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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, along with Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak, warned yesterday that that the guerrilla group Hezbollah was in possession of more weapons than some governments.
Gates, after meeting with Barak, said that both Syria and Iran were responsible for providing weapons of "ever increasing capability" to Hezbollah, although he declined to confirm that the group had gained possession of ballistic missiles called Scuds."
Barak said that missiles owned by Hezbollah had the potential to "disrupt the very delicate balance in Lebanon," although he stated that a military conflict as a result of the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah was unlikely.
He said that "We [Israel] do not intend to provoke any kind of major collision in Lebanon, or vis-a-vis Syria," though he added that "we are watching closely these developments and think that they do not contribute to stability in the region."
Syria has denied the charges of providing Hezbollah with weapons, saying that Israel intended to "further strain the atmosphere in the region." The country's prime minister also commented that Israel was only trying to find an excuse for military action.
Hezbollah in 2006 launched thousands of missiles into Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War, and Israel is concerned that it has replenished its armament to the extent that it could attack Israel on behalf of Iran if the latter, which provides both arms and monetary aid to Hezbollah, came under attack from Israel. These concerns were confirmed by an American report released last week, which said that Hezbollah had indeed rearmed itself to higher levels that during the 2006 conflict.


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Wisbech, UK, 17th July 2017 Anglia Components, a UK and Ireland distributor for TDK and EPCOS products, today announced that it has received the TDK Silver Distribution Award for Outstanding Business Performance in 2016.
Speaking at the European Distribution Awards ceremony in Munich, Dietmar Jaeger, Vice President Distribution at TDK, said, "I would like to congratulate Anglia. As a highly professional distributor with a strong market position in the UK, they have demonstrated excellent performance with our products and proven that they are worthy repeat winners of our Senten Manten Award."
Anglia has previously won awards from TDK in both the 2013 and 2014 honours. The annual assessment of distribution partners is based on TDK's Senten Manten program, a Japanese term that stands for the perfect result that can be achieved with 1000 points. The award recognizes the distributor's performance and collaboration with TDK in four categories: business performance, inventory management, contractual terms and operational excellence.
Commenting, John Bowman, Marketing Director, Anglia Components, said, "This award is a real testament to the strength of our business. We are continually investing in our business and winning another award from TDK further validates the efforts we make to provide an excellent service to our customers and suppliers alike. We are very proud indeed to have won this award and continue our fantastic working relationship with TDK."
Anglia CEO Steve Rawlins, recently announced ambitious growth plans for Anglia in the next five years as they aim for £100 million turnover and a 10% share of the UK electronic component distribution market.
About Anglia
Anglia is the UK's leading independent authorised distributor of semiconductors, optoelectronics, interconnect, and passive and electromechanical components. A signatory of the ADS SC21 programme, the company holds AS9120, ISO9001 & ISO14001 accreditations and IECQ-CECC qualification.
Technically adept, with an experienced team of staff, Anglia supports OEM and EMS companies in every sector of electronics manufacturing. Anglia's suppliers include some of the world's leading electronic component brands, complemented by many smaller companies with leadership in their chosen technologies.
Anglia stocks over 800 million components from over 800,000 product lines in the UK. Components from every supplier are stocked in depth and breadth for same-day dispatch. Anglia aims to streamline logistics and reduce customers' transaction costs through services that include KAN-BAN, EDI, and customer-dedicated inventory, while an accurate, on-time delivery performance is a vital goal for the company.
Technical support spans a sampling service that delivers over £150,000 worth of free evaluation parts each year and expert technical advice from well-trained product specialists and face-to-face guidance from field applications engineers. Both commercially and technically, management of industry legislation and component obsolescence are recognised as areas of vital importance to customers.
Anglia is driven by an ethic of ever-improving customer understanding and, as a privately owned business, aims to provide a fast, consistent and highly responsive service. Further information can be found at www.anglia.com
About TDK Corporation
TDK Corporation is a leading electronics company based in Tokyo, Japan. It was established in 1935 to commercialize ferrite, a key material in electronic and magnetic products. TDK's portfolio includes passive components, such as ceramic, aluminum electrolytic and film capacitors, ferrites and inductors, high-frequency products, and piezo and protection components, as well as sensors and sensor systems and power supplies. These products are marketed under the product brands TDK, EPCOS, InvenSense, Micronas, Tronics and TDK-Lambda. TDK's further main product groups include magnetic application products, energy devices, and flash memory application devices. TDK focuses on demanding markets in the areas of information and communication technology and automotive, industrial and consumer electronics. The company has a network of design and manufacturing locations and sales offices in Asia, Europe, and in North and South America. In fiscal 2017, TDK posted total sales of USD 10.5 billion and employed about 100,000 people worldwide.
For further details please contact:
Michelene Hircock at Anglia, Sandall Road, Wisbech, PE13 2PS, UK. Phone: +44 (0)1945 47 47 47; Web: www.anglia-live.com; Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
TDK is leading the field in battery technology with CeraCharge, the world's first rechargeable solid-state SMD battery offering 1000 times the capacity of a capacitor in the same case size.
Anglia Components has been awarded TDK's European Distribution Award in silver in the Local Distributors category. This is the sixth time that Anglia has received an award, giving it the best track record amongst TDK's 18 local distributors.
Anglia Components, a UK and Ireland distributor for TDK and EPCOS products, today announced that it has received the TDK Silver Distribution Award for Outstanding Business Performance in 2016.

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Many ergonomic chairs available in the market today, isn't it?
It is pretty difficult to look out for individual chair and match its feature with our needs.
When buying the best ergonomic desk chair...
...the important thing to remember is that you should get one that fits your body, adjusts where you need it, and will last for a long time.
Before buying, a very common question that arises:
- 0.1 Why is it important to buy an ergonomic chair?
- 1 Top 10 Ergonomic Desk Chair for Home and Office Use in 2020
- 1.1 #1: Herman Miller Aeron Task Chair
- 1.2 #2: Ergohuman High Back Chair
- 1.3 #3: AmazonBasics High Back
- 1.4 #4: DXRacer Racing Series DOH/REO/NB
- 1.5 #5: Comfort Products 60-5800T
- 1.6 #6: DXRacer Formula Series DOH/FH08
- 1.7 #7: Flash Furniture High Back Chair
- 1.8 #8: AmazonBasics Mid-Back Mesh Chair
- 1.9 #9: Flash Furniture
- 1.10 #10: Space Seating Airgrid
- 1.11 Conclusion for Best Ergonomic Desk Chair
- 1.12 FAQs : Ergonomic Desk Chair
Why is it important to buy an ergonomic chair?
