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15 Nov, 2015 - Social Science
Dube,T; Homann-Kee Tui .S; van Rooyen, A.F; Rodriguez, D, 2016, "Baseline and Situation Analysis Report:Integrating Cropand Livestock Production for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Rural Zimbabwe", doi:10.21421/D2/ZBNEXA, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1
This study aims at describing the baseline situation of crop-livestock systems in the semi- arid regions of Zimbabwe. Using quantitative household surveys data and stakeholder workshops, it captures livelihood strategies, community visions, crop and livestock production and marke...
14 Apr, 2015 - Social Science
P Parthasarathy Rao; Lagesh MA ; Deb UK; Jagadeesh E ; Md. Golam Faruque ; Md. Waji Ullah; Chowdhury Saleh Ahmed; Roland Nathan Mandal; Bijoya Paul ; Tazeen Fatima Khan, 2016, "Crop Livestock Typology in South Asia", doi:10.21421/D2/XTGNW0, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1
A crop-livestock typology for two South Asian countries namely India and Bangladesh has been constructed using Agricultural activity - based approach (AAA). The classification identifies systems / zones having similar features (agro-climatic and socioeconomic) for agricultural de...
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Singh Piara ; Nedumaran S; Gupta SK; Srinivas K; Bantilan MCS, 2016, "Climate change impacts and potential benefits of drought tolerance in Pearl millet for adapting to climate change", doi:10.21421/D2/XDNUE8, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1
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14 February, 2013

Tsjuder: Desert Northern Hell – reissue

And now, ladies and gentlemen, let me wish you a happy whatever you are celebrating today, if at all, in a true Noise & Stuff fashion; Season Of Mist is about to remind us of TSJUDER's horned weapons and razor sharp riffs with the reissue of their 2004's LP ‘Desert Northern Hell’. Fortifying that which is evil with four previously unreleased live tracks and the complete ‘Norwegian Apocalypse’ DVD, bow to the malevolent and buy ‘Desert Northern Hell’, officially spat out in its black metal purity on February 15th, 2013, here (Season Of Mist e-shop).

Bassist and vocalist Nag and guitarist Berserk crawled up from beneath Oslo, Norway in anno 1993. With second guitarist Drauglin joining in a year latter, TSJUDER (named so after a mythical Russian barbarian tribe) released their first demo, ‘Ved Ferdens Ende’, in 1995. With Berserk departing, the line-up was solidified by drummer Torvus on their next demo, 1996's ‘Possessed’. The Norwegian act established quite a reputation within the underground scene with their spiritedly titled first EP ‘Throne Of The Goat’, issued in 1997. TSJUDER's debut album, 2000's ‘Kill For Satan’, recorded with GEHENNA drummer Blod and  guitarist Arak Draconiiz (ISVIND), was released on Drakkar Productions to much critical acclaim. Their next  offering of brutal, speed-addicted black metal came in form of a second full-length, 2002's ‘Demonic Possession’, recorded with RAGNAROK's drummer Jontho. Striking a new deal with Season Of Mist Records and with (recovered) Anti-Christian back behind the drum kit, 2004's ‘Desert Northern Hell’ was unveiled:
“There’s none of that new age, high-falutin, symphonic s**t cluttering the work of these Norwegian noise terrorists. No sir, just brutalizing sonic hatred reaching way back to legendary compatriots DARKTHRONE and MAYHEM, and beyond to primordial giants like BATHORY, HELLHAMMER and, of course, the big twisted daddies of them all: VENOM. As such, ‘Desert Northern Hell’ is a mixed blessing (or curse, as it were) for extreme metal fans and the members of TSJUDER, as well, since it’s quite evident they are consciously forcing themselves to work within their chosen genre's time-proven, but very limited stylistic boundaries,” [was excited Eduardo Rivadavia, AllMusic – more here:]

TSJUDER split up in 2006, but nothing can keep true Norwegian black metallers sitting by their fireplaces for long (as we all know but only a handful were let in on a secret); founder, bassist and vocalist Nag (Jan-Erik Romøren) had stared writing new material with guitarist and vocalist Draugluin (Halvor Storrøsten) already back in 2009. With Anti-Christian (Christian Svendsen) behind the drum kit, TSJUDER officially reformed in 2010. ‘Legion Helvete’ followed in October 2011:
“ ‘Legion Helvete’ does not dwell in the past,” [claimed the press release back then] Songwriting reveals the virtues of maturity and skill which leads to an uncanny catchiness that never succumbs to the simplicity of added rock or even pop structures. ‘Legion Helvete’ remains firmly within the framework of the black metal genre, true to its roots without trying to curry favor by latching onto any current trend.” [Reassure yourselves below:]

TSJUDER features: Nag – bass and vocals, Draugluin – guitar and backing vocals and Anti-Christian - drums

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Perspective from Japan on whaling and whale meat, a spot of gourmet news, and monthly updates of whale meat stockpile statistics

Kei Nishikori makes last 16 at US Open

Japan's up and coming 18 year old tennis player, Kei Nishikori (based in Florida) has just beaten world number 4, David Ferrer in 5 sets.

Apparently Ferrer smashed his racket into the court after the loss.

At 2ch, Japanese fans showed their pleasure raking up 1000 comments on a news thread in just 20 minutes.

Here's the story from Yahoo!:
Nishikori upsets Ferrer to reach Open’s 4th round

NEW YORK (AP)—Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese man to reach the U.S. Open’s fourth round in the 40-year Open era, upsetting fourth-seeded David Ferrer of Spain in five sets Saturday night.

Nishikori, ranked 126th, could have ended things earlier, but he wasted a two-set lead, then needed three match points to wrap up the 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5 victory.

He broke Ferrer in the final game, hitting a forehand winner down the line on the last point, then dropped his racket and flopped on his back.

“I still can’t believe it. I was playing great and he was playing great, too,” Nishikori said during an on-court TV interview. “Biggest win for me.”

That’s for sure: Nishikori only had one other career victory over a top-20 player. And in Ferrer, he was facing the man who eliminated Rafael Nadal at last year’s U.S. Open en route to the semifinals.

Only one other man from Japan reached the fourth round at any Grand Slam tournament in the Open era: Shuzo Matsuoka was a Wimbledon quarterfinalist in 1995.

“I’m very proud of that,” Nishikori said.

The 18-year-old Nishikori also is the youngest man to get this far at the U.S. Open since Marat Safin in 1998.

Nishikori is playing in only his second career major tournament and knocked off No. 29 Juan Monaco in the first round.

Nishikori is up against 17th seed Juan Martin Del Potro or Argentina in the fourth round. He's in good form, playing with nothing to lose, so don't be surprised if you see him in the quarterfinals.

Looking forward to see what happens to his world ranking of 126 after his efforts this week. Shuzo Matsuoka is hoping to see him break into the top 45 this year, which would see Nishikori become the highest ranking Japanese men's player ever (breaking Shuzo's record).

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Shinjuku whale restaurants - Taruichi

One of the most well known whale restaurants in Shinjuku, and indeed all of Tokyo is Taruichi. Often featured in western coverage of the whaling issue in Japan, I had the distinct pleasure of having a meal at Taruichi recently, and didn't miss the opportunity to snap some mobile phone photos for a blog entry.

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First, some photos of the exterior.

There's some more when you arrive on the 5th floor:

And above the entrance is this big sign board:

I couldn't stand far away enough to get the "ichi" of "Taruichi" into the picture, but more interesting on the left is the picture of a whale and some Japanese text, which I will translate as something like...
Food is not logical
Food is human existence itself
And, it is each people's culture
Inside, one finds that Taruichi is larger than one expects from it's exterior, and at least on the Saturday night that I went the place was pretty much packed. We hadn't bothered to ring and book a table in advance (there are other whale restaurants nearby which you can fall back on), and so we found ourselves limited to about 2 hours until just before 9 p.m. when another reservation had been made.

