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The Castle, of Course!
Cesky Krumlov boasts the second biggest castle in the country, after Prazky Hrad in Prague. Forty buildings make up the bulky, brooding castle complex, which sprawls over two rocky hills at the edge of town. It dates back to the 1200's, with numerous parts added to it over the centuries. The aristocratic Rozmberk, Schwarzenberg, and Habsburg families ruled from here.
I was very disappointed to learn that the castle was closed during the off-season, including October, when we were there. In the summer you can take tours of it. We were able to wander around the grounds, though, including seeing the old moat, which for centuries has housed a few bears.
Look at that evil-looking dark cloud - I still can't believe it didn't rain on us when we were there!
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The Tower
Seeing a picture of the castle tower is what made me decide for sure to visit here. The pink, sea-green, and yellow colors just seemed so whimsical! It's a six story gothic tower that's had some Rennaisance elements added later on, with the requisite bells inside and a beautiful clock on top. In the summer you can climb up to the top for 30 korunas (about $1 US at the time, probably a bit more now). You'll find it in the first castle courtyard, right by the castle entrance.
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The Bridge
These stacked archways bridge the different parts of the castle located on two adjacent hills. It's quite striking, and reminded me a little of an old Roman aqueduct. There are a couple levels of covered corridors for walking across, and one level was designated for riding horses across.
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Church of St. Vitus
Like Prague, Cesky Krumlov has a church of St. Vitus. It's high up on a hill and is the second most dominant feature of the town, after the castle. It has some interesting architectural features and altars inside, along with two organs, and the tombs of some of the local Rozmberk and Schwarzenberg noblemen. Our guide also told us there have been rumors of a ghost here over the years! The church dates back to the 1400's, but various alterations and additions were made to it over the centuries.
It was really cold inside the church in October!
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The Town Square
Namesti Svornosti, the town square of Cesky Krumlov, is surrounded by colourful buildings, including the Town Hall. In the middle of the square is an impressive stone fountain, built in 1577, and some benches where you can sit and admire the beautiful architecture.
Inside the Town Hall is the Museum of Torture, with more than a hundred medieval torture instruments!
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The Castle
Founded in the early thirteenth century, Cesky Krumlov Castle is one of the biggest and most imposing in Central Europe. With 40 buildings, it is second only in size, in the Czech Republic, to Prague Castle.
It has everything you would expect from a Bohemian castle: a moat, formidable walls and a fairytale tower. The first reference to Cesky Krumlov Castle was in a poem written by Ulrich of Lichtenstein in 1242.
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Within the Castle Gardens
The walled castle gardens are the biggest part of the castle complex. Fountains with statues of water gods reside among the beautiful foliage. There's also a summer house here, a little rococo music gazebo, and a unique revolving open-air theatre, still in use in the summertime. Our guide told us that part of the gardens used to be used for horse riding in centuries past.
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The Bear Pit
Part of the moat of Cesky Krumlov Castle has been used as a bear pit since 1707. Bears are part of the Rosenburg family crest and a symbol of their power. There are currently two bears in the pit, which you will see if you look down to your left, as you enter the castle.
Personally, I found the spectacle rather sad, but the bears looked healthy enough and they had plenty of fresh food. Realistically, looking at the alternatives for European bears, they probably couldn't do much better anywhere else.
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The St. Vitus Church is quite beautiful inside! Outside, the tall Church spire can be seen from most parts of the City, this isn't the original, but a replacement of the Onion shaped Baroque Tower.
This Parish was established in 1317 in a smaller Church, how-ever the congregation grew and the new larger Church was built, financed a large part by public donations, was completed after the Hussite Wars and consecrated in 1439.
The main altar has a painting of St. Vitus and the Virgin Mary dating to 1673-1683, this has been repainted over in 1897.
The side Altars have an interesting story........Each Altar represented individual craft brotherhoods living in the town, so there was an altar of tailors, shoemakers, butchers, bakers of white or dark breads, stone masons, cooks and of course, a brotherhood of brewmasters.
The frescos on the wall next to the St. Jan of Nepomuk chapel, are dated to the first half of the 15th century and depict the scenes of the Crucifixion, St. Veronica, St. Elizabeth, St. Magdalena and St. Catherine.
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Old world Bohemia in Cesky Krumlov.
The core city of Cesky Krumlov is old world southern Bohemia at its relatively unspoiled best. Shown in the photo is a winding cobblestoned street that is very typical of the central part of old town Cesky Krumlov. Shown in the background is the majestic and dominating cerkev svaty Vita ( church of St. Vitus ), which was built starting about 700 years ago.
Cesky Krumlov has many small family run shops staffed by friendly and helpful clerks. Although they sell many engraved souveniers, they are great places to buy Bohemian crystal, lace, and other handcrafted items of the region. There is a good selection of restaurants, coffee shops, and pubs. The Roma ( gypsy ) establishments in my opinion have the most inviting atmosphere, and are the most memorable. Live gypsy music and dancing greatly enhance the experience. However, the thick smoke in these establishments discourages many visitors.
The buildings of old town have retained much of their medieval and Renaissance appearance, and many of the elements are original instead of recreations. The inside decor is very pleasing traditional Bohemian. Enjoy the experience.
Most tourists day trip in from Prague, but those that don't spend the night are missing out on much of what this ancient city has to offer.
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Beautiful Church!
St. Vitus Church
The St. Vitus Church is built in the form of three parallel arcades merged with a five-sided elongated presbyterium, there are rectangular multistoried sacristies on both sides with the Chapels of Resurrection and the St. John of Nepomuk Chapel, and the antechamber situated on the northern side. The occidental facade of the church incorporates a tower with quadrangular Roman window openings on the landing level changing to eight-sided openings higher up. The uppermost part of the spire is pseudogothic in style, dating to 1893-1894 A.D.
Egon Schiele Centrum
This is quite an odd museum / art gallery to have in such an antique place as Cesky Krumlov. It's worth spending an hour wandering about inside, if only because the actual exhibition space itself is so good.
This has an informative permanent exhibition about the short life of Egon Schiele who was mentored by Gustav Klimt and whose mother came from this town. He also lived here at one stage but was run out of town for his loose moral standards - he painted nude pictures of local girls.
Also temporary exhibitions of contemporary art of mixed quality.
Worth noting perhaps that this place is a little expensive as Czech museums go at about 180/150 CK. Open 10am to 6pm.
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Don't just rush into the Museum, make sure you take some time in the Park, because from high up on the viewing Terrace, there is an excellent view over the Town.
The Museum was once a girls school, and this park with the vista terrace was used for study, sport, and relaxation.
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Museum Tortury
In the Medieval cellars of the Town Hall, directly on the main town square, the Museum of Torture has been newly installed. In these authentic spaces the visitor is pulled into the cruel times of the Middle Ages, when corporal punishment experienced its most horrifying developments and the cruelest methods were used for guilty and innocent alike, resulting in a refined series of instruments of torture.
In an area covering over 400 m2 , over 100 torture instruments are displayed, complete with 10 wax figures and two unique audio-visual effects - a witch burning and sword execution.
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Family admission : 160,- Kè
The Town Hall is a single story renaissance building that sits on the corner of the town square.
In the front of the building, on the ground floor, there is an arcade of six pointed arches, and its here, on the far right side wall, a ceramic map of Cesky Krumlov is located.
In the second half of the 16th century, the two or more separate Gothic buildings (the original town hall and a burgher´s home) that stood next to each other, were joined together to make it what I saw today.
It was during reconstruction in 1924, that the arcade that had been formerly enclosed, was opened up and the emblems on the front facade were revealed.
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Matches.js brings the power and expressiveness of pattern matching to Javascript.
