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Sammi Smith
Sammi Smith in 1970
|Background information
|Birth name
|Jewel Faye Smith
|August 5, 1943
Orange County, California, U.S.
|February 12, 2005 (aged 61)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
|Country, outlaw country, country pop
|singer, songwriter
|Years active
|Columbia, Mega, Elektra, Cyclone Records
|Associated acts
|Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter
Sammi Smith (August 5, 1943 – February 12, 2005) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Born Jewel Faye Smith, she is best known for her 1971 country-pop crossover hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night", which was written by Kris Kristofferson. She became one of the few women in the outlaw country movement during the 1970s.[1]
Early life[edit]
Sammi Smith was born in Orange County, California, in 1943 but spent her childhood in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. She dropped out of school at the age of eleven and began to sing professionally in nightclubs.[2] She was only fifteen when she married Steel Guitar Hall of Fame and Night Club Operator Bobby White. They had three children. She had her first divorce in 1966. She would eventually have two more marriages. In 1967 Johnny Cash's bass player Marshall Grant discovered her singing in the Someplace Else Night Club in downtown Oklahoma City. After Grant's discovery she moved to Nashville, Tennessee. When Johnny Cash learned of her talent, he helped her get signed with Columbia Records. Her first minor country hit was in 1968, titled "So Long, Charlie Brown, Don't Look for Me Around". The song showed Smith's potential as a country music powerhouse. In 1971 she married her second husband, Willie Nelson's guitarist Jody Payne. They had one child, singer/actor/musician Waylon Payne, whose godfather is country legend Waylon Jennings.
The success of "Help Me Make It Through the Night"[edit]
"Help Me Make It Through the Night" was Sammi Smith's career hit and the one that made her famous. She had been one of the rare women in the "outlaw country" movement sweeping country music in the 1970s. At this time, country was moving in two directions: "outlaw" and a more mainstream pop sound. However, "outlaw country" would be short-lived, with country taking on a distinctly pop cast by the end of the '70s. Smith would still remain with the "outlaw" sound throughout the 1970s.
In 1970, Smith signed with a new label Mega Records and her first hit for her new label was called "He's Everywhere", which made the top 25 on the country charts. Finally, in 1971, she struck gold with "Help Me Make It Through the Night". The song immediately became a No. 1 hit on the country charts and No. 8 on the Billboard U.S. pop chart. It sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in April 1971.[3] At first, record companies were uncomfortable with the song's honest sexuality, which was new for country music, but DJs tested the song and the response from listeners was enormous. The song had been composed by Kris Kristofferson, only a songwriter at the time, who had recorded the only other version of the song. After Smith's hit, the song was later covered by Gladys Knight and the Pips and Elvis Presley; both versions achieved more modest chart success.
In 1972, Sammi Smith won a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance that year, and Kristofferson took songwriting awards. The song made Smith and Kristofferson household names in the music business.
Critics David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren called "Help Me Make It Through the Night" "a watershed event in the history of Nashville and country music" and placed it at No. 1 in their book Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles. "The dynamic country soul of the recording — thanks, for starters, to producer Jim Malloy and arranger Bill Walker — revealed the influences of a generation of Nashville music makers who had grown up listening not only to country music but also to rock & roll, jazz, pop, R&B, and even classical music," they wrote. "A crossover smash, 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' signaled country's belated arrival in the rock and soul era."[4]
After "Help Me Make It Through the Night"[edit]
After the success of her hit, Smith continued to have more success on the country charts. In 1973, Sammi moved to Dallas, Texas, with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson to become a country "outlaw". Smith would continue to have an ongoing friendship with Jennings and Nelson for the rest of her life.
Smith continued to have success with the Mega Records label until 1975. She reached Billboard's Hot Country Singles Top 10 twice after the success of "Help Me Make It Through the Night" with "Then You Walk In" (1971) and Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again" (1975), her last Top Ten hit.[5] In 1972, "I've Got to Have You" was a successful country hit, and it even broke onto the pop charts at No. 77. Smith would continue to score Top 40 country hits like "The Rainbow in Daddy's Eyes" (1974) and "Long Black Veil" (1974).
In 1976, after Mega Records closed its doors, Smith signed with Elektra Records and scored with several hits, the biggest of these were "Sunday School to Broadway" (1976), "Loving Arms" (1977), "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1977), and "Days That End in Y" (1977).
In 1979, Smith made a successful comeback album on Cyclone Records called Girl Hero. The song "What a Lie" from that album became a Top 20 country hit for Smith, peaking at No. 16. She also recorded for Sound Factory Records during the early '80s and scored her last Top 20 in 1981 with "Cheatin's a Two-Way Street." Her last charting single came in 1986 with "Love Me All Over," which peaked at No. 80 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in 1986.[5]
Decline and retirement[edit]
After 1979, little was heard from Sammi Smith. She had, however, moved to Arizona and became involved in Native American causes, working for Apaches.[2] She also started her own band called Apache Spirit, which was made up of Native Americans. In the mid-1980s she married her final husband Johnny Johnson and together they ran a Cattle Ranch in Bristow, Oklahoma. She did appearances on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. She also toured Japan. She would often bring her son Waylon Payne to guest star at the Opry. She also had a line of pottery, bath salts, and hand painted ceramic tiles for the bathroom.
In 1995 a compilation album was released called The Best of Sammi Smith, which consisted of her big hit and many other various countrypolitan songs. She had a total of 18 LPs during her career.
On February 12, 2005, at the age of 61, Sammi Smith died at her home in Oklahoma City of emphysema. Her remains were buried in Guymon, Oklahoma, which she claimed was her home town (in a Hee Haw episode that aired January 1, 1973).
To mark Sammi Smith's long career, a tribute album was released in her honor on September 26, 2006, titled Help Me Make It Through the Night: The Memorial Album. It featured all of her biggest hits from the 1970s.
Her first husband was Hank Thompson's Brazos Valley steel guitarist Bob White. They had three children. Zenithapollostar born June 9, 1962, Robert Floyd White born November 26, 1963, and Snow Jewel White born December 9[year needed]. Sammi and Bob soon divorced after their third child. Sammi later had a third son with Willie Nelson's guitarist, Jody Payne. Waylon Malloy Payne was born April 5, 1972. Later she adopted two Apache sons, Albert and Alfred. Her grandchildren include Robert Floyd White III, Amanda Gail White, Katrina Jewel White, John Daniel McBride, and Shawn Showalter, Kristen Cutbirth and Jessica Shainberg.
CMA Awards[edit]
- 1971: Single of the Year for "Help Me Make It Through the Night"[6]
Grammy Awards[edit]
- 1972: Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Help Me Make It Through the Night"
- 1998: Grammy Hall of Fame for "Help Me Make It Through the Night"
Award Nominations[edit]
CMA Awards[edit]
- 1971: Album of the Year for Help Me Make It Through the Night
- 1971: Female Vocalist of the Year[6]
- ^ Tucker, Stephen R. (2012). Kingsbury, Paul; McCall, Michael; Rumble, John (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Country Music (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-19-539563-1.
- ^ a b Bufwack, Mary A.; Oermann, Robert K. (2003). Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music 1800–2000. Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Foundation Press. pp. 382–383. ISBN 0-8265-1432-4.
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 303. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ^ Cantwell, David; Friskics-Warren, Bill (2003). Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles. Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Foundation Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 0-8265-1424-3.
- ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2005). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs 1944 to 2005. Record Research. p. 353. ISBN 0-89820-165-9.
- ^ a b "Past CMA Awards Winners and Nominees – 2017 CMA Awards". CMA World – Country Music Association. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
External links[edit]
- All Music
- Sammi Smith At CMT.com
- Sammi Smith – Oklahoma Music Hall of FameOklahoma Music Hall of Fame
- Wolff, Kurt. Country Music: The Rough Guide.
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- 2005 deaths
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ABone on February 20, 2006 at 3:59 am
The Sterling closed as a neighborhood movie house more than 50 years ago, but it is still in use as the home of Little Theater of W-B. I think the seating number has to be high, as I've been in it. It is art deco on the inside, but not on the outside, as it was remodeled in the '30's from a former boxing arena.
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Smartrac to Provide the Ultimate Experience for Retailers and Brand Owners at EuroCIS in Duesseldorf
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), February 22, 2016 – When the retail world meets in Duesseldorf, Germany, for the EuroCIS 2016 tradeshow (February 23-25, 2016), Smartrac will be showcasing products and solutions that provide the ultimate experience for retailers, brand owners and consumers. Key to many of these solutions will be the company's groundbreaking Internet of Things platform, Smart Cosmos.
Smartrac will present a bouquet of new RFID transponders ideally suited to retail applications; specifically the Web DF dual-frequency inlay, as well as RAIN RFID inlays based on Impinj's Monza® R6 chip family, such as the Accessory and Bling tags. Both Accessory and Bling have a small form factor, which opens up new fields of application. It enables retailers and brand owners to gain better visibility for small merchandize items, thereby increasing the value of their item-level data. The compact dual-frequency Web DF inlay complies with the NFC and RAIN RFID technology standards, and can handle product authenticity verification and inventory management, as well as consumer loyalty tasks.
In-store analytics with Metrics
The RFID pacesetter will also present its all-new in-store analytics solution, Metrics, which can deliver significant sales lifts and gross margin increases. Metrics empowers retailers with end-to-end supply-chain visibility and real-time analytics that provide comprehensive reports to optimize store and shelf availability of merchandise and increasing customer satisfaction. Visitors (Hall 9 Booth B14) will have the opportunity to see the Metrics demo onsite in a live "real-world" apparel store environment.
Product authentication and customer interaction with Experiences
Smartrac will also showcase Experiences, another Smart Cosmos based, trendsetting solution that connects mobile consumers to the media and products in the real world. One additional eye-catcher on the booth is adidas's revolutionary "x HYPEBEAST 10th Anniversary UltraBOOST UNCAGED", which created a stir among fashion enthusiasts around the globe at its recent release. These sneakers come with built-in NFC tags that allow customers to access and enjoy exclusive content just by tapping their phones on the product. The demo specifically showcases product authentication and customer interaction, and is a must-see for any retail professional or brand owner.
"The retail industry is facing big challenges, and the innovative Smart Cosmos based solutions that we and our market partners will showcase at EuroCIS, offer valuable answers by providing the ultimate experience for retailers, brand owners and consumers. Our trade-fair presence in Duesseldorf will illustrate how we are successfully leveraging our RFID leadership to provide enhanced solutions that make the retail industry fit for the future", says Torsten Strauch, Senior Vice President, Intelligent Things Business Division at Smartrac.
Please note: February 25 @ 10:30 – 11:00: "Metrics. In-Store Analytics – Visit, Consider, Try and Buy". Marc Hoentsch, VP Business Development EMEA, Retail Applications and Solutions, will give an insight into Smartrac's all-new in-store analytics solution Metrics, at the EuroCIS Forum, Hall 10, Booth F04.
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Smartrac is the world's leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of RFID products and services, providing both ready-made and customized products and services suitable for a large number of applications. Smartrac makes products smart, and enables businesses to identify, authenticate, track and complement product offerings. The company's portfolio is used in a wide array of applications: access control, animal identification, automated fare collection, automotive, border control, contactless payment, electronic product identification, industry, libraries and media management, laundry, logistics, retail, public transport, and many more. Leveraging its global R&D, production and sales network, Smartrac combines physical products with its Internet of Things platform Smart Cosmos, empowering the ecosystem of connected things. Smartrac has its registered headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.smartrac-group.com, www.smart-cosmos.com and follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/SMARTRAC_NV.
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The quality of the future wine is formed in the vineyard. That is why we take great care and attention to young seedlings and we try to make vineyards healthy and vital, since only such wines can create unique wines for many years.
All our vineyard cultivation follows the principles of successful integrated production, following the dictates of environmentally-friendly procedures. And we also planted a vineyard in the organic farming regime for the production of organic wines.
Our vineyards are located in the foothills of the Bílé Karpaty nature reserve, where the terrain is characterized by rugged surface and slopes at an altitude that averages about 360m. The subsoil is limestone, which enhances aroma, mineral content and terroir, and there is also claystone bellow with high proportion of potassium that lends our wines a unique freshness and extractivity.
In this year 2017 we managed on 77 hectares of vineyards, on which we produced 300,000 bottles of wine.
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Lizabeth Scott in the underrated Pitfall (1947)— The Night Editor
Ava Gardner pic spam—gorgeous!— Classic Hollywood Nerd
Have you seen the Barbara Stanwyck Show on DVD? It's pretty darn good.— Sidewalk Crossings
A fine trio of reviews, including a wonderfully clear-eyed assessment of Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)— Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
Here's an interesting post about Mae West's sister Mildreth (AKA Beverly)— Mae West
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I need to see "Our Vine Has Tender Grapes".
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This Chinese New Year, OCBC bank is introducing a pre-booking system for customers to book bank notes in advance to skip the hassle of rushing to banks to exchange notes for the festive season.
Current and savings account customers of OCBC will be able to pre-book angpow notes from RM3,000 to RM10,000 on a first come, first served basis. The pre-booking system will generate automated queue numbers to the customers and allow them to pick the note denomination of their choice.
To make it easier for customers to pick up their new notes, OCBC branches across Malaysia will be open for business on the two Saturdays (26 January and 2 February) before Chinese New Year for customers to pick up their angpow notes. The opening hours are 10am to 2.30pm for both days.
Customers can now avoid long queues and be attended to promptly thanks to the dedicated time slots with the pre-book system. Those interested can log on to OCBC bank's website from 18 January onwards to pre-book a time slot and pick out your preferred Ringgit denomination.
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The Reindeer pub in Norwich reopens under new management
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The Reindeer pub on Dereham Road, Norwich, has re-opened under new management.
The pub closed on January 28 after its old owners, Kate and Dan Searle, found business "unworkable".
The new landlady is Lou Wilding, who has moved with her team of staff from The Wildman on Bedford Street, Norwich.
Ms Wilding said: "We will have pool, darts, board games and free wifi, but we will also be hosting lots of live music."
The music will start this Friday at 9pm with Norwich band 4D Jones, followed by "good time" Americana collective Swamptruck from Cambridge on Saturday.
Ms Wilding said she is "especially excited" to host Norfolk eight-piece The Vagaband for their third album launch on March 17.
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If you click on the Guernica History link in the side bar you'll get the story behind this magazine. It began as a meeting place between arts and politics and to this day continues to focus on that crossroads. There is the Picasso painting of the same name invoking a brutal and unnecessary massacre in an historic Basque city during the Spanish Civil War, which, maybe as well as anything, captures the synchronicity of arts and politics.
The magazine also grew out of a poetry and fiction reading series that took place at a bar called Guernica.
The essence of this magazine is therefore cradled in the arms of arts and politics, and the magazine itself nurtures the notion that art and literature can have an immediate and lasting effect on the political sphere. Likewise, our current political state ("our current" meaning everyone, at any present moment) is reflected in the dialogue artists and writers attempt to have through their work.
Today on Guernica's blog we welcome a new voice that comes with a grand challenge for us–one that, if risen to, would surely have a positive effect on our current state. Here Jennifer Nix calls for a resurgence of a Gilded Age where Henry James, Mark Twain, William Thackeray and Joseph Conrad, among others, ran short stories and serialized novels in newspapers, offering the public an alternative to the world they saw in front of them. An alternative that, though written on the page, was every bit as real as their own.
How does literature do this? "Great literature creates a level of empathy for other people's lives," Jennifer writes, "with all its emotional, intellectual and philosophical complexities, in a way that no polemic or journalism, memoir or blogging can do."
Edward Abbey once wrote to Annie Dillard that he thought a novel could change the world, he just wasn't sure how long it would take. So he constantly called for people to take action in the present. Yet he could not keep himself from writing novels. Jennifer, like many of us over these last few years, has questioned whether literature can really do anything to change what we've seen in the Bush years. This is not new. Ed Abbey had to ask himself the same question in order to come to his conclusion. The key, as Jennifer points out here, is this: There is no need to choose between the two. A great novel will open a reader's mind, forcing her to see the world anew, and, seeing anew, she will react differently to the world. That is why we need literature to permeate the political scene. To allow for that "level of empathy for other people's lives." To make it so the "reality makers" don't overshadow the "reality interpreters" and show us only the reality they want us to see.
How best to do this? Jennifer has an idea of how to bring about a new Gilded Age.
As always, thanks for reading.
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Steinbeck, Hemon and Our Progressive Zeitgeist
by Jennifer Nix
True story. The scene is a Manhattan supper club, circa 1952. Eleanor Roosevelt approaches a table at which John and Elaine Steinbeck are dining. Elaine makes introductions, and then…
Eleanor Roosevelt: "When I go to the Soviets, they ask, 'Does that awful treatment of farmers still happen in the U.S.?' I say, 'No, my husband and John Steinbeck took care of that.'"
John Steinbeck: "That is the best literary review I've ever received."
— National Steinbeck Center video archive
I hope this Steinbeck anecdote will help persuade you to support an idea that can once again democratize serious literature, and heal our Bush-wounded collective soul. This idea will also help to build bigger blog communities–and a new study claims that it will even improve our social skills.
Win, win, win!
I wrote last week about how reading Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project resurrected my belief in the power of literature, after my four-year abandonment of reading and writing fiction, to fight Bush in more immediate ways.
"Great literature creates a level of empathy for other people's lives, with all its emotional, intellectual and philosophical complexities, in a way that no polemic or journalism, memoir or blogging can do. Lazarus rocked my world because it magically weaves historical fact, autobiography, journalism, fictional narrative, and real and imagined characters into a work of art that draws haunting parallels between the anti-anarchist hysteria of 1908 Chicago, the violent nationalism and wars in the Balkans, and America's post-9/11 xenophobia and politics of fear. More amazingly, it helped me to feel the struggles, as I sit here in lilly-white Marin County, of not only the book's main characters, Lazarus Averbuch and Vladimir Brik, but of every Muslim, Mexican or dark-skinned immigrant–or citizen–in America today."
My initial thoughts on this matter prompted Chris Bowers and Firedoglake's Emptywheel to share their own stories about leaving literature behind for activism, with Chris positing that perhaps I'd touched on a zeitgeist of this decade for many progressives. I've since been ruminating on how to get artists and progressive activists engaged in a public dialogue, because while these two communities are very much part of the same continuum, over the past eight years there has been a kind of damaging divergence between art and life, for many progressive activists.
As activists, we must not lose sight of art, or its value to the work we do and the sustenance and inspiration it can provide. In talking with Hemon, I also realized that we needn't choose between the "activist path" or the "artist path" either. We can do both. This epiphany made me want to have these issues discussed in public forums, particularly on progressive political blogs, because I believe bringing more art into our mix will have a profound effect on our individual and collective imaginations.
In much the same way that progressive blogs have opened up the national discourse and increased civic and political engagement, these same blogs can help to usher in a very necessary resurgence of serious literature in this country.
During the Gilded Age, in America and Europe, newspapers ran short stories and serialized novels. The greatest novelists of the time, including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, Mark Twain, William Thackeray and Joseph Conrad published their works of fiction in installments in daily newspapers. Because this format was more affordable, people outside of the upper class had access to books for the first time. The publishing phenomenon sparked a growth not only in the number of people desiring to read, but also in literacy rates. The masses were able to read fiction and to imagine better realities than those put forth and controlled by the era's robber-baron elites. This sounds quite similar to Hemon's analysis of our current situation:
"The Bush administration's attitude has always been that they can construct the most outrageous realities and then sell them as self-evident, much like Project Runway. That is what Karl Rove's famous remark dismissing journalists as a "reality-based community" referred to. Rove was–and still is–a reality creator, not a reality-interpreter. They have also taken over our language–I cannot say the word "freedom" any longer without retching, and "the war on terror" gives me hives. I cannot stand "freedom" and "the American people"–put me on the terror-watch list right now! The ascendence of "reality-based" aesthetic is not a form of resistance to the ideological and human atrocities orchestrated by the Bush regime. On the contrary, it is a symptom of the pressure against civic engagement which requires imagination and sovereignty of the mind. Citizens read books about other people. Subjects flip through channels and read about people like themselves because they cannot imagine a life different from this one. They cannot see that it does not have to be this way, that this is not the only available reality.
Which is all to say that if you want to organize a demonstration or establish a third political party or influence a legislation, reading a novel, let alone writing it, is not the way to go. But if you want to regain the sovereignty of your imagination and the right to resist the imposition of self-evident realities, if you want to restore the democracy of language, then you would be well advised to skip watching reality TV and read some novels. Say Jose Saramango's Blindness, which tells you a lot about the breakdown of a civic society, or Edward P. Jones's The Known World which tells you how the crime at the heart of a society corrupts everyone in it, or Junot Diaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which tells you how one carries history inside one's body. And once you have read these books, you go and kick some lying, oppressive, reactionary ass."
With newspapers cutting book sections and reviews-and entire news operations shrinking by the day-progressive political blogs could help to integrate literature back into American life. We know the value of pulling people out of their consumer-driven television comas, and getting them reading, informed and connected. Bringing literature back into people's everyday lives, via blogs, will provide sustenance for the progressive soul and lead to more hope, engagement and action. Hemon is hopeful about this possibility as well:
"Somehow, somewhere along the way thinking while reading became undesirable, a lot of readers started reading for comfort, not for doubt…To me, this is at some level definitely connected with the decrease in civic agency–people are afraid to think for themselves and then voice those thoughts in a public space. There is a loss of intellectual self-confidence all across the board, for capitalism prefers a non-thinking consumer to a thinking citizen. The restoration of public space in blogosphere, I think, alleviates that problem. I hope it can also provide space for a resurgence of serious literature."
There are many ways this could work. Certainly, political blogs that have book salons could be discussing more novels (I've seen a few discussed here and there, but I'm talking about a sustained effort). Political blogs could partner with literary blogs to have online forums to discuss the books and to dream up possible collaborations inspired by these novels. Progressive blogs could also serialize novels and run short stories. Literary blogs are doing some of this, but we need more cross-pollination between these disparate corners of the blogosphere. Perhaps literary blogs could be invited to join political blog communities, much like Jane Hamsher has brilliantly done at Firedoglake, with her stable of political blogs, to increase audience and amplify voices. Guest fiction editors from literary blogs, and literary critics from magazines, could introduce more literature on politics blogs, and guest political editors could introduce lit-blog readers to more political reporting and activism. Mixing it up will most certainly lead to new readers for both political and lit-blogs, and could help to democratize literature in American life once again.
If you have a political blog, and would like to start featuring fiction, contact me via LiteraryOutpost. I can start you off with The Lazarus Project and can offer excerpts and art to run on your blog. I can also put you in touch with some literary blogs if you'd like to start a dialogue or partnership of your own. I would also like to see an anthology of short stories, which appear first on political and literary blogs, published in book form.
Literature can help to cure societal ills–as Eleanor Roosevelt told John Steinbeck. Let's open up the public space for serious literature again. It will help to build bigger blog communities, but more importantly, it will further awaken the country's imagination to new and better–and possible!–realities.
Won't that be refreshing after eight years of Bush? And, really. Who among us doesn't need a little help with our social skills?
Jen Nix is a writer, editor and publishing consultant, and is currently a fellow of the New Politics Institute.
Cross-posted at Daily Kos
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Contrary to popular belief, the world's oldest known artworks aren't in Europe. They are in Indonesia, and they're much, much older than previously thought.
ABOVE: Cahyo Ramadhani, Hand Prints in Pettakere Cave at Leang Prehistoric Site, Maros
Although known and used by locals for a long time, the Pettakere cave in Indonesia wasn't "officially" discovered until 1973. Once found, archaeologists falsely assumed that the tropical air would have faded the artworks, so they estimated them to be about 10,000 years old. In 2011, the crust which had formed atop the paintings was examined, and a new estimate of 35,000 to 40,000 years was given. Today, they are widely believed to be the oldest artworks in the world.
The imagery inside the cave consists of multiple hand prints and a painting of a hog deer. It is believed that the palm prints were placed there to ward off evil spirits while people slept. The significance of the deer is unknown.
Also unknown, is whether the imagery and style arose independently in Indonesia, or was brought there by early humans leaving Africa.
"It allows us to move away from the view that Europe was special," said lead archaeologist Maxime Aubert. "There was some idea that early Europeans were more aware of themselves and their surroundings. Now we can say that's not true."


