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Celebs who wore the astrologically-right colours this week (April 18 – April 24)

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Though the Maldives vacation (twice) has got many celebs stripping down to the heart-throbbing basics,–

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— yet we were lucky enough to behold the vivid hues of the b-town that allow us to judge whether the colours that celebs wore this week were astrologically right or not.

Though for many of the fashionably sensible individuals, the right colour to wear depends on the colour of the sand on the beach, the colour of the sky, or the theme of the party, but astrology, as always, sees it differently.

The nine planets (Navgrah) in astrology are the emitter and reflectors of rays of different colours. These emitted and reflected colours provide a distinct appearance to the planets.

For example, the colour of the Sun is a combination of orange and red. Mars, on the other hand, is red in colour, but it also reflects the yellow rays of the Sun. Venus is considered pure white and it also reflects indigo rays. Similarly, the colour brown is for Ketu.

Also Read: How To practise Self Care As Per Your Zodiac Sign

Once you know the lucky colours of different planets, the strengthening of the planets in your Kundli can be done using these colours. For example, the colour of the Planet Sun is red. So, the strengthening of the traits of the Sun in your kundli can be done by wearing red colour or accessories, like tucking a red flower in the bun, wearing ruby, etc.

With that being said, after calculating the position of the planets in different zodiac signs, we have prepared a list of celebs who donned the right colour as per astrology this week.

The colour of the week(April 18 – April 24)? White.

We are living in the month of Taurus. And the zodiac sign Taurus in astrology is ruled by the planet Venus. The colour of Venus is Bright White. And we wonder, did these celebs already know this? Because the celebs painted the b-town white this week.

Taurus’ in White,

Manushi Chhillar

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Radhika Madan

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Off-Taurus’ Zodiac signs for whom the colour white was lucky this week:

Libra: Dhanashree Verma is all sun-kissed in the polka dot attire.

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Pisces: Shahid Kapoor. Ahh, doesn’t matter, Shahid Kapoor can get your heart with anything he wears.

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Cancer: Adah Sharma, giving us a glimpse into the simplest work from home clothes you can get comfortable in.

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Though the colour white could be the saviour as we are living in the month of Taurus. But white, all week? That could get boring. Because life mein thoda aesthetic floral, slutorious red, and adorable black, bhi to hona chahiye na? Guess what, God is on your side.

To add more lucky colours to your palette, all you need to do is look at the friendly planets of Venus. The friendly planets of Venus are Saturn and Mercury. Now based on the same, find which Zodiac signs that Saturn and Mercury rule. Once you know which zodiac signs Saturn and Mercury rules, find the lucky colour of those zodiac signs for the week.

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For example, planet Saturn is a friend to Venus and Saturn rules Aquarius and Capricorn. Based on the same, the lucky colour for Aquarius and Capricorn this week were:

Black: The colour black is a calming colour for an agitated person and is also known for its protective properties.

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Light or baby Pink: The colour allows prosperity in terms of career.

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And hues of blue. The colour blue is said to essence one’s efficiency, intelligence and communication skills.

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Likewise, Mercury is also a friendly sign to Venus. The Planet Mercury rules over Gemini and Virgo zodiac signs. The lucky colours of the week for Virgo and Gemini were:

Green, even the slightest of green helps an individual find harmony and hope. It too has the capability to calm the nerves and cure heart ailments.

Light Grey: the colour is for comfort and helps your mind relax. It controls the environment around you.

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And anything but Red, blue, brown and black.

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During last night's game between Oklahoma and Baylor, Terrell Burt went down with an injury.

The Baylor safety had been fighting through an ankle injury that finally seemed to get the better of him as a teammate told him to stop playing on it. That act was misconstrued by commentator Kirk Herbstreit.

Upon first glance, it looked as if Baylor was trying to slow down Oklahoma's offense by faking the injury. When it turned out to be false and Herbstreit realized his mistake, he apologized the next day to Burt and the Baylor Bears.

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For more than half a century, Dr Dee Boersma has worked to conserve penguin colonies across the world. But her career began in the Galápagos, studying a colony of penguins uniquely adapted to life on the unpredictable archipelago.

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Penguins are amazing creatures. They wind my clock. I’m in love with penguins! They walk upright—I mean, they’re like little people. This is my fifty-first year working on penguins. I never expected that this was going to be my lifetime’s work. In fact, if somebody had told me that, I would have said, “No way. I’m not going to do that.” But I just find them endlessly fascinating.

I didn’t fall in love with penguins immediately. I was really more interested in the Galápagos because I’d read a lot about it. I knew that Darwin had gone there and that it had been formative for him, in terms of Darwin’s finches and all these odd creatures. I’d read Dr. Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt’s books on marine iguanas, these weird lizards that go and forage in the sea. And when I found out that there were penguins in the Galápagos—Darwin never even saw Galápagos penguins—I thought, “What’s a penguin doing living on the equator?”

After I graduated with my undergraduate degree, I looked around to see who was working in the Galápagos. The only person that I really found close by was a guy named Paul Colinvaux, who was at Ohio State. So, I went to Ohio State. With Paul Colinvaux, it was like going to talk to Winston Churchill. He had a British accent and was an intimidating kind of guy, but very helpful. I’d only been there like a month and a half when I went in for my weekly conference and he said, “So, you’ve been here a while. What do you want to do your dissertation on?” I didn’t feel like I could say, “I don’t know, I just want to work in the Galápagos.” But I just knew I had to say something. So, I said, “Galápagos penguins.” And he said, “Fine topic. Next week, come back and tell me exactly what you’re going to do.”

I thought, “What’s a penguin doing living on the equator?”

I was so relieved to get out of there. I went to the library and spent the next week reading everything that I could find about Galápagos penguins, which was, like, practically zilch. There were two reports in the literature of Galápagos penguins: one was incubating eggs on the thirtieth of June and the other one, it was small chicks like on the second of July. So, I thought, “Okay, I got to go to the Galápagos at the end of June or July.”

The penguins bred the first time I was down there. But then the next time I went down, nobody’s breeding. And then they did breed, but everyone failed. So, I ended up doing some papers on marine iguanas. You’re down there for three months, what are you going to do? It became really interesting to me: Why aren’t these penguins breeding? What’s happening here?

