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You don't have to be Irish to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day
February 28, 2014 by CityEvents
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St. Patrick's Day is known as an event that is associated with the colour green, shamrocks, luck and anything Irish. This year St. Patrick's Day is on Monday March 17th 2014. What are you doing this St. Patrick's Day? Need some ideas? Listed below are exciting activities that are fun and enjoyable. Some are before St. Patricks day over the weekend so you don't have to worry about starting the week off after a big night of celebrating on Monday night.
Family Fun
St. Patrick's Day Parade-Sunday March 16th 2014
The annual St Patrick's Day Parade starts at 12PM on Sunday March 16th 2014 at St. George and Bloor. The Parade will continue along Bloor Street down Yonge Street and finishes on Queen Street at Nathan Philips Square. The parade features entertaining floats, bands, dancers and marching groups from Toronto's Irish and multicultural community. This year's Grand Marshal is Irish boxer Katie Taylor who is the reigning Olympic, World, European and Irish Champion. For more information, go to
Achilles St. Patrick's Day 5K Run/Walk- March 16th, 2014
The 15th anniversary Archilles St. Patrick's Day 5K Run/Walk through the heart of Downtown Toronto is on Sunday March 16th, 2014. The race starts at 10:15 AM at 255 Bremner Blvd,Toronto outside of Steam Whistle Brewery @ the Roundhouse.
Visit Achilles St. Patrick's Day 5K Run/Walk online registration system on the Events Online Website to register for the event. Online registration closes on Monday March 10th, 2014 at 11:59 PM or until the event reaches the capacity of 1500 participants. For more information, go to
19+ Events
The Lucky Ball- Thursday March 13th, 2014
The 2nd Annual Lucky Ball is on Thursday March 13th, 2014 at Revival Bar (783 College St.). The event supports the Fort York Food Bank and is a fun way to celebrate. The Fort York Food Bank is a multi-service agency focused on reconnecting people with their community. For more information, go to
St. Party's Day-March 14th-15th 2014
The Carlsberg St. Party's Day is on March 14th-15th 2014 at Andrew Richard Designs (571 Adelaide Street East). This two day festival unites people from all backgrounds as they celebrate St. Patrick's Day. For more information, go to
St.Patrick's Day Club/Pub Crawl 2014- March 15th, 2014
Club/Pub crawls to three of Toronto's night clubs on March 15th, 2014 for the St. Patrick's Day Celebration. The night begins at Product Nightclub (364 Richmond St. West) from 9PM-10PM, then at 10PM, the buses will depart and continue to a mystery location before stopping at Fiction Nightclub. For more information, go to
SPD St. Patty's Day-Saturday March 15th 2014
Celebrate St Patrick's Day at Amsterdam Brewhouse & Harbourfront on Saturday March 15th 2014. Enjoy performances by live bands and DJs at Amsterdam Brewhouse & Harbourfront. There will be a full food menu. Purchase tickets for guarantee entry to the event. Event starts at 11AM for those with early bird tickets. For more information, visit
The Uptown Loft St. Paddy's Bash- Saturday March 15th 2014
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day at The Uptown St. Paddy's Party on Saturday March 15, 2014 at 9PM. The night will start off with St. Paddy's Ice Breaker games then the dancing will begin. Event costs $5 if you wear green, $10 if you show up not wearing green. For more information, visit
For a list of more St. Paddy's day events and other events in Toronto visit our Toronto Calendar at
Canadian Helen Keller Centre Awards
February 27, 2014 by CityEvents
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In conjunction with the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons, CHKC held the Annual CHKC Awards Dinner on April 15th at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel to honour individuals who have made outstanding achievements and contributions to the disability of deaf-blindness, and to raise much needed funds to operate the centre.
Guest Speaker: The Honourable Ted McMeekin, Minister of Community and Social Services
George Brown College will accept the 2014 Canadian Helen Keller Centre Award for their exceptional community service and training.
Distinguished guests of the luncheon include: Lieutenant Governor David, C. Onley, Ruth Ann Onley,Cindy Accardi Executive Director Rotary Cheshire Homes & Canadian Helen Keller Centre, John Rafferty CEO, CNIB, President & CEO of ICIC Bank of Canada, Sriram Lyer, Honourable Vim Kochhar and Vice-Chairman & COO of Scotiabank Sabi Marwah.
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SEDI Award 2014
February 27, 2014 by deblewis
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The Awards
The SEDI Awards were created in 2004 to celebrate the inspiring achievements of SEDI's partners and the people they serve. The Awards are a unique opportunity to support and celebrate transformational changes taking place in communities and in the lives of real people.
The Awards celebrate:
People who have left homelessness behind and built a stronger economic future for themselves with the help of SEDI's Independent Living Account program
Passionate, committed community workers across Canada who are using the financial literacy education training they received from SEDI to transform their communities.
Individuals, groups/organizations or governments that have made an important contribution to expanding economic opportunity for low-income people – provincially or Canada-wide – through policy and/or program innovation.
Nominations are now closed. View SEDI Awards nominations criteria.
SEDI Awards Gala Dinner
On March, SEDI has continued to inspire by hosting its sixth SEDI Awards Gala dinner in Toronto. This reception and dinner brought together more than 400 community, business and government leaders to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of SEDI's many partners and program participants in expanding economic opportunity for low-income Canadians.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday March 27th, 2014
Location: Hyatt Regency Toronto, 370 King St. W.
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Reception, dinner, award ceremony
Host: CBC TV's Suhana Meharchand
Keynote Speaker: Robert Friedman, General Counsel, Founder and Chair, CFED
The dinner featured our keynote speaker, Robert Friedman and the inspiring stories of Award nominees and winners who were helping to make Canada a place where everyone has lifelong opportunities to improve their social and economic well-being.
Proceeds from the evening has helped SEDI continue its work with business, government and community partners across Canada to build financial resilience through financial education and savings programs, and to explore innovative new approaches to building economic opportunity for low-income Canadians.
For more information Visit: http://www.sedi.org/sediawards/index.html
Pan Am Opportunities
February 27, 2014 by deblewis
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The seminar Procurement opportunities with the TO2015 Pan-Parapan American Games
The Toronto Pan Am 2015 games will generate millions of dollars of new business opportunities for small and medium businesses in the GTA.
If you want to take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity, then the Pan Am Opportunities event is for you.
Learn how to become a supplier of the Toronto Pan Am Games, through licensing or through partnership opportunities.
When: March 17, 2014
Hours: 8:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Where: 25 Dockside Dr – 8th floor Toronto, ON
To buy a ticket or learn more about the event visit: http://www.thcc.ca/events/pan-am-opportunities
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada
February 25, 2014 by deblewis
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Ripley's Aquarium of Canada is a brand new attraction for millions of Torontonians and visitors to the city. In October 2013, the aquarium opened its doors for visitors at the heart of downtown, Toronto. The world class attraction is conveniently placed alongside the CN Tower and Rogers Centre.
