text:
Nigeria, a country made up of various ethnic groups and thirty-six states records more than 365 festivals, some of these festivals date back to the period before the arrival of the major Religions in the country.

The main Muslim and Christian festivals are often celebrated in ways that are unique to the people of that locality.

The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation has been working with the states to upgrade the traditional festivals, as a way of displaying and boosting the country’s varied cultures.

The Argungu Fishing Festival is an annual four-day festival in the state of Kebbi, in the Northern Nigeria. People from different parts of  the world, travel to Kebbi, to witness the Argungu festival.

 The main reason for the Argungu fishing festival is for fishing and unity.

The festival started in the year 1934,  to mark the end of the centuries old opposition between the Sokoto Caliphate and the Kebbi Kingdom. This festival has brought a huge growth to the development of the state as a whole. It is usually called a Fishing-Frenzy Festival, celebrated to mark the beginning of fishing season in Argungu,  Kebbi State. It is celebrated between February and March annually. On the final day of the festival, a competition is held in which thousands of men line up along the river, and at the sound of a gunshot, they  jump into the river to catch the largest fish within an hour with the use traditional fishing tools, though many prefer to catch fish entirely by hand to demonstrate their expertise. The winner can take home as much as $7,500 US dollars. Competitors are only allowed to

Activities carried out include:

  • Canoe races
  • Agricultural showcases
  • Cultural activities
  • Wrestling matches
  • Musical performances
  • Grand Fishing conquest
  • Swimming Contest.

The word Afan means “mountain” or “hill” in Tyap. The exact date when this festival started could not be ascertained, but it is believed to be first held in Ankwai clan on the Jos-Bauchi Plateau around 1500 A.D.

The glamorous hills are located at an altitude about 1,246 meters above sea level. Large trees grow on the hills with a wobbly base. The climate of the area is significantly influenced by the hills and the climate is similar to that of the Jos Plateau and the Mambila Plateau, with heavy rainfall in the spring.

In the early days, the Agworok people lived in the caves and atop the hill ranges for centuries before gradually settling at the foot of the mountain and finally driven down almost completely by the British colonialist in the early 20th century although communities yet exist atop the hills.

The hills provided the people safety from foreign Invaders and harbors sacred bee colonies which when unauthorized invasion climb the hill, it is met with bee stings on a victim especially when such a one wears a perfume.

The Afan National Festival is a yearly event celebrated every 1st January in the palace of the Chief of Kagoro in the Kaura Local Government Area of Northern States by the Oegworok (Kagoro) people of southern Kaduna State, Nigeria. It has been observed for over 400 years.

The festival is celebrated with the greatest solemnity, according to historical details. After sanctifying the hills in the Palace, a hunting expedition is organized early in the morning of the following day.

All the hunters will ascend to the top of the hill to a place called ‘JIYO’ (trouble) where they surround the place and set it on fire. This is called ‘burning the hill’ and then the hunting can proceed.

The festival has now been merged with the New Year celebration as the hunters now dress in traditional hunting attire symbolizing the return from the first hunting expedition of the year. Further processional features of the festival include traditional dancers like ‘Kodai’, ‘Dodo’ dancers, Boys Brigade, Girls Brigade and many other colourful activities, which add beauty and colour to the event.

Traditionally, the festival marks the end of crop harvest for the year and the beginning of hunting expeditions as well as other numerous activities.

 Njuwa Lake has a historical and cultural legacy, it has been an absolute source of livelihood to the people of Yola town on the Southwestern side, and Rugange village on the Northeastern side of the lake.

Many Rivers flow into the Lake, from the South Western side, River Chouchi and Mayo Chudde, from the South Eastern side by several streams such as Mayel Lumo, Mayel Kalwa, Mandare streams and many other small streams (about five) drain into Njuwa Lake.

Fish species variety is also very high, therefore the lake offers a unique potential for both artisanal fishing and fisheries tourism through the revival of the cultural fishing festival despite the environmental degradation that it has suffered over the years.

 Njuwa is an annual fishing festival performed by the people of Rugange, Njoboliyo, Dasin, Dulo, Bagale, Dagri, and Vunoklan villages of Adamawa Emirate.

Though there is no fixed date for the festival, it usually takes place when the level of the water in the lake subsides. The Njuwa fishing festival used to be a two-day occasion, which is normally marked by a lot of performances, ranging from traditional dances to competitive running, tug-of-war, boat riding, swimming, fishing, etc. In most cases, it comes up in the month of April, the fishing festival attracts many people from within and outside the state.

The festival, like other fishing festivals in the country, attracts many fishermen with different kinds of style and skill in catching fish. While some make good use of their bare hands and gourds to catch fish, others make use of nets to do so.

The Eyo Festival, is a Yoruba festival unique to Lagos, and is traditionally performed on Lagos Island. The white-clad Eyo masquerade represents the spirits of the dead, and is referred to in Yoruba as “agogoro Eyo”. The word refers to the costumed dancers, known as the masquerades that come out during the festival.

Back in the day, the Eyo festival was held to guide the soul of a departed Lagos King or Chief or a notable Lagosian who contributed greatly to the development of Lagos and to usher in a new king. It is widely believed that this was one of the habitual African festivities that served as the forerunner of the modern carnival in Brazil. Its popularity stretches beyond the shores of this country, it can be concluded that the Eyo masquerade itself represents Lagos.

On Eyo Day, the main highway in the heart of the city (from the end of Carter Bridge to Tinubu Square) is closed to traffic, allowing for procession from Idumota to the Iga Idunganran palace.

The exceptional feature of this event is its rare staging, the Eyo does not hold on an annual basis like the popular Lagos carnivals of Olowogbowo, Oko-Faji etc. There have been times in the past when for 21 years, the event did not hold, also there have been years when Eyo was staged, three, four and five times in a single year: 1903, 1906 and 1909 respectively.

Prohibited items during the Eyo Festival

  • Okada motorcycle taxis
  • Bicycles
  • Sandals
  • Shuku – hairstyle
  • Smoking
  • Female with head tie, headgear, or any covering of the head
  • Male with cap of any kind

 The masquerades are known to beat people who use any of the prohibited items at sight with their staffs.

Sango Festival is an annual festival held among the Yoruba people in honour of Sango, a thunder and fire deity who was a warrior and the third king of the Oyo Empire. The Sango Festival celebrations can be traced back to 1,000 years ago after the exit of Sango.

 The festival is usually held in August at the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo and also observed in over forty countries around the world.

Sango was a famous strong ruler and magician who became king of the Oyo Empire after succeeding his elder brother who was alleged to be a “weak ruler”.  It was believed that he brought  wealth to the people of the Oyo Empire during his reign.

 Sango’s death has been linked to different mythical stories. It is believed that Sango hung himself in order to avoid humiliation from one of his powerful chiefs who ordered Sango to give up his throne or face war.

 Sango was said to have reigned for just seven years as King over Oyo but with such a powerful leadership, he was counted as the best King ever in the history of Oyo rulers.

The New Yam Festival of the Igbo people known as Orureshi in the idoma area, Iwa ji, Iri ji or Ike ji, Otute depending on dialect is an yearly cultural festival by the Igbo people held at the end of the rainy season in early August.

The Iri ji festival (new-yam eating) is also practiced throughout West Africa (especially in Nigeria and Ghana) and other African countries and beyond, symbolizing the end of a harvest and the beginning of the next farming season.

Generally, at the beginning of the festival, the yams are offered to the gods and ancestors first before distributing them to the villagers. The rites are performed either by the oldest man in the community or by the king or eminent titleholder,  showing appreciation to the supreme deity for his protection and kindness in leading them from lean periods to the time of bountiful harvest without deaths resulting from hunger.

After the prayer of thanksgiving, they eat the first yam because it is believed that their position bestows the opportunity of being intermediaries between their communities and the gods of the land.  The yam used for the main ritual at the festival is usually roasted and served with palm oil (mmanụ nri). This event is an important event in the calendar of Igbo people all over the world.

The colourful festival is a visual display of unity, dance,  joy and feasting, an annual display for community members.

The festival is done at community stage first and then individuals now take queue to celebrate with their own  family and friends, thereby kicking off the eating of new yam in the families that participated in the ceremony.

Oro Festival is an  annual patriarchal event celebrated by towns and settlements of Yoruba origin,  it is only celebrated by male descendants who are paternal natives to the specific locations where the particular event is taking place.

During the festival, females and non-natives stay indoors as history has it that the Oro must not be seen by women and non-participating people.

The ceremony surrounding the celebration of Oro differs from town to town. In some places, when the Oba dies, a special atonement and period of mourning are held.  It usually involves human sacrifice that has been refuted strongly by the followers.

The Oro is usually concealed except during the festival. Oro then makes an entry by making high-pitched swishing sounds . This whirring sound is said to made by the wife called Majowu.

It is said that Oro makes an appearance wearing a robe with shells and an adorned white wooden mask with blood smeared on the lips. Its follower’s eulogies it by making incantations in loud voices.

Calabar Carnival festival in Nigeria, also known as “Africa’s Biggest Street Party” or the “Pride of Nigeria”, is an annual carnival in Cross River State, Southeastern part of Nigeria.

 The carnival is held every December as an activity to mark Christmas celebration. Over the years, the quality of this festival keeps growing, and it has presently become an international festival and Nigeria number one biggest carnival.

The carnival has always been a prospect one as different competition takes place with huge cash prices, the carnival has always been a colorful one. The Calabar Carnival is without a doubt the biggest, best and longest tourism event in West Africa. It attracts over two million revelers and features participants from over 25 different countries.

The Battle of the Bands and Street Parade is even broadcasted to  television viewers of around fifty million.

The initiative behind this festival was to commemorate Nigeria’s return to democracy after over three decades of military regimes and to have a feast that would re-energize the scene and refocus both the young and old, especially to book reading culture, which was gradually dying.  The Lagos Book and Art Festivals are held over a seven-day period in different venues including Goethe-Institute, the British Council, and Freedom Park, all in Lagos State.

This Festival features a number of different activities including pre-festival activities like book treks, musical performances, book readings, film screenings,  publishers forum, book and art exhibitions, panel discussions, book presentations, cultural exhibitions, book reviews, and more events.

The festival also enables the participation of students of primary and secondary schools and universities in Nigeria by introducing competition and presenting opportunities for them.

