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The Twin Cities has become a safe haven for fans who are seeking more substance and innovation in their Hip Hop. In the course of a year, one group has found unknown success while hiding in plain sight as Sifu Hotman. Comprised of National Slam Poetry Champion Guante, Rhymesayers' latest sensation deM atlaS and the heavily underrated producer DJ Rube; they are a group that many have overlooked due to their lack record label or publicist, yet still remind us why we fell in love with Hip Hop. With their latest release, Embrace the Sun, released just over a month ago, we sat down with deM atlaS and Guante to find out more about one of the Minnesota's best kept secrets.
Embracing the Sun
"This release was a lot like the first one where it kind of just happened in a lot of ways," said Guante. "I knew Rube for a long time, he sent me beats and I was working on them and then I happened to play a show with Josh and asked him to get on one of the songs, which lead to getting on all three of the songs. And then Rube sent me some more beats and I could have written to them myself or done some more Sifu Hotman stuff. So I just figured we could do it again. And this was before the whole Rhymesayers thing happened. It was kinda like let's make some good music."
In what is being described as their "proper" debut, Embrace the Sun brings together the original three songs from their self-titled EP with three brand new songs, and a remix by Lewis Parker (who has produced songs with Ghostface Killah and Sadat X of Brand Nubian).
"I thought it made more sense to package everything together, especially after we remastered the old songs to make them pop a little more," said Guante.
Fans of the last year's EP may notice a conceptual difference in the songs as the originally jazzy, bombastic songs have gained more structure in their songwriting.
"The earlier trio of songs was just like paying tribute to the Hip Hop culture," said Guante. "Having fun and rapping really well. And that was the beginning and ending of what we were trying to do there. Whereas the next batch of songs, that idea is still very much present. I think the difference this time is really just came about in the song writing itself. 'Matches,' in particular, I think is one of the best songs I've ever been a part of and I'm really, really floored on how it turned out both in the terms of the beat, Josh's part and what I wrote too. It just came together in a really special way. I don't think it was about saying something really deep in the song as its still about rapping, it's just that process as a writer is that you really don't know where it's going to take you and that's a big part of Hip Hop in being super flexible, being super willing to follow the spirit wherever it happens to take you. And I mean that in a super secular way."
"I feel like these songs are less a show of rapping fast as they are a very intimate and personal view of how we are perceived as artists in the public," said deM atlaS. "And I think 'First Ave Funeral' comes to mind the most as that is a very revealing song, both mine and Guante's beings. Like when I'm dead, you'll appreciate me then because when you're dead, everyone starts clamoring around. It's a very embittered song. It tells a tale of two MCs who feel under appreciated; don't feel like they are given the right amount of respect and credibility. Guante's verses really stand out to me in that song. I think they're really revealing about the community and about embracing social justice. And mine is more so a feeling about being just a kid that everybody loves, then hates, invisible and fades to black. I feel feelings of invisibility a lot. I don't know why that is because I'm obviously not invisible, we are appreciated and we make great art, but the new songs are very different to me as they get more to more of the core of us as individual people instead of us rapping fast and having witty punchlines. These songs have more of a hook laden as 'Matches' is about building up the community, building up ourselves and embracing the Sun…. The chemistry was there from the first three songs and we already knew our styles as we studied those songs, then we created three more and I think that we play off of each other even better such as 'First Ave Funeral' again is a song that we are playing off each other and playing off our verses very well. It's really great because I really feel that we have great chemistry together, on and off stage. Even though our styles are so contrasting, with my melodicism and rhythm and Guante's verses are so deep. You hear one line and you have to pause the song and ponder on that one line because it makes you feel a certain way and makes you think."
As they developed on their chemistry, the matured concepts allowed deM atlaS to give his lyrics a little more weight. As for his verse in the song "Matches," he raps: "Why am I the only one that's different?/Paint me as the new eccentric/If I had it my way Minneapolis would be Piss Christ/Suspended in Hell above the lakes/That no one knows the names of/ If you do/ You have too much time on your f***ing hands/That's why you pace about the room trying not to give a damn." To which he explained:
"I feel like just around here, where I'm from, I'm mainly speaking on how I sometimes feel isolated in my own head, in my own space. I feel like I'm a spectator just watching people. That's how I feel a lot. It goes back to that line in 'All We Got,' 'it never once occurred to me that I'd be staring out the window to see me." It's a nice continuation on that idea on how I feel…(As far as Piss Christ line) It's about people staying within this little bubble of Minneapolis and if I had it my way, I'd have everyone look at Minneapolis and St. Paul the same credibility that is given to big cities like Chicago or LA or New York. I feel like we're overlooked a lot. The innovation is overlooked a lot…It's great, but I think it's not given the same sort of flack, but I think it's on the verge of happening like how Seattle was really big in the 90s. In the 90s, when Nirvana popped off, I liked that even though it was overlooked so much. It had a lot of cool cats come out of it. Jimi Hendrix, Mudhoney, and all these great bands and musicians. And that's how I see Hip Hop."
The State of Hip Hop & Scene VS. Community
Along with the Twin Cities being unfairly overlooked, Guante also weighed on how the Twin Cities Hip Hop community can be under estimated. In the recent aftermath of the The Current/MN Original's "State of Hip Hop" concert, which Minnesota Public Radio had originally arranged to celebrate local Hip Hop artists with a concert at the Fitzgerald Theater, but after concerns were raised over MPR and their lack of outreach with the local community in planning the event, many local artists (including Slug, Toki Wright, I Self Devine, Desdamona, Brother Ali and Guante) sent a letter requesting that the event be postponed until a more transparent and sustainable partnership was reached. Although the show was respectfully postponed indefinitely, Guante remains hopeful on the future of the Twin Cities Hip Hop community.
"The positive that came out of that was that it showed that when the Hip Hop community worked together, it can accomplish some really interesting things beyond selling CDs at the shows. It really showed the impact it has on the lives of the people living within these communities. A lot of the stuff since then has gone behind the scenes, but I can tell you that there's a lot happening right now which is really exciting. People may not see the effects of it until a few months down the line, but there are a lot of meetings, a lot of people organizing around the idea of 'how can we be more effective community in terms of supporting each other and in terms of how we leverage our power as local celebrities. Actually look at how we can make our neighborhood's better."
As more meetings and discussions continue to take place, one element of the distrust stemmed from the differences between the scene and the community, where people will attend a club for a Hip Hop show but will not support the neighborhoods that have birthed the music and the culture.
"We have a really, really strong scene in terms of Hip Hop acts who have been able to be successful," said Guante. "We have really big shows that happen here i.e. Soundset and all the First Avenue shows…The community is really, really strong and really, really big and power. It's just often behind the scenes. And my thought is can we combine those things more and get some of the cool things that happen behind the scenes to shine a spotlight through the power that the 'scene' has."
In a way to help bring the two together, Sifu Hotman has found favor with the local Breakdancing community and managed to incorporate the House of Dance Twin Cities into their album release show at the Intermedia Media Arts Building in Minneapolis.
"The B-Boy & B-Girl community is a huge part of the Hip Hop scene in the Twin Cities, but you won't see them at events that cater to the 'scene,'" said Guante. "It's really important to me that any Hip Hop show I organize from now on, I want to include the dance element because it's Hip Hop. It should have the dance element represented, but also for more selfish reasons, it makes the show better. And our shows are a lot of fun because of the House of Dance. And they're doing cool things too such as lessons for people to go to learn more about breakdancing."
"It's great," added deM atlaS. "Now cats are coming to a Sifu Hotman show, so now you can come watch some music and what how these cats move their bodies. That's really important because it gave people a reintroduction into the B-Boy culture."
