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Cities and Towns in Sicily
Termini Imerese is a large town located on western Sicily's north coast between Cefalu and Palermo. The population of the town is is about 26,000. It lies about 38 kilometers north of Sicily's capital city - Palermo whichi is about 45 minutes by train or car. It is divided into two parts: Termini Bassa (Lower Termini) and Termini Alta (Upper Termini) and almost all of the town's historical attractions are located in Termini Alta, since that area effectively comprises the town's old historic center. Lower Termini is where the railway-bus station and the hotels are located.
It's an interesting stop to make and many descendants from Sicily who left to go to north America happen to come from this town or the surrounding area, so if you happen to be coming back here to explore your family's history, it's definitely a very interesting stop to make, for it is wedged in between the sea and the steeply-rising slopes of Monte San Calogero, the peak that marks the beginning of the Madonie Mountain Range which runs east towards Messina and south to the vicinity of Enna.
From the sea, Termini presents a picture-postcard image of a Sicilian seaside town. The view from Termini looking out over the sea to Palermo is likewise spectacular. Termini is famous for its elaborate Carnival (Mardi Gras) festival, which is ranked along with Acireale's and Sciacca's Carnevales as one of the best in Sicily.
The name Termini Imerese is derived from the Latin "Thermae Himerenses" or "Hot Springs of Himera." Indeed, the remains of arched Roman aqueducts are visible at Termini. The name also derives from the toponymic "Imera" which was the name the ancient Greeks applied to the settlement near present-day Termini that they came to occupy. The story of Imera is the only historically noteworthy episode that can be linked to the ancient history of Termini Imerese.
Imera was founded in 678 BC by Greek colonists from Zancle (Sickle), modern Messina. Zancle itself had been founded in the previous century by Greek colonists. It is probable that a prehistoric settlement already existed there, populated by Sicanians.
The Greek town of Imera represented the furthest westward penetration of the Greeks on the North Coast of Sicily, and thus, represented a threat to the Carthaginians, who had colonized the western area of Sicily and founded Palermo and Solunto, the latter city being only 30 kilometers distant from Imera. In 480 BC, the Carthaginians decided to invade the region. Hamilcar, a Carthaginian general who was an ancestor of the famous Hannibal who later fought the Romans, assembled an army said to number 30,000 men to march upon Imera. The Greeks of Imera sought and received help from their fellow Greeks of Agrigento and Syracuse. The three combined Greek armies literally massacred the Carthaginians, and thus the Carthaginian threat to the Sicilian Greeks was effectively eliminated, at least for the remainder of that century.
In 409 BC, Hannibal, grandson of Hamilcar, led a large Carthaginian army against Imera. This time, the Greeks were defeated and Imera was destroyed. It is believed that the survivors of the battle fled to either Termini or Caccamo (famous for its Norman castle), and founded the two towns or developed existing settlements.
Most of Termini's sights are located within walking distance of one another. At Piazza Duomo, we have, of course, the Duomo, or Mother Church, dedicated to San Nicola di Bari (St. Nicholas of Bari), "Santa Claus." Built in the late 1400's, it houses a painted cross by Pietro Ruzzolone dating from 1484. However, the church was extensively renovated during the 1600's and that accounts for the many Baroque Period works of art it contains.
Proceeding towards the sea, one comes to Principe di Piemonte (Prince of Piedmont) Belvedere, which offers panoramic views of the sea. At the end of the Belvedere, the winding road which is called "Circonvallazione Castello" leads you downhill to the Villa Palmieri, a public park and garden with plenty of shade trees. Completed in 1845, the Villa contains the remnants of an old Roman structure, which was either the town forum or the basilica of an early Christian church; scholars are in disagreement over which of the two it was.
Leaving the Villa and doubling back towards Piazza Duomo along Via Barrinelli, one arrives at the church of Santa Caterina (St. Catherine). The church was erected in the 1400's and has frescoes dating from that era painted by the brothers Nicolò and Giacomo Graffeo.
The Civic Museum is on Via del Museo. The Museum has an extensive and interesting exhibition for a relatively small city like Termini. It is is open daily from 9:00 to 1:00, when visitors can view its collection of ancient archaeological objects from the nearby area, and a good numismatic collection. Several of the lions' heads from Imera's Temple of Victory are located here; others are housed in the archaeological museum in Palermo. There is also a large stone slab with Arabic inscriptions written upon it, believed to have been suspended over the city gates of Termini during the period of Saracen domination.
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Hundreds of fireworks factories in southern China have been ordered to shut down for safety checks following a huge explosion at a plant on Friday.
At least 36 people are now known to have died in the blast, which injured 160 people; 30 others are still missing.
Fatal fireworks explosions in China, which invented fireworks more than 1,000 years ago, are common, particularly around the Chinese New Year in January or February.
The Guangdong authorities said that lighter and match factories must close as well as the 400 or so fireworks factories situated in the province.
Plants that passed a safety inspection would be allowed to re-open, except for those in densely populated areas which would be closed permanently, an official said.
The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, said that investigators believe that sparks made by workers pounding iron nails may have caused the fatal blast.
Xinhua said it "shattered the roofs, windows and walls of buildings 1km away" and "trees and utility poles were uprooted or snapped in half".
All those killed are believed to be factory workers.
The factory, which was located in a sparsely populated suburb, was run by a Hong Kong firm.
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Dandelion Root for Edema
The common dandelion, a yellow flowering weed that's the nemesis of gardeners and lawn care afficionados, has been traditionally used as a natural diuretic, among other suggested purposes. In Europe, dandelion root and leaves are used for many medical conditions and is approved by the German Commission E to reduce edema, according to the Natural Standard website. However, there's little scientific evidence to suggest that it's of any benefit.
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
About Edema
Edema, also known as fluid retention, can cause puffy feet, legs, fingers and arms. Edema is a symptom that's sometimes related to a certain disease or disorder, says the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). Most often, edema isn't serious, says the Mayo Clinic. Ordinary causes of edema may include staying on your feet for a long time, hot weather, eating too much salt or hormonal fluctuations associated with premenstrual syndrome. If edema goes away within a day and you don't notice other signs or symptoms, you probably don't need to see a doctor, says the Mayo Clinic.
About the Dandelion
Dandelion has been used in Native American and Arabic medical systems, says the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Historically, it's been used for liver and kidney disease and problems associated with the spleen. Modern-day uses of dandelion focus on fluid retention. It also continues to be used as a liver and kidney tonic, as well as for digestion. The dried root and other parts of the plant are used in dietary supplements, such as capsules and extracts. The entire plant may be used fresh or dried to make tea. Historically, the leaves, not the root, were used to treat edema, points out the University of Michigan Health System.
Effect on Fluid Retention
There's no compelling scientific evidence that dandelion root can reduce edema or address any other medical condition. Theoretically, dandelion's high potassium content may give this herb diuretic properties, meaning that it purportedly increases urination, states the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Few clinical trials–studies using human participants–have been conducted on the effects of dandelion.
