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Yoga Rockford: Yoga from the ground up
By Jennie Williford
Pranayama Yoga Studio
Since most of us are controlled by and live in our heads most of the time, we tend to approach yoga from that same direction … from the head down. But yoga promises to create a more steady and balanced connection of mind and body by reversing that habit and focusing on our base — so much so that yoga teachers often talk about being "grounded." But what does that really mean?
It has been my experience that Iyengar Yoga offers the actual experience of this term. There is no waxing poetic about mulabhanda or "growing strong roots." You actually create them through effort and awareness.
BKS Iyengar himself has spent a lifetime developing a practice of yoga and an approach to asana from the ground up. Through his method, we have an opportunity to experience the totality of yoga through the doorway of our physical asana practice.
Every pose has its connection to the ground, and through this physical connection we have an indication of how everything else within the pose may be going. When the base of a pose is unsteady, the entire pose is unsteady, including the mind and consciousness. This disconnect from the base deprives us of much-needed energy for support and upward lift. Hatha Yoga is based on the idea that we need to move our energy from the base of our spine upward, so in any pose, this upward direction is what we need to keep in mind.
Let's take Vrksasana (the tree pose) as an obvious example. A tree needs deep, solid roots to be able to suck nutrients up its trunk to bear leaves and fruit. If the roots never take, the tree will be weak. So also, deep, solid work in our legs and hips allows energy in our tree pose to move up into the spine and trunk, in turn building support for the upward extending arms. Without our legs and hips strongly working beneath us, our tree sinks, wavers or easily uproots.
I have been in classes where doing tree pose "felt nice," my mind alone imagining a lovely tree. I did tree pose, but was I really a tree? Iyengar Yoga teaches that we can become that tree. Without imagination (which is a distraction of the mind), we can become the essence of any pose we do with attention and awareness. Instead of just imagining the tree in Vrksasana, we become the tree in Vrksasana when we work well from the ground up.
So, stand on your two feet, feel your legs underneath you, compact and firm, feet and toes broad and open to the ground beneath them. With your mind focused and intent on keeping the foot broad, take the other foot up to the inner thigh. Let the inner thigh grasp and receive the lifted foot, building a balance of pressure between thigh and foot. With this pressure, the hips are stable and compact for maintaining balance. Tuck your tailbone under you, maintaining a centerline of energy up through the trunk, and then raise the arms overhead. With firm and powerful arms, the trunk is pulled farther upward to continue the flow of energy to the fingertips and beyond. From foot to fingers, roots to fruit, you have planted and grown an alive and attentive tree.
This Vrksasana, performed with focus and awareness from the strong connection at the root, builds steadiness not just of body, but of mind as well. With the mind attending completely to the growth of the pose, it cannot wander to your grocery list or worries at work. Awareness travels through the entire pose, like the sap flows through the tree, and you become the tree in experience and not just imagination.
There are roots to grow and awareness to build in every asana. So, taking the time to focus our efforts on the base up instead of working only in the head, we may soon find ourselves in an actual state of quiet balance of body, mind and spirit, the true promise of the practice of yoga.
For more information about Pranayama Yoga Studio, visit www.yogarockford.com or call (815) 968-9642.
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2011CW2-ROUTT COUN TY APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF DILIGENCE AND TO MAKE ABSOLUTE. Name, address, and telephone number of applicant: Julius Poole, 210 Ridge Road, Rangely, CO 81648, (970) 675-8994, Direct Pleadings To: Margaret O'Donnell, Margaret O'Donnell, P.C., P.O. Box 773572, 75 5th Street, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 A. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE 1. Name of Structure(s): Moeller Spring No. 12. A. Date of Original Decree: November 06, 1972 Case No. W-540 B. Subsequent Decrees Awarding Findings of diligence: Date: May 13, 1996 Case No. 94CW24 Date: February 23, 2005 Case No. 02CW116 Court: Garfield County District Court, Water Division No. 5 C. Legal description: Moeller Spring No. 1: The Moeller Spring No. 1 is located in Tract 38, Section 17, Township 1 North, Range 90 West, 6th P.M., at a point whence Corner No. 8 of said Tract 38 bears N. 75 degrees 30′ E. 450 feet, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. D. Source: a spring tributary to Moeller Creek, a tributary of Fawn Creek, a tributary of the White River.E. Date of appropriation: February 2, 1972 Amount:.010 cfs, conditional F. Uses: irrigation and domestic 3. Description of efforts towards completion of appropriation: Moeller Spring No. 1 is part of an integrated water system used to supply domestic and irrigation for Applicant's property located in Tract 38, Section 17, Township 1 North, Range 90 West, 6th P.M., Rio Blanco County, Colorado ("Property"). This system is a part of Moeller Reservoir No. 1 and Moeller Pumpsite and Pipeline, the other water structures that serve the Property, which were decreed absolute in Case No. 02CW116 by the District Court for Garfield County on February 23, 2011. As part of this integrated system, Applicant has designed a pipeline to take water from the Moeller Spring No. 1 to a cabin located on the property for domestic uses. Applicant has obtained 1.9 inch tubing and has located a small ditch by which he will run the tubing from the Moeller Spring No. 1 down to an existing water tank which is attached to the cabin. Applicant has also developed plans for an infiltration gallery and is the process of obtaining a permit. Applicant has scheduled for the work to be completed in May or June of 2011, weather permitting. As the water will be put to beneficial use for the irrigation and domestic uses while this application for diligence is pending, Applicant is concurrently filing an application to make these uses absolute, as detailed below, since such beneficial uses will occur in the next several months. Applicant is using existing materials to construct the system and is using family for its design and construction. Therefore, to date, there have been no expenses, other than those incurred in preparing and filing the present application. 4. Name and address of owner of the land upon which structure is located: Applicant B. APPLICATION TO MAKE ABSOLUTE Applicant hereby seeks to make the above-described irrigation and domestic use for the Moeller Spring No. 1 as follows: 1. A. Date water applied to beneficial use: June 1, 2011 Amount: .010 cfs Uses: irrigation of approximately 1 acre around Applicant's cabin and to supply water for domestic use in Applicant's cabin through the pipeline and infiltration gallery described above. See Map, attached as Exhibit A. B. See A., above. 3. Remarks: Applicant requests a decree for a finding of reasonable diligence for the Moeller Spring No. 1 for domestic and irrigation uses and to make these uses absolute once they have been applied to beneficial use, as described herein, and for a finding that the Moeller Spring No. 1 is part of an integrated system which includes the Moeller Reservoir No. 1 and Moeller Pumpsite and Pipeline and efforts expended on towards those structures applies to the entire system, including the Moeller Spring No. 1, in conformance with 37-92-301(4)(b).
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Alexandra "Allie" Butler sat on the wooden deck of her parents' house. The slight breeze brushed against the black metal music stand, knocking the center two pages of her booklet to the floor.
"Do you need paper clips?" her mother, Michelle Muck, calls from the kitchen.
"No, I'll just use these," Allie answered, flipping up the small metal pageholders at the bottom of the bookstand.
She adjusted the pages as the warm breeze ruffled her white sundress. With a wooden birdhouse in a large tree behind her as her backdrop, she brought the clarinet to her lips and began to practice.
"I usually practice in my bedroom, but it's. . . well. . ." Allie, 17, admitted.
"She's actually the cleanest one in the house," her mother said.
Allie, a senior at Somerset High School, is beginning the next chapter of her music career. She has been chosen to participate in the Great American Marching Band (GAMB) in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 27.
