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October News!
I am honored and thrilled to have been juried in as a Master Artist at Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA. This is really exciting news since I am fortunate to also have two paintings accepted into the Pastel Painters of Maine and one to the Pastel Society of New Hampshire 2016 National Juried Exhibits! Thank you jurors and jury committees!
*September News*
What a great summer it's been! I've been so fortunate to have had work accepted into just about every juried exhibit I've entered. And I was also lucky enough to have won two first prize in pastel awards at both the 2016 South Shore Arts Festival in Cohasset and The 2016 National Open Juried Exhibit Cape Cod Art Association and a third prize at the 2016 Scituate Art Association Juried Show. Three pastels are on exhibit at the Cahoon Museum of Contemporary Art as past of "Contemporary Pastel: Cape Cod Landscape exhibit through October. I have also been selected as one of the Jurors of Acceptance and Awards for the Plymouth Center for the Arts 49th Annual Juried Art Show. My pastel classes at both North River Arts Society and South Shore Art Center are filled and we are having a great time together!
I was contacted by Dakota Art Pastels and they have posted some of my paintings on their Facebook page! Very exciting to be recognized by one of the leaders in the pastel industry! Check it out here:
Well, it's been a long time, but I'm finally back on track. In addition to a partially torn rotator cuff and a fractured patella, my latest issue was two broken fingers and about 20 stitches on my right hand, which is of course my painting hand!Things are all good and I've finally started painting again. During the past year, I Have been fortunate to have had several pastels accepted into National and Regional Exhibits and have sold a few paintings as well. In June at the IAPS Convention I was awarded my Masters Circle Award! It was such an honor to be with all the other wonderful artists who also received this prestigious award! I was also asked by my great friends Terry and Marie Ludwig to create some paintings to advertise the new Terry Ludwig Sunrise/Sunset 60 piece pastel set! That was very exciting! January 2016 started off great with the acceptance of "Late March Sky" into the Duxbury Art Association 2016 Winter Juried Show and was awarded an Honorable Mention Award. In addition, "Low Tide Reflections" and "The Grand Finale" were accepted into the Hull Lifesaving Museum "Sea and Sky" Juried Exhibit.
I am fortunate to have several paintings accepted to national and local shows!
Two paintings, "Late March Sky" and "Marsh Rhythms, #2" were accepted into the Pastel Painters of Maine 15th International Exhibit. It will be held Saco Museum, May 17-June 14, 2014.
"Late Afternoon Sun" has been juried into the Academic Artists Association 64th Annual National Exhibition at the Vernon Community Art Center, Vernon, CT from April 6-26th.
"Looking East" has been juried into the 2014 Northeast National Pastel Exhibition at View Art Center, Old Forge, NY, June 28-August 3, 2014
"Winter Shadows Revisited" has been accepted and awarded Third Prize in Pastel at the Scituate Art Association Annual Juried Show, which will be at the Scituate Art Association, Scituate, MA, April 1-27, 2014
I'm getting very excited about my upcoming workshop at Terry Ludwig's! It runs April 11-13 from 9-4. It is almost filled and I'll be heading out to Denver soon. I am really looking forward to teaching beginner and intermediate students and getting them "addicted" to pastels!
*Pastel Basics and Beyond Workshop in Denver!*
Donna Rossetti-Bailey
April 11-13, 2014
Cost: $295
If you have ever wanted to learn more about pastel painting, this is the class for you!
Donna will begin by reviewing pastel basics including discussion of the different types of pastels, the many different surfaces and techniques available for pastel painting. The focus will be on drawing and composition, value studies, color information, how to create a painting from start to finish. Students will receive a lot of instruction on the process of working with pastels. This is a studio class and the class will work with both some still life and landscape inspirations.
Returning students are welcome and everyone will receive generous attention at the easel. Donnas pastel classes are always high energy and fun with plenty of supportive one-on-one instruction. Come join us and discover your passion for pastel painting!!
Donna Rossetti-Bailey is a member of: Connecticut Pastel Society, Pastel Painters of Cape Cod, Pastel Painters of Maine, Pastel Society of America Juried Associate, American Artists Professional League, Cape Cod Art Association, South Shore Art Center, Plymouth Guild for the Arts, Academic Artists Association. She also appears in 2010 Best of America Pastel Artists, Volume II.
To register contact Donna at email@example.com or (781) 834-6820.
To see more of Donna work: donnarossetti-bailey.com
I'm sure you can all relate to the curve balls life throws at us and how things get put on the back burner because other things take priority. The last couple of years have been like that for me, including moving from our home of 30 years and dealing with all that "stuff", family issues, and just recently fracturing a vertebrae in my back, which really stopped me in my tracks. My new mantra is this great quote: "Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference." I am almost back to my regular teaching and daily schedule, so now I will be posting news on a regular basis. Stay tuned!
National Workshop: September 23-25, at Terry Ludwig Studio, Denver, CO
Pastels and Beyond
If you have ever wanted to learn more about pastel painting, this is the class for you!
Donna will be teaching a national workshop at Terry Ludwig Studios in Dever, September 23-25, 2011. The workshkop will begin by reviewing the pastel basics, including discussion of different types of pastels, and the many different surfaces and techniqes available for pastel painitng. The following two days will focus on drawing and composition, value sudies, color information, and how to create a painting from start to finish. There will be lots of advice and encouragemnt in this studio class. Donna will also include specific lessons on skies and water. The hours are 9:00am-4:00pm, and the tuition is $295.00 for the three day session.
Please contact Donna at firstname.lastname@example.com or Terry Ludwig pastels email@example.com for for further information.
*News August 2011*
August 2011
Donna Rossetti-Bailey, of Marshfield, MA was awarded
Third Prize in Pastel
for her painting Fall on the River at the Duxbury Midsummer Show. Donna has also had paintings juried into two national exhibits: Late Afternoon Sun will be part of The Connecticut Pastel Societys Renaissance in Pastel 2011 at the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, September 30-November 13. Morning at Kresgee's Rocks and Path at Worlds End will be on exhibit September 10-October 30 in Portsmouth, NH as part of The Pastel Society of NH Its Pastel 2011 show.
Donna will be returning to teach another national workshop at Terry Ludwigs pastel studio in Denver, CO, September 2011. She is also scheduled to teach a workshop in New Hampshire, along with demonstrations and her regular teaching schedule of pastel classes for the coming year, held Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Feel free to contact her for more information at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com .
Donna has been invited to teach her first
National Workshop: Introduction to Pastels: A-Z
Terry Ludwigs Pastel Studio
in Denver August 13-15, 2010. Further information will be available soon at www.terryludwig.com.
She will also be teaching a weekend workshop in March for the
Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Painting Night Scenes.
Please contact www.pastelpainterssocietyofcapecod.com for more information.
