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You can catch Michael Steinberger's wine columns at Slate.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Grands Crus de Bordeaux
You can catch Michael Steinberger's wine columns at Slate.
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- Elizabeth10:33 AM
The high VAT mentioned today was lowered to approx.5% last fall for restaurants.ReplyDelete
An American friend who couldn't wait to take advantage was disappointed because the plummet of the dollar against the Euro ate up all the savings.
A great idea to encourage dining out (and why not - it's an industrie premiere, non?...and a terrific little present to the French!
- Jan10:35 AM
while you were sipping I wasReplyDelete
spending at Sotheby's Americana auction and a couple of the antique shows which featured Americana-one at pier 92 and one at the armory.
Had a great time, as always. saw 5 plays, one opera, the Cloisters, the American wing at the MET and "The View" with Julie Andrews. Glad to be back though.
A girl after my own heart! I love wine, and I love my dog Cooper too - perfect blog post combo!ReplyDelete
I couldn't agree more. French food has become BORING, at least in the Languedoc-Roussillon. All the menus are alike and where, oh where, are the vegetables??? Surely not in that teaspoon of minute little pieces of this and that. Mind you, I am not talking of ****** restos about which I know nothing because of prices+ VAT. The more "normal " places are what I am griping about.ReplyDelete
This said, I still like the desserts!
Ah I felt like I was there- thank you for sharing this with us! xoReplyDelete
Françoise how right you are.ReplyDelete
No one can fault the French when it comes to desserts these days!
Perhaps this is where all the innovation and talent has flocked to - the patisserie.
I didn't even see that!
what good eyes you have Nikon
I would have great difficulties spitting the sauternes! Maybe at your next Paris visit, we should have a "snack" with some sauterne, some roquefort and some grenoble nuts? (Macarons as "dessert"?)ReplyDelete
Some further comments: I believe that Michelin has today less influence than in the past. The VAT was last year reduced for restaurants (as it was already before for the fastfood). ... and fortunately an Au Revoir is not the same as an Adieu! :-)
Françoise's observation that French food - outside starred restaurants - at places that are affordable has become boring, which seems to go in the opposite direction Austrian gasthauses try to steer: I see more fresh ingredients, more vegetables, lots of emphasis on "Slow Food". I have also noticed an abundance of really well made sandwiches, with prime ingredients, offered in bakeries all over. I still miss the wonderful sandwiches bakeries like Marvelous Markets, Napoleon, Uptown Bakery or Firehook Bakery prepare in Washington DC, but some of those offered here are not to be dismissed, quite the opposite (and they are smaller, managable to eat in one setting, at half the price too).ReplyDelete
Maybe you should finally venture out from Paris and graze a bit around Viennese and the region around it. Well worth a trip! :-)
I wish I had been here with you. That looks great!ReplyDelete
How can a tiny country like France possibly be McDonald's 2nd biggest market?ReplyDelete
we have done wine tasting at the farm here before, but not as serious as that....ReplyDelete
very nice to have met you.
I adore this post. Imagine not spitting out the Sauternes? Well if that gives you more inspiration for such a wonderful painting at the end, then cheers to that nectar! Don't you just love all these serious wine tasting alongside?


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I used and enjoyed the FZ200, but in the end decided not to review it. It will make a great travel camera for someone who doesn't have extremely high standards, but in the end it's a small sensor camera with all that that entails in terms of IQ.Michael
The FZ200 has two advantages (of sorts) over the SX50.1-the f2.8 stop2-a much better EVF
Michael, your recent review of the Canon SX 50 briefly discussed the Panasonic FZ200 and its f/2.8 25-600mm lens, and said "Otherwise the cameras are quite comparable". Which seems to imply the the IQ from the FZ200 and SX 50 are pretty much the same. But you raved about the SX 50 IQ compared to other super-zooms.So I'm confused about how you rate the IQ of the FZ200 compared to the SX 50.
Ray -- a belated thanks for your helpful and informative answer Cheers,Kirby.

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Tour de France winner Andy Schleck admits he's eagerly awaiting Lance Armstrong's U.S. television interview next week, fascinated to learn how he'll deal with his fall into disgrace.
Schleck believes a candid interview with Oprah Winfrey on her cable TV network could win Armstrong back some fans but he's unsure whether the American will admit to using performance-enhancing drugs during his career.
"I don't think he [Armstrong] goes there to say that he's innocent and that he didn't do anything," Schleck said as he arrived in Adelaide on Thursday to prepare for the Tour Down Under.
"It's been many years. For him, it's not easy - the media, the pressure.
"I believe he does it [the interview] for a good reason.
"But if he confesses? We don't know."
The interview will be Armstrong's first since he was stripped in October of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said he helped orchestrate the most sophisticated doping program in cycling history.
Luxembourg star Schleck said he was stunned by those revelations.
"It shocked me. Somehow, even three or four years ago, we maybe knew that the Lance Armstrong era was not the cleanest in cycling so far," he said.
"But I believe that since 2005 and 2006 with the biological passport, everything changed for the young generation."
Last week, The New York Times reported sources saying Armstrong, 41 - in an apparent bid to return to competitive sport in marathons and triathlons - was considering publicly admitting that he used banned substances.
Schleck said it was also possible that Armstrong still believed he was innocent and had done nothing wrong.
Schleck, who was awarded the 2010 Tour de France crown after Alberto Contador was disqualified for doping, will be competing at the season-opening Tour Down Under for the first time.
Schleck said this season was crucial for the future of cycling but warned against expecting the sport to be totally clean.
"There will still be some guys [test] positive again this year," he said.
"But that's not necessarily a bad sign. That's a sign that the system works.
"I don't believe in cycling they dope more.
"In every sport, there's cheaters but in cycling they get caught. That's a good thing."
Schleck's Radioshack Leopard Trek team will not include his older brother Frank who is waiting on the outcome of a disciplinary hearing after testing positive for a banned diuretic at last year's Tour de France.
Tour Down Under race director Mike Turtur said he couldn't see Armstrong admitting to widespread doping - something the American has previously denied under oath.
"Obviously, a confession would lead to other matters, so I can't see it happening," Turtur said.
"But I'll be as interested as anyone else."
Turtur said he was not concerned by the timing of the Armstrong interview coming a week before the start of this year's Adelaide race.
"It was going to happen sooner or later so we might as well get it done now and be done with it," he said.
