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Martin Waldseemüller
Martin Waldseemüller
Martin Waldseemüller (19th-century painting)
|c. 1470
|16 March 1520 (aged 49–50)
Sankt Didel
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|German Renaissance
Martin Waldseemüller (Latinized as Martinus Ilacomylus, Ilacomilus or Hylacomylus; c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer.
He and Matthias Ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Waldseemüller was born in Wolfenweiler near Freiburg im Breisgau (his mother came from Radolfzell) and he studied at the University of Freiburg.
On 25 April 1507, as a member of the Gymnasium Vosagense at Saint Diey (German: Sankt Didel) in the Duchy of Lorraine (today Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France), he produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". The globular and wall maps were accompanied by a book Cosmographiae Introductio, an introduction to cosmography. The book, first printed in the city of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, includes in its second part, a translation to Latin of the Quattuor Americi Vespuccij navigationes (Four Voyages of Americo Vespucci), which is apparently a letter written by Amerigo Vespucci, although some historians consider it to have been a forgery written by its supposed recipient in Italy.[citation needed]
In the seventh chapter of the Cosmographiæ Introduction, written by Matthias Ringmann, it is explained why the name America was proposed for the then New World, or the Fourth Part of the World:
Atque in sexto climate Antarcticum versus et pars extrema Africæ nuper reperta. . . . et quarta orbis pars (quam quia Americus invenit Amerigen, quasi Americi terram, sive American nuncupare licet) sitae sunt
And in the sixth climate toward the Antarctic, the recently discovered farther part of Africa . . . and a fourth part of the world (which may be called Amerige, as if meaning "Americus' land", or America) are situated
In the ninth chapter of the same book the reasons for the name America are given in more detail:
Nunc vero et hæ partes sunt latius lustratæ et alia quarta pars per Americum Vesputium (ut in sequentibus audietur) inventa est, quam non video cur quis jure vetet ab Americo Inventore sagacis ingenii viro, Amerigen quasi Americi terram sive Americam dicendam; cum et Europa et Asia a mulieribus sua sortita sunt nomina.
But now these parts have been more widely explored, and also another fourth part has been discovered by Amerigo Vespucci (as will be heard in the following), and I do not see why anyone should justifiably forbid it to be called Amerige, as if "Amerigo' Land", or America, from its discoverer Amerigo, a man of perceptive character; since both Europa and Asia have received their names from women.
These words echo (or are echoed by) the inscription on the Paris Green Globe (or Globe vert) which has been attributed to Waldseemüller and dated to 1506-1507: America ab inuentore nuncupata (America, named after its discoverer).[1]
In 1513, Waldseemüller appears to have had second thoughts about the name, probably due to contemporary protests about Vespucci's role in the discovery and naming of America, or just carefully waiting for the official discovery of the whole northwestern coast of what is now called North America, as separated from East Asia. In his reworking of the Ptolemy atlas, the continent is labelled simply Terra Incognita (unknown land). Despite the revision, 1,000 copies of the world maps had since been distributed, and the original suggestion took hold. While North America was still called Indies in documents for some time, it was eventually called America as well.
The wall map was lost for a long time, but a copy was found in Schloss Wolfegg in southern Germany by Joseph Fischer in 1901. It is still the only copy known to survive, and it was purchased by the United States Library of Congress in May 2003[2] after an agreement was reached in 2001.[3] Five copies of the globular map survive in the form of "gores": printed maps that were intended to be cut out and pasted onto a wooden globe. Only one of these lies in the Americas today, residing at the James Ford Bell Library University of Minnesota; three copies are in Germany (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, LMU Munich, Stadtbibliothek Offenburg), and one is in London, UK, in private hands.
Waldseemüller died intestate 16 March 1520 in Sankt Didel, then a canon of the collegiate Church of Saint-Dié.
See also[edit]
- Waldseemüller map
- Naming of America
- Discoverer of the Americas
- Richard Amerike
- History of cartography
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
- List of German inventors and discoverers
- ^ Monique Pelletier, "Le Globe vert et l'oeuvre cosmographique du Gymnase Vosgien", Bulletin du Comité français de cartographie, 163, 2000, pp. 17-31.[1]
- ^ Hébert, John R. (September 2003). "The Map That Named America". Library of Congress. 62 (9). Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ Dalrymple, Helen; Brett, Jill (23 July 2001). "Library of Congress Acquires Only Known Copy of 1507 World Map Compiled by Martin Waldseemüller". Library of Congress. ISSN 0731-3527. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- Peter W. Dickson: "The Magellan Myth: Reflections on Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemueller Map of 1507", Printing Arts Press, 2007, 2009 (Second Edition)
- John Hessler: The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio, Library of Congress, 2007 [permanent dead link]
- Seymour Schwartz: Putting "America" on the Map, the Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2007
- David Brown: 16th-Century Mapmaker's Intriguing Knowledge, in: Washington Post, 2008-11-17, p. A7
- Toby Lester: Putting America on the Map, Smithsonian, Volume 40, Number 9, p. 78, December 2009
- Toby Lester: The Fourth Part of the World, The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map, Profile Books, London, 2009
- Chet van Duzer and Benoît Larger: Martin Waldseemüller Death Date, Imago Mundi, Volume 63, Part 2: 219-221, 2011
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Martin Waldseemüller.
- The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller (Facsimile), via Google Books.
- Joseph Fischer (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- "16th-Century Mapmaker's Intriguing Knowledge", David Brown, The Washington Post. November 17, 2008; Page A07.
- "You Are Here—The Library of Congress buys 'America's birth certificate'.", John J. Miller, The Wall Street Journal. July 25, 2003.
- "The map that changed the world", Toby Lester The BBC, October 28, 2009.
- "Naming of America", BBC.
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. .
- World Digital Library presentation of Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorum que lustrationes or A Map of the Entire World According to the Traditional Method of Ptolemy and Corrected with Other Lands of Amerigo Vespucci. Library of Congress.
- Cosmographiae Introductio: cum Quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae Principiis ad eam rem Necessariis From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
- Cosmographiae introductio: cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis... From the John Boyd Thacher Collection at the Library of Congress
- Carta Marina of 1516, Speaker: Chet Van Duzer Video from the Library of Congress
- Carta Marina of 1516, digital copy at the Library of Congress


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Louis XVI of France wasn't the only European king to die at the hands of his subjects in the 1790s. In this episode Christine examines the life and dramatic assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.
Podcaster: Christine
Further Reading
H. Arnold Barton, "Gustav III of Sweden and the Enlightenment", Eighteenth-Century Studies, 6:1 (Autumn 1972) pp. 1-34.
----, Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era: 1760 – 1815, University of Minnesota Press, (1986).