Demonstrations for 2010 include the Foxboro Art Association in April and the Yarmouth Art Guild next fall. Donna will continue to teach pastel classes on the South Shore during 2010.
*NEWS - January 2010*
Donna is one of the featured artists at
The Seasoned Palette
Exhibit that will run through the month of January at the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, MA.Three of her marsh series paintings are included. Contact www.ncfta.org. for information.
"Last light at Chadler's Bog"
was juried into the
15th International Association of Pastel Societies Exhibit at the City of Brea Gallery
in Brea, CA. This show will run through March 5, 2010 and includes 100 soft pastel paintings from around the world.See www.breagallery.com for further information.
Donna's pastel paintings are featured in the Kennedy Publications
Best of America Pastel II
, a collection of work from the top pastel artists from across the coutry, which is now available at www.bestofartists.com.
She has won the
Cheap Joes Art Supply Award
at the Juried National Show of The Pastel Society of New Hampshire, which was juried by Bob Rohm, for her soft pastel painting
Marsh Ribbon
Donna was a featured demonstrator in October at the Fresh Paint sessions, sponsored by the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod at their Annual Members Exhibit.
*"NEWS - September 2009"*
Donna has recently had her soft pastel paintings juried into several national and international exhibits.
Last Light at Chandlers Bog was selected for the Renaissance in Pastel 2009 16th Annual National Exhibition, sponsored by the Connecticut Pastel Society. It will be held at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, October 2 - October 25, 2009. Bridge Street Reflections and Marsh Ribbon will be on exhibit in Its Pastel! Juried National Show of The Pastel Society of New Hampshire, September 19 - October 19 at the Portsmouth Center Gallery, Portsmouth, NH. In addition, Donnas piece Heading In has been juried into the Richeson 75: International Landscape, Seascape and Architectural Art Competition 2009 Exhibition. This painting, along with Pink Sky Reflections and Worlds End Trees will also be published in the Richeson 2009 Exhibit Book. Donna has also had a piece chosen for the International Association of Pastel Societies 14th Exhibition 2009 Web Show, which will be on the IAPS website: www.pastelinternational.com this fall. Donnas pastel paintings will be featured in the Kennedy Publications Best of America Pastel II, which is currently being published and will be available in late 2009.
July 2009 News
Donna Rossetti-Bailey, of Marshfield, MA was accepted as a
Signature Member of the Pastel Painters of Maine
. Achieving Signature status means the artist has demonstrated proficiency in their particular medium and is invited to use the initials of that society after their signature on a piece of artwork. The qualifications to become such a member of the Pastel Painters of Maine require the pastel artist to have had artwork accepted into at least three international juried exhibits sponsored by the Maine organization. Her painting
Heading In
was juried into
Pastels Only
the 10th International Exhibit of the Pastel Painters of Maine, which was held at the Saco Museum in Saco, Maine during the month of June.
Donnas pastel
Last Light at Chandlers Bog
was recently juried into the
Renaissance in Pastel 2009 16th Annual National Exhibition
, sponsored by the Connecticut Pastel Society. It will be held at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT from October 2 October 25, 2009. Currently, Donna and other fellow members of the Arts Committee of North River Arts Society have artwork on exhibit at
AZ Studio Gallery
at Derby Street Shoppes in Hingham, MA. This inaugural show, which includes three of Donnas Italian scenes, will be up and open to the public through the end of August. Donna also had work on exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the month of June. Her pastel painting entitled
Worlds End Trees
was on exhibit at the Ventana Fine Art Gallery at the
International Association of Pastel Societies Annual Juried Show.
Donna has been invited into the
Membership of the Academic Artists of America, Inc.
based in Springfield, MA. She has successfully met the difficult qualification of acceptance in two National Juried Shows, 2007 and 2008. Donnas pastel,
Last Light at Chandler's Bog
has also been accepted in this year's 2009 Academic Artists 59th Annual National Exhibition, which will run from May 1- May 29th at American International College in Springfield, MA.
The View at Round Pond
Almost Fall at Riverside
have been accepted into the 5th Annual Northeast National Pastel Exhibition at Arts Center/Old Forge, NY, which was juried for entry by Maggie Price. Work will be on display June 13- July 12, 2009.
Donna Rossetti-Bailey, of Marshfield, MA has won an
Honorable Mention Award
for her pastel painting,
Pink Sky Reflections
at the 2009 Duxbury Winter Juried Show, which is being held at the Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, through April 26, 2009. She has also won an
Award of Excellence
at the North River Arts Society Members Show* for her pastel painting
Sundown, #2
. In addition, Donna has been selected for Kennedy Publications book,
Best of America Pastel Artists Volume II
, which will feature the work of some of Americas most outstanding pastel artists.
Donna Rossetti-Bailey, of Marshfield, MA has been awarded the
Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod Award
at the NH National Pastel show for her painting,
The View
. * Pink Sky Reflections* has won the
Pastel Society of New Hampshire Award
at the CT Pastel Society Renaissance in Pastel National Exhibit in West Hartford, CT and Walk to the River was a finalist in the North River Arts Association 2010 Calendar Competition.
Marsh River Reflections
has been accepted into the
12th Exhibition Web Show of the International Association of Pastel Societies
, which can be viewed at the IAPS website from October 2008 -April 2009 at www.pastelinternational.com/competitions.
Donnas pastels are being featured at T. Benjamin Fiske Fine Art, 1162 Washington Street, Dorchester Lower Mills, MA. The Lower Mills Holiday Stroll will take place on Thursday, November 13, 6 8pm. Call 617-298-1837 for further information. www.tbenjaminfiske.com.
Please feel free to contact Donna with any questions about her classes, workshops or the
Donna Rossetti-Bailey set of Terry Ludwig Pastels.
Donna has won
First Prize
in Pastel for her painting "
Last Light: Looking Towards Brant Rock
" at the 91st Annual Duxbury Art Association Mid Summer Show. Donna has also won
Honorable Mention Award
for "
Bridge Street Reflections
", at the Plymouth Guild for the Arts 41st Annual Juried Exhibit, which will be held in September.
Donnas soft pastel work has been juried into three National Juried exhibits. CT Pastel Society, NH Pastel Society and the American Artists Professional League in NYC will all have their exhibits this fall.
In addition, Donna is one of five Marshfield artists who will have their work featured as 13 x 13 murals in a permanent exhibit in downtown Marshfield. "
Willowbrook Revisited
" will be unveiled at the Gala opening on September 18th, 2008. She is also one of the featured artists in the North River Arts Society ArtsOn! exhibit opening September 5, 2008 and will participate in Dinner Parties and Conversation with Artists as part of the North River Arts Societys revitalization project.
"Pink Sky Reflections" has been awarded an Honorable Mention at the 32nd Annual North River Festival of the Arts. The Festival takes place May 23-25, 2008 in Marshfield Hills, MA. The juried art exhibit will be on display from May 23- June 1, 2008.
