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RALEIGH – By now it is well known that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made national headlines again for something that, depending upon whom you ask, demonstrates its animus against Christian groups or its passion for the principles of diversity. Specifically, UNC-CH is being sued by a Christian fraternity, Alpha Iota Omega, for officially derecognizing the group because the group wouldn’t sign a “nondiscrimination” pledge.

For the uninitiated, “derecognition” is the academic equivalent of Big Brother declaring Comrade Withers an “unperson.” UNC-CH declared AIO derecognized, then froze their university account containing the money the group had raised on its own, shut down their web access, denied them meeting space, and cut off their access to student-fees funding (which AIO didn’t use). Being dead to them, so to speak, AIO wasn’t even told when it was derecognized.

Why all the fuss? Why didn’t AIO sign the agreement? Because it would forbid the organization from discrimination on the basis of religion, and as AIO’s president, Trevor Hamm, explained in announcing the lawsuit, “Alpha Iota Omega was formed with the express purpose of sharing the Christian faith with members of other Greek fraternities” and its members are must adhere “to a Christian statement of faith, tenets of belief, and certain biblical standards of conduct.” It would be “impossible” for someone else “to adhere to and fulfill the purpose of the organization,” Hamm said, and since AIO’s standards include “honesty,” they “cannot in good conscience sign the university’s nondiscrimination policy.”

Well, then, why doesn’t the university let AIO meet on campus? Because, in the words of Chancellor James Moeser, “[t]here is sometimes a tension between the First Amendment to the Constitution and the equal protection provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment” which “all public universities” must somehow resolve. So UNC-CH “must strive to balance constitutional rights and protections.”

UNC-CH resolves this “tension,” Moeser said, by requiring any student group seeking official recognition to allow “membership and participation without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex, or sexual orientation.” Thus, “Baptist student groups are open to Presbyterian students; Jewish student groups are open to Christian students; the Italian Club is open to Korean students; and the Black Student Movement is open to white students.”

Tension between the First and Fourteenth Amendments? What a hidebound, mossbacked beast of purblind lunacy! But apparently the beast’s bite is infectious, because many students, student newspaper editorial staffs, and outside editorialists are sounding the same theme. UNC-CH is right to withhold recognition and meeting space to a group of discriminatory Christians, they say. Who do they think they are? You can’t discriminate in America!

Here’s the deal: You can, AIO can, but UNC-CH can’t. And there is no tension between the First and Fourteenth Amendments; both protect individuals from actions by the state, not by other individuals. A person cannot cite rights to free assembly or rights of nondiscrimination in order to have government force a private group to admit him. UNC-CH therefore cannot require a group like AIO to guarantee those “rights” to any theoretical person.

As stated by the Supreme Court in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay Group of Boston (1995), “the guarantees of free speech and equal protection guard only against encroachment by the government and ‘erec[t] no shield against merely private conduct'” [quoting from Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)].

In Rosenberger v. Rector (1995), the Supreme Court ruled that university programs such as UNC-CH’s that grant fees and meeting space to a wide spectrum of student groups are constitutional even when one of those groups receiving favor is Christian. The Court found that “[i]t does not violate the Establishment Clause for a public university to grant access to its facilities on a religion-neutral basis to a wide spectrum of student groups, including groups which use meeting rooms for sectarian activities, accompanied by some devotional exercises.” Tension?

Furthermore, in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000), the Court ruled that “implicit in the right to engage in activities protected by the First Amendment is a corresponding right to associate with others in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends.” Driving the point home, the Court ruled that “forced inclusion of an unwanted person infringes upon the group’s freedom of expressive association if the presence of that person affects in a significant way the group’s ability to advocate public or private viewpoints.” Tension?

A ‘decidedly fatal objective’

In Hurley, the Court ruled on the issue whether a group, the South Boston Allied Veterans War Council, had the constitutional right to exclude from its annual St. Patrick’s Day parade the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston. Here was a case of a group giving public access and public funds (even use of the city seal!) being challenged because it wanted to exclude individuals who differed over the group’s message. In Hurley, as later in Boy Scouts, the Court affirmed that group’s rights to exclude the unwanted speakers.

In doing so, the Court made an interesting note. “It might, of course, have been argued that a broader objective is apparent: that the ultimate point of forbidding acts of discrimination toward certain classes is to produce a society free of the corresponding biases,” the Court held then, as if anticipating the argument Moeser would use in 2004. “Requiring access to a speaker’s message would thus be not an end in itself, but a means to produce speakers free of the biases, whose expressive conduct would be at least neutral toward the particular classes, obviating any future need for correction. But if this indeed is the point of applying the state law to expressive conduct, it is a decidedly fatal objective.” Indeed!

The Court further noted that the group, “[h]aving availed itself of the public thoroughfares ‘for purposes of assembly [and] communicating thoughts between citizens,’ [it] is engaged in a use of the streets that has ‘from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, and liberties of citizens.'” In other words, there can’t be any “antidisciminatory” strings attached; the group’s right to express its message is still protected from government meddling.

The Court then puts a silver bullet in the beast. “The very idea that a noncommercial speech restriction be used to produce thoughts and statements acceptable to some groups or, indeed, all people, grates on the First Amendment, for it amounts to nothing less than a proposal to limit speech in the service of orthodox expression. The Speech Clause has no more certain antithesis,” it held. “While the law is free to promote all sorts of conduct in place of harmful behavior, it is not free to interfere with speech for no better reason than promoting an approved message or discouraging a disfavored one, however enlightened either purpose may strike the government.” Tension?

In short, the Constitution isn’t offended when universities grant meeting space and fees to Christian groups, too, but it is offended when they try to force the groups to admit unwanted persons. Whatever tension there really is, it’s between the academic left’s Diversity Über Alles approach and the U.S. Constitution’s protections of the individual against interference by public officials.

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To recap the news out of Durham this year: In April, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper declared Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans – the Duke University lacrosse players accused by “exotic dancer” Crystal Gail Mangum of rape and sexual assault – “innocent of these charges.”

In June, rogue district attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred and removed from office after being caught in dozens of instances of professional misconduct in his management of the case.

And the “Gang of 88” at Duke continue to act as if they did nothing untoward when they used Mangum’s lies as their point of departure for damning the university and community for supposedly making racist gang rape (which didn’t happen) possible. On their Web site,, they have a statement defending themselves. A salient portion:

In April, a group of Duke faculty members published an advertisement in The Chronicle. The ad, titled “What does a Social Disaster Sound Like?” was mostly a compilation of statements made by Duke students in response to the incident and its immediate aftermath. This ad has figured in many discussions of the event and of the University’s response. It has been broadly, and often intentionally, misread. … The ad has been read as a comment on the alleged rape, the team party, or the specific students accused. Worse, it has been read as rendering a judgment in the case.

