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General Info:Name:Simon "Sigma" Gamma
Aliases:Σ, Sigma, GM,
Alignment:Chaotic Neutral,
Occupitation:GM, Gamemaster,
Marital Status:Single,
Simon was born with the ability to manipulate reality, and something that is incredibly rare. The power to understand how to use his power. Simon created a system at a very young age, similiar to that of RPG´s, having "skill points", which you gained if you aquired a "dice", and different attributes such as, STR, DEX, VIT, INT, WIS, ATK, DEF, and so on. Simon lived his life as a game, and updated the attribute list as he went on, and he later added the attribute known as "appearence". He also added the capacity to add the attribute to specific body parts or regions of the body such as adding STR to the forehead or foot. Simon also thaught that those that possess the highest ranking (the top 7), were to be able to aquire powers beyond mortal bounds.
Simon´s parents died due to a accident, since Simon didn´t really wanna draw suspicion to himself, he didn´t revive them. Simon came up with the idea to chose 6 to 7 new "players", in the so called "Game", but first he needed to come up with a name for the game, he thought long and hard what to call it, when he finally came up with the name it was "R.L.P." (Real Life Power).
He invited people from all over the world, to play, he used phones as a medium. He made a "app", which was named "R.L.P" as well, it got over 12 000 downloads on the first day. Only 46% got accepted, plus the ones already invited. Simon became known as "Sigma" or rather "GM" (Game Master), there were 10 rules created, 1 of them was never to be broken, if it was. The one who broke the rule, would be deleted from reality. Sigma spent his freetime doing quests and updates, he earned money from the app so he didn´t need to have a job.
Many of the "chosen" ones, spent most of their time to do quests, and Sigma favored them, giving them hard quests with gigantic rewards. Sigma later added a "shop", where you could use existing points to buy "equipment" and or enhancements. (They manifest through the data already in the app) The reward for every quest is a dice or more, and the number it lands on, is how many points you get, once the dice has been rolled, it is unusable to anyone else. (It can also only be used once, to gain points.) The chosen ones are; Hunter (Saito Hamada), Wolf (Alan Smith), The Devourer (???), Charles Change (Charlie Anderson), Salamander (Alex Studsons), Titan (Roland Fortress) and last but not least, Zerker (Synth).
They became known for their diverse power and skills, f.ex Salamander has the highest VIT and has gained the power to control fire, or maybe Hunter who has the greatest AGI and the sharpest sword, capable of cutting through anything. But the most famous of all is probably The Devourer, his skills started of as STR and VIT, but when he got the choice of power when he became one of the 7, he wanted the power of the ultimate beast, the power of "consuming" was granted to him. His power was that if he killed something and ate it within 12 hours of it´s death, he was granted a permanent status boost, and also new powers from the beast/animal. Or maybe the immovable fortress known as "Titan", he has enough STR and endurance/DEF to catch a missile with his hands, not even a tank could stop him. Titan is the only one who could be even close to even with "The Devourer".
Sigma never showed his face to any of the players, except to Titan, once only one time. Titan didn´t use his "power" dice, so he was offered a gigantic amount of skill points instead, Titan gladly accepted his offer, and used most of them in STR and DEF, and a few in AGI.
Personal Data:
Likes:Games, Chaos, Order, Stubborness, Probability,
Motto:Chaos isn´t a pit, it´s a ladder.
Quotes:"In your darkest hour you shall know that you are alone."
"You can run, but you´ll just die tired."
Hobbies:Planning, Creating Quests, Trolling,
Talents:Manipulating, Creating "Updates",
Powers And Abilities:
Abilities:Absolute Intellect, Understanding,
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|I have them in abundance...
- I washed my hair today I don't want to get it all sweaty.
- I washed my hair last night I don't want to get it all sweaty.
- I washed my hair two days ago and I don't want to wash it again today- see my recent hair rant here.
- I'm serving the crimson wave...now this one can drag out for a whole week.
- I left work 5 mins later than usual...it will be too late to exercise by the time I get home.
- I don't have time (and yet I can spend limitless hours on my laptop "blogging")
- I'll change the bed instead and hoover. Housework is exercise right?
- I don't want to re-do my make up.
- My back hurts.
- My head hurts.
- My arm hurts "when I do this".
- My toe hurts.
- I can't do press ups so there's no point.
- It's too hot.
- It's too cold.
- It's too late.
- It's too early.
- I'm hungry.
- I'm too tired.
- I think I'm getting a cold.
|Oh shut up.
I just want a magic wand to make me have the perfect body and then I promise I would take care of it from then on...imagine if this could happen. Dream on Katie.
I know in my heart I am just being lazy, which is a word I loathe. But why oh why is this the only aspect of my life that I can't seem to get a grip on?
P.S Don't forget to follow Miss Enchanting on Instagram @katiealbury, Twitter @enchantingblog and on my Facebook Page.
Much Love x
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God never said humans had to wear clothes.
