are the uses for slumped wine bottles?
- Can I paint a glass bottle that has been slumped?
- Can you shape slumped wine bottles?
- Can I fuse two glass bottles together?
- Do you offer classes in other art forms?
What is Dichroic Glass?
Dichroic glass is glass that has been coated with many layers of gold, silver and metal oxides like titanium, platinum, copper, cobalt, etc. But you may ask, "how come I can still see through the layers?" The answer is simple, these layer are so thin (less than35 millionths of an inch!) that, although you have up to 50 layers, you can see right thru them. The ultra thin coatings give dichroic glass a colorful, gemstone appearance that it is highly desirable. The luminance quality, range of colors and variations, patterns and textures that you get from these precious metals makes dichroic glass a beautiful artistic medium to work with. It is used to make glass jewelry, stained glass panels and glass artwork.
Can dichroic glass be fused together with other glasses?
Different glasses, whether they are dichroic or regular glass, can be fused together as long as they have the same COE (coefficient of expansion or the rate that glass expands or contracts during fusion). In order to fuse 2 or more different pieces of glass together they need to be compatible, (their COE's must match). Most fusible glass is "tested compatible", meaning you can take two different pieces of glass, fuse them and not worry about the combined mixture of glass breaking or creating stress fractures because one piece of glass is expanding while the other may be contracting.
Do you teach glass fusing classes?
Yes, we teach warm glass fusing arts and crafts classes where you learn to make unique dichroic glass jewelry and artwork in less than two hours.
Is glass fusing the same as glass lampworking?
Glass fusing (also know as warm glass) involves cutting and assembling raw glass pieces into artistic patterns and melting the final pattern in a kiln. In lampworking, also called beading and flameworking, a gas torch is used to melt the glass while shaping it into artistic patterns as it melts using special shaping tools. We also teach lampworking|flameworking|hot glass torch beading art classes at our studio. No glass fusing or torch experience is needed to take this class.
I need a place to do my glass work. Do you provide open studio access?
Yes, you can access our facilities for a day or join a monthly membership plan - see our open studio glass fusing dichroic membership access program.
Can you use dichroic glass for glass blowing?
Yes you can. You really need to be careful with the quality of the dichroic glass. Poor quality dichroic glass can lead to burnouts and lackluster color performance at the extremely high temperatures used in glass blowing. I believe that CBS Dichro has the best quality dichroic glass around, but I recommend you try out different manufacturers of dichroic glass before buing large quantities of glass material from anyone.
Why does dichroic glass have multiple colors?
The multiple colors of the dichroic glass is due to the reflection and refraction properties of the metals used to create the layers. Different layers give you different reflections and light transmissions. Usually a piece of dichroic glass has a name with two colors, the color you see during reflection and the color you see as light passes through the glass.
What is the firing temperature for Dichroic Glass?
Dichroic glass is fused at temperatures ranging from 1200 - 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. This range of temperatures varies depending on the type of firing that you require. Lower temperatures are for slumping, medium temperatures are for tack fusing and kiln forming and high temperatures are for full fusing and glass blowing.
What is a tack fuse?
In tack fusing glass pieces are heated up until they get a little sticky (i.e. tacky) but before changing into a liquid state and blending. The glass pieces will then join together while maintaining the 3D original placement of the glass layers.
What is a full fuse?
In a full fuse glass pieces are heated until the layers get so hot they melt and mix together into one solid smooth mass.
Can I use your kiln to fire my glass work?
Yes, we charge by the cubic inch and depending on whether it is low fire or high fire. You can pay by the piece or rent the kiln. Kiln rental is $50 for low fire bisque or $65 for high fire. We can accommodate pieces as large as 25" x 28".
What is slumping?
Slumping is the process of heating up glass solids like dichroic glass or glass bottles until they flatten out and change shapes.
How do you slump (flatten) wine bottles
To slump a wine bottle (or any glass bottle), clean the bottle thoroughly and remove all the labels and wine (of course removing the wine is often the best part!). Next, put the bottle on a kiln shelf (you need special kiln wash to make sure the glass doesn't stick) and turn on the kiln! You must heat the bottle until around 1200-1400 degrees Fahrenheit depending on the desired result... a fully fused flattened bottle or a semi-flattened bottle.
What is needed to slump a wine bottle or any glass bottle?
You need a commercial kiln, preferably digitally controlled, to take the temperature up high enough to get the glass to melt. Some knowledge of basic kiln-forming principles, thermal shock, annealing and devitrification is also needed.
What is the rationale for slumping glass bottles?
Well that's easy! Empty glass bottles are no longer useful to you and you have to get rid of them. why not recycle and re-purpose them for new and creative uses by slumping them - see bottle slumping | melted glass art crafts | glass fusing artwork. The slumped bottles can be used as beautiful functional and decorative artwork pieces or as unique gifts.
My slumped wine bottle broke; can I fix it?
If you really want to, yes you can. It would require re-firing it in the kiln and overlapping the broken areas. The shape might not be the same as what you originally started with, but it is still doable.
Can you recycle a glass bottle that has been previously slumped?
In the end, it is still glass, so it is still recyclable. By slumping the bottle you are giving a new life and use to an item.
I have a wine bottle from my wedding; can I get it slumped by you?
Of course you can! It is an amazing way to make something useful out of something meaningful. You can have your glass bottle slumped flat or shaped as decorative artwork. Currently we offer three different shapes.
What types of bottles can you slump?
You can slump any glass bottle or glass container you have as long as it isn't contaminated with metals, then you may have problems with the slumping process. I have slumped Grey Goose bottles; and they look amazing, wine bottles, Bawls bottles, SoBe bottles and liquor bottles. The bottles that are painted such as the Grey Goose bottles are really cool because you still get to see the design and logo in the bottle after the slumping.