Each year, students from over 14,000 schools across the nation apply for this opportunity. Andrew Emerson, Somerset High School band director, encouraged Allie try for one of the 200 available spots.
"Because I was in the State Honors Band, I didn't have to send an audition tape in," Allie said.
The GAMB will usher Santa Claus into Herald Square from Central Park -- in front of 2.5 million live spectators and more than 50 million TV viewers.
"I'm a little nervous," she confessed. "I'm planning on going by myself; not been this far away on my own before."
And to think she has only been playing for about six years.
It was attending a Middle School band performance that young Allie first became interested in music.
"I really wanted to play the flute, because it was so shiny," she said with a laugh. "But I couldn't make a sound out of it in the fifth grade."
When she tried out for the band that year, she displayed a knack for both the clarinet and the trumpet. She decided to go with the clarinet simply because there were enough trumpets already.
When in sixth grade, she made a switch from the regular clarinet to the bass clarinet.
"My fingers were too small to cover the holes all the way; the bass clarinet has pads," Allie explained.
Her mother, Michelle, explained that although Allie's dad plays the electric guitar in a band, she never displayed an interest in music until fifth grade.
"She always has been imaginative, creative, a dreamer," Michelle said. "She did play around with her dad's guitar, but it wasn't until she joined band that she really started to bloom."
In addition to the clarinet, Allie enjoys track, cross country, softball and singing. She said she planned to join the school choir this year.
However, she plans to major in music education or music performance post-high school.
"I want to stay in the area," Allie said, explaining she has looked at Concordia, Hamline and UW-Eau Claire. "My ideal job would be a college conductor, but I may also minor in business because the school music programs always seem to get their funding cut first."
To illustrate the point, Allie said that her personal clarinet is not working at all so she is borrowing one from the school. However, it is held together with tape and rubber bands. She is hoping to purchase a new clarinet before leaving for New York.
In addition, she has come up with novel ways to get sponsors for the $2,000 trip.
For a $20 donation, she will send a personal thank-you letter with a poster.
For a $50 donation, she will send the letter, poster and a scrapbook of her trip.
For a $100 donation, she will send all the above, plus an official T-shirt of the GAMB Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
"We're trying to be creative," Allie said with a smile. "If I can't raise it all, I'll sell candy or something like that."
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A "must" for serious artists, this lightweight, compact field easel, called the Rexy, can be easily adjusted to support most canvases or watercolor blocks.
Made from top-quality oiled beechwood, it features durable brass-plated fittings and folds for easy transport. The work surface can be positioned horizontally for watercolors or at an angle for oil painting.
The handy carrying bag has a shoulder strap and outside pouch that accommodates art supplies and small watercolor blocks.
The easel weighs 6.5 lb (3 kg).
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This matching beechwood paint box features finger joints with brass fittings that attach to the easel legs in seconds. A wonderful addition for the plein air painter! The paint box weighs 1.5 lb (0.7 kg).
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168 cm
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10 cm
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They REALLY need to hire someone to write a decent manual
By Boodiba
from Portland, OR
Comments about Jullian Paris Jullian Rexy Watercolor Easel:
Seriously a web address to a PDF (per language) with mention of 1) the snaps and 2) decent, clear pictures would be advisable. I received my easel today and futzed with it for about 20-min before I gave up. I will call the 800 line (which I found in response to other reviews here) tomorrow.As far as I can tell, the middle leg adjusts high enough only to be barely useable for someone my height, and I'm only 5'2". I haven't even tried to attach the paint box accessory yet. I'll only bother if I decide to keep this thing.Take a look at the middle leg. It measures 43.5" from the floor to the center of the top most bolt that attaches it. Is this RIGHT?
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Merchant response: Thank you for reaching out! We apologize for the issues you had setting up this easel. In looking at the photo you posted, it's evident that there's one more extension you can make to the back leg with the middle wing nut so that the back leg will have 4 total segments. This will put the top of the "box" part of the easel at about 44" from the floor, with the back leg being about 58" long. One of our Product Specialists will be following up via email to further assist you.
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By Chris
from Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia
I live in Bolivia and I had been buying products from Blick and Arts since a while, this easel is so far the best that I got , good quality and nice finishing, I got just one sugesstion for those that is the first time in used a french easel some links or tutorials of how used,
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
(1 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
the perfect easel
By beginning artist
from Indiana
Instructions need to be more detailed
By Art lover
from Schertz, Texas
I've been an artist for years. but never ventured into field painting. The problem with this product is with the instructions. It makes NO mention of the metal snaps on the sides of the legs and at the base of the box area. As you might guess I bent one of the metal snaps, however the easel is still usable and quality made at a good price.
Merchant response: Thank you for taking the time to offer feedback on setting up this easel. If you would like further assistance with this, now or in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out to one of our Product Specialists. They're available from 8am to 5:30pm CST Monday through Friday at 1-800-933-2542, or you can email email@example.com. They'll be more than happy to work with you!
(2 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
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By Another flacky artist
from VA
I ordered the paint box accessory, in fact, I accidentally ordered two. I was headed for a workshop in Vermont and I have an aluminum watercolor easel but couldn't see how I could use my Pikes Palette with it.. I called Blick for a consult and they suggested I try the paint box accessory. It came in time for me to pack, so I didn't try it out before I left. I'm convinced it will work, but being a mechanical idiot, I couldn't figure it out without help. It is a nice product, well worth the money even if I use it for storage. When the second one came, I refused delivery and it went back to Blick. Even tho I paid for it through a payment service, Blick gave me credit.
(12 of 12 customers found this review helpful)
Lightweight and Versatile
By Marsha the Animal Mom
from Eugene, OR
I'm a watercolor artist who loves painting en plein air, and going to workshops in distant places, so finding a good portable easel has always been a major priority for me. In 25 years of painting, I've gone through way too many of them: French easels, which are becoming too heavy for me, and tripod based systems, which, by the time I pull all the gear together, are usually too heavy, too complicated to set up, and won't handle a half-sheet. Ever hopeful of finding the perfect easel, I decided to try this little gem and am delighted with it. It's very well thought out, both for the oil painter and watercolor artist, just requiring a re-positioning of the legs to convert from one to the other. The angle of the paper support is controlled by lengthening and shortening the legs, not sliding the usual braces up and down. Refreshingly direct and sturdy. There are few moving parts, but to be honest I had a hard time setting it up initially, and the instructions weren't as helpful as just looking at the finished photo. Once I figured it out, it was a snap. Lengthening and shortening the legs is a bit of a struggle, as they're quite tight, but I think that will improve over time. And the one bolt that holds the support arm for canvas/paper isn't any stronger than they usually are on the French easels - hence the four stars.At the moment it's serving as a very satisfactory table easel on my workstation, but it's clearly going to be easy to set up and carry on outdoor adventures. With the box, which is good for paints and short brushes, the whole thing weighs about 8 lbs - all I need to add is paints, brushes, and water. Well, and paper. I expect this easel to be a handy companion for years to come.
(10 of 10 customers found this review helpful)
Very lightweight...perfect for travel
By R
from Texas
This easel positions the watercolor paper at about a 20 degree incline from horizontal, the perfect pitch. The carrying shape of the easel makes it great for walking. I plan to take it as a carry on on my next flight to Europe. Great.[The accessory box that can be ordered separately is great IF you modify its attachment to the easel by drilling 2 small holes and attaching it with wing nuts/bolts. How to do this should be obvious once the easel and box are in position. Otherwise the accessory box is unstable . With the modification, the box supports watercontainer, paints and brushes. It also fits in the carry case for the easel].