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Yea but then eve had to fuck up and eat the Apple and make us all aware huh. No I wouldn't want to walk naked legal or not11|00|0
Fuck eve she ate the apple. Not me. i always go naked. im naked 90% of the time
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Um, no your wrong about that one. And no I would not do that. God did made it clear in one of his laws that we should no look at the nakedness of our mother or father, brother, sister, servant, maidservant, etc. In the privacy of my own house, yes when needed. But mainly no. Your sensuality is to be kept private and respected.11|00|0


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Hey everyone!
I need your help...I have never baked a cake before and this thanksgiving will be my first time. I am starting out simple (with a cake mix). We are going to a cottage for thanksgiving with my in-laws. So, I want to make the cake at home on Friday evening and it would be served Sunday. This is the cake recipe:
Do you think this would be OK to make a head? If not, do you think I could do any of it a head of time?
REALLY appreciate any guidance!
You can bake the cake a couple of days ahead of time.
Cut parchment paper circles for the bottoms of the pans. Keep the cake in the pans after baking, and wrap well with plastic wrap when it has cooled to room temperature. Then it can sit at room temperature. Travel with the cake still in the pans, then it won't break up. Make sure you have a bread knife to slice the layers.
The filling has to be kept cold. You can mix the cream cheese and pumpkin and vanilla just before you leave home. Travel with it in a tub on ice in a picnic cooler. Use a tub big enough to add the cool-whip later (no extra mixing bowl needed). Put this in the fridge at the cottage until you are about to serve the cake.
Add cool-whip at the last minute and put the cake together the rest of the way.
This cake has oil so it should stay nice and moist. You'll probably find that it will taste even better after a couple of days! BakingIrene's ideas are great! Good luck.


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The Waiting…
"Baba, have something. You are falling weak with each passing day." He handed over some Prasad (packed food of the temple) while descending the last stair of the temple. It was Tuesday and as always, the temple was filled with devotees. The Shiva's day and all the devotees had personal appointment with the deity sitting … Continue reading The Waiting…
Pros and Cons of participating in an Anthology
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The first word that came to my mind after finishing this series was 'Painful'. For the first time, I saw something that disturbing that you just can't concentrate on anything else other than the characters you are watching. Simple concept but hard hitting once, '13 reasons why' is one of the best thing you'll see … Continue reading Review of TV Series '13 Reasons Why'
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I was around 15 years old, when I first questioned the 'unknown power'. I was at my cousin's marriage when I witnessed the ceremony known as 'Vidaayi'. It was hard to watch. In the middle of all the happiness, at the very end of everything, everyone had tears in their eyes. It was tough to … Continue reading Answers
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"Help!" He shouted his lungs out. "Get me out of here. You are doing a mistake." He beats the four corners of the steel cage in which he was kept imprisoned. It was all dark, he can't even stretch his own legs as the space was restricted him in doing so. He was absolutely clueless … Continue reading Caged!
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Just wondering. But I don't think I am overly jealous. You can decide :)
He recently changed his profile picture to one he just took with his 2 female friends, one of whom is sitting next to him. And in her profile pic he's in it next to her with their group of friends. Even though he said he will introduce me to them soon (next month cuz we will be working together etc) I'm just so pissed off!!! Profile pics are something u have with your girlfriend! And I've never been in his fb posts.
Should I be concerned? And if I tell him would he overreact and be mad? I played it cool and said he looks handsome and he was happy about it. But in fact I was pissed as shit.
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"Profile pics are something u have with your girlfriend"
You are being ridiculous. Where is this rule written? It's just a fricking facebook picture.
"Should I be concerned?"
"And if I tell him would he overreact and be mad?"
I certainly would. If you told me in a calm manner how you felt, I would let it slide. If you came to me pissed and exploded in my face for such a ridiculous thing, you would end up single.
Your jealousy is ugly and you did well by keeping it to yourself. Learn to control and contain it. Channel it in another way.00|00|0
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geticonsetSection: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (1x)
Updated: January 1999
Index Return to Main Contents
NAMEgeticonset - gets the current Window Maker iconset
SYNOPSISgeticonset [options] [iconsetfile]
DESCRIPTIONgeticonset reads the WMWindowAttributes domain, and writes the iconset found there either to stdout or to iconsetfile.
- --help
- print a help message
- --version
- print version number
- specifies the initial path for the Defaults directory. "Defaults/" is appended to this variable to determine the actual location of the databases. If the varialbe is not set, it defaults to "~/GNUstep"
- GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes
- is the actual file that's read.
SEE ALSOseticons(1x), wmaker(1x)
AUTHORThis man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <email@example.com>.
Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <email@example.com>.


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Vegetarian Times 2007. Note the recipe directions called for 2 tbsp oil. I have no clue where the 3rd came from in the ingredients but use one for the mix and the spare if you need it when you baste the meatballs before baking. I dedicate this to Pot Scrubber and he will understand why...
Top Review by Chef Joey Z.