The festival was also scheduled to celebrate different literary icons that passed on like Pius Adesanmi, Eddie Ugbomah, Bisi Silva and others. It was founded by the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), a Nigerian-based cultural organization in 1999. The festival has been hosting activities like musical performances, book readings and launches, film screenings, a publishers’ forum, book and art exhibitions, panel discussions, symposiums, cultural exhibitions, and much more for the last twenty-one years.

Photo Credit http://www.travelstart.com.ng/blog/10-colourful-cultural-festivals-in-nigeria/


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Type: response

text:
New Siding Installation Near North New Hyde Park

previous arrow
next arrow

Some New Layouts Of Home Siding

Putting curb appeal aside, siding plays a pivotal role in protecting your dwelling from nature and leaks caused by mother nature’s elements. New exterior siding is your North New Hyde Park structure’s first line of defense against water damage and the elements. Siding preserves the dwelling from Long Island’s weather harms. New exterior siding is one of the most important parts of a home’s integrity and overall appearance. Your siding is the most important part and spot of your structure’s exterior because of its ability to keep everything inside of it dry and keep its inhabitants safe. A lot of our customers don’t give much thought to their North New Hyde Park home’s (or business’s) siding. Siding damage is usually visible and very noticeable when something goes awry with it. Siding repairs performed by our technicians can address the broken siding before it completely loses its resistance to water penetration and leaks start a host of other leaks inside the residence. Siding repairs are utterly necessary to avert your North New Hyde Park home from any further water invasion – so please don’t slight the issue and let the problem linger.

It’s vital to know (or be aware of) the many different arrays of house siding:

    ‣  Wood Board
    ‣  Batten Wood
    ‣  Log
    ‣  Wood Shingle Siding
    ‣  Horizontal Wood Boarding
    ‣  Vertical Wood Boarding
    ‣  Vinyl
    ‣  Metal
    ‣  Brick
    ‣  Stone
    ‣  Fiber Cement
    ‣  Stucco
    ‣  Imitation Stone/Brick
    ‣  Engineered Wood
    ‣  Insulated
    ‣  Concrete
    ‣  Glass Exterior
    ‣  Veneer
‣  Timbering on Stucco
    ‣  Steel Log Siding

Siding Complications To Look For

If that siding has gotten soft, then it’s a preeminent sign that your siding replacement is becoming necessary. Following a storm, walk around your dwelling and inspect the exterior for water stains in odd spots and then inspect inside the home and ceilings from the inside using a flashlight (or humidity detector if possible). Interior water stains indicate the start of a siding leak and pending  complications. Expressway’s highly-skilled siding pros recommend you never let leaks go without address or repair for very long. Leaky siding almost always causes additional leakage to other parts of your dwelling which can include the growth of unhealthy mold and threatening mildew… and that can then cost you thousands more to fix in the end. Is there shrinking, blistering or curling in your siding panels or shingles? Is there any water eroding into the attic or into walls that you can see?

Cedar Or Vinyl Siding Installed, Repaired Or Replaced?

Locally, in the NY tri-state area – and especially in North New Hyde Park – we get a ton of sun, wind, sleet, rain and snow every year. Harm producers definitely include powerful winds that will uplift the siding product. With the exception of shingled siding, if you scrutinized your long plank siding from afar, you may miss some of the details that distinguish one from the other without getting closer or viewing them side-by-side. The difference lies in the way that the planks are angled, shaped, textured and colored. Rust problems (which are common with certain metal arrays of siding) could also damage the siding. Workers on your North New Hyde Park siding may also inadvertently harm or dislodge the siding. A siding system that has deteriorated from the North New Hyde Park elements could eventually cause problems to the siding system. And the siding repair helps impede water problems from occurring to the siding and shingle system. With so much to gain from having siding precisely installed or maintained, it’s always a critical idea that your siding is kept in efficient working order after the venture is completed.

Our Professionals Install All Designs Of New Siding

Why choose Expressway’s siding experts for your siding installation? Our pros could always talk about quality and the ‘Expressway Advantage’ because our professionals are experts in our field and back all of their work. But our technicians like to let our work speak for itself. Feel free to check out our Google reviews – or even look at some of Expressway’s previous work. Our siding experts know that after you take a look, you may see just how much dignity we take in each venture. If it’s time for a siding assessment or you realize there’s trouble with your siding, you can contact Expressway Roofing & Siding When you’re ready to experience the Expressway difference fill out our form to the right.

Siding Installation Inquiries

Broken Siding Repairs North New Hyde Park
Cedar Shake Siding By Nassau
Siding Contractor In North New Hyde Park
Cedar Siding Repairs In Suffolk
North New Hyde Park Flat Metal Siding
Cedar Siding Replacement Near Nassau
North New Hyde Park Siding Inspections
Garage Siding On Long Island
Siding Restorations In Nassau
Metal Panel Siding Installs In Suffolk
North New Hyde Park Siding Repairs
New Siding Installations Near Nassau
Siding Contractor Long Island
Fascia Repairs In Suffolk
Siding Contractor Near North New Hyde Park
Siding Installs In Suffolk
Gutter Flashing Repair On Long Island
Siding Repairs On Long Island
North New Hyde Park Flashing Repairs
Siding Replacements In Nassau
Siding Waterproofing On Long Island
Shingle Siding Installs On Long Island
Cracked Siding Repair In North New Hyde Park
Shed Siding On Long Island
Asphalt Siding Installs On Long Island
Vinyl Siding Contractor Long Island
Cedar Siding Installation On Long Island
Siding Leak Detection Near Nassau
Siding Leak Repairs In North New Hyde Park
Cedar Siding Repairs On Long Island
Siding Underlayment Repair On Long Island
Slate Siding In Suffolk
Brick Siding Repairs North New Hyde Park
Storm Damage Repair In Suffolk
Tile Siding Repairs In Suffolk
Veneer Tile Siding In Suffolk
Vinyl Siding Replacement Near Nassau
North New Hyde Park Wood Siding Installs

Long Island’s Top Siding Contractor

warcinfo:
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-33
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for August 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-222
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/


text:
Re: SPACE: Economic Role for Manned Space Stations

Bryan Moss (
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:27:22 +0100

There is nothing left to do down here except go up there.

The exploration and colonisation of space is not an economic worry but the reason we have an economy.

This what we do, everything else is peripheral.


text:
computerless societies [was Re: kathryn's comments]

Spike Jones (
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 00:21:07 -0700

Once again, Robert J. Bradbury has presented us with a number of thought provoking and entertaining notions, including:

> ...If we hadn't elected Clinton, I feel pretty sure we would
> be teaching creationism in most of the class rooms now...

Which floored me. And got me to thinking, it is a curious habit for generations of humans to want to be *known* for something. The baby boom generation has rock and roll, generation X is big on [fill in the blank], generation Y likes to pierce body parts, etc, but what is next? In each case, a generation distinguishes themselves from the previous generation in a way that may shock and dismay the parents. Right? We smash the idols of our elders. So what is next?

In keeping with Alex Bokov's earlier post, what if generation [Z?] coming of age in 2005 turns hard against technology? Perhaps it will become wicked cool to be rad retro, to disdain all the computer wizardry that we on this list find so... wicked cool. I am not offended by green hair, ratty clothing, piercing, *any* expression of sexuality, etc, but the disdain and rejection of science and technology by a generation of young people would cause me to be... squicked. spike


text:
Your Cart is Empty

Schacht Spinning Wheels - Sidekick (PREORDER)

You may place your order for a SIDEKICK HERE AND IT WILL SHIP IN 2 - 4 WEEKS.

The Sidekick is Schachts folding travel wheel, great for cross-country or cross-town trips. Schacht's newest spinning wheel, designed to fold easily, yet be a solid spinner.

Here are some of the Sidekick’s features: Folds to 21.5 x 8.25 x 15. Integrated storage of bobbins, flyer, and whorls for transport. Lightweight at 13 pounds. 13.75in drive wheel allows for ratios from 4.25 to 13.75:1. Long, comfortable treadles. Uses the same bobbins, whorls, and flyer as the Schacht Matchless and Ladybug wheels. 25in orifice height for comfortable spinning. And it comes with a carry bag!

Employs Scotch tension with precise control knob. The drive wheel spins on ball bearings. The flyer turns on self-aligning bearings. Drive band tension adjuster allows for all whorls to be used with one drive band. The Sidekick comes with 3 travel bobbins, fast and medium whorls, threading hook, and adjustable carrying strap.


text:
Current Courses

Fall 2022

  • LING 3300-001
    Computers & Language
    Location: BEH S 102 (BEH S 102)
  • LING 3950-010
    Service Learning
  • LING 3955-010
    Internship in Ling

Summer 2022

Spring 2022

Teaching Philosophy

Alongside my research interest, I care deeply about the pedagogical connections between social sciences, humanities, and computer science. I am also interested in establishing bridges between academia and industry, and preparing students for successful careers in both. If you are a student and need advice in this sense, get in touch!


text:
Home School Programs

Homeschool Programs at Fairchild

Fairchild’s homeschool programs are especially designed for children between the ages of 7-12. Each workshop includes authentic, interactive lessons on-site where every child can take part in real-world research as Fairchild’s botanists do.

Programs will take place select Mondays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. There is limited space available and online registration is required. Supplies for all science activities are provided. Register for programs by selecting a date below. For groups larger than 15 students, please consider scheduling a field trip for your students.

Cost (non-refundable): $20 non-member students, $15 non-member adults / $15 member students, $10 member adults. There is no cost for siblings under 2 years old. Adults must stay with children during the program.

12sep10:00 am11:30 amThere’s a Storm Brewin’10:00 am – 11:30 am

03oct10:00 am11:30 amZombie Gardening10:00 am – 11:30 am

07nov10:00 am11:30 amGiving Thanks to Plants10:00 am – 11:30 am

05dec10:00 am11:30 amRockin’ in the Pine Rocklands10:00 am – 11:30 am

09jan10:00 am11:30 amDiving into Aquatic Plants10:00 am – 11:30 am

06feb10:00 am11:30 amFor the Love of Orchids10:00 am – 11:30 am

06mar10:00 am11:30 amReptile Rundown10:00 am – 11:30 am

03apr10:00 am11:30 amSciencing in the Rain10:00 am – 11:30 am

01may10:00 am11:30 amMay the Pollen be With You10:00 am – 11:30 am


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Resego Motlhokathari bags new gig

Resego Motlhokathari has bagged himself a new gig and he cannot be more excited.