Taruichi is apparently a 2nd generation restaurant now, and the interior is true enough to this. There are several tatami mat rooms available, and also lots of whale related decoration. Take the lamp displayed to the right. Maybe the whale attached as the base of the lamp will catch your eye first, but take another look at the lampshade - that's baleen that it's made out of.

There are also whale illustrations on the walls and door, as you see in the picture below, so you can enjoy some whale watching as well as enjoy your whale meal.

Moving along to the actual food. Japanese whale cuisine culture proponents love to illustrate that with whales, every part you can imagine is used for something (as also seen with the baleen lampshade). Here's a page from the menu pointing out the names of different parts of whale, all of which are available on the menu. Below it is the menu from one section of the wall in the room we were in.

The array of dishes on offer here is rather overwhelming. Even though other restaurants also have a variety of different meats available, Taruichi seems to have the greatest range that I have seen. Whale parts available on the menu include the normal meat you can find in any whale restaurant (red meat, bacon), and additional choices include whale heart, whale brain, and whale phallus.

Below is a picture of one set of dishes we ordered. There's "kujira tatsuta-age" (fried red meat) at the back left, a salad (can't remember if there was any whale in it, but there may have been), and "kohhaku ozohri" (a dish of whale sashimi including both red and white meats). The whale bacon (the white slices with the pink tinge) had more oil in it than any whale bacon I've ever had before.

Again if you take a close look at the sashimi plate, you can see a piece of baleen used for decoration, more easily identified in the "after" shot below.

As I mentioned above, there were various dishes using various whale parts on the menu. I'll leave it to your imagination as to what these two items below were.

One other thing that caught my attention was a sticker on the wall, which for some reason is partially damaged. What we can make out from the remains is:

...ve the Tongans
...ed Them Whales!

But I digress.

Overall, although our time at Taruichi was unfortunately limited, we were able to sample 8 different types of whale dish, and if you happen to have any non-whale eaters with you there is also more typical fare on the menu, such as plain old fried chicken.

Taruichi's dishes generally have a traditional look to them, and it gave me a sense that the menu items there are true to the restaurant's history. Other newer restaurants, such as neighbouring Akanedoki a few minutes walk away that started serving whale items and courses 2 or 3 years ago, appear as if they have put effort into producing dishes for the 21st century whale diner, rather than sticking with older traditional style dishes. But when it comes to items such as whale sashimi there is essentially not a great deal of difference. It's the other dishes such as steaks with sauces that provides the distinguishment.

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Official homepage: www.taruichi.co.jp

Address: 5F, Daiichi Asakawa Bldg., 1-17-12 Kabuki-cho Shinjuku-ku Tokyo
Google Maps link

When to go: Any day except Sunday and Holidays

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Australians upset about domestic whale euthanisation

Don't pander to hysteria over whale calf's death, say scientists

Some Australians have apparently been quite upset about a decision made by professionals to put down a humpback whale calf, which had been named Colin until people later realised that the whale was of the female sex.

The whale was apparently without it's mother (which may have already died), and no specialists seem to think Coleen had a chance of surviving under the circumstances.

While there are also questions over whether the most appropriate method to put the whale down was used, it's the decision to put the whale down at all that seems to have been drawing most criticism from some in Australia.

Cetacean experts of both Australia and New Zealand have been speaking out against the criticism. Here are some of the quotes from the linked article:

"People have to accept a lot of whale calves will die in the wild, and it's not pleasant, and there is nothing that can be done".

"This isn't a cute and cuddly world and people have to think about the reality of wild animals."

"I don't think we should be moving towards doing things to keep animals alive in cruel circumstances just to make us feel good".

Young animals fresh into the world are naturally prone to high rates of natural mortality, and without a mother to take care of them they are without food and thus almost certainly a goner.

For several years we've been hearing about booming rates of growth in the populations of humpback whales that migrate up the east and west coasts of Australia each year (even the IUCN has taken them off their "Red List" of endangered species). With these increasing numbers of animals you not only have a higher probability of humans seeing whales along the coast (whale watching), you're also going to see increasing instances of whale deaths along the coast as well. Furthermore, at some stage the populations will increase to the point where they reach and exceed the capacity of their environment to support their numbers. Exactly what happens at that point in time remains to be seen, but one explanation in other places is that you end up with a lot of whales in poor health and observe sudden die offs, or unusual mortality events.

Australian scientists seem to have a preference for talking down the current levels of abundance, and it's true that they are unlikely to be at their carrying capacity yet, but they are approaching it quite quickly.

I've long been thinking that it will be interesting to see what changes in the Australian mindset come about as these whale numbers continue to increase, and the realities of nature are observed more amongst the urbanites living along the East coast of Australia. This incident is very unlikely to be the last like it. Particularly, whether any change in the prevailing attitude towards the acceptability of sustainable whaling occurs in the coming years will be worth watching. Commercial anti-whaling industry groups will be doing their best to ensure that this isn't the case, but with an increasing recognition that some whales species are not threatened with extinction and can support sustainable whaling, they will find themselves facing a steeper uphill battle, but still there would be few in Australia to assert that the protectionist stance be replaced with a more conservationist one.

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Whale meat stockpile update - June 2008

I'm kicking off this post with a visual of a whale meat stockpile. The picture to the right of text shows the stock level of a canned whale meat product, "Yamatoni", at my local supermarket.

I was surprised to find this in the canned seafood section a month or so ago. Ever since I've been frequenting it they have been stocking whale meat bacon (similar to this product, but in a smaller size quantity), and last year they had red whale meat sashimi on sale for a time as well. Recently another whale bacon product also appeared as a seemingly seasonal offering, but the canned Yamatoni product pictured also appears to be a regular that I simply had never noticed.

I was also surprised to see an instant meal type Whale Curry (Japanese style) at a nearby 7-11 convenience store. That was also seemingly a temporary summer offering, although I've not been back since to be able to confirm that. My surprise was because I seemed to recall some western anti-whaling group saying they had intimidated Ito-yokado (owner of the 7-11 chain) into no longer stocking whale products in their stores. Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick, but anyway.

Enough digression - MAFF's "Statistics on Distribution of Frozen Fishery Products", including whale meat stockpile information for June was released some days back (PDF, Excel).

Not much happened on the stockpile front in June. The obvious major event for the month was IWC 60 in Chile, but coverage in Japan was quite limited with not much headline news coming out of it. Other events included:
The Greenpeace theft news was covered a lot in the news, but not much happened that would bring about significant changes in the stockpile situation. Indeed, as much as 2,000 tons of the stockpile was also still unavailable for sales at the time, and additionally, whale meat dealers were waiting for the commencement of the JARPA II by-product auction in early July to get the newest product into stock from the wholesale markets.

As for last month's mysterious 318 ton stockpile in Funabashi that appeared, it's hard to be certain of the source as the JARPA II meat appeared to be accounted for in the jump in Tokyo stockpile figures for April. Anti-whaling group WDCS recently wrote a little of their own speculation about the activities of Norwegian whaling vessels in relation to matters surrounding whale meat trade.

June 2008 outgoing stock: 314 tons

Not much this month, but next month will be a bumper for sure.

June 2008 incoming stock: 254 tons

No unusual leaps in stock this month.

June 2008 end-of-month stockpile: 3,630 tons
Just a slight dip this month. As noted above, a large chunk of this is confirmed as not being for sale as of June. The JARPA II by-product sale runs from early July through early August, so expect a significant drop in the figure in the next update for July.

June 2008 top stockpile regions

The top stockpile regions, their stockpile levels and movement since the previous month are shown in the table below:

Stockpile size at
month end
Stockpile size at
previous month end
Tokyo city wards2,028

Well, that Funabashi stockpile looks to be static to me. It will be interesting to see how much of it was still there at the end of the July month, after the JARPA by-product auction has largely completed.

Graph: Annual volumes
Half the year gone, and obviously things are looking more subdued than in the recent couple of years, with lower levels of stock at present. The stockpile tends to be more active in the second half of the year as is evident in the cumulative graphs below.