"I don't think it's going to overshadow this race.
"This is a new beginning - a new season for these teams and for the sport."
British cyclist David Millar has expressed concern over what he believes will be Armstrong's "stage-managed" appearance with Winfrey.
Next week's broadcast will be Armstrong's first interview since he was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after the US Anti-Doping Agency said he helped orchestrate the most sophisticated doping programme in cycling history.
A spokeswoman for Winfrey insisted Wednesday no question would be off limits and Armstrong would not be paid for a 90 minute interview that is due to air on January 17.
However, Millar now a member of the athletes' commission for the World Anti-Doping Agency, said Armstrong needs to be questioned by an official body.
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On her Twitter feed on Tuesday, Winfrey said: "Looking forward to this conversation with @lancearmstrong". Armstrong retweeted that message on his own Twitter account.
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Which Actor Had a Hilarious Altercation with the Cops?
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1. "This well-known funny actor is known to enjoy a drink or two over the course of an evening. While driving home (sober) after a recent dinner in Southern California, however, he was pulled over for speeding. The officer walked up to the driver's side and asked the actor for his license and registration. The actor put on his trademark smile and asked the officer "Don't you recognize me?" The officer replied, "Yes. Now show me you license and registration anyway, Funny Man." Uh oh. This did not bode well for our actor. He produced the documents, but continued to smile and engage the officer in conversation, hoping that he could establish a rapport and avoid a ticket. The officer looked at the documents and then looked at the actor.
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"No. Why?"
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Michael Murphy isn't merely a baby boomer himself; he has just written a novel about a baby boomer called "Goodbye Emily," and if you're a boomer, you might relate, because what Michael writes about pretty much happened to him: he lost his job and grieved the loss. Which prompted Michael to write a book, which helped him heal. This is an excerpt in which a college professor loses his wife, then two years later, he also loses his job and confronts broken heart syndrome. It sends him, with two friends, on a nostalgic return to Woodstock, 1969. One last road trip; one last chance to say Goodbye, Emily.
"You want to tell him the rest, Dad, or should I?"
"I thought we had attorney-client privilege." I cursed myself for running out of bourbon.
Cloe continued as I knew she would. She was concerned for me, so I cut her some slack. "Ten months after Mom died, Milton College forced Dad into retirement. He never sees his two best friends from high school anymore."
Doctor Malone's brow furrowed with concern. "You recently turned sixty."
"What's your point?" He made turning sixty sound like the biggest tragedy of all. The doctor's initial charm had worn off.
"The things your daughter mentioned, we call them life stressors. One thing I suggest to my patients is to write down each item and keep the list where you'll look at your problems every day so you can begin to confront them. You may not get your friends, or your job back, but as you come to terms with each one, your condition should improve. Will you do that, Mr. Ellington?"
"If I say yes, can I leave?"
He made a quick entry into the chart. "We'll get you admitted and run a few tests to be safe. We have to be sure of the extent of your concussion and see whether there's been damage to your heart. You seem like an educated man."
"Dad's a college professor."
"We can schedule a battery of tests for first thing in the morning." The doctor checked the chart and smiled. "Your blood work shows when you came in you were legally intoxicated. If the tests check out, we'll have you out of here tomorrow in time for happy hour."
I didn't like his use of the word battery, but Dr. Malone possessed a sense of humor and charm, traits that might bode well for Cloe.
"I won't stay."
"Yes, you will, Dad."
Behind the curtain, the patient in the next bed sounded like he just hawked up a lung. I was healthy before they brought me in but wouldn't be by the time I left.
"Lady's alone." I pictured my dog pacing the house and whining.
Cloe patted my hand. "I'll stop by and make sure she's alright."
The doctor snapped the chart closed. "I think we have a plan. Any questions?" Without letting me respond, he gave a passable Jim Carrey imitation. "Alrighty then." He winked at Cloe, pulled aside the curtain and went in search of another victim.
I'll never get out of this hospital. With decent insurance, doctors could justify a never-ending series of tests, most painful and/or humiliating. At my age, I'd never leave with all the body parts I possessed when I arrived. Broken heart syndrome indeed.


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This is a community for non-believers and free thinkers in Japan. Japan is pretty much a non-religious society, so the need for such a community is probably not so high, but I figured I'd make a group anyways, just in case anyone else is interested.
Location: Japan? lol
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - Rudy and Radim - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Rudy and Radim - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
We set up a screentest for newcomer Radim Valovy, with the lovely Rudy Bodlak. As often happens between solo shoots and getting the guy in for a duo, Radim has changed his hairstyle and color. Rudy does a brief interview with Radim, to find out a bit about him and then they get on with the action. They start by kissing and quickly remove their underwear. Rudy grabs hold of Radim's cock and wanks it a bit as he moves down to suck it. It quickly gets rock hard as Rudy sucks on it, with Radim reaching over for a feel of cock himself. He wanks on Rudy's hard cock as his is being sucked and they soon move to 69. Both the cocks are thick and very hard as they suck each other. Radim, it seems, is accomplished at sucking as he works his mouth all over Rudy's cock and suck at his balls too. Rudy moves to get between Radim's legs and starts to rim his ass. Radim continues to lap at Rudy's balls too. Then as Radim lays on his back Rudy climbs over him and positions his ass over his face for rimming. He sucks on Radim's throbbing dick as he feels that fongue on his hairy hole. Rudy is then ready for more and sits that hole down on Radim's big cock. He rides up and down on it, working his hole real well. His own cock is rampant as his ass is filled, with Radim fucking him real well. Rudy really takes it well, that thick cock stretching his hole very nicely. They change position with Rudy on his back, one leg held up and Radim's cock slamming in and out of his ass. Rudy moans with each thrust of that cock. Radim wants to go deeper and pushes Rudy's legs up above his chest so he can really pound that hole. He is soon ready to dump his load and pulls out, moving up to Rudy's face and delivers that cum all over it. Rudy takes the spent cock in his mouth to clean it off. Radim then positions himself with his face above Rudy's cock, waiting for him to cum too. His tongue hangs out of his mouth lapping at the cock as Rudy shoots his load. Then Radim closes his mouth around that sticky cockhead to suck it dry. He then moves up to kiss Rudy on the mouth, finishing his screentest very nicely. Both guys did very well indeed and Radim is very keen to show us more.
