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I have been dating this really nice guy at London escorts, but now he has moved abroad so I don't see him anymore. The only thing is that he gave me a lot of nice jewellery during our time together. Some of it I like, other stuff I do not like at all. Recently I have been debating if I should sell the jewellery. He is not very likely to come back from abroad so I am sure that he will not know that I have sold it.
You have to be careful when you sell jewellery. A couple of the girls here at London escorts have done it before and I am not sure that they have got such good deals on their bling so to speak. They have just popped into the nearest jewellery store and sold it to them. I want to be a little bit more selective than that, and I want to make sure that I sell to someone, or to some place, where I get the most money for it. That may not be so easy to do.
In London, there are now lots of places where you can sell your jewellery. The problem with the jewellery that I have been given at London escorts is that it is not only gold. Some of it has diamonds in it and all sorts. To get a decent price for it, I think that I would need to go to a specialist dealer. There are some of them around in London, and one of the best places to look would be Hatton Gardens. This is the part of London where you will find diamond merchants and other people like that.
There are also a lot of sites on the Internet which advertise that they will buy your gold. The deals are good, and some of the other girls here at London escorts have used them. But, the problem is that I am not sure that I want to send my bling of to these online merchants. I am not sure that it is going to be safe, and on top of that, I am not sure that I would get the price again. You may even get a better price at your local pawn brokers than online. I have thought about my local pawn brokers as I sold a couple of designer hand bags there for a very good price.
In many ways I feel a bit guilty about selling my jewellery. I know that my gent has left the country but he was really special to me. During our time together at sexy escorts in London, I enjoyed his company a lot and I am sure that he enjoyed mine. I am planning to keep some special pieces as a momentum of him. They will probably stay with me for the rest of my lief, and I am sure that I will look after them, and think of him every time that I see them. Sometimes it is not easy to let go at all.


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Trending: Senator Ted Cruz Destroys Environmentalist During Hearing on Climate Change
Senator Rand Paul spoke to a crowd of about 500 on Wednesday in Seattle, where his message was clear — both parties are to blame for America's problems. "Washington is horribly broken and you ask yourself whose fault is it? Well let's see, Republicans, Democrats — let's just say everybody in Washington ought to come home and we ought to start over." He also told the crowd that if they were "eager for war" they should find themselves another candidate!
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Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) argues that the Obama administration has mishandled relations with China and that the next President should deal with the communist nation from a position of strength.
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President Obama's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is redefining the word "employer" and that's not a good thing.
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Fitness has always been part of my adult life. In my earlier adult years, it was the goal of strength and symmetry in the weight room. As an older adult in my forties, it was the test of endurance events. Starting with a half-marathon and training up to a series of marathons…making the move to more interesting race settings as a Spartan race and now, in my fifties, it has come full circle. I'm back in the weight-room area of the fitness center sculpting and pushing my body to see what the limits might be at this stage in my life.
The reasons have changed though. In my youth, my motivation was an even mixture of vanity and possibility. I wanted to see how good my body cold look and challenge myself to see what I could do and how far I could take it. While the former has since become less a motivation the latter has always been a part of my personality.
It truly is about fitness and health now, but it is also about inspiration and motivation. I want to inspire and motivate others to a healthier way of living and being as well as encourage older adults to continue to pursue their dreams.
While my generation is redefining what it is to "grow old" there is an undercurrent of thought that confines aging adults to inactivity. This idea of one's "sunset years" gives permission to sedentary living and relegates adventure and accomplishment to the young.
I've never bought into this idea. I've embraced the opening words from Dylan Thomas' poem as a part of my worldview; my paradigm for aging, "Do not go gentle into the good night… Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
It's not that I fear death. It comes to us all. What I fear is not living. What I fear is the thought of a wasted life.
St Augustine said that "the glory of God is a man fully alive." I believe that "aliveness" is to be experienced until there is no more breathe left. The only adventure to be had is the unknown of what comes after life has been extinguished by death and not by lethargy and lack of vision.
There's a commercial in which there are a group of runners participating in a marathon. The commercial focuses on a mature woman as she approaches the finish line. The tag line, "Because not everyone peaks in their twenties."
That's it! I haven't peaked yet. Maybe that should be the mantra of this aging generation.
Join me. Let us "rage against the dying of the light" and forge new adventures, immersed in new experiences and the joy and vitality that comes from doing something for the first time. Be fully alive. As the man said, "Stay thirsty my friend."


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Kumar Sangakkara, Surrey
It was said that Barry Richards, his career coinciding with South Africa's isolation, became bored with batting that notch below international as it came so easily to him. Well, it can't have come much more easily to the South African champion than it came to Kumar Sangakkara, an all-time great of the game, whose powers, at almost 40 and in his last season of first-class cricket, seem not so much undiminished, as enhanced.
Playing home matches at The Oval, a ground steeped in history for a history-maker, the Lankan lefty cut and pulled if the ball was short, drove with elegance and timing if the ball was up and if it was on a length? Well, he hit some of those to the fence too, because, well, he could. You didn't need to look to see if the shots were his or his partner's; the ball made a special sound off his bat, more like the crack of a whip in the desert air than the sound of leather on willow on a dank spring or autumnal morning. I can't recall seeing fielders applaud his strokes but they must surely have had to exercise will to resist the urge.
That was just the aesthetics. The statistics are even more impressive: 1,491 runs in Division One at 106.5, the leading scorer by 335; eight centuries scored against all counties bar Hampshire; and 545 runs at 78 (strike rate 97) in 50 overs cricket and 120 runs at 30 (146) in T20 cricket. All accomplished with the minimum of fuss despite the cross-Atlantic commuting to the Caribbean Premier League (he was the second highest runscorer there too), his play failing to astound but one person – himself.
As some do when the end is in sight, Sangakkara seemed to value his gifts all the more and the stage he had been offered to display them. He said this about the county game:
The county professional is a very, very special breed of person and I've found a completely new respect not just for county cricket but for the game as a whole. To understand that wherever there is first-class cricket, the pride with which they play this sport, the pride in which the club supports the players and the pride with which the fans come and embrace those players. It's something that suddenly hit me and it hit me once I retired from international cricket. I regret that but I thank Surrey for allowing me to rediscover that immense love and passion that first-class cricket and cricketers have for this game, and what an amazing breeding ground it is for players.
He has some T20 business to conclude and then… Well, who knows? But cricket can't afford to lose a man of such gifts; neither can sport, perhaps not the world as a whole. And if King Kumar does bring his formidable presence to fields beyond mere sport, his Cowdrey Lecture of 2011 gives grounds to believe that he will go into bat for decency and dignity – and boy, does that side need help these days.
