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Kitenge Styles for Ladies – Kitenge or Vitenge or Chitenge is one of the most popular African print fabrics that are very common among Africans in diaspora.

The Kitenge fashion styles feature colourful designs and artistic patterns similar to Ankara fabric, which makes them the fashion staples at runways and red carpet events.

Some of the Kitenge fabrics in Kenya and Tanzania have Swahili words written on them to symbolise the traditional and historical impacts the wax fabric has in African communities.

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Among the Best Kitenge Styles for Ladies, you will find Kitenge Skirt and Blouse styles, which can either be short, long, printed or flare; Kitenge Straight Cut Short Gowns; Long Kitenge Maxi Dresses; Kitenge fashion Short Dresses featuring asymmetrical styles and sultry cut-outs; and Kitenge designs for Long Dresses in straight cut fashion.

Asides from the dress styles, you can also pattern your Kitenge styles for ladies into shorts and pair them with African wax blazers, stylish jumpsuits, and trousers that you can wear with any shirt or blouse of your choice.

Not only are the Latest Kitenge dress designs left for ladies to wear at formal and casual outings, but you can also use the Kitenge fabric material to sew matching Styles with your significant other. Besides, a couple that slays together, stays together.

Over here are some of the Best Kitenge Styles for Ladies that you can incorporate into your wardrobe staples.

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Giedra Radvilavičiūtė est née en 1960 à Panevėžys, en Lituanie. Après sa scolarité au lycée de Panevėžys, elle sort avec un diplôme en langue et littérature lituaniennes de l’université de Vilnius en 1983. Elle a par la suite enseigné dans une école de sa région natale, au nord de la Lituanie, puis de 1987 à 1994, a travaillé comme journaliste à Vilnius pour des revues destinées aux familles et aux parents. De 1994 à 1998, elle a vécu aux États-Unis où son mari, Giedrius Subačius, enseignait à l’université de Chicago.

Elle vit aujourd’hui à Vilnius avec sa fille (étudiante en design à l’Académie des Arts de Vilnius) et travaille pour le gouvernement comme rédactrice de documents officiels.

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Excerpt from the short story „Susipažinkite: tie, kuriuos sutikti norėčiau dar kartą“ (“Those Whom I Would Like to meet Again: An Introduction”)
from the book Šiąnakt aš gulėsiu prie sienos (Tonight I Shall Sleep by the Wall)

translated by Elizabeth Novickas

And when I returned one time from Poland, I carried a heavy bag down the platform. I don’t know why I still haven’t bought a suitcase with wheels. I have yet another fault—if someone makes me upset, or I should say, agitated, I remember what I was wearing at the time, even if twenty years may have gone by since. I was hauling the bag through the railroad station and suddenly felt the pack rising upwards. I turned around—on the platform, sleepy-eyed, stood that man for whom the world opened up in brighter pieces being with me. “You’re waiting for someone here?” I asked. “I am,” he said, looking into my eyes. I looked at him too, but I saw my beige stockings twisted around twice, my face bedraggled from two border crossings, the beret on my greasy hair, and the bandage on the heel of my right foot. And if the bag were to continue the story, the events on the platform continued thusly: “The man carried me to the car and threw me into an empty trunk. The woman lifted me out again. ‘Don’t be silly. It’s Christmas, look at how many people are waiting at the trolleybus stop, I’ll take you to Panevėžys.’ The man remained sitting on the front seat, flicking the dangling toy spider with his finger, while the woman headed for the bus station. Waiting in line for a ticket, she put me down on the muddied floor and fell on top—I expected my ribs, piled up out of books, boxes, cans, and shoes, to tear the sides. Only I knew that fifteen hours ago, on the other end of the tracks, a different man saw her off. They kissed on the platform. Apparently, she thought the fact that a different one unexpectedly met her on this end of the tracks was a sin.” I thought about how I would behave now. I probably would have traveled to hell with that person to whom the naked body, unrelated to the soul, appeared to be just one material of many—clay, asbestos, silk. Does anyone really know where the tracks begin? Where they end, or what’s waiting there?

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European Commission recommends granting BiH candidate status

Brussels (FENA) – European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi confirmed that the European Commission has recommended granting candidate status for becoming a member of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He presented the 2022 Enlargement Package adopted by the College in Brussels, setting out details from the report on the progress of the Western Balkan countries and Turkey on their path to European Union membership.

Várhelyi stressed that this recommendation for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) came under the condition that some steps were fulfilled, that the laws on the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HJPC BiH), on courts and on preventing conflicts of interest were passed, and that decisive steps to fight corruption and organized crime were taken.

It was also necessary to ensure better border management mechanisms, establish a functioning asylum system, prevent cases of torture and abuse through the establishment of an international mechanism, guarantee freedom of the media and the protection of journalists, and to enable adequate monitoring of media intimidation.

The European Commission underlined that the European Council has called on BiH leaders to urgently address the outstanding judiciary and constitutional reforms.

“Granting candidate country status is an offer from the European side to BiH and the people of BiH. We do this for the people of BiH, however, it comes with high expectations, the political elite must make it a reality,” Várhelyi said.

After the elections held on October 2, Várhelyi says, legislatures and governments are expected to be formed quickly so that they can begin to deal with the implementation of the European reforms.

“The European Council is likely to take a final decision in December. The Commission is ready to give its support, but will continue to monitor the implementation of the 14 key priorities of the EU Commission’s opinion through which basic progress is measured and which are non-negotiable. BiH must fulfill them all before negotiations for membership can be opened,” concluded Várhelyi.

He reiterated that the countries of the Western Balkans are a priority for the EU and stated that the strategic commitment was for all six countries to join the EU as soon as possible. (October 12)

EU Court of Justice: Banning headscarves at work is not discrimination

Brussels (ANSA) – “The internal rule of an undertaking prohibiting the visible wearing of religious, philosophical or spiritual signs does not constitute direct discrimination if it is applied to all workers in a general and undifferentiated way.” The European Court of Justice has ruled in the case of a Belgian woman of Muslim faith who had been denied an internship contract for expressing her refusal to remove her veil in order to comply with the company’s neutrality policy. In Thursday’s judgment, the judges in Luxembourg observed that “religion and belief must be regarded as a single ground of discrimination, otherwise the general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation provided for by EU law” is undermined.

The Court states that, under Union law, “a provision of an undertaking’s terms of employment which prohibits workers from manifesting, through words, through clothing, or in any other way, their religious or philosophical beliefs, whatever those beliefs may be, does not constitute, with regard to workers who intend to exercise their freedom of religion and conscience through the visible wearing of a sign or an item of clothing with religious connotations, direct discrimination ‘on the [ground] of religion or belief’ for the purposes of EU law, provided that that provision is applied in a general and undifferentiated way.”

In fact, it is explained that “since every person may have a religion or religious, philosophical or spiritual belief, such a rule, provided that it is applied in a general and undifferentiated way, does not establish a difference in treatment based on a criterion that is inextricably linked to religion or to those beliefs.” (October 13)

Nehammer sharply criticizes EU Commission over migration

Vienna (APA) – Austrian Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer (Austrian’s People’s Party/ÖVP) laments a massive increase of migration in Austria. In this context, he sharply criticizes the EU Commission. “I expect the EU Commission to get its act together because more and more member countries are dissatisfied,” Nehammer said in an interview with the German newspaper “Welt” (Tuesday edition).

“Why doesn’t the Commission, as guardian of the treaties, finally take action as EU law is constantly being broken, when so many irregular migrants arrive in a landlocked country like Austria, who have previously moved through several EU countries and safe third countries without being stopped?” Nehammer asked. The EU Commission had “unfortunately ignored the porous external borders in recent years.”

“The EU border protection agency Frontex must also be held accountable in order to finally effectively protect the EU’s external border and to be a protective wall for the member states and against the crime of human trafficking,” Chancellor Nehammer said.

In addition, the EU Commission must ensure that home countries take back illegal migrants as quickly as possible, and give these states appropriate incentives.