Let me throw some light over the complications of not buying an ergonomic chair.
1. Coccyx Pain
You often notice that your tailbone has started hurting after hours of seating on a chair with thin seat pan.
Coccyx Pain is known as the tailbone. It occurs due to lack of lumbar support and seat pans with small width hence it is necessary that a chair should always have a thick seat pan area along with lumbar support.
The lumbar support is the mandatory feature every chair must have. If you find a chair with all right features but, doesn't have a lumbar support then, I would suggest clicking here.
2. Numbness in Legs
There are various reasons for numbness in thighs. A chair with a smaller seat pan area restricts the motion of legs over the seat pan.
It leads to a halt in the blood circulation through the thighs until the feet. Care should be taken that the seat edge should be waterfall shape initiating blood circulation.
If you can easily slide your fingers under thigh while seating then, the chair is appropriate. If it is too tight, then you need to add an adjustable footrest at the base.
Tall people need to raise the height of the desk to avoid constant numbness in the thighs.
Height adjustment plays an important role as it is mandatory to have contact with the ground while seating on the chair to facilitate continuous blood circulation.
3. Wrist Pain
The absence of armrest is one of the major reasons for wrist pain among the employees. A user needs armrests to support your entire hands while typing.
The wrist, if kept hanging while working leads to Kienbock's Disease. Kienbock's Disease is a condition where lack of blood supply to the wrist bone is restricted.
This leads to constant pain in the wrist often leading to arthritis hence a chair should always have arm rests that should be height adjustable.
Now let's move on our list of top 10 Desk Chairs:
Top 10 Ergonomic Desk Chair for Home and Office Use in 2020
#1: Herman Miller Aeron Task Chair
The Herman Miller Aeron chair is designed to make sure that people stop complaining about the spinal aches, neck strain, and numb shoulders.
The chair takes the shape of the back and fits just like a shoe offering comfort, every time you sit on it. The waterfall design of the seat pan doesn't cut off circulation down your thigh and feels like seating on a mesh trampoline without the bounce.
The curvy seat pan is the main catalyst for your efficient work rate without getting deflated a bit after long hours. The lumbar support pad at the back slides up and down helping you in your long term typing.
Available in Carbon and Aluminum frame options, and lavish metallic colors, every chair looks unique at whichever place you assign it.
The armrests have a leather coating that pivots outward and inward angles along with height adjustment feature. Seat pan locking adjustment adds the flexibility to your movement when you rise back from the reclining position.
The tilt lock comes in three type setting where you can tilt to larger angles for a quick power nap or a small recline while watching TV.
When you want to get focussed, you can use the upright tilt to work continuously. The tilt lock at the back allows you to rock while leaning.
Designed to bring style and comfort to any office or home setting, the chair comes with 12 years warranty giving swiveling motion as well.
The 55 pound Aeron chair is backed by the 5 hooded spokes with a 2.5-inch diameter dual caster wheels capable of moving on all floors.
After years of research and testing, the chair deserves the top spot in the list with an expensive price tag proving its value over money.
Aeron uses a mesh style fabric on the seat and back instead of typical foam padding used in other chairs. The mesh back is supportive without creating any pressure points on the body.
#2: Ergohuman High Back Chair
If quality matters more than the budget, then Ergohuman chair completely stands a chance to land straight into your shopping cart.
With a customer review of more than 180 people, the chair is certified by Greenguard. The back made of upholstery mesh frees you from sweat patches at the back.
The soft seat pan doesn't make it tiring to seat for longer hours. It is available in colors like Blue, Black, Burgundy, Copper Green and Grey. Further comfort is delivered by the cushioned head rest coming into use when leaning back.
Total weight of the chair is 64 pounds offering a swiveling motion along with carrying weight up to 200 pounds. The curvy design gives separate support to your back subtracting lower back pains.
The adjustments include tilt tension control, tilt lock, back angle, back height, synchronic tilt, seat height, seat depth, and arm height.
You just have to pull the lever at the right to adjust your height. The height of the back can be adjusted by pressing the button on the back that lifts the back support, and you can position it according to your height.
The dual curve adjusts the lumbar support simultaneously with the back. The headrest adjusts the various angles while seating as well leaning by pulls and push motion where you have to position your neck while sitting and leaning.
The chair has adjustable armrests which can change angles and the height adjustment button elevates establishing arm comfort.
Depending on the body length, every individual can change the height by occasionally decreasing it to touch the feet to the ground. This enhances proper blood circulation and helps you get rid of occasional cramps and numbness.
Now, swivel along your workplace to increase body movement as the chair offers a complete 360-degree swiveling motion.
The chrome/polypropylene star base holds the entire weight along with the nylon dual caster wheels making you movable without getting off your seat.
The innovative back design resembles butterfly wings supported by a solid metal at the back helps you sit happily all day long.
#3: AmazonBasics High Back
The next chair in our list is Amazon Basics High Back Chair. The padded high back is made up of leather keeping you vertical all day long.
The shiny black leather gives an executive look to the room maintaining the professionalism among the user. Care is taken regarding the wrist pains with the addition of foam covered thick armrests.
The arm rests should be bolted to the sides and cannot be height adjusted. It has a smooth swiveling motion with a long steel pipe standing as the base for the seat pan capable of holding weight up to 250 pounds.
The chair when assembled, weighs 35 pounds using 15 minutes of your much worthy time. The assembly is made simpler with a user guide given at the time of delivery.
The hydraulic height adjustment rises from 41 inches to 45 inches giving extra height to the short ones reaching 20 inches above the ground comfortable for taller ones as well.
A tilt tension knob beneath the seat makes it easier or harder to rock back in your chair, depending on which way you turn the knob.
The vinyl upholstery and the height are suitable for neck support as well. Supported by the strong five hooded base moulded from high-quality plastic, the chair ensures smooth travel.
Blessed with dual caster nylon wheels, moving over thick carpets and wooden floors is not a big deal.
The lumbar support is not just the support but a pain reliever for every individual fed up of lower back pains.
#4: DXRacer Racing Series DOH/REO/NB
Racer DOH/REO/NB is the larger version of Formula Series Chair. The chair is not just for gamers but earns its place as an office chair also.
It has a high-density cold cure foam filling extending its service for duration of more than 8 hours. With a taller, wider backrest and seat pan, the chair approves a bigger-built user.