Alex Hales, Nottinghamshire
In the One-Day Cup final Surrey had made 297-9, a highly competitive score on a pitch that turned enough to prompt England to start their Test summer with two spinners just a few days later. Surrey's seamers got plenty of grip too and Nottinghamshire's batsmen trooped in and out of the Long Room with a regularity that had Surrey supporters happy at Lord's for once. But Alex Hales was playing a different game – 50 posted from 35 balls; 100 from 83 (with the scoreboard showing 133-4). Surrey knew they had to get him out; Notts knew they needed to find someone to prop up the other end. Chris Read (who else?) did the strike rotation and Hales biffed his way to 187 not out, the champagne and the most obvious man of the match award since Viv Richards made two more at Old Trafford 33 years earlier.
Hales finished with 434 runs in the tournament at 72.3 (strike rate 105.9) but wasn't satisfied with that – and nor were Notts. They won the T20 Blast too, Hales making 507 runs at an astonishing strike rate of 204.4. That figure is largely the result of hitting 98 boundaries, his stand up straight and hit anything wide, short or full very hard indeed putting him 12 ahead of James Vince, second amongst the T20 boundary boys.
He played only seven Championship matches in the promotion season, but Notts won five of those, showing how his red-ball strike rate of over 80 from his new slot in the middle order could take the game away from tiring bowlers. Hales will play in Division One in 2018 and might have rather more time to expand his four-day game than he expected.
Alex Davies, Lancashire
Alex Davies' expected breakthrough season in 2016 was ruined by injury, as he played only five Championship matches and no white-ball cricket at all. But the diminutive, all-action wicketkeeper-batsman has made up for it in 2017, packing what feels like two seasons' worth of cricket into a single summer.
Often keeping for a day or more, he would switch pads and gloves and, 10 minutes later, take guard against a paceman charging in with a hard new cherry in hand – an impressive feat physically and mentally, and indicative of a superb attitude towards the team, particularly in a season when he was rehabilitating himself back into top flight cricket and could, with justification, have gone in at seven, among Lancashire's impressive all-rounders.
He started the season with a bang, making 140* against Essex in a draw, an innings and result that looks rather better in the rear-view mirror than it did at the time. Later in April, he was a key figure in Lancashire's first win of an unexpectedly successful season, making 130 in the second innings, as Lanky turned a deficit of 169 into a victory by 164 runs in a match that knocked some of the stuffing out of Somerset.
He finished the season with 916 Division One runs, topping his county's charts and behind only six batsmen in the top flight. His keeping suffered not a jot under this workload, his tidy fleet-footed work bringing him 42 catches and six stumpings, third on the Division One list, despite not keeping in every game.
Of course, Lancashire have England's Jos Buttler on the books, but he played only four Championship matches for the Red Rose and seems to be, by default or design, mutating into a one-day specialist. That might suit Lancashire supporters just fine if it means more of the same from Davies, the local lad from Darwen, who might not have to work quite so hard in 2018 with Keaton Jennings' arrival at Old Trafford. Not that he'll complain if he does.
Jamie Porter, Essex
To win the County Championship, a team needs to win cricket matches. And to win cricket matches they need to take 20 wickets. And to take 20 wickets they need pace to knock over the top order with the new ball and spin to frustrate and winkle out batsmen with the old ball. Essex had the best opening bowler and best spinner on the circuit – and their runaway success in Division One was due primarily to them.
Jamie Porter was good in Division Two last year, but few expected him to fill the boots of the retiring David Masters and Graham Napier, whose canny swing and seam had brought 103 wickets at 22.2 in the promotion season. But Porter was listening, watching and learning and his 2016 haul of 55 wickets at 29 backed up a good 2015 and demonstrated that (at 23) he had the body to stand up to the rigours of bowling through an English summer. That said, nobody expected him to come through so strongly as he did in 2017, a season in which he has risen to the challenge with vim and wit to take five fivefers and a season-leading 75 Division One wickets at 17.
As was said about Toby Roland-Jones and Chris Woakes, some might claim that Porter lacks that red-zone pace that Test cricket can demand but, like those two (and one might add Ryan Sidebottom and Graham Onions from recent years), Porter's method of getting good batsmen out at less than searing pace may well work at the highest level, even in his mid to late 20s. He could hardly have made a more convincing case for international recognition than his extraordinary performances as a lynchpin in Essex's extraordinary year.
Simon Harmer, Essex
South African cricket tends to produce slow bowlers rather than spin bowlers – think JP Duminy and Paul Harris – but Simon Harmer may be bucking the trend. With Keshav Maharaj showing potential that might keep him in the Test side for a decade or more, Harmer, despite some Test match success against India in 2015 on big turning wickets, signed for Essex as a Kolpak with expectations of success somewhat muted after a 2016 season in which no Essex spinner reached double figures in the wickets column.
Harmer had a steady start to the season, picking up wickets here and there, doing enough to stay in the side without suggesting that he was more than a journeyman overseas pro of the type that can give county cricket a bad name. That impression was demolished in a single match at Chelmsford in which he took 6-92 and 8-36 in direct competition with the (hitherto) best spinner in county cricket, Jeetan Patel, whose 4-138 represented his only chance to bowl on the same strip. That innings win sent Essex 14 points clear at the halfway mark of the season and people started to look back 25 years and speculate on whether it was time for Gooch and co to be joined on the Chelmsford Honours Board.
The Essex, and Harmer, talk became louder still just one week later when the 2016 champions, Middlesex, were swept aside by an innings in the day/nighter, Harmer bagging another 14 wickets haul (5-77 and 9-95). Since then, we've talked of little else at the top of the table. Harmer finished with a pennant and 72 scalps at 19, also chipping in with handy runs the way South African slow bowlers do.
At 28, Harmer has just entered the peak years of a spinner's career, his action grooved, his variations under control, his confidence high – no wonder his one-year deal has been extended to three already. He bowls and bats with an aggressive attitude and, with shades on, he even looks a bit like Graeme Swann, ripping it to get drift and revs. He might never take 28 wickets in 10 days cricket again, but he'll take plenty in the seasons to come.
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TOWN'S next opponents Bristol City were taken all the way through extra-time to a losing penalty shoot-out in the Carling Cup second round last night.
City goalkeeper Steve Phillips thought it would be his night after a miracle double save from Jamie McFadden's second-half penalty.
It came when the tie was balanced at 2-2 with just five minutes left with City - who play Town at Ashton Gate on Saturday - having given Barclays Premiership Everton a torrid evening.