According to the Austrian Chancellor, Austria received almost 57,000 asylum applications between the beginning of January and the end of August — an increase of 195 percent compared to the previous year. “And the figures will continue to rise. In addition, there are around 85,000 Ukrainians to whom we provide protection and whom we care for. That’s enough of that for Austria,” says Nehammer.

EU Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas, responsible for migration, following a meeting with Austrian Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) in Vienna on Monday, stressed on Twitter: “No state can manage migration alone.” They would have to work together as “Team Europe”. According to Schinas, he had informed Karner about his recent trip to the Balkans after rising numbers of arrivals put pressure on Austria. He also met Nehammer on Monday evening.

A spokeswoman for the EU Commission in Brussels said on Tuesday that they were aware of the challenges. Austria had recorded a significant increase, particularly from India and Tunisia and across the Balkan route. The issue would also be discussed at the EU’s Council of Interior Ministers on Friday. The spokeswoman also announced ministerial consultations between Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. (October 11)

European Commission wants to protect Ukrainian refugees until 2024

Brussels (Belga) – The special protection status for Ukrainian refugees will have to be extended by at least one year until March 2024, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said when presenting an online tool that refugees can use to find a job.

“The directive on temporary protection will remain in force at least until March 2024,” Johansson announced. The directive was activated in early March this year to almost automatically grant a right of residence to Ukrainians who fled from the Russian invasion.

Thanks to this protection statute, refugees do not have to go through the traditional asylum procedure and receive immediate support in finding housing and access to education, health care and the labor market. Currently, 4.2 million refugees enjoy this status.

The guideline is provisionally valid for one year, until March 2023, and can be extended for a maximum of two years. According to Johansson, it is already clear that the application should be extended by one year. The new bombings of Kiev and other cities in Ukraine showed “how important it is that we continue to provide shelter for those who have to flee,” the Swedish European Commissioner said. (October 10)

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The MyPlate Plan exhibits your food group targets – what and how much to eat inside your calorie allowance. Your plan is personalized, based mostly in your age, sex, peak, weight and bodily exercise level. Discover how to create a healthy consuming routine from MyPlate, the USDA food group guide. Reduced danger of heart disease and a few forms of cancer. The Dutch government’s food coverage is aimed toward selling healthy and accountable food. It encourages the food trade to supply food that contains less salt, fats and sugar.

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Kids will comply with the lead of the adults they see daily. By eating fruits and vegetables and not overindulging within the less nutritious stuff, you will be sending the right message. The Healthy Food for Life assets are for the complete inhabitants over the age of five and they outline the Irish Government suggestions on healthy eating and a balanced food regimen. They present a consistent and evidence-based strategy for healthy consuming advice. “Met Council commends Mayor Eric Adams’ leadership and commitment to providing New Yorkers with entry to healthy, nutritious food,” said David G. Greenfield, CEO, Met Council on Jewish Poverty. “Our metropolis should work to ensure no New Yorker goes without healthy food choices and these govt orders are a major step in the proper direction.

However, this checklist did not assess the whole restaurant environment and was tested in solely 14 family-style eating places. A number of measures of faculty food environments have been rigorously developed, most frequently to be used in intervention analysis. Large-scale studies of college food policies and environments have been conducted using surveys of school directors and food service managers .

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Sometimes you simply haven’t got the time or energy, and that’s the reason God created sluggish cookers. They prepare dinner issues slowly, with loads of liquid, which means you won’t want practically as a lot fats to maintain things delicious. You simply throw all of the components in in the morning, press a button, and are available home later to a sizzling, healthy meal. Try this rooster enchilada soup, a root vegetable stew, or chicken provençal.

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Include a small quantity of poultry, fish, eggs, nuts, beans or meat at 2 meals. Plan your meals upfront – this will allow you to to introduce selection and eat extra nutritious meals. You’ll also get financial savings and rely less on comfort and processed foods.

There’s also a growing body of research into the function of curcumin within the prevention and therapy of Alzheimer’s illness. In addition to smelling nice and searching pretty, lemon can even assist encourage weight loss. Just one of the brilliant citrus fruits contains a complete day’s worth of vitamin C, a nutrient that has the facility to reduce back ranges of a stress hormone called cortisol that triggers starvation and fat storage. Additionally, lemons additionally contain polyphenols, which researchers say could beat back fat accumulation and weight achieve. Believe it or not, even the peel is beneficial because it is a potent source of pectin—a soluble fiber that is been proven to assist folks feel fuller, longer.

Participants who’re at risk for or already identified with Type 2 diabetes also obtain extra contemporary produce as part of the program43. Maintaining a healthy weight and consuming a balanced food regimen that’s low in saturated fat and excessive in fibre found in complete grains might help to scale back your risk of growing sort 2 diabetes. The authorities needs consumers to have a greater vary of healthy food options, making it easier for them to have a balanced food plan. It is working to realize this with producers, supermarkets, caterers and the hospitality trade. They have signed agreements on reducing the amount of salt, saturated fats and sugar in food merchandise. If you need to seize a fast meal on the go however don’t need to completely blow your healthy eating plan, it’s nonetheless potential to hit the fast food drive-thru.


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The Body Is Not A Machine

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The Body Is Not A Machine

The life force: a seductive idea

When a living breathing body is transformed into a cold corpse, it seems obvious that something has gone missing. This mysterious substance has had many names. In 1907 the French philosopher Henri Bergson used the term élan vital, often translated as “vital force.” The idea has endured since the time of the ancient Greeks. Aristotle was preoccupied by the difference between inanimate and living things, perhaps because he was the son of the physician to the king of Macedon, the most influential Greek kingdom. The title of his book, De Anima, is usually translated as “On the Soul,” but he viewed the soul as the essence of living organisms, a life force.

A hundred years later, the great Greek physician Galen taught that the special life substance was pnuema, taken in via the lungs and spread throughout the body. He had evidence; when breathing stopped, life ended. For over a thousand years most people in the West went along with the idea that living things have some special life substance that makes them different from inanimate objects. A few pesky early Greek materialists like Democritus and Epicurus, thought no such special substance was needed to explain life. However, for most people, for most of human history, it has seemed obvious that living bodies are inhabited by some special life force. It persists today in talk of energy fields. At its root, this “vitalism” is the idea that some special nonmaterial energy or substance is required to explain life.

The origins of the machine metaphor

Once dissections became common and anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius began to circulate in the early 1500s, it became pretty obvious that bones and muscles were just fancy systems of levers, ropes and pulleys. Nothing mysterious, just things. But it was not until the early 1600’s that the French philosopher René Descartes replaced vitalism with scientific materialism.  Most people think, “Oh yeah, Descartes. He is the cogito ergo sum guy who created the big nuisance of the mind-body problem, isn’t he?”  Yes, that’s him. But give the guy a break! Convincing the world that the body is a machine was a very big deal. He got into plenty of trouble for proposing the radical concept of the body as a machine. Suggesting that the mind too was a machine would have been touching the third rail!

As the industrial revolution transformed society, the metaphor of body as machine became increasingly influential. By the start of the 20th century, the idea dominated thinking in biology and medicine, probably because it is so useful. It has improved our lives by encouraging detailed analysis of the body’s mechanisms at all levels, from the details of anatomy, to understanding how hormones like insulin regulate chemicals like glucose.  It encouraged reductionism, the idea that everything large could be explained by analysis of smaller things. We are now down to genes, molecules, and atomic forces.  What an extraordinary bounty we have reaped from a metaphor! The metaphor of body as a machine provided a ladder that allowed biology to bring phenomena up from a dark pit of mysterious forces into the light where organic mechanisms can be analyzed as if they are machines.

The body is not a machine

However, the body is not a machine. Machines are products of design, bodies are products of natural selection, and that makes them different in fundamental ways. The organic complexity of bodily mechanisms is qualitatively different from the mechanical complexities of machines. Machines have discrete parts with specific functions connected to each other in straightforward ways. Bodies have parts that may have blurry boundaries and many functions and the parts are often connected to each other in ways hard for human minds to fathom.  Bodies and machines fail for different reasons. Engineers can start from scratch if they need to in order to fix weak spot in the design of a machine. If only our human spine could be redesigned from scratch!  Its limits and compromises are the source of vast pain, but natural selection can’t start fresh, so we are stuck with a substandard design that can be improved only by small changes. The Table illustrates the substantial differences between machines and bodies.  These differences are, however, often ignored, in large part thanks to the power of the metaphor, and the fear that setting it aside will lead to the resurgence of vitalism.