The racing series is bigger and wider occupying bigger people while featuring swiveling motion. The chair houses 3-D armrests, headrest and a lumbar support cushion available in orange and green colors which adapt well in your game zones and office as well.
The chair weighs 91 pounds capable of holding people up to 200 pounds.
The Racer offers superb stability with its steel frame and five-star metal bases. It can be lowered to various angles with the help of lever at the bottom.
The 3D straight armrests come with soft padded cover relieving your arm muscles adjustable using the buttons underneath.
Now, you can set the height of your armrests according to the computer desks. The addition of angular adjustments helps to change the angles of the armrests and tilt mechanism favors back tilting using the handy lever at the right.
The comfort is expanded with the provision of headrest pillow. Lumbar cushion just deleted lower back pains from your pain list. The neck pillow teams with the outstanding back height that runs up from your pelvic to the neck area keeping your spine in a vertical shape.
The Black Aluminium star base with dual caster wheels acts as a mode of transportation over shorter distances. Keeping Black as a primary color, the chair comes in combinations of red, orange, blue, green and white.
Overall, the chair gives a positive vibe of a tough structure with some bold look and never ending comfort, making it a desirable chair in this list.
#5: Comfort Products 60-5800T
With an emphasis on seating and office furniture, Comfort products have a long history since 1919. The company has been a specialist in office chair production.
The chair has black bonded leather upholstery, thick enough to support the mass of 350 lbs. The chair features attractive contemporary cushion with waterfall style seating giving lots of space for your legs.
The padded chrome armrests and the comfy cushioned back hold your vertical posture providing sitting comfort for long working hours.
Moreover, the seat cushion, armrests, and back are covered in comfortable black leather matching your living room and office as well.
The lumbar support backs you when you face lower back pains thus, supporting you throughout your working from your lower back to the head.
The chair along its ergonomic design comes with several pneumatic adjustments. The arm below the cushion attached to the nylon base allows you to adjust the settings for the Executive Chair's tilt, tension, lock, swivel, and height lift.
The height can be lifted accordingly, and the provision of headrest increases its user count for those taller than 6 feet. You can lean back comfortable while keeping your elbows on the curvy chrome armrests padded with thick leather.
The 5 hooded bases made up of chrome metal cancels out all the weaknesses of the chair attached with dual caster wheels giving easy movement overall flooring.
The swiveling adds fun to your routine giving 360-degree rotation. The chair, when delivered, weighs about 62 pounds but, reduces to 54 pounds when fully assembled.
As the brand name says, the chair doesn't disappoint in providing comfort once you lock it in your working area.
#6: DXRacer Formula Series DOH/FH08
DX Racer chairs are manufactured under strict quality standard providing luxury as well.
The chair has a higher backrest that supports from pelvis to the head and the seat pan filled with high-density foam increases your seating time.
The high back fits your spine and shoulders with the side fitting giving plenty of support. Now, no more comfort lag as the lumbar support eliminates lower back aches and the armrests extend your work time longer than 8 hours.
This strong workforce weighs 91 pounds and the swiveling ads up to its features giving easy movements. Coming on color options like Black, Red, White, Orange, Blue and eight more colors are available.
Heighten your sitting experience from 45 to 47 inches by pulling the hydraulic lever that increases height as per the desktop dimensions.
The back can be tilted to almost 180 degrees allowing you to take the power naps during extra working hours with the integrated headrest.
The button at the right changes the height of the armrests by 3.5 inches. There is a mechanism under the seat that with tilt function where you can lock or unlock the tilt function.
The five hooded base with dual caster wheels made of hard plastic gives 360 degrees swiveling and makes your tasks easier. The chair includes lumbar cushion and headrest pillow when delivered, and the company offers 24 months warranty on their parts.
Summarizing all the features, the chair stands out of the pool serving people of all age groups, height, and size.
Flash Furniture has become the top contender in the office chairs industry in recent years. The chair features a mesh back, and the lumbar support helps you get rid of frequent lower back pains.
With a total weight of 34 pounds, this high back easily swivels 360-degree bringing mobility while seating. It includes the neck rest and an adjustable high back design.
The armrest at the sides is padded with 3D cushions making sure you are relieved when sitting, and typing is your regular activity.
Height can be manipulated using the lever giving every person an option to increase the comfort. Available in Black color, the chair stands out in the office with its contemporary design.
The armrests can be flipped when not needed canceling the hassle of detaching them. The high back design mitigates the spinal cord pains where height can be manipulated using the lever giving every person an option to increase the chair dimension from 17 to 20 inches.
The tilts lock mechanism offers a comfortable rocking/reclining motion, and the headrest can be raised by pulling the center knob granting you a peaceful position to rest.
The waterfall front seat edge removes pressure from the lower legs and improves circulation.
The five hooded chrome base makes the chair rigid, and the dual caster wheels made of nylon allow easy movement over the carpet, tiles, and wooden floorings as well.
Designed with comfort in mind, this chair has an extra thick seat cushion that is moulded for a great fit and the black color model makes it a luxurious part of furniture inside the office.
#8: AmazonBasics Mid-Back Mesh Chair
Amazon Basics has created ergonomic chairs that are sophisticated to be placed in your office. The mid back chair looks fabulous in black color with a mesh back providing back support and preventing body heat and moisture build-up.
The gently curved section at the back increases your working hours by keeping your spinal cord swaying all the time. The swiveling motion will occur smoothly even with maximum weight put on the chair.
Eliminate the chances of coccyx pain as the lumbar support reduces the gap between the chair and your lower back. The chair measures 25 inches deep, 24 inches wide and rises 4 inches in height.
This 40-inch high chair is suitable for tall people. With armrest at the sides, you can stick to your daily posture by resting your arms when seating idle.
Its total weight is 23 pounds that can sustain body weight up to 225 pounds.
The hydraulic seat adjustment lets you rise high and low depending on your height. This is performed by lever beneath the seat which comes handy when seated.
You can pull out the control handle allowing your chair to tilt back and front. Tilt tension knob can adjust even the rocking motion of the chair. A tilt tension knob underneath the seat helps to modify the rocking motion.
The fully plastic dual wheel casters and swiveling make the movement from one workplace to other easier. Now, you don't need to get up to change destinations.
Looking at its features, this chair deserves a place in this list promising a better working experience.
#9: Flash Furniture
With more than 800 people giving a satisfactory response for this chair, the ergonomic design makes it suitable for office use.
The thickly padded black color mesh at the back helps to maintain right posture from mid to upper back region. The mesh material is breathable and flexible enough to bend your back at certain angles.
