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Never before I have seen such a vivid visualization of the concept of "facts" as in this Flickr set "Free the Facts":
Attribution: (c) 2009 Dave Gray (davegrayinfo.com)
(watch it from the beginning, to see the tower develop). But S. Downes points out that there is outdated understanding involved, and later elaborates on scientific thinking about facts.
So how could we visualize this more complicated, more accurate thinking, to leverage the power of the visual imagination? I think we cannot, and we need not, either. A certain amount of simplification is unavoidable when visualizing complex concepts. I hesitated a lot before I accepted this, because I am easily put off when it is unduly overdone. But now I do think that it can be legitimate.
The depicted concept of facts may not be accurately correct in the philosophical sense of the word, but it matches the typical idea that we have almost all the times when we speak about facts in our ordinary language. (Disclaimer: I don't mean the ordinary language as defined in the philosophical theory I am not familiar with, but the ordinary ordinary language.)
And for the up-to-dateness: Many valuable visuals depict a rather outdated specimen but an easily recognisable prototype. Just think of the pictograms of telephones, or the ladies' restroom, or railways, or countless others. So it is perfectly legitimate to resort to older prototypes for great explanations.
The great visualizations work because we have no problems generalizing the shown border-case items onto the more general but abstract true items. And in my experience, the simplified visualizations work particularly well when we watch them developping. Then the simplification appears less undue and more credible.


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Indoguna Singapore achieves 'A Grade' for AVA Food Safety Excellence Awards 2018!
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For the eighth consecutive year, Indoguna is a proud recipient of the Certificate of Commendation Grade "A" delivered by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority in Singapore.
We have done it again! And this would not have been possible without the diligent efforts and hard work from our dedicated staff.
Thank you for the constant support!

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Sunrise and sunset times in Assiniboia
Welcome! On our site you can always get up to date and detailed information about sunset time in Assiniboia. The exact time of sunrise and sunset will be useful not only for people who like to gaze at the starlight sky, but also photographers, who can catch the most picturesque frame at the junction of day and night. Sometimes you just want to sit and watch the sunrise. It's beautiful and easy to catch. This site can help you to do it. We do the most accurate calculations and provide the most relevant information.
To get the data for anywhere you need to choose your city from the list. If you can not find the city you are looking for, please, mark it on the map or enter the coordinates. 28 january 2020 (tuesday), sunrise time in Assiniboia : 08:43:35, sunset time : 17:52:24. Length of the day is 09:08:49. Maximum elevation above horizon is 22° 06′ 09″. The sun reaches its zenith at 13:18:00 28.01.2020


text: Well here it is game seven of the World Series and it is a do or die situation for our beloved Giants. As I write this were are barely ahead three to two bottom of the Fourth. It has certainly been an interesting ride this year but I guess that isn't that unusual. I was lucky enough to attend game three in San Francisco last Friday, it is one of those Buck List things. It was our second loss but then we rallied back on Saturday and Sunday, fell apart on Tues and now here we are on Wednesday. Many have predicated that this series between two wild teams would come down to game seven. So here is a toast to my team and a prayer for a win. But no matter what happens, there is always "next year". But hopefully this will be our third World Series win in five years. Can't wait to see what Tiffany's will design for their next WS ring! GO GIANTS!


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It's not easy living with a cat that has irritable bowel disease (IBD). Your cat may vomit frequently, have bouts of diarrhea, a rumbling stomach, and gas can be a problem.
Even if he seems to eat well, he may lose weight. He can also be depressed. Some of these symptoms are found with many feline health problems so it's not always easy to tell what your cat's problem might be.
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For example, IBD can be easily mistaken for a food allergy or food sensitivity and in some cases, there is an allergy component to the illness. Identifying irritable bowel disease and finding the best cat food for IBD usually takes a lot of patience.
Cats that have irritable bowel disease (IBD) have a gastrointestinal (GI) tract that is chronically irritated and inflamed.
The inflammation means that their GI tract is unable to properly digest and absorb food. IBD can appear in any cat but it occurs most often in cats that are middle-aged and older cats.
If your cat has IBD, one of the ways your veterinarian will try to manage it is by changing his diet. You will need to find the best cat food for IBD – something that can take some work.
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Causes of IBD in cats
The exact cause of IBD is not known but current veterinary evidence indicates that it may be due to an abnormal and complicated relationship between the cat's immune system, the bacteria in the intestines, your cat's diet, and other environmental factors.
Genetic issues affecting the immune system could also play a role, if IBD in cats is similar to IBD in humans and dogs.
The disease can take different forms, depending on the part of the GI tract affected. If the cat's stomach is inflamed, the condition is known as gastritis.
Editor's note
If your cat's small intestine is inflamed, it is called enteritis. If the colon or large intestine is affected, the problem is called colitis. The most common kind of IBD in cats affects the small intestine.
It is called lymphocytic plasmacytic enteritis. Some IBD cases can also involve inflammation of other abdominal organs such as the liver and pancreas.
Symptoms of IBD in cats
Typical symptoms of feline IBD can include:
- Vomiting
- Weight loss, anorexia
- Diarrhea
- Bloody stool
- Lethargy
- Depression
- Gas
- Decreased appetite
Symptoms can vary in severity and can depend on which part of your cat's GI tract is affected. If your cat's stomach or higher parts of the small intestine are inflamed, he may have problems with chronic vomiting.
If your cat's colon is affected, he could be more likely to have diarrhea, with or without blood in the stool.
If you notice these symptoms or you suspect that your cat has IBD, you should take your cat to the veterinarian. Many of these symptoms are seen with other illnesses so your vet will probably need to do a thorough workup in order to determine if your cat has IBD.
Along with blood work, a fecal exam, x-rays, and an abdominal ultrasound, your vet may recommend a hypoallergenic food trial to see if your cat has a food allergy instead of IBD. Intestinal and gastric biopsies could also be needed.
There is no single best treatment for IBD so your veterinarian may need to try a few things to see what works for your cat. Your veterinarian will probably treat for intestinal parasites if your cat hasn't been treated for them recently.
Medications such as prednisone will also be given as a start. Your vet will also make some recommendations about your cat's diet.
The good news is that the symptoms of IBD can be controlled so that your cat is healthy and comfortable. The bad news is that some of the symptoms may still come and go at times.
It will always be important for you to carefully manage your cat's diet and monitor his medications in case they need to be adjusted.
Dietary management and food trials with IBD cats
Your vet may recommend a food trial for your cat if s/he is trying to determine if your cat has a food allergy instead of IBD. Your vet could also recommend a food trial if your cat has already been diagnosed with IBD.
This is because food allergens can play a role in IBD. In either case, the best cat food for IBD, at least at the diagnostic stage, is often a hypoallergenic food.
Hypoallergenic cat foods contain protein and carbs that your cat hasn't previously eaten. These proteins are usually meats such as venison, rabbit, or duck.
Strictly speaking, a hypoallergenic cat food should contain one meat protein and one kind of carbohydrate but it's not always easy to find a cat food that works for your cat that meets that criteria. It's best to follow your vet's advice and start with a food that s/he recommends.
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Remember that when you are doing a food trial with your cat it's vital that your cat doesn't eat other sources of food that could ruin the trial. That means your cat can't have table scraps, medications, or treats that contain non-approved ingredients.
A food trial will normally take up to 12 weeks unless you can tell sooner that your cat is having a negative reaction to the protein or carbohydrate in a food.