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Valeriy Vilemcuk is a newcomer who did a lovely solo. We persuaded him to come back to try some guy/guy action with Pavel Smidl. After a brief interview the guys begin to make out, with Pavel taking the lead. After kissing he works his way down Valeriy's hairy chest to his nice, hard cock. He sucks the big cockhead into his mouth and works on it a while before removing Valeriy's underwear. Then it is back to sucking his throbbing cock as Valeriy's hand guides Pavel's head. Pavel then moves up and kisses Valeriy again, before presenting his own hard cock for sucking. Valeriy takes it in his mouth and sucks it very well. Then the move to 69, both sucking cock at the same time. Pavel sucks on Valeriy's cock before moving down and spreading the ass cheeks. He rims that hairy hole and then inserts a finger. He works the finger in and out of that hole, and then tries a second. Pavel is rock hard and ready for more, so he positions Valeriy, on his back, legs in the air, and pushes his cock deep into that ass. He fucks Valeriy nice and deep, leaning over to kiss him too and after a while changes position. He lays on the bed so that Valeriy can sit on that cock and ride it. He takes it very well indeed, working his hole all over the cock. Another move sees them in spoon position with Pavel fucking Valeriy fast and hard until he is ready to cum. He moves up to Valeriy's chest and shoots a nice big load all over it. Valeriy then takes the cock into his mouth again to suck it dry while he shoots his own load. Pavel finishes the scene by bending to kiss Valeriy after a very successful screentest.
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We're enjoying some very nice weather in Prague. On Thursday, we film our June Wank Party and I'm looking forward to it. I can report some major postop healing in my foot. Knock on wood. Things could change for the worse, but the situation is looking up. I don't think I'll be running any Marathons this summer. I'd better postpone that for awhile.
Radim Valovy's Screentest, with Rudy Bodlak starts us off today, and what a great shoot it is too. Followed up by Lukas Pribyl's massage, Yuri Bulakov's erotic video, Martin Bortlik's erotic video and Martin Poupa's lovely session stills shoot.
Our castings today are Jirka Vavro, Tomas Hozman and Rado Prada. For me the pick of the day is Rado Prada.
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This two minute animation explores what dementia is, what to do
if you're worried about memory loss, and keeping well if you have
dementia. The film was produced by the RCPsych Public Engagement
Committee in conjunction with Damn Fine Media.
We all tend to get more forgetful as we get
older. But dementia is different. It is a brain disease which often
starts with memory problems, but goes on to affect many other parts
of the brain, producing:
It usually gets worse over time. It is
much more common in older people. Dementia can sometimes occur in
younger people and may run in families, although this is rare.
Alzheimer's disease is the
commonest cause of dementia. Damaged tissue builds up in the
brain to form deposits called 'plaques' and 'tangles'. These cause
the brain cells around them to die.
Alzheimer's also affects the chemicals in the
brain which transmit messages from one cell to another,
particularly acetylcholine. It comes on gradually and develops
slowly over several years. It can sometimes run in families
and it is more likely to affect people with Down's syndrome.
Alzheimer's disease produces particular
problems with memory and thinking. Learning new information becomes
harder – you can't remember recent events, appointments or phone
Vascular dementia is
when the arteries supplying blood to the brain become
blocked. This leads to small or big strokes - parts of
the brain die as they are starved of oxygen. It is more common
if you are a smoker or if you have high blood pressure, diabetes or
high cholesterol.
Lewy body dementia seems to
be caused by protein deposits (Lewy bodies) building up in the
dementia seem to affect the front of the brain more
than other areas. It often starts in people in their 50s and
Mild cognitive impairment is
a term used when memory problems are more than you would expect for
your age, but not bad enough to be called dementia. About 1 in 3
people with this problem may develop dementia, but we can't yet
predict who these people will be.
Sometimes people with dementia do not feel there is anything
wrong with them and get cross when people try to help. Carers often
comment that the Alzheimer's has changed the personality, so the
person behaves and reacts differently to how they did before they
became ill.
Alzheimer's disease produces particular
problems with memory and thinking. Learning new information becomes
harder - you can't remember recent events, appointment or phone
You may forget the names of people or places and may struggle to
understand or communicate with others. Commonly, you just can't
find the right word for objects or people you know well. This can
make you frustrated and depressed. You may think that people have
taken or stolen your things when all that has happened is that you
have lost them.
On Vascular dementia, problems will depend on
which part of the brain is affected. There may be memory loss, poor
concentration, word finding difficulties, mood swings and
depression. Some people have hallucinations (where they see or hear
something that is not there). Physical problems can develop, such
as difficulties with walking and incontinence.
It is difficult to predict how fast your brain functions will
deteriorate. It can be stable for several months or years but then,
when more strokes happen, you get further deterioration.
Lewy body dementia causes symptoms which
overlap with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The level
of confusion can vary during the course of the day, but visual
hallucinations of people or animals are more common. They may also
have trembling hands, muscle stiffness, falls or difficulty in
Because fronto-temporal dementia affects the
front of the brain, it is more likely to cause personality and
behavioural changes. So a person who is usually very polite and
proper might start to become irritable and rude.
If you are worried about your memory, see your
doctor. He or she can do a simple memory test, a physical
examination and order blood tests. They can then refer you
to a specialist team or a memory clinic who will test your
memory in more detail and arrange a brain scan if needed.
Treatment will depend on the diagnosis and your
circumstances. Unfortunately there are no cures for many of
these conditions.
There is a group of drugs called acetyl cholinesterase
inhibitors which may slow the progression of Alzheimer's dementia
(see our factsheet). These drugs may
also help in Lewy Body dementia if hallucinations are a
In Vascular dementia, a small dose of aspirin may help to
prevent further strokes or medication may help to control high
blood pressure or raised cholesterol. It is also important to
stop smoking, eat healthily and take exercise.
Charities such as the Alzheimer's Society are a
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entitled to benefits.
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trusted relative, friend or solicitor the right to make such
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Advance Decisions - it is possible to make
known decisions to refuse certain medical treatments in the future
should you lose the capacity to make decisions. These will be
respected by the professionals providing care. This can be made at
the same time or separately from a LPA.
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Pinkerton students pause to remember Lt. Paul DeMeoBY ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader Correspondent
May 29. 2013 11:37PM
The normal rush of activity at Derry's Pinkerton Academy came to a halt Wednesday morning as students lined the road for the funeral procession of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Paul DeMeo.
