text:
It is the march of the penguins. Three pairs of thermal socks. Double layers of thermal underwear. Two woollen jumpers, a scarf, a beanie, gumboots and bright red 'wetskins' that shield the body from unexpected sprays of Antarctic water. Trussed up in a life jacket, like a line of overstuffed pillows, we waddle up and down the ship's wobbly gangway on a twice-daily basis.
Our arms jut out because of the cushioning. Our hands grasp for any hold to stave off visions of plunging into the icy ocean. We slip and stumble into the waiting Zodiac boats that then skip and bounce through fields of icy soup. And, despite the padding, we each slap our hands together like the flippers of a circus seal, to remind ourselves that they are still there.
When a humpback whale suddenly blows water nearby, we fumble with our camera cases - and give up. It's too cold. Someone else will get the shot - given all the flashes and beeps, dozens already have.
Numbness creeps from the feet up. We are hunched together, braving a wind chill of -20C, wretched in a pong of wet wool. Maybe this is how that heroic loser, Robert Falcon Scott, finally nodded off in a blizzard. Yet, in an instant, again and again, our neurotic fancies are dispelled. In this scene of never-ending adjectives, the lure of the Antarctic takes hold.
Graham Charles is a Peregrine Adventures expedition guide: he deserves a lead role in a Solo soft-drink commercial. He opens the throttle on his Zodiac and skits between chunks of brush ice, pausing often with the engine cut to listen for crackling glaciers.
One day, we are bobbing around near Neko Harbour where katabatic winds blow through the junction of seven glaciers. The water's surface clinks like cubes in a glass. "I want everyone to sit still," Charles says. "No photography. Just sit still and listen. You have to listen to the silence of Antarctica."
If there is a revelation on this trip, it is now, when the fumes of the four-stroke engine disperse and the scene reclaims a solitude broken only by our presence. We are interlopers in an ancient realm. Whales breached here before Jesus rabble-roused in Jerusalem. Seals basked on icefloes before Mohammed found Allah in a cave. Penguins flipped in and out of the water before wheels turned and atomic bombs mushroomed.
Just getting here reveals how much we don't belong. A total of 14 days away from Sydney yields about four-and-a-half days on the Antarctic Peninsula, south of Argentina. The sole satisfaction of flying Aerolineas Argentinas (the only carrier to Buenos Aires), for more than 40 hours, is that not once does the plane crash.
Our 10-day voyage starts at the town of Ushuaia, which could be the backdrop for the quirky TV series Northern Exposure. Our expedition is the last voyage of the summer, meaning most of the staff have been living onboard the Akademik Ioffe, a 117m-long ship designed for scientific testing, for nearly five months. Fortunately, their good humour is infectious. They, like the paying customers, want to be here. They do not pretend that this is a luxury cruise and no one, it seems, expects it will be.
Onboard, conditions are kinder than expected. The twin-share cabins mean one person sleeps on a bunk, the other on a fold-out sofa bed that is more comfortable after one or three single-malt whiskies at the bar. Meals for more than 100 people are served in the dining room, basically an upmarket mess hall. All the meals, from the heart-attack inducing to the healthy, are self-service. The ship is overstocked on salad and, if dinner portions in the final days are any guide, it's also running low on duck, lamb and beef (you get three or four menu choices).
There is a sauna (very soothing after our Zodiac excursion) and plunge pool. Someone mentions a gym. Quickly, we feel overfed and underworked but this is soon fixed. The cure is called the Drake Passage. For up to two days, both there and back, passengers can be seen rushing from presentations and lectures with their hands locked over their mouths. It's not the coffee, even if the substance on board referred to as "coffee" might be better applied to shining shoes. Seasickness is very egalitarian.
Yet such details get lost in the memory. What remains are the images: a leopard seal slapping a gentoo penguin against the water's surface again and again until the prey sheds its skin like a discarded sock. "Not so Happy Feet now," says an Irish wag, risking cries of condemnation as the carcass bobs up. Or when penguins torpedo themselves onto an iceberg, some plopping down on their fat chests and cartwheeling back into the water. Or the sight of a solitary emperor penguin, presumably lost, flapping its fins on an iceberg and swivelling from the shoulders, like a teenage boy learning to disco dance.
Then there are the unexpected booms straight out of a Napoleonic war when pieces of glaciers, looming like towers of Swiss cheese, snap off to become icebergs. They reflect shades of blue so sharp that the ice appears to have been lit from within. The icebergs resemble familiar shapes - a man's face or a cracked wine glass - as readily as clouds. In every one, one passenger says, lurks "Shakespeare, Picasso and Spielberg".
If a jaunt to Antarctica leaves a ripple in the mind, it is that not only does mankind not belong here but that the important moments in mankind's history are not necessarily important.
Mankind was not built to survive in such extremes. This may help explain our historical urge, as with Mt Everest and trips to the moon, to conquer Antarctica. Yet being here, ironically, inspires the question of whether people should be here at all, given the creeping logistical and environmental concerns triggered by the continent's tourism explosion.
Something like 6000 tourists a year visited the Antarctica Peninsula in the early 1990s: an estimated 40,000 people came last summer. There are about 40 ships taking tourists around, retirees mostly, with fat super funds, and tales have begun to emerge of ships queuing to anchor in this port or that harbour. Five years ago, most passengers were scientists or birdwatchers. Now, most passengers are Mr and Mrs Ordinary, from anywhere, sating one or the other's lifelong hankering to see a penguin, say, up close. They are known by everyone else as 'tickers'. They tend to list the Galápagos Islands or Alaska as their hot spot destinations.
Most operators (including Peregrine) comply with the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators regulations, which list many requirements such as leaving no evidence of land visits (including no eating or smoking on Antarctic land). When the crew of a Spanish cargo ship was apparently sighted smoking and littering onshore a few months ago, they were photographed and reported. Commercial interests, the argument goes, actually help to preserve Antarctica from the ravages of mankind.
Yet the effects of tourism are almost impossible to gauge. The range of Antarctic experiences offered continue to grow: on this Peregrine tour, the option of camping overnight on Antarctic ice was abandoned only because of bad weather. Three incidents, including a ship sinking and another ship being blown into a glacier, marred the previous summer of activity. "There will be more [accidents] as there are more ships," says Jacques Sirois, a Peregrine expedition guide.
It could be argued that passengers who seek (and often find) their personal epiphanies do so at a cost far beyond their hip pockets. Many tourists return home to preach the preservation gospel, yet Sirois, a biologist, argues that the air and sea travel - as well as the onboard comforts - of an Antarctican holiday is roughly equal to 50 per cent of the average Western person's annual carbon footprint. It then figures that those visitors who are motivated to see the receding Antarctic glaciers (they have shrunk 10 to 15 per cent in the past 50 years), and changing wildlife (some colony sites for adélie penguins have been taken over by gentoo penguins, which thrive in slightly warmer surrounds) are the ones who are contributing directly to the problem.
Sirois says the "human tsunami" has had the biggest impact on Antarctica. The theory goes that man's capacity to pollute is boundless. At a Ukraine base station, Vernadsky, bought from the British for one pound in 1996, penguins huddle near rusted barrels and debris dumped over the course of decades. In the base bar, pop singer Belinda Carlisle blares on a stereo perched next to the 'southernmost souvenir shop on earth'. Homemade vodka goes for just over $3 a shot. It's a lark but it points to a deeper truth: where people go, commercialism follows.
Like others, Sirois argues that tourist numbers must be capped. Yet the solutions for Antarctica will never be simple. The greatest tangible threat is the mining of its minerals, which, under international treaty, cannot happen until at least 2040. Countries such as Argentina and Chile have long postured for greater claims: this has extended to governments coaxing citizens to give birth in Antarctica in an effort to bolster territorial claims. At least one scientist envisages oil platforms off Antarctic islands later this century.
The issue of climate change is just as muddled: no one can prove for certain, on the basis of annual or decade-long comparisons, that the globe's deepest freezer is endangered. When great chunks fall away - in March, a 570 square kilometre piece of the Wilkins Ice Shelf broke off - climate change is blamed. Roman Sokolovsky, our Ukraine guide at the base, says there has been more sunny days of late and has noted the lack of the usual crust of ice between nearby islands last winter. Clearer evidence of climate change can be found at the other Pole.
Without doubt, man has tampered with the ageless rhythms of Antarctica. Pioneers have come here for almost 200 years. Some, like Ernest Shackleton and Scott, have monuments to their efforts preserved for eternity. Today, their feats and failures are still considered hopelessly fascinating.
Sealers and whalers, however, are not celebrated. They chartered much of this wonderland but after bludgeoning most of the seals and harpooning most of the whales, they left. But they, too, have monuments. When the gusts quell at Whaler's Bay at Deception Island, you can imagine their ghosts wandering among the rusted boilers where whale body parts were crammed for reducing. The wooden buildings slump like forgotten shearing sheds. The cross for a Norwegian whaler, Hans A Gulliksen, is possibly the loneliest memorial on earth.
Barring strong winds, excursions are offered in all conditions on our trip. Yet all passengers reserve (and sometimes exercise) the right to refuse - unlike the hardy pioneers. They weren't served appetisers every afternoon, they didn't hit the bar after dark to argue about accents with the Irish mob (the record bar bill on the ship belongs to Kelvin, a New Zealander, who earlier this year emptied 192 beers in 10 days) or indulge in a session of Photoshopping. The pioneers did not have a springs bath dug into the beach for them. Or a stream of lectures and presentations - including 'From Naughty to Nice: Sexuality On The Ice' - to fill the dreary passage of travel. Or a nice man in a Zodiac to scoop up a passenger who capsizes while out in his sea kayak (the victim makes a speedy recovery).
An Antarctic holiday reawakens an appreciation for sensory pleasures. Showering doubles as an extreme sport. Some passengers overdose on seasick-ness pills more stultifying than Kevin Rudd's election night acceptance speech. Few, if any, aboard grumble but we do compare our ailments at meal times.
All rise on morning three to congregate silently on deck. The ship has entered the Lemaire Channel. Hills rise on either side of us like chocolate muffins iced in sugar. They look close enough to eat. Mist hovers. The water reflects the hills in silvery tinges. The stillness is so complete that it appears we have sailed into a photograph. The languid arch of a humpback whale almost constitutes an unwanted distraction. Now the sun peeps out. No one disputes a whispered claim that this is the most photogenic scene on earth.
A few hours later, we waddle down the gangway. Peterman Island and a colony of gentoo penguins beckon. As warned, we smell them before we spot them, dotting the rocky shores like sentries. They eat rocks to weigh themselves down in the water but the chicks will die if they don't start swimming soon. Bestowed with human qualities, they resemble a subset of Generation Y-ers: fat, dumb and happy.
Jan Castell, from Melbourne, has been planning this trip for years. Penguins are a childhood obsession she has never outgrown. Her mother always offered to pay for her trip: now Jan is spending part of her inheritance. The cuffs of her pants are splattered orange with penguin guano when she returns to the ship. Her face is flushed and tears flow. "I can confidently say that this has been the best morning of my life," she says. "We've got five or six more days of this. I mean, how many 'best' mornings can you have?"
The ship moves around the peninsula over the coming days. The destinations depend on the weather, yet our sense of isolation grows no matter where the ship's captain, a Russian sporting Jeff Kennett's hairstyle, chooses to go. Passengers are locked in together, until the end, no matter what, barring life-threatening illness. There are no mobiles, a sporadic email service, no internet access or newspapers, and the niggles of communal living are heightened by the freezing temperatures outside.
This is a package tour only because it has to be. The staff constantly imbue passengers with historical tales and facts of nature. Their patience for dumb questions appears limitless. Steering a Zodiac, Sirois is easily the giddiest person aboard. His French-Canadian pronounciation of words borders on the salacious. Icebergs will always have "Pizzazz!" he says. His glee on spotting a "shag", a species of bird, invites a slew of double entendres. "Do whales ever run into icebergs?" one not-so-bright passenger asks him. "Do you ever walk into trees?" Sirois replies.
Phone numbers are exchanged by passengers on the final morning of the trip, when many are dustier than usual after last night's farewell drinks. Something distinguishes this crowd from a usual cruise: everyone has been drawn - not to the pleasures of the journey - but to the destination. This camaraderie might be credited to the staff, who keep coming back year after year to squander jobs and family lives that convention dictates would be more rewarding.
Expedition leader David 'Woody' Wood, a Melbourne barrister who rarely sees a courtroom, speaks of the Antarctic "addiction". For him, the enforced isolation is enticing. A bill not paid? Quibbles with a lady friend? They're still there, of course, but until the ship returns to dock in Argentina, there's nothing to be done about them. "In Australia, you have no choice," Woody says, of following the news. "But the only thing that matters here is the journey."
Is it a journey that more and more people should undertake? Many, who have made it, would say no. But it doesn't make much sense to tell people that they should not experience something because we ourselves have experienced it - and don't want the purity of that experience ruined by interlopers who follow. Perhaps a similar logic applies to 4WD motorists who bang on about saving the planet.
Antarctica is a frontier where mankind was never supposed to go. Yet the march of the penguins will continue. As so many others have done before them, they will wear bright red 'wetskins' and survive only on expert guides and a credit card. They will discover a place that has long revealed the follies of human nature. And, perhaps, they will see that Antarctica will continue to do so for some time yet.