Graph: Monthly volumes

Graph: Outgoing stock (cumulative)
The 2008 worm is down a bit, but the trend in most years seems to be a slightly higher average outgoing volume of stock over the last 6 months of the year as compared with the first 6 months.

Graph: Incoming stock (cumulative)
Evidently, less stock around this year compared with 2006 and 2007. If it weren't for that Funabashi meat, 2008 would be looking much like 2005.

Graph: Regional whale meat stockpiles

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July 2008 figures will be out on September the 10th.

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One admirable feature of terrier-men is that they are never afraid of change, whether in producing new breeds or discussing the best build for a working dog, as its roles alter with time. In the 20th century in Britain, a number of 'new' or resurrected terrier breeds emerged, in strong contrast to the fixed views and lack of innovation in the gundog world. We may have lost the Fox Terrier, the Sealyham and the Skye by type, and, sadly, lost the old English White Terrier as a breed. But breeds or breed-types like the Plummer, Lucas, Sporting Lucas and two Russell varieties have been created and stabilised. I can think of no new native breeds emerging or old breeds being re-created in the gundog world in the last century or so. We may have recognised the long-established Irish Red and White Setter but where is a re-created Llanidloes Setter, Norfolk Retriever or Black Setter? We lost the old English Water Spaniel too. Foreign gundog breeds flood in, but who will save our native gundog breeds under threat? The terrier breed 'span' has increased not shrunk.

It could be argued of course that the old 'county' breeds, in both terriers and gundogs, like the Cheshire and Devon Terriers and Norfolk and Devon Cocker Spaniels have been subsumed into registered breeds. I have heard it argued that the old Heinemann Terrier type is represented today in the Parson Russell Terrier. On the Continent of Europe, terrier breeds like the Cesky and the German Hunt Terrier have been created from British stock but gundog breeds like the Korthals Griffon and the Pudelpointer were each developed by gifted breeders seeking a better gundog, quite unlike ours.  Our hound breeders too have not been too adventurous, despite the English Basset being a triumph of realism and a commendable desire for a working anatomy. The working terrier 'spectrum' however shines in a wide range of colours and types, from the Fell and Patterdale in the north to the Plummers and Sporting Lucases in the south. As the exaggerated show dogs in the spoiled terrier breeds of Sealyham, Skye, Scottie and Dandie Dinmont have led to the slow but remorseless decline of such stock, the sound and virile non-show breeds of terrier have grown and grown.

The emergence of a Working Sealyham is so encouraging - if only a Working Yorkshire Terrier could follow suit! I have seen some excellent white Lakelands in the past decade, a coat colour that would be laughed out of the KC show rings, despite these white ones shaming the anatomy and movement of the show types. The latter in almost every KC-recognised sporting terrier breed no longer exemplifies the correct build for a working terrier, with upright shoulders restricting forward reach and rearward extension unacceptably. KC-show terrier exhibits are often described by ignorant Crufts commentators as 'simply flowing over the ground' but only because they can't stride! The working terrier origin is widely quoted in KC sporting terrier Breed Standards but then betrayed by the placements in the ring by conformist or simply obedient judges. The tiny short strides inflicted on, say, show Fox Terriers is indirect cruelty yet forever rewarded in the show ring. The coat texture on the Wire-haired Fox Terrier offers no protection against the elements but is coiffeured into almost cubist designs by misguided groomers. Working type means the capability of operating as a working earth-dog; breed type is not just the exaggeration of breed points!

A working build is so important in any sporting breed; the wording in the Breed Standard should instil intent not inspire cliques or mislead those who have never seen a terrier at work. There are still a few exhibitors of sporting terrier breeds in KC show rings who work their dogs but those I have spoken to are well aware of the 'winning type' they are often up against. I have seen Border and Lakeland Terriers in KC rings that I could take home with me but never entries in a Sealyham, Dandie Dinmont, Skye or Scottie ring. Sadly too I have seen the Glen of Imaal breed become heavier-coated and more over-boned than any sporting terrier can afford to be. I am told that in Ireland there are still some harder-coated, less heavily-boned specimens amongst the working set but the show exhibits I have seen do not possess a working build.

Type in sporting terrier breeds should only mean working type and that need not mean an uneven mix of assorted terriers linked only by a passing resemblance to that breed. For me, a sporting terrier has to be built for work, glamour is entirely secondary. But, distressingly, I so often come across a 'ruling elite' in each KC sporting terrier breed who only see their type as being acceptable in their chosen breed and that's a sure sign of impending doom for that breed. Sporting terriers were designed and developed for work and that doesn't mean they have to be ugly!


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2017 Christmas Festival Dates

Visit Santa Galway

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays December 1st – 23rd,
4-7 pm Fridays
12-6pm Saturdays, Sundays

Every year, Santa plans a stop at Slieve Aughty Centre, where he enjoys a soft chair next to a cosy fire in his cabin while he visits with children from around the country.  Each family gets scheduled personal time with Santa and a small gift.
Before and/or after your Santa visit there are lots of other things to do. Pet Santa’s “pony” reindeer and the donkeys at the live nativity, browse the Christmas Shop, chat with other families over a cup of hot chocolate and home-made pancakes, and enjoy the festive music.  The kids can make some crafts, get their faces painted, and meet a friendly polar bear while waiting for storytelling (all included in your entry cost!).

Save some room for home-made treats and organic mulled wine at The Three Tower Organic Kitchen, open all day .

Slieve Aughty Centre’s Christmas Festival offers something new and different, with live characters, storytelling, arts and crafts, shows, animals, the Snow Queen and more. You never know who will be visiting or what surprises are in store. What we do promise is that you will experience a Christmas Festival like no other with a family feel.

“We have come here every year for the last 4 years.
We love it!  Santa experience is lovely for the kids and
the lovely festive food is delightful…Its a fabulous family
run festival and really is so special for all the family.
See you again next year!”

“If only places like this existed when I was a child. The closest to a movie/ fairytale/ Willie Wonka like real life experience. We will be back! ”

Great activities for all the family, lovely bright lights and everything! Wouldn’t change anything!”

Very enjoyable, relaxing and simplistic. This is our 3rd year here. Thank you.”

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Pre-booking is required. Contact us to book today!
€5/baby up to 23mths     €30/child    €11/teenager (13yrs+) +€5 to add a gift   €11/adult     €100 Family Pass (3 children and 2 adults)
Been to the festival before?  Ask us about a loyalty discount!

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We proudly make every effort to avoid plastic and battery operated toys so common these days and instead seek to find unique gifts that children can interact with and enjoy creatively.

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Contact 090 97 45 246 to book now or visit our Christmas Festival page on the Slieve Aughty web site, or more information, photos and reviews from families.

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Christmas Winter Wonderland

2nd ,3rd, 9th, 10th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd December 2017

Babies & Toddlers Admission Times 10:00am-12:00pm

Admission times are:12:15pm, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 3:15pm, 4:15pm, 5:15pm.

Enjoy a magical time in the Athenry Heritage Centre’s Winter Wonderland with a one hour Santa Experience that includes a range of festive craft activities for all the family to enjoy.

Enter a world of Christmas fun and festive cheer where children can discover a place full of treats and delights which includes craft activities, the popular baking activity, make Christmas tree decorations and plant a spring bulb. All the activities are fun, inclusive and let the imagination go wild.

The Elves are waiting for all the boys and girls to help them enjoy their activities and Santa is waiting with a gift for the children to take home.

Parents of young babies and toddlers can also enjoy their Santa experience with morning opening times just for you. There’s a world of toys and festive cheer waiting for you and Santa has a special gift too. Doors open from 10:00am-12:00pm. No pre-booking is necessary.

Admission for the Babies & Toddlers is €10.00 per child and €5.00 per Adult.