The aquarium has North America's longest underwater viewing tunnel. Ripley's visitors will have the chance to see 16,000 animals from around the world and also have over 100 interactive opportunities, which feature horseshoe crabs, sharks, jellies, rays and green sea turtles. It is consisted of 9 galleries to explore and each one has different themes, starting with species from Toronto's backyard, the Great Lakes basin.
Ripley's Aquarium provides not only an aquarium experience but also an event experience by offering its space as a venue for social and corporate events such as galas, celebrations, fundraisers, holiday parties, and meetings. You can even have birthday parties and sleepovers at the aquarium! To enhance your event, it also provides catering and another unique experience, including Behind the Scenes tours and custom Dive Shows.
The venue is an absolutely perfect choice for themed events. It will take you and your guests on a journey to view species from all over the world and make sure guests feel as if they were underwater. Any event held at the Ripley's Aquarium of Canada is guaranteed to be an unforgettable experience.
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firstname.lastname@example.com or call 647-351-FISH (3474).


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I have already posted a few non diabetic CGM/FGM response patterns to food and exercise and even made my 2014 complete 14 days run available on this blog. In this very quick post, I will simply share the result of a full "strict zero carb" day on a non diabetic (your servant, now almost 54yo). A few BGM test strips were spent to ensure the CGM/FGM was working perfectly. The minimum of 62 mg/dL probably wasn't reached and came in what definitely looks like a prolonged compression.
I felt a bit dizzy around 15:00. My urinary ketones were positive at 16:00
I will stubbornly avoid discussing my opinions on that type of diet, short term or long term, in adults or kids. A comprehensive review of its issues and merits can be found here (pdf) on the paleomom blog
The tribulations of a young teenager who likes to play tennis and his dad. Unwanted but unshakeable companions: T1D diabetes and coeliac disease.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
"Zero Carb" day on a non T1D person
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Pierre, thanks for posting. So Zero-Carb means LowCarbHiFat?ReplyDelete
I read proteins provokes insulin release as well. Does that somehow relate to the ups and downs of your glucose values?
What do you think about the new (intermittend) fasting trends (Dr. Jason Fung a collegue of you)?Replies
In this case, zero, zero carb. Totally insane. "Low carb" would be 150 times more carbs over the 5-6 days course.Delete
I have no opinion (well, more correctly I don't express any opinion) on any kind of diet. :)
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The video above was produced during the May, 2014 election cycle and tells the story of Strong Schools.
Strong Schools is a community of people who understand the importance of an excellent public school system.
We are a community of people who believe that every child should have the same opportunities no matter how much money a PTO can raise.
The people below make sure that this community has the organization and resources it needs to do the work.
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Life is our suspended action… Look at the title of this article, it's have a color and it's red. Why it's red? Because of you have seen it right? If you can't see it so what would it happened? It's have no color. No one in the world who will …Read More »
who is selfish? society or we?
Literature – Md. Saiful Islam Sohel: Who is selfish? society or we? Statement: Before we thinking about it we need to think first time, who we are? and where we live? So here are two major question. Just take is simple. Who we are?: We are a part of creature and it's …Read More »


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We went to sleep with the plan to summit Gokyo Ri the next day, if weather permitted. The next morning hoping for the best, we woke up at 4 am, readied ourselves and started our trek. After facing the lowest of lows in temperature at Kalapatthar, I made sure I was sufficiently covered up and warm for this one. But it turned out to be a warm morning, not a lot of wind and average temperature.
The thick clouds were still looming as we started off but we remained positive to see it move by the time we reached the summit. Within a few minutes into the climb the clouds moved away.
The climb was a bit harder than the previous ones. The terrain here was more vertical compared to the likes of Kala Patthar or Chhukung Ri that we had attempted before this. As soon as the weather began to clear the views got better and better as we went higher. A deep blue sky, frosted glaciers scattered across the land, Himalayan peaks and the blue turquoise lake of Gokyo. This was what the day started with. In the distant landscape, the towering mountains of the Everest regions were in direct view. I don't think there is a better view of the core of the Himalayas than from here. You can look the Himalayas in the eye.
We finally reached the peak, completed our obligatory photos and waited for the final bit of cloud to make way for the view of Everest. Everest stood tall and intimidating against all the other mountains. It is from here you learn that 8850m is a monster of a mountain. Lot of trekkers saw the opportunity of clear weather and made super fast climbs to reach the peak.
Something in us changed, that very moment. The mountains were happy and so were we.
Altitude: 4750m/15580ft
Gokyo Ri
Altitude: 5357m/17575ft
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Recently completed commission. Four Angels of Light and four of Darkness were cast in plaster and finished in a bronze patina. There were also wired for a globe being held by the lower hand. They are currently being installed in a private theater. More photos once they are installed.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Lovely summer everybody!!
Monday, May 19, 2014
the voynich manuscript
pdf file of the manuscript from yale university's library website and the more I was looking at it the more I realised that it sent shivers down my spine. There are ca. 250 pages of botanical illustrations and text - but the plants don't exist and neither does the language! Or at least no one has been able to identify them so far. I shared my discovery with my family and we spent hours looking at pages and pages of mysterious fantasy drawings and text trying to come up with our own theories as to the meanings of the book.
The book was discovered in Italy in 19th c by Wilfred Voynich, a book dealer. The parchment was subsequently carbon-dated to 15th c. It has since perplexed numerous experts many of whom spent decades of their lifetime trying to decipher the texts and meaning and understand the purpose of the book. With many theories existing, so far all those attempts have been pretty unsuccessful.
Here's my two cents: this book is written and illustrated by a young dreamy - and/or very bored - Persian princess with an interest in landscape design and hanging out with her girl friends. While my husband suggested that this book must have been left behind by an alien chef and its title is something along the lines of "how to make women soup":)
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Alexey Krasnovsky's exhibition May 1st - 17th
AlexeyKrasnovsky's exhibition will take place on May 1st - 17th 2014 at Jorgensen Fine Art Gallery. These are some of the new works. I am in love with all those blues and greens! Makes you feel that spring is in the air!http://www.jorgensenfineart.com/
"...We do not come away from a Krasnovsky painting unscathed; they are not pretty pictures to while away a moment. They are statements of intent; they are challenges to our personal take on the world around us." - so true...
"...We do not come away from a Krasnovsky painting unscathed; they are not pretty pictures to while away a moment. They are statements of intent; they are challenges to our personal take on the world around us." - so true...
address: 14 Hibernian Way (off Dawson St), Dublin 2. Mon - Sat. 10 - 6.