It was “misread” that way because it was so politically opportunistic and gratuitously offensive. It was a spleen-venting nonpareil in which they lashed out not just at the Duke lacrosse team, but at the campus community and society at large. They accused untold numbers of students and community members of racism and sexual violence the level of which was creating a climate in which “every day” was just like gang rape and sexual battery for lots of students.

The ad was chockablock with such hysterical fare as “illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight [is] what [students] live with every day“; “These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman and to themselves“; “This is not a different experience for us here at Duke … We go to class with racist classmates, we go to the gym with people who are racists”; “students know that the disaster didn’t begin on March 13th.”

In their defense, the group soft-pedals that reality:

We understand the ad instead as a call to action on important, longstanding issues on and around our campus, an attempt to channel the attention generated by the incident to addressing these. … As a statement about campus culture, the ad deplores a “Social Disaster,” as described in the student statements, which feature racism, segregation, isolation, and sexism as ongoing problems before the scandal broke, exacerbated by the heightened tensions in its immediate aftermath. The disaster is the atmosphere that allows sexism, racism, and sexual violence to be so prevalent on campus.

It is true, yes, that the group never flat-out said that the lacrosse team members are guilty of gang rape. They made the requisite qualifications: “Regardless of the results of the police investigation,” “If it turns out that these students are guilty,” “the disaster didn’t begin on March 13th and won’t end with what the police say or the court decides.” See?

Instead, what they did was try to hijack what would have been the most shocking crime in Duke history bar none, pretend that it was normal, and use that perversion to justify endless, tedious harangues about how bad Duke, Durham and society at large have always been.

And they’re surprised that the surrounding community is awaiting their apology (calls for which they “reject”). Why, they’ve harbored those sentiments for years and no one’s ever objected before! Then again, they don’t normally take those sentiments outside the Gothic halls into what people in the university and out of it call “the real world.”


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The Great California Accreditation War

Accreditation is like the pancreas: not very interesting, but a source of serious problems if it malfunctions.

The pancreas of higher education just said “ouch.” An accrediting agency, licensed by the federal government to keep colleges in good order, just got a (temporarily suspended) death sentence.

What’s so important about accreditation and how did this strange circumstance come about?

Accreditation in higher education is a stamp of approval that says colleges must meet minimum academic, financial, and administrative standards. Before 1965 it didn’t count for much. It was like the “seal of the American Dental Association” on a tube of toothpaste—it didn’t tell the consumer anything, but showed that someone was watching.

But in 1965 Congress passed the Higher Education Act, which required colleges and universities to be accredited if they wanted to accept federal student aid money. Suddenly accreditation was very important, because that federal money was an indispensable part of most colleges’ business models.

In the years since accreditation has acquired other formidable powers. For example, it is practically impossible now to transfer academic credit from an unaccredited college to an accredited one. Considering that community colleges are all about transferring credit to senior colleges, if federal educrats dump their accrediting agencies, it’s a problem. Such is the case with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), which the Department of Education just notified it may soon lose its authority.

Here’s what happened.

In 2013 the ACCJC decided to revoke the accreditation of the City College of San Francisco (CCSF)—which, with 80,000 students, is the largest community college in the nation. The reason was a feud that went back to 2006.

Even back then, ACCJC provoked complaints from other California community colleges for throwing its weight around. The Peralta and Compton Community College Districts threatened to sue for “discrimination” if ACCJC didn’t back off. Two of the top ACCJC staff members were former Peralta staff members who allegedly had bad feelings towards their former employer. The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) also poked around, and called on the California legislature to investigate ACCJC and see if an alternative accrediting body could be created.

The presence of the organized muscle of CFT should tell knowledgeable readers that we are headed deep into California noir. Accrediting agencies are often thuggish organizations; teachers unions ditto. Community colleges are often sinks of patronage appointments, wasteful spending, and derisory academic standards. This is a story that promised no Galahads; just bare-knuckled do-what-it-takes lads.

In 2006, ACCJC found fault with how CCSF was run, but gave administrators some “good cause extensions” to fix the problems. But by 2009, ACCJC’s patience waned, and on June 30 sent a letter to CCSF Chancellor Don Griffin demanding a follow-up report.

The aim was to get CCSF to improve its “student learning outcomes” and “financial planning and stability.” The letter ended with a chilling reminder that deficiencies must be corrected “or the Commission must take action to terminate accreditation.”

CCSF first tried to fix the problems, but by 2013, faced with the loss of accreditation, CCSF chose the path of warfare. We might summarize this as the “You think you can dis-accredit us?  We’re going to dis-accredit you,” approach.

CCSF fought back with formal legal and bureaucratic appeals, claiming that:

  • ACCJC applied its sanctions inconsistently—it threatened to revoke CCSF’s accreditation for small problems while accrediting other community colleges with larger problems;
  • ACCJC wasn’t transparent about its own procedures; and
  • ACCJC hadn’t followed the proper accrediting spirit—to work to make colleges better rather than just to lower the boom.

Instead of arguing that it upheld standards of academic and financial integrity for a poorly run community college, ACCJC defended itself mostly on narrow legal grounds. And it lost.

Last December the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) recommended to the Department of Education that ACCJC be put on six months’ notice – either shape up, or lose federal recognition as an accrediting agency.

Department of Education officials agreed that ACCJC was so badly in the wrong that it, not CCSF, must be drastically reformed or terminated. The agency is now in the unaccustomed position of having to justify itself.

I look upon this as an outsider who has no dog in the fight. Every accrediting body I have ever dealt with—more than a dozen—has had sketchy procedures, a big attitude, and staff members ranging from well-meaning, by-the-book officials to hard-edged ideologues who see accreditation as a chance to impose their political views on everyone else.

This battle was too tangled for me to say which has the better case. Did ACCJC exercise its authority improperly? Or did CCSF just summon enough friends to pull the rug out from under its accrediting agency?

ACCJC may have revoked CCSF’s accreditation mostly as a message to a rotten system, figuring that only a death sentence on a prominent victim would motivate real reform throughout California’s community colleges. We might view ACCJC’s action as an act of exemplary bureaucratic terror.

In truth, this conflict isn’t really about procedure. It’s about control and (supposedly) the public interest.

Even here, the picture is mixed. ACCJC tried to impose a more extensive and intrusive assessment regime on CCSF, to be able to judge its “learning outcomes” properly.

Yes, we want students to learn something in the classroom, and some subjects lend themselves to clear-cut assessments. Can the students get the right answers or not?

But “learning outcomes” are often used by accrediting agencies to demand stupidities. The “learning outcome” of a course on literature is not so clear-cut. Did ACCJC hold CCSF to a reasonable standard, or a stupid one?

ACCJC also apparently told CCSF that it had “too few administrators.” This is astonishing.  Higher education is awash in administrators: Redundant administrators redundantly managing other redundant administrators. If CCSF had found a way to curb their proliferation, it should be given an award, not censure.