text:
An electronic toy guitar full of features for the young child. Selectfrom three different musical styles (Rock, Pop and Blues) and chooseamong 3 play modes (short tunes, pre-recorded melodies and follow-me).The 23 pre-recorded melodies can be enriched with the 3 different mixerfunctions: drums, vibration and acceleration of the rhythm.Requires Batteries. Award-Winning Toy!<./p>
copyright ©2002 -

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Allen Edmonds Helps American Businessmen Get Back To Work
Special Pricing on American-made Classic Dress Shoes
Sep 27, 2011, 06:12 ET
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Allen Edmonds Shoe Corporation announces a national sales event called "Rediscover America" to help Americans get back to work. In partnership with over 400 authorized dealers across America, Allen Edmonds is offering a Rediscover America Collection of their finest shoes, belts and accessories.
To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/allen-edmonds-helps-american-businessmen-get-back-to-work-130665993.html
"Classic American styling has resurfaced as men are getting more serious about their jobs and moving away from casual looks at work," said Paul Grangaard, President and CEO at Allen Edmonds. "As a result, we've been able to increase employment by over 120 people at our Port Washington, Wis. manufacturing facility since January 2010. Jobs have been created right here as a direct result of Americans buying quality American products."
Allen Edmonds continues to create jobs in America, as the company recently opened retail stores in Charlotte, S.C. and Reston, Va., and anticipates additional store openings in 2012.
Allen Edmonds products are being offered at the best prices of the year in company owned retail stores, online, and through participating Allen Edmonds dealers. The Rediscover America promotion started September 26 and runs through Columbus Day, October 11.
About Allen Edmonds Shoe Corporation
Founded in 1922, Allen Edmonds Shoe Corporation is a privately-held U.S. based manufacturer of premium men's footwear and accessories. Taking shoemaking to the level of an art form, Allen Edmonds footwear is handcrafted in Port Washington, WI using a 212-step production process. Allen Edmonds products are available at upscale stores worldwide, including 36 Allen Edmonds stores across the U.S., and online at www.allenedmonds.com.
Images can be downloaded at:
Available through October 2011
SOURCE Allen Edmonds


text:
Good Day Everyone!
It's Sheena Joy and I'm here to share a card that I made using the beautifully striking Blackbird sequin mix from Kennedy Grace Creations.
Valentine's Day is right around the corner so I thought that a Valentine's card would be fitting for today's blog post:
I water colored the background using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers (Red Geranium), letting the color drip. After it dried, I stamped the sentiment & black hearts (all from the SSS Paper Hug stamp set) with Versafine Onyx Black ink pad. I used Glossy Accents on the big black hearts to add dimension, one of the black hearts is on a foam dot to add even more interest. The Blackbird sequins added the perfect final touch that brought all of the elements together. I also added a few various sized red gemstones for even more sparkle. To purchase the Blackbird sequin mix, click here.
A heartfelt thank you for stopping by!
- Take Time To Create-
-It's Good For Your Soul-
- Take Time To Create-
-It's Good For Your Soul-


text:
HAMBURG, 07-Aug-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — ECE Russland has taken over the management of the shopping center "Central Kids Store" on Lubyanka in Moscow effective August 1, 2017, for a period of five years. The center has been developed and is being owned by Hals Development, a real estate company specializing in commercial and residential real estate. The main shareholders of the company which is listed in the top five developers ranking of Moscow are VTB Bank and the Bank of Moscow.
Central Kids Store is a shopping and entertainment center especially for families with children located in the very heart of Moscow. On a sales area of approx. 34.000 m², it offers more than 150 shops with a focus on children's goods, toys, and products for future parents. Currently, up to 30,000 people are visiting the center every day.
The branch and tenant mix features popular brands such as Stokke, the Norwegian manufacturer of children's furniture and accessories, Umnitsa, a Russian brand of educational games for children, and Hamley's World, one of the world's largest and best-known retailer of toys. The center also offers a number of entertainment zones for children following the concept of "edutainment" such as a dinosaur show, a spherical circus cinema, a giant mechanical watch, and an observation platform overlooking the historic center of the city.
SOURCE: ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG
+49 40 60606-6898


text:
My brother and I drove home to Vermont a few weeks ago for Christmas vacation. We stopped along the way at a rest stop in Connecticut for some food. Normally on these drives I either bring some snacks or eat McDonald's french fries, which is not healthy and questionable anyway. This time I noticed a sign for Good to Go Organics at the back of the travel plaza. I told my brother I wanted to check to see if they had anything gluten free and they did - it was a Christmas miracle!
I was so excited to see Applegate gluten free chicken nuggets on the menu. I was also excited to see tater tots, because really, who doesn't love tater tots? The nice gentleman working behind the counter was very knowledgeable about what was gluten free and what wasn't.
My brother got regular chicken nuggets and tater tots. Both of our meals were so-so. The gluten free chicken nuggets were very small but I was still excited to be eating chicken nuggets again. The tater tots had so much potential but had a weird I was microwaved and now I'm sad taste. After we finished my brother said he wished we had gotten McDonald's.
Even though the food could have been a little bit better, I still think this is a great idea. Good to Go Organics has five locations. The one I visited is located in the travel plaza on 95 between exits 40 and 41 in Milford, CT. Another is in the MetLife Stadium in NJ where the Giants and Jets play. The other three are food carts - two in Central Park and one at Chelsea Piers. Please note, as of right now the gluten free chicken nuggets and tater tots are only available at the CT location.


text:
Pregnancy Yoga
Mondays, Tuesdays 6.30pm - 7.45pm, Wednesdays 6.10pm - 7.20pm, at Sherwood Community Centre. Forty eight pounds for six classes. Mats provided. Free parking.
Contact us to discuss a start date or for more info. You are also welcome to book your place.
We have been specialists in pregnancy yoga since 2005 and over the years have heard from hundreds of women what their needs are during their pregnancies. To allow us to adapt every class to those present we always begin by offering students the opportunity to discuss their needs that particular week. The result is that we tailor every class to those present and their individual requirements.
The postures are practised to support your body, helping you reduce aches and pains associated with pregnancy, and aid digestive, circulatory and respiratory systems (to name but a few benefits).
The breathing practices and dedicated relaxation elements help you feel calmer, improve sleep and boost energy... and give you time to connect to your baby and prepare for the life change ahead.
If you are new to yoga this is fine: more than half of our pregnancy students are, and complete beginners are welcome regardless of fitness or flexibility.
In the pregnancy yoga classes taught at The Yoga Village we also offer a labour preparation element in which you practice breathing techniques and movement suitable for labour and birth. We get to hear lots of birth stories and many women tell us what worked for them. So we include those practices in the classes. Many hundreds of women have told us afterwards that these techniques have been really useful.