What are the uses for slumped wine bottles?
Uses for slumped wine bottles (and any slumped bottles for that matter) are pretty limitless. I will list a few here, but I am sure I will forget many: wall or table decorations, sushi plates, cheese/cracker trays, sun catchers, wind chimes, personalized mementos, picture frames, incense burners, candle holders, kitchen spoon holders, bar cutting boards, ...
Can I paint a glass bottle that has been slumped?
Yes you can! You need to buy glass paints at a local craft store (we use Pebeo glass paints which I believe Michaels sells to the public). After painting a bottle, you must bake it in a house oven at around 350 degrees for about 40 minutes, and voila, personalized wine bottle decorations. We host paint your own pottery day of fun parties at our studio where people come to paint our slumped bottles, or bring their own bottles to be slumped by us and paint them later at at their home or at our studio.
Can you shape slumped wine bottles?
You can slump glass bottles or glass pieces into various shapes! The slumping process is the same as the one previously described except that, instead of placing a bottle or glass piece directly on a kiln shelf, you place it on a mold that has the shape you desire. The slumped glass will come out of the kiln as an almost exact replica of the mold you used.
Can I fuse two glass bottles together?
This a tricky question. Yes and no is the answer. You can definitely not fuse two bottles from different manufacturers. The reason is they may not have the same COE and, in between the fused layers, they will break away from each other. You could possibly fuse two bottles from the same manufacturer but over time there might be variations in the glass they use to make the bottles that might make them incompatible. So the answer is yes, but with hesitations. As long as you don't get your hopes up, you may end up with a master piece or just shards of glass.
Do you offer classes in other art forms?
We also teach hand building and wheel throwing pottery arts and crafts classes as well as glass torch lamp working arts and crafts classes at our South Florida studio,


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- First Oakville Toastmasters
International Speech Contest – FOTM
International Speech Contest club level at First Oakville Toastmasters will be on Thursday, January 12, 2017 – 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Winners continue competing through the area, division and district levels, and why not.. two additional levels — semifinal and the World Championship of Public Speaking!
If you want to beat Aman, you've better start preparing now!
Knights of Columbus – 1494 Wallace Road, Oakville, Ontario L6L 2Y2


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Brian, Skyler, Austin, Dario, Brenten, James, Hellen, Joey, Nick
Imagine you are 10 years older and what do you think you will be doing?
Dana: Harassing sister because she is younger sister.
Brain: Laugh at all the past Valentine Days from the ten years prior.
Dario: Hanging out with Justin.
Skylar, Still in school, lonely.
Austin: alive, don't know what?
Brenten: romantic V-day with someone
James: on a date, won't be lonely, just chill
Hellen: Don't like commercial, being with people I care about, tradition have lobster and watch princess bride or any movie, or and alone.
Nick: depends, spending with future husband, romantically,
Joey: studying and sleeping, just lots of sleeping, just woke up, spending in a foreign country rich, only gay guy professional track for soccer.
Today:Go over DOS and Equality phone bank.
Before DOS put posters around campus, and a video ad or a poster ad on the Union TV entrance,
Hang posters at dining halls
Day before, have a booth with information, and put fliers in dorms or hand them to RA's
The present day of DOS
-Info booth: with cards and pins, have two ribbons/armbands one for silent, and the other talkers,
-Also have a person's story to show at the booth, have a card that explains DOS and why they are not talking, put flyer all around campus,
-We are going to get ribbons, cameo pattern and zebra pattern,
--Red: supporting/anybody
--Cameo: arttic blue cameo for silent people.
-Fliers: make a design for them, also have a big poster made with and easel in dinning halls
Theme for DOS dance: cameo-flawsh theme, (hiding/blending in with the background scenery,
-Safari hide-away
-Break the Ice
-Shatter the Ice
-Beneath the Glacier/Ice
-Sea of Change
-Changing Tides
-Tides of change
-Change the Tides
-emerging from the depths
Selected three to vote on FaceBook
-Shatter the Ice
-Change the Tides
-Emerging from the depths
Tuesdays at seven is the committee for DOS dance, and DOS
-At Hope informal meeting,
Next week will be the phone bank:
-Bring cell phone, lab-top, headphones,
-It won't be imitating, we will help you go through the call, towards the marriage of equality.
-Goal to blow up their system, to beat the against the "haters" of marriage equality.
-Brian will put up a cover photo to get people's attention on FaceBook
Adjourned at 6:54


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AltSchool is in session
How the innovative educational community uses Slack to help teachers spend more time with students.
We pull up to a nondescript building in the middle of downtown San Francisco. There are no characteristic signs of a school anywhere in sight. No murals. No playground. No toys or sports equipment. The only indication we'd arrived at the right place was a sign above the doorbell reading, "AltSchool". AltSchool is a collaborative community of micro-schools (founded by Google alumnus Max Ventilla) that brings together teachers, entrepreneurs and technologists to completely reimagine primary education.
"Basically any other industry in the world looks very different than it did 100 years ago," says Kimberly Johnson, AltSchool's Product Success and Training Lead, "except education." Justin Mann, who worked on the operations team, winces as she says this. As a former teacher himself, he knows how hard teachers struggle to give students a meaningful education.
With the current educational model, teachers are forced to turn their focus towards preparing students for standardized tests. Those who want to connect with students more deeply — and take into account their individual needs — almost have to do so despite the system.
This is why AltSchool's approach is so different. Classrooms are designed to look like a blend of open concept office and old-timey schoolhouse. They're filled with students of mixed ages and grade levels, so they can interact more freely and learn from one another through play. The idea is that these kinds of interactions support children's social and emotional development.