Friday, April 25, 2014
easter weekend away: london
|Margaret Messager. The Pikes.
|Dan Flavin. Monuments for V. Tatlin 1964-1981
have i ever mention that we love london?
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
spring celebrations
i scrambled up this collage out of homey cozy things. in my etsy shop
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
a little stitching: new-ish design
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Fresh vintage finds for spring
|canape forks, fridge storage, enamelled containers, vintage table lamp: all in the shop
Just wanted to share some of my fresh vintage finds. They are bright, colourful and amazingly up to date. My favourite are the enamel containers from Russia ca. 1970s. Larger ones of these have been used in Russia for storing 'holodets' - which is basically a meat stock or soup cooked with herbs and garlic which turns into jelly when cooled in the fridge. I have a few of these containers and I keep cheese in them. I like that they are heavy and substantial, and really attractive.
holiday postcards: Amsterdam
my annual touch-base-get-together with girl-friends: a long weekend in amsterdam which coincided with st.patrick's celebrations here in ireland and thus couldn't be timed better: one needs to get away from the madness! amsterdam was cool in every way including the weather. we just took it easy, walked the streets, took a boat trip on the canals, did some sightseeing and all agreed how fantastic it would be to properly spend some time in a place/city, to travel properly, to soak in the atmosphere. some retirement plans were shared - only half-jokingly.
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Court Approves Broadview DIP Facility With CIT Group
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Shelley C. Chapman in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York has granted the first-day motions of Broadview Networks Holdings including the $125 million DIP facility provided by CIT Group/Business Credit, as administrative agent.
Court documents noted that CIT committed to provide this financing on July 18, 2012.
Broadview Networks filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on August 22.
The company filed for Chapter 11 in order to effectuate its pre-packaged financial restructuring plan. This plan, which was voted on and accepted by an overwhelming majority of Broadview's stakeholders, will eliminate half of the indebtedness under the company's existing senior secured notes. This reduction in debt will lower our interest expense by approximately $17 million annually, providing for lower leverage and more financial flexibility. With a more appropriate capital structure to support our strategic plan and business objectives, we will have greater financial flexibility and liquidity to pursue cloud-based growth opportunities.
Because of the high level of support the company said it has obtained from bondholders and shareholders for the plan, Broadview anticipates it will be able to complete this financial restructuring in the fourth quarter of 2012.
The company's restructuring counsel is Willkie Farr & Gallagher and its financial advisor is Evercore Group. The restructuring counsel for the ad hoc group of noteholders is Dechert and their financial advisor is FTI Consulting.
Broadview Networks is a network-based business communications provider serving customers nationwide with local and long-distance voice and data communications, premises-based and patented hosted VoIP systems, data services and a full suite of managed and professional services.
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June 15 (Reuters) - British recruiting firm SThree Plc reported an 11 percent rise in gross profit for the first half of 2018 on Friday, helped by continued strength in its continental European operations.
SThree, which places people with financial, energy, banking and pharmaceutical companies, said gross profit rose to 148.4 million pounds in the six months ended May 31, from 134.4 million pounds a year ago.
The company also reaffirmed its full-year expectations and said it was on track to deliver its five-year growth strategy. (Reporting by Shashwat Awasthi in Bengaluru; editing by Patrick Graham)


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Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Matías I. Zarlenga and Martín Zamorano, CECUPS, Universitat de Barcelona
In this paper, we want to examine, in a general and exploratory way, what academic literature has contributed so far to the clarification of the relationship between cultural diversity and creativity in Europe, highlighting the main aspects and the main problems that in this respect have been addressed. In the first part of the article, we identify studies addressing the issue of diversity and cultural encounters as a specific cultural phenomenon linked to processes of hybridization in different areas of cultural creation. In the second part of our analysis we identified academic and non-academic literature addressing the issue of diversity and cultural creativity in two specific territorial frameworks: the city and Europe. The contrast between the two types of inquiry -the first one about the more theoretically inspired knowledge and the second one about the more practically and politically connected knowledge- reveal some major gaps and some unexplored potential of the research on the subject.
Part I: Cultural Encounters and Cultural Hybridization
In the first part of the paper, we make a brief assessment of the different existing views on cultural exchange and hybridization and then delineate, from there, a basic outline of the main elements to consider in the study of this topic. Following, we do a quick review through the research literature on this phenomenon, in distinct terrains and from different angles.
Conceptual framework and parameters for the analysis of cultural hybridization
We distinguish at least two types of thematic approaches in the conceptual frameworks that have addressed the analysis of cultural hybridization in the academic literature. First there is a descriptive, interpretive and critical approach, focusing on archetypes. And secondly, there is another more analytical and universal.
To the first kind of thematic approach belong, to begin with, a whole line of Ibero-American academics and intellectuals who in the first part of the XX century dedicated their work to analysing their own societies in terms of interweaving cultures and fusion. This tradition which coined the image of the characteristically hybrid cultures, particularly in Latin America, has been since redefined in more recent times, by authors such as Martín-Barbero (1987) and García Canclini (1990). The Second variety of thematic interpretation of cultural hybridization is the one of the postcolonial Anglo-Saxon tradition. Within it, authors such as Edward Said (1994), Homi Bhabha (1994), Paul Gilroy (1993) and Stuart Hall (1997) took the notion of hybridity as a point of departure to reflect critically upon the mestizo identity of the colonized ancestors and their descendants, between subordination, the resistance and the differential reinvention, from the perspective of the postcolonial world.
Beyond these important but scattered ideas that were distilled from previous approaches, more thorough analytical theming of cultural hybridization has been done in recent times about the problems of globalization and trans nationalization, which has homogenization as the main concern in this cultural field. Not all the participants in the debate over cultural globalization have spoken of hybridization1. But in the context of this debate, some of the most influential authors have appeared, writing about cultural hybridization. One of them is the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai (1996), who has argued that trends toward cultural heterogeneity that compensate for homogenizing tendencies in the contemporary world result in good measure of indigenization of the heterogeneous and badly adjusted global flows: from its multiple, practical and active local hybridization. His colleague Ulf Hannerz (1992, 1996), in turn, shares this vision, even though from his perspective the dynamics of the cultural flows appear more complexly organized. An analytical dimension to specify for Hannerz is, in that sense, the center-periphery structure articulation of these flows, which can go both ways. To this dimension he also adds another, one very important to him, one which he calls the organizational frameworks of culture: the state, the market, the way of life and movement.