For many scientists, hearing the phrase “the body is not a machine“ arouses an attack on vitalism that is almost automatic. They assume that any derogation of the machine metaphor is an attempt to sneak in vitalism in a new vestige. Their wariness is understandable. Naïve talk about the life force or energy fields has to be weeded out of medicine as steadily as crab grass from a lawn. However, far from endorsing vitalism, my thesis is that the metaphor of body as machine is as pervasive and pernicious now as vitalism was in the Middle Ages. OK, that is an exaggeration. The metaphor is not AS bad as vitalism. It does, however, distort thinking in ways that slows progress.

One powerful example is how we teach biochemistry and physiology. We describe systems using idealized diagrams with boxes and arrows. For instance, every medical student memorizes (then forgets) the chain of chemical interactions that make blood clot. This knowledge is essential for understanding clotting disorders, but the diagram is distant from the reality.

Current research often relies on tacit models of body systems as if they were designed. A multi-billion dollar effort has been started to discover the “wiring diagram of the brain.” But is there a master wiring diagram? The White House Brain Initiative will be most effective when based on recognition that there is no one normal genome, no one normal brain, and no one wiring diagram. Similarly, huge efforts continue to discover the functions of each location in the brain. The amygdala, a tiny almond shaped area deep in the side of our brains, has often been described as the locus of fear learning. Yes, if the amygdala is damaged, fear learning suffers. However, many other regions are involved in regulating fear, and the amygdala serves many other functions including social responses, self-control, aggression, and learning to get positive rewards.

This is a serious business with major costs. In psychiatry, thinking about the mind as a machine has led to a debacle about diagnosis. Many neuroscientists want to abandon the standard system because they cannot find specific brain abnormalities for any of the major disorders. They are sure that for every disease there is some findable broken part. If only.  Many mental disorders are, like heart failure, failures of systems with multiple causes and diverse symptoms.

A soma is a soma is a soma

Metaphors are robust. Unless something better is at hand, criticizing the metaphor of the body as machine is a waste of energy. An alternative metaphor would be ideal, but every metaphor for the body distorts reality. Instead, we must embrace organic reality, with its blurry boundaries between bird’s nests of mechanisms. Instead of a metaphor, we must recognize the body as a soma shaped by selection. Soma just means body, so that only helps a little, until we turn for help to the poet Gertrude Stein. Remember her famous, “A rose is a rose is a rose.”  She meant it. Eschew metaphor, she said; see the rose as a rose, just the rose itself.

A soma is a soma is a soma, shaped by natural selection. If we can wrench ourselves away from metaphor and see the body as an evolved soma, we can put aside the debates that arise from assuming that its parts have nice crisp boundaries and specific functions. We can avoid further centuries of debates about exactly how many basic emotions they are. Our bodies have parts with blurry boundaries, multiple functions, unimaginably complex connections, and no designer’s purpose underlying the whole system.  We teach students distorted versions of biological systems that are simple enough to memorize, and to test! But our diagrams are idealized abstractions that misrepresent reality in fundamental ways. Many organic molecules influence many other kinds of molecules, not just the one to the left and the one to the right in an idealized diagram.

We are on the verge of a transformation. Giving up our idealized view body in the machine will be challenging, but worth it as we accept the reality that a soma is a soma is a soma.

You can follow Professor Randy Nesse, MD on twitter @RandyNesse

Further Reading:

Nesse, Randolph M, and George Christopher Williams. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Vintage, 1996.

Williams, George C. The Pony Fish’s Glow : And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature. 1st ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1997.

Balleine, B. W., & Killcross, S. (2006). Parallel incentive processing: an integrated view of amygdala function. Trends in Neurosciences, 29(5), 272–279.

Nesse, Randolph M: Recognizing that the body is not a machine. EDGE annual question essay, 2009.

Image: The Principle Organs and Vascular and Urino-Genital Systems of a Woman c. 1507 Leonardo da Vinci; source: Wikimedia


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OEM Insulation Market Substitution of Legacy Materials by Eco-Friendly Flexible Elastomeric Foam Presents Opportunities

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Exactitude Consultancy Latest Press Release 2022: OEM Insulation Market

Building & Construction sector will lead the market growth

OEM insulation is gaining popularity in the building and construction industry all over the world. Between 2018 and 2021, the trend of developing energy-efficient buildings has raised demand for OEM insulation. Throughout the projection period, Building & Construction is predicted to continue to lead the end use market, with a market share of more than 35%. The market for OEM insulation is driven by the growing demand for energy efficient goods and equipment, acoustic insulation in walls, and technological advancements in HVAC equipment in the construction industry.

A large number of public transportation vehicles are equipped with air conditioning — Heat shields, battery insulation, fire protection, and data recorder insulation are all examples of insulation uses in the transportation industry. Bodywork and interior fireproofing are also important aspects of vehicle safety. High-temperature insulation increases vehicle safety, enables modern technical vehicle components, and helps cars last longer.

Fluctuating cost of raw materials to hinder the growth of the market

Plastic foam raw material price fluctuations are a key stumbling block to the OEM insulation materials market’s growth. Plastic foams, such as polyurethane and polystyrene foams, are crude oil-based products, hence changes in crude oil cost and availability are a key factor in their manufacture and usage. The availability of crude oil-based goods such as polymers and elastomers is determined by various nations’ import and production scenarios. Raw material prices are influenced by logistics (manufacturing site), labour costs, trade costs, and tariffs.

Explore 116 market data Tables spread through nearly 80 Pages and in-depth analysis on “OEM Insulation Market by Material Type (Mineral Wool, Polyurethane Foam, Flexible Elastomeric Foam, Other Insulations), End Use (Building & Construction, Industrial, Transportation, Consumer) and Region (Asia-pacific, North America, Europe, South America, Middle East & Africa) – Global Forecast from 2022 to 2029 Region” with Table of Contents

The pandemic not only disrupted the supply chain and reduced output, but it also increased freight expenses and, as a result, raw material prices. These variables have an impact on the growth of the OEM insulation market.

The OEM insulation market in Asia-Pacific is expected to expand at the quickest rate in the world.

Asia Pacific is predicted to be the fastest-growing area for OEM insulation in the industrial industry. The third-largest market for OEM insulation is Asia Pacific. The Asia-Pacific region is divided into China, Japan, India, South Korea, and the Rest of Asia Pacific in this research. Because of the rapid growth of emerging economies such as India and China, it is the fastest-growing market for OEM insulation. This expansion and development may largely be ascribed to the region’s strong economic growth rate, which has been accompanied by significant investments in a variety of industries, including construction and automotive.

Leading companies are focusing on securing their market share.

The market’s top players have invested much in research and development as well as manufacturing. Product offerings, supported by great operational efficiency and cutting-edge technology, are part of the top leaders’ growth plans. They’ve all put a premium on having well-established supply networks. To boost their market position and stay ahead of the competition, leading companies are innovating new products and purchasing small-scale producers or suppliers.

The Key Players in OEM Insulation are Covestro AG, Owens Corning Corp., Rockwool International A/S, Saint-Gobain ISOVER, Knauf Insulation, Huntsman Corporation, Armacell International S.A., Johns Manville Corporation, Kingspan Group, China Jushi Co. Ltd., and Rogers Corporation

The OEM Insulation Market has been severely impacted by supply chain failures during Covid 19.

The supply chain disruption caused by COVID-19 has had a substantial impact on worldwide market growth. Continuous or partial lockdowns in major industrial countries resulted in shortage of raw materials which led to production halts and schedule changes. As a result of ‘shelter in place’ directives from governance, leading firms in the Modular construction Market encountered a manufacturing slowdown and operational standstill. In the next years, however, the worldwide market is expected to recover at a slower rate as manufacturers and tier 1, 2, and 3 distributors build business continuity plans and mitigation measures. To ensure the survival of small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses.