But the biggest difference is how AltSchool doles out lessons. Every kid receives a tablet loaded with the school's custom learning software — a program featuring "playlists" of activities and exercises that teachers handpick based on each student's interests and learning style. During class, teachers spend their time guiding students through these lessons, individually or in small groups. This method of instruction requires a lot more hands-on work, but the results are far more rewarding for both teachers and students.
To better understand how AltSchool can help teachers spend more time with students, and less time on administrative tasks, Mann and his team conducted a research study to find out how teachers were spending their time outside of the classroom.
It turns out, the bulk of their time was spent on email and in disparate chat groups, exchanging lesson ideas with other teachers and communicating back and forth with head office staff. Since the operations team were all on Slack, Mann thought he'd try using it with teachers.
"Slack is critical to our real-time support of classrooms and educators." — Kimberly Johnson, Product Success and Training Lead
The results of the study proved that teachers are collaborative by nature. They want to work together to give their students the best education possible. They just needed a better way to go about it. This became apparent when they started using Slack.
In channels like #askamaker, teachers share ideas for lessons and activities. It's not uncommon for these conversations to result in a teacher exchange, where teachers with a specific kind of expertise jump into another teacher's classroom to help run a lesson. Now not only are students receiving a more well-rounded education, but teachers are learning from each other too.
Some students enroll in extra curricular classes (called co-curriculars) where they dive deeper into a subject like languages or computer science. These courses are taught by part-time teachers after school. Before co-curricular teachers begin their lessons, they check into the #cocurricular channel for notes and updates from day-time teachers. Not only do day-time teachers follow-up on a student's progress with the subject, they also take the time to shed light on how a student is feeling or behaving that day, which allows co-curricular teachers to tailor their lesson approach so students can be more receptive.
More recently, AltSchool's engineers have been tinkering with bots and integrations to alleviate teachers of time-consuming administrative tasks. They've even built their own bots, including a "Safety Team" bot that connects to the school's 24 hour video security system and notifies teachers and staff when a new visitor is on the premises; the "BatteryBot" which alerts teachers to low battery levels on students' tablets, and the "AltSchool" bot which reminds teachers to verify student attendance and instantly shares those records back with school staff.
Perhaps the greatest advantage in connecting all of AltSchool's teachers on Slack is that teachers feel like they're part of building something much bigger together. More than anything, that's exactly what AltSchool is hoping to achieve.
We'd love to hear how your team uses Slack — send your story to us at email@example.com or get in touch on Twitter at @SlackHQ.
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The Ipcress File, the first of the Harry Palmer movies and arguably the film that made Michael Caine, returns to UK cinemas in a new (enhanced) 35mm print.
You can catch the bespectacled ladies' man and MoD counter-espionage agent at the Cornerhouse in Manchester from January 20th for a week of screenings. The film has also been showing at the NFT in London, so expect it to appear at all good independent cinemas up and down the country over the coming weeks (they tend to appear at all such places over a short period).


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The Inspiration and Design
The Vancouver 2010 medals are based on two large master artworks of an orca whale (Olympic) and raven (Paralympic) by Corrine Hunt, a Canadian designer/artist of Komoyue and Tlingit heritage based in Vancouver, BC. Canadian industrial designer and architect Omer Arbel, also of Vancouver, used his extensive knowledge of materials and fabrication processes to create the innovative undulating design of the medals, which are struck nine times each to achieve the distinctive look as part of the 30-step medal fabrication process. Each medal has a unique, hand-cropped section of the art, making it a one-of-a-kind treasure. A silk scarf printed with the master artwork will be presented to each medallist along with their medal, enabling them to see how their medal connects with those awarded to other athletes at the Games to make the whole design.
The Designers
Omer Arbel
In 2000, Arbel graduated with numerous honours from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and subsequently apprenticed with several notable architects, including Enric Miralles, John and Patricia Patkau and Peter Busby.
Arbel, who is based in Vancouver, BC, began working as a freelance designer in 2003 focusing on conceptually motivated and materially explorative furniture and objects. Work produced during this period (most notably the 2.4 cast resin chair) facilitated opportunities that led to founding two companies in 2005, OAO (Omer Arbel Office) and Bocci. Both companies have achieved instant critical and commercial success at the highest levels of the design and architectural landscape.
Pieces by Arbel have won numerous yellow pencil, good design, ID magazine review, iF and Red Dot awards, have been accessioned into various notable private and institutional collections, and have been featured extensively in the prevalent design, architectural and popular media of our times. He is considered one of the leading young voices in the international architectural and design landscape.
Corrine Hunt
Born in Alert Bay, British Columbia in 1959, Corrine has been creating contemporary art for more than 22 years that reflects the themes and traditions of her First Nations Komoyue and Tlingit heritage. Corrine's works include engraved gold and silver jewellery and accessories, custom furnishings in carved stainless steel and reclaimed wood, modern totem poles and other sculptural installations. A member of the Raven Gwa'wina clan from Ts'akis, a Komoyue village on Vancouver Island, Corrine's rich family history includes internationally renowned First Nations artists Henry, Richard and Tony Hunt, all of whom have influenced her art.
From the beginning of her career, Corrine has searched for unique ways to bring the stories of her First Nations culture to contemporary life. She is continually inventing and reinventing stories from her culture, honouring her roots and cultivating a refreshing artistic expression at the same time.
The engravings are not overly ornate; like poetry, they convey their message using as few lines as possible. Similarly, the custom furnishings combine materials that speak to old and new, and bring the concept of living culture into contemporary homes. Corrine began designing furniture and other installed art pieces in part because in First Nations households, adorned furnishings are part of daily life. Objects in the home are not only beautiful, they are also practical and infused with cultural significance. Corrine currently resides in Vancouver, BC.


