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Rocking Gladiator Duel Hire

Inflatable rocking gladiator joust or duel can be used as an activty at fun day events and sporting activity days.

Gladiator Duel Activity Hire

Take your place on the Rocking Gladiator Duel podium and battle it out to see who can be the last one standing. Contestants use foam pugil sticks to try and knock their opponent into the inflatable pit, but beware, the Gladiator Podium will rock from side to side with your every move, so keep your balance while trying to battle with your opponent!

We always provide a member of staff to run our Rocking Gladiator Duel to ensure the activity is run smoothly and safely for your event. Our staff are fully trained, have enhanced CRB disclosures and a first aid trained operator will be present at your event.

Inflatable bouncy boxing suitable for inflatable activity days

Inflatable Rocking Gladiator Duel (Gladiator Joust) Specification

Age Range: Children – Adults
Max Number of users: 2 people at one time
Equipment Dimension: 30ft x 30ft (9m x 9m)
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Grovemade Desk Collection in Walnut
Grovemade Desk Collection in Maple
A combination of domestic hardwoods, premium leather, and aluminum.
The collection is completed by a pen pot, paper clip holder, succulent planter, and iphone dock.
The keyboard tray is perfect for stashing extra batteries, business cards, or pens.
A walnut desk lamp provides a warm glow.

Our new DESK COLLECTION upgrades your workspace and increases your ergonomic comfort, productivity, and happiness, not to mention your bragging rights with co-workers. Equip your perfect desk in maple or walnut.

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Stand Up for the Montgomery Way Rally

Our County Executive asked the faith community for leadership and we delivered with hundreds of people and leaders from 10 faith traditions. Standup for the Montgomery Way was the theme for a rally affirming our values of inclusion and justice for all in the face of division, bigotry and hate.

We opened with an awesome National Anthem from People’s Community Baptist Church; next came the Muslim Call to Prayer followed by Buddhist and Christian prayers; and on from there came inspiring remarks by US Labor Secretary, Tom Perez; Senator Elect, Chris Van Hollen; Congressman Elect, Jamie Raskin; County Executive, Ike Leggett; County Council President, Nancy Floreen; Police Chief, Tom Manger paired with Rev. Dr. Carol Flett and our Faith Leaders Response Team and Emotional, Spiritual Care Volunteers; Superintendent Dr. Jack Smith paired with Lubna Ejaz and our Education Committee; and many more.

Here are pictures of the throng committed to living out the values at the core of our faith traditions and embodied in the resolution passed last week by the County Council and signed by the County Executive reaffirming community safety and trust, and denouncing racial bias, discrimination, hate speech, hate crimes and harassment.

Together we find strength and courage for facing the challenging days ahead.

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4 May 2009

"ALL IN": SF Short Story Review

Read it now : ALL IN
Author : Peter Atwood
Published : Weird Tales
Genre : Science Fiction
Word Count : 2,200 approx

This is not the only story about people gambling for body parts. Nor is it the only story about people gambling for their lives. The idea behind this story is that there is a cure for cancer. The process is not a nice one, though. It involves growing a culture in living tissue. The catch is that the donor must be genetically distant. That is to say, the patient can't use one of their own body parts, and donations from blood relatives are of no use.

The treatment is considered unethical. People use it, however, but they have to get hold of the living tissue themselves. With no friends and no money, some people turn to gambling for the parts.

This says something rather eerie about Human nature. The logical thing would be for a group of strangers to form an agreement and supply each other with the necessary tissue, thus getting around the issue of money for medicine and avoiding the wait for a newly deceased organ donor. However, no one in Atwood's world is going to give anything away. They only know about competition, about winners and losers. They enter secret, seedy dives and they gamble.

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MPPIA 2014/15 Plan : Where Collaboration meets Opportunity

May 13, 2014
Posted by: Leslie Wootton

With fiscal 2014 already well underway, the MPPIA Executive is acting on our strategic plan objectives emphasizing communications and membership in the near term. On the latter note, MPPIA is very pleased to welcome newest Charter members to our Board of Directors as of April 2014: Atomic Cartoons and Nerd Corps. Having two prominent BC animation companies join our membership and Board demonstrates our direction and long term intent.

Our newest members join us in the collective goal to derive value from member collaborations that ultimately benefit all of BC’s creative industries’ direct and indirect stakeholders. This involves managing and improving BC’s value proposition as an attractive and adaptable business environment for entertainment content creation and distribution. Beyond that, we aim to work together on ‘big picture’ communications with all BC’s creative industries including music and publishing; as well, we want to build connections with other BC business sectors with similar interests — digital (beyond entertainment), tourism and trade — to effectively build a greater understanding of BC’s talent and knowledge driven economy both for ourselves, and for everyone in BC.

As an Association, we have made progress over the past three years stretching beyond traditional competitive priorities and interests in production to explore new opportunities. With funding from Western Economic Diversification on a three year project launched in early 2011, MPPIA executed a three year business development and investment attraction program designed to help us expand beyond traditional markets and tactics. Again, collaboration was key to the success of this project, and we worked closely with members, and specifically with the Canadian Media Production Association and Creative BC on international missions — to provide BC’s screen production community with opportunities to expand their markets and businesses.

This initiative successfully fulfilled the project vision and created legacy benefits that are driving our plans moving forward. Some of the highlights of our three year project include:

* Expanded presence and reach in the Los Angeles market with in-market representation, six missions including a business development foray to LA for BC producers (CMPA led mission) and a series of missions/events for BC’s entire industry across the supply chain (MPPIA led over 3 years); a newly established familiarization client tour program carried out by MPPIA members in cooperation with Creative BC.

* A CMPA led ‘bootcamp’ for BC producers aimed at building north-south opportunities in the Los Angeles market and ensuring market readiness.

* Three consecutive years of heightened presence for BC at Hong Kong Filmart (industry missions led by Creative BC), enabling BC producers to benefit from more substantial programming and build business contacts, relationships and new business in this unique marketplace.

* Two missions led by the CMPA to the United Kingdom for BC producers and BC animation producers. These missions brought BC content creators together with counterpart companies and broadcasters in two important UK markets. All mission participants reported high value returns for these missions, establishing of key business relationships and in some cases, new business.

* Development of MPPIA member database/website with built in market intel database;

* Strategic planning to build a new creative industries strategy and corresponding narrative in British Columbia.

The one word that defined the success of this project is ‘collaboration’ and it is the same one that will drive MPPIA’s mandate in both the near and long term, whether to achieve membership growth, BC market growth or a better understanding of BC’s creative industries and the growing creative economy in BC. As an Association it has always been our mandate to transcend singular interests to work on competitiveness and sustainability across common interests. This approach is driven by the thinking that broad based collaboration builds the kind of robust and confident business environment that naturally draws interest and investment — because it exposes opportunities instead of managing threats.

This makes for an exciting value proposition for all of us — and it is on that foundation that I look forward to collaborating with industry on our common objectives in the coming year.

Peter Leitch, Chair
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District Chronologies

1814/1820    James McGee was born in County Louth, Ireland  Information contained in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 Censuses indicates that the year of birth was about 1820.  However, information at the time of his death in 1899 indicates that he was 85 years old[2] – his year of birth would then be about                           1814.

1820     The Historic McGee-Spaulding District is part of land granted by the king           of Spain to the Luis Peralta family.

18...     McGee married Catherine Lusk, who was born in County Kildare, Ireland.[3]  Again, there is confusion about her year of birth, though we know she was buried at St. Mary’s Cemetery on May 26, 1877 and her age was listed as 55 years old.[4]  Her year of birth would be about 1822.  The 1860 and 1870 Censuses would have her year of birth anywhere between 1825 and 1829.

1840      McGee arrived in New York, New York on the Lenobia with his wife               Catherine.[5]

1852     Jose Domingo Peralta sold some of his land in what is now central                    Berkeley to four San Francisco businessmen.[6]

             McGee was naturalized in Boston, Massachusetts.[7]

1854      McGee came to Alameda County.[8]

1855      McGee purchased 115 acres of land bordered by the present day Martin         Luther King, Jr., Dwight Way, California Street and Addison Street.[9]

1861      McGee’s daughter Mary Ann (Maria Anna) was born on June 19, 1861.[10]

1863      McGee’s daughter Catherine was born on January 25, 1863.[11]

1866      Four of the first names given to streets in Berkeley were Allston Way           Bancroft Way, Channing Way and Dwight Way.

1874      McGee participated in the failed first effort to incorporate Berkeley.[12]

1876     Spaulding Tract was subdivided and offered for sale by the Oakland Land       Association.

1877    McGee donated 2.7 acres in the Northwest corner of his property to            Mother Mary Teresa Comerford and the Sisters of Presentation of San                  Francisco for a Convent and School.