I really enjoyed these. I did change a few things. I used all dried herbs. I didn't have fresh. I used about 2 tbsp. instead of the 1/4 cup. I could have used more. I used tamari sauce instead of brags and 3 tbsp. flax seed meal as my egg substitute. It all worked out very well and the meat balls are delicate. I am going to use more herbs next time and maybe add some different spices like chipotle.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 16 ounces seitan
- 1⁄2 cup pecans
- 1⁄2 cup dry whole wheat breadcrumbs
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh basil
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon Braggs liquid aminos
- 1⁄4 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon powdered egg substitute
- 3⁄4 cup water
Directions See How It's Made
- Preheat oven to 400°F Coat cookie sheet with spray.
- Blend seitan in food processor until crumbles.
- Add pecans and pulse until combined.
- Transfer to bowl and stir in breadcrumbs, parsley, basil, 1 tbsp oil, garlic, braggs and oregano.
- Whisk egg replacer with water until frothy. Then fold into mix. No YOU cannot add the powder to the seitan mix and then add the water. {someone was going to ask.}.
- Shape into 18 balls. Place on sheet. Brush with remaining olive oil.
- Bake 20 minutes. Turn once. You want them crusty and lightly browned.
- Add to your favorite tomato sauce and pasta.
- Prepare pasta. Top with sauce and then meatballs. Serve.


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OphiuchusSymbol: The Snake-Bearer
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Body Part: Toes
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God of Unity, governs the dark-skinned, animal-loving beauties who live on the tropical island. They have a special fondness for snakes and love to make themselves flexible like them. They also have the rare talent of talking to any animal and can even convince pets to take contortion training, and with much love and patience they're able to train animal contortionists.
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Overview: The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the D.C. and Baltimore regions, extending into southern New York State, until 9 p.m.
The greater concentration of severe storms is likely to occur in the northern half of the watch area, where several severe thunderstorm warnings are currently in effect. But even here in the D.C. area, storms may produce some damaging wind gusts and hail later this afternoon and evening. We think the most likely timing for storms is between 6-9 p.m., although isolated showers/storms could occur earlier.
Remember that a watch means the environment is favorable for development of severe storms but no guarantee. It's essentially a yellow light: use caution and stay alert. A warning – on other hand – is effectively a red light: it means severe storms are occurring or imminent and you should seek shelter.
5:15 p.m. update: For the latest information on the storms, see this post: PM Update: Scattered storms this evening, possibly severe
4:44 p.m. update: A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for central Frederick County, extreme northern Montgomery County, northwest Howard County and western Baltimore County until 5:30 p.m. Storm just north of Frederick moving east-southeast towards Mt. Airy and Eldersburg. This storm may contain some hail and winds to 60 mph.
4:20 p.m. update: A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for northern Frederick (Md.) County until 4:45 p.m. A strong 8 miles northwest of Walkersville is moving east at 20 mph. It may graze downtown Frederick, but the worst of the cell should pass on its north side. The storm may contain some hail and damaging winds to around 60 mph.
4:10 p.m. update: With the exception of an isolated storm north of Frederick, Md., it's pretty quiet out there for now. But storms are organizing from south central Pennsylvania through western Maryland. Short-range models suggest a line by develop and will extend far enough south to potentially impact the region between roughly 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. from northwest to southeast. We'll keep on eye on this.
3:15 p.m. update: Technical discussion from Jeff Halverson:
With strong heating and advection, CAPE has become significant at 2500 J/kg and lifted is -6. We have 1.6″ precipitable water, which is a significant value. The atmosphere is thus strongly destabilized. What we still lack, however, is strong shear (turning of winds with altitude).
I'm still leaning toward pulse-type severe storms, however, enough shear has developed to promote some organized and stronger storm growth. By organized, I am referring to multi cell-type storms, and possibly a moderate squall line pushing east off the mountains later this afternoon into the evening.
Low-level lapse rates are very large, so there is a potential for isolated wet microbursts. Hail parameters do not suggest the type of large stone growth we experienced last week, but could include dime to quarter size in isolated cells. With the very moist atmosphere and relatively slow storm motion, local flash flooding may be a concern. And as usual, anytime we have large instability, intense lightning activity is always a concern.
From 2:00 p.m.: Keep an eye on radar throughout this afternoon and evening, as numerous showers and thunderstorms are likely to develop.
* Through this afternoon, scattered "pop-up" showers and storms are most likely
* This evening, a more solid line may try to push through the region (see animation below) which could affect the latter half of the evening commute and the beginning of the Nationals game (6-10 p.m. timeframe)
While storms are likely, we do not foresee widespread severe weather.
Although convective available potential energy (CAPE) could be moderate given the degree of heating and moisture, we believe we'll lack the wind shear (turning winds with altitude) for higher levels of storm organization. Triggers/convergence zones for storm development will be limited to heated terrain, a lee trough (low pressure east of the mountains) and the Bay breeze. A shortwave zipping through may ignite a line of storms in the 6-10 p.m. timeframe.
The most likely mode for organization will be pulse-type severe – i.e. isolated and short-lived. General thunderstorm coverage could be fairly widespread, however. Both the WRF-ARW and HRRR mesoscale (see above) models are aggressive with developing widespread storms over the high terrain, and slowly advecting this line toward the cities during the evening.