Matches.js exports one function,
var pattern = require"matches"pattern;
The simplest way is to give it an object with the keys being patterns, and the values being functions. Each pattern will be tried in order until a match is found.
var arrayElems = pattern return "This array is empty."; return "This array has one element: " + x; return "This array has two elements: " + x + " and " + y; return "This array is long. The first two elements are: " + x + " and " + y; ; arrayElems1 2 3;
You can create individual pattern and function pairs.
var emptyArray = pattern'[]' return "Empty array" ; // "Empty array" emptyArray; // TypeError: "All patterns exhausted" emptyArray12;
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patternFn takes
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false for no match, or a new array
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var if args0 >= 42 return args0; return false;; var customPattern = patterngreater42 console.logx;; // Logs 54 customPattern54; // TypeError: "All patterns exhausted" customPattern12;
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alt combinator.
var wildcard = pattern'_' return "No matches."; ;var mychain = pattern'1' return "One"; alt return "Two"; return "Three"; altwildcard; // 'One' mychain1; // 'Two' mychain2; // 'No matches.' mychain5;
Separate matches for multiple arguments with a comma. Since you can pass any number of arguments to functions in Javascript, Matches.js is not strict and will happily combine patterns for varying numbers of arguments.
var myfn = pattern // Matches on the first three arguments. If more are passed, they are ignored. return a; // Matches on the first two arguments, ignoring the rest return fna; // Matches anything return null; ; // 12 myfn6 return x * 2; "foo" "bar"; // null myfn1 2 3 4;
Pattern strings are compiled to pure Javascript functions and then cached. So beyond initial creation for the first instance of a pattern string, there is very little overhead. Unless you programmatically create dynamic patterns, you should only see a slight hit at the start of your application as the patterns are compiled. Benchmarks coming soon.
Check for specific values using number or string literals,
null, or
var myfn = pattern // Null // Undefined // Numbers // Strings // Escape sequences must be double escaped. ;
Underscores will match successfully on any value but ignore it. A single underscore works well as a catch all pattern.
var myfn = pattern // Match if second argument is 12, ignoring the first // Match on anything ;
Patterns that start with lowercase letters will pass the value to the function. Values are passed to the function in the same right to left order they are declared in the pattern.
var myfn = pattern // Pass on the second argument if the first is 12 // Pass on the first and third argument, ignoring the second ;
Match on the entire array, or only a few values.
var myfn = pattern // Empty array // Strict comparison on contents // Grab the first value, ignoring the rest // Split it into a head and tail // Grab the first and last items, ignoring the middle // Grab the last item // Make a shallow clone // Grab the first item, but also pass on the whole array ;
Matches.js currently supports strict object comparison, meaning it will match if the object contains the specified keys and no others.
var myfn = pattern // Empty object // Check that an object has only two keys 'x' and 'y', and pass to the function // Check that an object has a key that contains an array
Typecheck arguments using
Array, or
var myfn = pattern // Takes a function and an array // Takes a function and an object ;
Matches.js has builtin support for adt.js types. Adt.js is a library for building algebraic data types in Javascript.
// Create a new adt.js type var Tree = adtdata Empty : adtsingle Node : adtrecord"val" "left" "right"; var mytree = TreeNode12 TreeEmpty TreeNode42 TreeEmpty TreeEmpty; var myfn = pattern // Match on an Empty tree node // Match on a Node with a value of 12 // Match on a Node that has non-Empty children // Match on a Node that has a left child Node of 42 and an Empty right node ;
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International Development Research Centre
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC; Français: Centre de recherches pour le développement international; CRDI) is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that supports research in developing countries to promote growth and development. The aim of IDRC is to create innovative, lasting local solutions that build "healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies."[1]
IDRC was established by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 under The International Development Research Centre Act, which directs IDRC "to initiate, encourage, support and conduct research into the problems of the developing regions of the world and into the means for applying and adapting scientific, technical, and other knowledge to the economic and social advancement of those regions."[2]
To fulfill this mandate, IDRC encourages and supports researchers from developing countries to conduct research in their own institutions and regions. In doing so, IDRC supports networking, capacity building, and knowledge sharing between scientific, academic, and development communities in Canada and developing countries.[3]
IDRC funds research under four broad themes:
Agriculture and the environment: Work focuses on a healthy environment and improved human health; sustainable agriculture and food security; adaptation to climate change; and environmental economics.[4]
Global health policy: Research areas include equal access to health; improved healthcare delivery and policies; and better understanding of emerging and chronic diseases.[5]
Science and innovation: Supports research on means of achieving inclusive growth and development spurred by science, technology, and innovation, and on the role of stronger universities and creative industries.[6]
Social and economic policy: Research seeks to foster informed debate on key public policy issues related to poverty reduction, social equity, and the rule of law.[7]
IDRC research contributes to Government of Canada foreign policy and a number of development priorities and Millennium Development Goals. This includes participation in the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, the Innovating for Maternal and Newborn Child Health in Africa program, and the Global Health Research Initiative.
IDRC builds on decades of work on gender issues, international relations and global governance, and the role of information and communication technologies in development. It integrates these dimensions into all research themes.
IDRC's work is guided by an international Board of Governors. The Honourable Monte Solberg, P.C., former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, is Acting Chairperson. He reports to Parliament through the Minister of Foreign Affairs.[8]
IDRC President Jean Lebel manages the Centre's operations with the support of the Senior Management Committee. Previous IDRC presidents include David M. Malone (2008-2013), Maureen O'Neil (1997–2008), Keith Bezanson (1991–1997), Ivan Head, (1978–1991), and David Hopper (1970–1978).
The head office of IDRC is located in Canada's national capital, Ottawa, Ontario. In addition, there are four regional offices, located in Kenya, Egypt, India, and Uruguay.[9]
The Nairobi office opened in 1975 and serves the sub-Saharan Africa region.
The Cairo office serves the Middle East and North Africa and was opened in 1975.
The New Delhi office opened in 1983 and serves Asia.
The Montevideo office opened in 1989 and serves Latin America and the Caribbean. Before that, IDRC's regional office was in Bogota, Colombia; it was in operation from 1973 to 1989.
In addition to its parliamentary appropriation, IDRC receives funding from a number of domestic and international donors. Government partnerships exist between IDRC and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, and the UK Department for International Development, for example.
IDRC also receive contributions from a number of private donors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, among others. A number of IDRC projects are carried out in partnership or with researchers at universities and institutions across Canada. These include the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, McGill University, Memorial University, Simon Fraser University, Western University, and the universities of Alberta, British Columbia, Guelph, Laval, Saskatchewan, and Toronto, among others.
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/EN/AboutUs/WhoWeAre/Pages/IDRCAct.aspx
- ^ http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/I-19.pdf
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/EN/AboutUs/Accountability/AnnualReports/Annual%20Report%202012-2013.pdf
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Programs/Agriculture_and_the_Environment/Pages/default.aspx
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Programs/Global_Health_Policy/Pages/default.aspx
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Programs/Science_and_Innovation/Pages/default.aspx
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Programs/Social_and_Economic_Policy/Pages/default.aspx
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/EN/AboutUs/Governance/Pages/default.aspx
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The highly influential Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock. Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's subsequent album Too High to Die went gold, selling over 500,000 albums, and became their most successful release. The band reunited in 2006.
Recorded at The Saltmine in Phoenix, Arizona in winter 2009, their new album Sewn Together features brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood, with drummer Ted Marcus. Sewn Together will be released May 12, 2009 on Megaforce Records.
For the new album, Curt and Cris chose a home town studio that offered analog process to help add purity. And with production helmed by Curt, creative freedom arrived du jour. With no contrived map to follow, the best friend of artistry - spontaneity - governed. Indeed, going into the studio, only Curt knew what songs he planned to cut. The label didn't ask, and neither did the band. When the guiding minstrel is as honed and proven as Curt, it is both easy and incumbent to roll with the pitch.
With the resulting new album, the Puppets ambitiously dart the melodic spectrum between buoyant pop structures, like album-opener "Sewn Together" and the grand sweep of "Clone", two of the precision-perfect gems that will come to represent this record as a keeper. The album rides to close in pure pop fashion. The infectious "Love Mountain", a song that hearkens back better than a decade, at last weaving itself free of Curt's inner awareness, emerges taut yet jangly enough to please George Harrison and George Martin.