The Future of Sifu Hotman
In accordance with all of Guante's releases, Embrace the Sun has been self-promoted through grassroots marketing via their social media accounts and word of mouth by fans.
"I think we make the stuff that we can stand behind politically, philosophically, artistically…and then we have to work to get it heard by people," said Guante. "If it doesn't pick up and get a 100 million views or listens, then it's always a combination of factors. There's the larger culture that we really can't do anything about as far as how people consume music these days and then I have to point the finger at myself and then be like 'am I working hard enough to get to the priority.' So there's a lot of balancing acts going on here right now in the release, from being excited, to work hard to get it heard by people, but also being realistic about how marketing works and trying to hold those two realities together in my head at the same time."
Although making money off of their art is a necessity, they have agreed that it does not measure their level of success.
"It isn't to say that good art is never successful and all successful art is bad," said Guante. "I think it's more about recognizing the ripple effect that you have from the work you create you don't always get to see. Like when you play a show, you don't know who's in that audience who hears something that they need to hear in that moment and then goes on and does something else. You just don't know and I think that's true for the most successful acts and the least successful acts. It's not always about instant gratification in terms of success. I think success can be defined in a much more interesting way rather than 'oh I got a lot of youtube views.'"
Success has followed each member of the group. Since the release of their self-titled EP, deM atlaS was sought out and signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment where he has performed on the main stage at Soundset 2014, Welcome to Minnesota Tour 2014 and is currently on tour with Atmosphere and Prof; Guante became an internet sensation through Buzzfeed.com featuring his poem "10 Responses to the Phrase Man Up" and generating over half a million views on youtube; and DJ Rube has been tireless at work creating new beats and perfecting his techniques at a skilled DJ.
With all of their personal feats, the fate of the group has gone into question.
"I don't know what the future holds," said deM atlaS. "I'm open to the idea but for now, we both have kind of agreed that we want to focus on our lives a bit more. You know this Sifu Hotman project is something that we just did for fun. And I respect Guante and Rube a lot. It's just another outlet."
"This is probably last Sifu Hotman release….I shouldn't say last since I like working with them, but I'm just trying to be realistic," said Guante. "I feel like (deM atlaS) is going to have a very full schedule over the next few years and I don't want to step on any toes. I'd love to keep making music together. We'll just have to see what happens."
As each member turns their sights to their next projects, many see the potential with deM atlaS as he continues to work on his Rhymesayers debut.
"It's not an album, said deM atlaS, "but it is a collection of songs that I've sequestered up until this point. It's coming along just fine. When I get back from the road, I'm going to get back to the booth and work on new music. The music I have right now is a lot of sing-songy Hip Hoppy happy sad material. It's very hook driven, it's very melodic. It's not a showcase of lyrics, but it's a showcase of how powerful hooks and choruses can be. And some verses that I think are my best. I don't have an official release date yet, but it's coming really soon."
With the newly acquired Rhymesayers imprint to his name, deM atlaS has been taken under the wing of many of the label's heavyweights from touring advice from Slug and Ant to constructive criticism from RSE CEO Siddiq Sayers.
"I get the feeling that these cats really want me to succeed," said deM atlaS. "If I don't succeed, then they don't succeed. It's a very mutual partnership and it's family. I'm definitely lucky to be learning a lot from these cats and they're nothing but support. They're honest. I'll show them a song and they'll be honest with me about it. Like Siddiq will be like 'I'm not feeling that verse, it sounds like you freestyled that shit.' And they are like 'don't cheat, you want this to be a classic so don't half-ass it.' So it's nice reminders like that. And it's not that I would half ass my music, but there is a charm to not trying in certain songs because a lot of the music that I like to listen to is proof of that point…Daniel Johnston who would play these songs that sounded like murder on the ears but if you listen closely, they're really beautiful songs. I'm still trying to find my process in creating these songs. It's surprising, it's different, it's a rollercoaster. So I'm still trying to work out the kinks, but the two coincide greatly, music and life. My life revolves around music and music revolves around my life. The two are inseparable."
As deM atlaS continues to hit the road, Guante has decided to hit the books by going to grad school at the University of Minnesota for a master's degree in liberal studies.
"What I'm doing is combining the media work that I do such as social media, video and op. eds with the art stuff that I do in terms of spoken word and Hip Hop," said Guante, "then combining those two things in the youth education, youth development work that I do. I'm trying to find a way to combine all those things in a way that makes sense and have a powerful effect."
Although he will be traveling less, fans shouldn't fret as he is also planning on releasing his first book and CD, A Lovesong, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry this fall as well.
"I should've released a book by now," said Guante, "in terms of all the poetry stuff I've been doing, but I really wanted to take my time with it. So this book that's coming out is a capstone of the last 5 years of my career and it's also cleaning the slate so everything I do from 2015 on is going to be like brand new stuff. The book will contain the text of all of my spoken word poems I've been doing over the past few years, plus a few new poems that no one's ever seen before. Plus a bunch of the essays I've been writing and I'm trying to make connections between the poems and the essays. It's like two different types of writing talking about the same idea, which I think can be pretty cool. But also, it will function as a lyrics booklet for my next CD: a compilation of all the best songs I've ever made. Many of them re-mastered or remixed. Plus a few brand new songs on top of that. The idea is that it's a book and a CD that will go together."
Embrace the Sun is available exclusively on their bandcamp. Be sure to stay up to date on the latest from Guante (www.guante.info, Facebook, Twitter), deM atlaS (Rhymesayers, Facebook, Twitter) and DJ Rube (Twitter).


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Our next teleconference will be held Monday, 16 July 2001 at the regularly scheduled time: 10:00 AM Eastern Time (14:00 UTC/GMT). To find out what time it is in your time zone use the Time Zone Converter [1]. It will take place on the MIT bridge: +1 617.258.7910 Agenda for Monday: - Quickly go through the updates to the AERT open issues list, per the note I sent earlier today. [2] I have not passed any of these on to WCAG or AU yet, nor integrated them into the WCAG issues list. What I propose is that we get the issues divided, then send notes. I'll let WCAG determine if they/how they want to incorporate the issues before adding them to the list. - EARL Primer. Discuss proposals from last week. Perhaps new proposal before Monday's meeting? [3] - Future work: Tool comparison and documentation for users. At the Coordination Group call last week we talked about the role of the ERT WG in relation to other WAI groups. There was discussion that ERT might collaborate with EO on some documentation. For example, developing the list of existing tools. To determine if there is some need that we could helpful fulfill, could we brainstorm about what needs people are aware of? I know people want tools, but I think they want a process as well - a clearer idea of what tools to use when. What kinds of tools should we try to encourage people to develop (and obviously they should all be encouraged to produce EARL). I don't want to shake our focus from finishing EARL and getting existing EARL implementations, but I thought a general discussion about where the group is headed would be interesting. Be well, --wendy [1] http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001Jul/0025.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001Jul/0020.html -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative seattle, wa usa tel: +1 206.706.5263 /--Received on Friday, 13 July 2001 15:15:50 UTC
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Yevgeny Khaldei was a Red Army photographer. He is most known for his photograph from World War II of a Soviet soldier raising a flag over Reichstag.
He was passionate about photography beginning in his childhood. He built his first childhood camera with his grandmother's glasses. At nineteen, he began working with the Soviet press agency TASS as a photographer. He remained with TASS until 1949 when was fired due to the anti-semitism that was growing in the Soviet state. He worked for the next ten years as a private freelance photographer. In 1959, he went to work for the newspaper Pravda where he stayed until he was forced into retirement in 1970.
"While Khaldei frequently staged or manipulated his photographs, he insisted that this was to signify the importance and add strength to a particular event. His work was also admired by the elites of the Soviet Union and he is renowned for creating commissioned portraits for State leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin."