text:
Washington (CNN) -- A military judge has denied a request to close an upcoming hearing for the man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood to media and the public, his attorney said Thursday.
John Galligan, the defense lawyer for Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, said the prosecution opposed the motion to close the Article 32 hearing, which is the military equivalent of a civilian grand jury.
Galligan said he requested the move because of concern about "prejudicial" publicity, which he feels has pervaded coverage of the case already.
"We've had Obama to Oprah weighing in on this case," Galligan said, referring to President Obama and the popular talk show host, Oprah Winfrey.
Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of murder in the November 2009 shootings at the Army base in central Texas. Galligan, a retired colonel with three decades of experience as an Army lawyer, said the Army officers responsible for prosecuting the case have indicated they will seek the death penalty.


text:
ANATOLIAN TERRACOTTA FRIEZE FRAGMENTPrint
ONE OF A COLLECTION OF ANATOLIAN DüVER FRIEZE FRAGMENTS
Polychrome painted fragment of architectural revetment from a frieze decorated in red, white and black. Decorated with a horseman in relief, galloping to the right.
Upper edge with convex border, base with small rectangular rim, pierced in left upper field with large hole for pin attachment.
Ex priv. coll. A.R., London, acquired from Sotheby's London 24 February 1965, lots 50-64
Dim. 33,5 x 38 cm. Paint flaked off.
6th cent. BC, from Anatolia
see also Sotheby's London, auction 6th July 1964 nrs. 45-47, and 28th June 1965, lots 89-91
cf. M.J. Mellink, Archaeology in Asia Asia Minor, AJA LXVIII, 1964, p.159 and 1965, p. 143
cf. N. Thomas, Recent Acquisitions by Birmingham City Museum, Archaeological Reports for 1964-5, (1965), pp. 64-70 and figs.4-5
cf. M.E. Mayo, Architectural Terra Cotta from Phrygia, Arts in Virginia, 21 no.2, 1981, pp. 29-35, figs. 3-17
€ 7.500


text:
Absynthe and Ecstasy is a nightclub that uses colorful smoke-infused branding to promote its hallucinogenic atmosphere. The essence of the nightclub is captured in the mysterious and sultry smoke that appears in fuchsia pink and lime green across all of the nightclub's branded products.
The idea emerged through the nightclub's creation of two aphrodisiac based wines. The mystery and elegance is captured in the colorful smoke of each item. The wines were created as invitations to welcome people into the nightclub. The combination of smoky auras and clean typography with enticing colors showcases the vibes of the nightclub. The dark mysterious labels conjure images in the viewer's mind of loud music, intoxicating beverages and flashing lights.
Other promotional items that followed the exact same format as the two wines are lighters, flasks and notebooks.
Smoky Wine Branding
More Stats +/-
Retro Nightclub Monuments
Tribal Surfer Menswear
Smoky Train Photography
Glowing Liqour Bottles
Illuminated LED Bar Shelves
The 'Absynthe and Ecstasy' Nightclub Uses Colorful Smoke as Brand Promotion
- By: Ady FloydJun 9, 2015
References: behance.net & packageinspiration
References: behance.net & packageinspiration


text:
Justice and the Enemy
How do you bring horrific killers to legal account? As Anders Breivik's trial begins, author and journalist William Shawcross looks at the most appropriate courts for men like Breivik and alleged 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
- William Shawcross
- Journalist and author of the official biography of the Queen Mother
- Title
- Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
- Author
- William Shawcross
- Publisher
- Public Affairs
Further Information
- Producer
- Muditha Dias
Comments (7)
Roger :
19 Apr 2012 10:22:55pm
I have to say I found this a very chilling conversation, the official version of the reality of some very complex events, without an hint of awareness of the shadow side of the good guys! It was a great relief to me when you, Philip, brought up the question of the use of evidence obtained by torture, though it was swept aside with the comment, only three people had actually been water boarded by the US? As though that somehow eased the conscience, or lessened the implications of such an event.
Simon B :
20 Apr 2012 9:57:22pm
I'm hopping mad at this silver tongued stooge. Run, don't walk, over to This American Life, and listen to their 2007 show, "Habeas Corpas", to see how Shawcross's exemplary rights for detainees look in practice, or indeed numerous episodes of lnl. The claim that "only three were ever waterboarded" stretches credulity.
Things are not going to get better for our morally challenged anglophone world until we have a collective allergic reaction to this species of performance artist, who ape seriousness but are completely untethered to truth.
Gederts Skerstens :
23 Apr 2012 3:45:14pm
Not a bad parody of Intellectual Discourse.
The standard Lefty instructions are now to 'Repeat and Redirect', for everything.
Quite rational.
There's no chance of Lefties getting Voted into power, anywhere; or of winning any argument based on the primacy of Truth.
So, quite rationally, trying to get their agenda, they post like the previous.
Could still work. Let's see.
MuadDib :
23 Apr 2012 6:19:07pm
It would be even more disturbing if questing/questioning what's actually the truth (and human rights for that matter, whatever they are held to be) somehow became a concern only for them Lefties.
Nice title "Not a bad parody of Intellectual Discourse", but it would be a better heads-up if you enclosed it with _ _ or similar, and were more consistent as a Capital-ist. ;D Perhaps it's just trolling. At least you were accurate that label-and-lambast is just avoidance of the issue with ad homimem, and no argument. But at least we're clear you've identified as a happy hatchet-man on the Right, where there's fight-tanks who pay their puppets and teach them who the Enemy is.
Perhaps you can help me with my doublethink that we're at war with Oceania AND East Eurasia?
Gederts Skerstens :
23 Apr 2012 5:56:42pm
Now here's an Idea:
By any measure, in human mortality, or pain, or dignity, the West, all our Culture, thought and effort through human history produced the best result for Humans.
In doubt? Check the numbers risking their lives trying to get Back Into Somalia, Morocco etc.
Heading back to the Howling Decapitators? None.
Mulga Mumblebrain :
24 Apr 2012 5:48:48pm
Of course Shawcross wouldn't envisage trials for the big murderers of the West, those that launched the illegal aggression based on known lies against Iraq, which has caused over one million deaths. No, justice is only for the non-Western 'untermenschen' while the Herrenvolk of the West can kill, starve, sanction, torture, 'disappear' and terrorise as many as their psychopathic lusts decree. Repulsive beyond words.
Gederts Skerstens :
09 May 2012 8:53:33pm
'untermenschen' ...Herrenvolk
Piss weak.


text:
Homeowners can install a crank-out window with a hammer, nails, putty knife, pry bar, nail puller, saw, caulk, metal tape, insulation, wood trim, shims and aluminum tape. Installing a crank window is much the same as installing any other type of window and involves removing the old window, leveling the frame and placing the crank-out window.
Follow the steps below to install a crank-out window.
- Remove the old window
- Prepare the window opening
- Level the opening
- Place the window
- Add the trim
Remove the casings around the window inside and outside of the house with a nail puller, pry bar and putty knife. Lift the old window out of the opening.
Cut away part of the house siding all around the window opening to accommodate the new window's trim. Nail strips of plywood inside the opening to make it smaller, but only if the opening is too big. Apply aluminum tape along the top face of the window framing where the siding was cut away. Apply metal tape to the bottom face of the window opening.
Check that the inside frame is perfectly level. If not, tack in a few aluminum-backed wood shims to make the bottom level. ?
Place the window into the frame. If it comes with a nail flange, bend the flange down 90 degrees before placing the window. Check the window to ensure it is plumb and level. Place shims between the window and the frame to secure. Nail the flange down and top the flange with metal tape.
Cut eight pieces of wood trim to fit the window. Push some fiberglass insulation between the window and the frame to prevent drafts. Nail the trim in place around the window facing inside and out. Add a bead of caulk between the trim and the window. Snap or push the hand crank arm onto the crank operator and test the window.


