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Thankfully I can say this doesn't happen very often for Abby. She has a great team. and almost all items for her are Braille. (there always seems to be some stray item). Abby's classroom teacher, TVI, paraprofessional and case manager all know its very important for Abby to have assignment in accessible format. For Abby that is Braille. She simply can't see text at all. Abby goes to a great school.
|Abby reading a book in Braille (alt text: a girl is outside reading a book in braille)
Let me tell you another story.
Let me take you back to the beginning of this school year. Abby's class starts to prepare for state-wide testing for the first time. The class breaks into groups and go over over a practice test. Abby has a practice test and hers in Braille. She is able to be an equal part of the group assignment because she could read and access to the the same materials as her classmates. She comes home EXCITED for the big test to start. This is what happens when accessibly for all in a classroom WORKS.
There is so many things that can make a blind child feel isolated in a classroom but it should never be because of inaccessible content.
The National Federation of the Blind protested yesterday at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle WA.Why? Amazon's Kindle content and hardware is inaccessible to the blind. Maybe you are asking yourself why should it matter? Amazon is private company. Maybe you are even thinking... while accessibly is a great thing and other companies like Apple have made its content and hardware accessible to the blind Amazon does HAVE to. I completely understand that side of the argument till you get to one very big point. As soon as you bring its inaccessible content and hardware to schools its just down right wrong. Amazon has decide to make a big push to get inaccessible Kindle content and hardware into classrooms. These actions are encourage schools to break the law.
Now imagine the classroom with inaccessible Kindle content and hardware. Now look back at my first story. Its the same tale only replacing the inaccessible worksheet with the inaccessible Kindle. No its worse. The blind student will also lose out on the experience of using the cool gadget. This isolating the blind student even more than before. Please find out more about the NFB protest and its important issues at https://nfb.org/kindle-books
A blog from the teachers point of view -Without a Classroom : Kindle Books For All : http://withoutaclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/kindle-books-for-all/
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Mandel Bread Recipe Not Too Sweet and Great With Coffee
There is something about the smell of freshly baked goods right out of the oven
My grandmother always had a shoe box full of Mandelbrot at her home in Denver. "Just the perfect cookie for a cup of coffee," she said. 🍵
My mother bakes these crunchy, light cookies doused with cinnamon and sugar now too. 🍵 And yes, they are perfectly suited for a cup of coffee, as well. Sometimes she adds golden raisins, not regular ones, only golden raisins, to the dough. I think I prefer the tiny chocolate chips in dark chocolate though.
True story, we used to bring about 10lb of the Mandelbrot cookies each winter and summer to the gift shows. First it was the Buyer's Market of American Craft in Philadelphia, then it was New York Now in Manhattan. We'd package them up with a little sticker in a cute baggie. It was a real hit for years!
We printed up the recipe, and would email it later on as a thank you for shopping.
The ladies loved it!
🍵 We recently posted this over on our Facebook page, which you can check out here, and the requests were CRAZY!! We had so many ladies messaging us and telling us the stories of the famous Jewish cookies their parents and grandparents would make growing up for them. It was a post that brought back wonderful memories, for not only us, but for so many of our readers. It was a real joy to read.
The recipe is listed below.
They are easy to make and not too sweet.
And pair perfectly with a cup of coffee 🍵
Please share you memories with us here, and if you did make our mandel brot – mandel bread- aka kamish cookies, please let us know in the comment section how they turned out!!
Don't forget to share with us how it turned out!!
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The generals line-up, war-plans
in withered hands, ready to strike
the children.
But do not fear this transition!
For above the black clouds, know that He lingers,
Ready to strike!
Then will the blind see and the deaf hear.
Then will we leap for joy
As the mute break forth
In song!
Isaiah 35: 1-6A – 10.
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Earlier this last year I found a vacant lot that had a 1890's homeplace on it. The very first hunt there produced a silver dime grand slam. I got a call of a hunter that was going to be in the area, so I loaded up the CTX3030(contact me for details) and headed out...
The site is a home place that burned down around 12 years ago. It was dozed, and the targets range in depth from 2 inches to several feet. As trashy as it is I attached the 6inch coil for a better chance of recovering something good. I used my Gonehunting setting and used a 2 tone ferrous program that I have been working on.
The very first two targets we found were tokens. His has a longer number on it, and it had no name. Other than that they were identical.
The very first two targets we found were tokens. His has a longer number on it, and it had no name. Other than that they were identical.
Both of those finds came within seconds of each other.. not sure I've ever seen that happen before. After a high five, we continued to hunt. My next target is my favorite aside from the token.
Italian micromosaic work has been traced back to the 1500's. Tiny pieces of glass and other textiles are known to have been used. I was super impressed at the vibrant colors and detail of the piece I found. I did manage to find that these are still sold as antiques. I also found several mentions of the revival of the micromosaic work in the 1920's. The one on the left is one such piece. Intact and in good condition can be still purchased for under $50..
We did find a few wheats. The oldest being found by my hunting buddy. I continued to dig the lower signals and found several older relics. Pictured in the order found..
The "Wirz" bottle stopper was invented by August Herman Wirz applied for the patent in 1912 and was granted a patent for this piece on May 25, 1915. Patent number US 1140928 A. More info is found HERE.
While recovering the bottle stopper I was happy to see this nice marble. It has some imperfections that are more visible at a closer inspection.
My next target was rather odd to find in town. Given the age of the round it could have been during the wild days in Atoka's early history.
The Marlin/Winchester 38-56 was originally a black powder bullet mfg in 1887 for the Model 1886 Winchester lever action rifle. Around the turn of the century was upgraded to smokeless powder. The round was obsolete by 1936.
After that it started getting dark fast. I still hadn't found any of the older coins that I usually find there, So I dug one last signal...
We talked for a little while and left. Today I went back for about 30 minutes. I had my youngest with me so I wasn't really focused but did find a dated relic and a token...
We had fun and I made a new friend. I definitely will continue to hit this spot..