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Adopting a child from overseas
If you wish to adopt a child from overseas, you must meet the criteria of the country you want to adopt from.
Australia has an established legal arrangement with all of the following countries:
- China
- Taiwan
- Hong Kong
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Columbia
- Chile
- Latvia
- Poland
- South Africa
- Lithuania
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka.
To find out more about international adoption law go to the Hague Convention on Private International Law website.
For more information about adopting a child from overseas contact the Northern Territory Adoptions Unit.
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Hayle Towans beach sits alongside Hayle estuary. Good sandy beach although we would recommend moving along the beach away from the estuary for safer swimming, check out the lifeguard swimming flags that normally sit in front of Black Cliff beach.
Whilst the north end of St Ives Bay has good surfing beaches, Hayle Towans is the spot for kitesurfing and canoeing.
Towans means sand dunes.
Facilities include lifeguards in the summer, toilets, pub and cafe.
Hard path slope down to the beach from the RNLI hut makes it easier to access than the steps at Black Cliff beach.
Hayle Towans beach does not allow dogs between 8am and 7pm 1st May - 30th October. Be careful that the beaches have various permissions and the boundaries are not easy to locate, check the signs.
Why not check other beaches nearby as we have no beaches around Penwith Peninsula, 215 beaches in Cornwall, or check our list of Cornwall Dog Friendly Beaches.
Beach Water Quality
No water quality measurement available for Hayle Towans Beach.
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Our weather forecast for Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is split into two widgets. The first shows a timeline containing temperature, wind, sunrise/sunset and chance of rain, whilst the second shows the forecast for the week ahead including severe weather alerts when available.
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Mixed fortunes for Carrick United underage teams
Under 11 B League
Carrick United B 2 Mooncoin 3
Both teams played out a cracking match on a cold Saturday morning. Mooncoin applied huge pressure straight from the start but our defence coped well. However after 15 minutes Mooncoin were rewarded for their pressure with a good team goal. They kept going forward and were awarded a penalty, our keeper Pete Keane touched it onto the crossbar but Mooncoin scored off the rebound. At half time we made a number of changes to our team and right from the off we played better. We had a number of chances but the Mooncoin keeper pulled off a number of great saves. Leon Kennedy did some great link up play with Karl McCoy which ended with an own goal from the Mooncoin centre back. We kept up the pressure and we got our second goal straight after with a good finish by our left midfielder Celab. Both teams where evenly matched with Mooncoin getting the winner with a great free kick from 20 yards
Carrick United B 3 Villa B 1
Both teams were well matched from the very beginning, both keepers being tested with a few worthy shots on goal. The first man to find the net however was Sean Bourke from Carrick in the 15th minute. Villa responded shortly afterwards with an excellent top corner goal which just beat keeper Cian Power. With a half time score at 1-1 both teams came out strong but Carrick seemed to have the upper hand with a defence which Villa could not seem to penetrate. A clean pass from Nathan Casey was driven home by Lee Keane midway through the half and a superb goal by midfielder Ciaran Power sealed Villa's fate shortly afterwards.
Both the under 13A and 11A away fixtures were postponed.
Under 11 C League Carrick United C 1 Park Rangers A 2
Under 15 A League Bohemians 2 Carrick United 2
FAI Junior Cup Draw
Sheriff YC or Glenea Utd v Regional or Tullamore FC or Carrick Utd