Without reaching the influence of the above, the Dutch sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse also stands out in the debate on cultural globalization by stressing the analytical importance of cultural hybridization. In fact, for him hybridization it is the central prism through which globalization has to be seen, their most important key (Nederveen Pieterse 1994, 2004). In this sense, it aims to develop a complete taxonomy of hybridization. He identifies and ranks many aspects of the phenomenon, including the categories of mix (as cultures, nations or ethnicities), the modalities of hybridization (syncretism, migration mélange, intercultural crossover) or the type of relationship between components in the mélange (assimilationist hybridity, a hybridity that blurs or destabilizes). For his part, the historian Peter Burke, from a greater distance to the debate on globalization, but animated by a similar taxonomic ambition, has also recently dedicated a book to the subject of cultural hybridization (2009). For him, the defining categories of the phenomenon are: the diversity of objects that are mixed, the contact situations (equality or inequality, typical places, traditions of appropriation, etc.), the reactions aroused (adhesion, resistance, cultural purification, adaptation, etc.) and the producing results (homogenization, anti-globalization, cultural diglossia or creolization).
Finally, also from the framework of the study of migration and diversity, attention has been paid to the theme of cultural hybridization recently, concretely to outline a typology of cultural contact. In this regard, Chan Kowk-bun (2002) has proposed a classification that includes five alternatives: essentializing, which is the approach to preserving cultural purity; alternating, when individuals change their identity and behaviour depending on the cultural context in which they are; conversion, which means abandonment of own identity in order to assimilate to a dominant culture of others; hybridizing, when an entanglement and cultural mix is produced; and finally innovating, when the entanglement enlightens a creative cultural innovation. Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (2015), on the other hand, propose a classification in seven scenarios, which largely correspond to the above types: isolation (is a case that falls outside this correspondence as it does not represent a cultural encounter but rather the lack thereof); core-periphery (when immigrants take cover in their indigenous cultural forms), which is clearly related to the notion of essentializing; permeable niche and selective representation, which coincide approximately with the idea of alternating ranking by Kowk-bun, with different temporal displays in each case; qualified assimilation and outside appropriation, which correspond to various forms of hybridizing (be it action of the migrants themselves or from the host society); and finally pan-ethnic synthesis, which is the only modality that DiMaggio and Fernandez-Kelly conceived in terms of innovating (in this case it would be an innovation that merges diverse ethnic cultural repertoires foreign to the host society).
After this brief review of the visions and concepts that have been proposed so far to account for cultural encounters and hybridization, we can ask: what are the parameters under the different positions presented which allow us to study the phenomenon in a full and effective manner? To begin with, a basic dimension of the phenomenon lies in the results of the meeting. In this regard, the categories proposed by Kowk-bun and DiMaggio and Fernandez-Kelly that we just saw, are essentially attuned to, on the other hand, the modalities of hybridization of Pieterse Nederveen and the results of Burke, provide a good base. Another category to identify would be the elements that are intertwined, in which we would have on the one hand, cultural expressions that Burke designated as objects of hybridization and, secondly, cultural identities to which Nederveen Pieterse referred to as categories of mix.
Another category, a more complex one, that should be established, more precariously elaborated by the literature so far, would be one of configurations of the cultural meeting. Steven Vertovec uses this term in his schema of analytical domains for the study of diversity, alluding to the "structural conditions within which people carry out their lives", in which are included political and economic structures of all kinds, also referring to, more generally still, "the external arrangements that enable or constrain people's opportunities for action and social or physical mobility" (2015: 15). Vertovec formulation is too vague for the analysis of the phenomenon raised here, but correctly points to the structural determinants that influence the process of the encounter. In this sense, he harmonizes with the problem of the dimension of power in the relationship that is present in the postcolonial literature and refers to the center-periphery articulated in Hannerz's scheme or equality-inequality structure that Burke acknowledges between contact situations.
Finally, there is a fundamental analytical parameter that is theorized even worse than that of the configurations: that of the dynamics of the processes of cultural encounter and hybridization. This is a particularly complex category, which can only be understood by breaking it down into different levels and considering the diversity of processes in terms of what we used to call their results. The existing literature offers only a few hints in this respect, but they allow us a glimpse into its possible contours. Garcia Canclini (1990) and Burke (2009) note that the processes of hybridization result from de-contextualization and re-contextualization, pointing to, as a key, the changing cultural and social space of existence of the cultural element which hybridizes.
Cultural diversity and hybridization in investigative literature
Academic research in cultural diversity and hybridization is relatively broad and above all very varied. These issues have been given attention from multiple disciplinary perspectives: from the anthropologic (Marcus and Myers 1995; Feld 2000; Hannerz 1996); from the point of view of cultural and media studies, especially in Australia (Ang, Hawkins and Daboussy 2008; Papastergiadis 2012); the youth studies (Harris 2013; Bennett 2000); and the urban studies (Rath 2006; Lloyd 2010).
From the perspective of migration studies, which is dominated by the sociological approach, attention to these issues is quite recent. In the United States, some significant works within this line, which are scarce, have already been referred to (DiMaggio and Fernandez-Kelly 2010; Kasinitz 2014). In Europe, for its part, the development of this literature is even more incipient than in the United States. However, it must be said that, gaining awareness of the strategic importance of the topic, the interest in regard to it has been triggered in Europe in recent years. At the initiative of Marco Martiniello, a committee for research on Popular Arts, Diversity and Cultural Policies in Post-Migration Urban Settings was formed in 2010, within the IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) network, which is funded by the EU (Martiniello was 2014).
Within the interdisciplinary framework, on the other hand, the relevant literature on diversity and cultural hybridization is concentrated around different works on hybridization, of which there are many: images, literary texts, architectural constructions, furniture parts, culinary practices, religions, dances, music, languages, etc. (Burke 2009). Around these various fields of inquiry, specific literatures converge and incorporate a wide flow of specialized humanist scholarship (for example, in relation to popular music, a valuable ethno-musical literature). Not all areas of hybridization are equally significant, in terms of their cultural relevance and social significance, and not all have been studied in an equivalent manner. The attention received by them, on the other hand, does not always correspond to their significance. The hybridization in the kitchen, for example, despite having gained great visibility by all parties, thanks to the global expansion of ethnic cuisine, has received little attention, especially in Europe. These multiple deficiencies and weaknesses that we found in the study of the diversity and culinary fusion are extensible to many other areas of cultural hybridization. Popular music, which is particularly significant, is on the contrary one of the most studied.
Part II: Diversity and Cultural Creativity in urban and European context
In this second part, we address the analysis of cultural hybridization processes in two specific territorial frameworks: the cities and Europe. What interests us is to identify the main issues, trends and limits, both in academic studies (theoretical and empirical) and in work on practical contexts of political intervention, where cultural diversity and creativity relate in specific policy frameworks. This line of inquiry allows us to identify academic and non-academic knowledge strengths and deficits on the subject and its relevance to various social problems. According to these objectives, the second part of this paper is divided into two main sections. The first section focus on the studies that examine the relationship between diversity and creativity in urban contexts. In the second section, we identify studies that address this kind of relationship in the European context.