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"We played exceptionally well, and we are very pleased with the performance.
"That late penalty allowed me to get two hands to it and when he got the header in I managed to get up to tip it over, nothing special really!
"After that double save I thought it may be our night, but it was not to be which is sad because we deserved something.
"But the main thing is that we know we could have beaten Everton, we drew and played exceptionally well."
City boss Brian Tinnion claimed he was "hugely proud" of his side.
He said: "When we were two down at the break I just told them to keep believing because they could get back into the game.
"And that is what they did. We carved them open time and time again and we were the better side. There was a long spell when they just could not handle us. We had the desire to get back into the game and I am hugely proud of them."
THIRD round Carling Cup draw:
Portsmouth v Leeds, Chelsea v West Ham, Middlesbrough v Coventry, Doncaster v Nottingham Forest, Newcastle v Norwich, Millwall v Liverpool, Burnley v Aston Villa, Southampton v Colchester, Sheffield United v Watford, Everton v Leicester or Preston, Charlton v Crystal Palace, Bolton v Tottenham, Bournemouth v Cardiff, Manchester City v Arsenal, Birmingham v Fulham, Crewe v Manchester Utd.


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The Order of Daedalians, Golden Gate Flight 5 was originally chartered as the San Francisco Flight on 2 Dec 1955. This flight was established for members residing in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearby communities. Until 1969, Flight 5 lacked an official headquarters and utilized the Presidio of San Francisco postal address for its HQ and represented the Order of the Daedalians in most of the western states including Alaska and Hawaii. Flight 5 later encouraged and supported the formation of new units in the Los Angeles area (Flight 7), the San Diego Area (Flight 13), and Alaska (Polar Flight 10 in Anchorage, and Farthest North Flight 21 in Fairbanks). In February of 1969 Flight 5 found a new home at Hamilton Air Force Base with the help of the former base commander and Flight 5 member Col Charles L. Praul. At this time the roster was made up of only 400 men, half of whom resided in Northern California (Daily Independent Journal, 1969) . Records seem to be scarce for Flight 5 from 1956 to 1990 and sometime in this period, the name was changed to Galaxy Flight. In the third quarter of 1997, members of Flight 5 voted to change the name back to Golden Gate Flight 5 (James Kellogg, 2016) and the flight now resides at Travis Air Force Base still serving members throughout Northern California.
The following links will showcase the history of Hamilton Air Force Base and Travis Air Force Base:
1. Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, California), Sat Feb 8, 1969, Page 44-47
2. James W. Kellogg, Colonel USAF Retired, National Adjutant for the Order of the Daedalians
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X-Men Days of Future Past Trailer: So Many Battles Waged Over the Yearsby Joel D Amos at . Updated at . Comments
The latest X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer has arrived and it fills in some serious blanks when it comes to what to expect of this Bryan Singer X-Men movie that brings together our mutants old and new.
The overriding theme is wasted time and it is a powerful one.
Both Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender's Magneto and Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy's Professor X serve as narrator and they establish a theme for X-Men: Days of Future Past that so much time has been wasted fighting each other when the real enemy has been strengthening in the shadows.
The May 23 release also teased those Sentinels in this latest trailer and they look truly nasty! It also appears that Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique and Fassbender's Magneto have a little romance -- so there's that!
There are two X-Men movies that will truly set you up for this latest one... watch X-Men online and watch X-Men: First Class online and you're more than ready for X-Men: Days of Future Past.


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These days the diamond ring is often worn by men. The most popular style is white gold and platinum, as a result of their versatility with every style. The diamonds are subtly and evenly positioned along the band. A black diamond or other dark gemstone is often opted for. Additions are often natural materials.
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I am seduced by flowers--roses, tulips, sunflowers, daisies. During the fall season, the vibrant colors of red, green, yellow, and pink are replaced with orange, gold, and brown. I love the changing of the leaves, but I am more inspired by a beautiful rose garden or a mesmerizing bouquet of tulips.
This upcoming winter makes me dream of my carefree days in the summer reading in the Rodin museum's sculpture garden or visiting Monet's house in Giverny. So, I do what any girl with a blog would do and post some pics. Monet and Rodin shared my passion for florals. These are my two favorite places--one in the city and one in the country--where the most beautiful blooms can be found.


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SPECIAL ADVISORY: In accordance with Yale University's revised COVID-19 protocols, the Yale University Art Gallery will close to the public beginning Friday, October 16, 2020. Learn More
African Art
The African art collection comprises nearly 2,000 objects, representing 3,000 years of African history, with masks, figures, utilitarian objects, jewelry, ceramics, and textiles from throughout the continent. Highlights include ritual figures and masks from West and Central Africa, and terracotta antiquities from the Sahel area.
About African Art
The Yale University Art Gallery's collection of art from Africa south of the Sahara began with gifts of several textiles in 1937 and now consists of some 2,000 objects in wood, metal, ivory, ceramic, and other materials. Major milestones in forming the collection occurred in 1954 with the acquisition of the Linton Collection of African Art, purchased for the Gallery by Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn, and in 2004 with the gift of the collection of nearly 600 African objects from Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933. Concurrent with the 2004 gift, Benenson endowed a new curatorial position, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art, and the Gallery's Department of African Art was born. In 2010 the museum received a collection of approximately two hundred African antiquities from SusAnna and Joel B. Grae.
The collection is strongest in figurative sculpture and masks from West and Central Africa, and terracotta antiquities from the Sahel region. There are also several specialized collections, such as Christian crosses from Ethiopia and miniature masks from Liberia. Several ancient African civilizations are represented, including the Djenne, Nok, Bura, Sokoto, Koma, Sapi, and Benin. Some of the outstanding objects in the collection include: from the Sahel area, a Bamana wooden equestrian figure and a Nok male figure with arms upraised; from the Upper Guinea Coast, a Senufo figurative rhythm pounder and a Temne bush cow mask; from the Lower Guinea Coast, an elaborate Ejagham skin-covered headdress and a Fante appliquéd banner; from Central Africa, a Luba female figure with bowl and a Fang female reliquary figure; and from southern Africa, an elegant Zulu stool.
The permanent-collection galleries present approximately forty African antiquities from throughout West Africa, a display of immense ceramic vessels from across the continent, a number of musical instruments, ritual dance costumes, silver jewelry from the Sahel, and masks and figures from hundreds of African cultures.