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Buongiorno a tutti da Milano, the capital city of fashion. I could not come from any another part of the world. I'm partly addicted to shopping and I'm very lucky to look after a "shopping window" on the Internet.
In fact, I'm responsible for the online content for SWISS Italy – it's like running a shop! Via SWISS.COM, the SWISS Newsletter and our different online channels, all our destinations are well presented and made very attractive to our customers. Working for SWISS fits perfectly well with my own passion: I sell great service, a product offering a broad choice of beautiful destinations all over the world and 17 daily chances to travel to wonderful Switzerland from Milan, Rome, Venice, Florence and Bari. And during the summer holiday period my shop offers an even greater selection of destinations in Italy: Catania, Lamezia Terme and Olbia. My online shop is running very well indeed.
I've been working in the airline business for the past 16 years now. What I enjoy most is the opportunity to accrue experience in different areas of the airport: from ticket counter to customer relations and, now, in marketing. Changing my position from time to time has enabled me to acquire broad knowledge about the airline industry and to understand the needs of customers and colleagues. Over the years I have realized that there are many challenges in a global industry. Just think, for example, about what happened as a result of the cloud of volcanic ash in 2010! What is really important for an airline is how problems can be managed. I think SWISS is very strong in this regard.
Some of the aspects of working for SWISS that I appreciate most are: having the chance to meet people from other countries; independence in my daily work that allows me to provide a personal touch and, by doing so, really making a difference for the customer; being able to travel to beautiful places all over the world; and sharing my days with great colleagues and having a cappuccino with them every day :-).
The SWISS Milan team is small in number. That forces us to handle different projects every day. My daily work is anything but boring. From talking to my friends I realize that I am very lucky, because I'm always enthusiastic about my job and have been ever since beginning my career at SWISS. And there has also been a nice little unexpected side effect: my cooking skills have improved! The SWISS team in Italy includes many women. And somehow it happens that during our daily lunches we talk a lot about recipes and food, which I guess fits quite well with the stereotype about being Italian :-). And speaking about stereotypes: punctuality, precision, respecting rules, tidiness ….. all of these are true of SWISS and Switzerland.
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Why I do what I do
I want to help you move from feeling stuck, fearful, and exhausted to enjoying a juicy, deeply satisfying life. Do you know what you want but feel blocked from going after it? Are you more concerned about what others think and feel than what you think and feel? Do you feel like you're faking your own life and worry that someone will find out? Do you say yes to things you don't really want to do? Does it feel like there isn't enough to go around and you are never going to get your share?
For years I felt stuck and afraid. I wanted more/better/different but wasn't sure how to get it and wasn't completely sure I deserved it. If you feel that way, I want to support you while you learn how to make the changes that will create the life you want.
For years I felt stuck and afraid. I wanted more/better/different but wasn't sure how to get it and wasn't completely sure I deserved it. If you feel that way, I want to support you while you learn how to make the changes that will create the life you want.
About Joy
I have a Masters Degree in Social work. I worked for over 20 years providing mental health services, working with adults and with geriatric patients before opening my own healing and coaching business.
When I was in my mid thirties, I developed severe endometriosis. I felt ill much of the time and the interventions I underwent from Western medicine weren't really helping. I was taking very strong medicines with significant side effects and the conversation was tending toward surgery to remove pieces of me I'd rather keep.
I explored alternative forms of healing and spiritual growth, hoping to find a solution for my own health problems. I began my Reiki training in 1995. I found much more than I'd expected - a gentle yet profound and easy-to-learn healing practice that helped me balance the physical, emotional and spiritual components of myself. I felt healthier and more tranquil, and had greater clarity about what I wanted in life.
Reiki felt like a simpler and more effective way to accomplish what I had been hoping to do in social work, so I started my holistic healing practice in March of 1997. I received my Reiki Master attunement in November of 1999, and began teaching Reiki in March of 2000. In conjunction with my Reiki training, I started learning about and working with the healing properties of crystals. Later I took classes in Karuna® Reiki and Urevia® as well, as I have continued to explore a variety of healing practices.
I began my coaching practice in 2003. I enjoy helping entrepreneurs achieve their vocational dreams while also creating a healthy work/life balance. I understand the challenges of creating a business from scratch, since I've done it.
Blending all the skills I developed over 20 years as a therapist with my intuition and sense of humor, I guide you toward your best life.