Key Market Segments: OEM Insulation

OEM Insulation Market by Material Type, 2020 – 2029 (USD Million) (Million Units)

  • Mineral Wool
  • Polyurethane Foam
  • Flexible Elastomeric Foam
  • Other Insulations

OEM Insulation Market by End Use Industry, 2020 – 2029 (USD Million) (Million Units)

  • Building & Construction
  • Industrial
  • Transportation
  • Consumer

OEM Insulation Market by Region, 2020 – 2029 (USD Million) (Million Units)

  • North America
  • Europe
  • Apac
  • Mea
  • Latin America

Important Countries In All Regions Are Covered.


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Reviews OWE & Fringe Published 7 October 2015

Tipping The Velvet

Lyric Hammersmith ⋄ 19th September - 24th October

Smoke and mirrors.

Alice Saville
Sally Messham and Laura Rogers in Tipping the Velvet. Photo credit: Tristram Kenton

Sally Messham and Laura Rogers in Tipping the Velvet. Photo credit: Tristram Kenton

Resurrecting music hall is a bit like trying to tell half-remembered pub jokes from the night before: the wit, the sharpness is lost in a kind of vanishing smoke haze. Playwright Laura Wade and director Lyndsey Turner spend most of their energies in this muddled adaptation snatching at this diffuse fug, trying to capture its magic.

They succeed, partly, but it’s a Pyrrhic victory built on slashing and burning through their source matter, and losing its distinctive soul. Admittedly, Tipping the Velvet’s soul is hard to capture: teenage-diary intense, silly, brilliant, and a tiny bit embarrassing all at the same time. It was Sarah Waters’ debut, a blend of autobiography and wish-fulfilment fantasy. Her MA studies didn’t yield her hoped-for discoveries of a lesbian Victorian underworld – she invented one, instead, and what a world it is. There’s a sadistic dominatrix with a shifting harem of kept women and a chest of leather toys (Diana), a socialist utopia of lesbians who help “fallen women” then hang out at lesbian pubs more bustling than anything the next two centuries have to offer, and of course, male impersonators who strut in trousers on stage and toss roses to the girls wilting for them, up in the balconies.

It’s a seductive world that’s more revealing about Waters’ own desires, about the politics and preoccupations of 90s lesbians (hence, embarassing) than it is about Victorian society. But it’s also got lots of “thud” moments of emotional truth. Bits that are painfully real in the middle of all the fabled romance, like a shit on a manicured Paris street. Nancy’s sexuality alienates her from her family, makes her lose her lover to the forces of heteronormativity and the casting couch, makes her spin romances of her own to present as safely straight when she’s down on her luck.

Laura Wade’s adaptation is far more comfortable with the painted romance than with the emotional heft of her source matter. She shatters the text into hyper-quick scenes, rushed along by a music hall showman narrator. It’s a hopelessly misguided decision (and isn’t helped by David Cardy’s cor-blimey-guvnor performance), ironising and distancing us still further from a play that’s already made artificial with backdrops and musical hall jollity.

The central performances from Sally Messham and Laura Rogers shine – Messham is painfully young, just the right hint of Doris Day-in-Calamity Jane bluster, and Rogers is a crumpled mess of tissues behind her heavily made-up stage swagger. But just when we’re about to care about them, to feel something, we’re hurried along to the next attraction by a gimp with a gavel and the rumbling of a gorgeously extravagant scene change from designer Lizzie Clachan.

It feels like Wade and Clachan are trying, between them, to outdo the Lyric Hammersmith’s legendarily lavish pantomimes for glitz and silliness and surreal set pieces. When Nancy is humiliatingly dumped, losing her home and livelihood, she has to scream out her heartbreak hanging upside-down from a meat hook, accompanied by a chorus of puppet pig carcasses. Her sexual awakening at the hands of Kitty takes place twenty foot up in the air, tangled in red aerial silks to the cringeworthy sound of a gospel choir. It looks uncomfortable, like a bellringing accident, and it’s a relief when both women make it down intact.

It’s typical of a production that’s saturated with sex, but profoundly unsexy. Corseted women brandish vast, comically wobbling dildos, and their musical hall numbers subvert male gaze anthems like Spencer Davis’s I’m A Man with awkward, ill-fitting-smoking-jacket glamour. Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn makes the briefest of appearances, but this is lesbianism seen through straight eyes, with none of the Gossip songs or little sly in-jokes that a queer production team might slip in. Forget the latex corsets and dildos, the real stereotropes of queer women’s culture tend to the unglamorous: emotional honesty, real ale, flat shoes, activism, vegetarianism. Waters’ novel makes showbiz a kind of sequinned Hades that Nancy whirls through only to find happiness in a rather dowdy socialist utopia. But as Nancy’s heart finally sings in the arms of her suffragette girlfriend, this production creaks and groans to a halt.

This loss of momentum in the earnest third act is a function of an approach that leads us on a male-gaze bus tour through the story — conditioning our response to either voyeuristic gawps or knee-jerk laughs. It’s fun. It’s definitely a good night out. But its also maddening in its inability to address the emotional seriousness, the utopian world-building, the things that make the novel loved as well as laughed at. With precious few lesbian plays about (and still fewer that aren’t set in prison) it’s an empty kind of laughter.

Alice Saville

Alice is editor of Exeunt, as well as working as a freelance arts journalist for publications including Time Out, Fest and Auditorium magazine. Follow her on Twitter @Raddington_B

Tipping The Velvet Show Info

Directed by Lyndsey Turner

Written by Laura Wade

Cast includes Jared Ashe, Kirsty Besterman, David Cardy, Amanda Hadingue, Ru Hamilton, Adelle Leonce, Sally Messham, Laura Rogers, Andy Rush, Sarah Vezmar, Tamara Camacho, Grace Frogley, Georgie Lord, Aasiya Shah

Link http://www.lyric.co.uk/whats-on/production/tipping-the-velvet/cast-and-creative/#production-content

Running Time 2 hours 30 minutes

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Cardboard Cutouts

Examples from the Benson’s Cartonera Collection

Iskonawa Language

A Cultural Guide of the Iskonawa Language Collection in AILLA

Middle East Banking in the 20th Century

Unique Ephemera from the UT Libraries' Collection

This digital exhibit draws on UTL's Middle East banking ephemera collection. Much of the collection was donated by UT Government Professor Emeritus Clement Henry. The collection includes pamphlets, bank reports, directories, handbooks, and scholarly studies of Middle East banking, in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, English, French, and German. This exhibit will interest those concerned with international banking and finance in the 20th century, Middle East or Islamic banking practices, and the political economy of the Middle East.

Elsewhere & Otherwise

Imagination & Worldmaking in the Black Queer Studies Collection

This exhibition is meant to highlight the rich holdings found within the Black Queer Studies Collection. The materials brought together in this exhibition recognizes the cultural productions by Black queer subjects from across the African diaspora.

The Field Maps of Colonel Roland T. Fenton

Situation maps from WWI and WWII, belong to one U.S. Army officer, Col. Roland T. Fenton. The maps include classic trench maps, a French long-distance (indirect fire) firing range calculator for Hotchkiss machine gun, and French shelling coordinates from 1918. Some show trench elements, tracks, telephone lines, battery positions, doubtful positions, unoccupied shoulders, underground entrances, and batteries or trenches with sniper niches. German trenches and batteries were overprinted in blue. French surveillance line overprinted in red. There are hand-written annotations.