Effects from any intense storms would be limited to isolated strong wind gusts and small hail.
Caveat: Like we saw last week, any line that does get organized on the lee slopes (downwind side of Appalachians) can create a strong outflow boundary, which in turn can propagate convection further east, in spite of weak shear. Because of moderate instability, strong storms would be a bit more widespread, especially over the western suburbs, under this scenario.


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We are a family owned Funeral Home and we pledge to take the very best care of your family during this difficult time. Our preference is always to sit down with you and hear your wishes so that we may better serve you.
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Administrators are increasingly asking faculty developers to expand their services and provide leadership development for their colleagues. Even experienced faculty developers can find themselves facing new challenges when they think about providing leadership training for department chairs, deans, and other key leaders. To address these challenges, every two years the POD Network sponsors the POD Leadership Development Institute.
We are currently accepting proposals from experienced POD members interested in hosting the 2016 Institute.
The Institute is designed to address the needs of faculty developers who have been asked to provide leadership training for faculty and academic administrators on their own campuses. The Institute provides resources to get participants started in planning, developing, and managing programs that will be effective in strengthening academic leadership at their institutions. It also provides an opportunity for networking with experienced and new colleagues.
Target Participants
The target participants are typically those in or allied with the field of professional development for faculty. Participants who would benefit from the Institute include: teaching center directors; faculty developers and those charged with the task of establishing a professional development center; individuals responsible for organizing, directing or chairing committees for leadership development activities; department chairs, deans, and others whose roles involve leadership with faculty; and instructional designers who are new to the field or aspiring to positions of leadership.
Responsibilities of Institute Hosts
Institute hosts should be experienced POD members with rich, significant experience in leadership development in higher education. Institute hosts will:
Approaches to Leadership Development
The Institute has a successful history of differing approaches to leadership development. In the past, institutes have focused on the processes, tools, and resources available to faculty developers interested in constructing leadership development initiatives on their campuses. Other institutes have used topical issues in leadership development (i.e., inclusive leadership) to relate leadership development practices to timely issues that participant campuses might face.
The selection committee acknowledges the variety of topics, theories, and practices that might best comprise a leadership development institute. Therefore emphasis is placed on proposals that adequately demonstrate how the program will offer grounding in leadership development theory and practice. Likewise, successful programs will demonstrate the relevancy of leadership development in the context of contemporary issues for which such leadership is needed.
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The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) fosters human development in higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development. POD comprises nearly 1,800 members faculty and graduate student developers, faculty members, administrators, consultants, and others who perform roles that value teaching and learning in higher education. While POD members come primarily from the U.S. and Canada, the membership also represents many other countries.
The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education encourages the advocacy of the ongoing enhancement of teaching and learning through faculty and organizational development. To this end, it supports the work of educational developers and champions their importance within academic institutions. For the full mission statement, see http://podnetwork.org/about-us/.
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We cordially invite you to participate in the POD Network's 41st Annual Conference to be held in Louisville, Kentucky at the Galt House Hotel on November 9 – 13, 2016.
Our conference theme is Transformative Relationships: Fostering Cultures of Deep Learning. We hope that this theme will inspire us to consider the ways that our work impacts change on a broader level through the relationships that we forge within our communities of teaching and learning. After critical reflection during the POD Network's 40th anniversary where we looked inward about our own practices, we now turn to look outward to consider the types of relationships that would help us to expand our impact and engage in Paolo Freire's vision of dialogic leadership:
"…to fail to think with the people is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders."
—Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Inspired by Freire's charge, we hope to invite educational developers to explore how to build deeper connections within our institutions and larger societies. How can these personal connections be seen as gateways to transforming our own professional practices and values, encouraging deep learning for our students and strengthening educational and organizational development missions on micro, meso, and macro-levels? Intentional focus on transformative relationships challenges us to take a direct look at the importance of person-to-person interactions. It calls for a shift from focusing only on outcomes and results to emphasizing genuine connections and shared growth. It calls us to go beyond the status quo and to dream of new opportunities to improve the quality of higher education – together. How do you and the people you work with relate to each other? How might learning be deepened by strengthening relationships? This year's keynote speaker, Dr. bell hooks, has written about the potential for deep, transformative education that comes from learning that happens through community between teachers, students and the broader society. hooks encourages us to realize that:
"When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful."
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We need to work together with our students, colleagues, partners, allies, mentors, and kindred spirits within and outside the institutions where we work in order to cultivate this type of community-engaged learning in the classroom and beyond. Through these relationships we can work towards fostering cultures of deep learning on a broader level. These collaborations may allow us to think beyond the status quo and challenge us to take action towards our shared vision of higher education.
In order to work more intentionally with our communities towards fostering cultures of deep learning, we offer up the following questions for consideration:
Thinking about deep learning at a cultural level also helps us consider how we need bigger structures to support and enable those practices.
Thinking about collaborations in academic contexts might also lead us to think about the way we structure the production of knowledge in our institutions.