The star has been in the entertainment industry for years now and he has been able to dominate his talents and won the hearts of so many with his charming looks, fashion sense and impeccable hosting skills.

The TV star has just landed a major hosting gig on BTV Dumela Botswana Breakfast Show and were are here for it.

Resego took to his social media to let the news known stating how much he always wanted the job and his dream has finally come true.

“God never says NO, he says NOT NOW. For years I wanted this job but because he knew I was not ready, he delayed the offer. In 2022 I claimed it,” he started off his post.

BTV Dumela Botswana Breakfast Show airs from Monday to Friday starting a 6AM-8AM.

See post below:


text:
We don’t need to tell you how tough it is for dogs on the streets of Romania but for the little ones it is exceptionally difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible for them to find the food they need and very often they themselves become food for the bigger dogs. When Karina arrived in her foster home, she was devoid of personality. Scared of everything and everyone. But with love and patience she has slowly but surely started to believe she can live without fear. Karina is Chihuahua size and really wants to be in forever home. Now her favourite thing is to chase around the garden with her foster siblings so she definitely would need another small dog in the home. Not just to play with but to also learn from.

Karina comes with full rescue back up. Adoption donation and home check apply.

Please note, we are unable to consider for adoption

  • People under 25 years old
  • People with children under 10 years old
  • Home without a secure garden
  • Families with unneutered dogs
  • Home where the dog will have to be left alone more than 4 hours.

Location: Oxfordshire
Age: Approx DOB 03/09/2019
Gender: Female
Status: Available

Added: 4th March 2022

  • Good with dogs


text:
2000 Corn Silage Hybrids

2000 Corn Silage Trial Results Are Online

Early Silage Trials (Abbotsford & Saanich)
Earl Silage Trials (Average locations and years)
Late Silage Trials (Agassiz & Chilliwack)
Late Silage Trials (Average locations and years)
Interior Trial (Coldstream)
Interior Trial (Average over years)
1999 Trial Data Can Be Found Here

Maturity Group Location Planting Date Harvest Date Growing Days CHU 2000 CHU 11 Yr Avg
Abbotsford 24-May 4-Oct 133 2461 2585
Saanich 14-May 3-Oct 142 2449 2499
Agassiz 2-May 28-Sep 149 2709 2907
Chilliwack 25-May 27-Sep 125 2407 2566
Interior Coldstream 20-May 14-Oct 147 2569 2878

Procedure For Hybrid Evaluation
Trials in 2000 consisted of four replicates with all hybrids located randomly in each replicate. Rows were hand-planted to a population of 75,000 plants per hectare (30,000 per acre). weeds were controlled with herbicides and by hand. Fertilizer application followed common practice, using soil test information where available. Planting and harvest dates in 2000 are listed in the table.

About the Hybrid Performance Data
Yield of each hybrid is reported relative to the average of standard hybrids as indicated in the tables. Choice of standards does not represent endorsement by the Association.

Only hybrids submitted by companies for testing appear in this bulletin. Hybrid not included should not be considered undesirable.

In comparing hybrids, consider not only yield but also dry matter, grain content and lodging. Some hybrids have more digestible stover than others, but data are not yet available.

To convert dry matter yield from tonnes per hectare to tons per acre, multiply by 0.45. To express this as silage yield at 25% dry matter, multiply by 4.


text:
Invest In Us

In past two decades, India’s economy has seen tremendous changes especially with the job profiles of individuals. Dozens of new job profiles are now in existence which were completely unknown and not in existence some time ago. Similar paradigm shift was observed in the Fashion Industry!!!!
Numerous new job profiles are now in existence in the fashion Industry which were completely unheard of quite some time ago but are great demand now. Unfortunately, there are not many institutions in our country which provide a one stop destination to teach and train individuals for these new job profiles and make them industry ready. Even if there are some institutes they are confined to the metro or tier-1 cities of our country.
It is our director, Shri Abhay Jain sir’s igniting mind which came up with the idea of taking knowledge and training about Fashion Industry to tier-11, tier-111, cities and to bring out the talent from all nooks and corners of our country to main Fashion Industry.
We invite you to join us through franchise, partnership etc. feel free to talk to us.


text:
Artist Lauren Sawchyn

An example of fine art by Lauren Sawchyn

Photo of Lauren Sawchyn
  • FASO Artist Website: http://www.sawchynfineart.com

  • Year Born: N/A

  • Price Range: $500.00 - $800.00
    (This price range was estimated with limited info and may be inaccurate)

Dr. Sawchyn began her art training growing up in southwestern CT surrounded by talented artists and mentors. She was accepted to the University of Maine on an art scholarship and did her undergraduate degree in studio arts, pre-veterinary studies, and zoology. She focused studies on non-toxic printmaking and painting techniques, drawing, and art history.
Dr. Sawchyn united her passion for art and science by attending the medical illustration graduate program at Augusta University (then called the Medical College of Georgia). She took extensive anatomy and physiology classes with human medical students and honed her illustration and design skills. Dr. Sawchyn then attended Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, obtaining a veterinary doctorate and learning detailed veterinary anatomy and physiology. While at Cornell, she started her medical illustration and fine art career and also became board certified in medical illustration.
Dr. Sawchyn has practiced as a board-certified medical illustrator (CMI), fine artist, and veterinarian for over 10 years. Her north of Boston-based company, Sawchyn Medical Illustration, provides medical illustration services for the biomedical fields, specializing in veterinary medicine. Her work is published in research journals, textbooks, and presentations.
Sawchyn Fine Art developed as Dr. Sawchyn continued to work in a variety of drawing and painting media to augment her skills as an illustrator, anatomist, and observer. Clients sought her out for portraiture of their beloved family members. Besides portraiture, Dr. Sawchyn also creates selected artworks that reflect her intrigue with the environment, agriculture, and culture of New England. She is a realist that is captivated by light, color, and the spirit of natural and biological subjects or experiences.
Dr. Sawchyn is on the Board for Certification of Medical Illustrators, as well as a professional member of the Association of Medical Illustrators, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Portrait Society of America, North Shore Art Association (associate), and [...]

Read the rest of this bio on the artist's website >>

Content Copyright - Lauren Sawchyn Fine Art


text:
GeneralJuniorsNewsRacingResultsUncategorizedLiotta and Hanneman top U.S. finishers in Scandinavian Cup classic races

January 30, 2010

Today was the second of three races in the the Puijo, Finland Scandinavian Cup.

Annie Liotta, in 15th place,  was the first U.S. finisher in the Women’s 5 km classic race.  Also in the top-30 was Kinsey Loan, in 25th place.  Stina Nilsson, of Sweden, was the race winner and her teammate Settlin Evelina placed second.  Norway’s Landheim Hilde Losgaard was third.

Other U.S. Results:  Katie Gill, 31st; Kate Backstrum, 36th; Isabel Caldwell, 39th; Jessica Jortberg, 40th.

In the men’s 10km race Logan Hanneman was the top U.S. racer, in 23rd place.  Austin Cobb also finished in the top-30 with a 24th result.

Sami Lähdemäki of Finland won the race, with Norwegian teammates Skar Sindre Bjørnestad and Martin Nyenget in second and third, respectively.

Other U.S. results: David Sinclair, 31st; MichaelVigers, 35th, Will Wicherski, 36th.

Tomorrow’s races: 3x3km and 3x5km relays.

Women’s 5km

Men’s 10km Cl

Results page for all races

buy chantix online, buy ventolin inhaler

buy albuterol inhaler,buy combigan online,buy chantix,buy voltaren gel online

Loading Facebook Comments ...

Leave a Reply


text:
La Tournette Classic North East route.

A big classic of the Annecy area with incredible views of the Lake.

Ski Touring Difficult

10 km
1.4 km
1.4 km
6-7 hrs
Low Point
966 m
High Point
2.4 km
La Tournette Classic North East route. Map

A popular classic with the Annecy locals and one to put on the ‘must do’ list in the area. The views of the surrounding mountains are very good but it is the view of Lake Annecy from the summit which is unique on a clear day. Good snow coverage at lower altitudes is required to make the ski tour feasible.

La Tournette is a long ski tour requiring stable snow conditions and reasonable visibility especially for the final traverse to below the summit, which is above a cliff band. As well as boot crampons and an ice axe for the short section of mountaineering at the top, it is strongly recommended to carry couteau (ski crampons), in case the snow is firm. It is also advisable to bring a short section of rope and a harness for the summit block in case conditions, ability or confidence are in question.

From the parking skin up the long section of track which is in the forest. As you leave the forest into open ground you will see the long section ahead which is a rising traverse. The terrain is generally not steep but you may need the occasional kick turn in places. It is worth picking the best line you can through the small slopes, ridges and reentrants on the way.

After this section skin up a broad steepening couloir with a few kick turns before turning round to the final traverse above the cliff band. This traverse is mostly on fairly mellow terrain but it is a terrain trap with the cliff below. At the end of the traverse go up to the bottom of the ladders and other metalwork and transition into boot crampons, take your ice axe and leave your skis. The ladder may be partially buried and will take you to the short walk to the summit cross. The deep blue of Lake Annecy and the surrounding area is an amazing sight seen from the summit and a real contrast to the view in the other direction.

Reverse your route back to your skis and transition for the ski descent. The ski down is the same as the way up but there are lots of opportunities in the terrain to maximise the snow conditions. Be careful not to drop too low though as you need to gain the forest path again. The forest path that takes you back to the parking can be rutted and hard after some traffic so good combat skiing techniques may be needed.

Serious gradient of 30-38 degrees where a real risk of slipping exists.

Medium Exposure (E2)

2 out of 4

As well as the slope itself, there are some obstacles (such as rock outcrops) which could aggravate injury.

2 out of 4

Away from help but easily accessed.