Publicity and Propaganda: The Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins from World War II

By 1935, it was becoming apparent to the British government that war with Germany would be inevitable. To avoid public panic, the government secretly planned a new department that would control propaganda and publicity surrounding the coming war. From this work, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was born on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain's declaration of war. The MOI was tasked with the handling of news censorship, national publicity, and international publicity in the Allied and neutral countries. Not only did the Ministry produce these daily bulletins, but they were also responsible for posters, films, radio broadcasts, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements. In March 1946, the MOI was dissolved as its mission to fight “a war of ideas,” had been completed with the end of World War II. The Daily Press Notices and Bulletins were the main form of communication from the British Government to the public and press during World War II. These publications provided the information that the domestic and international press used to report on the war, from the British government’s point of view. Documents range from descriptions of rationing on the home front, to the accounts of battles, to lists of casualties amongst other information. This collection, available in Texas ScholarWorks, contains the Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1946. The Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war but UT Libraries is the only library in the world that owns this complete series.   This exhibition was curated by Gilbert Borrego, Digital Repository Specialist, UT Libraries, 2021.

A Hemisphere of Knowledge

A Benson Centennial Exhibit

To mark the Benson’s centennial, this exhibition looks at knowledge production from different communities in the Americas. Special attention is paid to community stories, craftwork, harvest and subsistence, medicine, and flora and fauna.

Celebrating Eric Williams

A scholar and statesman, the Honorable Dr. Eric Eustace Williams (1911-1981) led Trinidad and Tobago for over a quarter of a century. He oversaw the country’s independence from Britain in 1962 and 1976 transition to a Republic. Williams served as Prime Minister until his death in 1981.

A New Spain

Traces the cultural, social, and political evolution of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from the fall of Moctezuma’s Tenochtitlan until the rise of Iturbide’s Mexican Empire.

Bureaucracy on the Ground in Colonial Mexico

A Window into the Visita of 1765

This exhibition explores the localized consequences of the royal inspection, or visita general, administered by José de Gálvez in New Spain from 1765-1771.

Santa Anna in Life and Legend

This exhibit explores the history of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876), a colossal figure in Mexico’s post-independence politics with a legacy of losing half the nation’s territory to the United States.

South Asian Popular and Pulp Fiction

Pastorelas: Past and Present

Pastorelas were commonly an oral tradition, rarely being transcribed to paper. This digital exhibit highlights the rare, beautifully written, and illustrated pastorela, El triunfo de Jesús contra la lengua del diablo : pastorela en cuatro actos by Manuel Antonio Zayas from 1853. It is available at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Room of the Benson Latin American Collection.

Diverse Adaptations of Classical Literature

This exhibit showcases items from the UT Libraries collection of original classical Greek literature in translation and contemporary adaptations created by a more diverse authorship than usually discussed. In this context, diverse is defined as people of color (POC), women and/or those from LGBTQ+ communities. UT Libraries contain a depth of diverse adaptations but showcased here are works of authors from Latinx & Latin American, African & African Diaspora, Asian-American and LGBTQ+ communities. This exhibit asks us to redefine who Classics is 'for' by delving into how the ancient world has been received and recontextualized by diverse adaptations engaging with classical literature. As such, it is but one effort to illustrate a fresh and more nuanced face of a field from which many POC and LGBTQ+ communities have been excluded. The collection and themes presented in this exhibit on diverse adaptations are intended to encourage those who may not have historically felt included in conversations related to classics or classical literature.

You Are What You (Do Not) Eat: Decolonial Resistance in U.S. Latinx Zines

An exhibit highlighting the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection's zines to analyze the intersectionality of Latinidad and food studies.

Peru in the 1920s

The early twentieth century brought political, economic, and social changes to Peru. After the devastating losses experienced from the War of the Pacific in the late 1800s, the need to reconstruct and reform Peruvian society lent itself to the economic opportunities modernization presented. This exhibition of postcards from the 1920s show how the past and present converged in Peru at this critical juncture.

Remembering Ernesto Cardenal

Selections from His Archive

This exhibition reflects upon the impact and legacy of poet, priest, liberation theologist, sculptor, and activist Ernesto Cardenal.

Unearthing Forgotten Perspectives

on 19th Century Latin America

Mapping Mexican History

Territories in Dispute, Identities in Question

The maps presented here serve as visual histories of Mexican territory, culture, and identity through three centuries of transformation. Through image and text, these documents trace the intertwined and often contentious relationships between indigenous and European, civil and religious, and “national” and foreign, in Mexico’s evolution from colonial territory to modern state.

Socialist Pamphlets

Pamphlets from the USSR, France, and the U.K.

Satire After the Young Turk Revolution

Cartoons from Kalem Magazine, 1908

“Satire After the Young Turk Revolution” highlights some of the most poignant political cartoons from the first two months’ of the bilingual Ottoman Turkish-French weekly Kalem magazine’s run. This was a particularly tumultuous time in the history of the late Ottoman Empire as it grew closer to its transition into the Turkish Republic. The cartoon images have been selected for this exhibit because of their accessible meaning, illustration of the top issues of the time period, and aesthetic value. Kalem magazine was chosen for this exhibit because it represents UT Libraries’ rare Ottoman collections that are ripe for digitization to increase access for the public. This exhibit will be of interest to those fascinated by pre-WWI Europe, the Ottoman Empire, satirical and political cartoons, and French publications in the Middle East. It will be of particular interest to researchers and students of the Middle East, early 20th century Europe, and popular art and literature across cultures. The print magazine is available at the Perry-Castañeda Library at UT Austin and through the Center for Research Libraries. An incomplete digital copy (issues 2 - 40) can be found through the HathiTrust Library. It is hoped that a full-color and complete digital copy of Kalem magazine will be available as an initiative of the Middle East Materials Project of the Center for Research Libraries. Citation: Correa, Dale, curator. (2019). Satire After the Young Turk Revolution: Cartoons from Kalem Magazine, 1908.

Formation of State, Subject and Self

in 19th-Century Latin America

This exhibit reveals the region’s tumultuous and transformative 19th-century journeys towards the formation (s) of State, Subject and Self.

A Work in Progress

Latin America's 19th Century

The exhibit begins with the dissolution of Spain’s Atlantic Monarchy in 1808 and continues into the early 20th century, tracing out how revolutions in technology, medicine, and political systems transformed lives, communities, and places.

A Well-Made Object: Architect Howard Meyer

This exhibit, A Well-Made Object: Architect Howard Meyer, is a site dedicated to a film about Dallas architect, Howard Meyer.

Eugene George

Architect, Scholar, Educator, Photographer


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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

“In seeking to interanimate both black studies and queer studies, this volume stages a dialogic and dialectic encounter between these two liberatory and interrogatory discourses. Our objective here is to build a bridge and negotiate a space of inquiry between these two fields of study while sabotaging neither and enabling both.”

E. Patrick Johnson & Mae G. Henderson, Introduction, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

Building upon the work and community forged in the 1995 Black Nations/Queer Nations? Conference, this anthology brought together for the first time what would become foundation texts in Black Queer Studies. Edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, this anthology was a reckoning with both Black Studies and Queer Studies, two academic disciplines that have had (and still do) a hard time being in conversation. This collection of critical works served as an opening up, a rupture, and a generative provocation for what scholarship could do and who it should be accountable to. This collection centers on considerations of representations of the Black queer body, Black queer literature, pedagogy, and the ways in which up until its publication gender and sexuality were glossed over in Black Studies and how race and class were marginalized in Queer Studies.

This collection has done nothing less than open up an entire world of Black queer scholarly inquiry. Inaugurating a field of study while also paying attention to its historical antecedents, this collection of essays has modeled how scholarship can create new possibilities for what can be said and thought, for what can be deemed as scholarly rigor, and whose cultural productions and critical perspectives are seen as legitimately intellectual. This anthology was and still is a bridge into a world of more abundant possibilities.


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Friday Randomness

After a week of 70 degree weather we are back to our normal 40 degrees. Everybody was over the moon about the warm sunny days. Obsessive me could only think about climate change… But apparently we had this weird weather back in the 1970’s as well.

I received an email the other day from a former schoolmate. She was referring people to an article by Julian Fellows, the actor and writer of Downton Abbey. In the article he talks about the summer before he went to university. His aunt was living in Colombia and wanted to start a summer camp. She needed help. So his mother volunteered him and he got on an oil tanker and spent 21 days crossing the Atlantic (his father refused to pay for airfare). During the trip he decided it would be a good opportunity to re-invent himself and go from a dull boring person to a confident interesting person. He succeeded and continues to tell a humorous account of the summer. You can read the full article if you are interested.