Dandelion Preparations
The UMMC indicates that dandelion tea may have some effect on fluid retention. Simply take between 4 and 10 grams of the dried dandelion and steep it in a cup of hot water. Strain, cool and consume. Due to dandelion's purported diuretic properties, this herb should not be taken if you're already taking prescription diuretic medications, says the UMMC. Avoid dandelion if you have gall bladder problems, take anticoagulant medications or have known allergies to numerous plants.
See Your Doctor
Edema can be a sign of something far more serious, such as heart failure, kidney disease and liver damage, cautions the Mayo Clinic. Edema may also be associated with a medication that you're taking. If fluid retention persists, even if symptoms are barely noticeable, please see your doctor to rule out an underlying medical condition.
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Over the course of our lives many of us will have to deal with enduring pain and injuries that take up significant time and energy and detract from our ability to lead our day-to-day lives. These ailments often carry an emotional toll that in its own way can be as painful as the physical toll. They take us away from the things that give us meaning and enjoyment in our lives, which can diminish motivation and fuel negative beliefs about what the future will hold. Unsurprisingly, many people dealing with these ailments develop co-occurring symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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text: devils13 0 Posted May 12, 2012 (edited) On Christmas morning a cop on horseback is sitting at a traffic light, and next to him is little johnny on his new shiny bike. The cop says to the little johnny... Cop : Nice bike you got there. Did Santa bring you that??? johnny : Yeah.... Cop : well, next year tell Santa to put a tail-light on that bike... The cop then proceeds to issue the kid a $20.00 bicycle safety violation ticket..and our little johnny takes the ticket and before he rides off says, Johnny : BTW that is a nice horse you got there. Did Santa bring that to you? Humoring little johnny the cop says : "yeah he sure did" ... Little johnny continued , : " well next year tell Santa to put the dick underneath the horse of on top". Few days later..... Little Johnny runs into the kitchen and shouts excitedly "Mummy Mummy, Grannies got a prawn!" His mother asks what he is talking about. Johnny again shouts "Grannies got a prawn!" With this he takes his mothers hand and leads her into the lounge. Granny is asleep on the sofa, in just her dressing gown, which has slipped open. Johnny points at her protruding clitoris and exclaims " Grannies got a prawn!". His mother explains that this is not a prawn, its the old dears clitoris, to which Johnny replies "Well it tastes like a prawn.... Another day while johnny boy is at school... During class little Johnny kept swearing, everything was fu ck this and f uck that. Teacher "Johnny, that is not a word a ten year old should be using" Johnny "there are worse words than that miss, like murder and death" Teacher "No Johnny, the word you keep saying is much, much worse than murder and death" Johnny "I disagree miss, I bet you would rather be fu cked than killed" Edited May 12, 2012 by devils13 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Sometimes my dreams are really funny. I mean, so funny that I literally wake up laughing out loud. I don't use the computer on Shabbat, meaning no email, no blogs, no surfing... I must have been dreaming about reading blogs and for a second, the thought crossed my mind that I can't even check my blog to see if I had the baby...
No news. But, logically, each day does bring us one day closer to meeting UI, right?
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I went wrong on my walk to the Wellcome Collection – I went right across Hyde Park, up diagonally through Marylebone, Portland Place and the UCL campus and then within 5 minutes walk of my destination I wandered into the main gate of the UCL cloisters (in my defence there was a huge banner about an upcoming exhibition at the Wellcome slung across one of the buildings) and on coming out turned the wrong way and ended up somewhere past Gordon Square.
It did mean however that I noticed and took some photos of this rather nice piece of carving:
It's over a gateway at the back of the Church of Christ the King. One of those lost rear entrances that happen when another building is built up to a church wall and the resulting appendix of road is used as a tiny private car park and (judging from personal observation) pissoir and place to smash glass bottles. A shame.
The Wellcome itself – when I got there – was a mix of old and new museum styles, collections of loosely related objects in glass cases, open areas of pleasant informality with ipad embedded desks for further information and sofas to sit and read, a library with a mezzanine that reached the ceiling.
It's is a nice size too - not so big you become fatigued by the thought you'll never get round it all, not so small you wonder why you came. Strictly speaking it's a medical museum, but as well as things like old training models and dentist's stands and fingerprint catalogues they have art works inspired by medicineand pads of paper with questions on them to encourage you to participate.
It seems to work. A wall of answers to the question 'What would you like to inoculate yourself against' provided some whimsical answers (politicians, negative people) some very straightforward (simple lists of illnesses) and some rather sad (a 22 year old wanting to inoculate against death of family members).
You're allowed to take pictures provided there's no flash, so I snapped this picture of a glass art work of a bacteria - there were 3, e coli (beautiful, like a furry caterpillar in glass, but it didn't photograph well) and I thought this one was swine flu – except it doesn't look like the images of swine flu online.
Must learn to label.
This photo doesn't really do it justice either.
The museum is free, and open late night Thursdays and Fridays.


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Karly Depew of Oscar + Emma and Melanie Carter of Lucky Paperie
Phew, I"m back from walking miles up and down the aisles at the National Stationery Show in New York and wanted to share pictures from the trip. It was exciting to see our friends from Elum, Dauphine Press, Wiley Valentine, The Happy Envelope, Mr. Boddington's Studio, Egg Press, Paper + Cup, and more showing fabulous new letterpress wedding invitations and letterpress stationery.
Karly Depew and Kelli Hall
One of the most exciting parts of the trip was gathering our community of designers together. After seeing each other as small thumbnail photos on the Minted website for so long (and me as a profile cameo, it was pointed out by Amy Fontes – OK, I'll change it), it was an unforgettable experience to meet everyone in 3D. My impression was that new friendships were made and designers were helping each other navigate the show – the supportiveness we all see online came through in person as well. Thank you to all the designers who attended our cocktail party at Bottino's and took the time to give Annie and me great suggestions.
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- This article is about the Harry Potter character on The Simpsons. For the article discussing Harry Potter references on the show, please see Harry Potter.
Harry Potter is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series of books and films.
He is seen when Moe and the others in the bar are watching Harry Potter and compliment his broom work, but Moe thinks that he shouldn't be playing Quidditch when there are still four of the seven Horcruxes yet to be found.
Harry Potter was also referenced by Homer when he renamed Plopper the pig Harry Plopper.
He was first seen when the Bart and Lisa attend Wizardry School and Mrs Krabappel asked him if he was chewing gum, he answered no and said that it was brimstone, and then blew a bubble of fire to prove it.
In one of Bart's fantasies, there is a line of people waiting to "Kiss Bart's Butt". Harry Potter is standing at the back of this line.
In The Simpsons Game the New Grand theft scratchy game comes out and when Marge and Lisa try to banned it Martin appears with Ned's Stolen car and tell them he's gonna go Harry Potter on their butts.
Before the Events of Mob Rules Krusty was going to Audition for the role of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in the Next Potter movie which being in the Mob keeps Krusty for doing so.
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- The Harry Potter character on The Simpsons is an obvious reference to Harry Potter, the wizard from the fantasy novel and film series of the same name.