Cities and Diversity under the Creativity paradigm
The centrality of culture in contemporaries societies led to a renascence of many European cities through cultural planning (Evans, 2001). This new type of urban planning involved public-private intervention aimed at urban regeneration and economic development of the cities, where the notion of creative cities played a key role (Landry and Bianchini, 1998). Under this new scenario, urban cultural diversity -traditionally analysed from the point of view of multiculturalism – is understood as a key element to the creative development of cities in the context of inter-cultural policies (Wood and Landry, 2008; Zapata-Barrero, 2013). Within this framework, this section of the article aims to identify the main trends, issues, limits and critiques in academic literature that relates to diversity (ethnic, social, gender, etc.) and the various processes of urban creativity.
1.1. Urban economic growth and diversity
Studies in economic geography were the first to pay attention to the relationship between urban diversity and creativity. From this point of view, creativity is understood as the first step of economic innovation and economic growth of cities. This trend traditionally focuses on the relationship between diversity and creativity in the context of general economic output (Zachary, 2000). However, with the emergence of the so-called cognitive-cultural economy (Scott, 2000, 2007), this field of studies started to focus on the relationship between creativity and urban diversity in relation to creative and knowledge industries (Florida, 2002, 2005; Pethe et al., 2010). This kind of studies generally understands diversity in terms of language, ethnicity and nationality of highly skilled workers. However, based on Richard Florida's works, this trend extends the concept of diversity beyond ethnic, national and linguistic differences to further address gender and cultural differences of the "talents" of the so-called "creative class" (Florida, 2002, 2005).
This approach pays more attention to diversity measurement techniques than focuses on the type of interaction between workers – with different cultural backgrounds – that are involved in creative and economic innovation processes. In this sense, the main objective of these kinds of studies is to design a Diversity Index (as Melting-pot Index, Foreign-born Index; Gay Index and Bohemian Index) and then to put it into a relationship with rates of innovation (Florida and Gates, 2001; Florida, 2005) or urban economic growth (Alesina and La Ferrara, 2004; Ottaviano and Peri, 2005).
Economic reductionism is the main shortcoming and limitation of this kind of critical approach. Analyst point out that diversity is understood and valued only as an input for innovation, economic development and the competition between cities (Bodirsky, 2011). In this sense, both the diversity and creativity are only discussed in the context of socio-economic interactions, leaving out other frameworks of (non-economic) interaction and creativity. The second limitation of this approach has to do with the understanding and treatment of diversity. While this kind of study understands diversity from a broad perspective, ranging from ethno-linguistic factors, national origin, vocational and sexual orientation; it excludes social origin in its approach. Therefore, diversity is reduced to people with "talent" belonging to the so-called "creative class", which means highly qualified workers from the middle and upper middle classes of society (Bodirsky, 2011; Eriksen, 2006). Finally, the third limitation stems from the scant treatment of the types of social interactions established between people of different cultural backgrounds and the kinds of hybrid production that is generated as a result of these interactions (as appear in the studies covered in part I of this paper).
1.2. Urban regeneration processes and diversity
The second kind of approach to the analysis of diversity in urban contexts comes from studies of urban and cultural planners. Unlike those related to economic geography, these studies have not addressed urban diversity with a prolific nor systematic approach. However, the work of Jane Jacobs (1961, 1969), about the importance of diversity in the development of cities in the sixties, represent an early approach to this issue. Jacobs inquires into the importance of urban diversity in American cities have been well received by urban and cultural planners in the twenty first century, and used to design strategies of urban regeneration in many American (Florida, 2005; Olfert and Partridge, 2011) (Florida, 2005; Olfert and Partridge, 2011) and European cities (Florida and Tinagli, 2004).
From this point of view, urban diversity includes socio-cultural aspects of the city's inhabitants (ethnic, linguistic, sexual orientation, etc.), professional carriers (which include activities related to the artistic, creative, and cultural life of a city) and urban amenities (which define the cultural offerings of a city: museums, galleries, cultural centers, tourist landmarks and nightlife spaces etc.) (Currid and Williams, 2010; Currid, 2007, 2009; Montgomery, 1995, 2003, 2004). This kind of analysis understands diversity as a key element that defines the vitality and dynamism of a city or neighbourhood as buzz (Currid and Williams, 2010) or sinekism (Soja, 2000). Based on this framework, both academics and policymakers have designed programs (Council of Europe, 2008) and recommendations (Wood and Landry, 2008) which highlighted the interculturalism and cultural diversity as a strategic element of the processes of urban regeneration and economic development of cities.
The main critiques of this approach are that the analysis and recommendations promote cultural diversity from a strictly economic point of view (Bodirsky, 2011) linked to cultural consumption. As Sharon Zukin has pointed early on to the problems of "planned aesthetic diversity" in cities such as New York. Namely, that privatization of public space, building a multicultural landscape artificially dissociated from their real social context (Zukin, 1992, 1995) and the problems of "gentrification" that generate these kind of processes (Zukin, 1987).
1.3. Cities, Migration and Intercultural policies of Diversity
A third trend of inquiry into creativity and diversity in cities comes from studies on migration. These studies aim to analyse and prevent discrimination, segregation and "ghettoization" processes among population groups of diverse national, ethnic and religious origins in urban areas. However, in recent times in the US, studies have emerged that analyse migratory diversity within the paradigm of cultural creativity (Di Maggio and Fernández-Kelly, 2010). This interest has spread to Europe with the studies promoted by Marco Martiniello (Martiniello and Lafleur, 2008; Martiniello, Puig and Suzanne, 2009; Martiniello, 2013), Nadia Hanna Kiwan and Ulrike Meinhof (2011).
Migration studies understand diversity as a socio-cultural background (which includes national, ethnic, linguistic, religious and social aspects) of migrant population. Some intercultural studies understand that the best way to achieve effective policies of interaction is through cultural creativity. In this sense, these kind of studies understand that interactions between population groups with different cultural backgrounds can solve specific problems together creatively (Zapata-Barrero, 2013). The main aim of this approach is, first, to avoid forced interactions among different groups, in order to reframe them in the contexts of specific objectives linked to development and innovation. Second, to achieve individual and social development of people that are involved in these kinds of interactions (Zapata-Barrero, 2013). This approach is recent and has not yet been developed. However, we can already identify possible lines of approach and development of cultural policies aimed to promote different ways of migrants' integration within the paradigm of interculturalism and creativity.