ACCJC told school officials to cut back on faculty “shared governance.” That’s a toss-up. The faculty role in governance is not good or bad in itself, but generally it’s better to have faculty members engaged to make things work beyond their own classes.

ACCJC criticized CCSF for being underfunded. Some part of the conflict therefore seemed to be a consequence of the California state legislature not wanting to pony up the money CCSF needed to meet ACCJC’s standards. Budget cuts and increased tuition raised howls from the student body, which turned the budget cut issue into a complaint that the cuts jeopardized “diversity.”

In effect, the students argued, “If you make us pay more money, there will be less diversity. What is the point of CCSF if there is no diversity?” It’s not clear whether the diversity issue inspired the bureaucratic bushwhacking of ACCJC, or whether students always shout “diversity!” when their pocketbooks take a hit.

All of this may seem a tempest in a teapot, but it sheds light on an accreditation system that does not instill confidence.

On the whole, it bends to the needs of the colleges and universities more than to the needs of the public. Seldom does it call out a college or university in time to prevent it from going off a financial cliff. And virtually never does an accrediting agency nail a college for educational malfeasance.


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James Woodcock's BlogcastHere is part 1 of our E3 special edition version of my Xbox 360 Debate Volume 2 featuring guests Barrie Rogers from 360 Monster, Michael Rossell from Brit Xbox, Ade Ricketts from MSXbox World and Ali Owen (freelance). Again we had plenty to talk about, so I have decided to split it into two separate shows. Part 1 covers Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3 predominantly. Part 2 which covers the Microsoft presentation is available here: Blogcast #8 – Xbox 360 E3 Debate Volume 2 Part 2

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The Cultured Pearl Association of America (CPAA), the nation’s longest standing national trade group for pearls, plans to open its membership to retailers.

In a recent vote, the 54-year-old association unanimously accepted by-law changes that would allow retailers into the group via a special associate membership status.

According to the president of the association, Raymond Mastoloni of Mastoloni Pearls, the move was initiated by popular demand. ”For the past few years we have had a significant amount of requests and inquiries from retailers who have expressed a desire to become involved in our association,” Mastoloni said. ”Since validation from an established authority has become one of the retailers’ key marketing tools, we felt it appropriate to give retailers the opportunity to affiliate themselves with the CPAA to help them gain the confidence of their customers.”

Previously, association membership had been exclusively reserved for importers and wholesale suppliers of cultured pearls and cultured pearl products. The ranks of the CPAA include some of the largest pearl companies in the U.S. to include Mastoloni Pearls, Honora, D’Elia & Tasaki, and Imperial Pearl.

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    There are so many things to love about this feminine one-piece, like the thin straps, rounded V-neck and low, scooped back. P.S. This pretty laser-cut eyelet is lined (so no skin actually peeks through).

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Love and a Guitar

I hadn’t seen him in years

but I knew he’d be there,

his band was opening at a pub

for the local county fair.

I had moved away

and the distance hurt too much,

so we just went our separate ways

and through the years lost touch.

I was just home for the weekend

when I heard his band was playing a new song,

his voice was always my favorite

made me feel right where I belong.

I arrived at the set

just as his band began to play,

so I just slid into the back

as I felt my body sway.

This was the music

of my old high school soundtrack,

as soon as I heard his voice

I immediately went back.

So many years had past

but I felt like I was right back there,

to my seventeen-year-old self

keeping him in my stare.

Through the break in the light

his eyes caught a glimpse of mine,

and at that moment I felt

as if our two souls aligned.

He stopped playing the guitar

and he came over off the stage,

it was like a new chapter being written

with the same old intro page.

We stood and stared

about a foot or two apart,

until the audience began cheering

and I felt the beat of my heart.

He came closer

 and brushed the hair from my eye,

cradled my neck in his hand

as he gave me back those butterflies.

He tried to find words

but nothing came out

we both smiled because we knew

what it was all about.

He lifted me up

in a full tight embrace,

spun me around in a hug

this was my old favorite place.

I had not seen him

for more than a decade,

I had left this place

but my heart had truly stayed.

How you feel in a moment

triumphs any other thing,

trust in your truth

and feel the happiness it brings.

I will Meet You at the Swings!

“I will meet you at the swings at a quarter to three,

whatever you are going through you can put it all on me”.

My best friend and I have been meeting at the swings,

since our elementary school days to sort through all kinds of things.

When we are upset and swing, problems just never seem that bad,

it is nearly impossible to swing and at the same time be mad.

Try it! I dare you. Next time something gets the best of you,

meet your best friend at the swings and it will become your ritual too!

We’ve grieved on those swings, we’ve talked about boys,

we’ve managed through heartbreaks and learned to drown out the noise.

We’ve laughed until we’ve cried, cried until we’ve laughed,

swinging on the swings has been the best to edit my draft.

It often feels as we get older our problems are more intense,

but swinging beside her somehow things just start to make sense.

Swinging remind us to stay playful and to see the beauty in the mess,

we have spent hours on those swings as we talk to decompress.

What I love most about the swing set is the freedom that I feel,

the higher we go the less my problems feel real.

I will forever have her back and she has proved that she has mine,

I’ll be meeting her at the swings until the end of time.

More Than Just the Toast

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At four years old my mother taught me

How to turn bread into toast.

I made 7 slices right away,

But it wasn’t the toast that I liked most.

What I loved most about this learning

Was the independence that I felt,

I felt empowered and confident

To have this skill under my belt.

My mother did not once say

That I had made too much,

Instead, she celebrated my excitement

And made sure not to touch.

I made my Dad smile

As I brought him his own piece,

And I felt like a Superhero

As my skill set had increased.

When our children feel like this

They feel so full of worth!

By empowering our children

They find their place upon this earth.

It starts by harnessing the mind

And ensuring our children are emotionally fit,

Our children deserve every advantage

To enhance their body, mind, and spirit.

BayneBooks are not stories

Rather they are brain trainers at work.

These strategies read to children daily

Will ensure they see the perks.

As a caregiver, you do the best you can

To provide an environment to succeed,

BayneBook resources have done it all for you

All you need is to cuddle up and read!

BayneBooks: Tony Robbins meets Dr.Seuss

BayneBooks is a series

That together combines,

Tony Robbins substance

With Dr. Seuss rhymes.

What this means in a nutshell

And, I promise you this,

The BayneBooks series is something

Our children can’t miss.

They are growth and development

Strategies for our youth,

To ensure they are empowered

To live out their truth.

Children are delicate

And, yet, mentally strong,

Adults model the programs

That last in them lifelong.

So it is our responsibility

As a leader and an adult,

To be the example for children

To live the results,

Of a passion driven life

That is worth all the pain,

Life will have its challenges

But the beauty remains.

Children learn through experience

And quality time,

So don’t wait one more day

To implement the BayneBook rhymes

They are not children stories

They are more like mental gifts,

Created to support brain development

And give youth confidence a lift.

Let’s conquer teen suicide

And low self-esteem,

Our children depend on us

To break through the mainstream.