- In the films, Harry Potter is portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe, who appeared in the episode "Treehouse of Horror XXI" as the vampire Edmund.
- The movie Moe and the barmates were watching is called Harry Potter and the Neclace of Amulets, a fictional Harry Potter movie.
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" (Non-Canon Appearance)
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues " Picture Seen
- – The Simpsons Movie (Referenced. Plopper is renamed Harry Plopper.)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (Referenced. The Wolf in the opening sequence wears a Harry Potter costume)
- Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" (non-speaking)
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "Little Big Girl"
Characters in the Treehouse of Horror series
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|Evil House ● Kang ● Kodos ● Serak the Preparer
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|Flanders the Devil ● Grim Reaper ● Count Burns ● Gremlin
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|Mister Peabody ● Sherman ● Jason ● Unnamed Lunchlady
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|Duff Cowboy ● Paul Anka ● Van Brunt & Churchill Owner ● Zip Boys
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|Hugo Simpson ● Pigeon-Rat ● Jonathan Frink (Lisa's World) ● Religious Leader (Lisa's World) ● Man (Lisa's World) ● Clinton Campaign Member
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|Treehouse of Horror IX
|Treehouse of Horror X
|Clobber Girl ● Stretch Dude ● The Collector ● Xena the Warrior Princess
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|Baby Bear ● George Cauldron ● Goldilocks ● Daddy Bear ● Mummy Bear ● Rapunzel ● Troll ● Suzanne ● Snorky
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|Gypsy ● Hobgoblin ● Leprechaun ● Yoda ● Ultrahouse 3000 ● Harry Potter ● Lord Montymort ● Slithers
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|Homer's clones ● Peter Griffin ● Billy the Kid
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|Jonathan Frink Sr. ● Grim Reaper
|Treehouse of Horror XV
|Simon Stoolowitz
|Treehouse of Horror XVI
|David ● Cyborg Bart ● Witch
|Treehouse of Horror XVII
|Dr. Phil McGraw ● Female Golem ● Male Golem
|Treehouse of Horror XIX
|Airport Stair Bot ● ATM Bot ● Bestimus Muchos ● Carnage Destructicus ● Coffee Machine Bot ● Hot Dog Oven Bot ● Kitchen Bots ● Melody ● Microwave Bot ● Nacho Bot ● Plane Bot ● Sedan Bot ● Sex Toy ● Snooze ● Squishee Machine Bot ● Three-Way ● Toaster Bot ● Grand Pumpkin ● Tom Turkey
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|Treehouse of Horror XXIV
|The Fat in the Hat ● Strong-Man Homer ● Count Orlok
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The U.S. Attorney's office said Thursday a three-year investigation into the alleged operation led to the arrests.
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Architecturally speaking, mezzanine floors are intermediate floors between the main floors of a building… in simple terms, mezzanine floors are just cool.
Popular for industrial warehousing, distribution and manufacturing, the mezzanine can also be the statement style for your domestic domicile. In fact, as a residential room, mezzanines make a statement both in form and function.
So here are some tips for adding a suspended room to your home renovation.
Project planning: Planning is the key to negating regret. Make sure your space can accommodate a mezzanine. Talk to your architect and builder, perhaps even get a computer generated image put together.
Planned purpose: You should determine what your mezzanine is for; bedroom, library, or perhaps a work area. Make sure your available space is suitable for the function.
Upsies and downsies: Ensure the space above and below your mezzanine is appropriate – both ends should have enough space to stand in. Smaller spaces may still work, perhaps as storage space.
Lighting lover: Choose appropriate lighting for the function and ensure it can be controlled from both in the mezzanine area and from below, so you can turn the lights on and off even when you are not in the space.
Staircase to the stars: When designing a mezzanine, it is important that the stairs are accessible. Also, be sure that the stairs are safe. You can also be creative in your stairs design. Just be sure that it will not consume too much space. Some use spiral stairs to save space.
Materials matter: While you want a mezzanine which is visually appealing, strength is of even greater importance. Ensure materials will be sturdy. You can use wood, light metal, mild steel or concrete, or translucent materials will create even more openness.
Height of fashion:
Safety trumps appearance, every time. So don't go crazy on the height, it will cost more and may compromise safety and security.
Suitable space:
Your dimensions will depend on your available space. The function of the mezzanine will depend on the available space.
When you design a mezzanine, you have to consider two things – heating and circulation. When heat rises, it might become too hot in your mezzanine. So, try placing an insulator so it won't absorb heat. Keeping it open can also help with circulation.
A weighty issue:
Furniture will vary depending on the function and usage of your mezzanine, but lighter furniture is recommended so it will be easy to place and your mezzanine can bear its weight.


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1. Look, when the Army started giving the Carl Gustav Recoilless Rifle to more units, soldiers got excited about it (via Team Non-Rec).
"'Murica! 'Murica! God share his armory with thee-ee
2. Being a boot is hard (via Devil Dog Nation).
Probably doesn't even realize why his armor is so uncomfortable.
3. "Basic training is not nearly as much fun as I thought it would be." (via Air Force Nation)
Bet you wish you were watching "House of Cards" about now.
4. Navy, this isn't the reason we make fun of you …
… but it's definitely a reason we make fun of you.
5. Do airmen do field exercises? If so, why? (via Marine Corps Memes)
I mean, you park the planes at big ole bases anyway. Why go to the field?
6. You think your personnel manager is an a-shole? (via Entertain Your Nerdy A–)
Stormtroopers got you beat every time.
7. They're so sweet and so, so bitter.
Sure, you're finally leaving, but that also means you're putting your ruck back on.
8. Look, it's fine to be a POG (via Army Nation).
If you're not infantry, stop playing like you are.
9. Why malingerers are always so happy: (via Military Memes)
Wouldn't it be great if the malingerers were all secretly Hulk-level strong? Instead of useless?
10. When your service has A-10s and F-22s, it's hard to take your M-16 seriously (via Air Force Nation).
But you should still carry it with you.
11. Which would you rather have: (via Sh-t My LPO Says)
The next three years of your life? Or a free soda?
12. Car bumper stickers tell a story (via Sh-t My LPO Says).
Sometimes it's, "My child is a window-licker."
13. "Sgt. 1st Class Smozart will be leading the 155mm howitzer crew through the 1812 Overture." (via Military Nations)
"Please do not talk during the performance."
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Here it is late Winter 2017 and I am thinking about baseball. The Super Bowl is over and the NBA season is slowly grinding to completion. Spring Training has begun and my thoughts are turning to baseball. I am sure that Chicago Cubs fans are still basking in the afterglow of winning The World Series. … Continue reading Let's Play Ball!!!