Marian C. Donnelly, "Theaters in the Courts of Denmark and Sweden from Frederik II to Gustav III", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 43:4 (December 1984), pp. 328-340.
A.D. Harvey, "Gustav III of Sweden", History Today, 53:12 (December 2003) pp. 9-15.
'Character of Gustavus III. Late King of Sweden'. The Independent Gazetteer. IX: 1403. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: July 28, 1792. via America's Historical Newspapers.
'Death of the King of Sweden'. Hampshire Gazette. VI: 303. Northampton, Massachusetts: June 20, 1792. via America's Historical Newspapers.
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My interest in Gustave III is rooted in the impact his reign had on Finland and relations with Empress catherine of Russia
Two wonderfully important aspects of his reign! Given their proximity, even if he never went to Finland it would have been unlikely that their histories avoided influencing each other and it always fascinates me too to think of Gustav and Catherine as relatives.
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Yet here we are, living in a country where more than 80 percent of white, self-identifying evangelicals chose Trump as the exemplar of their values and the savior of Christianity's flagging dominance in American politics.
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The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) unveiled its groundbreaking online Interactive National Curriculum Standard (INCS) website during the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Training Summit this week.
The National Curriculum Standard (NCS) was created with support from the FDA as one of the charges to the Partnership for Food Protection's Training and Certification Workgroup. The NCS corresponds with the Food Safety Modernization Act's call for an overhaul to the national approach to food safety. The FDA's Division of Human Resource Development, the Partnership for Food Protection, and IFPTI have led the creation of the NCS over the past year.
The INCS is the online home of the National Curriculum Standard for all U.S. regulatory food and feed protection professionals. The INCS is comprised of both a national competency and curriculum framework which, together, define the performance expectations of the profession.
Competencies are the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform consistent and comparable work for a particular position in the food protection profession. Competencies for the Entry-Level have been vetted by the profession, while development of competencies for other professional levels (Advanced, Leadership, and Technical Specialist) are currently in progress.
The INCS will ultimately feature self-assessment tools to allow food protection professionals to compare how their own agency and staff measure up against the National Curriculum Standard. The INCS will identify courses available in each content area to address any of the agency's competency gaps.
The INCS will also help training developers know which competencies need to be addressed in their training materials aimed at food protection professionals.
"The National Curriculum Standard, developed through IFPTI's unique performance systems development process, is a major change to the professional development paradigm," said Dr. Craig Kaml, IFPTI Senior Vice President. "The Interactive National Curriculum Standard is the virtual manifestation of the National Curriculum Standard and is the pathway to consistent, competent, and comparable work."
Another feature of the INCS is the ability for any training entity to submit a course for inclusion on the site. Each submitted course will be reviewed to ensure it aligns with the content area's competencies. For a fee, training entities will be able to have their course go through IFPTI's official course review process and receive a certificate indicating alignment with content area competencies.
The INCS can be accessed at: http://incs.ifpti.org.
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At the time of writing, February 2012, Facebook is rolling out the 'timeline' view as the default for profile pages and is encouraging users to switch from the old standard view to the timeline. Many people do not think it is an improvement, but we are stuck with it! At the top of the timeline is space for a header image that Facebook calls a 'cover'. You can leave the space blank or use one of the many free images that have sprung up on the internet, but you may as well join in the spirit of Facebook and have some fun by creating a cover image that is unique to you.
Fortunately, PowerPoint is a great graphics program that can make it easy to create your unique timeline cover. The only tricky part is getting the size of the image right, and I've worked that out for you. Here is the process step-by-step:
- Begin by drawing a rectangle shape (any size) and set the shape outline to 'no outline'.
- Right-click on the shape and, in the context menu that pops up, find the size control. (If you get a 'move here/copy here' context menu, you moved your mouse slightly while clicking. Try again.)
- Set the width and height by typing the following numbers (followed by 'Enter'), into the appropriate boxes:
• if using centimeters: high 5.33 wide 14.40
• if using inches: high 2.10 wide 5.66
- When eventually saved as an image, these dimensions produce the perfectly sized image that Facebook shows: 850 pixels by 315 pixels.
You now have before you the exact shape of the Facebook timeline cover with which to work. You can slide it off to one side to keep as a reference.
Now you can set about the creative work!
Change the shape's colors, fill, etc., or import a picture and re-size and/or crop it to create the background image for your cover. Add text and other images, using PowerPoint's graphical capabilities to re-size and rotate them.
If you have some of the add-ins that help you create graphic effects, such as a Opazity or FillSlammer (excuse the plug!) then use these to make your Facebook timeline cover even more unique.
For inspiration, there are some witty examples of the way people have used their cover space here.
Do not forget that part of the bottom left hand corner of your cover will be overlaid with your profile image.
What sort of content can you include in your cover?
I find that people often forget that they don't own their Facebook profile or pages and so they think they can put anything they like on them. That is not so! It all belongs to Facebook and if you don't play the game their way they can easily take away 'your' Facebook presence.
Facebook keeps changing its rules about what you can an can't put on a timeline cover or, as they would see it, the guidelines evolve as Facebook finds out what people are putting into the images. Their intention is that the images should reflect you, so images of you or the places you like are certainly okay. 'Commercial use' of the image space is banned, but undefined. How most people are interpreting this at the moment (February 2012) is that you cannot sell the space for advertising. Images and text that promote your own business, if you have one, including a reference to your web address, seems to be acceptable – after all, it is an important part of your life. However, it is probably best to be restrained on the self-promotion.
UPDATE June 2013: As noted above, Facebook keeps changing its rules about what you can and can't put on a timeline cover. Early in 2013 they relaxed their ban on promotional text AS LONG AS the area occupied by the text isn't more than 20% of the image area.
When you have finished, group all the elements of your image, then right-click on it and select 'Save as picture'. Saving your new cover image as the default .png file is fine. In Windows Explorer, if you hover your cursor over the saved file, the screen tip should tell you that it measures 850 x 315 pixels. (Do not worry if it is saying the size is one or two pixels out.)
Now upload your cover to your Facebook timeline. By the way, if you are using the Firefox browser and the upload 'Save' button does not seem to do anything, switch to another browser to do the upload. Also check that you do not have an advert blocking browser plug-in activated.
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Smartest President Ever Struggles With Ultra-Complicated 'Ordinary Voting Machine'
The real story here is that the voting machines are apparently racist.
Via the Obama Report:
President Obama visited the polling station at the Martin Luther King Community Center in his hometown of Chicago on Thursday to cast an early vote for the 2012 Presidential election.
