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Kansas City is No. 3 in Travel + Leisure's 'Best BBQ cities' ranking
The best city for barbecue? That would be Nashville, according to Travel + Leisure magazine, followed by Memphis and then Kansas City.
The publication's new "America's Best Cities for Barbecue" ranks the top barbecue cities based on a reader survey.
They range from Kansas City's burnt ends to mustard-sauced pork in Charleston, S.C. to pork-belly po'boys in New Orleans to short ribs smoked over local kiawe wood (similar to mesquite) in Hawaii.
Kansas City was No. 3 on the list.
"Only within the realm of barbecue can a gas-station location boost your appeal. At least that's the case with Oklahoma Joe's.....whose first location was inside a Diamond Shamrock," the magazine said.
Kansas City also is known for its "delectable burnt ends that come off brisket and taste great with a tomatoes-meet-molasses sauce."
Along with Oklahoma Joe's, Travel + Leisure recommends two legendary area barbecues — Arthur Bryant's and Gates Bar-B-Q.
Nashville, No. 1 on the list, was cited for its collection of different barbecue styles — from the "whole-hog approach of rural Tennessee, the tomatoey sauces of Memphis, and even the mayo-and-vinegar white sauces typical of Alabama. And its barbecue menus also may offer such choices as southern-style catfish, fried okra and banana pudding.
One Nashville restaurant offers Redneck Tacos (filled with brisket or pulled pork), another offers a brisket sandwich topped with house-made pimento cheese, an over-easy egg, red and white sauce, and pickles.
Memphis was ranked second for its "dry-rubbed and smoked over hickory, and often mopped with sauce while cooking" style. Along with staples like ribs and pork sandwiches, Memphis area barbecues also offer pulled-pork nachos, and even a four-ounce barbecued bologna sandwich.
Texas rounded out the top five on the list with Austin as No. 4 and Houston as No. 5.
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Photo at Knocklofty Bridge by @topgold.
BECAUSE WE LIVE in a flooded county, I see people driving through flood waters every day. When they ignore "road closed" signs in their attempts, the adventures often finish with disaster--but they might not notice for a few months. I speak from experience.
Two years ago, I used to travel on back roads through flooded farm land. Several 200 metre long stretches often featured water up to the car's axles. And although I never traveled faster than five miles per hour, the cumulative effect of driving through flood waters for several months resulted in damaged wheel bearings on our car.
For the past three days, different cars have floundered to a dead stop as they approached Knocklofty Bridge, a few hundred metres from our home. Before they sputter to a halt, they have to pass two sets of warning signs telling them the road is flooded and closed. They also see the rushing water of the River Suir as they drive into it. And few of them actually cross the muddy water from one side of the bridge to another.
The water of the River Suir is running fast enough to create white foam as it gurgles between opens in the walls between walkways and pastures. Under the surface, small objects flow with the current. Those sticks, broken bits of plastic, and remnants of fences can get tangled underneath low-slung cars as they try to drive through the river water.
We see farmers on tractors and JCBs making their way through these flood waters, sometimes to rescue people who ignore the signs or who feel compelled to get to their destinations.
During the Christmas holidays, I've chatted with several people who had travelled hours from other parts of Ireland, trying to attend family events. The Knocklofty Bridge has long been a landmark along the way. Getting stuck in the remnants of a major winter storm isn't the kind of family memory that most people want to record. I wouldn't want to risk the embarrassment (or subsequent maintenance cost) of driving where I couldn't see centre stripes or road surfaces.
[Bernie Goldbach has snapped shots of the flood around the southern part of County Tipperary.]

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PITTSBURGH, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The world's major economies will begin sharing information about their growth plans by the end of 2009 as the G20 embarks on a novel process of peer review, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday.
The Australian leader's comments shed some light on how the world's major rich and developing countries intend to add a few teeth to their vows for a balanced global economic recovery.
Speaking at the end of the latest Group of 20 summit, Rudd said the meeting in Pittsburgh did not directly discuss whether the review process would address potentially contentious monetary policy and exchange rate issues. [ID:nN25480100]
The G20 member states will share their national economic plans by the end of 2009, Rudd told a news conference.
The "collective consistency of these plans for balanced growth" will then be analyzed by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and G20 finance ministers and central bankers, he said.
"Leaders will agree on actions to achieve this common objective of sustainable and balanced growth at their meetings in 2010 and beyond," said Rudd. "This is not intended to be some broad, unspecific exercise," he added later.
U.S. President Barack Obama pushed for the Pittsburgh summit to address global economic imbalances, hoping the United States can escape its borrow-and-spend mold, while export-heavy economies such as China turn more to domestic demand to sustain growth.
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Rudd suggested that monetary and exchange rate policies may eventually become a part of the peer review process — but not right now.
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Kathryn HartgroveAssociate Professor, Voice
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Kathryn Hartgrove has been described as a mezzo-soprano of precision, range and sheer splendor and has been heard throughout the United States, South America and Europe. Her many roles have included Judith in Bluebeard s Castle, Suzuki inMadame Butterfly, Thisbe in La Cenerentola, Siebel in Faust, Emilia in Otello and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with such companies as Lyric Opera of Kansas City, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera's National Tour, Chicago Opera Theater, Lodz National Opera of Poland, Chamber Opera of Chicago, Piedmont Opera Theater and Opera Maine. She has performed as Soloist with the Istanbul National Symphony, the Pesaro Chamber Orchestra and Choir in Italy, the Grant Park Symphony of Chicago, the Hinsdale Chamber Orchestra, the Lake Shore Symphony, the Millikin-Decatur Symphony and the Beloit-Janesville Symphony. She has performed solo recitals in Europe, South America and the United States and has been heard on radio and television in Brazil, Turkey and the United States.
Some of her most recent concert engagements include concerts in Uberlândia and Campinas, Brazil and in Pesaro, Italy. Her other performances of Schoenberg'sPierrot Lunaire in Nuremburg, Germany and at the Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Pasqua Festival in Ravenna, Italy; concerts in Poland at the Krakow Opera House; concerts at the Trujillo Bach Festival in Trujillo, Peru, opera galas in Macerata Feltria and Pesaro, Italy, a recital for the Atelier Concert Series in Paris, France as well as recitals in Bauru, Campinas, Uberlandia and São Paulo, Brazil. She is slated to present the North American premier of Cinco Poemas de Outono by Amaral Viera in Philadelphia in 2015.