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We have been buying from this lovely property since the 1980s but it is only since 1993, when it was acquired by the Guida family that it has started to come truly into its own. A heavy investment of millions of francs has transformed the property. It has been a pleasure to watch the developments over the years and the beautiful château has now been completely restored to its former glory, as seen below.
The vineyard has grown from the 20 hectares of the 1980s to sixty five hectares of vines, and is situated just outside the village of Montagnac, where the sprawling vineyards overlook the oyster beds of the picturesque Bassin de Thau. Many is the picnic we have enjoyed feasting on the lovely view while enjoying a glass of their excellent Rosé!
As well as the heavy investment in the property, the other key to the startling success of the wines was the acquisition of Jean-Claude Zabalia as the new winemaker in 1993. With each passing year he strived both in the vineyard and the winery to produce better and better quality wines. He had a brand new cellar built, to store their oak-aged wines in. This is more like a temple with row upon row of new oak barrels, resting under a vaulted roof supported by classical pillars.
Robert Parker has listed the Bronzinelle as one of his top 30 wines, from literally thousands tasted over the year across the world! The March 2003 edition of Decanter magazine placed St Martin at the top of the Côteaux du Languedoc.
It was on our most recent visit in Spring 2014 that we discovered the property has been sold to a wealthy Russian businessman and Jean Claude has moved on to new pastures. The wines are now being made by the winemaker of Château de Saint Louis in Corbières. However, we have been extremely fortunate to buy some of the last wines made by Jean Claude, which he reckons are among the best he has ever produced!
Domaine Saint Martin de la Garrigue, Cuvée Réservée 2011
Vin de Pays des Côteaux de Bessilles
Predominantly Merlot with Cabernet Sauvignon and just a little Grenache, this wine is aged in the second year barrels from a prestigious Médoc Cru Classé. It has a marvellous deep colour, and an expensive cedar-wood nose gives way to a mouthful of intense cassis and damson flavours with a gorgeous silky texture. This is followed by soft tannin and a lingering aftertaste of wild herbs, reminiscent of the terroir of the garrigue. Absolutely delicious now, but will keep well for up to five years.
Domaine Saint Martin de la Garrigue, Bronzinelle 2011
AC Côteaux du Languedoc
This is made from 30% Syrah 35% Mourvèdre 20% Grenache and 15% Carignan vieux. Each part is vinified separately at a controlled cool temperature, to maximise the extraction of primary fruit flavours. The cépages are then carefully assembled, and one third is aged in oak barrels before the final assemblage. In the Spring, we tasted the 2011 Bronzinelle and it is deep, ripe and bursting with succulent black fruit and raspberries. All of this is underpinned with hints of vanilla, and it has a lovely mineral finish with a touch of liquorice. Amazing value for this quality!