Galápagos penguins are most closely related to Humboldt penguins, which nest mostly on the coast of Peru. It is assumed that a few Humboldt penguins got out to the Galápagos, maybe on the Humboldt Current, and found enough food on the western islands of Fernandina and Isabela to survive and successfully breed—particularly in La Niña conditions. The strong upwelling and cold, nutrient-rich waters make it a good place for penguins and fur seals to thrive.

Right now, as we’re talking, there is a wonderful La Niña event, which is a cold water event. That’s good for Galápagos penguins. That’s when they’re going to breed. They’ve been breeding since the last time I was in the Galápagos, which was around a year ago in February. I got out of the Galápagos two days before COVID shut it down. I was pretty lucky. But they were breeding then, and they’ve just continued to breed, I’m pretty sure. And I think they’re going to continue to breed. I hope I get to go down in July. My guess is there’s going to be a lot more Galápagos penguins than what we had a year and a half ago because the water has been cold. As long as there’s good upwelling of water with plenty of nutrients, the penguins will be able to make a living.

These penguins are adapted for living in a very unpredictable, but predictably unpredictable environment. Eventually, an El Niño will come. And in an El Niño, they’ll do terribly. But eventually, a La Niña will come, and they’ll do great. I’ve ironically spent my life studying climate change, because El Niños are so well developed in the Galápagos.

It’s tough to make a living as a Galápagos penguin. You’re feeding on small fish or small krill, crustaceans, zooplankton. In an El Niño year, all of those things are gone. And so, what they’re trying to eat are reef fish, which is a problem. Penguins normally just grab a fish and swallow it down. But a lot of the reef fish are quite wide. They can nail them, but how do they swallow them? They usually have to take them up to the surface and move them around a little bit, and then they can swallow them down. But if they take them up to the surface, if a sea lion or frigatebird sees them, they’re going to try to steal the food.

If you want to see the penguins on land, you’ve got to know where they live. The reason so little was known about Galápagos penguins is because they nest in crevices, lava tunnels, fissures, things like that. It’s really hot in the Galápagos. You can boil an egg on the lava in the middle of the day. So, if you’re a Galápagos penguin, you better have a really good hidey hole. You can’t make a burrow very often in the Galápagos. Now, I have had a couple of them that have nested in volcanic tuff—you can actually dig underneath the tuff and make kind of a nest site in there. But it collapses: It’s really fragile. So, it’s much better if you are in a lava tube—because that’s not going to collapse on you—or if you’re in a crevice or under lava.

In the 51 years I’ve been going to the Galápagos, a lot of things have changed. Fifty years ago, when I went swimming in the Galápagos, I always was worried about sharks, because I don’t like sharks. Every time, it seemed that when I went into the water to take a bath or whatever, I ended up seeing sharks. Now, I don’t worry about sharks anymore in the Galápagos. I just don’t see them. Why? Because we fished most of the sharks out. I mean, it’s been a terrible problem because sharks have been killed all over the globe. And of course, our seas used to have big fish. Now, we have smaller fish.

Humans have had such a demonstrable effect on wildlife over the globe. It doesn’t matter where you are. Even in the Galápagos, there are fewer penguins now than there were 50 years ago. Why? Because of El Niños, but also because of more introduced predators. I mean, the pirates came to the Galápagos. And what did they bring? They brought rats. They brought cats. They brought dogs. The footprint of humans has gotten to even the most remote places now. Whether it’s the Galápagos or Argentina, we spill petroleum over the globe. There are all these things that didn’t used to be problems for wildlife. And now they are. And we’re taking more and more fish out of the ocean. Our footprint is getting bigger.

The most optimistic thing I can say about the world is that more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. That’s a good thing. Because then, we are busy swirling our own nest. I think it’s really important for people to close those loops, to see that where you poop makes a difference in where you eat. We don’t have those sorts of things well connected. I mean, we flush our toilet, it goes away—in my case, into Puget Sound. That’s not good for the salmon. That’s not good for the cod.

In the Galápagos, there’s no place to go. You can travel up and down the islands. But if you decide to leave the islands, you’re going to be dead. Because that’s where all the food is. It’s where the upwelling is. That’s the part that interests me the most: How do you make a living in this kind of environment?

Galápagos penguins have a very bizarre natural history. Most species of penguins molt after they breed, meaning that they lose all their feathers and they grow new ones, because breeding and raising chicks takes a lot of energy. But Galápagos penguins molt before they breed. A Galápagos penguin is taking care of itself first: If they have enough energy to grow new feathers and if there’s food available, then they’ll breed. But if there’s not, they wait.

When they do breed, it’s magical to be there, even if there are very few of them. Galápagos penguins sound like a donkey braying. But all of these penguins have individual voices just like you do. So, they tell each other apart by their voices. We’ve done experiments with one of my graduate students by putting little speakers outside the nest where two chicks were living and playing the parents’ calls. The chicks came out of the nest and begged from the speakers. And if we played somebody else’s call, they didn’t come out and beg. So, the chicks recognize the adults, and the adults recognize the chicks. That’s why I think these birds are so interesting. Once people get to really know about penguins, they’re not that different from people. Wildlife enriches people’s lives and wild places enrich people’s lives.


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In spite of having the world’s largest prison population and literally hundreds of thousands of laws that can lead to arrest and imprisonment, the USA has a clearance rate of 61.4% on criminal homicides as of 2019, meaning that roughly 2 in 5 murderers get away with it. The clearance rate on all other crimes is less than 50% and the clearance rate on murder in some US jurisdictions is less than 10% meaning that in those areas murder is essentially decriminalized. Washington, DC, which is more or less the modern Rome, has one of the highest crime rates in the nation. Outside the government/tourist zone, it’s basically the same as Chicago.

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PurposeAdd in Mask EditorProgrammatic Specification
Initialize the maskInitialization paneMaskInitialization parameter
Draw mask iconIcon & Ports paneMaskDisplay parameter
Callback code for mask parametersParameters & Dialog paneMaskCallbacks parameter

Execute Drawing Command

Place MATLAB code for drawing mask icons in the Icon Drawing Commands section of the Icon & Ports pane. Simulink® executes these commands sequentially to redraw the mask icon when:

  • Block is rendered first on the Mask Editor canvas.