Month: February 2017
The Music of Valensia, A Queen Fan's Dream
Valensia is an ultra talented singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Unfortunately he has spent most of his music career in relative obscurity. Musically he combines the influence of 1970's Queen, Kate Bush, The Beatles and 1980's pop music; i.e. Duran Duran, The Police, and Culture Club. Vocally he sounds like an amalgam of Freddie Mercury and … Continue reading The Music of Valensia, A Queen Fan's Dream
Song Spotlight: All God's People, By Queen
I love the adventurous guitar driven music that Queen made in the 1970's. They explored so many diverse music genres including opera, vaudeville, progressive rock, classical, jazz, pop, heavy metal, blues and gospel, among others. I also love the commercial, keyboard assisted music the band made in the 1980's. The music may have been more … Continue reading Song Spotlight: All God's People, By Queen
Is It Time For Steve Hackett To Stop Revisiting Genesis?
I love the music of Genesis immensely, they have been one of my favorite bands since the early 1980's. Their music was my introduction to progressive rock. To this day they remain my favorite progressive rock band. I also love the music of former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. He has established himself as a forward … Continue reading Is It Time For Steve Hackett To Stop Revisiting Genesis?
Tony Banks And Marillion's Fish
What a classic pairing of two progressive rock greats. Over the course of two albums Tony Banks collaborated with one time Marillion singer Fish on three songs. Those albums were Tony Banks' solo albums Soundtracks (1986) and Still (1991). It is said that Fish auditioned for Genesis after Phil Collins departed in 1996. True or … Continue reading Tony Banks And Marillion's Fish
Steve Hackett, A Birthday Appreciation
I want to acknowledge the 67th birthday of one of my biggest musical heroes, Steve Hackett. His music has been such a huge part of my life for over thirty five years. I first became aware of him in 1981 after hearing the Genesis album A Trick Of The Tail. After fully exploring the music … Continue reading Steve Hackett, A Birthday Appreciation
Song Spotlight: I Am, By Michael Sweet
I can not say enough about the very talented Michael Sweet. The man can seemingly do it all. Over the last few years he has successfully lead Stryper while simultaneously working on his solo career. At 53 years old he seems to have found a new gear. He is a singer extraordinaire, a criminally underrated … Continue reading Song Spotlight: I Am, By Michael Sweet


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I finally have photoshop CC on my computer. So now I have to learn to work with it. It is not easy but I love the possibilities! I like to make photo collages and the lesson by Meg Lewis on Skillshare combined that with some basics of photoshop. A perfect lesson for me.
I made one moodboard with a structure made by Meg. The photo's are from our holiday in Etretat (France).
And I want to make a square one because I love square. I made my own structure. I used photo's I made on the beach last autumn on Terschelling (Holland).
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Tue, 26 Nov 2019
A chalupa is a fried tortilla that has been filled with meat, shredded cheese, or whatever. But it is also the name of the mayor of Prague from 2002–2011.
The boat-shaped food item is named after a kind of boat called a chalupa; I think the name is akin to English sloop. But in Czech a chalupa is neither a boat nor a comestible, but a cottage.
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[ Addendum 20191201: I should probably mention that the two words are not pronounced the same; in Spanish, the "ch" is like in English "church", and in Czech it is pronounced like in English "challah" or "loch". To get the Spanish pronunciation in Czech you need to write "čalupa", and this is indeed the way they spell the name of the fried-tortilla dish in Czech. ]
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Wikipedia's article on the etymology of gringo is quite good, well-cited, and I did not detect any fishy smells. I had previously tried to look up gringo in the Big Dictionary, but it only informed me that it was from Mexican Spanish, which is not really helpful. (I know that's because their jurisdiction stops at the English border, and they aren't responsible for anything outside, but really, OED folks? Nothing else?)
Anyway Wikipedia helped me out. I had gotten onto this gringos thing because yesterday I learned about gringas, which are white flour tortillas. I immediately wondered: are they called gringas because (like gringos) they're made of white paste? Or is it because they're eaten by gringos, who don't care for corn tortillas? The answer seems to be: both explanations are current, but nobody knows if either is correct.
On the way to gringo I spent a while reading about yanqui, which Latin Americans use to refer to northerners.
So do people in the USA for that matter. Southerners will angrily deny being "yanqui". They reserve that term to mean anyone from the north, such as myself. But folks like me from the Mid-Atlantic states also deny being Yankees and will tell you that it only means people from New England. Many New Englanders will disclaim being truly Yankee and say that to meet true Yankees you need to go to Maine or maybe New Hampshire. And I suppose people in Maine use it to mean one particular old Yankee farmer who lives up near the Canadaian border.
Anyway, I wonder: in Latin America, does "yanqui" always mean specifically USA-ians, or would it also include Canadians? Would a typical Mexican or Guatemalan person refer casually to Canadians as yanquis? Or, if they were drinking beer with a Canadian, and the Canadian refered to themselves as yanqui, would they correct them? ("You're not a yanqui, you're Canadian! Not the same thing at all!")
If Mexicans do consider Canadians to be a species of yanqui, what do they make of the Québécois? Also yanqui? Or do Francophones get a pass? (What about the Cajuns for that matter?)
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What is the shed in "watershed"? Is it a garden shed? No.
I guessed that it meant a piece of land that sheds water into some stream or river. Wrong!
The Big Dictionary says that this shed is:
This meaning of "shed" fell out of use after the end of the 17th century.
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Katara just read me the story she wrote in Latin, which concerns two men who chase after a corax. "What kind of animal is corax?" I asked.
"It's a raven."
"Awesome," I said. "I bet it's onomatopoeic."
So I looked into it, and yup! It's from Greek κόραξ. Liddell and Scott's Greek-English lexicon says (p. 832):
κράζω (krazo) and κρώζω (krozo) mean "to croak". "Croak" itself is also onomatopoeic. And it hadn't occurred to me before that English "crow" is also onomatopoeic. Looking into it further, Wikipedia also tells me that the rook is also named from the sound it makes.
(J.R.R. Tolkien was certainly aware of all of this. In The Hobbit has a giant raven named Roäc, the son of Carc.)
Liddell and Scott continues:
κορώνίς (koronis) means "curved", and in particular a "corona" or crown. Curvus of course means curved, and is akin to Latin corvus, which again means a crow.
The raven's beak does not look so curved to me, but the Greeks must have found it striking.
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Bryan and his posse
A pitched battle was fought..at Rockhill, Missouri, between the Sheriff's posse and the miners on strike.
From the context and orthography, I guessed that it was from Spanish. But no, it's not. It's Latin! "Posse" is the Latin verb "to be able", akin to English "possible" and ultimately to "potent" and related words. I'd guessed something like this, supposing English "posse" was akin to some Spanish derivative of the Latin. But it isn't; it's direct from Latin: "posse" in English is short for posse comitatus, "force of the county".
The Big Dictionary has citations for "posse comitatus" back to 1576:
Mr. Sheryve meaneth in person to repayre thither & with force to bryng hym from Aylesham, Whomsoever he fyndeth to denye the samet & suerly will with Posse Comitatus fetch hym from this new erected pryson to morrow.
"Sheryve" is "Sheriff". (If you have trouble understanding this, try reading it aloud. English spelling changed more than its pronunciation since 1576.)