The 2007 graduate was the first cadet from the school's Air Force Junior ROTC program to attend a U.S. service academy. DeMeo, who graduated from West Point in 2011, died May 14 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Army officials are investigating and have not yet released his cause of death.
Howie Steadman, a retired Air Force colonel and director of the AFJROTC program at Pinkerton, gave the eulogy Wednesday. "Paul had such a bright future; he had the potential to be a general," Steadman said. "In reality, that can't happen, but in my mind, he will be a general." — Adam Swift


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The Associated Press reports former NFL OT Luis Sharpe was sentenced to six years in prison and four years probation for a series of drug offenses Friday, May 9. Sharpe has admitted that he started using cocaine when he was a rookie in the NFL.
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The Associated Press reports former NFL OT Luis Sharpe faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to four drug charges Friday, April 11. Sharpe pleaded guilty to charges stemming from separate arrests for possessing crack cocaine in July and November of 2007 and February 2008. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 9 and faces a minimum of six years in prison with probation.
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The Associated Press reports the body of former NFL OL Luis Sharpe's daughter was found in Arizona, according to authorities. The police believe Leah Tamara Sharpe was fatally shot and then dumped in an alley. KFFL sends its condolences to her family and friends.
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The Arizona Republic reports former NFL All-Pro OT Luis Sharpe was arrested Tuesday, April 13, on drug charges. Police caught Sharpe exchanging cocaine and money in south Phoenix, according to authorities.
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The Australian share market has hit a new 17-month high as retailers and iron ore miner Fortescue provided momentum on a quiet day of trade.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 12.8 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 4,648, its highest closing level since July 8, 2011.
The broader All Ordinaries index added 15.8 points, or 0.34 per cent, to 4,661.4, its highest since July 22, 2011.
On the ASX 24, the March share price index futures contract was 15 points higher at 4,628 with 9,650 contracts traded.
Fortescue Metals was a standout performer, up 18 cents, or 4.1 per cent, at $4.53 after announcing it would resume work expanding the Kings deposit at its Solomon iron ore mining hub in January after a pick up in commodity prices.
Other iron ore miners also rose as prices for the steel-making commodity continue to show signs of stabilising, IG Markets analyst Stan Shamu said.
Rio Tinto gained 61 cents to $65.45 and BHP Billiton added 13 cents to $36.99.
Retailers were the other strong performers, on reports of higher turnover at Boxing Day sales across Australia than 12 months ago.
"The retail sector is having a good day following reports of record festive sales helped by low interest rates," Mr Shamu said.
"Festive periods are generally make-or-break for many retailers, as most of their annual sales revenue is drawn from this period."
Myer added six cents to $2.13, David Jones gained seven cents to $2.41, Harvey Norman rose by three cents to $1.885 and JB Hi-Fi was three cents higher at $10.26.
Market activity was significantly lower after the Christmas break, with 849 million shares traded, well below the typical level of about 1.4 billion.
Market activity was worth $1.3 billion.
There was little economic news at home or abroad to guide investors, with the main focus still on negotiations in the United States to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Members of Congress are expected to resume negotiations on Thursday in Washington, but there are no signs of any agreement on measures to reduce the impact of spending cuts and tax rises due to begin on January 1.
Local bank shares fell on Thursday, possibly in response to the impending fiscal cliff situation, as well as profit taking by investors, Mr Shamu said.
The Commonwealth Bank shed 21 cents to $62.12, Westpac lost seven cents to $26.10 and ANZ closed six cents lower at $24.91.
NAB bucked the trend, adding seven cents to $24.95.
The spot price of Sydney gold closed at $US1,655.60, down $US3.63 from Monday's local close of $US1,659.23.


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When doing any type of home improvement, one must do their research before buying any type of replacement window. With so many options on the market, it would be a shame if you didn't get what you truly needed the first time around.
What types of window manufacturers are the best?
For starters, Certainteed, Pella, Marvin, Harvey and Andersen replacement windows are always my top five choices to start with. First off, these window manufacturers have been around for the last 50 years or so, with Certainteed being around for nearly 100 years to-date. Secondly, these window companies carry some of the best window warranties on the market.
Most importantly, with these 5 window replacement companies, they stand behind their products. They're far from being one of those types that sell and install windows for 189.oo – these are the worst windows you could buy. You see them all of the time in ads and on tv infomercials. Certainteed, Pella, Marvin, Harvey and Andersen replacement windows produce some of the best quality windows one could buy for their homes.
It's very important to think quality when buying replacement windows. For example, window frames, it's important that the windows you buy have a solid thick frame and not hollow. Whether your buying vinyl or wood windows it's important to know what your getting.
Read online reviews about the type of window you plan to buy. Research how well their window seals hold up if you're buying double-pan glass – there's nothing worse than having condensation build up in-between your window panes.
How much do the average replacement windows cost?
Prices in the Boston area for a double hung vinyl replacement window was:
Basic level prices: $270.00 – $318.00
Mid level prices: $372.00 – $438.00
Premium level prices: $516.00 – $606.00


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#13 Baseball Falls To #19 USC
March 25, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Despite jumping out to a five run lead early on Sunday afternoon, the Sun Devils were unable to hold on, as the USC Trojans avoided the sweep with a 14-13 walk-off victory at Dedeaux Field. After Brett Wallace tied the game with a solo homer in the ninth, Rocky Laguna singled home Eric Sogard for the go-ahead run, but USC's Lucas Duda hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth for the win. ASU falls to 21-8 on year, 2-1 in the Pac-10, and sees their eight game winning streak come to an end.
Although they out hit the Trojans 16 to 15, the Devils stranded 12 runners and went through seven pitchers in the loss. Starter Brian Flores lasted four innings, allowing four runs, two earned, on six hits. He struck out four but also issued four free passes in a no decision.
Ike Davis got the Devils started off in grand fashion to lead off the game. After a walk and back-to-back bunt singles loaded the bases in the top of the first, Davis sent Trojan starter Tommy Milone's offering over the right field fence for his fourth homer of the year and third career grand slam.
The Trojans got one back in the bottom of the first, as Robert Stock doubled home a run off Brian Flores before being throwing out at third trying to stretch the double into a triple.
Eric Sogard added two more runs in the top of the fourth, hitting a towering homer to right for his second homer of the series and sixth of the year. That made it 6-1 Devils. USC would score three times in the bottom of the fourth, including two unearned runs to cut it to 6-4. Andrew Romine made it 7-4 with an RBI ground out in the top of the fifth.