But the purportedly tech savvy President appeared to be befuddled by an ordinary, run-of-the-mill voting machine. Ultimately, an employee at the polling station came to the rescue, as he guided the President through the step-by-step process of using the typical, every-day, run-of-the-mill voting machine.
Even Politico Isn't Taking Obama Seriously
Even the left-leaning Politico is out there mocking the Obama campaign as having no real message for the American people. They have a new blog posting titled, Chicago Gets Serious…, in which the first sentence reads, "…and by serious, we mean not at all serious."
The Obama campaign is out this morning with a goofy video of the Big Bird variety, mocking Mitt Romney, as the president has put it, as going easy on Wall Street but heavy on Sesame Street.
The campaign is calling this a TV spot, but did not, as officials there usually do, say where it's airing, suggesting this is a video for media and YouTube consumption.
As Alex noted yesterday when the Pew poll numbers came out, we've long warned – and been warned – about big swings in surveys in what has been a fairly stable race. But the sampling of surveys out there do suggest a real Romney bounce.
And the president, as others have noted, and his team have been going fairly small at a moment when Romney is consistent in a message and pivoting toward going bigger (the foreign policy speech, more emotion on the trail, and so forth). And this video is the kind of small ball that Boston smacked over for months.
Here's the ad in question…
Obama (2001): Redistribution of Wealth by Supreme Court Justifiable
Earlier today, Republicans were hitting on a recording of Obama in 1998 in which the future President says he "believe(s) in some redistribution".
"I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution – because I actually believe in some redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot."
It's those final words – "I actually believe in some redistribution" – that Republicans have latched onto, characterizing them as an endorsement of redistributing wealth, rather than making sure government agencies were well supported. Many conservatives argue redistributing wealth is akin to socialism.
That's hardly a revelation. The President's staunch support of taking from those who work and giving to those who watch the work is well-documented, in word and deed.
Now though, a new recording has surfaced of Obama in 2001, and it's a rather alarming statement on just how far he thinks government can reach in their quest to spread the wealth. Essentially, he believes there is theoretical justification for the Supreme Court to do the redistributing.
Back in 2001, Barack Obama gave this stunning interview to a Chicago public radio station in which he talked about using the Supreme Court, the most undemocratic of the three branches of government, to "spread the wealth."
A rough excerpt:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order, and as long as I could pay for it, I'd be OK. But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and the more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent, as radical as, I think, people try to characterize the Warren court, it wasn't that radical; it didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution…. One of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think, there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways, we still suffer from that. You can craft theoretical justification for it legally, and any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts.
Video: Do You Know Why The Chicago Teachers are Striking?
The Chicago teachers strike entered its second week Monday, with many people still wondering what it's all about. The average salary for teachers in Chicago is $76,000, and the new contract offered annual pay raises.
So what are the striking teachers looking for?
Terrific video by the Heritage Foundation and Ben Howe explains…
Why are teachers striking in Chicago? What are teachers unions fighting for? Is it for the students? For the schools? For the union?
Listen to the union officials themselves. You might be surprised.
Nay, you should be surprised.
State Department Officer Explains Other Offensive Language For All You Closet Racists
Black and tan. Going dutch. Holding down the fort. Rule of thumb.
All racist.
This according to the Chief Diversity Officer at the U.S. Department of State.
In a column written for State Magazine, John M. Robinson provides a primer of phraseology that most people might not realize is racist.
Via the Daily Caller:
John M. Robinson, the Chief Diversity Officer at the U.S. Department of State, wants America's diplomats to know that common phrases and idioms like "holding down the fort" are, in fact, deeply racist.
Robinson, who also serves as director of the Department's Office of Civil Rights, used his "Diversity Notes" feature in the July/August issue of the official "State Magazine" to examine the hateful roots of everyday sayings. In one recent public relations kerfuffle at Nike, Inc., he wrote, the company torpedoed a sneaker called the "Black and Tan."
"What a wonderful celebratory gesture and appreciation for Irish culture. Not!" wrote Robinson, an adult.
Remember that the next time one of you insensitive dolts heads out to a bar and orders a Black and Tan. Best part of that excerpt are the last two words – an adult. Not!
Robinson notes that "Black and Tan," in addition to being an enjoyably robust alcoholic concoction, can refer to the brutal Protestant militiamen who ravaged the Irish countryside in the early 20th century — which is why Irish bartenders always get so upset when you order one.
In an effort to avoid offending those notoriously fragile Irish sensibilities, Nike pulled the shoe from stores.
Robinson would like us all to learn from the sneaker company's inadvertent racism and really start watching what we say.
Read the rest of his column here…
And God forbid you ever go dutch on a black and tan in Chicago.
Chris Matthews and MSNBC Now Claim the Word 'Chicago' Is Racist
Chris Matthews was on Hardball tonight covering the Republican National Convention with guests Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and John Hielemann of New York Magazine. In what is seemingly the natural progression of things these days with Matthews, the subject of the 'otherization' of the President was being discussed. Because, if you weren't aware already, Barack Obama is black, and any time a Republican chooses to discuss the failure that is his administration, the media will be there to quickly remind you that they only feel that way because of his skin color.
But tonight's episode of race-baiting with Chris Matthews was a bit odd in that the panelists somehow came to the conclusion that reminding people of the President's roots in Chicago politics is racist. In fact, simply saying Chicago is racist. (Video below).
Robinson sets the racial tone by saying (h/t The Right Newz):
"It's all part of this Barack Obama as 'other' sort of blanket campaign that has been waged by the Republican Party for some time now. It may be gaining some traction now, though I wonder why now as opposed to a bit closer to election."
Matthews then demonstrates his mind-numbing ability to take an idiotic statement, amplify it, and subsequently make it exponentially more idiotic coming from his mouth, when he said this:
"Yea, well let me ask you about that gentleman. What about now, is this constant barrage of assaults, saying the guy is basically playing an old game of demagoguery politics, where you take the money from the worker bees and give it to the poor people to buy votes. That's basically what they're charging him with. Old big-style, big-city machine of 50 years ago."
He added, "They keep saying Chicago by the way, have you noticed? They keep saying Chicago. That's another thing that sends that message – this guy's helping the poor people in the bad neighborhoods, screwing us in the 'burbs."
Hielemann helpfully interpreted Matthews statement, presumably for those too challenged to understand basic words (or as we in the business refer to them – Hardball viewers), by making this jaw-dropping statement:
"There's a lot of black people in Chicago."
Yes, because referring to the city of Chicago would have nothing to do with trying to link the President to a long, storied history of corruption. It simply has to be in reference to all of the black people living there.
By the way, Mr. Hielemann, there are a lot of black people in Chicago. Guess what, though? There are even more white people.
