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Top 5 Questions asked about the "First Day"
1. What will it cost?
Lift ticket pricing ranges from $40 weekdays to $62 weekends at Cataloochee. Ski and snowboard equipment can be rented at the ski area with ski rental costs ranging from $22 for juniors to $27 on adults for either skis or snowboards for any session.
Outer gear rentals such as overall bibs and jackets and accessories can be found either at Cataloochee Ski & Sports Shop in Maggie Valley or here on the mountain at The Shop at Cataloochee. Bib and jacket rentals are available for a $9 per piece or $16 for the set and a $20 cash only deposit.
Food and lodging costs in the Maggie Valley area are economical as well – check our Lodging Guide for more information on recommended properties in our area.
2. How long will it take to be able to ski or ride?
Just in your first day, you'll learn how to turn, slow down, stop and ride the lifts. Generally if you are trying skiing for the first time, you should be able to do quite a bit on your first day. Snowboarding is a bit more difficult the first time. However, the learning curve is much easier after just a few tries. With the help of Cataloochee's staff of trained ski and snowboard instructors, you'll be skiing and riding in no time.
3. Do I have to be in shape?
You don't have to be an athlete to ski. However, if you do some exercises before your first ski experience, you will enjoy it more. First of all, you'll learn faster, because you won't tire so easily during the learning process. You're going to fall down some while learning so you'll bounce back better if you're in shape. Walking briskly, jogging, jumping rope and stretching are best.
4. Should I take a lesson?
YES! It's the easiest and quickest way to learn. During the first lesson you will learn how to walk, maneuver and control your skis by turning, slowing down and stopping. When you are ready, your instructor will show you how to ride the beginner's lift and will ski down the beginner's slope with you. After your lesson you can continue practicing what you've already learned. After you have mastered the fundamental skills of skiing (turning, slowing down, stopping and riding a lift), you'll be able to explore other trails while you practice what you've learned. Keep to the "Easier"' trails which are marked with green circles. There will be signs marked as such at the beginning of the trail.
5. How can I find out the conditions before I go?
Cataloochee publishes a "conditions" report or a "snow report." It's done on a daily basis and gives you a summary of the temperatures, trails open, lifts running, weather conditions, and more. We update our reports every evening after close. We put our conditions report on our website, phone systems, and publish it to all the major news agencies that report national ski conditions.
Here's some tips to keep in mind for different temperatures:
40° AND ABOVE – TORSO: turtleneck or shirt or T-shirt, plus wind shirt or light jacket. LEGS: pants only. HEAD/FACE: light hat or none. HANDS: light gloves or liners. FEET: light socks. Put lift ticket on a garment that will not be removed.
28° TO 40° – TORSO: turtleneck or shirt plus medium parka or jacket. LEGS: long johns and pants; or pants and warm-ups; or bib ski pants. HEAD/FACE: light or medium hat. HANDS: medium gloves or wool mittens. FEET: light socks.
15° TO 28° – TORSO: turtleneck, light sweater, and medium to heavy parka or jacket. LEGS: thermal long johns and heavy pants; or medium pants and warm-ups; or long johns and bib ski pants. HEAD/FACE: medium to heavy hat. HANDS: heavy gloves or wool mittens with liners. FEET: medium socks.
5° TO 15° – TORSO: turtleneck, shirt, medium sweater or vest, plus heavy parka or jacket. LEGS: thermal long johns, pants and warm-ups; or thermal long johns and bib ski pants. HEAD/FACE: heavy tight-knit hat that covers ears and forehead. HANDS: heavy gloves or heavy wool mittens with liners. FEET: wool socks.
5° AND BELOW – TORSO: thermal undershirt, turtleneck, shirt, heavy sweater or vest, plus heavy parka or jacket. LEGS: heavy thermal long johns, heavy pants and warm-ups; or heavy thermal long johns and bib ski pants. HEAD/FACE: salve on face. Face mask or scarf and neck gaitor over mouth and nose. Goggles to cover eyes. Heavy tight-knit hat that covers ears and forehead. HANDS: heavy gloves with liners or heavy wool mittens with liners and windproof shell. FEET: wool socks. Keep boots loose to aid circulation. If windy, add another layer to torso. No exposed flesh on head. Add hood to parka if available.
Skiers and Riders Checklist
Items we'd recommend you bring to help make the most of your ski trip! Remember, it's easier to take clothes off if you get warm than to find extras to put on if you're already cold. Keep in mind that the amount of layering depends entirely on the weather.
To keep the bottom half of you drier, you can easily and safely waterproof a pair of pants with Scotch Guard. Ski Bibs and jackets can also be rented from Cataloochee Ski & Sports Shop in Maggie Valley as well as The Shop @ Cataloochee for $9.00 per day with a $20.00 refundable deposit.
•Lip Balm
•Bag to carry change of clothing, boots, and extra equipment
•Long Underwear
•Ski Pants or Bib Pants
•Outer Layer Jacket (Preferably waterproof/breathable shell)
•Gloves or Mittens (Waterproof is preferred)
•Neck Gaitor
•Sweater or fleece
•Socks or Sock Liner (one thin to medium pair)
•Vest (for insulation)
•Face Mask
•Change of clothes for after skiing or riding
•Hat or Headband (80% of your body's heat escapes through your head….brrrr!)
Note: Many of these accessories and more can be found in at Cataloochee Ski & Sports Shop in Maggie Valley or The Shop @ Cataloochee. If you discover after you arrive at the area that your gloves are not warm enough or that you have forgotten your sunglasses, check The Shop @ Cataloochee for a reasonably priced replacement. In addition, you'll find Cataloochee souvenirs from hats to pins, sweatshirts to T-shirts and everything in between! The Shop @ Cataloochee is conveniently located on the main floor of the lodge and accepts cash, Visa, American Express and MasterCard.


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I know I literally just reviewed a Jo Malone scent, but I really need to share this one with you 'cause it's so shiny and new: yup, it's the Wood Sage & Sea Salt cologne from the new range.
I know it's not out yet, but if you go into a Jo Malone store, you might be lucky enough to be offered a sample (like the cute little one I've got here), or you can request a scented postcard online. I didn't even know there was a new range coming out, so I got embarrassingly excited in the store when the SA said it would be available in September.
I've tried it out, and I love it! I've lived by the sea all my life, so this evokes memories of scampering along the sand dunes among the long grasses and brambles, with the salty Atlantic air blowing in my face. It's quite a unisex fragrance, and that usually puts me off 'cause I like to smell girly and feminine, but this is very wearable and not too masculine- clean, fresh and outdoorsy. Delicious. I'd say it's more of a daytime scent, but don't listen to me – wear it however you want,
I think this will be my next purchase from Jo Malone.
Price: £40 for 30ml or £80 for 100ml
Overall Rating: 8/10. Not my favourite Jo Malone scent (that title goes to Wild Bluebell), but definitely one I'll be adding to my collection when it's available.