BayneBooks: Because our children deserve to know how magnificent they are

A Mother's Intention: For My Love To Show

For My Love To Show

I don’t mean to tell you what to do

Or say “no” too many times,

I don’t mean to raise my voice

Or read too much between the lines.

I don’t mean to say the wrong thing

Or lose my patience when we are late,

I don’t mean to seem frustrated

When you don’t eat what’s on your plate.

I don’t mean to rush you

When you are putting on your shoes,

I am sorry for all those moments

It feels like you don’t get to choose.

I don’t mean to be stern with you

When I lose you from my sight,

I don’t mean to keep you

From shining your own light.

I just want to do the right thing

And be the best for you,

And sometimes I don’t do things

In the way that I mean to.

What I really mean to do

Is to demonstrate my love,

In my thoughts and my intentions

You are all that I think of.

What I mean to do is to protect you

From any foreseeable harm,

What I mean to do is bring you happiness

When you seem to be alarmed.

What I mean to show you is how blessed I feel

That the universe brought you to me,

All I want is to give you the world

And help you grow into the person you will be.

What I mean to do in every moment

Is to love you as best as I can,

I will always be here for you

Cheering from the stands.

Dear child, as your mother,

I just want you to know,

There is nothing I want more

Than for my love to show.

Share, tag and post to appreciate all the Mothers in this world <3

Bayne Books Beginning

BayneBooks started

as a simple dream,

to conquer insecurity

and build up self-esteem.

As the passion project developed

it turned into something more,

from a dream into a mission

for the world to explore!

The messages in each book

are real-life strategies and tools,

to use together in the home

as well as classrooms in our schools.

Each book is just one strategy

to read and then apply,

the strategies have been formulated

to ensure self-confidence builds high.

The strategies support child development

in becoming emotionally fit and strong,

by teaching the most effective coping skills

that will stay with youth lifelong.

The poetic and entertaining format

supports word recognition too,

the built-in, repetitive flow

supports cognitive breakthroughs.

These books are more than life lessons,

they are forgotten truths.

They are resources for adults

 to pass down to our youth.

BayneBooks are meant to be read daily

and as you do you will come to see,

how your brain programming can be rewired

and, negative thought patterns, you’ll break free.

Life is a series of discoveries

 Life is supposed to be so much fun,

so, let’s get back to what really matters

your journey with Baynebooks has now begun!

These books will create experiences

with those you share with and explore,

take these messages with you in your interactions

and you’ll make inside jokes galore

I am so excited

to share with you BayneBooks

I know that when you read them

 you will be hooked!


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Living Our Deaths (Rosh Hashanah 5776)

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel

We don’t like to talk about it much, but one of the main themes of the High Holidays is death.

Why do we traditionally dress in white? Purity, your rabbi may tell you. Yes, that too, but mainly we do it to remind us of the white shrouds that will wrap our bodies in the grave. And why do we avoid food, drink, and other bodily pleasures on Yom Kippur? Because we want to enact a time in which we will no longer have a body. In these fateful days we are commanded to confront our mortality, to “live our own deaths,” as it were.

Before you accuse me of spoiling the festive holiday atmosphere, indulge me for a few moments more, because there is enormous wisdom in this grim idea.

We have all heard stories of people having near-death experiences that completely change their outlook on life. They learn the transience of material things, and they begin to focus, at least for a while, on what is most important. Life, and everything in it that we usually take for granted, becomes precious and rare. As it is with romantic partners—we fully appreciate them when we fear losing them—so it is with life itself. The High Holidays offer us a simulated near-death experience, sparing us the inconvenience of, for example, a plane crash.

But there is another lesson we learn while facing death. In the Roman Republic, victorious generals were awarded a “triumph”, a celebratory parade through the streets. Among the cheers of the crowd and the lavish praise of the senators, a slave stood behind the general. His task was to whisper in the hero’s ear, “Memento mori,” “Remember [that you have] to die.” Death served, then and always, as a spur toward humility, a reminder of our finitude just when we might start thinking, “I am a god.”

We don’t need to look to ancient Rome to find death as a teacher of humility; we find the same theme in our machzorim. In the High Holiday liturgy we chant, in haunting modal strains: “What are we? What are our lives?… The preeminence of man over the animal is nothing, for all is vanity,” and, even more poignantly, “Man’s beginning is from dust, and his end is into dust… He is like a broken clay pot… like a withered flower… like a wind that flies away… like a fleeting dream.”

Living our deaths forces us, for at least for a few days of the year, to be humble, to abandon our pretensions, to admit that we are all deeply flawed “like a vessel full of shame and villainy.” If during the year we live in arrogance and self-sufficiency, as in a Roman “triumph”, Rosh Hashanah is our memento mori.

Now, I had promised myself to avoid current events in holiday messages. This year, however, one analogy is too evident to dodge.

We are in the midst of the most ugly and uncivil internecine Jewish debate that I can remember. The fight over the “Iran deal” has brought out our darkest traits, our vilest impulses toward each other. Whatever fate the deal meets in Congress, the damage to the fabric of the Jewish community is already done.

At the root of this ugliness that turns Jew against Jew is a complete lack of humility. That arrogance has been demonstrated on both sides of the argument, as if each of us owned the unassailable truth, as if our opinion alone couldn’t be wrong. There has been no place for nuance, no room for doubt. People who can’t tell a centrifuge from a washing machine lecture Nobel Prize laureates. Ad hominem attacks have become commonplace. We had the nerve to accuse Senator Charles Schumer, who has devoted most of his life to serving his state and his country, of “dual loyalty.” We had the impudence to accuse General Ami Ayalon, a war hero and a former head of both Israel’s Navy and the Shin Bet, of being a coward. We demonized AIPAC for lobbying, as if that wasn’t an honorable democratic right, and we accused people that devoted their lives to Israel of being self-hating Jews.

Rosh Hashanah comes to remind us—brutally—that we are united in our mortality. It reminds us that we are dust. It demands that we abandon our comfortable certitude and contemplate death, the father of all mysteries. It demands from us to be humble, for we are just little people, with a lot to be humble about.

So how can this death-obsessed holiday be so joyful?

Teshuvah—repentance and introspection—is the secret. We indeed mimic death, but through teshuvah we are reborn; the last sound of the shofar after Yom Kippur announces the new beginning. Yes, we are mortal, but we are capable of greatness. We are capable of healing as much as destroying; we are capable of using our limited, yet still powerful, intelligence for kindness and understanding; we are dust, but we are also “slightly less than gods,” as Psalm 8 says. Living our deaths, we connect with what is precious in life. We learn to look at the world in radical amazement, and to be thankful for every gift we enjoy. Humility empowers us with the truest courage—the courage of those who can face their vulnerability and their imperfections.