(11 of 11 customers found this review helpful)
NIce, portable, stable
By Plein Air Pro
from Southwestern Florida
I've had this easel for about 2 years now. It took a few tries to set it up right but now it has become intuitive for me. I use it for both oil and watercolor painting, indoors and out. While not sturdy enough to sit on, it handles very well for me. Common sense and a little preparation will ensure that it doesn't blow over or wobble. The carrying bag is very nice. I also bought the paint box but don't use it as is doesn't attach that securely to the legs. The little palette is nice though. Overall I like this easel and would recommend it for those artists who have enough sense on how to use something lightweight and portable without expecting it to be something it isn't.
(8 of 10 customers found this review helpful)
By mtutt
from Crofton, MD
This easel is so unsteady when used that brush strokes with a watercolor brush cause it to shake. I set it up indoors and it was unstable. Outdoors it's about as stable as a new born fawn. Any little breeze and it will tip over. The box that attaches to the easel is in the way and bumped by your legs when painting. It is a nice looking product; however, there are some much better options.
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Easy easel!
By Chupaflor
from the Low Desert AZ
Took me a few minutes to correlate the enclosed instructions to the item, but this easel is easy to set up/break down once you've done it once. It's VERY portable and adaptable: many configurations are possible for horizontal orientation, vertical, or anything in between. Good quality, nice carrying case; I'd recommend it to anyone (especially watercolorists) who needs a compact easel for outdoors or travel. A bonus: my portable camp-stool (purchased separately) fits in the zippered side pocket of the carrying case!
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Research examined how partnerships of state and civil society could function to manage commercially valuable non-wood forest products in Community Forests in Cameroon. Results indicate an effective governance arrangement should include the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Community Forest management committee, and also increase the involvement of women. An adaptive collaborative management approach could bring together stakeholders to learn collectively how to manage resources sustainably. Partnerships with non-governmental organisations and research organisations would enhance the process leading to an improved governance system. Future Scenarios, was found to be an effective tool for facilitation of social learning with stakeholders.
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I found this ball in a rock pool at Burling gap, immediately thought it was an old cannon ball due to size, colour and weight and site! but googling rusty old cannon balls they appear to rust in layers and this has a very particular strucure to it, also it is not in the slightest magnetic.
I guess that that its round shape may be due to being rolled around in a rock pool by the sea, but all the other rocks in that area are chalk or flint. The weight and intricate structure are a mystery to me - any ideas? weighs nearly a kilo for a stone just bigger than a tennis ball thats heavy!
It's something called a pyrite nodule - they're mineral accumulations that form in rock, particularly the Chalk as found in Birling Gap. Pyrite is also known as fool's gold. Unfortunately pyrite does break down in a process known as pyrite decay, and this one has already started. I'll post some more information when I get to work.
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A RESCUE deal has been agreed that saves the jobs of about 200 North-East coal miners.
Bosses at UK Coal, which employs 2,500 workers nationally, including 62 at a surface mine near Crook, County Durham, admitted the company had faced collapse in the new year unless major restructure plans were completed.
Chairman Jonson Cox said the overhaul was a "final chance" for the company's mining operation to adopt ways of working that made the business viable.
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Britain's biggest coal producer, which will now be named Coalfield Resources, has split its operations into two businesses – a mining arm called Mine Holdings and property division Harworth Estates.
Ownership of the Doncaster-based group has been broken up between the company, a newly-established employee benefit trust and pension funds.
Under the restructuring, the pension funds now own 75 per cent of Harworth Estates, which has 30,000 acres of land and other property, in return for a £30m cash injection.
The company, which generates about 5 per cent of Britain's electricity requirements, slumped to a loss in the first half of the year as production at its mine near Coventry plunged and it struggled to manage a huge pension deficit.
In addition to safeguarding jobs at Park Wall North mine in County Durham the deal has secured the immediate futures for 127 workers employed at two mines near Ashington in Northumberland. A further 20 people are employed by the company in this region and its operations support about 200 North-East supply chain jobs.
Mr Cox added: "The restructuring has helped to safeguard 2,500 highly skilled and well-paid jobs, a skilled supply chain, and created a funding plan for the £450m pension deficit that UK Coal has been burdened with."
The group also saw several changes among its board of directors as part of the shake-up, including the appointment of RWE Npower's chief operating officer, Kevin McCullough, as chief executive of Mine Holdings
Mr Cox explained: "This has been a restructuring of unprecedented scale and complexity for this size of company, dealing with a legacy structure that was inherited on the privatisation of British Coal in 1994. I'm delighted that we've succeeded in completing it. Without it, it was almost certain that the coal mines would have been unable to trade beyond the first quarter of 2013."
"The support provided has given a final chance to the mining business, mine management and the workforce, to adopt the changes needed to ensure safe, reliable and efficient production for the next 5-10 years. While we have successfully reduced deep-mine manpower costs by 12.5 per cent, and started to change working practices, our inherited cost structure still remains too high and labour productivity too low.
"On the property front, our successful sales programme of the last two years has enabled us to halve the group's bank debt, in turn allowing this restructuring to proceed. We now look forward to achieving the medium and long term realisation of value from the portfolio, for the benefit of shareholders and the pension funds."


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I adore these beautifully simple food illustrations by Bonbonohri below are two examples of her project on bread and above coffee and toast from 'Daily'.
Friday, 24 November 2017
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Vendi Vernić I
Vendi Vernić's illustrations for N.V. Gogol's 'The Overcoat' have a wonderful use of scale. They are mixed media illustrations on paper including watercolor, tempera, acrylic, water colours, ink and collage.
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Kikuchichiki II
In this debut book 'Shironeko black cat' by Kikuchichiki, there is a delicious fluid expressive style, full of boundless energy. Kikuchichiki obviously has a great love of cats
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Kikuchichiki I
Monday, 20 November 2017
Lasse Sandberg I
Lasse Sandberg (1924-2008) was a Swedish illustrator who worked closely with his author wife Inger. This creative couple were prolific publishing nearly every year ( often multiple books) from 1952, when their daughter was born, onwards. This book combines collage with print and line drawing, is called 'Nicolas's Pet' 1979, I love the unusual use of materials and composition across the page.
Sunday, 19 November 2017
Kjell Ringi III
The Magic Stick (1968) by Kjell Ringi shows the imagination of a young boy who has found a stick, and what, in his mind's eye, that stick allows him to do. A beautiful concept where the ordinary day of the boy is rendered in line and then his imagination is in full colour across the page.
Kjell Ringi II
Of the Kjell Ringi books that I can find, the main characters always appear to have this pop art style moustache. In this book the illustrations have character focus with lots of uncluttered space on the page and have the drawing quality of wax crayon. The exchange between characters also takes place across the divide of the gutter on double page spreads and the book is wordless except for an explanation at the start.
These illustrations are from 'The Winner' published in 1968.
Saturday, 18 November 2017
Kjell Ringi I
The Stranger: A Modern Fable by Kjell Ringi (1939-2010) was published by Random House in 1968. Kjell Ringi was a Swedish artist, graphic designer, sculptor and writer who published many delightful children's books in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
Friday, 17 November 2017
Bill and Bonnie Rutherford
I am really enjoying a whole new collection of vintage books. This version of Edward Lear's 'Owl and the Pussy Cat' is delightfully illustrated by Bill and Bonnie Rutherford with the illustrations virtually dancing across the spreads.
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Maisie Shearring VII
Moles in bed from the glorious imagination of Maisie Shearring, whose career and work goes from strength to strength.