The Athenry Heritage Centre is decorated in its unique and special way which brings home the spirit of Christmas and lets parents and children enjoy their visit in the ambient setting of St. Mary’s Church, Athenry. Children will be thrilled as they start their journey to meet Santa but remember there’s only 25 places per hour so book online or buy your tickets at the door.

Admission times are:12:15pm, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 3:15pm, 4:15pm, 5:15pm.

Tickets are limited to 25 children per hour.

Admission Prices: Child €15.00, Under Two €10.00, Adult €5.00

This year’s Christmas Winter Wonderland offers parents the opportunity to book online with Eventbrite where Mum’s & Dads can choose their times to visit Santa.

Please note all online tickets include a booking fee but it guarantees your entry time to the Athenry Heritage Centre’s Christmas Winter Wonderland.

Please call 091 844661 for further details or checkout Eventbrite to book your tickets.

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Live Lunchtime Music at the Dayton Metro Library

A new lunchtime music series at the Dayton Metro Library offers a mid-day escape for downtown workers and visitors. The free, live performances take place on Fridays in the Main Library Eichelberger Forum, 215 E. Third Street.

“The Eichelberger Forum is a wonderful space for music and other events,” said Main Library Manager Kimber Fox. “With comfortable, casual seating, people can bring their lunch, a friend or a book and enjoy a musical interlude in their day.”

Performances are Fridays, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

November 24 | DC Ensemble
The Dianne Coble Ensemble entertains and inspires with their lively gospel sound. Since 2012 this choir has been sharing a message of joy through their music.

December 1 | Duante Beddingfield, featuring The Randy Villars Trio
Collaborating with pianist Randy Villars, Beddingfield creates a crowd-friendly act that makes jazz both accessible and inventive. Matt Wiles (bass) and Jeff Mellott (drums) round out the band.

December 8 | Eric Loy
Guitarist Eric Loy plays a wide range of musical styles, from jazz to classical to rock. He’s recorded nine instrumental albums since the 1970s, playing classical, steel-string, electric, and harp-guitar.

December 15 | The Corndrinkers
A Saturday night tradition at square dances in southwest Ohio, The Corndrinkers are a toe-tapping, old-time country string band featuring twin fiddles, banjo, guitar and bass.

December 22 | Trey Stone
Pianist Trey Stone served for 15 years as music director at The Second City, the famed comedy institution in Chicago. He leads his group Trey Stone and the Ringers, tours internationally, and recently was a presenter at TEDxDayton.

December 29 | DJ Basim
Funk music is front and center with DJ Basim, host of WYSO’s “Behind the Groove.” Basim produced an award-wining documentary, “Boogie Nights: A History of Funk Music in Dayton,” and he is Production Coordinator for Dayton Youth Radio.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Zed's Digital Audio Top 10 of 2011

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This list is made up of those plug-ins and digital apps I used the most this year and/or made me the most excited. Most are available for both PC and Mac, and only a few are still stuck in 32-bit mode - hopefully that will change soon.

10) Izotope Ozone 5. Link This is the Mastering app of choice for most semi-pro engineer/producers and a great update to the ubiquitous Ozone 4 multi-processor - albeit slightly expensive for the "Pro" version without the introductory discount. The Pro version allows you to insert each module as a separate plug-in if you so desire, and has awesome audio visualisation options (plus a few extra features per module). Within this plug-in you get all the essential tools to repair a finished mix - a mastering limiter (Maximizer),  multi-band compression, multi-band exciter, multi-band width controls (Imager), mastering reverb, and an awesome EQ with handy frequency "solo" for ease of locating those crazy out of control frequencies. Oh, and you can go stereo or mid-side depending on your needs, and you also get all sorts of dithering and metering options.

9) SoundIron Emotional Piano 2Link It's amazing how often you need a piano in a mix, and because I don't have access to real one, I'm always struggling to find one that sits nicely in a song, especially as the ubiquitous grand pianos that seem to come with various packages don't always work with the track. This piano is meant to be more "soundtrack-ey", it's warm, has character, and seems to sit much better than any of the others. If I want a clean sound I use Modart's Pianoteq Link - a very nice modelled piano.

8) Avid Pro Tools 10Link Just so you know, although I'm a Logic Pro afficianado, I'm also a trained Pro Tools user and it's good to see Pro Tools coming along so well and, although they've had the studio-recording side totally nailed for so long (and are the industry-standard for recording in the studio), they are still catching up somewhat with everyone else in the compositional features stakes. Also - now you don't need to have a piece of Avid hardware to run it, it simplifies (and cheapens) your setup. Still a bit overpriced (especially as you have to pay quite a bit extra for much of the really cool stuff), but if you want to work with a variety of studios, you will probably need to use it at some point.

7) Arts Acoustic ReverbLink This algorithmic reverb is not only easy on the CPU, it sounds fantastic. I think our love-affair with the impulse reverb is fading, because as good as they initially sound, they are inherently linear - the sound doesn't change based on level going in, so they can end up being a bit sterile. I think of them as "precision reverbs". The Arts Acoustic can still sound clean, but you can get some pretty twisted sounds out of it if you need to, or some gorgeous Lexicon-like warmth. I use it a lot for dark and twisted drum reverbs, and for clean and open vocal reverb.

6) Logic Pro 9Link Notice it's not at number 1, because as much as it's my main tool in the studio, and it IS pretty damn awesome, (and ridiculously good value for money BTW - especially as you can now buy it on App Store for $200 USD) Apple have let it sit in the background for a while now, with very few updates, and some bugs that have been there for several years. I'm hoping that they release version 10 soon, without destroying what makes it so good - like they almost did with Final Cut Pro X. Runners up - Ableton Live Link - you'd have to have your head in the sand not to notice this DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) app increasingly dominating the market - although mostly in DJ, electronica and live performance realms, and Reaper Link - an inexpensive and increasingly fully-featured application that's really taking off.

5) SoundToys Devil-Loc DeluxeLink Actually the entire Sound Toys native bundle is also fantastic (and pretty well priced if you're a student and can get the Academic pricing), but I've found this particular compression-with-distortion plug-in an essential for big fat drum sounds. You can get it pumping in a really good way, and it sure adds instant excitement to the drum mix.

4) D16 Group ToraverbLink This plug-in reverb can get the biggest, widest, lushest chorused reverb sounds ever. It's very impressive, and once you hear it, you'll want it. I use it every time I need a huge sense of space and distance on something in my mix. Actually the D-16 Group do some fantastic plug-ins - I have the rest of the Silverline collection and also use the Decimort (which can emulate the colouration from various older samplers) and Devastator (a multi-band distortion unit) plug-ins a lot.

3) Slate Digital VCC (Virtual Console Collection)Link The idea with this plugin is that you put it on every channel strip and/or the busses to simulate one of four (now five!) analogue mixing consoles. It's very subtle per channel strip, but somehow adds up to making a mix sound great and just "gel". Runner-up to this is the very affordable Sonimus Satson Buss Link.

2) Celemony Melodyne Editor 2Link When it comes time to transparently fix poor intonation in vocals, without the obvious side-effects that you might want for some styles of music, then Melodyne is the one. It retains the nuances of phrasing and vibrato, and allows you to just fix the gross pitch errors if you like, or you can still go more extreme if you really want to. Also great for matching and creating backing vocal lines, repairing guitar tracks (got one string out of tune?) as it can now do polyphonic tracks, and my favourite; fixing poorly-played bass lines, because you can quantize to a time grid as well as fixing poor intonation on cheap basses. There are a bunch of products that Celemony put out, including the multi-track Melodyne Studio, but I like this one as it's a pretty full-featured plug-in that can also do Rewire. An absolute essential!