           Convent cornerstone was laid on May 27, 1877.

           McGee’s wife, Catherine, died and was buried on May 26, 1877 at St.               Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland.[13]

           First Mass in Convent was December 25th.

1878    Berkeley’s Workingmen’s Party was organized.[14]

           Berkeley was incorporated.

           McGee, on the Workingmen’s Party ticket, was elected as one of the first town trustees after the incorporation of Berkeley.[15]

           Eight sisters, including Mother Mary Teresa Comerford came from San             Francisco to occupy St. Joseph’s Presentation Convent, which was                      dedicated on June 30, 1878.

           St. Joseph Presentation Academy opened on July 15, 1878.

           Doctor Pierce Michael Comerford was appointed assistant pastor of                  Sacred Heart Church with responsibility of Presentation Convent and the                      Catholics in Berkeley.

1879    St. Joseph’s Parish was created and Pierce Comerford was named the first       pastor.  (1879–1889)

1881     St. Peter’s Boys’ School opened on January 1, 1881.

1881     Mother Mary Teresa Comerford died in San Francisco, was brought by             ferry to Berkeley and buried in the convent cemetery on the banks of                   Strawberry Creek.

             Upon the death of Mother Mary Teresa Comerford, it was made public             that she had (reluctantly) agreed to transfer the deed to the property that                 was given to her by McGee to the Archbishop with the understanding by all that the land was intended to be used by the Sisters of Presentation Order.

1883    McGee drew up his Will.[16]

           A wooden gothic church designed by Bryan Clinch was begun - partially           on Convent land and on land given to St Joseph’s Parish by McGee.  Henry               McCullough was the builder.

1884   The unfinished St. Joseph’s Church was dedicated on September 16th.

          Alphonso Herman Broad (1851-1930), one of Berkeley’s most prolific and        acclaimed builders/designers built his first Berkeley building, now known as the Clark House, at 1545 Dwight Way.[17]

1886   St. Joseph’s Church was finished when the stained glass windows were             installed.

           McGee’s land was surveyed, divided into blocks and roads and the map              for the McGee Tract was filed with the county of Alameda in May of                               1886.[18]

1889  Thomas Phillips was made pastor of St Joseph’s Church in June 1889.                  (1889-1899)

1891   One of the first electric lines in Berkeley began operating along Grove            Street.[19]

          The 1 1/2 miles between East and West Berkeley was finally connected by          a street railway.[20]

1892    A new larger Girls’ School Building, built on the site of St. Joseph’s Boys            School, which was moved towards Strawberry Creek, was dedicated in                         July 1892.

1892    Only a few lots in the McGee Tract, now divided into lots, had been              sold.[21]

1895    The Hunter House at 2418 California Street was built (Landmark # 231).

1897    Bancroft Way School on the Southeast corner of Bancroft Way and                  McKinley Avenue opened.  The name of the school was changed shortly                   thereafter to Longfellow School.[22]

1898   The Church of the Nazarene at the Southwest corner of McKinley Avenue          and Bancroft Way was built.

1899   Father Michael O’Riordan replaced Thomas Phillips at St. Joseph’s               Church in July 1899. (1899-1905)

          There are 600 Catholic families is Berkeley, accounting for 2500 people.           St. Joseph School has 200 pupils.[23]

           Town Trustees leased six lots from James McGee at the Northwest corner        of Grove Street (MLK) and Allston Way to be used as the site for the                       Town Hall.  The lease was for three years with an option to purchase for                      $3,000.[24]

             Berkeley Town Hall began its move from Sacramento and University Avenue on October 4th to the new site at Grove Street and Allston Way.

              James McGee died on October 24, 1899 and was buried at St. Mary’s              Cemetery on October 27, 1899.[25]

1903     A double-track standard gage electric streetcar line began operating down         University Avenue.[26]

           The paving and curbing of the streets in the District began.

1904    Deeds were filed conveying twenty-one blocks in the McGee Tract from               Mary Ann McGee to George Sterling for the Realty Syndicate.  At the                          same time, Miss McGee retains a mortgage on the land of $48,000.[27]

           Berkeley Town Hall was destroyed by fire.

1905     Father Comerford died on December 19, 1905.

           Dr. Francis Xavier Morrison became the fourth pastor of St. Joseph’s           Church.  (1905-1920)

           Longfellow School was moved to California Street and Ward Street.[28]

           Concrete culvert completed on California Street at Strawberry Creek.[29]

1906    The first issue of St. Joseph’s Monthly Record was published.  (The                Record lasted into the 1950’s.)

            Concrete culvert completed on Roosevelt Avenue at Strawberry Creek.[30]

1907     A new school, now called Washington School, was constructed and          opened at the Bancroft Way and McKinley Avenue site.[31]

            The cornerstone for the new St. Joseph’s Church was laid on June 16,       1907.    The first Mass was said on December 25th.

1908     The new St. Joseph’s Church, designed by Shea & Lofquist (Frank T.           Shea/John O. Lofquist), though completed in 1907 was dedicated in 1908                      (Landmark # 164).

1909     The new Berkeley Town Hall (Old City Hall), designed by Bakewell &                Brown was completed (Landmark # 1).

            The Dwight Way single-track electric street car line began operating.[32]

1911    F. A. Postnikov, former Russian army expert in aerial navigation and               balloon construction, moved with family to 1633 Dwight Way.  (He also                          introduced Esperanto to Japan.)[33]

          Key System electric street car line began operating on Sacramento

1912   The Southern Pacific electric street railway (Red Trains) began operating           on California Street.[35]

1913  The old St. Joseph’s Church, which had served as the convent                  chapel since 1908, was torn down.

1914   The Chapel Wing to Presentation Convent was dedicated on August 9th.

          Bethany Lutheran Church (Swedish) at 1744 University Avenue was               dedicated.

1917    St. Joseph Presentation Academy was accredited by the University of               California.

1921   Father Thomas Joseph Brennan became pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in            January 1921.  (1921-1951)

1922    St. Joseph’s Parish purchased the land south of Strawberry Creek to              Allston Way and deeded it to the Sisters of Presentation.

1924    The new St. Joseph’s High School was dedicated.

           Berkeley Hebrew Center was completed.[36]

1925    City Hall Annex, 1835 Allston Way, (Landmark #122) was built to house              the Recreation, Fire and Health Departments.

1929    The Golden Jubilee of St. Joseph’s Parish was celebrated.

1931     First cottage of Fox Commons built by Fox Brothers at 1670 University              Avenue (Landmark # 211).

1932     U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey official elevation datum base (Benchmark         No. 1) was placed near the Northwest corner of Allston Way and Martin                  Luther King, Jr. Way.

1933     The Red Trains ceased operating on California Street.

           Concrete culverts for Strawberry Creek (within the District) were                        completed.

1940     Mary Ann McGee died on March 4th and was buried at St. Mary’s              Cemetery on March 7, 1940.[37]

            Catherine McGee died on December 18th and was buried at St.Mary’s              Cemetery on December 20, 1940[38]

1941    Key System electric street car line ceased operating on Sacramento Street.

1944   Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer (1982 film Blade Runner adapted                  from one of his novels) moved with his mother to 1711 Allston Way.[39]

1946    Berkwood School was founded.

1947    Philip K. Dick moved to converted barn (Sill’s Barn) at 2208 McKinley             where he roomed with Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and Gerald                               Ackerman.[40]

1949     Bethany Hall (Bethany Lutheran Church) was completed.

1951     Father Patrick J. Galvan was named the sixth pastor of St. Joseph’s                Church in January 1951.  (1951-1967)

1952    Washington School was demolished and a new school was built on the                site.[41]

1954    The rebuilt St. Joseph’s Elementary School was dedicated and St. Joseph’s        Parish celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.

1958    Walden School on the Northwest corner of Dwight Way and Grant Street            was established.[42]

1959    Congregation Beth Israel was founded.[43]

1961    A new rectory at St. Joseph’s, designed by Paul Ryan was built.

Early 1960s     Berkwood School moved into the District on Bancroft Way between       McKinley Avenue and Grant Street.

Mid 1960s       St. Joseph’s Parish gave St. Joseph’s High School to the Sisters of        Presentation.  The school became Presentation High School, a non-                           parochial school.

1966    The new Sisters of Presentation Convent at 1601 Allston Way was                    completed on land purchased for them in 1922.

           The old Presentation convent was abandoned, and then totally destroyed          by fire.

1966    St. Joseph’s Church, after extensive renovation, was rededicated and              renamed St. Joseph the Workman Catholic Church.

1970    Becky Temko Tot Park (formerly Roosevelt Tot Lot) was created with the        involvement of the Flatlands Neighborhood Association.