Note from the Curator
The African art collection has now moved to the first floor, where an updated selection of objects has been reinstalled with a fresh design. The new display of works allows visitors to look at the collection from a multitude of angles, deepen their understanding of the rich and varied art traditions of the African continent, and appreciate the aesthetic power of the artworks. It juxtaposes well-known cornerstones of the collection with rarely shown works, reflecting on their materiality, surface treatment, iconography, original function, or specific historical context.
One of the works on view in the reinstalled gallery is a miniature bocio figure. It is carved from wood and wrapped tightly in a fiber rope. Bocio literally means "empowered cadaver"; these figures are related to the Vodun religion of West Africa, whose followers believe in mysterious forces or powers that govern the world and people's lives. Vodun sculptures are thought to protect humans but also empower them and help them achieve their goals. Cords and binding feature prominently in bocios and possibly refer to the violence and trauma that West Africans suffered for centuries through the slave trade. Bocios offered their owners a potent strategy to respond to difficult and threatening social conditions.
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Meet the Curator
James Green
James Green, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Assistant Curator of African Art, was born in Johannesburg. He received a B.A. from Keble College, University of Oxford, and an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and he completed his PH.D. in 2017 at the University of East Anglia. His dissertation focused on the art of the Teke peoples of West Central Africa from 1880 to 1920 and involved fieldwork at Mbe, Republic of the Congo. In 2013 he cocurated the exhibition Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum. While a fellow and research associate in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he contributed to the 2015–16 exhibition Kongo: Power and Majesty. At Yale, James ensures that the Gallery's important collection of African art is a vibrant and engaging resource for all visitors. His dual interest in collaborating with Yale students and faculty and cultivating partnerships with museums and universities in Africa helps to illuminate Africa's rich art traditions and establish tangible links with contemporary art practices.
Further Reading
Ezra, Kate. African Ivories, exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.
Goldwater, Robert. Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, exh. cat. New York: Museum for Primitive Art, 1964.
Lamp, Frederick John, et al. Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012.
Lamp, Frederick John. "Ancient Terracotta Figures from Northern Nigeria." Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2011): 49–57.
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Lamp, Frederick John. Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention, exh. cat. New York: Museum for African Art, 1996.
Lamp, Frederick John. "Charles Benenson and His Legacy of African Art to Yale." Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004): 26–43.
Lamp, Frederick John, ed. Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: African Art at Yale (2005).
Rubin, William. "Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, exh. cat. 2 vols. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984.
Thompson, Jerry L., and Susan Vogel. Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection, exh. cat. New York: Center for African Art, 1991.
Thompson, Robert Farris. Black Gods and Kings. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1976.
Thompson, Robert Farris, and Joseph Cornet. Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds, exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981.
Visonà, Monica Blackmun, et al. A History of Art in Africa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
Vogel, Susan. Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art, exh. cat. New York: Center for African Art, 1991.
Vogel, Susan. Baule: African Art/Western Eyes, exh. cat. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1997.
Walker, Roslyn A. African Women/African Art: An Exhibition of African Art Illustrating the Different Roles of Women in African Society, exh. cat. New York: African-American Institute, 1976.
Weber, Joanna, ed. Call and Response: Journeys of African Art, exh. cat. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000.


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Shaped like a Blackhawk Torpedo Bomb, this Drew Estate creation sports an oily sungrown wrapper from Ecuador and aged long-fillers from Nicaraguan bound by a Connecticut Habano leaf. The smoke is flavorful and complex, offering dense hints of leather, oak and earth complemented by bright hints of spice. A unique sweet and savory nuance lingers from time to time, which I can only describe as cinnamon. This Flying Pig is complex and burns incredibly slow despite its short stature.
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This 52-ring Toro is perfectly rolled, solid from head to toe and boasts an Ecuador Connecticut wrapper that's silky and smooth to the touch. Underneath, two Nicaraguan binders secure a vintage mixture of Dominican and Nicaraguan long-fillers. The bouquet is rich yet mellow, layered by sweet cedar and creamed coffee and finished by a long, toasty aftertaste. A fine fit for anytime enjoyment. No bells, whistles, twists or turns. Just smooth, buttery, soothing and tasty to the nub.
Honduras 6.5" x 56 Medium-Full 92-Rated
I have always loved this classic cigar. Born by the hands of a legend, the late Rolanda Reyes, Sr., Puros Indios is as Cuban-esque and rustic as it gets. Cuban-seed Honduran long-leaf tobaccos reside within a leathery Ecuador Sumatra wrapper to create a rich and chewy smoke. Each draw exhibits rich earth and rich tobacco. A touch of coffee surfaces from time to time, while a subtle zest is constant throughout the burn. Better still, the raw, Cuban twang that's present from start to finish…deliciously oldschool.
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Savor this cigar – enjoying a genuine African Cameroon wrapper leaf cultivated anywhere close to 1979 is a rare treat. Underneath this toothy, milk chocolate-hued wrapper, long-fillers from Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican combine to deliver an exquisite series of earth, sweet cedar, rich tobacco and gentle spices. The wrappers' natural sweetness completes each savory puff, offering a touch of toasted peanut on the finish.


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For Consumers
IGMA is the North American association of insulating glass manufacturers, suppliers of component materials and other industry-related professionals dedicated to upgrading product performance by promoting awareness of technological developments in the industry. IGMA is committed to meeting or exceeding our members and customers expectations.
What is an insulating glass unit?
A combination of two or more panes of glass with a hermetically sealed air space between the panes of glass, separated by a spacer. This space may or may not be filled with an inert gas, such as argon.
What is product certification?
Is the process of certifying that a product has passed performance and quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in regulations such as a building code and nationally accredited test standards, or that it complies with a set of regulations governing quality and minimum performance requirements.
Why should I buy a certified insulating glass product?
Who certifies? Manufacturers who are committed to their customers, their products and who demonstrate code compliance.
Demonstrated quality & performance: adherence to standards through periodic, accelerated lab testing & on-going product performance through unannounced periodic audits / inspections.
Assurance to end-users: window & door manufacturers, building code officials, architects / specifiers and consumer through labeling and traceability.
How do I know my windows are filled with Argon?
When a fabricator makes the decision to gas fill his units he makes additional efforts to be certain the gas remains in the unit, everything from component and material selection to training, machinery and craftsmanship on his production line. It is mandatory for manufacturers to participate in the Gas Content Initial & After weathering certification program. Units must 90% and 80% gas-fill on submitted test samples.
Research has concluded that gas is only lost if and when the edge seal around the glass perimeter fails. When the seal fails, the glass will show visible fogging due to the introduction of water vapor. Consequently, unless the unit has visibly failed, the consumer should be assured that most of the argon has been retained.