Ms. Hartgrove is an active professional stage director. She recently staged opera scenes for the Festival of International Opera of the Americas. Other engagements include Dido and Aeneas at the Festival Música das Esferas and Cagnoni's Don Bucefalo for La Musica Lirica in Italia, Pizza con Funghi by Seymour Barab with the Boston Opera Cooperative, Too Many Sopranos and Pizza con Funghi for Milwaukee Opera Theater, Die Zauberflöte for the University of Campinas in Brazil and Rita for La Musica Lirica in Italy.
As a Master Class technician, Ms. Hartgrove has worked with students at Southwestern University in Texas, Drake University in Iowa, Utah Valley University, Westminster College in Salt Lake City, the University of Memphis, the University of Montana at Missoula, University of Hawai'i in Honolulu, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Butler University in Indianapolis, Tuft's University, New England Conservatory in Boston and Ithaca College. She has also given master classes at the University of Trujillo in Peru, the Summer Music Academy in Afytos, Greece, the University of Campinas, Universidade Sagrado Coração, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Estual de São Paulo and in Novafeltria, Italy. Upcoming Master Classes include.
Ms. Hartgrove is one of the co-founders and the Artistic Director of Festival of International Opera of the Americas (FIO Americas), located in Brazil. This Festival is unique to South America and is considered historic for Brazil in its conception and scope. It presents three fully staged operas with costumes, sets and orchestra and classes include Alexander Technique, period styles, acting, movement, voice lessons, coachings and opera scenes during the five-week period. The faculty and staff are some of the most respected artists in their field. Ms. Hartgrove was also the co-founder and Artistic Director of La Musica Lirica in Italia for thirteen years and was the program's coordinator, as well as one of their stage directors and voice teachers.
Ms. Hartgrove is an Associate Professor of voice and the voice coordinator at Georgia State University. She received her Master's degree in vocal performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and continued her study at Northwestern University. She has gone on to work professionally with many of North America's finest stage directors and conductors. She has taught at Millikin University, Elmhurst College and the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and still maintains a private studio in Milwaukee and Chicago.


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Top news: Danish court recognizes peaceful protest; Hormone disruptor found in dirty laundry; Thailand (r)evolts ; Carbon offsets down under; Conservationists build Orangutan Bridges
#Red Carpet: Yesterday in Denmark, eleven Greenpeace activists who were involved in the 'red carpet" peaceful protest, at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit were given a two-week suspended sentence for trespassing, falsifying a license plate and impersonating a police officer – considerably less than what was demanded by the prosecutor, who also wanted deportation. The court stated its recognition that the activists carried out a peaceful act of political protest. Hopefully, the focus of the upcoming COP17 will be on rescuing the climate rather than on prosecuting peaceful activists.
#Dirty Laundry 2: A new Greenpeace report reveals traces of hormone disruptor nonylphenol in samples from fourteen clothing brands. Implicated brands include Adidas, Uniqlo, Calvin Klein, Ning Li, H & M, Abercrombie & Fitch, Lacoste, Converse, and Ralph Lauren. Detected nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE) are released when clothing is washed and in turn accumulate in living organisms, compromising growth and fertility.
#Carbon credits: Australia's parliament has approved the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI): the first national scheme, in the world, for trading carbon credits from farming and forestry. As the highest per-capita polluter in the developed world, Australia will be able to trade credits internationally in an effort to reduce its carbon emissions by 2020, which it hopes could lead to an international breakthrough for climate change mitigation.
#Energy (r)evolution: One thousand protesters closed Phetkasem Highway in Thailand, refusing to accept the risks to their livelihoods posed by the government's planned industrial projects. By fighting to protect their communities, the Thai people can push the country towards "lead[ing] the energy revolution by investing in renewable energy and putting in place more aggressive energy efficiency systems," said Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Chariya Senpong.
#Orangutan Bridges: A team from Chester zoo in the UK, will team up with conservationists in Malaysian Borneo to create bridges for orangutans. In the Kinabatangan region, logging has damaged the canopy layer, preventing orangutans from moving around. Swings and hammocks will keep the primates moving high above the destruction caused by palm oil plantations.
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Mechanical loading of bone initiates an anti-catabolic and anabolic cellular response that promotes formation of a structurally competent skeleton. The work proposed in this competitive renewal will advance our study of the loaded response of the skeleton by examining a novel temporal sequence of gene regulation and deciphering whether orchestration of this anabolic process arises through a single initiating signal cascade. Our data reveal that mechanical strain regulates an early cluster consisting of canonical Wnt responders followed by a late cluster of anabolic genes, represented by Runx2, osterix (Osx) and eNOS. This pattern of strain response is mirrored by gene response to shear force suggesting that there is a prototypical biomechanical response. A common signaling pathway involving HRas/ERK1/2 is hypothesized to regulate those genes comprising the clustered response. This will be studied in SA1, comparing these candidate responses after strain and oscillatory shear. Our data further suggests a temporal pattern to the loading response: the canonical ?-catenin target response is vigorous at 4 h but returns to basal levels by 18 h while alterations in Runx2 and osterix are not measurable until 18 h after application of loading. Caveolin-1, a structural molecule in the lipid raft, regulates ?-catenin activity by limiting ?-catenin accessibility to signals that induce its nuclear translocation. Silencing caveolin-1 in osteoblasts accelerates load induced increase in Runx2 and Osx to within 4 hours of applying strain, an effect we propose occurs through enhancement of ?-catenin signaling. This suggests that ?-catenin may be important for later mechanical effects;causal relationships between early (?-catenin targets) and late (requiring HRas/ERK1/2 activation) cell responses to mechanical stimulation are the subject of SA 2. In this aim we also track gene and cellular targets in bone after in vivo loading of both wild-type and caveolin-1 null mice to verify that these responses in the skeleton. Finally, SA3 will compare the global gene response between strain and shear in a temporal microarray to elucidate differential mechanical signals between the two forces, both in control cells, and in those where the putative early response (via ?-catenin) is altered. This will allow us to identify new signaling targets and verify those critical to the loaded response. The work proposed will utilize strain and oscillatory shear force applied to primary murine stromal cells and an osteoblast cell line in vitro, as well as in vivo loading of mice. Necessary cellular and molecular tools, and a caveolin-1 null mouse are in hand. In summary, our laboratory is in a strong position to bring novel insights into understanding the mechanisms by which loading generates an anti-catabolic and pro-anabolic response in bone cells.