  • Mask parameters and values that depend on drawing commands change.

  • Block appearance is altered due to rotation or other changes.

Placing MATLAB code for drawing mask icons in the Initialization pane affects model performance. This behavior is because Simulink redraws the icon each time the masked block is evaluated in the model.

Execute Initialization Command

Initialization commands for all masked blocks in a model run when you:

  • Update the diagram

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  • Change any of the parameters that define the mask, such as MaskDisplay and MaskInitialization, using the Mask Editor or set_param.

  • Rotate or flip the masked block, if the icon depends on initialization commands.

  • Cause the icon to be drawn or redrawn, and the icon drawing depends on initialization code.

  • Change the value of a mask parameter by using the block dialog box or set_param.

  • Copy the masked block within the same model or between different models.

When you open a model, Simulink locates visible masked blocks that reside at the top level of the model or in an open subsystem.

Simulink only executes the initialization commands for these visible masked blocks if they meet either of the following conditions:

  • The masked block has icon drawing commands.

    Simulink does not initialize masked blocks that do not have icon drawing commands, even if they have initialization commands during model load.

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When you load a model into memory without displaying it graphically, no initialization commands initially run for any masked blocks. See Load a Model and load_system for information about loading a model without displaying it.

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  • You modify the parameter value by using the set_param command, the callback commands execute.

  • You modify the parameter value, either in the mask dialog box or using set_param, and then apply the change by clicking Apply or OK. Mask initialization commands execute after callback commands. For more information, see Initialization Pane.

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The Art of Science

  Last updated February 25, 2021 at 10:47 am

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In a world where we all carry cameras in our pocket, why do scientists still rely on illustrators?

A photograph can capture many things, but not necessarily a reader’s attention or the right details.

That’s why there will always be room for scientific illustrators, explains Dr Erin Walsh of the ANU Research School of Population Health.

“I think there’s a slowly increasing resurgence of science illustrators as people realise that photographs aren’t enough.”

For evidence of this claim look no further than her recent illustrations in the Journal of Conservation Physiology: In Action, a public engagement series.

Her work lies at the end of an article about pandas being matched for breeding by their personalities.

A panda seductively drapes its arm over a tree branch, drenched in sunrays.

Another panda, her potential suitor, looks longingly up at her, while being approached for an embrace by a third.

Pandas matched for breeding. Images acquired from the Journal of Conservation Physiology, illustrations by Erin Walsh.

This single illustration does what 100 photos could not: it conveys the romantic dynamics between pandas so that humans can understand.

Or at the very least, it gets them interested.

“The idea is that the illustration gets the reader’s attention, then they read the rest of the text and the image gives it context,” Dr Walsh explains.

Other illustrations by Dr Walsh include honeybees with their own DNA strands dragging behind them, and shocked fish congregating around an underwater thermometer.

Honeybees and DNA strands. Images acquired from the Journal of Conservation Physiology, illustrations by Erin Walsh.

It would take some serious animal training or a lot of Photoshop to get that on camera.

Capturing the public’s attention (and imagination) is important not only to spread knowledge, but to gain it.

Dr Walsh says it was during the completion of her PhD in psychology at ANU that she really became aware of the incredible need for scientific illustrators.

“I started off illustrating my own work. Particularly in psychology you can draw things to attract people to your research so you get more participants.”

More and more of her colleagues came knocking on her door asking for help with their posters and creating visual stimuli for experiments. So she decided to become a scientific illustrator as well as a scientist.

And engaging people is only the half of it.

Just as political cartoonists can express and emphasise aspects of a situation that a photo of the subject cannot, scientific illustrators can draw out the essential information from an image to make it scientifically useful.

“A common example is when you go swimming and see a fish in the ocean. You could take a photograph of that fish, but if the lighting or angle is wrong, that image alone won’t be enough to identify it.

“The untrained eye isn’t going to know what’s important to distinguish that species of fish from another, so what an illustrator does is take that artistic information and pull out a scientific point.”

Anyone can take a picture of an animal, plant or insect they haven’t seen before, but only someone with scientific training can do so in a way that can tell us whether it’s a brand new species or not.

Medicine as we know it today would not exist without scientific illustrations of medicinal herbs and plants drawn hundreds of years ago, or knowledge of the human anatomy as depicted by scientific artists such as Leonardo da Vinci.

Nowadays, having artistic skill and a scientific background can also mean a lot of visual data mapping and ensuring that information is presented as tangibly as possible.

No matter the stroke or the folk, however, it’s clear that scientific illustration is here to stay.

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Black Opal Books: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

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Pelican Publishing Company: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

Pelican Publishing Company is a publisher based out of New Orleans. They have been around for the a long time and they published William Faulkner’s first trade paperback book. They have a back list of over 2,500 titles. They publish between 40 and 70 new titles yearly. They focus on publishing art/architecture books, cooking/cookbooks, motivational,…

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Seven Stories Press: Open To Book Submissions

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Man sells ’89 Toyota Supra to pay for cat medical expenses, but there is a twist

This is a story that only cat lovers (or pet owners) can relate to: A man from Osaka, Japan sold his beloved 1989 Toyota Supra So he can afford to treat his cat, Silk. Cat lover and Supra owner Rays has owned and driven a sports car since at least 1993. The fact that he decided to sell it would have been important in itself.

But the story has an even more adorable twist.

SoraNews Raise reports that Supra has been listed Yahoo! Japan Auction The page earlier this month. Supra with this type of mileage (more than 168,000 km / 104,390 miles) and some visual damage is usually less than JPY 1.35 million ($ 12,400 at current exchange rates), the media said. Leiz doubled his amount (about $ 24,800) for two reasons. The first was the sentimental value included in the price, and the second was the exact amount that Silk had to pay for medical expenses.