text:
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Anne Thanks
Last Tuesday's AGM & Prize-Giving Evening saw our long-standing Chairman, Anne Funnell, step down from her role.
Anne has now sent the below message to us:
Dear All
I was overwhelmed by the magnificent bouquet presented to me on the occasion of my resignation from the post of Chairman of the Norwich Writers' Circle. There were so many that the flowers filled two vases.
The card signed by various members of the Circle was very touching and even more wonderful was the Waterstone's voucher which was totally unexpected and will be carefully preserved until the right book is chosen.
Thank you all very much
Anne Funnell
Posted by Norwich Writers' Circle at 09:59 Labels: Anne Funnell, chairman, committee, member news, members, news, norfolk, norwich, norwich writers' circle, thank you, thanks, writers, writers' circles
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Kabuki Syndrome was formerly known as the Niikawa Kuroki Syndrome or Kabuki makeup syndrome. It is a rare kind of congenital abnormality which is associated with mental disorder and physical deformity. This syndrome was discovered by two Japanese scientists named Kuroki and Niikawa. The name of the Kabuki syndrome is derived from a traditional Japanese theatrical performance.
It has been observed that one out of 32000 babies in Japan suffered from this rare disease. But this syndrome can now be traced among diverse ethnic and racial groups. This syndrome can be found equally in females and males.
The cause of the disease is unknown. But genetic disorder or genetic abnormality is thought to be the reason that can cause this rare Kabuki Syndrome. Some scientists believe that deletion syndromes and Kabuki Syndrome have common causes but this has not been proved. Chromosomal abnormality can be the cause of this disease.
The symptoms of Kabuki syndrome are diverse. A child who is suffering from Kabuki syndrome may have ill-formed ears which are generally larger than the normal ear. Sometimes, a patient may have to face frequent incidents of ear infections that can lead to hear loss in some children. This is one of the prominent symptoms of this disease. Saggy eyelid, thick eyelashes are some of the common symptoms of Kabuki syndrome.
Small fingers and Weak muscle tone are some of the physical abnormalities that a patient has to face. Sometimes, a person may have to experience some severe problems pertaining to joint dislocation in some areas of his/her body for example knee, shoulders and hips.
Congenital deformity can also lead to cleft lip in a child who is suffering from Kabuki syndrome. Dental problems for example irregular shape and small teeth are also prominent symptoms of Kabuki syndrome.
A child who is suffering from Kabuki Syndrome is usually retarded. This is one of the conspicuous symptoms of this Kabuki syndrome. Trivial noise can startle them and they always are in a state of panic. Cardiac disorder is another important feature of this syndrome that can jeopardize the life of a patient.
Slow growth rate is also a common sign of this syndrome. This is the reason why a large section of patients are shorter then the normal average height. Neurological disorder and an infection in the urinary track are two most prominent symptoms of this syndrome.
This Kabuki syndrome is incurable but there are some therapies available that can effectively reduce the severeness of the symptoms of this disease. By redressing the symptoms of this disease, a patient can lead a better life. Those who are suffering from heart defeats, can under go surgery to recuperate from this lethal symptom of kabuki disease. Generally, surgery can be done when a heart achieves maturity.
Those, who are facing some difficulties while swallowing a food, can under go a surgical operation in which a tube is inserted in the abdomen so that a patient can gulp food without facing any hindrance. As this syndrome is associated with some infections, one must take proper medication so that his ears and lungs are not infected.
As hear loss is one of the prominent symptoms of this disease, a patient can use a hearing-aid device if it is a mild problem. But if a patient is suffering from severe kind of hearing loss, he must consult a doctor.
Physical therapy can help a patient to bring down the severity of the various symptoms of Kabuki syndrome. Those who are intellectually lagging behind may under go some special treatments. Sensory integration therapy can assist a patient immensely and help him or her eradicate some sensory problems associated with this ailment.
As proper treatment is still unavailable, adequate care has to be taken so that a patient does not face any kind of severe complexity in future. If it has been confirmed that a child is being affected by this disease, one must consult with an experienced practitioner so that the symptoms of this syndrome do not aggravate.


text:
I have been picking blackberries and made jam and apple and blackberry crumble topped pie.
Foraged some elderberries and made elderberry cordial. I would post a recipe but it is a bit from here and a bit from there and no firm recipe. I did use honey and cloves as I wanted it to be a wee bit medicinal and hopefully ward off winter coughs and sniffles
I have started ordering seasonal local veg boxes again and due to having two large cauliflowers I have now tried my hand at making piccalilli. I am supposed to wait 5 weeks before eating ...5 weeks? Oh dear, patience is not my strong point at all. My recipe is based a bit on the hairy bikers and a bit on the River Cottage recipe, if it is good I shall claim it is my own and if it is terrible I shall blame Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsall! Having the boxes is a great fun challenge, finding ways to use such lovely produce and have as little as possible go to waste. there are lots of leafy greens as well in this one.
The garden (being a courtyard really) has courgettes, chillis, volunteer pumpkins (seemingly ubiquitous and follow me around to every house I move too!) little tomatoes and we found some baby carrots today (gobbled very fast by two small boys!) as well as all our usual herbs.
Today we planted purple sprouting broccoli (hopefully not too late) radishes (I think it is too hot but master 5 reaaaally wanted some) and some beetroot having rejuvenated the soil with some blood and bone, chicken manure and cow manure.
I am now attempting to rest a while as it is over 30 degrees C again. Oh and I must go check on the solar dehydrator I have made from a silver lined insulated bag and see how the pears and apples are doing now.
OK, so writing it all down makes me feel better, throw in making a few loaves of bread, several kilos of yoghurt, some blogging on a major parenting site, eldest starting school (now that has mucked up my schedules!) and expecting baby number three in September ( I think the nausea is subsiding now) whilst still running the business things have been reasonably productive (and reproductive!) in their modest pootling along sort of way, sometimes taking stock of your life can be very beneficial!


text:
hope you had fun discover our march new release image and hoping on oud DT ladies blogs.
Now it's time to announce the winners for each days.
You will recieve a fabulous goodie bag, with one of the brand new stamps included.
Winner for tuesday is
Winner for wednesday is
# 4 Valerija
Winner for thursday is
# 2 Saskia Pullen
Congrats !!!
Please contact our winner coordinator Julie here : firstname.lastname@example.com
Céline, Suzette and DT ladies.


text:
Golden Touch Film
Original, independent movies since 2010!
What's New
October, 2017
We have gotten a brand new design on our websites to separate it from our commercial business. This site will be all about our movies!
February, 2018
3 Nominations for "Life with Death"!
Our short film, "Life with Death" has been nominated in no less than 3 categories at the TNISSFF!
news archive


text:
Some days, it just doesn't pay to try and hand out trophies.
The Grammy Awards, which roll around again on Sunday, have long been a popular target for criticism from musicians (think Kanye West), music writers and, on more than one occasion, "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening (Homer's response upon being reminded that he once won a Grammy: "I mean an award that's worth something!").
The Grammys have been accused over time of being out of touch, of favoring commercial success over artistic excellence and of being bloated with too many categories (110 at its peak, compared with about two dozen for the Academy Awards).
PHOTOS: 10 burning questions about the Grammys
This year, the music industry organization that bestows the gramophone-shaped trophies is taking more hits than ever for its attempt to slim the awards ceremony down by restructuring various categories to bring the total down to 78. The greatest reductions took place in R&B, American roots music, classical, Latin, jazz, country, pop and rock fields.


text:
rEarth 17" square 25 tall cell insert, made from post-consumer recycled water bottles (rPET).
Go green and keep costs low with rEarth"¢ containers by McConkey. This innovative new material is made from recycled water bottles, and can be curbside recycled by the end consumer in most municipalities. rEarth's superior strength, low cost, and tear-resistance make it a viable alternative to polypropylene and styrene containers.
McConkey JMCM1725TC This insert fits nicely in our 17" square flat and works well with flat filling equipment.


text:
Ratings & Reviews
Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), Dade County's coolest undercover vice cops, are back for more MTV-influenced adventures as Miami Vice begins its second season. Though there'd been friction between the two main characters in season one, their teaming is a fait accompli by now, and they fit together like and hand in glove. Even glowering Lt. Castillo (Edward James Olmos) has become accustomed to, and more tolerant of, Crockett and Tubbs' highly unorthodox methods. The season's two-part opener finds the pair leaving Miami's sunny climes for the chilly streets of Manhattan, in search of Colombian drug dealers. Emphasis here as elsewhere is, of course, on Crockett and Tubbs, though the other cast members will be given their moments to shine. Detective Trudy Joplin (Olivia Brown) is the focal point in the episode "The Dutch Oven", in which she learns that her lover's best friend is tied in with a cocaine ring; Det. Gina Calabrese (Saundra Santiago) devotes most of the episode "Bought and Paid For" to go after a wealthy, well-connected rapist; and Det. Stan Switek (Michell Talbott) is for all intents and purposes the star of "Phil the Shill", even though the title character is played by guest star Phil Collins. Singer Collins is but one of many offbeat guest performers who, attracted to the popularity and hipness of Miami Vice, will pop up this season in variety of colorful characterizations. Former Nixon associate and federal prisoner G. Gordon Liddy is seen as the duplicitous Captain Real Estate in "Back in the World"; 1950s pop idol and future Broadway favorite Nathan Lane show up in "Buddies"; sultry songstress Eartha Kitt shares air time with the contemporary rock group Power Station in "Whatever Works"; musician and pro-gun advocate Ted Nugent is in "Definitely Miami"; The Fat Boys do their thing in "Florence Italy"; poet Leonard Cohen is featured in "Back in the World", Torch Song Trilogy playwright Harvey Fierstein guests in "The Fix"; jazz icon Miles Davis appears in "Junk Love"; rock legend Frank Zappa delivers lines in "Payback"; celebrity spouse Bianca Jagger emotes in "Free Verse"; and iconoclastic comic actors Tommy Chong and Richard Belzer are both in "Trust Fund Pirates." The season ends with "Sons and Lovers", bringing Crockett and Tubbs face to face once more with the vicious, self-destructive Calderone crime family, whose head man is played by a young John Leguizamo. ~ Hal Erickson
Cast & Crew
- Don Johnson - Det. Sonny Crockett
- Philip Michael Thomas - Det. Ricardo Tubbs
- Edward James Olmos - Lt. Martin Castillo
- Saundra Santiago - Det. Gina Navarro Calabrese
- Olivia Brown - Det. Trudy Joplin


text:
Tip on Todd Clifford Kiester leads Allegheny County deputies to Columbiana
Brookline fugitive on sex charges found in Ohio
Tip on Todd Clifford Kiester leads Allegheny County deputies to Columbiana
Allegheny County authorities traveled to Ohio to find one of their most wanted fugitives.
Sheriff Bill Mullen said Todd Clifford Kiester, 33, of the Brookline area of Pittsburgh, was wanted for failing to appear in court while he was free on bond on charges stemming from an alleged sexual assault.
Acting on a tip, sheriff's deputies traveled to Columbiana and met with local police. They took Kiester into custody in the parking lot of a drug store.
Kiester was being held at the Mahoning County Jail, pending extradition to Pittsburgh, where he faces charges of aggravated indecent assault, sexual assault, unlawful restraint and simple assault.