The curve helps to adjust your back and fit into the chair for longer hours. It possesses passive lumbar supporting your lower back and depleting chances of coccyx pain.
It is available in 11 different colors. The 2.5-inch padded nylon base made of polyurethane can handle weight up to 200 pounds without getting squeezed even after several hours of seating.
Padded armrest comes into play supporting your hands when seating idle. The CA 117 foam is fire retardant and won't cause any damage if cigarette ash falls on the seat accidently.
This 20-pound chair comes with several adjustments including height, tilt back that can be extended up to 42.25 inches high using hydraulic seat adjustment.
It can be customized according to your comfort level thus, increasing your efficiency. The chrome plating at the base adds up to its style.
The 5 point base casters wheels make this chair a workstation. The swiveling motion brings ease to your movement giving a 360-degree rotation.
On a funny note! Now you can turn around and pass files to your colleagues without taking the struggle to stand.
#10: Space Seating Airgrid
The ergonomic design is proof that Space Seating chair won't disappoint regarding comfort. Looking at its back, it displays a mesh back that serves as air circulator between your formal wear and the back.
Available in black color, the seat pan made up of vinyl offers the required comfort along with mesh back. The curve of the seat accepts butts of various sizes.
The armrests at the sides are made up of durable hard plastic assisting your arms to rest. Total weight of the chair is 39 pounds capable of handling users weighing 225 pounds.
The chair has pneumatic Seat Height Adjustment lever at the lower right side to change the height, tilt tension. The 18 inches high back can be raised up to 23 inches designed, keeping tall people in mind.
The button at the outer side of the armrest initiates 3 inches in height suitable to enter under the desk of various heights. The chair reclines back to a small angle letting you take the power nap with the neck rest adding to your rest time.
The five hooded stokes give you the much-needed stability to help you focus for extended hours. The dual-caster wheels are oversized enough to roll over carpets and wooden floors.
Space Seating offers smooth swiveling along with relief from back and eye strains.
Airgrid takes 15 minutes for complete assembly, and the result is a basic simple looking office chair with an adjustable lumbar support taking away the lower back pains.
Conclusion for Best Ergonomic Desk Chair
Coming to the end of this countdown, we have seen chairs of all sizes and price tags that bring comfort to your daily routine.
If you are a computer user, then you need to invest in the ergonomic chairs specified in the list.
Now, you have all best chairs under a single umbrella; you can select them according to your personal preference and needs.
I hope my review helped you selecting the best chair from the slot making your life healthier and happier.
Thank you! Have a great day ahead.
FAQs : Ergonomic Desk Chair
- I run a freelancing firm, and now I'm expanding my firm, and I want to buy some chairs for my staff so which brand shall I go with?
Many people buy chairs for various reasons, and according to that we make suggestions to them, however here you want to purchase them for your staff which means you shall go with that chair which would be best in terms quality. I think anyone who wants to set up their office shall go with Amazonbasics mid-back mesh chair or Space seating air grid since these chairs are suitable for all type of peoples. But if you've liked any other charts from this list, then you go with it too since they are all ergonomic chairs.
NO. That's not right, some of these chairs don't get catch fire quickly, and you can expect that kind of safety from them but not all of these chairs fire retardant, and hence you will have to use them carefully.
Not all of them are that much heavy, but yes, there are some chairs which are really heavy in size, but the rest of the other chair's weight ranges from 35-40 lbs only which is quite reasonable. We have tried to include these chairs according to their quality and customer's positive responses, and that might be the reason why we must've added some heavy chairs also.
Yes, most of them come with the lean back adjustment, and you can use it to relax for some time or take a nap whenever you feel exhausted or tired after so much of work.
Yes, not all of the ergonomic chairs offer this type of features, but mostly the branded chairs provide this type of function. But that shall not be a criterion for you not to buy an ergonomic chair, especially when you have a limited budget, and there are other great facilities to look for in an ergonomic chair. If you want an ergonomic chair which offers excellent features like armrest adjustment, then you will have to go with top brands.
- Will a sitting position/style of a person who is buying a chair will matter while choosing an ergonomic chair?
Nice question. Sometimes we buy that thing which we don't know how to use, and ultimately we regret every penny we spend on it. Your sitting position won't matter that much because even if you have a bad sitting posture with these type of chairs that will also improve. But what you shall look for before buying is which will suit your personality and that's where people most of the times make a mistake.


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The backend should have a login section so that the staff must log in to post an article to our site.
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The end of an era. Three decades of missions came to a close as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down in Florida after a 13-day trip to the International Space Station. Here are some of the most amazing pictures of this last mission to the ISS.
In the image above, NASA astronaut Doug Hurley waits in a pressure chamber before a test of his Sokol space suit: the crew of the final shuttle mission traveled to Moscow for a suit fit check of their Russian Soyuz suits that will be required in the event of an emergency. (Where Gundam Mobile Suit comes to reality!)
I am too young to have witnessed the first walk on the Moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But I remember the first mission of a Space Shuttle, and I have simulated the launch of the Columbia at least a thousand times with my Lego Starships. It was April 12, 1981.
In the picture at the bottom of this page, the space shuttle Atlantis is flying over the Bahamas, prior to its last docking with the International Space Station on July 10, 2011.
More pictures and most of the credits for this incredible photo gallery are available on the Astronomy Archives of The Atlantic. Take a look also at the Soviet Space Shuttle — a project from the 1980s', ended by the collapse of Soviet Union, after only one unmanned flight! However, russians keep flying to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Baikonur is a city in Kazakhstan — a former satellite republic of USSR — rented now to the Russian government.


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Using Pulumi for Kubernetes configuration management
A few months back, I wrote an article which got a bit of interest around the issues configuring and maintaining multiple clusters, and keeping the components required to make them useful in sync. Essentially, the missing piece of the puzzle was that there was no cluster aware configuration management tool.
Internally, we created an excellent tool at
$work to solve this using jsonnet, which has been very nice because it's meant we get to use actual code to solve this problem. The only issue is that the code we have to write in is relatively niche!
When Pulumi was announced back in June, I got very excited. After seeing the that Pulumi now supports Kubernetes natively, I wanted to dig in and see if it would help with the configuration management problem.
Introductory Concepts
Before I speak about the Kubernete–specific components, I want to do a brief introduction into what Pulumi actually is.
Pulumi is a tool which allows you to create cloud resources using real programming languages. In my personal opinion, it is essentially terraform with full programming languages on top of it, instead of HCL.