As you can see, silk has been diagnosed with the fatal viral disease feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), which is rapidly progressing and requires immediate intervention as well. So Rays quickly listed the cars and explained why. Another man in Osaka saw the ad and offered to buy it as is, even though Rays offered a small discount due to cosmetics issues.

The buyer refused and told him that as a cat lover, he (raise) could have something to do with what he was experiencing.From fellow cat lovers to cat lovers, buyers told Raise that they would. Restore Supra Even taking it out of your pocket and building a temperature-controlled garage to store it, until he gets the money to buy it back from him-in the exact amount, and a penny for himself It’s not a profit.

The buyer promised not to drive during that time, and whenever he missed the car, he could have him come to the raise and take the car out for a spin. “Clean up the Supra and store it like a decoration.” The buyer said. “Think of me as a friend who likes the same car as you.”

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Why Not Make Some Sweet Potato Chips This Weekend?

I can’t see any reason not to, except it’s delicious and very addictive! You are hereby warned. But on the upside, sweet potato is one of those foods who have got the new surname Superfood. Mr Sweet Potato Superfood to your service. Superhero status. Who decides what’s a superfood and not? I think feta cheese is pretty super and dark chocolate with mint, maybe I should make my own list? I could call it Awesome Food, the food that does not only taste awesome, but it makes you awesome too! Done! List to come (at some point, don’t hold your breath!) soon.

So, why is the sweet potato a cousin of Superman? It’a got plenty of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, potassium and calcium. It tastes very yummy. Super Potato is packed in fibre, which is good for you (did you know that too much fibre can actually make you constipated? True story – but all you hear is; Eat more fibre Eat more fibre! Eat more fibre!). It’s also delicious. Sweet Potatoes are rich in antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory properties (anti-inflammatory is like the new IT-word, just like antioxidants. When you hear those two words, you just want it, don’t you?!), so it should be good for you. They taste super good. And some sources does say they have Vitamin B6. Superior food is a term I have seen about the sweet potato. It’s ranked highest on the nutritional scale for vegetables. And it tastes super awesome. Do you really need another reason for making some Super Potato Chips this weekend?

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Super Awesome Sweet Potato, Salt, Pepper, Olive Oil

You also need an oven or a grill. I put my grill function on on the oven. Chop the potato (do you think the sweet potato gets offended for being called ‘just’ potato? I mean, Superman would probably be a little offended to be called just Man?) into chip-lookalikes, put them in an oven tray, put heaps of pepper, a little salt and some oil. Mix it all together so the oil sort of covers everything. Now put it under the grill. Stir around after about 5 minutes. Cooking time will depend heavily on 3 things; the quality of your grill, how far up or down in the oven you put your tray and how big your chip-lookalikes are. I suggest you watch them closely the first time you make them, so they don’t turn in to charcoal. I don’t mind if they get some darker bits, but you know what they say ‘Smaken er som baken, og den er delt i to‘(Norwegian saying about how not everyone has the same taste – literally it says ‘ Taste is like a butt, and that’s divided in two’. But I think there are more than two types of tastes, so it doesn’t make that much sense) so you need to try if for yourself.

I’ll just make sure I mention again that it’s highly addictive. Use it instead of your potatoes or instead of your potato chips. As a quick snack whenever you want something sweet (dah, it’s not called sweet potato for no reason). And I was just thinking, it would probably be really tasty with a garlic aioli to dip the chips in. Need to try!

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7 Responses to Why Not Make Some Sweet Potato Chips This Weekend?

  1. aioli’s good but guac is better 😀 nom nom nom!

  2. I mix seeded mustard into mayo to dip my sweet potato chips in. DELISH!

  3. Yum! I love sweet potato!

  4. mrsloretta13 says:

    My aunt use to make these all the time. They are very delicious. I also have made some myself.

  5. Amy @ Healthy and Fit for Real says:

    Yum! Love sweet potato fries. 🙂

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18th Century Italian chest restoration.

One of the most valuable (to me) skills that my furniture making course has taught me is the core fundamentals of furniture restoration and repair. Graham and Clare, who are both as great at teaching as they are at repair and restoration, have allowed me to look over their shoulders (and incessantly ask questions) as they have worked on pieces. I have also been able to work on some of them myself, which has not only been a great and challenging experience but has been extremely fun as well.

Graham and Clare have both been with the Chippendale International School of Furniture for more than 2 decades and are easy to talk to and wonderful to work with on these great pieces of furniture.

Recently, an Italian chest, much like this one I wrote about previously came into the school for some work.

The goal was to fill/replace the missing pieces and to make the repairs sympathetic to the age and blend them into the overall condition of the piece. If we decided to make the repairs perfectly flat and shiny with no gaps, then each repair would have stood out and looked out of place.

First thing was to lightly clean the areas that needed repair.

Each of these spaces was cleaned with scalpels, awls, and pretty much anything I could get my hands on that was small enough to get into the crevices and cracks. The bottoms of these spaces needed to be relatively smooth so when I fit the replacement pieces of wood in there they would sit flat and have a good stable glue surface.

More of the missing pieces.

The next step was to put tape over each of the empty spaces and lightly shade with a pencil to get the outline of the missing area.

After I had a good tracing of a missing piece, I put the tape on a piece of (in this case) walnut that I’d be using to patch with. I made sure to orient the grain with the existing veneer.

Anselm and Graham believe the table is from around 1760 and the veneer is several times thicker than any you can buy today, so the repair pieces were resawn on a bandsaw to be just a bit thicker than the old veneer. This way we could pare down the patches to the correct level.

Next, I cut out the pieces oversized and then fit them using small files, sandpaper, and scalpels.

This shows a couple of different stages. A couple of the spaces have been cleaned, one is ready to be traced, and one has a patch already fit (it still has tape on it).
Another area ready for patching.
And with some of the patches fit.

The next stages were to glue the pieces into their respective spots

Using a combination of tools to shave the patch down a bit.

Once the patches were in and the glue dried, I used a combination of water dies to get the patches to blend with the background. I then used coloured wax sticks and melted a mix of colours to fill and blend the repairs. (I don’t have pictures of these steps because once I got into it I was so engrossed that I forgot). Next was a light going over with some black wax, to blend all of the repairs with the rest of the table top.