Thanks for reading
Gonehunting for History
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Gonehunting for History


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Magazine Display Hacks
Thursday, July 24, 2014
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J got me a subscription to French Elle Decoration for Christmas, and they are the prettiest magazines. It's the only one I get, and I'd love a way to show it off apart from the basket next to our sofa. Pinning a few of these ideas for later! xoReplyDelete
I have things to say about IKEA but limited time and energy this week, so I'll just pop in to say that we're on similar wavelengths because I'm tackling magazines too. It's a little daunting. I have boxes and boxes of Martha Stewart Living from way back. I've been going through them in the evenings in front of the TV, tearing out interesting articles, inspiring photos and recipes, and discarding the rest. It's nice to see a pile diminish. But last night a girlfriend put out the call for old magazines for her daughter's summer project, so I'm just going to give them all to her. Done! It feels great. :)ReplyDelete
I have a little corner in the living room where I keep my Vogue magazines (Vogue Italia is the only one I read monthly) in two neat stacks with a framed editorial shot on each one of them, they are part of the decor. I used to collect Art & Décoration magazines as well, until I had nowhere to keep them anymore and had to take them to my parent's country house - they proved to be very handy for the decoration of the house. And one other magazine I used to read monthly was Deutschland, a culture and business magazine in German - I subscribed to it to keep up with and exercise my German, but after they offered me a free subscription for a year I forgot to renew it and I miss it now. Thank you for reminding me about that. I like the idea in the third image and I also like the idea of magazines on a wooden ladder propped against the wall.ReplyDelete
Coat hangers! Why have I not thought of that before?! This is such a cheap yet cool display idea. It only works if you haven't got many magazines though and unfortunately I've got quite a collection. But I'm making note of this. Maybe I could display my favourites and get rid of the others :)ReplyDelete
i don't know how it happened, but i too hoard magazines! i got rid of 98% of them before the move and moved with only the most recent issues. i was very good! these days, i only subscribe digitally bc i will forever hoard issues i havent read yet.ReplyDelete
You can do it! I believe in you. Look how much stuff you have already gotten rid of and you did a garage sale.ReplyDelete
I am the exact same way. I tell myself I will use this item eventually and it is a waste to throw it away or I spent this much money on it and I still haven't used it. I think it's always good to keep purging but also remind yourself that these are just things and only keep the things you love. (Can you tell I'm nesting?)
Oh and I also love the hanger idea for a magazine rack but I think I might get sick of the idea once I had it up after awhile.
Guilty as charged too. I'll read a K Mart catalogue that spams my post box before I'll read that magazine that I paid actual money for. Maybe if I could display them, I'd remember to find time to read them. To echo everyone else's sentiments, the hanger idea has my mind churning. It's a far better idea than having them stuffed in a basket near the front door (which is my current set-up).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2014 at 7:38 AM
I love the coat hangers. brilliant idea. and one I can incorporate at the moment without much investment. thank you :)ReplyDelete
I am the exact same way - they're just piling up and I flip through them occasionally but I need to just sit down and READ. You know I'm totally going to renew the subscription when it's up tooReplyDelete
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I enjoyed reading Billy, a local friend's, letter regarding Goverment and the Buisness of insurance, Read below my picture and some of my property Listed for sale.
"Thank you for all the hundreds of letters and messages you moved to Washington. Looks like a bit of slack on the flood insurance premiums. However it's now time to let FEMA be a regulatory body and tell us how high to build but get out of the business of selling insurance. For example, if you buy $200,000 Fire insurance from State Farm and the house burns they give you $200,000. If the house costs $300,000 to build back they don't give you a extra $100,000. When you buy your flood insurance from FEMA they say how much do you want and charge you a premium accordingly. Fine, but when the flood hits the President waves his hand, declares a national disaster, and gives you from FEMA twice what you purchased and all your neighbors the same even though they did not have flood insurance. Next day the FEMA agency has spent way more than they took in. Any private insurance company would be bankrupt but more than likely not as they would not be giving benefits to those who did not purchase them in the pool. So now what does FEMA want to do? They want to raise the premiums on all the good people that responsibly bought flood insurance to pay for all those who did not. I say let private enterprise run the insurance companies and get government out of our business. In closing, the government will kick this premium thing down the road, make no decision and devastate our real estate resale market due to the great unknown. Push now for alternative private flood insurance product acceptable to mortgage lenders so we may ignore these mismanaged government insurance programs. Sincerely, Billy Moore"
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Ask the VC is similar in concept to Founders Space, except that, instead of tapping into a broad network of advisors, the answers are provided by two individuals: Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. Basically, you ask them questions, and they provide answers from a VC's perspective. The thing that makes this site work is that they are two smart venture capitalists. Jason is not only a VC, but also a lawyer, so Ask the VC includes legal advice too. We see this as a good resource for founders.
Background on Brad & Jason:
Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson are the co-authors of AsktheVC. Brad and Jason have been working together since 2000 when Jason joined Mobius Venture Capital, a venture capital firm that Brad co-founded. They started writing together on Brad's Feld Thoughts blog in 2005 with their Term Sheet series. After several other series about issues facing venture capital backed companies, Jason and Brad decided to start AsktheVC. Brad and Jason, along with three other partners have recently founded a new venture firm, the Foundry Group located in Boulder, Colorado.
Why This Blog?
We've started this blog to discuss relevant issues in the venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem. As you may know, we've spent a lot of time over the past three years writing about venture capital and entrepreneurship on Feld Thoughts. We've had great feedback regarding our regular posts on matters that effect people in our industry, as well as our blog series on topics such as term sheets, letters of intent, and 409A. We've also had a lot of fun and learned a lot from the questions that people have asked us.
We've decided to put more focused effort into regularly addressing these questions. Brad will still blog about venture capital and entrepreneurship, and we'll occasionally cross-post between blogs, but we'll begin to use AsktheVC to address the steady stream of questions we are now getting on a daily basis from entrepreneurs around the world.
You can expect the same thoughtful and honest opinions that we've always had. We will also tackle bigger issues in a larger format than a single post. Our goal is that this blog becomes a broadly used informational source on venture capital and entrepreneurship. To achieve this, we welcome (and encourage) questions from anyone reading this and hope that "meaty" questions lead to better and more relevant content for our readers.
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Brad Feld
Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.
Brad currently serves on the board of directors of Gist, Gnip, Oblong, Standing Cloud, and Zynga for Foundry Group. Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into one of Boston's leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.