"Rexhame River Path"
has been awarded the Daler-Rowney Award #1 at the 4th Annual Northeast National Pastel Exhibit in Old Forge New York. The Juror of Awards is internatioanlly known pastel artist, Doug Dawson.
Donna's painting,
"The Glades"
, has won First Prize in the Scituate Art Association "Arts Alive!" Juried Show. The exhibit will run April 4 - 13 at The Front Street Art Gallery in Scituate, MA.
Donna is representated by:
Lorica Artworks - Andover MA
T. Benjamin Fiske - Milton, MA
Mulford Gallery - Rockland, ME
Donna teaches pastel classes at the following locations
South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA; (www.ssac.org )
North River Arts Society in Marshfield Hills, MA (www.northriverarts.org)
Marshfield Monday Drop-In Class: $25. per 3.5 hour class - contact: email@example.com
*For information about Pastel and Drawing workshops and Demonstrations for schools and organizations, please contact:
Donna Rossetti-Bailey, of Marshfield, MA has won third prize in the pastel and drawing category in the 34th Annual Duxbury Winter Juried Show for her soft pastel landscape painting,
"Fog Rising"
. The work is on exhibit at the Duxbury Art Complex Museum through April 13, 2008.
"Rexhame River Pines"
, which has been has been accepted into the Fourth Annual Northeast Pastel Exhibition, will be on exhibit from May 10-June 8, 2008,at the Arts Center in Old Forge, NY. She has also had work juried into the 58th Academic Artists Association Annual National Exhibition, which features contemporary realism in art. Donnas pastel,
"Sunlight and Shadows"
will be on exhibit from April 13th - May 16, at American International College in Springfield, MA.
Donna teaches classes in soft pastel for beginning and experienced students at South Shore Art Center, North River Arts Society and in the South Shore area. She also runs workshops for teachers and other artists.
The Donna Rossetti-Bailey Custom Set of Terry Ludwig Pastels is now available
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I had such a great time on my visit back to San Francisco a few weeks ago and I STILL have so much to show you! But I am moving back there this Wednesday...so hang tight, I'll get the stuff up as soon as I am all settled.
To kick off Monday, I want to share with you my visit with Hilary Pecis. Hilary works in mixed media pairing found images with shapes she's drawn in her collaged paintings. Creating sublime landscapes covered in jewels and dripping in luscious drops that may have once graced nail polish adverts in your favorite magazine. Hilary has an incredible eye. It was such a pleasure to hang out her with and see where she works and where she pieces together her beautiful work.
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Mince the meat or finely chop it, (I find it best to chop three quarters of the meat and mince the other quarter. Chop the sage leaves. Mix all the ingredients really well. Pack the meat into the pie dish gently taking care not to damage or make a hole in the pastry. Roll out the reserved quarter of the pastry, wet the edges of the pastry in the tin and place the lid on the top. Trim the edges and crimp to seal and make a pattern. Cut a small round hole in the centre with a very small cutter, this lets the steam out and will later be useful for putting in the jelly.
Egg wash the top and cook the pie at 190 C /gas mark 5 (180 C for fan assisted ovens) for 40 minutes then reduce the oven to 180 C / gas mark 4 (160 for fan assisted) for a further 50 – 65 minutes. Check with a skewer, through the hole in the centre that the meat is done. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
If you want to fill the spaces in the pie with jelly, make up ½ pint of chicken stock with boiling water and melt into it 2 leaves of gelatine. Pour through the centre hole while the pie is still warm. Chill in the refrigerator overnight.
100g lard
100g butter
200 ml water
550g plain flour
2 eggs
1 kg lean shoulder of pork
175g fresh white bread crumbs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
A combination of some or all of the following ground spices:
Allspice, nutmeg, juniper, coriander (seed)
24 sage leaves
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Rick Buttari will be showing new paintings for the month of September and F.A.N. Gallery.
We got the chance to ask him a few questions about his work.
Rick Buttari will be showing new paintings for the month of September and F.A.N. Gallery.
We got the chance to ask him a few questions about his work.
I actually think that the most challenging part of painting figures is creating the atmosphere around them. Of course you want to be able to draw them well, but with enough practice that's achievable. They can teach that in art school. What they can't teach is, what's inside you that's different from the next painter? What do you paint when you stop imitating painters you admire? That's something you can only figure out by spending a lot of time in front of your easel. I'm still working on that.
Do you have a creative habit? How do you shape your art making practice to nurture your work?
Now that the good weather is here again, I hope to get outside and paint landscapes for a change, because although I do a lot of work from photos, I actually prefer working from life. I try to get some of the energy of plein air in my studio work.
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We are excited to show the work of so many of our wonderful artists this month. The show includes works by Gregory Prestegord, Serge Zhukov, Jesse J. Gardner, Charles Newman and Joshua Koffman. Also new paintings by Claire Haik, Kate Kern Mundie, Neil Berger, and David Bottini.
The show features figurative sculpture by Joshua Koffman. Urban landscapes by Neil Berger, Kate Kern Mundie, Jesse J. Gardner, and Gregory Prestegord. Winter landscape by Serge Zhukov. Still life and landscape paintings by Charles Newman. Rural landscapes by David Bottini and Claire Haik.
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Tezh Modarressi's latest exhibition at F.A.N. Gallery, "Now You See It. . . " (as in . . . and now you don't) represents two years of work, painting in oil and encaustic on wood. Buildings, vehicles and nature are shown as they are on the brink of disappearing. Tezh finds these images eerily sad, but also compelling. The rough wood combined with the wax medium, is meant to reinforce the sense of time's passage.
Well-known portraitist Jesse J. Gardner will present his most recent series of landscape paintings, On the Streets of Philadelphia, at FAN Gallery this October. This series explores several neighborhoods familiar to the artist; Kensington, Frankford, Northern Liberties and Manayunk. Sculptor and critic Leslie Kaufman has written of the artist's work; "Gardner's Philadelphia is not on any visitor's map…he searches city neighborhoods and industrial locations to illuminate lost places whose histories were long abandoned and forgotten. As an urbanist dedicated to environmental issues, Gardner wields his paintbrush as a spotlight – to reveal both what we have lost, and to suggest what may still be reclaimed."
Jesse J. Gardner grew up on farms in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and Canada's Cape Breton Island. Before he began focusing on art, he was a volunteer firefighter at the Pine Plains Hose Company #1 in New York and worked as a long distance trucker and construction worker.
What is your first creative memory?
I was always drawing, and recall that the subjects that interested me as a young child were similar to my subject matter today: houses in the landscape. The first serious drawing was done around age 11, when I looked down the hill at the rooftops of my neighbor's barn and outbuildings and produced a pencil drawing on a cheap tablet. My parents decided at this point that I was serious about being an artist, and gave me extra time off on our busy farm to draw and paint. I had an interest in preserving historic architecture as a teenager, and when we lived in Nova Scotia in the 1970's, began making detailed pencil studies of Canadian National Railway stations that were being demolished.