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The unique musical visions of composers Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radigue
With Alvin Lucier, Manuel Zurria, Francesco Dillon, Carol Robinson, Kairos Quartet performing works by Alvin Lucier, John Cage and a world premiere by Eliane Radigue
"As a half-Irish American (great grandmother Reilly, grandmother Sullivan), I am honored to be able to present my music in the country of my forebears." Alvin Lucier
Louth Contemporary Music Society celebrate the unique musical visions of the pioneering composers Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radigue in the Sounds in Space concert which will take place on Friday 20 June 2014 in Dundalk Gaol.
Alvin Lucier is a composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. His recent works include a series of sound installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by means of close tunings with pure tones, sound waves are caused to spin through space.
Sounds in Space is funded by the Arts Council and financially supported by Create Louth and the Goethe-Institut Irland.


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Ezekiel 18 International Standard Version (ISV)
The Outdated Proverb
18 This message came to me from the Lord: 2 "Why do you cite this proverb when you talk about Israel's land: 'The fathers eat sour grapes but it's their children's teeth that have become numb.' 3 As long as I live," declares the Lord, "you won't use this proverb about Israel anymore. 4 Look! Every living soul belongs to me—the father's as well as the son's.[a] So pay attention! The person who keeps on sinning is going to die."
Standards of Righteous Behavior
5 "If a person is righteous, and practices what's lawful and right, 6 if he doesn't eat at mountain shrines, and doesn't look to the idols that have been erected in Israel's house, if he doesn't defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her time of menstrual separation, 7 if he doesn't oppress anyone, but instead returns the debtor's security for his debt, if he doesn't rob anyone, but instead shares his food with the hungry and gives clothes to those who are naked, 8 if he doesn't lend with usury or exact interest, but instead refuses to participate in[b] what is unjust, if he administers true justice between people,[c] 9 if he lives his life[d] consistent with my statutes and keeps my ordinances by practicing what's true, then he's righteous and will certainly live," declares the Lord God.
Standards of Unrighteous Behavior
10 "Now suppose that person produces a son who's violent, a murderer, and practices any of these things, 11 even though the father[e] hasn't done any of these things. The son who eats at mountain shrines, defiles his neighbor's wife, 12 oppresses the afflicted and the poor, robs others, doesn't return security for a debt, looks to idols, does detestable things, 13 loans with usury, and exacts interest; will he live? He certainly will not! He has done all these detestable practices. He will certainly die, and his guilt will be his own fault."[f]
Personal Accountability for Sin
14 "Now suppose that he produced a son who practiced all of his father's sins, but then that son[g] began to fear me and stopped doing all of these things. 15 That is, suppose he doesn't eat at the mountain shrines, doesn't look to the idols of Israel's house, doesn't defile his neighbor's wife, 16 doesn't oppress anyone, doesn't take possession of a debtor's pledge, or doesn't steal, but instead shares his food with the hungry, gives clothes to those who are naked, 17 doesn't refuse to help the afflicted, or refuses to loan with usury or exact interest, but instead follows my ordinances and lives his life consistent with my statutes. He won't die because of his father's sin, will he? No! He'll certainly live. 18 As for his father, watch out! If he wrongfully oppressed or robbed his brother and did what wasn't good among his people, he'll die because of[h] his own sin."
The Person who Sins will Die
19 "Yet you keep asking, 'Why wouldn't the son bear the punishment of his father's sin?' Because the son has done what was lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes and obeyed them, he's certainly going to live. 20 The soul who sins dies. The son won't bear the punishment of his father's sin and the father won't bear the punishment of his son's sin. The righteous deeds of that righteous person will be attributed to him, while the wicked deeds of the wicked person will be charged against him. 21 But if the wicked person turns from all his sins, which he did and keeps my statutes, then he'll live. He won't die. 22 None of the transgressions that he had committed will be held[i] against him. Because of the righteous deeds that he had done, he'll live.
23 "I don't take delight in the death of the wicked, do I?" asks the Lord God. "Shouldn't I rather delight[j] when he turns from his wicked ways and lives? 24 But when the righteous person abandons his righteous deeds and commits evil, detestable practices, as wicked people do, he won't live, will he? None of the righteous acts that he had done will be remembered. He'll die in his treacherous unfaithfulness and sins that he had committed."
Accusing God of Unrighteousness
25 "Yet you keep saying, 'The Lord isn't being consistent with his standards.' Pay attention, you house of Israel: Is my behavior really inconsistent with my standards? Isn't it your behavior that isn't just?
26 "When a righteous person turns from his righteous deeds and does evil, he'll die because of that evil. He'll die because of his unrighteous acts that he committed. 27 When a wicked person quits[k] his wicked behavior[l] and does what's just and right, he'll be enabled to live.[m] 28 Because he reconsidered his transgression and turned away from everything that he had been doing, he'll certainly live and not die. 29 Yet Israel's house keeps saying, 'The Lord isn't being consistent with his standards.' Is it my behavior that's inconsistent with my standards?[n] Is it not your behavior that's inconsistent with my standards?"[o]
A Command to Repent
30 "Therefore, Israel, I'm going to judge you according to the behavior of each and every one of you," declares the Lord God. "So repent and turn from all your sins so that sin won't keep on being a stumbling block for you. 31 Stop your transgressing—the deeds by which you've rebelled—and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel? 32 I don't take pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord. "So repent, so you may live!"
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As of 2014, the standard price for non-organic eggs being sold in a supermarket in the United States is $2 per dozen. This may vary slightly by state, but as of this date, it is considered the average rate.
Prices increase if you choose to buy organic eggs. Free-range, organic-fed hen eggs cost about $5 if you purchase them directly from the farmer or from a local farmer's market.
Many people continue to be satisfied with store-bought eggs, as they are inexpensive and easily accessible. Free-range, organic farmers tend to have more overhead to their supplies, hence the higher pay for those eggs.


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Fontaine M. Huey named President
ATLANTA, GA – September 9, 2013 – The Center for the Visually Impaired's (CVI) Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Fontaine M. Huey as the new CVI president effective October 1, 2013. She will succeed Susan B. (Subie) Green. Fontaine will leave the Atlanta Botanical Garden where she has served as the vice president for institutional advancement since 2006.
Susan Hoy, chair of the CVI Board of Trustees said, "The Board is very excited about the selection of Fontaine Huey to lead CVI. The Search Committee was initially impressed by Ms. Huey's successful experience with fundraising in the Atlanta community. However, we quickly came to appreciate the skill and sensitivity she brought to all her interactions with the diverse populations she met with during the interview process. It is this sensitivity combined with her sincere interest in the work of CVI and the people it serves that will undoubtedly characterize her leadership as President of CVI."
Fontaine brings over 15 years of extensive experience to CVI. At the Atlanta Botanical Garden, she oversaw the membership program, development activities (including corporate and foundation relations, annual fund, and individual and planned giving), and two capital and endowment campaigns simultaneously. Most recently, she successfully exceeded the Atlanta Botanical Garden campaign goal of $55 million by raising $62 million to fund key facilities (parking deck, visitor center, and canopy walk) and new gardens.