for Rubin grant: The role of exercise to generate a functionally sufficient skeleton involves control of the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells along the osteoblast lineage. The signaling cascades initiated by mechanical stimulation of bone cells confer a cellular phenotype that is both anti- catabolic and pro-anabolic. Work proposed here seeks to understand the loading induced signals and responses that result in this phenotype, thereby bringing novel insights into the mechanisms by which the loaded response is generated.
|Rubin, Janet; Sen, Buer (2017) Actin up in the Nucleus: Regulation of Actin Structures Modulates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc 128:180-192
|Uzer, Gunes; Fuchs, Robyn K; Rubin, Janet et al. (2016) Concise Review: Plasma and Nuclear Membranes Convey Mechanical Information to Regulate Mesenchymal Stem Cell Lineage. Stem Cells 34:1455-63
|Styner, Maya; Pagnotti, Gabriel M; Galior, Kornelia et al. (2015) Exercise Regulation of Marrow Fat in the Setting of PPAR? Agonist Treatment in Female C57BL/6 Mice. Endocrinology 156:2753-61
|Uzer, Gunes; Thompson, William R; Sen, Buer et al. (2015) Cell Mechanosensitivity to Extremely Low-Magnitude Signals Is Enabled by a LINCed Nucleus. Stem Cells 33:2063-76
|Sen, Buer; Xie, Zhihui; Uzer, Gunes et al. (2015) Intranuclear Actin Regulates Osteogenesis. Stem Cells 33:3065-76
|Thompson, William R; Uzer, Gunes; Brobst, Kaitlyn E et al. (2015) Osteocyte specific responses to soluble and mechanical stimuli in a stem cell derived culture model. Sci Rep 5:11049
|Sen, Buer; Xie, Zhihui; Case, Natasha et al. (2014) mTORC2 regulates mechanically induced cytoskeletal reorganization and lineage selection in marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. J Bone Miner Res 29:78-89
|Thompson, William R; Yen, Sherwin S; Rubin, Janet (2014) Vibration therapy: clinical applications in bone. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes 21:447-53
|Styner, Maya; Thompson, William R; Galior, Kornelia et al. (2014) Bone marrow fat accumulation accelerated by high fat diet is suppressed by exercise. Bone 64:39-46
|Thompson, William R; Guilluy, Christophe; Xie, Zhihui et al. (2013) Mechanically activated Fyn utilizes mTORC2 to regulate RhoA and adipogenesis in mesenchymal stem cells. Stem Cells 31:2528-37
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Description for Portulaca Oleracea, 10 O Clock (White)
Portulaca oleracea is mostly annual, but it may be perennial in the tropics. Stems are purplish-red to green, forming mats. The leaves are fleshy. Flowers come in a group at the end of the stem. There are notched 4/5/6 petals.
Planting and care
Set out at last frost date. This plant is ideal for hot, humid climates and rocky, difficult areas of the garden. It spreads branches so while planting 2 plants, keep the distance between them is about half feet.
Caring for Portulaca Oleracea
- Look for aphids, gnats, snails or slugs and apply cure on time.
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- Control the purslane by cutting the flowers off before the plants set seed.
Harvest whole plants by pulling them from the soil during spring.
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Special features: Edible, Groundcover, Flowers
Culinary use: The stems, leaves and flower buds are all edible. Purslane may be used fresh as a salad, stir-fried, or cooked as spinach.
Ornamental use: It is good for edging or ground cover for beds, rock gardens or along walks; containers or hanging baskets.
Medicinal use: It is used in Chinese traditional medicines.
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A well known, global Investment Bank now have an exciting opportunity available for a Learning, Leadership and Development Consultant.
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- Build and manage relationships with senior executive stakeholders and business leaders, providing strategic LLD consultancy across specific Global Markets lines of business
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- Female talent retention and development; increasing the representation of women in senior roles and building a pipeline across all levels of the organisation
- Talent planning and succession management for our most senior roles, with a key focus on talent and successor development
- Career management and development - focusing on mobility, skills development, progression and the promotion pipeline
- Supporting employee engagement initiatives, including the employee satisfaction survey
- Leadership development and culture building initiatives
- Strategic perspective and thought leadership in a broad range of talent management, leadership and learning development
- Experience in operating and delivering in a complex, fast paced, global financial services firm (or equivalent) with multiple stakeholders
- Background in Learning, Leadership Development or consultancy, with experience of the consultancy cycle, with an ability to effectively engage and deliver through others
- Significant experience of designing, implementing, and managing change programmes (Culture, people, processes, systems related) leadership and learning programmes, organisational design and development and employee engagement
- Exceptional ability to influence senior executive stakeholders, flexing style and approach as required in a range of complex situations
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent analytical skills and a results oriented mind-set. Happy to perform a high level of operational work, mixed with senior strategic work in close partnership with regional peers
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- Excellent time management and organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities at once with multiple senior stakeholders in Lines of Business and HR
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To go off at a slight tangent, Related to RNG is NVDL (Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language) http://www.nvdl.org/ , which, as I'm sure you all know, allows you to define how to combine XML vocabularies that reside in different namespaces. What you might not know, is that the Oxygen XML editor supports NVDL _and_ comes with a sample NVDL document that combines XHTML and XForms, thus giving you a very nice XForms editor for the cost of an extra processing instruction. I guess the compound document folk have already looked at this though. MarkS On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:36:31 -0700, Klotz, Leigh wrote: > > I raised the issue again at the Amsterdam F2F and we decided to stay > with XML Schema for XForms 1.1. > For XForms 1.2/2.0 though we should consider both allowing RNG to be > used in the model and describing XForms itself using RNG. > Micah Dubinko did an RNG for XForms 1.0, and I've updated it since, but > haven't published it again. I should get around to it though! > > Leigh. > P.S. Did you see this, which I found about via Robin Cover's newsletter: > Ten Reasons to Model XML with RELAX NG , Not W3C XML Schema > Alex Brown, Griffin Brown Weblog > http://www.griffinbrown.co.uk/blog/PermaLink,guid,9aebb083-a961-42b1-974 > 8-a57e06a0f19a.aspx > > -----Original Message----- > From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] > On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:13 AM > To: Forms WG (new) > Subject: Re: Schema issue: Order dependence of submission child elements > > > I don't have a solution, not being an absolute schema specialist, but it > > always feels good to point out that with Relax NG, this is extremely > easy to do and you don't even have to look up a tutorial or a spec! It > would look like this and be immediately understandable by even somebody > who has never written any Relax NG: > > <interleave> > <optional> > <element name="resource">...