According to the Census Bureau in 2010, the percentage of African-Americans in the city of Chicago was roughly 32.9%. The percentage of whites? 45.0%.
Incidentally, any idea who else has linked the city of Chicago to government corruption? MSNBC.
In an article titled, Illinois Has Long Legacy of Public Corruption, MSNBC discussed the fact that nearly numerous elected officials had been convicted of wrongdoing since 1972 – in Chicago.
It included this statement:
"Chicago, with its long history as a center of vice and organized crime, has had its share of official graft."
Oh, those racists!
Obama Knows More About Judaism Than Any Other President – Just Ask Him
At a meeting with 20 conservative Jewish leaders yesterday, President Obama laid claim to having more knowledge of Judaism than other previous President. What does the President cite for his breadth of knowledge?
He read about it.
By this logic, I once read the book What to Expect When You're Expecting, thus apparently making me a zen master of all things childbirth.
The Weekly Standard reports:
"Obama … stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it," Haaretz reports. "[He] wondered how come no one asks Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner or Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel [sic] about their support to Israel."
Similarly, he said to the group, "I [am] not going to tell you again how I even feel about Israel, but why [are] we still talking about it?"
He then suggested that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because "all his friends in Chicago were Jewish – and at the beginning of his political career he was accused of being a puppet of the Israel lobby," Haaretz reports.
Do not question his commitment because his friends in Chicago were Jewish? He was also friends with Bill Ayers, should we not question his commitment to domestic terrorism. His pastor for decades was Jeremiah Wright, should we not question his commitment to anti-American racists?
And how do we know he read about Judaism anyway, did he take a college course on the topic? We'll likely never know.
It's a shame he didn't read up more on basic economics or capitalism. Perhaps then he'd be an expert on those topics as well.
Obama Campaign Harvesting Your Personal Information Off the Internet
This isn't unnerving or anything…
Via Politico (h/t Weasel Zippers):
President Barack Obama wants companies such as Google and Facebook to reform their privacy practices.
But that's not stopping his re-election campaign from tapping the rich data Internet companies hold on millions of potential voters.
Obama for America has already invested millions of dollars in sophisticated Internet messaging, marketing and fundraising efforts that rely on personal data sometimes offered up voluntarily — like posts on a Facebook page— but sometimes not.
And according to a campaign official and former Obama staffer, the campaign's Chicago-based headquarters has built a centralized digital database of information about millions of potential Obama voters.
It all means Obama is finding it easier than ever to merge offline data, such as voter files and information purchased from data brokers, with online information to target people with messages that may appeal to their personal tastes. Privacy advocates say it's just the sort of digital snooping that his new privacy project is supposed to discourage.


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All in a Day's WalkA month-long slow food walking performance
Archive for tracktivism
Talking Walking (or the Wisdom Teeth of Hindsight)
[I'm writing this with the benefit of hindsight. A whole year's hindsight in fact. For reasons that will become clear below.]
On Friday 2nd August 2013, I walked nearly 30 miles from my then home in Lea (in South Herefordshire, mere metres from the Gloucestershire border) right across the Forest of Dean to the Green Gathering Festival at Chepstow racecourse. En route I had arranged to meet Andrew Stuck of Talking Walking – the dedicated podcasting website for 'activism, art, gossip, interviews and news from the world of walking' – to do an interview that would ultimately be made into a podcast.
He was travelling by train from London to Chepstow, and then planned to walk along the Offa's Dyke path north of Chepstow. I was to join up with the path towards the end of my walk, so we hoped to walk towards each other and meet at the allotted hour. I would then be interviewed for TW. (It didn't quite work out like that – though we did succeed in meeting – but more on that anon.)
It did not begin well, underslept and flustered, I set off at 8 am knowing I had about 24 miles to cover before I met Andrew, and very little spare time for getting lost built into the tight schedule necessary to ensure a timely rendezvous.
It was around this time that I'd more-or-less worked out that, on a 1:25,000 OS map, the span of my loosely-stretched hand aligned with a walk's planned route was approximately an hour's walking for me. But not allowing for getting lost, tracking back, talking to anyone or an overly wiggly/meandering path.
(I quite liked this one:one scale of my own though – a satisfying physical/temporal take on the one-inch-to-one-mile maps, for a walking geek and a map addict…)
Within half an hour, I had got hopelessly, dangerously lost in a field of >6ft high maize [I am 5 ft 1] that had been planted across the footpath. By the time I'd backtracked, run up a farm track and onto the road to take a longer, alternative route, I already knew that I would deeply regret agreeing to meet someone at an allotted time after 28 miles of walking. That is a lot of miles for mishaps… When the going (and the waymarking) was good, I did have a great sense of bounding through the Forest of Dean: this ancient hunting forest, freemining country, this "strange and beautiful place … a heart-shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from the rest of England…" (as Dennis Potter described his home-place).
At other times, I was battling through overgrown undergrowth, with bare legs becoming so scratched and bruised that I eventually drew a sketch of the 'map' that the walk had left on me.
By mid-afternoon, Andrew – who had left London without a map and so was attempting to navigate his way from Chepstow along the Offa's Dyke path by signposting alone – and I ended up in a ridiculous series of mobile phone exchanges. He was asking me to relay directions for him from my OS map, at the same time as I was trying to use it to navigate towards him. But our relative locations spanned either side of the enormous map sheet and so to respond to his requests, I was obliged, one-handed on the phone, to keep unfolding and refolding it.
We did eventually rendezvous – on the Gloucestershire Way, not the Offa's Dyke path – and walked back towards Chepstow, where, once the calm of navigational certainty had resumed, we found a small meadow high up on the cliff edge of the Wye gorge to do our interview. The sound of drumming from the Green Gathering festival site at the racecourse on the opposite side of the river faded in and out of ear shot with the breeze.
We parted in Chepstow and I walked on alone to the festival, weary, scratched and ready for the wood-heated-water eco-shower that awaited.
What happened in the intervening three days is something of a blur – talking to 'real' activists: climate campaigners, road protesters, foraging experts, bee advocates, editors of 'occasional land rights magazine' The Land; and working in a cafe. I also had a very enlightening conversation with foraging expert Carol Hunt
I set off to return home on Monday 5th August, the penultimate day of the performance. I knew I'd got a long hard walk home and I also, foolishly, couldn't shake the misperception that it would be 'more uphill' going north. I was also cumulatively tired – from the performance, the walking and the festival. So my spirits were dampened still further when there was a deluge of truly biblical, climate-change-freak-weather-type proportions within the first 5 miles: three hours of solid lashing rain, thunder and lightning. It was so wet that rain pooled inside my waterproof map case, having somehow managed to force its way through the almost imperceptible hole made by a thorn on the walk down.