Brian Flores ran into trouble in the bottom of the fifth, putting two runners on with no outs. Ted Aust relieved Flores and promptly induced a double play ball and a pop up to get out of the jam with the 7-4 lead intact. Brett Wallace extended that lead to 9-4 when he deposited a two-run shot into the flower beds beyond the fence in left center for his ninth home run of the year. It was also Wallace's second long ball of the series.
The Trojans came storming back in the sixth, scoring eight times, including a grand slam by Lucas Duda, to take a 12-9 lead. USC was aided by two Sun Devil errors and three walks that resulted in two of the runs being unearned. Joey Parigi, one of four Sun Devil pitchers in the inning, allowed most of the damage, giving up five runs, four earned, including the grand slam.
After ASU scraped runs aross in the seventh and eighth to draw within one, Brett Wallace tied the game off USC closer Paul Koss, sending a solo shot to dead center for his second home run of the game and tenth of the year. Rocky Laguna then gave the Devils the lead back, singling through the right side to score Eric Sogard from home to put ASU up 13-12.
The Trojans came back with two outs in the eighth, as Lucas Duda's two-run shot off Jason Jarvis gave USC the win.
Jarvis took the loss, falling to 0-1 on the year. Brett Wallace finished 4-4 with two home runs, two walks, three RBI and four runs scored. Eric Sogard, Kiel Roling, Joe Persichina and Ike Davis each had two hits in the loss.
ASU now returns to the valley for the second annual Challenge at Chase, a non-conference match-up with Arizona. The Wednesday night game has a 6:40 p.m. start time from Chase Field in downtown Phoenix.
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Sewage & Run-Off Pollution
When one looks at a world map and sees the vastness of our oceans, it's easy to think of the effluent we pump into aquatic systems as no more than a literal drop in the sea. And yet, the perception that the ocean is large enough to absorb untold quantities of anthropogenic pollution without consequence is false. Every year, chemical nutrients released into the ocean as sewage or via agricultural and industrial run-off have catastrophic ramifications - including the creation of anoxic dead zones, and the triggering of toxic algal blooms.
The Mechanisms of Chemical Nutrient Pollution
Human sewage includes excrement, waste water from bathing and laundry, and organic fats washed down the sink whilst cooking. In most developed countries, legislation requires sewage to be treated before being discharged into aquatic systems. However, untreated sewage often makes its way into the ocean as a result of faulty equipment, negligence, and overflows caused by heavy rainfall. In many developing countries, there is no infrastructure in place to facilitate sewage treatment, and so it is pumped raw into the ocean.
Sewage pollution is not the only kind of effluent contributing to nutrient and chemical imbalances in our coastal waters. Industrial and agricultural activities generate toxic surface run-off, whereby rainfall washes soil particles laden with carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and other minerals into aquatic systems. This kind of pollution is particularly prevalent in coastal areas undergoing heavy industrialisation - i.e. the development of new roads, buildings, and ports.
Surface run-off and untreated sewage both cause increased levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in coastal waters. Marine algae thrives on these nutrients, and consequently begins to flourish in affected areas via a phenomenon known as eutrophication. The resulting algal blooms cause severely depleted levels of oxygen in the water, firstly because they prevent sunlight from filtering through to photosynthesising benthic organisms, and secondly as a result of the decay process that occurs when the algae dies off.
In the majority of cases, algal blooms cause coastal waters to become low in oxygen, or hypoxic. Hypoxic conditions cause animals living in the area to become severely stressed; can trigger decreased levels of biodiversity; and may even see the replacement of naturally-occurring species with more resilient invasive ones. Currently, the World Resources Institute has identified 375 hypoxic coastal zones worldwide.
In extreme situations, algal blooms may deplete an area of oxygen completely, causing it to become anoxic. These conditions promote the growth of anaerobic bacteria, which can render the surrounding environment toxic for all other organisms. These lifeless areas are appropriately known as dead zones. Certain kinds of algae are toxic in their own right, and when these harmful species bloom the ramifications are particularly severe. In many countries, harmful algal blooms are colloquially known as red tides.
Human & Environmental Impacts
As a primary food source on the marine food chain, algae is consumed either directly or indirectly by almost every creature in the ocean. Toxic algal blooms therefore have the power to contaminate all kinds of seafood, from the smallest mollusc to the largest fish. Thanks to their role as filter feeders, shellfish are particularly prone to contamination during a red tide. The most common symptoms of toxic shellfish poisoning include acute nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea - although in extreme cases, consumption may even prove fatal.
Some strains of toxic algae are capable of producing airborne toxins that are released as the bloom crashes upon the shore. Even for those humans that don't eat seafood, these airborne toxins may cause skin irritations and respiratory problems. The health risks posed by harmful algal blooms often cause the tourism industry to crash in affected areas. Even if visitors are unaware of the potential damage to their health, the blooms are unsightly and cause severely reduced water visibility. In this way, they serve as an aesthetic deterrent to beachgoers, recreational fishermen and scuba divers alike.
Because seafood is rendered unsafe by harmful algal blooms, commercial fisheries are often forced to suspend their activities or move them elsewhere. The effects of the algal bloom are compounded by the dead zones created when the algae begins to die off. Often, the sudden loss of income caused by the collapse of the tourism and fishing industries causes such severe damage that local economies take many years to recover. In the United States, it is estimated that harmful algal blooms cost the national economy a staggering $82 million in revenue every single year.
Hypoxic zones are created whether the algal species in question is harmful or not. In this way, even algae that is benign in its own right has the power to cause untold financial damage to coastal communities. Sewage pollution is associated with other health risks, too, because it often contains disease-causing microbes known as pathogens. Some of these waterborne pathogens infect beachgoers through contact with the skin and eyes, whilst others are ingested either directly or via seafood. These sewage-borne pathogens are the most common cause of beach closures.
Humans are not the only ones to suffer as a result of eutrophic algal blooms. Some strains of harmful algae have a corrosive effect on the skin of many marine animals; whilst others variously secrete toxins capable of causing paralysis, amnesia or respiratory problems. A common symptom of red tides is mass fish die-off, caused when paralysis as a result of exposure to algal toxins prevents fish from being able to breathe. In 2013, a Florida red tide caused the death of 276 manatees after the endangered herbivores consumed seagrass coated with toxic algae.