Thinking about the potential for technology to enhance and provide new opportunities for learning might lead us to consider the ways that we can utilize and develop tools to expand collaboration and access to education.
Finally, thinking about the ways we express the value of deep learning may open up space to reimagine traditional approaches to assessment of student learning, curricula, programs, and institutions as well as our own work as educational developers.
Just as the fabric of any culture is comprised of the connections between its threads, so too must a culture of deep learning bring all of these partners and their perspectives together in order to achieve a transformative impact.
We invite you to form transformative relationships with us. Please plan to join us as we celebrate this important benchmark in our organization's ongoing progress.


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The National Museum of Wildlife Art and the Art Association are collaborating to present Teton County teens the opportunity to participate in a free annual art enrichment program. This museum high school program offers local high school students the opportunity to explore materials and processes not readily available in their classrooms. Students will be exposed to working artists and designers who teach a wide variety of artistic skills and help students develop a professional art portfolio. The program will culminate in a student exhibition. For 2017, the program will run from February 6 through May 15, on Mondays from 6 – 9 p.m.
The application deadline is Friday, January 27, 2017. To apply, click here.
Studio Art Hour in the Museum
This museum high school studio class is designed for art classes who want to sketch from the masters. The Museum provides drawing boards, pencils, colored pencils, and watercolor paints. Classes should bring their own paper. Students may sketch from paintings or sculptures in the galleries and then return to our classroom to add color with paint. As another alternative, small bronze sculptures can be set up on the tables in the classroom for sketching. These sessions may be scheduled over several weeks if desired.
Blacktail Contemporary Art Tours
Students view the new works under consideration for acquisition at the Blacktail Gala Collection events. Museum Curators discuss unconventional artist materials and processes. Tour dares for 2017 are Monday, February 13 through Friday, February 17. Please schedule in advance.
Styles of Wildlife Art
During Session One Students are introduced to the styles of art found at the Museum through a slide show featuring our collection, including primitivism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and expressionism/fauvism.
Later, at the Museum, students consider their personal preferences for subject matter and style through the "Token Response" game played in the galleries. Each student has the opportunity to talk about their favorite works of art and the reasons why they like or dislike certain pieces.
Writing Workshop
In this museum high school workshop, students tour selected exhibitions in the Museum obtaining information about the artists and the artwork on display. Quotes from some of the artists are used to help students gain insight into the creative process. Students spend the last 30 minutes of this workshop writing in response to a piece of art in the Museum. Basic art materials such as pencils and colored pencils can be provided for illustration of the written pieces.


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Welcome to Serendipity holiday home, our beautiful static caravan just 9 miles north of York. The property is ideal for families or small groups of friends, sleeping six and comprising of one double bed, two twin beds plus one sofa bed. Parking is available onsite.
For your complete relaxation Serendipity is located in a peaceful setting to the rear of the ever popular Goosewood Holiday Park allowing you the opportunity to enjoy the south facing veranda with sunken hot tub, outdoor seating and barbecue facilities all overlooking green fields.
Open between 1st March and 31st December - onsite facilities include Wi-Fi, an indoor swimming pool, bistro, bar and gaming area. There is a well-stocked fishing lake and a children's outdoor play park.
Serendipity provides you with all the comforts of home, featuring sprung mattresses on all beds, exquisite bed linen, plenty of towels, and a travel cot and high chair if needed. The kitchen has all the latest gadgets and is fully equipped for 6 people. We pride ourselves on the cleanliness of this holiday home.
In the living area there is a flat-screen TV with full Sky TV package, a selection of DVDs, X Box and Wii package. Games, including many board games, are available for you to enjoy during your stay with us. Both bedrooms have TVs with built in DVD players and Freeview channels.
Here at Serendipity we appreciate your pooches are a part of your family. We welcome "well behaved " pooches (maximum of two small breeds). Please feel free to contact us to clarify this. We charge an additional fee of £35.00 to steam clean all soft furnishings after pets have visited us, allowing us to keep Serendipity in "tip top" condition for future guests.
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We can advise you of some great places to dine! For the younger ones Creepie Crawlies is a few miles away from Goosewood, along with a horse riding school.
Serendipity is ideally placed for exploring the wider Yorkshire area whether it be fish and chips in Whitby, the traditional seaside town of Scarborough, Flamingo Land theme park or the spa town of Harrogate there is plenty to see and do.
If a spot of retail therapy is your thing then Goosewood Holiday Park is a short drive from large shopping centres such as the new Vanguard Centre housing John Lewis, Next and York's flag ship Marks and Spencer store. We are only a short drive from the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Village and coming to York in 2016 is the New Primark located at Monks Cross which is a 15 minute trip from Goosewood Holiday Park.


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Every time you turn around, it sometimes seems, the versatile and prolific Lee Friedlander is having a show -- two right now in Manhattan -- or a book of his photographs is coming out, or he is being given an award or is otherwise making news.
Last December the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington announced major purchases of his prints. The Modern's acquisition of 1,000 Friedlander prints -- spanning his entire career, from 1950's images to work yet to be made -- was the museum photography department's biggest purchase ever of works by a living artist.