Her previous positions include director of museum advancement at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), director of development for the College of Fine Arts at the University of Florida, and director of marketing for the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. She earned her B.A. from UCLA, and an MBA from the University of Florida. Fontaine has two adult sons and resides in Decatur with her husband Michael and their border collie, Boo.


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I recently had the pleasure of meeting Cael Chappell the founder of Baskets of Africa when I won a Zulu wire basket at a networking event. As soon as I saw the baskets I was intrigued about them and knew I wanted to interview him about the company.
Tell us a little about Baskets of Africa. What we do is work with thousands of weavers directly in their homes. They supply baskets directly to us through weaving groups and centers; small grassroots organizations. Generally, there's a village and the weavers self-organize into a group and somebody there communicates with me and we buy directly from them. The weavers set all of their own prices. Sometimes the weaving group will elect their leaders, or sometimes they rotate and take turns. A lot of other companies will buy at marketplaces; you have no idea if the person that made the item ever actually gets paid. So, we only work directly with the weavers, so it's the weavers, us, and the customer- straight through and as clear as possible. We believe the people who made these amazing baskets should be paid as much as possible, so then they can decide what they want to spend their money on. The number one thing they do is send their kids to school, because they have to pay for the school fees, uniforms, and shoes. You could have everything paid for, but if you don't have shoes you will be turned away at a lot of these schools.
We are a fair trade crafts company. I had never heard of fair trade when I started, but I was just doing what I wanted to do and doing it the right way to help people in Africa. A couple of years in, one of my customers said "Did you know your mission statement is almost identically to the Fair Trade Federation?" I was like "What's that?"; so that is when I learned about them and became a member. The Fair Trade Federation says for 2016 that they are going to try to refine their messaging, but things like crafts, for example, can't be certified fair trade. It is too difficult. Things that are certified fair trade are commodities, like chocolate or coffee. That is because they are usually done on a massive scale on huge plantations, so the people there are often working for multi-national corporations, so it's easier to look at somebody's books and say "Yes, you are fair trade." Then they walk around and certify that it is fair trade.
What I believe is we don't know what is best for African people. We give the money to them and they know what is best for them. If they need a well, and they are making money, they can organize and sink a well in their village, but near their house, in the best spot for them.
How did the company get started? I worked for an African art gallery, a large one, and the more I worked there the less I liked the way things were done. Then I started selling baskets, starting with $200, as a small on-the-side business, and building from there. I did it by myself for the first ten years. Then about 4 years ago, we hired our first employee. That is when I really started learning about business and how difficult it is. Like, I realized I need to hire a bookkeeper to pay that employee, then since I have a bookkeeper, I might as well get some more help and build a good team. I was working myself towards an early grave and I decided it was better to have some help, and employ some people here in the U.S. too, a team that also wants to help people in Africa directly.
So how do you go about finding your weavers? I have a vast network of connections across Africa and I go to Africa looking for baskets.
Sometimes I'll find weavers through somebody I know, then I'll go and meet them. The weavers in the bigger groups, actually travel quite a bit to go to conferences and shows and things throughout major cities in Africa. Then, they'll tell me, we met this person from Angola and they make beautiful baskets. So they will help each other to find me sometimes, which is really cool. Then it is a matter of going and checking to make sure that the structure of the group is right, that it is really fair trade. Then we start small, work our way up and see what happens. It is not easy, so once we find a good group that we can work with, then we try to develop a long term, sustainable, relationship with that group. Some weavers, may come and go from the group and I don't know every weaver individually, but I develop these long-term relationships with the group. One of the ways that I develop long-term relationships is by letting them set their own prices. They set the price, so we don't negotiate, and the price either works or it doesn't. If it works, at a price that they set that's the first big step in ensure you are paying beyond fair trade, because they normally set very high prices, and then we keep our overhead as low as possible here in the U.S. I take as little profit as possible to support my family, so that we can return the most money possible back to Africa.
How does the money make it back to the weavers? Through those groups. So, you send a check, money order, transfer, or something? Every country and group is a little different. Sending them money is the easy part actually. Generally, you wire money to a foreign currency account, or you send them cash through MoneyGram or Western Union.
What do the different designs mean? Most of the them are coming out of utilitarian use, not as much ceremonial use like the Native Americans. A lot of these, they just have a simple pattern because it is more interesting to weave than a plain basket. In the traditional Zulu baskets, some of the meanings we know, like, in the traditional wedding basket. The diamond shape there is a male pattern and stands for the Shields of Shaka Zulu. The triangle is a female pattern. On the outside of this are all these points. The points are how many cows that the husband's family needs to pay the wife's family to compensate them for the loss of their daughter. It is called the lobola or bride wealth and they still do this today. Part of the long wedding ceremony is when the bride's family presents the groom's family with one of these baskets and they see and are like "Oh, we have to get a lot of cows together, if this wedding is going to go forward." There is a certain stage where if the groom doesn't deliver the cows there is no wedding.
The largest ones are a few feet tall and are extreme examples that are woven for us. Sometime we have to commission the largest baskets and pay every couple of months so the woman can keep weaving, otherwise she would run out of money. There are very few weavers on planet Earth that can do this, not just very few Zulu people, but very few people in the world. The smaller the basket is the easier it is to weave, so beginners do small baskets. The largest ones are something spectacular. We don't tell the weaver to make a wedding basket for us. We just ask to make us a big one. We know it is going to be something amazing and unique because every one is amazing and unique, but they tend to fall back on the wedding pattern because that is so important in their culture.
The Zulu wire baskets like you received, are just beautiful, bold designs. They invented that style of weaving only a few decades ago. Although this is a modern weaving technique it is part of their cultural heritage because they are the ones who invented it. Because wire baskets are a more modern development, the weavers do any kind of interesting patterns or colors they want to use. Now, in order to maintain some consistency in the wire baskets we do control the groups of colors and we control the shapes as much as we can, so we get what we need. Colors, in the wire baskets, don't have cultural signifigance, those are the colors we are having made in Durban.
The patterns are their own too. One of the guys was working with his son, teaching him to weave baskets. The son kept making this mistake where he was stitching one stitch on top of the old one. The father named the stitch, translated literally, The Boy's Mistake. He kept making the mistake, so we asked the father to develop the stitch and we would pay him extra. For a little while he would make these solid color baskets that had The Boy's Mistake. After a while, the weaver said it is so difficult and didn't want to do it anymore. So we don't have them anymore. It was a limited run and only one person could do it.
Do the colors have meanings? Not so much. They won't tell you how they make the colors or the traditional Zulu baskets either, because the colors are a secret passed down through their family. So every once in a while we will see a color that we have never seen before, because it is the first time we have seen a basket from that weaver and her family. Other colors are fairly common. The creamy color is natural palm leaf, so everybody has that. The brown is made from dirt, mud. The black/ gray is usually charcoal or could be some sort of yams or beets. A pink is primarily rose petals. So after buying from the weavers for so long and asking them over and over again, different people will give you little hints about their dye tea.