text:
When we meter the Background and the Hair light we must first establish the light on the subject with an incident meter, as that is our control point.
Metering the Background must be done with a reflective meter aimed at the spot on the background where you want to place the value. An incident meter really does not work for this process as it does not know how dark the background is. A spot meter is very handy as you can meter from camera and carefully meter the exact spot on the background that you want to control.
Just by changing the power on you background light you can change the value of the the background. A reflective reading in the diagram above would give a nice middle value. If it read F/8 it would be a stop darker than middle gray. If you crank up the power on your BG light you could make a dark gray background turn bright white.
Metering for the hair light is done with an incident meter at the hair. If the hair light exposure is adjusted to equal the subject lighting the hail will be rendered in full detail. Dark hair can take more light and blonds may need less!!


text: '1975' is special. It's packed full of sonically-rich, epic productions that sound big, but not bombastic or over-baked. They take in elements of dub, surf guitar, deep house, disco and acid, all delivered with a pop sensibility and individual flare that sets it apart from other, more generic dance music long players. During 54 minutes, the album roves from contemplative moments, deep dance floor dynamics to memorable choruses, adorned with a colourful and joyous array of sounds that are beautifully produced.


text:
A Christmas Service of Lessons & Carols 2016
GREETING by Fr. Gary Caster, Catholic Chaplain, Williams College
Good evening and welcome.
Inside this SAFE, hallowed sanctuary,
As the familiar cadence of the carols carries us through our evening's lessons
And the warmth, comfort and enduring promise of our shared sacred story reclaims us
Maybe for a moment –though only just a moment –we can forget the "dark bleak mid-winter" out there, outside, in our nation, in the world our common home
And forget as well, those dark shadows which have fallen in places we had hoped would be impenetrable.
Perhaps but for a moment we should listen as the stars bend their voices,
Their "raging mirth" pouring down upon us,
Their iron rivulets of joy trickling down to the softened recesses of our resolve,
Reminding us that light –the light –our own light, STILL SHINES.
The darkness has not,
Will not
And cannot overcome it!
Perhaps in this moment we "silly tender babes" may find the strength to pay our homage to the king
By promising to "rifle Satan's fold" with a kiss of light,
Resolute and resplendent.
A radiant kiss from which flees cowardly night and his insecure shadow minions that have prowled about our nation looking to devour!
Perhaps the radiant splendor rekindled inside this space will remain with us and accompany us to all the places we must go as we continue on our own journey
To the "Inn at the end of the world."
From the Inside
Meditation for Christmas Lessons and Carols by Rev. Dr. Richard Spalding, Chaplain, Williams College
Thompson Memorial Chapel – Williams College
December 10-11, 2016
At first glance, everything in the Christmas story is looking up. Magi are tracking the movements of stars or the alignment of planets or whatever it is, convinced that the sky is trying to tell them that something big is happening out there. King Herod doesn't know how to read the sky, or the predictions of the ancient prophets, or the suffering of his own people, so he's just looking up everywhere at once, his eyes darting around in a panic: from his royal visitors to his poll-takers to the ancient prophecies and, eventually, even to all the little babies of his kingdom, all of them seeming to be part of a threatening shadow cast from somewhere out there. And the shepherds, abiding in their fields, are looking up – scanning the dark hillside for danger to their vulnerable flocks. Even Caesar Augustus is looking up; they say that he likes to watch the shows, and keeps track of the effect of his edicts about cataloging people according to where they were born – so that he'll be able to look them up in his empire-books and require of them whatever he wants to. And Mary and Joseph have to be looking up too, keeping an eye out for some kind of sanctuary, any place they can huddle and bring a fragile new life into a dangerous world that doesn't care very much. Soon they'll become refugees, for whom, as we know, life is always about looking out – for an escape route, for any direction that they can flee to keep the little bundle of the Light of the world they're cradling from getting snuffed out.
Up, or out, or beyond, is the direction you look, isn't it, when you live in hope or expectation or anxiety. When you don't have what you need – or when you're worried about whether the place you are is safe – or when you want to add more of something to what you don't think you have enough of already – the direction that what you're looking for seems most likely to come from is out, or up, or away – somewhere else. Here in the Chapel it's a bit easier to talk about the Bible than it is about politics – so I'll just say that you may have noticed that, in the Bible, people are always looking up, or out, or beyond, for the rescuer they think they need. I will lift my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help, from the Psalms, and O, that you would rend the heavens and come down! from the prophets; Rescue us from this storm! and Turn these stones into bread, this water into wine, these few fish and loaves into enough to feed us all! from the gospels. Save us, feed me, heal her, free him, keep us safe… These are prayers we've all found whispering across our lips since time immemorial – and lately. In the spiritual life – as, dare I say, in our public life – everything is about looking up, out, beyond, for the one who'll rescue us, the thing that will save us, the event that will change the things we need changed.
But something else entirely different is going on in the Christmas story, right in the middle of everyone looking in all those directions for the thing that will save them.
Let's go back to Caesar's registration. Evidently it wasn't much of a success, because it left behind nothing as verifiable as a ledger, but only a handful of legends, and no mention whatsoever in the annals of the empire of this little handful of lives that ended up reconfiguring our history far more potently than any of Caesar's tweets. If you wonder how all this began, the what the storytellers have for us is legends, each one told by only one of the four gospel writers, and no agreement among them about any scintilla of detail. So you have to wonder what made them think to include these fanciful stories in the saving history. What do they add that had to be added, even notwithstanding the sketchiness of the source?
One thing they all have in common is the rather baseline fact that it began with a birth – which is to say, it began when cells began dividing in that extraordinary way that cells have, at first so infinitesimally that it takes a few weeks before you even know it's going on. It can't get much more internal, immanent, intimate than that. You can watch the stars all you want, strain your ears for the songs of approaching angels over the horizon – but it's as though the legend-keepers in their various ways wanted to make the point that the way God got things going in a different direction was with a zygote, an embryo, an infant. And not just any infant, not just any landscape; God chose to intervene right in the midst of the exhausted, the worn out, the fed up, the embittered – where a birth happens to happen in circumstances as riddled with anguish and danger as could be. Thanks to these legends, the story begins as much from the inside of all of that as it can get – and then the story grows out, grows into more and more cells, more and more into the living tissue of humanity itself. It mattered to the legend-keepers to make sure it made it into the story that, when God comes to touch our need, it's not as a moving comet, or as an edict of policy, or as a humanitarian agency, or a creed, that it all begins. It begins from the inside. It begins when God comes to live as much on the inside as you can get, starting with nothing any less miraculous than mitosis. From there it goes to living what we're up against from the inside: the struggle against a boorish, inhumane empire; the poverty; the ambiguity and uncertainty; the yearning for freedom and the hunger for hope.
Oh, as the story then rolls on, more agreement develops among the storytellers about the details of his life: that he taught us, along the way, that it's our faith that makes us well – that it's our choices to do justice, to love kindness, to walk humbly that will make the world just, and kind, and humble – that it's our inherent blessedness that makes us precious, not only in God's eyes but in one another's eyes.
But where it starts, in the midst of all that looking up and out and away, is with God coming to the most interior, most enfleshed possible place God can come, and starting the work as much from the inside as God can get. The legend-keepers tell us that God chose the best place God could find – a handful of first-century lives that were already paying close attention to justice, kindness, humility; but it was anything but a perfect place. God chose a moment in history that was full of failures, outrages, violence and despair as any – and climbed in among them to start the work of salvation from the inside.
The gospel of John – as you'll hear in the Fifth Lesson – has its own distinctive way of talking about this. There's not much of anything about babies being born, or imperial edicts or even angels, for that matter. But what it says is that, at the ripe time, "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us" – except that, the Greek word for "dwelt" is something a lot more akin to "pitched his tent" among us – which, I think, is probably John's way of saying the same thing. (Listen for an evocation of the pitching of the divine tent in the final carol that the Choir will sing tonight, from Benjamin Britten's shimmeringly beautiful "Ceremony.") The Light of the World came camping, plunked down as much in the middle of the muddle as it could get, and became flesh – and from there it pushed outward.
So we can lift our eyes – and do: to these crystalline Berkshire hills in freezing winter night, to watch the way the stars have of singing silently – and we can make our pilgrimage again to the place where we can hear the voices of what we've got for angels, bidding us to behold this silly, tender babe, this piteous sight with his royal court of stable beasts and danger and poverty. As the poet says,
And at night we win to the ancient inn
Where the child in the frost is furled,
We follow the feet where all souls meet
At the inn at the end of the world.
It is so like us, after all, to look beyond ourselves for something or someone to rescue us, something to wing down and make right what has gone so terribly wrong.
But I think we already know – and I think we are learning afresh, now, vividly and painfully and importantly – that if we are going to be saved, and if things are going to be put right, then it is not a party nor a candidate that can do that, not an edict or a policy, not even a movement, if it has not already begun from the inside, and taken root in the cells of us, and started burgeoning outward from there.
If there is injustice, then it is the energy of justice and compassion pushing outward like God from the very atoms of us, being born in us from the inside, that will topple the tyrants. If there is despair, then it is the energy of hope and resilience, pushing outward like God from the very molecules of us, being born in us from the inside, that will comfort and strengthen us. If there is alienation and hatred, then it is the energy of love pushing outward like God from the living tissue of us, that will turn us back toward the light.
You wonder how this all begins? It begins with a change in us at the level of living tissue, and pushes outward. That's why it has to be a birth story. That's what the baby pretty much spent his whole (short) life saying to us once he was grown, and came to live among us as a servant. Never in his whole life did he have any power at all except the power that begins on the inside, when a passion for God is born and then pushes outward from the inside. Your faith has made you well, he said. Blessed are you poor, he said. Feed my sheep, he said.
So let every heart prepare him room. And every conscience – and every mind – and every vocation – and every cell.