IGMA Programs for Manufacturers
IG Fabricators Workshop
In the past year, IGMA held three IG Fabricators Workshops in Texas, Minnesota and Ontario where more than 100 practitioners of the IG industry were led through the most important aspects of fabricating and testing IG units by the experts of our industry. The workshop features a balanced mix of classroom education along with hands-on demonstrations to discover best practices for cleaning, cutting and handling glass, desiccants, sealants, gas fill, frost point and much more. The reviews of the Workshops were incredibly positive. Here are comments from actual paid attendees:
- "The group of experts you had were awesome. They were very attentive, welcoming and helpful."
- "The hands-on portion is awesome. Being able to take what was learned in a presentation and then apply it in real life was really effective."
- "Hosting the event at a testing facility is great… while participants may see the IGU processes discussed at each of the stations every day, they don't always get to see the testing methods and apparatus conducted from a third party."
Typically, modules for the Workshops include:
- Station 1: Glass Cutting & Washing
- Station 2: Spacer and IG Fabrication
- Station 3: Sealants / Hot Melt Sealant / Sealant Adhesion & Butterfly Test
- Station 4: Volatile Fog
- Station 5: Gas Filling and Measurement
- Station 6: Desiccants and Desiccant Matrix
- Station 7: Forensic Investigation of IGU Failures
Stay tuned for the registration to the next IG Fabricators Workshop!
Preventing IG Failures
For several years, IGMA has sponsored a program for IG manufacturers to increase the quality of IG units in the field. This program includes presentations on the following:
- Insulating Glass Unit Design
- Glass Receiving, Cutting and WSashing
- Rigid Spacers, Muntins and Grids, and Flexible Spacer Systems
- Desiccants and Desiccated Matrix
- Sealants
- Gas Filling
- Glass and Breakage
- Product Certification
- Glass Performance for Energy Efficient Fenstration
- Glazing Guidelines for Commercial and Residential IGUs
- Handling Glass Safely
- Forensic Investigations of IGU Failures
Click here for more information on this program.
Insulating Glass Manufacturing Guidelines: Important Considerations
This technical bulletin from IGMA looks at important guidelines to consider in the industry. Download now.
IGMA Leadership Development Program
The IGMA Leadership Development Program focuses on the soft skills a leader needs to achieve his or her full potential. Everyone in the workforce develops hard skills required to be employed in the insulating glass industry, but developing soft skills (communicating effectively with people, recognizing a company's culture and effectively aligning with that culture, understanding accountability in the workplace, etc.) provides the necessary intangibles to become a great leader. Once again, IGMA is leading the glass industry into the future by creating the first leadership development program for manufacturers and fabricators of its kind. The Program offers one module monthly for twelve months, mostly via online webinar/broadcast. Learn more about this program.
This AAMA FenestrationMasters® program offers professional certification and education that covers the full breadth of the fenestration industry, including performance standards, products and materials, test methods and code requirements. This program allows participants to acquire the latest information in industry standards and practices, as well as distinguishes certified professionals from the competition. AAMA is committed to expanding collaboration with other industry organizations and to strengthening those relationships. In support of this objective, IGMA members are being offered the opportunity to enroll in the FenestrationMasters® program at the AAMA member price. That means more than a 50 percent savings – up to $700 for an individual or $7,000 for a group for orders placed through December 31, 2017.
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I had a doctor's appointment once and had to explain my goose hickies. How embarrassing. I had them on my arms and legs as well. It's needy adolescent behavior. He WANTS you. You're his parent.
As far as attacking visitors, that's their job. Your backyard is not yours... Its THEIRS. Strangers don't belong there. Nor do most unfamiliar objects. The aliens in our yard are black garbage bags, my husband's lunch box and anything with wheels. "Protect and defend." Then they'll come chew on you some more. They're not always the most hospitable creatures. They have rules about how you are supposed to approach them. "Bow to the King" is a good rule of thumb. Notice all that head bobbing they do when they see you? That is their greeting and if you reciprocate, it lets them know you have good intentions. It can work for your visitors, too.
Don't let them get between you and the visitors. They'll automatically go for the visitors. If you can, stand next to your visitors, being careful not to let them bite. Teach your friends to bow their heads to your geese. Your friends can also offer them a treat. That's not guaranteed to work, but give it a try. Also, they're not like dogs. They are hunted in the wild and are wary by nature. Their survival depends on it so they're not gonna be friendly to just anybody. Their only real defense is to look really scary and bite really, really hard!
However, they have chosen You as the special person in their life. Enjoy!!!!!
Guard Goose Gertrude
My Three Pet Ducks Follow Me Everywhere
Foster Goose Parents Do A Wonderful Job
Turkey Love
Calla the Blind Duck
Boris Makes a Big Mistake!
How I Learned to Talk With My Geese
Boris Rules
Lost Duck - Found!
Our Helpful Geese
My Gander Acted Like Lassie!
Taking a (Living) Christmas Goose to School
My Helpful But Self-Centered Gracie
What Is Going On Inside Your Goose's Head?
My Teenager (Acting) Mallards
Those Hickies Are From Your Geese? Sure.
My Gracious Geese Love Everything I Give Them
Pink Inflatable Flamingo 1 - Godzilla Gander 0
Peanut Travels 12 Miles in the Talons of a Hawk
Geese and French Fries
I Built an Incubator and Didn't Even Know It. And It Worked Great!
The Life and Love of Zyrus
How to Train Your Ganders Not to Be Aggressive
My Geese Protecting Me From The Neighbor's Dog
Little White Duck - A Poem
I Love My White Chinese
My Chinese Geese and Their Personalities
Bowing to the King Gander And What It Gets You
My Observations in Handling Geese
Recommended Books for Geese
Welsh Harlequin Report
Showing Waterfowl at the Fair
I Love These Baby Geese!
Sonny the Goose vs. Beefcake the Steer
Preventing Nipping, Controlling Noisy Greetings in Geese
Plastic Pal
Handling Aggressive Ganders
Shelter Needs for Geese
Consoling Geese
Talking to Her Geese
Rabbit sitting on Eggs?
Dog and Goose Pals
One Versus Two or More Geese
Don't Get Me Wrong, I Love My Little Flock of 10 Geese, But
Babies Scared by First Stormy Night
Gus Doing the Zoomies
Her Goose Breaking up Fighting Roosters
Advice on a Goose as a House Pet
Ducks Better Than Chickens Any Day
Those Darn Geese!
Geese Trying to Run the Duck's Show
Ducks are Great!