Once the food trial is over, if your cat doesn't need to eat a prescription or veterinary diet, you may be able to find a limited ingredient diet (LID) that meets the requirements for a hypoallergenic cat food.
Also Read: The 5 Best Hypoallergenic Cat Foods
An LID commercial cat food can be a good choice for cats with IBD if you are careful about the ingredients.
If your cat's IBD symptoms don't get better while eating a hypoallergenic diet, she could do well eating a food that is easy to digest, high in fiber, and low in fat.
Keep in mind that any time you change cat foods, even when you make the change gradually, it can take a while for your cat to adjust. It may take several weeks or longer before you see an improvement in your cat's IBD.
IBD can be very idiosyncratic, especially if any food allergies are involved, so be patient while you and your vet try to figure out the best cat food for your cat's IBD.
What to look for in the best cat food for IBD
According to veterinary sources, hypoallergenic cat foods are normally started as part of the treatment plan for cats diagnosed with IBD.
These foods usually feature venison, rabbit, duck, lamb, or chicken as the lone meat protein. They should also have one kind of carbohydrate.
A slow change can later be made to a commercial diet that is low in additives. With the change, owners can attempt to feed a food that uses chicken or lamb as the primary ingredient.
This may not always work but most companies make foods with alternate meat proteins if your cat cannot eat the chicken or lamb.
In general, it's a good idea to look for foods that have fewer ingredients, such as limited ingredient diets (LID), on the theory that foods with fewer ingredients have less chance of irritating your cat's GI tract.
Cat foods that are easy to digest, with lower fat and lots of fiber are also recommended for cats with IBD.
Check with your veterinarian before adding any supplements to your cat's diet that might cause irritation, including vitamins, minerals, and pro- or prebiotics.
Also Read: Best Probiotics for Cats
With cats that have this kind of sensitive GI tract, anything that you add to their diet, even if it sounds like something healthy, might be an irritant.
Best Cat Food for IBD Reviewed
Merrick Limited Ingredient Diet Grain Free Real Duck Recipe Paté
Nutritional info:
- Protein – 8% Min
- Fat – 4% Min
- Fiber – 1.4% Max
- Moisture– 78% Max
- Caloric Content: 131 kcal/5 oz can
- Made from a single animal source protein
- Beneficial nutrients like chelated minerals and probiotics
- Made in the USA
- You'll need a prescription
Merrick has an entire line of limited ingredient cat foods. They come in both canned and kibble formulas. We like the Merrick Limited Ingredient Diet Grain Free Real Duck Recipe Pate but you could choose several of these foods to see how your cat with IBD responds to them. The first ingredient in this food is deboned duck.
It also contains pea protein, natural flavor, alfalfa meal, guar gum, and flaxseed oil so these foods aren't perfect but many cats could eat them without a problem. The remainder of the ingredients are added vitamins and minerals. It has 8 percent crude protein, 7 percent crude fat, 1.4 percent crude fiber, and 78 percent moisture. All of the Merrick LID recipes feature a single source of animal protein.
NomNomNow Chicken Chow-Meow
Nutritional info:
- Protein – 18% Min
- Fat – 4% Min
- Fiber – 0.8% Max
- Moisture– 73% Max
- Caloric Content:1194 kcal/kg
- 100% Free from fillers and artificial flavors
- Made from premium ingredients
- Rich in protein and fat, low in carbohydrates
- Cost is above market Avg.
If your cat enjoys fresh foods, she may be able to eat NomNomNow Chicken Chow-Meow. This food has one meat protein – chicken; and several vegetables (Including Pumpkin) as carbohydrate and fiber sources.
The remainder of the ingredients are added vitamins and minerals. We would consider this food to be a limited ingredient diet and one that your cat would devour.
Chicken Chow-Meow has 18 percent crude protein, 4 percent crude fat, 0.8 percent crude fiber, and 73 percent moisture. So, it has lots of meat protein that cats need and love.
Hill's Prescription Diet i/d Digestive Care with Chicken Canned Cat Food
Nutritional info:
- Protein – 7.5% Min
- Fat – 4% Min
- Fiber – 1% Max
- Caloric Content: 161 kcal/5.5 oz can
- Formulated by nutritionists and veterinarians
- Promotes healthy digestion
- Often recommended by vets
- Not palatable for some cats
If your IBD cat is able to eat chicken, Hill's Prescription Diet i/d Digestive Care with Chicken Canned Cat Food could be a good choice.
This food is often prescribed for cats that need help with digestive problems, including cats with IBD. This Hill's Prescription Diet is highly digestible with a balance of soluble and insoluble natural fibers.
It supports good bowel health and the growth of beneficial bacteria in your cat's gut. And, it replaces lost nutrients and ensures easy nutrient absorption. This food is a pate. Prescription.
Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Selected Protein Adult PR Canned Cat Food
Nutritional info:
- Protein – 8.5% Min
- Fat – 4.5% Min
- Fiber – 1% Max
- Moisture-78% Max
- Caloric Content: 167 kcal/5.9 oz can
- Contains vitamins and minerals
- Soft gel texture
- Often recommended by vets
- You'll need a prescription
Made with peas and rabbit as the protein sources, Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Selected Protein Adult PR Canned Cat Food is one of the foods often recommended by veterinarians for cats with IBD.
It has few other ingredients, besides vitamins and minerals, which reduces the chance that your cat will have a negative response to something in the food.
This canned food has 8.5 percent crude protein, 4.5 percent crude fat, and 1 percent crude fiber, with 78 percent moisture. The food is a loaf in gel texture. Also comes in other Selected Protein flavors and in kibble. Prescription.
Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets EN Gastroenteric Formula Canned Cat Food
Nutritional info:
- Protein – 50% Min
- Fat – 16% Min
- Fiber – 3% Max
- Moisture-12% Max
- Caloric Content: 528 kcal/cup
- Especially formulated to help manage your cat's food sensitivity
- Formulated and optimized for IBD
- Made in the US
- You'll need a prescription
Designed for cats with gastrointestinal conditions, Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets EN Gastroenteric Formula Canned Cat Food is high in total digestibility so your cat can digest more nutrients in his food.
The canned food has 9.5 percent crude protein, 4 percent crude fat, 2 percent crude fiber, and 78 percent moisture. Also available as a dry cat food Prescription.
If you have a cat with IBD, we know that it's not easy finding diets that work. It can take time to find a food that's suitable; that your cat likes; and that he'll eat more than once or twice.
We hope that the foods mentioned here provide you with some options. There's more than one kind of prescription diet.
A fresh food diet could work for some cats. And a limited ingredient diet can be a good choice for many cats. Good luck with your cat's diet.


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On Friday 7th October, we will take part in CAFOD's Brighten Up this Harvest Campaign - please contribute £1 for CAFOD per family.
Children can wear brightly coloured mufti non uniform or if they choose to still wear uniform they can have a 'splash of colour such as brightly coloured socks or bright or multi coloured bobbles.
We appreciate your support and though this is quite short notice, we are not expecting you to have to go to any great time or expense getting the children ready!
The children will do work on the charity event in Friday's assemblies.