As always, the repair and restoration is just a wonderful experience.

Campaign Style Furniture design, part 1: brass hardware, straps and corner mounts.

Campaign furniture spanned more than 200 years of English furniture periods from the Georgian through to the mid 20th century. Even though it was around for so long the campaign-style did not change much in those 200 years, which could be attributed to a couple of factors. First, since the furniture had to be mobile and sturdy for use on or near battlefields there are arguably a limited number of ways to build that furniture. Second, the clientele were military officers to begin with, who tended to be staid, conventional, and reserved in their tastes and styles.

I believe the first campaign furniture was made for British naval officers in the early Georgian period (the early 1700s). I’ve perused the Christopher Clarke Antiques Blog and Christopher Schwarz’s book and haven’t found anything definitive on this and will probably follow up with more posts on the history itself.

One feature of campaign furniture that tends to stand out (and is used heavily in contemporary interpretations) are brass coloured straps and hardware.

Brass coloured straps are a decorative element in modern furniture. You will likely find that on modern pieces the straps, corner mounts and related parts are not recessed and installed flush, but are proud of the surface. Another difference is that the straps and hardware will likely be fixed with tacks, pins, or small nails. You may also find the pieces glued to the carcass.

The utilitarian and mobile nature of Campaign furniture means that the brass hardware is functional as well as decorative. Brass straps and corner mounts protect edges and corners. Straps may also help to keep sides from bowing or flexing and creating gaps.

A corner mount.

Corner mounts will usually be flush with the wood, which requires time and effort and would be difficult to automate. The screws will be countersunk slotted screws and again flush so as not to catch on anything while moving it.

Brass straps.

The brass straps are also mounted flush and protect the edges and possibly keep the sides from bowing or flexing since they are of solid wood (mahogany, teak, or in this case, oak).

For part 2 I’ll talk about the drawer hardware.

Visiting a Mid Century Modern home. *Patty, this one’s for you.

Our class at the Chippendale International School of Furniture recently visited the Woodcote House in Midlothian, Scotland. This was only one of several “field trips” that the class went on and was a wonderful and extremely valuable experience for me. I’m not a furniture designer, nor do I play one on TV, but I have designed (to some extent) all of the pieces I’ve made so far and am making now. The most interesting part of this though is that I’ve never really been attracted to the Mid Century Modern style, so it was a thoroughly pleasant and welcomed surprise for me to find that this visit was the most interesting and valuable to me of all of our field trips.

***Note*** That does not mean the other field trips were not each valuable. I found each of these visits to be eye-opening and wonderful with the up close and personal access to old and absolutely breathtaking pieces of furniture and art with the stories and history behind them.

Eleanor Morris of Woodcote, PhD, PCRTPI Scotland was our very gracious hostess and an invaluable wealth of knowledge of the furniture there. She gave us the history of each piece and its significance to Scotland, with some great personal stories behind many of them. Unfortunately, I do not have a great (or even good) memory and can’t remember even one of those stories…but they were great!

Probably the most iconic piece we saw was the Le Corbusier Chaise Longue a Reglage or the LC4 or, I think, the B306, which sounds like a military bomber jet.

Le Corbusier Chaise Longue.

An early version of this had taller back legs. This one has a calfskin seat with chrome tubing and rubber guides so the seat frame doesn’t slip and slide while you are trying to sit down. It was designed by Le Corbusier, with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. It has been in production since the 1930s, first made by Thonet and since the 1930s by Cassina.

There were also a pair of LC3 Grand Confort “Cushion Baskets” from about the same time in calfskin.

Le Corbusier LC3 Grand Confort (not a misspell) Cushion Baskets.

I sat in one of these for a bit, and even after 54 plus years (at least as old as I am) they are still very comfortable.

Next are some pieces by Mies van der Rohe. The Barcelona chairs and divan.

A pair of Barcelona chairs by Mies van der Rohe.
Barcelona divan (couch, daybed) in leather and possibly African Mahogany with a steel frame.

The couch was designed for a New York architect in the 1930s and became famous when it was shown in the Glass House, which was completed in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Knoll took over production in 1964 and it wasn’t until 1987 that the divan was called the Barcelona (like the chair) because of its resemblance to the chair.

Les Arcs chair

The Les Arcs resort chair, by Charlotte Perriand (or Italian designer DalVera). I’ve seen some pictures of these with black steel tubing. They were designed for the Les Arcs ski resort in Savoie, France.

Tulip table and chairs.

The Tulip table and chairs by Eero Saarinen were the first pieces we saw when we entered the house. The chairs were surprisingly comfortable and sturdy, even for a heavier person as myself. The table caused a bit of a stir when it came to Scotland. Seems that for safety reasons it was supposed to have two bases. Even with a half dozen of us sitting at the table, it was never tippy or unstable.

Wassily chairs.

Marcel Bruer was influenced by the De Stijl movement while an apprentice at the Bauhaus and drew on the bicycle frame as inspiration for the Wassily chair in 1925.

Several of the other students sat in these chairs and said they were quite comfortable.

There were quite a few other very memorable pieces at the house, but they will have to wait for another post.


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Tribal Messiah

I’m trying to find the right word, so please bear with me.

For someone who goes to see concerts & theatre more often than most people, you might never guess that I’m sometimes frustrated. My mantra is “I’m a lucky guy”, because I believe gratitude can be a sacrament, a way to celebrate life.

And yet there are conventions that drive me nuts, barriers to being real. At classical concerts we’re not supposed to clap between movements, and people look down their noses at those who do: even if those spontaneous outbursts may be moments of great beauty. A baby may begin to cry during a concert when everyone else is stifling their every sound, the child for a moment dissenting from the profoundly unnatural artificiality of the crowd.

But of course at a rock concert people are more real.  They’ll laugh they’ll cheer or chant, sometimes in the space of a few seconds and all in the same song.

I’m just calibrating what it’s like to go to the annual Singalong Messiah from Tafelmusik. Yesterday afternoon was the 2019 Singalong which in so many ways goes against the usual consensus for proper deportment at a classical concert while emulating something much closer to what we get at a rock concert or a comedy club. The fact that the fellow portraying Handel in costume sometimes seems like more of a stand-up comic than a serious musician helps break down some of the conventions.