Ducks Easiest to Raise Poultry
How Her Ducks and Geese Co-exist
Mixing Geese and Ducks for Safety
Excellent Advice Prior to an Evacuation
How to Thwart an Aggressive Duck
African Goose Gander Adopts Ducklings
Wild Waddles
Rose the Wonderful Mother
Ducks In School
Birthday Present
Adoptive Parents
We Have Eggs!
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Leadership from Huck Finn and Comparison to Real World
Leadership Examples from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Loyalty
- Courage
Leadership Examples Observed in the RWL Program– Comparison to Huckleberry Finn
Samuel Butler, an English novelist and critic from the late 1800's, once penned, "Loyalty is still the same, whether it wins or loses the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon." Loyalty is a leadership trait that is becoming more appreciated, as this generation has unprecedented capabilities of changing jobs with frequency, as travel is for the most part a non-factor. For example, it is a common occurrence for people to have changed careers seven times (Wall Street Journal, September 2010). Prior to the mid 1900s, people would have one or possibly two careers for their life, as the opportunities to be mobile and leave for new jobs were rare, thus, the concept of loyalty in the workplace was taken for granted until recently (relatively speaking). Now, in the ever-changing world of finding and replacing workers, loyalty is becoming a more valued characteristic.
Employee loyalty was witnessed in the RWL Program at a number of the restaurants at Long John Silver's. Heading into the worksite, I thought that the majority of workers would only work there for a short time, then "trade up" to a different store or company. Instead, I witnessed a company that tries to take care of its hard working employees and in return some of them stay for long periods of time. One employee has been at her location for more than 30 years. When repeat customers came in she would always say something to them, whether it was a quick " Hello, how are you doing today, John?" or a long drawn out conversation, she knew many customers well. Some of the customers claimed that she was the only reason that they kept coming back to that store. This employee has been offered higher paying jobs, but insists that she loves working there and no one can take care of her customers as well. Her loyalty was contagious and other staff employees viewed her as a leader and mentor.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn showcases a fantastic example of loyalty. Huck Finn, for all of his mischievous ways, is an extremely loyal character. One example of Huck's loyalty revolved around another character, Jim. Jim was a runaway slave who Huck met and teamed up with. Huck and Jim became steadfast companions, taking care of each other. Huck and Jim ventured upon some people paying very handsome rewards for runaway slaves. Huck may have had some thoughts as to turning his friend in to receive the reward money, but he remained courageously loyal to Jim.
Loyalty is a revered characteristic, whether remaining loyal to a company for more than 30 years or not selling out your friend. In most companies, loyalty is rewarded with extra vacation days and small bonuses, however the intangible assets of having a good, loyal, employee are hard to measure. While at the worksites, I learned that the term loyalty is not changing, but perhaps its appreciation is.


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Eight organizations (International Civil Aviation Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Telecommunication Union, Pan American Health Organization, UNESCO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, and World Meteorological Organization) in addition to WFP, which has been IPSAS-compliant since 2008, were targeting IPSAS implementation as of 2010. Those organizations had reached the key implementation milestones, such as establishing IPSAS-compliant opening balances and ensuring that all requirements to meet IPSAS compliance at year end have been addressed. The IPSAS compliance of each organization will be tested by external auditors.
An external review was carried out in response to the request by the High-level Committee on Management on modalities for continuation of the IPSAS project beyond 2011. The review established strategic orientation for the project for the following several years. The strategic orientation for the IPSAS project will continue to be facilitation and communication on IPSAS implementation among involved entities, monitoring and reacting on IPSAS Board outputs, coordination of accounting diversity, considering that fully consistent interpretation and application of IPSAS among United Nations system organizations will not be achievable, and guidance and support related to revisions of IPSAS standards and their interpretation.


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Coming soon... to a city near you?
With shows approaching in Eindhoven (Netherlands), London, Amsterdam, Seattle, Cleveland, and more you can see why we've been telling each other that 2009 is the year of The ECC. But we're getting ahead of ourselves -- let's just stick to this weekend: Hello, Los Angeles.
The Bootie mashup club night has earned quite a bit of well-deserved success, bursting their Bay Area britches and franchising the night to New York, Paris, Munich, Beijing, Australia, and more. But their first post-SF city is still one of their biggest: Bootie Los Angeles. The ECC had a great show there two years ago at the old Safari Sam's space, but with our hot new Vidimasher 3000 and an updated Wheel of Mashup it was high time to visit again. Early birds get in cheap AND get a free CD. So come visit us at the Echoplex, spin the wheel, and mash your ass off!
WHAT: Bootie LA with The ECC, DJ Paul V, DJ Shyboy, and more
WHEN: This Saturday, March 7th 2009, 9p-2a (ECC @ 11p)
WHERE: Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Blvd. (Back Entrance)
HOW MUCH: $5 before 10p / $10 after
Looking for something to watch? The ECC's TradeMark G. has set up a new YouTube channel to post videos of other bands that ECC has (and hasn't) shared the stage with. See videos of The Master Musicians of Jajouka, L Ron Hubby, KALRI$$IAN, and more!
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Renita Coleman has 15 years experience as a newspaper journalist and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Her new co-authored book, "Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions" was published in 2015.
Her research focuses on agenda setting, race, visual communication and ethics. She has studied the effects of photographs on ethical reasoning, the framing and attribution of responsibility in health news, and the moral development of journalists and public relations practitioners, among other topics. She has published more than 30 peer reviewed articles in academic journals including Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Visual Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism, and Journalism Studies. In addition to the new book, she has another book, "The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason About Ethics," published in 2005 with co-author with Lee Wilkins of the University of Missouri.
Before beginning her academic career, Coleman was a journalist at newspapers and magazines for 15 years. She was a reporter, editor, and designer at the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer, the Sarasota FL Herald-Tribune, and the Orlando, FL Sentinel among other news organizations.
Coleman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in experimental design, lifestyle journalism, and ethics.


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TORONTO — Mining stocks and financials weighed on Canada's main stock index Tuesday as U.S. markets also fell into the red, while the Canadian dollar gained ground.
The S&P/TSX composite index was down 53.35 points to 15,915.68 in a broad-based decline that included the materials, gold and base metals sectors.
In commodities, the February gold contract fell US$12.80 to US$1,264.90 an ounce and the March copper contract was down 14 cents to US$2.95 a pound.
It was also a negative day for financial institutions, as the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) wrapped up the big banks' earnings season Tuesday with a drop in profits, which were hit by reinsurance claims related to hurricanes Irma, Maria and Harvey during the quarter ended Oct. 31. The Canadian lender's net income slipped to $1.23 billion, down from $1.35 billion during the same period a year earlier.