Here is a report from CAFOD explaining things in greater detail:
During this Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has asked us to rediscover the corporal works of mercy, one of which is to feed the hungry. Families in Bolivia face many challenges in growing enough food. It is the poorest country in South America and many Bolivians, especially children, are malnourished. In one remote area, on a high plain called the Altiplano, families have to deal with poor quality soil. The climate is changing and the weather is unpredictable. Sometimes devastating hailstorms or heavy frosts destroy crops. At other times there is not enough rain. These conditions make it incredibly tough to grow food, meaning many families go hungry. That's why we are asking you to Brighten Up this Harvest – to help build a brighter world and to put into action the corporal work of mercy: feed the hungry. Your fundraising will support communities like Ruben's in Bolivia to grow enough food for themselves, by providing seeds and training in farming methods and by teaching people how to build greenhouses. So use the bright colours and vibrancy of Bolivia to organise your own bright fundraiser on or around Harvest Fast Day on Friday 7 October.


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Note: This video originally appears on Kaman Distribution's YouTube channel. Subscribe today and follow all of our helpful tips and supplier updates. I am Ron Sheppard. With over 22 years at Kaman Industrial Technologies, I have witnessed first-hand, the importance of proper handling of bearings, as well as the repercussions of poor bearing handling.Continue reading »
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Loco Moto Art Collective at Aberthau
by admin on Feb.20, 2014, under Design, Events, Integrated Media, Media, Music, Photography, Technology, Video
I am really excited by the work of the Loco Moto Art Collective!
I first met them through Jamie Griffith, an artist who attended the same workshop at STEIM
In July, I volunteered to help out at their show at Queen Elizabeth Park, "Youth, Technology and Nature".
I was impressed by all the work shown, particularly by Merlyn Chipman's work using video feedback.
I will post some of my own photos of the event soon.
Merlyn will be doing a workshop, "Weaving with Light" at Aberthau where he will show you how to print these patterns on cloth.
- 6:00pm until 9:00pm
Sounds like a lot of FUN!
Amsterdam at Oorsprong Curators Series
by admin on Jul.02, 2013, under Concerts, Events, Films, Media, Music, Projects, Travel, Video
After my work at STEIM, I was fortunate to play with two improvising musicians, Frank Mauceri and Ángel Faraldo as part of the Oorsprong Curators Series.
This is an interesting improvised music series in North Amsterdam organized by bassist Raoul van der Weide.
The major constraint imposed by the series is that none of the players have ever played together before.
The second rule is that each player can only be in the series once a season.
Even though I worked with Frank at STEIM, we did not play together until this show.
Oorsprong-Mauceri+Gibson+Faraldo-MPEG-4 from victoria gibson on Vimeo.
It was a wonderful evening of creative music. Frank Mauceri and Ángel Faraldo are both wonderful musicians and I hope to play with them again.
I was captivated by the other two sets featuring Dana Reason, piano; Lori Goldston, cello; Ricardo Tejero, sax+clarinet; Jaap Blonk, voice; bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Onno Govaert.
Ricardo Tejero, (sax+clarinet) and bassist Dominic Lash did not play together because they are involved in a tour supporting their CD. I had the opportunity to hear this duo twice, once at Raoul's Atelier and once as part of Tabula Rasa: Improvised Music @ Maarten Luther Kerk – basement.
Dana Reason (piano) and cellist Lori Goldston are also playing together, so they played in separate sets for the Oorsprong. I arrived late and missed their showcase at Raoul's atelier, but I hope to see them play in future as they are both based on the West Coast of the USA.
My thanks to the organizers of the event and the volunteers who support the series.
This was my first opportunity to play in Europe and I was happy to be in such great musical company.
Networked Performance by Play the Moment
by admin on Dec.09, 2012, under Concerts, Events, Integrated Media, Media, Music, Open Source, Projects, Video
This is your invitation to the 121212 Festival of Cyber-performance!
The retrospective section of the program "Walking Backwards into the Future" is already underway.
Schedule for these events here.
The portion that I am involved in is the new experimental works, Testing 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2 . Play the Moment – Shakti meets for a networked internet performance on the Waterwheel Tap.
I am working with Play the Moment – Shakti, a group of four women located in different cities. This pioneering effort in experimental media arts includes Victoria Gibson (Vancouver, Canada), Jude Abrams (Toronto) and Sonia Paço-Rocchia (Montreal) creating music with Christina deRoos (Detroit, USA) manipulating the visuals.
We will be performing a piece called 'excavating desire/fouilles pour le désire'
Our stage is located on a website in Australia called Waterwheel and will be viewed through either this link or a link through the festival site Scroll down to find our show.
About the Show
Excavating Desire – Fouilles pour le Désire
Play The Moment Shakti (Canada, USA)
11 December 10.30pm EST / 12 December 4.30pm New Zealand (find your local time)
12 December 1pm EST / 13 December 7.30am New Zealand (find your local time)
Excavating Desire is a free improvised audio and visual work in four movements:
- On the Surface – exploring constraints imposed on female desire by society and ourselves
- Digging Deep – recognizing our wants and needs
- Gathering Courage – risking societal censure, economic loss or emotional pain requires resolve and strength
- Flowering of Passion – acceptance and expression of our own inner identity
Four women going through the same risk and hardship of "Excavating Desire".
Desires are often hidden underneath layers so we do not even recognize them ourselves. It is a risk to reveal our true self, particularly in personal and intimate situations, but also when revealing oneself as an artist. "Excavating Desire" provides a structure to peel away the layers of constraint and grant ourselves permission to express what we choose to see and hear as art.
Schedule and time zones
A handy time zone converter to find your viewing time can be found here.
These converter links can be found already programmed with the correct DST time under the title of the show in the spreadsheet.
For example the second performance of our show is at 7:30am on Thursday, December 13th DST in New Zealand — the location of the 121212 festival, but it is Wednesday, December 12th at 10:30am PST, in Vancouver, Canada, where I live.
More information about the show can be foun by clicking the title of the show.
Facebook Event Page Here
Recording Engineer for CD Release by Mark Weber
by admin on Dec.07, 2012, under Media, Music
This is a cool CD of spoken word and music featuring Mark Weber. I recorded some of the tracks at Waterlou Studios in Vancouver, Canada. More information about the CD, titled 'the dalai lama's alarm clock' by clicking here.
Solstice Performance on Waterwheel
by admin on Jun.30, 2012, under Events, Integrated Media, Music, Projects, Technology, Video
My performance last Friday on water-wheel — the event was a solstice celebration.
Water-wheel.net is a performance platform developed in Australia by Suzon Fuks.
My ensemble, Play the Moment – Shakti has been accepted to perform, using this platform as part of the 121212 Festival of performing cyber-arts.
PtM – Shakti members: Victoria Gibson, Jude Abrams, Sonia Paço-Rocchia and Christina deRoos.
The festival will occur on December 12, 2012 . . .
If the link above is faulty go to:
Bandwidth at Lumen Festival
by admin on Apr.11, 2012, under Bandwidth, Events, Integrated Media, Media, Music, Open Source, Projects, Technology, Victoria G
Bandwidth: Interactive Installation has been selected to be shown at the Lumen Festival in Staten Island, NY!
My media art, Bandwidth has been selected for the Lumen Festival on June 23, 2012. They do not have the funding to support the artists, so I am asking you to assist.
If you are in NYC come to the show!
I am seeking funding through Indiegogo with fun perks.
See more information about Bandwidth on my portfolio site
It won't happen without your help!
Please go to the IndieGoGo site and donate now.
Bandwidth — one minute from Guelph
by admin on Jan.15, 2012, under Bandwidth, Films, Integrated Media, Music
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I am working on documenting the exhibit of my interactive exhibit, Bandwidth.
This is an excerpt from one of the clips, so I thought that I would create a one minute teaser for the longer video I am working on.
Denise McCarthy, the other artist exhibiting in the space, was talking to me during one of the performances.