On this Rosh Hashanah, we are in need of deep introspection. We need to cleanse ourselves from arrogance and atone for having driven the community into the abyss of hatred. We need to rediscover that we have only small and partial truths, for the absolute Truth belongs only to God. On these High Holidays, may we all be transformed by the experience of empowered humility. May we rediscover the infinite wonders of life, and may we tell death, “Not yet…” Because we still have to build a world of peace, compassion and joy.

Shanah Tovah!


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Member Monday: Helen King

The month of October is known worldwide as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so this month we’re highlighting Junior League members who have or are battling breast cancer. This Monday, we are featuring Junior League of Charlotte member Helen King as part of our Member Monday series. Read more about Helen on the JLC Link blog.


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First look at the Gecko brothers in From Dusk Till Dawn: The TV show

Safe to say, this ain't George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino.

Buzzfeed has provided the first look at Robert Rodriguez's "From Dusk Till Dawn" TV show. This is D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtz as Seth and Richie Gecko, sporting much different looks than we're familiar with from the 1996 film.

Here is what Rodriguez said about the TV series:

“We see things that led up to events in the film, and much deeper character motivations and storylines to sort of launch into the new story that we’re doing...The film was a short story. This is the novel version.”

Rodriguez also talked about expanding the Mesoamerican mythology that was only hinted at in the film.

“It is seeing something that you’ve never seen before, this Mesoamerican mythology of demon culture and these vampires that are not your traditional vampires… It’s a mix of this crime saga with these supernatural elements that will make this different from anything else on television.”

Also starring Jesse Garcia, Don Johnson, Robert Patrick, Jake Busey, Madison Davenport, Brandon Soo Hoo and Eiza González. It will premiere on the El Rey network at some point this year.

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TBS - The Bakery Shop عن الشركه

The story of The Bakery Shop is one that can only be told in fairytales. Since the inception of TBS in 2008, it has become one of the most successful Egyptian business ventures in recent years. It all started in the summer of 2008 where three childhood friends Tarek El Nazer, Basel Mashhour and Sameh El Sadat decided to fill a gap missing in Egypt. The missing ingredient was an authentically fresh local bakery that serves everything from bread to pastries.

The genius behind the first branch is that it was opened in a resort in the North Coast during the busiest of summers. There was not one bakery worth mentioning over there but these three young, talented and ambitious men decided to take a summer bakery to another level. The success was unprecedented and in less than 5 years, TBS had opened eight branches across Egypt.

What makes TBS special is that everything is baked in front of you. The three friends were so passionate about their cause that they went through all the necessary research in order to build a fortress of a bakery. El Sadat decided to hire one of the most talented bakers in Egypt and the little idea they had, become successful beyond imagination.

The TBS trademark became their famous croissants. There were no disagreements on which bakery in Egypt provided the best croissants. In fact, they quickly created a legacy that if you ask anyone "Where can I get the best croissants in Egypt?", the answer will be "TBS!" almost every time.

The "It's so fresh, it's baked in front of you!" slogan has now become embedded in the minds of Egyptians. They go to the bakery and see everything for themselves. It's like heaven on earth for a bread enthusiast!.

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The Dryburgh Abbey Wedding Slide Show of Amy and Chris

This was my first wedding adventure of 2016 up in the snow bound Scottish Uplands at Dryburgh Abbey Hotel and the adjacent Dryburgh Abbey, and what an amazing first wedding of 2016 it was. Blizzards, sub zero temperatures and very few hours of daylight had no effect on the sheer enthusiasm and warmth of a fantastic […]


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Clients know that everything will be taken care of when working with REALTOR®, Thomas J. Daniels.

In addition to having an outstanding reputation marketing distinguished properties, extensive training and a broad knowledge of the local market, Thomas is the critical resource for marketing and finding luxury properties.

Thomas' relationship with John Hart™ Real Estate expands available offerings through powerful local and global resources.

Thomas' success is in part due to a keen ability to coordinate the details of today's sophisticated transactions and direct a strong team in all areas - from financing and one-stop shopping, to the latest online marketing tools.

Thomas has an established record and is known for discretion and privacy when representing clients.

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Travel Style: Arnie Weissmann

Want to know how to travel in style, just like the pros? We check in with frequent fliers to find out how often they fly, their favorite destinations and what they never leave home without.

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Name: Arnie Weissmann

Occupation: Editor in Chief, Travel Weekly

Hometown: Chicago

Residence: New York City

Website: Travel Weekly

Twitter: @awtravelweekly

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Short Bio: Editor in chief of Travel Weekly, the primary source of news, research, analysis and opinion for the U.S. travel industry (on the web, in print and with conferences and online events). Have been involved in virtually every aspect of travel journalism, publishing and media for the past 25 years: articles have appeared in 30 newspapers, from the Washington Post to the LA Times; co-created the industry’s first destination information service (Weissmann Travel Reports); authored a best-selling geography textbook (“Travel Around the World”); and served as publisher of critical hotel and destination guides for the travel industry, including Star Service, Official Hotel Guide Worldwide and a dozen OAG-branded publications in the UK. Have received more than 40 national awards. Was a web pioneer, creating the first core destination content for America Online and licensing web content to Apple, Time, Inc., CNN and Marriott International, among others. Joined Travel Weekly in October 2001 as editor in chief (am also Senior Vice President and Editorial Director for the Travel Group of parent company Northstar Travel Media). Comments have appeared on NBC, CNN, BBC and NPR, and am often quoted in newspapers, magazines and on websites. A proud board member of the non-profit Tourism Cares. Sit on many industry advisory boards and have been a guest lecturer at Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

How often do you fly: 3-5xs per month

How many countries have you been to: 102

How many continents have you been to: 6

Favorite American city: Austin, Texas

Favorite international city: Jerusalem

Least favorite country: Still haven’t found it

Favorite World Heritage Site: Rock Hewn Churches, Lalibela, Ethiopia

Favorite airline: Toss up: Emirates and Singapore

Favorite aircraft type: Boeing 777

Aisle or window: Window!

Favorite airport lounge: Virgin Clubhouse, Heathrow

Favorite U.S. airport: Terminal A (Marine Air Terminal), LaGuardia NYC

Favorite international airport:
City Airport, London (I like my airports small)

Favorite hotel: Villa D’este on Lake Como

Favorite island: Anguilla

Favorite fancy restaurant: Gramercy Park Tavern, NYC

Favorite hole in the wall: Sidestreet Inn, Honolulu

Favorite fruit: Mango

Favorite food:
Anything Cajun or Mexican

Least favorite food: Seaweed salad

Drink of choice (In the air and on the ground) Air: Makers Mark. Ground: Pierde Almas (mezcal)

Favorite travel movie(s): Not technically a travel movie, but I find “The Man Who Would Be King” makes me want to get up and go

Favorite travel show(s): Haven’t found one I love

Favorite travel book(s): A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Eric Newby); Rube Goldberg’s Guide to Europe; A Week at the Airport (Alain du Boton), First Footsteps in East Africa (Richard Burton), In a Sunburned Country (or anything by Bill Bryson), The White Nile (Alan Moorehead), The Forest People (Colin Turnbull), any number of books by Freya Stark, Dervla Murphy, Paul Theroux…this list could go on for a very long time.