We try to encourage the cultural identity and preservation by having them weave what they have always woven. In that respect we are very different in that we don't design anything. We will kick some ideas back and forth sometimes. The biggest example is the rainbow wire basket. They were doing baskets when I first met them that were red and blue, black and white, yellow and red. I just asked how many colors do you have? They said like 16 colors, back in those days. I asked can you make a basket that has all of the colors on them? Let's see what it looks like. That is the most we have ever been involved in designing the baskets. They are all indigenous designs. Then they came up with the black rainbow which is the one that you got. That is even better than what I came up with. It gives it some contrast. So, every once in a while I'll kick over an idea like can you do one that has mostly blue on it and they come up with one that has an amazing combination of colors and better than anything I could have imagined.
So you said you order the wire from Durban, but how do they get the other materials that they use? Everything is pretty much all natural materials. You'll see a few other baskets that aren't all natural on our website. The price of those baskets is highly affected by the value of the materials. So generally, the Zulu wire baskets, are beautiful baskets, but not a very difficult quality of weaving. What I try to do when I go to South Africa, I look for what are the distinct baskets made in South Africa. Once we were in Zululand we went to the group that showed the most potential for quality. Then over the course of a decade or so we end up having the highest quality of Zulu wire baskets. That is how we approach every country and type of basket, although the Zulu wire basket is not technically as high quality a woven basket compared to the Zulu Ilala palm, ours are better quality compared to 99% of the wire baskets you see.
How is a basket priced? The value in the Ilala Palm baskets is mostly in the weaving time and the value in the wire baskets is in the materials. It begins with buying the wire and transporting the wire out to the weaving center and then parceling out the wire. We have several people in the weaving center to measure the wire and parcel it out to the weavers, otherwise the wire can just disappear, and then the whole weaving center will have no wire and there will be no more baskets. You give somebody wire and the form to weave over and then hopefully they bring it back as a basket and then maybe they take another form and four bundles of wire to make that size and then hopefully they bring it back. It is a very difficult process even just managing the materials in that case. If weavers are not using manufactured materials then they just collect all of their own in the wild. The ladies make all of their own dye. They collect all of the material. Those baskets are generally higher quality in terms of the types of weaving and what they are doing because they can spend more time on it. There is a massive difference in the amount of time, so there is a massive difference in the pricing because it depends on how long it to took them to make the basket. If they can do it in a day, they are going to price it lower, but the Zulu wire in particular one of the difficulties is the cost of the material. You can buy cheap wire in China, but we are employing people in Durban to make the wire; that is a much better process for the people in South Africa if they can make the wire and weave the baskets there. There are a lot of factors that go into pricing and sourcing, it is incredibly complicated and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Are the weavers predominantly men or women that make the baskets? Traditionally in Africa, it is women that weave baskets.
The one main exception is the Zulu wire baskets because men invented that weaving. They were working in the cities, in factories, mines, or as guards. They started weaving these over the tops of their knobkerrie, a type of Zulu fighting stick, because they were bored. They came up with this way of weaving top to bottom. Then that developed into weaving over a bowl to make a shape. The shallow bowl is the most popular one, called an Imbenge, which is what they would put over a pot of food to keep bugs and stuff out of it. The men will generally go to the cities, mines, or factories and try to get jobs. Usually then they will come back home once a year at Christmas, if they have the money to travel. So, the men would bring the ladies these Imbenges and they liked them so much that they started weaving them. It is also kind of hard to pull the wire to the right tension and get it just perfect. There are definitely women that do it, but the men are able to stay home and weave the baskets.
Under Apartheid, up until '94, it was a form of resistance. They would cut the telephone wire off the poles and weave those wires destroying infrastructure as they went. So under apartheid, if you were caught buying, selling, owning, weaving, you would be imprisoned. As soon as they got self-rule, one of the first things the telephone company did was give away wire to anybody for free who wanted it. So the phone company had this huge budget to just give away wire and educate people to not cut the wires off the poles anymore. Then over the years the telephone company started raising the prices so that now it is better for us to have it made in a small shop in Durban.
Are there benefits for the Africans participating in fair trade, besides money? So, the area of Zululand that we work in is fully employed, as much as they want, in weaving baskets and mostly woven by men. When I started with them 13 years ago, we had about 40-80 part-time weavers. You never knew who was going to show up. Now it is over 600 weavers and as many as want to work full-time (after working in the fields since they are subsistence farmers) are weaving. It is not like they go and sit for 40 hours weaving baskets, nobody does that.
So they are living a more traditional life instead of going away and only seeing their families once year or so. Just this year we had an independent verification, we had guessed might be the case, but we didn't know for sure. There was an NGO that was checking HIV/AIDS levels throughout South Africa and they got to this area of Zululand and suddenly the rates of HIV/AIDS were much lower. They came to the conclusion that it was because of this weaving project, because the men are at home and not in the cities away from their wives and families for a year. We suspected that that might happen, but it took 13 years and someone else came in and figured it out. It was cool to have that independent verification that it is actually making a difference in that as well. So that is quite a success story.
It's fun for us to take gifts when we go, like soccer balls because you deflate them and take pumps. Then we leave a pump with each place too, because the ball is going to go flat. You see a school by the side of the road, just under a tree or something, that might have like a little bamboo lean-to or something, we stop and go in and give them a soccer ball. They want you to stay all day, have tea, eat with them, and celebrate, and the kids are going crazy because they have a real soccer ball now. Instead of a ball usually they will take plastic bags and tie them into balls. They will just keep tying plastic bags together to make a ball. When you see the impact of something that small you realize that being able to give people an income at their village, at their traditional homestead, where they can weave on their own time, make what they want, when they want, and charge what they want, it transforms their lives completely.
We are trying to also preserve culture. One of the things with basket weaving, it is a time consuming endeavor and you have a lot of time to sit around and talk. Most of their history and tradition in passed on orally. You see them sitting around weaving a lot and the kids are running around and they're telling stories and talking and they're passing on some of that oral history and tradition by sitting there and weaving instead of working in a mine or factory. When the men leave to work in a mine or factory the women do almost everything, but the men, when they are home, do help out a bit, so the women have more time to weave or tell stories. I believe that it is preserving culture as well. It seems pretty likely that that would be true.
Even if it is only the culture of basket weaving, that is also important. Zulu baskets wouldn't exist and these baskets almost completely died off because they had plastic buckets; they didn't need baskets for utility anymore. Some Dutch missionaries recognized that they could take them back to the Netherlands and sell them and this would help these ladies. It was down to six women in South Africa in the 1950's that remembered how to weave baskets. Because there is a market for them and people will buy them, now there are people making them.
What are your visions for Baskets of Africa? What is your anticipated future goals? We are already supporting many, many people. Some of our groups are at capacity in the entire region, we can't get more people to weave baskets. The ones that we had at the networking event the other night, there aren't any other people to weave those baskets in the area that we've been working for 13 years. So, we just want to keep doing what we're doing and maintain the support that we have for all these different groups in all these different countries. That, in and of itself, is challenge enough to maintain where we are at right now. We are not looking to grow or anything like that, there are already thousands of people that depend on us for their income.