Canada's other big banks also saw losses, including Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD), which was down 1.32 per cent, and Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS), which was down 0.59 per cent.
"The banks are all a little weak today but if you look at the operating results the banks have reported we have seen fairly strong results from the vast majority of the banks," said Colum McKinley, vice-president and portfolio manager of Canadian equities at CIBC Asset Management Inc.
"And despite some concerns people have had about the Canadian economy and about housing and the effect that would have on the Canadian banks, we've seen fairly good results out of their underlying businesses so we continue to be encouraged by the results that we see being reported."
The energy sector was the lone bright spot among major sectors on the TSX, as the price of oil recovered modestly after a sharp drop on Monday. The January crude contract advanced 15 cents to US$57.62 per barrel.
Elsewhere in commodities, the January natural gas contract retreated seven cents to US$2.91 per mmBTU.
"There is a bit of a divergence in the energy space," McKinley noted. "There continues to be a near-term challenge on getting gas to markets effectively and concerns about growing oversupply. And so we're likely to see that weigh on these stocks in the coming months and quarters."
South of the border, Wall Street fell into the red after a recovery for technology stocks lost ground. Telecom stocks, utilities and industrial companies had the market's sharpest losses.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 109.41 points to 24,180.64. The S&P 500 index edged down 9.87 points to 2,629.57 and the Nasdaq composite index gave back 13.16 points to 6,762.21.
Tech stocks began stumbling last week as expectations ramped up for Washington to push through an overhaul of the tax system. Technology companies already pay some of the lowest effective tax rates of companies in the S&P 500, so they have less to gain from the proposal.
In currency markets, the Canadian dollar closed at an average trading value of 78.86 cents US, up 0.09 of a U.S. cent, ahead of Wednesday's Bank of Canada interest rate announcement.
That's the highest level for the loonie in six weeks when it closed at an average trading price of $78.95 cents US on Oct. 24.
- With a file from The Associated Press.


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Solving MLB Fantasy's consistency puzzle
When forming teams, focus on players with high volume stats
Imagine that you're participating in a season-long fantasy football league and the fantasy football gods contact you and your league-mates before the draft to let you know that one special kicker is going to score a massive number of points -- hundreds more than any other kicker. You're allowed to draft one kicker in this fantasy league. When should you take him?
Since landing this big-time kicker would be extremely valuable to your team and basically guarantee a championship, some might focus much of their attention on figuring out who it will be, then nab him early. The best course of action, however, would actually be to wait until the last round, as you would in any other draft.
Why? Because there's no season-to-season consistency among kicker points. That is, you can't use past kicker fantasy points to predict future points, so there's no reason to reach on a kicker; it's simply too random.
This hypothetical scenario extends to the daily-fantasy-baseball realm, too; when competing in the Official Mini Fantasy Game of MLB.com, we obviously want to hit on the players who are going to give us big points, but the degree to which we can emphasize certain players or stats depends on how confident we can be in their production.
Position consistency
Say you are playing the Official Mini Fantasy Game of MLB.com and deciding whether to spend big on your pitcher or on some bats -- Clayton Kershaw vs. an Angels stack, for instance. What's the right choice?
There are all kinds of factors that go into that decision but, if you want a source of consistent points, Kershaw is your man. Not only has he been an obviously consistent player in his career, but pitchers in general are much more consistent than hitters from game to game.
That makes sense when you consider the sample of relevant plays in a given game; pitchers regularly throw triple-digit pitches, while hitters see maybe a dozen and get only a few swings per game. We consistently see top-notch bats go hitless and lesser hitters turn in a 3-for-4 night. Meanwhile, the top pitchers are continually among the top scorers in the Official Mini Fantasy Game of MLB.com.
Player consistency
The consistency of individual players is a hot topic in the daily-fantasy-baseball world. Certainly some players appear to be more consistent than others at their position -- even after adjusting for their talent levels -- but it's really difficult to separate those numbers from randomness. It's not that some players aren't actually very consistent, but just that it's challenging to determine which players are reliable options on a nightly basis based on their past stats alone.
Instead of looking at a player's past production in an attempt to decipher his consistency, it makes more sense to study player types. For example: We know that basestealers have notoriously volatile production because stolen bases are difficult to project from night to night -- certainly harder than predicting hits.
Stat consistency
The final piece of the consistency puzzle, related to the above idea, is stat consistency. Certain stats are more reliable than others from night to night.
For pitchers, strikeout production is extremely reliable. They obviously fluctuate a bit from game to game like any other stat but, for the most part, the same pitchers continually fan the most batters. It's rare to see a low-strikeout pitcher whiff double-digit batters in a game.
Because of that consistency, it makes sense to target high-K arms when you pay for pitching. If you're allocating a high percentage of your salary cap to a single player, you want to make sure you're getting what you pay for.


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The Ballet Lover's Companion Zoe Anderson
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This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson focuses on 140 ballets, a core international repertory that encompasses works from the ethereal world of romantic ballet to the edgy, muscular works of modern choreographers. She provides a wealth of facts and insights, including information familiar only to dance world insiders, and considers such recent works as Alexei Ramansky's Shostakovich Trilogy and Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale as well as older ballets once forgotten but now returned to the repertory, such as Sylvia. To enhance enjoyment of each ballet, Anderson also offers tips on what to look for during a performance.
Each chapter introduces a period of ballet history and provides an overview of innovations and advancement in the art form. In the individual entries that follow, Anderson includes essential facts about each ballet's themes, plot, composers, choreographers, dance style, and music. The author also addresses the circumstances of each ballet's creation and its effect in the theater, and she recounts anecdotes that illuminate performance history and reception.
Reliable, accessible, and fully up to date, this book will delight anyone who attends the ballet, participates in ballet, or simply loves ballet and wants to know much more about it.