Looking ahead to May '09, the Puppets start the first leg of extensive road work celebrating the new record, but as with every Puppets' tour, the show will be certain to range over the course of performance afforded it by the Puppets' endearingly adventurous career. The Sewn Together tour kicks off May 12 in Los Angeles.
Tour Dates:
05.12 - The Mint - Los Angeles, CA
05.27 - Waterfront Park - Louisville, KY
05.28 - Blueberry Hill - St Louis, MO
05.29 - High Noon - Madison, WI
05.30 - Schubas - Chicago, IL
05.31 - Schubas - Chicago, IL
06.02 - Radio Radio - Indianapolis, IN
06.03 - The Summit - Columbus, OH
06.04 - Magic Stick - Detroit, MI
06.05 - Mr Smalls - Pittsburgh, PA
06.06 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH
06.07 - Mohawk Place - Buffalo, NY
06.09 - Higher Ground - Burlington, VT
06.10 - Paradise - Boston, MA
06.11 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY
06.12 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY
06.13 - Rock n Roll Hotel - Washington, DC
06.14 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
06.16 - The Earl - Altanta, GA
06.17 - Exit/In - Nashville, TN
06.19 - Cambridge Room - Dallas, TX
06.20 - The Parish - Austin, TX
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Fuck yea!! Sadly, I doubt I'll be able to catch any of these shows, but psyched for the new album!
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2 nights in Chicago. Kick ass. I gotta catch one of those shows. Im not gonnna lie... Im one of those people who jumped on the Meat Puppets bandwagon after the Nirvana unplugged appearance. Total side note.. I think the Nirvana Unplugged concert was the defining musical moment of the 90's. Loved when it was ALWAYS on MTV when I was like 15.
Yes! This and the Dinosaur Jr. is sweet, although it does suck that I'm going to miss both their NYC shows for that damn festival named Bonnaroo. Meat Puppets can shred harder than just about anyone so see them live. Can't wait as well for new albums from These United States and Cracker. What a great time for music. Oh and the Red Red Meat reissues should be great: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2009/03/26/red-red-meat-bunny-gets-paid-reissue/
Jkuss... i got the Unplugged dvd for X-mas last year and I watch it all the time. Not a HUGE Nirvana guy, but I dig them as much as the next person. I just love how, from begining to end, it comepletly still holds up. Oh yea Meat Puppets are wicked pissah
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Probe Conference Details :- October 10th and 11th 2015
Probe Conference Details
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10.00 am to 11.15 am Brian Halliwell(Uncovering the truths behind the stories )
11.30am - 12.45 pm Ben Emlyn-JonesIT WAS after the birth of his daughter that Ben Emlyn-Jones started believing the world was not what it seemed. Sixteen years on, he has created his own professional organisation dedicated to peddling his ideas – Hospital Porters Against the New World Order. The conspiracy theorist is convinced the world is run by secret powers, the moon landings never happened, Al Qaeda was not behind 9/11 and that we live in a matrix. "I feel a bit like Neo in The Matrix," said Aberystwyth-born Ben. "Morpheus says, 'There is something wrong with the world, there is like a splinter in your mind'. "I've always felt there is something wrong with the world. That something does not add up. Suspicions gradually started building up about various things. I started looking at various viewpoints. Especially on the internet." Ben refuses to give his age since he founded the Ageless Movement believing one's age is "oppressive" and he has filmed himself chopping up his passport because he objected to the amount of information it held. "I didn't want to be part of any Big Brother state," he said. Ben also has grave doubts over official accounts of the Twin Tower attacks. He is convinced it was an inside job." 9/11 seems to be one of those incidents that could be described as a false flag attack, " What new information will Ben tell us , wait and see.
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A class-action lawsuit that charged fast-food restaurant Taco Bell with serving just 35 percent beef in its taco filling was withdrawn by the Alabama-based law firm that filed it.
Beasley Allen, based out of Montgomery, Alabama, withdrew the class-action lawsuit after the company made changes to its marketing and product disclosure. Taco Bell CEO Greg Creed said the company spent between $3 and $4 million to counter the allegations in the lawsuit. He added that the company did not pay any money or change any of its products or advertising.
"This sets the record straight about the high quality of our seasoned beef and the integrity of our advertising," Creed said in an interview with the AP. "We took great exception to the false claims made about our seasoned beef and wish the attorneys had contacted us before filing and publicizing a lawsuit that disparaged our brand."
After the lawsuit was filed, Taco Bell purchased advertisements in major U.S. newspapers and launched a YouTube campaign to counteract the negative publicity.
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James Nelson Exhibit Opens 2/17 at McKenzie Fine Art
McKenzie Fine Art announces an exhibition of new drawings by James Nelson, opening Thursday, February 17 and running through Saturday, March 19, 2011. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, February 17 from 6 to 8 p.m.
"Two Ton Hammer" is James Nelson's reaction to the recent loss of his friend, Tomcat Mahoney, who hosted the WNYE radio program, The Other Half, from 1990 to1995. Nelson's title refers to the first line of the Captain Beefheart song, "Hard Working Man," which Mahoney used as a theme song for his program. The exhibition includes new charcoal-and-graphite drawings by Nelson, as well as an installation of reproductions of Mahoney's handwritten playlists and audio of his broadcasts. Nelson's mysterious, quietly powerful drawings were created during the yearlong process of carefully listening to and digitizing his friend's original-broadcast cassette recordings.
Nelson's past drawings ranged from Zen-like fields of organic abstraction to representations of wildly overflowing locks of hair, all of which simultaneously featured elements of understated tranquility and assertive abundance. His current drawings, primarily of hammers in close view or of human ears, highlight the same meditative and cumulative aspects of drawing. Nelson's charcoal marks on handmade Japanese papers add organic warmth to the depictions of hammers without diminishing the strength of their potential energy. The hammers are shown in groups or singly, but do not appear to be wielded by human hands. When in groups, they overlap at odd angles suggesting a chaotic chorus of ringing strikes. The single hammers, in contrast, seem obdurately focused when posing or striking. The disembodied ears in Nelson's drawings sometimes appear as single entities, but more often in groups, floating across open spaces, and drawn at different scales accentuated by touches of colored pencil. As with the hammers, there is tension between isolated individual elements and the diffusion of their multiplicity.
In addition to Nelson's drawings, a listening station will be available with digitized versions of The Other Half broadcasts derived from over 200 hours of original tape recordings. Mahoney's handwritten playlists surrounding the listening station indicate the scope of his broadcasts, which included Blues classics from the likes of Big Mama Thornton, Albert King, and Lightnin' Hopkins, along with in-studio visits and interviews with artists such as the Persuasions, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and Frank Zappa-Mahoney's ultimate hero.
Nelson writes of his work: "Throughout this year of drawing with the Blues I have been confronted with shock of a loss, the intimacy of a voice, and the power of listening closely."
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. On Saturdays the gallery opens at 11:00 a.m. Mondays are by appointment.
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Many health experts believe that most people are eating too much acidic foods in their diet. They are encouraging them to shift towards eating more alkaline foods, which will help counteract the acidity that we receive from many of the foods we consume on a daily basis. Alkaline diets focus on the consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts.
Alkaline diets are becoming increasingly popular among both health experts and consumers. However, experts can't agree on the benefits of following an alkaline diet or whether they should be encouraging their patients to try them.
What Does an Alkaline Diet Look Like?
There are a number of foods that will help lower the acidity levels (pH) in your blood. The most alkaline foods include:
- Watermelon
- Mushrooms
- Broccoli
- Lettuce
- Onions
- Pineapple
- Cherries
- Almonds
- Chestnuts
- Cinnamon
There are hundreds of other foods that you can consider adding to your diet. You can find a listing of these foods from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Alkaline diets also discourage patients from eating meats, rices, oils and many dairy products. The diets aren't strictly vegan or vegetarian. Experts encouraging patients to follow alkaline diets simply encourage them to limit the amount of food they consume from these other sources and eat a higher quantity of alkaline foods.