What are you thoughts on fair trade? Did you know about it? Do you look for the label in products you buy?


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This book's full title is "Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind". He talks about an interesting experiment. Sally puts a marble in her basket and goes away. Anne moves the marble to her box. When Sally comes back young children of 3 or 4 will say she will look in Anne's Box for the marble. Older children realize that Sally can have beliefs different from theirs and say that Sally will look for the marble in her basket.
Julian Baggini does a great review in The Guardian. There are also some good reviews at Good Reads. The negative reviews can be as interesting as the positive ones. On this site called Reading Evolutionary Biology Group there is a lot of links for Mark Pagel.
On this site is a half hour speech by Mark Pagel. Mark Pagel is on a panel at the Royal Society about "What it means to be Human". Mark Pagel gives a talk on The RSA about "Wired for Culture: The natural history of human cooperation".
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Battle Academy 2 – Stalingrad – Release of beta v0.4
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The weighted Lap blanket internal casing is made from calico and divided into even squares in which each square is weighted with appropriate weight in glass microbeads. Double stitched for safety. The weighted lap blanket also comes with 2 removable covers. You choose from one fleece and one cotton print. Both covers are machine washable. Each cover has a envelope style to make it easy to change, no velcro or buttons.
This product is great for kids at school reducing anxiety and also benefits elderly people as a comforting aid.
What separates our weighted blanket apart from the others?
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- Hygienic as we use glass microbeads
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- Made in Australia and professionally sewn
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This Abandoned English Sheepdog Was Left For Dead… But At The End I Cried Tears Of Joy.
They found her wandering near the railroad tracks, her fur overgrown so much that she could barely see. Abandoned pure bred Old English Sheepdogs are certainly a rare find on city streets, but then again, it doesn't mater what breed of dog it is - all animals can potentially be subject to neglect and abandonment. When these rescue workers finally got to her, this dog's life changed for ever - the end of this video will make your heart soar.
We're certainly happy that Shayna got a second chance - and we're loving her newfound doggie-smile.
Also, see what happens when a groomer shaves this dog. Something incredible happened!
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You are the artist of your own life. You have a choice to keep thinking of things you don't have or feel blessed for all you do have.
What will you decide?
Your thoughts reflect your inner world, what do you your thoughts say about you?
Your thinking patterns impact how you feel and how you live your life. If you want to make changes into your life and your thoughts are mainly negative it may be difficult and challenging to take the action and steps you need to change your life.
So it's important to understand your thoughts, and how to change them.
Think about something you wish to do, maybe it's changing jobs, have a career change, go on a holiday, or even start a family. Take a few minute out and reflect on this.
What thoughts come up for you:
* Money issues
* It's not safe to change jobs
* It's too difficult to make changes
* Life wasn't meant to be easy
* I don't have the skills to change jobs
* It's safer to stay where I am - even though I am miserable
These thoughts live within you and create blocks in your life. They become your reality and stops you from living the life you want.
These thoughts are designed to keep you safe and within your comfort zone. Ask yourself do you want to stay in your comfort zone and be safe or do you really want to experience your life at your greatest potential?
Making change into your life
This is one wonderful and special life you have and even though it may not feel like it at times, you are the artist of your life. You can't control all things that happen to you but you do have a choice over how you respond to them.
By changing your thinking pattern, taking responsibility for your emotions and taking action in your life you will become a person who is much happier, joyful, content and satisfied.
How to change your thinking pattern
Here are some tips to help change your thinking patterns:
* Accept your thoughts
* Acknowledge your thoughts
* Understand your thoughts
* Do not try and block them out or ignore them
* Introduce new positive thoughts into your life
* Ensure the positive thoughts are realistic
* Laugh and have fun
* Enjoy life
* Eat healthy
* Go for a walk
* Meditate
* Write down positive thoughts and practise them
* Be kind and compassionate to yourself
* Write a list of all that you are grateful for in your life
* Focus on what you have and what you can do
* Start to think about the steps you need to take to change your life
* Take action to change your life
Happy and joyful living
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I am a London hypnotherapist helping people to create positive thinking into their life.
I understand what it is like to be filled with negative thinking as around 10 years ago I was caught in the trap of negative thinking and my life came to a standstill. But I also know what it is like to take the courage to take the steps to change your life - ten years ago I also took responsibility for my own happiness, emotions and thinking patterns and my life is a living example of that.
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Two Guinea Pigs Discuss Pumpkin Spice, And It's Hilarious.
Guinea pigs are those adorable squiggly pets with extended noses. A few fast facts:
- Guinea pigs are not pigs nor are they from the Republic of Guinea. They are rodents originally from the Andes.
- A baby guinea pig is called a 'pup'.
- They use purring as a sign of happiness.
- Gestation period, or the length of pregnancy, is about 70 days.
- Their teeth are open rooted, which means they are constantly growing, so they have to munch on something regularly to grind them down.
- There are places around the world, America included and most notoriously South America, that serve them as cultural delicacies.
You may have already known these, but did you also know that guinea pigs are aspiring debaters? Watch the first Fluff Episode to catch two of them discussing one of the season's highlights: pumpkin spice lattes.
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We propose a spatial modulator for terahertz waves based on light induced electron plasma in photo-active semiconductors. A two-dimensional array of computer controlled light is used to create free carries in bulk silicon, which results in a spatial modulation of the transmission at terahertz frequencies. This method not only exhibits a remarkable modulation depth over a broad frequency range but also allows for an optically controlled beam steering of terahertz waves by inducing virtual grating structures. In addition, we analyze the possibility of all-optically controlled terahertz imaging.
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To outline the planning procedures necessary to undertake educational excursions in a safe and organized manner.
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Learn how Istonish worked with Colorado Parks and Wildlife to build a custom application to help them track and control the transfer of invasive species in lakes and other waterways throughout the state.
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Washington's plan to derail the Arab Spring
The U.S. is maneuvering to stem the revolutionary tide around the Middle East.
BEHIND BARACK Obama's rhetoric about democracy and freedom, the U.S. government is maneuvering to install a new generation of strongmen to roll back the Arab revolutions and reassert U.S. dominance in the Middle East.
In the latest two examples, the U.S. backed the power grab of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it has tried to install ex-regime officials at the head of Syria's newly reorganized opposition. Thus, Washington hopes to divert two massive social uprisings into supportive governments that will remain allied to Western interests rather than reflect the popular will.
The stakes for the U.S. government are high. The invasion and occupation of Iraq--once considered by the arrogant hawks around George W. Bush to be the stepping stone to "regime change" from one end of the Arab world to the other--ultimately succeeded in turning the country into an ally of Iran, the main U.S. nemesis in the Middle East.
Last year's Arab Spring--by overturning long-time dictators in a few countries and forcing governments in others to be more responsive to their populations--threatened to take even more nations out of their close U.S. orbit.