In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and currently is chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and co-chairman of the Colorado Governor's Innovation Council. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes widely read and well respected blogs at www.feld.com and www.askthevc.com.
Notable companies that Brad has invested in and/or sat on the boards of include Abuzz (acq. NYT), Anyday.com (acq. PALM), Critical Path (CPTH), Cyanea (acq. IBM), Dante Group (acq. WEBM), DataPower (acq. IBM), FeedBurner (acq. by GOOG), Feld Group (acq. by EDS), Harmonix (acq. VIA), NetGenesis (IPO), ServiceMagic (acq. IACI), and ServiceMetrics (acq. EXDS).
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an avid art collector and long-distance runner. He has completed fourteen marathons as part of his mission to run a marathon in each of the fifty states.
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Jason has over a decade of experience in the venture capital and technology industries in a multitude of investing, operational and engineering roles. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital, where he also acted as its chief administrative partner overseeing all operations of the firm.
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As one of the first full-time, in-house general counsels at a venture capital firm, Jason has been on the forefront of thought leadership and has co-chaired the National Venture Capital Association's General Counsel group and is an active participant on the NVCA's Chief Financial Officer group. He was one of the key draftspersons for the NVCA model document task force which created the industry's first set of standardized venture capital financing documents, which has greatly aided in the efficiency of completing these types of deals.
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By: Bill Leon (Three Beers) –
Grease was first performed on stage in 1971. It was written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey who don't seem to really have too much to their name outside of Grease. Allan Carr and Bronte Woodard adapted their stage musical into a film script in 1978. The two would go on to write the 1980 film Can't Stop the Music starring the Village People which is notorious for inspiring the Golden Raspberry Awards… I'm so tempted to drop this review and go watch that instead.
We'll get to it…
A Toast
Grease opens with some cheeseball love story opening- it's so cliched, but people ate this shit up in 1978. It looks like some lost montage from a '60s Elvis movie. The musical swells are over the top as hell and sell the whole thing… in a total cheeseball way. I guess that's what this movie is at heart- a big fat '50s cheeseball. Anyway our first song comes on the abruptly cut heels of the opening romance, but it's an awesome song. "Grease" was written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and you can tell… but for a Bee Gees song, its a pretty sweet one. Barry Gibb and the rest of the Bee Gees starred in their own musical film in 1978 along with Peter Frampton called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band… and it is atrocious.
Again, we'll get to it…
But apparently it lead to Peter Frampton playing guitar on the title track of Grease. These are reasons "Grease" is an awesome song. The title track from Grease might be my favorite song in the whole thing and it's exclusive to the film. It was never part of the stage play 'til the movie. I can't justify opening a period piece about the 1950s with what is clearly a disco track from the later '70s but you just can't beat Peter Frampton's sexy guitar licks. Its basically just a Bee Gees song with Frankie Valli singing… and DAMN does it groove.
I don't have much to say about the animation in the opening sequence here by John David Wilson. It's got a cool School House Rock-ish look to it outside the awkward drawings of the cast. (Someone apparently thought Stockard Channing looked like a chipmunk on meth) It fits the music well enough and is adequately fun… not too much, not too little. The title track is the real strength of these opening credits.
Our lovers from the opening Sandy Olsson and Danny Zuko played by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta are going back to high school completely unaware that its the same one… Sandy was supposed to go back to Australia but plans changed at the last second and here we are. The next major song is "Summer Nights" a catchy little musical number about the key differences of how guys and gals share the details of a personal love affair. Its also about how Danny and Sandy present themselves to others. This scene is classic movie musical incarnate. Everything about it exists in its own little world completely free from the practical clutches of reality. Which brings me to…
Beer Two
So we have the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies. I'd go into more detail about them but I could give a shit about these characters. Most of their gimmicks are that they're obnoxious as hell. There really isn't a single likable character in Grease when you get down to it. They're all morons. I guess I kind of like Eugene… the fact that he's Eddie Deezen helps but he's barely in the movie. The following evening, everyone is at the school pep rally and after a lot of meandering, Our two protagonists finally discover that they go to the same school… How didn't Sandy not already know he went to Rydell? Are we really supposed to believe they never got into where the other went to school? I find that a little hard to believe but whatever. Am I the only one to notice Rydell High School's fight song sounds like Monty Python's "Sit on My Face" at the beginning of it… that's a little distracting. Anyway Danny and Sandy finally reunite. They're ecstatic to see one another and what happens? Danny makes an ass of himself by trying to play it cool in front of his friends. This will happen at least two more times throughout the course of the movie. Hashtag Peer Pressure.
Rejected and embarrassed by a charade of indifference, Sandy storms off and cries against a car while Frenchy-one of the Pink Ladies-consoles her and invites her to a sleepover at her house. This is where we get our third major song in the film "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee". It's a song lead by Rizzo where the Pink Ladies make fun of Sandy behind her back after she chokes on a cigarette and gets sick from drinking wine. Points for creativity on the premise of the song… points off for the fact that it sounds like an Alvin & The Chipmunks Christmas song. Somewhere out there, I'm sure someone finds these girls dancing around with blonde wigs, singing about how despicably un-slutty Sandy is funny… but it does nothing for me.
The T-Birds show up at Frenchy's house, Rizzo leaves with Kenickie and Travolta-I'm just going to refer to him as Travolta from this point on-goes off to be emo somewhere. Sandy goes into the backyard and wastes some paper in a kiddie pool and we get our next number "Hopelessly Devoted to You". The fact that it wasn't written originally for Grease is pretty obvious but on its own, its a sweet, harmless little pop number with some country-fied steel guitars in the background and a sweeping chorus. Its an accomplished pop song but I just can't shake the fact that I feel like this was originally written with someone like Carly Simon or Carole King in mind. And I don't need to point out to anyone that Olivia Newton-John is NO Carly Simon or Carole King.