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Angelina Jolie's (Surprise!) Tribute to Clint Eastwood
The actress slips into a Hollywood gala to honor her Changeling director
She may be the most photographed woman in the world. But even Angelina Jolie can fly under the radar.
The actress – who recently returned from a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan – made a surprise appearance at Monday night's Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala, where she payed tribute to director Clint Eastwood.
In fact, Jolie's appearance was so unexpected, the A-list crowd gasped audibly when she was introduced.
The mother-of-six took time out of her busy schedule to present Eastwood – who helmed her most recent move, The Changeling – with the director of the year award.
"There are some people in this business that are icons, and we often wonder if, when we meet them, they'll live up to what we imagine them to be," she told the audience. "And Clint Eastwood in person is even better."
"Clint is what every great director should be," she continued. "He is a great leader. And I certainly would follow him anywhere."
That admiration appears to be mutual.
As he accepted the honor, Eastwood noted, "Working with someone like Angelina Jolie is a great privilege, because you get to look on that gorgeous beauty every day. And she's a great talent."
The two walked arm-in-arm from the stage. Then Jolie, wearing a floor-sweeping black gown and minimal makeup, slipped out of the event as stealthily as she'd arrived.
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Allergy Answers provides help for clients with food allergies or intolerances. Once diagnosed with a food allergy or intolerance, you will need to be vigilant to avoid it. The presence of the offending food may be found in surprising places. Our strategies help you successfully avoid foods which cause reactions for you.
| How we help you:
* Work with your health professionals
* Identify which are allergies versus intolerances
* Provide resources for eating outside the home
* Educate to identify presence of food to be avoided
* Provide new or convert your favorite recipes
Allergy or intolerance?
Whether a food reaction is caused by a sensitivity, intolerance, or allergy, offending foods should be avoided. Bodily responses may be different for allergies and intolerances. A food allergy or hypersensitivity causes an abnormal immune system response to a food, producing antibodies against the food. Food allergens are not typically broken down by cooking or digestion. As a result, they survive to cross the gastrointestinal lining, enter the bloodstream, and target organs, causing allergic reactions throughout the body.
Food intolerances
A food intolerance is a negative reaction to some element in a food, causing symptoms in one or more body organs or systems. While food intolerances can cause some of the same symptoms as allergies, the immune system is not responsible for the symptoms of a food intolerance. Food intolerances cause abnormal physiological reactions, such as digestive problems, respiratory responses, or skin reactions.
Common food intolerances include lactose deficiency, where a person has insufficient quantities of the enzyme to digest lactose, and gluten intolerance, caused by Celiac disease. Sensitivities to dyes, preservatives or additives in food (such as MSG) can cause adverse reactions as well.
Community support
Because allergies can cause anaphylactic responses, the community tends to be respectful and understands the importance of providing accurate ingredient information. Often, food intolerances do not garner the same respect, causing an individual to ingest the offending ingredients unknowingly and resulting in potentially difficult and dangerous reactions.
Whether you are newly diagnosed or are simply challenged by your dietary restrictions, Balanced Nutritional Lifestyles can help you improve your quality of life with education, support, recipes, even meals prepared for you. Consider our Allergy Answers Quick-Start Program or contact us for more in-depth support.


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Set of 6 Lee Color Print Viewing Filters for evaluating images and making exposure adjustments. Color negative and color reversal papers have different gamma ratings.
Because of this, prints from transparencies need twice as much filtration to achieve a similar color shift as those from negatives. This is why it is important to make sure you use the filter values from the correct side of the card:


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I recently heard about a new Alzheimer's treatment, a nose spray containing insulin. How does it work and is there an Alzheimer's nose spray available?
Insulin — a hormone that helps regulate your blood sugar — appears to play a role in normal memory processes. Insulin irregularities may contribute to cognitive and brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease.
In the past several years, researchers have been investigating the use of insulin to treat Alzheimer's disease. One of the challenges is how to provide insulin in such a way that it improves brain function without disrupting your blood sugar levels. If your blood sugar drops too low, for example, it can create complications, such as confusion, heart palpitations, anxiety and visual disturbances.
Preliminary research suggests that when taken as a nose spray, insulin reaches the brain within a few minutes and improves memory. However, this research involved small groups of participants who had either early Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment. Although this research is promising, more research on the safety and effectiveness of intranasal insulin therapy for Alzheimer's disease is necessary.
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Welcome To Absolute Energy Control
What you can expect from Absolute Energy Control
- High quality installation
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We have over 22 qualified & experienced technicians that undergo continuous training both by manufacturers & industry regulators such as (TSSA). We ensure that each technician is up-to-date with the latest HVAC systems.
We have many guarantees in place to protect you and your investment with us. Whether it's a regular A/C tune-up or a complete system replacement, we will always provide you with an up front price quote before starting the work.
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Brains on Beats
Part of: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29 (NIPS 2016)[PDF] [BibTeX] [Reviews]
Conference Event Type: Poster
We developed task-optimized deep neural networks (DNNs) that achieved state-of-the-art performance in different evaluation scenarios for automatic music tagging. These DNNs were subsequently used to probe the neural representations of music. Representational similarity analysis revealed the existence of a representational gradient across the superior temporal gyrus (STG). Anterior STG was shown to be more sensitive to low-level stimulus features encoded in shallow DNN layers whereas posterior STG was shown to be more sensitive to high-level stimulus features encoded in deep DNN layers.


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from The Century Dictionary.
- In a state of decomposition.
- In ornithology, separated: specifically said of a feather the web of which is decompounded by disconnection of the barbs, or of a bundle of feathers, as those of the crest, which stand or fall apart from one another: used like
decompoundin botany.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
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So the terms decomposed, human body odor, I don ` t think any scientist can qualify to say -- just smell the odor, say that ` s a human body.
For an elementary body is one that has never been decomposed, that is to say, separated into other substances; and fire, air, earth, and water, are all of them susceptible of decomposition.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
If you present to a body composed of two principles, a third, which has a greater affinity for one of them than the two first have for each other, it will be decomposed, that is, its two principles will be separated by means of the third body.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
Cook County Forest Preserve police are calling decomposed human remains found in a Niles forest preserve.
He said the body was "decomposed," and detectives are treating the case as a death investigation.
He said the body was "decomposed," and detectives are treating the case as a death investigation.
They couldn't find any earthworms in the ground, and there was little humus (organic soil matter such as decomposed leaves and other plant material).
It has been found not to work well on materials such as decomposed granite which remain coarse upon weathering.
Potential use of chemical suppressants to reduce remobilized, wind-blown ash
In many cases the margins bounding these were composed of a kind of decomposed lime, very light and loose, which yielded to the slightest pressure; in this our horses and drays sank deep, throwing out as they went, clouds of fine white dust on every side around them.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
But this kind of decomposed bait is forbidden by the fishery laws.


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My name is Lisa and I am a Manitoba born illustrator, print maker and graphic designer currently working in Winnipeg.
I graduated in 2011 with a BFA Honours degree in graphic design.
I work primarily in printmaking (usually silkscreen), traditional materials (pencil crayon, ink, marker, acrylic) and digital.
I enjoy comics. My collection is small but I admire those who are devoted to their favorite superheroes and know everything there is to know about the Man of Steel (especially Jerry Seinfeld).
I value the art of storytelling in all mediums and believe it is vital in everything I produce.
I am always open to commissions. If you are interested in purchasing a print of any of my pieces in my Gallery please email me for details.
Visit my Design & Print page to view my design and printmaking services. if you have an original design or are in need of a custom design contact me for a free consultation and quote.
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Shop Online with Goodwill
Goodwill operates online storefronts where customers can shop online for books, unique collectibles, and high-end jewelry.
Shop Online for Vintage Collectibles, Unique Finds, High End Jewelry, & More:
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How Does Shopping Goodwill Online Support the Community?
Revenues generated through the sale of donated goods, in traditional stores and online, provide critical revenue to help fund Goodwill job training and employment programs. These programs enable people to get back to work and gain greater independence. With more and more customers choosing to shop online instead of in traditional brick and mortar locations, online stores allow Goodwill to meet customers where they choose to shop, and still generate revenue to support programs in our communities.
Goodwill online storefronts also provide training opportunities for individuals in Goodwill programs. They learn valuable skills that prepare them for competitive jobs in the community. Skills learned include:
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Electricity exports in June rose by 8.6% to 230.1 gw/hour. According to G&T, total exports of electricity in 1H17 rose by 7.4%. Electricity exports to Turkey declined by 38.8%, while the previous year's basis was quite high (+23.1 year on year). Electricity exports to Turkey constituted 28.3% of total exports. …Read More »
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New Airline at Batumi International Airport
On June 23, Kazakhstan air company Sunkar Air has performed its first flight on the route Almaty-Batumi-Almaty. For summer season flights will be performed every Friday, by Boeing 737-800 type aircrafts. About TAV Georgia TAV Georgia is an affiliated company of TAV Airports Holding. It started its operation in Georgia …Read More »
Liberty Bank Joined National Teaching Awards Supporters
The number of national teaching awards supporters is increasing. Liberty Bank joined the campaign which will grant gifts to winners revealed in different categories. Liberty Bank is involved in the campaign for the third time in the frame of social responsibility. National teaching award is organized by coalition "Education for …Read More »
Zip Line Narikala to Open in Tbilisi Botanical Garden
On the 23rd of June, extreme tourist attraction -Zipline Narikala will be launched in Tbilisi Botanical Garden. Zip-Line consists of a pulley, suspended on a cable usually made of stainless steel, mounted on a slope. Visitors will have an opportunity to look at a botanical garden from above and land on the …Read More »
Ice N Rolls – Ice Cream with Churchkhela and Kvanchkara Flavour
Ice 'N Rolls is an ice-cream made with Tai techniques which appeared in Tbilisi, recently. In spite of using Tai technique, the flavour of the ice-cream is Georgian. As one of the founders of the company, Nika Chugoshvili says that he and his friend discovered Tai ice-cream in the internet and …Read More »
Ferrero: We are Staying in Georgia and We have Interesting Future Plans
New legislation concerning selling land to foreigners will not be an issue for Ferrero Company. Aldo Uva, Chief Officer Operating Supply and Strategic Business Platforms at Ferrero talks about the company and explains that it is more focused to produce high quality products rather than turning into an agricultural company. "The aim …Read More »
Georgian Furniture Underground Opens
Four different companies opened Georgian Furniture Underground together at Galaktion Tabidze 3/5. Customers will have an access to ecologically clean furniture and different details of interior which are made in Georgia. There will be production of 16 Georgian companies presented to sell. All companies have different pricing policy but there are enough choices …Read More »
Share your Success Story – Business Awards 2017 Begins
#ShareYourSuccessStory is a slogan for the largest scale business awards ceremony in Georgia organized by TBC bank and Geocell for the second time. Press conference concerning this issue took place at TBC bank head office. The aim of Business Awards is to promote new business ideas and support the development of …Read More »
Qartli Wind Farm Produced 3 Million kWh More Energy than Predicted
Qartli Wind Farm estimation has been completed and it will be exhibited on the electronic auction in the nearest future. Auditing company BDO has already issued the estimation of Qartli Wind Farm, forbes Georgia reports. Georgian Energy Development Fund explained that official document has already been presented to the government. …Read More »
Second Tourism and Hospitality Conference within the Welcome to Georgia
National Tourism Awards 2017 On June 14th Second Tourism and Hospitality Conference within the Welcome to Georgia. National Tourism Awards 2017 was held at the exhibition center Expo Georgia in Conference Hall of Pavilion ІІІ. The Conference was co-organized with Georgian National Tourism Administration and was supported by Ministry of …Read More »
Winery Khareba to Open Hotel in Kazbegi
Winery Khareba is planning to open a hotel on the way to Trinity Church in Kazbegi. They declared in the company that the construction is practically completed and there are currently trying to locate necessary equipment in the hotel. The hotel will be officially opened in about a month. According …Read More »
Completion of the First Phase of Anaklia Deep Sea Port to Create 2000 Jobs
Completion of the first phase of Anaklia Deep Sea Port will result in creating 300-500 jobs according to the prediction of environmental influence estimation document which was prepared by Royal Haskoning. Local people who will decide to apply for the job, Anaklia Development Consortium will help them to get a …Read More »