That, in turn, exposed the contradictions of U.S. reliance on Israel to dominate the region. Israel's latest war on the Palestinian territory of Gaza not only failed to crush the Hamas government there, but also propelled the cause of Palestinian liberation to a level of prominence in Arab and Muslim countries unseen in decades.
THAT'S THE common thread in Washington's seemingly contradictory policies since the revolutionary wave began in Tunisia two years ago. First, the U.S. supported Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali until a mass uprising and general strike forced him out, all in a matter of a month's time. Washington followed the same script in Egypt, sticking with Hosni Mubarak--one of the linchpins of U.S. policy in the Arab world--until the last minute.
In Bahrain--the base of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet--Washington green-lighted savage counterrevolutionary repression against a peaceful pro-democracy movement. In Yemen, the U.S. eased out a despised authoritarian, in the hopes of shoring up a military-dominated government.
Only in Libya--where the U.S. and European powers armed rebels opposed to Muammar el-Qaddafi and carried out a punishing aerial assault under the guise of humanitarian aims--did the U.S. seem to unreservedly back the ouster of the old regime. But as Independent journalist Patrick Cockburn anticipated, the fall of Qaddafi's regime was "primarily won by NATO, and not popular revolution."
Over the two decades before his downfall, Qaddafi had been welcomed back into the good graces of the West on the basis of oil deals, but he was still considered too unreliable and isolated--and therefore expendable. So the Western powers channeled the revolution into a pliable government in which CIA assets and ex-Qaddafi officials played a key role.
The same method is at play in the U.S. policy toward Syria.
Barack Obama has voiced U.S. recognition of Syria's opposition himself, signaling a more interventionist approach. But what's remarkable about the U.S. attitude to the Bashar al-Assad regime is just how long the U.S. has held back from funding and arming the Syrian rebels.
Policymakers in both the U.S. and Israel have been fearful of a popular democratic post-Assad regime on Israel's border. As a result, the promised heavy weapons have failed to reach rebel hands. Instead, NATO member Turkey ensured that the revolutionary forces--grouped under the umbrella Free Syrian Army (FSA)--were limited to AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, even as the Assad regime pounded rebels with air strikes and unleashed murderous paramilitary forces against towns and villages across Syria.
Instead of backing revolutionary forces like the grassroots Local Coordinating Committees (LCCs), the U.S. relied on Saudi Arabia and Qattar to funnel weapons into Syria, along with ultraconservative Islamist fighters. The prominence of these Islamist groups among the FSA has now led to a panic in Washington, where officials fear that the same jihadists who fought the U.S. occupation in Iraq may play a key role in a post-Assad regime.
That's why the U.S. recognition of Syria's new National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces comes with strings attached. In order to get backing in Washington and European capitals, the opposition had to agree to exclude ultraconservative Islamists. That's led to a backlash from revolutionary forces that object to the U.S. choosing which Syrian groups to support.
The opposition will also give a higher profile to former regime elements who, not long ago, were among those ordering the repression of revolutionaries. At the same time, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which dominated the previous opposition formation, the Syrian National Council, will remain a key player in the opposition. The U.S. hopes to broker a deal between the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and former military figures from the regime to head a post-Assad government--one that can contain the revolutionary self-activity of the LCCs.
THIS IS part of a broader trend of the U.S. State Department using the Muslim Brotherhood and allied Sunni Islamist groups to reconstitute a pro-U.S. axis in the Middle East, in common alliance against Iran, which is run by rival Shiite Islamist groups. As Hani Shukrallah wrote at the Ahram Online website, Egypt's role in brokering an end to the Israeli war on Gaza led the U.S. to embrace Egyptian President Morsi as the key to "stability"--that is, to U.S. control--even after Morsi's decree last month giving himself unchecked political powers:
It would take the U.S./Egypt-brokered truce in Gaza...to have Western media and pundits drooling over Mr. Morsi and his up-and-coming Muslim Brotherhood-run and -controlled regime. All of a sudden, they discovered that not only was the MB president as compliant as his predecessor on "Israeli security," but that he was proving a much more effective partner in this respect.
Suddenly, the realization hit home: Here was a democratically elected president (albeit narrowly), backed by "authentic" Islamist Muslims, not only in Egypt but throughout the Greater Middle East, able not only to intimidate and pressure Hamas into "reasonableness," as Mubarak's Omar Suleiman was known to do, but to do so in his capacity as Big Brother to the errant Palestinian branch of his movement. A unique and previously unexpected prize of this order was simply too precious to squander, even for the sake of such niceties as basic liberties and human rights.
In return for U.S. support, Morsi gave the Pentagon what it wanted: a proposed constitution that further entrenches the Egyptian military's political and economic power by not only guaranteeing its traditional control over its budget and commercial enterprises, but the power to declare war.
Yet for all the power of U.S. imperialism and its clients who run the Egyptian military, Obama is a long way from getting the "stability" he wants.
The renewed revolutionary ferment in Egypt, provoked first by Morsi's decree and then by a snap referendum on the draft constitution, is taking place at a higher political level and raises more fundamental political questions.
The issue now isn't just the removal of a hated authoritarian, Mubarak, but the very nature of revolution, democracy and social change. Moreover, Egypt's looming economic crisis--and the austerity measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund--will further undermine the Muslim Brotherhood government. Class divisions--and class struggle--will continue to sharpen.
The renewed struggle in Egypt will give a boost to other struggles in the region. Unions in Tunisia have threatened to call a general strike in opposition to the economic policies of the Islamist-dominated government there. The pro-democracy movement in Jordan is challenging another U.S. flunky, King Abdullah, over the removal of fuel subsidies and the lack of democracy in the country. Even in Bahrain, where the arrest, torture and murder of pro-democracy activists is commonplace, the movement remains unbowed.
It's impossible to predict the outcome of the many revolutionary crises in the Middle East. What is certain is that U.S. and its remaining allies will do their utmost to organize the counterrevolution--whether in the form of a crackdown by dictators and monarchs or carried out by newfound friends in organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood.
Yet it's equally certain that the opposition to the old order will deepen as well. Already, the latest surge of protests have shown that the old slogan of the historic May 1968 general strike in France rings true today: The struggle continues.


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So here we have the third instalment of my 'NYC Diaries'. Brooklyn was a no-brainer for me as I'd heard so many great things about it. It may have been an overcast rainy day when we explored Brooklyn but it was fun all the same. Phill and I took the subway to Brooklyn, had a nosey around some independent stores before lunching at Grimaldi's Pizza and walking back to Manhattan via the famous Brooklyn Bridge.
Whilst it would have been wonderful for the skies to be clear and the sun to be out, visiting Brooklyn and walking the bridge during a dull March day had its own charm. And a big shout-out to Grimaldi's Pizza, who served us the best pizza I've had in a long long time (maybe even ever). In my NYC research this place popped up time and again as a must-visit. I assumed it would be a take-out joint which sold by the slice but there are three floors to Grimaldi's and ordering whole pizzas is the only option. There are no side order options and you have to pay by cash. It's safe to say I liked the no-nonsense style of Grimaldi's! I ordered my pizza with black olives and devoured my entire half of the pizza.