Right now I am reading: The Sisters Brothers (Patrick DeWitt)

Five things you bring on a plane: book, laptop, eyeshades, foam earplugs and credit card

What do you always seem to forget: Varies tremendously by trip – everything from collar stays to a belt to a watch to shirt studs to contact lens solution to running shoes to underwear. I always wonder what it will be.

What do you want your loved one to buy you from an airport duty free store? A liter of Heradura Anejo

Favorite travel iPhone app(s):
Soundhound, Translator, SitOrSquat, Light, Words with Friends

Most embarrassing/worst travel moment:
Worst: Lying on the floor of a truck bouncing over unpaved roads of Congo for two days with both malaria and dysentery.

What’s your dream destination: Space travel

Favorite travel charity: Tourism Cares

Favorite travel website(s) – besides, of course!:
Most Traveled People

Best travel tip: Find a good travel agent, one who knows the way the industry works from the inside, and who is a specialist in the area you’re heading to. They’ll help everything go more smoothly, lead you down paths you would never know existed, and if you establish a good relationship, could pave the way for upgrades.

Johnny Jet

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Bred by the same breeder as Atlantis, Apollo is very similar but a couple of days earlier and with a slightly thinner stem. For maximum yield, cut main floret as soon as it appears. This results in a larger plant with a high quantity of side shoots. If main floret is allowed to mature, overall yield of side shoots will be reduced. If harvested 1-2 times per week, plants will bear well for approximately 4 weeks. Apollo is a Broccoli X Gailon type. Avg. 84,200 seeds/lb. Packet: 100 seeds.

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SCIENTIFIC NAME: Brassica oleracea
CULTURE: Broccoli prefers a well-drained, fertile soil that is high in organic matter with a pH of 6.0–7.5. A consistent supply of moisture throughout the growing season is important; irrigate regularly for best results. While more heat-tolerant varieties are now on the market, broccoli does not generally do well in hot weather. The best success is with spring and fall crops.
EARLY SPRING CROP: Use early and midseason varieties. Sow 2 seeds per cell in 72-cell plug flats, 3–4 seeds/in. in 20 row flats, or in outdoor beds ¼" deep. Seedlings should be ready to transplant in 3–4 weeks. If possible keep soil temperature 75–80°F (24–27°C) until germination, then reduce air temperature to about 60°F (16°C). Ensure good air circulation and light. Transplant outdoors 10–18" apart in rows 18–36" apart. Broccoli prefers cooler growing temperatures, between 55–75°F (13–24°C), optimum being 60–70°F (16–21°C), but will produce good crops under warmer, summer conditions.
FALL CROP: Use midseason and storage varieties. Start seedlings as above in May and transplant to the garden in June–July. To ensure mature heads, seed the crop early in areas where heavy freezes occur early in fall.
WINTER CROP: Successful broccoli crops can be grown where winters are mild (temperatures rarely below 32°F [0°C]). Transplants can be set out from September to February in these regions.
DIRECT SEEDING: Sow 3 seeds per foot, ½" deep, rows 18–36" apart, thinning to one plant in each group.
DISEASES: Adhere strictly to a preventive program, including: (1) long crop rotations with noncruciferous crops; (2) clean starting mixes and outdoor seedbeds; and (3) strict sanitation practices. Black rot can be seedborne. We only stock seed lots that have been tested free of black rot in a sample of 30,000 seeds. Individual seed lots have been tested free of black leg in a sample of 1,000 seeds.
NOTE: A disease-free test result means that in the sample tested, the pathogen targeted was not found. It does not guarantee a seed lot to be disease-free. However, no method of seed treatment can positively insure freedom from disease. We are glad to help with specific questions.
INSECT PESTS: Repel flea beetles and root maggots on young seedlings by covering with floating row covers from day of planting. Treat flea beetles with insecticides such as pyrethrin or azadirachtin if heavy pressure is observed. For cabbage worms and loopers, use Bacillus thuringiensis. Cutworm prevention: Cultivate soil 2–4 weeks before planting to work in cover crops and destroy weeds.
HARVEST: Before flower buds open, cut center head. Hydrocool or ice as soon as possible. Harvest secondary side shoots regularly to encourage continued production.
STORAGE: Store at 32°F (0°C), 95–98% relative humidity, with good air circulation for 10–14 days.
DAYS TO MATURITY: From date of transplanting; add about 20 days if direct seeding.
TYPICAL PLANT POPULATION: 43,560 plants/acre (1 sq.ft./plant) spaced 8" apart in rows 18" apart.
AVG. PRECISION SEEDING RATE: 1,000 seeds/333' at 3 seeds per foot, 87,000 seeds (avg. 8.3 oz.)/acre spaced 7" apart in rows 18" apart.
TRANSPLANTS: Avg. 850 plants/1,000 seeds.
SIZED SEEDS: Standard except where noted.
SEED SPECS: SEEDS/LB.: 52,900–142,100 (avg. 104,100).
PACKET: 100 seeds, sows 50'.

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Latin Name
Brassica oleracea
Days To Maturity
Average number of days from seeding date to harvest, within a specific crop group. If a transplanted crop: average number of days from transplant date. Not sure if crop is direct-seeded or transplanted? Check the Growing Information box for details. If crop can be both direct-seeded or transplanted, days to maturity refers to direct seeding. Days to maturity for all flowers and herbs is calculated from seeding date.
30 Days
Hybrid Status
Hybrid: The offspring of a cross between two or more distinct parent lines, usually of same species, and selected for improved traits.
Open-pollinated: A non-hybrid variety that can reproduce itself in kind, demonstrating relatively stable traits from one generation to the next.
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Tu B’Shvat higia is the refrain of the popular Israeli children’s song, meaning, Tu B’Shvat is here, YAY!

This holiday celebrates the “rebirth” of the trees. Tu B’Shvat marks the beginning of the slow process when the trees begin blossoming and flowering with new life and new fruit.

Some have the tradition to eat something from all of the seven species – wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates – that have a special significance in Judaism.

You know how on Pesach we sit down to a seder

Well, there is a Tu B’Shvat seder too! Tu B’Shvat seders are uber en vogue these days, really! Four cups of wine are also served up, along with foods made from the seven species and other uncommon fruits. A Tu B’Shvat seder is a wonderful way to celebrate this holiday – and you can make your own rules!!

Now, for some yummy Tu B’Shvat recipes.

biblically inspired salad du jour

This “Biblically Inspired Salad du Jour” incorporates each of the seven species and is sure to please the palate.

Veal Stew with Apricots and Prunes

Cooking with fruit is the way to go on this holiday – so how about sweetening your main with my Veal Stew with Apricots and Prunes

Serve up the stew with a side of Bulgur with Carrots, Nuts and Dates to continue the seven species theme.