1973    The Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance was passed by the City of             Berkeley, placing strict restrictions on neighborhood demolitions.

          Father William O’Donnell was assigned to St. Joseph the Workman.                   (1973–2003)

           To give equal honor to working women, St. Joseph the Workman was             changed to St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church.[44]

1975    Old City Hall was the first landmark to be designated by the new                    Landmarks Preservation Commission.

          Most of the District was down zoned to R-2.

          Berkwood School merged with the Hedge School to become Berkwood                 Hedge School, opening on the former Berkwood School site.

1984    Berkeley Assembly of God Church began to hold Sunday services in the             Bayview Chapel and purchased it a short time later.[45]

1988   Presentation High School closed.

1991   The University of California purchased the land now known as University              Terrace from the Sister of Presentation in July 1991.

           Berkeley Assembly of God Church was renamed Lighthouse Assembly of            God Church.[46]

1993    The University of California built 75 condominiums (University Terrace)                for faculty and staff on the former Sisters of Presentation site.

1994    Berkeley Buddhist Monastery bought the Church of the Nazarene.

2000    The Ronald Tsukamoto Public Safety Building (2100 Martin Luther King              Jr. Way) was dedicated in July 2000.

2002    The Hall of Justice on McKinley Avenue was demolished.

2005    The new Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue was dedicated on May 8th.

2007    St Joseph the Worker School closed.

2008   The Bridge Assembly of God Church (2414 Martin Luther King Jr. Way              was formed with the merger of the Lighthouse Assembly of God Church                     and the Hilltop Community Church of Richmond.[47]

The sources for most of the information regarding the early history of St. Joseph’s Parish were based on articles written by Father Harry B. Morrison, History of St. Joseph’s Parish, Berkeley, California, 1878 – 1979, Centennial Newsletters of 1978 and 1979.  Information was also taken from Mother Teresa Comerford, Foundress of the Sisters of Presentation by Ann Curry, PBVM.

[1] Death Certificates of Mary Ann and Catherine McGee (daughters)

[2] Register at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland

[3] Death Certificates of Mary Ann and Catherine McGee (daughters)

[4] Register at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland

[5] New York Passenger Lists, 1820 - 1957

[6] Federal Writers Program (WPA), Berkeley, the First Seventy-five Years, 1941

[7] Great Register, Alameda County, Oakland Township, Berkeley Precinct No. 5, 1892

[8] William Warren Ferrier, Berkeley, California, The story of the evolution of a hamlet into a city of culture and commerce (Berkeley, 1933: published by the author).

[9] Ferrier

[10] Certificate of Baptism, St. Mary - Immaculate Conception

[11] Certificate of Baptism, St. Mary - Immaculate Conception

[12] Ferrier

[13] Register at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland

[14] Berkeley Advocate, 2 February 1878

[15] Ferrier

[16] McGee’s Will

[17] California Architect and Building News, February 1884

[18] Copy of Map

[19] Phil Gale

[20] Ferrier

[21] Tax Assessor’s Book, Vol. I, Berkeley, ca 1892, pg. 79

[22] S. W. Waterman, History of the Berkeley schools (Berkeley Unified School District, 1918).

[23] Berkeley Gazette, July 1899

[24] Berkeley Gazette, 18 September 1899

[25] Obituaries and Register at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland

[26] Phil Gale

[27] The San Francisco Call, Friday, February 26, 1904, pg 6.

[28] Waterman

[29] City of Berkeley Records

[30] City of Berkeley Records

[31] Waterman

[32] Phil Gale

[33] Serafin F. Post, The story of the Fyodor Postnikov family (Bancroft Library: Berkeley, California, privately printed).

[34] Phil Gale

[35] Ferrier

[36] Congregation Beth Israel website (www.cbiberkeley.org)

[37] Register at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland

[38] Register at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland

[39] Lawrence Sutin, Divine invasions: a life of Philip K. Dick (New York 2005: Caroll & Graf Publishers).

[40] Lawrence Sutin

[41] Waterman

[42] Waterman

[43] Congregation Beth Israel website (www.cbiberkeley.org)

[44] Street Spirit, December 2006 Edition

[45] Communication with Gingi M. Fulcher of Assembly of God Church

[46] Fulcher

[47] Fulcher

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Raymond Dunt

In 1985, Muka oil began flowing through massive pipelines constructed inside the pre-existing catacombs underneath Sky Ring City. The chief architect of this project – Raymond Dunt – disappeared shortly after its completion. His body was never found. This letter, recently translated, shows the anguish and grief felt by his concerned wife.

The original note on this posting suggested that the body had never been found. This was true until recent excavations under the water basin below Sky Ring City discovered a mass grave, composed of bodies ranging in date of death from 1920 to 2059. Dunt’s body was in fact discovered during this excavation and will interned at the upcoming UNESCO/Canadian Ministry of Heritage/ByoLogyc memorial/mausoleum/museum/medical research centre to be located at the heart of the city.


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The Last Laugh Part 2

Did she just hear right?  Did he just ask her to leave with him?  Her heart rate quickened again.  At this rate she was sure he would be able to see the blood pulsing through her veins.  She worried about saying something stupid so she simply nodded and followed him out of the room.  She pinched her arm to make sure she wasn’t dreaming.  The sharp sting proved this was really happening.

The cafe, as it turned out, was the one that she had spent her lunch hour at every day for the last 20 years.  She had never seen him it, she wondered if maybe he was bluffing about knowing the place.  She started to feel hot.  What if this was all a set up, some workplace bet designed to humiliate her.  She had never been popular but she hoped that they wouldn’t stoop to that level, not on her last day.

There weren’t many people in the cafe when they walked in.  There was a few couples and some students, no doubt taking advantage of the wifi access given to all customers.  Towards the back there was a table in the corner which she liked to sit at because it gave her a view of the rest of the cafe.

A waitress came to take their order and she watched him flirt with her as she wrote in her little note pad.  She wondered if she could ever be with someone who flirted so easily with other women.  The waitress must have said something funny because all of a sudden the room was filled with a guffawing that can only be likened to a baby seal trying to find it’s mother.

She stared at him in stunned silence.  The waitress pulled on her uniform uncomfortably, obviously looking for a way out.  It was the breaking point.  How could a man so handsome, with a voice so beautifully deep, produce a noise like that?  She needed an excuse and she needed one fast.

From the depths of her bag she heard a ping.  She knew that it was probably just a notification for the new online game she was playing, but he didn’t need to know that.  She had found her out and she was going going to take the opportunity with two hands.  She sat and stared at the screen of her mobile, hoping that it would catch his attention.

It worked, and he asked her if everything was ok.  She looked at him, in what she hoped was an apologetic way, and said that she was sorry but something had come up and she needed to leave immediately.  She grabbed her things and left before he could say another thing, for fear that she would lose her nerve.

Once she was home, she lay in bed and thought about the time she had wasted fawning over him.  The man with the seal laugh.  It was her deal breaker, there was nothing she could do about it.  Nothing at all.  Or could she?

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When Your House Guest Has Four Feet

My husband and I enthusiastically offered to keep my sister-in- law’s dog at our house while she and her
husband attended a wedding further North.

Mollie is a Shetland Sheepdog. I think technically she’s considered a Blue Merle, but she’s white with
markings on her head and cute as hell. She looks like a cotton ball on very tiny legs. She’s also very
ladylike which is a sharp contrast to our 18-month- old Boston Terrier, Beans. They’re the Beauty and the
Beast of the K9 world with a large dose of hyperactivity thrown in. We found ourselves yelling at Beans
more than usual simply because of the contrast in styles.

This translated into pretty much every doglike behavior. When Mollie drinks, her little pink tongue juts
out quickly and quietly with not a drop left on the floor to show her efforts. Beans sticks his whole face
into the bowl, slurps loudly, and trails water all over the house. Sometimes he wipes his face on the cat’s
head, which is hilarious! Oddly enough the “Cat From Hell” doesn’t seem to care.

When we let the dogs outside to do their business, Beans took off like a bat outta hell and popped a
squat almost immediately. Mollie delicately worked her way down the stairs and was immediately
assaulted by Beans who apparently wanted to help. We started taking them out separately in deference
to Mollie’s feminine sensibilities. We also fed them separately. This was not because the dogs have poor
mat manners but because the CFH always horns in.

Beans wanted to play non-stop. He loves to share a tug toy with anything that moves and was constantly
offering Molly the other end of a rubber ring, which she declined. Beans has amazingly strong jaws and
can tug with a great deal of force, in fact I don’t even play tug with him. Mollie preferred sitting on our
laps and looking pretty, understandably so. But there was an incredibly sweet moment near the end of
the visit when Mollie went into her crate, came out with a fuzzy toy, and offered one end to Beans.
Beans gently took the other end and played “tug” on Mollie’s terms. Beans may be obnoxious but
apparently, he’s not stupid. Maybe that’s why my husband and I are so goofy in love with this dog.