Meanwhile… at make-out point… Kenickie and Rizzo's intimacy is interrupted by the leader of the rival gang The Scorpions. His name is Leo and he looks at least 42… I NEVER understood this. Like okay-no one in Grease looks like they're in high school. Most of them look like they're in their mid-twenties to early thirties. Whatever. This dude looks like he's in his forties and he's got nothing better to do than terrorize high schoolers? Oh and Kenickie discovers his condom is broken and they bang anyway and she gets pregnant-I'm not glossing over this anymore than the movie does. Hard cut to the high school auto shop where the T-Birds roll in Kenickie's shitty car and John Travolta sings about how awesome it could be if they fix it up-and use it to pick up girls-as they imagine their ideal goofy looking car. "Greased Lightnin'" is probably the second most famous song in this movie. It's the 50s, so we have to have a song thats blatantly ripping off Elvis Presley… Having said that, for as intentionally cheesy as it is, it's a fun little number. There's an indefinable charm to this sequence. Every corny aspect ends up working for instead of against it but I can't help feel like this is how that scenario would play out in real life…
(Only the first 40 seconds)
Cut to the malt shop where Sandy is on a date with one of the yuppie jocks from school. Travolta doesn't like that but he plays it cool… and by cool, I mean acting like a jerk to the girl he supposedly loves AGAIN after attempting to apologize. Now he's under the impression that Sandy digs jocks so he decides to try out for… whatever. First basketball which he fails at, then wrestling which he fails at, then baseball… which he fails at. Finally the coach puts him on the track team which Sandy does take a liking to. The two reconcile-quite quickly for that matter-and finally go steady when they decide to go to the big dance together. Back at the malt shop, the gang gets together and shortly departs from one another as Rizzo and Kenickie have a falling out and throws a milk shake in his face. The only one left is Frenchy who dropped out of Rydell to attend Beauty School. where she accidentally dyes her hair hot pink. I wonder if there's a Hipster Frenchy meme… If not, there should be.
Frenchy's "guardian angel" Frankie Avalon shows up in a fantasy sequence and sings a song about how she should go back to Rydell. As far as musical homage goes, the movie never gets it more right than they do here with the doo-wop throwback "Beauty School Dropout". Occasionally the lyrics are a little too on the nose(Gotta be goin' to that malt shop in the sky… In case you forgot its the '50s) but the production on this song is perfect. The strings, the background vocals and the bass guitar all sound great, Frankie Avalon does really well with the lead and despite the fact that she doesn't do anything in this song, Frenchy is the closest thing to a likable character in this thing and without her, we wouldn't have "Beauty School Dropout". A true stand-out song from the admittedly already mostly consistently good soundtrack.
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We cut back to-Oh Fuckin' hell-the autoshop. Obnoxious as hell… and they're morons. Sound familiar? Let's move on. Rizzo goes to the big dance with Leo to make Kenickie jealous. Sha-Na-Na is there playing a bunch of covers from the 50's and they're doing an episode of American Bandstand at the dance. More clumsy attempts at comedy happen and Kenickie shows up at the dance with a lady who is so old she makes the late twenties-early thirties cast look like believable high school students. They're quirky, rambunctious high school students… Presumably at an adult high school. So American Bandstand is hosting this dance-off… I know this is like a big scene in the movie and everything but… Man, I really don't have much to say about it. It's like… It's like… a watered down Dirty Dancing cast with a bunch of obnoxious morons. Why yes, Travolta's outfit is looking a bit like a precursor to Saturday Night Fever, isn't it? Travolta wins the dance contest-but not before pissing Sandy off again and having her run away… again.
Cut to another cliche 50s setting-The Drive-In, Vintage trailer for The Blob, Travolta and Sandy are in a car discussing what happened, they make up and he gives her I think his class ring-I'm not even going to bother to look it up. The big romance of Danny and Sandy in this movie that everyone loves and adores so much… It's grating. It wears on you. Guess what happens next? He tries to cop a feel and she runs away. So… let me get this straight, movie… Number one musical in American History… you're going to give us a song to make us feel sympathetic for this asshole when he's done nothing but treat this girl like shit throughout the entire thing so far? Why? Because he's the cool guy? Because he's the Fonz and James Dean and John Travolta from Greas-Oh wait I can't use that example… Ah well. "Sandy" is… a good song… on its own. Its placement in the movie could've used a better strategy behind it considering like I pointed out, Travolta has done nothing but treat her like shit up to this point. "Sandy"-Like "Beauty School Dropout"-has really great production to it. The spoken part is just about as cheesy as it gets. But hey-it was a thing in the 1950s. You can't say Grease doesn't know the '50s.
Alright, we're almost through this fucker! Greased Lightnin', I don't know if they ever actually call the car that again outside of the song, is completed and looking a lot less ridiculous than it did in their dream/musical hallucination/whatever the fuck you want to call those. They're ready to race Leo-who again is old enough to be the father of someone in high school let alone be rivals with high school kids-but first we have to get Rizzo's song about how she feels little to no hesitation about having sex and seemingly no shame about it out of the way. It's not a terrible song but we're sort of lead to believe that it will give us insight into her character and it tells us nothing we don't already know. Once again, the high-gloss music production kind of steals the show here. Anyway on to that big race. The climax of the movie which takes place at… Thunder Road? Was that a Springsteen reference in my review? Kenickie gets knocked out and Travolta has to race after they decide that they're racing for ownership of the cars. Wacky Races ensue as the Scorpions car sports spikes on its tires to damage the T-Bird car. The race is… adequately shot… I've seen worse car chase/race camera work to be sure. The fact that its shot in the Los Angeles River just makes me think the T-1000 will show up any minute in a torn apart semi.
Before we know it, the school year has come to an end. John Travolta seems to have learned a thing or two about how to date an uptight, wholesome chick and I think he'll be a better person because of it… Oh. I'm sorry. What? Sandy changes her image and Travolta learns nothing? I… I… I got chills. They're multiplyin'. And I'm losin' control. Cause the power you're supplyin'. Its electrifyin'! I'm sorry but "You're the One that I Want" immediately cancels anything I have to say about the ending of this movie. Again its sort of obvious this wasn't written for the stage show. Its a serious departure from the '50s motif of the songs but… this song IS Grease. It's catchy as all hell and overall a really, really well-composed pop song. The visuals are fuckin' goofy but I dare say it's irresistible. This entire sequence is the definition of iconic when it comes to musical films. The final song "We Go Together" is a big dumb celebration song bidding us farewell. It's a lot of fun… And then John Travolta and Sandy fly away in their car. The End.