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Though consuming hen feet is an acquired style, those that love to eat rooster toes will swear by it. It's a delicacy in its own proper. Acrylamide is a chemical that is created when many foods, significantly starchy foods like potatoes and bread, are cooked at excessive temperatures (over 120C), similar to when baking, frying, grilling, toasting, and roasting. There's a purpose that many southern cooked dishes are known as soul food and you shouldn't for one second overlook that New Orleans is in the heart of the Deep South.
The newest Weight Watchers program (PointsPlus) really tried to take this into account, giving uncooked fruits and most greens an assigned level of zero, but ramping up the numbers because the meals are cooked or processed as part of recipes.
Meat is normally browned first, then large quantities of soy sauce, sugar, wine or sherry, ginger, five-spice powder, chili powder, cilantro, and different seasonings are added, along with water or broth. Make sure to scrub your hands completely earlier than and after handling uncooked meat.
Maybe it could possibly be higher said as: cooked food gives more energy to the human physique than does raw mealsâ€. We, on the other hand, have thousands of foodstuffs to choose from, and likewise an extremely versatile range of methods for altering their chemical composition by means of the appliance of warmth.
Moley Robotics has created a fully automated, intelligent cooking robotic capable of precisely creating meals. Strain cooking involves cooking at higher temperatures for shorter instances in contrast with regular boiling. Use separate utensils for uncooked or partially cooked meat and cooked meat.


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Why You Should Only Trust Professionals When It Comes To Home Remodeling?
When you save money for years or take out a significant loan for remodeling your home, you want to make sure you get the best contractor in the area. A mediocre renovation will not do for your style, situation, or budget. To find the best home remodeling company, rigorous research and dedication to the project are necessary. Licensed and certified contractors provide many benefits for property owners who plan a home improvement job. Forbes tells readers open lines of communication and tons of lists are two things that will help homeowner's get the results you want when working with a trusted contractor.
Renovation experience and industry knowledge are irreplaceable
A full home renovation requires strict adherence to building codes and following the local permit process. Professional contracting firms have experience with this process, especially if the firm is local or has a long history working for nearby communities. For example, Gehman Remodeling offers customers a full-service design and contract services run by a family firm since 1990.
Decades of experience means the contractor understands climate issues pertinent to your location. Local building codes are secondhand to a builder with years of experience in a particular community. Plus, network connections, new training programs, and manufacturer presentations help add to the skills and education of long-time home remodeling firms.
Knowing how to seal the flashing on your roof or where to jack a concrete slab are not things you may know, but a professional contractor does. This specialized experience is not something you can learn on YouTube or read a book and perform. These tasks require knowledge of building materials and how construction works to do the job right.
Contractors have high-tech equipment and specialty tools
Most property owners do not own a backhoe, hammer jack, or industrial snake. Home renovation firms buy these items from commercial manufacturers at a large expense. This equipment needs insurance coverage, upkeep, and routine maintenance to work properly. Hiring a professional means you do not have to rent expensive equipment and learn how to use it. Your contract team has the experience of working with this equipment saving you time, money, hassle, and probably tearing your hair out.
Quality work adds value to your home
A dentist fixing teeth out of his or her garage does not sound like anyplace you want to go for a filling or to pull a tooth. Why attempt work that you may or may not know how to do, or worse yet, hire someone off from the street to do it for you? When you hire a brand with Certainteed Master roofing qualifications and Master Certified Remodeler from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry, you can expect astonishing results.
Using the best home remodeling company means you can sleep at night knowing your kitchen floor is level, your bathroom warm, and your garage secure. No matter whether you need a small update like putting a floor in the guest bathroom, or you want to add a beautiful new tile back-splash behind your long row of marble counters, an expert will do the job to satisfaction.
Warranties and service guarantees offer you protection
An Eye on Housing says most homeowner's hire a contractor to perform HVAC and roofing repairs. Gehman Remodeling works with clients to perform standard, luxury, and custom renovations. When you work with a professional that has contacts in the industry, the firm can save you money and help you get high-end products at a discount.
Custom installs and tailored renovations are no problem for experienced and licensed contracting firms. Why work with a contractor that only knows a few design techniques for painting or installing tile floors when you can work with the best and get the home of your dreams? A professional contractor can design a unique feature like a spa bathroom with a sauna to improve your immune health and rid the body of toxins.
When you work with a reputable firm, then you know the job the contractor performs will be solid and he or she will give you a warranty. This coverage might include wear and tear or premature failure. Your contractor can explain this in more detail and give you paperwork listing the benefits of the warranty. Your contractor might guarantee services like plumbing and electrical, but the best benefit is the expert knows the permit process and can help you navigate the confusing mix of local regulations. The contractor performs the work to city specifications.
Should a part fail or something happens to your remodel that is out of your control, then a professional will come to the house and fix it. If there is an underlying issue, then the contractor will discuss your options giving you the truth about the problem. You do not have to worry about missed issues, exaggerating contractors, and someone performing half of the work and leaving the job site and taking all of your money. A professional stays with the job until the work is complete to the satisfaction of the client.
With Master Certifications, you know your home is in good hands. The peace of mind you get from hiring a professional will let you sleep better at night. When problems do happen, as with most renovations, you know your contract team has the experience and knowledge to handle the fix.
Pennsylvania homeowners need a top contractor to help block out the cold, winter weather and fix a roof leak from a tornado dust up in the summer. Why call an out-of-state firm when you have professionals who understand the soaking rains and mid-summer humidity you experience? Your full home renovation is in excellent hands when you trust a local contract firm with decades of service in your community.