Herr Handel waxing eloquent in the middle of one of his lectures (photo: Constance Adorno Barcza)

So I have to let you in on a little secret. For those of us who go to the singalong, it’s simply magic, one of the highlights of the year. The fellow sitting beside me said that it’s how he begins Christmas every year

At one point Herr Handel asks us to stand up if it’s our first singalong. And usually there’s a fair crowd in this group. Then he asks for those going to number 2-5 singalongs (I’m in this group). And then the ones who have done up to 10. Then 11-20 singalongs (the fellow beside me was in this group). Eventually we get to those who have done all 34 (next year it will be 35) Singalongs.

As with Holy Communion, there are some for whom it’s still a new ritual, while for others it begins to resemble something you do your whole life long. The headline might make some sense as I grapple with the implications of a gathering that simultaneously brings everyone together, at times in a frenzy of excitement –as when we’re singing “Hallelujah”—or simply in the joy of watching, listening, and participating together.  For a couple of hours we are all of one tribe, the Toronto Handel’s Messiah tribe if you will. While I may be in the audience while the performers are up on the stage at Roy Thomson Hall, we are one, we are united. Oh sure, they (both the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir plus soloists) are singing it more correctly than I am, but I don’t feel the usual gulf I have at a classical concert. There’s none of that implicit shushing of whispers and surreptitious chat. We can talk and laugh throughout.

And why not when the master of ceremonies is so full of wit & charm?

It’s so profoundly different from the Toronto Symphony’s Messiah. I watched from almost the identical seat in section C2 Friday (only 5 rows difference). Something’s much clearer with hindsight. While the four soloists for the TSO have breath-taking credentials for drama and theatricality in the world of opera (where each of them has made their mark): oratorio is a totally different medium. Opera acting is not oratorio acting, especially when the conductor is so busy with the Mozart version –that often has lovely additional textures & voices—that he forgets his job. Pardon me Alexander, but you had one job. The singers are delivering texts from the Bible. Stay out of the way. Yes the music is pretty. But when a soloist is singing you can ask the orchestra to play more quietly.

Ivars Taurins / George Frideric Handel gets this, and I daresay David Fallis (of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir but also, Opera Atelier) gets this too (even if he had to hand things over to the TSO conductor). The sound of Tafelmusik Baroque orchestra’s instruments doesn’t get quite as loud: particularly if their leader insists that they don’t cover the singers.

The four soloists are giving us oratorio drama rather than operatic drama, and so they stand still, they don’t necessarily sing loudly, but they command our attention with their impeccable diction. While I adore all four of the TSO soloists, they weren’t nearly as intelligible as what we heard in the singalong Saturday afternoon from soprano Margot Rood, mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot, tenor Thomas Hobbs and baritone Peter Harvey. But then again I wonder how much of that comes back to Herr Handel, holding back the orchestral tide as though he were Moses parting the Red Sea to permit his soloists to cross unscathed..?

It’s too much fun to be mistaken for Holy Communion, yet it’s very respectful of the text all the same. We are not frozen in silent fearful respectful awe. This is a celebration and as uplifting as anything you find in the text of Messiah.  We’re juggling our scores (and several times one hears one dropped) and turning pages, actively involved rather than passive. Sometimes we have to jump to our feet (and the leader screams at us to get up… and it’s funny),

Does Ivars Taurins have the coolest job in town? Maybe.

I think the underlying impulse of the singalong is a desire to join in, to break down the artificial division that’s considered normal in the concert hall or the theatre, even if it’s anything but natural. The vicarious wish we all have is held back by the usual concert dynamic that frames music as a performance of those who can for those who can’t. The magic of the singalong is to erase that great divide.

We can and we do.

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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, and Ivars Taurins aka Herr Handel  (photo: Jeff Higgins)

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The Flawless is on its Way

After a long stint working on a number of projects for other studios and developing a few prototypes for future projects we are back to building our action-RPG 'The Flawless: Art's Tale' from its prototype. Everything from the art-style to the gameplay has been refined and improved from play tester feedback and we'll be letting you have a look and

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July 24, 2019

The George Brett Pine Tar Game was not the First Pine Tar Game

The George Brett Pine Tar Game was not the First Pine Tar Game

It was a steamy July day in New York and George Brett was on fire. He had just stroked a Goose Gossage four-seamer into the Yankee Stadium bleachers for a dramatic two out, ninth inning, home run that put the Royals up 5-4. The Yankees manager, Billy Martin, decided to protest the home run based on excessive use of pine tar on Brett’s bat. He invoked Rule 1.01(c), which stated “a bat may not be covered by such a substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the handle.” At the time, July 24, 1983, the rule was interpreted so that if the bat was illegal (due to excessive pine tar), the hit was an illegally batted ball and the batter was automatically out.

The first Pine Tar game

Billy Martin and the Yankees were waiting for this day. Graig Nettles, a savvy veteran, known for slick glove work and an eye for gaining his team an advantage, remembered the other Pine Tar game, in July, 1975. The Yankees were visiting the Twins at Metropolitan Stadium.

The scoring began in the first inning when Thurman Munson banged a two out single to right to score Roy White. Twins Manager, Frank Quilici, asked the home plate umpire, Art Franz, to take a look at Munson’s bat and the generous amount of pine tar inching up the barrel. Franz placed the bat on home plate to measure the 17-inch (plate width) mark on the bat and determined that Munson had violated the rule. He declared Munson out and it ended the Yankees inning with no run scoring. The Yankees manager, Bill Virdon, argued with Franz while Munson let loose on Quilici. Ultimately, the Yankees lost the game 2-1.

No Protest

Curiously, the Yankees did not protest the pine tar call so the American League president, Lee McPhail, was not asked to render an interpretation. This would not be the case eight years later when he would rule against the Yankees in the more famous Pine Tar game.