How do you think about your body of work, the portraits and the landscapes? Does one inform the other or are they separate in your mind?
I see the subject matter as emanating from the same conscious desire to dig below the surface and reveal the inner light. It is part of the same narrative; restoring a measure of dignity to the invisible and overlooked. I have integrated the two occasionally. Look for these two separate themes to come together in my work in the near future. It is a natural evolution for the work.
You can find out more about Jesse's portrait work and involvement with firefighters here.
How did you get involved doing the portrait work?
It grew out of an interest in the invisible service class–workers who keep the world moving but are taken for granted–rarely acknowledged or recognized for their efforts. My parents were very involved with the Labor Movement when I was growing up, so it felt right to be documenting in paint these hard working, ordinary people. I know that my concept of the heroic firefighter was shaped very early on, growing up as I did with farmers and mechanics as role models.
How do you choose your landscape subject matter?
I paint obscure places for the most part, far removed from the tourist itinerary and the "center" of things. When I paint familiar landmarks, like the Ben Franklin Bridge, I look for vantage points that most would dismiss as non-picturesque, even ugly. In the series River Town, I ended up painting the bridge from underneath, with a focus on the floating March ice and abandoned piers. The bridge was the focus, but treated as a secondary element. It makes one rethink the familiar and question assumptions.
Who are your influences art or otherwise?
I owe a great debt to my parents, who are writers and farmers and who shaped my approach to my work by emphasizing the importance of craft and honest labor and self-reliance. They exposed me and my siblings to a wide range of art and culture, which was unusual on a working Vermont farm. They taught us to do everything to the best of our ability. Most importantly, they nurtured an appreciation for lost and endangered places–we restored farm equipment, homes and barns, and cleared abandoned fields for grazing land.
My artistic influences are wide ranging. I love the expert drawing and chiaroscuro of Rembrandt and Velásquez, Whistler's portraits and nocturnes. I appreciate Egon Scheile, Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas for their draftsmanship. I am profoundly moved by Käthe Kollwitz's etchings The Weaver's Cycle.
There are Russian realist painters from the pre-Stalinist era who have had a profound effect on me. I feel a kinship with Grant Wood, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, and Edward Hopper. There is a contemporary painter named William Wray who I really admire. Brad Holland's poster illustrations for the Public Theater provoke a visceral reaction in the viewer; he is a brilliant artist and this is a body of work that every artist who is interested in portraiture should study.
I have discovered Chinese modernists recently. Qi Zhilong's series Chinese Girls has inspired me to consider a new series of large portraits. There is so much that I want to explore as an artist, and so little time.
Jesse J. Gardner
On the Streets of Philadelphia
New Paintings
October 5-27, 2012
Opening Reception Friday October 5, 5 to 9 PM


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British Muslim Heritage Centre
The British Muslim Heritage Centre (BMHC) is a UK-registered charity whose partners and supporters include Manchester City Council, the NHS, the Universities of Manchester (Metropolitan), Salford and Chester, and the Islamic Foundation.
The Islamic Foundation is Britain's leading publisher of Islamist tracts written by Jamaat-e-Islami founder Abul Ala Mawdudi, and its current Chairman, Khurshid Ahmad, is also the Vice Chairman of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. The Foundation's former Deputy Chairman is Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who has been convicted for the murder of 18 people during Bangladesh's 1971 War of Independence, and two of its trustees were found by the Times of London in 2003 to be named on the UN sanctions list of people associated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Until recently, one of the BHMC's trustees was Moin Shubib, a fugitive Hamas commander who admitted in a 1994 interview with the FBI to supporting Hamas both financially and politically. Shubib is reported to have told an audience in Philadelphia that "we don't want children of our [Muslim] community … one day surrendering to the issue of peace with the Jews".
Speakers at the BHMC in recent years have included Adel Rahman al-Sudais, Shabir Ally and Abdullah Hakim Quick. Sudais has prayed for God to "terminate" the Jews (whom he describes as "monkeys and pigs" and "scum of the humanity"), and was banned from entering Canada. Ally, who believes that homosexuality is "sinful", has said that those who practise "such acts" will be "destroyed". Quick also advocates the death penalty for homosexuals, and has been recorded calling upon God to "purify Masjid al-Aqsa from the filth of the Yahud [Jews]".


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Only a few houseguests in Big Brother history have ever earned a second chance to compete again in the same season after being evicted. It's a chance for redemption and to learn from their mistakes to win the season. Amy (Big Brother 3), Kaysar (Big Brother 6), James (Big Brother 9), Brendon (Big Brother 13) and this evicted player are the only houseguests to earn the power to return. While many of them have crashed and burned, this player successfully tried to clean the slate but fizzled out.
The thirteenth houseguest evicted was Judd Daughtery, the 26 year old property appraiser from Tennessee.
Let's Meet Judd...
Since this is Judd's second eviction, I've already recapped his earlier season performance. After returning to the game in the double jury/Head of Household (HOH) competition, he tried to clear the air and come back with no agenda against any of the houseguests. He played a low-key game and eventually teamed up with Andy, GinaMarie and Spencer to create a new alliance called the Exterminators. While it proved to be successful by surviving three evictions (two weeks), Judd still couldn't shake being bottom of the totem pole in his alliance. On Day 82, he was evicted by a vote of 2-0.
Returning players in a single season carry a stigma. Most houseguests feel it's unfair for them to receive a second chance to win the game since they were already evicted. Judd did well in shedding the reputation but he couldn't completely shake it. Only Amy from Big Brother 3 was successful in making it farther after returning; she went from third evicted to fourth place. Had it not been for Elissa winning HOH, Judd would be evicted in his returning week. Many still held reservations against him even after two more weeks in the house.
Being in a four person alliance that had to evict someone within lead to Judd's downfall. McCrae, the initial target, won Power of Veto (POV) and could no longer be evicted. The Exterminators scrambled and Judd didn't have the personal relationships to convince the men to target GinaMarie. A weaker and injured person like GinaMarie looked more favourably than a likeable and returning Judd.
How Could He Stay?
Judd needed to be more focused and make his case. GinaMarie was injured but she's still a competition threat and could earn favour with the female jury. If he had saved Elissa the week prior, GinaMarie would be gone and he'd have the allies to stay. However, since he sided with the Exterminators, he just needed to make a case.
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Last Thoughts...
J-U-Double-D is gone for the last time. His personality shined and he was a fan favourite to say the least. Was he a great Big Brother player? No. He was far from it and did well enough by joining a somewhat powerful floater alliance to not squander his second chance. The Exterminators helped him survive two more weeks, another double eviction and could've lead him to the final four had it not been for McCrae's POV win. Congrats to him and I wouldn't be surprised to see him again in another season. Though, he needs to drop the floater act and actually play a more stronger game.