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Weyakwin Area Code is 306 and Time Zone is Central (GMT -06:00).
Weyakwin is also known as Molanosa
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The first three characters (alpha-numeric-alpha) of the postal code which represent a geographic area in Weyakwin.
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Experts advise homeowners to clean their carpets annually or even biannually, depending on traffic and degree of soiling, yet most people clean their carpets much less frequently. To make sure the job is done thoroughly, find a reputable carpet cleaning professional who can dry clean or deep clean your carpet with hot water on a regular basis. That way, you avoid potentially dangerous problems like mold, high levels of dirt or other issues that build up and might necessitate pulling up your carpet and replacing it. Here are some of the factors involved in carpet cleaning. Learn how they might affect the total price you pay and whether you hire a carpet cleaning professional or complete some of the work yourself as a DIY project:
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Cost of Carpet Cleaning
Professional carpet cleaning costs vary depending on the size of the area, the cleaning method, the carpet type, and whether stain removal is required. For example, you can expect to pay more for a wool carpet than for berber. On average, homeowners report paying $176 and most spend between $121 and $233.
2 Common Types of Carpet Cleaning Pricing
When you hire a professional carpet cleaning service or solicit quotes from them, you'll notice they charge based on one of two ways:
1. Per Room Rate
One pricing structure uses a per room rate, which means they'll clean a carpet -- regardless of the square footage -- and charge you a flat rate for every room in your home with carpet. They might impose a cap on size depending on the carpet cleaning company, which means if the room exceeds a certain square footage, they treat it as two rooms. Make sure they don't inflate the price they charge you, such as by overestimating your square footage. If they charge you too low a price, on the other hand, they could be a poor quality cleaning service.
2. Square Footage Rate
Some carpet cleaning services charge you on a square footage basis instead. They visit your home to make the estimate because it requires measurements. If your home is smaller -- a condo, apartment or one- to two- bedroom home -- you'll pay more for this service because of the additional fees for travel and cleaning material expenses. Owners of larger homes will pay less because these will likely be fixed.
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Carpet Cleaning Cost Factors
There are various factors that could increase or lessen the total price of your carpet cleaning service. It's imperative you ask about some of these factors when requesting quotes from carpet cleaning professionals so you don't see unexpected charges on your bill. Extra charges can boost the price by anywhere from $100 to $200.
Square Footage
Depending on the size of your home, most carpet cleaning services charge based on the square footage of your home. Some carpet estimates based on square footage might include:
- Between $80 and $130 for a home with 200 to 400 sq. ft.
- 1000 to 1500 sq. ft. might cost between $200 and $300.
- 2000 to 3000 sq. ft. might be estimated at $400 to $550.
Cleaning Method
Carpet cleaning either involves chemicals, steam, dry cleaning or some combination of chemicals and steam. Steam Cleaning
Steam cleaning, often referred to scientifically as ?hot water extraction,? represents the most popular way to clean carpets professionally. It uses pressure to insert hot water and chemicals into your carpet, which loosens dirt and debris. The machine uses suction to remove all the dirty water from your carpet. After that, your carpet needs about 24 hours to dry completely. Professionals recommend steam cleaning over most other carpet cleaning methods because it keeps your carpet warranty intact. Carpet cleaning professionals use either vehicle-mounted or electric cleaners for the suction. Some average quotes for steam cleaning include:
- $100 to $250 for 900 to 1000 sq. ft.
- $300 to $400 for 1,200 to 1,400 sq. ft.
- $400 to $500 for 1,500 to 2,000 sq. ft.
Dry Cleaning
Referred to as "low moisture" or "encapsulation" cleaning, dry cleaning utilizes chemicals and a small amount of water to quickly clean the carpet, but it doesn't eradicate as much debris and dirt as steam cleaning. It uses a rotary machine, brush or sprayer to loosen dirt and then immediately vacuums out the dirt and debris. Encapsulation helps improve the carpet's appearance, but the carpet doesn't require 24 hours of dry time, so you can start walking on it again immediately. It also keeps the carpet cleaner for a longer period of time. Some estimates for dry carpet cleaning include:
- ChemDry: $140
- Stanley Steemer: $135
- Chem Clean: $120
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Carpet Type
Different types of carpet vary in their difficulty to clean, which can impact the amount you'll pay a carpet cleaning professional. Some common carpet types and their difficulty and average prices to clean include:
- Berber: easiest to clean, around $90
- Cut and level loop: somewhat difficult to clean, between $60 and $120
- Cotton and wool: most difficult, around $100 to $150
It's important to note that your carpet type and its optimum method of cleaning is determined by the loops in the carpet. There are different types of fibers. The way in which they're twisted in the carpet -- loose, medium, tight -- determines how much dirt or debris they conceal. You should consult with the carpet cleaning professional about what you can do to cut down on the build-up based on the type of carpet fibers you have, especially if they're tightly wound.
Stain Removal
If your carpet has stains, getting them professionally removed during carpet cleaning adds to the overall cost you pay. The amount of money you pay to remove them will depend on the type and size of the stain. For example, pet stains cost more to remove because they sink deep into the carpet's pile and take more time to extract from the carpet. In comparison, light stains, such as those that come from food spills, generally take less time to remove and cost you less. Stains can cost anywhere from $40 to $300 to remove, depending on the size and depth, so keep that in mind.
DIY Stain Removal
If you want to cut down on the cost for professionals to remove stains from your carpet, here are some of the most common types of stains and tips on how to remove them on your own.
Pet Stains
When pets get excited or nervous, they can have accidents on your carpets. While it seems like they won't come out, there are methods for removing those stubborn stains from your carpet:
- Clean up the debris and mess. Blot the carpet until it's almost dry and the stain is nearly removed.
- Moisten the area with water and use a carpet stain-removal product designed for treating pet stains.
- Mix white vinegar and warm water in a bottle and then spray on the stain. Allow the mixture to soak on the stain for a few minutes and then blot to remove any odor.
Sometimes you slosh a few drops of coffee while you're walking through the house and it happens to hit the carpet. If you can clean it immediately, you'll prevent a yellow-brown stain from forming on your carpet. Follow these instructions:
- Blot with a white towel. Do not spread it with the towel if you can, especially if there's a lot of spilled coffee -- get another towel!
- Use a vinegar, water and light bleach mixture to get the stain out.
- You can also use products sold in stores specifically targeted to get stains like this out.
Blood Stains
When you get blood on a carpet, you need to remove it as quickly as possible. Otherwise, there's a good chance it won't come out easily later. Here are some fast-acting methods for removing blood from carpet:
- Use cold water because blood tends to react badly to warm water, whereas cold water won't seep into the carpet.
- Fill a spray bottle with dish detergent and cold water. Spray the mixture on the stain so it's completely soaked. Use a paper towel or white cloth to blot it out.
- Repeat as many times as needed until the stain is removed.
DIY Carpet Cleaning
If you decide to clean your carpet rather than hire professionals, you can rent a steam cleaner from home improvement stores, grocery stores and other local retailers. Steam cleaners use detergent and hot water to extract the dirt and debris from your carpet. Steam cleaner rentals cost anywhere from $35 to $50 per day, plus the cost of the cleaning solution. Most steam cleaner rental venues and manufacturers recommend using their own cleaning solution rather than a third party's brand. If you ignore this advice, you risk damaging your carpet or the machine.Some risks that you run with using a rental steam cleaner rather than hiring a professional carpet cleaning service including:
- Too much time: a cleaner could be too small and take more time to cover your space or too large and consume too much power
- Oversaturation: because they use more water, the drying time could be longer than 24 hours and you might suffer a mold or mildew infestation
- Hard to use: large machines could be hard to move around small apartments or in corners where your carpet could build up considerable dirt
- Equipment failure: because you rent this equipment, it could break or work incorrectly, which could lead to additional costs or having to redo your carpet
While DIY steam cleaning is the less expensive option for homeowners, these risk factors could prove problematic if you run into them or have conflicting issues. Make sure you're ready to tackle these if you want to pursue DIY carpet cleaning. Also, make sure that it's worth the investment and potential additional costs.