Having real programming languages means you can make the resources you configure as flexible or complex as you like. Each provider (AWS, GCE, Azure and Kubernetes) has support for different languages. Currently, the AWS provider has support for Go, Python and Javascript/Typescript whereas the Kubernetes provider has support only for Javascript/Typescript at the moment.
Pulumi uses the concept of a stack to segregate things like environments or feature branches. For example, you may have a stack for your development environment and one for your production environment.
These stacks store their state in a similar fashion to terraform. You can either store the state in:
- The public pulumi web backend
- locally on the filesystem
There is also an enterprise hosted stack storage provider. Hopefully it'll be possible to have an open source stack storage some time soon.
Components allow you to share reusable modules, in a similar manner to terraform modules. This means you can write reusable code and create boilerplate for regularly reused resources, like S3 buckets.
Finally, there's configuration ability within Pulumi stacks and components. What this allows you to do is differentiation configuration in the code depending on the stack you're using. You specify these configuration values like so:
pulumi config set name my_name
And then you can reference that within your code!
Kubernetes Configuration Management
If you remember back to my previous post, the issue I was trying to solve was being able to install components that every cluster needs (as an example, an ingress controller) to all the clusters but with often differing configuration values (for example, the path to a certificate arn in AWS ACM). Helm helps with this in that it allows you to specify values when installing, but then managing, maintaining and storing those values for each cluster becomes difficult, and applying them also becomes hard.
There are two main reasons Pulumi is helping here. Firstly, it allows you to differentiate kubernetes clusters within stacks. As an example, let's say I have two clusters - one in GKE and one in Digital Ocean. Here you can see them in my kubernetes contexts:
I can initiate a stack for each of these clusters with Pulumi, like so:
Obviously, you'd repeat the stack and config steps for each cluster!
Now, if I want to actually deploy something to the stack, I need to write some code. If you're not familiar with typescript (I wasn't, until I wrote this) you'll need to generate a
package.json and a
Fortunately, Pulumi automates this for us!
If you're doing a Kubernetes thing, you'll need to select kubernetes-typescript from the template prompt.
Now we're ready to finally write some code!
Deploying a standard Kubernetes resource
When you ran
pulumi new, you got an
index.ts file. In it, it imports pulumi:
You can now write standard typescript and generate Kubernetes resources. Here's an example nginx pod as a deployment:
Here you can already see the power that writing true code has - defining a constant for defaults and allowing us to use those values in the declaration of the resource means less duplicated code and less copy/pasting.
The real power comes when using the config options we set earlier. Assuming we have two Pulumi stacks,
gcloud and
and these stacks are mapped to different contexts, like so:
you can now also set different configuration options and keys which can be used in the code.
This will write out these values into a
Pulumi.<stackname>.yaml in the project directory:
and we can now use this in the code very easily:
Now, use Pulumi from your project's root to see what would happen:
Obviously you can specify whicever stack you need as required!
Let's verify what happened…
Okay, so as you can see here, I've deployed an nginx deployment to two different clusters, with two different images with very little effort and energy. Awesome!
Going further - Helm
What makes this really really awesome is that Pulumi already supports Helm charts!
In my previous post, I made the comment that Helm has lots of community supported charts which have done a whole load of configuration for you. However, Helm suffers from 2 main problems (in my humble opinion)
- Templating yaml with Go templates is extremely painful when doing complex tasks
- The helm chart community can be slow to merge pull requests. This means if you find an issue with a chart, you unfortunately have to fork it, and host it yourself.
Pulumi really helps and solves this problem. Let me show you how!
First, let's create a Pulumi component using a helm chart:
And now preview what would happen on this stack:
As you can see, we're generating the resources automatically because Pulumi renders the helm chart for us, and then creates the resources, which really is very awesome.
However, it gets more awesome when you see there's a callback called
transformations. This allows you to patch and manipulate the generated resources! For example:
Of course, you can combine this with the configuration options from before as well, so you can override these as needed.
I think it's worth emphasising that this improves the implementation time for any Kubernetes deployed resource dramatically. Before, if you wanted to use something other than helm to deploy something, you had to write it from scratch. Pulumi's ability to import and them manipulate rendered helm charts is a massive massive win for the operator and the community!
Wrap up
I think Pulumi is going to change the way we deploy things to Kubernetes, but it's also definitely in the running to solve the configuration management problem. Writing resources in code is much much better than writing yaml or even jsonnet, and having the ability to be flexible with your deployments and manifests using the Pulumi concepts is really exciting.
I've put the code examples from the blog post in a github repo for people to look at and improve. I really hope people try out Pulumi!


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The night before our wedding day, we weren't having good luck.
At our rehearsal we were about five men short of the groom's party. They were stuck in traffic. I was very jittery and kept wondering about the width of the aisle and whether or not it was going to be long enough to fit my mom, Alan and myself in a straight line without knocking into the chairs.
And then some homeless guy wandered up and asked for money.
Thankfully Joey steered him away before I could completely lose my shit.
(I mean, we were clearly in a wedding rehearsal. Seriously bad timing, bro.)
Things started to improve as we headed off to the rehearsal dinner. Carin, R.J's mom, put together a pretty fabulous spread in one of the hotel's banquet rooms. She had many breadsticks with my name on them. I was kind of eating, but not really eating, but still eating enough not to go insane from hunger. With the gastroparesis it's just always a gamble to eat before a big event. I ate just the right amount. It was a magical measurement of caloric intake.
I got to give out some goody bags for my bridal party at the dinner. I put together little satchels for the girls with hankies that read "NO UGLY CRYING", pictures in frames, some toiletries and jewelry. It was nice to be able to give a little thank you–especially now that we were really seeing what kind of work it takes to get an event like this off the ground. (A lot more than I'd realized in the earlier stages of planning.)
At the end of the night R.J and I went back to our hotel room, not really intending to follow the whole "don't see each other before the wedding" thing. It's kind of a bizarre tradition when you've lived together for almost five years. Yeah, I wasn't going to sleep alone for the first time in so long the night before the wedding. What if I didn't get enough sleep? I could end up with no energy in the morning and the aftermath could last all day. I wasn't switching up my routines, period.
When the morning came I did end up sneaking downstairs to the lobby before he woke up. But after some perusing of the farmer's market near the hotel, we ran back into each other.
When I could no longer pretend to be eating my toast, I went back upstairs to collect my accessories, then over to my mom's suite to relax before the make-up artist and hair dresser arrived. We met with Joni, our wedding planner, and I blearily looked at the day's timeline. I wasn't nervous. I was excited and I was perfectly content to be moved from chair to chair.