What Are the Potential Benefits About Following an Alkaline Diet?
Many experts believe that there are a number of benefits to eating an alkaline diet. Alkaline diets could provide the following benefits:
- Slow the rate at which muscles and bones deteriorate over time. This could potentially reduce the likelihood of bone disease and painful joint problems.
- Increase the production of sematotropin and other hormones which are needed to help the body heal from injuries and fight disease.
- Reduce the risk of cancer.
- Reduce the likelihood that you will develop kidney stones.
There are a number of potential benefits from eating a more alkaline diet. The medical community has not been able to conclusively link these health benefits to lower blood acidity levels. However, preliminary research has shown that the diet could be very beneficial to fighting off many illnesses. Many health care professionals have said that their patients' health has improved considerably after making these changes to their diet.
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Health experts haven't raised any significant concerns with alkaline diets themselves. However, some argue that their colleagues who push for a more alkaline diet may be encouraging their patients to follow a stricter diet that doesn't provide them with the nutrients they need. They may not receive enough protein and calcium in their diets.
These risks are not a drawback of the diet itself. However, people following an alkaline diet should make sure that they go through the efforts to get all the nutrients they need. Lowering your body's pH can be beneficial, but it can't come at the expense of all your other dietary needs.
Overall, there appear to be a number of benefits to people who follow an alkaline diet. More research will be needed to confirm this link. However, you may want to consider asking your physician or dietitian if the diet could work for you.
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Cheating, lying boyfriend. what do i do ?
I have had suspicions for awhile that my boyfriend maybe cheating on me. I have been with him for just over a year. He told me that he constantly... Show More
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I'd break up with him and say it's because you feel that you cannot trust him... You don't have to say you know everything in fact it's to your advantage not to mention it as he'd probably just try and turn it against you by saying you have no right to invade his privacy and so on. Ending it this way means you can end it and voice your opinion, at the same time it's something he can't argue against. If he tries to convince you or beg, you can just say it's how you feel and that it's important to you. Believe me it sucks now, but being free for a while and moving on will eventually feel good.
Thank you ! He has arranged to meet a girl on Saturday ! I have a good mind to just turn up !
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If a girl dates a guy after "He told me that he constantly cheated on his previous girlfriend but he would never do that to me", she's a M-O-R-O-N.
Haha .. I love your answer and you are so right ! In my meagre defence I just have to say that he only recently admitted that to me ! But I do agree with you ! That is what set the alarm bells ringing and why I looked on his phone !
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First, get yourself checked out and make sure you don't have any weird diseases coming at you. At the very least, you'll either get some peace of mind or at least know what you may be facing.
He really doesn't deserve an explanation. He has his own guilty conscience to tell him; citing that he is cheating, or that his phone was an asset only lets him know that you are aware; it is not informative to the moral state of the relationship. If you let him know how you figured it out, he'll use that information to sharpen his skills and not get caught by the next girl. Yeah, its kind of sticking it to him, just disappearing from his life like that, but I think he has earned it. The sad thing is, outside the obligatory crocodile tears, he'll probably barley know you are gone.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The New Orleans Hornets have waived forward Dominic McGuire, who's been with the club a little under a month. Since being signed on Dec. 16, the 6-foot-9 McGuire has appeared in nine games. He's averaged 2.1 points, 3.1 rebounds and an assist in 16 minutes per game. McGuire, a six-year veteran, has career averages of 2.8 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.2 assists in 340 games, including 83 starts. McGuire's release has trimmed the Hornets' active roster to 13 players.
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The question is, do I go ahead and buy a 3000 or do I wait till October for a PSP Go!? I would wait for the Go! except I'm not sure how I like not having a UMD drive on it. That's the only concern I have about it.
Also, how much could I get for a very well kept PSP 1000 with a 512MB memory stick, and the charger? I'll also probably replace the faceplate with a new official Sony faceplate, so that might raise the price a little bit. I probably won't sell it (especially if I get a Go! so I will still be able to play my UMD games), I'm just wondering how much I could get for it.
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Encosta da Orada Albufeira
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Apartment / 1 bedrooms / sleeps 4
|Key Info
This apartment has one of the best positions on the complex with views from the balcony of the gardens , pool sea and Marina complex . Situated in a quiet location away from any noisy bars, yet wihin 10 minutes you can walk down the white washed streets to Albufeira Old Town which is a vibrant hub of restaurants, live music bars, street entertainers and musicians.
This property is spacious and airy, with loads of day light making it feels really homely. It is furnished to a highest standard in a contemporary but cosy style, with a comfortable and luxury furnishing.
With loads of space both inside and outside the property, you will have a choice of a relaxing evening on the sofa with a glass of wine. Enjoy dining with your family and friends on the balcony viewing the beautiful gardens and sea view .
|Sleeps up to 4, 1 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Town Beach 500 m
|Car not necessary
|Nearest Amenities
|500 m
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Faro
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Jacuzzi or hot tub, DVD player, Sea view
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Children's pool
|TV, CD player, Safe
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|1 bedroom, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|2 Sofa beds, Single beds (2), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Shared garden
|Secure parking, Lift access, Suitable for people with restricted mobility, Not suitable for wheelchair users
|Further details indoors
The apartment has secure underground car parking and video entry phone and is accessed via stairs or a lift to the 2cnd floor. The bathroom has wc, bidet, shower and jacuzzi bath.
The kitchen / diner has dining for 4 people, granite work tops, cooker, hob, microwave, washing mashine, large fridge freezer, dishwasher and is fully equipped for your stay. The bedroom has 2 large single beds( can be pushed together )and wall to ceiling wardrobes.
Rated 4star plus on Trip Advisor by all that have stayed
The lounge has 2 large sofa beds, coffee table and tv and dvd player.
The Kitchen , Lounge and Bedroom all lead out to the balcony with views from all rooms of the pool and gardens
The apartment has one of the best positions on the complex , with the balcony overlooking the gardens, pool , the sea and Marina , with a table and 4 chairs for alfresco dining and to enjoy the view.
Note, these are privately owned apartments maintained at a high standard , no tour operators operate here . So no gangs of beer swilling youths around the pool !
Security Guards operate on site for your families added safety and security ( from June to September , 24 hours in August )
|Further details outdoors
Outside the apartment there are beautiful landscaped gardens which lead on to a cascading swimming pool, there are 2 pools one for children also a poolside shower and wc .
To the rear of the complex there is a floodlit tennis court. Near by there is a bus stop next to Dolphin island, the Giro service will take you all around the Albufeira district for around 1 euro. The island is also a pick up point for any excursions you may book. A short walk from the apartment ther are local shops and restaurants
Also you are wihin minutes of the Marina or the cliff lined beautiful beaches of Albufeira which stretch for miles. This location will give you everything you want for a fabulous holday on the Algarve.
|Further details
When you book I will send you a receipt and full confirmation.
Advise you on the best transfers.
Give you detailed instructions that will take you to the door of the apartment.
Have someone to meet you, give you the keys and show you the property.
Send you by post my personal guide and recommendations of the best bars , restaurants, tour operators ,
where you can travel around the area for 1 euro, and get a large beer for 1 euro 50 !
You can be assured of a great holiday at our apartment.
The Algarve region
The Algarve is the southernmost point of mainland Portugal and covers an areaof 500km .With 200km of Atlantic coastline. It has a climate similar to the Medierranean. Today the Algarve is a favourite holiday destination, being famous for its beautiful beaches, amazing countryside, vibrant night life ,splended golf courses, excellent restaurants, culture and popular customs, and the friendly charm and welcome of its people.
The wonderful climate warm and sunny all yeay round , gives the visitors the opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of sport , culture and leisure activities.