If you don't have time, contact a cleaning professional to do it for you.
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Other Professional Carpet Cleaning Cost Considerations
When you hire a professional carpet cleaning service, several options might help you lower your total costs, either immediately or down the road, if you pursue long-term carpet cleaning. Here are some factors to consider with carpet cleaning professionals when requesting a quote.
Cleaning Discounts
Some professional carpet cleaning services offer discounts for:
- Multiple rooms
- Upholstery cleaning
- Returning and cleaning on a semi-regular basis
Ask company representatives if they offer any of these discounts when you're soliciting quotes. It could save you hundreds of dollars on your carpet cleaning services. There are also various sites online that feature coupons, deals and other potential savings for homeowners to use with carpet cleaning companies. There's no reason for you to pay full price with a carpet cleaning company unless they offer the best service in your area and impose a no-discount policy for good reason.
Extra Cleaning
Professional carpet cleaning professionals sometimes charge additional fees for some services because of added materials, time and labor involved in their process. Some of these add-ons include:
- Spot cleaning: complete stain removal (see above)
- Color repair or dyeing: correct carpet discoloration or restoring carpets to their original color
- Stain resistance: prevent future stains
Carpet discoloration results over time from sunlight, bleach, stains and so forth. The average lifetime of a carpet is around 12 years, but the fibers get damaged along the way, including discoloration. Color repair involves fixing and dyeing areas that were injured by:
- Bleach
- Stains
- Sun fade
- High foot traffic
Using a carpet dye kit, wet vac, rags and other materials, professional carpet cleaners mix the original carpet colors and dye them into the carpet. This allows the carpet to retain its original color and mask the damages sustained over time. Thus, the repairs extend the life of the carpet without homeowners having to pull up their carpet and start over again or having to continue to look at damage. For stain resistance, homeowners can invest in products like Stainmaster, Teflon and Scotchgard. These all prevent future staining and increase the total cost of carpet cleaning. Scotchgard, for example, is a chemical that wraps around the carpet fibers and creates an invisible layer of defense that repels stains from sinking into the carpet. It makes it easier to clean stains, dirt, debris and other soil that could hurt the carpet.
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14th Crosby Girl Guides meets at St Michael's Church every Thursday night during school term time.We meet in the church hall from 7.30pm until 9pm.
Guides is for girls aged 10 to 14 years giving them the opportunity to develop new skills, meet new people and have fun.Members take part in a wide range of exciting activities at their regular meetings, as well as having the opportunities to go to special Guiding events or holidays. Girls can extend their knowledge and skills by working towards Guide interest badges covering many different hobbies and activities from Film lover to crafts and cooking. They can also gain Challenge badges that recognise their participation in guiding over a period of time. The badges build towards the Baden-Powell Challenge Award, named in honour of the founder of guiding
From September 2014 to July 2015 we have increased from a small group of girls to a busy group of 24 guides. We have enjoyed playing games and activities as well as working on different interest badges such as the "Onesie badge" and "Caribbean Challenge badge". We have enjoyed trips out to the Pantomime, swimming baths and to visit our neighbouring Guide groups. During the spring term we enjoyed a weekend holiday to Rock and River Activity centre where the girls were able to experience new activities and challenges as well as enjoying fun being away with friends. To help our community the Guides have raised money for our Guide and Brownie units by hosting a Bring and Buy sale together with donating over £100 to the Ebola Crisis.
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by Jennifer Borget on September 1, 2016
This has got to be one of the coolest Texas summers on record. With all the rain we've been doing a lot less swimming and a lot more exploring. We're discussing seasons and looking for signs of fall.
It won't officially hit until later this month but on our family nature walk one evening we looked for clues that Autumn is coming. My daughter found fallen brown leaves (which may have actually been because that particular branch died but that's neither here nor there).
We looked for other clues like the changing weather and talked about the holidays we'll celebrate in the fall.
After a walk around the trail we sat down and sipped on one of our favorite fall colors: Bright orange citrus flavored Tampico. It was a nice refreshing snack on a warm afternoon.
We talked about what we liked about our favorite seasons. I go back and forth between Spring and Fall being my favorite seasons. Lil' J says she likes fall because in Texas it's still warm enough to swim but she can also jump in a big pile of leaves (which we have yet to do at our house).
It's just the beginning but we're excited to see what this Texas fall will bring.
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Borussia Dortmund was founded on 19th December 1909. The club colours are black and yellow. Borussia Dortmund holds its home games at Signal Iduna Park. Borussia Dortmund is one of the most successful clubs in Germany: in addition to eight German championships and three DFB (German football association) cup victories, Borussia Dortmund was the first ever German team to win a European Cup in 1966 (European Cup Winners' Cup), and the Champions League in 1997. In the same year, the World Cup was also brought to Dortmund.
However, Borussia Dortmund is one of the most famous clubs in Europe not only as a result of its sporting successes; the active fan scene of Borussia is one of the most creative and substantial in Germany. For many years, Borussia Dortmund has drawn the most spectators in German football and it is regularly among the clubs with the highest spectator numbers in Europe.
To date, Borussia Dortmund has celebrated eight German championships (1956, 1957, 1963, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2011, 2012), won the DFB Cup three times (1965, 1989, 2012) and been the victor in the European Cup Winners' Cup (1966) and the UEFA Champions League (1997).
Players who have put on their boots for Borussia Dortmund include German football world champions Jürgen Kohler, Stefan Reuter and Andreas Möller and European champion Matthias Sammer.
The official auction house of Borussia Dortmund is on this site. All items offered here come directly from the stock of Borussia Dortmund and are guaranteed to be originals. Counterfeits and imitations have no chance in the Borussia Dortmund auction house.
Lots auctioned include e.g. original match-worn Borussia Dortmund shirts, equipment and training items used by the professionals from Borussia Dortmund, memorabilia with handwritten autographs of the players, and many other unique items, rarities and exceptional events associated with Borussia Dortmund. On special occasions, Borussia Dortmund also offers exclusive special items (T-shirts, scarves etc.) in limited edition for immediate purchase here in the auction house.


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it was unbeliveable that inside the monastery we discovered two oversized pictures of the Highnes The 14th Dalaih Lama and many pilgrims took meditation and respect gestures in front of the images. An other picture shows the last Punchen Lama who also is banned and a taboo in China. The Holy leaders of Tibet cannot be banned - and never in Tibet! (It wasn't possible to take a photo inside the monastery)
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Course Descriptions for Non-Majors
These are the official descriptions listed in the course catalog
The following courses count towards the natural science electives for most majors on campus
BIOL 100 —(E) Modern Concepts of Human Biology — 3 credits
Exploration of the practical impact that modern biological concepts have on our lives. Topics include cell function, genetics, AIDS and other infectious diseases, cancer and end of life issues. Provides a framework for making informed ethical decisions regarding pertinent biological issues. Three hours lecture. Fall only.
BIOL 101 — (E) Introduction to Biological Science — 3 credits
Introduction to fundamental concepts, principles and theories of modern biology. Discussion and application of the scientific method in discovery and learning, discussion of experimental and statistical techniques, examination of the historical and cultural fabric of biological science, and discussion of the impact of biological research and development on modern society. Three hours lecture.
BIOL 105 - Biodiversity (E) - 3 credits
An examination of the variety of animal and plant species,especially in tropical reef and rainforest ecosystems. Foundationsof diversity will be studied: ecology, systematics, evolution, and biogeography. Human effects, such as deforestation, population growth, global warming,and extinctions, will be discussed. 3 Hrs. lecture.