</element> > </optional> > <optional> > <element name="method">...</element> > </optional> > <zeroOrMore> > <element name="header">...</element> > </zeroOrMore> > </interleave> > > -Erik > > John Boyer wrote: >> >> The issue of ordered children of submission came up on the Wednesday >> telecon. >> >> On the telecon it was stated that it was hard in XML schema to specify > >> child elements that were both optional and in a required order. >> >> I preserved this aspect of submission in the current editor's draft >> because I do not understand why it is hard, whereas I can easily see > it >> being harder to write a schema that says the child is optional but > could >> appear anywhere in the list of child elements. It is easy to see how > to >> do it if the schema also allows the child to appear any number of > times, >> but this is not what we want. >> >> Isn't it just a case of saying that the submission has a resource >> element with minoccurs=0 then a method element with minoccurs=0 then a > >> header element with minoccurs=0 and maxoccurs=unbounded? >> >> Is there an easy way to say "In any order, one or zero resource plus > one >> or zero method plus zero or more header"? >> >> Cheers, >> John M. Boyer, Ph.D. >> STSM: Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher >> Chair, W3C Forms Working Group >> Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software >> IBM Victoria Software Lab >> E-Mail: email@example.com >> >> Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer >> > > > -- > Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way > http://www.orbeon.com/ > >Received on Friday, 27 July 2007 17:45:13 UTC
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I found this window box on the online Ballard Designs store. I love it and if I lived in a house I'm sure I would have to have one!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Love this!
15 comments:
- Chris said...
I think Ballard Design is one of my favorites and if I ever had unlimited cash I'd probably spend most of it there!
- July 30, 2007 11:44 AM
- the feathered nest said...
That's beautiful! Funny, I was just looking at chairs at the Ballard site. We have an outlet not too far me, but you have to know your prices before shopping there cause I swear it's still expensive.
I actually saw a similar window box at Ross but I didn't check the price.
- July 30, 2007 11:48 AM
- ~Nan said...
Gorgeous!! Just a little out of my price range, though. Time to start checking the flea markets, etc. :)
- July 30, 2007 12:31 PM
- Linda aka yellowroseli said...
This is one of my favorite places to window shop, lol. I would love to have one of these also.
- July 30, 2007 12:46 PM
- Rosemary said...
Love it. Ballard is one of my favorite catalogs.
- July 30, 2007 12:52 PM
- ~Becca~Bluebird Rose said...
That is so pretty!
- July 30, 2007 3:55 PM
- Dolly said...
I have been wanting 2 of these painted white for a long time!
Just too pricey for my pocketbook!
Thanks for teasing me Cindy! :-)
Hugz, Dolly
- July 30, 2007 5:56 PM
- Sweet Remembrance said...
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- July 30, 2007 9:02 PM
- Sweet Remembrance said...
I love Ballard's...
And the window box is a charmer!
- July 30, 2007 9:04 PM
- Cherry's Jubilee said...
Love that! I actually bought a black one at Joanns...not as ornate as ballards and filled it with faux roses and hung it on our vaulted walls inside. I love it. cherry
- July 30, 2007 11:23 PM
- HeatherJ said...
I have been drooling over this planer for quite a while. It would make my house look so much better!
- July 31, 2007 5:42 AM
I want the neat looking house with the green window and I'll take that cute hat too!
- July 31, 2007 6:41 AM
- Belle-ah said...
My problem with Ballards is the so very few things I find that I wouldn't want! Ballards rocks!
- July 31, 2007 7:10 AM
- Julie said...
That is the most beautiful window planter I have seen in a very long time!!! I waaaaaant it! I would want 2 - 1 for each small window on the ends of the farm house upstairs. Shame on you Cindy for teasing us..ha ha
You do have GREAT style though!!
- July 31, 2007 7:53 AM
- Betty Jo said...
Ballard is wonderful, but beyond my budget. A girl can dream though. I get their catalogs and drool . . . dream my way through. xoxo
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Dayle began dancing in 1981, when he went to a square dance class with his parents. He danced and called in the Pittsburgh area for three years, including first-nighter dances for handicap groups. Dayle has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for the last five years, where he currently calls for three clubs including DC Lambda Squares. When not calling, Dayle works as a computer analyst. He and his wife Tammy share their home with two Cocker Spaniels, Maax and Jaerod.
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"Thank you so much, Emma you have really helped me have a shift in the way I'm feeling and thinking. You hit the nail on the head and in one session you helped me more than 6 months of hypnotherapy. You are a wise woman and an amazing healer."
"Before my healing I felt lost and confused. I was in the midst of the worst time of my life. Through my reading she was able to tell me what was happening as it was happening without insight from myself. It was jaw-dropping. We did the healing and I felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I had a little more understanding and was able to look into myself a bit deeper with a bit more love of myself. As time has gone on, things have happened that we talked about and everything has played out the way it needed to. I'm in a brighter spot in my life and am able to work on me with a different point of view. My overall sense of health has improved. Emma cleared my home which feels more welcoming and I feel far more centered. I've been told from others that was once unwelcoming, felt warm and comforting with me. I haven't been this calm and happy in a very long time, even dealing with the difficulties life has thrown my way recently. I would recommend it to anyone."
"Before my healing I felt an overall lack of motivation and purpose brought on by the death of several family members coupled with an, at best, middling interest in my career. Even though I'm in the States and Emma's in the UK, she did a distance healing on me where she cut cords and did a 'Soul Retrieval' to heal the grief from losing my family - our interactions were positive and full of high energy.
Since the healing the grief doesn't affect me in the same way. Because I associated my career with my loss, I have a renewed sense of energy and vigor along with a newly found passion for my current career that I thought I would never experience."