Cerro da Piedade
Portugal is famous for its stunning coastline. The sandy beach of the Old Town is 10 minutes walk away or you can visit the stunning beaches of Gale, Sao Rafael and Sesmarias are only a few minutes drive away.
There are many attractions within 20 minutes drive away including many golf courses, Zoo Marina where you can swim with dolphins , Aqualand and Slide and Splash Water Parks, and Algarve Shopping Mall, you can book many boat trips from the near by Marina. Also the beautiful towns of Silves , Monique and Lagos are all worth a visit. There are a number of tour operators in the town that can take you on excellent tours of the district .
Albufeira itself is a vibrant resort with some beautiful beaches.The centre still retains its tradional Portugese character while catering for the visitors every need .
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19 Sep 2014
"Great apartment well worth it!"
From start to finish the information received was spot on! The old town was really nice. The one thing I loved about the pool area was no hogging sun beds the staff do not allow it which was perfect for us. Thanks
14 Jun 2013
"Lovely, well equipped apartment within a quiet area of Albufeira"
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Encosta da Orada apartments. From enquiring about the property and for the duration of our stay, Alan Jones gave us a first class service and was so approachable and helpful to make sure we had a lovely holiday. The apartment was spotless, beautifully presented and so well equipped. The sofa beds were an excellent size but the single beds in the main bedroom were a little too hard for our liking. It's location was ideal with lovely views across the gardens towards the pools and the complex was beautifully landscaped and maintained throughout. There were two lovely pools and the tennis court was an added bonus. The complex is situated in a quiet residential area about a 10 minute downhill walk to the centre of the old town with a variety of bars and restaurants within easy reach. We've had a fantastic, relaxing stay here and would highly recommend to others.
16 Sep 2012
"Beautiful spacious apartment in lovely quiet grounds yet only 10 minutes walk from Old Town - excellent"
All the delails for the stay had been sent in advance in a nice welcome pack and we were met as planned, very well managed.
The apartment complex is lovely, very quiet and secure. The apartment itself was really nice, clean, spacious with all mod cons,, great balcony space and well furnished throughout.
The pool area was great, 2 pools, one for kids, so loads of room for everyone.
Only 10-15 minutes walk to the Old Town and beach it's perfectly located for any type of holiday - a great spot!
6 Jun 2012
"beautiful apartment and complex"
loved the apartment and the 2 seperate were great for 2 teenage boys not wishing to share a 'normal' double bed settee. very well equipped. loved the balcony with a pleasant breeze and good view. the aprtment is a 10 - 15 min walk to the old town (all downhill). yes it is very steep to get up - so we got a taxi back everytime - it only cost 4 euros - but ask to be dropped off at dolpin roundabout (bus stop) as it is nearer to the door and cheaper in the taxi. the complex was very well looked after with beautiful grounds. swimming pools a bit cold but i am a 'softie' and its only early summer yet. Great resort too lots to do if you wish or can just chill. one very good restaurant was 'via lactea' lunch time menu was fantastic and cheap. ie; either 2 huge pork chops/ sardines/ mackeral/ chicken piri piri + cost 4.90 euros served with chips and salad! also very good 'seafood rice' which was to die for as cost about £10 per head and is extremely filling. also best king shrimp cocktail. find it next to the chemist just of the old town square. We also enjoyed a portugese restuarant at the marina (can't remember the name, but i think it was the only 'real portugese' restaurant down there.. great holiday all round and would recomend the apartment to all ages. It is really a very relaxing and peaceful complex. Alan was very good to deal with and gave lots of helpful hints etc.
27 Sep 2011
"Beautifully looked after apartment in a stunning setting, loved everything!"
We stayed at this apartment with two young children and it was perfect in every way. The apartment was exceptionally well presented and clean and in a brilliant spot within the complex. Views over the pool and down the hillside to the sea were stunning both day and night and the complex was very peaceful. Alan was a fantastic host, responding to all queries and questions we had quickly and with helpful ideas. The apartment was cleaned after a week of being there, which was a really great touch! We hired a car as had two small children with us, and the walk up the hill would have been a bit long without it. Was great to have as could park within the old town and also visit all the beautiful surrounding beaches. There was ample parking in the complex, all of which felt very secure. A super place to visit as a family and the pool was perfect for both small and older children - we will definitely book again!
21 Sep 2011
"Beautiful and Quiet"
The apartment and complex are quiet and well maintained, exactly what we were looking for in a holiday. The complex is lovely, with a quiet pool area, no need to get up early to reserve a sun bed. 10-15 minute walk into the old town, with loads of restaurants and bars. There is a very steep hill down to the town or beach so make sure you take some sensible shoes. Favourite bar was 'Steps' bar which played live music each night and had a welcoming atmosphere. Have been to the same apartment 2 years in row, and we usually make a point of never going to the same place twice so that tells you how much we enjoyed our break.
19 Aug 2011
It was nicer than we have ever stayed in before, Alan the owner is great to communicate with the appartment was clean spacious and very well equiped the small pool most days was like our own private one all in all a beautiful complex so good we came home and re-booked it for next year!
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"You Gotta Be Kidding!"
by Mickey Charles CEO, The Sports Network
The sale of Barry Bonds simply has not worked. There is college football, NBA pre-season, NFL, the Sopranos, re-runs of Sex in the City and Seinfeld. Those are just for openers. Waiting until the 11:00 p.m. late news or the next day's Today or Good Morning America is fine for most of us. We get the score, yawn, have breakfast and head out to do what awaits us on a daily basis. Such is the interest in MLB's shining moment.
If the folks in Anaheim, people in the stands aside, and the ones down at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco aren't that interested, what can Fox expect from Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston and other major markets? Like it or not, without the Yankees the ratings are less than those Mr. Rogers might accumulate for his neighborhood.
As a matter of fact, it seems that the first game of the Fall Classic this year had the lowest viewer rating in the history of televised first games of the World Series.
The probable good news is that these two teams are not playing where small fires have to be built in the bullpen and the heating bill for the dugouts is equal to the one for the entire city of Vail in the middle of winter. The pitchers are not thawing out between batters and fly balls to the outfield are not coming down with ice on them.
Also, although it is an "all-California" encounter, it is not the focus of the day, or night, for the body builders on Venice Beach, shoppers strutting down Rodeo Drive, would-be movie moguls on Mulholland and everyone else in Santa Monica taking time out from a brief stop at the local Starbucks. That attitude may not be shared by everyone in the City by the Bay, but Silicon Valley has not come to a grinding halt. After all, this is the fourth all-California World Series, the others being: 1974 - Oakland/LA; 1988 - Oakland/LA (Kirk Gibson HR); 1989 - Oakland/SF (the famous Earthquake Series) - and how many of you knew that until you read it here?
You have to hearken back to the Chicago Cubs (although this is not as drastic) when you think about Giants' fans and realize that this is the first World Series for the San Franciscans since 1989 and that they haven't won the Series since moving to San Francisco in 1958. They lost in 1962 to the Yankees and last won the Series in 1954 against Cleveland. The way things are going as of this writing, it is a toss-up with the possibility of the fog settling in over the Golden Gate Bridge descending upon Pac Bell Park shortly. Will the swing of Bonds' bat blow it away? We'll see.
As for Barry Bonds, he had just one homer and six RBIs with a .196 batting average
in 27 career post-season games (1990-92 with Pittsburgh; 1997 & 2000 with SF) entering the 2002 playoffs. He has four home runs, 10 RBI and a .286 batting average with 14 walks in 10 games this post-season before taking an the Angelic ones.
They might be good players, even better than good, but Jeff Kent, Benito Santiago (2002 NLCS MVP) and Kenny Lofton of the Giants are not what one would call household names. The really interesting news about them is that Kent was the 2000 NL MVP and caused a stir in the Spring when he broke his wrist. He said he was hurt after falling while washing his truck (presuming he was on the top of the cab that was 15-20' high) but there were witnesses that said he was injured while popping wheelies while riding his motorcycle. He also got into a shoving match in the dugout with Bonds this season. The two don't really like each other but Bonds said, late in the season, that Kent, who can be a free agent after the Series, should be re-signed.