Fortunately my phone, which I'd used to document the entire journey down, including film and audio, was safely zipped into the waterproof Gore-tex pocket of my waterproof Gore-tex coat. But it was not so waterproof as I'd thought. Water even managed to find its way to pool in there too. My phone switched itself off near Bream and refused to reawaken. Running late by the time I reached the middle of the Forest proper, I called in at the Speech House hotel (former hunting lodge and site of "Court of the Speech" for verderers and free-miners) and asked to use their phone to make a call to the dog sitter to let her know where I was.
I was bone weary by the time I returned to Lea. The cottage was eerily quiet, the dogs calmly pleased to see me, the dog-sitter having an evening nap upstairs. I put my phone in a box of rice, hoping for the best. Then I went to bed.
The next day, the final day of the performance, I rested. And waited anxiously for my phone to revive (funny how even eco-activists are so wedded to our technology). I was still hungry and looking forward to my 'first supper' the next day. But then on the last night, with no warning – but as if I'd finally earned it – a wisdom tooth chose to emerge. It was painful and I didn't sleep well. So I woke the day after the performance concluded with the freedom to eat whatever I wish, and ironically found myself unable to eat at all.
[My phone never recovered from its ordeal, losing all my photo documentation from the last 60 miles of walking. So all that remains is the sketch of my scratched legs. Oh well. I suppose it could function as a tastefully restrained Richard Long/Hamish Fulton-esque 'text work' or similar: neither of them seem quite so concerned about obsessively documenting their walks through the use of technology. The very thought of either of them Tweeting or blogging (esp. en route) is actually quite a funny one.]
[Images of leg-scratch-map copied and later sent to PhD student Nina Williams for her Mapping in Momentum project]
Oats (on cheating and eating)
Reader [if there are indeed any out there], I've cheated.
I've flagrantly, badly, hungrily, unwisely cheated. I have, (only in deeply hungry moments), eaten food that I shouldn't. That was grown outside of Herefordshire, and quite possibly the UK. Mostly it was as local as I could make it, but sometimes, in the spur of the moment, it wasn't.
I am sorry.
The clues were all there when I was talking about how challenging it was living with the food and gentle concern of others. I've made an important realisation that maintaining and defending a serious, quasi-political performance practice in a domestic setting with others requires a difficult balance between light heartnedness and commitment. I seem to have failed on both counts over the past few weeks. I think to myself, I bet Tehching Hsieh never had this problem.
By way of excuse and explanation, I've been getting ridiculous, bent-double, Ministry of Silly Walks stomach cramps (in fact, for about 3 miles solid along the Stank between Hampton Bishop and Mordiford the other day). Seemingly my metabolism is not cut out for surviving without some form of starchy carbohydrate. The last performance, being vegetarian and dairy allergic (I thought), I staved off total starvation by allowing myself flour locally milled from a local wheat grower (even though they'd run out of their own and were actually milling grain from Doves Farm in Hungerford, as I explained at the time). This time, thinking that eating both meat and dairy would give me more than enough variety and calories to survive on, I haven't allowed myself flour. So, no sourdough, no mumpets and really, no complex carbohydrates. A recipe for disaster.
The last, winter performance was all about the eating, even if I felt too weak to walk that far. And my weight fell under 7 stone. This summer repeat has been (excuse frivolous language) all about the cheating. It's been more walking, less starving and less tolerance of voracious hunger in the process. My body doesn't want to return to that extreme of leanness, clearly.
I could console myself that any accomplished improviser ultimately plays with subverting the score. And as friends Rob and Sally said 'if we weren't meant to cheat, we wouldn't have a word for cheating'. But it's how you cheat that matters. So, drilling down to the essence of activism in tracktivism as being about consumer choice as a gesture of protest, then I allow myself one clear consumer choice to prevent any future frivolous cheating: o a t s.
Pimhill organic oats are the only traceable complex carbohydrate that I know that is grown and processed in (and I seriously hope) distributed from a single place in neighbouring county (Shropshire) and sold in local shops. Oats are incredibly versatile and once I've given myself permission to use them, I make porridge, oat cakes (local butter) and flapjacks (local butter, local honey) and, my partner's idea (I'm such a bad meat-eater; it doesn't occur to me to cook it) beef-oat-herb burgers with the Hope's Ash mince.
Instant carbohydrate. Instant ability to walk in an upright position.
What remains mad and bad – and that all this confessional waffle about 'cheating' is ultimately hiding – is that I'm walking through acres and acres and acres of wheat, oats, barley, maize. The wheat and oats are nearly ready to harvest, so where do they go? And why can't I buy or eat them? Is it really more economic sense to ship them elsewhere? And if food processing contributes to the embedded carbon footprint of foods and means that a focus on food miles alone 'is missing the point', how do we reconcile all this into a food system that makes social, environmental and economic sense?
Maybe that – our skewed rural infrastructure – is where the cheating's really at.
Slow activism gone viral?
A day at home walking dogs, feeding the horse.
A daily commitment to the animals is easy to incorporate into a life practice. A domestic commitment to and existence with other humans is more difficult to interface with a performance practice, I am discovering. When I first performed this score, I was living alone. I was encountering – socially and otherwise – lots of other people. But the duration and nature of our encounters provided a frame – an imaginary minimalist conceptual proscenium arch – through which I could perform and they could observe. There was a great deal of curiosity, interest, sometimes concern, and sometimes antagonism about what I was doing. But once I was alone, I was alone with the score and I adhered to it rigidly. I had a commitment to the practice.
I didn't even eat salt.
Now I am living with others – my partner, his son – and the frame has shifted and there are reluctant co-performers inside it. While I know there is a fundamental respect for what I do and am doing, there is also a concern for my well-being and a healthy, affectionate amusement with the whole concept of conceptual eco-art. They want to support me at the same time as they want to subvert the score, which is ultimately compromising me. And my hunger doesn't take much persuading.
So I'm finding it hard to adhere to rules #2 and 4 of the score when I'm surrounded by the concern as well as the food of others. I'm also an inherently polite activist: I don't want to be rude or ungrateful. The other day, Callum walked the 5 miles back from Ross-on-Wye with a bag of food from a specialist local-food delicatessen Truffles. Concerned that I was 'walking everywhere eating nothing' and with some time to spare, he'd been in, explained what I was doing and bought as much local produce they could determine was grown within walking distance: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries from Cobrey Farm, cheese and spinach pie with ingredients from Newent and they'd even thrown in a small quiche in sympathy with the apparent craziness of what I was doing. He'd got them to write down where everything came from 'so you'd believe me' and then he'd walked home from Ross, 'so it wouldn't compromise the rules'. It was really touching. So, there was no way I was going to point out that the pastry of the spinach pie was made from flour that undoubtedly was milled if not grown outside the county. I ate it and it was delicious.