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Gerald Rose
I am still in love with the work of Gerald Rose and this will be my eighteenth post about his work! His cat and owl above just fill me with joy! Here are some images from his illustrated version of the Jabberwocky and other poems by Lewis Carroll.
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Bill Charmatz
I have written a book about a cat with very long whiskers, so it was with great joy that I discovered this 1969 book; 'The Cats Whiskers ' by Bill Charmatz (1925-2005). Bill Charmatz was an illustrator who worked for magazines and newspapers, contributing to the early Sesame Street Magazine and illustrated over 12 books for adults and children.
Monday, 13 November 2017
Nicolas Sidjakov
Nicolas Sidjakov (1924 -1993) was a Latvian illustrator who trained in Paris and worked as a graphic designer and in the French film industry. In 1954 he moved to the United Stated where he started to illustrate children's books.
Emperor and the Drummer Boy by Ruth Robbins, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov was published in 1962 simultaneously in English and French. The Emperor and the Drummer Boy has fantastic illustrations printed in three colours with stunning patterns and line work, it is almost like a piece of scrimshaw.
Sunday, 12 November 2017
Lois Ehlert II
A shoal of surprise fish from the pavement. This is Lois Ehlert's' 'Rains Fish' from 2016. Here Lois has composed fish from found objects to get children to embrace rainy days and look for and make magic.
"It is these gray winter days that stir my creativity," Ehlert says. "I am so happy to stay in and work. I am sitting here right now with a bag of scraps on my drawing board. I have green paint underneath my fingernails. I am as happy as a clam." Lois Ehlert
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Local share market sees sharp fall as investors react to significant worldwide losses
The Australian share market has ended the week with a sharp fall, as investors reacted to significant losses around the world.
All major indices lost ground across the US, Europe and Asia.
The All Ordinaries index finished the day 76 points, or 1.3 per cent, lower at 5,548.
The ASX 200 index dropped 77 points to 5,556.
There have been suggestions that some markets are overvalued and heading for a correction, but IG market strategist Stan Shamu is not convinced Friday's falls points to more losses ahead.
"It could be something that rattles confidence enough to cause a sustained pull back, but for now I think there are still a lot of positives going for the market," he said.
Mr Shamu said no single factor drove the markets down and he thinks a full-blown correction is unlikely.
"There's a lot of events that just came together at the same time and these just seem to have spooked investors," he said.
"Additionally markets were already trading at fairly high levels after a long period of gains."
He said reporting season for Australian companies over the coming weeks will give a better idea of whether stocks here are fairly valued.
The heavy losses were widely shared, with a short list of stocks gaining ground.
Westpac led the way for the major banks with a fall of 1.6 per cent.
ANZ lost 1.2 per cent and NAB and the Commonwealth Bank lost 1.1 per cent.
AMP dropped 2.2 per cent and Perpetual 2.7 per cent.
Among the miners, Rio Tinto closed 1.5 per cent lower while BHP Billiton fell 0.7 per cent and Fortescue Metals Group dropped 4.9 per cent.
St Barabara rose 4.6 per cent while Atlas Iron closed 1.6 per cent higher.
Santos fell 2 per cent and Caltex fell 1 per cent.
Woodside Petroleum lost 1.4 per cent, as investors rejected the firm's proposal for a buyback of shares held by energy giant Shell.
Telstra lost 0.9 per cent.
Myer was a bright spot with a gain of 3.1 per cent while fellow retailer Kathmandu gained 3.3 per cent after reporting that cold weather has helped boost sales.
JB Hi-Fi fell 1.6 per cent and Harvey Norman fell 1 per cent.
At 5:00pm AEST, the Australian dollar weakened to around 92.82 US cents, 69.34 euro cents, 55.01 British pence, 95.56 Japanese yen and 109.34 NZ cents.
West Texas intermediate crude oil fell significantly to $US98.23 cents a barrel.
Tapis crude oil in Singapore was trading at $US107.03 cents a barrel, while the spot gold price was around $US1,283.60 an ounce.
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Skelton (58) battles back for glory and rules out retirement
great Britain's Nick Skelton has dismissed any immediate prospect of retirement after crowning a stellar showjumping career by winning Olympic individual gold at the age of 58.
Skelton's dazzling display in Deodoro on the brilliant 13-year-old bay stallion Big Star proved a spectacular triumph over adversity.
Not only has Skelton battled back from serious injury - a broken neck 16 years ago, persistent chronic back pain and a hip replacement - but Big Star has also returned to showjumping's biggest stage following injuries that beset him since Skelton's Olympic team gold at London 2012.
Warwickshire-based Skelton collected Britain's first individual showjumping gold medal in Olympic history - it was also a first British individual medal of any colour since Ann Moore took silver at Munich 44 years ago - and came following a thrilling jump-off.
Additionally, he became the oldest Olympic champion in any equestrian sport, eclipsing German Klaus Balkenhol, who won dressage team gold in Atlanta 20 years ago, aged 56.
Skelton, who had jumped two clear rounds earlier in the day to be among six combinations that raced against the clock, posted a time of 42.82 seconds, and no-one else could touch him, including London 2012 individual champion Steve Guerdat and highly-fancied American Kent Farrington, who both had the first fence down.
Skelton, competing in his seventh Olympics, won by more than half a second from silver medallist Peder Fredricson, of Sweden, and Canada's 2008 Olympic gold medallist Eric Lamaze.
"I am not going to stop now," said Skelton, who has won 16 major championship medals, including two Olympic golds.
"I only ride Big Star at the moment. When he stops, I will stop. For definite.
"I have been in the sport a long time. I am so happy - it was amazing."
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Support is offered to our clients based on the social justice teaching of the Catholic Church which upholds the dignity of the individual and the right of every person to the fullness of life.
Brown Nurses is based at Glebe and provides in-home care to socially and economically disadvantaged individuals with complex needs. We are committed to offering holistic care, particularly by building trusting relationships and bringing hope and dignity to people who have no hope.
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In an annual late-spring ritual, Encinitas lifeguards this week hooked portable lookout towers to a tractor and dragged them over the sand, planting them one by one from Moonlight Beach, at the end of Encinitas Boulevard, to Grandview Beach in Leucadia.
On Thursday, they readied the towers with binoculars, logbooks, radios, rescue buoys and rescue boards, first-aid kits and swimming fins.
Similar preparations were under way at other North County beaches for the Memorial Day weekend, which marks the unofficial start of summer.
Most departments will wait a couple of weeks until school is out to begin daily summer staffing, but Memorial Day weekend is the first time this year that summer hires and permanent lifeguards will be out in force.
Encinitas lifeguard Lt. Paul Chapman, a 20-year veteran, watched the handful of swimmers in the ocean from the permanent tower at Moonlight Beach and anticipated another summer with excitement.
"By the time summer ends, we're ready for a change, but when you get through winter, you're ready for summer to come," he said. "And any big holiday in summer, we get a chance to put so many things into play that quantify why we're here."
A lifeguard's job is multifaceted, Chapman said. He called his peers "risk-management technicians" who assess crowds, individual swimmers and ocean conditions, and use techniques such as announcements, signs, one-on-one conversations to head off trouble.
The lieutenant said lifeguards are "skilled ocean athletes designed to save lives," and also act as customer service-oriented ambassadors, equally happy to tell beachgoers about swimming conditions or the best places to grab lunch.
On Thursday, the whiteboard at the Moonlight Beach lifeguard station said the water was 64 degrees, several degrees shy of the 70 degrees considered comfortable by most swimmers. But by 11 a.m., about a dozen swimmers in trunks and bikinis played in the surf.