This is a group that was made for the George Steinbrenner of years ago.
The other Giants' "stars" include SS Rich Aurilia, a solid hitter who hit 37 homers and batted .324 in 2001 but struggled this year with 15 HR and .257 BA. 3B David Bell is a good fielder with a decent bat and is known as a gamer. As forgettable a group as one can put together.
The one thing that the Angels have done consistently is prove why they were the top hitting team in the AL this season with their two big innings in the playoffs -- eight runs in the 5th inning of Game 4 against Yankees and 10 runs in the 7th inning of the clincher against the Twins, not to mention Game 3 of this Series. They hit everything, according to some. Mike Mussina was quoted as saying, after the Yankees series, that they foul off your good pitches, then kill every "mistake pitch" you throw.
How much did you really know about Troy Glaus, Garret Anderson (Garret with one 't'), Darin (only 1 'r') Erstad, and Tim Salmon before the series with the Yankees and now the big one for all the marbles? How about like nothing? What about Adam Kennedy, who hit three homers in clinching Game 5 of ALCS against Twins, tying a record for most homers in a post-season game. A guy who is smaller than some of the bats in the rack is now up there with Babe Ruth, who did it in the 1926 and '27 World Series, and Reggie Jackson in '77 Series. The group also includes Pittsburgh's Bob Robertson in 1971 NLCS and Kansas City's George Brett in 1978 ALCS. Kennedy has four homers this post-season after hitting a
total of seven in the regular season.
Give me a break!
Gene Autry would love David Eckstein because he is a pest -- a guy you love to have on your
team and a guy you hate when he's the opposition.
The Angels' pitching is, as we now know, is anchored by starters Jarrod Washburn, Ramon Ortiz, Kevin Appier and rookie John Lackey. In the bullpen are 20-year-old right-hander Francisco Rodriguez and closer Troy Percival. These two have been likened to the Yankee 1996 Series pair of Mariano Rivera and John Wetteland. Again, not exactly memorable names before or after the Series.
According to the Nielsen Ratings, the League Championship Series ratings were up 13 percent from a year ago through the first four games. But, for the World Series, are many more people watching down on this with Gene Autry paying dividends on Fox's purchase of Bonds? You gotta be kidding!


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A companion to Game Plan for Life NIV Bible, Game Plan for Life Chalk Talks offers forty readings written by three-time Super Bowl Champion Coach and three-time NASCAR Champion Team Owner Joe Gibbs that will inspire and encourage sports fans and regular Joes. Most men want to know what it takes to be a success in life. Not just with wealth and awards, but to be truly great as a husband, father, son, and neighbor. Coach Gibbs knows both success and failure, but he has learned that no matter how much you plan for your life, its Gods plan that will bring you happiness. Game Plan for Life Chalk Talks includes inspiring stories, practical application, a Scripture verse, and prayer.
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Joe Gibbs is a three-time Super Bowl winning coach and a three-time NASCAR champion team owner, who has a heart for connecting with men on the issues they face. Joe and his wife have two grown sons, eight grandchildren and live outside Charlotte, North Carolina.
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IreneUnited States5 Stars Out Of 5Easy to read and understandAugust 8, 2012IreneUnited StatesQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for Game Plan for Life: Chalk Talks Devotional.This book is said to be a companion book to the Bible version Game Plan For Life in the NIV. I think this devotional can stand on its own.
These devotionals are easy to read and understand. With references to visits at the home depot and planning for a game I think every man will find his examples easy to relate too. The devotions are not very long. Each one starts with a verse and ends with a prayer. I found them to be practical and filled with great advice.
I like how in each devotional you find a little of the personality of the author. In one devotional he talks about he is just an "average Joe" like every one else. He says that in his life he is always looking for help to make it through and has found the Bible to be his greatest resource.
I gave this book 5/5 stars. I liked how practical it was. I enjoyed the easy to understand and short devotionals. I would recommend this book as a gift for any Christian man, especially those who are on the lookout for a devotional book.
I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for the copy of this book I enjoyed reading. I gave an honest review based on my opinion of what I read.


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The impassioned defenses of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford make perfect sense. Lions coach Jim Schwartz isn't losing his confidence in his star signal-caller. Wide receiver Calvin Johnson also thinks it's wrong to place so much blame on Stafford for the team's latest slump. They want to believe their fifth-year leader remains the answer to Detroit's long-term future. They have no interest in exploring a possibility that is becoming harder to ignore -- that Stafford might never be the man to take this team where it wants to go.
At this point in Stafford's career, it's fair to question his ceiling. The Lions -- a team that sat atop the NFC North a few weeks ago -- have dropped four of their past five games, including a baffling 18-16 home loss to Baltimore on Monday night. In that stretch, Stafford has thrown 10 interceptions, lost two fumbles and produced only one performance when he completed more than 57 percent of his attempts. In other words, he is playing the worst football of his career at the worst possible time.
That has been somewhat overshadowed by questions about the future of Schwartz, who arrived in Detroit just a few months before Stafford became the first pick in the 2009 draft. It's actually a silly discussion to entertain at this point. Schwartz surely knows his job is in jeopardy if the Lions don't reach the playoffs. He has had five seasons and barely survived at the end of last season.
The real question is whether Stafford can take that next step in his development. That should be especially galling to Detroit fans, given the five-year, $76.5 million extension he signed this summer. He's always had plenty of gunslinger in his game, and few quarterbacks in the league can match his arm strength. His decision-making and his struggles at critical junctures are a different matter. Stafford might be moving toward an exasperating career that starkly resembles Tony Romo's in Dallas.
Consider the Baltimore game. Even though Stafford was plagued by some dropped passes, he also threw three interceptions, the biggest of which came on Detroit's final drive. The Lions had three timeouts, 38 seconds remaining and the ball on their own 20-yard line when that possession began. It ended one play later, when Stafford lofted a pass that was too high for wide receiver Nate Burleson to catch, a throw that ultimately landed in the hands of Ravens safety Matt Elam.
That pass in that situation defied explanation. The Lions had ample opportunity to move the ball into field goal range in a game they trailed by two points. Forget about what Peyton Manning or Tom Brady would have done in such circumstances. There are plenty of younger quarterbacks who could have delivered in that moment, including Indianapolis' Andrew Luck and Seattle's Russell Wilson.


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Police arrested a Macclenny mother the evening of May 16 after going to her west city residence to investigate a crying and screaming baby who she left in a crib while she was passed out on drugs elsewhere in her trailer home.
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In today's Academic Minute, David Hsu of the University of Michigan explains how the brain deals with the pain of social rejection. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
The most frequently awarded grade for undergraduates at Harvard University is an A, and the median grade is A-. University officials released those facts Tuesday at a meeting of arts and sciences faculty members, and a Harvard spokesman confirmed the information Tuesday night. The spokesman cautioned in an email against too much emphasis on the grade data. "We believe that learning is the most important thing that happens in our classrooms and throughout our system of residential education. The faculty are focused on creating positive and lasting learning outcomes for our undergraduates," he said. "We watch and review trends in grading across Harvard College, but we are most interested in helping our students learn and learn well."
Some Harvard faculty members are concerned, however, about grade inflation. Harvey Mansfield, who has repeatedly raised the issue, was the one who brought it up with questions at Tuesday's meeting. He told The Boston Globe that he thought grading patterns were "really indefensible."
The Chinese word for "crisis," as generations of commencement speakers have reminded us, is written using the same character as "opportunity." Whatever inspirational quality this chestnut may possess does not grow with repetition – and it is a curmudgeonly pleasure to learn that it's wrong, or at best only fractionally true.