I had heard the phrase before in connection with the Posse Comitatus Act of U.S. law. This law, passed in 1878, is intended to prohibit the use of the U.S. armed forces as Posse Comitatus—that is, as civilian law enforcement. Here the use is obviously Latin, and I hadn't connected it before with the sheriff's posse. But they are one and the same.
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Etymological oddity
Consider pen and pencil.
Pen is from French penne, a long feather or quill pen, akin to Italian penne (the hollow, ribbed pasta), and ultimately to the word feather itself.
Pencil is from French pincel, a paintbrush, from Latin peniculus, also a brush, from penis, a tail, which is also the source of the English word penis.
A couple of weeks ago someone edited the Wikipedia article on "false cognates" to point out that day and diary are not cognate. "No way," I said, "it's some dumbass putting dumbassery into Wikipedia again." But when I checked the big dictionary, I found that it was true. They are totally unrelated. Diary is akin to Spanish dia, Latin dies, and other similar words, as one would expect. Day, however, is "In no way related to L. dies..." and is akin to Sanskrit dah = "to burn", Lithuania sagas = "hot season", and so forth.
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Bone names
The fibula is the small bone in the lower leg; it's named for the Latin fibula, which is a kind of Roman safety pin. The other leg bone, the tibia, is much bigger; that's the frame of the pin, and the fibula makes the thin sharp part.
"Pelvis" is Latin for "basin". The pelvis is made of four bones: the sacrum, the coccyx, and the left and right os innominata. Sacrum is short for os sacrum, "the sacred bone", but I don't know why it was called that. Coccyx is a cuckoo bird, because it looks like a cuckoo's beak. Os innominatum means "nameless bone": they gave up on the name because it doesn't look like anything. (See illustration to right.)
Some of the nondescriptive names are descriptive in Latin, but not in English. The vertebra in English are so called after Latin vertebra, which means the vertebra. But the Latin word is ultimately from the verb vertere, which means to turn. (Like in "avert" ("turn away") and "revert" ("turn back").) The jawbone, or "mandible", is so-called after mandibula, which means "mandible". But the Latin word is ultimately from mandere, which means to chew.
The cranium is Greek, not Latin; kranion (or κρανιον, I suppose) is Greek for "skull". Sternum, the breastbone, is Greek for "chest"; carpus, the wrist, is Greek for "wrist"; tarsus, the ankle, is Greek for "instep". The zygomatic bone of the face is yoke-shaped; ζυγος ("zugos") is Greek for "yoke".
The hyoid bone is the only bone that is not attached to any other bone. (It's located in the throat, and supports the base of the tongue.) It's called the "hyoid" bone because it's shaped like the letter "U". This used to puzzle me, but the way to understand this is to think of it as the "U-oid" bone, which makes sense, and then to remember two things. First, that classical words beginning in "u" often acquire an initial "h" when they come into English, as "humerus". And second, classical Greek "u" always turns into "y" in Latin. You can see this if you look at the shape of the Greek letter capital upsilon, which looks like this: Υ. Greek αβυσσος ("abussos" = "without a bottom") becomes English "abyss"; Greek ανωνυμος ("anonumos") becomes English "anonymous"; Greek υπος ("hupos"; there's supposed to be a diacritical mark on the υ indicating the "h-" sound, but I don't know how to type it) becomes "hypo-" in words like "hypothermia" and "hypodermic". So "U-oid" becomes "hy-oid".
(Other parts of the body named for letters of the alphabet are the sigmoid ("S-shaped") flexure of the colon and the deltoid ("Δ-shaped") muscle in the arm. The optic chiasm is the place in the head where the optic nerves cross; "chiasm" is Greek for a crossing-place, and is so-called after the Greek letter Χ.)
The German word for "auditory ossicles" is Gehörknöchelchen. Gehör is "for hearing". Knöchen is "bones"; Knöchelchen is "little bones". So the German word, like the Latin phrase "auditory ossicles", means "little bones for hearing".
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Naomi Wolf and Big Ethel
Judging from a search on Amazon, the only time Ethel is mentioned is in the context of noting that an attractive woman is often paired with an unattractive one: "... Veronica and Ethel in Riverdale; ... and so forth. Male culture seems happiest to imagine two women together when they are defined as being one winner and one loser in the beauty myth." (59f)I still question the aptness of the example, since, again, the principal case in which two women are imagined together in Archie comics is not Veronica and Ethel, but Veronica and Betty, both of whom are portrayed as "winners". Betty and Veronica are major characters; Ethel is not. But the error isn't nearly as serious as the one I said Wolf had made.
The most serious error here is mine: I should have considered and discussed the possibility that my friend was misquoting Wolf. That I didn't do this was unfair to Wolf and entirely my fault. Since I haven't read the book myself, I should have realized what shaky ground I was on, and taken pains to point this out. And yet other possibilities are:
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On saying too much, or, bad things come in threes
I had been nodding and agreeing up to that point. But at the mention of Big Ethel I was quite startled, and said that that spoiled the argument for me, and made me doubt the conclusion. I now had doubts about what had seemed so plausible a moment before.
Veronica is indeed one half of a contrasting pair in Archie comics. But Veronica and Big Ethel? No. Veronica is not complementary to Big Ethel. The counterpart of Veronica is Betty. The contrast is not between beauty and brains but between rich and poor, and between their derived properties, spoiled and sweet. A good point could be made about Veronica and Betty, but it was not the point that Wolf wanted to make; her citation of Veronica and Big Ethel as exemplifying the opposition of beauty and intelligence was just bizarre. Big Ethel, to my knowledge, has never been portrayed as unusually intelligent. She is characterized by homeliness and by her embarrassing and unrequited attraction to Jughead, not by intelligence.
Why would this make me doubt the conclusion of Wolf's argument? Because I had been fully ready to believe the conclusion, that our culture manufactures a division between attractiveness and intelligence for women, and makes them choose one or the other. I had imagined that it would be easy to produce examples demonstrating the point. But the example Wolf chose was completely inept. And, as I said at the time, "Naomi Wolf is very smart, and has studied this closely and thought about it for a long time. If that is the best example that she can come up with, then perhaps I'm wrong, and there really aren't as many examples as I thought there would be." Without the example, I would have agreed with the conclusion. With the example, intended to support the conclusion, I wasn't so sure.
Now, I come to the real point of this note. Paul Vallely has written an article for The Independent on "How Islamic inventors changed the world". He lists twenty of the most influential contributions of the Muslim world, including the discovery of coffee, inoculation, and the fountain pen. I am not so clear on the history of the technology here. Some of it I know is correct; some is plausible; some is extremely dubious. (The crank, not invented before 1206? Please.) But the whole article is spoiled for me, except as a topic of derision, because of three errors.
Item #1 concerns the discovery of the coffee bean. One might expect this to have been discovered in prehistoric times by local Ethiopians, long before the founding of Islam. But I'm in no position to argue with it, and I was ready to give Vallely the benefit of the doubt.