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The University of Alberta is an institution recognized across Canada and around the world. The University's promise shows the commitment which is made to helping the community as a whole, and how the institution works for the public good.
An aerial photograph of the University of Alberta in 1919
From its beginnings in 1908 in the City of Strathcona (now part of Edmonton), the University of Alberta has grown massively. During its first year UAlberta had 4 or 5 professors and less than 50 students; it now has over 35,000 students and over 2500 faculty members.
Learn more about the history of UAlberta.
Guba and Patches, the UAlberta mascots
There are two sports mascots at the University of Alberta - GUBA (an acronym for Great University Bear of Alberta), is the mascot for the Golden Bears, the men's athletic team, and Patches is the mascot for the Pandas, the women's athletic teams.
You'll be able to see these mascots at games of UAlberta's varsity sports teams, or some other campus events.
Green and gold day pep rallies!
UAlberta Students on Green and Gold Day
Every fall is Green and Gold Day, UAlberta's premier school spirit event. Participate in fun activities, watch the parade, or just show your school pride by wearing green and gold around campus.
The finale of your journey at the University of Alberta will be marked by convocation, when you're presented with your degree. It'll be a fantastic day; and an excellent time to bring your friends and family to the University of Alberta.
A display at the UAlberta Bookstore
When you want to show off your UAlberta pride, you can purchase green and gold clothing and swag at the University of Alberta Bookstore, located in the basement of SUB (the Student's Union Building).


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|Inset (L-R): Australian celebrity chef Scott
Webster and Chef de Cuisine Douglas Tay
Leaping across the baptismal fire, 2010 went out with a bang with Osia being awarded the title of Best New Restaurant by CNNGo's Best Eats 2010! Barely a year into its opening, chef Webster together with local chef de cuisine Douglas Tay have won the hearts of many who would attest to Osia's unique fare (showcasing fresh Australian ingredients like barramundi and lemon myrtle) and service with a smile. Instead of blowing our own trumpet, I got Mr. Eric Teo, President of Singapore Chefs Association and Panel Judge for CNNGo's Best Eats 2010 to share why he feels Osia deserves the award.
|Inset: Chef Scott Webster (left)
"OSIA is my choice as Best New Restaurant because the quality of food is excellent and has been extremely consistent since its opening. Australian celebrity chef Scott Webster runs a tight ship and together with Chef de Cuisine Douglas Tay's impressive culinary creativity, OSIA's menu is truly value for money. Congratulations to the OSIA team for winning this award!"
Eric Teo,
President of Singapore Chefs Association / Panel Judge for CNNGo's Best Eats 2010
I also managed to steal some of chef Webster's precious time for a short e-mail interview.
Tania H: Given that Osia has opened for barely 8 months, it has already garnered such commendable accolades. How do you feel about this?
SW: Naturally I am extremely excited, with so many high profile openings in 2010 and then to be voted the best of all the new openings. It is great but more importantly I am excited all the hard work of the team at Osia led by Chef Douglas Tay (a Singaporean) and Restaurant Manager Kori Millar is being recognised by the public and restaurant reviewers.
TH: What do you think is the winning recipe for Osia?
SW: Restaurants in this day and age are not just about food. The package is important, ambience; service and food are a hand-and-glove fit. Resorts World Sentosa has given me and my team the perfect combination of all three.
TH: What do you have to say to critics who've given their nod of approval to Osia and those who say otherwise?
SW: Firstly, thank you! Secondly, we do not take awards as the signal for resting and sitting back. We will not get everything right, every day, but it is important that we look on our mistakes, hope they are only minor and continue to work towards perfection.
With good things coming in pairs, five of Resorts World's restaurants were honoured in Singapore Tatler's Best Restaurants Guide 2011—namely Osia, kunio tokuoka, Chinois by Susur Lee, Palio and Rang Mahal, and kunio tokuoka received another feather in the cap by winning the Best Service Award.
Looking back on the past year, it's been an amazing roller coaster ride. How can we forget 2010 with all the headlines we made—the expensive Sultan fish at Feng Shui Inn which was given quite a royal treatment in the dailies for weeks; the elite price tag of a $750 tasting menu (when our four-Michelin starred chef Kunio Tokuoka's namesake restaurant opened in May) which has since of course been trumped by other celebrity chef restaurants; the orgasmic hot Valrhona chocolate soup with black pepper ice cream at Australian celebrity chef Scott Webster's restaurant Osia which guests have compared to being better than sex; and the enormous 21-inch pizzas at Loui's NY Pizza Parlor at Universal Studios Singapore topping the chart as the biggest pizza to ever grace our shores.
|Inset: Chef Joel Robuchon speaking to fellow chefs
With all that said, the best is yet to come. Legendary Chef of the Century Joël Robuchon will be arriving in Singapore to open his two restaurants, Joël Robuchon Restaurant and L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon early this year, and we cannot wait to dine in his restaurants to find out what makes this world's most decorated chef with 26-Michelin stars so famous and revered.
Adding on to our list of first-of-its-kind attractions, Maritime Xperential Museum (MXM) is also on its way to completion and I hear we have fun F&B concepts in MXM. If you are not in the know, the MXM will take you back in time to one of the greatest eras in history: It is here that the tale of maritime adventurers, sea pirates, and the growth of sea trade between Asia, the Middle East and Europe is told. Follow historical figure Zheng He as he takes you through to the Maritime Silk Route.
Righto, without revealing too much, stay tuned to this space and better yet, come visit us to experience A Million Moments in One World!
Check out our website too for more on Osia and other dining options at the resort.


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Rebirth – Petrof piano grand (17689)
We have been doing crazy things on this guy. I never wanted to tune it up or use it as a Piano.. But one day while I was tuning a tube into discrete pitches I was like " What about the Piano?"
And it all started.
I dismantled it in to parts, cleaned it all.. it really deserved it! Bit by bit it is starting to be a Piano again ;)


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|Postdoctoral researcher, email: lisi.beyersmann(at)gmail.com
|The neurocognitive architecture of individual word comprehension
|Despite a century of research into word recognition, basic questions remain unresolved about the functional architecture of the process that maps auditory inputs from structural analysis onto lexical form and meaning and about the units of analysis in terms of which these processes are conducted. The goal of the proposed project is to address this question using a novel interdisciplinary approach, examining how auditory input is segmented into linguistic substrings (so-called 'morphemes') that trigger lexical access. We propose to combine the logic of behavioral lexical decision with the neurophysiological phenomena of electroencephalography (EEG) to provide some initial insights into spatio-temporal underpinnings of single word recognition within the human brain.