Best time to visit

January, February, March, December

  • Bowl
  • Face
  • Cliffs
  • Couloir
  • Tree Skiing
  • Single Descent
  • Ski Mountaineering

Equipment required

  • Rope
  • Skins
  • Ice axe
  • Crampons

Similar routes nearby

Guidebooks in this area


text:
Visvim Cordura 20L - Dark Brown
Visvim Cordura 20L - Dark Brown
Visvim Cordura 20L - Dark Brown
Visvim Cordura 20L - Dark Brown

Visvim Cordura 20L - Dark Brown

Online Wynn Las Vegas Chinatown Calabasas
Product Details

Founded by Hiroki Nakamura in 2000, Visvim is a Japanese line that focuses on high-end footwear, apparel, and accessories. Inspired by vintage America, Japanese eco period garments, and Native American clothing. Pictured is the Visvim Cordura 20L in Dark Brown.

  • 100% Nylon
  • CORDURA® fabrics
  • Leather accents
  • Carry handle
  • Padded straps
  • 20L Volume
  • Main zip compartment
  • 2 Front zip pockets
  • Style no: 0120103003066
Shipping & Handling

Your order will be processed within 24-48 hours and can NOT be canceled once processing is complete. A tracking ID will be sent to the email address provided at checkout as soon as your order has shipped. Shipping times vary based on location and may be changed with the third-party delivery’s discretion.

Ground Shipping: 5-7 Business Days
Two-Day Shipping: 2 Business Days
Next Day Shipping 1 Business Day

International Standard Shipping: 2-6 Business Days
International Expedited Shipping: 1-4 Business Days

International Buyers: Taxes and duty fees are calculated based on the shipping address you provided at checkout. Please provide your location to review the additional costs and ensure the correct amount is being generated. Based on the Delivery Duty Paid process for shipping, all relevant taxes and duties are automatically included in the final sales price.

Click here to understand better the rules and regulations for ensuring overnight/next-day delivery.

Please note that we reserve the right to combine orders being delivered to the same delivery address when applicable. If you prefer your orders not to be shipped together, please reach out to our customer service team after checkout. - The ‘Order within’ statement is only valid when next-day shipping is selected as the shipping method.

Please visit our Returns page at the bottom of our website to process a return. You will enter the email address associated with your order and begin receiving instructions on starting your return.

We will only accept items within 14 days from the delivery of the product. Final sale items such as sale/clearance items and limited releases are not eligible for returns. If you are unsure whether an item(s) you purchased is eligible, please refer to that specific item’s product description.

The returned product must be unused, and packaging must remain intact and undisturbed by external forces. Do not directly apply shipping labels to shoe boxes, as it ruins the product’s integrity. If a shipping label is attached to a shoebox, the item will be obstructed and returned to the sender.

After the return process is completed, the customer will be given a store credit that equals the cost of the item(s) returned. This store credit is valid in-store & online. Shipping labels are generated upon request.


text:
Artwork by Garth Laidlaw

An Audio Drama about Food Insecurity

Imagine a world where farming isn't an option.

With demand for food expected to grow by 70% over the next generation, and climate change rapidly affecting our ability to support our needs with traditional agriculture, developing strategies to feed our growing population represents one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. But it's not just a question of ramping up production. Consider that we live in a world where both hunger and obesity are on the rise, and 30% of all food produced is wasted. In addition, agri-food systems are a major drain on our sources of fresh water, and a major producer of greenhouse gases. How can we produce enough to feed everyone equitably and nutritiously, without threatening the ecosystems we depend on for life?

This audio drama will immerse you in a world where most of the land on Earth has become unsuitable for traditional agriculture, leading to price shocks for fresh food, especially in remote locations. Humanity has had to adapt in response, exploring and expanding new technologies and alternative types of food. Peer into a future where the sobering reality of worldwide food insecurity could lead to desperate decisions or inspiring innovations.

Catch us on AppleGoogle, and Spotify, where you can also find our informational podcast, Food Secure Future!

Follow along in class with our complete step-by-step lesson plan!

Episode 1 - The End of an Era

Episode 2 - The City

Episode 3 - The Highway

Episode 4 - Antiquity

Episode 5 - Inheritance

Episode 6 - I'm Going

Episode 7 - Turning Back

Episode 8 - P.E.A.S. With That

Episode 9 - Moving Up, but Staying Low

Episode 10 - Friends on the Other Side

Episode 11 - This is It

Episode 12 - Omega

The Haven Project is a collaboration between

Feeding 9 Billion and the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

Jane Cairnie-Richardson
Graeme McClelland
Ariel Oleynikov
Sydney Perkins
Sopjudy IV
Zachary Wynen

Maaike Brijker
Hannah Carr
Mathilda Colins
Stephen Donnelly
Simone Dorie
Marcela Echeverri
Ben Finley
Lisanne Fulton
Lisa Hood
Matthew Ivanoff
Sam Majoros
Cindy Massicotte
Graeme McClelland
Dalfina Oiene
Ariel Oleynikov
Veronica Pereira
Brayden Pritchard
Carey West

Ben Lee

Stephen Donnelly
Lisa Justine Hood

Kimberley McLeod


text:
Saikiran – Rolling New Jokes

Please log in to zoom from the same email id or name that the ticket was booked in, failing to do so might prohibit entry.

Watch India’s most viral English comic Saikiran, Rolling New Jokes on Zoom. A comedy show full of interesting thoughts, amazing stories and oh yeah a few funny jokes. Slightly raw, slightly cooked, mostly delicious.


text:
Categories > Celebrities > 30 Seconds to Mars > Finding Jared

Chapter Three

by echeloncookie 1 review

Skyla gets ready to leave with Shannon and the crew to go find Jared; Jared is finally brought to light in this chapter, not knowing where he is or how he got there.

Category: 30 Seconds to Mars - Rating: PG-13 - Genres: Angst,Drama - Warnings: [V] - Published: 2011-11-22 - Updated: 2012-01-10 - 1752 words - Complete

When Skyla stepped outside of the Starbucks to head back to the motel she was staying at, she noticed Tomo had headed on but Shannon had stopped. He turned and looked at her and waved. He was on the phone, but he quickly hung up.

"Hey," Shannon said, jogging up to her. "I just called Jared again; it went to voicemail." He had a depressed tone to his voice. Skyla almost wanted to hug him.

"I'm heading back to my motel; I guess Jessey and I are heading out soon," Skyla said, carelessly waving a hand toward the Super 8 that was down the street.

"Care if I walk down that way with you?" Shannon asked.

"Of course not," Skyla told him. She gave him a sly grin.

"Well let's go." Shannon offered her his right elbow, and Skyla took it.

"So, where do you think Jared could be?" Skyla asked him.

"Honestly... I don't know. I've asked everyone to try and get ahold of him but no luck. Tomo's wife, Vicki, is staying at our place in L.A. in case he goes there, but..." Shannon trailed off.

"He hasn't shown up there yet either?" Skyla said seriously.

Shannon shook his head. By this time they were in front of the Super 8 motel. "Listen... you're leaving tomorrow right?" he asked her.

"Yeah. I'm going to get some more stuff that I have and explain everything to my parents. Then I'm leaving Jessey there and I'm probably going to head back." Skyla wasn't even sure of how she'd do everything. She was just saying the stuff that came in her head.

"We're going to leave North Carolina tomorrow and look for Jared elsewhere. We'll follow you and get you then," Shannon told her.

"That sounds good." Skyla gave him a smile. "We'll find him Shannon. Don't worry," she assured him.

Shannon gave her a tight hug. "I really hope so."

"STOP IT!! I SAID STOP IT!!" a man screamed. His captors took no notice of his tears of pain streaming down his face. He screamed again.

"Shut up you fucking asshole!" one of his captors said.

"Yeah, shut up!" another said with a kick in the abdomen.

The man coughed and sputtered. He laid on the ground in a bruised heap, his cut lip still bleeding. He heard his captors' leader come into the room.

"Well, well! Look who we have here! Jared Leto," he said gleefully, spreading his arms wide.

"Don't you dare say my name, you pathetic excuse for a human!" Jared managed to say. It earned him another kick.

"I see we have a feisty one on our hands. Let's hand him over to our brother gang." The leader had a nasty grin on his face; Jared could make out the snake tattoo around his left bicep.

"LET ME GO!" Jared yelled at the top of his lungs. He couldn't get up, no matter how hard he tried.

His futile attempts to stand drew a large amount of laughter from his captors. "Watch him try to stand!" "The famous Jared Leto can't stand!"

They tormented him over and over. "Let's get him ready for the Spanish division to load," one of the dumber ones said.

"Huh? Spanish?" Jared lifted his head to figure out where he was at. He saw an Italian flag hanging by the only exit. "Holy shit." He was in Italy, home of the Italian Echelon, mobsters, and Italian food. And somehow, he went from being in the United States to being in Italy overnight.

"So you guys are sending me to Spain?" Jared asked. His answer was a kick in the shin.

"Yes. Now be quiet while we arrange for your transport." Jared watched as they sent a text message to someone to arrange his transport.

His captors were true asses.

"Jessey hurry up!" Skyla protested. She despised waiting on Jessey.

"Coming!" Jessey stopped texting and closed the motel room door. "We got everything, right?"

"Yeah." Why was Skyla just now finding out how annoying Jessey was?

"Why did 30 Seconds to Mars cancel the show?" Jessey whined. "We have all weekend; why don't we just stay?"

"No, I think it's best if we go back." Skyla had told Shannon they'd be back in Tennessee by Friday night and they exchanged emails to keep in touch in case something happened.

"Okay. Whatever." Jessey shrugged and got in the driver's seat. "I'm going to drive first, okay?"

"Yeah sure." Skyla was distracted. Something was off with her friend.

They pulled out of the Super 8 parking lot, stopping just long enough for Skyla to slip the room key to the tendant behind the glass. "Thanks a lot!" she said breathlessly.

The drive to Chattanooga was long and tedious; Jessey quizzed Skyla about where she went the night before.

"I went to Starbucks; I ran into Shannon and Tomo," Skyla said nonchalantly. She remembered the promise she made to Shannon and Tomo — "We haven't said a word... and we expect you not to either." She was definitely keeping that promise when her best friend was a huge blabbermouth!

"Shannon as in Leto and Tomo as in Miličević?!" Jessey squealed.

"Yep." Skyla yawned. The exit where they turned off on yesterday to eat and swap places was coming up.

"Hey turn off here. Here's the exit." Skyla was shifting in her seat.