BIOL 108 — (E) History of Life on Earth — 3 credits
Sequence of appearance of life on earth based on the geological record. Topics include the origin of life on earth, patterns and processes of the fossil record, and an introduction to the diversity of life, past and present. Three hours lecture.
BIOL 110 - 111 — (E) Structure and Function of the Human Body — 8 credits
(Requires concurrent enrollment in lecture and lab) A general study of the anatomy and physiology of the human organism, emphasizing the body's various coordinated functions from the cellular level to integrated organ systems. Three hours lecture, two hours lab each semester.
This course is required by some allied health majors (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, etc.)
BIOL 201 — (E) Anatomy & Physiology — 3 credits
(Prerequisite: BIOL 101) An introduction to the biochemical, cellular, tissue and organismal organization of selected body functions; structure in relation to function is emphasized. Three hours lecture.
BIOL 202 — (E) The ABC's of Genetics — 3 credits
Heredity for the non-science major, with emphasis on the human. Provides the background necessary for the non-scientist to understand his/her own hereditary background and to have informed opinions about societal issues related to genetics. Includes Mendelian, molecular, and population genetics, evolution, genetic diseases, genetic engineering, etc. Three hours lecture.
BIOL 204 — (E,D) Environmental Issues in Latin America — 3 credits
Survey of the biogeography and biomes of Latin America, the current challenges to these environments, and programs aimed at achieving sustainability in the region.
BIOL 210 — Introductory Medical Microbiology — 3 credits
(Pre- or co-requisites: BIOL 110-111, CHEM 110-111; requires concurrent enrollment in lecture and lab) Fundamentals of microbiology, including structure, function, identification, pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of microorganisms with emphasis on human pathogens. Two hours lecture, two hours lab. Fall only.
This course is required by Nursing majors
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A Third Party EPXBody Review From Someone Who Didn't Join
So there's a new network marketing company in the industry, and it goes by the name of EPXBody. With weight loss products and health companies creating all the buzz inside of the home business arena, it's not surprising that EPXBody's product revolves around fat loss. Now, if you're thinking about joining EPXBody, I want to highly encourage you to read this unbiased, third party EPXBody review first so you know exactly what you're getting into and what it takes to succeed in it. I think it's important to note that I'm not an EPXBody rep so you can be sure that you'll be getting a true third party perspective.
EPXBody Review – So Who Are They And What Do They Sell?
Before joining a company, it's important to look at who the company actually is and what they sell. After all, you do want to partner with a credible group and you want to feel good promoting the product. EPXBody is a new company that just launched in March 2012 and is based in Layton, Utah. The company is led by CEO Dan Putnam and has several corporate team members that are experienced network marketers. The company's core product is EPXBody Burn, which is an all-natural product that decreases your appetite and increases your metabolism. In addition, they also market about 5 other health products with benefits ranging from improved cardiovascular health to whole body detoxification. Overall, the company looks solid and the products are marketable, which are both good features if you're thinking about becoming a distributor.
EPXBody Review – How Do You Make Money With Them?
As far as the compensation plan goes, EPXBody provides 7 ways to get paid for it's distributors. There are ways to make immediate income and ways to build monthly residual income. There's also ways to get your products for free and for you to earn one-time cash bonuses. However, what sticks out with their compensation plan is their 'guarantee'. Their 'guaranteed income' says that if you sponsor 5 people within your first 30 days and maintain at least 2 of them active for 6 months, you will be making $1,000 a month, or the company will refund your money. If you're going to join, it's good to know that there's some type of 'guarantee' in place for you. It certainly looks like the compensation plan could be quite lucrative for the right person.
EPXBody Review – Should You Join?
In closing, EPXBody looks to be a good company. The corporate team looks good, the compensation plan looks fair and the industry has shown that weight loss products sell like hotcakes. With that said, it is a start-up company so you need to just be aware that a staggering 90% of start-up companies don't make it past their first 5 years. In fairness, every company in the industry was once a start-up, and those who got in in the early stages of a company usually became top earners. My advice is to do some due diligence so you feel good about the company before joining. Also, it's important to note that you will need more than excitement to succeed. Your ability to sponsor new people and get customers will play a huge part of your success. If you can't sponsor people and get customers you have little to no chance of building a long-term business. That's why you need to learn how to market and generate leads. If you can combine online Attraction Marketing and effective offline marketing techniques, you can very well be on your way to building a profitable business.
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What if you had the opportunity to ask today's most successful leaders to identify the single most important lesson they've learned on a given topic? And what if those same leaders were willing to drill down on their personal experiences and share key insights in an honest and relevant way? My guess is that it would be a game-changer for many of us.
"The One Thing" is a new series dedicated to tapping into the wisdom of today's most dynamic thinkers and 'doers'. What's 'The One Thing'…. about career success, or work-life wellness, or bouncing back from failure…that you absolutely need to know in order to better navigate those types of events in your own life? This series will be a one-stop, go-to guide for women who are looking to embrace the success strategies of proven leaders, across industries and across generations.
Everybody can benefit from a mentor. And while we can't hit fast forward on personal experience, we can draw on the life lessons of others to enhance our growth or simply help us manage all that we're looking to accomplish each and every day.
What's "The One Thing" You Wish You Had Known Starting Out In Your Career?
Know What You Don't Know
"Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. You should never be the smartest person in the room. Worry if you are. "
-Jessica Alba, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Honest Co.
Have A Bias For Action
"I would echo what my mother told me, 'You've got to have a bias for action.' The hockey coaches and the basketball coaches always say, "You will miss a hundred percent of the shots that you never take." My mother encouraged me to try things that I wasn't sure I could do. Over my life, I've been able to try things, many of which have worked that I didn't necessarily think they would. Be brave. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. "
-Meg Whitman, CEO, HP
Leadership Is All About Adaptability
"Darwin said those who survive are neither the strongest nor the most intelligent, it's those that can adapt to change. And I wish I had thought about that when I was younger because it always seemed to me that you had to be the brightest or the strongest. There's something to be said for adapting to change. That doesn't mean abandoning your values, but it does mean recognizing that the environment has changed and absorbing that ."
-Anne Finucane, Vice Chairman and Global Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Bank of America
Stay Open To Opportunity
"Be ready. Just be ready. You just don't know what opportunity might be out there. It may not even be a path that they were thinking of. But other people see your possibilities there. I never intended to run for Congress. I never intended to run for leadership. Other people came to me to encourage me to do so. And I was ready."
-Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader, The U.S. House of Representatives
Stay True To You
"I would say always, to thyself be true. We're all born with what we have. Take what you have and do the best you can with it . Know who you are…Feel your way through life. Don't over-think your way through life, because I think we're all guilty of that.
-Angela Ahrendts, Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores, Apple
It's All Going To Be Ok
"I would tell myself to relax, that everything works out the way it's supposed to. If you look back on your life at the things that you stressed out, 'Oh my gosh, he didn't ask me out, he didn't call, I didn't get that job, I lost that job,' quite often in the end when one door closes, another one opens. Everything, even though you don't believe it at the time, works out the way it's supposed to–the good and the bad.
-Gayle King, Editor-at-Large, O, The Oprah Magazine; Co-Host, CBS This Morning
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Looking boldly ahead to the year 2000, Britain's ancient capital remembers that the Thames first gave it life. Architect Richard Rogers plans to use the river once again as the city's high street, hoping to encourage a general renaissance.