My friends Liz and Lisa came to the room too and between them, my mom, and my sister it was a very calm, relaxing atmosphere. Really, it was everything I wanted and needed that morning. I even put on a chill Spotify playlist to play in the background.
Down the other side of the hotel, R.J was not having such a relaxing prep.
From what I heard, Alan had him and his groomsmen taking shots as they figured out their suits.
Before I knew it my hair and makeup were done and we were ready to head to the venue.
I still felt calm at that point.
I was trying not to let the little things like the photographer not being in the right room at the right time, or the unwanted guest who wouldn't get a clue, or the fact that I was in spanx up to my eyeballs get to me. I wanted to be that bride who beat the odds and didn't turn into lacey-white Hulk a few hours before the moment.
Joni walked us through a back parking lot towards the reception space so that I could see the set-up. She was talking a mile a minute about how everything was prepared and how she had confirmed all of the vendors and—at 60MPH she slams head first into a truck's side-view mirror. It literally came out of nowhere. There were four of us at attention and I swear to god this immobile object just collided with her like some kind of invisible elephant.
But being the crème de la crème of wedding planners, Joni barely let the caterer get her ice as she continued on in the same breath to discuss the bouquets and tablecloths.
Seeing the venue set up got me nervous and we humbly made our way towards the bridal suite (well, it was more of the library of the venue) When we got there the photographers were already taking pictures of my shoes and my dress. They'd hung it over an arch of crown molding on the main wall. Seeing it all fluttered out like that—it really hit me, and I fell into thrilled/panicked/proud crocodile tears.
I sucked it up because the next twenty minutes involved my mom and sister weaving me into my wedding gown which had a laced corset, a zipper, and buttons. Because I can't stay on my feet too long I ended up leaning over the back of a chair and just letting them stand. The name of the game now was conservation. I had to save all of my energy for this night. I couldn't give away an inch of it that I would need.
And then I got super excited and almost fell off my chair because I had a clear view outside the window and had just watched R.J pass by in his tuxedo. He looked amazing—amazing and happy.
The closer we got to the ceremony, the more and more I was convincing myself that I had to pee. I called in the troops and my mom and sister helped me lift up the ridiculous amount of tulle underneath my dress as I hovered over the toilet.
"I can't pee with you both watching!"
"What do you want us to do?"
"I don't know.! Sing or something?!"
And now I will forever remember the "I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas" Mariah Carey song as the song during which I overcame a lifetime of nervous bladder.
Finally the time had come. Joni lined us all up and one by one I watched the flower girls (our grandmothers), bridesmaids, and groomsmen disappear through a doorway.
Then it was just my mom, Alan and me.
Through the glass panel in the door I could see R.J all the way down at the other end of the aisle. He was beaming and I immediately started crying. (It felt more like the bawling, snotty, hysterical crying instead of the delicate blushing bride crying, but between my waterproof makeup and the fact that I was smiling from ear to ear—I'm told it didn't look as insane as it felt.)
I tried not to look at R.J because every time I did I felt like all the air was being sucked out of my lungs. I looked down every row, happy to see so many people that I loved in one place, at one time, to experience this moment with me.
When we got down to the nearer end of the aisle we stopped and the Justice of the Peace called out, "Who gives this woman to be married to this man?"
"WE DO!" Mom and Alan yelled, and everyone behind us laughed.
R.J came down the steps to take my hand and help me up the steps under the chuppah.
And this part was a blur. I'm glad we both wrote down our vows because through the tears and blinding, genuine joy it's hard to remember anything but the feeling of success that a moment has finally come to be.
These were our vows:
From R.J to me
I promise to always love and respect you, but I also promise one more thing. We have been together for almost 9 years, but I remember our first date like it was yesterday. I was so nervous standing at the front door in my tagged brown shirt and baggy cargo pants and you over there–dressed up, makeup done, and just spend the night eating and talking.
We have gone through so much since then and now, you have been with me through two graduations, four cars, four jobs, eleven hurricane, seventeen tropical storms and countless thunderstorms. We have flown across the country together, driven across the state, gone to Disney world, haggled for knock-offs, and had a proposal during a flash flood. So my promise to you is simply when we look back in 10, 20, 50 years we will look back at these days as the day our life together started–not forgetting the 9 years we spent together, but noting so many wonderful new memories together that the last 9 years will have been a drop in the bucket. I promise a lifetime of fantastic things are in store for us.
From me to R.J
There are only a handful of things in my life that I've been 100%, absolutely and totally sure about. And you and me are at the top of that list. I was so instantly in love with you the moment I met you. We've graduated high school, college, gotten jobs, moved out on our own, been through it all hand-in-hand and it's been the most natural, beautiful connection I could have asked for.
Meeting you was the moment the rest of my life clicked into place. How could I ever be the person I am without you by my side?
I love you. Your happiness makes my happiness real. And I will never intentionally hurt you. I vow to always adhere to this promise. And I vow to communicate with you when we've disagreed so that we can repair it quickly, without extending pain and creating distance. I vow to listen. I vow to speak up.
I want to tell you about all the little ways you make my life full. I want you to know that I get AS excited as I did seeing your car pull up outside my mom's house, as I do now, seeing your car pulling up in front of the house we share together.
I want you to know that in the past few weeks I've enjoyed covertly using "Ilana Danko" as my name to schedule appointments so much that I almost scheduled another haircut just to do it again.
I want you to know that waking up in the middle of the night to see you next to me brings me the kind of warmth and comfort that I know most people dream about having their entire lives.
You're smarter than you have any right to be. You're more beautiful than anyone as smart as you has any right to be. You volunteer to walk the dog in the rain, and then wipe off his paws before he can step on the white tile. You hold open the door for me, and the lady behind me, and the lady behind her…You've spent long nights in the hospital with me and never complained about those sleepless nights—even when they were followed by midterms.
Today, on our wedding day, I want to make you these promises: I promise that I'll be brave with you. When you leap, it will be with my hand in yours. When you feel like you might not be able to take another step, I will show you the way back to the person I know you are.
I promise to not leave open vats of apple cider on the kitchen stove overnight. I promise to completely ignore your wishes for me to not over-decorate for holidays.
I'll parent a bunch of moderately tall, curly haired, kids with you. And several more champion dogs. And I'll make sure you have shampoo in your shower and tell your mom what you really want for Christmas. I'll smooth over the hurt feelings at dinner parties when you won't eat because you're saving the calories for Chipotle.