Grease has a lot of fans that are passionate about this movie. I am someone who's more a casual fan of its soundtrack and a handful of the impressive, fun to watch musical numbers in the film, but there's a reason this movie has endured so long… I can't really say I know what that is but that's fine. I was bullying this movie a little bit but I was doing it all in good fun. I do enjoy this movie, its just got a lot of problems that are difficult to overlook but in no way do I wish to take away someone else's enjoyment. I was just trying to make a few jokes. So enjoy your goofy, cheeseball 1970s imitating the 1950s throwback musical filled with obnoxious moronic characters. There's nothing I can ever do to take away its value to you.
… Plus this movie has Eddie Deezen in it!
Drinking Game
Take a Drink: for every song on the soundtrack
Take a Drink: for anything that feels like its more '70s than '50s
Take a Drink: whenever someone says "Sandy"
Take a Drink: when you can spot Eddie Deezen or Lorenzo Lamas
Take a Drink: when you're annoyed
Do a Shot: for your personal choice of best song-My pick is "Grease"
Do a Shot: for your personal choice of worst song-My pick is "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee"
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Lindsey Thornburg reveals new Autumn-Winter season lookbook of vibrant women's outerwear. The colorful wool cloaks is the focal point of Fall season. You are going to find here traditional Pendleton blanket prints, Aztec, glamour leopard camouflage, psychedelic tie-dyes, as well as bright colors (black-and-white, navy, cobalt blue, sienna and crimson). I personally felt in love with that special Western motif that makes these looks sophisticated and vivid. All in all, we see a classic and fabulous collection that is full of chic and cool creations.
Here we see a sophisticated belted coat in leopard print styled with wide-brim black fedora. Love the suede turquoise gloves.
That's a stunning A-line cloak in black color printed in white and red geometric lines. The look is finished thanks to high top hat and thigh-high black suede boots.
The white cowboy hat looks awesome styled with white cover-up in black and red geometric lines.
The Aztec printed outerwear worn with mustard trilby hat and thigh high black boots.
In love with vibrancy of this hooded poncho. The look is finished with a cool black hat, dark red leather gloves and thigh-high suede black boots.
The monochrome black-and-white printed cover-up looks marvelous styled with wide-brim black hat and black thigh-high boots.
Here we see a slouchy, loose-fit light grey sweater paired with grey colored mini dress and suede cream colored thigh-high boots.
The grey fur scarf looks pretty cool styled with beige cream knitted pullover.
The Beatles black hat looks awesome styled with leopard camouflage high-neck cover-up.
Bright orange colored belted robe coat looks awesome styled with black thigh-high boots.
The wide-brim black hat looks chic styled with grey mohair hooded coat.
Here we see a color-blocking navy-blue belted outerwear. Love the fit and colors.
In love with these burgundy shades. Looks both comfy and fashionable.
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After her debut in 1959, Barbie needed a place to live and hold her numerous hats and outfits. At this point, the Astrologer knows what is called The Trinity", or three most vital elements in an individual's horoscope, the Sun Sign, Moon Sign, and Ascendant. House was a co-production of Heel and Toe Films , Shore Z Productions , and Bad Hat Harry Productions in affiliation with Universal Media Studios for Fox. No matter what disease is thrown at him, no matter how impossibly incurable it seems, House (usually) manages to save lots of the day.. If only he'd smile more. Maybe you need to look into the Baltimore Historical Society or The Sun archives for photos of these homes. There are no plans for making this gorgeous wanting cat cocoon, but it's fairly self-explanatory.
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The IMU and the ICIAM have created a joint working group to study "whether or not a joint ICIAM/IMU method of ranking mathematical journals should be instituted, and what other possible options there may be for protecting against the inappropriate use of impact factors and similar manipulable indices for evaluating research."
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Review: The Council of Community Conveyors, Fierce Festival
"Hello. My name's Matt and we're from the Council of Community Conveyors."
The what? The Council of Community Conveyors. Basically, we wear these fetching yellow sashes, hoping not to be taken for Lib Dems, and go door-to-door, clipboards in hand, passing messages on from one neighbour to the next. We've just been talking to Mohammed next door, who wants to apologise for the number of times his shuttlecock has flown over your fence this summer.
That's when she – Hilary – cracks into an enormous hoot of laughter. All her suspicion and guardedness gives way in an instant. The personal mixes with the absurdity to banish all thoughts of the salespeople, pollsters and Jehovah's Witnesses that have come before us. It's stupid. It's rather sweet. She wants her next-door neighbours to know that she hope's they have a really good weekend.
Created by three Canadian artists – Eric Moschopedis, Mia Rushton and Sharon Stevens – the Council of Community Conveyors drops you into a local neighbourhood as door-to-door do-gooders. You go round in groups of threes, after a short induction that explains the rules – one-way only, stick to the script, don't reveal that it's art – and provides some tips. You might get rude messages. Pass them on. You might meet hostility. Distance yourself from other organisations, local councils and businesses. You will disorientate people. Be patient. One of you knocks and talks, another notes down details and, if there's no-one home, the third leaves a note.
Of course, all this comes with the whiff of happy-clappy hipsterism, that peacenik smile of good will to all, that makes us sceptical Brits balk in unison. And of course, the thought of going door-to-door, dressed as dickheads, doing little twee good deeds and – ugh – actually talking to ordinary people on their own doorstep induces a pandemic of eye-rolling. I mean, the very idea that a single message passed from one neighbour to the next can kickstart a new era of community, one street at a time? PUH-LEASE.
And yet, it only takes a couple of houses, one or two responses like Hilary's, to get into the swing of things and start taking it seriously, to start trying, to start investing in the task and, even, in the neighbourhood you've been parachuted into. At one level, council membership disarms your cynicism.
There are two sides to the piece: one, for those of us in sashes, and another, for those on the doorsteps. For the latter, it's a surreal little intervention: an odd moment that might just stick in the memory and spark a conversation over a garden fence at a later date. Who knows, it might even do some long-lasting good. Unlikely, but not impossible. This isn't community art; it's not determined to change the world. It parachutes in, makes a scene, and disappears: a one-off that might just leave a lingering thought.