Item #2 on Vallely's list was more worrying. It says "Ibn al-Haitham....set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room)." It may or may not be true that "qamara" is an "Arab word" (by which I suppose Vallely means an "Arabic word") for "chamber", but it is certainly true that this word, if it exists, is not the source of the English word "camera". I don't know from "qamara", but "camera obscura" is Latin for "dark chamber". "Camera" means "chamber" in Latin and has for thousands of years. The two words, in fact, are etymologically the same, which is why they have almost the same spelling. It is for this reason that the part of a legal hearing held in the judge's private chambers is said to be "in camera".
There might be an Arabic word "qamara", for all I know. If there is, it might be derived from the Latin. (The Latin word is not derived from Arabic, either; it is from Greek καμαρα, which refers to anything with an arched cover.) Two things are sure: The English word "camera" is not derived from Arabic, and Vallely did not bother to pick up a dictionary before he said that it was.
Anyone can make a mistake. But I started to get excited when I read item 3, which is about the game of chess. Vallely says "The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot." This is true, sort of, but it is off in a subtle way. The rooks or castles of modern chess did start out as chariots. (Moving castles around never did make much sense.) And "rook" is indeed from Persian rukh. But rukh doesn't exactly mean a chariot. It means a chariot in the game of chess. The Persian word for a chariot outside of chess was different. (I don't remember what it was.) Saying that rukh is the Persian word for chariot is like saying that "rook" is the English word for castle.
I was only on item 3 and had already encountered one serious error of etymology and one other item which although it wasn't exactly an error, was peculiar. I considered that I wouldn't really have enough material for a blog post, unless Vallely made at least one more serious mistake. But there were still 17 of 20 items left. So I read on. Would Vallely escape?
No, or I would not have written this article. Item 17 says "The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered...". But no. The correct etymology is fascinating and bizarre. "Cheque" is derived from Norman French "exchequer", which was roughly the equivalent of the treasury and internal revenue department in England starting around 1300. Why was the internal revenue department called the exchequer? Because it was named after the chessboard, which was also called "exchequer".
What do chessboards have to do with internal revenue? Ah, I am glad you wondered. Hindu-Arabic numerals had not yet become popular in Europe; numbers were still recorded using Roman numerals. It is extremely difficult to calculate efficiently with Roman numerals. How, then did the internal revenue department calculate taxes owed and amounts payable?
They used an abacus. But it wasn't an abacus like modern Chinese or Japanese abacuses, with beads strung on wires. A medieval European abacus was a table with a raised edge and a grid of squares ruled on it. The columns of squares represented ones, tens, hundreds, and so on. You would put metal counters, called jettons, on the squares to represent numbers. Three jettons on a "hundred" square represented three hundred; four jettons on the square to its right represented forty. Each row of squares recorded a separate numeral. To add two numerals together, just take the jettons from one row, move them to the other row, and then resolve the carrying appropriately: Ten jettons on a square can be removed and replaced with a single jetton on the square to the left.
The internal revenue department, the "exchequer", got its name from these counting-boards covered with ruled squares like chessboards.
(The word "exchequer" meaning a chessboard was derived directly from the name of the game: Old French eschecs, Medieval Latin scacci, and so on, all from shah, which means "king" in Persian. The word "checkered" is also closely related.)
So, in summary: the game is "chess", or eschek in French; the board is therefore exchequer, and since the counting-tables of the treasury department look like chessboards, the treasury department itself becomes known as the exchequer. The treasury department, like all treasury departments, issues notes promising to pay certain sums at certain times, and these notes are called "exchequer notes" or just "exchequers", later shortened (by the English) to "cheques" or (by Americans) to "checks". Arabic saqq, if there is such a word, does not come into it. Once again, it is clear that Vallely's research was shoddy.
While I was writing up this article, yet another serious error came to light. Item 11 says "The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph...". Now, I am not very knowledgeable about history, and my historical education is very poor. But that was so peculiar that it startled even me. 634 seemed to me much too early for any clever inventions to be attributed to Muslims. Then I looked it up, and so it was. Muhammad himself had only died in 632.
As for the Persian caliph Vallely mentions, he did not exist. The caliphs are the successors of Muhammad, so of course there was one in 634---the first one, in fact. Abu Bakr reigned from the death of the Prophet in 632 until his own death in 634; he was succeeded by `Umar. Neither was Persian. They were both Arabs, as you would expect of Muslim leaders in 634. There were no Persian caliphs in 634.
My own ignorance of Islam and its history is vast and deep, but at least I had a vague idea that 634 was extremely early. Vallely could have looked up the date of the founding of the caliphate as easily as I did. Why didn't he? Well, perhaps it was just a typo, and should have said 834 or 934. In that case it's just poor editing and inattention. But perhaps it was a genuine factual error, in which case Vallely was not only not paying attention, but is apparently even less familiar with Islamic history than I am, difficult as that is to achieve. In which case we have this article about the twenty greatest contributions of Islam written by a guy who literally does not know the first thing about Islam.
And so this article, which I hoped to enjoy, was spoiled by a series of errors. I am very sympathetic to the idea that the brilliant history of Islamic science and engineering has been neglected by European scholarship. One of my very first blog posts was about the Islamic use of algebra to solve complex probate problems. Just last week I was reading about al-Biruni's invention, around 1000 years ago, of an improved method for measuring the size of the earth, a topic that Vallely treats as item 18. But after reading Vallely's article, I worried a bit that the case might have been overstated. Perhaps the contributions of Muslims are not as large as I had thought?
Fortunately, there was an alternative: the conclusion is correct, and the inept support from the author speaks only to the author's ineptness, not to the validity of the conclusion. I did not have that alternative with Naomi Wolf, who is not inept. (Also, see this addendum.)
With only cursory attention, I found three major errors of fact in this one short article. How many more did I miss, I wonder? Did Abbas ibn Firnas really invent a working parachute, as Vallely says? Maybe it was someone else. Maybe there was no parachute. Maybe there was, but it didn't work. Maybe the whole thing is a propaganda invention by someone who wants to promote Islam, and has suckered Vallely into repeating fiction. Maybe all of these. Someone knows the truth, but it isn't me, and I can't trust Vallely.
Were the Turks vaccinating people eighty years before the Europeans, or did Vallely swallow a tall tale? I don't know, and I can't trust Vallely.
People sometimes joke "I am stupider for having read this," but I really believe this was the case here. The article is worse than useless, because it has polluted my brain with a lot of unreliable non-information. I will have to be careful not to think that quilted fabrics were first brought to Europe by the crusaders, who got them from the Muslims. My real fear is that the "fact" will remain in my brain for years, long after I have forgotten how unreliable Vallely is, and that I will bring it out again as real information, which it is not. True or not, it is too unreliable to be information.
The best I can hope for now is that I will forget everything Vallely says, and meet the true parts again somewhere else in the future. In the meantime, I am worse off for having read it.
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Petard corrections
It appears, though, that many people do use the name pets de soeurs to refer to these fritters, and some people also use it to refer to a kind of soda-raised cinnamon roll. Citations to various cookbooks are available through the usual searches.