With guest pets, much like children, there is always the issue of different homes, different rules. Mollie
is fed treats; which Beans is not. Mollie barks a lot more than Beans. During Mollie’s visit, Beans’ default
was, “when in doubt bark with the other dog because there must be something going on that I don’t
know about.” This created the effect of Beans hoping around, barking his fool head off, with a confused
look on his face.

Mollie’s people came back for her on Sunday night and I’m sure she was glad to see them. She’ll be back
for Thanksgiving and I’d like to think Beans and the CFH will be glad to see her. I’m not so sure about
Mollie, but I hope she enjoys the change of pace if nothing else.

Thank you for visiting.

facebook…welcome to my cyber sofa

After graduating from college, establishing a career, and starting a family, I often wondered what had happened to certain acquaintances. You tend to keep in touch with close friends and relatives. But often people you truly appreciate and enjoy slip away from your life almost unnoticed. I remember wishing I had a magical book that would allow me to catch up with their lives. Then came….do I have to say its name? Facebook.

People approach social media from different perspectives based on age, gender, culture, purpose, and availability of time. With FB in particular, there is also the desire for connection with the past and future.

Some people are afraid of it. One relative told me, “Oh, I’m not going near FB, it gets you in too much trouble!” This illustrates the idea that it takes away your control of your own information, and to a certain degree I guess that’s true.

I look at FB as my living room on the internet. It’s my choice to invite people in and to treat them appropriately as guests. If someone is rude, hurtful, or hateful they are not invited back. I chose what information to put out there about myself. I don’t appreciate others supplying information about me via FB. It’s too easy to misinterpret details or get them wrong. By the same token, if you’re not ready to go public about something, don’t put it on FB. You can’t expect the receiver to understand the information is a secret. It’s just not realistic and you have no one to blame but yourself. There are plenty of avenues for the exchange of private or sensitive information, including messaging and private groups.

Here are my basic rules:

f Don’t say anything to me on Facebook you wouldn’t say to me in my own home as an invited guest.

f Don’t come behind my comments on someone else’s page with nasty remarks.

f Don’t criticize me or anyone else on my page. While I like a healthy exchange of ideas, FB is not my preferred vehicle for heated discussion.

f Don’t friend me for the sole purpose of selling me something. I understand FB is a great marketing tool—I use it to push out this blog (which is not monetized.) But when it becomes painfully evident a request has nothing to do with me as a person and everything to do with me as a potential customer, its hurtful.

f Politics and politicians are fair game. But their supporters and detractors are not. Please don’t call someone an idiot because they support a certain candidate, party, or policy. They may indeed BE an idiot. But it’s just not a nice thing to say to a guest sitting on my cyber sofa.

f Please don’t badger me about my use of social media. I may not use it to the extent that you do and that’s OK. There have been many occasions when someone in real time will demand, “Didn’t you see my post?!”

f By the same token, don’t feel the need to apologize to me for not engaging with me on social media. I understand that some people enjoy my blog and others don’t. One woman said to me, “I only scan blogs looking for recipes. I’m not interested in the writing.” And that’s OK.

All in all, FB has enhanced my life. It put me back in touch with some great people, helped me plan events, and provided some amazing information and entertainment. So bring on the babies, the vacation pics, the cat videos, the dog videos, the funny videos, the profound posters, the job updates, the health concerns, and the DIY projects!

Thank you for visiting.

The Early Bird…is Just Obnoxious!

Many years ago during a television interview with the actress Bonnie Hunt, she said her family used the “Door Bell” method of housekeeping. You don’t bother to clean until the doorbell rings. While I don’t personally subscribe to this method, I do appreciate it.

I feel strongly about guests showing up early. I am strongly against it. Unless you’re having a medical emergency—in which case you should probably go to the hospital first—please don’t come to my house or event one second ahead of the stated time.

I was reminded of this concept several times in the last couple of weeks. I went to a baby shower in Jersey where half the guests showed up early. What is that all about? Is it a Jersey thing? The baby Grandma was rushing around trying to put the finishing touches on a lovely venue and was forced to entertain at least two dozen people ahead of schedule. Another friend of mine was hosting house guests who gleefully texted they’d hit the road sooner than expected and would be hours early. What! For God sakes, take the scenic route! Yet another acquaintance works weddings. She told me about an event just last weekend when many of the guests arrived at the reception venue half an hour early and actually banged on the doors. When she did let them in several people demanded mixed drinks even before the bar was set up.

For those of you who don’t get it, here’s the deal. Most of us mortals don’t keep a spotless house and must prepare for visitors. I take pride in presenting a clean home or well prepared venue. My mother used to say it should look like a stage set when folks walk in and then everything can go to hell. This prep takes a certain amount of time and scheduling because I have other stuff going on. Some of us also have pets so it doesn’t make sense to start cleaning a moment too soon because all will be re-fuzzed within minutes. When I’m done cleaning and prepping food, I like to enjoy a glass of wine while I prep myself. If you show up early, I miss the one part of party prep I enjoy.

Many people will say, “I thought you might need help so I came early”. If I need help, believe me I’ll ask for it in advance. I’ve never been accused of martyrdom. If you volunteer and I politely decline, I’m not being polite, I really don’t want you early. No one is that helpful. Some people will assume their bond with the hosts is strong enough that it doesn’t matter if they show up early and just hang out. Unless you’re still in the womb, there is no bond strong enough for an early arrival.

I realize I’m a little crazy about time. I worked in the television news business for many years where every second was accounted for. Time really WAS money! The only exception was 16 years ago when the clock stopped and we threw revenue to the wind in order to supply a platform for our community to grieve.

My family tells me this television-time perspective has left me with an unhealthy attitude toward punctuality on both ends of the punctal spectrum. OK, I can live with that.

Do you mind people showing up early? Don’t you cherish those last few moments when you can look around your house and admire your work while sipping Prosecco and applying mascara? In my husband’s case, it’s drinking beer and watching whatever sport is on TV (sorry son, I know you hate stereotypes but it’s true.)

Thank you for visiting, and not a moment too soon.

Being a Guest on Fourth of July

Being a Guest on Fourth of July

I was fortunate to spend my Fourth of July weekend as the guest of a couple who live in a lovely home on Chesapeake Bay. I arrived on Saturday afternoon, about two hours before my hosts’ annual Fourth of July celebration began. I had been asked to arrive early, get settled, and help with a few chores.

Our hosts provide crabs and corn while everyone else brings a side and their beverage of choice. This leads me to a hosting issue which I hear frequently. When hosting such an event is it better to assign sides or let the chips (and dips) fall where they may? If it’s a large event such as this, I like the free-form event. Folks get to make their specialties and if someone doesn’t show up, there isn’t a hole at the table that the hostess may feel obligated to fill at the last minute. But I know it bothers some folks to have too much of one thing and not enough of another. In this case we had a lot of pasta salad and one guest was heard to remark, “With a little planning this wouldn’t have happened.” I guess my thought is, who cares? Thoughts?

Several couples spent the night and I was in charge of breakfast Sunday morning. As usual we had an assortment of diets including vegetarian, pescitarian, and pregnant. With the help of another guest I made a huge load of bacon, pancakes, homemade blackberry syrup, fruit salad, and watermelon salad. For future reference, that combination seemed to work really well. Two of the couples peeled off to go home and the remaining six people spent a relaxing day puddling around in the water and eating leftovers.

On Monday we gave our hosts a break and went to Calvert Cliffs along with the other remaining guest couple. I almost hate to promote it, but this is an amazing 4 mile hike along a shaded path through forest and bordering several different ecosystems. You end up at a small swimming beach on the Bay with an amazing view of the cliffs. It’s also dog friendly, and our Boston Terrier swam for the first time. We headed about seven miles down Route 2 to Soloman’s Island for lunch. Again, found a dog friendly restaurant with shade and really good sandwiches. That night we took our hosts out to dinner. Really nice day.

On Tuesday, one couple went to check out Chesapeake Beach, two of us went to a small-town parade, and two of “us” stayed on the couch all day watching Robocop movies. I love a parade, there’s something about gathering with other people on Main Street America and complaining about their children that I enjoy. That night the other couple treated us all to pizza.

We could see fireworks from different localities from our hosts’ backyard every night. I also love fireworks.