1) Anything by UADLink This was my big "Eureka" moment this year. I decided to buy the UAD-2 Solo Laptop card to get some more processing into my overstressed Mac Book Pro laptop. Here's what I found - the UAD plug-ins sound so much better than any other versions of the same plug-in, and sound so very close to the real hardware units that they're modelling. You don't need "golden ears" to tell the difference either. It might have something to do with the way the plug-ins are up-sampled for processing, or it might be the ridiculous huge amount of detailed modelling that they've done to recreate the vintage equipment so realistically. My favourites so far are the good old Pultec EQ - it really does just make things sound better - even without adding any EQ (although you probably will), the Ampex ATR-102 reel-to-reel, the Fatso Jr/Sr for, well, fatness, and the SPL Vitalizer for adding character to synths. My credit card is still hurting from going a wee bit crazy on these plug-ins this year, but I don't regret it.

Notable mentions: the free Michael Norris effects collection Link for some quite radical granular processing options - especially useful for sound design. Some of the cool Waves plugins Link; for example the Kramer MPX reel-to-reel tape recorder and the Vocal Rider Not cheap, but good. Xfer Records' LFOTool Link - adds tweakable sync'ed modulation to just about anything. Great for locking-in, enhancing or creating grooves in any track. Izotope's Stutter Edit Link - awesome for adding those extra crazy head-sounds to your mix and for creating some extra action when it gets too boring - and you can play it in from a MIDI keyboard. The Sonnox collection Link - every single plug-in is useful and just sound awesome. And they've dropped the prices so real people can now almost afford them. Cytomic's "The Glue" Link - a really excellent analogue-modelled master bus processor that you just set and forget.


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Karate for Kids – Family Ninjas Program

Family Ninjas (ages 8-12 and family) classes at DC Self Defense Karate Association, in Washington, DC are a great way to instill integrity, courtesy and respect with children in the local DC Metro community. DC Self Defense Karate Association’s Family Ninjas Karate Program teaches children the valuable life lessons of respect, self-discipline, self-control and the ability to safely defend themselves when needed. The life skills and attributes create a personal “Victory in Martial Arts” for kids. These life skills taught by our Professional Team of instructors are truly necessary to become confident individuals in today’s society. Interaction with the world around them at an early age is a critical life skill element for any community member.

The DC Self Defense Karate Association academy serves the community with the some of the best Karate classes in Washington, DC as evidenced by our being awarded “The Best of DC” for nine years in a row now for Martial Arts and Self-Defense. Our age-appropriate Kid’s Karate programs and classes are specifically aimed at the physical development and mental capabilities of the these karate kids and are great for their moms, dads and older family members too. By measuring the results of the individual student and establishing specific goals in the context of the curriculum at DC Self Defense Karate Association, our Ninja Basics carries over to many other activities and studies in life for young students. Teaching the skill of dedication to completing an activity and meeting the goals is an important part of the program designed by our instructors.

Together with other families and kids their own age, every Ninja can grow with the self-confidence and core values that a top martial arts program develops. Kids at this level also work within our Leadership Training Program to look more deeply into leadership qualities including mental and emotional control. The reliable program of self-improvement and leadership offered at DC Self Defense Karate Association can ultimately be a key turning point for the kids in the family. It’s evident to families and school teachers alike the impact karate and leadership lessons have on a young person to build more confidence from within and by creating a “Personal Victory” in Martial Arts.


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Evolution partners Amy Slomovits and Brady McKay are leaving the management/production company to join fellow Amy & Brady Groundlings Photomanagement/production firm Haven Entertainment as partners. At Haven, the duo will launch a talent department, which they will oversee. Slomovits and McKay, who start today, join Haven founding partners Mauricio Betancur, Jesse Hara, Kevin Mann and Rachel Miller. They are bringing with them from Evolution manager Lindsay Whitaker. “We felt it was time to partner with a Lit and Production company that shared our vision of creating a powerful boutique where we can support our clients’ creativity from start to finish,” Slomovits and McKay said “We feel Haven are the perfect partners to develop artists and content that will make us proud.”

Slomovits and McKay bring with them a roster of comedic talent that includes Kaitlin Olson (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Michaela Watkins (Trophy Wife, SNL), Mary Elizabeth Ellis (New Girl), Kyle Bornheimer (Bachelorette) and Fiona Gubelman (Wilfred). Also coming to Haven with them are Elizabeth Henstridge (Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D) and Kevin Rankin (Dallas Buyers Club) among others.

Slomovits and McKay’s talent roster includes a number of comedic writer performers. They executive produce Comedy Central’s upcoming 10-episode comedy series Idiotsitter, which their client Charlotte Newhouse co-created and stars in with Jillian Bell. The project originated as a Web series. They also represent Patrick Carlyle who sold comedy pitch Crescent Heights to Fox with his partner Allyn Rachel. In the social media/digital space, Slomovits and McKay rep Vine stars Marcus Johns (Expelled) and KC James who together have 9.6 million followers.

Haven Entertainment was founded in 2012 with initial focus on literary representation and plans to expand into talent later on. That expansion is now a reality with the arrival of Slomovits and McKay. “As Haven Entertainment continues to grow, we are thrilled to partner with Amy and Brady to expand our footprint representing distinct voices and creating content relevant to the ever changing entertainment landscape,” Hara said.

Haven produced Life Partners starring Leighton Mesiter, Gillian Jacobs & Adam Brody which was released by Magnolia Films on iTunes and VOD last week and will be in theaters on December 5.  Their film Tell starring Milo Ventimiglia and Jason Lee will be released by MGM also on December 5. Additionally, Haven recently wrapped the Michael Showalter directed Hello, My Name Is Doris starring Sally Field and Max Greenfield and Charles Hood’s Night Owl starring Adam Pally, Rosa Salazar, Peter Krause, Tony Hale and Rob Huebel.

Haven produces the annual playwriting series Unscreened and currently it is in pre-production on the TBS pilot Wrecked by Justin and Jordan Shipley.


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CAA has hired Sherrie Sage Schwartz for the newly created post of Chief Human Resources Officer. The agency said she will lead its “people efforts on a global scale.”

Schwartz comes to CAA from Activision Blizzard, where she served as SVP Human Resources for Activision Publishing. She also has held executive HR posts at Levi Strauss & Co., Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert, and Kraft Foods.

“Our company has seen tremendous growth over the past number of years, in terms of business sectors, geography and scale,” said CAA Managing Partner Michael Rubel. “We are confident that Sherrie’s wealth of talent and her experience at some of the world’s most well-regarded global brands will help us continue to ensure that we have the most vibrant, creative and empowering environment for employees worldwide.”


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  • "Deepest Sympathy Marian and family. I met you and David..."
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David Albert James:
On January 10, 2018, at Timaru Hospital, aged 80 years. Dearly loved husband and best friend of Marian, and much loved Dad of Robyn and Peter Hassan (Kaiapoi), Wayne and Jenny (Dunedin), loved Granddad of Rebekah (London), and Kate Pitcaithly. Loved brother of Marie and John Turpin (Brisbane). A service to celebrate David's life will be held at Aoraki Funeral Services Chapel, 160 Mountain View Road, Timaru, on Saturday, January 13, at 10.30am, followed by a private cremation. Messages to the Pitcaithly Family, 52 Benmore Street, Timaru.
Aoraki Funeral Services Timaru F.D.A.N.Z.

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Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Blue Thank You

"Fleur de Lis" die by Spellbinders

Stamp and Create April - Use at least 1 Die
The Paper Shelter #108 - Make It Bloom
Stamp n Doodle - Anything Goes
QKR Stampede #35 - Punches and/or Dies
Rhedd & Rosie's 4th Challenge - Monochrome
Creative Accents April - Clean Sweep

Sheryl said...

This is such a pretty card. I really like your design and colour choice. Thanks for joining us at THE PAPER SHELTER this week. Please join us again next time.
Hugs Sheryl xx

ms.espresso said...

Such a lovely, clean design :) Thanks for joining our Seriously Creative Challenge!

Moira Gray said...

Lovely card. Love the blues.

Thank you for joining us at Rhedd & Rosie Challenge Blog. Hope we see your work again.

Moira DT.

Kelli Acopan said...

Love the flourish/swirl background! Thanks so much for joining us at Stamp 'n' Doodle!!

lovies, =o) kel
Stamp 'n' Doodle DT

Ruza Rebel said...