I will finish this video and create one for "Rise Up, Fallen Angel" before the end of the month.
String Stories on You Tube
by admin on Dec.28, 2011, under Films, Music, Projects, Video
String Stories Video recorded, titled and posted to You Tube by Victoria G.
Working with my friend Paul Plimley is always a lot of fun!
This concert was part of the 2011 TD International Jazz Festival in Vancouver.
String Stories band members: Phil Emerson, guitar; Tommy Babin, bass and Paul Plimley, piano.
Taking the video was complicated by the fact that a camera person from a local television station had taken the spot that I had planned to set up in.
The back of the room was the next best and my new wide angle video lens really helped capture the whole stage.
The video is unedited, with audio from the camera, just title, render and upload!
Rise Up, Fallen Angel — TONIGHT
by admin on May.26, 2011, under Concerts, Design, Events, Fallen Angel, Films, Media, Music, Photography, Rise Up, Rise Up Fallen Angel, Technology, Video
If you are not able to come to the show Rise Up, Fallen Angel — Please watch on the Center for Performance Research UStream channel.
This is a big night — we have had many technical challenges setting up 3 screens of projection and surround sound, then streaming it all on to the internet.
Tonight is our open rehearsal, see you there.
Rise Up, Fallen Angel on Vimeo
by admin on May.24, 2011, under Concerts, Design, Events, Fallen Angel, Films, Media, Music, Open Source, Photography, Rise Up Fallen Angel, Technology, Video
Rise Up Fallen Angel – Thurs 5/26-Sat 5/28 – www.cprnyc.org – Brooklyn, NY from Christina deRoos on Vimeo.
I am in NYC working hard on the show with my collaborators.
Christina deRoos, my collaborator in the visual projection aspect of the show, made a video yesterday and posted it on Vimeo as a demo.
I hope you like it.
Tickets available on Brown Paper Tickets Here — only $12.


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AIFST/AFGC Workshop - Country of Origin Labelling - ADELAIDE
On 1 July 2016, a new mandatory Information Standard under the Australian Consumer Law was introduced regulating country of origin information for food sold in Australia. This detailed and complex standard may be difficult to navigate to find out exactly which requirements applies to your food products.
Presented by Chris Preston and Fiona Fleming from the Australian Food & Grocery Council, this workshop is designed to help you to find out what you need to know and do in order to be compliant.
By attending, you will gain insight into:
- The detailed requirements of this new standard
- How to apply it to your products
- How to ensure compliance is met, and by when
- What information you need to get from your suppliers, and how
- Related regulated changes and managing label updates
Who should attend?
Food professionals and business owners working in a regulatory role or quality assurance and control and marketing personnel, all needing to understand the regulatory system within which they must operate.
Date: 25 October 2016
Time: 9:00 -12:00pm
Registrations commence half an hour before workshop start times
Location: The Monastery,
15 Cross Rd.,
Glen Osmond SA
Cost: $165 (Inc. GST) AIFST
AFGC - please use coupon code - AFGC Member
Aus Beverage Council Members - please use coupon code - Aus Bev Member
Food SA - please use coupon code - Food SA Member
$330 (Inc. GST) Non-Members
Registrations close: Sunday, 23 October 2016
For more information contact Skill and Capability Building Coordinator, Bronwyn Graham.
Phone: 0438 017 197
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Thank you to the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) for their support of the AIFST CPD program.


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Those working in student and academic administration play a major role in shaping the student experience through the student journey. The creation of the Office for Students has made it clear that the participation, experience, outcomes and value for money for students should be at the heart of an institution's strategy. Student and academic administrators at all levels are well placed to meet this challenge.
How to Write a Reflective Statement – AUA
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I was searching around the net for places to order vinyl within Canada and I found that you can buy new records from Chapters/Indigo online. For Canadians this is great news.. It's not readily apparent but if you go to the music section and search for "[i]artist name[/i] vinyl" you will come up with quite a few titles at decent Cdn-Dollar prices and orders over $39 ship for free. www.chapters.ca
I ordered In Utero and Rubber Soul. I have no idea what pressing etc but I got both for $23.99 (CDN) each and free shipping
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Health and Community Services Complaints (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill
Second Reading
Adjourned debate on second reading.
(Continued from 18 October 2018.)
The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (17:41): I rise on behalf of the Greens to indicate that we support the Health and Community Services Complaints (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2018. This bill will amend the Health and Community Services Complaints Act 2004 so that the National Code of Conduct for healthcare workers that was approved by the COAG Health Council for adoption by the states and territories replaces the Code of Conduct for Unregistered Health Practitioners (South Australian code), which is indeed currently in the regulations under the act.
The national code is, as members know, based on the current South Australian code. The South Australian code was adopted from the New South Wales model after the Social Development Committee's 'Inquiry into Bogus, Unregistered and Deregistered Health Practitioners'. That committee did some excellent work, including leading us to where we are now.
It is certainly most welcome that those parts of the practice of health that do not fall within the current regulations and appropriate structures for complaints are able to be dealt with in this way. Certainly, members would also know that one of those areas where it is quite intrinsic within the health system is the area of social work. I think this bill yet again underlines the need for the registration of social workers. This is a second-best option for the moment but is certainly no final solution. I also welcome practices such as gay conversion therapy and other dubious areas of so-called health care being able to be brought into scrutiny to give consumers and citizens alike better protections.
I remind members that at a stage soon I will be bringing my bill to register social workers to a vote, but it would be terribly unparliamentary of me to mention that, so I will actually just draw members' attention to a September 2014 document, which is entitled 'Evidence of harm caused by social workers: Australian and overseas examples', that has been put together by the Australian Association of Social Workers. It identifies examples of harm by country, including a child protection social worker who was charged and convicted with 16 counts of distributing indecent photographs of children and possessing indecent photographs. The children in the photographs are the same age as the clients that the social worker was working with. That example was from England. That person was struck off the Health and Care Professions Council register and was unable to practice from thereon as a social worker.
Another example is from Ontario, where a social worker who worked in a correctional institution was allocated a client who was incarcerated after being convicted of aggravated sexual assault. The member provided the client with counselling and psychotherapy to assist the client with managing their anger and frustration and to deal with depression, anxiety, childhood victimisation and shame and guilt over the offence for which the client was incarcerated.
The social worker then engaged in a sexual and intimate relationship with the client, engaged in personal phone contact with the client and allowed the client to access confidential records concerning other clients. The social worker discussed details of those relationships with the client in sessions rather than focusing on the client's therapeutic needs. They also shared the substance of the initial mandatory report received by the college with the client that told the client that they had to get their stories straight.
That social worker was in Ontario. They were subjected to a 12-month suspension and ordered to complete a boundaries and ethics course and engage in insight-orientated psychotherapy, and they were supervised in their practice for a period of two years. I could go on and on. Indeed, the Australian Association of Social Workers has gone on and on with countless examples that we know occur within this profession.
As I have said before, there are many good practitioners in this profession and they do deserve our respect. They have some of the most difficult jobs, and they are essential to not just our health care but also of course the community and human services that we so often laud in this place. However, there is an incongruity there: in those particular countries social work is regulated. Here in Australia it is still not.
With those few words, I look forward to this part of this particular bill that we debate no longer being required for social workers because I hope to see them covered by a proper regulation system and registration in the near future.
Debate adjourned on motion of Hon. I.K. Hunter.