This trip reinforced several of my best practices.
1) When you have a group staying at your house for several days, it’s helpful if people can entertain themselves, at least during the day.
2) It’s OK for people to do different things. Guests shouldn’t be pressured to participate in activities that don’t interest them. When someone on vacation is forced to do something they don’t want….it shows and takes away from the enjoyment of others.
3) Don’t complain or make negative comments about anything. If there is a serious safety or comfort problem, don’t whine about it, suggest a solution. “I know we need some room in the fridge. Mind if I toss this mayonnaise-based salad that was out on the sun for 10 hours?” “I know it’s just me, but do you mind if I turn the AC down just a couple of degrees?” You know stuff like that.
4) If you bring a pet, take responsibility for it! The first night, my bad cat woke everyone up at 5:00 am yowling in the hallway. Once again, my apologies.

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.

Thank you for visiting.

Traveling and Pets as House Guests

Traveling and Pets as House Guests

This week’s blog is dedicated to my K-9 friend Beau Call, who is now sniffing butts in doggie heaven. He was a good and faithful servant. The pic with this post is not Beau, he was much more dignified.

This week I address the challenge of pets and houseguesting.

I would like to thank my veterinarians from Ashland Veterinary Hospital ( for providing me with their expertise on the subject.

First of all, don’t travel with cats unless you have to. My vets agree with me on this one. Cats are creatures of habit and generally don’t travel well. You’re always welcome to disagree with me, but you’ll have to wait until I’ve staunched the bleeding from my last trip to my sister’s with my cat!

That pretty much leaves dogs, and I must say that some of our best guests have been dogs…I’m looking at you Puddles.

Suggestions for the Guest:

  • You are responsible for your dog’s behavior at all times.

“There are people who think their dogs will never do something aggressive…and they do. Even the nicest dogs will snap.” The Ashland Vets advise keeping your dog on a leash while indoors, especially if there are children or other pets in the host’s home. They say that by erring on the side of caution you are protecting your dog as well as those they come into contact with.

  • Make sure your dog is up to date on all shots and medications recommended by your vet and find out about the environment where you will be staying. You may need preventative medicines that aren’t necessary in your home area.
  • Don’t assume it’s OK to bring your dog with you as a houseguest without checking. This has happened to us.
  • Ask permission once to bring your dog. If the host says “no” for any reason, please don’t press the point. That creates an awkward situation for the host.
  • Put your dog’s kennel or ground pad in the guest room along with his toys and dishes. Feed the dog in this area and leave him there when you can’t watch him. This will prevent what the Vets call “resource guarding.” Rawhide is a common source of resource guarding.
  • Pick up your dog’s poop from the host’s yard and let them know where you have deposited the load so the host isn’t surprised when they take out the trash.
  • Don’t let your dog dig in the host’s yard.
  • Dogs that jump on people and furniture are not cute to anyone but their owners. Another good reason to keep visiting dogs on a leash when inside.
  • Exercise the dog so it is calmer indoors.
  • Don’t ever blame the host (or the host’s pets) for your dog’s behavior. Remember, you have created this situation.

Suggestions for the Host:

  • I repeat my number one Best Practice for Hosts, “Your ultimate responsibility is for the safety and well being of the family and household you have created.” If you have any reservations about hosting a pet, it is your job to say “no.” You are not required to provide a lengthy explanation. If you provide specific reasons they can be countered with comments such as, “Oh, my dog is hypo allergenic.”
  • If you decline to host a guest’s pet, offer alternatives such as a local kennel or veterinarian that boards. “I’m sorry we can’t accommodate Ginger at our home, but I’ve heard good things about ____________.”
  • Warn your guest of any issues they may have with a pet at your home. For instance, you may have an aggressive or elderly dog who does not play well with others. Or, your apartment is on the 21st floor and the elevator is slow. You get the idea.
  • If you agree to host an animal try to relax and enjoy the visit. Right Puddles?

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More People In America Are Solitary Than Ever Before Before—And They’re Healthier, Too

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There are many adults that are single, working, and yes, nevertheless breathing, in the usa than in the past in history. In 2017, the U.S. Census reported 110.6 million unmarried individuals older than 18—that’s 45.2 per cent regarding the American adult population—carrying out their life to a brand new pair of societal norms. Are unmarried Americans doomed, or onto one thing certainly exciting?

To past generations, America’s solitary populace might be viewed as crazy.

In 1960, 72 per cent of grownups had been hitched. Among today’s growing population that is single 63 per cent have not been hitched, 23 % are divorced, and 13 per cent are widowed. Of the staggering population that is single nearly all that are residing independently of the very own accord, 53 % of livejasmin log in singles are females. Is it influx of solitary ladies desperately dating away, in a battle against time against their biological clocks? Quite contrary: they’re healthiest than previously. A 2017 research posted within the Journal of Women’s wellness discovered that single females had lower BMIs, waist sizes, and risk related to smoking cigarettes and liquor than their counterparts that are married.

The convenience and accessibility of finding a partner have actually evolved with technology, sufficient reason for it comes down a paradox of preference; for several solitary individuals, the world that is dating too muddled with alternatives to go. A 2008 research discovered that the more online dating profiles single individuals browsed, the much more likely these people were to own “memory confabulations”, misremembering information on prospective lovers. “Large choice sets cause participants to create mating decisions which can be less closely aligned with regards to idealized mating decisions, ” noticed researchers from Northwestern University, in a 2012 research examining the emotional implications of online dating sites.

Is love becoming obsolete in America, rebranded into an unfeeling hookup culture, commodified right into a simpler, faster model to be exchanged in if the next most sensible thing arrives? Such as your very first iPhone, the infatuation for that ex from a couple of years right back quickly faltered for a more recent version. You pined when it comes to model that is latest, one with increased storage area prepared for the hefty information and psychological baggage. It’s been going well, but recently, you’re wanting for the hottest release yet– a brand new match from Tinder, the iPhone X of leads. They’re shinier, very sought-after, and presumably free of the pests that frequented your most update that is recent.

Whether American singles end up alone by option or during the fault of preference, understanding through the Pew Research Center informs an even more positive tale: wedding might be in the decrease, but Us citizens have actuallyn’t abadndoned love.

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Whether they’re waiting longer to subside, choosing to take pleasure from monogamy beyond your appropriate constraints of a wedding, or deciding to forgo the organization altogether, the figures are startling, record-breaking, as well as numerous, empowering. In a 2017 census report, 55 % of People in america indicated the fact that engaged and getting married just isn’t a significant milestone in leading a delighted adulthood. Given that brand new 12 months unfolds, solitary Americans will find by by themselves navigating a dating globe transformed by technology, fraught with doubt, but luckily for us, still paved by genuine emotion.

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“Capricorn Concerto” by Samuel Barber: Content and Genre-Style Dimensions

musical culture of the USA, creativity by S. Barber, genre of instrumental concert, “Capricorn Concerto”

Relevance of the study. Samuel Barber’s musical legacy is unevenly covered in musicological literature, in particular, “Capricorn Concerto” is on the periphery of scientific attention — the work that is not only bright and interesting, but also indicative of the composer’s creativity as a whole. In addition, researchers, as a rule, do not associate the semantic and stylistic features of a concert with its genre specificity, which ultimately determines the integrity of the artistic structure.
The main objective of the study is to identify the relationship between genre, style and content parameters of Capricorn Concerto.
The methodology of the research includes the historical and biographical approaches used to study the circumstances of S. Barber’s life and creativity during the period of work on the “Capricorn Concerto”, as well as structural-functional, genre-style and intonational-dramatic methods necessary for a comprehensive analysis of this work.
Results and conclusions. “Capricorn Сoncerto” by S. Barber is considered in the unity of content, style and genre characteristics. The existing hypotheses about the links between the program content of the work and the name of the composer’s house in Mount Kisco are presented. The character and dramatic functions of musical themes representing the house and its inhabitants are analyzed, the idea of the personification of the wind instruments’ timbres and the reflection of the generalized program of the work through the game thematic logic and timbre dramaturgy is put forward. The stylistic influences in “Capricorn Сoncerto” are characterized. The connections with baroque music and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 by J. S. Bach, presented at the timbre, textured, compositional, intonation levels, as well as in the methods of melodic development, are traced. The unification of the Baroque style elements with modern means of musical expression, in particular those associated with the music of I. Stravinsky, is emphasized. The place of “Capricorn Сoncerto” in S. Barber’s concert legacy is designated. The correspondence of all his four concerts to the basic requirements of the genre is noted, and at the same time specificity of “Capricorn Сoncerto”, manifested in its instrumental composition (three solo wind instruments and a string orchestra), structural organization (subordination of the compositional structure to the through development of the concert principle of dialogue) and the ratio of parties (multilevel dialogical processes) is emphasized. The interrelation of content, style and genre features of “Capricorn Concerto” is substantiated. It is concluded that the most important intentions of S. Barber’s work are reflected in this work: careful preservation of genre traditions, genetic connection with the styles of previous eras, deeply hidden, but always tangible resonance between personal biography and creativity

Author Biography

Olena Antonova, Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine

Candidate of Art Criticism, Associate Professor at the Department of History of World Music

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Kulova, E. K. (1979). US Piano Art: Works by McDowell, Gershwin, Berber [Fortepiannoe iskusstvo SShA: tvorchestvo Mak Douella, Gershvina, Berbera]. The dissertation author’s abstract for gaining the degree of the Candidate of Art Criticism by specialty 17.00.03 Music Art. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Moscow, 22 p. [in Russian].