2. European cultural diversity and new cultural forms
The organization of a common market within this administrative centralization process, entailed the necessary Europeanization of societies on the continent (Favell, Adrian, Guiraudon, 2011). This scenario raises questions about the sociocultural effects of the new artistic relations and cross-border cultural exchanges in Europe, including its impact on creativity and diversity. And, on the other hand, it induces interrogations into the cultural policies developed in the context of the current continental governance and its ability to reflect the new cultural forms and expressions of the territory. Seeking to analyze these topics we develop a state of the art concentrating on two questions: To what extent are cultural hybridity and cultural diversity promoted in Europe? Secondly, does increased artistic mobility in Europe contribute to cultural creativity?
2.1. Cultural policies and the development of a European cultural identity
EU cultural actions, most of all promoting multi-level cooperation between the cultural policies of each Member State (Austen, 2012; Sassatelli, 2009), have combined two big goals: European identity construction and diffusion (Dewey, 2010; Theiler, 2005) and the artistic promotion and economic development of the creative sector (Littoz-Monnet, 2007). Both EU cultural policy and cultural diplomacy never became methodical (Isar, 2015; Obuljen, 2004; Tomic, 2011). In this regard, these various cultural action mechanisms, although weak in budgetary terms (Theiler, 2005), have sought to shape the political project of unity in diversity from an inclusive approach to Europeanness (Sassatelli, 2009).
The literature highlights the potentialities and limitations of this mission with regard to the complex equilibrium between cultural homogenization and diversity, as well as between political centralization and subsidiarity. On the one hand, it has been indicated that this supranational cultural action contributed to the intellectual and artistic dissemination of European cultural diversity, stimulating creativity, intercultural exchange (Cock Buning, de, 2008) and heritage preservation (Mcmahon, 2004). On the other hand, it has been emphasized that the absence of major powers and of better coordination for the EU cultural policy affects citizens' cultural rights (Donders, 2003), and that the lack of an active policy and a clear legal framework for the protection of minority languages in the region, distresses the existing diversity (De Witte B., 2004). Similarly, the interferences of European cultural regulations on state powers and the homogenizing potential of EU integration in cultural terms, have been warned against (Collins, 1994).
2.2. Artistic mobility and cultural creativity in the EU
While the involvement in specific artistic fields was historically considered a "source of creativity", the literature points out that mobility has become a pivotal factor for the artistic process and the artists' consecration (Barriendos Rodriguèz, 2012; De Morant, 2007; Klaic, 2007). So, collaborations between artists and the establishment of creative networks by means of regular displacements are presented as key assets for an artistic career (Farinha, 2011; Kern, 2012). These changes regarding the functioning of the traditional cultural field and its links to creativity (Scott, 2010) have gradually led us to reconsider the relationships between mobility and the creative processes (Farinha, 2012).
Artists' mobility has, as a preferred destination, the big cities and capitals of Europe. In this sense, with the gradual supranationalisation of responsibilities and financial resources, cities have taken on a new cultural, social and economic importance (Bianchini, 1993). That is to say that cities function as communication and innovation nodes and gather economic and social capital, promoting artistic exchanges (Castells, 2004; Comunian, 2011). Accordingly, it has been suggested that artists, concentrated in large capitals, are important actors in the social construction of cultural forms (Favell, 2008) who contribute and stimulate local creativity (Meinhof, 2013).
Mobility has been characterized as a phenomenon that increasingly liberates individuals from the traditional, territorial (nation-state) and social constraints (family, clan, etc.) (Bauman, 2000; Beck, U., Grande, 2007). However, different authors have drawn attention to and emphasized the importance of the new political, economic and social boundaries, and their impact on these movements in Europe (Allemand, S., Asher, F., Lévy, 2004; Urry, 2007). So, despite the free movement of the people on the continent, the various legal, political and social conditions imposed on artists' mobility have been exposed (Neisse, 2007; Poláček, 2007).
Various reports have shown that the artists' mobility is not supported by the EU structural conditions (European Parliament, 1991, 1999, 2007). These documents point to a variety of legal and logistic problems; i.e. asymmetric social protections for its producers within each Member State, and the variety of tax fees and trade regimes. Also highlighted is the existence of a "continuing mismatch between resources and demands" (European Commission, 2008) linked to growth and diversification of displacements, as well as irregularities between European countries' policies (mainly north-south) in the area (ibid) and the need for the establishment of systematic sources of data on the subject (SPACE, 2011)2.
Conclusive remarks
Aiming to provide an answer to the central question that guided us: how does cultural diversity contribute to cultural creativity?, this article has examined and evaluated, in an exploratory manner, what the academic literature and political discourse have contributed so far to the clarification of the relationship between cultural diversity and creativity in Europe. For this purpose, we have highlighted major trends and issues in these analyses. In addition, we have identified limits, gaps and criticism in relation with this kind of studies.
Throughout our analysis, at the two levels that we have developed it, we found out the great importance attributed to the positive relationship between diversity and cultural creativity both in academic studies and in those related to public intervention. In the first part of this article, we have identified studies addressing the issue of diversity and cultural encounters as a specific cultural phenomenon linked to processes of hybridization in different areas of cultural creation. By contrast, in the second part of our analysis we have identified academic and non-academic literature addressing the issue of diversity and cultural creativity in two specific territorial frameworks: the city and Europe.
As regards limitations and criticisms, we can say, first, that studies analysing processes of cultural hybridization often adopt a case-by-case approach, where systematic comparison is usually absent. As for studies on diversity and creativity in urban contexts, we tend to find an economic reductionism in their interpretations and recommendations, either in relation to the importance of diversity for economic development or with respect to urban regeneration. Moreover, we have found out that there are few studies devoted to examine diversity and cultural creativity and its effects in relation to the cultural policy of the EU and cultural diplomacy. With regard to artistic mobility, finally, we have also found out an almost complete absence of academic literature and, correspondingly, the lack of any in depth knowledge about the topic going beyond the level of pure description. In this regard, it is noted the lack of research on the creative effects and identity processes that artistic mobility produce.
For the rest, in general we have seen that the academic studies examined in the first part of this article are mainly focused on processes of cultural encounter taking place in complex social environments characterized by high levels of diversity: on their configurations, dynamics, and especially on their effects in terms of hybrid identity and cultural production. By contrast, in the second part of this article predominate academic and non-academic studies that analyse diversity, and what it can generate, in terms of economic development, urban regeneration, social cohesion and mobility, i.e. in terms that are not intrinsically cultural. The main deficit of knowledge regarding the relationship between cultural diversity and cultural creativity in Europe lies here, in the distance and disconnection between these two kinds of approaches and literatures. Because only an integrated approach encompassing and addressing, in addition to the contexts, conditions and configurations of diversity, the intrinsically cultural dynamics that diversity prompts, the cultural creativity that diversity generates, only such an approach can help understand the contribution that diversity can make to social progress. This is our main conclusion.