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When a Japanese submarine is discovered abandoned deep in the Brazilian wilderness, a smart, adventurous, and tough zoologist must derail a catastrophic plot in Hell's Gate.
1944. As war rages in Europe and the Pacific, Army Intel makes a shocking discovery: a 300-foot Japanese sub marooned and empty, deep in the Brazilian interior. A team of Army Rangers sent to investigate has already gone missing. Now, the military sends Captain R. J. MacCready, a quick-witted, brilliant scientific jack-of-all-trades to learn why the Japanese are there—and what they're planning.
Parachuting deep into the heart of Central Brazil, one of the most remote regions on the planet, Mac is unexpectedly reunited with his hometown friend and fellow scientist Bob Thorne. A botanist presumed dead for years, Thorne lives peacefully with Yanni, an indigenous woman who possesses mysterious and invaluable skills. Their wisdom and expertise are nothing short of lifesaving for Mac as he sets out on a trail into the unknown.
Mac makes the arduous trek into an ancient, fog-shrouded valley hidden beneath a 2000-foot plateau, where he learns of a diabolical Axis plot to destroy the United States and its allies. But the enemy isn't the only danger in this treacherous jungle paradise. Silently creeping from the forest, an even darker force is on the prowl, attacking at night and targeting both man and beast. Mac has to uncover the source of this emerging biological crisis and foil the enemy's plans . . . but will he be in time to save humanity from itself?
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Legal Sports Report highlights Michelle Minton and Steven Titch's report on sports wagering.
A report released today by a Washington D.C.-based libertarian think tank argues that the US government should end the federal ban on sports betting.
The report is from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. It comes with March Madness — the annual men's college basketball tournament — just around the corner. Americans will wager billions of dollars via office pools and illegally at offshore sportsbooks. Some betting will also occur in the only US state where single-game wagering is legal: Nevada.
The CEI makes the case that Congress should act to change the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act — PASPA — empower states to determine their own gambling rules and laws.
Sports betting is legal only in a few states. There is Nevada sports betting, and limited forms of sports wagering take place in three other states. (That doesn't count daily fantasy sports, which takes place in roughly 80 percent of states.)
Despite that prohibition on sports betting, the CEI estimates that Americans bet about $9 billion on March Madness in 2016. The American Gaming Association has put estimates of total annual sports betting handle in the US north of $100 billion, most of it illegal.
The report explains that PASPA doesn't deter people from betting on sporting events, nor does it safeguard the integrity of games. Quite the opposition, the report states "the ban deprives states of billions in potential tax revenue and forces consumers into the black market where they have no protection from crime."
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Government offers incentives for innovation
Clean tech investments, venture capital funds, procurement opportunities for small vendors among budget items
The federal government is following through on some of its commitments to innovation in the 2017 budget, declaring, "Canada must do more to encourage innovation. The future success of all Canadians relies on it."
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Selling to Government
There are many small, emerging technology firms that would like to more easily be able to sell their products and services to the federal government, which makes $23 billion in purchases every year.
Chris Perram, CEO of the data analytics firm Filefacets, said his Ottawa company has actually given up on trying to make the government a customer. The government said it has heard the complaints.
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- $50 million to launch a new procurement program called Innovative Solutions Canada, modelled on a small business innovation research program in the United States.
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In the late 1800s, an eccentric inventor and long-time riverman built a home next to the Mississippi River near Minneiska, Minnesota. Putnam Gray's home was so unique that people talked about it for decades, and people like me are still fascinated by it today.
Gray was born in Ohio in 1833 and began working on the Ohio River as a young man, guiding coal-filled barges to markets in New Orleans. He moved to Minnesota in 1856 to farm, but farming wasn't his thing, so he returned to the river. He told an interviewer:
I worked in the south until the outbreak of the Civil War and then returned to the north to take a place in the ranks of the Federal army. With the 38th Illinois I spent three desperate years, filled with perils and adventure, but always crowded with action, uncertain and deadly as it was. Among some of the incidents which I remember is the capture, unaided, of two rebels.
After the war, he married Sarah Abrams; they had five children. Sometime in the 1870s he began building that distinctive house. He did it on the cheap, buying cut lumber that others had salvaged from the river, plus a few materials that happened to float by. He created a unique architectural style that some called "Victorian packrat."
The structure, in its perpetually unfinished state, looked more like the grounded shell of a steamboat than a house. It rose three stories high on a low bank. The front had a tower topped with tinker toy-like gazebos topped with what looks like three Gothic window frames nailed together to create a crown. Balconies ran the length of the structure on the second and third floors. Some of the walls lean, and the whole thing looks ready to explode in flames if a stray spark drifted by. I'd love to know what the inside looked like, but I haven't been able to find any photos or descriptions.
The house was such a landmark that it showed up on postcards of the era. Folks also believed that the house was haunted, and not just because it looked like something from another dimension. Gray's daughters helped promote the idea. When the spirit moved them and they heard a boat approaching, they'd wrap themselves in sheets and dance around the balcony. As the boat's light passed over the shrouded girls, passengers must have thought that they just caught a glimpse of some tortured souls.
Gray's house didn't have all that long a life. Sometime in the early 1900s, it collapsed, burned, sank, or returned to the alternate dimension from whence it came. No one seems too certain about the details. Putnam outlived Sarah but in 1913—at the spry age of 80!—he married again, one Bessy Shively of Winona. Gray died in 1921 in Minneapolis.
BONUS: There's another view of Putnam Gray's house online at the Minnesota Historical Society's website.
Putnam Gray left his mark in other ways, too. Some believe he invented what was later called the Ferris wheel. In 1892, he and his sons, Lafayette and Verenzo, exhibited a round wheel at a Winona fair. An operator turned a crank by hand that turned the wheel and gave passengers a merry ride up, down, and around. There's an old story that George Ferris just happened to be in Winona when Gray was giving rides on his vertical merry-go-round, although Ferris presumably did not witness the malfunction that resulted in a couple of passengers being dropped from the top of the ride and injured. Ferris, as the story goes, followed Gray to Fountain City and convinced him to sell the rights, which Gray did. Ferris built a wheel on a bigger scale and exhibited it at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and the rest is history.
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Goodbye to John Farrell
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John was an enlightened traveler who blessed the earth with his presence from 1953 to 2010. His soft-spoken gentleness, compassionate sincerity and quirky sense of humor inspired the love and admiration of all. John was a talented artist, a musician, and a true poet. His inspired vision of the world, love of life, and creativity burst forth irrepressibly from all of his work - whether it was an exquisite glass goblet, a chaotically masterful painting, a mysterious poem, a pot of veggie soup, or a doodle on a napkin. John attended high school in Westwood, MA., and studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pilchuck Glass School. He was an accomplished glassblower, and worked in the studios of Dale Chihuly and Sonja Blomdahl, among others. His own work was displayed in galleries in New York, Santa Fe and Washington, DC. John's original music, with electronica band Bagger 288 and muscian, John Fisher, was broadcast on Seattle radio station KEXP, accompanied silent film in the movie theater, and was played in many live concerts, public and private.The son of James and Betty Farrell, brother of Lee and David, and owner of Casper the Cat, John has many loving friends around the country. John, we are grateful for the time you gave us and wish you happy travels throughout the great mystery. A memorial will be held Sun, June 6, 2-6, at the studio of Lisa Kinoshita, 301 Puyallup Ave., Ste. A, Tacoma 98402.