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By Natalie Duggan | Emory Medicine | Dec. 11, 2014

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Fecal transplants heal infections by increasing microbial diversity

The human gut is its own ecosystem, hosting close to a thousand microorganisms, many of which are helpful and necessary.

When you take antibiotics, some of the beneficial germs can be wiped out, leaving you more vulnerable to diarrheal infections—infections, in some cases, that are antibiotic resistant and life-threatening.

Fecal transplants are proving to be a highly effective, antibiotic-free tool to cure Clostridium difficile, known as C diff, often a health care acquired infection that is more common among the elderly or those who take frequent antibiotics.

Colleen Kraft, medical director of Emory's clinical microbiology laboratory and assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and the Division of Infectious Diseases, started the intestinal microbiota program to treat and understand these infections. "Now that we as a medical community have a better understanding of the damage we do to the intestinal microbiota with antibiotic therapy, this understanding became the motivation to restore the balance to improve health," Kraft says.

In a fecal transplant, a sample is taken from a healthy donor, mixed with saline, and transplanted into the small intestine or colon of the ill patient, where the good bacteria repopulates and restores the healthy microbiota. Tanvi Dhere, director of inflammatory bowel diseases at the Emory Clinic, performs the transplant via colonoscopy and follows up with the patients in the Emory GI clinic. There have been 81 fecal transplants since the program began in 2012.

Donors need to meet stringent requirements, including not having school-aged children, not traveling internationally, and not having taken any antibiotics for at least one year; the sample is screened for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, STDs, parasites, and more. Patients are offered the option of having a family member screened for donor eligibility, but few have requested this after the standardized donor program was started.

Pathology residents Ryan McCormick and Drew Davis are two of Emory's donors.

"During clinical rotations, we saw C diff cases on the wards," Davis says. "It's important to recognize how bad conditions like C diff and colitis actually are."

"For the record, I don't think it's as gross as it sounds," McCormick says, laughing. "My reason for donating is to have more direct involvement in patient care."

Of the 336,000 C diff cases in the US each year, 14,000 result in death, often because the standard course of antibiotic treatment failed.

Kraft and Dhere are enrolling participants for a clinical trial in which they will examine the microbiome of the sample at the mucosal level. "A patient's gut microbiome is changed after undergoing a fecal transplant," Dhere says. "We want to know what specifically is allowing patients to recover."

Collaborative research with other departments is ongoing, including a study with the Department of Surgery on the efficacy of fecal transplants in treating pouchitis, a gastrointestinal condition that may require chronic antibiotics and affects more than 40% of patients with ulcerative colitis who have had a colonic resection. The team, led by Virginia Shaffer, has been granted an investigational new drug designation from the FDA. Fecal transplantation is also showing promise for treating C diff in organ transplant recipients, who must take drugs to keep their immune systems from rejecting the transplanted organ.

The intestinal microbiota program has a success rate of more than 90%. "We receive a lot of thank-you cards from patients and their families," Dhere says. "The quality of life that patients get after the procedure speaks volumes for this treatment."


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The Verge is a place where you can consider the future. So are movies. In Yesterday’s Future, we revisit a movie about the future and consider the things it tells us about today, tomorrow, and yesterday.

The movie: Wall-E (2008)

The future: In Wall-E, waste is what does us in. The first third of Pixar’s ninth film is among the best 30-minute stretches of cinema the studio has ever produced: a mostly silent experience where Wall-E, a cute trash-compacting robot, introduces us to an abandoned Earth. As Wall-E wanders a derelict city, collecting trinkets of humanity we left behind, we slowly learn what went wrong. The excesses of humanity have led to too much garbage. Landfills quickly became inadequate, and for every skyscraper in the city, there’s a pile of compacted trash just as big.

As the movie’s second act begins, we learn what happened to humanity: world leaders, overwhelmed by a planet filled and surrounded by junk — Wall-E’s first shot is a galactic zoom-in on Earth, surrounded by a thick cloud of space debris — decided the only tenable solution was to load up in space barges subsidized by a big-box retailer, Buy-N-Large, where humanity has spent the last 700 years becoming fat, screen-obsessed vessels of pure consumption.

The past: When Wall-E premiered on June 27th, 2008, Pixar was invincible, an animation studio with a near-perfect batting average. Its only near-miss was Cars, a movie that’s merely an “excellent kids movie” and not “transcendent fun for the whole family.” The United States, however, was in the middle of the Great Recession fueled by the subprime mortgage crisis of the years prior. The economic shock, followed by the endless headlines from our forever wars abroad, helped solidify the notion that the 2000s were a bucket of cold water on the prosperity of the ‘90s. Things were busted in ways that were starting to become unavoidably clear.

As New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote in his review of Wall-E:

As the earth heats up, the vanishing of humanity has become something of a hot topic, a preoccupation shared by directors like Steven Spielberg (“A.I.”), Francis Lawrence (“I Am Legend”), M. Night Shyamalan (“The Happening”) and Werner Herzog … when the whimsical techies at Pixar and a moody German auteur are sending out the same message, it may be time to pay attention.

The present: Today, Wall-E reads less like an ecological fable — although those elements are there, as the film eventually becomes about recolonizing the abandoned Earth — and more like a tale of capitalism run amok. Buy-N-Large, the megacorporation at the heart of this apocalypse, got so big that, eventually, the waste it produced superseded anything it actually provided to the people. And instead of fixing the world, it decided to rocket off of it with its customers in self-sustaining vessels of endless consumer culture.

This is where Wall-E plays a little poorly today. The humans of its future are all fat and barely capable of standing on their own two feet. They’re creatures of pure consumption, consuming entire meals blended into Big Gulp cups and endlessly swiping on screens projected from hoverchairs that cart them around. The regressive cultural shorthand of fatness = laziness is one of the most prominent motifs in the movie, a bit of semiotics that plays that much louder in a movie with very little dialogue. In being so spare, Wall-E —perhaps inadvertently, perhaps not — suggests that the act of consumption is the sin, the predation of corporations a consequence of that. Buy-N-Large is a villain, sure, but Wall-E’s message is that you should put down your damn phone.

Still, the movie is chilling in its vision of where we’re headed. Wall-E posits a future where, given the choice between corporations and people, we chose a corporation — and as a result, that corporation took the planet away from us.

Wall-E is available to stream on Disney Plus

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For years, Donald Trump’s fight against social media companies has been a one-man boxing match. He calls them out over bias, and they rewrite policies making him the one exception to their rules, taking care never to punch back. But on Tuesday, Twitter slapped back for the first time ever, labeling two tweets as making false and misleading claims about mail-in voting.

On Wednesday morning, predictably, Trump hit back. In a series of early morning tweets, the president said he would “strongly regulate, or close [platforms] down” before he allowed them to stifle conservative speech. Trump did not explain the ways in which the federal government could regulate or shutter social media companies in his Wednesday morning tweets, but the fresh threats are lighting a fire under the feet of conservatives who believe, unjustly, that social media companies silence conservative voices and views. Soon after his first set of tweets Wednesday, Trump said to expect a “Big action to follow.”

Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020

It’s not the first time the president has called out platforms for perceived bias against conservatives, and it certainly won’t be the last. But all of Trump’s past attempts to regulate social media platforms for ideological bias have fallen short, even as the scandals provoking them continue to escalate. The efforts have provided the Trump reelection campaign with a convenient foil in the Silicon Valley liberals and “elites” that supposedly control moderation systems. But the president has never followed through on his threats and used his considerable powers to place legal limits on how these companies operate. His fights with the tech companies last just long enough to generate headlines, but flame out before they can make a meaningful policy impact. And despite the wave of conservative anger currently raining down on Twitter, there’s no reason to think this one will be any different.

Those flameouts are most tangible in the courts. On the same day as Trump’s tweets, the US Court of Appeals in Washington ruled against the nonprofit group Freedom Watch and fringe right figure Laura Loomer in a case purporting that Facebook, Google, and Twitter conspired to suppress conservative content online, according to Bloomberg. Whether it be Loomer or Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) fighting the bias battle, the courts have yet to rule in their favor.