text:
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Additional Items to Sale-a-brate with
Only a few more days for Sale-a-bration! March 31st is the last day you can earn products for free with every 50$ order.
More items have been released that you can earn with your Sale-a-bration rewards.
Click here to see also more Sale-a-bration products.
Click here to download the Sale-a-bration brochure.
Not sure what you want, click here to check out my Pinterest board dedicated to Sale-a-bration and Occasions Mini products.
Click here to start shopping and earning your Sale-a-bration rewards.
Posted by STASIA SLOMA at 10:21 AM
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
- Stage 3: 5h 59' 54" (actual), 5h 07' 03" (prediction), 52' 51" fast (-14.68% error)
- Stage 3: 10.35 m/s (37.26 kph or 23.15 mph)
As happy as we were to be under 1% yesterday, we're just as mystified to be nearly 15% off today. I tell audiences during my Tour de France talks that there are many things we cannot know about the race, and teams' strategies are right at the top of the list. The same model that nailed yesterday's stage needed its cyclist power output cut by nearly a third today. Riders were clearly holding back, and I don't claim that because we had such a bad prediction. Learning as the race unfolds is a lot of fun, and we certainly learned something today.
Tomorrow's Stage 4 is a 237.5-km (147.6-mi) flat stage, which is this year's longest stage. Were cyclists saving energy today for tomorrow's long ride? That could very well have been the teams' strategies. Beginning in the commune of Saumur, the stage takes riders southeast to Limoges. Below is our prediction.
- Stage 4: 5h 56' 59" (prediction)


text:
I spent Christmas Day on the small beach in Fish Hoek on False Bay. Raquel, the other park volunteer from Spain, is heading out to do a bit of traveling and needed to catch a train in the late afternoon, so I accompanied her to Fish Hoek and we spent the day on the beach.
It was a lovely, lovely day and many people were enjoying the sun and beach. The sea water was a deep blue but it turned turquoise closer to the shore. The wind was heavy and the waves were crashing. It was a great day for people watching! Only one woman was in the Christmas spirit however: she had on a Christmas-red blouse, a white skirt, and a Santa Claus hat! She made me smile each time she passed.
Other than the girl in the Christmas attire, it didn't feel very Christmas-like. I hadn't realized how much of a "Walton's Christmas" girl I am!
My second Christmas in Africa—on the beach! But my heart, as ever, was in the Ohio River Valley! Love you!


text:
Martinez, Garcia Win With Drama: The Post Report Card
One champion closed the show. The other kept his show going. Both walked the high wire and escaped in a fascinating pair of main events on Saturday night. In the end, Sergio Martinez remains the ...Read More
CompuBox Stats: Danny Garcia Landed Heavy on Judah
The younger WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia hit harder, was busier and doubled-up the gutsy Zab Judah in power shots landed. Zab landed 59% of his power shots - but averaged just 6 ...Read More
Video: Danny Garcia vs. Zab Judah Post Fight Presser
Bill Emes catches the post-fight press conference to Danny Garcia's twelve round decision victory over Zab Judah. Hear from Garcia, Judah, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya, WBO middlew...Read More
Video: Danny Garcia Discusses Zab Judah Win, More
Bill Emes catches up with WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia to discuss the victory over former champion Zab Judah. ...Read More
Danny Garcia: Judah Caught Me Good In The Eleventh
WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia unanimously won a twelve round decision over Zab Judah at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Garcia (26-0, 16 KOs) hurt Judah several times in the fight and...Read More
Video: Zab Judah Not Walking Away After Garcia Loss
Bill Emes catches up with Zab Judah to discuss his twelve round decision loss to WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia. ...Read More
Danny Garcia Shows His Grit in Overcoming Zab Judah
By Jake Donovan - The long-growing rivalry between Danny Garcia and Zab Judah reached a resolution Saturday evening at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Months of trash talk, postponements and de...Read More
Judah: Matthysse a Much Harder Puncher Than Garcia
Former champion Zab Judah has now been in the ring with both Danny Garcia (26-0, 16KOs) and Lucas Matthysse (33-2, 31KOs) - and indicates that Matthysse is a much harder puncher than Garcia. Judah won...Read More
Danny Garcia Survives Late Rally To Decision Zab Judah
By Jake Donovan - Despite threats to the contrary, Danny Garcia left Brooklyn the same way he arrived – unbeaten and still a unified titlist. The 25-year old successfully turned back the challenge of ...Read More
Zab Judah Still Not Buying Danny Garcia's Rib Injury
NEW YORK — Zab Judah afforded Danny Garcia the benefit of the doubt on a conference call three weeks ago when he was asked about the legitimacy of the Garcia rib injury that caused their fight to be p...Read More
B-Scene Staff Predictions: Danny Garcia-Zab Judah
Less than two months after Bernard Hopkins once again rewrote the history books, the Barclays Center once again plays center stage to a big night of action. Headlining the Brooklyn show on Saturday ev...Read More
CompuBox Historical Review: Danny Garcia-Zab Judah
Zab Judah throws well below the weight class average. In his last 4 fights (vs. Paris, Khan, Mabuza, Matthysse), only 14 of his 44 punches thrown per round were power shots. He did land 54% though. Da...Read More
Martinez-Murray/Garcia-Judah: Pre-Weekend Report Card
By Cliff Rold - It's time for the latest chapter in "As the Premium Networks Turn." Or is it "All My Promotional Feuds?" Whatever one calls it, it's another night of HBO and Showtime showing qua...Read More
Zab Judah: Angel Garcia is a Drug Addict, A Dopehead!
NEW YORK — Zab Judah took his war of words with Angel Garcia to an extremely personal level Thursday. An incensed Judah called Garcia, father and trainer of WBC super lightweight champion Danny Gar...Read More
Zab Judah – The B-Side in Brooklyn
By Thomas Gerbasi - From a distance, Zab Judah looks like he always has: young, always on the verge of breaking out into a 1000 watt smile or laugh, and ready to take on the world. Look a little cl...Read More
Photos/Weights: Garcia-Judah, Quillin-Guerrero Are Ready
Months worth of feuding in person, online and any other way imaginable are now just a day away from being resolved in the ring. Danny 'Swift' Garcia and Zab 'Super' Judah are moments away from steppin...Read More
Photos: Garcia vs. Judah Final Presser Mega Gallery
The final press conference took place for Showtime's championship doubleheader, taking place on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The press conference had plenty of verbal firew...Read More
Judah: A. Garcia Calls Me a N***er, Nobody Says Nothing
Former two division world champion Zab "Super" Judah was on fire at Thursday's final press conference at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. This Saturday night at Barclays, Judah will challenge Da...Read More
Danny Garcia Says This Time There is Nothing To Prove
By Jake Donovan - Danny Garcia continues to learn that life is rough at the top. The unbeaten 25-year old is widely regarded as the top-rated 140 lb. fighter on the planet, though the jury remains out...Read More
Photos: Danny Garcia vs. Zab Judah Fight Week Shots
More shots from the ongoing fight week for Showtime's televised doubleheader from Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, New York. In the main event, Danny Garcia defends the WBC/WBA junior welterweight titles...Read More


text:
Read The Rest at :
Disclaimer : Mymoneytimes implements extreme caution and care in collecting data before publication. Mymoneytimes does not liable for the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any given information. Hence we are not liable for any kind of direct or indirect loss caused by the use of such information.
most popular
FTSE LIVE: Dixons Carphone reports Christmas sales slip
UK - 24 minutes ago
China demands US drop Huawei extradition request with Canada
Canada - 46 minutes ago
Cambodia leader says China to give $600 million in grant aid
Canada - 47 minutes ago


text:
In this corner of Severna Park, where the Bradford pear trees are in bloom and the lawns look manicured even in March, neighbors thought the pop-pop-pops were firecrackers, not gunshots.
What they heard was the first of two gun battles yesterday that left a male bank robbery suspect dead and an Anne Arundel County police officer wounded.
Officer Doyle D. Holquist Jr., 32, was released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being treated for a gunshot wound to his left thigh. He has been a member of the county Police Department for 18 months. He was with the Baltimore Police Department for two years.
Police did not release the identity of the suspect, who died at the scene. His body, covered by a white sheet, was left on the driveway of a home on Kimberly Court for more than three hours as officers swarmed amid the maze of crime tape and onlookers gathered.
About 9 a.m., police said, a man walked into a Bank of America branch at 601 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd. and pulled a hat or mask over his face. Police said he calmly asked for cash without showing a weapon, was handed an undetermined amount and left on foot.
Moments later, a bank manager stopped customer Ed Polk at the door.
"Normally, it's a smile and 'Hey, how you doing?' but she just kind of waved at me, like, 'Don't come close,'" Polk said later. "She looked nervous -- the teller behind her crying -- and then she got on the phone and said, 'We've just been robbed.' Then all the bells and whistles and sirens went off."
Next door at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, where 25 kindergarten students were on the playground, staff members rushed the children inside. Anne Arundel County school officials locked down nine Severna Park schools for almost an hour until they learned that the suspect had been killed.
About 9:10 a.m., police spotted a man matching the description of the robber less than a quarter of a mile from the bank and began chasing him on foot, said Lt. David Waltemeyer, an Anne Arundel County police spokesman.
When police ordered the man to stop just south of Marbury Road, he turned and began shooting at them with a handgun. Officers returned fire, and the man continued running, Waltemeyer said.
About a half-dozen officers pursued the man as he ran through back yards in the quiet residential neighborhood.
Kristyn Ernest, who was filing paperwork at an engineering firm that overlooks Kimberly Court, heard a gunshot, ran to the window and saw a man in bulky winter clothing race across lawns and jump over a fence. When police lost track of him, Ernest said, she leaned out of her window to tell officers the man was hiding behind the brick home at 3 Kimberly Court.
Police cornered the man at the home and again told him to stop and put his weapon down, Waltemeyer said, but he fired again. Police returned fired, killing him, Waltemeyer said. It was during this second exchange of gunfire that Holquist was wounded.
Police found several bundles of money scattered in nearby yards.
Holquist and other officers who fired their guns have been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, which is routine, Waltemeyer said.
Ann Waltman, who has lived on Kimberly Court for nearly 30 years, said she has never seen such violence on the quiet block, where several retirees live.
"I just heard the shots, and I thought it was a car backfiring or fireworks, but then the second time, I knew it was something else," said Waltman, 62, who was watching television at the time.
"I'm shook up," she said. "I'm just thankful that nobody in the neighborhood got hurt."
Though Anne Arundel County statistics were not available, bank robberies statewide are down from a high of 309 in 2001 to 208 in 2005, the last year for which figures were available from the Maryland State Police. Still, recent years' numbers are well above the 151 bank robberies in 2000.
Sun reporters Nia-Malika Henderson, Laura McCandlish and Andrea F. Seigel contributed to this article.