When you call the best home remodeling company, then you never have to worry about poor craftiness or bad fixes. From luxury materials to project design, a professional contractor is the only person you should trust to do the best job for you. Environmentally friendly practices, use of safe materials, and a streamlined process are other benefits homeowners can expect when using a professional home remodeling firm.
Whether you want a full home renovation or need an island for your kitchen, the quality work and service you get from a leading contractor in your area are trustworthy. You can believe a professional when they have awards from top national agencies. Free estimates, service guarantees, and a warranty on parts are just a few of the things a professional home renovation firm provides for clients.
Other ways you can check out a professional is to read online references and testimonials. People who refer the contractor often leave a detailed description of the situation. Star ratings on social media sites and local directories can also point you in the right direction for finding a local firm. Trusting a professional means you can rest easy because your home is in the hands of a safe and honest contractor who will not steal, cut corners, or leave you with a job half complete. These contractors go the extra mile to make sure you are happy and want to share the news about your renovation with friends, neighbors, and family members.


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Fantasy Major League Baseball: Sell-High, Buy Low CandidatesApril 27, 2010
Some may consider this time of the year as late spring, or grass mowing season or even yard sale season. I like to think of it as fantasy baseball trading season.
With nearly a month in the books, it is time to start making a more aggressive push for players who have struggled enough in April to get their respective owners nervous. Even if it is a little.
Which is why I am seriously pushing in all my fantsay leagues for the following buy-low candidates... and looking to move some of the sell-high guys. I'd urge you to do the same.
Buy-low candidates
My No. 1 target in all fantasy league formats at the moment is Justin Verlander. He's been on these lists before, but his continual struggles over the past three-plus weeks has started to make certain fantasy owners nervous. If you have one of those topsy-turvy owners in your league, it is time to pounce. Verlander is historically a slow starter, and there is little doubt in my mind that he turns around his 6.95 ERA in 22 innings pitched and becomes one of the premier fantasy pitchers sooner rather than later. I've been preparing packages of Zack Greinke and a lesser pitcher for Verlander and a mid-level hurler or two. You could also look to upgrade on offense.
Grady Sizemore has yet to either hit a home run or steal a base through three-plus weeks of the season. Considering the injury-plagued 2009 campaign, owners are getting plenty scared that Sizemore will continue to flounder around all season. For the right price... such as a strealing Vernon Wells... I'd look to make a move for Sizemore based on upside potential. Will he produce first-round talent? Hard to say. But I'd still bank on him over a chronically disappointing Vernon Wells or similar player.
Carlos Lee has continued majorly struggle this season, batting just .162 with no homers and very little accompanying stats to boot. However, after a recent "night off", Lee responded with a triple, two RBI and a stolen base on two-for-five hitting. Pounce now before his stats level out.
Sell-High candidates
According to Yahoo stat lines, Jose Guillen is the fifth-best fantasy baseball producer so far this season. Hard to argue with his .351 average and seven homers. It is also hard to argue against his track record for getting injured. Most seasoned fantasy baseball owners wouldn't give you super great value for Guillen, but with the right team and with the right package, you could swing Guillen for Grady Sizemore. It is more likely that you could deal him for Carlos Lee. I would.
In 108 games with the Arizona Diamondbacks last year, second baseman Kelly Johnson homered eight times. He already has seven this year, along with a .322 batting average. Is Johnson having a breakout campaign in 2010? Possibly. Is it more likely that he's going to hit some statistical walls at some point soon? You betcha.
Carlos Silva is loving his return to the NL... and his stats show it. A 0.95 ERA and 0.68 WHIP in 19 innings is just crazy-good. However, it is way too good, especially factoring in Silva's track record. Moving him soon as a sell-high option is strongly advised.
For other sell highs and buy low candidates, check out this link.
To get involved in our newly refurbished interactive forums, where you can ask me your fantasy trade questions, go here.
For all your hard-hitting fantasy baseball or fantasy football advice, go to www.chinstrapninjas.com


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The Netherlands is exactly as you imagine, almost to the point of parody. You round the bend on your rented bike to see an open wooden boat putting along a canal, waterbirds causing a ruckus on the banks and a windmill behind on a grassy knoll. You can ride for hours and not come across more than a mild incline. It intrigues me that café culture appears to be so far behind Australia given that here there are more bicycles than people. There's something about cycling and coffee that just seems to work. Perhaps it's the fact that bicycles make fantastic decor, or more simply that in order to pursue cycling as a sport you need some form of caffeinated reward at the end. There is, however, hope: Lola in the Hague provides a welcome respite from the rubbish attempts at coffee that I have suffered from other places. Lola makes coffee the right way – they care about how it looks and tastes.
It seems the owners of Lola, a café and bike shop, have some serious ambitions about trying to promote good coffee. We've frequented them a few times over the past week, and although at times I think the staff forget the difference between types of coffee, say a double shot latté and a flat white, the flavour and technique is pleasing. My travelling companion has ended up with a little more caffeine than he bargained for on a couple of occasions, but when it's done well those sorts of errors matter a great deal less. Lola feels welcoming and cool without pretentiousness from the staff, with bright colours and interesting design on the walls. I don't have much knowledge about bikes, but it is obvious that the ones on sale here are über chic (and expensive) with their matte finish frames, dynamo lights and leather finishing.