Lovely CAS card! Thank you for joining QKR's Challenge this week.
Ruza, QKR DT

Hill Top Creations said...

Wow love it.. well done.. Thanks for joining us at Creative Challenges..take care


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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

It's a God Thing Series - The Sign

                                The Sign

                                                                                debra v edwards

                               Gen: 18:14  "Is Anything too Hard for God?"

What does a sign have to do with a newborn foal?  Normally, nothing I suppose.

When my farrier (horse-shoer), gave me this unpainted 6' plywood cut-out of a running horse back in the Spring of 2006, I thought 'hmmmmm, what will I do with it?  It is pretty cool.'

I found the right spot for it on a privacy fence at the front of our farm, facing the road.  My husband and I nailed it up and I commenced to see what colors of exterior paint, I might happen to have on hand. Black and white were the only two that I could find. So, that became my creative color scheme.

Now, a black horse is very common, but a black bodied horse with white stockings (all the way up the knee area) and a white mane and tail, is unheard of; rare indeed. So, I decided that would definitely be my color combination of my running horse.  I gave it a star on the forehead and a snip on the nose.  I also painted a white stroke down the side of the butt area, near the tail, but then covered it back up with black, thinking that really did look unusual...too unusual.

The sign hung, now painted, at the entrance of my farm for over a year and the fence provided some ivy to grow around it as a frame.

At the time, I only had a dapple grey mare and a black mule.  'Choctaw' was not pregnant and of course, Betty Boop, the mule, couldn't get pregnant.  Mules can't reproduce.
One day, a local preacher approached me, and explained that he had a neighbor that had hurt his back and was deeply concerned about his pregnant mare that was due to deliver either late February or early March.  These winter mountain months, might be too hard on the mare and the foal with no barn to house them in. He was concerned that he couldn't take care of them properly and stood a chance of losing one or both of them.  The preacher had suggested to his neighbor that he might be able to make some kind of deal with us, as he knew us well, and that we took excellent, total care for our own animals plus our barn was near our home. Thus the reason for this afternoon visit.

The Deal

The suggested deal was that "if we cared for the mare until time to wean the baby, that we could have the foal."  Since she only had a few months remaining and it takes six months normally to wean a foal, we were looking at around nine months of care and keeping.  It sounded good to me, but that I would have to "run it by my husband."  Naturally I had some questions.  "What does the father look like?"  The answer was that he looked exactly like the mother which was brown and white spotted, except the father was a quarter horse and the mother was a registered 'spotted racking mare.'
When I confronted my husband about this 'deal', he said that we would have to ride over and see the mare as to her looks and what kind of disposition she might have and what kind of shape she was in now.  We did.  She was a very sweet, good-looking lady.  We liked her looks and her disposition.  BUT, he was concerned that taking care of someone else's horse and a new foal with our only having barbed wire fencing at the time, that he just didn't want that kind of responsibility for such a fine horse.  He proposed that we would buy the mare for the amount this gentleman had paid for her and take the responsibility for her care and keeping plus "whatever she was pregnant with", that was the ultimate question.  The owner very reluctantly, agreed.
On a very windy Sunday, January 13, 2008, I rode this mare to our farm,  bareback, which is my custom.  She 'only'  spooked at every blowing thing that we approached.  Even signs that weren't blowing, seemed to startle her.  Later, I found that she had never been ridden bareback and at that, had not been ridden in three to four years, and even then, only with other horses to follow.  "Okay, Ignorance is bliss and sometimes it's just better to not know these things right away."
After watching 'American Idol' on Tuesday evening, the 18th of March 2008, my husband went to "button things up", for the night.  As is his calm demeanor in nature, he opened the door and stuck his head in and announced; "It's here!"  With housecoat flying to the barn,   "What sex is it?" I asked.   "Male," he said.  All I could see was a black blob.  My husband started gagging and left.  The mare had just delivered and the placenta and afterbirth were still attached.  'Sierra Sue', was licking and cleaning up the baby until the umbilical was detached.
Now with a weak - stomached husband departed, I got a garbage bag and gathered up the most of the mess and let nature 'do its thing' with the rest.  Then I noticed long legs...very long legs.  Long, white legs.  Four, long white legs.  Four, long white legs all the way to the knee area.  'It' also had a solid white tail and white on its mane.  A white star on the forehead and a snip on the nose.  It was black, very black, bodied.  My husband brought a towel out and we started drying the baby off while momma horse rested.  I noticed that the umbilical cord was what he had seen previously and thinking it was a male.  I softly but gleefully added, "It's a girl, a little Filly."   "Wow, I said, is she ever leggy. "  I have had other foals born under my care and keeping and never remember one having such long legs.  "She's gonna be a tall, drink of water", I added.
"How does something that large come out of a place that small?", he added.  "It's called the s-t-r-e-t-c-h plan," I ansered.
Only a few nights earlier, my husband had shared with me about 'the baby' to be, in his dreams.  It too, was black with white stockings and a white mane and tail, running and bucking in our pasture.  "No way," I hoped, but wouldn't that be rare and beautiful",  then I dismissed the thought.
Do you suppose that since God knows all things, that he had just implanted in our sub-conscious minds the miracle that was about to happen on our farm?  From the painting of our sign, being the only colors readily at hand, to the forewarning in my husband's dream, to the reality of the now.  In our ecstatic glee, it took both of us some time to come out of the newness of the situation, to realize that; "hey, isn't she the coloring of the sign out front?  Let's go look at it again."  We did.  It was.  Even down to one side of her buttocks, beside her tail, that had the splash of white, that I had covered up, thinking it too rare and unusual, now gone.  That splash of white was there on this new baby.  Two years earlier I had painted the sign. Another year later, the mare was brought home.  But on this day, it could only be...who knew?...a God Thing.  What a sense of humor, our God has.

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the white stroke by the tail.........

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

It's 'A God Thing' Series - The Tree

                                               The Tree

                                                                                by debra edwards

"They cried to you and were saved: they trusted and were not disappointed."  Psm. 22:5

KABOOM !!!  We both sat straight up in bed.  It was three o'clock in the morning and on the startled awakening, I asked my husband, "Was that a bomb?"  "No, I think a tree just fell on our house,"  he answered.  We flung back the covers and both started surveying the house to access any damages.  He, going one direction and I went another.

The electricity was still on, in spite of the cold, windy, mountain storm.  All I could muster out of my mouth was this quick prayer; "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!"  Over and over in rapid repeats. "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!".  It was the same immediate prayer I used the time I was driving on snow with solid ice below it and sliding down a mountain road uncontrollably towards a steep embankment. Overwhelming frightened with no thought as to how to get out of the situation, the truck suddenly stopped.  A grateful, "Thank you Lord," was whispered  as I jumped out to see what stopped me.  Nothing.  Not a dent, not a scratch, it just stopped.  No explaination, it just stopped.

My "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus",  prayer continued as each room was surveyed.  A "praise the Lord, here", I would say.  "Nothing wrong here," my husband would report.  Each room after the other got it's "Praise the Lord, here too, " and  "Everything looks good here."  The kitchen is the farthest from our bedroom and between my prayer continuation and my gratefulness in not finding anything, in the other rooms, the kitchen was worrisome.  It is full of windows and two etched, glass entry doors.  We both got there together.  "Nope, I don't see anything wrong here," my husband reported.  Then I started laughing, a nervous laughter, but nevertheless, laughter.  "What is it?" my husband inquired.  What was I finding so laughable at a time like this?  The only thing interior - wise that was out of place in our house, was a sign.  It was tilted and wedged against one of the breakfast nook window's trim and simply read: "RELAX'.

A forty-two inch poplar had fallen over the entire length of our house.  It was found to be tee-tottering on only one - twelve inch limb that rested solely on the corner eave and gutter of the kitchen side of the house.  We found that that corner and the tin roof, only slightly bent, was the total extent of the damage that we found...thus far.