It also made me think, on a carbohydrate high, that maybe it's these conversations that people are having about what I'm doing – even if that's expressing consternation about craziness – that are what the practice is about. If the score is intended to provoke thought and conversation, then it doesn't matter who's having those conversations or why, does it? In fact, it's even stealthier than I thought : slow food-slow activism gone viral (in a rural kinda way)…
Activism in tracktivism 2
Once upon a time, I walked around the Welsh countryside and talked to people about landscape, life choices and climate change. It was an activism-by-stealth because it was a sharing of political ideas (mine and other peoples) in unexpected places (rural landscape) via the conviviality of conversation, sometimes recorded sometimes not. Then I renamed and reframed this tracktivism, an overtly activist practice, and immediately the doubt set in, as I pondered in Activism in Tracktivism? last week.
As I said then, thinking of what I do and re-imagining contemporary activism through 'gestures' has been really helpful to me. But what I hadn't considered, in the context of All in a Day's Walk specifically, was how this performance could be considered a protest gesture in and of itself through exercising and publicising my right to exist and subsist outside of our broken down rural food infrastructure and the dominance of and dependence on supermarkets, or indeed motorised transport which is the usual refrain from people living rurally. For this I must extend a huge thank you to Laurence Malt for this Mask – Part 2 blog yesterday. I agree that it's not a sustainable gesture – and the idea of sustainable activism that creates sustained not temporary change is an important one to me – but I'm empowered by the thought that it's subversive in its own, domestic, pedestrian way.
All in a Day's Walk (Again)
All in a Day's Walk is a month-long tracktivist walking performance. It was first performed in the winter, from 6th December 2012 to 6th January 2013. It is now being repeated in the summer, from midnight on 6th July to midnight on 6th August. During this time, I will live entirely within the distance I am able to walk away from home in a day, sustaining myself only on the food that is grown, harvested, processed and obtainable within this distance. I will walk as far and as frequently as I can, measuring out by foot the new limits of my new month's (and new home's) existence-subsistence-persistence. I will travel only on foot, accepting no lifts and using no public transport. I will not accept hospitality or food from hosts or visitors that does not meet these criteria. I will try to follow all the rules even if I can't answer all the questions. And I will be curious about seasonal difference.
Tracktivism is about talking and listening, and I hope my walks will facilitate plenty of that: conversational encounters with the people I meet, either randomly on my route or pre-arranged at a specific destination… walkers, farmers, growers, millers, bakers, apiarists, artisan cider-producers, foresters, road-workers, yurt-makers, hauliers, butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers. We might talk about the weather. We might talk about talking. We might talk about walking. But we will most probably talk about f o o d , where it comes from, and why it matters…
It's slow food meets slow activism meets slow performance. So, please take some time to meander through these pages if you wish, and leave some slow comments…
Jess Allen 06/07/13
Lea, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, HR9 7JZ
Little green shoots of change
A walk through the morning to Hoarwithy, where I've arranged to interview Sally Dean and Rob Elliott, who run the appropriately sub-titled 'Real Food' B&B Aspen House [which has since closed, in 2015].
I walk over Capler Camp and through Brockhampton, hemmed in by high hedges, passing polytunnels (which Gareth talked much about), puddles and floods and being passed by the four-wheel drive convoys of the pheasant shoot… I stop to record the racehorses on the gallops at Aramstone (a racing yard) Audio Track: Aramstone gallops and later (because I'm earlier than expected for our meeting) to record the flooded wye forcing its way under the bridge at Hoarwithy Audio Track: River Wye (in spate) at Hoarwithy bridge. Then I visit the remarkable (and unexpected in this small village) Italianate church, before heading down the road to Aspen House.
Sally and Rob are more than 'just' B&B proprietors: they are passionate advocates (and activists) for local, seasonal, 'real' food. Sally, a nutritionist, is also local chapter leader for the Weston A. Price foundation (an organisation organic dairy farmer Will Edwards also spoke passionately about). Rob is a writer (The Food Maze and How to Eat… Like There's No Tomorrow) and blogger. Both are extremely knowledgedgable about nutrition, local infrastructure, farming, growing and how our rural eating-living needs to work in order to be sustainable and just as well as genuinely nutritious. They are hugely inspiring and uncompromising in how they live and their desire to communicate what they do to as many people as possible. We have intense, wide-ranging discussions which I've edited only a selection of highlights below, as they are both best represented in their own, articulate words:
Audio Track: Sally and Rob on the importance of slowing down: slow food and slow cooking
Audio Track: Sally and Rob on meat and balanced food production
Audio Track: Sally and Rob on localised food infrastructure
Audio Track: Sally and Rob on local food activism: 'little green shoots' of change
A huge thank you to them for their time and sharing their knowledge so passionately..
And then later in the evening, because it's Friday, I walk (4 mile round trip) through the dark to the pub with friends for local bitter…
There's no such thing as inappropriate clothing, only bad weather
When I first heard the (apparently Scandinavian) phrase 'there's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing' I immediately, gleefully and smugly adopted it as my new life mantra.
This winter, I'm not so sure. It doesn't seem to matter how much Gore-tex I layer onto my body, the water is still finding a way in. Even in wellies. This does not make a December walking performance very comfortable. It slows me down – and not in a good slow-food-slow-activism way either. I'm not sure if drawing my own minute attention – through the immediate discomfort of soggy feet – to the changing patterns of weather and climate is particularly useful in an activism sense, but still…
I'm reminded of my conversation last week with Caplor farmer Gareth on his experiences of extreme weather events in Africa and Fownhope, and how his farming practices are, finally, changing:
Audio Track: AIADW Gareth on weather and climate change


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We love tea. In our household tea and water are the two main drinks of choice. So when I learned about Adagio Teas, I had to give them a try.
Adagio Teas offers an extensive selection of gourmet, loose leaf and bagged teas, tea blends, ice teas and gift sets for every occasion. They also provide quality tea ware and a few additional pantry items.
Since my very first interaction with Adagio Teas I have been impressed with their customers service, shipping, packaging, and the products themselves.
Website, Shipping and Packaging
Their website, adagio.com, is very well laid out and easy to navigate. I appreciated that their shipping prices and timelines for out of the country shipments were clearly stated. As a Canadian customer it was very important for me. In addition, I liked all the bonus opportunities presented to me at the check out.
My order arrived well before it's due date, in a well packaged box with Adagio Teas logo on it.
Adagio Teas for the Whole Family.