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The Kraft YMCA is located on a 34 acre site near the town of Cary. It was conceived as a camp with 7 buildings that compliment one another, giving visual unity to the complex. The main building is approximately 62,000 square feet of space housing a gymnasium, an indoor pool, aerobic and cycling spaces, a children's daycare, locker rooms, several multi-purpose rooms and a second floor running track that extends around the gymnasium, across bridges and around the wellness center. The running track, wellness center and aerobic studios take visual advantage of the woods located behind the building. The entire second floor roof is exposed to view, creating a large open space punctuated with several smaller volumes housing offices. The building was designed for phasing with the goal of creating a design that looks complete as well as aesthetically pleasing during all phases. Future expansion was planned from the beginning of the project. Currently a multipurpose/mini-gym wing is under construction. The only remaining phase for the main building is the construction of an indoor swimming pool. This project was completed while Dan Huffman, AIA was a principal at Cherry Huffman Architects (now RATIO Architects).


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Sometimes the simplest of recipes tastes the best. I bet this is yummy! It's full of some of my favorite things!ReplyDelete
Wow, you're finding some great tomatoes for this time of year! Looks good-enjoy:@)ReplyDelete
Simple and delicious!ReplyDelete
I will miss the fresh tomatoes from the garden until next summer! This is one of those dishes that is just perfection.ReplyDelete
The black tomatoes look like plum, so delicious.
I can;t too much tomatoes, but I insist all the time.
Simply dressing makes the meal complete!
I would love that dressing! It would be better than anything you can buy! Thanks for the recipe! ♥ReplyDelete
Looks so yummy!!ReplyDelete
Those tomatoes are awesome! I don't think I've ever seen any quite like that. The salad looks simply delicious.ReplyDelete
those tomatoes look beautiful, very unusual colourReplyDelete
Some friends gave me some end of the season tomatoes..will try your dressing... It's ME !!!ReplyDelete
delicious looking tomato salad a favouriteReplyDelete
Those are beautiful heiloom tomatoes, Carol! Your salad looks delicious!ReplyDelete
mmmmm - simple, fresh and delicious.ReplyDelete
This is a wonderful recipe and let me tell you I always eat my tomatosalad like that. There is no better.
Have a great week.
I love simple but flavorful salads like this :) It's good to be reminded that we don't need a 100 ingredients to make a salad. I've never seen black tomatoes before, they look a bit intimidating... are they red gone ripe, or a different kind of tomato?ReplyDelete
It is a delicious looking salad. And an easy recipe for me, I love tomatoes. Thanks for sharing, I hope you have a great week!ReplyDelete
What a lovely looking salad.The tomatoes are very unusual, but the dressing sounds nice and simpleReplyDelete
Awesome, this is one of my favourite ways to eat tomato, except I don't include parsley, and usually use apple cider vinegar.ReplyDelete
I miss fresh summer tomatoes already. Delicious salad with a simple dressings. Love the color of the tomatoes.ReplyDelete
I love anything with tomatoes!ReplyDelete
Looks so very delicious!!! Have a wonderful day! CathyReplyDelete
Three cheers for simple salads!ReplyDelete
I adore heirloom tomatoes. No more local ones until next summer, but sometimes they appear in the grocery store. You use a bit more vinegar than I do but I love balsamic. I'm not sure we can get white balsamic in our stores, but I'm going to look for it.ReplyDelete
Sounds yummy! I've added it to my recipes, can never get enough lovely salad recipes.ReplyDelete
I love heirlooms, too! But I don't think these are heirloom tomatoes. But I originally got them because I thought they were. They're called Kumato tomatoes. They have a nice shelf life, and they're pretty sweet, great flavor. Found them at Trader Joe's but my supermarket carries them as well.
Thanks for the comments :)
Looks so yum and you have just reminded me to post my tomato salad recipe...thank you. I would love to try heriloom tomatoes.I love the name of your blog!
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Your heirloom tomatoes look marvelous, Carol. That color is amazing. I do love a simple salad like this where the tomatoes shine through!ReplyDelete
Beautiful tomatoes makes a beautiful salad:-) Yum!ReplyDelete
OMG, that looks so good...I will be missing good garden tomatoes until next year's crop...will have to depend on Costco, I suppose!ReplyDelete
I just love to try these new tomatoes; love your recipe and will be trying it soon.
OMG those tomatoes are gorgeous!!! And just for grabs at your supermarket??? *ENVY!* :)
Do they taste exactly the same as red tomatoes? Or wait, what am I saying... there are so many types of red tomatoes LOL. Which variety would you compare them to?
@ Gnoe, I have no clue what they'd compare to, but they are sweet and very firm, nice tomato flavor and a long shelf life. I think they may be a hothouse variety or something.
Here's a link I googled...
I want to try those tomatoes - they are beautiful!ReplyDelete
I've never seen black tomatoes...is the taste different?ReplyDelete
Those tomatoes look like an heirloom variety that I grow - Purple Russians. Is that the variety?ReplyDelete
Isn't this salad just lovely? I love how simple to make it is and I bet the flavour is wonderful! Great job Carol:)ReplyDelete
This is my kind of recipe, easy peasy, and quick..Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Tomato salad is always a favorite around here - wish the season lasted all year long!ReplyDelete
sometimes the most simplest recipes are the most delicious!
Have a wonderful week and thankyou for stopping by my blog to say hi.
Carol, I never seen the black tomato...and I love the simplicity of this salad.
Hope you have a great week ahead :-)
nice assortment of tomatoes. this salad makes me also want to grow tomatoes next summer.ReplyDelete
Sigh. I miss tomato season. And you are fueling that fire!ReplyDelete
I am so sorry to see the end of tomato season. I've never seen that dark variety before. It makes a beautiful salad.ReplyDelete
I love it when I find those Kumato tomatoes at the store. Those and the on-the-vine tomatoes are the only varieties I'll buy. There is nothing as delicious as a simple tomato salad!ReplyDelete
Beautiful tomatoes and a beautiful recipe!
Mary x
Your tomato salad looks delicious. Sadly, there are no more tomatoes from the few plants I put in this year.
Thanks for visiting my blog. I'm going to take a further peek at yours. I spotted a photo of corn chowder...
Oh this is so me!! I love these types of salads and this one looks and sounds so delicious!! If you get a chance I would love for you to enter my eco natural giveaway!ReplyDelete
This is so me! I love these types of salads and this one looks and sounds so delicious! If you get a chance I would love for you to enter my eco natural giveaway!ReplyDelete
Lovely salad!ReplyDelete
Lovely salad. It would be great if you linked it in to today's Food on Friday which is collecting salad recipes.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Carol. We are now starting to get quite a lot of good salad ideas. I am now starting to think there might end up being even more links than chicken - which currently stands at 100!
Hope you are having a good week.