"Your validation and feedback couldn't be more helpful! I have suspected that some new energetic patterning was taking place but had no one to approach. In the healing I could feel everything and I saw a figure, like Mother Mary full of golden light and a blue cloak and a golden light began to flow from my throat.
I am so happy that we have connected and I feel blessed."
"The healing session was a great spiritual experience, which I loved. You made me feel very relaxed and I instantly felt as if I was in good hands. I have had other tarot readings and yours was a very different experience.
By taking the steps you have outlined I feel more positive and hopeful that I can make my desires happen, when in the past I may have been more anxious and stressed. Knowing my guides are there to help me I feel a lot stronger and happier. The whole experience has been very nurturing."
"I have more clarity on what makes me happy and I feel more balanced. Just knowing your incredible energy is something I can tap into is a hugely important thing and I feel privileged. Thank you!"
"Emma did a long distance healing on me, based on a conversation we spontaneously got into, about ancestral pain and female generational trauma. She was most respectful, went out of her way to reassure me of the positive nature of the healing. She was thorough too, giving me detailed feedback and picking up on the exact area under most stress (fifth chakra). We had a most helpful discussion where she patiently answered several questions. I have much more clarity and resolution around certain key emotional issues since the session."
"I couldn't believe how relevant Emma's reading was to my current situation. My first reading with her zoned into my problem and predicted an outcome that happened shortly afterwards. Her insights are amazing and helped me to understand why certain things were happening. She was very gentle in how she communicated my reading to me, so that I felt good about the experience and what would be in my best interests. Emma is very accurate and every time she has read my cards, she is always right! She especially helped with a romantic relationship but I would trust her with any area of my life. I highly recommend her, she is down to earth, trust-worthy and knowledgable."
"I'm simply amazed by Emma's readings. Her natural flare for reading the cards as well as her intuition has helped me take the right path in many aspects of my life with more clarity and a greater understanding when things have been too hard to see within myself."
"Thank you for giving me such an accurate reading - really amazing. You were very accurate and disrobed my current situation "stop on". I am aware what the tarot told me today and it gives me encouragement to go on."
"I was bowled over by your reading - it was so thorough and you obviously put a lot of thought and work into the reading. I am very grateful to you Emma and would like to make a charitable contribution on your behalf. Thank you."
"Each step was taken at my own pace and explained in relation to my being. Her delivery was brilliant, proving that tarot is truly a human form whilst being amazingly accurate in regards to my situation. I would only return to Emma for any further readings, her personality and excellence sang through every step of her process."
"Oh my god! Thank you! Everything you've told me I felt in my heart but I second guessed myself and you've validated everything. I feel so blessed to be supported on my journey and excited about what's next!"
"I only wish you have an idea of how encouraging your reading is to me! Thank you!"
"Emma was bang on with everything in her reading for me. She's shown me where to improve myself and how to heal my relationship, giving me much needed comfort in a very sad situation."
"I'm happy to report that your reading is highly accurate! I'd like to say thank you so much for your reading, you've clearly put a lot of thought and time into it and I really appreciate it."
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Woven shoulder bags: Marc by Marc Jacobs vs Monki
May 5, 2012
Yesterday I was shopping and came across Monki store. When I saw this bag I immediately realised that I've seen something similar before and I recalled that this was Marc Jacobs woven bag trimmed with faux leather. I wanted to buy it since it's of vegan style and the colors were so nice and perfect for the summer. But now i'm the owner of this Monki bag and I paid almost 7 times less. Isn't it great?
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Sharing some musing of my summer of travelling before turning my attention back to teaching next week - hopefully will remember my left from right!
Tuesday - 6.30pm Gentle Flow - 8pm Open Level Flow
Wednesday - 10am Good Morning Flow
Thursday - 6pm Beginners Flow - 7.30pm Open Level Flow
See you on the mat, Grace
At this time of year there are many transitions, we start to see everything changing around us in nature, things starting to dissolve from the height of summer bloom, we feel the change in the air as the weather gets cooler and we feel it in ourselves. I am feeling the unease of change as my twins transition into school and for the first time in 9 years I have 'freedom'...
Beginning 1st July all classes, workshops and retreats can be booked online directly through a booking system called MindBody. Book into yoga classes ahead of time from the convenience of your own home or anywhere you happen to be with the MindBody app on your phone or tablet. Read on to find out about online booking for series passes and MoveGB.
Treat yourself to a mid-week flow yoga practice. The class is appropriate for all levels of yoga, encouraging you to explore a variety of postures while focusing on connecting to breath with movement in a safe, non-competitive environment.
Classes will include relaxation techniques to help you manage everyday stress and set an intention which you can carry into your day.
Relaxing into Transitions
Where do the months go? Summer is transitioning to melt into Autumn. There is always an interesting blend of feelings and influences at this time as the changes start to appear with the end of somethings and new beginnings of others.
Due to the bank holiday I have decided to resume classes from Thursday 3rd September
While away I enjoyed being a student in many yoga classes, with some inspiring practices from strong Ashtanga vinyasa to restorative and meditation. Many moments I was reminded of my reflections of watching my children. It is such fun to be the student, to try new teachers and classes. In the moments when attempting a challenging variation of an arm balance or to be present in meditation, I tried not dwelling on what I couldn't do but what I have right now, to stay present, accept where I am in that moment
Taking a Time Out
When I hear myself telling my children you will end up in "time-out", secretly, I always want one! It just sounds like a good idea to have some quality, adult-approved quiet time to take care of just me.
The summer solstice is a time of honoring the earth and the sun's blessing of warmth and light. In Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras 3.26 it's written in translation, "One learns from the perfect discipline of the sun and solar system."
Sunday 21st June is the first-ever United Nations International Day of Yoga taking place on June 21, 2015.
To commemorate this momentous occasion there is a FREE Online Global Summit with some fabulous teachers online...
If you have ever been to yoga class you will usually be looking forward to the last bit, where the teacher leads you into a guided relaxation or a quiet period, called Savasana. Do you ever feel that just as you are starting to relax and enjoy this time it is time to get up again? Maybe you should try Yoga Nidra.


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Alannah O'Sullivan performs "the Lamplighter".
Men and Women in the Theatre
I am by profession and inclination and actor. But I am a stage actor. Let me tell you something about the theatre. It is principally the province of the audience not the actor. The actor is merely to serve the audience as it comes in. The audience gathers and becomes a mass. They start in their seats as elbow strangers but ultimately they become one entity.
Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello was a Welsh born actor, singer and composer who became one of the most successful entertainers in Britain during the early 20th Century. Now, I was playing Ivor Novello one time and during the singing of one of the great songs, I had to have a heart attack. So when the moment came....
Coffee Song
John Cairney and Alannah O'Sullivan perform a duet.
From a Railway Carriage
John and Alannah perform this lovely piece together.
Advice to a young friend
I Lang hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento: But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine; Perhaps it may turn out a sang: Perhaps turn out a sermon.
Ye'll try the world soon, my lad; And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And muckle they may grieve ye: For care and trouble set your thought, Ev'n when your end's attained; And a' your views may come to nought, Where ev'ry nerve is strained.
I'll no say, men are villains a'; The real, harden'd wicked, Wha hae nae check but human law, Are to a few restricked; But, Och! mankind are unco weak, An' little to be trusted; If self the wavering balance shake, It's rarely right adjusted!
John discusses his own addition to Shakespearean lore with his portrayal of Hamlet and that famous soliloquy.
Autographs - Muhammad Ali
John discusses autographs and the day he met Muhammad Ali in Chicago back in the great boxer's heyday. John and Muhammad Ali traded poetry as they walked along the streets.
Jason And The Argonauts
John recalls his experiences filming the classic movie "Jason and the Argonauts" on location in Italy with Ray Harryhausen.
Here I am with many more curls! This was the scene where I faced the monster.
And my death scene!
Here is an audio interview with Ray from 2005 that shows the great man's charm: "Ray Harryhausen Interview".
Lord Rosebery
John Cairney recites a verse by Robert Burns:
'Lord Rosebery to his lady said,
"My hinnie and my succour,
Shall we dae the thing, ye ken,
Or shall we have our supper?"
Wi' modest face, sae fu' o' grace,
Replied the bonie lady,
'My noble lord may do as he please,
But supper isnae ready."
"Do You Mind?"
Do you mind when the sun used to shine all day? John recites "Do you mind?".
The Children of Robert Burns
Discusses a frequently asked question about how many children Robert Burns had.
"A Night To Remember"
John Cairney talks about filming the HMS Titanic movie "A Night To Remember".
Titanic - A Night to Remember trailer:
"Windom's Way"
"Ill Met By Moonlight"
One of the perks of the actors trade is filming on location and it can't get any better than filming in the south of France. This was where I filmed "Ill Met By Moonlight" with Dirk Bogarde.IMDB: Ill Met By Moonlight
If I Had My Life To Live Over
If I had my life to live over
I'd live it
Not give it
Up to safety
And the sensible way.
I'd make more mistakes
Take more chances
Make sure my troubles were real
And not imagined
They would then be worth the bother.
"Glasgow By The Way..."
Some books just write themselves and this was true of "Glasgow By The Way, But". Celebrating a city, it says, and I think that is what I tried to do with this. Do you like the painting on the front? That is mine too.
A man to entertain and edify. Take your pick -- John Cairney as actor, presenting solo shows for your pleasure. Or Dr John Cairney, scholar, offering lectures for your information. Or as both, in after-dinner speeches.
Hello World
Hello World! This is John Cairney talking to you from my world. Thank you very much for visiting, I hope you'll do it often.
A man to entertain and edify. Take your pick -- John Cairney as actor, presenting solo shows for your pleasure. Or Dr John Cairney, scholar, offering lectures for your information. Or as both, in after-dinner speeches.


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Some of the events Michelle has been invited to speak
"What Are We So Afraid Of?"
A talk that will change your perception on fear and inspire you to take action
Michelle's humorous and inspiring speaking style has been captivating audiences across the globe. With authentic storytelling, engaging visuals and her 100 Days Without Fear experience, Michelle will show you how to challenge your comfort zone to tap into your full potential.
In this fun and energizing session, you'll learn about:
Dealing with the unknown
Seeking growth over safety
Embracing authenticity
Daring to fail
Leading with accountability
Redefining fear, from obstacle to opportunity
One of Michelle's key findings lies on Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs where she uncovered how our needs not only motivate us, but they also limit us. By learning how to prioritize and negotiate with our needs, we open a world of opportunities.
World Domination Summit
"We asked Michelle to speak from the main stage at WDS 2016, and our whole community loved her. As an organizer, I greatly appreciated her attention to detail in taking the time to understand the audience well in advance. I watched her talk from backstage and was impressed with both the authenticity as well as the energy she brought to the whole theater. If you get the chance to welcome her to your stage, don't hesitate!" –Chris Guillebeau, WDS Founder
"It was absolutely wonderful meeting Michelle and having her present at TEDxHouston 2015.
Her talk was tremendously inspiring and insightfully put together. She was beyond well prepared and poured her heart into her message; everything you would ever want from a presenter. I honestly can't say enough good things about working with her as a TEDxHouston speaker. She's a talented designer and brave woman.I look forward to following along on all of Michelle's next adventures." –Kara Gray, Speaker Curator
Festival Of Media Global
May 8th, 2017 / Rome, It
"Michelle delivered a brilliant session on stage today on why and how we should challenge our comfort zones. The keynote was inspiring, entertaining and actionable, leaving the audience engaged and in awe throughout the talk. The feedback has been overwhelmly positive, and working with her couldn't have been better. We highly recommend Michelle to anybody looking to plan a memorable event. Plus, the dancing part of it was a hit among the audience!" –Ilaria Nizzoli, Agenda Producer at Festival Of Media
Creative Mornings
December 18th, 2015 / new york, NY
"Michelle Poler spoke at our CreativeMornings event in December and we were quite lucky to have her. A natural presenter with great enthusiasm, Michelle shared the story behind her 100 Days Without Fear project and had our audience laughing, clapping and nodding their heads along with her. She successfully mastered the balance of humility and confidence and presented in a truly entertaining way." ~Lisa Cifuentes, Community Manager at CM


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Kuala Lumpur, March 31–Some 32,000 Malaysians are estimated to need palliative care and end-of-life care every year and the numbers are growing, especially with more Malaysians afflicted with cancer and heart and kidney failures.