The funny part is that his aunt was the Librarian at the school I went to in Bogota, Colombia – Colegio Nueva Granada (CNG). His adventure took place in 1966, but she was still librarian in 1972 when I arrived on the scene. Two of her sons and another girl from the school helped run the camp along with Julian. The camp kept going in several iterations for years after.

I think I have mastered Wordle. I pick a random word that has at least two vowels. Next I either have to find other vowels or the most common way of placing the ones that are correct. Then I go through the alphabet to find the most likely (usually unlikely) word that fits. I have done it in three tries all week. But it is work. And I usually feel let down at the end. It is such a small non-accomplishment.

My 102 year old father tested positive for COVID this week. He says he feels fine but is bored out of his mind since he has to stay in his apartment all the time. I went to see him the day before he tested positive so now I am waiting for my results. I have no symptoms so fingers crossed.

My son arrives today for a visit. It looks like this will be on the menu.

Swiss Steak is a method of preparing meat, usually beef, by means of rolling or pounding, and then braising in a pot of stewed tomatoes, either on a stove or in an oven.

No wonder there are hundreds of recipes for Swiss Steak. This recipe comes from my mother and I have enjoyed it for many years.

2 lbs round steak, in serving pieces
1 large onion, sliced

Brown steak dredged in flour in hot fat with onions, salt and pepper.

1 pt tinned tomatoes (1 15.5 oz can) I use crushed tomatoes
1 cup water
2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1 Tbsp dry mustard
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp lemon juice
dash pepper and paprika
Pour over meat in a skillet (covered)

Bake in 350 degrees F oven for 2 hours (or more) I have also made it in the crock pot. The meat should just fall apart. It goes well with mashed potatoes.

My Year in South America

When I was 15, my family moved to Bogota, Colombia. That first summer my parents and I took a trip to the coast by car. My father was a beach fanatic and somebody in his office told him he would find the most beautiful pristine beaches imaginable at the coastal village of Tolu. Since he had to go to Cartagena on business anyway, he decided to make a trip of it and stop in Tolu and the resort town of Santa Marta as well. The trip was almost entirely through the Andes Mountains with hair-raising drop offs on the side of the road. We stopped for a couple of days in Medellín, a city that was later known for its drug cartel. At the time, it was a small city nestled in the mountains with a lot of old churches. My mother had a thing about Catholic churches. If there was a church anywhere nearby, we had to go see it. It wasn’t a religious thing; it was a tourist thing. She wanted to see the architecture, the windows, and the statues. It used to really embarrass me to have to go into all these churches where people were praying just so we could snoop around. That was my teenaged view of it anyway.

San Ignacio, Medillin

San Ignacio, Medillin

The morning we left Medellín, we stopped in a small corner restaurant for breakfast. All we wanted was some orange juice, coffee and rolls. I spoke Spanish fluently with no accent. My father spoke Spanish fluently but with an accent. We went up to the counter and I asked for three orange juices – jugo de naranja. Blank stares answered my simple request. I could not make them understand what I was saying. I had to resort to pointing and acting in order to get three orange juices. We decided that they saw so few foreigners they just assumed we did not speak Spanish and could not process the fact that we did.

On the way down from the mountains, we had to follow a riverbed where much of the road had been washed away by flooding. There were cliffs going up on either side, with the river in the middle, and the road was to one side of the river. Where the road was washed out, there was no place else to go but in the river or hug the cliff. Fortunately there was almost no traffic and we were able to manage it, although we all had white knuckles by the time we passed through the mountains.

As we got to the coastal flatlands we started looking out for the road to Tolu. We were all very excited. The road turned out to be a narrow rutted lane with overgrown vegetation on either side. We said, no problem, this was good, it meant it was unspoiled by the overuse of tourists. The village of Tolu was small. There was a small square in the middle of town but the main road was just past the center and ran along the ocean on the beach. Yes, the beach had become a road with buses barreling down it at high speeds. There were no swimmers or sunbathers – they would have died from the exhaust fumes first and a car accident second. Since it was late in the day, we realized we had to stay the night, so we found a small hotel on the beach that looked passable. We were shown to a “suite” that had two rooms and five beds and a huge bathroom that only had cold water and a millions cockroaches. My father got up several times during the night to spray his mattress for bugs. We left early the next morning. When we got back to Bogota my father told the person who had recommended Tolu all about our experience. Of course, the person had never actually been there. So much for pristine beaches.

From Tolu we drove to Cartagena, the old Spanish outpost. There was a fort on the hill that had tunnels going down to the water. Niches were cut into the tunnel for soldiers to stand with their rifles and shoot people as they ran down the dark and claustrophobic tunnels. It all made me very uncomfortable. Cartagena was often visited by pirates as well as by Spanish ships. Under the water was a heavy chain strung across part of the bay to keep the boats from entering. Those who didn’t know about the fence, sank. Cartagena itself was a beautiful colonial town.

Our next stop was Barranquilla, another big port and more of a vibrant busy bustling city, and our final stop was Santa Marta, a small resort town. Luckily we flew home from Santa Marta so we didn’t have to repeat the treacherous drive.

Bogota was 8,600 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains. Lush and cool, it rained almost every day for a short while. It is nestled right against the mountains and above the city at 10,341 feet is the mountain Monserrate where a small church was built in the 17th century. Now there is a funicular that takes people up there and the view is amazing. One of the biggest tourist attractions is the Gold Museum. Its mission statement states: The mission of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la República is to preserve, research, catalogue and exhibit its archaeological collections in goldwork, ceramics, lithics and other materials as the cultural heritage of present and future generations of Colombian citizens, to strengthen the cultural identity of Colombians through enjoyment, learning and inspiration. It is definitely worth a visit.

Musica Raft, Gold Museum

Musica Raft, Gold Museum

On the weekends sometimes, we would drive down to the hot country and stay at fincas. They could be working farms or just small “summer” houses where people went to relax and get out of the city. We stayed in one that had bungalows around the compound and a big house at the center. We all gathered in the big house for meals and ate at long tables. The landscape was tropical and kind of rugged. There wasn’t much to do but eat, sleep and take walks. On the way home, we would stop in a small village and buy rolls made from cassava flour that were filled with cheese.

Growing up as a Third Culture Kid, or TCK, meant constantly adapting and adjusting to new places and new people. After a while I became a chameleon, able to blend in to any background. I learned to hone my power of observation and I would spend the first few weeks in a new environment reserved and quiet, watching everybody else. Then once I built confidence, I would break out like a phoenix, and my new persona would emerge, reinvented for my current surroundings. One of the hardest things about growing up the way I did was saying goodbye. Constantly having to leave friends behind or see them leave did take a toll and as I grew older I became more discriminating about who I opened up to and became close to. In spite of that, I looked forward to new places. It was an adventure, a challenge.

The Hat

The Hat

My uniform that year was a ruana (a wool cape) and a hat that was very common among the people who lived in the mountains (a man’s stiff felt hat). I also had a swell pair of suede lace-up boots and I wore rings on every finger. I had long hair and long sharp nails and when I first arrived at school people thought I was some kind of witch. I loved it there. The people were either Colombian or, for the most part, expat kids who had grown up overseas. Everybody was mellow and easy going.

I went to the American school in Bogota. During study hall, we would go to the recreation room and have really superior games of table tennis. At lunch, we would walk to the other end of the football field to eat our sandwiches. I ate peanut butter and jelly on toast every single day for a year. Some people would bring chessboards and we would gather around and watch them play.

My best friend lived near a small shopping center and park area called El Lago where a lot of the “street people” hung out. These were the Colombian hippies and the American drifters who gathered to generally laze around and look for action. People would play frisbee and talk and eat and gather information on parties. We would go there and hang out and try to be “cool”.