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul, who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air–
–William Wordsworth
"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" (1802)
The words ripple Richard Roger's fervent conversation like a mantra: "the river–" "the city–" "the river–" "the city–"
"The river is the key — it all begins with the river." "The river divides the city; in my vision, it will unite and regenerate it." "The fight to improve the quality of life in this city begins at the river." "The river–" "The city–"
The river that obsesses one of Britain's foremost architects is, of course, the Thames: The majestic Thames of yore that was the site of one of the wonders of the medieval age, London Bridge with its houses and shops; the merciful Thames in which 10,000 Londoners marooned themselves in a successful effort to survive the Great Plague of 1665; the bustling Thames that from the early 19th century to the mid-20th century was home to the world's greatest port; the noble Thames that moved Spenser and Wordsworth to poetic heights, and Canaletto, Turner, and Derain to artistic ones; the friendly Thames that as recently as 40 years ago drew sun worshippers to its beaches; the somewhat dolorous present-day Thames, probably less used than at any time since the Roman era.
The city that is Roger's primary must is today's London, the city that the Thames created, and that the Thames divides. This London is enjoying its greatest cultural and economic boom since the 1960s even while it is saddled with increasing traffic congestion, crime, air pollution, and other metropolitan ailments, problems compounded by the remarkable lack of an elected citywide government and strategic planning authority. At the moment, this booming Stage City, as writer Jan Morris so aptly named it, is consciously gearing itself up for the millennium and the greatest show its has put on since the Great Exhibition of 1851 — the one that featured the architecturally prescient glass-and-iron Crystal Palace. Rogers is a featured member of the cast.
The grand, all-embracing vision that the 63-year-old architect has conjured up features a reinvigorated Thames — a blue highway, as Rogers is fond of calling it — lined with shimmering new buildings and structures. At Greenwich, site of Greenwich Mean Time and thus the starting point of the next millennium, an immense, albeit temporary dome enclosing 20 acres will rise at the forthcoming Millenium Exhibition. Up the river, a permanent, Crystal Palace-like undulating glass canopy enveloping the South Bank Arts Center is proposed and approved but not funded. The "highway" will support an improved river bus system linked with London's existing bus and Underground lines. Thus, as Rogers sees it, the Thames will once again become the high street of London, inaugurating a general, city-wide renaissance. Great buildings, great plans, great expectations.
Ten years ago, perhaps even five, such a grandiose vision would have been dismissed as an architectural pipe dream, one of many that London has seen over the centuries. Several factors, however, have recently combined to make it more feasible: a landmark 1993 law that designates millions of pounds for rebuilding and refurbishing from the capacious National Lottery funds; a spreading revulsion at the unsightly aftermath of the haphazard, market-driven planning, or nonplanning, of the Thatcher years. And, not least, Rogers's own persistence in advancing his ambitious scheme.
The makeover that Rogers envisions for the Thames took a significant stride forward last year when the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre opened for business close to its original South Bank site and immediately attracted crowds of theatergoers. Then the way was cleared for the most garish and controversial addition to the riverscape: a privately funded, 500-foot-tall Ferris wheel, the so-called Millennium Wheel, which will be erected upriver from the Globe and the revamped Jubilee Gardens in the riparian borough of Lambeth. (French authorities recently gave permission for a similar wheel to be built in Paris.)
In the meantime work continues, opposite St. Paul's Cathedral, on the transformation of the towering, former Bankside Power Station into the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art, set to open in 2000. Planning also continues for three new bridges in the same area: A pedestrian walkway running from Bankside to the steps of St. Paul's, a railway span at Blackfriars that will include a midriver terminus, and a mechanized walkway on the upstream side of Hungerford Bridge, connecting with a travelator — a cross between an elevator and an escalator — running all the way to Waterloo Station. Also under consideration is a cable-car system proposed by architect Michael Hopkins that will connect the South Bank center with Covent Garden. A cynic might say that what is being created is a theme park, a Thamesland, if you will, but Rogers maintains that he and his partners and allies are resurrecting the spirit of the old, festive, dynamic Thames.
Another plan, by no means certain of approval, would tame the fast-flowing, sometimes dangerous tides of the river itself by building a large stopper upriver, thus turning the London portion of the Thames into an area for recreational boating and possibly even swimming, as the surprisingly successful effort to cleanse its waters continues apace.
At the same time, with the encouragement of the Secretary of State for the Environment John Gummer, planners from various architects' offices, including Rogers', have been working on proposals to turn Trafalgar Square into a pedestrian piazza as well as others to revitalize Jubilee Gardens. Somewhat to Rogers's annoyance, however, the contract for the former project was awarded to his friendly rival, former classmate at the Yale Architecture School, ex-partner, and fellow great dreamer, Norman Foster, who also won a design competition for the St. Paul's footbridge. The Trafalgar Square project has grown to include Parliament Square, Whitehall, and Westminster Abbey in something called the World Squares for All project. Foster made his own Barnumesque contribution to the millennium fever last fall when he announced his controversial plan for a looming, gherkin-like, 1,300 foot Millennium Tower to be built in the City, London's financial district. If constructed (which appears increasingly unlikely, given the opposition of both the Royal Fine Art Commission and English Heritage, the country's leading preservation agency). It would be the tallest building in Europe.
All that's missing, it seems, is an elected mayor to catalyze these plans and proposals and create a satisfactory and coherent whole. London has only a ceremonial lord mayor now. As Rogers told the Sunday Times , "Ninety percent of what I am talking about is already there — We just need the vision to weave it together."
That deficiency was at least partly rectified last August, when in a surprise move Tony Blair, the young leader of the Labor Party and the presumptive next prime minister (at press time, Blair's election and a change of government appeared virtually assured), exercised her prerogative as opposition leader to nominate a new peer to the House of Lords and named Rogers, giving the architect a prominent platform from which to advance his ambitious plan. The parliamentary chamber also provides a forum for Rogers to extol his somewhat quixotic urban philosophy. The London he foresees, he told a town meeting, would be "equitable, with housing for all, health care for all, and real justice for all people," a Utopia, but one fashioned to Renaissance and Italianate principles. Not coincidentally, Rogers was born and spent his early childhood in Italy, among the shadows of the Romans, who themselves were the original patrons of the Thames.
In the annals of urban planning, London is very much the city of broken dreams. Time and time again, both the English capital's goofiest builders or would-be builders, as well as its greatest, have put forth ambitious plans for the city's future, only to see them undone by apathy, greed, or both. Or, as Felix Barker and Ralph Hyde have written in their colorful catalog of architectural frustration, London as It Might Have Been: "Discarded designs and rejected plans lurk like unhappy ghosts behind every important building in London. Our streets are lined with–the broken hearts of disappointed architects. Men of vision have been subject to arbitrary decisions, their schemes condemned because of suddenly veering changes of taste. Great schemes have frequently been obstructed by bureaucrats and unimaginative businessmen, with the result that we have been fobbed off with the dull and the stolid."
Certainly the most famous frustrated visionary was Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's. After the near obliteration of London in the Great Fire of 1666. Wren and his aides spent months devising a plan for the city's reconstruction. But the city elders were in too great a hurry to rebuild to put it into effect, leaving Wren desolate.
The Thames has been the focus of many of London's unrealized visions, ranging from the inspired to the idiotic. Among the former were a mid-18th-century plan by the architect John Gwynn to erect quays on each side of the river, and a mid-19th century one by architect H.R. Newton for a Parisian-like Ile de la Cité with government offices, law courts, and a large addition to the Thameside government building, Somerset House. Perhaps the most ludicrous notion was an early-19th-century proposal to erect a statue of statesman Robert Peel in the middle of the river, which fortunately came to naught.
Rogers himself has dreamed of bringing his brand of modern architecture and planning to London, as well as to the Thames, ever since he set up practice in the English capital a quarter of a century ago. His vision of a compact, creative, egalitarian city, first nurtured during his training in architecture at Yale in the early 1960s, has its roots in the writings of Lewis Mumford and other early American urbanites. But, at least until recently, he has not had much opportunity to put his idealist vision into play.