The incidence of new cases of cancer in Malaysia has increased to 37,400 in 2012 from 32,000 in 2008 and this could swell to 56,932 by 2025 if no action is taken.
At the same time Malaysia is short on specialists and other support staff who could provide palliative care.
Palliative care focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms and stress of a life-threatening illness with the goal of improving quality of life for both the patient and the family.
Dr Richard Lim Boon Leong, the national advisor on palliative medicine for the Ministry of Health and Head of the Palliative Care Unit at Hospital Selayang, has estimated that the country needed at least 60 specialists in palliative care.
This is based on the ratio of one specialist per 500,000 population, and hence an estimated number of 60 for Malaysia's population of 30 million. This however is a very conservative ratio and the ideal norm should be about 1:200,000 population.
"Currently the number of specialists to population in Malaysia is only 1: 1.7 million, which translates to only seven specialists with 10 still undergoing training.
"These figures reflect the urgent need for more medical practitioners in Malaysia to become specialists in palliative care because there is a great demand for it. It is not a totally new field in Malaysia, but the interest among the healthcare professionals is still very small compared to other countries." said Dr Lim.
To alleviate the problem, the College of Physicians from the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia will organise a two-day conference (April 11 and 12) here on the end-of life care.
Entitled "Fulfilling the Duties of a Physician to Relieve and Comfort", it aims to create greater awareness and interest among medical practitioners to become specialists in palliative care.
The conference will also bring together the best caregivers, clinicians, researchers and educators in the field along to meet their medical colleagues and share new ideas and insights to improve care for patients and their families.
Dr Lim said palliative care services in Malaysia must be able to cater to the diverse needs of patients, their care givers and families.
"It must be available to patients in their preferred setting and must be accessible to vulnerable groups including people living in rural and remote areas," he added.
The scope of palliative care in Malaysia is constantly growing. Previously,palliative care was only provided to patients with late stage cancer. However, today, palliative care is being provided to patients with non-cancerous life limiting conditions such as heart disease, kidney failure, neurodegenerative conditions and also to paediatric patients with life limiting conditions.
Dr Lim said palliative care was not often the first choice for medical practitioners because of a lack of awareness.
"Doctors often choose other areas of specialisation but overlook palliative care because it is not as exciting as other areas of specialisation," he said, adding that the College of Physicians from the Academy of Medicine would like to encourage more specialisation in this field.
The health ministry has set up dedicated palliative care units in government hospitals since the mid-1990s and in 2005, the field of Palliative Medicine was recognised as a medical sub-specialty by the ministry. To date there are 29 palliative care units in government hospitals but only three have specialist palliative care.
For more information on the conference Organised by College of Physicians from Academy of Medicine Malaysia, contact the CPAMM Secretariat at 0340234700/ 40254700/ 4025 3700 or e-mail them at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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When people have premarital doubts they think they do not have to worry, but new research reveals newlywed wives who had niggles before taking the plunge were two and a half times more likely to divorce four years later.
Researchers studied 464 newlyweds within the first few months of marriage and conducted follow up surveys every six months for four years - average age at the time of marriage was 27 for husbands and 25 for wives.
When asked if they were ever uncertain or hesitant about getting married at the initial interview, 47 per cent of husbands and 38 per cent of wives said yes.
Although women were less likely than men to have doubts, the University of California Los Angeles researchers found their niggles were more meaningful in predicting trouble after the wedding.
Among women, 19 per cent of those who said they had pre-wedding doubts were divorced four years later, compared to eight per cent who did not have doubts, the Journal of Family Psychology study revealed.
For husbands, 14 per cent who confessed to getting cold feet were divorced four years later, compared to nine per cent who did not report having doubts.
Doctoral candidate Justin Lavner said: "People think everybody has premarital doubts and you don't have to worry about them. We found they are common but not benign.
"Newlywed wives who had doubts about getting married before their wedding were two-and-a-half times more likely to divorce four years later than wives without these doubts.
"Among couples still married after four years, husbands and wives with doubts were significantly less satisfied with their marriage than those without doubts.
"You know yourself, your partner and your relationship better than anybody else does; if you're feeling nervous about it, pay attention to that. It's worth exploring what you're nervous about."
Doubt was a decisive factor in splitting, regardless of how satisfied the spouses were with their relationships when interviewed, whether their parents were divorced, if they lived together before the wedding and how difficult their engagement was.
In 36 per cent of couples, the husband and wife had no doubts about getting married, and of those couples, six per cent got divorced within four years.
When only the husband had doubts, ten per cent of the couples got divorced, but when only the wife had doubts, 18 per cent of couples split, and when both partners had doubts, 20 per cent of the couples got divorced.
Mr Lavner said: "What this tells us, is that when women have doubts before their wedding, these should not be lightly dismissed.
"Do not assume your doubts will just go away or that love is enough to overpower your concerns.
"There's no evidence that problems in a marriage just go away and get better. If anything, problems are more likely to escalate."
Professor Thomas Bradbury said: "If you see something unusual on your skin, should you ignore it and go to the beach, or see a doctor?
"Be smart and don't ignore it - and don't ignore your doubts either.
"Have a conversation and see how it goes. Do you think the doubts will go away when you have a mortgage and two kids? Don't count on that.
"Talk about it and try to work through it. You hope that the big issues have been addressed before the wedding."


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For centuries, the term "leadership" has embraced the many chapters of history, where we have witnessed leadership "greatness" and "disaster". Oddly enough, the world seems to never completely be satisfied with the various definitions of leadership, and as the years go by we see new and different leadership styles that never seize to amaze us.
From the legends of King Arthur, to the legacy of Nelson Mandela; from Mother Theresa to Princess Diana; their leadership style changed many lives and was globally embraced. The search for one's authentic leadership is usually where the journey begins, and the circumstance one finds themselves within is also a defining leadership factor. However, many experts are drawing on the relevance of the "now". What type of leader do we need now?
In the article by Sangeeth Varghese, "Embracing an open Leadership Style,"1 the author talks about the leadership evolving from past to present, and gives a few tips on embracing leadership of the present time.