Eric also points out that petard is the current word for a firecracker, and also now refers to a doobie. I was already aware of this because pictures of those things appeared when I did Google image seach for petard. Thank you, Eric.
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Another fart-related word is "partridge", so named because its call sounds like a fart.
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Fish advisories and guidelines Recreational shellfish advisories and guidlines
Advisories are designed to help you gain the health benefits of eating fish and shellfish while protecting you and your family from contaminants sometimes found in seafood.
Consumption guidelines provide recommendations for when you should limit or avoid eating certain fish or shellfish to reduce your exposure to chemicals like mercury, PCBs and other contaminants. The key is to make smart choices and choose fish and shellfish that are low in contaminants. In general, younger, smaller fish have fewer contaminants.
Screening values for chemical contaminants in fish tissue
Standard Operating Guidance used to calculate meal recommendations
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Select a region on the map or check the table below for Oregon fish advisories and consumption guidelines. NOTE: There is a statewide advisory for bass.
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"Resident" fish spend their entire lives within a certain territory, and do not migrate."Migratory" fish such as salmon, steelhead, shad and lamprey, spend most of their lives at sea, and contain less localized contaminants. In general, smaller, younger fish have fewer contaminants.
Follow these fish cleaning guidelines to reduce your exposure to PCBs and other fat-soluble contaminants.
What is a meal?
A meal is about the size and thickness of your hand, or 1 ounce of uncooked fish for every 20 pounds of body weight.
Mercury and PCBs accumulate in our bodies over time and are passed on to developing fetuses through the placenta. Children's brains go through extraordinary development in the womb and during the first six years of life. Mercury and PCBs can interfere with normal brain development and cause lifelong learning disabilities. PCBs can also cause cancer in children and adults.
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Siphon skin removed: 11
Siphon skin intact: 2
Siphon skin removed: 26
Siphon skin intact: 4
Siphon skin removed: 33
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Sacred siSTAR Space Membership Programme
Sacred siSTAR Space membership programme has been created due to the urgency for women to step into their true feminine power. We have been living in a very patriarchal world for centuries, this has brought about the demise of the power of wombman.
Most women are not functioning as powerfully as they were created to be. Our sexuality and sensuality have been tarnished in so many ways. Our naturally intuitive and divine nature has been proclaimed as paranoia and anxiety to the extent that many have been given medication to numb down this goddess state.
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THE decision to close the Golden Square pool could be up for review, with one councillor labelling the lack of consultation with residents "outrageous" and an "absolute embarrassment".
A 5-4 vote from councillors sealed the fate of the pool at last week's council meeting, despite a petition to save it gaining more than 1800 signatures.
Councillors Peter Cox and Elise Chapman – who both voted to maintain the pool – have worked together to come up with a revised motion looking at whether the decision process included enough consultation.
Cr Cox said the recision motion, which will be put before the council this week, would focus on the process leading up to the decision to have the pool closed.
"I want the decision to be reviewed," he said.
"One of the grounds that I'm suggesting is that we haven't consulted enough with the Golden Square community."
Cr Elise Chapman backed the call and said she was ashamed at the way the council had treated local residents.
After a one hour debate at last week's meeting, including a failed motion to spend $50,000 on mediation with the Save Our Golden Square Pool group, a motion to permanently close and demolish the pool was passed.
Cr Chapman said she was disappointed with the outcome and said she was "embarrassed by the whole process."
"If you were mega-religious and the church that you'd been going to for years was suddenly just shut and the council said 'boo hoo, bad luck'.
"How would you feel?"
Cr Cox said any recision motion would concentrate on a formal consultation process.
"I'm not saying one way, open it or close it. I'm saying the council is committed to consulting with residents.
"People need to be heard and we should have procedures in place."
Councillor Barry Lyons said the consultation process was as open as it could possibly be with a frank dialogue.
Crs Chapman, Cox, Fyffe and Leach voted against the closure in favour of mediation.
ELECTED: Members of the Save the Golden Square Swimming Pool group vote for the committee members during last night's meeting. Picture: JIM ALDERSEY
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1. Re: Add Company Logo in all Worksheetsangie.connell.0 Dec 19, 2016 2:02 PM (in response to Shivi Bhatia)
Hi Shivi,
Did you already try to approach in these articles? It's hard to say without seeing your workbook, but I suspect these will help you accomplish what you need
Use background images in your views
Then if the image is distorted, or problems persist, this article will likely be helpful.
Resolving Issues with Background Images | Tableau Software
Thank you for using Tableau!
2. Re: Add Company Logo in all WorksheetsShivi Bhatia Dec 19, 2016 7:00 PM (in response to angie.connell.0)
Hi Angie,
Thanks for the revert. but this is not i am looking for.
For instance: i am analyzing call pattern for the last 3 months i need to show the analysis in say bar charts or a table calculation.
I need to add my company logo on each page. The link you have shared does not allow me to do that, i simply will need to work on the image i imported as per the link shared.
3. Re: Add Company Logo in all WorksheetsSankarmagesh Rajan Dec 19, 2016 10:18 PM (in response to Shivi Bhatia)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Hi Shivi,
we unable to add Image as logo with bar chart in each sheet. Please create sheets first and add it into dashboard.
select image object and select floating option as well. Drag image in each sheet title and fit it.
Do the same in all sheets.
4. Re: Add Company Logo in all WorksheetsShivi Bhatia Dec 20, 2016 9:30 AM (in response to Sankarmagesh Rajan)
Thank you Sankarmagesh Rajan. So we only can add a logo in a dashboard and not on specific sheets.
5. Re: Add Company Logo in all WorksheetsSankarmagesh Rajan Dec 20, 2016 10:35 PM (in response to Shivi Bhatia)
hi Shivi,
Yes. We can add image in dashboard is goodway.
6. Re: Add Company Logo in all Worksheetsvasudha.sripuram.0 Jul 13, 2017 1:39 PM (in response to Shivi Bhatia)
I am having the same requirement. Add logo on each worksheet. I tried image formulae with shape but I am not able to add any additional Bars or charts to the worksheet. Did you ever find a way we can add logo to the worksheet?


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RSA 2010: Cool card trick and money trick
David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco.
I always enjoy good magic tricks and right next to the Tripwire booth was a magician, Randy Bernstein, doing some tricks in the Narus booth. Take a look at this cool visual trick with the side of a deck of cards. I had never seen anything like that before.
And I really enjoyed this money trick as well.
Check out more of Tripwire's coverage from the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco.


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I've talked about The Front Art Gallery in San Ysidro and some of the fabulous artists in National City and Imperial Beach. Chula Vista also has its award winning artists and–interestingly enough–some of them live on sailboats at the Chula Vista Bayfront.
They not only create wonderful art in different mediums, but Chula Vista artists have come together to form the South Bayfront Artists, a collaborative. Together, they present their work at events and festivals. You can also go see their gallery along the bayfront.
They are an eclectic group who work in photography, traditional oil, watercolor, sculpture, woodwork, jewelry and textiles. They also mentor young and emerging artists. Best of all, they have partnered with the South Bayfront Sailing Association to bring old ships, visual artists and the community together.