Since we all love tea, every member of my family got to pick something they may enjoy. We decided to go with several 10-serving sample, loose tea packages and one tea set.
Kids Picks
The kids' first pick was Rooibos Caramel Tea. They loved that the tea has that sweet caramel smell and gentle caramel taste. To my delight, it was sweet enough that they didn't use honey to sweeten it.
They also enjoyed Rooibos Jasmine Tea. It was delicious and smooth. A perfect tea to enjoy on a cold winter evening while reading a book or watching TV.
The last pick, and probably the favourite one was Thai Chai Tea. We loved the smoothness of the coconut and the florar aroma of lemongrass. The loose tea looks beautiful and tastes even better.
I have to say, that in our home, we prefer to drink it as latte rather than tea.
And here is my recipe for this wonderful Thai Chai Latte
- 1.5 teaspoon of Adagio Teas Thai Chai Tea
- 1/4 cup of boiling water (100C)
- 1/2 cup of hot milk
- 1/4 cup of milk foam
I steep the tea in 1/4 cup of water as for 3 minutes, add hot milk and stir until well blended. Top it up with milk foam and if you wish, you can sprinkle brown sugar on the top. DELICIOUS!
Decaf for Dad
My husband chose Decaf Strawberry Tea, Decaf Peach Tea, and Decaf Tropical Blend. All teas came in 10-serving, sample pouches.
The first one was Decaf Peach Tea. It was exactly how we expected: peachy aroma when you opened the pouch and a hint of peach in the taste.
We also tried Decaf Strawberry Tea. It has a very gentle, flowery aroma and a delicious berry taste. It was one of my favourites.
The Decaf Tropics Tea was by far my husband's favourite. It has a sweet and spicy flavour and a bit of a coconut aftertaste. I will definitely be adding this one to my next order.
Body and Soul Set for Mom
This Body and Soul Set includes three beautiful tins of loose tea.
Happy Belly Tea is a great choice to enjoy first thing in the morning. The ingredients, including ginger root and licorice help prepare my stomach for the day. It is delicious and relaxing.
The second one, Throat Therapy Tea, includes several ingredients known to soothe a sore throat. The gentle smell of licorice and sweetness of orange peels are very pleasing when you first open the box. I didn't have a sore throat when I tried it, but it felt soothing and gentle as I drank it. I can definitely see it as a drink of choice to help heal my sore throat.
Finally, the Tea-Tox Tea. This tea is a great choice for my morning tea on the days when I fast. The smell of peppermint leaves is very uplifting and rejuvenating, while dandelion root and green rooibos tea are great for cleansing. It tastes delicious and it helps me get energized for the day. Definitely a keeper!
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Birthday Bonus
We also got a little bonus of Birthday Tea and Aquarius Tea. Both were a big hit in my home. They smell delicious and taste even better. My birthday girl was very excited to have a special tin of her own tea just to herself! A great addition to her birthday present.
Overall, I'm very happy that I learned about Adagio Teas. We are enjoying all of the gourmet teas that we selected and have already started making a wish list for our next purchase.
What is your favourite tea? Do you prefer black tea, green tea or rooibos tea? Or maybe fruit or herbal teas are your thing? I'd love to hear what you think.
Thank you kindly to Adagio Teas for providing me with this wonderful selection of gourmet teas for an honest and unbiased review.


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What to Watch If You Love Fargo
List Rules Vote up the films and shows perfect for fans of Fargo.
If you're looking for other movies like Fargo, you've come to the right place. When it comes to the best black comedy movies ever, Fargo is way up there. Never fear: These are some of the best TV shows and movies like Fargo.
The most obvious choice when mentioning TV shows like Fargo would be…the Fargo TV show. Debuting in 2014, nearly two decades after the film first hit theaters, the Fargo television show echoes the movie, with witty writing and a quirky, memorable cast of characters. For Fargo fans, the TV show version is a way to recapture some of the love for the original.
Not surprisingly, plenty of Coen brothers' classics are included on this list of movies and TV shows like Fargo, including Burn After Reading, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? Many of these films, like Fargo, aren't afraid to be funny and violent or serious. Coen brothers movies are a mixed bag, after all.
If you're trying to decide what to watch after Fargo, consider some Fargo similar shows – while nothing can ever duplicate the Fargo movie, several shows offer up intelligent, interesting plot lines that will keep you entertained. Among them: True Detective, Twin Peaks, Breaking Bad, and Broadchurch.
Are you among the many Fargo fans? If so, feel free to make some Fargo recommendations here, and help fellow fans out if they're wondering what to watch next!
Fargo (FX, 2014) is an American black comedy drama anthology television series created by Noah Hawley, and inspired by the 1996 film. Various chronicles of deception, intrigue and wrong doings in and around frozen Minnesota -yet all of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, ND. ...more on Wikipedia
Breaking Bad is an American drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on the AMC network for five seasons, from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013. It tells the story of Walter White, a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, who, together with his former student Jesse Pinkman, turns to a life of producing and selling to secure his family's financial future before he passes. The title is from a Southern colloquialism meaning to "raise hell". Breaking Bad is set and was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-western neo-noir thriller film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. Mayhem ensue after a hunter (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon a deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. ...more on Wikipedia
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 American drama film directed by Martin McDonagh. A woman (Frances McDormand) takes a stand against the police, using three billboards, in her Missouri town after her daughter is murdered and months later no arrests have been made. ...more on Wikipedia


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Standard 1
- Food vendors - number and type
- The direction and location of all amplified sound
- Tent locations
- Fencing
- Any off‐premise directional signage – list of location(s), sizes, sign material & digital samples required with application
- Parking on and off‐site, including a designated handicap area
- Parking for recreational vehicles – if used for security purposes only, this is limited to one fully self-contained unit
- Traffic ingress and egress points as well as emergency vehicle access
- Bathroom/sanitation facilities
- Alcoholic beverage distribution areas
- First aid area
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Per Bradenton City Code, "It shall be unlawful to park any trailer on any privately owned property within the City for the purpose of living in such motor trailer, except on any property authorized and licensed as a trailer park." One (1) fully self‐contained recreational vehicle is permitted for security and/or event purposes. If more than one, but less than four recreational vehicles are requested, City Council may grant special City Council approval. In the event that more than four (4) trailers/recreational vehicles are necessary to remain within the City park as part of the event due to the nature of the event, such as but not limited to a national cooking event where participants must be on site to monitor overnight cooking, the request will require special City Council approval. Manatee County Health Department, Environmental Services, will permit the Recreational Vehicles, provided that no gray water or black water is discharged on the property. Manatee County Health Department, Environmental Services, will conduct inspections for events with overnight Recreational Vehicle parking/camping. If any recreational vehicles in conjunction with the event are found to be in violation of the above regulations, the event organizer shall be cited and fined up to $100.00 for the first offense and $200.00 for the second offense.