A simmering George Brett watched from the Yankee Stadium visiting dugout while Billy Martin, after a tip from Graig Nettles, approached rookie umpire, Tim McClelland and the rest of the umpiring crew, Drew Coble, Joe Brinkman and rules expert, Nick Bremigan, and asked for the bat to be inspected. Coincidently, Bremigan was the first base umpire in the Yankees/Twins Pine Tar game eight years prior. Initially, McClelland wasn’t sure how to measure the pine tar, but Bremigan, knew how to measure the bat using the 17-inch width of home plate. After examining the bat, McClelland ruled Brett out thus ending the game with a Yankees’ 4-3 win.

Brett charged out of the Royals dugout in an out of control rage to confront McClelland and the rest of the umpire crew. He went after McClelland but was intercepted by Joe Brinkman, who probably saved Brett and McClelland. Brett was ejected. Meanwhile, as Brett protested, Royals pitcher, Gaylord Perry swiped the bat, passing it to teammates Hal McRae and Steve Renko, who then handed off to the bat boy who raced up the clubhouse tunnel. This effort to tamper with evidence went for naught when a team of security men confiscated the bat outside of the Royals’ clubhouse.

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The Royals, under manager Dick Houser, protested the game, contending that according to American League regulation 4.23, the use of pine tar in itself shall not be considered doctoring the bat. The protest went to American League president, Lee McPhail. McPhail recited the history of the pine tar rule which was introduced in the Official Rules by the Playing Rules Committee in 1955, with the purpose of preventing baseballs to be discolored by contact with pine tar. As McPhail recalled years later, “The clubs were losing a lot of balls because the pine tar was getting on them, and they’d have to be thrown out in batting practice and everything else.” McPhail, who had been American League president for 10 years, overruled the umpire crew and allowed the home run and the game would continue play on August 18.

McPhail directed no blame to the umpires but instead cited ambiguous Official Playing rules. George Brett’s home run was re-instated and a media feeding frenzy ensued. Lawsuits were filed, countless letters written letters to the op-ed, and relentless pine tar conversation smothered the city like the summer heat. Yankees owner, George Steinbrenner was so furious that he made disparaging public comments about McPhail that would eventually cost him $250,000 in a fine levied upon him by Baseball Commissioner, Bowie Kuhn.

When the Pine Tar game resumed play a few weeks later, Brett would watch the game while eating Italian food in a New Jersey bar nearby the airport. He was, after all, ejected. The Yankees were still angry that the game was to be replayed. Billy Martin substituted pitchers for his starting fielders; Ron Guidry played center and lefty throwing, Don Mattingly played second base.

The best I ever had.

“The guy who made the bat was named Tiny, and Tiny would always put little red stars on the bat where the knots are, where the hard parts are,” he said. “And that bat, I think, was a seven-grainer. It was a really good piece of lumber. You look at a lot of these grains now, a good bat might be 10, 11, 12, a normal bat would be 13, 14, 15 grains going through it. This bat had seven grains, which meant it was really really hard.”

The result of all of this pine tar controversy is that the pine tar rule in today’s game is basically ignored. If a bat is found to have too much pine tar on it, the bat shall be removed from the game, but it will have no effect on any play that ensues from the use of the bat.

Don’t tell that to George Brett

Rule 3.02(c) to 3.03(f)
NOTE: If the umpire discovers that the bat does not conform to (c) above until a time during or after which the bat has been used in play, it shall not be grounds for declaring the batter out, or ejected from the game.
Rule 3.02(c) Comment: If pine tar extends past the 18-inch limitation, then the umpire, on his own initiative or if alerted by the opposing team, shall order the batter to use a different bat. The batter may use the bat later in the game only if the excess substance is removed. If no objections are raised prior to a bat’s use, then a violation of Rule 3.02 (c) on that play does not nullify any action or play on the field and no protests of such play shall be allowed.

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Picnic Sandwiches; The ultimate finger foods

Temps are getting warmer, days are stretching and we are heading outdoors!  Spring and summer picnics are a delightful way to keep trekking when we go outside.  Whether it’s a trail hike, a simple walk along the river, bike ride or out on the front lawn, taking a few bites to eat along on your adventure means you don’t have to go home or stop at a restaurant to munch.  Find a spot, set out your blanket or tablecloth and lay out your feast.

Picnics are the ultimate “take out” or “fast food”.  Even though they are made at home and by hand, they only need to unpacked and eaten while on the move.  This week, we are on the hunt for great take a long items for family fun or romantic duo outdoor eats.

Sandwiches;  Lets begin with finger foods

Smoky BLT

Smoky BLT

Smoky “BLT” ~ by Country Living

Our first recipe is incredibly simple, filled with sophisticated flavors and it’s delicious.  It begins with a fabulous rosemary mayonnaise, which is a combination of rosemary, olive oil, garlic, mayonnaise, salt, pepper and lemon juice. mayonnaise recipe here.  It is followed by stacking smokey blue cheese, romaine lettuce and beefsteak tomatoes on pillowy slices of country bread.  Full recipe here

Tuna Nicoise Sandwich ~ by Martha Stewart

Tuna Nicoise Sandwich

Tuna Nicoise Sandwich

While a simple tuna sandwich is fantastic as is, kicking it up a notch makes it out of this world.  With the addition of olive oil, white wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, ground pepper, English cucumber, red onion, olive tapenade, fresh basil leaves and hard cooked eggs to a couple cans of tuna, its a great recipe and it’s flavor improves when made ahead.  This delicious bite serves 4.  Full recipe here

Mozzerella and Prosciutto Sandwich ~ by Bon Appetit

Mozzarella and Prosciutto Sandwich

Mozzarella and Prosciutto Sandwich

We are stepping a bit outside the pantry on this one and looking for full, distinct flavors that dance in the mouth.  The shopping list; chopped anchovy fillet, capers, garlic, lemon peel, orange peel,  Niçoise olives, olive oil, fresh basil, lemon juice, baguettes, prosciutto and balls of fresh mozzarella cheese.  The first five ingredients create a paste and can be prepared and chilled two weeks in advance.  Full recipe here

Grab your favorite bottle of wine and head outdoors.

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Backup before proceeding

Upgrades aren’t guaranteed to succeed, to ensure you can restore your device in the event of a failed update, please backup your device before proceeding.