An open leadership style, means collaboration and shared leadership vision from the team. "In King Arthur's Round Table, Harvard professor David Perkins uses the metaphor of the Round Table to discuss how collaborative conversations create smarter organisations. The Round Table is one of the most familiar stories of Arthurian legend since it's meant to shift power from the King who normally sat at the head of a long table and made long pronouncements while everyone else listened. By reducing hierarchy and making collaboration easier, Arthur discovered an important source of power - organisational intelligence - that allowed him to unite medieval England."2
Varghese3 continues to encourage the drive for the development of a present time leader with the following tips:
- Empower to challenge and develop people: Leaders should let go of their authority and hierarchy, and allow their team to make informed decisions. This requires their involvement, commitment and complete understanding of their responsibility and accountability.
- Mentor and Coach to ensure success: Use these techniques or approaches to encourage development of strengths, support growth, and work on weaknesses.
- Encourage risk taking: Innovation has a strong element of risk, and leaders must trust ideas from their team especially if they are well informed and evidence supported. Support of great ideas encourages trust and success.
- Learner's Licence of Leadership: In the words of John F Kennedy "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
In every era, a leadership trait or approach emerges for all to adapt and use. The idea of being a particular type of leader for our current times is not cast in stone. In fact, I believe it takes a combination of traits and approaches to survive the leadership role. In South Africa, we are in need of leadership that is:
- ethical and drives transformation, equality and fairness;
- colourful, adaptable and astute as our Constitution;
- strong in the face of adversity, resilient like the spirit of our forefathers and a visionary that created our democracy;
- authentic in thinking, action and words;
- innovative, open and forgiving;
- the eyes, heart and soul for a nation and by a nation.
It is imperative that we get our leadership right, as our future generations have their eyes on us. As HR professionals, we build and encourage leadership, we drive the leadership culture and models within our environments. That therefore makes us a "Knight" at the "round table", with the responsibility to ensure the proper guidance and deliverance of leadership to the employees. A good place to be, with great worth and responsibility.
In the spirit of embracing leadership now, the SA Board for People Practices (SABPP) is in the process of developing a national standard on leadership to guide leaders with the requirements of good leadership practice. For more info contact me on email@example.com and follow SABPP on twitter @SABPP1 for daily updates as the process unfolds. Become part of this process in enable you to embrace leadership as a key success factor of your HR professional practice.
Lathasha Subban is Head of Knowledge and Innovation at SABPP.


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For most of the time we were in Guatemala, we stayed in Antigua, a photogenic and very small colonial city which contains the highest density of old churches, monasteries and nunneries that I have seen in my travels. Antigua is dominated by two large volcanoes, one active ("Fire"), and the other inactive ("Water"), to the extent that it is quite hard to take a photo without capturing one or other looming above the foreground.
Antigua was the third attempt at a capital city for Guatemala. The second, a few kilometres away and closer to the Water volcano, was wiped out when the crater cracked and created a huge mudslide, just a few years after the city had been founded.
Indeed, it is hard to understand the logic in building and living in such an unstable place, where, even recently, there have been major earthquakes and other seismic activity. Today, life and commerce just roll on to the accompaniment of random puffs of smoke and fire from the Fire volcano. Perhaps because the volcanoes have been there for so long, people just accept them, though many locals still carry scars inside from personal losses in the devastating 1976 earthquake and are aware, at a deeper level, of the precariousness of their existence.
So why has Antigua been a locus for people? Part of it is probably the flip side of the danger, in the incredible fertility of the volcanic soil. With great risk comes the possibility of great reward. Add to this the wonderful ability of the human mind to discount older experience and bathe in the light of the moment, and it becomes easier to see the pressures that lead to this abstractly illogical place.
Although I revelled in the spectacular vistas that the volcanoes created, I found the omnipresent dark backdrop somewhat foreboding, for reasons that, at first, I couldn't quite grasp. And then it hit me. Over the last year we've all come to see that we have all been living in the shadow of a fulminating volcano, which is finally beginning to erupt. A volcano built on years of rampant and unbridled capitalism, fed by greed and ineptness. We've all built our houses at the foot of this abomination, enjoying some of the rich fruits that come from fertile soils and, for many years, we've gone about our lives barely conscious of the structure that towers over all of us and has become much larger than any human can comprehend.
Now that the first eruptions have occurred, it is as if the clouds around the summit have cleared and we can all see this monster for the first time. And, to one degree or another, we all cower paralysed in the anticipation of what happens next. The devastation will take apparently random paths, just as in the tragedy that obliterated much of Ciudad Viejo, but spared houses just a kilometre away. In Comox, the significant population of Air force workers and retirees may see their lives continue as before. Locals who drifted into construction because it was the only place to make decent money are already finding that the hot spring of opportunity has dried up, just as the mineral springs in towns around Antigua dried up in the last major earthquake. The long shadow of the volcano has already stretched its probing tentacles to sleepy and sunny Todos Santos. There are fewer tourists, and certainly less people who want to spend serious money. I am sure, whatever path the lava takes, the blight of stalls all selling the same genuine Mexican "made in Indonesia" serapes will continue, much as, even after a nuclear blast, cockroaches will thrive. But the more innovative businesses, already feeling the pinch of increased rents due to landlords' naïve belief in extrapolation of the past, may not survive the onslaught of this unnatural disaster.


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South Korean auto major Hyundai is celebrating its 20th anniversary in India and to add colours to the merriment, the company is readying special editions of two of its popular models--- Grand i10 and Xcent. Young Key Koo, new CEO, Hyundai Motor India Ltd, while speaking to ET Auto confirmed that the production of the upcoming special editions are already underway and would hit the market to mark the 20th anniversary celebration.
"This year we are introducing two special edition variants - Accent and i10 Grand - to celebrate our 20th anniversary. Production has started and these models will offer customer 30-40% extra feature benefits at no extra cost."
Hyundai, which laid the foundation for its factory in India on May 6, 1996, started its operations in the country in September 1998 at its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur near Chennai. The tallboy Santro was the first car of the company in the domestic market.
Coming back to the special editions of the Xcent and Grand i10, mechanically, both will remain the same as the current mode and continue to be by the 1.1-litre CRDe diesel engine or the 1.2-litre Kappa VTVT petrol engine. The transmission in both Xcent and Grand i10 will be taken care of by a five-speed manual gearbox and there is automatic transmission in petrol models.
The changes are likely to be limited to cosmetic additions like chrome embellishments, new seat upholstery and exterior accessories. The special editions are also expected to get features like special floor mats, seat covers and parcel tray.