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Back to Reading in KS
November 14, 2013
I've been back in the US for a little over three months. This astonishes me. Time seems to be moving so much faster this fall than last, though that's probably just a perspective thing or a busy-ness thing or a "I live in a place that's more familiar and therefore, relatively less difficult" thing. I'm finally getting into a rhythm/schedule. I'm finally finding time to see friends on a more regular basis and not just a "I'm back from Russia! Let's get coffee!" visit. Finally getting a handle on workload and learning how to grade student essays more efficiently and how to abandon work at 8 pm…or sometimes earlier. I'm finally starting to write again more regularly. Finally starting to make sense of the last year and a half of my life, what I've learned, what Russia means to me. I have not, however, found time yet to make an eye doctor's appointment, wash my new car before winter sets in, or fully unpack my apartment–winter break?
What I want to write about, though, is finally making it back to Lawrence for a reading. The things above will likely take a few more weeks (months? years?) of reflection to come together.
While I was in Moscow, my chapbook Attachment Theory was released, so I never got to have an "official" release reading/celebration. Finally, after three months back, I got around to doing that. The Raven (which became my favorite bookstore almost as soon as I moved to Lawrence, not just for its selection and atmosphere but also for the way it support local writers), agreed to host. I invited fellow writers (more importantly friends) Ben Pfeiffer and Mary Stone Dockery to read with me. I saw no better way to introduce my chapbook and celebrate my "return to America" than with them.
I don't have a lot to say about this reading except that it felt great. I was so happy to be in Lawrence. I was so happy to read with Mary and Ben and to look out and see an audience full of friends. When I stepped up to the mic, I realized that I was less nervous than I've ever been for a reading. It's likely I gained some confidence living abroad for a year; Russia requires a bit more directness, a harder shell than the Midwest. But it seems more likely that when I looked into the audience, I realized that with the exception of a few folks, everyone was a friend…friends sitting there, glad I went but glad I'm back, smiling, waiting to hear poems and stories about Moscow.
Guest Blog: Jack in Moscow
July 22, 2013
A guest blog from my third visitor, my boyfriend, Jack Kynion III, who visited Moscow at the end of May/beginning of June.
What to say of Moscow? Was it a good trip? Uh… what's a good trip? For those of you with a weak stomach for rom-coms, read no further. After all, my only incentive for visiting Moscow, Russia, was to see a particular bright-eyed, beautiful young woman. The creator of this blog in fact. As such, I imagine this rambling, self-involved blog post will be full of corny moments, with over-indulgent descriptions of scenery sprinkled in. Well, unless the editor (take a guess who that is) cuts out all of the aforementioned gooey moments.
It seems cliché, but how do you not mention the flight over? A ten hour flight over the extreme northern hemisphere is a trek so few of us take that it makes us all curious about it. My review? It's not so bad. Kind of boring because clouds, though magnificent, are pretty much just clouds. The inflight entertainment isn't terrible. New releases, not-yet-released releases, and a fascinating graphic where the plane is gigantic compared to the incredibly inarticulate map. In truth, I didn't really notice much of the time because on the flight and during my last two weeks of law school finals, in my mind, I was already in Moscow.
I don't know if the relatively lax nature of Russian airport security is a good reflection on the TSA or not. On the one hand, we can rest assured that there is nowhere in the world (save maybe Israel) where more people are frisked, eyed, and made generally uncomfortable in order to fly than the U.S. of A. This should provide a relative sense of safety. On the other hand, I'm not sure what it says about one of the most liberal (read philosophically, not politically) democracies in the world, that the capital of the FORMER SOVIET UNION has easier entrance policies than we do. Interestingly, I wrote this line a couple of weeks before Snowden Gate. No matter, I didn't notice much of it anyways.
The whole walk from the airplane was just entranceway after entranceway. Not being a frequent international flyer I wasn't sure which entrance way was the one that finally let me out. The one that finally let me get to Kara. So, I rounded every corner with an air of expectancy only to be disappointed. But I remained focused. Passport control, Customs, none of these were going to deter me. When I finally got through, there she was, smiling and not completely sure how to greet me.
When you don't see someone for nearly five months you aren't sure where to put your hands. You sort of have to remember through trial and error how to hug. And then you do and you remember why it was so hard to focus through finals week. Most everything else was a blur that day. 5,000 miles in the air can do that to a person. I didn't care much because I was where I wanted to be for the first time in a while.
As for Moscow, I didn't like it very much, but my position softened as the days went by. The feeling of pressure that permeates the air became more understandable with time. What seems to be a fairly authoritarian government may still be an improvement from darker times. The effects of both of those systems can still be felt. But as I grew accustomed to that feeling, I was able to notice the little things a little bit more. Little things like the necessity of exact change, the lady on the street that sells the yogurt Kara likes, the incredible efficiency of the Moscow Metro system. And eventually I made up my mind about Moscow: it's a tough place to live that has scores and scores of pretty decent people, trying to make it through the day. The strangest thing about it was that it didn't seem to possess that rabid energy indicative of big cities like London or New York, except in a few places. Actually, the weirdest feeling came in the evening for me. Dusk seems to last from 7:30 to 11:30, which leaves you in a state of perpetual shutting down. Like computers trying to install an update of Windows 98. You look outside, it's 10:30-11:00, and the sun is still peaking back at you. It makes everything slightly nostalgic.
For me, going to Moscow had some unintended results. I hadn't considered how much sitting time I would have because Kara had to work part of the time I was here. I didn't anticipate that I would spend time thinking about what I wanted to do with my life. I didn't know that having nothing to do would be such a liberating feeling. I think they call it vacation. Mostly, though, I didn't know that being with Kara was going to make everything feel more in its own place.
I've been trying for weeks to explain in conversation what my trip to Moscow was like. Sometimes I express it in a series of vignettes. Sometimes I try to work deductively from broad principles to explain what Moscow is. Most of the time, I sheepishly explain that I didn't see many tourist-y things because I didn't care much about seeing much besides Kara. And now I have to describe in writing something I can't explain in talking. I'm much better at talking.
So, in lieu of trying to write as well as Ben Pfeiffer or be as funny as Molly McCleery, I will conclude with a short list. Anyone that knows Kara M. Bollinger will understand that this ending is an homage of sorts to her, the ultimate list maker.
- I love being an American. I am thankful to God for the cosmic event that allowed me to be born here. And there is nothing like Kansas heat and humidity during summer, a strange thing that I missed.
- Kara's friends in Moscow are caring, hospitable, people who I hope will be well loved and taken care of in their lives. They have done a wonderful job of caring for her and I am thankful for that.
- The only thing I feel I missed out on was sitting in one of the huge beanbag chairs in Gorky Park.
- It's inexpressible how blessed I am to have been able to travel to Russia to see my girlfriend AND visit Jerusalem, Israel AND visit Venice, Italy a week after getting out of law school. They haven't yet made words in English that can express the immensity of my blessings.
- Little things on big trips are worth more to me than big things. Like the family in the airport in Rostov. Three daughters, mother and father. Abuzz in the waiting room chatting, arguing, smiling, just being a family. I couldn't understand a single word but I'm real happy I got to watch them awhile.
- Kara is a friggin' champion for braving Moscow for an entire year.
- I'm proud of her.
- I love her more now than before I went to Russia.
So, yeah, I had a good trip.
July 15, 2013
Two weeks before I moved to Moscow last August, I read a National Geographic article about dachas, Russian summer homes. Gardener that I am, I knew that living in an enormous city for a year would be difficult, especially a city in a country with such a long, dark winter. So, I vowed to get to a dacha. Later, some of my American friends who study Russian said "If you get the chance to visit a dacha, go." They described never-ending food and vodka; long, sunny days; gardens; and a break from Moscow stuffiness.