Just before the end of September, HMD Global made good on their promise to release Android Pie for the Nokia 7 Plus.

The only thing is currently, it’s only rolling out to select markets and at a cautiously slow rate; the UK as well as many other countries around the world are as such not able to get their hands on it just yet.

To avoid the wait and get Pie immediately, it’ll need to be sideloaded. Here’s how:

1. Grab the OTA download

The nice folks over on XDA have managed to capture the OTA link from devices currently getting the update. Download it directly by clicking below:

WW 3.22C September 2018 [TA-1046, TA-1055, TA-1062]

(NB, this will not install if you’re running the October security update. To get around this, I’d recommend identifying your currently active partition via the bootloader, swapping to the inactive, rebooting into recovery and attempting the below steps again).

2. Connect the device to a PC with ADB

Depending on the operating system you may need to install drivers for the Nokia 7 Plus, and validate ADB is functional. Once confirmed, reboot into recovery:

adb reboot recovery

Once confronted with the Android laying on its back, hold the power button and press volume up. It may take a few attempts to get this right.

3. Start the install

Select Apply update from ADB in the recovery menu by using the volume keys to go up and down through the menu, and power to confirm the selection. Once confirmed, the device will await the update package via ADB.

On the computer, run the following command:

adb sideload

Where is the name of your downloaded zip. Make sure you either add the full path, like C:\Users\Example… or /home/user/example…

The process will now start, transferring the OTA from your computer to the device. The device will show the installation in progress and let you know when it’s complete, after which selecting reboot from the menu will power the device back up into Android Pie.

Since you’re now running Pie, perhaps you’ll be interested in How to install the beta of Digital Wellbeing also.

Are you upgrading your device to Pie early? Are you going to wait until it rolls out to your device? Let me know in the comments!

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Editorial: Rosy numbers ignore real problems

The following is the editorial column from the June 3 biweekly edition of the Budapest Business Journal.

Numbers may not lie, but the people who use them sometimes do.

Hungary’s unemployment figures dipped below 6% in February-April, according to the Central Statistical Office (KSH). But when counting people who have jobs, KSH includes Hungarians who work abroad, as well as those in the state’s workfare program. The figures show improvement, but they don’t show reality.

In reality, the Hungarian economy has been doing moderately well – not as good as some of our Central European neighbors, but good enough to create a shortage of workers in many fields. Nonetheless, there is still a group of people who are stubbornly unemployed, including those on workfare, who earn less than the minimum wage for work like sweeping the street. These people make up an estimated 5% of the work force and they represent a structural problem. The government should be working on special programs that address their needs, not hiding their existence with funny numbers.

Before the Fidesz government came in in 2010, there were far fewer people involved in workfare, and they were counted as unemployed. The current government has ordered the KSH to change the way it tallies unemployment – and the result has been much rosier figures.

In a similar vein, officials are telling the KSH not to include Eximbank (Hungarian Export-Import Bank Plc.) in the government sector when figuring Hungary’s state budget deficit. Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, has said that this is wrong, because Eximbank is a governmental, non-market entity. The head of the KSH and Hungary’s Ministry of Economy are still arguing with Eurostat over how to classify the bank – and this is no small accounting detail. Excluding Eximbank from the government makes Hungary’s official deficit seem much smaller, and allows officials to go deeper into debt in the next year or two, as they prepare pre-election budgets. But thus far, no one has given compelling reasons for letting the government dodge responsibility for the debt of Eximbank – which very much acts like a government institution and frequently makes loans to businesses and people who are favored by officials.

Founded as the Hungarian Royal Central Statistical Office in 1897, KSH is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization that was recently approved by a European Commission audit as being impartial. Their web site, ksh.hu, is a trove of easily accessible information about Hungary and its economy – a regular nerd’s paradise.

Efforts to co-opt KSH’s leadership and functions for the benefit of the current government’s propaganda machine risk damaging the credibility of an excellent institution. What’s worse, they risk ignoring serious concerns, including the problem of long-term unemployment and an excessive government budget deficit.

Instead of giving in to the temptation to lie with numbers, officials need to do the math, understand our real problems and look for actual solutions.

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Travel startup Beontrips launches in Hungary

Hungarian start-up business Beontrips has just launched a new travel service on the local marketplace making it possible to purchase tailor-made travel packages, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal. Global travel options are now available for booking on the new travel portal in both English and Hungarian languages.

Beontrips combines features of flight and accommodation booking websites “all in one easy-to-access place,” according to the press release. Beontrips boasts that its “innovative trip planner helps the traveler design their complete journey on an online map which can connect tour destinations even across multiple continents. Through the website users can book travel packages. The website conveniently works as a web store where all components of a trip can be added to a digital basket and after payment it provides instant booking confirmation.”

The new startup claims that the travel options on display “offer not just a large variety and choice, but also follow in real time the available and bookable current prices, thus always providing customers access to the best up-to-date available packages.”

The press release claims that a further advantage of booking with Beontrips is that in the event of any unscheduled changes a local Customer Service hotline is always on hand to take care of potential modifications.

“ offers over 90,000 hotel options and flights from hundreds of airlines. This means travelers can create their very own unique packages and travel almost anywhere they wish in the world,” said András Orosz, CEO of Beontrips.

Orosz added that the new startup also places great emphasis on providing inspiration for travel, and has thus created the Beontrips Magazine.

“This is full of captivating travel ideas, destinations and tips from our top travel experts so readers can always find new articles and information. On top of that, we are continuously working to expand on our range of travel-related services and to adapt to the needs and expectations of our customers,” he added.

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Producing journalism that is worthy of the name is a costly business. For 27 years, the publishers, editors and reporters of the Budapest Business Journal have striven to bring you business news that works, information that you can trust, that is factual, accurate and presented without fear or favor.
Newspaper organizations across the globe have struggled to find a business model that allows them to continue to excel, without compromising their ability to perform. Most recently, some have experimented with the idea of involving their most important stakeholders, their readers.
We would like to offer that same opportunity to our readers. We would like to invite you to help us deliver the quality business journalism you require. Hit our Support the BBJ button and you can choose the how much and how often you send us your contributions.