White Chocolate Bark

White Chocolate Bark

And wrap it all up with this delish Maple Walnut Chiffon Cake which incorporates dates (part of those sevens species) and my new recipe for White Chocolate Bark. This one combines raisins, dried figs (another one of the seven), nuts and chocolate, into an elegant and tasty treat.

Make sure to also serve up a lovely platter of dried fruit and nuts at your Tu’Bshvat Seder.

Some other dishes sure to add both significance and enjoyment to your Tu B’Shvat meal:

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kosher negroni

Named after an Italian count who requested the original cocktail we can now enjoy too using Luxardo in place of Campari. Try this recipe for Kosher Negroni and enjoy it all Summer long. Unless your Campari is produced in Israel, it is not kosher. However one of my favorite alternate-brand companies, Luxardo, has come to the rescue.

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  • 1 part gin, I really like Breuckelen Glorious Gin for this
  • 1 part sweet vermouth, Kedem is the only kosher brand on the market currently
  • 1 part Luxardo

Stir everything together in a glass with ice and garnish with a lemon peel. Bright and citrusy and just enough bitterness to keep everything in check.


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The new SMART LIVING JRM@Lužiny apartment building with its khaki façade with pale details is based on Trigema’s Smart Living concept. The five-storey building is divided into two separate sections, with most of the building’s structure only going up to the fourth level. The final storey is recessed from the west by more than half the building length. The western façade contains overhanging balconies with large glazed areas. Both sections of the SMART LIVING JRM@Lužiny building are wheelchair accessible.

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Project timetable

  • Sales begin: summer 2016
  • Construction begins: winter 2016/2017
  • Structural work complete: autumn 2017
  • Construction complete: winter 2017/2018
  • Moving in: spring 2018

Trigema a.s. holding, which has operated for 22 years, since 1994, implements the BLV project through subsidiaries.

Trigema has already completed a number of successful residential projects in Prague-Radotín, Jinonice, Stodůlky, Hostivař, Modřany, Roztoky u Prahy and in Letňany. These projects have involved the construction of twenty apartment building containing over 1 300 new apartments.

Besides residential construction, Trigema has also been involved in other developments. In 2006, we opened the Academic hotel and congress centre in Roztoky u Prahy. We have also completed the Monínec modern recreation centre project..

In summer 2011, we completed construction of the STP Roztoky. (a science and technology park with business incubator and transfer technology centre – a new centre for research and development for startup or established companies mainly in the automotive industry, but also for researchers and developers from the Czech Technical University’s Mechanical Engineering Faculty), with construction of the similarSP Roztoky. project completed in 2014.

Trigema’s last completed residential project is 2Barevné Letňany. Here our modular living concept was first successfully introduced, something we are developing further in out SMART project. The 2Barevné Letňany project also won awards in the Best of Realty and Real Estate Project of the Year competitions.

Our company has also received awards in the competitions Industrial Property of the Year, Building of the Year and also Tour Region Film for its advertising spot for the above detailed Monínec centre.

The sole vendor of the BLV apartments is Trigema Development s.r.o. Construction is contracted to Trigema Building a.s. The architectural design was produced in the studio of (Ateliér Daniel Smitka studio). (Ing. Arch. Daniel Smitka).

What matters (to us)

All producers and vendors naturally endeavour to offer the best all round product for the best price. All such efforts have their limits, and as such we hereby summarise for you the principles we are guided by in every project, which we won’t cut corners on.

In planning each of our projects, we endeavour to think of the future and design our buildings so they serve their purpose in the long term and do not unnecessarily burden their surroundings or the environment. As such, in selecting a location and planning a project we take a look at the surroundings and current buildings and endeavour to ensure our project further develops the neighbourhood’s planning concept.

Sustainability naturally also involves materials and quality workmanship. In all our projects, we endeavour to achieve the maximum energy efficiency, mainly through choosing appropriate materials and ensuring careful workmanship. This means we save our residents money in energy costs and reduce the burden on the environment. We insulate wisely to ensure we achieve the best results without excessively increasing the construction budget – we don’t put forward any objectives we want to achieve at any price; we simply want to save your money and the environment where we can.

We place high demands on the materials we use in construction, and careful workmanship in construction. Just as poor-quality bricks can devalue an otherwise good project, so poorly implemented construction work means the building loses the benefits of the high quality materials used. We are just as uncompromising on our suppliers as we are on our own workers, in order that we can offer you products and services of the highest quality.

Fair price

Our goal is to offer you a high quality smart home or other services at a good, and especially fair price. As such, we do not add any discounts or other special offers for selected clients to our final prices. The prices detailed on our website are final, and in contrast to some of our competitors, we do not overstate them in order to provide apparently generous discounts on them.

We apply a similar approach to our suppliers. We do not look for the lowest price, but rather value for money. Nor do we exploit the tradespeople on our construction sites, cheating them out of their well earned money. In the same way, we have no place for favouritism, protectionism and bribery, and we say goodbye forever to any supplier that attempts to buy a job from us.

We won’t take part in a race to the bottom or a price war, we don’t try to destroy our rivals – we offer a fair price for products and services we believe in and we endeavour to do this honestly.

Do you want to know more about what we take pride in, and what we consider poor practice? You can find our opinions on accommodation and Prague’s real estate market, along with regular analyses of the residential market in ourblog.

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Other projects

In 2015, the scope of Trigema’s Smart Living concept has been gradually spreading across the whole of Prague. Phase I of the SMART apartments in Nové Butovice was completed in the autumn, and Phase II will be completed in spring next year. So far, we have completed more than 1600 apartments throughout Prague. A new residential project in Plzeň is also under construction.

Nové Butovice SMART apartments

SMART – it’s not just fittings for smart living technology; it’s an active life within reach of the centre yet a few metres from green spaces. Save your time and energy for heating and running your home. Our new apartments are just a few metres from Nové Butovice metro station, are at low-energy standard and will satisfy anyone who appreciates smart solutions. SMART – it’s the environment, green spaces, amenities, a quarter of an hour to the centre and a maximum of 45 minutes to anywhere in Prague. Don’t stay behind; be SMART.

This apartment building on Chlebovická street builds on the popular Barevné Letňany project, which comprises a Red, Yellow and Blue building. The site will contain 75 new apartments with carefully designed layouts whose nature can satisfy a wide spectrum of clients. Most apartments come with a balcony or terrace. The upper storeys contain mainly large maisonettes.

BLV@Horní Měcholupy

Prague 15 is changing for the better. Further proof of this is the transformation of the current heating plant, which lies near Bolevecká street to a place full of life and greenery. While in the past the heating plant was a blot on the landscape to all those who lived here, the whole area will be transformed beyond recognition. SMART LIVING BLV@Horní Měcholupy comprises a new apartment building in a slick orange and grey exterior based on Trigema’s Smart Living concept.