That's to its detriment too, though; it's half-hearted and trite, unfussed about whether it leaves any lasting impact. It has that hipster-esque tang of irony: the sense that this is, at least in part, a prank; that it hides its superiority behind its best Girl Scout smile.
Because we're getting something out of this too: we get to be amused (and sometimes amazed) at the people that come to the door. That woman in her dressing gown, for instance; or that old man in his landscape apron. We get to have a snoop around people's front gardens, jotting down little details about the way they live their lives. We're using these people for our own entertainment: harmlessly – or at least, relatively harmlessly – but selfishly nonetheless. We've paid for the privilege of doing this. No-one's consented to having their Saturday morning disrupted. Some are positively bemused and even uncomfortable about the intrusion. That was always going to be the case.
Still, it's hardly a serious crime. And Council of Community Conveyors gives us, its participants, a few strong insights into community – especially its element of contagion. It's infinitely easier to get a message if you've got one to give. Break the chain, with an absentee or a grump, and it's hard to get it started again. It also gives you the experience of knocking on doors, making a bit of tit of your self and trusting in people to see the funny side or get the good-heartedness. You gain a newfound respect for anyone that does this out of principle, genuinely trying to convince people to share their politics or faith. Or just to buy 10 j-clothes for a quid.
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Westcon-Comstor UCC Solutions Practice Awarded Diamond Status by Avaya
Westcon-Comstor Unified Communications & Collaboration Solutions Practice Awarded Diamond Status
Top-level Avaya Edge Partner Program members recognized for their ability to deliver complex projects involving multi-vendor integrations across a wide geographic area
LONDON—December, 2016—Westcon-Comstor, the value-added technology distributor of category-leading solutions in security, collaboration, networking and data centre, today announced that its Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions Practice has been awarded Diamond status in the highly respected Avaya Edge Partner Program. This is the highest level that can be achieved in the program and demonstrates excellence in customer centricity whilst providing exceptional value-added services around the Avaya solutions portfolio.
The new level recognises the practice's commitment to service excellence within the Avaya Edge Distributor Program Track. To achieve Diamond status the company must meet strident requirements for customer satisfaction and demonstrate a proven track record in working with its channel partners to deliver complex projects across the entire Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region.
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Fully renovated 3 bedroom ground floor semi detached house in Omonia, just off Makarios Avenue in Limassol. The house is on the ground floor with a separate entrance. It has 3 bedrooms, two large and one smaller. The 3rd Room has been turned it into a walk-in wardrobe there is also 1 large bathroom and a spacious living, dining room and kitchen. At the back of the house there is a modern studio with shower, W.C, basin, parquet flooring and spot lights, which can be used as a small business area, office, storage room, playroom or can even be rented out. There is a large veranda in front of the house and the front entrance wall is dressed with dark brown stone cladding. The house is from 1980 and was renovated in 2000 including most of the walls. The long driveway takes two cars and there is space for a third car in the front of the house.
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Tucked in a valley between the bluffs just outside Winona in S.E. MN you'll find the Sundance Ranch. We have been raising elk for many years on our 160 acre farm. We also have a number of goats & chickens and a few horses. We are excited to add some Scottish Highland cattle to the mix. We have started with two heifers and are looking forward to adding more Highlands to the young fold.


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Engine management based on cylinder pressure makes gaseous-fuel engines on ships more efficient without any negative impact on nitrogen oxide emissions. Studies by IAV and manufacturers of large-bore engines show that this approach permits highly efficient operation of the engine near to its mechanical load limit. Operating all cylinders on equal terms is also recommended in terms of performance.
The maritime sector has its equivalent to urban environmental zones. In the Emission Control Areas (ECAs), which can be found near coastlines or in the North and Baltic Sea, engine emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur and carbon dioxide must be kept to an absolute minimum. The sulfur comes from the heavy fuel oil used on vessels (with a share of up to 3.5 percent). When a captain enters a zone with stricter emission limits, he has to change over to normal diesel fuel or rely on an elaborate exhaust gas aftertreatment system. Together with adapted combustion methods, it is thus possible to keep nitrogen oxide emissions under control – but there are high costs involved.
Natural gas: clean, low-cost fuel
Fortunately, there is another alternative. "Natural gas is a wonderful solution for keeping emissions below the permitted limits without too much input. Modern gaseous-fuel engines designed as lean-burn concepts offer high power density and high efficiency levels while complying with the emission regulations", says Dr Andreas Broda, IAV team leader for engine testing and exhaust gas aftertreatment of gaseous-fuel engines for commercial vehicles. "Intensive work is therefore in progress worldwide on marine gaseous-fuel or dual-fuel engines." Natural gas (as LNG) offers other advantages in addition to low emissions. It is available in large quantities at low prices, something that is not likely to change in future either. Furthermore, methane has a better ratio of hydrogen to carbon atoms and therefore generates less CO2in the combustion process.
While high-output stationary gaseous-fuel engines are fitted with prechambers with spark plugs, in marine engines diesel fuel can be added (1 to 5 percent) as a "chemical spark plug". Intelligent engine management is crucial in any case to achieve the same efficiency as in diesel engines, while remaining reliably within the permitted operating limits. "The engines run in a very narrow operating range between knocking and misfiring", explains Benjamin Tilch, IAV team manager for performance & emission (P&E) concepts and functions in the Commercial Vehicle Powertrain division. "If we always want to stay in a safe operating range under varying ambient conditions with fluctuating gas qualities, we have to keep a certain safety margin to the mechanically acceptable peak pressure. Ideally, this can also be used for greater efficiency."
Cylinder-pressure-based control
The best way to operate the engine as close as possible to its mechanical limits consists in closed-loop control based on cylinder pressure signals. This ensures that combustion takes place near the permissible peak pressure and thus with maximum efficiency. IAV has worked with manufacturers to examine this kind of engine control based on cylinder pressure in a medium-speed gaseous-fuel engine with cylinder-specific gas injection. The tests were carried out on a real-time-capable, angle-based engine model (software-in-the-loop) and a detailed engine model (model-in-the-loop). The IAV experts then implemented the control concepts and the analysis functions in a rapid prototyping engine control unit environment (IAV RP ECU) with a bypass connection to the engine control unit.