Jessey turned and they found a place to eat. Thirty minutes later, Skyla was behind the wheel and was speeding toward Chattanooga.

"Whoa, slow down!" Jessey imitated holding onto a hat.

"I think my brother is leaving to go back to school today; I want to see him before he leaves," Skyla lied.

"Oh." Jessey turned her attention to a new text message.

When they arrived in Tennessee, Jessey was still texting and Skyla had her eyes on the road. Skyla took Jessey by her house first.

"Later," Skyla said.

"Bye," Jessey said. She grabbed her bag out of the backseat and went inside.

As Skyla was driving home she received an email from Shannon: "In Chattanooga. Meet me at the aquarium at 8 p.m. so we can leave. -S."

Skyla smiled and pulled in her driveway. Her parents were home, thankfully. She grabbed her bag and went in.

She told her parents everything, excluding the reason why Shannon and Tomo wanted her to go with them. She made it seem as if Jared was still with them.

"So, this band wants you to go with them on their tour?" her mother asked.

"Yes. Shannon, the drummer, is going to talk to—" Skyla started.

"You can go; we'll talk to your school about your graduation," her father said.

"Neil, you can't possibly... She can't possibly..." her mother said.

"They want her to go. If we say no she'll go anyways." Her father looked at her. "Be careful, Skyla, okay?"

Skyla hugged her dad. "Of course, dad."

Skyla emailed Shannon back and told him that she would meet him at 8 p.m. She then grabbed her bag and ran upstairs to pack more clothes and her bathroom toiletries. She dumped it all out on her bed and grabbed her passport and stuck it in her purse. She then started rolling clothes as tightly as she could and put them in a backpack. After 8 pairs of jeans, 4 pairs of sweatpants, 2 sweatshirts, 12 T-shirts and 4 pairs of socks, she tried zipping the backpack; it shut easily. "Wow," she mouthed. she grabbed 4 more pairs of socks and 2 bras, along with about 30 pairs of underwear. She folded them and put them in along with another pair of sneakers and the backpack still shut easily. She decided to put her laptop and her purse inside a carry-on. She shut it and carried it down the stairs.

"Got enough?" her father asked.

"Yeah," Skyla answered. The suitcase was no bigger than a backpack. She set it by the stairs and headed back in to say goodbye to her parents.

"But it isn't 8 p.m. yet!" her mother protested.

"I want to walk along the Riverwalk," Skyla said.

Her parents hugged her and as she was heading out the door, she caught a glimpse of the time: 7:45 p.m. No harm in being a bit early!

Jackson was waiting by the driver's side of her car. "I'm driving this time."

Skyla didn't care. She got in the passenger's side and buckled up; Jackson took off.

"Where to?" he asked.

"The aquarium," she said. She was excited.

On their way out, Skyla saw Jessey leaving in her car. She ignored it.

Jackson drove her to the aquarium. When they arrived, it was 7:55 p.m. and Shannon was waiting outside the aquarium.

"What is going on?" Jackson asked.

"I'm going with them on tour," Skyla answered. "But only for a short while."

She grabbed her backpack and carry-on from the trunk and left her brother idling at the curb. She waved bye to him as she walked up to Shannon.

"I have never known a girl who can carry her shit in a just a backpack and a carry-on; even Emma and Vicki carry a rolling suitcase!" he laughed.

Skyla giggled. "Yeah, well... I have some experience traveling!" she proclaimed.

"Let's go. We gotta meet up with everyone," Shannon said.

"Ow! Careful!" Jared said. He was positive he had a few bruised ribs. "Where am I?" he asked his new captors.

"Spain," one of them told him through a thick Spanish accent. "Our leader will be here momentarily; she will tell us what to do with you."

Sure enough, Jared heard a shrill girl's voice yell at his captors a few hours later: "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT TALKING TO OUR PRISONERS?!"

A teenaged girl stepped out of the darkness and came into the area where they were holding him. She held up his face and looked him in the eye.

Jared grabbed his chance: he spat in her face.

"This one is not well-behaved. Our brothers in Italy could've done better!" she said, disgusted. "Jared Leto. Your life, your entire existence, hangs in the balance here. You DARE spit in my face?"

Jared felt like he was two inches tall. "I only spit in it because you spit in mine," Jared stammered.

The girl shrieked with laughter.

"What is your name, anyways?" Jared asked Witchy-Poo.

"Jessey Vargas."

Jared narrowed his eyes. He didn't like this Jessey Vargas. Not one bit.
Sign up to rate and review this story


text:
“Current Communist Goals” of 1963 Are 2020’s Reality

Ms. Normand’s checklist of 45 things needing to be done to America for Communism to take over is truly daunting. In this breakdown, highlighted the points that are so incredibly apparent in 2020’s America because it is frightening how close we are to becoming a Communist nation.

Where Do You Draw The Line?

The draconian lockdown orders from the Leftist governors, like Gavin Newsom, are increasingly resembling the lockdowns on the Chinese people by the Chinese Communist Party. There is no end in sight. From statewide mask mandates to shutting down businesses to mandatory curfews, parts of our country are mirroring that of a police state. My line was drawn long before any of the tyrannical Orders in this article were drafted. I doubt they believed we’d relinquish so much, so easily. Where do you draw the line?

Trump is Not a Racist Antisemitic Bigot

The mainstream media spreads lie after lie about the President, imagining new ways they can convince the American people that President Trump is a racist. Here’s the breakdown on a few examples of why that is simply untrue.

2020 VP Debate: Notable Moments Part 1

The 2020 Vice Presidential Debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris, and compared to the First 2020 Presidential Debate, it was a snoozer. In reality it was incredibly important for the American people to see that Vice President Pence is the calm to President Trump’s storm.

Here’s Part 1 of my breakdown debunking Kamala’s lies, pointing out her inability to answer simple questions, and notable moments from Vice President Pence in regards to The Coronavirus Pandemic and The Issue of Presidential Disability. More to come in Parts 2 and 3!

Antisemitism: The Unmentioned Racism

Antisemitism is more rampant then it has been in decades in modern America, yet even amidst these times of civil unrest and race riots, the racism that is antisemitism is not discussed. This breakdown will explain what antisemitism is, give a brief history of antisemitism, and insight into the growing hate crimes against Jews and antisemitism in America.

%d bloggers like this:


text:
Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Cinema Elron - Film Noir

(read the following typecast in your best Bogart voice)

(okay, go back to reading this with a voice that sounds more like Clive James now)

I used to live in an apartment complex in the suburb of New Farm that had quite a culture to it. One of our co-tennants insisted that it felt like 'Melrose Place'. The rest of us were pretty sure that it was about as close to 'Tales of the city' as you could get in Brisbane. Transvestites, quite conservative men in the top floor, odd princesses coming in and out. John the guitar repair guy often strumming his creations late into the night, only to be seen reading the newspaper while sitting on a tiny 60's garden chair the next morning. Lawyers, PR people, photographers, opera fanatics... we had the lot.

I'm sure you get the picture. It was a bit of drama, a bit of fun, and a whole lot of interesting.

The complex itself was in a U-shape with a sizeable mutual courtyard that nicely lent itself to lots of events and parties. One of those events used to be the cinema nights that I would run from time to time. It was called 'Cinema Elron' after the name of the building - Elron Court.

The complex was constructed in the 1930's to a largely art deco design style. It wasn't 'pure deco' as apartments near by - such as Coronet Court are, but you could never mistake it as being built in any other era. Naturally, on a few occasions we decided that film Noir would be the perfect accompaniment to the building's interesting and odd history.

While I was stumbling through the disorganised mess that is the hard drive of my Mac, I came across a few of the old posters I had designed. The movies for the cinema night were usually voted on, on the night. But people were expected to nominate films to be chosen from. The first time we did this everyone scratched their heads and made all kinds of confused noises, feeling awkward about nominating a film, as they feared they might be forcing everyone to watch their personal favourite - and everyone would hate them for it. As such I got no nominations.

The first poster was simply just a way of making sure everyone in the complex knew the date, and knew what was going on. That way we could avoid having that awkward moment when you find yourself walking out your front door and finding 30 people on your front step. But after that, the posters started to represent the next cinema night's theme.

In the time I ran it, Noir came up twice. The first time was when we ran a 'Modern Noir' theme, where we tried to get everyone to nominate their preferred post 50's Noir film. Later, we had another night where we ran a traditional Noir night, looking for nominations for Noir films across the whole spectrum.

I no longer live in Elron Court, and I do miss it in a lot of ways. When I came across these posters this afternoon I thought to myself - the bloggers from pages like 'Streamlines De Luxe' and mike from 'Just Write' - perhaps even 'Teeritz' might find them interesting. I designed these posters myself. And I reckon Teeritz might find one of them somewhat familiar looking,

 It also reminded me that I promised a print of my posters to the New Farm historical society. There were a few posters in total. But I felt the film Noir ones might be of the most interest to the Typosphere/writer/typerwriter crew I mostly blog this towards.

Half way through setting up one of my cinema nights.

  1. "I was getting a little slow in my old age. The street looked familiar, but I couldn't place it at first. I kept scanning it for some landmarks buried deep in the dark and cobwebbed corners of my rapidly fading memory. That tall one on the left looked like the IOOF Building. There's a coffee cart near the entrance at the base of this building and Lev makes the best latte this side of Milan. Since Pete retired, that is. And I think that's the Galleria Building in the distance beyond on the left. Used to belong to The State Bank before they folded. Now it's Commonwealth Bank's headquarters. For how long, nobody knows. Even a giant can fall.
    And I think I can see the lights of a tram in the distance. This is the last town in the country that still runs street-cars. I'm gonna miss them when they're gone. The W-Class trams have pretty much been phased out to be replaced with these soul-less tin cans that are churned out in Sweden. Or is it Austria? Did I mention my memory's going?
    So, I'd have to say you were standing at the second entrance to Flinders Street Station (next to the hobby store that sells model airplanes Hearn's Hobbies?) and you took the picture facing North down Elizabeth Street. You couldn't take a picture on that corner nowadays. Lizzie Street's got the highest ratio of knife-crimes in the city. The Police Comissioner is calling it a crime-wave. The gangs are calling it progress."

    Nice photo. Makes Melbourne look like a noir-town. I used to work in Collins St and walked down that stretch of Elizabeth St for ten years until January this year when I changed jobs.