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Bagley joined MorrisAnderson in 2001 as managing director. He has more than 20 years of experience assisting financially distressed and underperforming companies as a consultant and financial advisor. Bagley also regularly provides interim management support by assuming the role of CEO, CFO and CRO for transitioning companies, and was honored as one of Turnarounds & Workouts' "People to Watch" in 2010.
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When you were a kid and you got your first bike, you just wanted to ride wild. You rode in the middle of the street, played chicken with your friends, etc. Now that Miami is making cycling more accessible, with bike lanes and DecoBike rentals popping up all over the place, you might soon find yourself hopping back onto a bicycle seat, if you haven't already. When you do, remember these words of caution.
A rush of nostalgia might make you want to cycle like a reckless, lawless child, but please resist. First, you're not 5 years old anymore. People have a lot less tolerance for 32-year-olds swerving gaily across the double yellow lines. Second, a bicycle is considered a vehicle by law, and that means there are laws to follow -- laws that keep you from running over pedestrians or getting hit by more substantial vehicles. We recently explained Why Your Neighborhood Cyclist Hates You. Well, here's the flip side of that -- things every cyclist should know -- taken from the Florida statute on motor vehicles that applies to bicyclists (Chapter 316, Section 2065):
Bike Like You (Should) Drive
Every person propelling a vehicle by human power has all of the rights
and all of the duties applicable to the driver of any other vehicle
under this chapter, except as to special regulations in this chapter,
and except as to provisions of this chapter which by their nature can
have no application."
Basically that means cyclists are expected to stop at stop signs, yield at yield signs,
signal turns, stop for school buses, and stay under the legal blood
alcohol limit while operating their bicycles. Cops can write you tickets
for violating any of these laws, the same way they do for automobile
drivers. That means you can get a DUI on a bike.
Your Bike Is Not a Clown Car
A bicycle may not be used to carry more persons at one time than the
number for which it is designed or equipped, except that an adult rider
may carry a child securely attached to his or her person in a backpack
or sling.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph
(a), a bicycle rider must carry any passenger who is a child under 4
years of age, or who weighs 40 pounds or less, in a seat or carrier that
is designed to carry a child of that age or size and that secures and
protects the child from the moving parts of the bicycle."
seen a lot of people toting their kids on handlebars or under their
armpits out in the wilds of Miami Beach. Keep in mind, people, you
really don't know what might be coming at you when you're out on the
road, whether it be a pothole or a Hummer-driving, coked-up nightclub
bouncer late for work. Protect your kids! And that leads us to the next
Put the Kids in Helmets
"(d) A bicycle rider or passenger who
is under 16 years of age must wear a bicycle helmet that is properly
fitted and is fastened securely upon the passenger's head by a strap,
and that meets the... nationally recognized standards for bicycle
helmets adopted by the department."
Not to be nervous Nellies, but according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 91 percent of people killed while cycling in 2008 were not wearing helmets.
Don't Pull Any Back to the Future Moves
No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled, or toy
vehicle may attach the same or himself or herself to any vehicle upon a
That seems obvious maybe, but we've seen some Jackass-like violations of this rule on South Beach.
Stay in Your Lane
Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than the normal
speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then
existing shall ride in the lane marked for bicycle use or, if no lane is
marked for bicycle use, as close as practicable to the right-hand curb
or edge of the roadway."
This is for all of you
romantic bicycle riders with your iPod buds snaking out of your ears,
obliviously swerving from lane to lane on the residential back streets
of Miami Beach. Wake the fuck up!
Other Florida bicycle laws state that except under special conditions, riders should ride single file, keep at least one hand on the handlebars, and yield the right of way to pedestrians.
influx of bikes is a great step toward catching Miami up on the road to
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"greenliness." If cyclists make themselves aware of the rules of the
road, we can gain green without cracking too many skulls. And yeah, we
know that's not a funny thing to joke about.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Why I stay Catholic
Maine's effort to legislate marriage equality failed recently after Catholic bishops spent thousands of dollars to defeat a bill granting rights to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, despite research showing that 58 percent of Catholics favor acceptance of homosexuals.
A greater rift between hierarchy and most American Catholics exists on the issue of contraception, with most people in the Church ignoring the bishops' prohibition. That "each sexual act must be open to the possibility of children" violates plain sense, as it would ban sex to all people incapable of having children.
The bishops' understanding of procreation as the primary purpose of marriage is obsolete by more than 1500 years. When Pope Paul VI imposed the ban on contraception with the encyclical Humanae Vitae, he ignored the majority of moral theologians and the Birth Control Commission advising him. Shortly after the encyclical was issued, over 600 scholars signed a statement dissenting from its ruling. They found the moral arguments against birth control faulty and gave serious reasons for changing the teaching. Widely understood is that the Vatican simply did not want to admit its position was wrong.
Its silly position on contraception robs it of credibility on other issues, including abortion. If the bishops really want to lower the rate of abortions, they will accept the most effective way to accomplish that—contraception—and have the courage to admit faulty judgment in the past.
What keeps me in the Church are the many Catholics who resist official repression and follow their conscience, those who think expansively, give generously, and act hospitably. Most of these broadminded people are not hierarchs. It must be hard to be a clergyman if you really do not agree with the official hard line.
3 comments:
- Evelyn A. Guggisberg said...
It is not the teachings the Catholic Church has on marriage which are obsolete. It is your understanding of its teachings that is obsolete.
It is your thinking which violates plain sense. Of course the Church does not ban sex to all people incapable of having children. You had two examples of that in your own family.
Love is the basis of Church teaching on marriage. Love is inclusive & therefore it goes against the very nature of Love to NOT accept the children that the God who is Love & knows our limits beter than what we ourselves know, since He is our Creator, would allow us to conceive.
The Church does not dissalow contraception. It merely recognizes that natural family planning is the only method that TRULY complies with TRUE Love. Even in marriage, sex can become an obsession devoid of love. When the couple refrains from sex during the woman's fertile periods, they are expressing GREATER love because they are recognizing among other things, that their partner consists of a whole lot more than just an object for sex, (merely a sexual being).
The element of courtship also comes into play during this abstinence time, which helps to rejuvenate the LOVE between the married couple.
- January 4, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- Jeanette said...
I don't believe members of the Catholic hierarchy, who have no experience with conjugal love, understand it better than those who practice it daily. As Vatican II articulated, the Church includes all its people and they have come down decidedly in favor of contraception.
- January 4, 2010 at 8:58 AM
Accepting homosexuals is not the same thing as accepting homosexual marriage. As a Catholic, I believe every person, including homosexuals, deserve to be treated with kindness, since they have a soul given them by God. However, to say that their union is the same as a marriage between a man and a woman is nonsense.
- February 12, 2010 at 4:03 PM