Mr. Friedlander has received three Guggenheim fellowships, five National Endowment for the Arts grants and a 1990 MacArthur Foundation ''genius'' award. More than a dozen books of his works have been published.
In the fall, the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, the artist's chief representative, will publish ''The Little Screens,'' bringing together images of television screens in motels and other nondescript rooms that the photographer made in the 1960's. Next spring Distributed Art Publishers, which has released several of Mr. Friedlander's books in recent years, will issue ''At Work,'' a selection of his pictures of telemarketers and factory workers.
Anyone who still doesn't understand why Mr. Friedlander's seemingly unassuming black-and-white straight photography continues to draw the attention that it does need only go to the two current exhibitions of his work -- bookends, really, that focus on pictures of family and friends.Continue reading the main story
At the Andrea Rosen Gallery in Chelsea, the work is mostly from the 60's and 70's, when the artist and his wife, Maria, had two young children, Erik and Anna, and their friends were young and having babies as well. At Janet Borden in SoHo, pictures taken over the last four years show Erik and Anna as parents, the artist and his wife as grandparents and Ava (Erik's daughter) and Giancarlo (Anna's son) as the objects of the camera's fond attention. Pictures of the children of friends are also included.
At Rosen, Mr. Friedlander's unsentimental and tender images of Maria bring to mind Harry Callahan's images of his wife, Eleanor. But like his masterly early street photography, which put him in the company of Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand, Mr. Friedlander's early portraits of Maria resemble casual snapshots more than fine-art photography. Within that so-called snapshot aesthetic, though, he has found complex freedoms.
The casualness of the portraits emphasizes unvarnished life, offering a powerful and familiar immediacy. That familiarity demands that you look closely to see what he saw. In a frontal Walker Evans-like portrait, Maria has the solidity of a Depression-era woman. Shown with her young son, Erik, she is a latter-day Madonna and child. She lends a gaunt presence as her children lie sleeping. In a dazzling, characteristically fragmented image, she is all allure as she stands against a wall in a darkened bedroom. Within a blazing frame of sunlight, the lines of her slim upper body are etched in pale shades of gray, the photographer's shadow leaving dark patterns on the rest of her body.
In the 70's, years before Sally Mann took seemingly informal portraits of her young children as preternaturally sexy beings, Mr. Friedlander was taking pictures of his young son and daughter as, well, sexy beings. Ms. Mann has given her pictures an unsettling overlay of tarnished sexuality; Mr. Friedlander's children are simply sexy. Erik seemed to go shirtless a lot when he was young and was apparently unaware that he was a hunk. Anna, too, seemed oblivious to her good looks.
On the subject of hunks, the artist R. B. Kitaj was certainly one in the early 70's. Mr. Friedlander portrayed the artist with the looks of an Adonis at work and at play and as he aged, and his eyes grew progressively sadder. Treating artists and friends, including Winogrand, William Christenberry and John Szarkowski, all photographers, as he would his family, Mr. Friedlander took them on their own terms, in their own milieus, with undisguised affection.
At Borden, you might think of Keats's ode ''To Autumn,'' of that season's ''mellow fruitfulness'' and ''Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?'' Like the photographs Mr. Friedlander took in the mid-90's of the growing-every-which-way flora of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, pictures giving an almost unnerving sense of the photographer in the thick of the dense and prickly vegetation, the images of his grandchildren have an untidy albeit elegiac lushness. Like most of his work, they are quiet pictures, meant to be read and savored.
In a sly nod to the past, a picture of Erik sitting on a sofa and looking at his daughter, Ava, as she plays with a toy includes a framed photograph of a 1986 portrait of Erik and his future wife, Lynn -- an image included in the Rosen show. In another oblique reference to past work, a picture pairs a naked baby (Ava) with a television showing a tight close-up of a face on the screen.
The family pictures, taken mostly in New York City, where Mr. Friedlander's grandchildren live, appear marvelously impromptu, their subjects oblivious to the camera's presence. Erik and Ava make the same face at each other, the two framed by window curtains. Ava stands on a windowsill in diaper and tutu looking dubiously at a party dress held up by her mother. An ill-at-ease Giancarlo is wedged in the back seat of a car, flanked by his mother and another adult.
Photography is a generous medium, Mr. Friedlander wrote in ''The Desert Seen'' (D.A.P., 1996), meaning that the camera can catch more than the photographer intends or remembers. What marks his photography is an uncommonly generous view of family, friends and the world beyond.
''Lee Friedlander'' is at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th Street, Chelsea, (212) 627-6000, through May 19. ''Lee Friedlander: Grand Children'' is at Janet Borden, 560 Broadway, at Prince Street, SoHo, (212) 431-0166, through May 12.Continue reading the main story


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As part of its "Be Good to Your Whole Body" campaign in its Whole Body departments, Whole Foods Market this month is boosting its efforts to educate consumers on its Premium Body Care standards.