He has, however, dazzled the world with two of the most striking buildings of recent times — the futuristic Pompidou Centre, which he and his then-partner Renzo Piano built in Paris in the mid 1970s, and the equally startling Lloyd's of London headquarters, which in 1984 landed like a spacecraft in the City.
Rogers and his partners contributed to an exhibit mounted in 1986 in which he outlined a plan roughly similar to the one he is espousing today, including a footbridge across the Thames at Hungerford Bridge. The proposal elicited only a grudging response from the Conservative government and London's hermetic business community, neither of which had much interest in public investment of any kind. Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative successor, John Major, who saw to it that Rogers was knighted in 1991 for his contribution to architecture, might have recognized Rogers's manifest talent as a creator of individual works of architecture, but clearly neither they not most of their hidebound constituents were receptive to his bolder plans for long-term urban design improvements.
A decade later, Londoners' attitudes toward urban design have changed dramatically. Today, it seems, the capital and its denizens are once again in the mood for dreams. Perhaps they fear that London is losing its soul and are eager to seize upon the millennium to put on as good a show as possible and vault over such perceived urban rivals as New York and Berlin.
As evidence of the changing mood, the plan for the Millennium Wheel was approved by Lambeth Council despite the Royal Parks Agency's objection that the projected wheel would be visible from Buckingham Palace and might provide an inappropriate backdrop for state occasions.
Popular proof of London's new architectural state of mind came early last year when Rogers's Architectural Foundation and the leading London daily, The Evening Standard, conducted a series of debates on the health and state of the venerable metropolis. The debates, in which Rogers, Blair, and Gummer avidly participated along with the other leading architects, journalists, and government officials, demonstrated widespread concern about the lack of an elected body for the city — a condition that exists as a result of Thatcher's somewhat spiteful abolition of the Greater London Council in the mid-1980s. Other topics of concern included the parlous state of the underfunded London Underground, the lack of a coherent transportation policy for London, and the deterioration of London's public spaces, including the Thames, its great riparian public space. All of these, as it happens, are long-standing Rogers themes.
During the debates, Rogers expressed his sadness that a lot of what he called "the public domain" has been eroded. "London is planned, whether the Londoners like it or not," he said, according to Architects' Journal, which reported in detail on the whole series. "We have to stop thinking of planning as a dirty word." Public transportation is part of the solution to London's problems, Rogers said, but the capital needs the cheapest system in Europe, not the most expensive. This comment drew enthusiastic applause from the large audience of anxious and aggrieved Londoners. Then Rogers got down to the nitty-gritty. First, the architect-cum-planner expanded upon the specifics of his plan for the Thames. The river is underused, he asserted. According to Rogers it serves as a barrier between the richer northern half of the city and the poorer south when it really ought to be a bridge between them. Piers were needed along the riverbank, as well as new bridges. Paris, he reminded his listeners, has erected many bridges of the Seine without destroying its beauty (one bridge for every 500 yards, which London has only 11 bridges along the six-mile length of the Thames from Battersea to Tower Bridge); surely London can afford more, must afford more, especially when, as Rogers is fond of pointing out, a new bridge for pedestrians and cyclists would cost only about seven million pounds (approximately $11.5 million).
Next, continuing to fill in his "pointillist painting" of the city of the next century, Rogers spoke of a green London linking its parks, squares, open spaces, circuses and footpaths. A laudable millennium project, he said, would be to plant a million trees to mark the routes between these spaces.
Finally Rogers took a hard look at London's grand, or overused, array of public spaces and places. Trafalgar Square, he pointed out, used to be the epicenter of the Empire; now it has devolved into little more than a traffic circle. The great square, he said, could be linked to the front of the National Gallery by closing the road and relocating traffic. In addition, the traffic-clogged area around Parliament might be opened up for pedestrians. Both of these ideals will not come to pass. Elsewhere, Rogers has suggested doing the same for the Embankment, the roadway on the north side of the river. In this way London could be made to breathe again while its pre-automotive spirit is resurrected and preserved.
The forums on London's future touched a nerve. Thousands attended the seven sessions, which covered everything from air pollution to culture and lasted into last summer. Since then Rogers has sized every chance to campaign for his riverfront revival and to promote the specific projects that he and his 100-person firm are laboring on. Closest to his heart is his controversial plan for the glass dome atop the South Bank Arts Center. Partly inspired by the 1851 Crystal Palace, the vast, undulating glass envelope is designed to enclose Royal Festival Hall and the Haywood Gallery into one weatherproof environment. Ultimately, Rogers told me, the new climate-controlled Crystal Palace, as he calls it, would be the centerpiece of "the greatest cultural development ever seen," stretching from the Design Museum in Southwark in the east to Battersea Power Station in the west and embracing the Globe Theatre, the Millennium Wheel, and the new gourmet restaurants recently built by housewares mogul Terence Conran on the South Bank. The new Crystal Palace recently won approval from Lambeth borough officials, but it hasn't yet received funding from the Arts Council of England, leaving the project in a state of high limbo.
By and large, the media have been happy to promote Rogers's cause and works. In 1995 the BBC asked him to deliver the prestigious Reith lectures, the first time and architect had been invited to do so in the 50-year history of the series. Rogers used the occasion to deplore the bottom-line mentality of the Thatcher-Major era and to assert that "economic development today must not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." He added that "for too long individual interests and the search for short-term profit have overridden the needs of the community."
More recently, clearly infected with Thames fever, the widely read magazine Time Out published a special called "The River." The editors asked Rogers to comment on alternative ideas for the Thames, including ones conjured up by the likes of pop star Dave Stewart, who suggested that a new line of exhibition boats be built, and artist Tracy Emin, who proposed a flouting swimming pool. Rogers liked both ideas.
Soon afterward, the New Statesman reluctantly joined the media bandwagon, praising the new lord of Riverside for speaking with a "passion and conviction rare in British public life."
"His vision for London," the magazine concluded, is "virtually irresistible."
There are several significant resistors to Richard Rogers's vision of the London of the 21st century.
Barbara Newman, chairman of the Planning and Transportation Committee of the City Corporation, one of the four adjoining boroughs that are at the center of Rogers's projected blue highway, likes some of his ideas, including the million trees and the elimination of traffic from Trafalgar Square in the neighboring borough of Westminster. She vehemently dislikes, however, the notion of building up, or over, the Thames. "Why can't we leave the river alone?" she asked in an interview at Guildhall, where the Corporation of London's offices are housed. "The Thames is the biggest open space in our borough. Why spoil it with redundant bridges and the like? Let's leave the Thames alone, I rather like the way it is."
So does Rogers's distinguished colleague and rival, Piers Gough, who believes that the ambitious blueprint for London's main river would change its essential character. "The price for his changes would not only be altered ecology," argues Gough, "but a complete change in its character. The banks of the Thames are manmade, but the river that runs between them is wild and tough. =It's part of the character of London and as inseparable from it as canals are from Venice."
Rowan Moore, architectural critic for The Daily Telegraph, says that the National Lottery monies that Rogers plans to spend on his various Thameside projects would be better used on less lavish, more directly needed improvements elsewhere in the city.
In reply Rogers said of Newman's and Gough's critiques that they "were looking backward … Their comments are really of a piece with the kind of conservatism which has held this city back." Rogers said he actually agrees with some of Moore's suggestions. "I also think that the lottery funds should be dispersed throughout the city. But first I would like to concentrate on the river. Essentially I would like to use the millennium as the carrot to bring the city back to the river and from there nourish the entire metropolis itself."