My "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus" prayer vigilance started up again, but more softly as my husband, now on the roof, cut each branch and limb from the tree.  This humongous tree was being cut inches at a time, as I hauled myself up to help him, barefoot.  Being in construction, I have found that barefeet will cling to tin better than most shoes, do.  The cutting and my heaving off the heavy pieces from the roof continued for quite some time, as now daylight was breaking through.  A small neighborhood audience was forming as the work continued.  Most of the tree was down on the ground except the one twelve inch limb that was supporting the entire weight of the base of the tree.  Any wrong move would have sent it into my windows below.  As I could hear neighbors speculating as to what should be done, my husband just did it, in silence.

Wind still whipping and blowing snow still furious, we watched as my husband found a 6 x 6 inch post and anchored it on the ground and against the brunt of that still heavy tree.  He wedged the post as tight as he could and then with a heavy gasp of air, he cut a small wedge near the base of the tree.  The tree let out a groan and then selled, lifting the limb off the gutter and corner of the roof.  Applause !!! It worked.  the tree adjusted to the change and now had its full weight resting on that 6 x 6 post.  We were able to continue the inch by inch cuts from the roof and then on the ground, until the whole tree had now become a wonderful stack of firewood.

"Thank you Lord, for the use and power of your wonderful name."

To this day, if you visit, you will still see the 'RELAX' sign resting against the window trim.
(Alot of the linbs had been cut when this picture was taken. )

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Want the best seat in the house? Move the dog.

            Want the best seat in the house?  Move the dog.

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That's 'Dixie Doodles', a rescued purebred Boxer from a 'Meth House.'  She has taken over the "no-no", "down", "get-down", "off the sofa", sofa's at our house.
As a Realtor and animal advocate and writer, let's talk about today's housing.  There have been so many hardships in the last three years, alot of animals (pets) have suffered.   When it comes to eating and feeding the kids, yourself and keeping some kind of roof over your heads, the animals have had to take a back-seat to those things, understandibly.
BUT, things are, or seem to be...looking up!
Each day about 8,000 baby boomers turn 65.  (1946 - 1964)  They are now empty - nesters and many of them wish to downsize.  After them, are the Generation X'ers, or the 'kids' of the boomers, known as the 'baby bust' generation.  (1965 - 1984).  I am one of the boomers and my daughter is one of the busters.
It seems inevitable that a sizable stock of larger homes could be left sitting on the market.  As a result, home prices could underperform compared to the historical norm, some economists say.  While this might appear to look somewhat bleak for those wanting to down-size, the picture is not taking into the equation the housing demands of the immigration population.
This is a touchy subject that lawmakers must hash over and a delicate subject matter as it is, BUT, anyway you look at it, additional people will need additional housing, so do you 'sit' on your sell and wait for prices to come back up, sell at todays decreased rates, get into the rental business, or go ahead with your plans and downsize now.  We are definitely in a new era and it is really up to the individual how you decide just exactly which way you will go.  However, you decide, take your family pet with you...afterall they are part of the 'family' and I have learned through observation and experience that the pet doesn't really care where you live as long as they can be with their 'humans'.
www.edwardsbuildersandrealty.com          check us out....all pets featured have been or are, in our own family.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Come join me in conversation

                                                                    My Back Yard Swing:                Post #1

How are you?  No, I mean, how are you really?

Are you hurting?  Are you lonely? Are you angry or depressed?  Are you on top of the world with the cinderalla slippers that you've always wanted to wear?  Do you have the job, finally, that you've always wanted?

When someone ask how are you, they don't really want to know, so you just say; "Good" or "Okay" or as I do and say "Great, but it's gonna get better!"   Sure enough, those that really listened to my answer, usually give me a smile. That's what I wanted all along anyway and to brainwash my own brain, that it really is gonna be great!

So, join me in my backyard swing and relax as the waterfall beside it noisely and busily goes its own way, to its own journey.  Down the way to a bigger body of water.  To it's goal.

I am a Realtor and a Builder and a Writer.  I have worn many hats in all these years, so I might just have some helpful answers to and for you, along the way.  I am also an animal advocate, a Christian and Happily Married, so I am not here to sell you anything, (unless you want to purchase a mountain place &/or have it built for you).  No, I am here to tell the truth, as I see it.

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Young Frankenstein (1974) – Episode 65 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that for me! Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that for me!” Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) comedically exclaims his realization of his true path…in his sleep…in Mel Brook’s classic Young Frankenstein (1974). Brook’s follow up to Blazing Saddles lovingly parodies the Universal Monster classics with a brilliant cast — including Peter Boyle, Mary Feldman, Madeline Kahn, and Teri Garr — and a witty, satirical script from Wilder. Doc Rotten and Jeff Mohr are joined by Chad Hunt and Bill Mulligan, along with HNR co-host Thomas Mariani, to discuss what may be the best horror-comedy of all time.

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Episode 65 – Young Frankenstein (1974)

Toward the end of 1974, Mel Brooks moves from Rock Ridge to Transylvania to send up the B&W horror films he – and co-writer Gene Wilder – loved so much. From Frankenstein to Son of Frankenstein many of the elements of those original films find their way into the film: the blind hermit, Ygor, Inspector Krogh (in the form of Kenneth Mars’ Inspector Kemp) – and so much more. Yes, those are the original scientific lab equipment (by Kenneth Strickfaden) from the original Universal classics appearing once again. The cast, led by Wilder, is superb with Marty Feldman as Igor displaying untoppable comedic timing. Peter Boyle makes an impressive monster with Teri Garr and Madeline Kahn as Inga and Elizabeth, respectively. Cloris Leachman is comedy gold as Frau Blucher [cue neighing horses]. Young Frankenstein works on a number of levels due to the script and the cast…and the reverence and respect Brooks holds for the source material. Even with the film being parody and satire, filmed in black and white, it could easily be considered a followup to the Universal films released decades before.

“The Scariest Comedy of All Time!” – the poster tagline makes a bold promise upon which Young Frankenstein seemingly effortlessly delivers.

The Grue-Crew lovingly recall their first encounters with Young Frankenstein with Doc, Jeff, Chad, and Bill catching it in the theaters upon its first release while Thomas shares that the film serves as a gateway from comedy into horror. Everyone has their favorites lines from “where wolf?” to “what knockers” to “footsteps footsteps footsteps” – the film is full of them. “Put the candle…back!” It also contains an endless series of visual gags that delightfully tickle the funny bone, most of them at the expense of Marty Feldman. Jeff notices that the clock chimes 13 times as the film opens and shares how much in common Inspector Kemp has with his inspiration Inspector Krogh, right down to sticking the darts into his wooden arm – a scene played for dramatic effect in Son of Frankenstein. Bill admits being concerned when the musical number with Wilder and Boyle began; but, by the time the monster growls “Putting on the Ritz,” he was sold. The amount of love and respect for this film from the Grue-Crew is only matched by that from Brooks and Wilder for the Universal classics that remain beloved all these years later.

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Delaware Contractors Association announces award winners

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The Delaware Contractors Assocation announced the winners of its 2017 Construction Excellence Awards. The companies were honored at an event earlier this month.

Winners are as follows, with photos available above

General Building Over $50 Million – Multi-family Residential – Rental BPGS Construction LLCHarlan Flats Phase II

Following the completion of Phase I in 2014, Phase II of this Riverfront development added 76 new apartment units to the Residences at Harlan Flats.

Interior Renovations Over $5 Million – Offices BPGS Construction, LLCPower Home Remodeling Group Office Space

This fit-out was a complete renovation/restoration of roughly 100,000 square feet of existing spaces located on the Chester Wharf. The new offices are located within a building that was built in the early 1900s.

General Education Over $5 Million EDiS CompanyArchmere Academy – St. Norbert Hall Renovations

EDiS supervised the addition and renovation to St. Norbert Hall, originally built in 1959 by Ernest DiSabatino and Sons. St. Norbert Hall serves as Archmere Academy’s main classroom building, hosting the tech center, library and learning commons, student lounges, study rooms and oratory.