As part of its "Be Good to Your Whole Body" campaign in its Whole Body departments, Whole Foods Market this month is boosting its efforts to educate consumers on its Premium Body Care standards.
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This impressive, fully air-conditioned hotel was completely renovated in 2003 and comprises a total of 225 suites spread over 6 to 9 floors. Facilities include a spacious foyer with lift access to the upper floors, hire safes, a currency exchange bureau, a cloakroom and a 24-hour reception desk. There is also a TV room, several shops, a hairdresser's, a beauty parlour, a theatre hall, a caf�, a cosy bar and 2 air-conditioned � la carte restaurants with highchairs for infants. Business guests may take advantage of the various conference rooms within the hotel as well as the public Internet terminal and wireless Internet access. Furthermore, room and laundry services as well as medical assistance are on offer. Parking facilities are to be found outside the hotel and it is possible to make use of the bicycle hire service and storage facility.
This elegant luxury hotel is located in the centre of Copacabana, just across the promenade from the world-famous sandy beach. It is just a stone's throw from a diverse selection of shopping and entertainment venues and the international airport is some 20 km away.
Each of the tastefully decorated rooms comes with a tiled en suite bathroom with a hairdryer, a separate bedroom/lounge, a telephone, satellite/cable TV, hi-fi stereo system, Internet access, a minibar/fridge, king-size bed, carpeting, air conditioning and a hire safe.
Sun loungers have been laid out ready for use on the beach, where guests will also discover a snack bar. Leisure options include an in-house gym and a spa and health area with a sauna, a solarium and various massage offers (all for an additional fee). There is a tennis court on the hotel roof whilst the nearest golf course is just 12 minutes drive from the hotel.
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HOUSES left unoccupied for years in Burnley and Padiham are to undergo compulsory purchase and be refurbished.
Eleven properties, some of which have been empty for more than 13 years, have often been the target of vandalism and flytipping.
Councillors are set to agree the compulsory purchase of the properties so they can be brought back into use.
Burnley Council's executive, which meets on March 29, will vote on the plans.
The houses are in Burnley on Oxford Road, Queen Victoria Road, Howsin Street, Brennand Street, Thorn Street and Devonshire Road.
The Padiham addresses are Beech Street, Garden Street, Station Road and two houses on Ingham Street.
A house on Halifax Road, Briercliffe, is also set to be bought by the council.
The purchases are part of a wider programme, in which the council is working with owners to bring empty properties back into use – with compulsory purchase used as a last resort.
The deals will be carried out under the council's vacant property initiative, which sees houses that have been empty for a number of years bought, refurbished and then put back on the open market.
Cllr John Harbour, executive member for housing and environment, said: "Even with limited resources, we're working across the whole borough to breathe new life into empty houses, improving not only the house itself but also the wider area.
"The vacant property scheme helps bring problem properties back into use, providing much-needed homes and improving the quality of life for neighbours."
Many of the properties have attracted vandalism and fly-tipping, with neighbours reporting a negative effect on the surrounding neighbourhood.
Some of the houses have been empty for 13 years or more, and although the owners have been contacted several times by the council, they either did not respond or did not give any reasonable proposal to renovate and bring the properties back into use.
Councillors are are also being asked to agree a revised housing policy as part of Burnley Council's ongoing drive to improve housing standards across the borough.
The measures include a selective licensing and a good landlord and agent accreditation scheme.
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Keeping his eyes off the coffins in the middle of the parlor, Jarrod walked to the door and opened it. Several of the hands stood silently on the verandah, hats in hand, eyes to the ground.
"Barrett, men," Jarrod greeted solemnly.
"Mr. Barkley," Barrett replied, twisting his hat brim in his hands.
"All a us hands," he jerked his head in the direction of the others, "just want you and the rest a the family ta know how sorry we all are about…about Nick and Heath. I know we had our trouble when the…the boy first come here but he proved hisself a real Barkley and we all liked and respected him.
"Don't need ta tell ya how we all felt about Nick. He was tough but fair and there weren't a finer man er boss er friend anywhere. We're gonna miss 'em both."
"Thank you, men," Jarrod said, looking at the assembled hands and forcing a smile which didn't reach his blue eyes. "That means a lot. I'll certainly tell the family."
"The boys and me er gonna go out ta the grove now. McColl's waitin' ta show us where ta…well, we're gonna help get things ready fer tomorra.
"We…uh, know the…service tomarra's only fer the family but…well, us hands'd sorta like to be there ta pay our respects too. I mean, well, if it's all right with you and Mrs. Barkley and Audra."
"Of course," the lawyer answered gently. "I'm sure Nick and Heath would want you there."
Barrett grinned. "Thanks, Mr. Barkley. Means a lot ta us. We'll be goin' along now."
Jarrod watched the men get into the wagon with the digging tools and pull away, bound for the grove. With a sigh, he shut the door and turned back toward the study.
Pouring himself a stiff Scotch, he sank down into the desk chair, feeling old, the weight of the world on his shoulders. As he sipped, he noted his father looking down at him from above the fireplace.