text:
CARMEL, Ind. — Tom Kontos, chief economist for ADESA Analytical Services, reported this week that wholesale prices in May softened from their April peak, although they remained significantly above year-ago levels.
Kontos said in his Kontos Kommentary report that May's downturn could be a precursor to further softening, especially in areas such as the Northeast where the growth in off-lease supply is expected to be concentrated.
"Retail demand, particularly for 'certifiable' units for record CPO sales, helped absorb off-rental volume and growing off-lease supply without significant price declines," Kontos said. "However, there was some hesitancy from a few sellers to accept May's lower prices, and this was reflected in low conversion rates for those consignors."
During the month, wholesale used-vehicle prices averaged $10,321 — down 1.5% compared to April and up 5.4% relative to May 2013, according to data from ADESA Analytical Services. Truck prices continued to hold firmer than car prices.
Kontos also noted that prices for used vehicles remarketed by manufacturers were down 1.4% month-over-month and up 5.0% year-over-year, as more off-rental program units entered the market — many of which were not sold.
Prices for fleet and lease cosignors were down 1.5% sequentially and up 4.2% annually, as more off-rental risk units entered the market, as well as more off-lease vehicles. Dealer consignors saw a 2.5% average price decrease during the month vs. April, and a 3.7% uptick vs. the previous year, as they wholesaled units obtained in part from trade-ins generated via May's strong new-vehicle sales.
Additionally, retail used-vehicle sales in May were up 12.3% month over month and 3.9% year over year, according to data from CNW Marketing/Research. Autodata reported that sales of certified pre-owned vehicles were a record 207,371 units, up 7.4% vs. April and up 10.9% from the prior year, Kontos noted.


text:
Just a quick summary of what has happened in the past 11 days that I have been in hiding! I apologize for the big delay between posts, been sick, raising kidlets, maintaining the household & keeping the business on track - very time consuming I can tell you that! Anyhoo here is what we have been up to :)
We used butcher paper from our craft cupboard to lay down & trace around each other then decorate inside the tracings with our favourite things :)
We had a little role play fun in the back yard while the sun was out :)
I made the kidlets a man made out of apple & blueberries :)
Made hermit crabs out of croissants, apple, marshmallows & a cut up straw :)
A crab out of an apple & strawberry :)
Sail boat sandwiches :)
And a dump truck sandwich :)
Looking back I noticed I kind of went into an ocean theme for 2 days worth of food which the kidlets didn't mind, they both LOVE fish & anything found underwater so I guess it was a win-win situation :)


text:
So, you've been put in charge of a big end-of-the-year awards banquet for your regional baseball organization. Or, you need someone to open the ceremonies during the final games of a national tournament. Everyone involved would like to have one or more famous people on hand to lend more excitement to the experience, and it's up to you to bring the celebrity element. How do you find these VIPs and entice them to your event?
Reaching Out
From 2008 through 2012, when Huddle Up Group ran the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame, Schmieder helped bring in such notable inductees as Al McCoy of the Phoenix Suns, Darren Woodson of the Dallas Cowboys, Olympic Gold Medalists Kerri Strug and Misty Hyman, and NFL Quarterback Rodney Peete.
Many of these inductees also served as presenters in the years after they were honored and played in the golf event that was part of the annual celebration of Arizona's sports standouts.
Schmieder said his approach to getting celebrities to an event is to make a personal phone call to the VIPs he is seeking to involve. "We call them directly," he said. "We try to keep their agents out of the discussion."
As director of event and tourism partnerships for B.A.S.S. LLC, Mike Mulone (at Right) has helped arrange to have VIP guests at tournaments and other fishing events. In these situations, Mulone said, the celebrities who participate are often fans of fishing and Bassmaster.
He recommended working all the relationships that you, your board of directors, your sponsors and anyone else affiliated with your organization have with famous athletes or other celebrities with some relevance to the sport, the area or the participants.
"Between our own connections, our anglers and our sponsors, we can usually make connections quite quickly," he said.
Making the Pitch
Mulone advised that event planners try to stick with VIPs who are familiar with the event or are at least familiar with the sport. "If VIPs are fans of fishing and B.A.S.S., we don't have to persuade too much," he said. "They want to come to our events, see what we do and meet the anglers. VIPs need to be interested in your sport or brand, or else it looks like a photo op."
Schmieder also stressed that it's important to treat VIPs like people, not objects.
"No autograph or photo requests from staff," he advised. "If you have inexperienced staff whom you think may be star struck by your VIP guests, assign them jobs that will keep them away from the VIPs."
Give Them What They Want
Mulone agreed. "It's best to have the cross branding and exposure. It helps their personal brand as well, because it shows a different side. In our case, it shows that the VIP enjoys the outdoors and fishing."


text:
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Download this helpful technical sheet to learn how to ensure performance of your Applied Biosystems™ Real-Time PCR Systems.
To download the IQ/OQ and IPV technical sheet, please fill out the form below.
* Required field
Note: You clicked on an external link, which has been disabled in order to keep your shopping session open.


text:
Welcome to Torr International, Inc.
Torr's products include Magnetron Sputtering, Electron Beam and Thermal Evaporation systems for diverse applications.
These may include specimen preparation for scanning electron microscopes or research and development with metal, dielectric and organic materials.
Torr International Inc. creates custom-built multi-target sophisticated systems for special applications, and manufactures Reactive Ion Etching systems, PECVD and Plasma Process machines for metals, dielectrics and polymers.
Torr designs combination systems that include two or more sources, providing an economical option for today's research environment. Torr also produces Compact Research Coaters and supplies all the accessories needed for Thin Film Deposition work.
Torr International serves a worldwide market in the areas of Thin Film Deposition and Etching as well as high vacuum technology.
Feel free to contact us
Torr International, Inc.
12 Columbus Street
New Windsor, NY 12553
(845) 565-4027
(845) 565-6637
(845) 561-7731


text:
Inkwell Aussie News
The news page for Inkwell Aussies!
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Rest in Peace my sweet Ems
I had to let my Emma go last week, as every day she was becoming less and less comfortable with her arthritis and other age-related creakiness; unable to lie down and get comfortable, unsteady on her feet, and without appetite for even the best treats. She was 15 years, 4 months, and hopefully she is playing with her brother Bobby, her housemate Ziggy, and all others that went before. I miss her, the house is much emptier, but there was no question that it was time to do her a last kindness. This is one of her last pictures, taken a week or so before her death. She looks in the prime of life here. What a good girl.
Posted by
No comments:
Newer Posts
Older Posts
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)


text:
Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch Counts Blessings after Near-Death Experience
Praised as "unfalteringly elegant" by The New York Times, Fred Hersch's recent album bears a more-than-apt title: Alive at the Vanguard.
Not just "live" in the standard musical sense. That wouldn't do his story justice. Talking, breathing, performing. Living.
"It's really kind of miraculous," the 58-year-old said.
The jazz pianist recorded the effort with his trio during a 2012 stint at New York's famed Village Vanguard club — a spot the musician might otherwise never have expected to enter, let alone perform in, again — after waking from a two-month coma triggered by pneumonia in 2008.
His body was already ravaged by AIDS-related dementia, and a medically induced coma sapped the motor functions Hersch needed to speak, swallow or walk.
Forget about tickling the ivories.
But the defiant Cincinnati-born musician, whose parents have cited their son's fierce lifelong independent streak, fought his way back from the brink.
Normalcy these days holds a higher value.
"When you go through something like that, you let go of the small stuff," Hersch said by phone from the wooded Pennsylvania retreat he occupies in between commitments. "I feel a lot freer; I have more command.
"I honestly feel like I'm playing better than I did before."
A return to form also allowed him to channel the near-death experience into performance art through a jazz-meets-theater piece called My Coma Dreams.
The show, which Hersch has since presented around the world, features a 10-piece ensemble and an actor portraying the afflicted musician.
Musical vignettes of reconstructed dreams include those detailing the performer's weight loss, atrophy and rehab. More-abstract sequences involve Hersch being trapped in a cage beside Thelonious Monk and dancing the tango on an airplane.
In a typical concert, including a Friday gig in the Wexner Center for the Arts, Hersch will showcase only a Dreams selection or two. More common, however, are tunes from his expansive 30-year catalog.
"I think a real jazz performance should be different night to night and set to set," he said.
Hersch himself is a big name: Vanity Fair in 2010 called him "the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so."
News of his recovery, meanwhile, spurred renewal.
The New York resident played about 80 dates last year and will take the current version of his trio (bassist John Hebert and drummer Eric McPherson for the past five years) to dates next month in Europe and Asia.
Amid life's high and low notes, his artistic philosophy hasn't changed.
"The key to all of it for me is spontaneity and surprise," said Hersch, who came out as gay in 1993 and learned he had HIV in the 1980s. "If it gets predictable, then it's not — in a way — honest."
Although the challenge of self-revelation can be tougher in solo performance, plenty of unconventional moments lie within a group dynamic.
"They are going to surprise me," Hersch said. "There's always room for it to go somewhere else, uncharted territory."
Players, of course, rely on one another's grooves, but such complementary ties are innate: Hersch often plays with his eyes closed, rarely looking up from the keyboard.
Focus on the future is steady with plans afoot for a solo album and a stage production that highlights poetry and photography.
Little time exists to worry.
Still, he is grateful for the circumstances that composed the overture for a once-unthinkable second act.
"I was not expected to return to an elite level," said Hersch, who in December earned his sixth Grammy nomination. "I have nothing to prove. This is all gravy."