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Gregg R. Allison, Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of the Church (Wheaton: Crossway, 2012).
At The Upstream Collective we speak often of churches "reclaiming their birthright as the leaders in the Great Commission". This may sound like pure pendulum-shifting, as though we're pitting church vs. mission. One's gotta trump the other, right? As David Bosch one-ups, "there is church because there is mission, not vice versa" (390).
We genuinely have no intention of sparking a chicken-or-the-egg kind of dialogue about church and mission. The statement is really more of a cart-before-the-horse kind of thing. Churches can be so eager to practice church that they forget who they are by nature. To the extent they lose identity, they drift from their mission.
Thankfully, there are men and women much smarter than me to explain such things. Insert the wise words of professor (and, I say with unabashed pride, fellow pastor) Gregg Allison. He defines the horse and cart as the church's identity and function:
The church is the people of God who have been saved through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ and have been incorporated into his body through baptism with the Holy Spirit. It consists of two interrelated elements: the universal church…manifested in local churches characterized by being doxological, logocentric, pneumadynamic, covenantal, confessional, missional, and spatio-temporal/eschatological…From this definition one can see my basic orientation to ecclesiology: from the ontology or nature of the church flow the church's functions (29, 32).
For Dr. Allison the conversation really begins not with what the church does, but who the church is. This by no means precludes what the church does, but rather, gives birth and power to its proper expression. It's like the pattern that Paul takes in Romans, where he marinades readers in eleven chapters of pure gospel identity before serving up five chapters on Christian duty.
So much of local churches' mission malpractice internally can be traced back to misplaced identity. Just think, when it comes to reworking a church's approach to mission, how many of us want to pick up books on church doctrine? No way—give us the how-to manuals! That alone is a compelling reason to add Dr. Allison's ecclesiological work to our reading lists.
With the clarity of identity and function in the appropriate order, it would seem fitting at this point to say ecclesiology does indeed one-up missiology; that once the church gets herself together, then missions will flow locally and globally. Yet what Dr. Allison calls for is a "missional ecclesiology". Keying on Jurgen Moltmann and George Hunsberger, he asserts
"not that the church 'has' a mission, but the very reverse: that the mission of Christ creates its own church. Mission does not come from the church; it is from mission and in light of mission that the church has to be understood." This notion contrasts with missions being seen more as an activity of the church rather than in terms of the church's essential image of itself. Missional is a matter of identity first, then function: "a missional ecclesiology stresses that the church's very existence has been sent into the world…so much so that the sending is implicitly and explicitly formative in every aspect of its life".
What are they getting at? The sending church is the intersection of ecclesiology and missiology. No biblical church can exist without both doctrines tangled together deeper than bubble gum in your daughter's hair. It some ways it even sounds silly to distinguish them.
Allison helps readers to understand the necessary fusion of church and mission. I encourage you to take some time with Dr. Allison to explore these theological depths. Let them remind you, and hence, your church, that through you "the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 3:10). Let them shape your identity and trigger your functions. Let that horse and cart go.
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Cape Canaveral, Florida: Set for March 21st, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch its Atlas V rocket carrying the Orbital ATK Cygnus OA-7 mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Launching from Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida between 10:11 PM EDT and 10:41PM EDT this will be the seventh operational cargo delivery for Orbital ATK and United Launch Alliance.
The Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft consist of two modules. First, the Service Module (SM) which incorporates the avionics, propulsion and power systems from the flight proven LEOStar and GeoStar spacecraft buses. The second module is the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) which carries the crew supplies, experiments and other cargo. The SM is intergrated and tested at Orbital ATK's Dulles, VA facility. The PCM is built in Italy and supplied by Thales Alenia Space.
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text: Featured News Politics By Alexander Baron SHARES Facebook Twitter Reddit StumbleUpon Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn DelChris Tame died ten years ago today; the founder and head of the Libertarian Alliance was a fitness fanatic who was, ironically, struck down with a rare and particularly virulent form of bone cancer that took his life at the relatively young age of 56. Although his personal life was not a success – he was married and divorced twice – his raison d'être, indeed the very purpose of his existence, was wildly successful, and it is thanks to him in great part that Libertarian principles are now so widely accepted throughout the UK and to some degree beyond. Unfortunately, those principles do not appear to extend to our so-called Conservative Chancellor who has endorsed price controls such as the minimum wage, but they have been argued for vociferously in the ongoing assaults on freedom in the name of fighting terror. Chris argued against the war on drugs when the idea of legalising not only marijuana but hard drugs like heroin and cocaine seemed laughable, but these substances were all legal at one time, and once the vested interests behind their prohibition are recognised, the harm they cause can be seen in perspective. For about two years I was closer to Chris than anyone, including his second wife, who was not a political animal. She was always very nice to me, so I won't speak ill of her, but the way she treated him after he lost his post as Director of FOREST was shameful. The last few years of his life were not happy ones; the last time I saw him in the flesh was when I ran into him at the British Library where he was doing bibliographical work. Chris owned a truly massive personal library of books and other publications on political and related subjects; he speed-read, and I have no doubt he had read them all. After his death they were transported to the Czech Republic as the Chris Tame Library by his successor Sean Gabb, who has done his friend and mentor proud over the past decade. Unfortunately, not everyone who was close to him has, but again it is best not to mention that. Chris had a wonderful discourse, and I could listen to him for hours; three things in particular he introduced me to: hoaxers; the concept of what might be called unconscious conspiracy; and feminist indoctrination on rape. The former saw him lending me a pamphlet called Crying Wolf. Although he acknowledged the existence of conspiratorial élites, Chris was skeptical about so-called conspiracy theories; he introduced me to a book call Fire In the Minds Of Men, and pointed out that what appeared to be a conspiracy was just the way people had always acted, especially those in and those who aspire to power. There was no one at the top giving orders. By the time I became a member of his inner circle, I was already aware of the way hysteria about rape was used, but I didn't realise the full extent of it, especially on the American campus. Although he never denied the reality of sexual abuse, Chris said that most allegations of date rape resulted from feminists brainwashing (young) women into believing they had been raped. I was extremely skeptical about this, but with the antics of Mattress Girl and airhead Kamilah Willingham now thoroughly exposed, it is clear that if anything he understated the problem. I didn't agree with all his ideas nor he with mine, but best not to mention Social Credit. There is no doubt though that he got right far more than he got wrong. Although there is no dedicated Chris Tame website, you can check out the man himself on YouTube at the Libertarian Alliance channel. Here is a short sampler of him explaining how the vested interests behind socialism work. Eat your heart out, Donald Trump. SHARES Facebook Twitter Reddit StumbleUpon Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Del


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Here in the UK it feels like we have had Bank Holiday fever and I dont know about you but after all the long weekends I was ready to get back to a full 5 day week! Still, we have another bank holiday coming up at the end of May…
Last week we were delighted to be hosting our webinar with Sue Swanborough, HR Director of General Mills UK & Ireland. Sue shared about how General Mills create effective teams and how Talent Dynamics has played a role in that strategy over the past 12 months. We had lots of people asking us to see the recording of that interview, so here it is.