    1. I knew you'd spot it.

      I took that photo about a year ago. Lizzy street has always been pretty nasty, especially down that corner. I remember watching 6 plain clothes cops kick the crap out of a member of the Collingwood football team, after he fired up at them when they busted him urinating on the footpath.

      You've got the right entrance too. Do you remember that just back from this entrance there used to be Melbourne's nastiest public toilet?

      I miss Melbourne. Shame about the W class though.

    2. Yeah, some people really don't like Collingwood. I gave up on them back in 1981 when they lost their third Grand Final in a row. And that nasty public toilet is still there. I used it once...back in 2005. Never again. The W Class trams still run down Chapel St and there's a nicely restored one that does the City Circle run daily.

  2. Sounds wonderful. I think viewing a movie outside on a nice night would be very enjoyable.

    1. Always been really enjoyable. We had to phase things down a bit when the yard filled with about 60 people on one of these. I still have my projector and my screen, and come summer I might end up just setting it up in our yard for a few people. But the feel was unique at Elron court.

  3. Great posters. Had I lived in your apartments, I wouldn't have been shy about nominating a film to watch. Sounds like good times and great memories.

    1. Absolutely great times. Thanks for the compliments.


text:
Breaking News Bar

Business News and Information

Eyenovia Inc (NQ: EYEN )

1.600 -0.040 (-2.44%)
Streaming Delayed Price Updated: 3:59 PM EDT, Aug 19, 2022 Add to My Watchlist

Historical Prices

Date Open High Low Close Volume Change (%)
Data & News supplied by
Stock quotes supplied by Barchart
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
bottom clear


text:
First Call Decks

Is your pitch deck ready to compete?

We have put together presentations for some really amazing brands that have helped them grow their clients and raise series funding.

Let's start planning

+  Pitch Decks

+  Keynote Presentations

+  Branded Deck Templates

+  Presentation Visualizations

+  Slide Animations

Start with a cohesive framework

Creating an intuitive structure and flow to your presentation deck is perhaps the most important fundamental to address when you start building your presentation. Take a 50,000 foot view at the start and map out a purposeful presentation journey. Have a clear intro, agenda, crescendo, wrap up and next steps.

Get to the value

Capture the audience's attention quickly and get them invested in your story. To do that keep it simple and answer these questions as directly as possible. What business problem are you solving for the person/s you’re speaking with? What do you bring as a company to solve that problem better than anyone else.

Move with purpose

Venture capitalists & decision-makers see 5000+ slide decks every year. They have little patience for poorly designed, unorganized, rambling presentations. Good design, and clear messaging will amplify your value proposition and brand in a crowded conference room. Lead the conversation forward and tell a compelling story as you move slide to slide.

Additional fundamentals

Keep to 12-15 slides max | Set the tone with an Overview/Agenda Slide | What's the industry problem/need? | What do you bring as a company? | Onboarding process/timeline | Case Studies/Quotes | Who we work with slide | Use a Next Steps slide to move along the sale | Include a Leadership slide

FINAO has been a fantastic partner over the years. They are incredibly dependable, quick to deliver, and always have new ideas to bring a project to the next level.

Heather Watkins • Marketing Strategy and Demand Generation Leader, Better Impact Marketing


text:
LBank Exchange Listed Mapt. Coin (XMP) on March 31, 2022

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Apr 3, 2022, ZEXPRWIRE, LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, will list Mapt. Coin (XMP) on March 31, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the XMP/USDT trading pair officially available for trading at 21:00 (UTC+8) on March 31, 2022.

Backed by physical assets, Mapt. ODL is a digital asset operator providing renewable energy. With its large property portfolio sitting as an income generating portfolio that stabilizes the company, it developed its own Mapt Blockchain and cryptocurrency called Mapt. Coin (XMP), which will be supported by its various renewable energy projects and its NFT platform. The XMP token will be listed on LBank Exchange at 21:00 (UTC+8) on March 31, 2022, to further expand its global reach and help it achieve its vision.

Introducing Mapt. ODL

Mapt. ODL is a privately owned company which specializes in real estate, renewable energy, cryptocurrency and an NFT minting and marketing platform. It is also gearing up to deliver Europe’s first Green Index compliant blockchain, an innovative eco-friendly blockchain solution with huge potential to play a crucial role in the green energy sector. Mapt. Blockchain will operate on a 250 MW renewable energy site.

Through the Mapt. ODL network and its own platforms, Mapt. intends to be a household brand of the future by introducing its own unique cryptocurrency, which will be project backed by its many renewable energy projects and its NFT platform. This will help to allay some of the fears held by those who wouldn’t necessarily invest in the cryptocurrency marketplace, therefore making its native token Mapt. Coin (XMP) attractive to all investors regardless of age or understanding.

Mapt. ODL uses tried and tested methods, such as physical asset acquisitions, to give itself a stable foundation on which to build and grow into important industries which are in their infancy. One of its most exciting products will enable young families to get on the property ladder without the need of a deposit. This will in time replace traditional bank mortgages and enable people to own their home in as little as 10 years.

Moreover, after 18 months of development and Beta testing, Mapt. ODL has also launched a new NFT influencer marketing platform. The mission of it is to revolutionize the influencer industry and democratize influencers by creating their own mini economy. Utilizing XMP token, this will increase the value of commissions over time. The infrastructure benefits brands, NFT Creators, influencers and consumers at every step.

About XMP Token

XMP, also known as Mapt. Coin, is the native cryptocurrency created on the XRPL of all Mapt. projects and platforms. There are 10 billion (i.e. 10,000,000,000) XMP created and no more will ever be minted, making XMP deflationary. Its value is backed on two projects including Mapt. NFT minting and marketing platform and Swiss utility bill payers. Also, as Mapt. will have a large property portfolio stabilizing the company, the XMP can be a stable cryptocurrency that’s protected from significant price volatility.

XMP will be listed on LBank Exchange at 21:00 (UTC+8) on March 31, 2022, investors who are interested in Mapt. Coin investment can easily buy and sell XMP token on LBank Exchange by then. The listing of XMP on LBank Exchange will undoubtedly help it further expand its business and draw more attention in the market.

Learn More about XMP Token:

Official Website:

About LBank Exchange

LBank Exchange, founded in 2015, is an innovative global trading platform for various crypto assets. LBank Exchange provides its users with safe crypto trading, specialized financial derivatives, and professional asset management services. It has become one of the most popular and trusted crypto trading platforms with over 6.4 million users from now more than 210 regions around the world.

Start Trading Now:

Community & Social Media:

l   Telegram

l   Twitter

l   Facebook

l   Linkedin

Contact Details:

LBK Blockchain Co. Limited

LBank Exchange

[email protected]

PR Contact:

[email protected]

The post LBank Exchange Listed Mapt. Coin (XMP) on March 31, 2022 appeared first on Zex PR Wire.

Information contained on this page is provided by an independent third-party content provider. Binary News Network and this Site make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. If you are affiliated with this page and would like it removed please contact [email protected]

Related posts

NFT Reborn – an Innovative Platform for the Reborn of NFT Art Objects

Binary News Network

Shrimpy Leads Users to a New Crypto Journey with The Shrimpy Academy

SoRichIam Media’s Helps Families Go from Poverty to Recession Proof


text:
Why Your Spouse Has a Hard Time Supporting Your Business Idea and What You Can Do About It

The support of a spouse is a huge factor in the success or failure of a business. The influence of your spouse has a direct impact on how inspired and effective you can be in a business, and in your romantic life. The person you’ll spend most of the time with can help or hurt your efforts to build a business.
    Whenever a business idea is presented before a spouse, there is usually some resistance, even when it is clearly in the best interest of the family. It is not that your spouse is against your running a business while you do have a great business idea and sheer excitement of making a lot of money from it. There are often, certain issues that present a conflict of interest and lack of mutual understanding. Here are some of the reasons your spouse resists your business ideas and what you can do about it.

Time and Financial Commitment

    Your Partner may be afraid to support your business idea because you might need to spend more time away from the family since running a new business requires huge amount of time commitment than the normal 9am-5pm job. Your new business may require your spouse taking on some new roles in the family thereby disrupting routines, forcing your partner to think, reevaluate and learn new skills.
    Yes, your business will take time but it doesn’t have to take all of your time. There should be work-life balance. Work-life balance means making choices and trade-offs. Reasonable people figure out a perfect work-life balance plan that allows them to deliver enough of themselves to the workspace, to the family and to fun. Let your spouse understand that your idea of starting a new business will not create imbalance or hurt your love life.
    Do you have enough money to live on while you start up? People are so engrossed in thinking about money for their new business that they forget to think about other important monthly expenses that must be covered while getting their business started.
    If your business idea would make you entirely depend on your spouse financially for a lengthy period of time before income begins to show up, your partner may be scared of how to cope with such experience. It will be better to save some money for the startup cost to avoid complete disorientation of the family financial plan. This will alleviate the initial financial burden on the part of your spouse.

Lack of Ownership of an Idea

   In his book Developing the Leader within You, John C. Maxwell wrote that, ‘When people lack ownership of an idea, they usually resist it even when it is in their best interest. They simply don’t like to be manipulated into an idea or feeling like pawns of the system’.  Getting your spouse involved and asking their opinion about your business idea is very important. They might have skills and ideas of business startup that could complement yours, which can help to grow the business. You can even take that a step further and build a great business together with the love of your life
Let your spouse be part of ownership of your idea. Seek for your partner’s advice; explain your vision, long term goals and aspiration. Clarify how your business would give you freedom, financial security and add value to the family finances. Make a list of logical advantages and psychological impacts. Explain how you are going to pay back in case your spouse helps you secure loan and how you are going to discontinue the business in case it fails. If you fail, your spouse would end up bearing the entire burden of the financial upkeep of the family as your business fails to generate sales and profits.