Trump’s own attempts to use his executive power to regulate social media platforms have also fallen short. Last fall, the Trump administration reportedly drafted an executive order titled “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship” that would empower the Federal Communications Commission with the ability to change how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is interpreted. Right now, that law ensures that platforms can’t be sued over content posted by their users, provided they make a good faith effort to remove posts that violate the law. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has previously made remarks that social media companies have too much power over online speech, but agency officials argued that the administration’s order was unconstitutional. The draft order went nowhere.

Still, Republicans jumped at Trump’s comments over social media bias to push legislation that would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Soon after Trump attacked Twitter on Tuesday, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) reinvoked the debate to change the law.

“The law still protects social media companies like Twitter because they are considered forums not publishers,” Rubio tweeted Tuesday.

“Twitter is getting subsidized by the federal government for that interference [labeling Trump’s tweets] in the form of special immunity worth billions,” Hawley said. “Time to end #BigTech sweetheart deal w/ government.”

Hawley has championed the conservative fight against Big Tech by introducing legislation to pare back Section 230, a fight that has gained him many fans on the anti-corporate left. Last year, he introduced a measure that would revoke 230’s legal shield if a platform is proven by the Federal Trade Commission to act out of favor against conservative political views. But the bill never received a hearing, and most of his other efforts have failed to pick up broad support, even among Republicans. Even if his own party backed the proposal, it seems unlikely to get through the Democrat-led House of Representatives during campaign season. Hawley also sent a letter directly to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Wednesday questioning the platform’s ability to fact-check Trump after “choosing. to editorialize on President Trump’s tweets.”

Even if the Trump administration and Congress can’t address their bias concerns through policy and legislation, they’ll likely continue to leverage the scandals through campaign advertising and fundraising. Earlier Wednesday, Trump’s reelection campaign released a new ad “to FIGHT BACK against” the mainstream media and “their biased coverage” of the Trump administration. Replace CNN and MSNBC with Facebook and Twitter, and the Trump campaign has a set of brand-new liberal villains treating the president unfairly. The campaign has even gone out of its way to scapegoat Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of site integrity, over a string of old tweets. That sort of attack is as damaging to Twitter as it is profitable for Trump — but if you’re imagining this path will end in a new age of tech antitrust… you shouldn’t hold your breath.


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The Douro region is the oldest wine producing region in the world, known for it´s outstanding wine quality and for the famous Port Wine, that originated the demarcation of the Region in 1756 by Marquês de Pombal.

The Douro is located in Northeast Portugal, surrounded by the Mountains of Marão and Montemuro. The terroir here is unique and impressive — hot, rocky and one of the most inhospitable growing regions in the world. The majority of the plantations are in terraces, carved in the valley slopes along the River Douro. The soils are mainly schist. Although difficult to work on, these soils are beneficial to the vineyard longevity. The vineyard culture in the region dates back to the XVII Century when Port Wine had a boom in production, originating the Methween Treaty between Portugal and England.

The Douro vineyards create a magnificent sight recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage in 2001. Over the centuries, the hardy, indigenous Douro grapes have adapted to the region’s difficult climate and soils, sending their roots deep into the vertical fissures in the multi layered rock to survive and thrive. Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca, Tinto Cão and Tinta Roriz are the grape varieties that stand out, among many others.

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Muay Thai or Thai Boxing is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It’s sometimes referred to as the ‘art of eight limbs’ as you use your fists, elbows, knees and shins to form one of the most effective and powerful martial arts in the world.

Class Information

Students can take part in either our Basics, Mixed or Advanced/Sparring Muay Thai classes.

All start with an intense conditioning workout and then move on to technique drills, partner work, pad work, sparring (on Tuesdays and Thursdays), and further conditioning exercises.

If you’ve never trained before then we’d encourage you to come along to the gym and watch what the sessions involve or take part in a Basics class.  Many students who train here started with no (or very little) experience so you’ll be fine!

Equally, if you think you are experienced enough to attend an Advanced session please get in touch and let us know how much you’ve trained, if you’ve competed etc.  Aaron (our Coach) does normally like to see everyone train in a Mixed session before they join the Advanced lesson but this obviously does depend on the above.

For your first few Basic or Mixed classes all you’ll need are shorts and a t-shirt (with no zips and/or buttons on either item) as you’re welcome to borrow our boxing gloves to start off.  However, if you already have your own wraps, gloves (16oz) etc. please bring them along too.

As you get more experienced you will need your own hand wraps, gum shield, boxing gloves, a head protector, shin/instep protectors and possibly either a groin or chest protector. Just speak with Aaron when you’re here though and he’ll advise you on what to buy and when.

Trial Lessons

Potential students are welcome to try out one of our classes for free. Just click on the ‘Sign up for a trial class’ button and let us know when you’d like to join a class. Please note, we ideally ask for at least 48 hours’ notice as this gives us plenty of time to respond to your request!


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Engaging with the Public on Nuclear Power

edf energy 150Public acceptance is often one of the biggest obstacles to initiating or even expanding a nuclear power programme, and successfully designing and implementing stakeholder involvement programmes for such projects remains a challenge.

Underlining the importance of nurturing public acceptance, experts from over 40 countries met 4-7 November 2014 in Bristol, United Kingdom to develop effective techniques and messages to engage with decision makers and the public on nuclear power projects.

Hosted by EDF Energy, the four day IAEA workshop – Technical Meeting on Effective Techniques and Messages to Engage with Decision Makers and the Public  – provided practical guidance regarding public communication techniques and enabled participants to practice creating and coordinating messages related to the planning and implementation of new nuclear power projects.

“There is an impact of any new programme – whether energy or infrastructure or specifically for the UK – and that is the impact to the people living in the area, traffic, transport during construction, excitement of young people for what opportunities it creates for jobs and wealth,” clarified Mike Harrison, Chief Nuclear Officer at EDF Energy. “We need to be open and transparent. We have to respect that not everybody is for nuclear power and we must answer the questions.”

From the UK experience, participants learnt what worked well, and what did not, at a national and local level. Innovative methods were also employed at the meeting to convey the importance of communication and stakeholder involvement. Introducing a board game specifically designed for the workshop, “The Nuclear Journey – Building trust to build a nuclear plant”, players went through the three phases of developing the infrastructure for new nuclear build and, at each turn, were faced with questions about or challenges to their stakeholder involvement plans.

Delegates from newcomer countries also had the opportunity to visit Hinkley Point C, the proposed site for building two new nuclear power reactors. The complexity of the project, which even at this early stage has a large variety of contractors and subcontractors in place, greatly impressed participants. Additionally, the common theme of supporting the needs of the local community from early on – for example by providing the dwellings closest to the site with double pane windows to mitigate the noise of construction, by planting a vast area with trees or by building a structure for a species of bats that is close to extinction – drove home the importance of strong commitment by the nuclear industry and local authorities to stakeholder involvement and their need to work together.

“It has been a steep learning curve for both of us [the local authorities and EDF energy]” illustrated David Hall, County Councillor of the Somerset County Council and the officer responsible for economic development, including new nuclear, in the county. “We developed a friendly but adversarial relationship. Now, we are on the cusp of a change. We need to move the adversarial relationship into a side by side, as it is important to demonstrate to the public that we are working together to deliver the maximum benefit to everyone.”

Successful stakeholder involvement programmes begin by listening to and addressing stakeholders’ concerns then entail engaging those stakeholders, providing timely information openly and building trust and credibility that will serve the programme throughout its entire duration. Often, there is a need to communicate first about energy policies and second to strengthen public understanding of nuclear power, especially its benefits and risks.

One way to do this is by communicating about the basics of electricity generation, national energy policy and objectives for economic growth in the Member State. Nuclear power becomes an underlying topic in these discussions and allows for the various organizations involved in the nuclear power programme to build their communication tools, messages and reputations in the scope of the bigger picture of their country’s national goals.

The IAEA has organized annual meetings on stakeholder involvement since 2012 and has seen increasing interest from nuclear newcomers as well as operating and expanding countries in the topic.  The next meetings are planned in 2015 in Finland and Japan.

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Horizon and Hitachi-GE Supplier Day

horizon new 200Horizon Nuclear Power has reached capacity for this event so delegate registration is now closed.

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Event InformationHorizon Nuclear Power is developing plans to build a new nuclear power station, Wylfa Newydd, on the Isle of Anglesey, followed by Oldbury in South Gloucestershire. Supported by delivery team leader Hitachi-GE, Horizon will host a national supply chain conference on Thursday 23 July, at Venue Cymru in Llandudno.The team will provide updates on the progress towards Wylfa Newydd and offer more information about how companies of all sizes can get involved. This event provides an opportunity to speak to various members of our team, discuss potential opportunities, network with other businesses, and learn more about how your organisation can connect with business support agencies.This one day event will include presentations from Horizon, Hitachi-GE and industry support bodies, on subjects including:
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Well, we can’t keep dragging this out. The 2020 Ontario Hot Rod Tour is cancelled and rescheduled for June 3-4-5-6 2021.