I noticed this week as I was checking out some articles in HR Magazine, that Sue is a finalist for the HR Director of the year award! 'Good luck from all of us at TDHQ Sue!'
In the month of June we are excited to be launching our new affiliate and reseller site for Talent Dynamics Profiles! If you want to be amongst the first to hear about the special launch offer, make sure you click here to leave us your details, as it will be a very, very limited offer… Ohh!
Have a fabulous month ahead! Michelle
Ps We had a lovely piece printed in our local paper this week, the Blackpool Gazette about our recent launch in Australia.
PPS I loved this recent blog from Roger on what is the best psychometric tool for business and wanted to share it too


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We just wrapped up 10 days of Summer Learning in our building for incoming second and third grade students. The main purpose of this program was to provide a boost before school starts in a few weeks. Each morning around 8:30 the students began to arrive for breakfast. Learning started at 9:00 and we powered through until noon. During these three hours we built foundations for strong reading habits, dove deep into informational text, rocked number bonds and tape diagrams, and worked together as teams on STEM challenges.
What started to unfold as these ten days went on was pretty cool. Friendships formed that might not have had a chance to blossom during the regular school year. Friendships that seem tricky to navigate during the regular school year were looked upon differently as they had time to work through some challenges and differences. These students (aside from some groggy moments) came to Summer Learning excited to be there. For many this was their time to shine. We watched the normally quiet kiddos come out of their shells and be able to have a voice. I had many quiet victories over the past two weeks, and we celebrated out loud! My greatest hope is that they come back in a few weeks walking a little taller, feeling more confident, and ready to shine!


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Aarburg Castle
Aarburg Castle (German: Festung Aarburg) is a castle in the municipality of Aarburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located high above the town Aarburg on a steep, rocky hillside. The castle was built around a medieval castle, which controlled the narrow point on the Aare river and served as the seat of Aarburg Vogt. It is classified as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.[1] Today it houses the Kantonale Jugendheim, for holding and rehabilitating juvenile offenders.
|Aarburg Castle
Festung Aarburg
Aarburg Castle and church
|47°19′17.91″N 7°54′3.36″E / 47.3216417°N 7.9009333°ECoordinates: 47°19′17.91″N 7°54′3.36″E / 47.3216417°N 7.9009333°E
|405 m above the sea
|Site information
|In use as Cantonal Youth Home
|Site history
|12th century, 1659–1673
The exact year of construction of the castle is not known. However, it was probably built around 1200 by the Lords of Büron.[2] The building was mentioned at the beginning of the 13th Century, in the possession of the Counts of Frohburg. The Vogtei (a bailiff or vogt was an overlord exerting guardianship or military protection as well as secular justice (Blutgericht) over a certain territory, the Vogtei) was created to better control and monitor the important north-south trade route over the Aare River. Together with the Vogt's seat, the high court was also held at the castle. The administration area included the western part of today's District Zofingen, but without the city of Zofingen. In 1299 the Frohburgs sold the castle and the entire Vogtei to the Habsburgs.[3] After about 1330 the Family von Kriech, a lower nobility family in the service of the Habsburgs, lived in the castle.[3]
On 20 April 1415, the castle fell after a brief siege by the town of Bern. The Bernese took over the lower and the high court. Starting in 1416 a Bernese bailiff resided in the castle. The bailiff managed the entire Bernese Aargau. Only later, once Bern had suppressed the rights of the nobility and the clergy, additional bailiwicks were added: Lenzburg (1442),[3] Schenkenberg (1460), Biberstein (1499) Zofingen (1528), Königsfelden (1528) and Kasteln (1732).
The castle was extended in several stages, the first was the rebuilding of the palace in 1470. Subsequent modifications in the 16th century (1534/35) and especially in the 17th Century (1621, 1659–1673) led to the creation of the huge baroque structure.[4] Its purpose was to protect the connection between the Protestant towns of Bern and Zurich at the narrowest point of the Bernese dominion and thus complicate any attacks from Catholic neighbors. From 1666, the fortress was occupied continuously by a garrison, the Governor was now at the same commander. One part of the fortress served as a prison, especially for political prisoners. The best known prisoner is Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest. On 10 March 1798, the castle fell without a fight to the French Army.[2]
In 1804, the newly created Canton of Aargau took over the castle. Initially it served as an arsenal and barracks, then from 1826 to 1864 as a prison before it was left abandoned. The Cantonal Parliament decided in 1891 to establish an "institution for juvenile criminals and scoundrels" in the castle. Opened in 1893, compulsory education institution was the first of its kind in Switzerland. In 1917 the building was extended. Initially the system focused mainly on discipline, order and punishment. Then, in the 1930s, the governing philosophy shifted more toward education and reform. From 1946 to 1959 the center was completely remodeled and a second total renovation happened from 1982 to 1988. In 1972, the name was changed from "Reform Institution" to "Education Home", then in 1989 it became the "Youth Home" to reflect the changing objectives.
On the narrow, elongated ridge, the core of the castle was built. This core consisted of a keep and a tower house from the 13th Century. The keep's walls are 3 to 3.5 metres (9.8 to 11.5 ft) thick, and consist entirely of limestone. The bottom floor has been carved directly from the rock. The tent-like roof was built in 1557. In 1621/22 the castle grew toward the south, with an additional living area and stair tower.[4] On the northeast and west side are the large, heavily fortified buildings. The cell block on the south side was replaced in 1954/55 by a house for the educational staff, but it was built in harmony with the historic buildings.
See alsoEdit
- ^ "Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance". A-Objects. Federal Office for Cultural Protection (BABS). 1 January 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ a b Burgen.ch Archived September 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 17 January 2012
- ^ a b c Aarburg Amt in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- ^ a b Flüeler (1982). Kulturführer Schweiz. Zurich, CH: Ex Libris Verlag AG. pp. 30–31.


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quarta-feira, 3 de março de 2010
Villa Leopolda
A Villa
Rogel Samuel
Toda essa mansâo impressiona por sua imponência e sua história. A história está escrita abaixo. A decoração interna quase ninguém vê. Mas é possível admirar os leões na orla da piscina, o teto de alguns salões, as estátuas e o gigantesco jardim com pomar. Pertence a uma brasileira, e é a casa mais cara do mundo. Creio que deveria ser considerada patrimônio da humanidade.
Para que todos nós, que amamos a arquitetura antiga, pudéssemos conhecer.