Ultimately, the most effective solution to sewage and run-off pollution is better human management. Those countries that already have legislation and infrastructure in place to facilitate sewage treatment need to ensure that laws are enforced, and that faulty equipment is repaired as a priority. The restoration of shellfish populations in estuaries saturated with pollutive nutrients has also been suggested as a curative measure, as many bivalve species work to filter nitrogen from the water column.
In countries where sewage treatment does not already occur, the responsibility lies with municipal authorities and national governments to work towards introducing the infrastructure needed to make such treatment possible. In these countries, informed citizens may help to bring about change by putting pressure on their governing bodies, and by raising awareness of the issue within their communities.


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An Ethnographic Study of Social Media and Brazilian E-Music since 2008
Beatriz Polivanov
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Please check back later for the full article.
The burgeoning digital technologies of the early twenty-first century are rapidly changing and engrossing millions of people across the globe. YouTube and Facebook are but two examples of social network sites (SNSs) whose social implications are so vast they deserve concerted research. The artifacts, the media, and their implications call for study within specific social and cultural contexts, for their uses and appropriations vary considerably and can suggest different meanings.
Ethnographic research, begun in 2008, follows people connected to electronic music (e-music) in the largest urban centers of Brazil, namely São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This study traces the migration of this social group from Orkut (which was at that time the most popular SNS in Brazil, by far) to Facebook, which continues to increase in popularity.
The complex topic of learning how people use social media to build their identities is especially interesting. The utilization of terms such as "identity performance," "self-presentation," or "self-representation" may denote radically different approaches to the "phenomenon." Moreover, a methodological concern arises: It is important to gather data concerning people's use of Facebook, and this should be done online. Nevertheless, it is also relevant to carry out direct interviews to better understand the dynamics of individuals' self-performance. This fuels debates about the appropriate "adaptation" of ethnographic methods and techniques to virtual environments.
This ethnographic research evaluates concepts such as "virtual ethnography" and "netnography" that have been used to differentiate off-line and online research methods. This line of research argues that although there are specific characteristics of the computer-mediated communication regarding interaction and particular languages for research "in" and "outside" the Internet, such communication takes place in environments that should no longer be treated as "non-places," or in terms of "real" versus "virtual" as some approaches suggest; rather these spaces should be viewed as a continuum.
In 2012, in-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted with five social actors from the e-music scenes mentioned above. The questions were informed by review of both the literature on identity construction in SNSs and that on ethnographic methods applied in digital contexts. The interviews were combined with a close observation of the Facebook profiles of these same people.
The study found that the processes of self-presentation of these social actors on Facebook are linked to the daily performance of certain aspects of their identities—mostly related to music as a way of self-expression—for specific "imagined audiences." The interviewees carefully manage the impressions they want to create for their connections, trying to maintain or break a supposed "expressive coherence" of their online and off-line selves, hence restoring regimes of visibility and identity construction in contemporary times.
Digital Resources: Audiovisual Social Research Laboratory (LAIS)
Felipe Morales Leal and Lourdes Roca
The Laboratorio Audiovisual de Investigación Social (Social Research Audiovisual Lab, or LAIS) at the Instituto Mora in Mexico has worked in both audiovisual production and the study of the visual world in which we live today. Constructing research sources from photographic images and audiovisual materials constitutes its fundamental purpose. Research methodologies that incorporate images are its plan of action and reflection, and along with the ongoing construction of alternatives, they are put into practice in diverse types of products that result in human resource training with specialized courses and workshops.
With the ultimate goal of promoting research that uses and disseminates images and audiovisual materials, LAIS has numerous research documentaries in its collection, a Website with photographic libraries, projects with an array of public interest products, publications in both digital and print format, and information technology development for the online publication of research tools, as well as specialized workshops and courses on the subject. An important reference at the Latin American level for years, the Instituto Mora's Social Research Audiovisual Lab drives the expansion of each of these resources.
Digital Resources: Digital Mesoamerica
Stephanie Wood
Mesoamerica is a culture zone that stretches geographically from approximately north-central Mexico into the northwestern half of Central America. Human occupation of this region dates back thousands of years. The end of the Post-Classic Period (c. 1519) is marked by the invasion of the region by Europeans, who were looking to extract goods, services, and taxes from the Mesoamerican peoples. Spanish occupation stretched into the early 19th century. Neocolonial Mesoamerica, of the 19th and 20th centuries, came to experience increasing influences from the United States, Britain, Germany, and other external powers. The past two centuries have also been marked by a continuing local control by a minority, Euro-originating elite over a majority, indigenous population, even as what we once knew as Mesoamerica faded from view. The division between these ethnicities has grown somewhat less clear as a result of the increasing mixed-heritage mestizo or ladino population across the region. Authoritarian regimes marked much of the 20th century, and civilian rule (still without much or any indigenous participation) came at the end of that century, continuing up to the present. But police and military authorities remain present, concerned with internal dissent and unrest at least as much as external threats.
For the present purposes, Digital Mesoamerica has as its focus the region's indigenous cultures and their histories. Shared cultural traits in the pre-contact era—such as the calendars, glyphic writing, the ball court, human sacrifice, certain legends and religious beliefs, agricultural methods, art, and technologies—set off the many peoples of Mesoamerica from other parts of the Americas. The history of the culture zone is rich for exploring the rise of civilizations, social, economic, and political systems, gender ideologies and practices, religions, land tenure and agricultural systems, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, calendrics, and language diversity (among many other themes). Colonization and its dimensions—such as the impact of epidemic disease, the nature of hybrid religions, evolving tribute and labor systems, struggles over land, efforts to defend some measure of local autonomy, and more—is another arena of great scholarly interest. Contemporary studies are marked by human rights and cultural survival issues, ethnography, mining and other environmental crises, and fair trade, among many other topics.
The most popular and numerous digital resources supporting research and teaching related to Mesoamerican cultures and their histories tend to center on indigenous-authored manuscripts and maps, some of them pre-contact and most of them colonial. These sources are located primarily in Mexican, Guatemalan, U.S., and European repositories, where institutional funds are supporting the creation of open-access digital collections of such materials, along with audio demonstrating language use, videos of all kinds, educational units, and photographs of three-dimensional cultural heritage materials. We are also witnessing moves toward the aggregation of digital content across multiple repositories, such as we see with the World Digital Library, the Internet Archive, and the Getty Research Portal, among others, which increasingly represent Mesoamerica along with other regions of the world. Individuals are also submitting their full-text publications to such aggregators as Academia.edu, announcing their public talks and publications on listservs, Twitter, and Facebook pages, or creating their own robust, one-of-a-kind Web-based projects (with funding from host institutions or national endowments).