One day it was raining (as usual) and I was standing under an archway listening to a Jesus freak proselytize and a guy appeared who had long black hair, a beret, lavender tie-dye shirt, lavender pants, and belt, with bells on his black leather boots. He walked right up to the Jesus freak, took off his hat and in a large swooping movement bowed to him and said “And I am the Devil”. This infuriated the Jesus freak and set him off on a long tirade, which was completely ignored. The “Devil” came up to me and asked me for a light and introduced himself as Giovanni. He was a wonderful character who loved to talk non-stop and tell stories of his escapades under the influence of magical mushrooms.

A few weeks later, Giovanni arrived dressed in a three-piece suit. I almost didn’t recognize him and when questioned he told me his grandmother had died. He had started his day with a large magical mushroom omelet and then set off for his grandmother’s funeral. He went to the church all dressed up, greeted all his relatives and joined the procession to pass by and view the open casket. As he reached the casket, the mushrooms must have kicked in, because he swore to us that his grandmother moved, at which point he had apparently created a scene and was asked to leave.

Giovanni had dreams of moving to Miami to be a hairdresser or a model. When he suddenly disappeared, I wondered if he had actually made it to Miami. A few months later, I ran into his sidekick, Fernando. I had to drag it out of him but he finally told me that Giovanni had been down in the Amazon playing “witch doctor”. He was expected back soon so I told Fernando to pass a message to him to come by because I wanted to see him.

He showed up one afternoon dressed again in the three-piece suit and all his beautiful long hair cut off. I asked him who had died this time and he was furious. Fernando apparently was supposed to have rescued all of Giovanni’s clothes from his mother’s house but didn’t get there in time, and his mother had thrown out all his lavender tie-dyes. It was obvious that at his age, he was expected to get a serious job and be respectable. It was the last time I saw him and I like to believe he really did become a real doctor but for all I know, he is still in the jungle playing witch doctor.

People from the States or England or Venezuela would drift in and out of El Lago. One fellow from England wore only green and we called him Limey. There was an African guy who had lived there for a long time with a Colombian woman. He was famous all around town and known just as “Blackie”.

I want to say those were more innocent times, but maybe I was just lucky and never got into anything I couldn’t handle. I cried all the way to Miami when we moved. I wasn’t ready to leave; a year just wasn’t long enough. Now not only was I moving to a new place with new people but I would have to adjust to a whole new continent and culture plus I was going back to boarding school.

Sometimes people think TCKs are whiney. We grew up in exotic places and had all kinds of interesting experiences. And most people think children are very adaptable and resilient. So the combination of new adventures and the ability to constantly adapt to them must be fabulous, no? Sometimes I think it seems that children are super adaptable because they are better at playing make believe than grown ups are. Sometimes I think that is why it is so hard for TCKs to grow up. They get too good at playing make believe.

Within months I was at a new school reinventing myself once again.

My First Review!

A huge thank you to Linda at Adventures in Expat Land for taking the time to read and review my book Expat Alien.

Riveting Expat Reading: Expat Alien

August 17, 2012 by LAJ

Last week I was away spending some well deserved time alone with Husband, Son and Daughter. After the hectic and emotionally draining summer we’ve had, it was nice to enjoy the sun, surf and sand on Captiva Island in southern Florida.

It was good for us to reconnect as a family, relaxing individually and collectively as one day slipped into the next. We also made sure to store up the sunlight for colder, darker days ahead back home in Nederland, but we needn’t address that at the moment.

One thing I did do while relaxing was to catch up on some expat reading.

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I figure I’ve been in about 80 airports around the world.  That’s a lot of time spent in airports.  I started out at 7 months and just kept going.  As a typical TCK, I learned to fly before I walked.  By the time I was 11 months old I had been in a car, on a train, on a plane, on a boat and up a funicular.  All those “at what age” questions in my baby book were full in no time.

I know some people feel at home in airports, or love being in airports.  I hate them.  For the most part, they are just boring.  I have spent hours zoned out, jet lagged, and sleep deprived on hard benches waiting for the weather to clear or the congestion to ease up or to make up for a lost connection.

Some of my life’s most terrifying experiences happened at airports.

When I was 14, I was in boarding school in Austin, Texas.  In the fall my parents had moved from Mexico City to Bogota, Colombia.  That winter break I was due to fly to Bogota, someplace I had never been.  My route was Austin, Houston, Miami, Bogota.

I got through Houston okay.  I had never been to Miami airport before and it was a very long way from the gates to the ticket counter.  For some reason I thought I could get my boarding pass at the gate so I just found the gate I was leaving from and hung around there.  When they called for us to board the plane, I showed them my ticket and they told me I did not have a boarding pass.  I didn’t understand the problem.  They told me I would have to go to the ticketing counter to get the pass.

Now, they were already boarding the plane and the ticketing counter was miles away.  I freaked out.  All they said was, “you will need to hurry so you don’t miss the plane”.  I ran as fast as I could down to the ticket counter, I barged to the front of the line in a panic.  They gave me a boarding pass and I ran as fast as I could back to the gate, sure I would miss the plane and wondering what I would do.

It seems that whenever I was in these kinds of situations, I never had much money and I never had needed contact information.  I just got on airplanes and expected everything to go okay and didn’t worry about it.  Had I missed that flight, all I had was my parent’s address in Bogota.  No phone number, no other contact info.  I suppose I could have called my brother but I’m not even sure I had his contact info.  After all I was 14 years old.

But I was lucky, I made the flight and my parents were at the airport to meet me at the other end.  There were times when things didn’t go that well, but somehow I always managed to get where I was going.  Over the years, I learned there were times when you really could depend on the kindness of strangers.

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41fWks8wUXLReading Larissa Shmailo’s new book, Patient Women, is like riding a wave. It easily flows from one thing to the next and you want to keep reading and reading. This book has it all. Sex, drugs, alcoholism, suicide, incest, tragedy, love, despair, hope, rebirth. What will the main character Nora do next? She compels you to find out.

Nora starts out as a juvenile delinquent who runs away from home and loses her virginity. From there we see her easily get into two highly respected colleges only to lose interest and drop out. She is a brilliant woman who can’t figure out who she is or what she should be doing. So she tries everything.

She keeps getting derailed by her own mental illness and her dysfunctional family. She has a therapist who she hates and he really doesn’t seem very helpful. He loads her up with one drug after another. Her parents survived the holocaust and that still haunts them and plays out in several dysfunctional ways throughout her life. They are not a very good support system for her. It isn’t until she joins AA and reunites with an old friend that she starts to understand the meaning of love.

In the end we don’t know if she lives happily ever after but her demons seem to be at bay and she finds her way as a poet.

I first met Larissa in high school. She was intelligent, funny and a wonderful actress. Now she is a brilliant writer as well.

About the Author

Larissa Shmailo is the editor-in-chief of the anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry, poetry editor for MadHat Annual, and founder of The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses. She translated Victory over the Sun for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s landmark re-staging of the Futurist opera; the libretto is available from Cervena Barva Press (2014). Larissa also has been a translator on the Bible in Russia for the Eugene A. Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship of the American Bible Society. Larissa’s collections of poetry are #specialcharacters (Unlikely Books 2014), In Paran (BlazeVOX [books] 2009), the chapbook, A Cure for Suicide (Cervena Barva Press 2006), and the e-book, Fib Sequence (Argotist Ebooks 2011); her poetry CDs are The No-Net World (SongCrew 2006) and Exorcism (SongCrew 2009), for which she received the New Century Best Spoken Word Album award .

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Love and the TCK

I just finished reading My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss. Luisa was born in Berlin of an American father and an Italian mother. Her parents divorced and she lived her grade school years in Boston and her high school years in Berlin. She ended up in New York City, mainly for her career as a cookbook editor. In New York she fell in love with a man named Sam. Sam was nice and easy to be with and had an extended family in New York who included Luisa in all that they did.

This is where she ran into trouble. She loved New York, she had friends, she had an amazing career, and she had a great boyfriend but something was missing. She felt unsettled. One night she asked Sam if he would ever consider moving to Europe. He immediately said no and volunteered that he didn’t even like traveling. Huge red flag.