Yesterday as we sat and enjoyed the summer sun with a morning drop, the barista walked in finishing a phone call to a friend who he plans to compete with in the Dutch Coffee Championships. We got talking, and he told us that in the Netherlands the tradition of coffee being brewed through percolators into large steaming mugs of 'tarmac' had made the transition to more delicate, refined flavours has required some serious effort by café proprietors. There isn't the same easy market as there is in Australia as most employers offer their staff free or incredibly cheap in-house coffee. The Dutch do not seem to have the same need or desire to step out and wander down the street to grab the morning or afternoon pick-me-up. This adds up to an industry that doesn't necessarily have the competition or the intensity that push cafés towards new heights. The barista told us in order to assist with the shift a great deal of explaining is required for the few locals that do decide to try something new.
They do offer some sweet treats at Lola – we bought a generous serving of the carrot cake, walnutty with cream-cheese icing. It was a little undercooked, but I've always been a fan of mixture so I didn't really mind. More broadly, I think Lola would do themselves a favour by improving the food given there is enough space available inside to provide something more than cake and croissants. Regardless, it was just the right starter before a 50km bike ride to Leiden and Katwijk beach.
It is always hard to say when you don't know a place very well, but it seems Lola is an interesting and welcome addition to a café scene that doesn't appear to be enjoying coffee in the same way we do in Australia. I enjoyed having the chance to sit and read while listening to the sing-song Dutch conversations occur around me. If you're ever making the hedonistic sojourn to Amsterdam, I would strongly recommend a day trip down to the Hague for a bike ride followed up by a coffee at Lola.


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The Labour Party to which I refer is not the Red Tories of Anthony WMD Blair. No, I have not suddenly analysed Scotland's largest party and decided they have become unionist timeservers and self-hating lickspittles. The reality is somewhat different and much more interesting.
When I moved to Scotland in 1992, I was swiftly informed that the SNP were the 'Tartan Tories'. Well: who could like a party with such a pejorative nickname? As it turned out: twenty years later, 50% of the population would have no difficulty in identifying themselves as such. When I joined the Party seven years ago, it was one tenth the size it is now. From where did all these people come? Like myself, they made the small, but psychologically important journey from the ranks of the party of Keir Hardie and Dennis Skinner, to rejoin their friends who had arrived by other routes.
Fifty years of failing to protect the poor of Scotland gave most of us who were lifelong socialists, more than enough evidence that it was time for a change. It was not that we had backed the wrong horse, more that our trusty proletarian steed had metamorphosed into the kraken of free enterprise, whilst we had been feeding it principled sugar lumps.
So here we all are: supporting the party that we have taken over, in the hope that it allows us a socialist alternative in the near future. All I know is that: post-independence, there will be an exhilarating time in Scottish politics where there is a tabula rasa. The Caledonian slate will be wiped clean and we will have a once in three centuries chance to decide how many limbs our body politic should have.
Whilst the levers of true power are worked remotely from offices in the Palace of Westminster, there is no point in trying to ascertain which of the Titanic's deckchairs are posh or proletarian. A discussion about the political soul of the SNP will only become relevant when we have driven a stake through the putrefying heart of the unionist political machine. That will be a conversation for a different and much happier day.


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Pulla - Finnish Cardamom Bread
It's English name is cardamom bread. It is similar to challah in that it has a lot of eggs, but it has more butter and the fabulous cardamom. If you are making the buns you twist them into crown shapes or a variety of shapes. If you are making the loaves you braid them.
It's English name is cardamom bread. It is similar to challah in that it has a lot of eggs, but it has more butter and the fabulous cardamom. If you are making the buns you twist them into crown shapes or a variety of shapes. If you are making the loaves you braid them.
Note: Observe carefully the order of combining the ingredients. The melted butter is added AFTER about half of the flour.
1 package active dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water
2 cups milk, scalded and cooled to lukewarm
1 cup (or less) sugar
1 teaspoon salt
7-8 whole cardamom pods, seeded and crushed (about 1 teaspoon)
4 eggs, beaten
8-9 cups sifted white flour
1/2 cup melted butter
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup chopped or sliced almonds (use almonds if making bread, use raisins if making Santa Lucia buns)
1/2 cup crush lump sugar (the large square shaped sugar crystals)
Dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Stir in the milk, sugar, salt, cardamom, eggs, and enough flour to make a batter (about two cups) Beat until the dough is smooth and elastic. Add about 3 cups of the flour and beat well; the dough should be quite smooth and glossy in appearance. Add the melted butter and stir in well. Beat again until the dough looks glossy. Stir in the remaining flour until a stiff dough forms.
Turn out onto a lightly floured board and cover with an inverted mixing bowl. Let the dough rest 15 minutes. Knead until smooth and satiny. Place in a lightly greased mixing bowl, turn the dough to grease the top, cover lightly, and let rise in a warm place (about 85 degrees) until doubled in bulk (about 1 hour). Punch down and let rise again until almost doubled (about 30 minutes).
To make the braided loaves:
Turn out again onto a slightly floured board, divide into three parts, then divide each of these parts into 3. Shape each into a strip about 16 inches long by rolling the dough between the palms and the board. Braid the 3 strips together into a straight loaf, pinch the ends together and tuck under. Repeat for the second and third loaves. Lift the braids onto lightly greased baking sheets. Let rise for about 20 minutes (the braids should be puffy but not doubled in size.)
Glaze the loaves by brushing with the beaten egg, and if you wish, sprinkle with the crushed sugar and the almonds.
Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees) for 25 to 30 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE OR THE LOAVES WILL BE TOO DRY. Remove from the oven when a light golden-brown. Makes 3 braids. This is not a light a fluffy bread, but a moist rich coffee bread. In fact, it is WONDERFUL dipped in coffee!