In fact both "crisis" and "opportunity" are written with two characters. The one they share can mean "quick-witted" or "device," depending on context, and can be combined with another glyph to write "airplane." (An airplane is uplifting, albeit not motivationally.) And Victor H. Mair, the professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania who debunked this hardy linguistic urban legend, points out that apart from the Sinological blunder, it's terrible advice: "Any would-be guru who advocates opportunism in the face of crisis should be run out of town on a rail, for his/her advice will only compound the danger of the crisis."
But you don't uproot a cultural weed all that easily -- especially not when crisis-mindedness has become totally normal. That's a paradox but it's also indisputable. A quick search of Google News finds 89.5 million articles with the word "crisis" in them as of this writing. Rhetorical inflation has a lot to do with it, of course. But it's also the long-term effect of a state of mind that Susan Sontag characterized so well in an essay from 1988: "A permanent modern scenario: apocalypse looms … and it doesn't occur. And it still looms. […] Modern life accustoms us to live with the intermittent awareness of monstrous, unthinkable – but, we are told, quite probable – disasters."
The instances she had in mind were the threat of nuclear war and the AIDS epidemic. In 25 years, neither has disappeared, though other catastrophes (actual and potential) have moved to the fore. The crises change, but not the structure of feeling.
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman, published by Duke University Press, digs deeper than Sontag's comments on apocalypse fatigue. Roitman, an associate professor of anthropology at the New School, approaches the ongoing discussion of subprime mortgage "crisis" (as it's hard not to think of it) with questions about the assumptions and implicit limitations of a word so ubiquitous that it is normally taken for granted.
She does so by way of the late Reinhart Koselleck's approach to intellectual history, known by a term even some of his English-language commentators have preferred to leave untranslated: Begriffsgeschichte. No way am I going to try to type that again, so let's just refer to it as "conceptual history." But arguably use of the full Teutonic monty is justified in order to distinguish Koselleck's work from what, in the Anglo-American tradition, is called the history of ideas.
As Koselleck writes in an entry for a major conceptual-history handbook on social and political ideas, the term "crisis" played an important role in the work of the Young Hegelians, who took their master's thinking about the philosophy of history as a starting point for the critique of existing institutions. Given that a key term in Hegel's system is Begriff (the Concept) and that one of the Young Hegelians was Karl Marx, who maintained that recurrent crisis was an inescapable part of the history of capitalism itself – well, given all that, it's possible to see how the word Begriffsgeschichte might carry layers of implication soon lost in translation.
The argument of Anti-Crisis is nothing if not oblique, and self-reflexive to boot, and paraphrasing it seems a fool's errand. It is a good idea to grapple with Koselleck's essay on crisis before reading Roitman's book (so I learned the hard way) and no hard feelings on my part if you did so before finishing this column.
So now to run that errand. For Roitman, "crisis" is not simply a clichéd label for -- among other things -- recent economic developments, but a fraught and dubious concept. The word itself has roots in an ancient Greek medical term referring to the phase of an illness which will either kill the patient or end in recovery. It came into frequent use to describe social, political, and cultural phenomena beginning late in the 18th century -- one element in a very complex series of shifts of meaning between religious concepts of social and cosmic order and a (seemingly?) secular pattern of life.
The French Revolution, with the spectacle of comprehensive upheaval, doubtless made the word especially vivid. But Koselleck also cites Thomas Paine's The Crisis, from 1776. "To Paine, the War of Independence was no mere political or military event," he writes; "rather it was the completion of a universal world historical process, the final Day of Judgment that would entail the end of all tyranny and the ultimate victory over hell... ."
In sum, then, "crisis" came to possess small range of theological, political, and other connotations. Calling something a crisis implies its urgency or consequentiality. But it also posits that elements of the crisis are intelligible. They are the effects of departures from a norm, or aspects in the unfolding of some grand narrative. The crisis has causes, which we can discover. It has effects, which we begin to interpret even while enduring them.
"Crisis is a blind spot that enables the production of knowledge," writes Roitman. "… More precisely, it is a distinction that secures 'a world' for observation." The process rests upon "a distinction that generates and refers to an 'inviolate level' of order (not crisis)" that "is seen to be contingent (historical crises) and yet is likewise posited as beyond the play of contingency, being a logical necessity that is affirmed in paradox (the formal possibility of crisis)."
Now, assuming I understand her argument correctly, Roitman regards calling the great vertigo of financial free-fall a few years ago as something we can label a crisis -- at the risk of assuming we understand what it was, how it happened, and why.
That, in turn, posits that our ideas and information are adequate to the tasks: that government regulation distorts the healthy functioning of the marketplace (if you're a neoclassicist) or that insufficient government regulation tips the market advantage to the unscrupulous (if you're Keynes-minded) or that crisis is built into capitalism because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall (as Marx believed, or didn't believe, depending on which Marxist you ask).
The problem in any case being that the causal explanations now available rest on understandings of the economy that don't take into account how crises (or, rather, judgments about the risk of crisis) are not only a factor in how decisions are made in financial markets but operate in instruments involved in the functioning of those markets.
Derivatives and credit default swaps are the examples that everyone has now of, at least. More have been invented, and still more will be. Risk management is a thriving field. So can we judge something to be in a crisis when expectations of crisis (and of profit from crisis) are operational – and bound to become more so? That isn't a rhetorical question. I have no idea one way or the other, and if Anti-Crisis answers it, I did not mark the page.
"We persevere," the author says, "in the hope that we can perceive the moments when history is alienated in terms of its philosophy – that is, that we can perceive a dissonance between historical events and representations…. We are left in a chasm: perplexed and immobilized by the supposed radical dissonance between the value of houses and the value of derivatives of houses."
Perplexed? Yes. Immobilized? Not necessarily. (Epistemologically induced paralysis is only one of the possible responses to a foreclosured mortgage.) I respect Anti-Crisis for making me think hard, even if it occasionally felt like thinking in circles. Meanwhile, it turns out that that Simon & Schuster will be publishing something now listed simply as Untitled Financial Crisis Book, appearing under the company's Books for Young Readers imprint in early 2015. Whatever baggage its conceptual history has laden it with, the notion of crisis seems to be making itself very much at home.
"Alt-ac" positions may be great for some, but Miriam Posner wonders if they are being oversold as a solution to the shortage of academic positions.
In today's Academic Minute, Susan Fiske of Princeton University reveals what baseball rivalries can teach us about why we sometime take delight in the misfortune of others. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
Administrators at the University of Michigan are delaying a controversial attempt at cost savings amid faculty uproar. University officials had planned to move 275 staffers from across campus into a single building on the edge of Ann Arbor to save money. But on Monday, university administrators said the move, scheduled to begin in April, would be delayed "beyond April." It is unclear if the university still intends to finish the move by next fall, its initial deadline to consolidate scores of staffers under one roof. The "shared services" plan has met with opposition from faculty concerned about losing trusted staffers. There are also questions about how much Michigan will actually save as a result. Administrators have gradually bowed to this concern since faculty began going public in recent weeks. The statement Monday from top Michigan administrators, including Provost Martha Pollack, is the clearest sign yet that faculty have been heard.
"We will bring faculty into the process immediately to evaluate the timeline and to ensure the establishment of a shared services program that is structured to meet the needs of our faculty and our students while achieving necessary cost savings," the statement said. "Each school and college will work directly with its faculty so the ultimate outcome is one that provides adequate support for teaching and research."
University officials initially hoped to save $17 million using shared services but now that figure is down to as little as $2 million in the first year and $5 to $6 million per year in the near term after that. Some of that savings is offset by new costs, including $4 million to fix up the building staff are supposed to be moving to, $1 million a year to lease the building and nearly $12 million for consultant Accenture to work on shared services and other cost-saving efforts.
This summer, the faculty of Shimer College held a discussion of Jacques Rancière's book The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation. In it, he discusses the educational theory and practice of Joseph Jacotot, who claimed that one could teach a subject one didn't even know in the first place. For Jacotot, teaching isn't a matter of expertise, but of determination. It isn't about transmitting knowledge to the student, but about holding students accountable to the material that they are working on.