Paris, 2 mar (EFE).- O magnata russo Mikhail Prokhorov, que há um ano e meio assinou um contrato de 390 milhões de euros para comprar da bilionária brasileira Lily Safra a mansão mais cara do mundo, conhecida como Villa Leopolda, perderá 40 milhões de euros por voltar atrás na transação, informa hoje o jornal "Le Figaro".
O russo, que fez uma fortuna de US$ 9,5 bilhões na indústria do níquel, desistiu de comprar a mansão e tentou recuperar o sinal de 39 milhões de euros que pagou pela espetacular casa localizada na Côte D'Azur, no sudeste da França.
No entanto, a Justiça de Nice decidiu a favor da proprietária do imóvel, e o magnata russo, amigo do multimilionário Mikhail Abramovich, dono do Chelsea, perderá o dinheiro que pagou adiantado pela mansão.
Prokhorov ainda terá de pagar 1,5 milhão de euros de indenização a Lily Safra.
A Villa Leopolda, que tem um jardim de oito hectares repleto de pomares, foi construída em 1902, pelo rei da Bélgica Leopoldo II.
Villa Leopolda: the House for the Billionaire
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor von Habsburg-Lothringen aka Léopold II, was born on 9 April 1835 in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. He is the eldest son of Léopold I, first king of the Belgians. In 1900 when the monarch was 65, he visited the World Exhibition held in Paris where he purchased three souvenirs. Among them two are here in Brussels - the Chinese Pavilion and the Japanese Tower. The Chinese Pavilion styled as the Chinese temple tower by the architect Marcel with the interior decorated under the style of French Kings, could be the perfect restaurant. The Japanese Tower is the real Japanese temple brought from the Land of Rising Sun for the exhibition specially. How did they get them here from Paris? They were dismantled, delivered to Brussels and re-built again, while the third souvenir was too far complicated just to dismantle and install again.
The point is that the third souvenir that was brought by the monarch of Belgium from flamboyant Paris was Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix who was only 17 that time. She was the daughter to the graphic designer from Lille who worked as the concierge in Paris. Blanche is said to have been unofficially created Baroness de Vaughan in Belgium and held the official place next to Léopold II.
In 1902 Léopold's official spouse dies, the Queen Marie Henriette Anne von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduchess of Austria, and the King (you think, he was too inconsolable with the young Blanche, Baroness de Vaughan?), purchased the land in Villefranche-sur-Mer at Cote d`Azur, next to Monte Carlo. The King intended to construct a summer palace for his beauty lover who was said to distinguish with vulgarity typical to a real daughter of concierge, though she was single-hearted, and was believed to care of the King tenderly. Moreover, Blanche Delacroix was 19 when Léopold was 67, he was at the age when the saying 'no fool like an old fool' is too actual, even for the Kings.
Baroness de Vaughan gave birth to a baby, called Lucien Philippe Marie Antoine, for the King in 1906 who was titled as Lucien Duke of Tervuren, and in 1907 she delivered another son who was given the title of Philippe Count of Ravenstein. In the meantime the summer palace was being constructed and the King married to his lover in 1909 when he was 75 and she was only 26. However, the King's dream to live a quiet life with his morganatic family in the best part of France did not come ever true. Léopold II died in a few days after he married Blanche, and his love place was never constructed for her.
Ogden Codman, the new owner to that wonderful land, caused the palace constructed in 1931, though the title «royal» was so much stuck to the place that the palace was at all times called Villa Leopolda whoever bought the place. The same we know about it.
In 1952 Villa Leopolda was bought by the founder of the concern Fiat, by Janny Agnelli for $100 thousand USD and in 1980 the banker from Lebanon, Edmond Safra paid $3 million USD for the Villa. The place was good to welcome Ronald Reagan and Frank Sinatra.
Unfortunately, Edmond Safra died in 1999 during the fire in his place in Monaco. As rumors say, the fire was caused by the Russian mafia, as if he was killed and then the house set to fire to hide all relations. There are no true evidences only rumors about the accident. And the Villa was now possessed by the banker's widow, Lily Safra, one of the wealthiest women in the world. And last, in 2008, the world was stroke with the news that Villa Leopolda is on sale again.
Daily Express of Britain announced that Roman Abramovich bought the villa for $500 million USD for Darya Zhukova as the wedding present. Nevertheless, the press service of the billionaire disclaimed the news in The Independent stating that the Russian oligarch acquired a house in France, that is Chateau-de-la-Cros, a villa in the French Riviera, and Abramovich does not need another villa.
Nice-Matin, the French Newspaper, announced that Mikhail Prokhorov was about to purchase the Villa and he offered 496 million Euros, that is $730 million USD for the place and he was said to make down payment. The price offered for the place made the Villa one of the most expensive houses in the world. Some time ago the amount of 57 million Euros that is $130 million USD was paid by the Indian Steel Magnate Lakshmi Niwas Mittal in 2004 for the real estate in Kensington Palace Gardens, being the highest price for the property. The House in Upper-Filmor Gardens was bought by the stranger for $152 million USD. A month later the Apartments Saint-James that is situated between the Buckingham Palace and the Residence of the Premier Minister of England was given $218 million dollars. However, Lakshmi is now the owner of the most expensive house in the world when he purchased a House in Kensington from the Head of the Hedge Fund Noam Gottesman for $222 million USD. Though, Villa Leopolda was to be the first only if the transaction took place.
Mikhail Prokhorov denied his intention to buy the villa. The representative person from the «ONEXIM» Group presiding by Mikhail declared that they had no purchases in France, though in the future time they intend to invest in the historical real estate at Cote d`Azur and in other countries.
Finally mass media abroad came to the idea that Villa Leopolda was sold to the Russian magnate who preferred to be anonymous. The realtors practicing at Cote d`Azur told that in 90s the Russians attacked the elite real estate here in the place drawing attention to the amount offered for property and highlighting that the real estate for less than 100 million Euros was never considered by the Russians. Though, nobody named these Russians who used all their assets and forces to invest here into the real estate.
Lately Villa Leopolda again appeared to be involved in news about elite real estate. Mikhail Prokhorov is thought to have purchased the Villa, though the bargain failed. Nice-Matin announced on the termination of the transaction and attempts made by Prokhorov to bring down the price for the Villa to 200 million Euros and that as a result he was to transfer 10% of the sum of the transaction to Lily in compliance with the French legislation. «Eight months ago Mikhail was about to pay half a billion for this villa, and now he does not have an opportunity to propose several dozens millions Euros».
The French periodic could have been less ironic if Mikhail was not on the list of the wealthiest persons in Russia. So, Nice-Matin says that today «when all bet for the return of petrodollars of the Persian Gulf, the Russian dollar crane was broken, if not dried to end».