Digital Resources: Digital Projects in Mexico City's Archives and Libraries
Linda Arnold
Researchers in major Mexico City archives in the early 1970s had access to very few finding aids for historical documents and record sets. Since then, archivists and researchers have worked diligently to organize record sets and create catalogues for an untold number of documents. Since the early twenty-first century, researchers in the Archivo General de la Nación, the Archivo Histórico de la Ciudad de México, the Archivo Histórico del Arzobispado de México, the Archivo Histórico de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, and the Archivo General de Notarías have been able to access databases, searchable PDF catalogues, and a small array of digital collections.
Work toward inventorying and cataloguing record sets began long before the development of technologies available today. Typescript catalogues for record sets in the Archivo Histórico de la Ciudad de México date from the 1920s. Work on inventories, card catalogues, typescripts, and published catalogues for record sets in the Archivo General de la Nación and the Archivo Histórico de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional began during the 1930s and 1940s. Work on cataloguing the documents in the Archivo General de Notarías and the Archivo Histórico del Arzobispado de México began during the 1980s and 1990s. Since the early twenty-first century researchers have been able to access databases, searchable PDF catalogues, and a limited number of digitized documents for all these major archives.
New technologies began to make digitization possible, and thus Mexican libraries, along with archives, began to digitize primary and secondary sources. Some of those projects involve digitizing microfilm; others involve digitizing complete record sets and printed books. Still others involve transcriptions of historical documents. While the scope and quality of those projects vary from institution to institution, all create heretofore unimaginable access to historical documents.
Digital Resources: Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art
María C. Gaztambide
Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project is a multiyear initiative at the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that seeks to consolidate Latin American and Latino art as a field of study and to place it on equal footing with other established aesthetic traditions. It encompasses the recovery, translation into English, and publication of primary texts by Latin American and Latino artists, critics, and curators who have played a fundamental role in the development of modern and contemporary art in countries or communities throughout the Americas. The ICAA makes these essential bibliographic materials available free of charge through a digital archive and a series of fully annotated book anthologies published in English. It is facilitating new historical scholarship on 20th-century Latin American and Latino art through a framework of thirteen open-ended editorial categories that center on thematic rather than more traditional chronological guidelines. This approach broadens the discourse on the modern and contemporary art produced along this cultural axis. A discussion and contextualization of a selection of recovered documents that relate to the editorial category of "Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?" supports this central argument. These and other little-known or previously inaccessible primary source and critical materials will ultimately encourage interdisciplinary and transnational (re)readings of how aesthetics, social issues, and artistic tendencies have been contested and developed in the region.
Digital Resources: En el Ojo del Huracán, Private Letters from the Caribbean to Spain
Werner Stangl
The early 19th century was a period of intense turmoil and chaos in the Spanish-speaking world: The Napoleonic Wars and French occupation of the Peninsula in the 1800s, independence movements in the Americas, the liberal constitution of Cádiz, Napoleon's defeat, and the reinstallation of the Bourbons in the 1810s, and finally, the second constitutional period, the iron fist of restoration, and the eventual loss of most American possessions between 1821 and 1825. The least affected areas in the midst of this turmoil were the loyalist islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, metaphorically the "eye of the hurricane." It is within this context that a corpus of some dozen letters, preserved in the Spanish National Archive, were written. They were produced in the circum-Caribbean region—most in Puerto Rico—and addressed mainly to relatives and business partners on the other side of the Atlantic. The letters in question were archived without accompanying documentation, probably seized by authorities loyal to the restoration of the Ancien Régime. As a central element, this digital resource—"En el Ojo del Huracán"—displays these primary sources in an online presentation.
Beyond the historiographic value of the sources, the project explores the differences between traditional and digital edition standards (TEI) for digital letter editions with the aim of showcasing the benefits of implementing the digital paradigm and for different visualizations, functionalities, analysis and incorporation in larger infrastructures.
Digital Resources: The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America
Joanne Harwood, Valerie Fraser, and Sarah J. Demelo
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Please check back later for the full article.
The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA) was originally founded as the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA) in 1993, but, with no permanent display space, a versatile online presence has been essential to its success as a resource for students, curators, and researchers. By about the year 2000 it comprised around 400 works from about 10 different countries.
While it is important to remember that viewing a work of art onscreen is no substitute for viewing it firsthand, the digital catalogue is an essential aspect of ESCALA's activities. It can offer resources that a paper catalogue cannot (it can provide a record of an artist's performance, for example), it serves as a versatile resource for teaching and research, and it generates interest in the field among those who happen upon it through random searches.
Digital Resources: FAMSI.org and the Beginnings of Digital Scholarship for the Ancient Americas
Victoria Lyall
Launched in 1997,
Between 1997 and 2006, the Website grew exponentially, but like many of its early counterparts, the site's utility and navigability ultimately suffered as a result of the rapid development of new software and the obsolescence of existing digital platforms; searches became sluggish and unwieldy. While visitorship remained high for an academic site—over a million unique visitors a year—a 2012 survey indicated that scholars frequented only known parts of the site while novice users spent as little as a few minutes on the site. The global economic crisis of 2008 destabilized FAMSI's funding, and in 2010 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) assumed stewardship of the foundation as well as the Website. The museum began to maintain and review
Digital Resources: Gender and Latin American Independence
Catherine Davies
This research project investigates women's involvement in the struggles to achieve political independence in Spanish America and Brazil during the first half of the 19th century. The project is hosted at the University of Nottingham, Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies; it was funded by the University of Nottingham and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) between 2001 and 2014. The online searchable database was a core output of the first of these AHRC-funded projects (2001–2006): "Gendering Latin American Independence: Women's Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender 1790–1850." It was enhanced in stages with an AHRC Pilot Dissemination Award (2006–2007) and Follow-on Funding (2012) for the crowd-sourcing project "Women and Independence in Latin America: A New Multimedia Community–Contributed, Community-Driven Online Resource" in collaboration with the Horizon Digital Economy Institute, University of Nottingham.