Beatrice Ojakangas, The Finnish Cookbook
Beatrice Ojakangas, The Finnish Cookbook


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Stewart Event Images is on the road most weeks shooting performance dog events. In between dog shows we manage to squeeze in a little diving some underwater photography and lots of great espresso. This blog is a way to share our pictures and experiences with our friends.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Garden Work
Our wildflower garden has been great this year. Here's one from this morning of a bee working on the flowers.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Zoom zoom zoom!
Another great weekend at the Gloucester Kennel Club trials. Here's a shot of Billy taking the poles! I think this was for her second Q of the day!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Unique Photo Shoot
Your chance to get those multi-exposure shots you always wanted. Join us on May 26th for a custom photo shoot. Email us ahead of time to reserve your spot!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Spinner Portrait
Well Spinner and Karen had a great trial in Lynchburg. Got both their Open Standard and Novice JWW titles. Onto Excellent Standard and Open JWW. I've posted a portrait of our little girl. See you at Gloucester this weekend.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
E61 Grouphead
This espresso machine grouphead was introduced by Faema in 1961 on the E61 machine. The E61 group head set the standard for espresso machines then and is still found on many machines today. This head brought a new level of temperature stability to the industry.
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In the wake of the Sept. 16 gun massacre at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard, President Barack Obama and some members of Congress are once again banging the war drums about the necessity of stricter gun control laws.
Based on how the massive federal legislative push went after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary, it's unclear that any meaningful legislation will pass the gridlocked Congress.
Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) led the effort for common sense gun reform after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by introducing a bill that would have required background checks on most private sales of guns and mandated mental health checks as part of typical background checks. On April 17, that bill with its modest proposals died on the U.S. Senate floor after only garnering 54 votes, six fewer than the 60-vote threshold to avoid a filibuster.
It was a vote that baffled some, given the country's high rate of gun violence. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 11,078 homicides, 19,392 suicides and 73,505 non-fatal gun injuries occurred in 2010. Those numbers don't include incidents where guns were used in robberies or other violent crimes.
In the face of these numbers, solutions like closing loopholes in background checks were supported by 90 percent of Americans, according to recent poll taken by CBS and The New York Times. The measure also sought to extend existing safeguards when buying a gun from a licensed dealer to all gun sales — including intrastate online sales.
The political opposition to background checks, led by the National Rifle Association, maintains that "no background check system will ever be truly 'universal' because criminals will not submit themselves to the system," according to the NRA Institute of Legislative Action.Therefore, the NRA does not support these proposals and is not working to implement this type of legislation.
It's a claim that opponents say makes as much sense as suggesting that drinking age limits should be abolished because some teenagers are still managing to consume alcohol.


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On this Thanksgiving day and every day let us give thanks for all our blessings and all the wonderful people near and far who enrich our lives and help us through our earthly journey.
Give thanks and enjoy the feast!
Oh come, let's sing to the LORD. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let's extol him with songs-(Ps 95:1-2)
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Native American Saying
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks – I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin


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So, what exactly is a technical report?
A technical report is a particular type of document used by scientists and engineers to perform a very specific job. It communicates to the reader information about the work that has been done; presenting the findings and helping the reader to understand the implications of the results in context.
A technical engineering report should be written as an independent record that can be read and understood by the reader, without any further explanation from the author. It stands as a comprehensive record of exactly how the work was done and what results were obtained.
A report should include every important piece of information associated with the work conducted. This will include things such as:
- The background to the subject and the context in which the work is being performed.
- The reasons why the work is being done and what outcomes are expected to be achieved.
- The processes, methods and equipment used to perform the work.
- The results or findings, presented in a way that allows the reader to understand them.
- The author's interpretation of those results and their relevance to the context of the subject area.
Almost all technical engineering reports follow this 'storytelling' format; the narrative being a logical and linear delivery of information about the work that was conducted, which has a beginning, middle and end.
The scene is set at the start, followed by the story of what happened. The ending provides the author with the opportunity to consider the impact and significance of what has happened and to consider, "what's next?". There are also a number of sections that appear after the report to provide extra information for the reader.
Over time, standard sections and conventions have become established to present and organise information contained within these documents.
Readers of technical engineering reports have come to expect certain information in these sections, so for the sake of clearly communicating the work, it is important to use these sections correctly.
On the next step, we'll define what these sections are and look at the content, style and presentation that each requires.