With full bellies we made the short trip to the Brooklyn Bridge and took ages walking the entire length, stopping to take photos and do a little vlogging. It really is an amazing structure and something to behold. It first opened in 1883! As well as being a New York City Landmark it is also a National Historic Landmark. And it's one busy bridge – with tourists, commuters and runners crossing it whilst we were there. I can only imagine how busy it gets at summer. As we crossed the bridge we just about made out the Statue of Liberty in the distance. The fact you couldn't see the top of the buildings due to the misty skies made the walk really atmospheric. This was a real highlight of our trip.


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If you've met my friend Curtis, you'd know that she's anything but neutral: running mouth, writer's pen here and there; animating every single issue (or non- issue) there is online or in real life.
So much opinion, emotion, and undiluted frenzy in a pair of leather knee- high boots. That, she is!
For her birthday- which she has annoyingly tried to dub "Curtis Day"- we wanted to surprise her.
Partly to abate her increasing manias during this time of the year, but mainly just to show how much we ultimately appreciate her craziness.
Quite aptly, Statice in shades of purple (Violets are February's official birth flower) and Gerberas in bright orange managed to look (almost) as wild as our resident wild child:
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"Alessandro Blvd., Riverside"
Alessandro Blvd is busy street that connects with Arlington Ave (near the 91 Freeway), Chicago Ave, and Central Ave. It passes through Mission Grove Plaza where you'll find a movie theatres, KMart, Ralphs, CVS Pharmacy. There are many other smaller shops and restaurants, like the recently opened Chili's. LA Fitness is also located within the plaza. If you continue to head east, the street usually is busy as many people use it to get to the 215 freeway. During rush hour, it can get a little packed.
Alessandro Blvd
"Great street connecting Riverside and Moreno Valley"
If you are in need of a detour from the 91 east, using Alessandro to reach the 215 south or Moreno Valley is a great asset. Although the street is currently going through renovations in most of the Riverside segment, it does provide an alternative to get to Moreno Valley from UC Riverside.
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From 6.30pm to 8.30pm, Chef Vincent Caradonna will teach you everything about Macaron and how to make them.
During a 2 hour course you will be making your very own custom macarons and filling, from scratch.
Learn the art of Macaron making and chocolate filling. A complete course in a fun environment (BYOB) that can accommodate up to 10 guest. If you have at least 6 guest you can book your own party anytime!
Call 864-520-1555 or visit our shop at the 640 South Main Street, Greenville, SC 29601. $55.00 due at registration per guest. Full refund if cancel prior 48 hours the workshop, reschedule only with in the 48 hours prior the workshop.
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Beyoncé said it best (because doesn't she always?) when she told us point blank who run the world. This month we're thinking it couldn't be any truer when it comes to the world of cocktails here in NYC, where the ladies have been hard at work behind the bar and the bottle — and the fruits of their labor show more than ever. As such, we've teamed up with Ladies of American Distilleries (LOAD) for The LOADed Cocktail Passport, your ticket to tipples at some of the city's best drinking dens where big deal females are playing some big deal roles. Grab yours through May 10 and drink any of the following BK-based drams in good conscience: a portion of the proceeds will go directly to Bottomless Closet and the Brooklyn Public Library.
LAIRD'S BRANDY & VAN BRUNT STILLHOUSE MOONSHINE at LAVENDER LAKE
Between a backyard built for hangouts, strong array of classic drams, and New American fare, this Gowanus bar has everything you need and more in a post-work, post-brunch bar. Add to that list a solid selection of local beer and spirits, and you're looking at one more reason to check it out on the regular. Now that Passport season is in full swing, that local love takes the form of moonshine from Red Hook's very own Van Brunt Stillhouse — a community favorite.
THE EL DIABLO at DONNA
The well-heeled congregate at this Williamsburg bar on the daily for DJ-spun tunes, gussied up tacos, and contemporary craft cocktails from bartender Jeremy Oertel. Flash your Passport this month for one of those drams, in particular: the El Diabo, a shaken concoction of tequila, crème de cassis, lime, and ginger beer that is served on the rocks and topped off with a ginger candy.
THE OWNEY'S DAIQUIRI at MONTANA'S TRAIL HOUSE
The team at this Bushwick bar are participating in the Passport with a nod to one local distiller, specifically: Bridget Firtle of The Noble Experiment and Owney's Rum. "She is one of the most amazing human beings ever — not to mention the rum is one of my favorite American rums currently made," says bar manager Austin Hartman. Check it out on its own or in daiquiri form.
THE BIG QUEEN at LITTLE KING
Creative riffs on the classics is what the team at this Williamsburg bar do best, as showcased with showstoppers like the John Henry (a Sombra Mezcal old fashioned) and the Irish Negroni (with Powers Irish Whiskey, Campari, and Amaro Ciociaro). Right now it's all about the Big Queen, a stirred fixing of Redemption Bourbon, Laird's Apple Brandy, Carpano Antica, Batavia Arrack, and cinnamon syrup that's served on the rocks with a flamed orange round.
THE BLACK DIRT OLD FASHIONED at THE MAYFLOWER
Fort Greene denizens flock to this cozy neighborhood bar for wine, beer, and seasonal cocktails from bartender Chockie Tom. So seasonal, in fact, that she's sure to get it just right: Inspired to create a classic that would honor the end of winter and the advent of spring, Tom melded together allspice dram, Regan's Orange Bitters, and Old Dirt Bourbon — a personal favorite of hers — for their Passport offering, the Black Dirt Old Fashioned.
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LBO Cinema Presents Slaughterhouse-Five
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LBO Cinema takes opera beyond convention and perception, into uncharted territory. On Saturday, April 5 at 11 a.m. the group will present Slaughterhouse-Five at The Art Theatre.
Billy Pligrim shuffles between multiple lives — past, present, and future — in Kurt Vonnegut's most infamous anti-war novel and this cinematic cult-classic. Vonnegut injects Igor Stravinsky's "A Soldier's Tale" with both relevance and controversy. See what made him one of America's most incendiary artists in the first place.
Doors open and champagne bottles pop at 10:30 a.m. The movie starts at 11 a.m. Tickets are $11 at the door. Coffee and mimosas are provided. Free and metered parking is available around the Art Theatre.
The Art Theatre is located at 2025 E. 4th Street, Long Beach 90814.


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The Brian Jonestown Massacre Announce UK return with June Tour
The Brian Jonestown Massacre have confirmed they will return to the UK this June.
The 12-date tour kicks off at Glasgow's Barrowlands on June 9th before taking in cities such as Leeds, Liverpool, Dublin and Bristol along the way. The band are also due to play London's Field Day Festival on June 12th.
Alongside the tour announcement The Brian Jonestown Massacre have shared online their latest single 'Fingertips' which features guest vocals from Tess Parks, with whom he released the 'I 'Declare Nothing' LP with last June.