"[A] crisp ability to convey an affection for ballet and a clear-eyed view of its oddities is the abiding tone of this authoritative study of the art form's history; from its origins in the courts of France and Italy to its current incarnation as a many faceted, international genre."—Sarah Compton, Sunday Times
"This entertaining read will spark interest in an assortment of productions and make readers want to go see a performance—or at least view The Red Shoes."—Library Journal
"Anderson conveys everything in a friendly, easy going way; and there is a lot of information and detail to convey. She makes reading what she has to say a pleasure, whether looking at whole chapters or dipping in and out… It reminded me a little of going along to one of the more friendly easy-going, twenty-minute pre-performance talks that the likes of the New York City Ballet are so good at."—David Mead, Critical Dance
"The perfect amalgam of relevant and enlightening information with an utterly enjoyable prose . . . Reading it is like having a conversation with an expert friend who, with great love, introduces you to the secrets of an art too often regarded as elitist or esoteric."—Giannandrea Poesio, Dance Europe
"Clearly a lover of ballet herself, Anderson compiles program notes and synopses of 140 key productions in the international ballet repertoire…as if the author is a knowledgeable friend pointing out the salient bits. Full of context… an essential reference."—Good Book Guide
"Anderson is highly knowledgeable, and has chosen to write a highly readable work that also touches on some of the issues that ballet as an art form faces today . . . A sumptuous and enjoyable gift."—Maggie Watson, Oxford Dance Writers
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Amongst the chaos and noise from Black Friday — the US pre-Christmas shopping day that's been exported around the world — millions of people opted to instead buy absolutely nothing.
The Buy Nothing Day campaign — the same day as Black Friday each year — urges people to "lock up your wallets and purses, cut up your credit cards and dump the love of your life — shopping," in response to alleged over consumption and excessive spending.
Buy Nothing Day, a "worldwide celebration of living lightly", was founded in 1992 by Canadian artist Ted Dave.
Intended as an international day of anti-consumerist protest, the day gained momentum throughout the 90s when Adbusters, the non-profit organisation behind the Occupy movement began to promote it.
Adbusters said:
As the Christmas season approaches, keep in mind that buying something will never make you happy. It might lift your spirits for a few hours, maybe even a day or two, but in the end (especially the real end) your connections, your friends, your family, your human experiences are really all you've got.
According to its website, "the rules are simple"; consumers only have to last 24 hours without buying anything.
Several ideas for other "cheerful" protests or activities are also suggested — cutting up a credit card, a zombie walk; where people walk lifelessly around shopping malls, and a whirlmart; encouraging people to form a long conga line with their shopping trolleys in Walmart, without ever buying anything.
Amid accidental Black Friday deaths and existential threats to humanity in the form of North Korea and climate change, the campaign labels Black Friday as an "absurd dystopian phenomenon".
Black Friday is creating a brand of shoppers who will trample and fight each other to get their hands on next years landfill.
The organisation argues that small business are also left behind as they "cannot compete against this ruthless price cutting".
The team behind Buy Nothing Day hope that the idea will extend beyond just one day. They said: "We want people to make a commitment to shopping less and living more".
According to Greenpeace, who support the message of Buy Nothing Day, so-called fast fashion is one of the highest selling product categories on Black Friday — adding to the environmental strain rampant consumerism is putting on the plant.


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When most people think of puppy care, the responsibilities of feeding, grooming, walking, and cleanup come to mind. But there's much more you can do with your puppy to enhance his life, and yours.
Here are 9 puppy care tips for the owner who's looking for a more fulfilling pet experience.
1. Get Social
Puppies love to wrestle with chew toys and run circles around the kitchen island. But as good as your dog may be at keeping himself busy, it's important to socialize him, too. Socializing a puppy involves exposing him to a variety of environmental stimuli, ideally when he is between 3 – 12 weeks old.
If your dog is well socialized as a puppy, he will be more comfortable in many different types of situations as an adult. With you as his guide, introduce him to animals, buildings, crowds, good and bad weather, loud sounds, modes of transportation, music, parks, people, various surfaces, water, and any other experiences you expect he will regularly come in contact with during his lifetime. Walking your dog offers a plethora of possibilities to go out and about and socialize. Dogs love to explore, so you can take him through a variety of different neighborhoods to let him see all that the world has to offer.
Many survey reports show that a golden retriever is the most popular pet in terms of boosting the owner's social life. People love this breed regardless of the dog's age or gender. Rest assured, few people will resist playing or cuddling with such a friendly dog and, before you know it, a conversation will have begun – who knows where it may lead? You might make a new friend, or even something more!
As for those pet owners who already have that special someone or simply aren't interested in meeting anyone new, walking your dog is always fun in the company of friends, neighbors and relatives. Catch up with old friends by inviting them to come on a walk with you and your adorable pet.
Sharing activities with other family members fosters a feeling of belonging and strengthens existing relationships, especially when the activities are stress-free, relaxing and fun.


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It's no secret – babies can be messy. Some nights, you might find yourself waking up to change your baby's crib sheets three or four times! Diaper accidents, spit-ups and excess drooling aren't appealing messes for any new parent. However, there are some things that you can do to make cleanup a bit easier. First, you should always have at least four extra sets of crib bedding for your baby's crib, which means you'll always have a spare. You should also try to arrange your baby's crib so that there aren't any stuffed animals or toys that will be involved in potential messes. One of the best things you can do to minimize cleanup is to purchase an organic crib bedding & mattress protector.
Does My Crib Mattress Protector Need to Be Organic?
Many parents often question the viability of purchasing organic materials for their baby's crib. In the end, it's really up to you, and what you're willing to do in order to keep your baby safe. Some organic crib bedding & mattress protectors are very highly rated among consumers, both for their materials and their functionality. It's best to weigh your decision against the potential benefits of choosing organic materials for your baby's crib. Are you willing to take the chance that a non – organic crib bedding & mattress protector could be made of toxic materials? Do you think that the potential benefits of choosing an organic crib bedding & mattress protector are worth the price? By asking yourself these questions, you can have a better understanding of what you'd prefer for your baby's crib.
Not All Mattress Protectors Are Waterproof
When choosing an organic crib mattress protector, pay attention to if they're waterproof or not. Many parents mistakenly think that anything with the label "mattress protector" is always waterproof. In reality, this isn't always the case. Some mattress protectors are simply made of excess absorbent padding, which keeps messes from spreading too far into the baby's crib. If you don't have a waterproof crib mattress, and your crib mattress protector isn't waterproof, you might want to consider purchasing an additional barrier. Many non-toxic waterproof crib mattress protectors can be found at your local baby supply store.
Organic Crib Bedding & Mattress Protector Choices
Like with any industry, the market for baby supplies can be extremely difficult to navigate. There are so many choices! In order to stay focused, try to make your choice based on the specific features you think would be right for your baby's nursery. For example, if you want a crib mattress cover that matches your current nursery theme, your choices might be somewhat limited. Other features, such as a waterproof liner, might also be high on your list of preferred features.
When buying organic, make sure that the products you're purchasing are certified organic! Some crib mattress protectors might use the labels "natural" or "bamboo fibers" or "soy fibers" to make you think they're made of organic materials, when they're not. Be a smart shopper, and only buy organic crib bedding & mattress protectors that are certified.