And I'll love you. I'll love you so much that you'll never feel empty, and never alone. You will always have my heart in your hands.
I am so honored to become your wife and so excited about all the adventures we're about to go on.
I'm ready. Let's do this.
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A month and a half ago I signed up for two group skating classes to get back into the swing of things on the ice. My thought was that it would not only force me to be on the ice twice a week but also to practice in between to keep up with new elements. So, I found an Advanced Freestyle class for adults about 40 minutes away from me and I also found an Adult basic moves class at a rink 10 minutes away from me. The adult basic class I took more because I found a good deal for 50% off the total price of 7 classes as it also included 7 free public session passes. In my mind, that was as good as free ice! As it turned out, I was a little too advanced for the adult basic class so they placed me in Freestyle 4 with the kids. My first thought was that I was going to be a huge hulking adult in a class of tiny little jumping beans but my classmates were mainly a 13 yr old and a 15 yr old who were neither super tiny or complete jumping beans.
In taking both of these classes I revisited both new and old moves and jumps to practice. I was given instruction and tips that helped me remember points that I had long forgotten, mainly on my moves. In addition I went from skating 2 times a week to 6 times a week just to keep up practice and build up my skating muscles. Both classes have ended this week and I am so happy that I threw myself into both of them! After I had my blades permanently mounted correctly two weeks ago though things just took off. I haven't skated this much since grad school 9 years ago!
It feels so great to be able to go out there and practice almost every day on the ice too. Everyday I feel just a little bit stronger and more stable. There have been days when my knees have been extremely sore or when I've run out of energy but just going out onto the ice and doing some basic moves or spins really helps get things going. I do have a goal in mind this year and that is to finally take the silver moves and freestyle test. I'm very focused on the moves portion right now as I am fairly sure that the freestyle portion will be fine. Then, I plan on competing in the Adult sectionals in MD. Ambitious? A little. However, I've been working on the silver level moves and freestyle for a couple years on and off so it's about time I put it together. Having a solid goal makes me work harder though and gives me perspective on what I should be practicing at each session.
I just passed the Freestyle 4 test last week in my group session which actually involved the 8 step mohawk sequence in the silver moves test. We also worked on inside three turns (my nemesis!) which are also on the silver moves test so it was definitely good group practice ice. I'm not sure if I am going to take the Freestyle 5 class yet since its at the regular price but it may be good for my camel, flip and moves patterns if I do. In today's last lesson I practiced loop-loops, sal-loop combos and then my lovely flip jump. Anyone reading this, knows how I've struggled with that jump. I've taken the last month or so to really only do a limited amount of full flips. I've been working on just jumping back on one foot going backwards down the ice over and over again careful to stay on my right side and then completing one turn to the front and landing on both feet. I'm trying to break the habit of bending my leg on the jump. Today I completed all my flips, not perfectly but I did, I felt, do a better job then in the past keeping my free leg straight and waiting to tap in.
The advanced freestyle class I took exposed me to other advanced adult skaters. One of which was doing doubles just recently learned. That is very inspiring to see as you are always exposed to children or coaches doing these advanced moves or jumps but it's a different experience to be next to someone who you can connect with on a similar level and actually aspire to reach. I did work on my forward to back scratch which I didn't even know I could still do! As well as back inside and outside three turn patterns. We also learned brackets which is really very new to me. I do remember many years ago being introduced to these but I neither remembered the actual move or have practiced them. At any rate, I love them! I work on them every chance I get from a stand still to get into the rhythm/cadence of switching from that inside to outside edge.
Amazingly enough, I would be much more willing to do a pattern with brackets then with back inside three turns!
Also, just this week, we also started axel preps. I liken those practices to watching my life flash before my eyes as I fling my body around from a stand still and land on both feet. I know flinging is not at all what its supposed to be but from my eyes that's what it feels like! I can only hope that gets better with time!
After both of these classes I am now left with either continuing group classes or starting private lessons again. I know that I will need to eventually start privates again as I'm reaching my limit with practicing what I know and those moves pattern need some correction to be up to par for the test. I also know my camel and lutz as well as any type of axel practice will need to continue under private coaching. So, for the next 2 weeks I will be sharing lessons with another adult under a coach I took group lessons from a year ago. So, for now that will work and then in two weeks I will make the decision to move onto private lessons!
As with my previous posts from other years I've always posted my notes from my lessons and I've been saving them up! These are my notes and my interpretation of the coaching I've received so always read them with that thought in mind
Onto the recap:
Make sure you have a nice knee bend, soft knees going backward.
Pushes are like your crossover, you want to make sure that free foot crosses over in front of the skating foot before lifting it up.
Push outside the circle
Push the ice as if you were making it move and you were standing still. This should increase the power of the progressives and give you a more solid push.
(these instructions were give to me by a male ice dancer, I just had to add that! 😉
Mohawk in the Eight Step Mohawk sequence
Step very close to your skating foot, do not make a wide stepping 3 turn.
Place the free foot next to your heel as you step down into the mohawk.
Back Spin (yes, again, more notes)
Keep strong left check, left arm should always be in front and kept in front.
Left check on right inside edge.
Knees bent.
Make sure there is that transition of moving the free leg from the back to the side and then in front.
This is something that I've never felt before this year, it's almost like the free leg on the scratch. You need that side position to center yourself before pulling into the spin.
Stay over your right side.
Start on deep inside edge with same arm in front, develop a down up down cadence when turning onto the back outside edge.
Old notes from private lessons in the spring:
Lesson 3-9-11
Forward Power Pulls
Start on two feet, parallel to boards
shoulders should always face forward
Actions should be in a twisting motion.
Shoulders and rib cage should twist against your skates.
Do on two feet first on the line, short turns where your shoulders sharply twist to the front while feet are going side to side
4 on two feet, 4 on one foot and switch
Make sure you are twisting against yourself each time.
Short motions
Foot should be beside the other foot.
Head up, shoulders down.
Off Ice Jump Lesson 3-8-11
Practice plie and releve to the front of your toes. Careful not to roll ankles outward
Then, practice jumping straight up arms in front, hips should be held tight to the front when jumping.
Think…pushing in (forward) butt and hips sharply to get that lift.
Push through toes to get lift.
Then, start practicing 1/4 turn, 1/2 turn, and whole turn
Then whole turn with legs crossed, practice landing with feet crossed, hop twice around on landing and then hold landing position.
Lesson for Sit Spins
Bend from the waist, balance out the butt with chest and head against thighs, flat back. Bend also from the ankle deeply. Try to get lower!