Choice and Timing of Business

    Your choice of business may not be compatible with your spouse’s value or the family value. For instance, you want to launch a business idea of running a restaurant and bar and it’s something that goes against the family value. This idea may be hard to sail through. Besides, your spouse may not just like certain businesses irrespective of whether they are compatible with the family value. Funnily enough, your partner may not have any genuine reason for opposing your idea. So it is important you make him or her realize what is important and what is not important.
     Bringing up your business idea when your spouse is seeking for fund to complete a pressing project may not be the right time for your idea, so be sensitive of your timing. You could take advantage of opportunities that certain occurrences like downsizing, COVID-19 pandemic or global fall in the price of crude oil present to support your business idea. Some of the largest businesses were founded before, after or during deep recessions. From General motors and Disney to FedEx, IBM, Google and Saleforce. If you can make the case that your business idea could help solve problems and can help reflate the family economy, then you might be able to get the support of your spouse

Clarity of Purpose

    Are you only interested in how much it will cost you to start the business and how much money you will make out of it? Do you have a genuine plan or task lists to get the business idea launched to the next level? Don’t neglect the key elements of the business idea such as financial plan, marketing plan and business operations. Your partner would love to hear you out on these sensitive issues. No spouse is interested in a vague business that is not clearly presented.
    It is important you have a business plan of your business idea, stating the key elements, your objectives and the realization of your goals. Your business plan alone is an accomplishment. It’s part of your business idea implementation and a demonstration of your seriousness, competence, skills, and the knowledge of what is expected in the business as well as the challenges ahead. This will get your spouse to look into your business idea with much interest. Making a good presentation of your business plan is far better than just verbalizing your whole plan.

Entrepreneurship Mindset

    There are traits that every entrepreneur should have before going into a business without which you may not survive the entrepreneurship journey. These traits we have outlined in Critical Steps You Must Know Before Quitting as Employee to becoming Self-employed. Here we discussed the attributes of entrepreneurs that will help you understand your entrepreneurship IQ. Your spouse may suspect you may not have all its takes if you lack these attributes

Big Picture Thinking

    If your spouse is such a person who cannot see the big picture, someone who is employed and sees a corporate world and lifestyle as the only way of life,  believe only in wearing corporate tie, suit and carrying suitcase. Such persons may need to understand how small business becomes a giant enterprise that becomes a corporate world today. Your spouse may belittle your business, feeling that your certificate is bigger than the small business you intend to start. Your spouse may also resist your business idea, probably because you have other issues in your relationship that are speaking out through your frustration. It is important you make your spouse understand that the journey ahead is much more than monthly salary and the friction in your relationship. Let your spouse realize that in the event of rightsizing, layoff, downsizing, re-engineering or whatever it is called when you suffer job loss, your business may help to support the family as well as creating job for the children in the future.
     If you have any point, comments or idea to share, kindly share them to expand our knowledge and those of our readers.
 Remember to like and share.

By Olusegun Solaogun

CEO: Firstway Bookshop

Website: www.firstwaybookshop.com

Relatest posts

Leave Comments

16 + 17 =

WhatsApp chat


text:
How to Overcome Criticism Hangover and Make More Money

OK. I’ll admit it. “Criticism Hangover” is a word that I just made up – but I bet you know what it means. It’s that feeling that you used to get when you left the front door open and the cat ran out of the house. You felt like your parents would slice you up […]

Stop Learning and Start Earning

It’s time to stop learning and start earning. I’m not kidding. You really should stop studying and just get out there. Once I did, I became a lot more successful. I can best explain the true cost of learning when I tell you about launching my blog. Two years ago, I didn’t know what a […]

Character Flaws and Financial Success

It occurred to me recently that I can use my character flaws to make much smarter life choices going forward – financial and otherwise. More importantly, so can you. The thought popped into my head while my wife and I were on vacation in New York. (Side note – the vacation was debt free!) While […]

How to Negotiate Like a Pro

Some people are scared to death when confronted with the need to negotiate with others. They’d rather pay more or do whatever they have to – anything – in order to avoid this process. I completely understand the sentiment. The only problem is, if this describes you, you might end up paying too much for […]

Get Out of Debt Success

If you’ve tried several times to get out of debt and can’t seem to manage it, this is the article you’ve been waiting for. I’m going to tell you why you continually struggle, and I’m also going to provide a simple solution. On the face of it, getting out of debt seems simple; spend less […]

How to Survive Financial Betrayal

If you’re old enough to read, then you’ve almost certainly been “had” financially once or twice. Perhaps a “friend” borrowed money and didn’t pay it back. Instead, she “remembers” that it was a gift from the start — and tirelessly tries to convince you. Or maybe your brother-in-law sold you mortgage life insurance — and […]

What Tinky Winky Taught Me About Money

If you’re a parent, you probably know who Tinky Winky is. He’s one of the infamous Teletubbies – those colorful little TV creatures who live in Teletubby Land, of course. You remember his friends Po, Dipsy and Laa-laa, don’t you? I knew it would all come back to you. 🙂 Anyways… Tinky taught me a […]

Planning for Your Demise

If you want to do your spouse a favor, you should pretend you donâ€™t exist… At least for a few hours. If youâ€™re the one who manages the finances – and possibly earns most of the money – youâ€™ll do your spouse a solid by simply going through this exercise. Ask your spouse how they’d […]

When Bad Investments Happen to Good People

You’ve done everything you were supposed to do. You learned as much as you could about investing and you made (what you thought) were smart moves. But the investments didn’t work out. You lost money. Of course, you’re not the only one singing this tale of woe. Over the last 10 years, stock market investors […]


text:
Monday, April 24, 2017

Review: The Lost City of Z (2017)

* * * 1/2

Director: James Gray
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller

To obsess over something for years, to work so hard, to be so close and find that it is just beyond your reach - it would be enough to drive a person mad. The Lost City of Z, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by David Grann and centering on Percy Fawcett's search for a lost civilization in the Amazon jungle, does not treat Fawcett as though it thinks he was mad for continuously returning to the jungle, but makes a fairly compelling case for how he might have been driven mad by everything outside of the jungle. The film features touches that are reminiscent of such films as Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo, and, especially, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, all films that know madness well, and reunites writer/director James Gray with cinematographer Darius Khondji after 2014's The Immigrant. Mesmerizing and often soulful, The Lost City of Z is a beautiful and bewitching story about one man's unconquerable desire to know the unknown.

Sunday, April 23, 2017

21st Century Essentials: Frances Ha (2013)

Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Greta Gerwig
Country: United States

Frances Ha might well be subtitled “A Woman in Transition.” It’s a story all about a period in the life of its protagonist when everything is up in the air: her professional artistic ambitions have stalled and she’s facing the possibility of having to give up her dream in order to support herself; her living situation is in a constant state of flux and she shuffles from one home to the next; and her most important relationship – the one she has with her best friend – appears to be failing, though she doesn’t understand why. At 86 minutes, it might sound like a slight piece of work, but it’s slight in running time only. A finely attuned character piece, Frances Ha is so brilliant and charming that it even manages to use to its advantage all the “New York hipster” trappings that, in a lesser movie, would be too annoying to overcome.

Friday, April 21, 2017

Friday's Top 5... Crazy Lady Movies

#5: The Roommate

The Roommate is not a good movie, but it is a hilarious watch if you're with the right people. Full points to Leighton Meester for her total commitment to playing a college girl who becomes obsessed with her roommate.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Review: The Fate of the Furious

* * 1/2

Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham

Even when grading on the generous curve you have to allow for the movies from the Fast and Furious series, which aim for nothing more than the simplest entertainment and the most instant of gratifications, the latest entry is just a bit of a disappointment. The Fate of the Furious (how is it not called The F8 of the Furious? Was that too obvious even for this series?) is an over-stuffed entry in a series that was already pretty well-stuffed and which pretty thoroughly disappears up itself by playing around with its mythology rather than continuing to build it out - to say nothing of the fact that its villain is such a non-entity that it almost seems like Charlize Theron just popped by over a weekend to film some scenes for the hell of it. But, still, it's about the action, right? The action is pretty good, though it leaves you wondering where, if each entry in the series is to have bigger action than the last, the series has left to go with the two (at least) films it has planned for the future.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Review: Passengers (2016)

* * *

Director: Morton Tyldum
Starring: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence

Passengers has a 31% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 41 rating on Metacritic. Is it secretly a great movie? No, but is it the terrible movie that those ratings would imply? Not nearly. Those ratings would suggest something borderline incompetent, something shoddily made with little to recommend it. But Passengers is an entertaining movie with more than enough to make it worth taking the time to watch, even if it is thematically problematic. Thinking about it afterwards, I was reminded of something I once read about Jerry Maguire (I can't remember the exact wording and couldn't find the review, so I'm stuck paraphrasing), that it's a movie that knows a great deal about sports but very little about relationships. Similarly, Passengers is a film that knows a great deal about how to spin an adventure yarn, but very little about women and relationships. It suffered for the latter, but it deserves praise for the former.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Netflix Recommends... Basic (2003)

* 1/2

Director: John McTiernan
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen

I'll give Basic this much: it lives up to its title. It's so basic that it appears not to have been developed beyond its very ideas for the plot and the characters, let alone beyond the first draft of the screenplay. Basic is the cinematic equivalent of a kid who gets to school and realizes that he has a project due, so he throws something together in the five minutes before the bell rings just to have something to hand in. It's bad. It's not even bad in the "so bad, it's entertaining" way. It's bad in the "so bad it's a total waste of time" way. But thanks to the new algorithm launched by Netflix, it was recommended for me with an 90% match - which isn't to say that Netflix hasn't always recommended bad movies for me, it's just that it used to recommend movies even as it acknowledged that it didn't think I would rate them highly. Anyway, on with the show:

Monday, April 10, 2017

Review: Personal Shopper (2017)

* * * 1/2

Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Kristen Stewart

It's far too early in the year to say whether Personal Shopper will end up on my list of the year's best, but I feel like I can confidently say that it's going to be one of the films I feel compelled to revisit later in the year, possibly more than once. It's a film that engrosses and fascinates and maybe frustrates just a little bit thanks to writer/director Olivier Assayas' refusal to play by movie rules as we know them and thanks to the questions which linger afterwards like a spirit determined to make its presence known. The film re-teams Assayas with Kristen Stewart after Clouds of Sils Maria and if anything it's even more enigmatic than that film and makes even better use of Stewart's skill set as a performer, leveraging that tranquility that sometimes plays like flatness by shaking it up so that even something as simple as the little blue bubble of a text message on a phone screen takes on a world of meaning and tension just because of how close it pushes her to the edge. Personal Shopper is the definition of a film that does a lot with a little.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Review: Five Came Back (2017)