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text: Ricardo Salvador Ricardo Salvador Director and Senior Scientist, Food and Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists As the senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador works with citizens, scientists, economists, and politicians to transition our current food system into one that grows healthy foods while employing sustainability and socially equitable practices. Before coming to UCS, Dr. Salvador served as a program officer for food, health, and well-being with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Prior to that, he was an associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State University. While at ISU, Dr. Salvador taught the first course in sustainable agriculture at a land-grant university, and his graduate students conducted some of the original academic research on community supported agriculture. He also worked with students to establish ISU's student-operated organic farm, and with other faculty to develop the nation's first sustainable agriculture graduate program in 2000. Dr. Salvador was named a 2013 NBC Latino Innovator and received the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2014. Dr. Salvador earned a B.S. in agricultural science from New Mexico State University. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in crop production and physiology from Iowa State University. Luz Calvo Luz CalvoProfessor of Ethnic Studies, Cal State East Bay Luz Calvo is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal State East Bay and co-author of Decolonize Your Diet: Mexican-American, Plant-Based Recipes for Health and Healing (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015). Luz holds a master's degree in Political Science from UCLA and a PhD in the History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz. Luz and their partner Catriona Rueda Esquibel began to research Latinx community health and ancestral foods after Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. In their work, they developed a critique of mainstream Slow Food/Food Justice movements, which too often fail to contextualize food justice in relation to colonial power and white supremacy. Luz and Catriona argue for the need to situate discussions of food in relation to decolonization, an honoring of indigenous knowledge, and a critique of food-for-profit systems. Kamuela Joseph Nui Enos Kamuela Joseph Nui Enos, M.A. Director of Social Enterprise at MA'O Organic Farms Kamuela Joseph Nui Enos was born and raised in Waianae, Hawai'i. He received both his B.A. in Hawaiian Studies and his M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He was recently a commissioner on President Obama's White House Initiative on Asian and Pacific Islanders. Mr. Enos is currently the Director of Social Enterprises at MA'O Organic Farms, a 23-acre certified organic farm located in Lualualei Valley in Wai'anae, Hawai'i. MA'O is a social enterprise that trains new farmers and community leaders by having them co-manage the production, processing, marketing and distribution of over two tons of high quality organic fruits and vegetables each week. The goal of MA'O Organic Farms is to restore ancestral abundance – to empower the community, especially youth, with catalytic educational and entrepreneurial opportunities that is rooted in ancestral knowledge and that will nurture a sustainable, resilient and just 21st century Hawai'i. Julie Grossman Julie Grossman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Minnesota Julie is faculty in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota (UMN) where her research investigates the role of microbially-driven soil processes in creating sustainable food systems. She holds an M.S. in Soil Science and Ph.D. in Agronomy and Plant Genetics from the University of Minnesota, and was an NSF Post-doctoral Fellow at Cornell University and the Soil Science faculty at North Carolina State University prior to returning to Minnesota in 2014. Julie has a passion for progressive teaching and learning in sustainable agriculture, and is a former Chair of the SAEA. Central to Julie's teaching toolbox are pedagogical strategies that help students collectively address public needs while developing disciplinary competency and skills. She teaches the capstone course for the UMN undergraduate Food Systems major, emphasizing student learning through community-engaged experiences with Twin Cities food and farm advocacy organizations, as well as an introductory organic management course. Andrew K. Baskin Andrew K. Baskin, B.Sc. McNair Scholar, UC Davis Serving as Student Representative on SAEA's Steering Council and the External Advisory Board of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis, Andrew K. Baskin pioneered original research as a McNair Scholar with departmental honors while earning his B.S. in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. The UC Davis College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Dean's Circle along with USDA-NIFA have awarded Baskin funding to speak at conferences nationwide (UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Harvard, North Carolina State University, Ohio State University, etc.) Painfully aware that our institutions of higher education perpetuate systemic oppression, Baskin gratefully acknowledges his privilege to access these networks and work to bridge this divide. By prioritizing solutions-focused leverage points for systemic change that elevate collective health, justice and sustainability in the dimensions of agroecology, food systems, and cooperative economics, Baskin cultivates a praxis of values-based systems thinking rooted in the pursuit of economic autonomy and cultural healing. Emilia Cordero Oceguera Emilia Cordero Oceguera M.A. Latin American Studies UC Berkeley, CASFS Apprentice Emilia Cordero Oceguera is currently a farming apprentice at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming Systems (CASFS) in the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her farming experience comes from working in the "Granja Mollesnejta", an agroforestry farm in the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia and in "Las Cañadas", an agroecological cooperative in Veracruz, Mexico. She has an MA degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research there allowed her to work with and learn from three different agroecological initiatives in the highlands of Ecuador. As part of the People of Color Network and the Social Justice Forum at CASFS she looks forward to contribute in making the apprenticeship a space where the social reality of food production and the importance of environmental resilience come together to create a empowering learning experience for people of color.


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Love Me, Anyway examines the body in all of its imperfect glory, surviving chronic illness, and growing into womanhood haunted. Macheret explores the mother/daughter relationship, bridging years of absence with the filaments of the speaker's own identity, weaving together mother/daughter body/body illness/illness, at once writing letters to herself and the ghost of her mother, still so present in the mirror. "Her ancestors: a current in which she bathes," she leaves nothing behind, "Dear disease," she writes: "Please gentle the body—thicken it with sleep." This collection is tender and honest, bones laid bare, "god-struck" with longing, and stretched wide. (Porkbelly Press, 2018) » available in our shop
the day you disappeared,
the sports bra made my ribcage
cinch my sharp spine inward
push prepubescent breasts outward
I didn't know my hormones perched
bodies open waiting for your sign.
Maybe they need a mother
like trail guides, climb the ridge
of my sex—bud into being
and without her? Become unnecessary.
my father brought home a woman
she promised his children an instant of forever
an herb garden stamped the placement of her feet,
of lavender-lush, those thyme tracked trails.
She taught me necessity, green thumb on her brow,
be my Demeter—
stretch-wide my mother's ghost.
every seven days cells replace themselves
every three years I replace my mother.
in smoky bars you hung
to the curve of bar stools,
mistaken I pressed my lips
to the outline of your shot glass,
I blurred into other.
Breathe me out sweet, Daisy—
before I forget you.
you were an indent of laughter
paintings bloomed from your mouth.
Now, your body sea-strewn,
your words suture me closed.
about the poet
Minadora Macheret is a Ph.D. student and Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas. She is a Poetry Editor for Devilfish Review and the Co-Coordinator of Poets in Pajamas Reading Series. Her poetry has won the Sigma Tau Delta First Place Poetry Award, Seaton Fellowship, and other awards. Her work has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Red Paint Hill, Rogue Agent, Connotation Press, and elsewhere.
about the cover art
Cover Artist: Sharmon Davidson, "Seedling," mixed media monoprint collage painting (more details on the artwork: sharmondavidson.com)
The cover is inkjet printed on matte paper, hand-trimmed & bound-by-hand. It measures approximately 6 x 5.25 inches.