The culture surrounding dachas fascinates me. They've apparently been around since Peter the Great, but they became more common in during the Soviet Period, when the government gave land to citizens. This land had strict regulations attached to it–since it was to be used for gardening, the new landowners couldn't built anything bigger than a shed for tools and maybe a small area to sleep overnight. Now those restrictions have been dropped, and people can buy their own land and build whatever they like (within village regulations, I assume). Depending on the village and the owner, some dachas are mansions and some still look like gardening shacks. As the NG article points out, the purpose of the dacha is now contested–for many members of older generations it's a place to work; for some, it's a place for the family to be together; for the younger generation, it's a place to relax; and for the elite, it's another way to exhibit wealth; for others, it's a mixture.
I have no research to back this up, but I'd guess that well over half of Moscow's families own dachas; obviously, from the middle and upper classes. On Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, the traffic leaving the city is ridiculous and makes the normal 45 min to 2.5 hour drive to the dacha last anywhere from 3 to 6 hours; the same thing happens on Sunday evenings when people return. For many Muscovites, going to the dacha isn't something to do a few times a summer, but every weekend; my Moscow best friend, Sveta, gets legitimately upset if she doesn't make it to the dacha each weekend, and after visiting one, I understand why. Some people go there for the entire summer, like my friend Anya who took her 3-month old daughter to the dacha in May and is still there.
I've never seen anything like dacha culture. Sure, Americans make a mass exodus for certain summer holidays and many people own lake houses, but it is nothing like this. It makes sense, though, right? If you get 3 months of enjoyable/warm weather, you won't waste them. This is why Musocvites line park benches every night after work, why old men sunbathe in Speedos at 7 am, why people stand in the most awkward positions just to be in the sun and not the shade made by trees in the forest, as if they can get all the Vitamin D their bodies need in a 3 months. Maybe they can.
At the end of June, I finally made it to a dacha, that of my friends Anya and Nastya's family. Unfortunately, Nastya and I couldn't devote the entire weekend, so we left at 8 am on Saturday morning. The 1.5 hour drive only took 3 hours, so Nastya said that the traffic wasn't too bad. My first surprise was that dachas are all different, not a series of wooden houses with flowers as I'd expected. Some were wooden, but some had siding and a few were even brick.
As I mentioned earlier, Anya is there this summer with her daughter Masha, her parents, and their aunt; Anya's husband Dima commutes from Moscow every weekend by train. I'd hardly been introduced to the family before Anya asked if we wanted to pick strawberries, which we had with творог for a late breakfast.
Though they didn't speak much English, Anya and Nastya's parents were incredibly kind and hospitable to me and we talked through Anya and Nastya's translations. They sold their old dacha and built this one about seven years ago.
Shortly after breakfast, we went in search of berries. I'd been told to pack long sleeves and pants to avoid mosquitoes. The family scoured the house for a hat, boots, and socks for me, and Nastya and Anya's father emerged with six hats for me to choose from, but as often happens in Russia, someone else made my decision–I was given the hat with the most coverage, camouflage and with a cape. I felt like I was going into the desert. While we waited for the rest of the family, Nastya laughed "The most fun part of going to the forest is getting dressed for the forest."
I learned two things in the Russian forest: First, Russia has a lot of mosquitoes. Though the hat made me look funny, I was thankful to have it. I must have reapplied bug spray 5 times and still had bites the next day. Second, berry picking is serious business. Nastya and Anya's mom Olga was quick and thorough. We were looking for these berries that are essentially mini blueberries (we later used the dacha's WiFi…yep, Dacha WiFi (and though I brought it along, I refused to used my tablet)…to learn that they're actually called "bilberries") and though we passed bushes of them, she trudged on through tall grass and fallen trees until finally, we found an area that she deemed mostly untouched. When we finished, Olga had picked three times as many berries as anyone else. We also stopped for mushrooms, mini-strawberries, and wildflowers.
After lunch, we went to visit one of their neighbors. Her land is actually a few plots put together and she's filled it with an enormous garden: onions, beets, corn, cabbage, sunflowers, potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, flowers, and two greenhouses with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. We talked about her methods and the full work days she puts into the garden. She sent me off with strawberries, peppers, and cucumbers.
The rest of the day was spent talking and resting and playing with Masha. After a walk and some cake with tea, it was time to leave. I felt tired, the same wonderful, fulfilling tired I felt as an 8-year-old at the end of an evening spent in the backyard collecting lightening bugs. They sent me away with wildflowers, bilberries, and strawberries.
As we left, Anya's father said "Well, your dachas in America must be better," and I replied "No, we don't have them." I considered adding that we should have them, but honestly, I don't think this would work as perfectly anywhere else.
Guest Blog: We Keep Our Promises
June 7, 2013
As promised, a guest blog by the always lovely and supportive Ben and Sarah Pfeiffer, my second guests in Russia. Learn more about Ben and his writing here.
We promised to visit our friend, and we keep our promises. So we arrived after sixteen hours breathing recycled air and eating prepackaged airplane food and watching movies in the back of the headrests and reading Crime and Punishment. One stop in New York City and then hours suspended over the Atlantic. Kara met us at the airport, Sheremetyevo International (SVO). She met us outside of customs where a single, bored looking Russian waved us through without inspecting us. We took the train into the city and walked to the subway station. Kara pointed out the feral dogs, and, even though we wanted to, we didn't pet them.
We rode the subway to Red Square and walked past the Bolshoi Theatre (Большóй Теáтр) to our hotel, a Marriott across the street from the Historical Museum of Gulag (Музей Истории Гулага). We couldn't check in for a few hours and so we people watched in the lobby and paid the equivalent of $30 for two glasses of iced tea because we weren't used to the currency. We went up to the room, a plain, clean, red-and-white space, plugged our iPhones into the strange two-pronged outlets, and fell asleep.
Kara met us that evening after work and took us to dinner and afterward we walked to Red Square. We took pictures of the cathedrals and the State Historical Museum. In the morning, we went back alone and stumbled around until we found the entrance to the Kremlin. Inside we passed the office buildings and the gold-white cathedrals and went on along the river. We took a tour of the Armory in the afternoon, peered through thick glass at the tsarist treasures, pressed the audio tour headphones into our ears to keep from dropping them. Then we went out again and went looking for something to eat. We found a London pub and ordered Pepsi (Пепси). That night Kara took us through a part of town called Clear Ponds (Чистый Пруди) to a hip and excellent restaurant where they wouldn't let you take pictures. We drank beer and took a picture anyway when the staff wasn't looking.
The next day, Wednesday, we rode the subway by ourselves. I took Russian in college and some of it returned to me in Moscow and I could sort of sound out the places and we didn't get lost like we thought we might. Kara met us at the subway stop and we walked past an enormous abandoned fortress complex to the university where she teaches. The New Economic School is in a tall office building with a sculpture hanging on the front, a gray concrete platelet of epic proportions, or some kind of flattened doughnut ring, a piece of modern or soviet art. We ate in the cafeteria. She showed us the damaged sheetrock outside her office where a man who works in her school's building shoots an airsoft gun into a paper target. He just stands on a balcony and smokes cigars and fires his toy guns down the hall or into the open air above the city. We met Olga, Kara's boss, and we met her friends, who we would see again that night at dinner.