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PTC(UK) trustees' meeting, Hatfield. 17th September 2018
PTC(UK) presentation, U3A, Welwyn Garden City, 6th August 2018
PTC(UK) presentation, Rotary, Norwich 19th July 2018
PTC(UK) presentation, Lewisham Labour CLP, 18th July 2018
Visit to PTC(Gaza) by Dr Guido Veronese. 25th – 27th June 2018
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting, Hatfield 13th June 2018
Iftar Fundraising event for PTC. Hatfield. 2nd June 2018
STAND UP FOR GAZA. Fundraising event, Brent. 18th May 2018
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting, Hatfield 21st February 2018
PTC(UK) Focusing presentation, Hatfield 20th January 2018
PTC(UK) presentation at INTERPAL dinner, London 13th January 2018
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting, Hatfield 18th December 2017
Concert for PTC, Brent, London 24th November 2017
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting, Hatfield 18th September 2017
PTC(UK) with INTERPAL and MAP at Palestine Expo, London 9th July 2017
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting, Hatfield 25th June 2017
Iftar fundraiser for PTC, Hatfield 17th June 2017
"Here, there & everywhere" event: PTC seminar, P21. London 16th June 2017
PTC(UK) presentation, Merton FoP 7th June 2017
Visit to PTC(Gaza) by Dr Guido Veronese representing PTC(UK) 22rd-24th May 2017
PTC(UK) presentation, Lewisham FoP 14th May 2017
PTC(UK) presentation, Goldsmiths College, London 3rd May 2017
PTC(UK) presentation, Social Work conference, Durham University 14th March 2017
INTERPAL visits PTC(Gaza) 7th February 2017
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting. 25th January 2017
PTC(UK) Public Meeting, Hatfield, Herts. 1st December 2016
Concert for Palestine Trauma Centre, St Martins Lane London. 1st October 2016
Gig for Palestine Trauma Centre, Brick Lane, London. 23rd September 2016
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting. 19th September 2016
PTC(UK) presentation to The Philadelphia Association. 17th September 2016
PTC(UK) Therapists' meeting. 25th July 2016
International Focusing Conference, Cambridge. 20th – 24th July 2016. Presentations by PTC(UK) and PTC(Gaza)
"Haircut of Happiness" fundraising event for PTC. Tooting. 15th July 2016
PTC(UK) trustees' meeting. 6th June 2016
Fundraising music event for PTC at Styx Theatre, Tottenham. 27th May 2016
Training visit to PTC(Gaza) by Dr Guido Veronese, Milan University. 17 – 19 May 2016
PTC(UK) presentation at the Wintergardens, Sheffield. 16th May 2016
Visit to PTC(Gaza) by "Hope for All" from Finland. 6 – 7 April 2016
PTC(UK) presentation: St Albans Friends of Palestine. 12th March 2016
PTC(UK) presentation: Brent Friends of Palestine. 4th March 2016
PTC(UK) Trustees' meeting: 18th February 2016
PTC(UK) presentation at Queen Mary College, University of London. 16th February 2016
PTC(UK) AGM. 3rd December 2015
Conference at Kingston University, organised by PTC(UK), Kingston University, UK-Palestine Social Work Network, UK-Palestine Mental Health network: 14th-15th November 2015
PTC(UK) visits PTC(Gaza) April 2015
Special trustees' meeting. 15th January 2015
AGM and Trustees' meeting. 27th November 2014
PTC(UK) at INTERPAL conference. London 25th November 2014
Therapists' Day meeting arranged by PTC(UK) P21 Gallery, London. 15th November 2014
Concert for PTC(UK) at Coventry Cathedral 7.30. 1st November 2014
PTC(UK) presentation at Stop the War conference, Manchester. 11th October 2014
PTC(UK) presentation at the University of East Anglia. 6th October 2014
PTC(UK) presentation at the Tottenham Palestine Literature Festival. 20th September 2014
PTC(UK) presentation at Ludwick Family Club, Welwyn Garden City. 17th August 2014
Trustees' meeting: 5th August 2014. Hatfield, Herts.
PTC(UK) presentation to Worcester PSC. 3rd July 2014
Trustees' meeting: 26th April 2014, Hatfield, Herts.
PTC(UK) presentation: 2nd April 2014, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, London.
PTC(UK) presentation: 19th March 2014, Social Work in Palestine Conference, Durham.
Presentation of "Journey through Thorns": 13th March 2014, Welwyn & Hatfield Interfaith Group.
UK paramedic stays at PTC(Gaza) March to June 2014.
Presentation of "Journey Through Thorns": 27th February 2014, Watford Friends of Salfeet
PTC(UK) Presentation: 5th February 2014, Merton PSC
AGM + public meeting: Hatfield. 12th December 2013 – 7.30.
Fundraising event: D'Gaf, East London. 23rd November 2013
PTC(UK) presentation: 12th November 2013, Social Work in Palestine Conference, London.
PTC presentation: 9th November 2013, Norwich Stop the War and PSC
Therapists' Weekend, Hatfield 19th – 20th October 2013.
Trustees' meeting 2nd October 2013.
Focusing Workshop 27th July 2013, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
PTC(UK) was at Oaklands College Summer Fayre on 9th June 2013
Trustees' meeting was held on 15th May 2013.
PTC(UK) gave a presentation to the Sheffield PSC group on 26th April 2013
Trustees' meeting was held on 13th April 2013 at SOAS during a conference on Gaza.
Trustees' meeting was held on 15th February 2013
The PTC(UK)Focusing team was in Gaza from 10th February 2013 to 16th February 2013.
The PTC(UK) Family Therapy team visited Gaza: 29th December 2012 – 5th January 2013.
Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 22nd November 2012
PTC(UK) gave a presentation at the Social Work in Palestine conference on 2nd November 2012
Trustees' meeting was held in Hatfield on Saturday 21st July 2012.
Journey through Thorns was presented at Palestine Place in London on 15th June 2012.
Journey through Thorns was presented at Oaklands College on 28th May 2012.
Journey through Thorns was presented at Centrecom, Milton Keynes on 1st May 2012.
Trustees' meeting at the Barbican Centre, London on 21st April 2012.
PTC(UK) Focusing team in Gaza, 29th December 2011 to 4th January 2012
AGM – Saturday 17th December 2011 3pm. Hatfield.
An Introduction to Focusing Therapy was given on Saturday 26th November 2011. All places were filled.
Journey through Thorns was presented at the Tottenham Palestine Literature Festival on Saturday 1st October 2011 at 3.00pm. Check http://tottpallitfest.org.uk/
A presentation about the work of PTC was given at the "War Child Conference" on Saturday 8th September 2011 at the University of Reading.
Anzar Moin completed a fundraising walk for PTC. Here are videos of his journey:
Here's the link for part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGZFABwdpbU
Here's the link for part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjyZ-3yaDvE
Journey through Thorns was presented at the Servas Britain Conference (www.servas.org) on Saturday 30th April 2011 at 4.30. Venue: Oxenwood Educational Centre, near Marlborough.
Journey through Thorns was presented at the Midlands Regional Amnesty Conference on Saturday 29th January 2011.
Journey through Thorns was presented at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ireland on Saturday 22nd January 2011.
PTC(UK) visited PTC(Gaza) from 28th December 2010 to 3rd January 2011.
PTC(UK) held a public meeting in Hatfield after an AGM on Thursday 25th November 2010.
A presentation and discussion about Gaza and PTC(UK) was held at the Friends Meeting House, Hertford on Sunday 14th November 2010.
Journey through Thorns was presented at Simon Balle School, Hertford on Monday 15th November 2010.
Journey through Thorns was presented at The Friends Meeting House, Norwich on Sunday 7th November 2010.
Journey through Thorns was presented at University College London on Tuesday 2nd November 2010 .
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text: India's capital of Delhi is populated with approximately 17 million people. It is a sprawling and bustling urban center with a population density of 11,300 per square kilometer. Despite a struggling infrastructure that varies from stunning architecture & World Heritage sites to dilapidated buildings and refuse dumped along the roads, there is an efficiency to the daily activities. This is beautifully illustrated by the time-lapse photography of Jack Fisher.


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Each year Slater's 50/50 puts on a Brew Fest that brings together craft breweries and hosts them along with some of their fantastic food. Burgers and beer can't get much better than that; but Slater's doesn't just make burgers they design delicious delicacies, with their signature 50% beef & 50% bacon patties they have no end to their creativity. Slater's not only makes food they also have a great beer selection that caters to craft brews and popular domestics as well. Their Brew Fest is in a sense an homage to the breweries and community that have kept this place lively.
This years brew fest hosted some of the heavyweights in craft beer that came with styles like double IPA's, porters & stouts, red ales, and sours. Many local breweries participated like Bootleggers, Rough Draft, Ballast Point, The Dudes' Brewing Co., Figueroa Mountain, etc. This years fest also brought a brewery from Mexico, "Ensenada Brewing Company." They brought their delicious artisanal brew, The Horchata Obscura. With such a brewery line-up and sample burgers flowing around the site, this event leaves the impression that Slater's 50/50 Backyard Brew Fest is an event you cannot pass up.
The food Slater's 50/50 puts out is no joke. They pack so much flavor and creativity that its difficult to have just one favorite. Slater's also has a killer appetizer menu with items like mac & cheese, greens and sides that will leave you wanting to pile on the goodies. Every now and then a place comes along and sets the bar. Slater's 50/50 happens to be one place that has put so much craft in their food and beer that the bar they set is one to be met with high standards.