* * * 1/2

Director: Laurent Bouzereau

I'm not sure if Five Came Back qualifies as a proper film, since Netflix is selling it as a series and it's split into distinct episodes, but I figure if a 10 part ESPN series can win the Best Documentary Oscar, then surely definitions are fluid enough that this story about five of old Hollywood's great directors putting their careers on hold in order to document WWII qualifies as a film. Adapted from Mark Harris' book of the same name (which is very much worth the read, whether you're a film buff or not), Five Came Back is an often affecting look at how the experience of the war had a lasting impact on the directors - Frank Capra, John Ford, William Wyler, George Stevens, and John Huston - not just as men, but as filmmakers whose careers and work would be markedly changed. Running at just a little over 3 hours, Five Came Back isn't as comprehensive as a film as it is as a book, but it's nevertheless a moving and engrossing piece of work.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

21st Century Essentials: House of Flying Daggers (2004)

Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi
Country: China/Hong Kong

Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers is the kind of cinematic feast that Hollywood used to churn out with semi-regularity but seems to have become disinterested in of late. Fortunately for viewers there are filmmakers working outside of Hollywood, like Zhang, who are there to pick up the slack and are still interested in making films with sumptuous production elements, epic narratives full of grand adventure, and with just a bit of romance. On a purely superficial level, House of Flying Daggers is a bold, visual masterpiece that truly goes for broke in its costumes, production design, and its cinematography. On a deeper narrative level, it’s a film that perfectly balances character work with ambitious action setpieces. An instant classic of its kind on its release in 2004, it remains one of the most beguiling and engaging films of the century so far.


text:
Joe Biden to visit Michigan vaccine plant as winter throws curve
Image via AP.

Joe Biden
Weather delaying shipments of vaccines.

Extreme winter weather is dealing the first major setback to the Joe Biden administration’s planned swift rollout of coronavirus vaccines just as the national vaccination campaign was hitting its stride.

The disruptions caused by frigid temperatures, snow and ice left the White House scrambling to work with states to make up “lost ground” even as Biden was set to visit a Pfizer vaccine manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The president’s trip itself had been pushed back a day to Friday due to wintry weather in the nation’s capital.

The president was set to meet with workers at the plant who are producing one of the two federally-approved COVID-19 shots. According to the CDC, the two-dose Pfizer vaccine has been administered about 30 million times since it received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11.

From Texas to New England, bad weather has forced many injection sites to close and held up shipments of needed doses.

The U.S. had administered an average of 1.7 million doses per day in the week that ended on Tuesday, evidence that the pace of the vaccination program was picking up. The magnitude of the weather’s impact was not immediately clear because of reporting lags in vaccination data maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but it was expected to be significant.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House was closely monitoring the weather’s impact on vaccine deliveries and working with manufacturers, shipping companies and states to speed their distribution.

The delays were so severe that Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday suggested he would explore sending his state’s national guard to collect doses from icebound shipping hubs in Memphis, Tennessee, and Louisville, Kentucky.

The Republican governor said the state “may have some real issues with supply delivery this week,” and “we have been told it would be a few days late, based on some of the issues around weather in other parts of the country.”

The Virginia Department of Health reported Thursday that it was expecting delays on about 90% of its expected 120,000 doses this week and warned that the delays could cascade into next week.

“Even if the roads are clear in Virginia, the fulfillment of orders and the movement of these vaccine and ancillary supplies may be delayed in other parts of the country,” the department said in a news release.

In North Carolina, none of the more than 163,000 first and second doses of the Moderna vaccine scheduled to arrive this week have been delivered by Biden’s administration, the state health department said. The state also noted that only a limited number of the nearly 127,000 expected Pfizer vaccines have been shipped.

Oklahoma moved to reschedule vaccine clinics to this weekend, when it expects its 110,000 doses to be delivered, aiming to make up appointments from this week.

The ripple effects extended far beyond areas experiencing winter weather. In Arizona, the bulk of the state’s anticipated shipment of Moderna doses was delayed until early next week, forcing the postponement of some vaccination appointments.

Psaki said the White House was working with shippers to speed deliveries of the vaccines once conditions improved and was encouraging states to extend hours for vaccination clinics once they reopen and to swiftly rebook postponed appointments.

“We want to make sure that as we’ve lost some time in some states for people to get needles in arms, that our partners do all they can to make up that lost ground,” said White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients.

Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines must remain frozen during shipping, with the Pfizer shot requiring super-cold storage temperatures. The White House said it was working with shippers to ensure there was no spoilage of doses during the weather delays.

“So far this week, there hasn’t been a single vaccine that’s spoiled” due to the delays, White House COVID adviser Andy Slavitt told CNN on Thursday. “We’re going to keep these vaccines safe and sound, then get them out to people and catch up just as soon as the weather allows.”

Officials were set to provide a fuller update on the weather impacts to vaccine deliveries on Friday.

Republished with permission from The Associated Press.

Associated Press

One comment

  • Sonja Fitch

    February 19, 2021 at 2:34 pm

    Omg real honest to god problems being approached as honest to god problems! Vote Democrat up and down ballot for the elections in 2022.

Comments are closed.

Florida Politics is a statewide, new media platform covering campaigns, elections, government, policy, and lobbying in Florida. This platform and all of its content are owned by Extensive Enterprises Media.

Publisher: Peter Schorsch @PeterSchorschFL

Contributors & reporters: Phil Ammann, Renzo Downey, Roseanne Dunkelberger, A.G. Gancarski, Anne Geggis, Kelly Hayes, Joe Henderson, Ryan Nicol, Jacob Ogles, Scott Powers, Gray Rohrer, Aimee Sachs, Jesse Scheckner, Christine Sexton, Andrew Wilson, Wes Wolfe, and Mike Wright.

Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @PeterSchorschFL
Phone: (727) 642-3162
Address: 204 37th Avenue North #182
St. Petersburg, Florida 33704

Sign up for Sunburn


text:
The Kill Zone

Hemingway stands tall on the flybridge as he frowns upon William Faulkner who has plopped himself comfortably in Pilar’s fighting chair. “You’ve never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary,” Faulkner arrogantly boasts. “You poor bastard, do you really think big emotions come from big words?” Hemingway raucously replies.

A cloud of dark dust rolls over the surface of the ocean, eventually reaching the deck of Maria. Enveloping the sea, it sandblasts the aging vessel with medieval darts from the menacing clouds. An empty tankard tumbles across the rocking vessel as the old captain awakens from a rum-soaked slumber. A worn copy of The Old Man and the Sea lays open on his chest. “Good God almighty, I must dry out,” he groaned, kneading his brow.

Beginning a slow troll in 2,000 feet of water, his bloodshot, milky eyes focus on a distant disturbance. The seemingly blue desert is suddenly fraught with life. A few hundred yards off the port bow great numbers of frigates soar beneath brilliant sunshine. The black, split-tailed pirates circle high above a large boil. “Fregata Magnificens, you have led me to the kill zone.”

The old man drives into the heart of the fray dragging a mackerel through the churning waters. The large conventional reel is set and the braided line taunt. Hundreds of bullet tuna and false albacore break the surface of the ocean, feeding on flying fish and ballyhoo. Launching from the sea, these tiny baits glide above the waves for great distances. The frightened fish take flight in an attempt to elude the pelagic hunters but are easily intercepted by the agile frigates. Above and below the waves, the slaughter is relentless.

Line suddenly pulls from the huge reel, and the thick rod doubles over as the vessel approaches the disturbed water. The rod tip vibrates, and the stressed gear begins a high-pitched whine as line sizzles from the corroded spool. Swallowing the bridled mackerel intended for marlin, an unseen giant dives deep into the canyons below. Baja shifts the engine in neutral. He then lifts the straining rod from the port-side holder and wobbles to sit. The full weight of the mysterious visitor is felt deep in Baja’s spine. A money fish he thought as he slid into the fighting chair. Placing the rod in the gimbal with his bare feet pressed firmly on the squeaky foot plate, he braces for another battle.

“Yes, I am hungover and should be holding my hands out in front of me to catch my aching head when it drops, but I bring you the fight.” Hours pass as sweat glazes the deep creases of his weathered skin. The captain leans forward cranking on the way down, then pulling the rod tip up while rearing back. The action is repeated in an effort to re-fill the reel. His legs cramp, and his shaking arms grow weak, but he continues to slowly gain line. The large predator has finally tired.

Easily the largest of all the tuna, a southern bluefin has taken the marlin bait. Its thick body is metallic blue above, and the lower sides and belly are silvery white. “I must harpoon this half grander, then lash him to the gunwale.” Placing the rod in the holder he reaches for a vintage dart. The massive fish finally surfaces close to Maria. Now with a clear shot, he heaves a toggle-iron harpoon with dynamically upsweeping rear barb deep into the tender flesh just above the pectoral fin. The rusty blade penetrates the dorsal aorta, causing bright red blood to pulsate from the great fish.

A perfect dart shot, not unlike those arrows that rained down in that vivid nightmare, he thought. The line quickly pays from a decaying wicker basket as the wounded leviathan makes a final attempt at escape. Unknowingly standing in a coil, the rope tightens around the old man’s ankle violently pulling him overboard. Ten feet below the surface he struggles for freedom. Nearing two atmospheres deep, his frightened eyes roll white as he slips unconscious, drawn deeper into the kill zone.


text:
Only a week until Fugitive Emissions Summit!

Free registration for visitors to walk the expo floor!

There is only one week left until Houston’s first ever Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas event. Attendees are able to pre-register to attend the exhibition for free as a visitor. Those interested in attending the conference portion of the event are encouraged to contact Conference Manager, Sarah Schroer, at

The conference will feature Workshops on compliance sustainability, gaskets, standards & testing, consent decree plan development, consent decrees at plant level, packings, design of low E valves, proper installation & maintenance, and the future of low E.

Register today! Visit:
For exhibition information:

Andre Davanzo

Office: +1-416-361-7030

Mobile: +1-647-522-7030

For conference & course information:

Sarah Schroer

Office: +1-416-361-7030

Mobile: +1-647-248-7116

For general inquiries:

Previous articleUniflex Control C.2 with new Makrolon protective flap
Next articleAker to deliver umbilicals system to Egypt’s Zohr field