We will start with refunds today (May 8, 2020).  As they must be done individually, Kathy will be doing them as time allows in her schedule. If you have not seen your refund in 2 weeks, please let us know.

Cancelling your hotels is your responsibility. Please cancel them right away.

If things were to settle down and loosen up a bit, we have a tentative route for a fall cruise that we have worked on. But, more on that at a later date.

We feel that at this time, this is the best plan. This tour was developing into potentialy our best yet. We, like you, are very disappointed.

Let’s have a big thanks to our Sponsors JH Restoration and all of our partners and participants for their continued support


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Oogy is more than a blog.

OOGY is the brainchild of Texan millennial Rachel Rodriguez. Her initial mission was to create a blog, but the true purpose behind Oogy is to acknowledge that there is no “normal” and that negative self-talk should have no place in simply trying to live a happy life.

Oogy was also created to face fears. Functioning in spite of crippling social anxiety meant acceptance of herself and celebration of the same for others.

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

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Since her first post on Xanga in the early aughts, Rachel found her voice in writing. Until now, she has sought to curate ideas beyond her comfort zone and live a life that is weird, familiar, hairy, and free. So basically Oogy.

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Utah is Playing in Kansas and I have Questions

When a Pac-12 school schedules a game against the Kansas Jayhawks, I’m going to pay attention. But, because I’m the preeminent Pac-12 blogger, I need some help. I can’t know this conference and, say, the Valley. So I brought the questions to Brian Goodman,  the lead writer for Rush The Court’s Big 12 microsite. You can follow him on Twitter @BSGoodman.

Questions and answers:

Kentucky made Kansas look really, really small and lots of other things. But Kansas isn’t actually that team. They’re quite good, right? What does this team do that makes them elite?

The Kentucky drubbing still sticks out in a lot of people’s minds, but Kansas has played six games against strong competition since then, and they’ve come out victorious every single time. That doesn’t mean I would call Kansas elite just yet, but they’re getting there. The biggest development in that time has been Frank Mason’s emergence at the point guard spot, which was one of the team’s biggest questions going in. Perry Ellis has been reliable as expected, but after him, it’s been a balanced attack with anyone from Wayne Selden to Cliff Alexander to even Brannen Greene chipping in. It’s also helped that Kansas’ defense, which was uncharacteristically vulnerable last season, has tightened up as of late – the Jayhawks’ last three opponents each failed to score more than one point per possession. They aren’t elite, but apart from Kentucky and Duke, who is right now?

So Jakob Poeltl has exploded onto the scene as an international sensation. He’s like an auto-double-double, an athletic seven-footer, and a commentator’s nightmare (Poeltl rhymes with turtle – who knew?). But he might not be the most surprising foreigner on the floor: Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk starts in the Jayhawk backcourt. Who is he?

Bill Self was tipped off to Mykhailiuk very late in the recruiting calendar, at last season’s Final Four. He’s an intriguing player for many reasons: He has international experience with his native Ukraine, but with Kansas, he’s a two-guard despite being listed at 6’8” (though that may be generous). On top of that, he’s very young, having just turned 17 in June. He’s mostly been a three-point shooter this season, but he’s shown the ability to drive as long as he doesn’t get bumped on the way to the rim. He’s a work in progress, but with 32 minutes of action against Michigan State, he’s shown that he can be a difference-maker against good competition, too. From an impact standpoint, the biggest difference between Poeltl and Mykhailiuk is that Self has enough depth to sit Mykhailiuk when he isn’t playing well, so while he isn’t as important on an everyday basis as Poeltl is to Utah, he could be the X-Factor the Jayhawks need to make a deep run in March.

Should the Fieldhouse Jayhawk be bigger or larger?

That thing was a behemoth years before it became trendy to turn courts into canvases.

Brandon Taylor and Delon Wright are forming one of the tougher backcourts on the West Coast. They’re one of the strong suits of the Utes. Meanwhile, point guard has seemingly been a question mark for the Jayhawks. Who will be drawing the primary duties of guarding and attacking the Ute backcourt?

Entering the season, the point guard battle came down to Frank Mason and freshman Devonte’ Graham, but as I alluded to earlier, a nice start from Mason coupled with a nagging shoulder injury for Graham has given the sophomore a clear edge. Mason is no Sherron Collins, but he has a ton of confidence in his driving ability, and the odds are you’ll see that swing both ways tomorrow. As a distributor, he’s fortunate in that the guy he needs to feed the most (Ellis) can create his own shot, but Mason is a solid enough passer. He’s also shown improvement as a defender, forcing Big East Preseason POY D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera into a 3-15 shooting night at home the other night. Wright will present a kind of challenge Mason hasn’t really seen, though, so I’ll be very interested to see how that matchup shakes out.

Bill Self (how good is he?) has been famous for his transition offense. This year, however, the Jayhawks are getting just 16% (as compared to greater than 21% the last three years) of their offense in transition. Is this a strategic shift, a byproduct of slower opposition in the early goings ons, or the steady decline in steal rate?

I think those could all be factors, but more than anything else, I think it’s simply been a difference in personnel. Kansas has never been hugely reliant on transition offense; They’ll push when they have numbers, but Self’s offenses have always been dependent on ball movement and clearing space to either deliver a pass into the post or drive. That being said, in previous years, the transition game received big lifts from Jeff Withey and Joel Embiid, who excelled at keeping blocked shots inbounds, which led to numerous transition opportunities, but it wasn’t the team’s bread and butter. This year, Kansas doesn’t have that kind of rim protector to start those runouts, but it hasn’t really hurt them outside of the Kentucky game.

Utah does a great job of protecting the rim. Is Kansas more equipped to attack this strength or avoid it (aka shoot over it)?

You should expect to see Kansas try to attack inside. Ellis has surprising range for a big man, but this isn’t a very good jump-shooting team and they don’t shoot many threes, despite Brannen Greene’s barrage the other night. Their MO is to get Ellis and Alexander the ball and let them operate, though Alexander relies a lot on brute force and athleticism than the craftier Ellis. If Ellis can stretch out the Utah frontcourt, you could see some cutting lanes emerge for Mason and Graham, with forward Landen Lucas sealing off the paint to keep help defenders out of the equation.

Perry Ellis, Wayne Selden, and Cliff Alexander are the “big names” on this year’s team. But – for example – Brannen Greene goes off for 19 in DC to beat Georgetown. It was 60% of his scoring output for the season. Who are some of those guys to keep an eye on?

Mason has been a steady scorer as well, so it will be important for Utah’s defense to contain him. For the reasons I detailed above, I don’t think Greene will repeat his performance from Wednesday, but it’s possible. I’m not as high on Kelly Oubre as many seem to be, but he got his biggest workload of the year against Georgetown after spending most of the season tethered to the bench, and Self was quoted after the game saying that he’s going to start looking for more opportunities to play him, so we’ll see how that goes. Really, when it comes down to it, Kansas recruits the best players in the country, so it would never be a total shock to see anyone go off in a given game (with the exception of Lucas and Jamari Traylor, who weren’t as highly-touted). It just shouldn’t be expected.

My ex-girlfriend’s mom was convinced – convinced – Bill Self wore a toupe. Thoughts?

We may never know for sure, but your ex-girlfriend’s mom is hardly the first to have this thought.

How might Utah win this game? Can they win this game?

Despite Kansas’ improvement over the last three weeks, they aren’t impervious. I talked a little bit about the backcourt matchup and I’m excited to see Wright, but I think Utah’s best chance of winning involves a lot of touches for Poeltl, for a couple reasons. First, Ellis’ defense still leaves a lot to be desired, so he’s going to need some help. One of the reasons why Alexander hasn’t played as much as his recruiting rankings would lead you to believe is because Self is leery of him getting into early foul trouble. Poeltl has four inches on the freshman and defenders have really had a tough time containing him, and I can see that being the case with both Ellis and Alexander. I look for Poeltl to draw a lot of attention, which should open up opportunities for Wright and Taylor. If they stick to that plan, I think they can hang with Kansas and even beat them if they get a few breaks.

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  1. While I adore you–and always will, I admit that I have little (zero) interest in Pac 12 Basketball…or any basketball for that matter, really. But Steve saw this article and said, “Shelly, you need to read this!” I of course said, “Steve, just give me the highlights…I promise, I do not care what it says.” He said, “Just read it.” Adam, you are too funny. I am right…more that convinced. I am CONVINCED. Great article. XOXO

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