Oceanside lifeguard supervisor Emile Lagendijk said swimmers also were shunning wetsuits in Oceanside, and he anticipated throngs in the water this weekend. He said Oceanside beaches usually see about 50,000 people over the Memorial Day weekend, about half the crowd of the Fourth of July weekend and a number comparable with those on a beautiful day in midsummer, he said.
This weekend, the Oceanside lifeguard force will swell from a skeleton winter crew, with mostly unstaffed lifeguard towers, to near summer staffing levels of about 70 guards, even as the city is still administering swim tests to potential summer hires. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 16 towers from Buccaneer Beach to Oceanside Harbor will each have a two-person crew, Lagendijk said.
He said lifeguards will staff the towers from morning until late afternoon this weekend, and for the two weekends after that. After that, the towers will be staffed daily.
Solana Beach lifeguard Capt. Craig Miller said he is waiting a few weeks before putting up summer towers at four beaches. But he said extra staff will patrol in trucks this weekend.
He said some extra staff could be sent home if clouds keep the crowds away. But as of Thursday, he expected a busy weekend.
"It's nice out, and it's cleared up over the last couple of days," Miller said.
The National Weather Service is calling for high temperaturesjust shy of 70 at the beaches this weekend, with a marine layerthat should burn off by afternoon.
At North County's Torrey Pines, Cardiff and Carlsbad state beaches, lifeguard staffing will be increased over winter levels, when only two lifeguards patrolled each beach in a truck. Now, three towers on each state beach will be staffed by a lifeguard, lifeguard Supervisor James Bilz said.
He said the state requires lifeguards to attend a four-weekend training academy, which wraps up about July 1 to get summer hires on duty, he said.
No matter which beach you choose, lifeguards recommend you swim near towers and pay attention to warnings about rip currents. Stingrays already have claimed victims at several North County beaches this year, lifeguards said, so shuffle in the sand as you enter the surf to avoid a painful sting.
Other public safety agencies also issued reminders about holiday safety. Drinking and swimming is as dangerous as drinking and driving, authorities say, and operating a boat while drunk carries a stiff fine.
The Coast Guard encourages anyone hitting the water by boat toget a free vessel safety inspection with the Coast Guard Auxiliary.See more at www.sectorsandiegoauxiliary.us/VisitorsPages/SSDAUXVSC.htm .
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Evaluating the Welfare Effects of Biodiversity on Private Lands: A Choice Modelling Application
Biodiversity loss is a global problem, especially in reference to private lands. In response, we investigated whether private land biodiversity may be attained by developing incentives which include funding landholders through the provision of native trees to enhance biodiversity on their own properties. Using choice modelling, we tested this hypothesis. A typical respondent was found to be better off, in terms of welfare, if there was a biodiversity enhancing scheme in their locality. We also found that respondents in the upper northern regions of New Zealand were relatively more receptive in supporting biodiversity enhancement programmes on their properties, compared to those residing in the southern regions of the country.
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2005 Wegeler Rüdesheimer Berg Rottland Riesling Spätlese
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May 1, 2013 - The first night, this was rather tame without much nose, much acid, but had mineral notes in spades as it almost seemed to be effervescent. Day 2 this wine really took on a whole different facade. Rich, decadent, mouth coating and juicy thanks to subtle acid that meld this into an almost brilliant dessert type wine. Navel orange, peaches and whipped cream, a touch of some unidentified tropical fruits, maybe lychee, but very smooth and hard to believe that this is a Spatlese. This would give many sauternes a run for their money. With a lower ABV, this is so much smoother, it really is shining tonight. Straw colored and golden, the bottle showed signs of seepage and crystallization around the cork. I was worried, but this is in its comfort zone. Awesome bottle.1 person found this helpful 1,409 views


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OK, thanks for the references. I think I've got a better handle on what's what. The library documentation mentions the ability to convert the ST monad into an IO monad. What are the reasons/pluses/minuses of doing this? (I can see one reason being that you won't have to use monad transformers to try and thread two different monads through your code).

Also, I didn't see any mention of a mutable List - I suppose you have to use Data.Array.ST?

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The purging of Thomas Equinus
Thomas Equinus was for many years the readers' favourite anachronism, a horse-racing column for people who knew nothing about horse racing.
The central character was a wayward priest who used the column to thumb his nose at The Weekly Mail
The editors have won the last "Spot the Mistake" competition. They took me to that bastion of high-class elegance, the New Nugget Hotel in Marshall Street, informed me that I'd been demoted, told me that R3,95 was the most I could ring up during this, my last free lunch, added that my column was "the mistake" and then went on to tell me I'm to be replaced by "Pepe the Revolutionary", who can be relied on to take the right line on the Freedom Charter.
However, all is not lost. Clive "the cheque's in the post" Cope, the WM moneyist, has been going over the terms of my demotion with me and it appears that one of the foreign governments that the Weekly Mail has offered me R10 000 if I promise never under any circumstances to write anything but horse-racing again, and further promise always to speak well of the paper and the said government's heroic regime, at Melville dinner parties.
There is also the possibility that I could find myself involved in an exchange programme for journalists that nobody wants. The idea is that we get shunted round to serious world flashpoints, like Beirut or Wits University, until we collect a World Press Award for courageous journalism, or a bullet.
I have accepted the package, which allows me to pay off two gambling debts, my new mattress and my account at Belinda's Escort Agency for Spunky Priests, where you can find "the heavenly consort of your dreams". (My dates always ended up looking like something from Alien II.)
Everyone is happy, especially Pepe the Revolutionary, last seen at a five-star restaurant with the Fat Editor, Thin Editor, Almost Thin Arts Editor, the American sub-editor and Small Sports Editor.
Already on his seventh glass of Glasnost, Pepe was giggling hysterically at the extravagant promises being made to him, such as a two-month pension scheme (short-term in case the paper is closed, Pepe gets fired or the fund goes bankrupt); death benefits: the right to join a union (which negotiates with its absentee employers via the telex machine) and the right to go into the monthly draw for a date with the Thin Politics Reporter.
What more is there to say except that my new column has become just one more footnote in journalistic history, an intrepid anecdote in the literary struggle against empty space, which can't be fired up with advertisements or gratuitous photographs?
All I've got to show for it is a king-size headache and the promise of Nicaraguan currency. I would finally like to close by congratulating Z Bowls of Mondeor for his intriguing theory on the WM. Bowls has invented a computer which breaks written articles down until the "base linguistically structural coefficient" is established.
No two writers have the same coefficient. Having fed all WM articles into his machine, Bowls has found the same coefficients coming up time and again, which has led him to postulate that: I am the Fat Editor, the Thin Politics Reporter and sometimes the Thin Arts Editor. The Small Sports Editor is also the American sub-editor and is undoubtedly also the Tall Advertising Representative.
In fact, the WM is written by four people, all of them white, three of them over20, two of them female, one of them gay and all of them psychotic. This is obviously untrue and now that I've finished my sports column, my two arts reviews, my article on the economy, my cartoon, my cover story and some fake memoirs of Robben Island, I'll tell you why.
That's why this column has to go folks; I'm too busy writing the rest of the paper. I also have to oil the printing press and get my bicycle ready for Friday morning deliveries.
This column appeared in August 1987. Equinus appeared until 1991, when the author was spirited away by The Star, which was interested in his skills as a tipster, not his philosophy of life


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A Most Uneven Playing Field
Whether you agree or disagree with the accountability called for in No Child Left Behind, one thing is starting to become clear--the standards and the Title I money attached to meeting those standards may depend a lot more on where you live than on how well you teach your students.