The rumors about the «broken dollar crane» are continued with gossips that Roman Abramovich is about to sell his villa in Antibes, and Mikhail Prokhorov appeared in the first top of Finance due to troubles and problems experienced by his competitors not by him personally.
Villa Leopolda seems to lose the title of the most expensive private house of the world. The experts state that the Villa costs about 30-40 million Euros. And Alexander V.G. Kraft, the President and the Director General of Sotheby's International Realty, the international real estate agency, publicized that prices offered for such unique structures go down to 20 to 30 million Euros since the point was that «the amount which was ready to offer by the competitive buyers and now the potential buyers who can afford spending a fortune for the house are not available any longer».
Nevertheless, even if the transaction took place, the title of the most expensive house would not be held for ever. The Indian businessman, Mukesh Ambani, is the wealthiest person in Asia, who is planning to move to 27-storeyed house in Bombay that he caused to erect for his family and corporation. And this real estate is estimated to cost approximately $2 billion USD.
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A riveting tale of a talented young boy with a love of the game and the natural talent to go along with it. More importantly, it is a story of how a mother's love can defy all logic and move mountains. Cathy Byrd is one heck of a baseball mom and a true advocate for all children.
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Welcome to Another Episode of "What I Have Been Up To In My Kitchen!"
Toward the end of September, I was feeling a bit like Old Mother Hubbard; my cupboards were bare. Embarrassingly bare! I had a small bowl full of red baby new potatoes and a package of two bone-in pork chops available, along with three eggs and a partially consumed box of Cheez Its TM. Since payday was the next day, and my cupboards and freezer would soon be full, I got a bit creative. I added some dried thyme leaves and the pinch of dried oregano I'd had left, a little salt and pepper and two cups of the Cheddar Cheez Its to my food processor and created a darn good coating for the pork chops, if I do not say so, myself! Don't judge until you have had this....it really is good! I was completely surprised!
I set up a dredging station, seasoned the chops lightly with salt and pepper, dipped it into the egg wash, coated it with the crusty mix, and fried the chops in vegetable oil over medium-hih heat.
I fried one chop at a time until golden brown and finished them off low and slow in a 250-degree oven on a wire rack over a baking pan.
In the meantime, I grated the baby new potatoes (tedious process when they are that small), added onion and garlic powder, half a teaspoon of each, to the fresh potato hash, and added one last egg to it. I hand mixed the ingredients and formed little potato patties and fried them in a separate skillet also with about 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil. I was able to make ten little (half dollar sized) potato crisps, or, patties, which I'd dried on paper towels on a rack to drain the excess oil. This helps to keep them crispy.
By having the chops finish low and slow in a barely hot oven, they were fully cooked, moist on the inside and still crispy on the outside. Best of all worlds!
I served two chops with fresh sage garnish and two potato crisps. For an extreme budget pantry meal, this was good!
Thank You AGAIN for your visit, your consideration and time! These are all extremely important things, and I appreciate your spending them with me for a bit!
Now! Go cook something for someone you love!


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Preparedness is Key for 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season
With the start of the severe weather season, Atlanta Gas Light encourages customers to take the necessary precautions to keep themselves and their families safe.
ATLANTA - May 31, 2013 – The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season extends from June 1 through November, and forecasters are predicting an active period with 18 named tropical storms and nine hurricanes, four of them potentially major events.
Last year brought some of the most destructive weather on record, including Hurricane Sandy, which slammed into parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic and caused widespread damage and flooding. To prepare for the 2013 hurricane season, Atlanta Gas Light has readied its comprehensive emergency disaster plan, enabling timely response to severe weather emergencies, with the goal of maintaining safe, reliable natural gas service.
Atlanta Gas Light offers these guidelines associated with natural gas safety during a weather emergency:
Detecting Gas Leaks
- Natural gas is injected with a distinct odor, which many people equate to that of rotten eggs. If the odor of gas is present, immediately leave the affected area and call the 24-hour emergency response line, at 1-877-427-4321 from a safe location.
- Never try to identify the source of a leak yourself.
- If the odor of gas is present, do not use a telephone or cellular phone, turn light switches on or off, operate any appliance or do anything that might cause a spark, such as lighting a match.
Call Before You Dig
- Before removing downed trees, customers should dial the 8-1-1 hotline to have the location of underground utility lines marked, because downed trees could become tangled with the natural gas lines.
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- Never attempt to turn your gas service back on by yourself. In order to restore service and relight appliances, Atlanta Gas Light customers are encouraged to know the location of their natural gas meter. Service personnel will need to have safe access to your home, and must have clear access to appliances and equipment. A responsible adult must be present at the location.
- During a weather emergency, ensure the gas meter is visible, and the area surrounding the meter is free of trash and debris. Mechanical equipment used after the storm to clean-up a location may damage the meter if it is hidden.
- If a natural gas meter is damaged or gas line is exposed, immediately leave the area and call the Atlanta Gas Light 24-hour emergency response number at 1-877-427-4321.
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- Customers are advised to leave their natural gas service on during a hurricane or severe storm. Most gas appliances have safety valves that shut off the flow of gas automatically if the pilot light goes out.
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Nosy Crow: motion design for a Snow White app
Nosy Crow is a publisher of children books and apps. We animated their logo for the opening of their Snow White app. Our nieces and nephews got it and loved it. If you ask us, sometimes in design and animation, the best work is often the ones that are laughed at.
Principal Director/Animator: Maxwell A. Davis
Client: Nosy Crow, Year: 2015
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"Let us sink all our differences and stand united together under the same banner under which we truly achieved Pakistan and let us demonstrate once again that we can, united, face all dangers in the cause of glory of Pakistan, the glory that the Quaid-i-Azam envisaged for Pakistan."
Madar-i-Millat Muhtarma Fatima Jinnah (1965)
Nation of Pakistan calls her as " Madar-i-Millat", or "Mother of the Nation". Founding Mother of Pakistan was the younger sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. She was born in 30th July, 1893. She was a dental surgeon, biographer and stateswomen. She took her Dental Surgeon's degree from University of Calcutta (A highly competitive university).
Quaid – e – Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah once said, "My sister was like a bright ray of light and hope whenever I came back home online casino and met her. Anxieties would have been much greater and my health much worse, but for the restraint imposed by her".
She started a dental clinic in Bombay in 1923. Upon Rattanbai"s death in February 1929, Miss Fatima Jinnah closed her clinic, moved into her Quaid-e-Azam"s house, and took charge of his house.
Madar-i-Millat was in search of an author and selected G. Allana. G. Allana assisted her on the assignment but they parted company due to reasons undisclosed. Quaid-e-Azam academy published her uncompleted biography of Quaid-e-Azam "My Brother" in 1987.
On Sunday, 9th July 1967 she was died in Karachi by Heart Failure.
May Allah Pak bless her high rewards in Heaven. (Ameen)