Initially, the cylinder pressure was fed into the real-time-capable indication system IAV Indicar where it was filtered, corrected and used to compute the released heat. This permitted online calculation of all relevant data such as combustion start, the main center of heat release and maximum cylinder pressure together with indications of engine knocking and misfiring. The data are then forwarded as input variables to the control unit. For comparing various control strategies, the team examined a range of reference variables, including air/fuel ratio, combustion duration, mean indicated cylinder pressure and ignition timing.
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The investigation showed that cylinder-pressure-based engine control really was capable of minimizing the safety margin to the mechanical load limits, thus further enhancing the already high efficiency of the gaseous-fuel engine without exceeding the stipulated nitrogen oxide limits. It also transpired that all cylinders should be balanced. There is no point in operating them on different pressure levels to reduce NOxemissions. "Engine control based on maximum cylinder pressure proved to be highly promising", summarizes Broda. "This permits fast, high-precision control of the engine in relation to load, despite its high thermal mass."


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D & R New and Used Boat Dealers in New Jersey was founded in Green Brook NJ in 1956 by Dominic Barone. His dedication to superior service and attention to detail, the keys to D & R's success, have been instilled in his son Robert. And now with the third generation joining the succession, we have grown the business to what it is today – the state's largest, multi-branch operation. Originally located in Green Brook, New Jersey where most of the state's boating activity was centered at that time.
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What I've Learned About Life So FarFebruary 29, 2016
1. Animals are the greatest thing on God's green earth: This is a fact. Like, if you look it up in an encyclopedia or something it'll probably be there. I love animals more than probably anything (and yeah this kinda runs in my family). One time, I stopped liking a guy because he told me that he didn't like animals. I'm serious. I can't work with that. But animals are just these innocent forever babies. If they are mean, it's because they were treated mean at some point in their life and were scarred from it. If they're nice, which is usually the case, they are the nicest creatures to ever exist. Anne Frank thinks people are good at heart – well, I think little baby animals are. I'm getting emotional just thinking about this (have you ever seen baby goats in pajamas? Please google it).
2. I'm getting better at telling which friends will actually be forever friends: If only one person in a relationship is the one instigating things – conversation, hang outs, etc. – things will not work out. This is not to say that things can't change, but they need to. It's okay to fight with friends too. I'd argue that's good, actually – being able to solve your problems and come back stronger. Don't be friends with someone who won't speak up when you're upsetting them and don't be friends with someone who won't let you speak up when they're upsetting you.
3. Butts aren't as gross as I once thought: I never ever ever understood the appeal in butts. My thought process was always "that is where poop comes out of." Well, that is true, but my boyfriend has a pretty cute butt and I know that it's true love because I've never liked anyone's butt.
4. Being on your period will always be the worst: 12 year olds, LISTEN UP. This will never change. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but periods are always inconvenient, gross, and headachey. One day, I was talking about HOW FREAKIN' AWESOME the uterus is, because let's be real, it is pretty awesome. The next day, my period started, and I took it all back. I have a love-hate relationship with being a woman.
5. Nobody really cares what you do or what you look like: Seriously, people are way too into themselves to care about you. Like if you look cute that's fine and dandy but it won't make a difference most of the time. Except sometimes ignorant boys may say that you look tired but it's not their fault that they're never been told not to do that before. Maybe give them the hint to change.
6. The things you like will change: I used to hate mushrooms. I know this is a weird example but oh my gosh I love mushrooms mushrooms are my lifeeeeeee. I will not order a pizza without mushrooms now. I also used to love camping. In theory, I would enjoy it still, but I'm too scared of being mauled by a bear or attacked by mosquitos. I love being outside but sleeping under the stars does not sound very appealing anymore. Also, you'll realize that stinky boys stink and you should not go after them. It's all a-okay.
7. You will always be a nerd: I still click on every Harry Potter buzzfeed article. I shed a tear each time Snape dies (#RipAlanRickman). I most definitely get waaaaaay too excited to dress up in my Harry Potter clothes and answer trivia. Guys. It's been like 15 years since I fell in love with Neville Longbottom and I'm still going strong.
8. It's okay to like little kid things: So this kinda goes with the above, but I will forever want to see every new Disney movie that comes out. I will shamelessly drink out of my Tangled sippy cup in public. It's okay to grow up and still wear fun colors and patterns and sing along to musicals. Do what you want, bro.
9. Kissing is fun: Along with butts, I also did really understand the appeal in kissing. Like, why would I willingly let someone spread their germs all over me? Well, friends, times have changed.
10. Exercise can be fun: Notice that I did not say "exercise is fun." You just need to find what you like. Since like September, I've actually made an effort to exercise multiple times a week and it really, truly makes a difference. Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don't.
Who knows, maybe in a few years I'll look back at this and be baffled by how much I loved mushrooms. But for now, I'm just gonna do me.
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As we descended into Ho Chi Minh city with an outlook of pink clouds and city lights our excitement levels rose and the fact that we were about to embark on a month of backpacking in South East Asia finally started to sink in.
After luggage collection and passport/visa checks we stumbled out to the taxi terminal where we were bombarded by taxi drivers trying to reel us in.
Google gave us the rough idea that we should be spending between $150 000 – $250 000 dong. We were offered a taxi to our hotel half an hour away for $700 000 dong (we mistakenly thought he said $70 000)and thinking what a great deal we'd got, jumped in. When asked to pay a portion of the fare before leaving the airport we began to count our money and luckily realised we were being majorly ripped off. We leaped from the cab grabbed our bags from the boot and headed back to the terminal where we bargained a cab down to $350 000 (Still quite pricey, but when you're jet lagged and in a foreign country after travelling for 12+ hours you take what you can get.)
Tip 1: For a taxi in Ho Chi Minh pay around
- $50 000 - $80 000 for 5-10minutes
- $100 000 - 150 000 for 15-20minutes
- $150 000 - $300 000 for 30minutes
I think both of us spent the whole taxi ride staring out the window in awe at the traffic situation. I saw families of 4 on one motor scooter, and parents with babies on their lap riding along. Not to mention the fact that lanes are non existent and the traffic merges in every which way. This mental system somehow seemed to work, which I think is what shocked us the most.