Another short subway ride brought us to a sculpture park filled with broken monuments to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin's head. Stalin's head with the nose chiseled off. Hammers and sickles, a cage of poured concrete heads. Angels, rabbits in a boat, a soviet worker woman, a cartoon statue of Albert Einstein (Альберт Эйнштейн) and Neils Bohr (Нильс Бор). We walked through the park to the river and gazed at the enormous statue of Peter the Great. Russians hate the statue. Urban legend claims at the statue—the eighth tallest in the world at 98 meters—was ordered for America as a statue of Christopher Columbus. That's why Peter is on a bunch of ships and has a golden map. When America rejected the design, apparently they just knocked off Columbus's head and put Peter's on, which involved changing the features to have fashionable mustaches and crazy eyes. The statue supposedly commemorates 300 years of the Russian navy, which Peter started, and was designed by a Georgian named Zurab Tsereteli. Peter the Great hated Moscow so it's strange that his 15-story-tall statue should appear in this city that he abandoned to start St. Petersburg. Apparently this same Tsereteli did design a statue of Christopher Columbus called "Birth of the New World," and the U.S. did in fact reject the design, so there might be something to those legends about the origins. People think Tsereteli's designs are pompous and self-important. We didn't care. Then to kill time we went to Gorky Park and bought more Pepsis. In line, a kid asked us, "Are you Americans?" Strangely enough, he turned out to attend the same small college in Missouri that Kara had gone to, a coincidence strange enough to appear in a Charles Dickens novel. We were over 5,000 miles from Missouri, after all, so maybe he was lying.
There's so much more to tell. We ate a wonderful Georgian meal with Kara's friends, we rode a night train to St. Petersburg, and we spent an evening at the ballet, Swan Lake. We drank liquor made from small red berries of a kind not seen in the U.S. and we stayed up late talking. We went to Peter the Great's palace, now a museum, the Hermitage. We bought playing cards with tsars on them; we bought a furry Russian hat with earflaps from a man whose nose was dripping snot down his chin and onto his chest. We spent hours walking among the St. Petersburg canals and we rode the deepest subway system in Europe if not the world. We took a day train back to Moscow. At the train station we ate cheese pastries and watched Russian music videos, including one with a sexy bellhop who falls in love with a socialite and one with a rock star who dresses up like Spider-man and drives a tank and one with a fat American who turns into a vicious beast that eats the sun and plunges the world into darkness. Kara took us to the airport the next morning. We passed through customs without speaking to the Russian guards who examined us. On the flight home, before we landed in America again, before we came back to our lives and our jobs, we spent sixteen hours breathing recycled air and eating prepackaged airplane food and watching movies in the back of the headrests and finishing Crime and Punishment. We had promised to visit our friend, and we always keep our promises.
Guest Blog: Molly in Moscow
April 11, 2013
As promised, a guest blog by the one and only Molly McCleery, the first of many of my guests to Russia. I hope you enjoy reading her impressions about her trip to the Motherland.
On a Wednesday last February, I drove from Omaha to Lawrence to see a Ryan Adams show with Kara. After the concert, I skipped my Thursday classes, and we had the first annual Kara-Molly Midweek Weekend, a time where we do weekend things (get brunch, go to record stores, etc.) in the middle of the week. Moscow was like a giant midweek weekend. It is impossible for me to articulate all of my thoughts on this experience in a short blog post. Consequently, I will shy away from making any big statements about what I think of Moscow. What follows will likely seem silly to those with an expansive knowledge of Russian history, which I admittedly lack.
I'm not sure when it was decided I was going to visit Moscow. I think when Kara told me she had gotten the job at NES and was moving to Moscow, we both just assumed that I would visit at some point. After months of anticipation, all of the sudden it was time for me to go to Moscow. In Lincoln, I packed up a suitcase full of warm clothes and American snacks for Kara and headed on my way. After stops in Knoxville, Des Moines, Minneapolis, and New York City, I arrived at Sheremetyevo. Kara bought me the first of many cups of coffee consumed throughout the trip, and we were on our way. Here is a quick run down of my observations from Moscow:
1. A few of the things I loved most about Russia: eating many delicious cheese-based dishes (syrniki, zapekana, bliny) at canteens, sculptures (the Fallen Monument Park and the Yuri Gagarin statue), and coffee at Ludi Kak Ludi. I also loved drinking beers in the afternoon at super hip bars.
2. Russian winter attire is AMAZING, especially women's fur coats and children's snowsuits. Every time we would get on the Metro, it would be filled with women wearing huge fur coats. Some of them were extremely glamorous, like pieces of a movie costume. Others were just gross, made of some inexplicable animal's dirty and matted hair. Another passenger would inevitably shove you into these coats, forcing you to touch the remains of whatever animal had been made into a jacket.
However, my feelings toward children's snowsuits are 100% positive. Kara can attest to the fact that I was obsessed with them. Toddlers who, by nature, stumble around are further constricted when their parents dress them in layers and layers of waterproof gear. Not only do the snowsuits prevent the snow from getting in, they also prevent children from being able to raise their arms, bend their legs when sitting on the Metro, or walk at a normal pace. As a result, children walk like tiny robots as their parents essentially drag them around the city. My favorite snowsuit child sat, completely covered except for her fat little cheeks, eating a gigantic cone of cotton candy. Whatta life.
3. No matter where you are in the world, there is really something to be said for slow brunches at home while watching Beyonce music videos. The same can be said for wine and animal crackers.
4. I would like to contact Nicholas Cage's people about him making the Russian version of National Treasure that I dreamed up when we visited the Kremlin. It involves a briefcase full of rubles and the secret passageways from the Kremlin cathedrals to the tzarina's bedrooms in the palace.
5. Can someone please explain to me the weird sandwich meal you get on international flights? This is the sandwich you get two to three hours after your full meal. On my flight from Moscow to New York, we got the most interesting sandwich meal I've ever gotten on an airplane: a dinner roll stuffed with melted cheese, green peppers, and chunks of ham served with Russian Baskin Robbins ice cream. I know international travel means getting hungry at weird times, but I do not understand this.


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"Until mother nature sets up a back office with an invoice system, behaviour won't change and natural resources can be used indiscriminately," says Chris Brett, global head of sustainability at Olam International, in this issue's cover feature. The food producer believes that putting a price on carbon and other externalities is the only answer.
In our article on natural capital, we also hear from sports and luxury brand company Kering, which has created an environmental profit and loss tool to attempt to calculate the cost of economic 'hotspots' in the supply chain.
While lots of companies are worried about ongoing availability and price of resources including energy and water, few consider the effect of what they buy on, for example, biodiversity. These are big, complex issues and it takes true leaders to dare to do things differently.
Social value is another issue that is slowly catching on. UK public sector organisations are compelled to consider it when they commission services but now businesses are voluntarily working to ensure their purchases bring about economic, environmental or societal benefits.
One is FMCG giant Johnson & Johnson which is targeting social enterprises that help improve people's health and provide employment to those who would otherwise find it difficult, such as ex-offenders.
Fittingly daring to be different, to step up, speak out and act are the themes of CIPS events this year. 'Raise your game, raise your voice' is the title of the UK Annual Conference in October, for which you can now buy tickets (www.cipsannualconference.com).
One way in which the institute seeks to give something back is through the CIPS Foundation, a registered charity to help those struggling to get into or progress in the profession as a result of hardship, illness, discrimination or political unrest.
One student who has recently benefitted is Umuroo Budha Duba from Kenya. His family's income is just £130 a year and the grant he received will, in his words, "turn his life around for the better".
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