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Centering Prayer
What is Contemplative Prayer?
Contemplative prayer is a form of communion with God and an experience of God's presence within us. This awareness of God's presence usually comes unexpectedly— when we are meditating on the meaning of Scripture for our lives and what God may be asking of us, praying the rosary, or in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. While always a gift of the Holy Spirit, it is also a form of prayer that can be developed through practice, and the most common form of this practice is known as Centering Prayer.
What is Centering Prayer?
Centering Prayer is a part of a living Christian tradition. Even the name has evolved through the centuries from the early Church which called it the "one-word" prayer. It has been called the Prayer of the Heart, Prayer of Simplicity, and Prayer of Simple Regard. The intention is to sit quietly in the peace of God's presence.
- Sit relaxed and quiet with eyes closed. Select a "sacred word" such as Jesus, Love, Peace, Abba, Spirit—a word that has meaning for you.
- Silently introduce the sacred word as the symbol of your consent to God's action and presence within. Focus your thoughts on this word as you repeat it silently in your mind and heart.
- When you become aware of distracting thoughts—such as plans for the day, ideas about your current concerns, tasks and projects—return ever so gently to the sacred word.
- At the end of the prayer period (usually 20-30 minutes), recite very slowly a favorite prayer, such as the Our Father, and sit for a few moments grounded in the realization that you have been present to God, and God to you. Accept the feelings you experience, whether pleasant or not, without judgment and with gratitude to God for this time
St. Basil Centering Prayer Group
St. Basil Centering Prayer Group meets every Saturday in the Annex from 10:00 – 10:30am (followed by reflection/discussion for those who can stay).
Come join us whenever you want or need to sit in the peace of God's presence…
If you are new to Centering Prayer or would like further information, call Margaret Balewski osf (440-526-1686) or Patricia Januszkiewicz (440-526-1852).


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Following the invitation by the Lebanese authorities, the European Union is deploying an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Lebanon to observe the Parliamentary elections, due to take place on 6 May 2018. The European Union has a long-term commitment to supporting credible, transparent and inclusive elections in the country. The EU has already observed elections in Lebanon in 2005 and 2009.
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, has appointed Elena Valenciano, Member of the European Parliament, as Chief Observer of the EU Election Observation Mission to Lebanon.
High Representative and Vice President Federica Mogherini stated:"
These elections, the first in almost a decade and with an increased number of female candidates, will be key for the future of Lebanon. A newly elected parliament will steer the many reforms that the country is about to undertake.
Lebanon can count on the friendship and strong support of the European Union and of the international community. Its stability and economic growth are key for the entire region and for the European Union.
Under the leadership of Chief Observer Elena Valenciano, I am confident that the EU EOM will make an important contribution to this electoral process".
Elena Valenciano declared: "I feel honoured to lead the EU Election Observation Mission to Lebanon. These elections will be held under a new electoral framework approved in 2017, and are an opportunity to strengthen Lebanon's democracywith EU support. Previous EU EOM reporting and recommendations have proved to be an important incentive for political consensus among Lebanon's political parties and some have been integrated in the new law. I am confident that the 2018 EU EOM will provide an appreciated contribution to enhancing further the quality of the electoral process."
The Electoral Observation Mission's core team, consisting of 9 analysts, arrived in Beirut on 27 March. The team will stay in the country until the completion of the electoral process, as well as prepare a comprehensive final report.
At the beginning of April, the core team was joined by 24long-term observers who are deployed across the country.
A further 36 short-term observers will be deployed at the beginning of May after having observed the vote of the Lebanese people living abroad (27 and 29 April). The EU EOM also looks forward to cooperate with other international and domestic observation missions.
Shortly after the elections day, the mission will issue a preliminary statement of its findings at a press conference inBeirut. A final report, including recommendations for future electoral processes, will be presented at a later stage to the Lebanese authorities and all relevant stakeholders, after the finalisation of the electoral process. The EU will continue to work with the Lebanese stakeholders on the implementation of the recommendations of its Observation Mission in Lebanon.


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To promote his upcoming project, Pittsburgh artist Boaz decides to come through today and share the project's title track in the meantime called "Hope Dealer" featuring Canino.
Bringing the title to life, Boaz hops on this S.M.P-produced beat and delivers an uplifting, socially-conscious record that finds him reflecting on his come up, the injustices in America, & providing hope for the community. Serving as the follow up to "How They Feel," "Hope Dealer" is another strong addition to Boaz's growing catalog of records. Hopefully, he leaks another record before the arrival of Hope Dealer happens.
Hit play and let us know what you think.
Quotable Lyrics:
They rather see me on the corner with my hand out
Sad face no life, nothin' to laugh about
But the plan was get the music to the masses
Reflection of the gangters they can see their life flash


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This 377-foot long tunnel is an important connective element of the City and County of Denver's Dakota Avenue Outfall stormwater improvement project. An open face 129.5-inch outside diameter TBM was utilized to complete this tunnel which is approximately 17 feet below five active rail lines travelled daily by BNSF , Union Pacific and Denver's RTD- Light Rail passenger system.
Challenges the Brierley design team managed included shallow tunneling under active rail lines in a mixed-face condition consisting of alluvial sands over claystone and the sandstone of the Denver Formation. Due to the potential for running sands and the shallow cover separating the rails and tunnel crown, permeation grouting was selected as a means of ground improvement for the cohesionless sands.
The directly jacked reinforced concrete pipe was connected to other components of the Dakota Avenue Outfall project. The completed project provides needed stormwater conveyance improvements that are vital to future re-development of this underutilized urban locale.


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Elderly Parents Nutrition - Weight Watching for Seniors
For elderly parents, watching weight is not just a matter of appearance – it can also be closely associated to quality of life, medication control and disease processes. Seniors, of all other age groups, are more at risk for not receiving adequate nutrients because of a variety of factors; inability to cook for themselves, inability to afford quality food and a lack of knowledge about the importance of nutrition as we age.
As we age, changes occur in our body that affects the way it absorbs nutrients. Many elderly parents are undernourished, though many may be considered obese. Each of these conditions can have a serious impact on health. While some of these individuals suffer from side effects of disease processes and medications, many suffer from complaints that are caused by inadequate nutrition.
Ask five people (parents, caregivers and others) and one of them might know the minimum daily nutrition requirements for adults, but few know the requirements for seniors. Ask the same five people if they know some of the side effects of poor nutrition for the elderly and most can only shrug. Take a look at some basic facts about aging and nutritional needs:
For seniors, maintaining weight control is more than about looks. It's about how the body reacts and interacts (or doesn't) with vitamins, minerals and medications.
For example, as we age, the body is unable to absorb as much calcium as it did when we were younger. Hormones change, decrease or cease altogether, increasing loss of calcium through kidneys and causing some individuals to become intolerant of lactose, a type of sugar found in milk.
Because of this, many elderly individuals stop drinking milk because it gives them an upset stomach, which then deprives the body of still much needed calcium needs. Caregivers should know about adequate substitutes for milk that will offer calcium, such as yogurt, buttermilk or acidophilus milk.
Undernourishment in the elderly is a serious problem in the United States. Still, it's tough to encourage a parent to eat who just doesn't have an appetite because your Mom is going through chemotherapy or because your Dad has lost his sense of taste and complains that everything tastes like cardboard.
Medications also take their toll on the body, especially those that cause absorption levels to change. For example, levels of Vitamin D may be raised in the body through the use of estrogen replacement therapies, use of Isoniazids (those used to treat tuberculosis) and Thiazide, a diuretic drug. Diuretics are often prescribed for the elderly to reduce edema (swelling) but they also cause an increase of calcium levels in the blood because of an increased activity of Vitamin D.
By the same token, Vitamin D might be decreased in the body through the use of medications (both over-the-counter and prescribed) such as antacids, calcium-channel blockers, anticonvulsants and cholesterol-lowering medications.
If your elderly parent is on Digoxin, a medication that is commonly used to treat irregular heart rhythms, calcium levels need to be monitored carefully, because increased levels of calcium may create a toxic reaction to this drug.
Another vital vitamin in the body is Vitamin K, responsible for clotting blood and bone health. However, a Vitamin K deficiency may result with the use of blood-thinning medications like warfarin.
Caregivers as well as elderly parents (depending on their cognitive levels) need to be educated (call your medical professional or certified nutritionist before starting or modifying current activities) and made aware of the importance of adequate diet and weight control when taking various medications or while undergoing treatment for disease processes.
At the very least, maintaining a healthy weight will help seniors to maintain activity levels that promote independence and mobility. If your elderly parent does not seem to understand the importance of proper nutrition, sit down and show him or her recommended daily intakes suggested for their age group. Stress to your parent the need for adequate nutrients to help fight disease, malnutrition and disease processes that prey on a weakened immune system, one of the first signs of an inadequate diet.
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