General Building Under $5 Million HSC Builders & Construction Managers Rehabilitative & Therapy Gym

Designed to meet the needs of the community, this 10,000 square foot facility is a primary care satellite office of the Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children. The Rehab Gym was designed to expand the hospital’s capacity for in-house therapy services as well as a School Program to provide classroom services for long-term patients.

Outpatient Healthcare Under $5 MillionThe Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Radiation Oncology Center at Union Hospital

The project scope included renovations and a 1,100 square fot concrete vault addition to an existing 7,500 SF building in Elkton, MD. It was designed for the University of Maryland Radiation Oncology Department to treat cancer patients in the Elkton community.

The new concrete vault, housing the True Beam Linear Accelerator, was designed with walls 3 feet to 6 feet thick.

Higher Education Over $5 MillionThe Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Washington College Cromwell Hall

Located Chestertown, MD, Washington College’s Cromwell Hall is new facility designed to fit within the architectural vernacular of this historic college and its surrounding community. The building is the first of two phases providing campus spaces carefully planned to allow for planned growth.

Inpatient Healthcare Under $5 Million Wohlsen Construction Company UHS Dover Behavioral Health Addition

The overall scope of work increased the building’s footprint by 12,000 square feet, adding 12 semi-private rooms, 24 beds, well-placed activity and group rooms, separate lounges for staff and visitors, a nurses’ station, offices and treatment planning and med prep rooms. The addition was completed while the secure mental health facility was occupied and operational, adding a level of complexity to the safety and constructability of the project.

General Building Over $50 Million Wohlsen Construction Company CSC Corporate Headquarters

CSC’s new global headquarters is a four-story, 148,437 square foot building clad with five different façade systems, featuring: a curtain wall, metal panels, two rain screen panels, sunscreens and a granite stone veneer. Multiple balconies and green roofs also adorn the building’s exterior and enhancing this office environment. The adjacent 650-car parking garage features a car counting system and exterior green screen panels, allowing vegetation to grow and conceal the concrete façade of the garage.

Special Projects Over $5 Million Corrado Construction Company The DE Turf Sports Complex

The DE Turf Sports Complex project was one of massive scale and demanding precision. Spread across nearly 100 acres, the complex consists of numerous fields and buildings requiring water and sanitary services run throughout the entire site. With all of the fields, parking lots and sidewalks; surface drainage runoff required proper collection and discharge.

Special Projects Under $5 Million – JJID, Inc. NVF Wetlands Project

Brownfields redevelopment presents unique environmental challenges and JJID rose to the challenge with the NVF Wetlands Restoration in Yorklyn

The complete site restoration resulted in a restored stream and floodplain overflow for the Red Clay Creek. Project delivery exceeded expectations and prepares the area for the first round of creative residential and commercial development.

Excellence in Craftsmanship – Electrical Over $5 Million Furness Electric CSC Headquarters

Furness Electric was a lead subcontractor in the creation of CSC’s new global headquarters. The Furness team installed four major systems, including: fire alarm, sound masking and security, both electrical and signaling. Minor systems included lighting control, stand-by power and uninterruptable power.

Excellence in Craftsmanship – Concrete Healy Long & Jevin, Inc. 500 Walnut Street

With the creation of the new high-rise residential structure in Philadelphia, Healy Long & Jevin deployed state-of-the-art concrete construction technology and methods

This building stands at the center of the busiest tourist area in Philadelphia, sandwiched between some of Old City’s most historic landmarks. Construction was a challenge, with the result…the most exclusive and most expensive residential property in Philadelphia.

Excellence in Craftsmanship – Mechanical Modern Controls Johnson Matthey Air Handler Replacement

The Modern Controls team was called to action to replace a 40 year-old steam heat and chilled water system. The project created many challenges, including: working in a confined all concrete room with a single door for access; a tight demolition to completion schedule of just one week, over a holiday weekend; and a second floor mechanical room with no access for fork trucks or lifting equipment.

Excellence in Craftsmanship – Electrical Under $5 Million Preferred Electric, Inc.Nemours/AI DuPont Hospital Rehabilitation and Inpatient Therapy Center Project

This project included the installation of specialty systems and rehabilitation equipment as part of an overall renovation of an existing area once used as patient rooms.

Preferred Electric staff enforced daily monitoring of all site conditions and adjusted staff and resources to meet the demanding schedule.

Historic Preservation Under $5 Million Eastern Highway Specialists, Inc. Speakman’s Covered Bridge Rehabilitation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Speakman’s Covered Bridge was originally constructed in 1881 on the King Ranch Preserve, now owned by the Brandywine Conservancy.

Eastern Highway was selected to rehabilitate this historic landmark Located on Frog Hollow Road crossing Buck Run in Coatesville, PA.

Historic Preservation Over $50 MillionBancroft Construction Company Longwood Garden Main Fountain Garden Revitalization

The Main Fountain Garden at Longwood is among the most expansive and magnificent groupings of fountains in a landscaped setting in the United States.

This renovation sought to preserve and restore the timeless beauty created by Pierre S. DuPont, while incorporating innovative technologies and best practices. These challenges combined to result in the largest and most expensive project in the history of Longwood Gardens.

Highway Construction Under $5 MillionGeorge & Lynch, Inc.US 113 at SR 14 Railroad Crossing Safety Improvements

The railroad crossing on Rt. 113, south of SR 14, had become a problem area and the existing tracks were in need of repair.Carload Express, a short line railroad and transportation company in Delaware, saw the need to replace the tracks to better serve southern Delaware.

The two main challenges for the project were that the railroad had to be opened within 96 hours of its closing and the roadway had to be opened up to traffic within 14 days of the closure.

Highway Construction Over $5 Million Mumford & Miller Concrete, Inc. Bridge 1-717 on I95 Over SR7

New technology led the way with this project, using precast deck panels in lieu of conventional poured concrete along with and ultra-high performance concrete with a polymer polyester concrete overlay, provided the state with a superior product that reduced construction time from several months to just a few weeks.

Crews working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to complete this project utilizing this technology for the first time in Delaware.

Infrastructure Construction Under $5 Million – Eastern States Construction Service, Inc.Cecilton to Pearce Creek Water Main Transmission

Meeting the clean water needs of an expanding population provided the opportunity for Eastern States to complete the Cecilton, MD to Pearce Creek water main project.

This water line project was necessary due to ground water and aquifer contamination resulting from the Pearce Creek Dredge Material Containment Area adjacent to the residential communities.

Smart Growth
 – Emory Hill & CompanySultana Education Foundation Richard and Virginia Holt Center

This project, the design of a LEED Platinum candidate building in the National Historic District of Chestertown, MD, included blending state-of-the-art construction with the preservation of existing historic structures and context epitomized the concept of Smart Growth.

The Holt Center opened its doors in late 2016 and since that time over 7,000 students and the public visited the facility for its educational mission to highlight the importance of the Chesapeake Bay and watershed.

Innovative Technologies Over $1 Million – Bancroft Construction Company University of Delaware, Evans Hall-Cyber iSuite, Newark

The university’s Evans Hall Cyber Lab is also named the “iSuite” with the “I” referring to innovation. The suite is a collaborative teaching space in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in the College of Engineering

Innovative Technologies Under $1 Million DryZone LLC Nanticoke Memorial Hospital PolyLevel Project, Seaford

The safe transport of patients had become a significant problem for Nanticoke Hospital, requiring the “lifting” of the first floor hallway connecting to the hospital’s patient elevators.

DryZone LLC utilized a new high-density foam product, PolyLevel, to permanently raise and level sunken concrete.

Residential Dewson Construction Company Owls Nest Road Estate

The design and construction concept for this family home was contemplated both subconsciously and consciously over the last 30 years.

This transitional, cottage style custom home built by Tim Dewson for his family represents the culmination of Tim’s work in residential construction.

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