Everyone knows the federal law is based on accountability and educating each child. Everyone also knows states are given the latitude to create their own set of standards (with federal government approval) and decide at what level their students will be deemed proficient. What everyone doesn't know, but thanks to two studies are beginning to find out, is how wide the variations in standards are from state to state.
What this means, of course, is that a proficient child in Indiana may not be proficient if he or she moved to South Carolina. Going further, that means schools or districts deemed "in need of improvement" in South Carolina, might be fine in Indiana; these schools could face governance changes and the loss of Title I funds down the line.
Defining Proficient
"We didn't expect to find quite as much variation from state to state," says Gage Kingsbury, director of research for the Northwest Evaluation Association.
NWEA, and separately the American Institutes for Research, have compared students across state lines by looking at which students passed a certain state test and how those students fared on the national NAEP test. Both groups then plotted those students' NAEP scores against the NAEP test results of other states' proficient students.
To make comparisons easier, NWEA then put each state's proficient score on what it calls a RIT scale. (RIT, or Rasch Unit, is an equal-interval scale that measures growth in learning like a ruler measures height. The RIT scale makes it possible to create tests with different items that measure the same level of achievement.) This shows that in the third grade, a proficient student in math in Indiana scores a 194 on RIT, but a proficient math student in Minnesota scores 209, significantly higher. In some cases, the gap widens as the students get older. In the eighth grade, proficient students in Indiana, Oregon and Idaho, scored 230, 231 and 233, respectively. But those in South Carolina, Arizona and Wyoming scored 251, 254 and 257, respectively.
Comparing reading scores, a student deemed proficient for 10th grade in Colorado scores a 223 on the RIT scale, while a proficient students in Washington and South Carolina's seventh grade are required to score 226--three percentage points higher.
On some level, everyone involved in education--and especially state education officials--knew that gaps existed between states. A 1996 report by the Southern Regional Education Board was the first to publicize such differences. But the range between what one state and another consider proficient are surprising even experts.
"In every grade for which we had information on more than two states, the states differed in their proficiency levels by at least 33 percentile points," writes Allan Olson, the executive director of NWEA. "The standards differ in a manner that is significant and persuasive."
The NWEA conducted research for members in six different states, Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. "One of the worries of No Child Left Behind is that lots of states are managing their school accountability system their own way," says Steve Ferrara, a senior researcher at the American Institutes for Assessment. Before the national law, it wasn't a problem because states used their own assessment and their own decision criteria. "Now, NCLB puts a new set of requirements" on top of each state's idiosyncratic system, he says. Still, he cautions that "it's way too early to decide whether [the differences between states are] good or bad."
"We've kind of painted ourselves into a corner. I anticipate states that set their performance standards a fairly long time ago, might petition to reset their standards," says Kingsbury.
And they are. In three examples, proficient students in Louisiana only have to reach the state's "basic" level; Colorado will count students that are partially proficient on state standards to be proficient for NCLB; and while Connecticut hasn't lowered its standards, it did create a new, lower, category that will allow students to be NCLB proficient even if they don't meet all the state's standards.
In-state problems
What are even more alarming than the differences between states are the differences that occur between grades, or subjects, in the same state. In some cases uncovered by NWEA's research, a student who is proficient at one grade level has low odds of achieving the same distinction just two years later because the bar for proficiency jumps so significantly. The reverse is also true. In Colorado's reading test, a proficient student in seventh grade has to score 218 on the RIT scale. One year later, the bar moves up to 220; but in the ninth grade the proficient level inexplicably dips back to the 218 score.
"One thing you can't tell is which is right. But what you can tell is that they are very, very different," Kingsbury says.
"What that means for a classroom teacher, they're getting inappropriate info about how a student is doing. Pressure is being put on teachers depending on the difficulty of the standards based on the grade they are in," he adds. This could lead to a misallocation of money if a school official simply looks at the percentage of students failing in each grade.
But is all this disparity bad? As eager as President George W. Bush was to implement NCLB, he and the Department of Education have been that unwilling to try to push a national level of standards.
"No Child Left Behind respects local control," says Dan Langan, a DOE spokesman. Every state had standards before the law was passed and "this builds upon what they've been doing for years," Langan adds.
Part of this freedom means that states don't have to change their standards to homogenize them with other states. But Kingsbury and Ferrara expect the new flow of information comparing states to lead to more uniformity, eventually.
The comparisons "in the long run will result in more consistent standards and useful standards, Kingsbury says. "But I don't anticipate quick fixes."
"This could lead to pressure states to bring their states more in line" with other states, says Ferrara. "That's not a simple process."
Judging NAEP
Is the National Assessment of Educational Progress an accurate way to judge the country's students? For researchers trying to tell how one state's standards fare against other states, the NAEP test is invaluable. NAEP is the only national test given to students in grades four and eight. It is given to students in every state and has existed for 34 years. So why might it not be a good test to use as a national yardstick? There are three reasons, according to Gage Kingsbury, a senior researcher at NWEA:
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" Brand: Askeys / Type: Wafers "
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Askey's were founded in 1910, bringing ice cream cornets to the UK market. They have now expanded to not only provide cones, but wafers, topping sauces and other sweet dessert treats.
I have bought many Askeys products through the years and most recently I purchased their ice cream wafers.
These wafers come in a pack of 48 and the packaging has changed considerably since the picture above was taken. The new pack is now two shades of blue, with lettering in both white and yellow. There is a picture of ice cream wafers on the front, which have been used as the wings of a plane. It really is very cute and is advertised as a serving suggestion.
The packaging is very thin and cannot be resealed, so the wafers will have to be stored in an airtight container once opened. I have had mine for three weeks now and they are still crisp.
Inside the pack you find 48, pale golden wafers, each with the word 'Askeys' printed on them. They are very thin and measure 3.5 inches by 1.5 inches. I mainly eat mine as an ice cream sandwich, but you do have to watch, as the wafers break quite easily. They also work just as well added to a bowl of ice cream, giving a very basic pudding some extra decoration and added texture.
The wafers, although plain looking, do taste lovely and sweet. They are also very crisp, giving your smooth, soft ice cream some added 'crunch'.
*Nutritional Value Per 2 Wafer Serving*
Energy - 11 kcal
Protein - 0.4g
Carbohydrate - 2.3g
of which sugars - Trace
Fat - Trace
of which saturates - Trace
Fibre - 0.1g
Sodium - Trace
Salt Equivalent - Trace
This product contains milk, soya/soybeans, wheat and gluten.
It is free from artificial colours, flavours and preservatives and is suitable for vegetarians.
Askeys 48 Ice Cream Wafers are available from Tesco for 28p, which is remarkably good value these days.
They are a very affordable way to liven up your ice cream and stay fresh for a long time, preventing wastage.
I would definitely recommend this product and award it 5 stars.
I've recently reviewed Askeys chocolate and toffee Treat sauces, and felt the need to buy and review their wafers as I hadn't had them for ages. Well, it's as good an excuse as any! The Askeys range is a great way to liven up your dessert, such as plain vanilla ice-cream, to suit what you fancy at the time and at a better price than an already-flavoured ice-cream.
Askeys, which originated in 1910, is part of the Silver Spoon Company. They're a prestigious and well-known brand, so I trust that they're products are of good, reliable quality. The range includes a variety of dessert-related treats, including:
Treat Sauces, Crackin' Sauces (which harden after squeezing it out) and cornets & wafers.
Wafers are a traditional and popular addition to ice-cream, and you would have thought that, because they're so simple, any brand would taste the same and do the job. I've found that some can be more like cardboard, so there are differences between makes.