"I wish you were here, Father," he whispered. "I could use some of your wise words about now. God knows I've managed to make a pretty mess of things so far."
The door opened and Victoria came in, changed now into her black mourning clothes. Going to the drinks cart, she poured herself a sherry as Jarrod rose and moved to join her.
"How's Audra?" he asked.
Victoria took a sip of sherry and shrugged. "Lying down," she answered sadly. "I haven't seen her like this since your father…"
Jarrod turned toward the empty fireplace and looked up at his father. "It's my fault," he muttered, his voice a blend of anger, frustration and sorrow.
"Everything. If only I hadn't defended Korby Kyles." He shook his head and gulped his Scotch
"There's no use to go over that ground again, Jarrod," his mother told him softly. "You did what you thought was right at the time. No one can ever know, in the moment, whether what they do or don't do is right or wrong. What consequences that action or inaction may have later. All we can ever do is our best and hope it's enough."
"Enough," the lawyer repeated bitterly. "Me losing my law practice, Audra booted out of the Orphans' Society, the Dorns in danger, Amanda broken hearted, Nick and Heath…I'd say that was probably enough grief for one man's mistake, wouldn't you?"
Victoria rose and put her hand on her oldest son's arm. "When your father was murdered," she told him gently, "it seemed like the end of the world but we got through it. As a family. And we'll get through this, too. As a family."
"Unless I manage to destroy the rest of us," he shot back bitterly.
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Snapping out of his momentary lapse, Wilson smiled at the other man.
"Forgive me, Sir," he apologized sincerely. "I…I was expecting someone else." He opened the door wider and waved his free hand inward.
"Please, come in."
As the other man stepped past him, Wilson peered quickly into the hall, making sure it was empty before he closed and locked the door.
Following the well dressed, slightly older man into his sitting area, he motioned to the empty chair across the small table from where he'd been sitting.
"I was just going to order breakfast," he said as cheerfully as he could manage. "Would you care for something?"
"No, thank you," the other man answered simply, laying his hat on the side table at his elbow.
"Well then," Wilson replied, trying to keep up his cheerful façade, "perhaps a cup of coffee. Fresh, hot and surprisingly good, considering this small town hotel."
"That would be fine."
Gripping the pot handle tightly to prevent his guest from seeing his hand shake, Wilson poured the steaming coffee into the cup, placed it on the saucer and handed both to the other man. Pouring himself another cup, he sat down and waited.
The man, dressed in a tailored brown traveling suit, stirred his coffee and took a sip. He looked the picture of any well-to-do business man; Wilson, however, knew the truth and a drop of cold sweat popped out on the back of his neck, traveling slowly down his spine. But he had to remain silent until the other man spoke and the suspense was, quite literally, killing him.
Finally, the other man looked up from his coffee, his empty black eyes giving a glimpse of his empty, black soul.
"The Chairman," he began conversationally, "has called a Board meeting for Tuesday, next. At the top of the agenda is your project."
Wilson swallowed hard, trying not to let his guest see his nerves. He opened his mouth to answer but the other man continued.
"He is quite…perturbed about your progress in this matter. Or, more precisely, your distinct lack of progress. He sent me here to…look over the situation and make my report to him personally so that he can make a more informed decision about whether to continue his support."
So, Wilson thought, dread twisting his stomach. The head of the organization had gotten so worried, and no doubt, angry about the project, he'd sent his personal hatchet man to see whether the project, and by extension, himself, would survive.
"I'm painfully aware," Wilson began, trying to keep his voice steady and businesslike, "that the project has not proceeded as quickly as we'd…I'd hoped when I first outlined it to the Board.
"However, there has been some significant progress since my last communication with the Chairman. In fact, I was just waiting to hear from my…associate…"
"Mr. Huff," the man interjected, taking another sip of coffee.
"Yes…yes, Mr. Huff," Wilson agreed, taking a drink of his own coffee to ease his rapidly drying throat. "You see, last night, Mr. Huff disposed of both Nick and Heath Barkley and…"
"So I've heard."
Blinking, Wilson looked at his guest, unable to read that blank face.
"You…heard?" he repeated, nonplussed.
The other man nodded, watching Wilson closely.
"Almost as soon as I stepped off the train this morning," he continued. "It's apparently the only subject on the local folks' lips."
A knock sounded at the door, causing Wilson to start and practically drop his coffee.
"Mr. Huff?"
Worry appeared in Wilson's face and something close to panic appeared in his eyes. It wasn't missed by the other man.
"I don't know," Wilson admitted, glancing at the door. "Huff has a very distinct knock so that I'll know it's him."
His guest set down his cup, picked up his
hat and stood.
"I think I shall wait in the other room," he said, "just in case. I don't think it would do for anyone to see us together." With that, he moved off toward the bedroom, closing the door behind him, leaving it open just a little.
Gathering himself, Wilson went to the door. Opening it, he felt another wave of shock roll over him and it was everything he could do not to faint. Instead, he managed to force a smile.
"Good morning, Sheriff," he said politely, feeling as if the shine on his badge would blind him.