As a cross cultural TCK she went through all the confusion, uncertainty, itchy feet feelings we all have. She was pulled in different directions. She went through depression. She knew she should move on but had trouble finding her way. Intellectually it made sense to stay in New York and marry this man but it just didn’t feel right.

I won’t tell you how Luisa resolves her problem but I do recommend her book, especially if you like food. It is full of beautiful descriptions of the food she eats and cooks and each chapter ends with a recipe.

However, I will tell you about a similar experience I had. When I was in college in Boston, I fell in love. I mean the real kind of love where you are gaga most of the time and happy and everything you do together is meaningful. I met Chris at a dance at Simmons the first week I was there. He owned a Triumph Trident motorcycle (that he swore didn’t perform well under 90 miles per hour) and he offered to show me around the Boston area since I had never been there before. I accepted and we spent most of our time together after that. He taught me a lot about America and its history. Or at least his view of it. He also showed me everything there was is to see in the Boston area and more. And he loved to dance.

His father was sent to America from Germany at the beginning of WWII with his entire inheritance to get away from the war. Chris’ father spent all his money getting a PhD at Harvard and he taught philosophy at MIT. His family was killed in the war.

Chris’ maternal grandparents fled Belarus during the Russian revolution and went to Paris. His mother grew up in Paris and when she was 19 they immigrated to the USA. She spoke English with a French accent. Her father had died by the time I met her but I met her mother on a couple of occasions and she only spoke Russian. Chris grew up in a house where his parents spoke four languages combined and he only spoke English. The family lived in Europe when his father was on sabbatical but other than that he had done no traveling and had no desire to go anyplace. He wanted to live in Boston the rest of his life. And actually it was suburban Boston that he wanted to live in, not far from his parents.

Of course things were not always perfect but I felt very close to Chris. I was never afraid to talk to him about anything. We were very open with each other about everything. If we were feeling smothered we said so and would take a break for a couple of days. We rarely fought. I almost always got whatever I wanted. I felt totally secure and adored. I reveled in it. I had my 21st birthday that summer and we had a wild party where neighbors were threatening to call the police – I think maybe they did show up at one point – and people were asleep on my couch the next morning. Chris cleaned the house and by the time I got up you never would have known there had been a party. It all seemed too good to be true.

One night that summer Chris asked me to marry him. I said yes.

The following Christmas I returned to Nigeria to see my parents and I met a guy named Peter who was studying at the University of Ibadan. He was funny and quick witted. We shared the traveling bug and a variety of experiences that come from living overseas. He made me realize how boxed in I had become by being with Chris. I had been living in a safe, predictable, all-American environment with few challenges and little true excitement. I can’t say it was boring because I wasn’t bored but it was maybe too normal. Normal is good sometimes but not all the time. At least not for me. Meeting Peter triggered a lot of feelings and I realized marrying Chris meant chopping off a part of myself.

Could I spend the rest of my life living in Boston and going to the in-laws on Sundays for dinner? Could I live without seeing more of the world? Could I live with a man who didn’t understand my story? It made me feel one-dimensional. So in the end I ran away and broke his heart.

Funnily enough he did move to Texas and traveled to Asia for work, although he said he didn’t enjoy it. He returned to suburban Boston and lived out his life there. There was a time in my life when I had some regrets. I wondered how different my life would have been had I stayed and married him. My life hasn’t been easy or safe but when all is said and done I think I made the right decision for me.

Equality for women is progress for all

“Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.”

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations theme for 2014 International Women’s Day is “Equality for women is progress for all”.

In 1908 15,000 women marched in New York City to demand better working conditions, more pay, and the right to vote. This was the birth of the woman’s movement. In 1911 more than a million women marched throughout Europe to end discrimination. On March 25th of that year 123 female garment workers aged 16 to 23 died in a fire in New York City. Many fell or jumped to their deaths to escape the fire. The doors were locked. Most of them were Italian and Jewish immigrants. The outcome was legislation mandating better working conditions.

The first Women’s Day was held in 1911 and in 1914 March 8th became the official International Women’s Day.  In 1917 the women of Russia staged a protest for “Bread and Peace” in response to the death of over 2 million Russian soldiers. They protested for four days until the Czar abdicated and the provisional government granted them the right to vote. Their protest started on March 8th.

Over the years the movement grew and today 27 countries around the world celebrated March 8th as an official holiday. Women in the 1970’s again rose and fought for women’s rights and equality. In the West much was accomplished and women entered the workforce and gained more equality and legislative rights.

However, there is still considerable inequality. Women do not have equal rights or equal pay. Many women around the world are still dealing with forced marriages, slavery and horrible working conditions. In 2012, 257 people died in a textile factory in Pakistan. It is suspected the doors were locked.

In Russia March 8th is a big deal. Women receive flowers and small presents. Families gather for celebrations. Everybody has the day off work. It is nice.

But it is also a time to reflect on how much more there is to do. Look out for your sisters, mothers, daughters and friends.

Happy Women’s Day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Re-Posting from Baltimore Post Examiner:

‘A New York Moment’ is sometimes all you need

I was in New York City last weekend for a high school reunion. I went to boarding school on Switzerland and they have “all school reunions” in different cities around the world throughout the year. Anybody who went there can attend. –

See more at: Eclectic Global Nomad

Happy Thanksgiving!


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Long-term corrosion testing and evaluation of partially submerged post-tensioned column specimens

R. M. Salas, J. S. West, J. E. Breen, E. Kreger, A. J. Schokker

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Post-tensioned concrete piers may be partially submerged in sea water or exposed to deicing salts. In order to provide detailed observations to improve the durability design of columns under these exposure conditions, a research study was started with the dual intent to evaluate how to use post-tensioning to improve corrosion protection and how to protect the post-tensioning systems from corrosion damage. The information contained in this paper is part of a comprehensive research program developed at the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, at The University of Texas at Austin, which had the objectives to examine the use of post-tensioning in bridge substructures, identify durability concerns and existing technology, develop and carry out an experimental testing program, and conclude with durability design guidelines. This paper documents the final evaluation, conclusions, recommendations and implementation measures from the long-term column exposure series. Ten large-scale specimens were designed, constructed and placed under exposure testing in July 1996 and autopsied in January 2003. After forensic examination, overall findings indicate negative durability effects due to the use of small concrete covers, galvanized steel ducts and rubber gaskets at the duct ends. Relying on epoxy and galvanized bar coating was also found inappropriate because of local attack. On the other hand, very positive effects were found with the use of fly ash concrete, post-tensioning through the column-foundation interface, and plastic ducts.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationConcrete for Transportation Infrastructure - Proceedings of the International Conference
EditorsR.K. Dhir, M.J. McCarthy, S. Caliskan
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 International Congress - Global Construction: Ultimate Concrete Opportunities - Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Duration: Jul 5 2005Jul 7 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Concrete for Transportation Infrastructure

Other2005 International Congress - Global Construction: Ultimate Concrete Opportunities
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityDundee, Scotland

  • Bar coatings
  • Corrosion
  • Durability
  • Fly ash concrete
  • Galvanized steel ducts
  • Plastic ducts
  • Post-tensioning
  • Post-tensioning bars

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It Isn’t Always Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows

Why is it that blogs make everything seem so easy and perfect? I read a few like the Pioneer Woman who cooks amazing family meals. She's so relaxed and pulls everything together so effortlessly. What about when she's missing that one ingredient and gets stuck and has to run to the market, where are her kids racing in and out of the kitchen driving her nuts.? Being a blogger myself I know I want to showcase the best … [Read more...]

A Veteran Road Mom’s Guide To Traveling With Teens

Family Travel in The Electronic Age - How Much is Too Much?

Let's face it, kids are awesome but they can also be quite a handful. Every age has it's challenges. While parents of younger kids may breathe a sigh of relief as the physical challenges fall away (no more booster seats, dressing or bathing kids) and kids become more independent, they should be forewarned that the real challenges are yet to come ... and it's all mental, which can at times quite stressful and … [Read more...]


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