Askeys Wafers are sold in a pack of 48, packaged in a thin shiny foil for freshness. They can be found amongst the other dessert items in the grocery section of most supermarkets, and cost under 20p! In fact, when I picked them up from Tesco, they were 15p. Bargain. 48 wafers should keep you going for quite a while, and with a good use-by date, they're great to keep in the cupboard for when you want them.
The only thing is that once opened they are prone to staleness, which is why I wrap some tinfoil over the end of the open packet and keep them in an airtight tub. Actually, the one little thing that annoys me is how hard it is to get them out of the packet: they're very delicate but packed into the thin wrapper very tightly, so trying to remove one or two from a new packet is difficult without initially breaking the edges of them (you've got to break a few eggs to make an omelette though!).
These contain wheat, gluten, soya and milk, so they're not suitable for those with allergies to such products. Dietary requirements aside, these are 'ideal for the whole family, especially the rascals'. I would agree with their statement because they're quite plain, so there's nothing really to dislike.
Although some may find these have a slightly bland texture, I find them to be great with ice-cream as they complement each other very well. These do have some sweetener in the recipe, which livens them up slightly and makes them the perfect accompaniment to ice-cream. They have a good, crisp texture, which doesn't go soggy too quickly when paired with ice-cream.
There are different uses for wafers, such as an ice-cream sandwhich, or on the side with a bowl of ice-cream. I quite like breaking these up into small pieces and sprinkling them over ice-cream to add a bit of texture.
Askeys are confident these are good quality and tasty, so much so that on the back of the packet they guarantee you'll like them or you can claim your money back. At 15p, however, you wont lose out for trying them.


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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Details of Disappearance
Pogosian, a manager of a medical clinic in Los Angeles, was last seen January 23, 2003, leaving a business meeting at a strip mall in the 1200 block of South Glendale Avenue. He had a dispute while on the phone and then drove to downtown Los Angeles, where he disappeared.
Pogosian's family spoke with him by cellphone the next day, a few hours before a "large" kidnap ransom was delivered to an unknown Armenian man in Los Angeles, police said.
On Jan. 31, Pogosian's white 2001 Range Rover was found near Andover Drive and Glenoaks Boulevard in Burbank.
Foul play is suspected.
Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
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(818) 548-4890
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Welcome back, and happy international guitar month! In a previous lesson I gave you some 2-string picking examples that you can use to develop your picking and to create longer lines. This month I will teaching you some 3-string picking ideas that can be great for developing your picking, and to help create lines. There are tons of examples I can show you on this topic, but I will show you just a few ideas to get you started. All of the examples I will be showing you should be alternate picked.
Example 1 is a 3-string picking idea, that lies within the notes of an F# major scale (F#, G#, A#, B, C#, D#, E#) Technically, this example is E# Locrian, because the first note begins on the E# of F. For simplicity you can call it F Locrian, or even F# major, and that all depends on what notes you are emphasizing.
This is a great picking exercise, especially if you want to develop your right picking on three strings. This is played with 32nd notes, but it could also be played with 16th notes or 8th notes. Be sure to use a metronome, and experiment with moving this up the neck in half steps.
MP3 - Picking: 3-String Picking Ideas - Example 1
Once you get the one-octave, 3-string scale pattern down and up to speed, a great exercise would be to apply it to the all of modes and play it up the neck. That is what Example 2 is based on. This is in the F# major scale, but you can do this in any mode, or scale, and on any set of strings.
MP3 - Picking: 3-String Picking Ideas - Example 2
Now, with Example 3 we will move this 3-string, 9-note pattern up the neck through the modes, on all strings in the key of F# major. There are several ways you can move up the neck, this is just one way, Be sure to experiment with many possible combinations.
MP3 - Picking: 3-String Picking Ideas - Example 3
Finally, Example 4 changes up the pattern and the key. This one is in E minor (E, F#, G, A, B, C, D) and it is a 3-string pattern that is really great for your picking. Try to experiment with starting with a downstroke and with an upstroke. Beginning with with either one will help develop your inside and outside picking, because it alternates between both.
MP3 - Picking: 3-String Picking Ideas - Example 4
That is it for now. Be sure to make up your own patterns and be sure to visit www.mikecampese.com for more information, and to purchase my CDs.
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US Government's First National Smoking Cessation Campaign Proven To Help Smokers
Sep 09, 2013, 10:01 ET
Legacy Statement on Results of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Tips" Campaign
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to new research published in the British medical journal The Lancet, the US Government's first national smoking cessation campaign may have helped at least 100,000 people quit smoking for good.
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In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Tips from Former Smokers campaign, which delivered a message to smokers and non-smokers alike that smoking is a deadly addiction that can impact your health and your daily life at a very young age. The series of hard-hitting television, print, radio and online advertisements drew attention to the dangers of smoking, while promoting national smoking cessation telephone helplines and online resources available to anyone looking to quit.
Research published in The Lancet estimates that 1.64 million smokers made a quit attempt due to "Tips," and more than 220,000 of these smokers remained abstinent upon completion of the campaign. Among these smokers, an estimated 100,000 will remain abstinent from smoking long-term. The study found that during the campaign period there was also a 132% increase in calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW, a national smoking cessation helpline, and an even larger increase in traffic to a quit-assistance website (smokefree.gov).
The tobacco industry spends more than $8 billion a year marketing its products in the U.S. alone, maintaining the tobacco epidemic as one of our greatest public health challenges. We applaud the CDC for its continued investment in our nation's future and economic health through this proven-successful campaign.
At Legacy, we work hard to help people understand that smoking is an addiction, not a mere habit or matter of will. While the CDC campaign made an impact on smokers, the campaign also had a positive effect on non-smokers, nearly doubling the proportion of non-smokers who made recommendations to friends or family to use the telephone quitline or website. Further indicating how the campaign helped spur water-cooler conversation, the study found the proportion of non-smokers who reported talking with friends or family about the dangers of smoking also increased.
For more than a decade, Legacy has fought to address the nation's leading cause of preventable death: tobacco-related disease. Through efforts like our truth® youth smoking prevention campaign, and our EX® quit smoking campaign, we know firsthand about the importance of multimedia campaigns and the effects and results that they generate.
These strong findings illustrate the clear public health benefit of sustaining campaigns like "Tips," as part of a comprehensive effort to reach smokers and their families and to encourage smoking cessation. These results provide evidence to continue building on this life-saving work – smoking cessation intervention that is both successful and cost-effective.
We stand beside the CDC in support of this bold effort and encourage everyone to visit www.cdc.gov/TIPS for more information on how to quit.
Legacy helps people live longer, healthier lives by building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Legacy's proven-effective and nationally recognized public education programs include truth®, the national youth smoking prevention campaign that has been cited as contributing to significant declines in youth smoking; EX®, an innovative public health program designed to speak to smokers in their own language and change the way they approach quitting; and research initiatives exploring the causes, consequences and approaches to reducing tobacco use. Located in Washington, D.C., the foundation was created as a result of the November 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) reached between attorneys general from 46 states, five U.S. territories and the tobacco industry. To learn more about Legacy's life-saving programs, visit LegacyForHealth.org.
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No Longer No. 1: Las Vegas in Middle of Pack for Foreclosures
Once the foreclosure capital of the nation, Las Vegas dropped to No. 25 in the third quarter with one foreclosure filing for every 139 households, RealtyTrac online listing service reported Wednesday.
Stockton, Calif., was the top foreclosure city with one foreclosure filing for every 67 households, more than three times the U.S. average.