But before I tell you more, I should introduce you to a few of the artists and their works:
Katarzyna Lappin
The award winning artist Katarzyna Lappin is an oil painter living in Chula Vista. She was born in Poland and started painting at the age of 23. She went on to study the techniques of the 17th century Dutch masters and received instruction from professional artists as well as art restorers. She especially likes to use vibrant colors with strong light and shadows. She also has published a book of 20 paintings depicting Chula Vista.
Pete Enyeart
Pete Enyeart was born in San Diego and spent most of his life on the beaches of San Diego and Baja California where he fished, surfed and sailed. His father was a tuna fisherman and he became a landscaper by trade, but as a teen worked at a SD head shop where he made silk-screened posters for the store. After that, he started a silk-screen t-shirt and sign business and eventually developed a love for painting. He started with watercolors and acrylics. He then moved to oils.
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Other South Bayfront Artists
Other great Chula Vista artists include Arlene Cheng who crafts jewelry, mosaics and fabrics. She also lives on a boat full-time. Michael Norton, a helicopter pilot from Arizona and Petar Barbaros, a self-taught artists from Croatia, both live on boats in the marina and work in oils and watercolors. Jimmy Whitson, a sculptor and photographer, has a series of bronze castings in the gallery now and they will have his photos on display in October 2015.
South Bayfront Artists rotates its gallery selections regularly, so you'll have to go often in order to enjoy the art. Also, make sure to ask about the artists who work in wood:
The Founders: Don and Susan Johnson
Don Johnson is the President of both the South Bayfront Artists cooperative and the Southbay Sailing Asssociation. Although Don is the President, Susan says she's the one who does everything, as a goodly wife should, after all. Nowadays, she and Don live in a home in Chula Vista, but they lived on a sailboat at the Bayfront for ten years.
Susan was originally from North Carolina, then went to Florida and came to Chula Vista in 1990 because she found work here. The bayfront had just opened and she began by babysitting her cousin's boat. She then had a power boat, which she planned to trade for a sailboat and sail to Australia. She was supposed to be in Chula Vista for one year.
Then, she met Don who lived in a small sailboat on the other side of the bayfront at a different dock. (That sailboat still exists in their backyard.) A jack-of-all-trades, Don began art school at the age of eight. You heard right. He was originally from Nogales, Arizona. His family bought a cotton gin on the other side of the border, in Mexico, and they spent most of their time there, so his mother started homeschooling Don. He was getting into too much stuff, so his mother enrolled him in the local art school. That began his long-term love of painting.
Later, Don started working in Albuquerque and then came to Chula Vista for better job opportunities. He worked for the City of Chula Vista for many years in the HUD and low income housing programs.
Together, Don and Susan founded the South Bayfront Artists. The artist cooperative began in 2010 during a time when there was no organization for artists in Chula Vista. Fortuitously, the marina had an empty Mariner's Lounge and Don asked if they could use it as a gallery. They said yes.
It was suppose to be a month and it ended up being a year and a half. They had 50 artists that were showing. Their membership rose to about 120. "The rule was: you join us, we hang your work, if it sells, you keep the money. We were a true co-op," Susan says.
Then, the marina wanted the organization to start paying rent, but they didn't have the money, so they had to close down. Many of the artists left the cooperative. It was only in October 2014 that Ken Cornwall, owner of Cay's Yacht Brokerage, who was using a kiosk-looking office space along the bayfront, planned to retire. He told Don and Susan to snag it. They opened the small space as an office for their sailing association and their artists cooperative.
They then bought the Bill of Rights schooner in 2013. "The mission for the sailing association has a big art component," Susan says.
Anyone can come and stroll around the gallery from 10am to 4pm daily.
You can also receive a free tour of their boat, The Bill of Rights. (More on that in an upcoming post.)
Their Gallery is located at: 550 Marina Parkway E2-62, Chula Vista, CA 91910


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Thanks to the fact that it contains a number of useful substances, the banana peel undoubtedly possesses healing properties. It allows us to preserve the body during depression, to improve the sleep, to lower the level of bad cholesterol, to strengthen the cardiovascular system, to lose weight and to dispose the waste.
There are many recipes, but I would recommend a helpful and very tasty potion that can cure the entire organism.
The author of the banana peel drink is Academician Bolotov. In his opinion, such a drink is an effective remedy of preventing oncological diseases. I add that this drink gives power and energy to everyone, without exception, personally checked!
Clean the banana. Wash the peel well with a brush, then dry it and finely chop it. Two or three tablespoons of the chopped banana peel put in a three-liter jar, and then put a boiled cooled water to the top. Add a glass of sugar and a tablespoon of sour cream, all mix it well. Cover it with gauze and let it stand for two weeks at room temperature, in a dark place. Stir once or twice a day.
When the drink is ready, drain it in another container. And in the jar you pour the same amount of boiled water. You can drink the draind potion (the liquid from the jar will "come again"). So you can rinse water until the drink loses its taste: sweetness, sharpness … In that case, make a new serving.
Keep the drink in the refrigerator. Drink half a cup three or four times a day. And in the afternoon, hour before meals. Although you can take it whenever you want, I advise you not to overdo it. Drink for a month. Then pause a mounth.
Contraindications: diabetes, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, acute leukemia.


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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – The Yellow Jackets' women's basketball team's six-game winning streak came to an end on Friday afternoon on the opening day of the Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic. Defiance's 15-point first half derailed the Jackets' hopes of extending the streak to seven games, as the Purple and Gold lost to the tournament host, Wittenberg, by a score of 62-44.
The game began with both teams trying to get into a rhythm after over a week long break, as DC had a one-point lead at 7-6 after a Megan Zachrich jumper five minutes into the contest. After Wittenberg went up by three at 13-10, the Jackets quickly responded with five straight points of their own with eight minutes remaining in the opening stanza.
Then Defiance went ice-cold from the field. In the remaining eight minutes of the half the Purple and Gold were unable to put together any type of offensive flow and did not convert a field goal while turning the ball over eight times during the stretch. The Tigers capitalized on the Jackets' inability to score and closed the half on a 16-0 run to go into the break with a 29-15 lead.
The 15 points is the lowest halftime total for the Jackets this season. Free throw shooting and turnovers told the story of the first half, as Defiance was 0-2 from the line and recorded 18 turnovers while Wittenberg went 11-16 from the charity stripe and only gave the ball away eight times.
Unfortunately for DC, the second half began much like the first ended. Wittenberg broke the game open early in the final period by scoring 17 of the first19 points of the half to grab a commanding 46-17 lead that it would never relinquish. The Tigers lead would not fall below 17 the remainder of the contest, as Wittenberg won by a final of 62-44.
For the first time all season, no member of Defiance recorded double figures in scoring, as Kim Bingley led the team in points with nine and rebounding with eight boards.
With the loss, DC's season record drops to 6-4. The Jackets are back in action Saturday, December 29 for the consolation matchup against Albion at 12:00 p.m.