Though the method Rancière described was more radical than anything we would actually try, the general approach resonates with what we try to do at Shimer, a small liberal arts college in the Great Books tradition. Our classes are all discussion-based, centered on important texts, artworks, and scientific experiments, and the professor serves not to instruct the students but to keep them on task and nudge them in the right direction. A handful of our faculty members have actually taught the whole curriculum, covering the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and all are required to teach in at least two areas.
All of this remained mostly theoretical for me until this semester, however, when I began teaching Humanities 1: Art and Music. I am knowledgeable about fine arts and am a passable classical pianist, but my Ph.D. is in theology and philosophy and the course is the first I've ever taught where the primary object of study was something other than texts. The challenge of the course is to find a way of talking about art that is neither purely impressionistic and personal nor overly technical and scholarly.
The problem is most pronounced with music, where students often express a need for something called "music theory" that will permit them to talk about the experience of music in an intelligent and informed way. For the visual arts, there's a more immediate intelligibility, given that the majority of the works we discuss in the course are representational (or at least suggestive of representation) — yet even there, students can feel that they don't know what to say beyond assessing whether the painting represents what it's supposed to in a way that is somehow "realistic."
Our approach is to give students a handful of "hooks" that allow them to point out certain aspects of a given artwork. We begin with the format of the class, which is centered on Ovid's Metamorphoses, a work that has inspired artists for generations. As a result of this framing, the majority of works that we study are somehow representative or narrative in form, giving the students a basic orientation. The ready availability of different works on the same subject also gives us the
opportunity to highlight the differences between different media and the types of choices that artists make within the same medium.
On the level of form, we try to give students a ready familiarity with a few basic concepts. In music, the most important goals include being able to hear consonance vs. dissonance (which is fairly intuitive once it's pointed out), knowing how to talk about melody and harmony, and being broadly familiar with the distinction of major vs. minor. With painting, we focus on the use of perspective, the interaction of colors, and the composition of the piece as a whole. These tools give them enough to begin thinking about how the expressive content of the artwork can reinforce, compliment, or complicate the emotional content of the narrative being portrayed.
By halfway through the semester, I had developed a certain level of confidence on art and music. Yet the syllabus threw me a curve ball when I was required to introduce a new art form by taking the students on an architectural tour in downtown Chicago. Here I felt my ignorance much more acutely, and instead of trying to create my own tour, I asked a senior faculty member to demonstrate the tour he had given the previous year, which I simply repeated.
We had only a short time for the tour, and so I could only point out a handful of extremely basic points. I showed them a few buildings that were built before the skyscraper technique was developed (basically, the outer walls had to be load-bearing before the skyscraper technique allowed for an internal distribution of the weight) as well as some early skyscrapers. I talked about the ways that the architect can get us to "read" a building — how the eye is drawn upward, how a building can be "capped" with a different design on the top floors, how the base of the building can provide indications of where the entrances are and how the facade can reinforce that. We saw some buildings that were highly ornamented and some that were very stark. We also looked at lobbies in a similar variety of styles. Finally, I tried to point out to them the way buildings interact with each other.
None of this was very advanced, and indeed, I was most often simply pointing out to the students what my colleague had pointed out to me on our tour. Yet the students reported that they had benefited from simply being told to step back and actually look at the buildings and from being given certain rough-and-ready indications of what to look for. Some reported they had never really thought about architecture at all, that it had always faded into the background. Even a more knowledgeable student said that being asked to look at buildings in the context of the cityscape rather than in isolation was a step beyond what he'd done before.
None of this resulted from any special skill I brought to the table — even the mechanical execution of the tour was pretty inept, and I'm known to mumble. (My students strongly discouraged me from pursuing a career as a tour guide.) It was simply a matter of being told to look and being given a few specific things to look at. It made them want to look more closely in the future, as indeed preparing for the tour made me want to look more closely as well.
While it was most pronounced with architecture, I've been learning along with the students throughout the semester. During trips to the Art Institute of Chicago, I've found that my way of looking at paintings has changed. A recent visit to the symphony with my students revealed that I'm getting better at following and thinking about classical music — after the concert, I found that I really wanted to talk about it and even investigate it further, in a way that wouldn't have been true before. I see similar progress in my students, as they become more and more comfortable with talking about the formal elements of the artworks and relate them in more sophisticated way to their representational or narrative content. In fact, one of my students who transferred from a local art school claims that she has had more and better discussion of art in our class than she did in art school.
At this point, my reader may be skeptical. Perhaps I am giving students an adequate introduction to the fine arts, making up for my ignorance with my enthusiasm — but wouldn't they be better off with a more knowledgeable professor? In some ways, I'm sure they would. Yet I would turn the tables and point out the disadvantages of having an accomplished expert teach an introductory course. Too often, such classes consist in the delivery of scholarly knowledge that only serves to exacerbate the distance that the students feel from the material itself. Instead of learning how to look at an artwork or listen to a piece of music, students learn how to categorize them: this is early Renaissance, this is Impressionist....
The two skills don't have to be mutually exclusive, but on a practical level, they most often are — and I would rather that my students begin by gaining the confidence to analyze and respond to a work and only then delve into the historical and scholarly background according to their interest. We live in a time where there's no shortage of access to facts, but college may be their one chance to develop a real understanding of how art and music work. From that perspective, my inability to supply "the right answer" or to indulge my students' curiosity about historical trivia that distracts our attention from the work before us counts as a positive advantage.
This isn't to say, of course, that I must never teach in my own area of expertise. Indeed, my experience as an "ignorant schoolmaster" has already changed the way I think about teaching things within my comfort zone as well. It has pushed me to think more about holding students accountable for the ways they reach their own answers than about how best to give them — or Socratically help them stumble upon — the "right answer." Even in classes where I bring much more to the table, the focus is and must be the material we're working on together, not all the information I'm bringing from the outside. More than that, though, all that information must be put to the test of the material itself, so that I always have to be open to the possibility that the interpretation I brought to the table is wrong, or at least not the whole story.
The approach I'm describing here goes against many of the deeply engrained habits that academics develop in graduate school and carry over into their teaching. While Rancière and others would cast moral aspersions on the expertise-centered approach to education, I view it more as a failure of imagination. Robert Hutchins, the University of Chicago president whose approach forms the basis for Shimer's curriculum, once said that liberal arts colleges tend to imitate graduate programs because at least graduate programs have a clear idea of what they're doing — namely, producing experts. An undergraduate education, however, neither can nor should achieve that goal. The liberal arts approach in particular provides a unique opportunity to form broad-minded critical and creative thinkers who have the right combination of intellectual boldness and intellectual humility to enter a wide variety of professions and explore many bodies of knowledge. A crucial part of that formation is learning to have the courage to admit one's own ignorance, and I believe students would be better served if faculty members were more commonly called upon to display that same courage.
Adam Kotsko is assistant professor of humanities at Shimer College. He is the author, most recently, of Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television. He blogs at An und für sich.
Julius Nyang'oro, the former chair and former professor of African studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was indicted Monday on a felony charge of accepting $12,000 for a course he did not teach, The News & Observer reported. The charge is a lower level felony, authorities said, and unlikely even upon a conviction to lead to jail time. But the indictment is another milestone in a scandal about no-show courses -- many of them taken by athletes. Nyang'oro -- who has not commented on the allegations -- left his faculty position as the university stepped up its investigation in the classes.
In today's Academic Minute, Justin Denney of Rice University reveals the connection between social status and the likelihood of death in a preventable accident. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
André Schiffrin, whose work at Pantheon Books of Random House and at the New Press was influential in promoting the work of many intellectuals, died Sunday at the age of 78, The New York Times reported. The cause was pancreatic cancer. Among the writers whose work Schiffin championed, the Times cited Jean-Paul Sartre, Günter Grass, Studs Terkel, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Noam Chomsky, Julio Cortázar, Marguerite Duras, Roy Medvedev, Gunnar Myrdal, George Kennan, Anita Brookner, and R. D. Laing.
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