The aim of the follow-on-funding awards was to stimulate widespread public debate, preferably in collaboration with partners (national and international). This was of particular importance with respect to the involvement of Latin American women in the independence wars against Spain and Portugal, an aspect of women's history that had been much neglected. Since 2006, a lively public debate has emerged about women's involvement in the wars of independence, especially in Latin America. The debate has focused on women's exclusion from mainstream nationalist historiography and their problematic position in postindependence politics and public culture. The unprecedented surge of interest in women's history and the founding discourses of the Spanish American republics has been triggered by the bicentenary celebrations of Spanish American political independence, which began in 2010 and will continue into the 2020s, and the recent rise to political prominence of women in Latin America (women presidents in Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, and Argentina).
The research project of 2001–2006 focused more specifically on the constructions of gender categories in the culture of the independence period and the impact of war and conflict on women's lives, social relationships, and cultural production. The research emphasized the significance of women in the independence process and explored the reasons for their subsequent exclusion from political culture until recently. Independence was examined in terms of gender: (a) the study of women's political culture, (b) women's activities and writings, and (c) the textual construction of gender in political discourse. Questions were posed: Did the wars of independence change traditional ways of thinking about women, and change women's views of themselves? How was the category "woman" produced historically and politically in Spanish America at the time? In what ways were those identified as women constructed ambiguously as subjects and objects in political discourse? What were women's responses to the republican discourse of individual rights that equated individuality with masculinity? Why, after political independence, were political rights still denied to over half the population according to the criterion of sexual difference?
Digital Resources: Getty Research Institute Digital Exhibitions and Portals for Mexico
Jonathan Saxon
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) has an extensive collection of online digital resources, with two portals that focus on Mexico. The first portal discussed in this article is A Nation Emerges: Sixty-five Years of Photography in Mexico, and the second portal discussed is Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Mexican Art and Archaeology. These portals are the online versions of GRI exhibitions. Viewers of A Nation Emerges: Sixty-five Years of Photography in Mexico will find numerous primary sources, mostly photographs, related to major historical events from 1857 to 1923. This will serve as a useful resource for scholars and students interested in photohistory. The online exhibition Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Mexican Art and Archaeology offers a wealth of online digitized images related to Aztec art, culture, and archaeology.
Although A Nation Emerges: Sixty-five Years of Photography in Mexico contains superb resources, the site is difficult to navigate and can result in viewers missing much of what it offers. Therefore, this article provides a road map of sorts with the goal of helping scholars and students save valuable time during the research process. This guide will greatly streamline the user experience for those navigating A Nation Emerges: Sixty-five Years of Photography in Mexico. In fact, readers may want to consider having access to this article while they are navigating the particular portal.
On the other hand, viewers will find Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Mexican Art and Archaeology much easier to navigate. As such, a general overview, rather than a detailed guide is provided for this portal to allow users to direct their research with efficiency and accuracy when navigating the site.
The article concludes with a brief discussion in the "Digitized Resources" section, of the literature, methodology, and historiography of photohistory.
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Washington's Pierre Garcon, Jammal Brown and Brandon Meriweather walked off the field Monday and gave self-assessments of their injuries.
The players sorely missed by the Redskins this season were back at practice following the bye, part of an overall feeling of renewal for a team heartened by the collective struggles of the NFC East.
``I think everybody is refreshed, and they're looking forward to the second half of the season,'' coach Mike Shanahan said. ``And you could see they were a lot fresher, rejuvenated and hopefully ready to go.''
After losing what the coach had called a ``must-win'' game before the break - and then suggesting the playoffs were out of reach and it was time to play out the string - Shanahan now says there's no margin of error as the Redskins (3-6) prepare to host the Philadelphia Eagles in the first of three consecutive division games.
``The way the chips are falling in our division, we still can control our own destiny,'' defensive end Stephen Bowen said. ``If we win these next three, we're right back on top of the division. It's crazy that these games are happening like this, but it's giving us the opportunity.''
It would help if the team could get Garcon, Brown and Meriweather fully healthy and somewhere close to top form. Perhaps Garcon could be the true No. 1 receiver currently missing from the attack. Perhaps Brown at right tackle could buy more time for agile rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III. Perhaps Meriweather at safety could be a bandage for one of the worst pass defenses in the NFL.
Of the three, Meriweather was the most optimistic about his chances of playing against the Eagles. He's been sidelined all season with multiple setbacks in his recovery from a sprained left knee, watching helplessly as the defense has allowed eight passes of 40-plus yards. He joked that if he does finally get to play, he'll walk right up to the press box in full uniform a few minutes before kickoff to make sure everyone knows.
``I just want to have fun, man,'' Meriweather said. ``I think us going out there, we don't look like we're having fun. And I think when somebody comes in and we get to having fun, then I think all aspects of the game will go up.''
Garcon has been in pain since Week 1, when he tore a toe ligament in his right foot. He's played in two games since but wasn't effective. Monday was his first practice in a month, and he's doing his best to try to avoid surgery - which wouldn't even be guaranteed to fix the problem anyway.
``It's a pain every time - walking, running, cutting,'' Garcon said. ``It's a pain all the time.''
Shanahan was guarded about Garcon's chances of playing this week. The coach will know more after a more rigorous practice Wednesday.
``I know it's painful for him, but he wanted to work through it today,'' Shanahan said. ``And we'll find out over the next few days exactly where he's at.''
Brown practiced for the first time since his latest hip injury, a torn ligament that required surgery in late August. He remains on the physically unable to perform list and will need time to work himself back into football shape.
``I started to feel lonely for a while, but now I'm back on the field with my teammates,'' Brown said. ``I'm eager to see after a week or so how it feels, but I feel good. It was a great day for me.''
Given their three-game losing streak, a defense that can't stop anybody and an offense that has slacked off its early torrid pace, the Redskins normally would have no business harboring any kind of realistic thoughts about the postseason.
But the NFC East has become a weekly horror show. The first-place New York Giants (6-4) have lost back-to-back games, including an 18-point defeat to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. The other three teams are 7-14 outside the division.
The Redskins might be teetering, but they're practically stable compared to the Eagles, who have lost five straight amid persistent questions about the futures of coach Andy Reid and quarterback Michael Vick. Vick might not play Sunday because of a concussion, which would give rookie third-round pick Nick Foles his first NFL start.
``We've still got opportunities, for sure,'' tight end Logan Paulsen said. ``Because our record is what it is, you do have to watch the standings a little bit. At this point, it's kind of a good reminder to say, `Hey, we're still in it.'''
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