Hear 'Fingertips' below the bands forthcoming UK & Ireland dates:
- 09 Glasgow Barrowlands
- 10 Newcastle Riverside
- 12 London Field Day
- 13 Leeds Stylus
- 14 Liverpool Academy
- 15 Belfast Limelight 2
- 16 Dublin Academy
- 18 Bristol Bierkeller
- 19 Falmouth – Pavilion
- 20 Southampton Engine Rooms
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He is the Terror The Flaps In The Night... He is the star of this week's comic book review and recommendation... He is Darkwing Duck!
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He is the terror that flaps in the night... He is the hero that every culture in the world needs... he is Darkwing Duck!
From 1991 to 1992... The daring duck of mystery protected the residents of Saint Canard as part of the Disney Afternoon, a block of original animated programing that featured (for the most part) the best animated cartoons on Weekday afternoons.
Created by Tad Stones, Darkwing Duck followed the exploits of it's titled crime-fighting hero with the help of Launchpad McQuack (which helped tie this series to Duck Tales), battling villains such as Megavolt, QuackerJack, Steelebeak and NegaDuck. However Darkwing wasn't your typical superhero in terms of his mindset, he wanted to be a hero for the fame and glory. Sure he always did the right thing... but his motivations were rather ego driven, which instantly made him stand out a bit in addition to him being a duck.
Now of course Darkwing Duck had his own comic book series, namely a mini-series in 1991, that didn't lead to anything because Disney's Comics 'imploded' with a mass cancellation of a number of series and plans, however Darkwing Duck comic were printed in the Disney Adventures magazine... but it would be nearly 20 years before Saint Canard's greatest hero had an actual comic book run again
In the spring of 2010, Boom! Studio announced it was going to release a four issue mini-series, titled 'The Duck Knight Returns'... and of course that is what I'll be reviewing today. To clarify it's actually the the trade collection because going over four comics without giving spoilers would be rather difficult.
Plot: A year has passed since Darkwing Duck has last been seen, and St. Canard is now in the grip of a mega-corporation Quackwerks, which runs every single aspect of the city, from employing everyone to eliminating crime... however to support his daughter's Goslyn, education, DW takes up a mundane desk job... however when his Goslyn's best friend is assaulted and arrested unjustly, Darkwing Duck returns to action.
-While my summary of the plot is very bare bones, that is the focus here, we learn over the course of the story what lead Darkwing to retire and how much he missed the action... and the spotlight. It perfectly captures the spirit of the show
Writer: Ian Brill, in addition to writing this mini-series, is also a editor for Boom! Studios... and the only thing I've read that he was associated with is the Hitman: Agent 47 prelude comic where he was the editor. That said, I think he did a wonderful on 'The Duck Knight Returns' capturing every character and progressing everyone's story while also doing what the original cartoon didn't do too much of, tie Darkwing Duck in with both Rescue Rangers and Duck Tales.
Artist: James Silvani... like with Mr. Brill, I'm not familiar with his other work, that said, he did an incredible job, from Darkwing to Launchpad... From Megavolt to Quackerjack... from the Thunderquack to the city Saint Canard herself... everything looks gorgeous. Of course I should say that Silvani did the pencils... Andrew Halhause did the coloring, so the credit goes two ways!
Positives: Where do I even start, great story, great artwork, character evolution for nearly everyone to show a year has past, in particular with the them that everyone is wanting things to go back to how things were, not just Darkwing himself, but his daughter and even his gallery of villains.
Negatives: I'm really stretching to find a negative here and it's the out of no-where inclusion of the Gismo-Duck suit as the 'solution' to the crisis within the story, particularly with how it's used. As I said, it's a stretch that this is a negative, but I had to find one.
Weirdness: One of Darkwing's reoccurring Villains was Quackerjack... sorta of a spoof on 'The Joker'... and much like how 'The Dark Knight' film made the Joker unnecessarily darker... 'The Duck Knight Returns' certainly gives Quackerjack a darker edge: savagely destroying a crime-bot, forcefully restraining Megavolt to use a power source for a vehicle... certainly high on Whiskey Tango Foxtrot factor when one reads the in-story motivation for it.
Recommendation: Since it's a trad collection, I highly recommend it, it collects all four chapters, includes the alternate covers, additional sketches from James Silvani and even the story behind the creation of Darkwing Duck from Tad Stones. Next week, It'll be a mini-March of the Titans... against the Justice League of America.
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The Learning Center (TLC) provides a highly individualized and integrated instructional program for students with language-based learning challenges including dyslexia (reading), dysgraphia (writing), and dyscalculia (math). Children who qualify for TLC demonstrate difficulty in reading, spelling, mathematics, handwriting, organization of written language, sustained attention, homework completion, or any combination of these areas.
Students generally enroll in The Learning Center from second through sixth grades, though in certain circumstances we will also admit students in seventh or eighth grade.
Students in TLC are all academically-capable, with average to above-average intelligence. They typically have been diagnosed by a psychologist as having language-based learning difficulties, sometimes accompanied by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
The Learning Center is dedicated to supporting students with language-based learning challenges; we are not trained to serve children with other diagnoses, including emotional or behavioral disorders, Tourette's, Asperger's, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Delay, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Nonverbal Learning Disorders, etc., and consequently we cannot admit them. Please see "Eligibility for Admission," below.
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Levee Walkers feat. Raquel Sofia – El Viento
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Spanish. It is one of the most beautiful languages in the world and it is the oldest colonial language in the Americas. It is the language that Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez used to write his exquisite Magical Realism in his homeland of Colombia. It is also the native tongue of the great Uruguayan historian Eduardo Galeano, who wrote fierce, vivid essays about the Latin American experience. Spanish was the language of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and the novelist Isabel Allende, both of whom created exquisite, timeless works. The great Mexican diva Lila Downs sings her gorgeous songs in Spanish, and it is also the native language of the newest Levee Walker singer, Raquel Sofia.
Raquel is a singer-songwriter from Puerto Rico and she is a 2015 Latin Grammy nominee for Best New Artist. Her songwriting style is distinct and powerful, and its no wonder she is sought out to write songs for other Latin singers. When Levee Walkers had the chance to work with her, it was a unanimous yes. We sent her some raw music and she sent us back sparkling, musical gems. And when Raquel asked us if she should sing the final versions in English or Spanish, we universally shouted (through email) – en Español!
We now present to you two new Levee Walkers songs with Raquel Sofia on vocals: El Viento (the wind) and Alma (soul), both qualities of which Raquel has in great abundance. The music is rock and roll, because rock is a universal language that everyone understands. But the words and stories that Raquel sings honor her native Caribbean roots, so that all from Central and South America, Spain, and of course the United States can enjoy.
Levee Walkers are Mike McCready on guitar, Duff McKagan on bass, and Barrett Martin on drums, and we will continue our work with singers in other languages as we show how the world is connected through language, story telling, and of course, rock and roll.
Barrett Martin / Seattle, WA