The small-scale CSV@Řepy project perfectly illustrates the essence of the Smart Living concept. A modest building to grow up in a quiet villa neighbourhood in place of the current dilapidated building.

You can experience a very peaceful atmosphere just a few minutes from the buzzing metropolis. A rural style of life dominates Čistovická street. In place of the current dilapidated and unused building, a five-storey residential project will rise up with 21 apartments and a further three non-residential premises. CSV@Ŕepy best characterizes the idea behind Trigema’s Smart Living concept: it will be a modest building which will develop its immediate neighbourhood; the number of apartments marks the socially richer nature of the accommodation, and its standards ensure a high quality of living.

Trigema Smart Living is planning to expand into regional cities. The first project prepared is an apartment building with 70 apartments within the greater centre of Plzeň (Kollárova street). This apartment building accommodates the requirements for modern, smart, yet financially affordable homes. 70 new carefully designed apartments are to be constructed in this elegant grey and white building with petrol-coloured glass fittings, and their nature will satisfy a wide spectrum of clients. A number of renowned Prague design studios are involved in the architectural design, and they bring the perspective of an individual client with all the needs of everyday living into the project.

  • SMART byty Nové Butovice
  • CHYTRÉ BYDLENÍ BLV@Horní Měcholupy

Like most of Trigema’s residential projects, the architectural design for SMART LIVING JRM@Lužiny comes from Ing. Arch. Daniel Smitka’s studio. This award-winning architect has been involved in residential building design for over 202 years, and has worked in architecture the whole of his professional life.

He successfully completed his school leaving exams in 1985 at Construction Secondary School in Plzeň, from where he went to the Czech Technical University’s (CTU) Civil Engineering Faculty, then the Faculty of Architecture. He was involved in architecture and design during his studies, e.g. in Prague’s Škodovka (a division of the well-known Mladá Boleslav car manufacturer which was involved in, e.g., power station and power technology design) and civil engineering. After completing his state exams in 1993, he opened his own architectural studio, which he has run successfully up to the present day. He continues to collaborate with CTU as a fellow and is continuing his education.

He has already completed over twenty residential projects – from family villas to multipurpose apartment buildings with hundreds of apartments. His extensive portfolio also includes administrative and industrial buildings, schools, hotels and unique science and technology park projects, sports and ski centres. It involves dozens of projects over the last twenty years.

Many of these projects have been awarded prizes by leading Czech and international architecture competitions – of the various prizes which run into double figures, we should at least mention Building of the Year for the Central Bohemia Region, Real Estate Project of the Year, and one of the most important Czech awards, Best of Realty, which Daniel Smitka’s projects have received a total of four times over the last four years.

Daniel Smitka is the principal architect for most Trigema projects, and he imparts upon them their unique appearance and exceptional human dimension.

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Here are a few personal observations about Bosnia. Breaking my usual trend, I’m posting these prior to my departure because most of them were noted in or on the way to Mostar…

  • It’s remarkably Muslim. Towering minarets define the skyline of virtually every city I passed, several times a day broadcasting those beautiful prayers that I haven’t heard since Cairo. Mostar’s main tourist district sells almost exclusively Turkish paraphernalia, from hookahs to fezzes, and even the nightclubs blast music with a distinctly Arabic feel. The vast majority of middle-aged and elderly woman wear traditional Muslim clothing. There’s no doubt that it’s quite a different culture than Croatia, just a few kilometers away.
  • This seems to apply more to the Balkan region in general, but I didn’t get around to noting it until the ride to Sarajevo: I found it very odd that all of the long-distance buses in the region are actually staffed by two different people: the driver, plus another guy who simply checks tickets – something like a train conductor. The reason I thought this was so strange is because after the first ten minutes or so, he seemed to just sit there for the remaining hours of the ride. Wouldn’t it be easier and more cost-effective to just have the driver check tickets as people get on, like every other bus I’ve ever ridden?
  • Bosnian guys are noticeably more muscular and well-dressed than anywhere I’ve seen thus far on the trip. Even in mid-afternoon they seem to be wearing designer jeans and accessories, as if they were on their way to a nightclub or party. Could it be just because of graduation weekend? I dunno, but I did find it to be quite a noticeable difference.
  • Likewise, it seems like everywhere I go on this trip, the attractiveness of the females remains on an ever-upward trend. I almost feel like I should stop mentioning it. But take my word for it when I say that it too is quite noticeable – and something that’s been pointed out to me by a good portion of the male travelers I’ve encountered along the way. Example: Do a quick search on Google Images for “Odesa, Ukraine.” See the first result for a glimpse at their most well-known reputation 😛
  • One thing that felt very heartwarming about Bosnia in general is that despite the sad events of their (relatively) recent history, the vibe remains remarkably positive. Kids splash around in park fountains, church bells and Muslim chants fill the air countless times per day, little streams trickle throughout, and everybody seems to smile. I can’t claim to have any idea what kind of lasting emotional scars such a war might leave on a people, but whatever it is, they certainly seem to’ve done an amazing job of moving on from the past and looking towards the future.

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  1. loving ur notes justing! and regarding your last remark, u should see how Lebanon is and how positive & life loving ppl there are..u can never tell there was war or terrorism a year ago..actually they used to go out have fun in the middle of it knowing that they can get bombed any point in time

  2. Keep writing about women 🙂 I’m pretty sure we can agree Romania and Moldova were a surprising highlight further down the road.

    Oh, and a little tip: You weren’t in the “Baltic region” :-p You were in Balkan.

  3. Thanks dude! 🙂

    Yeah I really wanted to check out Lebanon – I was actually right at the border – but unfortunately couldn’t go because of the Israel stamps in my passport…

  4. @P: D’oh! Haha that’s not the first time I made that mistake 😛 Corrected!

  5. attractive women is always a plus!

  6. Indeed 🙂

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I haven’t yet been able to find any Carnaval videos with us in them, but I did find a few cool ones of the crazy David Guetta evening in Salvador:

The first is a quick pan-around from one of the balconies, just as he gets started with “The World is Mine.”

Here’s a video taken by someone down in the crowd; it’s one of my other favorite techno songs, “Rise Up.”

If possible, watch it with headphones or decent-quality speakers. I know the quality sucks, but I found that the sound was so tinny on my laptop that I almost couldn’t hear the music over the treble of the crowd’s screams. Which kind of ruined the effect.

This one has a really good view of one of those massive rolling stages starting at about 30 seconds in.

It’s also one of my favorite Guetta tunes – “Love Don’t Let Me Go.”

Photos have been added to the two Carnaval posts:

Scala Red-Black Ball

The travellog page has also been fully updated with the new trip “Brazil 2008,” including links to blog articles for each location.

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  1. I checked em out! More pics of man flesh than I’d prefer but overall, very entertaining.

  2. Haha…Andy…ur ultra-terse comments always make me laugh 😉

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