The report shows third-quarter foreclosure activity decreased from a year ago in 131 of the nation's 212 metropolitan areas with a population of 200,000 or more. Foreclosure activity decreased from the previous quarter in 134 of the metro areas tracked in the report.
Las Vegas had a total of 6,062 foreclosure filings in the third quarter, down 31 percent from the previous quarter and down 71 percent from the year-ago period, RealtyTrac found. That includes 2,714 notices of default, 1,400 auction sales and 1,948 real estate-owned properties, or homes taken back by the bank.
"At least on the surface, it's good news that fewer foreclosures are happening, which is the most visible sign of pain in your housing market," RealtyTrac vice president Daren Blomquist said. "But I would mention that we still see a lot of stress in Las Vegas."
With 59 percent of homeowners underwater, or owing more on their mortgage than their home is worth, there are still a lot of homeowners at risk of foreclosure, he said.
Foreclosure activity decreased from a year ago in 12 out of the nation's 20 largest metro areas, led by San Francisco (36 percent), Detroit (31 percent), Los Angeles (29 percent), Phoenix (27 percent) and San Diego (26 percent).
The biggest annual increases in foreclosure activity were in New York (69 percent), Tampa (43 percent), Philadelphia (34 percent), Chicago (34 percent) and Seattle (20 percent).
The third-quarter decrease indicates that most of the nation's housing markets are past the worst of the foreclosure problem, including Las Vegas, Blomquist said. Foreclosure activity in September was below September 2007 levels in 58 percent of the metro markets.
"If they haven't been foreclosed on yet, there's less chance they will be," the RealtyTrac executive told the Review-Journal. "They made it through the worst of the gantlet. We have seen home prices increase, which gives some people hope to hang on. That's the silver lining."
Still, rebounding foreclosure activity in some markets remains a threat to home price stability and growth in those markets, Blomquist said.
"The rebounding foreclosure activity tends to be in markets where the foreclosure process slowed down most dramatically in the last two years, resulting in a buildup of foreclosures in limbo that lenders are finally working through this year," he said.
Las Vegas may see a "catch-up surge" in foreclosure activity, but banks have figured out a better way to handle distressed properties, Blomquist.
For one thing, they're approving more short sales, or homes sold for less than the principal mortgage balance. Short sales now account for nearly half of all home sales in Las Vegas, compared with about one-fourth a year ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported. Foreclosures, meanwhile, have fallen to just 13 percent of total sales.
California cities, including Stockton, accounted for the seven highest metro foreclosure rates in the nation during the third quarter, although foreclosure activity decreased from a year ago in all seven metros.
Seven Florida cities ranked among the top 20 metro foreclosure rates in the third quarter.
RealtyTrac provides a count of the total number of properties with at least one foreclosure filing entered into the firm's database. Some foreclosure filings entered into the database during a quarter may have been recorded in previous quarters.
Data is collected from more than 2,200 counties nationwide, representing more than 90 percent of the U.S. population. The full report, along with an interactive heat map and relevant charts, is available at www.realtytrac.com.
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Presenting the delightful combination of style and high speed functionality and accuracy, the Zync Tablet Z909 is powered by a high speed processor. The inbuilt RAM offers easy processing of multiple operations while a plethora of multimedia and office functionality that keeps you connected even when on the go. Design The sleek, slim design of this tablet offers a secure, firm grip for easy handling and efficient functioning. This tablet with its light weight, robust construction offers lasting functionality. The smooth, glossy finish adorning the back panel of this tablet and the protective screen bezel adds a refined, stylish appeal to the visual aesthetics of this tablet. The screen bezel is equipped with a round physical key that offers back functionality for easy navigation. Performance The 7 inch TFT Resistive Touchscreen display of this tablet offers a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels that offers easy legibility and offers a sharp, clear viewing quality. This tablet is built on an 800 MHz processor that brings to your fingertips high speed efficiency and powers a variety of operations for seamless functioning. Equipped with a 256 MB RAM, this tablet offers instant and lag-free transition between different operations for easy usage. Using a micro SD card, the internal 4 GB memory can be expanded to up to 16 GB to easily store a variety of data and media files. Connectivity Using the Wi-Fi protocol, you can enjoy speedy and uninterrupted internet connectivity wherever you go. The USB 2.0 port of this tablet allows you to easily connect the tablet to a variety of computers with different operating systems for fast and accurate transfer of a variety of files. The Bluetooth connectivity feature instantly pairs your tablet with other Bluetooth enabled devices in the vicinity and offers speedy and secure transfer of data and media files over a wireless network. The preloaded HTML browser offers instant access to different web pages to keep you entertained all through the day. Operating System The Android 2.2 (Froyo) Operating System of this tablet offers fast response to perform different functions with superior ease. The lag-free functioning of this OS and the easy customisation of the homescreen and a multitude of different features ensure a gratifying user experience. Power Management The 3000 mAh Li-Ion polymer battery of this tablet offers a long lasting battery backup that ensures trouble-free and smooth functioning of your precious Zync tablet. Other features The powerful stereo speakers of this tablet deliver a sharp, amplified audio quality while the music player supports a variety of audio files to offer uninterrupted playback. The 0.3 MP front camera of this tablet captures images with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and also enables video recording. The preloaded Facebook, Twitter, Google, Gmail, Youtube and many other social networking apps keep you connected even when on the go. The G-sensor offers easy and automatic adjustment of the UI between the landscape and portrait mode for easy viewing.
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As A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder gets ready to open on the Great White Way and Murder For Two continues to make a killing off-Broadway, Broadway.com asked readers which Broadway musical that revolves around murder is their favorite. The results are in, and shows about a mysterious, disfigured musical genius, a demon barber and a couple of merry murderesses lead the pack. Check out the results below!
1. The Phantom of the Opera — 45%
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is about a disfigured Phantom who lives underneath the Paris Opera House and who is both mesmerized and obsessed with the beautiful ingenue opera singer Christine. Eager to make her the star of the opera, the Phantom gives her private lessons in stealth and leaves threatening notes to the rest of the cast and producers urging them to cast Christine in future productions. However, as his plans to make Christine the star are coming to fruition, she falls in love with another man instead.
2. Sweeney Todd — 16%
Dark as dark can be, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd depicts London at its late-19th-century worst: a miserable, starving, filthy lower class repressed and lorded over by a corrupt elite society. Sweeney Todd returns to London after being sent away by Judge Turpin. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pie Shop were she sells "the worst pies in London." With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd tries to rid of all the people who have ever done him wrong and hopes to be reunited with his daughter, who is now Judge Turpin's ward.
3. Chicago — 9%
John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago follows Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star). The murderesses find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. Enter Billy Flynn, the greasy lawyer whose goal is not only to have his clients acquitted, but to make them legal legends. That's Chicago!


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Album Rating: 4.0first review in 199 years. here's the album art: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Marvins_Marvelous_Mechanical_Museum.jpg
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GREAT album
Album Rating: 4.5Fuck yea, these guys rule.
never heard of em, but great review (y)
Album Rating: 4.0This is quite a peculiar album... Hmm...
Album Rating: 4.5It's awesome, that's what it is.
Album Rating: 4.0This is hilarious, there's a whole thing at my school where a couple of kids are basically promoting these guys, hanging up posters and giving people necklaces based on the colored ties these guys wear.
And then this review shows up.
Album Rating: 4.0thx for adding the art
here he come, the banana man
this album was my jam like 3 years ago
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffIf you guys haven't heard it yet, the new album is phenomenal. Check it out.
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Album Rating: 4.0Why is this record so unknown?
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