text:
By using this site, you agree to its use of cookies as provided in our policy.
Home > Categories > Category
you are not logged in. [log in]
additional search options
sorted by:
Alphabetical: A-Z
Alphabetical: Z-A
Newest (by date approved)
Newest (by date created)
Fischtreppe von der Enns in die Steyr - Steyr, Austria
in Fish Ladders
Fischtreppe von der Enns in die Steyr / Fish ladder from the Enns to the Steyr
posted by: PISA-caching
location: Oberösterreich, Austria
date approved: 8/17/2018
last visited: never
Fischtreppe an Rathausschleuse - Hamburg, Germany
[GER] Fischtreppe an Rathausschleuse - Hamburg, Germany [ENG] Fish ladder at the Rathausschleuse - Hamburg, Germany
posted by: Kladings
location: Hamburg, Germany
date approved: 7/21/2018
last visited: 7/24/2018
Salmon Run, Afon Ogwen, Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales
A salmon run on Afon Ogwen, Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales.
posted by: Meirion
location: North Wales, United Kingdom
date approved: 6/25/2018
L'Echelle à poissons sur le petit Buech- Veynes- France
FR: Echelle à poissons sur le petit Buech. AN:Scale fish on the small Buech.
posted by: SISABIEL
location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
date approved: 5/31/2018
Bomaderry Creek Weir, Bomaderry, NSW, Australia
The weir, that used to supply water for Bomaderry has been breached [1998], to form a Fishway.
posted by: Grahame Cookie
location: New South Wales, Australia
date approved: 5/9/2018
Passe migratoire de Cap-Santé - Cap-Santé, Québec, Canada
Cette échelle à saumon est située à Cap-Santé, Québec.
This fish ladder is located in Cap-Santé, Quebec.
posted by: machard
location: Québec, Canada
date approved: 4/14/2018
last visited: 7/29/2018
Lhotka weir Fish ladder - Ostrava, Czech republic
The fish pass at Lhotka weir.
Rybí prechod u jezu ve Lhotce.
posted by: davidb11
location: Moravskoslezský kraj, Czechia
date approved: 4/11/2018
Passagem Para Peixes do Açude-Ponte de Coimbra - Portugal
A fish ladder in the Coimbra's Bridge-Dam.
posted by: tmob
location: Coimbra, Portugal
date approved: 4/4/2018
Fish Ladder Casino Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler- RLP / Germany
Fish Ladder in the Ahr River located behind the Casino in Bad Neuenahr.
posted by: Iris & Harry
location: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
date approved: 12/3/2017
last visited: 10/5/2018
Drahtzug Kraftwerk, Kempten, Germany
Fischtreppe am Staudamm des Iller Kraftwerk Drahtzug *** Fish Ladder at the stream dam of the water power station Drahtzug
posted by: 4spring
location: Bayern, Germany
date approved: 10/27/2017
last visited: 10/17/2017
Keno Dam Fish Ladder - Keno, OR
This fish ladder is part of Keno Dam, located along Klamath River.
posted by: NW_history_buff
location: Oregon
date approved: 10/15/2017
Mäander-Fischtreppe Fuhlsbütteler Schleuse - Hamburg, Deutschland
Mäander-Fischtreppe an der Fuhlsbütteler Schleuse im Hamburger Stadtteil Ohlsdorf.
posted by: Windschattenwanderer
date approved: 8/31/2017
last visited: 3/29/2018
Fischaufstiegsanlage Leuther Mühle - Nettetal - NRW - Germany
Fischleiter an der Leuther Mühle
posted by: CADS11
location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
date approved: 8/20/2017
last visited: 1/4/2018
Dight's Falls Fishway, Yarra River, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
Also known as a fish ladder, this fishway was completed in December 2012.
It will enable some fish species to swim upstream at Dight's Falls, Abbotsford, for the first time in decades.
posted by: n0w0rries
location: Victoria, Australia
date approved: 7/18/2017
last visited: 7/22/2017
Fischleiter Wehranlage "Am Kurpark" - Bad Neuenahr, Germany
DE: 2013 wurde die Wehranlage "Am Kurpark" zu einer Fischleiter umgebaut.
EN: In 2013, the weir "Am Kurpark" has been modified to a fish ladder.
posted by: Narayan,
date approved: 6/12/2017
Fischaufstiegsanlage Wismar - M.-V., Deutschland
Mäander-Fischpass zwischen dem Wallensteingraben und dem Mühlenteich in WIsmar.
location: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
date approved: 5/12/2017
Ganaraska River Fishway - Port Hope, ON
Ganaraska River Fishway, located just south of Hwy 401 in Port Hope.
posted by: jiggs11
location: Ontario, Canada
date approved: 5/5/2017
last visited: 5/6/2017
Fischpass Buisdorf - Sankt Augustin, NRW, Germany
Fischpass mit Kontrollstation für Wanderfische in Sankt Augustin-Buisdorf am Siegwehr an der Sieg.---Fish Pass with control station in Sankt Augustin-Buisdorf on the Sieg.
posted by: Maisi2
date approved: 4/23/2017
last visited: 4/14/2018
Hrabová weir Fish ladder - Hrabová, Czech republic
The fish pass at Hrabová weir.
Rybí prechod u Hrabovského splavu.
date approved: 4/4/2017
Fischtreppe - Balingen, Germany, BW
At the so-called 'Zollernwehr', a weir at the Eyach River in Balingen, Germany, Baden-Württemberg is a Fish Ladder (German: Fischtreppe) located.
posted by: Tante.Hossi
location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
date approved: 3/31/2017
last visited: 5/5/2017
Union Bridge Fish Pass - Marsden, UK
This fish pass was built under Union Bridge when the bridge was reconstructed.
posted by: dtrebilc
location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
date approved: 3/29/2017
Port Hope Fish Ladder - Corbitt's Dam - Port Hope, Ontario
Located on Port Hope Conservation Area at the intersection of McKibbon Street and Cavan Street.
posted by: mTn_biKer65
date approved: 3/14/2017
Fischtreppe Bannmühle - Odernheim, RP, Germany
A Fish Ladder at the Glan river in Odernheim, Germany
posted by: kukus
date approved: 12/11/2016
last visited: 12/10/2016
Kraftwerk Ryburg-Schwörstadt Fish Ladder - Schwörstadt, BW, Germany
The hydroelectric power plat of Ryburg-Schwörstadt got a newly designed fish ladder in 2014.
posted by: fi67
date approved: 11/15/2016
The Abbot's Mill Fish & Otter Ladder -- Canterbury, Kent, UK
Stones and steps installed in a historic millrace from the 1100s to help fish and otters get around the mill wier in the River Stour in Canterbury (no otters have used it yet, sadly)
posted by: Benchmark Blasterz
location: South East England, United Kingdom
date approved: 9/25/2016
last visited: 7/22/2016
Copyright (c) 2019 Groundspeak, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


text:
This weekend my friend from back at school who is studying abroad in Brussels right now came to visit Paris! I love having visitors because a. I get to see people that I've missed and b. it motivates me to cram as many activities into one day as possible, making the most out of my weekends. Today we decided to start the morning off with going to the Rodin Museum, which I have been meaning to do for awhile now. The museum offers free admission every first Sunday of the month so that was a nice bonus in addition to being wowed by the gardens and sculptures.
We left the museum and were beginning to get super hungry so Josie and I thought Andrew totally deserved to try one of the amazing falafels in the Marais. This marked my third time going to L'as Du Falafel (at 34 rue de Rosiers off the Saint-Paul metro stop) because I can't get over how much flavor and food you can get in one helping. The falafels are 5 euros each, which I thought was kind of pricy in comparison to Mamoun's $2.50 falafels in NY, but they are huge and even come with eggplant!! Sunday is probably the worst day to go since the Marais is swarmed with people as the rest of Paris is shut down and the line can become exhaustingly long. If you go sometime in the middle of the week you can avoid a line altogether and march straight up to the counter to make your order.
We scarfed down our food and decided to walk it off by doing some window shopping. Some of the boutiques in the Marais really make me regret having an unpaid internship this summer instead of making some sort of cash. We capped the day off with a trip to MyBerry(25 Rue Vieille du Temple), the only froyo place I've seen in Paris which has saved my life considering how much frozen yogurt I have back in the States. All in all, this was a great way to end a great weekend.


text:
Happy Friday Everyone,
Hope you had a great week. Anything special planned for the weekend? Going to read a good book or maybe watch a movie how about listen to your favorite music.
We have just the challenge for you this week over at the Copic/Pro Marker challenge. Yup, this week create something that is inspired by a book, movie or song using your Copics or Pro Markers. Don't forget to tell us what book, movie or song has inspired your creation.
My card today is another faboulous Krista Smith image from Saturated Canary. This is Zorana A Gypsy Dancer. My card is inspired by the song Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac. It could also work for Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves by Cher.
I have colored her with my Copics. I love the hair on Krista's images. The papers that I have used are by S.E.I.. I also got the chance to use a new Slice card I had recently purchased for the music notes.
I added a little brown twine and some brown pearl for some texture to the card.
I hope you have enjoyed my card today and invite you to join in our challenge this week. Just remember your card must be new (never appearing before you post to the challenge) and colored using copics and or pro makers.
Thanks for stopping by today.