Scratch Spins
Push out quickly from the spin, don't wait to come out of it.
Backward Inside and Outside 3 turns
Push into turns – opposite arm leads on outside and same arm leads on inside.
Keep core still, use muscles! Lock thighs together when turning backward outside three. Keep free hip up and look outside circle. When turning inner three's look inside the circle with arm crossed in front of you. USE SPEED FOR MOMENTUM!
Quickness for jumps –
Loop Jump – don't wait, move quicker into the jump.
Ride outside edge.
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4D has a great feature to export structure information to HTML and XML files. Very handy for generating a data dictionary in a nice format to impress managers.
However, the structure export to HTML functionality appends the field name and it's respective comments to make a runon of text.
More importantly since 4D supports spaces in field names, there is no way to easily tell where the field name stops and the comments begin.
Secondly, XML structure export shows the field comment as it's own node in the tree. Why can't HTML export have it's own column for field comments; or at least put some type of indicator that a field name has ended and a field's comments have started.
I've abbreviated the following examples. To see for yourself create a new database, one table, one field. Write comments in the inspector from the structure editor. In my case the table "Invoice" has one field "purchase_order".
Also, this is a standing feature request on 4D forums. 4D has confirmed it as a bug (ACI0068658).
>Product :4D – 4D Server
>4D : v12 (and all previous)
>OS : Mac OS 10.5.7
>Theme : Structure
This is what it looks like
HTML Structure export

Field name

1. purchase_orderA purchase order number

Comments: Holds the invoices for the system.

XML Structure export

 <field name="purchase_order" type="4" id="1"> <field_extra> <comment format="text">A purchase order number</comment> </field_extra> </field> <table_extra> <comment format="text">Holds the invoices for the system.</comment> </table_extra>


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Recently, news that a major work by a Spanish Baroque painter has been on display at Hearst Castle for almost a century without being identified caught my interest. The giant altarpiece by Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa (c. 1634-1698), depicting the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (Gospel of St. Luke 1:26-38), was painted in 1690, and has hung on the wall of the Assembly Room of Hearst's atrocious country house in San Simeon, California since it was acquired from a Los Angeles art dealer back in 1927. As you probably know, the utterly repulsive William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was not only a publisher and a Congressman, but an art hoarder of the first order. From paintings and sculpture, to furniture, ceramics, and even entire cloisters, he bought anything and everything that wasn't tied down. Nevertheless, it seems incredible that such a major work, particularly one which is so enormous and which, as it turns out, is both signed and dated, went unidentified for so long.
The work is particularly rare because compositions of this size are unusual for Pérez. He was one of the royal painters to Carlos II (1661-1700), the last Habsburg king of Spain, and a second-tier painter of the Spanish Golden Age. He isn't a household name like El Greco (1541-1614) or Velázquez (1599-1660), which is partly to do with the fact that his compositions seem to be more highly decorative than they are particularly original. In fact, he is best known for creating highly decorative images in which religious figures are shown surrounded by lush garlands of flowers – as in this example depicting St. Teresa of Ávila – but there is more at work in such pictures than meets the eye.
This mixing of still life and religious painting was not new by the time Pérez began to produce these works, but it became his specialty even as it fell out of fashion. The genre, usually referred to as "garland paintings", began when Jan Breughel the Elder (1568-1625) and Hendrick van Balen (1575-1632) created an image of the Madonna and Child surrounded by a garland of spring flowers for Federico Cardinal Borromeo of Milan in about 1608, shown below. It was a painted representation of the way in which the devout would traditionally decorate a religious image in their home or local parish during Eastertide or other Feasts of the Church, but had the benefit of the lush displays of flowers, fruit, and greenery not having to be thrown out.
Cardinal Borromeo saw this new type of image as a response to the iconoclasm of the Protestants, who by this point had been destroying works of art for decades, as well as banning pious practices such as processions, the decoration of churches with flowers, and so on. Because these types of pictures were both highly decorative as well as spiritually symbolic, they could fit into either an ecclesiastical or a household setting. In this example painted for a private home and dating from about 1621, Brueghel, working in collaboration with Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), painted the still life elements, while the latter painted the figures. Interestingly, some experts believe that the model for the Virgin Mary is Rubens' first wife Isabella Brant, which I can believe, and that the Christ Child is Breughel's son, the future artist Jan Breughel the Younger, although in my opinion the latter suggestion seems a bit off for the timeline of that artist's life.
By the second half of the 17th century, this "garland painting" style was no longer as fashionable elsewhere in Europe, but Pérez continued to receive commissions to paint them. The image of St. Teresa shown earlier was one of a series which he completed between about 1675-1680 for the Franciscan convent of San Diego in Alcalá de Henares, which is fairly late for this genre. All of the paintings depicted Spanish Counter Reformation saints who had recently been canonized, including St. Teresa of Ávila, her friend and fellow Descalced Carmelite St. John of the Cross, the Jesuits St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Borgia, and others, and in that sense their depiction inside of garlands, in a genre that had Counter Reformation origins decades earlier, is not surprising.
Since most of Pérez' surviving work is in the form of garland paintings or still lifes, the rare canvas from Hearst Castle is all the more valuable for understanding his development as an artist. I confess that I don't find it to be a particularly great image, since the artist's skills clearly lay more in depicting the realm of the floral than in the human. Nevertheless, it is a major discovery and will provide art historians with a wealth of new material to investigate for years to come.


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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, Andrew Sean Greer.
Greta Wells, in deep depression over the loss of her husband, tries electroshock treatments as a last resort. The treatments unexpectedly transport her to other lives, where she is living at not one but two times in the past. As repeated treatments send her on journeys through her other lives, she gains insight into not only herself but also those around her. You see, it doesn't matter when or where Greta lives, the people she loves have always been part of her life. In some times, she gets precious days spent with family that is deceased in other times. In the end, Greta has the option to return to the time she originally inhabited, or stay in one of the others. What happens is not what you (or she) expect.
To be honest, I'm torn on this book. I responded to it on a deeply emotional level. I especially loved the idea that, it didn't matter what path Greta took in life, the people she loved were always there. However, there is part of me that wonders on an intellectual level if this was really that well done. Yes, the premise was novel and the characters were engaging. But was it totally cliché? I cant quite tell. The enjoyment I got from reading this book has put it on my Top 10 for this year, but its possible it may not stay.
You might like: The Time Travelers Wife, by Audrey Niffinger.