After arriving at our accommodation and buying some water we pretty much hit the hard mattress and went straight to sleep.
Tip 2: Buying water in Ho Chi Minh
- Between $3 000 & $9 000 dong for 1.5Ls
- Check to make sure it has a plastic seal. If not your probably being sold tap (dirty) water in a bottle. (Applies for all of Asia)
The Jet lag had us rising with the sun and we wandered around the slowing awaking streets snapping some obligatory 'good morning Vietnam' photos. After breakfast we set out to explore the cities sights and would definitely recommend paying a visit to The War Remnants Museum which although quite shocking sad and is an interesting insight into culture and history.
We had lunch on Bui Vien Street, which we discovered was part of the backpacker area. I would highly recommend this street for cheap accommodation and restaurants. We ended up coming back here for dinner and went to 'Viet Restaurant' (59-61 Bui Vien Street, D1, HCMC) which was amazing and well priced.
Safe to say Ho Chi Minh's bustling atmosphere and crazy traffic situation made for an exciting and interesting start to the trip.
Next stop: Phonm Penh, Cambodia
Julia & Rachael


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Pity the bond. It always gets second billing. We talk about "stocks and bonds," never bonds and stocks. It makes bonds sound like a sidekick. Batman and Robin, hamburger and fries, stocks and bonds.
But in reality, bonds are a legit star of the financial show. The bond market in the U.S. is valued at $40 trillion, twice the size of the domestic stock market. Here's an introduction to bonds to help you decide if they should be in your portfolio.
(Spoiler alert: Bonds should be in your portfolio.)
What IS a bond? A bond is a loan. When a large company or a government needs to raise capital, it issues bonds. Bond buyers are essentially lending the issuer money in exchange for interest. That interest, or "coupon," is paid at a set rate over a predetermined time period. The date when the principal must be repaid is called the maturity date.
So, if you buy a bond with a 10-year maturity for $1,000 at a 7% coupon, you would receive $70 per year for a decade, at which time you would get back your $1,000.
Why don't the companies just get a bank loan? Because they often need more than financial institutions can lend.
Who issues bonds? There are basically three types of bonds:
- Treasury -- issued by the U.S. government to fund government operations.
- Municipal -- issued by local governments, typically for capital projects like sewer systems, road projects or, you know, sports stadiums for billionaires.
- Corporate – issued by companies to fund various initiatives.
The interest rate on a bond is significantly influenced by the reliability of the issuer. The more secure the issuer, the lower the rate. Thus, Treasuries (very secure) pay the lowest rates, corporate bonds the highest. The rate on a corporate bond depends, in part, on the company's credit rating. The shakier its situation, the higher rate it must offer to lure bond buyers.
Related: Meet Bonds, Treasury Bonds
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A bond's yield can be figured using this formula: coupon amount/price. So, if you buy a bond at its initial face or "par", the yield is equal to the interest rate. But when the bond's price changes, so does the yield.
Example: If you buy a bond with a 10% coupon at its $1,000 par value, the yield is 10%. But if the bond's price drops to $800 in public trading, the yield jumps to 12.5%. That's because you are guaranteed the same $100 that you were promised when the bond was priced at $1,000. Conversely, if the bond goes up in value, the yield goes down.
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Both these paintings are hovering just above the ground... about to touch down...
This coming weekend I will be flying to Dublin to hang my show at Rubicon Gallery. It opens on Wednesday 5th May. Here is the invite...
Things seen - Vuillard
Edouard Vuillard: Under the trees, 1897, oil on canvas, 53x67cm, held in the collection of the Museo Thyssen, Madrid.
Here is a little painting, one of a number I will be showing in my forthcoming show titled Bihotz at Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
Spider's touch
The spiders touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
Alexander Pope from the Essay on Man.
Petals on the ground...
Shadows and white petals on the ground which I observed while out for a walk the other day.
The application of paint: to define this a little...it is not expressionistic or the exaltation of gesture, it is not the drama of action painting either. The way one paints or makes something can so often seem like a parody of itself. So, perhaps for me, it could simply be a placement of material, of paint...colour. Making marks. Depositing and positioning something on a surface. Most importantly, it is touch. Through the hand and movement of the arm and body in time, the eyes touch the surface with the brush or implement. Accumulations. Leaving evidence of my time on the surface which becomes a painting. The images form organically like the growth of a tree. Tributes to themselves and the knowledge that the looking is never really done. And then the contradiction: trying to fix and hold still the fleeting moment and that which is always in flow. Leaves fall to the ground along with white petals and the shadows of branches slowly come and go...
Pools (shadows)
La Folie du Jour
Can I describe my trials? I was not able to walk, or breathe, or eat. My breath was made of stone, my body of water, and yet I was dying of thirst. One day they thrust me into the ground; the doctors covered me with mud. What work went on at the bottom of that earth! Who says it's cold? It's a bed of fire, it's a bramble bush. When I got up I could feel nothing. My sense of touch was floating six feet away from me; if anyone entered the room, I would cry out, but the knife was serenely cutting me up. Yes, I became a skeleton. At night my thinness would rise up before me to terrify me. As it came and went it insulted me, it tired me out; oh, I was certainly very tired.
From The Madness Of The Day by Maurice Blanchot 1973, translated by Lydia Davies: Station Hill Press.
From The Madness Of The Day by Maurice Blanchot 1973, translated by Lydia Davies: Station Hill Press.
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I am absolutely loving the Cambodia food here however sometimes you want something other than rice and noodles 3 times a day!
So when we came across the vegan cafe on our arrival to Sihanoukville you can imagine the sheer delight on our faces. We just had to go for breakfast, we skipped the free breakfast before the boat trip and headed to the cafe.
The cafe was situated right by the pier above another cafe with views over the sea. The menu was amazing so much to choose from it was hard to decide. I went for the pancakes which were incredible but two of the girls had avocado and spinach on toast and the other had banana and peanut butter on toast which both looked equally delicious.
The food tasted super fresh and healthy and just what we all wanted! We all also enjoyed fruit smoothies which were incredible.
I would recommend this cafe to anyone visiting Sihanoukville!