As for English Heritage, it has limited its comments thus far to the specific structures and anticipated structures involved in the plan. Thus, Paul Drury, London regional director for English Heritage, is "thrilled" about the ongoing renovation of the former Bankside Power Station and conversion into the new site of the second Tate Gallery. "It's fantastic, I think, exactly the sort of thing we're trying to encourage." At the same time, he professed himself to be "disappointed" with the Millennium Dome at Greenwich. "I think they could have used more imagination there. It seems that they just took an old form, the circus tent, and blew it up several times. Fortunately, it's only temporary, and it doesn't displace anything." Drury prefers the new Crystal Palace planned for the South Bank Arts Center.
Drury, who has butted heads with Rogers in the past over several projects, says of him, "If we didn't have a Richard Rogers we would have to invent him. Clearly, he does care about London. It's not just about projecting his ego."
"It's great that there's all this [architectural energy] flying around," Moore of The Daily Telegraph says. "Rogers certainly deserves a lot of credit for reviving the idea of investing in the public realm. Clearly, he has brought the debate on London's future forward."
In the meantime, he has also made Londoners think about the Thames again. "It's worth remembering that if it weren't for Old Father Thames, London wouldn't be here at all," Time Out noted in the lead essay for its riparian issue. "He's a difficult old bugger, but we shouldn't turn our backs on him."
Rogers undoubtedly will do everything he can to see that they don't.


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In the world of guitar shred, too many times people are ignoring their rhythm guitar playing. I've seen countless players who can jam on Yngwie and Steve Vai all day, but can't play too many chords. That's bad.
One thing that great players like Jimi Hendrix, SRV, and Eddie Van Halen all have in common is that they are great rhythm players as well as soloists. Learning some of Hendrix's rhythms is just as challenging as learning anything else. However, rhythm is still being ignored by some players who spend all their time working on speed and whatnot.
Set aside some time each day during your practice sessions to work on rhythm playing. Learn new chords, new voicings for chords you already know, and new rhythms. Get some good books on rhythm guitar, preferably ones that come with CD's so you can hear how it's supposed to be played. More important, make sure you have the "feel" for the rhythm you are playing. It's one thing to just learn the chords and play along with the track, but more important to really get into the groove of what your doing.
One thing to know is that better rhythm playing equals better soloing – it's just the way it is. I hope you will add this area of playing to your guitar shred sessions if you haven't already.


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Maine brewery's beer name challenged by West Coast brewery
BREWER, Maine (AP) — An Oregon brewery is demanding that a Maine beer maker change the name of its signature India pale ale.
Mason's Brewing Co., owned by Chris Morley in Brewer, says it received a letter from 10 Barrel Brewing demanding it stop using the name "Hipster Apocalypse." The Bangor Daily News reports the Oregon brewery has brewed "Apocalypse IPA" since 2009.
Morley said Wednesday he plans to challenge the request, calling it "another great example of a corporation trying to keep the little guy down."
Morley's brewery has been in operation for less than two years. 10 Barrel was purchased by Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2014, a company that also owns Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois.
Representatives from 10 Barrel and AB InBev did not respond to requests for comment.
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Women particularly wake up very early in order to make their hair as they have imagined and style it nicely and chose the outfit for that day. But we all want to sleep more in the morning, even it is not much time but even a couple of minutes more seem like enough. Here are some things you can do and spend less time preparing in the morning.
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Wake law enforcement agencies searching for 'phone cop' scammers
Law enforcement agencies in Wake County say they are searching for con artists who are posing as, well, them.
The telephone scammers demand money from residents and threaten them with arrest if they cannot pay. The con is a "scam that victimizes the police agencies as well as targeted citizens," Capt. James Stevens, a spokesman with the Wake County Sheriff's Office, stated in a press release.
Police noticed that the scam followed a pattern:
The victim will receive a telephone call from a number that may appear on their caller identification as "911," "Cary PD," "Raleigh PD," "Warrants" or some other false identification, Stevens said.
The person making the call will identify himself or herself, usually with a rank and name, such as "Lieutenant Harris with the Warrant Squad."
The bogus officer informs the victim of an outstanding warrant because the victim failed to appear in court, failed to appear for jury duty, was photographed running a red light or violated another law, Stevens said.
The caller then says the victim can avoid arrest by going to a nearby retail outlet such as Walmart or Walgreens and purchasing a money order for a specific amount, usually several hundred dollars.
The scam artist closes the deal by instructing the victim to call back after purchasing the money order to give its number and other information so law enforcement can process "the warrant" and the victim can avoid arrest.
"Legitimate 911 communications centers and actual law enforcement officials do not request funds in order to avoid arrest," Stevens said.
He reminded residents that honest organizations aren't likely to request personal information such as Social Security numbers and bank accounts over the phone.


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On this special page, people will be able to get a glimpse about the events that the musician has attended throughout time, the upcoming ones, as well as access a gallery of beautiful images that will offer them a great overview of the artist's achievements so far and the different key moments captured by photographers at the events that he performed at.
Since the folk music scene is quite an important one, this musician constantly finds himself traveling in order to be at various gatherings where this genre is the main attraction. Touring either alone, or accompanying several of the bands he often performs with, he is almost always seen performing in a city or village in Scotland, be it in pubs, people's houses or even outdoor gatherings and concerts.
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Read about this from Food Junkie's Chronicle and decided to stop by at our NYC roadtrip. We got there just around dinner time and it was PACKED. We waited for a good hour and we patiently watched the names being crossed off the waiting list chalkboard until it finally hit ours.
|Here's Guy to prove that is indeed a triple D stop.
|Cheeseburger Soup, not a fan.
|All the food we ordered.
Final Verdict: Slightly Above Par
Triple D Stop #2: Blackthorn Restaurant and Pub
Visited this joint on our way back to Toronto and we were VERY hungry thus the lack of actual food pictures. We got here around 6pm and it was not packed. In fact it was very quiet, a contrast to Grover's.
Final Verdict: Par
Triple D Stop #3: John's
|Delicious tender meatballs and the tomato sauce had a natural sweet taste. LOVE!
|Clam pizza, it was a little too salty and oily for my taste.
|Century old candle stand.


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Last month I was lucky enough to be the Lead for the Green challenge at Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge. And by winning the challenge I'm delighted to have been invited to be their Guest Designer for the next challenge, which starts today.
So, without further ado here's the inspiration photo...
And here's my interpretation...
I think it's fairly obvious which elements I used from the photo! I started by stamping the tulips with a little masking for dimension. I then cut a rough mask to cover the flowers before gently blending through a stencil to create the background. I then took inspiration from the cracked paint on the chair in the photo and used a die to cut some patterned paper which was a great match for the flaking paint, and I then added a little shading to the edges of the jar die cut to add some depth. I then stamped the sentiment, matted the panel onto some orange cardstock and then adhered it flat to the card base.
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- Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Spring Blooms, With Love
- Ink: Altenew - Sunkissed, Orange Cream, Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart, Frosty Pink, Cotton Candy, Forest Glades, Frayed Leaf; Distress Ink - Weathered Wood (stencil shading); Versafine - Onyx Black
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A Nostalgic Look At Late '80s & Early '90s Old Skool Home Music And Raves
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Symptoms: Still a little indigestion and the constant need to go to the bathroom, but overall I feel great!
Dear Baby,
This week was an exciting week. Your Aunt Carly and I worked on some cute projects for your gender reveal party and your Mama got a brand new job! I'm hopeful that this job will provide us more time together when you arrive. God is so good to us.
Your Mama
Lord, Thank you for always providing for us and walking ahead of us. You are faithful and always worthy of praise. Even when I could not see your plan for me clearly you had what was best for me and our baby in mind far before I did. I am so thankful. Amen.
Proverbs 19:21
"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. "


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