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Certificate of Liability Insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 naming the City of Bradenton as "Additional Insured" and specifying the NAME and DATE of the event must be provided prior to the event. Event organizers must keep a copy of the certificate for their own records.
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Any event organizer selling alcoholic beverages must obtain a State of Florida Alcoholic Beverage license and a liquor liability endorsement on the certificate of liability insurance when applicable. This must be signed off by city zoning manager.
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Any event organizer using food/beverage vendors must certify that each vendor has State of Florida Health Department approval and complies with all county and local guidelines and ordinances.
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Food Vendor Management Requirements for Event Sponsors on City of Bradenton Property
Event organizers desiring to include food at events on City property shall:
- Contract, at no expense to the City, with a licensed grease hauling company to handle waste cooking grease/oil generated at the event. The hauling company shall supply a grease receptacle (tank) placed in reasonable proximity to the festival that vendors are required to dispose of their spent grease/oil into on a daily basis over the duration of the event.
- Ensure, at no expense to the City, protective barriers (i.e. tarps, oil absorbing materials, etc.) are used in food vending areas to protect City of Bradenton property from grease/oil/food-related damage.
- Contract, at no expense to the City, with the City of Bradenton's Solid Waste Division to provide solid waste services, garbage and recycle receptacles and equipment for the event.
- Ensure, through appropriate and reasonable means and at no expense to the City, that City of Bradenton property does not sustain damage from the event organizers, vendors, participants or guests, including, but not limited to:
- Garbage, trash and other event-related litter
- Food detritus (i.e., garbage, grease, oil, kitchen waste, etc.)
- Damaged City property (i.e., sidewalks, curbs, streets, signs, lights, landscape, hardscape, facilities, buildings, benches, trash cans, utilities, etc.)
- Graffiti
- The City will require meetings and inspections with the Organizer to establish pre- and post-conditions and expectations for the event and event venue.
- The Organizer shall provide monitors, at no expense to the City, during the event to ensure compliance with these requirements.
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Permits from the Planning & Community Development Dept. are required for tents over 10 x 10 and the application for permit must be received no less than 5 working days prior to the event. All tents/canopies must be fire retardant, per fire prevention requirements. No stakes are to be driven into the ground to protect underground utilities and tent weights are required. Click here for contacts.
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All approved events must provide sufficient on-site sanitation facilities. Some areas of the Riverwalk Park have permanent sanitation facilities.
Standard 9
All events requiring security shall use off-duty Bradenton police officers. The cost of such on-site security shall be the sole responsibility of the applicant and is due prior to or at the time of service.
NOTE: The Bradenton Police and Fire Departments reserve the right to cancel off-duty details without notice, and to recall personnel for official duty when necessary for community safety.
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Requirements set forth by the Fire Marshal must be adhered to and all events are subject to inspection.
Standard 11
All events requiring Public Works and Utilities services shall bear the cost of providing such service.
Standard 12
The use of fireworks or any other potentially hazardous devices may only be approved by a permit from the Planning and Community Development Dept. in conjunction with the Fire Department.
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No vehicles may be driven off designated vehicle areas unless expressly authorized as part of an approved event.
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No event may keep, display, or otherwise house live animals on City park land unless expressly authorized by the City Council
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It is the responsibility of the event organizer to contact each business that could be affected by the event. The notification should include the dates and times of the event and contact information of the event organizer, in case the businesses have any questions or comments regarding the event. Races require additional notifications. See Race/Run/Walk Standards document.


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SO … I read this post over on The Bloggess and I thought, ermagerd this should be fun!
Apparently its a cool thing to do now, searching [YOUR NAME] meme on google. I did and some of the results were great, some were porn and some were just plain weird. Here's the some of the better (non-porno) ones…
I know right? I'm awesome… and yet single.
This one actually kinda looks like me if I was a blonde toddler…
This one came up a lot, I don't know what it's in reference to.
If someone knows, please tell me.
This one is my favorite by far. I've been waiting 13 years to hear that. 😀


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'Twas the gift-giving season, if you're into that sort of thing. What was the best gift you gave someone this year?
WinnieTheWoot got a leather bound copy of Bulfinch's Mythology, which she was thrilled to receive, saying that she had always wanted a copy of Bulfinch's. For the past ten years or so we've always gotten Mrs. Hatrack an action figure with a disability (Iron Man, Nick Fury, etc) but it has gotten increasingly harder to find new disabled heroes/heroines so we got her this print to hang in her office instead.


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If you open your water bill and see that it is significantly higher than normal it may be time to schedule a plumbing repair in Maple Ridge. Pipes are under constant pressure and may develop corrosion, loose fittings or cracks and holes. Excessive water usage may not be immediately evident unless you have an obvious leak or burst pipes. Small leaks and drips can really add up. Aside from the extra cost involved with a water leak, health hazards are also possible as sweating pipes and pooling water can cause mold and mildew.
To determine exactly where the problem may lie requires some detective work. Look at the pipes under kitchen and bathroom sinks. Is condensation present? Is there a puddle underneath the pipes?
Inspect the toilets. Is the water level low in the bowl? Does the water drain slowly when the commode is flushed? Are gurgling noises evident when flushing? These may signal a seal leak or a sticking flush valve.
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High School Career Boot Camp
Are you aware of the number of High School students who make wrong career choices as they transit into institutions of higher learning? The number is alarming, and the consequence is detrimental to their professional future and to the advancement of our society. To mitigate this surging calamity, JKUAT has organised a CAREER BOOT CAMP for High School Students. The intensive facilitation is aimed at equipping students with knowledge that will enable them make prudent career choices, build their character and instill in them an entrepreneurial culture. The Boot Camp is scheduled to take place in two phases, the first from 10th-15th December 2017, and the second from 17th-22nd December. The Boot Camp will be at a subsidized cost of Ksh. 16,000 per participant (Residential) and Ksh. 6,500 (Non-Residential). Those who opt for the residential option will be provided with meals and accommodation for the duration of training.
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André Gonçalves
_Go_FW_ in Portugal
André Gonçalves was born on the 4th of July, in the very noble city of Chaves [located on the North of Portugal].
He received his degree on Organisational Psychology from the Superior Institute for Languages and Administration. He also obtained a Master's degree on Services Management, from the Catholic University of Portugal.
If you want a dictionary's definition of his desired way of living, look for "yuppie", short for "young urban professional". *try to interpret it without a pre*conceived opinion.